Red Sox vs Dodgers WS Thread (2018 non Cubs games)

[David]

for the record, i never follow or watch brewers games (like on a play by play basis). i do check the scores afterward or the next day from time to time, but i don't really gaf.

 

if they were like 5 games behind them like they were last year, then i probably would.

[Brian]

I guess I just don't get the idea that there is something wrong about talking trash about your own teams rival on a message board focused on your team.

 

This is the board that celebrates a graphic depicting dead members of another team burning in hell after all, but don't make fun of the Brewers GM because they are winning baseball games.

[jersey cubs fan]

I guess I just don't get the idea that there is something wrong about talking trash about your own teams rival on a message board focused on your team.

 

This is the board that celebrates a graphic depicting dead members of another team burning in hell after all, but don't make fun of the Brewers GM because they are winning baseball games.

 

Well, the cardinals are a team of reckless drunk drivers that kill people and should be shamed.

The Brewers aren't a bad baseball team.

[Sammy Sofa]

I guess I just don't get the idea that there is something wrong about talking trash about your own teams rival on a message board focused on your team.

 

Much like the other day, this is not a thing that is happening.

[bcl412]

I feel we’re getting close to baseball fans making fun of baseball fans for liking baseball here.

[Sammy Sofa]

I feel we’re getting close to baseball fans making fun of baseball fans for liking baseball here.

 

David majestically cleared that hurdle a long time ago. We tried to congratulate him, but he was too busy posting in a Bears preseason thread.

[Derwood]

I'm making fun of people who try to pretend they aren't worried about the Brewers but are super worried about the Brewers

[jersey cubs fan]

I feel we’re getting close to baseball fans making fun of baseball fans for liking baseball here.

we're already long past the point of people praising cost benefit analyses over teams actually trying to win more than other teams, and criticizing fans who would rather watch teams try to win.

[David]

I feel we’re getting close to baseball fans making fun of baseball fans for liking baseball here.

we're already long past the point of people praising cost benefit analyses over teams actually trying to win more than other teams, and criticizing fans who would rather watch teams try to win.

 

i mean, good on milwaukee for trying to win, but if thinking they're stupid for trading more for their haul of crap than it probably would've taken to get manny machado (i haven't really looked into it but i'm gonna go with that) = said cost benefit analysis, i guess i'm guilty here

 

but i generally agree with what you're saying

[Hairyducked Idiot]

I'm still convinced we are losing the wild card game. But the moment the Brewers fall to, I dunno, 4 games back, I'm going to go back to giving them absolutely no respect whatsoever and refusing to acknowledge them as any sort of rival.

[stitchface]

it doesn't really matter, but the yankees are on an extremely painful run right now.

Yeah, woof. It’s tough to have a “disappointing” ~95+ win year but they are doing it.

 

 

The Yankees are the 2001 A's - hopefully the A's treat them like the 2001 Yankees treated the 2001 A's . . .

[Cubswin11]

I'm making fun of people who try to pretend they aren't worried about the Brewers but are super worried about the Brewers

I really only follow the VBs like I do because I live in Wisconsin so I can throw them on every night and can have them on one of the TVs and Cubs on the other (since they play same times a lot) or obviously if I’m at a bar or something they’re always on. Plus most of my friends are VB fans so I like to keep tabs so when we talk I know what’s going on. I’ve always gone to a half dozen or so of their games a year for a decade+ now that are non-Cubs game as tickets are cheap and I have some family and friends with season tickets so it’s just hard to avoid them (hell, growing up my family had season tickets and I’d go to like 20 games a year). I also just like watching baseball and they’re easy to throw on. If I didn’t live here I wouldn’t follow them like I do and rarely would think of them and I’d probably follow whatever regional team I got on cable like I do with the VBs.

 

Yea, they’ve been better to date than I thought they would but still think they are overachieving a bit (their offense is average or below average at everything but Dongs and what they added doesn’t help this, they’re SP is overacheing and it’s largely due to their great defense which has taken a hit and their bullpen is really good but probably not this good, like Jeffress) and I really don’t think they are a threat but since the season has played out like it has and they are our only threat to the division left I’m going to follow them and make fun of them and their moves when they go wrong especially when they were weird and bad moves to begin with. Sorry if this offends.

[Sammy Sofa]

Sorry if this offends.

 

Oh lord; enough with this already.

[jersey cubs fan]

[Cubswin11]

Sorry if this offends.

 

Oh lord; enough with this already.

Okay, I’ll tone it down. We are all good my dudes. I was just trying to clear myself up on my VBs hate. Didn’t mean anything by it.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Also living in Wisconsin, I loathe the Brewers. When they win, I am really irritated. When they lose, I'm really joyful. I would pay $500 per year, like auto insurance, to guarantee they don't win a World Series.

 

In conclusion, I hate the Brewers more than anything in the sports world.

[Tim]

Also living in Wisconsin, I loathe the Brewers. When they win, I am really irritated. When they lose, I'm really joyful. I would pay $500 per year, like auto insurance, to guarantee they don't win a World Series.

 

In conclusion, I hate the Brewers more than anything in the sports world.

You should save that for the Packers. :wink:

[Sammy Sofa]

It's all just goofy fan stuff; it's just the flipside of people who get more negative when things aren't going well because they're not going well IN THE MOMENT. That's why it rings hollow for me when people just go overboard with the stuff about how in the big picture it doesn't matter, or it's just a blip before the rival collapses, or whatever. Yeah, when we get to the point...down the line....when that's the case, hey, great! But in the moment, when it's happening, it does matter in the sense that almost anyone with a pulse is going to get worked up over their team, and the idea that horsefeathering up a series in August against the awful Padres with the Brewers right on the Cubs' back doesn't matter because, potentially, looking back on that single series at some point in the future is going to be largely meaningless is just dumb.

 

Whether it's focusing more on the things going wrong or going over the top in horsefeathers talking the Brewers, that's just what happens as this stuff is happening. After the fact, big picture? Yeah, these little things don't really matter in the scope of the season, but as it plays out is sure as horsefeathers does, and getting worked up positively or negatively is, IMO, a more normal response than, "psh, it doesn't matter."

[jersey cubs fan]

Yeah, these little things don't really matter in the scope of the season, but as it plays out is sure as horsefeathers does, and getting worked up positively or negatively is, IMO, a more normal response than, "psh, it doesn't matter."

[CyHawk_Cub]

It's all just goofy fan stuff; it's just the flipside of people who get more negative when things aren't going well because they're not going well IN THE MOMENT. That's why it rings hollow for me when people just go overboard with the stuff about how in the big picture it doesn't matter, or it's just a blip before the rival collapses, or whatever. Yeah, when we get to the point...down the line....when that's the case, hey, great! But in the moment, when it's happening, it does matter in the sense that almost anyone with a pulse is going to get worked up over their team, and the idea that horsefeathering up a series in August against the awful Padres with the Brewers right on the Cubs' back doesn't matter because, potentially, looking back on that single series at some point in the future is going to be largely meaningless is just dumb.

 

Whether it's focusing more on the things going wrong or going over the top in horsefeathers talking the Brewers, that's just what happens as this stuff is happening. After the fact, big picture? Yeah, these little things don't really matter in the scope of the season, but as it plays out is sure as horsefeathers does, and getting worked up positively or negatively is, IMO, a more normal response than, "psh, it doesn't matter."

 

CliffsNotes version: detached fandom is the new hotness

[Sammy Sofa]

It's all just goofy fan stuff; it's just the flipside of people who get more negative when things aren't going well because they're not going well IN THE MOMENT. That's why it rings hollow for me when people just go overboard with the stuff about how in the big picture it doesn't matter, or it's just a blip before the rival collapses, or whatever. Yeah, when we get to the point...down the line....when that's the case, hey, great! But in the moment, when it's happening, it does matter in the sense that almost anyone with a pulse is going to get worked up over their team, and the idea that horsefeathering up a series in August against the awful Padres with the Brewers right on the Cubs' back doesn't matter because, potentially, looking back on that single series at some point in the future is going to be largely meaningless is just dumb.

 

Whether it's focusing more on the things going wrong or going over the top in horsefeathers talking the Brewers, that's just what happens as this stuff is happening. After the fact, big picture? Yeah, these little things don't really matter in the scope of the season, but as it plays out is sure as horsefeathers does, and getting worked up positively or negatively is, IMO, a more normal response than, "psh, it doesn't matter."

 

CliffsNotes version: detached fandom is the new hotness

 

I don't even own a sports squadron.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

Also living in Wisconsin, I loathe the Brewers. When they win, I am really irritated. When they lose, I'm really joyful. I would pay $500 per year, like auto insurance, to guarantee they don't win a World Series.

 

In conclusion, I hate the Brewers more than anything in the sports world.

You should save that for the Packers. :wink:

 

Despite them being right in my backyard -- and I for SURE cheer against them -- I don't have a favorite football team so my level of hate, while high, is nowhere near what it is for the Brewers.

[Cubswin11]

Also living in Wisconsin, I loathe the Brewers. When they win, I am really irritated. When they lose, I'm really joyful. I would pay $500 per year, like auto insurance, to guarantee they don't win a World Series.

 

In conclusion, I hate the Brewers more than anything in the sports world.

You should save that for the Packers. :wink:

 

Despite them being right in my backyard -- and I for SURE cheer against them -- I don't have a favorite football team so my level of hate, while high, is nowhere near what it is for the Brewers.

Same, I don’t have an NFL team so I don’t really care what the Packers do or don’t do. Though it is fun when they lose to see the totally rational fans takes.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

It's all just goofy fan stuff; it's just the flipside of people who get more negative when things aren't going well because they're not going well IN THE MOMENT. That's why it rings hollow for me when people just go overboard with the stuff about how in the big picture it doesn't matter, or it's just a blip before the rival collapses, or whatever. Yeah, when we get to the point...down the line....when that's the case, hey, great! But in the moment, when it's happening, it does matter in the sense that almost anyone with a pulse is going to get worked up over their team, and the idea that horsefeathering up a series in August against the awful Padres with the Brewers right on the Cubs' back doesn't matter because, potentially, looking back on that single series at some point in the future is going to be largely meaningless is just dumb.

 

Whether it's focusing more on the things going wrong or going over the top in horsefeathers talking the Brewers, that's just what happens as this stuff is happening. After the fact, big picture? Yeah, these little things don't really matter in the scope of the season, but as it plays out is sure as horsefeathers does, and getting worked up positively or negatively is, IMO, a more normal response than, "psh, it doesn't matter."

 

I always feel like Sofa has the best grasp on this stuff and articulates it perfectly.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Wait...but my Cliffsnotes version....