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Charles Oakley is a hero; dude was trying fight their terrible owner. BRING BACK VINNIE.

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This sounds like a terrible idea for a non-existent problem. If you're already into extra innings, any chance of shortening the game by any meaningful measure has long since flown out the window.

Man, the comments are a roiling stew of crazy, even for YT. I guess this is some kind of Freemasons theory, and apparently revolves around the number 46. Yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes.

Totally agree - just the way that the whole team reacted to it was fantastic. Making plays but staying loose. "He's like a kid out there!"

Oh yeah, always.

I don't want to like this because Chapman is human garbage, but I think it's OK because of Baez with the 2 great snags like it's nothing.

I guess that's the whole "leopard changing his spots" gibberish; apparently there's a Kevin Ding who writes for BR, too. Man, what a fuckin' weirdo.

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Cutch moving to RF: http://deadspin.com/andrew-mccutchen-makes-the-inevitable-move-to-right-fie-1792027138

Like I said, looking at it as an outsider it seems forced. By my own arbitrary rules, at the very minimum a good rivalry needs to be between teams who share the same state, or are in states bordering each other. You start skipping states, eh, it feels like reaching. And the fans thing, to this I also say "eh;" Reds fans flood Wrigley, but it feels more like annoyance as opposed to "YEAH, horsefeathers THE REDS." Any rivalry there feels more like a technicality than anything else. Obviously, that's not to say it's not an actual rivalry; it just feels like here in DC when I hear locals talking about the Redskins and the Giants like it's this heated, storied vendetta, and all I can think is, "aw, that's nice." And, as usual, it doesn't matter if any of this applies to college sports, because college sports are dumb. do you even know what you plan on saying when you start typing I'm like a low-rent Drew Magary, but with only half as many emotional breakdowns.

Daaawww, his smile as he pulls into 3B is still the best.

Da horsefeathers were you dimwits trying to do to this amazing thread. [expletive], I want some baseball.

As a kid we seemed to mostly end up going to games against the Reds at Wrigley, to the point that I remember being surprised when I finally realized that other teams' fans didn't fill the place up like those Reds fans do. Of course, it seems like they're mostly sending in old folks as opposed to drunken goons, so I ended up just ignoring them. The Reds tended to have players I liked, so outside of their criminal notion of how chili should be made and the general existence of the Brennamans they never have bugged me too much. I feel like this feels that way for me too. I mean, the unbalanced division thing is a big part of it. I feel like every game I go to is a Reds or Pirates game. Yup. Looking back, it feels like for the first, like, 20 years of being a Cubs fan I went to 60% Reds games and 40% Pirates games. The Cubs might as well have not played anyone else.

I've hated the reds my entire life. Not really sure why specifically, but they've always been right there with the Cardinals in terms of opposing team I hate. And when I was a kid they weren't even in the Cubs division. As a kid we seemed to mostly end up going to games against the Reds at Wrigley, to the point that I remember being surprised when I finally realized that other teams' fans didn't fill the place up like those Reds fans do. Of course, it seems like they're mostly sending in old folks as opposed to drunken goons, so I ended up just ignoring them. The Reds tended to have players I liked, so outside of their criminal notion of how chili should be made and the general existence of the Brennamans they never have bugged me too much.

Oh yeah; there's lots of one-sided hating out there. Brewers fans seem to hate the Cubs and their fans, too, but nobody else actually cares.

As I said, in the South you kinda have to cross state lines or go great distances to find your rivals. An equivalent to the French Quarter isn't walking distance from Wrigley. Make no mistake, it's a genuine rivalry and can get really ugly. Oh, I'm not saying it's made up; it's just one of those things where you have the really infamous rivalries that everyone knows of, and then ones like this where it's, like," huh; I guess that's a thing." And whole it's no French Quarter, this kinda feels like we're underselling the awfulness of Wrigleyville.

that's a very weird rule by this definition, the Dallas Cowboys don't have a rivalry with anybody in their division Well, yeah; everyone is the rival of the Cowboys.

As an outsider, this always seems like one of the most forced "rivalries." Like if somebody was REALLY invested in the Cubs and Pirates clashing simply because they technically played in the same division. Absolutely not forced. I hate Atlanta, and I can promise you that everyone around me at the bar last night was cheering for the Pats almost like they were the Saints. It's the fans. Every time they come to town they are the most obnoxious, trash talking bunch of derelicts of any fan base. There are always fights in the Dome with them. The city poses as some LA of the South-the exact opposite of New Orleans. All faux glitz, no substance. Atlanta and their fans are the worst. The hate goes back to the NFC West days. Like I said, looking at it as an outsider it seems forced. By my own arbitrary rules, at the very minimum a good rivalry needs to be between teams who share the same state, or are in states bordering each other. You start skipping states, eh, it feels like reaching. And the fans thing, to this I also say "eh;" Reds fans flood Wrigley, but it feels more like annoyance as opposed to "YEAH, horsefeathers THE REDS." Any rivalry there feels more like a technicality than anything else. Obviously, that's not to say it's not an actual rivalry; it just feels like here in DC when I hear locals talking about the Redskins and the Giants like it's this heated, storied vendetta, and all I can think is, "aw, that's nice." And, as usual, it doesn't matter if any of this applies to college sports, because college sports are dumb.

As an outsider, this always seems like one of the most forced "rivalries." Like if somebody was REALLY invested in the Cubs and Pirates clashing simply because they technically played in the same division.

Hah-hah! Trump apparently bailed well before the game was done and took off for Florida.

So between LeBron, Trump and now this debacle, do we have to just finally admit that the Cubs are actually evil?

http://www.hardballtimes.com/the-legend-of-danny-goodwin/ Expected to be a power-hitting catcher, but messed up his shoulder on his throwing arm and basically wrecked him as a catcher. Sucked defensively as a 1B and never panned out as a hitter in the bigs and that was that.