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UZR IS BULLSHIT posted:I don't recall finding that particularly funny If you can't find humor in a team starting the downward slide toward destroying its public image in defense of a guy who had just blown the game and had to be bailed out, I dunno man ![]()
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bawfuls posted:Sab is an Astros fan? MLB C/V Playoffs: Eat my entire rear end.
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Intruder posted:Although it would be funny, I have a suspicion the Dodgers won't be signing a RF Springer largely plays CF - an OF of Betts, Bellinger, and Springer seems ok. Only 2 of the 3 confirmed horrible horrendous piece of poo poo human beings who don't respect the game. Sab0921 fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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If you're not melting down on a nightly basis and making hundreds of "grand strand incoming" posts, what are you even doing here?
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Popping in to say that Randy Arozarena has a career (with postseason) 9.714 AB/HR![]()
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Literally drive-by shitposting, only in this case it’s explicitly at the expense of another poster’s personal investment in a team. I have a very simple rule about sports fandom. If I'm gonna wear the hat after a win I gotta wear the hat after a loss. I'm a Jets fan who has had a lot of sad conversations because of my hat.
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STAC Goat posted:I have a very simple rule about sports fandom. If I'm gonna wear the hat after a win I gotta wear the hat after a loss. When I was younger I always made sure I had "two teams" to root for, one in the other conference/league (for baseball and football). I picked the Mariners and the Jets. ![]() Late 90's early 2000's Mariners were cool as hell though. Curtis Martin and Chad Pennington also ruled. These secondary team choices have not aged well.
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My key to fandom is liking one team and being an obnoxious, pessimistic, whiny pain in the rear end about them, thanks for asking.
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https://twitter.com/AROD/status/1317118324749209601 I think J Lo is a good influence on Arod because I would've bet a lot that he was a republican.
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I like two teams equally but my fanhoods developed in the late 80s contemporaneously when I started coach pitch and became obsessed with everything baseball. The A's were in the zeitgeist with the bash brothers and that was the name of my first baseball team so I bit hard on them, then Atlanta was always on TV in the south and my dad is a huge fan so we developed that fanhood together. Hugging my dad when Sid Bream scored on the Francisco Cabrera hit in the 92 NLCS is one of my best childhood memories. I've been watching both as much as I can for more than 30 years so I'm cool having two teams. I've got merch from both and love them both equally. LeeMajors fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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Warming to the idea of them just running Wright out there again today, let him have the first turn through the lineup. Gives him a chance to get his head right; if he gets shelled again, well, you wouldn't want him pitching in a World Series anyway.
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Thom P. Tiers posted:When I was younger I always made sure I had "two teams" to root for, one in the other conference/league (for baseball and football). I picked the Mariners and the Jets. I used to have an AL rooting interest when the Astros were in the NL and it was the White Sox (old family rooting interest) but then we got destroyed by them in our first ever World Series trip. And then we moved to the AL anyway. I have no other rooting interest now, but the Padres are compelling if I want an NL rooting interest.
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In my opinion Snit should toss Wright back out there in game 5, just to see what happens
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No Safe Word posted:I used to have an AL rooting interest when the Astros were in the NL and it was the White Sox (old family rooting interest) but then we got destroyed by them in our first ever World Series trip. And then we moved to the AL anyway. I have no other rooting interest now, but the Padres are compelling if I want an NL rooting interest. I can't bring myself to cheer for the Padres because Kevin Brown single handedly derailed the Astros best chance to that point of winning a WS Same reason I can't ever like the Braves, they just knocked the Astros out every year in the 90s. gently caress Walt Weiss
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Intruder posted:I can't bring myself to cheer for the Padres because Kevin Brown single handedly derailed the Astros best chance to that point of winning a WS yeah I thought about that, but there really are so many disqualified NL teams and Kevin Brown was just really good so "Ya gotta hand it to him" and that was over 20 years ago
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https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1317121273126944768 more people need to slow roll stealing dingers
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MrMojok posted:What happened to Pancakes? I've been curious about this, too, but I figure he'll come back when there's a real season (or less of a pandemic (or both.))
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Spoeank posted:https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1317121273126944768 This is wonderful and I want to see runners getting doubled off bases with it. 3 run homer turned into a triple play, please.
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I think he stopped posting around the time the Lowtax poo poo came out, so maybe he’ll return now that Jeffrey has taken over.
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Spoeank posted:https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1317121273126944768 Rob Manfred is FURIOUS
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Tony Phillips posted:This is wonderful and I want to see runners getting doubled off bases with it. 3 run homer turned into a triple play, please. That would actually be awesome so of course Manfred would create a rule the next day to prevent it from happening again
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bawfuls posted:I just went back and checked the game logs. Since this piece was published, Kershaw has exited postseason games with 8 total runners on (2 on four different times) and all 8 of them were allowed to score. Thus, over his career, the Dodgers bullpen has allowed 80% of inherrited Kershaw postseason runners to score. For additional context, here is the Dodgers bullpen overall inherited runners score rate in recent years (regular season) 2020: 29% 2019: 38% 2018: 24% 2017: 25% 2016: 28% 2015: 32% 2014: 24% 2013: 24% edit: ATF caught another wrinkle that the FG article missed, real number goes back up to 74% https://twitter.com/atf13atf/status/1317149483625553928 bawfuls fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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Intruder posted:Same reason I can't ever like the Braves, they just knocked the Astros out every year in the 90s. gently caress Walt Weiss the Braves knocked out the Astros three times ('97, '99, '01) but the Astros won back-to-back revenge series in '04 and '05 culminating in that 18th-inning grand slam that was the last the Braves would sniff of the postseason for 5 years, I think that debt is paid
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If (and this is the largest 'if' the human mind can comprehend) the Astros make the World Series, I'd rather play the Braves than the Dodgers. Lower risk of ![]() ![]()
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elentar posted:the Braves knocked out the Astros three times ('97, '99, '01) but the Astros won back-to-back revenge series in '04 and '05 culminating in that 18th-inning grand slam that was the last the Braves would sniff of the postseason for 5 years, I think that debt is paid Nope. Never the Braves not even once. I was at that game and the catharsis was real but still not enough.
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Spoeank posted:https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/1317121273126944768 Can you imagine? Some of the divas of the game would poop their pants in rage.
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Every single baseball game is meaningful because every game of baseball is a perfect and wonderful thing, including and especially when its your favorite team being a bunch of incompetent fuckups.
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https://twitter.com/purpledrank0/status/1317140601293336577 ![]()
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It's called over coming adversity
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I get all but the last part, what?
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No Safe Word posted:I get all but the last part, what?
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When you let lovely sub-.500 teams into the playoffs they're kind of underdogs by default.
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I missed all the sad posting last night but The Dodgers are just the Twins with a massive payroll change my mind
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I'm glad to see you fly through the stages of grief before the series is over because while it's funny to watch the Dodgers eat poo poo year after year, I'm starting to feel for ya bud. Just get one and get the monkey off your back.
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Spoeank posted:Just get one and get the monkey off your back. I no longer need anything in life, can confirm
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Poque posted:I no longer need anything in life, can confirm Same, even with the sign stealing. Also - is there some corner of the internet or media outlet that is nice to the Astros somewhere that I'm missing? Sab0921 fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Oct 16, 2020 |
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IcePhoenix posted:I missed all the sad posting last night but The Dodgers have won postseason games and even postseason series in the past 15 years.
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Squall posted:The Dodgers have won postseason games and even postseason series in the past 15 years. Pennants, even
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Minter starting game 5 lol
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Joey Freshwater posted:Minter starting game 5 lol Legitimately excited to see the Braves win the pennant on the back of A.J. "TBD" Minter's start.
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