Bruiser Chong

My god, what a retort! Like Smues said, you're missing the point. I watched the early parts of the game because I love to watch baseball. I do not, however, love to watch baseball games that are ground to a near-halt so frequently and run four hours without the need for extra innings. I stopped watching for a while, started up again, and then called it quits when they were only in the fifth inning at like 10:30 p.m. This isn't a Red Sox or Yankees thing, so quit trying to make it one. It's not a Yankee/Red Sox thing to me either. You don't see me complaining about how sucky the Pirates/Giants game was because I'm not seeking out to watch it. You like baseball, fine, but that doesn't mean you're forced to watch every single game out there. Don't watch the game. No one is forcing you to. Added emphasis for those with reading comprehension issues.

I like to watch most teams play, partly because I love the game and also because it's nice to watch a game without risk of cardiac arrest. In my years of subscribing to the Extra Innings package, the NL West games were the only ones that really bored me on a regular basis.

My god, what a retort! Like Smues said, you're missing the point. I watched the early parts of the game because I love to watch baseball. I do not, however, love to watch baseball games that are ground to a near-halt so frequently and run four hours without the need for extra innings. I stopped watching for a while, started up again, and then called it quits when they were only in the fifth inning at like 10:30 p.m. This isn't a Red Sox or Yankees thing, so quit trying to make it one.

I love how some of the Yankees and Red Sox fans are taking this personally, as if we wouldn't complain if it were taking two other teams four hours to play nine innings of baseball.

It's also the type of game that lends credibility to the argument that baseball is an uneventful, plodding sport.

This is absurd. I turned the game on, expecting it to at least be in the latter innings and it's only the FOURTH? Please. I hate these games.

The Cubs had no business winning that game, but what an exciting last two innings. I'll never know how Lee made that pick to send the game to extra frames. I'm sure we'll hear plenty about the DeRosa homer since a run determined the outcome.

I know, I was just trying to justify stealing. Now my face is red. Thanks.

This week's thread has been lacking. Is that a result of the subpar games or is just that none of us know what to say anymore?

Shut up, Al. Don't you know Marvin's a victim of circumstance?

Take it to the NASCAR thread, Marvin.

I think this is the Horowitz/Blue Angel match that was on that Best of WWF comp set that was floating around the 'net a couple years back.

What thing record shops and the like can't provide me with are instrumentals for full albums. Thanks to torrents, I'm currently enjoying instrumentals from the complete Aquemini album. And it's glorious.

And I'm totally using the "it has an oakey afterbirth" line the next time I drink wine.

I'd probably buy a lot more, but there's only one record shop left in the area. My mom knows the owners quite well and I like to stop in a pick up vinyl and the occasional used CD. But support your mom and pop businesses be damned, I just can't shell out MSRP for anything. I do live within driving distance of Ann Arbor and Lansing, though, so I don't have many excuses not to hit them up except for the fantastic gas prices.

Perhaps the most bizarre episode of the series. Not great for laughs, but I'm looking at these episodes with the mindset that they need to cram a half a season's worth of storylines into six episodes.

Yeah, but why would anyone care about your fantasy team? Or anyone else's? As for Bush, blame Ned. Bush has shown a tendency to be lousy after the fifth inning, yet Ned opts to wait until the wheels fall off. What the hell did the Brewers spend all that money on their bullpen if Ned is going to do that?

Oh my god. Tell me Juelz isn't rapping over a sped-up "You Oughta Know."

The Cubs and Pirates will play approximately 45 innings in this three-game series.

The O's start off strong every year, but Marvin seems to be the only fan on the 'net who reads too much into that.

Wild one in Pittsburgh as the Cubs have squandered an early 7-0 lead through those base-clogging walks and some shoddy infield defense.

Well, in fairness Bourn is crazy fast. It wasn't that deep of a flyball.

People STILL aren't respecting Soriano's cannon. Michael Bourne just got thrown out at the plate trying to tag from third; it wasn't even close. He should've respected Soriano's gangster.

You're lucky then, Edwin. I've come close to buying SC several times over the years because it's the only Ghost album I don't have. But I've yet to see it in stores around here for less than $15. I was ready to buy it one day at Best Buy because I needed to get cash back for something unrelated. I backed off when I saw it was $15.99. P.S. I later found out that, contrary to my earlier belief, Best Buy doesn't even offer cash back, so it wasn't a very good visit, to say the least.

Good point, Mik. For whatever reason, there are people who respond to being extremely loved in this context that they think they've found the one. I mentioned my thoughts on "the one" theory earlier, but I was like that a couple years back. Not that I'd found the one, but that I'd found someone who was more into me than I thought was humanly possible. My brother's going through that right now, I think. The chick he's getting hitched to is my age and already excelling in law school. But I don't think they gel all that well and their relationship seems to be built more on infatuation than genuine compatibility.