Thursday Bird Droppings
by Stacey on Jan 12, 2012 8:13 AM EST
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PrintShort list today, friends. Baltimore is too busy talking Ravens football, so until the O's make a move or the playoffs are over, it'll probably stay light.
2012 Team Prospect Lists: Baltimore Orioles | Seedlings to Stars
This site picks the best O's prospect at each position.
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Yeah, I'm gonna disagree with Amber on this one.
Melvin Mora says he isn't retired from major league baseball | baltimoresun.com
Melmo IS retired, even if he refuses to admit it.
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Holy Hell
If you look at the O’s 2011 stats, only Nick Markakis (31) and Vladimir Guerreo (30) hit more doubles than Damon (29) in 2011 and his seven triples are four more than any Oriole.
Vad hit 30 doubles?! Where the hell was I for those?
man...
imagine how many he would have had if had average speed? it STILL amazes me how often he got thrown out at second.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 12, 2012 8:37 AM EST up reply actions
23 of those, good for fifth in the league...
I also seem to remember a good number of IF singles too. What a strange year he had.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
damon...
i can see it if it’s a super cheap, on eyear deal. the idea of endy chavez leading off makes want to vomit.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
"This is our concern, Dude."
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 9:00 AM EST up reply actions
No price. No Damon.
Signing Damon all-but-guarantees we’re not giving enough at bats to a player we need to know more about, whether that’s Reimold, Davis, Reynolds, or whoever.
Bat Markakis leadoff, for all I care. Is he really going to be that much of a “base-clogger” than Damon?
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 9:04 AM EST up reply actions
Agree
Since O’s aren’t contending in 2012 they should focus on giving players opportunities to win a spot on the team instead of just signing some “big” name that may/may not have a decent season for 1 year.
Give the kids a chance to prove they can play at the big league level or gtfo.
Is damon really a big name?
maybe 5 years ago…
Markakis absolutely should be the leadoff hitter
it’s a head-slapper that that hasn’t happened yet.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
No head-slapping.
That doesn’t end well for us.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 12, 2012 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
Just no bat head-slapping.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 11:32 AM EST up reply actions
O's man.
When have you ever seen them do something and just nod saying “oh yea….I like that move!”
Yea….probably never.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
I merely sighed.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Oh wow…maybe when they signed Tejada the first time?
I think by the Bedard trade I was too pessimistic to be impressed by anything they did.
Frank Robinson
I was only one at the time but I’m pretty sure I was nodding my head and gurgling “Oh yeah” in morse code.
"I think not sucking is way more of an important thing to pay attention to first." -- Gabe Newell
by Mike Uhrich on Jan 12, 2012 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
Sad but true,
but then again I got to see a lot of good O’s baseball that the younger fans are still waiting for.
"I think not sucking is way more of an important thing to pay attention to first." -- Gabe Newell
by Mike Uhrich on Jan 12, 2012 11:20 AM EST up reply actions
I thought the George Sherrill and Bedard trades were both solid
Bedard was easily my favorite Oriole at the time and I still thought the trade was good.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 12, 2012 11:08 AM EST up reply actions
Eh.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
Oh no.
Melmo is turning into Brett Favre!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
ditto.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 12, 2012 9:07 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
What the...?
I had a nice body on that comment and when I hit post it vanished.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 8:56 AM EST up reply actions
be honest, you'll settle for any kind of body, not just a nice one
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
In any case, Guts had a real classy tweet honoring Luke
I can’t get on Twitter at work, but Luke was very likable in that lockerroom and will be missed. To echo Guts’ sentiment, I wish him well 144 games a year!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 9:01 AM EST up reply actions
Guts' Tweet
Happy Trails Luke Scott. One of my fav teammates & ppl I’ve met in this great game of baseball. Best of luck in 144 of your games this yr!
Class act.
I would miss having Guts on the team (for personality, not performance) WAY more than I would miss Adam Jones.
Is he the unanimous favorite here for most likable O? I mean, he has to be right.
Rec this if Guts’ is your favorite Orioles (KIDDDDDDING)
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 9:07 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd
OR represent.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
For sure
+ Guts throws 96 with a dirty slider, if only his command was better and he learned how to win ballgames (b/c wins show the true value of a pitcher).
If he lowered every pitch by about two inches...
… Guthrie would be Jered Weaver.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 9:15 AM EST up reply actions
Nah....I don't think Mormons are allowed to smoke weed.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
but maybe the magic underwear would even it out?
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
For a second I thought he was making a joke about how many games luke would play in
but 144 is WAY too high.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
In regard to the Prospects list...
“Seedlings to Stars” just makes me laugh. I am uneducated on the O’s minor league system so I found the article very interesting. Machado, Mahoney, Schoop and some of the pitchers seem like they have a legit chance to contribute to the club at the ML level.
Now the bad…How does a professional baseball organization’s 3rd best OFing prospect (Xavier Avery) get described as
Thus, he’s sort of the anti-Bernadina–he’s got speed, defense, and BABIP all working for him, but a poor approach and no power.I could see if he was lower in the O’s farm system, but I find is pathetic that he is 3rd best in the system.
OF may be the weakest overall area of the O's farm system
Which is why it would have been particularly sweet if we could have snagged Fernando Martinez off of waivers.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 9:27 AM EST up reply actions
Just for some comparison to the Yanks 3rd best OFer
Greg Golson
The Phils’ first round pick back in 2004, Golson is the kind of sexy power/speed threat that teams cherish. A natural centerfielder with corner pop, he looked like he could have been a franchise player for the fightin’ Phils.
He was described as “sexy” and a “franchise player.” The O’s barely have that on their MLB roster let alone as the 3rd best OFer in the minors.
Golson is with the KCR now. He was released by the MFY back in Dec.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 9:40 AM EST up reply actions
sounds like his sexy and his power are really coming to fruition
I was sad to see the write-up on Xavier. I was under the impression he had some issues but was an up and comer.
and also, he grades the system as a B-
since BA ranked the O’s 27th out of 30, that’s some serious grade inflation!
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
When did BA put out organizational rankings? I find 27th surprising. Goes against what Lingo and Manuel have written.
by crawdaddy on Jan 12, 2012 3:48 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
sorry, it was this NESN article
here, linked a couple of days ago. For some reason I thought it was BA.
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
The Wizards winning streak ended last night.
Shame.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
didthewizardswin.com
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
It was embarrassing. Flip has gotta go.
Our starting lineup did great the first 7-8 minutes of the 1st quarter, and absolutely decimated it in the beginning of the 3rd quarter. Unfortunately, it was the only time we saw them together. It was a real headscratcher see Rashard “Shart” Lewis get so much PT in crunchtime when the rookie Singleton is so much better for the team. I watched the game with my mom and constantly had to change up my sentences to edit the cursewords coming down the conveyer belt.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 9:46 AM EST up reply actions
But in other more positive moves... TERPS won and seem to be improving well as the season progresses.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 9:46 AM EST up reply actions
Still can't hold a lead
We made some clutch FT’s though, which is something that has been lacking
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
And they got another
4* running back commitment today.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 12, 2012 11:11 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Unrelated to basketball obviously.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 12, 2012 11:16 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
the power of Locksley
although his new contract has some incredibly ridiculous incentives included in it
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
I would argue that for a program...
that has lacked big-name talent in recent years (ok, forever), giving your chief recruiter an incentive to land 4/5 star talent is the only way.
They’re also now favored for Darby, Tabor is tweeting all the time about “staying home” and I wouldn’t be shocked to see Diggs land at UMD. Good times.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
yeah but giving him incentives just to have a top 40 recruiting class?
that’s a pretty low bar to set right there. plus he’s already getting paid $500K per season, so you’re going to give him a $25K bonus for essentially performing his job adequately? that’s some shitty contract negotiations on the part of the AD
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
After last season?
And after the exodus of talent via transfer this offseason? I know Lox didn’t exactly end on a high note at UNV, but his rep precedes him here in the DMV and is probably the best hire made by the AD since Turgeon.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
It is a god damn joke that we don't get any of the talent in this area to go to school here.
Money is no object to get these kids to start going to Maryland.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
The draw of going out of state is something to contend with...
As is the fact that it isn’t exactly like Maryland has been a big name in football since Bobby Ross (ignoring whatever the hell we had with Fridge).
You’ve also got to factor in that the stadium is ass (even if the facilities otherwise are on their way up).
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not expecting Diggs,
but I have heard that Goldman may now be favoring UMD. Any one of Diggs, Goldman, or Darby would be huge. They are program changers for a school like Maryland. More than one and I’m ordering season tickets.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 12, 2012 5:14 PM EST up reply actions
Masuka Laugh - hehehehe... shart...
I love that nick for him, I can’t wait until they amnesty his deal.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
Russell Wilson going to the NFL
Does he actually think he’s gonna be an NFL QB?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
I wouldn't count the kid out...
They said the same thing about him coming out of high school and look what he did to the ACC and Big Ten.
I played against him in high school for four years in both baseball and football and he’s definitely the class act guy he’s portrayed as on ESPN, etc… Also one of the smarter players we had to gameplan for in football. He was faster and stronger than everyone on the field, but he was still a throw first guy, even at 16. It’s hard to teach that.
That said, he’s gonna need everything he’s got to make it. Probably a 6-7th round pick, but I think he’ll make a team. I’m definitely rooting for him.
Also, as a local interest how do you Ravens fans feel about Tyrod Taylor as your backup?
fine with it as long as he isn't stepping foot on the field
well, other than the random wildcat plays and reverses that we like to throw him in there for
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
So just how screwed are the Ravens if Flacco goes down?
Is he capable of coming in like Yates did for Schaub in the system y’all run?
I’d guess not based on the little I now about the Raven’s scheme, but what do I know.
Nope.
Don’t think so anyways. I wouldn’t trust Tyrod for anything more than running the ball.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
pretty screwed
from what i saw from him in the preseason, he still has a ways to go in developing as a pocket passer
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Fortunately, the Ravens could rely 90% on their run game/defense.
I wish Flacco had much less of a role anyway. The games we’ve lost Rice has been MIA on carries.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 10:59 AM EST up reply actions
Fair point.
4 of Rice’s 5 lowest rushing totals (per game) this season were losses.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 11:03 AM EST up reply actions
And look at the carries for those game
Some games he got just 6 or 8 carries. Harbaugh would say “well, we got behind and couldn’t run”, but you shouldn’t be so far behind in the first half you can’t get Rice touches. I think he should have 25-30 touches every game.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
down by 3 points in the 1st quarter
is not a time to give up on the run because you are “behind” Argg. I love the ravens but holy hell some of those games annoyed me.
I feel like after the Stl game and Torrey Smith's 47 touchdowns
That we assumed we could just air it out against crappy teams and get a huge lead, which is just retarded. Games against bad teams should be the ones where the run game is relied on the most.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 11:06 AM EST up reply actions
at first i was going to argue with you on this
but then just for shits and gigs, i went back and looked at Dilfer’s stats during the 2000 playoffs and holy christ i forgot how little we threw the ball
Wild Card: 9-14, 130 yds, 1TD
Divisional: 5-16, 117 yds (we had 135 total yards in this game! thank god for a blocked field goal and INT returned for TDs)
Championship: 9-18, 190 yrds, 1 TD 1 INT
Super Bowl: 12-25, 153 yds, 1TD (really aired it out there)
i’ll take what we have now rather than having to watch that offensive juggernaut again
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Don't you know...
Joe Flacco is a terrible QB and the Ravens will never win with him at QB.
/s
I’m a Redskins fan, so I’m obviously a bit jealous of having even a “solid, if unspectacular” QB.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
Definitely agree.
Joe Flacco would be perfect for the skins right now. The Ravens should be very happy with what they have, which is the opportunity to not worry about the QB spot.
mmmmmmm…..Someone to man the post, not lose games, hand the ball off effectively and let Shanahan build the rest of the team, and get a quarterback he really likes when he finds him…..
Sorry, I dozed off and dreamed a lil bit there….
sad really that thats how low the bar is for a Skins fan right now.
Eh.
look what he did to the ACC and Big Ten
You’re helping prove my point. Also, not a Ravens fan so it doesn’t mean anything to me that Tyrod is on the team. Actually, I didn’t even realize he was on the team!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
I was surprised when Rutgers' old QB Mike Teel actually got picked in a late round a few years back
He never played an NFL game, but he got some snaps in preseason and practice squads, and now he’s the QB coach for a D2 or D3 school. Sometimes going to the NFL gets you jobs outside the NFL as well. If you can get on a practice squad for a year you can do something with it.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Yea....that's a different story.
He passed up on baseball for the NFL though.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
I forgot he got drafted
Looking at his stats in A ball though, it didn’t seem to be going very well. Maybe he latches on at another position? He’s pretty damn athletic. Who knows?
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Drew Henson tried to play football too.
Then again, he was a Yankees prospect, so I’d have probably left too.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
Becoming an ex-Yankee
worked out pretty well for Elway.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 12, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
So I recently signed up for the Joe Sheehan Newsletter
and I want to recommend it to anyone able to afford the 30 bucks for the year subscription. Good baseball writing is sometimes hard and always good to find.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Kinda scary that our best "prospects" are hitting like .240 in the minors.
Lookin’ great!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
Come on, batting average?
You also have to put minor league stats in context. Machado was a 19 year-old playing in high-A for the first time. Give him a full season in high-A ball.
I saw this today, can't remember where
An argument against batting average as a reliable hitting statistic in 12 words:
You have 3 coins, I have 5 coins. Who has more money?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 12, 2012 5:01 PM EST up reply actions
hee hee hee
saw this yesterday:
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
by zknower on Jan 12, 2012 11:32 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Nice find, WW...
Oh, Z! Sorry, I just assumed.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Jan 12, 2012 11:49 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Seriously, even I saw this a dozen times right when Jobs died.
I almost thought he was making fun of me just posting it.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
First time I've seenit
I’ll be WW for a day.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I've never seen it before either
But I also don’t recognize the last guy off the top of my head. I mean, I know I’ve seen him before, but I can’t place the face.
Bob Hope? Really?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Was Bob Hope the last guy there?
Am I missing something?
But yea dude… Kevin Bacon. C’mon now.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
First guy.
Pic is from like the 50s.
MOre people know him as a white haired guy from the 70’s
I was watching some Jack Benny DVDs with my granddad the other day
I recognized young Bob Hope, but I did not recognize young George Burns.
No, I get that
but Holy said he doesn’t recognize the last guy, not the first guy.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
hey, no need to be a dick
we can’t all be on top of every meme as it comes out.
I’m old, okay? OOOOOLD!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
You are not old
unless you answer yes to any of the following questions:
Are you currently listening to a band that sold out a stadium in 1985?
Do you have pleated pants in your closet?
Can your kid throw a softball faster than you?
Do people refer to you as their homeboy?
Did your internet provider come via a CD?
Have you ever shaken your fist at a kid for walking on your lawn?
…And felt like you accomplished something?
are you suggesting that
Def Leppard isn’t awesome? The Scorpions? Van freakin’ Halen???
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
have you listened to that new Van Halen song?
that’s some straight up garbage
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
it kind of sounds like a B-side single from 1984
(the album). It’s not particularly innovative, but I wouldn’t turn it off if it were playing in the background.
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 1:26 PM EST up reply actions
I guess the 80s really are over
I’m with you that Guns ’n Roses “Chinese Democracy” sucked though
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 1:30 PM EST up reply actions
That was a given...
As long as it took to come out, you just knew it couldn’t be anything close to good.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
everyone loves Diamond Dave
and so do I… but seriously: 5150 was a great album
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
Hang on, what's wrong with pleated pants?
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
Well, I guess I'm fucked.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
Fuck.
1) “Carry on Wayward Son” – Kansas
2) Yes
3) No kids
4) Good god no. Although, just today I was called “dollface” and “sugarsnatch”… by a woman.
5) No.
6) Shaken my fist? No. But I did open my window and yell at them to clean up their dog’s crap.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
Um...
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Apparently
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. That’s what my kid’s .22 is for.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
pleated pants, duck?
really?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
duck, EME, and I roll pleated.
Although, my wife has me down to about 25% pleated rate.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
I mean, I don't walk around every day in pleated pants.
Dress slacks with a suit or even just a nice shirt and dress shoes look better to me with the pleat, though. I make no apologies here.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:39 PM EST up reply actions
This.
I wear a suit to work every day. They’re all pleated.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
not the same thing
they’re actually vented (usually).
we’re talking about pleated khakis here. at least I am.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Oh...maybe I am.
I’ve never heard of vented though.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think I have any pleated khakis.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
I don't even own a pair of kahkis.
I just have suit pants.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 2:06 PM EST up reply actions
I'm wearing a suit.
Surprised?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
sorry dude
Wearing a suit to a job where you sit on your ass all day… just seems strange to me. I’ve been lucky, I guess.
I agree completely.
A number of us have openly complained about this. Especially since the cost of dry-cleaning is ridiculous and not nearly factored into our “cost of living.”
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:29 PM EST up reply actions
Well, not counting my jeans and stuff.
But in terms of business-appropriate pants, yeah.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
What?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
thrift store. NOW.
invest in flat-front.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Why?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
here
Pleats
Pleats are the appendix of the clothing world. Made useless through evolution and now the source of nothing but trouble. Even though men aren’t built like Christina Hendricks, our waists are in fact smaller than our hips. And back in the rat-pack days when men wore their pants halfway to their nipples, pleats were necessary to taper the top of the pant so it didn’t bunch when belted.
Now that we wear our pants on our hips pleats have become unnecessary. But since most guys have identified pleats with dress-pants since they were knee high to a clearance rack, that’s what most reach for. What happens when you wear pleated pants on your hips? They accordion out in a faux spare tire because that extra cloth has to go somewhere. Flat fronts are just as formal as pleats. So jettison your old pleated Haggars and stick with flat fronts.
+1 for Team Dave
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 4:23 PM EST up reply actions
Would you like to be on Team Dave?
You can’t lose if you’re on Team Dave! Neither can I for that matter.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I am assuming
you don’t wear your pants up to your nipples, cause if you do, then Z and I owe you a BIG apology.
I wish that would come back in style
I’m much more comfortable wearing suit pants/khakies halfway up to my nipples. Oh well.
I buy whatever's on sale at Wal-Mart for less than $20
I wanna spend money on clothes, I’ll take my kid to Aeropostale
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
What the heck is Aeropostale?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
Oh.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
What!?
Which Aeropostale are you shopping at? Aero is cheap. It’s like Hollister and Old Navy had a baby.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Well, her stuff costs more than mine does!
Bought her a dress at DEB for $75. I about had a stroke.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
You're not 14
You’re not supposed to.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
because it looks a whole lot better
pleated pants scream, “I’m trying to slim myself down!”
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I am 6'2" and 160 lbs. so I don't know that they would scream that for me.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
It's difficult to find everything when it comes to nice clothes. :p
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
I'm 5'11, 165......same issue.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
Had one for lunch actually.
I try not to though.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
I am 6' 1"
In college I weighted 185 and I though that was as low as I wanted to go. I don’t gotta worry about it anymore though. Put on an extra 30 in the 4 years since. haha.
So why do I need to eat a cheeseburger?
I’m fine weighing what I’m at now.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
Ehhhhh
Sometimes I guess. Depends where its from. I love 5 Guys.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:32 PM EST up reply actions
Birdman's mom says to stop copying her.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
by NSOsFan on Jan 12, 2012 3:39 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
That's a rec.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
alright, i'll take the bait
yeah, you’re mom is a huge fan of in and out. in particular, she likes to order animal style or 4×4.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
"Your mom" jokes require proper use of 'your', not 'you're'...
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 5:33 PM EST up reply actions
whoops
normally i ignore the grammar police but this is one of the few mistakes that i really hate. that and people don’t knowing the difference between effect and affect.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
"people don't knowing"?
clearly this has scarred you a bit.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Man, I'm really terrible today.
I’ll make an effort to write legible sentences… at least for today. I’m afraid I’ll get lazy again beyond today.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Especially with bacon!
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 7:25 PM EST up reply actions
my bf is 5'8" (he says, I think it's a stretch)
I don’t know how much he weighs, but his pants size is 28X32. Talk about hard to buy for.
hahahhahahaha that's like me.
I’m 31×33.....except that they don’t make those. I’ve always gotta get 32×34s.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:32 PM EST up reply actions
It is impposible!
Any time there is a sale there is like one pair of 28X32’s left.
Yeah, that's even worse than mine.
I have to get 32×34 which are a little bit too long (32×32 being a bit too short), but at least they aren’t as rare.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
yea, places like AE and hollister are dead to me now
they used to sell “loose fit” jeans that I loved but now all their “skinny” jeans and boot cut styles are way to small.
its terrible.
That awkward moment
when you briefly consider the boys section in the store knowing there will probably be more pants that fit…
It's hard enough to find 28 waist in the store
and when you do, they’re almost always 28 or 30 length. Finding a 32 length is almost impossible, it’s often gotta be an online order.
I can take a guess...
Long ago, and in a galaxy far, far away, I had a 30" waist.
I’ve got a pretty good idea of what his weight might be.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I thought they just scream "old guy here who hasn't been told these are stupid looking"
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I saw the Who at sold-out Rich Stadium in '82.
Does that count?
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
Ummm
- “Shambala” by Three-Dog Night. Not sure they ever sold out a stadium
- I used to! Fortunately, I got rid of them all.
- Still working on that kid thing
- No, but i have a T-shirt I got from some baseball site that says that
- My internet provider came on a 5-1/2" floppy
- No. No lawn, you see.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Um...what?
I can answer yes to the internet question.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:35 PM EST up reply actions
AOL free 1000 minute discs
Best piece of mail ever for bored teens. The fly, they roll, they shatter in a million pieces! Oh the possibilities! Hah good times were had.
risk?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
Nah, I have work to do...
… I just need short term distractions.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
I wish.
I have class, then I have to ask the mailroom girl out, maybe after that though.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
zk talked you into doing it today huh?
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
It wasn't a convincing argument IMO
You don’t wanna give her any time to facebook you and realize you aren’t as attractive as she originally thought.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
That's what I would expect someone who couldn't nut up to say.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 12:58 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Aaaahahahaha
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
I received pretty strong advice to stand down on that one.
It’s probably for the better.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
Also....she wasn't single as it turns out.
So that might have posed an issue.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
I deleted my FB page over winter break.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 1:12 PM EST up reply actions
She'll go for your linkedin next!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:14 PM EST up reply actions
You guys heard of this new social site called Myspace?
Apparently you can put songs on it and everything.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
I use MyFace
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:19 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Win.
I was almost gonna post this, but I forgot who the jews were here.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
No.
It’s all a myth.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:23 PM EST up reply actions
hmm
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:17 PM EST up reply actions
Some people have to quit FB to get away from stalker-types.
It’s not a situation anyone wants to be in.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
Highly frowned upon in certain military occupations too
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:22 PM EST up reply actions
Gotta respect that OpSec
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:23 PM EST up reply actions
There are school districts that try to prevent their teachers from having Facebook.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
I love the folks who announce to everyone
that they are leaving facebook and post 8 paragraphs listing all the reasons.
Well, I'm wearing Ralph Lauren right now.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, but it’s stonewashed.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 12, 2012 1:17 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
uh, no
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 3:53 PM EST up reply actions
Does she get paid to work in the mailroom?
Or is this some sort of volunteer activity?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
I would assume it is work-study.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 12:50 PM EST up reply actions
Work study and she ends up in the mailroom?
Did she grab the short straw or something?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 12:56 PM EST up reply actions
that's a GREAT job
I bet you sit on your ass for hours.
My work-study was in the reference library and I sepnt my whole dy filling up the cart and re-shelving books. Ugh.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I could think of better.
I reffed basketball and volleyball at the gym. Lots of chicks in spandex. Worked for me.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:01 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
College jobs...
The summers before and after my freshman year, I worked for an architect. If you’ve ever been in the Dash In at Waysons Corner, I worked on that. Also the Jaycees Community Center in Waldorf and the Christ Episcopal Church in Chaptico.
The summer after my sophomore year, I worked for Northrop Grumman as an IT intern. Crappy job. Learned nothing and just did grunt work the entire time.
The summer after my junior year, I worked for University of Maryland Catering. Wasn’t a great job, but was working with my best friends, so that made it solid.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:14 PM EST up reply actions
College job...
I trained rats to press a bar for water.
Ok, so I was the psych dept TA for 2 years, which included supervising the rat lab that was used for Intro to Psych there was a little more to it, like helping people with the green-screen version of SPSS and grading assignments and quizzes, and running sensory psych experiments for one of the professors’ research projects.
Pretty nice, though. I was the only one in the dept that liked SPSS so everyone wanted help with it and I made (what seemed like to the college version of me) a lot of (beer) money.
I also got paid to help people study, and if I was taking the same classes and studying at the same time, so what of it?
Other than that I’ve been bitten by rats and most other people haven’t, it was a pretty good college job.
Not this kind of rat though, right?
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Actually...
They looked just like this…
They were all genetically identical (to try to control variability in the experiments) Sprague-Dawley rats.
For the 2 semesters I ran rat lab, I trained a rat with the first-semester freshman, but then didn’t get a new one 2nd semester. My already-trained rat just hung out and picked on the noobs.
Since I had to be in the lab any time one of students was training their rat, my rat got lots of socialization and became really friendly. I’ve got cats now, I would easily that Skinner was much smarter than any of my cats.
During the 2nd semester, there were 3 of the first semester rats that hadn’t been adopted living in a big cage. They got a little more aggressive, and a couple times as I was trying to clean the cage I would leave my hand too close and they would bite.
You KNOW I'm rec'n this
I mean, that’s automatic
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I was hoping someone would understand the reference
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 7:27 PM EST up reply actions
how's this?
i played music for the dance classes in my college. Women in spandex, twisting their bodies in weird ways.
I worked grounds crew
it resulted in everyone thinking I was a huge f-up because the students who got busted doing drugs or drinking got assigned grounds crew as community service.
Bear in mind, you can only date her...
… if she’s comfortable having her picture taken for Camden Chat’s approval.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 12:56 PM EST up reply actions
just remember
- Be Handsome…
- Be Attractive…
- Don’t Be Unattractive.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
by zknower on Jan 12, 2012 1:01 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Much as Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were trumped by a Zeroth Law...
… These three laws of dating are trumped by a Zeroth Law: Be Rich.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:05 PM EST up reply actions
Yea but you have to be filthy rich to trump those three laws.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
Haha. So you said it shouldn't be a last minute invite right?
I think that’s EXACTLY what it should be. If he has no existing friendship with her, I think he should casually invite her and some friends to this party that he knows about or something like that. I don’t think he should flat out ask her out. I don’t know very many people that went out on actual dates in college, especially first dates. Especially as freshmen, where everyone was just walking around campus looking for house parties each weekend.
Perhaps back in your day, you could just go up to a girl you didn’t know with some flowers and ask her if she wanted to go to the drive-in movie theater with you, but I don’t know how well that would be received if he tried that now. But what do I know? You just gotta assess the situation and be confident in whatever you choose to do.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
Asking out...
In my entire life, I have asked out one girl. It was my junior year of college and I had just finished absolutely fleecing her in a negotiation simulation in class. Then I went up and asked if she’d like to have lunch with me. She declined due to having a boyfriend.
Every other relationship I’ve ever been in or whatever has resulted from 1) it just happening, 2) being set up, 3) her asking me out.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:08 PM EST up reply actions
I'm assuming your "being set up" relationships never worked out.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:10 PM EST up reply actions
Well, by definition... only one relationship you have in your life ever "works out"...
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
You know what I meant.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
Well, by definition… only one relationship
(or fewer)
you have in your life ever “works out”…
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
That's true, but I didn't want to completely break the poor lad's spirit.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
Don't worry.
It’d take more than that to break my spirit.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:21 PM EST up reply actions
I thought it would be rude to point out that "Lola" (The Kinks) was based on your first trip to New York...
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
Never heard that song.
And my first trip to New York was at age 0.75 years, so I’d say probably not.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:30 PM EST up reply actions
Well, I’m not the world’s most masculine man
But I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man
And so is Lola, L-L-Lola, L-L-Lola
love this song.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
damn you
now I’m going to have that stuck in my head all afternoon!
Oh I’m not the world’s most physical guy
but when she squeezed me tight
she nearly broke my spine
oh my Lola, L-L-L-Lola….
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 1:36 PM EST up reply actions
c-o-l-a-cola
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
my aunt dated ray davies for a few years
i never met him, alas
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Well I've been around but I ain't never seen
A guy who looks like a muppet but he’s wrinkled and green
Oh, my Yoda, Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:37 PM EST up reply actions
Weird Al, from “Dare to Be Stupid”.
I can probably still sing along with most of the songs from that album even though it’s probably 25 years since I listened to it.
I still think his funniest bit
Is “Albuquerque”
by AndrewTorrez on Jan 12, 2012 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
can't agree with this
Lots of relationships work for a while and then morph into something else that works as well.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Which of the three choices was you meeting your wife?
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
In response to both twistedlogic and Eat More Esskay...
My wife and I were set up as a blind date. I was living in Korea and wanted to vacation in China. My best friend told me to visit her cousin in Guangzhou, so I did. I had a great time and fell in love pretty much the second I saw her (for reference, she’s still deciding about me).
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
Wow. I need a matchmaker friend.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:17 PM EST up reply actions
Me too.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
no you don't,
just nut up.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 12, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Currently...
I have introduced four couples. All were married within two years.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
Directing them to hotrussianbrides.com doesn't count as "introducing"
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:22 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
The most heinous girl I ever made out with resulted in my best friend marrying his wife
It’s something I am both disgusted by and tremendously proud of.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
You're not alone, buddy.
95% of Camden Chat the United States has that same birdman’s mom experience.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
So... you're basically one of the greatest wingmen of all time?
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
You're Dane Cook. Congrats.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
No one should be congratulated for being Dane Cook.
Dane Cook should be shot for being Dane Cook.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
by NSOsFan on Jan 12, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Ya do what you have to do
But yes. Yes I am.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Congrats
I made my best friend make out with a totally heinous chick, just so I could with a less heinous chick. Mine turned out to be giant biotch. His was just heinous and they never spoke again…
My friends once brought these two awful people home
and then the one friend disappeared and some how I got roped into replacing him at the awkward breakfast the next morning. I was not pleased.
Those are the best memories though
Right? Right???
Yeah no i still cringe when I think about that night.
Meh. It is what it is
I’m not good at meeting people in general. Basically all of my friends are either from high school (which was over a decade ago), are from EVE Online, or approached me to talk to me first.
I do know a single goth Chinese girl...
… are you willing to move 9,000 miles?
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:13 PM EST up reply actions
Depends on how much she likes you
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Jan 12, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
All you need is a college degree to teach English...
… and you’ll live comfortably middle class.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:29 PM EST up reply actions
Pretty sure that "don't ask out for Friday night on Friday afternoon" is sound advice for any age demographic.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:09 PM EST up reply actions
Smoke weed, snort coke, drink natty light and/or other cheap alcohols, have sex....
Did I miss anything?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:24 PM EST up reply actions
Eyeball vodka...
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
Oh...forgot about that!
Pop “no-doze”
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:26 PM EST up reply actions
Easy bro...
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:28 PM EST up reply actions
And when I become World Dictator some day...
… it will be 100% legal to immediately shoot any person in the face that uses “bra” to refer to anything other than a woman’s undergarment.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
I'm just gonna outlaw bra's so there's no confusion
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:30 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Can you outlaw
bro rape too?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
I'm cool with bro or brosef.
Dude was annoying.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
Dude is infinitely less annoying than widespread bro-age.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:30 PM EST up reply actions
This.
Although I did the flowers routine once my third year of college….worked just fine (although I had a car on campus at this point which makes this a decent option).
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:10 PM EST up reply actions
Haha yeah I was gonna bring that up
What “date” can you even take someone on in college if you don’t have a car, which I’m assuming he doesn’t as a freshman.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
Yea....we had nothing good within walking distance.
Mostly just ended up being coffee or something like that (its not like we had money for anything better). Once I got a car, I knew a few good restaurants that served as top-notch date spots.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:13 PM EST up reply actions
Not gonna work for everyone
we had a killer used bookstore a half mile from campus.
Here at Towson there's a ton to do within walking distance
the only problem is not getting mugged on the walk back to campus
hahaha....i just spit out my water at that.
I know it’s not funny, but I had to laugh.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
"hey baby, i got an extra meal swipe i can use on you if you want to head down to the cafeteria..."
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Maryland had a sit down restaurant in the Student Union where you could use your meal plan.
I never checked it out, but I always thought it’d be hilariously sad if someone took a date there (especially two freshmen walking over from the dorms together) and paid with their meal points.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
Different strokes for different folks, dog.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:17 PM EST up reply actions
Did you do that?
I’m sorry, Adele’s was awesome and I hear the panties came flying off if you took a girl there.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:21 PM EST up reply actions
I didn't even go to UMd, so I have no idea what you are talking about.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:22 PM EST up reply actions
I know, I'm kidding
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:23 PM EST up reply actions
Adele's was a pretty common date location for underclassmen...
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
woah woah woah
i know she smokes like a chimney and is European, but Adele seems like a classy broad. no need to assume she’s getting around like that…
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
/SIGH
Adele’s is a restaurant. You’re thinking about birdman’s mom.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:27 PM EST up reply actions
clearly i was making a joke
must have gotten past you in your own age
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Yes, I realize this...
… but your joke opened the door wide open for our first birdman’s mom sighting of the day.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:31 PM EST up reply actions
my prediction from yesterday 3.5 hour late!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I have as well.
One of my best friends from college did that. He’s getting married in 5 months. Obviously his finacee enjoyed the dining hall.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
My sophomore year, I set up a dorm date...
… I cooked dinner in the kitchen. Had a table set up in my dorm room with full setup (everything borrowed from pretty much every person I knew). Candles. The whole shebang.
She got back from class and I was waiting in the lounge with flowers. Took her to my room and served dinner. Had music set to start playing as soon as we opened the door.
College is when you find out just how creative you can be to pull off a great date with limited resources.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
yes, in college this is fine advice
once you get older, this shit ain’t going to work. in college though, the key is just inviting her to anything fun.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
You just gotta assess the situation and be confident in whatever you choose to do.
This. Chicks dig confidence, and on the whole I think they prefer being asked out to having to do the asking (although of course, there are always exceptions).
Trying to game this by doing it last minute is like screaming, “I don’t believe in myself, I have to TRICK her some way.”
FUCK THAT.
Asking someone out makes you a little vulnerable? Yeah.
But asking someone out with confidence is incredibly sexy.
Westie—just walk in, pick up your mail, and do this:
W: What’s your name?
Cute chick: Alicia.
W: Hey Alicia, can you write down your phone number on this piece of paper?
Cute chick (a little off-guard, but flirtatious): Why would I do that?
W: Because I’m gonna need it when I take you to the movies on Saturday.
Cute chick (giggles): Here ya go!
W: Cool. The Artist? or The Descendants?
BAM!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
there is so much wrong in that "scenario"
i don’t even know where to begin
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 12, 2012 1:46 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
This.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
y'all are too young to know better.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
or maybe we're young enough to know how things actually work these days
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
or maybe
you’re so used to doing everything the way things “work these days”, you don’t know how to step out of the box and stand out in a way that’s confident and attractive.
99% of guys would friend her on facebook first. be the 1%, and reap the dividends.
seriously, the worse that can happen is she says ‘no’. But if a girl has any attraction to you whatsoever, and you’re being charming, she’s not bail over a phone number.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Depends on if she's creeped the heck out by you asking for her number the first time you talk to her
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:54 PM EST up reply actions
i bet stacey would agree that from the right person, it's flattering
from someone you’re not attracted to, it’s creepy.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
See GC's response below.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
It only works if she liked you already
if you say when I take you to the movies to someone who has no clue who you are that scenario changes quickly.
ok, for the last time
I believe Westie and mailroom chick have already chatted and whatnot. He’s been picking up his mail for a semester after all.
If they’ve never spoken a word to each other before, I AGREE that my scenario would be problematic.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Stacey. My place. Now.
(I keeed! I keeed!)
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:36 PM EST up reply actions
THANK YOU!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
It's nice that we have an actual female to occasionally weigh in on these subjects.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
i'm curious what she thinks about Scenario #2
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I think it's a stretch to think the girl who works in the mail room at college would have advanced knowledge of parcel wrapping
But the approach as a whole is good. Although what if she’s like, “no, I don’t like coffee.” That’s what I’d say.
Yeah I wanted to make that point
Don’t back yourself into a corner with something that specific.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
"Don't like coffee?
“How about soda. You like soda? I’ve got soda too.”
Just keep going until she says yes to something.
Do you like air?
Breathing? I love breathing.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
hahhaha
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
"Does this cloth smell like cloroform?"
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 7:30 PM EST up reply actions
In one of the first conversations I ever had with the boy who became my boyfriend
We were talking about the Orioles and he suggested that an awesome sitcom would star Luke Scott and Felix Pie (this was before the banana chips, obvi). I was smitten.
we all know where you met
but you could tell the story anyway….. :)
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
do you hear the lambs, Stacey?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I met him in the Orioles press box
I sat down next to him and he said, “Are you Stacey from Camden Chat?” I said yeah and he said, “I’m Paul,” and I said, “From Orioles Hangout? I love your recaps, I’ve been reading them for years.” and he said, “So you’re the one.”
After the third time of sitting next to him and bullshitting about baseball while we watched the Orioles lose, he asked me out.
by Stacey on Jan 12, 2012 4:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Aw, now I don't feel like I'm in on the secret any more.
Since it isn’t a secret.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 4:11 PM EST up reply actions
Well, OK, I can live with that.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
Are you gonna get married at Camden Yards?
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 4:12 PM EST up reply actions
What? You don't like pizza?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 4:33 PM EST up reply actions
no matter
then you’re having a converation.
“You don’t like coffee? Wow. How do you wake up in the morning?” Then talk about chocolate or tea or whatever.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
8/10
give or take
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
There's a hole in this play you could drive a truck through...
how well does westie think on his feet?
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 5:36 PM EST up reply actions
He's in college!
He can take charge and take you to the dining hall.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
and that's my whole point
“the dining hall” = NOT taking charge
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
what if you know the chef
and ask him to put a little extra on her plate.
by Benhem612 on Jan 12, 2012 3:40 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Oh...better!
He can take charge and drive you to a nice restaurant with the car he doesn’t have.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:43 PM EST up reply actions
There are plenty of decent resturants in walking distance.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
Oh....then you're fine either way.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
i'm not disagreeing with your central idea of not doing the same thing that every other schlub would do
but life isn’t a friggin romantic comedy. you can’t just walk up to a girl and hand her a piece of paper and be like, “hey baby, right your number down because you and me are going out Friday night.” then you just come across like some cheese-dick bad boy character out of an 80’s movie.
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 12, 2012 1:56 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I hope you don't plan on getting a girl via email or text or anything.
If you told me to “right” my number down, you’d create some serious doubt that’s a good idea.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 1:59 PM EST up reply actions
haha yea
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:01 PM EST up reply actions
well, it's all in how you pull it off
let’s just agree that you should be prepared to do that in the moment.
making a confident play early on can make a woman swoon.
and obviously i wasn’t advocating westie use my script word-for-word.
but if the woman is in the mail room, there aren’t a lot of chances for interaction. do you really think asking soeone to a party is less aggressive than asking for her number?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Absolutely.
Much less aggressive. Inviting her and her friends to a group gathering with you and your friends, where there are other people to socialize with is way less pressure than asking someone you don’t know very well to a one-on-one date.
I’ll give you that you should be flexible going into the situation, and if she’s putting out some serious signals then sure, maybe you ask her out on a date. But that seems unlikely.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:08 PM EST up reply actions
you, me, and twisted are all actually in agreement on something today
i think the world may end before December
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Did we all disagree on something in the past?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
i feel like we have
but maybe i’m just confusing that with everyone arguing with OsFan
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
This was a massive debate
on art of manliness
meh
Inviting her and her friends to a group gathering with you and your friends, where there are other people to socialize with
I think she knows what this is about in advance. I’d rather be less of a pansy about it myself.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
i just think it's weird
that kids feel a direct approach is ‘creepy’. i think beating around the bush is creepy.
fine, you’re all at a party that you invited her to. now you have to approach her at the party and the same thing starts over. why not approach her now?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
But she's liquored up at the party!
Shields down! Shields down!
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Because she's not at work?
Plus….asking somebody out on a date in front of a gaggle of her friends takes balls. They’ll all giggle like they’re 10 years old as you do what you gotta do. It’s one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever done. (okay…it was only embarrassing for like 5 seconds because we immediately left the party for better places).
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not picturing a mailroom with a gaggle of friends.
I’m picturing a mailroom with Westie, Alicia, and a mail counter, and that’s pretty much it,
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'm uncomfortable with what else you may be picturing...
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 2:22 PM EST up reply actions
You've missed the point already.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
now who's being 'rude'?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
you think her friends won't all be around her at a party?
because i think the odds are they will.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
That's exactly what I was saying!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
asking somebody out on a date in front of a gaggle of her friends takes balls. They’ll all giggle like they’re 10 years old as you do what you gotta do. It’s one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever done.
So you are actually advocating this approach?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Yep.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:35 PM EST up reply actions
It is weird,
and it shouldn’t be that way. But I get the impression that young women used to be a lot nicer about turning a guy down in the past. Nowadays, you often don’t just get a rejection, but nastiness and/or the “creepy” label — even if you’ve been a perfect gentleman about it.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
This is gonna be a weird compliment
But based on what I know of the people here on CC, if I were gonna set any of them up with one of my friends, it would be Vuff.
I'm hurt!!
Okay , not really.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:40 PM EST up reply actions
Now you have to explain what's wrong with the rest of us.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
This.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:43 PM EST up reply actions
Ouch.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
I don't want your pity compliments anyway!
:p
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 3:51 PM EST up reply actions
I'll just assume you meant that to be one more comment lower.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
haha
I know you see through my asshole internet persona.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
That's not very nice.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
woah!
that’s a stretch of the truth!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
Wait, what?
I was a nice boy. Now I’m old.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Can you add me to the ineligibles so I don't feel so bad? :*(
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
This is one of the times when I'm okay with being a relatively unknown quantity.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
You are of course ineligible
When I first discovered you I wanted you to fall in love with Julia because it would awesome if she had an O’s fan boyfriend, but then you kept making googly eyes at your lady so I had to give up the dream.
Wasn't I with Jen the day you met me though?
That would have been awkward…
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
No I mean when I found out there was an Orioles fan in NJ
who seemed relatively likeable on the internets. Then I met you and Jen in person and realized it wasn’t a good idea.
Oh
so once you met me you realized it was a bad idea. Thanks.
Jerk.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Ugh this.
It’s horrible. Why is it creepy to like a girl?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:38 PM EST up reply actions
it isn't
it is just creepy to invade her day without any reason or prior contact.
Creepy? Not really. Perceived as such? Yeah, unfortunately.
And to a certain extent, you can’t blame girls for being paranoid. It used to be (and yeah, I’m going pretty far back, here) that when you asked a girl out, she could make a lot of assumptions about your intentions. Since the social scripts for courtship were disrupted decades ago, a girl has no idea what your intentions are. And having a heart-to-heart about that right away is obviously really awkward; you don’t have heart-to-hearts with people you don’t know.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Since the social scripts for courtship were disrupted decades ago, a girl has no idea what your intentions are.
(whilst playing the piano in the drawing room)
Sir! Are your intentions honorable, sir?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Mine usually are.
That’s why I don’t understand the creep label that’s immediately applied to any guy who asks a girl out.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
I think that as long as a boy doesn't come off as a creep, it's not creepy
I guess some boys can’t help if they seem creepy even when they don’t intend to, though.
I feel like even when it's not remotely creepy, the label is still applied.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah but you happen to be (i'm guessing here) a half reasonable female.
Extrapolating that to the rest of your gender may or may not be true.
I refer back to zk's Tom Brady SNL skit
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
Two of my girlfriends
ended up bumping into me while running away from creepy guys who wouldn’t get the hint. “That guy over there just cornered me and asked me out..” “Me: bummer, just hang out here till he goes away…”
I don't get that.
Why be creeped out a that a guy wants to ask you out? What’s wrong with that?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:00 PM EST up reply actions
I think the word "cornered" was the key there
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, "cornered" is bad.
I once saved a girl from being cornered at a party. She did things to me. Good things.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 5:37 PM EST up reply actions
timg'd
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 5:42 PM EST up reply actions
Because zk tells them to be confident and just go for it!
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 4:03 PM EST up reply actions
You should be confident and just go for it
Being meek and doing nothing isn’t the best way to win a girl’s heart.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
wait now
you go for it ONCE.
if she shoots you down, it’s her loss. You move one.
Going for it again after being shot down = desperate, not confident.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Haha
This is confusing. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
At a party people just want to hang
so if a guy walks up to a girl and asks her on a date, she has to feel awkward the rest of the night if she shoots him down.
Why is that creepy though?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:03 PM EST up reply actions
Twisted
in a party, you have to play the numbers. If you ask a girl out 10 minutes in, there is potential awkwardness for the next 4 hours. Strike up a conversation and ask her out toward the end of the party where she can make a graceful exit if she says no.
If you're at a party with the girl why would you just blurt out a question like that
You are, for all intents and purposes, already on a date. You just have to get her to spend the time with you, which is easy if you’re fun and interesting, because people go to parties to have fun and be entertained. You don’t ask someone on a date at a party, you get them to realize how awesome it is hanging out with you and then just set up the next hang out time and date.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I have never asked out a random chick at a party
So I wouldn’t know.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:13 PM EST up reply actions
And you didn't answer the question.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:14 PM EST up reply actions
vuff has the right of it
it is creepy because she has decided to be creeped out.
A lot of girls
just seem to call anything that makes them feel awkward or uncomfortable creepy. It isn’t fair, but it is what it is. Chances are, if her reaction to you asking her out is to be more concerned about her feelings of awkwardness rather than how to turn you down graciously, you don’t want her anyway.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
by Vuff on Jan 12, 2012 4:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
this.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:13 PM EST up reply actions
Vuff I agree with this point
and twisted, bummer on reaching the post party stage. Same goes for a small bar scene as well however. Chat a bit and wait till closing time to ask her out.
I wasn't asking for recommendations.
I was asking why it’s creepy that a guy asks out a girl.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:14 PM EST up reply actions
social conventions changing and all that
essentially the girl gets to decide if it is creepy, whether or not it actuall is.
but i think the point stands
one girl’s “creepy” is another girl’s “acknowledgment that the guy was just vulnerable/take-chargey, for which I give him props”
The first girl isn’t worth going beyond the question for.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
The take charge can be pretty creepy if you don't know the guy in question.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
No way
Bar scene is all about stick and move. You don’t wanna linger unless it’s going really really well.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 4:18 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not sure where to start with this.
Now you’re just getting sorta rude. It isn’t pansy at all. He’s a first year college kid with nowhere to go on date anyways. Asking her and friends to come chill at a party is way better than some awkward sitting at a coffee shop. There’s no pressure on her to commit to dating him. It’s not always about you. You both get to scope out the situation in a much less uptight environment. She’ll probably appreciate the thought too.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
I’m getting “rude”?
For disagreeing with AMD?
Maybe you don’t know what the word “rude” means.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
You've essentially stated that not being perfectly direct about this is the "pansy" approach.
That’s pretty rude. I’m sure many of the folks on this site here have taken that approach and don’t find it “pansy” at all.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:22 PM EST up reply actions
lol
I say I think doing something a certain way is being a ‘pansy’, and you think i’m offending all the people who do it that way?
I’m expressing an opinion, and saying that I think my opinion is better, and a certain other way way of doing something is weak. Everyone else here is allowed to express their own opinion as well. We do this to each other over analyzing ballplayers, drinking beer, riding in bike lanes, invading Oceania, and a whole host of other situations. Not sure why this one is suddenly special.
I’m sorry, maybe you haven’t met Camden Chat? Let me introduce you.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
i think he means that your dating method is rude.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Naw...see above.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions
I think it’ll be easier to ask her out if they’ve had a chance to hang out in a group setting a few times, and he’ll have more of a chance to assess whether there’s interest on her part.
But…I basically had to be yelled at by one of my friends to ask the girl I eventually married out, so I’m not really qualified to give advice here.
I basically had to be yelled at by one of my friends to ask the girl I eventually married out
This is my point, This happens A LOT. Girls want guys to be forward sooner, A LOT. Not to a point of being creepy, but as I said somewhere, I believe there has already been some chatter between Westie and Mailroom Girl.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I would never advocate being fake under any circumstances
Girls see right through that shit and don’t respect it. They respect confidence, as we’ve all said.
You can confidently and flirtatiously ask a girl to go to a party with you.
I’m not suggesting you try to trick some girl into a false sense that she’s going to a party with a platonic new friend with no agenda.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
She'll see through that anyways.
Although there is always that one girl who really doesn’t get it. Those folks, I will never understand.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:33 PM EST up reply actions
Those folks, I will never understand.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:35 PM EST up reply actions
Whoops
Those folks, I will never understand.
If you’re talking about girls in general, I think we’re all in agreement.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:36 PM EST up reply actions
Hhahaha....yea, I mean that goes without saying.
But the office chick that EME was referring to earlier (the nut up or shut up comment) is one of those people. My intentions were extremely clear (enough that everyone around us knew what my next play was), but she didn’t get it. I guess the fact she was already in a relationship caused that.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
not sure where to throw in comment
but i’ll say to westie, join a fraternity. you’ll increase your chances of getting laid by a lot.
still don’t get all the resistance to going on a solo date.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
if he's just trying to get laid
he’d be wasting his time going on solo dates with girls. it’s college for crying out loud.
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
if he's just trying to get laid
group dates are much better for that goal.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 12, 2012 2:39 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
and if DCO is reading this
stay away from the fraternity boys.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 12, 2012 2:39 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I think you've misunderstood.
There’s no resistance to that. I’m all for it. I still think the best first play is something more casual than that (at least when you’re in the college situation where there really isn’t anywhere to go).
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
Since I really, really don’t feel like doing work today and would just rather tell stories from college to people on the internet all day…here’s how I asked my wife out the first time:
One alcohol-free evening at a campus dance, a friend on my hall introduced me to two girls, a friend of his from from his department and her off-campus friend, who is irrelevant to the story except that her presence made it more of a group, I guess.
So this girl and i started hanging out in other group settings, and I wanted to ask her out but I was too much of a pussy…even when it became perfectly obvious she’d say yes. She came up to my hall one night to study (“Yeah, study anatomy OH YEAH!”) history with a girl on my floor…but really to see me. I was busy in my room starting a paper that was due at 8am the next day and they were in the lounge.
Meanwhile, another guy on my floor was chatting them up and I assumed my chances were over. One of my friends was in my room yelling at me that I needed to go ask her out. He was a French exchange student, which makes the story mildly funnier.
So anyway, I eventually walked her back to her dorm and asked if she wanted to get dinner later that week. She said yes. That was 1996 and I haven’t been hit with divorce papers or a restraining order yet.
that's all very sweet and touching.
seriously!
Congrats.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Thank you!
It’s terrifying for some people to ask somebody out directly but you have to get around to it eventually.
I was doing marketing for a test-prep company in NYC
I hired a dozen of teachers to come in and make phone calls to people who hadn’t signed up. They all arrived and I wasn’t ready for them yet: running around like an idiot with my hair on fire.
My future wife grabbed me at one point as I ran past and said, “you’re having a bad day, huh?” “Yeah.” I replied. “Don’t worry…. it’ll get better,” she said. “Thanks!” I said, and ran off.
Two hours later, when everything was calmed down, I thought, “who was that”? and tracked her down. We talked for 15 minutes.
The next day I called ostensibly to thank her again but really to ask her out. We wound up talking for two hours (and I did ask her out at the end of the phone call.)
That was in 1990. 22 years later, still the best thing that ever happened to me.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Great story Z!
For all guys’ scheming over whether to ask people out or not, sometimes your just at the right place at the right time.
Indeed...
I was a week out of high school and making all kinds of big plans about being “in College” when I met my future wife while working at a Ledo’s.
We did the whole workplace flirtation thing for a bit until her friend out of nowhere asked (unsolicited, apparently) for my phone # and such to giver to her.
We talked on the phone a few times, chatted on AIM and were the only lames at a few parties with the drugging and other debauchery. It’s been twelve years together, married for 3+, one kid out of the womb and another on the way. Luck. Dumb fucking luck.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 12, 2012 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think I've ever asked anybody out.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Ditto
I asked my GF, before we were dating if she wanted to see a movie, we were really good friends, it ended with dinner and relationship.
I have no idea how I would go about finding a girlfriend intentionally.
It's possible I have
and just don’t remember. I had a long term girlfriend from junior year of high school through sophomore year of college and I had met my now wife freshman year of college and had always joked about dating her once I could extricate myself. Then once I finally did it just sort of happened.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I met my wife
twice when my cousin brought her to parties at my house in college. I thought she seemed cool but we never chatted because they would always go back to maryland later in the evening. I then saw her again when I showed up to a family party, we chatted briefly and then we became facebook friends. She invited me to a baseball game and I threw a shrimp cocktail at her via facebook food fight before accepting, she threw haggis back. At the orioles game she was wearing earings that looked like Mayan Calendars and i told her they made her look dateable. The rest is history.
Lucky.
I freakin hate this task.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:41 PM EST up reply actions
Fo' sho'
Doesn’t guarantee success however. That’s the major issue.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
ha.
no method guarantees success.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
This, unfortunately, is a problem.
For me anyways….otherwise I’d probably be married already.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
Only time I did, I ended up marrying her
Long story, wrong day to tell it, remind me next week
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
yes, that would be way less aggressive
as AMD said up thread, that’s what college kids do. you hang out in your dorms and you go to parties, especially when you’re an underclassman and can’t go to bars. i feel like a better approach would be “hey, my friends and i are having/going to this party on Friday night, you and your friends should too.” that way you’re still taking the initiative of asking her to hang out instead of just stalking her on facebook, but you’re also asking her in to a less threatening/intimidating social situation where you can make a better move on her while she’s not actually at work.
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
wait
are you guys saying group date (e.g., hanging out with friends) is better than solo date here? i think either is fine.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
If he doesn't know her at all, the group hang is a nice way to avoid the awkward first date moment.
You’ll have plenty of time for that after college.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
during college?
absolutely
would i do that with my friends now? absolutely not
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Right that's a much more concise version of what I was working on
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
solo date seems just as fine even in college
even after for the first time. you could even do both. meet up for dinner with just your date and then bring your date to meet up with friends later that evening.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
This.
I did actually have a sorta casual hang out with my most recent lady and her friends….but I didn’t set that up. Somebody did that for me so that I could ask her out.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
“Hey Mailroom Girl, I gotta package for ya.”
by BrianS on Jan 12, 2012 2:02 PM EST up reply actions 9 recs
and now we've strayed in to porno territory
but you get a rec anyways
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Porno territory should always get green...
… wait, rephrase.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
this type of pickup line reminds of me of a story from college...
At my college, there was a common hall program in the dorms called “Screw Your Roomate”, where everyone’s roommate would try to set them up on a blind date and then everyone would go to somewhere off campus, usually “Field of Screams” or “Barn of Terror” or some Halloween thing.
In reality, people that had a SO would get set up with them (obviously) and the single people would mostly get matched up with other single people on the hall and just get hammered.
One year, one of my friends got set up with an actual blind date, and after the Halloween thing there was a party in my friend’s room. My friend’s date comes running out of the party because he’d asked her “if she wanted to see his snake.”
Ok, I can’t think of a way to rephrase it that doesn’t sound just as bad, but he had an actual pet snake.
you need to build up a little trust before you can pull a number. in the scenario, we don’t know if there’s any prior contact between westie and mail room girl. i thought they were complete strangers since he’s asking for her name in the hypothesized dialogue.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
wow
college people have gotten paranoid.
in my day (yes, the paleolithic era), asking for a phone number was really not that big a deal.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
with no trust built up?
i’m not saying asking for a number is a big deal. i am saying asking for a number without any prior conversation is nuts. but maybe in the 60s and 70s, people were screwing random strangers in muddy fields. actually that might not be too far off.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
where do you think duck took the ladies on his John Deere?
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 12, 2012 2:23 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
To the tavern down the road from the farm.
Pop only cost a nickel!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
Although....he was only allowed to do this AFTER all the hay was baled.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
this is one of the funniest comments in this thread.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Man, I hate to laugh at these...
but I can’t not.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Oh, laugh away
As long as it shows wit and effort, I find them funny, too. It’s the lazy ones that make me groan.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
They didn't even have the internet in your day.
Times have changed, my friend.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
We actually had BITNET
and we flirted like crazy over it.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Worst that can happen is you get rejected.
And that’s not so bad when you consider that now you know you can move on and not invest any more thought in the mail room girl.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:46 PM EST up reply actions
Very important thing you touched on
The worst thing you can do is nothing, and further create unrealistic expectations for whenever you do actually have the nerve to ask her out in a few weeks or whatever.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
A mistake I made entirely too often when I was 18-22.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 1:57 PM EST up reply actions
Worst that can happen
is you get the reputation of the creepy dude who keeps asking random girls out when they have no clue who you are.
Yeah, okay, that's not good.
I am giving Westie enough credit to assume that the mail room girl is aware of his existence by now.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 2:41 PM EST up reply actions
That's a big assumption.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
gotta make some small talk before you get the digits.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
not if you're smooth.
I saw be brave. small talk is for pussies.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
just going up to a random girl and immediately asking for her number ain't going to work
Unless you’re a celebrity or Chris Berman…. or super good looking.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
or the girl is super desperate for a date.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
my understanding was these two had seen each other several times and already had some small talk
maybe i’m misinformed.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
if that's the case, then i agree.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Okay, I've come up with an alternate scenario; I think you all will love it
Next time I send beans to Westie, I distress the bag and pack them really badly.
Westie: Hey, Alicia, can I ask you a quick question?
Mailroomchick: Sure!
Westie: I won this bet and this guy is going to send me beans every month for the next few. They keep showing up like crap (shows her). Is there a better way to pack them that i can tell him?
Mailroomchick: Sure! You can tell him…..[goes on about bubble wrap, smaller box, etc].
Westie: Awesome, thanks.
Mailroomchick: (unless she has no curiosity whatsoever): What was the bet?
Westie: Just a sports bet. I thought money would be boring, so I made him send me artisinal coffee beans. You a coffee fan?
Mailroomchick: LOVE it. I like Stumptown myself, but I’m always open to new roasters.
Westie (winking): Well, when you have some time, come over and I’ll make you a cup.
Mailroomchick: How about later today? I could come over and you could make me some coffee and then I could sit on your face.
WINNER, RIGHT?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
by zknower on Jan 12, 2012 2:41 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Actually....minus the last part, that's pretty good.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
what's wrong with the last part?
THAT’S THE BEST PART
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Haha...agreed
But the first part is the only section he’d actually get away with.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
Eh...it's college.
She probably assumes his intentions anyways.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
Except...
Assuming that a chick in the mailroom is or wants to be knowledgeable on proper packing procedure might be a bit much…
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:20 PM EST up reply actions
the advice she gives is irrelevant
it’s a perfectly legitimate thing to ask her
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Exactly.
It also doesn’t give away your next play. Keeps the element of surprise.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:36 PM EST up reply actions
No.
Don’t even think about saying that.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
well there's that.
Or there’s the fact that the only reason you’re asking her out is because you bet on her.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
Agree
I think I’d shy away from talking about “betting” in any respect to ppl I don’t know. Let alone a hot chick I was trying to ask out.
Does it?
I have no experience with this play.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
Like
She’s All That, 10 things I hate about you, etc. Any movie that features a bet or a person getting paid to date someone weird/ugly.
Two of my all time favorites
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
They don't make teen movies like they used to.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
Whatever happened to Bianca Stratford/Alex Mack?
She was my high school crush, fo sho
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
Recently sighted on Hawaii Five-0 for several episodes.
That show is so terrible, btw, but I keep watching it anyway because I want for it to be good.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 3:13 PM EST up reply actions
AMD, I completely second that
Alex Mack was awesome. Megga crush at the time.
Just in January?
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Just to be clear...
Even I wouldn’t advocate actually saying this, Westie.
Unless you’re wearing your Andino shirt.
I hope you're writing all this down Westie
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
it's going to be hilarious when he comes back and sees all this
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
This entire thread will be printed out and displayed at the wedding of Westie and HotMailroomChick some day...
Unless she’s a Yankees fan… then dump the bitch.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:07 PM EST up reply actions
This is crazy, hahaha, I have so much more to read too.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
Just skip reading all of it.
Go with the D.E.N.N.I.S. System
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:46 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Salads at work for lunch are awesome.
I don’t get a paid lunch, so I take a work through it. But salads take so much work to eat, that it’s just like a break! And if anyone gives me the stink eye, I can be all “What? I’m entitled to eat lunch aren’t I?”
ha
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:00 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
that's hella funny
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Can you name any others??
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
Did you miss the since part?
Also….really? Ed McCaffery?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:04 PM EST up reply actions
Ed McCaffery was really, really popular as a Bronco.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
But famous?
No. Didn’t think so.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
Ed McCaffery had a pretty vicious in-game bone break if I remember correctly.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
4 minutes of Ed goodness.
Including a broken leg.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
Leg break is around 1:55 mark...
… it just… flops around.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 2:17 PM EST up reply actions
Whatever this is didn't load for me
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
Ah...pulled it from a photobucket.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
its two pictures side by side
one of OJs white bronco, one of tim tebow. the caption under the photos says “Tim Tebow, the most famous bronco since OJ’s car.”
If you're tired of talking about pleated pants, here's a new Camdencast for your entertainment.
Now with embedded audio – fancy!
http://www.camdenchat.com/2012/1/12/2702681/camdencast-episode-14-forty-degree-days
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 2:15 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Always helpful.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
he loves us!
jim (west medford)
Thoughts on Wada/ Chen? At least The Duke isn’t filling up on 4th OF’s
Klaw (3:30 PM)
I like Chen, not Wada.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
K Law on what we were talking about yesterday
Someone on the internetz:
If you were the commissioner, what is the first thing that you would do?
Klaw (3:14 PM)
There’s a long list, but ending interleague play, adding two teams, imposing the DH on both leagues, increasing umpire accountability, expanding use of instant replay, enforcing the obstruction/interference rules on plays at the plate, and working to boost the sport’s audience overseas would all be high on it.
hmmm
I wonder what he’s talking about with the obstruction/interference rules at the plate.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Hell yeah block the plate.
Fuck Buster Posey, he’s a pussy. He’s definitely never asked a girl out
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
I think the rules are unclear
I remember try looking it up and being unable to find an exception for blocking the plate over blocking, say, 2nd base. And I think we would all agree that if you just stand in front of 2nd base and prevent a guy from sliding into it while you wait for the ball is against the rules.
Hmm
I thought you can come out in front of any base and make a tag if you’re receiving the ball. You see 2nd basemen drop their knees to block the bag on steal attempts pretty regularly – the risk of course is if they slide feet first so it doesn’t happen as often as at C where he’s got the gear on.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I am with him on everything other than the blocking the plate
it is one of the most exciting plays in baseball. I hate that when a superstar gets hurt the sport abolishes exciting things. Noone would have given a crap about QB hits had brady not gone down, same with catchers blocking the plate and posey.
I blocked the plate in a co-ed social softball game for the game-ending out while the other team was rallying
A fight ensued. That’s all really. Blocking the plate is awesome.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
The base path belongs to the runner EXCEPT when a fielder is in the path attempting to field a batted ball or when a fielder is in the path and in possession of the ball.
This is violated all the time.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
However,
OBSTRUCTION is the act of a fielder who, while not in possession of the ball and not in the act of fielding the ball, impedes the progress of any runner.
Rule 2.00 (Obstruction) Comment: If a fielder is about to receive a thrown ball and if the ball is in flight directly toward and near enough to the fielder so he must occupy his position to receive the ball he may be considered "in the act of fielding a ball."
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Yeah that's what I always assumed.
And that’s certainly how the game’s played.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
The umpire interpretation has obviously evolved to "in possession of the ball or in the process of receiving the ball"
frankly I think it might be more dangerous to not include that as fielders would be backing off of throws headed right for the runner since they didn’t have possession of it yet.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I do believe lots of catchers just set up in the middle of the basepath and make runners barrel over them...
Even if the ball is bouncing 30 feet away from them.
and they should be called for that
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
this is interesting
from this digest of the rules:
The fielder may stand in the base path without the ball, IF, the throw is almost to him and he needs to be there to catch the ball. However, he may not actually block the base until he has possession of the ball. Until he has possession of the ball he must give the runner some way to get to the base.
From this I would infer: standing between home and third to receive the ball = okay, but standing right up against home plate = not okay.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Sure
but then if the ball doesn’t get there and they don’t move they’ll get called for it. You can stand in the basepath at any base as long as you either move or have the ball when the runner gets there.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
In most cases it doesn't get called, though.
I can’t remember the last obstruction call at the plate I heard about.
I can't remember the last time
I saw a catcher stand in the way, not move, and not either have the ball or have the ball soon after though either.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
It's an impossible situation for the catcher
He’s looking one way for the throw and can’t see how close the runner is. This is like the new NFL defensive rules
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 4:11 PM EST up reply actions
I don't have a problem with blocking the plate, but...
I do have a problem when
1.Catch leaves opening for runner to slide and they don’t
2. Runners use their hands to try to “punch/slap” the catchers face or glove like Arod.
Just run into the guy like a man with your shoulder/arm or don’t do it. Catchers have no defense against runners who act inappropriately.
Personally, If I were a team’s manager/GM/Owner, I’d be telling the catcher not to block the plate b/c who wants to through away the millions these guys are making for just one run? Especially if the catcher is really good.
This thread is crazy
and makes me think way too many people on CC have never picked up a girl, and maybe have never even tried.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
there's a mom joke but i can't post them.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I met half my girlfriends at parties
the others I bumped into in social situations. I never had to use social engineering to force my way into a relationship.
I met one of my college girlfriends...
… I had gone out to a party and gotten pretty hammered. I stumbled back to the dorm and couldn’t make it up the stairs to the second floor. So I just started trying doors until one opened. I went in and laid down. I woke up in the morning in a pile on the floor with a pair of Korean twins and a Japanese girl. I looked up and a guy was on the top bunk looking down at me and goes, “Tez?” (Note: Not my real name.) I said, “Yeah?” Him: “Wanna get breakfast?” Me: “Sure.” He knew me from some random class and we became best friends. I dated the Japanese girl for a bit.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:33 PM EST up reply actions
That is more awesome than any of my stories
but similar to how I met a few girlfriends. I never had a one night stand, they all turned into girlfriends.
I had one one-night stand in my life.
And it was that night at that party, before I stumbled into that dorm room.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, yes...
… we understand that your mom has attempted to pick up every male (and a few female) members of Camden Chat.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
if i could dislike this comment, i would.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Sorry buddy...
… but it’s in my Camden Chat contract that any time you mention the word “mom”, I am required to post a joke about your mother.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
I've had a girlfriend and have tried to pick up girls before
I’m just ludicrously unsuccessful about it .
Just got back from class
I now have about a hundred comments I need to read through. Literally.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 3:32 PM EST reply actions
I can summarize.
Like 2 people think you should just prance into the mailroom, grab the chick, and start making out. The others are more conservative.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
Please note that the prancing is mandatory.
As is video footage.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 3:36 PM EST up reply actions
Prancing is fine
just don’t be a pansy when you do it.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
How rude!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
Stirring the Tebow pot a little...
http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/what_if_tim_tebow_were_muslim/
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
The deadspin stuff was great.
“what if tebow was jesus” “what if tebow was assassinated on the field”
Hell, what if Tebow were black?
Oh yea, he’d get booed for being a bad QB (despite winning a whole bunch of games) and possibly try to end his own life, then become a backup for Mike Vick.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Jan 12, 2012 4:17 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
To be fair
Vince Young is a better passer than Tebow is.
I feel Vince Young has had a bad rap
he has been just as much of a winner as tebow.
This thread really fucked with my head.
Not to say that I’m not confident because I am, but LITERALLY never in my life have I gotten so much advice on one topic from so many different people.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 4:22 PM EST reply actions
Well, there IS the possibility of a restraining order and court time if she overreacts...
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
True
I think we talked about workplace harassment months ago. So pls delete my previous statement, haha.
Its funny
the place I work has 2,000+ employees. So many ppl here are married to each other and cheat on their spouses with co workers, etc. It is like high school.
Listen to me
As a man who has been hopelessly single for a long time, I obviously know what I’m talking about.
The general consesus here was to not date somebody you worked for.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:27 PM EST up reply actions
Gah...not worked for
Worked WITH
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:27 PM EST up reply actions
Screw that
I know lots of people who met their SO at work.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Most of the advice I got here does not support your claim.
I, however, am okay with it.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:38 PM EST up reply actions
I mean it's not the simplest thing to do
but depending on the company it can be done. My old company had like 3 marriages come out of the 75 person office.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Oh I'm sure.
I have no problem with it and definitely think it can be done.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:43 PM EST up reply actions
I am a case in point.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
This.
Then you can quit and get a better job elsewhere making more money than you just got raised to.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
it doesn't have to be someone who works with you
you meet all kinds of people at work. You just need to work somewhere where it’s not just you by yourself all day long.
I work in a large office with tons of clients and whatnot
I still end up by myself all day long.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:34 PM EST up reply actions
I agree
I’ve tried off and on to get one, but I regularly get frustrated by not hearing anything back and give up until work pisses me off enough that I start trying again.
I haven't necessarily been single
But hopeless, yes.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
Haha if you want the argument consolidated
Just read this: http://artofmanliness.com/2008/01/16/stop-hanging-out-with-women-and-start-dating-them
then read the 3 pages of comments that pretty much reflect exactly this conversation.
perfect.
Summarizes a lot of what I was trying to say.
I loved
If you’re over 18 and you’re still using Facebook applications to let someone know you’re interested in them, you need to be punched in the face.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
If you try to Poke someone outside of Facebook, you get arrested.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
how's the connection speed?
this is of vital importance
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Congrats
see above for how to get women there.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 12, 2012 4:27 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Wow
Westie, I didn’t even read any of it and I’m suggesting you ignore all of it.
by kba26 on Jan 12, 2012 4:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Best advice yet?
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 4:35 PM EST up reply actions
You moved?
I had no idea. Where to?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
Aquaslaughter, NY
right?
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 4:28 PM EST up reply actions
Ha. Nicely done.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:29 PM EST up reply actions
Afghanistan
when he said apt, he really meant bunker.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
or foxhole
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:29 PM EST up reply actions
Welcome back to civilization.
Well… this place vaguely resembles civilization sometimes.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 4:47 PM EST up reply actions
Ok, here is the deal, (I can't believe I am typing this)
I am going to go pick up my Levi’s (anyone want to know the size?) have a nice chat. Then when I go to get my Oliver Peoples knockoffs (I’m in college I can’t afford the real thing) I will make a stronger move. This seems like a good plan right? Make a slightly stronger connection and then go for it? Again I can’t believe I am asking the interwebs for dating advice.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 4:34 PM EST reply actions
I think you'd be okay with this.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:35 PM EST up reply actions
Bacon cologne.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:38 PM EST up reply actions
My cologne is Thai
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 4:39 PM EST up reply actions
Do Thai people smell good?
I don’t know anyone who’s Thai.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:39 PM EST up reply actions
It's sorta minty actually.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 4:41 PM EST up reply actions
Sex Panther?
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 4:48 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
i have no idea that what a sex panther is
but i like the word. i like it whenever sex or sexual is used an adjective of any bizarre adjective.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Whatever the plan, just be confident and be yourself
If you aren’t confident, nothing will work, and if you aren’t yourself she’ll be falling for the wrong guy.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
no! not the be yourself advice
not that it’s bad advice. it’s just something, heh, I hate to say this, but it’s just something that my mom would say.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I started to make a joke
but it’s way way way too easy.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Kinda like your mom.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Visual evidence to support dave's claim....
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 4:50 PM EST up reply actions
you set yourself up that time
that’s not fair!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
westie is too busy finishing your mom buddy.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
yeah that's what your mom said to your dad.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
All sounds good.
Chat now + stronger move later = nice plan.
But don’t be afraid to go off script if the situation presents itself.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
a/s/l?
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 5:20 PM EST up reply actions
Went and shot some hoops for two hours, and I missed... everything.
Worst day of my life. I shoulda been a part of this. I feel like my family just threw a birthday party and I didn’t go and everyone had the best.time.ever.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 4:55 PM EST reply actions
I just read it all.
And I kept wanting to say something, but then I’d look at the time stamp and it’d be like “1:47” and I was like sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit, I can’t reply 3 hours ago…. They’ve all moved on!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 4:58 PM EST up reply actions
You missed out on so many potential recs.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
westie is trying to pick up some hottie
give your elevator pitch to him. go!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
yeah we could've used you to further combat zk's antiquated cowboy approach
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 5:02 PM EST up reply actions
man, you're like j. edgar hoover!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Bahhhhhh!!!
She may have been 14, but I was almost 18!
How’s THAT for degree of difficulty???
HI-YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:19 PM EST up reply actions
It's boys like that that make guns necessary in my house
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
You'll have to forgive me, I just woke up from a crappy nap.
I’m just bummed I missed all the meat and potatoes of this one. Of course, if you give TOO good of advice Westie is gonna get the hook-up and disappear for months like parkinglotninja did after we gave him bulletproof dating advice.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:27 PM EST up reply actions
Yea...I wonder what happened with that chick.
It’s probably cuz she was older than he was. That never works out.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 8:32 PM EST up reply actions
So did you go to prom when you were like a college senior?
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
Well, in all honesty, she was 14 and I was 16 when we met.
Although, I was a Senior and she was a Freshman.
So yeah, I went to a couple high school events after I was already in the military.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
which was supported by the only woman on here
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
that doesn't make it right.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 7:03 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I left these jackasses alone for two hours at the dead time of the day...
… and I come back to epic horrible dating advice and “how I met my…” stories.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 5:41 PM EST up reply actions
Ok, here is the report, haha.
1) Very smooth conversation.
2) Jeans and sunglasses both came, now I need to get more mail, or not, at this point I could just talk to her.
3) She and her friend commented that I smelled really good.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 5:01 PM EST reply actions
You're totally in
I’m goin home. Good talk everyone
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 12, 2012 5:03 PM EST up reply actions
Camden Chat gets an assist on this one.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 5:05 PM EST up reply actions
not if he's confident.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 12, 2012 5:11 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
If you don't have a threesome in college...
… you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 5:42 PM EST up reply actions
timg'd again
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 5:42 PM EST up reply actions
timg is a person who posts here sometimes.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 12, 2012 7:24 PM EST up reply actions
What was the one thing he said about nipples?
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Nah man... it's all about the nips
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:21 PM EST up reply actions
Empty envelopes will do just fine!
I will reimburse all postage.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 5:12 PM EST up reply actions
And then one of us sends the creepy one addressed to her saying "go out with him!"
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
and then a flash mob emerges behind westie...
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
bwahahahahaha
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Shit, just got down to this part.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:21 PM EST up reply actions
3) She and her friend commented that I smelled really good.
That is DEFINITE interest on their part.
No woman srops that comment casually.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Now pour some chloroform on a rag
and ask her if that smells good too.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 12, 2012 5:46 PM EST up reply actions
Survey says....
Nope, not funny. Try again.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Thanks for that lol.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 12, 2012 8:23 PM EST up reply actions
bah...you beat me to the chloroform joke!
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
I knew I couldn't be the only one.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 12, 2012 8:23 PM EST up reply actions
Patton Oswalt used it on the track
Uncle Touchy’s Naked Puzzle Basement
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 8:25 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, I've been meaning to check out more Patton Oswalt.
I loved him in Young Adult. When I saw the movie, I didn’t realize he’s had a long career in comedy. He’s playing at some comedy club this weekend but I’m going to be out of town. Otherwise, I would be totally down with seeing him.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
He's great
Probably my favorite comedian right now. His first 2 cds, ‘Feelin’ kinda Patton’ and ‘Werewolves and Lollipops’ are both perfect.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 8:30 PM EST up reply actions
I love Patton too
After Dave Chappelle hung it up, Patton became my favorite comedian.
by Holymittens on Jan 12, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions
And approximately 62%
of foul mouthed comedians alive or dead. I’ve heard similar punch lines quite a few times.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 12, 2012 8:29 PM EST up reply actions
Whoops, the name of the track on the cd is actually 'The Oswalt Family Crest'
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 8:35 PM EST up reply actions
I'm going to send you a package and on the box it's going to be written in big letters...
“ASK THIS PUSSY OUT ON A DATE, HE’S HUNG LIKE A RHINO….. HIYOOOOOOO”
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:20 PM EST up reply actions
Oh man
I just thought of something even better than this!
Someone just send an empty envelope and where Westie’s name should go put something like:
Hot Mailroom Girl, check this out, TRUST ME!!!
http://www.camdenchat.com/2012/1/12/2701828/thursday-bird-droppings#comments
Westie’s Street address
Westies City/State/Zip info.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:29 PM EST up reply actions
Why would Helen Mirren want to read Camden Chat?
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Um, because we probably are the only ones that ever entered her into a hottie contest.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:34 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, I will never live this down.
That is fair though, I deserve it.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 7:37 PM EST up reply actions
Dude, it was the best...
Why WOULD you be expected to pick 65 year old hotties at 18. I had to google who was right on the cusp and I’m even closer to the Cougar division. I think we all thank you for unintentionally sparking the hilarity that ensued. She’s become a real staple here.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
I recommend googling "Helen Mirren young."
She was quite the hottie in her younger days.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
These girls are the antithesis of HM
Now page him…
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:44 PM EST up reply actions
Hells yes
Though she might be a little young for me.
by Holymittens on Jan 12, 2012 11:02 PM EST up reply actions
When are we having another hottie contest?
I wasn’t around for the first.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 7:35 PM EST up reply actions
don't call me a pussy, dick
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 7:32 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not your dickpal
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 7:33 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not your dickpal either
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 7:35 PM EST up reply actions
"Five teams that got worse this winter" by Jim Bowden
Jim Bowden really bugs the fuck out of me. This garbage only adds fuel to the fire. I’ve quoted a selection from his ESPN Insider column below. I can’t believe he assigns fault to the Orioles for not trading Zach Britton.
5. Baltimore Orioles
What they lost: More important is what the Orioles kept, as GM Dan Duquette stuck to his guns and did not trade any of his young core: Adam Jones, Nick Markakis, Brian Matusz, Zach Britton and Matt Wieters. One notable loss is slugger Luke Scott, who signed with the Rays.
What they added: Their biggest acquisition might have been the return of Roy Poitevint, who began his career with the Orioles, as executive director of international baseball. The club was very active overseas, signing Taiwanese left-hander Wei-Yin Chen and Japanese lefty Tsuyoshi Wada. Former Rangers outfielder Endy Chavez can run and has a great glove but has never been able to hit or make adjustments at the plate. They also traded for third-string catcher Taylor Teagarden and left-handed starter Dana Eveland.
The bottom line: During his career, Poitevint’s international signings have included Hideo Nomo, Tomo Ohka, Sun Woo Kim and Jim Ho Cho. Unfortunately, Chen and Wada look more like Cho than Nomo. The Orioles were in need of starting pitching and an impact bat but accomplished neither. The leadership of Duquette and manager Buck Showalter is solid, but this is a franchise for which it is hard to recruit free agents and offers a limited budget. Those two factors alone always make it difficult to improve this team.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
That's a poor analysis.
With all the pitching “depth” DD has added, to use his word, I think it’s obvious he’s going to try to sell high on Guthrie mid-season to a contender. And he appears to be trying, patiently, to sell high on Jones. There’s no reason to make trades just for the sake of “making a move”. Time will tell what DD’s plan really is (if he has one).
by j o incandenza on Jan 12, 2012 6:45 PM EST up reply actions
and...
how exactly did we get “worse”, when our only notable loss is Luke Scott?
And is he forgetting that we also dumped Vlad?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
"loss"
How many games did Scott even play in last year? He was never a long term solution anyway.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 7:16 PM EST up reply actions
I initially read that as Mormon.
Too much Mitt Romney.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Or Jeremy Guthrie.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 9:49 PM EST up reply actions
Get a brain, Mormans!
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Jan 12, 2012 10:40 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
If anyone is open for some late night/ late afternoon risk.
Let me know.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 7:17 PM EST reply actions
Yes.
I can play
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 8:33 PM EST up reply actions
I'll take it we aren't playing?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 8:55 PM EST up reply actions
I would like to
But it’s only us 2 right now.
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
That's not awkward...
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 9:01 PM EST up reply actions
You'r right, it isn't
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 9:05 PM EST up reply actions
It's been a day full of awkward moments.
For example, we have weird jokes about the 60s, duck, and john deere machines; cougars; my mom; and… god knows what else.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Aren't you being a little redundant with "cougars" and "my mom"?
,,,, and john deere machines.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
AWKWARD!
Oh and Stacey mentioned something awkward about you.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I'm not allowed to be awkward anymore.
Apparently it makes other people awkward.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 12, 2012 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
Haven't you had enough RISK for one day?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 8:34 PM EST up reply actions
Does Jim Bowden get tired of listening to himself speak?
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Does this reply have anything to do with WW's comment?
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 8:44 PM EST up reply actions
Westie never tires of Risk: JB never tires of listening to himself speak.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Mine was more an inference to his Mailroom Malaise...
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 12, 2012 8:48 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, I see it as a mailroom victory.
Did you not see the Thai cologne part?!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Yup, it nicely illustrates the duality of man.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
You really enjoyed that Kristen Bell video didn't you?
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 9:05 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, she scored mad props for that video.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
oh i see.
As in, Is the pope Catholic?
When Andino finally emerged, he looked up at the Red Sox fans filing out. "I just wanted to see them go," he says
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 12, 2012 8:51 PM EST up reply actions
Does the Pope have a wife?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 12, 2012 8:54 PM EST up reply actions
Looks like the 'Skins landed Raheem Morris as their new DBs coach.
I was hoping he’d land with Tomlin and the Steelers.
Good hire for the ’Skins.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
Did you see the story about Morris driving Kyle Shanahan home from jail?
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Ha! No. Off to teh Googlz!
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 9:20 PM EST up reply actions
Haha. Guess there isn't really much else to do out in Indy except get blotto
Didn’t a Colts kicker or punter get arrested for public drunkeness after falling into a canal or stream or fountain or something a couple of years ago?
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/02/28/Sports/Bucs_assistant_arrest.shtml
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 12, 2012 9:23 PM EST up reply actions
According to Buck
Reynolds is to be back at 3B all year, Chris Davis at 1B. I hope the entertainment value one would expect is as high as last year. Davis is a fine D man at 1B, can he hit? Reynolds….
For the love of fuck, move Reynolds to DH.
I’m hoping DD won’t put up with this shit.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Pitchers and catchers schedules have been posted for all 30 teams.
For the O’s it’s Sun. February 19 with the first full-squad workout on the 24th.
Hooray for seeing the light at the end of the tunnel!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
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