Comments on: How to decide who to root for in the World Series

By: foreverchipper10

foreverchipper10 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:25:48 +0000

Wait a minute here………isn’t your lady friend a Tigers fan? That should sway your vote.

By: moogro

moogro — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:41:33 +0000

Craig forgot the one other thing: underdogs. What could be more fun for those that don’t care than rooting for Zito over Verlander?

By: Andrew Chapman

Andrew Chapman — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:56:07 +0000

No way, FC! I can remember seeing Nolan Ryan pitch as a kid and watching Pete Incaviglia’s mullet flap in the wind as he rounded the bases. I just got over 2010 a lot faster than I did 2011…

By: quizguy66

quizguy66 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:24:49 +0000

Surprised no mention at the fan base that stood by Barry Bonds through all of it.

Loyalists I guess would endorse the Giants. Those who took a dim view of what Barry did would go Tigers.

-QG

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:56:50 +0000

I’ve been trying to figure out how to take it back down. I miss being a virtual dude and getting called a prick (although douche-ish today was fun). I only put it up because someone implied I was a gentleman — and I can’t have THAT. lol

By: indaburg

indaburg — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:18:51 +0000

Joe West transcends douchebaggery. The terms that apply to him are not fit for this site.

By: Gamera the Brave

Gamera the Brave — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:09:19 +0000

Life-long Giants fan (got to see Willie Mays play for my 6th birthday), but I just had a weird couple of memories – first Little League pitching experience (2 hits, 1 ER). Even remember the names of the two kids who got the hits (40 years ago)! Then the next year, winning the LL city championship, made the final out of the Championship game (slow roller to first). Great memories.
The LL Team I played for?

Yep. The Tigers…

Screw it – GO GIANTS!

By: juanhughjazz

juanhughjazz — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:00:46 +0000

One riot, 28 years ago and people think that that’s a regular occurrence. Think of all the Red Wing and Pistons championship celebrations(since 1984) without any mayhem. If you spent a little time in Detroit, you’d find it’s a pretty cool place. Stop bagging on Detroit. I think it’s Baltimore or St Louis’ turn by now.

By: philsieg

philsieg — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:33:09 +0000

Oh,well. That makes it all better, doesn’t it? Easy to see how you could confuse “mama” with “Kansas”, they’re being so similar and all.

By: philsieg

philsieg — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:27:03 +0000

SaintLooey1,

We won’t go through the odd admixture of jobs that got me through the first part of life and grad school. I was a consultant in human health risk analysis related to low-dose, long-term exposure to environmental contaminants. I’ve provided expert witness testimony on the subject in the US and the UK. (BTW, you know what a consultant is, don’t you? He’s a guy who knows 1,000 different ways to make love to a woman. His only problem is he doesn’t know any women.)

I worked with and eventually led an interdisciplinary group of scientists that consulted to industry, the military, and law firms. I used to call what we did environmental plea bargaining because we often found ourselves trying to find a way to balance environmental concerns with economic ones. It’s one thing for Green Peace (and I’m not opposed to their goals in principle) to say “not one molecule” and quite another to go into a town of 10,000 and try to find a way to keep a place that employs 500 of them from being closed while ensuring that the neighbors of and workers at that facility aren’t exposed to unacceptable risk. Those guys weren’t being offered golden parachutes and no headhunters were calling with six-figure relocation packages to…well, San Francisco

By: richwizl

richwizl — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 22:25:30 +0000

Any team that beats the bag out of the Yankees is all right with me. Go Tigers!

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:45:46 +0000

Confession:
I sometimes take sips of my Wife’s fufu coffee when nonone is looking.
Nice picture by the way! If only I could figure out how to do it…we would be set.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:44:18 +0000

Does it help or hurt that I like Pierzynski too…and hate Chipper?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:42:45 +0000

I don’t know if I could bring myself to call someone of Joe West douche though. That’s pretty cold.

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:39:39 +0000

Wonderful post Phil.
Since you are a “self proclaimed democratic socialist” I am going to nominate you as Paul Ryans running mate in 2016. You talk about crossing party lines!
In all seriousness…great post. You are dead on.
Curious about something:
What do/did you do for a living?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:39:38 +0000

Well, if you *have* to have it that way, then yes, you aren’t a coffee person — but I do like the sugary foamy stuff at times too.

By: dprat

dprat — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:36:47 +0000

twentyofive was, I think, hoping for something similar to this:

http://www.interpretationbydesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/IBD_baseball_flowchart.jpg

…only tailored for World Series purposes.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:36:36 +0000

Technically, if the Tigers win a game in SF, they will have won without a DH…

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:34:47 +0000

southern socialists, woot!

By: cur68

cur68 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:29:03 +0000

Hey, there’s Joe West Douche, ladies. That’s the worst kind of douche there can be…if we’re talking on field, officiating demographic, that is…man there’s more to being douchey than meets the eye.

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:28:45 +0000

I’m surprised you didn’t go for “Hunter Pence’s Broken Bat”

By: indaburg

indaburg — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:21:06 +0000

Wouldn’t it be faster to just take the hot pocket, dump it directly in the toilet, and flush? (Source: Jim Gaffigan)

By: 49erscott

49erscott — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:15:04 +0000

I meant mamas basement not Kansas. and yes hot pockets are delicious.

By: gmenfan1982

gmenfan1982 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:02:57 +0000

As a Yankee fan I say Go Giants!

By: schmedley69

schmedley69 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:55:12 +0000

Yes, exactly. That was the dream life for sure. Great show.

By: Hunter Pence's Eyes

Hunter Pence's Eyes — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:47:08 +0000

IIINTEEEENNNNSSSE!!!!!!

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:44:18 +0000

4:40: I gotta’ admit something. After reading your post for about the 15th time today I had to give you a thumbs up. Initially, I didn’t find it funny. But after continually seeing it all day…funny shit man.
Really? A flowchart?

By: stlouis1baseball

stlouis1baseball — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:41:48 +0000

Point taken Philiac. Not a huge starbucks fan either. There regular coffee does grow on you though.
I have just always found it sort of funny when dudes fufu up their coffee to make it taste better.
If you don’t like coffee…just don’t drink it. Get tea…pop/soda…water…hot chocolate…whatever.
I mean…if you have to have fufu coffee you must not be a coffee person. Amiright?

By: indaburg

indaburg — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:40:50 +0000

Deal. Now we just have to kidnap Bud Selig and convince him, third world country style, that this is in baseball’s best interest.

By: philsieg

philsieg — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:39:08 +0000

Scott, I’m the poster that referred to him as a half-wit for his bigoted and stupid comment. I’m a 64-year-old white Southern male who, though well traveled (including lovely San Fran many times), has lived all but 10 of those years in the South. I’m an atheist who has self-identified as a democratic socialist for over four decades. I tell you all this because, well, youneverknow,as Joaquin Andujar used to say.

Your comment about Kansas, basements and hot pockets is in the same league as the original poster’s. it’s stereotyping, too. You do yourself, as well as all the rest of us who objected to the original post, no favors when you pick up that broad brush. So stop it.