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-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
Royals and Pirates fans must hate Mets fans. They can't even have the most self-loathing fanbases.
Here's my thought on that whole thing: The Mets are more frustrating than teams like the Pirates or Royals because the Mets have the resources of the Yankees, but the payroll of the Twins, the baseball equivalent of the owner of the Decade of Darkness Knicks, and the roster of the Padres. It's infuriating that the Mets aren't competing here-in and year-out because they should be. There's no excuses, really.
I also realize arguing different levels of "bad" like this is a pointless exercise, anyway. It's just a way to distract us from the fact that our teams aren't very good. The Mets are starting to crash back down to Earth a bit lately, get ready for the meteor shower after the All-Star break.
While that is true, teams like the Mets and Cubs have actually competed for World Series in the same time frame that the Royals and Pirates have hoped for a winning record. I guess that's what I was getting at.
-When I Hear My Name -Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground -Blue Orchid -Passive Manipulation -Red Rain -Death Letter -My Doorbell -Hotel Yorba -Same Boy You've Always Known -Lovesick -Little Ghost -We're Going to Be Friends -The Hardest Button to Button -Black Math -The Nurse -I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
Encore: -Ball and Biscuit -Seven Nation Army -Screwdriver
While that is true, teams like the Mets and Cubs have actually competed for World Series in the same time frame that the Royals and Pirates have hoped for a winning record. I guess that's what I was getting at.
True, but I guess I just don't have sympathy for fans of awfully-run franchises since I happen to specialize in rooting for such franchises and no one has ever shown me any sympathy for it.
And awatd, shut up.
Edit: And for the record, I never root for players to get hurt, and in baseball more than any other sport I do actually feel bad when good young players get hurt. I like Beachy, even if he seemed destined to be the next generation's Smoltz and take dumps on the Mets' team for the next 7+ years.
Thoughts of mine: Yankee fans are the popular kids that get everything, spoiled stupidl. Mets fans are the redheaded step children Red Sox fans are just jealous of Yankee fans, no matter how collossally douchey they are.
Yeah, I have to admit there are a lot of douchey Yankee fans and Sawx fans. But I must point out that when I was a teenager the Yankees sucked big time so regardless of how storied their past was the team I rooted for stunk out the joint. The past 15 years have been pretty fun though.
Yeah, I have to admit there are a lot of douchey Yankee fans and Sawx fans. But I must point out that when I was a teenager the Yankees sucked big time so regardless of how storied their past was the team I rooted for stunk out the joint. The past 15 years have been pretty fun though.
Yeah, I would say the douche rate is way higher in my generation of Yankee fan. I can't say I blame them, they haven't really known what it's like to suffer as a baseball fan, but I won't exactly weep for them when they eventually do.
obviously the spurs blew it, so now i'm counting on the rangers to hopefully take it this year. we're splitting season tickets with a few other people, so i've got about 12 more games lined up for the summer (and hopefully first dibs on playoff tickets).
since only yankees have a better record in the AL and our run differential is the highest in the entire MLB, i'm not really worried about us getting pretty far (i think we will make to the finals again).... i'm way more worried about us choking like last year.
i just went to a game thursday, hard to believe hamilton was in the hospital two days later. glad its not something that will effect the whole season.
(sorry i have nothing to contribute to the other stuff you guys say, i just had to throw some non-east coast love in here. go rangers!)
obviously the spurs blew it, so now i'm counting on the rangers to hopefully take it this year. we're splitting season tickets with a few other people, so i've got about 12 more games lined up for the summer (and hopefully first dibs on playoff tickets).
since only yankees have a better record in the AL and our run differential is the highest in the entire MLB, i'm not really worried about us getting pretty far (i think we will make to the finals again).... i'm way more worried about us choking like last year.
i just went to a game thursday, hard to believe hamilton was in the hospital two days later. glad its not something that will effect the whole season.
(sorry i have nothing to contribute to the other stuff you guys say, i just had to throw some non-east coast love in here. go rangers!)
11-1, 2.00 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 103 K's, 21 BB's, in 99.0 innings. 37-year-old wilderness enthusiast who spends two weeks after each season living off the land in the Adirondacks and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in the offseason. Ladies and Gentlemen, the pride of Murfreesboro, TN....Robert Allen "Tricky" Dickey!!!!
On an actually somewhat serious note, isn't that book he wrote the one where he divulged all kinds of painful secrets from his childhood, like being molested and stuff? I would imagine that perhaps the cathartic release of finally putting stuff like that out in the open (and thus getting it off his shoulders), and getting such a show of support, tolerance and love from his teammates and fans might actually have helped him pitch better. Complete b.s. speculation on my part, but I would have to think that if you're carrying around an ultra painful and humiliating thing like that for years, then finally shake it off, you'd be in a much better and more focused mindset.
It's not BS speculation, actually. He's said that since coming out with those secrets publicly he has been very relieved. I guess I'll never be able to comprehend what it's like, since those things didn't happen to me, but RA legitimately thought the fans would basically disown him if he came forward the way he did. I'd say the book, in that sense, definitely helped him be more comfortable and happier overall, which could have affected his pitching.
I've gone to ~15 games so far this year, and he is BY FAR the most beloved current Met, even before his recent hot streak. At a game in May the fans were chanting his name on a day he wasn't even pitching. Something about the guy resonates with the fans. Maybe they think RA would sit for a cold beer with them at a bar one night, maybe it's the comeback story, maybe it's the fact he's a lifelong underdog (like the Mets) or a combination. All I know is RA Dickey has entered the level of play where I'll skip whatever I have planned to watch him pitch. I also think that fans are legitimately delighted because all of this couldn't have happened to a better guy.
Oh boy, then maybe. I didn't know he was molested.
You didn't know that? It was a big story in the winter/early spring. He was molested a few times by his uncle, and later in life the combination of carrying that burden, the fact he toiled around the minors with a decade without ever getting a break, and cheated on his wife (which I still can't believe he actually did, so out-of-character) almost caused him to commit suicide.
His book is really interesting. His mom brought him to bars as a 5 year old and made him sit with her while she drank until close, he slept in abandoned warehouses as a teenager and he once found a syringe in a bathroom stall of the Texas Rangers locker room (during A-Rod's roid years).
I highly recommend it, the guy is an intelligent and surprisingly solid writer with some interesting insights.
Oh boy, then maybe. I didn't know he was molested.
You didn't know that? It was a big story in the winter/early spring. He was molested a few times by his uncle, and later in life the combination of carrying that burden, the fact he toiled around the minors with a decade without ever getting a break, and cheated on his wife (which I still can't believe he actually did, so out-of-character) almost caused him to commit suicide.
His book is really interesting. His mom brought him to bars as a 5 year old and made him sit with her while she drank until close, he slept in abandoned warehouses as a teenager and he once found a syringe in a bathroom stall of the Texas Rangers locker room (during A-Rod's roid years).
I highly recommend it, the guy is an intelligent and surprisingly solid writer with some interesting insights.
The synopsis on Amazon made it sound pretty interesting. Your recommendation sealed it. I'll get a copy.
He's the best. That, and the fact that he's helping me crush my fantasy baseball league. Something like a .42 ERA over his last 49 innings, with 63 Ks.
Uh-huh. In his last 6 starts he's 6-0 with ONE earned run given up in 41 2/3 innings (which is a .22 ERA) and 63 K's. And the fastest pitch he's thrown in that time was around 85 mph. The slowest pitch was a 59 mph knuckler that Bryce Harper almost threw his should out swinging at.