The Glass is Half Empty says: except for a few stupid fucking mistakes yesterday we would have just wrapped this series up.

forsberg_us wrote:

That Larussa sure is a genius manipulating his rotation to get Carpenter ready for Game 5.  (grin)

Carp only gives 100% so I wouldnt expect any less.  Halladay scares the shit out of me.  I never expect him to fail.

don.rob11 wrote:

Pujols to get Utley play saved a run

How many first basemen have the balls to make that play?

forsberg_us wrote:

Fuck Tony, don't get cute. Just walk Howard and let Salas pitch to Victorino.

Oh god, Fors. LaRussa would eat a barbecued poodle before he'd put the tying run on base.

artie_fufkin wrote:

Max wrote:

Max wrote:

DRILL ROLLINS!

at the time and place of our choosing.

i vote for the first pitch of game 5.  if the phillies retaliate hallady will be ejected, and if we are lucky, rollins will be ejected in the ensuing brawl.

What did Rollins do?

Oswalt beaned Holliday, our injured star who just got back in the line-up.  Rollins didn't do anything except drive the ball to the wall and get on base half the time.

If you watched the first inning and thought "this will be a nice way to remember E-Jax" I was there with you. That was an ugly inning.

Not sure how familiar you are with squirrels but I watched a buddy in tech school (Keesler AFB, Mississippi 1993) run peanuts up his pant leg, and one of the squirrels got tame enough to eat while standing on his leg. So my buddy tried to pet/pick him up. What followed was one of the worse human ass-beatings at the hand of a small rodent in recorded human history. Squirrels are a lot harder to let go of then they are to pick up.... It was fucking hilarious.

"Oswalt beaned Holliday"

From the replay I saw, it looked like Holliday got hit on the arm.

"I dont have to watch a hour of sport center to get an update on the playoffs now."

A lot of it depends upon who is on the panel. I like Plesac, Magrane and Al Leiter. Mitch Williams is a lot less annoying than I thought he'd be. And I thought Mark DeRosa was pretty good last night.
The next time either Bowa or Byrnes adds something of substance will be the first.
The only show I can't watch is that "Intentional Talk" drivel with Kevin Millar and Chris Rose. Rose may be the dumbest person since Charo to appear on television, and Millar's entire persona seems contrived and self-indulgent, just like his playing career.

My only beef with the time-slots. Well you can't compete with Bos/NYY in media, so they get prime time.

.... okay fair enough, but now you're telling me that somehow Milwaukee or Arizona are bigger draws than Philadelphia or St. Louis? I must candidly disagree with that statement. Neither Milwaukee nor Arizona can draw a stronger market share of the TV ratings as Philly or St. Louis. Add to this Philadelphia cruising with a club record in wins, and the best record in baseball, and it baffles me.

I think they need to rewrite their official priority to just simply say, "Fuck St. Louis, they don't get prime time if there's another game on." Because that really seems to be the only pattern to it.

alz wrote:

My only beef with the time-slots. Well you can't compete with Bos/NYY in media, so they get prime time.

.... okay fair enough, but now you're telling me that somehow Milwaukee or Arizona are bigger draws than Philadelphia or St. Louis? I must candidly disagree with that statement. Neither Milwaukee nor Arizona can draw a stronger market share of the TV ratings as Philly or St. Louis. Add to this Philadelphia cruising with a club record in wins, and the best record in baseball, and it baffles me.

I think they need to rewrite their official priority to just simply say, "Fuck St. Louis, they don't get prime time if there's another game on." Because that really seems to be the only pattern to it.

I thought I read Friday's game starts at 8:30. Has that been changed now that the other NLDS has a Game 5?

artie_fufkin wrote:

"I dont have to watch a hour of sport center to get an update on the playoffs now."

A lot of it depends upon who is on the panel. I like Plesac, Magrane and Al Leiter. Mitch Williams is a lot less annoying than I thought he'd be. And I thought Mark DeRosa was pretty good last night.
The next time either Bowa or Byrnes adds something of substance will be the first.
The only show I can't watch is that "Intentional Talk" drivel with Kevin Millar and Chris Rose. Rose may be the dumbest person since Charo to appear on television, and Millar's entire persona seems contrived and self-indulgent, just like his playing career.

You don't watch much Sean Hannity, do you?  I think he has both Rose and Charo beat when it comes to dumb, and as for contrived self-indulgent TV persona, I think the only who can beat Hannity is that Tucker Carlson doofus:

artie_fufkin wrote:

"Not sure how familiar you are with squirrels"

When I was a kid, we had a constant problem with raccoons. We had a family nest in our chimney. I don't remember what happened exactly, but I woke up one morning and one of the little ones was in the fireplace battling with my dad, who was brandishing a poker like Excalibur. We called the police department, which - it being in sleepy little town in which very few exciting things ever happened - responded by sending over two police units, a fire truck, and animal control. The animal control officer was a middle-aged woman with a Rubinesque figure, and personality. She used one of those noose thingies to corral the thing, which she brought outside.
Of course, the public safety presence brought every neighbor on the block out of their homes, just in time to see the animal control officer bash in the raccoon's skull with a nightstick. Kids were crying, women were screaming and grown men got pissed, including the neighbor who blamed my dad for calling the cops.
The animal kingdom got even a few years later when another raccoon got into the attic and did about $8,000 damage to the house. My dad didn't call animal control that time.

It is good for kids to see the dirtier side of life.  One good thing about working in a rural area is most people are able to take care of things like that themselfs.  Of course we still get those calls about people with a cat problem.