Well, OK, maybe just one of them who has a blog, anyway.
You know, whenever something like Lackey being ejected after two pitches happen, you expect one thing to happen. The fans will polarize around their team being absolutely rock solid in their opinions on the matter. You expect Rangers fans to say that it was the right call, and you expect Angels fans to scream bloody murder. I didn’t quite expect this.
A guy with the nickname of “Rev Halofan” seems to put Randy Galloway to shame, and that’s an impressive feat. First off, he leads off his story on the game with this:
The Texas Rangers play in the nation’s 4th largest media market and it is obvious that MLB wants to get the ratings going to bring in baseball dollars amidst Footballville. They have the umps completely getting in the way of player’s establishing their game and a first inning ejection of John Lackey was the most obvious indicator that baseball intends to hand a mediocre organization a competitive edge thru treachery in order to more firmly take on the NFL deep in the heart of Texas.
OK, that’s mostly mild. Although thinking that MLB wants to hand a title to the Rangers is fairly dumb, it’s a pretty harmless statement, you can let it ride. But then you get into some of the quotes on his comments page, and wow. Who gave this guy a blog?
I heard a rumor that the Rangers players put vaseline on all the toilet seats in the Angels locker room this morning. Lackey likes to read a chapter of Lord of the Rings son the crapper before each start and today he slipped on the seat and fell on his ass and it ruined his pregame ritual. Lay off the practical jokes, Rangers, don’t you guys have girlfriends to occupy you spare time, or are all Texan women too crazy to date?
Mature? When the Rangers come to Anaheim and there is SARAN WRAP across the toilet bowls, your players are really going to regret it. Imagine how poorly Hank Blalock will play if he is interrupted reading his pregame Shakespeare Sonnet on the john.
Most of that thread is actually well thought out comments (inlcuding the graphic showing the strike zone and pitches thrown), but the guy running it.. That’s just stupid. Even his own users are calling him out, that’s fairly amusing, like this one from user “suboptimal”..
I get as angry as anyone about shit games like today’s. It was a shit game. The Angels lost, I’m mad at the officiating, and Vicente Padilla is not that good. But there’s a line between being angry about losing and just being angry at the other team, at their fans, even at the people who happen to live in the area. Even if this stuff isn’t to be taken seriously, it still strikes me as a little below the belt.
And this one by Red114, which I can only say “What bloody team are you talking about? Only the Yankees act like that. Or the Dallas Cowboys. Not the Texas Rangers”:
These fools were celebrating the division title in May
My friend and I used to play a baseball video game in our college dorm room all the time. Whenever something radical happened (the broadcasters made a totally off the wall comment, Giambi attempted to steal home, etc.) we would just go silent for a little while and then he’d chime in with “well that’s baseball.”
In terms of the comments and the Lackey and the chaos, well that’s baseball.