[WMarshal]

Hat tip to all the whining snowflakes out there.

[gubamyster]

A few weeks ago, I went through about 10 years of NBA finals. I have since deleted the info I compiled, but I believe I had come up with 3 times the team losing the series had scored more points over the course of the series than the winning team.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[EQAndyBuzz]

I also use the baseball analogy.

The Mets score 2 runs on 3 hits with no errors. The Phillies score 1 run on 10 hits with no errors. It doesn’t mean the Phillies win 1100 to 230.

[dfwgator]

Cubs and Indians both scored 27 runs in the last World Series, in fact Cleveland should have been crowned champions because after 9 innings of Game 7, they had scored one more run than the Cubs in the series.

[MeganC]

So you’re saying that if I’m out playing nine holes of golf with Mr. Megan and he scores a 45 and I score a 57 that I win, right?

(-:

[JonPreston]

Arg....I can still see Mazeroski’s homer...

[mazda77]

Just this year, the Cubs scored just one less run than the Indians for the series.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

But that’s not faaaair!

[Sergio]

bkmk

[dfwgator]

And in last year’s Super Bowl, the Panthers outgained the Broncos by over 100 yards.

[Az Joe]

First world series I had any awareness of. I remember, still, how Mazeroski’s name was spelled in the box score:

“M’z’r’ski”.

I guess they didn’t have enough room to make it fit.

[ml/nj]

Forget baseball. What about tennis which many liberals seem to love.

A guy loses the first set 1-6, comes back to win the second 6-4, loses the third 0-6 (He gave up rather than wasting energy on something that was lost after he was broken in the first game of the set.), and then wins out 6-3, 6-4.

He's champion even though he won only 19 games to his opponent's 23, to say nothing about who won the most points. Those are the rules.

ML/NJ

[xkaydet65]

Actually a good number of my 8th grade friends as well as my family still claim the Yankees should be the winners. Fsr as I know none vited fir Clinton

[jobim]

Lovely illustration - thanks!

[clintonh8r]

I was a big Pirates fan, 13 years old. Those were the days when we took transistor radios to school to listen to the WS games.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Seahags gained more total yards than did my Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX but lost,in the last minute,by a whisker.

[Bullish]

That only works on people who think like reasonable, logical adults. That doesn't work at all on whining babies looking for excuses for losing.

[Beautiful_Gracious_Skies]

305 to 233 EV. That’s a 72 point difference. That’s not even close.

It’s the equivalent of being ahead occasionally throughout the baseball game and ahead in the 8th inning, only to lose by 5 runs at the end of the game.

Then the losing team claims the umpire blew all the calls and they actually won. They want to replay the last inning. The losers claim the pitcher and the catcher cheated. All the sports announcers agree with the losers and they egg them on claiming the losing team is the really the winning team.

The losers tell everyone the baseballs themselves were not regulation size and that the bases were improperly set. And then they claim the scoreboard miscalculated the strikes and outs in the winner’s favor and that altered the game.

When the that fails to make them the winner, the loser claims the fans interfered with the game and request the referees demand an entirely new game because they should have won. And they tell the sports announcers to say that they actually won and the winning team lost.

[Repeal 16-17]

This year’s World Series ended with the Indians and the Cubs each scoring 27 runs. Does that mean they’re co-champions? [/sarc]

[foreverfree]

That was the last WS before I was born (just over 10 months later). The Pirates' next world title came the year I started following baseball (1971). Those 1960 and 1971 Bucs had three things in common: Bill Mazeroski, Roberto Clemente, and Danny Murtaugh (whose mother often babysat my mother when the latter was a little girl in Chester, PA). So those two champion teams resonate deeply with this Phillies phan.

RIP Roberto and Danny.

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