2013 MLB All-Star Game Thread

[Namaste]

Congratulate her on sticking through the hard times.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh.

Cause she'd be a bandwagon fan, right? I get it.


Wait, can you be a bandwagon fan if you declared your allegiance to a historically awful team prior to the season starting?

:/

[Ramp]

That's not what they're saying at all.

[Mainge]

Wait, can you be a bandwagon fan if you declared your allegiance to a historically awful team prior to the season starting?

:/

Yes?

[Namaste]

Are you guys all on the phone or something?

Ramp, what was bobbob saying?

[Mainge]

Did you expect the Pirates to be awful? Most people expected them to be good.

[Namaste]

Weird, Mainge.

I always thought bandwagon was like.....

Team A starts playing really well and then people who didn't like or care about Team A all of the sudden are HUGH fans of Team A

The Pirates were awful the 2H of last year.


Uh oh, I think I'm getting e-ganged up on by bobbob, Ramp, Beef and Mainge!!

[Bobbob1313]

I was making jokes.

Why would we say anything to her about picking a team everyone expected to be good to root for?

[Namaste]

I was making jokes.

Why would we say anything to her about picking a team everyone expected to be good to root for?

Ramp, did you think bobbob was making jokes?

Bobbob, are you joking around more?

*The part about "picking a team everyone expected to be good to root for".


Is there major thinging going on? Cause I remember a lot of "lolz why would you leave the Marlins to root for the lolz Pirates" and now I'm hearing a lot of "everyone knew the Pirates would be good!"

[Beef]

That's the question that we already did multiple times including in this thread!

[Bobbob1313]

Her reasoning for leaving the Marlins was "They've been managed so horribly in the past." Then she picked the Pirates, who have been even more horrible managed in the past, minus the last 18 months or so.

The fact that they were expected to be good doesn't have anything to do with the major cognitive dissonance coming from her decision.

[Beef]

The pirates lost 100 games first season in new park

[Namaste]

That's the question that we already did multiple times including in this thread!

There are three question marks in my post above yours.

Which question are you talking about?

I don't think we've cleared up the bandwagon thing yet either.

[Beef]

No - the last question.

The one that was already asked and answered

[Mainge]

Her reasoning for leaving the Marlins was "They've been managed so horribly in the past." Then she picked the Pirates, who have been even more horrible managed in the past, minus the last 18 months or so.

The fact that they were expected to be good doesn't have anything to do with the major cognitive dissonance coming from her decision.

Namaste?

[Namaste]

I could be doing the math wrong but......

If the Pirates haven't been poorly managed in the last 18 months and MIBS became a Pirates fan like 9 months ago........

Is her leaving the Marlins to go to the Piratez still the lulz?

MIBS, help me out here I'm going to bat for you