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Title: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 09:38:27 PM
We are over here trying to watch UFC on Fox fight night and it's delayed due to the worst sport ever: baseball. It's tied at the bottom of the top of the 12th so it's likely we will be watching this for three more hours until we get to see some kicking and punching. Fuck baseball. We don't have fight pass at the house I'm at, we don't have fox sports 2, and the cable provider here is dish network who isn't supported on fox sports go. Now we have to use an illegal with shit quality stream. FUCK. BASEBALL.

Fucking :trash sport on ever level.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Shaka Khan on October 04, 2014, 09:40:36 PM
Blame baseball to justify piracy and clear your conscious brehs.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 09:49:48 PM
Fucking bottom of the 12th, one man on base, score tied. KILL ME.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: StealthFan on October 04, 2014, 10:00:21 PM
nah
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: benjipwns on October 04, 2014, 10:03:32 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/W3TLfUjm.png)
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 10:06:39 PM
BOTTOM OF THE 13TH :zzz
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: lennedsay on October 04, 2014, 10:10:28 PM
TRY LIVING IN ST LOUIS FOR 30 YEARS.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 10:17:48 PM
Ufc on fox is now on fx thank goodness. Made it to the 13th and still kept going. Shit sport.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: benjipwns on October 04, 2014, 10:32:17 PM
Shit happens. You don't have to throw histrionics about it :yeshrug
SAYS WHO?!? GIVE ME THEIR NAME!
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Nobody on October 04, 2014, 10:32:21 PM
You watch pro wrestling, and as much as I love soccer there's a lot of people who find that boring too. Oh yeah, almost forgot about Shenmue.

Be a hypocrite about things being boring when you advocate it elsewhere, brehs.

That was unnecessary  >:(
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 10:42:19 PM
You watch pro wrestling, and as much as I love soccer there's a lot of people who find that boring too. Oh yeah, almost forgot about Shenmue.

Be a hypocrite about things being boring when you advocate it elsewhere, brehs.

People have different tastes. Doesn't make you a hypocrite to point out that baseball sucks. Soccer isn't four hours long. Pro wrestling is known for being exciting. Shenmue is a video game that you can play for 30 minutes and put it up. But nothing stops baseball from ruining TV programming - an American tradition.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 10:44:18 PM
Shit happens. You don't have to throw histrionics about it :yeshrug

This happens often with fight nights. I've never complained about it before, but dammit if I'm not compining about it tonight. It's a free country. I wrote one paragraph.

I just flipped back and it's the bottom of the 15th. :heh :sabu this sport
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: pilonv1 on October 04, 2014, 11:06:00 PM
lol @ watching some 8th rate UFC card
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Your Stalker on October 04, 2014, 11:10:42 PM
ufc is flabby and sick
edit: and the more you suffer the harder my cock gets
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 04, 2014, 11:22:50 PM
This is what you get for talking shit earlier, sis

:umad
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 11:24:19 PM
This game is now top of the 17th. It's been going on for over 5 hours.

Pilon, it's something to do with friends. We watch it together. Surprisingly good fights tonight.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: benjipwns on October 04, 2014, 11:30:57 PM
This game is now top of the 17th. It's been going on for over 5 hours.
Why don't they just have a shoot out or something?
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: lennedsay on October 04, 2014, 11:37:53 PM
Fuck my husband who turns on baseball and leaves the room and I find him an hour later playing Battlefield. WHY THE FUCK DID YOU TURN THIS SHIT ON AND LEAVE?????? what a fucking monster.

And I'm a good person so I never change it thinking, "Oh he'll probably be back in a minute. I'll just read or browse the webs." When I could've watched an entire episode of some shitty reality show.

But we're playing the Dodgers, so Go Cards!
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: pilonv1 on October 04, 2014, 11:38:17 PM
Pilon, it's something to do with friends. We watch it together. Surprisingly good fights tonight.

I know, it's more a statement about the UFC than you watching it.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 04, 2014, 11:43:11 PM
Pilon, it's something to do with friends. We watch it together. Surprisingly good fights tonight.

I know, it's more a statement about the UFC than you watching it.

There's not too many guys with lots of personality right now. I'm still new to it though so I enjoy it a lot. People who have been watching for years tell me that the quality has gone down the drain post-Lesnar?

Have you been watching this season of ultimate fighter? I really like it.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on October 04, 2014, 11:53:52 PM
baseball is the perfect chill sport. buy a ticket, order far too much domestic lager, and chillax in the bleachers with your bros and get hammered in the open air  :aah
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: El Babua on October 05, 2014, 12:09:56 AM
I enjoy watching baseball and golf. I am the embodiment of excitement.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: thisismyusername on October 05, 2014, 12:27:06 AM
Fuck Baseball?

(https://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7y4rsh21f1qk9t29o1_400.jpg)

Yes. Please. :drool :tauntaun
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 12:29:08 AM
i just wanted to get some people mad. I see you triumph. :tocry
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 05, 2014, 12:33:16 AM
I ain't even mad. I don't really give a shit about baseball at this point of the season; my team is gone, all that's left is making sure our divisional rivals don't win it all, which looks like it will happen just fine.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 05, 2014, 12:38:52 AM
BASEBALL!!! FUCK YEAH!!!

You watch pro wrestling, and as much as I love soccer there's a lot of people who find that boring too. Oh yeah, almost forgot about Shenmue.

Be a hypocrite about things being boring when you advocate it elsewhere, brehs.

This. A million times.

i just wanted to get some people mad. I see you triumph. :tocry

What a cop out.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: benjipwns on October 05, 2014, 12:51:46 AM
Why do I feel like the World Series used to not be at the end of October and baseball ended in early September? I'm looking at Wikipedia and it's been this way since the 1960's.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Rman on October 05, 2014, 12:52:40 AM
Baseball is the best sport.  October baseball is just amazing.

Why do I feel like the World Series used to not be at the end of October and baseball ended in early September? I'm looking at Wikipedia and it's been this way since the 1960's.

They added more playoff rounds, the divisional round and now the wild card round, lengthening the time needed to complete the postseason tourney.

It still goes fast since baseball is played everyday except for travel time.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 01:18:32 AM
i just wanted to get some people mad. I see you triumph. :tocry

Yeah, sure.  ::)

You sure do seem invested in this. You going to call me more words that aren't the right definition?

Fuck baseball. :umad ?
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 05, 2014, 01:44:31 AM
OH SOMEBODY FINNA GONNA TAKE AN LLLLLLLLLL

Baseball IS boring, and that's part of the novelty. I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT. But it's totally different from any other game out there, it's boring and mundane because nothing happens but at the same time it's so interesting and detailed that I don't give a shit.  (http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=38790.msg1541568#msg1541568)
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 01:49:49 AM
Goddamit triumph you're not allowed to search when people are having fun over here.

Now you've made the thread

spoiler (click to show/hide)
even better :smug
[close]

:dead

Jesus Wrath why so serious
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 05, 2014, 01:52:03 AM
I freely acknowledge that beisbol is a boring sport to watch. I grew up with it, and it's still my favorite sport though. It is definitely an acquired taste and I don't really give a shit if other people like it. It is weird that baseball is my only nostalgic blindspot, though, but whatever. CACs gonna CAC.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 02:00:44 AM
I get why people like baseball. It's a relaxing sport to watch while also being boring as fuck so you can turn your brain off. You don't have to defend a thing as to why you like it. I just wanted to rant and have fun because I was bored when I made the thread, and considering the troll I made yesterday, it felt like a pretty good time to bounce off Shinobi's STL hate thread. Unfortunately, Baseball fans are hard to troll. :( even triumph didn't pick up the bite from yesterday and had to bring soccer into it. :stahp
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 02:01:59 AM
Esch: how to troll baseball fans?
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Kara on October 05, 2014, 10:37:12 AM
baseball is the perfect chill sport. buy a ticket, order far too much domestic lager, and chillax in the bleachers with your bros and get hammered in the open air  :aah

And staring at fellas in baseball trousers. :drool
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Positive Touch on October 05, 2014, 02:17:28 PM
be a wrestling fan after age 12 :sabu
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Trent Dole on October 05, 2014, 02:29:07 PM
Wrestling being a bit derpy doesn't make baseball any less shit you know. :P
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on October 05, 2014, 02:36:28 PM
baseball is the perfect chill sport. buy a ticket, order far too much domestic lager, and chillax in the bleachers with your bros and get hammered in the open air  :aah

And staring at fellas in baseball trousers. :drool
and referring to men as 'fellas' :aah
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 06:01:59 PM
depends on the wrestling, no?

If it's something like ECW, sure.

WWE? No question.

But something like New Japan Pro Wrestling? I'm not so sure.

Not all styles of wrestling is equal, tbh.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 06:40:36 PM
Oh.

:leon
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 05, 2014, 06:51:26 PM
baseball and hockey would be two sports that would be WAY more interesting if they went to 1 game per week. I don't understand the point of 152 games per season other than money
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Trent Dole on October 05, 2014, 06:57:42 PM
Money is the point of every sport dude.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 07:01:59 PM
Money is the point of every sport dude.

They'd make more money if they had less games though. See: NFL and soccer leagues
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 05, 2014, 07:22:29 PM
Every american sport would be better with:

Less games
relegation


That way you couldnt have teams being purposely shit.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 07:23:29 PM
Not NFL. It doesn't have that many games.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 05, 2014, 07:25:01 PM
i kinda agree but the lack of any real danger of being bad means teams that lose the first 3 games of the NFL campaign know theyre not going to be in the playoffs and can just fuck off from there on out.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 07:32:13 PM
Yet there's still a great level of competition in the NFL compared to other other American leagues, so I think it works out in the end.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: headwalk on October 05, 2014, 07:50:52 PM
ignoramous foreigner here, but baseball i can understand as something that comes from the same place as cricket. it's a middle class dad sport. put it on TV on sunday afternoon and fall asleep halfway through. one of life's little screensavers. not my thing, but i get where it's coming from.

NFL is the one i'm having issues with. they've started putting it on TV here at the dead hours and it is such an infuriating and bizarre sport to try and watch. it simultaneously requires the tolerance for obnoxious presentation required to sit through a transformers movie and a kind of saintly patience required to endure four hours of nothing/adverts for fifteen minutes of staccato action. action that is so full of bizarre arbitrary rules and stipulations that they require a fucking nasa control centre to help the ref out.

was it always such a bloated, hyper commercialised beast, or did it use to have some flow to it?
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on October 05, 2014, 08:47:35 PM
watching football on tv :yeshrug

watching football in a packed stadium :lawd
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: headwalk on October 05, 2014, 08:51:14 PM
watching football on tv :yeshrug

watching football in a packed stadium :lawd

do NFL stadiums have big atmospheres? there's always a kind of faint murmuring with the occasional DE-FENCE grade chant, but they seem pretty dead on TV compared with what i'm used to. maybe it's just the open top acoustics?

or is it more about the day out?

i'm watching "cin" vs. "ne" right now. everything is so incidental and broken up. there was a ruck, nothing really happened, somebody blew a whistle and now we're at an ad break. nobody in the stadium seemed to react or care.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on October 05, 2014, 09:01:16 PM
The NBA definitely has the most worthless regular season.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on October 05, 2014, 09:04:41 PM
Well my experience is limited to two stadiums (Huskies and Seahawks), but they are loud as fuck and well, energizing. Especially the Seahawks. I was at one of the later regular season games last year and it was insanity.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 05, 2014, 09:07:07 PM
The NBA definitely has the most worthless regular season.

true
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 05, 2014, 09:21:51 PM
well in light of the Tigers fuck up I feel confident in asking what I assume is a dumb baseball questions: are pitchers required to wait for a batter to get ready for the pitch? Is there an equalivent of a "hurry up/no huddle offense" where a pitcher just keeps throwing, and doesn't give the batter time to get ready - and would this be legal.

Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Rman on October 05, 2014, 09:42:03 PM
Yes. Pitchers need to make sure batters are ready.

It's considered bad form to pitch without the batter ready.  Moreover, spaced pitches are due to the catcher, as they call the game.  Quick pitching would hurt the pitcher not the hitter. 
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Sausage on October 05, 2014, 09:45:58 PM
well in light of the Tigers fuck up I feel confident in asking what I assume is a dumb baseball questions: are pitchers required to wait for a batter to get ready for the pitch? Is there an equalivent of a "hurry up/no huddle offense" where a pitcher just keeps throwing, and doesn't give the batter time to get ready - and would this be legal.

As long as time hasn't been called and the batter has both feet in the batters box the pitcher can go. There's really no way to control that, but when a pitcher starts throwing the very moment the batter steps in the box it's called quick pitching and some times people get pissed. I used to do that shit all the time back in my playing days because I really had no patience for all these dudes who would step out every single pitch. They try teaching batters to get ready faster in youth leagues but it's not emphasized nearly as much.

Baseball would be way better if they sped that shit up. The pace of this at bat is just :lawd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBT2ub-OHM
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Rman on October 05, 2014, 09:50:23 PM
well in light of the Tigers fuck up I feel confident in asking what I assume is a dumb baseball questions: are pitchers required to wait for a batter to get ready for the pitch? Is there an equalivent of a "hurry up/no huddle offense" where a pitcher just keeps throwing, and doesn't give the batter time to get ready - and would this be legal.

As long as time hasn't been called and the batter has both feet in the batters box the pitcher can go. There's really no way to control that, but when a pitcher starts throwing the very moment the batter steps in the box it's called quick pitching and some times people get pissed. I used to do that shit all the time back in my playing days because I really had no patience for all these dudes who would step out every single pitch. They try teaching batters to get ready faster in youth leagues but it's not emphasized nearly as much.

Baseball would be way better if they sped that shit up. The pace of this at bat is just :lawd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBT2ub-OHM

Do you remember Nomar Garciaparra of the Red Sox?  Dude would adjust his gloves like crazy as per his usual routine. HIs at bats were grueling to watch.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: thisismyusername on October 05, 2014, 10:47:01 PM
Baseball would be way better if they sped that shit up. The pace of this at bat is just :lawd

Did the empire get hit at the end?

But really, 97MPH fastballs are rare IIRC. Mostly because that's a bit outside of most pro-pitchers pitching ability IIRC. Easy to blow your arm out if you do that "limit" constantly.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 05, 2014, 10:53:28 PM
thats the problem with american sports the regular season is meaningless. you could win every game during the season but make one mistake in the post season and you're out :/
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Kara on October 05, 2014, 11:17:36 PM
I had a friend who used to always play Football Manager with the pseudonym Adolf Fucktexas and I always think of that when I see the title of this thread. That's it, that's my post.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Sausage on October 05, 2014, 11:17:54 PM

Do you remember Nomar Garciaparra of the Red Sox?  Dude would adjust his gloves like crazy as per his usual routine. HIs at bats were grueling to watch.

Yeah his "superstitions" were the worst.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Sausage on October 05, 2014, 11:23:43 PM
Baseball would be way better if they sped that shit up. The pace of this at bat is just :lawd

Did the empire get hit at the end?

But really, 97MPH fastballs are rare IIRC. Mostly because that's a bit outside of most pro-pitchers pitching ability IIRC. Easy to blow your arm out if you do that "limit" constantly.

The camera was probably in his mask and he took it off as soon as the ball was hit in play. 

I'm not really talking about the speed of his actual pitches though, but the speed at which the pitcher recieves the ball and then starts his motion. Rman was right in his previous post, the pitchers are responsible for most of the space between pitches because even after they get their sign they'll just stand and take a breath or something before pitching.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: nudemacusers on October 05, 2014, 11:34:03 PM
well in light of the Tigers fuck up I feel confident in asking what I assume is a dumb baseball questions: are pitchers required to wait for a batter to get ready for the pitch? Is there an equalivent of a "hurry up/no huddle offense" where a pitcher just keeps throwing, and doesn't give the batter time to get ready - and would this be legal.

As long as time hasn't been called and the batter has both feet in the batters box the pitcher can go. There's really no way to control that, but when a pitcher starts throwing the very moment the batter steps in the box it's called quick pitching and some times people get pissed. I used to do that shit all the time back in my playing days because I really had no patience for all these dudes who would step out every single pitch. They try teaching batters to get ready faster in youth leagues but it's not emphasized nearly as much.

Baseball would be way better if they sped that shit up. The pace of this at bat is just :lawd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBT2ub-OHM

Do you remember Nomar Garciaparra of the Red Sox?  Dude would adjust his gloves like crazy as per his usual routine. HIs at bats were grueling to watch.
when dudes step out of the batter box, tap their cleats, and do a little stretch... AFTER EVERY PITCH  :comeon
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 06, 2014, 12:57:47 AM
thats the problem with american sports the regular season is meaningless. you could win every game during the season but make one mistake in the post season and you're out :/

Baseball is a sport where an elite performer fails 70% of the time, and you generally need at least two people, each of whom succeed 25-30% of the time, to succeed in the same inning in order to score a run. So the very nature of the sport requires a rather large sample size to differentiate the great teams from the average teams, and then you throw the teams into a first to 3 wins playoff where your elite hitter can go 1 for 12 over 3 games, or your elite pitcher can give up 7 runs, and that's that.

There is no fucking way the Kansas City Royals were a better team than the Anaheim Angels (not giving them my city) this season, and yet they just eliminated them in three games.

That's why the playoffs are awesome.

You made it. Now fucking prove it.

Can't prove it? Go home.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 08:46:59 AM
Kids today have no patience. Which is why baseball is hurting. It isn't the games fault, it's your lack of ability to concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time.

:umad
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 08:50:15 AM
well in light of the Tigers fuck up I feel confident in asking what I assume is a dumb baseball questions: are pitchers required to wait for a batter to get ready for the pitch? Is there an equalivent of a "hurry up/no huddle offense" where a pitcher just keeps throwing, and doesn't give the batter time to get ready - and would this be legal.

As long as time hasn't been called and the batter has both feet in the batters box the pitcher can go. There's really no way to control that, but when a pitcher starts throwing the very moment the batter steps in the box it's called quick pitching and some times people get pissed. I used to do that shit all the time back in my playing days because I really had no patience for all these dudes who would step out every single pitch. They try teaching batters to get ready faster in youth leagues but it's not emphasized nearly as much.

Baseball would be way better if they sped that shit up. The pace of this at bat is just :lawd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZBT2ub-OHM

Do you remember Nomar Garciaparra of the Red Sox?  Dude would adjust his gloves like crazy as per his usual routine. HIs at bats were grueling to watch.


Ha, he was a noob compared to this guy. You could literally make a grilled cheese before his at bat was over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tGm_JajqLo
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 09:27:19 AM
Playoffs serve no purpose other than to let corruption take hold so the NFL MLB and NBA can have their big market teams in the post season to make money.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 06, 2014, 11:16:07 AM
Playoffs serve no purpose other than to let corruption take hold so the NFL MLB and NBA can have their big market teams in the post season to make money.

Oh yeah, look at those big market Royals and Orioles fighting it out in the ALCS. That was totally rigged for the massive TV ratings and ad money.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 11:19:48 AM
Playoffs serve no purpose other than to let corruption take hold so the NFL MLB and NBA can have their big market teams in the post season to make money.

Oh yeah, look at those big market Royals and Orioles fighting it out in the ALCS. That was totally rigged for the massive TV ratings and ad money.

LOL!

Not to forget those pesky Oakland A's!
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 06, 2014, 11:23:14 AM
Kids today have no patience. Which is why baseball is hurting. It isn't the games fault, it's your lack of ability to concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time.

:umad

My main sport is one where there's  two 45 minute halves with no commercial breaks except for half time. Uhhhh, attention span isn't an issue here.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 11:24:53 AM
Kids today have no patience. Which is why baseball is hurting. It isn't the games fault, it's your lack of ability to concentrate for more than 5 minutes at a time.

:umad

My main sport is one where there's  two 45 minute halves with no commercial breaks except for half time. Uhhhh, attention span isn't an issue here.

There is a substantially LOT more action in soccer/football than baseball dude. Baseball has at least 20 minutes of dudes adjusting their cups every game.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Himu on October 06, 2014, 11:26:48 AM
Playoffs serve no purpose other than to let corruption take hold so the NFL MLB and NBA can have their big market teams in the post season to make money.

Not I don't agree with your NBA and NFL examples, but the San Antonio Spurs won the championship this year. What do you consider big market?
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 11:57:39 AM
I'm not saying the winner is rigged i'm saying the idea of a playoff serves no purpose other than to make sure they don't end up without a big market team in a post season place.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 11:58:31 AM
Playoffs serve no purpose other than to let corruption take hold so the NFL MLB and NBA can have their big market teams in the post season to make money.

Oh yeah, look at those big market Royals and Orioles fighting it out in the ALCS. That was totally rigged for the massive TV ratings and ad money.

LOL!

Not to forget those pesky Oakland A's!

>implying Baltimore and san Francisco aren't big markets
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 06, 2014, 01:11:58 PM
Baltimore is the 26th largest TV market in the US.
Kansas City is the 31st largest TV market in the US.

Those teams don't pull in huge national audiences. The Bay Area is the 6th largest, but people outside Northern California don't give a shit about the A's. If MLB had their way it would be Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Phillies, etc. every single year.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 01:13:22 PM
Funny how atleast one of those teams are always in the playoffs each year. Makes you think...
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 06, 2014, 01:14:25 PM
 ::)

It's like talking to a brick wall.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 01:14:37 PM
Baltimore is the 26th largest TV market in the US.
Kansas City is the 31st largest TV market in the US.

Those teams don't pull in huge national audiences. The Bay Area is the 6th largest, but people outside Northern California don't give a shit about the A's. If MLB had their way it would be Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Phillies, etc. every single year.

And let's not forget Oakland has San Francisco to contend with.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 06, 2014, 01:36:38 PM
Baseball is serious business, yo.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 01:41:24 PM
Baltimore is the 26th largest TV market in the US.
Kansas City is the 31st largest TV market in the US.

Those teams don't pull in huge national audiences. The Bay Area is the 6th largest, but people outside Northern California don't give a shit about the A's. If MLB had their way it would be Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Phillies, etc. every single year.

And let's not forget Oakland has San Francisco to contend with.

"contend with"

lol if you seriously think america isn't full of bandwagon feggits who change their team each year on which local team of theirs is in the playoffs.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 01:41:40 PM
heres a fun game:

ask a person from connecticut what baseball team they support
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 01:42:21 PM
Baltimore is the 26th largest TV market in the US.
Kansas City is the 31st largest TV market in the US.

Those teams don't pull in huge national audiences. The Bay Area is the 6th largest, but people outside Northern California don't give a shit about the A's. If MLB had their way it would be Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Phillies, etc. every single year.

And let's not forget Oakland has San Francisco to contend with.

"contend with"

lol if you seriously think america isn't full of bandwagon feggits who change their team each year on which local team of theirs is in the playoffs.

It isn't. Learn sports noob.   (Well except Miami and LA, those two cities suck for any professional team except the Lakers and Kings)
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 01:43:02 PM
heres a fun game:

ask a person from connecticut what baseball team they support

50% Yankees
30% Boston
20% Philly
10% Mets

Next question....
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 01:44:15 PM
you can't tell me it isnt. i've lived in new england since moving to america and i cant tell you the number of people who support the yankees or red sex depending on whose doing better that year. don't even get me started on when the expos used to play also.

and hockey? forgetabout it. Until the Bruins were good again you literally had bostonians who supported the rangers.

Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 01:45:43 PM
you can't tell me it isnt. i've lived in new england since moving to america and i cant tell you the number of people who support the yankees or red sex depending on whose doing better that year. don't even get me started on when the expos used to play also.

and hockey? forgetabout it. Until the Bruins were good again you literally had bostonians who supported the rangers.

Bullshit.....100%   You are trying to tell me people switch from the Yankees to the Sox? You are completely trolling. LOL at your inability to get sports. Go play some fucking mario or something.,
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 01:47:38 PM
heres a fun game:

ask a person from connecticut what baseball team they support

50% Yankees
30% Boston
20% Philly
10% Mets

Next question....

funny how i don't see the rock cats or tigers there
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 01:48:37 PM
you can't tell me it isnt. i've lived in new england since moving to america and i cant tell you the number of people who support the yankees or red sex depending on whose doing better that year. don't even get me started on when the expos used to play also.

and hockey? forgetabout it. Until the Bruins were good again you literally had bostonians who supported the rangers.

Bullshit.....100%   You are trying to tell me people switch from the Yankees to the Sox? You are completely trolling. LOL at your inability to get sports. Go play some fucking mario or something.,
its about as bullshit as you pretending people in new york outside of cajole don't swap allegiance between the mets and yankees depending on who does better  :lol :lol
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on October 06, 2014, 01:48:52 PM
heres a fun game:

ask a person from connecticut what baseball team they support

50% Yankees
30% Boston
20% Philly
10% Mets

Next question....

funny how i don't see the rock cats or tigers there

Trolling confirmed. Nothing more to see here.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 01:51:16 PM
yes what a shame the people don't support their local teams instead go for the most popular and succesful ones.  ::)

america is a joke of a country.

you can get proof of this when you compare the sales of Royals merchandise in missouri this year in comparison to last year. i have a funny feeling Tigers and Rangers gear will have dropped :teehee
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 06, 2014, 02:02:08 PM
>soccernomics

support for local market teams are still very high in europe though as compared to the US. show me a triple A team that can pull the attendance of a championship team hint you cant
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 06, 2014, 02:36:28 PM
I'm gonna pay demi off to leper you again, methodis
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: ToxicAdam on October 06, 2014, 02:48:52 PM
Baseball is my favorite spectator sport, but I think it would be a mistake to go chasing after those television dollars. There are no changes that could be made that would help it compete with visceral sports like football or basketball.  It's always been a sport best enjoyed on radio. It's always been a regional sport too, only the Yankees have a strong nationwide following to speak of. 

They just need to make rules that get the game closer to 2hrs 30 minutes without screwing up the integrity of the game (and the stats, to a much lesser extent).
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Human Snorenado on October 06, 2014, 02:53:47 PM
MyNameIsMethodis
Townie Leper

:aah
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: Mr. Gundam on October 06, 2014, 04:59:19 PM
Hey guys! Let's talk about baseball!!

YEAH!! BASEBALL!!!
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: CajoleJuice on October 06, 2014, 08:05:12 PM
The Nationals have a really good shot of coming back from 0-2. Gio vs Vogelsong tomorrow and then back to Washington with Strasburg pitching again. That rotation is sick.

Edit: TA is right on the money, especially about the regionality.
Title: Re: Fuck baseball
Post by: octopushover on October 06, 2014, 08:09:16 PM
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