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Title: i hate baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 26, 2013, 06:34:24 PM
triumph knows why

spoiler (click to show/hide)
http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/9602399/matt-harvey-new-york-mets-partial-tear-elbow
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 :'( :usacry  :fbm :gloomy
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 26, 2013, 06:36:34 PM
Can't blame you. The Astros have the worst record of any mlb team since 2005.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Steve Contra on August 26, 2013, 06:36:45 PM
Drats, the Mets are going to miss the postseason now!
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: El Babua on August 26, 2013, 06:38:08 PM
As a Marlins fan, Jeffrey Loria single-handedly ruined the game of Baseball for me.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 26, 2013, 06:41:34 PM
As a Marlins fan, Jeffrey Loria single-handedly ruined the game of Baseball for me.

They have two World Series titles in the past 20 seasons! More than any team other than the Yankees, Cardinals, Red Sox, or Giants. He does suck, though.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 26, 2013, 06:43:56 PM
cajole did you look up that stat or was it already infused into your brain
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 26, 2013, 06:47:07 PM
I'd bet he already knew.  I did.

And yeah, I'm sorry man.  That sucks.  Waiting to hear if Beachy's elbow is shit again now too. 
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 26, 2013, 06:50:03 PM
what kind of baseball stats do you pull out while eating your gf to get her wet cajole
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Verdigris Murder on August 26, 2013, 06:58:24 PM
Take his mind apart himuro.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Robo on August 26, 2013, 06:59:13 PM
what kind of baseball stats do you pull out while eating your gf to get her wet cajole

I like to explain how DRS works because I get to make stuff up—sexy stuff.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 26, 2013, 07:00:39 PM
i thought this was an actual baseball hate thread :pacspit

baseball sucks dick. I live in one of the greatest baseball towns to ever do it and it's awful. It's a boring, slow, agonizingly stupid game that exists pretty much to get stats nerds wet and as a background for getting drunk. Despite the fact that the majority of playing baseball consists of sitting around with your hand in your pubes, it somehow manages to cause more injuries than geriatric orgies, and is pretty much the poster boy for PED use. if someone tells me their favorite sport is baseball, I pretty much assume that they're a fucking faggit. Too many games. Games that are too long. Baseball players are pretty much douchebags with beards that sit around dipping and eating and patting each others asses all day. This sport is so stupid, it can't even decide on uniform dimensions to play the game on nor identical rules for both leagues.

You're not a REAL AMERICAN like my Puerto Rican friend.  You wouldn't understand. 
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: El Babua on August 26, 2013, 07:07:25 PM
As a Marlins fan, Jeffrey Loria single-handedly ruined the game of Baseball for me.

They have two World Series titles in the past 20 seasons! More than any team other than the Yankees, Cardinals, Red Sox, or Giants. He does suck, though.

True. But those wins ring more hollow as each year passes since we never made the playoffs since. Made worse by the fire sales. Hell, we've only fielded 4 .500+ teams the last 10 seasons. And each time we do, Loria decides to sell the core team down the river every time they get a little to expensive.

this sport is so stupid, it can't even decide on uniform dimensions to play the game on nor identical rules for both leagues.

You say it like it's a bad thing, b.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Positive Touch on August 26, 2013, 07:12:58 PM
in st louis expressing disgust at the cardinals will get you shunned and possibly beat up if there are bros around. if you dont follow their games then you will be shut out of 90% of work talk during the season. i know SO MANY people whos entire personality is centered solely around lifelong cardinal worship.


i do like cracker jacks tho
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 26, 2013, 08:37:35 PM
go pirates
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 26, 2013, 08:49:26 PM
go pirates

do you wear steelers gear to pirates games like hars0n

also, i want to go to a game with triumph some time. maybe when i am over this :(
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Flannel Boy on August 26, 2013, 09:10:52 PM
I'm so sorry Cajole.  :(
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 26, 2013, 11:48:31 PM
I'll be traveling a lot next year... including going to Cooperstown in late July next summer to see three Braves inducted into the HoF. :smug
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: tiesto on August 26, 2013, 11:50:40 PM
I liked baseball better when it was fat out of shape dudes :drool who played, not these HGH infused guys...

I can tolerate the sport, but could never sit intently focused on a game like I can do with hockey or certain football games.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Huff on August 27, 2013, 12:20:24 AM
baseballs better when you just have a minor league team in your city and you use it as place to get really drunk.



Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Positive Touch on August 27, 2013, 12:57:31 AM
obligatory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwGybS6TWEM
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: lennedsay on August 27, 2013, 01:33:32 AM
in st louis expressing disgust at the cardinals will get you shunned and possibly beat up if there are bros around. if you dont follow their games then you will be shut out of 90% of work talk during the season. i know SO MANY people whos entire personality is centered solely around lifelong cardinal worship.


i do like cracker jacks tho

how about the blues?

You have to actually be dedicated to like the Blues. There are definitely complete Blues fanatics like there are Cardinals fanatics, but it's few and far between in comparison with vast number of Cards fans.

Typical Cardinals fans, aka most St Louisans, only pay attention to the Blues when they're doing well, and as soon as shit goes south, their fair-weathered fandom dies. As a Blues fan, it's grating to hear people freaking out over the Blues doing great who typically don't give a shit 99.9% of the time, and you know in a few weeks they'll be back to the "fuck the blues they suck cause they aren't world champions like the CARDS bro" mentality. You will literally hear no one talk about the Blues for weeks or months, then when they have a streak, people perk up and remember we actually have a hockey team. Then right back to talking shit about them.

Aside from a few diehard fans, most Cards fans I know just seem to like it for no real reason other than it's socially preferred. It's just what people do here. Come home from their mundane job, crack open a Bud Light and turn on the game. If they lived anywhere else, they'd probably never pay attention to baseball. But their friends are into it and they're boring Midwest folk with nothing better to talk about, other than the varied weather. You just buy the tees and the jackets because everybody wears Cards apparel here, and everybody talks about the players and the games, and everybody shits on the Cubs. If you score Cubs vs Cards tickets, you're definitely the coolest person out of all your FB friends. It just seems like one of those mindless things people watch and talk about and get into. For most people at least.

Us Blues fans (all 4 of us) are pretty much like Cubs fans. :usacry and Cards fans are pretty much like Blackhawks fans, or even worse, Red Wings fans.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: ToxicAdam on August 27, 2013, 10:21:42 AM
I love baseball fans, because you can degrade their sport or call it shitty and they just shrug it off. "Yea, I guess you're right."

Any other sporting fan you do that with and they launch into a 10 minute dissertation on why their sport is the best and far superior to others.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 27, 2013, 10:26:35 AM
Comerica Park is pretty damn nice, I've been to a few games. But I can't say I enjoy watching. Honestly I'd rather listen to people talk about baseball on the radio than listen to an actual baseball game, or watch one. My favorite local sports show spends a lot of time talking about the Tigers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt_CX_1eAM0

I like the drama, and hearing people talk about it at work. And I like pretending like I watch baseball by quoting various stats.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: hampster on August 27, 2013, 10:36:22 AM
in st louis expressing disgust at the cardinals will get you shunned and possibly beat up if there are bros around. if you dont follow their games then you will be shut out of 90% of work talk during the season. i know SO MANY people whos entire personality is centered solely around lifelong cardinal worship.


i do like cracker jacks tho

When I lived in St. Louis and the Cardinals were in the world series my kid was the only one who didn't wear red to school. How was I supposed to know ???

I had to go out that night and buy cardinals shirts for the rest of the week so they wouldn't feel embarrassed :(
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Brehvolution on August 27, 2013, 11:27:25 AM
in st louis expressing disgust at the cardinals will get you shunned and possibly beat up if there are bros around. if you dont follow their games then you will be shut out of 90% of work talk during the season. i know SO MANY people whos entire personality is centered solely around lifelong cardinal worship.


i do like cracker jacks tho

With the Rams being the alternative, this doesn't really seem abnormal.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 27, 2013, 11:42:09 AM
PD, this blow-up is pretty famous in NY:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI5xJfYH7NI

Loses it at ~2 minutes.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Sausage on August 27, 2013, 12:01:44 PM
How can this not be the best baseball rant of all time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDzAZ25hEi4

Rant starts around 7 minutes in
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on August 27, 2013, 12:53:37 PM
Yeah, I don't really care about baseball, but having grown up in St. Louis I feel obligated to act interested to not disappoint my dad too much
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Joe Molotov on August 27, 2013, 01:12:02 PM
Don't worry, Cajole, every little thing's gonna be all right.

(http://i.minus.com/ixevZAVHjvilq.gif)
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 27, 2013, 01:37:35 PM
How can this not be the best baseball rant of all time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDzAZ25hEi4

Rant starts around 7 minutes in

Thought about posting this too. So sad that Russo left WFAN just before the Giants won two World Series.

Also, that GIF :(
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 27, 2013, 06:08:39 PM
go pirates

do you wear steelers gear to pirates games like hars0n

also, i want to go to a game with triumph some time. maybe when i am over this :(

I haven't been to a pirates game since 2010 unfortunately.  I have a Pirates ballcap from the early 90s signed by not-PED Barry Bonds though so thats pretty cool.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 27, 2013, 06:44:47 PM
i thought this was an actual baseball hate thread :pacspit

baseball sucks dick. I live in one of the greatest baseball towns to ever do it and it's awful. It's a boring, slow, agonizingly stupid game that exists pretty much to get stats nerds wet and as a background for getting drunk. Despite the fact that the majority of playing baseball consists of sitting around with your hand in your pubes, it somehow manages to cause more injuries than geriatric orgies, and is pretty much the poster boy for PED use. if someone tells me their favorite sport is baseball, I pretty much assume that they're a fucking faggit. Too many games. Games that are too long. Baseball players are pretty much douchebags with beards that sit around dipping and eating and patting each others asses all day. This sport is so stupid, it can't even decide on uniform dimensions to play the game on nor identical rules for both leagues.

Real talk. When I played little league it was never fun. Practice was hell. I played left field and it was the most boring thing. Our dads would yell at us from behind the fence to watch the ball and not dawdle, me and center field dude used to get along well for that reason.

That said I appreciate watching baseball. It is a fun sport to watch. But playing, depending on the position, is just a bunch of standing around.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Sausage on August 27, 2013, 08:17:18 PM
i thought this was an actual baseball hate thread :pacspit

baseball sucks dick. I live in one of the greatest baseball towns to ever do it and it's awful. It's a boring, slow, agonizingly stupid game that exists pretty much to get stats nerds wet and as a background for getting drunk. Despite the fact that the majority of playing baseball consists of sitting around with your hand in your pubes, it somehow manages to cause more injuries than geriatric orgies, and is pretty much the poster boy for PED use. if someone tells me their favorite sport is baseball, I pretty much assume that they're a fucking faggit. Too many games. Games that are too long. Baseball players are pretty much douchebags with beards that sit around dipping and eating and patting each others asses all day. This sport is so stupid, it can't even decide on uniform dimensions to play the game on nor identical rules for both leagues.


Real talk. When I played little league it was never fun. Practice was hell. I played left field and it was the most boring thing. Our dads would yell at us from behind the fence to watch the ball and not dawdle, me and center field dude used to get along well for that reason.

That said I appreciate watching baseball. It is a fun sport to watch. But playing, depending on the position, is just a bunch of standing around.
lol you played left field in little league. You probably sucked ass.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: lennedsay on August 27, 2013, 08:21:12 PM
in st louis expressing disgust at the cardinals will get you shunned and possibly beat up if there are bros around. if you dont follow their games then you will be shut out of 90% of work talk during the season. i know SO MANY people whos entire personality is centered solely around lifelong cardinal worship.


i do like cracker jacks tho

When I lived in St. Louis and the Cardinals were in the world series my kid was the only one who didn't wear red to school. How was I supposed to know ???

I had to go out that night and buy cardinals shirts for the rest of the week so they wouldn't feel embarrassed :(

Poor kids... They probably hate you now for being the cause of their endless teasing... :(

We have days at work we can wear Cardinals apparel rather than business clothes. I ended up just buying a red shirt so I can wear jeans and fit in just enough to not be harassed where my CARDS SHIRT IS BRO.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 27, 2013, 09:25:51 PM
i thought this was an actual baseball hate thread :pacspit

baseball sucks dick. I live in one of the greatest baseball towns to ever do it and it's awful. It's a boring, slow, agonizingly stupid game that exists pretty much to get stats nerds wet and as a background for getting drunk. Despite the fact that the majority of playing baseball consists of sitting around with your hand in your pubes, it somehow manages to cause more injuries than geriatric orgies, and is pretty much the poster boy for PED use. if someone tells me their favorite sport is baseball, I pretty much assume that they're a fucking faggit. Too many games. Games that are too long. Baseball players are pretty much douchebags with beards that sit around dipping and eating and patting each others asses all day. This sport is so stupid, it can't even decide on uniform dimensions to play the game on nor identical rules for both leagues.


Real talk. When I played little league it was never fun. Practice was hell. I played left field and it was the most boring thing. Our dads would yell at us from behind the fence to watch the ball and not dawdle, me and center field dude used to get along well for that reason.

That said I appreciate watching baseball. It is a fun sport to watch. But playing, depending on the position, is just a bunch of standing around.
lol you played left field in little league. You probably sucked ass.

And? I was 6 gears old. Everyone sucked ass.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on August 27, 2013, 10:33:54 PM
I was really good at little league baseball fuck you  :maf
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Freyj on August 27, 2013, 10:43:32 PM

You have to actually be dedicated to like the Blues. There are definitely complete Blues fanatics like there are Cardinals fanatics, but it's few and far between in comparison with vast number of Cards fans.

Typical Cardinals fans, aka most St Louisans, only pay attention to the Blues when they're doing well, and as soon as shit goes south, their fair-weathered fandom dies. As a Blues fan, it's grating to hear people freaking out over the Blues doing great who typically don't give a shit 99.9% of the time, and you know in a few weeks they'll be back to the "fuck the blues they suck cause they aren't world champions like the CARDS bro" mentality. You will literally hear no one talk about the Blues for weeks or months, then when they have a streak, people perk up and remember we actually have a hockey team. Then right back to talking shit about them.

Aside from a few diehard fans, most Cards fans I know just seem to like it for no real reason other than it's socially preferred. It's just what people do here. Come home from their mundane job, crack open a Bud Light and turn on the game. If they lived anywhere else, they'd probably never pay attention to baseball. But their friends are into it and they're boring Midwest folk with nothing better to talk about, other than the varied weather. You just buy the tees and the jackets because everybody wears Cards apparel here, and everybody talks about the players and the games, and everybody shits on the Cubs. If you score Cubs vs Cards tickets, you're definitely the coolest person out of all your FB friends. It just seems like one of those mindless things people watch and talk about and get into. For most people at least.

Us Blues fans (all 4 of us) are pretty much like Cubs fans. :usacry and Cards fans are pretty much like Blackhawks fans, or even worse, Red Wings fans.

Hawks fans are easily overtaking Detroit fans of late.

You pretty much have to be a masochist to be a Blues fan. Years of build up, potential potential potential, and a first/second round exit. Rebuild, rinse wash repeat. Doesn't really fit the fair-weather sports crowd.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 28, 2013, 12:06:36 AM
this thread is a nice example of why there are like 4 black players in mlb

(eschaton is black, right?)
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on August 28, 2013, 12:10:09 AM
The only browns we let into america's pastime are dominican
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on August 28, 2013, 12:11:51 AM
this thread is a nice example of why there are like 4 black players in mlb

(eschaton is black, right?)

and 3/4 of them are the Braves' OF
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Huff on August 28, 2013, 12:12:27 AM
being bad at baseball can be construed as nothing but positive

you must have really sucked at little league

right field, amirite
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on August 28, 2013, 12:12:43 AM
this thread is a nice example of why there are like 4 black players in mlb

(eschaton is black, right?)

and 3/4 of them are the Braves' OF
and people say incarceration rates aren't higher for blacks.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on August 28, 2013, 12:20:06 AM
this thread is a nice example of why there are like 4 black players in mlb

(eschaton is black, right?)

He's Paki, but close enough.

shit. i actually had no idea, but i saw the "#DarkSkinMonopoly" thing in his profile and just went from there. now i get the cricket question.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on August 28, 2013, 12:22:45 AM
this thread is a nice example of why there are like 4 black players in mlb

(eschaton is black, right?)

He's Paki, but close enough.

shit. i actually had no idea, but i saw the "#DarkSkinMonopoly" thing in his profile and just went from there. now i get the cricket question.
:dead
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 28, 2013, 12:24:41 AM
Huff confirmed to be the coaches son who was first base
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Sausage on August 28, 2013, 12:24:42 AM
being bad at baseball can be construed as nothing but positive

you must have really sucked at little league

right field, amirite

Playing outfield in Little League just meant the coach wanted you nowhere near the baseball
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 28, 2013, 12:31:12 AM
There is only one #dsm and it ain't a psychology book.

:shaq
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Huff on August 28, 2013, 12:38:11 AM
Huff confirmed to be the coaches son who was first base

Too short for that jam
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: hampster on August 28, 2013, 08:19:57 AM
I was really good at little league baseball fuck you  :maf

I got so bored one game I stopped paying attention and a baseball hit me in the face

Stupid game >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: ToxicAdam on August 28, 2013, 09:19:05 AM
Organized baseball is what you did to pass the time between wiffle ball games & strikeout. That's where the real love was born.

Dropping that curve ball that falls into the box for strike three as the batter is bailing out because he thinks he's going to get hit in the face. Feelsgreat.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 28, 2013, 04:23:16 PM
I have tee ball and regular baseball trophies from when I was a kid. And I used to watch the Tigers with my granddad when I was little; he was a big fan, as were my grandmothers. But by the time I turned like 9 or 10 my focus turned 100% to basketball.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Himu on August 28, 2013, 04:26:56 PM
Baseball was my first sport and by 8 I was a Houston Rockets nut. Basketball all the time, every time.
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: TakingBackSunday on August 28, 2013, 06:12:14 PM
I was third base in peewees until 3rd grade, by then I realized I was turrible and it wasn't as fun anymore because other players were getting really good and I wasn't.  Played football instead until 7th grade, despite absolutely hating how seriously our town and adults took peewee fucking football.

I was a first string tight end though  :aah
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on August 28, 2013, 06:23:19 PM
Is peewee full contact or touch?
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Positive Touch on August 28, 2013, 06:28:12 PM
peewee touch :phil
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on August 28, 2013, 07:00:31 PM
 :oreilly :shaq
Title: Re: i hate baseball
Post by: Phoenix Dark on August 29, 2013, 02:09:52 PM
I was shooting the breeze with a patient when she mentioned she couldn't wait for Saturday (U of M football), to erase the  bitter taste of the Tigers. I said "but the Tigers are doing pretty good tho..." and she said they lost bad last night. I thought she said they lost 44-4, so I responded "wait, in a baseball game?" She said yes, but seemed surprised by my shock.

Just checked espn, it was 14-4. Now I look like a fool
:fbm