Elvis Has Activated God Mode
by ghostofErikThompson on May 7, 2010 9:52 PM CDT
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PrintElvis Andrus woke up today and decided he was going to be Ozzie Smith.
Ozzie Smith is going to wake up tomorrow and decide he wants to be Elvis Andrus.
"UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT LEFT RIGHT A B SELECT!"
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is Elvis Andrus.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is Elvis Andrus.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but Elvis Andrus is pretty good too.
Elvis Andrus is the Texas Rangers.
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God wears a #1 Rangers jersey.
He’s hoping for an autograph.
'Waiting for a girl and she gets me into fights
Waiting for a girl we get drunk on Friday night'
Jon Daniels says
How you like them apples, franchise face?
"I don’t know how these SN blog authors get their gigs, but I’m frankly surprised SN tolerates AJM’s lack of effort." Tex34
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Ahem...
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
You Contra amateur you.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
by slc ranger on May 7, 2010 10:10 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
Elvis...
has his own Contra code.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 7, 2010 10:15 PM CDT up reply actions
I always hit B, A twice, which also worked.
But apparently the lazy way worked, too.
Fucking lazy fuckers.
Hate them so much.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on May 7, 2010 11:46 PM CDT up reply actions
thought it was B A Select Start
Zombie Arias has his old man arms straight out, right? And is more verbal
by BuckyB on Apr 8, 2010 7:53 PM CD
This is actually...
the way I always did it too.
But I found out later on that you didn’t have to hit Select.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Select was if you were playing 2 players.....
and there was ‘B’ ‘A’ twice, not just once.
AL West
Oakland 90-72
LAAA 88-74
Texas 83-79
Seattle 77-85
By: Josey Wales
You mean Jose Guillen's confusing slowdown near the end?
The fuck was he doing?
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on May 7, 2010 11:47 PM CDT up reply actions
He probably was thinking about...
how the Royals had a nice rally coming up because he had just gotten an infield hit.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 7, 2010 11:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Was he just afraid of running into Smoak maybe?
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Everyone's afraid of the Smoak Monster.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on May 8, 2010 10:26 AM CDT up reply actions
I think that's it
Smoak was doing his little dance on the bag and Guillen didn’t want to crash into him.
by LoneStarBallUser on May 8, 2010 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions
Obviously Elvis simply willed it to be
and he slowed down.
Ceterum censeo, Ron Washington esse delendam
if you will it, dude, it is no dream.
What's up my little chicken pot pie?
Even though your face is huge, I love the shit out of you girl.
by JimCrankshaft on May 10, 2010 6:44 PM CDT up reply actions
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I’m so f-ing pissed I missed this game. Especially this play. Thanks for posting it.
The third one was kinda funny to me. I wonder what he was thinking?
“heh, I just did that. I know.”
"Jurick Profar is tired of practice!! I wanna play I wanna play….waiting for march 12 to go to spring training! to kill some pichers:D:D I am Jurickson Profar son of judeska and chesmond.. And I was born ready! ready to play baseball!!" - Jurickson Profar
Sam here, of all the games for me to miss, I pick the BGL's CG with Elvis uber-greatness
But I was at a dance played by Red Steagall. So I felt like it was worth the price of missing the game.
"I’m gonna go on record here and say a great many things excuse throwing a chair at someone." – D.A. Tron
Nice in Abilene at the Western Heritage?
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
Yes sir
Red did not disappoint. Played all his great honky tonk tunes, lots of great cowboy music, and then a slew of Bob Wills and Willie Nelson songs.
And as nice of a guy as there is in this world.
"I’m gonna go on record here and say a great many things excuse throwing a chair at someone." – D.A. Tron
drinking a Red Stag I hope
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on May 10, 2010 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
I can't believe...
Dayton Moore actually wanted Yuni. Like, he sought him out to play for his baseball team. He didn’t just settle upon someone because they were already in the system, he thought this was a good idea and went out and made it happen.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 8, 2010 1:25 AM CDT up reply actions
Didn't he say at the time that Betancourt's defense was one of the main things
they liked about him? I think I remember reading that at the time…
Betancourt had a -20.9 UZR/150 last year. LOL.
The Royals are really just sad. Even their bullpen is just a bunch of Rangers rejects. Watching them brings back really bad memories from the not too distant past.
This is what he said...
upon being criticized for acquiring perhaps the worst baseball player in the league while also sending his number three prospect to Seattle for him:
"The defensive statistics – I still really don’t understand how some of those statistics are evaluated, I really don’t. When you watch baseball games every single day, its very apparent who can play defensively and who can’t."
by ghostofErikThompson on May 8, 2010 1:47 AM CDT up reply actions
A bunch of Ranger rejects... and the mother fuckinf Mexicutioner.
They’re not all that bad off.
They have Greinke.
Also, Butler is really good and really young.
Plus their minor league system is really damn solid.
This dude does mad rapes. I’d love for him to be doing sex crimes for us.
My mancrush from the ’08 draft is finally doing mad rapes as well. No idea what was wrong with him last year.
Oh, and HOLY FUCKING SHIT. Stop it, dude. JUST STOP. Shit’s mean.
So, yah. Montgomery, Handsome Hoss, Mosse Tacos, Cheslor Cuthbert, Noel Arguelles, Will Myers (love him), Aaron Crow, Dwyer, Lamb, Duffy, Melville (though he’s looking rather lost and/or injured right now)…
Fucking loaded.
They’ve drafted like renegade rapists with easy access to crow bars and large quantities of lubricant.
It’s Moore’s big league moves that are holding them back.
Meche, Guillen, Fransworth, Yunieski, Kendall, etc.
They’re in a position to be real rapists in 2 years or so.
It’s likely to be a Doug Melvin situation, though, where a guy comes in and gets all the credit for winning with the young guys the previous GM acquired.
Cause I have genuine doubts that Dayton’s gonna last long enough to see those dudes make it.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
every single post of yours has to do with anal rape of one form or another
I picture the animals in your house all limping with bloody cornholes
we're from Texas
CJ says "Relax"
dont forget duffy walked out for the time being
short/long term is unknown…
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
Totally forgot about that.
So odd.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on May 8, 2010 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions
I remember all the...
Hosmer/Smoak debates from that draft.
I’m so fucking happy the Rangers got Smoak. Hosmer is finally starting to do a little something, but is still sitting in A ball while Smoak is already in Arlington. Just crazy.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
hes also younger...
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on May 8, 2010 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm obviously pleased with who we ended up with as well. But that's nothing against Handsome.
Like KoK said… he’s 3 years younger.
You expect a high schooler to be behind an advanced college bat from the same draft.
And .404 /.496 / .576 / 1.072 has to count as more than “a little something”, yah?
With Smoak up, he’d be pretty clearly our top position prospect, imo. (That’s not saying a shit ton, though… Until Beltre, Velazquez or maybe one of last year’s j2’s starts to prove some shit we won’t really have a lot of stiff competition for that honor.)
But given our need for offense now, fuck yah Smoak was better for us.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on May 8, 2010 10:26 AM CDT up reply actions
and its beginning to look like a lot of last yr
was eyes
and by a lot i mean all
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on May 8, 2010 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions
I really don't know why...
I forgot about the age difference.
I suppose that having Smoak has forced me to forget many details about other players in that draft.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
the age thing is handy and all
but we needed a 1B badly since the departure of Prickteira; the sooner the better…Hosmer can run into a lot of trouble between A ball and the majors.
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on May 10, 2010 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, yah. Like I said, def the better pick for us.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on May 11, 2010 7:48 PM CDT up reply actions
I doubt KC ever realizes it though
for some reason, I see a few of those names flaming out, traded, injured, whatever…I don’t see KC being a power again. But that’s just me. Those are some nice names, and if Alex Gordon ever got it going again…
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on May 10, 2010 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Alex Gordon's donerton.
But Moose Tacos, Hosmer and Montgomery are a fucking beastly big three, and adding a stud like Myers and then Crow as well really helped them take the next in terms of prospectness, imo.
I love their system.
I wanted Myers so fucking bad.
Fuck you, Hicks.
FUCK MOTHER FUCKING YOU.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
by thedirkatron on May 11, 2010 7:50 PM CDT up reply actions
I could try 1,000 times
and never have my body that high in the air, contorted in that manner, and even throw the ball anywhere. at all.
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on May 10, 2010 12:15 PM CDT up reply actions
What an awesome call...
Nadel is the best.
by ghostofErikThompson on May 8, 2010 2:05 AM CDT up reply actions
And he's partnered with the absolute worst.
Barnett is such a buzzkill. He just totally shat on that call. Like always.
Bonus gif from the Royals broadcast...
Elvis: “What? You’ve never been this close to greatness before?”
Smoak: “I’m used to being close to Guilder Rodriguez.”
by ghostofErikThompson on May 8, 2010 2:56 AM CDT reply actions 5 recs
haha greatness.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
"Baseball's all that's real" - JB
I just watched the top plays and I can't understand how this was only #4.
What is it that they use to determine these things? Ike Davis’s catch was good and all, but not better than Elvis.
We should probably just be happy a Rangers vs. Royals highlight made the top 10, if you think about it.
We're like soccer hooligans... except, like the Rangers, we can’t even get that right. We beat each other up instead of the other side. - AJM
by LSJ on May 8, 2010 8:02 AM CDT up reply actions
I disagree. I thought Andrus should have been #2. #1 on most other nights though.
The Ike Davis catch was not only great, but more critical to the game (go-ahead run at 3rd in the 9th).
Ike Davis is a
fucking badass.
Fork’em bitches.
by DevilManHammy on May 8, 2010 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Shocked that someone might think that was a better play?
Clearly doesn’t take much to “shock” you apparently.
Well...
it was a nice play, but the guy just leaned over into the dugout for a popup.
It didn’t require near the skill level and wasn’t as difficult as that Andrus play imho.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
It was more than a lean and much more critical to the outcome of the game.
Anyway, someone shouldn’t be “shocked” that a person would put that play above Andrus’s.
Joey's got a real smooth viddy of the play up ...
LINK — The two things I like are his body position when the ball contacts his glove – ready to leap … and the hint that maybe Smoak nonchalanted his body language over at 1B enough to coax Guillen into pulling up a step short of the bag, gaining that crucial beat of time for the out.
id agree w/ smoak comment
he punked him
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
You know, I got to thinking
“I think it’s funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range,” Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that.
Hey 2008 Mike…
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
by LSJ on May 8, 2010 9:32 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
there are some beautiful quotes in that story
Young also knows there is debate about his future at shortstop. There has been speculation that he may have to switch positions at some point, especially when Double-A Frisco shortstop Elvus Andrus is ready. But Young is quite clear with his feelings about a possible position switch.
“Not anytime soon I’m not,” Young said, who admits to strong feelings and stubbornness about the subject. “Because I’ve had to defend my defense so much, I feel I’ve had to develop a certain amount of stubbornness. But I don’t see that change taking place anytime soon.”
Washington said Young’s range could improve with better positioning. Right now, Young plays what Washington calls a “straight-up shortstop.” When he learns to shade hitters in the right situations, Washington said his range will get better.
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
ya know its one thing if he didnt know anything about some OF'er or a relief pitching prospect
but to not know anything about a guy who plays your own position (better than you) is stupid.
then again, its not like MY or kinsler are exactly the sharpest crayons in the box either…
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
Well, when you're the Derek Jeter of Texas
Worshipped by the fans and the media and chewing up nearly a third of the teams payroll, you’re not going to be worrying about the kid down in AA. He no doubt thought his “status” assured that his position at short was locked down for at least another year or two.
"I think it's funny because everybody wants Ozzie Smith range," Young said. "I want people to show me a guy that has turbo range like that."
Somewhere Derek Jeter is crying
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
This thread is over-stuffed with win, like Violet Beauregarde
"I support you, Wash; I’ve always supported you," Young said
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
My brother (a Rockies fan who gets to watch Tulo) and I are watching the Yankees.
Jeter just whiffed on slow roller about two steps to right by a foot. We both let out audible “oh my gods!” and talked about how much worse Jeter looks when you see greatness and range-for-miles at shortstop every night.
I mean, seriously, the only way anyone can think he’s good defensively is by never ever watching another shortstop for any extended period of time. I know that scouting as a fan is flawed and a pretty small sample, but some things are obvious. Elvis’s awesome and Jeter’s bad are obvious.
by philkid3 on May 10, 2010 6:52 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Thank You Atlanta
Idiots.
Greetings from the Humungus, the Ruler of the Wasteland, the Ayatollah of Rock and Roll-A. I laugh at your puny plans.
damn nice!!!
as usual you… just rock the elvis love we love
My name's Vista... can i crash at your place tonight?
We have yet another play to add to this GoET.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
I'm waiting for the animated .GIF
And a new fanpost.
by Ranger to the End on May 19, 2010 3:41 PM CDT reply actions
They didn't get very good shots...
of that play.
Here’s the play:
Here’s Elvis diving:
by ghostofErikThompson on May 19, 2010 5:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I have a request
This thread needs to be updated daily throughout the season with Elvis Andrus gold . A sort of godly collage.
I come to this thread after losses it helps ease the pain
"Josey drives to games??? I always assumed he rides in on his high horse" jam0152
"dirkatron has his own evaluation metric: rapes above replacement." AJM
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