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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 27, 2007 17:52:24 GMT -5
Feel free to post funny baseball bon mots that are not necessarily simple "baseball notes" here. Here is an ode to Eric Milton! LOL! LOLOL! Its from our friends at "Redusandweep" redusandweep.com/2007/03/27/a-sonnet-for-eric-milton/How do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways. I loathe thee for the depth of the home runs That you give up, and games that were once fun You quickly turn into a giant waste. I loathe thee for the stink of every day That you pitch, by the lights or by the sun. I loathe thee deeply, as a bomb by Dunn. I loathe thee and long for your DFA. I loathe thee with the passion of a fan In a pennant race, waiting for their dream. I loathe thee for your foolish contract’s span That keeps the Reds from spending on the team. I loathe thee and hope that someday I can Not have to watch you constantly get creamed.  |
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 27, 2007 18:06:51 GMT -5
And to think, you were not adverse to the Yankees getting this guy. I don't get why Eric Milton is in the majors. He really stinks.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Mar 28, 2007 11:26:42 GMT -5
Ugueth Urbina is going to jail for 14 years......
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 28, 2007 11:31:07 GMT -5
Corey Lidle flew his plane into a building!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 29, 2007 19:56:42 GMT -5
Oh, my...this one has got to be seen to be believed.. Its the Baseball Heckle Depot. Where else can you find a line like, "Get to the ball, Cinderella!" to yell at a slow fielder? How about, "You've got less hits than an Amish website!" Or when a pitcher throws the old hanging curve, hit him with, "where's the pot of gold at the end of THAT rainbow?" My favorite feature is the "True Heckle Stories." You can actually read about how after a cop "made a disgusted look" during the regular "Box Seats Suck" and "Bleachers Suck" chants going back and forth, all the fans turned on HIM and started chanting, "Dunkin Donuts!" How about the fans yelling to short little John Cangelosi, "Come on, Cangelosi, do it for the circus people!" I'm proud to share the word "Heckle" with them. www.heckledepot.com/ |
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Post by 9 on Mar 29, 2007 22:28:22 GMT -5
LOL @ "How can you eat with those hands?"
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Post by MSBNYY on Mar 30, 2007 13:44:56 GMT -5
Halle Berry tried to commit suicide over her failed first marriage. Berry, 40, admits in Parade magazine - coming in Sunday's Post - that she was so miserable in the wake of her break-up with baseball player David Justice, she attempted to gas herself. But she pulled out at the last minute. "I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I had an image of my mother [Judith] finding me," Berry told Parade. "She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do . . . It was all about a relationship. My sense of worth was so low. I had to reprogram myself to see the good in me . . . Because someone didn't love me didn't mean I was unlovable. I promised myself I would never be a coward again."
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 30, 2007 13:46:53 GMT -5
How bout that. David Justice failed to get the job done once again.
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Post by kingdzbws on Mar 30, 2007 14:36:34 GMT -5
Hip-Hip ---- JORGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ( Bleacher chant in yankee stadium when Posada comes to bat)  |
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 30, 2007 14:41:18 GMT -5
I liked when we used to go "HIP HIP You're Gay!" at Bo Jackson in testament to his hip troubles, and the fact that we liked to deem him gay.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Mar 31, 2007 17:56:14 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Giambi on Apr 2, 2007 9:17:57 GMT -5
You run like you're moving furniture
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Post by drock2006 on Apr 2, 2007 20:02:59 GMT -5
Bo was a great target...I remember the "Bo Knows shit" chants back before Saddam and the word police hit the bleachers in 93 or so.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Apr 3, 2007 11:59:43 GMT -5
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Post by Chris on Apr 3, 2007 12:25:27 GMT -5
Funny to ME anyway:  |
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Post by 9 on Apr 3, 2007 21:29:02 GMT -5
Agreed. Screw that loudmouth Schilling.
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Post by Chris on Apr 4, 2007 13:13:06 GMT -5
Heard on the radio from yesterday (paraphrased):
The are two ends of the spectrum of 40 year old pitchers. Roger Clemens on one end and David Wells on the other. Schilling is much closer to the David Wells end. You can't come in to Spring Training looking like you swallowed a picnic ham and expect to dominate on opening day one month later.
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Post by grover on Apr 9, 2007 22:13:28 GMT -5
 Matt Cain kinda looks like an unshaven 41. |
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Post by elliejay21 on Apr 24, 2007 13:16:52 GMT -5
from Rotowire...
Apr 23 [Torii] Hunter could face a possible suspension or fine after giving a gift of champagne to the Royals last weekend as a reward for their 2006 season-ending sweep of Detroit, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. "I'm to blame as much as anybody because I didn't know the rule," Minnesota GM Terry Ryan said. "We'll end up righting the wrong. We've already contacted the Royals. They're going to return the goods, and hopefully that'll be the end of it."
Recommendation: Hunter gave the Kansas City clubhouse four bottles of champaigne after joking late last season he'd reward the Royals if they swept the Tigers and helped Minnesota win the division. Apparently team officials didn't realize the gift would violate a rule that doesn't allow gifts for "defeating or attempting to defeat a competing Club." The rule violation carries a penalty of a three-year ban from baseball. While the penalty is serious, the Twins were quick to take back the gift and punishment from MLB is likely to be minor. Still, this is a situation to keep an eye on in case he's suspended for a game or two.
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Post by MSBNYY on Apr 24, 2007 13:34:19 GMT -5
This would be funnier if they threw the book at him and suspended him for the full three years.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Apr 27, 2007 10:50:33 GMT -5
LOL! LMAO! LOL!
Funny account of a Drew Henson/ Brett Myers donnybrook. The LOL comes from Myers snarky comments.
Myers, Henson involved in brawl
June 25, 2002
A Monday night game between Triple-A Columbus and Scranton-Wilkes/Barre–which the Red Barons won in a rout, 19-1–resulted in a fight involving two of the game's top prospects, Brett Myers and Drew Henson.
It got started when Clippers pitcher Bob Scanlan hit Scranton's Dave Doster with a fifth-inning pitch, forcing in Scranton's 17th run. Myers retaliated the next inning by brushing back Robert Perez with a high inside fastball.
"I didn't mean to throw at Perez's head," Myers told the Scranton News-Tribune. "I don't want to hurt anybody, to end their career."
Scanlan then hit Marlon Byrd in the shoulder in the bottom of the frame. Umpires and coaches held Byrd back as other players headed onto the field, including Myers.
Myers yelled and pointed toward Scanlon, who was ejected and standing next to Henson on the mound.
"When he hit Marlon, he (ticked) me off," Myers said. "Marlon's one of my good buddies, and everyone on this team has been good to me. When one of my buddies get hit, we're going to play beanball war."
Myers made good on his promise when Henson came to the plate with two out the next inning.
"Henson was standing there looking at me and saying stuff," Myers told the Delaware News Journal. "So I told him, 'You're next, buddy, you're next.' So right when I threw at him I knew he was coming out."
Henson, a 6-foot-5, 222-pound former college football quarterback, charged as soon as the fastball from the 6-4, 215-pound Myers, a former amateur boxer, whizzed behind his belt.
"He doesn't intimidate me one bit," Myers said, "because when I hit him and he hit me, we both stopped in our tracks and he had the full momentum. He didn't scare me. You can bring all you want out here, but you're going to hit a linebacker, I'll tell you that.
"If I would have hit him with one of my hands, we'd be in the hospital, both of us, because I'd be in there getting a cast on my hand and he'd be in there for his broken face."
But Myers never got off any punches. Catcher Johnny Estrada charged right behind Henson and crashed face-first into Myers as he dove on the pile, giving Myers a bloody nose and leaving Estrada with a fat lip. Then the rest of the players piled on and Myers covered up, trying to protect his pitching arm.
"There's no reason for me to hit somebody in a game we're losing 16-0," Scanlansaid. "That was our fault; we were walking guys. There was no message that needed to be sent. I throw a lot of two-seam fastballs, and one got away.
"The second bad assumption on their part was that you can throw at one of our players' heads and there's not going to be an answer. Obviously, the young man (Myers) needs to learn how to throw inside on people. You don't throw it at people's heads."
Said Henson: "It's part of baseball. One of our guys almost got hit in the head, and it escalated from there. You guys saw what happened. There's not really a whole lot more to say."
"It's part of baseball," said Mike Arbuckle, the Phillies assistant general manager and director of player development. Finishing a five-day stay in Scranton, Arbuckle was watching Myers pitch for the first time this season and saw him get the win with 6 2/3 innings of shutout baseball in the victory.
"You're always concerned about injuries, but it is part of the game," Arbuckle said. "Guys are going to protect their teammates, and (Myers) did."
All players involved in the brawl will be fined $150. The ejected players--Myers, Scanlan, Henson and two others--will be fined $450 and receive three-game suspensions.
Myers might get five games. Was it worth it to him?
"No, because I wish I would have hurt (Henson)," Myers said. "I wish I would have hurt him. I walk away from it looking like I got beat up. But everything is fine."
Compiled from reports in the Delware News Journal and Scranton News-Tribune.
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Post by 9 on Apr 27, 2007 11:10:11 GMT -5
I'd like to fire a baseball at Drew Henson. He managed to suck for two of my favorite teams in different sports.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 2, 2007 11:47:36 GMT -5
Sounds like Henson got the better of Myers in that scuffle. Would love to see the footage.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 2, 2007 12:16:40 GMT -5
I saw the footage. He didnt really, he simply took him down. Myers made sense, he didnt want to punch him and go on the shelf. Myers was an amateur boxer, he would have cleaned Henson's clock.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 2, 2007 12:18:24 GMT -5
I wish the footage was on YouTube. I gave a quick look. I didn't find it, but I did see a funny Japanese baseball fight where a guy got hit, started to charge the mound, and just as he got maybe past home plate, casually jogged to first, making his whole team laugh.
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Post by $heriff Tom on May 3, 2007 11:40:49 GMT -5
Balls, thats not what happened there. The guy was never charging the mound. He simply was known to run everything out like that, including walks. The pitcher had no idea, and THOUGHT he was charging the mound and beat a hasty retreat. The guy was never heading out there.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 3, 2007 11:58:35 GMT -5
He DID take 2 steps toward the mound and it DID look like a fake. Even if that was his M.O., the pitcher did retreat like you said and it was very funny.
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Post by IronHorse4 on May 3, 2007 12:35:54 GMT -5
I have to believe Tom didn't see that and is merely giving Balls shit. Because I have to believe that Tom would have recognized 'that guy" as Tony Batista.
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Post by MSBNYY on May 3, 2007 14:24:45 GMT -5
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Post by IronHorse4 on May 3, 2007 15:13:12 GMT -5
See, this is the kind of shit I'm talking about. How do you call him "a guy who got hit" when it is crystal clear that it's a guy that we faced for several years in the American League East, and one with as distinctive a stance as his.
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