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Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2007, 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Good point, but I should probably ease my way into it by checking out the buff guys in the locker room at the gym.

don't start with a buff guy, unless you can take a week off from running to train for your next race.

Try this: start dropping the bar of soap in the shower, and look for a guy who seems unsure if he should bend over to pick it up, or if he should wait for you to. There's your handsome prince!

Pretty Little Flower · 10-18-2007, 05:20 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I will watch with your sister. I'll even bring coffee.

TM

Perfect! You can braid her hair and have a tea party, all the while hoping hoping hoping that the "mutual friend" that Izzie reveals her feelings to tonight is not Alex, because Alex would be the most likely of anyone to totally blab to everybody before Callie had a chance to (or whatever happens on this show).

Anne Elk · 10-18-2007, 05:23 PM

George won't have Joe to kick around anymore.

patentparanyc · 10-18-2007, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
George won't have Joe to kick around anymore.

GOD, whooo do you think they will replace him with?

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-18-2007, 05:31 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
don't start with a buff guy, unless you can take a week off from running to train for your next race.

Try this: start dropping the bar of soap in the shower, and look for a guy who seems unsure if he should bend over to pick it up, or if he should wait for you to. There's your handsome prince!

Thanks! You sure know a lot about this!

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-18-2007, 05:31 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
George won't have Joe to kick around anymore.

Maybe someone closer to TCOTU can explain this one to me, but it looks like the team was trying to make him an offer which would look good in the press but which he could be sure to turn down. A cut in base salary from $7.5 M to $5 M is huge, even with the possibility of $3M in incentives. From Torre's perspective, it's a pig in a poke, in that you don't know what else they're going to do to the team, and it would have meant a whole season of speculation about whether he'd be back the following year. Torre is a known commodity -- the Yankees don't need to offer him money to motivate him. So the $3M upside seems to have been designed so that the team could say to the fans, we expect to go to the World Series every year.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-18-2007, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Perfect! You can braid her hair and have a tea party, all the while hoping hoping hoping that the "mutual friend" that Izzie reveals her feelings to tonight is not Alex, because Alex would be the most likely of anyone to totally blab to everybody before Callie had a chance to (or whatever happens on this show).

I'm sorry. It was a nice try, but I don't drink coffee.

TM

patentparanyc · 10-18-2007, 05:34 PM

When I did a stint of temping a few years ago, the manager placed me to cover a vacation for two weeks for the name partner's girl....

Besides handling all his personal finances and planning crazy travel and board meeting and philanthropy events, his personal friend was Ralph Lauren, they had grown up together in Morningside Heights and he had his office on speed dial.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/homes...ren/index.html

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-18-2007, 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Maybe someone closer to TCOTU can explain this one to me, but it looks like the team was trying to make him an offer which would look good in the press but which he could be sure to turn down. A cut in base salary from $7.5 M to $5 M is huge, even with the possibility of $3M in incentives. From Torre's perspective, it's a pig in a poke, in that you don't know what else they're going to do to the team, and it would have meant a whole season of speculation about whether he'd be back the following year. Torre is a known commodity -- the Yankees don't need to offer him money to motivate him. So the $3M upside seems to have been designed so that the team could say to the fans, we expect to go to the World Series every year.

It's a non-offer offer. An offer designed to look like we want him back and that results are paramount, but really they knew he'd reject it and now it doesn't look like he was completely run out of town. A constructive firing.

TM

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2007, 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Thanks! You sure know a lot about this!

ummm, maybe you've gotten the wrong message? you're not my type. I go for bears, plus I'm used to jews. If I go to Chicago looking for a change, it'll be Taxwonk's bell I'll be hoping to ring, sts.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-18-2007, 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It's a non-offer offer. . . . A constructive firing.

TM

Won't this be obvious to even the most idiotic fan? What do they get, the ability to say "we didn't fire him"? The irony is, with A-Rod and Rivera poised to leave, they'd have plenty of money to pay him with. (And the Red Sox can become the team with the highest payroll . . . )

patentparanyc · 10-18-2007, 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Won't this be obvious to even the most idiotic fan? What do they get, the ability to say "we didn't fire him"? The irony is, with A-Rod and Rivera poised to leave, they'd have plenty of money to pay him with. (And the Red Sox can become the team with the highest payroll . . . )

They don't want him back.

Anne Elk · 10-18-2007, 05:41 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Won't this be obvious to even the most idiotic fan? What do they get, the ability to say "we didn't fire him"? The irony is, with A-Rod and Rivera poised to leave, they'd have plenty of money to pay him with. (And the Red Sox can become the team with the highest payroll . . . )

I wonder how long Gagne would last in the Bronx?

I'd love to have Rivera and we certainly could use A-Rod at short, but isn't his agent looking for a 10 year deal? That's just crazy talk.

Hank Chinaski · 10-18-2007, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
I wonder how long Gagne would last in the Bronx?

I'd love to have Rivera and we certainly could use A-Rod at short, but isn't his agent looking for a 10 year deal? That's just crazy talk.

On Stern they said he was looking for a % of the cable money. I'd offer him an end loaded deal. $1.5 million for every hit he gets in October.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-18-2007, 05:48 PM

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Originally posted by patentparanyc
They don't want him back.

As I was saying . . .