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I did forget to do the previous round of baseball thoughts, but I can do a few now

-NLCS retrospective
I realized about game 3 that I was actually rooting for the Dodgers. Emotionally I never strongly favored them, I would have been perfectly happy with the Cubs winning, but I did sort of want the Dodgers to win. And practically it quickly became obvious that they should win. They were the better team, as they have been so many times this season.

-ALCS retrospective
For a while there I wasn’t sure how this series was going to end; Houston started off so well, then the Yankees got hot, I figured Verlander could push it to a game 7 but then game 7’s are so unpredictable that I didn’t have any solid idea going in how it would go. I was always rooting for Houston, but I didn’t dislike the Yankees as much as I used to, they have a lot of players that I’ve liked in the past so I couldn’t actually be against them as much as I would have a few years ago.

However, it applies to both teams but especially the Yankees, that as a Rockies fan I get pissed off that the announcers just praise these teams for being so good at home when I know that if it were the Rockies all we would here about is how Coors field inflates their stats or whatever. Rockies players always have to have road stats that are just about as good as they are at home for people to take them seriously as hitters, never mind that they play half their road games in west coast pitcher-friendly parks.

That’s...a little off topic, but I’m glad for Houston.

-World Series thoughts
I hope the series goes the distance, as I always do since afterward there’s no baseball for several months and that makes me sad. But I kind of don’t see it taking that long, and whatever length it goes I wouldn’t bet against the Dodgers. They’ll have their pitchers lined up how they want them since they’ve had some time off; the Astros haven’t made much of a case that they can win on the road and LA has home field advantage; and the Dodger have just made everything look easy while the Astros have not. One could argue that they haven’t had to really battle anything this post season (or much of the season one could say), so if they run into a little bit of trouble we don’t know how prepared they are to fight back, but if that’s the one area I can think of where they don’t have the clear advantage, I’m still betting on the Dodgers.

So I have started doing reactions of what I’m watching this year (so far just The Orville and The Good Place, though I’m going to start Inhumans and maybe Discovery when I get the chance), but for the moment I’m going to talk about something different. It’s that time of year when I talk baseball.

Especially this year since my Rockies are in the playoffs. We’ll see how long it lasts, but it’s been a fun season that I hope continues well into October.

And so Wild Card game predictions:

AL: Twins vs. Yankees
NY has to be favored since they came in ahead of Minnesota but I’m rooting for the Twins. I’m basically incapable of rooting for the Yankees plus I’m angling for a frozen world series between Minn. and Colorado. But I don’t really know enough about AL teams to know how to predict the outcome.

NL: Rockies vs. D-backs
Obviously I’m rooting for the Rockies, they’re my team, but in a one game showdown I’m not going to lay odds on either team. They’re played each other enough this season that there are no surprises coming; the D-backs definitely have the edge on the season series, though in Arizona they’re pretty even as I recall. It might come down to if Martinez is playing like a human again or still curb-stomping everybody. GO ROCKIES.

I don’t know why I didn’t do this days ago, but some continued baseball thoughts.

-Poor Cubbies, I was rooting for them but they just could pull it together this time around. I can’t exactly decide if the Mets looked good or the Cubs looked kind of bad, but that was kind of a disappointing series I wasn’t exactly invested just had a clear preference in the outcome.

-Yay Royals, not having been able to watch any of this series (compensating with a little bit of radio, a lot of MLB gameday viewer, technically I could have watched the one game that was on Fox proper, but I was busy that night) I wasn’t terribly invested, but I was rooting Royals in the abstract so I’m glad the end went the way it did. Seemed like a pretty good series.

-I really can’t decide who I’m rooting for in the World Series. There’s a limited number of AL teams that can overcome my natural inclination to root for the NL, but the Royals are squarely on the list. On the other hand having been able to watch the NL games so far this post season and not the AL ones has mostly tilted the scales back towards the Mets. So I’ll end p rooting for good games and a good series more than for either team specifically; at least to start, we’ll see what m gut reaction to things is once the games get going.

Okay, so we’ve got three series going to game five, annoyingly two of them are AL so I can’t watch them. Either way we’re at three crap shoot gams left to play this round.

-As much as the jays outside my house were throwing a party this morning I can only conclude the Blue Jays will win (highly scientific reasoning, but as I have no other ideas at this point – having been wrong about Texas winning in Texas – it’s what’s I’m going with).
-In terms of pattern this would be Houston’s turn to win, but I’ll stick with predicting KC.
-Pattern would also say Mets and I kind of think they have more cards to play in game 5 than the Dodgers do, so let’s go Mets.

Congrats Cubs and fans, we’ll see if this momentum can keep going, because I’m definitely rooting with you guys in the next round.

Wildcard reactions

Yay Astros, beat those damn Yankees. And that was pretty decisive, good to watch and the result I wanted.

The NL game was a little more surprising, the Cubs were a lot more dominant than I expected in it. But I was instinctively rooting for them right from the start (plus it was my old pretend baseball boyfriend Dexter, who will always be a Rockie in my heart), so yay again.

DS predictions/hopes

First thing I wish is that I was going to be able to watch the AL games, but we don’t get FS1 or MLB Network, damn you Fox.

( Suppose it's a little long from here, so under a cut it goes )

So, baseball is done for a few months, now the extent of my interest in sport can hibernate for the winter, there's not even the Olympics to break it up. Oh well Royals, I was rooting for you, but you got outplayed in the end, if my Rockies are so disappointing again next year I'll be back to pay attention to you guys again.

And now back to fandom...with some more talk about AoS and the larger MCU.

( Spoilers for the Age of Ultron trailer, the future Marvel projects announcement and AoS 2x06 )

So to round out the what I've been watching portion of posting, baseball. Then we'll get into my TVD-verse reactions of the week.

( Baseball round 1 reactions: )

( TVD 5x02 )

( TO 1x02 )

Okay, let’s do a little baseball talk:

( Baseball playoffs so far )

Anyway, since I have work tomorrow I don’t think I should stay up to review something tonight (besides baseball), so how about a meme?

Give me a character and I'll tell you:

Why I like them
Why I don’t
Favorite episode (scene if movie, book, manga, etc)
Favorite season/movie/book/volume
Favorite line
OTP
Brotp
Head Canon
Unpopular opinion
A wish
An oh-god-please-don't-ever-happen
5 words to best describe them
My nickname for them

So NaNoWriMo starts up in a few days and I'm just not that excited this year. A couple weeks ago I was having fun thinking about what sort of story I would work on, but even that's pretty much faded. My muses have been really unfocused recently and this isn't pulling them together like I wish it would. I hope I can turn that around but right now I feel this might not be my year (and I was so hopeful I might finally manage it).

On a completely unrelated note, baseball is over for the season now. It sure went out with a bang though, and YAY CARDS (they may not be y team but I was rooting for them all series long, although I liked Texas, just not as much). Right now I'm glad it's over, but I think withdrawal will set in in a few weeks. Since I dislike or hate every other major sport I have nothing to fill the gap.

So "competitive" writing it will be...