A's win again and are up 3 on ya Matt!
You shush!
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Losing by that much doesn't cost you 2 or 3 games in the loss column
It should!!
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Every team has games like this.
True, but it's much more fun when it's the Yanks.
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How was Lisa Guerrero in person.
Hey, you two stay the hell away from
my woman!
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At least we have in common a dislike for fair weather fans, regional two-team fans, and hatered for the Dodgers.
Speaking of...
JediMac,
I'll assume you're just referring to the latter two of those blurbs there. But Idej, are there really no Bay Area folks that are fans of both the Giants and the A's? Or in NY, is anyone a fan of both the Yankees and the Mets?
Hell, ever since I was a lil' tike growin' up in Orange County, I've always rooted for both of my local teams, in each sport. Dodgers/Angels, Raiders/Rams, Lakers/kinda Clippers, Kings/later Ducks (though I'll admit to being fairweathered in this sport now), UCLA/USC...
Fortunately, it's never come down to one team against another in the Playoffs, so I've never had to make a choice between the two. I've been begging for my Freeway World Series between the Halos and the Blue, but they've never really even come close. If they met now, I'd go with the Angels in a heartbeat though. Rams and Raiders have come close to playing eachother in the Super Bowl a couple times recently, but to no avail. The only local team I've dumped since my youth is USC, 'cause THAT'S a rivalry that you just can't be on both sides of. Since I went to UCSB (long ago) and my wife went to UCLA, they've definitely won my loyalty since I hit my collegiate years. Don't get that same vibe from any of those other franchises though. No hatred for eachother really.
Now you wanna talk about hatred... Dodgers/Giants. Now there's some hatred. I love how Vic the Brick always refers to them as "the hated ones", instead of ever calling them just "the Giants". Anyway, yeah, it's gonna boil down to those head to head series matchups over the next few weeks here, and the Dodgers have been losing some serious steam of late. I think we're 13-11 since the trade, including the win we squeeked out against the Snakes in extra innings tonight. Not looking too hot right now, and we're still reeling from the implosion within our bullpen. Not a good idea trading Mota. At all. That's proving a lot more costly than moving LoDuca.
I'll be extremely pissed off if both the Angels AND Dodgers falter coming down the stretch here, and we get no post season love here in SoCal. It'll just add insult to injury if SF sneaks in there...
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