Comments on: Team Levi

By: Nabisco

Nabisco — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:18:38 +0000

@JNOV: Barely. In fact, the wingnuts used the lack of riots to complain about the use of tax money to pay for all of the overtime cop time without incident. One of those wingnuts being my uncle who actually rooted for the Cardinals because the Steelers coach is - wait for it - "too young". This is the same uncle who introduced me to the phrase "canecutters" when he described the all black and/or latino Pirates team that was fielded in the 70s, so "too young" was code, obvs. ADD: "Root for the Pirates. We're on the side of the state that rarely riots after Sport!"

By: JNOV

JNOV — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:10:01 +0000

@Nabisco: Did Pitt get trashed after the Superbowl?

By: Nabisco

Nabisco — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:08:14 +0000

@JNOV: I'm feeling good about the Pirates this year. Although I say that every April, and by mid-summer the only baseball I follow is in the minor and little leagues.

By: JNOV

JNOV — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:55:39 +0000

@Tommmcatt the Wet Sprocket: Damned straight! And I implore the Baseball Gods to bypass Philly this year. Fools went out and tore shit up on the night we won, and then they tore shit up all day and all night on the day of the parade. St Patty's Day (which we celebrate for a WEEK) is enough. We don't need no stinking championships!

By: Tommmcatt the Wet Sprocket

Tommmcatt the Wet Sprocket — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:42:59 +0000

@JNOV: There are no atheists in dugouts.

By: JNOV

JNOV — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:19:52 +0000

@Serolf Divad: Get the fuck outta here! He taught a class at Penn a couple of years ago. I lerve him, and I will miss him. But House has gotten kinda old anyway.

TJ/IT’S BASEBALL SEASON! It just seems like a couple of months ago that the Phillies won the World Series, and my neighbors trashed the City of Brotherly Love. They looted. They threw newspaper honor boxes through windows and looted. They urinated in public. They vomited in public. They overturned police cars. They set stuff on fire.

Then…

We had a parade. They left their homes at 7 am to catch the commuter trains to the city. They were already drunk. They had more liquor with them. They trashed the city. They urinated in public (and took pictures!). They vomited in public. They walked down the streets pulling their coolers behind them. And they got bored and started fighting.

I worked until 9 PM thinking the drunk assholes would be home by then. No such luck. They were irritable and fighting on the train platform. And my train was 88 minutes late. So I said, Fuck it, and took the El (elevated train, even though some of it runs underground) to a bus, and I made it home two hours later.

Oh, Gods of Baseball, hear my plea! Please don’t let the Phillies get anywhere NEAR the World Series. It’s not difficult to trash Philly — it’s a pretty gross city, but it gets so much grosser when a Philly team wins something. Gods, we don’t deserve to win anything cuz we don’t know how to act when we do. Please punish us accordingly.

Your faithful servant,
JNOV

By: nojo

nojo — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:12:12 +0000

@chicago bureau: MSNBC would be happy to take us back, if we weren't such fucking potty mouths.

By: mellbell

mellbell — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:18:16 +0000

@Mistress Cynica: But but but... it doesn't fit with his character at all. Does it in any way work?

By: Nabisco

Nabisco — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:09:27 +0000

@Mistress Cynica: Ms. Nabisco was traveling until today and would have killed me if I had watched it alone. So I flipped between Sport and a history channel docu on Che, which was pretty lame. Fell asleep to KeefO with kitteh perched on my chest. Ahh, bachelorhood!

By: Mistress Cynica

Mistress Cynica — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:55:42 +0000

@Serolf Divad: @Nabisco: @mellbell: I am soooo glad I got to watch it last night, instead of waiting for hulu. And thanks, SD, for providing the explanation for what seemed an insane plot twist (all I could think was, why not that annoying-stick-figure-who-can't-act "13"?). And Kumar is even cooler than I imagined.