• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

In after Baud. Damn.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Mobile Menu

  • Seattle Meet-up Post
  • 2025 Activism
  • Targeted Political Fundraising
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2025 Activism
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Sports / Football Saturday

Football Saturday

by John Cole|  October 1, 200511:10 am| 11 Comments

This post is in: Sports

FacebookTweetEmail

WVU takes on Va. Tech about a mile from my house, and I am going to sit on thecouch and watch it in HD rather than brave the crowds. I am hopeful about the outcome, but I have a feeling how this is going to end up. I hope I am wrong.

For those of you who wonder why I write about so many sports but little attention to baseball, the standings say it all. The Pirates are going to finish below .500 for the 14th year in a row, and all that remains unanswered is whether they are literally the worst team in baseball.

I like the sport of baseball, I really do. But it is going to take more than a pathological hatred of the Yankees to pique more than a cursory interest in the sport.

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Breaking The Law
Next Post: Creationism Update »

Reader Interactions

11Comments

  1. 1.

    Veeshir

    October 1, 2005 at 11:27 am

    I’ve been pretty sick of baseball for a while now. The strike really bothered me.
    I used to be a Mets fan. They are pretty bad. They’re payroll approaches the Yankees but they’re record approaches the Pirates in general. I stopped getting the baseball package in 2002 and pretty much stopped watching.

    This year, the Nationals came to DC so I became a Nationals fan. I really enjoyed going to games this year and they were fun to watch. I’m even thinking of going to see their last game tomorrow even though it’s at one o’clock and that’s football. And the Giants are on.

  2. 2.

    foolishmortal

    October 1, 2005 at 11:30 am

    There’s nothing pathological about Yankee-hatred.

  3. 3.

    Jody

    October 1, 2005 at 12:05 pm

    Wow. A delay of game penalty on the very first play of the game. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

  4. 4.

    Joey

    October 1, 2005 at 12:33 pm

    One day, John, the Pirates and Reds will rise back to the top of the NL Central. One day, the second best rivalry in baseball will again be. That day may not be for a decade or so, but it will return. Probably the same year they let Charlie Hustle in the Hall. And the Reds get some pitching.

  5. 5.

    danelectro

    October 1, 2005 at 12:57 pm

    foolishmortal and i are in complete agreement about this.

  6. 6.

    Brad R.

    October 1, 2005 at 12:59 pm

    I’d start looking around for another ballclub to root for, honestly. It’s not just that the Pirates are small-market, they’re poorly managed. The Twins and A’s in recent years have shown what you can do with small payroll if you spend your money wisely. Heck, even the Brewers are a .500 team this year. But I don’t see all that much hope for the Pirates until a salary cap is in place. Ditto the Royals.

  7. 7.

    Brad R.

    October 1, 2005 at 1:01 pm

    Probably the same year they let Charlie Hustle in the Hall. And the Reds get some pitching.

    They could help themselves by not handing out giant contracts to the likes of Eric Milton. Seriously, I love the Reds for all their history as a franchise, but man that was a dumb-ass move.

  8. 8.

    jg

    October 1, 2005 at 1:55 pm

    But it is going to take more than a pathological hatred of the Yankees

    Quite frankly, thats all you need.

  9. 9.

    Off Colfax

    October 1, 2005 at 2:56 pm

    Look at the brighter side.

    At least your favorite team isn’t trying to avoid the stigma of having the lowest winning percentage of any division champion. (coughPadrescough)

    And been seen as a perennial bottom-of-the-barrel team for decades, with their only Series appearance being viewed as an abberation that should have never happened.

    You know, putting it that way makes me really identify the Chargers with that one as well. Their only AFC Championship win, that pull-it-out-with-luck win agaist Pittsburg was exactly that. Luck. Well, that and the God-given talents of Junior Seau.

  10. 10.

    rayabacus

    October 1, 2005 at 4:37 pm

    The Pirates are going to finish below .500 for the 14th year in a row, and all that remains unanswered is whether they are literally the worst team in baseball.

    I have the answer for you. Unfortunately the worst team in baseball is the KC Royals. This is the third year out of the last four that we have lost over 100 games and this year’s edition just set a franchise record for futility.

  11. 11.

    Jack Roy

    October 2, 2005 at 4:07 pm

    Is it actually possible to like baseball and not either love or hate the Yankees? I think you’ve been watching cricket or something else.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

On The Road - Albatrossity - The Birds of May 3
Image by Albatrossity (7/31/25)

World Central Kitchen

Donate

Recent Comments

  • brendancalling on Sunday Morning Open Thread: Dance Like the Whole Universe Is Watching (Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:32am)
  • Kathleen on Late Night Open Thread: America’s Fascists Love Alligators (Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:31am)
  • eclare on Sunday Morning Open Thread: Dance Like the Whole Universe Is Watching (Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:31am)
  • New Deal democrat on Sunday Morning Open Thread: Dance Like the Whole Universe Is Watching (Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:31am)
  • marklar on Late Night Open Thread: America’s Fascists Love Alligators (Jul 13, 2025 @ 10:29am)

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
No Kings Protests June 14 2025

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)
Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Social Media

Balloon Juice
WaterGirl
TaMara
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
DougJ NYT Pitchbot
mistermix

Keeping Track

Legal Challenges (Lawfare)
Republicans Fleeing Town Halls (TPM)
21 Letters (to Borrow or Steal)
Search Donations from a Brand

Feeling Defeated?  If We Give Up, It's Game Over

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!