Big game tonight, and everyone in the region is glued to the tv to see if the Buccos can go to the NLCS for the first time in decades.
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Big game tonight, and everyone in the region is glued to the tv to see if the Buccos can go to the NLCS for the first time in decades.
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PsiFighter37
Cole, just a request from me, and not to sound like an asshole…but could you post about politics more? The rest of the crew is great, but I started reading this blog several years ago because of YOUR political take. We hardly hear from you about anything in the political sphere anymore.
cathyx
John is like the nice dad vs the mean mom.
John O
Rooting hard for the Pirates tonight.
I miss your take on politics, too, John, but my policy has been and will always be, “It’s your blog, and you’ll blog if you want to.”
cathyx
And sports is like ice cream for dinner.
NotMax
Greek to me. Translation?
Certified Mutant Enemy
Was piracy ever prevalent on the the Three Rivers?
Ash Can
I’ll be switching between this game and the Hawks-Blues. Nothing personal to St. Louis, because it’s a cool town, but I’m hoping to see their teams do a double crap-out tonight.
Cassidy
Free fight card on Fox Sports 1. It’s followed by The Ultimate Fighter, which is an annoying reality show, but the end always has a fight. The fight tonight is between two women and supposed to be the fight of the season.
raven
@Certified Mutant Enemy: Mike Fink (also spelled Miche Phinck)[1][2][3] (c. 1770/1780 – c. 1823) called “king of the keelboaters”, was a semi-legendary brawler and river boatman who exemplified the tough and hard-drinking men who ran keelboats up and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
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Mike Fink: Well, I don’t have any trouble livin’ up to mine. I am the original ringtail roarer from the thunder ‘n lightnin’ country! I’m a real snorter and a head buster! I can out-run, out-jump, out-sing, out-swim, out-dance, out-shoot, out-eat, out-drink…
Davy Crockett: Out-talk?
Mike Fink: Yeah, out-talk, out-cuss and out-fight anybody in the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers put together!
MikeJ
@the Conster:
I remain convinced that at some point they will let me down. They’re just building up our optimism before they stick it to us.
NotMax
@cathyx
Ice cream is yummy. How about a dinner of mac and cheese made with limburger and epoisses instead?
joes527
Yay head injuries! At least there won’t be any replacement referees spoiling the entertainment.
the Conster
@MikeJ:
I heard that in Eeyore’s voice. I’m a third generation Sox fan, and you just have to Believe! It’s Boston Strong time.
cathyx
@NotMax: Mac and cheese with french fries. We want the kids to eat, don’t we?
Cassidy
@joes527: They’re talking about baseball.
schrodinger's cat
@PsiFighter37:
I second that motion.
Suffern ACE
@NotMax: hmm. A dinner of ice cream and Mac n cheese. The only thing that could make that any more American would be eating while watching the Biggest Loser.
Judge Crater
There is somebody named Cole on the mound for the Bucs. Is this synchronicity or something?
raven
Roberts Rules. . .in a knife fight. Rotsa ruck with that weak shit.
schrodinger's cat
John Cole @top
Also want a Kitteh and Goggie Update. Kthx bai.
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
Slathering Heinz ketchup on the mac & cheese and Hershey’s chocolate syrup on the ice cream?
cathyx
See? A thread everyone will love.
schrodinger's cat
@NotMax: Eeeww, I just had dinner, that concoction sounds thoroughly disgusting. Especially the Mac and Cheese with ketchup.
raven
Repost of government slackers around the corner from me today.
Jacel
With the SF Giants absent from the playoffs, I’d be happiest to see the Pirates and A’s in the WS.
Thlayli
@NotMax:
“Buccos” = short for “Buccaneers”, a slang term for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
“NLCS” = National League Championship Series, the next round of the baseball playoffs. The winner of tonight’s Pirates-Cardinals game will play the Dodgers.
Botsplainer
Saturday, we had dinner at a high end steak house – 50 day dry aged bone-in New York Strip weighing in at 18 ounces. App was filet mignon potstickers, sides were roasted Brussels sprouts and Parmesan crusted truffle fries. Wife had really great salmon. Dessert was awesome carrot cake, and I got the ripe cheese and port.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: I’m still in mourning that the Mike Fink riverboat restaurant is gone. It was a great reasonably priced place to eat on the river. We used to have criminal defense lawyers assn monthly meetings there back in the day.
More recently for me, Christmas buffet, watching the sun set, was always fun. Now we have a much more elegant buffet at the Palm Court, where I once had to explain to Mr. Q why Greg Cook expected his name to be recognizable to Mr. Q. I saved the day by complimenting him on his lovely Bengal tiger paintings, and telling him I’d often admired the original white tiger canvas in the office of a friend of my father’s.
At one point the Mike Fink was going to be renovated and reopened this year, but the partnership fell though.
Oh, and Cole, I’m not as amused by the Pirates 2013 success as some others who comment here. Just saying.
schrodinger's cat
@Botsplainer: Sounds delicious and calorific.
Drunken hausfrau
The crazies are wrecking the country… Besides drinking, what should we be doing???
Also, OT, but I got a call from some outfit called corporations for character calling to sell something/ raise money for family feature films or some such nonsense., I chewed the woman out .. “do you have children? Do you think you should make their viewing decisions?”. “hell, no! I respect my children(teens) enough to let them choose their own books, their own movies, their own games! You sound like a right wing nut job outfit! Quit calling!
SiubhanDuinne
October 14, 1992, may be a date that will live in infamy for you, but it is one of my all-time favourite moments in sports history. Never thought I would say this, especially since I’ve always kinda liked the Cardinals (after the Braves and the Cubs, of course), but now that Atlanta is out of contention I would actually like to see P’burgh prevail. So…Go Bucs!!
raven
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): This is the story of the Addie Mae. We used to camp out on the Mississippi near Keokuk, Iowa. The Addie Mae ran from Nauvoo down to Lock and Dam #19 on a juke box and beer cruise. She ended up near Pittsburgh before she was lost in a flood.
PsiFighter37
@Botsplainer: Damn that sounds good, particularly the filet potstickers. Last time I went to a steakhouse in NYC, I was severely underwhelmed (Wolfgang’s)…I’ve been told I need to go to Peter Lugar’s, but I haven’t made it there, and making a reservation is always a pain in the ass.
Drunken hausfrau
@raven: I love me some firefighters… And soldiers. Why does a country that produces wonderful first responders and military grunts allow itself to be ruled by pantie waisted limp dick idiots?
+3 ish, let’s calling 3 large…
trollhattan
Among the short list of recent things that make me happy:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/10/sharon-jones-the-dap-kings-announce-new-album-rele.html?utm_source=PANL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=131009
raven
@Drunken hausfrau: Funny, I was shooting the shit with another “liberal” vet as we watched and I said “let’s see some teabaggers do this”. Then we realized that some Georgia firefighters probably WERE teabaggers!
Gin & Tonic
@PsiFighter37: It’s Peter Luger, not Peter Lugar’s (or Luger’s). And yes, if you are in NYC and want a steak, that is the place to go. Bring cash, and plenty of it.
Big R
@trollhattan: A story of anyone beating cancer is good news to me. The fact that it’s a musician able to return to music is just lagniappe.
Feebog
Heh, root for the Bucco’s all you like Cole; Dodgers gunna eat them alive.
Gin & Tonic
@PsiFighter37: Trying to figure out what got moderated, but yes, you need to go there. But note that it is Peter Luger, not Peter Luger’s.
Bring plenty of pictures of dead presidents when you go, as you will need them.
Cassidy
@raven: Yes, some of them are.
Gin & Tonic
Am I getting moderated because my IP address has changed?
Litlebritdifrnt
Our alibi witness changed her testimony on the stand this afternoon. A complete 180 from where she was interviews ago. I need to go and get my suit ready for court in the morning. I am not having a good day. And I don’t know what shoes I am going to wear because the dogs have eaten them all. Shit.
NotMax
@Thlayli
Thanks for the explanation.
Seeing “Dodgers” without “Brooklyn” immediately preceding is still just wrong.
/geezer
Do certain baseball aficionados in Somalia (granted, likely less than a handful) root for the Pirates?
Roger Moore
@Certified Mutant Enemy:
The Pirates got that name in the 1890-91 offseason. 1890 was a bizarre year in MLB, with many of the players leaving their teams to form a new Players League. The PL folded after the one season, and the Pittsburgh Alleghenies took advantage by signing as many good players as they could without regard to where they played before their one year in the PL. For raiding what other teams saw as their players, they were nicknamed the Pirates, and the name stuck.
Suffern ACE
@PsiFighter37: I’ve never needed a reservation at Tad’s.
Botsplainer
@schrodinger’s cat:
I thought about counting for about 4 seconds, then ordered a Sazerac while perusing the wine list.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven: That’s just fuckin SAD.
NotMax
@PsiFighter37
When in the NYC area last month, was taken to a Burton & Doyle steakhouse.
Ordered prime rib, which came on the bone and was a portion which several sumo wrestlers would struggle finish off. Asked the waiter for horseradish, and was presented with two separate mini gravy boats – one with creamy sauce, one with a coarse grind topping, these in addition to the containers of au jus and also house steak sauce that came with the meat platter.
The steak and also the creamed spinach side: A++. The onion rings I’d give a B+ at most, but there sure were a mess o’ them in the serving.
Had leftovers from the doggy bag for three nights afterwards.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Which part? That a historic house caught fire or that Georgia Firefighters might be teabaggers? You know we had that thing last year where the dude killed a white cop and wounded a black officer. It did not help race relations around here. The killer is a stone fucking low-life and he’s raising hell in court.
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
Deciding about eating at a Tad’s requires you don’t’ make reservations, but have reservations.
SiubhanDuinne
@Big R:
I don’t want to be a downer, but I lost two friends (in completely unrelated parts of my life) today, both to cancer. One, the principal bassist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; the other, the widow of a very good friend who died a couple of years ago. Can’t claim to have known either of them well, but I counted Bo as friends more than acquaintances, and I am saddened to see them go, especially both on the same day.
That said, the older I get, the less I find I indulge in traditional grieving. Yes, I am sad that my friends are dead, but at some point in the last few years, something shifted so that my natural sadness also carries an acceptance that this is what naturally happens. This only just occurred to me, so I haven’t explored it yet.
MomSense
Enough of the steak talk!! You are making it tough for a newbie vegetarian!
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Yup. I still think of the Mets as an expansion team.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: I don’t think that’s any kind of downer.
NotMax
@MomSense
And no one has yet come up with a patch like they have for nicotine fiends.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
Dark chocolate and red wine. Totally counts.
schrodinger's cat
@MomSense: Can you eat fish?
ETA: I am going to write a post for my blog about the dal (soupy lentils prepared the Indian way) a basic recipe and some variations. Might be useful.
trollhattan
@Big R:
Absolutely! That they’re a wonderful band and she’s an over-the-top-good singer is icing on the proverbial cupcake.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Well, certainly not on a baseball thread.
lockewasright
If watching paint dry overstimulates you, try watching baseball instead.
chrome agnomen
@efgoldman:
sox going all the way.
/fan since ’57
raven
@lockewasright: Especially with 9 fucking pitching changes in 9 innings!
Botsplainer
@PsiFighter37:
One of these days, I’ll get there. My favorite, to date, is Ruth’s Chris.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
While you’ll have to pry the meat from my cold, dead tongue, do enjoy portobello mushrooms (drizzled with olive oil and garlic and broiled on both sides) on a bun, eaten just like a hamburger.
hilts
Happy Birthday John Lennon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vVJYnG8cBw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuEMdfwmQTM
schrodinger's cat
@raven: I take it you have never watched a cricket test match, which can go on for five day and end in a draw.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Thank you, no. I did see one on Dowton Abbey.
fuckwit
This is really an interesting mix of content for a blog. It’s got politics, food, sports, and TV as its staples. My guess is that’s because that’s what Cole likes, which would make perfect sense. Occasional culture stuff and science too, just to mix it up.
I like the politics and food threads, and the science. The sports and TV go over my head since I don’t watch either.
I really need a fucking life though. If I were healthier I’m sure I’d be doing other things than hanging out here.
schrodinger's cat
@raven: That was a joke.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: And you don’t think my reply was?
MomSense
@NotMax:
Yes, I need the bacon double cheeseburger patch! And I was never much of a bacon double cheeseburger person until I decided to give them up.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Two of my favorite things.
@schrodinger’s cat:
Yes, please! I love dal and would definitely add that recipe to the rotation. I am thinking that I might add some fish to supplement my diet. I am giving up meat because of high cholesterol but for some time now I have been considering it because of the resources required for meat production. For the past two years I have really limited meat consumption and have been buying it from local farms.
John O
@efgoldman:
My first Sports Illustrated, at 8, a gift from my grandparents, had Ted Williams with a Washington cap on the cover and I believe was dated March 17, 1967.
hilts
@PsiFighter37
@ Botsplainer
The best steak I ever ate was at Peter Lugar’s, but you NEED TO KNOW this before you go there:
“Peter Luger Steakhouse does not accept any credit cards except the Peter Luger Card.”
h/t http://www.peterluger.com/carap.cfm
raven
@MomSense: I haven’t had beef or pork in 20 years, don’t mean nuthin.
schrodinger's cat
@raven: I was pulling your leg right back. Cricket is full of incomprehensible rules (to the novice) just like base ball, lots of similarities between the two games.
raven
@John O: Right about when I shipped out to Korea.
schrodinger's cat
@MomSense: I usually supplement my fish and shrimp dinners with some lentils or beans, economical and healthy. Also too, nutritious and delicious. I do eat meat, mostly chicken and beef once in a blue moon. Do you like yogurt?
Betty Cracker
@Botsplainer: If you ever visit Tampa, check out Bern’s Steakhouse.
Forked Tongue
Apparently, everyone in the region is pretty much a moron.
Southern Beale
Precious. Five Utah counties declare a state of emergency over the closings of the National Parks .. bust down the barricades.
This will go predictably well.
Cacti
And if the ‘rats lose tonight, you all can go back to paying as much attention to them as you did for the past 20 years.
Little Boots
the what now?
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner…
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Linnaeus
Gotta cheer for those Rust Belt cities*
*With some exceptions, such as AL Central rivals to the Tigers.
NotMax
@schrodinger’s cat
Surf ‘n’ turf (a/k/a reef ‘n’ beef) is one of the great culinary concoctions of the past century.
David Koch
Red Sox fan here, but I have to root for the Dodgers
If the Dodgers win it all then Magic Johnson will be hoisting the trophy which will cause the teabaggers to commit mass suicide.
GregB
@Southern Beale:
So, federal parks are job creators that can keep businesses from starving?
scav
@schrodinger’s cat: seconded request for a heads up when you post that. Dal is grand, plus that similar stuff in Ethiopian restaurants.
SiubhanDuinne
@Betty Cracker: My home away from home during the years I lived in Tampa. I watched the wine list grow from a mimeographed multi-paged list to a book, bound in leatherette and secured to the table by a chain. Great, great restaurant,and the best banana daiquiris on the entire fuckin planet.
Red
@trollhattan: Great news! Thanks for posting- saw them at a free show in the nabe (Brookyn)- amazing.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@David Koch: Perfect reason to root for the Dodgers – and an enticing image of a smiling Magic precipitating teabagger implosions on a mass scale.
David Koch
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
This image at the White House will be too much for them to take.
NotMax
@scav
Love, love, love whatever that hot spicy powder is that they offer to sprinkle onto the food in real Ethiopian restaurants.
Waiter went totally saucer-eyed when the two of us dining asked for a fourth bowl of the stuff, having polished off three and still not finished the entree.
Higgs Boson's Mate
The rain which has been teasing us all day finally got down to business around sunset. Sea air + rain = HBM sleeps tonight.
chrome agnomen
@efgoldman:
those were some dark days, and they continued on for another dozen years. 8 teams in the league, and grateful to finish 7th. don bud din, pumps green, malzone, piersall, fornieles, ike delock. ok, i’ll shut up now. dr strangeglove.
PaulW
#FireSchiano
For the other Buccos.
Darkrose
@David Koch: /incoherent screaming and flailing
I am on Team Anyone But the Dodgers. I was rooting for the Braves because I’d rather have seen them take the LDS than the Dodgers. Right now I’m torn: I really wanted to Pirates to make it all the way, but I honestly don’t know that they’ll be able to beat the Fighting Puigs.
Redshirt
@efgoldman: We’re doomed!
No, really, this Sox team is pretty special. It’s strange, unlike any Sox team of the current successful run (late 90’s to now). The only legitimate weakness, I think, is middle relief. And with extra pitchers in the bullpen for the playoffs, that weakness is de-emphasized.
I like their chances. But any team can get hot/go cold at seemingly a moment’s notice, so you never know!
MomSense
@raven:
20 years! That is great.
@schrodinger’s cat:
I do like yogurt and I use it quite a bit for tzatziki and also for a similar sauce I make to go with falafel. I use green chilies, cilantro, garlic, and some spices.
PaulW
@Certified Mutant Enemy:
Was piracy ever prevalent on the the Three Rivers?
The nickname came from an incident where the team – then named the Alleghenies after the river – stole a reserve player from another team’s roster, an act deemed “piratical”. When the controversy grew, the team renamed themselves “Pirates” as an act of defiance.
PaulW
@Redshirt:
I’m a Rays fan.
I hope the Red Sox get swept by double-digit runs, and that your team falls apart during free agency and you slip down to 5th place behind Toronto and New York next season.
/not bitter, no not at all bitter
furklempt
@Darkrose:
I think I’m just irritable, given the score and our current prospects, but I’ve heard so many people scoff at the notion that the Bucs could possibly take a series from the farking red birds when, actually, a Cards win tonight would tie the two teams for the season. The Bucs aren’t really outmatched, though they may be bested, in this specific game.
drkrick
@efgoldman:
Ted didn’t win any championships, but horrible failure is a bit strong. His ’67 team finished 10 games above .500, the best record in the history of the “expansion Senators” in DC and in the first 16 years of the franchise’s existence. They fell to only 70 wins in his second season when Bob Short (spit) started selling off most of the legitimate major league talent to pay off the debt he incurred buying the team.
My FiL was an usher at Griffith Stadium and a loyal and knowledgeable fan of the Senators and the local NFL team since the ’40’s, as well as the Nats in more recent years. He’s always believed that Williams (who he joined the paying fans in taunting during his playing days) did a pretty good job given what he had to work with.
MomSense
@Redshirt:
Now you’ve gone and done it. You have to spin three times counter clockwise and spit. The hopes of sox fans everywhere are counting on you.
I always think of an elderly gentleman I became friends with at church. He was a lifelong sox fan, born in 1919 and died in 2003. A bunch of us brought baseballs to church the next Sunday to remember him. He would be loving this team!
Redshirt
@efgoldman: Not the first time. C’mon! Give me game 4.
And Papi’s red hot. Napoli, Salty, and to a degree Pedroia are leaving them on base.
Tom Q
Say goodbye to 2013, Bucs. (Not meant in a nasty way; I was rooting for them)
Redshirt
@MomSense: Done. Unjinxed.
Rally Cap on for the Buccos. I want a Boston – Pittsburgh World Series.
chrome agnomen
@PaulW:
what!? lower than the yankmes? no, not bitter at all.
Suffern ACE
@Southern Beale: let me guess, they’d like to open the parks and recommend finding the funds from the infrastructure fund.
chrome agnomen
@Redshirt:
me too. 1903 redux.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Not watching baseball, but I am making chicken posole for dinner in honor of today’s rain. Tomorrow will be hot and dry again, which hopefully will not trigger another weather migraine.
Betty Cracker
@SiubhanDuinne: Never had a banana daquiri at Bern’s — or anywhere else for that matter — but it sounds like I need to add it to my to-do list.
MomSense
@Redshirt:
:-)
Darkrose
@furklempt: I really wanted to see the Pirates win, and I figured they had a chance against the Cardinals. However, I think Kershaw, Greinke, and Ryu would shut down the Bucs offense, and a Dodgers pennant victory is not an acceptable outcome.
beth
@Betty Cracker: Oh my goodness, years later I still tell people about the dessert room! What a great place!
Redshirt
@chrome agnomen: Boston – LA will be fun too. Just no more Cardinals, please. Anyone but, really, including Detroit and Oakland.
The Dodgers are Boston West at this point.
Higgs Boson's Mate (Crystal Set)
Not much of a baseball fan, but why all the Dodger hate? Jeebus, they deserve something just for surviving the McCourts.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven: Well, both.
Jane2
@fuckwit: Sorry to hear your health isn’t good. Balloon Juice is a pretty great place to hang, health notwithstanding.
Cacti
@furklempt:
I’m a life-long Cardinals fan, and I’ve always thought the ‘rats had a good chance to take this series, especially after splitting the first 2 in STL. I also think unless ownership gets a case of the cheapies, they should be a playoff contender for multiple years.
Jane2
@Botsplainer: That sounds amazing. As a person who travels half for the eating experience, where was this fabulous restaurant and what is its name?
Jane2
@Southern Beale: Maybe they should complain to their representative.
Redshirt
And that’s all she wrote. Last we’ll hear from Cole for awhile, since Pittsburgh sports threads are the only things he does these days, and you know…. The Steelers. :(
patrick II
Alvarez cannot touch Wainright’s curve. Good night Pirates. I am a St. Louis fan, but I wish the Pirates weren’t playing the Cards in the first round. I wish they had a longer run.
soprano2
Sorry John, my Cards were great tonight. Better luck next year.
burnspbesq
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Raining and 54 degrees in central OC. Lovin’ it.
James E. Powell
@Linnaeus:
Gotta cheer for those Rust Belt cities*
*With some exceptions, such as AL Central rivals to the Tigers.
Is that any way to build Great Lakes Solidarity?
James E. Powell
@David Koch:
What did I miss? Why would teabaggers care about Magic Johnson?
burnspbesq
Tough night for the Buccos, but they had a terrific year and are well put together for a string of good seasons. From 57-105 to the playoffs in three years is pretty remarkable. Mad props to Neil Huntington and Clint Hurdle.
burnspbesq
@James E. Powell:
Blah and HIV-positive. And hugely successful and stinkin’ rich. In the wingnut worldview, those things cannot go together.
FlyingToaster
@NotMax: Berbere.
Back when Penzeys had a magazine, they included a (reader-submitted) recipe for berbere. It was hotter than our normal vindaloo concoction.
You can also make an acceptable injera with club soda. Who knew?
NotMax
@FlyingToaster
Thank you, thank you.
Now that have a proper name, can research a bit .
handy
Why all the Dodger hate, you ask? Why NOT.
burnspbesq
@handy:
Family tradition. My grandfather was a Giants fan, so I learned from a very early age that both the Yankees and the Dodgers were worthless scum.
Radio One
at least I can now enthusiastically root against either team that wins the NL pennant this year in the World Series. Great year, Bucs.
Faisal
This is just like ’04-’05 where the Steelers looked like they’d finally go to the Super Bowl again after so many years, then fell to the ‘Pats and haven’t been back to the Super Bowl since. JUST LIKE. #gobucs
Wally Ballou
This Detroiter is hoping for a Tigers-Cards rematch in the WS. First things first tonight.
Certified Mutant Enemy
to see if the Buccos can go to the NLCS for the first time in decades.
How’d that work out?
fidelio
My condolences, John. They were a helluva team, and if no one breaks up the set I think they’ll continue to be impressive.
PaulW
@efgoldman:
THEY’RE OVER THERE. BEHIND THE BOOKS LABELED BETRAYAL AND FAILURE!
(curls up into fetal position) (cries)
slim shady
Cole’s still talking politics, he’s just in a George Orwell kind of mode these days. Steve the Cat is actually the symbol for those free loading welfare frauds. The dog would be the ineffective Conservative, trying hard to find his way and get his share of the pie, in a cold, mean world.
Pittsburgh sports teams are, of course, the spineless left. They talk a good game, but in the end they fold like a cheap suit.
Cole himself is the stand-in for Barack Obama. Came on too strong, too fast. Kind of distant, comes across as above the fray. Tunch is what happens if we continue on this bloated free spending path.
So, when you see Cole sitting in his underwear, gnawing on a rib, with some floozy he picked up at a blog convention, you know you’re simply reading it wrong. Art isn’t supposed to be easy.
slim shady
And the many broken links on the blog roll would symbolize Detroit Rock City. Cole would fix them all if you gave him money. We can’t do that though, because he might spend it on another rack of ribs instead.
4jkb4ia
“We definitely opened a lot of people’s eyes this year,” McCutchen said. “We can’t get away from everything we did this year. We can’t let this one game define our year, because we definitely had an amazing year, a year to remember, a year that’s going to go down in the books forever.”
I am just going to let him say it. And thank you.