I Can Finally Rest For The Winter

by Kernel on Oct 20, 2008 7:29 AM PDT

I had resolved not to watch any more baseball this season, and for a while, my resolution held. But with the Red Sox, the stupid red-legged, navy-capped New England Master of Clutch clawing their way back ( a feat I grudgingly had to tip my cap to), I knew that I'd have to watch last night's game. I saw the BoSox threaten the Rays bullpen time and time again, and each time, instead of breaking through as they did against my Angels, Tampa Bay came through with the stop. And with David Price playing the role of the rookie phenom that K-Rod played to such perfection in the 2002 postseason, my night ended watching those in red nad navy trudging down the hallway to spend a long fall and winter wondering how they could come bac, play so hard, all for naught, and watching the boys in blue and white dogpile like I've never seen before.

The Phillies and the Rays are both clubs that have played hard and won against all odds at times this season, and both franchises (and one city) are starved for championships to bring them back to legitimacy. The Rays are looking like a dynasty in the making, even if they don't win the championship this year, and may soon be hated as much as the Red Sox and Yankees are by non-fans of those clubs, but for now, all I can say to Halo scion Joe Maddon is thank you.Thanks, Joe, for managing to hammer that final nail into the Red Sox coffin.

It wasn't intentional, merely a by-product of your success, but thanks for avenging the Angels, who couldn't avenge their own past and continaully choked away games in the ALDS. The Angels, who secured home-field advantage by winning a franchise-best 100 games before losing both home games and stumbling to a mistake-filled end, who left runners on bases without so much as a "bon voyage" while watching strikes slide past them and swinging like amateurs at big curves.

The Angels couldn't do it, not this year anyway, but at least SOMEONE could.

This baseball fan, heart-broken not so long ago, can finally rest and enjoy the off-season, free from reading the sports pages every night, until next spring. The Red Sox are dead. Long live the Rays.

For now, at least.

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I'm right there with you...

but the Rays will never be hated as much as the Red Sox or Yankees. They will be hated as much as the Twins (which isn’t really hated at all), with their hustle, aggressiveness, low payroll, good coaching, and good farm system.

If the Red Sox and Dodgers play for the World Series, I will not watch a single minute of a single game.

by NoDakHalo on Oct 20, 2008 8:07 AM PDT reply actions

Ding, dong!

I feel like the lollipop guild should start climbing out of their hiding places and start singing a song or something.

"I've got more action than my man John Woo
And I've got mad hits like I was Rod Carew" - Shure Shot, The Beastie Boys

by Zoe Necrosis on Oct 20, 2008 9:02 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

...and then have Randy Newman start singing too...

“short people got no reason to
short people got no reason to live…”

by sothball on Oct 20, 2008 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions

Last night's game restored my ability to continue watching baseball into the future

and it also saved me from having my own Wikipedia page, for had the Rays lost, I likely would have gone out in a blaze of gunfire, perched atop the Citgo sign towering over the Green Monster.

I pray you merciful individuals of HH would have at least edited my entry to be more sympathetic to my plight.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Oct 20, 2008 10:36 AM PDT reply actions

Do you work in a post office?

;)

by Downing Rules on Oct 20, 2008 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions

Even more tedious

I spent the day transcribing every single bit of dialogue, verbatim, from 4 hours of DVDs. I got about half-way through.

by Caseys Kiss of Death on Oct 20, 2008 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions

If last night's game was the only post season game you watched,

then you missed a lot of exciting, awesome baseball games. I wish the Angels were still in it, but on the other hand, it allows you to relax and watch without the tension you would have if they were playing. I was on the edge of my seat as the Rays lost the seven run lead to the Sox in Fenway but was able to laugh when it was over because of the ridiculousness of it. I was glad it was’nt the Angels that did that. I don’t know how I would have survived that as a fan.

Recipient of the 2008 "The Iron Man" award from scottnak of Halos Heaven!

by 44FAN on Oct 20, 2008 1:35 PM PDT reply actions