8 Nights of Brendanukkah: Yeah, I didn't have much prepared today. I love old-timey comics as much as I love old-timey baseball players. And this cover reminds me of the time Danny Ray Herrera made his major league debut against the soon to be World Champion Phillies. He struck out Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell with the bases loaded. Except that Herrera and Howard are both lefties. Bizarro!
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Well, I have to post my favorite xkcd
I have this one posted in my office. It just cracks me up. None of my employees laughed at this when they saw it. Neither did my boss. My wife doesn’t think it’s funny. Neither do my kids. Obviously, I am surrounded by people with no sense of humor.
Only difference between astronauts and old folks bein' that you never see one astronaut spoon feedin' dollar chilli to a worse-lookin' astronaut at Wendy's
by RoastBeefKazenzakis on Dec 3, 2010 8:55 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
i enjoy it RBK
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
by justin007000 on Dec 3, 2010 11:35 PM EST up reply actions
i even gave you a rec to let you feel better about yourself
mark it down folks.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
by justin007000 on Dec 3, 2010 11:35 PM EST up reply actions
I gave it a rec
because I have this OCD thing where if something has 2 recs, it must be greened.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
And don't forget.....
Superman is a dick
Only difference between astronauts and old folks bein' that you never see one astronaut spoon feedin' dollar chilli to a worse-lookin' astronaut at Wendy's
by RoastBeefKazenzakis on Dec 3, 2010 9:06 PM EST reply actions
It seems I've missed a lot in the past 4 seasons.
I just couldn’t get into there only being half a justice league. And Cloe was better looking girl on the show as far as I recall.
Also wanted to share a F%3F&GUID=bdcacba01260a0aad4d49054ffe68dab&itemid=110547093102&ff4=263602_304692" target="new">ebay link for any Wiimote owners out there. If you were going to get me one of these, I still have 3 blank.
WYSIWIG
"I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come." - George "Sparky" Anderson
Robin catches?
No surprise there.
WYSIWIG
by Excalib8 on Dec 4, 2010 3:02 PM EST up reply actions 7 recs
I went over to South Side Sox to see their reaction to the Dunn signing.
Man, I think I discovered how new people on RR must feel: like 200 out of the 500 comments in the thread seemed to be inside jokes. Both bewildering and amusing.
"there no countrey called west xylophone" Youtube
SSS is 50x worse than RR
the AJ Pierzynski resigning (which should make for a pretty good debate) garnered a total of about 8 words of actual opinion on the signing, and 400 posts about God knows what. And the two or so who did venture an opinion were pretty much immediately shot down.
Cardinals just signed Berkman...
What the hell?
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
good
now i have a reason to despise his entire petty existence.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
To play...
What? The pipe organ?
by the finest muffins on Dec 4, 2010 5:30 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
They're spooging themselves over this at VEWLB
I don’t see it. Berkman just doesn’t worry me anymore. I know his track record against the Reds, but I just feel that he can be pitched to now, and anywhere you put him on the field, he’s a huge defensive liability.
I guess he makes for a good LH bat off the bench, and I wouldn't mind him playing LF for us in a platoon with Gomes...
But 8 million for a bench/platoon guy? Seriously, where are you gonna play him? Maybe they move Holliday to RF and play him in left, but that gives you one of the worst outfields in baseball…
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
especially if they dump Rasmus
they’re kinda stuck with Jay, Holliday, Berkman in the OF. I dunno, is So Taguchi still around?
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
we could send them Bloomquist for Wainwright
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
somebody will have to play center right field.
"It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word."
-President Andrew Jackson
by justin007000 on Dec 4, 2010 7:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, Berkman isn't scary anymore
his defense is probably almost Gomes-esque in LF, and his bat is probably only a little better. But they’re paying $8 million for that, not $1.8…
At least it’ll keep Jon Jay off the field I guess. I despise that guy.
i think Berkman is waaaaay better than Gomes
im not sure if he’s 4x better, but he’s averaged a wOBA north of .390 for the last 10 years, aside from this past season. it’s totally possible that he fell off the cliff last year, but to say he is only a bit better than Gomes is ri-damn-diculous.
by Charlie Scrabbles on Dec 5, 2010 1:19 AM EST up reply actions
yeah, Berkman's a great hitter
and is historically a good outfielder (he even played some CF). But that was just history
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
I'd call Berkman a +20 hitter
-10 fielder in LF. That would make him about 2 WAR. He hasn’t played OF since 2004, and he wasn’t that good at it even back then. Both of those numbers are better than I would expect for Gomes, though I expect Gomes to hit a little better than he did in 2010. Maybe +8 or 10.
If Berkman reverts to a +40 hitter again, then yeah, he’s seriously better than Gomes. but he’s going to make up very little ground to Gomes on defense, and I’m not sure if you’re aware of how he’s hit lefties in the past 3 years, but it’s been a scary decline. He is borderline platoon territory on that, much like Gomes vs. righties. It’ll eat his value unless they pinch hit for him.
This makes Gomes a must start against the Cards
His weak pop-ups will wreak HAVOC on that OF.
Berkman, the Fat Elvis of MLB
that should make some interesting plays in LF….
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 5, 2010 4:51 PM EST up reply actions
No shit HLMAN21
Berkman is toast…and he’d never agree to have a Mohawk anyway…
"Men today are pussies or gay" Aja Warren
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