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10/25: Open ALCS Thread


Joe Saunders

#51 / Pitcher / Los Angeles Angels

6-3

210

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Jun 16, 1981



Andy Pettitte

#46 / Pitcher / New York Yankees

6-5

225

L

L

Jun 15, 1972


Baseball!

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Okay, let's do this
So far so good!
Please, Angels. Defy the odds and beat the Yankees!
Go Angels!
Way to not be a LLemming!
Way to LLook stupid in your shirt.
WeLL you're a stupid face!
And your ugLLy
Meanie.

…dammit.

I didn't mean to hurt your feeLLings
How the hell are you supposed to get hits on this strikezone?
I'm playing with fire: I want the Angels to win tonight to force a Game 7 they heartbreakingly lose.

I know that you really ought to kill the vampire while you’ve got the stake to its heart, but I can’t help myself.

Jorge at the plate --> shades of the 2001 ALCS

I just don’t understand 60% of the posters here.

BECAUSE THE ANGELS ARE CANCER

THIS ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE HERE.

Rooting against the Yankees is like hating Coke if you're RC Cola

Whereas the Angels are 7-Up, and FUCK 7-Up

It was 8 years ago.
That looked like it happened in slow motion.
Little things!
Does anybody remember how to run the fucking bases?
Way to go Nick!
I like him because he strikes me as the type of guy that would enjoy extra innings
I like him because I would enjoy yelling "Ey Swisha!" from the stands if he ever joined the Mariners
Part of me expects Kendrick to entirely forget to ever step on first base.
I bet CC Sabathia runs a rowdy barbershop
Explain
He cuts hair
and is black, like Ice Cube
Oh come on don't bring race into this
I am sorry
I'm not the person you should be apologizing to.
Who then?
My bet is JamMasterJesus.
Mathis is such a good catcher
And he's good at hitting too!
That AB by Aybar was miraculously Yuni-esque
Fucking dammit
Woo semi-bad guys
Using dead comedians to sell DirecTV makes me sad.
And didn't the little girl in Poltergeist die, too?

Definitely some weird choices.

She did, I think
The whole cast was curse in those movies.
McCarver: A-Rod Using All 17 Inches
Seattle Mariners!

Ichiro!

We got mentioned! Proof the rest of the baseball world knows about us!
Awwww. I've been watching the game on mute.

What did they say?

Tim Mccarver couldn't imagine Hideki Matsui being anything besides a Yankee...

With the exception of going to Seattle to be with Ichiro (haha, because they’re both Japanese and two Japanese teammates automatically get along).

Isn't there beef between Ichiro and Matsui? They don't get a long or something?
Ichiro called Matsui a skeevy, pock-marked little bitch
McCarver said that Matsui only wanted to play for the Yankees, or the Mariners to play with Ichiro

Inexplicably, he accepted the highest offer from the most prominent team in MLB

Ichiro doesn't get along with Matsui, Matsui gets a long with Ichiro.
Vlad didn't swing at that?
Yeah, throw your Blackberry into the ocean.

Stupid Corona.

Cano? More like Canhit!
It's difficult to hit when the pitcher is trying to pitch around you.

McCarver provides such insight.

darn.

At least get a double play to end this inning.

GO BOMBERS
Screen shot'd
I once celebrated a WS title outside of Yankee Stadium.
I'm turning on Grizzly Man.

Enough o’dis.

Every single time the camera pans to the stands and we get a glimpse of these wonderful 'fans', I throw up in my mouth
MLB's decision to use only veteran umpires

has really led to the elemination of inconsistent calls. What a farsighted decision.

That's next series.
Sorry -

will read articles to the end in future

Contrary to Jeff,

I for one do not believe that Joe Saunders is very good and I think today has illustrated why.

Dude lay off he might have knew somebody that died 3 years ago.
I agree with this statement wholeheartedly.
I love you, Mr. Oliver.
Good job, Vladdy.

Now don’t get picked off.

How the hell did he hit that?!
Talent?
It's one thing to hit pitches on the outside corner at the knees.

That was a whole different level…

Didn't Vlad once hit a HR off a ball that bounced in front of the plate?

He is a very atypical batter.

Joe Morgan used Vlad's atypicalness to try and say that he shouldn't complain about a called strike outside of the plate.

I was hoping Jon Miller would say something to the extent of “um, no Joe, just because a hitter has a tendency to swing at pitches outside of the zone doesn’t all of a sudden mean that all pitches to him should automatically be called strikes”, but it never came.

Vintage Impaler

I’m just happy he’s doing it against someone else for a change

Watching Nick Swisher "run" is funny
Well that was a lot of false hope.
I can't believe the decision to stick with Joe Saunders backfired
LET's GO BASEBALL
GODAMMIT THAT'S WHY YOU TAKE THE WALK
The Angels are currently losing!

Horray!

This means the Yankees are currently winning
Acceptable consequence.
does not compute
The whole playoffs is a fatal error.
It's such a shame too, because all of us can actually look forward to the postseason for the first time in wow it's really been a long ass time

It’s just a matter of getting through these playoffs without our hearts bein too torn to shreds. :-(

off-season*

My mind is going in four different directions with the ALCS, Sunday Night Football, and work.

That's only three.
Andy Pettitte is a queer anyways
Obligitory SUCK IT JETER AHAHAHAHA
Surely the Angels would have been better off starting Weaver
Add in his playoff numbers and A-Rod is almost hitting .300 this season!
Rivera pitching two innings?
I don't see why not
The WS won't start for another month anyways
I wanted rain to force a playoff doubleheader!
I vaguely remember t.v. scheduling a crapton of Roseanne re-runs way-back-when.

Before they had set schedules and ESPN had enough money to outbid the Big Three.

I'm just surpirsed is all.
It's not like he's facing the Diamondbacks
FUCK YOU TEXIERIA
IN THE ASS WITH THE BUSTED END OF THAT BAT
SERIOUSLY
Thanks for taking over the hate for me. I gave all I could.
YOURE QUITE THE TROOPER
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Well that was awkward
Go Yankees!

Seattlebruin isn’t even around, I can’t believe I’m doing this.

I liked the walk better.
Thats what you get for not letting Vlad take his walk Yankees
What the fuck do you say to Mariano Rivera in a mound conference?

“Hmm…Maybe try throwing the cutter next time?”

Well, at least it's a one run game now.
How are we doing?
It's almost mercifully over.
Which side is we?
Do you even have to ask?
I'd prefer to abstain

but given that we are one inning away from most people in my proximity becoming an even bigger asshole than usual, I can see your logic.

Wow, that failed basic grammar.
Down by one run captain
Over it
Jeff Mathis is lookin pretty good
He's out of the game
I wasn't talking about his play of baseball

;)

You and I have similar taste in men.
Position players who get taken out of the game should be allowed to come back to pitch
Where are the Mariners?
They wear red now
Dammit Fogel lied to me
He's suck a lil bitch
I assume that means you are attracted to me
How have not figured it out already?
You are so bad at reading signals
All these starting pitchers are pitching in relief and clearly they are inferior to Joe Saunders
I was a little surprised when Santana didn't start.
Weaver???
Would of worked as well.
This won't end well. I don't like Kazmir out there.
The Yankees have had 16 baserunners
So when is Mike Scioscia got to be lynched?
Dammit don't bunt with Swish
YOU STUPID BUTTPRIRATE
CHRIST MAKE IT INTERESTING
Don't care about the error, bunting there is awful
No happy meal for you, Howie
That sounds good
I totally missed that and thought it was caught.
YOU GOT LUCKY THE FIRST TIME DON'T KEEP DOING IT
THINK AGAIN!
This game is a gay
Its as though they want the conspiracy theorists to believe that MLB is arranging for the Yankees to go to the WS...
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS
STOP ANGELING YOURSELVES
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAAA
So they officially don't do the little things anymore
Well at least this is a satisfying way for the Angels to lose
If only Kendrick were a bit taller
Obviously they need to keep bunting.
Fricking Angels, cant manage to beat the Yankees.

Angel win in this series would cause the Yankee fans so much pain after they were up 3-1 :(

This is getting depressing.
He should just bean Jeets. For the fuck of it.
With a cannonball.
He's been a circus defensively but no one has acknowledged it >:(
Thank goodness for you.
I count zero Yankee batsmen as out
Welp, I guess it was sort of close

Let me be the first to say: Go Phillies!

You are not the first to say that.
Well that was a firm throw to first.
That's the first time a black man has ever been in Yankee Stadium's front row
I will bet against this
Oh come on Reggie Jackson must have had box seats at some point
I've seen Spike Lee there a few times.
Spike Lee is black?
No, he just make black movies.
Spike Lee is whiter than the stuff you pick off an orange
Are you speaking of the peel? because if so that is orange and not white
Spike Lee is not orange
So he is light orange or perhaps yellow?
He was black in Do The Right Thing
The word you are looking for is "pith"
You knew what I meant
I don't eat oranges
Grapefruits
Rarely and only in soda form
Rarely implies at least once
I once had a grapefruit soda
Lemons
Only in liquid lemonade form
Limes
Lime aid and lime popsicles are delicious but I have never eaten an actual lime
I did, yes.

That is how I was able to identify the word that you were looking for.

Here’s a gold star!

God I hope next year is finally the year where the Angels look like they are going to suck in the pre season and then actually suck during the regular season and lose a large amount of games
Is there any sort of 'AL championship series losers curse'?

Like the superbowl loser curse?

And if not, can we invent one?
Hey technically you're only down by two runs

New pitcher?

I hate that somewhere, Billy Crystal has a boner
That'll do it for the Yanks

Mariano is not going to give up minimum 2 more.

Well at least I can take this faggy Angel logo off my account
The Angels stopped being an official little-things team when they developed a great offense
Yeah its always one or the other
Unless you are the 2001 Mariners and never get thrown out stealing
But then your one glaring weakness that can be easily fixed is backup shortstop and then your regular shortstop gets TB
And Mark McLemore starts against a left handed pitcher at shortstop in the playoffs and that's at least a -2 win player
Their offense was only great because they did the little thing like

bat well with runners in scoring position.

I can't believe that
I can't believe Adenhart sacrificed himself for nothing.
There is nothing worse than this game
I agree with you
You could almost say its the worrrrrrrstttttt
Not yet
Tell me when
Now
Aw fuck this is the wurrrrrrssstttttttt
Well that was about an inch

From being a grand slam.

An inch on the bat or an inch in the outfield?
An inch on the bat is a huge margin.

I bet it was more like 1/8th of an inch on the bat

Bat

Given Yankee stadium this year, I thought that was out.

Are we talking about penises again?
In retrospect the Angels probably should have turned those bunts into outs
Hindsight is 20/20
I could've told you that without hindsight
I find this hard to believe
Your 2009 Angels

Defense sucks when it counts the most.

Some where Nick Adenhart is crying.
I'm pretty sure he's rotting.
Not cool

Don’t speak ill of the dead like that.

All dead or just the dead people like?
Actually I bet the part that rots is fully decomposed
God I hope so. Corpses should at least have the decency to decompose properly
That seems fast to me.

But I’m not a scientist of that field.

Someone ought to read Stiff
I'll do it.
It might not be about dongs
That would be Bonk
I'll put both on my Christmas list. Santa can surprise me
You must mean bonking
Bonk is in large part about bonking
I can't tell if this joke is too inside for you or not
I know what you're getting at
Book or website?
Truthfully I'm just bullshittin ya
I know it depends on were and how he was buried.
Yeah, seems like it would be a pretty complicated formula.

Soil density, average precipitation, method of burial, composition of casket (if any), composition of body, etc. Those would all have to play a part.

I know nothing about decomposure rates.
LETS GO PHILLIES!

BEAT THE PINSTRIPES!

Kazmir reminds me of Washburn.

I bet they both feel like crap

At least Kazmir was part of a division winner and go to the post-season.
He was in the World Series last year
Oh hey the Yankees are still hitting
ARE YOU READY WEAVER?!?
If I were an Angel fan I would carbomb Scioscia
I wonder if allowing walks is a little thing
2 runs without a hit

Thanks to the Angel fail.

Nice elbow

Disgusting. Looks like an elderly vagina
I wonder whether or not I should pursue how you know this
There's no opening
Maybe its in the shadowy part
Oh
So it's Whoopi Goldberg's vagina
Too bad she has never posed nude otherwise we would know for sure
Okay so maybe it just looks like the outside, minus the opening
This seems like the sort of thing that requires research
Story in pictures!
I'll look into it
Gross.
I've done cadaver anatomy, it can't be much worse
I can't tell if short-hair Weaver looks like a bigger douchebag than long-hair Weaver or not.
Not. To me anyway
RALLY MONKEY MUST DIE!

The good news about the Angels losing is we get to kill the rally monkey.

I guarantee you the rally monkey never returns
Rally Nick Adenhart Corpse!
It worked with El Cid!
So every relief pitcher would have been a better starter than Saunders
Maybe he should have started
There's something odd about a company that provides satellite TV

sponsoring a blimp.

2 to go

Til #40 for the Yanks.

The Angels look like a team that has given up
I know that look well
So do you I imagine
This is the most anti-Angel team ever
The Mariners used to be renowned for hitting homers drawing walks and scoring runs
Suck it Angels.
Congrats A-Rod.

LET’S GO PHILLIES!

Hat Rivera starting with a bow comment is just retarded.
Always with the GMJ batting for Napoli. GOD
Rivera is much better against lefties
I'm glad it ends like this
I'll miss Naps
We so better trade for him

The Angels don’t appreciate him

Don't tease me like that
Gary Failure Jr. to make the last out

Bank.

What a humorous nickname!
Yeah I've shut down my nickname hilarity for the year

I know it sucks.

At least you aren't as bad as yoyogi
You are currently the worst poster on LL
Sweet jesus this appeared with a rec attached, that's fucking amazing.
Yeah dude that fucking blew my mind
It happens a lot
Usually with Fogel comments
So that's how he wins the Rec race

Hax

duh
When you can manifest recs out of thin air, there's not much room for competition
When do the Yankees start humping on the mound
Sigh. :(

Go PHILLIES!!!!!!

YES

FUCK YOU ANGELS. Now, go Phillies!

This is the worrrrrssstttt
I officially hate the Yankees.
What took you so long?
It's just been comfirmed again.
Go ... phillies.
Alright, fine. Bye, baseball
Rooting against the Yankees is an integral part of baseball.
Yeah I suppose
Too bad they didn't have Mike Sweeney to pinch hit.
Well good.

At least we don’t have to have a 2010 with idiot Angels fans gloating about their Pennant everytime we play them.

If Mariano Rivera died tomorrow would New York care more or less than they cared about 9/11?
This is why I come to LL.
Depends on if terrorism is involved.
Judging by the reaction to Jeter breaking Gehrig's record...

more.

God damn he is old
Depends on how he died. Is it a bloody murder by the hands for the ghost of Nick Adenhart?
Rivera blowing Game 7 of that WS probably hurt more than 9/11.
How about Rivera blows 4/4 games in a sweep?
The Angels season was more succcessful than I wanted it to be.
Agreed. But at least it ended in heartbreak!!
LETS GO PHILLIES!
I am cheering for RAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL
Time to put on brand new hats and jerseys with the tags still on.
Nothing like replaying the same exact audio over and over and over
The Yankees celebrate in a much classier way than the Red Sox.

At least, Rivera over Papelbon.

Rivera is literally three times as old
I find that unbelievable
How many times, and from how many different angles do we have to watch the final out?
Oh-noes a fiver year WS layoff!

Me-oh-my-oh!

I FUCKING HATE THEM SO MUCH
And so the Angels' season, much like Nick Adenhart, is dead
I this analogy ewho is the alcohol and who is the drunk driver?
How long have you been sitting on that?
Four minutes, three of which were spent making sure nobody else had already made the joke
I like hearing this in William Shatner's voice
I always wanted the classics read on audio books by Shatner.
How did it take us over five minutes to do this?

It’s been a long season.

I'm actually a little ashamed of myself for not even thinking of it at all.
Too easy, that's why
This meme, just like Adenhart, will die young.
And like Nick Adenhart, will be killed by drunks
At least now that their season is over, his family can finally put his memory to rest.

And hey a few beers does not a drunk make.

Hopefully the World Series is just as awesome as the last ttime we had a defending champion in it.
An Autry has to present the trophy?

Now that’s funny.

Those are really ugly hats
I like how the Angels swept the Red Sox
Me too.

I can respect that.

The lady giving out those awards seems like she'd rather be at Shakey's
Anyone planning on having a World Series party?

Shared misery and all that.

Angels fans analyze their team's performance postgame.
I hope the Phillies Sweep
and every single Yankee player bleeds out rectally.

Gman (Yankees Fan): You guys have a Hell of an organization and a very talented team. Congrats on a hard fought series.
Angels fan: and you can EAT MY RUNNY SHIT.
another Angels fan: Eat a bag of severed dog cocks, GMan.


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The American League Pennant…

A comparison of the postseason performance of A-rod versus ‘Captain Clutch’
Stay classy, Angels fans

who aren’t secretly Mariners fans in disguise.

So when are the other league awards going to be announced?

including Cy Young

Hey guys FIFA 10 is good.
OK, seriously, I need to be put on timeout. Or a Firefox tab limit or something.

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