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[quote]therajraj wrote:
So aside from your team, what potentially playoff bound franchise do you want to see succeed this post season?
For me it’s the Brewers, I’m a big fan of their team makeup and Shaun Marcum was one of my favourite players when he was a Blue Jay. They are amazing at home, and I know this run has been mostly against bad teams but shit they are still taking care of business. They will be the team I’m cheering for come October.[/quote]
Oh man, that’s a tough one. I guess I kinda want to see the Braves do well. Which is odd since I’ve spent most of my life hating their guts (well, since 1993 anyways). But I like to watch good pitching and they sure have plenty of that. Plus, I just can’t root for the Phillies or obviously anyone from the NL West other than the Giants and I just don’t have any emotional attachment to any of the Central teams. I suppose I don’t want to see the Brewers do well since Prince Fielder is a low-rent jerk with no class.
The whole thing a couple years ago when he had some choreographed homeplate celebration ready and waiting when he hit a walk-off homerun against the Giants in September of 2009 was classless. Save that shit for football. I also thought it was classless that he went after one of the Dodgers’ pitchers (was that last year or the year before?) in their clubhouse. He knew he was going to be restrained by about 50 people. If he had any balls he would have just charged the mound right then and there when he got drilled instead of waiting for a time when he knew he wouldn’t get within 50 ft of the person who hit him. I’ve also seen him go right through the catcher on several occasions when he was literally out at the plate by 30 or 40 feet. At that point just give it up and don’t risk unnecessarily hurting someone when you’re that far out.
In the AL I don’t care who the fuck wins that league as long as it isn’t the Red Sox. I can’t stand that team and their fans. They just moan and whine and bitch about how the Yankees spend all this money and blah, blah, blah when they spend far more than any team OTHER than the Yankees. The Red Sox are just as much the Evil Empire that the Yankees are, except that they haven’t ever been good enough to be considered an empire in the first place. It’s petty jealousy, nothing more.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
In the AL I don’t care who the fuck wins that league as long as it isn’t the Red Sox. I can’t stand that team and their fans. They just moan and whine and bitch about how the Yankees spend all this money and blah, blah, blah when they spend far more than any team OTHER than the Yankees. The Red Sox are just as much the Evil Empire that the Yankees are, except that they haven’t ever been good enough to be considered an empire in the first place. It’s petty jealousy, nothing more.[/quote]
Agree 100000000%
Damn, Giants shutout by the Lastros.
Astros are basically a PCL team now.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
Damn, Giants shutout by the Lastros.
Astros are basically a PCL team now.[/quote]
So are the Giants. On offense anyways. And by PCL I assume you mean Pathetic Cock-Lickers.
Anybody watching the Little League World Series? There was a great game on earlier today between Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The game ended up being 1-0 with two runners being thrown out at home.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]eeu743 wrote:
Wait, that was you?? Hahaha no…really though…
I’m 21 and I know who ODB is, come on man![/quote]
Yea, I think I’ve come to the realization that DB is straight up crazy.[/quote]
This coming from the guy who lionizes the sporting achievements of a known cheater, woman-beater, absentee father, liar and convicted criminal.[/quote]
Thank you for justifying my decision to block you. That should make the MLB thread much more enjoyable.
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
Anybody watching the Little League World Series? There was a great game on earlier today between Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The game ended up being 1-0 with two runners being thrown out at home.[/quote]
No. I don’t know why, but I’ve never been able to watch that level of play. I suppose I’m a bit of a snob in that respect because I really don’t enjoy watching baseball at any level except for the Majors, unless I’m coaching of course. But then again, I’ve never coached at any level where kids weren’t able to lead off yet.
I think part of it stems from all of the typical Little League coaches who don’t coach in an effort to prepare their kids for the next level. I can’t stand coaches who preach methods and philosophies that really only work at that level. To me, it seems selfish to coach the kids in a manner that may win a lot of games in the here and now, but fails to prepare them for the next level. Perhaps that’s why there have been (I think) zero kids to play on a championship team who have also played in the Majors, aside from Sean Burroughs.
I’ve just seen too many parents and coaches take that shit too seriously. To me, winning isn’t everything at that level, but it’s still treated like it is by many coaches who live vicariously through 12 y/o kids. In a way, televising the LLWS only intensifies some of the negative shit behind over-zealous parents and coaches who use the kids for their own personal glory. I don’t know, that’s just been my experience in Little League and in coaching in general. End of rant.
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]WestCoast7 wrote:
[quote]eeu743 wrote:
Wait, that was you?? Hahaha no…really though…
I’m 21 and I know who ODB is, come on man![/quote]
Yea, I think I’ve come to the realization that DB is straight up crazy.[/quote]
This coming from the guy who lionizes the sporting achievements of a known cheater, woman-beater, absentee father, liar and convicted criminal.[/quote]
Thank you for justifying my decision to block you. That should make the MLB thread much more enjoyable.[/quote]
LOL! Touchy, touchy.
Pretty interesting question on one of the local Bay Area radio stations today, simply asking what Tim Lincecum’s numbers might’ve looked like had he been on a better offensive team in the past, and whether he might consider leaving to another team in the next couple years since he’ll be entering the prime of his career.
I would go ballistic if Lincecum left (or we failed to keep him), but it is interesting to think about what he might be able to do on the Yanks of Soxs…
^ Yeah I heard both Cain and Lincecum have each had 9 starts where they received 0 run support.
I have no idea whether he’d leave but if he did join the Yanks or Sox his numbers would also dropoff. I used the example of Roy Halladay earlier, since moving to the NL his ERA, WHIP, hits given up have all dropped significantly. He won only one Cy Young in Toronto and has already matched that total in Philadelphia and will likely surpass it this year.
The main advantage Lincecum has in joining the Red Sox/Yanks is his win total will skyrocket, but anyone who knows anything about baseball knows a pitchers win total is meaningless. I guess it’s possible the Giants could no longer be WS contenders by the time Lincecum hits free agency and another upside would be regular post season appearances. Especially with the 2nd wildcard to be in place within the next couple of years.
[quote]therajraj wrote:
^ Yeah I heard both Cain and Lincecum have each had 9 starts where they received 0 run support.
I have no idea whether he’d leave but if he did join the Yanks or Sox his numbers would also dropoff. I used the example of Roy Halladay earlier, since moving to the NL his ERA, WHIP, hits given up have all dropped significantly. He won only one Cy Young in Toronto and has already matched that total in Philadelphia and will likely surpass it this year.
The main advantage Lincecum has in joining the Red Sox/Yanks is his win total will skyrocket, but anyone who knows anything about baseball knows a pitchers win total is meaningless. I guess it’s possible the Giants could no longer be WS contenders by the time Lincecum hits free agency and another upside would be regular post season appearances. Especially with the 2nd wildcard to be in place within the next couple of years.[/quote]
Man, that whole second wild card thing really gets me. Doesn’t Selig realize that they’ll have to play well into November (probably on the East Coast somewhere most years too) unless they shorten the schedule or add a lot of doubleheaders to the schedule? Which is something the players’ union will never go for.
Plus, a bye for the top team would end up being disastrous. Baseball doesn’t lend itself well to taking 5 to 8 days off and if they just make the first round a best-of-three scenario it still means several days of rest for the top team AND it increases the likelihood that the better team suffers due to some bad break. And the whole point of adding this 2nd wildcard team is to ensure that deserving teams get into the playoffs. By extension, they must also want to ensure that the most deserving teams gets to the Series, a cause that would be seriously endangered with the proposed format. The best thing they could do if they add a 2nd wildcard would be to give THEM the bye. Baseball players are VERY routine-driven and anything that gets them out of the routine they’ve been locked into for 6+ months is detrimental to the team.
Personally, I think the only changes MLB needs to make is to get rid of all inter-league play and all divisions. Just let the top four teams in each league into the playoffs, period, and keep the format the way it is now. Add a few doubleheaders, maybe one a month, maybe a little more than that. They should also enact a salary-cap of some sort, along with a salary-floor, and redo the draft so that foreign players have to enter it instead of becoming free agents like what we have now. They should also allow teams to trade their picks.
I think baseball tries too hard to compete with football, especially in terms of TV ratings, and it just isn’t capable of doing so. Baseball has NEVER been a sport that really appeals to casual fans in terms of TV viewing and it never really will. These constant attempts to change the NFL has ruined it in many aspects, in my opinion, and I’d hate to see baseball do the same thing.
Truth be told, I think a lot of this is indicative of many of the problems that we have as a country. We’re constantly unsatisfied with things in our lives to the point where we have become this crazed, uber-materialistic, consumer-driven society in which we incessantly try to change who we are by buying more and more shit that we don’t really need. Baseball really hasn’t changed all that much at all, rules-wise, in the last 70-90 years and it’s actually doing really well in all aspects except for its inability to compete with the NFL.
The NFL has a built-in advantage that baseball will NEVER have. For the most part, all of the action happens on one day, so casual fans can totally immerse themselves in it on Sundays and then forget about it for the rest of the week without missing anything. Baseball is played 7 days a week and I think each team averages about 6.5 games a week over the course of a season. I also think that baseball fans in general tend to lose interest in the postseason once their team is out of it. On top of all THAT, baseball already experiences the sort of parity the NFL is always searching for anyways. Look at all the World Series participants. It’s a different winner all the time and really, with a 7-game series, the most deserving team wins anyways.
This latest idea of Selig’s reeks of sporting socialism and the bottom line is that if a team doesn’t make the playoffs, too fucking bad. As good as the 1993 Giants were, they didn’t deserve to make the playoffs. They won 103 and it took 104 wins to get in that year. Tough luck. And that’s coming from a hardcore Giants fan.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
Anybody watching the Little League World Series? There was a great game on earlier today between Kentucky and Pennsylvania. The game ended up being 1-0 with two runners being thrown out at home.[/quote]
No. I don’t know why, but I’ve never been able to watch that level of play. I suppose I’m a bit of a snob in that respect because I really don’t enjoy watching baseball at any level except for the Majors, unless I’m coaching of course. But then again, I’ve never coached at any level where kids weren’t able to lead off yet.
I think part of it stems from all of the typical Little League coaches who don’t coach in an effort to prepare their kids for the next level. I can’t stand coaches who preach methods and philosophies that really only work at that level. To me, it seems selfish to coach the kids in a manner that may win a lot of games in the here and now, but fails to prepare them for the next level. Perhaps that’s why there have been (I think) zero kids to play on a championship team who have also played in the Majors, aside from Sean Burroughs.
I’ve just seen too many parents and coaches take that shit too seriously. To me, winning isn’t everything at that level, but it’s still treated like it is by many coaches who live vicariously through 12 y/o kids. In a way, televising the LLWS only intensifies some of the negative shit behind over-zealous parents and coaches who use the kids for their own personal glory. I don’t know, that’s just been my experience in Little League and in coaching in general. End of rant.[/quote]
I think it’s enjoyable to watch a level of a sport that a person actually played in. I remember Little League being a blast when I was a kid.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Sean Burroughs.
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Even though he is only maybe one in a handful that went from LLWS to Majors, he’s in 100th place. The dude is one of the worst baseball players I have ever seen. I understand why he’s playing, but if I was the other guys I’d be pissed off that the guy on the team because he’s freaking buddies with staff.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Sean Burroughs.
[/quote]
Even though he is only maybe one in a handful that went from LLWS to Majors, he’s in 100th place. The dude is one of the worst baseball players I have ever seen. I understand why he’s playing, but if I was the other guys I’d be pissed off that the guy on the team because he’s freaking buddies with staff.[/quote]
I remember him on the Padres. A 3rd baseman who only hit singles.
Wilsons beard is looking SAV AS FUKK!
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
Sean Burroughs.
[/quote]
Even though he is only maybe one in a handful that went from LLWS to Majors, he’s in 100th place. The dude is one of the worst baseball players I have ever seen. I understand why he’s playing, but if I was the other guys I’d be pissed off that the guy on the team because he’s freaking buddies with staff.[/quote]
I remember him on the Padres. A 3rd baseman who only hit singles.[/quote]
Yeah, he left the league for five years and then just comes back even fatter and everyone starts talking like he’s going to be a slugger like this is LL again. No, the dude is fat – not strong.
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
Wilsons beard is looking SAV AS FUKK![/quote]
O had to get up off the leg press and walk across the gym to get a better look at it.
Man, I am impress!!!
Also,
I <3 Barry Bonds
