Fuck ’em both, especially the Sawx, who so hated the Yankees that they became the Yankees. GO TIGERS!
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Suffern ACE
The Red Sox losing is one of my favorite things. Unfortunately, so is the Yankees losing. What to do…what to do. Go Rays! Someone has to root for the Rays.
The McCourts have been so despicable that the Dodgers have the leading Cy Young candidate and a player making a real run at the Triple Crown and no one cares. There will be a Holiday in LA when these fuckers are sent packing (I mean, when Selig, no bastion of purity himself, says these people have got to go…).
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Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Jesus christ, bases loaded no outs and the Braves don’t score a fucking run.
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Suffern ACE
@Jeff: Frank McCourt losing is one of my favorite things. Unfortunately, so is Jamie McCourt losing. Go Paul DePodesta.
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4jkb4ia
Wake out of the game, bottom of the fifth, no out. Cannot be said to have gotten it done today, although he had plenty of help from Saltalamacchia in this endeavor.
(Announcers: Yet another pitcher who could not get out of the fifth inning. Me: BOO!)
Too right. The only celebrity divorce I’ve ever heard about where I wanted them both to get screwed. Frank seems hellbent on maintaining control of the Dodgers, except when he seems hellbent on selling the team but retaining the stadium and (natch) the parking (which went up to $15 a game last year, btw). And I just keep wondering what part of “Don’t let the door hit your worthless ass on the way out!” Frank doesn’t understand.
…but retaining the stadium and (natch) the parking (which went up to $15 a game last year).
Who would be fucked in the head enough to buy a team where the owner of the stadium and parking wants to bulldoze it for downtown luxury housing (or so it would appear?). Or, for that matter, buy the team AND the stadium but leave access to the stadium (i.e. parking) in the hands of McCourt?
The Dodgers need to go the Green Bay Packer route; community ownership.
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comrade scott's agenda of rage
The late, great Steve Gilliard had a quote that’s most pertinent here:
The Schedule Gods are really fucking with the Braves. They close with three at home against Philly. Cardinals are at Houston.
You would think so, huh? But I don’t have much faith in Tony La Russa not to overmanage them to a loss or two down the stretch.
The Philthies will want to get some momentum going into the playoffs, but OTOH, they’ve locked up home field and will also want to get their starting rotation set for October.
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Suffern ACE
@burnspbesq: I guess it’s too late in the season to make a sacrifice to the schedule gods, but it might be worth a shot. What do they take? Calves, bulls, goats?
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opie jeanne
@Suffern ACE: My faves are the same as yours with the exception of the Rays, although I do like the Rays and if the Angels don’t get the WC then I’m happy for the Rays.
Lackey’s pitching the second game for Boston today, so there’s a good chance the Yankees will win the second game. Rays already won, and the Angels are currently ahead 2-0, but Pineiro is our starting pitcher today and we affectionately refer to him as Pinata (when we aren’t swearing at him).
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Bruuuuce
I am SO looking forward to the irony of Red Sox fans having to root for the Yankees in the last series of the season (in which the Yanks play Tampa) if they still want their Sawx in the playoffs. It’s even better than a NY Giants fan having to root for the Dallas Fscking Cowboys (which I admit, I would never, ever do).
Now, if only the Mets could rise from the dead in 2012 (unlikely, especially if they lose Reyes to free agency and Wright continues to deteriorate), it would be awesome.
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opie jeanne
@Yutsano: I’m old enough to remember when Los Angeles only had the Pacific League California Angels and the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn.
I was 7 when they came to LA and my dad was so excited about having a baseball team there that I was an instant fan. I was probably the only 7 year old girl in Los Angeles county who read the sports page every day, to check the baseball standings.
My allegiance to the Angels came when I was in my 20s and it took a long time. Still love the Dodgers for what they used to be in my childhood.
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4jkb4ia
Here comes Motte. These are the saddest of possible words/what might cause Raven/stuckinred to look up in hope. I kid? OTOH, Furcal did something useful with the HR.
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opie jeanne
Is Obama in Seattle? The 520 is completely stopped.
I have no trouble at all rooting for the O’s. I had an extended dalliance with them in the late 70s, when the Mets were unwatchably bad.
Rooting for the Yankees? You’re asking a lot.
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opie jeanne
@sb: If you’re a fan of either the Angels or the Rays, you root for NY.
Oh damn, Pineiro accidentally kicked a little grounder and gave up his first hit in 5 innings. What a shame.
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Mr Furious
Sox finishing out the season with Baltimore doesn’t help a bit. The O’s just took three out of four in Boston. The Sox are finding creative new ways of losing each game…
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4jkb4ia
And Motte gets the save. I think there is some conservation of miraculousness principle.
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Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@burnspbesq: And Furcal hits a homer to beat the Cubbies, down to 1 game.
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Cacti
That’s a winner!
Cards now 1 back of the Braves.
Woot!
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burnspbesq
Days like today, the money spent on the MLB AtBat iPad app is money well spent. The only game I can’t get is the Angels, and I can get that on the Time Warner Cable app.
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opie jeanne
@burnspbesq: You’re telling me. Right now Angels fans have a split personality. Last week some idiot suggested we should root for the Rangers, Chowderheads, and the Yankees because of some mathematical model he’d decided would produce the WC for the Angels. He was roundly booed on the Ranger part, and the rest of it we have been holding our noses and watching.
The O’s fans remind me of Cubs’ fans; both have a resigned doggedness.
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CaliCat
Go SF Giants!!! (sobs hysterically)
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Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@burnspbesq: The Big Ten Network is supposed to have one but doesn’t.
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Bruuuuce
@burnspbesq: This year, CBS’ Fantasy Baseball package (which our league has used since its inception, ten years ago) added complete and free radio coverage of every game. I’ve had lots of fun listening to the feeds from around the leagues, and overall, would probably choose to listen to the announcers for the Cubs, Brewers, or Dodgers almost any time, while I am most likely to turn off either Texas team’s feed, or John Freakin’ Sterling of the Yankees (how can the best team in the league have one of the worst announcers ever — especially after they had one of the best teams ever through their worst years in the 1970s and 1980s?).
Video would be nice, but I suspect too expensive to include in the Commissioner package. (We get highlights, but not play by play.)
Piniero picked a good day to have one of the best games of his career. One infield hit through six innings, and no walks. The Rally Monkey may get the day off.
Angels bullpen melts down. Oakland gets two in the eighth and four in the ninth. Angels are very close to being toast.
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burnspbesq
FTFY three-nil after four batters.
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Chet
To the Yankee and Bosox fans out there: you might find this difficult to believe, but there are actually 28 other teams in Major League Baseball, and for the most part the millions of us who are fans of those other 28 teams don’t give a flea’s fart about your parochial little border war.
You’re *both* the Evil Empire as far as we’re concerned, and a pox on both your houses.
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Chinn Romney
John Lackey is a train wreck. I understand his personal life is a mess, that’s too bad. But for the many millions of dollars he’s making, if he can’t earn it ON the field – clearly he has not – then the least he can do is suck it up and try to act professional off the field. The guy has failed left, right, up, down, inside and outside.
I suspect he’s toast by next week as the Sox clean out their lockers. His lone redeeming feature will be that he took Theo down with him. That’s overdue.
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Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Fuck ’em both, especially the Sawx, who so hated the Yankees that they became the Yankees. GO TIGERS!
Suffern ACE
The Red Sox losing is one of my favorite things. Unfortunately, so is the Yankees losing. What to do…what to do. Go Rays! Someone has to root for the Rays.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Go Braves!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Boys from Zoo town gave us all we wanted yesterday.
Yutsano
@Suffern ACE: I’m old enough to remember when baseball in Florida was just the training camps.
burnspbesq
The definition of meaningless baseball: the Mets close out the season with three against the Reds.
sb
Red Sox. Yankees.
Question: who do you root for in this fight? Two more insufferable organizations in all of sport would be hard to find.
Yutsano
@burnspbesq:
Bless their hearts.
4jkb4ia
Kay, you are a mensch, and this game is a disaster. Fortunately nothing was up for emphatic repetition of several bad words.
burnspbesq
Yankees are already up 4-nil. Tampa leads 2-1. Angels get underway at 3:30 Eastern.
Braves-Nats 0-0 in the second. Cards-Cubs gets underway in a couple of minutes.
burnspbesq
@sb:
I’ll see your Yanks and Sox and raise you the Dallas Cowboys and Real Madrid.
Neal
Suffern ACE, thank you. Go Rays!
Jeff
I think the tawdry front office shenanigans of The McCourts in Chavez Ravine have pretty much every one put to shame.
The Dangerman
@Jeff:
The McCourts have been so despicable that the Dodgers have the leading Cy Young candidate and a player making a real run at the Triple Crown and no one cares. There will be a Holiday in LA when these fuckers are sent packing (I mean, when Selig, no bastion of purity himself, says these people have got to go…).
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Jesus christ, bases loaded no outs and the Braves don’t score a fucking run.
Suffern ACE
@Jeff: Frank McCourt losing is one of my favorite things. Unfortunately, so is Jamie McCourt losing. Go Paul DePodesta.
4jkb4ia
Wake out of the game, bottom of the fifth, no out. Cannot be said to have gotten it done today, although he had plenty of help from Saltalamacchia in this endeavor.
(Announcers: Yet another pitcher who could not get out of the fifth inning. Me: BOO!)
Tehanu
@The Dangerman:
@Suffern ACE:
Too right. The only celebrity divorce I’ve ever heard about where I wanted them both to get screwed. Frank seems hellbent on maintaining control of the Dodgers, except when he seems hellbent on selling the team but retaining the stadium and (natch) the parking (which went up to $15 a game last year, btw). And I just keep wondering what part of “Don’t let the door hit your worthless ass on the way out!” Frank doesn’t understand.
jeffreyw
Time to revive an old theme.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@burnspbesq:
THIS!
asiangrrlMN
@Suffern ACE: Ditto this. Go, Rays!
My team was never in it to win it, so, Go Tigers!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
2nd and 3rd, one out. . .nothing.
JCT
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): They picked a BAD time to channel my Mets.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JCT: Yea, that time was called “September”.
4jkb4ia
Another run, another pitching change.
@asiangrrlMN:
I thought I liked you!
Martin
FTFY!
Linkmeister
@Tehanu: In Google Plus speak, I give this a +1.
Cacti
Today might be Albert Pujols’ last home game as a Cardinal.
:-(
*tears
The Dangerman
@Tehanu:
Who would be fucked in the head enough to buy a team where the owner of the stadium and parking wants to bulldoze it for downtown luxury housing (or so it would appear?). Or, for that matter, buy the team AND the stadium but leave access to the stadium (i.e. parking) in the hands of McCourt?
The Dodgers need to go the Green Bay Packer route; community ownership.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
The late, great Steve Gilliard had a quote that’s most pertinent here:
“Fuck the fucking Yankees”
That pretty much says it all.
Suffern ACE
@The Dangerman: Forget it, Dangerman. It’s Chavez Ravine.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
The Cubs are the Braves only chance!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@The Dangerman:
They needed to do that when the Dodgers were in Brooklyn.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Yutsano: I’m old enough to remember when the Orioles were a threat in September and the Red Sox collapsed.
How do you fire the owner?
4jkb4ia
NYT: Club of Red Sox fans in NYC proud to understand suffering Line: “No Red Sox fan has suffered for years”
4jkb4ia
It’s over.
burnspbesq
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Angelos may be a dick, but he’s a rational dick. Offer him $400 million and there will be lawyers in the room so fast it’ll make your head spin.
asiangrrlMN
@jeffreyw: Just saw this. Awwwwww!
burnspbesq
No Standells today.
burnspbesq
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
I believe that’s a good working definition of “no hope.”
burnspbesq
Alas, the schedule strongly favors the Sox. They are at Baltimore to close the season, while Tampa plays the Yankees and the Angels play Texas.
burnspbesq
The Schedule Gods are really fucking with the Braves. They close with three at home against Philly. Cardinals are at Houston.
Cacti
@burnspbesq:
You would think so, huh? But I don’t have much faith in Tony La Russa not to overmanage them to a loss or two down the stretch.
The Philthies will want to get some momentum going into the playoffs, but OTOH, they’ve locked up home field and will also want to get their starting rotation set for October.
Suffern ACE
@burnspbesq: I guess it’s too late in the season to make a sacrifice to the schedule gods, but it might be worth a shot. What do they take? Calves, bulls, goats?
opie jeanne
@Suffern ACE: My faves are the same as yours with the exception of the Rays, although I do like the Rays and if the Angels don’t get the WC then I’m happy for the Rays.
Lackey’s pitching the second game for Boston today, so there’s a good chance the Yankees will win the second game. Rays already won, and the Angels are currently ahead 2-0, but Pineiro is our starting pitcher today and we affectionately refer to him as Pinata (when we aren’t swearing at him).
Bruuuuce
I am SO looking forward to the irony of Red Sox fans having to root for the Yankees in the last series of the season (in which the Yanks play Tampa) if they still want their Sawx in the playoffs. It’s even better than a NY Giants fan having to root for the Dallas Fscking Cowboys (which I admit, I would never, ever do).
Now, if only the Mets could rise from the dead in 2012 (unlikely, especially if they lose Reyes to free agency and Wright continues to deteriorate), it would be awesome.
opie jeanne
@Yutsano: I’m old enough to remember when Los Angeles only had the Pacific League California Angels and the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn.
I was 7 when they came to LA and my dad was so excited about having a baseball team there that I was an instant fan. I was probably the only 7 year old girl in Los Angeles county who read the sports page every day, to check the baseball standings.
My allegiance to the Angels came when I was in my 20s and it took a long time. Still love the Dodgers for what they used to be in my childhood.
4jkb4ia
Here comes Motte. These are the saddest of possible words/what might cause Raven/stuckinred to look up in hope. I kid? OTOH, Furcal did something useful with the HR.
opie jeanne
Is Obama in Seattle? The 520 is completely stopped.
4jkb4ia
@burnspbesq:
NOTHING strongly favors the Sox when you have this much bad mojo.
burnspbesq
@Suffern ACE:
I would try a virgin, if you can find one.
burnspbesq
@opie jeanne:
I have no trouble at all rooting for the O’s. I had an extended dalliance with them in the late 70s, when the Mets were unwatchably bad.
Rooting for the Yankees? You’re asking a lot.
opie jeanne
@sb: If you’re a fan of either the Angels or the Rays, you root for NY.
Oh damn, Pineiro accidentally kicked a little grounder and gave up his first hit in 5 innings. What a shame.
Mr Furious
Sox finishing out the season with Baltimore doesn’t help a bit. The O’s just took three out of four in Boston. The Sox are finding creative new ways of losing each game…
4jkb4ia
And Motte gets the save. I think there is some conservation of miraculousness principle.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@burnspbesq: And Furcal hits a homer to beat the Cubbies, down to 1 game.
Cacti
That’s a winner!
Cards now 1 back of the Braves.
Woot!
burnspbesq
Days like today, the money spent on the MLB AtBat iPad app is money well spent. The only game I can’t get is the Angels, and I can get that on the Time Warner Cable app.
opie jeanne
@burnspbesq: You’re telling me. Right now Angels fans have a split personality. Last week some idiot suggested we should root for the Rangers, Chowderheads, and the Yankees because of some mathematical model he’d decided would produce the WC for the Angels. He was roundly booed on the Ranger part, and the rest of it we have been holding our noses and watching.
The O’s fans remind me of Cubs’ fans; both have a resigned doggedness.
CaliCat
Go SF Giants!!! (sobs hysterically)
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@burnspbesq: The Big Ten Network is supposed to have one but doesn’t.
Bruuuuce
@burnspbesq: This year, CBS’ Fantasy Baseball package (which our league has used since its inception, ten years ago) added complete and free radio coverage of every game. I’ve had lots of fun listening to the feeds from around the leagues, and overall, would probably choose to listen to the announcers for the Cubs, Brewers, or Dodgers almost any time, while I am most likely to turn off either Texas team’s feed, or John Freakin’ Sterling of the Yankees (how can the best team in the league have one of the worst announcers ever — especially after they had one of the best teams ever through their worst years in the 1970s and 1980s?).
Video would be nice, but I suspect too expensive to include in the Commissioner package. (We get highlights, but not play by play.)
M. Bouffant
@opie jeanne:
And the Hollywood Stars were what, chopped liver?
burnspbesq
@opie jeanne:
Piniero picked a good day to have one of the best games of his career. One infield hit through six innings, and no walks. The Rally Monkey may get the day off.
burnspbesq
@opie jeanne:
O’s fans and Cubs fans have the consolation of going to the two best places on earth to watch baseball.
burnspbesq
Angels have drawn over three million for the ninth year in a row.
Piniero gives up two hits in a row with one out in the seventh, and Scioscia pulls out the hook.
burnspbesq
If he didn’t share a market with Vin Scully, Terry Smith would be recognized as one of the best radio play-by-play guys in MLB.
The Mets TV broadcasts, when both Hernandez and Darling are in the boot, are a graduate seminar in the subtleties of good baseball.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@burnspbesq: What do you need subtitles for in baseball?
burnspbesq
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Funny boy, you are.
Angels bullpen melts down. Oakland gets two in the eighth and four in the ninth. Angels are very close to being toast.
burnspbesq
FTFY three-nil after four batters.
Chet
To the Yankee and Bosox fans out there: you might find this difficult to believe, but there are actually 28 other teams in Major League Baseball, and for the most part the millions of us who are fans of those other 28 teams don’t give a flea’s fart about your parochial little border war.
You’re *both* the Evil Empire as far as we’re concerned, and a pox on both your houses.
Chinn Romney
John Lackey is a train wreck. I understand his personal life is a mess, that’s too bad. But for the many millions of dollars he’s making, if he can’t earn it ON the field – clearly he has not – then the least he can do is suck it up and try to act professional off the field. The guy has failed left, right, up, down, inside and outside.
I suspect he’s toast by next week as the Sox clean out their lockers. His lone redeeming feature will be that he took Theo down with him. That’s overdue.