'The text messages looked like they had been written by a seven-year-old it was dreadful English and they mentioned Portugal. ‘They were very coyly written. They were things like: “Do you miss me baby? I miss you.”
― jergins, Monday, 8 December 2008 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
bye jj
― jergins, Thursday, 11 December 2008 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll miss your acdc walkin in from the pen music
also bye jeremy reed. you probably won't ever amount to anything baseball-wise but at least it won't be on my conscience
― jergins, Thursday, 11 December 2008 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
aww, this is sad, i yelled it so many times, my exhortation when he'd come up:
C'MON JER
― jergins, Thursday, 11 December 2008 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
i will miss that
― lxy, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
(for those of you who don't know, jergins can yell loud like a motherfucker it is brilliant)
― lxy, Thursday, 11 December 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/452839295_629aa26a53_o.jpg
― jergins, Sunday, 21 December 2008 10:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Sabathia's always a threat to rupture a manboob.
― sad man in him room (milo z), Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:45 PM
― jergins, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link
two favorite words, right up next to each other:
BEAVERS RALLY
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 06:29 (fifteen years ago) link
^sporstcaster, not me
http://www.king5.com/about/bios/stories/D_IMAGE.11432118fbd.93.88.fa.d0.178b1dea5.jpg
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 06:30 (fifteen years ago) link
the combination of dead eyes and talking about nascar is gonna make you hot, don't deny it
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 06:31 (fifteen years ago) link
chin it to win ithttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/julyphotos/lisa1.jpg
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 06:35 (fifteen years ago) link
we never talked about how historically shitty seattle sports was in 2008
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 06:57 (fifteen years ago) link
sonics left
mariners 101 losses 117m payroll
huskies football 0-11
seahawaks lol 2-15 or whatever shit fuck u u suck i'm glady
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/seattlesports.jpg
2009 looking up already, we gettin a soccer team andthe mariners have smart guys running shit even if they might still lose 90
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 06:59 (fifteen years ago) link
am pretty stoked to see hockey herehttp://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/showarecenterkent.jpg
― jergins, Monday, 5 January 2009 07:05 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit, tom tango, now consultinghttp://ussmariner.com/2009/01/05/ms-hire-tom-tango/http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/1/4/709001/cat-s-out-of-the-bag
― jergins, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
hell yeah i think i'm gonna go see knicks and bulls on mlk day
― jergins, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah i did and it was a good game
― jergins, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL JOE TORRE
Scorned skipper Joe Torre is blasting the Yankees - calling many of his former players prima donnas, confessing he stopped trusting the powers that be years before he left the team and charging that general manager Brian Cashman betrayed him.
In an explosive new book called "The Yankee Years," Torre gets most personal in his attacks against Alex Rodriguez, who he says was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates after he developed a "Single White Female"-like obsession with team captain Derek Jeter and asked for a personal clubhouse assistant to run errands for him.
― jergins, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
it is really surprising to me that torre is kind of jerk, cashman is a weaselly little shit and a-rod is a psycho
― max max max max, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
the first one was surprising to me
― jergins, Monday, 26 January 2009 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
alex rodriguez is so much more than a psycho, it's just one small part of him. watching him, knowing he's overthinking, knowing he's going to fuck up either on the field or off, it's one of the most compelling stories in sports. i feel sorry for him, some times.
― jergins, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
and then i remember the purse incident
― jergins, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
A Mexican sports daily is pinning its hopes of beating the United States in a World Cup qualifying match on voodoo — with help from a U.S-based electronics chain. An advertisement in the sports daily Record on Tuesday invited fans to clip coupons and redeem them at their local Radio Shack store for a voodoo-doll likeness of a U.S. player.
― jergins, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 06:38 (fifteen years ago) link
world team handball championships on sunday, looks like superbowl's got some competition!
― lxy, Saturday, 31 January 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i will be watching argentinian soccer
― jergins, Saturday, 31 January 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
― jergins, Sunday, 1 February 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
faith hill super bowl opening song fucking suuuuuuccckeddd"al and john/the best on tv/right here on NBC" soaring country
― jergins, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
hertha berlin @ the top of the bundesliga
i still laugh when i think back to trying to search for 'bertha berlin'
― jergins, Saturday, 14 February 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
sounders tickets go on sale monday march 2nd at 10 am through ticketmastertwo weeks from today!
― jergins, Monday, 16 February 2009 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
BERTHA BERLIN! SOUNDERS! YAY!
― lxy, Monday, 16 February 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa, karl has some strong feelings:
Griffey. After they remove Cheney’s carcass from the electric chair, they should toss his in it. Don’t do it Seattle. He’s a bum!
― lxy, Friday, 20 February 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
jeez karl, it's not like that. pissed he's never won anything? the smile is too sweet?
soooo many bigger bums in baseball
― jergins, Friday, 20 February 2009 16:04 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.soundersfc.com/Matchday/March-to-the-Match.aspx
― jergins, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
lol karl:
My brackets are a disaster. I want to thank P and N for the Western Kentucky victory. I picked it! I would like to thank L for the UW victory. I’ve got a real bone to pick with K, B, and J with Utah State choking in the last five minutes. Thanks a lot for screwing things up!
― lxy, Saturday, 21 March 2009 04:57 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe i'm getting a little tired of the tilt-shift thing, but this is cool. from last thursday's sounders gamehttp://seattlest.com/attachments/seattle_seth/sounders_tilt.jpg
― jergins, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 21:41 (fifteen years ago) link
that's a really good one
― lxy, Thursday, 26 March 2009 00:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/streamers.jpg
― jergins, Thursday, 26 March 2009 07:12 (fifteen years ago) link
ok this kinda stuff is gonna be endlessly faascinating
― jergins, Tuesday, 31 March 2009 06:10 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/preliminaries/oceania/standings/round1.html
Good News!
Tiny by Jeff on Apr 5, 2009 5:56 PM PDT in Good News Comment 10 comments
That asshole Travis Metcalf got DFA'd by the Rangers.
After he goes home and packs up all his things I hope someone steals his luggage.
― jergins, Monday, 6 April 2009 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
― jergins, Sunday, 12 April 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
we both love frank deford so here
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102837901
In a front-page article in The New York Times, architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff expressed "disappointment" on behalf of "students of architecture," because the Mets' and Yankees' new baseball parks don't embrace the modern but, instead, celebrate a "nostalgic vision."
Speaking for students of baseball, I'm sorry, but in constructing some things, the trick is not to run away from nostalgia but simply to monkey around with it and try to gussy it up a bit. Architecturally, baseball parks are like mousetraps. No one has found a way to build a better one than the Orioles did in 1992, when they gave Camden Yards to a grateful world. All of the 18 major league fields and scores of minor league parks built since then have been wise enough to follow that pretty model. Well, yes, the new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium is a little grander — gold lettering on limestone, with something of a mausoleum aspect to its massive front palisade — but then, the Yankees are as nostalgic as everybody else in baseball. It's just that Yankee nostalgia deals with the majestic instead of the lovely.
People simply feel more affection for ball yards than they do for other sports' stadiums and arenas. Madison Square Garden, for all its fame, is merely an address, not a home. And a place like Gillette Stadium may be a cathedral to New England Patriots fans, just as Old Trafford is to Manchester United fans, but linear football stadiums — of both varieties — and the cereal boxes that accommodate basketball and ice hockey are pretty much just so many efficient people containers. Ball yards are quirky and idiosyncratic living things, because the architecture is part and parcel of the outfield itself — all the better that that's in utter counterpoint to the infield, that diamond of inviolate geometry.
In a subversive way, ballparks even sort of divert attention from the game itself. Football and basketball and soccer and hockey fans probably pay more attention to the action, but baseball fans are more engaged by the whole experience. It's rather like how some people go to restaurants primarily for the food, others just as much for the ambience. If football fans act more like baseball fans, it's when they're outside the stadium, tailgating. Baseball parks are sort of made for interior tailgating.
Well, two more major league parks — in Minneapolis and Miami — are coming. May we hope that they are wonderfully up-to-date with the toilets and the concession stands and the escalators and all that stuff, and horribly nostalgic with the architecture and the atmosphere.
Commentator Frank Deford reports from member station WSHU in Fairfield, Conn.
― jergins, Sunday, 12 April 2009 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link
not like we needed more proof that jason giambi sucks, but here:
After seven innings against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday, Jason Giambi had to tell A's manager Bob Geren his tank was running on empty. Giambi, 38, already had legged out an infield single and sprinted after a foul ball that landed just out of his sliding reach.
"I told Bobby, '(The legs) are dead'," Giambi said.
In the A's home-opener on Friday night, Giambi ran all the way to third after he hit a slow ground ball to pitcher Ryan Rowland-Smith, whose errant throw went past first base and down the right field line.
"This is way too much running for me," Giambi said. "This is a little out of control for me. This is way too much running this early in the year."
― jergins, Monday, 13 April 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i love east coast baseball fans. mets fans at the first night in the new park:
They booed the introductions of the governor, David Paterson, the speaker of the New York state assembly, Sheldon Silver, and baseball commissioner Bud Selig, while mixing in a few cheers with the catcalls for the mayor, Michael Bloomberg. They gave a mock cheer to Mets left fielder Daniel Murphy, whose dropped fly ball had cost the Mets and Johan Santana (13 whiffs) a win the day before, when he made a routine catch...
― jergins, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 06:58 (fifteen years ago) link