Baseball Thread

[blahblahblah678]

Three little words: "double play depth". And this was after all the media fawning over the Yankees being in the WS after 9/11.

I boycotted that 2001 World Series because of the 9/11 shit the media was laying in so thick, it felt rigged as fuck. When I found out about Byung-hyun Kim, who had been amazing that year, completely fall apart in Yankee Stadium, I felt justified in my boycott.

 

[brapbruddah]

Padres took out a $50 million loan to help cover their player payroll, and might consider moving top-paid players to trim salary costs next season.
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...-report-could-juan-soto-trade-help-cut-costs/
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[Preferred Penne]

D-backs bullpen taking a huge dump in the ninth.

Congrats Rangers.

 

[Major Filth]

Rangers lineup will be too much for Dbacks pitching but the Rangers only have two solid pitchers in Montgomery and Eovaldi. I expect them to struggle when it moves past them. As a result I say Rangers in 6.

Looks like we're both about to be wrong in terms of games played. Guessing the party in the DFW area will be epic.

 

[Amerikaner Teddybär]

After half a century, the Texas Rangers have finally won a World Series.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Really makes you think.

 

[Preferred Penne]

Really makes you think.

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If it helps, their director of scouting is named Kip Fagg.

 

[TVB]

Really makes you think.

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Based Texas Rangers doing the right thing. Kill all the gays and the faggots

 

[Climaxing Sunset]

Really makes you think.

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Y’know as an Astros fan I’m lowkey glad the rangers finally got their first World Series title. Imagine, two Texas teams winning back to back in the 2022 and 2023 world series

Admittedly this World Series was kinda boring this year. I kinda wished that the Phillies were in the World Series, they would have provided more entertainment and competition to the Rangers.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Been seeing a lot of nigger cattle bitching about the regular season meaning nothing with infographics like this:


It's like people forgot that in the 40s there were still only 16 clubs and 20 by the 60s. So yes in a format where it's League Championships then World Series of course big win teams are most likely to win it all.

If people want only 100+ game winners to win the series then you'd need to downsize back under 24 teams and two divisions but no one wants that.

I thought it was a fun playoff. Not sure where all this bitching is coming from.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

Fun sports factoid: the Rangers were undefeated on the road in the playoffs. If you take the first letter of each team they beat in order it spells ROAD R(ays) O(rioles) A(stros) D(iamondbacks)

 

[Preferred Penne]

Been seeing a lot of nigger cattle bitching about the regular season meaning nothing with infographics like this:
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It's like people forgot that in the 40s there were still only 16 clubs and 20 by the 60s. So yes in a format where it's League Championships then World Series of course big win teams are most likely to win it all.

If people want only 100+ game winners to win the series then you'd need to downsize back under 24 teams and two divisions but no one wants that.

I thought it was a fun playoff. Not sure where all this bitching is coming from.

That graphic leaves out the 1973 Mets, who won the NL pennant with 82 wins.

 

[Fleetwood]

Just found out the last time the D-Backs were in the World Series was back in 2001 when they faced the NY Yankees. For some reason, it made me remember the fact this game also existed:

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The coincidence comes in when this cover star is also a player for the Arizona Diamondbacks by the name of Luis Gonzalez. I remember that the series used to be called Triple Play, before it changed into MVP Baseball.

Now I’m wondering if anyone played this one, because to my knowledge, this is the only time I’ve ever seen a Diamondbacks player on a baseball video game cover since then.

I took a look at my old games, this was the one I had.

 

[indomitable snowman]

Remember when Albert Belle tried to run over trick-or-treaters who egged his house?

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Weird that the article kept calling his team the Cleveland Guardians and only had pictures of him with the Orioles.

Anyway glad the Rangers won. The only game I managed to watch was the one they lost lol.

 

[Meat Target]

Really makes you think.

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Based Texas Rangers doing the right thing. Kill all the gays and the faggots

Serves the state of Arizona right for capitulating to California hegemony.

I'll take my Moais now.

 

[TVB]

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I took a look at my old games, this was the one I had.

I'll always remember playing this on the Gamecube. Good memories

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

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I took a look at my old games, this was the one I had.

Nice!

I played that game so much as a kid, and as luck would have it, I want to update this thread to tell all of you that Diamondbacks legend Randy Johnson was in fact on an MVP Baseball cover:



It’s a cool photo since he shared the cover with Miguel Tejada when he was on the Athletics. It makes one wish games like this were made again.

 

[Kaizer Ghidorah]

My rangers (:

 

[blahblahblah678]

Congratulations to the Hanshin Tigers for winning their first Japan Series since 1985 and breaking the curse of Colonel Sanders.

The Cubs going all made man on David Ross to hire Craig Counsell as their new manager was a ballsy ass move.

 

[Kaizer Ghidorah]

Congratulations to the Hanshin Tigers for winning their first Japan Series since 1985 and breaking the curse of Colonel Sanders.

The Cubs going all made man on David Ross to hire Craig Counsell as their new manager was a ballsy ass move.

2 championships breaking massive droughts/curses in one year