With certain games or certain series, it can be impossible for your head to figure out which team it would rather see win. Whether each team is loathsome or likable, sports require a rooting interest, and sometimes it can be tough to pick one team over the other. In those situations I find the best thing to do is to sit back, watch, and let your heart decide.
Turns out that, as far as this series is concerned, my heart lies pretty strongly with the Red Sox.
I guess I just hate the Angels more than any other team in the league. Yes, part of it is jealousy. Yes, part of it is me being bitter. Yes, it's sad that I have to find joy in losses by another team rather than in wins by my own. Yes to all of those things. I will freely admit to wishing that the Mariners were even close to as good as their LAnaheim rivals. But despite all that, this is an absolute fact - as I sat in the bar watching the game, I found Drew's home run and Rodriguez's subsequent reaction to be an absolute delight. And regardless of why I felt that way, or where that feeling came from, the feeling was real, and the feeling was awesome.
Thanks for sucking, Francisco. Down 2-0 and going on the road, things are looking bleak for the Fightin' Erstads. And I couldn't be happier.
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I love this more than cake.
Put that shit on the front page, blog-that-cannot-be-named.
Aaron Campeau - October 4, 2008
AGREED
dbroncos31 - October 4, 2008
Who signs him?
Tigers? Orioles? Mets?
hcoguy - October 4, 2008
Mets
Aaron Campeau - October 4, 2008
I agree, had a brainstorm with a friend of mine earlier at work before JD drew and
that was our consensus. Orioles would be hilarious though,
hcoguy - October 4, 2008
LAA is entirely possible, too.
Aaron Campeau - October 4, 2008
please please please
Aaron Campeau - October 4, 2008
What is wrong with you?
The faster that K-Rod leaves our division the better. I fucking hate that guy and don’t want him making our hitters look stupid anymore.
Edgar for Pres - October 4, 2008
Buh?
He’s going to get a ridiculous amount of money for a ridiculous amount of years after his worst season performance wise. The Angels having that kind of contract on their books is good for us in the long term.
Aaron Campeau - October 4, 2008
He's not that good.
Teej - October 5, 2008
But you're making fun of the AL MVP!
seattlebruin - October 4, 2008
If K-Rod wins the MVP
I’m mailing someone an atomic bomb.
I can get uranium.
Llewdor - October 5, 2008
Jeff, here's my attempted hatred breakdown based on reading past Red Sox and Angels takes by you.
I think the real thing you overlook when comparing your hatred for the Angels and Red Sox is why you hate the teams. All indications are that you hate the Red Sox mainly because of the bandwagon fans and the media’s love for the team and overvaluing of their players that this brings. But at least Sox fans usually understand the game and their players for the most part aren’t loatheable, you just grow to dislike them because you hear hyperbole used to describe them by the sports media.
As for the Angels you hate them for rivalry’s sake, because they always beat us (while we have a good record against the Sox), because you don’t like certain players, and because their fans are largely bandwagoners AND dumb (as in being told when to cheer). I think we all hate Rodriguez and oh how sweet it feels that the man who celebrated every meaningless save in the regular season like it was Game 7 of the World Series is now is immortalized in this .gif.
SethGrandpa - October 4, 2008
Totally Objective Analysis
Players I like to watch:
Angels
Tex. Great hitter.
Vlad. watching him hit HRs on balls three feet out of the zone is crazy.
Red Sox
Drew. Fuck those people who said he was a bust 1 year into a 5 year deal.
Papi. Awesome.
Ellsbury. I hate that he was soooo overhyped, but my god the guy can fly.
Paps. Awesome, seems like he would be fun as hell to go party with.
Youk. It’s fun to watch a guy own the strike zone.
Others, but its late and its been a long night
Basically I don’t like any Angels and like a bunch of Sox. I can’t hate a team just because of their fans. Also, all the Sox fans I know are either hot girls or seem to know their shit about the team so the bandwagoning isn’t even an issue. I guess it helps going to Villanova instead of Trinity. Another way to look at it is who would you rather see win the WS? Clearly not the Angels, at least for me.
dbroncos31 - October 4, 2008
Sounds good to me
Jeff Sullivan - October 4, 2008
K-Rod really gives you everything on the field.
When things are good; K-rod does the whole song and dance on the hill.
When things go bad; K-rod does a classic Charlie Brown defeated look.
K-rod, you are a show man to the end.
mark sobba - October 4, 2008
Hah, this was my first thought watching that live.
DCMariner - October 4, 2008
SUCK IT, FRANKIE!
Yes I’m a jealous little bitch, but: Schadenfreude!
chinn - October 4, 2008
Simple reason to owant the Angrls to lose to the Sox:
They’re a significantly worse team. And Frankie needs to be taken down a notch.
Bearskin Rugburn - October 4, 2008
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Suck it K-Rod you dancing piece of shit.
Dance now fucker! Dance now!
Goose - October 4, 2008
Angels are welcome to burn in hell as far as I'm concerned.
Kirsten Schlewitz - October 4, 2008
That would be... rather ironic, I must say
seattlebruin - October 5, 2008
Not if you consider that demons are just fallen Angels
Also explains why they wear red.
ralphie81 - October 6, 2008
I would have so beaten you this if I had been paying attention.
JI - October 4, 2008
Also,
JI - October 4, 2008
Watching this feels so good now.
.Taylor - October 4, 2008
Missed opportunities, I wish wish wish J.D. Drew had done this when he hit that home run!
I know hitters are supposed to run the bases and it’s not cool to watch your homer fly out, but K-Rod does this ridiculous Terrel Owens style crap when he defeats a side in the bottom of the 9th.
dpseadv - October 4, 2008
You Don't Hate the Angels...
You simply loathe Reggie Willits…
TroutMask - October 4, 2008
Chone Figgins
Learn to spell, you giant wad of fuck.
Llewdor - October 5, 2008
Frankie is looking the wrong way.
ThundaPC - October 4, 2008
If you look right after Drew hits the ball, K-Rod points to the sky thinking its a popup
I wish there was a .gif of just him from when he throws the pitch to when Drew crosses home plate. It would remind me of the clip when Lisa breaks Ralphs heart on the Simpsons.
Also it warms my heart that Tex and K-Rod will most likely be gone and that they’re still going to be stuck with GMJ and Hunters bad contracts
Scrupio - October 4, 2008
The Angels are horrible people who eat children for breakfast and hunt unicorns in their spare time. That’s why I’m rooting against them.
pervert tom - October 4, 2008
Use the subject line please
but to your point, I have heard that they make a fantastic unicorn/baby gumbo, so there’s that I guess.
pdb - October 4, 2008
Is it really so important to use the subject line?
I mean, what if the bold text came in line two instead of at the top?
Would that totally blow your mind?
johnbai - October 4, 2008
World, rocked off its axis
but it never hurts to enforce the standards we want to keep ’round here.
pdb - October 4, 2008
I don't know how to deal with this
Jeff Sullivan - October 4, 2008
a bloody mary should take care of it.
pdb - October 4, 2008
I started drinking half an hour ago
It’s opening day!
Jeff Sullivan - October 4, 2008
Where's the game thread?
Graham MacAree - October 4, 2008
Get texting
And now we take this off of LL.
Jeff Sullivan - October 4, 2008
It didn't help, actually.
Kirsten Schlewitz - October 4, 2008
Yes because we like it this way
Graham MacAree - October 4, 2008
I’m a real maverick. Just an LL outsider shaking up the elitist establishment.
pervert tom - October 4, 2008
Hm.
BrianL - October 4, 2008
I would much rather this was being done by any team except Boston.
EnglishMariner - October 4, 2008
Think of it this way though..
Red Sox beat the Angels.
Rays beat the White Sox.
Rays beat the Red Sox.
seamariners85 - October 4, 2008
I hate Frankie so much.
And the Red Sox. And the Angels for sucking and losing.
At least I have the Rays to cheer for.
Eyebrows - October 4, 2008
I wanted the Angels to win this series.
But after watching the Rally Monkey for most of the game, my hatred slowly gained steam until it finally tipped the scales against the Angels. And it makes me smile thinking about K-Rod’s saves record going to be forgotten, just like Thigpen. If you can’t win in the playoffs, everything you did was for naught.
Wilder. - October 4, 2008
Aww the poor little man!
He looks like he’s going to cry.
I just can’t stand that jackass. The antics of Balfour and even Lima Time back in the day have an endearing quality to them. Frankie not so much.
Wow I got three whole outs while allowing less than 3 runs!!!!
He is a great argument for just how over hyped the Save is.
Big Jared - October 4, 2008
I wish the Halos would resign Frankie..
It was great seeing him blow that game in Anaheim earlier in the year on the Reed hit, and it was even better seeing his ass get beat last night. Im hoping Monday comes and I can give the Angel fans at work shit for being the first team in and the first team out of the playoffs.
seamariners85 - October 4, 2008
I'm looking forward to the Angels having traded Casey Kotchman
for 12 postseason at bats from Mark Teixeira in which they get swept.
Matthew - October 4, 2008
If they resign Tex I'm not gonna be happy
Yeah they will overspend on him but still….I don’t want to keep seeing him around these parts all the time. It was much easier to like him when he was in the NL.
Edgar for Pres - October 4, 2008
I could watch this .gif one thuosand times and it would never get old
JLC - October 4, 2008
I liked how he pointed up in the air hoping that it was a flyout and playable.
Slurvey - October 4, 2008
If K-Rod blows the biggest games of the year
He’s no better than Mark Wohlers.
(This, by the way, is my objection to Greg Maddux. I don’t mind him, but piling up wins while never going more than 7 innings during the regular season becomes sort of blah when you get bombed in the post-deason every year because you can’t overpower anyone and you need a helpful ump. Atlanta should have won at least 3 or 4 WS but Bobby Cox would insist on starting Maddux first in the playoffs because of his 18-6 record or whatever and then every single fucking year like Groundhog Day he would get bombed within 3 innings. Glavine was almost as bad but at least he won a few. Only Smoltz and Steve Avery before he blew up were big-game pitchers for that team.
(But this to me seriously mars the legacy of Maddux and drops way out of the best pitchers of all time.)
ignacio - October 5, 2008
what
Aaron Campeau - October 5, 2008
what
seattlebruin - October 5, 2008
"but piling up wins while never going more than 7 innings during the regular season"
I just randomly picked one of his better seasons (1998) and did a screenshot. (Too big for LL.)
Maddux was one of the best who ever did it. And he can’t go deep in games anymore, but that wasn’t the case in his prime. He pitched at least 199 innings in 19 straight seasons. And he usually went fairly deep into games. He’s less durable nowadays, but he’s like 60. Your premise is false.
Teej - October 5, 2008
WHAT
YEAH
Gomez - October 6, 2008
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