You have fun with that, the Cubs, Pirates, and Cardinals are gonna go ahead and pummel your team in the dirt for the next decade.

So, today’s three HBP were retaliation for yesterday’s one HBP (pant leg), following Holliday being beaned. About which Maddon got all huffy...fuck him.

Cubs fans have been more insufferable than Red Sox fans for a long time already. Have you ever seen a fanbase in any sport so proud of supporting crappy teams and so completely ignorant about baseball? Cheering every time a Cubs hitter pops the ball up to the second baseman because they think it’s going to carry into…

If hitting Kolten is Wong then I don't want to be white.

He’s part of the reason I started hating the Rays. Considering he was crying about the Cards doing this, he should be an NFL coach.

NO! That is not how the Fifth Amendment works.

Sliding into second to break up a double play is legal. Throwing a ball at a batter because you felt some imagined slight is not.

This one?

Yeah, you often get caught trying to stretch a double into a triple.

Double murder, huh? Well, professional baseball may be out of the question now, but he could always be a Super Bowl MVP.

It's still tough. Patriots fans are awful, but they're already in the damn Super Bowl and have been the Patriots for so long now, I can't really picture another Super Bowl changing that.

Hell, they even managed to attract diehard fans in 1990, when Rod Rust was mismanaging his way through a 1-15 train wreck of a season that made Rex Ryan look like Vince Lombardi.

Yup, season ticket holder here and their sellout streak has been going on for almost 2 decades.

Yeah but if the Pats lose that gives every other NFL team and past/present coaches and players the artificial moral high ground you guys rightly complain about all the time.

What I'm rooting for: the Patriots win, in overtime, due to an egregious bad call. 75% of the pundits and 99% of the talk show callers will have a stroke, thus cleaning up the airways and the internet to no end.

Gimme a fucking break. The stadium's been sold out since 1993. It's total lies to say the team wasn't popular until Belichick got there.

So 99% of the time I'd agree about not rooting for the Patriots, HOWEVAH, I don't think I'm ever really going to get over the NFC Championship game, and the thought of rooting for Seattle makes me want to vomit...