Money for Nothing

Doug:
So did you see this bit from Rockies ownah Monfort?

 

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Doug:
Even after getting his ass whooped by the Red Sox he insists his Rockies are the bettah team.

 

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Al:
Yeah, and if they played a 10 game series, the purple-vested dudes would take 6.

 

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Mike:
You know, typically this kind of crap would annoy me, but coming from Monfort, nah.

 

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Mike:
I mean this is a guy who wakes up every morning fully expecting that today is the day Christ will descend from heaven in the second coming to begin the fiery apocalyptic "end times."

 

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Al:
Yeah, no logic, reason, science, statistics, etc. are going to convince someone like that. If the Sox won 10 straight he'd insist the Rockies would win the next 20 and so and so forth ad infinitum.

 

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Doug:
With that said, though, I actually think we could use a little New Testament Jesus going batshit on the money changahs around here.

 

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Doug:
I mean first it was the "Red Sox Nation ID Cards" and now the Globe is trying to fleece people out of $19.95 to "sign the wall."

 

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Mike:
Absolutely. This idea that you need to hand ovah money in order to be a "real"fan is getting absurd.

 

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Comments

[maineiac]

Why is Mike Lowell's 3-4 year contract request outlandish. Afraud/Bora$$ want 10 years. Mikey's only a little over a year older than Afraud. They were on the same Pony ball team together!

Money Changahs also ='s Scalpers!

[Bob]

//that is definitely NSFW, specially if women are nearby.:) //

That's not something I usually have to worry about, Vaso, what with my ugly mug. :))

[Bob]

Halloween silliness from Adam Sandler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcRA224utR8

Vermonter, I'll see you tomorrow. I'll be wearing my Loyola shirt, and a protractor beard.

[Kaz]

Bob, Kev beat you to it about 50 minutes prior.

[Bob]

Holy be-jesus! Weird. And the exact same video.

Oh well. I'll still wear my protractor beard.

[jen in HI]

COD- excellent pumpkin carving skills!

[COD]

I only did the B - and you can't see the other side where my first attempt was :) My 11 year old daughter did the horse. I got the B right on the 2nd try with her design help.

[maggietozier]

It's a sign of the Mayan apocalypse. Red Sox have won 2 world series in my lifetime. The words 1986 no longer make me flinch. h. b. defending a-fraud.

Am I being punked?

I suppose if it must come to pass we can keep Mike, pitch Julio and put A-fraud in at S.S. I won't be cheering, though. There will be no cheering. I won't boo him and I suppose if I have enough gameday cider I might get all generous and call him Alex, but I won't have to like it.

[vermonter]

See you there Bob. Last time we went, my bro ordered a crown royal on the rocks and was greeted with an amount of whiskey that I would have been happy with if it were beer. Ahhh...the Irish.

[soxdownunder]

I am late to the game and, being Australian and quite uneducated in these things, I am usually wrong but I cringe at the thought of A-fraud aka Slappy with a 'B' on his hat. But HB makes some good points. I just hope we don't pay mega bucks and lose Mike Lowell in the process. Mike seems the precise antithesis of Alex (see, I can do it) - he goes about his business, plays hard but fair, hits in October (not just April through August), appears to play for the team. I know Manny can be a problem but he is not club house poison. Maybe there's a reason Alex has won precisely no world championships. Maybe not. Maybe, as Billy Beane says, it is just a crap shoot.

What I do really love is the fact that two days after a world championship (the use of 'world' in this context really gives most Australians the shits) we are in earnest angst about next year!!

[soxdownunder]

PS I wanna have drinks with Bob and Vermonter tomorrow but, alas, I cannot.

[Monty in CA]

Most Valuable Pumpkin
Check out Mike Lowell

http://www.flickr.com/photos/
archimedesscrew/1795325531/

I dont want a pampered prima-donna who is always looking around to see whos watching on the Sox, but of course Im gonna cheer for him when he does well (JD Drew) but im gonna curse him twice as much when they screw up (umm Nancy Drew).
Dont sign him I say. Very late too.

[meredith]

I remember well the day the Sox lost the A-Fraud sweepstakes ... I was very, very happy that deal didn't go down. I'm hoping against hope the Sox are smart enough to realize that they don't need him.

[Bob]

Monty: Wow! on the pumpkin. Amazing stuff.

SDU, why can't you have beers with Vermonter and me? With the time difference and all, it should be do-able.

[Bob]

BTW, I've sure you've all heard by now, but Robert Goulet died.

He was from Lawrenece, MA, was a die-hard Red Sox fan, and sang "The Impossible Dream" for the '67 team at Opening Day this year.

Glad he got to see one more World Series win before he passed.