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10/9: Open Division Series Thread


Nick Blackburn

#53 / Pitcher / Minnesota Twins

6-4

225

R

R

Feb 24, 1982



A.J. Burnett

#34 / Pitcher / New York Yankees

6-5

230

R

R

Jan 03, 1977



Josh Beckett

#19 / Pitcher / Boston Red Sox

6-5

220

R

R

May 15, 1980



Jered Weaver

#36 / Pitcher / Los Angeles Angels

6-7

205

R

R

Oct 04, 1982


Burnett and Beckett just look like autopsy photos.

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So who's down with a foursome involving Joe Mauer, his Miss USA girlfriend, and I?
Too many dudes
Homophobe
It's less homophobia and more about I'm not gay
Jeff, after all we've been through you wont go gay for me for one stinkin' night?
There's another dude
Playing hard to get, eh?
Give him enough steroids and his nether regions will be so small you won't even notice!
What if JamMaster puts lipstick on?
He's young, I bet he's still supple. Something to think about.
I've got a donk, too.
well this thread is going in a direction that I didn't expect
I'm a bit ashamed of myself, that was just a bit over the top.
I was less referring to that than to the Gray's Anatomy lesson JMJ provided
Why does AJ Burnett look like Jamie Moyer in pinstripes?
You can't see any pinstripes in that photo
The bigger question is what is hiding in Jered Weaver's mouth?
Weed.
Yo, I might have to hit that nigga up if that's the case
I think this only works if you use an auto-tuned voice.
He looks hung over to me.
I was formulating a Jamie Moyer's alcoholic brother quip, late late and late. Crap.
Stick with Adenhart jokes, they're easier to come up with
That would have been funnier.
Not the way I was going to do it.
AJ looks like a hard scrabble dirt farmer

possibly on a tenant farm owned by Eli Whiteside

This is oooouuurrrr county!

Seriously, it’s the same thing.

Or country. Whatever.
All GM can afford is a county at this point
So who made the rule that you have to look like you're from Minnesota to play for Minnesota?
So if and when the M's get back to the post season, will Niehaus be able to cover the game in any fashion?

I was listening to a bit of the game on the radio last night, it might have been McCarver. It really struck me, it was pretty much a talk radio sports show about how his feelings and opinions on advanced stats, with a baseball game interrupting the conversation. Really really terrible baseball game coverage.

if I remember right

the local guys still get to do the radio broadcasts of all the games in the postseason.

Good to know, I was concerned something changed since the last time.

Big money cable contract and national broadcasting crews only or something horrible.

TV is most definitely that way but I think they throw radio a bone.
Man I hate that nobody can remember how announcing works when your own team is in the playoffs
When we made the playoffs last

I remember turning the radio on and putting the Tv on mute.

God I hate all of the Yankees so much. Almost equally.
I can't bring myself to hate Nick Swisher...
Rivera is pretty damn cool.
I will acknowledge his greatness. But nothing more!
If the Yankees and Red Sox finish a game tied instead of extra innings

they should just have a beerfest style drink off between Burnett and Beckett!

Holy shit! You mean if I spend just a measly $70, I too can get random non game used baseball

commemorating Derek Jeter being the Yankee hit leader? What a steal!

HOLY SHIT! NOW WE CAN GET THE DEREK JETER AND MARK TEXIERIA STATE QUARTERS FOR $40!!
I'm still holding out for the Melky Cabrera Commemorative Jigsaw Puzzle
"It's about how many championships you've won, and he's got some."

Hideki Matsui World Series rings=0

Is anyone else watching the TV broadcast?

Darling is hard to listen to. He offers some decent insight but makes me sleeeeeepy.

It's that relaxing Hawaiian vibe
So which blog are we going to fight with today?

I vote Pinstripe Alley.
JETER IS A FAG!
Don't tell A-Rod

Oh, wait…

What's True Blue LA like?
Insufferable when they win!
Much like we would be I imagine
I've just been feeling lately like I should hate the Dodgers more than I do.
I can't think of a valid reason to hate them really

and I’ve been trying.

It's become kind of annoying over there

the guys who run the blog are good dudes and post some decent commentary. But game threads are hard to follow because people reply fail, don’t use the subject line, and do that +1 shit.

Jeff's goal of the ApocaLLypse draws near
Why is richie sexson diving into a pile of pasta in a bathysphere?
I love this comment.
I'm pretty sure

I’ve had dreams about Richie Sexson, pasta, and a bath-y-something-or-other…

JETER IS SUCH A BAD SS HE CAN'T EVEN TURN A DOUBLE PLAY!
Hey did ya hear? Felix Hernadez had a tie for the most wild pitches! Who knew?
Man, that guy sucks.
I love Joe Mauer. Maybe a little too much.

THAT WASNT EVEN A STRIKE YOU (CH)UMP

You have gotta be kidding me
What the fuck

seriously… what the fuck… you idiots

For christ sakes!

How do the Yankees always seem to come up with plays like that?!?

Ok, now I get the question from yesterday

black tacos????

I hear it's for a limited time only.

So you better hurry down and pick up your stomach ache in a bag.

Taco Bell is top tier fast food.
Runs would be fun.
Postseason ads!

Astroboy!

Burnett is losing it. He's done. Get him out.
I've been working on this for about an hour

Uhhhhhhh...
I'm sorry to hear that
An hour, you say
Yeah. It's clearly quality work.
She seems to have mislaid part of her dress.
Oh. I thought that was whipped cream.
Tijuana Brass-like?
I knew I could count on you for a Herb Alpert reference! That is, in fact, exactly what it reminded me of.
I found that album cover oddly fascinating when I was a kid.

soap? cream? was she in the band?

I found any album cover, where there was any hint of nudity, fascinating when I was a kid.
Smells like Teen Spirit?
I suppose I should have been a bit more specific.
See?

Wonder what instrument she plays.
My wife owns this album.
So do I.
You guys are the best.
looks like bubbles to me.
Why is Mauer hitting his girlfriend with a bat?
He's laying the wood to her.
Well, you knew that would happen as soon as they started talking about how good Blackburn has been
This broadcast team is like TBS deliberately went for an anti-Sterling vibe
AHAHAhahahaha
Wooooooo Twins!!!
Interesting fielding there, Johnny
Damon reminds me ...

the other RickO’Reilly has a column on the lack of shyness among unclothed athletes, with the immortal line

“Other guys, though, would make excellent nudist camp directors. I’m still not sure I’ve ever seen Yankees outfielder Johnny Damon clothed while walking through a clubhouse. The man is naked more often than Michelangelo’s David. "

DoublePlayDoublePlayDoublePlayDoublePlayDoublePlayDoublePlay
Why do people say periphreal?
Why do people say nucular?
Ron Darling took a dual major in French, and Southeast Asian history at Yale.

Maybe he’d be more interesting if he did his color commentary in French.

I am so glad that was foul.
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT!
Man, these guys are a damn sight more excited when the Yankees are batting.
Dudes dig the long ball.
I predict that Jeter will be thrown out at home plate.
DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!
But called safe.
What the hell happened to Delmon Young...
That was a TERRIBLE throw.
Look it's Joba the Twins are going to win for sure!
Summon the bees.
I like how we treat Morrow like a fuck up and they treat Joba like a retarded child that needs some help.
Are there any retarded children that don't need help?
Robert?

He seems to enjoy himself. Maybe more than need be, but…

I'm not legally there yet :(
Take another look at Joba's picture.

He may very well be a retarded child

Boy the umps really are something this post-season

I can’t wait for the WS

So Jason Kubel looks like a douche in his pic and Jon Rauch looks like he wants to kill me.
He does.

He’s just that kinda guy.

Ron Darling on whether Joba should start or relieve in the ALCS (paraphrased)

“Well if he pitches well here there’s no reason why you would change his role.”

Presumably, Darling also believes that if Joba doesn’t pitch well here, they shouldn’t then give him more innings.

Just say he should relieve. Express your thoughts.

"si Joba ne lance pas bien ici, ils ne devraient pas alors lui donner plus de tours de batte."
Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.
Laissez tomber vos culottes, M. William. Je ne peux pas attendre jusqu'à déjeuner .
High quality umpiring here.
Better than the swing that wasn't a swing?
Delmon Young sucks.
I still had umpires that are consistently bad. I don't care that they are consistent.
Pirahna!!!

Nick Punto!

Nick Punto?!

of course!

he’s a piranha

For some reason that ad used annoy me more than most of the others.
I don't care for how they go out of their way to make aquariums look boring.
Because it is odd?
TWINS TWINS TWINS
Fuck you, yankees. Fuck you!
Hey! The Mariners beat Rivera before!
Rivera is good in the post season, huh?

Thanks for the heads up, Broadcaster!

Why does he say fisted so much?
.

“I wouldn’t just say that he’s inoffensive, but that I actively enjoy listening to him. He may botch the odd call and like the word “fisted” even more than Dan Savage does, but his work bears no trace of the smarminess and self-worship that mars that of so many of his peers, and if he gushes it always seems to be out of high enthusiasm for the game"

Mariano Rivera: Fisted!
Looking at the guys seated behind the dugout.

Suddenly I don’t feel quite as ashamed about Safeco.

Rivera, Posada, Jeter

One season, these three will all fall off the cliff at once. And I will be happy.

I never knew Big Avacado could afford to advertise during playoff baseball.
It's funny that this commercial is honoring a skeleton.
Posada has his name around the collar of his catcher's gear.

Like someone else might think its his. How egotistical. I hate you, jorge posada.

One capitalizes to show respect.

Thus a lack of capitalization denotes a lack of respect.

I really hope every team in postseason has trouble with their bullpen.

If the Ms have a “good” bullpen then they will be more indemand if all their relievers fail.

Not Joe Nathan though.
Dammit

I said not Joe Nathan.

Josh Beckett's face is incredibly symmetrical

Most associate symmetry with beauty.

Beckett seems to be the exception to the rule.

Thinking back

I’m glad Morrow blew that game against the Twins. I’m much happier watching them than the hated Tigers.

I'm glad Jarrod Washburn was traded to the Tigers.
That fucking Subaru ad on all the baseball websites pisses me off.
I certainly am not going to buy a Subaru now.
JOE NATHAN TIME BITCHES!
So Pedro starting in Colorado.

His biggest problem the past 2 seasons? The long ball.
Should be interesting.

JOE NATHAN YOU FUCKING SUCK PITCH BETTER!
WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
Oh...Dear....God.
WHAT THE FUCKITY FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK?
See VEB people get angry when their teams blow the lead.
This isn't even our team.
FUCK THE YANKEES!
They're my team...
So... why dont they like just walking him?
Fuck this for a game of soldiers.
The Taliban should have aimed for Yankee Stadium.
Wasn't built yet.
The old one.
When the Red Sox were playing.
Alex! Alex! Alex!
A-Rod is clutchier when free from the bonds of PEDs
That was rad!
Now the Yankees need to lose
Disagree!
I hope the winning run scores on a bases loaded HBP to Swisher's face
On come on how likely is that?
Why do you hate baseball?
I'm trying to write and A-Rod interrupted me
He's such a dick
Is it the rational part of the Felix situation?

I’d just like to say that I’m going to boo that article, please don’t take offense.

Why yes!
All right that's just about enough exclamation points outta you
Rationally, if we trade Felix to an AL team then we have no shot of reaching the World Series until 2020.

Felix will stomp us in the ALCS and I will cut myself.

I know I'm not supposed to disagree with you, but life is always better when the yankees lose.
Ultimately life is always better when the Red Sox and Angels lose and NYY's got a better shot!
Yankees!
Go Angels!
Bad dogs sleep in the yard
I fail to see what this has to do with my dislike for the Red Sox
Sit Ubu sit
You're clinging onto this meme's last dying breaths
Wait when did it die
I'm finished with it now
You're willing to just toss it aside like a cheap hooker?
I can't believe Robert Pattinson posts here and nobody noticed
Which poster do you mean to imply when you say Robert Pattinson posts here?
Robert, obviously.
I have never been to Forks.
I hate you right now!
Me too!
This is the worst playoffs ever!
The one AL team I could root for is fucking their grandma
I don't know what this means
It means the Twins suck
The playoffs have not only made me realize that I favor the angels over the red sox.

But that I’d also prefer Beltre to sign with LAA, too.

Nice to see you're following throught with the no-capitalisation thing.
You can't blame anyone for adamantly agreeing with me.
This is my thought exactly.

Not a Yankees fan, but A-Rod is awesome and I hate the Angels and Red Sox more. So that home run was fucking awesome.

Screw A-Rod.

Don’t cheer for baseball players just because they’re good.

I don't even dislike him as a person. I think the media makes him look way worse than he really is. He's just socially retarded; his intentions are good...
I think he's a massive tool but he's probably no more of a massive tool than other professional athletes

he just has a much, much higher profile.

Talking dogs don't exist
For a long time I thought you two were the same person.
Wait hold on how is A Rod allowed to do that?
The Twins better win damnit.
Go Cardinals!
So you've decided to jump onto the Cardinals bandwagon now?
Yes now that they're the underdog
Everybody loves the Cardinals now
I'd rather see the Rox in the WS but that's just me.
They had their shot.
Rox and Cards are pretty close on teams I want to win the WS though.

By far less annoying than the other 5 options, and the Twins are fucked so there’s no reason to root for them.

If there is some way for the Dodgers to win

and Manny to look horrible I am all for it.

He's sucked for a month or so.
Reember a couple of years ago when Alex got off to the good start, and Kelley wrote the column about how he was finally a Yankee and then it all went to hell in a hand-basket?

I want that to happen again.

Friends don't let friends read Steve Kelley.
I don't even know who that is.
Columnist for the Seattle Times.

Here’s Deadspin’s take on him.

Sigh.
This is Kelley’s style: take an idea (too often a preposterous one, such as Ken Griffey Jr. returning to the Mariners)
What I love is that after agitating for his return for a decade, Kelley is now ready to shoo Griff out of town ...
aaaahhhhh, were than were so.

here

Thanks you two.
I hear rumors of a Play-Rod Dinger
The Play part of Play-Rod is short for Playoffs
I thought it was because he's a baseball player.
I thought it was a joke about masturbation
I could have been trying to spell Notclutch-Rod but my brain had one of its moments.
No because I just came up with this.
Posada is perhaps my most hated Yankee.
I wish all of the world's burn victims could focus all their pain towards the yankees.
Six million people died in the Holocaust.

Instead of those six million people going through that, I’d rather if it had been the 25 members of the yankees experiencing it 240,000 times over each.

No the Jews were good enough
I know there's a lot of leeway

in the GTE here, but this is over the line. Most of my wife’s family died in the Holocaust and there are a hell of a lot of things that should’ve happened “instead” of the Holocaust.

I'm saying I wish her family hadn't gone through it. Read more carefully.
I understand you perfectly.
I don't like you.
All I said was your comment was over the line...
Katal is kinda a big deal around here.
You also chose where the line was.

The rule here typically is that you can’t make one subject taboo without starting on a very slippery slope.

Plus, GTE is GTE.

I totally get that.

If you want to keep on, that’s your choice. I just wanted to say my piece. I guess I just feel that if politics is off the board then maybe the Holocaust could be too. This is not a community of one, so if others don’t agree, I understand.

Politics are banned because they're so divisive. It's the same with religion.

Everyone here agrees that the Holocaust was an immense travesty. That’s why I found it okay to joke about – everyone knows it was beyond terrible, and so there’s little risk of anyone thinking I was serious.

I'll ban a Holocaust denier but I just can't draw the line under something that clearly wasn't meant to be taken seriously
Understood.
There's really no way to say that without me sounding like a giant tool
Sounds like a good opportunity to talk about your penis
Will I get banned for denying that Jeff's penis is as big as people say it is?
Apologies for driving the conversation towards your penis...

unless you planned it that way all along

I want to make Pentagon Bombing jokes taboo since I was sort of related to somebody that died there even though I never meet them and have no idea if they are either male or female.
Is your wife reading?
Nice throw, Joe.
He's just not ready for the big time. Not yet.

That’s what separates a star like Joe Mauer from a yankee like Jorge Posada or Brett Gardner.

The Tigers made the playoffs after all!
What the fuck was that?
You stupid cunt.
Why do bands cover the Beatles?

You’re not going to do the song any better. Focus your efforts elsewhere.

Joe Cocker made With A Little Help From My Friends better
But then the Wonder Years went and drove his version into the ground.
Hey has anyone realized this game went to extras?
Is two out the last three for the Twins some sort of record?
I want to be a Twins fan
Every game they play seems exciting
I have vivid memories of at least 4 of our games against them from this season.

You’re totally right; the Twins are an exciting team!

YES HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
WOOOO! PLAYOFFS!
Go 30 innings!
Joey Joe Joe is gonna do it
I wonder which Joe I mean
Joe Girardi was my guess
Suck it Twins
THEY HAVE UMPS EXACTLY FOR THAT REASON
Ummm that was fair...
FUCK YOU UMP!
Fucking hell that's abysmal officiating.
Yeah he was right on top of it and still blew the call!
That was a horrible call.

It wasn’t even close. My two-year-old gets that one right.

I understand an umpires job can be difficult in some situations

That was not one of them.

Hit his glove too
The Twins should be winning right now.
Inside the park double
Four singles make a run!
It is hard to get three straight hits and not score a run!
Wow both teams seem to be getting very lucky on defense
It's so obvious that these teams want to play as long as possible
Look at 'em, they LOVE it!
Dissapointing.
What the fuck
I love Twins baseball
We should become Twins fans as our next meme
That meme has been happening already
Oh, for the love of fuck

Can we just end this shit with a dinger and get it over with. Minnesota?! HELLLOOOO?!

That was fucking great!
Twins pulled a Mariners.
This game makes me hate the Yankees even more.
No Holocaust jokes here

But I still agree with you.

And fuck Carlos Gomez, too.
Well to be fair, Mauer had to get 2 hits and the Twins should be ahead.
Fuck the Yankees
...I hate the Yankees.
Fuckity fuck fuck
WHAT THE FUCK
Yup..I'd enjoy the Yankees not winning the World Series please.
Wow I bet the Twins will feel really gassed after this game.
How many pitchers do you think they'll have for the next game?
Since their season is already over I bet they will try something zany at the end of game 3.
FUCK YOU, YANKEES!

FUCK BABE RUTH, JOE DIMAGGIO, LOU GEHRIG, AND ALL THE OTHER DOUCHEBAG LEGENDS YOU’VE HAD!

Now that Jeter's got Gehrig's record

I hope he gets his disease too.

I think it'd be great if Jeter was the first major leaguer to acquire the Swine Flu.

And not some bullshit low-end case, but a really, really, really, reeeeaaally bad case of it.

Fuck this

I blame the retarded left field ump

Good place to start.
Then you can move on to Carlos Gomez and the rest of the anemic Twins hitters that couldn't score a run when the bases were loaded and no one was out.
And Joe Nathan blowing it in the 9th.
Delmon Young hit a smoking line drive
I missed that part.

I only saw them load the bases with no outs, then missed some and came back to see Carlos Gomez hack at the first pitch.

The Yankees bought that win!! They bought it!
Baseball doesn't need instant replay.

Are you fucking kidding me. How that kind of thing could happen and cost the twins the game is just beyond me. How can Bud Selig justify that?

Give me a fucking break.

2 challenges a game!

But you can do as many HR replays as you want!

Cost the Twins the game?
Possibly.

An inning opening double changes the inning completely. If you look at it like earned runs do and assume (moronically) that the rest of the inning would have played out exactly as it did, they score 1-2 runs (1 is obvious – 2 is they took second when Mauer scored from second on that single to right).

I like how Mark Teixeira sounds
He can go Tech share-a needle with an aids patient
Or stop by Josh Hamilton's for the after party.
Who knew this would be A-Rod and Tex's coming out post season. Fuck them
Well that fucking sucked
The Dodgers better fucking win the World Series
I would just love Teixeira clubhouse with those guys right now
How did this comment go unnoticed?

Bringing back a golden meme

I noticed it, but refused to acknowledge it, out of spite.
RSN seems to be out in full force

Good going Anaheim.

It's the battle of the douchebag fans.

Duh Nation is gonna win every time.

Douche-off!
I see the Angels as the dancing guy.

Pop that collar, son!

It IS Los Angeles, after all...
And Boston is the douchey tattoo capital of the U.S.
True

Also, guidos!

The good news for Joe Nathan is that now there are several goats!
I hope the Yankees champagne themselves into Miguel Cabrera's life tonight

But for now, Go Angels!

Gotta love Wikipedia

Phil Cuzzi – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On October 9, 2009 Phil Cuzzi made a blatant mistake on a fair/foul call in the 11th inning on the ALDS (Minnesota Twins @ New York Yankees). …

Fuck the Angels, too
No! Where's Eyebrows? He'll save me!
So does this just blow over in the morning or do we see some kind of investigation into MLB umpiring?
They'll just keep promoting Umpire Camps

Only a month away!

I think it's already been forgotten
Cuz dingers!
Mmmmit is high... it is far... it is...

GAHN!

Some papers seem intent to keep it going

see

He is coming to crash your next birthday party Mike.
Mike Lowell looks really old.
He's looked that way for a while now

It’s sort of sad, because he’s one of the Sox I like…

Classy guy for sure.
Bay would be doing that quite a lot if we signed him.
At Safeco?
Jeff Weaver is made of toothpicks and nuclear reactors!
Does anyone have a gif or clip of the Mauer foul call?
Bucknor is such an interesting fellow.
From Neyer

earlier

And a Mike Port interview about his umps

from May

by interesting fellow, you mean self absorbed dick head?
reply fail...

Sorry too many beers

EYEBROWS!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOO!
What! where?!
Wait, what?
I thought maybe there was a sighting or something
No

I was just voicing my one-ness with Eyebrows, since we seem to be the only two for the Anaheim folks lately.
Also WOOOO AYBAR!!!!

Ahhh, solidarity
It's all I have!!!

:sniffle:

I'm for anyone who can beat the damn yankees
Fingers and toes crossed....
My "EYEBROWS!!!" comment was posted right when he scored the go ahead run. Wooo!
Ooooooo

Beckett’s steamed. CB Bucknor hates all baseball players.

I haven't really been paying that close attention

has Bucknor’s wiiiiiiiiiiiide zone helped or hindered the pitchers?

I don't know

I haven’t been paying that much attention, either; I just know that Beckett was pissed over a strike call…

Well, at least this is something different.
SWEEEEEEEEEP!!!!
"There's a guy in the umpire's dressing room who feels horrible."

well, that will make the Twins feel so much better.

Can't hold grudges forever
Agree to disagree
I'm sure Cuzzi will be behind home plate for game 3.
It wouldn't break my heart if Pap gave up his first post season run ...
I wonder what kind of little bike short dance he'll do tonight?
Aw, that's cute!

I didn’t know Ricky Schroeder pitched for Boston!

That Yankees-Twins game was one of the worst things I have ever seen.

The A-Rod homer was kinda awesome, but jesus christ Minnesota.

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