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MLB Postseason 2013 |OT| - Chicken n Beer-less Diet
- Thread starter Corran Horn
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darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
ruh roh
weekend_warrior
Banned
CriginsMcJuggs
Member
I want magic
Square Triangle
Member
God damn you, Benoit
HarryDemeanor
Member
All that suspense for a damn pop up.
Duane Cunningham
Member
That was intense.
Dominican Power
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It's up to The Tigers to vanquish the evil that is The Red Sox.
Mr. Enigma
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What the fuck are these idiots doing.
ratcliffja
Member
Seth Smith is a last-out machine.
Square Triangle
Member
Hahaha, damn you Braves fans are salty as fuck.
Tall order ahead, that's for sure.
Tall order ahead, that's for sure.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
So when is the offseason thread going up
Mr. Enigma
Member
Well, there were a few F-bombs.
weekend_warrior
Banned
sf2fanatic
Member
"F yeah"
"F yeah!!!"
evil solrac v3.0
Member
Tigers-Dodgers World Series.
Square Triangle
Member
Jackson and Fielder should have kept their asses in the dugout during the team celebration.
sf2fanatic
Member
:jnc tigers trying to do football celebrations
Best case scenario, somehow.
Little Green Yoda
Member
team with the 11th highest payroll now becomes the lovable underdog, right?
lazybones18
Banned
Guess I made the right decision to go see a movie
It'll be fun to see Boston play on Tuesday at Comerica
It'll be fun to see Boston play on Tuesday at Comerica
Mr. Enigma
Member
*IH NGEGUUCTY
*IH NGEGUUCTY
Is that in Klingon?
Sir Alemeth
Member
Congrats Tigers.
turnbuckle
Member
omg that game was incredible. I practically hugged everyone at the bar. so good!
Little Green Yoda
Member
When do players capable of winning a close-out game become a market inefficiency for Beane to capitalize on?
It will never happen.
sf2fanatic
Member
You can tell Atlanta gives no fucks about baseball this season
*IH NGEGUUCTY
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Cardinals v Tigers World Series where Cardinals win to get our sloppy seconds 2 times in a row?
Just like last year, all the teams with smaller payrolls and interesting stories are out of the playoffs by the LCS, and once again the rich get richer.
I've been to every A's home playoff game from 2000-2014, there were some great wins in that stretch (against the Yanks and Sox in the early years my favorite was the Ramon Hernandez walk-off bunt, Marco Scutaro beating the Twins in 06 the only time the A's advanced, amazing comebacks in game 162 and game 4 last year, the walk-off in game 2 this year), but a hell of a lot of elimination game losses.
I stopped following the NBA in the Shaq/Kobe era after I could no longer convince myself that the league and their refs (even before Tim Donaghy) would give every team a fair chance. I'm not delusional enough to believe that the A's should have won this series if not for a few calls or because they were the better team (they should have won if their bullpen had been managed better in game 4 but that's on them), facing Scherzer and Verlander in a five game series is pretty difficult. When everything breaks right for them and they somehow get beyond the big spenders in their division, they're still going to be exposed in the playoffs as they have to rely on flawed players like Colon and Moss whereas the opposing team has Verlander and Cabrera, on top of simply being far better the umpires will consistently give the close calls to the big name players.
I just don't know that I care to continue following MLB until something changes, whether it's a salary cap to bring some parity to the league, balls and strikes no longer being determined by humans, or the league office actually letting the A's leave their raw sewage filled dual-use ballpark in the bankrupt crime-ridden ghetto that is Oakland for the bigger and wealthier city in the same metropolitan area that already has land set aside downtown for a new ballpark. I'm a big fan of capitalism, but sports is about entertainment, and parity is more entertaining than seeing how many championships the big payroll teams can accumulate. Give me capitalism where the A's can move to a bigger market where they will make more money and be competitive, or a socialist salary cap so there's more to being successful than simply buying up all the best players.
I've been to every A's home playoff game from 2000-2014, there were some great wins in that stretch (against the Yanks and Sox in the early years my favorite was the Ramon Hernandez walk-off bunt, Marco Scutaro beating the Twins in 06 the only time the A's advanced, amazing comebacks in game 162 and game 4 last year, the walk-off in game 2 this year), but a hell of a lot of elimination game losses.
I stopped following the NBA in the Shaq/Kobe era after I could no longer convince myself that the league and their refs (even before Tim Donaghy) would give every team a fair chance. I'm not delusional enough to believe that the A's should have won this series if not for a few calls or because they were the better team (they should have won if their bullpen had been managed better in game 4 but that's on them), facing Scherzer and Verlander in a five game series is pretty difficult. When everything breaks right for them and they somehow get beyond the big spenders in their division, they're still going to be exposed in the playoffs as they have to rely on flawed players like Colon and Moss whereas the opposing team has Verlander and Cabrera, on top of simply being far better the umpires will consistently give the close calls to the big name players.
I just don't know that I care to continue following MLB until something changes, whether it's a salary cap to bring some parity to the league, balls and strikes no longer being determined by humans, or the league office actually letting the A's leave their raw sewage filled dual-use ballpark in the bankrupt crime-ridden ghetto that is Oakland for the bigger and wealthier city in the same metropolitan area that already has land set aside downtown for a new ballpark. I'm a big fan of capitalism, but sports is about entertainment, and parity is more entertaining than seeing how many championships the big payroll teams can accumulate. Give me capitalism where the A's can move to a bigger market where they will make more money and be competitive, or a socialist salary cap so there's more to being successful than simply buying up all the best players.
Little Green Yoda
Member
I would be fine with alternating WS titles with the Giants for the foreseeable future.
brianjones
Member
Fisher n wolf need to sell the team because they don't care about wins.
Pretty shitty feeling walking out of the coliseum.
Not sure who I want to win now. But the story is set for dodgers sox.....
That makes no sense. For an ownership group that doesn't care about wins, they field a pretty competitive baseball team that wins quite a few games. They made the best decision they could to win games, re-signing Billy Beane to a contract that makes him the only GM with an ownership stake. On top of that, they are willing to privately fund their own ballpark in downtown San Jose instead of stealing public money like many other sports team owners.
The Coliseum is falling apart, attendance is awful even when they win, Oakland is no longer nationally relevant and even there they are stuck in the middle of an industrial wasteland that's barely connected to the rest of the city. How much revenue is coming in compared to what they're spending, and how does that compare to other owners? They're running a business, not a money-losing charity.
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