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MLB 2025
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I’ve given up on being a fan of any team. The regular baseball season doesn’t interest me much anymore, I just take a look at the postseason for old times sake.
The reason I’m still interested in football is because it is the beautiful game… I appreciate the skill and artistry of a well executed passing move or goal. I like players like Jeremy Doku, Lamine Yamal, Bukayo Saka, Vinicius Jr. Really top quality football can be compared to a dance.
Winning and losing, there is only so long one can stay interested in that. It is all a pretence, a play, even the things outside the game matter less than we like to think.
The reason I’m still interested in football is because it is the beautiful game… I appreciate the skill and artistry of a well executed passing move or goal. I like players like Jeremy Doku, Lamine Yamal, Bukayo Saka, Vinicius Jr. Really top quality football can be compared to a dance.
Winning and losing, there is only so long one can stay interested in that. It is all a pretence, a play, even the things outside the game matter less than we like to think.
Something good has to come out of another Dodger win.
It was an article on ESPN. Not from their talking heads who trade in bombast.
Even included comments from a Yankees official suggesting they are amenable, which I got a chuckle from, considering they're in the top 3 in payroll. Most of the owners are as well, but of course the MLBPA will fight it.
Nor does a cap without a floor force the cheapskate teams to spend more, so any potential promise of better parity isn't assured.
I'm starting to have similar sentiments about American Football.
The college game has openly turned into a money contest (and there's a high school student suing over NIL rights in Ohio, apparently one of only six states that don't permit it).
And though the statistics might say otherwise, the number of NFL players who have been injured, and will find themselves gimped later in life, seems to be rising, and has sapped some of my enthusiasm for watching such a meat grinder.
I agree, the violence of it, the short careers of many players and the fact that there is only approximately 20 minutes of action in a three hour game put me off it, although I liked the skill element of the very occasionally great catches.
Baseball may be a game of statistics, but it’s not violent.
Sadly, the Brewers haven't slowed them down at all. Preparing myself to be a temporary Mariners/Blue Jays fan.
Yelich was 1/14 2BB ... I mention him because they need guys like him to step up in the post season... and he really hasn't, historically, done that. (5/19 vs the Cubs)
Ohtani was hitting like .158 before last night's barrage. Too bad he couldn't have slumped for another game.
I hope so. And bring his pitching coach Frank Anderson too!
My prediction for the WS: Dodgers in 5.
If you look at their progression through the postseason, they’ve hit form at just the right time. 2-0, 3-1, 4-0, nothing has fazed them.
If you look at their progression through the postseason, they’ve hit form at just the right time. 2-0, 3-1, 4-0, nothing has fazed them.
That's a solid prediction. I need to see if I can find a Blue Jays t-shirt locally. I'm temporarily their biggest fan in SW Florida
Yes, let’s all root for Toronto. I think the biggest thing they’ve got going for them is that they’re used to the struggle. They only just made it through the 7-game ALCS, they’ll have a shorter rest, so they will still be ‘in the groove’ when the WS starts.
Hoping for a 2012 World Series redux, where the team on long rest couldn't get off the mat and got swept by the team that was taken to the brink in the previous round.
what I remember was
actually not mistake, Steve will say.... even today will throw that that pitch again!
and he never pitched in relief until then as perhaps other arm like Sanderson or Gullikson or even Lea, Lee?
but manager Williams was fired earlier and they gave keys to GM Jim Fanning who just had a three second brain thought and screwed up but kinda got us there.
also Fernando walked two expo batters in the ninth then was relieved by welch as I had high expectations until Jerry White hit a bad pitch to a guy named Dave lopes.......that was crushing since that was the last out.
my point is Rodger is 100% innocent!
what if Parrish decided to play first base that year?
My point is to pin that loss on Rodgers is wrong as he knows that and can laugh today which is good mentally.
Im watching "who killed the M Expos now" and they did miss a huge point Jeff Loria did not have real cash
money to buy concrete, money to do really anything, but I have 45 minutes left on this documentary.
Oh LA in 5 they are just a focused team like the Florida panthers.
then again in 1988 the Athletics who played in ummm duhhh umm I now forgot what city or state they played in
(too long and far distance from my mind)
had the largest odds to win a WS eval!
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