I've watched a bit of tonight's game. I think I actually want the Astros to win everything--a cheating, sub-.500 team hated by everyone outside of Houston winning would ensure the validity of this thing vanishes from history.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 October 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
No. This is 2020. One bad thing will not cancel out another bad thing. Would love to see the Rays win it all, and I could live with either either NL team (assuming I don’t ever have to see the tomahawk chop this year). But an Astros ws victory would be just another crushing blow to my psyche and victory for evil. No amount of wishful thinking could make me stomach the site of those cheating SOBs celebrating on the field.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 12 October 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
Asshos
― calstars, Monday, 12 October 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
I've watched a bit of tonight's game. I think I actually want the Astros to win everything--a cheating, sub-.500 team hated by everyone outside of Houston winning would ensure the validity of this thing vanishes from history.― clemenza, Sunday, October 11, 2020 7:08 PM (one hour ago)
― clemenza, Sunday, October 11, 2020 7:08 PM (one hour ago)
garbage take
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 12 October 2020 04:02 (three years ago) link
"Take"? Not really my thing. I express opinions--you can agree or disagree.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
clem otm plus it'd be really funny
― ✖, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:22 (three years ago) link
this isn't a real year! everything is imaginary
― ✖, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:23 (three years ago) link
If one of the other three teams win, what will they have won? A season that probably never should have been played, a postseason that let in too many teams and was based on 60 games, and a postseason schedule that's freakish. I'm sure it would come with mixed feelings for any of the three. The Astros winning would, for me, be the perfect rebuke to the entire season.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 October 2020 05:32 (three years ago) link
agreed w/ Clemenza and I feel like I have more reason to hate on Houston than most of us here
anything—anything—to kill off stupid expanded playoffs
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 12 October 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
the astros winning would not be a rebuke, nor would it kill off stupid expanded playoffs
all it would do is reward the cheaters and validate their earlier title because they were good enough to win it again without (presumably) cheating
i know earlnash is still bitter about the 1981 reds getting jobbed, but there's no asterisk next to the dodgers' championship that year and ultimately the only asterisk the astros would get is in your minds #fff
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 October 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
I was 4 at the time... why would the dodgers have an asterisk that year?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 12 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Major_League_Baseball_season
i was -2
haha
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Monday, 12 October 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
The Dodgers '81 title has always felt a little tainted to me--not nearly to the degree of this year--because of the Reds' weird season.
I have mixed feelings on Houston's previous success, before they got caught. There's a lot of talent there, and Verlander then Cole were a big part of it. When the story broke, I didn't immediately write off their title. I wasn't sure.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 October 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
I feel like the 06 Cards still have a bit of a stink on them simply because they were close to .500
I'm under no delusion that the Astros winning would stop Manfred from doing everything in his power to maintain the expanded postseason. He would probably claim in one breath that a sub-.500 team winning proves that his method allows for the cream to rise to the top and that the Astros are actually the great team they always claimed to be, so stop giving him shit about their lack of punishment. He's made it clear that he's a shameless worm who will happily abuse a crisis to get his agenda passed.
But it would still be broadly unpopular and cause an uproar and it might get the point across that the playoffs are too random to be this deep. (It would've been better if the Brewers won too.) And I'd rather it stay unpopular for as long as possible because it sucks. And I've already seen people on reddit and Twitter turning in its favor because they liked the chaos of an 8-game day.
Also it'd be really funny
― ✖, Monday, 12 October 2020 17:33 (three years ago) link
I'm not so sure...the cheating and the whole way that organization handled it was a huge embarrassment for the league. There is *nobody* at MLB offices who isn't praying thet are eliminated in this series. If they were to wun the WS with a losing record to it, the blowback would be universal.
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 12 October 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
to win the WS with a losing recoord,
xposts
oops thermo, meant to link to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Major_League_Baseball_strike
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Monday, 12 October 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Dusty's review of Camus: "One of the most negative philosophers around." https://t.co/z9YWQlNiua— Lindsey Adler (@lindseyadler) October 12, 2020
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 October 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
oh, i don't think MLB *wants* the astros to win. but all the extra money from extra playoff games -- which iirc goes straight to ownership under the current scheme -- will ease the pain nicely
also lol that for all the pace-of-play innovations last night's 2-1, 8 1/2-inning game went 3:50
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 October 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
but i thought all the owners were losing tons of money by playing baseball and actually we should be thankful to the owners for allowing us to have some fun during difficult year?
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Monday, 12 October 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
a couple of fantastic defensive plays in this game so far - the adames leaping catch and margot going over the wall
― na (NA), Monday, 12 October 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
maaaybe if you guys had started LCS threads i wd know they'd begun by now?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 October 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
i was too busy not discussing evan longoria's career to start any new threads, sorry
man the rays really do live on the edge. the difference between this and them being down 2-0 is not a lot
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:25 (three years ago) link
I guess I’m watching this L a game?
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
this is your happening and it freaks you out
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Hey real fans!
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Not sure I like their presence.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
kinda dug the five-straight-days division series as a test of depth, but seven straight is too much
one off day after game 4 would be fine
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 01:04 (three years ago) link
Has Will Smith ever faced Will Smith?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
The Braves can hit.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
really changes things when you have no kenleyfidence
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
yeah in Gemini Man
― frogbs, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
As someone who's a far bigger Jethro Tull fan than I ought to be (the rare ultra-'70s band I didn't leave back in high school 45 years ago), I had no idea the Braves had a rookie pitcher named Ian Anderson.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
Kiermaier really putting on a CF clinic.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:00 (three years ago) link
Melancon has caught more homeruns this season than he has allowed.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
welp this blowout got interesting in a hurry
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
4h12m for the clockwatchers
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
Wheels falling off the Astros’ bus in spectacular fashion.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 03:03 (three years ago) link
What the fuck is this question? Can you find a positive after going up 2-0? Lol wutGood job by Melancon here pic.twitter.com/vFAW1i4kcn— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) October 14, 2020
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 03:38 (three years ago) link
Who was that idiot?!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
well here we go
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
Shades of the Braves game earlier...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 04:04 (three years ago) link
what's going on with the altuve throwing errors? injury or yips?
― na (NA), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
yips
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
He (well, the whole team, but he especially) should be thankful that he's being spared from relentless heckling.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
is there anything preventing the opposing team from banging on water coolers really loudly while the astros bat?
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
other than poor sportsmanship and the possibility of getting into a physical altercation i mean?
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
I watch playoffs/world series in a weird way. Once my Twins are eliminated I root for whoever eliminates the Yankees. Last year that was the Astros, and Altuve knocked in the series-ending walkoff homer. This year I'm cheering for the Rays, and I now know the Astros are a bunch of cheaters, but I still feel a little for him and his fielding errors. But just a little.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
an Altuve-amount of feels?
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
btw some pretty impressive stuff from ian anderson this post (as ron darling would say), despite the walks yesterday
it's surprisingly difficult to make a baseball-related jethro tull reference
a cautionary tale, though, as the last rookie with this kind of playoff scoreless streak was . . . michael wacha
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 October 2020 19:48 (three years ago) link