The Random Thread and The Endless Nights of Baseball Discussions

[MickeyisBeast]

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3. Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy, Hypocrisy... and Played Out Arguments
Ever hear of a Red Sox fan accusing the Yankees of buying a championship? Dumb question. Played out and hypocritical. I guess that the first team to win the World Series with a 100,000,000 payroll didn't buy their championship. Boston fan would argue that it was their great farm system that brought it home. Exactly how many home grown players played a major role in your 2004 World Series victory? One, Trot Nixon. Your 2007 World Series Victory? Five. When the Yankees went 4-for-6 in World Series victories, they had five core homegrown players (four of them still remain and were on the team in 2009). In addition to being hypocrites, I guess you're also incapable of basic math (5>1, 5=5).

Incapable of basic math you say? On a daily basis, I hear or see an argument of the number of championships the Yankees won doesn't matter, it's the quality. I guess that's as clever as "Shove your 26 rings up your ***, talk to me when you've won this century" was. Check, now that 27 is here, I'm talking to you and there's one simple mathematical equation you need to understand 27>7. For that matter 10>7 (St. Louis Cardinals) and 9>7 (Athletics franchise in its various cities). Until you pass one of those franchises, you have no right to even start comparing yourself to the Yankees. Just talk to a Lakers fan who tries to argue that their franchise is now the elite NBA franchise. What's that? I think it was a Boston Fan pointing out the 17 banners that fly from their rafters... and no mention of the 20-plus years in between championships. And, in case you didn't know, KG and Ray Allen were "homegrown". Sorry Boston, you can't have it both ways. If you want to say the Red Sox franchise is better than the Yankees franchise, you have to kiss Lakers' fans feet and crown them NBA elite. Either way, the Lakers and the Yankees are defending champs.

 

[marypops!]

Don't be afraid, i'm just a delicious pineapple. What's your name?
Stanley...
Well, it's nice to meet you Stanley. I fell from the sky. Isn't that interesting?
You fell from the sky?
Lots of fruit falls from the sky.
*Orange lands beside pineapple*
Hey guys!
Hey orange, this is Stanley!

 

[MickeyisBeast]

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2. There Never was a Curse
The Red Sox sucked because there was a curse inflicted on their organization when they sold baseball's greatest player. In shocking news, Santa Claus came down my neighbor's chimney and scarfed down the Oreo's and milk his daughter left out a few months ago. The brown crumbs and milk mustache I saw on my neighbor's face after I helped him lug presents under the tree was just my imagination. Own your franchise's stupidity. It wasn't a curse. It was selling the best player ever to play the game. It was maintaining a racist environment and ignoring players like Jackie Robinson. It was trading Jeff Bagwell for Larry Andersen. What got you back to glory was making trades like Heathcliff Slocumb for Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek, appeasing divas like Manny and Pedro, and mimicking the franchise you despise in terms of spending habits. We all like to blame mistakes we made on something (or someone) else. But a curse?! That's almost as dumb as blaming it on a goat, sorry Cubs fans. If there was a curse, I hope that trading away Manny Ramirez marks the beginning of another 86 years in between championships. If curses are real, I hope the curse of Man-Ram is alive and well when I'm on my deathbed. After all, we do know what happened the last time Red Sox management got rid of a Hall-of-Fame caliber diva.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

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1. Red Sox Nation
“Red Sox Nation? What a bunch of [expletive] that is!" Hank Steinbrenner. Can't say it any better than that. Want to know how the Red Sux Nation site got its start? I was at Buffalo Wild Wings, catching a Yankees game and talking about an upcoming fantasy football draft with a friend from college. For Red Sox fans: college is when you go to school beyond grade 12.... oh wait, high school is when you go to school beyond grade 8, college is after high school. Anyways, about six beers deep, we see "Red Sox Nation Board of governors.....". The expletives flew, a bandwagon Red Sox fan in the next booth over tried to start a fight, and I went home and dedicated myself to finding a way to organize plethora Boston Hater shirts and apparel on one website. Thanks to Red Sox Nation and the unfortunate events of 2004, I can't go anywhere safely without seeing another Bandwagon fan strutting around with a B on his cap. Back to hypocrisy, Boston fan will argue that there are a lot of bandwagon Yankees fans. Yes, you made one argument that made sense (give yourself a high-five). Every great franchise has its bandwagon fans. However, I come back to math (you know that thing you don't understand especially when it doesn't work in your favor), there are more bandwagon Red Sox fans hand down... just head to your local Walmart and watch it in action.

 

[LondonUnderground]

NICOLE ANDERSON IS NOT DATING NICK JONAS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow2Grqc3Mjw&feature=fvsr

no, isnt she dating him in Jonas LA? but not in real life.

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4. Last Team to Integrate
The Jackie Robinson story could be very different, along with my view for the Red Sox. Watching the Ken Burns Baseball documentary growing up, I discovered that one of the few teams to tryout Jackie Robinson was the Boston Red Sox (April 1945). Despite an impressive tryout, they decided to pass and the Dodgers signed him instead. A sham tryout held by Red Sox owner and resident racist, Tom Yawkey, to appease a politician. Instead, the Red Sox became the last team to integrate more than 14 years later when they signed Pumpsie Green. Your owner's racism caused your franchise to make it's biggest mistake since selling Babe Ruth.

dont diss the Boston accent till you've heard it, it's cute!
and,
boston is really pretty, you obvs havent seen the common or park. they are GORGEOUS and we used to spend loads of time in there.
red sox fans arent retards, and neither are bostonian people, thats just mean and offensive. everyone in boston is so nice! even to english people xD and they are really funny as well xD
and the men smell damn good. xD

FRAZEE traded Babe Ruth, get yo' facts right!
Yawkey wasnt racist, he was the one that started letting other races into the team.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

 

[LondonUnderground]

Don't be afraid, i'm just a delicious pineapple. What's your name?
Stanley...
Well, it's nice to meet you Stanley. I fell from the sky. Isn't that interesting?
You fell from the sky?
Lots of fruit falls from the sky.
*Orange lands beside pineapple*
Hey guys!
Hey orange, this is Stanley!

uh oh! I split in two!
sorry i couldnt stay longer, i gotta go to heaven now! SEE Y'ALL! xD

 

[LondonUnderground]

well, tbh, i found all of that untrue.

because I have actually been to boston, and a RS game.

everyone was really polite and friendly, and there was no agression towards Indians fans.
everyone was so happy when we got a homer, and all these random people were hugging us? and everyone was having a right laugh! it was amazing fun, i seriously cant wait for my next RS game

 

[LondonUnderground]

ohhh,
and the Celtics have the most titles in the NBA
i'm sorry if you just cant take that.

 

[marypops!]

uh oh! I split in two!
sorry i couldnt stay longer, i gotta go to heaven now! SEE Y'ALL! xD

He's not making it to Heaven. Cucumbers have wicked souls!

 

[MickeyisBeast]

no, isnt she dating him in Jonas LA? but not in real life.


dont diss the Boston accent till you've heard it, it's cute!
and,
boston is really pretty, you obvs havent seen the common or park. they are GORGEOUS and we used to spend loads of time in there.
red sox fans arent retards, and neither are bostonian people, thats just mean and offensive. everyone in boston is so nice! even to english people xD and they are really funny as well xD
and the men smell damn good. xD

FRAZEE traded Babe Ruth, get yo' facts right!
Yawkey wasnt racist, he was the one that started letting other races into the team.

Oh yeah, she is... idc about that, that's acting!

Oh trust me, I've heard it. Remember the kid in my WH class, from Boston? He's a white sox fan. At first his accent was interesting, now I want to throw him out the window everytime he talks! You can tell my teacher doesn't like his accent either, he never calls on him to answer a question xD The accent is terrible. I'm not even a big fan of NY accents...

Nope, never seen them. And I don't really care how pretty they are... That's great for Boston, though

You've got it backwards, Eimear. The man who wrote this was saying how Boston people always call others retards. Not how he thinks they're retards... He did call them that in there, but he was just making fun of how they say "retards". You might want to read the post better before you get all mad!

Hey, I didn't write that, I even said I didn't. So stop yelling at me! Idc who traded Babe Ruth, it was more than one person who agreed on it, okay? Not just one person can make a choice like that. So it was all of Boston's fault for trading the best baseball player in history...

I dunno who Yawkee is, so I dunno if he's racist or not...

 

[LondonUnderground]

He's not making it to Heaven. Cucumbers have wicked souls!

well, uh, i best get going now..
hey! why dont'cha take cucumber with you? make yourself a nice salad? i'm sure he's real nice.
well... i dont know, he really let himself go... he could be nasty...
uh, im good xD

 

[MickeyisBeast]

Dude, Eimear, IDC! I didn't write that! GO TELL WHOEVER WROTE THAT ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS ABOUT HIS STATEMENTS!

I just agree with him... and of course you're going to disagree with his comments, you're a Boston fan and you can't open your mind and see the truth!

 

[LondonUnderground]

Oh yeah, she is... idc about that, that's acting!

Oh trust me, I've heard it. Remember the kid in my WH class, from Boston? He's a white sox fan. At first his accent was interesting, now I want to throw him out the window everytime he talks! You can tell my teacher doesn't like his accent either, he never calls on him to answer a question xD The accent is terrible. I'm not even a big fan of NY accents...

Nope, never seen them. And I don't really care how pretty they are... That's great for Boston, though

You've got it backwards, Eimear. The man who wrote this was saying how Boston people always call others retards. Not how he thinks they're retards... He did call them that in there, but he was just making fun of how they say "retards". You might want to read the post better before you get all mad!

Hey, I didn't write that, I even said I didn't. So stop yelling at me! Idc who traded Babe Ruth, it was more than one person who agreed on it, okay? Not just one person can make a choice like that. So it was all of Boston's fault for trading the best baseball player in history...

I dunno who Yawkee is, so I dunno if he's racist or not...

YOU MAKE ME GET ALL ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED BLAHBLAHBLAH xD

aw, I loooove boston accents! they are ah-dorable!

haha, lossss!

oh ha, well i didnt quote it, so i forgot what it said, chill!

okayy

 

[LondonUnderground]

Dude, Eimear, IDC! I didn't write that! GO TELL WHOEVER WROTE THAT ALL OF YOUR PROBLEMS ABOUT HIS STATEMENTS!

I just agree with him... and of course you're going to disagree with his comments, you're a Boston fan and you can't open your mind and see the truth!

WHAT TRUTH?!
that a-roid and jeter look like they ran into a glass window?!

 

[LondonUnderground]

she's taking a while to reply... this is gonna be a long one.

 

[MickeyisBeast]

[I didn't write this, of course... my comments will be bolded though]

Seven Things to Hate About the Yankees

1. Mo Money/Mo Wins: The Yankees payroll of about $206 million (down from about $209 million last year) is again the tops in baseball and is thrice that of the Twins (about $68 million). They presently sport the four richest contracts in baseball history, inked to A-Rod, Jeter, Texieira, and Sabathia. They have the highest-paid MLB player at six different positions, and have made the playoffs in every year but one (2008) since 1995. Just four of their starters come via their farm system, while the Twins offer six starting homegrown products from the Bread Basket.

Yeah, so what's wrong with having money? I don't see the arguement in this reason...

2. Short on Class: After winning the 1991 Rookie of the Year and the World Series in that same season, stud Twins second baseman Chuck Knoblauch eventually slithered his way out of the Twin Cities when things went south. Although he won three more titles with the Yanks, the diminutive Knobby eventually was shifted to left field when he lost the ability to throw to first, was pelted with batteries and dollar bills in his Dome return, was named in the Mitchell Report investigating steroid usage, and—in recent weeks—was charged with choking his common-law wife in Houston. Comeuppance can prove a long way down, even for short dudes.

I LOVE Knoblauch! [too bad he had to get old and started to stink...] And I don't see the arguement here either...

3. They Dissed Joe Torre: Despite taking the Yanks to the postseason in 12 straight years (1995-2007) and winning four World Series titles, Joe Torre was given the exciting offer to take a pay cut and stay in New York. After aptly declining, Torre took the Dodgers gig and brought them to the postseason, while the Yanks finished third in the AL East in Joe Girardi's incipient season as skip. Torre is essentially the Phil Jackson of baseball; yeah, he's been provided with high-priced talent—but he also has the unique ability to manage said talent, making him one of the most respected figures in baseball. Torre took the Dodgers to the playoffs again this season, giving the organization their first back-to-back division titles since 1977-78.

I hate Torre... he was the worst manager we've ever had, no Yankee fans ever liked him. Dude, Torre STINKS. And that's a fact.

4. A-Roid: Alex Rodriguez has been in the Bigs since he was 18 years old, having bombed 583 home runs and collected over 2,500 hits since 1994. His numbers will ultimately be recorded among baseball's best. Over the winter, he admitted to taking steroids over a three-year period beginning in 2001. While that sullied the rep of his hardball acumen, it's really his personality that could have used some steroids. The guy is the most aloof superstar in modern-day baseball, void of humor and apparently dating the zany Kate Hudson. Who are you going to have your kid look up to? This juicer? Or Joe Mauer, who's powered by 2 percent milk?

Umm, yeah, I'm fine with my kid liking A-ROD. Should he have taken steriods? No, of course not! But Boston needs to stop acting like that's the biggest sin in the world. I mean, look at all those RS players that have taken steroids... It's sad when "A-ROID" is a RS fans only comeback.

5. Free Agency Overhaul: One of the reasons besides the money that the Yankees can continue to dominate in the MLB is their attack on free agency. The Yankees continue to win by simply outbidding every other team for free agents, and when those free agents don't work out...just buy more free agents! And we wonder why other teams are only able to rely on farm systems.

Okay... that's nice!

6. New Yankee Stadium Seating Prices: If you want to see a Yankees game in New York, you'd better be able to come up with $75. It's $375 for a "decent" seat. This basically eliminates any hope of a memorable father/son outing. Even though the Yankees' investments are safe, they don't think twice about the fact that a child's father is saving up for two weeks just to take him to a ballgame. Fifteen years from now, these kids will be telling stories of the one baseball game they were able to go to as a kid.

Wow, that's expensive. But we've got the money to go see Yankee games, so I'm good. I've been to nine Yankee games in my lifetime, 6 of which were at Yankee Stadium.

7. Mauer's Sirens: As bystanders in the eventual Joe Mauer contract situation—his contract expires after next season—we can only pray that the MVP candidate eschews what will likely prove to be crazy dollar offers from either/both the Yankees and the Red Sox, both of whom count aging starting catchers on their rosters.

LOL, whose Mauer?

 

[MickeyisBeast]

YOU MAKE ME GET ALL ANGRY AND FRUSTRATED BLAHBLAHBLAH xD

aw, I loooove boston accents! they are ah-dorable!

haha, lossss!

oh ha, well i didnt quote it, so i forgot what it said, chill!

okayy

AND YOU MAKE ME ANGRY! LOL, jk, nothing you say bothers me, because you're like the nicest RS fan ever xD

I really don't like any accents, except Southern accents, because SA's are what I've grown up around.

WHAT TRUTH?!
that a-roid and jeter look like they ran into a glass window?!

HAVE YOU SEEN A-RODS MUSCLES?
Jeter is hot. I'm offended that Jacoby has the same number as him. THAT'S OFFENSIVE.

she's taking a while to reply... this is gonna be a long one.

Nahhh, I was just looking for a "7 things to hate about Yankees" and see if I agree with it or not...

 

[LondonUnderground]

AND YOU MAKE ME ANGRY! LOL, jk, nothing you say bothers me, because you're like the nicest RS fan ever xD

I really don't like any accents, except Southern accents, because SA's are what I've grown up around.



HAVE YOU SEEN A-RODS MUSCLES?
Jeter is hot. I'm offended that Jacoby has the same number as him. THAT'S OFFENSIVE.



Nahhh, I was just looking for a "7 things to hate about Yankees" and see if I agree with it or not...

xD
love irish, american, italian and BOSTONIAN xD
no, and i dont plan on it!
babyyy, other way round for me!
gathered that now xD

 

[MickeyisBeast]

1. TRUE THAT! I like how RS fans won't admit that they wish they had our 27 wins

2. Yeah... Boston is never going to catch up. FACE IT.

3. Hmm.. what has Boston been doing for the last month? NOT PLAYING BASEBALL, that's for sure! Golf or tennis, one of those two.

4. I don't like this one, all players have made a stupid mistake and have the baseball go right through their legs. I can't really say it's just the RS...