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the crosstown classic:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/CrosstownClassic.jpg

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

That has to be one of the best audience reaction shots I've ever seen. It's very American.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

That girl, wtf?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Someone should be cropping into individual 'O' faces..

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

the catcher had cracked the guy on the right across the jaw, and the little dude in the middle is at this moment running into the middle of it to receive his own whuppin, is the sequence of events, i believe.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Most incredible! He has just struck a spherical white ball with a long wooden stick!"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

"spherical white ball"

Uh, yeah.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

that girl is a spitting image of girl from work, pigtails and all!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/2006/05/20/h4JAfVgE.jpg

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Let me give you my love touch."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

hott

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Fantastic.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 May 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

that guy in the back t-shirt i is hilarious. he seems to be in mid-slo-mo action.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think the big man in the upper right is what makes it. He seems rather larger than everyone else, and calm.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite is half-full-beer-head-croped-out-blue-shirty

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

cropped, obv

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I hadn't even noticed him! He looks disappointed with the whole spectacle.

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Teh "big" man, I mean.

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

That little kid in the pink hat...you can almost see her illusions about sportsmanlike conduct being shattered.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

The girl in the pink shirt though, in the upper left...she's having a blast.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Haha ok so this was the fight that they accidentally momentarily cut to in the bar on Saturday? Because, like, we're sitting there with a bunch of HORSE GAMBLERS who are waiting on the Preakness and like 5 minutes before the horses go to run, every TV in the joint suddenly and mysterious switches...TO BASEBALLERS BEATING THE TAR OUT OF EACH OTHER. This lasts for like 10-15 seconds then everything goes back to ponies, just as they're about to take off outta the gate and break their legs. It was kind of the most amazing 1 minute of television I've ever seen, all by accident.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tribute.ca/tribute_objects/images/movies/harold_and_kumar/haroldandkumar5.jpg
http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/new_line_cinema/harold___kumar_go_to_white_castle/_group_photos/john_cho6.jpg

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh fuck, I was RESISTING the Harold and Kumar jokes. But I thought of it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well they are making that face for 85% OF THE MOVIE

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I realize this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I like the top right black sunglasses lady who is appears to be applauding.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Bravo! Good show! Right jab! Left cross!"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

white dude+Cub shirt+sunglasses guy is a little hard to read - almost like he's thinking of jumping onto the field to join the fun

― timmy tannin (pompous), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahah

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

xpost He looks like he thinks he's going to have to settle this himself.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

This one's still my favorite though:

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/2628/1066140lm.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

OMG!

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Their reactions are more what you'd expect if it was poop that was flying at them rather than a bat.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I put it to you that bats are heavier and hurt more when flung than poop. But if you know otherwise, I will not question it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I really like that one because the bat actually looks totally motionless and harmless.

― gooblar (gooblar), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

bottom right: HUNTER THOMPSON IS NOT DEAD, JUST A RETIREE IN MINNESOTA

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I put it to you that bats are heavier and hurt more when flung than poop. But if you know otherwise, I will not question it.

I only mean that their faces look more "Eeew!" than "AAAAHHH!"

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Except for top left guy, who looks like he's anticipating a giant fireball of death.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

(Changing the subject entirely, p@reene, am I right in assuming that was you that one M. Malk1n was complaining about on her site the other day?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Brilliant!
Love chewing gum mans face!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Human beings look ridiculous when they're frightened! They actually look even sillier than silly-comical imitations of frightened people; nothing beats the real thing. I think I officially learned this when I saw an America's Funniest Home Videos clip where a guy pretends he's being electrocuted and his friend makes like Don Knotts and Bill Cosby having the same orgasm for a few seconds before realizing what's going on and slamming a banana in the other guy's face. (Then obviously I returned to my home planet to report this amazing thing I'd learned about human beings.)

I'd actually like to see a horror / action / suspense film in which people make actual frightened-faces -- it'd be the most hilarious thing ever.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Chewing gum man looks like he's shrieking like a big blousy vagina!! Get one set of juevos my friend!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

ned, you are correct, sir.

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Noted, noted. I was just startled to see a familiar name.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

But like yeah, if you were an actor, and someone asked you to look frightened, and you accurately recreated a normal human fright-face, you would get sent home and told your physical comedy was way too over-the-top.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

"crosstown"? maybe if the cubs still played on the west side, and even then i don't think so.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the updates, ~~Morbs~~stence!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

just sayin'. nyc terminology for the 2nd city = dud.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

I nominate hstencil as ILX's all-time honorary wrinklepaws emeritus.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Crosstown Classic ==== "Otherside Antique"

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

uh, that's not even a funny joek! wrinklepaws /= ilx's ombudsman, or whatever.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, hstencil.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

c'mon stence don't harsh trayce's nyccentrism, it's all flyover anyways

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

blount that was sub-you at best.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

But if you want to start a longitudinal inter-American dust-up, say the word braheems - SAY THE WORD

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

RUDY
RUDY
RUDY

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

no worries tracey, blount is just parodying momus.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Do I speak for all Brits by saying that you've really lost me now?

Please elucidate what is happening in the top pic. Why the fisticuffs?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

FIGHT!
FIGHT!
FIGHT!
FIGHT!
FIGHT!
FIGHT!

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

why? because michael barrett is an even bigger douche than aj pierzynski, that's why.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

WHY AREN'T THE FANS HAVING A FIGHT?!#~?!

― BRITISHES (ex machina), Monday, 22 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

CROSSTOWN = the cubs play on the north side and the sox play on the south side. does "cross" always have to indicate horizontal movement?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Err, doesn't it?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I crossed the border from the U.S. to Mexico.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, the pedantry is tiresome when the term "Crosstown Classic" has been used for Cubs vs. Sox games for several decades now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think of "cross-town" as a shortening of "across", which I think is horizontal by definition. Whereas the verb "to cross" doesn't seem necessarily directional. But I dunno what they call these sports things so I defer to yr historial knowledge.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc, I was going to argue that point -- I mean, one thing is across town from the other -- and say that maybe Stencil was the one falling prey to NYC linguistic imperialism concerning what "crosstown" should mean, but ... the thing is that New Yorkers use "crosstown" a lot, and Chicagoans basically never: you would say "to the north side" or "to the south side" and that would be that. (And you might say "I'm going across town," but that's a whole different preposition from using "crosstown" as a one-word adjective!)

At the same time, though, I apparently don't know enough about baseball to understand why it would ever use "crosstown." I mean, "subway series" makes sense, but "crosstown" is kinda Manhattan-based, and one team's on the north end of Queens and the other's in the Bronx (right?), so it's really just north-west/south-east interborough action, surely.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

(I.e., NYC teams can't go "crosstown" in NYC terms, either, unless maybe there was some old stadium-organization trick I'm not aware of.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

N., you're right that nobody in Chicago ever uses the term "crosstown" outside of the phrase "Crosstown Classic."

But Webster's defines "crosstown" as "situated at opposite points of a town" [crosstown schools] or "extending or running across a town" [a crosstown bus].

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

I happily defer to Webster! (But I still like "Otherside Antique.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Eric_Cantona_kung-fu_kick.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 22 May 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm going to start using Otherside Antique actually, that's a good one.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 22 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Best of that Cantona pic: the old bald guy in the upper left corner with his lips pursed like a toothless farmer who looks COMPLETELY unsurprised.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 May 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Anyway, the pedantry is tiresome when the term "Crosstown Classic" has been used for Cubs vs. Sox games for several decades now.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), May 22nd, 2006 4:43 PM. (jaymc) (later)

MORE PEDANTRY: INTERLEAGUE SERIES GAMES DID NOT START UNTIL THE MID TO LATE 1990s.

dumbass.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, aside from that great cubs/sox w.s. in '57!!!!

/withering sarcasm

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Ayup ... yep, high kicks this season ... kicks that high afore autumn-time spell a hard freeze ... last I seen a kick yon high was winter of the great war."

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 450,000 for "Crosstown Classic" cubs
Results 1 - 10 of about 9,480 for "Crosstown Classic" mets

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

subway series, duh.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

MORE PEDANTRY: INTERLEAGUE SERIES GAMES DID NOT START UNTIL THE MID TO LATE 1990s.

THERE WAS AN EXHIBITION GAME EVERY MAY FROM 1985-1996. I WENT TO THE ONE IN 1993.

Idiot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

exhibition games don't count, self-fellator.

geez, u would not last in tha fan fite.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Exhibition games count because they were called the CROSSTOWN CLASSIC!Which is, uh, the point of what we're arguing about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

NO RECORD-BOOK ENTRY, NO CREDIBILITY

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

DUDE ALL I'M SAYING IS THAT THE TERM HAS BEEN IN USE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

~~more pedantry~~

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Joel, do you enjoy being a total cock like 90% of the time?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

only when i'm baiting you, cutie-pie.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Someone photoshop Jaymc and Hstencil into the main photo and have the four main people in the stands be me, Nabisco, Gabbneb and Ally.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) I guess we all get our kicks somehow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

all of a sudden you don't like cocks? : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

me at a baseball game?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fine with me, Mr. Crosstown Classic googler.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 22 May 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

so what we've learned here is that hstencil is a pedantic jackass who never can admit to being wrong. well, more been reminded of than learned.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 22 May 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/filmes/gosford-park/gosford-park-poster03.jpg

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

well, i am thinkng about the subway series in July, admittedly

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like the guy holding the beer. It's kind of funnier how you can't see his face.

― girlygirl (girlygirl), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

I thought a subway series was when the two NYC teams play in the World Series, not just when they play each other?

― dissonance in the divine accord (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Crosstown Invasion!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v674/weatheringdaleson/Crosstown.jpg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

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