Recap? Recap. Yankees Lose. Rest of Nation Rejoices.

by Leopold Bloom on Oct 7, 2011 12:09 AM PDT

So, um, there was a baseball game and the right team won.

Unless, you know, you're like a Yankees fan. Then the wrong team won. But you don't have a soul anyhow if you're rooting for the Yankees, so go away, you soulless moron. Your team just paid ~$207 million and lost in the first round of the playoffs. Sorry. You'll buy another championship next season, Yankees.

Jim Leyland, you cantankerous, leathery SOB--you reek of old cigarettes, vitamins and pee. But, damn it, I love you right now. You and your wonderfully soulful Kittens. Good job. The world salutes you. They love you. They might not show it, but a grateful nation salutes you. Thank you for cutting off the head.

I suppose the Yankees could cheat, like the Friday the 13th franchise did after they cut Jason's head off in the one where the little kid shaves half his head and pretends to be a little Jason Vorhees? That crazy little bastard cut Jason's head clean off. Next time through, some drunken teenagers dig up Jason's body and science and supernatural mix to reattach his head. Wait, no, it was greed and the need to continue on with a lucrative franchise.

I bet the Yankees come back next year.

As it is, the Yankees are through. The Red Sox are through. The Giants and Angels are both through. There are only two of the remaining six teams left that I do not want. One will be gunning for you, Jim Leyland. Please go and beat the crap out of the Rangers now. Please? Do it and the next pack of Camel straights is on me...

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Fuck the Yankees.

also the Giants.

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by mikev on Oct 7, 2011 12:09 AM PDT reply actions 4 recs

Add Rangers, Angels and Red Sox. Oh, and the manager of the Diamondbacks.

This is an invitation for CJ Wilson to go and have sex with himself.

by Leopold Bloom on Oct 7, 2011 12:11 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Rec'd

for adding the bosux.

Re-sign Josh Willingham now!

by sf drift king on Oct 7, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions

REC'D!!!!!

"Trying not to rec a "F**k the Giants" post is like trying not to look at boobs."

by Tutu-late on Oct 7, 2011 6:05 AM PDT up reply actions

Yankees eliminated

They can beat up on teams all season long, and it doesn’t matter.

That almost made up for Cal’s predictable loss.

by bear88 on Oct 7, 2011 12:24 AM PDT reply actions

hmmm... I'm curious who the last team you want to lose is (after Texas I presume)

Philly and Detroit and St. Louis are all kinda working class, allegedly crime-ridden and shitty-to-live-in places (in the way that Oakland always ranks towards the top of those bad, dangerous city lists), so I have some sympathy for all of them. Despite this they’re all high payroll teams: philly and detroit certainly have an immediate market and corporate base to facilitate this while St. Louis people are supposedly just “good baseball fans.”

Phoenix is my idea of Hell, but I might actually cheer for Hell if it had a team. Also the d-backs are poor and have “bad” fans like the A’s, so I’m okay with them.

People in Philadelphia have a reputation for being a bunch of mean boors, which is how I probably come across. They’re into shit like cheez whiz and funk night-clubs. And Milwaukee is neat.

I still kinda begrudge St. Louis for winning a championship on the back of an 82 win season. I feel like that cheapens baseball for all of us, and especially with the way the Tigers fell flat after sweeping the A’s – I feel like that makes the 2006 A’s seem worse, or like in a different universe we coulda gotten lucky against the Tigers and then just brushed those Cardinals aside. Also I don’t like Matt Holliday although I think his contract represents one of the best deal premiere FA signs in recent memory.

by Aufheben on Oct 7, 2011 12:50 AM PDT reply actions

The coach of the D'Backs makes it a non-starter for me,

This is an invitation for CJ Wilson to go and have sex with himself.

by Leopold Bloom on Oct 7, 2011 5:00 AM PDT up reply actions

Srsly

(though I assume you mean their manager, not one of their coaches).

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on Oct 7, 2011 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions

love it, made my day

"You know whats funny? I always thought uhm dogs lay eggs and I learned something new today" Peter Griffin

by HUNGRY HUNTER on Oct 7, 2011 1:26 AM PDT reply actions

it made more than my day, for what its is worth

it made my MLB post season. it can live with the others still in the hunt, but with the yankees, red sox and LAA out of it, at least the post season is ok with me.

by robertmelvin on Oct 7, 2011 2:54 AM PDT reply actions

Yankees lose

THEEEEEEEE YANKEEEEEEEES LOOOOOOOSE

by OaklandSi on Oct 7, 2011 6:20 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs

Rec'd

"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s

by Nick on Oct 7, 2011 7:35 AM PDT up reply actions

Let me taste your tears, Yankee Fan!

Ooh, your tears taste so sweet!

Sisko: All right Niners, let's hear some chatter!
Kasidy: Hey batterbatterbatterbatterbatter!
Leeta: Hey batterbatterbatter! Batterbatterbatterbatter!
Worf: DEATH TO THE OPPOSITION!!!

by CmdrKhraanik on Oct 7, 2011 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions

Go Tigers. Go Brewers. Go Phillies.

by OaklandSi on Oct 7, 2011 6:21 AM PDT reply actions

Funny thing over on Pinstripe Alley last night

The guy who wrote the recap said Rodriguez ended the season for the second year in a row by striking out looking, when he swung last night. About 200 comments in at that point, I don’t think anyone had corrected it.

Last of the Ninth - Photography

by Flashfire on Oct 7, 2011 9:52 AM PDT reply actions

he meant struck out looking silly.

by AV on Oct 7, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions

Struck out looking...

…at himself in the mirror.

by Glorious Mundy on Oct 7, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions

Don't get me wrong

I’m glad they lost, but couldn’t they have lost it in the WS instead. Wtith them gone I have even less interest in watching baseball unless one or more of the series go 7, and then, I still may not watch if it’s showing at the same time as a football game, any football game..

Re-sign Josh Willingham now!

by sf drift king on Oct 7, 2011 11:10 AM PDT reply actions