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DLD 3.25.09 My Blog, Right or Wrong

 

(yawn)

 

Kinda dull around here, huh?  I mean, it's kinda dull if you grew up in a family where your older brother chased your younger brother around with a butcher's knife, screaming at the top of his lungs, "I'll kill you!"

 

I'm fairly certain The Colonel just ordered some signs from me.

 

Him:

Colonel_james_275_medium

 

Not him:

 

Colonel_medium

"The Colonel's dead and here we are still enjoying his chicken..."

 

But I digress.  This, my friends, is a baseball blog. 

 

JoePo weighs in on The Schill. Along with, topically, ethics.

 

Batgirl's humming along with Gene, Ace and the boys.

 

Apparently, we could take all that vitriol aimed at either condemning PT or exonerating him, and flay the Wollf-hater.  Or exonerate him.  Killion's original article.

 

Blog on, you crazy diamond.

Poll
Cause of 800+ fan posts?
Warring factions within blog.
12 votes
Dischord about changes in system structure.
3 votes
Lack of DLDs.
4 votes
Lack of Monkeyball.
13 votes
Lack of meaningful baseball being played.
17 votes
Eff you, jackass.
9 votes
All of the above.
18 votes

76 votes | Poll has closed

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huh, Rob Neyer got a new picture

Also I think we need an All of the Above option on this poll.

Everything is sunshine when you are Ray Fosse, bitches.

by stormtown on Mar 25, 2009 1:20 PM PDT reply actions  

Great minds work alike

Only mine works too slowly…

To be hit by Moriyama's fastball is an honor exceeded only by being crushed under the wheels of the imperial carriage

by elcroata on Mar 25, 2009 1:22 PM PDT reply actions  

Damn.

I was am the younger brother.

I'm here to talk about the past.

by 67MARQUEZ on Mar 25, 2009 1:24 PM PDT reply actions  

I'll KILL YOU!

{waves knife frantically}

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 25, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions  

dude that's a spork.

"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."

by mikev on Mar 25, 2009 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'll...

um…poke him with the little tines….and try to…scoop at him a bit….

{becomes saddened by inability of spork to cause real damage to fake younger brother}

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 25, 2009 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions  

LOL

thank you so much for the laugh.
much needed right now. :P

Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40

by #14fan on Mar 26, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions  

I don't wanna play contentious website anymore.

Let’s play something else.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

like what?

Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40

by #14fan on Mar 26, 2009 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions  

I dunno.

Anything where we’re not just constantly bickering.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 4:03 PM PDT up reply actions  

That sounds like a stup...

Oh. Right.

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson

by nevermoor on Mar 26, 2009 4:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

I love you.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 4:25 PM PDT up reply actions  

no constant bickering sounds good...

though that might be a little extreme, LB. :P

Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40

by #14fan on Mar 26, 2009 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions  

I love you, too.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions  

Contentious? Don't you mean pretentious?

;)

Who was this sultan of sock, this hero of hosiery, this stalwart of shinwear? Ah, Wimberly — Corey Wimberly. - Uni Watch

by pam5981 on Mar 26, 2009 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

Pam, I love you.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions  

You're doling out a whole lotta love lately.

"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." -- Connie Mack

by GreenSocks on Mar 27, 2009 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'm trying to spread it around.

We’ve had enough hate, vitriol, resentment and petty, in-house bickering. We gotta rev up for the season to start. We are family.

"If I told you once, I told you a thousand times: get yourself a hacksaw and a roll of duck tape, and attach your ankle-bracelet monitor to the leg of a gator." -lumurspoker

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 27, 2009 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions  

Classic line.

The guy was steady on television for almost thirty years, did a ton of movies, and his most memorable role by far was the six minutes screen time in this film.

Plus he just bought signs, which upgrades him considerably in my book.

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 25, 2009 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions  

LOL

what did we used to call it when we had two threads going and one was the positive thread and one was the negative thread? Shoot, why can’t I remember that?

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Mar 25, 2009 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions  

We called it oaktoon.

The monster at the end of this blog.

by grover on Mar 25, 2009 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions  

Grandpa...

tell us what the blog was like when you were a kid…

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 25, 2009 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions  

In 5ft

of cybersnow.

"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty

by 5Aces on Mar 26, 2009 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions  

you know, i'm old enough

and a geek enough to remember when “the internet” was strictly a modem hooked up to the phone line and you would call people, preferably local people, and connect with their bulletin board. I had a modem for my Commodore 64. I think it was 400 baum.

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions  

2400 baud baby!

If you wrote to long a post the whole system would crash.

Enjoy the game

by DCinWC on Mar 26, 2009 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions  

bbs

It was awesome. You would pick up a copy of Computer Currents and flip to the classifieds in the back, where people would just publish the numbers for their modem(s). Then, when you tried to call them up, they were busy pretty much all the time.

I’m not even that old, but I guess I was a pretty nerdy kid.

by colin on Mar 26, 2009 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions  

ditto.

I lived in rural Indiana, so there were about five numbers. No publications.

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions  

Oh does that bring back memories

I remember getting my first computer-and Atari 130xe-and i heard about this thing called compuserve. I begged dad to let me sign up for it, and we had some basic package where you got 40 hours a month and additional time was like $7 an hour.

I was sick like 2 weeks later and stayed home for 3 days playing MegaWars and You Guessed It on-line.

Next month when dad got the $400 american express bill, my CompuServe deal was taken away and I didn’t go on-line for another like 6 years.

"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty

by 5Aces on Mar 26, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions  

Me too!

it was called “prodigy” or something.

"I know they're the defending World Champs, but they are the whiniest team in baseball" -Rays announcers

by baseballgirl on Mar 26, 2009 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions  

You know,

I would have been a very rich man had I not discovered the evil alcohol and his sister demons narcotics. But the tech crash would’ve made me poor again anyhow, and now I’d be all bitter. Well, more bitter than I am now.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions  

Lets talk about Baseball!

from Jeff Fletchers blog

Brad Zigler on the WBC

Ziggy is going to submit some “ideas” about the WBC to baseball, go for it Brad.

You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}

by micdog2001 on Mar 25, 2009 3:42 PM PDT reply actions  

perhaps some rules about not getting whacked around like a pinata?

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 25, 2009 3:45 PM PDT up reply actions  

Royce Ring placed on waivers

Link

Ring has always been a favorite of mine. Given BB’s concern over the bullpen situation, and the clubs previous attempts at procuring a lefty to compliment Blevins, I think Ring could make a lot of sense.

by CapgrasDelusion on Mar 25, 2009 5:47 PM PDT reply actions  

kick his ass, Billy!

(I’m still mad about how he treated Frank)

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 25, 2009 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions  

DO NOT WANT

His component stats are terrible. A Whip nearing 2 and less than a K an inning are no bueno from your LOOGY

Some of the most violent things I’ve ever seen were at Raiders games. And I’ve been to jail. - leopold bloom

by designatedforassignment on Mar 26, 2009 6:33 PM PDT up reply actions  

I don't care what time zone you live in.

You shouldn’t post a DLD at 10:00 the night before. It’s not like I’m even staying up late.

"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."

by iglew on Mar 25, 2009 10:27 PM PDT reply actions  

wha?

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 25, 2009 11:26 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm confused.

This was posted this afternoon.

If ever a game should have been called on account of wind, that one was it. Good thing Jerry Blevins didn't have to pitch; he's tall, skinny, and I could practically see one of the 40-mph gusts...sweeping him off the bump and pinning him to the left-field fence. --Mychael Urban

by ZigFan31 on Mar 25, 2009 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions  

Actually, I'm the one who is confused.

Having trouble with am vs pm. Also 25 vs 26. Well, just basically completely brain-dead. So forget I ever said anything.

"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."

by iglew on Mar 26, 2009 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions  

haha...no prob!

If ever a game should have been called on account of wind, that one was it. Good thing Jerry Blevins didn't have to pitch; he's tall, skinny, and I could practically see one of the 40-mph gusts...sweeping him off the bump and pinning him to the left-field fence. --Mychael Urban

by ZigFan31 on Mar 26, 2009 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

Hurray! John Joseph IV looking out for John Joseph III

Love SuSlu’s glove story … but what the heck does it have to do with Batgirl? And who are Gene and Ace?

"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."

by iglew on Mar 25, 2009 10:38 PM PDT reply actions  

It was titled "Calling Dr. Glove"

And Kiss has a song called “Calling Dr. Love,” so I had it in my head all day yesterday, see the previous day’s DLD

"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King

by batgirl on Mar 26, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions  

Because I can't get enough:

Socks in action!

If ever a game should have been called on account of wind, that one was it. Good thing Jerry Blevins didn't have to pitch; he's tall, skinny, and I could practically see one of the 40-mph gusts...sweeping him off the bump and pinning him to the left-field fence. --Mychael Urban

by ZigFan31 on Mar 25, 2009 11:46 PM PDT reply actions  

Don't stop til you get enough.

Michael would want you to carry on.

In this proverbial bar, the goat lover ended up with the deed to the place. -grover

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions  

Socks in Action?

You mean Zombie Cat?

Chicago. Where the Dead can Vote. Where the Voters of Tomorrow are found in the Obituaries of Today.

by Zonis on Mar 26, 2009 4:46 PM PDT up reply actions  

I always liked being...

the “older brother.”

Clowns to the left of me... Jokers to the right...

by FoolshGame22 on Mar 26, 2009 1:55 AM PDT reply actions  

poor Rand...

Galt being almost 3 years older than he is… he’s gonna get his ass whupped way more than my younger brother did, who was only 1 1/2 years younger than I. I know how older brothers are… merciless.

Clowns to the left of me... Jokers to the right...

by FoolshGame22 on Mar 26, 2009 2:00 AM PDT up reply actions  

uncle milton

Have you all seen this quote he gave yesterday?

“I’m a winner,” he said. “When I went to the Dodgers [in 2004], after they hadn’t been to the postseason since ‘88, they went to the postseason. I went to the A’s in 2006. We weren’t supposed to do anything, and we went to the ALCS. I was with San Diego [in ‘07]. We were one win away from making the postseason, and I got hurt. Everywhere I go, people win. It’s not a surprise.”

link

Also, I couldn’t resist this part:

How many games will Bradley play?

On his first day at camp, he said he wanted to play 181, including the postseason. In January general manager Jim Hendry said: "We’re hopeful he plays 130 to 135 games.

by colin on Mar 26, 2009 9:35 AM PDT reply actions  

Milt was a gamer for us.

He may have issues (as we all do), but you could not question his desire to win.

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions  

make no mistake

I love the quote. But there is always some humor in these boasts, no matter who makes them.

But yeah, if Bradley and Harden both stay healthy, that would be huge for the Cubbies.

by colin on Mar 26, 2009 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions  

I don't mean to brag.

I don’t mean to boast.

But I’m intercontinental
when I eat French toast.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions  

Sports Franchises as bar hook-ups

(not that I would know anything about hooking up in a bar)

We all heard about Julian Tavarez’s quote about the Washington Nationals. Seems like the Baltimore Sun came up with several other franchise/hook-up analogies.

Example:

Franchise: Boston Red Sox
At the bar, they are: The wicked smart girl in glasses who is doing shots, dancing on tables and acting way too loud. Rumor is she was all emo in high school and college, moping about how she’d be a bridesmaid for the rest of her life, but now she’s totally blossomed and pretty hot. She has some scars from her past, but it’s all good. They’ve pretty much faded. Truth be told, it was hilarious the first time she got a little wasted and belted out “Sweet Caroline” but now … not so much. Also, does she have to remind us all the time how smart she is?
Think: Tina Fey (post 2004)

"Warm Springs Infernal" - FSU, 2/6/09 DLD

by doctorK on Mar 26, 2009 11:52 AM PDT reply actions  

Thank you, that was funny.

especially:

Rumor is she was all emo in high school and college, moping about how she’d be a bridesmaid for the rest of her life, but now…

by drink409 on Mar 26, 2009 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions  

Well, I'm just effing crushed.

DNA test confirms 13-year-old Alfie NOT the dad

Mostly because the 15-year-old mother is already a WHORE! Holy crap. Lock that shit up, Chantelle. Have a little self-respect.

"Smells like summer camp!"

by Jennifer on Mar 26, 2009 2:13 PM PDT reply actions  

You gotta lock that up.

"A sign I made broke today,or maybe yesterday. I don’t know." -5aces

by Leopold Bloom on Mar 26, 2009 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions  

Scandalous!!!!

Who was this sultan of sock, this hero of hosiery, this stalwart of shinwear? Ah, Wimberly — Corey Wimberly. - Uni Watch

by pam5981 on Mar 26, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions  

Chicago. Where the Dead can Vote. Where the Voters of Tomorrow are found in the Obituaries of Today.

by Zonis on Mar 26, 2009 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions  

Shouldn't Alfie

and the slore be building snow forts or something? Merlin H. Ambrosius. Crazy kids these days.

by Kimberly on Mar 27, 2009 12:45 AM PDT up reply actions  

At least he's pitching?

"I know they're the defending World Champs, but they are the whiniest team in baseball" -Rays announcers

by baseballgirl on Mar 26, 2009 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

Is that a bright side?

"I know they're the defending World Champs, but they are the whiniest team in baseball" -Rays announcers

by baseballgirl on Mar 26, 2009 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

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