Lookout Landing

Gallardo/Hamels is a hell of a pitching match-up

Glad to see Yovani back after that sickening injury.

I want the Phils to win for Moyer’s sake, but I’ve come to really respect Milwaukee’s scouting/player development team – they are, to me, at least the equals of Tampa Bay in that respect.

marc w - October 1, 2008 reply

Ryan Dempster is has been inexplicably fantastic this season

With Furcal back, Jones not playing, etc. the Dodgers are a much better team than their record indicates. Should be an interesting series.

All previous and forthcoming Octobers are hereby nullified for there is only one October and it is happening now

I'm guessing he's saying pitches thrown by Brewers bullpen

and then making fun of the quality of said pen by changing the word “pitches” to “sucks.”

If you don't start making sense then you're not going to be saying anything at all

That's mean.

Making sense isn't supposed to be a challenge

You are so mean to all the visiting mods

When in Rome guests should do as the Romans do

If I were a Rays fan I'd be running DRB by now.

You lie.

No, he's pretty much dead on

Lies.

He ran the May 17th gamethread

into the ground

Some of us have the courage to go against the grain.

The DRB mods are all at Beyond the Boxscore.

It’s a rudderless ship!

This does not seem like a good plan.

Like it could be any more terrifying.

Actually, it could be Minor League Ball.

ahhhh no

It's like they can't have two windows open at the same time.

Have you no sense of irony?

Sarcasm counts as irony

Stop being so quick witted.

Wait what.

Off to the Circus for a few hours of festival racing

and then it’s feast and orgy time!

3/4 people on this site don't leave the sidebar

Sidebar?

Sound it out big boy

10-4 Eagle

I speak in non-sequiters 50% of the jellybeans.

So time = jellybeans

This isn’t going to drive me crazy

And 50% = 100%.

But making cents is with the way the economy is! Hoo hoo hoo!

I love having the playoffs on TBS

but god dammit why is there no available HD TBS feed?

Yay October.

Let’s go Brewers!

My goal is to not watch or care about any games in the Red Sox - Angels series

and to temporarily block anyone who AIMs me about them

Should the White Sox and the Red Sox advance October has to be declared Soxtober

So it naturally follows that there would be only one Soxtober?

We already know there's only one Rocktober

Woooo October

Go Cubbies!

l0nepinemall - October 1, 2008 reply

"More Frank tv ads in the playoffs til you throw up"

So pathetically honest

Jason Werth was 20 for 21 stealing bases?

What the heck?

I miss Cammy so much. :(

Why was this a reply?

I'm waiting for you to answer yourself.

Me too.

l0nepinemall - October 1, 2008 reply

At least we replaced him with Jeremy Reed

He has prettier hair.

I miss being confident that Jeremy Reed was going to be a really good player.

So getting on base only matters in October?

It's in the handbook.

Just like moving the runners forward only mattered in last night's game.

If only every game mattered...

Only one counts, and it's played in July

joof - October 1, 2008 reply

Hamels is destroying

Yeah it was the Brewers spending spree that got them to post season

how else could they have acquired some one with Eric Gagne’s track record.

Attention Felix Hernandez :

Please watch closely how Hamels is pitching. Pitch more like this please.

And more bugs bunny curveballs please. I miss that nasty break.

tyreni51 - October 1, 2008 reply

There isn't a Who song that can't be used in a commercial.

I hope this referenced Magic Bus in some way.

Sparks was used in a allergy commercial, and just now a Derek Jeter Gatorade ad

I know I’ve seen Join Together, Baba, Can’t Explain, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Who are You, Bargain, My Generation, I Can See For Miles, The Tommy Overture … and probably more used at point or another

Trojan should use Squeezebox.

Sadly, Pictures of Lily and Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand haven't been used to promote abstinence as of yet

Seems that See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me should be used for something along these lines.

or We're Not Gonna Take It for that matter

"We forsake you, gonna rape you"?

You always did have a peculiar sense of romance.

They could just use the chorus

That IS the chorus, buddy.

Actually, that's the way it ends.

Sort of, but it's only used on the expanded part of the second chorus

Who's getting technical now, eh?

That entire movie is fucked up.

The Ken Russell version of Tommy is a camp classic.

Understand that the term “classic” is used with disgust and sarcasm…it’s unwatchable. But definitely camp.

That movie is god awful

The Kids Are Alright, on the other hand, is the greatest rock movie ever made.

Period, full stop, no counterargument allowed.

eh

I’ve seen better

I really dislike the way Wont Get Fooled Again was cut together

Jesus Christ that's the most insufferable criticism I have ever heard.

Congratulations, JI…I’m genuinely impressed.

And may I jut put it out there that the cuts

of WGFA and Baba in that movie just aren’t very good.

The WGFA is pretty good.

I agree with you that “Baba O’Riley” is a bad performance.

That movie frightened me as a child

Why did anyone let you watch it as a child?

It was on Bravo and there was no internet to see the Who

I asked Fogel.

But this also explains much about you.

I'm not sure but it was a terrible idea

I was scarred by it at age 15.

Particularly by the baked beans coming out of the television set.

Yes that fueled my irrational fear of beans

I mean something normal people are scared of like bears

I hate beans too

and that scene thoroughly disgusted me

After that movie it is ok to be afraid of beans.

The music is terrible and they cated people who were completely tone deaf

The music is actually pretty excellent, though it's nowhere near The Who's best album.

(Those are The Who Sell Out and Quadrophenia.)

I love the Tommy album.

The original The Who Sell Out isn't that good

the reissue is an improvement, but frankly, as clever as it is the songs aren’t that good.

I am confident in your wrongness.

The original is nearly perfect. Only the ending of the album is a slight letdown. But every song from “Armenia City In The Sky” to “Relax” is a gorgeous, fully realized melodic gem. And the fake radio ads…oh yes.

The radio gag disappears on the second half

most the songs are forgettable

Mary Anne With The Shaky Hand? Tattoo? Odorono? Our Love Was? I Can See For Miles? I Can't Reach You? Relax? Sunrise?

The only songs I’d toss out are Silas Stingy and Rael.

C’mon, you’re just being a sourpuss. It’s the greatest concept album of the ’60s. Admit it and move on!

Can't Reach You, Our Love Was, and Relax suck

I can See FOr Miles is awesome, as is Sunrise

the rest are decent but forgettable

Anyone who thinks "I Can't Reach You" and "Our Love Was" are bad songs is an odd human beings.

I cast thee out and make thee moderator of DRaysBay.

They're failry ordinary songs

dragged down by Pete’s singing, there’s way toop much of Pete singing on that album.

My depth chart:

Quadrophineia
Who’s Next
…
…
…
Tommy
…
…
By Numbers
Endless Wire
…
Sell Out
…
…
My Generation
…
…
…
…
The Rest

The correct depth chart:

Quadrophenia
The Who Sell Out
Live At Leeds
….
….
Who’s Next
Tommy
….
By Numbers
Odds And Sods
Who Are You
My Generation
….
A Quick One
….
The Rest.

Live at Leeds isn't an album

I knew you were going to say this.

ha

Of course it is. It's their canon live album

And every song on the original version of the album except “My Generation” (or rather, the first two minutes) was either unreleased or a non-album single at the time.

Substitute?

Magic Bus?

Hit singles, we’’ve heard those

Erm, not really.

Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy wouldn’t be released for two more years — as far as the UK was concerned “Magic Bus” was a failed single that nobody really remembered from The Who’s “dark era” of 1968.

Seriously, you look silly arguing this point. Live At Leeds is as canonical a Who album as they come.

Live albums don't count as albums.

They’re a completely different animal.

Needless to say this is an artificial distinction that I don't agree with.

Especially in situations where the live album is REVELATORY, offering a completely different side of the band, as Live At Leeds did. Remember: prior to Leeds, there was really no evidence whatsoever of their hard rock mastery.

I don't really agree

because My Generation and I Can See For Miles were pretty much the heaviest songs in mainstream music when they were released. Also their destructive stage show had pretty much already established them as the hardest act in pop music.

No recorded evidence until Leeds.

“My Generation” was ‘hard’ I suppose, but only in terms of late ‘65 beat music. “I Can See For Miles” wasn’t ‘hard’ at all, per se…it’s a psychedelic vision. Leeds finally brought forth the band’s live act for the millions who would never see them in concert, and prefigured where they would be going, sonically, on Who’s Next and Quadrophenia. Prior to that, what did you have? The bouncy melodic rock of Tommy and Sell Out? The bizarre Pop Art Londonisms of A Quick One? The lame R&B covers from the debut?

Live At Leeds was a watershed, my friend.

Hmm

The song may have inspired The Beatles’ “Helter Skelter”. Paul McCartney recalls writing “Helter Skelter” after reading a review of The Who Sell Out in which the critic claimed that “I Can See for Miles” was the “heaviest” song he’d ever heard. McCartney — without having ever actually heard “I Can See for Miles” — wrote “Helter Skelter” in an attempt to make an even “heavier” song than the one praised in the review.

Hmmm

But it doesn’t matter anyway, because live albums aren’t proper albums.

I'm familiar with the story, and it isn't remotely dispositive.

The early Who’s idea of “heavy” had nothing to do with the ‘70s Who’s version of heavy. The truest testimony to this is the fact that The Who never even played “I Can See For Miles” live anyway — the point of the song wasn’t the heaviness so much as it was the unique layered psychedelic effect the production creates.

And live albums can indeed be proper albums. Are Neil Young’s Time Fades Away or Rust Never Sleeps proper albums?

THe same creative process that goes into a stuido album

doesn’t typically go into a live album therefore they should be kept separate when talking about proper albums.

Yes. A non-album single. Just like "Magic Bus."

Lumping Endless wire in with the Kenney Jones albums

Jesus Christ…

Endless Wire is terrible.

Bullshit it is

The fact that you consider Endless Wire to be a "Who album" but not Live At Leeds says something.

I’m not quite sure what it says, but it says SOMETHING.

Why shouldn't it be an album?

No Keith Moon, no John Entwistle.

It’s a Pete Townshend solo album in all but name, in a way that none of the Who’s work ever was before Face Dances. (I’m a huge fan of Townshend’s solo material, I have every piece of music he’s ever been even indirectly involved in…there is a critical difference between “Who” material and “Townshend” material, even if it’s written by the same guy.)

It’s not even a good Townshend solo album. Empty Glass, All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes…those are good Townshend solo albums.

If you think the Who today don't count as the Who

this discussion is going to get ugly and it should end right here.

With probably the longest Who discussion in LL history.

And hopefully the only reference of Tommy.

*the moive

*the movie

Yes.

I think The Who was driven musically by the interaction of Entwistle, Moon and Townshend

Which is why Daltrey’s singing — while excellent — was always a secondary element. The musical interplay between those three was what mattered the most. With no Moon and not even any Entwistle, it just ain’t The Who. It’s Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey…which isn’t invalid in itself, but isn’t the Who.

Bear in mind The Who are (obviously, from the level of knowledge I’m displaying here) one of my all-time favorite bands. I’m obsessed with them, have every rare B-side and alternate mix and bootleg and concert recording you can name, etc. etc.

Well you're worng

You mean wr9iong.

I love Pete's singing and prefer it many times, in all honesty.

I suppose there’s the division. And there’s nothing ordinary about “Our Love Was.”

Often I don't like his voice much

on some songs it works, some songs it really doesn’t

Actually, this explains a lot.

"Dreaming From The Waist"

(full lyric: “I’m dreaming from the waist on down”)

?

That's the other way around

I feel bad like this entire sub thread should be hidden

or cut and pasted to the ot thread

Yovani Gallardo just nearly hit a home run against Cole Hamels.

Goddamn wind blowing the other way kept it in the park.

God damn those Phillie uniforms are awful.

Somebody needs to tell them to lose the blue hats.

AAAAAAND Rickie Weeks has a stone glove.

Shocking

Jason Werth

exhibit #1284210943275 why freely available talent kicks ass

That strikeout was CLUTCH.

But yes, I agree.

Uh oh

Mike Cameron ain't what he used to be

few of us are.

Gallardo is falling apart.

Chase Utley deserves to win an MVP before he dies

Yeah, Burrell's problem is that he doesn't see enough pitches.

Fuckin' Chase Utley

Shane Victorino is another one of those freely available gems

Thankfully Gillick can not take credit for him

Yeah, so there's no way the Brewers are going to win this series.

I just had that thought as well.

CC Sabathia pitches the other four games

Anyone can beat anyone

Only if they get on base and advance the runners.

True

It is difficult to win if you don’t score any runs.

Except the Mariners.

This just in

Cole Hamels is good.

Jeff Nusser - October 1, 2008 reply

This just in: Ben Sheets going down in flames has sealed the Brewers' postseason fate.

If Cole Hamels throws a perfect game against the Brewers I'll vomit all over myself.

I think it'd be rad

I don't hate the Phillies the way I hate the Mets (dear god do I hate the Mets)...

…but I sure don’t like ’em that much either.

I'd rather Moyer do it.

Now THAT would be 100% jump-for-joy awesome.

if unlikely :)

Way to jinx it.

That was my goal

Thank you god.

12 pitchers?!?!

Holy shit

What the fuck is a contact average?

Could it be their clutzy way of saying BABIP?

Or perhaps the % of swings that end up making contact? Fair contact? Fair + foul contact?

Who the fuck knows?

No idea

Ryan Howard has in no way

1) Had an MVP type year
2) A good hitter against LHP

*become a

These fuckers need some fact checkers

Dane Cook AND Cheech and Chong?

Don't forget Frank of FrankTV & Evergreen Casino fame.

Wait, you're talking about the commercials on TBS, right?

It would be like seeing Led Zeppelin and Soundgarden on the same bill.

C'mon Cammy do something amazing!

He already did >:(

Well, that's kind of amazing I guess.

The playoff are so boring without New York.

You've got Boston/LAA to look forward to.

OMG.

Michael Kay and Steve Phillips????

Where?

in my ear.

doing the radio coverage.

it hurts.

You don't post here often, do you?

More of a USSM guy?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Clutch K there, Bill.

Ryan Braun always reminds me of the very short lived Saturday morning kids game show called "Brains and Brawn"

hosted by Mark-Paul “Zack Morris” Gosselaar.

Whiff rate?

Don’t they mean swinging strike % ???

Ok boys, apparently the people in marketing figured that those statheads will watch

more if we give them more of those stupid stats they love so much more than the game. Anybody know what it is they want? What the hell was the one, Frank? VERP? MARP?! Aww, fuck it. We’ll make our own.

It’s like when your Grandma buys you video games for Christmas.

I wonder if they're referencing anything legit.

Heh, my grandmother told me to stay up and watch the first episode of South Park.

Those marketing people are dumb.

Everyone know statheads don’t acctually watch baseball, they just watch spreadsheets.

joof - October 1, 2008 reply

My spreadsheet looks awesome on my bigass new monitor

Utley / Rollins : Angels in the Infield

That was the most baffling sign I have ever seen

What a Werthless at bat

5 recs to the first person to murder Frank

It looks like BB in here.

You OK, JI? I don’t think anyone else can watch this game.

Just a bit lonely.

And to the second person?

Starting pitching has made quite the comeback this season.

So Lil Wayne is apparently a Rays fan.

Tight.

That blog entry was awesome on so many levels

especially the part about his fantasy football team

I heard Dick Vitale was too.

Yeah, he's had season tickets for years and will tell anyone who asks about his day.

Yea. Also, is Paul Azinger really throwing out the first pitch Thursday?

Along with the Rays first employee.

Azinger has went to a ton of games the past few years as well.

Yea, seemed like there may have been better choices, but, whatever.

Fred McGriff :(

No one remembers him

They should.

That'll teach him to peak in the 1980s

He was that crime-fighting talking dog, right?

Grrrrrrrrrr

He was a Brave

Hence the Grrrrrrrrrr

You should be more clear when you growl.

It was a Brave; how could I be more clear?

Perhaps you were sad that he wouldn't be remembered?

He was a Brave, damn it.

He played for 20 other teams.

Obviously he is most remembered for his stint with the choppers.

A Brave with a dog related nickname.

This was going to be next point.

Grrrrrr to both of you.

This is just going to segue into a bunch of Crime Gog Furry jokes if you keep it up.

I do fear the Gog.

Magog too.

GIS for Gog is interesting.

I still sometimes unintentionally do the bat twirl after a swing in softball.

Wade Boggs?

I hate Wade Boggs.

Hell of a ballplayer

Yes.

But the guy has been a douche to the team. When the new regime took over Boggs bashed them for not having “baseball guys” or something. Plus when he came to our uniform unveiling he made sure to wear his Yanks WS ring. I found that obnoxious.

I know, he doesn't deserve it.

Paul Sorrento? Quinton McCracken? Wilson Alvarez?

Canseco!

I'd pay to see this!

Seems like that’s what Canseco would want.

Wade Boggs

Rolando Arroyo

still is.

take a look

at least we don’t get the Fake Fox Fans until the NLCS.

Remember how the Dodgers were ridiculed for signing Lowe?

DePodesta had no idea what he was doing.

Luckily this gave way to more rational FA signings by his succors

Who knew Juan Pierre wasn't good?

Most people?

Not Colletti.

Hopefully Kim Ng

But Hahn/LaCava?

Not my call

I wonder if they bring the Camel out for the 9th.

Why not?

Yeah, only 101 pitches, and he's owned.

I'd save Lidge

I would be so happy if Hamels loaded the bases and Lidge gave up a GS to Fielder.

Haven't you heard though? Brad Lidge hasn't blown a save this year! And, he's the comeback player of the year!

NL MVP.

And Cy Young!

Anyone who thinks it is someone besides Pujols deserves to be killed.

Pretty much.

But RBIs!

He has lots

Ryman Howard....Phillies... on his back or something....

It’s hard to play Devil’s advocate when the Satanists are all morons.

Words to live by.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

No argument here.

I can't argue against this.

If I were to write an argument on the subject this or something similar would be the title

"If'?

Why write something no one will read and someone will write better?

People would read.

I would’ve voted you for new VEB overload.

I don't have the patience.

It is strange seeing an acting manager in a playoff game.

The Brewers' bullpen is just flat out bad.

I just wanna go on record that using Lidge here is dumb.

Yeah.

Gotta swing at that Cammy.

If I'm Sveum

I start Durham against Myers.

I love the cream old fashioned unis

Thats cuz ur gay

takes one to know one fruit of the loom

Shouldn't we be turning on Fogel?

That's usually what happens.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

All three gay.

Exsqueeze me?

What Not to Wear, anyone?

Everyone's a little bit gay.

Then why the defence?

little bit! = all the way

It does when using hyperbole for dramatic effect.

Erring on the side of caution.

How interesting

At least the Phillies aren't dumb enough to IBB him.

No fastballs here

well that was ball 4

Damn.

C'mon single!

Wow Lidge sucked

...and he struck out the side

Alright, well, it only took 35 pitches.

Damn.

It just occurred to me that the Phillies are the most futile franchise in major league history.

1 championship in 120 years.

1 / 120 > 0 / 32

You wouldn't say that if the championship had happened in... say... 1909 instead of 1980

Just saying they've got a championship.

I bet the Bubs god can beat the Dodgers' god

nice typo stupid

That's actually a pretty amusing typo.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Obligatory cheering

Go Brewers!
Go Cubs!
Go… Um… Fuck, I dunno. GO METEORITE HITTING ANGEL STADIUM!

seattlecougar - October 1, 2008 reply

You forgot Go Rays!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Dodgers/Cubs is Miller & Sutcliffe

Amen.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

LET'S GO CUBBIES

CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

You mean

Clapclapclapclap…clapclap

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Oh wait, you had it right.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

....................

…..

Thanks for those ellipsis.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

You're welcome

*ellipses

HD my ass

Companies can get by passing highER definition off as HD

No HD feed on Comcast

and you think a year later they’d have fixed this.

You mean widescreen but not HD

like FOX used to do for baseball?

I have it, and you're not missing anything.

“High-definition Cubs night game” is an oxymoron with the lights they have.

Not with the set I am leeching off of.

Dang, that was absolute domination from Hamels.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Late, I know.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

The way Lowe and Soriano's headshots are interacting with each other on the Yahoo boxscore is great.

Damnit Brewers.

Go Dodgers.

I NOTICED THAT TOO!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Manny choked.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

He's in line for a whole different kind of fucking now.

What if that's the only out he makes in the series?

I would cry.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Yeah

I would also cry if I hear Joe Morgan praising his defense one more time.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Waaah-ny bein' Waaah-ny?

The number of free agent pitchers that have given their teams

a decent return on a long term investment is a small one.

Derek Lowe has always been fascinating for some reason.

+1 for avoiding an obvious pun.

AND HERE COME THE CUBBIES

Or not.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

::WHOOSH::

AND HERE COME THE PRETZELS!

This is a black day for baseball.

You can call them Whitey Whackers!

The "throwing giveaways at baseball games" gag was always a winner on that show.

*Cracker Smackers

The winner of the rolls royce is sitting in Section 001 Row 001 Seat 001

The Los Angeles Dodgers are 84-78. They are the third worst playoff team in baseball history.

Joe Torre has done nothing special you idiots.

Agreed

but that record is disproportionate to their true talent level.

In fact, he probably cost them wins by sticking with the veterans for as long as he did.

He had the foresight to travel back in time and help move them to LA from Brooklyn

thereby ensuring them to be in the NL West in 2008, and therefore securing a postseason berth for his crappy team.

The Mariners would have won the NL West this year

well not really but….

I've said this a 1000 times

and I’ll say it again

I lost all respect for that man when he hit A-Rod 8th. It was one of the most bushleague moves of all time.

That was just dumb.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Choking hurts your team less from the 8th spot in the batting order!

But dude, he's ARod.

That was just mean.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

It was the most hysterical overreaction I've ever seen

the man let himself get pwned by the media. I don’t see how his players could easily trust him again.

Bunting hurts you team here...

We want a pitcher, not a belly-itcher.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Bowa is not nearly as fat and jolly as Zimmer.

I loved Horatio Sanz as Zimmer on SNL.

Why is there a list of sexy people at the bottom of the page?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Jealousy

So HoRam reverted to craptasticness toward the end of the season.

Wonder if he gets any playoff action for the Sox.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Losing Nomar is no loss.

Veteran leadership!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

So it's a misNomar?

GOD

ugh

I peaked months ago.

To be honest, that was a good one.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Not really, but it was right there for the taking and I have no self control.

There are no good puns

Markakis?

I peaked with the ICHIRO HURTS HIM TEAM diary

and it’s been a painful downhill spiral ever since.

And yet you post more and more....

I hate everyone here and want them to suffer.

You'll find your online voice soon enough!

Fat lot of good it did you.

LLuperstar

Really

I know I know.

Perhaps you need to study with Fogel

How dare you.

I know, I'm ashamed of myself.

My favorite part about this Cubs team is that they've pulled

all their success straight out of their ass.

It gives one hope.

PLayoffs in Seatown 09!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Is there a rally he can't start?

I wish we had gotten DeRosa somehow.

Isn't he a FA?

Yeah, but I wish we could have gotten him when he was cheap.

I bet Adam Kennedy will be available for trade.

Yes but he's terrible.

Former Angel!

That always works out really well for us.

Example?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Player A

=

I only became an M's fan last year.

Who’s that?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Shigetoshi Hasegawa

Sec 108 - October 1, 2008 reply

No it isn't.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Looks like Shiggy.

Thingray - October 1, 2008 reply

Huh?

It is?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Oh.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Yes indeedy do.

Yes. Yes it is.

I'm going to stop trying.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

...

Too small

One year ago and there are 18 identical responses to this post.

Is that Wash?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Weaver?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

He doesn't look like either of em.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

It's double-meta.

Just say the name!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Looks like Kermit, but it's actually Elmo.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/10/1/626156/10-1-open-division-series#9121433

I give up.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

...

DeRo!!!!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Fuck.

WooHoo Cubs!

Sec 108 - October 1, 2008 reply

Remember how we all made fun of the Cubs for giving DeRosa that contract?

Woops.

Results based!

To be fair 353 ft

is quite far away for a down the line fence

I love small sample size.

Lowe’s ERA is 10.80

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I bet his FIP is nearly as bad

Dempsters working on a no-no.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I am nostalgic for in play bullpen mounds.

I'm nostalgic for bullpen carts

This is baseball – a reliever shouldn’t have to WALK all the way to the mound. Give him a ride in a giant hat!

marc w - October 1, 2008 reply

Needs more astroturf

How do you guys think Soriano will do in his age 38 season?

Oh God he's going to be so bad.

Have fun Chicago

There's like 4 people in this thread.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

So people still come to LL for baseball.

I do, I've just been swamped at work.

Thingray - October 1, 2008 reply

Me too.

marc w - October 1, 2008 reply

Same.

Cherish the thought

What year will that be?

The last year of his contract.

Why thank you JI that was exactly my question :)

Such a massive failure.

That has to be the worst non-Zito contract in baseball.

So Ryan Theriot was 6th in OBP

Is that a joke?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

.307/.387/.359

8th

But there’s a huge fucking chasm between 1,2, and everyone else.

Yes, but it is more or less a fact as well

GODDAMNIT ETHIER THAT WAS BALL FUCKING FOUR!

I hope Ethier goes 0-750 in the playoffs and the Dodgers off him for Yuni.

I like the sound of that.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Yeah but Jeff Kent blows

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

Do we give two shits?

Drink until you do.

I was so excited about playoff baseball that I canceled my MLB.tv subscription.

Blacked out

Yes, I will later, thank you very much.

I like this logic.

kericr - October 1, 2008 reply

I like this logic

kericr - October 1, 2008 reply

That's great. I leave the page, come back, and my post is gone. Magically, it's now here twice.

kericr - October 1, 2008 reply

The back button will do that to you.

I think we should give at least one shit on rooting against the creation of Cubs Nation.

Very well, then. Shit given.

Boston is way more assholish than Chicago.

Who cares

Of all people, I would think you'd care the most.

I'm going to dislike the Cubs regardless

but Jesus I think these people have waited long enough.

They're not my first choice, but I do agree that it's about time their fans had a championship.

They're not as good as any of the AL teams, though.

Well, the White Sox.

Angels

Ehh, maybe.

Oh, hey, Goose: do the Diamondbacks realize the implications of wearing hats emblazoned with "DB"?

I imagine they don't.

Ahahahaa

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I highly doubt with the way the Cubs are run that they will have Red Soxish run of success

I despise the Dodgers, so no.

So the same dude that caught those two home runs in back to back Yankee games, also caught the last homer at Shea.

Link

There is some guy out there that studies the hitting of patterns of players and catches way more HR balls than every buddy else

The Dodgers beat us in 2001?

That's what the TV-man says

Are you a Vulcan or something?

Yes

http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/SEA/2001_sched.shtml
says we beat them 2 games to 1

I was the only person that worked for the Mariners that remembered the Dodgers playing at Safeco

You work for the M's?

Will you please take the crack pipes away from the front office when you get a chance?

Thingray - October 1, 2008 reply

Not any more and when I did my position was extremely not important

But I did job shadow somebody that worked in ballpark operations.

I saw them at the Kingdome

On of the first mariner games that I remember watching on TV was LA at the kingdome

Russ Davis hit a walk off homer

and we booed Norm Charlton because he was terrible.

Let's see, then: Phillies win (yawn), Cubs ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Watch out!

It’s big-hitting Mark DeRosa!!!!

Patrick517 - October 1, 2008 reply

The health of Ortiz and Drew matter just as much.

JAMES LONEY!!!!

Wowsers.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS!

CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

THE PAIN IN CHICAGO WILL NEVER END!!!!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I'd really like to see the Dodgers lose, but man, Dempster deserved that grand slam so much.

Soriano loves those low and away sliders more than Adrian does.

8 walks is a recipe for success for the cubs.

Do you think Jeff Samardzija was ever wants to play OF, ankiel stlye?

Proof reading your comments is generally a good idea.

This isn't math class, I don't proof anything.

Wrong answer.

Man, I've already been threatened with police action once tonight.

So pay attention.

Re-read what you write and see if it could be better. Once it’s as good as it gets, hit “Cancel”.

Hahahaha

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Manny.

Jesus Christ that pitch was only a couple of inches off the ground.

How the hell did Manny hit that out?

Just another episode of Manny being...Vlad?

Crystal for DH - October 1, 2008 reply

I was thinking the same thing as they showed the replay

Manny bein Manny.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Theriot is going to win World Series MVP.

I’m just preparing myself right now.

Mike Fontenot gets his noggin beat on by Carlos Zambrano.

Jonathon Broxton is a fatty.

That chat room is the postseason meeting place of the ESPN commenters.

g8rh8r

C'mon, where's your shift pics?

You’ve gotten lazy…

Dead-memed.

But it's been creeping back.

I vote for a resurgence.

So the commercial where Frank from Franktv sings is pretty much the worst thing ever.

Frank TV ... that guy does all the hard impressions

looks like Lou is drumming his heels in the dugout.

seen that before.

TBS sure knows how to make you hate something.

Not that I was ever a fan of Dane Cook or Frank Caliendo, but now, thanks to TBS, I would be likely to stab either if I saw them at the mall.

In about three days, I guess I will have to add Bon Jovi to that list.

agreed

Jim Edmonds can still play a great CF...

Edmonds takes pride in his defense

I'm waiting for Griffey in the dome.

I missed it.

Bad jump + no speed = double bounces to the wall over his head

Turns out it's hard to play a good centerfield when you've lost your speed.

Nice play, Edmonds.

come on CUBS! We are all rooting for you! Now do something you bastards!

I'm not rooting for the Cubs.

ok whatever. Blanket statements are usually wrong.

But still I am rooting for the CUBS so all the “curses” will be gone and they will be like every other team.

I love my life right now

Go Dodgers!

Garces - October 1, 2008 reply

The only thing fresher than Bush impressions are Clinton impressions.

I'd like to see his impression of someone funny.

I don't deny that he's got talent

but the results, from what I’ve seen, just aren’t funny

Exactly. He's really good.

But impressions are just boring after about 10 seconds. Especially when you’ve seen them all 50 times over the span of a few weeks.

I have a bias against anything from madTV.

One of the few things on television that still makes SNL look good.

Andy Samberg does his best to make SNL look good

This is a fair point.

He’s one of the few guys who seems willing to take real risks with his comedy.

I really only watch the digital shorts now

Andy is talented

but he can’t make up for all the suck around him.

He looks like a douche

With the exception of the Hugh Laurie episode and the Pearl Jam episode

I haven’t watched since WIll Ferrell left.

Hasn't been funny since Lovitz left.

Like you remember that.

Bittorrent is a powerful tool.

Yeah, but you're watching them 20 years after the fact and not as they happened.

Nah, it had a great run in the 1990s.

True.

(And thank you for beating up Andy Dick)

I watched the opener with Phelps.

It was really bad. Phelps was awful.

I found it hilarious how awful Phelps was

It was catastrophic. On the plus side the Cathy bit during the weekend update was amazing

Can't be worse than that one Nascar guy

OK yeah, I laughed at that.

It took me a minute to find it funny, but it’s always that way for the stuff I end up really laughing at.

As much as it pains me to admit it

I did find Peyton Manning quite amusing on his SNL stint.

Because he has the personality to do it. Most athletes don't.

good point. All the impressions are well done... but it more like "impressions 101" instead of new or interesting impressions

So many of these impressions are just run into the ground.

Give us McCain or Obama impressions instead of freaking Clinton or Bush. It is just lazy “beating a dead horse” comedy.

I take it all back... just get off my TV and go back to doing a show in a Reno casino

Now you know why he does old news.

It would have been better if he was in blackface instead.

These TBS crews are far less annoying than the typical FOX crew.

No Joe Buck.

or Timmy

or Lewin
or Brenneman

Does FOX got out of their way to hire the most obnoxious people they can?

Yes. Troy Aikman says hi.

Like I pay attention to football announcers.

and then coats them in plastic.

yes, it is in their mission statement on their web site.

“We know how much you all love the Yankees… All of our baseball announcers must mention the Yankees and/or Jeter once an inning regardless who is playing.”

I find Chip Carey even worse.

Is he doing the Red Sox game?

We'll find out in a few minutes! WOO!

Could be worse

at least Chip Caray likes baseball.

*Caray

for TBS

ALDS and NLDS: Chip Caray, Dick Stockton, Don Orsillo and Brian Anderson. Analysts Ron Darling, Buck Martinez, Tony Gwynn and Joe Simpson.
ALCS: Caray, Ron Darling & Martinez

very true, thanks for reminding me just how much worst this could be.

Quit sucking while I'm on the bandwagon

Jesus christ

Aren't you a cardinals fan?

Yes

Shouldn't you be laughing and enjoying this game?

No?

Frank doesn't look like mccain, that black guy looks nothing like Obama, both of them suck at their impersonations.

Yeah that was the worst one yet

jesus christ! stop showing the ads!

Haha suck it Cubs.

Greg Maddux pitching out of the bullpen?

What?

He's not very good anymore

hey! it's that other old ex-Cub!

Maddux is doing a Smoltz?

Just tuning in

Have you guys ever seen that Frank TV? looks pretty funny

Ban please.

I guess this should have been a flag...

Maddux is the best closer ever.

Heads-up play by Maddux there, even if they didn't get the out.

And of course he misses the bag to make me look like a dumbass.

everytime they say "Ryan Theriot"....

… I hear Denny Terio

The Dodgers are up by 5 runs needing just two outs and Torre is still warming up Saito.

I’d be a little insulted if I was Maddux.

Absolutely. How ridiculous.

And the baserunner was on because of a tough infield play, took second on defensive indifference, and took third on a fielder’s choice. Maddux was perfectly fine.

Cubs fans are going to be hilarious.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS! CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!

the first 100 years was easy, but these next 100 years will be painful for Cubs Fans.

Selfish young punks hitting grand slams instead of letting Jeff Kent hit them.

Oh, great.

Now I get to root for injuries or 20 inning games every night.

Is it too soon to root for the terrorists to win?

I may have to turn over to ESPN News.

I love it when Lou discusses pitchers who can’t throw strikes.

That Dish TV commercial was somehow worse than the Frank TV ones.

Oh sweet, I actually enjoy listening to Curtis Granderson talk on TBS.

He’s a sharp guy. Plus he dresses like a stud.

Is it sad that he has more intelligence than the HoFer morgan? I say yes.

always nice to see a ballplayer who actually got his college degree(s)

ok anyone that can be a decent pro althete and get two degrees... Well, I am a fan of that, always. I will root him.

I didn't think the Dodgers were near as good as ESPN and the sort was hyping them

But this is the first time ive watched them since august, and they looked pretty good. Do you guys think they’re the favorites in the NL right now?

It's one baseball game.

You can make the argument, I'd match up Lowe-Bills-Kuroda-Maddux with anyone in the NL besides the cubs, and Harden and Zambrano both may have injury issues.

Pitching matchups don't matter nearly as much as it is typically made out to be

After they got Manny and Blake they got pretty good.

They have one of the best offenses since those trades, and have had some of the best pitching all season.

Although they did shoot themselves in the foot most of the season

with playing Jones and Pierre.

They're a little bit more of a favorite than they were four hours ago, but they're still probably the worst team in the playoffs.

Which obviously means very little in the playoffs, but yeah.

Joe Torre, when asked about the so-called "Curse":

’’You’re dealing with a former Yankee manager who was up 3-0 on the Red Sox, and they went on to win the World Series,’’

yeah that was a great qoute... wouldn't it be fitting if he got to see both "curses" fall?

Sigh.....go uh....Red Sox...I guess.

Umm...Go Extra Innings and Pitcher Overuse?

Sounds good.

I'm rooting for bean war and bench-clearer.

Followed by injuries. Lots of injuries.

hehe

how about 20 innings of play before hand?

Could you please use proper capitalization?

I love your pictures, and I remember when I could read your comments w/o cringing.

Aren't we starting to go a little overboard around here with the whole punctuation and grammar thing?

We were, and things got better for a while.

Then someone declared we went overboard, and then people stopped. It’s started to revert back to pre-Nazi form.

This is for the most part fine.

Don't follow.

Exactly.

I think as long as we are being polite about pointing out the grammar rules, it's acceptable.

Proper capitalization and punctuation is appreciated around here. If for nothing else, it’s because it helps us to understand these rapidly flowing comments.

I give them a couple chances before I break out the jpegs.

I wanted to head off Mark before it got to a point like that.

He’s a quasi-regular and an all-around nice guy.

He's like an english teacher on methadone.

Sorry. It is just a bad habit.

Thanks.

I’m not trying to be mean (although everything sounds mean on the interwebs), but I remember your last extended stay here while the season was in the middle of taking a dump, and I enjoyed your comments.

Oh, I have read almost every post and thread on LL/USSM over the last 3 or 4 years.

I just don’t comment very often. Or I comment a lot and then I stop commenting for awhile.

Thank you for the compliment about the pictures, btw.

I have your site bookmarked,

and I check back to see if you have anything new every once in a while. You do what I’d like to if I had the time, ability, and equipment.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marksobba/437348983/

Speaking of photography. I just found out one of my photos is being used at a journalism school newpaper.

This photo was added to a story about the playoffs.

The photograph can be seen at this newspaper’s site.

http://tnjn.com/2008/oct/01/tnjns-2008-mlb-divisional-seri/

This is the fourth or fifth time I have been linked or credited for a photograph. Kind-of cool.

Do you get any cash for that?

Also, the Leslie ones in front of the water are awesome. The colors + your ability to pick out expressive faces (for the most part) really comes out in that.

No. I do save all the links and use them as part of a resume.

Thanks. Leslie was a lot of fun to work with. We have been trying to get together for a second shoot. It is just a matter of finding the right time.
My idea for our next shoot is something in the forest. She plays WOW so I was thinking of a Dark Night Elf shoot with costumes, make-up and the whole thing. I know pretty geeky stuff.

I want Jon Lester to peg Tex in the face, tearing his labrum in the process.

They certainly were not.

The other three AL teams make it so easy to root for the Rays

Oh shit, we have Buck Martinez to go along with Chip Caray.

Shoot me now.

At least its not Morgan. At least its not Morgan. At least its not Morgan.

I'd love to hear what Jon Miller really thinks of Morgan

"He's a very special individual."

This year you could really hear his frustration building up

Especially trying to explain things to Morgan

Honestly, I'd rather see the two homers from the opposite teams there as color.

Damn. That's a good lineup.

Oh Angels, how won't you fial during the playoffs.

In english?

I failed. :(

boy, I'm glad I'm not dependent on the radio anymore.

KJR hasn’t switched from ESPN feed to the game feed yet….

there it goes.

nothing like missing the 1st inning.

LET GO RED SOX

...Because the Rays can beat them easier?

I hate them less.

Red Sox hate on LL is overplayed

There I said it.

LAnaheim hate, however, is not.

I dislike the Red Sox.

I hate the Angels with every fiber of my being.

If you don't feel it, don't say it.

ANd conversely, just because you feel it doesn't mean you have to say it.

Feel what?

Excuse me sir, Lester is not better than Beckett.

Quite strange

considering Beckett has only been to the playoffs once with the Red Sox

Jon Lester might be the best pitcher for the Red Sox

Or he might not.

Beckett has better K:BB rates

If the Ex-Mariner Factor works the way the Ex-Cub Factor does--

… the Angels are a shoo-in for the WS

Angels: none.
Rays: Steve Henderson.
Dodgers: Lowe, Bowa, Rick Honeycutt.
Red Sox: Varitek, Timlin, Ortiz
Cubs: Lou, Matty Sinatro, Gerald Perry.
Brewers: Cammie, Salomon Torres, Mike Maddux.
White Sox: Griffey, Matt Thornton, HoRam & Li’l Joey.

I've never heard of the ex-Cub thing.

Does that apply to the Cubs that left and came back?

don't think it applies to the Cubs...

mostly because they usually aren’t there. It’s a “a critical mass of Cubness”

Ah, Wikipedia.

The fountainhead of all knowledge.

Not necessarily true

the 04 Red Sox won with lots of ex-Mariners

Yikes

The troubled career of Ambiorix Burgos took a tragic turn on Tuesday when the Mets reliever allegedly killed two women in a hit-and-run accident in the Dominican Republic.

Burgos, 24, reportedly struck Josefina Minaya Martinez, 38, and Angely Fana, 29, while driving his Hummer and police were seeking him for questioning. He’s also wanted on a gun possession charge. Witnesses identified him as the driver of the jeep that was involved in the accident, which took place in Nagua, a town outside of Santo Domingo.

"We are extremely disturbed by the reports regarding the player’s potential involvement in the hit and run accident that unfortunately killed two women in the Dominican Republic," the Mets said Wednesday in a statement. "We take this matter very seriously and have begun an internal investigation to ascertain the facts. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the families of the victims."

Link

Trade him to the nationals.

Bad taste but rec'd.

Well that's a tragic way to end your career.

But more importantly, when can we start using the Burgos-killing-people-in-a-hummer jokes?

Him and Urbina should hang out.

They would form the deadliest 1-2 bullpen punch in baseball.

ZING

1-2 drive by

As soon as you can think of a decent one.

I like how MArtinez can tell what's going on in Lester's head from his vantage point in the the second deck

Jon has that little sunroof that let's you read his thoughts more easily.

Nice to see the Angels again handing out noise-manufacturing toys to everyone.

Needs moar cowbell. You will all hate the rays for the cowbell.

I love the cowbell because someone brings it.

The clappers are just a handout at the door to try to make the fans sound louder than they really are.

Also, my friend's crazy German grandma used to bring a cowbell to our baseball games in high school and wail on it.

Always made me laugh.

I bought mine for $25 bucks. I consider it a worthy investment.

Using the cowbell properly is fine.

But thou shalt not abuse the cowbell.

Go Red Sox!

I hope the sox win while all 4 starters fsuffer torn labrums.

Obviously that is my hope too.

Fail Martinez. Fail.

NOISE NOISE NOISE NOISE

Throw strikes cancer boy.

I want a T-Rex at my birthday.

Maybe you can get a T-Rex and the Mariner Moose at your birthday party.

They could battle over a to scale model of Seattle.

If ever win the mega-millions; I am going to waste a lot of money.

.

Oh my.

They just showed an actual clip from Frank TV. I don’t remember ever seeing anything other than impressions in front of a white screen.

And DirecTV commercials.

You suck at answering questions EJ, whoever you are.

OMG, Lester had cancer!?!?

kentroyals5 - October 1, 2008 reply

Sager is the still the worst dressed person on tv.

Silly Chip.

1 year isn’t a veteran.

It's the start of the beanwar...

Pleasepleaseplease

How the hell was that not obstruction by Lowrie?

Nevermind, saw replay

Umm, because he was sliding into 2nd?

See above, I thought he was sliding off bag into his leg

Still legal.

I was hoping he’d spiked him.

Jed in a playoff game!

What a stupid name.

I can finally cheer for him so leave me be.

You're free to cheer for him any time you wish.

Thanks?

You're welcome.

That leadoff from first thing might just be the stupidest

on-field display ever.

It's really annoying.

LET'S GO RED S...

Aw I just can’t do it.

Yes you can.

OX

Teamwork!

Seems like it would be easier just to say GO TO HELL ANGELS

BOO LACKEY BOOO LESTER GOOO SHIELDSY

Or go the more specific route.

Reverse cheering?

I like it.

More palatable.

Shut up you whiny bitch, he didn't even come close to swinging.

So....was that supposed to be an impression of Shatner?

Fuck, I didn't think it could get worse.

Was that The Hoff or The Shat?

I wish I could kind of bring myself close to caring about this game

LETS GO RED SOX

CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP

We should have invaded RSN

it’s not like anyone will be up at 11 watching them.

DAMMIT

HIT HIM THE KNEE AND FUCK OVER THE YANKEES

You're showing quite a bit of GTE.

I fucking hate the Angels

This is the reason for the anti-cheer.

I think this is the anti-cheer

I love Vlad, though.

It’s weird to hate a team so much and love their star player.

Vlad has always been overrated.

He's still awesome and I still love him.

Don't worry, he'll be a M after his contract runs out there.

Fuck you useless.

INJURE YOUR HAND LOWRIE

NOOOOOOOOOOOO leave Jed alone.

Insteresting you like a name like Jed

but not Chipper.

Punch him in the face.

At least according to what I've read, Lowrie probably shouldn't be playing shortstop.

I read something about that too, but it was in the Salem newspaper and I didn't give it much thought.

I'm mostly talking about Kevin Goldstein, so SSS and all that.

So this MLB Hot Corner thing is weird.

Aaaah I can't tell where the ball's going!

Perhaps you should stop drinking.

I haven't had a drop, there's just no outfield camera angle!

See, this is all I got.

This seems dumb.

It's totally dumb.

The behind-pitcher camera is a second behind, too!

It took me a few seconds to understand this.

I tried to come up with a better way to put it, but then I just decided I didn't care.

Why do you have a cam of Scocia's head?

No idea.

Seems like a camera in the OF would be better.

Does he ever move?

He scratches himself sometimes.

Well see, that's important.

It would be hilarious if that was the only feed.

Four different cameras, but all trained on Scoscia.

*Scioscia

It's a nice head.

That's where he keeps all the clutch.

God dammit.

Sonofabitch.

Clap with your real hands, assholes.

Are they clapping with their fake ones?

Or do they have those ridiculous clappers again?

The latter.

The Ice Cube guy is better than Frank.

Godammit Hexic is too hard.

The Juilo Lugo contract looks even stupider today than it looked four years ago.

Meh. As long as Maddon can either:

a: Demoralize the red sux
B: Get vengeances on the Angels for passing over him twice

I’m happy.

Varitek's captain jersey is the most annoying thing in the world.

What the fuck does a captain do anyway?

In high school, it meant shaking hands with the other teams captain and the umpires.

I guess, when Boston plays New York. Varitek goes over and shakes Jeter’s hand. I can’t think of another team that has a team captain.

Get manny traded

That don't make no senses.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Too many bunts

I'm not turning my lights out

it’s fucking dark here at nighttime.

Was it just me or were those houses really big?

What?

We're supposed to turn out our lights during Game 4 of the ALCS

Anderson Cooper said so

Why?

To save energy

How?

No, kidding. But really—just the lights? But keep on the appliances?

Well it wouldn't benefit them much if we shut off our tvs.

I'm going to turn off everything in my place.

Then hop in my car and drive around aimlessly while listening to the game.

Bahahaha

Excellent idea

I never watch baseball, I always listen to it on the radio.

Although Sims is a pretty good announcer.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

You laugh but this will happen.

Maybe everyone should watch the game at a bar or resturant. Then all the lights would be off.

It would also help the economy.

The economy needs help.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I hate Garret Anderson

I have resorted to hovering over CTRL, ALT and PRTSC waiting for someone in the dugout to do something homoerotic.

Is CTRL necessary? I thought it was just Alt+Prnt Scrn.

I thought it was just PRTSCR

you and your standard keyboard

Holy shit you're right.

Figuring this out probably made you miss the homoeroticness.

Yeah probably.

I’d be fine with nose mining at this point.

There's 3 more innings

still a chance for some turd mining

Just printscreen is entire screen

Alt+Printscreen is only the selected window

Oh yeah, that's right.

Imagine how good Youk would be if he walked half as much as advertised.

Come on Sox!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Bay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Suck it Angels.

WOOO!

JASONATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Thank god for these Jeter Gatorade commercials

I don’t know what I would do without any Yankees in my postseason.

Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome, but I'm now fascinated by the dugout cam.

Maybe you have a future in politics.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Does it always move around like this?

No, it's being weird.

Power of suggestion

It's really neat to watch.

All I saw was a head

They move around more than they did at first.

You can see people coming in and out of the clubhouse, who hangs out with who on the bench, stuff like that.

I don't even know what this is of which you speak.

The dugout camera?

I got that much.

I don't see where the confusion comes from.

I don't know where you're seeing this I guess is what I'm saying.

It's on the TBS website.

Thank you.

Sorry.

I hate it when people confuse that with the Placebo Effect.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I think the Red Sox have played a post season game snas Manny

before, Chip

These announcers are frighteningly stupid.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

That's some rock hard science there Wiggum.

I keep thinking it's Selig in the booth, but it's Buck Martinez.

Same nasally voice that makes you think that he hates you and wishes your pets would get injured.

And can never be available for comment.

Due to untied shoelaces.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

That's a car salesman for you

Not me though

Shameless.

Not a bad deal, though.

Given that I have $1052.48 invested in the car

It’s actually a horrible deal for whoever buys it

but everything I said in the ad is completely true

Well, the market has changed. Commuter cars are in demand. Value changes. I think it's a fine deal.

Yeah we'll see

I did just buy it a month ago though

I’m hoping people think like you though and I can turn a nice profit

If not that’s OK because I didn’t need to sell the car

Well there you go.

and I agree that it's a good purchase at that price

It really is a reliable car- I don’t feel like I’m ripping someone off- I feel like I got a really good deal to begin with

hyphen hyphen hyphen

You're using them wrong.

You need dashes, friend. (Or two hyphens, I guess.)

My brain is at about 15% right now

I miss Buck O'Neill.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Lester's been good.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

ahahahahahahahaha

Hahahaha awesome

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

hahahhahahahahha

"This is one of the best fielders...in the outfield."

Yes, that’s why they’re called OUTFIELDERS.

This is why Matthews should not have been on the playoff roster.

Crystal for DH - October 1, 2008 reply

Nice.

Would you trade Silva for Matthews?

Yes.

We would have laughed at that 4 months ago.

Things change.

:(

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I still wouldn't.

Yes

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Fuck no.

I didn;t actually know what was going on.

I just wanted to have the biggest laugh of all.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING HARDCORE!

How many hours?

===

Good God, man, you're fast.

He's a REAL fan

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Not the first time I've heard that.

Nice skirting of the TWSS ban.

*TWSS!

Awesome.

Did that hit him on the coconut?

Bahahahahahahahahahahaha

I’d still trade SIlva for him.

GMJ is worthless.

You'd have to save a ton of money in the deal.

Holy shit his LD% is 13.

The Angels management probably needed a change of pants when they saw that.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

You obviously never saw that one catch one time.

Or when he owned JJ.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

PANTHER!

I could watch this all day

That is epic.

Crystal for DH - October 1, 2008 reply

Would you trade Wash for Matthews?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Uh...

No. Who the hell would?

Why not, then?

I’m just wondering.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Are you seriously asking?

Teaches me to ask questions...

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

You better expect to be mocked here for asking something like that.

Except I ought to know better.

I’ve been a poster for about a year now.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I have my theories.

But you would mock me anyway, Matthew.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I don't mock people.

I mock ideas.

Okay, that's no true. I mock people as well.

But mostly it’s the ideas.

At least half.

Ish.

I'd try to think of a clever retort based on you missing letters, but you'd likely mock me.

We're swimming in a sea of mockery.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Only one letter is missing you ragin cajun

Bahaha

ac would like you to put an apostrophe at the end of ragin

The first question I asked here, jeff practicality mocked me off the site which is why I don't talk baseball

Link?

Do your own dirty work.

I figured he had it bookmarked.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2006/5/4/233845/1069#3390612

Just memorized

That's not really that mean.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I got like 17 warning messages

For that???

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Yep and I had to write a public apology as a diary

Seriously?

Link pleeeeease!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Jeff deleted it after SBN went after him for being too mean

And I used to think Dave was mean!

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Maybe for the "me thinks" part?

Online voice hadn't gone true puberty yet

You never cease to crack me up.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Bahaha

Phildop referenced his fantasy team. Poor idiot.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

It was legal then

Were puns legal then too?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

In the before-time? In the long-long-ago?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Yes

I said “Corconcurred” several times before puns were banned, and then as soon as they were banned I as told not to say it anymore

Methinks?

Rizz [sic] ?

Oh, yeah, there were like 10 spelling issues.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

This is around the time I found the site.

I was just way too out of my element to join in. I read for a long time.

I had lurked for about 10 months prior

Did you consult the wiki?

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/10/1/626156/10-1-open-division-series#9121477

I've read this site for like 3 years now.

But only last year did I start commenting. Any sooner would have been an absolute disaster.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Really?

Well played.

Guh.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Oh snap

I have bad vision.

Jerk. :p

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

There was no wiki in my day retard

I wonder if the wiki has done more harm than good over the year(s)

Well now it has

I mean, as long as people use it as a serious reference tool.

I don't know that it's had any effect

It’s been dormant for 75% or so of its life

It jumped the shark when Brett got his own entry

I feel like deleting the memes that I still like so LL 2.0 can’t run them into the ground

Can you just hide them

I like the mlbtv and the Dicks entries and I can never find their LL articles in the archives.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/5/27/15491/0226

This totally took me 45 minutes to find just now

I searched for hours

LL 1.0 forced me to comment a lot less.

It forced everyone to comment less.

You had to make them count godammit

refreshing took forever.

I'm sorry my post count is so high :(

My insanely short attention span likes auto update

I love auto update.

Me, too. I feel ashamed to say it.

But I like to think I’m pretty tame. This is the most I’ve commented in one day in months.

I was poking around LL 1.0 on the wayback machine last night..

It was weird.

oh great idea

Wow

I’ve forgotten what life was like when this was a fairly standard thread

A thread mostly discussing the Borg Collective.

Woa.

I forgot how annoying I was back then

You can’t deny I have improved slightly

We still make science jokes

BOOOOORING

Roman numeral jokes are where it's at.

You had to have that one spelled out

Like I was the only one.

I got it.

Jokes arent funny if you have to explain them

Maybe it was targeted at people who aren't total morons

I remember you saying one of the J/M/G had to have it explained to them

Jeff is stupid sometimes

G had to explain it to himself.

Jeff

Explanations are only funny if they aren't required.

2005 Jeff knew what he was talking about

“Blending stathead tendencies with a more wordy, lyrical kind of coverage will appeal to fans of each style.”

that'a a manageably small science joke though

Nowadays that would be 500 comments that devolve into some talk about something completely unrelated to the borg

Such as, and I'm going out on a limb here, baseball?

I was thinking some lame talk about the wiki or something

but sure

Seriously?

There’s only 41 entries with “Dick’s” in them.

I wouldn't have thought.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

How did you know how to conduct yourself in social situations?

How did you understand the quirky humor?
How were you able to regularly reference jokes that preceded your tenure?

There were like 3 jokes

It made things a lot easier

woosh

yes

Kersploosh.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

shit, wrong blog.

Fuck, never mind,

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I noticed that.

What do you do, then?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Be Robert I guess

Emerson would support that.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

The who the what now?

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

He wrote an essay called Self-Reliance

About being yourself.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I tried buying them beer.

What a kind thing to do.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

You should try it

PEER PRESSURE

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I believe I live closer to the Mighty Overlord than anyone here.

So, by default, I’m in the best position to buy his leniency.

The other sexy people can be bought, too. And they like beer.

Why do you think matthew Matthew unbans me

The hell?

What?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Apparently words don't delete themselves

Who Knew?!

Hahaha!

I noticed you referenced ERA and talked about cock-punching Felix in the same sentence in that post.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I mention cock punching Felix a lot around here

minus the Felix in that sentence

seriously wtf is wrong with me today

Mt Dew low?

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2006/4/8/132249/5017#3380174

I guess we all start out as idiots around here.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

DO WE EVER!

You mention doing a lot of other things to Felix and hi--[CENSORED]

I would totally blow him right now

At least you didn't mention sodomizing JJ as punishment for a poor performance.

Butthol sure made a great first impression.

Did he really go there?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

First through thousandth.

I talked to Jeff about this, but what killed me is the kid seemed pretty damn sharp for his age. He just had a problem with saying ridiculous things, and saying them way too much.

Yeah, I think if he is unbanned in like two years he'll be cool.

This is the route they should have taken with me 5 years ago

gosh i totally dont agree with you

I saw potential.

Not that I at all disagree with sending him away.

He made threads painful.

No matter how bad game threads get,

they’ll never approach the level of bad that was May of this year with people like butthol and Coach dominating the post counts.

The LLelections saved it damnit

I shouted with joy once when Nick showed up

because I was so downtrodden.

Gt's need 3 of 9ish particular posters in order to be bearable

(Corco x 9)

I'm useless in gamethreads becuase I just yell a lot

I’m much better in the OT threads

Elections?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

That was when I first started posting in gamethreads and I was always afraid of guilt by association.

completely agree

...

…

And they were always the Friday threads, when I was most able to participate.

Sucked.

I thought I was going to get in trouble in May

when I started a Coach Meltdown.

Coach meltdowns were the only redeeming quality of Coach being here.

I miss Coach

He hardly ever does that anymore.

Amen.

Now he’s just an annoying person.

The team portrait disagrees with you

meh

The fact that that is now OK is all that's wrong with LL

Blame Fagel

I believe Jeff is the one that endorses the collage.

Or are we talking about a different image?

Jeff is stupid sometimes

(NB: I am also stupid sometimes)

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/5/6/481415/hahah-facuk-captain-tripos

ARE YOU EVER!

Broberto is my favorite person this morning.

But still our leader!!!

I loved that he lemming'd half of you into hating Strasburg

I think you took care of matthew and me during the Buffulo game

I was trying to see if you'd injure yourself so I could test out my mad first aid skills

So your mad first aid skills dont cover strokes it appears

I'm disappointed that more people don't suffer heart attacks and expsosure accidents around me

so I can keep my skills up to date

Behold the power of popular opinion.

I want Strasburg like a bastard.

But I definitely got tired of hearing his name.

When Baker started picking up on Strasburg

I knew we were doomed.

Was I one of them?

I still find it creepy.

I hate that thing so much

Yep.

I notice that this corresponds to when game threads started after I went to bed

Have Jeff ask Matthew or Graham what my poster timeline looks like

Much more the latter thing.

He never learned how to shut up.

Definitely.

He seemed incapable of distinguishing this blog from a 100-man IM circle jerk.

Remember when he'd post entire IM conversations

on the gamethreads?

right

wrong

One day, I'm going to campaign for Robert to be given mod privaleges as part of his LL archive project

just so he can go back and erase pointless drivel like that.

Oi Oi Oi

now that's selectively modifying history

That’s like Holocaust denial or something

the what?

So you've been to Germany.

I prefer France.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I stopped by the wonderful Dachau gardens on my way to the lovely industrail town of Oświęcim

The dirt there tastes terrible

Kind of ashy

[Insert Nazi mod jpeg here]

You eating dead kids again?

These ones weren't even lucky >:(

Hahahaha

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Can we bring back buttlhol?

For entertainment purposes?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

In two years.

OK, isn't that a bit harsh?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Hmm.

He didn't help his case very much

when he created an alternate user account to post while his primary user account was banned.

alternate accounts.

Multiple.

Not a very smart thing to do.

He doesn't sound like a very smart guy.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Yeesh.

Didn’t he realize they can see both accounts use the same email?

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

but they don't

They do use the same IP address t hough

And every ip you've ever used or shared

right

The first question I asked here, was actually explained to me so that I could understand why I was wrong.

But those were different times.

Are you unhappy with the creative direction of this site?

No, I'm just saying it was a different time. Nothing more.

I have spent the last 5 years avoiding asking questions both here and at USSM

and just always nodding my head in agreement for fear of mockery

Although I do dislike Dave’s Offseason Plan and might actually question it if I had commenting abilities over there

e-mail

Hahaha

like they’d respond

If you made a cogent legit critique, I would be surprised if he wouldn't.

Though not for the next 2 weeks or so.

fascinating

I wonder if he’d then pull me out of the moderation queue

I tried emailing Dave once.

The reply was: Don’t be an idiot.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Dave gives good advice.

Only when taken out of context

That he does.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I wrote an e-mail to Dave once, and he responded.

I ended up being placed into the mod queue (apparently by accident), and I wrote to point it out because I had said nothing that would warrant such an action, and Dave was really cool. Said it was probably a mistake and cleared me to post again.

USSM somehow fucked up my account.

So I can only post on random days.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

You're in the moderation queue silly

Burn.

Bahahaha

You have inspired me

Dave Cameron can prepare to read 2000 words of Corcoanalytics

Don't expect a response any time soon.

Dave Cameron can prepare to read 2000 words of Corcoanalytics everyday until he responds

He's on vacation

very nice he deserves one

Yeah, USSM is a damn quality blog.

He oughta try for GM. Why not give it a shot?

…..sigh…..

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I agree

I bet he's the best candidate out there

And nobody knows it.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Graham or Coach Owens for hilarity sake

Grahamgrahamgrahamgraham

I haven't seen Graham around here for a while.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

It's almost like I'm working on Statcorner.

Your website has made me far less productive at work.

You haven't seen anything yet

Oh yes kick ass.

Oh my goodness.

Coach would be funnier and we could bully him into doing the same things as J/M/G would do

For example his Baseball mogul journal he made on the 1901 Philly A's based on a John Grishim novel

I just want to see him swear once.

Make a fanpost. Please.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

I just need to f igure out exactly what Corcoanalytics are first

That might help.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

corcoRA, corcoAVG, corcOPS

I can see the book cover already.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Washburn's contract is up after this year, he's ~average.

They wouldn't trade Robert for GMJ

The floor!

I year is less than 4ish

Well for one thing, Little Sarge still has like 3 years left on his horrible contract, whereas Washburn is in the final year of his.

GMJ is a bad fielding version of Reed that hits slightly better

He hit worse than Reed this year.

Wow.

I don't know if he'd hit worse every year.

I don't think he would, but I felt it worth mentioning.

Also, hahahahahahahahaha 5 year/ 50 mil

No platoon issues.

"That's a real tough error?"

Are you fucking insanely retarded you old man? Christ, somebody commit you for the sake of society.

No wonder team USA blew.

The look on Vlad's face watching Lackey throw shit in the dugout was priceless.

Stare at him blankly, continue eating sunflower seeds.

How is it where you are?

It’s hot as fuck here.

I try not to complain too much because San Diego is pretty cool for the most part, and I garner absolutely no sympathy,

but days like this are why California can go fuck itself.

At least you don't live in Temecula

it was over 100 at 7 PM both today and yesterday

And you commute to RB? Goodness.

I work with a guy who lives in Temecula. He commutes to Mission Valley. Every day.

The good news is that Northrop sponsors a vanpool to and from work

the bad news is that it leaves at 5:30 AM.

The good news is that means I get to write lots of OTFPOTDs

I have noticed now that I'm around in the mornings.

There’s usually around 40 posts when I wake up, as opposed to about 400 when I used to wake up.

Cool of Northrop Grumman to do that, though.

And holy shit, Mission Valley is like 15 miles farther from Temecula than RB

I didn’t even like driving to Mission Valley when I still lived in RB

Exactly.

I live in North Park, right near Mission Valley, so whenever I drive to Vegas or whatever, I’m completely miserable by the time I hit Temecula. I can’t believe someone can do that every single day.

BTW, traffic coming down the 15 in the morning is awful in Escondido, too

it’s almost LA bad from the 78 to about Via Rancho

He works 4:30 to midnight so he's all right there. But still . . . wow.

Guerrero just looks stoned all the time.

He is.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

This guy keeps pronouncing Ortiz "Orties" and its driving me nuts.

Just curious... if the Angels don't make it to the ALCS, will Mark Teixeira consider returning?

Won't matter

I believe if they go deep this year, he'd consider staying.

They'd give him the money, and he'd play for a winner.

They let Rodriguez walk and still get the pick.

My magic 8-ball says "Ask again later"

Honestly, who knows?

More looniness...

…Would you entertain the thought of trading Josh Hamilton for David Price?

This is bordering on both rosterbation and fantasy team talk.

I think suspensions ought to be doled out.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

Dammit, I almost had a picture of Pedroia jiggling his nuts.

Go I wish my girlfriend’s show would be over so I could watch the game like a normal person.

I want a gif of that

Will there be archives?

I doubt it, since it's a raw feed on the TBS website and not MLB.tv.

But maybe.

I hope so, because he was really goin' for it.

What a man.

.Taylor - October 1, 2008 reply

So this series takes a day off?

God this scheduling blows

Watching the Rays will be fun.

"Pitch counts, 3 days rest, all those things are out the door come September and October"

Dusty Baker approves.

As does Bruce Bochy.

Hi there, Assface.

Goddammit fuck you Jon Bon Jovi.

SHOT THROUGH THE HEART

AND THATS WHYYYYY I LOVE THIS TOOOOWWWWNNNNN!!!!

Has replaced THIS IS OOOOOUUUURRRR COUUUNNNTTRRRYYYYYY!!!!

Whoo!

Matt Kemp stole 35 bases?

For a 76% success rate even.

Amazing

Trade him. He's a loser. I saw him make a baserunning mistake once.

Tacoby!

bwhahahahaha

Vlad WTF??

pfhahahaha

Dumbass. Ha ha!

Bahahahahahahaha

Late but I missed it live, what the hell Vlad?

This is the hell:

I like the directly above shot.

It's a fantastic angle.

If he had somehow beat that tag he'd be a legend.

Holy crap, Lester really did get one up there at 97 in that AB vs Anderson

Do I keep watching this game

or do I watch Torchwood instead?

I'm dying to know what you decide.

I bet you are.

This is almost as exciting as my decision to purchase that Yamaha DX-7 today.

I'm trying to decide whether to scratch my ass

or take a swig of Coke.

You've got two hands.

This man has a good point.

I don't wanna stand up

the itch is on the right side and I don’t wanna reach all the way over with my left hand

Torchwood blows

So far I've got it classified as a "lame spin-off."

By all means continue watching

Fuck David Tennant for taking a year off to play Hamlet and sticking me with this show.

You could choose not to watch.

Perhaps I should watch Futurama again.

I'm dying to know what you choose.

You should get some dessert.

I've got a box of Nerds.

Take the hints already

Aye.

I count 5 hints at fewest.

I get it.

I counted 6

Honestly since all of the conversation was being held about six pages up

discussing butthol, first aid, and other random stuff, I didn’t think anyone was actually paying attention to this game.

My mistake.

Oh god shut up Chip

Suck it Angels.

Ellisbury blows

"Some of them are heading for the exits."

Well of course.

I don't want the Angels win because then they'd turn into Angels nation and be insufferable.

That would be terrible of Angels fans became insufferable.

They already are

...

YES YES YES!

That is true! It is amazing that a CATCHER like JOE MAUER can win batting titles!!! MAYBE YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THAT BEFORE YOU SPOUT OFF SOME MORE ABOUT DICKWAD PEDROIA SOME MORE YOU MENTALLY CHALLENGED RUTABAGA.

That last one isn't even a word

`

It's funny how these guys repeat these things over and over

and can never put 2 and 2 together.

It's not their fault they were born without prefrontal cortices

Hey I don't call him Wiggum just for his voice.

I always find it funny how any given network's A team is usually their most obnoxious.

Do you use Papelbon here or just let Masterson finish it out?

Day off tomorrow

use Pap

Suck it Anaheim.

Cal Ripken is going to show us how to hit a sinker!

Because that’s something we’ll use in everyday life

At least when they give golf tips it’s helpful to some of the viewers

Cal Ripken hasn't been able to hit since 1991

Really?

I could have sworn he hit your mom into next tuesday for being a lousy lover

Clever

Sean Green doesn't approve.

Don't they have Tony Gwynn on staff?

And Ripken’s giving hitting lessons?

Tony Gwynn did the Cubs game earlier.

The 'lesson' is on the TBS website though

Don't the have Frank Thomas too?

I noticed Skip Caray's eyebrows for the first time tonight

and I am impressed.

Paytheline - October 1, 2008 reply

JUST CANCEL FRANKTV ALREADY

It's TBS.

It’s either that or more Sex and the City re-runs.

Family Guy!

Saved by the Bell!

Dawsons Creek!

That show is far worse than I remember it being.

FRIENDS

!

yes yes yes yes yes

well actually it really doesn’t matter, so whatever

I'd rather watch Sex and the City.

Do they still have Seinfeld?

I've never seen an episode of this, either.

what

It's actually quite funny even if it's been dead memed to death.

I did see five minutes of an episode once.

not possible

I'm with you.

I could never get more than 5 minutes into it without bailing.

how?

It's pointless.

I want something with a plot and some thought into a story. It’s just mindless drivel and Seinfeld being his annoying self.

But that's the point!

No story!

That's entertaining?

Yes.

I found Friends to be marginally more entertaining than Seinfeld.

Good grief.

Seinfeld just didn't do it for me.

Fine

but don’t compare it unfavorably to FRIENDS

Somebody send out the SB signal.

It's hard to get the signals because SB is a decently common two letter abbreviation

I hated both shows.

The only difference is Friends made me laugh once, Seinfeld never made me laugh.

You didn't watch it.

I tried, dammit.

BrianL - October 2, 2008 reply

You have terrible taste in funny.

I'm no huge fan of Seinfeld,

but that’s just ridiculous.

I laughed because of Friends once.

I never laughed watching Seinfeld.

I remember watching Fiends with some

(cough) female friends, and them making a big deal that it took 15 minutes to get a laugh out of me. And I laughed at something no one else laughed at.

cough it would've been better called fiends

I will admit the last two seasons have not aged well

but Seinfeld at it’s worst was far better than FRIENDS at it’s best. No contest.

No

So the point is stupid then.

The funny comes out of characterization.

But the characters are caricatures of obnoxious morons.

You can’t satire idiocy and have it appeal to everyone.

Sure.

I still think it’s genius.

Few mainstream shows would have killed off Susan

The manner in which they did it was amazing, too.

That being said, Curb is way better.

I've seen little of Curb

but what I’ve seen is quite funny

Each season is better than the last..

The final season breaks pretty much every rule of television.

There is a story though

It's just insignificant.

They're actually pretty complex

The show has 3-4 different storylines that all merge together at the end in awesome comedy

and no I'm not arguing that Seinfeld is a plot-driven show

I'd try to sit through it, shake my head, and flip the channel after a few minutes.

It's everything good about the 1990s

I can honestly say I've never seen an episode of it.

What the hell is FrankTV?

Seriously I have no idea.

I’m proxying the TBS feed because I don’t have cable.

Frank Calinedo's show on TBS.

It’s the only show they have bumpers for.

...someone gave Frank Caliendo a show?

They show 2 commercials a break.

Last season too

They should outsource their ad time to other channels to run bumpers for.

I want to know about new shows on UPN

Black guy does something crAAAAAAAAzy

I love that [every] show!

There is no UPN

welcome to 2006

Oh man, really?

What became of it?

It's now MyTV.

Technically CW

UPN and Warner Bros. merged to become CW

The leftover extra stations were bought out by News Corp and branded myTV

Is 7th Heaven still on the air?

GOD THE MIDDLE DAUGHTER WAS HOT

YES

I'm convinced that her, Hyden Pantierre and Horny Fungus girl from house are all the same awesome person

Which one was Horny Fungus Girl?

You are such a sucker for blondes.

You're*

I love the horny fungus girl

Once Jessica Biel started acting all trashy and got kicked off it didn't last long.

How the hell did it run for eleven seasons?

It was a dead corpse for the last 4 or 5

My GF just spent close to 200$ on that show and Full House on DVD.

I told her I could BT it, but she wanted the “extra footage”.

What a waste of money that was.

At least she didn't ask for a DVD box set of Blossom.

Just think of all of those Very Special Episodes.

I wanted that show to end on a VSE

where she befriended an older gentleman, gets lured into his van, and shows up in the woods 20 miles away 2 years later.

How many times did that show jump the shark?

Much like Full House,

I think I’ve only actually seen 5 episodes, but each at least 100 times on separate Sunday mornings. So my number is probably much higher than the number of episodes.

The only episode of Blossom I remember is the one where Joey loses his virginity.

Whoa!

I came close to pissing on the Full House house when I was in San Fran this spring.

That I didn’t, is my only regret in life.

I almost threw something at my TV

when the All-Star Game last year had a camera perched at the spot from the shot in the opening credits.

You can catch Full House reruns every time you turn on the tv.

Not a lot of competition on the network.

Too bad they never did 7th Heaven in space

They pulled it off a couple years ago

They did a series finale then extended it another awful season and it quietly tapered off

I only know this because my little sister was a huge fan

Merged with the WB

It’s now called the CW.

Smalltown bitches

There are signs around safeco talking about the new cw

In between his gigs at the EQC, yes.

I really have no idea how this is possible

Old people have a poor idea of what's funny.

I'd be happy to hear any announcer over the age of 50 ever say that a pitcher

over-relies on his fastball.

Just once.

You will never be happy.

If he became a pitcher and said that he would be!

I'm sure that 1/38 will hold up.

Way to show the douch-iest RSN you can find.

So Mike Napoli didn't have a chance in that at bat

Kendry Morales looks a lot like Jose Vidro to me.

Papelbon walked 9 batters this year

He was somewhat above average.

Mike Cameron was a decent fielder.

Almost surely passable.

*8 batters

I WANT TO KILL THAT MONKEY

Remember when Figgins had more power than Adam Kennedy?

Die you filthy monkey.

The only song they play in Angels Stadium is "Jump"

How did Jeff manage to sit through a game there?

Chinn

Chinn must be a marvelous person.

Some people just like baseball

and think it is a treat to see a major league game.

But Jeff isn't one of those people.

Well duh

he lives in San Diego, it’s different when it’s not an expensive overnight trip.

He didnt take Bretts free ticket

Would he have had to go to the game by himself?

I do that all the time.

I'm not cut out for that

It's fun.

People look at you weird when they figure out you’re alone, but whatever.

I watch someone to hear my bitching and witty remarks.

This is why I rarely watch movies alone.

I would think that would lead to you being alone more often.

You'd be so terribly wrong

we almost always watch bad movies

Exactly.

The fact that no one called me out on this typo...

JI - October 2, 2008 reply

Means I'm sassy.

Is Matthew sassy as well?

JI - October 2, 2008 reply

They get really weird when you have a ledger sized clipboard and notepad.

I’ve had half a section staring at me while I was timing throws and keeping score.

Although,

the A’s are worse only because instead of filming a real elephant or paying for dumbo footage, they shake a stuffed animal (half the time you can see the hand) to whatever music they can find.