Comments on: Playoff Bloglounge: Announcers, Commenators, and Ads–Oh My!

By: Sue

Sue — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:29:12 +0000

Why don’t we all write/email the MLB to express our displeasure???? I think one local broadcaster from each team should be doing the job during the playoffs so we can get some accurate and interesting comments. And someone please do a makeover on that Sager goof!

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:01:06 +0000

Actually Coley, in previous eras, Jane Austen’s fans included a great many men, such as Walter Scott, perhaps best known as the author of novels dealing with wussy subjects such as Jacobite uprisings and medieval heroes, and Rudyard Kipling (that pansy!) who wrote a short story called “The Janeites” about a group of WWI soldiers (those pussies!) who take solace in Jane’s writing to escape from the atrocities of war. Many Eminent Men of Austen’s day–and many since–have counted themselves among her most devoted fans…and still would, if Colin Firth in a wet shirt wasn’t so threatening to your regrettably constrained sense of heteronormativity.

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By: Coley Ward

Coley Ward — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:44:26 +0000

That’s my whole point. You are woman. And as such, are permitted to read Jane Austen. But Keith Law is a dude, and, I mean, dude? Jane Austen?

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:06:38 +0000

I am woman.

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By: Paul Moro

Paul Moro — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:28:54 +0000

Sarah, you chide Coley for baiting you with that Jane Austen comment. Then you go and bait me into an argument about Jim Rice.

How dare you.

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:06:44 +0000

Oh and also, what was that pocket square I saw on Sager last night? Unless my eyes deceived me, it sported a tiger.

It’s made with real panther. That’s how you know it’s good.

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By: Sarah Green

Sarah Green — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:57:54 +0000

Yeah, the Manny tirade from Rice earlier this year was a bit unlooked-for. But I’m sure Rice will make it into the Hall this year, and then he’ll get his number retired, and everyone will be happy. Except for Nick and Paul.

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By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:07:29 +0000

I also wanted to add – Game 2? – Sager was like Brigham’s Rainbow Sherbet. you could literally put him on a cone (but not lick him – ewwww, thats gross). I was glad Pap sprayed him, but I was actually hoping that he would put him in a headlock, grab his toupee, and run around the field playing keepaway with it. now THAT’S good tv!

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By: Lyndsay

Lyndsay — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:05:17 +0000

Eck gets so excited sometimes (especially when one of the “young kids” pitches a great game) that he can barely complete his sentence before he’s on the next one, which is why I think he’s fun to watch. also, his hair. Jim Rice is just oooooozing bitterness, which is also fun to watch. he was bitter at not being HOF’d, which oozed into bitterness at all the attention Manny gets, and then bitterness over Pesky getting the number retired (which you KNOW pissed him off). watching the escalation of Rice’s bitterness over the course of the season has been almost as fun as My Little Pony’s MVP season.

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By: coley

coley — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:52:45 +0000

Having had more opportunity to listen to Smoltz, I’m gonna go ahead and say he’s my new favorite color analyst. He talks a lot, but he’s always got something interesting to say, and he succeeds in using his experience as a ballplayer to inform his analysis, without talking about himself the whole time.

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