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Hank Chinaski · 10-19-2007, 12:18 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
(C) - "Take that Jeter, you one-for-nineteen hitting and three rally-killing double plays motherfucker!"

I guess I thought there were more Yankee fans here. Thurgreed was at the game, i think, so he didn't see it. but slave here seems to be saying the silly mf was goofing in the dugout as his team was about to wrap its season early.

Why would you want that on your team?

Atticus Grinch · 10-19-2007, 12:39 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I guess I thought there were more Yankee fans here. Thurgreed was at the game, i think, so he didn't see it. but slave here seems to be saying the silly mf was goofing in the dugout as his team was about to wrap its season early.

Why would you want that on your team?

PSA: Lookee here!

LessinSF · 10-19-2007, 12:59 AM

Survivor: China,

Oh, the Humanity.

Tyrone Slothrop · 10-19-2007, 01:12 AM

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Originally posted by LessinSF
Survivor: China,

Oh, the Humanity.

I'm watching Survivor: Cleveland.

Forgive me if I said this already, but if I had a dollar for every time a postseason baseball announcer has said that a pitcher's stuff is "nasty," I wouldn't be rich, but it certainly would alleviate my irritation.

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 10-19-2007, 01:16 AM

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Originally posted by dtb
Aw, shucks, Hank. You're like the big brother I never had! Thanks, man.

PS - Ollie, my theme song seems to be broken. What was it?

A song you've surely never heard, "Go Go Boots are Coming Back," by mid-80s Portland legends Billy Rancher and the Unreal Gods. Would've been huge, but for the main dude getting cancer and shit.

Anne Elk · 10-19-2007, 01:33 AM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm watching Survivor: Cleveland.

Forgive me if I said this already, but if I had a dollar for every time a postseason baseball announcer has said that a pitcher's stuff is "nasty," I wouldn't be rich, but it certainly would alleviate my irritation.

Next up Survivor: Fenway.

It would alleviate your irritation further, if you had dollar for every time Buck and McCarver screwed up the score or a player's name.

ltl/fb · 10-19-2007, 01:40 AM

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Originally posted by Anne Elk
Next up Survivor: Fenway.

It would alleviate your irritation further, if you had dollar for every time Buck and McCarver screwed up the score or a player's name.

blah blah football or baseball or basketball. Whatever.

I like your sig line.

SlaveNoMore · 10-19-2007, 02:21 AM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm watching Survivor: Cleveland.

Forgive me if I said this already, but if I had a dollar for every time a postseason baseball announcer has said that a pitcher's stuff is "nasty," I wouldn't be rich, but it certainly would alleviate my irritation.

You're as bad as John Kerry with that Ned Yost comment.

The word is filthy.

SlaveNoMore · 10-19-2007, 02:23 AM

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ThurgreedMarshall
Oh stop. Torre is so loved in New York that anything short of an automatic extension is paramount to George kicking him the fuck out the door.

TM

True dat.

But deep down, I know you completely agree with me that the only reason to keep him around was for #20, #42 and #46.

LessinSF · 10-19-2007, 06:41 AM

Here's my sentence. did I hyphenate correctly?

... Ins. Code Section 2071 references only non-privileged and/or non-attorney work-product protected claim-related documents that regard the evaluation of damages.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-19-2007, 09:16 AM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm watching Survivor: Cleveland.

Forgive me if I said this already, but if I had a dollar for every time a postseason baseball announcer has said that a pitcher's stuff is "nasty," I wouldn't be rich, but it certainly would alleviate my irritation.

Don't worry. "Nasty" is old and busted. "Filthy" is au courant.

And can Tim McCarver resist making a good point more than 3 times? He's right--Manny Ramirez dogs it out of the batter's box. How can you possibly get only a single when David Ortiz scores from first? But to say it 25 times, asking the booth for multiple angles really is more than anyone needs.

eta stp.

barely_legal · 10-19-2007, 10:22 AM

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Originally posted by LessinSF
Survivor: China,

Oh, the Humanity.

I was relieved at the vote. I was worried for a while, although I'm sure next week will suck and my favorite player will be eliminated.

patentparanyc · 10-19-2007, 10:37 AM

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
True dat.

But deep down, I know you completely agree with me that the only reason to keep him around was for #20, #42 and #46.

my husband said it was a fair offer and that he was stupid for turning it down.

What is next for Joe? Commentator? or another team?

Gattigap · 10-19-2007, 10:43 AM

Friends,

You may recall that my old, crappy German car had reached that stage of its life where things, figuratively speaking, started falling off on the freeway. Imminent failure was not certain, but it had arrived as that creeping suspicion deep in the recesses of your mind.

This had manifested itself in a repair which I took to my local mechanic, asked him to investigate an issue, and told him, "look. I'm trading this car in within a week or so. I want to do the right thing, but I don't want to spend a fortune doing it because it'll soon match any money I can get for the car." He nodded.

He calls me and says, Gatti, I think I've found the issue, but digging into it and fixing it will probably approach the value of your car.

Crap. What do you recommend? Said I.

I'd just trade the damn thing in, said he. I'm happy to do this thing for you, because it'll put my youngest through college. But my recommendation is just to give the thing to the dealer. I'd recommend this repair if you're keeping the car, but it's not a fatal problem - the car runs. You're not giving the dealer a warranty, after all.

So I took his advice, notwithstanding my conflicted emotions about it. Yesterday, I empty it, wash it, clean it until it sparkles, and go down to the dealership, where I'm subjected to everything I hate about the sales process. Interminable theater, where the sales guy brings me 500 forms to sign, one at a time. Are you SURE you don't want to finance it through the dealer? Well, what about the undercoating protection? The Platinum service plan? Etc., etc.

They look at my car, and come back to me with an insulting trade-in amount, worth slightly more than the market value of its tires. We argue about esoteric concepts like "Kelley Blue Book values" and "fair" vs. "good" condition. Through a series of furrowed brows and reluctant trips to the back room, they increase their offer by subsequent series of single percentage points.

I consider walking away, but then I consider what I would've paid the mechanic. It more than covers the delta between dealer's attempted assault of an offer, and what aproaches a real-life market assessments of my car. I also think of RT's story leaving her trade-in running in the parking lot for fear it'll never start again. Suddenly, I am free.

And I have a new car. Did I tell you that I love my new car? We are 2-gethah, 4evah.

Gattigap

ABBAKiss · 10-19-2007, 10:45 AM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I can picture him watching it on his precious four poster bed with a box of kleenex and his penguin stuffed animal.*

*actual stuffed animal. Not ABBA's "stuffed animal".

For the record, I did not actually make a stuffed animal. I just learned how to make one if I want to.