Author Topic: June 23-25, 2006. (Read 10156 times)

Alkie · « **on:** October 27, 2005, 08:59:21 pm »

Try to win at least ONE this time, ladies.

JimR · « **Reply #1 on:** October 27, 2005, 10:13:13 pm »

what the fuck does this mean? ladies?

Alkie · « **Reply #2 on:** October 27, 2005, 10:20:03 pm »

what the fuck do you think it means? Was it difficult to figure out?

Nate in IA · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:08:22 am »

I can't freakin' believe they're coming to Colorado the first week of May again! Doesn't MLB know that it SNOWS the first week of May in Denver? Sheesh.

And yes, I second your statement. Hopefully Backe will take his home game on the road for that series.

JimR · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:14:33 am »

yes, "ladies" is difficult to figure out. what do you mean?

Greg M · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:26:34 am »

Quote:

I can't freakin' believe they're coming to Colorado the first week of May again! Doesn't MLB know that it SNOWS the first week of May in Denver? Sheesh.

And yes, I second your statement. Hopefully Backe will take his home game on the road for that series.

I see a road trip from Albuquerque.

Limey · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2005, 11:32:48 am »

Oddities in the schedule include no STL until May and no Cubs until June. Then July gives us a solid week of nothing but Cubs and 3rds.

Also, June is "Stay at Home" month for the 'Stros.

Oh, and we close the regular seasopn on the road in ATL. Nice.

JimR · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:09:40 pm »

unbelieveable, Dobro, even for you.

Dobro · « **Reply #11 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:41:20 pm »

Jim, you are often asked these sorts of questions around here and for the most part they go unanswered. On a serious note, could there ever be a situation where you would concede that the players did not perform as a major league player is expected to perform? If so, why would you not consider this World Series one of those situations?

Alkie · « **Reply #12 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:46:44 pm »

Athletes can never do wrong, Dobro, even when they go 0-for-47 or whatever the fuck it was with runners in scoring position. It is never the fault of the players, and professional athletes should be completely immune to criticism because they get paid millions to play a children's game or something.

I've seen my wife take better hacks at the batting cage than Ensberg in the World Series, but calling him out on it on a BBS is unacceptable. We owe Morgan and the rest of the guys the respect they deserve as we are anonymous dorks who the players don't know exist.

Alkie · « **Reply #13 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:51:00 pm »

I should point out that this thread has not only hurt the team and its individual players, but clearly shows that I am not a REAL FAN (tm).

All I did was miss work for a month and spend about $6,000 to watch some baseball games.

Alkie · « **Reply #16 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:58:07 pm »

Look, I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but that last AB he had in the 14-inning game was unlike anything I'd ever seen in a major league game.

I'm not exaggerating when I say I've seen Al Leiter take better swings.

If Morgan is hurt, FINE, SAY SOMETHING.

JimR · « **Reply #17 on:** October 28, 2005, 12:59:48 pm »

boo hoo that you spent irresponsible amounts of money. no one forced you to do that. i'm sure the Astros lost just to piss you off. Ensberg, especially, went into the tank to spite you. failure is unacceptable, of course, to those who never fail themselves. good for fucking you.

so, you are "calling the players out" on the TZ? whoo, boy, ain't that grand. your frontrunning knows no bounds, and you are right, anyone who calls this team "ladies" because it lost the WS is not a true fan.

Alkie and Dobro are disgusted and angry. a lot of the rest of us are happy and proud.

Alkie · « **Reply #21 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:10:58 pm »

Take your meds, Jim. I'm serious. Take your meds. You need professional help.

If you didn't know I was THRILLED about this season and what the Astros accomplished, then you either don't read enough around here or are fucking brain dead.

And seriously, next time you feel like calling me out as a frontrunner or anything but a fan, you can suck a dick. Fucking sociopath. You've been running this act around here for, what, a decade now? NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK IS A REAL FAN, JIM. NO ONE. Get a CLUE. Don't want to read my posts? IGNORE THEM. PLEASE. I'M BEGGING YOU.

YOU don't get to decide who is a fan and who is not, not that this will make sense NOW, since you've never understood this before.

What's REALLY amazing is that I wasn't even being SERIOUS when I started this thread, but you decided to get all Mr Big behind your keyboard.

What the FUCK, indeed.

JimR · « **Reply #23 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:12:39 pm »

just curious, Dobro, have you ever tried your hardest at something and not done well? do you think MLB players succeed every time? did CWS have MLB players on their roster too? did anyone quit? did anyone give less than their best effort?

fuck this "ladies" crap. fuck thinking that only those who succeed or who win are worthy of your respect. fuck this "we won" and "they lost" bitching and moaning.

watching a lot of games does not make someone a fan. neither does spending a lot of money. fuck frontrunning.

Alkie · « **Reply #24 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:12:51 pm »

See, that's the thing! I wasn't mad or upset or disgusted or whatever. Hell, I even turned to everyone after we got SWEPT and said "we won the NL, can't take that away from us."

Jim needs someone to spar with today, so fine. I hope baseball season starts again soon.

edvio · « **Reply #25 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:18:19 pm »

Of course we're proud of what the Astros did this season and what they did in the NLDS and NLCS. But being swept out of the world series, what's to be proud about that? Even Gar was mad enough to fling a stool and publicly says he's ticked about the loss after game 3, and we know he's proud of his team.

Edit: I want to add, being swept out of the world series does not discount what they did this season and the rest of the postseason. Just like Alkie said, you can't take that away from us.

JimR · « **Reply #26 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:19:04 pm »

be careful you do not trip over something backpedalling, Alkie.

i think i'll save the "sociopath" post so i can remember it.

JimR · « **Reply #32 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:33:01 pm »

what happened, Dobro, that you cannot ignore? i'll tell you what i saw--a Series that was so tight and so hotly contested that one hit or one break made the difference between winning and losing. i saw a CWS team that was a better team, but not by much, get most of the breaks and more key hits and win by a razor-thin margin. i saw an Astros team never give up and never quit down to the last out of the last game.

that's what i saw. fuck your whining and bitching that is based on nothing more than the Astros lost.

Dobro · « **Reply #34 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:49:13 pm »

That's all fine and fucking dandy, Jim, but when your cleanup hitter is batting .100, you've got problems. When your closer can't keep runners off base and the ball out of the stands, you've got problems.

I don't care if every game was decided by 1 run. The fact is that the Astros lost 4 games in a row to the same team. That's an ass-kicking.

The term "ladies" is pretty fucking appropriate right now, imo. Hell, MoBerg should be forced to do the Twist in a poodle skirt after what he brought to the table. Is Kangaroo Court still in session?

Lighten up, Jim.

JimR · « **Reply #35 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:52:56 pm »

fuck off, Dobro. you are clueless. nice to be able to identify the frontrunners clearly. they use and embrace the epithet "ladies" to describe the Astros.

Dobro · « **Reply #37 on:** October 28, 2005, 01:59:09 pm »

Jim, I'm surprised you were able to make it back to the keyboard after the bitchslappin' you took from Alkie.

What a fucked up bunch we are, huh? Frontrunners and sociopaths...

WulawHorn · « **Reply #38 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:00:37 pm »

Isn't there some middle ground in all this?

I love Moberg- I love this team, I'm proud of him etc., but I thought that his first two AB's in game 4 were putrid beyond anything I've ever seen from a MLB cleanup hitter. I really wanted Gar to bring in Bruntlett, does that make me a bad fan?

Ensberg and Everett were both looking incredibly lost and confused in the box- Everett needs to play, struggles be damned, b/c he's a slick SS and hits 8th- Morgan doesn't get that slack cut to him. I think that Moberg is probably hurt, and this will come out sometime next year. He ain't been the same guy since he got hit in the hand in the illly.

Holly · « **Reply #39 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:05:23 pm »

Nice to see that "ladies" is an epithet. You men are tho thenthitive about being labelled anything but manly.

Anyhow. I guess this *is* the time of year where folks eat their young.

(Edit: the fact that this reply is "to" WulawHorn is just coincidence. He was at the bottom of the thread. Only those using and responding to ladies as an epithet can consider this post as "for" them.)

JimR · « **Reply #40 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:08:01 pm »

bitchslapping? yes, it was pretty shocking to be called a sociopath by someone i have known for years and had in my home many times.

Alkie's irresponsible rants are familiar to folks who have been here awhile and/or who have gotten to know him. folks who know him let his hyperbole go in one ear and out the other. he is a notorious frontrunner who is the first to complain after a loss but who is always at the front of the line in good times. i find "ladies" to be offensive after all this team has done. perhaps others do, too, but Alkie apparently gets a free pass for frontrunning.

i am keeping his post so that i can remember every word he said. you are a fucking idiot who amounts to nothing and whose sole contribution ever is bitching and moaning. what you say is meaningless and not to just me.

"ladies" is an epithet when referring to a males' professional sports team. it was meant in a derogatory way.
how many women are there in MLB, Hols? why is that? are they good enough to make it? being "manly" ain't it. being MLB level skilled is it. got it now, Hols?

JimR · « **Reply #42 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:15:34 pm »

probably not. put it to a vote if you'd like. you'd still be nothing but a whiner.

Holly · « **Reply #44 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:18:20 pm »

Got it Jim. I still think it's ludicrous to be offended by that. That's just part of the male nature, whether it's hurled at an MLB player, or taped on the door of an all-male IT department. Point being, that calling someone a "lady" to be derogatory is fairly neolithic. The N-word fell into public disuse, but gender-based epithets are alive and kicking. Nice. Got it, Jim?

JimR · « **Reply #46 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:23:16 pm »

kinda like "just like a man," eh?

thanks for your contribution to PC, Hols.

Holly · « **Reply #49 on:** October 28, 2005, 02:39:28 pm »

Hah! I have no interest in pissing standing up... well, unless my back teeth are floating, in a field of poison ivy.

WulawHorn · « **Reply #53 on:** October 28, 2005, 03:01:44 pm »

Time and again I looked at our lineup during the season and was shocked that we were able to score any runs at all. I'm shocked that we tallied 14 runs in the first three games of the WS and didn't even get one win out of it. I'm surprised not in the least that we got shut out in game 4- I'm really only surprised that we only got the bagel 1 time in this post season.

Taras Bulba · « **Reply #58 on:** October 28, 2005, 07:34:15 pm »

A sociopathic ex-coach and current lawyer is a hard man to stop.

Augustus McRae

das · « **Reply #60 on:** October 31, 2005, 04:49:02 pm »

You miss the point completely. I stayed away for the last few days because I did not care to rehash the minutae of the troubling yet rewarding Series. I came back hoping there was some good, clean entertainment to be had and voila! Here it is. A spat between Alkie and JimR out in the open for all to see is a healing catharsis for those of us that have been around a while. It just shows how much they care for us.

JimR · « **Reply #64 on:** October 31, 2005, 05:19:18 pm »

his is not the only stupid list you are on.

Author Topic: June 23-25, 2006. (Read 10156 times)

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