MLB 2009 Part 2

[John Lackey]

I'm glad to know Seattle is helping Texas out, one way or another, by winning the season series against the Angels. Now if only we could help Texas into the Wild Card slot somehow so that the "junior circuit" is represented by two teams in the playoffs....

Yes, yes, take your pride in the fact that you won the season series. Unfortunately, your team sucks. And the Rangers aren't going anywhere.

 

[No spoken words]

I'm glad to know Seattle is helping Texas out, one way or another, by winning the season series against the Angels. Now if only we could help Texas into the Wild Card slot somehow so that the "junior circuit" is represented by two teams in the playoffs....

"Junior Circuit" refers to the American League.

 

[impy13]

And the Rangers aren't going anywhere.

3.5 out. Six games left head to head. And they've got the Angels' number. Please, keep puffing your chest.

"Junior Circuit" refers to the American League.

I understand where this term comes from, but as an AL fan, it kind of pisses me off considering the elevated level of play in comparison to the NL.

 

[the tourist]

Yes, yes, take your pride in the fact that you won the season series. Unfortunately, your team sucks. And the Rangers aren't going anywhere.

Team? Really? Let's compare ERA's and RZR's. Pretty good pitching and defense here, and above 500 to boot. But yes, our hitting sucks.

 

[No spoken words]

3.5 out. Six games left head to head. And they've got the Angels' number. Please, keep puffing your chest.



I understand where this term comes from, but as an AL fan, it kind of pisses me off considering the elevated level of play in comparison to the NL.

I hear you, but Andrew used it to denote the AL West, which is inaccurate.

 

[the tourist]

"Junior Circuit" refers to the American League.

That just makes it easy to roll my eyes at, I suppose.

I understand where this term comes from, but as an AL fan, it kind of pisses me off considering the elevated level of play in comparison to the NL.

Exactly.

 

[No spoken words]

That just makes it easy to roll my eyes at, I suppose.



Exactly.

The best thing about you is that you never let being wrong get in your way. You used some baseball terminology, used it wrong, but what the hell.

 

[John Lackey]

Actually, the Mariners have not won the season series against the Angels and that won't be determined till next week in Anaheim.

 

[impy13]

And the best the Angels can hope for in the season series with Daddy is a tie.

 

[John Lackey]

Daddy
































We're in a bit of a slump, I'll give you that. We're 5-9 in our last 14. But we're gonna get through this and we're gonna your asses.

Did you hear that? I said we're gonna go all MADWIFE on the Rangers.

 

[impy13]

Vlad would probably go 3-4 each game with a rolling pin anyway.

 

[John Lackey]

Haha. He pisses me off sometimes swinging at fleas in the dirt, but I love the guy.

 

[the tourist]

The best thing about you is that you never let being wrong get in your way. You used some baseball terminology, used it wrong, but what the hell.

Sometimes radio personalities do the same thing. Sometimes I get my info from them because I can't be bothered to look up slang. Sometimes I just take announcers' word at face value.

 

[No spoken words]

Sometimes radio personalities do the same thing. Sometimes I get my info from them because I can't be bothered to look up slang. Sometimes I just take announcers' word at face value.

They lie, Andrew. They lie and they hope you propagate the lies.

I cannot recall looking up baseball slang, to be honest. It's usually just an osmosis thing.

Eh.

We'll always have our Felix love.

 

[the tourist]

We'll always have our Felix love.

Sadly, mine will end when he winds up on your team in two years as the highest paid pitcher in baseball.

Anyway, didn't we agree on something else one time? Like Fleet Foxes or something? And aren't you way older than me, so you've had much more time to learn baseball slang through osmosis and/or truthtelling announcers?

 

[impy13]

We'll always have our Felix love.

Change that x to a z.



Baseball slang is one of the most wonderful things in the world, and I pride myself on being ridiculously well versed in it.

 

[phanan]

First Smoltz, then Penny.

You can say it's the NL, but this was the Phillies. Not exactly a bad team.

Unbelievable.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

it's amazing what can happen to a pitcher when he only has to face 7 batters instead of 9...

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Cubs. Sox. Two dying teams. One afternoon. One field. Wrigley. Waveland. Sheffield. Addison. Beckham. Dempster. Ozzie. Sweet Lou. Old Style beer. Backwards baseball caps. Two teams enter. Neither team makes it alive? No. One survivor. Tune in in one hour on WGN Superstation.

 

[No spoken words]

Sadly, mine will end when he winds up on your team in two years as the highest paid pitcher in baseball.

Anyway, didn't we agree on something else one time? Like Fleet Foxes or something? And aren't you way older than me, so you've had much more time to learn baseball slang through osmosis and/or truthtelling announcers?

We agreed on Fleet Foxes, yes.

I am much older than you, but trust me when I tell you that I had the lingo down at an early age. No big deal, not a contest, it's just a sport I've been immersed in since I was very young.

 

[Got Philk?]

Cubs. Sox. Two dying teams. One afternoon. One field. Wrigley. Waveland. Sheffield. Addison. Beckham. Dempster. Ozzie. Sweet Lou. Old Style beer. Backwards baseball caps. Two teams enter. Neither team makes it alive? No. One survivor. Tune in in one hour on WGN Superstation.

I prefer WGN radio. Your voice of the Cubs.

1-0 Sox are up...

 

[Got Philk?]

That's why we pay Soriano $136 million...

Nice play dumbass.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

That's why we pay Soriano $136 million...

Nice play dumbass.

Steve Stone's immediate comment after the Soriano error:

"That's what happens when you play a designated hitter in left field."

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

the national league has been around longer than the american league... thus where "senior" and "junior" circuit comes from.

 

[No spoken words]

Jeff Francoeur could be one of the dumbest ballplayers I've ever seen.

 

[the tourist]

Could be more inaccurate announcer mumbo-jumbo, but I heard a rumour that Theo Epstein has a King Felix poster on his bedroom wall. That's amazing!

 

[impy13]

It's actually on the ceiling right above the top bunk.

 

[Dalton]

Is it strange that one of my favorite human beings is a man that I have never actually met?

Ernie Harwell, baseball broadcasting hall of famer, announces he has inoperable cancer - ESPN

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Damn.


We need to pull an '07 Rockies and win something like 20 of our next 22.

 

[Got Philk?]

Steve Stone's immediate comment after the Soriano error:

"That's what happens when you play a designated hitter in left field."

And Ron Santo's immediate comment was...

"GAH! Unbelievable...I don't know how he did that."