Cowboy Up? Don't EVEN bring that to Denver

by 510inDenver on Oct 22, 2007 1:57 PM PDT

OK, so I've been pretty quiet for a while, lurking about. Mostly been shocked into silence by the local baseball team. Funny, I started to go to their games because I like baseball & hot dogs. Never thought that they'd become.... interesting.

I posted a diary back in May on the heels of the Yankee sweep, mostly on the idea that very few things in life are better than the Yankees or Angels losing, except maybe their getting swept.

But now its all over. While the Yankees and Angels are home watching baseball on TV, I am trying to get tickets to a baseball game.

I shoveled 4 inches of snow off my driveway yesterday, and I am trying to get tickets.

The world is clearly upside-down.

Anyhow, while sitting here and work, and mentoring my colleagues on baseball, someone brought up the whole Boston "Cowboy up!" thing.

The confused looks on the rest of my team at work really brought home how ridiculous the idea of New Englanders "Cowboy-ing up" is.

Now I can't say anything about what happens on the field, but I assure you, a Cowboy Up sign at Coors field is going to be met with the sort of fan response similar to wearing Orange & Blue in the Black Hole at our beloved Colosseum.

Todd Helton probably said it best when asked about the snow here: "It's good hunting weather."

Funny, I bet the BoSox thought they were done playing against pinstripes.

Update [2007-10-23 16:30:37 by 510inDenver]: Got Tickets to Game 3, Section 333, Row 1. Now THAT does not suck. =)

Also, another reason to like 'dem Rox:

From: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071020&content_id=2273575&vkey=ps2007news&fext =.jsp&c_id=mlb

Fuentes picked up his passion for the game watching his father's traveling police softball team, and he honed his attitude watching his hero, Dave Stewart, pitching for the A's. Fuentes was fan enough to get his picture taken with the A's '89 World Series trophy, an apparently prescient piece of foreshadowing as his Rox stand a series win from claiming the trophy as their own.

Poll

Dumbest Rallying mechanism:

Cowboy Up! - Boston

24 votes

Rally Monkey - San Dimas Angels of Rancho Cucamonga

37 votes

Thunder Sticks - Anywhere

19 votes

Other (Write in comments)

0 votes

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The system crashed!

My dad and brother (my brother lives in Denver and we're planning on flying out to go to the game next Sunday) have been trying to get tickets all day so far with no luck. I have no idea how they thought that making it online only would make it "more fair". You know people not interested in even going to the games are trying to buy tix just to sell them for 3x the price. Hopefully they'll get things up and running again soon.

Anyway...

As for the poll... I voted for the Rally Monkey since I go to more games in Anaheim than anywhere else. There is nothing more pathetic to me than seeing a grown man get excited over a jumping monkey.

I don't even get the "cowboy up" thing... especially for a team like the Red Sox...

"I never saw a hooligan I did like. They're like left-handed pitchers, they all have a screw loose somewhere." - The Asphalt Jungle

by drmmerchk on Oct 22, 2007 1:51 PM PDT reply actions

So who bought you a ticket?

"Female ass are strange creatures. They come and go as they please." -- Sigourney Weaver

by oblique on Oct 22, 2007 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions

no one :(

we didn't end up getting through and when we finally did they were sold out. People are reselling them for ridiculous amounts and we can't afford them so I'm probably gonna be on AN while watching :) haha

"I never saw a hooligan I did like. They're like left-handed pitchers, they all have a screw loose somewhere." - The Asphalt Jungle

by drmmerchk on Oct 24, 2007 12:30 AM PDT up reply actions

Aw, booo...

(booo about tickets, not booo about being on AN... :P )

It kind of sounds corny, but you develop a bond with your pumpkins.

by Poppy on Oct 24, 2007 6:13 AM PDT up reply actions

I meant the airline ticket..

per our earlier conversation...but that is really too bad. It would've been awesome to go...must be way too expensive to buy them pre-owned?

I'll be in Peoria, IL, this weekend at the house of a very good friend of mine who grew up in New Hampshire -- we all know who he'll be cheering for, and I'm not sure how comfortable I am rooting against him as his guest!

"Female ass are strange creatures. They come and go as they please." -- Sigourney Weaver

by oblique on Oct 24, 2007 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Something of a defense ...

"Cowboy up" was the players' rallying cry. They were mostly, if not entirely, from places other than New England.

Varitek and D-Lowe are from Michigan
Millar's from L.A.
Manny's from Puerto Rico
Damon's from Kansas
Cabrero's from Colombia
Nixon is from North Carolina
Papi and Pedro are from the DR
Schilling's from Alaska
Waker is from Florida
Foulke is from San Diego
Timlin is from Texas
Embree is from Oregon

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Oct 22, 2007 2:58 PM PDT reply actions

I don't care

where they're from, it was stupid. Just another attempt to get people to jump on the "you should root for us because we're such gamers, we play ball the right way, that's why we don't shave" bandwagon.
God, I hate that team.

VacaAsFan

by Vacafan on Oct 22, 2007 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions

millar

looked so sad not to be a redsox anymore last ngiht doing the lineup. which brings up another point: why the f was he doing the lineup and tossing out the first pitch??

by Backspin on Oct 22, 2007 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions

amen to that

Is Millar still on Baltimore's roster? If so, that was shameful.

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Oct 22, 2007 3:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Why?

It's not as if the Orioles are in the playoffs.

Millar has made it pretty damn clear that he is a Red Sox fan. If a team doesn't like that, and doesn't like his public displays of his Red Sox fandom, then they shouldn't sign him.

On Sunday, Minaya ticked off a list of candidates to join the rotation, and for once this season, none of them was Jose Lima.

by rfloh on Oct 23, 2007 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions

totally disagree

If he is employeed by another team (in the same division for crying out loud) I think it's totally wierd/wrong for him to be at Fenway making appearances for the Red Sox. He can be a rah rah Red Sox rooter after he retires. I'm sure Zito still has a soft spot in his heart for the A's, but if we were in the playoffs and he showed up at the Coliseum to throw out the first pitch, the Giants would have every right to be mad. And I as an A's fan would find it a bit wierd.

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Oct 23, 2007 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions

And then there was the time...

Bobby Crosby was caught in that lewd drunken tryst with Anaheim's rally monkey...

It kind of sounds corny, but you develop a bond with your pumpkins.

by Poppy on Oct 23, 2007 11:16 AM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, but it looked worse for the monkey ...

So you could explain that away ...

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Oct 23, 2007 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions

I'm not saying that it wasn't stupid ...

I'm just saying the fact that they play in New England doesn't make it any more or less stupid.

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Oct 22, 2007 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Manny is from the Dominican Republic

but grew up in NYC

by OaklandSi on Oct 22, 2007 4:16 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah, that's true ...

I saw "DR" and thought "PR" ...

"It's for your own good. Big strong Devo knows whats best for Poppy" -- Mossback

by devo on Oct 22, 2007 5:26 PM PDT up reply actions

it was Millar and Timlin

both from Texas, who got the Sux to use Cowboy Up!

by OaklandSi on Oct 22, 2007 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions

I wish I had three AN logins

so I could vote for each item in the poll - all are worthy. Since I only have one, the vote had to go to the LA Rodentia of Orange County.

Regarding the Red Sox, the whole "idiots" thing was at least as annoying as the "Cowboy up" nonsense.

"Evidently, a large number of people said, 'We really need more vermin at the ballpark, Artie.'" - Nick, 10/7/07

by doctorK on Oct 22, 2007 3:23 PM PDT reply actions

at the 2003 ALDS

when Boston went down in order in the 4th inning of Game 1, I shouted in the ear of the Sox fan in front of me:

"Three Cowboys Up, Three Cowboys Down!!!"

To his credit, he actually liked it.

...guess you had to be there

"Hitting is better than sex." Reggie Jackson

by 67MARQUEZ on Oct 22, 2007 7:10 PM PDT reply actions

Coincidentally, that was the tagline for...

Brokeback Mountain.

We should play Jack Cust at shortstop for a week, just so we can feel good about Crosby again.

by Ozzz on Oct 22, 2007 10:25 PM PDT up reply actions

<sigh>

Like my "Walk-Off Bunt" t-shirt, that story would make me happier if the series hadn't ended so... wrongly.

It kind of sounds corny, but you develop a bond with your pumpkins.

by Poppy on Oct 23, 2007 6:58 AM PDT up reply actions

Red Sox: Underdogs/tourtured franchise

Not as frequently used since they won it all, but the thought that far too many sawx fans believed this (and for more more than agsinst the yankees) still makes me wanna vomit.

or how about this one... Giant's: Because Barry deserves it.

by StewFan on Oct 22, 2007 9:07 PM PDT reply actions