Running 2011 Baseball Thread, Vol. I: Dedicated to spnited

Chief!

 

I don't envy Cleveland for their postseason failure, but it must have been something to watch those lineups in the 1990s, with all stars at every position. Even the Yankees in their best years never assembled lineups like the Indians had then.

 

By the way, if you want some (more) unintentional comedy, The Guardian's new U.S. site is live-blogging the wild-card race. Recent highlights include "For any Mets fans feeling left out by all this excitement, Jose Reyes has apparently scored two home runs tonight" and "But, what's this, the Braves score a home run at the bottom of the ninth. They are still 1-7 down though."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2011/sep/27/boston-red-sox-tampa-bay-rays

 

Orioles have the winning run at the plate vs. Papelbon.

 

And Skippy's nightmare continues. NO ONE CAN KNOW HIS PAIN!

 

Reminds me of the time we had to put one-paragraph updates of the world cricket championships in the paper. We'd read the whole wire story and be completely unable to tell what the score was.

 

Seriously... even Cubs fans don't know what this feels like

 

This guy's good.

 

Yeah, cricket stories don't usually have the score in them. It tends to be, like, at the top or something. But even if it did, you don't keep score in the traditional fashion; you'd never say England beat Australia 746-605. You'd just say England beat Australia by 139 runs, or four wickets, or whatever.

Apologies for cricket-jacking the baseball thread. Back to your regularly scheduled mockery of the only Lou dumber than Holtz.

 

How'd Chipper do today?

 

Yeah, at this point I only hate myself for trying to help him. He has chosen the heel role. That's fine. I just wish I hadn't felt that twinge of guilt that first night when he was ALREADY getting obliterated. I wish I hadn't read his shitty copy and tried to help him. I wish I'd just said "I've read fifth-graders' writing that was better." I wish I hadn't tried at all.