Fvck the Fvckin’ Yankees, For The Win. Not that I know from baseball, but somewhere Steve Gilliard is smiling tonight.
Here is a thread where we can celebrate as coarsely as we like, within the limits of the technology.
And this is the weirdest thing said technology has shown me recently:
daveNYC
If the Rangers win the World Series, I’ll bet money that GWB gets invited to the celebration.
JasonF
Fuck the fucking Yankees indeed — not because I hate them, but because they should have been able to take the series. You broke my heart, Yankees! You broke it!
And all of you Yankee haters can lick me.
John - A Motley Moose
FTFY! I watched most of the last 5 innings. Congrats to the Rangers. Did I mention, FTFY?
Jewish Steel
I was going to say something baseball…but…this song is breaking my mind.
Also, too, has more vaseline ever been smeared on a camera lens?
MikeJ
AS I stated a few threads back, it’s very well may be San Francisco v Texas, with game 5 the Monday before election and game 6 the Wednesday after. I would bet some people will try to read more into it than the two best teams of the year playing a championship.
Yutsano
@JasonF:
Not even if you were salt after my tequila. :)
The Steinbrenners sell, you might become respectable again. But when even my Sabremetric guru brother says that the Yankees are everything that’s wrong with baseball, then you haz issues.
Cacti
The Rangers are George Dubya Bush’s old team.
Allan
@Jewish Steel: I thought it was strange that the cinematographer didn’t wash up after his prior engagement on “Deeeeep Inside Debbi.”
moe99
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/03/us/thomas-defender-apologizes.html
Some ancient history on Juan Williams, proves the more things change, the more they stay the same.
MikeJ
@Cacti: And the Yankees are Satan’s past, present, and future team.
Darkrose
*crosses all crossable things for a Giants/Rangers series* Fuck you, Fox Sports and all the people insisting that the pennant races were going to be a cakewalk for the East Coast teams.
Linda Featheringill
Who is singing? Sounds like Dolly Parton.
JWL
Once upon a time, a 7 year old boy rooted for the San Francisco Giants. He cared only of baseball. And his heart was broken forever when the Yanks whipped the Giants in the ’62 Series.
He will never forget.
May God grant that he lives to witness another showdown between those two teams.
Steve Gilliard possessed elements of greatness. I miss his writing, a whole lot. In much the same way as I do the work of the Hunter Thompson. They each possessed a native courage, and knew whereof they spoke.
GW Bush was once a proud owner of the Rangers. The sonofabitch still aspires to be Commissioner of baseball. He realizes it would prove the ultimate vindication of his war crimes.
Even Gilliard would have rooted for the Yankees this series.
freelancer
@Cacti:
Whatever, now I can be guilt-free in rooting for the Giants (I just don’t think they could have been as consistent vs the Yankees in the Series as opposed to the Phillies), if only for the joy of jumping up and down in my living room Saturday night shouting “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!”
RIP Bobby Thompson
Comrade Kevin
As an A’s fan, I had a hearty laugh when the Yankees lost tonight. In the National League, hmm. I’m not a fan of the Giants, but Phillies fans deserve to burn in Hell for all eternity.
If the Giants get into the World Series, I’m not sure what I should do. The Rangers have never won the World Series, the Giants haven’t won it since they were in New York. Then, there’s that the Bay Area media will treat a Giants World Series win as though it’s the first time a team here has ever won it.
Origuy
For my birthday, I got the DVD of “Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy)”, the oratorio based on The Life of Brian. We watched it tonight. I looked up the soprano, Shannon Mercer. I found a video of her singing a Welsh folk song.
BruceK
Hats off to the Rangers, and to those who are really their fans (except for George W. Bush; in his case, see below).
And my general benediction to those who celebrate the misery of others: may you spend the afterlife in burning agony until the last star in the universe goes cold.
Now, who in the NL is going to give His Ex-Royal and Imperious Shurbliness that bit-down-on-a-rotten-lemon look again? And it doesn’t count unless it’s in the clinching game.
BruceK
@MikeJ:
Also the team whose fans booed Dick Cheney off the scoreboard TV.
JWL
A genuine tip of the cap to American league champs, to be sure.
But a big, “fuck your bandbox of a ballpark”, too.
Karen
@JasonF:
I’m a Mets fan because my father is one and he’s a Mets fan because he was an angry Brooklyn Dodgers fan.
Bet you taste like strawberries!
bkny
neither team was worth rooting for … fuck the fucking yankees.. and gwb’s texas rangers.
gawd, i miss gilly.
c u n d gulag
I’m a diehard Yankee fan (a chink in my Liberal armour), and the Rangers handed us our asses.
Congratulations, Texas Rangers!
I’d root for you in the WS, but I have the sneaking suspicion that “Little Boots” Bush secretly has some share that he kept in the team.
So, I’ll root for the SF Giants if they make it.
Showdown: Bush’s old Rangers team v. Pelosi’s Giants!
Hell, if the Phillies make it, I’ll root for them, too.
Anything even vaguely associated with W, has the stink of death on it.
harlana
As a SC resident, I was most surprised to see this Republican ad attacking Nikki Haley this morning.
satby
Dolly Parton and Ladysmith Black Mombazo.
Ok, that’s just effing weird.
Jude
@Cacti:
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I mean, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is his old address–we gotta hate on that, too? He used to be a drunk, but I ain’t giving up booze on account of that asshole.
donquijoterocket
@c u n d gulag:
Just about the only thing that could make me root- even just a little- for the Yanks was the remembrance of the royal rogering shrub and the boys gave the rangers fans on the stadium deal there. That said now that they’re there I still have to favor the league that still makes pitchers hit.
Svensker
@Linda Featheringill:
Well, see, if they did any more soft focus on that camera there’d only be gauzy blobs moving around. Dolly’s plastic surgery must be reeeeelly bad.
CaseyL
Yeah, that’s a straaaange little vid.
The chorus are warming up to do some aerobics and the white folks in Vaseline Land are looking over … what? Architectural drawings? Travel itineraries?
And Dolly’s voice makes me wanna cry. She can still hold the tune and hit the notes, but her voice is thin and reedy compared to what it once was.
Where and how do you find these things?
Kilgore Trout
I came to the realization this week that if the Yankees were playing Satan’s hand picked team, I’d still root against them. Congrats to the Rangers on making it to their first WS appearance. If only my Mariners could get their shit together.
Now go Giants!
Jay C
@CaseyL:
What u said: They would have been better off having LBM sing the song with Dolly as the backup….
Oh, yeah, and FTY FTW. I’m no fan of the Evil Empire (obviously), but on an objective level, they were just simply outplayed (and outpitched) by the Rangers. Which is the difference, I guess: Texas played as if they really truly wanted to move on to the WS; the Yanks: as if they were there as a matter of course. Serve ’em right.
Harley
Spent the long last gloomy innings playing simpler game. Try to find one black or brown face in the stadium who didn’t work there. Take a drink for every face you find.
Play that game at an Angels, Dodgers, or Yankees game? You can’t get up off the couch. Play it in Arlington?
Stone cold sober.
Mex Headroom
Thank you for invoking Gilliard for this. I thought of him much watching the last outs. Still can’t believe the delicious irony of ARod making the last out. He finally did something to help Texas win a game that mattered.
Those who bash the Rangers as “W’s team” are missing the larger symbolism, methinks. W ran that team into the ground and Hicks scorched the earth that was left. But eventually when someone who cared and knew what they were doing took over, they rose from the ashes. Hopefully, the country follows suit
ThresherK
I’m torn. As a Border War non-combatant (lifelong Nutmegger) whose spouse was Worcester born-n-bred, anything bad that happens to the Yankees is good news. Especially after that fake not-HBP crap last night.
I’m jazzed that Vlad will get to the Series. But this also means my late Montreal Expos, run into the ground by Jeffrey Fucking Loria with an assist from Bud Fucking Selig, are the longest-extant club not to have gotten to the World Series. No matter that they’re 1994’s Uncrowned Champions of Baseball.
John - A Motley Moose
@Harley: I was struck by the same thing. I couldn’t help but imagine a lot of those florid-faced white men spend part of their day complaining about how brown people are destroying this country and then they go out that night and take pride in the achievements of Vlad Guerrero.