'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...
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@serafim42-zaphod said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
I don't get why people can't just appreciate the craziness and uniqueness of the play. Baez had two choices:
- Keep going to first base, get tagged out. Inning over, or
- Tip-toe back towards the plate and see what happens.
Should it have worked? No. But it did. Enjoy.
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White Sox fans are salty because no one outside their relatively small fan base cared when they won in 2005, yet the Cubs have fans throughout the entire country (thanks to WGN). The Cubs have about as many fans in the seats now as the White Sox did on a normal day pre-Covid. The only time the White Sox can fill their stadium is when they play the Cubs. Also the White Sox stadium is in a slum and named "Guaranteed Rate Field" while the Cubs have Wrigley Field where Ruth historically pointed (arguably) to center field. Sox fans have a chip on their collective shoulder because they know that in Chicago they are the "2nd team" regardless of which team is better in any given year. All this has caused jealous rage among White Sox fans. You guys should just enjoy your team and stop hating on the Cubs. I mean the Pirates make the dumbest play in MLB history and somehow it's Baez that gets a negative reaction? You guys are true to form.
I literally have friends and family who are White Sox "fans" that would much rather the Cubs lose then the White Sox win. Now that is salty.
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@vipersneak_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
White Sox fans are salty because no one outside their relatively small fan base cared when they won in 2005, yet the Cubs have fans throughout the entire country (thanks to WGN). The Cubs have about as many fans in the seats now as the White Sox did on a normal day pre-Covid. The only time the White Sox can fill their stadium is when they play the Cubs. Also the White Sox stadium is in a slum and named "Guaranteed Rate Field" while the Cubs have Wrigley Field where Ruth historically pointed (arguably) to center field. Sox fans have a chip on their collective shoulder because they know that in Chicago they are the "2nd team" regardless of which team is better in any given year. All this has caused jealous rage among White Sox fans. You guys should just enjoy your team and stop hating on the Cubs. I mean the Pirates make the dumbest play in MLB history and somehow it's Baez that gets a negative reaction? You guys are true to form.
I literally have friends and family who are White Sox "fans" that would much rather the Cubs lose then the White Sox win. Now that is salty.
You admit it’s the dumbest play in history on the pirates part? How then is it about javy and his amazing instincts? It’s not. Everything this guy does gets blown way out of proportion and I hear about it on the radio every single day. It gets old.
There’s some truth to the rest of it. Sounds like maybe you’ve never been to the “rate”. And maybe you have some built up resentment as well lol
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@kylejaros88_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
@vipersneak_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
White Sox fans are salty because no one outside their relatively small fan base cared when they won in 2005, yet the Cubs have fans throughout the entire country (thanks to WGN). The Cubs have about as many fans in the seats now as the White Sox did on a normal day pre-Covid. The only time the White Sox can fill their stadium is when they play the Cubs. Also the White Sox stadium is in a slum and named "Guaranteed Rate Field" while the Cubs have Wrigley Field where Ruth historically pointed (arguably) to center field. Sox fans have a chip on their collective shoulder because they know that in Chicago they are the "2nd team" regardless of which team is better in any given year. All this has caused jealous rage among White Sox fans. You guys should just enjoy your team and stop hating on the Cubs. I mean the Pirates make the dumbest play in MLB history and somehow it's Baez that gets a negative reaction? You guys are true to form.
I literally have friends and family who are White Sox "fans" that would much rather the Cubs lose then the White Sox win. Now that is salty.
You admit it’s the dumbest play in history on the pirates part? How then is it about javy and his amazing instincts? It’s not. Everything this guy does gets blown way out of proportion and I hear about it on the radio every single day. It gets old.
I said nothing about it being Javy's instincts. You are on here arguing a point that means nothing. Why do you care if people like Javy? What drives your hatred for the Cubs? Is no one paying the Sox any attention again? I would feel bad for Sox fans in Chicago if they did not hate on the Cubs. The Sox do get less attention no matter how good they are. But I don't because you take that fact out on the Cubs and their fans. The White Sox have a decent team this year, talk about that and stop worrying about Javy and any positive comments that he gets. You will be much happier with baseball.
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@kylejaros88_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
@vipersneak_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
White Sox fans are salty because no one outside their relatively small fan base cared when they won in 2005, yet the Cubs have fans throughout the entire country (thanks to WGN). The Cubs have about as many fans in the seats now as the White Sox did on a normal day pre-Covid. The only time the White Sox can fill their stadium is when they play the Cubs. Also the White Sox stadium is in a slum and named "Guaranteed Rate Field" while the Cubs have Wrigley Field where Ruth historically pointed (arguably) to center field. Sox fans have a chip on their collective shoulder because they know that in Chicago they are the "2nd team" regardless of which team is better in any given year. All this has caused jealous rage among White Sox fans. You guys should just enjoy your team and stop hating on the Cubs. I mean the Pirates make the dumbest play in MLB history and somehow it's Baez that gets a negative reaction? You guys are true to form.
I literally have friends and family who are White Sox "fans" that would much rather the Cubs lose then the White Sox win. Now that is salty.
You admit it’s the dumbest play in history on the pirates part? How then is it about javy and his amazing instincts? It’s not. Everything this guy does gets blown way out of proportion and I hear about it on the radio every single day. It gets old.
There’s some truth to the rest of it. Sounds like maybe you’ve never been to the “rate”. And maybe you have some built up resentment as well lol
I have been to many White Sox games (pre-covid). I love baseball in general and like many of the White Sox players. Since I live south of Chicago it is easier for me to get to a Sox game. When I was very young they had lights and the Cubs didn't so I probably went to more White Sox games than Cubs games.
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@kylejaros88_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
@vipersneak_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
White Sox fans are salty because no one outside their relatively small fan base cared when they won in 2005, yet the Cubs have fans throughout the entire country (thanks to WGN). The Cubs have about as many fans in the seats now as the White Sox did on a normal day pre-Covid. The only time the White Sox can fill their stadium is when they play the Cubs. Also the White Sox stadium is in a slum and named "Guaranteed Rate Field" while the Cubs have Wrigley Field where Ruth historically pointed (arguably) to center field. Sox fans have a chip on their collective shoulder because they know that in Chicago they are the "2nd team" regardless of which team is better in any given year. All this has caused jealous rage among White Sox fans. You guys should just enjoy your team and stop hating on the Cubs. I mean the Pirates make the dumbest play in MLB history and somehow it's Baez that gets a negative reaction? You guys are true to form.
I literally have friends and family who are White Sox "fans" that would much rather the Cubs lose then the White Sox win. Now that is salty.
You admit it’s the dumbest play in history on the pirates part? How then is it about javy and his amazing instincts? It’s not. Everything this guy does gets blown way out of proportion and I hear about it on the radio every single day. It gets old.
There’s some truth to the rest of it. Sounds like maybe you’ve never been to the “rate”. And maybe you have some built up resentment as well lol
All that said, I do understand how it could get old hearing about the Cubs constantly as a White Sox fan. I think it has much to do with Cubs games being televised for so long on WGN and people being able to watch the Cubs more for a long long time. There was a time when the White Sox were on a UHF channel and many people could not receive their games due to the weak TV signal. Then Cable came along and WGN was broadcast nationally and the White Sox were not on there yet. People naturally watched the Cubs since they were on TV every single day in every market in America.
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Looking forward to the monthly with 99 stealing and speed
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@kingss35 said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
@kylejaros88_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
javy is so overrated. he clearly didn't understand the rule himself. yet because of another's persons unbelievable stupidity people cant stop talking about Javys "instincts".
Stop being a salty Sox fan. Most people would either stop running or try and juke out the first basemen. Accident or intentional it was a hell of a play you can’t take that the away. Pirates being horrible defensively helped a lot too lol. Take the easy out at 1st and hold the runner at 2nd/3rd
There were two outs... just tag the base and the run doesn’t count even if it scores. Baez doing what he did has way less to do with the play happening than the first baseman being an absolute and complete idiot. The run only counts if it scores before a non force out. What makes the play so ridiculous is that not only did the run cross the plate but it counted because they never tagged javy or first which is why they were running him down in the first place.
Long story short javy got lucky the first baseman doesn’t understand the game at a little league level and made one of the most boneheaded plays of all time. Let’s stop giving one guy credit for the other guy being a complete and total idiot....
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@kylejaros88_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
@serafim42-zaphod said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
I don't get why people can't just appreciate the craziness and uniqueness of the play. Baez had two choices:
- Keep going to first base, get tagged out. Inning over, or
- Tip-toe back towards the plate and see what happens.
Should it have worked? No. But it did. Enjoy.
All the first baseman had to do was tag the bag... it’s way more on the first baseman being a complete [censored] than javy doing anything smart.
It was a force out, even if the run scored first it wouldn’t have counted anyway.
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@kingss35 said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
@kylejaros88_psn said in 'El Mago' Moment Impossible In This Game...:
javy is so overrated. he clearly didn't understand the rule himself. yet because of another's persons unbelievable stupidity people cant stop talking about Javys "instincts".
Stop being a salty Sox fan. Most people would either stop running or try and juke out the first basemen. Accident or intentional it was a hell of a play you can’t take that the away. Pirates being horrible defensively helped a lot too lol. Take the easy out at 1st and hold the runner at 2nd/3rd
Well what made it so dumb is that the Pirates did not even have to hold the runner. Even after Contreras "scored" all they had to do is step on first base and the run would not have counted. There were a comedy of errors. It was like no one knew there were 2 outs. Firstbaseman could have stepped on the bag, then he could have just tagged Baez near home, then instead he threw it to the catcher (who knows why), then the catcher could have just tagged Baez but didn't, instead the catcher tried to tag Contreras while Baez was standing next to him, then the umpire and Baez called the runner safe when he technically wasn't yet, then the second baseman didn't cover first in a "run-down (lol)", then the catcher throws the ball into right field. None of those players are as dumb as they appeared to be and yet it happened. The play was so unusual that it cannot even be replicated in MLB The Show because there is no such thing as running back home from first base! LOL
While I do not give Baez much credit on that play, not many players would have even tried that since it is seemingly a waste of energy, but Baez does crazy things like that all the time! He is usually joking around or just trying to make life harder for the other team. Sometimes it does result in the other team making a mistake. I do give Baez credit for the way he plays the game. "Oh, you're not going to step on first base? Then chase me!"
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Took a bus trip up to Wrigley a few years ago. Was a Cubs/Sox game. I'll never forget leaving the game driving by one particular parking lot and seeing a couple guys beating the [censored] out of each other. One wearing a Cubs jersey and the other Sox. Pretty intense rivalry up North. In the lower part of the state it's Cubs/Cards.
I also don't understand why KyleJaro88 hates Baez so much. He probably wouldn't hear so much about him if most of it weren't true. Just accept the fact MLB is going to do their best to market unique plays. El Mago seems to be involved in a whole lot of them. So be prepared to hear about them.
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