I Hate the NL West
Maybe I’m just annoyed with how the weekend series has gone so far. Maybe it’s because it seems like Todd Helton hits .800 against the Cubs. Maybe it’s because such piles of shit as Neifi Perez, Aaron Miles, Shawn Estes, and Dusty Baker have associations with NL West teams. Maybe it’s because of the outcome of the last two Cub postseason series against the Diamondbacks and Dodgers. Or the 1989 postseason. Or the 1984 postseason. But one thing is certain. I absolutely hate the NL West.
Two transplanted teams, three expansion teams, a park so lively that they have to soak their balls to keep them from flying all over the place, and a park so dead it actually made Woody Williams look competent. How about the wonderful 2005 NL West, which was won by a terrible 82-80 Padres team? Brian Giles was the only guy in that lineup who OPSed over .800, and he didn’t even slug .500 in doing so. No other team in the West finished over .500 that year. Sure, the NL Central is basically a tickle fight this year, BUT AT LEAST WE DON’T WEAR SHORTS YEAR-ROUND!
I get about as excited for a game against the Diamondbacks as I might for a game against the Mariners. Dodgers fans don’t realize there’s a first, second, eighth, and ninth inning, people in Denver didn’t even know they had a baseball team until the last month of the 2007 season, and the Diamondbacks fans that aren’t swimming around in the outfield are rooting for the Cubs. I’m sick of the Giants’ organic egg colored uniforms and the Padres’ idiotic camouflage alternate jerseys. Oh, and Matt Holliday did NOT touch the plate, as if anyone cared. How can one fail to outsmart Michael Barrett?
Finally, remember how long people were telling us that Sean Burroughs was awesome? Ugh.
Screw you, NL West.
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Ah, Sean Burroughs. Good times.
In my ongoing quest to avoid your fisking, I’m now hiding the inbox!
http://muskat.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/08/87_time_out.html
You left out the West Coast road trip in ’69 that was the beginning of the end.
On the brighter side, BK, if you say “D-Back’s” five times quickly, it does begin to sound like “D-Bag’s”. The glass IS half full. BTW, did you know (of course you do) that this year mark’s Tommy Lasorda’s 60th year with the Dodger’s organization? He made sure to tell everyone about 600 times during the 3 minutes he was in the press box for the stretch last season. If someone has the audio of that PLEASE share, it was unbelievable. I wanted to beat him with a pillow case full of 12oz Ultra Slim Fast’s while screaming, “you are NOT Mike Piazza’s grandfather!”
After watching the big, steaming pile that was the Cubs this weekend, I hate everything about baseball. Except Bob Brenly, whose sarcasm on Friday (after Soriano loafed it down to first late in the game when he should have been standing on second) grew to outright contempt Saturday (when Milton Bradley and Ryan Theriot nearly jogged their way out of a run). Brenly capped it off with his “failed wakeup call” comentary on Sunday as the Cubs bungled their way through an error-laden first inning behind Randy Wells.
I hate the Cubs.
Naturally, I’ll be watching tonight.
Padres, my Padres – always doomed to be on the cusp (or not) of success. Always doomed to have the ‘Star of Tomorrow’ until he gets traded or sinks into obscurity, unable to hit the curveball.
Ugh, the NL West. Not even the NL East has as many pretend fanbases. If the Diamondbacks winning the World Series and the Padres and Rockies both making it in the last 12 seasons while the Cubs’ only close shave was broken by yet another expansion team isn’t proof that God is not a Cubs fan, I don’t know what is.
BF,
Sour grapes does not become thee, methinks – the fans are real, but our stadium doesn’t smell of wino pee, so in that there’s a ‘pretend’ stadium. Of course, the last two times the Pads made the postseason they were swept by the Cardinals (and also being swept by the Yankees in the ’98 WS).
We have ten more road games with the NL West this season. Four of those at Dodger Stadium. Balls.
The 2006 west coast road trip was some of the worst baseball I’ve ever seen.
I think we’re going to give that memory a run for its money this season, JDNoce…
@JDNoce –
agreed. but this year’s road trip to st. louis and san diego is pretty close.
Some other annoying shit about the Giants includes:
Female announcer
Having 6 yr old kids announce batters
Having that idiotic sign “Its a ballpark. Its a work of art. Its a ballpark. Its a work of art.Its a ballpark. Its a work of art……”
Having Free WiFi in the stadium so people can check email, surf the net…WTF!?!
What a miserable place that is
you are an ignorant baseball fan. the rockies and d-backs put together dont even come close to the cubs salary or market, yet they continuosly do better. the cubs can suck my peter bc they have the biggestr band wagon following ever. oh yea, im sooo glad espn and baseball tonight let every viewer know exactly whats happening every ionning of the cubs pathetic seasons. good luck making it to a woeld series. bless the curse
If you read any part of the site other than just popping in and commenting on one article, you’d know that I hate most Cubs fans as much or more than any other fans.