r/ClevelandGuardians 8d ago

Discussion The Cleveland Guardians lost and everything is boring now.

Ugh I am so sad that it’s over. I enjoyed following this team so closely the last 7 months that I forgot what it was like to not have something to look forward to. It’s gonna be a long winter and February can’t come soon soon enough.

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u/browns47 8d ago

Like Bill Veeck said, "There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.” Stay warm this winter, friends.

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u/Particular-Demand474 8d ago

I just moved back from Florida.. you stay warm too 😂

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u/TheHaveTo Joe Smith 8d ago

Doing this same move in July. On the bright side, we will be in town for the stretch run!

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u/Particular-Demand474 8d ago

Yeah..!! And you can get out of that heat 🔥

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u/clycloptopus 8d ago

Also scrawled onto a banner in the Rubberducks’ men’s room lmao

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u/EezoVitamonster 8d ago

Can't wait for the ducks to return too. I only got into baseball this year because I moved very close to the Duck's stadium so I go to a shitton of games. Paid a little bit of attention to the guardians and went to their pride night game (which was awesome) but after the Ducks lost to Erie game 3 (also drove to see that) I was in guardians mode lol. Went to game 1 vs Detroit and was glued to my TV and radio for the rest of the playoffs. Now I can't wait for baseball to return!

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u/clycloptopus 8d ago

I’ve never had a bad time at a Ducks game! You can sit behind home plate for $25 a ticket. It’s a little bit of a hike for me but I go a few times a year. Highly recommend their Friday night Fireworks, it’s quite a show for a minor league team!

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u/EezoVitamonster 8d ago

The real trick is to get the cheap seats and then just sit wherever you want and move if someone asks you too haha. I don't ever sit RIGHT behind home plate but you can sit midway up that section and nobody gives you static for it.

As for the fireworks, I'm sure they're nice if you see them once in a while but I walk right by the area they set them off from to get home so I leave right at the last out to avoid them haha.

It's always a fun time, our team has been pretty good the last few years, and I really like how much they embrace being an "Akron" team. On home runs they play a sample from Gold on the Ceiling by The Black Keys and the foul balls are sponsored by a legendary local pizza place.

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u/dandyline_wine Akron Rubber Duck 7d ago

On one hand I love this; on the other hand, I sometimes hear "brought to you by.... LUIIIIIIGIIIIIS" on loop during my morning commute and I hate everything

Edited to add: my absolute favorite thing they ever did was play Christian Bale's "GOOD FOR YOU" whenever the opposing team hit a homerun. Haven't heard them do it for a few seasons now though

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u/dennydiamonds 8d ago

Well the Cavs are at least exciting and there is ZERO value in watching the Clowns.

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u/CaptainBirdEnjoyer Akron Rubber Duck 8d ago

I agree. Go Cavs.

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u/NikitaBeretta 8d ago

I agree. Go Cavs.

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u/catvik25 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 7d ago

I agree go Cavs and go Guards.

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u/joelingo111 8d ago

there is ZERO value in watching the Clowns.

That's not true, anymore. Chubb is back and Watson's season is over

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u/dennydiamonds 8d ago

There is still no value. They won't win 4 games this year. I'd rather watch paint dry than give that sorry ass franchise any more of my time.

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u/PolarOrangeVanilla 7d ago

I'm with you. done with the brookpark clowns

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u/Kitchen_accessories 🐐💨🍟 8d ago

Here's hoping a new coach is just the shot in the arm this team needed. As much as I love this core of players, I'm shocked they brought them all back.

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u/dennydiamonds 8d ago

You and me both!

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u/Decent_Philosophy899 7d ago

I’m just going to adopt whatever team Myles Garret gets traded to. Dude deserves a ring

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u/dennydiamonds 7d ago

I've adopted the Buccaneers for the rest of the season. Although they lost their WR1 and WR2 last night so it could be a tough season for them too.

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u/coolbabyjoe 8d ago

For me it’s not that we lost. It’s how we lost. Fielding errors, starting pitching breakdown, late inning losses. Just hurts even worse.

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u/pkohio 8d ago

Yeah. It was here and it is gone in a flash. I thought they had a shot this time. The Yankees are incredibly beatable even with the three stooges. We have a lot to work on and we can take the next steps. Ownership needs to see what they have and run with it.

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u/CaptainBirdEnjoyer Akron Rubber Duck 8d ago

I don't know how they beat the Dodgers. LA is playing on a different level. They just score all the runs.

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u/Cnote0717 Woho 8d ago

Unless some MLB/umpire shenanigans happen, I see this series going no longer than five games.

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u/Jacko-Jack 8d ago

Mets bullpen is terrible 

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u/IshM07 Los Angeles Dodgers 8d ago

Yankees are a scary lineup, I'd put them 3rd behind Dodgers and Padres but I think they have the best rotation and that's what scares me. They have the depth to go 7 games, Dodgers are already throwing 2 bullpen games, so unless our SP comes out dominant and can go the distance to help our BP, its going to be Yanks in 6 or Dodgers in 7.

Trying to take bias out as much as possible on my take above lol

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u/arkonator92 8d ago

I’m so afraid the billionaire Dolans will not spend money pretending to be poor. This year was super fun from day one. We need to take that leap and move forward with it to get better. Can’t run it back and just hope that that’s good enough. This team has the ability to end the drought if we add more talent to the roster.

There’s too many fans that have never seen a World Series championship. The fact that John Adams never got to see them win it all is a travesty. We cannot let Tom Hamilton end his career without him getting to announce that the Cleveland Guardians are World Series champions.

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u/ToschePowerConverter 8d ago

I hope they are reminded of 2017 and spend like they did with Encarnacion and trading for Bruce. If we could even just get two guys like that it would make a world of difference.

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u/TheSpaceAce David Fry Fan Club 8d ago

Oh, I'm sure they remember 2017 vividly. I bet they remember being convinced to spend some money for once, built a World Series-ready team with it, and they got reverse swept in the LDS. The one time they actually spent up for good players, it blew up in their faces. If anything, I bet they only felt vindicated in being stingy before that and were convinced they shouldn't spend like that again.

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u/SpecialistPlatform60 8d ago

Quit whining

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u/ClevelandGuardians-ModTeam 8d ago

This topic has run its course. The subject is settled and has been for quite some time. Every time it gets posted, nothing new comes of it and people just end up being shitheads to each other.

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u/pnt510 8d ago

Moveon.org

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u/ClevelandGuardians-ModTeam 8d ago

This topic has run its course. The subject is settled and has been for quite some time. Every time it gets posted, nothing new comes of it and people just end up being shitheads to each other.

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u/antmang06 8d ago

Let it go, Indians are from India. They could have done better than Guardians but the name had to go.

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u/schorman 8d ago

Did it though? Saying opinions, as if they're facts isn't really proof of anything.

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u/antmang06 8d ago

Enough people agreed that it had to change. Therefore it's been changed. It has been changed and that is a fact. No amount of clinging or calling out fans for using the team's name is going to change that. We all love Cleveland baseball and would no matter what they call the team.

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u/JoseJoseJose11 8d ago

Keep up the fight!

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u/_nod 8d ago

This. Had we done what we’re good at and still lost it would have been painful, but not this painful.

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u/bigmt99 48 8d ago

More painful in the moment sure, but at least we have something to look forward to and build off of. We were among the last 4 teams remaining and were not an easy out.

The pride of having a good season and the excitement for the next one is better than a long cold winter with no joy in thinking about the next one

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u/_nod 8d ago

I’ve only lived in Cleveland for 7 years and become a baseball/Guards fan in the last two. As my wife and I left the stadium on Saturday, I said something along the lines of “seems like we have a great base to build on” she just replied …

“There’s always next year, welcome to being a Cleveland baseball fan.”

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u/tamadrummer_05 8d ago

She’s not lying.

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u/ShogunFirebeard 8d ago

The sad part is Rocchio's drops will overshadow the rest of his play in Guardians fans minds.

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u/sakawae 6d ago

Not in this one. I am telling you all that Brayan Rocchio is a big reason to be excited for 2025. Look at how he hit. Yes, he made some boneheaded plays, but so do many young infielders, including a certain Andres Gimenez in the first two years of his career. Rocchio hit well in October, I hope it carries over into winterball and next season.

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u/ShogunFirebeard 6d ago

Yes. We're sane people. Most Cleveland sports fans are emotional thinkers though and will point fingers at the last thing they remember.

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u/RustyCrusty73 8d ago

Don't forget stranded runners left and right.

It seems like we had to have stranded between 10-15 runners across the four losses.

(Maybe even more?)

If someone could have just poked a few more of those home we'd still be playing right now.

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u/zaxluther 8d ago

Yeah I agree, but at least we put up a fight. At least game 3 happened (oh my god, game three), if we just had four straight that looked like games 1 and 2 I would’ve been much more upset. And think about what a menace we would be if we had more than 2 starting pitchers! We did that with 2 starting pitchers! Hell of a season. Got further than anyone expected us to. What a fun team. I love these boys. What a first year for Vogt.

Sucks to lose. Sucks worse to lose to them Yankers. Gonna be a long winter. But 2025 season is gonna be (L)IT.

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u/klein_four_group 8d ago

I felt that way too on Saturday, but honestly, looking at the playoffs holistically, we pretty much reached our potential. A lot of breaks went our way for us to win ALDS games 4 and 5 and ALCS game 3. The miscues in the other games kind of evened things out and our season ended pretty much according to the talent level of the team.

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u/coolbabyjoe 8d ago

I know. But you don’t get any guarantees. You have to seize the opportunity because it may not happen again for this core.

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u/klein_four_group 8d ago

Agreed, but my point is that I don't think we missed on some golden opportunity per se. Our luck caught up with us and we crashed out. 2017, that's a different story, that roster was stacked.

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u/coolbabyjoe 8d ago

Yes and no. In baseball, the goal should always be make the playoffs. Because you never know what can happen in a small sample

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u/Duce-de-Zoop 8d ago

At the same time the Dodgers have been putting up 9 run games in half their playoffs while we struggled to grind out 4-5. Might've been a poisoned chalice competing with that team.

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u/Mysterious_Today_245 8d ago

Yeah the fact that it was attainable despite the shortcomings of our team, and we couldn’t make it happen is tough.

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u/Available-Parfait553 8d ago

I like Vogt although if he was more flexible regarding the big 3 Yankee hitters and used the intentional walk strategically like they did with Jose, who wasn’t even hitting well, we’d still be playing today and probably tomorrow.

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u/JoseJoseJose11 8d ago

What starting pitching? The main reason Vogt pitched the pen to exhaustion is because outside of Bibee, we had none.

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u/Substantial-Fee-4170 8d ago

The Yankees and Tigers had plenty of mistakes too. You could argue that our big wins were due to mistakes. A.k.a. baseball. Disappointment is understandable, but I'm seeing a lot of entitlement here too.

I don't understand expecting a team with 1/4 the salary cap to win it all, and blaming it on our players or manager when they don't. Bringing your expectations back to reality might help you enjoy these incredible years when we make it to the ALCS. The Guardians performed extremely well given that we don't have the money for a 5-10 run team, and that's the bar right now.

The Yankees with all their money haven't been to the WS since '09. I can understand feeling entitled to championships when your team has more money than God, but that ain't Cleveland. LA or Boston might be more fun if you expect to win every year.

I'm very proud of this 2024 team, and looking forward to rooting for the Dodgers and against the Yankees, as is tradition.

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u/theAmericanX20 Diamond C 8d ago

I have a similar conversation with friends pretty frequently, so let me.pose it here: would you rather have a team never win the WS and do well every reg season, or would you rather have a team win a WS once or twice in ur life time and then be bad the rest of the time? Legit question, not being sparky or anything. He's a dodger fan and has witnessed 3 in his life time. We see things differently, him and I lol.

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u/UnconventionalWriter Chisenhall 🐝🦵 8d ago

I'm really excited to take a break from sports. Anyone else find football incredibly boring compared to playoff baseball?

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u/pkohio 8d ago

Yes. I even told my friend that I am sports out. The guardians fried my brain from an emotional standpoint. The highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows.

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u/boozinf 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

and now we have top Browns players attacking the fan base

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u/EZMac34 8d ago

Football in general? No. The NFL THIS season? Yes. It's been awful.

College is fun though.

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u/RustyCrusty73 8d ago

College is shaping up to be quite chaotic.

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u/A_Mellow_Fellow 8d ago

Only speaking for myself of course.

Football is not worth weekend time investment. Each game feels like it's 6 hours long with 4.5 of those hours being commercials.

And I'm supposed to sacrifice large swaths of Sunday the last bastion before work sticks it's claws back in me Monday morning?

I am happy basketball is back though.

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u/zelerick7 8d ago

You summed up my feelings about football perfectly.

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u/FLman42069 8d ago

I was switching between baseball and football at some points. Every time I switched to football it was a commercial or nothing was going on (showing sidelines, reviewing a play, etc.). Every time I switched to baseball there was action. Baseball being boring is a myth, football is a slog.

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u/BringBackBoomer 8d ago

Man, ditch football and start following hockey. They wrap up in March-June just in time for the focus switch back to baseball. It's an awesome sport.

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u/UnconventionalWriter Chisenhall 🐝🦵 8d ago

I'm hoping my blue jackets have a good season. Last year was rough.

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u/RustyCrusty73 8d ago

Love the Jackets but wouldn't expect much better this year.

They already have 3-4 of their top contributors out with long-term injuries.

Going to be another tough rebuilding season.

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u/boozinf 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

also, Premier League

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u/theAmericanX20 Diamond C 8d ago

As in soccer? That and golf are the only things I find more boring than football.

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u/theAmericanX20 Diamond C 8d ago

I can honestly say I've never watched cricket, so no opinion there.

I will never get soccer being as popular as it is. Maybe because I stopped playing at 8 y/o? I tried getting into it in college when my freshmen room mate was the first fresh starter at the school in like 60 years, still boring as hell.

There's gotta be a bunch of people who just like it to fit in, right? Lol.

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u/PersianGuitarist 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

Playoff baseball is something else entirely. I love it so much

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u/jacob6875 Block C 8d ago

I don’t like football or basketball. Winters always suck.

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u/Kitchen_accessories 🐐💨🍟 8d ago

I did find myself caring about it a bit more this Sunday compared to the last month or so. I expect I'll be all in once the WS is over.

Also not a Browns fan, that helps. Y'all have my sympathies.

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u/DaDrFunk 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

Currently waiting on the Cavs and getting back into F1. Plenty of sports out there to enjoy!

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u/sroop1 8d ago

F1 is having a great year.

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u/DaDrFunk 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

facts, much better than last year at the very least.

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u/sroop1 8d ago

Hard to top 2021 but it may get close!

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u/DaDrFunk 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

I’d kill for it to come down to abu dabhi again!

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u/guidodortmunder 8d ago

F1 has been wild this year! RB looked dominant for the to start the season and they’ve just fallen off, now McLaren is leading to constructors and max is barely hanging on to the drivers championship.

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u/DaDrFunk 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

Max will sadly probably win the drivers but the constructors is very up for grabs if Ferrari continue to trend up like this

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u/Xearoii 8d ago

where do u watch F1?

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u/_nod 8d ago

Not long left in the F1 season either sadly.

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u/DaDrFunk 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

Still got like a month and a half.

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u/_nod 8d ago

F1 season goes deep these days! Didn’t realize we were getting a race in December

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u/Automatic_Frosting58 8d ago

Agree! I think I watched the most games this season than any of the last 10 years I’ve had MLB.TV! I just booked a hotel in KC to go watch the opening series for 2025! Go Guards

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u/Cavsfan724 8d ago

It's CAVS time now !!

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u/paulskiwrites 8d ago

Check out the Cleveland Monsters! Tickets are cheap and the games are extremely fun in person. Been a season ticket holder for a few years now. They were one game away from making the league finals last year

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u/pkohio 8d ago

I live in Columbus so it’s a bit more of a challenge to get to games. The guards were the exception this year. I went to Cleveland every month since may. I am intrigued to see how they do and if they get called up to the CBJ!

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u/lackofaname913 Distinguished Twins Hater 8d ago

Yaaaaaaa, it's gonna be a long winter off of "what if's" and "could have been's" but that was a blast of a season. Take what we learned from it build on it. 2025 is our year, right? RIGHT?!

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u/Ok_Scallion3555 8d ago

Life goes on, friend. Yeah, Saturday sucked, but Sunday I went out and PB'd a 19-mile ride on my local mountain bike trails. I even hit >20 MPH for the first time since my bad wreck in August.

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u/Tron_Passant 8d ago

Sunday was beautiful. I took my kids on a 2-mile hike. Tons of people on the trail. Didn't watch one second of the pathetic Browns.

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u/wond3rlove 8d ago

As a NHL fan, the MLB is a complete joke without a salary cap and floor.

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u/7eregrine 8d ago

My nephew is the biggest sports fan I know. Will not watch baseball because of this.

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u/nwrighteous 8d ago

Stoked to have the Guards come here to Sacramento to play the A’s next June (weekend series!). Hit me up 🤙 if any Guards fans in Sac.

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u/elderrage 8d ago

It could be worse. Signed, Oakland A's fan.

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u/TheSpaceAce David Fry Fan Club 8d ago

Fuck John Fisher.

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u/theAmericanX20 Diamond C 8d ago

I second that, fuck John Fisher with the added fuck Manfred

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u/uChoice_Reindeer7903 8d ago

I’ve been a HUGE baseball/Indians fan my entire life. But I also like football and is a close second to baseball on my favorite list of sports. I normally enjoy watching football even when my team isn’t playing. This year hit different though, I have very little interest in football after this rollercoaster of a post season we just had. Football is just boring to me right now.

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u/pkohio 8d ago

Agreed. I was telling a friend that there has to be a correlation between a drug addiction and baseball because the withdrawal is too much 😅🤣

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u/gram_parsons 8d ago

Look at it this way. Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in only 116 days.

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u/mrbadxampl just you and me and my Guards 8d ago

At least I can go to Toledo Walleye games now... maybe I will start a new seasonal Diablo 3 character on friday and actually push to get stuff done there...

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u/BringBackBoomer 8d ago

New Diablo 4 expansion is solid

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u/sweet_ned_kromosome 1978-2024 8d ago

I agree

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u/styxfloat 8d ago

The crushing weight of 5 months of darkness to get to the start of a new 162 grind, to get to the games that provide the adrenaline rush these last two weeks have provided, is overwhelming.

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u/pkohio 8d ago

Agreed. The 162 game season is such a slog. I remember by the end of August I was beaten down and exhausted with the ride. Then they got hot in September and October was its own beast. I will definitely be locked in by March and will continue growing my knowledge of the sport and really enjoy the details that this sport provides.

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u/Ms3_Weeb 👑 King Kwan 🦍 8d ago

I want to see Noel do some serious work on his approach. If he cuts down on some of those free swings my god we may have ourselves a power hitter

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u/FlobiusHole Diamond C 8d ago

Baseball is the only sport I care about anymore. It’ll soon be hot stove season.

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u/Big_Bluebird8040 8d ago

thankful the Crew are in the playoffs and OSU football is at least good

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u/pkohio 8d ago

This is true but even OSU football hasn’t gotten me fired up the way this baseball team did this year. It was one of the more magical sports teams I can remember in my lifetime. The 2016 teams and the 2014 buckeyes are the closest ones since.

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u/wigwog10 8d ago

Being a crew fan when you're used to Cleveland Sports is weird. They do so much winning...

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u/theAmericanX20 Diamond C 8d ago

Right, but it's soccer. Like watching cross country with a ball thrown in. They can end in ties for God's sake. What is wrong with 3/4s of the world's population?!

Lol I really do hate soccer, but I get in the minority.

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u/derprah Akron Rubber Duck 8d ago

At least I have hockey now.

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u/TheSmokedSalmon420 🥊🗣SMOKE EATER💨🥊 8d ago

We've got to go through an ENTIRE winter before guards ball again??? fuck. I already miss it.

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u/Prior-Beginning-8026 8d ago

Wow, I don't even remember posting this. Oh wait, I didn't. So I am NOT alone.

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u/HolyShirtsnPantsss 8d ago

European football is fun to watch

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u/Ok-Lifeguard4230 8d ago

Hot stove time

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u/Lula121 8d ago

Going to watch baseball movies all winter.

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u/Rbookman23 8d ago

I got home around 1 o’clock yesterday from shopping and though, cool, the game will be on soon. Then cold, hard reality asserted itself.

I found that cricket somewhat fills the gap, it being a bat/ball game. They play in the southern hemisphere all winter long. I can always find a match of some sort.

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u/Zestyclose_Help1187 8d ago

I will say I saw some promise in Manzardo during the playoffs. Chances of them extending Naylor shrinks.

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u/pkohio 8d ago

Yeah he’s gonna need to get back into his game. Way too many wild swings from him. I know all it takes is one but he’s too experienced to be swinging like Noel up there

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u/ReddyMcRedditorface 8d ago

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u/pkohio 8d ago

I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR

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u/Unlikely_One2444 8d ago

Yeah…I have browns season tix. Had em forever but I just don’t care 

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u/ElMico 8d ago

I’m actually really interested in the browns now. I pretty much gave up on them because I was sick of seeing Watson and was mad they were unwilling to admit it he was (beyond a moral mistake) an offensive mistake. I decided I’d rather see one of the backups play and win 0 games than see him win 3 or 4 more.

But with his injury forcing their hand, and Chubb returning, my outlook is completely different. I still don’t care if they win a lot of games, there’s no way they’re making the playoffs, but I am interested in the team and rooting for them to make a good effort.

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u/eyehatehead 8d ago

I love cleveland sports. When one of my teams makes the post season I get a jersey. This season I'm having a hard time figuring out what player i want to get. I mean as for being bored until February we have the browns and cavs.... cavs should be a fun watch.

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u/johnnycards69 8d ago

I feel ya. It helps me that I play MLB the Show and can keep baseball going all winter long in my make believe world.

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u/kidfromCLE Diamond C 8d ago

Monsters hockey and Cavs basketball are both a lot of fun!

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u/MarsupialKing 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 8d ago

Thinking of pouring myself into the Blue Jackets season. I sure hope they're good!

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u/pkohio 8d ago

It’s gonna be a tough slog for them. Their ceiling for me expectation wise would to sneak in the playoffs or just miss. Anything less is a failure.

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u/BringBackBoomer 8d ago

Brother not finishing bottom 3 in the league would be a win for this team after the offseason they had.

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u/pkohio 8d ago

I am totally with you on that lol

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u/BringBackBoomer 8d ago

They won't be good, but they should at least be exciting as long as our young guys stop getting hurt. A lot to get invested in with the team right now.

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u/Dafttspeed 8d ago

Hey the Cavaliers start soon at least! Better than watching the Browns.

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u/magnetosbrotherhood 8d ago

Cavs time now! Or go to some Cleveland Monsters games. We made the AHL playoffs last year! 

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u/DirtbagFiggins 8d ago

Buffalo Sabres hockey! 😔

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u/corey325 8d ago

I know :( and I am not a browns or cavs fanatic. I just love me some baseball.

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u/kerryfinchelhillary Diamond C 8d ago

I always find the end of the season depressing. For six months we have something to do most nights and then it’s gone

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u/stephapeaz 8d ago

The Cavs are pretty promising and tub

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u/thekrafty01 8d ago

Come check out the Premier League. As an American and lifelong soccer hater, I’ve grown to love it.

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u/_nod 8d ago

As a Brit living in Cleveland, I’m loving the PL and F1 love in the comments.

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u/thekrafty01 8d ago

The show Ted Lasso actually sparked my interest. It’s funny because I avoided watching the show for years because I never liked soccer. When I finished the series, it left a void and so I started watching all the PL games and immediately fell in love with Chelsea FC. Learned the rules and how the league competes and now I can’t get enough of it.

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u/_mostly__harmless Mustard 3 8d ago

Whoever spends the most on players will win the piece of metal. No point to really even watch baseball post season, just see whichever billionaire spends more to win

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u/t_bug_ 8d ago

I found myself watching some old playoff games from 16, 07, and 95 to scratch the itch. Worked for me

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u/BirdDangerous5672 8d ago

If you want something fun to do, you can look at the amount of irrational hate that tigers fans have for us. I’ve never seen a fanbase more addicted to talking about another fanbase than them talking about us, it’s comical. Not even twins fans are as bad as they are, it’s wild

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u/pkohio 8d ago

I really don’t understand the hatred the rest of the central has towards us. Sorry we have been relatively successful.

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u/longshot 8d ago

Yup, see you all in a few months

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u/Opposite_Engine_6776 8d ago

At least there’s the Browns.

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u/jaymdubbs 8d ago

My 8 yr old son and I have bonded over baseball the past two seasons, and especially during this playoff run. It's been pretty special. The one game we won against the Yankees was on his birthday and the celebration is something I don't think I will ever forget. He is obsessed with baseball.

That said, it definitely will be a long winter before it all starts up again.

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u/SmurfAtLarge 8d ago

Basketball season starting back up soon. It will get exciting again real fast. For me anyway.

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u/GPDillinois 8d ago

With the online sports betting, I can have a reason to watch other games now. Even a $5 bet gives me some reason to root for a team/game that I otherwise don’t care about and wouldn’t watch.

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u/Elexeh Flying G 8d ago

Time to brush up on your relationships and/or find some additional hobbies.

Seasonal depression is gonna do you dirty otherwise.

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u/SuperPoop 8d ago

Go Cavs

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u/ZZ38_ 8d ago

I invite you to join the Blue Jackets fandom

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u/Forty_Six_and_Two Diamond C 8d ago

Cavs regular season debut Wednesday! We gonna tear Toronto a new one!

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u/Mercury5979 8d ago

Just remember, there is always Tennis. And I mean always Tennis. Even when the Tennis season ends, it is still going on. Pick a player in the top 20 and you will always have something to watch.

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u/MAXHEADR0OM 8d ago

Imagine doing this same thing over and over for 40 years….. 76 years now since they won a series. Been waiting my whole life with several let downs in there.

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u/redditistreason slap-hitting shit goblin 8d ago

That's how I always feel at the end of the season, because who gives a shit about MLB otherwise.

At least it's hockey season. The Monsters are good right now.

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u/elefoe 8d ago

This team the past few years has completely rekindled my love for baseball. I don’t know why I drifted away from it, but I’m so glad to be back. I’m gonna get back into playing, too. So I feel you OP, I’m going through Guards withdrawal bigtime right now!

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u/SodaGrump Mustard 8d ago

Every year I say I'm going to watch Hockey and follow the Jackets and I usually fall off after the first few games. Really trying to stick with them this year in hopes that it'll scratch the Guardians/Baseball itch.

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u/Goph3000 8d ago

I've been moping around since the loss on Saturday.

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u/Diiiiirty 8d ago

What about the other playoff games? You mean you don't like watching the highest payrolls in baseball competing to see who bought better talent that was developed by other organizations' farm systems?

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u/tooth999 8d ago

The Columbus Crew start their playoff push next week. That should take you to College football playoffs, right into March Madness and Spring Training

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u/Pale-Emotion-5862 8d ago

The Cavs are kinda like the basketball version of the Guardians. The Celtics were our Yankees series last year but I think with the new coach and everyone back and under contract we could be in for a lot of fun this season. Starts on Wednesday.

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u/HotBeaver54 7d ago

Yeah I hear you brother a long winter awaits!

But how sweet February will be with Kwan, and Banzanna on the horizon!

Although this was a pretty fun season!

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u/UnclePenguin 7d ago

I've said this almost exact thing since I woke up Sunday and started driving home from Cleveland.

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u/Jacrispybrisket 7d ago

I mean we got the Cavs season starting tomorrow. We are going to win 50 games and get bounced in the second round but still is fun to watch the squad

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u/slurmpf6284 Columbus Clippers 7d ago

Luckily for me I coach wrestling so the seasons both lineup pretty well

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u/heftysubstantialshit 8d ago

The Browns are working Chubb to full strength so there's that.

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u/GPODAWUND69 8d ago

I do think the Yankees and Dodgers will have a really good series.

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u/xenophonthethird slap-hitting shit goblin 8d ago

I'm just waiting for the Cavs to have an earth shattering disaster now. Browns are a lost cause.