D'backs V. Red Sox: overflow thread
by soco on Jun 23, 2008 9:50 PM EDT
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PrintSeventh inning stretch and D'backs lead 2-0, so I summon the power of Rachel Nichols to guide our boys home some more.
Get the Wrong Sox out and tack on some more runs!
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YAY!!!1!1!1
They're more attractive when they don't talk.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:35 PM EDT reply actions
Ordinal form of a number indicating I've posted quickly!
Keep it up, Haren!
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I prefer Ashley... but ok let's hope it works
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
I can't close the other one
I don’t have the power. I can’t make it stronger. Snakecharmer or kishi, could you close the other?
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
I don’t think I can either- that power may be the limited province of Jim.
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Jenny and I can close it also.
Is this the consensus? Do we want to close it?
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I don't care
I just thought that was how it was done. It’s my first time, and all I want is a snuggle while all you want is a sammich!
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
We usually wait a bit, then close it
Either Phil or I can do it when people stop posting. :)
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions
What?
It wasn’t that good. Sorry, soco, but I gotta tell you the truth.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I like leaving the old thread open,
in case anyone wants to finish a convo.
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I think he likes to close it to force people to the overflow
and then re-open it after the game is over. I could be wrong though.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Well, the Dbacks scored, so I refrained from coming back.
By the way, I still hate Tim McLellan.
If the Red Sux get anyone in scoring position, I’ll disappear again.
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welcome back, then
i guess.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions
well, you were here
with a threat of leaving again.
so I wasn’t going to get my hopes up.
:-P
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions
It'd be hard not too.
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No it's not
and it’s not like you can’t figure it out.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
or the face?
too far?
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions
at least it doesnt hurt his WHIP, right?
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
we'll miss youuuu.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions
lol.
+1
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Just focus on your aim
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+100.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions
your puppy face has no effect on me!
none, i say!!
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
At least I try.
:-P
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I think Snyder could make a pretty decent hockey goalie
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
K!
I
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He's got long ways to go until he approaches Webb on my list
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
He's been beautifully consistent
Besides, I like his pants.
by Diamondhacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
WWII paratrooper style.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions
I love the baseball disclaimer message
It says, and I paraphrase, “any accounts or descriptions of this game may not be disseminated without permission of Major League Baseball.”
Doesn’t that mean, “Hey, you can’t tell anyone what happened at the game unless we tell you we can”?
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Well, yes, essentially
but they’re not going to do anything about it. Now if you were trying to make money…that would be a different story.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
I wonder about this
Since I write a blog for a company that sells advertising on their website. =)
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+1
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking as a Sox fan, he should.
Haren’s been extremely sharp and hasn’t really been outdone by any Sox hitter today at any point. Have to think our (Sox) lineup would get a lift just from another pitcher being out there.
"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"
Welcome to the 'Pit!
Always love having foreign fans.
Within reason, of course.
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Welcome!
I would have liked to have seen Haren stay out there, but he was at 98 pitches, so I guess they didn’t want to stretch him out too much longer?
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Stupid riot police
Oh, you meant- never mind.
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
I saw riot police in Paris
use tear gas on striking transportation workers once. It was kinda cool.
Ironically, it was at the Place de la Concorde. (The Plaza of the Agreement)
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, it's not indefensible to take him out
And I’m sure, especially, Coco and Lugo will look just as overmatched as usual by Pena.
But Haren basically made the Sox lineup his B. today.
"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"
by Allen Chace on Jun 23, 2008 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
You must understand
that this is something we haven’t really experienced since April….
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
And.....
the Red Sox decided to lend credence to your assertion. Ugh.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
::rimshot::
That was a charitable rimshot.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
:-(
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Haha!
It’s not too soon.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Ooooh, those aluminum bats....
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Let's go DBacks,
clap clap clapclapclap
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:02 PM EDT reply actions
surprisingly, i haven't seen that.
dark knight, yes?
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
That guy looks
like a dead guy.
.............
......
Am I a horrible person?
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
only slightly...
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes
And I do mean for that. That was bad. :(
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
My feed looks weird
like everyone is on just slightly fast forward. Anyone else?
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Pena gives up a walk
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Argh
Freaking Sutton talking about how Tony P has only given up one earned run this month.
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Single
Runners at first and second, one out.
Come on, get the outs Pena.
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BoMel wouldn't.
We CAN’T break our relievers’ positions, CAN we??
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Let's get the F-Bombs ready...
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
"hey dad, check the score of the game for me?"
“okay…ooh. close one”
which obviously means we should CHANGE THE CHANNEL…
nooooooooooooo
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:06 PM EDT reply actions
Uh-oh
Bases loaded. Lock it down, Pena!
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'Skins
Shouldn’t you have left once they got the runner on second?
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Yeah yeah yeah
I’m going. Bye.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
probably not.
this is bob melvin we’re talking about here.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
+1
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I was amused to read that J.D. is so disliked in Philadelphia, that Phillies fans boo Stephen too.
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That part of it is really crazy.
Can understand the bile towards JD.
"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"
by Allen Chace on Jun 23, 2008 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Philadelphia-
The city where they booed Santa Claus.
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Dude,
it’s Philly. They’ll boo anything that moves.
And even some stuff that doesn’t.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions
No, you're thinking of Baghdad.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I've ALWAYS hated JD Drew.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Credit for commitment there.
"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"
by Allen Chace on Jun 23, 2008 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Much obliged, friend.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions
IIRC, JD Drew has ALWAYS destroyed the Dbacks.
That’s probably why we drafted Stephen; to keep the same thing from happening again.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions
2-1
Sacrifice fly for the evil Drew. Two outs.
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It's bad enough that we've had to face
an evil Luis Gonzalez and the evil Chris Young.
Now we have to face the evil Drew too??
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions
On the horizon:
The evil Edgar Gonzalez.
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No.... noooo..... NOOOOO!!!!!!
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
FUCK YOU PENA, FUCK YOU BOMEL
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
Okay, I know it's the emotion
but we try to stay away from too many explicit f-bombs around here, ok? Thanks.
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
swearing is kinda normal here in Brazil...
so… sometimes I just forget I’m on an American site…
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
That seems
like a somewhat appropriate situation, though. To me, anyway.
Well, I would have waited until they tied it, but still.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:18 PM EDT up reply actions
u know what, I wont use those terms in english anymore... I'll do it in portuguese... so ppl wont care that much since they cant understand it..
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
Works for me :)
Thanks for considering that. Also, it’s not us so much, it’s the possibility of younger kids reading. Teaching them a foreign language would be admirable lol!
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions
yeap u right ^^
but somehow I feel bad now =[
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
It's okay :)
It happens to everyone, you see it here, especially in dire times! I just mentioned it to let you know as a courtesy (it’s normally less explicit, like F*^$ or whatnot) and to prevent it from getting worse…
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions
That's always the thing
cursing can be great in spots and at times, but you don’t want it to turn into the Wild West like some forums.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
That works.
They don’t always even censor the Spanish curse words on TV here.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe I should start
swearing in Russian instead of English….
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
ummm.
i don’t know any other languages.
can’t help ya there.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions
I can do it in japanese as well =X
BoMel BAKA!!!!
- The Question is: What is manah-manah?
- The Question is: Who cares!?
Derka Allah!
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I can swear
in Russian and Spanish, and a tiny bit in Arabic.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions
I had a friend who was learning Serbian as part of his military service. I wish I could remember some of the swearing he told me, because some of them were pretty creative.
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Well, it's a Slavic tongue.
Huy ovo? Huy’s ney? Cherez zhopou? Blyat?
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Most of the time they don’t even censor British curse words.
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I don't think foreign language
or British swears are mandated to be censored.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Don't worry about it
It’s DbacksSkins’s fault.
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I'm blaming my dad
for changing the mofugging channel!!!!!
:-(
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm blaming the UGA Bulldogs
for winning
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Reynolds!
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I love you mark.
LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:16 PM EDT reply actions
+∞
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TOOT TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ABOARD THE SHERIFF BANDWAGON!
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Tracy reaches base
Insurance runs!
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Is there anything better...
than coming back from dinner and seeing your team up 2-1?
by Counsellmember on Jun 23, 2008 10:21 PM EDT reply actions
Seeing your team up 2-1
OVER THE RED SOX.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions
IAWTC
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Chris Burke pinchrunning
for Ginger, and running on the 2-2 pitch
(You cant stop Chris Burke, you can only hope to contain him)
I'd say they contained him
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
lol.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow....
you’re a ragin’ ball of hate tonight, Jenny!
;-)
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions
I know! What’s up with that?? Normally I’m so easygoing. :)
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Sacrifice bunt for Chris Young
I’ll leave that poor dead horse alone.
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Well,
CY is a K threat, and has a lot of speed. There was only 1 out in the inning.
I know Jim would pull out his tables and numbers like Ross Perot, but in that situation, I think it was an okay call.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Do you have tables of numbers like Ross Perot?
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Almost turned into bases loaded, no outs. Solid bunt.
"Are you a real doctor, or a doctor like Dr. Pepper is a doctor?"
by Allen Chace on Jun 23, 2008 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Damn! Lesdyxia!
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions
I know JUP's struggling
but IBB to get to the guy who can beat out a DP?
by snakecharmer on Jun 23, 2008 10:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Come on, Byrnes
Give us a hit here, and we’ll be very, very glad you’re back from the DL…
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+1
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Or at least
don’t make such an effort to get outta the way.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions
K
Left the bases loaded.
Okay, Lyon, finish ‘em off.
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They just IBBed the bases loaded with 1 out.
And we let them get away with it.
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And we obliged.
Upton should have been able to AT LEAST make contact there.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
that's it.
i’m done with byrnes.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:33 PM EDT reply actions
Have you told him yet?
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions
She should break up with him by text message.
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if I had his number,
I’d tell him exactly what I think of him, his caterpillar mustache, and his pos baseball playing.
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Does his wife know about this?
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
not yet...
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
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He's going to start listening to Rites of Spring?
Sweet! I didn’t know he was into the old DC hardcore scene!
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Man
I missed Arizona sunsets. So much nicer than we had in Utah.
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Not quite as good as tequila sunsets, or rises
hell, anytime.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
1 down
Two to go, Lyon.
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way to think positive...
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by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions
baby steps!
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
by unnamedDBacksfan on Jun 23, 2008 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions
Alright, here's positive:
we just held the Red Sox to one run, on national TV, and beat Josh Beckett in Boston.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Beautiful.
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Yeah, that IS nice,
isn’t it? Especially the “on national TV” part.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Win!
Wooooooooooh! Way to go Danny Haren!
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I think
we might have a new Snakepit saint….
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd saint her anyday
Jewish? Likes sports? Is a woman? Oh yeah!
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
My God.....
she’s like your wife!
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
We know, soco.
We know. :-)
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 11:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking of the Saints of Snakepit
We haven’t seen many appearances by the Holy Trio. St. Penelope seems to be the most common, but we almost never see Selma Hayek or that other one from Resident Evil.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Yeah, sure
the last one was decreed by Jim at one point last year, but I don’t think she ever made an actual appearance in a game.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
She entered the pantheon
Because we were at the cinema, watching Resident Evil: Extinction, when we clinched a playoff spot last season: I hope Milla has another film due out in late September… It’s true, though: not been much St. Penelope action, but I tend to think that the less we invoke, the better the results when we need her. Witness the game against Oakland, where we invoked Penelope, immediately before J-Up smacked the go-ahead homer off Foulke in the eighth. You do not mess with that kind of mojo!
by Jim McLennan on Jun 24, 2008 2:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Milla is tops on my list
of everything.
If I ever posted a picture to a Gameday thread, it would definitely be of her and probably from this film.
Also, this picture is just begging to be used in a game scenario. Most likely it would be an invocation of the goddess in hopes that she can intervene the next time BoMel calls for a bunt.
I'm just sayin'
maybe there’s room for more in the Pantheon.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
I would certainly second her nomination,
after what she did for us last night.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 10:12 AM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, but whose side is she on?
Rachael was invoked with the score 2-0, and under her protection, Peña imploded, the Red Sox got one run back and almost tied the game. I think I would like some more any convincing evidence of her divine status before admitting her to the pantheon.
by Jim McLennan on Jun 24, 2008 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Let's keep some standards here.
It takes at least one gameday miracle to initiate the process of beatification and at least one more miraculous event before full-fledged sainthood is accorded.
Also, the fairer posters should be encouraged to explore and seek out their own Diamondback martyrs and saints. Of course, they’d probably just waste the opportunity on posting more Mark Reynolds and Connor Jackson pics. Pssshaw…
How about this for convincing evidence?
1. We won.
2. We won on the road.
3. We won on the road against the best team in the AL.
4. We won on the road against the best team in the AL on national TV.
5. We won while only scoring 2 runs, we didn’t blow the lead the way we did in TWO OF THE THREE games in MN, etc.
In fact, in light of our performance against the Twins, I’d say that the fact that we invoked Her and hung on to win AT ALL would be a sign that somehow, She prevented our players from sucking as much as in the Twin Cities.
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Sorry, not convinced
If she’d been invoked before the game, you’d have a case. However, waiting until after six shutout innings of one-hit ball from Haren and after we’d taken a 2-0 lead renders this a post-facto miracle, and as such, highly unimpressive. In fact, the evidence is that we did rather better before she was invoked; I have serious doubts that she is our saint at all.
by Jim McLennan on Jun 24, 2008 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions
We did better
before she was invoked, also, early in games 2 and 3 against the Twins. What I’m saying is that invoking her broke the pattern of late Dbacks collapses. You’re not going to be able to keep the Red Sux from scoring - especially at home. But we were able to limit a hard-slugging team to 1 run - with one of their best hitters at the plate and 2 men on.
You can’t compare it to earlier in the game. You have to compare it to a control group. That’s the Twins series.
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O RLY?
[ You’re not going to be able to keep the Red Sux from scoring – especially at home. ]
Actually, we had. For six straight innings. Without her assistance. Even the best hitters fail seven times out of ten, so any claim of divinity based on a single at-bat is pretty weak. And the best control group is clearly not another series, but the same opposition, before she was invoked – she fails miserably there:
Before RP: 2 runs scored, 2 baserunners allowed in 6 IP, no runs conceded
After RP: 0 runs scored, 5 baserunners allowed in 3 IP, one run conceded.
Look, I’m not expecting her to match St. Penelope levels of mojo. But when the opposition indisputably play better after she gets invoked, I just can’t see why she should be allowed within a mile of the D-backs pantheon.
by Jim McLennan on Jun 24, 2008 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions
RLY.
Actually, we had. For six straight innings. Without her assistance.
Haren’s last 4 starts before yesterday: 2-0, 27 IP, 6 ER, 0.85 WHIP. Haren’s strong start was understandable and expected. She came in when Haren was getting gassed, and that’s the reaon any runs were allowed at all under her stewardship. Even St. Penelope doesn’t usually pitch a shutout. Not to mention the fact that 2 out of the last 3 times she’s been invoked, IIRC, she’s failed to come through for us.
But to see Rachel’s effect on OUR TEAM, you have to compare the outcome to previous series’. Although the BoSox lost 2 of 3 to the Cards, they averaged 4 runs/game. To find out whether or not she affects the Dbacks’ performance, look at how we did last night compared to our ultimate results from the Twins series: although we averaged 2 runs per game against Minnesota, we couldn’t pull out a single win. This time, we scored 2 and got a victory. Obviously, the guys themselves aren’t doing anything differently—so it must be something else.
Additionally, the big inning was what did us in vs. the Twins. As you noted, that’s 17 runs scored in 3 innings. Last night, Tony P came dangerously close to giving up one of those: instead, he managed to hold the Sox to 1 run. Besides, I really have to blame Sutton for that 1 run, because he mentioned that Tony had only given up 1 ER over the month of June.
Finally, let’s just look at the W/L %:
Record without Rachel - 39-37. Barely over .500.
Record with Rachel - 1-0. Undefeated.
Statistical analysis suggests that if soco had invoked her starting at the beginning of the season, we might have gone 162-0. Don’t you want us to go 162-0, Jim? Why do you hate the Dbacks??
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The solution is simple
We give her a proper, full-game audition tomorrow. If she can pull a win out of her…handbag against the Red Sox with Johnson on the mound, I’m happy to admit that she deserves to get in.
You are tasked: find me the best picture…
by Jim McLennan on Jun 24, 2008 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Well,
I didn’t argue for her to immediately replace St. Penelope; or even for us to canonize her. I only felt that there was the possibility of supplementing her.
The full-game audition sounds like a good idea. However, I will have to defer to soco to find the best picture.
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Replace?
Heretic! Blasphemer! :-)
But at the moment, we’ll take any additional mojo we can find…
by Jim McLennan on Jun 24, 2008 5:39 PM EDT up reply actions
That's just the sort of thing a heretic would do!
Nobody expects the Snakepitish Inquisition!
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
Crap.....
It’s like being asked if you’re drunk while in a bar. There’s no right answer.
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You're just mad bacause you didn't post her
I invoked her for two reasons: one for the Red Sox to get out quickly (they did, minus that eighth) and for more runs (which she did not grant). If anything you could argue that she’s a defensive saint, whereas St. Penelope is almost always invoked for offensive purposes. Not everything is offense, you know.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Interesting idea
There really is no delineation of powers for the Snakepit pantheon, perhaps there should be.
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
I doubt I should have much say, though
I’m more than willing to nominate, but I don’t think have the clout with the Big Thing Upstairs to pull it off.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
GAME!!!!
I’ve been holding my breathe for the past hour now!
ETG DBACKS!
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
by unnamedDBacksfan on Jun 23, 2008 10:38 PM EDT reply actions
errr
WTG
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
by unnamedDBacksfan on Jun 23, 2008 10:38 PM EDT up reply actions
LOL!
I’ve wanted to post for the past hour, but didn’t want to jinx anything
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
by unnamedDBacksfan on Jun 23, 2008 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
GAME
Thank you baby jesus.
:-)
They're more attractive when they don't talk.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:38 PM EDT reply actions
excuse me.
*Thank you, baby jebus.
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Yup.
Swept ‘em in 2002, right before they got good.
I believe.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions
You're very gracious. :-)
And you’re welcome again anytime.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions
I decided not to post....
Till the end. Yay dbacks!
by C. Wesley Baier on Jun 23, 2008 10:40 PM EDT reply actions
Good choice, sir.
Good choice.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions
Hello
Did I miss anything? :-)
Truth be told, I’ve been lurking since the seventh, but since we scored as soon as I left the office, I wasn’t going to risk jinxing it!
Very tense, very scary eighth: the ninth was all puppies and kittens in comparison. Great win though.
Yeah, well you're a smarter man than I.
That run we gave up was all on me. :-(
I broke my scoreless streak.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Come to think of it..... yeah.
“Now on comes DbacksSkins, who hasn’t allowed a run since May 31st….”
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Good call, Jim
You get credit for the opposite of bringing a pitcher in for a save. =)
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
By the way,
you’re…. you’re not going to ban me for comparing you to Ross Perot, are you?
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:49 PM EDT up reply actions
I just got this text
from my friend, a lifelong RedSox supporter and Boston native-
Congrats on the win tonight. Reynolds made the play of the night I’d say.
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:42 PM EDT reply actions
Hmmmm..... must be a real Sawks fan.
As opposed to the billions of people who have been “lifelong fans”.... since 2004.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
well, yeah.
as far as i can tell. :-)
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 24, 2008 1:25 AM EDT up reply actions
May I just point out
that this is what happens when…. we don’t hit, but we at least play DEFENSE!??
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+1000
April taught us that this team is a juggernaut when it has great hitting, defense, and pitching. And this shows us that they can win big games when they even get two of the three working.
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
Definately
Maybe they’ll get that through their thick skulls.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Well....
I sorta feel like ANY team is a juggernaut when they get “great hitting, defense, and pitching”.
That’s kinda the definition of a baseball juggernaut.
:-P
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions
Unstoppably.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 12:06 AM EDT up reply actions
Valid
But many teams can’t put together great displays in all three- April showed that, when the D-backs get things going, they can do all three.
But my point is, they need to learn that they can win games when they get two of the three working.
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
True.
Heck, we did it last year…. you’d think they’d have learned.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 12:35 AM EDT up reply actions
yep.
we have damn good pitching (most of the time) and above par defense.
if the boys could get the bats going again, we’d see that stellar team we had in april.
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 24, 2008 1:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Okay...
now that that one’s over, I’m gonna go sleep off this migraine that’s been raging since the 6th inning.
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 23, 2008 10:43 PM EDT reply actions
:-(
Feel better!
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions
My homeopathic treatment for a migraine consists of a dark cool room and sticking my head/hair into freezing cold water and then going to sleep with a wet head. Works for me every time.
I always just used Imitrex
Even if the Nasal spray leaves the nastiest tasting drip in the back of your mouth that you could ever imagine.
by C. Wesley Baier on Jun 23, 2008 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
thanks guys...
my remedy consists of popping a handful of advil, cranking down the ac to about 75, turning off all the lights, and sleeping for 3 hours. does the trick every time.
the most recent part has been popping a topomax when i wake up…
jebus i hate migraines…
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 24, 2008 1:29 AM EDT up reply actions
Seriously though
Ask your doctor about imitrex. It will completely obliterate a migraine… When I get mine, I can’t see out of my right eye at all, as well as having the feeling that my head is being cleaved in two.
by C. Wesley Baier on Jun 24, 2008 1:50 AM EDT up reply actions
well,
I have a familial migraine condition- atypical familial hemiplegic migraines. the way my doc explained it, you can either go on a preventative medication to stop them before they start, or an abortive med to take at the first sign of an attack. I’m on the preventative (topomax) because I don’t know the migraine is coming until it knocks me on my ass- that’s what makes mine atypical- no aura. I have the visual symptoms and the nausea and such, but nothing as a warning.
Two days later, Eric Byrnes missed three games for excessive crying, and started listening to emo. At the same time, Emily changed her name to emilylovesthedbacksexceptthatloserericbyrnes.
by emilylovesthedbacks on Jun 24, 2008 2:21 AM EDT up reply actions
Okay, hat
I’m benching the sedona red hat and keeping the 2001 World Series Champion hat in play.
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
Maybe
you should just use Dan Haren’s bat?
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 23, 2008 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I was wearing my road cap from 2001
so I may have to join you on this.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
this feels like early in the season
when no one had anything to do. Maybe if we find some life in us our boys will wake up as well.
EPIPHANY!!!
We influence how the team plays. The rest of the season is on us. Think happy thoughts!!
Baseball season, when everything becomes right in the world.
by seton hall snake pit on Jun 23, 2008 11:41 PM EDT reply actions
I keep saying,
baseball is a superstitious sport, by nature. Ergo, everything we do affects the Dbacks.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 12:22 AM EDT up reply actions
I don't think any sport
is more superstitious than baseball, but hockey is probably a close second.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
::shrug::
I wouldn’t know.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 12:32 AM EDT up reply actions
Obviously, it’s all on us- what we’re doing, what we’re wearing, what our own superstitions are- that’s what influences the game. The players just go out and reap the benefits of our positive karma.
Let’s get it done, people. =)
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
I'm wondering
whether we need to make a few changes around here. I think our authors are pretty solid, but we could maybe afford to trade for another editor, or perhaps a poster with a pretty good average, to compete with soco and I. This slump we’ve been in is just plain unacceptable.
Maybe some of those posters who were banned by Lookout Landing could be had for cheap off the waiver wire. Maybe all they needed was a change in scenery. Plus, that way, if we have to cut ‘em, no great loss.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 12:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Let's not be too hasty
Maybe we’ve had some problems, but I’m not sure bringing in outside help is the way to go. We’ve got some good chemistry here, and I don’t know if we should futz with that too much. We’ve shown we can do it, it’s just a matter of focus and getting the fundamentals done- avoiding typos, remembering when the game starts, paying attention to who just got a hit. We’ve all made the mistakes, now we need to learn not to make them. It’s times like these where veteran leadership in the threads becomes crucial.
I say we wait until the All Star Break before we decide if we want to make any moves.
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
This is an excellent point.
it’s just a matter of focus and getting the fundamentals done- avoiding typos, remembering when the game starts, paying attention to who just got a hit. We’ve all made the mistakes, now we need to learn not to make them. It’s times like these where veteran leadership in the threads becomes crucial.
You’re right, and I shouldn’t be pointing fingers. It all starts with each one of us. I’ve made a lot of typos lately that I didn’t used to make, and I don’t always immediately correct them. I know that I’ve missed the start times of a few games lately, even though it’s prominently posted on the Snakepit front page. If we can all just work on the fundamentals, we can make a difference in our performance even without getting some new blood.
Still, a trade or two shouldn’t be out of the question. I suppose I agree with waiting until the ASB. One poster who doesn’t see a lot of playing time anymore is foulpole. Like Chris Burke, foulpole looked REALLY good as a new addition in Spring Training and early in the season, albeit without much power. As time went on, (unlike Chris Burke) he showed himself to be a poster with a good average but a complete inability to defend his positions. I mean, how many line drives have we seen hit towards foulpole that he just completely missed, ignored, or ducked under? Still, his high average may make him worth more to SBN sites that value that—Gaslamp Ball, of course, comes to mind, as does Bleed Cubbie Blue. Recent events have shown that Lookout Landing might be a good trade destination as well.
Of course, if we can’t get a good poster in a trade, I wouldn’t be adverse to optioning him down to Minorleagueball.com and giving him another chance. That might be the best SBN blog for him to work on his defense.
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However,
I do realize that I’d probably be deluding myself to think that we could get another editor for foulpole; but we might be able to get a young and upcoming editor of the future. You can never have too much good young talent.
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Well, the pit did just acquire me
I was called up from the minors though.
by C. Wesley Baier on Jun 24, 2008 1:45 AM EDT up reply actions
I was actually thinking of you as I wrote this.
You’re still young, although you’ve been with the organization (in the form of DBBP) for awhile. However, your analytical baseball skills mean you might be at least an author, if not an editor, in the future.
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Well that doesn't mean anything
I mean, look at me. I just hack at every pitch I see.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Yeah
You’re a hack author.
Currently blaming the D-backs struggles on: the Diamondbacks scoring fewer runs than the other team. Well, I was bound to get it right eventually.
Well, you still post for average.
And while that’s not AS valuable if it’s all you’ve got, like foulpole, at least with you, there’s some slugging behind your posts. And at the VERY least, you can play competent defense of your opinions.
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Oh....
and how sweet is it to have a pitcher like Haren that can bounce back when Webby’s on a mild slump??
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I know we gave up a lot to get him
but it’s good we did in times like this.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Well,
he’s got a better ERA than Webb right now, and he’s had a pretty damned good stretch.
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by DbacksSkins on Jun 24, 2008 12:34 AM EDT up reply actions
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