Go Cubbies!

[Scooter]

Blue Jays win game five, 6-3....

No need to be shy about saying Jim. You like us, you really like us.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I'm scared.

[Lord Jim]

Congratulations to the NY Mets, on their great victory over the hated Los Angeles Dodgers!



Now please lose...

[Sue U]

Jon Stewart must be delirious at this point.



Congrats to Philly's longtime division rivals. It truly is a topsy turvy world.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Is there baseball?


Still?

[Lord Jim]

Two months ago, I was absolutely certain that the Mets weren't real; that they would fade in the strech and the Nats would win the division...

I was wrong; the Mets have certainly earned the right to be where they are today...

Now please lose...

[Sue U]

Is there baseball?


Still?

Not for you.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Sports Nazi!

[Sue U]

Beisbol been berry berry bad to you.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Also futbol and basketbol.

But we has Leonard Cohens in the Rocks and Rolls hall of Fames!

[rubato]

Can you FEEL the hate?


The team which has done the most to integrate and then internationalize baseball appears to have the support of the most international urban area in the United States.


2015 Attendance
RK TEAM ****************TOTAL ************** AVG
1 LA Dodgers *********** 3,764,815 *********** 46,479
2 St. Louis ************* 3,520,889 ***********43,467
3 San Francisco ********** 3,375,882 ***********41,677
4 NY Yankees *********** 3,193,795 ***********39,922
5 LA Angels *********** 3,012,765 *********** 37,194
6 Chicago Cubs ***********2,959,812 ***********36,540

The real question is when will they have the first Vietnamese in the majors? They've led the way everywhere else.


yrs,
rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

Including fleeing Brooklyn for the sunny kiss-ups of California

What's with the hate thing? Everybody hates the Yankees - some people hate the Dodgers.

[Lord Jim]

2015 Attendance
RK TEAM ****************TOTAL ************** AVG
1 LA Dodgers *********** 3,764,815 *********** 46,479
2 St. Louis ************* 3,520,889 ***********43,467
3 San Francisco ********** 3,375,882 ***********41,677
4 NY Yankees *********** 3,193,795 ***********39,922
5 LA Angels *********** 3,012,765 *********** 37,194
6 Chicago Cubs ***********2,959,812 ***********36,540

See, now what were lookin' at there is a classic example of how one statistic can be cherry picked out of context to provide a misleading impression. Let's see how those attendance figures for the top 3 teams look when we add some relevant context:

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area pop: 13,262,220

St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area pop: 2,806,207 [they are baseball lovin' maniacs in St. Louis]

San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area pop: 8,607,423

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_M ... ical_Areas

Now let's look at those average attendance per game stats in the context of maximum stadium seating capacity...

Guess who's #1 in terms of seating capacity in all of MLB?:

Dodger Stadium.....56,000

Busch Stadium......46,861

AT&T Park...........41,915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U ... y_capacity

Interesting the way adding relevant context can cause a whole different picture to emerge...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Oh, I'm so starting to hate those Dodders.

Dogers. Whatever

[Gob]

Ten pin bowling?

[rubato]

Giants team management understand supply and demand better than their moron fans do. And more cynically.

Cut supply. Increase demand. Raise prices. No matter if 15,000 fewer people get to see the the game. Its all about the money.

Bitch.

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

Bitch.

yrs,
rubato

rube, I believe that's the third or fourth (or possibly 5th) time in recent days that frustration over my besting you on the facts in a variety of discussions has led you to lash out at me with that unflattering and misogynistic characterization...

If you really want me to be your "bitch" rube, the very least you could do is buy me dinner first...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Don't do it, rube! He's got expensive tastes and won't even hold hands on the first seventeen dates. Maybe it's eighteen. I gave up

[Gob]

Bitch.

yrs,
rubato

Thus proving, yet again and unnecessarily, that his pretense, of being even slightly to the left of even US political spectrum is nothing but a sham.

[dales]

....some people hate the Dodgers.

rube, I believe that's the third or fourth (or possibly 5th) time in recent days that frustration over my besting you on the facts in a variety of discussions has led you to lash out at me with that unflattering and misogynistic characterization...

He is easily frustrated and lashes out in childish ways.

All part of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

He can't help himself.