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Why couldn't GMJ have been playing CF today?

)>:

good point

GMJ doesn’t make that

I'd rather kill Torriiiiirrriiiirriii Hunter
And after Richie tried

SO DAMN HARD to carry this offense like he’s supposed to. What a miserable ending

Dagger to the fucking heart

at least Richie has redeemed himself? contract extension if he could play defense

ha. no.
yeah i know

I’m just getting mushy on him after a fabulous game

No extension, but

He’s making better contact lately than he has been.

Ugh

God dammit, what a cockpunch.

Not Sure if this cheers people up or not...

but Clement homered tonight.

nope

I don’t think anything could cheer me up right now… I need more breakable objects in my house

I almost threw my cat at my tv
please

Just don’t throw your TV at your cat.

I hear Ikea has a great selection to choose from
Worst Part:

Is that, and I mentioned it a few times along, this just felt like a game we were going to win. I had some sort of weird confidence throughout.

I thought for sure this would be the game K-Rod would finally blow

And he came about 2 inches from doing it :(

me too

and we were going to get make all those K-Rod can’t handle the pressure cracks.

I felt the confidence too

but I lost it by the time we got to the ninth

I'm now going to walk naked into the snow

and let nature kill me.

Fuck you, Hunter.

3 doubles and that catch

I will provide an alibi to anyone who physically harms torii hunter

Carlos Silva must've broken up with him.
And 4 doubles, if not for

the awesomeness of Adrian Beltré

Could you delete "Kill Me"?

I don’t think this game deserves any recognition at all. It didn’t happen, other than the new record.

He probably has to post something.
An astirisk is acceptable.
We got Bonds!?!
Are we SURE Roy Corcoran isn't related to DJC???

Tractorhouse.com is his favorite web site.

Got to be cousins or something…

With all the luck the Angels get

Aren’t they due for a 110-loss season? :|

What luck would that be?
It's not a serious question.
The 110 loss part may not be serious

but the ‘luck part’ sounds it.

Thems fightin words
Learn to not take things seriously.
I didn't realize asking a question was taking things seriously

it was a question. One question, with no ‘tone’ or attitude to it. What’s with this overtly defensive stance? One, 5 word question. Not loaded. A point of curiosity. No one took anything seriously.

Who said that was defensive?
Well

not answering a legitimately curious question, and instead slandering the questioner is essentially the definition of defensive.

At least I know how outsiders are treated around here…if they dare show any curiosity at all, just bomb the hell out of them. Bang up job, hospitality crew.

You seem to still be taking things seriously.
Again... *sigh*
I've blogged more than enough

to know when I’m “defeated.” All I wanted to know, without any snide connotation, or ill-will, what he legitimately meant. That’s it. I don’t generally take shit seriously, but I just wanted an answer from the party I addressed. Nothing more, nothing less.

My version of not taking shit seriously is just not talking to someone to begin with if I had no reason to reply to them. Obviously, your approach is more…abrasive. Cheers, sailor.

Read comment below.
Is there a bag of dead babies in my basement that I'm not aware of?
I WANT MY BAG BACK YOU THIEF!

i was wondering where that went.

Well

there is a sign outside your house saying Dead Baby Storage.

More of this, less of that

and you’ll do great here.

The were alive pre-suprise sex.
We gently caressed them gooooooood.
oh fuck yeah

unnnnghghhhghh….. too far?

I'm the mayor of surprise sex faggot
oh yeah

hahahaha

Surprise sex with babies?

You fucking repulse me.

...

What happened to consent?

No one here speaks Kenyan.

We just have to assume that crying means “Yes”

No wonder I saw you lurking in my bushes!
pre-emptive warning: this is not serious
Really?

You sure? Because that really was me out there.

did somebody say we were hospitable?

You’ve been talking to Coach, haven’t you?

Actually, I'll elaborate:

We’re not actually mean to people unless they spell poorly, which you’re not doing. You’re fine.

What we do is never actually answer any question seriously ever. That’s what we mean by don’t take things seriously. We don’t answer anyone’s question, regardless of intent. We made random statements that are unrelated to the query.

Learn not to take the comment you are currently responding to so seriously either.
Congrats

If you had answered the question, I would have stopped. None of you are even the target of my question, so maybe you should care less about what I’m asking, eh?

See comment below.

As it addresses this exact thing, actually.

It's called "busting your balls"

and if you can’t play the game, don’t complain about the rules. Lighten up, dude.

You're coming here after a tough loss as a fan of

the opposing team. Your joining just now is suspicious enough as it is. And you come and ask a smartass question of a comment clearly not terribly serious. What reaction were you expecting?

You and Eyebrows renew my faith in people.

Except when you talk about Torii Hunter in the Game threads. Then there’s some cussing out that needs to happen.

Like I said in the thread, I'm not immune to GTE either.
But you have the strength to deal with the abuse.

I commend you sir, I commend you.

Optimist's a poser!
Yeah, I can understand

If I were on an Angels board, it’d be hard for me to hold back.

yeah you rock dude

Its awesome that someone brings the other side to the table… knowing we’d probably fucking throw you to the lions no matter what you said

Smartass?

Really? I didn’t know you were an expert on intention. Read my question again, why not? Five words. Five…to address a curious comment on a blog that, regardless of my join date, I have read almost daily. No, the 110 loss comment obviously wasn’t serious. But given the beliefs of baseball fans in general (believe me, I’ve been a an long enough to insist that certain teams I hate just are ‘lucky’), I can see how the ‘lucky’ part might be true. Some people, despite your apparently jaded existence, are capable of asking questions without trying to be a dick. Which is what you should perhaps consider as a possibility rather than assuming the worst of someone based on a whole five words.

The more you dig...

...the deeper the hole gets. Really, lighten up and this will all stop.

Dude

There are comments here that are obvious jokes meant to dig at me…and then there are comments like his that he tries to justify that clearly are serious.

I love playing behind the ‘just joking’ card, too. But some, such as the person directly replied to, clearly ain’t on the same ‘joking’ page as you.

Explanation in full

I have no idea what the hell GTE means

but it would be nice if someone had just let me in on this huge retard-o fest of moron jokesters BEFORE this started, and not after.

Welcome to LL.
Try the veal.

It’s made of real baby cow.

And you say you're a regular reader.

For shame, little buddy, for shame.

man... come on

if we came on to HH, we would get way more than the same thing… NO one hates you… you’re just an angels fan… com one

You wouldn't get this much retardation

just for five words.

I assure you.

I assure you I would

and if I look for like 5 seconds I willl find as such

Anything posted by Coach Owens

doesn’t count.

We make fun of Rev often.
yes you basically beat me to that

you can find any post by TheOptimist or Eyebrows and we’re not that harsh on Angels fans… who dont flame us in the same way that we dont flame you guys… it just depends on the time… if you come say something at exactly the same time we lose… we’re gonna be mad…. same as you….

My natural inclination

personally, anyway, is to ignore Mariners fans that post on HH entirely…until mob mentality builds up, at which point I become as much a sucker as anyone.

yeah it really is the LCD posting over there

We’re not that bad over here… save for some insane emotion that you I’m sure certainly have at the same times that we do (end of games, when we make stupid trades, etc…)

And spelling errors.

Grammar and spelling errors, especially a lack of capitalization, gets you attacked.

Or just annoying me
Usually caused by one of the issues I mentioned.

But correct.

but I wont... in anticipation

so you can look for yourself… We’ll be friendly if you are, but if not… we’re ruthless

Next person that links to HH is banned.
I believe Englishmariner would disagree

He managed to start a whole new meme with 3 words.

It’s an artform, really.

GTE dude

It was not a serious statement.

I don't think HH has GTE

At least not set guidelines or anything.

It states clearly on our front page that we dont have to deal with this shit
I'd say it clearly says we do

and that we don’t need to care.

Fuck the bag of dead babies, there must be a dumpersterfull down there I'm not seeing.
I <3 Coffee.
The internet's a bitch, ain't it.

If you’re looking so hard for validation, I’d suggest turning to more constructive pursuits.

Basket weaving.
I can be a smartass in 5 words just as good as 5 paragraphs

I’m sure you can too. And by that question you are clearly trying to start an argument over whether the Angels have been lucky so far this season or not with fans of the opposing team, where else did you expect this line of questioning to go?

Judging by the Angels offensive output so far, and everything that same offense has done in the past, you can make a pretty good case for saying they’ve been pretty lucky thus far. Is that what you wanted to hear?

Really?

funny that you know my intentions better than another.

As I said already, I frequently grasp at straws to try to justify a hated team’s success as being a mere product of luck. I do it a lot…in fact, I do it constantly.

That being the case, I had a legitimate curiosity as to how that plays out for whoever the hell made the initial comment. Nothing more, nothing less.

And factoring in the addition of Torii Hunter, the maturation of Kendrick, Kotchman, and Napoli, and considering that they currently average 5.1 runs per game, which is less than last year, I’m not sure I buy that analysis, no.

For the last time

Why must you take this seriously?

The M’s got embarrassed tonight, they lost in heart wrenching fashion, everybody here is on suicide watch, we’re still angry and need to lash out at something. Stop taking everything we say as if we actually mean it.

I stopped taking the rest of you seriously

but ‘OlSalty’ has proven himself an exception in that he clearly does think that I was trying to be a dick. Regardless of ‘GTE,’ I feel it fair that I give a rational context to my remarks so that he understands what I meant to not be a dick comment.

If I actually had meant to be a dick, I would have given it up already. The rest of you, I’ve gotten over…he, on the other hand, is as serious as I am, and any contrary insistences are just a lie.

I was just trying to explain why people jumped on you

When we normally don’t. It is a pretty suspect question to be asking right after a loss, you have to understand that. If that wasn’t your intention, fine, no big whoop.

I'll be fair actually

99.9% of my internet life is spent being a dick, and that’s my fault. But given that no one here probably knew that in advance of my comment, and given that I was, for once in my life, actually serious, it was more than a little frustrating that I couldn’t get across that I wasn’t trying to be an asshole.

Boy who cried wolf.

We've secretly been stalking you for the past 2 years.

Red is not your color. And your windows are open when you’re doing… that…

They're open because you came in and opened them when I was gone
Sure.

Some people like watching… some people like to be watched.

You have to understand timing of the question.
yo man

we accept anyone who is willing to talk baseball… I may be talking for people who dont agree with me but fuck it…

Talking baseball with people who agree with you

gets tiring after a while.

I can only sit around and say “Jeff Weaver sucks” and have everyone else nod their head and say “yup, he sure does” so long before it gets old.

Kind of beating a dead horse at this point, isn't it.
try the same last two words

but with Jered in the front.

Ooooh, oooh, I can dispute this one
yeah but interseries talk...

talk a little shit… not saying felix is a flame or some shit like that… real analysis

Are you drunk?
Wait

did you just concede that Felix is a flamer?

Doesn't matter

we are gay for Felix, it’s more practical that way.

I would duck if I were you.
no

not at al…I’m saying if you come here you cant just say bullshit… you have to provide some evidence…

HH's population doesn't get along with real analysis very well
I'm a friend of good analysis

so long as its conclusion is that Angels > Mariners.

Analysis != common sense.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my entire life

congratulations

I assume

you also recognize that it was not a serious comment, right?

You're reading what I write, but you aren't comprehending.

Even if you’re not trying to be a dick, you still look like someone coming here to pick at the wounds. Your responses haven’t done much to dissuade them from that notion. And as I said at the first, it was never a serious question, so why keep after it?

And before you start talking about hospitality, I’m apparently banned from HH and I’ve never posted there ONCE.

And you're an Angels fan

hahahaha

Yeah, I thought it was messed up too. :/
What... Really???
I'd take that as a compliment, personally.
That's pretty funny

Rev’s really got the tinfoil hat on, banning traitors and whatnot.

The sad part is

TO’s probably the coolest person I know.

Hey, you put up with the douchebag

Don’t bitch.

I... wasn't? o_0
I think you misunderstood his comment.

It was positive. We like it. It complimented a member of our community.

I was referring to Rev

Of course, now the whole banning of TO thing is in doubt.

In the words or our new friend Caseyes Kiss of Death,

that is “much retardation.”

youre banned?
Yep.

Any time I try to go there logged in or sign in there, I can’t. This happens on no other sbnation site.

but not here?
Clearly not, I'm posting here aren't I?
yeah... Im just trying to understand

you are an outsider obviously, but you are a baseball fan and are so far away from being some flamewar idiot…. I just dont understand how you are banned from anywhere…

If you try to civil

you will be labeled a flamewar idiot and banned regardless. I don’t see why that matters.

I hope this question was a joke.
less of a joke than a wtf?
I get what you're saying

I just disagree. I would assume I only look like a dick if one is jaded enough to assume the intentions of any outsider to always be bad. Clearly that is the case here, because I did nothing.

Also, I'm not in charge of the 'banning process'

so that’s a moot point entirely about hospitality.

Well, not really.

Only if we’re arguing why YOU’RE hospitable. It reflects poorly on HH’s.

no ones saying youre in charge of the bannings

its still bullshit that someone who comes over to have civil conversations is cast away

But you did do something

“How have the Angels been lucky” is a loaded question when it’s posed to your competitors blog. The only “omg serious” response is “Mariners blogger A lists 10 plays that the Angels were lucky on” then “CKoD lists 10 plays the Mariners were lucky on” then it devolves into bickering.

It’s not a productive question, really it’s just trolling.

If you want to assume intentions

you’re free to do it.

It’s not a loaded question unless you want it to be. Read my response above for the context I asked the question in. It’s really just absurd for me to sit here being lectured to you about what I meant by the question, when I personally know I didn’t meant 1/100th the ill-will that you insist.

No, I'm right.

As it says right in my sig, I’m a visitor and really always will be. But somehow I get along just fine.

So seriously

you’re an Angels fan, and banned from HH without a post?

He definitely is an Angels fan.

And he can’t visit the site. I’ve seen it in person.

I can think of no other explanation.

I cannot log in to HH. I can log in to LL, and any other sbnation blog. You can check my history. I have never posted on HH.

Does it actually say

“You have been banned from Halos Heaven” in the box where you could normally post comments?

I can't even reach the site logged in.

Not logged in I can read everything just fine. If there’s another explanation I’d love to hear it.

So many jokes.

I’ll go with: “Your computer doesn’t want you to be associated with stupid.”

But I’m tired and off my game. Someone else can come up with a better one.

doesn't look like you're banned to me

weird that you would have that issue.

I was just checking

but I think we only have the ability to see if someone was banned in the last few weeks. If The Optimist is banned from HH, it’s been that way for a long time.

I checked other banee's (?)

and when you inspect them, it still shows them as a member of that particular site and status: banned.

How peculiar

although I guess the important point here is that The Optimist isn’t really missing out on anything.

I agree

but at the same time if I was kicked out of my own fanbase I would be pissed… regardless

HH isn't his fanbase

6-4-2 or someplace like that would be.

Oh noes I got banned from DOV

(I haven’t been banned from DOV).

Rob's too pessimistic for

my tastes. :P You all I can understand having negative views of Halos players

Do you trust my Garland opinion yet? :P
I believe I told you you were right some time ago...
Oh

So many people tell me I’m right I hardly pay attention anymore

and some dudes dream about you too
If it helps, I can remind you how

wrong you are, from time to time.

I don't take being corrected by humanities majors very well
sometimes you just dont know as much about art as you think you do
Hey!

Social sciences.

Technical humanities
There are so many better places to read

HH may be the most active Angels blog, but it’s also easily the worst.

Well

I’m banned from HH for calling Jon Garland’s mother a whore, and I’m reminded of that every time I visit in the comment box….

So if he doesn’t see that I don’t think he’s banned

hahahahaha

” You have been banned for calling John Garland’s mother a whore.”

(emph. mine)

I haven't been around that long.

It may be a computer issue. If so, I apologize to the Rev for impugning his honor.

Maybe you don't meet the min. system requirements for douchebaggery
Yes, much better. Thank you.
consider yourself lucky i guess

but I will assume that HaloFan doesnt like subordination… and hate himm ore

I'm sure Rev would love to have

send him an e-mail and get it sorted out.

It's not a bad idea.

Though to be honest, I really don’t mind sticking around here. _

Don't Flatter Yourself

You didn’t even join in order for me to ban you.

Sentence structure needs work.

3/10

3?

dude, two unnecessarily capitalized words. That’s a 2, tops.

Perhaps he took the title line a bit too literally.
I used the Anaheim mental adjustment
written using actual letters: 10/10 A+ *gold star*

:) :) :) :)

It's like Celebrity Final Jeopardy!

I prefer L’AAnaheim…

I guess you could consider "Don't Flatter Yourself"

a title. It’s pushing it, though.

If there is even a 1/10000000th of truth to this

I swould say that there is no class here… else wise, I have no words

Nope, you're right.

I suck. Sorry.

So after being informed that it was more likely

a computer problem, I spent 20 minutes fiddling with my internet settings and found out I was wrong again. So officially, my apologies to The Rev (and indirectly, to Casey’sKOD) for suggesting he banned me for no reason. My only defense is that before today I didn’t really care one way or the other. I am now reduced to once again not posting at HH by inclination rather than necessity.

rock no

he’s still our antithesis, M’s still kick fucking ass

To be fair

You did try earlier. I sat behind you and watched, after all.

Yes, but once I found it, the problem was stupidly

obvious, and I should have checked harder before I said something and got everybody fussed.

I told you IE sucks. :-P
FF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eh

Every team gets their share of luck, the Angels got lucky when that ball stayed in the park, but the Mariners got lucky with those multiple line drives right at Beltre/Yuni/Sexson

I'll handle this

1) GTE. I trust you have become familiar with the term

2) The perception (note: perception) is that the Angels tend to get an awful lot of breaks and weak hits when they play us. Being that the only time we really watch the Angels is when they play the Mariners, we don’t see all the times the luck evens out, so they just come off as being a lucky team

I have seen the letters GTE 100 times now

do you have a link to the meaning?

GAME THREAD EMOTION!!!!!
Game Thread Emotion

It means when we are playing you gusy we get emotional… just like you do… come on

A link was posted above

but long story short, GTE = Game Thread Emotion. During and immediately following games, people here tend to make really irrational comments and arguments for which, under LL law, they cannot be held responsible.

Ordinarily GTE only extends to 10 minutes following the final out, but considering the nature of the final out today, I’m granting an extension.

10 minutes?

Lord. My family has extended me a form of GTE that persists to this day for Doug Eddings in the ‘05 ALDS. I think I’ve been given a lifetime pass on that.

Your family is much more forgiving than we are

that doesnt mean we hate you

We do not yet have October GTE rules for obvious reasons
someone help us if it ever comes to that.
This is where

I could make a REAL obvious dick comment, but will refrain for…equally obvious reasons.

This place would have been a blast in 1995.
Ah yes. Good times.
I still don't believe it happened

and I never doubted it would happen

//old man nostalgia trip

Worst meltdown in Major League History.

10x more unlikely than the next greatest meltdown

There's no way they should have won games 4 or 5.

I think I’d enjoy that 100x more if it happened today now I know the sheer impossibility of it happening.

I would have

back then, it was too movie-like.

Today, with my shattered psyche, I think I would ride on air for a solid decade in the afterglow.

Is this about the time you got laid?
I would forego sex for a year

if I could have ‘95 again.

100%

fuck me edgar… GTE

There was not one point

where I thought the division was lost, or that the Yankees would win

although the Jim Leyritz game caused my dad to lose all hope.

And cancelled out and made up for

a million times over by 2002.

You guys understand that feeling, of course.

I'm pretty sure it's going to take a lot more than simply beating us to break 1995's awesomery.
thats more like it

but seriously… 2002 is really the only year you have to go on

lame

More than you got. :-P
2002 barely cancels out 1986
HENDDDDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUU
My favorite part

is how, despite Donnie Moore he could never shut up about it, and how giddy it made him. I hope he gets Hudler’s job when he quits.

Dave Henderson wasn't completely useless.
no

not until he reached the broadcast booth

1986 is placed in a category with the other Boston playoff embarassments

We hope to collect on that debt this year.

Well

I don’t expect you to relate to the emotions of a WS victory very well…but I assure you, it does.

Also, I’m a New York Giants fan so I’m sorta indestructibly happy with sports right now.

Resident Cardinals Fan here

Adam Wainwright A) loading the bases in game 7 of the LCS, and then B) somehow striking out Carlos Beltran was the greatest baseball moment ever. 1,000,000x better than having the Tigers handing us the World Series.

Yeah, instead of that

We got Game 6. Nothing can top the awesomeness that was that game.

True

However we both have Player A to thank for a lot of things. I choose to forget this.

This is why when people don’t want to win if it means winning with Bonds I think “fuck that, my team won with Player Fucking A, it was rad.”

and the Adam Kennedy 3 HR barrage.
And the G.A. 3-run double

and the game two homer by Tim Salmon.

or overcoming the five run deficit in game 3 of the ALDS.

Franky's Game 2 outing

(3 innings, 9 outs, 25 pitches 22 strikes) was up there as well.

Honestly

that was just funny, because it shouldn’t have been physically possible. The second best moment of that series was Tim Salmon hitting the gamewinning 2-run shot in Game 2. Because say what you want about Eckstein or “Player A,” Tim had EARNED that shit.

What makes AK’s even better though, is realizing that the pitcher he did that to was a young Johan Santana.

The fact that you use "Player A" warms my cold heart
I respect the board rules while I'm here.
This is awesome.

I’d take Player A back in a heartbeat if it meant a WS title.

It seems that we have cooled the icy hearts of these angels fans

or have we warmed their cool hearts, or chilled their hot hearts

I'm glad we didn't have to resort to a cool island song.
really... fuck steven spielberg

Jurassic park was bullshit

woah there.
I would gladly erase Jurassic Park from history

if it meant I didn’t have to watch Jurassic Park 2 and 3.

yeah

JP was the first PG-13 movie I got to see and I was happy to see it, but i mean

Hey! Me too!
rock on dude

I was 8 and had an interest in paleontology and thats the only reason I got to see that movie… It fucking rocked tho… Neumannn got his eyes burnt the fuck out

I'm a youngest child.

My parents didn’t give a shit about what I watched. Pulp Fiction traumatized the shit out of me.

you are lucky

my parents babied the shit out of me… JP was an extreme exception based on my career choice

thats fucking rad

not like i got beat or any shit like that, but it certainly wand encouraged

why the hell would you watch JP3

after the abortion of JP2?

JP is classic though. I’ll never understand why they didn’t just stick with the novel plot for JP2. It would have been infinitely better.

I thought it was the opposite of Star Trek

and the the odd numbered movies would be the good ones.

JP2 was the first movie I ever saw in my whole life that I hated with a burning passion.

ditto

until that hate was eclipsed by Contact.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa????????????
oh nevermind

that movie blows

Santana??? No shit.

The Yadier Molina homerun was less possible even less possible than So Taguchi taking Billy Wagner deep.

When Aaron Heilman

is pitching, the word impossible has no place in the discussion.

Yadier Molina hits like Raul Ibanez plays defense.
Aaron Heilman pitches

like Chuck Knoblauch throws to first base.

*Not ture.
I'm a Mets fan

in addition to being an Angels fan.

Heilman blows.

Hard.

Monica Lewinsky hard.

...

Too soon?

never too soon
I see you subscribe

to the Jay Leno book of comedy, as well. Good read, no?

Check out the non-Putz part of our bullpen

HEILMAN PLZ

Good thing you guys

still have George Sherill.

Oh, wait.

WEVE BEEN OVER THIS
But WE haven't. :D
DONT MAKE COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND PUNCH YOU YOUR WIFE AND YOUR CHILDREN IN THE FUCKING FACE
I will procreate if only for the reason that they be knocked the fuck out

El Doredo has taught me much

Calm down dude

the Bedard trade has been working out awesome for you.

[This is a classic LL meme]

(for more Classic LL memes check the LL HOF thread!)

Yadier got robbed of the NLCS MVP

IMO. Without him, you guys don’t win. Given that Jeff Weaver and Suppan managed to hold down the mets, I can only assume that you could have put a rusty pitching machine on the mound and given up the same number of runs. But you don’t score more without Molina.

Well, the third one was Johan.

And that was the one that took the lead.

But yeah. Johan’s first association in my memory is as the loser of game 5.

You poor bastard.

Bitterness breeds character.

I'm bitter about plenty

check out the guy in the white house sometime, or the NY Giants for the 5 years preceding now. Or the 10 years of the Angels preceding 2002.

And, of course, the bitterness that comes for no apparent reason whatsoever.

Our inherent bitterness puts your inherent bitterness to shame
In the words of Ben Folds

y’all don’t know what it’s like
bein’ male, middle class and white

How true.

I mean, I’m upper-middle class. Worlds of difference.

I'm also of mixed ethnicity so hah
and yet... Iowa.
Yeah, I'm really slumming it in Grinnell,

what with all my Proust-reading, Andrew Bird-listening, scotch-drinking friends.

Formed after 1300 = not a real university
Fine, I'll just take my "fake" degree

and go live under a bridge, trading what meager sociological advice I have for booze.

You think you guys are bitter?

I go to school in New Jersey.

Top that shit, bro.

Try going to a really good school

that nobody’s actually heard of, so they inaccurately pity you for going to what they think is some poedunk corn factory in Iowa—but I’m not bitter, no not all…I’M NOT BITTER, YOU HEAR ME!

go drown your tears in corn
'highly selective Liberal Arts College'

Hah!

11th in the country, motherfucker.

Tell me, does England have enough to throw together even a top five, yet?

England only has 2 universities
Really? Because America seems

to have enough talent to fill 40 or so top universities. How unfortunate for you.

Only because of affirmative action.
Way to fuck it up for the rest of us,

UMich.

You have a very liberal definition of 'top'
What?

Cal St. Fullerton doesn’t count?

Start with the Ivies, that's 8.

Add in the top LACs, Stanford, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and the like, and that’s another 20 or so, and tack on the selective state schools, and you get to around 40 (come to think of it, probably much more).

Sorry, outside top ten worldwide doesn't count
Of which 6 are American.

Good argument.

Population ratio

Population: 50/250 = 1/5
Universities: 2/6 = 1/3

Rule Britannia.

6 schools in America

in less than 400 years.

2 schools in Britain in more than 1,000.

I have the exact opposite luck

I go to Rutgers. When I go back to the west coast (where I live), a lot of prospective employers ask me if it’s an Ivy league school because of its semi-snooty name, and the fact that everyone has heard of it. They seriously think it is…and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna be the one to correct them. Good to have morons think I go to a great school when it’s really just a ‘good’ one.

Half of America confuses my school for Hogwarts
What's so bad about that?

From what I hear, Hogwarts is extremely selective.

I get bored of conversations like:

Them: Cambridge?! You can do MAGIC?!
Me: Fuck off tossers.

And you prefer conversations like

Them: Cambridge?! You can do biomechanics?!
Me: Fuck off tossers.

oh no

harry butthole pussy poteer…

/South park

Christ

I just realized I briefly discussed Harry Potter with a bunch of baseball fans at 3AM on a Friday night.

brb, suicide.

on the internets!
You're in New Jersey

good luck finding a more vibrant social scene than Lookout Landing.

I left a party early tonight

to catch the end of the game at a sportsbar across the street from my place.

I’m enough of a fuck-up without having to be reminded of it, thanks.

One down

Good work everyone

I lot of people

mishear me at first and I have to tell them that no, I don’t go to Cornell, but Grinnell. The “I’m so sorry” look they give me afterwords would be priceless if it weren’t so fucking irritating.

When you say Cornell

I think of

remind them that Cornell blows
Not of you want to explore the

exciting and ever-expanding field of hotel management!

or gorge diving
I'm pretty sure there's a 'university' in the UK

That gives degrees in mattress sales or something equally bizarre.

I'm actually upper-middle, too

which makes it twice as infuriating when I’m too polite to complain when someone cuts in the McDonald’s line.

Fuck McDonalds.

Living in California gives you the opportunity of eating at that heaven-on-earth deemed “IN-N-OUT.”

Yeah

but when someone cuts in the In-N-Out line, I’m not polite about it for that very reason.

Plus, the song lyrics say McDonald’s.

NO FUCK THAT

In-N-Out is sacred

I was...um...agreeing.
yeah i know

i just needed to emphasize

IN-N-OUT IS SO OVERRATED

This has been my IN-N-OUT IS SO OVERRATED rant of the day. Thank you.

Our outlook on life in the words of the Kaiser Chiefs

You didn’t give me a chance
You gave me a beating

not bleak enough

Stay alive until you die
And that is the end of you

Death would be a welcome embrace

that’s still but a distant dream.

If Kurt Vonnegut is right about the afterlife

I am going to be seriously pissed off.

So it goes
I'll travel back in time

and destroy the whole world with my ice-nine for real this time instead of just fucking up New Orleans.

how about?

I’m just waiting for
The man to come with all my things
And i’m just waiting for
Another man to take it all

Seems appropriately hopeless
with just a tinge of that bless for a second

punish us for an hour biblical stuff.

I own my own pet virus
I get to pet and name her
Her milk is my shit
My shit is her milk

Look on the bright side, suicide
Lost eyesight I’m on your side
Angel left wing, right wing, broken wing
Lack of iron and and/or sleeping

The autotagging has failed me yet again
I have an uncle who's an Angels fan

1986 still hurts. He was numb by 1995.

Garret Anderson kicking Randy Johnson's ass (metaphysically) in the playoffs

10 years later really made 1995 go away for me.

my dad too

I was a very young man in 1985… but my dad says i was a very young man being made fun of for being an M’s fan… and I apparently got some pretty badass luxury seats when I was 1-3 yrs old…

Fuck the internet for not being prevalent in 1995

that being said… tonight was the night I joined last year, an anniversary of sorts…

and fuck me for being 11
We are impervious to your threats

we suck the fun out of trolling by mercilessly insulting ourselves.

nobody can knock us lower than we knock ourselves.
Bavasi can
Beat you to it you stupid son of a bitch
clever how you made his appear before yours...
Graham's shows up first here.
Your computer is wrong
Not from where I'm sitting you didn't

Besides, I typed this TOMORROW MORNING.

Times zones have an eastern hemisphere bias.

What a wonderful future you must live in.
Not really, not when you're ruled by MONKEYS
Can I play the piano anymore?

Of course you can.

Well I couldn’t before.

Congratulations

you just awoke from the best part of your day, whereas mine is still coming up.

Congratulations

You saw last night’s M’s game.

I was in sweet sweet slumber for its entirety.

Congratulations

I’m more numb to the next heartbreaking loss than you are.

I only broke two things today!

I’m hoping by the end of the year I’ll just be able to curl up into the fetal position.

And go straight to sleep

our despondency is becoming more efficient with time.

and wake up in 2010
...when Coach Owens is GM
that would too hilarious for me to care anymore
If were gonna lose we might as well loose 120.
Pregame pixy stix for everyone
No more open bar in the clubhouse

:(

my furrowed brows no longer work
snort that shit

its like doing coke… i swear

In other news tonight

New Mariner’s GM Owens’s new “No Beer, No Sex, No Fun” policy has resulted in a complete organizational strike—they have two days before they forfeit the season.

Also, no they walk to Away games

No pussy ass planes for us!

Well I fucked that up

/wrist

Bavasi once made me cry.
Except Bavasi

):<

not anymore he can't

not anymore…

That's right, we are all of us numb to the world now
I remember feelings
I came across an old picture of me yesterday

I had this weird expression on my face. I had to ask a friend what it was, but I didn’t recognize his answer. Do you know what smiling is?

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/9/13/32840/3579

tonight was like negative infinity gobstoppers
This needs to come back.
where is rljaws when we need him

I am only a year old in my membership, but this is something that has to happen more

check the LL HOF thread

he’s there

I know... I just wish I were around for it

april 18th was actually my joining date… i think i’m just a bit nosatalgic, and i missed that date so I wish I was there for it

I predates me by years.

But good jumping jesus is it funny.

Game thread are easier to read with +/- 200 comments.

I would have suidice bombed a bus full of nuns myself.
Suidice? Really?
When I have a bad day, everyone has a bad day.
Did you not read the links?
I see it now

but this new blog format adds in the new comments so fast that I get buried in them trying to sort through the mess, and I missed’em.

Z button helps.
Well, that turned a mole hill into a mountain while I was gone....
This game is going to hurt for a fucking while.
yep

the only thing that’ll make up for it is if we win the next two games 18-1 each

I want to inject the whole angels roster with steroids!
Well..

what’s GMJ’s normal steroid injecting guy going to do then?

They can each take a cheek
Actually...

Per the post-game show news, we should kill the person who rear-ended Hunter in his brand new Bentley…

Somebody rear-ended Torii Hunter's Bentley earlier today

YOU DID IT WRONG!!!

Awww

I thought Angie was going to say Torii Hunter was rear-ended by Garet Anderson… too bad she was talking about his bently

Mantank's been getting rear ended for years
If Only

Ichiro had made that diving catch…none of this would have happened.

I’m going outside for a barbeque

probably one too many
I'm going to

smoke a couple pork shoulder (as well as other things) tommorow. It’ll just take longer.

totally doing it wrong

but you have the right sentiment

What? I shave my wrist hair all the time.
Arbeit macht frei
Great, now Jeff's gone all Deutsche-emo on us.

Hmmm.

Ich glaube, daß du Hasselhoff bedeutest…

Ich sage

Dieses Hasselhoff ist besser.

Die Welt ist leidet und Schmerz
Es ist Zeit für Rache!

Wir müssen die Juden ausrotten!

essen ze scheisse torii hunter. ich fucken ze mudder
I was just quoting south park

I wish I knew what this meant

I got "torii hunter"

and I believe “shit” and “fuck” were in there somewhere.

who wudda' known?
Eat the shit, Torii Hunter. I "fuck" the mother.
This is all I know.
I think the Man should give Torii Hunter a rear-ending
I'm going to play Mass Effect now.

Console myself with some hot, steamy Alien-Lesbian action.

are nights are very similar
I was considering going to Dantes

And now I think I’m going to play a video game and/or kill myself.

Well if you're not going to kill yourself

Might I suggest you try The Longest Journey? Brilliant PC adventure game.

I'm not much of a PC gamer.

I’m not much of a gamer at all. I may break out some SSB Melee. Also, Star Wars Battlefront II is appropriately mind numbing.

Go with Oblivion.

It’s the quickest way to a true nerdgasm.

I'm not actually a nerd.

And I take that as a personal insult to myself, not a defensive statement. I should be, I’d like to be, I’ve just never been able to do it.

You don't need to me a nerd

to have a nerdgasm, just shame.

I'm also a narcissist.

But I’ll check it out.

*be

I’m not immune to Freudian slips, either.

Anyone know...

of any sites where one can go and watch some TV Shows….

The kind of site that is most likely hosted outside of the US?

I know they’re out there I just forgot the URLs.

This is the best one I know of

http://tv-links.cc/

that's it....

the one I was looking for.

So Hot

I missed tv-links.co.uk until I found this

Holy shit, tv links is back? Awesome!
www12.alluctv.net
I don't get it...

it just seems like a bunch of ads.

Oops sorry, maybe they changed it again

One sec I’ll try to find the right url, it’s much better than tv-links….

Yup, they changed it, here’s the new address

http://www15.alluc.org/alluc/

Trust me, go to this one

It makes tv-links look like a pile of dead babies

surfthechannel.com

hulu.com

66stage.com, ninjavideo.net
Fantastic guys....

thanks.

I will never find the Torii Hunter pinata commercial funny ever ever ever ever ever ever again
Hear the Angels announcers call the ending play

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2008_04_18_seamlb_anamlb_1&;mode=gameday

No. And you can't make me.
why would I want that?
you're a cunt
cunt
cunt
continuing source of inspiration
no u
I don't understand this entire subthread.
watch more south park

stan gets dumped

watch more south park

stan gets dumped

I can't remember why now, but I have the wikipedia page

for “fuck” open on another tab. It’s hilariously long.

This points to a possible etymology where Common Germanic fuk–, by reverse application of Grimm’s law, would have as its most likely Indo-European ancestor *pug–, which appears in Latin and Greek words meaning “fight” and “fist” (cf. the Latin-derived English words pugnacious = “combative”, and pugilist = “fighter, boxer”). In early Proto-Germanic the word was likely used at first as a slang or euphemistic replacement for an older word for intercourse, and then became the usual word for intercourse.
Well I picked a wonderful time to be asleep

Fuck

hahahahaha

theres been al sorts of net fighting goin on

Be glad you did not watch this
Hmm, this whole comment section took

an odd turn somewhere.

For LL?

This is par.

You think people want to talk about BASEBALL after that clusterfuck?

I didn’t even see it and I’m pissed off

dude it was a rough game to watch

dickey fake excitement got shut down by goose, and Richie(2HR) with the only offense to show for, except for the last out which was completely robbed from us

I want that game erased from my memory

It will never happen, of course, but still.

LOL Cats make me die a little, inside.
no offense to the people who put them up

but I wish they would go away permanently

I only use it

to reference this.

On a different note

Jeff Clement fucking rules.

Team League AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG OPS
TAC PCL .412 15 51 12 21 5 0 4 12 38 12 6 0 0 .524 .745 1.269

That line is tits

‘bout time we let Vidro ride the pine I say.

heres where I throw in a picture of www.flickr.com/mekillingmyself/boner/stickitinme

fuck richie…

see you guys tomrrow getting just as fucked up… later

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