FLYguy3911
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Gregor Samsa
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Won’t be able to watch the game which may be for the best. All I ask is that if they lose, the bats show up. If Ranger and the bullpen shit the bed so be it
BiggE
SELL THE DAMN TEAM
Praying for a miracle win today. If they can win today, I very much lime their chances in game 5 with at home with a well rested Wheeler on the mound.
Hollywood Cannon
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Starting? If Ranger can get through 3 to 4 innings with allowing 2 runs at most that's a win. It's been months since a good start by him.
BiggE
SELL THE DAMN TEAM
It wouldn’t surprise me. They can still run Sanchez out there Friday on his normal 4 day rest.
Hollywood Cannon
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“Starting/Opener” or out of the pen as his bullpen day which I think is today.
Rich Nixon
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Eh, it all depends on the balance between expectations and outcomes—perspective, more or less.
We're all Flyers fans, so we're all quite familiar with a team that spent money and tried for a really long time with no payoff. It's frustrating. And it's even moreso when the team cruises through the regular season and then gets squished quickly or fecklessly in the playoffs. If it ends with the Sabres skating 8-0 around your corpse in a first round elimination game (not saying that will come to pass for the Phillies), that sullies the memory of the season because it really feels like you wasted a lot of time and energy getting excited while watching all those regular season wins. They wasted your time, they wasted the talent, whatever. Waste.
But you are right on the other front. I'm a Pirates fan, but I only adopted baseball ~15 years ago so I don't have the lifelong pain of being one. A lot of my friends have, and it's sort of like they're in a long disassociation. I knew a girl in college who swore she'd get a tattoo of the number "82" whenever the Pirates won their 82nd game of a season, because it would be the first time in her life that the Pirates had a winning season. They lost in the 2013 NLDS, but that was probably a more enjoyable year for her than any SC, SB, or WS loss to an equivalently-aged Philly fan.
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JojoTheWhale
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The day of elimination is one thing. Let me be clear on that. Gameday discussions are by their very nature charged with emotions.
But to me, that feeling of waste going away as you get a little distance is exactly what defines growing out of the pure fandom stage and into sports adulthood. I may have a more negative connotation with the 2000-01 Flyers because of the way it ended, but when we start crossing over into focusing on wasting your time, it's flat out unhealthy and you should get away. It is supposed to be fun. If it's not, it's time to make some decisions. I never imagined I would go an entire season watching 1 Flyers game, but that's where they've been.
The Phillies won the 6th most games in the history of a franchise that's been around since 1883. They won the 2nd most games in all of MLB. If that's a waste of your time and a star's talent because they lost a Best of 5, you will never be happy and you have no one to blame but yourself.
flyershockey
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Keep that same energy with UGA, lol. But that's roughly the same argument that I have with Georgia fans, especially since coming out of the Alabama loss. I had to remind them that Georgia's last regular season loss was when restaurants were still only allowing 25% capacity due to Covid.
JojoTheWhale
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This is of course completely correct. I'm happy with a lot less than a natty.
But Monken got to 4 verts from 22 on Sunday and you couldn't make me stop missing him with a brick. My Eagles Monken/Leonhard dream is on track. (Let me have this delusion.)
Hollywood Cannon
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Flybynite
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First off... Definitely was in a bad mood while watching that garbage of a game yesterday, but man that announce crew is just rough. I don't even know who the lead announcer is (nor care enough to look it up apparently), but the guy does not seem like a 'baseball guy'
He spits out facts, schools, whatever about players like you get from other sports, but generally not much about baseball. He also doesn't really seem to know the rules that well. He thought Bohm didn't get a hit when he got thrown out trying to get a double.
That's a hit. It's a single and out advancing for second.
He spits out facts, schools, whatever about players like you get from other sports, but generally not much about baseball. He also doesn't really seem to know the rules that well. He thought Bohm didn't get a hit when he got thrown out trying to get a double.
That's a hit. It's a single and out advancing for second.
Hollywood Cannon
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Rich Nixon
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After that Bohm play, he also got about three sentences deep into Marte's superlatives before finding out it was actually Taylor who made the throw. They don't look anything alike and it was clear from the sequence that the CF fielded it, so I don't know how he mixed that up other than not knowing what anyone in the MLB looks like.
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