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Big Chicagoan
 Post subject: Tanking
PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2017 12:47 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Tanking
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Big Chicagoan wrote:
3 in a row!

4 in a row.

Giants tanked for 4 years before their run and drafted MadBum and Posey as a result.
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Cubs tanked and won but didn't win because they tanked.

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good dolphin wrote:
Cubs tanked and won but didn't win because they tanked.

Kris Bryant was the real MVP of the World Series.

Also, tanking involved FLIPS, which meant Feldman and then Feldman for Arrieta.
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good dolphin
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rogers park bryan wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
Cubs tanked and won but didn't win because they tanked.

Kris Bryant was the real MVP of the World Series.

Also, tanking involved FLIPS, which meant Feldman and then Feldman for Arrieta.


Is flip now an acronym?

All of those FLIPS were available to a run of the mill bad Cub team not specifically trying to lose.

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 Post subject: Re: Tanking
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good dolphin wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
Cubs tanked and won but didn't win because they tanked.

Kris Bryant was the real MVP of the World Series.

Also, tanking involved FLIPS, which meant Feldman and then Feldman for Arrieta.


Is flip now an acronym?

All of those FLIPS were available to a run of the mill bad Cub team not specifically trying to lose.

No and no.
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good dolphin
 Post subject: Re: Tanking
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I'm not sure you would call the Astros a tank. It was more a decade long organizational devastation after being beaten in historic fashion by the World Series Champion White Sox in 2005. It's understandable.

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So....the Sox must still be riding the wave of euphoria since the Astros got back to, and won, the Series first?

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Killer V wrote:
So....the Sox must still be riding the wave of euphoria since the Astros got back to, and won, the Series first?


Happy they finally got their title. It helped not playing the most dominant team this century.

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Terry's Peeps wrote:
Killer V wrote:
So....the Sox must still be riding the wave of euphoria since the Astros got back to, and won, the Series first?


Happy they finally got their title. It helped not playing the most dominant team this century.

Interesting debate since the Dodgers came in at 7-1 and with a historically great season. Maybe they were going to be the most dominant, but the Astros played better this time.

2005 Astros faced the 99 win 7-1 in the post season White Sox

2017 Astros faced the 104 win, 7-1 in the post season Dodgers
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Killer V wrote:
So....the Sox must still be riding the wave of euphoria since the Astros got back to, and won, the Series first?


Happy they finally got their title. It helped not playing the most dominant team this century.


Well gosh, the Sox haven't had to play against themselves, so where are their rings?

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I don’t remember when this started or why.

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