however he was fast. 30 stolen bases is fucking good
Oh. Yeah still, the point was more that he wasn’t as bad as he should have been for someone who more or less walked in off the street. Imagine if he had time to develop
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oh absolutely. if he’d gone a different path, I think Micheal Jordan, baseball star, could’ve happened. he actually only stopped playing baseball because he didn’t want to be called in as a scab in the upcoming player’s strike, and he missed basketball
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and then he created the 2011-12 Charlotte Bobcats 
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the second time he unretired apparently he did it because of 9/11. which sounds fake
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for as funny as it is that the year the yankees stopped winning world series at will was the 9/11 world series the country arguably wanted them to win, it’s karmically even funnier that the yankees losing that world series saved one of their players from an unrelated plane crash
“would you trade one of your player’s lives for a ring” but real
and also they did this after winning a championship series against pretty indisputably one of the absolute strongest baseball teams of all time pretty much effortlessly
the original Saw movie is genuinely a very good mystery horror film, but it’s hard to do the same mystery 9 times in a row so it’s understandable that it’d go in that direction lol
like oh yeah. you beat the 2001 Mariners and then don’t win the world series, but this turns out to be a good thing???
hi maple
the 2001 Mariners are fucking insane to think about. the whole of american culture was fucked up in 2001 even before. You know.
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it’s also really funny that the 2001 world series was one of three in which the home team always won, the other two being wins for the twins in the metrodome (in which it was admitted that stadium workers would blow the air in when the twins were pitching and out when the twins were batting)
hi lilith
like oh yeah you know the kinda shitty baseball team from seattle missing almost all of its’ star players? yeah they just got this random japanese guy and now they’re the best baseball team ever. hopefully this bodes well for the playoffs
and then they immediately miss the playoffs for 20 years
it should be pointed out that they were still a pretty good team in 2002, but happened to share a division with the moneyball A’s and an Angels team that was about to pull a world series run out of its ass
oh absolutely it’s not that they suddenly became bad. it’s that them getting slightly worse perfectly coincided with everyone around them getting significantly better
i finally finished watching dungeon meshi it’s really good
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imagine watching the 2001 Mariners dominate as a Mariners fan and then watching the A’s pull a 20 game winstreak out of their ass with the most random players. and then the mariners don’t make the playoffs for another 20 years
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