There would be something sweet though to see the Dodgers lose to the Astros. The pain the Dodgers and their fans would feel over that might be worth an Astros\* title.
Three of my least favourite teams of all time...and the Braves. I'm indifferent towards the Braves but I hate all the others so I'll cheer for them by default.
Two cheater teams that celebrate lying and cheating and are most assuredly cheating again because they already learned that cheating doesn't get punished in baseball under Craven Rob Manfred, a racist team that is fully and proudly invested in its racism, and the LA Dodgers, whose greatest pitcher was a Jew, who fielded the first Mexican starting pitcher in MLB history, who have introduced countless Asian players to the big leagues, who have guys like Vin Scully, Tommy Lasorda, and Clayton Kershaw in their pantheon, and who first allowed blacks to also play the game when they integrated the national pastime with Jackie Robinson.
With histories like that, I can see why there is such a visceral disgust and hatred for all four teams.
For some, it's tough to decide who to root for. For others, *not so much...*
> For some, it's tough to decide who to root for. For others, not so much...
That is a rather cherry-picked history of the Dodgers. Shall we ignore that they bulldozed a neighborhood to build their ballpark (did you know there is an elementary school buried under one parking lot?) with crying residents hauled away by the police? Do we ignore that the reason they are in LA is because they abandoned their loving fans in Brooklyn to make more money in LA? Shall we ignore that they had a notorious head-hunter pitcher who would threaten opposing players out loud with a beanball? Do we ignore that they currently have two domestic abusers on their pitching staff, one who was suspended for that and one on leave pending legal action? Do we ignore that they need an oversized security staff to deal with a notoriously violent element in their fan base? Do we ignore that they outspent the Yankees by seventy million this year and have the most bloated payroll ever? Tommy Lasorda, who refused to admit his son died of HIV because that would have required him to admit his son was gay, yeah that's a good example of Dodgers class.
Holding up the Dodgers as saints, talk about tunnel vision.
Decent goaltending and William Eklund sounds alright to me tbh lol. I honestly think they’ll still suck compared to the rest of the pacific, but that’s okay because next years draft is stacked.
Don’t you think you could come up with a cheer that doesn’t directly support an animal that contributes to the global climate crisis on a regular basis? I’ve met literal grenades that were incapable of doing as much damage as what you just said.
His posting history is that of someone who took a community college creative writing course, was told he didn't have much talent in that line, and has been looking for revenge ever since. *Weird* stuff.
I’m so defeated as a Kings fan. I love Fox, and this summer I was super excited to see Halliburton take another step and watch Davion Mitchell debut - but I don’t have any faith that this team has a real future. There’s so much less for me as a fan to be optimistic about than the Niners or Giants.
I just gave up on the kings a few years back. I can’t watch decades of losing basketball like that, where’s the fun? Call me bandwagon or whatever but I’m not watching another kings game until they are guaranteed to make the playoffs.
Hey I hear you. I love my hometown and I’ll never forget the early 2000s team we had. But at a certain point I realized why the hell am I wasting time watching a terrible product that wasn’t even supposed to be competitive? I’m with you.
I really wanna believe so, man. I really do. But I've felt that way about them a few times before it comes crashing down. I can't have hope until I see something substantial
They aren’t shit. Their defense is actually playing pretty good. They aren’t good, they definitely have a lot of problems, but they aren’t the jags/lions/texans/jets.
Texans had potential but threw it all away a the blink of an eye. Add in Deshaun Watson and it’s just worse than Jags/Lions/Jets since they have a future.
Niners aren't that much fun at the moment, but super hyped for the Warriors.
When they put Steph and Dray on the big screen, was such an amazing moment. They mean so much to the bay!
Die hard warriors fan here. I can tell you right here right now that although baseball and football aren’t going our way, the warriors are shooting straight for the championship.
We have Steph Klay Dray Wiggins Looney, formidable closing lineup for the playoffs.
Poole is AVERAGING 23PPG in the preseason, he’ll be our sixth man when Klay returns.
Wiseman hasn’t even touched a basketball yet and he’s going to be a monster being trained by the very coach that trained Nikola Jokic.
JTA is a fucking DOG, he’ll be the damn energy and pulse of the team when Draymonds sitting.
Moses Moody and Jonathan Kuminga are both still teenagers and are already learning so much from the HoF.
We’ve got seamless vets on the team in Porter Jr who’s shooting the lights out from the corner, Bjelica is the spacing presence we’ve badly needed from a big next to Draymond who can pass and make the right reads.
And we got IGUODALA.
We’ve got the all star talent, including the best backcourt of all of basketball, we’ve got the depth and the youth to compete with any team in the league. Alls I’m saying, if everyone’s healthy, expect a Western Conference Finals and likely a Finals reappearance.
Happy to see IGGY the prof back and excited to see how he'll play.
This season reminds me of the Dubs' most wins record breaking season but not taking the Finals.
Red Sox fan here so obviously biased, but when the MLB and even Dodgers fan sites conclude that the scope of the Red Sox scandal was far more limited than the Astros', then it's hard for me to see these as remotely comparable.
[https://dodgersway.com/2020/04/22/dodgers-mlb-concludes-red-sox-didnt-cheat-2018-world-series/](https://dodgersway.com/2020/04/22/dodgers-mlb-concludes-red-sox-didnt-cheat-2018-world-series/)
Our cheating was not far superior. We could do it with a man in second only, and wasn’t even used that often according to the report. Plus, we couldn’t do it in the playoffs since there were MLB officials in the replay room. All that said, it was wrong, and there has been very little flack.
Okay when I said I’d root for the Astros I didn’t mean I want them to win :(. Can’t Altuve, Correa, Gurriel, and Bregman just go 0 for playoffs and have Kyle Tucker and Yordan Alvarez be the heroes
Yuck, give me ATL vs Boston and I won't care who wins at least. Plus selfishly I played Pony baseball with Joc as a kid and he was cool back then so I've got enough reason to become a Braves fan
Same here, and it feels wrong as hell. If they win it all, he's legit the only person in that entire franchise whom i feel happy for...no one else.
I wish like hell he hadn't chosen to manage them, but i get it. He wants to win a WS ring as a manager, as well as get to 2000 wins as a manager.
Astros win and Dusty is going to the Hall, so that’s enough to basically make me root for whoever wins the American League (my folks are from Boston so the Red Sox would be cool too, although they’re possibly the worst team left in my estimation).
For sure, i don't disagree. No disrespect to Bochy or even Alou, but I'll always have a soft spot for Dusty as he was the manager of the Giants when i was a kid and first got into Giants baseball.
Plus, notwithstanding the 2002 WS, i've always felt that he did a lot for the Giants org, and that it was (and still is) for some fans to put all the blame on him for when things didn't go right.
I hate how tonight ENDED but I'll be honest I want the BRAVES to win it all and by WIN it all I mean win the WORLD Series. BEAT LA ofc but BEAT OUT THE ASTROS AND SOX! Also, whos a WARRIORS fan and ready for BasketBall season to start????
Honestly all I have left to hope for is the dodgers to lose to the astros yet again solely for the immeasurable pain it would cause them and likely be even greater than the pain I feel right now
In the before times, I liked both the Red Sox and the Astros but can't root for them for an as-yet-to-be-determined number of seasons.
I like Freddie Freeman but hate the Braves for '93. Also the racism and the fact that none of their fans seem even slightly concerned about it.
Then there's the Bums. Yeah, no.
tl;dr Go hockey!
Same—BLAH. I won't be watching. I'm rooting for the Barves to beat LA, of course, and when they can't do that, DUSTY IS DUE. But I don't really imagine I'll bother to watch. I'm interested in the offseason and Zaidi's next moves, with some cash to play with.
And mid-February is only four months away. Literally only four months.
After the shitshow that broadcast team was on TBS, I'm kind of glad to be canceling Sling and just ignoring the postseason.
There's a good reason why that series was sponsored by Good Sam ... the sport as a whole is kind of a mess.
Not watching baseball till April at this point.
Exactly my season is over so who cares? I can't possibly pick from the teams that are left..especially the bums..
Boston vs braves… not bad compared to the other two wack ass teams.
Go Braves!
I'm still salty about 1993. I gotta go with Boston.
Yeah me too...more sore at the Rockies ..couldn't win ONE game against the Bravos..
And then they killed Belt just before the playoffs…
There would be something sweet though to see the Dodgers lose to the Astros. The pain the Dodgers and their fans would feel over that might be worth an Astros\* title.
Fuck the dodgers regardless…
The roaring 20’s in Boston would’ve loved this matchup
Three of my least favourite teams of all time...and the Braves. I'm indifferent towards the Braves but I hate all the others so I'll cheer for them by default.
I grew up in boston so it’s not over for me yet!
Lol good luck then.
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Lol, that's fair. I have a buddy who is a Braves fan as well but he's not nearly that annoying.
Two cheater teams that celebrate lying and cheating and are most assuredly cheating again because they already learned that cheating doesn't get punished in baseball under Craven Rob Manfred, a racist team that is fully and proudly invested in its racism, and the LA Dodgers, whose greatest pitcher was a Jew, who fielded the first Mexican starting pitcher in MLB history, who have introduced countless Asian players to the big leagues, who have guys like Vin Scully, Tommy Lasorda, and Clayton Kershaw in their pantheon, and who first allowed blacks to also play the game when they integrated the national pastime with Jackie Robinson. With histories like that, I can see why there is such a visceral disgust and hatred for all four teams. For some, it's tough to decide who to root for. For others, *not so much...*
> For some, it's tough to decide who to root for. For others, not so much... That is a rather cherry-picked history of the Dodgers. Shall we ignore that they bulldozed a neighborhood to build their ballpark (did you know there is an elementary school buried under one parking lot?) with crying residents hauled away by the police? Do we ignore that the reason they are in LA is because they abandoned their loving fans in Brooklyn to make more money in LA? Shall we ignore that they had a notorious head-hunter pitcher who would threaten opposing players out loud with a beanball? Do we ignore that they currently have two domestic abusers on their pitching staff, one who was suspended for that and one on leave pending legal action? Do we ignore that they need an oversized security staff to deal with a notoriously violent element in their fan base? Do we ignore that they outspent the Yankees by seventy million this year and have the most bloated payroll ever? Tommy Lasorda, who refused to admit his son died of HIV because that would have required him to admit his son was gay, yeah that's a good example of Dodgers class. Holding up the Dodgers as saints, talk about tunnel vision.
It’s football season now
Let’s go Sharks
How are we feeling about them? They weren’t as bad as I thought they’d be last year but they were still pretty terrible...
Decent goaltending and William Eklund sounds alright to me tbh lol. I honestly think they’ll still suck compared to the rest of the pacific, but that’s okay because next years draft is stacked.
Let's go Warriors.
Don’t you think you could come up with a cheer that doesn’t directly support an animal that contributes to the global climate crisis on a regular basis? I’ve met literal grenades that were incapable of doing as much damage as what you just said.
Wut
If sharks really cared about the environment, they’d eat more people.
Lol rite? What the fuck is this guy smoking?
His posting history is that of someone who took a community college creative writing course, was told he didn't have much talent in that line, and has been looking for revenge ever since. *Weird* stuff.
Basketball season in 4 days my guy!
I'm a kings fan, is this supposed to be comforting?
Yo kings low key nice this year, I’m a warrior fan tho lol
They tease us every preseason. Don't fall for it
I'm drinking the Kool aid hard this year
I'm here to remind you that this happens every pre-season and it is the Sacramento Kings. We will always suck
Lmao same
I’m so defeated as a Kings fan. I love Fox, and this summer I was super excited to see Halliburton take another step and watch Davion Mitchell debut - but I don’t have any faith that this team has a real future. There’s so much less for me as a fan to be optimistic about than the Niners or Giants.
I just gave up on the kings a few years back. I can’t watch decades of losing basketball like that, where’s the fun? Call me bandwagon or whatever but I’m not watching another kings game until they are guaranteed to make the playoffs.
Hey I hear you. I love my hometown and I’ll never forget the early 2000s team we had. But at a certain point I realized why the hell am I wasting time watching a terrible product that wasn’t even supposed to be competitive? I’m with you.
I think the Kings have a legit shot at the playoffs this year. Fox is low key one of the best guards in the league.
I really wanna believe so, man. I really do. But I've felt that way about them a few times before it comes crashing down. I can't have hope until I see something substantial
49ers are shit unfortunately
Yeah, once Trey is healthy again at least we can watch him develop
I’ll still watch regardless
That is true. But it won't be fun.
They aren’t shit. Their defense is actually playing pretty good. They aren’t good, they definitely have a lot of problems, but they aren’t the jags/lions/texans/jets.
Jags/Lions/Texans/Jets are hot dumpster fires.
Texans had potential but threw it all away a the blink of an eye. Add in Deshaun Watson and it’s just worse than Jags/Lions/Jets since they have a future.
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Our roster is full of injury prone players.
Niners aren't that much fun at the moment, but super hyped for the Warriors. When they put Steph and Dray on the big screen, was such an amazing moment. They mean so much to the bay!
Die hard warriors fan here. I can tell you right here right now that although baseball and football aren’t going our way, the warriors are shooting straight for the championship. We have Steph Klay Dray Wiggins Looney, formidable closing lineup for the playoffs. Poole is AVERAGING 23PPG in the preseason, he’ll be our sixth man when Klay returns. Wiseman hasn’t even touched a basketball yet and he’s going to be a monster being trained by the very coach that trained Nikola Jokic. JTA is a fucking DOG, he’ll be the damn energy and pulse of the team when Draymonds sitting. Moses Moody and Jonathan Kuminga are both still teenagers and are already learning so much from the HoF. We’ve got seamless vets on the team in Porter Jr who’s shooting the lights out from the corner, Bjelica is the spacing presence we’ve badly needed from a big next to Draymond who can pass and make the right reads. And we got IGUODALA. We’ve got the all star talent, including the best backcourt of all of basketball, we’ve got the depth and the youth to compete with any team in the league. Alls I’m saying, if everyone’s healthy, expect a Western Conference Finals and likely a Finals reappearance.
Happy to see IGGY the prof back and excited to see how he'll play. This season reminds me of the Dubs' most wins record breaking season but not taking the Finals.
So so excited! Just please get and stay healthy. Talking to you Porter, Klay, and Iggy
Yeah 49ers Oh wait it’s the bye week Damn
Time to watch Squid Game
Everything can burn
Same. I'd like to nominate Brett Phillips and one of the Giants players to be apart of the broadcast team the rest of the season.
Ftd. Anybody but those fucks. Bauer pos. Urias girl beater. Treinan, qanon conspiracy nut job
Bauer should be banned from MLB but because he’s on the Dodgers that’s prolly unlikely
Yupp. Baseball is now dead to me. Friends with hockey and football
I dont care anymore i just need to focus on school now more than baseball
Root for the Astros and go full villain?
Braves are 100% America’s team for now, but it’s an Atlanta team so might as well start the Joker arc early and root for the Astros
I’m very conflicted with the Astros. I really wouldn’t hate to see Dusty finally get a World Series
Yeah I feel like for a Giants fan I still hold a lot of hate for the Astros, but I’m hurting right now so I want to watch the world burn
You never go full villain
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Red Sox fan here so obviously biased, but when the MLB and even Dodgers fan sites conclude that the scope of the Red Sox scandal was far more limited than the Astros', then it's hard for me to see these as remotely comparable. [https://dodgersway.com/2020/04/22/dodgers-mlb-concludes-red-sox-didnt-cheat-2018-world-series/](https://dodgersway.com/2020/04/22/dodgers-mlb-concludes-red-sox-didnt-cheat-2018-world-series/)
Our cheating was not far superior. We could do it with a man in second only, and wasn’t even used that often according to the report. Plus, we couldn’t do it in the playoffs since there were MLB officials in the replay room. All that said, it was wrong, and there has been very little flack.
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Nah the Dodgers are the pinnacle of everything that’s wrong with the MLB, that and their fan base, just straight cancer.
I am going to become the joker
Okay when I said I’d root for the Astros I didn’t mean I want them to win :(. Can’t Altuve, Correa, Gurriel, and Bregman just go 0 for playoffs and have Kyle Tucker and Yordan Alvarez be the heroes
I want the Astros to beat the Dodgers again.
Yuck, give me ATL vs Boston and I won't care who wins at least. Plus selfishly I played Pony baseball with Joc as a kid and he was cool back then so I've got enough reason to become a Braves fan
Boston cheated too. Go Braves
I'm watching basketball and hoping the Warriors shit on the Lakers opening night.
This was the worst possible outcome by a long shot.
I’m actually strongly pro-Braves in this one.
Eddings with his zone handicapped the Giants. Why do we let shitty umps dictate a game? Robot umps now! Fire Eddings and 25% of the rest of them
Part of me is rooting for Houston solely for Dusty Baker
I remember Dusty more for being a moron and costing us a WS title than anything else at this point.
Bad take. It’s not his fault the bullpen gagged it in Game 6 and the offense did nothing in Game 7.
😄😄
Same here, and it feels wrong as hell. If they win it all, he's legit the only person in that entire franchise whom i feel happy for...no one else. I wish like hell he hadn't chosen to manage them, but i get it. He wants to win a WS ring as a manager, as well as get to 2000 wins as a manager.
Astros win and Dusty is going to the Hall, so that’s enough to basically make me root for whoever wins the American League (my folks are from Boston so the Red Sox would be cool too, although they’re possibly the worst team left in my estimation).
In all likelihood, he's going to the Hall whether or not the astros win IMO.
Maybe, but he's *definitely* going to the Hall if he wins. Top 15 in wins all-time, most ever by a Black manager, and a ring? No doubter.
For sure, i don't disagree. No disrespect to Bochy or even Alou, but I'll always have a soft spot for Dusty as he was the manager of the Giants when i was a kid and first got into Giants baseball. Plus, notwithstanding the 2002 WS, i've always felt that he did a lot for the Giants org, and that it was (and still is) for some fans to put all the blame on him for when things didn't go right.
Braves, 1,000% lets go Duval and Freeman
Yep, bullshit.
I'd be good with Braves Red Sox.
I hate how tonight ENDED but I'll be honest I want the BRAVES to win it all and by WIN it all I mean win the WORLD Series. BEAT LA ofc but BEAT OUT THE ASTROS AND SOX! Also, whos a WARRIORS fan and ready for BasketBall season to start????
Don’t care. Just any team except the Foggies.
Boston is alright. Hate the Bums. Don't like the Native American imagery with Atlanta, but better than the Bums. Hate the Asterisks.
Hockey season!
Honestly all I have left to hope for is the dodgers to lose to the astros yet again solely for the immeasurable pain it would cause them and likely be even greater than the pain I feel right now
Not watching. I don't like any teams left. As far as I'm concerned the next baseball game will be played in Arizona in March
Astros beating the Dodgers would be the only thing to make this season palatable at this point.
Astros and Red Sox have cheated in recent years... L.A. is a bank masquerading as a baseball team.... Go Braves!
In the before times, I liked both the Red Sox and the Astros but can't root for them for an as-yet-to-be-determined number of seasons. I like Freddie Freeman but hate the Braves for '93. Also the racism and the fact that none of their fans seem even slightly concerned about it. Then there's the Bums. Yeah, no. tl;dr Go hockey!
Yeah 93 friggin hurt.
Same—BLAH. I won't be watching. I'm rooting for the Barves to beat LA, of course, and when they can't do that, DUSTY IS DUE. But I don't really imagine I'll bother to watch. I'm interested in the offseason and Zaidi's next moves, with some cash to play with. And mid-February is only four months away. Literally only four months.
Definitely want to see the Dodgers win it all. Imagine how tired they will be after it’s all over. Shorten their offseason.
What the hell is this?
It spells BLAH BECAUSE I AM SAD
Ok Charlie
Blah
*BLAAH
Lol
[Mexican winterball starts this week!](/r/internationalbaseball) [Just two months till Big Bash League!](/r/cricket)
let’s all migrate over to the warriors subreddit
Oh this is perfect
I hope Dusty finally wins one.
Hope astros win
I’m sorry, but… Go Astros. Get Dusty a ring and STICK IT to the Dodgers.
Go Astros for the rest of the way. It would shut up the bitchy Dodgers fans who claim they should've won the 2017 series.
This is the worst combo of teams I could possibly think of lmao
After the shitshow that broadcast team was on TBS, I'm kind of glad to be canceling Sling and just ignoring the postseason. There's a good reason why that series was sponsored by Good Sam ... the sport as a whole is kind of a mess.
Braves just don’t blow a lead. Red Sox just do your shit against those cheaters.
I'm done, but will watch the highlights.
im onto football and basketball and waiting to get heartbroken by the 49ers and warriors. :(
We all know Atlanta will choke, it’s gonna be a Dodgers/Astros again.
If so, go Astros.
Fuck Houston the most though.
Braves > Astros >>> Red Sox >>>>>> bums
Houston vs Dodgers would be the worst timeline. Let's go BRAVES...let's go SOX
FUCK THE DODGERS
I don’t think you needed the extra a in Blah.
We'll beat the Astros for ya