Tag: MLB

The 2012 Postseason (baseball)

by Midnight Demon, posted in baseball

Wednesday’s night game against the Skankees was horrible. The Sox couldn’t win and the Skanks didn’t even try to give them the game. After all the Bronx Bombers were after the AL East title. A Sad fact that they have won the last 13 of 17. These overpriced bastards just kill me. I didn’t watch the game from end to end. I stopped watching after Dice K gave up two homers in the same inning, giving the snakes a 5 zip lead. It was really pitiful. The tweet hashtag of the game was #SoLongSox. I am depressed because there is no more games of my favorite teams. I am now watching the other teams because baseball is my favorite sport of all time. I just can’t let it go because the home team is done for the season. I have to see how this ends and who wins the World Series.

Right now I am watching the Braves play the Cards. Braves are losing due to an error by their third baseman. I really don’t want the Cards to win. The Braves have not been to the world series in a long time but this year I am rooting for the Nationals, formerly known as the Montreal Expos. After two years as an American team, the Nats have made it to their first post season since 1933. I would really love for the Nats to play the O’s and for the Nats to win. You have to root for the NL team because the Sox are on the AL league, You can root for any team that plays the Skankees. It is the rule. The saying goes “I have two favorite teams, the _____ and whoever plays the Yankees”.

I am in my element tonight. I have two games tonight and tomorrow I have college football. I usually end up watching football all afternoon and evening. Tomorrow is going to be tough because my two favorite teams, the Buckeyes and the Huskers are playing each other. Who do you root for? Because I have been following the Huskers closer than the Buckeyes, I have to root for Nebraska. Why does this east coast guy root for a Midwest team? Easy. My best college friend is from Nebraska and I got to see them play in 1996 on New Year’s day and was so impressed with them, I just became a fan. Why Ohio? Because I want to go to grad school there. Not like being a fan will make me get into their PhD program, but the Buckeyes have always been winners in my book.

I can see it now…

by Midnight Demon, posted in suicide attempt

The Red Sox have taken the lead and win the World Series…OOPS, wrong season wrong year. That is just a dream. The last game of the abysmal, heartbreaking, disappointing 2012 season will be played tonight, in the Bronx, against the mortal enemy, the New York Skankees. The Cowboys of 2003 are long gone. So are the Idiots of 2004. Sadly there is only one player of the former Red Sox Nation that is now a mortal enemy, Derek Lowe. Yes, Landsdowne Lowe is now in pinstripes. This 2012 season cannot get anymore depressing than that.

So go Orioles, BEAT those overpaid Bronx Bombers and win the World series against the Nationals. Least that is my dream for this year. The postseason will be interesting. The underdogs have risen above and will be playing the final games of the year. I will be depressed but always hopeful. As a faithful of Red Sox Nation, there is always next year.

About baseball

by Midnight Demon, posted in suicide attempt

1-Sept 2012

Last night my favorite baseball team, the red sox, lost horribly to the Oakland A’s. In a combination of bad pitching and former red sox players (they were on the A’s), the A’s beat the crap out of the Sox, 20-2. Now the rest of the world doesn’t know the Sox exist. Even the MLB twitter will only report devastating losses over superb wins with any OTHER team EXCEPT the red sox. It’s like ALL the other teams are more important than the Sox. I have been watching the chatter over the past several weeks and feel this is an injustice. But then I looked at the standings and found that there is one more pitiful team other than the red sox this season,  the Houston Astros. They are currently forty games back, with a 40-92 record!  There are 162 games and this team has managed to lose 92 of them so far. There is still another month of baseball left and football (American)  season starts next week. But as is the case with me, no other sport matters to me as much as baseball. I don’t even recognize the first few games of football no matter how bad the sox are and I keep looking at the MLB’s website to check who is in the post season and wild card games.  Football season to me doesn’t start until the World Series is over, no matter if the sox are in it or not.  The sox might have a chance if they are able to pull it together but under the current management, I doubt it. I cannot stand Bobby Valentine! He just looks and acts like a complete asshole! Instead of words of encouragement , he gives nothing, least what I can see. Least Tito Francona (former Red Sox manager)  always had something positive to say even when someone had the worst outing of their career.

I don’t think there is much hope about a Red Sox post season with the way my beloved sox are playing so far. Yet despite the past 7 losses, I still watch the games, I still keep up with them despite cursing them at every wrong pitch, HR, error, and bad play.  I just can’t help myself.  Like someone said years ago, the sox are like a wife beater. You love them and hate them and keep coming back for more hoping each time that things will be better only for it to stay the same.  These are my SOX and I am a proud member of Red Sox Nation. The world may not think they are great but they are the world to me.