Baseball ranting/rambling
Well, the Angels beat the crap out of the Twins and clinched the American League championship. (No offense to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
laurel or any real Twins fans, but that's just calling it as I see it.) I mean, dang, 10 runs in one inning - that's insane. I don't think I've ever, in the hundreds of baseball games I've been to or otherwise watched in my life, seen anything like that, especially not in post-season play. Wow.
Anyway, so regardless of who wins the NLCS... I guess now I kinda hope the Angels go through with it and win the World Series. It's looking like they'll be playing the Giants (unless the Cards come back from 3-1...), which'll make it exciting for all the California people, I guess. Still. The Angels have never won a World Series before, so I'm sort of excited for the idea that they would. Especially since they were the wild card and all. AND they beat out the Yankees, which moves them up several notches in my book. :) The Mariners haven't won a World Series yet either... sigh, maybe next year. Damn the AL West.
Speaking of the Mariners, it sounds like they're going through a lot of staff rotations for next year that could really suck. The manager wants to move to Florida, and the team still hasn't gone through with contracts for Olerud, Moyer, Wilson, and Edgar Martinez. Ideally, they'd pick up all of them, but it sounds like there are money issues involved. It'd suck to lose any of those players, of course. I mean, Olerud is just a consistently good ballplayer, and Moyer's a great pitcher. Martinez is getting old, and didn't have such a good season this year, so it's unclear what they'll do with him, I guess. I dunno.
It's just, I'm finally in a city with a good baseball team, which hasn't been the case for about ten years (since the Phillies were in the World Series in 1993, and I spent that summer in Pittsburgh anyway, so it's really more like twenty years. The Pirates never had a winning season during my 8 years in Pittsburgh). So I'm psyched to care about baseball again, and looking forward for next year; I should start looking into getting tickets to some evening games at some point.
laurel or any real Twins fans, but that's just calling it as I see it.) I mean, dang, 10 runs in one inning - that's insane. I don't think I've ever, in the hundreds of baseball games I've been to or otherwise watched in my life, seen anything like that, especially not in post-season play. Wow.Anyway, so regardless of who wins the NLCS... I guess now I kinda hope the Angels go through with it and win the World Series. It's looking like they'll be playing the Giants (unless the Cards come back from 3-1...), which'll make it exciting for all the California people, I guess. Still. The Angels have never won a World Series before, so I'm sort of excited for the idea that they would. Especially since they were the wild card and all. AND they beat out the Yankees, which moves them up several notches in my book. :) The Mariners haven't won a World Series yet either... sigh, maybe next year. Damn the AL West.
Speaking of the Mariners, it sounds like they're going through a lot of staff rotations for next year that could really suck. The manager wants to move to Florida, and the team still hasn't gone through with contracts for Olerud, Moyer, Wilson, and Edgar Martinez. Ideally, they'd pick up all of them, but it sounds like there are money issues involved. It'd suck to lose any of those players, of course. I mean, Olerud is just a consistently good ballplayer, and Moyer's a great pitcher. Martinez is getting old, and didn't have such a good season this year, so it's unclear what they'll do with him, I guess. I dunno.
It's just, I'm finally in a city with a good baseball team, which hasn't been the case for about ten years (since the Phillies were in the World Series in 1993, and I spent that summer in Pittsburgh anyway, so it's really more like twenty years. The Pirates never had a winning season during my 8 years in Pittsburgh). So I'm psyched to care about baseball again, and looking forward for next year; I should start looking into getting tickets to some evening games at some point.
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andrew
now dating a phillies fan!
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I mean... I can't keep up with you anymore. :P But at least a Phillies fan will be good for you. If my scanner wasn't broken I'd go scan in those pictures of us Cards Nest BBS weirdoes going to the Phillies like ten years ago with signs saying "PUT US ON TV AND THE PHILS WILL WIN" and "DOH" and then she'd... hmm, then she'd think you had weird friends in high school.
b34r
those pictures would be *fabulous*. linnea would be soooo amused. If you can scan those and send them to me, i'll make brownies for you. or cheesecake! yeah, phillies fan--definitely good for me. yayy.
at least i'm sort of keeping up with you...reading your lj stuff is good that way. reading mine probably just confuses people.
andrew
where's my yellow origami stegosaurus?
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I've never heard of this before, say it ain't so ;)
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Most of the players you mention are pretty old, though. Except for maybe Olerud, kinda, and he strikes me as the kinda guy who could play until he's 50. Heck, I remember Jaime Moyer when he was starting out with the Orioles, and they were saying he was pretty old then.
I would root for the Angels, except that I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE them. Ask me why some other time :)
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Moyer's like 39. I mean, I saw Roger Clemens pitch this year, and he's 40, and he's still amazing. I dunno. I guess pitchers can kinda lose it though. Edgar Martinez is definitely getting old.
Why do you hate the Angels? :P
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So to keep a long story from getting too long, when I was but a lad, growing up in the wilds of north-eastern Massachusets, my dad (who is a damn Yankees fan, but that's a different story) decided one day when I was 5 or 6 or so to initiate me into the brotherhood of baseball fans, and took me to a baseball game. It was the Red Sox versus the Angels. The Red Sox lost. We went to another game the next year. The same thing happen. Until I moved down to northern VA when I was about 12, around 70% of the games I personally attended were against the Angels and the Red Sox _lost them all_! While preparing me for the suffering of being a Red Sox fan, it still made me incredible bitter (also preparing me for being a CMU student :). So I revel in the miseries of the Angels whenever I can.