MLB '08, Part Dos

[bono_212]

Save your hate for the Cardinals, the White Sox and White Sox fans.

It goes:

Cardinals Fans
Cardinals
White Sox Fans
Yankees

 

[No spoken words]

It goes:

Cardinals Fans
Cardinals
White Sox Fans
Yankees

I just can't hate teams that have nothing to do with the Yankees. So, Red Sox and Mets for me, that's plenty enough hate.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

^ Ozzie has the right idea my friends...

Sometimes it's best to start with a martini. Gin, preferably. But vodka is satisfactory if that's what turns you on.

It's all blue skies and spring-birds from here on out. There is nowhere to go but UP!!!

We're ready.

I'm on the motherfucker. go back in there, chill them niggas out, and wait for the Ozzie...who should be coming directly.

Sing. Sing out loud. go go white sox. i love you guys, i'll talk to you later, I have a ballgame to catch.

 

[bono_212]

I just can't hate teams that have nothing to do with the Yankees. So, Red Sox and Mets for me, that's plenty enough hate.

In general, i keep my dislike for them at bay, if that makes you feel better. I just pick up any opportunity to give you a hard time


And GAF is right. It's almost game time!

 

[No spoken words]

Yanks 3 - Mets 3. Yanks have the bases loaded again, with 2 down, bottom 4.

 

[phillyfan26]

^ Ozzie has the right idea my friends...

Sometimes it's best to start with a martini. Gin, preferably. But vodka is satisfactory if that's what turns you on.

It's all blue skies and spring-birds from here on out. There is nowhere to go but UP!!!

We're ready.

I'm on the motherfucker. go back in there, chill them niggas out, and wait for the Ozzie...who should be coming directly.

Sing. Sing out loud. go go white sox. i love you guys, i'll talk to you later, I have a ballgame to catch.

I think GAF just said "chill them niggas out."

 

[bono_212]

I think GAF just said "chill them niggas out."

I think you're right.

 

[No spoken words]

I think GAF just said "chill them niggas out."

He likes Pulp Fiction. He's oddly drawn to the Gimp.

 

[bono_212]

Oh Dear God.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Yanks 3 - Mets 3. Yanks have the bases loaded again, with 2 down, bottom 4.

Mets 15, Yanks 5, no one on, no one out, top 9.

i figure i'd update the scoring for ya, seeing as you sorta stopped doing it for whatever reason

so the final games against the mets at the house that no no nannette built all go to the bad guys. hank must be thrilled.

the mets and yankees will now attempt to tackle the deegan in the middle of rush hour. police escort/shmeshcort... that's gonna be a tad dicey.

thank you again Fox for forcing this two stadium doubleheader to be played on a work day.

 

[bono_212]

Mets 15, Yanks 5, no one on, no one out, top 9.

i figure i'd update the scoring for ya, seeing as you sorta stopped doing it for whatever reason
.

HAHAHAHA i have no room to laugh right now but I will anyways.

 

[No spoken words]

Mets 15, Yanks 5, no one on, no one out, top 9.

i figure i'd update the scoring for ya, seeing as you sorta stopped doing it for whatever reason

so the final games against the mets at the house that no no nannette built all go to the bad guys. hank must be thrilled.

the mets and yankees will now attempt to tackle the deegan in the middle of rush hour. police escort/shmeshcort... that's gonna be a tad dicey.

thank you again Fox for forcing this two stadium doubleheader to be played on a work day.

Hey, yeah, thanks.



Get ready to face the fury of fat Sidney Ponson.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

9 RBI for Delgado... Mets record... set while he was a DH. does that even count? Hank thinks so.

 

[zonelistener]

I was so utterly unimpressed with Denver. Coors is cool and so is the football stadium (whatever the hell they call it) but LoDo is like 3 blocks. It was freakin impossible to get a cab there. The views were stunning in places but as a city, it was just "meh."

However, they sell burritos from coolers outside the bars in LoDo. Potato burritos. Mmmmm. . .

Denver is no Chicago...but it kicks Indy's ass!

And I rather walk the three blocks of LoDo than any three blocks (or three parking lots) on the Southside of Chicago after a Sox game in August.

I realize I am like 100 posts behind here...but happy that the Twins are only 1 1/2 games behind the supposed buzzsaw. Only one more month before the White Sox start their usual collapse.

 

[speedracer]

Hideki Okajima looks a little like Keith Foulke did in 2005 -- got run into the ground during the previous year's World Series campaign, and is now getting hit pretty hard.

 

[Got Philk?]

I'm kind of excited that the Sox scored 10 runs because usually that means they'll score about a combined 2-3 runs in their next 2 games.

 

[LMP]

^ Ozzie has the right idea my friends...

Sometimes it's best to start with a martini. Gin, preferably. But vodka is satisfactory if that's what turns you on.

It's all blue skies and spring-birds from here on out. There is nowhere to go but UP!!!

We're ready.

I'm on the motherfucker. go back in there, chill them niggas out, and wait for the Ozzie...who should be coming directly.

Sing. Sing out loud. go go white sox. i love you guys, i'll talk to you later, I have a ballgame to catch.

That's all I needed to see. Bye, guys.

 

[DaveC]

Dear Phillies,

Please stop sucking. We had such a good thing going until about two weeks ago, and I'd hate to see it all stop now.

Love,
Dave

 

[CTU2fan]

OK so I'm relaxing with a Sox game last night. They're in Houston so per XM rules I get the local PBP guys which in the case of the 'Stros includes the great Milo Hamilton. And I'm looking forward to it a bit, guy's somewhat of an icon, like a B-list version of Harry Caray in a sense. So I settle in with a couple of Mountain Dews, start the weekly aquarium water changes, and kick back. Boom, downhill we go.

First inning, Manny comes up at bat, and it starts. "You know who could have some fun with this guy? A barber and a tailor". Then it's on about him sneaking into the monster to take a leak. Yadda yadda yadda. Right out of the Tim McCarver "bash Manny" playbook. I'm not impressed. But to be fair it was just the one at-bat, and the teams don't play all that much...he ragged on Manny's hair and uni for the one AB and moved on. McCarver does it every AB, every game. Asshat.

Second inning, Varitek is up. Now we've got glowing praise for the "throwback". Which is cool, I love Tek of course. But then we get this beauty, with Tek hitting and a 1-1 count:

Milo: Varitek wears the high socks-
Other dude: Yep
Milo: -but these aren't the old Red Sox stirrups; those had stripes.

(a pitch is delivered, I clearly hear it smack the catcher's mitt)

Other dude: Like the ones the Cards wear.
Milo: Yeah, the center fielder wears them, the guy, used to pitch-
Other dude: Ankiel
Milo: Yeah, Rick Ankiel. OK it's 3-1 to Varitek...

Look, I love socks as much as Charles Barkley but jeez, can you tell me what's going on with the game in between the sock discussion?

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

 

[bono_212]

If I ever meet you GAF, you're getting slapped

 

[Got Philk?]

^^twice.

 

[bono_212]

^

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

yea... john lackey? where is your offense now.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

Santana is 0–4 with a 2.53 ERA in his last five starts, during which a) only three other National League starting pitchers have a better ERA, and b) the Mets have averaged two runs per game and are 0–5.

well isn't that special.

.

 

[John Lackey]

yea... john lackey? where is your offense now.

The Angels offense becomes stagnant when we lose any of the following players to injury/disease:

In order of importance to the offense:
1. Vlad
2. Figgins (almost as key as Vlad)
3. Kotchman
4. Kendrick

Figgins makes the offense go. He was out two games ago with an infected knee and Vlad missed 2 of the last the last 3 games with food poisoning, or something.

When one of those four players goes down, especially Vlad or Figgins, the rest of the guys in the lineup lose their balls and look like fuckin' deer in headlights when they're at the plate.

In short, they become pussies.

Remember, this lineup goes up and hacks. They probably see fewer pitches than most teams in baseball. When they're slumping, it's easy to go through the Angels lineup. If you're an opposing pitcher, just be sure to throw breaking balls in the dirt a foot outside and the halos will be glad to first-pitch swing and get themselves out quickly. I've seen it a million times.

When the Angels are hot, they're a little more patient at the plate.

That said, Figgins and Vlad are back in the lineup today so the team is back to virtually full strength. If they stay at full strength, within a week or two they will start rolling over everbody else like they did to the Phillies last week.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

couldn't roll over the muts though.

 

[John Lackey]

I hope we see those bitches in the Series, 'cause we'll roll 'em.

Oh wait, the Mets won't make the playoffs.

 

[DaveC]

I hope we see those bitches in the Series, 'cause we'll roll 'em.

Oh wait, the Mets won't make the playoffs.

This is the first Lackey post I've ever agreed with.