Merry Christmas from Red Reporter/Do they know it's Tradesmas?
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Dec 25, 2011 7:01 AM EST
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PrintMerry Christmas from your Friends, Power-drunk Blog Administrators and Internet Sparring Partners at Red Reporter! We hope your Holidays are bright and warm.
While I do sincerely hope you consider those less fortunate during this time of year, in the parallel reality of baseball fandom, these include supporters of rebuilding teams and skeptics of aggressive trading. To whom I offer the following:
there's no need to be afraid.
At Christmas time
we're Latos-high and we relish trades
And in our world of plenty
we can spread a smile of Joey
Throw your arms around the Walt
at Christmas time.
But say a Brayer,
Bray for the other ones.
At Tradesmas time, it's hard
but when we're having fun
There's a world outside your (2-year) "window"
and it's a world of dread and fear
Where the only talent flowing is
the hitchy-er swing of AA-ers
When the GMs phones are ringing
it's next season's chimes of Doom
Well, tonight thank Walt, it's them instead of you.
And there won't be Gio in Oakland this Christmas time
The greatest gift they'll get is relief ($)
Where only ivy grows
No RyHan and Rivers throws
Do they know it's Tradesmas time at all?
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Well done, sir.
Merry Chrismas, tl;dr. Thanks for all you do keeping this site going.
"Red Reporter - An elitist clique full of like-minded douchebags." - BK
I'll pour one out for tl;dr
I’m glad someone kept the lights on after Slyde, and he’s done a heck of a job
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 25, 2011 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
tru dat
"if you want to sound like god, Orange is the way to go" - DerekH91
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 26, 2011 5:10 PM EST up reply actions
I just sobered up, what did I miss?
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
nothing
I didn’t go out last night, it was a boring night on the Twitterz
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 25, 2011 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
rumor has it something went down on Friday..
my liver still hates me..
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 25, 2011 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, I was present for the entire live-tweet. It seemed like quite the evening.
It feels so nice to be back to normal
I've been trying to get my Mentor on Twitter
she refuses
However, she read most of my Friday tonight.. She shook her head for a lot of it, then fistbumped me and hugged me
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 25, 2011 8:07 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, and Merry Christmas
From the jch family (17 strong) to yours!
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
Happy birthday, jch24!
Also, happy birthday to everyone’s favorite worst CF of all time, Willy Taveras!
"Red Reporter - An elitist clique full of like-minded douchebags." - BK
merry christmas to Corey Patterson
Buy RED: My Uncensored Life in Rock by Sammy Hagar, today
by obc2 on Dec 25, 2011 9:11 AM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Willy Taveras shares my birthday? Way to ruin the mood, ZJiff. :)
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
wow, having a birthday on Christmas must really suck, huh?
by pack_fan on Dec 25, 2011 1:59 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Mostly it was a reference
to here, but I’m not sure anyone got it. All my jokes are wasted on everyone except myself.
I prefer reading it that way
It doesn’t make much sense when I’m sober.
darthmom: It's like sabremetrics, but for boobs.
by Hawkeye00 on Dec 29, 2011 12:10 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Also The Rickey though
so that more than evens it out!
expectations are premeditated resentments - cheshirecat
true, even Rickey thinks Rickey is special
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
Happy birthday!
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=VQgdtWlLfXg
"strikeouts are a lot sexier than groundouts"
by smitty3 on Dec 25, 2011 11:30 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Link fail
"strikeouts are a lot sexier than groundouts"
by smitty3 on Dec 25, 2011 11:31 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
This is how
My birthday went down at the jch household.
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
Tell your dog I said Happy Birthday!
I don't know why my kids call me that. I think I'm a pretty nice mom.
Some holiday cheer from my family to yours
by Howie Feltersnatch on Dec 25, 2011 1:17 PM EST reply actions 6 recs
Jim, Jack and Jose
I know the story only tells of three wise men but I’d like to see those guys start running around with Jameson too.
How about you agree to waive the fine and I promise not to email you the remaining eighty six photos of my dog dressed as a bear.
by Fat Vegas Alan on Dec 25, 2011 1:30 PM EST up reply actions
swap out Jose with Jameson, and those are 3 truly Wise Men
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 25, 2011 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
I've never tried his wares but I just put a 'Jefferson' under the tree for my wife last night.
How about you agree to waive the fine and I promise not to email you the remaining eighty six photos of my dog dressed as a bear.
by Fat Vegas Alan on Dec 25, 2011 1:56 PM EST up reply actions
that stuff is DELCIOUS
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 25, 2011 8:09 PM EST up reply actions
Merry Christmas, Reds comrades.
We have so much to be thankful for this holiday season.
We’re a small-market team that has acquired a quasi-deputy-proxy-ace rather than losing one… as both of California’s small market teams did last week.
Hell, a few weeks from now Oakland fans’ entire team will discover they know the way to San Jose. Kinda sucks to be them.
Walt, there ain’t much sexy about ya.. no books, no movies, no revolution… but I love ya, ol’ pal.
How about you agree to waive the fine and I promise not to email you the remaining eighty six photos of my dog dressed as a bear.
No Christmas in Washington DC
The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States’ capital this Christmas season.
This isn’t for any religious reason. They simply have not been able to find three wise men in the nation’s capital.
A search for a virgin continues.
There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.
Merry Christmas, all!
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
by BubbaFan on Dec 25, 2011 1:25 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
DC does have a virgin shortage
a 2012 candidate should make this part of a platform
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 25, 2011 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
Merry Christmas to you fine folks.
I thoroughly enjoy you.
We Are ... Marshall!
by Thundering Turtle on Dec 25, 2011 1:31 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Feliz Navidad!
Prospero ano y felicidad!
Tequila and pancakes, anyone?
by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Dec 25, 2011 1:36 PM EST reply actions
Dammit.
I know you’re all gonna laugh at me but I really wanted to watch the Knicks game and I’ve been reading this silly Reds’ hot stove blog and forgot they were on.
Thanks a lot, nerds!
How about you agree to waive the fine and I promise not to email you the remaining eighty six photos of my dog dressed as a bear.
by Fat Vegas Alan on Dec 25, 2011 1:52 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Wait, I thought the NBA was on strike or something
Shows you how much I give a crap about basketball.
darthmom: It's like sabremetrics, but for boobs.
seriously
who watches the NBA?
aside from BK and jch
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 30, 2011 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
and me
we JUST had this conversation like two weeks ago!
expectations are premeditated resentments - cheshirecat
and i'm sure we'll have it in another 2 weeks
lots of nba haters that think “nobody watches the nba”
Not liking the NBA is definitely racist -- no question.
I don't know why my kids call me that. I think I'm a pretty nice mom.
The thing about NBA players is that they bring an NBA approach to the NBA.
:)
Is there a mod so powerful he can ban himself?
waste of time
plus, don’t you DVR most of your stuff, so how do you actually watch those games?
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 30, 2011 6:05 PM EST up reply actions
i dvr scripted programming to watch when live sporting events aren't on
i can’t watch a taped sporting event
how can you watch the NBA?
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Jan 1, 2012 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
damn, I wonder if I have that
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
It's on channels 750-768 on Direct TV. It goes until Jan. 8th.
I don't know why my kids call me that. I think I'm a pretty nice mom.
MERRY CHRISTMAS YOU FOULMOUTHED, INTOLERANT, WONDERFUL HEATHENS!!!
Fuck lion say what! i got a fuck lion now come fuck wit me
Call of the Wildman marathon on Animal Planet!
Awesome.
Tequila and pancakes, anyone?
by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Dec 25, 2011 5:39 PM EST reply actions
I'm watching Investigation Discovery
Not terribly Christmas-y, I must say. It’s truly amazing what people will kill for.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Discovery was showing two crappy shows all week. Just two shows. All week.
Now that I have Christmas to do, there’s a MythBusters marathon.
It’s not like it costs them money to rerun decent shows…right?
Go Colts Dammit!
I wish there were an all-dinosaur channel
Some really interesting new dino documentaries, but they’re never on when I’m watching TV, and I’m too lazy to DVR them.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
#whitepeopleproblems
"if you want to sound like god, Orange is the way to go" - DerekH91
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 26, 2011 2:00 AM EST up reply actions
I hardly ever end up watching the stuff I DVR
I don't know why my kids call me that. I think I'm a pretty nice mom.
Too lazy to DVR something....that's fucking impressive right there
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
red reporter: the only solution is an all dinosaur channel!
by 'tHan on Dec 26, 2011 8:34 AM EST up reply actions 5 recs
this made me chuckle
Of course an all dinosaur channel would keep Carl Everett away, so that’s cool.
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
my DVR doesn't work very well
An old VCR would be easier to program. Basically, they tried for Tivo functionality, but failed. It never finds the right channel lineup, and doesn’t keep it if I set it (thanks to automatic updates). So to record something, I have to tell it to record whatever’s airing on the channel I want, which is not the channel it thinks it’s on. So to record a day baseball game, I might have to tell it to record 6 episodes of the Judge Judy marathon.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
What carrier do you have?
Surprisingly (from what I hear), Time Warner has been really good for me.
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
Inishgt in NKY can suck it though
Didn’t TW just buy them recently? Anyone?
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
yep.....i switched to AT&T U-verse
its awesome
@DavefrmLville.....is fun to follow on twiiter!
by Dave from Louisville on Dec 26, 2011 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
UVerse kicks a whole lot of ass from what I've seen
Time Warner has promised the “record it anywhere, watch it anywhere” functionality but I have yet to see it.
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
I bought my dad a Roku for Christmas
so he can watch UH football games (not carried by his local TWC). Not sure he’ll be able to figure out how to hook it up, though. He’s a smart guy, but not the most computer savvy guy in the world.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Dish Network was supposed to have that
It's a Toshiba
that uses TVGuide.com. I bought it independently, back when people did such things rather than getting them through their cable providers.
I think the problem is with TV Guide. My TWC lineup was not carried at TVGuide.com. I don’t know why, it just wasn’t. There are a lot of other lineups from nearby towns, but not the one I had. You can, with a great deal of difficulty, change the lineup manually, but it’s nuked every time the DVR decides to do an automatic update, or when your cable provider decides to swap channels around (which is about every other week).
I haven’t actually tried it since I got FIOS, so many it would work better now.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
That sounds annoying as shit, ugh
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
that's why independent units like Tivo never really did well
The ends justify the means
by Highlifeman21 on Dec 26, 2011 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
TiVo doesn't have an issue, as they update channel lineups constantly.
The independents struggle because they are selling quality at a higher price than “free with service” or “just $5 a month.”
"if you want to sound like god, Orange is the way to go" - DerekH91
by PeteyHendrix on Dec 26, 2011 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
eh, it does what I want it to
The main reason I got it was because I saw my friend using hers to replay anything she wanted, not just the stuff they deem worthy of an instant replay.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
We had problems like that with Cincinnati Bell Fioptics TV
We had a ton of problems with Cincinnati Bell in general and switch back to Direct TV after 6 weeks.
I don't know why my kids call me that. I think I'm a pretty nice mom.
A Christmas present for all of you (but especially the Reporterettes, I think)
5 minutes of Joey working out.
"You said 'walks' twice."
"I like walks."
Aww thanks, but I got those for Christmas last year!
Yikes
I hope that 60-lb ball doesn’t land on someone’s head.
That trainer was at the Reds table at the BBWAA awards dinner last year.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
I enjoyed that, thanks. Especially on mute
It just ruins the fantasy when hot guys try to say things.
That trainer looks like a total toolbag. Glad I have my Cali-surfer looking dude to train me instead of that douche.
darthmom: It's like sabremetrics, but for boobs.
Merry Christmas, one and all!
Happy Holidays to you and yores. Thanks for another year of being my lifeline to my team. It’s kind of a big deal.
"if you want to sound like god, Orange is the way to go" - DerekH91
Merry Christmas, Petey!
And tell the little man that RR says happy belated birthday too!
"Wait, you think I'm being mean to the pretend orangutan?" -- battlekow
Back at you Pete!
You and only you are worthy of my 22099th Comment.
Hope you have a good holiday season !!!
Scott Roland should retire tomorrow.
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