Looking for brighter sides
Bill:
Well, well, well, so it looks like there's more to Mark Melancon than we initially thought...
Bill:
"One of the key’s to Melancon’s success has been a cutter he developed to accommodate his 92 mph fastball, sharp curveball and work-in-progress changeup."
Mike:
Yeah, small sample size and not a statistical slam dunk by any means, but still it does give one hope.
Mike:
The other bonus, of course, is that the guy is stahting off by saying the right things: "I want the ball in a close game in a pressure situation. I’ve always thrived on that and being in that position... I’m ready if that’s what the Red Sox want me to do. I hope it is."
Bill:
So here's the deal...
Bill:
If you go to the pahk this summah, a day game, your nose and cheeks sunburned, and Melancon comes in for the 9th and promptly gets the side 1-2-3 to a great roar from the Fenway crowd, can you then say you've got a case of "Melanconoma"?
A few predictions for 2012:
SDU will vacation in Melanesia.
Kaz will increase his use of the melanoscope.
LC will slip ever deeper into
melancholia.
H.B. will continue to create a melange of creepy characters.
I will go on Ancestry.com and discover I'm a member of the Melanconiaceae family.
Posted by: Bob | 2011.12.16 at 10:14 AM
That was almost mellifluous Bob.
Posted by: COD | 2011.12.16 at 10:21 AM
not to mention munificent
Posted by: buckner was framed | 2011.12.16 at 10:32 AM
A wee bit melodramatic too
Posted by: soxinsix | 2011.12.16 at 10:54 AM
If a woman has breast implant surgery, is that a Melancon?
Posted by: Bob | 2011.12.16 at 11:09 AM
Malencón. Maricón. Too close for my personal comfort.
Posted by: pablo in nh | 2011.12.16 at 11:10 AM
You all know it's said "muh-lansen" right? Just checking.
Posted by: Kaz | 2011.12.16 at 11:34 AM
I'm sticking with Melon con.
Posted by: Bob | 2011.12.16 at 11:47 AM
Kaz, since when do we let facts get in the way here?
Posted by: COD | 2011.12.16 at 12:47 PM
Sure. And "chone" is pronounced "shawn".
Posted by: pablo in nh | 2011.12.16 at 01:04 PM
Rough day. Just lost my Bears tickets and smack connection all in one fell swoop.
Posted by: yazbread | 2011.12.16 at 01:23 PM
Way to go Mike,I hope you didn't hit him with his shoe ;O
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2011.12.16 at 01:23 PM
//You all know it's said "muh-lansen"//
Nope. Sure didn't. That's what I get for only reading media and never listening to radio/tv in the offseason.
(That's also what I get for posting while trying to produce sufficient cm3 of poop for the lab.)
Question for readers: since this more or less ruins the strip, do I delete it? Or leave it as a poop stain on our oeuvre?
Posted by: h.b. | 2011.12.16 at 01:31 PM
Leave the scorch mark,h.b.
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2011.12.16 at 01:57 PM
Its still funny, as is the melange of responses. I say leave it.
Posted by: soxinsix | 2011.12.16 at 02:17 PM
Barry Bonds (pronounced Bo-EN-dez) got two years probation and 30 days home confinement.
Posted by: Bob | 2011.12.16 at 02:51 PM
Oh, and leave the strip as-is. Melancon will inform the press it's pronounced Melon Con right after he blows his first save.
Posted by: Bob | 2011.12.16 at 02:54 PM
leave it - this poop stain is a great way to kick off my weekend. Off to the firm's holiday fest. Have a good weekend all!
Posted by: sonomasox | 2011.12.16 at 02:58 PM
Yeah, have a great weekend all.
Hopefully we'll have something fun to yak about on Monday.
Posted by: Bob | 2011.12.16 at 04:28 PM
Keep it, Bill and Mike clearly read text over listening to WEEI as well.
Also, HB: Does your doctor have some kind of creepy poop fetish? When I had to have, ah, "lab tests", all I had to do was smear a little printed box on a cardboard envelope.
Posted by: Rolo | 2011.12.17 at 06:17 AM
Rolo,
Well, all I know is I had to fill 3 vials, each containing some mysterious, "poisonous avoid contact!" brightly colored liquid, and then also a 4th plain container.
The are doing a precautionary check for an intestinal parasite due to off the beaten track travels and my penchant for following Zimmerman's "Bizarre Foods" fetish.
I will not be deterred.
Posted by: h.b. | 2011.12.17 at 10:39 AM
"Burnt toast and a rotten egg?" "Yeah,I gotta tapewoim and it's good enough for him" Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk ;O
Posted by: Harwich Rich | 2011.12.17 at 01:51 PM