posted by admin on Oct 22
The Boston Red Sox, having battled to back from a 3-1 series deficit, won game seven of the ALCS in convincing fashion last night just as everyone expected. Despite their 11-2 victory the game was filled with drama until an eight run 8th inning sealed the deal. Most experts picked the Red Sox to easily win the series against a young Cleveland team but that just wasn’t enough for the Red Sox.
“We set the bar pretty high in ‘04,” said manager Terry Francona, refering to his teams historic 3-0 comeback against the rival Yankees. “The fans have come to expect a certain level of drama in October and with the Rockies sweeping everyone we took it on ourselves to give the fans what they wanted.”
Indians manager Eric Wedge echoed Francona’s sentiments, “When we beat the Yankees I knew we had to lose in Game 7 [to the Red Sox]. The whole country wanted a Yankees-Red Sox remtach so when Kenny had a chance to tie the game, well, we knew what the fans wanted.” Wedge was refering to an easy scoring oppurtunity for Indians’ right fielder Kenny Lofton in the 7th inning that would have tied the game and put pressure on the Red Sox pitching. The 3rd base coach inexplicably held the speedy Lofton at 3rd. “In a game seven you just never know what will happen, if we tie the game then, who knows what happens. Maybe we take the lead and hold on to win. A Rockies-Indians World Series? No one wants that, it was the right call,”Lofton told reporters after the game.
After the game Bud Selig, the MLB commissioner expressed his pleasure with the series, “I couldn’t be happier with the Indians performance. It looked like they might take the series but in the end everyone gets to watch these Red Sox go for another World Series.” When asked about the upcoming World Series, which starts Wednesday night in Boston, Selig commented, “I see a 6-game series with the Rockies winning the first two games in Fenway but the Red Sox taking the next four. A David Ortiz walk-off homerun in Game 3 would really get the fans going. Hopefully, the Rockies will prove as agreeable as the Indians have been this series.”
posted by admin on Oct 9
After his teams defeat to the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner announced a historical deal. Steinbrenner has purchased the plucky, young Colorado Rockies and felt confident in saying he now “had a World Series contender.” The Rockies are currently the hotest team in baseball having one 17 of 18 and reaching the NLCS. Even more surprising were the new uniforms Steinbrenner designed for his hot, new team.
Instead of their traditional black and purple the team will now sport a stylish white uniform with black pin stripes. The new hat will be navy blue with a Y interecting an N. The uniforms also unveil the new team logo which abandons the traditional Rockies spelling for what Steinbrenner said “will be a hip, new vision reaching out to a younger generation of baseball fan. Y-A-N-K-E-E-S will really show the average Denver teenager we are his baseball team.”
But Steinbrenner did not stop their in his new vision for the Rockies. “After reviewing the stadium [Coors Field] my staff of engineers have found several structural flaws and for the safety of the fans we will be closing the stadium until further notice.” Asked about the decision season ticket holder Patricia Henderson said “she appreciated Mr. Steinbrenner’s concern” but “we always felt safe their.”
Asked where his team will play Steinbrenner mentioned “a little place in the Bronx I know about” as a possible temporary home for the team. Steinbrenner also laid out a 10-year plan for the franchise calling for the signing of several veteran pitchers to long-term contracts and trading away much of the Rockies talented farm system for an aging slugger, possibly oft-maligned Barry Bonds.
The Rockies start the NLDS in Arizona this Thursday night. Steinbrenner will be on hand and he, hinted, an appearance by someone he would identify only as “The Rocket.”
posted by admin on Oct 3
I started thinking about Eddie Veder today. Mainly, that he could walk down the street and 99% of people would have no idea who he was. Sure someone would say, “Dude, you look just like Eddie-fucking-Veder!” but that’s about it. My question is would Kurt Cobain still have killed himself knowing that he would likely hold the same place in society’s consciousness as Eddie Veder currently does now? And if you think that wouldn’t be the case tell me who else from 1994 is still making good music that registers in the media? Short fucking list.
Obviously I’m simplifying this quite a bit, no one kills themselves solely over becoming an insanely popular rockstar. Drugs, illness, insecurities and many other factors contribute but let’s assume we could go all “A Christmas Carol” with Cobain and show him where his life would be now. I have to think he’d have paused a second or two longer with that shotgun. Maybe a glimpse of the overt commercialism to come in the second half of the 90’s in the music industry might have let him think for a second, “Hey, I did alright.” Or maybe he still would have done it.
Looking back now it seems Cobain saw this huge pop wave coming and refused to take part in it. That’s why he is a rock legend, he (supposedly) killed himself rather then sell out. I highly doubt this is what actually took place but now he is immortal. Is he better off dead, living on as a musical genius? Would he ever have matched “Nevermnd”?
Either way, somewhere there’s a 15 year old kid rocking out to the new Foo Fighters single who has no idea who the fuck Kurt Cobain is. I think he would have liked that.
And yes, I know Cobain said ‘it’s better to burn that than to fade away’, but he was about to kill himself and that sounds a shit lot better than ‘I’m tired of being rich and successful’.
