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Who's on 1st? [Baseball] thread

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Dirtyboy wrote: »
    Career paths of Philly sports fans normally don't include school.

    True they do start battery throwers at Santa early.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    santa knows what he did

    PeenKnight_MagellLadai
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    do you think between games they just push smotlz into a closet in the broadcast booth and he just spends the 20 hours between games just eternally talking into the darkness

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    Preacher
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited November 2022
    yea i'm turning this off because i literally cannot stand to listen to john smoltz for one more second if the phillies are going to play this bad as well.

    it's just insane that this guy is the color announcer in the world series because he's so unbelievably terrible. it's baseball friend, you don't have to fill EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF THE BROADCAST with speaking. there are radio announcers for basketball who probably talk less than smoltz does in a baseball game.

    Knight_ on
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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    baseball radio announcers are extremely good about filling airtime, is the thing

    PreacherMagellDouglasDangerDisruptedCapitalist
  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    That fifth inning was killer. :( Hope Phils can figure out Javier.

  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    He'll be out of the game soon due to pitch count.

  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    This has been the weirdest series, just feast or famine on offense for both teams, I hate it.

    Doctor Detroit
  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    Yikes. What a bummer game after yesterday.

  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    Whomever is running this twitter account is a tad bitter.

    MagellCurly_BraceFencingsaxTicaldfjamDoctor DetroitKoopahTroopahLadaiDisruptedCapitalist
  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    The amount of "hey the Astros have been through a lot and they're really the better team anyway" coming out of the Fox announcing team when Smoltz isn't riding the line of "is this commentary or is it gibberish" is making me absolutely pine for Joe Buck and Tim McCarver and I honestly didn't think that was possible, we didn't know how good we had it.

    KoopahTroopahPreacherDoctor DetroitKnight_
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    it is insane how much water fox is carrying for a team that cheated to win the world series and received approx zero punishment to win another world series

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    Doctor DetroitknitdanKoopahTroopahRedTide
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    it is insane how much water fox is carrying for a team that cheated to win the world series and received approx zero punishment to win another world series

    I feel this is directly coming from the MLB themselves. They don't want anyone questioning this victory even though it probably 100% should be.

    Just like how the NFL insisted the patriots tape scandal was no big deal appreciate them wins!

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
    Doctor Detroitknitdan
  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    Good afternoon everyone

    Fuck the Astros, who cheated, and deserve nothing except scorn

    But also read the Twitter thread that starts here, which has a much more nuanced discussion about the Astros continuing to be booed

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Every player and coach from the cheating years of the Astros should have banned for life and disqualified from the hall of Fame

    And fined by the league, and legally charged with crimes

    Knight_KoopahTroopah
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I mean the black sox arranged to lose and got drummed out of baseball didn't they? They didn't even really benefit from their fuckery in winning a world series by cheating.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    I mean the black sox arranged to lose and got drummed out of baseball didn't they? They didn't even really benefit from their fuckery in winning a world series by cheating.

    They got paid, and they was back before athletes were usually paid a living wage.

  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    Every player and coach from the cheating years of the Astros should have banned for life and disqualified from the hall of Fame

    And fined by the league, and legally charged with crimes

    I fucking hate the astros, think they definitely cheated and weren't punished at all, but this is a wild ass take

    "legally charged with crimes" lmao, come the fuck on

    milskiepburn
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    i mean, wouldn't be the first time someone's been charged with various crimes for cheating in baseball.

    in this case i doubt there's anything actually illegal just immoral. but they def should have had suspensions of some length, instead of receiving functionally no punishment except having to be managed by dusty baker.

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    I assume the idea of charging them with crimes was a joke

    My idea to relocate the Astros to Antarctica, however, is entirely earnest

  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I assume the idea of charging them with crimes was a joke

    My idea to relocate the Astros to Antarctica, however, is entirely earnest

    That just punishes the rest of the al west

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited November 2022
    I assume the idea of charging them with crimes was a joke

    My idea to relocate the Astros to Antarctica, however, is entirely earnest

    No, I'm serious.

    They stole signs, charge them with felony theft, or whatever the legal term is, and fine every one on that roster into actual poverty.

    DouglasDanger on
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Every person in Houston should be put on an island somewhere in the Arctic Ocean

    HEY SATAN! HERE'S MY WISHLIST! GO NUTS YOU DEVIL!

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JI9WWSRW1YJI
  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Feels mean to the arctic ocean, what'd it do to you? I think leaving them in texas is punishment enough.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

    pleasepaypreacher.net
  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    Wait no I’ve got it

    Exile the Astros to the vast, barren wasteland of parking lots outside of Globe Life Stadium

  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
    Every person in Houston should be put on an island somewhere in the Arctic Ocean

    Anytime it rains Houston pretty much turns into an island.

  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    Well, here we go. Let's go phillies.

    Preacher
  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    SCHWARBERFEST IS STILL HAPPENING AT WAWA

  • DirtyboyDirtyboy Registered User regular
  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited November 2022
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    Edit: This game has me on edge like crazy....

    Edit2: Fuck.

    KoopahTroopah on
  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    oh well

    i guess it's only fitting in 2022 that the team that cheated is going to win the world series, everything else sucks so why not this too

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    Doctor Detroit
  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Damn, the Astros won and the series goes back to Houston

  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    PHILLIES

    IN

    SEVEN

    MagellKoopahTroopahDisruptedCapitalistPeen
  • Doctor DetroitDoctor Detroit Registered User regular
    Ok, that was a nice catch, but it didn’t actually save the Astros. It just prevented a hit.

  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    I thought they let the good umps do the WS

  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    It was a really fun postseason but damn, that one stings.

    admanbMagellKnight_KoopahTroopah
  • WhippyWhippy Moderator, Admin Emeritus Admin Emeritus
    :)

    rhylithDynagripepburn
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