RULE #1: Your baseball team should not represent an entire fucking state

[alcibiades_mystery]

Fake ass baseball Colorado and Arizona.

What bullshit. Suburban baseball, bullshit baseball.

Can we get a team in the World Series that existed before 1985?

This might make me even hope the Red Sox win, who, despicable as they are, and fake-underdog-victim-complex as are their fans, are at least a real fucking baseball team named after a fucking city.

Jaysus F.

[Dr. Strange]

1. Rule #2: Only one fucking team per city!

White Sox or Cubbies? Choose now, Chicago, or your whole city will sold to Brazil!

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Two teams per city always

It's the real way.

Dodgers Yankees Giants.

North side South side Cubs and Sox.

That's real baseball. Fistfights in the bars, spilling the Old Style. Real baseball.

Fucking "Arizona." "Colorado." What douchebags.

[taterguy]

52. Dodgers Yankees Giants = Three teams

Maybe they teach math differently where you live

[yellowdogintexas]

54. but those were truly the DAYS, man I still remember that & my parents' mixed baseball marriage

my dad diehard Yankee fan

my mom ABY + Anybody But Yankees but mostly she loved the Dodgers.

[alcibiades_mystery]

56. Details details

:-)

[rockymountaindem]

3. Hater

Jealous?

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Ha!

A little.

[rockymountaindem]

8. Admitting you have a problem is the first step to a solution

Lemme guess, Cubs fan?

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Worse

Mets.

NYC transplant to Chicago...:-)

But it's a fucking city! I was even pulling for the Phils tonight, despite the greatest late season collapse in modern history, because at least Philly is REAL baseball, and not a fucking "colorado"

[rockymountaindem]

15. Ouch

I'm sorry. To be honest I was really hoping the Rox would win that playoff game because I was sure we could beat the Phills. The Mets? I think they could have beaten us on paper so I was a little worried about them.

Better luck next year. But, before you go around criticizing teams that represent an entire state, you should find out if the "New York" in "New York Mets" is for the state or the city.

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. NY Mets represent the city of NY

City colors, city on the logo, and the name is METROPOLITANS. Ever been to Duchess County. Not exactly "Metropolitan." Get serious.

[alcibiades_mystery]

26. Here ya go...

Flag, New York CITY


New York Mets logo (I post this with great shame...but it's still real baseball!)

[SPKrazy]

4. meh...

take a long walk on a short plank!!!!


:rofl:

or just fuck off, states, cities, whatever, baseball is baseball

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Fake ass baseball

:-)

It's a short pier, by the way.

[SPKrazy]

11. not on a pirate ship

it's a short plank there
:P

two different sayings with the same meaning

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

14. Yeah, but you made up the second saying

I get the pirate ship. But it's still dumb, since people don't "take walks" on pirate ships.

[SPKrazy]

18. walk the plank

surely you've heard that

i didn't make it up

long walk on a short plank

walk off the plank

:eyes:

no people don't take walks except to walk the plank off the ship into the ocean to their demise

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. Ridiculous

You made it up, or you're misquoting.

[SPKrazy]

21. geez i didn't make it up

and i am NOT misquoting

take your panties out of their twisted position please

baseball was the original topic

what's wrong

team didn't win?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

edit

ROCKIES WIN!!!!!!!!

:P

[CreekDog]

27. arguing semantics about planks and pirate ships? (on a baseball thread)

Oh yeah, this is the lounge.

[SPKrazy]

28. shiddap!

it's Saturday.. er Sunday morning :P

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. You know it kid

:-)

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. I understand that YOU think it's the saying

Nevertheless.

My team's been out for a week. I still hate fake baseball.

I have to be all American League now, which is at least 3/4 serious: Boston, New York, Cleveland: real baseball (fuck Los Angeles...formerly fake baseball "California." And no, the New york Yankees aren't the New York State Yankees. The Dannemora Bombers? Naw.

[SPKrazy]

32. me and a lot of people

what difference does it make?

Colorado Rockies... while Denver is big enough to support a team, it is also possible that the team gets support from more places than Denver

and the Denver Rockies sounds stupid

The Denver _____ might have been another choice

hell, i live in Arkansas, we have no pro teams

(no i haven't lived here all my life and the pirate plank shortness saying wasn't heard here)

the whole state rallies around 1 of many college teams in the state...

It's a disease!

:rofl:

[fizzgig]

35. so a team's not a real team if they don't have a city in their name?

the minnesota twins and texas rangers have been mentioned...but does that extend to other sports?

are the new jersey nets a real team? what about the new england patriots? the colorado avalanche?

and what the hell does it matter how long the team's been around? a good team is a good team

i guess i just don't get the hostility coming from you

[alcibiades_mystery]

39. Congratulations

Now yer catching on.

New Jersey Nets: borderline, soon to be the Brooklyn Nets, in any case.
New Jersey Devils: real, cuz their fans are real.
Texas Rangers: bullshit suburb team.
New England Patriots: meh.
Colorado Avalanche: Bullshit team, though strangely, when they were the Quebec Nordiques, they were real.

You don't get the hostility? You don't get the joke.

[fizzgig]

42. what joke?

there's a joke here?

[deadparrot]

7. Who gives a shit? It's hockey season now.

Go Blues!

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. I was about to reply with FUCK HOCKEY!

But then I remembered that I love hockey as much as I love baseball. Played hockey through most of my youth. So, yes, I'm happy it's hockey season. Fuck football. :-)

[deadparrot]

13. Indeed.

:D

[SeattleGirl]

9. I guess my favortie team qualifies:

The Seattle Mariners, forms in 1977.

[krispos42]

16. And the Minnesota teams?

Understand that the citizens of Minneapolis hate the citizens of St. Paul, and vice-versa.

If the teams were not names "the Minnesota X", there would be problems. And the market is not big enough to support two teams in every major league.

[CreekDog]

24. Garrison Keiller refers to Minneapolis as St. Paul's "western suburbs"

;)

[MilesColtrane]

17. If this were the rule...

...the team I've loved (and hated) for 35 years would be called the DFW Metroplex Rangers.

Have to admit that it is shrewd marketing though. Why not take it up several levels?

The United States Yankees.... The North American Dodgers...The Terran White Sox...The Local Group Twins... The Milky Way Athletics?

[CreekDog]

22. As a little kid, this confused the hell out of me

Back then I didn't know where the "Golden State" Warriors played, somewhere in the middle of the state I guessed, and I figured it was the same place the California Angels played. Same with the New Jersey Nets, Texas Rangers, etc.

Later while living in Tucson, they changed the Phoenix Cardinals to the Arizona Cardinals so that we would buy season tickets to watch them lose in the 105 degree Phoenix heat of September --and then they started blacking out the NFL in Tucson when Phoenix could not sell out. I learned Sunday was a great day to be OUTSIDE and have never felt the same way about football again.

[fishwax]

23. "Denver Rockies" would sound stupid

Go Rockies! :woohoo:

I hope they win it all.

[CreekDog]

25. Considering Denver isn't in the Rockies per se

But team-naming is more art than science, er "marketing" actually.

[alcibiades_mystery]

31. Denver Rockies WOULD sound stupid

QE fucking D

[fishwax]

38. The Colorado Rockies, on the other hand, are hard to beat, as either mountains or a baseball team

:woohoo:

[alcibiades_mystery]

48. LOL: They're the 98 Padres for the Bosox or Indians

:rofl:

[Arkham House]

53. Hmmm...how about the "Denver Queens"?...

since Denver, of course, is the Queen City of the Plains...

[madinmaryland]

33. Crybaby....

[SPKrazy]

34. rofl

[alcibiades_mystery]

36. Nice

The crying baby photo web cliche circa 1997.

Scorching!

:hi:

[fizzgig]

37. someone needs to make a phone call

[SPKrazy]

40. ruh roh

:rofl:

[alcibiades_mystery]

41. Wow

You're like the discussion board cliche dictionary!

Teach the newbies. They need to know the history of the deft insult from the 90's!

[Danger Mouse]

43. i'm a mets fan too, buddy, and all i can say to you is...

boo fucking hoo. our team blew it. big time. it's their own damn fault.
the teams in the playoffs now made it there because they didn't fuck it up like the mets did. the mets deserve to be sitting on their asses at home watching the playoffs rather than playing in them, because they are chumps.

[alcibiades_mystery]

44. I agree: The Mets do deserve to be sitting at home

That's neither here nor there.

[Danger Mouse]

45. i don't get the point then.

either this is a lame joke, or just really bad taste.

[alcibiades_mystery]

47. Or maybe it's you

?

[Mojambo]

46. As long as the Paris Hilton (Yanks) and Nicole Ritchie (Sox) of MLB don't make it, I'll be happy.

I don't know who the Cubs are... Maybe Lindsay Lohan or something.

[sasquatch]

51. The Cubs are the Bruce Campbell of baseball

[alcibiades_mystery]

49. Oy, gewalt

[WilliamPitt]

50. YO

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=215x54851

[Fran Kubelik]

55. yes!

:applause:

[Carrieyazel]

57. Agreed. The Diamondbacks should be "Phoenix".

Rockies should be "Denver". Never liked this.