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Re: MLB 2020

Repo — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:45:55 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 10/31/2020 22:45

baystateoftheart wrote:

They've been leaving the fanbase in droves thanks to the Sox' embrace of BLM, including the massive billboard along the Pike 😎

Good riddance!

Hear, hear!!!

Re: MLB 2020

mickilennial — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:00:27 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 10/31/2020 22:00

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both well deserved.

lol

Re: MLB 2020

EyeKanFly — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 14:29:43 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 10/31/2020 18:29

CA Dreamin wrote:

As for all you other Dodger-haters, listen to what EyeKanFly is saying. Just like many other fan-bases, most LA fans are cordial and respectful. The media loves to sensationalize the crazies who start fights and shoot people, but they are a small fraction of the overall fan-base. Same thing with the racist Red Sox fans.

Quite frankly, I don't know if anyone hates the Dodgers more than my Mom. She grew up in Brooklyn and had to watch them move away haha. That said, my grandma was a Washington Senators fan who continued to root for the Twins when they moved to Minnesota.

I will say...Philly fans are nuts. In that they'll spit on you for rooting for the Nats but they'll also boo their own players haha. Even at (fanless) Eagles games, the stadium will pump in virtual booing when the birds make a bad play 🤣

baystateoftheart wrote:

They've been leaving the fanbase in droves thanks to the Sox' embrace of BLM, including the massive billboard along the Pike 😎

Good riddance!

This is good to hear! The diversity among baseball players is probably closest to the US as a whole among the major sporting leagues, I'm happy to hear of Boston's support for the BLM movement.

Congrats to the Dodgers! And congrats to LA for winning 2 championships this year, both well deserved.

Parting thoughts, the season was only 60 games. The Nats record was 26-34. In 2019, their record 60 games in was 27-33 and they ended up winning the World Series. Just some food for thought 😉

Re: MLB 2020

baystateoftheart — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:23:15 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 10/29/2020 22:23

CA Dreamin wrote:

They've been leaving the fanbase in droves thanks to the Sox' embrace of BLM, including the massive billboard along the Pike 😎

Good riddance!

Re: MLB 2020

baystateoftheart — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:20:20 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 10/29/2020 22:20

I'm happy for Mookie, but also still heartbroken, and mad at John Henry for being a cheapskate who's more interested in profit than competing perennially. I'm happy for a bunch of the other Dodgers who are finally getting a title, including Kershaw. I don't mind the Dodgers in general, and they'd be my clear second-favorite team if not for Walter O'Malley. Justin Turner really put a stain on this title and this MLB season, though. What a colossal douchebag.

Re: MLB 2020

CA Dreamin — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:21:11 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 10/29/2020 17:21

CA Dreamin wrote:

The only thing I'm gonna predict is watch out for the Rays, a team notorious for getting off to a fast start (which is all a team needs this year).

The only prediction I made wasn't even a prediction. I had a feeling they were gonna be very good, and they almost won it all. Very impressive for a micro-market team in a division with New York and Boston. And watching their walk-off win against the Yankees in the ALDS made me smile (that's two years in a row Chapman gave up a home run in the playoffs that sent the Yankees home 🤣 ).

Of course, the Dodgers winning it all was personally more euphoric. It's not quite like the Phillies winning in 2008 (I'm a Phillies fan first, Dodgers are my #2 team) but this feels good nonetheless. I might get a championship tee. A couple friends I've made here are homegrown Dodger fans who've been waiting their whole lives for this. One of them was in tears.

Mercury, nice of you to suspend your Dodger hatred for the sake of Kershaw. The guy really deserved it, and earned it this year with his two great WS performances. Hopefully the criticism for his playoff history will go away.

As for all you other Dodger-haters, listen to what EyeKanFly is saying. Just like many other fan-bases, most LA fans are cordial and respectful. The media loves to sensationalize the crazies who start fights and shoot people, but they are a small fraction of the overall fan-base. Same thing with the racist Red Sox fans.

RoundTheBend wrote:

Can we make it CA Dreamin?

I missed this post but I would've said yes. I didn't lose hope when the Dodgers were down 2-0 and 3-1 against Atlanta. I knew LA was capable of coming back, given their depth. Plus Atlanta was on fire, playing above their normal level. It was bound to let up at some point.

Re: MLB 2020

Mercury — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 22:21:13 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 10/29/2020 02:21

This year's dodgers were position by position, "pound-for-pound" (whatever the f that means) either THE most talented and brilliant teams I've ever seen or def one of them. The fact this year was so strange and that this team couldn't flex their muscle for 162 is a bit of a bummer. But yeah the dodgers (a team that, as a Cardinals fan, I quasi-hate) were incredible this year and Kersh is a player I will be telling the next generations of baseball fans about much like my dad told me about Seaver and Gibson, so the fact he got that monkey off his back made me VERY VERY happy as a baseball fan.

Now that Kershaw has his championship I don't have to have anything holding back my intense cheering against the dodgers. Now that Kersh and Mookie got LA a championship I can go back to no-holds-barred rooting against those dodger bums henceforth. So that is also good.

The rays with that salary getting to the world series to go against the mack daddy of salaries is a super amazing story too.

Re: MLB 2020

RoundTheBend — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:59:43 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/29/2020 01:59

CA Dreamin wrote:

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Hell yes!

And I don't have to post the

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Re: MLB 2020

CA Dreamin — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 01:39:02 GMT

Author: CA Dreamin

Posted: 10/28/2020 05:39

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Re: MLB 2020

RoundTheBend — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 20:44:50 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/27/2020 00:44

Maybe I watch different media or maybe it's just popular to hate the big teams, but I feel like most media slants the dodgers in less favorable light... and if they have to say something positive it seems like it's through tight lips instead of excitement, partially because of what Romanelli alluded to (Dodger fans do have kind of a you guys are weak sauce thing going for them which isn't completely unfounded). And another part of it is I feel like teams outside of the original east coast religion, it's like yeah I guess you guys can play too, but you aren't real baseball.

Anyway, probably wrong like usual, but that's been my vibe.

Aside from what EyeKanFly said, which is 90% of Dodger fans are pretty normal/level headed fans and like anything in life, prejudices get you in trouble.

Re: MLB 2020

babyBlueSedan — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:20:31 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 10/26/2020 21:20

RoundTheBend wrote:

That's the most respect I've heard from a non-dodger fan my entire life, babyBlueSedan.

I will say that the constant media attention that LA and the Yankees / Red Sox get is incredibly irritating, but I've largely stopped following the major media outlets for baseball and it's not like the players have any control over that anyway. Or over their fans. As much as I want the Rays to get a championship it's hard not to appreciate just how deep of a team the Dodgers have built. Or maybe I'm just trying to come up with away to console myself about the fact that the Dodgers are very likely to win the series.

Re: MLB 2020

EyeKanFly — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:09:52 GMT

Author: EyeKanFly

Posted: 10/26/2020 18:09

I'm a Nats fan and happened to be in SoCal during the 2019 World Series when the Nats beat the Astros. Despite the Nats knocking out the Dodgers in an intense series, every Dodgers fan I interacted with was super cordial and seemed to genuinely enjoy baseball despite their team suffering another heartbreaking loss. (Also it didn't hurt that everyone outside of Houston was united against the Astros).

Usually I root for the underdog, but since I was able to watch the Nats win in 2019 alongside Dodgers fans rooting with me, I gotta root for the Dodgers this year. Also I usually root against a team whose city won a championship earlier the same year. But LA took the NBA championship and Tampa took the Stanley Cup so... I guess one of them is getting a 2nd trophy.

Re: MLB 2020

RoundTheBend — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:59:10 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/26/2020 02:59

NewsFromHome wrote:

Romanelli wrote:

And I lived in LA for a long time and experienced their home city fanbase firsthand. So my dislike is rooted deep.

This is kind of like me with the Lakers. Don't really care about baseball but someone got shot right outside my apartment last night after a fight broke out when the dodgers lost so...

I think this is as much about LA as it is either team really, but yeah Jansen has death threats, even his wife has death threats on their instagram over last night.

And Romanelli - I'm curious which part of the fanbase you hate the most, the earlier leavers, the sometimes rowdy bunch, the beach ballers, or the hollywoods?

Re: MLB 2020

RoundTheBend — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 22:56:40 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/26/2020 02:56

That's the most respect I've heard from a non-dodger fan my entire life, babyBlueSedan.

Re: MLB 2020

babyBlueSedan — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 21:04:33 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 10/26/2020 01:04

I've rooted against the Dodgers in each of the past three World Series they've been in, but even though I'm pulling for the Rays this year I'm going to feel a bit bad for LA if they lose. The team has such a ridiculous amount of talent and is very clearly better than the Rays, and though they're in a big market so much of their talent is homegrown - Bellinger, Kershaw, Seager, Buehler - or scrap heap pick-ups like Muncy and Turner. Sure they've been able to keep their guys because their pockets are deep but Betts trade aside they haven't just bought this team. If they don't win a title with this team they could go down as one of the best teams to never win.

Being from Wisconsin I rarely interact with Dodgers fan so I don't have much against them, but I am still sore they knocked the Brewers out in 2018 (though the NLCS that year was just a contest to see who would get creamed by the Red Sox). And speaking of the Brewers (or at least former Brewers prospects) it was awesome to see Brett Phillips come up as the hero last night in what was possibly the most insane baseball moment I've ever witnessed. I think the only other time I freaked out so much at a play was Galarraga's perfect game.

Re: MLB 2020

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:47:59 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/25/2020 23:47

Romanelli wrote:

And I lived in LA for a long time and experienced their home city fanbase firsthand. So my dislike is rooted deep.

This is kind of like me with the Lakers. Don't really care about baseball but someone got shot right outside my apartment last night after a fight broke out when the dodgers lost so...

Re: MLB 2020

Romanelli — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:43:36 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 10/25/2020 23:43

RoundTheBend wrote:

That's ok - most of baseball has historically never really appreciated the dodgers.

Also, I've always been a fan of teams from the NL West not from LA. I grew up a Braves fan (they were in the Dodger's division til the Rox were formed) , waiting for Denver to get a team. Been a Rockies fan since '93. And I lived in LA for a long time and experienced their home city fanbase firsthand. So my dislike is rooted deep.

It's been a great 30+ year run without having to hear it from those fans. I just hope it continues.

Re: MLB 2020

RoundTheBend — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:29:51 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/25/2020 23:29

That's ok - most of baseball has historically never really appreciated the dodgers.

Re: MLB 2020

Romanelli — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:25:08 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 10/25/2020 23:25

Just a personal thing...

Continued failure for the Dodgers keeps the baseball section of my brain from losing it.

Go Rays.

Re: MLB 2020

RoundTheBend — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 18:20:55 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 10/25/2020 22:20

One shit play... super hoping this isn't a mental drainer for them.