It’s a beautiful day in Oakland and the Coliseum is empty. #shame.
For those who want to comment on those 4 to 7 events, and so that those who are ignoring it can just ignore the whole thread.
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Those windbreakers are hideous.
yes
World Series where both teams wear the same colors suck. This is but one reason why all World Series should include the A’s.
but! but!
“To add a final, surreal touch to the Red Sox championship title, on the night the Red Sox won, a total lunar eclipse colored the moon over Busch Stadium to a deep red hue.” —wiki
obvious omen!!! it was destined!!!! and i’ve never heard the phrase “cardinal red” before in my life!!!!!!
Cardinal red is a thing. The team, the bird, and those guys in funny robes and hats. Ironically, the Stanford Cardinal’s red is not cardinal red.
I wore a red shirt today, my little nod to the World Series. It didn’t help.
of course it’s a thing. it’s a thing that predates the sox by centuries. i’m just rehashing the remnants of a befuddled argument i had with a boston fan around that time, him saying it was some sign, me saying they BOTH wear red you mawrawn!
also, cardinals wear scarlet.
How the FK could you even possibly think that was out?
Well, this game quickly became incredibly dull.
I was a little excited about seeing the Balfour Rage as part of the MLB “thanks fans” ad, until I saw this about the part I didn’t notice:
Today I found out I did not get two different new jobs for which I recently applied. Then I absorbed even more disses and snubs and shitwork at my current job than usual. Then I had to work late. And now apparently St Louis is disintegrating to start what will likely be a World Series sweep by those goddamn Boston Red Sox and their horrible, horrible fans. I suppose this day could get worse if I slammed my dick in the car door. But there’s still time.
Want to go on a cruise with me next year? I’m not paying.
hug
That blows, I’m sorry to hear it.
Also, you want a long distance hug? I’m squishy and huggable!
I’m trying to picture a scenario where slamming your junk in a car door would be feasible. It’s interesting.
It involves a little blue pill, a few hours too long, an inability to put pants/shorts on, and really not giving a shit about slamming your junk in the car door cause it already fking hurts like a son of a bitch. Not that I was thinking about it or anything.
And now something’s irritating my left eye!
On the bright side, I’m now wearing Carolina blue, so that’s better.
Aren’t you like, old enough to retire?
;-) ♡
Nah, just old enough to have a tiny bit more of my spirit ground into dust every day until death brings blessed relief in 30ish years, or when marauding post-collapse gangs kill me and harvest my teeth to use in the tiny scrimshaw necklaces which are the new currency. Whichever comes first.
I’m sorry that those morans weren’t smart enough to hire you.
FWIW, Cardinals fans have been equally as awful as any other sports fans lately. Some of them deserved those first few innings.
Sorry about the other stuff though.
Hi. Have we met? Or have you been around a few years and I missed you?
I was very active on AN before the incident. Less so afterwards and not at all during this last season. Sometime a year or so ago, grover told me a lot of y’all moved here, but I didn’t make an effort to stay active on either site.
Now the season’s over and I’m starved for baseball talk. So yes, I’m sure we ran across each other on AN quite often.
Hi!
Hi!
I don’t really talk about baseball. Don’t let that discourage you from sticking around.
Based on the SSS, you need to stick around.
Danke!
I think last time I came in a few times, but since FK is a lot more of a tight-knit group that’s a lot more social and deals with a lot of personal topics, I was a bit intimidated.
Don’t be. We’re always looking for fresh blood, and if there’s stuff you don’t like feel free to either say so or ignore. No rules, and I’m not going to ban anyone.
And if there’s something you want to talk about (including the random, non-sports related stuffs), fire away. Someone will be bound to take an interest.
If you really want to hate Cardinals fans, this is where you need to look.
WARNING: May cause severe misanthropy
That account’s existence is so hilarious and it’s content so horrible.
its* goddamn it.
Hey, it must be this guy!
Rhetorical Question:
Why are we talking about the marathon bombing. it was a shitty plot by a couple of dunderheads that killed a no more than a traffic accident. (I know a 4th victim was a cop killed later)
when I lived in Seattle, it seemed that city leaders always wanted to be taken seriously as a “big” city. that’s why they hosted the WTO, that’s why they wanted to shell out for sports teams (thwarted by citizens then unthwarted). It feels like boston want’s their own 9/11 to compete with NYC. I really wish they would stop.
I’d say it’s quite bit bigger than a traffic accident given the number and severity of the injuries in addition to the deaths. But in the ranking system, it would be below the Atlanta Olympics Bombing and, in general, forgotten rather quickly.
right, forgot about the injured. good point.
I think the complaint holds up
Oh yeah, definitely still holds up. And there have actually been worse car accidents than it, so even the comparison still stands as well. It was bad, it was tragic, feel bad for them, move on.
I don’t mind still talking about it. It was a big, traumatic, public event that I am sure left deep scars in the city. I’m not a huge fan of this whole “Boston Strong” branding nonsense, but it’s all very Boston, isn’t it.
I do. The point of terrorist actions is to cause terror. All this glorifying is furthering that point.
I’m sure OBL had absolutely no idea how massively successful his plot would be in imposing costs on us over a decade later. We should have just rebuilt and moved forward.
Imposing costs is a different issue for me than talking about it. It’s kind of unrealistic, and possibly unhealthy to to say “meh, people die all the time” and move on. The Boston thing, while maybe a bit over the top, isn’t a reflection of a city that is terrorized. It’s more a statement of “we will not be terrorized.” I can’t see that as harmful.
Overreacting on a policy level is a separate problem, as is the political sickness that makes all additional “security” measures a one-way ratchet.
I guess. For me that stuff reads as “scary terrorists did this awful awful thing to us, thank god we had the national guard to shut down our city”, but that’s a lot of my bias at work.
Whats wrong with saying meh people die all the time
Just for you, Ed.
My wife forwarded me a Boston Globe article today. I didn’t read it because they have a paywall, but the url includes “red-sox-will-win-series-her-green-pepper-says”.
If you can’t trust the prognostication of vegetables, what can you trust?
naturally.
perfect!
Aw man, that su-u-u-ucks… :(
Can I Lounge up in hurrr?
Of course!
Good. It was a crazy day at work. I need to turn my mind off.
It makes me feel very weak, but I just turned the heat on.
I’ve been on the verge the last few days.
Maybe it’s because your dick is hanging out?
Weird. I’ve been needing the fan on to sleep.
When I walked the dogs this morning the cold made my brain hurt.
For serious. Anyone want to go on a cruise with me? My nursey BFFs are going and I’m the only single hag. You’d get to see me with my nursey peeps and possibly drunk.
You pretty much have to be drunk on a cruise. It’s part of the Law of the Sea treaty I think.
I get motion sickness something terrible. And I’ve never been drunk before in my life. The possibilities are endless.
Me too (motion sickness, not not being drunk). If it’s a big enough boat you’ll be fine.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat.
wait wut?
Neither have I. But then I’ve never had alcohol so it stands to reason I wouldn’t have.
this makes no sense to me.
I’ve probably only been truly drunk maybe two times in my life, both of which ended with me vomiting into a residence hall toilet. I enjoy a drink or two, but more than that just makes me feel ill and/or full.
I’m usually the DD. I deal with enough drunks at work. I don’t understand the point of getting drunk. Drinking makes me feel uncomfortably hot and I don’t like the feeling.
Having seen enough people drunk in general, I’ve picked up the appeal as being “whatever I do or say is the greatest fun in the world and my brain has completely detached the part that would rationally disagree” but as a witness, I’d rather get my high on a lack of sleep or mystery fumes. Adrenaline + sleep deprivation = Everything is funny including nothing at all.
I don’t think this is the point or appeal at all.
Could have fooled me based on what I’ve seen. In fairness, that observation was less a real attempt at explaining why people actually drink and more of a “this is what *I* see as the only ‘benefit’ of getting drunk.”
At the same time, it also acts as a depressant.
I rarely have more than two drinks in an evening anymore, although used to do so fairly often, especially living in the FSU (the drinks have you). Thus, I rarely get the intense dopamine release; I am, however, able to relax and forget either the stupid shit at work or the stupid shit that the Spawn have done so that I don’t feel so tense. I get the same feeling from running or a good A’s win, but that’s not always feasible in the evening (running) and the A’s don’t always accommodate. So a drink or two takes the edge off. And it only happens once or twice a week, at most.
I read that as literally as I observe it. In other words, suddenly everything triggers a bonus reward in the brain whether there’s cause to or not.
Don’t knock it till you try it. The point is to have a grand old time.
I can do that without being drunk.
Beer tastes good.
Thanks, and go As.
Some of it anyway.
Good beer tastes good.
And Whiskey
And Gin
And Rum
And Absinthe
And Ouzo
And Beer did we already mention beer?
And wine. Don’t forget wine.
there’s a suspicious lack of whisky here.
So can I. Thats like saying: I can have fun not at the A’s game. Its a true statement but that doesn’t mean going to an A’s game sure isn’t fun.
What I meant was, if the point is to have a grand old time, then I’m not really at a loss by not having alcohol if I’m already capable of having a grand old time without it. Your analogy doesn’t really work, by the way, because drinking itself isn’t an “event” per se but more an amplifier of experience of another event.
Don’t take anything I say as a disparaging on drinking, by the way, my reasons for not have more to do with knowing that I’d be a hardcore, raging alcoholic if I were to ever start so I chose never to tempt myself. Those with self control should absolutely enjoy it as they like.
Ok. Its like saying I can have fun listening to the A’s game on the radio rather than going to it live. Im saying live, its pretty damn awesome.
Oh dmoas. You’re cute.
Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.
Enjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink.
The years roll by, as quickly as a wink.
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think.
Um… that’s durrty.
You have a durrty mind.
hello, i’m terry and i’m going to enjoy myself first.
My pitch to Nurse Upgrade: “Honey, I’m going on a cruise with this young woman I met on the internet and her drunk nurse friends.” How can it fail?
That seems like a good way to get your junk slammed in a car door.
They’re all married! And it’s not a swingers cruise or anything.
You never know what will happen once you’re in international waters.
What dmoas doesn’t know is I’ve taken the liberty of booking his passage for next year. He’ll be my snuggle buddy and carry my purse.
She let you pick me up from the airport and she liked the card I sent. I’m sure we’re practically BFFs right now.
And I rarely talk to people anyway. I’m just using you to make it cheaper for me. I’ll be at the buffets.
When and to wheres?
October 18, 2014. Mexico
Well you just lost upgrade–pretty sure he’s already bought that post-season strip.
On the other hand, it may guarantee the A’s will be playing during that time if we all make plans to be somewhere else right now.
I’m harmless.
Some nurses this weekened were talking about having an intervention for a coworker. “She talks to people on the internet and then GOES TO MEET THEM! GASP!”
Oh noes!
So…….this game over yet?
I stopped watching. Reloading my mp3 player in backwards order by Artist from Z to A. Actually less than Z, since iTunes starts with the blank fields and symbols. I’m now at Queen.
Queen was good. Now into the P’s. Strong recommendation for the cover of Toto’s Africa by the band Pyogenesis.
Let’s play the mp3 shuffle game.
1. Portishead – Glory Box
2. CCR – Long As I Can See the Light
3. Beach House – Apple Orchard
4. Paramore – Misery Business
5. Band of Horses – Marry Song (Live on KCRW)
Primus, American Life, added.
I am starting to re-appreciate the Pretenders. It started when Breaking Bad used Boots of Chinese Plastic for that awesome scene when Walt torched a new Dodge Challenger.
I don’t understand those words.
The Pretenders, Breaking Bad, Boots of Chinese Plastic, torched Dodge Challenger. (watching will not spoil anything).
That kid from Lost was on Breaking Bad?
Finished the O’s. I move slow; it takes me like a month to build a new mp3 reload list, an hour here and there. I’ll start back tomorrow with NWA.
As a big fan of covers, I also recommend O’Funkadillo’s version of Ozzy’s Gets Me Through.
Also found among my O’s: recordings of the radio broadcasts of four Oakland A’s games from 2005: 7/14 near perfecto by Harden, 7/22 Kendall face-first plate block dive to win, 8/11 K-Rod Sulk-Off, and 10/2, Bill King’s last game.
Kendall C, Swisher RF, Ellis 2B, Chavez DH, Dan.Johnson 1B, Scutaro SS, Matt Watson LF, Bocachica 3B, Freddie Bynum CF. Joe Kennedy P.
That was my favorite song for many years of my life. I think that album may have been the first one I ever purchased with my own money.
Spotify at the office:
Jawbreaker-imaginary war
keep a talking – wynonie harris
Please little baby–thee headcoats
Silver lining –Stiff Little Fingers
Do you compute–Drive Like Jehu
to be internally consistent, the first one should be
Imaginary war–Jawbreaker
I switched over to the Kings-Warriors game.
Ouch
Much more exciting, even though I still don’t understand basketball very well. Kings 91, Warriors 90.
Then I switched back just as the boringest ballgame in history ended. 8-1.
On the bright side, Bev Mo had St George’s Breaking and Entering bourbon at $31 per fifth, so I bought two!
I like bourbon.
There is so much good bourbon out there now.
I mix it in lemonade.
Neat. Its your friend
that shit is good
You never want to be on a list that is just you and the Marlins.
So Kasdan (of Empire and Return fame) has taken over writing duties along with Abrams for EpVII. Should have done that a long time ago (and in a galaxy far away). Gives me more hope that the new trilogy won’t suck giant donkey balls.
really can’t catch what the title of this sweet little instrumental is referring to. late 60s, jamaican. possible meanings could come from movies, forgotten tv shows, adventure tropes in general, island crises, world crises, or jet-set worldliness. any insights?
I liked James Taylor’s Star-Spangled Banner — you could hear the 18th-century drinking song it used to be, until the end when the tempo slows down too much.
Nearing 30 minutes on hold with Cimcast. Abd I already know they wont know why I have no HD or DVR and will make me call back or have an appt.
Also, HI FKers :-)
My U-verse DVD suddenly decided the other day to delete everything that was more than two weeks old, even though it was less than 50% full.
In one of the many e.d. ads running during these games, dude and his wife are varnishing a bench when he gets that special feeling, which he communicates non-verbally to his wife, which she picks up on with a gleam in her eye. Then, later in the ad, we see them sitting on the same bench. Are we supposed to infer that their bench-sit is post-coital, or that enough time has passed for the bench to dry and yet they still haven’t gotten down?
I can’t pay attention to the ad because of the guy with the bench. It’s Faber Dewar, a carpenter from the old TLC show Trading Spaces.
Bad defense from Gomes and Breslow blowing it for Lackey. I’m ok with that.
“Boston’s own” James Taylor? Chapel Hill’s own, please.
Got out as fast as he could.
Boston can have him.
I think he lives in Western Mass, which is obviously not Boston. But I just checked his wiki page and he was born in Boston (but grew up in Chapel Hill). So I guess that’s what they were going for.
The effing Red Sox do not get to have Bob Marley. They just don’t. Especially Three Little Birds. They CAN’T have it!!
I am very happy I did not see that abomination. I missed the game except for the bottom of the 9th, which I did quite enjoy.
Also, isn’t little birds more apropos to the Cardinals? Not that St Louis seems like much of a Bob Marley kind of town.
The crowd sings “Don’t worry, about a thing” every time their batter gets an out? They get a hit? The sign says to sing it? I don’t know and I don’t care why but it enrages me. I sing that song when one of my kids is scared or sick. THEY CAN’T HAVE IT! They have Sweet Carolina, being “loveable” losers, movies about the team, the East Coast bias, James Taylor, etc. Enough already!
It’s Shane Victorino’s at-bat song. They seem to make a point of playing the song just long enough so that it cuts off after “…’bout a thing” and then the crowd sings the “every little thing gonna be all right” part.
Ha ha ha! It’s RED, bitches. I mean the other red.
1. I found six dollars in my purse. From July. That’s the last time I used a purse.
2. Am I supposed to be wearing leggings?
3. I don’t wear leggings or use a purse. Am I less of a lady?
Leggings seem like they’d be really uncomfortable, for anyone, anytime.
Apparently fat people like them because they’re more comfortable than jeans. I feel as a fat person I should own a pair of leggings. Right now my wardrobe is scrubs and underwear.
Knit stockings let me wear skirts in the winter. They can be hard to find though.
I don’t wear skirts. Ever. I put pants on today. That’s the amount of effort I put out.
I never wear scrubs. Now we’re even.
Wear what’s comfortable. If you’re not comfortable, you’re not happy. If you’re not happy, then fk it.
So I’m going to work in my underwear tomorrow.
My teen kitten pulled some of my laundry off the rack today. He had a pair of my underwear wrapped around his neck.
I feel like if we left dmoas alone with a pile of laundry we’d find him just like that.
I think damp laundry would feel offensive to him. Of course I thought Abraham would feel that way too.
Well it sure as hell won’t get folded.
jeggings
They’re better than tights (just the name says it all) and panty hose.
I found $160 on the ground today!
Can I have $5?
It’s actually mine.
My girlfriend dropped her debit card at the ATM, so I got out and she backed her car up so we could get it. There were eight $20 bills laying under her car in the drive-thru.
Nice! That beats my record for found money by $60
Nice little half day of work. I want to watch The Conjuring but I’m too scared.
Draw shut the curtains. Take the phone off the hook. Turn out the lights. Curl up in bed. Then watch it. Might help to have the dogs with you though.
Um… I said I’m too scared! Why would I want it to be dark?
Anyway, I just curled up in bed and took a nap.
It’s too scary.
Have you seen this movie?
Nope. Horror flicks bore me.
I’m chciken. I have to take a break every five minutes to chill.
I liked it but I thought it was essentially half-The Exorcist, half-Amityville Horror. Not actual spoilers, but similar movies. Avoid the spoilers if you want to be totally in the dark going into it.
we have see this?
That made my morning.
awesome
alexis might be over his slump.
The Busch Stadium scoreboard people played “Show Me Your Firetruck” from the movie “Backdraft” for the Red Sox introduction music, which is better known to many of us as this:
I guess this means if the Cardinals win, they get the people’s ovation and fame forever.
That was a weird way to end a World Series game. I’m not sure I agree with it, but I also don’t care.
The obstruction call was 10 years too late.
Havent even seen it yet, but was just coming over to say that seeing the internet blow up with Sux fans complaining about a questionable call in the postseason is beautiful.
The continue-running-even-though-you’ll-be-thrown-out-at-the-plate was 10 years to late.
The biggest issue to me in Miggy’s case was that baseball is the only sport I can immediately think of that doesn’t recognize the flagrant foul.
This, times 2.
It also means it doesn’t have to deal with flopping. If it’s truly egregious, you just go back to the base you were at and they’ll give the next one.
No! Miggy went back (or rather stopped in disgust at what had what had just happened) and wasn’t given home despite the flagrant foul. What’s-his-face was awarded home because he continued and was thrown out.
In what other sport are you allowed to stop and assume a call? You play until the “whistle” is blown. For all the umps know, the obstruction could have zero impact on the play so they wait until after it’s over to assess the damage. Miggy stopped in the basepath as if the play were dead. That was idiotic. What happens if he were to race home and have the ball thrown away as a result? Then everyone else moves up, potentially scores. If you stop the play, your potentially hurt the team you’re supposed to be helping. And if he keeps going and gets nailed half way between third and home, why would he get the base when it was clear he was foolish to try for home in the first place?
Exactly. It always trips me out that people get so pissed at Byrnes and completely ignore the fact that Miggy stopped fucking running halfway between bases.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m pissed at both. More for Byrnes because at least he didn’t have a rule misinterpretation to fall back on, but mostly because the jackass tried to kick the catcher in retaliation for his own idiocy and who knows what that may have cost us if we weren’t shitting the bed at the time.
It’s already the afternoon, but
weve been listening to VU on repeat for about an hour
Not only are they nice, they also know how to spell “you’re”.