If you want to hate the Giants, look no further than their "owner" who is probably the greediest person I have ever seen affiliated with the team.
2014 MLB Season thread
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What? Oh, team. I was about to say there's nobody worse than Loria but that's for the entire sport.
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Seeing the Giants win again would definitely put me in a pit of despair. I'd take anybody else, but watching the Royals has been especially fun.
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The Cardinals aren't any better at this point.
I really think one of the AL teams winning would be better for the sport since it'll help spur interest in them while the Giants or Cardinals almost certainly already have about as big a fanbase as either will ever get.
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The Cardinals aren't any better at this point.
I really think one of the AL teams winning would be better for the sport since it'll help spur interest in them while the Giants or Cardinals almost certainly already have about as big a fanbase as either will ever get.
Well, my bias against the Giants is strictly as a Dodgers fan. The Cards would be the lesser of two evils for me, but I agree that either of the AL teams would be good as some newblood energy for the sport.
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I really think one of the AL teams winning would be better for the sport since it'll help spur interest in them while the Giants or Cardinals almost certainly already have about as big a fanbase as either will ever get.
Parity and revenue are mutually exclusive, and for everyone who isn't a Bay Area or Missouri baseball fan, the 2014 LCS/WS is a advertising disaster for the sport. If the owners had their way, we'd have Dodgers/Mets and Red Sox/Yankees LCS every year, with a Dodgers/Yankees WS every year.
Casual fans won't really be a force to attract until football implodes on itself, which hopefully will happen in the near future: the slap on the wrists for truly heinous crimes in the name of talent, the crippling effects of concussions and other related injuries, and the hesitation to embrace mobile technology make the problems plaguing baseball look immature by comparison. Once MLB breaks out of the regional blackout problem, it'll outclass football in entertainment value and content delivery, and maybe parity and revenue will be able to coincide.
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Yes! The Royals are in the World Series.
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Some thoughts:
A lot has been made that the Giants and Royals were "disadvantaged" by the wild card, but that isn't actually true. In baseball, it takes an entire season to tell who the best team is, but if you look at any particular part of the season it's a lot harder to make predictions. There's a lot of random variables thrown in there.
The A's, Nationals and Dodgers were the best team in the playoffs, so if you're a good team, the last thing you want is to face another team in a short series where random variation is at its highest. 1 game or 5 game playoffs pretty much negate any advantage that comes from power-matching and home field advantage for a 95 win team versus an 88 win team. Even though winning the division was advertised as something desirable, it was just the opposite.
The playoffs aren't a crapshoot, either. Over the past 5 years, the Giants reached the World Series whenever they made the postseason, and the Cardinals reached it in the years the Giants didn't make the postseason. That's clearly a #1 and #2 postseason team. I don't know what the secret is - it could be postseason experience, for all I know - but there does appear to be some formula for short-series success.
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Die hard Dodgers fan here. Seeing Kershaw have those meltdown innings were a pain to watch. Seeing the Giants go to the World Series was worse. If I squint real hard The Royals looks like The Dodgers. Go KC.
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Ugh, I'm so sad about the end of the Orioles season. Even though it was 4-0, it can't even be said that we were destroyed or that we collapsed, Kansas City just always got the timely hit, the bloop double down the line or the ground ball they needed. We were outplayed in the series, but each game was SO AGONIZINGLY CLOSE. Losing that series felt like being slowly smothered by a pillow.
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Have I mentioned how much I hate Larry Baer, and I consider his un-relenting greed bad for the game?
Read this story. Note the name is not "Boundbound Bay". It'll be pronounced that way, but it's written #boatboundbay.
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Maddon has opted out as the Rays manager. That's a bit surprising even if the Rays Vice Pres. went to the dodgers a few weeks ago
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Oscar Taveras dying was a real gut-punch for yesterday's game. RIP.
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I guess that answers the question of "what could possibly be more upsetting than the Giants winning it all again"
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10-0.
Here's hoping for an amazing game 7.
I was one of the 4 who voted other by the way….for the Royals.
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It's the baseball Superbowl.
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Maddon has reportedly wound up at the managerial elephant's graveyard aka the Cubs.
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Booooooooooring. Giants win again. Come on MLB, somebody's got to step up and stop this.
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Booooooooooring. Giants win again. Come on MLB, somebody's got to step up and stop this.
Who?
The Red Sox, The Cardinals,….....The Yankees?
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I dunno how you could call Game 7 boring, that was one of the best games of the season. The AL wild card probably trumps it, but it was still unreal and tense the whole way.
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the Giants are boring
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Ugh. I bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed Dodger blue, but gotta give congrats/props to the Giants and their fans. I'll be drowning my sorrows at a Halloween party.
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No the game and the series were great, thank goodness it wasn't another sweep. Just saying the outcome was boring.
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