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Thursday, August 02, 2012
Pod People got no reason to live.
The Diamondbacks acquired outfielder Scott Podsednik along with right-hander Matt Albers from the Red Sox for left-hander Craig Breslow just two days ago. However, the team announced Podsednik’s release this afternoon. What gives?
According to Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic, Podsednik was granted his release after refusing an assignment to Triple-A Reno... Podsednik, 36, batted .387/.409/.484 with one home run, seven RBI, six stolen bases and an .893 OPS in 19 games with the Red Sox earlier this season prior to being placed on the disabled list in mid-June with a strained groin. He was playing with Triple-A Pawtucket for a little over a month prior to the trade to Arizona.
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1. asinwreck Posted: August 03, 2012 at 09:13 AM (#4199567)I knew there was something sinister about Ron Mael's mustache.
I heard he shot a man there one time.
And end up in Folsom Prison; how strange is that? Does the state of Nevada not have its own correctional facilities? Inquiring minds want to know.
RedSox: (smelling a quart of milk) Whoa! Yecch.
29 teams: What?
RedSox: Oh, you gotta smell this!
28 teams: No way!
DBacks: OK. Hand it over.
I suspect we might be able to file that one under "artistic license." Because "I shot a man in Grass Valley" just wouldn't have the same flow.
Under new owner Mitt Romney the Diamondbacks have also retroactively released Eric Byrnes, Chad Tracy, and Brandon Lyon, meaning that under generally accepted accounting standards they are the 2008 NL West champions.
"I shot a man in Chico" works.
but I already had outstanding
warrants for multiple
homicides in Cali."
...doesn't fit the meter and rhyme.
It does. And, true story, I actually saw a man shot in Chico.
I was about 20 or so, a buddy of mine and I were cruising around up there in his pickup truck one summer night, and we turn a corner and pass by a little convenience store, and there's a guy sprawled out flat in the doorway, a pool of blood welling around him, and (what we assume was) the store proprietor standing a few feet behind him. It had to have happened just seconds before we drove by.
Very freaky.
B: In re?
A: No, just to watch him die.
Technically there are places in California named San Antonio
Yes, I Googled San Antonio, CA and it pointed me to a crossroads south of Petaluma - I guess prison does strange things to a man's mind...
In all seriousness, I think it's pretty awesome to think about a 19-year-old hayseed from backwoods Arkansas, in Germany with the U.S. Air Force, writing a song which inhabits a universe in which Reno, Nevada, and San Antonio, Texas, are in California. (Or perhaps the other way around.)
The same guy would later record a single called "I've Been Everywhere," which when originally written referenced a long sequence of towns and places in Australia.
It's blowing my MIND, man.
That was actually Scott Podsednik.
That's a question left for the lawyers. Wasn't the Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton duel deliberately fought this way so that neither protagonist could be prosecuted for murder in case one man died? I seem to remember reading that one of them fired from New Jersey and the other from New York in order to not violate that particular state's laws. Of course nowadays most juridictions are more likely to extradite you for this type of thing so, as attractive as bi-state dueling might be, this method of settling disputes is likely closed.
No, their duel was in Weehawken, which is across the Hudson from Manhattan.
No, that's a Dukes of Hazzard episode you're remembering.
You are correct sir. Apparently, in those days there was still some dispute over the border between New Jersey & New York and this lead to several duels being fought there because it was to a certain extent, "no mans land", and the parties involved could be reasonably sure not to be interrupted. In retrospect Hamilton may have wished for some interruption but there we are.
I'll see you, and raise you one So tired of Roy Orbison.
At any rate, one of the greatest things I ever heard was on a Fresh Air interview of Nick Lowe, who was Cash's son-in-law for a time: Nick Lowe impersonating Johnny Cash. "Wellll, Nick ..." God it was hysterical.
Well, I just learned something. I thought Hank Snow's version was the original.
Me too, but that was Before Wikipedia.
How did any of us know anything back then?
(Apparently, she was just short of 16 & he was 19, so it wasn't quite as unsavory as it might've otherwise seemed.)
But where did they bury the survivors?
Lili Von Shtupp is tired of playing the game.
In the holes the Japanese had them dug. And bayoneting Earhart and Noonan forward into the graves was a good way to do it. Bullets are a waste and the bodies may have to be pushed in. And even though the bayonet takes time to kill them, it's not like they were going to be in any condition to dig their way out.
I take it every so often your baby gets the urge to roam, and is not coming home.
How well does a knuckleball move in hell?
To be fair, what cult doesn't get tiresome after awhile?
All you really need is "She Sells Sanctuary". After that, almost every song sounded great for the first ten seconds, and then faded into mediocrity.
The cult of Bruce Campbell.
How did any of us know anything back then?
Since someone else has already linked xkcd in this thread: http://xkcd.com/333/
(don't forget the hover text)
"Trumpy, why'd you kill the nice lady?"
No player hitting .389 should ever accept a demotion to AAA!
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