Lookout Landing

Perhaps it was a sly joke?

Nah, it was sportsradio after all.

I'm the King of Sly around here

No way that counts as a sly remark.

Los Lonely Boys?

Stupid name, and a terrible group I’m sure, but at least they’re not butchering the Star-Spangled Banner like the Backstreet Boys did last night. They’re actually giving it a nice and respectable reading.

Much better than the Backseat Boys, that's for sure.

Thingray - October 23, 2008 reply

I think the Backstreet Boys tried to be respectable.

You think, Joe, because you are not a real baseball fan.

Keys to the game

(paraphrased)

*Ryan Howard needs to be clutch
*The Rays need to win

Fill in a spot on your bingo card!

The team that scores the most runs will win.

The team that has James Shields will either win or lose

A co-worker asked me what was wrong with Howard

I responded, “Ov-er Ra-ted, clap clap clapclapclap.”

Sec 108 - October 23, 2008 reply

Zimmer is still around??

Zimmer was the thirdbaseman for the 62 Mets?

that really doesn’t help his credibility one bit

For a grand total of 14 games

Sec 108 - October 23, 2008 reply

bwahahahaha

I <3 the World Series

I <3 BJ Upton.

Win

ZOMG small ball

Clearly the Rays will win because they are playing the right way.

They manufactured the shit out of those runs

A smart team would have gotten hits.

Pena and Longoria are not selfish. They don't need all the glory.

If you had Barry Bonds you would be so much better

I think so.

I prefer my runs all-natural, free range and organic, thank you.

A smarter Crawford wouldn’t have swung at the first pitch he saw.

That is an oxymoron.

Those runs have little TM stamps on them!

Who says all the good manufacturing jobs have been outsourced to China?

Someday China will figure out how to stamp out MLB Runs for 3 cents a unit.

Can you poison babies with runs laced with melamine?

Too soon?

Phils Phils Phils

Why throw middle-in to Howard when ahead in the count?

Do they feel sorry for him?

Charlie Manuel likes the fact that half the time Ryan Howard is completely useless?

The Rays have a lot of pitchers I think I'd like to get high with

I think we have a lot of pitchers who would get high with you.

So we're agreed

And we witness Tim McCarver at his best.

"The proper way to approch Ryan Howard is curveball after curveball.

::lauches third consecutive curveball for a double::

“Well that curveball was above the knees”

::replay of curveball directly at the knees::

I hope Sweet Swing gets a WS ring

that said GO RAYS

Haha Fuck You Dobbs

How pathetic is it that Dobby the bench elf is a DH?

Then I remembered Vidro. And we play in the AL.

I think we will all have a similar experiance, for the rest of our lives!

Without runners on this is not a wild pitch at all...

I like how I still own the Greg Dobbs B-R sponsorship

Do you have to pay for it every year?

Happily

How much do those things cost?

Dependent on the quality of the player?

$5 and up

It's as ironic as the Socisca sponsorship.

I still believe the Dobbs sponsorship message

I hated Dobbs so much when he was here.

I did too

After he left I realized it was mostly an irrational hatred.

This is brilliant

Lazy line drive.

Goodness he has some range.

That was him playing "too shallow" and a good jump

Off the bat I thought: tied game

B.J. Upton only plays shallow because he doesn't want to walk far to get back to the dugout between innings.

I like the angle, but why must the batter view be so off center?

oh, please, do tell us the Rocco Baldelli story

I’ve never heard it before.

He's the one that did blow off the sidewalk right

He takes handfuls of pills and a time and his legs hurt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_Van_Winkle

So a ball that would have been an out if it were hit about 5 feet to the right

is proof of how Navarro is a much better player than last year?

Small ball!

Pressure the defense!

What is up with the officiating this series?

Boy the Rays are getting a lot of pussy hits

Luck is evening out after last night.

It's called playing the game the right way.

Can somebody tell Coach that being bald does not a bad general manager make?

I certainly hope not else my life dreams are crushed before they begin

He won't let it go

He’s convinced that because Bavasi and Gillick were bad Z will be bad too because they are all bald. He doesn’t see the dozens of other lurking variables

Your fault for talking to Coach

He FB messages me

and for whatever reason I respond

Just tell him it's the opposite for starfleet captains.

Pat Gillick isn't the same kind of bald

If Hollywood has taught me anything it's that men with hair are action heroes and bald men are geniuses with a dark side

query: Vin Deisel?

result: Bruce Wlilis

Rare exception

actually, an Evil Genius With A Dark Side might be a valuable GM....

How would you use the Mariners to take over the world?

Successfully

First he'd start a blog about the Mariners to gather a loyal following...

Oops. Said too much already. Now they’ll have to kill me.

query: Samuel L. Jackson?

Evil genius

On the evidence of Unbreakable and Deep Blue Sea, I suppose.

Does this count as bald?

Yes

genius

You son of a bitch

You can’t just label people the way you want to

He was an action hero until he went bald, at which point his evil genius neurons were activated

This doesn't even make sense

Jeff tends to do that.

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

I am committed to the hypothesis

Terrible terrible scientist

Determined scientist

Scientific determination?

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

Sean Connery was bald but wore a toupee

Michael Chiklis

I have stopped paying attention to this subthread

Ignoring information

Wait till Senomyx hears about this

Also not very determined

This is Jason Statham right?

Slurvey - October 23, 2008 reply

Yes.

I tried to argue that

couldn’t win

Long live results based analysis

Remind him the Professor X of the X-men is bald. That should convince him. :)

Oh, Barbara, your youngest is so young.

RUNS RUNS RUNS

More like RUN

GTE

Poor guy

His legs gave out and he collapsed.

He very well could have just died.

The runners that B.J. Upton drives in are lazy.

Everytime time a away team celebrates a WS win, God rapes a angel.

Celebrating on the road is fun.

Disagree

Much more fun to take part in the celebration

Roads wins are fun especially when you hate the other team.

Victory celebrations are like that scene in Ghostebuster II where everyone loves each other and is happy

Seeing your team happy

and the fans of the other team crying is the ultimate

This is a good point.

What would we all love more? Winning the pennant at Safeco? Or winning the pennant at Anaheim?

Since I'm not from Seattle and probably couldn't be there

I pick Anaheim

Samesies!

I've taken part in celebrations in NY and Seattle and they are the greatest thing ever

Ever?

Well

no but you get the point

Robert - October 24, 2008 reply

I don't even need to click that link.

your : you're :: a : an

He does it intentionally?

You're an tool.

Jeff is not a tool

Jeff is not a tool.

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

Actually, what do I know?

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

Who the fuck are you

Batman

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

Jeff is not a towel

Jeff is not a trowel

Rather, he is an adze.

Esoteric.......................

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

pwn3d.

It's all good. It lasted all of 3 minutes.

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

And please tell me...what was the reason they provided you when you went into the box?

You're going to love this.

“Esoteric said so”

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

That shows a distinct lack of creativity on said sexy person's behalf.

"Dobbs is one of the better fastball hitters in the NL"

sez Joe Morgan

That was Jeff Clement slow.

Today I'm rooting for the Rays.

Because fuck sweeps.

Also, they didn't butcher the national anthem tonight.

It was surprisingly respectful, as boy-band harmonies go.

They were a boy band?

I just see three guys harmonizing with a lame group name, and I draw assumptions.

That's the world we live in.

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

I know some of you cats were talking pumpkin beer at some point.

Is Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale any good? My girl just brought some home from the store, and I’ve never had a pumpkin beer.

I saw that at the store the other day as well and seriously considered buying it.

There has never been a good pumpkin beer.

I’ve tried many, many varieties, always hoping I’d find something that didn’t make me want my money back. No such luck.

Did you try it? I'm not a fan of that type.

Not yet. I shall try it tonight.

Teej - October 24, 2008 reply

Treehouse of Horror XIX looks dumb

With the exception of the movie

The Simpsons have been crap for the last 8-9 years.

Probably correct

Seriously.

It’s been all downhill since Season Six, and Season Eight was the last one I was willing to pay money for. (That was the one with the Hank Scorpio episode, right?)

Season 7 was wonderful

And yes season 8 was the beginning of the end, however, seasons 9 and 10 had mostly good episodes and were well worth my time.

Fuck I have to go watch

Lagaan. What kind of professor assigns a 4 hour movie during the fucking World Series?

but it's got cricket! and singing! and cricket!

and thank God we only had to watch an hour and a half

SQUUUUUUUUUUEZE!

Yay squeeze

Nice work by Bartlett second time around.

The Rays are pounding Brett Myers

in a similar fashion of which he pounded his wife.

Didn't we declare a moratorium on "Brett Myers beat his wife LOLZ!" jokes?

Regular-season ban.

I thought it was first implemented during the NLDS.

No someone tried and they were shot down in flames.

Guess who it was!

JE NE REGRETE RIEN

Do you really think they were beaten senseless into the ground (much as Brett Myers's wife)?

It's doubly unfunny when you're reaching like this.

The reaching is what makes it funny.

The joke are supposed to be bad.

Agreed.

Very true.

I thought it was far funnier when we were cracking jokes about that ex-ML'er who was struck by lightning

That was a great subthread.

Nope.

No defining blows to make it obvious,

but rather a relentless barrage of swings of a Valencia Oranges sack to put her in her place?

Defense doesn't matter.

Rocco!

Wow that was a annon

It's "AN annon" you illiterate fuck.

Rec'd.

You are an astard

Rec'd.

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

DP!!

ahahaha Werth

JAYSON WERTH YOU MAGNIFICENT FUCKUP

Dammit Phillies

What is your problem?

I deserve extras.

You need to learn patientence

I have not witnessed extra innings* since I started pining for them

*This only includes Mariner and playoff games

Angels - Red Sox

I was away

dumbass

For six hours?

Some people have social lievs

*Not me obviously but I was out for a while

I was watching it as part of my social life

It was such a long time ago that I can't really remember what I was doing

Perhaps you've noticed a pattern?

I don't want to live in a world where Fogel is happy.

I don't want to live in a world where Fogel is.

Full stop.

Not this shit again.

Welcome to LL

.Taylor - October 23, 2008 reply

HELP I'M BEING TERRORIZED BY A SMALL BLOND CHILD!

Aaron Campeau - October 23, 2008 reply

The child hates you for your freedom

Big Jared - October 23, 2008 reply

Fucking Germans

!!!

This reminds me of that goddamn astrophysicist commercial.

I want to find this guy and punch him in the kidneys.

He's not blond, he's albino.

Faux - October 23, 2008 reply

This is what you get for declaring that you would like to take said child to the zoo.

You loved every minute of it, uncle acblue.

kevin_ess - October 24, 2008 reply

D'aww

Aaron Campeau - October 24, 2008 reply

Will somebody explain to me WTF Jack Bauer is doing in Africa?

I think 24 was getting a lot of flak for not having enough minorities on their show.......

Fighting bad guys and yelling DAMMIT!

Also, never eating or going to the bathroom for a full 24 hours

tootthekazoo - October 23, 2008 reply

He wears a stillsuit

Like Paul Atreides.

[/dork]

Did he go into second cleats up? looked almost dirty.

Rocco is the 2004 Rhode Island Italian-American HOF inductee!

How many other people are in that hall? Four people?

it is a distubring trend

that Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are announcing baseball still

Trenchtown - October 23, 2008 reply

he gawn

Trenchtown - October 23, 2008 reply

Price in this early, eh?

Barring some shut-down innings, I have to think Utley and Howard will come up again in the ninth.

They have Howell, I guess.

I didn't realize there was a runner on base when he came in.

I guess I can get down with this decision. He should be out in the 8th, though.

(out = out on the mound)

there was an astounding comparison on KJR this afternoon

Gastineau was talking about the need to get that kid (ie Fields) signed, so that he could get started contributing to the Mariners, because just look at what “that kid” (ie Price) is doing in the post-season with virtually no major league experience.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!

Good God.

This is where legends are born

Is there any chance Shields will start at Citizen's Bank?

So at some point I’ll get to hear Tim McCarver say “Shields up”?

khmer luge - October 23, 2008 reply

just turned this on...

I hated it when ESPN tried to sell us on the dead-center camera angle, and I definitely hate it now that Fox is using the World Series to use a dead-center camera angle. At least ESPN had a lame excuse of using that camera angle as a prelude to K-Zone, then they switched back to the normal leftcenter camera. The main problem I have with this dead-center camera angle isn’t whether or not I know a pitch on the corner or not, it’s that it really messes with me knowing what’s high or what’s low.

Dead-center stinks. I already have to put up with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, why do I need this? If I can find this game on Westwood One, I’ll pull it up. I’m not kidding, I really have a hard time watching baseball with this camera angle.

Dead center is aweseome

...for me to poop on

I want my leftcenter camera.

Fox may be doing it a bit wrong

but some local broadcasts do it right with a nice, close, unobstructed view of home plate.

Having a clear view of the strike zone is a good thing.

old footage

I remember some footage of Randy Johnson throwing at the Kingdome where Randy, Dan Wilson, and the batter took up nearly 80% of the screen. That was beautiful stuff. I wish they’d go back to that, but there’d me no room for ads and score bugs.

*be

There's more to the field than just the pitcher and catcher

hmm

I suppose there could be the first couple rows of fans behind the plate to show.

You could show a runner leading off of second with the mound still in the frame, but with dead-center the camera would have to move even further to pick that up.

And someone mentioned it higher in the thread, but the fact that they’re using this angle and the pitcher/catcher/batter aren’t in the center of the screen is really annoying, ad banner be damned.