Lookout Landing

Semicolon.

Or a period and a new sentence.

thanks

sometimes I write so many sentences I can’t t tell what’s correct and what’s not anymore

Willy Aybar isn't a bad baseball player for a woman-beater.

Better than Bret Myers, at least.

Burgos is better at half of those things

Better hit-and-run player: Ambiorix Burgos or Jim Leyritz?

Longo Longo Longo!

Longo!

Longo woot!

LONGO!!!

Jesus Christ, what a hell of a debut on the big stage.

Only a single. Pfft.

Evan Longoria is batting 1.000 for the playoffs.

OBP of 1.000

His OPS just took a 40% dive though

Rookie folding under pressure.

What a hacker.

He obviously needs more playoff experience.

Felix's OPS is better

IsoD of 0

needs to walk more

Jesus christ

Eyebrows - October 2, 2008 reply

WHERE IS THE VETERAN LEADERSHIP?

Big Game Javy

hit the showers, ace

It's almost as if breaking his hand made him stronger

That, and Earth's yellow sun

And Vazquez's choking legend grows.

Maybe we can call up Williams for Swish and Vazquez this winter.

Worked with Foulke!

Javy would be a beast in Safeco

He wont approve a trade to Seattle

WHY THIS SONG!

Seven Nation Army?

I LUUUUV THIS TOWWWWN

Excellent

Crawford!!!

Aybar limp?

She's learned to defend herself.

Carl Carl Carl Carl!

Yeah, not the best chant.

Faux - October 2, 2008 reply

That's dis-gus-ting

GROSS GROSS GROSSGROSSGROSS

Would be my favorite chant if I were a fan of the Rays

Of Gross it would

boo hiss

get the hook

Not even close

Better than having the name be the word

Not really.

Way better

Gross doesn't remotely sound like the work you were going for

At least he tried and failed

I think Ehren on the side of caution is much worse

You're a magician out there.

But Howell we know when we cross the line?

Nick S - October 2, 2008 reply

Pena-ful

This is shameful and I apologize

Damn right

We’re not Pena to make shitty puns

My God

Eccellente

How

Without the tilde it took me a second, but that's pretty impressive.

Dewayne in Spain falls mainly on the plain

Jayyyyy Peeee Hoooweelllll is the best.

"In play, run(s)"

Yay!

Faux - October 2, 2008 reply

I fucking love this team. They're the anti-Mariners, the anti-Nationals.

Yes, it's the turf that keeps the White Sox from winning.

Genius.

Vazquez is visibly aging in the dugout

It's disgusting, it's like Picture of Dorian Gray in there.

He’s melting.

Feel free to deposit one of those fastballs down the middle into the seats instead of fouling them off, Cliff.

Or you could strike out on a slider low and away.

That works.

Works for Adrian

If his previous two at bats are any indication,

he can do both

I always think Vazquez is a former Mariner

doesn’t he seem as though he should be? or be one still?

msb - October 2, 2008 reply

I see a lot of similarities between him and Felix if Felix doesn't get smarter

At least Vazquez had that one really good season.

.

It's OK Junior, the Mariners will win the World Series for you next year

Griffey 4 DH

Bonds 4 LF

Honus 4 2B

Patrick517 - October 2, 2008 reply

Got damn Tampa needs to build their sailboat stadium already

Nick S - October 2, 2008 reply

They should build windmills and shit on top and harness wind power

They could use the windmills like Minnesota and blow balls foul and fair

joof - October 2, 2008 reply

Nice play

That tie is an abomination.

That was a funny looking at bat

Richard is pretty good

Patrick517 - October 2, 2008 reply

Wait wtf

he’s struck out five consecutive batters, all swinging??

11Ks in 6IP for rays hitters.

Surely they cannot handle the glaring lights of afternoon October baseball.

That IS a remarkably high K total, to be fair.

Evan Longoria has singlehandedly won this game for them (if the score holds).

You are old and bad

But surely not Worst Player in Baseball.

Not so long as Tony Pena, Jr. draws a paycheck in the major leagues.

He has doos D though.

doos?

Good*

I'm still trying to figure out how you get "doos" from "good" via keyboard typos.

Left hand one key to the left?

Nope, doesn't work either. Huh.

It would have to be two keys, and even then your pinky would be hanging off the far end of the capslock

I’m blaming alcohol.

Dude can pitch

My his bat is sloooooow

who is the analyst with Thorne on radio?

msb - October 2, 2008 reply

Dave Campbell, I think.

andrewgolfsalot - October 2, 2008 reply

I'M SO FUCKING SICK OF WRITING PAPERS

Is this still the one from last night?

no this is an econ paper due in an 1 hr and 20 minutes

given that I started this 6 page paper 50 minutes ago I’m a little pushed

Start your homework at more reasonable times.

So you're saying you're stupid and irresponsible

No I'm saying this is how I get good grades

Then stop complaining

I'm going to write my senior thesis the morning it's deu

Good luck with that. Had a roommate that thrived under that kind of pressure. You can have it.

That's how I am

Make sure you're on LL while working on it.

We want live updates

every six sentences you type

Aren't you a comm major?

yes

Well then...

It's bullshit though

I’m in one comm class this semester and it only has one paper. All my other classes have 4-5 a piece

Hey, college

Oh noes! 4 or 5 papers in an entire semester?!?!

they're big papers mostly :(

Oh noes!

11 x 17?

I like writing papers.

Some people like to have fun in college

4-5 x 3 = 12-15+1 = 13-16

My god man! How can you survive under such incredible academic strain?!

God I used to write 6-8 papers per quarter in college

and I was an engineer.

I hate doing work

I want to be a trucker when I grow up

I've had that thought before, given your proclivity for driving roads.

Shit job right now, the restrictions the last few years seem to be the last nail in the coffin for the independants.

That's the probelm

I don’t want to work for fucking walmart

I don't have a degree yet but I'm not working at walmart.

I mean if I were a trucker

Successful independant is a shit ton of work.

Couple of friends are truck drivers, one of them does all his own work, monster shop in Pasco. Constantly doing maintenance. Enjoys the work though so it’s not like he has to motivate himself to get it done. He does alright, the other guy, not so well.

= nothing

Deal with it.

Wait a minute, you're taking 3 classes per semester?

Three classes?!

Scratch that, four.

Still, four?

We took four, thanks.

You're welcome?

I hurt.

That's a standard course load

Ask NOLA

Stop complaining about work that isn't hard.

I bet you thought your degree was hard

Save for a week here and there no not really

It was hard.

Sounds easy

Corco is a communications major.

Sounds really easy

I wonder if their English students have to take negative courses to pass

Watch yourself.

Why?

It’s easy and he’s doing no work

He's communications and I have a degree from there.

Some of us had to work for our degrees

Not including you.

Not me. It was awesome.

But communications majors should probably spend as much time as possible working on student papers/television/etc. and doing internships to make up for the fact that your degree is super-easy to earn.

Yeah but I like you

WOO!

I just like to defend “bad schools” sometimes.

I’m the guy who got into UW and chose WSU instead.

Puget Sound is not a bad school simply because Corco goes there.

Damn it.

It's not bad, it's just easy

The only defense I have here involves way too much immaturity.

I hold the trump card

The banhammer?

You'd think so

Curse you.

This is me resisting all jokes involving you and the word "easy"

say cheap back say cheap back say cheap back say cheap back say cheap back say cheap back

I forgot about flags.

Apparently I leave about 90% of the flags on the site

You're entirely correct on this point

What is their team name?

The Browns?

I'm so clever

I wanted the slogan to be "What can maroon do for you?"

Some of us had to work

While getting our degrees.

Try 20 credits and 40 hours a week.

I'm doing that now for a masters.

Honestly I don't know if I'm going to pursue anything past my bachelors.

Why?

It’s easy and he’s doing no work

I think comm is easier than english.

I judge how hard a major is by how many athletes study it.

Business.

"Business"

is not a major at my school.

You aren't in school

I can still refer to it possessively.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/9/22/619725/9-22-open-game-thread#8927920

That can change

Matthew needs to find himself.

"General Studies"

The CIS degree I'm working on is pretty much a joke.

0 English major athletes

In one whole semester??

no 4

3 3-5 page papers and then 1 class with 1 paper

3-5 page papers are cake.

If you’d like to write my 40-60 page brief, let me know.

andrewgolfsalot - October 2, 2008 reply

3-5 pages is absolutely nothing.

If that's the actual length of them

I have written more since Sunday then he’ll have to write all semester.

And that's not even my job.

Writing on something you like is easier

At this point I pretty much loathe baseball.

You could write about dolphins

I prefer to do other things with dolphins.

er…

http://www.sbnation.com/users/Matthew/search?type=Comment&q=dolphins&btn=Search

I'm surprised there isn't more.

I'm amused that one of the comments had to do with the NFL

And one of them was just a Mitch Hedberg reference.

Uh...

You don't get to uh.... for one week after saying that Graham could mark you as his territory

It didn't dawn on me just how awful that comment was until about two hours after the fact.

In short, I am retarded like AK's sister.

He did inspire me to go over some of the chemistry papers I have uploaded

But you enjoy your work, no?

ahahahahahahahaha

Please don't leave us :(

I actually thought he was talking about Matthew's day job for some reason

Easy mistake to make with Matthew mentioning it wasnt his real job and all

We know where his heart is

`

Dollar is getting stronger on the Euro.

Just saying.

Time to start planning

Please don't leave us :(

Or at the very least take me with you :(

Things wont be that bad!

TAKE ME WITH YOU JEFF

Yeah, like I'm staying aboard if Jeff leaves.

Jeff's glory could be your glory.

...

Hear that?

That’s the sound of me boarding a plane in such an event.

Things wont be that bad!

You think I'd be around?

This is terrible.

We write as one and we leave as one

Although Graham doesn't write

I've seen what happens to you morons who do

Not for me!

It was fun once

I still enjoy it when I actually write.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/9/28/623972/and-that-s-why-we-play-the

Less than 23 words.

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/9/28/623972/and-that-s-why-we-play-the#9074097

I got a check yesterday.

So did I!

Okay,

I got 2 checks yesterday.

Graham doesn't write

Whoops a doodle

Graham writes?

Well-timed

We'd still have Matthew

we’ll be fine

Things would be really bad!

At least you're honest

I'd be there for you to write the recaps

Pun expectancy chart.

"And as you can see, when Bobby Jenks entered the game pun expectancy went through the roof"

You could use a laser pointer

Could? It's not an optional thing

That’s a goddamn requirement in my line of work

Your screen cap of the mods needs to be updated anyways.

I'm way ahead of him

Hey, they gave ASU Boyd a blog

One day those SBN admins are going to figure out he's incompetent.

They haven't with every other idiot who gets a blog.

He keeps changing his profile back

He was 'Twatsicle Boyd' for a while

If you went over there

it could be equal fair play

It's almost like there's a reason I'm not

You have no honor

I should see if I can get him to ban himself

It could be like Goofus and Gallant

I can't go on vacation?

I’ve got bad news about the last week of October.

I have this fear that you'll leave and never come back

because this team has done awful things to you.

JeffS will join Gaslamp Ball or something

That blog seems to have way more fun

But they have Kahlil Greene

you said yourself that you wanted to write about Kahlil Greene

Right, so that is another point in their favor

The Padres pretty much sued Khalil Greene for $1 million or so on Tuesday.

I have a feeling he isn’t long for San Diego.

Wait, what?

Always the masters of PR.

Link.

Yeah, they filed an action to get back some of his salary

Arguing that his gross negligence and recklessness resulted in the injury that took him out of the lineup, and that they deserved the money back.

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out. The White Sox ought to do the same thing to Carlos Quentin.

That was ridiculous

So incredibly stupid.

Sit him down and have a talk or whatever, but filing a claim over that much money?

They have the right, obviously, but it’s so stupid. It’s like going to arbitration and deriding a player and calling him awful to save a few hundred thousand dollars.

So this is really stupid

it’s like their trying to alienate one of their better players…

I’d be all for trying to get him cheap if Safeco wouldn’t utterly destroy his soul once and for all.

But hey, he’d get to play at US Cellular twice a year!

Fortunately I'm still naive enough to think this place is going to lead somewhere

I'm holding out hope until about January.

Hey, the credit crisis was good for something!

Wow, I wish I could round you guys up for a game.

Sitting and enjoying some pitchers while in a group is a very refreshing form of self medicating therapy. You guys sound like you could use a pick-me-up.

Since Sunday night I have been the happiest I've been in half a year

I will reach that point in about 2 weeks.

Remind me never to agree to post-season commitments again.

That was your own stupid fault

I know that.

That’s why I’m telling you to stop me next time.

I would have stopped you this time had you told me about it

Right.

Remind me next time to tell you.

This is too much for my feeble injured brain

Wait was there actual damage?

You think a sane person blogs about the Ms for 5 years?

Um yes?

A lot of it?

I apologize for all the head trauma jokes

End of the season? Or something I missed/not posted on LL?

End of season = thumbs up!

I just realized the other night I have a completely different perspective of the team.

Than a large portion of the posters here. They’ve been on the radio in the background seems like my entire life. So their years of success seem like an oddity to me. That and time is making me cynical.

The season would be way easier on me if I didn't have to write about it all the fucking time

That's hard for me to comprehend.

I get it from the fan perspective, but the writing would seem to be a cathartic release. Especially given the response from your following here. Ever read Boys of Summer? Nice little memoir.

It's only cathartic when there's reason to be emotional

you try writing about a 7-4 loss to the Royals in July.

Guess what happens in 2 days!

We play the Royals?

I wonder how much beer I will spill on my jersey

It better not be that jersey.

Why would I wear an autographed jersey?

Just making sure.

Beer would evaporate before it touched that jersey anyway

Why would I wear an autographed jersey?

You don't have to be wearing something to spill shit on it

That would have to be one fuck of a spill to go into a different room and onto the wall

Hockey is exciting

Going into that room would require several turns

You possess legs

And are flammable.

Wait, this doesn’t apply here.

Under what circumstances would I grab a beer, stand up, run into my bedroom, and throw the beer at my window?

Extreme hockey-induced crazy?

The things I've done after tough losses don't make rational sense either.

This particular scenario seems unlikely

Burglar disruption?

Providing incentive for a, uh, “houseguest” to maybe hit the road, and that maybe you’ll call or something?

AGAIN WITH THE INSIDE JOKES?

I'm so sick and fucking tired of stupid assholes that make jokes that only four people get.

I don't like to partake in gamethreads anymore because of it

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/06/AR2006030601614.html

joe jurevicius was fucking awesome

Like I said, my perspective on the team is different.

I think I’m doing to drop it, I’m not comfortable satisfying my curiosity if I’m asking you to relive the season to do it.

I get where you're coming from

I love baseball too. I just hate having to write about it sometimes.

The response by his following was to all stop caring about the Mariners and what he wrote

and instead resort to putting 850 posts per day in an off-topic thread. I can see how that would get annoying after about three days.

Exactly. I recall a lot of involved discussions of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Banjo Kazooie

As well as The Who and The Wire.

And the Rays.

Oh, didn't realize it was like that.

Didn’t really work that way for me, so I didn’t know that’s what was going on.

I am eternally thankful for the off-topic diaries

They seem to be working.

Wonderfully

The opening and closing is a page and a half

You can bull shit for another page and a half, you really only have to have content when you break the 3 page barrier.

.

:(

Bahahahaha

Ramirez looks angry when he walks.

Don't piss him off, his blood is toxic dood.

Rutroh

So....why don't umpires ever call that?

BrettJMiller - October 2, 2008 reply

Oh dear.

Well this could be a problem.

Relief Ace is coming in.

Relief Aces can turn into pumpkins at the worst and least expected times.

Don't make me doubt.

Sweet.

Orlando Cabrera better not crush my hopes like he always does.

The Wizard!

It's majestic how good he is at calling up to the booth to get an error changed to a hit.

Also very team-oriented

you know, blaming the pitcher for giving up a hit instead of himself for not fielding better

Such a prick move.

So is it just me or does like everyone hate Orlando Cabrera?

I wouldn't mind seeing him get punched in the neck.

I heard he likes furries

where’s BrianL

I'ma kill him.

What's all this then?

Sweet Jesus this is scary

BrettJMiller - October 2, 2008 reply

lolCabrera

FUCK YES!!

BrettJMiller - October 2, 2008 reply

Bullshit call ump!

Patrick517 - October 2, 2008 reply

WEEEE SUCK IT SOX

OH SNAP!!!

Youza bitch O-Cab.

SethGrandpa - October 2, 2008 reply

YOU SUCK

YEASRJKASEHREAKLJAIOSHIAUOSHSTAREHIMDOWNMOTHERFUCKERYESSSSSSS

Balfour and Cabrera apparently are less than fond of each other?

The hell is going on?

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/10/2/626981/10-2-rays-white-sox-part-2#9142640

If Balfour had beaned O-Cab, the White Sox dugout would have emptied out to go pound on Cabrera some more.

This image delights me.

It would make a great scene in a baseball movie.

This game isn't even sold out

our fan base isn’t nearly as rotten as we’d like to think.

Yes it is

Ours is a different kind of lame

agreed

mark sobba - October 2, 2008 reply

A better kind of lame

At least their crowd makes noise

It's a dome.

Just tell me that the crowd is there to see the Rays, and not just a bunch of tourists in White Sox jerseys.

Our crowds made plenty of noise before we moved to Safeco

Our crowd sucked last year

Safeco is an entirely different animal

Safeco is full and quiet when the M's are good and the Trop is slightly less full and more enthusiastic

So it's like a Wimbledon match?

SafeCo is loud during the playoffs.

And it was actually really good during Morrow’s alrjheatguhe FUCK YOU BETEMIT

I should try going there when the team is good

the team needs to get good

I've still never been to Safeco.

The Kingdome, yes. But no Safeco. Sucks to live on the opposite side of the country growing up.

I agree with Matthew

I have gone to a LOT of M’s games the last couple of years. There is rarely anything to root for. A strike out here or a good play there. But nothing like the playoffs.

I remember Mike Cameron saying in 2001 that Safeco was “the best party in all of Seattle… that started at 7pm” (wink wink).

We have a few back-to-back 95 win seasons and SafeCo will be like that again. 100% full of passionate fans screaming and yelling without the use of the big board telling us to make “NOISE”.

mark sobba - October 2, 2008 reply

The Kingdome was full and deafening during non-playoff games

What gives?

I hate rich white people

Get the hell out of San Diego

I don't spend much time in those parts

Fan naivety.

Hey, remember the saxaphone player below the circular ramp by the railroad tracks?

He's still over by the railroad tracks at Safeco.

And then there’s the tuba player that sits on the steps at Qwest on the way to Safeco.

I like that guy.

He’s been around quite a while.

Not true

The Kingdome was a morgue until the 3rd week of September in 1995.

I remember it being pretty lively from that point to when it was torn down

It was really dead in the 2nd half of 1998

And not all that exciting in 1999 either.

We blew in 1999

True

My point is that good baseball = loud fans.

The kingdome was full, and sometimes deafening

during each and every bat night giveaway, and several Fan Appreciation nights.

Favorite Ken Levine quote

“It is bat night here at the Kingdome ladies and gentleman. This is one giveaway you will never see at Yankee Stadium. We live in a kinder gentler place here in the northwest.”

It's remarkable they're still pitching to Longo.

They aren't.

Evan listened to SB

Comment

I am a very influential person

Longoria just helped out his IsoD numbers.

Damn, late by a millisecond.

Only Evan Longoria could walk and not have his OPS go up

According to Gameday, Evan seems to have a nice strike zone.

Stop it, Evan

You’re destroying Ozzie’s fragile psyche

Longoria is a positively charged ion, the ball is negatively charged.

It flees from him in all situations.

So who is the Rays' closer?

Wheeler, I'm guessing.

gay

You would prefer Percival?

Balfour?

But already used.

I was gone

A healthy Percival, yes

GO PLANET!

Eyebrows - October 2, 2008 reply

Evan Longoria

Also team equipment manager and flies the team jet

Man he was pounding the zone inside on Anderson.

Fuck these guys. Seriously, I'm going to walk around the South Side tonight wearing a Rays cap.

O/U on days until my body is found in a dumpster?

Days?

Until my body is FOUND. FOUND.

Ahhh.

Found?

R.J. Anderson - October 2, 2008 reply

Well, pieces of it.

How will we hear about it?

Town Crier.

I'll come back to haunt Ken Griffey Jr.

How would we tell?

His performance at the plate would drop off dramatically.

How would we tell?

God dammit

How would-

too easy. Too easy.

I set it on a tee for you, Jeff. I'm disappointed that you didn't at least take a hack.

So wait

You would be killed and dropped in a dumpster. Your spirit would then go on to haunt Ken Griffey Jr.

Even if we could tell that Griffey was being haunted, and that you were responsible, this would in no way allow us to pinpoint the day on which your body was found, because we couldn’t be certain of when the haunting began. In order to know when your body was found, we would need somebody here to either be a member of the Chicago PD. But we know nobody here is a policeman, because a policeman would have reported some of us for things we have said. Unless he is a dirty policeman, but those only exist in The Toxic Avenger …