Comments on: Top 20 Shortstops for 2008

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:31:39 +0000

@Baron Von Vulturewins: Sounds a lot like Jim Belushi's gorilla in Trading Places.

By: Baron Von Vulturewins

Baron Von Vulturewins — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:38:47 +0000

I’m late to this party, but this may be the single greatest sentence ever in the English language:

The husband was punched in the eye by Mungo, leading the husband to attack Mungo with a butcher knife or machete, requiring Dodgers executive Babe Hamberger to smuggle Mungo in a laundry cart to a seaplane waiting off a wharf in order to escape the country.

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:57:53 +0000

@BigFatHippo: Yeah, probably, but the Angels really handed that to the Sawx.

By: BigFatHippo

BigFatHippo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:20:21 +0000

@BigFatHippo: Just messin with ya Grey. The call at 3rd base last night was correct no? He tagged him, then fell down and the ball came out. He was already out, cut and dried.

By: BigFatHippo

BigFatHippo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:02:52 +0000

@Grey: No you read right, Ron the Knife Man. He supplies all the bikers in the bootheel. Switches, carvers, gutters, boneslicers, whatever you need. Truly an artist. Kittle may have killed somebody but that's all hush hush. You didn't hear it from me. Sonofabitch probably deserved it anyway.

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:48:58 +0000

@BigFatHippo: I thought I read Ron Kittle at first. I was about to say, did Ron Kittle kill someone I didn't hear about it?

By: BigFatHippo

BigFatHippo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:46:20 +0000

@Grey: Oh yeah, forgot about that. I need a machete. The neighbors are really annoying. Gonna go to Ron the Knife Man tomorrow and see what he's got. thanks

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:27:49 +0000

@BigFatHippo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugueth_Urbina

By: BigFatHippo

BigFatHippo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:16:32 +0000

@Grey: Urbina? You lost me man. Jorge Urbina from Costa Rica?

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:06:33 +0000

@BigFatHippo: "So you served as Urbina's attorney? Umm... Maybe I'll go with the public defender."

By: BigFatHippo

BigFatHippo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:01:54 +0000

@Steve: Sounds like Burgos better lawyer up!

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:59:19 +0000

@Steve: Too bad he didn't run over Ayala and Heilman.

By: BigFatHippo

BigFatHippo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:56:15 +0000

@Grey: You can’t batterize a Hippo, you’ll wear yourself out.

I had the Stubby Clapp one time, one swing of the hammer, 30 feet through a keyhole and you’re cured.

Thanks for the memories, ugghhh…………

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:55:39 +0000

They said the Mets bullpen was a car-crash.

And they were right.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=3631601

By: Grey

Grey — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:43:39 +0000

@BigFatHippo: Van Lingle Mungo would be proud. Then he would batterize you.

By: BigFatHippo

BigFatHippo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:28:52 +0000

@Grey: @Everybody

HaHa

You guys had way too much fun while I was gone. Meeting in St Lou all day, 3 hour drive both ways for me. And this is what I come home to………

“Dad-gummit, dork! I’m on trial for assault!” Memories of Stubby Clapp and Mungo?

“Mongo like candy”

I waited all day for this???

Classic, keep up the good work. You can tell it’s offseason in FBB.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:28:46 +0000

@Lolhamburger: Mr. Albright, will you be representing yourself today? No, your honor. My counsel is just running a bit late. Ah, here he is now… Lolhamburger, where were you?!

Lolhamburger, “There was a semantics discourse down the hall–”

Grey, “Dad-gummit, dork! I’m on trial for assault!”

Lolhamburger, “Actually, it’s battery.”

By: Lolhamburger

Lolhamburger — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:55:39 +0000

@Grey: Giving you another chance to say dork. If you literally pushed Jhonny Peralta, that technically speaking would be battery, not assault. An assault exists only if you made a move towards Jhonny Peralta that created an immediate fear on his part of an unwanted bodily touching, without there actually being contact. Note that intent is required in all instances. If you tried to push Derek Jeter, who is right next to Jhonny Peralta, and slipped in the attempt and pushed Jhonny Peralta instead, that would not be battery against Jhonny Peralta (because you did not intend the pushing). However, if in the same act, you caused Derek Jeter to fear being pushed, then there would be assault against Derek Jeter (because you had intentionally directed the action against him). Got that?

By: Freak

Freak — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:14:31 +0000

@Garrett: Clearly the better nickname makes up the difference.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:50:43 +0000

@Steve: Possibly. Anyone who has seen a Guy Ritchie movie knows my man likes guns (and fast motion).

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:49:28 +0000

@Garrett: I'd prefer O-Cab's stat line as well. The extra average points are negligible, but they are there and need to be accounted for. BTW, thanks for spending your remaining days on Earth with us. Hope you see 87!

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:46:21 +0000

And yes, I realize I’m an idiot for posting the same comment twice. I’m 86 yrs old so this internet thing still fakes me out occasionally.

By: royce!

royce! — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:44:56 +0000

@Rudy Gamble: No, you're absolutely right. Baseball Boogie clearly proves that the Dodgers talents are improving. I can't wait to discover what new-ish music they'll murder this year! Gotta be something relatively new but verging on played out...Raggaeton seems likely. Or maybe EMO! I guess that would only work if they lost, though.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:40:39 +0000

Player Raters are strange. Looking at O-Cab vs The Riot I’d prefer O-Cab’s statline on my team. I guess the 30 points in average more than offsets the difference in runs, homers and RBI’s but it seems a little weird to me (steals pretty much negligible).

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:38:11 +0000

@Grey: Wonder if A-Rod snuck out of Madonna's apartment in a laundry basket.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:37:22 +0000

I don’t get player raters. How is Theriot ahead of O-Cab? I guess the 30 points in average offsets the 8 runs, 7 homers and 20 RBI’s. Just weird to me since I’d prefer O-Cab’s statline on my team I think at first glance.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:24:43 +0000

@Steve: "Nobody nots let Mungo screw their wife."

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:22:32 +0000

@Grey: "Stories and anecdotes about Mungo tend to emphasize his reputation for combativeness, including episodes of drinking and fighting. The most widely told story concerns a visit to Cuba where, supposedly, Mungo was caught in a sexually compromising position with a married woman by her husband. The husband was punched in the eye by Mungo, leading the husband to attack Mungo with a butcher knife or machete, requiring Dodgers executive Babe Hamberger to smuggle Mungo in a laundry cart to a seaplane waiting off a wharf in order to escape the country." Gold.

By: Grey

Grey — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:38:03 +0000

@Steve: Guess it's better than Stubby Dick.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:36:05 +0000

@Grey: I think his given name is Richard so I guess he didn’t want to go through life known as Dick Clapp (snigger).
Not sure that Stubby is the answer, though.