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Columbus Day Clashes: The Playoffs Get Interesting

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The Rays are hoping to reach uncharted territory tonight by taking a series lead over the Red Sox.  Shrewd trade acquisition Matt Garza takes on cancer survivor and feel-good story fodder Jon Lester.  Stats are for dorks, so without looking at them I can say that Lester sure feels like he's becoming the ace of a Red Sox staff that is chock full of aces.  Garza and the Rays will have a tough task ahead of them as the series shifts back to Fenway.  There were something like eight home runs hit between the two teams in their last game.  How many will go over the Monster tonight?

For this evening's matchup, the Dodgers take on the Phillies at 8:22 pm EST in Chavez Ravine.  Seats will be filled at 9:18.  The Phillies were threatening to run away with this series, but the Dodgers have decided to make it a contest.  If they win tonight, they'll even the Series at two games apiece.  Game 1 loser Derek Lowe takes on mid-season pickup Joe Blanton.  The Phillies getting Blanton was slightly less ballyhooed than the Brewers getting Sabathia or the Cubs getting Harden, but who's still pitching in the playoffs, bitches?  That's right.

It's probably just me, but does anyone else enjoy saying, "Haywood J'Blanton" in their minds, a la Haywood Jablowme?  No?  All right then.

The thread is open.  Enjoy playoff baseball!

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Type the story in the introductory paragraph section next time.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 2:29 PM EDT   0 recs

Note to Brendan:

You can edit your FanPosts.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 13, 2008 2:53 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

...

…

…shut up.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 2:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Oooohhhh

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 2:58 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

In Reds news today

Dusty Baker coached his team to a victory! Well, it was his son’s team. Darren’s team won 27-7, but Dusty still managed to misuse his bullpen. Four of those runs were given up Darren Baker himself after Dusty inserted him has a relief pitcher.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 2:32 PM EDT   0 recs

Dusty has a history of nepotism

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 13, 2008 2:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Dusty and Corey have sex with dead people?

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 2:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

"Your mother's deaf."

“My mother’s dead, you little twerp!”

“I guess that’s why… she didn’t move around much.”

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 3:02 PM EDT to parent up   2 recs

wow...just wow

/sidnnancy’d

Where’s that from, anyways?

...because there's already someone posing as Jacob Brumfield

by Cy Schourek on Oct 13, 2008 7:28 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

i saw that in the theatre

the friday it opened. no one else did that.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 13, 2008 8:29 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I did

In fact, I saw it before it opened because I was working at a movie theater at the time. They preview every movie to make sure it plays correctly, and I saw this one when they did that.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 9:08 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

wow

i knew i felt a strange, ethereal bond with you, but now i know why. i feel like there is a reason now why we both came to RR. this is a real moment.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 13, 2008 9:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

'than is gonna be pisssed

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 13, 2008 9:25 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Screw 'tHan

On second thought……never mind. :)

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 13, 2008 9:26 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yikes

No mercy rule? They’re nine year olds, fer cripes sake.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 13, 2008 3:52 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Haywood J'Blanton sounds like a D-lineman in the SEC

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 13, 2008 3:11 PM EDT   0 recs

BK, Brendan

isn’t this site great now that we’ve banned everyone and have it all to ourselves?

Are people actually working on a Monday?

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 3:20 PM EDT   0 recs

I got yer workin' right here, pal

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 13, 2008 3:28 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm avoiding work on a Monday.

And yes, the site is much better now that jch isn’t here.

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 13, 2008 3:29 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

work? Monday?

oh shit im sooooo late!!

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 13, 2008 3:31 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

That's what she said

"My wife ain't never ran and got me no pheasant." - Fistbands

by BK on Oct 13, 2008 3:35 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I'm gonna go over to Union Station

and throw paint on the Columbus statue with the rest of the protesters today.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 3:26 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Is he wearing fur?

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 3:37 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Columbus Day in Columbus

is usually awesome. schools and banks and govt buildings are all closed, except of course for mine.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 13, 2008 3:41 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You have your own government building?

This place is like a sexy preschool.

by Gray on Oct 13, 2008 3:50 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

and my own school, with liberal cafeteria privileges

i guess you didnt know, but im kind of a big deal around here.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 13, 2008 3:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

You're working today?

I thought you worked for the gub’mint at a museum or somesuch?

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 13, 2008 3:43 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Our annual conference begins later this week

NOBODY is taking off. Although I’m posting here a lot, instead of working very hard.

Everyone else in the city took off though, so the commute in was incredibly enjoyable. I was looking forward to it all weekend.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 4:19 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Someone reminded me

that we have fall break next week. It’s kind of hard to keep track of these things when not taking classes. Or, you know, working real-people hours.

This place is like a sexy preschool.

by Gray on Oct 13, 2008 3:51 PM EDT   0 recs

MonsterQuest

on the History Channel now is about “The Ohio Grassman.”

No, it’s not about any of the Cincinnati Bengals. It’s about a supposed Bigfoot like creature that lives in the woods of eastern Ohio.

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by BubbaFan on Oct 13, 2008 4:09 PM EDT   0 recs

Yeah, my bad

Waaaaaaaay too many Schlitz beers that night.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 13, 2008 4:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

"The Ohio Grassman"

Sounds like somebody’s “go to guy”.

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 4:17 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Never heard of the Grassman

But staying out of eastern Ohio is generally advisable under any conditions.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 4:20 PM EDT to parent up   1 recs

Rec'd

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 13, 2008 4:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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If you answered yes to all some of these questions, you could work for the Cincinnati Reds!

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 4:20 PM EDT   0 recs

Wait a minute...

One of the expectations:

Act as a role model within and outside the Cincinnati Reds Organization

This place is like a sexy preschool.

by Gray on Oct 13, 2008 4:24 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Now that Dunn and Griffey are gone, somebody has to take a leadership role

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 4:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I think Columbus has gotten a bad rap

It’s unfair to lay the subsequent centuries of oppression and slaughter of the Native Americans on his head. In his (forgotten) story I find feats of bravery, intellectualism and the power of an individual to transform the world. Give this brief essay a look then tell me why I’m an retrogressed idiot.

Now Columbus faced a new problem. No sailors wanted to go on what was seen as a suicidal voyage on what the Muslims called, "the green sea of darkness." After all, in the common Biblically indoctrinated mind, the earth was still flat. So Columbus got the monarchs to pardon jailed criminals if they’d go on his expedition. A voyage into the green sea of darkness was a better bet than certain death by hanging or a lifetime in a dungeon. And if the criminals made it back alive, they’d be free.

Columbus set off on August 4th, 1492. To avoid mutiny, Columbus kept two different logs. The log he showed the crew indicated they were not too far from home and had nothing to worry about. The other one showed his much greater and more accurate estimates of the distances traveled.

…

His fourth voyage took him to Nicaragua, but after that the big political and commercial interests pushed Columbus out of the exploring business and in 1506 he died impoverished and forgotten.

You’d think that would be the saddest, most unjust end the story could have. But it’s not. Today "enlightened" history teachers pooh-pooh Columbus’s role because he was a European. They point out that Incas and Aztecs and Cherokees and Cheyennes had lived in America for centuries before 1492; they credit the Viking oaf Leif Erikson, for stumbling upon a piece of North America, running away, and doing nothing with his "discovery."

Such teachers misunderstand what the word "discover" means. There is a difference between blundering onto something, and discovering its nature, grasping its order and significance. Farmers in ancient fields had experienced mass and momentum. But we don’t say they discovered Newtonian physics. To discover is not merely to encounter, but to comprehend and reveal, to apprehend something new and true and deliver it to the world.

by Red Menace on Oct 13, 2008 4:33 PM EDT   0 recs

Um, that still doesn't explain how the Incas, Aztecs, Cherokees, Cheyennes, etc.

didn’t discover North America. I’m pretty sure their complex cultures and civilizations would indicate that they had discovered the continent’s nature and grasped its order and significance. Environmentally speaking, I think there’s a pretty good case to be made that they understood what they had a lot better than the European explorers and settlers did.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 4:38 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

then Columbus marked the moment they "discovered" Europe

I see joy and importance in the world coming together, even though every time that happens the people of the world let me down.

by Red Menace on Oct 13, 2008 4:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Blundering onto something

Um, didn’t he think he’d found India?

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 13, 2008 4:42 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Columbus was ruthless and egomanical, and more than a little sick in the head

he and his men were responsible for the genocide of the natives of Hispanola. he was a cold-blooded murderer. those he didnt kill were sent to Europe to be slaves. some estimate he and his men are responsible for the deaths of 125,000 people in the first two years they spent there.

but that does nothing to diminish the cavalier spirit and boundless bravery that marked his voyages to the new world. he was a man who did great things and terrible things. as with every great figure of history, there are two sides to the story.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 13, 2008 4:56 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Dear Red Sox,

Suck it.

- Dioner

The Rays take a 1-0 lead in the middle of the 2nd, with Dioner Navarro driving in Evan Longoria, who’s really having himself quite the postseason.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 5:09 PM EDT   0 recs

I sure wish

the Yankees hadn’t traded Dioner Navarro. For Randy Johnson, no less. And Arizona didn’t even want him. They flipped him almost immediately.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 13, 2008 5:19 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

me too

 poor yankees. nothing ever works out for them. they must be damned.

"You never want to give up a 7-0 lead, in your rival's ballpark, that would put them in first place. Never want to do that." - Ron Darling

by Slyde on Oct 13, 2008 5:22 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah

Damned to making stupid trade decisions. I was against trading Navarro, let alone for the Unit, from the beginning. Many fans were. I think even Cashman was against it, but he was overruled.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 13, 2008 5:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah

I sure wish they hadn’t let Tommy Shaw go back to Styx when Damon Johnson came aboard.

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
Details at Sinful Savage Tigers

by Man Mountain on Oct 13, 2008 5:27 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

It looks like he last pitched on Oct. 6

He should be well-rested, although maybe a little too rested.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 5:29 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

"rhythm method"

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
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by Man Mountain on Oct 13, 2008 5:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

I've got Joe Morgan on the radio!!

He believes in the “rhythm method”

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by Man Mountain on Oct 13, 2008 5:28 PM EDT   0 recs

What was Joe talking about? Pitching?

by ol Pete on Oct 13, 2008 5:30 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Fishing

Or quantum physics probably.

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 13, 2008 5:31 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

he doesn't like a pitcher's routine to be upset during the playoffs

which seems pretty sensible to me, but he kept saying “I believe in the rhythm method.”

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
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by Man Mountain on Oct 13, 2008 5:40 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Long gone oria

Kentuck Arts Festival: October 18th.
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by Man Mountain on Oct 13, 2008 5:30 PM EDT   0 recs

I love me some BJ

"Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est."

by jch24 on Oct 13, 2008 5:30 PM EDT   0 recs

woah man

Big Papi (god i hate that nickname more than any other) has been incredibly un-clutch this postseason. he probably misses his Manny.

by Charlie Scrabbles on Oct 13, 2008 5:50 PM EDT   0 recs

You gotta admit

It’s a lot easier to pitch around Big Poopy when Manny’s not up next.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Oct 13, 2008 5:57 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Grant Balfour should be careful

Jason Bay kills Reds pitchers.

by Brendanukkah on Oct 13, 2008 5:59 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs