Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Murphy: Ruben Amaro Jr. doesn’t “do” five-year plans, but the Phillies need a good one
(www.philly.com)
Read More...Any professional who talks to the media about his area of expertise is succeptible to a certain level of contrarianism. Legend has it that even God the Creator once answered a question with the words, “I don’t know if ‘rest’ is the word I’d use to describe that seventh day, but. . .” So when the man responsible for the short and long-term success of the Phillies organization said on Monday afternoon that he doesn’t “do five-year plans,” it may have offered more of an insight into his psychology ...
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1. flournoy posted on September 27, 2012 at 10:07 AM # hit 0 | hit 0That's very true. They've only booed him from day one at about a 8 or 9 on the scale, not the 10 they could've. And I don't recall too many D-cells lobbed his way. (Do they make those anymore?) Nor have their been many beer cups full of urine.
So he's right. He's been treated excellently by the fans.
It's probably good that it worked out this way, because I would have been very tempted to make the two hour drive up there today just to witness it in person and whoop it up.
"Awesome"?
You are either really, really poor or really, really rich!
Cheapskate. Buy your kids some toys that require the big'uns!
Step away from the ammo rack, Joey. It wasn't the Phillies that insulted Werth, it was Pointless Ed Rendell. It's nice of Werth to get a bit of attention deflected to himself, since the team has hit a bit of a flat spot. Hopefully, the Nats will have all cylinders firing as the season winds up.
Ok, after typing that I had to play it. However, holding an iPad on your shoulder does not have quite the same gravitas.
I'm just channeling Wilson Goode, the only mayor in American history to firebomb his own city.
It wasn't the Phillies that insulted Werth, it was Pointless Ed Rendell.
No, it's not just Rendell. It couldn't be more obvious that the Phillies fans are (pretty much across the board) still irate that Werth had the nerve to take a big money free agent contract somewhere else that they weren't willing to offer, and Rendell speaks for pretty much all these idiots. Well that's just too damn bad; get over it already Philly.
Hopefully, the Nats will have all cylinders firing as the season winds up.
Hopefully; this I sure agree with. I'm more than a little concerned about Morse and Clippard; they clearly could both use some time off, and they're not going to be able to get it.
To be fair, he was firebombing a bunch of aholes, and the city block was collateral damage.
He did it because Jayson Werth is overpaid?
Your robot child is battery-operated? How old-school.
I bought some just a couple of weeks ago for a flashlight, which was rather aggravating because I already owned a bunch of C-cells that I bought a year or so ago for a bigger flashlight that I subsequently discovered was no longer working for other reasons.
Apparently you are not a trucker. All truckers have the maglites with 4 D-cell batteries. Lots of light and the ability to be used as a nightstick if needed.
if by gravitas you meant "a chance that you could get a hernia from lifting it," then yes. The iPad? Not so much.
FWIW, I would have had to fight my way out of the public parks in my hometown for playing Tom Sawyer on a ghetto blaster. If you weren't blasting RUN DMC on a blaster in my town, you learned to not blast anything. It was a tough town.
Not the only.
I used to consume D-cells like candy in the 80s with my JVC boombox (the sucker took TEN of 'em), but nowadays I think we just use them in flashlights.
Other items we have (Roomba "walls," remotes, external speakers, sex toys, whatever) all seem to take C batteries or smaller nowadays.
Yes, put a wind-up key in your next robot girl.
I first heard the song in 7th grade when the cool kid was playing it in PE on his blaster. We were very lower middle class suburban white trash... Tom Saywer was actually high class for us...
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