Youk Of The Nation

Oh come on now, man. Tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't tear apart the argument of a Sox fan who said these words about a Sox pitcher. "As dominant a performance as I've seen from a Yankee youngster"? "That three run bomb never should have happened?" You even used the word "bomb". "As dominant as I've seen" does not belong directly after a sentence glossing over a three-run home run. He pitched fine, and will probably continue to pitch well enough this season to be important to the team, but let's be realistic here. Whether it should have happened or not, it did happen. Guys with filthy stuff who are being dominant work around infield errors. He was not filthy or dominant (tonight, at least). He was serviceable.

The guy who killed that innocent old man live on FB killed himself too. I guess it was a bad day for murderous *******s. I'm trying to dredge up some sympathy, but for some reason it's just not coming.

I would like to nominate Dansby Swanson as the greatest name in the history of names. It's a crime that this guy is not a peer of the realm. Dansby Swanson, 15th Earl of whatever. It has such a ring to it. I can't believe this guy isn't wearing a monocle everywhere he goes. He and Benedict Cumberbatch should get together and enter a "Most British name ever" contest.

Jacko is not a troll. He is a lot of things; he is a douchebag sometimes, a jerk, an ignoramus, a nuisance, an idiot, apparently a doctor, insufferable, opinionated, frequently arrogant, biased, probably short, almost certainly impotent, our friend, and on extremely rare occasions, intelligent and insightful. A troll, though? No way.

Can't believe there was no GT. Just got home from work and assumed with Sale pitching so well it would have been an active one. JB44, you should start the next one. Your GT was started first (if only by three minutes), so it's up to you.

Thread closed and reported to the US Department of the Treasury. Leaving it undeleted so I can provide the link.

No way we could be Baltimore fans. Even I'm not that much of a douchebag. Hell, I almost married an Orioles fan, and I still knew better than to do anything but hate them.

I know how you feel. I hate the Patriots so very, very much and it drives me absolutely nuts when people assume I am a Patriots fan just because I'm a Red Sox fan.

http://www.talksox.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=474&stc=1 Some highlights from the game: 1. The above photo was my vantage point, courtesy of a great deal on StubHub thanks to the rainout. 2. The Governor of Kentucky showed up in the 7th inning to sit two rows in front and five seats to the left of me. He wore a suit. I don't care if you're the f***ing Pope, you don't wear a suit to a baseball game unless you're an announcer or FO staff. At least jam a Sox cap on your head, you douche. And show up a little earlier. 3. John Jaso's hair looks filthy from up close. 4. Greyhound customer service is abysmal, even by the standards of public transportation. Consequently, I am stuck in Boston until 7AM tomorrow when the next bus to Hartford leaves, so I would appreciate, from any natives, any advice on how to pass the time once this restaurant I am sitting in closes in an hour. 5. There are just so many Chipotles here in Boston. I thought Dunkin' was omnipresent, but I swear I passed two Chipotles on the same block. 6. Even after having attended dozens of Red Sox games over the past 15 years, I still cannot get over the fact that there is no cheese sauce for the Fenway Franks. Not all of us like mustard on hot dogs, Fenway Park. Some of us prefer something that doesn't taste like garbage. Anyone who disagrees with me is more wrong than anyone has ever been about anything.

Every time someone says baseball is boring I want to force them to watch something like this

At the game...not looking great so far but looking better than some might think. Lots of baseball left to play

I haven't had a good GT streak in a long time, so I think I'm due. Let's embarrass these *******s. Humiliate them. I want people who have been to the emergency room to remove toilet brushes and My Little Pony dildos from their rectums to watch this game and say "man, those Orioles should be ashamed of themselves." I want Gary Thorne to cry himself to sleep tonight after disappointing his wife with his "fast infield". I want Buck Showalter to be reduced to blaming his team's misfortunes on the moonlight shining too hard on the baseball. Just win. Steven Wright, AKA Tim Wakefield if Tim Wakefield didn't look like a high-school history teacher, opposes Ubaldo Jimenez, the high point of whose life will be 60 years from now when he causes his grandchildren to roll their eyes behind his back when he tells them for the sixtieth time that he once threw a no-hitter. f***. The. Orioles.

I am so sick of these guys lately. They've become almost as unbearable as the Yankees in my eyes, and that is incredible. The only things I generally hate as much as the Yankees are cancer and restaurants who put pickle spears next to your french fries without listing it on the menu. Seriously, at least mention that you do that so I know to ask you not to ruin a third of my fries with pickle brine, you *******s. Also, f*** the Orioles. Pomeranz makes his first start of the season for the Sox, opposite Dylan Bundy, a name that everyone would come up with if asked to create a character who lives in a poorly-maintained trailer and abuses his wife. Just win. Also, f*** the Orioles. Did I say that already? Oh well. f***. The. Orioles.

The pun-maker in me is waiting in agony for Price to get off the DL so he and Sale will be in the rotation together.

A grown man should not go by "Jordy".

I can't relate at all. My deep, personal struggle to break into the Major League ended abruptly at the age of 18 when I realized how much I hate exercise.

Oh my god

And angle them so that it ensures maximum splashback.

Piscotty of the Cardinals got hit with a pitch today, then got hit with a throw when advancing to second on a WP, and then got hit again with a throw while sliding into home, all in the same inning. Baseball is weird sometimes.

Any player who tries that, even a Yankee, will automatically become my favorite player forever.

Unassisted triple play. There have been even less of those than there have been perfect games.

I would respond with the old cliche about not spitting on you if you were on fire, but it's likely I would be the one who set you on fire in the first place, so it seems unnecessary.

A starting pitcher throws 100+ pitches a game. A little less if he gets knocked out early. He makes 40 starts a year. That is literally thousands of repetitions of the same motion, putting an enormous amount of stress on muscles, tendons, and bones that are not intended for that sort of use. No football player is getting tackled four thousand times a year. Hell, no football player is getting tackled four thousand times in his career. Yes, football and hockey players suffer far more painful and gruesome injuries, and are at higher risk for them in certain situations. You are missing the point. No one said that baseball players suffer more injuries, or that football and hockey players aren't at high risk for devastating injury. The reason baseball players are DLed for injuries that seem minor compared to concussions and shattered bones is because the nature of the sport doesn't often lead to those kind of injuries. No one is tackling in baseball or shoulder-checking people into walls (as much as all of us would like to see guys like A-Rod get slammed into the ground so hard that the blood vessels in his eyeballs burst). But pitchers are DLed for minor injuries because minor injuries can become permanent if the stress involved in pitching is not abated for enough time to let the injury heal. I broke two toes a couple months ago and I still limp sometimes because my job (a waiter) puts a lot of stress on them. And I'm not even putting all of my body weight down on one foot while hurling something at 80 miles per hour or more (though if I could, that "something" would be a scalding hot cup of coffee and the target would be people who don't tip). Just because other athletes are at risk for more spectacular injuries doesn't make what baseball players face any less serious. They have nothing to do with each other. As UN? said, (and boy do I love agreeing with him ) it's apples and oranges.

I just read the last page and a half of this thread and I think I had a stroke.

I won the tournament. Granted, there were only 15 people in it, but it was still pretty tough.