As I’ve written before, Steve Phillips’ announcing schtick doesn’t outrage me, but it’s induced more than the odd eye roll from this direction, and I’ll be taking a drink every time he claims David Wright isn’t having a good year, every time he blames Omar Minaya for guys like Jose Reyes getting hurt, every time he tells some inane story about Fred Wilpon, every time he intimates he’d be doing a better job running the Mets than the people who are actually doing so, every time he puts the team’s failure to be doing better than two games out down to clubhouse problems/atmospherics rather than the shortstop, first baseman, center fielder, no. 2 and no. 3 starters and top setup man being hurt, and chugging if he mentions Mo Vaughn or Jeromy Burnitz.

I am shockingly sober.

EDIT: If we expand it to just general media you get the epic war of the general media vs. Alex Rodriguez.

Was Steve Phillips the last rube GM? Seems like there aren't any current GM's that would be easy to fool.

I know folks here'll call other ones idiots, but I don't really see anyone with an IQ anywhere near room temperature other than Phillips.

While I prefer quality in hard liquor, I'm a beer plebe and have been known to drink PBR.

180. Lassus Posted: June 28, 2009 at 11:28 PM (#3236283)

Between being possibly swept and listening to this ####### piece of idiot #### ########## ####### ####### garbage ####### ########### abomination pencildick jackass, this is turning in the worst night of my entire life.

As I slowed my consumption down to pretty much 4-5 beers a week, I can afford the more expensive stuff.

But nothing goes better with a meal than a good, crisp lager. Makes me hungry just thinking about it. Plus, nothing will announce your virile presence to the world with more pomp than a 7 am beer fart that the neighbors feel 3 floors down.

Belgian, German and craft beers seem to be the new fad from what I can tell.

This would be the place to ask—which broadcaster is the all-time vendetta champion? I was thinking about this last night and I couldn't come up with any really good, Dick Young vs. Tom Seaver-type examples of an announcer having it in for a particular player over a long period of time. But there must have been some.

It's the gist of the new Heinken slogan "You are who you are when nobody's watching". A slogan like this can only appeal to phonies exhausted by the charade that is their very being and so is clearly targeted at hipsters.

The two dudes in that Heineken ad rocking out to Biz Markie

How do you drink something ironically?

I'm being totally serious here. I think I know what it means to do something ironically (To do something so out, that it's in), but I'm never sure.

If you think that sounds incredibly stupid, just wait until you see some of the facial hair and/or sneakers worn by this crowd.

55. BFFB Posted: June 29, 2009 at 03:05 PM (#3236866)
If you enjoyed Leffe then you need to get your hands on some Erdinger.

When was the last time an announcer got canned for just being terrible? Unfortunately we're stuck with this knob until he says something racist or is caught fondling or smoking something he shouldn't.

You've guys have gotten me thirsty with all this beer talk.

Because you're drinking something "blue collar" and "poor" while actually being an arist, ideally a struggling artist (even if not actually struggling money-wise thanks to the cash provided by Mom and Dad, as noted above) so you're poor, but you aren't "poor."

Do Erdinger brew anything other than wheat beers? They brew ales?

But, see, slackers are actually poor and don't give a crap. You can respect a slacker. I mean, at least it's an ethos.

don't we have a poster with that handle?

A slacker may have similar tastes in music, books and film as a hipster does, but a slacker doesn't care how other people judge his tastes.

of course, after a couple of pints i'm good for just about anything.

I wish you were a chick with a big rack.

PBR and such like swill beers are extremely trendy among the hipsters here in Minneapolis. It's beyond obnoxious, especially considering that a large percentage of these kids are trust fund babies whose parents are putting them through art school and paying their rent. They could afford a decent beer and some clothes that weren't pilfered from a dumpster.

Bert Blyleven vs Scott Baker a few years ago was pretty obnoxious.

but a slacker doesn't care how other people judge his tastes, and is far less quick to judge you for yours.