Looking for brighter sides

Bill:
Well, well, well, so it looks like there's more to Mark Melancon than we initially thought...

 

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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."

 

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Mike:
Yeah, small sample size and not a statistical slam dunk by any means, but still it does give one hope.

 

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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."

 

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Bill:
So here's the deal...

 

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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"?

 

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Comments

[Bob]

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.

[COD]

That was almost mellifluous Bob.

[buckner was framed]

not to mention munificent

[soxinsix]

A wee bit melodramatic too

[Bob]

If a woman has breast implant surgery, is that a Melancon?

[pablo in nh]

Malencón. Maricón. Too close for my personal comfort.

[Kaz]

You all know it's said "muh-lansen" right? Just checking.

[Bob]

I'm sticking with Melon con.

[COD]

Kaz, since when do we let facts get in the way here?

[pablo in nh]

Sure. And "chone" is pronounced "shawn".

[yazbread]

Rough day. Just lost my Bears tickets and smack connection all in one fell swoop.

[Harwich Rich]

Way to go Mike,I hope you didn't hit him with his shoe ;O

[h.b.]

//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?

[Harwich Rich]

Leave the scorch mark,h.b.

[soxinsix]

Its still funny, as is the melange of responses. I say leave it.

[Bob]

Barry Bonds (pronounced Bo-EN-dez) got two years probation and 30 days home confinement.

[Bob]

Oh, and leave the strip as-is. Melancon will inform the press it's pronounced Melon Con right after he blows his first save.

[sonomasox]

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!

[Bob]

Yeah, have a great weekend all.

Hopefully we'll have something fun to yak about on Monday.

[Rolo]

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.

[h.b.]

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.

[Harwich Rich]

"Burnt toast and a rotten egg?" "Yeah,I gotta tapewoim and it's good enough for him" Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk ;O