Positive game thread 7/23

LET'S GO, TRIBE!

Oh, white people in baseball. How long until this stuff stops? Never?

I already hate Jon Lester's parents. Who am I?

Nice K, Jake.

Garko rocks and is going to go Yard on that wuss cancer kid.

Pretty much every first game of a homestand involves jet lag. Wow.

Apparently, we are replacable.

If Ryan will not like this as you are replacing his original thread.

the way he plays the game. Is there a more useless phrase in commentating?

"My uncle was eaten by an alligator...but we used our points. So in the end, it wasn't a half-bad trip."

This phrase makes me laugh. It's like Barry is having Bud's child.

Jon Lester is surviving cancer. He's a cancer survivor. But that's not who he is. He's a baseball player.

Good god, Orel.

Screw a feel good story.

This sounds like a sketch at this point.

= everybody finish your drinks.

Sometimes I think the Tribe is the Washington Generals of MLB.  Which is not all bad, I guess.

This is clearly the turning point of the game.

Just kidding!

Must kill Shap and make him smile at the same time. Maybe not in that order.

Where's the shot heard 'round the world?

Where's Mazeroski?

But I guess every single damned thing in the world is about intangibles if you're Steve Phillips.

(whoops ... wrong thread.)

(Gives big thumbs up with an idiotic smile)
Stay positive everyone!

uh. that wasn't very positive, but it just seems like everyone is over here, so i figured it was the place to ask the question.

Now, much has been made about the confrontations between Lee and Victor Martinez, especially after he struck Sosa in the head (to date, Sosa has no lasting effects and will play tonight, which is good news for how solidly he was struck).  I am struggling to imagine this conversation about "tactics:"

Martinez: Hey!  Pendejo!  Don't hit him in the head!
Lee: Bitch, bitch, bitch!  First it's "throw strikes" and then it's "stop throwing meatballs" and now it's "don't hit anyone upside the head."  Make up your mind already!
Martinez: What do you mean, make up my mind?!  Those things aren't mutually exclusive!
Lee: You're just persecuting me because I'm white.
Martinez: No, I'm persecuting you because you suck. Stop sucking!
Lee: Man, you're just never satisfied, are you?
Martinez: Not with sucking, no.

I mean, I kind of have to side with Martinez here.