Also Cubs parted ways with Sveum

Where is Keith to blather about this Ray's team?

Twins gave Ron Gardenhire a 2-year extension.

Which Ray? Ray King? Ray Romano? Rayman?

No idea how that icon ended up in/on that post, but it fits I guess.

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Today is the official Pittsburgh Pirate BLACKOUT day! If you are going to or watching the game wear black in support of the Bucs!


Wild Card Day #1 = biggest day of the year for me this year. (sad?)


Enjoy the game everyone!

I'm a Reds fan before a Bucs fan. Not that I'm a Reds fan. Know what I'm saying?

Have a blast

Thanks Hero, you as well

A's/Pirates World Series. I can taste Selig's tears.

Yes, Ray King is quite the icon.

What Shisen said.

A wonderfully fat pitcher

Remember when you were a Reds fan last year

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I have been a die hard Pirates fan since the early 1980's. I also support the Reds and Indians (being the other "home turf" teams).

I have seen 1 game in Cleveland and have never visited the Reds Great American Ballpark. I have been to Three Rivers Stadium over 15 times and PNC Park about 15 already.

I will support the Reds when the Pirates are doing awful (aka last year and the previous 20) but when it comes down to it..at the end of the day....The Pirates were my first and most important love.


It's not a bad thing to support more than 1 team especially when your "real" favorite team is on a 20 year skid.....


To answer you in short..yes I remember when I was a Reds fan last year :D

If I ONLY watched or cared about the Pirates I would have shot myself a decade ago.

I think the Rockies are why I love the Broncos so much.

PNC Park looks amazing. This Blackout is beyond words right now.

Damn straight.

Also apparently the part of the Cincinnati Reds is being played by the Marx Brothers tonight LOLOLOLOL

Best part of the night so far was the crowd chanting "Cue-to" him promptly dropping the ball on the rubber then giving up a Home Run. You can't write stuff like that. lol

Nothing like making a guy pitch against a few thousand people to shake him up. :D

I am so happy. I just don't know what to do with my hands. LOL I just have no idea what's going on.

The Cubs have contacted AJ Hinch about their managerial opening after canning Dale Sveum this week.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :'(

I'm so drunk and my dick is so hard for my pirates.

Congrats to the Pirates.

Awesome game, got to watch it with my friend who is a long suffering fan and had the best night of baseball in his life thus far. Plus, who knew Michael Keaton was a Pirates fan?

That was gay. Dusty Baker is a stupid. Everybody is a stupid.

Rooting order:
A's
Indians
Tigers
Rays
Pirates I guess

Boo everyone else

Pretty much have to root for the Pirates in the NL. Everybody else is annoying.

I don't see how a person can logically root for Indians and Tigers...especially in order!?

A's
Indians
Pirates
Braves
Sox maybe

My hunch is we are going to have Dodgers vs Red Sox in the WS.....Just a hunch...

come on A's/Rays/Pirates/Cardinals

Rooting Order:
Pirates
A's
Braves
Cardinals
Boston
Dodgers
Detroit
Tampa/Cleveland

Red Sox
Tigers
Pirates
Indians
A's
Dodgers
Cardinals
Rays
Braves

I know man. It's as crazy as rooting for the Pirates and the Reds at the same time.

What do I care if they're rivals? I'm rooting for teams now based on things I like about a team.

Those things being they aren't the Pirates or Cardinals?

Rooting Order:
Red Sox
Braves
Pirates
Indians
A's
Tigers
Cardinals
Dodgers
Rays

Rooting Order:
Tigers
you're all faggots

you got to be kidding me? The Pirates had won what...50 games last year? So what if come the post season I threw my support to Cinci!? That's a little different than supporting 2 teams that have been going head to head ALL SEASON....THIS season....

Alot of storylines this offseason.

Billy Beane can prove the critics and naysayers wrong and prove Moneyball works.

Indians can snap the 2nd longest World Series title drought.

Pirates can ride their 1st winning season in 21 years all the way to the end.

Too many teams to get behind.

lol

Most disingenuous, inaccurate and misleading film ever.

I don't see the issue here. I don't care about their rivalry at all. It means nothing to me. I like the teams in that order for various personal reasons so I listed the teams in order that I liked this season. I don't have a stake in any of this.

Pirates have more Canadians on their team (I think) than any other playoff team. So I'll cheer for them.

I don't know or really care

I lurk on a Braves fan website, and they've been detailing all the pathetic Braves post-season losses just for fun, because who doesn't love laughing at the past I guess. This gem came up today:

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Baseball players choosing the right walk up music truly is an art form.

Trot Nixon came out to Triple H's All about the Game.

Barely knew the playoffs started

Wild-card game is barely the playoffs.

We're going to Boston, baby.

Light up the disco ball in the dugout, dudes. The party's about to start.

Keith is finally out of hiding since "his Rays" are in the playoffs.

I say again: Rays fans are a disgrace.

Check how much I've posted on here lately, dude.


There's life away from the internet, you know.

Lol

<font color=goldenrod>Well now that we're down to the final 8, super quick predictions:

DS
-Cardinals over Pirates
-Dodgers over Braves
-Red Sox over Rays
-Athletics over Tigers

CS
-Cardinals over Dodgers
-Athletics over Red Sox

WS
-Cardinals over Athletics</font>

Just as long as the Tigers choke again

Although I hope the Rays bomb the Red Sox like they are a Chechen

Cards are fucking overrated

Man the Indians didn't even put up a fight last night :(

Rooting interest:Fuck yourselves

But seriously, I'd like to see the Pirates go far. Fanbase deserves it.

Read a report that says A-Rod was duped into taking steroids.

Awesome, you can't make this stuff up.

Braves-Pirates NLCS would be amazing. Let's put Barry Bonds and Sid Bream back on the rosters too, while we're at it.

I think at this point A-Rod has reached OwenBrown status....the point where he realized he is hated and can't sink any lower so he has nothing left to lose.

NOOOOO 1992 all over again :(

fuck you sid bream

Rooting interests

Braves
Pirates
A's
Tigers
Red Sox
Rays (bunch of dicks for eliminating Texas AND Cleveland. :'()
Cardinals
Dodgers

Kinda would like to see Donnie Baseball finally get a World Series ring, even with another team.

well then, where the fuck is MY $300 million contract at?! :rant:

I would share the wealth if that was a trait of mine good sir.

PBurgh was spent today.

I don't even wanna talk about it

1 comment: it may be time for AJ to hang it up.

When AJ is on, he's really on, when AJ is off hes REALLY off. This is what all my Yankee friends were warning me about. Tomorrow's Game will pretty much determine how this series plays out.

Dusty Baker out in Cinci.

kewl

Spot on really. In 2009 on the WS run, he was amazing, going 8 and allowing only a couple hits and a run. Then he can last 2 1/3 giving up 7.

Fuck wish I'd taken today off work. Quadruple playoff baseball header! And I'm stuck dicking about. At least I'll be able to catch the Dodgers and Tigers games. Could prolly listen to the other 2 on radio, but work has been "cracking down" on people listening to music etc in the plant so I'd be a huge ass heel listening to baseball in my office while they get nothin'

Heel it up!

Was surprised about Dusty Baker at first, but upon further reflection, the 'Natti have been underachievers the past few years. Perhaps it was time.

1. Dusty Baker has always been a lazy one trick pony. He is too old school and relies on the same line ups and the same players to perform....he doesn't know how to adjust the way other managers aka Clint Hurdle can.


2. Garrett Cole .....should have started yesterday.

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, A-Rod is suing MLB and Buddy Boy for pretty much anything you can think of. Damaged reputation, buying out Bosch's cooperation, loss of #millionsofdollars in pay, collusion, etc.

Strangely or shockingly, the New York Yankees were not named in the suit.

and the bullshit slide into brown-dom is complete :(

Makes sense considering MLB didn't allow the Yankees (or any other team) to get dragged into the clinic mess in case lawsuits actually happened. Also no way A-Rod was going to risk tossing the Yanks under the bus considering he still needs them in case he somehow wins his appeal and already made them upset with the earlier rehab stuff.

If we can't locate Vito Cruz it is because he has downed copious amounts of sleeping pills and is waiting for the end in a bathtub. Matt Harvey missing 2014

Credgar, odds Girardi leaves the Yanks? Reports from Chicago are "He wants to and the Cubs want him" while reports out of the NY are saying "Why would he want to leave, his family likes it here and he has no intention of doing so."

<font color=goldenrod>It's really disappointing. However, it was probably the right move. In all probability, his elbow would have been a ticking time bomb. Any time he felt the slightest pain, there would've been concern that the elbow had gotten worse. Each pitch could have been the one that blew out his arm. Hopefully when he returns in 2015 he'll go back to being amazing.

On the downside, this does leave the Mets with another hole to fill in their rotation this offseason. Some of the flexibility they had with their pitching depth in the minors is gone. I really hope Alderson doesn't think "welp, we can't win in 2014 now" and back down on his word to finally start spending some money. I can't even fathom how disheartening it would be to see the Mets punt for the 4th offseason in a row and arrive in Spring Training in February with basically the same roster they have now.</font>

:D Lester was great today. Red Sox up 1-0.

I give it 66% chance he leaves for ChiTown(maybe even the 'Natti). Girardi isn't the right kind of manager for these Yankees.

Best game of the postseason so far. Nailbiter.

$man said he'd up Girardi's pay.

Problem is, IF Girardi bolts, there's really nobody out there that I want to take over as manager. Front office might look inside and interview Tony Pena.

My eyes are on the Angels. See if Moreno fires Scioscia, then I want him.

How could one not get excited about Brad Ausmus......?

*crickets*

Need to get Ozzie Guillen in pinstripes.

Love Brad Ausmus

The New Mo!

poop

Sox in 3 in that pinball machine they dare call a baseball stadium Tropicana Field.

:D Big Papi. Red Sox win again.