Posted on 10/31/2017 8:42:55 PM PDT by Az Joe
Good one.
LOL
You are right, baseball is far less easy to rig that way than football or basketball. But hockey is even better.
Who knows, maybe we’ll get another Dodger-Yankee series in the next couple of years.
Was altuve rolling his eyes and mumbling during the anthem?
I knew they weren’t going to win seeing that their pitcher’s beards weren’t bushy enough. Hopefully for the Stros today’s starter has a beard like ZZ Top.
Game 7? MLB makes it look sooooo real.
Go Astros!
You know what they say about aholes, they all have an opinion. I guess we know your’s. GO YANKEES!
He pitched a great game. Too bad the bats didn’t back him up.
The games are fixed fools. You are just ad money.
I’ll trade Baez for him, right now!
Astros aren’t the Rangers.
Amazing how anyone could give-up on that team after Game Five.
No no. They say, You know what they say about aholes and opinions. Everybody has one. Come on, man.
And where do you want the Stankees to go? To the fridge for another beer while they watch the Dodgers in the series?
Hahahahahahahahahahaha.
Dodgers rule, Yankees drool.
“No no. They say, You know what they say about aholes and opinions. Everybody has one. Come on, man.”
It was a play on the original phrase, like when someone says “Why go out for milk when you’ve got a cow at home”, instead of “why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free”. I should have kept it simple for a dodgers fan.
I’m so upset I could blow chunks.............;( but you’re right..........sigh
I totally agree. Hopefully they’ll do alot of head slaps and get their butts in gear for tonight.
What?!
“But he wouldn’t supplement a really good team when he could have.”
If the Pirates would have spent as much as the megamarket Cleveland Indians and KC Royals, I guarantee you that they would have appeared in at least one World Series from 2013 to 2015. I am not being a Captain Hindsight ... had they simply frigging spent a tiny bit more money at the start of the season for a 1B or RF in 2013 or 1B in 2014-2015, I can almost promise you they would have won the division 2 of those 3 years -AND- made it to at least one World Series.
They knew what they had at the end of 2012 ... after 20 consecutive years of a sub .500 record, you think they’d take a couple of risks. That wasn’t in the cards.
Here’s the sickening part ... I am not talking about signing some brutal $20M/year power hitter at 1B that costs millions ... we had power ... 1B was the only position where we had NOBODY that could get on base ... nobody. All they needed was a guy that could play 1B and get on base ... a typical $8M/year player these days.
The Pirates only trade prospects when they’re looking to dump salary (see the ‘Liriano to TOR’ trade in 2016). A couple of mid level prospects would have gotten us what we needed.
Instead, in 2015, they ran Pedro Alvarez out there ... the year where we had a phenomenal pitching staff and ferocious offense ... Alvarez committed over THIRTY errors. He did hit an appreciable number of solo-shot HRs, but the errors and overall horrible defense more than canceled that out. They were too cheap to simply have him on the bench as a pinch hitter (a great role for him against leftys) ... they wanted to get their money’s worth.
We won 98 games, the Cubs 97, but St. Louis won 100. Jake Arietta and the Cubs humiliated the Pirates in the Wild Card game.
I was done after 2015. I’m a lifetime baseball fan and I flat out couldn’t take it anymore. Despite record attendance, they cut salary and didn’t even make an attempt to field a team that would compete. This year was even worse. They flat out do not care.
MLB should either force that pig to sell or just contract the team out of existence. Bob Nutting has zero motivation to sell (it is free money ... why would he), therefore, just get them the hell out of the league. They dilute the talent pool and aren’t the least bit serious about winning. I’m sorry, but when Milwaukee, Cleveland, and KC spend an appreciable amount of money while you sit idle, you deserve to be kicked out of the league.
Again, sorry for the rant :-).
Pittsburgh and Cleveland had similar payrolls 2013 - 2015.
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