Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

I was a late bloomer!

 

Another coed fun game....Buck Buck!

 

I follow baseball, but unless you're in Fenway Park or the bleachers in Wrigley my suggestion is just watch on TV. Stadium vibe is the worst of any sport that I know of by a mile!

 

Watching Teddy Ballgame and/or Stan The Man was a delight!

 

That’s when it was commercially released.

@roby played the Neolithic version.

 

Tigers rampaging right now.

Got to see Skubal pitch back in August, dude was fun to watch and electric.

 

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I went to a game at Dodger stadium last year and it was a great vibe, better than I remember from when I used to go as a kid. Probably helped that the crowd is now about 80% Latino and the Modelos were flowing.

 

Bad break for the Tigers having to close out the season against such a great team. ESP since that team is also playing the best baseball they have all season.

 

It truly is breathtaking, that a MLB team in 2024 can be that bad, such that they will break a record for futility.


I mean, this is a sport that's been contested for century and a half. And over that time, there have been advances in medicine, rehabilitation, sports psychology, coaching, physiology, statistics/metrics, player scouting, player development, advanced scouting, training, tactics, and strategy. One would anticipate that it would therefore be HARDER to be THAT bad, in today's day and age, after all of that accumulated knowledge and development within that industry.

But then, pretty much every sports owner in that town kinda suck @SS.

 

Sadly, our legal system makes this untenable here

 

Hey, they might not break the record. All they have to do is sweep the Tigers in Detroit. Then they would have only tied it, thanks to a season ending six game winning streak.

 

I went to a Braves game in 2000 or 2001 around September. I remember buying the sandwich they were advertising in the AJC, but I can't remember what was on it. The game was a snoozer.
That said, by 2001 or so, the Braves had disappointed so many people over the years that nobody was getting excited anymore.

 

What's the record? I was thinking that I can't recall a team losing 121 games in my lifetime.

Mets and ATL now tied, ensuring the DH on Monday will matter. Unless Arizona fall apart, then both NY & ATL could get in.

 

And that would be disappointing.

I want them to be curbstomoed and humiliated, so that that owner is humiliated.

 

The expansion Mets lost 120 (out of 154).

The Sox lost #121 last night. On the one hand. . . More games. On the other . . . They’re not an expansion team

 

We're (mot) #1! We're (not) #1!

OTOH the usual late September collapse is fully under way as we're now tied with the f'in Braves for a wild card spot.

 

Jason Benetti made the right choice leaving the Whote Sox to announce Tigers games.

 

@roby I saw that we hired Mauricio Pocchetino to replace Triple G & guide the US to WC glory (out of group stage) & maybe beyond. He's coached some of the best payers in the world which is an odd fit for us, but whatever

This is what surprised me. An Argie ITie from the town of Murphy! WTF is going on here?

Pochettino was born in Murphy, Santa Fe to Amalia and Héctor Pochettino, a farm labourer. His family is of Italian descent from Piedmont

 

No offense, but fvkc you guys for fat fvkc piece of shyte Jerry fvkcing Reinsdorf for putting HIS needs ahead of the club. Again, with respect to announcers:

40ish years ago, the Sox and Cubs were on a par with each other, with respect to support. The Sox had some announcer named, "Harry Caray" working for them.

Greedy, selfish, @ssface piece of shyte motherfvkcer Jerry Reinsdorf decided that he wanted to put the white sox on pay tv in the early 80s, well before the majority of households had had access to pay TV.

He thereby dropped the Sox potential viewership from half of Chicagoland (roughly 6MM population back then) to a total of 30,000 customers with pay TV.

Because of Reinsdorf's greed, Harry Caray said, "fvkc this," and went across town. The Sox have never recovered local market share, while the Cubs have never looked back.


That Benetti (one of the best in the business, and a lifelong Sox fan) left is just another self-inflicted wound by that dumb motherfvkcer Reinsdorf.

Most Sox fans are just waiting for him to "leave," shall we say, just not openly rooting for it.


Fvkc him.

 

Well...it's encouraging to note that family came from Northern Italy as we all know the Southern area in any country is rife with neer-do-wells and knife wielders! Of course you'd have thought that someone should have noticed Murphy's 1st Law.

 

Some host on local radio was recounting a tale of visiting Sicily and being shown around by a relative. He promised his mama that he'd stop by her and his dad's hometown on the other side of the island. His guide had never heard of it. But he asked around and located it. Some asked him "does the American wanna buy drugs or something?" Bad sign. So they get to this place that has one road in and out and it's drunks in the streets, people lurking around. Guide goes into the bar and exits a short time later "We go. He said the cops don't come here any more and they think we're either police or mafia" Hopped into their Fiat Scungilli & hightailed it outta town.

 

After watching a few Argentine league matches (most notably a Boca-River clash several years ago that's still among the most intense atmospheres I've ever seen at any sporting event...Damn, that was a fun watch) where the broadcast crew spent more time talking about who was going to Europe than they did the game in front of their eyes, I'm not wondering where the Murphy came from. I'm wondering where the Santa Fe came from. The Murphy gets embraced there, likely. Enzo Fernandez dancing to jigs and reels on St. Patrick's Day, that sort of thing.