Grrrrrrrrrr
by matt at 12:00 am on October 21st, 2004 in EntertainmentSpeaking for myself and possibly the other four remaining viewers of The West Wing, What. The. Fuck?
The ER-ification that began last season continued in the season premiere last night, but now it seems John Wells and his staff are writing with their elbows while gleaning material from right-wing blogs.
Biggest fall from grace ever.
And while I’m already ranting, if the Enron Astros manage a win tonight and set up a Texas - Taxachussetts World Series, I’m moving to Cameroon before the election rather than after.
There’s no way I can endure Tweety, Little Russ, Fucker Carlson, all the other clueless pundits, and the candidates themselves making horrible jokes about fate and the electoral process. Worse yet, they’ll try to use the scores of the games to predict the outcome of the election.
Kill me now.
I can sum up why baseball is a stupid sport in one line:
Changing pitchers with two outs in the bottom of the ninth while holding a 7 run lead.
Go ahead, tell me how much I hate America.
Martin Ferrini wrote:
Are you sure you’re not just a Yankees fan feeling the oh so infrequent agony of defeat? If you must dis my home team on the eve of perhaps their greatest triumph and at the very least, a miraculous and unprecedented playoff series between the most intense and legendarily rivalrous two teams in American sports, try coming up with something more, oh I don’t know… relavent to this decade. “Taxachusetts” ? Please…
Also, it may seem stupid, but managers sometimes change pitchers to “save their arms” for future games and to psychologically keep the opposing team off balance. It’s one part of the intricate strategy that actually makes baseball so compelling to statisticians and fans alike. If you loved your country, you’d understand…
Posted 21 Oct 2004 at 1:01 am ¶
Bol wrote:
Well, I’m glad somebody said it. Matt should just feel lucky he’s not actually in one of the cities that has a chance at making the series. The level of flag waving around here is enough to make you just want to go hide somewhere until it’s all over with. Seriously, I think 9/11 might’ve had something to do with it, because it was never this bad before in the past.
Posted 21 Oct 2004 at 3:25 am ¶
andy wrote:
I got your back, Matt. I have loathed baseball for many years. I guess it doesnt help much though that the Pirates are the local team.
Posted 21 Oct 2004 at 5:52 am ¶
tom wrote:
bradford, you dont like baseball because youre an idiot. matt, i didnt even think of the mass-tex matchup at all, too strange. anyway, i would like to see that matchup so the sox can whoop on clemens, or vice versa. either way, this has been some of the best baseball ive ever seen. i cant remember a post season anywhere close to this.
and as for the switching pitchers with one out left in the bottom of the ninth, it would make much more sense if youd watched the previous games where the game was tied and or won in the ninth inning. with two teams with offenses like they have, no lead is big enough.
Posted 21 Oct 2004 at 7:43 am ¶
Jason wrote:
I think it’s really funny that, just because Matt wrote this post, he must automatically be some sort of disenfranchised Yankees fan. Hilarious.
American pastime or not, there are some people who just don’t give a fuck. Amazing, but true!
Posted 21 Oct 2004 at 9:16 am ¶
jamie beth wrote:
jason, you beat me to it. the concept of matt as a yankee fan is a trip! in fact, the concept of matt watching baseball, let alone, the yankees, is just too much!
poor, poor, Martin. you have been so beat up by your own team that you assume everyone is out to get you. matt’s sister and brother-in-law (that would be me and my husband) are dedicated mets fans/yankee haters and matt’s cousins are boston residents. we’re on your side. and if matt gave a damn about any of it, he’d be on your side too. or i’d beat him up.
Posted 21 Oct 2004 at 10:18 am ¶
optimus wrote:
so, i’m, uh, the only one who thought the west wing last night wasn’t all that bad?
sure, there were all sorts of things, those.. uh.. those things that fill in the time between the politics. the.. uh… oh, right. human storylines. those. blecch.
but come on, the rest wasn’t bad. no?
Posted 21 Oct 2004 at 12:01 pm ¶
Martin Ferrini wrote:
Poor, Poor Jamie. You take yourself so seriously that you don’t know rhetorical license when you see it. Or snark for that matter. Here’s a leg up. I didn’t literally mean the comment at the end “If you loved your country, you’d understand…” either.
Look, I am from Boston, but I really just love an underdog (maybe it’s partially why I was pulling for Kerry to run since the Supremes handed the presidency to the draft dodging cheerleader!). Sure I howled when Buckner blew the Series in ‘86, but I’ve been able to move on with my life thanks to a wonderful therapist and the loving support of my family and friends…
Excuse me, I’ve got to go make another tin foil helmet.
Posted 23 Oct 2004 at 11:04 pm ¶