Comments on: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

By: nwtrev

nwtrev — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:48:36 +0000

76 – Why wait? Put him in Tacoma now and see what he does. What is the worst that would happen? We’d have an underachieving first baseman.

By: et_blankenship

et_blankenship — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:25:36 +0000

Crap. When I saw this on the ESPNEWS ticker last night I was clinging to the hope that there was another Craig Wilson. “It’s a common name, and the Pirates tend to collect guys named Wilson. Yeah, it’s gotta be a different Crag Wilson, one who is still in his 20′s.”

Nope.

By: msb

msb — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:12 +0000

â€œBaseball is a viscous mistress.â€

-Gaylord Perry

well, if anyone knew from viscous, it was Gaylord.

By: smb

smb — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:18:21 +0000

thanks, msb…

how could I possibly have confused the two?!?

By: terry

terry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:59:50 +0000

According to C Kahrl, Vidro’s option vests at 535 plate appearances.

Wilson can’t get to Seattle fast enough….

By: terry

terry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:07:31 +0000

â€œBaseball is a viscous mistress.â€

-Gaylord Perry

Spit on any woman and she’ll be unpleasant to deal with….

By: John in L.A.

John in L.A. — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:22:53 +0000

“Baseball is a viscous mistress.”

-Gaylord Perry

By: DMZ

DMZ — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:14:52 +0000

‘viscious’?

By: mrmitra

mrmitra — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:01:39 +0000

Pelekoudas calls Daniels:
Pelekoudas: “Hey Jon, you know that Nelson Cruz guy that’s rotting in your farm system? How much would you want for us to take him off your hands?”
Daniels: “Cruz… oh yes that guy that USS Mariner talked about! You know those guys are pretty smart. Man it would take a guy like Felix Hernandez for me to part with a blue chip prospect like Nelson Cruz.”
Pelekoudas: “What the hell? Cruz couldn’t hit off Felix even if Felix threw underhand! And you think that’s an even trade?!?”
Daniels: “Sorry bro. The USS Mariners gods have spoken. Ever since they wrote that article our phones have been ringing off the hook. Highest offer right now is A-rod with the Yankees eating some of the contract.”
-click-

Pelekoudas then calls Melvin
Pelekoudas: “Hey Doug, you know Brad Nelson? Down there in AAA? What would you want in return for him?”
Melvin: “Nelson eh? My fanbase is clamoring that we should get no less than Felix for him, but I’ll admit, we need pitching bad. I’ll do Nelson for Bedard straight across.”
Pelekoudas: “Am I having a bad dream?”
Melvin: “Don’t you read USS Mariner? Nelson is going to be a stud!”
Pelekoudas: “-sigh-”
-click-

Phone rings, Huntington is on the other end
Huntington: “Hey Pelekoudas my man! Want to make a trade for the exact type of player that is causing your franchise to suck right now?”
Pelekoudas: “Ah fuck it who do you want?”

By: qwerty

qwerty — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:40:23 +0000

When we take our yearly household trip to the dump, and purge ourselves of all the crap weâ€™ve built up over the winter, I feel great. CLEANSED.

Well, the Mariners just backed their truck up.. tossed out an old broken lamp.. rummaged around.. and picked up a stinky old recliner.
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