As much as it would kill me to see Texas get to the World Series* thanks to (briefly a Mariner this season) Cliff Lee, I still can't root for the NY Yankees in any scenario, no matter who is rooting for their opponent.

*if TX makes it to the Series, the Mariners and Nationals will be the only teams that haven't ever been.

Funny - that's the same expression he had in photos taken of him in meetings with various foreign dignitaries and other official...

If I squint I can imagine that's him behind bars.

@2 It's also like the expression he had on 9/11 when he was reading to the kids while the Twin Towers were crumbling, but I'm not sure if that's because of what happened or because he was reading, which, you know, isn't exactly one of his talents.

@1. Don't be a hater. Go Yanks!

go SF!

I swear the word "jinx" was invented just for him.

Great picture, but the Yankees are always free to go fuck themselves.

I hate the Yankees. I hate GW Bush, I hate Texan Big Hair Net Hair. So I better be a good person, because that picture looks like what hell is like. Watching a team that destroyed baseball, and seeing the person who helped destroy American.

It really is a conundrum to find anyone to root for in this series (besides Cliff Lee, who is awesome).

On the one hand, Bush's Texas Rangers were almost Ground Zero for steroid abuse in the 1990s. Bush was one of the first owners to hold their city hostage to pay for an expensive new ballpark, and was an owner in 1994, when they couldn't reach an agreement with the player's union and the entire sport went on strike. Bush had the nerve to want to be baseball commissioner in the early 90s (not that he could have done any worse than Bud Selig admittedly), despite being at least as big a part of destroying the sport as Steinbrenner.

On the other hand, you have the soulless, steroid abusing A-Rod and his ridiculous contract bankrupting Texas this year, since they were still paying him tens of millions years and years after he'd left to play for the Yankees.

So many willful destroyers of the pastime, in one stadium at the same time...

The Stranger needs to have a photo caption contest for that photo. and @3 I thought the same thing that Bush was behind a holding cell.

Beautiful. This is the only reason to root for the Yankees.

Also, Nolan Ryan looks like shit.

That's Nolan Ryan?!!!

Lordy. The years have not been kind.

W is seriously like a cartoon. I really miss the days Will Ferrell was around doing all those impersonations of him. Pure joy.

And the city of the Mariners can talk?

However much it puts a smile on my face to see Bush with that look on his, I have to root for the Rangers over the Yankees.
And I do hope Cliff Lee gets to see the World Series.

@3
You get the win for the week if not the month. Thanks for that!

@ 16, yes. Stunning logic. When a team stinks on ice, it is a direct result of the fans lack of baseball knowledge, and when a so called fan knows nothing of the sport they are speaking of, blame the team for not fielding a winner. Bravo, jackass.

YANKEE BASEBALL!

What a game.

Could not care less about sports, but I hope W's team loses every fucking game. Then I hope he drops his ice cream cone on the ground. And then a bird poops on his head.

When I saw it on TV i laughed just seeing Nolan Ryan. I didn't even notice Bush next to him. That makes it more funny. This pic is worhty of a caption contest. Nice Post Anthony.

Bear in mind, Ryan's like 63 or something. He doesn't look bad for 63. OK, he does look older than you ought to look when you pitched a no-hitter only 19 years ago. But for that, blame how old he was when he pitched his last no-hitter, not how fast he's slid since then.

I was about to ask whose hand that is on W's shoulder, but then I realized he's just doing that limp-wristed faggot thing. No wonder Mr. Bullet Head looks so uncomfortable. W is probably pressing up against his knee. (And where's his other hand, anyway?)

Cut Nolan Ryan some slack. Would you rather have that head case Mark Cuban in baseball?

Hey, there's always the National League

Root for the Giants, I guess. They're the only west coast team in the playoffs, and Lincecum is from the Seattle area (Renton, I think).

Is Ryan drinking two beers, or is one of those Bush's, but placed discreetly away from him?

I'm just gonna go ahead and submit a caption for this anyway:

"I tell ya, Nolan, if they had gone for the two-point conversion like I said they should, we'd be winnin' this thing."

@24: It looks like he's chewing on the earpiece of his glasses.

Let's hope that who ever wins that series gets steamrolled by the Giants, or even (gasp) the Phillies.

fuck george and nolan ryan