MLB Playoffs

John Cougar Mellencamp better do a concert for the Ford Family. They are going to lose the family business.

 

Good God, Chris Carpenter is a HORRIBLE quote.

 

Not quite dyed in the wool. Democrats win most of the state offices, and it's in play in pretty much any presidential election.

 

Missouri is not a lock to be a red state.

And the radio broadcast of tonight's game wasn't too bad.

 

In fact, Missouri is actually the bellwether state. Save for 1956, Missouri has voted for the winner of the presidential election every time since 1900.

Maine had been viewed as the bellwether state before that.

 

So we are three games into a World Series that, except for the Kenny Rogers flap, would be a total yawner.

In fact, there have been 28 games played this postseason and only one -- Game 7, Cards-Mets -- has been remotely memorable.

The most boring postseason in baseball history.

 

Neither does baseball. No sport staggers events in the off-season to ensure it remains in the news like baseball.

World Series ends, free agency begins. Awards are handed out during the first three weeks after the season ends. Thanksgiving arrives and players start signing. Winter meetings in December assure plenty of trading and signing activity. January is fairly quiet, but the arbitration process starts and doesn't end until right before or just after the start of spring training. Rinse, wash, repeat.

The NFL garbage last spring and summer was all self-generated drama by morons like Favre, T.O. and Ben No Helmet. No guarantee that happens again. ESPN went apeshit with those stupid goddamn previews in June and July, but it was trying to justify spending $1 billion per game for MNF. I'm pretty sure Baseball Tonight airs regularly in the off-season, so the analysis of absolutely nothing isn't limited to football.

No doubt, more happens in the NFL now than 15 years ago thanks to free agency and the June 1 cut date, but how many newspapers cover the NFL owners meetings? Not many, and certainly not as many as the MLB winter meetings. The NFL has a long way to go before it's as relevant over the full year as MLB.

Could not agree more. Ahh the good ol' days:

 

I just hope it lasts four more games DICKHEAD!!!!

 

You know, Monday Night Football always started late, too.

I remember one season, there was no school on Tuesday. So I had plans to watch the entire game, even though it was some dogshit matchup like Cleveland-Seattle.

Made it past the halftime highlights, which were a big f-in deal in those days. Then I woke up just after the late news. Fuck.

I remember getting to the neighborhood tavern after the basketball games and throwing peanut shells at unsuspecting rednecks watching the game unfold.

It'll never be the same.

 

It doesn't matter. It's so boring I don't even care about the sig thing anymmre.

And the worst part of it is the team with the fifth-best record in the NL is going to beat the Almighty, all-powerful, invincible AL and its overwhelmingly talented Central Division representative. (Or maybe that's a good thing).
And fuckhead La Russa is going to be hailed as a fucking genius again.

 

Ahh, the ol' wood grains. Nice, Beej.

(Toys 'R Us has this tourist-trap package of old baseball cards, 12 packs for $10, that I indulge on when I have an extra $10 to waste. They always put a pack of '87 Topps in there --which is why they always sucker me in-- but it's probably 'cause the whole set is worth $4.50 now. ... My latest pack included: Floyd Rayford, Mel Hall, Scott McGregor, Charlie Kerfeld, Tommy John, and a "record-breaker" Todd Worrell. What a smorgasbord.)

 

Too late. He's already bought another decade of orgasmic prose for taking the greatest chokers of all-time to the World Series.