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Damn, so close!
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Giants finish 76-86... but have a winning record against every other team in their division. This game!
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Anyone wanna make playoff predictions?
ALCS: Red Sox over Tigers in 7
NLCS: Cardinals over Dodgers in 6.
WS: Red Sox over Cardinals in 5.
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I'll start with Pirates over Reds tonight.
Then we'll see...
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Love to see the Pirates go deep into the playoffs.
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I'm not making any predictions this year, but I am rooting for Oakland and I think they have a decent shot.
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Screw it - underdog World Series. Pirates vs Rays would be fun as hell.
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I don't want the Rays if for no other reason than they don't have fans.
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Pirates / Tribe!
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Pirates / Tribe!
Oh dear god that would be awesome. Unless the Tribe lost and then entire city of Cleveland might kill itself. That wouldn't be cool. |
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Shannow
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Slightly bizarre that 4 of the Oakland A's starting lineup are Red Sox castoffs.
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Oakland and Detroit are battling to see which city doesn't get foreclosed on.
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jesus this a's/tigers game
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jesus this a's/tigers game
Looks like it's going 5 now. |
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Bases loaded with no outs turning into not scoring a single run was a very Giants way to handle that situation.  |
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Scherzer pulled that out of his ass. What a game! Go Tigs!
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Verlander. Wow.
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Shannow
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Tigers scare me.
I am 4 for 4 on my NLCS/ALCS participants prediction though.
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Top money teams make the LCS, other teams go home crying. That's baseball usually.
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Least it aint the premier league.
Dodgers 2nd with $216 mil (Yankees were at 228mil)
Red Sox 4th with $159
Detroit 5th
St. Louis 12th with $116 (Damn their management is good)
Interestingly enough, the losers in the Division series:
Oakland 26th
Pittsburgh 27th
Tampa Bay 28th
With Atlanta coming in at 18th.
It wasn't like those Division series weren't competitive either.
Lets instead laugh at teams like the Phillies (159mil) Angels (142mil) and White Sox (124mil) just to pick a few.
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See I'd laugh at those teams but for one thing. They all have rings since 2000. None of the other teams do.
In fact the only championship outliers from the high dollar teams are the Marlins and the Diamondbacks.
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Well Arizona was 8th in payroll (81mil to Yankees 109) so I'm not sure they even qualify.
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Good point. Toss them out too, then. It's the way the MLB works when it comes to rings. It's a pay up or shut up league, despite how many times people point to playoff contending outliers. They don't win, though.
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Well Arizona was 8th in payroll (81mil to Yankees 109) so I'm not sure they even qualify.
The difference between 1st and 8th (28 million) was about the same as the difference between 8th and 19th that year. I don't really think the 2001 Diamondbacks were some crazy high money team. Also the 2002 Angels were only 15th in payroll when they beat the Giants (who were 9th). The 2005 White Sox were 13th; they didn't shoot up the list until AFTER they won. 2008 Phillies were 12th. So, while we're still talking about teams that are in the upper half for the most part it's pretty clear that you don't have to be pouring money down the drain Yankees style either. Note that when you actually look into *who* was getting all the money on some of these teams, it was players who really didn't help much at all (example: 2001 Diamondbacks paid 9 million for 106 games of past-his-prime Matt Williams, 8 million for Jay Bell, 4.1 million for 133 wretched innings from Brian Anderson, etc.) The A's were a few balls bouncing the wrong way from winning that series with Detroit, too. |
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Paelos
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But for some of those teams, while they won, they also had escalating contracts on the books. So the actual year value of the payroll perhaps didn't reflect the total value on the books.
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Basically it's not so much that money lets you buy championships directly, it is that money lets you hide your mistakes.
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Basically it's not so much that money lets you buy championships directly, it is that money lets you hide your mistakes.
No, spending the most will not get you a ring. There is no direct connection in that regard. There is a guarantee that spending below average won't though. |
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The imbecilic Mariners tried to get Lou Piniella back to manage next season. That is the their best idea. Seriously. Best to try and win a Lombardi trophy. The other options suck. |
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Woo, notdodgers! Wooooo!
(that was a looooong game)
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I guess I'm rooting for the Tigers. Yay, only non loathesome option!
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Gave em a dirty Sanchez last night.
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Well after that game and the Pats game I'm sure if there was anyone left who didn't hate Boston that has changed. To which I say....suck it.  |
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