Comments on: Post-Labor Day Rambling Blues

By: MHS

MHS — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 15:22:09 +0000

#33 said: (paraphrasing in my own words) MHS ruined his point about the crappy starting pitching with a absurd error.

Yes, I meant that we need to upgrade the starting pitching, not the bullpen. My damn brain malfunctions yet again …

By: Colm

Colm — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:13:59 +0000

Oi! geezer, no monkey says “pot-ah-to”

By: Dave in Palo Alto

Dave in Palo Alto — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:50:37 +0000

At least Boone cared, damnit, he cared.

By: Shoeless Jose

Shoeless Jose — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:55:39 +0000

Felix is our god;
Safeco is our church. Every
Five days we worship.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:59:39 +0000

yup.

“John Olerud and Rich Aurilia found themselves trapped inside the video room just behind the M’s dugout during the fourth inning Saturday night after an unnamed teammate (whose initials are B.B.) snapped after grounding out and took his frustrations — and his bat — out on the office’s door handle.

As minutes passed and the inning extended, Olerud began knocking on a window to attract the attention of Randy Winn in the adjacent indoor hitting area. When Winn couldn’t open the door from the outside, team officials scrambled to locate a maintenance man to drill the lock open.

All of which led to one of those situations Melvin never quite imagined during his preparations for becoming a big-league manager.

“Randy comes up the tunnel and says, ‘Hey, we’ve got a little problem here. Our next two hitters are locked in the video room,’ ” Melvin recalled Sunday. “So I go down there and it’s like a fire drill around that door. It was like a scene out of Abbott and Costello.” “

By: Jim Thomsen

Jim Thomsen — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:54:58 +0000

The Macha-Blanton restroom story reminds me of a game early last year, when Rich Aurilia and John Olerud were trapped in a clubhouse room and the start of the next inning actually had to be delayed while a clubhouse attendant or somebody had to figure a way for them to get out.

By: msb

msb — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:19:58 +0000

Randy Winn, pre-trade: 102 games, six home runs. Randy Winn, post-trade: 32 games, five home runs. DonÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t call it a comeback. HeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s been here for years.

I’ve been enjoying the calls to the postgame about those guys who’ve left the Ms only to have success, like Varitek & Ortiz, Olivo & Aurilia, Podsednik & John Mabry…

By: Daaaaan

Daaaaan — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:19:13 +0000

Sorry, it looks like something mangled the link (i didn’t add the nofollow). Raw:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/stats?playerId=5355

By: Daaaaan

Daaaaan — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:18:06 +0000

idiot long link

By: TaeBo Jackson

TaeBo Jackson — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 01:06:39 +0000

Re #34

There’s nothing Nietzche couldn’t teach ya
‘Bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.

John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.

Plato, they say, could stick it away–
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.
Hobbes was fond of his dram,

Yes, Socrates, himself, is particularly missed,
A lovely little thinker,
But a bugger when he’s pissed.