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MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

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Aaron Judge finally getting a fair strike zone, and hit a 3 run dinger (could have been a Granny, but a passed ball allowed a runner to score just before his shot).

CC pitches another 6 inning scoreless gem, Yanks up 8-0 in the 7th.
 
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A Yankee fan *****ing about allegedly improper calls in the playoffs. That's as rich as hearing a Packer fan *****ing about calls at Lambeau. :D
 
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I say again. The umps quit calling strikes at the shins, and Judge starts making contact. Maybe it's something, maybe it's nothing, but up until game 3 ALCS, he was often being gifted a free strike at the shins.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Proof is there all playoffs (and a good majority of the season.) Umps consistently call strikes out of the zone on him.
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Well, the rest of MLB is owed about a bajillion calls that have favored the Yankees over the years, so just take those off the long running tab.
 
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unofan said:
Well, the rest of MLB is owed about a bajillion calls that have favored the Yankees over the years, so just take those off the long running tab.
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And not pidly things like strike zones. I'm talking balls that landed four farking feet foul that were called fair in favor of the Yankees. In two separate series.
 
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unofan said:
Well, the rest of MLB is owed about a bajillion calls that have favored the Yankees over the years, so just take those off the long running tab.
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100% this. There isn't a fan base in all of professional sports in this country that should complain less about calls than Yankees fans...and it isn't even close.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
100% this. There isn't a fan base in all of professional sports in this country that should complain less about calls than Yankees fans...and it isn't even close.
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Who knows, if the Yankees hadn't been gifted a Jeter home run via the Jeffrey Maier play, maybe their most recent dynasty never would have happened.
 
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Sigh. The Yankees, like the Cardinals, are insufferable. In truth, the latter's humble brag is probably worse than the former's casual assumption of superiority. But what really drives the nail in is that both teams always seem to get it done.
 
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WeAreNDHockey said:
Who knows, if the Yankees hadn't been gifted a Jeter home run via the Jeffrey Maier play, maybe their most recent dynasty never would have happened.
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As a Yankees fan, I say tough sh$t. LOL (Though, that was a pretty bad call. And my wife is an Orioles fan, so how our marriage survived that...)

But in all seriousness, I have often wondered about events like that and whether they trigger much larger events.

My prime example is the tuck rule call for the Patriots (the greatest BS call in the history of sports) which allowed them to beat Oakland and go on to win the Super Bowl. If that doesn't happen, do the Pats get their dynasty? Would losing to Oakland have caused the brass to make different personnel moves in the offseason that would not have allowed them to maintain their domination?

These type of things are always fun exercises.
 
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Fighting Sioux 23 said:
100% this. There isn't a fan base in all of professional sports in this country that should complain less about calls than Yankees fans...and it isn't even close.
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In my mind, there is a difference between what you are complaining about and a fair strike zone.

Judge would have the same problem no matter who he played for. And I would defend him even he played for the hated Red Sox. Just because you are taller doesn't mean you get a different strike zone. And that has been evident his entire year.
 
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Kepler said:
Sigh. The Yankees, like the Cardinals, are insufferable. In truth, the latter's humble brag is probably worse than the former's casual assumption of superiority. But what really drives the nail in is that both teams always seem to get it done.
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I find Cardinals fans way more annoying. Or maybe it's just the media's representation of them. "They clap for opposing players"... um, yeah, not that often. Good fans and bad fans, like every other team on the planet. They're just more spoiled and lack perspective because their team doesn't usually lose.

And I find Yankee fans that did not live through the lean years (or weren't fans then) 5000 times more insufferable than fans my age.

As far as the teams themselves.. I don't find the current Yankees very hate-able, as individuals. The Cardinals...... they're more hate-able (maybe because they're in the Brewers division). Tony LaRussa contributed a HUGE amount to my dislike of the Cardinals, and the older players left still feed that lingering dislike.
 
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Russell Jaslow said:
In my mind, there is a difference between what you are complaining about and a fair strike zone.

Judge would have the same problem no matter who he played for. And I would defend him even he played for the hated Red Sox. Just because you are taller doesn't mean you get a different strike zone. And that has been evident his entire year.
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Wrong. http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/umpires/rules_interest.jsp
 
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jen said:
And I find Yankee fans that did not live through the lean years (or weren't fans then) 5000 times more insufferable than fans my age.
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I became a Yankees fan during the years of Horace Clark, Gene Michael, Roy White, a cleanup hitter who choked up on the bat, when Steve Kekich and Floyd Patterson traded wives (seriously, for those who don't know about this, look it up) for the biggest headlines of those years, Ron Herbst (I think I got it right), and trading the rookie of the year, Stan Bahnson, for Rich McKinney who wound up playing a month before being sent to the minors.

Besides, I'm also a Jets fan. I have a right to be an arrogant Yankees fan. :eek:
 
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