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World Series

by Kay|  October 28, 20138:42 pm| 58 Comments

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  1. 1.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 8:43 pm

    “WHO WILL FEEL FATE’S SHOVE?”

    Joe Buck actually said that during the introduction.

  2. 2.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 8:45 pm

    So, how the heck do you strike out six batters by the end of the second inning and still be behind a run?

  3. 3.

    Redshirt

    October 28, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    I ebb and flow from Sox victory to crushing defeat.

  4. 4.

    dedc79

    October 28, 2013 at 8:47 pm

    hate both teams but the games have been entertaining

  5. 5.

    Karen in GA

    October 28, 2013 at 8:49 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    “WHO WILL FEEL FATE’S SHOVE?”

    Joe Buck actually said that during the introduction.

    That’s beautiful, in a what-if-David-St.-Hubbins-announced-baseball-games sort of way.

  6. 6.

    hilts

    October 28, 2013 at 8:51 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    You think that’s bad. Check this out:

    “The walk on the wild side has ended.” – 1st line from Billboard’s obit of Lou Reed

    http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5770568/lou-reed-rock-n-roll-iconoclast-dead-at-71

    Go Red Sox!

  7. 7.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 8:52 pm

    @Karen in GA: Trust me, that was just the highlight of a segment that was so purple it would make a blacklight poster glow.

  8. 8.

    raven

    October 28, 2013 at 8:52 pm

    A horrible NFL matchup last Monday, he Giants-Vikings game outdrew the First World Series game.

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2013 at 8:53 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    “WHO WILL FEEL FATE’S SHOVE?”

    Joe Buck actually said that during the introduction.

    Yeah, well, McCarver said “The team that goes to Boston with a 3-2 lead will have an advantage.”

    Also, too, the future lies ahead.

  10. 10.

    Violet

    October 28, 2013 at 8:53 pm

    @Karen in GA: Will this game go to eleven?

  11. 11.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 8:54 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Even Buck had to needle him after that one.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2013 at 8:57 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    McCarver is infinitely needleable.

  13. 13.

    Liquid

    October 28, 2013 at 8:59 pm

    Baseball?! Fuck that, go Hawks!

  14. 14.

    rikyrah

    October 28, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    Go Red Sox!

  15. 15.

    Schlemizel

    October 28, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    My favorite of Captain Obvious stupidity came years ago during the Minnesota state hockey tournament. The game was tied after regulation and as overtime was starting the announced stated, “the next goal is going to be critical!”

    Oh really?!?

  16. 16.

    Schlemizel

    October 28, 2013 at 9:05 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Gotta have 5 minutes of commercials between every half inning.

  17. 17.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 9:06 pm

    @efgoldman: Ah, the perfect segue into something that’s been building up over the past 4 days…

    D-C-L’S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO ANNOYING TECH COMMERCIALS ON THE 2013 WORLD SERIES

    1) VERIZON HALLOWEEN CANDY
    Why in hell does the girl say, “Seriously, even the dog!” It makes NO SENSE. And who the fuck plots their Halloween route? I know this is tongue in cheek, but it just comes off as irritating.

    2) APPLE 5S LIQUID METAL THINGY
    I’m a huge fan of Apple products, but I am in hate this new 1%/99% product line split they decided on for some insane reason, and the first time I saw this spot I thought it was a Lexus commercial or something. In the Steve Jobs “this is shit/this is amazingly great” dichotomy I’m sure it would have been the first when they ran it by him.

    3) T-MOBILE “JEREMY IN EUROPE” SERIES
    Stupid scenario, bad acting. ‘Nuf ced. (*And besides, JEREMY HAS A FUCKING PHONE! JUST CALL HIM!!! ARE YOU THE DUMBEST PARENTS IN THE WORLD?!?)

    4) EVERY SINGLE DOG-DAMNED GOOGLE AD
    They have more money than God and Oprah combined. Why did they hire some fly-by night ad agency with a couple of camcorders and a stock footage license? Hideous. Just… inexplicably amateurish. Reminds me of the internal corporate crap I used to do in the 80s. Plus it looks like they just bought some five year old white MacBooks, scraped the Apple logos off and then still expected everyone to fall in love with their third-way uniqueness or something.

    AND BONUS GRIPE: RON BURGANDY FOR DODGE
    Am I the only one who finds nearly everything Will Farrell does completely unfunny?

    *(OK, I guess not ‘nuf ced…)

  18. 18.

    Karen in GA

    October 28, 2013 at 9:07 pm

    @efgoldman:

    @Violet:
    Will this game go to eleven?
    Midnight. They all have. As if baseball games weren’t long enough, Fox s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s them out.

    It’s one longer, isn’t it?

  19. 19.

    Litlebritdiftrnt

    October 28, 2013 at 9:09 pm

    I haven’t slept for days, I am so under stress from the impending trip. I have payroll taxes to do, I have bills to pay (both office and personal) without enough money to pay them, I have motions to file, I have to figure out how we are going to pay for the kennels for the dogs. I have to figure out what I am going to pack(so I have an empty suitcase full of food to come home with). I have to tell the boss not to speak to any clients while I am gone because to be honest he doesn’t know who they are or what their cases are about (and that can get embarrassing, he once introduced himself to a pair of clients while walking through the courthouse, “who were those people” me “they are your clients boss”) I am so stressed out that one phone call is going to ruin my whole trip home that it is almost not worth the trouble. I have to get an adapter so I can charge my cellphone while at home and I have to figure out how to make sure that the cats are fed and watered while we are gone, at this point I am really hoping that my plane goes down in a ball of flames over the Atlantic. I am sure that once I am home things will be fine but right now I just wish it was over with.

  20. 20.

    Liquid

    October 28, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    @Schlemizel: Thursday Commercial Night – interrupted with brief moments of footballing.

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack

    October 28, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    @raven:

    Yeah, too bad there was no World Series game last Monday.

    We get that you don’t like baseball, but why do you feel the need to come in and shit on the rug? FIDO, as you like to say.

  22. 22.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 28, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    @different-church-lady: Am I the only one who finds nearly everything Will Farrell does completely unfunny?

    No.

  23. 23.

    Liquid

    October 28, 2013 at 9:12 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: “Bud Light, suck one.”

  24. 24.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 28, 2013 at 9:13 pm

    @Schlemizel:

    This is why I prefer to watch sports events with the mute button fully engaged.

  25. 25.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 9:17 pm

    @efgoldman: Almost double.

  26. 26.

    Steeplejack

    October 28, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    “Jeremy in Europe.” I agree, but I find the “You want something?” “Yeah, fix me” bit hilarious.

  27. 27.

    handsmile

    October 28, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Not to clutter up this baseball thread (“Down in front!”), but there’s a comment for you re The Nose/William Kentridge at the unspooled end of the “I love you Suzanne” thread.

    You can read it during one of the many, many, many commercial breaks.

  28. 28.

    Wally Ballou

    October 28, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    Tie game.

  29. 29.

    Yatsuno

    October 28, 2013 at 9:20 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: Dear heart, BREATHE. Everything will be fine and whatever isn’t will take care of itself. You should be focusing on family and long departed friends and getting your hubby registered with the NHS and such.

  30. 30.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 9:22 pm

    OK, so David Ortiz is 10 for 13 so far in this series.

    If he gets another two at bats in this game, another four in each of game six and game seven, and doesn’t get another hit, he’s going to finish the series hitting .650 .500

    Gotta be #1 candidate for MVP as of this point.

    (Edited for math fail)

  31. 31.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 9:25 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: No stress quite like impending trip stress — deep breaths. It’s anxiety, it’s normal, it’s going to be okay.

  32. 32.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 28, 2013 at 9:35 pm

    @efgoldman: Bobby Richardson.

  33. 33.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    @efgoldman: Happens much more often in hockey (five times) because the MVP award is for the entire playoffs, not just the finals.

    Otherwise, near as I can tell, once in baseball, once in basketball, once in the Super Bowl.

    I don’t think he’ll get it if the Sox lose, unless it’s something like an extra-innings 7th game.

  34. 34.

    Mayim

    October 28, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    @efgoldman:

    A player for the losing team in the Stanley Cup finals has won the Conn Smythe Trophy (playoff MVP) several times, IIRC….Hextall did it for the Flyers in the late 1980s, and Glenn Hall for St. Louis back in the 1960s. Maybe Roger Crozier for Detroit, also in the ’60s? Think there may have another such case or two, as well.

    Conn Smythe award is supposed to account for the entire post-season, not just the finals ~ but I think all the players who have won it have played for a team that made the finals.

  35. 35.

    Gin & Tonic

    October 28, 2013 at 9:42 pm

    @efgoldman: 1960. Pirates beat Yankees with a walk-off homer in Game 7 by Mazeroski.

    Here’s a funny pic a guy I know has sent around, of not Mike Napoli http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Doku_Umarov2.jpg

  36. 36.

    Darkrose

    October 28, 2013 at 9:46 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    1) VERIZON HALLOWEEN CANDY
    Why in hell does the girl say, “Seriously, even the dog!” It makes NO SENSE. And who the fuck plots their Halloween route? I know this is tongue in cheek, but it just comes off as irritating.

    I love this ad. The teenaged girl is complaining to her friend that her dorky parents insisted on the entire family dressing up, “even the dog”. But what makes the ad for me is that it’s showing a completely over-the-top geek family….who’s black. And that’s presented as no big deal. I can look at it and think that would totally be my family if I was a kid today, which is awesome.

  37. 37.

    Darkrose

    October 28, 2013 at 9:50 pm

    @Karen in GA: Bucholz isn’t pitching, so it won’t be QUITE as long.

  38. 38.

    YellowJournalism

    October 28, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    @Darkrose: Plus, you have to admit those costumes are pretty fucking awesome.

  39. 39.

    Litlebritdiftrnt

    October 28, 2013 at 9:54 pm

    @Yatsuno: @different-church-lady: A friend of mine said today it is like moving, you will never be more stressed, but once the move is done you are fine. My main stress is that the boss will talk to a client while I am gone, that would be a complete disaster. I am sure that once wheel hits the ground in the UK I will be able to disengage my brain and my main focus will be where to get at meat and potato pie chips and peas, tea, bread and butter will completely overwhelm everything else.

  40. 40.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 10:03 pm

    @Litlebritdiftrnt: I usually start to relax about an hour into the flight, when suddenly there’s nothing I can do other than kill time for the first time in days.

  41. 41.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 10:05 pm

    Holy crap — Drew didn’t strike out.

  42. 42.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    Perfect — he gets the run home before the pitcher’s spot comes up.

  43. 43.

    Redshirt

    October 28, 2013 at 10:09 pm

    Sox lead. Lester, bring it home!

  44. 44.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 28, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    @different-church-lady:

    And who the fuck plots their Halloween route?

    Obviously, you didn’t keep track of who in your neighborhood gave out full-size candy bars and who gave out pennies year-to-year. Right around the age of 10 or so is when you start trying to get maximum candy for minimum (walking) effort.

  45. 45.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 10:17 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): No. We just went down the block, took whatever was offered, said thank you no matter what it was, and didn’t act like little snots.

    And I’m so damn old I come from an era where the parents stayed home.

  46. 46.

    Redshirt

    October 28, 2013 at 10:28 pm

    @efgoldman: Looking good! Keep it going Lester, deliver it to Koji in the late 8th.

  47. 47.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 10:30 pm

    [blink]

    David Oritz just beat out a ground ball.

    [blink blink]

  48. 48.

    different-church-lady

    October 28, 2013 at 10:45 pm

    GODZILLA!!!!

  49. 49.

    Mike E

    October 28, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    @different-church-lady: Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go go Godzilla

  50. 50.

    Mike E

    October 28, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    And the StL fans hold up a KKK sign.

  51. 51.

    Redshirt

    October 28, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    Sox win!

  52. 52.

    Wally Ballou

    October 28, 2013 at 11:09 pm

    Uehara: Mariano Mk II?

  53. 53.

    hilts

    October 28, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    Thank You Jon Lester!!

  54. 54.

    Mike E

    October 28, 2013 at 11:12 pm

    @efgoldman: Sir, you are a jape slayer.

    ETA hang out at The Good Phight where we fete the Phils, and snark the shit outa each other.

  55. 55.

    burnspbesq

    October 28, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Look on the bright side, y’all. McCarver has no more than two games left in his career.

  56. 56.

    burnspbesq

    October 28, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    Shulman and Hersheiser have been very good on ESPN Radio.

  57. 57.

    Rorgg

    October 29, 2013 at 12:20 pm

    @Schlemizel: Not ALWAYS. Sometimes, you get 2 minutes of God Blessing America and tiny flag-waving and then 3 minutes of commercials.

  58. 58.

    Rorgg

    October 29, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    @efgoldman:
    And undeniably, the Yankees played better over the course of the series:
    NYY 4 – 6 Pit
    NYY 16 – 3 Pit
    Pit 0 – 10 NYY
    Pit 3 – 2 NYY
    Pit 5 – 2 NYY
    NYY 12 – 0 Pit

    And then Pittsburgh wins 10-9 on a walkoff in game 7. I mean, they got outscored 55-27, that’s pretty overwhelming, You can understand the shock.

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