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Quote from: Waco Kid on March 28, 2008, 11:18:36 AM
Alex Cintron

Is he the worst Cub to never play a game for the Cubs?  I think if I had to choose between Cintron and Ty Griffin....I'd take Ty.

Quote from: Slaky+ on March 26, 2008, 05:48:53 PM

Quote from: ChuckDickens on March 26, 2008, 05:45:37 PM

Quote from: Thrillho on March 26, 2008, 05:33:16 PM
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/03/rick-astley-kin.html

QuoteFor his part, Astley was nothing if not modest about his new cultural role. “If this had happened around some kind of rock song, with a lyric that really meant something -- a Bruce Springsteen, "God bless America" ... or an anti-something kind of song, I could kind of understand that,” Astley said. “But for something as, and I don’t mean to belittle it, because I still think it’s a great pop song, but it’s a pop song; do you know what I mean? It doesn’t have any kind of weight behind it, as such. But maybe that’s the irony of it.”

Astley would never put the song down, mind you. It’s just that, as he says, “If I was a young kid now looking at that song, I’d have to say I’d think it was pretty naff, really.”

(Wikipedia on “naff”: British slang for “something which is seen to be particularly ‘cheesy’ or ‘tacky’ or in otherwise poor aesthetic taste.”) “For me it’s a good example of what some of the ’80s were about in that pop sort of music way. A bit like you could say Debbie Gibson was absolutely massive, but if you look back at it now ... do you know what I mean?”

...

“Listen, I just think it’s bizarre and funny. My main consideration is that my daughter doesn’t get embarrassed about it.”

I read that and was surprised by how cool he seemed about the whole thing.

I thought he was gay.

He is most certainly, not gay.

Quote from: PTanner on March 21, 2008, 11:03:10 AM

Quote from: Oleg on March 21, 2008, 11:01:21 AM

Quote from: Dave B on March 21, 2008, 10:17:24 AM
From Crazy Rumor Guy:

"According to Jon Paul Morosi of the Detroit Free Press, the Tigers are targeting Cubs reliever Mike Wuertz.  He notes that the Cubs like Marcus Thames and Brandon Inge.  Thames' inability to play center and Inge's contract could be issues though, in my opinion. 

Wuertz, 29, is an underrated reliever with a nasty slider.  Given the state of Detroit's bullpen, he could see save chances if acquired. This was his first year of arbitration eligibility, and he settled at $860K.  Wuertz is pretty far down in the Cubs' bullpen pecking order, for some reason."

Thames: Maybe. Inge: Nah.

Really?  There are actually three reasons, perhaps four.  Wood, Howry, Marmol, and Hart.  If Wuertz is the fifth best guy in that pen, I'd say it's a strength.  Wuertz is good.

the Cubs' worst case scenario is they option Hart and have Wuertz as a long man. Not bad, as worst case scenarios go.

Hart was a starter until he was called up.  They could send him down to give him starters innings.  I'm perfectly comfortable with Wuertz getting his innings.

Quote from: Tonker on March 12, 2008, 03:48:52 PM

Quote from: theoneandonlyjim on March 12, 2008, 03:03:04 PM
Not really the greatest follower to the last couple of posts but here goes:

I just got a really great job offer, and I'm feeling like it's the right move for me to take it.  However, it means that I'll be moving from Cleveland to Raleigh without my fiancee, at least until our wedding in August and possibly later depending on a couple of things.  I'm nervous about the whole idea, so my question is two-fold.

First, any suggestions for doing the long-distance relationship thing for the next five months? Second, are there Desipiots living in Raleigh or who have passed through there with recommendations about living, eating, etc?  I don't know a whole lot about the area, and I'll take any help I can get.

Mrs. Tonk and I spent best part of three years apart before we got married.  I was in Munich, and she spent a year in Tokyo, then one in Helsinki, and then one in Mexico City, Chicago and the Hague.  I'm not going to lie to you, it was really, really fucking diificult - especially at first, and especially with a six- or seven-hour time difference.  If we wanted to talk, we had to stay up late or get up early to do it, and that was a killer in the long run.

For five months, though, within similar time zones, and when you're already engaged?  It really shouldn't be a problem.  Without wishing to put too fine a point on it - if the two of you can't cope with this together, you probably shouldn't be getting married.  Yes, it will be crappy at times, and you'll miss the hell out of her but it's not like you're on the other side of the World and you should be able to talk and see each other more than enough to get through what is actually quite a short time when you think about it.  If it's not forever (the separation, I mean, not the relationship), I say go for it.  You'll end up bitter about it if you don't, I suspect.

Truer words'd.

Got the novel for Christmas and couldn't put it down.  Who watches the Watchmen?  Sadly, I fear the lack of crossover appeal from not having a Marvel/DC superhero may make that answer "Hardly anybody."

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

O Superman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y6sXYAyAUE

Flakes on the what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O8Cyg77xNs

Quote from: Gil Gunderson on March 03, 2008, 03:11:22 PM

Quote from: Oleg on March 03, 2008, 03:07:11 PM

Quote from: Gil Gunderson on March 03, 2008, 02:48:36 PM

Quote from: Taylor on March 03, 2008, 01:38:28 PM
A night on the town with Scott Spiezio:

QuoteSpiezio and his wife, Jennifer Spiezio, went to dinner Dec. 30 at Ruth's Chris Steak House in Irvine. There, the player allegedly had six Grey Goose vodkas with cranberry juice while his wife drank champagne. After dinner, they went to Ten, a restaurant in Newport Beach, where together they ordered more vodka, food and an energy drink.

Spiezio left Ten alone in the couple's silver 2004 BMW 745 LI. A short time later, witnesses told police they saw the car speeding, cutting across lanes and crossing into oncoming traffic before driving over a curb and crashing into a fence at Campus Drive and Carlson Avenue.

QuoteWhen police arrived, they found Spiezio's iPhone and Louis Vuitton wallet in the car. In the wallet were Spiezio's Illinois drivers license and credit cards.

In the meantime, Spiezio called a friend in the condo complex and asked him to meet him downstairs. The friend, Robert Stuart, saw that Spiezio appeared drunk and that his right hand was bleeding so he took him to his condo. There, Stuart and another friend of Spiezio's â€" former minor league pitcher Mike Parisi (not the Mike Parisi who is now with the Cardinals) â€" tried to clean and put Neosporin on the wound. Stuart also told police he called Spiezio's wife and asked her to come help.

As the two men were helping Spiezio, he began vomiting. Parisi asked Spiezio why he couldn't make it to the toilet. Angered, Spiezio grabbed Parisi and began wrestling him. Parisi tried to protect himself and Spiezio said, "You know I can kick your ass."

After releasing Parisi, the reports says Spiezio hit him in the left eye and then pursued him. He grabbed Parisi again and threw him against a wall, causing a dent in the drywall, according to statements in the file.

QuoteThe records gave this account: Jennifer Spiezio answered the door and said police couldn't speak to her husband because he was asleep, sick with pneumonia. She told them she would check on him but came back a minute later and said she didn't want to wake him.

After police told her they believed her husband had been injured in a crash, she said they could come in but that she wanted to wake him first. She returned crying, said he wasn't in the room and that she didn't know where he'd gone but that they could look for him.

Three officers went inside and couldn't find him. "However," one report reads, "there was what appeared to be a storage closet that we were unable to gain entry into. … It seemed that the door was being held shut from the inside, or was locked from the inside."

Another report read: "It is believed that Scott Spiezio was hiding behind this door."

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sports/stories.nsf/cardinals/story/ADC06E002808D7B0862573FF0020FF79?OpenDocument

I'm more offended by his drink of choice.  Call up Johnny Walker.  He'll put some red hairs on your chest.

Dems fightin words, Gil.

What?  Just saying, Grey Goose has got nothing on JW Blue.  My girlfriend's father bought me a bottle this past Christmas; nearly half of it is gone already.

Nearly half a bottle in 2 months?  Tony LaRussa is not impressed.  Nor is Lance Briggs.  Or Josh Hancock...  Or.....

Bacon...the tauntaun to your Luke Skywalker of food.

http://reyrey.livejournal.com/382016.html

Which reminds me....Lost is on tonight...wooohooo!

Quote from: Slaky+ on February 27, 2008, 12:49:33 PM
Hey Dusty, you really hate walks huh?

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"Who have been the champions the last seven, eight years? Have you ever heard the Yankees talk about on-base percentage and walks? . . . Walks help. They do help. But you aren’t going to walk across the plate, you’re going to hit across the plate. That’s the school I come from."

Oh. My. God.

I love it.  Dunn will hit 75 HRs and K 383 times.

Quote from: Slaky+ on February 26, 2008, 12:36:36 PM
This is fucking horrific.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JW7q0JzWaoY

Is that Pedro Guerrero?

You mean Pedro Gayrrero?

http://thebiglead.com/?p=2817

I'm fucking Seth Rogen.

New FOX midseason show...When Busey attacks!