Do people say BABIP as if it were a word? We should really come up with a viable word for BABIP. I bet Josie could do this and it would be the greatest new word in the dictionary. She could win a prize.
Stylistically, you’re only supposed to phonetically say acronyms if you would write them as a normal word. You can say scuba and sonar, but FDIC is never written as just another word. Babip doesn’t work that way, so it’s not really okay to say it phonetically.
I would like to watch Hanahan play 3rd base and see if he’s as slick as advertised. If so I would have no problem moving Uribe to second and living with Hanahan and Mitchell at 3rd base. Assuming of course that Loney slugs .600 again.
The Lincoln Log Shit
The kind of shit that’s so enormous you’re afraid to flush it down without first breaking it up into little pieces with the toilet brush.
•If the Red Sox believe that third base prospect Will Middlebrooks is ready for primetime, then Kevin Youkilis might become expendable for them. If that’s the case, then the Rockies would have interest, writes Troy Renck of The Denver Post (via Twitter).
Middlebrooks doesn’t really seem like the sort of prospect you’re willing to trade Kevin Youkilis to open a spot for, unless a) they need to free up payroll, or b) they think he’s regressing instead of simply having a subpar (for him) season. Middlebrooks looks a bit too much like Shea Hillenbrand for my comfort.
I’d have to know more about Youk’s injury to say for sure but he hit a lot more flyballs this year which is gonna mean more dingers, but will drive down his average.
Problem is that the Red Sox are gonna want something that can help immediately, and the only thing that qualifies is something like Dee Gordon and maybe reliever to go with that. Without Gordon, your shortstop hole is just as big as the third base hole and I don’t think we can spend our way to a replacement. I think I’d do it because I have a low opinion of Dee and think we’d be selling high but I can see why you wouldn’t want to.
According to one source, final contract details were in the process of being worked out Tuesday night and the only other detail, albeit an important one, was the compensation the Red Sox would receive from the Cubs.
Robbie Keane is out for a month with a leg injury, but in the meantime, his wife is working on one of those Real Housewives type shows that are all over E and Bravo
the good thing from his perspective is Ireland made it to the Euro qualifying playoffs anyhow, so he can still help them getting to the 2012 tournament.
World Series for sure, not sure about playoff baseball. Just know when the World Series starts I hear from friends all the time who never pay attention the rest of the year.
Kind of interesting little tip from a journeyman ballplayer on Twitter
JustMeGee Richard Giannotti
Those that don’t know Cruz for Texas swings a LOG for a bat. Swung one of his bats in BP and it is HEAVY. Just shows u how strong he is
i do think if the Cardinals win the World Series..
It makes it easier for them to not resign Pujols since mgmt may think their fans will still be happy from winning it all and not really care much that Pujols is gone.
hehehe well the show took place in LA but Colombia gave them a ton of tax credits and basically paid for the whole show if they shot it there. It was a terrible show but it got 16 or something episodes shot and aired because of Colombia.
That show about Gravity with Ron Livingston was the same kind of deal but with another country.
Starts the 8th. Don’t blow it Fister. Your job is to rest the bullpen for one more inning. I think 5-1 is too close for Penny. Maybe New Mexico will pitch?
I’m impressed my notebook said 1/2 hour ago I had 7 minutes of power. My other notebook would say I had 1/2 of power and then power down in seven minutes.
She said, “When I was a little girl, my dad left my mom. He always used to fart, and sing this special song. Now I wasn’t quite sure until your pants did fall. ‘Cause now I know that you’re my dad because you use ben wah balls.”
I just skimmed the 80 page document filed by the Dodgers. It makes some good arguments that I will be interested to hear how MLB responds.
Now, the basic one seems to be, MLB, you knew or should have known what was going on, we told you and you approved. Now, you want to kick me out without going through the processes you have in place.
And this is where it gets sticky, surely MLB is riding on the McCourts took this money, etc. but if I am Court, I ask them, did you approve of how the Dodgers organized their assets, did you see their audited financial statements on an ongoing basis, and how is MLB damaged if the Dodgers sell their rights now?
yesterday’s game went an hour into primetime on the east coast:
8:00PM
CBS How I Met Your Mother 4.0 11 8.890
ABC Dancing with the Stars 3.0 7 16.790
FOX ALCS Overrun 1.9 8 6.570
NBC The Sing Off 1.5 4 4.350
CW Gossip Girl 0.6 1 1.270
There’s no team left that really pulls in ratings so unless each series gets to 6 or 7 games Fox and TBS are gonna take a beating.
Day games just make a bad situation worse but there’s no way around it with two networks splitting it up.
Yankees/Tigers Game 5 did 9.7 million viewers in a night game. But, the Yankees are gone. The World Series might struggle to hit that number the first 4 games.
I’m just wondering if these games collectively would pull bigger numbers if they were up against each other in primetime (but still in primetime)…instead of being split day/night.
Of course Blu-ray IS high-def DVD, but I know what you mean.
When I was at GC it was a decision point, whether to invest in both or one (which meant guessing), when they were both competing. So we just bought a few of each and saw how they did. Then when BR “won” invested in more of those. It was like VHS vs Beta all over again, except in this case both formats were very close to the same.
My dad bought a beta machine in 1982 or so. “It is the better technology!” he insisted. We were able to rent movies for a while, and then not anymore, until he finally bit the bullet and bought a VHS machine in, oh, I’m gonna say, 1991.
Just found out horrible news about my uncle (well my uncle’s partner, but I figure I might as well just call him my uncle). He already has AIDS and now he is undergoing chemo for colon cancer. He’s a huge fan of all the sports teams in Detroit so I was really happy for him that the Tigers won… even if it is a tiny thing, it’s SOMETHING.
I’ll just go ahead and use this reply to say thanks to all for the well-wishes. And if you were on the fence on whether to cheer for the Rangers or Tigers, hope this pushes you towards the Tigers.
Instead, Boston’s three elite starters went soft, their pitching as anemic as their work ethic. The indifference of Beckett, Lester, and Lackey in a time of crisis can be seen in what team sources say became their habit of drinking beer, eating fast-food fried chicken, and playing video games in the clubhouse during games while their teammates tried to salvage a once-promising season.
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The story of Boston’s lost September unfolds in part as an indictment of the three prized starters. But the epic flop of 2011 had many faces: a lame-duck manager, coping with personal issues, whose team partly tuned him out; stars who failed to lead; players who turned lackluster and self-interested; a general manager responsible for fruitless roster decisions; owners who approved unrewarding free agent spending and missed some warning signs that their $161 million club was deteriorating.
I’m not sure what is my favorite part. But this is in the running:
Drinking beer in the Sox clubhouse is permissible. So is ordering take-out chicken and biscuits. Playing video games on one of the clubhouse’s flat-screen televisions is OK, too. But for the Sox pitching trio to do all three during games, rather than show solidarity with their teammates in the dugout, violated an unwritten rule that players support each other, especially in times of crisis.
.
Sources said Beckett, Lester, and Lackey, who were joined at times by Buchholz, began the practice late in 2010. The pitchers not only continued the routine this year, sources said, but they joined a number of teammates in cutting back on their exercise regimens despite appeals from the team’s strength and conditioning coach Dave Page.
The writing in the article is hilariously bad. I can’t believe any editor for a major newspaper in the United States, even in the sports section, let the tone get through.
But judging only from the two paragraphs you pulled, my initial reaction is this: excessive hand-wringing sells more papers than a two-word column that says only “shit happens.”
As Hurricane Irene barreled toward Boston in late August, management proposed moving up the Sunday finale of a weekend series against Oakland so the teams could play a day-night doubleheader either Friday, Aug. 26, or Saturday, Aug. 27. The reasoning seemed sound: the teams would avoid a Sunday rainout and the dilemma of finding a mutual makeup date for teams separated by 2,700 miles.
But numerous Sox players angrily protested. They returned early that Friday from Texas after a demanding stretch in which they had played 14 of 17 games on the road, with additional stops in Minneapolis, Seattle, and Kansas City. The players accused management of caring more about making money than winning, which marked the first time the team’s top executives sensed serious trouble brewing in the clubhouse.
As it turned out, the Sox swept the Saturday doubleheader, but that stormy day marked the beginning of the end for the 2011 team.
Lookee here! I found the moment when It All Went Wrong: the day the Red Sox swept a double-header! JUST IMAGINE WHAT A SIGN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF THEY’D LOST BOTH THOSE GAMES JUST IMAGINE JUST IMAGINE
As I said before, the article is very, very badly written.
But there is enough stuff in there to make a good story, if only a writer with any journalistic integrity had wrote it. Too bad those are in very short supply when it comes to writing about sports these days.
There is juicy stuff in there, I guess, but I still think the Sox collapse can be chalked up to shit happening. It’s no fun, and it’s not a great story.
But this is something that annoys me in my daily life, so maybe you can’t listen to me. People say “Everything happens for a reason.” I disagree entirely. It is my opinion that most of the time, things happen for no reason whatsoever. Until I get a better article, I’m gonna assume that the Sox collapse fits that latter category.
Except if they’d held on and won two more games, nobody would be talking about a collapse, or, if they were, they’d say how unorthodox strategies like cutting back their workouts led to a loose clubhouse and avoided ignominy.
Yeah. They were. It happens. It might have been avoided if they’d made some different moves down the stretch, just like the Phillies’ and Mets’ (and Dodgers’!) famous collapses in years past probably could have been avoided if different little tweaky moves had been made here and there.
But I find it hard to believe that something changed between August 31 and September 1. The team started playing shitty — just like they played in April. That is who they were, a team that sometimes clicked like the best team in baseball and others couldn’t win a game to save their lives. Did they suddenly start drinking beer, eating fried chicken, and playing video games more in September than they did in May, June, July, and August? If not, why is that the cause for their poor play?
I do believe that leadership means something, but this article attributes leadership to some things that I think mean nothing and it claims they mean everything.
I’m focusing on the last year+ of them cutting back their workouts which could leave them in worse shape to wear a very long season and cause them to be less capable of lasting the entire season, thus causing them to play poorer in September. Its not the whole reason, but if you think players cutting back their conditioning isn’t news in sports, I don’t know what to tell you.
My new take (changes every five minutes!) is basically what nolander said. A series of season-long problems with some players that no one cared about until the Red Sox started losing.
No, but that bit — that several players slacked off their conditioning — is lost in a story that discusses beer and chicken, alleges that Terry Francona has a drug problem and is consumed by concerns for his family’s safety, calls Adrian Gonzalez a whiny crybaby, calls Jason Varitek the same, says Ortiz and Youkilis had basically checked out, and, weirdly, calls out Tim Wakefield for making his starts.
The point of this article is not to make news or try to figure out why the Red Sox collapses. The point of this article is to chronicle the second guessing and finger pointing. There may be a real reason for the collapse in there, but the reporter didn’t do the heavy lifting of objective reporting to find it. He called people and wrote down what they said, and printed it in the paper.
I re-read the piece. I think that it has some good reporting but the reporter got spun by a few people about what the Real Cause of the Collapse was. Playing up moments (like what you quoted) that really weren’t all that important.
If I was writing the piece, I would have looked at the lack of work ethic more than random player insurrection stuff.
Also, I can’t help but think that if the pitchers were not in the dugout all season and instead drunkenly playing Mario Kart, the writers would have heard about it — and should have wrote about it then.
"We play too many night games on getaway days and get into places at 4 in the morning,’’ Gonzalez complained. "This has been my toughest season physically because of that.’’
Blaming five stressful nights over a six-month season for a tough year smacked of the self-interest that is uncommon among leaders of championship-caliber teams.
Yo, Adrian! I hear you’re gonna be around for six or sumpin’ or years! Well, guess what! FUCK YOU, that’s what! Haw haw haw haw! (pukes)
If you play a late game in the central time zone then have to head back to Boston for a game the next day, that’s less sleep. Don’t have to worry about that in San Diego, right?
Or am I fucking up the whole time zone thing?
I do think that Gonzalez’s complaint is BS, but just thinking outside the box here. Because I like being the devil’s advocate.
At first I thought he was complaining about night games in Boston before a road trip, but I can imagine teams not wanting to schedule Boston (and the Yankees) for day games since they get a nice gate boost from them. San Diego on a getaway day, day game not such a big deal.
That said, I bet Boston travels a heck of lot less miles in a season than San Diego.
I’m not sure why, but I’m going to stand up for the writer(s) of this article. It doesn’t specifically choose a scapegoat (or, for that matter, scapegoats), but speaks to the point that the problems cannot simply be solved by dumping Tito, or Theo, or one or two problem players. The rhetoric is low-key, even though there is some regrettable adjective usage. The main problem I’d have is that the article’s thesis would be “There’s plenty of blame to go around. Except Dustin Pedroia, he’s wicked great!”
I’ve got to go to bed, but I’ll be interested to see where this thread goes in the morning. You know where I stand:
the problems cannot simply be solved by dumping Tito, or Theo, or one or two problem players.
Unless it’s just something that happened. Yes, I know the Sox’s collapse is historically bad, but I still think that if the Red Sox had won an insignificant number of games more than they did, nobody would be talking about “the Red Sox problems,” and that it’s not exactly true that they played great all season only to collapse at the end. I still think that things happen for no reason. If you say that seeds were sown that were reaped in September, well, OK — but I stand by this: just because things didn’t go their way doesn’t mean that something meant wrong. It MIGHT mean that, but this article is a long way from showing that, in my opinion.
Why didn’t he name the chicken place that delivers to Fenway. Number 2, all those words a nary a mention of J.D. Drew. Number 3, at least Darnell McDonald got some headphones. Number 4, did they invite Eric Bedard to join in the chicken and beer fest.
first blood
single-single-single
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
then
double play
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Bummer. Feels like Fister is being ...er, I was going to say "fisted" to death but
that sounds terrible. He’s being BABIP’d to death?
underdog - October 11, 2011
But that was good!
Instead of fisted he gets a DP!
Er… damnit.
underdog - October 11, 2011
you know...there are videos on the interwebs of that!
arbfuldodger - October 11, 2011
is it better to be BABIP’d or BABOP’d?
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
Even better is to be...
underdog - October 11, 2011
PET PEEVE
Why is it OK to pronounce BABIP as if it were a word (bah-bip) but not OPS (opps)?
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
Dunno. They both sound musical to me!
underdog - October 11, 2011
Do people say BABIP as if it were a word? We should really come up with a viable word for BABIP. I bet Josie could do this and it would be the greatest new word in the dictionary. She could win a prize.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
I say “opps” for OPS and not O.P.S. I also pronounce BABIP with a short “a”. That’s how things shake down in the Nard.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
Its not OK for either
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
How do you pronounce OK?
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Depends
on whether you’re an Okie or not.
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 11, 2011
Also, depends if you are from Muskogee.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
Okie Dokie
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
My Okie Junior sailor would take offense to being called an Okie.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
Classic Okie
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Stylistically, you’re only supposed to phonetically say acronyms if you would write them as a normal word. You can say scuba and sonar, but FDIC is never written as just another word. Babip doesn’t work that way, so it’s not really okay to say it phonetically.
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Is there any stat that’s said phonetically? Maybe WHIP? Why would we do that with any other stat.
regfairfield - October 11, 2011
that’s what the whole above discussion was about
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Right but I just don’t know why it’s a discussion since we don’t talk about a players ere-a so why would we say Buh-Bip.
regfairfield - October 11, 2011
because Underdog conjugated BABIP and then Humma called him out on it and now here we are in heated agreement that Humma was right
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
ba-bip
not bu-bip
nolander - October 11, 2011
bomp-de-bomp!
Who put the bomp in the bomp-de-bomp-de-bomp?
David?
iiidown - October 11, 2011
Ribbie. And, my personal favorite, Gwerbie.
Nolij - October 11, 2011
This seems like the lets
pretend he is Jon Ely approach
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
A
Loney
Uribe
Gordon
Rolen
Ellis
Andre
Kemp
Sands
lineup is intriguing to me.
But if Blake has successful surgery wouldn’t he simply suffice at 1/2 the cost?
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
how old is Rolen?
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
for a 3rd baseman he’s on his last legs. Casey Blake old. Arod Old, Mike Schmidt old, Eddie Mathews old, Ron Santo old
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
I am not the person who will make the joke, but there is a joke here.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
Indeed
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Make the joke!
mleadman - October 11, 2011
Humma doesn’t want to stoop to that level.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
we’re waiting on you
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Ron Santo Last Legs
I’d give my two arms for my last legs
mleadman - October 11, 2011
but would you have a leg for an arm
and an arm for leg?
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
79 1/2 wins.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
You can’t rely on Rolen as a full time player. So it just means more Aaron Miles.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
you can't rely on blake either
or anyone available other then A ram but then you get shitty defense for 4 years and a declining player.
nolander - October 11, 2011
So you are saying that with Aram you don’t get shitty defense and a declining player?
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
I think that’s exactly what he DID say
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
a ram
has shitty defense and will possibly get worse defensively, being so bad he has to play 1st base at which point he won’t be worth his contract.
nolander - October 11, 2011
Got it, I missed the but
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
“Productive third baseman” is quickly becoming an oxymoron so you might as well just run Juan Uribe out there and make fun of A-Rods contract.
regfairfield - October 11, 2011
How about you run someone out there who doesn’t make 8 Million and sucks instead of someone who does?
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Uribe plays better D?
nolander - October 11, 2011
Because Juan Uribe is getting the eight million no matter what.
I’ll just pretend his Jack Hanahan.
regfairfield - October 11, 2011
I would like to watch Hanahan play 3rd base and see if he’s as slick as advertised. If so I would have no problem moving Uribe to second and living with Hanahan and Mitchell at 3rd base. Assuming of course that Loney slugs .600 again.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
20 points down the drain. Tigers don’t score in the first.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
By the way, fuck Taco Bell.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Even other baseball players are complaining
nolander - October 11, 2011
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Bud-Norris-has-a-beef-with-Brian-Wilson-s-Taco-B?urn=mlb-wp23564
nolander - October 11, 2011
if we're discussing commericals
I hate the one with Jimmy Fallon.
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Is it because it has Jimmy Fallon?
nolander - October 11, 2011
yes
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
But it’s more Jimmy Fallon.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
baby should have hit him with the fire extinguisher
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
This comment is so true.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
There was something very specific I wanted to complain about regarding the “make it rain up in here” version, but I can’t remember what it was.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Jimmy Fallon
nolander - October 11, 2011
Now that Fallon is no longer laughing through sketches on SNL, I have no beef with him.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Things that are beef free Chalupa, and feelings that E has for Jimmy Fallon.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
I REMEMBER NOW
It’s that the mailman in the commercial is clearly Roy Campanella, reincarnated.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
How soon we forget
Frank Caliendo
mleadman - October 11, 2011
only see his act on FOX NFL Sunday, so small doses ain’t so bad.
the 20th time I see that Fallon commercial fail at being any kind of funny i just want to strangle him
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Latest commercials blow or did you try the new chalupa and are posting from the toilet?
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Brian Wilson
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
And he brought his computer with him. He knew it was a bad one.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
An XXL
For instance.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
those are rather large
nolander - October 11, 2011
Eric's next post:
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
HITNG?
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
Nothing good can come from checking the color of one’s feces.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
KEITH!!!!
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
It seems to be big in Germany……… No link though.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
dude
what the fuck is wrong with German people?
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Nothing
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
you don't Hassle the Hoff
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
did you have this same comment after last year’s Taco Bell baseball commercials?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Kept Cruz in the park. Win.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
The urban dictionary for Shit is hysterical.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
For example:
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
I could watch that Endy Chavez catch like a billion times and not get tired of it.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Baseball Fever
Catch it
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Gameday is acting all whack on me. I may have to resort to watching the game and figure out what is happening by the camera on the pitcher.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
make sure you look for fear in his eyes
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
At least with Marcum I knew what had happened.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
same
did you get like 80 messages that they game was started, but the button didn’t work
nolander - October 11, 2011
you know what would be awesome?
if roster talk made me feel good.
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
fuck, I’d really love that.
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
saw this on MLBTR.
ignoring the Rockies, how about this here idear?
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
I'm telling you, they are moving Agone to 3B for Fielder or Pujols
;)
Ivdown - October 11, 2011
AGON DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!!!
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
good night!
nolander - October 11, 2011
Middlebrooks doesn’t really seem like the sort of prospect you’re willing to trade Kevin Youkilis to open a spot for, unless a) they need to free up payroll, or b) they think he’s regressing instead of simply having a subpar (for him) season. Middlebrooks looks a bit too much like Shea Hillenbrand for my comfort.
EMDarrow - October 11, 2011
their loss
our gain
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
If we're quick
maybe we can trade Sellers for Youk before Theo leaves. Dude has a fetish for shitty shortstops.
EMDarrow - October 11, 2011
I’d have to know more about Youk’s injury to say for sure but he hit a lot more flyballs this year which is gonna mean more dingers, but will drive down his average.
Problem is that the Red Sox are gonna want something that can help immediately, and the only thing that qualifies is something like Dee Gordon and maybe reliever to go with that. Without Gordon, your shortstop hole is just as big as the third base hole and I don’t think we can spend our way to a replacement. I think I’d do it because I have a low opinion of Dee and think we’d be selling high but I can see why you wouldn’t want to.
regfairfield - October 11, 2011
don't they have that one guy
whose name I can’t remember but now i’m stuck in this sentence oh God help me okay i’m just gonna call him Dawson
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
That was some nice footwork by Jhonny on the DP
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
they don’t call him Twinketoes for nothing
/idon’tthinktheycallhimthat
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
I believe in Tommy Blackjack
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
/clink!
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Jim Wolf seems as likable is his bro.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
“Call me Wolfie”
will do :)
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Bill Madden of the NY Daily News reports on Theo to Cubs
Link:
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Starlin Castro for Theo Epstein
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
Rights to all
Goat merchandise
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
los Chivas!
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Spiced goat with rice and a fresh green salad.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
with goat cheese?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
On fresh garlic bread.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
brill
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Or is that Jerked Goat?
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
that’s how you make a baby goat
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
And here I thought that they fed the baby goat dry rice and roast.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
well it’s already made at that point
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Do the sox need to be compensated because Theo is still under contract?
hee came hee seop'd he choi'd - October 11, 2011 via mobile
this is why fired vs. resigned does matter
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Its Theo’s going away present to the Red Sox.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
Cash to fund the Broadway re-release of “No, No, Nanette”.
EMDarrow - October 11, 2011
The “Thong Thursday” Bud Light commercial made me laugh.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
same here
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Tie game, thanks to V-Mart
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Shop Smart,
Shop V-Mart.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
And we’re tied. V-Mart HR.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
V-Mart hurt himself on that HR.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
Man, just about every damn Tiger is hurt.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
VMart vs Beltre in a Hurt-Off!
underdog - October 11, 2011
162+ games will wear you out.
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
BTW
tough news on Robbie Keane but glad to know his wife is working on her reality show
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
??
Grimjack - October 11, 2011
Robbie Keane is out for a month with a leg injury, but in the meantime, his wife is working on one of those Real Housewives type shows that are all over E and Bravo
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Robbie Keane's wife
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
that's
some light blue water
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Hey look at that there is water in the picture.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
i've moved on
looking at the table now
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Those are some legs on that table.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
some kind of bulbous decoration as well
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Also
tits.
……………..what?
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
It is a Josie
inspired comment
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
I’m really finding it harder to find baseball stuff to contribute here. Soccer is taking over my brain
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
then it's gonna burst out of your chest
and sing like Michigan J Frog
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal!
EMDarrow - October 11, 2011
And your excuse
before soccer
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
is that I’m at best a semi-knowledgable baseball wife, married to this gd site
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
the good thing from his perspective is Ireland made it to the Euro qualifying playoffs anyhow, so he can still help them getting to the 2012 tournament.
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
No disrespect but
Thanks Tim but shuddup.
I don’t need someone talking to me like Mr. Rogers.
If we’re watching we have probably seen a game before.
Buck sucks too
dodgers32 - October 11, 2011
You hear this complaint a lot
but again, these broadcasts are not for people who watch a lot of baseball it is for those who only watch the playoffs.
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
Given the ratings for playoff baseball
Are there really that many people that fit that definition?
David Young - October 11, 2011
World Series for sure, not sure about playoff baseball. Just know when the World Series starts I hear from friends all the time who never pay attention the rest of the year.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
WS, sure
but that was exactly why I wrote “playoff” and not “post-season”.
/Callback
David Young - October 11, 2011
Did V-Mart throw his back out swinging the bat?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Well, I suppose it beats the shit over Joe Morgan.
dodgers32 - October 11, 2011
Kind of interesting little tip from a journeyman ballplayer on Twitter
underdog - October 11, 2011
this is a stat blog Giannotti
GIVE US NUMBERS!!!
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
his bat always did look bigger to me then everyone elses....
matthewmafa - October 11, 2011
TWSS!
underdog - October 11, 2011
(high five)
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Hahaha
Raiders only had 10 men on the field on the final play against the Texans (game-ending interception of Matt Schaub)
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
They had Al's
spirit as the 11th man
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
you and me BH
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Though they probably
could have used the 11th player
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
i think we all know
they had a 11.
/RIPAL
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Innovative.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
TOOTBLAN
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
As of now the Niners/Lions game is not on in L.A. Eagles/Redskins are the 10 am choice. This better change.
http://www.the506.com/
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
I couldn’t figure it out. It’s like they drew a bubble around LA and LV for no apparently reason
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
RABBLE!!!!!
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Ho hum
Sunday Ticket or just watch Red Zone channel
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
Would be nice for Miguel Cabrera to hit the over on his 1.5 total bases here.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Boom
RBI double
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
ask, and well
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
2
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
I’d still walk him with 1st base open.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
so would they
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
lol Beltre
what the hell was that?
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
everyone got confused
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Colby Lewis at 98 pitches through 5. Hoping for the under on 18.5 outs recorded by him.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
I think it is a shoe-in. Phil and I went for that bet pretty hard too.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
Damn, that bat looked like it hurt.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
oooooh
that guy got clocked
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
3-1…Jhonny HR
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Lewis finishing this inning?
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
narp
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Twinkletoes
jumped all over that one
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
4-1 Detroit…RBI single for Austin Jackson.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
I have a weird feeling that if
Carpenter wins tomorrow, the Cardinals will win the World Series.
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
lol i wonder if anyone picked the cards to win the WS
in the challenge thing
matthewmafa - October 11, 2011
if the Cards win the World Series
they need to officially change their name to the St. Louis Zombies
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
i do think if the Cardinals win the World Series..
It makes it easier for them to not resign Pujols since mgmt may think their fans will still be happy from winning it all and not really care much that Pujols is gone.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
hey, you know who's been waiting for a championship?
Dodgers.
The Cubs? no, they’re cursed.
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
I'll check
I picked a TB/STL W.S. Forget who I picked to win.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
Looks like
I am the only person who picked the Cardinals to go to the W.S. but I had them losing to the Rays in 7 games.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
cards - tigers rematch
i think the tigers win this time around though
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
A lot of faith put into Kyle Lohse and Jaime Garcia there.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
huh?? since when was what’s-her-name on House? so weird.
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Don't you even pretend
to be watching the game?
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
what game?
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
hehe it was a commercial during the game!
and beltre seems to have a few extra bone chips rattlin’ around in his leg tonight
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
are you talking about Charlene Yi?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
yes
her
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
just joined, and she’s playing it weirdly serious
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
i may never be able to watch an episode of House because the show I worked on was a bad copy of it and makes me want to kill myself
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
what show was that?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
mental
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
did you get to go to Columbia?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
hahah no
it sounded like a nightmare there. the showrunner avoided going there like a plague but ohhh when she was gone it was an OK job hahah.
But now I have a handful of Colombian friends!!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Wait, was this show set on an Ivy League campus or a South American country?
David Young - October 11, 2011
South America. Colombia.
I didn’t want to correct Josie, she already cursed at my about not liking Community ;D
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Which engendered a heckuva discussion this morning!
David Young - October 11, 2011
oh man
i didnt realize it moved to the next thread. i was AT WORK. reading now!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Eric stood up for you and vanquished the potty mouthed Jocelyn
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
fuck that josie!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
oops that came out wrong
(TWSS or TWHS)
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
i am strangely honored but this whole thread on the other post hahaha
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
ps
i wrote a long-ass comment about the tv shows i like. won’t clog it up here thou.
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
and I honestly did not know the answer. Mental and Ivy League sounded good to me.
David Young - October 11, 2011
hehehe well the show took place in LA but Colombia gave them a ton of tax credits and basically paid for the whole show if they shot it there. It was a terrible show but it got 16 or something episodes shot and aired because of Colombia.
That show about Gravity with Ron Livingston was the same kind of deal but with another country.
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Home
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
There’s a game? I’m just waiting for the geico ads.
Tripon - October 11, 2011
FISTERIZED
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
from @MLBazFallLeague
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
x
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Cabrera hit the shit out of that one.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
WHAT A BOMB
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
MIGGY!!
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
He’d be the greatest player in the game if he still played SS ;)
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
he played there?
I thought he came up as a 3B
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
He did
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
he is my favorite chubby player in baseball
surprisingly there are a lot to choose from
What has been the happenings all up in here anyways
I am riding a nice drink run in Melbourne Florida waiting for sleep to take the questions away
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
It does seem chubby players can swing the bat. Maybe Andre should put on some weight:)
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Einstein has something to say about mass, but hell if I know what it is
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
eh
what does he know? :)
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
bagels evidently
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
“Fucking Catholics”.
/probablyNotWhatHeSaid
David Young - October 11, 2011
pretty darn decent Dave
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
what’s wrong with Uribe then?
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Talent helps, not everyone is the round mound of rebound
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
heh
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
not enough, goes to too much, pretty fucking fast
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
limp wrists?
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Miggy’s listed at 6’4 240 on baseball reference.
A-Rod is 6’3 230.
Not out of the realm a bigger player can play SS.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
161 minor league games at SS, last at age 19 in high-A
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
damn my snark was only off by 7 years
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
He’s no Jimmy Wynn
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
or Ron Gant (if second base counts) :)
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
32 errors at SS in 98 games at Class A.
He was switched to 3b after that.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
SS played him, he did not play SS
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
maybe he didn’t know where the pebbles were?
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
yes, he was a hell of a SS in little league
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Channelling
his inner Albert Pujols.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
I'm enjoying the short and sassy exit interviews
seems like Eric has had a lot of experience with them. Never had one myself.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Have never had one.
I’d like to think they come off about as smoothly as Joaquin Benoit’s band aids.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
With a festering opinion bubbling below
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
I like blossoming onions, does that help?
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Park Place stamp
This is probably a b.s. game but I just got this stamp at McD’s.
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
I really think we should play a game this winter where an anosomething comment is made and we have to guess who made it.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
anosomething?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
I like it
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
sounds fun
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Took a minute to read up on it. There is one Boardwalk that exists.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
Odds are 1 in 618,106,200.
There’s a chance.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
If anyone has boardwalk, I’ll split the million with ya. Deal?
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
anosomething post
I’ll be dining at a McDonalds tonight, I’ll let you know what I get.
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Himm to hibernate or go inside
HIBERNATE HIBERNATE
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
Fister
Starts the 8th. Don’t blow it Fister. Your job is to rest the bullpen for one more inning. I think 5-1 is too close for Penny. Maybe New Mexico will pitch?
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
as long as he doesn't start
Breaking Bad
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Torrealba nearly made a second out (by a mile) on the bases, but got a lucky break.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
broke it up with his head
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
yes, weird shit like that spooks me more than TV like American Horror Story
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
I hardly know her!
Nice job
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Fister? I barely know her!
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
good game
Fister
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
I’m impressed my notebook said 1/2 hour ago I had 7 minutes of power. My other notebook would say I had 1/2 of power and then power down in seven minutes.
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
this is a koan
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
this is a kinky series, we go from Fister to
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Benwa Balls
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
grasshopper
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
oh. Those are benwa balls?!?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
I mean because what else could they be and/or look like.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
ben wa balls? I dunno, I just know it from Blink 182
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
classic lyrics
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
My Chinese name is pronounced something like Ben-wa, although the tones are not the same. I’m a baller.
David Young - October 11, 2011
Some quality facial grooming by Benoit over the last few days.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
He so set himself up to make some bucks with the infamous sponsor boilbegone
Phil Gurnee - October 11, 2011
is that a hedge on his face? a small shrubbery?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
I meant he got rid of that giant festering mountain on his face from Saturday night
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
He looks like a Rabid Wolverine.
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
What is the Rangers primary color?
Blue or Red?
I hate teams with questionable color identities
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Not a fan of the ambiguity myself.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
California Angels, University of Kansas, Ole Miss, New England Patriots, Aston Villa, West Ham
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
University of Arizona, New York Football Giants, Atlanta Braves
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
I think we are not talking about the same thing
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
the fact that plenty of teams have two colors as their primary, and then I listed a bunch of teams that use red and blue equally?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
yeah, maybe
um, ok
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Josh Hamilton’s going to be a nice consolation prize for the team that doesnt get Matt Kemp after 2012.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
mother says that when you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Just thinkin out loud….If Kemp were to cost 140 mils and Josh Hamilton 90…i may side with Hamilton though he’s older.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
So I am walking through the Orlando airport today with my business partner, as we pass the Harley Davidson clothing store he says:
Him: Harley Davidson has the same colors as Halloween
Me: Fuck the Giants
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Awesoke
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Steve Largent is a CEO of some telecom/wireless company. Interesting.
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
Zorn to Largent was something I never fully got my head around as a kid
just how good was that?
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
No idea
I’m enjoying Stafford to Calvin at the moment.
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
i love me some John Zorn
sits and waits to see who comes out of hte woodwork as a zorn fan… i know SOMEONE will
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
He used to be in congress right?
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
congress of water buffalo
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
The thing about legal documents
I just skimmed the 80 page document filed by the Dodgers. It makes some good arguments that I will be interested to hear how MLB responds.
Now, the basic one seems to be, MLB, you knew or should have known what was going on, we told you and you approved. Now, you want to kick me out without going through the processes you have in place.
And this is where it gets sticky, surely MLB is riding on the McCourts took this money, etc. but if I am Court, I ask them, did you approve of how the Dodgers organized their assets, did you see their audited financial statements on an ongoing basis, and how is MLB damaged if the Dodgers sell their rights now?
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
I am nearly asleep, now tortured dreams will chase me
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
I will say this
McCourt is getting his multi-million dollars worth of lawyering now, that document had to be 250-500K by itself.
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011
Deep in the heart of Texas'
batting order for the ninth.
David Young - October 11, 2011
I hate Valverde's motion
but appreciate that it is unique
but ugly
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
what the hell FOX?
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Yeah
what the hell is with this box??
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
Great, Fox lost it’s HD feed.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
SD feed just shrunk to half it’s size
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
HD shrunk to SD and SD shrunk the kids.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
double
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
elite closer
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
There we go
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
I gotta really watch this
and then pass out
night all
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
If Cruz doesn’t get to bat, or if he is held to a single or worse when he does, I think I hit all four of my bets in Xeifrank’s contest today.
David Young - October 11, 2011
er, all three.
David Young - October 11, 2011
Whiffs MYoung
on three pitches.
David Young - October 11, 2011
great play
by Miggy
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
z
nice place by Milky
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Small NFL trade
Derrick Mason to the Texans for conditional 7th rounder.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
Miggy's play goes 3-1
Beltre out. Two outs, Napoli up.
David Young - October 11, 2011
2-1
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
tigers win!
yes
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
game over
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
and a great running catch to end it! Way to go el tigres!
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Kelly damn near ran the perimeter of the RF warning track.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
So, we're all rooting for the Tigers since the Rangers folded to the Giants, right?
Just curious to see if we’re united behind Detroit
Taylor Maricle - October 11, 2011
I’m rooting for the home team, for if they don’t win it’s a shame
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
I would prefer if the Tigers won, but I don’t feel strongly one way or another in the ALCS.
I have a stronger rooting interest in the Brewers in the NLCS.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
I
Like the Rangers
bhsportsguy - October 11, 2011 via mobile
im partly rooting for the rangers
because i have this shirt
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
I don't mind the Rangers team much but I have a hard time rooting for a Texas team...
and I feel like Detroit could use a pick me up.
And yes, also the Rangers choked vs the Giants last year {shakes fist}. Not tops on my list of irrational reasons I’m rooting against them.
underdog - October 11, 2011
OK Tigers, just get everyone in one of those hyperbaric chambers or something.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Anyone here play Fantasy 5?
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
Policeman, Firefighter, Soccerplayer, doctor, surfer – in that order
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
i'm sure nolander is
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
hope they got a megalixer
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
only 4 6 7 and 9
nolander - October 11, 2011
Haven’t played it a couple for a couple of years.
Tripon - October 11, 2011
Back to back day games tomorrow and Thursday.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
Wall to wall baseball for 48 hours.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
tigers
still have a pretty good chance in this series if they can win game 4
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
/analysis
fbihop - October 11, 2011
Anyone know the difference in TV ratings between the day and night games?
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
like all time?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Just this year..
Cant imagine anyone likes day playoff games….advertisers, fans, the players, networks
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
Well as an example
yesterday’s game went an hour into primetime on the east coast:
And that’s the last third of the game
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
GO THE SING OFF!!!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
meanwhile, MNF did a 10.3
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
In Detroit, you know where the Tigers play
Almost 40% of available TVs in Detroit were watching the Lions
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Read it absolutely killed Terra Nova and House’s ratings.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
can't wait for
Terra Nova “extinct” headlines!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
yup, House might get it back in DVR #s, but that 10 pm slot isn’t where you stick your best performing show
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
I divered it
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Gossip Girl i’m disappointed in you.
That show is still on?
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
the CW is technically still a major broadcast net since they program the whole work week
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
There’s no team left that really pulls in ratings so unless each series gets to 6 or 7 games Fox and TBS are gonna take a beating.
Day games just make a bad situation worse but there’s no way around it with two networks splitting it up.
Yankees/Tigers Game 5 did 9.7 million viewers in a night game. But, the Yankees are gone. The World Series might struggle to hit that number the first 4 games.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
I’m just wondering if these games collectively would pull bigger numbers if they were up against each other in primetime (but still in primetime)…instead of being split day/night.
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
They could but that’s obviously not an option. Somewhere in the TV deal there must be a clause where they can’t compete.
I think that’s for the best but that’s certainly a debate.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
On Saturday, against a bad football game
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
Starting to think that people like football…
fbihop - October 11, 2011
It’s not good for ratings.
Alex41592 - October 11, 2011
OK, I finally removed Dee Gordon from my Dodgers list. I’m still following him, but he will no longer clog the Dodger feed.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
COULD I GET A RT FOR MY STUBBED TOE???? #SKINNYSWAG
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Nothing productive has ever come after “could i get a rt”
regfairfield - October 11, 2011
reg
did you see my comment about Youkilis?
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Did now.
regfairfield - October 11, 2011
could i get a RT? cure for cancer:
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
i now own an HD-DVD player!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
could i get a RT?
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
/hipster
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
hahah
how is that hipster? using antiquated stuff? it’s not like i’m using a typewriter instead of a computer.
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
i remember this commercial
about a guy bragging about his prized german chestnut roaster.
Reminded me of you minty
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
hahah
the toshiba HD-A30 is considered a great upconverting dvd player!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
counter-cultural
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
are movies still being released on HD-DVD?
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
not that i know of
but it should be a decent upconverting dvd player for the meantime
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
you are a fool.
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
whaaa?
what’d i do now??
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
acted a fool
nolander - October 11, 2011
you can get those for like 20 bucks
how much did the hd-dvd player cost?
nolander - October 11, 2011
free
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
totally worth it
nolander - October 11, 2011
who's the fool now!?!?
LUDAAAAAAA
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
it’s all good : )
Josie Becker - October 11, 2011
hehe
Of course Blu-ray IS high-def DVD, but I know what you mean.
When I was at GC it was a decision point, whether to invest in both or one (which meant guessing), when they were both competing. So we just bought a few of each and saw how they did. Then when BR “won” invested in more of those. It was like VHS vs Beta all over again, except in this case both formats were very close to the same.
underdog - October 11, 2011
you just...
bought several hd-dvd AND blu ray players? I don’t get why.
nolander - October 11, 2011
GreenCine
the company he worked for
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
my grandparents had Beta back int he day and I was so confused by it all
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
I had a beta player through high school
nolander - October 11, 2011
i found an abandoned VCR that did both PAL and NTSC and a whole lot of other magic. oh living in harvard square was awesome and weird.
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Raises hand
My dad bought a beta machine in 1982 or so. “It is the better technology!” he insisted. We were able to rent movies for a while, and then not anymore, until he finally bit the bullet and bought a VHS machine in, oh, I’m gonna say, 1991.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
he was right
but sometimes right does not make might
nolander - October 11, 2011
He inherited the wind.
I inherited a beta player.
(None of which I mean literally. Dad’s still alive, thank goodness.)
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
waves
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Reggie Miller on TMZ
“Bruins for life, Angels for life”
silverwidow - October 11, 2011
no love for Pacers?
Joey Joe - October 11, 2011
/shows up at Miller Park (not named for him) wearing Brewers gear
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Darrell played for them.
Nolij - October 11, 2011
The Dugout: Who Can Make Me Vomit First, Taco Bell Or Brian Wilson
Funny satire of those stupid Brian Wilson Taco Bell ads.
http://withleather.uproxx.com/2011/10/the-dugout-who-can-make-me-vomit-first-taco-bell-or-brian-wilson
underdog - October 11, 2011
sleeper cell
anyone seen this? worth watching?
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Fuuuuuck.
Just found out horrible news about my uncle (well my uncle’s partner, but I figure I might as well just call him my uncle). He already has AIDS and now he is undergoing chemo for colon cancer. He’s a huge fan of all the sports teams in Detroit so I was really happy for him that the Tigers won… even if it is a tiny thing, it’s SOMETHING.
Anyway, bad news.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
wow
that’s awful.
Tommy Blackjack - October 11, 2011
Sorry, man. Hope things go OK for him. Go Tigers, and go Lions.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
Go large predatory cat teams based in Detroit!
Nice that he has a nephew like you – that counts
Best hopes to the entire family
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Thanks.
They’re basically my favorite uncles. I housesit for them when they go on vacation and they’re always really good to me. Hope he can get through this.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
Terrible news. Best wishes.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
i'll be sending out
positive vibes
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Tough news. I imagine chemo is tough enough without the additional issue. Best of luck to them, and you.
David Young - October 11, 2011
I’ll just go ahead and use this reply to say thanks to all for the well-wishes. And if you were on the fence on whether to cheer for the Rangers or Tigers, hope this pushes you towards the Tigers.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
damn, that's horrible
There’s some good reason now to hope for a Tigers Championship then.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
dave young will find this hilarious
at the very least: http://blackboardsinporn.blogspot.com/
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
Love it.
Nolij - October 11, 2011
That’s like Nicholson Baker writing on the libraries in the backgrounds of furniture catalogs.
kinbote - October 11, 2011
that sounds awesome
this is hilarious too http://www.justinspace.com/obscene/oi1intro.html
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
It is a hilarious concept
But after reading a couple, I’m not sure that it makes for a series of entries that I would continue to monitor.
David Young - October 11, 2011
On a less serious front, this Boston Globe article on the Red Sox is pretty insane.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
Damn it I want some fried chicken right now
Julio Nievas - October 11, 2011
amen to that
bad fried chicken is better than bad sportswriting
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
I’m not sure what is my favorite part. But this is in the running:
fbihop - October 11, 2011
My favorite baseball word, which I often use while playing, but rarely anywhere else
Horseshit
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
-Pedro Guerrero
EMDarrow - October 11, 2011
reminds of the stuff about manny hitting the showers early in 09 nlcs
wukunlin - October 11, 2011
Sounds like Simers
Julio Nievas - October 11, 2011
Nah, lacks childish nicknames and boorish tone.
David Young - October 11, 2011
If its an unwritten rule, how does this guy know it?
Tripon - October 11, 2011
He’s an unwriter.
Nolij - October 11, 2011
It’s not an unspoken rule?
VegasBlues - October 11, 2011
Indeed
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Nah, lacks childish nicknames and boorish tone.
David Young - October 11, 2011
REPLY FAIL
David Young - October 11, 2011
“went soft”?? you think that from the Herald, not the Globe!
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
The writing in the article is hilariously bad. I can’t believe any editor for a major newspaper in the United States, even in the sports section, let the tone get through.
No objectivity at all.
But, hey, fuck the Red Sox.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
I haven't read it yet
But judging only from the two paragraphs you pulled, my initial reaction is this: excessive hand-wringing sells more papers than a two-word column that says only “shit happens.”
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
I get it
but it still makes me feel shame, every now and then, for being a sports fan
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
This article is full of shitty reporting goodness
Lookee here! I found the moment when It All Went Wrong: the day the Red Sox swept a double-header! JUST IMAGINE WHAT A SIGN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN IF THEY’D LOST BOTH THOSE GAMES JUST IMAGINE JUST IMAGINE
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
As I said before, the article is very, very badly written.
But there is enough stuff in there to make a good story, if only a writer with any journalistic integrity had wrote it. Too bad those are in very short supply when it comes to writing about sports these days.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
hey
at least the fucker was able to write a god damn paragraph.
rather than just writing single lined sentences.
a true american hero.
chad billingsley, headcase. trade matt kemp.
another award winning article.
mintxcore - October 11, 2011
There is juicy stuff in there, I guess, but I still think the Sox collapse can be chalked up to shit happening. It’s no fun, and it’s not a great story.
But this is something that annoys me in my daily life, so maybe you can’t listen to me. People say “Everything happens for a reason.” I disagree entirely. It is my opinion that most of the time, things happen for no reason whatsoever. Until I get a better article, I’m gonna assume that the Sox collapse fits that latter category.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
the cutting back their workouts
sounds like something that could have had a direct influince on a late season collapse.
nolander - October 11, 2011
Except if they’d held on and won two more games, nobody would be talking about a collapse, or, if they were, they’d say how unorthodox strategies like cutting back their workouts led to a loose clubhouse and avoided ignominy.
Shit happened. It sucks if you’re a Red Sox fan.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
their record was absolutely attrocious
their pitching was abysmal. Its not like they played OK and another team just played better, they where utterly shit.
nolander - October 11, 2011
Yeah. They were. It happens. It might have been avoided if they’d made some different moves down the stretch, just like the Phillies’ and Mets’ (and Dodgers’!) famous collapses in years past probably could have been avoided if different little tweaky moves had been made here and there.
But I find it hard to believe that something changed between August 31 and September 1. The team started playing shitty — just like they played in April. That is who they were, a team that sometimes clicked like the best team in baseball and others couldn’t win a game to save their lives. Did they suddenly start drinking beer, eating fried chicken, and playing video games more in September than they did in May, June, July, and August? If not, why is that the cause for their poor play?
I do believe that leadership means something, but this article attributes leadership to some things that I think mean nothing and it claims they mean everything.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
you are focusing on the beer and chicken
I’m focusing on the last year+ of them cutting back their workouts which could leave them in worse shape to wear a very long season and cause them to be less capable of lasting the entire season, thus causing them to play poorer in September. Its not the whole reason, but if you think players cutting back their conditioning isn’t news in sports, I don’t know what to tell you.
nolander - October 11, 2011
sports page forensics are like….
aw, fuckit
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
My new take (changes every five minutes!) is basically what nolander said. A series of season-long problems with some players that no one cared about until the Red Sox started losing.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
when your strength and conditioning coach thinks its a problem
its not something just manufactured by the journalist
nolander - October 11, 2011
No, but that bit — that several players slacked off their conditioning — is lost in a story that discusses beer and chicken, alleges that Terry Francona has a drug problem and is consumed by concerns for his family’s safety, calls Adrian Gonzalez a whiny crybaby, calls Jason Varitek the same, says Ortiz and Youkilis had basically checked out, and, weirdly, calls out Tim Wakefield for making his starts.
The point of this article is not to make news or try to figure out why the Red Sox collapses. The point of this article is to chronicle the second guessing and finger pointing. There may be a real reason for the collapse in there, but the reporter didn’t do the heavy lifting of objective reporting to find it. He called people and wrote down what they said, and printed it in the paper.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
Also, he seemingly had a reason in mind before calling everyone and wrote the article around that.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
they just love playing it up
for the dramatics
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
its basically a plaschke piece
bunch of stupid narratives to make you think they were the cause for their failure.
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
lol
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
I re-read the piece. I think that it has some good reporting but the reporter got spun by a few people about what the Real Cause of the Collapse was. Playing up moments (like what you quoted) that really weren’t all that important.
If I was writing the piece, I would have looked at the lack of work ethic more than random player insurrection stuff.
Also, I can’t help but think that if the pitchers were not in the dugout all season and instead drunkenly playing Mario Kart, the writers would have heard about it — and should have wrote about it then.
Sports journalism is weird.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
professionals don’t need pitchers to be cheerleaders
guys have been eating chicken on their off day since trains were the mode of transport
this is not little league
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Yeah, but have you ever not seen Kershaw/Bills/Lilly/Kuroda sitting in a line in the front of the dugout?
Our guys watch our games, even when they’re not playing.
Taylor Maricle - October 11, 2011
I love Boston sports media.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
FTFM
Hollywood Joe - October 11, 2011
Yo, Adrian! I hear you’re gonna be around for six or sumpin’ or years! Well, guess what! FUCK YOU, that’s what! Haw haw haw haw! (pukes)
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
its like the writer never had a really shitty night of sleep
and then had trouble catching up for a couple days. Hell I’m doing that now and I don’t play sports, I sit at a desk all day.
nolander - October 11, 2011
If you play a late game in the central time zone then have to head back to Boston for a game the next day, that’s less sleep. Don’t have to worry about that in San Diego, right?
Or am I fucking up the whole time zone thing?
I do think that Gonzalez’s complaint is BS, but just thinking outside the box here. Because I like being the devil’s advocate.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
“Call me dad.”
-Al Pacino
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
At first I thought he was complaining about night games in Boston before a road trip, but I can imagine teams not wanting to schedule Boston (and the Yankees) for day games since they get a nice gate boost from them. San Diego on a getaway day, day game not such a big deal.
That said, I bet Boston travels a heck of lot less miles in a season than San Diego.
David Young - October 11, 2011
Yeah, but if a game in, say, Tampa Bay ends at 11:00, that’s still 11:00 Boston time.
If a game in Miami ends at 11:00, that’s 8:00 for the team on the west coast.
Only think I could think A-Gon and his weird facial hair (those eyebrows!!) was talking about.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
Oh, and if you are on Twitter and not following @OldHossRadbourn, do so now. I mean, now.
fbihop - October 11, 2011
I’m not sure why, but I’m going to stand up for the writer(s) of this article. It doesn’t specifically choose a scapegoat (or, for that matter, scapegoats), but speaks to the point that the problems cannot simply be solved by dumping Tito, or Theo, or one or two problem players. The rhetoric is low-key, even though there is some regrettable adjective usage. The main problem I’d have is that the article’s thesis would be “There’s plenty of blame to go around. Except Dustin Pedroia, he’s wicked great!”
Nolij - October 11, 2011
I’ve got to go to bed, but I’ll be interested to see where this thread goes in the morning. You know where I stand:
Unless it’s just something that happened. Yes, I know the Sox’s collapse is historically bad, but I still think that if the Red Sox had won an insignificant number of games more than they did, nobody would be talking about “the Red Sox problems,” and that it’s not exactly true that they played great all season only to collapse at the end. I still think that things happen for no reason. If you say that seeds were sown that were reaped in September, well, OK — but I stand by this: just because things didn’t go their way doesn’t mean that something meant wrong. It MIGHT mean that, but this article is a long way from showing that, in my opinion.
Humma Kavula - October 11, 2011
one thing I think this article does
is remove any 2nd thoughts from Theo Epstein’s mind about taking the Cubs job
arbfuldodger - October 12, 2011
Way to go Tigers
hmmm – not sure who I am rooting for in both of tomorrow’s games yet.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
Tigs
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
and Brewers
shaqfor3 - October 11, 2011
Looks like I am a
Cardinals fan tomorrow and hoping for some pitching duels.
Xeifrank - October 11, 2011
38 of 48 exit interviews now complete
The bullpen comes tomorrow morning.
Outfield is next, and will complete the players portion.
I forgot, there will be a coaches portion too, but I’m not sure how many I will do. Let’s say 38 of 51 or 52 exit interviews now complete.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
I can’t wait to read what you have to say about Flippo.
Nolij - October 11, 2011
Those 2,000 words really write themselves.
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Do you think when he was a kid, he used to watch Mark Cresse (or better yet, Todd? Maulding) and think, “Someday?”
Nolij - October 11, 2011
“You know, I want one of those jackets, with my name on it.”
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
From Tim Brown
Eric Stephen - October 11, 2011
Wakes up dead. Interesting. He’d probably still be better than Ryan Theriot.
VegasBlues - October 11, 2011
Number 1
Why didn’t he name the chicken place that delivers to Fenway. Number 2, all those words a nary a mention of J.D. Drew. Number 3, at least Darnell McDonald got some headphones. Number 4, did they invite Eric Bedard to join in the chicken and beer fest.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
Number 5, is it such a regular thing that it has a name?
Number 6, when one of them is pitching do the other two guys still have the beer and chix fiesta
Number 7, are the other guys, pitchers who don’t join in, better people? not likers of Chicken, video games, and/or beer? or were they not invited?
I can go all day
Hollywood Joe - October 12, 2011
new post
http://www.truebluela.com/2011/10/12/2484617/2011-dodgers-exit-interviews-bullpen
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
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