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When do yo think the MLB regular season will start?

On time
- 1 (33.3%)
Late, but on or before April 15th
- 0 (0%)
April 16th through April 30th
- 0 (0%)
May 1st through May 15th
- 2 (66.7%)
May 16th through May 31st
- 0 (0%)
Jun1st through June 15th
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June 16th through June 30th
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After June 30th
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No Season
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 3

Voting closed: February 13, 2022, 10:41:25 PM


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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #540 on: September 14, 2018, 09:04:58 AM »
Well....

I think what Utley means is

CONGRATS for making 100 wins a thing.

Yawn.

Its flags that count.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #541 on: September 14, 2018, 01:22:56 PM »
True enough. Without a World Series title you are the 2p01 Seattle Pilots or the 2017 Cleveland Indians.
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« Reply #542 on: September 14, 2018, 01:34:32 PM »
or the most famous example 1954 Indians.

But the premise its "only flags count: is BS.

Most of us are watch and enjoy a sports where our teams rarely win a championship.

but we keep on watching, knowing there is only a modest chance of a champioship.

IMO its the game, skills, real drama, unscripted suspense and the sport.

The flag is a bonus.

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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #543 on: September 14, 2018, 02:32:21 PM »
Quote from: whiskeypriest on September 14, 2018, 01:22:56 PM
True enough. Without a World Series title you are the 2p01 Seattle Pilots or the 2017 Cleveland Indians.

Yesterday, I was listening to a discussion about who remembers what and how 100+ wins is meaningless without a ring vs. 100+ wins is meaningful.

The radio guys asked the caller to name the last winner of 100+ games and he couldn't. They understandably mocked him, since he was insisting it was important.

But he missed his chance to ask them who won the 2001 World Series, beating the 116 game winning Mariners. (Pilots! Hah! Clever.)

Without the 116 wins, nobody remembers those Mariners, but even with them, mostly people remember that they lost, but not to whom or how or anything. Yeah, here I expect people might remember it. Or some of us, at least, but likely not all.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #544 on: September 14, 2018, 02:33:10 PM »
Quote from: bankshot1 on September 14, 2018, 01:34:32 PM
or the most famous example 1954 Indians.

But the premise its "only flags count: is BS.

Most of us are watch and enjoy a sports where our teams rarely win a championship.

but we keep on watching, knowing there is only a modest chance of a champioship.

IMO its the game, skills, real drama, unscripted suspense and the sport.

The flag is a bonus.
I will gladly trade last year's win streak for Houston's rings.
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« Reply #545 on: September 14, 2018, 02:35:18 PM »
But he missed his chance to ask them who won the 2001 World Series, beating the 116 game winning Mariners. (Pilots! Hah! Clever.)

The team that won the 2001 World Series didn't beat the 116 game winning Mariners.  The team that lost that World Series did.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #546 on: September 14, 2018, 02:37:28 PM »
Quote from: josh on September 14, 2018, 02:32:21 PM
Quote from: whiskeypriest on September 14, 2018, 01:22:56 PM
True enough. Without a World Series title you are the 2p01 Seattle Pilots or the 2017 Cleveland Indians.
But he missed his chance to ask them who won the 2001 World Series, beating the 116 game winning Mariners. (Pilots! Hah! Clever.)
it's a.thin line between stupid and clever.  I had me a brain fart in memory of the late, great Ray Oyler.
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« Reply #547 on: September 14, 2018, 03:21:43 PM »
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 14, 2018, 02:35:18 PM
But he missed his chance to ask them who won the 2001 World Series, beating the 116 game winning Mariners. (Pilots! Hah! Clever.)

The team that won the 2001 World Series didn't beat the 116 game winning Mariners.  The team that lost that World Series did.

Good point. Oops!

But nobody knows who that was, either, the vast bulk of the time.

The Mariners are more deeply embedded in our memories.
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« Reply #548 on: September 14, 2018, 03:22:33 PM »
Quote from: whiskeypriest on September 14, 2018, 02:37:28 PM
Quote from: josh on September 14, 2018, 02:32:21 PM
Quote from: whiskeypriest on September 14, 2018, 01:22:56 PM
True enough. Without a World Series title you are the 2p01 Seattle Pilots or the 2017 Cleveland Indians.
But he missed his chance to ask them who won the 2001 World Series, beating the 116 game winning Mariners. (Pilots! Hah! Clever.)
it's a.thin line between stupid and clever.  I had me a brain fart in memory of the late, great Ray Oyler.

Hah! Not a bad brain fart as such things go.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #549 on: September 14, 2018, 03:38:26 PM »
Quote from: josh on September 14, 2018, 03:21:43 PM
Quote from: Yankguy1 on September 14, 2018, 02:35:18 PM
But he missed his chance to ask them who won the 2001 World Series, beating the 116 game winning Mariners. (Pilots! Hah! Clever.)

The team that won the 2001 World Series didn't beat the 116 game winning Mariners.  The team that lost that World Series did.

Good point. Oops!

But nobody knows who that was, either, the vast bulk of the time.

The Mariners are more deeply embedded in our memories.
Maybe.  But I think that because the Yankees were going for their 4th WS in a row that season (and 5th of 6), I think most baseball fans remember well that it was them that knocked the Mariners off. 
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #550 on: September 14, 2018, 05:40:03 PM »
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on September 14, 2018, 09:04:58 AM
Well....

I think what Utley means is

CONGRATS for making 100 wins a thing.

Yawn.

Its flags that count.

It don't mean a thing, if you don't get that ring!
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #551 on: September 14, 2018, 06:01:38 PM »
Quote from: MrUtley3 on September 14, 2018, 05:40:03 PM
Quote from: kiidcarter8 on September 14, 2018, 09:04:58 AM
Well....

I think what Utley means is

CONGRATS for making 100 wins a thing.

Yawn.

Its flags that count.

It don't mean a thing, if you don't get that ring!

Doo wop, doo wop, doo wop!
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #552 on: September 14, 2018, 08:00:45 PM »
Not the single most captivating performance by a Red Sox team this year.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #553 on: September 14, 2018, 08:58:28 PM »
Yeah......missed an easy bet tonight with Mets.

Could be a sweep.
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Re: Major League Baseball
« Reply #554 on: September 14, 2018, 09:38:14 PM »
Meanwhile..........

YOU



SUCK



TENDI !!!!
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