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Three 2-run dingers by the Mariners off of Brett Tomko have the Mariners feeling right at home at the Coli.

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Thesis:

Corn nuts are like the Ambrosia of the Gods.

I don't know.

I do know Lynn would STRONGLY advise against eating them.

They are good.
the salt is addicting
You're telling me.

Four servings per bag my ass.

They give you great smelling breath after as well
Assuming you still have functional teeth.
LMAO...it would be hard to gum those suckers.
But it would be almost worth it.

Almost.

TWSS
i swear. i'm laughing so hard, i'm crying.

must be the wine, but it’s only the first glass.

we need someone to do a study to determine how many of the posts

are actually related to the game

On any given night?

15% maybe?

in a losing season?

If we were contending it would be quite different.

agrd.
what's "contending" mean?

is that when games at the end of the season have meaning? :(

it was waaaay back in 2006 and the stars were all a little brighter....
Is that a Paris Hilton song?
I am contending with my fandom
eh I think my posts would still be silly for the most part
The ADD threads are more fun anyway

Ooh, a puppy!

Well, none of mine are
I think blez called this athleticsnation.com

because randomchattypostswithonlytheslimmestrelationtobaseball.com was already taken as a URL.

I love that site!
And "Athletics Area," although probably more appropriate, just didn't have the same ring.
*strolls in with near-nekkid body covered with strategically-placed A's headbands*

[[[cracks a Shasta Cola]]]

Well.....

it ain’t called a head band for no damn reason at all.

Is this the same person with the lampshade??
How YOU doin?
Sha-Sha-Sha-SHASTA!@#%
he's mixing something with that shasta
3 thread for this game?
Yeah, we're sick, aren't we?
it's been a long game already
Do you have a cure Doc?
MOAR A'Z BAESBALL!
Quit posting compulsively??
Any love is good love
did you take what you could get?
Right after she looked at me with those big brown eyes
You ain't seen nothin yet.

Bababaaaaby you ain’t seen nothin yet.

You can't always ge what you want.....
At what point do you feel stupid for covering yourself in body paint at a sporting event?
No way, that's tradition.

One of our most tangible connections to the indigenous people of this great continent.

I think the stupidity felt for body paint

is inversely related to the alcohol consumed.

Judging by the looks on those Oregon fans' faces they're sober.
This man is speaking truth.

Though, personally, it’s gonna take a lot of consumption before someone gets near me with a brush.

Oh dear

NFL may not have a salary cap starting 2010.

Al Davis is drooling.

Actually Al Davis is broke

at least that’s what I’ve been reading

How could that be

I assumed that when he died a few years ago, he left himself everything in his will.

the Raiders are the least valuable franchise

and they lost money last year. Also Al has sold over 20% of his share in the last year

It’s obviously a ploy.

Jerry Jones is drooling

He’s just going to buy another gigantic scoreboard.

He'll figure out a way to come out cleaner than a virgin's honey pot

Whoa!

He means Winnie the Pooh.

Pooh is a virgin.

pooh and piglet have something going on
that's because he hit his head on a scoreboard
I don't think any of the owners want an uncapped season.

It’s money out of their pockets.

I only work for Maximum wage
they kinda built that in last go-round.

I remember that.

Ichiro is going to get a hit in this at-bat.

I didn't realise he was hitting .360. That's absurd.
I loved his line when asked about Mauer getting the batting title.
I've not followed baseball stories for a while 'cos y'know our team sucks.

What did he say?

It was an interview with the Japanese media.

As you probably know, Ichiro is much much more entertaining when speaking to his own people. Anyway, Ichiro had been #1 all season, but Mauer just got enough ABs to make the list and so debuted at #1 bumpting Ichiro to #2.

When the reporter asked Ichiro how he felt about that, his answer was something like, “Mauer is a good guy, I like him. If it were someone else that would be unacceptable, but since it’s Mauer I’ll allow it.”

It sounds even funnier in Japanese!
Nice swing there, Son #1
that's a blood-spattered angel right there.
How did you find me?

I’m the man.

you know, for a second there, I did.
Best movie(s) evar.

Plus, I loved the musical stylings of the 5, 6, 7, 8’s.

I'm the map
Map?

Did he say map?

I like my version better.

They don't love you like I love you

Mychael Urban is officially alright with me forever.

How do you make a less-than-thrilling game feel better. A Tribe Called Quest’s “Check the Rhime” does the trick. Ya herrrd?
That's a step, at least
Oh the A's

The A’s

okay The Libertines.

Never listened to them. Which album do I start with?

Up the Bracket

Also, it’d be fine if that’s where you ended.

Yeah that album's pretty good.

Lead singer is a wanker though.

Absolutely

And everything they did post-Bracket was middling at best. But someway, somehow, those guys got it together for at least one damn great album.

I'm surprised they could get through an album

with their drug addiction.

They don't have much music so it really doesn't matter

The Libertines was their most popular but I’ve been listening to their GH’s lately.

I've never even heard of them

but I’m not cool in any way

well, me neither.

I’m just getting them, based solely on O2B’s recommendation.

Trust me

Have I ever steered you wrong with music? I mean we tend to like the same stuff.

what type of music do they play?
I have a hard time putting a label on their stuff

Sorry.

You should be sorry
Like they're trying to be The Clash when it was popular to be The Strokes.

If that makes any sense.

Well I've heard of those bands

thanks for the tip

C'mon A's!

Let’s do something before I have to go to bed.

is it that late in iowa?
It's the late 1970's in Iowa
I resent that.

It’s at least, like, 1994.

I SAW THE SIGN!
We all wear flannel shirts

I love my 300-baud modem.

Iowa

Where Men are Men and the farm animals better be fast

That's what lassos are for

Yeee haw!

explains the rope burns on Bessie
True story (honest)

At the on-ramp to north 85 at Fremont Avenue in Sunnyvale, there used to be a sign that gave the mileage to Dike, Iowa (there really is such a place – I knew someone from there).

Wow, awesome.

That town has like, maybe 2,000 people, tops.

do they ride bikes there?
I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride my bike.

Fat Bottom Girls....
AMEN TO THAT!!
Last time we discussed this we got in trouble.
It's safe. Nobody is watching.
with the lights out, it's less dangerous.
Kindly get your hand off my leg.
ok

Don’t take your hand off mine, though.

Not you.

Him. You’re fine.

Sorry, that's actually mine

And it’s not a hand.

Love the song....

and all that it represents!

agrd.

I liked his style.

One of the greatest song writers evah
Is that Brian or Freddie?
I'm more Freddie
I love love love Freddie's voice, but

didn’t pay much attention to who wrote what.

When I first discovered Queen I liked the sophisticated, heavily orchestrated works. Then I liked the ballads. Later I came to appreciate the hard rock stuff.

Thirty years later, I think I like some of the rock stuff best. But only the really pure intense ones, not the noisy stuff.

I appreciate artists that sing, play and write their own stuff.

Complete artists….

I could roll with Freddie....

but only so far.

well that's true

but that dude knows more about love than most. It translates to female for me just fine.

given the times he lived in...

I probably could’ve rolled all the way with him.

I want to ride my bicycle

I want to ride it where I like.

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
Yes indeed.

I just got the latest model: check it out!

That bike would have killed me

 I could barely handle the one I had with training wheels

so i could sport the farrah fawcett feathered hair there?

I believe they’re two hours ahead of us.

How did Swooney get on base?

Gameday is being weird.

The ball hit his bat juuuuuust right
back to the game. one on, no outs.
One out

Its nice how some things are so reliable…

Are all the Cust haters glad that at least he swung?
correction: one on, one out
*so bored by this dreadful game that he hypnotizes room and forces them to disco down*

{hypnotizes the emperor into doing tonight's recap}
the recap

should just be a few sentences, with each successive word spelling out the word SUCK:

Seattle understood clearly Kust’s sadly usual classic K style, undermining creatively Kust’s swing unbelievably etc etc etc

recap should be like the opening thread write up
That was my suggestion!
I remember

you seemed a little mad then though

Moi? Never!

I’m sweet as pie.

Yes. I had a slice.
Maybe a bite.
OK i'll leave you 2 alone.
Um. No.
sure.
WTF?
WTF WTF?
Why are you giving me to another man?
Why are you letting him take bites of you?
I didn't let him!
You didn't seem to mind!
it was the reference to pie
It was a euphimism.
gee you think
get out while you still can
TWSS

It was such a strange night that time.

Everything usually is.
Wonder Twin Powers Activate!
Form of?
an uncomfortable weird argument!
in honor of barton

a shallow pool and….

Inevitable staples?
That's what I meant.
( takes the coke challenge )
You guys are still here?

Bloom, can you clean up for me? Oh and you need to push your body against the front door as you lock it. Thanks.

Don't worry, ain't nobody robbin this place
The home plate umpire is most ungood.

(Sorry for the rude interjection of baseball analysis.)

does he suck at being good?
I wonder if the league office ever looks at replays like Fosse was just showing?

I wonder how hard it would be to get the umps to position themselves directly behind the plate?

The “House of Flying Daggers” video released starring Raekwon and it features Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Method Man.

what in the world is that?
Oh I can't wait

now can you tell me who those people are

They are some of the members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

why don't you crank some led zeppelin

I listen to true school hip hop.

You'll grow someday
Real hip-hop is some solid stuff.
I like it all

It just came from somewhere and I wish more young people would give that it’s due attention.

Not what is now known as Hip Hop

it sucks whats being passed off as such on the radio nowadys. you really have to got Underground to get the goods. Sadly i lost the roadmap some time ago.

Not a lot of love for hip hop out here, huh?
Even less love here for country
Plus plus plus
I like hip hop.

but I’m 39, very white and fat. So…

but not really like

Stately, plump…

no, that's Buck Mulligan.

Wrong character.

I know...

thats why i was drawing an indirect comparison.

oh.

Well, character-wise, I’ve developed from Stephen to Leo over the years. Though the older I get, the more I like Leopold.

I never like Buck.

There's something poetic about outgrowing Stephen.

Or am I getting mixed up with Dorian Gray?

nope. you right.

we all kinda grow from Stephen to Leopold.

when I first read Portrait...

I felt in many ways like I was in the book.

No

I think you are barking up the right tree…or skipping the right stones as the case may be.

I like rap that's about the rhythm and the words.

Don’t like the noize.

I liked the Et Tu clan

they were sharp as a knife

The movie was really subpar for Chinese kung-fu films.

I took some Chinese in college, and told wo de laoshi (my teacher) that I didn’t care for it. She said, “you have good taste in Chinese movies.”

I ate some Chinese in college

but could never attract that type of female

You just have to say:

“ni hen pioliang. Wo ai ni!”

okay

“ni hen pioliang. Wo ai ni!”

"Money's on the dresser?"

I was in the Navy.

"you are very pretty. I love you!"
I eat kosher every night she let's me
An old joke....

told by a jewish friend of mine.

You know what food cures a Jewish nymphomaniac?

Wedding Cake.

Every time I hear the word “kosher” I think of him.

Well I'm in love with a nice Jewish girl

and it’s kosher so far

What did the Jewish dad say when his son asked him for fifty dollars?

Forty dollars? What do you need thirty dollars for?

I kid, I kid.

And yay Barton!

did Barton do something?

Homer.

what did you just call em?

No…cool. Was anyone on?

Can you tell i have not been paying attention?

hit one into the bay
well - technically into the hills....but a homer nontheless
I like exaggerating power.
That's be a bay in the EAST coast?? That's power all right
Yeah that would be a foul ball...

unless you mean Susuin Bay.

I read that as Susan Dey.
Back in the LA Law heyday

I would have like to hit one in Susan Dey.

Hit one realy far.
R U watching teh game?

Homerun.

I'm counting on you guys!
he's always doing something

this time he did something good. Solo HR.

Been there...

she was only nice after it was all over.

depends if you're her husband.
You didn't really come here to hunt...
Griffey is 0-7 career against Breslow.

Knowledge.

TV.

I actually look at that other screen across the room occasionally.

Ken said it too

Yes iglw, ken is back.

When was the last time breslow pitched?

DOes it make sense to use him here? the Seattles have a decent pen and the A’s are down by 3.

ducks score and convert.

19-8

They do indeed. Their defence is pretty good, it's just been on the field for the entire game.

The offence is gimmicky though and Boise have it worked out. That said there’s a game on now.

NOW there's a game.
Told ya, their D is pretty good. Just needed to get off the field.

The QB for the Ducks is terrible though. As shown by him handing momentum back to Boise St with that throw right there.

yeah

he sucks

He's so mechanical when reading the D.

And not in a good way. You can tell he’s just dying to take off running.

let's see if they can mount one of those back-breaking drives with that ommentum here...
ommentum

Is that Oregonian?

Bloomsian.
I think that last play was Bloomsian.

I don’t think Boise want to win this game.

Ah the lost language of bloomington.

Splendid creature, bloomsian is.

a creature of Horiba.
Thomas Aquinas theorized that animals had no souls
it's okay to eat fish cause they don't have any feelings.
I once kissed Molly's lips
Pythagoras theorized that beans do have souls.
What was that weird chant I just heard?

“Fire Geren” chant, was there?

No, I think it was "Bres!" "low!"
OK....it's seriously time to get serious here

C’MON A’S – put some runs up, k?

Are the A's even still playing
There's an AAAA at the plate right now.
Not anymore.
Oh, wait, there's another one.
If you call what Patterson just did playing, then yes
I absolutely hate that commercial where the family goes on a trip

and that bag falls off the car. I mean, you sit here watching it happen every 15 minutes and the only thing you can think of is “YOU SON OF A BITCH, YOU TAKE THE SAME DAMN TRIP EVERY 15 MINUTES AND YOU NEVER STRAP THE DAMN BAG”

Also, hello.

When you jump in and out of threads

Aloha seems to work nicely.

Just strap the bag! It's ok. Please. Do it!

Yeah.

So, uh, Daric

Where’s that been your entire career?

onBart over the wall!
we wanted that your last at bat, daric
Boop boop!

on BART!

I hope this catches
I think the A's should have

A guy jump off Mt. Davis into an empty pool every time Daric Barton hits a HR, like a cross between the Brewers’ slide and “Jackass”.

I would do it for the right price.
hahahaha

don't look down

damn I looked down

We want somE more o that!!
K, HR, K...we're due for another homer
If you pronounce that it sounds like Kirk.

Hahahahahah

WOW - I didn;t know new cars dropped out of old clunkers

(like in that commercial)

it's so so so so sad

that I know, for a fact, in my heart, deep down inside, all the way within the innermost place in my being, that I could do a better job than Vince Cotroneo even after a full-frontal lobotomy.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me

than a frontal lobotomy.

differnt ways to kill the pain the same
Yeah, whatever works, I guess.
Bottleotomy?
Tom Waits...

for no man.

I met him once.

Nice guy. Kinda shy. Just like you’d imagine.

Perfect voice though
very much so.

He’s tall.

did you see Coffee and Cigarettes

the Waits/Iggy Pop part was Epic.

I think all of his songs have been covered by another singer at this point

he’s a great writer of lyrics

yeah, he's just an interesting, cool dude.
I support this statement.

( insert random AN poster )

I'm looking forward to getting the second half of my lobotomy done
Pew pew pew

Oh wait. Hannahan isn’t on our side anymore. :-(

Oh ig, had there only been a designated fielder position
Hi Jack
Not a good idea to say that the next time you're on an airplane
Are there a lot of guns in Oregon?

They seem to keep shooting themselves in the foot.

Suzuki v Suzuki

will he go?

The first half of this game was more fun.
What the heck is this??? DP for real
is the baseball game still going?

What’s the score and what inning?

7-4 top of the 9th
sort of. i think only one team is playing tonight.

7-4 them, top o’ the 9th

Bases loaded squeeze?

Wow.

Would somebody please hold onto the damn football.

That’s about the 5th fumble of the game.

That was a good bunt.

Can any of our guys do that?

I think so....we have a few guys that can lay down a good bunt.
Yay for horrible managing being rewarded!!!!

What a terrible move by Wakamatsu.

but well executed

or at least looked like it to my untrained eye

They executed it fine

Even as such Gray had a bang-bang play at the plate (I think he made a good decision to throw to 1B), but when you consider the disaster of missing the bunt or popping it up versus all the ways that run can score if you let the AB play out, it’s just a terrible gamble.

2009 Manager of the year
It would have made more sense IF they were looking to tie or go ahead??
Not really, IMO

Not when a walk scores one and doesn’t make an out, a fly ball scores one, a non DP grounder can score one, a hit can score 2-4…But, whatever. I guess the theory is that Aardsma can’t possibly hold a 2-run lead but if you can just give him 3 runs he’s good to go.

It's the element of surprise

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Bases-loaded squeeze!

It was the ultimate surprise
BUT...it worked!

I would have thought they’d at least TRY to get the guy at the plate.

um, it's not a good sign when you fire your

O-Coordinator a week before the season starts, is it?

The Buccaneers are going 3-13.

Jon Gruden is laughing
you think?

I kind of trust your judgments.

Yeah, I think they’re pretty bad.

whew.

One team market here. At least I don’t have to watch two teams sucking.

both the Bucs and the Chiefs did that this week

the Raiders killed their OC

I assume somebody already addressed how awful Oregon's uniforms look
Have you seen the alternative?
Ad nauseum
is it time for the nightly

TEE

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