DJLoo (Non Retro) Update; We Need to Get TMZ on This ASAP
So I finally broke down and sent Loo an email this morning. Here it is:
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7:41 AM (8 hours ago)
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Hey, so did you just take the season off or are you physically unable to visit the blog? Dead? I hope you aren’t dead. If you can read this encourage someone to get a message to me that you’re ok. If you’ve been captured by rebel forces just hold tight, they’ve almost overthrown the regime (at least that’s the word on the street).
Be well my friend,
Craig
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4:00 PM (24 minutes ago)
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Dear Flavor:
Hi Flavor, my name is Anita and I am a very close friend of DJ Loo. He asked me to write back to you to let you know he is OK. Over the summer, he was experiencing eye pain and tearing whenever he would look at the computer. DJ hates doctors but reluctantly went to an optamologist. He was diagnosed with something called lenticular sclerosis. None of us ever heard of it. The doctor claims it is very common in Persian cats and German shepards but he had never seen it in a human being. He was prescribed some eyedrops and told he MUST stay away from the computer. He’s followed that advice very well. He has to wear dark glasses most of the time and is trying to invent some sort of homemade goggles so he can use the computer again. He is not going blind and lives pretty much as always.DJ has me check his e-mail every so often and was thrilled to hear from you and told me to respond to you quickly. I hope I haven’t been deleting your messages because most of his messages look like they come from dirty websites and I thought “Flavor” was one of them. He wants you to please send his best to all the guys and said he really misses your blog. He felt bad he couldn’t share all the Giant excitement with everyone. He knows you like him but says most of them are happy to be rid of his nonsense. Believe me he was delirious from the Giants and often goes outside in one of his many Giant uniforms.DJ says if you think anyone cares you can put this up for them to read. He hopes you’ll keep in touch and would still like to meet you someday if possible. I will be careful not to delete anything from “Flavor” in the future. Good luck and Happy holidays!
Anita
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Now, I’ve got no idea if this is a joke or not–it reads like a joke but it goes on so long that now I’m not sure. This email clearly came from his email address. So what do you guys think? Is *Anita* for real or is this Loo playin’ one on me?
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” Believe me he was delirious from the Giants and often goes outside in one of his many Giant uniforms”
A delirious German Shepherd in a Giants’ uniform might lead to some consternation from the neighbors..
yeah, that sentence didn’t read too well. His writing style doesn’t fit that email. Are you saying you think he’s fucking around or do you not have an opinion. I’m sometimes pretty gullible when it comes to jokes where I can’t read tone and body language.
If I was guessing, I’d say this with about 60% certainty that this is Loo joking around. You say more or less??
Well, I think getting a disease heretofore restricted to cats and dogs is a huge clue that *someone* is fucking around. I’d Email back and tell him if he doesn’t come back to Flap pronto I’m sending Zeke out there to bite his sorry ass and see how he likes “posterior schlerosis” 😉
I think Loo and Anita are double dating with Nippy and Soph…
This is pretty funny. I’m saying it’s a joke but it could go either way.
Loo is alive! He’s alive!
Oh Anna the Real Estate agent, please free DJ Loo from this blindness, from this affliction of critters, this ailment of the German Persians, this computer malady, this Sandy aftermath, this…
Yeah, I thought it was obviously a joke when I read the first part of the email but it went on so long and it just doesn’t read like something Loo would write.
Plus, there was no reason for him to bail on the blog, he clearly enjoys posting here.
But maybe I’m just naive and this is Loo playing a prank.
But you’d think that he would have checked back in if he was just sitting around his apartment doing nada, especially after we won the WS AND I started doing a RPOTD in his honor.
I’m half-minded to email back Anita and order her to start reading the blog to Loo and having him dictate his responses to her………
Hey the dude’s alive. Who knows why he’s not posting, Swordfish fishing, jail, eye problems, Sandy, whatever. At least Loo isn’t sucking his own rug while laying face first in an empty apartment. Or maybe Loo is just on a baseball schedule and will be checking in around ST.
Either way, good on you Flav for checking in on the guy.
honestly, the main reason I thought this email was bullshit was because Loo always told us he doesn’t have any friends. He once posted that he didn’t have any furniture because no one ever came to visit him (he posted that at the Splash a long time ago).
I’ve known people with eye disorders serious enough as detached retina that have required very major surgery etc., but I’ve never heard of someone forbidden to look at a computer screen.
Nor an eye disorder previously restricted to cats and dogs. Thank God he has no furniture or he’d be marking his territory..
yeah, that was also absurd.
I guess I wanted to believe the email was real despite the obvious signs pointing to it being a rouse. I still don’t understand why he would check out so abruptly, especially after we won the WS and he still stayed silent.
Maybe Anita has him on a short leash…seriously, that’s a mite long-winded for Loo. That’s about 50 posts. No, I fear the worst- that Seafood Delight diet I warned Dennis of has done in our dear Loo.He’s happy where he is, though-with Longden, Arcaro, Lassie..
And Dennis (and I know you still read the blog daily) I think it’s fucked up that you continue to not post here especially when one of your so-called favorite people (Loo) re-connects with the blog. You are ass-wounded over me yanking your *stable boy* author status but you deserved it for your bullshit, paranoid, drunken post directed at Blade at the Fantasy Baseball site. You got rightfully bitch slapped for that bush league stunt but you have known for quite some time that you aren’t banned here anymore.
lqtm.
Fuck you, Del Mar! (insert one of them there smiley face things here).
When I think of Dennis, I always think of Shane . . .
Joey: Pa’s got things for you to do. And Mother wants you. I know she does!
Joey: Shane! Come back!
here’s a Sergio Romo interview from the Stick after today’s Niner game. Starts off a little lame but there are a few good quotes to read:
http://baseballpastandpresent.com/2012/12/09/interview-sergio-romo/
Now see, if you re-read it and look at this part of the email it just sounds like some chick who knows nothing about baseball is writing it:
“He felt bad he couldn’t share all the Giant excitement with everyone.”
and…
“Believe me he was delirious from the Giants and often goes outside in one of his many Giant uniforms”
Now, maybe I’m just a dipshit and Loo is intentionally writing like some chick who knows nothing about baseball, but those two sentences would not get written by a huge baseball fan who’s obsessed with the Giants. I mean come on, he “couldn’t share all the Giant excitement with everyone” is not something Loo could ever write, even if he was trying to write under an assumed name (something he’s never done before I might add)…….
I wonder if Loo sleeps in a Giants onesy
You’re right. Get TMZ or “Entertainment Tonight” on it. Or M.I.5 or 6 or whatever the spy agency is in the U.K. (Edddddddd, help.) It is mystifying. And fascinating.
ATTENTION, Flappers. I’m grinding away at Book 2. Working title: “World Serious: One San Francisco Giants Fan’s 2012 Pilgrimage.” To push me, I declare my MS [the abbreviation for manuscript before Gloria Steinem altered things] will be done by Wednesday COB [close of business, or curvaceous obvious bosoms]. Then I’ll submit it and launch it on Amazon, cheap. That’ll take a few days more. It will be a quick read. Y’all will love it. It will be a Bask Separatist manifesto. G’night.
Cannot wait to read it, Pawlie.
Loo is probably a regular contributor to the New Yorker, everything he says here about himself is fake, but his writing’s real. He’s been to Rikers, but only for a storyline. He owns a piece of Finnerty’s, lives in a 2000 foot loft in SoHo, has a mini-schnauzer named Hansi, and eats lunch with DeNiro once a month…
what about his license plate? someone who can’t look at a computer surely shouldn’t be driving.
Loocie, you have some ‘splaining to do”
You all make good points both ways on whether or not it is Loo….I have no fucking idea. I am leaning a bit towards it be Loo fucking around.
Went back and read the past couple day’s threads. Good stuff…checked-out Paul’s bar in Saigon…Holy Toledo a guy could get in some serious trouble there…
Well, if anyone is naive it’s me. I always believe that people are being honest. I hate to think of Loo as having some eye disorder, but it makes more sense than him just not being here. I don’t know. Either way, yay for you Flav for checking on him – and yay for whoever that was for responding.
The comment that makes me think it might be Loo? “I hope I haven’t been deleting your messages because most of his messages look like they come from dirty websites and I thought “Flavor” was one of them.” LOL
As for Loo: I laughed my ass off, naturally thinking it was him goofing on his fellow Flappers. And yeah, Ferret, that comment was hysterical and could only come from Loo. But actually what I’d really like to believe is that Anita is real, and really is a good friend, and she’s a female version of Loo, soul mates forever, and he actually probably was dictating some of that to her to write. The thought of him wearing shades (likely even at night) and going outside in, what, one of his many Giants uniforms?? Hurry, get all the children inside! Hysterical. Of course you’re all also right that a serious eye thing is .. well… serious… but…. well…. Craig, how ’bout you invite Anita to become a Flapper?
And Chi, that’s just one bar. In a certain 2-square-block area designated by the gov’t for foreigner bars, there are 10 just like it. And many foreigners certainly do get themselves into serious trouble. And Pawlie… no, you wouldn’t be dead in 4 days, you learn to pace yourself…. trust me on that one…. 🙂
Never made it to either Thailand or Vietnam, but as a young man looking to sow his oats, always wanted to. I made stops in the Phillipines and Korea with the Air Force, and got a taste for some of the bars there.
I was LMAO over Pawlie’s comment (he would be dead in four days) and your replay “you learn to pace yourself.” Hope you and Steve get to connect during his travels….
Maybe it’s just a new york thing. During the 80s, a temp guy I worked with here in a warehouse job who was from NYC had his gf (also from there) call in sick one day with the msg., “Donald cannot come in today because he has a tumor.”
Well, seeing how this is just someone writing shit, in todays age of sickness, anything from Aids, cancer, and heart surgeries. I think it is just plain wrong for someone to make fun of a sickness or a disabliity, just ask someone who really has vision problems. If you don’t hear from him letting you know that was all just BS, that is just wrong.
this is a very interesting article written by Dale Murphy’s daughter on why she thinks he should be in the HOF
http://www.hallofverygood.com/2012/12/madison-murphy-my-dad-is-super-hero.html
No doubt Herr Loo is a having a good chuckle over this one.
*Anita*as in Santa Anita?
nice, I hadn’t thought of that.
I just googled lenticular sclerosis and humans do get it. I presumed it was a joke, based upon the EMail tenor. If Loo really has it, he just needs to get reading glasses.
Anita Bryant is still alive with her oranges and homosexuality in Florida i believe….Long live DJ Loo!!
Interesting. I presumed it was only found in older dogs.
Irish Kevin, I appreciate your thoughts on this, but it’s also worth noting that Loo makes fun of EVERYTHING. Nothing is off-limits in Loo’s humor.
Yes, but if the people who really know him are stumped, I just think he should come clean. I mean Dennis gets a lot of crap for the things he says, which I think some of them are funny as helll, but his main problem is he does not know when to let things go. So then people start getting pissed. And after some of the things I say I am sure people out here are scratching there heads!!
The wordiness alone strikes me as it being written by someone else. But the veracity of the eye problem? Old dog eye problem? Smacks of bs . . . seems a bit arcane a problem, but there are eye problems where you aren’t supposed to focus on things close to your eyes. For months on end though? That’s odd.
I heard this morning that the Dodgers payroll next season may be in the $230M range. I knew they were going to go wild, but they’re gonna blow away the Yanks for #1 on the “buy whatever’s available” list. Now, they’ve bought the negotiating rights to some Korean pitcher I’ve never heard of for north of $20M, plus his contract may be just south of $40M for 6 years. We can snicker all we want at the wanton disregard for payroll sobriety, but they have to be better next season — reality says some of these guys have to work out for them. Dbacks picked up McCarthy from the A’s, they even signed Chavey at whatever age he is for $3M on a one year. Who knows what they’ll get if they trade Upton before Spring. And, the Pads were definitely playing well in the 2nd half this past season. Rockies at least have a new manager direct from high school. The NL West is going to be a dogfight in 2013…
The Giants as underdogs?! It’s a role they’re comfortable with. (grin)
In fact, media attention on the Dodgers will probably put that chip back on the Giants’ shoulders, and provide extra motivation.
Why would the Rockies scare anyone?No sane pitcher wants to go there and get hammered.Walt Weiss,oooh real scary,never coached in the bigs,and what HS team did he manage the Saluki Lugnuts?
Well, like 2010 no one is picking the Giants to be there in the end. Makes it all the sweeter.
Speaking of no one picking them to be there in the end . . . Chuck, I have a question – What do you think of Mike MacIntyre, the new coach at Colorado University (former coach of San Jose State)? WillieD, you jump in too, because I know you follow the local college scene. CU has just come off their worst season ever (which is hard to tell because their team has been putrid for over a decade now). Anywho, I don’t know too much about MacIntyre, except that he was 10-2 this year and 16-21 overall at San Jose. Dude apparently has some NFL experience, along with being Duke’s Def. Coordinator a few years ago.
Oh, regarding snarkk’s post about the West division, but particularly the Rockies. Huh? Does being a high school coach denote gravitas? Rockies will be bringing up the rear in the West Division and will offer little or no resistance . . . unless you think that acquiring Wilton Lopez from Houston will change their fortunes. 🙂
I was sad to hear about Jose State losing that guy. The program needed a major upgrade in a lot of areas and he got things rolling to the tune of their best year in eons. The QB had a great season, tho sure the comp isn’t at the level of Pac 12..
Given the resources of where he is now, I’d expect good things in a year or two.
They’d better be better, Snarkk. But all the cash-pissing is no guarantee. Look at how well it worked out for the Philadelphia Eagles.