Immortality
So, after creating a board topic about Jim Joyce being a joke last night, I woke up and realized I just helped give this guy what he wanted: Immortality. That wasn't a close call last night. That call should have been out 99.9% of the time. It was not an innocent mistake. Jim Joyce wanted to go down in the "record books". Now no one will forget his name.
is a great reason to create ANOTHER thread on this issue. Oh yes.
The OP is a moronic assertion. This thread should be deleted.
I heard Bill Buckner called Joyce last night to welcome him to the "immortality" club. [sarcasm alert]
Negged. I don't think you ever did anything but angrily bang away at your keyboard over this. No reading or anything. Certainly didn't read or hear the interviews. I fully believe it when they say the one person more than anyone else who wishes this wouldn't have happened is Jim Joyce.
Jesus christ this is just ridiculous how you Tigers fans are going off about this. Ok yes he made a bad call IT HAPPENS. He's an official and calls the game as he sees it. He even admitted to the public that his call was horrible and he even sounded like he was going to have a break down during the conference give him a break. At least your pitcher took it with sportsmanship and said "nobody's perfect" and they aren't other wise we wouldn't need instant replay if officials were perfect! You won the game 3-0 in shut out that alone in baseball is already hard to do. You won the game, you beat my team and Cleveland sucks no matter what. God how anybody could care this much about a baseball game is beyond me. I'm an Indians fan and if this happened to my team I still could give a shit less. Baseball is the 3rd most BORING AS HELL game to watch next to cricket and golf.
I'm setting the over/under on the neggery of this shitty post at -35, valid only if this thread doesn't just get flat deleted.
But you're probably about right. I saw a -150 last night on a post, so its possible to blow -35 away. Especially for this guy.
It doesn't matter. He's just going to upvote his own posts again anyways.
I don't think upvoting your own posts results in any points, though. Let me see.....
edit: nope, nothing, although it does make the post look more popular. Onanist posbanging is ineffective.
Well crap... Someone must really love him then. I remember him getting negbanged into oblivion and he was hovering around 500 points, yet he was magically back at 1000 by the end of the night.
Side note - I negged myself for looking like an idiot.
For an honest effort at self-actualization.
+1 for having Zoltan in your avatar.
You know, I never really neg, and I think sometimes you're unfairly provoked/ridiculed. But, let's break down the structure of your post:
You make a few great points (e.g. There's no need for 5 threads on this topic, Galarraga showed outstanding sportsmanship, winning 3-0 is still tough to do in the Majors.)
However, while I (and many) will agree, you distract us and don't win us over by attacking Tiger/baseball fans (e.g. 'You tiger fans...' 'Who cares, it's baseball and baseball is boring')
Don't argue using opinions, don't complain about topics. You don't have to read the thread if you don't like it.
Every time I think maybe you're being unfairly attacked/treated on this board, you go and do something like this....
...and do nothing to redeem yourself.
What do you mean "you Tigers fans?"
What do YOU mean "you Tigers fans?"
Aint no party like a Detroit party?
Are you going to beat up us now? Please, I'll get over it...just don't hit me.
Jesus christ this is just ridiculous how you Tigers fans are going off about this.
Tiger fans aren't the only ones upset about this. Anyone that is a fan of baseball is upset with that call. Pretty much everything in the world of sports is being overshadowed by this today. Even your supposedly beloved Indians were shocked by the call. Not to mention, that pretty much negated Austin Jackson's awesome catch that kept the streak going.
God how anybody could care this much about a baseball game is beyond me.
Everybody that watched that game, either at home or in person was robbed at being a part of history, and most importanly Galarraga himself was robbed at being in the record books. Sorry if we Tiger fans are passionate about one our players getting robbed of such a feat. No scratch that, we don't owe anybody an explanation for that, especially you.
I'm an Indians fan and if this happened to my team I still could give a shit less.
Obviously you're not the Indians fan you claim to be if that happend to one of their pitchers and you could give a shit less.
Baseball is the 3rd most BORING AS HELL game to watch next to cricket and golf.
Then why are you even commenting on this, and most of all, how in the hell can you call yourself a fan of a team that plays a sport you call boring. Let me guess, you're also a Woods or Mickelson fan, yet you also called golf boring.
And possibly the epic failure of this post
Jesus christ
Really?! I'm not a grammar nazi, nor am I a holy roller but you failed to capitalize the C in Christ. Your religious beliefs or lack thereof is entirely your perogative, but at least show some respect.
Anyone who knows anything about umpiring or refereeing knows that those guys don't want immortality. Good umpires are anonymous. If you're remembered as an umpire, it's probably because you screwed up. Jim Joyce is known within the league as a solid umpire who will now be remembered forever for blowing Galarraga's perfect game. I'm sure he's dying a little inside today.
The OP's premise is a bit ridiculous.
Good umpires are (formerly) anonymous.
Terracotta armies and mercury pill consumption a la the first emperor of China! I didn't think others on this board were really into early Chinese history and I can't find a blog about it so I was really excited. I was sadly mistaken however.
God how anybody could care this much about a baseball game is beyond me.
How could you care so much about M football?
People were watching something that has only happend 20 times in the past 110 years (oddly twice in the past month). It's the hardest single game achievement in all of sport, and if you can't appreciate that, how are you even a fan in general?
Your statement is one of the more sad utterances I've seen you make on this site.
I saw this post and the first thing that popped into my head was "up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a, select, start".
I think the OP has some very intriguing ideas, however I think gremlin needs to quickly put the tin foil hat on his head before our Alien overlords steal any of his other genius thoughts.