I too know what it feels like to have given up on the 2020 season already
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MLB 2020
- Thread starter biggie
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I too know what it feels like to have given up on the 2020 season already
what season?
Me three
the rays just tied the all-time record for most runs scored in a series by a visiting team at fenway park, improved to 12-1 there over the past two seasons, and went from bottom 10 in baseball to top 1 in runs scored in the span of just one series, so i'm feeling pretty good right now. also there was a drone delay which was funny
Rays fans actually exist...? Did not realize you were a Rays fan.
I'm a depressed Pirates fan that admits we're going to have less wins than our softball team this year. Our softball team played 25 games, won 24. I would be shocked on multiple different degrees if we break 24 wins. May there be the next great pitcher in this year's draft class. Then again, we had that next great pitcher in Gerrit Cole and pissed him away. Why couldn't I have been a Yankees fan or something
The Oakland Athletics bandwagon welcomes all lost souls of garbage 2020 franchises. I should know, I'm driving the bus.
As a long suffering Reds fan I feel your pain. This team has only made the playoffs 3 times in my lifetime. I'm 20. Three playoff appearances in 20 years isn't good chief. The last time they won a playoff series? 1995. Five years before I was born. All I know is pain.
However, fuck the Pirates. At least the previous regime of Clint Hurdle. I can respectfully hate the Pirates as a division rival but their philosophy about intentionally throwing at guys STRONGLY rubbed me the wrong way. Throwing at guys isn't baseball. That's not what the sport is and there's no room for that shit in it. I can feel sympathy for your shitty franchise because I too am a fan of a shitty franchise (At least from the 90s to present) but also Clint Hurdle can eat shit
Baring 2013, the last time the Pirates won a playoff series was 1979. We won the World Series that year
As a Cleveland native, it's always hilarious to me how Pittsburgh fans are bent out of shape so much about the Pirates when they still have the Steelers and Penguins who are dynastic.
Don't get me wrong here, the Pirates are at an acceded level of suckass and incompetence. As a baseball fan it sucks because I'm surrounded by Pirates, Indians and Reds fans whose teams all have only had small windows of competence in my memorable lifetime and it just produces people who don't give a crap about baseball. Which stinks.
But those same Pirates fans are the same asshole intolerable Steelers and Penguins fans who talk more unsubstantiated horse shit than anyone I've ever met, so there is part of me that is completely unsympathetic towards the Pirates.
(Also want to point out that I would probably absolutely hate Boston Sports if I grew up in New England and had to deal with all of the same shitheads on the Boston side of things.)
Don't get me wrong here, the Pirates are at an acceded level of suckass and incompetence. As a baseball fan it sucks because I'm surrounded by Pirates, Indians and Reds fans whose teams all have only had small windows of competence in my memorable lifetime and it just produces people who don't give a crap about baseball. Which stinks.
But those same Pirates fans are the same asshole intolerable Steelers and Penguins fans who talk more unsubstantiated horse shit than anyone I've ever met, so there is part of me that is completely unsympathetic towards the Pirates.
(Also want to point out that I would probably absolutely hate Boston Sports if I grew up in New England and had to deal with all of the same shitheads on the Boston side of things.)
Is there a bandwagon I can join that isn't in my division?
You see, I'm not a Pittsburgh sports fan. I'm a Pirates fan. This sounds stupid, but how I got rooting for the Pirates is because I was into pirates when I was young. Not the team, the little plastic action figures and ships and swords and swashbucklers and the Scooby Doo: Pirates Ahoy movie. When I started to get more into baseball, it was a natural fit. As an Iowa State fan, I saw how great Patrick Mahomes was in college, and I was rooting for him when he went to my favorite team. Barring the Chiefs breaking their 50 year Super Bowl Drought, I've had very little playoff happiness, or happiness at all for that matter.
even though my team is really good i'm still on the padres bandwagon because that team is so fun. the only thing that makes me sad about it is that i had tatis as a keeper in the fantasy league but it's on hold.
also i'm extremely glad to see the pittsburgh sports teams slander because i've had to put up with the steelers organization and fans being constantly insufferable for close to 20 years including the two most promising seasons my team has ever had in my lifetime being ruined by them "accidentally" injuring our qb and having a coach run out onto the field illegally to draw a key penalty. everything they do is so bush league and no one outside of other afc north fans really seem to notice or care most of the time. from all accounts i've heard the penguins and pirates don't seem to be much better either.
I do have Tatis Jr dynasty shares and they're in the National League, so I can totally get behind San Diego as my bandwagon team.
I've hated this guy for being a shitty broadcaster for years but damn I wish he didn't go out like that
Gave some thought to where Albert Pujols ranks as an all time player yesterday after he broke the tie for 3rd on the RBI list with ARod despite the Angels broadcast arguing he was in second.
For some reason, despite all of the numbers and success, I can't seem to put Pujols in my brain as being any higher than my 3rd tier of baseball Hall of Famers. Like in a tier with Boggs, Brett, Reggie, Edgar, and Ichiro but not among the Immortals like Bonds, Ricky, or Aaron or even the Demi-Gods like Ortiz, Junior, ARod, and Tony Gwynn.
I feel like he SHOULD BE in that higher tier but I think that this prolonged stretch of average hitting and horrible base running and defense for this prolonged stretch at the end of his career is hurting my gut evaluation of him.
His numbers are not even bad, especially the power numbers. But they just feel empty maybe coming on the Angels and because of how bad the drop off was from his peak. A lot of the times I just forget he is even still playing. He is just an afterthought on the Angels right now in the way that other active and declining HoF'ers like Miggy are not.
Interested in where an Angels fan or a Cards fan like Del Rio would have him ranked and where he sits in their head.
For some reason, despite all of the numbers and success, I can't seem to put Pujols in my brain as being any higher than my 3rd tier of baseball Hall of Famers. Like in a tier with Boggs, Brett, Reggie, Edgar, and Ichiro but not among the Immortals like Bonds, Ricky, or Aaron or even the Demi-Gods like Ortiz, Junior, ARod, and Tony Gwynn.
I feel like he SHOULD BE in that higher tier but I think that this prolonged stretch of average hitting and horrible base running and defense for this prolonged stretch at the end of his career is hurting my gut evaluation of him.
His numbers are not even bad, especially the power numbers. But they just feel empty maybe coming on the Angels and because of how bad the drop off was from his peak. A lot of the times I just forget he is even still playing. He is just an afterthought on the Angels right now in the way that other active and declining HoF'ers like Miggy are not.
Interested in where an Angels fan or a Cards fan like Del Rio would have him ranked and where he sits in their head.
How are the Yankees at a 99.2% when they have a 9-10 record vs everyone who is not the last place team in their division? That same last team's best pitcher has a better ERA than every single Yankee starter including Gerritt Cole. Feel like that is not deserving of a 99.2%.
because in order to miss the playoffs they'd have to finish behind the rays (very possible) and blue jays (unlikely) and then also finish behind one of the o's royals tigers red sox angels rangers or mariners, who are all terrible. as much as i'd love that there's no way it's actually happening, especially since they've already played most of the harder games on their schedule.
also because fangraphs weighs projections based on past performance much more heavily than performance in the current season, which is also why the orioles' odds are so much lower than the blue jays' despite similar records and why the red sox and angels have decently high odds compared to what their records would indicate
also because fangraphs weighs projections based on past performance much more heavily than performance in the current season, which is also why the orioles' odds are so much lower than the blue jays' despite similar records and why the red sox and angels have decently high odds compared to what their records would indicate
St Louis Pujols hit under .300 ONCE (.299) and never hit less than 34 HR's in a season. He also walked more than he struck out all but one year.
He's definitely in the demigod tier imo.
because they're loaded on talent and have past performance to back them even though they've got a tough slate to close their year (8 games against the orioles, 10 against the blue jays, both of whom are seriously chasing a playoff berth and would love to stomp on new york's pride). it'd be hilarious if they fall apart but realistically speaking it's a long shot even with the injuries and the bullpen starting to waver.
also screw the red sox; they're winning just enough to throw off the orioles and jays' records while still being bent over by the yankees on a nightly basis (so they're the primary reason that the yankees have playoff hopes to begin with monkaS), and still making noise about how they're going to be competitive after trading their best player and salary dumping their entire pitching staff. if you're going to lose at least have the dignity to admit your incompetence and not taunt your fanbase with fantastical promises of future contention that you have no intention of following through on. god this organisation is such a clownshow.
okay while I admit the rays make me mad at times this is just a bitch move. can't wait for somebody to cash that negative karma and walk off chapman in october.
go blue jays!
yeah the more i think about it the more i just can't stand it. yankee fans are going off about how it couldn't have been intentional because "he has no control" and other excuses but that could have caused a life-threatening injury with permanent damage and chapman is exactly the type of horrible and violent person to pull something like this. i absolutely don't buy that it wasn't intentional based on his complete lack of reaction to nearly hitting him, the fact that he declined to be available for reporters afterward, his history of being a terrible human, and the fact that they've been throwing at our batters and constantly trying to instigate things for like 2 years now, despite (maybe partially because of?) no real retaliation. they always bring up rays pitchers throwing up and in occasionally as a reason for acting like this but that's just something that happens sometimes in baseball, unlike aiming 101 directly at a guy's head. god what a pathetic franchise. on the plus side i think i finally have an answer to which of the yankees and red sox i hate more