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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2014 18:18:16 GMT -5
heh, you guys are forgetting one thing. The dodgers buy all their new talent now. Uhh, they have a really impressive farm system actually. Or wait, perhaps you've helped me stumble onto the perfect plan: @srspielbergo, we rob all the Dodger owners except Magic Johnson. After taking a relatively modest cut for ourselves because hey, we earned it, we then pay off @supernintendochalmer. I hate the Lakers so I have no problem robbing Magic. Besides, solid gold statues of everyone from the 2010 team which I'll use to decorate my yard won't come cheap. |
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Post by Invisible Goat on Sept 19, 2014 15:30:20 GMT -5
Just got a free ticket to biggest Pirates game of the season yaay
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Post by Invisible Goat on Sept 24, 2014 11:44:03 GMT -5
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 1, 2014 1:23:24 GMT -5
So, there was a baseball game tonight. And a team won. It was perhaps not an entirely boring game. If one can reasonably suggest that about a game which featured approximately 87 bunts.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 1:44:43 GMT -5
So, there was a baseball game tonight. And a team won. It was perhaps not an entirely boring game. If one can reasonably suggest that about a game which featured approximately 87 bunts. #BuntForNedOctober #Royals #Unforgettable #SorryForHashtagsButWeDontKnowHowToBehaveWithAWinningTeamInKC |
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 1, 2014 2:01:22 GMT -5
Just got a free ticket to biggest Pirates game of the season yaay I got free tickets to see the Korean National Team kick the crap out of Hong Kong during the Asian Games last week. I think you win, though I did see a high school kid from Hong Kong get a hit off a dude who'd pitched in the Major Leagues (granted it was the Cubs...and for like three games or something, but he was still a former MLB player) which is basically the most awesome brag for a lad of 17 years, behind of course blanket hornpipe with a random actress. |
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Post by Invisible Goat on Oct 1, 2014 7:15:17 GMT -5
So, there was a baseball game tonight. And a team won. It was perhaps not an entirely boring game. If one can reasonably suggest that about a game which featured approximately 87 bunts. Holy shit, what a game! I love baseball. But yeah, Yost should be fired before the division series. I will switch to hating baseball if the Pirates lose tonight however. |
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Post by Little Emma on Oct 1, 2014 10:19:19 GMT -5
So, there was a baseball game tonight. And a team won. It was perhaps not an entirely boring game. If one can reasonably suggest that about a game which featured approximately 87 bunts. Holy shit, what a game! I love baseball. But yeah, Yost should be fired before the division series. I will switch to hating baseball if the Pirates lose tonight however. I really hope our game isn't like that tonight, or I may vomit. At one point the announcers for the AL game were like, "Top this, San Francisco and Pittsburgh" and I was like OH GOD PLEASE DON'T. I know as a Giants fan I have no right to complain, but the 2012 NLDS and NLCS took a lot out of me. It was very stressful! Also, today we are enemies. Yet, I hope whoever wins this game wins the World Series. If the Giants lose, I have no problem rooting for a Royals/Pirates World Series. |
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Post by Invisible Goat on Oct 1, 2014 10:32:44 GMT -5
Holy shit, what a game! I love baseball. But yeah, Yost should be fired before the division series. I will switch to hating baseball if the Pirates lose tonight however. I really hope our game isn't like that tonight, or I may vomit. At one point the announcers for the AL game were like, "Top this, San Francisco and Pittsburgh" and I was like OH GOD PLEASE DON'T. I know as a Giants fan I have no right to complain, but the 2012 NLDS and NLCS took a lot out of me. It was very stressful! Also, today we are enemies. Yet, I hope whoever wins this game wins the World Series. If the Giants lose, I have no problem rooting for a Royals/Pirates World Series. Haha, I caught that line too and had the same reaction. I can barely handle the tension of a pennant race, let alone an actual elimination game. Same boat, by the way. I hope the winner of this game takes the NL. Hate the Cards and Dodgers so much. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Oct 1, 2014 10:39:41 GMT -5
That game was amazing. Classic. I just can't believe it.
Also, the hell with all y'all. The last time the Washington team won a championship, the New York Yankees had only won 1 championship.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 12:38:02 GMT -5
Seriously though, that game and this past week since clinching has felt absolutely surreal. 'Longest playoff drought in pro sports!' and '29 years!' have been repeated like mantras but what they fail to capture is the feeling of not just futility but absolute irrelevancy that's been around the Royals here in KC during nearly that entire stretch. Not only did we fail to make the playoffs in that period, for all but two or three of those years (one of them the strike-ended '94 season) it wasn't even remotely, conceivably, imaginably close. The Chiefs haven't won a playoff game in ages, but there's nearly always HOPE at the start of a season, whereas with the Royals it was more like dread. An entire generation of fans grew up only knowing 100 loss seasons, a year where they literally didn't bother to take a team picture, decades where the only thing like a mission statement was manager Buddy Bell's quote, "I never say things can't get worse with Kansas City." I've had conversations all over town with fans where we've admitted we literally don't know how to act right now. It's that foreign to us. Last night's game, as agonizing as it was at times, felt befittingly cathartic.
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Post by Little Emma on Oct 1, 2014 12:41:45 GMT -5
I really hope our game isn't like that tonight, or I may vomit. At one point the announcers for the AL game were like, "Top this, San Francisco and Pittsburgh" and I was like OH GOD PLEASE DON'T. I know as a Giants fan I have no right to complain, but the 2012 NLDS and NLCS took a lot out of me. It was very stressful! Also, today we are enemies. Yet, I hope whoever wins this game wins the World Series. If the Giants lose, I have no problem rooting for a Royals/Pirates World Series. Haha, I caught that line too and had the same reaction. I can barely handle the tension of a pennant race, let alone an actual elimination game. Same boat, by the way. I hope the winner of this game takes the NL. Hate the Cards and Dodgers so much.Saaaaaaaame. They're the worst. For what it's worth, Ron Howard Voice, I actually kind of like the Nats. Just not as much as the Giants (duh) or the Pirates. Definitely more than the Dodgers or Cardinals though. And I don't know if DC can complain about a baseball championship drought when they didn't have a team for decades. |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 1, 2014 12:52:13 GMT -5
I really hope our game isn't like that tonight, or I may vomit. At one point the announcers for the AL game were like, "Top this, San Francisco and Pittsburgh" and I was like OH GOD PLEASE DON'T. I know as a Giants fan I have no right to complain, but the 2012 NLDS and NLCS took a lot out of me. It was very stressful! Also, today we are enemies. Yet, I hope whoever wins this game wins the World Series. If the Giants lose, I have no problem rooting for a Royals/Pirates World Series. Haha, I caught that line too and had the same reaction. I can barely handle the tension of a pennant race, let alone an actual elimination game. Same boat, by the way. I hope the winner of this game takes the NL. Hate the Cards and Dodgers so much. If the Pirates don't take the NL, I will root for whoever wins the AL. Although I'd ultimately be ok if it's the Giants vs either the Angles or Orioles. The long and the short of what I'm getting at is ABC (ANYONE BUT the CARDS). |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 1, 2014 12:58:20 GMT -5
Haha, I caught that line too and had the same reaction. I can barely handle the tension of a pennant race, let alone an actual elimination game. Same boat, by the way. I hope the winner of this game takes the NL. Hate the Cards and Dodgers so much.Saaaaaaaame. They're the worst. For what it's worth, Ron Howard Voice, I actually kind of like the Nats. Just not as much as the Giants (duh) or the Pirates. Definitely more than the Dodgers or Cardinals though. And I don't know if DC can complain about a baseball championship drought when they didn't have a team for decades. I don't know that DC fans can complain given that they failed to support the two versions of the Senators. In a similar vein, if LA ever gets another NFL team I better not hear an announcer in 2020-something blathering on about LA's thirty-someodd year playoff drought. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 13:06:56 GMT -5
Seriously though, that game and this past week since clinching has felt absolutely surreal. 'Longest playoff drought in pro sports!' and '29 years!' have been repeated like mantras but what they fail to capture is the feeling of not just futility but absolute irrelevancy that's been around the Royals here in KC during nearly that entire stretch. Not only did we fail to make the playoffs in that period, for all but two or three of those years (one of them the strike-ended '94 season) it wasn't even remotely, conceivably, imaginably close. The Chiefs haven't won a playoff game in ages, but there's nearly always HOPE at the start of a season, whereas with the Royals it was more like dread. An entire generation of fans grew up only knowing 100 loss seasons, a year where they literally didn't bother to take a team picture, decades where the only thing like a mission statement was manager Buddy Bell's quote, "I never say things can't get worse with Kansas City." I've had conversations all over town with fans where we've admitted we literally don't know how to act right now. It's that foreign to us. Last night's game, as agonizing as it was at times, felt befittingly cathartic. I'm 28, have a ton of family in KC, and have been to scores of games over the years. I have a small 1985 World Series dufflebag somewhere at my parents house. Despite that, I grew up a White Sox fan for a few reasons (I had an Uncle that lived in Chicago, Robin Ventura went to OSU, etc) but mostly due to the fact that a large percentage of the Royals games I went to involved the early-mid 90s Sox dropping bombs into the fountains. Nobody in in my family blamed me. Within 10 years of winning the Series the franchise was essentially a AAAA team. No one cared too much about the outcome, and they didn't even bother trying to indoctrinate younger family members into fanhood. I'm inordinately happy for Royals fans right now, but you're right I haven't read or seen anything that's managed to capture how incredibly bad its been for that fanbase for so long. Edited to add: This for those that didn't see it. |
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Oct 1, 2014 13:08:02 GMT -5
I hang out on the Washington Nationals Fan Forum, and there are people there who not only remember the 1940s and 1950s Senators, but can tell you all about the games they went to and the guys whose autographs they got.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 14:52:19 GMT -5
Unpopular opinion, but I want an Angels/Dodgers WS now that Giants/A's isn't possible.
I like the fact they are both close geographically. Don't know why, just think that is pretty cool.
The other main reason though? Trout vs Kershaw. They are the two best players in the MLB and I want to see them face off at the biggest stage. Also helps that they happen to be pitcher and batter. So they will literally face off, not just one person possibly getting a hit and another player possibly fielding it.
But as long as it isn't the Cards or Tigers I feel like I'm good.
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 1, 2014 15:05:18 GMT -5
Unpopular opinion, but I want an Angels/Dodgers WS now that Giants/A's isn't possible. I like the fact they are both close geographically. Don't know why, just think that is pretty cool. The other main reason though? Trout vs Kershaw. They are the two best players in the MLB and I want to see them face off at the biggest stage. Also helps that they happen to be pitcher and batter. So they will literally face off, not just one person possibly getting a hit and another player possibly fielding it. But as long as it isn't the Cards or Tigers I feel like I'm good. It's pretty remarkable how many close proximity match-ups there could be. While the Bay Series isn't to be, you could have an Expressway series, a Missouri series, a Beltway series and (if you're streching it an I-70 series with O's vs Pirates (two really with Royals/Cards)). |
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Post by Little Emma on Oct 1, 2014 15:08:14 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 21:54:19 GMT -5
I'm so shocked Edison Volquez gave up 5 runs, SHOCKED I say.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Oct 1, 2014 22:05:36 GMT -5
Sorry Emma, I guess we hate each other for the next week.
Like the Giants as a team, actually. And obviously Michael Morse is the coolest. But yeah. Not this week.
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Post by Little Emma on Oct 1, 2014 22:32:01 GMT -5
Sorry Emma, I guess we hate each other for the next week. Like the Giants as a team, actually. And obviously Michael Morse is the coolest. But yeah. Not this week. Ha! I came here to tag you and say "this means war." I actually like the Nationals as a team. Bryce Harper is cool in my book. I'm scared of you guys too, our rotation is shit. (Besides Bumgarner, because wow.) |
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Post by Invisible Goat on Oct 2, 2014 7:02:10 GMT -5
Ugh. I just didn't have a good feeling about that game all day, at least I was right about it. And I guess there's no need to second guess using Cole and Liriano over the weekend since we scored 0 effing runs.
We're still cool Emma.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Oct 2, 2014 12:02:07 GMT -5
Ugh. I just didn't have a good feeling about that game all day, at least I was right about it. And I guess there's no need to second guess using Cole and Liriano over the weekend since we scored 0 effing runs. We're still cool Emma. That game was just so damn disappointing. Even if I hadn't wanted Pittsburgh to win, how can a wildcard game be that flat? |
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Post by Little Emma on Oct 2, 2014 13:43:26 GMT -5
Ugh. I just didn't have a good feeling about that game all day, at least I was right about it. And I guess there's no need to second guess using Cole and Liriano over the weekend since we scored 0 effing runs. We're still cool Emma. That game was just so damn disappointing. Even if I hadn't wanted Pittsburgh to win, how can a wildcard game be that flat? Because Madison Bumgarner and the power of the Brandons. |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 2, 2014 19:11:34 GMT -5
OK throughout this game the Orioles fans have been humming/chanting "Seven Nation Army" and I could have sworn at some point I heard "I Wanna Be Your Dog" being played. Are they intentionally doing stuff by Michiganders as some kind of weird taunt to the Tigers, or is it just a coincidence?
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 2, 2014 19:48:35 GMT -5
OK throughout this game the Orioles fans have been humming/chanting "Seven Nation Army" and I could have sworn at some point I heard "I Wanna Be Your Dog" being played. Are they intentionally doing stuff by Michiganders as some kind of weird taunt to the Tigers, or is it just a coincidence? If it was a taunt it seems to be working. The Tigers are totally falling apart; bobbling balls and the like. |
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Oct 2, 2014 19:50:29 GMT -5
OK throughout this game the Orioles fans have been humming/chanting "Seven Nation Army" and I could have sworn at some point I heard "I Wanna Be Your Dog" being played. Are they intentionally doing stuff by Michiganders as some kind of weird taunt to the Tigers, or is it just a coincidence? If it was a taunt it seems to be working. The Tigers are totally falling apart; bobbling balls and the like. Yeah, Tigers looking pretty inept this inning. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2014 11:39:40 GMT -5
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Oct 3, 2014 12:11:53 GMT -5
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