Auto-friggin-matic

The Sox beat the Rays and over in the National League Randy Johnson throws a perfect game …

Mike:
Man, Randy Johnson throws a perfect game!

 

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Bill:
Unbelievable. Only the 17th ever! And he and Clemens are giving us 40-somethings a dose of the feel good.

 

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Mike:
Yeah, between what Pinto is calling "the year of the old pitcher" and the breakthrough in erectile disfunction meds, you old-timers are in the mofo house! [Laughs]

 

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Bill:
More good news: Randy Johnson's price tag to the motherfucking Yankees just went through the roof!

 

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Mike:
And Wake starts the Tampa Bay series off with a win.

 

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Bill:
Anything less than a sweep of the D-Rays and I'll be needing an extra session of therapy.

 

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Mike:
So how is that anger management issue working out?

 

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Bill:
You kidding me … I'm like the motherfucking dala lama these days.

 

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Mike:
Yeah, if the dala lama happens to struggle with an incessant compulsion to take a bat to water coolers at the slightest provocation. [Laughs]

 

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Bill:
[imitating Pesci in Goodfellas] What, I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What, like a motherfucking clown?

 

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Mike:
[Laughs] No worry. You'll be calm as a Stepford Wife with Schill on the hill tonight.

 

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Bill:
The AL's most dominant pitcher against the AL's worst hitting club? Auto-friggin-matic.

 

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Comments

[AJM]

I'm kinda surprised you didn't make reference to the poster on SoSH who says this season his wife will give him a hummer every time Bellhorn hits a dinger. The 'Horn goes deep, she goes deep! They were having a ball with that last night after the 3-run job.

[h.b.]

Frig, I missed that! But doesn't mean I can't use it later. Thanks for the tip! (What thread was that in?)

Reminds me too that I have a long way to go in character development as so far I have not introduced any reference to spouses/sig others.

When I envisioned this whole thing, I figured introducing new characters etc would be easy and coming up with the daily dialog would be the difficult part. In practice, thus far, it's just the opposite.

[AJM]

It's in the 'Spouses & Baseball' thread in P&G:
http://p086.ezboard.com/fsonsofsamhornpinsettingandgutterballs.showMessage?topicID=9407.topic
It also obviously got a lot of play in yesterday's game thread.

Maybe this is the plot device that can introduce a couple of the Soxaholix' spouses...

Not to try to write the strip for you or anything, but the back-and-forth verbal battle tonight between the Florida Chapter of Sox Nation and Loud Solitary D-Ray Fan might also be worth a mention...

[h.b.]

Thanks for the link and for the lead on the verbal battle. It's helpful to have more eyes out there looking for the little gems expressed by Sox fans.