NLCS Phillies v. Giants: Now It's Personal
by David S. Cohen on Oct 22, 2010 12:00 PM EDT
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PrintI went into this series thinking that it was hard to really hate the Giants. It's easy to hate teams like the Braves and the Mets. The Braves had Chipper Jones and Bobby Cox and the Tomahawk Chop. The Mets had, well, does it really matter who they have? They're the Mets. Even the Dodgers for the last two post-seasons were easy to hate, with Manny Ramirez and fans that show up in the 3rd inning and leave in the 7th.
But the Giants were hard to put in this category. They had a really strong rotation, no obvious personalities to hate, and some interesting characters in their makeshift lineup.
Not anymore though. I hate 'em. I hate them all. And with Game 6 tomorrow, I look forward to watching the Phillies once more annihilate this ragtag team of losers.
How can I hate this bunch? Easy:
Cody Ross and his warpaint eye black, his bald imp head, and his inability to realize he's Cody friggin' Ross at the plate.
Tim Lincecum and his look straight from the set of Slackers.
Buster Posey and his having been 2 years old when Mike Schmidt retired.
Freddy Sanchez and his 2006 batting title, one of the worst batting champs ever.
Matt Cain and his oafish curly hair.
Jonathan Sanchez and his NSFW glove.
Pat Burrell and Aubrey Huff and their oh-so-cute story of being college best friends.
Juan Uribe and his over-the-hill bat that somehow beat us in Game 4.
Pablo Sandoval and his inexplicable ability to play third base and hit despite looking like John Kruk, years after he retired.
Madison Bumgarner and his absurd name.
Brian Wilson and his face shoe polish.
Javier Lopez and his left arm that moves in freakish ways.
Aaron Rowand and his grand theft larceny contract.
Andres Torres and his awful leadoff hitting.
I used to think I could get through the series keeping them in some kind of decent regard. But I was wrong. I hate them. I hate them all. I can't wait for the Phillies to obliterate them come Saturday and Sunday nights.
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I had no problem with Lincecum until he yelled “You stay there” at Rollins to end the 5th (or was it the 6th?). Now I would have loved that from a Phillies pitcher, but I now hate Lincecum with the passion of a thousand burning Cody Rosses.
Thing about that was the only reason Rollins “stayed there” was some ginormous BABIP luck. You can’t hit a ball much harder than Gload hit that one.
(Granted, we got some BABIP luck as well on the defensive end—the rocket that Huff hit in the first, for one.)
Exactly. If that ball was one foot higher the Phillies were up 4-2 with runners on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. They could have potentially blown the whole game open.
That series of events was as much luck as anything else.
"You can commit no mistake and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." - Jean-Luc Picard
That series of events was as much luck as anything else.
That’s the playoffs in a nutshell.
I am not a witch.
by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 1:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I have somewhat less of a problem with it...
If Lincecum strikes out the next two batters or gets Gload to ground weakly.
But really what was he celebrating? “Ha HA, I am sooooooo lucky!”
He was celebrating the same thing Phillies fans celebrated when the ball got kicked into centerfield — a positive outcome for the team of choice. Lincecum isn’t passing judgments in a morality play — he’s emotionally wrapped up in the game, just like all of us. Please….
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 1:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Rec’d.
I agree with this all the way. At first I didn’t hate them (except for Cody Ross and Timmy Pothead), but now I am oozing contempt for them, especially the ones that have their stupid beards – it makes a mockery of those of us who sport good natural-looking beards.
by WanderingMoses on Oct 22, 2010 12:19 PM EDT reply actions
Hate is a good word to use in this post, since these reasons are all pretty arbitrary. Isn’t it enough to just want the Phils to beat the crap out of them?
The only guy on that team that I really despise now is Freddy Sanchez. God I hate that fucker. I hate the faces he makes when he’s at bat. He is one of the ugliest bastards I’ve seen so far. I had to stop watching the game in HD he was so ugly and infuriating to look at with the way he’s always grimacing and baring his teeth. Ugh. Just look at the pitcher in consternation. What the fuck do you think you’re doing? God, just close you’re mouth…
Let the beasting begin.
by TransplantedFan on Oct 22, 2010 12:42 PM EDT reply actions
I was annoyed by the mouth breather on the hill for San Fran on Wednesday. He looked dumbfounded every time he was on camera.
Mouth breather, eh?
I respect the hell out of Werth’s talents.
It’s clear, however, that he doesn’t give a flying feldergarb how he appears on camera.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Au contraire
His style is calculating and deliberate. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Enter the Vicksperience.
I've read some unflattering articles about his diplomacy with the fans.
Cherries, or a trend?
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 23, 2010 1:09 AM EDT up reply actions
My feelings are that it’s more his ambivalence about the press that the writers conflate with contempt for the fans.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
by WholeCamels on Oct 23, 2010 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
You hate Freddy Sanchez for that, but you don’t hate Cody Friggin Ross for skipping out of the batters box?
Hey man...
I can always learn to hate more people. Its not like I’ve saved all my hate for him. Give me time. I’ll get there.
Let the beasting begin.
by TransplantedFan on Oct 22, 2010 4:37 PM EDT up reply actions
sanchez
with the effin snot rockets too… like, 10 per inning. i blew more snot rockets than he threw strikes.
by PHIGHTINPHILS on Oct 22, 2010 11:38 PM EDT up reply actions
One more thing (which may have been addressed elsewhere, sorry)…if the ALCS does not go 7, does the NLCS get pushed back to 8?
Cody Ross looks like a troll. He drives me nuts. Fat Panda does too.
The same thing happened with the Blackhawks last year in the Stanley Cup — I liked them before my team had to play a series against them, at which time they started to make me seethe with rage.
by The Gang Wins the Cup on Oct 22, 2010 12:43 PM EDT reply actions
Love this hate-filled post
I hate Javier Lopez and his ugly style and his stupid low pitches that are the same every time…. they all scratch the very bottom of the strike zone. Every time…. he just prays that 3 out of his six or so bottom-feeder pitches are arbitrarily ruled as strikes.
Also, there’s a special place in hell for Cody Ross.
Enter the Vicksperience.
they all scratch the very bottom of the strike zone.
He strikes me as a player that the Phillies should have on their roster instead of J.C. Romero. A Lopez (as described above) sounds a very useful resource in the bullpen. I can’t hate him for that.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I hate the “Giants baseball = torture!!” meme. I was watching the game with a friend who’s a Royals fan, and he was enraged. I get it, the Giants jerk their fans’ emotions around a bit — WELCOME TO BASEBALL.
Right, it’s the playoffs, almost everyone is hanging on almost every pitch for almost every team.
by The Gang Wins the Cup on Oct 22, 2010 12:57 PM EDT up reply actions
You want torture?
Become a Pirates fan. That is torture.
Some people might say 10,000 losses makes being a Phils fan torturous as well, despite a great run the last few years.
by The Gang Wins the Cup on Oct 22, 2010 1:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ll be so bloody glad when the Braves lose their 10,000th game next July or so, just so this ridiculous meme dies.
It's funny.
The 10,000th loss came the day after my wedding. I’m sortof proud, in a twisted and demented way, of being a fan of the only team in anything to lose 10,000 games.
Like Roger Craig used to say, “you have to be pretty good to lose 20 games.” Well, we’re damn good now!
Still won’t— they will all be talking about how the Phillies were the first professional franchise to lose that many.
by dannijd on Oct 23, 2010 10:47 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
you mean the cancelled world series in 2002? i dont recall any baseball from that year.
/blocked from mind
the most brutal WS loss, possibly the most brutal one in the last 20 years, too
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I’d say it’s up there with 1993. That was beyond brutal.
by ThinMountainAir on Oct 22, 2010 6:21 PM EDT up reply actions
No, sorry, not even close. Game 4 of the 1993 Series was godawful but the Giants were eight outs away from clinching with 5-0 lead in Game Six.
http://www.thegoodphight.com
yep. 5-0, 8 outs away. You have any idea just how high the odds were that we would win with that lead that late in the game?
Most brutal loss in decades.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes, I take that back, you’re both right.
by ThinMountainAir on Oct 22, 2010 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Ortiz was throwing a 2-hitter up to that point, then dusty removed him and the ’pen bombed it
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I have a friend who is a huge Giants fan. I don’t think that he is capable of articulating what happened in Game 6. All that he can do is say, “I watched them murder the Angels. I watched them make the Angels cry like little girls.” Then he develops the thousand-yard-stare and walks away.
by ThinMountainAir on Oct 22, 2010 6:40 PM EDT up reply actions
thats about right. we dont believe anymore, until we see. that’s what its tough to trust the giants to get to the WS again this year, but i am going to believe, and they better not break my heart.
1989, WS, game 1 at candlestick park, and a 6.9 earthquake flattens a ton of the city, thousands killed. giants swept.
2002, up 5-0 with 8 outs to go. doomed
A curse looms over this franchise.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds like my descriptions of the incident at the end of the 2007 season.
by dannijd on Oct 22, 2010 8:10 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I have to admit that I was rooting for the Angels that year, although I don’t remember why. I think it was just because I wanted to see a Game 7, and then inertia from Game 6 led me to stick with the Angels. The Spiezio homer was quite a moment.
Deep in the heart of Texas...
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
you know, if TEX beats NY, and we end up taking one of the last 2 from you guys, Bengie gets a ring either way, cause he was on our 25 man this season?
oddly enough, we didnt even start winning until bengie’s fat ass was traded away and buster became the everyday C
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm about the farthest thing away from Bengie Molina but
if I got a WS ring for a series my team LOST – I would throw that fucker in the Atlantic.
When this .sig was awaiting the Final Sabean Apocalypse, I never once in a million years suspected it would be a "good" Apocalypse. Bengie... Don't let the door hit you IN YOUR GIANT ASS on the way out!
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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game totally stalled and basically dead at this point
My boss is friends with Bill Newcomb. Apparently Newcomb absolutely loves Buster Posey, wanted him on the Opening Day roster, and positively could not WAIT to get rid of Bengie.
by ThinMountainAir on Oct 22, 2010 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Bill Neukom. But yeah, Neukom said he intended to sign Bengie just so he could ease Buster into the C position midway thru the year
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions
What about the ring?
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Well played. Can you visit more? I like you.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, it was started by Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper. Its their signature call for this year.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Oct 22, 2010 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions
HUMORLESS BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL OPINIONS
personally I find it kind of distasteful, for the same reasons that I find references to sports as war and athletes as soldiers distasteful.
considering that there is real, actual torture going on in the world, comparing fandom of a particular sports team to torture is spectacularly insensitive.
by perfectdepth on Oct 22, 2010 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions
wow
quite a response…. do you never think to yourself while doing a daunting task, “Man, this is torture.” I think this might be one of the most overly sensitive comments i’ve ever read.
I think there is a 50% chance you are being sarcastic because I have a hard time believing that anyone can be that defensive over referring to something as “torture” ……. or really anything for that matter, so if i misread you, I apologize.
Enter the Vicksperience.
Teams aren’t deemed championns by the best indicator – the standings , which is how it used to be in baseball. But that leaves you with no sense of finale, no excitement, no ectasy or death, little risk= little rush. No climax and I think that’s partly the motivation for instituting the WS. People want that do or die scenario to give the season more significance. As such it’s alot like a mock war. Goliath was a much greater warrior than David but it didn’t mean shit once David killed him and cut off his head.
And is it torture if you know you are going to lose? And have no hope?
No it is not, its painful, but not torture.
Overplayed memes:
EASTCOAST BIAS
2002 WS CANCELED
Blue Jays want all our player that we don't utilize correctly
by say hey nation on Oct 22, 2010 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions
I dunno…I’d imagine that, from game one, there had to be some years that Pirates, Nats, Royals, et al fans thought their team might have a shot. That perpetual disappointment seems more like the prolonged nature of torture to me — just constant malaise. Yeck.
perpertual disappointment isn’t torture, though.
we as Giants fan have come this close (holds up finger) to 3 WS titles in the last 55 years, recently as 2002. 8 freakin outs away, with a 5-0 lead.
we are Tortured souls.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions
to be clear
This post is considerably tongue in cheek.
I don’t think I’ve “hated” any of the teams we’ve seen in the playoffs over the last few seasons, and I honestly like the Giants—though I do hate what seems to happen to the Phils (almost) every time they visit that ballpark.
(OTOH, I really like the ballpark itself with its good sight lines, nice facade and menu of garlic fries and Anchor Steam on draft.)
Giants fan here...
Can I just say something about the “torture” slogan? that was invented after David freakin Eckstein hit a 10th inning walkoff HR (his only HR of the year) off Jeremy Affeldt in cavernous Petco Park back in April.
If that ain’t torture, I don’t know what is.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Torture is 3 hours of Joe Buck and McCarver, AKA Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 12:14 AM EDT up reply actions
B Wilson / Dr. Beardface
Everytime I see Wilson and his crazy eyes, all I can hear is him indignantly insisting, “It’s beard-fa-SAY!”
Anyone else? No?
/Scrubs’d
My wife considers El Beard kinda scary. She said during Tuesday’s pregame that Ochocinco is eccentric and somewhat entertaining in a harmless way, but Wilson kind of comes across like a might be a serial killer in his spare time.
I don’t think she was going for the suave, smooth operator ladies man thing. more the Richard Ramirez crazy eyes killer type thing.
Overheard during Spring Training stretching drills, Scottsdale, AZ, 2010
“If it weren’t for baseball, I’d be in jail.” – Brian Wilson
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions
if you take one thing that guy says seriously…. you’ve got to be crazier than him
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions
oh, wow, Victor, we meet again. You sure do get around.
I tell ya guys, every time I run into this guy, he’s on the current opposing teams page talking down the Giants. Let’s see, Rockies, Dodgers, Cards, Padres, and some others, IIRC.
Gotta love the hate he harbors!! True HATE, I’m tellin ya!!
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:25 PM EDT up reply actions
He's tellin' ya!
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I find him certifiably frightening.
by dannijd on Oct 23, 2010 10:51 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Please, Miss...frightening?
I won’t debate the certifiable tag.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 23, 2010 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions
Honestly, I still have a hard time getting my hate on for this team. I don’t even want to go there with Choady Ross because to hate him would somehow be a tacit admission that he’s really good— and he’s not. And Burrell? He’s like a wayward child of sorts. We’ve had so much fun at his expense on this site I find him more comical than anything.
Brian Wilson is about as close as I can get because he’s apparently just too stupid to recognize that he looks like a fucking moron. I’ll try my best to get myself worked up, but it will never rise to the level of despise for the Mets and Braves (and the latter’s fans).
Grant’s writeups on MCC are actually as lucid and engaging as I’ve seen game recaps (outside of TGP, of course). The intelligence and the sense of humor over there is tough to really hate.
by Trev223 on Oct 22, 2010 1:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Right… and most of the MCC guys don’t even seriously troll here. It sucks. No “classy” comments, no vomits on third graders and police captains, no mention of red man, tasers, snowballs and Santa Claus, Michael Irvin or philthydelphia. I mean, give us something to work with. I’d love to work up a good hate.
by Boundforbeach on Oct 22, 2010 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I’ll fall in line here. I like to get worked up into a good seethe for an important game, but these guys just seem like a likable bunch of cast-offs (wrongly or not), retreads, and waiver wire guys who have pulled together to generate some offense. Add in the ROY and an ace pitching staff, and it’s the sort of combination that should appeal to the Philadelphia fan Rocky/underdog thing.
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by bandwagonesque on Oct 22, 2010 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Should they win this series
I will gladly root for them in the World Series (and I never root for teams that beat us, as a rule of thumb). Until then, I am working up a frothy dislike.
I mean, give us something to work with. I’d love to work up a good hate.
Hang on, I’m not fully awake yet.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions
which is worse: a sweet beard with stupid dye, or a nascar bear (lidge, durbin, blanton) that will be shitty no matter what?
which is worse: a sweet beard with stupid dye, or a nascar bear (lidge, durbin, blanton) that will be shitty no matter what?
*beard
Actually, “bear” is funnier.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Precisely:
Brian Wilson v. Francisco Rodriguez
K-Rod, hands down. A thug, an overly-demonstrative clown. Wilson is just goofy looking. After looking in the mirror in the morning, it’s hard to get lathered up over that.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Giants are a collection of goofy lookin bastards… Cain and his hair, Bumgarner and his dumbo ears, Sandoval and his fat gut, Cody Ross, etc….!
I still prefer a bunch of different looking goofy people to homogenous drones, eg the yankees. also, some of our guys have really bad facial hair; off the top of my head: durbin, lidge, utley, blanton, ibanez.
Currently they are dyed red for the playoffs.
by dannijd on Oct 22, 2010 8:25 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
But as bad as their facial hair is, I am sure it is theirs— some of the Giants relievers beards look positively unreal.
by dannijd on Oct 22, 2010 8:27 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It's well - known (or so I THOUGHT!) that Wilson shoepolishes his.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 8:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I meant completely fake- I am sure Wilson uses shoeblack- I am amazed the beard does not run when he sweats!
by dannijd on Oct 23, 2010 10:54 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
A la Bryce Harper?
“Good God, son. clean yourself up.”
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 23, 2010 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
You forgot their ignorant media fanbase
I've been waiting my whole life for an Eagles Championship
RIP JJ
I went to SFGate for looking for a sample of San Francisco's finest man - in - the - street commentary.
You can’t blame Sandovla for this game. Huff screwed the pooch big time not only on the field but at the plate as well. Look at all the 0 for 4’s in the box scores. The fact is they could have won the game if they hit the ball. BRIAN SABEAN STRIKES AGAIN! I’ve said it at least 20 times here. Huff, Posey, and Torres have to hit in order for the team to win. They Huff and Posey went 0 for 4 last night and Torres went 1 for 4. Everyone else went 0 for 4 as well. This Giant offense cannot overcome mistakes simply because they do not hit the ball consistently. Its FEAST or FAMINE every game. Lately its been famine and they have had great pitching. Sanchez had better bee on his game Saturday because Mat Cain will not survive Bank One ball park.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn’t realize Game 7 will bee at Bank One ball park. Where is that anyways?
by Boundforbeach on Oct 22, 2010 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Blankland, AZ.
Home of the Arizona DiamondBLANKS.
About 40 miles due west from the basement I’m typing this in.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions
hey… the basement’s better than the attic
by Boundforbeach on Oct 22, 2010 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t know about that- what do you think WC?
by dannijd on Oct 23, 2010 1:10 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I’ve really been able to work up a good hate of Brian Wilson. The fauxhawk is bad. The stupid gimmicky “Fear the Beard” thing is worse. For the final straw, they repeated a quote for him being “born for the job” or something like that. Made me wish I could reach through the TV and punch him in the dick.
I don’t think anything has ever made me want to punch someone in the dick. Interesting.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 1:58 PM EDT up reply actions
Brian Wilson says “Stop striving for my dick!”
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions
That must have been on Pet Sounds.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Love all of this stuff. It’s actually quite easy for me to get my hate on. Like their fanbase—aside from a few exceptions (which are the MINORITY much like Philly’s losers)—so it’s not about them. But this “fear the beard” stuff and Cody Ross and Cain’s mushroom cloud hair…LOATHE LOATHE LOATHE.
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
Fear the Beard...
…is actually a little bit silly to me, but it’s a little bit real to my (college) students who tell me that Brian Wilson looks like a creepy rapist.
For whatever that’s worth.
He's doing the best he can.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions
the bullpen grew beards for the final month+ of the season, and pitched- get this:
55-1/3 innings, 3 runs allowed (1 of them inheirated runners).
That is an ERA under 0.35 in roughly 55 innings for the ’pen alone.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I wonder if the Phanatic can pull some strings and get Gillette to host a Fusion™ ProGlide™ Challenge in the visitor’s clubhouse tomorrow.
by TwistyWristy on Oct 22, 2010 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
/hammers a hole in his keyboard trying to mute that damned commercial
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions
the beard plus the fact that his eyes are just a wee bit too close together… yeah, I can see that.
by The Gang Wins the Cup on Oct 22, 2010 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Put me in the "can't hate" column
Whoever wins this series is the team I will comfortably support in the WS. Even with all of that I can’t hate the Giants more than the Yankees (or the incessant ZOMGCLIFFLEE stuff that will pervade if the Rangers win). I’d be happy for Burrell (and Rowand to a much smaller extent, for the same reason I was happy for Charlie Hayes in 1996).
Sure Cody Ross can (and should!) fall into a large pit of rabid weasels and be kept there for all eternity, but the rest of them are okay.
a large pit of rabid weasels
You mean Freddy Sanchez’s at-bat face? So much hate…
Let the beasting begin.
by TransplantedFan on Oct 22, 2010 2:27 PM EDT up reply actions
It's the strain of having broadcasters constantly reminding the listeners that he won a batting title in 2006.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm a Giants fan and I can't bear to watch Sanchez's facial contortions. It's just plain creepy how he'll suddenly and inexplicably open his mouth wide, like a cat preparing to puke up a furball.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least to see a bat, or even a midget come flying out of his mouth.
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by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 5:33 AM EDT up reply actions
I’ve been gettin’ my hate on towards Cody Ross since a long time ago, and now that he’s gone all Bryce Harper and shit just makes it easier.
And Beardy McFear? Please. He’s a good closer, but if he wants to be all psycho-crazy-looking, he’s got to ape himself some Mitch Williams or Randy Johnson or Ryne Duren. His stupid asphalt face is just ridiculous, not to mention, “I became a ninja in 12 minutes in a dream.”
And Kung Fat Pandoval is pretty obnoxious also. How is he even a major league player? He looks like he should be on The Biggest Loser or something.
I can’t hate the rest of them, though. Lincecum, Burrell, even Rowand—I can’t hate them.
Not when they hit into 26 double plays in the regular season...
…and continue that into the postseason by hitting into – as it stands – two more.
You, of course, may feel differently about this.
Judging from the general ambience in this thread I’d think you risk bannination if you didn’t.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Hate is never conquered by hate; hate is only conquered by love.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 1:56 PM EDT reply actions
Burrell leads the list now
What, nobody cares that Burrell said “What are you looking at, motherf****r” to our God, The Perfect Pitcher?
It’s actually kind of funny, considering that Halladay wasn’t even looking at him, he was looking at the ump (or at least that’s what it seemed like to me).
Yeah, he just comes off as stupid to me. Can’t hate him for that. He never came across as being the sharpest knife in the drawer, even when he was in Philly.
Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est.
I have to agree with that.
I don’t know if Burrel thought a brawl would wake up the bats or what. But considering that his team was is on the brink of advancing, to risk possible injury to a key player wasn’t a well thought out decision.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions
whoops
Burrell
Oh, you thought I’d correct the other?
Heh.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
wasn’t a well thought out decision.
If your expectations include a “well-thought out decision” from Burrell, you are barking up the wrong tree, sir. The Bat can take balls like a champ, but he’s never been the brains of any organization. The Thinker is in Paris, not SF.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions
So merely assuming The Pose does not empower one with The Affiliated Ability?
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm just a simple caveman
This frightens and confuses me
lol creepy Zito. How’d you guys find this?
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:37 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm not tellin' ya!
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 6:38 PM EDT up reply actions
oh, its you Victor. now i know how you found it. Trolling
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Yup.
So simple, even you could do it!
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I can't tell you how relieved I am that you've succeeded.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, and 83?
what happened there? good story, or usual bullshit?
Why does no one ever ask me the same question?
Not that any SB site is the forum for that.
However, my e – mail address is in my profile for any inquisitive types who want both sides, including yourself.
I’ll admit my mistakes, but after five years the whole “dead to us” thing floored me.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 8:22 PM EDT up reply actions
According to the papers Roy was glaring at Burrell because Burrell was bitching to the ump about the Strike 3 call. Roy’s attitude was approximately “You’re complaining about that after the three gifts you got in that at-bat?” Burrell then said, according to certain lip-readers, “What’re you lookin at, etc.” I bought Game 6 tickets just so I can hear the mammoth Wall of Boos when he is introduced.
While Halladay and God are not one and the same....
That incident, coupled with a few hits in big places is making it hard to remember that I once rooted for him.
by dannijd on Oct 22, 2010 9:06 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Annoying aspects of series
- leadoff walks
- defensive lapses
- crappy 3 pitch ABs by the Phillies followed by
- 10 pitch ABs by waiver wire dudes playing out of their minds at the end of the season for SF
- Phillies pitchers missing spots repeatedly to CFR belt high on the inside half of the plate
- Joe Buck
- Joe Buck’s Chin
- Joe Buck’s Ears
- Joe Buck’s
brainwhatever - Joe Buck’s mother’s defective IUD
- BABIP
- J.C. Romero having a spot on the Phillies’ roster
- Chad Durbin barfing on his shoes in Game 4
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 2:13 PM EDT reply actions
No, the Romero rhetoric has gotten pretty ridiculous of late in a lot of quarters. He was actually alright this year as a situational lefty. When used properly, he is fine. The only problem, other than misuse, is that he’s overpaid for a situational lefty, but that’s water long since under the bridge. I would not object at all if the Phillies brought him back for another year or two, provided that it was for much less money.
Romero’s vs. L splits:
2010: 3.60 FIP, 3.75 xFIP
Career: 3.49 FIP, 3.61 xFIP
By way of comparison, Scott Eyre’s vs. L splits:
2009: 4.16 FIP, 4.50 xFIP
Career: 3.59 FIP, 3.78 xFIP
Don’t use your Vulcan trickery on me. Besides, you left out SIERA, which includes an adjustment called the Romero coefficient which adds back into xFIP an amount equal to f(SIERA) = [(xFIP * 1/2π)/9]^(RS), where RS is a constant for Romero’s Suckiness.
I’m sure MattS can vouch for the validity of this, as well as provide the constant that would be used for RS to allow us to solve for SIERA.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions
That stuff makes me dizzy.
I look at this sentence fragment (From BP!), with its inherent numerical nerdgasm…
“The formula is (HR*13+(BB+HBP-IBB)3-K2)/IP, plus a league-specific factor (usually around 3.2)…”
…and then I look at the beginning of the next sentence…
“FIP helps you understand…”
…and I just laugh.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions
agreed
was laughing @ “•Joe Buck’s brain whatever” and didn’t really pay attention to jc
when’s he’s not walking a bunch of guys he’s a good pitcher
I get murdered everytime I say this...
But i still don’t understand all the hatred for Joe Buck. I don’t particularly like the guy, but if you’re going to hate some make it McCarver. That guy has to be the worst announcers in sports not named Dick Stockton, and he is without a doubt the corniest.
For all the stuff I hear about Buck, I can’t imagine people don’t complain about Tim McCarver
Rec'd em? Damn near killed em!
McCarver might be coming out of the most vituperatively criticized phase of his career, and now, due to seniority and inertia he’ll wander into the “affably flawed/SNL sketch fodder/that’s our crazy Uncle Timmy! Ain’t he great?” See Harry Caray, John Madden, Howard Cosell, Ralph Kiner, and (c’mon, admit it, he wasn’t always good) Rich Ashburn. At that point, he gets lived with and goes from object of criticism to bemused ridicule.
As for Buck, he at least honors his father better than, say, Chip Caray. To me his major flaws are being swayed by the home crowd and/or giving the underdog a little bit more, but for the people in flyover USA, this is what they prefer. Also, he tends to be minimalist, which is good.
I’d rather my team have the talent advantage that be soothed by a sympthetic national play by play guy. The technology’s getting to the point where fans should be able to manually select their audio. It would be kind of fun to dip into the Giants’ radio feed, they’re good.
by Wet Luzinski on Oct 22, 2010 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
We must with the standards up with keep.
by Wet Luzinski on Oct 22, 2010 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
MLB - TV lets you choose your feed
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 6:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Or Scott Franzke. The Giants’ play-by-play guys are pretty good, yeah, but I’ll take Franzke and LA over anybody else.
Miller is absolutely fabulous. Letting Miller leave Baltimore was about as damaging as anything else Angelos did to baseball in Baltimore. No way does Franzke top him. Andersen plays too much of the gruff old-school coot for me as well, but he has his moments.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I dunno.
Miller is great (listening to him on ESPN only, btw), but between the two broadcast teams, I like Franzke and LA over Miller and Kuiper. They work together much better, I think.
But this is like arguing over which Ferrari Warren Buffet gave you is more red.
People do complain about carver
It’s not like it’s one or the other
they both suck
Buck just sucks across multiple sports (and networks)
by SportingFanaticism on Oct 22, 2010 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Why we hate Joe Buck, Chapter 43:
- phony stentorian tone
- obvious disappointment when Phillies are catching up, tying, or winning
- almost no discernable wit, though he is slightly wittier than the witless TBSers
- shut up shut up shut up
I think Giants fans pretty much
agree with this list. Just make some subsitutions:
(silicon value nerd style)
s/Phillies/Giants/
s/SF/PHL/
s/J.C.Romero/Aaron Rowand/ & s/roster/roster getting paid $12M PER YEAR/
s/Chad Durbin/Ramon Ramirez/ and s/Game 4/Games 2 & 5/
oh, and
s/Joe Buck/Joe MFing Buck/
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Love this
I had the same feelings. Its Giants, not much to hate here. But now I have seething rage towards them. Ross and his stupid head. Sanchez and his stupid face. Lincecum and his stupid hair. Tubby One and Two at third and SS.
I hate them all too.
Phillies- NLCS 1-3, and its looking bleak
Eagles- 4-2 and Kolb is looking better
for the love of God, won't somebody please think of the children!
did anyone else but me notice that FOX completely cut away from any images of her for about the last 30 seconds of the song?
She’s the fat lady and dammit… she was singing!!! Sometimes help comes in unexpected forms.
by Boundforbeach on Oct 22, 2010 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions
If the Giants go completely stone-cold in games 6&7, her singing followed by Utley’s snowcone to end B7, Madson B8, Lidge B9 will really be marked down as the point at which it all came tumbling down.
by Wet Luzinski on Oct 22, 2010 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Her place in Phillies history will be immortalized (at least on this site). But I do wonder if the curtains match the rug?!? ick
by Boundforbeach on Oct 22, 2010 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Sometimes the TransAmerica pyramid is just a TransAmerica pyramid.
/Freud
by Wet Luzinski on Oct 22, 2010 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
That SFG version of Mr. Met is happy to be part of the show, apparently.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
It was the Switch. I turned on the Phillies Mojo Rotary Switch just before it all came tumbling down, which was well before this city-hatted person appeared. I purchased the Switch at a flea market June 12 and most major comebacks and miracles since then have been because I turned it ON. It even made Ross Gload hit a homer, and it was in the ballpark and ON for that 6-run ninth in July. I have unbiased witnesses.
“It was a Switch for tonight, and that’s all we can ask for.” – Jimmy Rollins , Game Five (see Inquirer page D4, 10/22)
I felt like I thought it hit me - Chase Utley
So, do we have your word the Switch is ON for the rest of this series?
by phillyinportland on Oct 23, 2010 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
surprised as we were in SF
but honestly, I thought when she sang GBA there’s no WAY the Giants could lose!!!
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Pablo Sandoval is also personally responsible for a 15% reduction in the world panda population
by SportingFanaticism on Oct 22, 2010 3:51 PM EDT reply actions
Timmy saying say “you stay there” is the kind of stuff that would get me fired up back in high school. I can understand why he said, but it sure did piss me off. Also, their hefty left side of the infield is really grating on my nerves. Finally, I am sick of getting annoying texts from my friends who live there.
See. Whaddaya I tells ya. Let the Tanner Boyle deep down inside you out.
See, you don’t drink with the enemy….kick in teh taint sure, but throwin’ back a couple of cold ones – no fuckin’ way. The only thing ya oughta be throwin’ is your empties….at them.
From a Giants fan
Hell of a game you guys played last night. Lets have a couple good ones Saturday and Sunday (regardless of the result).
subject
^^Didn’t get the memo.
But thanks. The feeling is mutual, and I am sure everyone is cheering for the Rangers tonight, except for this ass clown and his retarded flying monkey posse:
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
DuH! yeah I interfered…duh! duh! yeah ooh! oohh!right here you fockin asshole! wuts shoo gonna doo…duh! duh!Dont I look like a foking idiot on national tv Duh! yeah duuhhhhhhhhhhhh!
by JoeBuckSUCKS on Oct 22, 2010 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions
The fat guy all the way on the left is actually the worst part of this.
by FearTheTurtIe on Oct 22, 2010 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
OH come on – the guy in the middle is doing his best situation routine…and let’s not forget the fat guy behind him?
by SportingFanaticism on Oct 22, 2010 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
The guy in the two seats behind him?
by phillyinportland on Oct 22, 2010 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah that guy, pants up tight, tucked in shirt, looking like he wants to be on the soprnaos
by SportingFanaticism on Oct 22, 2010 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, I mean this whole thing is just a clusterfuck of douchiness. By the guy on the left just pisses me off to look at. That being said, I don’t think there is a worst part of this. The whole thing is just so, so, so awful.
by FearTheTurtIe on Oct 22, 2010 5:53 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
this is the epitome of how bad NY fans are. The guy goes up to catch the ball, his glove is held down by a fan, while another reaches over, then the taunting thing? are you serious? horrible
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Rec'd for accuracy
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions
The protagonist doing his “whatevah!!” and the FUPA on the right mouthing “F… you! F… you, Cruz!” (the last word is a guess) are probably the most annoying to me. This is all just so New York. It’s a like a Last Supper of New Yorkiness, only without the happy ending.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
There are two primary strains of New York douchiness. This gif has a lot of the Long Island strain, but is missing the Manhattan strain.
Sort of an Audubon Guide to NY fandom. I like the idea.
“Notice the male tugging at this baggy jeans in a familiar mating ritual…”
"Ninety percent of this game is half mental" - Yogi Berra (SI, May 14, 1979)
by bandwagonesque on Oct 22, 2010 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Please write one of these for the first Mets series next year. I can imagine a National League fan Field Guide here….
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 9:28 PM EDT up reply actions
You are spot on. This guy and his clan are sooooo Long Island.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions
WHY YOU SHOULD HATE THE GIANTS
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by zenbitz on Oct 22, 2010 4:44 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs
Rec’d for the crafty
"Ninety percent of this game is half mental" - Yogi Berra (SI, May 14, 1979)
by bandwagonesque on Oct 22, 2010 6:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Wouldn't surprise me to find that John Malkovich and Cody Ross are either
A) BFF or
B) The same guy
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions
As an eagles fan i hate the new york giants
the transitory property of sports hatred means i hate all teams named giants without little before it
by SportingFanaticism on Oct 22, 2010 4:51 PM EDT reply actions
As a Giants Fan here...
Can I just say how much I love that you hate our players?
You wouldn’t take the time to hate players if they weren’t burnin’ ya at every turn :)
Well no shit. Why would any of us hate them if they were all 1-27 on the series, which was already over? That being said, I would still hate Cody Ross even if he was consistently hitting into triple plays and gifting the Phillies runs. I would read too much into this. Don’t flatter yourself.
by FearTheTurtIe on Oct 22, 2010 5:57 PM EDT up reply actions
i know it was done tongue-in-cheek, just joking around.
the series isn’t over yet. it feels wierd telling a Phils fan this.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Hopefully you’ll hate the Phillies even more than that in two days, in a manner that continues for the following six months, and indefinitely into the future until the Giants actually win a World Series.
I guess we will just have to see!! I’m literally counting down the minutes here.
I feel good about taking 1 of 2 with Durty Sanchez and Cain on the hill, not to mention our success against Oswwalt and Hamels this year has been good.
We hope to draw the Yankees, so we can beat them and lift a curse that was put on us when we were in NY 50+ years ago.
PS- we really hate Victorino too
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:16 PM EDT up reply actions
You know...
You guys (and I say that in the loose, baseball-fanatic sense, not the restrictive RememberthePhitans sense) didn’t need to leave New York.
Of course, then you guys’d all be douchebag NYG fans, I suppose.
IIRC, we went west with the dodgers after mlb decided there were too many teams on the east coast.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:41 PM EDT up reply actions
So…the Giants wanted to be cool like the Dodgers?
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 9:39 PM EDT up reply actions
No. the Giants want some hardware.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
This is why I like Giants fans. You guys can take a damn joke, unlike Braves and Yankees fans.
by ThinMountainAir on Oct 22, 2010 6:28 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
hell yeah. You should throw Boston fans in there too. They are completely insufferable. I had a Boston fan roommate once (diehard, said he was a fan “since 1996”) but he was impossible to converse with.
by giant4life83 on Oct 22, 2010 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I live and work near NYC. Yankees fans are among the most irrational people in the world. There’s no conversation you can have with them re: baseball unless it starts with “The Yankees are sooooo wonderful and the bestest at everything!”
http://www.thegoodphight.com
It may not be that, but it's something everyone should see at least once before they die.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah. Boston fans are mildly annoying. They’re nowhere near as horrible as Yankees fans.
I rooted for the Red Sox before 2004, but became rather disillusioned with them after they won the WS and their fans became insufferable, and I developed a sort of “pox on both your houses” attitude. That all ended last fall, after seeing up-close-and-personal what Yankee fandom was really all about. That experience drove me right back into the arms of the Red Sox, relatively speaking.
I think everybody was pulling for them to break “the curse.” And you are so right. Their fans became insufferable in the years that followed. But the Yankees take the cake. My neighbor across the street is from NY and a big Yanks fan. We can’t even talk baseball. He was says “27” all the time and, to quote a comment above, I want to punch him in the dick.
by Boundforbeach on Oct 22, 2010 9:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I want to punch him in the dick.
Ok. sigh I….approve.
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by RememberthePhitans on Oct 22, 2010 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions
27
The number of outs it took tonight to send the Yankees on permanent vacation.
by phillyinportland on Oct 23, 2010 3:52 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Their fans became insufferable in the years that followed.
Are we insufferable yet?
I felt like I thought it hit me - Chase Utley
No. Phillies phans by their very sufferring of droughts without winning anything whilst watching their teams lose in heartbreaking ways are near incapable of the level of smugness necessary to be insufferable. (this lack of smug is made up for somewhat by RAJ)
by dannijd on Oct 23, 2010 1:16 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Their fans became insufferable in the years that followed.
Sorry, but having lived in the area for 21 years before they won in 2004, I can tell you that Red Sox fans have been insufferable for a very very long time. 2004 was not a relief, but rather the fulfillment of some promise made by God or Nanette, a fulfillment to which they have felt entitled since time immemorial. If anyone deserves dick-punching, it’s the Red Sox’ collective* fan base.
- Extreme apologies to Borg Queen for using a sacred word in this way.
How do you know we took it well?
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 22, 2010 8:07 PM EDT up reply actions
a haiku
Timmy to Jimmy:
You stay there! Phans to Timmy:
You get on the plane!
by SandPhlea on Oct 22, 2010 6:17 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Nicely done
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 1:13 AM EDT up reply actions
Long time lurker...
Found TGP right around the WS last year, and I’ve lurked ever since. In any event, did anyone else see the Giants fan holding up a broom Thursday night? I guess he was referring to a home sweep, but still…
All I can do is shake my head. A sweep is a sweep. Nothing else qualifies.
by Senor Octubre on Oct 23, 2010 2:00 AM EDT up reply actions
Yes, but...
It used to be that “striking out the side” meant striking out all three batters faced. Now it apparently means striking out three batters in an inning, even if four others scored.
I've wondered about this
The former usage is what I always thought but the latter has become so common that I wonder if I misunderstood originally.
Exactly.
This brings to mind the word “Hero”, which used to be what one called someone showing remarkable courage in the face of fear, but now includes everyone. We are all special and wonderful, even those wonderfully heroic douchebag Yankee fans who celebrated (In a most heroic and wonderful way) their interference in the game with the Rangers the other night.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 11:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Well, we are Giant fans.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 23, 2010 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions
Two out of three ain't bad!
And it’s a smallish broom, not the really large, in-your-face push broom.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions
practical posting question
What am I doing wrong that my replies don’t have yellow backgrounds and indents like other people’s?
Yellow journalism!
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 23, 2010 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions
That's so racist.
And along those lines, well kinda, sorta, I’m not playing poker ever again until they change the name of the big and little blinds.
What they should be called are the “Larger than average, but not in a bad or demeaning way visually challenged”, and the “Smaller, but in no way inferior because good things can come in smaller packages visually challenged”.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
George Santayana
by Sabean's_Folly on Oct 23, 2010 11:56 AM EDT up reply actions
I ain't no racist.
I quit competing thirteen years ago. Now I enjoy cycling again.
Wait, what
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 23, 2010 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Comments are indented if they are replies to another comment.
by ThinMountainAir on Oct 23, 2010 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions
Unless they're reply fails.
Like this one.
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by victor frankenstein on Oct 23, 2010 11:07 AM EDT reply actions
Even the Dodgers for the last two post-seasons were easy to hate, with Manny Ramirez and fans that show up in the 3rd inning and leave in the 7th.
You lost me at “fans that show up in the 3rd inning and leave in the 7th.” Is the rest of your article as poorly written as that one line?
Is the rest of your life so devoid of an ability to recognize obvious attempts at humor as this one post?
LA fans are awful, they’re terrible, they show up to laker games to be seen, not to watch basketball, they are grossly ill informed about sports. I know this because I live two hours north of LA.
LA is a city that exists to praise those who ‘win’ and ignore those who don’t
by SportingFanaticism on Oct 23, 2010 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Wait, doesn’t everything in Entourage happen in real life? Damn, can’t trust anyone these days.
Don’t take it seriously, it’s just a city thing. :)
by phillyinportland on Oct 23, 2010 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions
GIANTS!!!
How do you like us now??? Its over baby!!! Juan UUUUUUUU Ribe!!!
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