2025 MLB Thread

[Cobra Mgr]

Worst K calls of the season.

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Knew you were too small to admit it.

Whereas I should have guessed that you'd never let this go without descending to insults…

And lol @ your last "point". The Reds didn't beat the Mets. The Architect & the Oracle manipulated the program so that the Mets would go in a slump while playing Cincy & all would accept the Matrix. Get real.

And that, not being able to debate me on the issues, you would resort to putting words in my mouth. Nobody "manipulated" ****…you know that, Jack

Once again for the willfully ignorant (or the deeply stupid…choose your fighter!), the beauty of the long schedule is that it lets all the external factors even out. Hot spells, cold spells, weather and travel woes, paternity leave and getting your recovering star pitcher eaten by the killer grass. Every team has to suffer them and the measure of the team is how you succeed in TOTALITY, not in any one particular case.

Otherwise, why save your precious head-to-head for ties only? In 2000, the Mets finished 1 game behind the Braves for the NL East, the Braves having gone 95-67 to our 94-68.

(It didn't help Atlanta because we upset the #1 seed Giants, who went 97-65, while the Braves bungled against St. Louis and then we beat the Cards and went to the World Series, which is a perfect example of why Wild Cards suck and completely invalidate the reason we play all those games.)

But…you know what?? We BEAT the Braves head-to-head that season, 7 games to 6. So really, we should have won the division, right? So what if the Braves beat down the last-place Phillies a few more times than we did…when it was time to play them head-to-head in May, we "stayed ready" and they didn't! We were better and the post-season proved it! Ha!

Of course, that's absurd. Random head to head games that happened before the Olympics shouldn't be used to determine who was more worthy when the Presidential Debates (Al Gore is gonna put Social Security in a lock-box, yo!) are going on. The whole season counts, equally. No special bonus points for that one game in July when Greg Maddux just didn't have it and we blew his ass off the mound with 6 runs in the 2nd inning. That one game (the margin for the season series, mind you!) was no more determinative for who "deserved" to win that division than it would be to decide whether or not Maddux "deserved" the Hall of Fame.

You play them all, you count them all, and if you're tied, you play one more. That's what "real men" (since you seem to want to put your penis on the table…be careful not to catch a splinter, okay?) do, rather than hunt about in the archive and try to elevate a micro-fraction to undue importance.

Once again, you've managed to get me to debate the sky is blue while you maintain it is polka dot. "Ignorance is bliss" and I wish you to remain happy.

Once again, you've managed to be unable to accept that I have an opinion that disagrees with yours without getting pouty about how you KNOW THE OBVIOUS TRUTH and I am ****ING INSANE, blah-blah-blah, nanny-nanny-boo-boo. The fact that you spew insults when you run out the door doesn't make you right. Too bad if you can't cope with that reality.

By the way, I'm completely lying about 2000. The Braves actually won the head-to-head, 7-6. But my hypothetical illustrates the point, anyhow.

(I was going to point out that the 97-65 Giants lost their head-to-head to the second place Dodgers, 7 games to 5. But since the Dodgers finished 11 games back, 86-76, I had doubts about your ability to accept hyperbole to illustrate the IMO absurdity of your position, so I fibbed instead. And the world keeps on turning…)

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Whereas I should have guessed that you'd never let this go without descending to insults…

Not an insult. Stating the obvious everyone else here sees. Enjoy your polka dot sky.

[Déjà Bru]

Personally,

[Cobra Mgr]

Rays sale finalized

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Not an insult.

Surrrrrrre. You meant "small" as a compliment, no doubt.

I guess it's good to know you're starting the lies right away. [/glass one-eighth full]

Stating the obvious everyone else here sees.

Aside from the poor syntax ("obvious" is an adjective, rather than a noun), you're now presuming to speak for "everyone else here". Lie number two.

Enjoy your polka dot sky.

Gosh, maybe I shouldn't have snipped the last line from your previous diatribe:

End of my participation in the debate.........

Now, was that another lie…or did you just forget that you wrote that?

No need to reply; I can live without knowing your answer.

Have a nice day.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Surrrrrrre. You meant "small" as a compliment, no doubt.

I guess it's good to know you're starting the lies right away. [/glass one-eighth full]

Nope. Meant it as constructive criticism. You are so self-absorbed and in love w/your perception of your intelligence that you have no room for self-reflection or contemplation that maybe, just maybe, your opinion isn't the well thought out piece of logic you think it is. You are the Dennis Miller of this forum. It can be seen in your convoluted posts that you think is high humor, but is actually coming across as a confused stream of consciousness from a hyper distracted mind. And you can't see it because you think everything your brain farts out is gold. You couldn't possibly entertain the thought your thinking is wrong or needs adjusting. Your ego can't take it.

Whereas others here, Deja, CONN, West, ragnar, etc can take a sincere correction and not feel attacked & go scorched earth. And they've adjusted me as well. But that's not you. You are never wrong. You are, at minimum, "right-ish".

Thus, you are too small to concede a point. You can't even acknowledge you "misspoke" or didn't express yourself the way you wanted to. That's not an insult. That is an observation.

Hope tomorrow is a nice, shiny, polka-dotty one for you.

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Nope. Meant it as constructive criticism. You are so self-absorbed and in love w/your perception of your intelligence that you have no room for self-reflection or contemplation that maybe, just maybe, your opinion isn't the well thought out piece of logic you think it is. You are the Dennis Miller of this forum. It can be seen in your convoluted posts that you think is high humor, but is actually coming across as a confused stream of consciousness from a hyper distracted mind. And you can't see it because you think everything your brain farts out is gold. You couldn't possibly entertain the thought your thinking is wrong or needs adjusting. Your ego can't take it.

Whereas others here, Deja, CONN, West, ragnar, etc can take a sincere correction and not feel attacked & go scorched earth. And they've adjusted me as well. But that's not you. You are never wrong. You are, at minimum, "right-ish".

Thus, you are too small to concede a point. You can't even acknowledge you "misspoke" or didn't express yourself the way you wanted to. That's not an insult. That is an observation.

Hope tomorrow is a nice, shiny, polka-dotty one for you.

Okay, fine. Here's a constructive criticism for you, then.

Don't give "constructive criticism" unasked. It makes you look like a dick.

Also, learn to accept that others have different opinions without appointing yourself The Arbiter of Truth. None of this "I see the sky as blue and you say it's polka-dot" crap. We have a difference of opinion. Deal with it.

BTW, the sky is not actually blue. It only appears that way to you (under certain conditions). As Casey Stengel used to say, "You could look it up."

Peace, Light, and Love.

[Cobra Mgr]

Don't like the Yanks. Don't like Sox. And I don't like taking pitchers out that are pitching shutouts. Yes, I know I'm an old fart. & I don't care.

[Cobra Mgr]

Dodgers in 2 1/3 innings has out scored the other 3 playoff games already.

[Cobra Mgr]

How do you walk 2 runs in when you are up 10-2 in the 8th?

[monkeyman576]

I think the Dodgers scoring 10 runs says more about the Reds than the other teams.

[Déjà Bru]

I am generally okay with the format of the MLB playoffs. The only aspect that bothers me is this wildcard round in which all three games are played in one stadium. That's a bit rough, in my opinion.

EDIT: The reason that I read is that they don't want the bye teams to be sitting around too long. Well, IMO they could sit one extra day, a travel day, and have the format be first game at the lower seed's stadium, travel, and two games at the higher seed's ballpark.

[Hrycaj]

Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

I am generally okay with the format of the MLB playoffs. The only aspect that bothers me is this wildcard round in which all three games are played in one stadium. That's a bit rough, in my opinion.

EDIT: The reason that I read is that they don't want the bye teams to be sitting around too long. Well, IMO they could sit one extra day, a travel day, and have the format be first game at the lower seed's stadium, travel, and two games at the higher seed's ballpark.

That may actually happen when they add two more teams and get rid of the bye’s altogether.

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr

Worst K calls of the season.

You need to add that strike call on Bogaerts in the top of the 9th yesterday. That was really bad.

[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by David Watts

You need to add that strike call on Bogaerts in the top of the 9th yesterday. That was really bad.

I saw it. It was horrible. Caused the post game reaction from the Padres.

[Amazin69]

To quote Ron Burgundy, "Stay classy, San Diego". Since (I presume) Bogaerts struck out, that means there were at least two other strikes he could have hit. Or he could have gotten a hit in a different at bat. Or, the other Padres could have gotten other hits. Or the pitchers could have pitched better. Or, or, or, or, or, or, or, or.

Yes (presumably), the ump blew the call. (X only allows me one free peek and I blew that on the video of X [Bogaerts] losing it.). So what? None of the players are perfect, either.

Maybe we should replace Bogaerts with a robot, too. And hope it doesn't rust from all its crying.

Smell you next season, Bogie.

[Cobra Mgr]

Elmo watching the same guy whining that 162 chances is not enough mockingly claiming 2 other pitches is more than enough.





Good job, Elmo. Just walk away. Just.....walk.....away..............

[Déjà Bru]

Originally Posted by David Watts

You need to add that strike call on Bogaerts in the top of the 9th yesterday. That was really bad.

They cannot get the robo ump in fast enough to suit me. And it should be calling all balls and strikes, not just adjudicating challenges.

[monkeyman576]

I'm pretty sure more road teams than home teams have won the wild card round since it began a few years ago so I don't think home field advantage really matters unless ticket sales are not distributed evenly which I'm not sure of.