8/17/07 DLD: Kurt Suzuki is allowed to talk about Fight Club.

... can talk about FC, because everyone else in FC has been struck dumb by his awesomeness. Some have even had their tongues fall out.

Jermaine Dye made an unsuccessful dive for Piazza's liner down the right-field line.

"That's the only way I can get a triple other than if the fielder was having a massive heart attack,'' Piazza said.

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It was Doug Waechter.

FIM, not Ratto.

I made a sign yesterday for him that said, "Hannahan is my Superman". He smiled when he saw it. His story is touching and inspiring, showing that you can't take anything for granted.

Good for Jack.

Its way too positive to be Ratto.

But he did end it with a nice moral of the story

Sometimes, it's just about just being on the field, just because it beats the hell out of being face-down on some stranger's lawn trying not to be mistaken for dead.

where he shows animals that eat smaller living animals and shit on the talk show host's head.

Also, I can't stop smiling about him wearing Bradley's #22.  Ratto missed a good column line or two from that bit.

... when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.

how about some dialogue, or a set and setting?

I dreamed I saw Donnie Hill last night,
Alive as you and me!
Says I, "Don, you're 15 years gone!"
"I never left," says he.
"I never left," says he.

"In Minnesota, Don," I said
An A's cap on my head,
"They dumped you for Jeff Reboulet."
"But I ain't gone," he said.
"But I ain't gone," he said.

"The baseball bosses tossed you, Don
"Released you, I believe."
"A roster move can't drive me off,"
Says Don, "I didn't leave!"
Says Don, "I didn't leave!"

And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes,
Says Don, "What they can't DFA
"Got drafted in Rule 5!
"Got drafted in Rule 5!"

From San Diego to New York
On every diamond, still,
Where backups play with lousy VORPs
It's there you'll find Donnie Hill
It's there you'll find Donnie Hill.

I dreamed I saw Donnie Hill last night,
Alive as you and me!
Says I, "Don, you're 15 years gone!"
"I never left," says he.
"I never left," says he.

Original here (scroll down a ways, brothers and sisters!).

First round? Okay. But not first pick.

... The Bay Area's BEST newspaper, with The Bay Area's BEST sportswriters?

is maybin ready for the majors already?

More cowbell.

I should post in a vile mood more often!

(too bad i have the memory span of an aphasic gnat)

Wily Mo to Nats for cash/PTBNL.

Don't field phone calls the evening after the exam.

After I took my GRE, I was relaxing at home, very pleased with my score.  I got a phone call from somebody from the educational testing service saying that there had "irregularities" at my testing site and that my score might have to be thrown out.  He then asked for my SS#, which made me suspicious.  It was my cousin, who thought he was sooooo funny.  I nearly had a heart attack.

Take your time.

I told myself that I would take my time since I tend to rush through exams and make silly mistakes along the way.  The final question in one of the math sections, was to compute how many numbers between 1 and 1000 had 3 as one of its digits (or something like that).  I began figuring the pattern, but I looked at my watch and realized that I had totally rushed the section and had five minutes left.  So I used the brute force method and wrote down every number from 1 through 1000 and checked off the ones that had a 3 in it.  I'm pretty sure that's not how they meant for you to solve the problem.

I hate Lackey.  If I had a link of Chuck roundhouse kicking Lackey in the face, I'd be happy.

Also nice:

Announcer: "2007 Angels baseball..."

In rapid succession, these screen shots:
• aerial view, Angel Stadium, looking at field from above home plate
• a rat races across concrete for a discarded bitten-off third of a Farmer John hot dog
• Chone Figgins steals second base
• a different rat dives to grab a peanut
• Orlando Cabrera fields a web gem
• another rat wrestles a cheese-coated nacho chip speckled with dirt
• Vlad Guerrero belts an outside breaking ball hard enough for extra bases
• rat sits up, popcorn in his mouth
• John Lackey waits for the umpire’s call of strike three, then pumps his fist

Announcer: "Disregard the Chinese calendar..."
• big, fat rat staring at the camera
• Mike Scioscia staring at the camera
• twenty-five rats descend upon a spilled pile of something from Panda Express, competing for position to grab the mystery meat
• the Angels race onto the field in a full-squad victory celebration, jumping up and down

Announcer: "THIS is the Year of the Rat! Angels baseball tickets are still available...

The director who juxtaposes a rat staring at the camera with Scioscia doing the same gets the Oscar, I say.

Link?

I've been so happy for Rick Ankiel this last week or so, making it back and hitting the crap out of the ball.

Yet, Phil and Joe were my favorite pitchers as a little kid (along with Don Sutton and Tommy John, both Athletics in 1985 when I first became an A's fan).  I'd love to see Lance make it as an NL knuckleball starter/backup 1B/PH.  That would be the coolest thing since Brooks Kieschnick pitched and played OF.

with a lower ERA than Dan Johnson, but if he will finish with a lower ERA than Scott Spiezio...

tend to be DOA?

outstretched, as if to say "WTF?"

"Damn! I'm out of nacho cheese!"

Who is the Bluefish catcher who protected his pitcher?  That cat's a badmuthershutchomouth.  I want him on my team.

Okay, okay, as backup.    

is a Campy Campaneris fan, huh?

That pitcher needs to learn aikido.  Ducking away from someone with a bat is not a good way to defend yourself.

about to attack an invisible dinosaur with his bat

I saw the preview... didn't look too good.

although the DK title has already changed hands again since this was made.

the very end of that trailer = best movie line of the year.

Looked like Danny vs. MaEl to me.

vs.  

that guy looks exactly like Haren.

post-movie DK record spoiler:
link

Kthxbye.  

39 innings and going strong.