Hum and Chuck: Now It's Personal

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Now It's Personal

I was going to do a typical SOSH dissing.

For example, describing Papi's long fly ball in the 1st:

SOSH dickwad: Fuck. I started celebrating. Premature.

Me: That's what your girlfriend says.

But then I saw this particular line of discussion, involving one Scott the Rock Rockin' Rolen.

SOSH Douche: My brother had dinner last week with Rolen and his uncle. Rolen said that Millar constantly talks about Boston and how much he loves the city and playing there. He also said that Clemens was the biggest jerk in baseball. Not much love for Schilling either but not the venom aimed at Clemens. My brother's take was that Rolen was basically going through the motions and taking his @ 12 million a year but not much passion in his voice about the game.

SOSH Douche #2: What? Playing for a mediocre uncompetitive team as a shell of his former self doesn't get him going?

SOSH Douche #1: Right. It was a bit shocking how honest and obvious he was about it. He then added that if someone was stupid enough to pay him another contract after this one, that he would of course take it, but he was also looking forward to spending time with the kids and wasn't sure it was worth it. He has made what upwards of $110 million in his career. Nice to have the option of walking away from a couple of million dollars. There is just something mind boggling to me about this. I guess it is just so far from my reality that I just shake my head.

I think Rolen reads SOSH in the dugout, cause something lit a fire under him to take it to them. And SOSH noticed.

Apathetic RBI double from Rolen there.

Jesus, fucking fork-in-his-back Rolen killing us tonight.

For a guy who doesnt (sic) give a shit, Rolen's having himself a night.

This game is pissing me off.

I'm pretty sure he got into it with Tony LaRussa because his work ethic was questioned.

They also noticed this:
Rolen comes out to Coldplay...

Yeah...

But here is Cito: " They never quit, they played hard every game (in the losing streak) ... someone asked me if I had a meeting, but I didn't because they played hard."

Except Rolen, apparently. Fuck them.

10 comments:

Drew - LtB said...: That's a pretty substantial leap to make. From "Millar loves Boston, Clemens & Schilling are douches, sky is blue" to "he's going through the motions." Horseshit of the highest order.; May 30, 2009 1:24 PM
Joanna said...: Total...

Cause Rolen seems to do everything with a tremendous amount of intensity. Except, apparently, eating dinner.; May 30, 2009 3:30 PM
Drew - LtB said...: I'm just going to put this out there, cuz I feel the need. The DJF game comments are no better than the SOSH game threads. If anything, the Red Sox fans are better informed. Just sayin; May 30, 2009 4:01 PM
Joanna said...: I noticed. I was totally going to mix in the DJF comments with SOSH, like a game of "whose fans said this?" It's usually funny because of the rage of the entitled.

But at least those DJF guys are too drunk to question the work ethic of a Youkilis or a Varitek or a Pedroia.

It's just them saying that shit and now all those guys think Rolen doesn't care about this team, that this team is not worth caring about.

Maybe it bugs me cause it's Rolen, who is one of the hardest nosed guys. That's almost as bad as saying Doc doesn't care. And if this is Rolen phoning it in, I'll take it.; May 30, 2009 4:29 PM
eyebleaf said...: Rolen doesn't know how to phone it in.; May 30, 2009 6:24 PM
Brian Tallet's Moustache said...: Joanna:

Please, please make the "Who's fans said it?" game. Please.; May 31, 2009 9:22 AM
hugo said...: If you want good Jays game threads, I think ours are pretty chock full of rationality. Of course, being the site proprietor, I may be biased on that.; May 31, 2009 9:57 AM
doug said...: I just farted!!!; May 31, 2009 10:25 AM
MK Piatkowski said...: Nice to know I wasn't the only person who was pissed off by that. Now I really want to see the SOSH guys cry. Really, the only person over there I respect is Foulkey Reese, who at least gets how good this team is.; May 31, 2009 12:09 PM
MK Piatkowski said...: Just saw the highlights. Tallet plunks Ratface? Awesome.; May 31, 2009 1:10 PM

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A Glossary of Terms

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Acorn- BJ Ryan calls Accardo 'Acorn'. Why? I don't know. But if BJ calls him that, so do I.
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Lexi- Alex Rios
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Peaches- Dustin McGowan's mutton chops are kind of fuzzy and he is from Georgia.
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Prance off homerun- What ARod does when he hits a walk-off.
Roy Halladay Fan Club- I wrote a piece once about the man-love that seemed to flow from the staff to their ace. Each pitcher had his own little way of expressing his love, for instance, Chacin stole one of Roy's shirts because it "smelled like victory".
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