Youk Of The Nation

The sad thing is, the Twins are Minnesota's most successful team.

At least the Orioles won, so the Yankees don't gain anything. If they can't lose ground, not gaining ground is the next best thing.

The Rockies have always been my NL team, unless they play the Sox. I also have a soft spot for the Pirates, as I've metioned before, because of the fact that almost my whole family on my dad's side comes from the area. Every time I go to visit family in Renfrew we catch at least one Pirates game. I've been to about a dozen Pirates home games and I think they've won maybe two of them. The best one I remember was a few years ago, they lost 9-1 to the Cardinals. The run they scored was on a Darryl (Daryle?) Ward solo HR. Late in the game some dude near us made a leaning one-handed catch on a foul, stretching over the barrier in front of his seat, and everyone started cheering and yelling to the dugout to put him in the outfield.

How about two wins in a row? That would be cool.

Oh, definitely. To be honest, I think my comment was more for the opportunity to use a DS9 quote than anything else.

"And the worst part of it is, this isn't a coil spanner. It's a flux coupler!" Meaning, of course, that the Sox aren't really a spanner in the works so much as the Yankees are just awful right now. Anyone could beat them...as evidenced by the Sox doing it. Not that the Sox aren't playing spoiler. I'm just saying that the Sox aren't playing spoiler because they are the Sox, they're doing it because they are the team the Yankees are playing right now. The Royals could be the spoiler as far as New York is concerned right now.

Okay, so apparently I cannot link photos, so here you go: http://qkme.me/3qvcn6

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Now that TS is accessible, here is the gamethread. Tied 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth. I will refrain from making any 9-11/New York jokes, but seriously, just beat these f***ers.

Exactly

Yeah I almost downloaded it, and then thought better of it. The CIA isn't getting anything from me that easily. Seriously, I have no idea what the hell that was all about.

Can I Saskatchewan question? Ottawa go about becoming a Canadian citizen? I've considered moving up there before, and there is a lot of stuff available online about it, but I've read Nunavut. Anyways, welcome.

He'd better hope it's not a leg injury, or it's off to the glue factory for him.

Most definitely. If the Sox miss the playoffs, the only thing left to root for is the Yankees missing them too. And if they do, watching them lose in the first round will be enough. Also, just in case the point wasn't made strongly enough, f*** the Yankees.

I echo this sentiment, except with text so large that all of the computer power currently possessed collectively by the planet would not be able to generate it.

Exactly. Whether or not you want to wait is a valid opinion, but being unwilling to do so is not. We have no control over the decision of the team, unless and until my mind-control ray is completed, and that's further behind than my aforementioned time machine, as well as my volcano lair. Since we have no say, being unwilling to wait is not an option. We can complain endlessly (which some of us undoubtedly will), threaten to murder select members of the front office (which some of us undoubtedly will), and insult anyone associated with the team and anyone who defends the decisions that are made (which...well, you get the point), but we can't just stop rooting for the team if we are true fans. If they decide to wait until 2015 or 2030 or the heat death of the universe to be competitive again, then I will suffer through it as best as I can. And when the heat death of the universe begins, and I am comfortably encased in the invincible exoskeleton I have constructed to house my consciousness and make me functionally immortal, I will glady witness the destruction of all existence and the birth of a new universe in which the Red Sox are a playoff-caliber team and the laws of physics are slightly different, allowing objects released at eye level to fall sideways on occasion, just because I would find that hilarious.

I think it's a given that Trout is going to be ROY this season, but he's making a case for the MVP along with it.

I don't see that I have another option. My time machine is still years away from even the theoretical stage, and even when it is complete I have a list of things to accomplish before I use it in any baseball-related endeavors. I have to observe the comet impact that brought about the extinction of the dinosaurs, kill Abraham Lincoln, watch the pyramids be built, and stop Fox from cancelling Firefly.

Have you seen close-ups during interviews? I think someone already did.

I don't get it.

That PBR looks even better through my black thick-framed glasses that I don't actually need to wear.

Huh, comeback win, possibly. I was wondering if they could still do that.

So this season, the Yankees are struggling to keep up with the Orioles, and part of your solution is to give the Orioles A-Rod and Granderson? Can you explain how that benefits the Yankees in any way?

I hope you weren't expecting outpourings of sympathy. You posted a rant about how much you hate your team for sliding so far that they are now tied for first. You posted it on a Red Sox forum during a season in which the Sox are on pace to finish under .500 for the first time since the Clinton administration. Expect no serious discussion here. Expect lots of sarcasm, cruelty, and at least one "Your Mom" joke. The Yankees suck right now, almost as much as your mom does during Mardi Gras. (okay, two "Your Mom" jokes then)

It's mainly because of how awesome I am. But yeah, TS is pretty rad. [hipster] It was better a few years ago, back when it was underground. I used to post all the time, you probably hadn't heard of it back then. [/hipster]