This shameless old sentimental fool just burst into tears as soon as the World Series musical theme played on FOX. And continued to cry during the history montage. This is not a good sign. :::wipes eyes:::
Did FOX just replay the Royce Clayton/Coco Crisp taco routine from last year?
Thanks for rubbing it in, Rupert Murdoch.
For the record: I will not collect a free taco if said taco is only free because a a member of The Team That Shall Not Be Named stole a base. That's a blood taco, man.
I'll probably be the lone person saying it but...Go Rays! I like the Phillies too, but I lived in Tampa for eight years so I gotta go with the Rays. I just hope it's a good series.
I just can't root for the rays, besides still hurting over the last series, I can't take their new fake fans, who just appeared out of the blue and don't know anything about baseball. Not all, just the majority
Oh, Meghan. When James Taylor sang it last year I wept. So poignant to see one of the icons of my youth absolutely nail it, hearing aids and all. Old guy can still sing beautifully.
Meghan, last year's WS was such a wonderful blur that I can't even remember if Boys II Men performed. I do remember the Boston Pops wind/brass section performing. An old college classmate was in the horn section, and I actually spotted his middle-aged self.
I was reading a beckett interview today, where he said after the loss the other night, he so wanted to head off the field immediately, but some of the other players made him stay for a little bit and watch them celebrate. They said it makes you hunger for more, he said it's similar to a fresh kill. I love Beckett as a player, but he scares me as a person.
Hey Erin, I'm not watching either, at least not yet. I'm eating a freebie dinner courtesy of an event at work today. Yummy. And I've got the game on TV in the other room, volume up, so I can at least hear what's going on. This will go on until past my bedtime, so I can watch it later.
I have a ton of Facebook friends whose status has read "GO RAYS!" or something similar for the past week, and, for a lot of them, I was unaware that they even knew Tampa had a baseball team. And some other who I used have to BEG to go to games with me when I lived there.
They showed the SNL cowbell skit on the Jumbotron at the Trop, and the 100 Rays fans in attendance adopted the cowbell. Then, 2 weeks before the season ended, the thousands and thousands of "lifelong" Rays fans pretended it was a hallowed tradition.
What I find funnier are the people who say the rays deserve to win because they waited so long. Too bad no one has told them that Philly has waited over 25 years to win a championship in any sport.
Sorry, but Philly and Cubs win the most tortured fans award.
In it's 125 year existence, the Phillies ballclub has won exactly ONE World Series title. ONE. A hundred and twenty five years, one title. Oh, and 10,000+ losses, worst ever.
Another thing, the Ray fans claim to have suffered through all those tough ten years of below .500 baseball. First off, none of them have probably been a fan for more than a few months and don't know the history of the team. Secondly, suffering is Bambino's curse, Bucky Dent's HR, Buckner's error, and Boone's HR (what's up w/ all the B's).
If my mom were to meet any of those fans who say they waited so long she would slap them all upside the head and then would tell them about all the heart break she went through as a Sox fan growing ('75, '78, 1986 WS).
She would also mention her uncle that died before the Sox won in 2004 and how before he died he wanted to see them win.
My father, who covered, and traveled with the Red Sox for over 30yrs for the Worcester Telegram died February 26, 2004. So close to seeing a championship. Every fall, he said next year.
These fans just annoy me because I have sat next to them and they don't know the difference between a foul ball and a hit.
Mermaidmarian, this is why I'm not too tied to watching the game. I'm glad "we're" winning, but I'm just not invested enough in it to put up with the blathering of the announcers.
Erin, yes, I had fans next to me two different times, who asked me why a ball was foul. Cause it went over the foul line, they didn't know what a foul line was. Another time, one admitted to never watching baseball before attending the game, only came because they live in the area.
That's the sad thing - I feel bad for those (few) Rays fans who actually HAVE been diehards since the club arrived there 11 years ago. The ones who showed up to empty stadiums and loved the team anyway. Those people get lumped in with the Rayhawk-sporting, tag-still-on-the-jersey, "diehard" cowbell fans.
I do realize they do have a couple real fans. It's the fake ones I am talking about, and the nasty ones, who kicked me one time leaving, cause I was a Sox fan. And the last time I went they kicked my car while I was in it.
That's pathetic, Karen. I went to a game once with a friend who was from Germany but had lived in the States for the past 15 years. She still could not understand baseball. I mean, she couldn't figure out what the players were trying to do. I found it inexplicable. Now, maybe it takes a lifetime to get the Zen of it, but seriously...isn't about hit the ball, catch the ball, run really fast?
What was interesting, was last time I went a lot of people had signs with tomahawks on them. When did they become an Indian related team? So Cowbells and Tomahawks.
The only Florida team I root for is FSU because my dad graduated from there.
I took a friend of mine to the Sox game at Fenway last 4th of July. She is from the Bahamas, and had never seen baseball, cause they don't have it. She went online to wikipedia and redsox.com before and read about baseball and the Sox. Now I think that was cool.
I honestly think a lot of the bandwagon fans secretly have Yankees gear hidden in their closets right now. I personally know at least four people that were huge Yankees "fans" in Tampa but are very gung-ho about the Rays now. The Yanks spring train there, but they obviously weren't the hot thing to root for this year...
Karen, that's really odd about your German friend. The basics of baseball are so simple, one would think. Then again, not all brains are wired the same. Maybe she "got" football rather than baseball.
Karen, that would never happen. When I was looking at schools, I went to UCF first and loved it The next day I went to UF and wouldn't finish the tour - just not a fan of that campus or the bats and half eaten turtles.
Bobby Orr is the greatest hockey player ever. The fact he put up all those numbers with a bad knee is amazing. Its sad he had to retire at a young age.
Danielle- I had the exact same experience at UF. I stayed on the tour for about thirty minutes and hated it, so I got in my car and drove home...I had my early admission app sitting at home ready to be mailed in too. I'm happy with my decision...I ended up at USF though, although I LOVE UCF's campus. And colors.
Roger Clemens, mermaid. My family are all diehard Longhorns, and he pitched Texas to a College World Series win. So when he went to the Sox, so did I.
Also, it's been fun because my dad is a Yankees fan. He grew up in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, with no nearby baseball team to root for. So the only baseball he saw was the weekly Saturday game on TV - which was most of the time the Yanks. And Mickey Mantle was his childhood hero.
Meghan - you made it longer than I did. I lasted 10 minutes on the tour after the long(ish) drive (that my mother drove) then headed back to Orlando where we had been staying for vacation.
ecl, in their pond, they have both gators and turtles and the poor turtles get bitten by the gators. They also have bat houses, which is almost a tourist attraction at this point, so people can see the bats go out at dusk from their houses.
Karen, I know I'm biased but it is a great school and it doesn't feel like there are as many people as are actually enrolled. Plus, it was much more reasonable in price than me staying in MA and going to Northeastern or BC.
That's just bizarre to put little helpless ducklings in the same place as snapping turtles. And I feel sorry for the turtles who have to coexist with the gators in the pond. Stupid planning by the grounds designers at the colleges.
SoxPhan - would it help if I told you that although the wife's Survivor shit was annoying, they donate a ton of time and money to helping feed hungry kids in third world countries? I'm deadly serious.
Also, they met when she threw out the first pitch at a minor league ballgame when he was, like, 21, and he had the balls to ask her out.
When I came home one night, an armadillo was in my parking space. They gross me out. I see all kinds of animals, I would rather not. The reptiles freak me out the worst. I can handle the coyotes and raccoons. I do like the florida panther, beautiful animal. Believe it or not, I don't like in the country, rather populated area. It's just we have lakes and trees in our complex.
I have to say I enjoyed when we had a gator in our retention pond outside our subdivision. It's not that bad, SoxPhan, not that I can say much since I can't wait until graduation in May so I can move back to Boston.
Texy: Well, that does take some of the sting out of it. I didn't realize she's got a few years on him--that's sort of cool--or that they're both so committed to their charity.
She's no Mrs. Utley, though. With her love of the puppies, and her cute turquoise luggage and the fact that she's just so pretty...and very nice, apparently. Yes, I have a girl crush on Mrs. Chutley.
I've never met Mrs. Cole, so I don't can't speak about her - but I've hung out with Mrs. Chut a couple of times, and she is phenomenal. Love her. She is effortlessly beautiful as well.
Ah, you're right, Meghan. I wasn't thinking. The ubiquitous presence of gators didn't even occur to me. I'm used to ponds with turtles and ducks and small fish.
Armadillos and coyotes...I can hardly imagine living with them around. I've had one close encounter with a snapping turtle (not an injury, thankfully) and hope never to come face to face with one again.
We have raccoons where I live and they're a royal pain. We have groundhogs, which are very cute. We occasionally get bears wandering into neighborhoods in search of food. I don't live out in the country so don't hear about much else in the way of critters.
I've had runins with armadillos, copperheads, nutria, black widows, possums and raccoons - but my ultimate wildlife story was when a scorpion crawled up on me and stung me. In my bed. At night.
TG-That scorpion story is frightening! I had a palmetto bug crawl on me once and was freaked out for a few weeks...and that isn't poisonous, nor can it sting.
Unfortunately, most of my runins with armadillos involved the tires of my car...oops. My worst FL wildlife story is when my boyfriend at the time convinced me to go camping and wild pigs/boars ended up tearing up our campsite and wouldn't leave...and those things will charge people if they get scared. Not a fun night at all.
I do miss Mass., things died in the winter. I did know about the wild pigs. And as for the snake I don't know if it was safe or not, it was orange/black striped. I scattered moth balls around and good so far.
I'm a B&J coffee health bar crunch fan. This time there is more candy than ice cream. Trying to eat the goodies before tomorrow, my mom brings home her new man, who will eat all my stuff. So wish I could afford to move.
Ohhhh...you're talking ice cream! My husband looked in the freezer to see if the ice cream fairy came (didn't). He said he's putting the ice cream scoop under his pillow tonight. LOL. how can I not get some tomorrow?
SoxPhan: Yes, it's the best EVER! I'm so glad I discovered it. It puts all the other peanut butter/chocolate ice cream concoctions to shame.
Another ice cream I'm fond of, but which is more regional, is Mayfield Extreme Moose Tracks. It's chocolate ice cream with hard fudge swirls and moose track candies. Total death by chocolate!
Karen, I'm giggling thinking about you hiding the ice cream and other goodies from your mom's "new man."
jules: Hee! The ice cream fairy! At my house, it's more like ice cream Santa Claus: I buy the good stuff when it's on sale, so I get 2 or three tubs at a time (which always seem to disappear rather quickly...)
The Halloween decoration: Frankenpapi? Youkenstein?
I don't condone violence, but I really can't wait until the series moves to Philly and some Phillies fan beats a Rays fan senseless with his own cowbell.
I'm also sort of hoping for a bench-and-bullpen clearing brawl wherein Pat the Bat beats the living crap out of B.J. Upton.
I read that earlier. Just don't say Tek, cause I will cry. I was doing ok until I saw his post game interview the other night, when he got choked up, I lost it.
Karen: Looks like Tek and Youk were having an ugly shirt contest. Seriously, you'd think these guys would shop places where the salespeople have taste and would steering them in the right direction, but no...
I think the whole Sox team had an injury by the end. Beckett said his was so bad he couldn't put on his shirt by himself by the last game. And that was with "chemistry" as he called it.
Couldn't resist taking a peek at that on my way out the door, Liza. That's just amazing. Our team is blessed with an amazing amount of toughness. I think that's why they hung in as long as they did. :::hugs Jed:::
on October 22, 2008 8:02 PM
I am so sick of seeing that place, the Trop, or slop as Paps calls it. I only go there because it's the closest place.
Let's go Phillies!