50 thoughts on “15 Oct 2015: ALCS Set”

1. Rooting Interest Update

   THE FIGHTIN' ALTUVES!
   PIT
   ^TOR - Hot damn, yesterday was nuts
   KC - Sorry fellas, you just got knocked down a peg. I will however, be rooting for the AL in the WS.
   LAD - Vin Scully (Don't care he's not announcing. I feel like he deserves to have one more WS to be a part of.), Puig, Kershaw's curveball
   TEX
   CHC - The old roommate ASD is very excited. I hope when they lose it's not on something weird.
   STL
   NYM
   NYY

   1. CHC - Perhaps it's because I'm in Central Illinois, but I'm loving this team. Really considering getting a Schwarber shirsey
      KC - AL Central boys. Fan of Cain and Gordon. Wouldn't mind seeing them in the WS again.
      NYM/TOR - These two are about equal. I like the Mets youth, and I like the Blue Jays power. Between the two though, I don't think I have a preference
      LAD - Like Kershaw and Grienke, but hate that this team buys their talent (same beef with 90's Yankees). However, if they win tonight, it will be a Blue October.

      1. The Cubs are working their way up my list because of all the dingers and all the rookies. It's making me forget how obnoxious certain segments of their fanbase were after a certain incident many years ago.

   2. KC - I've had them as my backup team ever since the Twins threatened contraction. Pos. Rany.
      TOR - See first video below. Ben Revere. LaTroy.
      Dodgers/Mets - Pass
      Cubs - Can't we have any loveable losers? Sox and BoSox both broke near-century-long WS droughts in the last 12 years. Don't let this be added.
      Plus, it's not fair if Epstein gets another such streak-break. Good thing Ozzie! (see second video) and GMKW got the Sox off the schneid, or that would have been Epstein's next job.

      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh6Qla-OQ-M
      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDTevharSs

      1. Inverting the question of loveable losers, I feel pretty confident in my ability to quickly rank all MLB teams in the order of which I'd most like to see endure a Pirates or Cubs length drought.

      2. The White Sox were never loveable. Except maybe when they wore softball shorts. Maybe--I wasn't born at that point, so it's hard for me to tell.

         1. neither were the BoSox

            1. The BoSox were somewhat loveable in the enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend sort of way.

         2. Trust us old (er) guys. The softball unis did not make the ChiSox lovable. But they did elicit some sympathy. Amid the laughing and pointing.

         3. They were never lovable, but at one point they were nowhere near significant, and that's about as close as they've gotten.

            1. I think before the realignment, they were just another team in the West. Losers, yes, but with a bad ballpark and without any charm. After the realignment, they became more of a rival to the Twins, but I fail to remember any sort of bad blood before that.

            2. I would suggest that when Bill Veeck owned the team, they were at least semi-lovable.

               1. yeah, I'd thought of that, and it would be fair to say that he was lovable, but otherwise the team was pretty forgettable

2. One wonders what The Purple One will do when the Vikings win the Super Bowl this winter (and they are totally going to do that).

   1. Didn't he write a ridiculously terrible song about them during the 2009 season?

      1. Yes, he did.

         1. If you think about it, it's kind of perfect for the Vikings.

   2. Vikings win the Super Bowl
      Dude, are you wondering what he'll do when the Tooth Fairy wins Wimbledon, too? Or when science shows that you can divide both sides of an equation by zero?
      Waste your mental energy on things that could happen. Like you winning Wimbledon.

      1. Wait, SBG is the Tooth Fairy?

         1. No, SBG winning Wimbledon could happen.
            The Tooth Fairy winning Wimbledon and Vikings winning the Superb Owl could not.

      2. I probably can't get past the quarterfinals in a major.

3. Gonna need a new batch of Father Knows Best authors. Any volunteers?

   1. When would the next batch be starting?

      1. First one would be next Thursday (my monthly reminder to remind the author reminded me). All yours if you want it.

         1. Next Thursday's just too soon, but I could take one sometime before February.

         2. I can take the one for next Thursday, since I haven't actually done mine from my rotation yet.

            1. Don't worry, there's a few folks in front of you still 😉

   2. I'll volunteer. Not sure how far out you're scheduling, but anything other than Summer months should probably work for me.

   3. alright, for now, let's say:

      (updating this comment as names come in)

      October - Nibbish
      November - Mike
      December - CH (we'll give ya some time to try it on)
      Later - DPWY

      Any others are more than welcome.

      1. It's the third Thursday, right?

         1. yup. i'm usually pretty good about giving a week's notice. i'll put an updated schedule on the Features page if you want to double check when you're time is.

      2. Anytime next year is fine, I just didn't want too short a turnaround from my last one

   4. I'll take another one a ways out

   5. Sure.

      And I'm going to volunteer Pepper too, because her voice is nice on those.

4. I just caught up on The Seventh Inning. I wonder what the crowd's reaction in general would have been if Dale Scott had gotten that call correct in the first place and never called time. I suppose the Blue Jays would have still hassled them about the call and they probably would have reviewed it to be sure, so maybe the same result.

   And I guess if there was no review, then Gibbons would have probably wound up kicking dirt around and getting thrown out, so he wouldn't have been around for the rest of the fun. Would fans have still thrown things? Usually your manager getting tossed feels a bit like winning the fight.

   1. On that topic, here's JoePos and Ken Tremendous' take on The Seventh Inning.

      Kevin Pillar sounds like the name Kevin Millar gave to the cops when they caught him drinking a beer at a house party when he was 17. “I’m Kevin … Pillar.”

      1. That article is hilarious and you just quoted possibly the most hilarious part

         1. I might nominate this part:

            If Neil Armstrong had played by baseball’s stupid unwritten rules of decorum, he would have whispered, “Yeah, I’m on the moon.”

            “Act like you’ve been there before, Neil,” he said to himself, quietly, as he slowly descended onto the surface of an alien planet.

            1. This is my nomination. I had to pause and collect myself after this passage:

               Russell Martin leads off — yes, Mike, how often do you see it, a catcher hits a bat with a throw back to the pitcher allowing a run to score thanks to a correct interpretation of Rule 6.03a and then leads off the next inning? …

               It’s one of those baseball clichés that just always seems to hold up.

               1. I'm with Cheaptoy.

   2. I still have no idea how to pronounce "Rougned Odor".

      Edit: NM, I just clicked on the link to The Classical's article on just such an issue.

      1. Roog-Ned-O-dure
         That's how the Jay's announcers pronounced it.

      2. My favorite part of the article was about the Aurelianos.

   3. I didn't see it live so I just watched it in it's entirety ... holyshitballs.

      1. Just plain bonkers.

5. If this Lamar Odom story were not so sad and pathetic, I would be making crass Kardashian jokes about now.

   1. "Odom, 35, came to Love Ranch Vegas seeking privacy." Says the L.A. Times.

      Uh, I don't know from personal experience, but I doubt that is what you typically go to a brothel for.

      1. If it is, though, I'm going to reconsider life as a hermit.

6. Wild win again, beat Coyotes 4-3. Parise with his 5th goal for 3-0 Wild.

   1. I desperately wanted to go to this game, but with Sour Cream's birthday this week, we already had a couple of outings planned.

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