~2022 MLB Thread~

[longhorn320]

Well OAM my team is still in the hunt so if you dont mind I intend to enjoy every second of it

I know it sucks when your team loses but its only a game

I realize you will interject your wisdom on us throughout the next few weeks and every time you do I enjoy this even more

[Cincydawg]

I'm furious that the Braves can have an excellent season spoiled by the outcome of a short series with a team they clearly can beat.  It's nothing but bad luck ....

[Brutus Buckeye]

You definitely have to feel bad for these huge market teams that can't just buy a world series, and get schooled in the playoffs by teams that draft well and make smart moves in free agency. 

[MrNubbz]

I'm furious that the Braves can have an excellent season spoiled by the outcome of a short series with a team they clearly can beat.  It's nothing but bad luck ....

Check out the Loser's Lounge over at Chez CinciDawg's I'm the one with the Indians Pennant and a Draft Pabst

[OrangeAfroMan]

You guys would bother me if you ever actually negated any of my points.  But alas, you are unable.

[Brutus Buckeye]

You particularly have to feel bad for a fan of a big market team that doesn't have any ties to that city or state. Must be Hell to pick the wrong powerhouse to hitch your bandwagon to. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

Pedro Guerrero, John Shelby, Marshall, Mariano Duncan, Mickey Hatcher, Sax, Stubbs, and Scioscia behind the plate.  Hershiser, Fernando, and Bob Welch pitching.
Your 1987 Dodgers starting lineup, when they sucked.  Before '88 and before now.  
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Nearly everything you post is wrong.  Hahaha

[Brutus Buckeye]

So the big market team from another city and state that you latched onto had a bad year back in the 80s, yet you memorized all their baseball cards anyway?

What exactly is this supposed to refute?

[OrangeAfroMan]

So the big market team from another city and state that you latched onto had a bad year back in the 80s, yet you memorized all their baseball cards anyway?

What exactly is this supposed to refute?

Sigh.

You're REALLY smart. 

Which team should I have been rooting for in the mid-late 80s while living in Florida?  I'll hang up and listen.  This is gonna be good.

[Brutus Buckeye]

With the benifit of hindsight, you probably should have latched onto the Yankees, or the Red Sox. They don't choke nearly as often in the Playoffs. 

[ELA]

They would never do it, but I actually think they should expand the playoffs to 8 teams per league...but the entire series is played in the higher seeded teams park, and, the lower seeded team always has to win 4, but the #1 seed has to win 1, #2 has to win 2, #3 has to win 3, and the 4-5 is a true best of 7.

It keeps more teams interested longer, but much like my take with the 12 team, 10 automatic bid NCAA football tournament, those lower seeds will advance so irregularly, that it won't actually matter that they aren't any good.  If the White Sox and Giants can go into Houston or LA and beat them 4 straight times in their building, good on them, I guess. They won't, but the hope that they could, would still make the races for those bottom seeds engaging. Just like how bottom seeds basically never advance in the NBA playoffs

[ELA]

With the benifit of hindsight, you probably should have latched onto the Yankees, or the Red Sox. They don't choke nearly as often in the Playoffs.

Your example of postseason success is the Red Sox?  They didn't win for a century. And the Yankees and dodgers have won the same amount of championships in the past two decades

[Brutus Buckeye]

Your example of postseason success is the Red Sox?  They didn't win for a century. And the Yankees and dodgers have won the same amount of championships in the past two decades

Fro said that while growing up in Florida he couldn't find a closer team to root for than the LA Dodgers, and this is the statement that you take issue with? 

Since 1987 is the timeline that Fro established though, so that was the one that I was going with. 

[OrangeAfroMan]

Fro said that while growing up in Florida he couldn't find a closer team to root for than the LA Dodgers, and this is the statement that you take issue with?

Since 1987 is the timeline that Fro established though, so that was the one that I was going with.

You're literally just a fucking idiot.
That idiocy, combined with your odd need to try to poke at me, makes you look like an utter tool.  
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Back then, the "cool" team was the NY Mets.  They had Doc Gooden and Darryl Strawberry and were the big, bad team, including in 1988.  The Dodgers were on TV a lot, because the ATLANTA Braves were in the NL West.  And for baseball coverage, it was the Cubs and Braves vs whoever they played a lot.
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I'm now bored with explaining everything out to the 10th degree for you now.  
You're so bad at this.