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Not Worthy

 

But satisfying...

Don't you feel sorry for Tony LaRussa.  His poor Cards get swept by the Dodgers.  All the crying in the world does him no good, even at home.  2 Runs in 3 games, but best of all a game 2 blow of a game that will live for the ages.

 

My tears are with you Tony...

 

NOT

 

http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=291010124&teams=los-angeles-dodgers-vs-st.-louis-cardinals



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Bite me

The Cards can never lose bad enough for me. F LaRussa. F the Cardinals. They are the enemy. No quarter should be given. None. If they went 1-161 I wouldn’t be happy enough.

And BTW, none of you better be reading this with a Bud in your hand or you’ll answer to me. Or a Coors, or a Miller. That’s literally aiding and abetting the enemy — in other words, treason. I can’t believe they sell beer at PNC that directly benefits enemy teams. You should look at it like this: Every Bud I drink pays 10 cents toward Pujols’ salary so he can kick our ass. Every Miller you drink pays 10 cents toward Ryan Braun’s salary. Every Coors you drink is 10 cents toward so help me God Jim Tracy’s salary.

You want that on your conscience?

by bucdaddy on Oct 11, 2009 12:47 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Um...yeah.

You forgot about Land Shark Lager, we can’t be giving money to the Marlins now. Also, no more Minute Maid juice or Wrigley gum for your kids. No more banking at Chase, Citizens Bank or Citi. Go to Petsmart instead of Petco and you better not have an iPhone because that helps AT&T. No watching TBS or TNT, they’re owned by Turner. And no more insurance from Great American Insurance Group. The two teams I’m most suspicious of are the Nationals and Dodgers. They have some gall naming the stadiums after themselves. Why can’t they be named after large corporations we can stop buying stuff from? How dare they! And finally, no more voting for Hubert H. Humphrey!

So the next part of the plan is for everyone here to get a checking account at PNC Bank and run up huge fines on it. Forget to deposit money to cover everything you’re buying and all that. Maybe get a PNC Bank credit card with an APR of 29.99% so that it’ll help out the Pirates. Oh, if only I lived in a city with a PNC Bank branch….

by IAPiratesFan on Oct 11, 2009 3:52 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

PNC

recently bought National City Bank.

Got any of those?

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Oct 11, 2009 8:13 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nope.

The only thing in my neighborhood and about 75 mile surrounded it are US Banks, Bank of the West, Wells Fargo and a bunch of little regional banks and community credit unions.

by IAPiratesFan on Oct 11, 2009 8:36 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

No problem. I actually don’t do any of those things.

by WTM on Oct 11, 2009 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Me too...

Especially the “voting for Hubert H. Humphrey” part.

by maguro on Oct 11, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

What’s wrong with Hubert?

by ravidesai1984 on Oct 11, 2009 11:40 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Ummm...

He’s dead?

by maguro on Oct 11, 2009 1:21 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

That never stopped anyone

from voting for Daley in Chicago.

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Oct 11, 2009 3:17 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I know...

but even in Illinois it’s much less common for the dead to actually run for office.

by maguro on Oct 11, 2009 5:50 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's a reference to the Twins.

Their stadium’s full name is the “Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome”.

Never been a fan of Hube, myself. I always liked Hunter Thompson’s line about him from “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail”: "Any political party that can’t cough up anything better than a treacherous brain-damaged old vulture like Hubert Humphrey deserves every beating it gets. They don’t hardly make ‘em like Hubert any more—but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway."

by Vlad on Oct 12, 2009 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hunter Thompson

Now there’s a guy that everyone should be admiring and quoting…

by God Loves on Oct 12, 2009 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I hope that

statement wasn’t laced with sarcasm. One of the most brilliant artists and journalists of the 20th centuries, and I also quote him often and admire him always.

by TheLizardKing on Oct 12, 2009 11:51 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It Was

Laced with sarcasm.

I know that this isn’t the forum for this kind of debate, and I will not continue after this comment, but HST was not one I would consider worthy of admiration under any circumstance.

by God Loves on Oct 12, 2009 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Well, to each his own.

But in my book, HST was a hell of a writer, and an interesting guy to boot.

by Vlad on Oct 12, 2009 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

We were near Barstow

on the outskirts of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. = Greatest first sentence in English literature.

by bucdaddy on Oct 13, 2009 9:32 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Plenty of things

I could say to rebut, some of them a tad inappropriate and controversial, but you’re right about one thing, this is not the place for it. Funny how the topic arose from discussing a stadium named after a politician, though.

by TheLizardKing on Oct 12, 2009 11:37 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

What balls it would show

if Colorado named their field after HST. HA!

.

Author’s note: Not trying to add fuel to the fire here, and I realize there are those who will disagree with this.

The end.

Free your ass and your mind will follow.

by cocktailsfor2 on Oct 13, 2009 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nothing made me happier...

than seeing St. Louis getting swept in the playoffs. I’m tired of hearing about how great their franchise is and how wonderful and knowledgable their fans are. Blah blah blah… I agree with Bucdaddy, I’d like to see how wonderful they’d treat their team if they lost in 17 straight seasons.

"Baseball is better than football. Think about it, eighty degrees, a cold beer and a short-sleeve shirt is better than 30 degrees, a hip flask and six layers of clothes under a lap blanket. Take your pick: suntan or frostbite. " - Thomas Boswell

by Ketcham Bruce on Oct 11, 2009 6:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

One Cardinals fan said:

The Pirates were a 90 win team until they were destroyed by their idiot General Manager last year.

Unfortunately, there’s a good chance he’s going to end up being my brother in-law.

by IAPiratesFan on Oct 11, 2009 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

LOL. How ironic...

that he sounds like all of the idiot Pirates “fans” where I work.

"So you think 25 percent of the country is retarded?! Yea. Atleast 25 percent. Well lets so a sample. There are 4 of us an you're retarded. Thats 25 percent." Southpark; Mystery of the Urinal Deuce

by gorillakilla34 on Oct 12, 2009 12:10 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, I can’t stand LaRussa. Not only is he really whiny and ultra-paranoid, I think he’s one of the most responsible for the absurdity of the bullpen use (or overuse) today. To me, it always looks like he makes bullpen moves just to make moves…as in, there’s no rhyme or reason to what he does.

by NastyNate82 on Oct 12, 2009 9:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

He must be single-handedly responsible

for the lengthening the average time of MLB games by :08.32.

by bucdaddy on Oct 13, 2009 9:34 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I would take him for our manager in a heartbeat.

by grapes on Oct 12, 2009 9:57 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I don’t know. He’s almost always had a lot of talent to work with. One guy who has a bad rap, I think, and is quite good with young players is Buck Showalter. All things considered though, JR seems to have done a decent job.

by NastyNate82 on Oct 12, 2009 10:05 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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