Sphinx Drummond
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Hey! Hey you! Hey, we're the Monkeys, dammit.
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« Reply #200 on: April 22, 2010, 04:29:28 PM » |
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Every kid wants to bat first. It's natural. I think letting each of them do it at least once is good plan.
La Russa's kids want to bat ninth. |
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I wish that I could push a button
And talk in the past and not the present tense
And watch this hurtin' feeling disappear
Like it was common sense
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Don
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« Reply #201 on: April 22, 2010, 04:37:50 PM » |
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My son is seven . . . he's too young to be playing baseball for a living[.]
Exactly. This is what motivated my initial digust at what I was told. It was only after I let it chew on me awhile that I became equally appalled by the idea that there could be something "select" about a seven year old baseball player. I'm thrilled by a seven year old player who can keep their attention on the game for 5 minutes. |
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
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Ebby Calvin
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« Reply #202 on: April 22, 2010, 10:49:48 PM » |
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La Russa's kids want to bat ninth.
Nominated. |
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Don't think twice, it's alright.
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Joey Trum
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« Reply #203 on: April 22, 2010, 11:17:29 PM » |
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i remember one event from when i was an 8 or 9 year old kid playing youth basketball. my team was playing some such team and at one point in the game i remember looking up in the stands and noticing a man who i didn't know but vaguely recognized as the coach of another team in the league. i didn't look long, but it still struck me as really odd that this man was sitting alone and writing fervently into a notepad. i looked up a few more times, and he was there for the entire game. well the next week i realized what was going on, as we played this man's team and he had apparently scouted us and drilled his team to prepare for tendencies that we never knew we had. needless to say, our team was beaten very very badly. i remember toward the end of the game i got a wide open layup on a pass down court after a missed shot on the other end, and the coach immediately called time out and started chewing out the player that let it happen. i guess scouting and preparation are good skills to learn in sports, but the whole thing just felt weird then and now.
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OregonStrosFan
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« Reply #204 on: May 06, 2010, 04:34:17 PM » |
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Excellent interview with MoBerg in the Houstonist: LINK |
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Noe in Austin
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« Reply #205 on: May 06, 2010, 05:17:36 PM » |
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"Baseball is difficult to teach, and fans get the worst info ever," Ensberg told us. "In the clubhouse, we'd be watching games on tv, and we don't understand what (the broadcasters) are talking about." Wow, that is the nicest way to say Joe Morgan sucks! |
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"It's like lawn mower repairmen questioning an auto mechanic's ability to fix his own car." - Brad Ausmus (on the media questioning players)
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GreatBagwellsBeard
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A small room at the front of the plane
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« Reply #206 on: May 06, 2010, 05:48:43 PM » |
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Wow, that is the nicest way to say Joe Morgan sucks!
I did my best to pry those exact words from him, but no dice. |
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He's a very sad case. He thinks he's Ethel Merman.
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Noe in Austin
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« Reply #207 on: May 06, 2010, 05:59:07 PM » |
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I did my best to pry those exact words from him, but no dice.
It came out loud and clear. Very loud and clear! |
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"It's like lawn mower repairmen questioning an auto mechanic's ability to fix his own car." - Brad Ausmus (on the media questioning players)
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Lurch
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« Reply #208 on: May 06, 2010, 07:57:16 PM » |
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" (perhaps in place of the endlessly inane Brett Dolan and Dave Raymond, the Astros current radio team along with the mummy of Milo Hamilton"
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I wish the first word I had said when I was born was 'quote'. Then before I die, I could say, 'unquote.' --Steven Wright
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chuck
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« Reply #209 on: May 06, 2010, 11:23:26 PM » |
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I did my best to pry those exact words from him, but no dice.
You guys looking for a food writer over there or what's the deal? |
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Angry but polite.
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BUWebguy
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« Reply #210 on: May 07, 2010, 11:26:11 AM » |
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I did my best to pry those exact words from him, but no dice.
GBB - you wrote this? If so, nice job! |
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"If you can't figure out that Astros doesn't have an apostrophe, you shouldn't be able to comment." - Ron Brand, June 9, 2010
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Lurch
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« Reply #211 on: June 06, 2010, 02:12:45 PM » |
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I wish the first word I had said when I was born was 'quote'. Then before I die, I could say, 'unquote.' --Steven Wright
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Alkie
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« Reply #212 on: June 06, 2010, 02:20:10 PM » |
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City? No, Houston is not a city. L.A. is a city, homeboy. Isn't that funny? I mean, he's dogging a giant sprawling unwalkable suburban megacomplex because it's not the giant sprawling unwalkable megacomplex he grew up in. If LA is a city, Houston is a city, homeboy. ETA: To be VERY clear, I'm not arguing against Houston's status as a major city. I just always find it funny when someone from LA decides to call LA a "city" when it's very much just 110 suburban towns that all happen to directly border each other. |
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austro
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« Reply #213 on: June 06, 2010, 02:23:28 PM » |
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Isn't that funny? I mean, he's dogging a giant sprawling unwalkable suburban megacomplex because it's not the giant sprawling unwalkable megacomplex he grew up in.
If LA is a city, Houston is a city, homeboy.
ETA: To be VERY clear, I'm not arguing against Houston's status as a major city. I just always find it funny when someone from LA decides to call LA a "city" when it's very much just 110 suburban towns that all happen to directly border each other.
In his defense, I can imagine that being EXACTLY a SoCal boy's reaction if he'd never been to Houston before. |
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California tumbles into the sea / That'll be the day I go / Back to Annandale
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Alkie
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« Reply #214 on: June 06, 2010, 02:25:41 PM » |
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Yeah, I'll probably take a horse to the field. Have the Rolling Stones killed. |
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Matt
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« Reply #215 on: June 07, 2010, 12:21:09 PM » |
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Have the Rolling Stones killed.
But sir, those were the Ramones. |
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Alkie
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« Reply #216 on: June 07, 2010, 12:28:53 PM » |
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But sir, those were the Ramones.
DO AS I SAY! |
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