big game II: the game just got bigger

also bye jeremy reed. you probably won't ever amount to anything baseball-wise but at least it won't be on my conscience

aww, this is sad, i yelled it so many times, my exhortation when he'd come up:

C'MON JER

i will miss that

(for those of you who don't know, jergins can yell loud like a motherfucker it is brilliant)

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/452839295_629aa26a53_o.jpg

Sabathia's always a threat to rupture a manboob.

― sad man in him room (milo z), Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:45 PM

two favorite words, right up next to each other:

BEAVERS RALLY

^sporstcaster, not me

http://www.king5.com/about/bios/stories/D_IMAGE.11432118fbd.93.88.fa.d0.178b1dea5.jpg

the combination of dead eyes and talking about nascar is gonna make you hot, don't deny it

chin it to win it
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v179/julyphotos/lisa1.jpg

we never talked about how historically shitty seattle sports was in 2008

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

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

am pretty stoked to see hockey here
http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/showarecenterkent.jpg

holy shit, tom tango, now consulting
http://ussmariner.com/2009/01/05/ms-hire-tom-tango/
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/1/4/709001/cat-s-out-of-the-bag

hell yeah i think i'm gonna go see knicks and bulls on mlk day

oh yeah i did and it was a good game

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.

it is really surprising to me that torre is kind of jerk, cashman is a weaselly little shit and a-rod is a psycho

the first one was surprising to me

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.

and then i remember the purse incident

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.

world team handball championships on sunday, looks like superbowl's got some competition!

i will be watching argentinian soccer

faith hill super bowl opening song fucking suuuuuuccckeddd
"al and john/the best on tv/right here on NBC" soaring country

hertha berlin @ the top of the bundesliga

i still laugh when i think back to trying to search for 'bertha berlin'

sounders tickets go on sale monday march 2nd at 10 am through ticketmaster
two weeks from today!

BERTHA BERLIN! SOUNDERS! YAY!

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!

jeez karl, it's not like that. pissed he's never won anything? the smile is too sweet?

soooo many bigger bums in baseball

http://www.soundersfc.com/Matchday/March-to-the-Match.aspx

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!

maybe i'm getting a little tired of the tilt-shift thing, but this is cool. from last thursday's sounders game
http://seattlest.com/attachments/seattle_seth/sounders_tilt.jpg

that's a really good one

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd118/embarchie/streamers.jpg

ok this kinda stuff is gonna be endlessly faascinating

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.

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.

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."

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...

the commentary on the soccer game i'm watching sounds like two russian guys in a bar

is there a punchline?

we might need a russian translator for that :(