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Thanks to two monumental collapses, it looks like what would've been the most boring September in history will be pretty awesome. Go Rays!
Well that makes the last two days interesting. I think the Sox are going down. Having Beckett put them 2 up was critical. I might seek a free agent contract with them cause they don't have much to go on besides Aceves and Papelbon.
Cardinals bats are hot, but I still don't think anyone can rattle this pitching staff. Oswalt looked great in his last start, and we might even get to use Blanton out of the pen depending on how he does tonight.
Post by noeysasquatch on Sept 28, 2011 8:37:57 GMT -5
They had an 8 1/2 game lead for the wild card entering September. St Louis had a hell of a run in September combined with Atlanta stinking it up. One more game to go to see if the collapse is complete.
Braves and Sawx fans rest easy. There is no way God will allow any team other than the Mets be owners of "the biggest collapse in MLB history". Don't worry, you'll both make it.
Didn't you guys know baseball is only played to pass time between NFL seasons, anyway?
Post by awolfatthedoor on Sept 28, 2011 9:20:17 GMT -5
Did you know Jesus invented NFL to have something for people to watch while nursing their hangovers from the way awesomer college football games the day before? True story
Did you know Jesus invented NFL to have something for people to watch while nursing their hangovers from the way awesomer college football games the day before? True story
Ah, the good 'ol "College is better than the pro game" argument.
No, it most definitely is not. I don't want to watch unathletic white guys look like superstars because they're playing other unathletic white guys. If I wanted to see that I would watch the beer league softball games at the local park.
NFL is better because it has better players, better coaching, better schemes, and better quality of games.
Give me mildly corrupt NFL over the insanely corrupt NCAA any day.
Post by Longtime and Frequent Poster on Sept 28, 2011 9:33:37 GMT -5
Clearly everything else revolves around baseball.
If you're favorite MLB team is shitty, you have college football to get you excited in late August/early September. The NFL comes soon after that. If your football teams suck, college basketball starts in mid-November. Soon enough you'll have bowl season and the NFL playoffs starting. Once all of football is done, the last few weeks of conference season in NCAAB is going on, which kicks off the most underrated stretch of the year in sports culminating with March Madness.
As soon as March Madness is over, boom, baseball is back.
If you're favorite MLB team is shitty, you have college football to get you excited in late August/early September. The NFL comes soon after that. If your football teams suck, college basketball starts in mid-November. Soon enough you'll have bowl season and the NFL playoffs starting. Once all of football is done, the last few weeks of conference season in NCAAB is going on, which kicks off the most underrated stretch of the year in sports culminating with March Madness.
As soon as March Madness is over, boom, baseball is back.
Everything revolves around baseball because baseball came first and has the longest season. But MLB was surpassed as the "national pastime" by the NFL in the 90s and now it's not even close, in terms of league value.
Braves and Sawx fans rest easy. There is no way God will allow any team other than the Mets be owners of "the biggest collapse in MLB history".
not just collapse, but collapses. 07 and 08. To be fair though I think the 64 Phillies have the worst collapse leading up to the postseason. Up 6 1/2 with 12 to go and they lost 10 of 12.
Braves and Sawx fans rest easy. There is no way God will allow any team other than the Mets be owners of "the biggest collapse in MLB history".
not just collapse, but collapses. 07 and 08. To be fair though I think the 64 Phillies have the worst collapse leading up to the postseason. Up 6 1/2 with 12 to go and they lost 10 of 12.
Being 3.5 games up with 20 left to play isn't a "collapse". They lost the division, but it was a tight race for all 165 games. '07 was a collapse, '08 wasn't.
Did you know Jesus invented NFL to have something for people to watch while nursing their hangovers from the way awesomer college football games the day before? True story
Ah, the good 'ol "College is better than the pro game" argument.
No, it most definitely is not. I don't want to watch unathletic white guys look like superstars because they're playing other unathletic white guys. If I wanted to see that I would watch the beer league softball games at the local park.
NFL is better because it has better players, better coaching, better schemes, and better quality of games.
Give me mildly corrupt NFL over the insanely corrupt NCAA any day.
yea that monday night football game was a real gem. college is more fun to watch. i have a problem with watching guys that get paid to play, play boring games like that.
Ah, the good 'ol "College is better than the pro game" argument.
No, it most definitely is not. I don't want to watch unathletic white guys look like superstars because they're playing other unathletic white guys. If I wanted to see that I would watch the beer league softball games at the local park.
NFL is better because it has better players, better coaching, better schemes, and better quality of games.
Give me mildly corrupt NFL over the insanely corrupt NCAA any day.
yea that monday night football game was a real gem. college is more fun to watch. i have a problem with watching guys that get paid to play, play boring games like that.
Yeah, it's so much more fun to watch some multi-million dollar superpower football factory thump some small-school by 50 points.
Also, just scrolling the score from last week. Out of all the games involving a ranked team THREE were decided by less than double digits. Yeah, that's a fun weekend.
I played defense in football for 12 years, so I actually don't mind a field goal fest.
But, again, NCAA is a corrupt entity that tries to beat parity dead with this thing:
not just collapse, but collapses. 07 and 08. To be fair though I think the 64 Phillies have the worst collapse leading up to the postseason. Up 6 1/2 with 12 to go and they lost 10 of 12.
Being 3.5 games up with 20 left to play isn't a "collapse". They lost the division, but it was a tight race for all 165 games. '07 was a collapse, '08 wasn't.
Well we'll disagree, but the fact that they led the division throughout the season and then led by 3 1/2 with 17 left to play and not only lost the division, but also the wild card makes this a collapse to me.
Being 3.5 games up with 20 left to play isn't a "collapse". They lost the division, but it was a tight race for all 165 games. '07 was a collapse, '08 wasn't.
Well we'll disagree, but the fact that they led the division throughout the season and then led by 3 1/2 with 17 left to play and not only lost the division, but also the wild card makes this a collapse to me.
They didn't lead the division all year long. They were in 2nd place as late as August 13th or 14th, and at that point they were something like 6 games off the wild card pace.
They fought, had a little hot streak at the end of august, and got a 3.5 game lead with 20 games left, but even then they were still behind the wild card pace. They didn't catch the Brewers in that regard until the last 10 days of the season, I believe.