Your Dec 22 Evening Open Thread and Teixapalooza
by zknower on Dec 22, 2008 5:53 PM EST
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PrintJust to recap the latest from the weekend and pull it all into one place:
• The Bosox, after flying to Texas last Thursday night, later stated that they will "not be a factor" for Teixeira after Broas reportedly told them it would take 8/$195M to get a deal done, although he denies this. Numerous outlets had reported a Boston offer of 8/$184M, but this figure has also been denied by Boston with other estimates placed at 8/$170M
• Boras, perhaps sensing his strategy failing, called the Yankees Friday and asked if they wanted to make an offer. He told them it would take 8/$180M-$185M to get a deal done. The Yankees have not made an offer on Teixeira
• On Sunday, the Angels, who had had a 8/$160M deal on the table for Teixeira, dropped out of the bidding. And it doesn't sound like a bargaining tactic. "We're withdrawing the offer and there will be no further negotiations," Angels vice president of communications Tim Mead said Sunday. "I can't speak for other organizations, but I can tell you — we are out. We are no longer involved in negotations and are moving on." Hilariously, Boras responded with a statement that Texixeira is still interested in being an Angel.
• The Nats and Orioles both have their original deals on the table. According to Buster Olney (who we now know is not the most reliable dude out there), the Nats' offer is for 8/$160M, and the Orioles is for 7/$140M (not $150M as some had reported).
• In other news, Manny has told friends he's getting a three year offer from NY, NY denies it, and Cabrera signed a one-year deal with the Nats for $2.6M.
Happy Hanukah everyone!
PS Per the other thread, we are soliciting haikus regarding the Teixeira shenanigans.
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Dude, Theo, for real?
You don’t need Mark Teixeira.
You have Youkilis.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
A couple things for the open thread
1) it took me 20 minutes to go roughly a quarter mile on Ritchie Highway in Glen Dirty today. I was ready to crack the skulls of the drivers of the giant unnecessary pick up trucks.
2) I love the idea of Manny just randomly telling people the Yankees offered him a deal simply to fuck with them.
3) Mark Teixeira is a cocktease.
[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8
that's not a haiku at all.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
dude don't fuck with me
Did you not hear about all the horrible time in Glen Burnie?
The rules did not stipulate that the comment had to be a haiku.
[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8
I know, sorry.
Had to snark on someone, since I can’t snark on my parents. Who are already driving me nuts.
Someone remind me why I elected to come home for a full week?
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
Want to get a beer?
I’m just sitting here watching Reba. Shut up.
[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8
that's a good show
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 6:43 PM EST up reply actions
I know!
It is people’s natural inclination to mock, but in my experience those people have never actually watched Reba.
[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8
Reba’s endearingly stupid facial expressions are the only thing I can mock. It’s your average silly sitcom with preposterous stories. It beats According to fucking Jim.
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 6:45 PM EST up reply actions
I'm enjoying the shit
outta some Ghostbusters II at the moment.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
I've got the Christmas music on shuffle
And a stiff batch of Knob Creek and Coke. My fiancee will be really happy about my efforts in cleaning the apartment while she’s been gone. I should be on According to Jim. I WAS WATCHING SPORTS!!
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 6:48 PM EST up reply actions
But....
ATJ at least had Courtney Thorne-Smith as the “I’m supposed to believe she’s married to THAT guy?” eye candy.
And can I just say she’s aged much better than Jami Gertz? Would that be wrong?
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
"I bet the 'board' is spelled b-o-r-e-d."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLm-vD89SQ
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 11:55 PM EST up reply actions
yeah, well...
she ain’t no christina applegate!
"When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: Money."
--Jerry Reed, on acting
by j.q. higgins on Dec 23, 2008 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
Okay....
help me here with the connection.
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
Think I'm stuck with family type things tonight
Will start drinking on my own to assuage the irritants.
Tomorrow night I’m down for beer and O’s DVDs though, if that still works for you.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
Yeah that works
It’s better actually since I have to work tomorrow but not Wednesday.
[Guthrie's] president of my heart. ~PhilR8
You wanted to make sure
you’re still in the will?
Holiday cheer, it’s my specialty.
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
heard there was a fierce wreck on 97
probably why the PRoGB was a mess.. and it’s not even snowing yet.
Speaking of delayed travel
I got to find out yesterday that plane de-icers are way fucking cool.
Sorta like ghostbusters for airplanes, actually.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjgwAfi9eIo
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 6:56 PM EST up reply actions
Boras is a dick
Make up your mind already
Tired of this bullshit
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
*bullshitting
There, now it’s seven.
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 6:41 PM EST up reply actions
wait I'm drunk
It was six. I want five. Not seven. OK.
Boras is a dick
Make up your mind already
Tired of this shit
VICTORY!
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 6:42 PM EST up reply actions
Everyone deserves a third chance.
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 6:44 PM EST up reply actions
Not Danny Cabs...
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
he got a lot more than three
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 11:55 PM EST up reply actions
THAT'S what you changed your sign to?
Really?
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
that's really only 4 in the last line
“tired of this bullshit” worked for 5 in the first one.
“tired of this shit” is only 4. unless you’re giving “tired” two syllables. which i suppose it would have in boston…tie-uhd.
it does in midwestern speak too
"I decided to become a basketball fan this year and it’s not working out so well because the Wizards SUUUCK. So then I shifted to hockey. That’s pretty fun except there are a lot of flashing lights and horns and shit at the game."
by Scott Christ on Dec 22, 2008 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
Of the shore
Tie-erd.
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
With Mark hitting fifth,
The O’s might reach five hundred,
Not without pitching.
PLEASE -- JUST PLEASE THROW STRIKES.
by oriolepete on Dec 22, 2008 7:45 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
one hundred ninety five
million is one big heaping
fuckload of money
"Whether your name is Gehrig or Ripken, DiMaggio or Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best day in and day out. That's all I've ever tried to do."
by spike2131 on Dec 22, 2008 9:49 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Rumors on the internets
One of my rules of life is never to pass up the chance to write a haiku.
The internet is
for porn. Mark Tex rumors are
just as good as porn.
Hi. I lurked all season and figured it was finally time to say hello.
Cry havoc, and let slip the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, date unknown
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 22, 2008 9:51 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
That's a great way
to break your CC cherry.
Duck Around - a progressive blog about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. And getting off my lawn.
Welcome
Bonus points for putting punctuation in your second line, one of the more obscure haiku rules.
Lost in translation
Thanks for the welcome! Now that I have finally taken the plunge, I figure I will stop being quite so shy. Well, hopefully.
Japanese 101 destroyed me utterly, but damned if I didn’t pay attention when we spent a “fun” day discussing haiku.
Technically, there needs to be a reference to a season in there… but if you ask me, that’s just unnecessary restraint upon the whimsy that can be contained in seventeen syllables of the English language. And now I’ll stop before I talk too much.
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Dec 23, 2008 2:01 AM EST up reply actions
haiku
the season is fucked
if we don’t sign tex-ie-ra
ger-o-ni-mo gil
also
tony batista
played third base for like four years
so it could be worse
by ItsBenFeldman on Dec 23, 2008 2:00 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
and
cesar izturis
is still much better to watch
than deivi cruz was
and
remember having
to watch brandon fahey play
almost ev-ry game
by ItsBenFeldman on Dec 23, 2008 2:02 AM EST up reply actions
This is the most fun I've had
in ages.
The cold winter air
Should bring Tex to Baltimore
But Boston will win.
good or bad danny:
remember as you bean them
you’re up next inning
by typozzz on Dec 23, 2008 12:55 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Seeking recession
proof gift? This Christmas buy us
a Mark Teixeira.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
why why why why why!
why why why why why why why!
why why why why why!
by mpire on Dec 23, 2008 1:26 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
SWF
34-28-34 seeks
Teixeira. No freaks.
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
by 2632 on Dec 23, 2008 1:30 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
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