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They were upset about the bubble because he boasted last week that he "wasn't 'Johnny Hustle'" and it was a close play during a World Series game.

No one gives a shit about a bubble. They do appropriately care about athletes making 8 figures showing maximum effort during the ultimate contest.
 
Danhedonia said:
They were upset about the bubble because he boasted last week that he "wasn't 'Johnny Hustle'" and it was a close play during a World Series game.

No one gives a shit about a bubble. They do appropriately care about athletes making 8 figures showing maximum effort during the ultimate contest.
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That's fair. But I do find all the unwritten baseball rules that do not have as much to do with that annoying and over-serious.
 
I was a half decent (high 80's) power pitcher in my teens. I have a deep love for baseball, but also realize how unfriendly it is to most viewers.

One of the reasons for the 'unwritten rules' is that, fundamentally, baseball is a combination of boredom and terror. The latter isn't often realized, because those rules are understood and enforced.

Which, getting back to football, is what makes football so much more appealing as a spectator sport: the terror is right there. It's regulated by the zebras, and to a lesser extent, the league office. No one wonders why people dislike Vontaze Burfict. And even marathon games (anyone remember San Diego / Miami in the 80's?) don't take seven hours.

Patriots going to 6-2 tonight against the Bills.
 
Danhedonia said:
I was a half decent (high 80's) power pitcher in my teens. I have a deep love for baseball, but also realize how unfriendly it is to most viewers.

One of the reasons for the 'unwritten rules' is that, fundamentally, baseball is a combination of boredom and terror. The latter isn't often realized, because those rules are understood and enforced.

Which, getting back to football, is what makes football so much more appealing as a spectator sport: the terror is right there. It's regulated by the zebras, and to a lesser extent, the league office. No one wonders why people dislike Vontaze Burfict. And even marathon games (anyone remember San Diego / Miami in the 80's?) don't take seven hours.

Patriots going to 6-2 tonight against the Bills.
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My high point in baseball was as a power hitter in 8th grade. If I could connect, and I often did, it was often foul left long (a lot, I tended to be ahead of the pitch), a home run, or a triple. Against 8th grade pitchers of course. ;-) . I was a pretty lousy right fielder otherwise, and did not continue.

I don't really understand what you mean about the unwritten rules and the lack of terror. To me, it looks like a lot of stuffy rules. But, also, I had an English and English lit teacher in high school that would go off on these rants about baseball being the one true sport, and the Yankees were the one true team. No names on jerseys, the correct pants, pin stripes, etc. After a while it was blah, blah, blah to me.

As to football, just glad the Seahawks are re-finding some kind of form. Even if it is too early to call it all that.
 
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sunvalleylaw said:
My high point in baseball was as a power hitter in 8th grade. If I could connect, and I often did, it was often foul left long (a lot, I tended to be ahead of the pitch), a home run, or a triple. Against 8th grade pitchers of course. ;-) . I was a pretty lousy right fielder otherwise, and did not continue.

I don't really understand what you mean about the unwritten rules and the lack of terror. To me, it looks like a lot of stuffy rules. But, also, I had an English and English lit teacher in high school that would go off on these rants about baseball being the one true sport, and the Yankees were the one true team. No names on jerseys, the correct pants, pin stripes, etc. After a while it was blah, blah, blah to me.

As to football, just glad the Seahawks are re-finding some kind of form. Even if it is too early to call it all that.
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If the playoffs started today, The Redskins would host the Seahawks in the 3/6 matchup.
 
I don't really think anyone but Yankee fans 'get' what it's like. You're trained from infancy to consider the Red Sox as "part of the family." (Which is one reason it's so hard to play for the Sox; every freaking person thinks you are a family member, and treats you like it).

So it would have been unthinkable for me to not watch the whole thing. And not only that, but I was live-streaming chat about the game with fellow Massholes, pitch by pitch.

Kinsler's error gave those of us of a certain age intense Buckner flashbacks. I am incredibly glad the Series ended the way it did, because Kinsler's life would've been made horrible otherwise. You may think I'm being hyperbolic, but Buckner wound up moving to Idaho after '86, in no small part to get away from people giving him hell wherever he showed.

I hated that it went on so long, but really: what a game for the ages. Eovaldi's pitching performance was nothing short of heroic; 97 pitches, on two days' rest? And a shut out at that, only to lose it with a walk off homer.

As a Sox fan, you have a sort of religious pact to witness it. And feel it fully, just like all those decades of painful losses. I am still sad my great grandpa died before the '04 WS championship.

This team is a lifestyle.
 
Through 8 games, the 2018 Minnesota Vikings are averaging 0.8 points per game more than the 2017 Vikings. Turnovers from the quarterback position have doubled..from 5 to 10.
 
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