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creepy headline is creepy

by sadison bummedgarner on Aug 20, 2009 7:30 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I believe Dethklok said it best...

Ticket is your life
Ended by a knife
Called the murder train
Eternity of pain

Rafael Rodriguez: #8 on our list, tearing up Scottsdale, and has been alive long enough to see the Warriors make the playoffs once.

by BrianBokake on Aug 20, 2009 8:11 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Stops copies me!

NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?

by victor frankenstein on Aug 21, 2009 8:16 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

no

you were dildoes.

Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.

by delorean on Aug 21, 2009 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I understand they’re playing off the massive overreaction out of New York, but murder is going a little far with the joke.

by deuce deuce on Aug 20, 2009 8:08 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I think they are making fun of baseball all together.

I thought it was funny.

“Thats baseball”

by kvdp12 on Aug 20, 2009 8:16 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

fun police is fun

Wait..I mean not fun.

Billy Ripken is not a fuck face

by Karlifornia on Aug 20, 2009 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I don’t have a problem with the joke, but I could see how something like that could rub some people the wrong way.

by deuce deuce on Aug 20, 2009 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah, but the Onion’s not exactly trying to not offend anybody.

I think it’s a lot more tame of a joke than you do, too. I really don’t see what the trouble could be. Yes, murder = bad. But this also = obvious satire.

Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.

by howtheyscored on Aug 21, 2009 12:01 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

…It’s not like he actually got murdered

GROUGTHINK ALERT
The first Chester Arthur fanboy ever.

by groug on Aug 20, 2009 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

It’s just a joke

Wall-E for Best Picture 2008
2009: The return of Los Galacticos!

by Useful_Idiot on Aug 21, 2009 9:00 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The Giants seem to be a disproportionate target for the Onion in the last few years. Dead Sandoval, bald Lincecum, Zito’s one-hit bullpen session, Randy Johnson’s borrowed back, and the team Banding Together To Score A Run (which is even less funny today than it was yesterday). There was also an American Voices years ago where all the last names were obscure GIants (Lemaster, Sadek, etc.)

by pantalones on Aug 20, 2009 9:51 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I'm not surprised

the Onion used to have a San Francisco Edition

by i wish we were good on Aug 20, 2009 11:21 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I don’t really see this as a joke at the Giants’ expense, though. In fact, I’d say that if they’re taking any side at all, it would be ours.

Much of the actual targetting is also deserved. Zito has been bad. Johnson does have a bad back. We do have trouble scoring. I don’t know what that Lincecum one’s about.

Context, people. More context is good. Less context is bad. If you're willing to be reductive, then you're willing to be wrong.

by howtheyscored on Aug 20, 2009 11:59 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

They must have a writer who’s a Giants fan.

by Evan on Aug 21, 2009 6:58 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I wish I had a screenshot, but a few years ago, every one of the people in the “What Are They Saying?” feature had a name like Aldrete or Manwaring. It was awesome.

by Grant on Aug 21, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Not exactly funny

but successfully satirizes

1. Met’s fans bloodlust, and
2. the ridiculousness of the “unwritten rules.”

I have also noted the seemingly disproportionate frequency with which Giants players are featured in Onion sports pieces. Are we really so much more rife with comic possibilities than other teams?

by thethrillisgone on Aug 21, 2009 6:28 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Are we really so much more rife with comic possibilities than other teams?

You have seen a Giants game right ?

My adopted son Matt Downs . Ranked as the 24th best prospect in the Giants farm system by Baseball America !!

by nvsfg on Aug 21, 2009 8:20 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I like that it’s Mike Pelfrey blood-stained giving his quote to the Onion

by Mrbasepaul on Aug 21, 2009 7:57 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

it’s funny b/c New Yorkers are murderers.

Bonds stands alone.

Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants

by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 21, 2009 9:24 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I think my place of residence can lay claim to that

I R 5

by say hey nation on Aug 21, 2009 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

ha ha. City of Brotherly MURDER.

Bonds stands alone.

Neal before Zod!
Official Sponsor of the 1997 San Francisco Giants

by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 21, 2009 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

thank God Phil Cuzzi issued a warning

by FluLikeSymptoms on Aug 21, 2009 12:02 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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