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MLB 2017 Regular Season OT - 108 years in the making

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brianjones

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curse is back on

how many times during this losing streak have the dodgers been down after the very first inning? its comical at this point
 
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HarryDemeanor

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dickroach

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jeez. just clicked onto espn and saw there's a game going on at 4:40AM eastern. and it's not even in extra innings.
that's really stupid
like, whoever made the call to start a game at 11 local time should be fired.

with that said, mlb.tv on. time to watch the dodgers lose 11 in a row
 
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XiaNaphryz

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looool

https://deadspin.com/how-to-attend-a-baseball-game-that-never-ends-1803773389

I couldn’t shake jet lag. I’ve been falling asleep before 9 p.m. and waking up close to 5 a.m. day after day on a futon in my younger brother’s apartment.
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The team is terrible and the decision to start a game so close to midnight made no sense but the weirdness was just too perfect to pass up. I begged my brother, a Berkeley grad student who is utterly apathetic about all sports, to at least drive me to the stadium. For whatever reason, he agreed and after changing out of pajamas, we left the house at 10:56 p.m. PDT.

11:23 p.m.: We arrive and try to obtain tickets from some of the people who are just leaving the stadium. At this point I am too focused on getting inside—we have already missed Denard Span’s first-inning home run into the Cove—to ask them why they waited out the rain delay only to leave once the game resumed. They tell us that while they’d be happy to help if they could, there’s no reentry at this point and the tickets are worthless.

11:33 p.m.: We successfully scalp tickets, overpaying at $30.
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12:01 a.m.: The PA system plays “Should I Stay Or Should I Go” while the video board warns that the BART system shutting down for the night in just 20 minutes. A very pregnant Giants fan throws in the towel and leaves.
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12:45 a.m.: I chat with a couple fans. Jess, from Vancouver, has been here since 6:30. She’s come with a friend who doesn’t care about baseball. They’re celebrating her birthday, which was actually in June, and they have plans to be back at the stadium for a tour at 10:30 a.m. Jess, if you’re reading this, that tour isn’t worth your friendship.

Jay is a local and like me, he pulled an audible after the rain delay and booked it to the ballpark. Some friends texted him at 11:45. about an extra seat that was too good to pass up. He says he sat right near to Giants CEO Larry Baer for a few innings there, before it got too late.

We speculate that the disproportionate representation of Dodgers fans is a function of locals needing to go to work in the morning, while the visiting fans are on vacation. Jay tells me that there’s still beer down in the Field Club. But who needs booze when your body thinks it’s almost 4 in the morning?
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1:16 a.m.: A guy in a Blake Bortles jersey and silver feathered birthday hat is escorted out of our section for heckling Adrian Gonzalez with such taunts as, “Your goatee looks dumb.”

1:24 a.m.: “God Bless America” is sung in remembrance of Sept 11. It is Sept. 12.

1:30 a.m.: The only concession stand still open is something called Doggie Diner. A cashier tells me she’s been at the stadium since 3 p.m. I wish her good luck but I have no idea what that would look like at this point.

1:35 a.m.: I wave at McCovey Cove Dave, the lone kayaker still floating out there. He waves back.
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2:00 a.m.: My husband texts me goodnight. He’s the night editor at the Associated Press back in New York, where it’s 5 a.m. He usually works until the last game is over. He’s handed this one off to the AP’s London bureau.

It took me a dozen tries to spell bureau correctly just now.

2:07 a.m.: We’re back behind home plate for the final inning. A woman sitting alone says, “it’s 2 o’clock in the morning and we’re at a fucking baseball game.”

2:10 a.m.: The game ends; the Giants win, 8-6; the security guards wish everyone a good morning on their way out.

4:22 a.m.: I finish writing this blog post. My body is still on East Coast time, and the sun is up there. It was all worth it to see the Dodgers drop their 11th game in a row.
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Chris R

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Schedules are out, thinking I might hit up two stadiums (SF/Oakland) next year along with a long stay in Seattle for some games around my birthday.
 
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Line_HTX

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At one point somebody here said the Astros might never lose again during their 11 game streak. The Cleve streak will not continue into the playoffs.
 
dickroach

dickroach

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Line_HTX said:
At one point somebody here said the Astros might never lose again during their 11 game streak. The Cleve streak will not continue into the playoffs.
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well... yeah.
I personally think they'll burn by the end of the month and the Yankees or whoever will knock em out in the first round
 
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