why is everyone on ilx so betrothed with the village voice?

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Was C. Eddy at the game? I'd have to think he'd be eminently sportsmanlike.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah, I mean -- that might explain their aggressive bitterness, but they've ALWAYS been bad sports. They have an amazing knack for making you (read: me, the pitcher) feel entirely inadequate (despite the fact that their first two pitchers were rife with error themselves). Fuck'em fuck'em fuck'em.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck Eddy is obviously too cool for the VV softball team. And I don't mean that in a bitchy way, I mean it literally. The rest of the team aren't cool enough for Chuck.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, if i had known SPORTS were involved i'd have never gotten into this business

― jess, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'see, though, this isn't about sports, though. This is about basic decent human conduct. I'm not going to say every member of the VV softball team is a puckered butthole, but the numbers of individuals who are vastly outnumber the numbers of those who aren't.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe they're just that way when they play against corporate overlord media!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sure when they square off in backgammon against the utne crew it's smiles all around

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

They need to get over that shit, then, and realize that it's a SOFTBALL GAME and not some big political statement.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

life is a highway dude

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

No it's not. Life is very definetly not a fucking highway. And don't call me "dude".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Every day is a winding road.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

alex you're gonna have to give us some google-proofed details here!

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really, really fucking mad right now, so I should shut up about it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a bittersweet symphony this life dude

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Like something by Mahler, perhaps. Or Shostakovich.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"threnody for the bad news bears"

― jess, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to go to central park and watch meatloaf pitch. he was good. I saw gregory hines smoking a joint once.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"tone poem for tuft of tatum o'neal"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

What a thread revival!

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Gawker had a story this week, apparently the Vogue softball team's unis have "We are silently judging you" on the back.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Just be glad you don't have to play them:

http://www.gawker.com/topic/vogue-soccer-shirts-team-judgeypants-019215.php

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no! A Gawker mention!

This thread has been locked by an administrator.

― maura (maura), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Oi! A gawker double-team xpost! Delete humanity!

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you really should name and shame the players of hate.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you were playing softball. Everyone involved was a puckered asshole.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Details please! I cannot wait for the day when Stylus and Rolling Stone face off against each other at, ahem, soccer.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you were playing softball. Everyone involved was a puckered asshole.

Hahhahahahahaha. This may be true, actually.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

well, this was disappointing. but i can't blame alex for calming down and not naming names.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, for a start, it's a new morning. I'm still sore (literally and figuratively) from yesterday's game (in ten years of playing softball for this team, yesterday was the worst experience, hands down), but y'know....it's only fuckin' softball. Maybe it triggered some leftover childhood trauma from being a zealous jockophobic geek or maybe it was the heat, but whatever...it's over. Moreover, I couldn't really name names if I tried (and I wouldn't anyway), as the I have no idea what the names of the individuals in question actually are (but I could give you a keen description of their distinguishing features and characteristics). But I won't. My theory is this: they were behind two points so they decided to stall the rest of the game under the guise of bitching about my (allegedly too speedy) pitching (regardless of the fact that their first pitcher stood about seven feet to the south east of the pitcher's mound and their second pitcher pitched wa-heeey faster that me). They basically really don't like to lose and don't mind playin' dirty in order to prevent it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex! That was you on the mound?!

I was there, as the replacement right fielder. Since everyone else was taking pitches ad eternaem, I made it a point to swing at the first thing you threw me. (And of course lined out to short.)

They thought the pitches were too fast and too high. I can't comment on that. I will, however, apologize for all the bats mindlessly flung in your catchers' directions -- unintentional, but nevertheless dangerous.

Anyway, I hope you had fun despite all that. I'll make sure to introduce myself the next time we play.

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"they were behind two points"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:43 (twenty-one years ago)

(The Voice lost 7-5, btw. And no, Chuck E. was not there, nor Xgau.)

― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

They should make a movie out of this softball game, Kevin Costner could play Alex.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

For Love of the FIRE!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It would end like Escape from New York.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Hiya Joseph. Thanks for that (and thanks for actually swinging at one of my pitches).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

omg wtf only on ilx would you get a critical breakdown of a corporate baseball game!!

― doomie x, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

joseph rates the game at three stars whilst alex is weighing in at two.

― doomie x, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

SOMEONE PLS WRITE A CONCEPT REVIEW FROM THE POV OF THE BALL K THX BYE

― idea man, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, media people talking about their lives as lived, what a pretentious joke...

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't get much contact with the Voice's bats.

― the Ball (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

err. wasnt being snarky it just made laugh. but not in a mean way!

― doomie x, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, media people talking about their lives as lived, what a pretentious joke...

The fact that the two teams in question are both members of the media establishment is entirely incidental to the point, g--ff.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i felt that the ball was treading on thin ice by the time of third inning. i mean, dizzee rascal, would not have given up by then. but i was quickly entranced by the sounds of the ball which had a hip-hop beat yet was marred by the proto-throbbing gristle noise of the booing.

― doomie x, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry. i am beyond tired today. 70s live-action clown shows would reduce me to tears and laughter today.

― doomie x, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

alex i'm with you! (forgot my sarcasm tag, as usual)

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

doomie, it is actually pretty hilarious, but yer Grime Lurve references are off the mark.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

but i made a 'knowing' allusion to wiley. does that count for anything-anymore?

(someone remind me why doing three nights of live reviewing ontop of everything else is just basically a very tiring thing to do.)

― doomie x, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the Voice's music and film sections, but generally I find idealogues to be tedious, and the Voice is a flash point of ideology. Identity politics are a bore too.

― shookout (shookout), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

but i made a 'knowing' allusion to wiley. does that count for anything-anymore?

no, cos Alex doesn't like Grime and the grimeists in the VV are mostly ILXors who weren't at the game. :)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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