Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?!!?
And now your one-stop source for everything horse racing and Detroit real estate: it’s another edition of the Getting Blanked Podcast! And all October we’ll be talking MLB playoff action in podcastical form, shooting our shit through the ol’ pneumatic tube straight into the guts of the Getting Blanked iTunes page, and right here on the web for your listening enjoyment!
And in a timely-ish manner, to boot!
If you prefer to have a listen later, you can download the podcast right here.
As always (well… usually), Mint Musical Interludes courtesy The Constantines, Arts & Crafts Records, Deathwish Records and Optical Sounds. Be sure to check them out and buy every single fucking thing you hear at their sites.
Some fan is going on the Texas boards and writing:
Apparently Toronto is going through a PR disaster after bending over and giving their manager and coaches to Boston. They are perceived as a joke and a AAAA team who can’t compete with the big boys in MLB. Rogers, the multi-media giant, is the richest owner in sports who are losing another PR was as being the cheapest. They need to do something to change this image and apparently are going to do everything they can do land the big fish this off season. With a contract big enough to scare Texas from taking a risk on troubled Josh, Mr. Hamilton will be taking his talents to the Blue Jays.
GAME THREAT WS 2012 GAME 4 (and perhaps the grand finale but let’s not get ahead of ourselves) the Giants from the city by the bay (aka San Francisco) versus the Tigers from Motor City/Motown (aka Detroit)
San Francisco
CF Pagan, Angel
2B Scutaro, Marco
3B Sandoval, Pablo
C Posey, Buster
RF Pence, Hunter
1B Belt, Brandon
LF Blanco, Gregor
DH Theriot, Ryan
SS Crawford, Brandon
P Cain, Matt
Detroit
CF Jackson, Austin
LF Berry, Quintin
3B Cabrera, Miguel
1B Fielder, Prince
DH Young, Delmon
RF Dirks, Andy
SS Peralta, Jhonny
2B Infante, Omar
C Laird, Gerald 0
P Scherzer, Max
Cmon tigers give Alex some more time for manager interviews.
Thanks DD.
Motown=great memories.
David Ruffin & The Temptations–My Girl & Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
Mary Wells–My Guy
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas–Dancing In The Street & Heatwave
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles–The Tracks Of My Tears
Junior Walker & The All Stars–Shotgun
The Four Tops–Bernadette
Marvin Gaye-I Heard It Through The Grapevine etc. etc. etc.
You’re welcome. A few years ago when I was Christmas shopping the Roots store was selling a “roots of Motown” CD and I have to say I still play the shit out it.
Really off topic but there was a story on CBC news the other night about this guy named Rodriguez who was singing in Detroit during the Motown era but got “lost in the shuffle” as it were. However, activists in South Africa during apartheid discovered him and he was a huge hit in SA. Anyway he’s now 70 and has been discovered in north America and is currently touring. If he hits Ottawa I will definitely go see him.
Here’s the link http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/TV+Shows/The+National/ID/2297291399/
I have always loved motown music. And although Detroit doesn’t spring to mind as a summer vacation spot, my parents used to take us there quite a bit. By train even. Boblo Island. Motown music was everywhere.
So good so far.
Ditto!
Walk, Then Run.
Not a favourite song of mine.
Fearless leader posted a game threat. Only 2 comments, so I guess we’re staying put?
Stay I say. (Just a little bit longer)
Maybe we should post where we are then, pudge72 is all alone
I was wondering what the hell was going on…thanks for finding me karen…you rock.
they say I’m the best!
That’s su-per.
here you go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtuvXrTz8DY
gold
Thanks DD
Jackson’s fine, although I have often thought if I was on his road crew I would’ve found him insufferably self-indulgent.
However, I’m a Dave Clark Five man myself.
I’m in pieces, bits and pieces
I have Running on Empty on my running play list. I think he probably is somewhat self indulgent but he also has the talent.
I mean making them stop shlepping his gear around (that has to get on the road) so he can play princess for a day.
I saw him at the Edm. Folk Festival years ago, backed only by a bassist, and while I’m a dyed in the wool folkie, he had more stage presence/gravitas than anyone else. He has the royal jelly. Remember The Velvet Underground & Nico? He, as a 16 year old, wrote two of her songs on he own 1967 album, one being “These Days.”
So it seems this Frankenstein-like half Jays blog/half chat room is going out with a whimper.
we should have offered happy hour
Would you be willing to jump out of a cake?
2.50 for a hi-ball,
And buck and a half for a beer
Happy hour, happy hour
Happy hour is here
perhaps
Ever been called a good sport? (as per “the best”)
Oh Yes!! Tigers! Eat ‘Em Raw!
Hooray for hurricanes! (This seems familiar to me for some reason…)
Don’t overanalyse things until you really get blown away.
Ba dum, bum…
Hey, it’s something to be excited about!
Shit, it’s the FIRST thing in 4 games.
So, will it be Waka, Hale-storm, The Blizzard of Oz, or El Presidente, El Perfecto (oops…wrong Martinez) for Jays manager? Just throwing some nicknames out there to see what, if anything, sticks.
Personally I’ll be happy with any of them, provided that the winner isn’t using us as a stepping stone. It surprises me that a blog that insists that a manager has little real influence is so very concerned. Plus, I (like most others, I suspect) know diddly squat about them. In AA I trust.
Shit on a stick…
The Hurricane giveth…the Hurricane taketh away…
Badda bing, badda boom
Maybe it will be a not-so-grand finale.
Pity.
The Mother Nature giveth and taketh away.
Great minds (or at least punchy ones) think alike! LOL
Can the Giants just fuck off, please?
I can live with the Giants winning yet again, but enduring Parke’s doucebaggery will take it’s toll.
Every game should be played at the outer edge of a hurricane!
You are like a hurricane
There’s calm in your eye.
And I’m gettin’ blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I’m getting blown away.
I am just a dreamer
But you are just a dream
Fuck yes Delmon!
Fuck, why does it feel like the Tigers are losing 3-3?
Wow, it’s almost tied!
I’m doing my best to be cautiously optimistic. (But it’s hard.)
Never so hard as when it concerns believing in Dotel.
That rendition of ‘God Bless America’ would have embarrassed a Little League game.
Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortune-telling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing
He’s getting ready for the show
He’s going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row
I liked the cover by My Chemical Romance. You’d hate it Tater.
Were you smoothing out the wrinkles again?
If only, no, I had a hockey game. Seems like I got here just in time, where’s the cake.
Patience, Smasher. Karen’s still trying to wrap her pretty little head around winning one for the Gipper.
It seems your membership in ‘The Geezerhood’ is suspect! A pair of knees that still allow for that level of mishap places you in the early levels at best. Time is on your side, however.
Lets see what they can do here
or not
Karen, now is the time to jump out of that cake!
We have them on the ropes.
For God and country.
haha, how about you jump out of a cake?
The last time I did anything like that was singing “Jesus Loves Me” in church when I was 10, or so I’ve been told.
Did the Bible tell you so?
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.
I’ve still got the chops!
Coke is still #1. The real thing.
Who ends it for the Tigers?
Get thee behind me, Satan.
We wil prevail!
The prevailing winds almost prevailed there!
This so called Fall Classic has allowd me to realize that sometimes alcohol can’t even make the shittiest things more exciting.
Wiser (and no, that was definitely NOT a pun) word have rarely been spoken. Hence the need for this thingmajig they call DJF.
If it does end tonight, damn those Giants, it’s been fun chatting/getting drunk with you folks this season.
Ditto, Smasher.
It doesn’t have to end.
Do check in when things get interesting.
You won’t be alone.
I’ll show my face.
Your face looks suspiciously like you’re mooning me. Just sayin’.
Same here folks!
I’ve been only a sporadic participant (but longtime lurker) to the clusterfuck of awesomeness that is DJF. It’s always a blast…the fun shall never end! Next major event…our new manager!!
Be there or be square!
This cannot be good.
awww, fucknuts!
God bless thee Mother Mary and Scutaro, end this sorrow that petrifies our souls.
Did you ingest a bad scallop?
I live in a Tsunami zone.
Salami Tsunami?
That’s what happens when you situate yourself on the outer edges of the world. It gets real, good or bad.
Just the way I like it…Real good, real bad and on the edge.
But of course. People that think the world is flat tend to congregate in Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan is an on going Canadian Social experiment designed with the intent of seeing how badly people really want to immigrate to Canada. Apparently the answer is really,really badly.
Which speaks volumes about all of us. Cheers.
Ideas for off season topics of discussion:
- AA’s most Ninja moves (will he top himself by naming himself manager?)
- The optimal length for Colby Rasmus’ hair
- The over/under on the # of Red Bulls that Lawrie will drink in 2013.
- Which position player on the Jays will be the first to be seduced by Dr. James Andrews and get Tommy John Surgery?
- What will the last uninjured body part be on Dustin McGowan?
I thought they froze Dustin McGowan in hopes that future science could rebuild him?
They would have, except the contractor hired to install the cryogenics machinery tore his groin, lost a finger due to frost bite, and – of course – blew out his elbow…requiring Tommy John surgery…while trying to construct and test the lab equipment. He’ll likely end up as a member of the Jays rotation for 2014…the contractor, not McGowan.
Dibbs on any still-functioning Dustin McGowan body parts.
A couple of other topics to add to the original list, on this fine morning:
- Should Joey Bats go Brian Wilson on his beard and just grow that muthafucka out?!
- Shouldn’t (they all) have tagged (all of them) out?
- Jays…Cubs…World Series…who gets there first?
And that ends that, congrats Giants….fuck off 2012 MLB season…Hey Mr. Anthopoulos the WS is over and yoooour up!
Go get em Alex, prove us guys that have been sticking up for you right.
It truly is his time to shine (or not) either way it will be an exciting off season for Jays fans that deserve much more than what 2012 gave them.
And dare I say, this time you’re on the hot seat. No pressure. Just be the ninja we believe in. The Silent Assassin. Make it so!
Anticlimactic series followed by anticlimactic trophy presentation.