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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, December 27, 2007
“You’ve taken my life-so take my soul
that’s what you said-and I believed it all
Liar-Liar-Liar”
What are my options? Let DeWitt and co earn interest so they can ’spend’ the money in the right places or have them blow some cash on a big gamble like Silva or Tejada? Blow the dough. What’s it matter to me? We’ve already spent the cash- they’re the ones not. Who knows what will pan out or what won’t 2-3 years from now? Nobody does. So to think that this team will have a better chance at a player or players 36 months from now is not only absurd- it’s insulting- just like trying to force-feed me a pu pu platter of LaRue/Izturis/Kennedy/Ludwick up the middle on a team that features the best player in the world. And PS: We’re kind of overlooking the fact that we’re wasting the prime of the best Cardinal ever! It’s funny how much better a guy like Silva or Kudora can be when they play with the best in the world- just ask_____ (Hector Luna, Ronnie Belliard, Abraham Nunez, Jason Marquis, Jeff Weaver, Jeff Suppan, ect al.)
Midway through the off-season, many teams are making final tweaks to their roster. Filling in holes that the big pushes didn’t cover. Putting a team together that will be whittled down to 40 before it gets to 25. For Cardinal fans, the promises that were made 3 years ago, last year and this year have turned out to be lies. A spade is a spade and until we get some proof that DeWitt, Johnny Mo or any other person employed by the team is willing to make the changes necessary to elevate this business above mediocrity, than we shouldn’t relent. After all, it’s a business. And us, the customers, have been lied to long enough.
Repoz
Posted: December 27, 2007 at 08:32 AM | 200 comment(s)
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A Champ Summers bobblehead doll.
I'm very sorry to hear about your marriage. If nothing else, you lose all that "married to a black woman" credibility that so impressed Eraser.
You know, they have PEDs that can take care of that for you.
Well, I hear DC's full of hot Asians.
RDF.
I'm thinking of hookiing up with a hispanic woman, just so I still have some semblance of street cred.
Sometime, I'll let you know what the big problems were, JC. In private sometime.
Or perhaps at an Orioles game in late May while sipping a cold one and munching some of Boog Powell's finest.
I like that Kevin's marriage appears to have broken up over the inevitable end of a physical attraction that has not yet ended.
Curiosity got the best of me and I blurted out we should catch an O's game together and he accepted.
And here we are.
Main Event? What does that make Retardo--The Showstopper.
To those of us unfamiliar with OPaCY traditions, this simply sounds sick and wrong. To say nothing of fattening.
As for the weekday thing, Kevin, I have to come down from NJ, so that's out. May 31 should be fine if that's not Memorial Day weekend.
Jeez, that leaves me without excuse...
kevin
DMN
retro
Roiding Team (Oriole Tragic)
Backlasher
AROM
GGC
sj
JC
Am I missing anyone?
Well, I'm contemplating it, at least.
Jeez, that leaves me without excuse...
Well, my best friend from college lives near Annapolis, so it's not like this'd be my ONLY motivation.
To that end--thanks for the offer of a pickup, kevin, but I'll probably end up renting a car, so I can get around the state. (If not, I may well take you up on your offer, assuming it stands.)
At that point we can decide how to do tickets and stuff?
Good idea. I'd have to see how much time I can block off, especially if I'm using this as an opportunity to do other stuff within shouting distance of Baltimore. Anyone want to set a "drop dead date"?
How about Jan 31st?
In the meantime, I'll keep the thought alive so it soesn't slip through the cracks.
Without getting into the details, BLB, it really doesn't have anything to do with me. It has everything to do with major issues my wife brought into the marriage and has failed to address.
Re: #132
See? This is exactly what I was talking about in #87.
#133:
I think we should shoot for something closer to the actual game date. I'd say it shouldn't be any earlier than halfway between 31 December and 31 May.
EDIT: How about March 31st? We'll need time to get tickets before all those Red Sox Nazis swallow them all up. Oh, um, present company excepted, of course.
If you do that, though, you risk not being able to get a suffcient size block of tickets. Remember, this is a Sox game we're talking about. Most of the jerseys will be carmine. I would like to get the order in before spring training starts, to beat the stampede.
The game meet-up sounds fun, but my baseballing summer calendar is already full: my usual baseball trip with my brother & uncle, and my farewell to Shea . . . . what with other professional trips planned as well, I think that will have to be it for my MLB travels. Alas.
Well, we've all got Primer e-mail addies, correct?
I can't believe my quasi-flip comment on wanting to be a fly on the wall at the kevin/Nieporent summit's morphed into plans for a mega-meetup. Well done, gentlemen.
Carmine, I don't think it's right for you to extort money from BTF-dom.
Awesome. I have an extremely opened bottle with about half a shot left in my liquor cabinet. :)
Now, what's this Green Spot you were telling me about at some point? I can't seem to find it.
here's a link:
Green spot
I'd be interested in this meetup for the Sox/O's tilt. I don't believe I have Mini-Manny that weekend.
I hope the chuckles return soon.
phredbird,
I like your picture. I am not an art critic so I will not pretend to say anything about brush strokes, etc.
Hell, you should bring him. His first meetup, and (probably) his first beer.
Sorry to bug out last week, BTW; I was sick as a dog.
retro, you spelled autistic wrong.
Then again, I've been looking for an excuse to get back to Ireland.
Oh, no. I'm well aware of BTFers' autistic talents.
Green Spot (€40). A pure pot still whiskey that is almost impossible to obtain outside Ireland. Green Spot is produced for Mitchell & Son, the old Dublin wine merchants (you can find their shop on Kildare Street). It belongs to a class of whiskey that once typified the Irish style but is now sadly almost gone (the Redbreast mentioned above is also pure pot still style).
bummer.
a meetup between kevin and DMN? whoa. too bad i can't be there for that... but the matchup i couldn't miss is retardo and DMN. but that would be a slaughter, no question.
and kev,
i'm real sorry about you and your wife not working out. but you sound like you are taking it OK.
but you know i don't think most couples stay together real too long anyhow. me and husband are almost at 8 years now and i don't know anyone our age who have stayed together that long...
phred,
good work
KEVIN!
Bernal put you on ignore because your ass hole is on fire~~! His time is very valuable, ya dig?! Your brain is piddy, it's little, and he doesn't want to waste that valuable time watching you spew it! It has nothing to do with the ALCS, kapeesh!??
And not only that, but you're a ########## too! EAT IT!
Thank you.
Its most likely just aspergers.
You can start a Forum thread for it.
I might actually have to figure out a way to get up to Baltimore for this one, too.
-- MWE
Sorry about your marriage, Kevin.
everything.
I still think his previous album was better but yeh I am a sucker for Elephant 6 and friends. I've been playing lots of Akron/family and panda bear as well. Cool , easy going stuff
How you been mate?? All the best & merry xmas and a happy new year from my new family!
As for myself, I'm a working man now and doing well. Seeing a nice girl; you would approve.
Let me know if the family life affords you an opportunity to visit the states again.
I think I made it until at least 11 before my first beer. I think I'm going to try to keep him at least that long.
Sorry to bug out last week, BTW; I was sick as a dog.
No worries. Let's reschedule sometime in the new year.
your wife and babies are beautiful. she looks great. whoaaaa they are 2 months now aren't they? the first thing i really remember after i had the twins was about 10 weeks later - the allstar game ending in a tie. i hardly had enough sleep... i still looked awful
It's been crazy would be an understatement. Poor old Lu is exhausted
Am sorry to hear about your marriage. Hang in there. And remember, you'll always have Pedroia. ;)
You'll never be on my ignored list. Who's gonna bust my chops about this? Is it March 12 yet?
Nice to hear about your new job. I recently finished a project for a major pharma on evaluating their portfolio to respond to the government's goal of improving pandemic preparedness. We should talk sometimes, I'm sure we can figure out a way I can bribe you for the betterment of humanity.
Finally, it's a shame I can't join y'all for that game. It'd be fun. kevin would probably want to beat the snot out of me for trying to bribe him while Backlasher would be biting his tongue jonesing to say "put a Milo on him"...
Musial, like other American men with dependents, was initially draft-deferred because he had a son born before the war.
Its most likely just aspergers.
Well, that IS part of the autism spectrum...
I was going to give a detailed explanation of the autism spectrum, but I figured that would just prove your point.
Thanks levski.
My girls will be going nowhere near Darwin, if I have anything to do with it!! In fact, if they are anything like Dad the only outdoors they'll appreciate will be for cricket, the beach, baseball and golf.
How old are your kids now? Sounds like you are having fun
I enjoy retro's posts.
I have minimal empathy for Cardinal fans at large. The Cardinals are the most successful NL franchise in MLB history and as a group their fans do not distinguish themselves when things don't go just SO. It is disappointing if not outright distasteful.
kevin, I am terribly sorry to hear about the marriage. Best of luck working through the situation.
levski, we're hiring in our department in '08. I think you have the background to snag something down here. The pay is pretty good and the work environment is phenomenal.
Email me your cv if you're interested.
Oh, and has Callaspo gotten out of jail yet? I bet he puts up monster numbers for Tuscon this year, so that's something you can look forward to.
Well played.
Well, thanks (feeling's mutual), but then again, you don't root for a team against whom I have an active rooting interest, so you wouldn't have to deal with my snark. Oh, wait...
kevin, I actually like my job. Been at it for almost 2 years now. And I prefer to remain in the NYC area for a while, plus we bought a house last year. But thanks. I can still send you my cv if you register on lavalife though and are interested :)
And Callaspo is out of jail... but he's with the Royals now, so am not sure he's better off ;) And no PCL inflated stats for him; he's out of options, and definitely out of Tucson. My guess is he outhits Pedroia in 2007 (as far as wives are concerned)...
Will this be on the "intimate" section?
What do I win?
No, BL, it isn't you, either.
Is that "hit" in the Julio Lugo sense, or in the Leo Durocher sense?
I bet I know who it is, and no, I'm not implying that it's me.
You're definitely correct as to the latter, repugnant though your mediocrity is.
Good luck rebuilding, Kevin. Change is hard, but often good. Just don't tell us you have a five-year plan. :-)
I thought you knew I painted oil on canvas. Its been some time since I've done it, but I'm proud enough to hang them in my apt.
I've got my dollars on that jackass Beano Cook.
Sorry about your marriage.
I'm sure the kevin-DMN meetup is gonna have all the grandeur of a urine test. Then again, I'm no idealist; I just think meetups are fun. So I'm in - what happens next? Do we need to plan ahead to get tickets?
BTW kevin, you say you're OK with your marriage ending... I hope so, and I wish you good luck throughout the rest of the process.
Ace, the drop-dead date is Feb 15th. At that point, we'll purchase the tickets as a group, so we can all sit together.
If push comes to shove, I'll just charge them and you all can reimburse me.
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