[Game Thread - 04/13 Garland vs. Verlander]

Son of a b****, how come no one ever told me?

 

you never get the joke anyways. We figured you wouldnt know the difference

[Game Thread - 04/13 Garland vs. Verlander]

I've never liked Farmer.  He seems like he's bitter about a lot of things.  I'll give all the announcers credit though....at least they're not Ron Santo. I think I'd rather chop off both of my legs than have him announce for my favorite team.

 

LMAO, thats just brutal Fathom

[Game Thread - 04/13 Garland vs. Verlander]

it was a joke.

 

*rimshot*

 

Tip your waitresses!

[Game Thread - 04/13 Garland vs. Verlander]

Correct!  Don't you know anything about baseball?

 

Nah, Im a novice.

[Game Thread - 04/13 Garland vs. Verlander]

every sox batter has not only a hit, but at least 1 rbi. 

 

except for dumb(9) and dumber(1).

 

players are dumb if they struggle?

[Peerless Price back to Buffalo]

No but he has Lee Evans or whatevr and Josh Reed is a good 3 reciever.

 

Lee Evans and Josh Reed arent gonna be drawing double teams until Losman can get them the ball.

[Game Thread - 04/13 Garland vs. Verlander]

anybody else feel that DJ has become decent in the booth?  could it be that the radio tandem is so bad that anything else sounds wonderful?

 

i think you answered your own question. We have becomed enamored with mediocrity because of the sounds of horrible in the other room.

[Game Thread - 04/13 Garland vs. Verlander]

 

he looks like sloth

 

Rocky...Road? Heh-huh.

 

[Jon Garland]

You pimp.. 

 

I always throw the trademark symbol after that word. Just because it makes me laugh

[Peerless Price back to Buffalo]

He isnt gonna have Moulds to draw the double team and Bledsoe to feed him the ball anymore.

[Jon Garland]

Ok, so if Garland is pitching like crap through July, how exactly is a trade going to work?  Garland for a bag of balls and a fungo bat?  We better hope JR is feeling generous, because paying some of his salary seems like the only way.

 

LMAO

 

The Sky is falling! What should we do!!!!???!!!

[Jon Garland]

OK Nostradomous, Garland is fine.  If his ERA is under 4.00 this year, I will be surprised.

 

This quote is funny in its oxymoronish-ness (Yes, I made up that word.).

 

You are predicting that he will not having an ERA under 4.00, yet you are mocking us by calling us "Nostradamus" because we are telling you to chillax™ (I love that word!) and step back and realize it is the second start of the season for Garland. LOL

[WWE Interesting Fact]

Randy Orton's suspension is considered an indefinite suspension at this point.

 

-wwe.com

[Jon Garland]

^^^^^

 

We need some kind of an area to do something like Mac, Jurko, and Harry's Critic's at Extra Large where we can judge posters, the sameway that they judge the job the media does...

 

LOL, we can judge them with smiley faces.

 

This post gets a

[Duke Lacrosse Rape Allegation]

Meanwhile, any team that hires a stripper should probably think twice.

 

Tossing another bone out there, do we think if this had been Duke's basketball team they would have been so quick to cancel the season? I believe, not a chance. It is pretty easy to cancel a non-revenue sport.

 

I agree with that. It still is pretty shocking to see a consensus #1 ranked team to cancel the season though.

[Jon Garland]

LOL, that was fast.

 

Nah, I expected it after his first start

[Curses?]

Then you want to start throwing random things into the equation like why Bill Buckner moved which have nothing to do with the curse.

 

 

It is not random at all, because Buckner was tired of hearing crap for a mistake that happened years ago. So the only resolution was to move as far away from it all. You see Buckner played on the side of the supposedly cursed team and he was the one who in the eyes of the world called him a mistake. Now if there was really a curse then why didn't other Red Sox fans say to Buckner "Hey we know our team is cursed so that ball that last play which was an error for you was not your fault. You know it was the curses fault. It was just old Babe Ruth's apparition in the ball just to punish us Red Sox fans." I am asking you how come that didn't happened. All these individuals getting blamed for something and yet again no one tells them its okay it was the curse. I am not throwing random things in this equation I am also showing you things that you probably have not taken into consideration. See you were the one who happened to mentioned the Marlins and how they never really win a World Series in a six year span. Did the thought of the development of rookies and players to become and achieve to be a great team takes time to accomplish?

 

I wish you understood, but sadly you dont. Good luck with your paper.

[Curses?]

So what if the White Sox won the first game in the 1959 World Series against the Dodgers and lost the other games. It was not a curse because their are days when teams have their good games and when teams have their bad games. So if you are saying that if a team goes on a losing streak just right after having a great winning streak they are assumed to be cursed?

 

You are too short sighted on this. 90 years of not winning. Not a losing streak. 90 freaking years of losing. The law of averages should have smacked these teams in the face 50 years ago.

 

When rookies come up to the big leauges their is an unlikely chance that they will have an extremely great year. A rookie needs to develop through a course of time to be good in the game.

 

This, once again, has nothing to do with your theories of curses.

 

You did tell me how you felt about curses in baseball but then you started to ask me how would I feel if the White Sox were in the same position? So I am not the one who got off track.

 

That was me trying to get you to understand the frustration that builds over many years of not winning, and how fans start to beleive in curses. Everything is coming up roses for us now, the White Sox were Champs in 05. Before 05, there were plenty of naysayers and guys who didnt believe they would ever see the White Sox win it all. And those were fans.

 

Then you want to start throwing random things into the equation like why Bill Buckner moved which have nothing to do with the curse.

[Curses?]

But you also need to ask yourself if Boston Fans really believe in the Curse of the Great Bambino? And if those fans believed that the Curse was alive on October 25 then why was Buckner never grant any leniency like Alex Gonzalez who bobbled the ball too in game 6 of the NLCS? Why did Buckner have to leave his home in New England and move to Idaho because he was sick and tired of hearing crap. Buckner even states this in Sports Illustrated magazine that was released on July 26, 1993 "At least once a week during the season, something is said...Why put up with it?" How come Red Sox fans didn't turn their cheek and say "it's okay it wasn't your fault that we lost game 6 it was the curse?" The Red Sox also had one more chance too.

 

Your examples arent disproving any sort of a curse or any belief or disbelief that New Englanders(sp? is that a word?) have in a curse. Buckner moved from his house because people in New England were assholes to him . It has nothing to do with a curse. And for the record, you have been changing your question the whole time, not me. I told you I believed in curses as much as I believe in luck. they have a part in the game, but they dont completely control the game. You disagree with me, so you are trying to throw all these examples at me that have NOTHING to do with curses. Who cares if Bill Buckner moved? It had nothing to do with him making that error. Why did Schiraldi suddenly lose it with two outs? Why did the Cubs lose in 1984 and 1989? Why did the White Sox lose the world series in 59 after busting open the first game with an ass-whoopin? Why Did the White Sox lose in 1983 after being up in the series? Why oh why pitch to Tito?

You are basing your entire theory of curses off of two moments, 2003 Cubs and 1986 Red Sox, when in reality the curses that surround those Cubs are way deeper than that. Decades of coming oh so close and never actually winning. It didnt make sense, and it still doesnt. Why is it that Florida can win two World Series within a 6 year span and in the first decade of thier existence, when Clubs that have been in the league for a century cannot win one within 90 years? It doesnt make sense. You would think that at some time within those storied histories they would be a time when they would have won, but they didnt. There is another player in this hand, and he keeps quiet but makes big moves. Call it what you want, good luck, bad luck, curses, good fortune. The ball never bounces the same way. I choose to view it as something magical about the game. We have seen that curses can be overcome, and while I laugh at their current futility, I believe that the Cubs will get theirs sometime.

[Curses?]

1.)I am sorry if I said the bases were loaded

2.)I did mentioned  that Carter scored because of the single that Knight brought him in when I stated "Knight singled to centerfield which Carter scored and Mitchell went to third."

3.)I do watch alot of baseball games too!

 

*sigh*

 

You are so caught up telling me what happened that you are refusing to acknowledge that comebacks like that, on the grandest stage against the toughest competition, are rare and improbable. It doesnt mean they wont happen, but when they happen you have to look at what happened and ask yourself "Did that really happen?". A crazy string of hits, a passed ball, and an error from a normally surehanded 1st baseman took a seemingly gauranteed world series victory away from Boston and added to the legend of their curse. Endings like that dont happen

[Mound Charging, Bonds, Thome, Fights]

I heard Ryan tell that story and by the end I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. He said he has laughed with Robin about it also.

 

I still laugh when I remember Robin telling the story

 

"I got halfway out there and I was like 'what am I doing?'"

[Things to do in Utah]

You can get married! And married again! And again if you want to!

[Curses?]

I wish noon would hurry up and get here...

 

lol, just engaging in a friendly debate. Feel free to step in and shoot me down

[Curses?]

No I am sorry it is not weird to me. Call me strange because you see the bases became loaded when Carter singled to left field, Mitchell singled to center which Carter went to second, Knight singled to center advancing Mitchell to third and then Carter scored, then there was a pitcing change were Schirald then threw a wild pitch were Mitchell scored and Knight went to second, and then when Wilson came up to bat he was reached on error by Buckner which had lead Knight to go home and get the game winning run in.

 

1. The bases were never loaded. Carter scored when Knight knocked him in.

2. I know what happened. I saw the RBI baseball presentation as well.

 

That really doesn't seem odd to me.

 

3. You must not watch a lot of baseball

[Poor Sean Preston....]

The AP reported he was examined at the house, that Doctor could have told her to take the baby to the hospital and ordered an x-ray, same as if you visited your Doctor in his office. Doctors refer patients for additional tests all the time.

 

It is real easy to sit here and say I wouldn't have listened to that Doctor, I would have demanded this test or that test. But after raising two kids, and being in that position a couple times, if you trust your Doctor and have selected a good one, trusting his judgement is what I will do. But I have carefully selected a Doctor.

 

I was in a similar situation with my son who fell out of a shopping cart at Dominicks in Vernon Hills. We took him immediately to his Pediatrician in Lake Forest who examined him. He had a bump on his head and we were very concerned. His Doctor's advice was to observe him over the next 72 hours and bring him back if we noticed anything out of the ordinary and gave us a list of specific things to look for. That turned out to be the correct course of action.

 

I imagine that would be the proper course of action and advice that a doctor would give. However, they gave that kid 6 days of la-la land, not 72 hours.