InvaderRam wrote:

maybe he’s got the same enzyme deficiency that goff has.

Somebody should ask him where the sun rises.

Billy_T wrote:

Willie Mays. I can’t even imagine why anyone would root against him. :>)

Well, as a Dodgers fan, I hated Marichal for the Roseboro thing that happened before I was old enough to know anything. And McCovey because he was on the Giants.

But…Mays. Willie Mays was different. He was Superman. I didn’t wish him well, exactly, but he was one of those guys on the enemy team that transcended the uniform. Nobody hated Willie Mays. Not possible, I don’t think. But I am haunted by a Willie Mays memory to this day. I remember when Willie Mays came back to play in Candlestick at the end of his career. He was with the Mets. I was at a Sunday afternoon game, and I remember Mays was a baserunner, and he rounded 3rd and just tripped and did a face plant. It was one of the least athletic things I ever saw a professional athlete do. The great Willie Mays just eating turf for no damn reason. It made me so sad. It kills me to watch great players hang on to play a couple years too long.

Hey, look!

Here’s a picture of a QB the Detroit Lions dumped standing next to the greatest pitcher since Sandy Koufax.

I wonder how many times in his career Vin Scully mentioned Farmer Johns.

I can still hear it spoken with that old Vinny lilt.

I used to take my dad’s transistor radio into the backyard in the evenings to listen to games (I could only pick up the LA station at night, and in the deep summer, I’d always miss the first 2 or 3 innings because of that). We didn’t have Farmer John hot dogs in Chico when I was a kid. I didn’t ever eat one until I went to a game in Dodgers stadium.

Hram wrote:

I think it’s more likely Desean Jackson only has one season with them.

^^^^^^^^^^^

Yeah. Agree.

So the term “gadget” is not one that warms my heart in the second round. He better offer more than that. Gadget guys work, like, four times in their short careers.

joemad wrote:

just curious……if the almighty struck the 89 Series with an earthquake, which is not uncommon in the great state of California, who struck the 2020 series with a deadly global pandemic to award a 43 win team a bogus *****championship*******?

Oh, P’shaw.

That’s Fake News. Clearly you are getting fed a bunch of nonsense by rags like the SF Chronicle and the SJ Mercury News, and that conspiracy-riddled radio station KNBR.

As all patriots know, the pandemic took hold before the baseball season even started, and was thus not a response to the Dodgers presence in the World Series, but some kind of Satanic attempt to prevent the Best Team in Baseball from inevitably winning the World Series.

Furthermore, far from being a bogus championship, the road to World Series Victory was a more difficult challenge than ever before in the history of the game. Playoffs were expanded to include Four rounds and 16 teams, including a best-of-three series to start it off. And all True Baseball fans knows that even the worst team in baseball is capable of beating the best team in baseball in a two-out-of-three series. That kind of thing happens several times a year. Then…every game after that was played ON THE ROAD, so there was never any homefield advantage for the Best Team in Baseball. Nor were there any days off during each round. Granted that applies to all teams, but it makes the road more difficult.

So, basically, all right-minded fans know that the Dodgers won the most difficult World Series ever played.

TSRF wrote:

My bad. What I meant is THE Satan loves the Red Sox; A Satan (probably one of the intern Satan’s or maybe just a Wood Nymph) loves the Giants. Humans fall for the lesser demons all the time, so no shame on you. It is a well known fact that THE Satan only watches AL East baseball, unless the Blue Jays are doing OK, then he channel surfs, but just between the game and reruns of “Hogan’s Heroes”.

I don’t recall the Almighty striking New England during a Yankees/Red Sox series. His divine wrath was CLEARLY evident when the Giants and A’s played in the World Series in 89. Devastating earthquake hits the SF bay area. It’s really pretty clear.

So maybe Satan roots for the Red Sox. But God truly hates the Giants and A’s. And bleeds Dodgers’ blue, as everybody knows.

TSRF wrote:

I’m going for my 2nd Pfizer shot today. My wife had her 2nd Moderna last week, and she had bad upper body pains, a headache and a fever for 2 days.

By the way Zooey, you’re wrong on who Satan’s team is. If Satan wore socks, what color would they be? Red, or course. I rest my case.

You’re not disputing my relationship with Satan, are you? Believe me, I know his mind on sports issues.

joemad wrote:

There is still time for you to find redemption in the Dodgers’ red, white, and blue.

LAD 14-4, very impressive…. we’re only in April and they’re at 32% of their 43 win total from last year

43 fucking wins for Kershaw to finally get his ring….what a joke. That’s a high school season.

Let’s just hope that Kershaw’s childhood buddy doesn’t also need a reduced season to win a championship, because like Kershaw he was a big choker in Detroit in meaningful games.

2020 WS ASTERISK*************

If it’s so easy to win a reduced season, how come the Giants didn’t win it?

zn wrote:

Zooey wrote:

When I saw the title of your post, I thought you were talking about Corona beer. LOL.

Anecdotally, it seems to me that Moderna 2nd dose is the one that knocks people over.

I got Pfizer and… shoulder/neck muscle aches on the 2nd shot.

Sorry about that, but the Giants are Satan’s team. You can tell by their colors.

There is still time for you to find redemption in the Dodgers’ red, white, and blue.

Hey JM thanks for the update and story. Sorry you suffered from shot 2.

My wife got Pfizer and was nauseous for 2 days after shot 2.

I got Moderna and basically had no side effects after shot 2. I think there was a little bit of feeling worn down but nothing bad or even inconvenient.

So a lot of this is personal to our own biologies I guess.

Hey JM, notice that zn (The Contrarian) did not dispute my claim that the Giants are Satan’s team.

InvaderRam wrote:

Zooey wrote:

And white folks posting, “I can breathe.”

i can’t believe i’m actually going to defend mark davis a billionaire…

but reading the explanation of why he tweeted that. i can understand it. he was echoing the words of george floyd’s brother philonise who apparently said, “we can all breathe again.”

so i can understand why he said it and am not completely aghast. yes. he should know the history behind those words and at least admitted he understood why people would be offended when it was explained to him.

but yeah. i agree. how many times has this happened and it wasn’t filmed?

I know it is said with good intentions. But it’s a bad look when the people who are saying it never have to worry about breathing. That’s for starters. The second thing is that the phrase has a history. It was used by pro-police groups in response to guys like LeBron James wearing “I Can’t Breathe” on t-shirts in warmups after Erik Garner uttered the same goddamn phrase when he was killed for selling loosies. So it is literally a pro-fuck-black-people phrase.

And, again, I know every single white guy who said it, including Mark Davis, meant well, and I don’t even have the slightest doubts about Mark Davis because his dad, Al, and the Raiders organization, have about as sterling a record as any sports franchise I can think of. And Floyd’s family even came out and endorsed the Raiders tweet.

I just would personally be mortified to find out that it was a phrase used by racists, and I would apologize, and take it down. But I’m not outraged by it, don’t get me wrong. Just think it’s a bad look, and kind of shake my head, knowing that it’s going to stir up a bit of momentary resentment in the black community.

Oh, my god.

zn wrote:

Adam Schefter@AdamSchefter
Alex Smith announced he is retiring

Remember how the 49ers drafted Smith #1 overall, and left local boy Aaron Rodgers for someone else to draft?

I’d like to see similar results from this year’s draft.