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Old 09-15-2012, 12:53 AM   #3161
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They won 2 out of 3 from the Yankees last week.

'the fuck are you on about with this "I doubt they can do better than 1 out of 3 from the Yankees" BS?

BTW, we get swept by Baltimore, and with tonight's win we're still right there.
Like I said, 1 out of 3..just you wait and see..

As for the o's, that was a tough game to lose..
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If the A's meet O's in the playoffs and beat them you have to post a video of you doing the bernie lean
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The A's are usually my AL team to root for so I will be pulling for them until they face the Reds in the 1990 World Series again.

I will also root for the Detroit Tigers. I will pull for the Pirates even though they are division rivals and are pretty much done for the year and one of the white Pirates pitchers called Brandon Phillips "boy" the other night which is kinda racist u know.

The only teams I will actively root against are the Cardinals and the Phillies. I don't hate the Phillies, but they always always always beat the Reds which is so gay and I don't want them to make the playoffs. I won't root against the Dodgers but it will be funny if they don't make the playoffs after all they did to try to improve.

I don't really have a rooting interest in the AL East. I would say the Orioles but Droford took all the fun out of that. So I don't care. The Yankees, I guess. I like some of their guys.
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My rooting interests the rest of the way:

NL East: Braves (not really rooting for them per se, but I can't in good conscience want to see the Nats go deep into the playoffs after shutting down Strasburg...and of course fuck the Phillies)

NL Central: Reds (fuck the Cardinals. I do hope the Pirates get to finish above .500 though - if they somehow go on a run and make the WC I'll pull for them)

NL West: Giants

AL East: Orioles (Droford aside, it's a great story...I always like the Rays too though)

AL Central: Tigers

AL West: Athletics (again, incredible story)
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Old 09-15-2012, 11:16 AM   #3168
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I wonder how most people will view the Dodgers not making the playoffs (if it happens, of course).

I wonder if it'll be like:

A. What a disappointment

B. No biggie. They're in line to be a major force next season when they have a full season of Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Beckett.
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Old 09-15-2012, 11:19 AM   #3169
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Old 09-15-2012, 03:50 PM   #3171
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Come on Droford, accept.

And if the O's win I'll do it then
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Old 09-15-2012, 04:29 PM   #3173
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Red Sox need like 2-3 more wins to match last September's win total and yet they've won more games being tied or down entering the 8th inning than they did last September.


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I wonder how most people will view the Dodgers not making the playoffs (if it happens, of course).

I wonder if it'll be like:

A. What a disappointment

B. No biggie. They're in line to be a major force next season when they have a full season of Adrian Gonzalez and Josh Beckett.
Probably both although option B mostly with Dodger fans. The trade gave them at least a 2 year window to "own" the division and maybe even be in the World Series.
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Dodgers give GM Ned Colletti a contract extension. Numbers haven't been revealed yet. Colletti also said that Donnie Baseball's job is safe and that he'll be back next season.

Astros manager search:

Interim manager Tony DeFrancesco formally interviewed for the position.

Rays bench coach Dave Martinez also interviewed. Joe Maddon endorsed him.

Larry Bowa also interviewd.
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Old 09-15-2012, 09:35 PM   #3175
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why is everyone saying "droford aside" ? He's alwats rooted for the O's not just lately.
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Old 09-15-2012, 10:36 PM   #3176
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You're just lucky the Orioles fucking suck. If they made the playoffs I would be 100x as worse than I am in the NFL thread.
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Well, at least the Rays aren't looking to avoid being swept tomorrow, unlike Baltimore.
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Old 09-16-2012, 02:21 PM   #3179
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Old 09-16-2012, 03:05 PM   #3180
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This has all the signs of a MELTDOWN.

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Old 09-16-2012, 04:47 PM   #3181
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Old 09-16-2012, 05:40 PM   #3182
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If Orioles win it'll be 1 out of 3, too.

Joe Maddon has got to start having the team take part in batting practice. His philosophy is that when guys take batting practice, they think too much about hitting and they end up hitting worse.

But fuck, the Rays are not a powerful team that scores a lot of runs! They need to take batting practice!

And as of today (before the game), he said that they're struggling offensively but it has nothing to do with batting practice.

I don't think we'll see playoff baseball in St Pete.
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Old 09-16-2012, 06:59 PM   #3183
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A lot of people in St. Pete won't see playoff baseball anyway.
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Old 09-16-2012, 08:38 PM   #3184
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Nah, there are a lot of fuckers here who don't pay attention until the Rays clinch the Wild Card or the AL East. Then you see them attend games and the whole nine.
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They pay attention in September and still don't go to the games.
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To be fair, management doesn't help matters out. With the pitching we have, we should make it to the World Series every single year.

Management, however, doesn't involve in bringing bats to the Rays. I'm not saying bring Pujols or Fielder, but Carlos Peña?

And BJ Upton is a free agent after this season, which most likely means he's gone.
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The o's are 2 gb of Oakland for wc play in home field, they need to get home field if Oakland plays because that stadium is God awful and killed the o's offense..all of Oakland's pitchers are worse on the road. Oakland has 10 games on the road with Detroit new York and Texas, so I think its possible the O's can catch them..

The angels are 2.5 gb of the o's in wc but 9 of their next 12 are vs Texas and Chicago..

And obviously only 1 gb of the Yankees, but their toughest games left are 3 vs Oakland..its only 1 game but its really looking like its going to be difficult..
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Old 09-17-2012, 10:45 PM   #3191
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No, they've got to spend some money on some hitting, and keep Joe Maddon under watch.

He simply does not believe in hitters taking batting practice (yet the team's biggest problem is, SUPRISE! HITTING!), and on home games he lets the guys arrive at 4:30PM when there's a game at 7PM because he believes that guys being in the ballpark since 1 or 2PM does more damage than good because they overthink things.
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When the week began, 18 of baseball’s 30 teams either had a hold on a playoff spot or were within 4 1/2 games of one, meaning the final two weeks could provide as much entertainment for fans as last season’s exciting finish—and maybe more.

And yet here I am tangled up in a world of justice and rationality and reason, searching for balance between my head and my heart.

It comes down to this: I don’t know what to root for.

There are the things that the fan in me wants to see happen. Then there are the things I think ought to happen.

Part of me loves what the Baltimore Orioles have been able to do in giving their passionate fan base reason to care for the first time in 14 years. But another part of me sees the way their season has unfolded and considers it patently unfair that they’re in the hunt for a playoff spot.

It’s nothing against the Orioles, Buck Showalter, or Dan Duquette. It’s just that following the game closely—and spending much of the year talking with like-minded people in the industry—I want to see not only the best teams win, but the ones that have gone about it the right way.

So, as nerdy as this might sound, I guess I’m rooting for positive run differentials and good process. I’m not sure the Orioles have either.

Some of this craziness, of course, is bound to happen. It’s what we love about baseball. Every year a group of scouts and writers I know try to revel in the unpredictability by making what we call No (Effing) Way predictions—or NFWs, for short.

Players and teams come out of nowhere every year—Ben Zobrist OPSing .948 in 2009, Jose Bautista launching 54 home runs in 2010, etc.—and what we do is try to get a jump on them. It goes like this: you make a call on something you think might happen, and it counts as your NFW pick so long as everyone else decides there’s “No effing way” it happens.

If someone would have said the Orioles would be outscored by their opponents by 20-something runs, and that not one of their trio of young starters—Zach Britton, Brian Matusz, and Jake Arrieta—would have a breakout season, that wouldn’t have counted as a NFW. Too believable. But if you’d said all that would happen, plus they’d be a game behind the Yankees atop the AL East on Sept. 17, you’d have heard a chorus of NFWs as well as concerns about your sanity.

That part of their story is kind of neat, but what about the organizations that might deserve it more? Don’t the smartly run Rays, with their shoestring budget, their shrewd deal-making, and their plus-74 run differential seem more deserving? Or, for that matter, don’t the Blue Jays, another well-run organization that was struck by a storm of injuries and/or inexplicable ineffectiveness (yes, you, Ricky Romero)?

What have the Orioles done other than fire a front office that laid the groundwork for this season?

The 2012 Orioles aren’t much different from the 2007 Diamondbacks, the 2010 Padres, or even the 2012 Athletics. These out-of-nowhere teams generally have a few distinct characteristics: they have lights-out bullpens. They are good at hitting with runners in scoring position. They are good in what Baseball-Reference defines as high-leverage situations. And, as a result, they win a lot of one-run games.

But the thing I find frustrating—perhaps irrationally (or overly rationally?)—is the unpredictability and unrepeatability of all of this. Bullpen construction is notoriously difficult, with luck figuring in as a major component of success. Just look at the Orioles. They went into the year with Kevin Gregg expected to fill a prominent late-inning role. He was released last week.

And let’s not even get into the whole clutchness thing.

“I was watching our team win,” said a front-office executive of a recent surprise team, “and it made me question everything. ‘Do I even know anything about baseball?’”

I’m not the only one who finds myself confused about whom to root for this time of year.

“We feel like we need to understand this game and feel like we get it,” a scout said last week. “And then the amazing thing about it is it confirms what we believe at times, and then at times it surprises us. If it never surprised us, it would be boring. We don’t want it to be Tic-tac-toe. There needs to be some degree of that. But I share your sentiment. I don’t want the Orioles to do well. I don’t want this nonsense to continue.
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Rays picked the worst time possible to struggle considering they have managed just 2 wins since the first week of the month.

Red Sox need 1 more win against Tampa in order to make a complete swap of what they did with the division last year. Last year they had a winning record against everyone except Tampa while this year they have a loosing record against everyone except Tampa.
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