Braves/Giants NLDS Pick 'Em

by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 4, 2010 2:00 PM PDT in Seattle Mariners Polling

Rooting interest, not series pick. And a hearty Fuck You to both these sons of bitches for screwing the Padres yesterday.

Poll

Who're you pulling for in the NLDS?

Braves

482 votes

Giants

985 votes

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This quarter I just flipped says Let's Go Braves!

You're dead to me.

by Goose on Oct 4, 2010 2:04 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Where did you get that quarter?

by Matthew on Oct 4, 2010 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

I do not think it is redeemable

by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 4, 2010 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I'll throw it in with the Itchy and Scratchy dollars

by Matthew on Oct 4, 2010 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions

WHOOOO GO GIANTS!!

Fun team. Despite the insanity of the Jim Bowden tribute OF.

by TheBishop on Oct 4, 2010 2:05 PM PDT reply actions

These two teams are literally my two

least favorite NL teams. None of the above.

by spencer peaty on Oct 4, 2010 2:06 PM PDT reply actions

Padres really screwed themselves over the last month+

And how can you root for your natural rivals?

Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, please keep hitting.

by marcello on Oct 4, 2010 2:07 PM PDT reply actions

.

This would be how.

by Eyeball Kid on Oct 4, 2010 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah

I remember reading that. My question was mostly tongue in cheek.

Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, please keep hitting.

by marcello on Oct 4, 2010 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions

Because my actual team is a pile of shit and our rivals are right to think we're retarded

by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 4, 2010 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions

The Padres are my second favorite team. =(

Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."

by joof on Oct 4, 2010 2:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I love Posey almost as much as Felix ♥

by George702 on Oct 4, 2010 2:10 PM PDT reply actions

If I root for any team this October like they were my own, it is the Giants.

by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 4, 2010 2:11 PM PDT reply actions

Braves. Fuck the Giants for beating the Padres

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by Griffin Cooper on Oct 4, 2010 2:12 PM PDT reply actions

This one's easy. Braves.

by Teej on Oct 4, 2010 2:16 PM PDT reply actions

GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIANTS!!!!

by Robert on Oct 4, 2010 2:17 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

It's good to see this again though it's kind of unfair here

ignacio

by ignacio on Oct 4, 2010 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions

I have a cousin's sentiments to look out for,

so Giants it is.

by SeattExPat on Oct 4, 2010 2:19 PM PDT reply actions

We Giants fans appreciate the support of 68% of you

And we humbly request hilarious .gifs.

In return, you are welcome to come into our game day threads and talk about lunch or whatever.

My Son

by GiantPain on Oct 4, 2010 2:44 PM PDT reply actions

Is Andres Torres really your son

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by Griffin Cooper on Oct 4, 2010 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions

Nein

We have a tradition on McCovey Chronicles of “adopting” players – we have a draft at the beginning of the year, and everyone can get a son.

I picked Andres. Good choice.

My Son

by GiantPain on Oct 4, 2010 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions

There would be riots as all of LL would try to adopt Felix.

Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.

by JAH on Oct 4, 2010 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions

except seattlebruin

by pdb on Oct 4, 2010 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions

Wait what?

by seattlebruin on Oct 4, 2010 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions

I was assuming you could only adopt one player and, well, y'know

by pdb on Oct 4, 2010 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions

Not a Mariner for very much longer

by seattlebruin on Oct 4, 2010 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions

and stupid joof would probably beat me there anyway

by seattlebruin on Oct 4, 2010 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions

I would run a smokescreen and than take Smoak. He's my new favorite since Lopez is going to Carlos Guillen all over somewhere.

Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."

by joof on Oct 4, 2010 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions

I'm pretty sure it would be obvious that you were just running a smoakscreen

by seattlebruin on Oct 4, 2010 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

Groan.

Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.

by JAH on Oct 4, 2010 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions

I thought about making this pun, but then I realized that it was terrible.

Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."

by joof on Oct 4, 2010 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions

And way too easy.

Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."

by joof on Oct 4, 2010 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions

And look who ended up with the recs

by seattlebruin on Oct 4, 2010 5:15 PM PDT up reply actions

If I had made the pun, I wouldn't have gotten the recs.

I am the Stockton to your Malone.

Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."

by joof on Oct 4, 2010 7:26 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

Sorry Loafie, back to Honest Bender's Discount Orphanarium

Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.

by JAH on Oct 4, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions

I will only attend your gamethreads if you promise me that Mike Singleterry will be there as well.

by Robert on Oct 4, 2010 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions

No doubt with his pants on the ground

With the way things are going, he might have plenty of time to waste watching the Giants very soon.

Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, please keep hitting.

by marcello on Oct 4, 2010 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions

He's too busy

Going out and hitting people in the mouf.

It couldn’t get any worse!

My Son

by GiantPain on Oct 4, 2010 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions

Is there any way you can get the rest of MCC to use subject lines?

by Joe Metro on Oct 4, 2010 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions

Hah.

We observe no conventions.

My Son

by GiantPain on Oct 4, 2010 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions

Your threads are too active

We like it quiet and morose

by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 4, 2010 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Morose, we can do

Quiet, not so much.

Do not go quietly into that good night
Rage, rage, rage against the OH MY GOD WHY IS JOSE GUILLEN STILL STARTING IN RIGHT FIELD

My Son

by GiantPain on Oct 4, 2010 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs

Tim Lincecum is my favorite non-Mariner.

So yeah. Go Giants.

by moyerLIVES on Oct 4, 2010 2:44 PM PDT reply actions

I just can't bring myself to root for the Giants under any circumstances

Plus Bobby Cox is a Brave

Determined, Jonesing Commentor

by Corco on Oct 4, 2010 2:50 PM PDT reply actions

Bobby Cox is white, don't believe everything you saw in Dances With Wolves

by seattlebruin on Oct 4, 2010 3:22 PM PDT up reply actions 7 recs

I...don't even know where to begin responding to that.

I’ll just leave it at- Nice.

Determined, Jonesing Commentor

by Corco on Oct 4, 2010 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Lincecum, Posey, and Wilson are still young

and will get another chance, but Billy Wagner isn’t and won’t. That’s the only thing making me rather see the Braves (see: most boring team in baseball) take it over the Giants, who are my favorite team. I just feel pangs for Billy, and Jeff’s recent numbers on him hopefully had some similar effect on some others.

by tsunamijesus on Oct 4, 2010 3:04 PM PDT reply actions

For some reason I thought Billy Wagner had won a world series before.

Either way, he just had a great season, so it’s not like this is his last opportunity. And I would have never thought of the Giants as “young”

by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 4, 2010 3:43 PM PDT up reply actions

He is retiring after the year

by Jeff Sullivan on Oct 4, 2010 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions

Hmmm... well I'll just casually start backpedalling my way out of this subthread.

by Kenneth Arthur on Oct 4, 2010 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions

If the Padres were never in contention for first I would vote Giants

But those Assholes stabbed San Diego in the back and now I’m rooting for Atlanta.
BRAAAAAAAAAVESS!!!

…they should send down Huntington & Nutting, because they aren’t ready, either. - royshowell

by Marinerfanjake on Oct 4, 2010 3:24 PM PDT reply actions

Dislike both teams for no good reason

Pre-ESPN MLB contract and prior the expansion of the M’s local broadcast deal to include home games, the Braves were the only game on every night, but I got tired of having to watch “America’s Team.”

I have more sympathy for the Giants, given the drought, but have never liked them, despite a classy looking cap.

by G_ on Oct 4, 2010 3:30 PM PDT reply actions

I really do not like either of these teams.

by Sec 108 on Oct 4, 2010 3:37 PM PDT reply actions

I honestly have no opinion about either one

they’re two slices of Wonder Bread in a large loaf of apathy.

by pdb on Oct 4, 2010 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions

At least they are not two slices of Wonder Bread under a slab of Gates BBQ ribs.

Because that is the only time I have felt the need to eat Wonder Bread.

by Sec 108 on Oct 4, 2010 6:28 PM PDT up reply actions

FUCK THE BRAVES

by Poochie on Oct 4, 2010 3:37 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs

Both these teams cannot possibly go fuck themselves enough

by lemonverbena on Oct 4, 2010 3:51 PM PDT reply actions 2 recs

The Giants pitcher with the shitty beard was hilariously cocky in his post game interview after they clinched.

That guy seems like a wild man, better watch out Bravos!

Milton Bradley apologist

by sanford_and_son on Oct 4, 2010 4:10 PM PDT reply actions

DUDE YOU BETTER NOT BE SLAGGING OFF BRIAN WILSON

by Eyeball Kid on Oct 4, 2010 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions

He will straight up fuck your shit up! He's a ninja!

Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.

by JAH on Oct 4, 2010 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions

You do not want to face down this guy when the game is on the line!

Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.

by JAH on Oct 4, 2010 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions

Not really slagging him off, it was just surprising to hear such a confident and cocky attitude from a major league pitcher.

Most players are so reserved in post-game interviews. Kind of a nice change of pace, I guess, but it will be really funny if he gets rocked by the Braves.

Milton Bradley apologist

by sanford_and_son on Oct 4, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Which interview did you watch?

In this one, he shows love to Buster Posey, the bullpen around him, the starters, and he says the San Diego Padres “basically just walloped us all year.”

Where’s the cocky hilarity?

by Joe Metro on Oct 4, 2010 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions

It was on Sportscenter

The tidbit I remember was “You don’t want to face us” in reference to other playoff teams.

Milton Bradley apologist

by sanford_and_son on Oct 4, 2010 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions

I still dislike the Giants 'cause of Barry Bonds

and it’s OK with me if Bobby Cox gets some luck

ignacio

by ignacio on Oct 4, 2010 4:10 PM PDT reply actions

I despise the Braves and everything they stand for.

by Freneau on Oct 4, 2010 4:39 PM PDT reply actions

Giants

by Wilder. on Oct 4, 2010 4:51 PM PDT reply actions

Braves, because we need more Cox.

by Patrick Stites on Oct 4, 2010 5:44 PM PDT reply actions

My dream was that the Braves would win it and Cox and Chipper would go off into the sunset.

Now that isn’t happening. But I still think Cox winning it would be pretty damn cool. Of all the “legendary” managers, he’s the most likeable (which is weird, given that he’s the stereotypical crotchety old man), and I’d like a nice sendoff. At the very least, I hope they lose at home in the NLCS.

by Fuckmikereilly on Oct 4, 2010 5:50 PM PDT reply actions

Giants because of Jon Miller.

And forever blech to the Braves because of Chipper Jones and Ted Turner. But yay for Greg Maddux.

by wazzu93 on Oct 4, 2010 9:49 PM PDT reply actions

I still harbour a deep and vitriolic grudge from boyhood when Maddux left the Cubs and went to the Braves. Unforgivable.

Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.

by JAH on Oct 4, 2010 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions

Giants

Because I actually went and watched them play earlier this year at their beautiful stadium. Pat Burrell ripped a line drive into the stands and drilled a lady 5 rows in front of me right in the face. Blood was everywhere. So I think that if the Giants win, this lady might feel better, which is why I’m going for the Giants.

by zeeehjee on Oct 4, 2010 11:02 PM PDT reply actions