Well, I wish it had been a more competitive series.  We haven't had one since 2003, but perhaps we were spoiled by the 7-game series of 2001 and 2002.  But the last 4 have been so annoyingly lopsided; the winners have gone 16-1.  The Red Sox won 5 World Series in the first 18 years of last century.  They seem to beginning this century in the same manner.  At least we'll all be dead if this century ends in the same manner as last.

Emiemipoemi wrote:

WHAT IS THIS BASEBALL YOU SPEAK OF??

IT'S LIKE UTENA DUELS. WITH BALLS.

I think sports are retarded...just thought id send that out there. I have no respect for baseball tards who yell and scream and riot if their team loses...

KissingT.Kiryuu wrote:

I think sports are retarded...just thought id send that out there. I have no respect for baseball tards who yell and scream and riot if their team loses...

Neither do I. I hope you don't think that all baseball fans are like that.

That's sort of insulting. You realize that's the equivalent of me saying, "I think anime is retarded. I have no respect for the male anime tards who don't wash themselves and just watch it for the drawn depictions of little girls having sex and the female anime tards who pretend like they know Japanese and think they're better than everyone else."

You're using a stereotype of a few to color your perception of the majority.

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Ah, the lack of a sarcasm font kills me. I apologize. :(

We need a sarcasm font. sometimes i forget that sarcasm and the nets don't mix and can make people angry.

I need to be less sarcastic. XD *gets rocks thown at her* but i heard (from SLoT)  that somewhere in the southwest there is rioting at the loss world series loss.

now THAT is STUPID!

I think it is always important to keep the right view point in situations like this. In this case the best viewpoint for me is this one.

I think I'm lucky in that I don't have a home team.  It saves me from heartbreak, and it gives me a nice objective view towards the whole thing.  I'm able to just enjoy the game itself.

Decrescent Daytripper wrote:

I've got a theory that the less violent the sport is, the worse the fans can get.  I mean, when was the last boxing-inspired riot, yeah?  For every hockey or rugby riot there seems to be a half-dozen "our team won lets riot" events from the basketball or baseball crowds.  Or, maybe it's selective attention on my part.

I like this theory.  Perhaps it explains why Monica Seles was stabbed so many years ago...

I'm a sports fan, but alas, I'm not one for MLB.  Now, you give me the College World Series, Little League World Series, College Softball World Series (FAVORITE!), and the Little League Softball World Series, and I'm all over it.  But MLB...it's just so tedious after awhile.  I tried watching a few games of the WS, and when I realized I'd been watching for 45 minutes and they had only just gotten to the bottom of the first, I turned it off.  They should set up stricter time limits and stuff for the pitcher and batter.  Just when you think, "Hey! He's finally going to pitch the ball!" the damn batter steps out of the box and the whole set of rituals start again... 

But it's certainly not a dislike of baseball itself--it's just how slow MLB (and to a pretty similar extent, minor league) games are.

mazoboom wrote:

Emiemipoemi wrote:

WHAT IS THIS BASEBALL YOU SPEAK OF??

IT'S LIKE UTENA DUELS. WITH BALLS.

WIN.

Anyway, I don't watch sports, really.

So, uh, GO SOX! (You should always cheer for the winning team.)