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Well aren't we Robert's bitch?
I saw a link to this thread, but no plashing gif.

jury’s out

Plashing?

Come on, JI. P isn’t anywhere close to F.

sounds better than a d
I'm building trust to abuse at a later date
That must have been a fun relationship.
I have other thread improvements that I plan on bitching about in the future
All of them will lead to future abuse
Not all bitches require links that can be abused
I can be creatively abusive
I would like for threads to stay open for commenters returning from the game

Brett-baits are currently being wasted.

I want easier ways to count user recs
What are you, Graham?
I'm tall enough to ride It's a small world
The z key is broken

fix it

Links to the previous thread would be nice for people reading games backwards
Comments with 10 recs should be colored red
Thanks for posting a link to the new thread.
Hey Burke,

Maybe we should keep him.

with Pepsi and Yahoo Music

watching the game is such a visceral experience!

Wow, Jeff linking to a new thread on the same day that Wash gets lit up?

The more things change, the more they stay the same

I thought that was out
Burke is the shit.

If only he and kenji could both catch, and Washburn could sit his ass down.

Hell, let Burke pitch and hit for himself

that way we can get rid of Turbo and Wash in one move

I support this.

And, as the home team, I opt to change that rule at least for all home games.

We actually don't even need to be the home team to do this

it’s already legal under the rules of baseball

Oh.

Well this is a good point. Shut up.

Okay, how about – as the home team, I opt to change the rules so that we win every game, regardless of the score.

You're ruining Strasburg year!
Burke/Kenji pitcher/catcher tandem
Maybe we don't even need a pitcher.

Ichiro can pitch from the outfield. Burke will back Kenji up.

Almost hit that out.

Nice swing, Burke.

Why is that not a picture of Ali G?

Say what you want about Borat, Ali G is hilarious

Borat was cool until it got so overplayed and everybody kept quoting it
The Bruno movie is going to be awful.
They're actually making one of those? Oh god
Parts of it were cool, anyway.
These commercials are pissing me off.
Inge looks to be a horrible CFer.
I haven't watched MLB.tv in about five days, so it looks like I'm missing something.

And I think I’m happy about that. Is it as annoying as the Dick’s Sporting Goods ad from last year?

Only they could create a situation where I'd want to hear more commercials.
Sacks loaded for Adrian?

C’mon King Awesome.

Gene Lamont looks like puddy
That's a lot of Mariner baserunners.
D-train warming up

this game is not yet over

I was just going to say the same thing

We still have a hope if D-Train is pitching.

Nope, nevermind

Poop.

D-Train?

Commence comedy.

He already got demoted out of the rotation?
He's working back in gradually.
I forgot all about him!
Can't be D-Train

Whomever’s out there isn’t all the way black.

It's not Sheffield...
I'd rather have Willis than Washburn
That's stupid
Willis can DH.
Washburn's pretty bad

although fine, that was probably hyperbole. Willis is pretty terrible too.

Contract
Eh, it could be worse

it could be Zito

I liked how you said 'I'd rather have Willis than Zito'
What is his contract?
3/$29 million
That's no good.
Too much for too long.
Is it Loafie Time yet?
In my dreams, it's always Lopez time
You just want him

To drop one of his loafies on your chest, doncha?

Cue slider low and away.
That would be a hell of a pitch given that Kenny Rogers is left-handed....
Huh. He sure is.
Those work better when the pitcher's a righty
This is true, yes.
*screwball?
How the fuck did Beltre hit that?
woo Beltre
King Awesome

Gets some luck

How in all that's holy?
watch faster
Beltre: succeeds

Everybody I hate: fails

This game is awesome.

RRS fails :( ?
Forgot about RRS on account of his appearance is meaningless
Beltre sucks he can't get hits with RISP
Why the hell are they playing "This Kiss" over the PAs?
It's a real pump up song
I am also curious.
I wondered what the fuck that was.
Zach Miner and D-Train? I shiver in fear.
I smell false hope

CRUSH IT QUICK

NO NOT WHILE LOPEZ IS UP
Grand slam coming!!
If the Tigers bring in Washburn we've got us a ballgame
Damnit Beltre is so unclutch.

He only got a 1 RBI single. He’s a bust.

Plus he waited for a low-leverage situation to do it.

What an asshole.

Well done you assbag
So Loafie maybe take a pitch or two there
Raul v. lefty = worst player in prefessional baseball
let him walk you you assbag
nvm Vidro is on deck

swing from your ass

Thank you Jose "Left Eye" Lopez for restoring normalcy
TAKE TAKE TAKE
The best part about this at-bat is that Turbo is on deck.
Funk Walk!
An inning ago they were praising Rogers for how he pitches during blowouts
Fuuuuck.

Turbo will either fail or become a M DH for life

This would be a good time for a Vidro triple.
But then we will never be rid of him
How does Vidro get to thrid unless one of the fielders dies?
That would require an act of God,

or a huge pile of hot dogs at third base.

It's not the 1999 NLCS, Kenny
KEEP TAKING!
I don't want Vidro to succeed. But I still have hope in this game for some reason

so conflicted. Just take a walk, Jose

TAKE YOU HOTDOG SNOGGLER
If Vidro walks and Richie homers...
Nice swing you massive bag of clitoris
That's some choice GTE right there.
Do. Not. Swing
The bad news: we leave the bases loaded

The good news: Vidro fails.

Both are good news if you have Strasburg in mind.
Vidro hit the ball to the outfield.

That’s a win for him.

A healthy Vidro flies out after going 3-1.
weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
So as it turns out Vidro still sucks
Send him to Tacoma for seasoning.

(No, I don’t write my own jokes).

Vidro: Suckbag defined.
Clement would have hit two grand slams.
I thought fatass was supposed to walk a lot.
I hope Kenji takes a dump in Jarrod's locker
I'd wish for far worse.
He could pee in Washburn's car's heater

and put massive amounts popcorn in the gastank

Or fuck his wife and then kill her and put it on the internet.

...too harsh?

He doesn't care about his wife anyway
The popcorn part would be funny if it worked.
Maybe I should've replaced "wife" with "high school girls"
Yes, that was the joke I know
If Washburn already had the crap beat out of him

and was stuffed into the locker first – otherwise, no deal.

I approve of this.
hey is is Vitor artinez
Looking forward to DMZ's next update on this Vidro kid
I don't get why he's not on the future 40
Me either.

I hear he is better than Clement

And he's so dreamy
dreamy dreamy dreamy
There's a funny Family Guy episode on
The Sex-Ed one on TBS?
No there's not
you're crabby
funny Family Guy = #DIV/0!
I disagree.

it used to be funny.

it was funny for like 2 seasons
Before they started recycling all of their jokes.
Prior to that they recycled Simpsons gags
i don't know why i think this episode is so funny

are the M’s still playing?

It's not at all.
MORE NISSAN LIVE SETS

THESE ARE EXACTLY WHAT I’D LIKE TO EXPERIENCE

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME

NISSAN MAKES GOOD TRUCKS!

lETS ASK CRISTINA AGUILERA ABOUT THEM
Yes color guy, the Tigers need to watch more video on RRS

he is so completely the opposite of Washburn.

Hyphen for starter #4 please.
Play for yourself, Beltre
Raul's certainly no problem offensively

It’s just his defense that’s offensive…

See what I did there? I should go cover for Woody Paige.

So this is as many outs as Washburn got
RRS is throwing 85-87

uhh

Offspeed looks very good
Thats what I was thinking/mentioned earlier
I wonder how hard he was throwing in his starts in winter ball.
So what is it

With the general loss of velocity around the majors?

fuck you gravity!
He ceased to exist for a little while.

He’s probably waiting for some of the matter in his arm to return.

Is it the cataclysmic collapse in speed during the game

Suggestive of TJ type angst, or is it just that way it is today?

Apart from the TB closing appearance, his FB has been in the high 80s
I AINT TRIPPIN WE INDEPENDENT

you’re rapping about a soda

I thought he was rapping about 'krunk'
Let's sign this Mays guy
So no Sosa or Bonds. Why?
Things less depressing than the Mariners that I happend upon while searching for that episode of Family Guy:

i think i deserve some credit for that
I hope Griffey never hits 600 and the MLB.tv ad guy dies of dick suffocation
Those commercials are terrible.

What’s with the X-Files music?

YOU BETTER BRUSH YOUR TEETH!

BECAUSE MY DICKS COMING FOR AN INSPECTION!

May God give Washburn to search for his children with a Geiger counter
That site is hilarious thank you.

The public access TV list is hilarious.

I hope his house is live on CNN
Ken Griffey, Jr: Keep watching.

and watching. and watching

Hey have you guys heard about these Nissan livesets!
AINT NO OTHER MAN ITS TRUE

I AM SO MAD

The Blue Jays are overrepresented in that MLB.tv commercial

Why are they advertising MLB.tv on MLB.tv?

So you buy more mlbtv.
It's like the upgrade to premium ad.

I already have premium you fucks.

Yay Richie.
Yeah, whatever.
... Fuck Vidro
Fuck you you're finished
Richie Sexson can only homer off pitches below 89 MPH
81mph changeup

Wheel. House.

My point remains true.
If we win this, it'll be kicking and screaming
Next game we should have Burke pitch to Washburn
Couldn't be worse
It actually couldn't.
Burke for All Star! You can vote 25 times! And Voting is open!
NOOOOO...BRING IN THE D-TRAIN
Ok. MLB.tv's experiment with commercials needs to end
you won't believe me, but...

my colleague and I (who make up the unofficial M’s fan club of New Zealand) predicted Suckburn’s numbers exactly before the game today – even the Grand Slam…but not the 2 k’s.

New Zealand...Rocks!!!
To be fair

It wasn’t terribly hard to predict that Washburn would suck today.

call it an educated guess
rain won't help
Please no rain delay.
Oh good a possible rain delay

more time to dwell on the hilarity

So the kinda not bad news:

We hit a shitty pitcher fairly well.

The AL Central has such terrible broadcast crews
I've taken a tour of the entire NL

and there’s 2 crews I like.

San Diego and
Dodgeers

when Vin Scully is doing tv

god damn it
You can puuuuuuuuuuut on the boooooooooard?

YES!!!

Cleveland might be the worst
RRS for starter

Jarrod for trashpile

And Cairo and Vidro?
They can all suck a dick and die
Death by Unga unga
I know this joke.

Though in most of the versions I heard they called in “Punja.”

Yeah I've heard it in many different ways

But the premise works for vidro and cairo

That's what it's like watching them play.
So Jarrod for your mom?
I'll give you a C+ for this.
MIKE REILLY CAN ENDURE TONS OF RAIN NEED TO WONDER
Does HoRam have a job this year?
Not having a job > playing for us
Somebody fly a plane into the Yahoo! Music building
preferably while that one douche is doing his interview
Seriously this is very annoying
Cory Lidle is already dead.
That was a good one

Well played

Can we get Jarrod to do it?
Killing two birds with 1 plane
He had terrible aim
Somebody drank his clever juice
I'll give you a B for that one.
Hey yeah more Baek

if he doesn’t pitch well today I predict he’s gone in a week.

OH NO!

Baek In. Comeback Thwarted.

Baek is Back!
Hey look! Another pitcher without an out pitch.
If you're speaking ill of RRS I'm going to cut you
RRS has 2 legit out pitches
Remember that 9.0 inning complete game

That Baek threw against Detroit last year? That was fun.

why do people think tyler perry is funny?

go m’s

The fact that it's the #1 cable sitcom

is another sign that most Americans are retards

well

what other cable sitcoms are there? is the CW cable?

Actually good point.

I never really thought about it but now that I think of it there are none.

I found his plays entertaining a while back.
He's the black version of Dane Cook

And somehow even less funnier.

Not possible
Dane Cook is proof that most teens cannot be trusted with any decisions
Damn straight
and I'm 19.

If I meet someone and they like Dane Cook I immediately leave. Unless they’re hot. And preferably 18

I was recently talking to a girl I hated because I was forced to and she mentioned how hilarious Carlos Mencia is.

I walked away

Mencia and Cook need to be killed at the same time on PPV

I would pay good money to see that

Why were group executions done away with?
Idk. Terrible decision.
Real life Celebrity Deathmatch
Anyone else think Mencia and Vidro look alike?
They're equally talented, at least.
His real name is "Ned"

It's not just teenagers though
STAB STAB STAB
I am thinking "the Negotiator" should sign them all to 3 year 24 million dollar contracts

That should get more women and children into the stadium.

I'm not the right color to answer this
put Washburn back in
This game got sad when tried to come back.
Oh balls.

See ya comeback

This is the best group of umpires EVAR!!!
So...I'm gonna say foul.

If it was fair it was fair by .6 mm

how the hell was that fair??
Fine. I give in

Go Rays

Already lost today

Awesomestinne got lit up :-(

Our curse on them is working well, unfortunately
Fluke
Why do you hate Edwin Jackson?
Hello instant replay
It will delay the game!

And we can’t show commercials during it!!!

Ordonez must be finished.

Blown away by Baek.

Fuck this

I’m to watch two basketball teams I hate instead

pepsi = crips, coke=bloods
Geoff Baker is full of sarcasm. I like the new Geoff.
Fun Washburn Fact

“In 2002 he celebrated the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by allegedly hooking up with a 16-year old girl who worked at the concession stand at Angel Stadium. Washburn was investigated by local authorities in Los Angeles for this incident, which his wife did not enjoy.”

Wikipedia FTW

I love the wife comment

No shit she didn’t enjoy the situation

Just read the whole thing, its funny as hell

Someones been playing with Wash’s wiki

Okay which LL regular did this?
Screenshotted.
That was a good read.
Nice.
Though the grammar is awful. Someone should fix it up to make it more readable/believable.
Cristina Aguilera married a stereotype

She's also really hot
I do not agree with this statement.
I do
You're made of fail.

Implants+Tape is all that is.
ZOMG Boobies!!
I like her boobs.
no no no no we're not having one of these subthreads

You guys take all the fun out of a nice Jewish stereotype joke

No boobies?

boooooooo

Horrible slippery slope
Which makes it way worse
You know what makes me mad?

Diana Krall being married to Elvis Costello.

Her voice just makes me melt.
That's why I own every album she's ever released.
The worst is Ben Zobrist and his wife
Or hot Elisha Cuthbert and that dumbfuck Sean Avery
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas.
A lesson for everyone

If you find a chick that hot and you look like him, knock her up and lock her down

In her sleep..
Enjoy life without a spleen

cockbag

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Who's hating?

Good on that guy

calm the fuck down kid
A healthy Vidro lines out to Center.
Maybe the M's are "indulging external pressure"
D-Train sucks, announcers

Just accept it and it will hurt less later

No, but he had 20 wins in 2005.
Yeah my friends thought that getting DTrain was the best part of the Tigers trade.

I punched them all in the face

Too dark

can’t see Dontrelle in the bullpen unless he’s smiling

I adjusted the angle of my monitor and I could see his outline.

If you've got hate in your heart let it out. White Power
Go Cardinals!
Are they the honkiest team in baseball?
Haven't run the numbers but they're a contender
A's too

Do they have a black player other than Thomas?

Emil Brown
he fields like a white person
No, we're technically sound
speak for yourself cracker
I think you'd have to go to every team's roster page

and count how many white people are on each roster. I am too lazy to do that right now.

they've gotta be

The case against:

Brian Barton (he’s a rocket scientist)
Cesar Izturis (who cares)
Albert Pujols (probably is in line for a crackerectomy)

The Case For:

The remainder of the organization
Ozzie Smith
Ron Gant

They have the Blue Jays beat

(Wells, Stewart, Benitez, Barajas)

Gibbons hasn't been accused of being a racist

like LaRussa has.

I forgot Molina

but Jason LaRue completely cancels him out.

Gonzaga hoops too!
btw Todd Jones is a raging homophobe
we knew that
I sure am glad so many major websites let him write on them
that I did not know
"Do I look like I am a homophobe?"

Self-loathing.
He wouldn't like this blog.
I guess he wouldn't appreciate this guy then

If you don't like Will & Grace

don’t mean there’s something wrong with you, it means there’s something wrong with Will…he’s a homosexual. White Power

They have an Asian too
And ballgame.
Oh joy, a delay
Watch me not watch the end of this.
FUCK MIKE REILLY
Baek has a splitter that is biting tonight.

An out pitch he hath discovered.

hey is is Vitor artinez
YES

Harold Reynolds. It’s huggin’ time, Bitch

Harold Reynolds!

Hug me.

TWO Nissan Liveset commecials in one break???

Fuck. Also Bronson Arroyo is not good

But he has a World Series Ring!

With Boston!

And he plays Guitar!!!

He blows

I hate guitar players.

Fucking douchebags. “Oh look at me I wrote 200 songs last night, let me sing one of them for you while I play my $200 Hohner plywood special.”

Pete Townshend is pretty cool.
By "I hate guitar players"

I mean I hate amateur guitar players who you find every ten feet on a college campus.

fuck those assholes
Did you ever see that Family Guy bit about "what douche bags did to the guitar?"

It is spot on and exactly what you are describing.

Yep. He must be good.
Playing hard....everyday.
Can't blame Baek

He’s been watching Richie all year.

The game thread won't let me post every Cardinals profile picture
try breaking it up into two posts
at least post Jason LaRue

Born Blue Jay

Skip Schumaker has a dark goatee. Does that count for anything?

that picture was from before he turned into a honky
Brian Barton

I like that he's pretty much the smartest guy in baseball.

He’s probably a total oreo.

This one

is better, but you still don’t get the full effect.

SO LET'S GET A PARTY GOING

LET’S GET A PARTY GOING
NOW IT’S TIME TO PARTY AND WE’LL PARTY HARD
PARTY HARD

You're just asking to get bombed with flashing gifs.
That's a great driving song.
It's a great anything song
Won't argue with that.

But it’s an especially great driving song. Going down the road with a couple of friends, head banging and blaring this song. Good times.

Sounds like a good car-accident song.
That would be one the awesomest sounding car accidents ever.
For those who are confused

Party Hard

This would be a sweet Guitar Hero song.
They would need to incorporate a new instrument

that records head-banging and punching to the rhythm.

Andrew WK is a crazy person
"I wanted to give myself a bloody nose, and then take a picture of it [for my album cover]. But my nose didn’t bleed enough after I hit myself with a brick. I had to use this follow-up plan, which was this little water bottle full of pig’s blood that I’d gotten from the butcher shop.”
He told you he was hardcore.
No that's anything by The National when you're driving home from work at the end of a long week after barely sleeping the night before
Great song

Madden 03 I think

Wait speaking of honky teams

Our very own Geoff Baker talks of the racial makeup of the Jays here

I was just thinking of that article

where SABR guys are accused of being racists!

Party Hard

Try making a thread for the honkiest team in baseball.

I think Detroit is the non-honkiest team in baseball.

What's Morgan Freeman doing playing for the Tigers?
This guy?

Where he’s from, you can’t control him. You might get a guy to do it that way for a while because he wants to benefit, but in the end, he is going to go back to being who he is. And that’s a person that you’re going to talk to with respect, you’re going to talk to like a man.

Morgan Freeman would make a funny Dugout character.

I want to ask this guy if he feels pressure to be successful in this and that
I like how two starters have an ERA north of 6, one has has an ERA north of 5.
Best starting rotation in baseball.
5 starting pitchers.
Ichiro is very patient tonight.
and then he swings at ball four
This isn't Seattle weather, dingus

This is bad weather

Seattle gets too much shit for getting an average of 32" of rain a year.

Milder winters, beatiful summers apparently don’t count for shit. Also, Seattle isn’t even in the top ten cities list which get the most rain.

Go back to your latte and listen to Nirvana

/Dumbshits

Detroit = great weather
Another line drive caught. I hate his luck or lack there of
Man that was exhilarating
So how does Bavasi explain his way out of this?

I mean to his bosses. It was clear with every action he took this offseason that his plan was to upgrade the pitching - and pitching only - and we’d have a contender. He fully succeeded in doing what he said he wanted to do, and it’s failing miserably.

I know every year people swear he’s going to get fired, but this has to be the year, right? For the past few years I’ve wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, but if you put all your chips on red and bust, what do you do?

I’m just trying to predict what the excuse will be, and nothing makes sense. Bedard and Putz being hurt? That can’t be enough.

Bedard gave him a two-year window

I imagine Bavasi will mention that pretty often.

Meet the new GM of the Seattle Mariners

Don't care who runs, just want new players
OK, I'll ask

Who is that? I thought I was up on my shitty GMs, but I guess not.

Wayne Krivsky

He’s BrianL’s pick to replace Bavasi. I think he’s also mine.

Oh, that's what he looks like? I thought he was older.

Anyway, for all the shit he gets, he has put the Reds in pretty solid position, I think. Shore up the OF defense and a few other parts and they can contend in the NL Central.

I have no idea how much of their farm system can be attributed to him, but looking at Votto, Bruce, Cueto, Bailey . . . it looks promising. I wouldn’t have traded Hamilton, though.

Let me clarify

I don’t want Krivsky to be the new GM. He has no idea how to evaluate players.

Ergo, he’ll be first in line for the job.

This team could be re-tooled in time for next year

if someone competant is rehired.

Krueger gave "Clean up the 'D'" a check due to no errors being made.

I beg to differ…

If we lose 10 in a row can we post the creepy ronald mcdonald shaker?
Yes

If you like being banned

Have you gone back and retroactively deleted those posts?
I'm not that vigilant
Give Robert limited admin power.
If this proposal leads to the deletion of said posts

I am all for it.

If we lose a series to the Angels can we post it on HH?
FF3 doesn't have an ad-block add-on

so no.

Plus if you do I will tell on you.

Every time I see someone type FF3

I think “Final Fantasy 3” followed by “Fuck yeah!”

Same
FF3 (or six for you Playstation people) = best FF ever.
There's never a time where that's a good idea

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