Smile like you mean it

Susan:
That smile on Eric Hinske's face is the perfect symbolization of the 2007 thus far.

 

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Mike:
What a night for Hinske.

 

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Susan:
And what a day/night for the guys in the shadows.

 

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Mike:
Seriously, Bat Shit Tavarez may not know who Ernie Banks is but last night he showed he knows a thing or two about pitching.

 

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Susan:
If Tavarez can pitch like that, I don't care if he doesn't know who his mothah is, let alone knowing who Ernie Banks is.

 

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Mike:
Absolutely. I've nevah understood the fan and media preoccupation with playahs needing to know, cue musical flourish, "The History" of the game.

 

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Susan:
Really. Look at Keith Foulke. The dude didn't even much like baseball, yet that doesn't detract from the fact that he played a pivotal role in one of the greatest moments in the entiah history of baseball.

 

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Mike:
You're so right …

 

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Mike:
Now to completely change the subject without the benefit of a smooth segue, can I just say that no mattah how much of douchebag you may think Dan Shaughnessy is the reality is multiply that douchebaggedness by a factor X where X is greater than 1.

 

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Comments

[soxdownunder]

Putting to one side the definition of a troll; the questionable habit of speaking of oneself in the second or third person; the manifest difference between a thunder and a reggie (or a bri); the inconsistent approach taken by the emporer and a number of vereran 'holix; I note that the New York (AL) team got beaten by the New York (NL) team again and that the former are now 11 GAMES BACK.

But who the fuck is Hansack! I know I could 'look it up' but I'm still fighting the with the ants that ate my word doc.

[pinstripe thunder]

Don't fight with ants, SDU; they're beneath you. And don't bother to read up on Hansack in any event... he has the look of a career minor leaguer, and I doubt if you'll ever see him again. Welcome to my world. We have pitchers like him in our rotation every other day, it seems.

My arithmetical skills are surprisingly good, and I can count to 11 even when I use up all of my fingers. It's a big number. But we've come back from worse (once), although the Yankees looked much better that year. You're still within hailing distance, but it's a rainy Saturday night, the cab driver is blind and he's headed in the other direction. Not a propitious combo.

And I no longer speak of myself in the third person; the Thunder forbade it.

Have a good weekend.

PT

[rocky]

"All eight of the Tigers' hits off Schilling were for extra bases. According to research from baseball-reference.com, they became the first team in at least a half-century to have at least eight extra-base hits and score fewer than three runs."

Wow cool factoid, thanks!