Go Stros! Make 2020 even more chaotic!!

As a fellow die-hard Yankees fan, I’m obviously disappointed by the loss but have the utmost respect for the Rays. Yes, the Yankees are hampered by a complete dope of a manager who has the job because he’s good with the media, the roster construction around a full lineup of three outcome players can be questioned, and some bad injury luck didn’t help these past two years, but what the Rays accomplish year in and year out is incredible. I saw a stat that Cash rolled out 59 different lineups this year, and they had 13 different pitchers with saves. They got fewer IP out of any team in the league and led the AL in wins! Most of the roster are cast offs from other teams or were developed internally. Besides Charlie Morton, they have exactly zero big ticket free agents. They’re amazing. They’re taking analytical baseball and leveling up far above the competition. Their depth, balance and flexibility is ridiculous, not even accounting for their minimal payroll. It terrifies me that Chaim Bloom is now running the Sox, and has already punted stars and payroll for a ton of minor league depth. The Rays were certainly the better team and were deserving winners. The Rays vs Yankees bad blood storyline seems pretty forced to me, so I don’t hate them like I do the Red Sox or Astros, both a bunch of loud mouthed cheaters. Go Rays!

Posted by Got_Worms on 10/11/2020 10:35:00 AM (view original):

Posted by d_rock97 on 10/11/2020 12:48:00 AM (view original):
Go Stros! Make 2020 even more chaotic!!

I would love to see a Dodgers-Astros World Series, and have the Astros win it fair and square!

My #2 team : whoever's playing the Dodgers.
My #4 team : whoever's playing the Yanks.
So, GO BRAVES ! Or, failing that next week; GO 'STROS/RAYS !!

Dodgers in 5

Tampa in 6, no Verlander catches up with em'

Dodgers in 6.......World Series

Posted by Mwett on 10/11/2020 6:50:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Got_Worms on 10/11/2020 10:35:00 AM (view original):

Posted by d_rock97 on 10/11/2020 12:48:00 AM (view original):
Go Stros! Make 2020 even more chaotic!!

I would love to see a Dodgers-Astros World Series, and have the Astros win it fair and square!

My #2 team : whoever's playing the Dodgers.
My #4 team : whoever's playing the Yanks.
So, GO BRAVES ! Or, failing that next week; GO 'STROS/RAYS !!

Who's your #3 team? And thanks for using the number sign as God intended it to be used.

Posted by tpistolas on 10/11/2020 10:13:00 AM (view original):
As a fellow die-hard Yankees fan, I’m obviously disappointed by the loss but have the utmost respect for the Rays. Yes, the Yankees are hampered by a complete dope of a manager who has the job because he’s good with the media, the roster construction around a full lineup of three outcome players can be questioned, and some bad injury luck didn’t help these past two years, but what the Rays accomplish year in and year out is incredible. I saw a stat that Cash rolled out 59 different lineups this year, and they had 13 different pitchers with saves. They got fewer IP out of any team in the league and led the AL in wins! Most of the roster are cast offs from other teams or were developed internally. Besides Charlie Morton, they have exactly zero big ticket free agents. They’re amazing. They’re taking analytical baseball and leveling up far above the competition. Their depth, balance and flexibility is ridiculous, not even accounting for their minimal payroll. It terrifies me that Chaim Bloom is now running the Sox, and has already punted stars and payroll for a ton of minor league depth. The Rays were certainly the better team and were deserving winners. The Rays vs Yankees bad blood storyline seems pretty forced to me, so I don’t hate them like I do the Red Sox or Astros, both a bunch of loud mouthed cheaters. Go Rays!

I actually agree. But I also hate teams that dominate the Yankees and Tampa has done that this year, and Houston, well, you know.

That is why I listed Tampa as Sauron - who in the LOTR is the rationalist, modernist, industrial and science-oriented villain, using knowledge in a Cartesian fashion to try to take over the world. Houston is still Sauron.

But I agree, Tampa is today what the Orioles once were, an organization that does this a little better than everyone else more often than not. They deserve where they are, it's true.

And I did not want Boone and entirely agree with your assessment. Respect to Joe Girardi, who at least had some real content, but I didn't want him either, I wanted Mattingly. Oh well.

So, I am rooting without enthusiasm for the Dodgers. But technically all four finalists are from below the Mason-Dixon line. Ugh. Imagine a Tampa-Atlanta WS? And another LA-Houston Series would just be..repetitive. 2020. What a year.

A Florida residents thoughts on Yankee fans

1. They make me miss Red Sox fans.
2. My favorite team is anybody who beats the Yankees.
3. I have nothing against the yankee players just their fans.
4. When a small market team is on tv the broadcast is more about baseball and less about pandering.
5. New York and California don't understand the 48 other states.
6. Stop moving to Florida.

Thoughts of a Red Sox fan living in VIrginia:
1.) Was there a baseball season in 2020? Unapologetically, I haven't watched a single game and don't plan to.
2.) Playing sports that involve any close contact during a pandemic is the height of hubris and irresponsibility. I sincerely hope that every major U.S. professional sports league is subject to massive legal action for their decisions in 2020.
3.) 2020 players should not have been included in the WIS database
4.) In rbow's #5 above, substitute "New York" and "California" with the names of any two other states, and two things will be true: the statement will be just as accurate; the total number of people living in those states will be less.
5.) Tampa, Houston, Atlanta, and LA are all fine cities with plenty of good people and yet plenty of drawbacks like every other city. To the extent there is any real joy that comes out of winning the world series in 2020, the fans in any of those cities are as deserving of that joy as any other.

Well contrarian23, if you are going to be mature and adult and reasonable about all of this, not to mention right about things, it will take all of the fun out of being unreasonable and grouchy. :-)

Actually I did not watch a single game this year either for the same reason you did not. But I admit that the playoffs at least had me rooting for the Yankees.

I do agree with rbow's point number 6.

ok, ok, just kidding.

+2 and +2.

I haven't watched a single MLB baseball game in 2020.
a 60 game season is completely meaningless and unacceptable AND irresponsible as Contrarian pointed out.
I really could care less about the outcome of MLB in 2020.
Talk about an asterisk!

If you guys haven't watched any 2020 baseball, have you just been binging Tiger King on a loop? I probably watched 2/3 of the Yankees games this year, and while I agree that a 60 game season is a joke, the expanded playoffs and the different structure has been pretty exciting. I wasn't a fan of any of the plans on paper (I wanted at least 100 games, and still don't understand why pushing the season past Nov 1 was never entertained) but the product hasn't been bad. You have to take the stats with a grain of salt, and the pitcher injuries are a sad externality, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't happy to have a game on each night for the past few months.

Four days on, and my criticisms of the 2020 Yankees remain the same, and up 2-0, I still find myself rooting for the Rays. I'm excited for the Yanks to trade their top three prospects for Diego Castillo after the season, and maybe he'll get his shot to grab a 3 inning save on 0 days rest next Oct for us!

I am rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer from the start, after finishing my rewatch of the Sopranos.

I just re-watched The Wire, Rome, and Deadwood. Curb Your Enthusiasm is next, I need some comedy