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Rangers won last night, but so far the D Backs look like the better team. Excited for Phoenix to finally get another World Series game, and more glad it’s not down 0-2. 

5 hours ago, Gary said:

Mid October -May is probably the reason why we go through the 3-4 months of hell. No better weather than being in Phoenix/Tucson during this time

I’ve spent the vast majority of my life living at like 7,000 feet above sea level so take this for what you will, but Phoenix is uncomfortably hot until like mid December. January-March actually has some legitimately cold nights which are made worse by the houses built to withstand extreme heat (I lived in Tempe Sunset, which is older and contributes to that, but still). Only time out there that’s legit nice is right around Spring Training. Anything after and it’s already in the 90s. 
 

I will say this, though. Sacramento summers were so much easier to handle after four years in Phoenix. Still hot, but nothing in comparison. 
 

EDIT: Man, I hope this goes 7. What a series already. 

43 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

At a St Petersburg council meeting, the Rays gave a presentation on the new stadium development project. Apparently part of the agreement is the Rays play one game, wearing "St Petersburg Rays" jerseys (pending MLB approval).  To me this just screams the whole "Anaheim" schtick, that city forced the Angels to do, where the city didnt want to be little brother to Los Angeles so the team compromised with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim bs. St Pete doesnt want to play little brother to Tampa. I mean, theres a reason why its called Tampa Bay and not St Petersburg Bay. Not to mention the 4+1 rule for jerseys now. Would the St Petersburg jersey be considered a special jersey like the Boston Patriots Day jersey or the Jays Canada Day jersey?

Best solution? Use this as a Friday alt

Bucs are too bad to be good, but not good enough to be actually good. 

Just the very best spot to be as a pro sports team. We’ve got the rest of the league right where we want em, I tell ya. 

Oh great. Just what all want. More college basketball runner up tournaments. 

On 10/24/2023 at 8:55 PM, Bill0813 said:

Texas vs Arizona sounds more like college football.

Not good college football. 

I would love to see more players come out against owners. Hell, we should all be more hostile to billionaires just in general. 

1 hour ago, FinsUp1214 said:

My instant reaction to both last night’s and tonight’s games was “whoa! What the heck! This is crazy!” in the most positive way. It’s definitely one of the more bizarre WS matchups I can remember*, and I love it. Plus, it’s a matchup I can just sit back and enjoy. I don’t have a horse in the race and I don’t dislike either of the teams left to any degree at all. This should be fun all the way through.

 

*Red Sox/Rockies in 2007 comes to mind, but even then, that was far more one-sided bizarre towards the Rockies than anything; both because “Rockies win the pennant” was somehow a legitimately truthful sentence, and because they went from “sudden surprise inevitable buzzsaw” to “we suck again.gif” in the span of what felt like a few short days. They were like Pinocchio in Shrek 2 when he’s a real boy for two seconds but changed back to wood by a ricochet spell. One of the weirdest pennant winning teams I’ve ever seen.

That Rockies run to the post season and then the World Series is still the strangest run I’ve ever seen from a team. They had to win like their final twelve straight, and the Padres had to totally collapse, and even then it took the Rockies best player sliding into the plate on the final play just to get them in. Then they rode that momentum to the World Series where it immediately died. Becket struck out the side in the first and Pedroia took the first pitch deep and you knew it was already over. Fastest sweep I’ve ever seen. Hands down the worst World Series I can remember. 

3 minutes ago, SFGiants58 said:

Phoenix proper or the whole metro area?

Just the places where it’s hot all the time. 

4 minutes ago, Gary said:

There are people who are from Phoenix or raised here like myself who are ecstatic that our team are in the World Series. Why ruin it for us. 

Yeah, having to live in Phoenix is punishment enough. 

This is probably the funniest World Series matchup I’ve ever seen. Just the two most random organizations you can think of. I love it. Gives me big time 97 Marlins Indians vibes. 
 

I guess Rangers in 6? But I could see D Backs in 7. 

On 10/3/2023 at 8:16 PM, FiddySicks said:

Bout to be Snaketober up in this :censored:. 

Why yes, FiddySicks. It sure as :censored: is. 

SNAKETOBER, BITCHES

2 hours ago, SFGiants58 said:

We have a double standard.

What is Major League Baseball. Themes of professional sports leagues for $200, Alex. 

Oh great, just go out and hire the scrubby Padres manager. When is that ever worked out? Name one time.
 

I think the weirdest thing about those Reebok unis is the only one that I think could’ve stood to stick around was the Falcons, which I also think were the first team to get the Reebok treatment. Everything after SUCKED. All misses. 

3 hours ago, Survival79 said:

San Diego FC logo revealed; team to start play in MLS in 2025

 

 

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“the crest is said to center around four “principal virtues” that define San Diego: “Gratitude, proud, not loud, diversity and a state of flow.”

This actually makes my head hurt. This sounds like they typed “Make an MLS Expansion team for San Diego, California.” Into Chat GPT and didn’t even bother proofreading it. 

Our four (4) principal values: 

1. [compliment new market]
2. [Subtly mention the team we’re replacing]
3. [ Use the word “diversity”]

4. [Throw in some gobbledy(I am racially insensitive) action words that sounds like something a Californian/stoner would say]

This league is a joke. 

I dunno this feels like more Astros style BS. You can’t tell me Michigan are alone on this island. 

Back when I lived in Phoenix I wanted to see the D Backs play as many games vs the Giants as I could, and was willing to spend around $500-$600 to do so. I wasn’t sure that would be enough for all of the Giants games in Phoenix that year, but I wanted to make sure I had tickets to as many as I could. I ended up getting full season tickets, all 82 home games, pre season, plus four Spring Training games at Salt River Fields for around $400. And it was actually a damn good seat, too.
 

I made it a mission to try to go to every game that I possibly could, and it was :censored:ing BRUTAL. Felt like a funeral home half of the time and Heath Bell blew about a million saves that year. I saw every single one of them he blew at home. I fell asleep at least a dozen times. Spent most of the last two months of the already dead season sitting alone in the upper deck watching Giants games on my phone. Smoked a buncha weed (only safe spot in Phoenix back then, it felt like) and saw a Lincecum no no. Good times! Sorta. 
 

On 10/18/2023 at 5:12 AM, floydnimrod said:

While I agree with all of this, as someone who is likely never attending an MLB playoff game, I do love meaningful afternoon baseball in the middle of the week. Makes the work day easier. The only half decent thing about the Covid sports schedule to me was that there were NASCAR races on Wednesday afternoons. It was great.

 

More weekday afternoon sporting events*

 

*as someone who's watching from home

If you’re concerned about the cost, you may be in for a surprise. My friend from Philly (lives in Sacramento now) was ready to drive to Phoenix for game four because tickets were like $35. For a NLCS game! That’s like 10% of what the Phillies were doing for a SRO ticket.

:censored:ing Diamondbacks Go home, you’re drunk and it’s past your bed time. 

On 10/18/2023 at 4:45 PM, BBTV said:

I've never heard of him, but it's probably a better move than the Eagles signing Julio Jones.  Can't imagine he has anything left in the tank.

If his time with Tampa last year was any indication, he does not. Can’t stay on the field. 

This league :censored:ing sucks. I hate it. 

Bucs should leave the bright red to the Niners and Chiefs. The dark red is perfect for them, and goes better with the theme. Yeah it looks more “dingy”, but again, that’s the point. It matches the pirate motif more than the Florida motif. Which I’m fine with because Miami already does the bright Florida style colors over white better than the Bucs ever did with the creamsicles. 

God, the more I see of it the more that whole rebrand was such a disaster. This team has done a whole lotta off putting throughout the years that would turn most fans away, but I stayed for just about all of it, because I’m foolish. But that was my breaking point. I actually stopped calling myself a Bucs fan at that point, and hopped back on the 49ers bandwagon for awhile. I just couldn’t do it with those losers anymore. They sucked on the field, and overnight ruined their entire brand. They went from one of the classiest looking teams in the league to the dumbest looking team in NFL history. It’s been years since then and I’m actually still mad about it.  @Sport is right that it’s the worst rebrand in not just NFL, but sports history. Them bringing back a look that was closer to the original flag look was like having a curse lifted. I felt like I finally had my team back. There are still issues with the current brand (the shade of pewter, the downgraded logo, as we’ve talked about for the last few pages), but it’s close enough for me. Hopefully this organization gets some sense at some point and realizes what a big mistake it was to change to the new garbage flag, but I doubt it. It’s the one element of the rebrand I just have to sort of live with, I guess. 

Lol, yeah, this is the D Backs team I saw last month vs Houston. There they are. I’m was wondering where they went. Super rad of them to take out the Dodgers, but they aren’t winning this series. 
 

Oh, also add me to the list of people who have come around on the Phillies (and rather, Philly sports as a whole). When they were rivals with the Giants, I couldn’t stand those dirt balls. But now? Philly is still full of dirt balls, but I kind of love them all? My kinda dirt balls, I guess. 

3 hours ago, Ark said:

I thought the horse was shooting a laser beam. That was cool.

I always thought it was someone taking one of those old mid evil lances and just sorta poking the horse in the nose with it. Like of course he’s rearing up all mad, someone is poking him in the face with a stick.