The United States of Esoterica

Sigh. Good riddance 2012 Red Sox season.

Saddened that the baseball in Boston is over for the year, but happy that the circus has disbanded.

Heard them read this passage during the closing moments of tonight's Red Sox coverage on the radio, apparently an annual tradition, and thought it poignant enough to re-post here:



Anyway, congrats to RSS' Detroit Tigers & MM's NY Yankees on advancing into the postseason. Additional huge congrats to Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers on acheiving the first Triple Crown in 45 years. His chase for the Crown has been criminally under-covered by ESPN, et al, and the contention that Mike Trout deserves the AL MVP over him is fucking insane.

BTW, great article on the significance of Cabrera's Triple Crown - http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/29576/miguel-cabrera-dons-well-won-triple-crown

Also the stunning seasons for Oakland and Baltimore have been a joy to watch. I am a Red Sox fan, but I am also a baseball fan and I enjoy a great story as much as anyone, which those two teams provided in spades. Looking forward to the wildcard play-in games, which will surely be awesome.

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"Give a lunatic a keyboard and a modem and that's what happens." -- Jeff Rense, 2.25.5

"An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming." -- Bob Dylan

Congrats to Adam Gorightly's beloved Giants on another WS win. That team just shut down both the Cardinals and the Tigers and looked really fucking dominant these last few weeks.

Condolences, of course, go out to RSS, who has now seen his beloved Tigers get swept twice in the last 6 years or so. I was pulling for Detroit, so this is pretty disappointing.

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"Give a lunatic a keyboard and a modem and that's what happens." -- Jeff Rense, 2.25.5

"An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming." -- Bob Dylan

Let me just say that I'm glad the series came to a sweeping end so we didn't have to endure three more games of Fox shitting all over Detroit with their cross-promotional bullshit.

They interviewed a taco innovator one night.

They brought a SF fan, Zooey Daschanel, to sing the national anthem to MOTOWN. As if the D didn't have 50,000 better options than her.

And they listed among the local celebs at last night's game Ann Romney and, I shit you not, Matthew Perry.


Joe Buck and Tim McCarver are definitely going up on my 2013 Death Pool -- not to mention a certain Panda.

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"I didn't need to learn what I learned today." -- Jesse Ventura.
"There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty. " - Ron Paul.

Delmon Young and Jose (Papa Grande) Valverde are done as Tigers, says the GM today.

Anibal Sanchez is priority No.1 -- although a boatload of teams will be offering him money.

Other than a corner outfielder, Tigers don't expect to do much in free agency, although nobody expected them to sign Fielder last year.

Josh Hamilton probably won't end up in the D. But what about Justin Upton???


For once in a long time, Tigers don't have a shitload of needs. So it could be boring winter.

Still, it'll be fun to see the BoSox and Yankees fall over themselves trying to put their horrible seasons behind them.

Someone's going to break a bank trying to sign that high school pitcher from Japan.

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"I didn't need to learn what I learned today." -- Jesse Ventura.
"There is but one special interest that we should be working for, and that would solve just about all of our problems, and that is our liberty. " - Ron Paul.

I don't see how the Tiger's season can be called much better than the Yankees one . They played only 4 more games than them , and went home LOSERS too !!!
They FAILED in the Series !

That's the MM we know and love.

MM is just pissed because the Sox found suckers in LA and unloaded all those bad deals while NY is stuck with A-Rod, Texiera, and other old scrubs. BTW, it was great watching Jeter and Mariano in the playoffs this year, lol.

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"Give a lunatic a keyboard and a modem and that's what happens." -- Jeff Rense, 2.25.5

"An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming." -- Bob Dylan

Texiera shouldn't be included with the others .
Jeter,Rivera and Pettitte have 3 more rings than the Sox have won over the last 16 yrs !!!