Rangers up two games to one.
Kinsler 2B
Andrus SS
Hamilton CF
Young 1B
Beltre 3B
Napoli C
Cruz RF
Murphy LF
Torrealba DH
Tigers lineup , with Porcello on the mound
Jackson CF
Raburn RF
Cabrera 1B
Martinez DH
Young LF
Avila C
Peralta SS
Santiago 2B
Inge 3B
GameDay
David regarding Madsen
Interesting Bullpen, the Phillies have
Lidge 1.5 Buyout option of a 12.5 contract see ya
Madson – Free Agent
Jose Contreras only 2.5 Million, was great before arm trouble this summer.
Antonio Bastardo seemed to do a decent job for the minimum.
Broxton just might be a great fit for them, helping out Jose and Antonio.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Prediction:
1. They sign Broxton
2. Broxton is OK but not perfect and blows the occasional lead
3. The Phillies disappoint, mostly for reasons that do not involve Broxton
4. Everybody blames Broxton
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
I will only sign off on this if the Dodgers sign Free Agent Matt Stairs to be our pinch hitter and he hits a decisive home run off of Broxton after he walked AJ Ellis on four pitches in the NLCS
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
That AJ Ellis is an OPS machine.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Because he got fat.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
ter
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Like Philadelphia is one to talk.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
No, when he messes up, it will be spoken of as if it is a new thing.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Now playing: “Who’ll Stop the Rain” by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Rick Dempsey is somewhere getting ready, humming Garbage’s “I’m Only Happy When It Rains.”
Nolij - October 12, 2011
All of Detroit is channeling it’s musical roots singing the Temptations’ “I Wish It Would Rain”
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
And hoping that Matt Harrison will be humming the Ronettes’ “Walking in the Rain.”
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Blind Melon: “No Rain”
fbihop - October 12, 2011
You mean Phil Collins is not from Detroit?
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Prince is from Minneapolis, MN. I’m going to callback to this in a year or so.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Prince and The Replacements
came out of Minneapolis at the same time. Plus Husker Du and Soul Asylum. That must have been a great music scene
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Did not know Husker Du was from there.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I can't wait for
It’s Raining Men
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Whichever team loses will go all Milli Vanilli.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Blame It On The Rain, nice.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I like Gary Allan’s “Songs about Rain”
If Phil doesn’t get to watch baseball today it’s gonna be “Blue Eyes cryin in the Rain”
keithc13 - October 12, 2011
Eric Clapton not a baseball fan: “Let It Rain”.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Prince still pulling for the Rockies, but nobody has the heart to tell him, plays Purple Rain.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Luke Bryan, Tigers fan, says Rain is a Good Thing
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Bob Dylan wants to see Tigers cheerleaders in Dirks and Verlander jerseys, plays Rainy Day Women #12 and 35.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
East coast bullshit weather
All World Series should be played in L.A. and Anaheim regardless of teams
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Levinston just quoted you and submitted a motion to Judge Kevin Gross saying, “If Dodger Stadium is in such need of repairs, why would Marty Leadman suggest hosting the playoffs there when the Dodgers aren’t even involved?”
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
and by east coast
I mean east of Las Vegas
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Las Vegas?
I define east coast as east of Lincoln Boulevard.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
You’re like our own little New Yorker cartoon.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Again with the short jokes.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
He might have been a little short sighted on that last one.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
little did he know
Julio Nievas - October 12, 2011
I was trying to come up with a joke
but I was stumped
mleadman - October 12, 2011
We might need to branch off into another subject that we know little about.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Who knew
I was in the Mid West?
mleadman - October 12, 2011
“Rain” – Beatles. One of their better B-sides.
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
When it finally clears up, Miguel Cabrera’s massive home run will be The Rainbow Connection.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
And then he will sing some Johnny Nash.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
No base-a-ball, eh?
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Karros thinks Michael Young is the AL MVP
umm no.
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Karros also thinks he has great hair.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
And agreed to be in the ESPN documentary “Catching Hell”
Hard to believe he was one of the only guys to speak on the video.
keithc13 - October 12, 2011
was he with the Cubs at the time?
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
He was
keithc13 - October 12, 2011
Karros was the starting 1B for the 2003 Cubs, I guess it’s not too far fetched. He was on the field when it happened
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I get that.
Just shocked that they picked him. A guy that was there for 1 year.
Maybe he was the only one that agreed to talk because he likes to hear his own voice…
keithc13 - October 12, 2011
Looking back at that team, Mark Prior had a 4.90 K:BB ratio. That’s more than double what is considered ‘good’. Good lord was that guy good.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
His motion was so good, he’ll never get hurt!
Sincerly,
Cubs Fans
keithc13 - October 12, 2011
Even steve lyons was all over it
since he was on the broadcast.
delias man - October 12, 2011
Yeah. Didn’t like that they let him talk about dropping his pants for 5 minutes.
I get why he was there for the broadcasters perspective, but I didn’t see the need to talk about Lyons being an idiot.
keithc13 - October 12, 2011
i dont like the whole boston connection either. but the guy who did it was boston, espn is, nevermind.
delias man - October 12, 2011
He is also well-spoken and recognizable. Many of his teammates wouldn’t fit that criteria, and others may have declined.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
i like that Alou was on it
the whole doc was nothing without his two cents.
delias man - October 12, 2011
What does he care?
He’s planing on entering the Hall as a Dodger!
Julio Pena - October 12, 2011
if by MVP he means not the MVP then I agree.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
Well, today IS opposite day.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
BA is still the rage
As far as I’m concerned Matt Kemp did win the Triple Crown.
OPS+
Home Runs
Awesomeness
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
How long until it runs over into the X-Faqtors time slot?
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
3 hrs 25 min
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
Stick around for a while Rain…….
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Sir, Fox would have no problem cutting away from baseball if it was bottom of the ninth, tied, two out, bases loaded, and Miguel Cabrera at the plate.
X Factor must be aired.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
I thought that was only for Raider games aired on the Columbia Broadcast Network.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
System, not Network. Damn lack of sleep.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
the NFL fixed that last month.
delias man - October 12, 2011
you dun got Aaron Curry
thoughts
nolander - October 12, 2011
jeez thats nothing. What a bust.
nolander - October 12, 2011
Seeing as how Curry doesn’t know how to tackle I think the Seahawks win this trade.
I bought into all the hype surrounding him prior to him being drafted and thought he’d end up being real good. I was just a little off….
He did look great at the combine though so he will fit right in on the Raiders!
VegasBlues - October 12, 2011
need moar LB
like it.
delias man - October 12, 2011
Checks calendar, playoffs? Yes.
So, 3hr 25min is what, the 6th inning if they start now?
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
according to fox
they pushed back the start 30 minutes to 5:45 ET
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
If you got a draft pick and your choice was Michael Young or Ray Durham, knowing full well how each would do in their careers, who do you choose?
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Young
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
Young
keithc13 - October 12, 2011
Am I allowed to keep Young off shortstop? If not, Durham.
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
Durham
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Course I’d have made him a center fielder from day one.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
young
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Mr Young
Career Home OPS .866
Career Road OPS .737
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Mr. Durham – Mr. Consistency
Career Home OPS .790
Career Road OPS .786
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Stupid Question
Who’s Ray Durham?
mleadman - October 12, 2011
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=durhara01&year=Career&t=b
One of the best 2nd baseman over the last 15 years.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
This is how out of touch I am
I can’t recall ever hearing about him.
mleadman - October 12, 2011
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Generated 10/12/2011.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Brandon Phillips has a lower career OPS+ than Todd Walker. Wow.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
And he’s already peaked.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Todd Walker got kinda hosed because people focused on what he couldn’t do (catch the ball) too much.
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
he was a true fantasy sleeper back then
delias man - October 12, 2011
Also, Junior Spivey.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
One day that Greg Maddux is gonna tell his grandkids about how he just could not solve the riddle that was Junior Spivey.
Mark Bellhorn.
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
Always interesting when they move a 3rd baseman to 2nd base, usually they are moved to 1st base and you find out they couldn’t even hit if they had been a AA.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I mostly just confused him with Warren Morris.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
He took Broxton deep
in a crucial situation in SF. Was it the ’07 pennant race?
David Young - October 12, 2011
Both Young and Durham were picked in the 5th round
Young in 1997 out of Cal and Durham in 1990 out of high school. (Bret Boone was selected two picks after Durham).
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
2nd baseman who turned to crap so quick:
Chuck Knoblauch
Loved watching him play for the Twins.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Orlando Hudson
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Never had the highs of Knobloach. At age 26/27 he was the bomb.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Michael Young did not go to Cal.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Santa Barbara
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I did not read that draft board
to closely
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
I think I too choose Durham, and I let him hit leadoff for the next 15 years.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Young
He’s awesome
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
Fun with numbers
Andre Ethier currently has the same career OPS+ as Kirk Gibson and Roy Campanella.
James Loney currently has the same career OPS+ as Tommy Davis and Henry Rodriguez.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Adrian Beltre is only 2 OPS+ higher than James Loney
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Loney is a beast
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Beltre 2003 - Loney 2011
Beltre’s Terrible 1st half, went off in Sept.
Beltre and Loney one year removed from Free Agency
Beltre and Loney both never lived upto the promise of their first two yeas in the majors
OMG – Jim Loney is going bonkers in 2012
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Suddenly I can’t wait for 2012
dodgerpreacher - October 12, 2011
Quick some one break one of Loney’s ankles!
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
We can have Josie give it a crack.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Where’s Jeff Gillooly when you need him?
mleadman - October 12, 2011
One of my guilty pleasures
Was listening to Tom Brokaw pronounce Gillooley
mleadman - October 12, 2011
But I use these ankles all the time!
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Jose Canseco, Juan Gonzalez and Rafael Palmeiro had the same career OPS+
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Why does that basketball player to the left of me
seem to have a sharp object in his back pocket? He could put someone’s eye out.
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Wonder what league average is for Batters Faced per Inning
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
4.25 in the NL this year.
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
Thanks.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Applied to Starbucks today
got my hands on my bootstraps, we’ll see
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
can i get free tea at your location?
delias man - October 12, 2011
i’ll give you hot water if you bring your own teabag : )
It’s weird, three years ago I was working in a coffee shop, and my boyfriend at the time said “hey, you’re learning a transferable skill. You can apply your trade anywhere”
I hated him for saying that, but this might just pull me out of my funk.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
cause of all the sugar and caffeine and tasty coffee smell
nolander - October 12, 2011
there probably should have been a question mark in there
somewhere
nolander - October 12, 2011
if I go nuts with the question marks, I can read that like a cheerleader.
“cause of all the sugar? and caffeine? and tasty coffee smell?”
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
thats probably exactly how I would say it out load
totally
nolander - October 12, 2011
Oh my god, Becky. Like gag me with a spoon or whatever
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
i listened to the beginning of that song the other day. loved it. “she is dressed like a total prostitute”
delias man - October 12, 2011
for sure, for sure
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
But Bootsy Collins will put her right back in, baby.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
its not for me. every time i pass a starbucks now the boy screams for tea. iced tea to be exact.
delias man - October 12, 2011
make him call it what it really is
sugar water
nolander - October 12, 2011
hey! hey. Tea flavored sugar water
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
the tea is a lie(I hate myself)
its fruit flavored sugar water marketed as tea
nolander - October 12, 2011
well if you get the herbal iced tea, sure
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
i’m told at some point i’ll know what The Cake is a Lie means, but I’m not there yet.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
you are playign portal 1 or 2?
if 2, stop, go play 1, then go back to 2, THEN you will get the joke. Otherwise you will only understand references to lemons.
nolander - October 12, 2011
2. madeleine told me the joke because I don’t have internet and didn’t want to go get P1.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
You’re a better person for not knowing.
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
xkcd relevant as always
I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town.
nolander - October 12, 2011
Oh man, I have like four Command & Conquer disks within reach of me RIGHT NOW. Let’s play some Tiberian Sun!
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Diablo 3 needs to come out now.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
jan or feb...
maybe
nolander - October 12, 2011
Is this Rage game
I’m seeing advertising any good?
mleadman - October 12, 2011
sorta
nolander - October 12, 2011
How do I move the margins to see the rest of the comic?
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
http://xkcd.com/606/
nolander - October 12, 2011
Thank you.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
well if it’s for the boy, of course. Darling little tyke
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Working is so overrated. Go hosteling in Europe
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
My options are work and pay taxes in Los Angeles, California, America or eat at the Paris Ritz’s dumpster…..
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Hey, Humma’s restaurant has chairs, I assume.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
And booths.
Booths that I have slept in.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Half way, sell coffee in Paris to dumb Americans.
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
“Ewe ah Uhmericaaaaah, Zhozie. Why you muz eat out of zis dump-stair?”
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
well the Euro hasn’t crashed yet
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
And there are
Starbucks in Paris – heck all over the world.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
my first idea
before I took G’s, was to be a flight attendant, but they relocate you and you have to pay your relocation costs. I don’t want to pay my own relocation costs.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Josie would be a star in Paris, we should put up a one way ticket to Paris fund for Josie.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I’ve got two tickets to Paradise, but I don’t think they are transferable.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I have Letters of Transit, but they are made out to some dude named Rick and some other chick named Ilsa.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
I am more impressed with you Ugarte
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Mr. Rick, I don’t think you want to go down that road again.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Where are you and Eddie Money running off to?
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
And if my pal needs a waitress, I would get him to hook you up.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
I don’t want to be waitress in Paris
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
okay, here’s a plan. Pull a ticket fund, I live with Jojo, pulling espresso and going to football matches. Oh my god this is the perfect plan.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Ligue One
sucks
delias man - October 12, 2011
new plan
I’ve got a friend in Birmingham, ticket fund to London, I’ll take the train to Brummagem, pull espresso and go to Aston Villa matches
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
your friend will get tired of you
delias man - October 12, 2011
tell me about it, done that one before. I’ll have to marry him.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Do yourself a favor, don’t check that search history.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Jojo would so set you up. Before you know it, you’d be someone’s queen.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
you mean like, someone would crown me?
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
dennis green style
delias man - October 12, 2011
or at least let you off the hook.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
nice left turn y’all : )
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Get back, Loretta.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
I had to learn to operate the espresso machine in my friend’s restaurant one day when he was short-staffed.
This even though my friend’s place is the only* place in Paris where you can get real American drip coffee.
*This is probably not true, but it is almost certainly almost true. I bet you can get drip coffee in a big American hotel, but aside from that, it’s just BIA.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Imagine if Ozzie Guillen got fooled by the hidden ball trick while getting American drip coffee at Breakfast in America!
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
“What’s this fuckin’ coffee? This is good fuckin’ coffee. Who’s the motherfucker that made this fuckin’ coffee? Oh fuck, I’m out.”
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
“You know who can’t make coffee like this? My fucking wife. Because her cooking is terrible, you see. But I love her.”
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
none in Mammoth
i was shocked
delias man - October 12, 2011
go hosteling in Peru and you can buy everyone in the bar drinks for 20 bucks and be a local goddess.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
damn that’s a good plan
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
You can stay in Peru for 6 months (183 days)
on just a tourist visa.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
The number of days in the MLB regular season.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
And, then, by extension, the offseason in a leap year, like 2012, for instance.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Those seem like limited options for a free agent. How come you are not tutoring?
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Tutoring is the best. The kid gets a C and you are a hero!
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Kids parents at our school pay 40 – 75 bucks for elementary tutoring.
Verdell would be better off taking early retirement and tutoring since she’s not allowed to tutor kids in her school.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Elementary tutoring? For $75 an hour?
Holy crap.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
I was making $100/hr tutoring middle school Algebra 1 to a girl whose dad had no real expectation of her passing the class. I did help her to be sure, but he didn’t seem to care. He also gave bonuses intermittently. Quite a gig, that.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
The more they pay you the more they can brag about how much they pay you.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Good point.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
pack 5 of them into a room for an hour, two sessions a day, for 200 days, make $150,000 a year.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
In theory, in practice people pay premium for one on one, not for sharing.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Oh I know. The problem is you can really only be open for business from like 4-6pm because kids have school, parents work, and they still need to do things like go home and eat dinner and sleep.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Plus, parents will pay extra for my extreme good looks, winning personality, and wide breadth of knowledge of multiple subjects.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Right, that is why it is supplemental income.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
makes you wonder about tutoring businesses though. I guess you could pay tutors 20 bucks an hour and collect 60, then hire a staff of several tutors, but it’d take a whole lot just to pay the lease. Sorry, business mind kicked in
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
those exist
nolander - October 12, 2011
and I'm pretty sure they make good money
nolander - October 12, 2011
Lots of businesses are in the tutoring business. Not sure how they are doing these days but a few years ago they were making money. My wife refers her students to several of the main franchises.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
i worked for one
when i first moved to LA. they are EVERYWHERE in SGV. Lil’ Harvard is a real one.
During the school year, yeah its only 3pm-6pm and they pay $15++++++/hr. the summers were good money when you can work all day. but i know the place i used to work, they keep asking me back but only can hire me to work a couple hours aw eek during the summer. so i keep telling them to fuck off.
not really. but its not worth it.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
At the end of the year I’d have to do independent contractor taxes from three different sources. Le not EZ form anymore
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
yea, those forms are always a drawback to MAKING A LIVING
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I know, I know
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Besides, who the hell reports tutoring income?
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
update
MLBonESPNRadio: First pitch in the ALCS is scheduled for 5:45 ET.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
damn an hour to download IOS5?
delias man - October 12, 2011
it started out that for me, but it only took twenty mins
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
that came out today?
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
yes
delias man - October 12, 2011
2:45 pm
isn’t happening. Tarp still on field even though the rain has stopped. Players are warming up in the outfield.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
So the latest ESPN the Magazine is the “Body Issue” featuring a nude Blake Griffin on the cover and nude photos of many other professional and olympic athletes (both male and female, as well as some couples).
I thought I knew what being in shape was. That’s a whole new level of fitness right there.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Yup, we are all dough boys compared to them. Have to say the cover I got scared me and I went out with a female body builder once.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
My issue had Hope Solo on the cover.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
You bastard
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Not really sexy to me.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Not sexy in that Cover shot either.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
That is what I meant, she might be sexy, but that shot didn’t do it. Great athletic body to be sure.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
This is true. Her shot for the article was much better.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Mine to, was wondering why So Cal did not get Blake Griffin
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Might have been the Bay area edition……..
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Mine had
Napoleon Solo. It was gross
mleadman - October 12, 2011
I might have mentioned a few hundred times but Illya Kuryakin son taught me how to scuba dive 23 years ago.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Cool
did you learn the spear gun too? That was the only reason I wanted to learn Scuba.
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Nah, I’m no hunter
My best scuba story is:
My friend had a place off of Whidbey Island in Washington, you walk right from his back yard into Puget Sound, cold clear water, nothing there but crabs, so we spent our time collecting crabs for dinner that night. We got out around noon and put all the crabs into a waterbasket, then we both took a nap dreaming of crab dinner. While we were napping both our wifes took all the crabs and put them back into Sound.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
“and that’s why she’s my FIRST wife.”
fbihop - October 12, 2011
NAS Whidbey was my last duty station.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
I could easily retire on Whidbey, beautiful place.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
It is truely amazing up there.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Han Solo would sell some magazines. Although 2011 Harrison Ford, probably not as much.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Steven jackson was extremely impressive
#notgay
delias man - October 12, 2011
If by impressive you mean built like a tank.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Glad you clarified
Have never been too sure about you.
David Young - October 12, 2011
It could happen anywhere - in the nice community of Seal Beach
SEAL BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Southern California authorities say nine people have been shot at a hair salon in the city of Seal Beach.
Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Marc Stone tells KCAL-TV that the victims’ conditions are undetermined but some are being taken to a hospital.
The shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon in a cluster of small businesses on Pacific Coast Highway in the community southeast of Los Angeles.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
6 dead
according to the Times
mleadman - October 12, 2011
More info from LA Times - Unfortunately 6 believed killed
Orange County authorities were responding to a shooting at a salon in Seal Beach on Wednesday, with reports of seven potential victims. A source familiar with the investigation said six people were believed dead.
The shooting occurred at Salon Meritage, a beauty salon in the 500 block of Pacific Coast Highway, workers in the shopping center said.
A suspect is in custody, according to a Seal Beach police official. The entire department is responding to the scene.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
I’m no law enforcement expert, but that seems like a bad idea.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
A weird master plan
I know, we’ll kill 6 people on one side of the town, so we can rob the bank on the other side. The cops won’t know what hit them
mleadman - October 12, 2011
This is the Die Hard 3 plot
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
that seems like of like driving past four cop cars at an accident, and assuming you’re free to speed now
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
this and what happened in die hard where much larger scale
nolander - October 12, 2011
No one does that though
They slow down like 20 MPH slower than the speed limit for some g’awful reason.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
stupidity
the reason is always stupidity
nolander - October 12, 2011
I still think people want to see a dead body or something similar
And a few people fuck up the flow of traffic for the rest of us actually trying NOT to be in traffic for half our lives.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
I, for one, enjoy running toward the sound of any explosion and/or alarm at all retirement communities.
I just started this practice Sunday night.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Maddz Parentz live down the street from a retirement community and Maddz Daddz likes yelling “Vacancy” whenever he hears an alarm go by the house.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I love that man, even though we have never met.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I live next to leisure world
I might have to steel this
nolander - October 12, 2011
try it out, see how the wife reacts.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
In 2009
they had 31 full time law enforcement officers.
From 1999-2009, there were 3 homicides and none from 2004 on.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
This will be a story they talk about for fifty years in Seal Beach
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I still talk about the kid I had a class with
who a few years later put on a paintball mask and a cape and shot his neighbors with a shotgun. /smh
nolander - October 12, 2011
I still talk
about having Leslie van Houten for a neighbor
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Better than Kirk van Houten as a neighbor.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Patricia Krenwinkle
was from Westchester, but she never calls anymore.
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
A kid at our church that my youngest bro hung out with at Sunday school
and whose bro was on my altar boy team (yes, I was an altar boy; no, I was never abused) ended up shotgunning his parents when he was about 20.
David Young - October 12, 2011
i still talk about
Katy Perry.
and the other day I remembered the time the leading Boy Band company (lou pearlman or something?) contacted me about having my band getting a “make over”
and Bobby Martinez making me quit surfing at age 10
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
im so sleepy
none of these people killed anyone. well maybe lou pearlman.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Even in LA
a six person homicide is a pretty rare incident but yeah, hopefully they have suspect and there are no difficulties in prosecuting that individual.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
Seal Beach
has 24,168 residents as of 2010 census
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
1) Seal Beach is not Southeast Los Angeles
2) These people got shot and only some of them are being taken to the hospital?
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
It's practically Irvine
mleadman - October 12, 2011
obsessed
you all are obsessed
nolander - October 12, 2011
the AP story
said Southeast of Los Angeles.
The second line has more to do with not having confirmed information.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
I skipped a word an missed the whole story.
Apologies
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I want to throw things
nolander - October 12, 2011
Damn
Has to be an ex-worker, love triangle
or the whole place was a front for drugs.
or he really hated his hair cut
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
or all 3
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Was it a two barber pole Korean barber shop?
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
“45 minute wait my ass.”
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
You are that guy
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Had to rec
mleadman - October 12, 2011
or he was just crazy
sometimes things just happen. Is this Humma’s fourth law?
nolander - October 12, 2011
Someday we will have a TBLA get together and some crazy fuck will kill us all. The next day the headline at TBLA will simply read
They had a good run
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Actually the next day's headline will read
Fave Five Recap
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
yes
delias man - October 12, 2011
Followed by
Nice people, but not elite
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Would that lead to Joey Joe being in charge here?
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
silverwidow
nolander - October 12, 2011
Heh
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
but he prolly killed us all
delias man - October 12, 2011
best not to give him any ideas
nolander - October 12, 2011
Silverwidow
Since the shooting will be at a TBLA event, he’ll be safe
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I thought that if a large % of the Mods were taken out that Chad would be next in line.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
In that case, I guess no headline, no story, no nothing.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Dave would get around to it
in a few days
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Dave may have been at said meet up.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
That would explain the tardiness
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Josie would probably have to take over since she would not have been able to afford to go to any TBLA event
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I’ll take over and turn it into an Albuquerque Isotopes blog.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Tope O’ The Morning To Ya
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Put Up Your Dukes
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
The John Lindsey Chronicles
fbihop - October 12, 2011
The Eyes of Jay Gibbons
mleadman - October 12, 2011
Blind Circuitous Ginger Bastards
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
/Dastardly Mustach’d
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
Mike Roberts is my Homeboy
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Robert Portnoy’s Complaint
David Young - October 12, 2011
Lorenzo Bundy’s Bunch
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Memories of AJ Ellis
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Breaking Bustabad
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Angel Pena’s Tragic Illness
Little Blue Bicycle - October 12, 2011
Probably my favorite so far.
fbihop - October 12, 2011 via mobile
Billy Ashley’s Field of Dreams
Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache - October 12, 2011
over/under: how many time I’d write match instead of game: 53.2
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
You can come live blog our GU8 game this Saturday at 12:30. The Blue Raindrops have posted two shutouts in a row, a 4-0 drubbing of the Smurfettes and a 5-0 whitewashing of the Golden Dragons. This week we face the fierce and mighty Yellow Sunflowers led by #2 and #8.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
I’ve seen some GU8 games in my time, their the ones where the fathers have to constantly be told by their wives to shut up so the players can hear their coach : )
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
iiidown
He’ll be the oldest (by far :D ) and he’s going to say he will go to a TBLA get together but will probably never go, haha.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
8 people now dead
out of 9
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
update
Buster_ESPN: It’s not raining. They’re not taking the tarp off the field. It makes no sense. Is X-Factor the x-factor? We’ll see.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
hearing 3:15 now
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
now 3:30, per 100 reporters
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Whoya gonna believe?
mleadman - October 12, 2011
I would go with not me
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
AM 830 said 5:15, but they are fools
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Can’t play baseball we might run into a mildly popular TV show.
regfairfield - October 12, 2011
Buster_ESPN: And here comes the groundskeepers. Not sure why this process didn’t start 30 minutes ago.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Rec’d
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Phil should appreciate this
British Pop Charts (Melody Maker?), Feb 3, 1971:
1: My Sweet Lord
.
.
.
5: Apeman
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
I’m an ape ape man
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voo-doo man…
To my dying day I will love the lyrics:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/k/kinks/apeman_20079017.html
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
Watched the George Harrison documentary on HBO last night. I couldn’t turn it off. Really good stuff.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Was the second half good? I only saw the first half, and really enjoyed it. I assume the second half will be on demand soon enough.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
That’s where a lot of the most interesting stuff happened. Obv the Beatles were kind of a big deal, but it went into Layla, and financing Life of Brian (which I didn’t know about), Traveling Wilburys, the near-fatal attack at his house and his final few years. Compelling to say the least.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Very cool
I only heard about his involvement in Life of Brian last week. Looking forward to all of that.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I did not know until it started that the show I recorded was the second half. They’re repeating the show numerous times, but the listings don’t differentiate between the 1st or 2nd episode.
The second episode was outstanding. The true story of Layla finally came out.
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
There’s more to it than EC wrote it because he was pining for GH’s wife?
David Young - October 12, 2011
It was how he told Patty that he loved her.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
I’d never heard the bit about George showing up at a party where Patti and Eric were hanging out. He asked them what was going on, and they told him. Brutal.
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
It’s free love, man, you just have to roll with it.
/Liverpudlian accent
David Young - October 12, 2011
Patty must have been really something
Written by Harrison about her:
Something
I Need You
For You Blue
Isn’t It a Pity
Written by Clapton about her
Layla
Wonderful Tonight
Bell Bottom Blues
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
I always thought Isn’t It A Pity was about The Beatles. The plaintive tone of the lyrics, written in 1969 or 1970 don’t jibe with George still being with Patti and not knowing about Clapton’s feelings for her yet.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Just going by what Wikipedia says. I knew about the three Clapton songs and I knew about Something. Didn’t know about the other three.
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
tarp
coming off the field.
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Cowell says GFY to baseball
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
x
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Logo reminds me of Vince McMahon scream out on the mic with his raspy voice “The X..EFF, ELLLLLLUH”
Julio Nievas - October 12, 2011
LOL, I remember Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler doing play-by-play.
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
A little football news
As of about an hour ago, the NCAA has officially closed its investigation, and Auburn gets to keep its National Championship. Until the next story else breaks, I suppose. Wrgl.
Little Blue Bicycle - October 12, 2011
Boo.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
lame
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
So baseball going on at the same time, someone clue me in on particulars related to TV?
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
AL game will be on Fox.
NL game starts at 5:05pm on TBS.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
For UDog
my friend on facebook just said “If you want to win, let Tebow spin”
ha
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
brilliant
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Turns out Ryan howard completely tore his Achilles. 5-6 month recovery.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Most unfortunate timing of an injury since Kendry Morales.
kinbote - October 12, 2011
i wish the grounder got through
for more indignity
delias man - October 12, 2011
At least he isn’t owed like $125 million dollars for the next few years.
Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache - October 12, 2011
A scout told Knobler the Rangers have different swings/different body language on the road.
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
they can have White. I’m over him.
delias man - October 12, 2011
Were you ever under him?
heyoooo.
But really, were you ever high on him?
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
i guess everyone was for a while?
delias man - October 12, 2011
If White goes, will we finally draft a position player in the first round?
Tripon - October 12, 2011
depends who replaces him and when.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Baseball is underway in Detroit
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I walk out of work today, and its 100 degrees. WTF
Tripon - October 12, 2011
#first world problems
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I think weather related issues is an every country problem.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
really, you came out of your air conditioned workplace and into your air conditioned car, and that’s an every country problem?
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
I slept outside last night, on my basketball court, under a full moon, with my new puppy on my chest. Gentle breezes, clear skies, the only thing missing was the sound of Vinny calling Dodger postseason baseball.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Did your neighbor pass you the grey poupon?
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
Did he pull up in hi Gremlin, hand crank down the window and ask “Excuss me sie, Do you have any grey Poupon?”
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
you left your good paying, air-conditioned job said “man it’s hot” then got in your private vehicle and turned on the AC until you could post that it was hot on your high speed wireless internet.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I’m a sub, I get paid $95 a day, and I’m on call.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
Wow, teachers really do get paid like shit.
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
You should tutor:)
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Does your district raise the pay if you get a long-term gig?
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Yes, but to only around $110.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
Weak. I think LAUSD is like $140, which is still peanuts.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
I thought day to day subs get $160 now.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
In LAUSD
Tripon - October 12, 2011
Whoa, it’s $173. Extended subs get $233. Still less than certificated, but that’s not too bad.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
I really need to get on the list for LAUSD
Tripon - October 12, 2011
one more hot day. Then it cools.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
In Seal Beach no one cares
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Baseball related disaster averted
after 7 straight balls, Harrison gets the GDIP.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
followed by another walk. Pitch count mounting early.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
My Sweet Lord, that was Something.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Nice.
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
Early zeroes hung
Good. Unfortunately, I’ll be in the Nard for most of this game. It smells bad there.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
Finally, an article that speaks for me : )
I hate statistics
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
no no
you hate the MISUSE of statistics. Sample size is ever so important.
nolander - October 12, 2011
right, right
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
I love hustle and grit!
/Colleti, Hendry, Mozeliak, etc…
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
You forgot Wade
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
Oops…and Sabean :)
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
Porcello threw only 8 pitches in the 1st inning
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
First and ten
Do it again!
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
They Might Be Giants will be in Anaheim in November (with Jonathan Coulton) and at Royce Hall in January for two shows (one will probably be the kids music, which is also awesome). I may have to go to all three.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Downtown Disney needs better food options
nolander - October 12, 2011
Especially since the Tito’s in Anaheim packed up and left.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Best version of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” I know. Only version too.
Little Blue Bicycle - October 12, 2011
Man, Porcello would be good if he would just start striking people out.
Enter, October 12, 2011.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Harrison
is living dangerous, falling behind so many hitters.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
Four zeroes so far
let’s see how the big bats do the next time through the lineup.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
Still playin in the rain.
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
good thing they took so long to get the game going
nolander - October 12, 2011
Theo Epstein will win ______ Championships with the Chicago Cubs.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
not 1 not 2…
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
0
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
three NBA
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
(Sexiest Man in Chicago)
Nolij - October 12, 2011
5Ks
through 3 innings.
not bad.
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Porcello
gets out of a third inning pickle. 0-0 B3.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
(Uninentionally) funny thing Tigers radio announcer just said
(I’m listening to radio online because I have some work to do)
He said, “In that start in Detroit Harrison had to pass a kidney stone during the game so for that one at least we’ll give him a pass.”
underdog - October 12, 2011
Heh
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Bottom of third
Harrison pitching behind in the count with a runner on. Eventually gonna bite him.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
2 on 2 out for Cabrera.
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
Pop
2 run double. It catches up with Harrison.
Off to the Nard. Enjoy!
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
Wolfman’s got nards.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
2-run double by Miggy
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
The ‘05 All-Star jersey of his I’m wearing came through!
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Miggy double
2-0 tigers
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Now we talking
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
I need iiidown’s input here (or maybe Kelly)…
This may be a stretch for someone with 2 MVP awards, but wasn’t Frank Robinson sort of under the radar, i.e. not on the Mays/Aaron level during his playing career?
The reason I ask is I always think of Frank Robinson when I think of Miguel Cabrera. Like, this guy is really, really, ridiculously great, and flies relatively under the radar.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I’d lump Aaron in the underrated category. He wasn’t the icon of Mays & Mantle until late in his career, amirite?
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
in that one category had song written about them
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Well Casey was winning,
Hank Aaron was beginning,
One Robbie going out, one coming in.
Kiner and Midget Cadell,
The Thumper and Mel Parnell,
And Ike was the only one winning down in Washington
We’re talkin’ Baaaaaaaaseball.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I’ll allow it : )
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
You’d better. If not, I’ll send you the song.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
“I Love Mickey” and “Say Hey, Say Willie” give the overhyped combo each an extra to go with Talkin’ Baseball though. The Dodgers song doesn’t count for Willie.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
I don’t have I Love Mickey, but I do have Talkin’ Baseball and Say Willie
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
I don’t know the name of the song, but the one about Jackie Robinson (“See Jackie Robinson hit that ball, it goes zoomin’ toward the left field wall, that ball….Ooooh, Jackie hit that ball”) is great.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Aptly named
Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball?
by Count fucking Basie (& Woodrow Buddy Johnson)
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I was trying to put together a playlist for the TBLA softball game/picnic, but never got enough time.
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
“I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down” by Sam and Dave.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Basie counted his fucking? Like Wilt Chamberlain?
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
Probably needed NASA to help with the computation.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Are you saying they supplied the rocket in his pocket?
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
Suddenly “the A train” has a whole new meaning.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Question: Do we could Mrs. Robinson as a Joe Dimaggio song, since it was supposed to be about him and the last chorus still is
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Since Joe D tried to sue over his name being used in that song, I’ll allow it.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Not too many pop/rock songs with baseball references
Centerfield (duh)
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
Rocky Mountain Way (Bases are loaded and Casey’s at bat, Playin’ it play by play. Time to change the batter)
David Young - October 12, 2011
Glory Days.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Boys of Summer (sort of)
Swing Swing (All-American Rejects, I think)
Cheap Seats (Alabama) is brilliant
Ghetto Baseball (Nelly) is not brilliant
Nolij - October 13, 2011
My dad also has a story for Hank Aaron
I hope he comes on and tells it, haha.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
Speaking of the devil
Per Baseball-Reference, here are Cabrera’s most similar batters through age 28:
Frank Robinson (924)
Hank Aaron (910)
Ken Griffey (890)
Albert Pujols (881)
Mel Ott (862)
Joe Medwick (858)
Al Kaline (858)
Mickey Mantle (856)
Juan Gonzalez (849)
Hal Trosky (847)
(bold = HOF)
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Hal Trosky is in the Russian Revolutionaries Hall of Fame.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
This solves it, Juan Gonzalez is a hall of famer
G.Scott - October 12, 2011
Until 1966 this was probably true, but Triple Crown, Leading team to World Championship over the dreaded pitching of Koufax / Drysdale, he was the man from then on. Hell Aaron was under the radar until one day someone said, fuck he’s going to break the home run record.
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Thanks
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
hrm
a question for iiidown and kelly and it isn’t about the invention of the wheel??? WHAAAAAAT?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Nice
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
One of my dad's favorite stories
is how the Reds thought he was too old and wasn’t going to be good anymore, trade him to the Orioles, and he only goes on to hit for the triple crown, haha.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
Does anyone else think "mushroom" when they hear "Porcello"?
Er, maybe that’s just me.
underdog - October 12, 2011
I have a craving for cured ham
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
What disease did it have beforehand?
#badjokes
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
It’s knuckles were pickled, obviously.
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
Swine flu.
David Young - October 12, 2011
yeah
morchella mushrooms
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
I think more like Portobello.
Nolij - October 12, 2011
Portobello + Porcini = Porcello
underdog - October 12, 2011
I have
If he were built like Joe Blanton, I’d probably think it was Italian for “porcine” though.
David Young - October 12, 2011
43 strikes
13 balls
Phil Gurnee - October 12, 2011
Decent ratio
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Baseball defeats Simon Cowell!
maskedscheduler: Well it’s almost 8pm…X Factor will not be on tonight. This evening’s Judges House episode will air tomorrow night.
bonus tweet:
HitFixDaniel: Whenever Tim McCarver says anything rational, It gives me genuine pause. #NotTheXFactor
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
OK, just popping in to ask – who was Cabrera motioning to at the end of the last inning, after the double play? Looked lke he was gesturing to the Texas dugout.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Buster_ESPN: Cabrera turned to Texas bench and started jawing after that doubleplay.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Hah, thanks.
Glad I’m not the only one who picked up on that.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
And glad I’m not the only one here!
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
damn delmon
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
that was all on delmon
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
Delmon Young
misplayed that badly.
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Fucking D Young
C’mon, I know you all want to say it.
David Young - October 12, 2011
welllll
his misplay doesnt matter anymore now
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
lol Kinsler
stealing 3rd.
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
tie game
damn
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Porcello gives up the lead.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
I’m calling him prosciutto
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Ugh, yeah
go go little ball in the rain
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Blah, Mushroom Boy choked up the lead. Tenuous though it was.
underdog - October 12, 2011
bad luck/ fielding
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Search on Twitter for “X Factor.” It is hilarious.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
At least the general population is taking it well: the506: Actual tweet: “Why is this baseball game on instead of xfactor?! Theyre not even important teams! No redsox or yankees! Smh”
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
The_Poet_JL: Anybody else sick of baseball interfering with your favorite t.v. show? First Terra Nova, now X-Factor.-smh
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
I seriously don't want to teach these little shits
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
marahml:
fbihop - October 12, 2011
I chuckled
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
That’s more like it.
jim hitchcock (railway) - October 12, 2011
I am fine with this.
VegasBlues - October 12, 2011
i actually wrote that one.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
is that show
any different from american idol?
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
in that they were both shows Simon Cowell founded in England then shipped worldwide? No.
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Fielder is up with two on.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Dual game action
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Mark Kotsay TOOTBLAN
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
uhoh
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
rangers lead
fuck
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Goddamn, I hate to see a team fall apart
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
AT least, a team I want to see win
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Ogando in now
Tigers in trouble
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Elite walk for Cabrera.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
John Jay puts his signature on the game in St. Louis.
1-0, Pujols now up with Jay on 2B
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Raffy scores
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
What a terrible decision to put Kotsay in center.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
nyger is 4for 23 against carpenter
kotsay is 4 ffor 11
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
A freaking terrible decision?
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
*Nyjer
fbihop - October 12, 2011
7 of those Kotsay PA are from 1999-2000 when Carpenter was a Blue Jay.
All managers are dumb.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
2-0 Cards
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Pujols 2B.
2-0 StL
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Who holds the record for most XBH in a playoff series?
VegasBlues - October 12, 2011
I don't know for series, but
Pujols has, what, 5 this series and 8 this post-season?
David Young - October 12, 2011
Ryan Braun also has 8 this post-season, before tonight.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Victor Martinez has had some good swings tonight.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
swung at ball 4??
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
it was high
yep
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
dude delmon
ur horrible
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
Gallardo
looking terrible
bases loaded 0 outs
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
In some parallel universe, Kotsay is playing centerfield and Delmon Young left field ON THE SAME TEAM.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Gallardo
still hasn’t recorded an out.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
26 pitches 0 outs
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
3-0 Cards
On a DP by Molina.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Double play for a run. Galllardo needed the outs though.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Hart probably should have caught that.
VegasBlues - October 12, 2011
Corey Hart wants to remind everyone that the Brewers have bad OF defense at all three positions tonight.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I’m still blaming that one on Kotsay.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
braun is bad at D too?
hes pretty faast… the metrics dnt like him?
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
4-0
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
3 walks in this inning
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Cards have scored 22 runs in not quite
19 innings.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
33 pitch inning
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
The Brewers shouldn’t have replaced Gallardo with Suppan.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Jack and Jill. Early candidate for worst movie of the decade.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
@TylerKepner:
That’s bad, right?fbihop - October 12, 2011
I saw that and replied “those pitches took a wrong turn at Pismo Beach.”
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
What a maroon.
Nolij - October 13, 2011
And for those who don’t know about the “may or may not exist” reference. Here.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Oh my.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Dick Enberg was not involved.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
time
to get Alberquerque out
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
David Freese
per Bernie Miklasz:
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Goddam, I hate McCarver. Going on 20 years now.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
All managers are bad.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
FYI
FOX has changed the early game Sunday to 49ers @ Lions
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Go 'Niners!
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Hell yeah.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
No shutout tonight for Carpenter. Yuni RBI single, 4-1
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Brewers rally
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Tim McCarver: The ALCS is nowhere for Youth.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
That’s the comment that made me gripe up above.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
gutsy move by leyland
matthewmafa - October 12, 2011
wow
that looked like a disaster for a second.
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
What happened?
fbihop - October 12, 2011
inning ending groundout in Detroit. Still 3-2
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Alburquerque
replaced Porcello, threw a 4 pitch walk to Kinsler to load the bases (none of the pitchers were close to strikes), Leyland stuck with him and he got the groundout against the next guy.
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
sac fly for Gallardo.
4-2 StL, top 2nd
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
This Brewers-Cardinals game seems like it will be a 10-8 kind of game.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
I hope not
I picked a total under 16.5 for both games. :)
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I picked the over. And I said the Cards would hit 2 or more HRs.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
anyone on base for that HR?
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Nope
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Inge ties it!
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
WOW
Inge ties it
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Tie game in Detroit!
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
On an 0-2 pitch too
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Hah, eat that, Tim McClueless! Just got done saying that Inge wouldn’t pull it.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Tim McCarver was wrong about something?
I’m SHOCKED.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
I know, I should just let it go, right?
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Reply fail, too!
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Oh, Peter Gammons.
Here’s his latest tweet, which looks like it was meant to be a DM:
I have no idea what he is talking about.fbihop - October 12, 2011
Typo for
“Drayton”? As in McLane, former Astros owner?
David Young - October 12, 2011
McCarver's Ozzie Smith Graphic moment
“The odds are that Inge is not going to pull the ball down the third base line…It would be very unusual for Inge to pull Ogando.”
Inge HR to left center next second.
“Unbelievable.”
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Fox should put McCarver out of our misery.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
The ironic part is that I used to like him when he was just a local broadcaster for the Mets back in the 80s. He got on national TV for the WS, though, and it’s like his head exploded.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
More fun with English
So … “Detroit” is pronounced with an “oy” sound and a “t” at the end. Yet, “Benoit” is pronounced with it’s proper French pronunciation … “ben-wa”.
Can I just say that Benoit throwing balls is pretty funny?
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
It’s fun to pronounce it du-TWA though.
David Young - October 12, 2011
I wish his name was Roy Benoit.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
I know. I had to go to Wikipedia to see what it means – comes from the French for “the strait.” as in the strait connecting Lakes Huron and Erie.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Mr. Benjamin disagrees.
Nolij - October 13, 2011
Gallardo gets through the 2nd inning without allowing a run. Still 4-2 Cardinals headed to the third inning.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Kotsay gets one back!
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
4-3
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Well played Kotsay.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
I love baseball
Mark Kotsay hits a solo shot
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
Kotsay playing CF?
NotJoeTorre - October 12, 2011
He has occupied the position so far.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
A brilliant move.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Roenicke is like
I TOLD YOU SO
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
According to Craig Sager, Kotsay told his teammates in the dugout, “The best part about it is I didn’t have to slide.”
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Which referred to...
fbihop - October 12, 2011
And Furcal with a good defensive play to get two.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Bases empty IBB to Miggy.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Rangers:
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Miggy goes to 3rd on a base hit.
GFY Ron Washington
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Ron Washington, WHAT!
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
What a great throw by Cruz. Wow.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
why did Miggy tag?
way too slow
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Double play happens, saving the tie, and joe buck says it like it was nothing. I hate this announcing team.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
Gotta get to that commercial
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
ESPN Radio has been quite pleasant
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
I synced Shulman/Hershiser with my TV, and am glad
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Nice. ESPN Radio has a great feed online.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
I have managed to sync it perfectly, after several tweaks. It’s awesome.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Joe Buck was replaced by an LDM years ago.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
I have to ask – “LDM”?
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
Life Model Decoy
From marvel Comics.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Ah, thanks. Gotta keep up on my popular culture, I guess.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
The TBS announcers just gave us an update on squirrel-hunting in the stadium.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
That was a great throw but wow Miggy is slow.
You have to score on a ball that is hit that far to the Of.
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
Kevin Goldstein tweets
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
OK, before I go off to feed everyone dinner (and probably leave for the night) – I hate that Fox uses their freakin’ football music for the playoffs. I keep thinking it’s Sunday.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
it IS sunday!
your wife and kids have starved due to you not feeding them for 4 days!!!!
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
If it was sunday I would be playing kickball.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
you let
your kickball team down.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Nope partied with them last night.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
because it was Saturday!
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Nope, if it was Sat, Beer and wings at Big Wangs, last night was Pizza and a Pitcher in the Happy Ending Bar and Grill.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
you have an quite the schedule!
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Those are the high lights the rest is down hill.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
This is backwards. You start with Big Wangs and finish with Happy Ending.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Winning comment.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
My week starts on Saturday night.
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
So you start with Big Wangs and finish with Happy Ending unconventionally.
David Young - October 12, 2011
goddam thats good
kinbote - October 12, 2011
I’d rather go to Pink’s than Big Wangs.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
This is great too.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Hah, good point. I’m a miserable failure as a parent and spouse!
But I have an excuse – there’s baseball on TV …
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
gotta stay sane
kinbote - October 12, 2011
People at school still really don't know about the Seal Beach shooting
I’m in shock.
The shooting happened literally 2 miles away down my alley.
Julio Nievas - October 12, 2011
USC?
USC students don’t even know what happened a block away.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
CSULB
I learned this.
David Young - October 12, 2011
that campus
is expansive. 2 miles away from CSULB is CSULB ;D
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Gallardo
is not long for this game
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
Uh oh, Gallardo walks Furcal and now its the big bats for the Cardinals.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Double play in St. Louis.
2 outs now, man on 3B
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
IBB to Pujols, man on 3rd, 2 outs.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Pujols takes second base.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Holliday strikes out to end the inning.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
OK, gotta round up the family. ’Night, folks.
TopDeckTrueBlue - October 12, 2011
have a good one, man
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Lates
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
TOOTBLAN in Detroit
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
video game question
i played thru like all but the last chapter of the new Monkey Island game last year or so.
Do I replay it fromt he beginning or start where I left off and try to remember what happened.
video games are weird.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Are
you sans wife right now.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
yes
shes living in LA while I live in SB with my parents during the week.
we put an offer on a short sale, so we are waiting and waiting and waiting with fingers crossed
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
I’ve heard that the waiting is the hardest part.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
yeah, that and playing the mortgage ;D
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Buying in SB
I thought you had to read obits to find bargain places to buy
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
well, there isnt much in our price range but because this is a short sale, it could be a good deal. we’ll see…
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Well
at least we know our impromptu karaoke nights will be safe from mintxcore’s presence once he moves for good.
:)
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
haha
i was talking about this with mikewhite last night. hopefully i’ll still be able to make some, not the impromptu ones but the planned ones!
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
This group only plans
Bowling parties
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
bowling is awesome
but it seems so expensive.
and it doesnt include me singing. ;D
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
It turns out the bowling alley bar has karaoke starting at 9 PM!
David Young - October 12, 2011
oooo
but at Gabes, I’ve memorized the entire songbook ;D
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
you are doing it wrong
nolander - October 12, 2011
what should i do then?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
I did the same thing with Blue Dragon
though now I really have no choice but to start over. I was at the second disc. I have no idea when I’ll get the motivation to play though.
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
well you should have played it from the beginning lol
episodic gaming is just a way to deliever a SINGLE game in multiple chunks, so I guess just start from the beginning. Its more about humor anyways right? So knowing the ending doesn’t matter as much.
nolander - October 12, 2011
ha
i dont remember why i didnt finish. i think it was like 100+ degrees and didnt want to use my laptop and play a game all day. and i think i was starting work again or something. i dunno.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
man
buck sure was cuddlin’ up with mccarver
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
He missed his Pookie bear!!!!!!!!!!
Grimjack - October 12, 2011
Gallardo and Carpenter, against all odds, are still in the game.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Kotsay tags from first to go to second on a fly ball to right field. Rarely see that.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Looks like baseball did a bit better last night in the ratings
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
whats the diff
between Last Man Standing and Last Comic Standing?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Tim Allen sitcom
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
only man in a family with all daughters. HILARITY!
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Going from a show with three boys to a show with three daughters.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
oh gosh
so many tampon jokes! so much potential!
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
You need that gig
if only to take you away from ratings updates
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
josie
do you mind if i ask what ahppened with that teaching gig you had? or did i dream it?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Maybe it was like that season of Dallas.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
she shot someone?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
we didn’t see eye to eye and I withdrew
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
TWHS
David Young - October 12, 2011
Man
with the tampon comment, this is funny.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
bummer, the biggest challenge in education is dealing with crazy people who have more power than you hahah
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
you want me to to keep a personal record on the students, fine.
you say that a student dying their hair purple needs to be reported to the dean….
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
i thought this was a community college?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
nah, it was at Loyola Marymount
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
ohhh
thats crazy. but seems like a rule that could be fudged no matter how insane and dumb.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
it’s my stated piece of straw, but it was just the backbreaker
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Post Virginia Tech heavy handedness?
David Young - October 12, 2011
pretty much. If a student smells we were supposed to report it, any sign their mood may have been altered.
The file they have on me must be overflowing
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Don’t you think that’s pretty much how it is at all the private U’s?
David Young - October 12, 2011
I dunno
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
i think that stuff
is stuff they ask teachers to do to cover THEIR asses. but they would never really find out and teachers prolly never, ever do it.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Because you refused to shower before going to work?
fbihop - October 12, 2011
I’m not exactly the spectre of normality
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
[x]
How does Humma describe his primitive attempts at birth control.
David Young - October 12, 2011
more like [xxx]
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
free baseball in detroit
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Best. Article. Ever.
From the AP, no less.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
A real reporter
would have interviewed the hot dog vendor.
I cannot believe no one has located the purveyor of the fried chicken yet.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
i cannot think of any fried chicken places near fenway. there used to be some great sushi (seriously!) and mexican food (seriously!) near Fenway, but that burned down a few years ago :[
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
sushi and Mexican in the same place?
David Young - October 12, 2011
next door
there were some other places there too. http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/dishing/2009/01/restaurants_des.html
it was pretty much the best spot for fairly cheap eats in Boston
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Y’know, maybe I should get a sushi burrito this Friday, if they’re there.
David Young - October 12, 2011
yeah!
i miss all my fav food trucks living here.
rebel bite and jogasaki are now making lunch stops at Home Depot Center now too, just for Josie
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
This game has now
pre-empted local news or money making syndicated programs on Fox affiliates.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
I bet the affiliate in Detroit is jazzercised though
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
I bet the over on a certain number of outs for Carpenter. I lost.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I took the under on both starters in that game. Please hit for Gallardo.
David Young - October 12, 2011
He’s out
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Yay. What I really need though is for the Cards to hit some fucking jacks.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Enter LaTroy “Screaming Line Drive” Hawkins!
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Yessssssss
David Young - October 12, 2011
Winter Leagues, y'all. From @MinorLeagueBlog
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Off Belisario?? (One can hope)
David Young - October 12, 2011
Man, wouldn’t that be something?
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
and he said
“I’ll be on the Dodgers before you will.”
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
I would not underestimate Mike Napoli here
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Agreed
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
fuck fuck fuck
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
RBI single for Napoli
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
TBLA is wise
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
If Det-TX gets to game six
Tom Hallion will be behind the plate. YAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!
David Young - October 12, 2011
Yes!
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
game over
series over
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Boom stick. Ball game.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Nelson Cruz is a BEAST
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
Dear Tigers
suck a Fatty, love the awesome state of Texas
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Nolan Ryan
should buy the Dodgers.
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
wrong
Greg Maddux should : )
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Teh-Haas
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
boooo
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Are the 7 RBI by Nelson Cruz the most in the 11th inning in MLB postseason history?
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
AND HERE COMES THE PREZTELS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuIWUB1bA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVuIWUB1bA0
Tripon - October 12, 2011
ahahah
hhahaa
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
and a flurry of Pretzals
knocks Whitey Ford unconcious
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
is Whitney Ford the star of Whitney?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
"This is a dark day in baseball history"
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
"C'mon Mom, Thousands of people saw YOUR pretzals knock out Whitey Ford!"
“You can call them Whitey Whackers.”
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Aw man, I need to watch the classic episodes of the simpsons
Do you know of any, eh hem, streaming sites that have them?
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
doesn't
www.nutfux.com have streaming?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
idk what sites you're looking at :P
but netflix doesn’t have the simpsons streaming :(
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
which sux
no, i don’t know of any. They aren’t on Hulu?
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
hahahah
nutfux!
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Good IBB, Detroit.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Around the same time that St. Louis leadoff man bunted so that the #2 man can make out and Pujols pitched around. Holliday can make the Brewers pay for that though, but coming off the injury, I’d probably go this route too.
David Young - October 12, 2011
WHOOOOOOOOOAAHHH NELLLLLLLIEEEEEEEE
/Keith Jackson’d
Julio Nievas - October 12, 2011
months late but
spotify is totally just a real time napster.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Hipster’d
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Hawkins got out of it.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Clearly has more balls than Holliday.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Wow, Beltre. Nice fucking pick.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Lance Lynn time in St. Louis. AKA time for the Brewers to strike.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Cliff Lee must be kicking himself right now.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
He’s sitting on an island earning 20%.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Always rec’d
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
He <3 Philly
Julio Nievas - October 12, 2011
packing my dvds in a long, skinny box
dumbest idea ever.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
that’s about sex, right?
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Everything is.
David Young - October 12, 2011
and if it's not
it should be
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
haha
im taking some dvds to school to show the freshman some michel gondry music videos
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Smilin' Sammy Saito
is in to pitch.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Saito
is a perfect representation of the upper limits of the best Dodger moments
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
And immediately hits Berkman.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
this is why
philly fans are the worst
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
Nihilists
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
you know what'd be a change of pace
if a closer shaved every speck of hair on his head, even his eyebrows.
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Twitter fun
For more hilarity. West coast peeps are figuring out that X-Factor is last weeks show. Slowly…
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Haha.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
NarniaNeeds1D:
fbihop - October 12, 2011
American Horror Story
Anyone a fan? Recommend it?
Julio Nievas - October 12, 2011
Its rare for a team to get to back-back World Series and lose both times.
Braves – 91/92
Dodgers – 77/78
Last teams to have gotten there back-back and lost.
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
Fuck the Yankees
Julio Nievas - October 12, 2011
C'mon Brewers
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
C’mon Future Dodger Jerry Hairston
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Nope. Former Dodger Rafael Furcal throws him out.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
C’mon Unlikely Hero Yuniesky Betancourt
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
The unlikeliest.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Strike three, swinging.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Now that looked liked a Yuniesky type of swing
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
C’mon
Matt LeCroyJonathan LuCroyHumma Kavula - October 12, 2011
It’ll be Casey McGeeheeheeheehee.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Swing and a miss. K.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Bleh
David Young - October 12, 2011
Looks like there’s going to be alot of red in the World Series.
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
Except when Texas wears the unis that have more blue.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Brewers still just need one.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
Game over, man, game over.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Yeah
One Game. I probably should’ve said.
Alex41592 - October 12, 2011
I apologize for the short joke earlier.
It wasn’t funny enough.
David Young - October 12, 2011
It was pretty funny. You certainly have nothing to apologize for. Nobody does — at least, not to me, and at least not about short jokes.
Still, I do encourage you all to hit me with your best shot, and I am disappointed when I’m hit by something less.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
TWSS
David Young - October 12, 2011
I was apologizing for the funniness level, not the fact that it was a short joke. That’s the joke.
David Young - October 12, 2011
so it might be the Rangers again
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
I don’t know how I feel about Rangers-Cardinals.
On the one hand, the Rangers fucked up and allowed the Giants to win.
On the other hand, fuck the Cardinals.
Help me here.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Tony LaRussa
Fuck the Cardinals.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Sold.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
DH
Fuck the Rangers. (What Yogi Bear says when stealing picnic baskets in the unrated version.)
David Young - October 12, 2011
rangers over the cardinals
always.
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
Go Rangers
Chuck Norris didn’t play a character called Walker, St. Louis Cardinal.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Go Cardinals.
Nolij - October 13, 2011
Rangers over the Cardinals
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
x
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
this looks weird and disturbing to me.
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
my wife won’t let me wear it :[
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
trust her on this one
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
Rec’d
fbihop - October 12, 2011
the only time ive worn it
was when i was going to IndieCade, the indie video game convention
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
is that for developers
too shitty to get into pax?
nolander - October 12, 2011
All we are saying is give pax a chance?
David Young - October 12, 2011
heh
nah, I’m just being a douche. PAX is right now one of the most bamf gaming conventions and has kind of become a place where many indie games get shown off. It probably didn’t exist when minty went to indiecade
nolander - October 12, 2011
those guys from Penny Arcade
have really done some amazing stuff
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
i went to indiecade
last weekend.
the games at indiecade are a bit more, how should i say, experimental. and lots of non-video games (like Human Vs Zombies). it’s a fun event, pretty lowkey but a lot of creativity. i usually just walk thru and check stuff out as I’m not super video gamey and don’t really have a lot ot say on the subject.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
non game games are pretty interesting sometimes
nolander - October 12, 2011
Dutch Rudderesque
kinbote - October 12, 2011
Lol Roenicke just said Gomez would for sure catch the ball that Kotsay missed.
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
If you were the Brewers, how would you feel about putting your season in the hands of Randy Wolf?
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
At least it is against Kyle Lohse.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Results
Glad the Cardinals won. Why can’t the Rangers settle for one run in the extra inning wins? Why do they need to hit a grand slam or three run HR to kill me. :)
Xeifrank - October 12, 2011
did they also hit a grand slam in an earlier game?
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
Nelson Cruz walk-off salami on Monday night (Game 2)
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
when a sac fly for one run would have won the game.
David Young - October 12, 2011
jerks
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
Steve Finley says, “You didn’t mind when I did it too the Giants.”
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
i love Steve Finley!!
I remember that game. that was the game i officially became a Dodger fan!
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
i missed that game because i was in Boston and they werent showing it. but i also think i met my wife right around that moment.
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Plus, hit the over in the contest.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
so in 2013
is Angelo Songco our DH?
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Repeating Chattanooga.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Juan Rivera will be re-signed for that job.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Boston Herald
apparently says Beckett needs to go.
Wow
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Eats too much fried chicken?
fbihop - October 12, 2011
I’ll take him, and be the fried chicken errand boy.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
someone call Theo,
oh wait………
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
HEY RED SOX
Remember how you guys blew it in the last month of the season mostly because your rotation turned to shit?
Well have I got an idea for you: trade your best pitcher!
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
it's so crazy
it just might work!
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
A Lilly-Beckett swap might be a good start to the phone call. They’ll need someone to replace him.
Nolij - October 13, 2011
i'm surprised
they’re not turning the guns on Lackey. he’s the one who sucked
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
They would, but he’s untradeable. Beckett has trade value! GET RID OF HIM
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
If I were Ned, I would hold a press conference tomorrow, saying, “Los Angeles has the best fried chicken in the world — we eat it with waffles, it’s awesome — and we have several people doing really interesting things with beer.”
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Sounds like Ortiz
want’s out himself
“I don’t know if I want to be part of all that drama again next year.”
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
This sounds awesome
link
Castle’s bat at second? UM, YES PLEASE.
silverwidow - October 12, 2011
Dodgers should put all their bats at the tougher defensive positions and see if they can generate a prospect.
I’d even go Van Slyke at 3b
Joey Joe - October 12, 2011
Hell, let’s put Kyle Russell at shortstop and have him pitch, too.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
put him in RF
after we trade Ethier for Beckett
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
CHALLENGE TRADE.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
i've been thinking this too
because holy hell, we have NOTHING at third base. At least nothing anywhere close.
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
let's see
if Griff can play third
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
With the exceptions of Cey and Beltre, the Dodgers have never, ever, ever had anything at third base.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
gotta start somewhere Humma
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
remember how great
Andy LaRoche was (before he played in the majors)?
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
this is a madlib
for THOUSANDS of prospects
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Joel the Destroyer
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
Brandon Wood
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
REEEEEPPPPPPPPKO
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
That’s before he was drafted :)
kinbote - October 13, 2011
doitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoitdoit
twelve times
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
The dream of Russell and Castle on the big team live! :)
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
word
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
it sounds like a good idea
thus it is doomed to fail
nolander - October 12, 2011
nothing ventured
nothing gained
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
They absolutely should give it a shot. It is precisely the kind of thing teams should do. If there’s any chance at all that he could succeed as a middle infielder, what do they have to lose? Would moving him really have all that much effect on the development of his bat? And even if it does, is Castellanos’s bat so special that it has to be protected?
That said, it probably won’t work, but that doesn’t really matter. They should try it.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
There is a reason why people don’t go left on the defensive spectrum.
Tripon - October 12, 2011
That is why it won’t work. We all know why it won’t work.
But catchers aren’t supposed to be breaking strikeout records in the majors two years after throwing their first pitch, if you know what I mean. If you think Castellanos isn’t gonna be much anyway, why not try him at 2B? What do they have to lose?
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
Didn't Lopes
move from OF to IF? Not saying that means anything, just that someone has done it before.
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Lopes AND Ropes
AKA Bill Russell.
Lopes did play some CF in the majors and I liked the way he played it: shallow, with confidence that he can go back on balls over his head and run ’em down.
David Young - October 12, 2011
Inspired by a conversation on Twitter with underdog…
What are the best fake movies? I mean movies that are mentioned in other works but that don’t actually exist?
Off the top of my head, Who Dat Ninja? from 30 Rock, Machete from Grindhouse (which ended up really existing) and underdog mentioned Aquaman from Entourage.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
The Dueling (aka Singing) Cavalier, from Singin’ in the Rain.
Humma Kavula - October 12, 2011
kickpuncher?
nolander - October 12, 2011
Nice!
fbihop - October 12, 2011
ASS
Idiocracy
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Not a movie
But Uncle Nutsy’s Clubhouse was a badass TV show in UHF.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
If we’re going into fake TV shows, then we have to mention Tool Time.
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Rochelle, Rochelle
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
Prognosis Negative!
fbihop - October 12, 2011
you and me kid
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
Great minds.
fbihop - October 12, 2011 via mobile
it’s a junior mint
DodgerSF - October 12, 2011
Nature Trail to Hell…in 3-D
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I still want to see Prognosis Negative
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
McBain
Let’s Get Silly
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
Remember when Everyman movie was a way worse concept than the Fallout Boy movie?
Josie Becker - October 12, 2011
cant find it right now
but if it cut all the scenes together theres pretty much an entire mcbain movie scattered across all the simpson episodes
nolander - October 12, 2011
Nice.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I saw this one today
I had forgotten about it
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
hah
thats one of the scenes. Heres like the first half insanely speeded up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyANa71gvU
nolander - October 12, 2011
Mendozaaaaaaaaaaa
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
yes!
I saw that on cracked.com. Each clip is a part to a whole movie. Brilliant.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
How could I forget The Fatties, Scorcher, Stan’s Alley and Simple Jack from Tropic Thunder?
fbihop - October 12, 2011
Simple Jack was awesome :)
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
he should have got Oscar
Tommy Blackjack - October 12, 2011
S.O.B.
Free Love!
David Young - October 12, 2011
S.O.B. being the real movie
David Young - October 12, 2011
Catholic High School Girls in Trouble
kinbote - October 12, 2011
from Kentucky Fried Movie – I was just about to type that!
David Young - October 12, 2011
Nice pull
The Dude Abides - October 12, 2011
this
mintxcore - October 12, 2011
lmao!
total win
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
Chunnel!
Or Death Blow: When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are, but for different reasons altogether.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
Hi, I’m Troy McClure.
Nolij - October 13, 2011
Man
Nelson Cruz has two years of arbitration left. What a hitter.
kinbote - October 12, 2011
lol valverde
shaqfor3 - October 12, 2011
That’s the best.
fbihop - October 12, 2011 via mobile
That quote is amazing.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
WTF!
The last 2 games I’ve played on the MLB 11 The Show I’ve had 11 errors through 1 full game and not even 4 innings in the next combined! Every ground ball is going to be an error and even turning the slider down does nothing. I throw it soft, error. I throw it hard, error. There is apparently no middle ground either. Can anyone at all help?
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
6th error through 5 innings
I have to become Ted Lilly on the mound if I want to survive this game, this blows.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
Choose a team other than the Diamondbacks.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
I see the curse is working
nolander - October 12, 2011
It's gotta be that
There’s no other reason I should have this many errors.
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
fucking 7! through 5 innings!
Ivdown - October 12, 2011
I like how Bill Shaikin responded to someone asking him on Twitter when the Dodgers/MLB are back in court:
fbihop - October 12, 2011
DodgerSF
Needs everyone’s support on Sunday. Please link your page again so people can donate for that cause.
bhsportsguy - October 12, 2011
For Underdog (and others)
The Never Not Funny curse extended to Steve Jobs, who was mentioned on the latest episode (with Aisha Tyler), recorded before he died.
Eric Stephen - October 12, 2011
NPUT
http://www.truebluela.com/2011/10/13/2487005/2011-dodgers-exit-interviews-outfield
Phil Gurnee - October 13, 2011
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