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Yeah, probably, if you know nothing about it. Every pitch in baseball has so much strategy and physics behind it that if you don't know what is going on then yeah it might appear boring. But, thanks for trying, i.e., expressing the very same comment that everyone makes if they don't watch baseball.

Damn spambots

The Reds are whooping up on the Canadian WBC team, running away with it.

Typical Canada!

Our best player isn't even there, was too busy watching the Raptors.

And baseball isn't our sport, so whatever. You guys can have it.

You mean Joey Votto? Because basketball is much more of a Canadian sport.

Yeah him. And my point exactly.

Although it was a Canadian who invented basketball...

Well, Votto plays the Reds normally. If we would have had him on our team, we wouldn't have beat you by just ten runs. It would have been fifteen. Both teams had no Joey and we still swept the floor with y'all.

Lawrie went down with injury too...

Fuck the national team. Honestly, Canadians aren't dark enough to be good at baseball. We need a sport that keeps us moving so we don't freeze in place, a al hockey.

Still, Lets Go Jays!

Good ol Canadian boys!

Your boys sure beat the crap of the Mexican team in that fracas today. Never a good idea to mess with a bunch of guys that surely played competitive hockey.

They said they did it just so Don Cherry would put them on Hockey Night in Canada. Well, it worked.

Panic in NYC because the Yankees lost 2 games in a row!! Of course, their lineup is AAA with Cano at the moment because of injuries, so smart fans shouldn't be surprised. Every year I think baseball fans forget that baseball is different from all other sports in the sheer length of games. A marathon, not American football where every single game can mean making or missing the playoffs. Anyway, I enjoyed watching the Red Sox beat them, while remaining hopeful they won't suck like they did last year. I think both teams are pretty mediocre ultimately though, and would find a Blue Jays playoff team really cool, and well deserved.

The Os are solid in that division and the Jays are the obvious team to pull away with it. I watched the Sox/Yanks opener and the Yankees don't have Jeter, ARod, Granderson or Teixeira. Are they gonna have to struggle towards the end? Probably, but with that kind of a lineup and the big trade deadline deals you know that they are going to make, they're not going to drop off the map. Fuckers. Isn't it really just moment of having a golden spoon and as soon as something doesn't go perfect then the whole world goes topsy turvy?

Reds lost their clean-up batter to a dislocated shoulder who was never really a great clean-up batter anyways. I really just want somebody to protect Votto, but we're simply not going to have that unless Bruce starts hitting clutch. Watched the first three games, or well currently watching the third game, and they're definitely still struggling to hit with runners in scoring position, which has always been their problem. Not home runs or even doubles, it's the matter of stacking them in order to produce runs. Luckily, though, our pitching has looked fucking amazing with starters racking up at least twenty strikeouts over the first two and a half games. Fucking dominating Pujols, Hamilton, Trout, and Trumbo thus far. I do love Hamilton's gang tats.

Who do you follow, ebd? Phillies?

Edit: Going back to the Yankees and thinking about how all their players are on the downtrend. It was a team that was amazing five years ago, but now they're all just old. And they're not fucking Pete Rose, Jeter and ARod are fucking pussies and they just need to be put to pasture.

You should hear the pandemonium in Toronto because they are 0-2. I love it.

People really do flip out over nothing concerning baseball, a universal trait. Always amusing.

Trapt:
I followed the Phillies more when I first moved to the area, because they sucked. Then they got super popular, and while I still like them, the contrarian in me finds it funny when the fans start panicking like now. I don't think they will make the playoffs this year, Halladay is cooked, and the team always scores 1 run when Lee is pitching.

But no, my team has always been the Red Sox as I was born about 15 miles from Boston, and my whole family was fanatical about them. So I always have a particular amusement for the spoiled whining of Yankee fans. Agreed though, they aren't dropping out of it before their guys start to come back. And Boston still has huge unresolved issues from their team last year, so I'm being realistic.

Cincy is an interesting team. Lots to like with Votto and the pitching but yeah, I'm not a fan of their lineup besides him. They have a bunch of guys that waste at bats and don't make the pitcher work.

Curious how teams like Cincy will be able to compete long term though. Yes, there is always the Tampa Bay example, but when I heard the Dodgers just signed an 8 BILLION dollar TV deal over 25 years with their local sports network (Local TV revenue is unshared) it feels like teams like the Dodgers, Angels, Yankees, etc will soon be able to shell out contracts like they are paying with Monopoly money.

Didn't realize you were originally from New England. Cool.

You don't think the Phillies will make it to the playoffs this year? I haven't really kept up with the NL East, who is looking to win it, the Mets maybe?

The Yanks also have Youkilis, but he's not in his prime. I don't know I think Boston is legit this year, but they won't have the ability to compete with Toronto, assuming the team comes together there have been other teams with more purchases who simply fizzle like the Dodgers last year. And the Yanks once they get back on track. Maybe they won't and Boston is in the runnings, but even then I think the Os are better.

Watching the opening series of the Reds v Angels, it is so explicitly a situation of Anaheim going out and purchasing talent, dropping crazy money a few years back on Pujols and now Hamilton on top of going and buying a bullpen the way I understand it. Fucking ridiculous and the Dodgers did the same thing mid-season last year. The Reds payroll has doubled in the last decade, and we have Votto and Phillips to show for it. Once arbitration comes around for guys like Latos and Chapman and Cueto we are going to be fucked I imagine. Those three guys will be crucial for anything we do in the future. I honestly just more teams doing what the Yankees have always done, but you look at the World Series and it's always large market teams like SF, Angels, Yankees, etc even St Louis was rolling with $50 million more in their salary than us until the last five years.

The Reds will do really good this year, but way too much swinging for the fences and no conception of small ball. Choo is going to be a great addition in that respect. Him alone getting on base when Votto comes up to bat will win us games, like last night for instance. Frazier, Cozart and Heisey are young, but great. Bruce just never came to fruition like he had the potential to. And Phillips is always clutch. And Hanigan is the most underrated catcher in the game right now. But seriously wasting at bats on one to three pitch outs. They're a team who piles on the runs when pitchers are gassed, yet they have no skill in gassing pitchers earlier and throughout the game. I'll be interested to see how they size up against the Nationals this weekend. Gonna get my public drinking and viewin' on in DC.