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OT: MLB Thread

Freddy Patek and Paul Splittorf are smiling somewhere.

George Brett is smiling and he's not somewhere; he's right there.

Ultimately I didn't care who won but I was pulling for the Royals since they did me a solid by eliminating the Jays. I pulled for them in 1985 for the exact same reason.
 
George Brett is smiling and he's not somewhere; he's right there.

Ultimately I didn't care who won but I was pulling for the Royals since they did me a solid by eliminating the Jays. I pulled for them in 1985 for the exact same reason.

Oops. Splittorf died of cancer in 2011. Let's replace him with Quizenberry and the toothpick dude, U.L.W.
 
Re: OT: MLB Thread 2012

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Re: OT: MLB Thread 2012

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That is downright poetic. He perfectly encapsulates the pointlessness of losing. Unfortunately, he speaks of the Mets losing as though it's something that happened to them that they had no control over rather than something they allowed to happen because of their own pathetic failure. The Mets didn't lose; they failed. Pathetically so. The Mets aren't celebrating today because they failed to do their job, not because the Royals did or accomplished anything.

Your opponents can never win or beat you. You can only succeed or fail. The onus always falls on you. You are always to blame for anything bad that happens. All your opponents ever do is take the credit for your failure.
 
It is true to some extent. If my son is beaten by a forward in a hockey game, it is more his failure to do his job than anything the other forward does to beat him. If he takes a shot and it is saved, it is as much if not more his failure to beat the goalie than the goalie saving it. If I lose in court, then it is my failure.
 
The Mets, despite their good young pitching, seem like a one-off team to me. Their offense lacks punch and Collins is a bad manager.
 
True, they aren't built to contend for years like the Giants were starting in 2010.

BTW, will your Dodgers reup Greinke if he opts out or just go after Price instead?
 
It is true to some extent. If my son is beaten by a forward in a hockey game, it is more his failure to do his job than anything the other forward does to beat him. If he takes a shot and it is saved, it is as much if not more his failure to beat the goalie than the goalie saving it. If I lose in court, then it is my failure.

What if the forward or goalie is just better than him? What if the lawyer has more obvious evidence? Sometimes you just tip your hat. I just think that watching or participating in sports where there are only losers sucks the fun out of it. I'm not a participation ribbon guy either, but at some point you lose because the other team or player was better, not because you fu€ked up.
 
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