…By pulling for the Bronx Bombers tonight against the Tribe — Erie heathens, the lot of them, with their flying bug minions blaspheming all that is holy in October.
Not that I have any kind of special feelings for the Yankees, understand. It’s just that, well, all things considered, I like Drakkar and thin crust pepperoni pizza a whole lot better than, like, owls and corn.
Bless you, Columbus.
And bless you, too, Isabella! — you old Jew-exiling Torquemadahumper, you.
My wife gets back today from a week overseas. So I’ll be otherwise disposed getting the place in order, and scrubbing the crud from my kid, who I haven’t been very good about bathing.
On the plus side, today is the first day I feel marginally better (knock wood), though I’m still suffering from residual earaches and a bit of an iffy stomach.
Enjoy your holiday.
If I get a chance later, I’ll try to reach Ward Churchill for his take on Columbus Day.
Glad you’re feeling better. I’m running out of good ideas for pissing off the trolls.
Welcome back, Jeff. Make sure you get him behind the ears.
We’re all glad about you feeling better, Jeff. And, we luv ya, guy, but f**k the Yankees. Since the decline of U.S. Steel, in moonbat-speak, rooting for the Yanks is like rooting for Halliburton.
If that were true, I’d be for the Bombers. But they’re Noo Yawk, soooooo no frickin’ way.
Cordially…
Don’t think of the Yanks as Halliburton – think of baseball as a geopolitical metaphor. The Yankees are the United States. Helps understand why everyone else hates us.
Taking the metaphor even further, Carl Polad is apparently the President of Uganda. Or something.
I second Rick on both counts.
You do know those two things are not mutually exclusive? Don’t take the risk, especially with residualk earaches as those natine instruments can be nasty!
Now’s as good a time as any for some Rocks/Phillies wrap up (I’ll do it as several people are busy trying to talk CraigC down from the Ben Franklin Bridge.)
The newspapers are playing this up as “Phillies hitters go cold while Rockies stay hot.” My take was the darkest fear in my soul when the series started. Rockies looked like the better team on paper and played like the better team in the series, especially with regards to pitching. It was a bad match up for the Phils, who can equal (more or less) the Rocks in lineup and defense but have no where near the quality and depth of pitching los pebblinos are able to trot out.
I missed the big heist when thr Rocs stole all of the good young pitching from the rest of the NL. Your guys, despite losing starters, matured over the second half of the season. your bullpen (despite your paranoia, heh) did not collapse from abject exhaustion and was brilliant down the stretch. Jimenez makes me weep with envy and Corpas will be closing for 15 years, unless that nasty lefthander gets moved back to closer. An embarrasment of riches and a well deserved win.
The D’Backs have been playing well but some of it is smoke and mirrors. I pick the Rocks to go to the Big Show and battle the Red Sox which should be a fabulous series. Pablo and I will coordinate our trash talk.
Now excuse me … CRAIG! NO! LARRY BOWA IS NOT COMING BACK TO MANAGE THE PHILS! PUT THE SCRAPPLE DOWN AND GET OFF OF THE RAIL!
scooter,
Thanks for trying, but I already covered the subject: if I believe that to be true, I’d be for the Bombers.
The case can be made that they’re like France: old, haughty, and annoying. And unhygienic, as demonstrated by their remarkable ability to draw flies.
Cordially…
Larry Bowa? Oof.
I will now retreat into my previous all-encompassing October bitterness as a Braves fan.
And I’d just like to say that Chinese monk dude beat Columbus to the New World and he didn’t commit genocide.
Of course, the Toltecs probably ate him, or at least his heart, but that’s beside the point. They were NOBLE savages I tell ya.
Whosa Whatsit? America’s Team is playing tonight!
Maggie:
That’s great news! Thanks for sharing!
Oh, BTW, Terrell Owens is still a penis. Thanks again!
heh, you’re right BJTexs, but he’s our penis. Anyhoo, RTO’s a bit conflicted because the fantasy team he’s up against has T.O. and the ‘boys defense on it. If they do well and RTO loses, I’ll be cookin’ dinner one night next week. BWAH HA HA HAaaaaaa.
Jeff,
Glad to hear that you’re better. Stay well.
T&T
wait, wait, I got that backwards…. if they don’t do well and RTO wins his game, I have to cook dinner. anyhoo, alls I know to cook is rice, maybe a frozen pizza. and I can make hummus, but I don’t consider that “cooking” it’s just “throw stuff in the food processor” and RTO doesn’t consider chick peas “food one should eat by choice”
Hmmmm, channeling St Mandy? Turn away from the dark side!!!
Dan has been doing a very good job last few days and Darleen helped too. There have been some very good posts in the pub as well. So that’s good.
There’s a pub?
RED SOX RULE.
Speaking of pricks, glad to see the Yankees got their moneys worth out of Clemens. NOT.
Silver lining .. not often that a farm boy from Texas goes up to Nuu Yawk and sells them a fake bill of goods and tosses in da Broklyn Bridge for good measure.
Steinbrenner is like the democratic party. He can never lose, its always someone elses fault and the NY media is quite willing to devour the carcass of the poor soul that the big George points his cloven hoof at.
If I were Torrey (class act), I would mix it up a little as a “fuck you” to George; Play Jeter at catcher, send Posada out to center field, make Giambi dance on the roof of the dug out. 2nd inning will be infield drawn in inning, 3rd will be outfield shift right. 4, 5 and 6 would be lets see how many walks we can get innings, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
The curse is broken, Ruth is dead, the Bronx sucks, and nothing can save the fans and their owner from their greed.
May they rot in hell.
But I’m not bitter. Not at all.
OTT:
Thy bitterness has a familiar taste, first felt watching Game Seven of the 1967 World Series. Augmented by so many heartbreaks, too many to count. Here’s wishing the flies in Cleveland had devoured the Yenkals.
Yes Diana, there is a pub. It is happy hour there.
Jeff
Good to hear you’re feeling better, boss!
Just take kidlet in the backyard and hose him down…he’ll love it, get clean and no bathtub ring to alert the wife. ;-)
“no bathtub ring to alert the wife”
Except for the whole pesky Google part of the equation.
The Internet: Getting men in trouble since Al Gore put the whole thing together with an erector set and some twist ties in 1989.
“RTO doesn’t consider chick peas “food one should eat by choice”
Two tours of Afghanistan and he still feels this way?!
Hey, leave the Injuns alone! Not their fault the Cuyahoga river is a pestilential swamp…
heh, you’re right BJTexs, but he’s our penis.
Then it’s settled: the Dallas Cowboys–America’s Penises.
Watch ’em shrivel early in the playoffs.
Cordially…
OK–is “pestilential” a word?
And if it is, who know that Bill Buckley was mojo all these years?
“knew” that Bill Buckley…yada…yada…GET ALL THESE FLIES OFF ME!!!!
Based on the TBS broadcasts of the first 3 games of the Indians-Yankees series, I’m surprised that no one on the Yanks’ roster has died due to having drowned in the remarkable amount of knob slobber coming from the broadcast team.
Owls are cool even though I don’t see them very often. We have fake ones all over to scare the pigeons but really the pigeons seem not particularly alarmed. Sometimes the fake pigeons fall off the buildings and you have to wonder if it was an accident.
Oh. I mean the fake owls. They’re plastic mostly.
I am cheering for the Yankees as well, primarily because I wish to see at least one series last longer than 3 games.
I put a plastic alligator head in our lake to scare away the ducks, since I was banned, by law and covenant, from shooting them. So far, they appear to be working.
You have a problem with geeses too, no? What scares them?
happyfeet – I am not phobic of the geeses, but I do tire of my back yard looking like the bottom of the geeses septic tank. Those critters are some shit generators. Until I found a plastic alligator head, I had found nothing that scared them off, even my elephant gun. I appear to have found a non-violent, and legal solution. For now …
You mean the team that paid Roger Clemens something like $3 million for every win they got out of him?
Bwahahahahaha!
But, hey, Ron Villone, right?
AAAAhahahahahaha!
JD, try a dog..
Oh – ducks and geese work the same. I remember when I was little chasing Canadian geese in Minnesota – until they chased back and it wasn’t so much fun after that. I was really little so I remember them as being really really large.
also, best dog I ever ever had was a Border Collie/Lab mix.
Maggie said; “and RTO doesn’t consider chick peas “food one should eat by choiceâ€Â
A very wise and thoughtful man. Peas, in any form, do nothing but arouse suspicion and breed contempt. They are leftist in nature. They are not to be trusted.
Cripes, if New York ends up making the big comeback, whose obnoxious, overly pretentious fans do I root against in the ALCS–New York or Boston? One set of fans displays a sense of entitlement that would make Theresa Heinz-Kerry look like a humble pauper, and the other carries a persecution complex far out of proportion to the actual success their team has had the last 80 years.
decisions, decisions…..
“Damn, Clemens, retire already.”
/Satchel Paige
Give peas a chance.
yeah, he’s all, “they eat them because they have to, because they’re affordable” he feels the same about macaroni n’ cheese and ramen noodles.
and Pablo, I told JD about the border collies a while back, I think he said his wife wouldn’t trust him to keep one alive. They had one at the golf course my dad worked at. It lived with the assistant superintendent and he liked to dress it up. huh, I thought he took the dog with him, I guess not. Unless they named his replacement Nap.
“heh, you’re right BJTexs, but he’s our penis.”
Wow, I wish T.O. was MY penis. So big, black, meaty and veiny — man, I’d never sleep alone!
My penis is more like Doug Flutie
:-( (.)==D
You’re dead to me, Goldstein. Well, at least for tonight. You’re an addicting mother fucker. Figures a Jooo would go for the real “Evil Empire”. Go Indians!
I would be glad to have a penis that’s a multimillionaire.
“I would be glad to have a penis that’s a multimillionaire.”
Robert Redford once offered me $1,000,000 to suck me off in Vegas…does that count?
I must say, he was a “Natural”
you mean short with a lot of sack(s)?
JD? Et Tu Brute! There is NOTHING good about the Yankees winning. Nothing, I tells ya. Mojo, those bugs are canadian soldiers (or midges as some call them). So usual, we must blame Canada.
As a transplant to NE ohio I feel obliged to say Go Indians. Now for the truth of the matter; you should be rooting for Cleveland Jeff, the best thing for the Rockies would be to face Cleveland in the World Series. Remember, the Indians are the original heartbreak kids, always managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
– I’ll break this to you gently Goldheimer….Columbus is in OHIO!
Did you guys hear that? It was the sound of dreams being crushed.
And the Tribe comes to Boston…
Watched Torre in the post-game interview. As much as I hate the Yankees, I just can’t not like him.
– De’ja vu all over again – ’48 Indians/Boston Braves – ’07 Indians/?
Yanks go down, and all is somewhat right with the world again.
Stupid Cowgirls. God, I hate them. Pulled one out of their asses tonight. But I love Jason Whitten! I’m 4-1 and in first place in my fantasy league thanks to another stellar performance from him.
ccs…I know all too well of what you speak. But, as usual, I’m keeping hope alive. Go Indians.
I’d have slashed my wrists over the Buffalo game, but I had a Blood Donor appointment this morning. Besides, Bills fans are used to tragedy. When you have no expectations whatsoever, you can never be disappointed.