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2015 MLB Season Thread

Kind of feel bad for the Rangers. As a Cardinals fan, this reminded me of 2011 all over again. The Rangers pretty much had the World Series won but the Cardinals came back in game 6 and eventually won the World Series. To be up 2-0 and unable to close it out had to be heartbreaking. But with that said, crazy game!
 
this is borish, nay snobbish of me, but i really can't get behind any of the AL teams because i don't consider them "classic" teams. they are meh! the NL, on the other hand, sent nothing but "classic" teams. and yes, i do consider the mets to be somewhat a classic.

and even though i consider them to be a "classic" team i won't root for the dodgers if they go.
 
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pachyderm said:
this is borish, nay snobbish of me, but i really can't get behind any of the AL teams because i don't consider them "classic" teams. they are meh! the NL, on the other hand, sent nothing but "classic" teams. and yes, i do consider the mets to be somewhat a classic.

and even though i consider them to be a "classic" team i won't root for the dodgers if they go.
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What do you consider a "classic team", just curious.
 
pachyderm said:
this is borish, nay snobbish of me, but i really can't get behind any of the AL teams because i don't consider them "classic" teams. they are meh! the NL, on the other hand, sent nothing but "classic" teams. and yes, i do consider the mets to be somewhat a classic.

and even though i consider them to be a "classic" team i won't root for the dodgers if they go.
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Lol. I know what you mean. Anyone using the DH regularly is just blah. The classic teams (Reds, Cards, Dodgers, Giants, Cubs, Pirates) are always nice to watch. I've just been in pain every even year. Lol
 
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Texas and KC both had recent unfinished business and played like it but KC went over Houston but Texas fell to Toronto. I give the AL to Toronto in the end.

The NL has Chicago who is on a mission and I think will probably meet the Mets who I think will win in a close one over LA tomorrow. From those two I take Chicago and for entire World Series in five. It will be a big deal and the Cubs will be a sentimental favorite.

A Kansas City versus Chicago World Series would interesting in that it's relatively close being just 500 miles between the two cities.
 
aesc80 said:
Lol. I know what you mean. Anyone using the DH regularly is just blah. The classic teams (Reds, Cards, Dodgers, Giants, Cubs, Pirates) are always nice to watch. I've just been in pain every even year. Lol
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@MacNut :

those teams and the white sox, yankees, braves, red sox, orioles, indians, a's, phillies. most any team that has been around for a long, long time.

keep in mind this is just my opinion...

relatively speaking, and with the exception of the yanks, all of the AL teams in the playoffs aren't that old.

so no expansion will make my list.
 
The Chicago Cubs comps are ridiculous. A number of baseball dynasties made the LCS with average player age under 27, but none have done it with an average age of 24.9.
 
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Cole Slaw said:
I really thought the Blue Jays were out after dropping the first two.
Nice going, Jays!
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The way they dropped the first two games to the Rangers, I thought it was over but the bats woke up. Can't wait for the ALCS, going to game 1.. or game 3 now that it's KC :)

The city is jumping! We haven't had a post season run in so long. People are jacked around here.
 
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There are 2 teams that i hate and one of them is the Rangers, Congrats to the Blue Jays (Mets fan)
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Wouldn't it have been sweeter to have met them in the WS and beat them?

The only two teams in the world I don't like are the LA Dodgers of course being a Giants fan, and football's Seattle Seahawks. I won't hide the fact that the Dodgers are better than the Giants and were even better than last year's San Francisco championship team, but even when they aren't a threat I just don't like the Dodgers. While I don't think they will go all the way this time, it's still plausible but they have to get past the Mets which I don't think is in the cards, even with Greinke. This should be a good game, low scoring with two great pitchers on each side. The Mets are hungry having not won the WS since '86 and only twice ever in club history, and the Cubs since forever. While urgent I just don't see the hunger in LA adding just another one. The Dodgers almost always have big stars and it would be kind of nice to see the Mets pull this one off.

KC and Toronto have not won the big one in a long time either and they will both be hungry for it.
 
Pretty brutal stuff for the Rangers. First they didn't really show up at all in the 2010 World Series (Giants' pitching had something to do with that), then in 2011 they were one strike away... twice. Now, the three errors and the massive home run. After the bat flip, the first meeting between the Rangers and Jays in the 2016 regular season is going to be... a bit heated.

KC and Toronto are "classic" franchises in a way. The Royals were consistently a playoff team from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, and the Jays had a lot of success from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. I don't mind seeing franchises like that get a crack at glory. I only got annoyed when the really young franchises like the Marlins and Diamondbacks won it all.

Mostly, I just want to see good baseball. So far, there's been plenty of it in this postseason.
 
pachyderm said:
@MacNut :

those teams and the white sox, yankees, braves, red sox, orioles, indians, a's, phillies. most any team that has been around for a long, long time.

keep in mind this is just my opinion...

relatively speaking, and with the exception of the yanks, all of the AL teams in the playoffs aren't that old.

so no expansion will make my list.
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Don't forget that the Twins were the Senators. So while they moved they are still a legacy team. Oakland started in Philly before moving to KC.
 
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Silencio said:
Pretty brutal stuff for the Rangers. First they didn't really show up at all in the 2010 World Series (Giants' pitching had something to do with that), then in 2011 they were one strike away... twice. Now, the three errors and the massive home run. After the bat flip, the first meeting between the Rangers and Jays in the 2016 regular season is going to be... a bit heated.

KC and Toronto are "classic" franchises in a way. The Royals were consistently a playoff team from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, and the Jays had a lot of success from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. I don't mind seeing franchises like that get a crack at glory. I only got annoyed when the really young franchises like the Marlins and Diamondbacks won it all.

Mostly, I just want to see good baseball. So far, there's been plenty of it in this postseason.
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again, it is all opinion based and i disagree. but you make a fair point.
 
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If the Dodgers lose there will officially be a playoff curse on Mattingly.
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If they lose tonight, Mattingly will be on the first flight over to Miami. With the team that the Dodgers have, the new front office was hoping he'd have enough to move the team to the World Series. Personally, I think he was screwed from the beginning. While winning the West 3 times in a row is nice, too many people in LA expect a World Series (and yet talk smack about the Yankees).
 
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aesc80 said:
If they lose tonight, Mattingly will be on the first flight over to Miami. With the team that the Dodgers have, the new front office was hoping he'd have enough to move the team to the World Series. Personally, I think he was screwed from the beginning. While winning the West 3 times in a row is nice, too many people in LA expect a World Series (and yet talk smack about the Yankees).
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After he retired the Yankees went on to win 4 out of 5. The drought might have been all his fault! I really would love to see him win as a manager, he deserves a ring.
 
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MacNut said:
After he retired the Yankees went on to win 4 out of 5. The drought might have been all his fault! I really would love to see him win as a manager, he deserves a ring.
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True that, though in the same breath, Joe Torre came in the year after Don retired. All I know is, I wouldn't want to sit next to him in a casino.
 
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aesc80 said:
If they lose tonight, Mattingly will be on the first flight over to Miami. With the team that the Dodgers have, the new front office was hoping he'd have enough to move the team to the World Series. Personally, I think he was screwed from the beginning. While winning the West 3 times in a row is nice, too many people in LA expect a World Series (and yet talk smack about the Yankees).
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I think you should stick with him.

My Giants can't even win the West once it seems in recent years with the tough competition in this division and certainly never once back to back since divisions started in the 60s. With three in a row you should be extremely happy. I won't be rooting for you, of course, but if you take it all it won't surprise me because Mattingly is a gem.
 
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Silencio said:
Pretty brutal stuff for the Rangers. First they didn't really show up at all in the 2010 World Series (Giants' pitching had something to do with that), then in 2011 they were one strike away... twice. Now, the three errors and the massive home run. After the bat flip, the first meeting between the Rangers and Jays in the 2016 regular season is going to be... a bit heated.

KC and Toronto are "classic" franchises in a way. The Royals were consistently a playoff team from the mid-70s to the mid-80s, and the Jays had a lot of success from the mid-80s to the mid-90s. I don't mind seeing franchises like that get a crack at glory. I only got annoyed when the really young franchises like the Marlins and Diamondbacks won it all.

Mostly, I just want to see good baseball. So far, there's been plenty of it in this postseason.
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I didn't realize how bad other teams had it. I think over many years I was wallowing in my own bad luck with the SF Giants and their long, long drought (1950s-2009) with inability to get it done with Mays at first, a long 1960s watching Dodgers be the stars, having hope with Speier in the 70s and the Pacific Sock Exchange in the 80s, Barry Bonds in the 90s and 2000s.

Then we had all this pitching that seemed to just get lost in the 2000s. I can't think of too many teams that had over 50 years of that type of talent coming up empty handed. The recent Giants kind of made up for all that bad luck in the past.
 
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Sigh ... This Dodger team suffers so badly with RISP. So many opportunities to jump on DeGrom only to let him get away with pop flies and soft grounders.
 
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