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isn't that what we're all saying? I don't see any Yankee fans saying anything other than "Papelbon's a dope, but whoever was saying vulgar or insulting things when he was with his wife is a jackass"
I mostly just insult you.
Anybody who wants to attempt to justify it is in waaay deep. Visit planet earth sometime, the fresh air will do you good.
I am not a Red Sox fan, OK.
I think he would have climbed into the stands and yelled out his own name, angry that his chant isn't acknowledged.
Or if they, you know, cheat and just make words up.
Threads? Need entertainment and I can't imagine you not at least responding.
There were no funny parts. It was Base at his most base.
Baser than the Lidle thread?
You can play Scrabble using only small words.
They threw batteries and quarters at her abdomen once they saw she was pregnant.
Is their a back story? Some Game Chatter "so's your mom" equivalent?
To the layperson of BBTF it reads as a statement of fact/accusation.
Which I personally found rather outlandish.
And yes, if someone claims to FEEL threatened who is anyone to dispute how that person felt? But folks have the freedome to determine whether given the context someone was actually "threatened" by the circumstances. As in their "feeling" was rationally justified.
I would suggest that given the organized nature of the activity, the security present, the lack of history of sports fans in this country attacking player's wives much less in a highly public setting that said "feeling" was more hysterics than based in rational thought.
But then my wife is routinely called foul names for merely being married to me and has been for decades. None of the "name-callers" have taken any action nor do they do dare to issue their comments in my presence. It pains me that she is subjected to such nonsense but such is the cost of having lived in the same place for over fifty years and had different levels of encounters with folks within shouting radius.
If I were Papelborn I would be rather chagrined that my wife felt "threatened" with him sitting at her side. Big, strong-looking kid like that and his wife gets worried about a few dumb*sses shouting from the sidewalk?
Thanks.
Well, that's a let down.
Well ok then.
Don't know then why someone who doesn't hang out in Red Sox chatters would be termed a dimbulb.
But if that is the standard then to quote the Lounge I "FAIL".
Papelbon is such a dork...odds are, if he tried to go all kung fu on some Yankee toughs, he'd poke his own eye out with his elbow.
I was looking for 82 on another page or something.
Well, it was better than your "joke" about batteries and quarters. Not that either was actually funny.
Brilliant? I remember when people called Fight Club brilliant. Is this the same use of the word?
Poor work rate.
EDIT: Apparently 4=22--where Darren types "I do."
Oh, maybe I do have the link:
http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/ap_garciaparra_rescues_two_women_in_boston/
That was a good one, but I prefer the time someone posted as Gammons and explained that his columns were all postfemininst poetry or something like that.
You mean coitus?
(only worth 8 points!)
Ozzie Guillen would have sacrificed one, left the other stranded, and been hailed for his use of the productive death.
112. Moe Jorgan Posted: October 12, 2005 at 11:32 AM (#1678948)
Billy Beane never should have thrown those women into the water.
I still think this was the best of the bunch.
Best Regards
John
A lot of the funny is located in the lounge now.
Forget clever, "1918" was effective. Even after two World Championships, it still stings.
Also, Bonds ended 2006 with a ZR of 0.860 while the league had a ZR of 0.859.
kevin, that's what it means to be right.
Guapo is a funny dude. (So is Gonfalon Bubble and I get them mixed up sometimes.) I emailed him and told him that he deserved a Primey for the last post in this thread.
If any Toronto Blue Jays batter were there both women would be left in drowning position.
If Jeff Borris were there he'd ask everyone to save the women.
If Dan Uggla were there three women would have drowned.
If Adam Dunn were there, he'd claim that the women never cried for help.
If Jonathan Papelbon were there he'd insist that he should save the women.
If Moises Alou were there, the water would be a lot warmer.
If J.P. Ricciardi were there he'd claim that the women didn't enjoy swimming.
Best Regards
John
I missed most of the Rob Base wars, and I think Dial and levski often behave in such a way as to earn the attacks they receive, but seriously: thank god that guy is gone. He seems to have contributed nothing except vandalism to this site.
EDIT: And that is blown off, not blown. Getting blown by three girls at a college party is his crowning achievement, period.
You should've been in the ASG Chatter thread, where I actually spent a lot of time talking about the humor that appeals to me. Rob Base's idiocy was not mentioned.
The only reason you like Rob Base is because he attacked people you personally dislike. Simple as that.
If Joe Buck was there, he would make sure everyone knew that he would rather be anywhere else in the world.
If Justin Morneau was there, he would have saved both women, but no one would have noticed.
If Ozzie Guillen was there, he would have saved both women, then blown up two inflatable women dolls and sent them out into the water to let them drown in order to teach some sort of message.
If Scott Fletcher was there, he would have saved them since everyone knows he's clutch.
If Joe Dimino was there, he would have sprained his ankle running out to the edge of the pier forcing Aaron Gleeman to jump in the water to save them in his place.
If Anthony Giacalone was there, he would have shown how the women falling in the water was incredibly a parallel event to the US getting pulled into a war making a tenuous argument and confusing everyone around.
If Chris Jaffe was there, he would have wanted Billy Martin to tell him the most surprising but effective way of getting them out of the water.
Well not entirely true, he'd tell 10 tasteless "jokes" and the odds are that one would really be funny (by accident).
What was really odd, was after being booted from BBTF he went on Metsgeek, and actually sounded half reasonable...
he stopped posting on Metsgeek too after awhile...
Here's one:
Knock Knock.
Who's There?
kevin.
[Ignore Member]
GGC, thanks for the shoutout- I never check my btf email account (don't tell Furtado!) so I missed your message.
Keep working Guapo. Maybe someday you'll have the finely tuned sense of humor of a Kevin or MHS.
I chose an extreme case to make a point. And, besides, I only said five minutes. I can withstand quite a bit for five minutes.
He's not internationally known, but he's known to rock the microphone? Is this the point you are trying to make? Because, oh, yo, I don't know...
I missed the whole Rob Base saga. Or, more accurately, I started wasting time here just before his banishment so I sorta remember him but not enough to care all that much. I say this only top explain why I'm bringing out the tired "I Wanna Rock Right Now" jokes that you guys probably tore through years ago.
Or I could have gone too meta in trying to find deep meaning in a three word sentence.
Is there any evidence, other than Papelbon's statement, that something happened? How do we know Papelbon is not exagerating? Or that he didn't mishear a comment directed elsewhere? Or that he doesn't just make stuff up like Kevin?
Don't think this is much of a story.
For his part, Papelbon should have omitted the part about him being the All-Star closer if he was the manager and just left it at: "Mariano Rivera will be closing the 2008 All-Star Game in Yankee Stadium. I'm making a statement right now, saying I don't want it, I want him to have it. I said all that earlier, but that's the way I feel about it."
As for the response by Yankee fans, well, Red Sox fans behave no differently towards Yankee players at Fenway Park.
But the NY Daily News decided they could sell more papers if they just portrayed Papelbon as a villain. Conentrating on what was perceived as his most insolent remarks while burying his true intent tells me more about the current state of journalism then it does about Papelbon. This is the same crap they pulled last year when they portrayed David Ortiz as having no respect for Derek Jeter. It doesn't help that many in their audience probably know the story's ######## but would simply prefer to believe the exagerated version.
And some people still wonder why Fox News is so successful.
I thought it was the hot chicks with long legs that distract viewers from the misinformation.
I wish the Internet Archive had some record of the Carl Everett "HOW'S THE KNEE?" rap lyrics thread. I also liked the discussion of which members of the Padres were vampires, though that comes to my mind because it was mostly me.
The literary style parody one is brilliant. Not even funny, just brilliant. I am not talented enough to write those.
Any thread with Gagne 55
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