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YeahTubaMike posted:edit:  I disliked him after the cooler thing, but this... this may redeem him.
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tinstaach posted:Paxton's from BC, I doubt he has any attachment to Toronto any more than someone from, I dunno, Cleveland has to New York. maybe not toronto, but the Jays specifically. There's 4 hour waits at the border when the jays play @ mariners
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bewbies posted:so I have a doctor's appointment at the sports complex today at 11, and the royals and rays have a matinee game at 1. the weather here is perfect and tickets in the lower bowl are about $10 Watch the Rays you jerk
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tinstaach posted:I kind of see where Votto's coming from, I feel like the 'Canadian throws a no-hitter in Canada!!!' storyline sort of plays off the feeling that a lot of Americans have, which is that Canada is just one homogeneous group of people, Tim Hortons Mounties igloos hurr hurr hurr. Paxton's from BC, I doubt he has any attachment to Toronto any more than someone from, I dunno, Cleveland has to New York. I see where you're coming from but at the same time I think this is a false equivalency because MLB is so concentrated in the USA, and there's only one Canadian baseball team. Like imagine if there were 29 Canadian teams and a lone American team, less than 10 USA born players on all MLB rosters combined, and a Cleveland born pitcher threw a no-hitter in New York. There would absolutely be a lot of nationalistic pride over it despite the geographic gap.
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Denny matthews was leaving the office as I was signing in, that was cool I recognized his voice from around the corner
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Sydin posted:I see where you're coming from but at the same time I think this is a false equivalency because MLB is so concentrated in the USA, and there's only one Canadian baseball team. Like imagine if there were 29 Canadian teams and a lone American team, less than 10 USA born players on all MLB rosters combined, and a Cleveland born pitcher threw a no-hitter in New York. There would absolutely be a lot of nationalistic pride over it despite the geographic gap. Part of this is also why some of the backlash is funny to me: Joey Votto is a big part of Canadian baseball.
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bewbies posted:Denny matthews was leaving the office as I was signing in, that was cool The universe is giving you a sign, friend
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https://twitter.com/KeeganMatheson/status/996785610424836097 all aboard the motherfucking hype train
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The Berzerker posted:https://twitter.com/KeeganMatheson/status/996785610424836097 I am excited and also very angry he's in the AL East.
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Sydin posted:I see where you're coming from but at the same time I think this is a false equivalency because MLB is so concentrated in the USA, and there's only one Canadian baseball team. Like imagine if there were 29 Canadian teams and a lone American team, less than 10 USA born players on all MLB rosters combined, and a Cleveland born pitcher threw a no-hitter in New York. There would absolutely be a lot of nationalistic pride over it despite the geographic gap. Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe the one distinction is that there is at least one Canadian MLB team, plus the massive overlap between Canadian and American culture. So the effect is still there, it's just not as big as something like Japanese fans rooting for the Mariners because of Ichiro. Or maybe it's because I grew up on the Windsor-Detroit border and I'm a traitor because I root for the Tigers instead of the Jays. e: Since we're talking about him, take Vlad Jr.'s walkoff homer from this spring in Montreal. That was a pretty big moment for the fans local to Montreal, and with him being a Blue Jay it would have been huge in Toronto. But if it happened in Vancouver or somewhere else out west it wouldn't have been some huge national pride moment. tinstaach fucked around with this message at 18:06 on May 16, 2018 |
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tinstaach posted:I kind of see where Votto's coming from, I feel like the 'Canadian throws a no-hitter in Canada!!!' storyline sort of plays off the feeling that a lot of Americans have, which is that Canada is just one homogeneous group of people, Tim Hortons Mounties igloos hurr hurr hurr. Paxton's from BC, I doubt he has any attachment to Toronto any more than someone from, I dunno, Cleveland has to New York. Tell that to all the Toronto Blue Jays fans who invade the city of Seattle from BC every time the Jays have a series at Safeco. I swear it's like a 60/40 split (or more) in favor of the Jays every time they're here. https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/874071774459289601 https://twitter.com/BlueJays/status/874333533619277826 ihatepants fucked around with this message at 18:19 on May 16, 2018 |
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GalacticAcid posted:I really, really hate replay & challenges. Yesterdays Cubs @ Braves game was a resounding success for replay, I enjoyed it immensely.
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GalacticAcid posted:I really, really hate replay & challenges. Replay made the Yankees win (rightly) in extras the other day so replay is cool and good.
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Disgusting to see defenders of such a barbaric practice. You're all blinded by short-term interest.
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GalacticAcid posted:I really, really hate replay & challenges. I'm just gonna toss out that I'm a Braves fan and replay is more or less totally worthless, and also the NYC team should be pushed out to sea on an ice floe
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ihatepants posted:Tell that to all the Toronto Blue Jays fans who invade the city of Seattle from BC every time the Jays have a series at Safeco. I swear it's like a 60/40 split (or more) in favor of the Jays every time they're here. I'm sure that there are Jays fans all over the country, but I doubt they were proud that their team got no-hit just because it was a Canadian that did it.
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I'm not too upset about the replay thing anymore but if that turns out to be the game where the Braves start getting shook and losing then I'll be mad again
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I just want a team in Montreal again. And heck, Winnipeg and somewhere in BC that the loving Mariners won’t bitch about. Give Canada teams to root for that they might actually get to see play in the flesh ffs.
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vlad jr has 39 rbi in 33 games by gawd. e: 40!!!!!! The Walrus fucked around with this message at 18:46 on May 16, 2018 |
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I think the Mariners specifically jack up the prices if they see you're buying from Canada.
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GalacticAcid posted:I really, really hate replay & challenges. I'm glad replay exists and it works well enough as a concept, but I want to know how they are so loving awful at actually getting the calls right.
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tinstaach posted:I'm sure that there are Jays fans all over the country, but I doubt they were proud that their team got no-hit just because it was a Canadian that did it. I wasn't pumped about getting no hit, but that it was by a Canadian on Canadian soil took a bunch of the sting out of it.
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Maybe it's infeasible but there really needs to be a camera parallel to home plate so that NYC can tell more definitively if a runner touches the plate or merely breaks the plane. I've seen NYC "call stands" on that technicality a number of times now.
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Canada is so loving huge and we hate each other so much I don't know why anyone, especially actual canadians, are trying to speak for all of us. Votto had a Canadian professional making it in America moment, who cares. Every Canadian that moves to the US to succeed has this moment. I'm glad he apologized but we all know he meant it.
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As a Canadian, I don't give two shits about what Joey Votto said. Sure, it would be nice if he wanted to be more of an ambassador for Canadian baseball, but he's under no obligation to do so and I respect the fact that he was honest about it. He could have said it in a nicer way, but then he wouldn't be the Joey Votto that most of us love. Pretty much nobody that is upset by his comments actually gives a poo poo about Canadian baseball more than a cursory "sure, it would be cool if we were really good at baseball". But that won't stop them from being upset about it. I also don't care about Canadian teams winning the Stanley Cup though and there sure seem to be a lot of those people, so I expect that that Venn diagram is essentially a circle.
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Gobias Ind. posted:I also don't care about Canadian teams winning the Stanley Cup though and there sure seem to be a lot of those people, so I expect that that Venn diagram is essentially a circle. I care about this only from the standpoint that Trump having to watch Trudeau host a trophy would make him extremely angry. Like if the Blue Jays somehow won the world series this year it would be worth it.
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Poque posted:I care about this only from the standpoint that Trump having to watch Trudeau host a trophy would make him extremely angry. How upset would Trump be when the Blue Jays declined to visit the White House?
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Poque posted:I care about this only from the standpoint that Trump having to watch Trudeau host a trophy would make him extremely angry. He'd probably start some rhetoric about putting a wall on the Canadian border. Popete posted:How upset would Trump be when the Blue Jays declined to visit the White House? He probably wouldn't care that much and play it off as not counting since the Blue Jays aren't an American team. And conveniently ignore that it's called the World Series.
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*I wake up from stasis* Me: "Has Jose Bautista been DFA'd yet?" You: "no" Me: "Put me back in" *stasis pod closes*
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Check the SAS mouseover text from the forums list.
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:*I wake up from stasis* Fixed it for you.
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Jason Castro has escalated from day-to-day to 4 weeks to out for the season. Twins fans currently debating whether Realmuto will take the entire farm, or if he can be had for a couple posthype prospects. There does not seem to be a middle ground.
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It hurts so much to watch Joey Bats swing at garbage in the dirt for Atlanta. Hate to say but I agreed with double switch to get him the gently caress out of there, last night 
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I went to the game royals bad, weather good
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Hand Knit posted:Check the SAS mouseover text from the forums list. For those of us who are 99% mobile, someone img this for me please.
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seiferguy posted:For those of us who are 99% mobile, someone img this for me please. 
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