I'm trying to decide if I still hold a grudge against the Giants for 2014
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- Thread starter Rascally Badger
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1) Hah. I've been That Guy before. The contrarian sports fan just trying to needle their friends. Don't push your boundaries too far. Your friends will still love you, but they'll also think you're being a dick.
2) Depends on where you are in Norcal. Growing up in the Central Valley, being a Giants or Niners fan made you the contrarian/in the minority. Historically, The Valley has much more Raiders and A's fans, and you were the contrarian if you liked the Niners or the Giants. That's lessened a lot over the decades as the Raiders bounced around, both teams were generally attrocious for long periods of time, and The Oakland Coliseum kept decaying into a cesspool nobody wants to visit. This also being CA, there's tons of transplants that bring their fandom with them all over the place. It's hardly an ubiquitous thing where everyone loves the Giants/Niners without condition. What people do like, is winners and excuses to party, and both teams have provided those excuses to party more often in recent history than their regional competitors. So there's a lot of casual sports fan support these days for both teams.
I usually just cheer for the California team because they so rarely all make it playoffs, and not usually against each other. I'm from SoCal though and my mom's family is from Brooklyn. My uncle remembers when they were still in Brooklyn, and attended games, so Dodgers it is.
The Cardinals have fired Mike Shildt today, which is truly insane from an on-field perspective. The president of operations said it was a "philosophical difference" with no other explanation which has led to a lot of poor speculation. mostly revolving around differences in free agent approach or mike shildt wanting to replace the hitting coach. either way, seems bad. he had the player's trust as far as anyone has ever reported
in better news, great game so far for sf v la. maybe the most important game played between the two ever.
in better news, great game so far for sf v la. maybe the most important game played between the two ever.
All this rhetoric about the Giants and Dodgers never meeting before in the playoffs drives me insane
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_'Round_the_World_(baseball)
Literally the greatest game of baseball history and everyone acts like it never happened
My Twitter feed is going to be garbage for the next couple of days.
well, i think it's meant to come with the cache of "in their current incarnations" as san francisco and los angeles franchises. like, posited towards the current fanbases and the rivalry that comes from the location difference.
Im not gonna quibble about any one of many moments in the game that could have changed the outcome. I’m just going to redirect that energy towards hating MLB in general. How dumb do you have to be to allow this series to happen as a best of 5, in the first fucking round. Why would you ever allow a potential scenario to play out where the two best teams in the entire league have to play each other in the first round!? This should have been game 5 of 7, and it should have been for the pennant. Everyone involved was poorly served by this.
Yeah, the divisional setup doesn't really work.
But man, what a brutal call to end a team's season on.
But man, what a brutal call to end a team's season on.
The NLCS has been good too.
Go Atlanta I guess
Congratulations to the Atlanta Racist Nicknames on defeating the Houston Cheating Scandals.
you know, it is a little unfortunate for houston, considering only like 4 players from that team were on their playoff roster. It did happen to be four of the loudest and brashest personas from that team though, so probably fair play to drag them for it. Either way, not a whole lot of excitement in the series, aside from some class home runs and that atlanta team is genuinely likable. bring on the off season though. excited for a nice round of hand wringing about hall of fame votes, and excited to see if this is a year where every front office is afraid to spend money.
I don't think it's fair that Houston is branded as cheaters for however long this lasts. Professional athletes are always looking for advantages, and it seems that they're far from the only team to engage in this kind of sign stealing. On the other hand, fuck them.
karzac
(he/him)
Get ready for six months ( or more?) of acrimonious labour negotiations!
Right now, I'm just hoping that next season starts on time.
My only regret with Houston losing was I would have liked to see Greinke get a ring.
Please don't tell me about any recent thoughts he's had. Dude is a true weirdo and I'd rather not see that curdle into horribleness with current events. I know what I'll find if I look.
Please don't tell me about any recent thoughts he's had. Dude is a true weirdo and I'd rather not see that curdle into horribleness with current events. I know what I'll find if I look.
If being labeled as cheaters is the worst enduring consequence of all of this, they're getting off easy. If this was the 1920s, they would have been given the death penalty. As long as the same owners own the team, this should follow them around like an albatross.
karzac
(he/him)
Lol what?
Black Sox Scandal - Wikipedia
It was probably not the most appropriate use of the term but I was evoking this idea to allude to a ban: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_penalty_(NCAA)
Cheating to win is not the same as the Black Sox scandal at all. Nobody has been banned from the sport for on-field cheating to win in the game's history.