jerseyhoya wrote:
Also him being an Arsenal fan makes a lot of sense.

@MJ_Baumann

I got sunburned on my lips yesterday.

Woody wrote:

@MJ_Baumann

I got sunburned on my lips yesterday.

jerseyhoya wrote:

phdave wrote:@MJ_Baumann WHY WON'T YOU GIVE ME AN UPDATED PLAYOFF%, COOLSTANDINGS??

You're popping the champagne awfully early for someone with a 96 percent chance of being wrong.

A problem with this thread (also applies to the Internet in general) is it's hard to tell when people are serious and when they're joking.

But if he's a stats person and just eats up the output of CoolStandings that's pathetic.

jerseyhoya wrote:A problem with this thread (also applies to the Internet in general) is it's hard to tell when people are serious and when they're joking.

Phylan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:A problem with this thread (also applies to the Internet in general) is it's hard to tell when people are serious and when they're joking.

holy shit the train finally made it to the fucking station

Maybe it’s been too long since I’ve seen meaningful baseball. I’ve had too much time to think and not enough to enjoy. There’s nothing to get excited about with this Phillies team, from where I’m sitting. Sure, they’re going to be very good, and the pitching is going to be great, but there’s no reason to expect them to be better than (or even as good as) they were last year. And it’s not because the team couldn’t have been constructed better. I’m not optimistic. And you shouldn’t be either.

I’ll be honest, I’ve watched maybe two hours of spring training baseball, of which maybe 20 minutes involved the Phillies. If there’s news, if a player looks good or bad, or gets hurt, I’ll hear about it on Twitter or on Baseball Today. I’ve spent far more time this spring watching college baseball than spring training, because it’s more fun to get hyped about Joey Pankake and Michael Roth than it is to worry about Chase Utley and Antonio Bastardo.

I put far too much energy and emotional investment into watching and writing about baseball for this to be an acceptable state of affairs. I’m tired of being unable to think about the Phillies without being overcome with rage. It’s exhausting. I want to feel other things, like joy or empathy or excitement. Baseball used to make me feel that way. But now the Phillies are in decline, and I get the feeling there isn’t going to be anything quick, easy, painless, or unexpected about it.

I’d just as soon get it over with.

swishnicholson wrote:I must be in the wrong thread. I was looking for the one where people were poking gentle fun at a baseball writer who sometimes has an overwrought prose style and an elevated opinion of himself.

td11 wrote:3) why do you feel the need to come defend him here? are we hurting his feelings?