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  1. 10-12-2017, 07:02 PM #1001
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    All my insufferable Skankee friends who have been silent for years are suddenly insufferable again [emoji849]
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    Quote Originally Posted by alias_rice View Post
    Sports are the best.
    Sports make you feel emotions that are in no way connected to any action on your own part. They trick you into carrying a torch for your entire life only to be left at the altar year after year. They make you believe things that aren’t true, take precautions and adopt superstitions that only an insane man could appreciate.

    But the worst is that they make you believe. Believe In destiny, in fate, in things grown men and women aren’t supposed to believe in, like love and Santa Claus. And though it should come as no surprise to anyone, you’re stood up again on the night before the big dance, and Santa skipped your house again this year.

    Sports fucking suck.
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    In our defense, we tried to warn you about elevated expectations during that streak. It was done out of love.
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    A decent read...
    https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/w...hey-are-doing/
    When it comes to firing MLB managers, nobody really knows what they are doing

    One snippet:
    Far more than in any other sport, baseball's playoffs are as close to random as you'll ever see. The best team often loses. Wild cards can and have won it all. Momentum going into the playoffs means absolutely nothing. It's scary as hell to imagine a world in which dumb luck -- players suddenly going hot (or cold) at exactly the right (or wrong) time -- would decide championships. But that's baseball.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    Sports make you feel emotions that are in no way connected to any action on your own part. They trick you into carrying a torch for your entire life only to be left at the altar year after year. They make you believe things that aren’t true, take precautions and adopt superstitions that only an insane man could appreciate.

    But the worst is that they make you believe. Believe In destiny, in fate, in things grown men and women aren’t supposed to believe in, like love and Santa Claus. And though it should come as no surprise to anyone, you’re stood up again on the night before the big dance, and Santa skipped your house again this year.

    Sports fucking suck.
    That's beautiful. It's like the reverse Crash Davis speech.


    And the National fans are currently living every word.
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    Still strange to see an implosion in a cubs game not being committed by the cubs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ml242 View Post
    Great series. Looks like some people underestimated the power of the dark side. I don’t think Houston has the pitching to stop the Yankees but that’s why we pay them.

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    Hey Red Sox...how’s the golf course?
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    Wasn't it Houston that Costanza was to take out and show a good time?

    Bring on those son's of bitches!
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    Quote Originally Posted by BmillsSkier View Post
    Sports make you feel emotions that are in no way connected to any action on your own part. They trick you into carrying a torch for your entire life only to be left at the altar year after year. They make you believe things that aren’t true, take precautions and adopt superstitions that only an insane man could appreciate.

    But the worst is that they make you believe. Believe In destiny, in fate, in things grown men and women aren’t supposed to believe in, like love and Santa Claus. And though it should come as no surprise to anyone, you’re stood up again on the night before the big dance, and Santa skipped your house again this year.

    Sports fucking suck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by neckdeep View Post
    C'mon, man! Don't act surprised. We all knew the tribe was dog meat the moment they got a two game lead. A majority of their fans became optimistic, which is the prerequisite scenario for the fans to suffer maximum heartbreak. At that point, the unwritten rules of the universe kicked in. A true Cleveland style loss. Conversely, if they'd lost the first two games on their home field, they probably would have won the series in the most amazing three game rally of all time.
    plus, lebron - kyrie - love are gonna make all that hurt go away when they bring the title home FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THREE YEARS!!!

    THE KING KY LOVE CONNECTION CAN'T BE BEAT!!

    relax, bmills.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wyeaster View Post
    plus, lebron - kyrie - love are gonna make all that hurt go away when they bring the title home FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THREE YEARS!!!

    THE KING KY LOVE CONNECTION CAN'T BE BEAT!!

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    Dark days today for sure, but I know a lot of cities would love to have 2 franchises with 4 league titles and one championship in the last 4 years for sure. At least that’s what they tell this sports fan.
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  17. 10-13-2017, 12:55 AM #1017
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    Tv networks have to be ecstatic right now, the 4 teams remaining are from Hudge markets.

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    I've always been a big Astros guy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brock Landers View Post
    I've always been a big Astros guy
    Really? Never liked 'em. Hated the colorful unis, the Astrodome, never liked any of the the players, the city, the state, or the people in them. Hell I even hate the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Astros

    However, they are good. And I like them more than I like the Yankees, so let's go 'Stros!
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    So it's a liking the enemy of your enemy thing? They just smoked your ass in the first round, but on the other hand I guess it would validate some of pain.
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    Oh, exactly. No bones about it.
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    Bagwell was always one of my faves as well as the Ryan years. Though the actual city of Houston I found miserable. I find myself really liking the teams with exciting young players (Yankees excepted of course, but still can respect them), and Houston has a nice core of them.
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    I'm kidding...the fucking astros?

    When I was a kid we'd always hit astros spring training in Kissimmee (a dump) because we had a relative on the coaching staff but I was never a caminiti/biggio/bagwell guy

    At least they're pretty fucking good. Go stros!
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