a belated happy Thanksgiving to all. how sad it is to see this thread on page two.
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Originally Posted by DAL 9000
Eric Munson "takes a ride on the home run train?"
You will never have a job as a SportsCenter anchor, Craig. And that's a good thing for both you and everyone.
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hey, at least I didn't go with my original idea, which was to string together random Spanish words into some unsightly phrase.
Si, yo soy muerto pelota el bano muy caliente tortilla!
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Originally Posted by DAL 9000
("Excuse me, aren't I /included/ in the set of 'everyone?'" "Be silent, tiny Pale Hose freak." "... yessir.")
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my mercy, what a pleasure it would be to be a professor, grading one of your papers, considering how easily your intellect and wit shines through on an
internet baseball text sim forum. but maybe that's partially the cause of it, too. nothing makes for a good joke like a bunch of binary bits strung together to form a non-existent
Julio Lugo.
speaking of, the question should not have been, "Craig, what the eff does 'takes a ride on the home run train'
even mean?" but rather, "Craig, who the fook is SS
J. Wilson?
Enrique, 'The Relief Ace', I know and love, but who's that guy J. Wilson?"
And the answer is
Jack Wilson, the erstwhile
Pirate. Avast ye, mateys.
Atlanta told him to walk the plank when I offered them outfielder
chin-feng chen, and it's a rare swap of spare parts that could really help out two clubs unexpectedly at the top of the standings. An injury to #6 hitter
JD Drew (now, there's a surprise.
NOT!) and poor planning at the beginning of the season dulled the
Arrowheads' outfield depth significantly, to the point that minor league veteran
Steve Smitherman,
the ugliest man alive, would have been in a significant role until about the All-Star Break. Well, him or 24 year old
Matt Esquivel, a decent enough prospect with a pretty swing who has precisely
0 at-bats above double-A.
So
chen is now
Chen, and he'll get some service time and some A.B.'s against southpaws, and
Wilson will do the same, no longer blocked by
Raffy Furcal. Now, they probably won't be
good at-bats, considering his career line of .240/.280/.320, but no matter. He's got a good track record against southpaws, making him the perfect platoon partner for
Ramon Vazquez, or in other words everything
Aneudi Cuevas never was. Speaking of him, he's back in
Tampa's minor league system, having been made completely irrelevant by
Wilson's arrival.
i will also add here, simply because i can, that beating
Anaheim in that last series was quite nice after losing 6 of 9 to them last year. we did win our final 2006 pregunta against them, taking 2 out of 3 at home, but lost the third game of that set by the embarassing score of 15 to 5. less than a year later, they're the ones under .500, having seen their pitching staff disintegrate before their eyes. the defection of
Kelvim Escobar to
the Empire hurt the staff, since he is an effective moundsman when healthy, but that was not the case in sunny Cali last year. the greater problem has been southpaw
Jarrod Washburn slipping badly from an 18-win season (he's currently 5-8 with an ERA of 5.34 and a run average of nearly 6.00 per 9 frames) and a nasty injury to 28 year old righty
Ben Howard which has led to ace
John Lackey being surrounded by an assortment of inexperienced youngsters. 37 year old closer
Troy Percival showing his age (4.78 ERA) hasn't helped, either. You'd think the assortment of power arms filling out the bullpen, of course led by "K-Rod", would pick up the slack, but it hasn't been so. The club's third in the league in run scoring, retained much more of their pitching staff than rival
Seattle, and yet they're once again looking up at them in the standings. Oh well. **** 'em.
anyhow, the
Pale Hose have something to be thankful for -- a 4-game set in sunny
Tampa. OK, it's a dome, but I'm feeling the
Jersey freeze right now. These ain't your big brother's
Evil Fishies, though -- at 29-37 despite a woeful offense, our opponents are showing some of the same HEARRRRRT that led the
Pale Hose all the way to 69 wins last year. And who the hell are we?
The
Pale Hose, that's who.
PS - Good bump, el hombre del Funk! Hopefully it will be less than four days before your next one.
