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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2013 23:37:07 GMT -5
RIP MLB thread?? Surprised to see the Cards play so sloppy last night. Sox have the one thing that every team needs going into the WS. Momentum. This might be a repeat of '04 Funny to think that if Boston wins, they will have 3 World Series rings since "Aaron ing Boone" Yankees have 1 I think we all may need to re-examine this so called rivalry between the Yankees & Sox. It really doesn't make sense anymore. Like, what is there even to rival about? Is it even fun still? Meh. I hate both teams so much. The Cards seem to do it all wrong. They play above average to good ball all year. They won the division by the thinnest margin of any team this year. Then they get to the playoffs and get hot. Every single freaking year it seems like they do this. You watch your favorite team light the world on fire all year long, win the division by 20 games and then get knocked out in the playoffs. On the other side the Cards get to the playoffs as a division winner by a thin margin or a WC. Then they get hot and go to the WS. Hate them and their stupid formula that works every time. Red Sox fans seem to have gone from "woe is us" to just being freaking entitled. Dude, give the Cardinals some credit. They tied with Boston for the second best record in MLB this year. They won the division "by the thinnest margin" because the Central division turned out to be the most competitive division in the NL this year. And average to good ball? I hate to sound like a homer here, but the Cardinals have been playing great baseball the entire year. Are you stuck in 2006 or something?
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Post by T R W on Oct 25, 2013 9:05:03 GMT -5
I haven't talked much about it because I just couldn't be less interested in the teams in it. I hate Boston, and I hate the Cardinals. I can't find any sort of rooting interest at all.
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Post by Hulkamaniac on Oct 25, 2013 22:35:02 GMT -5
Meh. I hate both teams so much. The Cards seem to do it all wrong. They play above average to good ball all year. They won the division by the thinnest margin of any team this year. Then they get to the playoffs and get hot. Every single freaking year it seems like they do this. You watch your favorite team light the world on fire all year long, win the division by 20 games and then get knocked out in the playoffs. On the other side the Cards get to the playoffs as a division winner by a thin margin or a WC. Then they get hot and go to the WS. Hate them and their stupid formula that works every time. Red Sox fans seem to have gone from "woe is us" to just being freaking entitled. Dude, give the Cardinals some credit. They tied with Boston for the second best record in MLB this year. They won the division "by the thinnest margin" because the Central division turned out to be the most competitive division in the NL this year. And average to good ball? I hate to sound like a homer here, but the Cardinals have been playing great baseball the entire year. Are you stuck in 2006 or something? Really? You want to talk about the past 3 years? 2011, they finished second in the division and won the WS. 2012, they finished 2nd in the division and lost game 7 of the NLCS. This year they won the division by like 2-3 games and are in the WS. They get hot at the right time.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2013 23:48:03 GMT -5
Dude, give the Cardinals some credit. They tied with Boston for the second best record in MLB this year. They won the division "by the thinnest margin" because the Central division turned out to be the most competitive division in the NL this year. And average to good ball? I hate to sound like a homer here, but the Cardinals have been playing great baseball the entire year. Are you stuck in 2006 or something? Really? You want to talk about the past 3 years? 2011, they finished second in the division and won the WS. 2012, they finished 2nd in the division and lost game 7 of the NLCS. This year they won the division by like 2-3 games and are in the WS. They get hot at the right time. Don't mention that they were statistically one of the best teams in MLB this year. And last year. But I guess that can be attributed to when they get hot late in the season...
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Post by 6 seasons and a movie on Oct 25, 2013 23:50:51 GMT -5
The Cardinals had the best record in all of baseball and were one of the top two are three teams record wise all year long. The only reason they didn't run away with their division and the entire National League was the fact the second and maybe third best teams in the NL were in the same division and they had to play each other 19 times. If they would have been playing the crap teams the Dodgers or Braves were playing all year the would have won 110 games or more. As much as I dislike St. Louis fans for being a bunch of whinny crybabies that think everyone is trying to cheat them, you can't argue that the Cardinals weren't one of the best teams in baseball in the regular season for the entire season.
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Post by Colter on Oct 26, 2013 12:10:33 GMT -5
Hopefully Peavy is going to pitch really good tonight, maybe 6 or 7 good innings, and maybe the bullpen won't fall apart. Buchholz is starting to worry me now.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2013 22:07:23 GMT -5
Remember the time Beltran tried to get out of the way of that pitch?
Me neither.
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Oct 27, 2013 6:37:19 GMT -5
Lebron would be proud of that flop.
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Post by Colter on Oct 27, 2013 12:17:18 GMT -5
Am I the only one that thought that interference call was absolutely bogus?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2013 12:23:35 GMT -5
I think the timing of it was ridiculous. Whether it was interference or not is whatever, but that's how you're going to decide a World Series game? A game can't end that way because it's out of the players hands. What if the series goes to 7 and St.Louis wins by a game, this game will be looked back on and how it was decided by the ump not the players.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2013 13:18:08 GMT -5
At the risk of sounding like a total homer, that was, by definition, definitely obstruction. The timing was bad, it's an awful way to end a World Series game, but it was the right call. I'd be pissed if that happened to the Cards, but I'd at least give the umpire some credit for making the correct call.
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Post by Nivro™ on Oct 27, 2013 13:37:49 GMT -5
Outside of people just being biased I dont understand how people can say "You cant decide a game on a call like this". Games have rules, if they're "broken" you have to call it. The rule book says it was obstruction, it was called...there shouldnt be any reason for discussion. Im sure if it was the Yankees nobody would have a problem with it. (except Yankees fans of course)
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Post by LA Times on Oct 27, 2013 21:06:57 GMT -5
This World Series is a joke with a game decided by a walk off flop. It looks like the Tardinals will win just because the Red Sox cant throw to 3B. If the Yank were in there, they wouldve pounded Michael Wacha, Joe Kelly and Lance Lynn for 10 runs each in the first 2 innings and close it out tonight.
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Post by Jean-Ralphio on Oct 28, 2013 22:33:45 GMT -5
Holy mother of God, 1 more?
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Post by RybackV1 on Oct 30, 2013 22:27:30 GMT -5
Congrats Red Sox!!!!!!'
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Post by snatch on Oct 30, 2013 22:29:19 GMT -5
**** Yea! Go Sox! World Champs right here!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 22:30:56 GMT -5
So glad the Sox won. I even wore my 2004 World Series shirt today. Looks like I'll be getting a new one now
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Post by ICW on Oct 30, 2013 22:32:26 GMT -5
Congrats to Ralpho, I know he's happy as hell right now.
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Post by Nivro™ on Oct 30, 2013 22:39:52 GMT -5
So glad the Sox won. I even wore my 2004 World Series shirt today. Looks like I'll be getting a new one now Not to sound or come off like a dick but did you just not buy anything in 07 when they won it? haha...Just the way you had it phrased.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2013 22:41:26 GMT -5
So glad the Sox won. I even wore my 2004 World Series shirt today. Looks like I'll be getting a new one now Not to sound or come off like a dick but did you just not buy anything in 07 when they won it? haha...Just the way you had it phrased. I did, but have no clue what happened to it lol I think it got lost when I moved a year or so ago :/
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