Cactus League Game 24: Reds vs. Mariners (RAIN OUT)
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:16 PM EDT
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PrintDismal conditions at the ballpark today - at least by Goodyear, AZ standards - so we'll see if they get this one in or not.
UPDATE: So dismal, in fact, they just couldn't bring themselves to play today.
But don't let the pathetic fallacy get to you. Here's some relatively good news about Johnny Cueto to brighten your day: he doesn't have a catastrophic injury. In fact, it's being described as an "inflammation" (a vague term sometimes used for phantom DL purposes) and the Reds are currently expecting a short recovery. Cuts have also come down. Depending on who you favor, this could be good, bad or indifferent. Dave Sappelt is still hanging tough.
A rotation has also been announced: Voquez, Bailey, Arroyo, Wood and then Leake.
Meanwhile, Arroyo has the flu and was scratched in favor of Scott Carroll. Deservedly or not, Scott Carroll made his biggest splash in national news when he tested positive for a banned substance and was suspended fifty games in 2008. Like Volquez, he was booked for a non-steroid substance used to stimulate testosterone levels. It's no fun casting aspersions or moralizing over, but since he's not on the 40-man, that's the lede for now. Since the ban, Carroll has put up respectable numbers, spending most of last season at AA Carolina.
Everyone in the front of the rotation seems to be going through some kind of issue. Cueto: Shoulder. Volquez: plate in-adhesion. Arroyo: Influenza. So the back-end guys will be called upon to come to the fore. Here's hoping for a pleasant and injury-free win. And listen to your actuaries - if it's raining, maybe better not risk it.
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"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
Oh hell, Son, I was high that day. That doesn't make any sense at all, you can be second, third, fourth... hell you can even be fifth.
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by BigBabyBruce on Mar 21, 2011 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Cat-cus league?
I was going to post a lolcat, but remembered that I don’t want to be that person.
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I hate me
"OVERCHARGE, v. To ask a higher price than you can get." -Ambrose Bierce
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Time to reload
Mesoraco replaces Hanigan.
"OVERCHARGE, v. To ask a higher price than you can get." -Ambrose Bierce
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
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"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
I like you!
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I am indifferent when it comes to all of you!
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
I'm not so great
but you guys are cool.
"OVERCHARGE, v. To ask a higher price than you can get." -Ambrose Bierce
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:38 PM EDT up reply actions
I had a pic I wanted to post here, but .....
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
It's payback for making me try to remember how to spell:
“Rhode Island Jo’s Aboca Sey” WKRP.
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Uh oh
Ramón Hernández tenía una visita médica hoy a las 10:30 am (hora local) con un doctor, porque le duele el codo de lanzar. #MLB
haven’t seen this reported by any local media yet though.
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Translated
" … the bitch said it was mine but we know I was in Goodyear at the time."
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by johnu1 on Mar 21, 2011 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
My Spanish is rusty
Does that mean he hurt his elbow or lost his pet lizard?
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions
It's idiomatic, but loosely translated
there’s a certainly a connection between a “lizard” and elbow pain.
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by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:43 PM EDT up reply actions
I said I was rusty
You don’t have to make fun of me about it. Jeez lah-weeze…
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions
Mentioning a lizard ...
and pretending it’s an elbow injury … that’s being needlessly cruel to Clutch Man Monie.
You will be held accountable for that.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
I guess my masturbation joke was too subtle
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by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:56 PM EDT up reply actions
That's a new injury
Hadn’t heard about elbow issues before. Hanigan was scratched cuz he took a foul tip. Dolor all over the place. Pitcher and catcher depth may be plumped early and often this year.
"OVERCHARGE, v. To ask a higher price than you can get." -Ambrose Bierce
by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions
The dolores seem a code word for ...
… spring training is starting to be a bore-ass. How much longer do we have to fuck around in this dust bowl?
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
What's the source, btw?
Where do you get your spanish-lanuage mlb news?
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by RijoSaboCaseyWKRP on Mar 21, 2011 2:44 PM EDT up reply actions
just happened to be searching for #Reds
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He's a sports journalist from Venezuela
(sport journalist) conocedor de baloncesto, béisbol entre otros . [lo mas importante en la vida es la familia, la salud y un buen bullpen]
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seems odd, but we'll let you go with that
But I did learn that Walt speaks El Espanol. He is quoted in reference to Cueto’s lanzador.
“A nivel estructural, está todo bien”, dijo el gerente general de los Rojos, Walt Jocketty. “La recomendación del Dr. Kremchek es que no lance durante una semana, y que luego empiece un programa de tirar.”
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
Yeah, but it looks like it may have started with UNDeportes - Ultimas Noticias - the major newspaper in Venzuela.
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If you don't speak Spanish
Why ON EARTH would you go looking for this?
I guess I just need to chuckle.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
Gesundheit
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
Hanigan not serious. Happened 2 days ago, took BP today
tweeted from The Sheldon
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If Gomes doesn't go 3/3 today with a home run
he should be DFA’d and Sappelt should start in left. Just saying.
"At the very end, somebody took a dump right where I stood in the dugout every day." Dusty Baker
by featherman on Mar 21, 2011 3:02 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Yes, yes I will rec the featherman.
Set the gearshift to the high gear of your soul.
by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Is that what you're calling it these days? Reccing the featherman?
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
either that or Feathering the Wreckedman.
Depends on if its a weekend or not.
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by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 3:26 PM EDT up reply actions
No! Not the bees!!! Aaaaaaaaaaarghhhhh
Bart: "Dad, what's a Muppet?"
Homer: "Well, it's not quite a mop, not quite a puppet, but man... (laughs, then pauses) So, to answer you question, I don't know."
Sir, I am in your debt
This was awesome. This was so awesome I had to share it with someone (and I rarely, rarely do that). Kudos on the post, for it made my day.
by rorschach1979 on Mar 22, 2011 9:59 AM EDT up reply actions
Don't rec the featherman
until he gets you to the other side.
it's on the way up!
and after yesterday, Sappelt’s average is trending down!
Dusty’s going with the hot hand…he’s front-running!
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by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions
3 for 3 would definitely help
But there are times when the guy we didn’t think could make it, makes it.
Sappelt may be the one.
Whatever it takes.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
I hasten to add that he got my vote every time
in the winter prospects evaluations.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
mine too. Nice call john.
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by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Stubbs is more familiar with the geography, for what that's worth
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
Stubbies!
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by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I do NOT have a pic that I can post here.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
I thought Sappelt's defense was just jaw-dropping when I saw him in with Dayton awhile ago - I just wondered how it compares.
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He's probably about as fast (maybe not quite)
But he’s a lot shorter which has to result in fewer tough flies/liners reached (although that’s just guessing, no idea if there is any evidence for that)
Also, his arm isn’t as strong. It’s probably just adequate for CF.
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
Stubbs
Could hit 30 hrs 30 steals this year
C I N C I N N A T I R E D S
by I75series on Mar 21, 2011 4:32 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
So could Brandon Phillips
…if you asked him.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 21, 2011 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
From the Tweetdeck:
@rmlargent @johnfayman Reds get some money to work with on an insurance claim if Cueto is DL’d a lengthy time?//Not sure. //You should ask.
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Oh wow, this was high on my list of questions
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
Game has been delayed until at least 2 pm AZ time
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
crap, what do we do with our spare time now?
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
Katy Perry is a fun watch...
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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 21, 2011 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
A good idea.
I was considering taking the day off and hanging around VEB to get the inside lowdown.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
Now it's definitely scheduled to start at 2 AZ/5 CIN time
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
And now it's definitely cancelled
Fay will be thrilled.
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
From the Teewtdeck...
PeteyHendrix Petey Hendrix
@johnfayman If you can’t start a spring game on time, you can’t start it at all. // You sound terrifically inconvenienced.
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He's got a hot date with himself at the local Hardees and he doesn't want to be late.
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
Isn't it Carl's Jr out west?
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, but he told himself he'd meet himself in St. Louis
johnu1pointlesspicture’d
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
mmmm...lunchtime!
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
I read a book once
about a man who couldn’t read.
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I think I read that one too. Was it written by Judy Blume?
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
Ahhhh yes
Good ol’ “Two Shoes” Judy Blume. She could really cut a rug.
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
That's what my grandaddy always used to say about my grandma. She died before I was born.
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
I think we know why.
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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 21, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
But it has the classiest audiences
by Brendanukkah on Mar 21, 2011 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
The show must be on tour somewhere outside of St. Louis then.
But still within drunk driving distance.
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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 21, 2011 7:47 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, but that's nesw to Fya.
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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 21, 2011 5:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I think I saw that there are 35 still around.
So, 10.
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by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 4:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Let's hope for the best
I can’t be held responsible.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
I've got a picture I could post here, but...
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by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
jesus...
Bart: "Dad, what's a Muppet?"
Homer: "Well, it's not quite a mop, not quite a puppet, but man... (laughs, then pauses) So, to answer you question, I don't know."
Yes my child?
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
He's JHC
You’re just all right with me.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 21, 2011 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh yeah?
A dope trailer is no place for a kitty.
by GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Mar 21, 2011 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Impersonating me
will get you a spanking.
I heart Man Mounting.
by Gay Jesus on Mar 21, 2011 8:42 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
35
Some guys like Mesoraco, Sappelt, some pitchers are still going to be cut. Either Lewis or Hermida will be cut. Valaika, etc.
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
Like Fiasco
(fingers crossed.)
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by Kevin Mitchell is Batman on Mar 21, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
WHO WANTS TO SEX EL NINO DESTRUCTOR
"Aroldis Chapman is a seven course meal followed by four hours of sex on the table with a nymphomaniac model heiress who owns her own brewery." - jch24
Only one finger?
Cookie Monster is a prude.
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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 22, 2011 1:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Fay says Cueto will start on the DL.
Last year, we opened with 4 SP and brought up Leake when we needed our fifth starter – do you think we’ll do that again?
I think the cuts come down to 3 relief pitchers, Mesoraco and Miller (barring Hernandez injury), Francisco, Valaika, Sappelt and Lewis or Hermida.
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Thinking we will start with 5. To many young guys who could push to hard in a 4 man
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by I75series on Mar 21, 2011 4:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
whatever decision dusty makes
is the wrong one.
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Is it Dusty's call?
Because I’m sure we’re just as willing to blame things on Walt.
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Maybe, maybe not on the 4 starters
They need a 5th guy April 9th this year, which seems earlier than they needed one last year.
"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
It is, but only in julian terms.
Last year, the Reds neaded Leeke on April 11, which was the sixth game of the season
This year, April 9, is the eighth game of the season.
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huh. what do you know.
Juan Francisco, you’ve just won yourself a spot on an MLB bench for 10 days!!!
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"Penus, stale beer, and day old hot dogs. Love it"--justin007000
I can't wait to read the poem Batista writes about today.
/sincerityfont
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That's the worst news
There’ll be no more Five Guys at Nationals Park anymore! Now I’ll have to go… a couple blocks away by the Navy Yard Metro station to find one.
And now to wistfully remember when I could actually name all of the Five Guys locations in DC. I haven’t seen Five Guys get so big so fast since Raven Riley Presents March Madness.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 21, 2011 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Raven Riley reporting on the Nats/Cards brawl:
Jim Riggleman is GIVING IT to Tony La Russa. And they’re close friends.
She goes on to say...
“The smell is AMAZING! Like Mick Jagger.”
I CHUBB WHEN STUBBS CLUBBS!
by PeteyHendrix on Mar 21, 2011 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions
how is he going to explain this to his son
and it really is a shame somebody didn’t cold cock that sonuvabitch.
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by justin007000 on Mar 21, 2011 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
So, I never heard ....
maybe Nix and the Carp had an issue last year that Hal didn’t learn about.
I bet there is still some residual stuff from The Brawl that Nyx is still carrying around.
We can make good use of this, RR co-conspirators.
"I tend to piss people off a great deal though." -- BTCoop71
Cueto simply ended the wrong career.
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by justin007000 on Mar 21, 2011 9:23 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Same ol', same ol
His Royal Majesty, Sir Albert may have actually been touched! Fitting comment from the big dork: "I don’t know what their problem was."
GREAT LINK!
"It’s very typical of playing these guys," first baseman Adam LaRoche said. "I’ll leave it at that."
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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 22, 2011 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Adam LaRoche quickly becomes a favorite of mine.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
The inning before he was hit
Nix hit a deep triple off of Carpenter. Related? We report, you decide.
How much wood could Chakkuchakkuchakku if you can throw a tree?
it is fucking related
and i am sure Chris Carpenter’s balls weren’t rubbed the night before.
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by justin007000 on Mar 21, 2011 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Whatever will Carpenter tell his son?
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
I think Nix just kicked himself out of the running for EVER being considered a JEAS.
I miss Daynce Mix already.
Whiny Little Bitches.
Wear something sexy to my funeral.
by Pops Daniels on Mar 21, 2011 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions
You know guys.
If Chris Carpenter can’t control his cut fastball and stop it from hitting someone, he really doesn’t have any business in the big leagues.
/larussa’d
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
it really would be for the best if Carpetner hired LaRussa to be his shofer.
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by justin007000 on Mar 21, 2011 10:32 PM EDT up reply actions
So he could blow him whenever he wanted, right?
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions
Game's rained out, so why doesn't everyone post a link to entertain us all?
I’ll start – I find this to be mesmerizing.
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
I've already played like eleventy times today
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
then you've updated your facebook profile eleventy times!
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If only you were factually accurate, that would be funny
But as is the norm, you’re not.
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
You'll start?
Perhaps you failed to witness a certain Nicolas Cage losing his shit.
by Brendanukkah on Mar 21, 2011 4:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Forward it like it's hot!
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by Charlie Scrabbles on Mar 21, 2011 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
McAnderoonyjohnmarcson
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by justin007000 on Mar 21, 2011 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions
My second Katy Perry pic of the day
Imagine taking Katy Perry home, then waking up to this.
"He’s like if Ron Gant and Eric Davis had a white baby." -- GlennBraggsSwingAndMissBrokenBat on Drew Stubbs
gross
This is me every night, dude. Just staring at buttholes, and gettin’ a buzz on.
by -ManBearPig on Mar 21, 2011 10:31 PM EDT up reply actions
the JCH story.
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by justin007000 on Mar 21, 2011 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions
You mean Katy Perry is pregnant?
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by PeteyHendrix on Mar 22, 2011 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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