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Sunday, March 03, 2013
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Bronson Arroyo spent most of the spring losing an argument with a flu virus and made his debut Saturday against the Chicago White Sox.
“He’ll probably get hit hard today like most veterans do their first time out,” said Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker. “I remember (Hall of Famer) Don Sutton used to get hit hard, real hard. Rich Reuschel got hit hard.”
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WHEN THE SEASON begins, it is a rare day when Arroyo gets beat up and he is as reliable as a BMW starting in the morning.
“To me, he is more reliable than anybody in baseball,” said Baker. That’s because Arroyo has started 323 games without missing a start and has pitched 200 or more innings seven of the last eight years and the year he missed he pitched 199.
“His is a quiet reliability because he doesn’t have the Justin Verlander stuff, doesn’t have the strikeouts. I’ll take his usual 15 wins and 200 innings any time,” said Baker. “And when he gets on a roll, well, he can get on a roll as good as anybody.”
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Posted: March 03, 2013 at 10:13 AM | 64 comment(s)
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1. Rennie's Tenet Posted: March 03, 2013 at 10:36 AM (#4379674)You want that? Go Toyota or Honda.
You buy a BMW because you've been seeing ever-increasing clumps of hair in the shower drain.
i think you need to get out more often. the 3 series bmw is ubiquitous, especially popular with women.
now, you want to point to the 5 series and above, that's a possible argument to make
But I don't mean to over-snark. Arroyo has been unusually healthy for a pitcher.
i think you need to get out more often. the 3 series bmw is ubiquitous, especially popular with women.
Indeed. Work a little harder and get yourself a real car.
my grandson picked up the 2012 audi a6. i confess that was a fun ride.
I was seriously considering it, but couldn't justify the cost. Got a VW Jetta turbo diesel instead.
It was fun to drive. But it wasn't worth it at $70-$140 per spin, know what I mean?
my grandson picked up the 2012 audi a6. i confess that was a fun ride.
Those are fun. Good for him.
It was fun to drive. But it wasn't worth it at $70-$140 per spin, know what I mean?
Sure, if you don't really drive then just get whatever. Still, most days my commute is only ten minutes and I'm pretty sure doing it in a X6 rather than a Camry or whatever improves my life. It's just money, enjoy it.
Mrs Howie leases one of these. nice ride, and her dad used to race stock cars in the midwest....
Or do something useful with it that wouldn't be considered nearly criminally extravagant by the large majority of the planet's population, you know, whatever.
Or do something useful with it that wouldn't be considered nearly criminally extravagant by the large majority of the planet's population, you know, whatever.
Yeah, I'll get right on that chief.
Man, I drove one of those once, and I figure if I ever need to drive one again I should probably a couple of months of yoga first. I found it almost impossible to get in and out of.
How can you justify spending the time to read and post on this site? You should be out building homeless shelters and donating food. Get to it!
Are you saying you're not diminutive?
Many model years ago, and it was as fun as all get out. Assuming the spirit of the car is still the same (I'm certain it doesn't share a single part at this point), then it's a great little vehicle.
So, that's not very useful information, but just know that the 2003(ish) Audi TT was a great car.
the suv is a disaster and heartily discourage anyone from purchase. even audi execs will confess when pressed that it is not a good design and is unreliable.
honda is getting passed by the likes of hyundai in its class
the 2012 honda accord is not one of honda's best efforts
i'd drive a shoebox if the mileage/interior space/price was right.
I'm not a big guy, at the time I was 5'10" and about 190, but I do have long legs. The car sat so low, and there was such a small space between the seat and the steering wheel, that I really had to stand back and think out how I was going to enter the car. It wasn't as simple as sitting on the seat and swinging your legs around.
As for Hyundais I have a 2011 Elantra that I bought new in May 2011, and I ####### despise it. Its the last Hyundai I'll ever own.
Me too, which is the main reason I bought the Elantra. It was rated well above the Civic and Corolla for mileage, and it gets much worse mileage than the 2008 Corolla I had.
The car was a lot better fit when I weighed 100 lbs. or so less (i.e. when I bought it). The '96 Maxima that replaced it accommodates my bulk much better, I must say. If only it were a standard (which the Accent was) ... *sigh*
Wait, people get into cars like that? I always go right leg first (past the steering wheel), sit down, left leg in. In every car I've ever driven, regardless of size.
Only in Arkansas, Alabama and similar envrions. Dukes of Hazzard-style auto entry never gained a strong foothold in the aggressive northern states.
Until Ford ruins it again ala their 80s flops - I will continue to purchase Mustangs, continue to hope to some day have enough money to pop for a Shelby, but in the meantime - be quite satisfied mid-shelfing to the GT.... #### the mileage, #### all the rest... it's just fun to drive.
Nice. My brother was a Mustang guy. Bright yellow, special tires, mods, the whole nine yards. He had fun with that for a lot of years. Of course then he got a girl and got old and now he drives a stinking Kia. Willie Mays in a Mets uniform territory.
Can someone explain to me the logic of car leasing?
These days my commute is a short select bus ride, though. I miss the flashing blue lights.
there is none other than for folks who like to switch out cars regularly.
there is a great piece (cannot find the link, sorry) about this guy who interviewed dozens and dozens of people from all over the world who had made a lot of money and kept it. all kinds of interesting stories and financial habits. the only constant? nobody leased a car
nobody. and he noticed about a third of the way through his interviews and began asking the remaining people why when they got a car why didn't they lease and the immediate response was, 'that would be really stupid'
i will tell a shorter version of a longer mustang story. short version is that a buddy of mine inherits a 1966 mustang that he fixes up. the last few bits he has done at a garage and he brings it home all delighted. he then immediately goes on vacation. well he lives in palo alto and the car was parked on the street so first the car gets ticketed and then towed for having expired plates (he hadn't bothered for all the obvious reasons) he's on vacation so the california dmv, in the first and last display of dmv initiative, track down his 100 year old mother in the nursing home demanding she come pick up the car at the impound lot (since the registration was still in his dad's name) so he gets this hysterical call from his mother (while in mexico), calms her down and returns early to get the car. huge dent in the side courtesy of the city. he grits his teeth, pays all the fines, and takes the car back to the garage to repair the damage. the day he picks up the car and drives it home he gets hit by a city dumptruck while at stopped at a stop sign and the car is totalled. (he somehow walked away with just a bump)
so he went from having a vintage 1966 mustang as a remembrance of his dad to nothing. thanks to the city of palo alto
That's what I thought. Every time I see a lease I think "Sure, I'd love to own this property for the period of its greatest depreciation, and no longer!"
That said, buying new is a pretty inefficient use of money if your car is simply utilitarian. But new cars are...shiny! Fun! Not sure I'll be able to break that habit, but who knows as a I grow older.
there isn't any law prohibiting street parking (or wasn't). it was the fact the plates were expired so they noticed. i guess if the car had been in his driveway that would have stopped them from towing the vehicle but being on the street was the difference. at least that is what i remember him telling me based on what he was told by the city.
I was all ready to buy used when I went car shopping last year. I found the gap between the used car price and the new car price simply wasn't large enough (it was barely noticable) to justify buying a used car.
I don't think that's a permanent sitaution, but fluctuates depending on the state of the auto market.
Crappy economy means not many people have been buying new cars over the last 4 years or so, and lots of people have been looking to buy used. Low supply, high demand...
I live in a city with a subway, and I have a zipcar membership that I use when I actually need a car. It works out pretty well.
Same here. Plus, I had mileage/size requirements that pushed me toward new + buying a car that's used but not too old, increases your chances of getting a lemon relative to non-sold cars that age.
I love subways, though I think the plan to build light rail by me is stupid.
I used to have a White 1970 Nova, black interior, with a 350 V8 and dual exhausts, fat tires, mags.
It was cool as hell and in good shape, but still a money pit. So I sold it on Ebay. I almost never drive now. Once a week tops,
and now that my dad died, just short little jaunts.
I like cars. Always have.
Its an often-overlooked fact that your car has to be registered/licensed to be parked on the street. But I'm able to put that into an "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" buckets. Presumably the car registration is paying for maintenance of that street that its parked on.
From a dealer, or from a private sale? I'm not surprised there's no deals to be had on a used car from a dealer.
Yeah, that's a fun incentive factor of the car -- MPG shaming/achievement. I recently read an article somewhere that does the same thing with home energy usage -- comparing you to your neighbors and giving you a smiley-face on your bill when you do well. Little things have dramatic effects on conservation.
It also needs to have a current inspection sticker - I found out the hard way once.
In my case, I wasn't looking at private. I drive 25,000 miles a year, so I was looking specifically for a very low-mileage used car. The price gap betwen new and used in that category was virtually non-existent. I doubt that would have changed much in a private sale, though I could be wrong.
Yeah, they try to shame us almost every month in a usage comparison to our neighbors. Since none of our immediate neighbors have more people in their homes as us, I don't give it a hell of a lot of thought.
well, my friend is not prone to hyperbole, he brought the car home on a tuesday, left for mexico on wednesday and by monday had gotten the panicked call from his aged mother and discovered the car was in the impound lot. and people complain about the inefficiency of govt.
best he could tell is the car got ticketed on wednesday and towed on friday. but that's from my memory which on non-baseball, non-financial, non harvey stories is subject to some variance.
it was the last phone call when he told me the car was destroyed that really sticks with me. he was so disappointed. he wanted to recreate this photo he had with his dad from when his dad first got the car where he and his father were sitting in the car all set to hit the highway. he wanted to have his oldest son sitting next to him in the same setup.
yeah, i don't get sentimentality either but it works for some people...................
My wife likes to change vehicles frequently, but of course leaves the $$ part up to me. Over the years I've both purchased & leased cars for her, but good deals on leases have largely gone away. For a while in the late 90's/early 00's the captive finance cos had stupidly high residual value assumptions on their leases and one could score a great deal if you knew how to shop. They've over-corrected that error, at least that's what it appears to me the few times I've sharpened my pencil in recent years, so the last 2 she's wanted I've paid cash for.
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