The Royallypwned 2012 Major League Baseball Thread (Giants WS Champs)

[pjfootballer]

Nats and O's survive one more day.

[Predicto]

Bummer for the A's. They had a ridiculously awesome overachieving season, but Verlander is too much of a beast.

[MonkFan8]

Welp, no more baseball for me this season. No $100 million payroll = very little chance in October.

Thanks, MLB.

[thebluefood]

Well, the MLB gets their traditional powers in the LCS

Yankees (40 pennants) and Tigers (10 pennants)
Cardinals (18 pennants) and Giants (21 pennants)

All of them have won at least one pennant in the past ten years.

This is about as safe a LCS as you could ask for.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

Proud of the Beltway teams this year...both cut their teeth in the post-season a year or so ahead of schedule.

[Warhead36]

Go Giants
Go Tigers

I won't be watching either way

[fullnelson9999]

I can't understand the idea of not watching the playoffs just because the team you like lost. If you like baseball, you like baseball. Right?

[ixcuincle]

---------- Post added October-13th-2012 at 06:45 AM ----------

Don't let the loss of two local teams jade your perception of the sport

Oh, and by the way...the Cards...that team that just beat the Nats? What was their payroll?

The notion linking payroll to success has always been overrated. The Red Sox before this year spent massive amounts of payroll to attempt to make the playoffs. So did the Angels. Neither team is in the postseason.

[DM72]

I guess when you buy yourself into the post season every year, it's not a big deal. Again, plenty of seats available for a Saturday night game in NY.

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

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---------- Post added October-13th-2012 at 06:45 AM ----------

Don't let the loss of two local teams jade your perception of the sport

Oh, and by the way...the Cards...that team that just beat the Nats? What was their payroll?

The notion linking payroll to success has always been overrated. The Red Sox before this year spent massive amounts of payroll to attempt to make the playoffs. So did the Angels. Neither team is in the postseason.

exactly...


you're team sucks because your owner is most likely a cheap bastard or ass at scouting players.

That payroll excuse is pathetic

---------- Post added October-13th-2012 at 08:53 PM ----------

I guess when you buy yourself into the post season every year, it's not a big deal. Again, plenty of seats available for a Saturday night game in NY.

cry me a river dude

[Renegade7]

Will check with my dad on how yankees are doing after this. I'll only watch world series if it's his team or my boy's team who just started getting into baseball, too and likes detroit. Not watching NLCS or ALCS. Default: New York. Status: Desensitised.

[MonkFan8]

Oh, and by the way...the Cards...that team that just beat the Nats? What was their payroll?

Easily over $100 mil, last I checked.

Anyway, not using it as an excuse at all. Small market teams can do well, big market teams can struggle. I'm simply saying if it's, say, a Yankees/Cardinals WS I have no intention of watching a single game.

There's a reason every other major sport has a salary cap, I'll just say that.

[ixcuincle]

A salary cap wouldn't work in baseball. Too lazy to post the quote from the other forum statistically destroying any notion of the cap.

[DM72]

If I'm A-Rod, I'm saying to myself, "Why the hell isn't Cano getting booed?"

[ixcuincle]

All you Yankee haters can rejoice

The Yankees were lucky to get past Baltimore, and barely proved they were better than them

However, throughout the series, other than game 1 9th inning, the Yankees struggled all series to hit and were frequently shut down by Orioles pitching. It's no surprise the same thing is happening tonight. A-rod, Granderson, Swisher, and Cano are 9/85. If this continues, you Yankee haters are going to have a field day. This offense just is stone cold right now.