Raise the Jolly Roger - Are You Ready For 98 Wins & An Absurdly Early Off-Season?!

[Winger for Hire]

SERIOUSLY!?!?!

Do they even want to cover up the fact the MLB is telling the umps to make sure Arrieta is unhittable.

#RoboUmps

 

[tanoyidsot]

WTF, not even close!!!

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

When someone asks you about the Oakland A's of the last 15 years, what's your first thought?

What does that have to do with anything? The A's have never been able to win the ALDS. The last 2 years the Bucs have been shut down by pitchers in the middle of historic runs. Nice strawman though.

 

[GarbageGoal]

No shock, umpire now just buying into it all.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Real nice season flushed down the toilet thanks to an idiotic playoff format.

I look forward to reading about how this is all Jordy Mercer's fault.


Any way you shake it 3 teams are getting screwed in this mockery...and we drew the short straw of that situation.

 

[Smoke]

Cole threw a fastball closer than that earlier in the game and the ump didn't budge

Eeek.

 

[JTG]

Arrieta strike zone is huge.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

sports fans are bandwagoners. I say that being from there.

Fixed.

 

[plaidchuck]

All they had to do was not lay eggs a few series against the brewers and reds. No one to blame but themselves.

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Pittsburgh sports fans are bandwagoners. I say that being from there.

Yep. A team having more fans when they are good is unique to certain cities. It's not a phenomenon that happens literally everywhere or anything.

 

[Waffle Fries]

Pittsburgh sports fans are bandwagoners. I say that being from there.

You won't find many cities more passionate about their sports teams than Pittsburgh. All sports fans are bandwagoners. You've always seemed to have a weird distaste for people from the city.

 

[Winger for Hire]

It's been a different blue behind the plate each Arrieta game and they are all giving him 6 inches off each side and about a foot-ish below the knees... they can't all be that bad in the exact same way for the same pitcher, and not the other.

MLB umpires are seriously terrible this year calling balls and strikes.

#PinkertonTheUmpireUnion

#RoboUmps

 

[GarbageGoal]

What does that have to do with anything? The A's have never been able to win the ALDS. The last 2 years the Bucs have been shut down by pitchers in the middle of historic runs. Nice strawman though.

Not a strawman at all. I'm asking you to remove yourself from your fandom to give me an honest opinion of another team who doesn't get it done in the playoffs, and maybe get you to think that you don't want to end up as that team.

 

[Ugene Magic]

What? How many teams won 99+ this year? 1. It's absolutely stupid to knock the organization this year. The team is excellent.

Being excellent doesn't mean they are not without need.

Aramiz Ramirez was their big acquisition, and they didn't even play him in their biggest game of the year.

Meaning....being excellent is not enough if the parts can't get the job done when it matters.

Get the parts you need and you are not playing in a one and done flip of the coin game.


This is why you all are suckers.

 

[MrBurghundy]

You won't find many cities more passionate about their sports teams than Pittsburgh. All sports fans are bandwagoners. You've always seemed to have a weird distaste for people from the city.

Seriously. Find me a city that shows up and follows losers.

 

[ColePens]

The strike zone didn't make the difference in this one, but it sure isn't helping. Completely ridiculous.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Pittsburgh sports fans are bandwagoners. I say that being from there.

That first word is completely unnecessary. Every city has bandwagoners...and the city we're losing to quite literally has about 3 times as many as we do.


And the Pirates are in an interesting situation here since the team most of us grew up with was the worst franchise in sports.

 

[Winger for Hire]

Seriously. Find me a city that shows up and follows losers.

Cleveland

 

[Steve Durbano]

Well let's be honest, we knew this was coming from the Sunday that Arrieta beat them before the playoffs. I wasn't even excited to watch this.

And it's playing out exactly as I expected.

 

[ColePens]

That first word is completely unnecessary. Every city has bandwagoners...and the city we're losing to quite literally has about 3 times as many as we do.


And the Pirates are in an interesting situation here since the team most of us grew up with was the worst franchise in sports.

This this this this. Good lord this. And I know a group of people who stood by the Buccos, including a lot here, when they were in the dumps. Just like the X-Gen Pens. Every city does the same thing. Pittsburghers are relatively strong supporters of their city, regardless.

That's why when people leave this city, they never really leave. They tell people they are from Pittsburgh and they cheer black and gold til they die. Their children do it, too, and never even lived here.

 

[plaidchuck]

Cleveland

And Buffalo, and philly.. and people here need to take their fandom hats off with this "most passionate fans" crap. Probably the same people who follow the "most liveable city" mantra regurgitated by the last mayor.

 

[MrBurghundy]

Cleveland

They are idiots though.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Wishlist for this summer:

-Get someone who can actually get a hit off a good pitcher
-Get a pitcher that doesn't fold in high pressure situations

LIke it's comical at this point. We have Cutch and Kang who can get a hit off a good pitcher. That's it.

 

[JTG]

My dad is a gigantic baseball fan, and I never really was because they were always terrible. I enjoy going to games, but I really lack those memories as a young guy that I have with the Pens. Not mentioning, I remember being a kid, sitting at Three Rivers, it's 97 degrees outside, I'm in the sun, and completely bored out of my mind, and the Pirates got creamed. That didn't help build a love for baseball at all.

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Not a strawman at all. I'm asking you to remove yourself from your fandom to give me an honest opinion of another team who doesn't get it done in the playoffs, and maybe get you to think that you don't want to end up as that team.

You are comparing a team that has struggled in the playoffs for over a decade to a team that has been there for 3 years, 2 of which where they ran into unhittable aces. Remove yourself from the disappointment of this particular game and realize that this team's window is wide open for years to come.

Being excellent doesn't mean they are not without need.

Aramiz Ramirez was their big acquisition, and they didn't even play him in their biggest game of the year.

Meaning....being excellent is not enough if the parts can't get the job done when it matters.

Get the parts you need and you are not playing in a one and done flip of the coin game.


This is why you all are suckers.

The Cards won 100. Last team to do that was 4 seasons ago. It's no failure that the Bucs failed to win the division. They won more games than 28 teams this year. If we are suckers, the word that describes you is likely not to be uttered on this site.