6/24 - 6/30 Game Discussion Thread - Operation Sports Forums

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know OS now has an official Discord that you can join right now. We’ve kicked around Discords for individual games in the past, but it felt like the right time to make it more of an official thing.

Steve and I have wanted to get this going for a bit because we obviously still hear from y’all who are unhappy with some stuff on the forums, plus when there are forum outages we still want to have a place for everyone to hang. My overarching goal for the longer term is to have both Discord and the forums ultimately work together. There are some logistical issues with the vBulletin forums that don’t allow things to sync right with Discord so there will be a little maneuvering as we try to get mods and forum members any proper roles/tags they need on the Discord, but we can work through that stuff easily enough as people join.

Our general goal is to give people more options to interact with OS community members, whether that’s Discord, the forums, this newsletter, or improved apps. If people want to stick more to the forums, that’s cool. If people want to stick more to the Discord, that’s also cool. In my perfect world, we do a lot of BSing and day-to-day chatting on the Discord about games and sports, and then more of the “in-depth” discussions or hefty things like long slider breakdowns or analysis of gameplay end up on the forums so that can act as a sort of “best of” area for anything OS community related. That said, you all will ultimately shape how the ecosystem shakes out, I just want to give you spaces you like so you can have a good time with other folks in the community.

The same general rules will apply on the Discord as they do on the forums, and we’ve brought most of the forum categories to the Discord as well so there should not be too much confusion as you navigate around.

With the Operation Sports and Discord announcement now out there, it’s also worth mentioning our OS premium newsletter, which quietly launched a couple of weeks ago. Built off the Not Just Another Roster Update newsletter, it offers a mix of retrospectives, guides, interviews and deeper dives into the sports gaming world—covering both current and classic titles.

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06-29-2013, 10:30 PM

Re: 6/24 - 6/30 Game Discussion Thread

TB/Det should be interesting tomorrow, Cabrera didn't seem too pleased with being buzzed by Rodney in the 9th, but he probably wasn't too happy with himself swinging through strike 3 the next pitch, either. Then continued to do quite a bit of chirping from the dugout...

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06-29-2013, 11:06 PM

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Buccos are first to 50?

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06-30-2013, 01:19 AM

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interesting stat for those that think the NL West is the worse division in baseball

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06-30-2013, 05:32 AM

Re: 6/24 - 6/30 Game Discussion Thread

Originally posted by l3ulvl

TB/Det should be interesting tomorrow, Cabrera didn't seem too pleased with being buzzed by Rodney in the 9th, but he probably wasn't too happy with himself swinging through strike 3 the next pitch, either. Then continued to do quite a bit of chirping from the dugout...

Why does everyone think because someone gets a pitch inside and has words for a reliever, something will happen? Other Blue Jays fans were thinking World War 3 was going to break out when Darren O'Day and Bautista had some words 2 days in a row. Absolutely nothing at all happened.
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06-30-2013, 07:45 AM

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Originally posted by Mashiasu

interesting stat for those that think the NL West is the worse division in baseball

Only due to outliers like the Astros and the White Sox. The best team in the NL West would be third place in the AL West or the AL Central.

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06-30-2013, 11:30 AM

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Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe reports that the Royals have discussed the possibility of trading for Chase Utley.

Advice: It's not clear how far those discussions went, but, at least on the surface, Utley would make sense to fill the Royals' hole at second base. To this point, Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro has expressed a hesitancy of being a seller at the trade deadline, but he could certainly change his mind over the next few weeks.

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06-30-2013, 11:51 AM

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Originally posted by lonewolf371

Only due to outliers like the Astros and the White Sox. The best team in the NL West would be third place in the AL West or the AL Central.

the NL West also doesn't have the opportunity to play the White Sox or Astros like the AL teams do.

Like I mentioned before the NL West would only be third in so in so division argument isn't very good one. In baseball you just have to win your division what other teams do in their division is irrelevant.

I guess Tiger fans shouldn't be proud of their team last year because they would have ended up in last place in the AL West and not AL pennant winners.
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06-30-2013, 12:06 PM

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Originally posted by Mashiasu

the NL West also doesn't have the opportunity to play the White Sox or Astros like the AL teams do.

Like I mentioned before the NL West would only be third in so in so division argument isn't very good one. In baseball you just have to win your division what other teams do in their division is irrelevant.

I guess Tiger fans shouldn't be proud of their team last year because they would have ended up in last place in the AL West and not AL pennant winners.

Teams in the AL West getting to play the Astros more often has no relevance since those games cancel each other out in overall division record. The only thing that matters is out of division record, and teams in the AL West don't play the White Sox enough for it to matter as much as you're suggesting.

What relevance does winning your own division have to do with comparing the strength of two different divisions?

What do the Tigers last year have to do with anything?

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06-30-2013, 12:37 PM

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Originally posted by dochalladay32

Why does everyone think because someone gets a pitch inside and has words for a reliever, something will happen? Other Blue Jays fans were thinking World War 3 was going to break out when Darren O'Day and Bautista had some words 2 days in a row. Absolutely nothing at all happened.

I said "should be interesting"

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06-30-2013, 01:05 PM

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Originally posted by lonewolf371

Teams in the AL West getting to play the Astros more often has no relevance since those games cancel each other out in overall division record. The only thing that matters is out of division record, and teams in the AL West don't play the White Sox enough for it to matter as much as you're suggesting.

What relevance does winning your own division have to do with comparing the strength of two different divisions?

What do the Tigers last year have to do with anything?

 It has been mentioned that the NL West is probably the worse division in baseball because of the teams being so close and near 500 records. The stat I posted says that may not be the case, since the overall win total compared to other divisions isn’t that bad.

Yes the Astros and White Sox skew the total but I think the NL is more balanced then other divisions, thus the record of the teams being so close

 As for the Detroit reference, you said:

” The best team in the NL West would be third place in the AL West or the AL Central”.

I noted with that argument the Tigers would have been in last place in the AL West last year and not AL Champs



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06-30-2013, 01:37 PM

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FFF5 probably won't make the All Star team, but he's been on point all season. The Uptons and Uggla and even J Hey have been off and on, but Freeman has been a constant.

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06-30-2013, 02:47 PM

Jeff Mathis Walkoff GS for the Marlins

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06-30-2013, 03:31 PM

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Fenway, where closers go to die! Bautista with #19 ties it in the 9th.
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06-30-2013, 03:38 PM

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Jose is a dick ;___;

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06-30-2013, 04:08 PM

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Hooray Eric Hosmer power.
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