July 08, 2008
Nanocindy certainly picked the right time to enter the baseball bet. Now that the Brew Crew has Sabathia'd itself up a notch, perhaps it is time that natedogg got in on the game... The Cardinals need Carpenter and Wainwright back as soon as possible.
Shit.
No I fully believe NanoCindy when she says she would have been in this bet at the beginning of the season.
So we all know that the Cubs' dreams will escalate to unprecedented heights and then be shattered in the cruelest, most abrupt way. That much is certain, and like the 2008 elections, most of the fun will be seeing how it actually comes to pass.
The good news is that it will probably one way or the other rid the world of all the whiny little Cubs fans. But the real benefits will be to theology, which can finally establish an empirical foundation. Is our world is run by fickle caprice, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing? Is it a dialectical narrative of two manichean forces competing for our mortal souls? Or are we the subjects of some Loki, a wicked trickster who delights in raising high our hopes and dreams just so they're all the sweeter when they come to naught?
You Cubs fans can take heart that by the laughingstock end of your season you'll at least have resolved conclusively that the answer is #3, and that Loki moved to Boston a few years back.
The only thing about that Harden trade that would give me pause is the following from Harden's page at Baseball Reference:
Most Similar by Age:
22. Jake Peavy (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
23. Floyd Youmans (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
24. Ernie Broglio (979) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
25. Rick Aguilera (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ernie Broglio, some may remember, was the centerpiece of one of the greatest moments of Cardinals-Cubs history, as the Cubs, in exchange for Broglio, gave the Cardinals a young Lou Brock, who a decade later would set the all-time stolen base record (later broken by the Rickey).
Damn, if only there existed Tampa Bay Rays fans so that we could at some point have befriended one of them and they could have joined this bet.
Valatan, well that and the fact that he's been injured in 3 out of the last 4 seasons.
As one who isn't riveted by baseball yet who appreciates the fine art of trash talk, yeah Valatan, YOU know what I'm talking about. ; D
I'm calling this baseball trash talk thread Weaksauce. Which is sad, I know you guys have the stuff to do better.
The only remotely trash talking comment I see here is Mr. Flip's comment which I'm scoring as a 7.5 (the .5 is for his elegant use of "whiny".)
Well, I"m kind of hamstrung because my team is down right now (and filled with key injuries). Blind irrational, optimism is usually the emotion reserved for the Cubs' fan base.
Oh, and this thread wouldn't be complete without this gem from last year
You can't spell "SUCK BALLS" without C-U-B-S
You can't spell "SUCK COX" without S-O-X
LOL, now THATS better.
I'm giving Cindy an 8.5 for that one for her brilliant "I'm F*cking Ben Affleck"-esque maneuver.
Cubs hit century mark (first major sports franchise to do so? I guess there might be a NHL team?). Flip is the only one still alive, although natedogg could have been had he fallen for the sausage-laden temptation of the Brew Crew.
I don't think I could handle the obnxoiousness of the sports media should a Manny vs. the Sox series come to pass, though.
Yeah, I wanted it to be Sox - Cubbies. Sorry Nano. And I love Manny -- but good lord Tim McCarver with the Manny Being Manny and the Curse and the faux drama? When in a just world I could be listening to Vin Scully and homers extraordinaire Rem Dawg and Orsillo trade off?
Go Crew! Go Sox!
(By the way -- you really need to watch that RemDawg clip. Or this recap.)
Of course, if it ends up being Dodger's-Sox, a certain player may be due for some confusion. So that might be fun.
He won't be confused about getting a ring. The Sox give rings to anyone on the roster during the season.
Phew. That was close.
Just talking to natedogg about this -- I'm disappointed that I'm not more disappointed. So many injuries and we still took the ALCS to game 7 is still a lot of great baseball I got to watch this year.
I'm on board for making the same bet next year, what say you all? And we have to goad lackadaisical brewcrewer Natedogg into putting some skin in the game.
Anyway, though it would have been more fun to have Valatan buttle with the Sox in the series my excitement at having a butler remains undiminished.
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You know, I do feel kind of crappy entering a bet with the season halfway done and my team already in first. In my defense, I had no idea such bets had happened to begin with. But, yeah, if you all want to kick me out, I'd respect that. (Of course kicking me out would only admit your fear of the Cubs' winning the world series, which would be just as satisfying as winning the bet.)
I'm also not very good at trash talking...it has been such a long time since I've been in a position to do it/ had confidence in a team. Anyone want to give me some pointers?
posted by NanoCindy at 12:16AM CST on July 09