Is A-Rod getting peed on by Bill Brasky, the guy in that picture must be 12 fee tall to be able to have his dick at A-Rod's forehead level. I mean, getting peed on by Bill Brasky isn't such a bad fate. It's an honor. Bill Brasky was the best damn sales man in the office.
SUCK IT.
A-Rod's favorite kind of celebration.
Stun?
MIAMI—In a sudden end to a trying year, the Mets' Jeff Francoeur lined into a rare centuple play against the Florida Marlins Wednesday, which by rule cut New York's season short. "I hit it on the screws, but it just happened to be in a spot where they could turn a hundred," said Francoeur, who watched helplessly as Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla tagged everyone in the Mets dugout before heading into the clubhouse and tagging both equipment manager Charlie Samuels and physical therapist John Zajac. "You take a risk by starting the runners but I didn't think he'd have enough time to run up to the executive suite and get [Mets GM] Omar [Minaya] and [team owner] Fred [Wilpon]. I guess by the 80th out we'd all just given up." This was the most outs recorded on a single play since the 2004 Montreal Expos were eradicated from the league after hitting into an ∞-play.
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That's cool man, you'll be a lot closer in Boston. I was in New Hampshire last weekend and had a great time; the older I get the more I appreciate New England. We'll have to work out another game thing (I snagged the guns and cyberware books for Shadowrun 4th off Ebay a few days ago). I can't quite put my finger on it but I really dislike the Rays. They sucked ass for ten years, stockpiled #1 draft picks, and now they've got a team of supertalented punk kids. I think my problem with them is that they remind me of those Marlins teams that would win the World Series and then sell off all the players. Maybe if they keep their players instead of crying poverty I'll like them more. Joba got busted drunk driving after fighting with a Red Sox fan at a titty bar, which is troubling. What moves do you think the Red Sox should make in the offseason? I think they're going to go after Teixera, Burnett, and Lowe then make a run at Matt Holliday. I'd like to see the Yankees sign Teixera, trade for Peavy, bring back Pettitte or Mussina, then trade Matsui for a player like Aaron Rowand. Maybe Madonna and Teixera will help A-Rod get his first clutch hit.
Joe Madden deserves manager of the year. If there's one position where the Rays have completely outclassed the rest of baseball this year, it's manager.
St00n
Yo, thanks man. It was weird being in Boston during a playoff game, not used to being around people rooting for the same team. Every Boston sports team game in HD! From what I saw of it, though, Boston's great.
As long as the rental application works out, we're going to be living in this pretty bad-ass loft, which is cool too. I'm going to post some pictures once the deal is finished. There will be a good amount of space, so you should definitely come up so we can go to a Celtics game. There are some nice bars and restaurants in Somerville (where I'll be), and it's right next to Cambridge, which has a lot of other bars.
St00n
first off, congradulations!!!!!
now, does this mean your going to be an even bigger douchbag about all your faggot teams????
we should go to a celts game if we can this year.
ill bring mike up, id like a weekend in boston that dosent blow ass!!!!
Stupid round-eyes.
St00n
Apparently Manny threw a 61-year-old Red Sox traveling secretary to the ground on Saturday afternoon when the secretary couldn't get Manny eighteen tickets to the game on short notice. From what I've read that was when Theo decided Manny had to go no matter what. Boras didn't broker his current deal (which means he doesn't see a dime from the option years); it's pretty clear Boras instructed Manny to get himself traded so he could hit the market (there was a strong chance the Red Sox would have picked up his option years). Really lame shit.
I stumbled onto this program at www.heromachine.com that lets you put together portraits of your RPG characters (which you can then print up and use as miniatures). Download Heromachine 2.5 and then open the file in your browser, it's awesome. Right now I'm working on One Eyed Zeke from the old Deadlands game I ran.
PLUS PROSPECTS?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!? He's fucking Canadian!
St000-fuck-000n
I am completely dumbfounded by some of the names in Sen. Mitchell's report: Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite, Mo Vaughn, Fernando Vina, Ismael Valdez, Gary Matthews Jr., Todd Hundley, Rondell White, David Justice, Mike Lansing, Kent Mercker, Miguel Tejada, Kevin Brown, Eric Gagne, Paul Byrd, Troy Glaus... it's just nuts.
I cannot wait to see if some of these guys begin violating those buddy pacts and naming other names. I also cannot wait until Big Papi and Pujols get outed and Barry Bonds stops lying and admits his use. If there's any luck, hopefully A-Rod and Wright will not be implicated by anyone.
Crazy.
Insult! Ahh, it feels good.
Pappy - it wasn't just Spo and me talking baseball. Check out the Insult archive from October '03 (the taunting over the brutal game 7 ALCS loss) and October '04 (that ghostbusters/choking post, Wilson calling Johnny Damon a sexy mongoloid) - everybody got into it. As far as this weekend goes - it just solidifies the position of the Red Sox as the best-run organization, top to bottom, in baseball right now. They spend a ton of money, true, but half of the most important people on this year's team were young, home-grown players. Whatever you think of Red Sox fans, there aren't really any villains on this team.
The Patriots on the other hand - good christ, they're a bunch of bastards (I mean that in the most complimentary way). Running up the score, going for fuck-you touchdowns at the end of every game, it's awesome. I hope they follow the path they're on to the logical end and start doing things like: pretending to get injured on the field only to hop up and cheap shot someone, "accidentally" replacing the football with a puppy before Gostkowski kicks a field goal, turning the Dallas star into a bloody pentagram (if they play Dallas again), imprisoning Archie Manning at an off-site location before next week's Colts-Patriots footbalpocalypse. I want to see more unnecessary roughness penalties when they're up 49-0.
Everyone in CT...we should try to do something good, another dinner, over the holidays.
ST00N!
Congrats to the Red Sox on sweeping those crazy weirdos from Colorado right out of the series and then celebrating the victory in the visiting clubhouse! Hot damn, what a crazy thing. Who'd have thought... not only did the Red Sox finally win in 2004, just three years later they won it again.
Hmm... are they becoming... THE NEW EVIL EMPIRE?!?
Did anyone think the Pats WOULDN'T win?
WOOHOO!
You all can eat a dick. The Yankees have for years cultivated this image of being invincible - the history of Babe Ruth, the Mick, Yankeeography, and the rest of that bullshit. The Yankees fans are the ones who chant "1918" (trying to shove the fact that Boston hasn't seen a WS win in years in our face) and pretend they've got some fat old ballplayer's ghost protecting them from losing baseball games.The Yankees fans are the ones that threw trash on their field after an umpire called out one of their players for cheating.
Boston fans are revelling in the fact that the Yankees fucked up because for years, the Yankees fans have made a massive deal of their belief that there are magical Yankee spirits protecting them. The Yankees spirits keep the team from losing...except when the team gets beaten by the Angels or the Diamondbacks. But, but, the curse of Babe Ruth is what keeps the Yankees from ever being beaten by the Red Sox. Class? I had Yankees fans at my job smiling smugly at me after the first 3 wins, wearing "1918" shirts, talking about how "there's just something about the Yankees that keeps the Red Sox from beating them", etc. Every New York paper referenced the curse on its front page each day last week. If you think New England is going to go all crazy over the Cards' choking if they happen to lose in four games, you're crazy - no one is going to be wearing a "1987" t-shirt. If the Yanks fans taunted us the way that Steinbrenner did with the A-Rod trade ("NY is an organization willing to go the extra mile for its fans"), that'd be fine, since it's true - the real Yankees teams of 1996-2000 deserved to win every one of those pennants and World Series championships because they were truly great teams: good coaching, excellent farm system, so on. The Yankees had a better organization than the Red Sox for a long time. The hatred has to do with the supposed curse, and how much Yanks fans seem to talk about it when the chips are down.
I would be happy if Boston beat anyone. In this case, I was happy about winning, and I was additionally happy that the Yankees choked because it puts the lie to all of the Yankee bullshit superstition that has been pounded down New England's throat over the last few decades. You don't know shit about baseball, or the Red Sox-Yanks rivalry, Pappy.
The Because the Yankees are in the AL East, the Yankees' mystique has been the monkey on Boston's back for 80+ years. The Yankees mystique died during game 7, and what we're left with is two great teams - that's all I was looking for.
You know what, as an aside, I don't even think real Yankees fans like the 2004 Giambi-ARod-Kevin Brown etc Yankees all that much. The real Yankees to me are that team of 1996-1999, the one that was built on an awesome farm system and had players who genuinely cared about the team, that was 100% professional, would never have done something like bitch-slapping a pitcher's arm to get on base, and constantly deserved respect. Being happy about winning and being happy about the Yankees choking is (or should be) entirely about getting the "you can't beat the Yankees and you're going to die without ever seeing a Boston world series win because the Yanks are in the AL East", but it was also entertaining because this Yankees team is a joke compared to the real Yankee teams of a few years ago, before they became this insane Steinbrenner-driven train wreck. I liked the team that had players like David Wells, Paul O'Neill (even if he was a whiny bitch), Tino, Cone, Pettitte, the sort of team Spo would like. And, whatever negative things I have to say about the NY Yankees fans, at least they don't riot and get people killed the way that Red Sox fans did last night.
One other thing I was thinking about. On Wednesday morning, every other person in this building had some sort of Yankee gear on - hats, shirts, jackets. I work in New Jersey. These aren't people who just wear the stuff during the playoffs, since a lot of them wore the stuff regularly a month ago too. Thursday morning, I didn't see a single piece of Yankees paraphernalia in the building - seemed like bandwagoning to me.
Heh, one more thing, people bitching about the Yankees high payroll is stupid, particularly the Mets or Red Sox fans. $190 mil vs $130 mil doesn't mean anything. I've done that before, I think around the A-Rod trade, and it was dumb. The evil empire thing is stupid but entertaining, and I think it's cool that the Yanks have embraced it by playing the Imperial Death March before games.
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