10/23: Open World Series Game 2 Thread
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 4:30 PM PDT
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PrintThis seems like a mismatch until you realize that it's the World Series now and that you should really just Throw All The Numbers Out The Window Because None Of That Matters Anymore.
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Heard on the radio this morning
“Philadelphia is undefeated this season and post-season when leading after 9 innings.”
I think they meant 8 because if you lead after 9 innings, the game is over.
I expect the Rays to cruise. Go Rays!
Perhaps it was a sly joke?
Nah, it was sportsradio after all.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
I'm the King of Sly around here
No way that counts as a sly remark.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Los Lonely Boys?
Stupid name, and a terrible group I’m sure, but at least they’re not butchering the Star-Spangled Banner like the Backstreet Boys did last night. They’re actually giving it a nice and respectable reading.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
Much better than the Backseat Boys, that's for sure.
Man do I love midgets.
A co-worker asked me what was wrong with Howard
I responded, “Ov-er Ra-ted, clap clap clapclapclap.”
I prefer my runs all-natural, free range and organic, thank you.
A smarter Crawford wouldn’t have swung at the first pitch he saw.
Who says all the good manufacturing jobs have been outsourced to China?
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
I think we have a lot of pitchers who would get high with you.
Tools Whore
Sign Bonds!
And we witness Tim McCarver at his best.
"The proper way to approch Ryan Howard is curveball after curveball.
::lauches third consecutive curveball for a double::
“Well that curveball was above the knees”
::replay of curveball directly at the knees::
I hope Sweet Swing gets a WS ring
that said GO RAYS
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How pathetic is it that Dobby the bench elf is a DH?
Then I remembered Vidro. And we play in the AL.
I still believe the Dobbs sponsorship message
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I did too
After he left I realized it was mostly an irrational hatred.
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That was him playing "too shallow" and a good jump
Off the bat I thought: tied game
B.J. Upton only plays shallow because he doesn't want to walk far to get back to the dugout between innings.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
He's the one that did blow off the sidewalk right
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions
So a ball that would have been an out if it were hit about 5 feet to the right
is proof of how Navarro is a much better player than last year?
Can somebody tell Coach that being bald does not a bad general manager make?
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I certainly hope not else my life dreams are crushed before they begin
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
He won't let it go
He’s convinced that because Bavasi and Gillick were bad Z will be bad too because they are all bald. He doesn’t see the dozens of other lurking variables
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He FB messages me
and for whatever reason I respond
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Pat Gillick isn't the same kind of bald
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
If Hollywood has taught me anything it's that men with hair are action heroes and bald men are geniuses with a dark side
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 6:15 PM PDT up reply actions
How would you use the Mariners to take over the world?
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
First he'd start a blog about the Mariners to gather a loyal following...
Oops. Said too much already. Now they’ll have to kill me.
On the evidence of Unbreakable and Deep Blue Sea, I suppose.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
You son of a bitch
You can’t just label people the way you want to
He was an action hero until he went bald, at which point his evil genius neurons were activated
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 7:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I have stopped paying attention to this subthread
by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 23, 2008 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Ignoring information
Wait till Senomyx hears about this
I tried to argue that
couldn’t win
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Long live results based analysis
Remind him the Professor X of the X-men is bald. That should convince him. :)
He very well could have just died.
Tools Whore
Sign Bonds!
Roads wins are fun especially when you hate the other team.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Seeing your team happy
and the fans of the other team crying is the ultimate
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:41 PM PDT up reply actions
This is a good point.
What would we all love more? Winning the pennant at Safeco? Or winning the pennant at Anaheim?
Since I'm not from Seattle and probably couldn't be there
I pick Anaheim
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Jeff is not a trowel
Rather, he is an adze.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
It's all good. It lasted all of 3 minutes.
Indie.
by .Taylor on Oct 23, 2008 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
And please tell me...what was the reason they provided you when you went into the box?
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
You're going to love this.
“Esoteric said so”
Indie.
by .Taylor on Oct 23, 2008 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
That was Jeff Clement slow.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Also, they didn't butcher the national anthem tonight.
It was surprisingly respectful, as boy-band harmonies go.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
I just see three guys harmonizing with a lame group name, and I draw assumptions.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
I know some of you cats were talking pumpkin beer at some point.
Is Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale any good? My girl just brought some home from the store, and I’ve never had a pumpkin beer.
There has never been a good pumpkin beer.
I’ve tried many, many varieties, always hoping I’d find something that didn’t make me want my money back. No such luck.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
Treehouse of Horror XIX looks dumb
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With the exception of the movie
The Simpsons have been crap for the last 8-9 years.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Seriously.
It’s been all downhill since Season Six, and Season Eight was the last one I was willing to pay money for. (That was the one with the Hank Scorpio episode, right?)
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
Season 7 was wonderful
And yes season 8 was the beginning of the end, however, seasons 9 and 10 had mostly good episodes and were well worth my time.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Fuck I have to go watch
Lagaan. What kind of professor assigns a 4 hour movie during the fucking World Series?
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and thank God we only had to watch an hour and a half
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SQUUUUUUUUUUEZE!
I fucking hate you Mariners
Didn't we declare a moratorium on "Brett Myers beat his wife LOLZ!" jokes?
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
I thought it was first implemented during the NLDS.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
No someone tried and they were shot down in flames.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
It's doubly unfunny when you're reaching like this.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
The reaching is what makes it funny.
The joke are supposed to be bad.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 6:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought it was far funnier when we were cracking jokes about that ex-ML'er who was struck by lightning
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
That was a great subthread.
I fucking hate you Mariners
No defining blows to make it obvious,
but rather a relentless barrage of swings of a Valencia Oranges sack to put her in her place?
It's "AN annon" you illiterate fuck.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
by esoteric on Oct 23, 2008 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have not witnessed extra innings* since I started pining for them
*This only includes Mariner and playoff games
I don't want to live in a world where Fogel is happy.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't want to live in a world where Fogel is.
Full stop.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
The child hates you for your freedom
"It's reassuring to know that in your life, you can have no more than 32 root canals."
-T. McCarver
This reminds me of that goddamn astrophysicist commercial.
I want to find this guy and punch him in the kidneys.
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
He's not blond, he's albino.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
You loved every minute of it, uncle acblue.
Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. *edit: well, shit. This isn't going well.
Will somebody explain to me WTF Jack Bauer is doing in Africa?
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
I think 24 was getting a lot of flak for not having enough minorities on their show.......
I fucking hate you Mariners
Fighting bad guys and yelling DAMMIT!
Also, never eating or going to the bathroom for a full 24 hours
HA HA HA, your Grandpa's an ASS!- Tourette's Guy (R.I.P)
by tootthekazoo on Oct 23, 2008 7:27 PM PDT up reply actions
He wears a stillsuit
Like Paul Atreides.
[/dork]
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
Did he go into second cleats up? looked almost dirty.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Rocco is the 2004 Rhode Island Italian-American HOF inductee!
How many other people are in that hall? Four people?
J.P. Howell kindly requests that you please Bach the fuck up.
it is a distubring trend
that Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are announcing baseball still
Don't believe the lies Bill!!!! look at the sparkly ERA!!! Sparkly, Sparkly!!! - McCovey Chronicles
he gawn
Don't believe the lies Bill!!!! look at the sparkly ERA!!! Sparkly, Sparkly!!! - McCovey Chronicles
Price in this early, eh?
Barring some shut-down innings, I have to think Utley and Howard will come up again in the ninth.
They have Howell, I guess.
I didn't realize there was a runner on base when he came in.
I guess I can get down with this decision. He should be out in the 8th, though.
there was an astounding comparison on KJR this afternoon
Gastineau was talking about the need to get that kid (ie Fields) signed, so that he could get started contributing to the Mariners, because just look at what “that kid” (ie Price) is doing in the post-season with virtually no major league experience.
Is there any chance Shields will start at Citizen's Bank?
So at some point I’ll get to hear Tim McCarver say “Shields up”?
just turned this on...
I hated it when ESPN tried to sell us on the dead-center camera angle, and I definitely hate it now that Fox is using the World Series to use a dead-center camera angle. At least ESPN had a lame excuse of using that camera angle as a prelude to K-Zone, then they switched back to the normal leftcenter camera. The main problem I have with this dead-center camera angle isn’t whether or not I know a pitch on the corner or not, it’s that it really messes with me knowing what’s high or what’s low.
Dead-center stinks. I already have to put up with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, why do I need this? If I can find this game on Westwood One, I’ll pull it up. I’m not kidding, I really have a hard time watching baseball with this camera angle.
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...for me to poop on
I want my leftcenter camera.
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Fox may be doing it a bit wrong
but some local broadcasts do it right with a nice, close, unobstructed view of home plate.
Having a clear view of the strike zone is a good thing.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 8:09 PM PDT up reply actions
old footage
I remember some footage of Randy Johnson throwing at the Kingdome where Randy, Dan Wilson, and the batter took up nearly 80% of the screen. That was beautiful stuff. I wish they’d go back to that, but there’d me no room for ads and score bugs.
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*be
Sports and Bremertonians. Because we can.
There's more to the field than just the pitcher and catcher
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 8:14 PM PDT up reply actions
hmm
I suppose there could be the first couple rows of fans behind the plate to show.
You could show a runner leading off of second with the mound still in the frame, but with dead-center the camera would have to move even further to pick that up.
And someone mentioned it higher in the thread, but the fact that they’re using this angle and the pitcher/catcher/batter aren’t in the center of the screen is really annoying, ad banner be damned.
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That's the flaw, it should be centered
But since I cant see the pitcher and batter just fine, it’s well worth a minor inconvenience to be able to see the strike zone properly.
by JI on Oct 23, 2008 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I wish Buck would fall out of the booth and die.
I fucking hate you Mariners
WOOOOOOOOOOOO RAYS!!!!!!!!!
I fucking hate you Mariners
His name is not James "Big Game" Shields
that doesn’t make any fucking sense
“Big Game” James Shields
I could root for a Moyer win.
As long as the Rays win the series.
Man do I love midgets.
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