Love it!....[:D].....

a darned good series at that.

quote: Originally posted by Oiznop .....the parity is back.....and teams in markets like ours are NOT going away!..here's hoping it drives the Yankee/Red Sox/Brave/Dodger/Met/Cub and other large market underwear lickers in the media completely out of their minds!.....can't wait for spring training.....[;)].....

Dude, The Braves are NOT a large market team.

quote: Originally posted by bluesandbarbq quote: quote: Originally posted by Oiznop .....the parity is back.....and teams in markets like ours are NOT going away!..here's hoping it drives the Yankee/Red Sox/Brave/Dodger/Met/Cub and other large market underwear lickers in the media completely out of their minds!.....can't wait for spring training.....[;)]..... Dude, The Braves are NOT a large market team.

Stop with the facts! (The Braves can't even sell out playoff games.....)

Cities larger than Atlanta, which has just under a half million people (listed in rough increasing order): Kansas City, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Boston (Still only 600-700k people there), DC, Denver, Seattle, Detroit, San Fran, Dallas (finally, a city > 1MM), San Diego, Phoenix, Philly, Houston, Chicago (multiple teams), LA (multiple teams), and NYC (multiple teams). Pretty funny. I guess we should cheer hard for St. Louis at about 300k with their repeated success. Go small man! Barf.

I guess this is me...but it's more about dislike of Giants than love of the Royals. [img]http://i.imgur.com/iGomXVw.gif[/img]

quote: quote: Originally posted by eaglefan538 Cities larger than Atlanta, which has just under a half million people (listed in rough increasing order): Kansas City, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Boston (Still only 600-700k people there), DC, Denver, Seattle, Detroit, San Fran, Dallas (finally, a city > 1MM), San Diego, Phoenix, Philly, Houston, Chicago (multiple teams), LA (multiple teams), and NYC (multiple teams). Pretty funny. I guess we should cheer hard for St. Louis at about 300k with their repeated success. Go small man! Barf.

OH Barf over yourself, Slap nuts....just where are you getting your "facts?"....and are you factoring in the total of these city's metro areas of which their teams draw from???...Last I looked, Atlanta was pretty freak'n huge.....and the Braves had huge success over the course of the last 20 years with obtaining and signing star players as a result.....they get no sympathy from me....so you go ahead with your snide remarks, big shot...the fact remains that the Big Market/Small Market argument/excuse was a strong dominant issue in Baseball over the last 20 years before the revenue sharing took hold.....now thankfully the parity is there.....it all hinges on the teams and what they do with that money....Some now will do well, some will flounder.....it's all cyclical and the game is stronger and better off because of it.....BYE NOW!....[:0][:D][:0][:D][:p][:p][:p][:p][:p]......

#8 ain't large? Top 100 Television Markets Rank Metropolitan Market Regions / Areas 1 New York 2 Los Angeles 3 Chicago 4 Philadelphia 5 Dallas-Ft. Worth 6 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose 7 Boston 8 Atlanta 9 Washington, DC 10 Houston 11 Detroit 12 Phoenix 13 Tampa-St. Petersburg 14 Seattle-Tacoma 15 Minneapolis-St. Paul 16 Miami-Ft.Lauderdale 17 Cleveland-Akron 18 Denver 19 Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne 20 Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto 21 St. Louis 22 Portland, OR 23 Pittsburgh 24 Charlotte, NC 25 Indianapolis 26 Baltimore 27 Raleigh-Durham 28 San Diego 29 Nashville 30 Hartford-New Haven 31 Kansas City 32 Columbus, OH 33 Salt Lake City 34 Cincinnati 35 Milwaukee 36 Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville-Anderson 37 San Antonio 38 West Palm Beach-Ft. Pierce 39 Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek 40 Birmingham 41 Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York 42 Las Vegas 43 Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News 44 Albuquerque-Santa Fe 45 Oklahoma City 46 Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem 47 Jacksonville, FL 48 Memphis 49 Austin 50 Louisville 51 Buffalo 52 Providence-New Bedford 53 New Orleans 54 Wilkes Barre-Scranton 55 Fresno-Visalia 56 Little Rock-Pine Bluff 57 Albany-Schenectady-Troy 58 Richmond-Petersburg 59 Knoxville 60 Mobile-Pensacola 61 Tulsa 62 Ft. Myers-Naples 63 Lexington 64 Dayton 65 Charleston-Huntington 66 Flint-Saginaw-Bay City 67 Roanoke-Lynchburg 68 Tucson 69 Wichita-Hutchinson 70 Green Bay-Appleton 71 Des Moines-Ames 72 Honolulu 73 Toledo 74 Springfield, MO 75 Spokane 76 Omaha 77 Portland-Auburn 78 Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg 79 Columbia, SC 80 Rochester, NY 81 Syracuse 82 Huntsville-Decatur 83 Champaign-Springfield-Decatur 84 Shreveport 85 Madison 86 Chattanooga 87 Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen 88 Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque 89 South Bend-Elkhart 90 Jackson, MS 91 Colorado Springs-Pueblo 92 Tri-Cities, TN-NC-VA 93 Burlington-Plattsburgh 94 Waco-Temple-Bryan 95 Baton Rouge 96 Savannah 97 Davenport-Rock Island-Moline 98 El Paso 99 Charleston, SC 100 Ft. Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers

quote: Originally posted by bluesandbarbq quote: quote: Originally posted by Oiznop .....the parity is back.....and teams in markets like ours are NOT going away!..here's hoping it drives the Yankee/Red Sox/Brave/Dodger/Met/Cub and other large market underwear lickers in the media completely out of their minds!.....can't wait for spring training.....[;)]..... Dude, The Braves are NOT a large market team.

Bummer. Darned good fight. I hate the Giants now officially. Lol.

Good Series any way you slice it....with two evenly matched teams.....one was just a little better.....can't wait for March and spring training.....gonna be a rough next couple of months without baseball.....for more than one reason.....Congratulations Giants...great team....and to the KC Royals (Pirates) of the world, there is hope.....[:D][:D][:D][:D]......