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I was eventually right!

very frustrating bullpen usage tonight, but 1 more to go!

Well, this sucks that Aroldis Chapman might get another ring.

Mewtwo59 posted...

Well, this sucks that Aroldis Chapman might get another ring.

Spoilers: Rangers Fans hate Chapman more than anybody else here.

Not sure about having your #3 hitter bunt with 2 on and 0 out. Felt like they let Nasty Nate off the hook there.

Yeah bad move there, you have to let him hit.

On the other side, Gallen is pitching fantastically to be sure. I don't want to take that away from him at all.

But there is no goddamn excuse for all of this first pitch swing and awful ABs from the Rangers. At least make him fucking work for it, what the fuck.

where did the arizona offense go?

guffguy89 posted...

where did the arizona offense go?

Eovaldi remembered that he's allowed to not give fans heart attacks at the very end of his outing.

Gallen's a great pitcher who pitched a fantastic game, but Eovaldi is awesome too.

Very much hoping that Chapman has now pitched his last as a Ranger, for a lot of reasons

3 outs away

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3 outs away

Wait for it

And there is your dagger

Just tuned in a bit ago. lots of Texas fans there it sounds like.

And the Rangers win!

Congrats, Rangers fans. It's always fun to see a team win a title for the first time.

Fun to find out you can win a World Series when youre a strike away!!

I love everyone

pain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBCAluK81U8

Been watching a lot of reaction videos, and they all have the same feel (and how i was reacting)

Standing, pacing around. Not celebrating too early. And then strike 3 happens

We've always secretly been one of the worst franchises in sports, that a lot of long time Ranger fans understood but not a lot outside knowledge. The main thing I noticed is that you can tell every single one of the fans videos I watched remembered what happened a dozen years ago, and that we were all afraid of being happy too soon. Having that pain be lifted as soon as the strike 3 call was made.

Its hard to rank moments of happiness. My dad and grandpa were still alive when the Chiefs won the Super Bowl and I got to share that moment with them. My brother will go to games with me but does not follow the team really. He knows how important this was to me, but in reality I celebrated by myself. To do it this season and in the way we did it.....

When I watch games by myself, I'm usually quiet, posting on here or scrolling twitter or texting friends. When Garver had his RBI single and when the ball rolled past the CF, I did a couple of fist pumps to myself. But when Semien hit the homerun I yelled.

I have no idea what its going to feel like watching games next year. And thats a fun feeling

Thinking back to 2004 into 2005...

There's the parade, the championship gear, the off-season is fairly blissful even when you lose key players, and you're looking forward to opening day, the ring ceremony, the banner going up, etc. Watching games next year, you want a playoff run. You would obviously love to win the WS again and again, but, as long as you have a decent attempt at defending the title, no shame in that.

Certainly a big difference between baseball and football - baseball makes you feel different on a daily basis for the whole playoff run. Coming out on top at the end of all that almost changes you as a fan. I don't think I am explaining it well.

Yeah I felt the same way after 2016. 2003 absolutely crushed me and even though the Cubs had a few good seasons left in them after that I just knew they weren't going to do anything. But man, after 2015 and 2016 it was like...damn they could absolutely do this again (I wasn't counting on it of course). Anything was possible haha. Only wish they had been able to win it in 2015 so my grandpa could have seen it. He died a couple months later, a not unfamiliar story for Cubs fans. But yeah the high of your team winning the World Series is something else. Same with the Stanley Cup imo.

I remember watching game 7 in 2001, but I was only 9 so I wasn't that invested. I think I was more excited that I won a bet... for 50 cents lol

I've never rooted for a team that's never won anything, or at least not since I was little with the Atlanta Braves (and they won when I was 9). Now I've rooted for some teams that haven't won anything in a long time (like the Cowboys), but I'm still old enough to remember them winning those Super Bowls in the 90s. It's a different feeling when you've actually seen your team do it, even if it's been a while.

For me, I've been a Dallas area resident all of my life, so I just naturally picked up all four of those teams to be a fan of. But, unlike Leon, I'm not old enough to remember any Cowboys Super Bowls (My oldest sports watching memory is watching the Cowboys lose a wild card game to Arizona).

On top of that, I've always been much, much more of a Baseball/Football guy than Hockey/Basketball, so even though I have vague memories of the excitement of the Modano/Hull/Belfour Stars in 1999 and trying to watch the games a bit because of that, it never fully registered with me. Especially with the clincher being in 3OT and me being a 6 year old kid who couldn't stay awake for it even if he wanted to.

I definitely, clearly remember the Mavs in both 2006 and 2011, but more than strongly caring about the Mavs beyond being a general fan of Dirk (Dude's awesome), I enjoyed it more as a revenge story + beating Lebron's superteam after having to hear about "The Decision" constantly leading up to that season.

For me as a sports fan, the thing that actually comes closest to what I've been feeling for the last couple days (And am still feeling now, really) is Andy Murray finally breaking through and winning the US Open (And just as much so, Wimbledon the next year). That one's special to me because I picked up Tennis as a teenager and really enjoyed his style more than Federer, Nadal and the other top players of the mid-late 00s, so I tried to fashion my own game after him. The satisfaction of seeing the guy you've been rooting for and trying to imitate on some level for several years was wonderful.

But the Rangers finally coming through and winning it all still brings me more joy than even that. I've been emotionally invested in and rooting for the Rangers and their players for basically as long as I have been the Cowboys. Similar to Murray as a tennis player later, Rusty Greer was my childhood hero. I was super excited when A-Rod came even though I didn't understand the details. I watched the team suck for years, but still loved rooting for guys like Young, Blalock, Teixeria, Kinsler, etc. Getting crushed so badly in 2010 that I couldn't help but laugh about it. The sheer pain of 2011, and then again in 2015. The frustration that they could never really string anything together with Yu Darvish around (Darvish is still my favorite baseball player of all time). The injury-derailed years of suck. The prospects that didn't pan out (I was a Delino DeShields truther for way too long, and was super happy to see Jurickson Profar find playing time, if not real success, elsewhere).

Even if pretty much everybody from the older teams is gone now, seeing this team break through and finally do it is just fucking bliss. And there are a ton of guys on the team that I really love specifically rooting for too. Semien/Seager, of course. DeGrom when he's healthy, too. But I also really enjoy Carter, Adolis, Garver, Heim, all those guys. I fucking love this team. And I'm so far beyond happy that I got to see them reach the top, especially a year ahead of when they were "supposed" to be serious contenders, meaning that it's an extra year of getting to see the core stick around and work together.

I did skip the parade without a second thought though, because it happened basically a day and a half after the title was clinched, in the hellscape of Arlington's entertainment district that's a total fucking pain in the ass to get to. I probably could've gotten the time off work for it if I had asked, but for the whole traffic and effort to get there/back, I expect the experience would've been super soured for me. Do I regret it? Maybe, just a bit. But only a bit. Especially since my understanding is that the parade wasn't even that good anyways =(

Anyways, I kinda rambled here, but some extra insight into how I'm feeling. And how it may compare to Football, or how people like Neon/Stan were when their teams did it in the past.

I have heard that sentiment elsewhere about the Mavs title, in that it was special, but its 90% being happy for Dirk, which I think is his greatest legacy

Parade is an awesome thing to attend but its also easy to skip and not miss anything.

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I have heard that sentiment elsewhere about the Mavs title, in that it was special, but its 90% being happy for Dirk, which I think is his greatest legacy

Definitely seems to be a bigger perspective among people who aren't really into basketball, or are only casually so. Which is definitely me. I'll check in on the regular season standings a couple times a year (usually once around Christmas, then again towards the end of the season) and only take deeper interest if the Mavs are in the playoffs. But more serious fans would probably be more about the whole team and the guys like Terry, Kidd, Barea, etc

Similar for the Stars, but to an even lesser extent. The only two hockey games I've watched in the past 5ish years were them wasting godlike performances from Bishop and Oettinger to get eliminated though. I've always gotten enough of that kind of heartbreak from the Rangers/Cowboys to want to get heavily into more lmao

No sports win will likely ever match the Cubs winning the world series for me.

Maybe if the Iowa Hawkeyes somehow won a national title in football but that will probably never happen.

What the fuck? Craig Counsell is leaving the Brewers to manage the Cubs! This is like Brett Favre to the Vikings all over again, but only worse. My goodness, he could've gone anywhere, but chose to go with the Brewer's most-hated team that didn't even have a vacancy by the way! They literally just kicked Ross out of the role to get Counsell in it. He's going to be the highest payed manager by a mile. I am sick.

Well Cubs...fuck...enjoy a really good player's manager that will probably do really well there. But just be warned that as good as he manages in the regular season, he sucks in the postseason. Overthinks things way too much and pulls pitchers way too early....I'm reaching at straws here though because he was a really good manager and a good person and it just sucks that he would betray his hometown team like that.

Sounds like the Maddon experience all over again.

But yeah I heard that he said he would offer the Brewers the chance to match any offer he received. Dunno if that was the case or not but Chicago is still really close to home and that that probably appealed to him. As great as Counsel is and am shocked that we got him, this is kind of the second time the Ricketts have pounced on a manager despite having one in place and I don't really like that business practice tbh. Like yes, both times it was an upgrade and I will enjoy it for what it is but the move itself just feels greasy to me.

I was not expecting Ross to be let go. I guess they just couldn't refuse a chance to get Counsel

I get it. It makes sense for him. He still gets to be close to his family while making a boatload more money and managing a team on the rise (while the Brewers will likely be on the decline, if not in full rebuild mode). It still is just dirty.

This guy grew up and lives in Wisconsin. He played for the Brewers. Got a front office job after retiring, and then was kind of given the reigns to the team, almost experimentally, when the Brewers were kind of lost as an organization in the mid 2010s. Completely turned things around and turned the Brewers into a perennial playoff team and a NL Central powerhouse (though they never really got National recognition for being one).

The manager being deposed, Ross, is also somewhat of a fan favorite in Chicago with deeper ties to that organization. So yeah, it definitely feels greasy all around.

Well, as a Brewer fan, if I can say anything bad about the guy, it's that he's gone 1-9 in the last 10 postseason games. As great as a manager he is in the regular season, and especially September (Craigtember), I think he tries too hard in the playoffs, and deviates his managing style from what makes him so great in the regular season.

Tigers hire Jason Benetti to do their TV play by play

Unironically the biggest acquisition this franchise has made in years