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      06-20-2016, 11:33 AM   #1
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Official San Francisco sports bandwagon thread - Giants(2016)

Now that the niners stink, sharks stink, Warriors stink, Cal stinks and Stanford stinks, can we all officially pile on to the Giants wagon?

Giants leading NL west since May and likely will get their face pummeled by the Cubs or Nationals when it counts.

But hey, bandwagon time! Break out the gear. It's quite dusty since it's been in storage since 2014.

Btw - St. Vincent De Paul is ready to accept all your blue and gold car flags and t-shirts
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      06-20-2016, 12:03 PM   #2
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don't the Giants win every other year? i thought that was their thing now..
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      06-20-2016, 12:05 PM   #3
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don't the Giants win every other year? i thought that was their thing now..
Independent Outcomes (Monte Carlo Fallacy) -
Each coin flip is independent of each other. That's why if heads flipped 100000 times in a row, the next very flip can still be heads. Each flip is independent of the prior flip.

Giants won every 2 years, therefore they must win this year. Disregard the fact that the seasons and teams are completely different and independent of each other.

Here's a more absurd analogy in Independent Outcomes taken from a philosophy book I read... If you are getting on a commercial airliner, for safety’s sake, take a bomb with you . . . because the overwhelming odds are there won’t be two guys on the same plane with a bomb.
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There actually is a reason it might happen.

Long postseasons wear teams down, and a "down" season missing the playoffs is probably just the ticket to get rested and healthy for another deep run.

-jealous Doyer fan
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      06-20-2016, 03:32 PM   #5
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There actually is a reason it might happen.

Long postseasons wear teams down, and a "down" season missing the playoffs is probably just the ticket to get rested and healthy for another deep run.

-jealous Doyer fan
so kind of like the Cubs experience right? The 1908 World Series was so taxing on the players and the farm system, they needed 107 years to recover? More of a generational recovery?
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Independent Outcomes (Monte Carlo Fallacy) -
Each coin flip is independent of each other. That's why if heads flipped 100000 times in a row, the next very flip can still be heads. Each flip is independent of the prior flip.

Giants won every 2 years, therefore they must win this year. Disregard the fact that the seasons and teams are completely different and independent of each other.

Here's a more absurd analogy in Independent Outcomes taken from a philosophy book I read... If you are getting on a commercial airliner, for safety’s sake, take a bomb with you . . . because the overwhelming odds are there won’t be two guys on the same plane with a bomb.
Your posts are independent events and yet the word bandwagon keeps coming up so there must be a correlation. You somehow defy the laws of probability, and logic for that matter.
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Your posts are independent events and yet the word bandwagon keeps coming up so there must be a correlation. You somehow defy the laws of probability, and logic for that matter.
just trying to see how long it takes bay area cars and people to be decked out with Giants flags and shirts...I estimate by July.
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just trying to see how long it takes bay area cars and people to be decked out with Giants flags and shirts...I estimate by July.

I know you know better than what you are posting. You are self admittedly trash talking just for effect. Since you live in the Bay Area I know you cannot leave your house without seeing a Giant hat, t-shirt, or jersey virtually everywhere you look any month of the year. Also, the Giants have a great attendance record and have had for years. You already know that yet you post about bandwagons. You say the Warriors stink yet they won the title last year and made it to the 7th game this year against the buzzsaw known as Lebron James. Sane people would not call that stinking. The Sharks made it to the Stanley Cup Finals. Sane people would not call that stinking. There are Sharks hats, t-shirts and jerseys all over the Bay Area all the time as well. So if the Bay Area sports fans are on a bandwagon its a perpetual one.

You are correct about one thing: The 49ers do stink.

Anyway, have fun trash talking and sharing your love for the word bandwagon. You bring a certain entertainment value to this forum. Keep up the good work.
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Are you sure you follow sports outside of baseball? Just a woman that does checking in here because some of that is either sarcastic or ridiculous.
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I think we need to know for the record, Flying Ace who is your team, if you have one and what teams might you bandwagon? It's only fair you reveal this info so we have some meat to chew on.
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I'll hop on board with this, even if Oakland has been laying the wood to us in our own park lately.
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I would love to see a Rangers / Giants WS rematch! Go Rangers!!

And some of the best teams win it all every other year......See SA Spurs 2003, 2005, 2007.
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Here to bump this thread! Hoping my Giants can stay strong this year! It's a promising sign that we've been as good as we have with all the injuries thus far. Wishing we hadn't traded Duvall for Leake right about now!
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Season tanking in 3....2..….1.....
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