Hibernation

by CrackBaby on Dec 16, 2006 10:48 PM PST

This is it folks. Mid December and cabin fever has set in for me here in Vermont. I am getting anxious nervous and depressed due to the short days and cold nights. Most depressing of all is the lack of Baseball, football just doesn't cut it. I need more games!!! I can't wait for April it's just too much. To save me from REALLY losing it I just got an Xbox and Espn MLB 2k5. I am 14 games into the season and the A's have the best record in baseball at 13-1. Chavez is the best hitter in baseball with .508 batting avg. he also has the most homeruns in baseball with 11. Juan Cruz pitched a full game and got 19 strike outs tying the record in one game! I know it doesn't mean anything, but god it is great to see the A's win even if it is fake and digital. 148 games to go till post season (man i can't wait for spring). Untill April I'm gonna keep my nose deep in the Xbox and on MLB.com watching archived games. Like game 3 against the twins in the first round of the playoffs this year!!! Anyway Happy Hannukah and Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful holiday and everyone THINK SPRING!!!!

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cabin fever

Likewise. And it hasn't even been that bad of a winter here in Buffalo...course, it's easy to say that when winter hasn't even actually begun yet. Speaking of MLB video games, I wish EA Sports still had licensing rights for MLB...well, I guess it's a far trade-off for Madden.

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 16, 2006 11:02 PM PST reply actions

follow-up

I almost went golfing today. Almost. 50 degree temperature said yes; rain, wind, and Bills' game said no. But my would-be golfing partner, my father, was by no means alone on the golf course...this isn't supposed to be happening a week before Christmas. I'm starting to think that Al Gore is wrong and that global warming is a very, very convenient truth. Except for the few days in October we had to deal with the entire county being rendered impassable by nearly 2 feet of unforeseen, really fucking heavy snow and Mt. Washington-esque winds.

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 18, 2006 1:29 AM PST up reply actions

NEED BOX SCORES!

I'm not a big wine guy... Where do you grow the BEER?

by str8tarrow on Dec 17, 2006 6:23 AM PST reply actions

Crack Baby,

I keep wanting to believe that your user name is just what you yell whenever an A's hitter makes really solid contact.

Just say no, kids.

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Dec 17, 2006 10:35 AM PST reply actions

it could be reztips

A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05

by xbhaskarx on Dec 17, 2006 1:06 PM PST up reply actions

hey...

he at least claims his anxiety, frayed nerves, and depression are due to the natural cause of change of season...I'll take his word for it.

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 18, 2006 1:24 AM PST up reply actions

Thanks

Thank i appreciate the understanding. IT IS JUST A NAME!

Oakland A's 2007 World Champions!

by CrackBaby on Dec 18, 2006 1:33 AM PST up reply actions

it's a sweet name

I thought I had one of the better ones on the site, but you have outdone me.

It's 4:30 AM in the East here, what the fuck are we doing awake? Heh. I've been on a weird schedule for a week or so...

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 18, 2006 1:39 AM PST up reply actions

just so you know though...

90% of the time Nico is half-joking. (Isn't that sort of similar to something Yogi Berra said?...help me out here...I know the percentages are the same, except my comment made sense, whereas his legendary one didn't).

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 18, 2006 1:41 AM PST up reply actions

90%???? how bout 99.9

rip 2006, it was nice while it lasted.

by ak_A on Dec 18, 2006 8:43 AM PST up reply actions

Bitch.

And this is the 0.01%, too.

See you at the Alaska airport on New Year's Eve!

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Dec 18, 2006 9:34 AM PST up reply actions

one more thing before this thread becomes my diary

I wish Juan Cruz pitching a 19K CG for the A's wasn't just a fake and digital performance. Towards the end of the 2005 season, I was calling for him to be used as the #5 starter, based on his performances in that role in Sacramento. It never came to pass though, and his inability to fit in with the team at least netted us a decent long reliever in Halsey. Seeing as there wasn't much to remember about him while he was with the A's, I'll always think of him as the guy who owned the Hyundai Santa Fe SUV in the Chicago Cubs' players parking lot when he was a Cub...I'm pretty confident that he's the only major leaguer driving that particular car.

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 18, 2006 1:52 AM PST up reply actions

Yet another rad diary by Crack Baby

(which makes two, that I've seen). Keep 'em coming, brother!

by Philip Christy on Dec 17, 2006 9:08 PM PST reply actions

I feel this way after the Super Bowl...

Nothing worse than football being over.

Bring back Hammer.

by OaktownPower on Dec 17, 2006 9:51 PM PST reply actions

I fight back ...

By taking my 9 year old to play catch (sometimes in a mostly wet field) in order to keep up his conditioning for liitle league tryouts this February. He and I also get our chance to play electronically via MLB The Show 06 for PS2.

So long Frank...we hardly got to know you.

by Carlos1118 on Dec 18, 2006 1:18 AM PST reply actions

you in the NE, Carlos?

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 18, 2006 1:21 AM PST up reply actions

NE...

northeast, New England, Nebraska...any of the above...it's winter everywhere (well, in this the northern hemisphere)...but what I meant was the first on the list, hence the "the"

"We don't want haddock and chips, we want cod. In cod we trust." --Ghostigital, the pride of Iceland

by Cutthemullet on Dec 18, 2006 1:22 AM PST up reply actions