HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
Jun 27, 2010 11:06pm
http://www.ohiochatter.com/showthread.php/8352-Official-prediction-for-the-Indians-record-in-2010./page2?highlight=prediction
The official thread found......just so we don't have to listen to the crap.
NCF wrote>>>
"Please again tell me how this team won't be that bad.
Yeah I know you all said they were going to stink.
I am sure you all want to believe that. "
18 posters said the Tribe would be sub .500.....16 of those predicted less than 74 wins...many in the 60's.
5 posters predicted the team would be .500 or better....2 of those predictions were less than 2 games over.
The official thread found......just so we don't have to listen to the crap.
NCF wrote>>>
"Please again tell me how this team won't be that bad.
Yeah I know you all said they were going to stink.
I am sure you all want to believe that. "
18 posters said the Tribe would be sub .500.....16 of those predicted less than 74 wins...many in the 60's.
5 posters predicted the team would be .500 or better....2 of those predictions were less than 2 games over.
newarkcatholicfan
Posts: 3,199
Jun 27, 2010 11:08pm
So there were some who said they would be good just as I said.
Thanks for taking time to show this.
Thanks for taking time to show this.
Mulva
Posts: 13,650
Jun 27, 2010 11:10pm
I gave them way too much credit at 71-91.
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Jun 27, 2010 11:12pm
I think I predicted 2 wins on the year...so I consider this season a success.
Heretic
Posts: 18,820
Jun 27, 2010 11:22pm
Classic NCF. "A couple of total homers had high hopes, so I'll use that as validation for my 'as so many thought but were wrong'-style posts...even if the vast majority probably thought the team would suck this year." You really need to raise your game...you're getting too minor league for this place.
Glory Days
Posts: 7,809
Jun 27, 2010 11:23pm
wes_mantooth;403466 wrote:I think I predicted 2 wins on the year...so I consider this season a success.
but are they having fun?
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
Jun 27, 2010 11:24pm
So there were some who said they would be good just as I said.
Thanks for taking time to show this.
Your welcome...anytime I can expose you and make you look like an asshole when you start acting like a troll makes me happy. Should you wish to comment about predictions, please direct them specifically to the poster whose prediction you question. Better yet, just don't act like a jerk and respect your fellow Chatters 'opinions'.
newarkcatholicfan
Posts: 3,199
Jun 27, 2010 11:27pm
As I said there were some take it for what you will asswipe.
I did not take the time to see which poster predicted what it wasn't that big of a deal to me but it was for you and I am the one with no life.
Continue being the ass you are on here and those who love kissing ass like yours can now praise you for showing whatever you and they think you showed.
I did not take the time to see which poster predicted what it wasn't that big of a deal to me but it was for you and I am the one with no life.
Continue being the ass you are on here and those who love kissing ass like yours can now praise you for showing whatever you and they think you showed.
Cleveland Buck
Posts: 5,126
Jun 27, 2010 11:32pm
I had them at 60 wins, which is about a game more than they are on pace for. I should have known they wouldn't get to 60.
dazedconfused
Posts: 2,662
Jun 27, 2010 11:32pm
looks like i predicted threeve wins and eleventy billion losses...think i nailed it
IggyPride00
Posts: 6,482
Jun 27, 2010 11:35pm
Manny Acta was clearly the wrong hire.
In the 139 games since he was fired, Washington is 64-75. While hardly great, it looks like the 27 Yankees compared to the 158-252 record he had compiled there.
The got better immediately after he left in the second half last year, and have continued to improve this year.
Manny had a 100 loss season in 2008, was on pace to last year before he was fired, and is on pace again this season.
I am not saying he has much to work with, but he has shown me nothing that says it will ever get better with him at the helm. Daddy Smallbucks Dolan needs to shit can him now and eat the salary to at least put a manager in place who could develop talent to at least give hope for the future. Manny is just in over his head right now.
In the 139 games since he was fired, Washington is 64-75. While hardly great, it looks like the 27 Yankees compared to the 158-252 record he had compiled there.
The got better immediately after he left in the second half last year, and have continued to improve this year.
Manny had a 100 loss season in 2008, was on pace to last year before he was fired, and is on pace again this season.
I am not saying he has much to work with, but he has shown me nothing that says it will ever get better with him at the helm. Daddy Smallbucks Dolan needs to shit can him now and eat the salary to at least put a manager in place who could develop talent to at least give hope for the future. Manny is just in over his head right now.
Ironman92
Posts: 49,363
Jun 27, 2010 11:39pm
Hiring Manny Acta was just telling the fans to forget about it for a while.
How can Manny Acta be the best choice for anyone?
hitsrus....good job using facts and finding evidence....this Reds fan enoys what you just did
I'm wrong all the time...many people on here are never wrong
How can Manny Acta be the best choice for anyone?
hitsrus....good job using facts and finding evidence....this Reds fan enoys what you just did
I'm wrong all the time...many people on here are never wrong
hoops23
Posts: 15,696
Jun 28, 2010 12:30am
I was definitely wrong with the 173-0 prediction. I really thought we could do it this year..
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Hulk Smash
Posts: 306
Jun 28, 2010 3:14am
lhslep134
Posts: 9,774
Jun 28, 2010 8:12am
I didn't think Acta was that bad of a hire, we just don't have the talent to compete, not yet.
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
Jun 28, 2010 8:35am
I was ok with the hire considering that the team was going to be rebuilding. He said all the right things. 70 games in, what he said when he was hired and what is happening on the field are 2 different things. I don't know whether it is poor coaching or whether it is lack of talent or whether the 'talent' just isn't developed enough. In any case, I'm not impressed. I think the second half of the year will tell us if the team has turned the corner. Right now, it looks at a low point.
Writerbuckeye
Posts: 4,745
Jun 28, 2010 10:20am
I've watched zero baseball this year (like last year and the year before that) but just reading the paper and watching the news, it sure feels like the 1970s to me (except, of course, back then I was young, stupid and believed in miracles.)
I don't understand why people choose to follow a sports team when the ownership purposefully does nothing to improve the team.
If you love baseball that much, follow the amateurs (college) or even the minor leagues to see kids develop their individual games.
But a system that purposefully excludes about two thirds of the teams from realistically competing for a league title doesn't deserve your time, in my view.
I don't understand why people choose to follow a sports team when the ownership purposefully does nothing to improve the team.
If you love baseball that much, follow the amateurs (college) or even the minor leagues to see kids develop their individual games.
But a system that purposefully excludes about two thirds of the teams from realistically competing for a league title doesn't deserve your time, in my view.
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BR1986FB
Posts: 24,104
Jun 28, 2010 2:14pm
Dang, after seeing my projected win total for them (61) I may have to revise it and go lower. That total would be pretty good........
If they were a pro GOLFER.
If they were a pro GOLFER.
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cat_lover
Posts: 2,388
Jun 28, 2010 6:21pm
I had them at 82-80. So I am one of the "many" who had them with a winning record.
newarkcatholicfan
Posts: 3,199
Jun 28, 2010 6:40pm
And to think anyone thought Acta was a good hire shows how little they thought they knew.
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Jun 28, 2010 6:51pm
I was more of a "I don't give a shit who they hire, because they are going to suck" type of guy. If they had Joe Torre as their manager....they would be shitty. Sparky Anderson once said that a "good manager" wins 3 games for his team in a year. 3 wins doesn't do shit for this craptastic organization.
Tigerfan00
Posts: 3,427
Jun 28, 2010 7:40pm
Obviously this site is to minor league for a certain person.
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devil1197
Posts: 6,220
Jun 28, 2010 8:18pm
The guy's a douche, just ignore him.
BRF
Posts: 8,748
Jun 29, 2010 12:44pm
I agree with this statement and I didn't make a prediction because I knew they would suck. I just didn't want to say it.Ironman92;403514 wrote:Hiring Manny Acta was just telling the fans to forget about it for a while.
How can Manny Acta be the best choice for anyone?
BRF
Posts: 8,748
Jun 29, 2010 5:12pm
On another note: Two members of the 50 and Over Club calling each other "asshole" and "asswipe"......priceless!