Trying to Let The Melky Misery Go……
Pfffttttt…….I’m disgusted with this entire episode. Melky’s silence after Bagg’s issued that public apology still angers me the most. I know other things should, like his suspension and the lying and the fake stats and stuff…..But reading Baggs’ thread on 7/28 made me almost turn on the guy—one of my favorite Bay Area writers of all time—- and Melky just sat there in his little rat-hole, ignoring the apology, darting his eyes back and forth while he prayed for that *miracle ticket* out of this drug-induced mess….I guess when you’re a cheater and a liar you don’t give a sh!t about people that play the game by the rules—people that are living in a society– I wonder if Melky laughed out loud when he read Bagg’s public apology to him? To me, it was one or the other: “darting eyes” or “LQTHPS” (laugh quietly to his pathetic self). Maybe both. I can’t even think about this without wanting to spit in his face….And this has NOTHING to do with Barry or The PED Era or anything. Barry Bonds NEVER fucked his team like this. No player of Melky’s status has done this to his team at this point in the season. Manny-Gate isn’t even a close comparision. He came to the Dodgers as an established star. He was just *Manny being Manny….” and he got popped.
The WORST part of all of this is that I got fucking tricked into believing something super-cool was happening. I knew in my brain that a guy on his 4th different team in 4 years who is leading the league in hits and runs and who’s hitting .350 and carrying around an all-star MVP trophy couldn’t really be happening. But I still talked myself into believing it was real. I checked his near-.400 BABIP and dismissed it as an aberration. This was real. I reveled and lol’d in the fall-out of us trading the guy with the worst ERA in the American League for the guy with the most hits in the National League. THIS WAS FUCKING REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And then to find out it was all fake bullshit? It was so deflating. And it made me feel like a dumb ass……
But I’m getting over it. It’s just one guy. And if there’s one thing I am certain of it’s that I care more about the following than any one person: THE San Francisco Giants. And just typing that has already started the healing process……..
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The sadly ironic and ultimately tragic thing is…..the stuff works!! Players and especially borderline players can look at Melky’s incredible career turnaround, and many will be tempted still to try to beat the system. It’s a big quandary for baseball, and an ongoing challenge into the future.
What was he supposed to do once Baggs apologized—come clean and admit he had been using PEDs after all—even though he just saw Braun get a get-out-jail-free card?
The thing that really sucks is that we have arguably the worst outfield depth in all of MLB. Other teams can plug in somebody pretty solid and we have guys like Justin Christian. I hope Sabean is scouring the waiver wire like a son of a bitch. How old is Milton Bradley these days???? Lets make this Casper Wells thing happen! Frenchy Francouer anyone???
Just my thoughts and a loud BLEEP to go along for good measure. A loud Chuck like BLEEP!
Well, even after all the recent hullabaloo between myself and the Flap fantasy game…one thing remains the same…THE ODDS. And the odds now say after Melky’s suspension it’s “My” Dodgers -200 and our Giants +110 to win the NL West from this day forward.
I wish I had something insightful to say about those odds. Best I wait for a Bob Baffert runner to beat the odds…
#DMDBackInBlack!
My sentiments along those lines, BF. I laugh when I hear these dudes on talk radio call in and say they KNEW Melky was dirty a coupla months ago, and told their Uncle or their bookie or whatever. Really? This guy had 200 hits last year in KC, and he wasn’t popped then. He must have been tested last year. He doesn’t have bulging Canseco muscles, at least that we can see. He doesn’t hit monster HRs into the Cove. He doesn’t have a dome the size of a Fukushima Crenshaw melon. I’m as jaded as the next guy on reality in baseball, but I admit, it was a gut punch. I didn’t even get it when Baggs came out with that rumor, and he fuckin APOLOGIZED. I figured, yeah, this is just some Twittershit. But, no. As if I had to learn all over again after Barry, and FP Santageroid and Eliazer Whoever and Estalella, etc, etc. Any or all of these dudes on the Giants and every friggin team could be using. So, I’m not going to sweat it anymore. If Fuckin Buster has his wife shoot up his ass with Dianobol and an HGH chaser while breast feeding their twins, I don’t give a crap. Just play ball…
You really believe he was clean last year? It’s easy to avoid positive urine tests for testestorone, he just fucked up this year. And how many users have the BarryDome? I’m surprised that anyone is surprised- I’m not saying I knew it- but I can’t believe this surprises anyone.
I don’t know whether he was clean. Nobody does. But, he didn’t fail a test, apparently. I AM surprised he’s dirty, not shocked, but surprised. If you weren’t surprised, good on you. You’re more of a doomer than I. But, as I said, no more. Now, I wouldn’t be surprised if Buster is using to recover from his injury. It’s the way of the world. I don’t have to like it, but that’s the way it is, as Cronkite used to say…
Now that we are PAST this loss of a player, a moment of silent refection. Place your hands on the monitor and say, “Amen!” Raise a glass of your best brandy and say goodbye to Melk (even if you drink your brandy with milk). Let bygones be bygones and let your fears and doubts, your sadness and disappointment disappear into the distance.
[The lights dim] with deep slow breaths we breath in ‘Your San Francisco Giants’ and breath out ‘Pummel the Padres’ at the appointed hour we turn as one to CSNBA and say, “Play Ball”.
For Orange and Black we pray.
Go Giants!
We know that at least 200 unnamed players have tested positive, no shit we should assume nearly all have used-only the idiots get caught anymore. Frankly, I’ve had a hard time caring about baseball a lot lately- and lying, sniveling lowlifes like The Milker don’t help. He could have come clean when it actually took some spine to do so and we’d have him for the last month of the season and at least know that for once a user faced up to it before they busted him with the bloody knife in his hand. GNight, maybe I’ll try to post some bullshit during the Bum series.
Hey there! Hope you’re feeling well. Can’t speak for you, but I’ve been watching “Shark Week” on @Discovery since I was knee-high to a Grasshopper. I need some help spreading the news…this is might be my kind of town…but I’ll be goddamn, this is TRULY my kind of wind…
“My Kind of Town?” I sure in the hell hope Francis Albert didn’t take too much offense when I made that statement. Not quite yet, “I’ll Need Another” at least, for the moment. “Frank is the best” I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Sing it, Frank. May not be “My Kind of Town,” but it’s sure in the hell my kind song.
Homo fantasy: Driving down to Monmouth Park with DMD while Summer Wind plays on the car radio…
If I come along does that make it any gayer?
I’m picturing an open Cadillac pulling an Air Stream. With Flav driving, Loo riding shotgun and DMD sprawled across the back seat. Oh yeah, and all three with open containers and wearing fedoras.
I must be imagining things, but there was a post about Flav being gay and driving with DMD and Loo to the race track, but now it has disappeared. I knew I should have stopped sniffing glue last week. 🙂
Ahh . . . Now it is back. OK, where’s my Elmer?
I’m all in with zum’s first post. In the DR, where roids are legal, you think some skinny 15 yr old that looks just like Sammy Sosa did at his age thinks twice about the consequences when he sees the results—Sammy in a manse with maids servants big cars and babes? Or that a girl soccer player trying to come back off ACL surgery doesn’t want whatever masking agent Hope Solo got “admonished” for using prior to her Olympic performance?
The other sad part is, the athletes are turning themselves into lab rats. I worked in pharmacies while going through college, and it’s amazing the different effects the same drug will have on different people and their bodies. In the case of simple antihistamines, the results can be diametrically opposite. There is no way for Melk to know how his body will react 2-5-10 years from now; these guys (and gals) are human guinea pigs.
So who’s our left fielder?
that would be the guy back behind the shortstop.
over there —->
i thought he was at second? (rimshot)
well, I doubt the giants can make a fred mcgriff type of deal, and josh hamilton isn’t coming here off waivers. August 2010, Lincecum and a few others weren’t playing well but turned it around nicely after some choice words from Sabes. And that’s my message. LA thinks the race is “ova”…bullshit.
I don’t care who plays LF–no one expects Blanco to hit .350 and be AS game MVP–but everyone can field, hit run and pitch better. And you need to in order to finish the stretch drive on top, not just SF but every team is feeling the same way. Man, after what went down at the end of last year, anything can happen. No way I ever once believed the Cards were the best team in baseball.
Edd’s 10:52 from last night should be the mantra–stop the *&$#@?* whining and play ball!
Melky batting champ scenario:
http://tinyurl.com/8u8m7wu
didn’t ET willie mcgee win one after switching leagues or something?
It’s been a while since I was barked at for not liking the coach, but after reading the headline comment about Melky doing this at this point in the season I had to chime in and say, he didn’t do it at this point, he was caught at this point. no? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single player’s demise affect a team and its fans so much as this. I just wondered if you all thought this would end the season as we know it for the Giants?
I guess we’re going to find out soon enough.
Dav, I think there’s enough anecdotal evidence that at least being somewhat prudent about taking steroids isn’t going to do too much long term damage. You have to be stupid about it to screw yourself up badly.
Many steroids cause the adrenal glands to cease functioning- when the drug is withdrawn, the adrenals are *supposed* to resume their normal function. That doesn’t always happen, which can lead to adrenal insuffuiciency, not always fixable. Kinda funny- the drug Melky got busted for is one I get regularly to try to combat my adrenal insufficiency- I may now face lifetime steroid “maintenance” with hydrocortiosone. Fact is, baseball always treated this as a PR issue, not a health issue. I’m not saying that all steroids behave the same, but they do all share some similar and negative side effects- and supression of the immune system is one of those shared traits.
I’ve been on them for a year now and my sister was on them for twenty years. They caused all sorts of problems. I listened to an interview with Conti on how easy it was for guys to beat testosterone so no telling how long Melky was on them. He said you had to be an idiot to get caught so no telling how many others are doing it too. I think it’s like the war on drugs, no solutions so may as well let ’em all take them. Weird for sports but seems that’s what football does.
Will Clark on 95.7 The Game:
Reaction to Melky news: “There were a few curse words flying”.
Players taking PEDs: “Piss on YA.”
LoL Belt: “I would have thought he’d be a lot better at this point..
To be frank and totally honest,I wish he’d pick it up and get a little bit better numbers.The numbers that he’s sporting right now is not that of a NL 1st Basemen…especially now that Melky’s gone.You’re a NL 1st Basemen and you have 4 HR’s and thirty something RBI’s? “That is not the production you get out of a 6’5 230 lbs 1st Basemen.”
Will never disappoints…
Hot topic at the moment, wonder for how much longer. Hopefully not much. But yeah, kinda fun to hear everyone’s comments, especially the likes of Will the Thrill and JT Snow, et al. I made a couple comments here, but pretty much done now. Actually, Jenkins’ piece in the Chron today covered a lot of bases (pun intended) and I agree with everything he said, and that’s that.
I like that the team is stalwart and determined not to let this affect them. Good ESPN article conveys that . . .
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8275548/san-francisco-giants-general-manager-brian-sabean-shocked-melky-cabrera-suspension
Well, it’s Flappers against the World per this ESPN Poll:
Will the Giants (64-53, tied for first in NL West) make the playoffs without Melky Cabrera? (.906 OPS, suspended for 50 games)
34%
Yes
66%
No
Discuss (Total votes: 77,667)
If you want to even it up a bit 🙂 – You can vote here: http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post/_/id/8272079/will-giants-win-melky-cabrera
Whenever shark week starts, I think of this:
http://tinyurl.com/9phdg5k
Next week: Snarkk week.
I’m out next week, headin’ for the hills.
So when my thread day comes up, somebody take it please. I’m after Chuck.
Grazie…
Robbie mentioned Conti’s spin on roids, and Melky getting caught. He (Conti) says at least half of MLB players are using. Whether you believe this or not, I thought it an interesting read:
http://tinyurl.com/9hzqm2b
Like Ed, Paul in Asia, and a few others…fuck it…I’m ready to move on.
Someone else threw this out yesterday…the Clown, maybe…
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? HELL NO!
And the fucking NL West race isn’t over either. Let’s see what Sabes does (or doesn’t do…no, not Hacker and Christian), play some fucking ball, and see where it leads.
Orange and Black Forever – GO GIANTS!!!
This gist of Conte’s spiel is this:
“What these guys are doing is using fast-acting testosterone, creams, gels, patches and micro-dose injections,” Conte says. “They put this stuff on after a game, let it circulate in their blood stream, and eight hours later, it’s out of their system when they take a drug test. It’s so simple.
“There’s such a loophole, you really wonder if Major League Baseball has a genuine interest in stopping these guys.”
OK, if the stuff gets out of the system so fast, how can it be so helpful? You take it every day, every other day while you’re working out? I don’t know the ins/outs of the drug test program, but I assume Conte knows it, so that he’s sure no testing can go on at players’ homes or on the road in off hours? or late at night?…
Kieachnick hasn’t played since late May so he’s not an internal option. Peguero is still considered a Brown level prosect by many, and he’s made progress progress- but 14 BB in 400+ AB? He might be ready for 5th OFer status-next year. Brown seems to be a late inning guy if he gets a call- he’s not ready to replace Blanco, Pagan, or Pence. Nady is hitting .118 in Fresno. Gregor is the best bet…and let’s not forget my AAA shortstop and that disobedient first baseman- both hittng over .400 this month…Scutaro is always solid, there’s Buster and and the Panda- this is a solid line up…despite alll the uproar-pen is 75% save percentage this year, tied for 3rd in NL- Bochy can handle this. The Hacker call up is a bit distressing- say what they will- he’s the 6th starter- just hope we get .500 ball from Tim and Zits, and don’t need him…
Plain and simple, this image of the baseball line up of the future is the source of Selig’s concern, nothing else
Gawd. I’d bail on this for $0.99 in Redbox. What a steaming pile of scrotum sweat.
Did they all pay Warner Bros to make this movie?
Someone (MacDog maybe?) made an excellent point the other day about what a boost it would’ve been if Lincecum had come up big in the immediate aftermath of the Melky disaster. I no longer have any expectations of Timmy making any great turnaround this season…
Dauber down?
As good as the pen looks on paper, the paper has been bursting into flames lately.
Chuck is bleeping hot!
I agree with Twin (made this point over the last couple of weeks, too) that if they can get .500 out of Tim/Zito, and they can shore up the bullpen (no, Hacker does not count, and thank goodness Otero was sent back before he even got here), these are key for success down the stretch. Buster, Pablo, Pence, etc. all need to do what they are expected to do. Also agree that Blanco is the best option right now. Hopefully Sabean can pull some magic and get another stick (Ross back in the Orange and Black???)…
I’m thinking just about anything would be better than Blanco at this point. He’s batting sizzling .182 in July/Aug.
He was 0 for August til the 15th. Now he’s at an impressive .125.
I’m afraid Blanco has returned to what he was/is, a career journeyman at best. I thought earlier he just needed more rest, not being used to playing so much. Now, it looks like he’s just playing to his pre-season “who’s that?” status. You can’t have a regular OFer hitting below .200 on an ongoing basis, and he’s not taking many walks anymore. You just can’t do that and expect a good outcome. If their minor leagues weren’t such a desert of ready talent, they could tap somebody to at least be respectable in the position. They’ve got to keep scouring the waiver wire, and that’s not a good position to be in…
Snarkk sniffs silently…..
Is a “sniff” in the ether actually silent, in the digital world?…
So who is that “anybody”? Gregor has at least shown he *can* do it, and his last game was encouraging- LF depth chart now is probably Gregor, Scutaro, then Christian, with Belt as the last try…and don’t forget the Huffer…
I think Gregor has this weekend to show something. I think the feeling is that Scutaro would be OK anywhere but short relief…OK, I’m pooped, see ya Monday.
Well, if Scutaro can catch a fly ball and a frozen rope in the OF, why not try him in LF? He’s been nails at the plate. That keeps all the other decent hitters where they should be. I’m guessing he’s a better option in LF than Belt, but as I said before, I’d even go Belt in LF to get Posey at 1B and Hector in at catcher. Essentially substituting Hector in for Melky’s bat…
Chi, I’m all for the Giants don’t get me wrong, but there’s a shitload of ifs there. If the pen can settle down. If Timmy can find his mojo. If Zits can keep it up. If Pence can find his power stroke. If Panda can get back on the beam. If they can make up for the guy with the most hits in the majors.
The truth of the matter is the pen has been shakey lately. Timmy sucks balls right now. Zito is a highwire act that can turn on a dime. The offense has been hugely inconsistent. All this was true BEFORE Cabrera got the heave-ho.
Throw that into the mix and shit gets a lot tougher. Blanco? Please. I’d get Ross back and pray. At least he parks one every once in a while.
Chuck is getting primed for FOOTBALL!
NINERS!
If a guy is doing well, he’s an “if”, if he isn’t, he’s a *big* “if.” Chuck, settle down, you’re in full doomer mode- try to pull out of it. Here’s a choice: you can have Melky, Arias and Nate, but no Panda or Pence or Scutaro. The first is what we had July 27, the second is what we have now. Pretend its all a trade. We’d all say “Good luck and God Speed, Melky.” That’s with no bust.
Every game for every player is an “IF.” I was just pointing out a number of things that I believe must go the Giants way for them to compete and win the West. Agree with Twin…you are in FULL doomer mode…you need to come in off the ledge and have a cocktail or two. 😉
This was for Chuck…
I”ve been mulling this over and i still don’t know what i’m feeling. annoyed? it’s not really anger, not disgust, it’s not ok but not sure what (that sort of rhymes!). You’ve all been talking about keys and to me, Pablo HAS to stay healthy. and that’s not a given. the guy was hurt last year and twice this year. nothing major but still out for several weeks. that hammy is NOT healed so it could go at any time.
anyway, have to win the series against the pads. Thank god we’ve got our stopper going tomorrow 🙂
Kruk was amusing this morning on KNBR. He was steamed at Melky. At least he was for public consumption. Strange, since he was a staunch Barry defender since way back. Maybe he was steamed at Melky for being stoopid and getting caught, but that’s not what he said. Anyway, Kruk was all for escalating the penalties for deterrence purposes. First PEDs offense, one year suspension. Second offense, you’re banned, permanently. My guess is he won’t be speaking at the player’s union dinner anytime soon…
NO to increased penalities.
I like Timmie’s attitude – “That is crushing, obviously, just to hear that our best hitter’s not going to be in the lineup,” Lincecum said. “But that’s just like a day where they get a day off. You’ve got to approach it that way.”
Giants just need to wrap their head around the fact that Melky gets 50 days off versus one day. 🙂
Long day’s journey into night. Wasn’t pretty…
Bet that comment did’nt make Buster to happy.
Okay fellas, all this talk of spilled Melk is getting B-O-R-I-N-G.
Can we focus on the situation at hand? Winning ballgames?
It will be the shit when the Giants win the West with no B-Weezy, no Cabrera, no Freddy. No problem.
Looking a little over a month from now, and if the Giants are still in it (which they will be unca_chuck), the Bums have the Nats and Reds on the road, while the Jints have the Rox and Friars at home. Think about that for a while.
Well, if it goes down to the last weekend in LA, that’s cool. As long as Dusty doesn’t start Torres. Uh, wait a second…
Snarkk, good point about Krukow’s hypocrisy on this. Krukow and Kuip have NEVER on the air mentioned or referenced Bonds’ steroid use at all, as far as I can tell. They continue to try to pretend that elephant isn’t in the room. If they’re going to rip Melky, then they should rip Bonds on this issue once in a while, too. Or even once.
But having said that, Krukow is right about the penalty needing to be stiffened. Make the first offense 100 games. Obviously the 50-game suspension for the first offense is not enough of a deterrant to the players.
NO!
Was Bonds ever busted? Was he busted in the middle of a pennant race? Bonds emerges as at least smart enough to not damage his team. Melky emerges as a mental deficient not smart enough to know when to take a piss. Melky deserves all he gets for being stupid. But screw this criminalization of what should teated as a health issue.
If the Feds won’t decriminalize weed off the Schedule I drugs list for 70 year olds with cancer, MS, parkinson’s and other diseases, they won’t decriminalize steroids off the Schedule III list. The federal and state drug laws are ridiculous in this society, and serve only to fill up the prisons and give permanent employment to the DEA and prosecutors…
They’re Giants employees. Anything said has the Giants tacit okay.
Well, yeah, that’s the big diff between Barry and Melky (or Mota for that matter). Bond never tested positive. It wasn’t even illegal when he testified, for God’s sake. He was busted by his own supposedly anonymous testimony.
Fuck 100 games. Make a first blown test a 2 year suspension. 2nd test, banned for life. Test everyone all the time. This shit is too easy.
Demp, in case you didn’t notice, the Dogs beat the best home team in the league 2 of 3. Yeah, they are hot and cold, but they are playing very well, and since I dumped fucking Barbara from my FB team, she’s been lights out. Fucking bitch.
The DRUG BLEEP!
Actually for a quick fix…The Giants could.take a flyer on Scott Podsenik.He can be our leadoff hitter CF,is smoking the ball right now .384avg..410 OBP .890 OPS in 26 games with Boston.
Better option then the 2 headed combo of Blanco and Christian.
Love to still get a crack at Willingham as well, but im certain the Twins would want Crick or Blackburn,since the Giants have no one else of value minus Brown.
Don’t forget that AZ can block anything. And the word is that anyone getting Willingham will pay- forever…
No matter what anyone thinks of Bonds, that little playground we have at 24 Willie Mays Plaza has a lot to do with him. Barry built a ballpark (with some help from those of us that threw in on a blind bet), Melky didn’t. We still have our Pacific Ps? Punching Ps? Playable Ps? Whatever, Panda, Posey Pence, Pitching and a cast of Playoff bound Players. Or something like that.
Let me be the first to say (today) that I really don’t have a clue about what I’m talking about, but I’m sticking with it.
Blackburn?
Yeah, AK, they’d have to seriously mortgage the future to get someone worthwhile.
I don’t think they’ll do it.
Angel Pagan CF, Marco Scutaro 2B, Pablo Sandoval 3B, Buster Posey C, Hunter Pence RF, Brandon Belt 1B, Gregor Blanco LF, Brandon Crawford SS, (Matt Cain P)
IMO this is the best LU they can field and while it maybe worse than the ONE day they had Panda, Pence, Melky and Scutaro together, it’s still the second best LU of the year…the season hinges far more on Zito and Lincecum than it does the LU- IMO.
Yes, I feel better today. Sorry. On the plus side, it’s temporary..
Go Twin!
good to see you Mike. AZ can play the waiver wire block, ala Cody Ross. Did you use mlb.com to see the King Felix perfect game? It was a beauty. Someone dug up a 2005 Grizzles game where Cain pitched against Felix then of the Tacoma Mariners. And the list of starters on the line up card is impressive.
pic.twitter.com/awl0geKU
The Dodgers must go down…and they must go down HARD. How ’bout it Giants?
Well, yeah, time to pay back those bitches in their yard . . .
As long as we take SD first.
Everything is a home run in that billion dollar shit box Yankee Stadium…
Loo disses Yankee’s home. News at Six!
Giants should not even think about the Dodgers this weekend, I’ll do that. Game at hand is Diego. Gotta take 2 of 3, there should be a good contingent of SF fans in the stands.
In LA, we’ll be fortunate to take one — the middle game vs. Blanton is doable, with Tim hopefully not coughing up a huge early hairball that night. Kershaw v Bum on Monday night is a crapshoot. Wednesday, don’t know who is going for LA vs Cain. Really can’t afford a 2-4 roadie going into next weekend’s 4 set vs. the Braves, so they need to score runs early and get settled vs. the Pads this weekend…
And that commercial with Scorcese talking to his iphone in the back seat of the cab is so fuckin’ annoying. Once upon a time Scorcese knew how to behave in the back of a taxi:
Scorsese in the cab now is better than 3/4 of the shit coming out in theatres.
My wife’s mom is not doing well, so I decided to take my wife to a comedy. Saw The Campaign. Will Ferrell and Zach Whateverthefuckakis. There are maybe 3 good laughs in the movie. The rest is drivel. What happened to anything resembling good comedy? No style. No subtelty. Just stupid shit across the board.
Lowest common denominator = more tix receipts, Chuck.
Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl could go blue with the best of these half wits nowadays. But, few in the audience today would get the gist of their comedy or even people like the Smothers Brothers because lots, not all, young people are clueless about the world, politics, and society in general. They are great with computers and the Web, but irony and satire are lost on the clueless. They have to be beaten over the head with 4 letter words, scat humor, idiotic situations and fart jokes for laughs…
i really don’t like will ferrell. i have no idea what people see in him.
Excellent comment snarkk! I can’t add more to what you said. Also, I agree with ewisco about Will Ferrell. I think I have seen one of his movies and parts of 2-3 others. As ewisco said, I don’t “get” him at all. There is another comedian/actor that’s worse than him, but his name escapes me right now . . . all of his movies are misogynistic and juvenile. He’s the guy that played Burt Reynolds part in that prison football movie. Fucker is an idiot.
Of the contemporary comedy actors, I like Ben Stiller.
Adam Sandler, Blade……..and I agree he sucks.
TY Loo . . . Yep, that’s him.
Adam Sandler. “The Water Boy” made TONs of money. I saw it a few years ago on DVD, apparently one of his better efforts. I admit I had a few laughs during it, but really, it was just imbecilic. I lost more brain cells watching it than pounding a bottle of single malt. And, not nearly as satisfying in the exchange…
the only time i liked adam sandler was “spanglish”. no comedy, some solid acting. i have no use for ben stiller other than maybe night in the museum.
I also saw Adam Sandler in a POS movie called “Click” a few years back. Don’t even ask what it’s about, it doesn’t matter. Total POS movie, but. Reason I rented the DVD was Kate Beckinsale. She played his wife, as if. Kate Beckinsale is just freekin HOT. Period. In those Underworld flicks where she’s a vampire, I’d be willing to let her go for my neck, even with everlasting vampire results. She was in Van Helsing, a vampire flick, and was just smokin’ smokin hot in that, even with a bad, faux eastern european accent. If she called and said I could spend the night with her in London, but the catch was I’d have to become a Dodger fan for life, well, I’d say next morning I’d start liking the color blue a helluva lot… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhdrzhX0jc8&feature=fvwp
is it my imagination or does kate longworth have a spectacular pair? they never really give you a view. boy she’s cute.
I’d be very interested in Cody Ross & Andres Torres for many reasons…
to join the homo Monmouth trip? Or to play LF for us?
That homo Monmouth trip sounds pretty damn good, Flav!
The horror! The horror! Also, eeeeeewwwwwwwwww!
Yeah, I would be down with either or both of them coming back.
3-1 LA (Top 7)
Do I hear banjo music?
lqtm
BTW Flav, I am very pleased to see that you like the Thurman Munson comparison to Buster. You probably saw very little of Munson, if at all, but they’re very similar in their approach to hitting. Check out Munson’s numbers in his 3 prime years (75-76-77)…
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/munsoth01.shtml
Yeah, There were VERY few Yankoffs I liked in the 70s, but Munson was certainly one of the guys I dug. Catfish as well, mainly because that’s a cool nickname. Those 2 didn’t fit the prototypical weenie fuck of a Yankee. Like Bucky fucking Dent. I hated Reggie because, well, he was Reggie, and I remember watching him pick pot plants out of the outfield grass in Oakland 3 weeks after a day on the green as fly balls would sail over his head.
I saw almost nothing of him though I loved his name in the box scores when I was a wee lad. I don’t know enough about his life, the plane crash, etc. Maybe Zumie can recommend me a good book on him. 🙂
watching “it could happen to you” while waiting for the game. huge crush on Bridget Fonda. Also Tia Leoni, but she’s not in this movie. did i mention kate longworth?
“or even people like the Smothers Brothers”, yeah Snarkk, I’m a fan of Steve Martin as well. The thing I loved about the Smothers Bros show was the musical acts, not quite as ground breaking as Steve Allen but cool none the less. Lenny had some great bits. Mort Sahl? I guess you can group me with the kids today, didn’t care for him much. But Buddy Hackett, now that dude cracked me up.
So, Dogs up 3-1 in ATL–really not surprising at all. The only thing that would surprise me is if the Braves won more than one game in this series. LAD will just not fucking lose. I don’t know what happened but they came together this season and started playing out of their minds right from the get-go. Now, of course, they’re practically unstoppable during the stretch drive while the Giants are basically moving backwards, steroid controversy and all. Sure, our LU could explode and the pitching could suddenly become lights out again but it’ll be tough. The thing with the Dogs is just a goddamn mystery. I mean, Billingsley? Really? Ethier?? Loney? Donnie Two Trips? How did these chumps suddenly become so fucking epic?
Correctelmundo . . . Just tied it.
It took all kinds. Jonathan Winters was a clean as they come, but his shit used to make me cry. I missed out on Lenny Bruce. A little before my time, but the dude was the lightining rod for just being able to say what you thought. He stuck his foot in the door for everyone else. I never saw Redd Foxx, but wasn’t he soing his blue act around that same time?
Jonathan Winters doing the sound effects of two banana slugs having sex, gold. The Lenny Bruce bit “Thank You Masked man” is worth checking out unca.
The funniest thing I’ve ever seen was while riding the N Judah. After turning on Irving off of Ninth, Robin Williams was walking a child (probably taking his kid to school), couldn’t hear a word he said but his whole body movements had the whole car cracking up. The kid was probably used to it but I’m pretty sure the whole car I was on went to work happier, I know I did.
Winters was a freekin’ comic genius, and quite possibly demented, which both may be related. He did have bipolar problems earlier in life, per Wiki. He’s 86 now and recently lost his wife. Hope he’s OK. He was the original Robin Williams without the coke habit…
100% agree. His reverse aging man on Mork was brilliant. He and Newhart were brilliant.
Sham, I’m at the point I don’t even want to think about baseball. This 10 game roadie for the Dogs was supposed to be their comeuppance. as of now they are about to be 4-1. . . . Uh oh. The Braves just tied it. . . . !
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The ONLY reason Barbara is doing well is because I dumped him off my FB team. Literally 2 days after I dumped his stupid fucked up ass 3 weeks ago, he hasn’t fucking LOST.
Is Bellisario on your FB team?
Well, he was hurt. I’m not sure when you dropped him, I’m assuming it was when he went on the DL. He came off the DL, won a game and I picked him up and, you’re right, I don’t think he’s lost since 🙂
So, about those unstoppable Dodgers….
We should light this chump up.
San Dawg is at the game, he must have enjoyed that one!
Break out the Marc-maids!
Marc-maids? Hmm . . . Nah. 🙂
Or maybe the Scuta-ho’s…
Now, that’s a winner Loo!
that is hilarious!!
Hey, where’d Loo’s Post go?
Something about Kat Beckinsale?
You mean snarkk, right? I think the FCC is monitoring the Flap.
Snarrk edited that 2:42 jack off movie out. Why? She’s the best thing I saw today. 🙂
Ha ha. I moved it under the thread where it belonged, I inadvertently first put it into the main thread. Now, I put a new one to counter Chuck’s crush on Alba. The Melky thing has me unfocused….
Loo got me going on the Munson comparison to Posey a while back. I don’t know enough about Munson other than the box scores. I’m reading a bio on him while I watch the game and this is one of the first paragraphs I read:
“Thurman attended Worley Elementary School in Canton, meeting his future wife Diana Dominick at the school when he was 12 years old. The two eventually got a paper route together and could be found playing catch on many a sunny Canton afternoon. ”
See? This is one of the reasons I love this blog. I would NEVER have thought to read a Thurman Munson bio tonight had Loo not made the reference to he and Posey 3 weeks ago.
Pence is a bit of a bucket stepper-inner…
Shit, I was cooking up a post about Jessica Alba and that weird cyper punk Snowcrash TV show she did 14 years ago. I’ve been in love ever since.
I’ll see you an Alba, and raise you a Kate Beckinsale…
I’ve noticed something about Kuip this year: He still has one of the best HR calls in the business, but I’ve noticed he has been getting his HR *voice* going pretty early on balls that get caught before the even hit the warning track. I’m assuming that’s because the team has been some devoid of power this year but it’s weird to watch him fuck those calls up regardless…..
So, here’s a by the numbers take on Melky. He was projected to fall back this year by the statisticians, because, well he has never been a very good player. A dumbfuck hacker, as a matter of fact. So, as the GM, how do you interpret the numbers he put up at KC last year? You either believe the SABR geeks because you are an intelligent GM, or you suspect that he’s up to the PEDS because you’re a cynical SOB, or your as dumbass who still doesn’t fully believe in the fact that baseball is 100% about the statistics.
I expect a warm welcome back!
Without PEDs, who knows? Maybe a .285 alleys hitter, if he can stay in shape? He won’t lose his speed without PEDs, unless he just gets a new PEDs consultant. He’s 28, so he’s got 4 prime years to go…
James— I think he had a BABIP last year around .330. This year it was around .390 (I don’t feel like looking it up). Now, I wouldn’t have balked at a .330 BABIP but I sure as hell would have at a .390 BABIP (at least in terms of offering him a big, big deal in the off season).
Don’t forget, Sabean unloaded Dirrrrty for him. He could easily have thought Dirrrty was going to continue his slide and found a way to deal him away for something decent (Melky) and emphasize Dirrrrty’s past skills/production.
He gave up almost nothing for Melky. That doesn’t make him a dumb GM for doing so. And there ARE lots of guys taking PED’s out there. Only the dumb ones get caught. Sabean can’t be faulted on this deal.
Hey, welcome back by the way!
Hey, if it’s option number 2, would you blame him?
crawford looks like a werewolf. maybe the chicks dig it but i’m thinking a good shave might be in order.
Pagan is the best head-first slider I’ve ever seen. Almost seems to pick up speed when he hits the ground…
Agreed, but he, like many sliders today, over-slide the bag way too far too often……..
Scutaro! This dude has clearly made a difference way more than Pence so far…
“Maybe Zumie can recommend me a good book on him.”
No particular book jumps to mind at the moment, but I did read Sparky Lyle’s book “The Bronx Zoo,” and one of the lasting memories of that book is that the Yankees of that time period had a tighter clubhouse than people would imagine from what the media said. And those Yankees did one of the craziest things ever on a regular basis in that clubhouse. They played hockey, hitting a rolled up ball of tape with bats. Lyle said they played all the time, and whacked each other’s shins quite a bit. But he describes a clubhouse that had more camaraderie and laughs than people might have thought.
Fuck the game…Go back to the chick with the panda hat.
Did anyone notice the three girls behind the guy that caught the foul ball in the previous half inning?
(left to right) daughter, about 10, next to mom next to grandma and all three dead ringers for each other.
you can tell scooter is a mature player, gets up after the slide, grimaces and checks the elbow, checks the groin, takes a quick blow.
everything is alright! Let’s go.:-)
looks like the BA with RISP is going to take a nice rise tonight. Great inning..and go braves!
These are the types of pitchers in Fantasy Baseball that make you throw a chair at your Mac or PC. Both your ERA and WHIP are screwed. So glad this fuck isn’t on any of my teams (albeit, the reality is that this guy is waiver wire fodder in fantasy league).