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The Major League Baseball Thread: Did SI Swipe The 2025 Sports Almanac?
kraken613:
I think Basketball is ridiculously boring....
I grew up watching the Red Sox and grew up loving baseball. You love the sport you grew up watching and paying attention to and for me that was Baseball. Sox fan since I was 4 years old!
I have two favorite teams, the Red Sox and who ever are playing the Yankees.
NWR_Neal:
...And you have one flavor: ignorant.
The Red Sox aren't an Evil Empire? Psh.
kraken613:
And what team spent $423.5 million on 3 players in one off season? Red Sox spent less than you will pay AJ Burnett in one season!
They are the Evil Empire because can throw any amount of money at any player and get them. These numbers don't lie, Yankees have the top 4 highest contracts ever. Then 5 above $100 million. How many do the Red Sox have? 1!
You want to tell me the Yankees dont throw money at players? When currently the Yankees have 4 players with 100+ million dollar contracts and the Red Sox have none!
Also overall payroll, Red Sox aren't even 2nd, or 3rd! 4th with a payroll of $80 million less than the Yankees in 09.
One more thing, how much the players make in just the 09 season. I don't see one Red Sox player do I?
The Red Sox largest contract is JD Drew which is $70 million. Yeah, 4 of Drews contracts equals A-Frauds!
Sorry, but numbers don't lie....
UltimatePartyBear:
--- Quote from: Ian Sane on August 11, 2009, 04:28:58 PM ---Even if your team goes out in the first round it creates some hope for next year and gives the season some purpose. With baseball the season is a waste of time for like at least half of the teams that day one the fans know are NOT going to make it. The Expos only had one playoff appearance in their entire team in Montreal. Well no wonder they moved. Who wants to watch a team that's so irrelevent?
--- End quote ---
The people of the great state of Texas, that's who! Our perennial also-rans are well loved in spite of their nearly nonexistent playoff record, thank you very much.
Ian Sane:
--- Quote ---The only time I ever had a good time watching baseball is when I'm getting drunk. It's so dreadfully boooooorrrrrrrrinnnnnnngggg.
--- End quote ---
EVERY sport is boring to someone. I used to not watch sports at all and at first only hockey. I've found that each game has different things about it that make it entertaining to different people. Once you acknowledge that and take a game for what it is it becomes much more entertaining.
Though baseball on TV is presented in a pretty shitty manner. Half the time the commentators just chat about whatever and completely ignore what the hell is going on. You don't really see that in the other major sports.
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