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So I'm trying to do a bit of an overhaul on my current icon collection; I'd like to just do it over with a baseball theme and have specific icons for Angry and Yay! and WTF? and things like that.

I managed to come up with a baseball gay icon *points up* but for the rest I'm kind of at a loss. I've never attempted to actively find pictures to portray moods before. Does anyone have any tips on how I go about this?

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If Alex Rodriguez were a character in an Oscar Wilde play, I imagine he'd sound something like this.

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Best sentence ever as found in Yahoo!'s caption for this photo: "Following the game, Biggio hobbled into the clubhouse, with teeming bags of ice wrapped around his lower back, right shoulder and left knee."

"Teeming bags of ice?" Dude, if your ice is teeming, you need to put down the bad LSD and take a step back, okay?

I have succeeded in another new icon, and this is kind of perfect for its debut. Yahoo! captioners, Mike Maroth thinks you suck.

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Since I'm not doing anything else for the Fourth . . .

You Are 19% American

You're as American as Key Lime Tofu Pie Otherwise known as un-American! You belong in Cairo or Paris... Get out fast - before you end up in Gitmo!

How American Are You?

. . . and now we all know why. I win!

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Hee, I just got wicked confused when I opened the play by play for the Astros game and saw Paul Quantrill's name. "What, I know I didn't click the Yankees game - oh. Oh, yeah." Oh, Paul Quantrill, now you are a bitch in San Diego instead of New York. I hope you hit the wrong guy with a pitch and he gives you the pasting Dmitri didn't have a chance to dish out.

Aaaaand Roy Oswalt pitched a complete game, which I do believe is his second of the year. My teams' pitchers rule. He gave up one run, but unlike, say, Nate Robertson, he had the offense behind him and the Astros won 4-1.

Morgan Ensberg only got a single, a double, and the one RBI, so I can totally see why he didn't make the All Star team. What a loser. *grr* Man, anyone who knows anything knows that Rolen over Ensberg is such a load of crap. It's a good thing I don't care about the ASG or I'd really be upset.

The Tigers are playing a doubleheader against the Indians today. They lost the first game, 9-3, because Jason Johnson needs to put his pants on while he's in the chat. Or something. Anyway, they are clearly never going to win another game as long as I live, but I think I'll watch the second game anyway because I do want to see Justin Verlander pitch.

The Yankees are currently contriving to irritate the shit out of me by giving up an early lead the one time I would kind of like them to hold on to it. Didn't they just play the Orioles? Do we really have to do this all over again? Heh, I just turned on my TV because I remembered the game is on ESPN and Posada is mouthing off at the homeplate umpire. I think I'll keep watching just to see if he manages to get ejected later.

Tonight: Tigers/Indians part two and Red Sox/Rangers. Hopefully, the Tigs and the Sox will remember that thing where they don't lose, because they seem to have forgotten how to do that.

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Um. Wow. That may have been the saddest excuse for an eighth inning I've seen all year.

The Orioles gave up seven runs. SEVEN. And I'd thank the Yankees for managing to pull it out and keep the O's off our backs, but it's not like they actually did anything. They got three hits, and lame little just-barely-hits at that. Meanwhile, the O's are running around hitting guys with pitches, walking guys, making bizarre errors, and just generally being sad.

Stupid Announcer Alert: When they were talking about Mazilli possibly pulling BJ Ryan. "Yes, he's thrown thirty-four pitches, but you don't want to give the game away." Um what? I'm sorry, were you watching a game in which BJ Ryan was being even remotely effective? He has thrown thirty-four pitches today because he sucks today and Mazilli would be better off putting me in the game so why don't you pay attention to what's going on in front of you okay? I don't even know what his final pitch count ended up being, but I do know he gave up six of those seven runs. Yeah, thank goodness Mazilli took his time pulling him.

Final score 13-8, and I vote we all send ayrdaomei fine liquor to help her cope.

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Thanks, Keith. Thanks a lot. Like I didn't suffer enough watching the Tigers waste Justin Verlander's quite nice major league debut?

Sox. Tigers. Why are you both slumping at once? It is strange and unnatural for the Astros to be my good team (THREE GAMES WITHIN .500 YAY). Pick it up already.

Eck pointing out the obvious about Keith: "His confidence is clearly shot at this point." It's beyond shot, Eck, it's dead and buried. And by coincidence its grave is right next to that of the Red Sox Nation's confidence in him. It's not even a surprise when he fucks up a game anymore. The surprise would be if he saved it. Hell, I was surprised that that final at-bat didn't end in a grand slam.

Final Tigers and Sox scores, respectively: 6-0 (sorry, Justin, the offense doesn't seem to like you any more than it likes Nate), and 6-5 (sorry, Manny, no need for that two-run homer).

TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER DAMMIT DON'T MAKE ME COME DOWN THERE.

I really didn't plan to use my irritated Maroth icon so much on its first day.

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Tom Caron: "Whatcha gotta do is you gotta get a five-run lead in the ninth inning, but we're not gonna talk about that."

I loved how he said it really quickly too, like he knew it was exactly what everyone has been thinking but he wasn't really supposed to be saying it. Even though we've all been saying it for, I don't know, seems like years.