Youk Of The Nation

You sneaky bastard!

Beat me to it.

I'm thinking the GT tomorrow will be started by UN.

What's your deal lately dude?

You would have as much luck punching a unicorn as you would punching Joe West in the eye. Neither of those things exists, apparently.

Does this pitcher/batter matchup set a letter record?

Fun Fact: Al Albequerque is the first pitcher with two Q's in his last name to pitch in a postseason game. I don't actually know if that's a fact, but I'm willing to bet it is. Someone call Elias.

I'm getting a game where Lester has 4 K's in two innings and gave up one hit to a great hitter and one bloop. Apparently there is another game going on where a pitcher with the same name is sucking.

Are you watching the same game that I am?

Victorino can stay, he made it to first. But no way do I want the rest of them back! Hell yes, Lester.

No way, not after he struck out in the first inning of the first game of the ALCS.

I agree with both of you as well. I have found work to be, on occasion, a welcome palliative during stressful or depressing times. It's entirely possible that Peterson feels the same way. That he'd rather be venting his emotions by playing football than by sitting at home. I wouldn't judge him for this choice. Only he knows how he's feeling and how he needs to cope, and as long as his methods don't involve beating the s*** out of random people or something, there really isn't any need for us to know.

So sad. If only he had hired Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger to babysit his son instead. Then the kid would never have been beaten. But yeah, being that Peterson is nationally known, at least everyone in prison will know quickly that the guy beat a two-year old to death. I'm sure it will endear him to the lifers. I expect a followup thread in a few months "Child Killer Strangled to Death in Prison Shower with Brett Favre Jersey"

I'm just saying, they could have done me a favor. No consideration at all.

I am incredibly disappointed that in a series that went all 5 possible games, they didn't manage to have even one game where the SP matchup ended up being Fister and Colon. EDIT: If everything aligned perfectly, both starters would pitch complete games, and the Tigers would win 1-0 on an RBI infield single on which Colon couldn't handle a low throw to first base. Then the headline could be "Colon's Stretch Not Enough to Handle Fister"

Ah yes, I forgot about SFF, I knew there was at least one more. Sorry Forsyth!

Crisp, Lowrie, Reddick, Drew, Breslow, Colon, and Moss will probably wake up and forget which team they're starting for in the ALCS. I can imagine Crisp in his car on the way to the stadium. "Shitshitshit, gotta go home and change, s***" and running back out of his house trying to button up his A's jersey but forgetting to change his hat.

And I can't wait for it! The day the Sox scored 6 in the ninth against Seattle, I knew they were going to the World Series. This is an incredible team. In some ways, (not all, so calm down purists), this is a better team than 2004 or 2007. I can feel it. This is a f***ing awesome Red Sox team. Oakland or Detroit, it doesn't matter, the Sox are about to f*** some s*** up and chew bubble gum, and...well, okay, they apparently have a ceaseless supply of bubble gum, but still, they'll have plenty of time to f*** some s*** up too. There are a couple of things I think should not go unnoticed this season, in light of this win: Koji's complete lack of f***s to give in any situation is great, but I think it has overshadowed what a f***less season Breslow is having. The Sox may have the closer who set the record for fewest f***s given per nine, but despite the clinching save, Breslow was the real hero of tonight's game on the mound. BTR/UN?/RSFFL mojo has almost singlehandedly propelled the Sox to the ALCS, and that cannot be understated. Xander Bogaerts may not yet be the offensive juggernaut that people expected, but he came up big tonight. I hope to see great things from him. Speed has been the best weapon the Sox have had this season, and as I said before, it's great to watch. The days of the Lead Sox are long over. I look forward to another few seasons of every other team looking like Wile E. Coyote, smashing headlong into a painted tunnel while Ellsbury steals down it. Tampa really, really needs a new stadium. All vitriol aside, they are a great team, exciting to watch, and the fact that we hate them so much is a testament to that. We didn't hate them when the Sox were going 14-2 against them every season. They deserve to play in a stadium that doesn't look like temporary shelter for displaced hurricane victims, and it's a shame that their own hometown won't show up at their games. I can't think of anything I would love better than having my grandkids wearing "Rays Suck" T-shirts and having to explain to them about how, when I was their age, the Yankees were actually so good that the Red Sox fans hated them. Whatever college is churning out baseball television announcers should be disaccredited and replaced with a Taco Bell management training class HQ, because that will do more for baseball fans at 1AM then these schmucks ever will

Ahhhh s*** I am so happy right now, the last time I remember being this ecstatic was after Game 5 of the 2008 ALCS.

I don't always make posts consisting of a single photo, but when I do, I make them good.

f*** YES RED SOX. Awesome.

My mother only watches baseball during the postseason, unlike myself or my stepdad. She keeps saying 'this is so nerve-wracking' and I keep saying "You think this is bad? Try dealing with this dramatic s*** 162 times from April through September"

There's a better kind than the one that crushes the spirit of a playoff opponent?

The best kind of double play!