Not only are the Yankees (2010 opening day payroll: $213 million) and Phillies ($138M) not going to the World Series, they played so poorly they never even came within sniffing distance. Instead, the Rangers ($65M) and Giants ($96M) are taking the main stage, and despite their relative thriftiness (although Giants benchwarmers Barry Zito and Aaron Rowand are owed a collective $186M), it's not just grit and clutchiness that's getting them through. It's character! Specifically, it's a group of characters like these:
| Rangers | Giants | |
| THE FAT GUY |  |
 honorable mention: Juan Uribe |
| THE HAIR GUY |  |
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| THE JESUS GUY |  |
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| THE ROOKIE PHENOM GUY |  |
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| THE MIDDLE FINGER TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TEAMS GUY |  |
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AP photos: Feliz, Guerrero, Hamilton, Lincecum, Posey, Sandoval, Wilson; Getty photos: Andrus, Molina, Mota; payroll figures from Cot's Baseball Contracts
27 comments:
Wait, what about the Native American and the construction worker?
my surl is rising reading this
Excelelnt points. WS team composition is as predictable as the composition of a company in a World War II movie.
I wonder how one would would characterize the SoSG readership "team"?
@Dusty
Tough question, because there can only be one drunk guy.
I just read something and I had to come here, to find solace from my own hate, per UsaToday:
http://usat.ly/aemYHa
worst offender:
"The Rangers have the claw and antlers. Can the Giants keep up with just the beard?
Well, there is the rally thong. You might want to spare yourself the visuals, but first baseman Aubrey Huff began wearing a red, rhinestone-encrusted thong in late August, and the Giants are 26-13 since. A box of them showed up in the Giants clubhouse this week."
So, guys with names of Aubrey, Madison and Panda are going to wear embellished red thongs in the World Series. I didn't know strippers could play professional baseball :(
I hate the Giants and I'm going to hell for it :(
Well, at least you'll have good company, then.
In tangentially related news, can we expect a reprieve from the Accuscore widget this offseason?
Maybe it's a Mr. C thing, but seeing that 80-82 and 0% playoff probability day after day gets my drawers all twisted up.
Jason Giambi wore that gold thong while with the Yanks a few years back. It worked well for a while but then the roids really wore off and he was back to being Jeremy Giambi
accuscore widget is gone. thanks; nice call mr c.
The middle finger to SoCal should be Cody Ross on the Giants. Ever since he left LA, he has been a Dodger killer - even when he isn't playing the Dodgers!
*unbunches drawers*
oyster pubes looks like a horror movie still in that picture.
^or bukakke.
Just sayin'...
LOL Mr. C.
@MR. F
*shudders*
I read the comments before I saw the picture.
@MR. F
Can't be unseen, now...
@Mr C 8:39 AM company in hell or hate?
;)
@karina
Yes.
@Mr C *sigh* I had hope we had some sort of redemption
@Mr C 11:40a: I have a friend who writes for Bill Maher and he said the writers said this was the caption of the year (go to 1:34).
@Sax
Bwahahaha! The fact that it's a stretch makes it even funnier.
exactly what was stretched?
oh wait, don't answer that.
Oh lord. This thread got Scooby Doo'd for me, then when I returned I expected an embarrassing expose' on what persona most embodied each regular reader, and that I'd draw the shit end of the stick, appropriately. However, I see that Mr C took the thread in an entirely different and unexpected direction. MB, why doesn't he get the proverbial backhand through the Internet from you?
@DB
Oh, I'm sure it's coming. Speaking of Scooby-doo threads, I initially thought your "Kleenex" comment might be in reference to this thread and had a bit of a laugh when I realized the truth.
But I'm sick that way.
I intentionally made the Kleenex comment ambiguous, as there are at least two uses one might have for such a product.
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