Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones! - Page 292

bold_n_brazen · 10-17-2005, 11:40 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski

Spend the money. 10 years from now $1000 won't mean much, the Sox won't have been there again, and you'll have the memories.

I agree with Hank. God help me, I agree with Hank.

Atticus Grinch · 10-18-2005, 01:24 AM

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Originally posted by spookyfish
I know for a fact that the name of the Cleveland Baseball team was taken in honor of one of the early captains of the team who was Native American.

Holy shit. In an alternate universe somewhere this story is being told to explain the racist mascot of the Cleveland Browns.

Replaced_Texan · 10-18-2005, 01:25 AM

This game. Tonight was a perfect example of what it is like to be a life-long Houston fan. If they don't suck, they're good enough to give you hope, and then they break your heart at the last minute.

God help me, I still keep thinking they can do it.

spookyfish · 10-18-2005, 01:31 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Holy shit. In an alternate universe somewhere this story is being told to explain the racist mascot of the Cleveland Browns.

Elfist fuck.

spookyfish · 10-18-2005, 01:39 AM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
That's what you get for buildin' a ballpark on the fucking ocean, man.

God, I had almost forgotten just how much I dug old Oil Can.

str8outavannuys · 10-18-2005, 07:25 AM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
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Some of my friends (ha ha - Quaker pun) are Quakers and they take full advantage of all modern conveniences.

There were a few Quakers in my public Toronto high school -- notably, Chuck Spearin, now of Broken Social Scene, and his sister Allison, with whom I was on the improv team, and wanted to smooch all the way up and down the sidewalk, but never did.

Some Quakers are FINE.

str8outavannuys · 10-18-2005, 07:29 AM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Really? It reminds me of choking.

Was the 2005 Indians choke a bigger choke than the 1987 Blue Jays choke?

Blue Jays lost their last 7, and I believe, 9 of their last 10 (including 5 out of 6 to the Tigers), to lose the east by 2.

I think the Indians' choke is bigger, because the Jays had the excuse of losing Tony Fernandez to an injury; this kickstarted the losing streak. But it's a close call.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-18-2005, 10:22 AM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys

I think the Indians' choke is bigger,

The Indians were never leading anything. How is that a choke?

You know the biggest choke off all time. TM? Slave?

Regular season there are lots of candidates, but Cleveland this year and Toronto in 1987 are well down the list.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-18-2005, 10:26 AM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
This game. Tonight was a perfect example of what it is like to be a life-long Houston fan. If they don't suck, they're good enough to give you hope, and then they break your heart at the last minute.

God help me, I still keep thinking they can do it.

Has that ball landed yet?

ETA: Sorry, I'm not rubbing it in...but from a purely objective baseball perspective, that was unbelievable.

spookyfish · 10-18-2005, 10:30 AM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The Indians were never leading anything. How is that a choke?

You know the biggest choke off all time. TM? Slave?

Regular season there are lots of candidates, but Cleveland this year and Toronto in 1987 are well down the list.

Thank you. I was going to make this point. Although I will say that the Indians did "choke" in the sense that they had a wild-card lead going into the last week, and gave it up.

I assume you are referring only to playoffs, but there are tons of things people consider "chokes" depending on the context. I'm guessing you're going to say Yankees/Sox -- last year's playoffs? Weren't the Sox down by 3 or 4 games?

Is that a choke or a remarkable comeback?

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2005, 10:48 AM

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2194071

Allan Houston retires because of bad knees.

He went to NY after his first 3 years in Detroit. While he was still in Detroit he gave me and some buddies a gentle reminder of why pro athletes make millions and we buy seats.

I was playing in a lunch time game Tuesday and Thursday with a group of guys that included one really old former NBA player, several ex-college players and other solid players. The health club we played at offered free membership to the Pistons. The summer after his rookie year Allan shows up one day and plays. There were 3 teams, loser sits.

I'm on Allan's team, and its clear he is just stretching his legs. He isn't shooting much, and he just pushes the ball and dumps to us. His passes were on some other level and a couple of times hit people in the head. Anyway we lose and sit down.

The next time we get out he pulls up for a mid range shot and this guy BLOCKS HIS SHOT. We're quickly down like 3 nothing or so. Maybe someone said something to him, maybe he jsut decided this was bullshit, but he came down, drove to the hole and dunked 15 times in row. By the end he was being triple teamed and it was still like he was just doing layup drills. We won.

The guy who blocked his shot never bragged about, given the outcome. Allan seemed like a nice guy, until he got focused on winning.

SlaveNoMore · 10-18-2005, 10:49 AM

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Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
You know the biggest choke off all time. TM? Slave?

Ahem.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-18-2005, 11:09 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I think they traded their pants to the Philly Flyers.

FWIW, the ChiSox version during the '86 Mets reign wasn't so great either:

There's nothing wrong with that jersey.

Last night's game: As soon as Edmonds walked, I turned to my girlfriend and said, "They better walk Pujols." Apparently, Houston had been watching the Yankees/Angels series and didn't know what an MVP looked like. Pujols showed them.

I've never, ever seen a shot like that, in a big situation in my life. That was homerun derby quality, McGwire* in his heaviest juicing days. Unbelievable. What a game.

TM

*I'd like to meet the person who doesn't think McGwire was on the juice. I mean look at this shit:

http://www.ronjaffe.com/images/mcgwire.jpg
http://eponinebob.tripod.com/mcgwire/practice33.jpg
http://cache.boston.com/images/bosto...M_MaY_2.15.jpg

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-18-2005, 11:12 AM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
There were a few Quakers in my public Toronto high school -- notably, Chuck Spearin, now of Broken Social Scene, and his sister Allison, with whom I was on the improv team, and wanted to smooch all the way up and down the sidewalk, but never did.

Some Quakers are FINE.

You gotta dig the Quakers. They're all about openmindedness and pacifism. I've had a few Quaker friends. Good people. Oddly, they were all into very hard living. I guess they were reform Quakers. One of them takes more prescription psychoactive meds than the average Hollywood agent. When he stays with his folks, they make him get up at sunrise (its considered bad form to sleep late amongst them), but his family doesn't seem to mind his liberal alcohol habit. In fact, they have a killer bar, and they drink copious amounts of scotch nightly. Sounds to me like my friends who are super-reform Jews or lapsed Catholics ("show up at services when you feel like it..."). Quaker weddings are a bit unusual too. Everyone who feels like it can address the meeting house and tell a story about the couple.

I should be a Quaker. I'm basically a deist anyway...

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-18-2005, 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
edited to remove anything that could jinx the Stros in the NLCS

Uh oh.