My special lady is a die-hard Phillies fan. Right now, she has to be pretty fucking dedicated. They're blowing it big time. One win over Tejas, 8-6. Whoopie.

vockins wrote:

vockins wrote:

Dr. Venkman wrote:Final: Mets: 7, Yankees: 4

The Mets have played .500 baseball over the last 162 games.

The Mets have played under .500 baseball over the last 162 games.

LOL.

That's the third time I've seen Jose Reyes get picked off at second this year. Today's, with a man on first, two outs and David Wright at the plate - was particularly rich. I was LOLing. Total LOL action. I was fully engulfed in LOL. Slathered in LOL. LOL with a side of ROFL. ROFL LOL.

There was even more LOL when David Wright hit a HR to start the sixth. Oh boy, LOL. Imagine what could have been if Jose Reyes wasn't dumber than a box of rocks. Fallacy of predetermined outcome and whatnot, but it was a LOL regardless.

Carlos Beltran had a golden sombrero.

Johan Santana is 7-7.

LOL, Dr. Venkman, LOL.

Who's LOL'ing now, smart guy?

Get swept at home, lose the season series, and crow about it. Typical Yankee fan thinking.

And yes, Reyes is an idiot.

Who would have thought a month ago that this Twins/Tigers series would be between the 2 hottest teams in the league?

Steve V. wrote:My special lady is a die-hard Phillies fan. Right now, she has to be pretty fucking dedicated. They're blowing it big time. One win over Tejas, 8-6. Whoopie.

looks like they've woken up.

4 wins in a row.

The Baltimore Orioles are .001 better than the New York Yankees.
.001.

Did anyone happen to catch Johnny Damon last night?

Dr. Venkman wrote:Did anyone happen to catch Johnny Damon last night?

If it hadn't fallen back in, it would have been a home run.

Dr. Venkman wrote:Did anyone happen to catch Johnny Damon last night?

Lookit the Sox fan behind the wall. His expression doesn't change through the entire sequence. Cardboard cutout man.

1 Barry Bonds* 762
2 Hank Aaron* 755
3 Babe Ruth* 714
4 Willie Mays 660
5 Sammy Sosa* 609
6 Ken Griffey, Jr.* 600

HeSaidDestroy wrote:I get what you were going for there. DH'd, DH'd, Segregation, DH'd, DH'd. Say Hey!

The argument that the DH rule somehow inflated the home run totals of Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey, Jr. is wrong. Please review the number of games that Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey, Jr. actually played as DH.

God, Bonds has never even played for an American League team and Griffey hasn't done so since 1999. Wtf.

Thank you for flying Bothering To Look Up The Facts Airlines.

While we're at the task of making up numbers and assigning asterisks that never existed to invented controversies, let me submit a new 600+ home run list.

1 Barry Bonds 762
2 Hank Aaron 755
3 Babe Ruth 714
4 Ted Williams 670†
5 Willie Mays 660
6 Sammy Sosa 609
7 Ken Griffey, Jr. 600
8 Lou Gehrig 600††

† 521 career home runs plus ~150 additional home runs that projections show that Ted Williams would have hit during two terms of military service.

†† 493 career home runs plus ~100 additional home runs that projections show that Lou Gehrig would have hit if he had not fallen ill and died.

Hank Greenberg is another player whose career home run numbers were significantly reduced by military service and early retirement, as well as by refusing to play on Yom Kippur.

Right?

HeSaidDestroy wrote:[A]ny song that pays partial tribute to young Gorman Thomas [...] is aces in my book.

Gorman Thomas was with the Mariners at the end of his career.

Gorman Thomas is my kind of ballplayer. We should look into making him an honorary Electron.