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Inspired by this, it has been suggested that we start a blog written by the Baseball Tonight crew. I've created baseballtonight.blogspot.com, and if you are interested in contributing, I can send you an invite to join.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Yanc3, I'd most definitely like an invite (but send it to dav3r@popsh0ts.0rg, as that's the addy for my Blogger account).

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ignore that invite, david. i wanna create one where i can post under something other than my real name. or is there a way to change the "posted by" for each member?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG. Greatest. Idea. Ever.
Invite. Please.

(problem: I don't get ESPN. I get the Sunday night game, and I do read the internet columns by Krukkie et al. Fortunately, R0D BL4CK is handling the PBP for Blue Jays games on Rogers Sportsnet, so he might crash the ESPN party -- youneverknow)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Inspiration: (plus the link to the Boston-NYY thread where the impersonations started)

Your Quotable Broadcaster Impersonations

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure if this falls into Beyond Parody. Like when Mystery Science Theater added their japes to an Ed Wood film...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

well i sent you an invite regardless, morbs

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, thanks. If I can bear to watch the show any more, I'll work on my "Ravvy." Gammons was on for the full hour at 10 (saying his share of palaver too -- did you know Tejada makes his teammates better?); I wonder how often he suppresses vomit next to Krunk & HR.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was a dumbass and accepted the invite to my regular blogger account. Once I figure out which name I'll post under, I'll probably need another invite.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yanc3, I think you can modify the template to remove the user's Blogger name, and we can just post pics of who we be before the post.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that would work. Then we can manually add the html for the poster's name at the end of our posts.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

yep, i'm fixing it

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

how's this look?

http://baseballtonight.blogspot.com/

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

hang on, i'm gonna kill it and start over one more time. this is annoying to have two different blogger accounts going, and i've finally figured out a fix. apologies.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Yanc3 - are you directly linking the pics from ESPIN? If so, I can copy & paste the pertinent portraits into a directory on my site, so we don't have to worry about ESPIN getting cheesed off.

Also, what was that 1st post supposed to be? I don't see it.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm downloading the pics and uploading them to flickr. and you don't see that pic in the first post? it works for me...

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh! I can't see flickr pics from my w0rk PC, that's why. S'all good.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't wait to start writing gammons columns quoting pearl jam and dropkick murphys!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

gammo also loves the STRONG FAMILY ROOTS

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/music/other_stories/images/03501763.gif

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if he's ever on BBTN, but I'm only qualified to impersonate Steve Stone. Annoyingly predictive but surprisingly prescient, never hesitates to pull out the photo of Santo with a plate of spaghetti and a baseball.

― mattbot (mattbot), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

http://sportsmed.starwave.com/i/magazine/new/theo_epstein_guitar.jpg

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, come on Theo, WHY THE HAT?

I'm thinking JIM THOM might have to make an appearance or 20. Hell - he can do his Sandbergian POWER RANK INDEX every week! How's about it?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

that would be AWESOME, dave!

and once anyone joins, start posting!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

and the phils should be #1 every week, of course

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

LARRY BOWA MADE ME CRY

I'm thinking JIM might have to tone down the CAPS LOCK, tho, as it'd get really annoying over the course of an entire post.

ITS REALLY FUN TO TYPE LIKE THAT THO

http://espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/4762.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this thing gonna need a disclaimer, or is it hoping too much that the need for a disclaimer would be necessary?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Did BBTN have Rob Dibble shot?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

He was canned! He's on XM Radio now, I think.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Plot Summary for
"Baseball Bunch" (2005)

In development for network, the new "Baseball Bunch" kids TV series; Set to air in July of 2005 and will be hosted by Baseball Tonight's Harold Reynolds and the Phillie Phanatic. Each week the show in a "Sesame Street / Muppet Show" fashion; with celebrities from MLB, Music, TV and film visiting Harold, The Phanatic and a team of kids known as the "Baseball Bunch". The pilot features cameos the likes of the Dodgers Jose Lima, Cardinals' Scott Rolen, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel, actors Tony Todd, Bobcat Goldthwait and J.K Simmons. 2nd run show co creators are Steve Church and Jeff Keane from St Louis... based loosely on a series of the same title in the late 70's; then starring Reds Hall of fame catcher Johnny Bench and the San Diego Chicken.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmm, radio ... where conveniently there are no visuals. I'm seeing potential for running veiled references to Dibble murder plot ... xpost

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The speedy Reynolds was a defensive stalwart with excellent range. In 1987 he led AL second basemen in games started, total chances, putouts, assists, and double plays. The switch-hitter steadily improved his batting average and, until 1996, held the Mariner record for fewest strikeouts (34) by a batter with at least 530 plate appearances...Book Harold Reynolds for Your Event

Reynolds stole a club-record 60 bases in 1987, becoming the first Mariner to lead the AL in a major offensive category and the first player ever to lead the league in steals while batting ninth in the order. But in 1988, he lost his stolen-base touch, getting caught 29 times while stealing 35.

That year Reynolds became the first player to represent the Mariners in the All-Star Game more than once. He also won a Gold Glove, despite leading AL second basemen in errors, because he also led in assists and double plays. Perennial honoree Frank White was livid at the selection, putting Reynolds in an uncomfortable position. "I was totally shocked to win the Gold Glove," Reynolds admitted. "But what am I supposed to do? Give it back?"

Reynolds retired after the 1994 season and later became an analyst for ESPN. His brother Don played briefly for San Diego in 1978 and 1979.

>>> Book Harold Reynolds for Your Event

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the hell wrote that bio? It's fantastic!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Blog Invitation Error

We could not find the invitation you requested. Please confirm that you copied the exact URL that was sent to you by email. Also note that an invitation can only be used once before it expires. If the invitation was sent to a mailing list, somebody else may have responded first.

Could someone resend? You can sent to mattbot AT gmail DOT com or the email in my ILB login.

― mattbot (mattbot), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Should "Kruk You" be "MotherKruker"?
2) PG-13! PG-13!
3) OMG I FORGOT ABOUT LARRY BOWA!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

matt, it appears that blogger is down,

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHA someone from espn has already read it!!!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

HR's post is spot-on gorgeous.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Can ILBB moles slip this into mlb.com somewhere?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking that any & all plots to infiltrate the compound should be postponed until we actually get more than 3 posts on the bloggo.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you guys are really funny. please keep doing this.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This is awesome. AWRSUM.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

let's get some posts up there boys! i can't be the only one!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I still can't sign up :(

― mattbot (mattbot), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

JIM THOM will be reporting to duty sometime in the next 24 hours. (Gotta write to pay the bills 1st.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i just reinvited you, matt.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Heelarious. Let me know if you need any help. Getting inside these numbskulls' thought processes for extended periods can be taxing.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh damn - the Kolb argument is like Swiss Cheese!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

alright i'm a blogger rookie so it took some technical hickery-dickery, but i finally got a post up from our man gammons.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my fucking god. this is shaping up to be amazing. great job with the gammons, sheed! i love it. and the wilbon. holy shit who did the wilbon???

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Wilbon, aye.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, barry. you have me giggling like a retard over here. AMAZINGLY well done. you have set the bar high.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

the wilbon darn near soiled my drawers. BABY BULLS BABY BULLS!

of course this cries out for a kornheiserian rejoinder.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, someone do it! curt schilling is about to say hello from the dl.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

This is awesome, guys

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Kornheiser should start with a lead in about baseball and then just be a review of some stupid TV show. I sometimes wonder if Kornheiser even likes sports.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

No, he needs mood swings!

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

if you want in, jimmy, email me.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yoinks... I shall see how this goes...

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and we need a steve stone pic! (nice job, matt!)

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks guys!

IMO, Top Line of the Blog Thus Far = "There are also questions about whether the whirling vortex surrounding A-Rod’s ego could create a centrifugal force that has a dampening effect on Randy Johnson’s velocity."

I nearly died.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a Stoney pic, not to worry. I only hope more Daves show up to talk 'ball!

― mattbot (mattbot), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony has arrived.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha, that's a GREAT Tony Kornheiser.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Viz has a 7-something ERA, but is 2-1

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this blog makes me so unbelievably happy. who should be the fantasy advice columnist? should it be JIM THOME?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

If there's anyone in the baseball who talks T3H 1334, i'11 B h4pPy 2 0fF3r /\/\y 53rv!c35.

― Organized Crime (Leee), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I LOVE JIM THOME

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ROFFEL

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Blogger's formatting is WEIRD, tho - I had to put, like, 20 carriage returns between each graph in order for the post to look OK.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, the numbers today are pretty great! 700 visitors, 1500 page loads. (most of em prolly us, but hey!)

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

who should be the fantasy advice columnist?

They should get somebody from outside the BBTN family ... like ROB NEYER.

Imagine the intra-blog schoolyard bullying from Krukker and HR! The rebuttal columns! Not to mention that we'd all be lining up to be the first one to post as Neyer.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 28 April 2005 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

love the valentine! that's gotta be parish...

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Potential Yard Work Fantasy Experts:

1) Eric Byrnes
2) Steve Lyons
3) JOHN ROCKER

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You gots it. Channeling BV with Vin Scully in one ear and the usual newsroom clusterfuck in the other is no easy task. Good fun, though. Who's going to do one of those mechanics lessons with Harold Reynolds? That's one segment of the show I always enjoy.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I REALLY hope I'm not the only sucker that tried to visit chibalottemarines.blogspot.com.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

can i get an invite?
maura.johnston@gmail.com

(ps i clicked)

― maura (maura), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

maura you ist in!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you :)

― maura (maura), Thursday, 28 April 2005 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

um, uh, i think i may have just the right amount of "dumb" to take on the role of john rocker.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, i like racist jokes, sort of. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I want in. I will gladly contribute reviews of other left fielders' subpar performances from the perspective of a bitter, disenchanted Rickey Henderson.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, I got to get up this morning and read all these great new posts ... love the BV, and Schilling had me snarfing. Nice work by all! Wilbon and Kornheiser's Washington Post colleage George Will might be popping in for a visit later this morning.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Seriously, you guys watch too much ESPN.

>[HR]lost his stolen-base touch, getting caught 29 times while stealing 35.<

But I bet he was keeping the opposition ON EDGE! And he wasn't CLOGGING UP THE BASES!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm inviting yall now.

morbs, i don't think much espn reviewing is required here! just a headful of ignorance is all!

i'm gonna have less access to a computer over the next few days, so yall keep this up! i'll throw a post or two up when i can.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm working on a feature re: the grand experiment being done w/ batting lineups in Pittburgh & Tampa Bay! WILLY-NILLY BALL!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

this is awesome, you guys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 28 April 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

checked on cstb

ps can I get an invite?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 28 April 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

morbs, i have to watch it, for work.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

haha if i can think of something funny (don't count on it!) i might try to add something. the kornheiser is PITCH PERFECT.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 28 April 2005 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You have a Dispensation of the Damned then, h.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

well, yeah, considering...

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

DAMMIT PEOPLE MORE POSTS! BASTA!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I have to say - I think I'm developing a crush on Bobby V.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Those TEETH are amazing!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

CLOSE SECOND???

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I predict we'll pass PO'B after Day 6.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Another irregular guest has contributed to the blog ...

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

more linx? public or anonymous comments? these would be good ideas methinks.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLY SHIT SPORTS GUY

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 28 April 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Morgan has just weighed in over at BBTN with a few thoughts about "Moneyball."

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"You'd think a bunch of business-school rejects would know that the only way to get ahead is to steal."

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 28 April 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got an idea for a column. Hit me up at expresso2222, y'know, gmail style.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i already sent you an invite to yr other addy, matt.

so today's numbers: 4,817 page views 2,628 visitors

i'm gonna write something up tonight.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

nice numbers for day two. ... hey, how many Yard Work-ers are in NY? we should have a BBTN launch FAP.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

if you sent it to the one listed below, the zinoguy one, forget it, it hasn't worked in a year or so.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumb question: what exactly is "Can't Stop the Bleeding"? I've run into this blog on a few other occasions -- who writes it?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

it's G. Cosloy, owner/operator/whateverist of Matador Records.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 29 April 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not sure if enough people read the times sports section to care, but i just through up some words from buster olney.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

omg yancey that is perfect

too bad blogger isn't working 4 me, i've been trying to post "april is the cruellest month" for about an hour

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

wanna email it to me and i'll toss it up, matt?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i just fixed it. it's up.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S BRILLAINT. and i'm off to bed.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks the yance. good night everyone. see you tomorrow, after 'outside the lines.'

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, how many Yard Work-ers are in NY? we should have a BBTN launch FAP

Me please! I want to write for E$PN, BBTN Blog, too, under my new name: The Los Angeles Rally Monkey of Anaheim.

http://espn.go.com/media/mlb/2001/0622/photo/monkey_i.jpg

― felicity (felicity), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to toot my own horn, but I'd love to know where I actually got "trying to catch a greased pig with a snake" from, because I want to live there forever.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

RALLY MONKEY! YES!

This is what Al Gore must've felt when he discovered the Internet.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 April 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG. NEW POSTS. SO BRILLIANT.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 April 2005 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

This is what Al Gore must've felt when he discovered the Internet.

So OTM. Genius all around.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Boy, you guys were BURNIN' to channel these guys... FAP at the Pepsi Picnic Area?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm gonna be away from the computer all day today, but if someone wants to write an advice column by larry bowa called "quiet -- genius @ work" i would be most grateful. if not, i'll do it over the weekend.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Fantasy advice, or love advice?

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i was picturing joe torre asking how to right the yankees, and bowa suggesting things like setting giambi's balls on fire. just a thought.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh wow, I had a bad thought - Larry Bowa doing an "Ask Isadora" column. Godspeed if you embark on this quest.

[xpost]

Yanc3, you are the Frank Sinatra to my Joey Bishop. Praise be to you. (though, really, ball burning is so gauche.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

my final suggestion for the day is that indie-guilt berman makes an appearance.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha holy shit who wrote that Rickey Henderson piece?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Rickey did!

(I have no idea - I think it was The Muses.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I did Rickey. My Jason Varitek-like sleep patterns in action, clearly.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

George Will, delayed one day by the Bush press conference, has arrived to opine on the nation's passtime.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

George Will is just GOLD. Well done.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks man; and i gotta say the Dave Roberts bit had me rolling.

who did THE PUD?

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I started a Fantasy Baseball piece with Pedro and Glavine as the guest advice columnists, but the creative muse isn't hitting me right now. My angle is Pedro="I AM BETTER THAN ALL THESE PLAYERS" and Glavine="I work HARDER than everyone and we are ALL underpaid by the MAN and I like to use BIG words". If anyone wants to continue the piece, go ahead, otherwise, I will try to finish it at a later time.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

congrats all, this is still rising in hilarity.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I really hope LBow doesn't have a posse - else, I R dead.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, a comment for Joe Morgan's RBI analysis (filed under "Fiction Is Like Truth, Only Fake"):

"Joe, the Ralph Waldo Emerson quote is "Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." It's a derogatory comment implying that being consistent for the sake of consistency is stupid. Here's another quote "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics." Simply changing context of A-Rod's RBI count to suit your argument is a strawman. Maybe the blame should be laid to the batters in front of A-Rod for those ten games. If they simply got on base more often (as in the two games you are choosing to exclude) then his RBI total would be higher yet. I commend your efforts to think outside the box and offer analysis beyond conventional thinking but distorting statistical context to support a weak position does not cut it."

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, TOO SUBTLE

Lemme just say that that Larry Bowa column made me eat my own liver in order to keep from L'ing OL. As a vegan, that pisses me off. As a human, da da da da da I'm lovin' it.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Chief Justice Bob Watson has emerged from his chambers.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

BLEEP BLEEP should be dipped in bronze and shipped directly to Cooperstown.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit, BLEEP BLEEP.

Read this and then read, like, Page 2. There's no contest. Some of the funniest baseball writing I've ever seen has been posted in the last three days.

This is so obviously the takeover that it isn't even funny. We need to keep this going.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

7,000 visitors, 15,000 page loads today. the phrase? holy shit.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

How are people finding this thing so quickly after just two days? Holy shit is right.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

NOTE: I'm probably 3,500 of those page loads.

Also: Technorati only lists CSTB as an incoming linker.

Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna take my swelled head out for a drink. F-ckers.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

www.baseballmusings.com/
www.draysbay.com/
www.quartertothree.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18555
sportlounge.net/forum/index.phps=18442798251f0eb1fa1bbf387c01337d&showtopic=26797

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, getting linked by Baseball Musings will definitely up the visitor total. & holy shit - that last link has the PERFECT LB question (or perfect question for anyone willing to take it awn): "MY WIFE'S GIRLFRIEND: This chick has the perfect ass. She just showed it to me flasher like as she walked in. Nekkid. Wifey sleeps on the couch and this nymph is going to wake her up any minute now. I probably have about 30 seconds to react and have wasted most of it writing this drivel. It should be noted that I have drank myself retarded. Call it a difficulty multiplier. Please Advise."

BTW, I set up a Yard Work GMail account, in case passerby want to contribute questions or such, and also so we can all access it. The address is: yard.work@gmail.com; I have the password under lock and key (BWAH HAH HAH), but I'll give it to yous, of course - I'll email all BBTN contributors once I get some "work" done. I was gonna add an e-mail link to the bottom of the BLEEP BLEEP post; whomever wants to (or can), feel free to add it to the linkbar or the post signature.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought yall might be pleased to know that most people seem to believe that THIS IS REAL!!! i guess they can't read! check out these:

www.gamespot.com/sports/
www.thebaseballzealot.com/

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The gamespot guys are defintely in on the joke (re: the "comedy gold" comment) but the bballzealot ... whoa.

The Fantasy Baseball post might destroy the illusion a bit ... I probably went a bit over the top with Pedro.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(although the last three posts on the blog are all a bit over the top -- but very very funny, obv. The 2nd Morgan post is so him, it's scary)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

www.gamespot.com/sports/journal_entry.html?id=20700068#comments

Oh, man, read the comment on the Gamespot post.

Posted by ValisIsMole on Friday, April 29, 2005 8:55 pm

ricky can kiss ricky's ass. ricky is so full of ricky when he goes to the bathroom, he sh1ts ricky. i dont care what ricky says or the baseball tonight ricky crew. joe morgan is the most hated man in the joe morgan household, who cares what he thinks. peter gammons thinks hes on the redsox, so what. i dont think it's really worth a read.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

MIR, just wait until he starts talking about pitchers needing to take back the inside of the plate. It'll be like he's RIGHT THERE WITH YOU.

"Hey Harold – NUTS!!!" = my college yearbook quote, should I ever graduate.

Ah, if only Rickey could kiss Rickey's ass...

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 30 April 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: the Gmail account, I think Yancey might be the only one who can edit the template. If some of these message board threads are any indication, I have high hopes for the kind of real reader mail we might be able to solicit.

What's the over/under on when we get our first cease/desist letter?

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(Daniel, I de-linked the url in your post, it's probably not a big deal, but if we really are getting 1000's of hits to the blog then it doesn't hurt to keep ourselves as anonymous as possible)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 05:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, I thought about the cease/desist thing, but what's the difference between what we're doing and the characters presented on THE DUGOUT? Any legal people in the house?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't see anything on baseballzealot.com? can someone direct me to the post?

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 30 April 2005 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

www.thebaseballzealot.com/archives/george_will_article_in_newsweek.html

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Er, never mind. I don't see it either.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(xp) but that has nothing to do with the bbtn blog!

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 30 April 2005 06:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like he took down his one-paragraph attack on "George Will"! (and removed the link from the front page altogether?)

try this:

www.thebaseballzealot.com/archives/baseball_tonight_is_blogging.html

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 06:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I'd saved the text of that George Will paragraph.

Here's another one:

www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2005/04/29-its_called_yard_work_and.php

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

God, this as good as Gear's roomie on a white couch -- and I've got a hat for each day of the week.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man did somebody take on George Will? I wish I'd seen that. George could have posted a gentlemanly retort.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Saturday, 30 April 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Morgan reads like the real thing.

My abject apologies for my initial doubts on this enterprise.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 April 2005 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Indie Guilt Berman paid a visit to the blog. Some of the IGBermanisms are new, and some were blatantly lifted from the December thread, so many thanks to those who came up with those great nicknames.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 30 April 2005 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Award-winning columnist Dan Shaughnessy popped his head in to comment, with characteristic restraint, on the Red Sox's slow start.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Saturday, 30 April 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

aw man, now Rob Neyer is posting. what the hell?

(also if yanc3 or someone wants to copy those pic links onto their servers and repost, it might be a good idea, esp. with the ESPN Insider one.)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 30 April 2005 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Neyer was masterful.

― Jimmy Mod Knows You Eat Your Own Farts (ModJ), Sunday, 1 May 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt, I'm hosting those pics on my flickr account now.

I wanted to post a "THE INSIDER LINK DOESN'T WORK !!!1!!111!!!" comment, but we can't comment anonymously. We must have faith that a reader will make that comment instead.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 1 May 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, man, Neyer is PRICELESS.

I can't believe I fucked up Foulke-to-Mientkiewicz. It's funnier if I leave it as is, i think.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Sunday, 1 May 2005 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Psst: the George Will thing is still up on thebaseballzealot.com.

www.thebaseballzealot.com/archives/will_he_get_down_from_his_high_horse.html

Whaaa?!?!

Perhaps, I was too glowing in my niceties of Mr Will in my previous posting. He does write well about baseball sometimes when he doesn't try to get too intellectual and high-handed. Way to appeal to the common baseball fan, George.

Good Grief.

PWNED

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Sunday, 1 May 2005 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha - actually, before I posted that comment, I was thinking that it DID work as a faux pas, Daniel, esp. given DS' proclivities to kinda skew reality for the sake of promoting the Curse of He Who Dare Not Be Mentioned.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 1 May 2005 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You guyz are the best.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 1 May 2005 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

L-Bow rises early for a little hair o' the dog.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 1 May 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone do Joe Buck next? I would but I'm busy studying for finals... kthanksbye.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 1 May 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Bowa is tremendous. Nicely done.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Sunday, 1 May 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to take this too seriously, but wouldn't doing guys like Buck who labor for ESPN competitors too blatantly give the game away?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 May 2005 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think we could have a post from eisner or something explaining that the baseball tonight blog is the new hub for all things mlb...

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Sunday, 1 May 2005 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Morb, if the last two Larry Bowa posts haven't given the game away, then I don't know if the game CAN be given away.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 1 May 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

A really talented cartoonist friend of mine once did a drawing of Val3ri3 B3rtin3lli going down on 4ngie D!ck!nson, and 4ngie is saying, "Welcome to lawsuit city, sport!" This blog reminds me of that -- in other words, it makes me smile real big.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 1 May 2005 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yancey, you mean like a corporate synergy type talk? That'd be funny, especially if it's rife with grammatical errors while touting the ease and business casual atmosphere of the blog.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

god can you imagine joe buck and joe morgan in the same booth ... or bowa having to sit still next to jeanne zelasko?

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

JEANNE ZELASKO OMG

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 1 May 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Heheh... Yeah, Joe Buck's on Fox I forgot (sorry). But, I think Big League Chew v. Chewing Tobacco is an important topic to consider maybe by Kruk and Renyolds.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 1 May 2005 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Barry Bonds hasn't stopped by for a chat?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 2 May 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe, Harold, loved your post about the mechanics of hitting. Screw BBs! Long live old-time baseball!

― Pie Trainor (Haikunym), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How could Joe Morgan have posted that tonight -- I saw him on TV calling the Nats-Mets game! Shenanigans!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

>The marriage of Cashman and Steinbrenner is dissolving faster than Richard and Linda Thompson<

OMG, I die.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2005 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Milo! Thanks for writing! Sorry we couldn't get Mr. Bonds, but we got the next best thing - HIS KNEE FLUID!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

all i can say is, any prospective joe buck entry has to unnecessarily harp on the water bottle in manny's baggy trousers...and the awesomeness of derek awesome.

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

man, that new gammons is pure gold. of the laugh out loud variety, even!

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope whoever wrote the first two Gammons didn't mind me taking a crack at him. I've got no problem whatsoever with other people writing new PAY RICKEYS, etc.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I figured that it was just a friendly free-for-all re: everyone taking on everyone, as long as, for instance, two RANK INDEXES don't end up on le blog or somethang. If I do step on someone's toes, tho, lemme know!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

>the awesomeness of derek awesome

No, that wouldbethe province of Tim McCarver-Jeter.

McC-J and Buck could do a Beckettian dialogue. "Waiting for Zelasko."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Other people that should make apperances:

GWB & Julio Franco
Tim McCarver & Al Leiter
Sammy Sosa

I think someone needs to write a feature about nepotism in the broadcast booth considering Thom Brennaman, Joe Buck, Chip Caray, Skip Caray, etc.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking that Buck & McCarver could be 3133+ folks hacking into the blog to make like the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Like:

BUCK: HA HA HA J3T3R PWNS W@LKS
MCCARVER: G00D AZ HRZ B!TCHZ
BUCK: & N0W W3 SL@M@L@M@ D!NGD0NG

or something.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i want to write a bush one. i'll probably due it today. i want him to present someone with the "congressional medal of awesome."

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

&, of course, the pics of Buck & Mac would be solarized. &/or be of the Mooninites. & they'd have "cool" aliases. Like "Buckabuck" & "T-Mac".

[awesomeness xpost]

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

This is really funny so far, dudes. I love the idea.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i have half an idea for a Bonds post, someone hit me w/ an invite?

― Organized Crime (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

is that yr addy?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an idea but no time today. It involves The Kruk or Joe Morgan breaking down what it takes to stop Brian Roberts and Derrek Lee. He concludes that the only way to stop them is to bean them until they cool down, as is written in the unwritten code of baseball rules.

You can't just walk them, you've got to let them know you know they're hot and bean them to disrupt their rhythm and chemistry at the plate.

― mattbot (mattbot), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

btw Jams, did you see the Times piece on Bush, Baseball Fan after he threw out the RFK ball? sezhe still knowsthe '54 Giants lineup, blah blah. There must be a ton of this stuff left over from his Rangers' sinecure.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

leeeee at gEEEEEmail, Y@nc3.

― Organized Crime (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i've got a jose canseco personal finance column brewing but i might not finish it for a day or two because of my paying workload.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i've got a jose canseco personal finance column brewing but i might not finish it for a day or two because of my paying workload.

OMG. I await this like the Rapture.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Barry has rambled in. (Someone will want to re-up the pic onto an indep. server.)

― Organized Crime (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh oh! I think I broke it.

― Organized Crime (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:53 (twenty-one years ago)

bush is up

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think i get the bonds one

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Another idea, Don Zimmer on the current state of the Yankees and Pedro being in NY, and Lou Pinella vs. Curt Schilling with a picture of him wearing that army helmet with the yank logo.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - I was actually thinking of doing a Piniella (sic?) / Schilling chat, but I'm actually working w/ LP on a Tim Kurkjian Yahd Work exclusive re: the Devil Rays.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone doing a Ravvy piece? outside of TK i think he's the only regular who hasn't blogged yet.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ravvy's hard to do! he's just so... bland.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a K-Dawg* brewing for tonight, but if someone else wants to have a crack at him, you may fire when ready, grizzly.

*Ravech actually called himself that on BBTN yesterday.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

bless you in your K-Dawg endeavors. yanc3y is right -- he's really hard. i got about two lines into a ravech post and had to abort.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I was gonna try Ravvy but don't wait on me. He just chirps those dumbass phrases and kowtows to the jocks. High School Sports Editor.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

Yeah, Ravech is tough. On the same note, I was thinking of doing Pedro Gomez, before I realized that writing 800 words of Pedro Gomez would involve a lot of thoughts like "Barry Bonds ate a turkey sandwich today; our sources say that the high levels of niacin and phosphorus in dark meat can contribute favorably to joint health. No word on how this affects the timetable for his comeback, Kenny."

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ravvy as school-paper sports editor is right on, Morbs.

x-post I think a Pedro Gomez-as-Boswell post would be pretty funny.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i would support blount writing as ralph wiley to call out all these shitty analysts from the dead.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i think we'd all support blount writing as SOMEONE instead of just, y'know, hiding his light under a bushel basket

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

is ravech that hard to do? not that i could pull it off, b/c my creative writing skills are arese, but i noticed last night, that he's developed this "baby berman" schtick. i don't remember him always being so, uhhh, in your face.

i think a funny commentary for one of the bbtn talking heads would be a "what's ailing new york?" piece on how the yankees are a team w/ no heart and the mets a team w/ no soul (i.e. the yanks have a lot of character guys, but no will to win & the mets have a good mix of youngsters and gamers, but no chemistry).

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that would be a great roundtable between larry bowa and steven goldman. though i would imagine the pinstripe bible is too small to be parodied, even if it's fucking PERFECT for it. (he's a great writer, btw)

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

basically, one part frank rich one part dennis miller and yr there.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

and one part gregg easterbrook (who REALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE! HOLY SHIT!).

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

STOP ME BEFORE I BUNT AGAIN!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Metropolitans versus the Atlanta Native Americans. 1st inning: Jose Reyes walks. (Yes, I know.) Kaz Matsui singles to left field, with Young Reyes going to second. Carlos Beltran is up. The chances of scoring a run with runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs are 85%. Carlos Beltran is one of the 10 best hitters in the ... IT'S A BUNT! Beltran squares around on the first pitch, and bunts the ball straight to the pitcher. Runners advance, Beltran out at first, one out. Cliff Floyd swings at the first pitch and pops up to the shortstop. Doug Mientkiewitz fights off a few two-strike pitches, but grounds meekly to the 1st basemen to end the inning. 1 hit, 1 miracle, 2 left on base, 0 runs.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been thinking about having Tony Reali host an All-Fuddy-Duddy Around the Horn with Angell, Gammons, and the ghost of Red Smith, but am still trying to think through the potential formatting problems. Obviously would contain "Red Smith, HE GONE" yuks, etc.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Was my post really that hard to follow? :(

― Organized Crime (Leee), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i was just having a hard time discerning the race component, leeee, other than barry bonds being proud of being black.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

That Williams picture ... damn.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, "HAUNCHES"

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

SERENA HAUNCHES V. BARRY'S KNEE V. TO'S ANKLE ROUNDTABLE

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

TO = Terrell Owens, not Saguchi, right?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, yeah

also NOMAR'S GROIN

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No doubt Nomar's groin would have a lot to talk about w/ Serena's meaty shanks. And then Barry's knee can intervene.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

for matters of editorial clarity, it's marat safin...or is that part of the joke and if so, i don't get it.

who's writing a post on how moneyball is to blame for the spate of groin injuries in the league this year?

― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the yanks analysis should be by the around the horn crew.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

How appropriate. There's no NY beat reporter on ATH, tho, is there?

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

no. it should be woody paige, that douchebag from the sun-times, bob ryan and maybe a stephen a smith curveball.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLY SHIT - I just G00gled "sun-times douchebag" for guffaws & the FIRST RESULT was Jay Mariotti's Sun-Times page!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha!

does anyone know anybody at the dugout? they should be invited to contribute.

and someone from the red sox has been reading our blog.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

WE LOVE YOU CURT GET WELL SOON

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Mariotti would be easy enough ... just insert lots of "heres", as in "What you got here Tony is the fact that Randy Johnson here just can't get a handle on his fastball here. I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN HERE BACK IN 2002."

Paige: "You guuuys don't know WHAT you're talking about, look at the schedule ..." etc

Ryan: "Remember that whole Boston busing race-riot business? This is like that, but I'M probably the only person OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER"

x-post HI DERE THEO

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

All right, it's a slow day at work. I'm going to do TMQ, if nobody else has started working on it. It might take a while, but I have a fucking great haiku ready.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Go w/ Brookings, my son. And, hey, if you can get "Gregg" to give his friend & colleague Bill Simmons a long-overdue shout-out, make it so!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

do it daniel! i've been trying to come up with clever nicknames for teams (a la squared 7s, etc) but have struck out. STOP ME BEFORE I BUNT AGAIN is genius, of course.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been considering writing a column about the l word as simmons.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, funny names might have to come later tonight once I have a little more research time. Arizona (CAUTION: MAY CONTAIN BASEBALL-LIKE SUBSTANCE) Diamondbacks is an obvious must-have, though.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://media.phillyburbs.com/2003/02/14/0214bowa.jpg

based on the above picture, i think a larry-makes-nice chat or column could be in order

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm, mother's day is coming up ...

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i just put up a new header that i am VERY proud of

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

YES YES YES YES YES YES!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i also tried to make this one a header:

http://photos7.flickr.com/12014797_976cd4ad95_o.jpg

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Was my post really that hard to follow? :(

Wasn't it Barry's fault for running his mouth and turning Bonds vs Ruth into a race issue? Leeee's post is making fun of that, or at least that's what I thought.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG the new header is amazing

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

TMQ is in the house. I got really productive today, largely shunning my actual job along the way.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks! i'm trying to change the color scheme on the rest of the page. basically, i want it to be all white, i think. are yall okay with how it is now?

GREAT JOB ON TMQ. I'm gonna make a few edits, though -- Byrnes for Chavez, etc. What are those ? marks before the haiku?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I just have to say again, Daniel, that is AMAZING. Best post so far, no question.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, Byrnes, duh. Sorry; I'm running out the door to catch a train, and I was alt-tabbing back and forth all day.

No idea how that's formatted in other browsers. It looks okay in Safari, but Blogger can be finicky about converting line breaks. Thanks for fixing whatever's broken.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

meanwhile, we have had 10 posts today! well done everyone! and nice job on the morgan, barry.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I cried all over the inside of my glasses reading the Thome post.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the other thing i want to do -- and might do tonight -- is use the sidebar to create an author archive of sorts for each personality. i.e. the bowa posts grouped together, etc. as more and more posts go up, it'll be harder to look through the old ones, and i think that could counteract that.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I also edited the name of *Marat* Safin in the second Wilbon post.

The brilliance of that post (part of it, anyhow) is that, IIRC, that's the same pic of Serena that they use when talking about her hottttness on PTI. I couldn't find the corresponding pic of Safin's GF, although the ones I found are still pretty good.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

alright, masthead is made. looks good i think. other order of business: redoing the links. i took em down cuz i thought they were dull, but i'd like to come up a clever list. nominate away!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

wrt author archives - fantastic idea, yance. what does blogger/blogspot offer in the way of contextual metadata? it seems like the easiest way to do it with a movable type/drupal/wordpress-style cms would be to tag each post with author-specific keywords and set up category-based archives. i don't know a whole lot about managing blogspot blogs, although it doesn't seem very hard.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

unfortunately i don't believe blogger offers that. so i'll just keep up with it.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know why, but "Barry Bonds," "Barry Bonds' Knee Fluid" in the author list has me giggling.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright gang, Jose Canseco has stopped by with some thoughts on keeping your financial affairs in order.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll check in with HR teaching everyone how to properly chew seeds, in light of the recent seed shortage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51785-2005Apr13.html

Then we can throw this on the linx side:

http://davidsseeds.com/

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

BTW, that TMQ is OTM as fuck.

― scrimshaw (scrimshaw1837), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, i just came to by to say again that after re-reading the tmq post i am completely in awe. so fucking good.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, bless - my Mets anecdote made it into TMQ intact! Tho, really, I was lying when I mentioned that Reyes walked - he hasn't done it yet!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, I'm gonna post here every couple days to egg you motherfuckers on, b/c this is all amazing. And that TMQ is absoultely perfect.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Monday, 2 May 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Agreed re: TMQ's brilliance, and the paragraph about Byrnes managed to be not only hysterically funny but also totally OTM.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

daniel I hate you,
way to wreck my Ravech "post"
with yr brilliance

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You need the little insider graphic next to Neyer's articles in the masthead

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

true dat! someone with Internets skillz get on that! cause there are gonna be a lot of those. I'm thinking Neyer porn....

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ravech, Canseco, and Morgan have me rolling. Fantastic work.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I have no idea who/what TMQ is. And I assume the Wilbon guy is Kornheiser's Alan Colmes?

I think I won't be able to do this stuff because ESPN bloviating just makes me blindly contemptuous rather than bemused.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

TMQ = Gregg Easterbook, former E$PN (& current NFL.com) columnist, famous for A) beigng "a senior editor of The New Republic, a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution", B) loving the haikus, C) loving the cheerleaders and, most importantly, D) hating the blitzes.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

TMQ = Tuesday Morning Quarterback, BTW.

BTW = by the way, BTW.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, so last night i was listening to the phils-mets game, and when beltran came up with matsui and reyes on 1st and 2nd (except i think reyes singles, and matsui walked), all i could think was "it would be really funny if beltran DID bunt in this situation." but then beltran went yard.

― the leglo (the leglo), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

is anyone gonna talk about the yankees changes? if not, i have an idea.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Yankee & Red Sox "woes" TOTALLY need to be raked over the coals!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

what would steinbrenner's fantasy team name be?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pussy Toadies? (That's "pussy" as in "full of pus".)

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Yankee Shippers? Vader's Raiders?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:38 (twenty-one years ago)

GEORGE STEINBRENNER'S FANTASY TEAM is what he would call it. Or THE WINNERS.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Monument Pork?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

inspired by the "Rock Neck" thread on ILE, Danny Graves talks about "Homer Neck"

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha - I might take MONUMENT PORK as my fantasy team name!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahaha
"Point taken, Larry!" is my
brand-new fave catchphrase

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the homer neck post is great.

one thing i've been thinking about: personal diaries by all the bbtn on-air "talent" describing a day preparing for the show, drinks afterwards, etc. could be comedy gold.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yanc4 -- and everyone -- i have a whole character arc thing for ravvy involving being hazed by the "real" players/managers. feel free to drop stuff in about that. ravvy's gonna go OFF on some mofos...except fail miserably.

also: rally undies.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, the diary idea could be fantastic. nothing like a peek behind the scenes! we could bring in that therapist from the metallica movie to consult on cast chemistry; kruk accidentally using dan patrick's "private" bathroom, etc.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I phear I did Curt a grave disservice. Assuade my phears (& soothe my savage ego)!

BTW - nice Hawk post (yyyyyyyyyyES!), but there's some goofy tag problems going down around the image. I'll go in & fix it! Ahoyhoy!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, teach me how to spell ASSUAGE.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The problem fixed itself! It is disco magic!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I assure you that the problem did not fix itself.

― Intermission (ADK), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Figured as much, Mr. K!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmm, that's some good karabell.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

For the record, I'm going to refrain from doing much boosterizing on this thread, as it can be safely assumed that I, like Haikunym, & the Timberlake, am lovin' it. Also, it gives me more time to be stoopid on the blog - bonus!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure that Curt
Schilling would swear all that much
BUT IT CRACKED ME UP

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Man! You guys need to calm down! That blog you guys have put together (which is awesome by the way) is getting new posts faster than I can keep up! And so is this thread actually! I'm supposed to be looking for work and instead I'm getting financial advice from Jose Canseco! It's great - but it's all too much!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Curt's so mad he conflated 5 Easy Pieces and The Last Detail!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

So did Google, the bastards!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"now I want you to hold that resin bag between your thighs"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

So if I have time this weekend I'd like to contribute an entry from this lady...

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2004/baseball/mlb/09/15/rangers.fanfight.ap/p1_bueno_ap.jpg

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"You make a couple dozen jokes about a guy's stillborn baby and the next thing you know his teammate chucks a chair at you! What's wrong with athletes today?!?!"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha: people want what they can't have. looking at the stat tracker info, it seems that the entries marked with the insider pic are FAR MORE likely to get clicked than those that are not.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yanc3y, how many HITZ have we gotten this week?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

here are the numbers (down today!):

Tuesday 6,855 2,599
Monday 17,124 6,022
Sunday 10,773 4,562
Saturday 17,823 8,431
Friday 18,642 7,733
Thursday 5,603 3,192
Wednesday 1,503 662

Left column is page views, right is visitors.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

We've jumped the shark already. :(

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Today's ideas:

- Aforementioned hyper-analytical Pedro Gomez post
- "Tony Womack, Left Fielder," done in the style of a 1940's radio play ("Who knows what evil lurks behind the Kodak sign?" etc.)
- Political commentary from Mike Piazza (I'm thinking an impassioned critique of the filibuster)
- J0hn D4hlem's Yankee Baseball (a tiny glimmer in my eye, but what a glimmer it is.)

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also when you guys get bored, people from NBA Shootaround could start trying to infiltrate the blog out of jealousy. Anyway, you've provided both chuckles and tears. As in, I've been in tears reading some of the entries.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been thinking of having Yardk Work hire Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian to be the new Mets correspondent.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been thinking of having Yard Work hire Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian to be the new Mets correspondent.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

whoa seeing double

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

we need an update on referring pages

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Rasheed, what's this I hear about Stuart Murdoch?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

what if we made the dl something akin to club med, where everyone sips umbrella drinks and hangs out by the oasis?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

Yo Jammy Jams - the links to the Ravvy & Homer Neck posts on the sidebar are actually to the Blogger edit pages for those entries & not the actual posts.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

haha kruktionary

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh man that'd be a GREAT heading for it, except I think it'll apply to more folks than Kruk Juice.

Nym, also, those non-Angell pictures - I thank you much.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 04:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, David -- I'm embarking on a Stuart Murdoch travelogue, where he follows the Mets around on a road trip and writes it up in full B&S lyrical-style glory, with plenty of fawning bits about Piazza and Stuart struggling with the idea of whether it is time to write a song for Pedro, etc. I got a few bits started last night but got stuck; am going to take it back up again later. Stay tuned.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I want to contribute to this. BAD. email me with an invite please.

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

I want to do movies reviews as Lou Pinella.

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

using this as my header
http://www.sportshair.com/images/pinella2.jpg

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

bingo, yr invited.

also, i've made everyoen an admin, so if you see errors like the ravvy thing or if someone wants an invite, feel free to do it!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

i love today's two posts, btw. i would love to see this go in two different directions: one surreal and one that seems probable.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

YANCEY, WHICH EMAIL DID YOU SEND IT TOO?

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

cmvenuti2003@charter.net -- that one

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Bingo, if you want to blow your own mind, you can accept THAT invite, then invite yourself at the e-mail address you really want associated w/ Blogger. OH YEAH!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Fast work on "vacuous"! Was last night the first instance of Bowa-Kruk magic?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

thats the one. thanks. i'll try to get something up tonight. Lou's first review.

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

ha ha "magic"!

& actually, I wrote that thing up not 10 minutes after I heard Kruk go all derrrrrr. And I don't even watch BBTN - I just happened upon it while my roomy was watching. God Bless Serendipity & The Internet!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

wondering if my
roger angell thing just needs
a mercy killing

more gold perhaps in
karl ravech and rob neyer,
plus Scoop Jackson DIBS

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Nym, don't doubt Angell! That post was MONEY! You're the guy in the R movie! You gave good vibe, baby!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i like the angell post!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah but SCOOP JACKSON
with the REVOLUTION FIRE
INDIGNATION BURN

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Scoop?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

(I assume the "real" Scoop is the SLAM Magazine guy?)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but he is on
ESPN's online crew
as of this spring: YOINK!

(also he has said
that the hardest thing in sports
= hitting a baseball)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Ted Williams said that too!

Today I'm going to try to put up a short post by Reggie Jackson to raise awareness of the sunflower seed shortage.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh, if only it were the SCOOP that I linked to.

The hardest thing to do in sports = listen to pundits talk about how hard it is to hit a baseball as if Ted Williams hadn't already made that point FORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO. (HI I AM HERE IN MY OFFICE FOR ANOTHER SIX HOURS HOW R U?)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

someone should write something as bake mcbride.

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Ah, gotcha.

Although it can't be much harder that sitting through hockey lockout updates EVERY DAY on our local shows even when zero progress is being made.

xpost

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, BB - didn't mean to get all edgy; just getting cranky @ work. I can't imagine how annoying the hockey thing is, esp. since I think American news outlets stopped caring once the season was officially cancelled.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

davidtheonlysignificantthingaboutwhatscoopjacksonsaidisthat heisprimarilyabasketballwriterandthereforeitiskindofinteresting thathechosemajorleaguebaseballhittingasthehardestthinginsports

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Gotcha, Nym. It's all good. Please refer to my mea culpa re: snippiness. (Oversleeping'll do that.) (I shd do a BLEEP BLEEP while I've got my crank on.)

I only wish that post was attached to a Prince song.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Actually, if you dope fiends can think of any questions you'd like answered by LBow Grease, please post them here! (I'd say you shd GMail them, but I can't GMail during workywork.)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Hey Bowa: Is there anyone in the major leagues now that you couldn't take in a fistfight?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

(Feel free to give me a name & locale for your questionner, BTW.) (Unless you want to be called something like "M. Cibatta".)

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

who adds the links on the right? if sweet lou is going to make a weekly movie review. do i need to set it up myself

― thebingo (thebingo), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, more bleep bleep!

Hi skipper,

If you had been managing the Yankees in 2004, what would you have said to A-Rod when he came back to the bench following the slap play in ALCS Game 6?

Keep it real, Larry!

Jerry N., Richmond, VA

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Bingo, Yanc3y's been adding those archive links manually. So no, you don't need to set that up yourself (although you can try, if you know how in Blogger).

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

(The above question was submitted by Andrei Tarkovksky, Jr., of Brooklyn, New York.)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Well, wouldn't you know it - Bowa just watched Solaris last night!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

?!?!@@?>!*&@(*$#&@(* i had just about finished a post where john rocker explains his latest antics, but my computer has eaten it. wtf.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

thankfully i remembered it.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

I would so love to see Rocker end up in pinstripes this year.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

ERIC NEEL: THIEF OF IDEAS

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

Oh, that Eric Neel thing burns. Goddamn him and his boyish charm.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

the last four posts have all been by players/coaches. maybe it should be mixed up a bit more?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Technically, Reggie Jackson is a "consultant".

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

I was kind of thinking the same thing, jaymc, which is why my next couple of posts will be "written" by members of the core ESPN crew. Speaking of which, WE NEED BLEEP BLEEP II. THE FANS ARE DEMANDING IT.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

way to backseat blog, a-hole

― Larry B. (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

F-ck off, hoser - I'm working here! Keep the panties out of your crack another few hours, and you'll get what's coming to ya. (HR - you take my Makers? Hey, what do ya know - HR with a successful steal! NEWS FLASH! Someone get that f-ck Drudge on the horn!)

― Larry B. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

OH NO YOU DIDN'T!

― Larry B. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, wow - you know what'd be great? A discussion / interview between Player Joe Morgan (ie He Who Walked) & Analyst Joe Morgan (ie He Who Shuns Walking).

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

He did address that in his most recent post on Monday.

xpost HI LARRY! LOOKING GOOD!!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Oh, yeah! Sorry about that, "Joe".

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Point taken, Larry!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://members.shaw.ca/johnmohan/images/Thumbs%20Up.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

BASTARD IMAGE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone responded to the messages in the gmail account? We've had a few nice comments so far.

Obviously we should all feel free to respond to people on behalf of the entire Yard Work crew, so if you do write back, perhaps move their message into a "received" folder so that they don't get multiple responses.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Yes! Two mentions of the anus in the last two days! Fantastic!

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Can I get access to the gmail account? email me info at cmvenuti2003@charter.net

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

I was just gonna post that Eric Neel ganked your idea! Douchebag. Maybe when you guys get bored, the NBA Shootaround Gang can start infiltrating the Baseball Tonight blog out of jealousy.... The possibilities of Stephen A and Walton showing up are endless. But this is still the greatest thing ever. I think maybe 10 well-placed "hey baseball tonight has a blog!" messageboard postings could do wonders for the hit-o-meter.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)

I was thinking about e-mailing a couple of the ESPN radio shows with a link. Dan Patrick would probably love it.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Sports Guy's ESPN show reports that he's "on hiatus". I assume that means the Sports Gal had the baby, so congrats to them.

Anyhow, he had the prospective interns surfing the net looking for interesting stuff, and it looks like the runner-up is going to have a column of her own doing just that. Anyhow, Sports Guy + entourage would definitely like our blog.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

is there anyone in the bbtn crew that is an unapologetic, ridiculous yankee apologist? i wanted to write a column by jim kaat (the yankee yes announcer) explaining how this slow start is just a product of circumstance -- how is it their fault that they've had to play the mighty blue jays and devil rays back to back? -- but i also wanna get the blog back on track with more pieces by actual espn employees...

also, i think that we should maybe put the name of the writer in each piece from now on. i'm not sure where, but we should have a byline.

finally, i declare a moratorium on the "the bbtn boys invited me to..." posts. earlier today i skimmed through the whole blog and noticed a lot of that (i have been guilty of it as well).

finally finally, this is still looking great!

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

also, some yankee announcer just said that cano "MIGHT HIT 400 FOR THIS BALLCLUB." WTF.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

also more clarifying: by byline i mean the fake author, not our names.

and by "invited me to" i don't mean that we shouldn't have guest posts, i just mean that we shouldn't write that phrase or its ilk.

word.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

I don't know if there's anyone on BBTN who's a Yankee apologist per se; McCarver and Buck are wildly guilty of this, of course, as are the entire YES crew. Maybe a special guest appearance from BBTN alumnus Charley Steiner?

By byline, I assume you mean "Roger Angell," "Karl Ravech" et al. instead of our actual names, correct?

I sincerely wish I could be watching the Yankee game right now. Not that NESN Widescreen Wednesdays aren't a thing of terrible beauty, but I'm just DYING with Gamecast right now.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

o please don't have too much from NBA shootaround; rob g and i are thinking of having some stuff on postupmoves

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 5 May 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, but I have to post this somewhere.... http://media.ebaumsworld.com/sportsnews.wmv

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 5 May 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

IS ANYONE ELSE WATCHING THIS 10 MINUTE CONVERSATION ON BBTN ABOUT HOW PLAYERS ARE TOO SELFISH AND "DON'T KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME" CUZ THEY DON'T SACRIFICE?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 5 May 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

They were playing that clip non-stop on the radio recently. It's oddly uncomfortable to watch/hear.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 5 May 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

WOE BE UNTO THE SPRY SLAP HITTER WHO DARE NOT GIVE HIMSELF OVER TO THE TEAM FOR WHOM HE TOILS FOR THE ENDTIMES HAVE COME AND THERE WILL BE A RECKONING WHERE THOSE THAT DO NOT HONOR THY DUTY SHALL BE BANISHED TO THE 9TH CIRCLE OF THE SALLY LEAGUE TO TOIL WITH LOCAL STRIPPERS AND MORNING HOST DJS! REPENT NOW! CATCH THE BALL WITH THE BAT!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

haha

www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2005/04/30-lets_see_the_boys_at.php

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 May 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

Aaron, that movie is so awful, I have to take it in pieces. Thanks!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

www.onlybaseballmatters.com/archives/2005/04/30-lets_see_the_boys_at.php

Ha. Did you notice how Yard Work isn't in "National Coverage" anymore?

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

That's right -- I forgot you already linked to it ... yes, his "retraction" is hilarious.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 May 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

oh and whomever edited my little blurb, feel free to do it everytime. I have shit writing skills.

I want to do a piece on at bat music.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 5 May 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

I've had a really hectic week with my paying gig, but I'm hoping to post by tomorrow afternoon some sort of a Kurkjian Cardinals sploogefest (Timmeh being the only regular cast member missing from the festivies so far). Also I want to start doing a weekly "Derek Lowe Face" award for pitcher with worst body language on the mound.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 5 May 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

hmm im thinking of a "This Week in the Nation" spot with Kevin Millar.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Are you saying the Cards aren't worth splooging over?

Memorable HR quote from last year: Jeter is the best player in MLB "because he's the best."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

WHUT THEE WEB SEZ:

- Rand0m Fand0m (a D-Back bloggo) sez we need an editor, but is LOLing
- Aar0n Gl33man ain't sure what it is, but he LOL'd
- c01133nkan3.n3t is lusting after Bobby V (and presumably in the throes of a LOL attack)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

MARK MY WORDS: Tim Kurkjian's (or Buster Onley's) article on Willy-Nilly Ball (& the D-Rays) will be up this afternoon, w/ a BLEEP BLEEP scheduled for this evening.

Jeff Brantley should do the "Derek Lowe Face"!!!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Also, is it possible / feasable to "do" Jon Miller? & what other ESPN baseballers are we forgetting?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

Are you saying the Cards aren't worth splooging over?

No, no -- the Cards are worth it. It's the unique TK splooging style that I want to take out to its most ridiculous possible extremes. But maybe it would be more fun if he was splooging over the Royals. I'll meditate on this.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

And yeah, Brantley would be perfect for Derek Lowe Face. ... Say, when did Brantley get that headset surgically attached to his dome, anyway?

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

C'mon, Kurkjijikian at least has a brain, hewouldn't splooge over the Royals! (work in refs to his covering the '70s Rangers and his height)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

yeah, like i said, i gotta let this post simmer for a while. we'll see.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 5 May 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

these are all great ideas. a kurkjian piece should include the dates for the past seven years as to when the yanks lost their 17th game, natch.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

i've realized that i can't put my comedy into words...its just not funny. i need some work. i wrote a millar thing and cringed when i wrote it. i guess im not good unless i can use profanities all over the place, and i can't really talk about millar busting nuts on ladies tits.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

aside larry b, i think we should stay away from the profane as much as possible.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Timmeh being the only regular cast member missing from the festivies so far

Website-wise, we haven't done Jayson Stark either. But yeah, after that, I think that's everyone.

I've given some thought to doing a "useless info" column, but I'm not sure whether it requires actual research or if I should just make up a bunch of wacky shit. Top it all off with a paragraph that muses on Shannon Stewart's fall from MVP-calibre grace, and you've got a column.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Okay... Bellamy Road is ready to contribute:

http://images.usatoday.com/sports/horses/_photos/2005-04-26-bellamy-inside.jpg
Neigh!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

A Rumblings piece would be fun to write, too.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

(x-post that's for private enjoyment, of course, since Yanc3y is prolly right about limiting the guests)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

tonight neyer shall return, tomorrow ravvy

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

a kurkjian piece should include the dates for the past seven years as to when the yanks lost their 17th game, natch.

1998: June 19
1999: May 19
2000: May 23
2001: May 15
2002: May 23
2003: May 20
2004: May 21

That's Yankee consistency, right there. That's the mark of the consummate champion.

xpost- Rumblings could be really fun. I'd like to see another Rob Neyer, too, but I don't have an Insider membership for newer source material. Curses!

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Yanc3, I'm actually "quoting" Sweet Lou liberally in my Willy-Nilly piece, so there might be some dashed-out acussin' (since it is a family site). Also, given the arch bemused tone I'm striking, I think I'm totally going for Olney the Lolney.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

anyone have a post coming in the next hour or so?

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

Unless there's an objection, a very nostalgic third-grade-reading-level piece from Sports Reporters' Mitch Albom -- including a heading with a very bad pun, such as The Blog Albom -- will likely appear no earlier than a few days from now.

― Intermission (ADK), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

alright, kurkjian is up. i think that we should suggest contracting the yankees.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Contract the Yanks, move the Angels to Brooklyn.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I just posted Buster's Funnyball thesis. Let me know if it's too short.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

Kurkjian & Buster = awesome, esp. the last paragraph of Funnyball.

I've always thought that that picture of Kurkjian looked like he was drawn by Jack Kirby.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Buro Prez, makes an appeal to contract the Yankees and deliver the Angels to Brooklyn.

(can someone copy those photos on to another host, btw? i'm having issues with photobucket from here at work)

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 5 May 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Just wanted to jot this down, as a possible thing for a thing on the bloggo: SANDWICH PICK.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

I LOVE MARTY

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 5 May 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

TMQers, use this if you so desire -

STOP ME BEFORE I BUNT AGAIN!

Chicago/B versus the Lame Duck Monarchy of Kansas City. Young Zack Grienke (looks 15, pitches 45) enters the bottom of the 8th with a slim 1-0 lead, having thrown under 80 pitches in holding the shockingly successful Chicago/B squad to two hits and no walks. The two hits: an AJ Pierzynksi single in the 3rd (erased on a line-out double play to end the frame), and a Scott Podsednik single in the 4th (erased on a caught stealing, followed by Ks of the next two hitters).

Young Grienke walks Paul Konerko (.194), the Chicago/B clean-up hitter, to start the 8th inning. A pinch runner comes in for Konerko. Aaron Rowand is now at the plate. Rowand, struggling so far this year, was a bright light beaming through the malaise that weighted down Chicago/B last year, hitting 38 doubles and 24 home runs. With a runner on 1st and no out, an average of .783 runs are scored. With a runner on 2nd and one out, that average drops slightly, to .699. Unless the hitter at the plate is underqualified to swing at a major league pitch, statistics show that you should save the out, especially with on 6 left to use. Also, with your 5th place hitter, it would make sense to - IT'S A BUNT!

Rowand does his job, sacrificing to the pitcher to advance the pinch runner to 2nd base. The next batter, perrenial underachiever Jermaine Dye (once know as "underrated superstar Jermaine Dye") is hit, thus ending Grienke's day. 85 pitches, 53 strikes. Whatever manager Tony Pena saw in Grienke's performance to make him panic, I cannot say. Nevertheless, Grienke turned the game over to Andy Sisco, a Rule 5 pick-up that has proven to be one of the better Royal relievers this year. Sisco gets a runner-advancing ground-out, then walks Joe Crede (his 5th, in 88 ABs) and Juan Uribe (his 5th, in 69 ABs) to allow the tying run to score. Out comes Manager Pena to replace Sisco with young-closer-in-training (and Vladimir Nabokov protagonist) Ambiorix Burgos.

Burgos, a recent call-up from AA, is faced with a bases loaded, 2 out situation. In such situations, .798 runs are scored on average. The White Sox manage to better that number by 1.202 runs, as Burgos walks Scott Podsednik to drive in what would prove to be the winning run.

Burgos manages to strike out the next hitter, but the damage is done. The White Sox score two runs on zero hits, four walks, and a hit batsmen. Zack Grienke, while sitting in the dugout after throwing his 85 pitches, is tagged with the loss. His ERA rises to 3.38. The ERAs of both Sisco and Burgos decrease. And the productive out comes out from under the bed to scare children that dare believe it doesn't exist.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

check it boys: www.metafilter.com/mefi/41771

expect huge numbers today.

― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Thursday, 5 May 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Young Zack Grienke (looks 15, pitches 45)

AURUM, sir. Aurum. You'd better believe that's going in.

― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Thursday, 5 May 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

neyer has returned
with an article titled
'VORP? More Like SCHWING!" peace.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 5 May 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh you tease.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Metafilter troll:

"meh. moderately amusing. a better idea than its execution"

Fatwa!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 May 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

This is such a perfect touch... "by Me, Rob Neyer"

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 May 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

The *real* Lasorda blog is an eye-opener. Love his casual admission he's already filled out many All-Star ballots. How many of those recommended restaurants are... connected?

I was gonna sneakily ask Neyer at SABR Toronto in August if he'd seen his "contributions," but the Saved by the Bell Girl may scotch that plan.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 May 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

uh-oh, seriously? man, i'll edit that stuff out if you can get him to talk.....

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 6 May 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

Jim Rome dropped a pretty good Rickey story yesterday on his TV show. I guess when Henderson ended up on the Mets a few years ago, he went up to Olerud and was saying to him that he played with a 1b that wore a helmet on the field before and Olerud had to remind Rickey that they played together on the Blue Jays. Rome then went on to state that the A's should consider giving Rickey another chance considering how bad their offense is going.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

That story has been denied by Olerud, here and elsewhere (and I am utterly unsurprised Rome would be reviving it):

http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/caple_jim/1510280.html

"Sadly, that helmet story is a complete fabrication. But as Olerud acknowledged when I asked him about it, it sure sounds like it could be true."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Head's up... I sent a link to the Sportsguy's new intern and got a reply that he'd "try to keep up with the blog," whatever that means.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

I'm surprised Hee Seop Choi's column isn't called "Hee Seop's Fables".

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

OH FUCK

You get a Tommy Point for that one.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 18 May 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

hey, linked from themorningnews . org today.

― the leglo (the leglo), Monday, 6 June 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Love the Ravvy-Batman entry. Truly persuasive.

Catch Kruk's self-parody last night, where he goofed that Clemens needs to pitch worse to motivate the Astros to score? I bet he's a closet sabermetrician, just pandering to his demo.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

woody paiges final paragrah was remarkably prescient. i'd read more, but it could be dangerous.

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 6 June 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

ok so who writes what now?

the hee seop choi pieces & the roger angell titles have completely destroyed me.

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

The real genius(es) behind Yard Work:

http://frank.harvard.edu/~jason/thoughts/real_genius_mitch.jpg

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

Today's ideas:
- Aforementioned hyper-analytical Pedro Gomez post
- "Tony Womack, Left Fielder," done in the style of a 1940's radio play ("Who knows what evil lurks behind the Kodak sign?" etc.)
- Political commentary from Mike Piazza (I'm thinking an impassioned critique of the filibuster)
- J0hn D4hlem's Yankee Baseball (a tiny glimmer in my eye, but what a glimmer it is.)

ok holy shit who are you and why did this not get done??? (or did it??????)

― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blogshares.com/blogs.php?blog=http://baseballtonight.blogspot.com%2F

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Does that mean I should sell?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

Dahlem, catch up -- someone did Piazza on the filibuster a few weeks ago!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

FWIW - Fluxblog.org is valued at about $200K. Yard Work is only $190K behind OH YEAH!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

dude i am quite clearly referring to the last !!! (?)

― John (jdahlem), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Yardwork should give out free MP3s! It always makes me barf whenever M@tty "El Beebio" P3rp3tua feigns amazement at some news sidebar mentioning the traffic to his site (due to the quality of his writing no doubt). It's like, ever wonder what would happen if you stopped hosting MP3s, Beebs?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

ONLY LOVE IN THIS THREAD G!

Unless we're talking about baseball dimwits - then bring out the scissor hands.

Meanwhile - kottke.org is at $1.151 MILLION. Woo doggie.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

REMEMBER WHEN?

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

where is da JAMZ?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

This is also to remind myself to GET BACK ON THE BURRO once I'm done moving.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Boys! Sorry I haven't been around lately. You might even say that I've been a bit of a ditz over the summer! Between deciding whether or not to divorce my husband and spoiling the kids to get them ready for the start of the school year, there's hardly been any time for watching baseball! But you don't have to worry about me anymore because I couldn't be happier. My sex life couldn't be better these days -- over the past few months, my love canal has been squealing with passionate glee like you wouldn't believe! It's true what they say, make-up sex really is the greatest! Sure, this girl might be out of your league (and I'm not talking about the AL and the NL LOL) but you guys need to remember that the next time your ladies appear unsatisfied. I used to get angry with Kris all the time (most of the spring, in fact) but after he fucks my brains out I love him more than ever. CYA soon! Anna.

― Anna B. (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

NO REALLY REMEMBER WHEN?

― David R., Monday, 20 August 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

*sniffle*

― Andy K, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/8/82/CryingIndian.jpg

― govern yourself accordingly, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

? It's, like, still there.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

"I’m sure he will be a good mentor on the Pirates’ young pitchers, as well as Michael Bay and the other hitter guys. Heck, that’s worth it, even if we end up losing a lot more games. Especially if we end up losing a lot more games."

― G00blar, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Morbs: I'm just nostalgic for the salad days, before we sold out and had Yanc3y killed.

― David R., Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

where IS Yanc3y? Witness Protection?

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yanc3y is in Kruk's garage fridge, sliced into easily digestible pieces.

― Andy K, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I sold out and all I got was "Yard Work" bumper sticker and a pint of beer. And memories. Can't forget about those.

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 23 August 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://kotaku.com/5447699/mlb-2k10-keeps-scandalized-ex+espn-analyst

Seems as good a place as any for this ^^^

― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 14 January 2010 04:54 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Hmmm

http://theclassical.org/articles/we-didnt-know-what-the-f-we-were-doing-fire-joe-morgan-on-fire-joe-morgan

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 26 July 2013 15:12 (twelve years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.thisisyardwork.com/

― Andy K, Friday, 8 May 2015 13:09 (ten years ago)

oh wow, DR you are a saint

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 8 May 2015 20:08 (ten years ago)

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