A Debate Over the Dodgers' Iranian-Japanese Pitcher Yu Darvish
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First fan: Darvish should do the honorable thing and remove himself from the game by committing seppuku on the mound.
Second fan: Or at least he could flog himself Shi’ite style on his way to the showers.
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This is one way to thoroughly ruin the suspense of a Game 7.
I only saw the last 15 min of the final game of last yr's World Series cuz I heard it went overtime.Replies: @RadicalCenter
GO DODGERS!
Steve, I’m not sure what drugs you consumed before writing this but do yourself a favor a delete it before anyone else sees it
This has been a huge year for chokes in sports though, when you step outside of the moment and think about it. The Falcons back in the Super Bowl, the US MNT (soccer), we'll see what else.
No way. Not another tragic loss like Alexander Jefferson.
Have Sheldon Adelson use Enola Gay to drop the Big One on the half-Iranian.
I can’t believe you people are watching this childishness.
I only saw the last 15 min of the final game of last yr’s World Series cuz I heard it went overtime.
Looks like he is intent on committing suicide by fan tonight.
He blew up the dodgers
1. Seppaku is by far the most honorable.
2. The whole Shiite bloodletting ritual is a work. Your forehead bleeds like a faucet. Go to YouTube and look up Abdullah the Butcher videos.
3. Puig’s drive goes out in daylight.
Do you think it would have made a psychological difference for Darvish if he had been told before the game that Kershaw was coming in after three or four innings no matter what?
It’s just not that funny but I’m sure all of us have seen plenty worse; keeping in mind Steve is an LA fan himself and this is just a fan getting naturally enraged by something disappointing.
This has been a huge year for chokes in sports though, when you step outside of the moment and think about it. The Falcons back in the Super Bowl, the US MNT (soccer), we’ll see what else.
Do the Dodgers have some guy named Harvey to pitch?
do yourself a favor a delete it before anyone else sees it
No way. Not another tragic loss like Alexander Jefferson.
I am offended that anybody would so make fun of the beautifully unique heritage of the little China boy, as a part black Cuban Hispanic calls him.
It led to the Southern Poverty Law Center hitting up Jews for more donations and issuing more demands to destroy all Confederate statues and monuments.
Well he didn’t plunk four guys….wait three…..he got Turner twice!
Intern him for holding the game hostage.
How so? Watch the game.
GO DODGERS!
I only saw the last 15 min of the final game of last yr's World Series cuz I heard it went overtime.Replies: @RadicalCenter
A baseball game went “overtime”? What an American.
What's it called? Extra-time?Replies: @Anonymous, @RadicalCenter
If the Dodgers lose tonight, it will be the first 7 game WS that they have lost since moving to LA. They lost to NY in 7 in ’47, ’52, and in ’56 when they were in Brooklyn.
Has any pitcher ever had two starts in the WS that were worse in aggregate than Darvish’s?
(At one point, kershaw was like 1-6 in his postseason career. Now he is 7-7, albeit with TEN no-decisions, too many HRs, and too high an ERA.)Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist
Shoulda signed Verlander when they had the chance.
The study of HBD is interesting. Has an Asian athlete ever had a Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Tom Brady moment. It seems that they always crumble in high stakes moments where there is not a lot of time for preparation. Just asking?
Koji Uejara was uber clutch for Red Sox in2013. Win alcs MVP and World Series.
Hideki Matsui was very good and won a WS w Yankees.
They've done wellReplies: @Hapalong Cassidy
And it’s all over.
I assume George Springer will be the WS MVP — there can’t have been too many others who were such an obvious choice.
A baseball game went “overtime”? What an American.
What’s it called? Extra-time?
Japanese athletes had a lot of pressure on them in the 20th Century in international competitions, such as the Japanese marathoner who was supposed to win the golf in Tokyo in 1964 but committed suicide.
The Japanese underachieved for awhile in the Olympics, quite possibly due to the stifling pressure of representing the nation.
But in the 21st Century, Japanese have done pretty well in the Olympics, so maybe they’ve learned better how to deal with the pressure.
Sailer sure loves golf.
Yeah, well, the Iranian-Japanese breeding is questionable.
2. The whole Shiite bloodletting ritual is a work. Your forehead bleeds like a faucet. Go to YouTube and look up Abdullah the Butcher videos.
3. Puig's drive goes out in daylight.Replies: @Anon
The Yakuza way is to cut off the finger. In this case, cut off his entire hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yubitsume
Japanese athletes had a lot of pressure on them in the 20th Century in international competitions, such as the Japanese marathoner who was supposed to win the golf in Tokyo in 1964 but committed suicide.
Sailer sure loves golf.
Korean Winter Olympics are right around the corner. That is a population also known for self-imposed pressure so there may be a televised lab experiment to observe behaviors.
I’m happy for the people of Houston.
My local wealthy corporate entity that taxes me heavily on my property every year for a stadium I have never been to won a trophy! It's a great life.Replies: @Olorin, @Joe Schmoe
Me too.
What's it called? Extra-time?Replies: @Anonymous, @RadicalCenter
Extra innings.
Series ended with whimper not bang.
Entertaining .
Games 2 and 5 unforgettable.
Hinch using starters as bullpen and quick hook
better than Roberts letting Darvish in too long.
SI curse broken , they picked Houston with
Springer MVP on cover.
Happy Houston won.
I don’t think it’s that that’s keeping them out of the NBA and NFL champion ranks. Where’s the evidence that they “always crumble” in high stakes American pro sports games when they generally don’t even reach high level American sports in the first place? Japan has a big pro baseball league. I imagine they have had plenty of players who don’t crumble in big games. They sort of have to, since one side has to win the game by definition.
The study of HBD is interesting. Has an Asian athlete ever had a Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Tom Brady moment. It seems that they always crumble in high stakes moments where there is not a lot of time for preparation. Just asking?
Hideki Masui was 2009 World Series MVP batting in 6 runs in the decisive 6th game.
YE Yang held off Tiger Woods to win 2008 PGA. Very clutch.
Koji Uejara was uber clutch for Red Sox in2013. Win alcs MVP and World Series.
Hideki Matsui was very good and won a WS w Yankees.
They’ve done well
Entertaining .
Games 2 and 5 unforgettable.
Hinch using starters as bullpen and quick hook
better than Roberts letting Darvish in too long.
SI curse broken , they picked Houston with
Springer MVP on cover.
Happy Houston won.Replies: @Danindc
That cover was from 2014 FYI. It was a prediction bc they were building a great team. Actually more impressive…,
Maybe, Yu Darvish was too traumatized by Yuli Gurriel’s mirco-aggressions to pitch effectively.
“Game 7 has not gone necessarily to the Dodgers’ advantage.”
-Emperor Hirohito
Very impressive.
Springer was the cover boy. Was he this WS MVP?
I think Darvish got rattled by that gesture from Gurriel. Darvish needed to be angry and Gurriel’s magnanimous hat tip wrecked his competitive edge. Or maybe his 89-mph spinning sliders with no bite and mediocre fastballs just don’t get it done against the best offense in baseball. Either way Dave Roberts is in for a long winter.
Anyone watching Sumo on NHK (broadcast as a digital subchannel at 28.4 in LA metro area) will see PLENTY of pressure, including competing in a brutal two week tournament hurt. It hardly gets more high pressure than Sumo, and some memorable champions have gutted out pretty bad shoulder injuries to win against tough opponents.
What makes things even more challenging is a “Gold Star Victory.” This is where a lower ranked opponent defeats a Yokozuna in the tournament. The lower ranked victor gets a lifetime payout every year; and the money is substantial. While the money is small compared to NBA superstar money, top ranked Sumo wrestlers can make tens of millions a year in prize money. More in endorsements. There’s plenty of pressure there.
Rather, top Japanese baseball players spend the majority of their productive years in Japan under club control; only when they’ve lost a step do they get released to play in the US. There is also the role tradition plays; Sumo has been very resistant to weight training, and other isolation exercises, and modern injury prevention routines. A lot of Japanese athletes do stupid “fighting spirit” stuff because its tradition and they get punished for flouting tradition. Over train, things like that.
True enough, Darvish was just horrible. He was scared to death, as he was his first start of the WS.
But in fact, it was Dodger manager Roberts who really hurt the Dodgers.
– 1. By starting Darvish a second time. He had the previously very effective lefty Alex Wood ready to go.
– 2. Not only did Roberts start Darvish twice, but Roberts made blunder after blunder throughout the series.
Astros manager Hinch clearly out managed Roberts in every way.
I’m a Dodgers fan and it was embarrassing.
Congrats Houston, any team that eliminates the Yankees and over rated NYC are OK in my book.
The Astros had better pitching and hitting. They could have been beaten by both the Yankees and Dodgers with timely strategy, but strategy that goes against sabremetrics no longer appears. Like the suicide or safety squeeze, or bunting 1st and 2nd, no outs. Yes, it cuts down runs in the regular season against poor pitching.
Yes
Maybe kershaw in 2014, when he was 0-2 with an ERA of nearly eight.
(At one point, kershaw was like 1-6 in his postseason career. Now he is 7-7, albeit with TEN no-decisions, too many HRs, and too high an ERA.)
What's it called? Extra-time?Replies: @Anonymous, @RadicalCenter
If you’re not North American, I wouldn’t have given you flak for not knowing that, mate. Just like I don’t know many cricket or rugby terms.
http://thephilosophicalsalon.com/blade-runner-2049-a-view-of-post-human-capitalism/
(At one point, kershaw was like 1-6 in his postseason career. Now he is 7-7, albeit with TEN no-decisions, too many HRs, and too high an ERA.)Replies: @The Last Real Calvinist
Even though Kershaw is a multimillionaire superstar, I sometimes can’t help but feel a bit sorry for him. There may be something about his pitching style that doesn’t translate that well to the postseason, but he’s been pretty unlucky as well.
This year, for example, no one is going to remember his postseason performance as being dominant, because the Dodgers didn’t win the World Series, and because he got shelled in the infamous WS Game 5.
But if you look at his overall stats for this postseason, they’re (almost) uniformly excellent.
He went 3-0, to please the saber-hater traditionalists.
He gave up just 21 hits in 33 innings, and his opponents hit just .179 against him, as compared with .212 in the regular season.
His WHIP in the postseason — 0.94 — was actually lower than in the regular season, when it was 0.95.
He had 33 strikeouts in those 33 innings, an excellent one-per-inning average. Admittedly, this is not quite as good as he was in the regular season, but it’s close enough to be statistically meaningless, and again, it’s against better competition, including one of the best-hitting teams of all time in the Astros.
The problem, as you say, was the home run. Kershaw gave up 8 in the 2017 postseason, leading very directly to an ERA of 3.82, compared to 2.21 in the regular season.
He had some problems with the long ball in the regular season this year as well, as he gave up 23, which is his worst season in this regard by quite a margin. But 8 in 33 innings is really bad compared with 23 in 175 regular-season innings — much less the 11 in 236 innings he gave up back in 2013.
So this again makes one think. All things considered, Kershaw seems better than ever — except for the gopher balls. So either he’s held steady or even improved in all aspects of his pitching except for suddenly and inexplicably grooving occasional pitches in a way he didn’t in the past, or else we’re back to wondering about the ball again.
Bill James wrote about how Craig Biggio was a Hall of Famer during the regular season, but was pretty mediocre in the postseason. He speculated that Biggio, a smallish man for a big time athlete, may have feasted on #5 starters but got outgunned by all the aces he had to face in the postseason.
Unfortunately, Baseball References splits page don't let you check that. What I did notice about Biggio was that his regular season hitting fell off pretty badly in September, the sixth and last month of the regular season. My guess would be that he worked out very hard in the offseason, started the season in great shape, and then started to wear down from minor injuries (second basemen get beat up a lot by runners trying to break up the double play) and fatigue in the last month of the season and this carried through into the postseason.
Another possibility is that the Astros are just a historically strong hitting team. No they are probably not as good as the 1927 Yankees other than the Yankees didn't have a DH. But if the OPS+ figure is correct, they are considerably stronger hitters than, say, the famous 1982 Milwaukee Brewers or the zillion dollar Yankee teams of the Rodriguez-Jeter-Cano era.Replies: @MBlanc46
They look for anything to discredit such guys with beaucoup talent.
No chance Darvish choked. The year is long and his year was uneven. He was absolutely bombed the game before the trade. His location was absent, his slider didn’t slide, again. The mistake was Robert’s. When a pitcher suddenly can’t do what he does best there is nothing he can do to get it back in that moment, like Kershaw’s game two outing. Nothing.
Two starts of less than 2 innings each and bombs away.
His control was such that the only way he could get anything over was to throw BP type pitches, and BP it was for Houston.
His slider was a cement mixer as well, for Houston it was like hitting the ball from a T.Even Fox broadcaster hall of famer Smoltz stated that this is what happens when a pitcher is nervous and cannot bring his nerves under control. He get's under the ball, he aims, is tight with his breaking pitches, etc, etc.Darvish was not ready for the big moments and it clearly showed. His eyes even had the look of fear.Yet the not too smart Dave Roberts started him a 2nd time with the same results as the 1st when he had the previously effective Alex Woods ready to go.
Kershaw was lights out in game 7 relief.
Looks like Major League Baseball has been heavily infiltrated by ISIS big beards.
But seriously, Pro Baseball has the most foreign-born players on its rosters. mostly from the Caribbean. While Football remains the most all-American of the three major sports.
Major league soccer--42% foreign born.
NHL--50% Canadian born. Last time I checked, Canada is a foreign country.
Koji Uejara was uber clutch for Red Sox in2013. Win alcs MVP and World Series.
Hideki Matsui was very good and won a WS w Yankees.
They've done wellReplies: @Hapalong Cassidy
I remember Yang’s comeback victory over Tiger. I believe that before that, Tiger had never blown a first-place lead on the fourth day, ever. Which is a pretty incredible accomplishment. Losing that game in that way must have done something to him psychologically, because he hasn’t won another major since. Of course, this was also the last major he played in prior to his wife beating him up after catching him cheating, the trauma of which could also have carried over to his golf game.
My condolences , Steve. It’s worse to lose the World Series than to fail to reach it. I speak from experience (’73, ’00, ’15 . . . still painful).
I don’t know about Kershaw and his post-season problems, but here’s an analogy.
Bill James wrote about how Craig Biggio was a Hall of Famer during the regular season, but was pretty mediocre in the postseason. He speculated that Biggio, a smallish man for a big time athlete, may have feasted on #5 starters but got outgunned by all the aces he had to face in the postseason.
Unfortunately, Baseball References splits page don’t let you check that. What I did notice about Biggio was that his regular season hitting fell off pretty badly in September, the sixth and last month of the regular season. My guess would be that he worked out very hard in the offseason, started the season in great shape, and then started to wear down from minor injuries (second basemen get beat up a lot by runners trying to break up the double play) and fatigue in the last month of the season and this carried through into the postseason.
Another possibility is that the Astros are just a historically strong hitting team. No they are probably not as good as the 1927 Yankees other than the Yankees didn’t have a DH. But if the OPS+ figure is correct, they are considerably stronger hitters than, say, the famous 1982 Milwaukee Brewers or the zillion dollar Yankee teams of the Rodriguez-Jeter-Cano era.
Longtime Astros fan here. Thank you for the congrats. Hard to square Darvish’s deer-in-headlights demeanor in Game 7 with his cocksure attitude just prior to jumping to the big leagues. I remember some press conference where he made a boastful aside about having knocked up a Japanese starlet and planned to marry her to preserve her family’s honor.
Agreed that Roberts made a lot of questionable decisions. Behind Kershaw’s pre-Game 7 remark to the media that he could pitch 27 innings if that’s what his manager asked him to do, there must have been a lot of anger that Roberts chose to start Darvish over him.
Longtime Astros fan here. Thank you for the congrats. Hard to square Darvish’s deer-in-headlights demeanor in Game 7 with his cocksure attitude just prior to jumping to the big leagues. I remember some press conference where he made a boastful aside about having knocked up a Japanese starlet and would marry her to preserve her family’s honor.
Agreed that Roberts made a lot of questionable decisions. Behind Kershaw’s pre-Game 7 remark to the media that he could pitch 27 innings if that’s what his manager asked him to do, there must have been a lot of anger that Roberts chose to start Darvish over him.
A pretty epic, brutal and even series, I would say. Even as a long-distance Astros fan, I felt exhausted just watching the games, especially up to game 5. The Dodgers just kept coming, up until game 7 started.
Charlie Morton and (((Alex Bregman))) presented themselves to the world. George Springer got out of the shadow of Altuve and Correa. Great work. Great work.
I hadn’t watched the Dodgers much before this, so basically everyone but Kershaw and Darvish (recently of the arch-enemy Texas Rangers) was unfamiliar. There was something to Roberts wearing out the Dodgers bullpen, I think. Didn’t he go through basically everyone available in Game 1?
Well, even more than Darvish, I think we can pin the dodgers loss on Cody Bellinger, he of the alltime record for postseason strikeouts in a year and World Series strikeouts in one year. Dreaded every time he came to the plate. Should have been out of the lineup at least two games ago.
Appreciate the details in your comment. We’re back to doing more than just wondering about the ball. It has been modified, as Justin Verlander and other pitchers have unequivocally stated.
Still, kershaw to deal with the same doctored baseballs during the regular season and never gave up homers like he did in the postseason. Is it something psychological, or is it simply Kershaw facing better power hitters on average in the playoffs?
But seriously, Pro Baseball has the most foreign-born players on its rosters. mostly from the Caribbean. While Football remains the most all-American of the three major sports.Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Joe Schmoe, @Brutusale
It’s even more ubiquitous in L.A. than most other places. What a strange look. I call it the homo-Muslim look. Perfect for the self-hating lefty white (and Mexican) masochists in L.A.
Apparently testing has confirmed the doctoring of the balls this season. I’ll look for a link on that.
According to some guys on sportsball radio this morning, the Astros picked up a tell in Darvish’s pitching. When he held the ball still in his glove, a fastball was coming. If his pitching hand was moving around getting a grip on the ball, a slider was coming. So they hitters knew just what to expect.
The radio guys also noted that the Dodgers pitching coach should have picked this up as well and warned Darvish, but apparently that didn’t happen.
My house is gone, the insurance company won’t pay what it was worth. My car was underwater up to the window for four days, my dogs drowned and my business is still closed so I haven’t collected a paycheck in a month, but hey…
My local wealthy corporate entity that taxes me heavily on my property every year for a stadium I have never been to won a trophy! It’s a great life.
Which, how important could they be, being in Texas and all?
All you'd care about was that your team won "in overtime" as someone put it up above. Or on time.
Jeez, grow a sense of perspective!
Also: a new stadium is needed because ratings and attendance are down, and it's obviously because the current stadium isn't good enough. Pay up, serf--bulletproof windows for those billionaires' luxury boxes don't come cheap ya know.
Turner first administration ever that announced no shelters for the poor to go to prior to the storm hitting. I have been in Houston since 1976, and every other storm they announced shelters in advance so poor people in apartments as well as others could at least go to the local public school and sit in the gym/cafeteria and park their car where it wouldn't get flooded. In this storm, they didn't even tell the elderly to get to a shelter. Sad.
Our Astros are awesome! Huge baseball fan here. My kids play baseball. Altuve is my favorite current player because he is short like my son. Even without the mega payroll, the Astros had a great season.Replies: @Brutusale
I’d put more blame on the offense than poor Darvish. How many runners did they strand last night? 7 or 8? McCullers’s strategy of being so wild that no one knew how to time him paid off, I guess.
But getting behind 5 runs before the end of the 2nd inning didn't help. To say the least.
And note that the rest of the LA pitchers gave up exactly ZERO runs. meaning they theoretically could have won 1 - 0.
Yes, McCuller was wild, but he didn't throw BP to the Dodgers. Darvish panicked, gave in and grooved pitch after pitch.
McCuller was previously very effective, as opposed to Darvish who simply got hammered, and the not to smart Roberts put him back out there for more of the same when he had Alex Woods.
Cheers.
What race is the MVP, Springer?
His mom was a gymnast and his dad appeared in the Little League W.S. back in the 70’s.
http://blog.chron.com/ultimateastros/2014/04/16/springers-first-day-as-a-pro-is-a-whirlwind/#photo-440413
He be mulatto.
Yeah, I’m sure Daddy has never run around on Momma. I wonder how many half-brothers George III has.
Just kiddin’!
His dad is not all african, that is for sure. Dad could be half like Obama, or a lot less, too. Springer is a German name. Germans weren't much of slave holders, so it could be a real family name.Replies: @Truth
Bill James wrote about how Craig Biggio was a Hall of Famer during the regular season, but was pretty mediocre in the postseason. He speculated that Biggio, a smallish man for a big time athlete, may have feasted on #5 starters but got outgunned by all the aces he had to face in the postseason.
Unfortunately, Baseball References splits page don't let you check that. What I did notice about Biggio was that his regular season hitting fell off pretty badly in September, the sixth and last month of the regular season. My guess would be that he worked out very hard in the offseason, started the season in great shape, and then started to wear down from minor injuries (second basemen get beat up a lot by runners trying to break up the double play) and fatigue in the last month of the season and this carried through into the postseason.
Another possibility is that the Astros are just a historically strong hitting team. No they are probably not as good as the 1927 Yankees other than the Yankees didn't have a DH. But if the OPS+ figure is correct, they are considerably stronger hitters than, say, the famous 1982 Milwaukee Brewers or the zillion dollar Yankee teams of the Rodriguez-Jeter-Cano era.Replies: @MBlanc46
One knows that one has been away from the game for a long time when one doesn’t know when the Rodriguez-Jeter-Cano era was.
No?
Two starts of less than 2 innings each and bombs away.
His control was such that the only way he could get anything over was to throw BP type pitches, and BP it was for Houston.
His slider was a cement mixer as well, for Houston it was like hitting the ball from a T.
Even Fox broadcaster hall of famer Smoltz stated that this is what happens when a pitcher is nervous and cannot bring his nerves under control. He get’s under the ball, he aims, is tight with his breaking pitches, etc, etc.
Darvish was not ready for the big moments and it clearly showed. His eyes even had the look of fear.
Yet the not too smart Dave Roberts started him a 2nd time with the same results as the 1st when he had the previously effective Alex Woods ready to go.
Kershaw actually went four innings in his 2nd start before he encountered trouble, Darvish was hammered immediately …. twice. Darvish never made it past the 2nd inning, twice.
Kershaw was lights out in game 7 relief.
But, Kershaw is way too good looking, WASPy for the Jew dominated media & sportswriters.
They look for anything to discredit such guys with beaucoup talent.
It led to the Southern Poverty Law Center hitting up Jews for more donations and issuing more demands to destroy all Confederate statues and monuments.Replies: @britishbrainsize
Its just a game get over it and he aint little nor is he a mighty EDAR carrying Chinese my tiny brained fellow.
The commentators noted that it was the second time that a starter twice failed to get out of the second inning in a World Series game.
Price, probably several others.
Dodgers score just ONE of two men from third base with less than 2 outs in game five and there is no game 7. I must have missed Roberts calling a suicide or safety squeeze.
The Astros had better pitching and hitting. They could have been beaten by both the Yankees and Dodgers with timely strategy, but strategy that goes against sabremetrics no longer appears. Like the suicide or safety squeeze, or bunting 1st and 2nd, no outs. Yes, it cuts down runs in the regular season against poor pitching.
True enough, the Dodger hitters failed to drive guys in. Bellinger was shameful, Puig had no clue that there was a game going on.
But getting behind 5 runs before the end of the 2nd inning didn’t help. To say the least.
And note that the rest of the LA pitchers gave up exactly ZERO runs. meaning they theoretically could have won 1 – 0.
Yes, McCuller was wild, but he didn’t throw BP to the Dodgers. Darvish panicked, gave in and grooved pitch after pitch.
McCuller was previously very effective, as opposed to Darvish who simply got hammered, and the not to smart Roberts put him back out there for more of the same when he had Alex Woods.
Cheers.
My local wealthy corporate entity that taxes me heavily on my property every year for a stadium I have never been to won a trophy! It's a great life.Replies: @Olorin, @Joe Schmoe
Hey, if you were a PROPER American of Iranian-Japanese-Montenegran-Yanomamo-Maori ancestry, or a Seattle liberal/leftist coming late to 20th century bigbox corporate sports, you wouldn’t care ONE WHIT about your stupid house, car, and dog.
Which, how important could they be, being in Texas and all?
All you’d care about was that your team won “in overtime” as someone put it up above. Or on time.
Jeez, grow a sense of perspective!
Also: a new stadium is needed because ratings and attendance are down, and it’s obviously because the current stadium isn’t good enough. Pay up, serf–bulletproof windows for those billionaires’ luxury boxes don’t come cheap ya know.
Sounds like some annual autumn ritual at the Artemesion.
My local wealthy corporate entity that taxes me heavily on my property every year for a stadium I have never been to won a trophy! It's a great life.Replies: @Olorin, @Joe Schmoe
yeah, you can look to the mayor’s office for all the Harvey screw ups as well as tax happy policies.
Turner first administration ever that announced no shelters for the poor to go to prior to the storm hitting. I have been in Houston since 1976, and every other storm they announced shelters in advance so poor people in apartments as well as others could at least go to the local public school and sit in the gym/cafeteria and park their car where it wouldn’t get flooded. In this storm, they didn’t even tell the elderly to get to a shelter. Sad.
Our Astros are awesome! Huge baseball fan here. My kids play baseball. Altuve is my favorite current player because he is short like my son. Even without the mega payroll, the Astros had a great season.
His mom was a gymnast and his dad appeared in the Little League W.S. back in the 70's.Replies: @Joe Schmoe, @OFWHAP
He looks to be mostly white. Grampa from Panama and mom from Puerto Rico. Maybe slightly black in there somewhere. But even a little black tends to show and he doesn’t look it. He looks like a mostly white hispanic.
Let’s not forget that Tiger Woods is half Asian.
He be mulatto.
Yeah, I'm sure Daddy has never run around on Momma. I wonder how many half-brothers George III has.
Just kiddin'!Replies: @Joe Schmoe
He be at most quadroon or octaroon.
His dad is not all african, that is for sure. Dad could be half like Obama, or a lot less, too. Springer is a German name. Germans weren’t much of slave holders, so it could be a real family name.
https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/2017/08/03/george-springer-simon-bruty2.jpgReplies: @The preferred nomenclature is...
His mom was a gymnast and his dad appeared in the Little League W.S. back in the 70's.Replies: @Joe Schmoe, @OFWHAP
His dad is Panamanian, and his mom is Puerto Rican. His sister, who played softball at tOSU, looks blacker.
But seriously, Pro Baseball has the most foreign-born players on its rosters. mostly from the Caribbean. While Football remains the most all-American of the three major sports.Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Joe Schmoe, @Brutusale
Since women can’t grow beards, it is very masculine. ISIS may be psycho a-hole goat bangers, but they are not feminine.
The suicide of the Japanese athlete must be why they did away with the combined marathon and golf event. Perhaps that’s why Tiger Woods did all the extra workouts in the anticipation of it returning in 2012 or 2016. I can’t imagine running 26 miles and 385 yards just to get to the first tee. We truly aren’t like the men of yesteryear. What, gold, oh, never mind…
Are there English-speakers in Panama like in Belize and as minorities in a few other places in Central America along the Caribbean?
His dad is not all african, that is for sure. Dad could be half like Obama, or a lot less, too. Springer is a German name. Germans weren't much of slave holders, so it could be a real family name.Replies: @Truth
Yeah, half as black as Obama…or a lot less!
This post seems a little on the mean side. Why poke fun at this guy’s ethnicity?
I’m a huge Sailer fan and a fan of counter punching against the full throated anti-white identity politics. I also support some modest, reasonable, kind white identity advocacy. I don’t generally support any meanness towards others. Except those that deserve it. I could care less about pro-sports, I presume this guy lost a game or something, but the meanness here seem uncalled for.
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He’s a handsome MoFo, that fo sure.
It should have been a lot closer, even with Darvish’s terrible pitching. One of the runs Darvish gave up was on an error on a relatively routine throw to first. The Dodgers left 10 men on base.
The reason the Dodgers were still in the World Series was that they left an average of only 4 men on base in the first six games, which is extremely low (i.e., they were lucky to bunch up their few hits in run-producing clusters). In contrast, in the 7th game they didn’t have much luck. So they lost.
Pretty nasty business to blame the Dodgers’ loss on Darvish and his racial background. Ridiculous, really. A man of his accomplishments does not choke. Obviously, he’s broken, and came to the Dodgers as a broken unit. That was obvious even in the one playoff game he won against the D’backs. He was as bad in that game as he was in the world series, but had the benefit of his team doing a lot of scoring that game. Darvish was a pitching wizard when the Rangers signed him. This year he’s been a shell of himself. The Dodgers GM must have been watching tape of Darvish’s 2015 season when he decided to bring him over from Texas for the express purpose of winning the series. So put some blame on the GM for that decision.
But since this is about “race”, let’s not forget about the three “great white bats” at the top of the Dodgers batting order (Turner, Seeger, Bellinger). Their futility at the plate is where the blame really lies (if you have to blame players for fan disappointments). It’s highly unlikely Houston was going to be shut out, no matter who was on the mound for LA. The Dodgers get the lead-off man on base, what, 4 or 5 of the first six innings, but scored one run? C’mon, man! If there was any choking on the Dodgers side it was from those three highly-compensated “great white bats” in particular – you could say. But even saying that is just as unfair. Baseball is a tough game, a game of streaks and slumps over which a player has little control. A game of fate. And what a terrible fate for the game’s best pitcher (Kershaw) to be stuck on a team that just can’t seem to get it together when the spotlight shines down on them.
But seriously, Pro Baseball has the most foreign-born players on its rosters. mostly from the Caribbean. While Football remains the most all-American of the three major sports.Replies: @RadicalCenter, @Joe Schmoe, @Brutusale
MLB–29% foreign born.
Major league soccer–42% foreign born.
NHL–50% Canadian born. Last time I checked, Canada is a foreign country.
Turner first administration ever that announced no shelters for the poor to go to prior to the storm hitting. I have been in Houston since 1976, and every other storm they announced shelters in advance so poor people in apartments as well as others could at least go to the local public school and sit in the gym/cafeteria and park their car where it wouldn't get flooded. In this storm, they didn't even tell the elderly to get to a shelter. Sad.
Our Astros are awesome! Huge baseball fan here. My kids play baseball. Altuve is my favorite current player because he is short like my son. Even without the mega payroll, the Astros had a great season.Replies: @Brutusale
Enjoy them for now. There will be $250 million contracts waiting for them in New York and Boston. The Red $ox have a leg up with former ‘Stros coach Alex Cora becoming the manager in Boston.