Shit, that’s a good idea! I should try out for the Phillies… their middle relief sucks so badly I’d probably be an improvement!

themann1086 –

Dammit, why did you have to bring up the Phillies? You’ll reveal their strategery. They’re gonna do what they always do – trade Ryan Howard for three washed-up middle relievers and a player to be named later, then talk about how they did it to become more competitive.

Bradrocket, you the man.

The sad fact is that teams like KC (and my Orioles) have to overpay to get any decent player to come. Former O’s GM Syd Thrift once said that it was like he was offering Confederate money at the Winter Meeting.

This is the first time I’ve seen Gil Meche’s name written out. Listening to radio, I had assumed it was “Gil Mesh” and that it was a pseudonym for Gilgamesh — you know, one of those phony names that can only be deciphered by someone with an IQ greater than that of dryer lint — and that the ancient Babylonian king had returned to try his hand at baseball. (You’ll know I’m right when KC signs a catcher who is familiar with Mesh’s pitching style, name of N. K. Dewe.)

Too bad he’s pitching in the AL, though, because he’s strong enough — without steroids — to completely crush batting records.

im in ur bullpenz, loozin ur gamez.

im in ur bullpenz, loozin ur gamez.

LOL. Very funny.

The sad fact is that teams like KC (and my Orioles) have to overpay to get any decent player to come.

Other than Tejada, when was the last time a decent player came to the O’s?

Davis, your O’s are fucking up the market! $19 million for Danys Baez? How are my Twins supposed to compete with that?

I voted.

Brad, if you’re left-handed and can breathe, you’re a potential bullpen perennial.

q.v. Tony Fossas.

The fact is that the welfare given to the poorer teams is a disgrace to baseball and capitalism.

The delusion that 30 teams can be supported is one reason for such welfare from Liberals like Selig.

Selig is in a delusional bubble where Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, and Seattle aren’t large markets.

The Success Tax against teams like the Yankees shuffles their money to teams that have no commitment to winning.

Like the Royals, who have a moonshine drinking owner who just doesn’t care.

They made no effort to retain all-stars like Carlos Beltran and Johnny Damon.

But, they gave out money to a washed up catcher, a washed up outfielder (Gonzalez), and to a mediocre pitcher (Meche).

At least six teams should be eliminated from Major League Baseball:

Those six teams – The Marlins, The Devil Rays, The Royals, The Pirates, The Brewers, and The Rockies.

Then, organize four six team divisions

The NL East: Braves, Phillies, Reds, Cubs, Cardinals, Mets
The NL West: Padres, Giants, Dodgers, Diamondbacks, Rockies, Astros

The AL East: Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, Tigers, Blue Jays, Indians
The AL West: A’s, Angels, Rangers, Mariners, White Sox, Twins

That’ll stabilize Baseball and eliminate the desire to penalize successful teams.

Put the Cardinals in the West and the Nationals in the East.

I call fake Gary.

Selig isn’t aliberal. He’s an evil genius corporatist.

He’s delivered a system guaranteed to destroy baseball, at the cost of millions to any municipality who tries to entice a team with a new baseball stadium, only to have said team suck for many years due to mismanagement by half-bright owners and greedheads.

The Owners don’t care if the team wins; they only care that they can bargain for a better deal from the next city, and that they can sell the team for a profit.

The only future for fans will be hearbreak and loss.

The plight of the Brewers will soon be yours.

Brad, you got nothing to complain about. Sabien couldn’t GET Gil Meche. He couldn’t sign carlos lee with a better offer. He couldn’t give stupid contracts to ted lilly or juan pierre. He had to tuck his tail between his legs and sign durham, feliz and bonds. The exciting new pieces? Rich Aurelia and Benji Molina. Dave Roberts only signed because of bochy. Damn, this team is gonna be an embarassment in ’07…

mikey

The fact is everything is a political issue, right down to which brand of toilet paper you use. You liberal traitors like to be gentle on your asses, while we true American conservatives honor America by wiping our asses with sand paper.

Absolutely crazy. I’m glad the Tigers were able to get their pitching, more or less, through trades and their farm system and not by signing pitchers like Meche.

I’m surprised Seattle didn’t overpay to keep him. That would be the kind of move the Mariners’ front office would make.

It’s not considered liberal to spend millions in tax payer money for baseball stadiums?

Baseball is at risk of embracing socialism like the NFL unfortunately did

Shouldn’t Iraq have a team, Gary? How about Teh Purple Thumbsâ„¢!

“It’s not considered liberal to spend millions in tax payer money for baseball stadiums?”

I dunno, lets ask the Texans about their stadium, and their owner at the time, President Bush

Brad, I think everything you noted in #2-5 about your pitching skills denies your statement in #1 that “I’ll at least be a step up from nothing.”

Oh, sorry, Texas Rangers… the Texans had their stadium built by those other taxpayers.

It’s not considered liberal to spend millions in tax payer money for baseball stadiums?

I bet Gary is one of those types you can’t stand at parties. The type who can’t shut the hell up about politics on any issue that is being discussed in a casual manner. Doesn’t matter if the subject turns to music, movies, food, sports, etc, Gary will find a way to shit Democrat/Republican all over it.

Anyway, Gary, I live in St. Louis (somewhere near you, considering you said you live in Missouri), and I completely opposed spending state tax money on replacing Busch Stadium. But I’m still a flaming liberal Democrat traitor. So wrap your Democrat/Republican lizard brain around that.

Gary’s right – market socialism did for the NFL what it did to Sweden. It turned it into a widly profitable league that benefited everyone involved. I’m deeply disgusted. Oh’ Go Seahawks!

This is a little off-topic, but our local neighborhood wing-nut has today decided to post a summary of what he calls his “world view”. This fellow posts this kind of blather all the time, only here he actually tries to explain it, and it’s so full of wingnutty goodness I thought I’d provide it here for you. Your comments are encouraged.:

Feminised leftist socialism is an accurate description, because leftism is the feminine world view, just as the right is the masculine world view. And leftist males, who take on the feminine leftist world view, have failed to become men.

…and there is nothing which more embodies this moral depravity than feminised leftist socialism.

4.) My wicked awesome mega-cool nickname. Imagine the roar of the Fenway crowd when they hear, “Now warming up, Brrrrrrrrrrrradrrrrrrrrrrocket!!!!�

If the baseball thing doesn’t work out, you might could be a professional wrestler. Can’t you just hear Michael Buffer saying, “Lllllladies and gentlemen, weighing in at 230 lbs* and hailing from Parts Unknown, the Master of the 360 Snarkton Dive, Brrrrrrrrrrrradrrrrrrrrrrocket!!!!”

And they’d shoot fireworks off and a Motorhead song would pound out over the loudspeakers and the crowd would go absolutely apeshit, chanting “BRAD-Rocket! BRAD-Rocket!” over and over. And, of course, “Sadly, No!” would be awesome as a catchphrase.

“Lemme tell ya somethin’, Mean Gene**, I’ve been hearin’ a lot of talk from these wingnuts like Dustin Rhodes and Jeff Jarrett, sayin’ how they’re gonna prove at the Brawl For It All how school vouchers are inherintly better for minorities than the modern public school system. Well, I just got one thing to say to that: SADLY, NO!”

And the crowd would go nuts. On the t-shirt sales alone, we could retire to Barbados. And at the Royal Rumble, after gaining Chris Jericho’s trust by telling him “I got your back, brother”, you’ll TOTALLY DO A HEEL TURN by whacking him with a chair. This’ll set up a mask versus hair TLC match at Wrestlemania, which we’ll win ’cause I’ll hit ’em with a Bible.

‘Coz once you turn heel, I wanna be your manager. I’ll call myself Bro. Matt T. Swank, and we’ll accuse your opponents of trying to destroy Christmas and force gay agendas down throats and such. I got a friend who does a hilarious Blonde Shrieking Hot Conservative Pundit*** and she’d make a killer valet. And she’s smokin’ hot, so that doesn’t hurt.

Think about it if the Sox pass. We could make more money than Bill Gates.

* Just a placeholder ’cause I don’t know how much Bradrocket weighs. Wrestlers have to be pretty stout cats, so you might have to bulk up. Or slim down, I wouldn’t know.

** Is that fucker still alive anyway?

*** Her mom’s from Okinawa, so she’d be a Blonde Shrieking Hot Minority Conservative Pundit. I’m not gonna speak for her, but we might could work a lesbian thing in there, too.

Funny thing is, the new GM running the Royals, Dayton Moore, is actually highly regarded in the game. Moore overpaid for Meche, but he is no dummy. The Royals desperately need innings-eaters. They had a 5.65 ERA last year. They are the one team in MLB that is almost guaranteed to improve by adding Gil Meche. And Meche at least has some upside considering his age (27) and solid K/9 rate (7.5). The signing of Jason Marquis by the Cubs is actually much worse. The Cubs have completely lost their minds this offseason. That is going to be one interesting train wreck to watch.

The dumbest GMs are Duquette in Baltimore and Bavasi in Seattle. Those teams will be bad for a very long time. The National League equivalent of the Orioles is the San Francisco Giants and their collection of Guys Who Used To Be Good In The Late Nineties. Only the Giants could waste 1000 plate appearances on Randy Winn and Steve Finley. If this was 1998, the Giants would be loaded.

As a Mets fan, I’m ecstatic that we got rid of one of the worst GMs in the game (Duquette) and now have one of the best (Minaya.) After so many years of Duquette and the equally bad Steve Phillips, Minaya is a real breath of fresh air. Phillips wanted to trade a young David Wright for Jose Cruz Jr., fer chrissakes.

Feminised leftist socialism is an accurate description, because leftism is the feminine world view, just as the right is the masculine world view. And leftist males, who take on the feminine leftist world view, have failed to become men.

Well, I’m a leftist male, and I have a girlfriend who is six feet tall, gorgeous, 27 years old and highly educated, with a Masters degree in education. She doesn’t seem to be complaining about my masculinity.

Dude has it all wrong. Methinks he is a small pee-pee conservative who is a little too obsessed with being “masculine.”

Um, would that be the “old” right or the “new” right. ‘Cause the old right, the true conservatives, were for conservative fiscal policy, small government, non interventionist foreign policy, individual liberties and economic opportunity. Those actually sound kind of feminine to me. It’s only since the republican party was taken over by the extreme radical authoritarian theocratic pro-war racist wing and the perfectly respectable descriptor “conservative” was coopted that they can make insane meaningles diatribes like the one above…

mikey

There are no bigger pussies on earth than White American Males who feel the need to assert how badass they are because they are White, American and Male. If that’s your number one calling card, you are one pathetic pile of shit.

This guy posts on my local community board, and no matter what the subject is, he trots out gobbledegook based on that manifesto.

The discussion could be a question about roadwork on the main drag, an inquiry about whether the was a loud party up on Old Canyon on Saturday night, or someone commenting on the local business council meeting, and this guy will trot out some variation of this.

He also spams Dennis Prager columns all the time. He’s a hoot.

He actually lives in my neighborhood; I know his house and see him on the trails from time to time.

My uncle (actually, he’s my dad’s cousin) is the most insufferable brand of Ruppert wingnut. He’s also the type of dude who can filter any topic through the Wingnut Filter. From my uncle I learned that California is a red state, that the minimum wage should be abolished and that generally every bad thing that has ever happened is because of the 1960’s or more specifically the Civil Rights movement. Like most wingnuts, he is a virulent racist, which is odd since his wife is Puerto Rican and his kids are therefore half Puerto Rican. Fortunately he still has “the blacks” as his whipping boy.

Listening to radio, I had assumed it was “Gil Mesh� and that it was a pseudonym for Gilgamesh — you know, one of those phony names that can only be deciphered by someone with an IQ greater than that of dryer lint — and that the ancient Babylonian king had returned to try his hand at baseball.

Have you read Philip Roth’s baseball-themed _Great American Novel_? All the players have names derived from mythology, including one Gil Gamesh.

Gary Matthews Jr. got some obscene amount too. And he’s a journeyman outfielder at best.

As for Meche, I remember him being part of the Mariners system, back with like the “Little Unit” (that guy that was like 6′ 10” and also a pitcher, like Johnson). Still wouldn’t pay $50 million for him. It is the Royals, so they’re desperate for anyone at this point. The team’s been terrible since the mid-90’s. At least the Cubs made the playoff at one point, during the Sosa Home Run season and the fall of ’03.

This makes me think though: What’s the worst team in American professional sports? It’s got to be cumulative though, probably over the last decade. I’m thinking it’s a dead heat between the Royals and the Detroit Lions, with the New York Knicks, Oakland Raiders, and Boston Bruins getting special awards for a less-records based, yet more pungent form of suckitude, in that we expect better from those teams. We expect nothing from the Royals and Lions.

Also, I should note that in little league, I had a 17-pitch pitching career, the first 15 of which were balls. The last one was too. I managed a strike in the 16th pitch, because God (or the Flying Spaghetti Monster) has a sense of humor. So I’m not going to judge Meche’s skillz, but I will say that I wouldn’t pay that sort of money for him. I also wouldn’t pay $50 million to talk to someone represented by Scott Borass (I added that last s), but what can you do?

Speaking of Roth’s novel, Mr. Gamesh and his teammates play for a homeless team called the RUPPERT Mundys.

Now what do you make of that?

What’s the worst team in American professional sports? It’s got to be cumulative though, probably over the last decade. I’m thinking it’s a dead heat between the Royals and the Detroit Lions, with the New York Knicks, Oakland Raiders, and Boston Bruins getting special awards for a less-records based, yet more pungent form of suckitude, in that we expect better from those teams. We expect nothing from the Royals and Lions.

The KC Royals were once a model franchise. From 1976-1985, the Royals made the playoffs seven times in ten years, and that was when making the playoffs was twice as difficult. They played in a beautiful park, had a great farm system and were overall probably the best organization in MLB. Now, they’re the worst organization in MLB, though hiring Dayton Moore was a step in the right direction.

There’s a lot of competition for worst GM out there. Krivisky (sp?) in cinnci gave up two above average position players for a bunch of relievers last year while effing contending. The Cubs have given out almost 300 million worth of commitments this year to a bunch of crap (and Soriano, who they signed for way too long and are going to expect too much from), after spending millions on old relievers the year before.
And, speaking of the Cubs, I say they’re the worst team in pro sports. So what if they’re loved, they suck every year no matter what. Even when they’re decent it’s only for a season or two at a time, and they’re not that good. The Bosox came close to ending the curse more than a few times over the decades. The Cubs have been in what, 2 WS since they last won?

Oh, n Pettitte is back where he belongs. Yanks’ rotation next year might just not suck, especially once Hughes is up. Please Boston, trade Manny and give the Yanks the division in a cakewalk.

I got nothin’ to say re:sports, but…who wants to take a trip with me to piss on Pinochet’s freshly dug grave? Retardo, you with me? Jillian? Where my leftist homies at?

Worst GM in all sports has to be Isiah Thomas. He’s completely ruined the Knicks, and now he wants to coach what he hath wrought: two overpaid prima-donna guards, and a sad collection of small forwards.
As a Pistons fan it gives me mixed emotions, but I’m mostly happy.

The Knicks’ 2005-2006 season was absolutely mind-boggling. The Knicks had the highest payroll in the league and the worst record, and still ended up with no lottery pick to show for it. That is some serious mismanagement there, truly inspired suckiness. I’m a Knicks fan, and the day they acquired Steve Francis I knew that we were truly fucked for many years to come.

The only joy I get out of basketball these days is watching my favorite player, Carmelo Anthony. ‘Melo is playing some serious ball this year.

How’s your running? You could be their base runner too! Talk about bang for your buck!

Sure thing, Mr. Mordant.

Heck, let’s hit Jeane Kirkpatrick’s and Milton Friedman’s while we’re at it.

Flip, I haven’t read any Philip Roth since I was a teenager, looking through Goodbye, Columbus for the dirty parts. (Which, now that I think of it, makes me pretty much a character in a Philip Roth novel, doesn’t it?)

But I do recall reading about Siddhartha “Sidd” Finch.

Back in the seventies, my dad was having an(other?) affair. My sister and I think it was with Danielle Steele (for pretty good reasons). Anyway, I found a copy of The Perfumed Garden in his glove compartment at the time. I dunno, but that even back then that seems like reaching…

mikey

What’s the worst team in American professional sports? It’s got to be cumulative though, probably over the last decade.

Arizona Cardinals. It’s not even close.

J-Love said:

What’s the worst team in American professional sports? It’s got to be cumulative though, probably over the last decade.

It’s the Phillies, hands down. Some time next season they will become the first and only team in professional sports to lose 10,000 games. (Through 2006 they’ve lost 9,955.)

Only the Washington Generals have done worse, and they’re paid to lose!

In response to g:

It never ceases to surprise me to hear the bizarre ideas those have on the Right have about the difference between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives at heart are defenders of the status quo, whether it be real income disparity, or imagined racial/moral superiority. Liberals at heart are challengers of the status quo (e.g., poverty, ignorance, environmental degradation, etc.). The emotional heart of conservatism is fear (the status quo will be lost / things will get worse). The emotional heart of liberalism is hope (the status quo will be overturned / things will improve).

That dood with the “This is Our Country” Chevy commercial on football broadcasts pisses me off. If when he says “this country it belongs, to folks like me and you” he means american citizens, and what else can he mean, I’d really like to get up in his grille and point out that one of those “folks” to whom this country belongs is Jose Padilla. I think he’d take exception to your characterization, dickhead….

mikey

To expand on my comments, virtually every government in human history has been domainted by conservatives, and the leadership has been dedicated to conserving its relative advantage over the masses. What makes the U.S. and the other westernized democracies so exceptional – and so successful – is that liberals affect how the government operates. Conservative governments are good for the ruling elite. Liberal governments are good for all of the citizenry… and in the long-term a liberalized society will be more successful.

What’s that you were saying about the wonderful and beautiful Miss Annie Angel? Why, yes, she did win cleavage of the week!. Apparently at least one of the hosts at Atrios (one Avedon, to be precise), does in fact like Annie.

Eat it, cobagz!

I’m more than just a pair of sexy legs. I’ve got sexy cleavage too.

You have sexy everything, Miss Annie 🙂

To take things a little bit further (I’m typing during lulls in the Saints-Cowboys game). Consider the example of the U.S. vs. Argentina. You have two countries with many similarities: both are large in size and have abundant natural resources, both have a similar climate, and in both the inhabitants are largely of European descent. The U.S., however, is a superpower while Argentina is third world. Why? The difference lies in the history of the two nations. Argentina has been dominated by conservatives, the U.S. has not.

Shorter me: Liberalism is what makes America great.

I’m more than just a pair of sexy legs. I’ve got sexy cleavage too

And a desperate (as in bordering on clinical) need for attention.

I know. 🙂

I like pie! Just wanted to join the pie-fest…

mikey

Too bad the rest of the idiots here are too blind to see it, Miss Annie. They are blinded by their hatred.

I dunno about you all, but every car commercial I see on TV akes me want to refuse to buy a car, just to spite the little fucks who goddamn flood the airwaves with them.
According to Automobile Marketing, there are only three places where Americans drive their cars: A) Utah Salt Flats, B) Rocky Mountains, C) Upscale Downtown NYC.
A few exceptions are for pickups, which are only ever seen on the ranch or a construction site, and minivans. Minivans just drive around the suburban neighborhood. They can’t go anywhere else, or they bust into flames.
Fuck you all. I’m buying a rickshaw.

While I’m on it: Hey, jewlery stores. I’m not buying your shit overpriced rocks. I don’t need to hear your fucking commercials in EVERY. GODDAMN. COMMERCIAL BREAK. on the radio.

Nah, it’s the same old thing. All men desire me, and all women envy me. They have no self-confidence, the men or the women, and so they hate me for being beautiful.

It is a very sad thing, Miss Annie.

Sometimes I pity them 🙁

I don’t.

But to be fair, the prices for Zinfandel, Cabernet and Petit Syrah are lower for better wines then I can remember. Whoopie….

mikey

If you’re looking for the perfect riposte for Conservative as Macho Man, check out this (deeply disturbing) video. “Mom spanked the gay out of me.”

I like pie and ice cream, mikey. And wine. Although I never buy white wine, for some reason I just don’t care about it.

Speaking of commercials, check this out:

“Holiday Advertisers Seek Coveted Dicktard Demographic”

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56017

Hey, mikey, you know any good red wines that I can use for cooking? I’ve tried a few times, but i know less about wine then i do about string theory.

I was thinking about this in the shower. I would gladly accept $800,000 a year, which is basically what the worst (or youngest) players on a team make, but is miles away from anything I could ever hope to achieve in the real world. The Tigers’ Inge just signed a 4 year, $24 million deal, and he is a subpar hitter. I could be the mediocre pitcher or subpar hitter you need, as-of-yet-unknown MLB team. Look to me!

Liberal haters. That’s all you are. No respect for those who sacrificed, who created wealth, who bear the burden (especially taxwise) and a desire to get it all for nothing. Goddamit I hate liberals. I hate them. I want them all to die, hopefully at the hands of terrorists. But no. They are chicken. They do not have the BALLS to fight the terrorists on their soil, like so many of our heroes who have sacrificed. No. All they can do is say “Shoe — 1-800-GO-ARMY” or some lame shit. I am fighting for America, here, in the belly of the best, the enemy within is my enemy, and it seems to be many of you. So be it. Reap my whirlwind, as using the power of information, science and knowledge, I wipe you off the internet. For good. That is my mission. I will never surrender or quit, until victory. Semper Fi, bitches!

LOL Shoe is teh funny.

Well well well, it looks like the namestealer as followed me to Sadly, No.

Fuck off, Richard, nobody’s interested. I mean, really.

Cook with a 6-12 dollar merlot. Really doesn’t matter which. They richen up sauces and gravies, make beef tangier and pork and chicken richer. And venison – gawd, just yum. A middlin merlot has the complexity without the tanins and they just work good. Don’t try to keep ’em for more than a couple days, so get some decent cheese, you’re going to end up drinking the rest…

mikey

Oh, Brad. You’ve been bad.

Drunk much, Shlimpy™©®³? I really hate to see a grown chickenhawk cry.

Go enlist, and take your douchebag of vapidness with you.

“any good red wines that I can use for cooking?”

In this case, the name/information on the label matters less than the price on the label. I say, why spend more than $10/gallon if all you’re gonna do is cook with it?

why spend more than $10/gallon if all you’re gonna do is cook with it?

If the wine tastes nasty and you put it in your food, the food will taste, well, I bet you can follow the course of this argument…

mikey

I agree to an extent there, mikey. But you can get a 2004 Crane Lake Merlot for 3.99, here in fabulous Ohio. Should you really spend more than that?

I actually prefer beer to wine as a cooking ingredient. My Irish stew rules, although it’s more of an international stew, because I add cayenne and use Mexican beer. I like to use wine on occasion but a good dark or amber beer really seems to bring out the taste of beef, and make it really tender as well. Take the toughest chuck in the world, put it in the crock with a half a bottle of beer and my secret sauce, simmer all day long, and you’d swear the meat was filet mignon.

RubDMC: Although they say you shouldn’t cook with a wine you wouldn’t drink by itself, I tend to agree with you. Of course, a wine has to be purdy bad before I won’t drink it at all….. Seriously, though, an inexpensive chianti is a good cooking wine. It won’t add sweetness. I hate sweetness in food. If it’s not a dessert, it shouldn’t be sugery. I know that’s just my personal taste.

That other Shoe is a namestealer, not me. I can prove it with IP logs and server hits and cookies.

$10/gallon wine doesn’t always have to taste nasty – I just don’t want to drink it unless I’m really in a pinch.

But for cooking? It works, IMHO.

Brad, this is not the way to get my attention.

Every single one of you is right. Simple rule: If it makes the food good, it kix ass. Whether it’s chianti, coriander or cayenne. Parsley Sage Rosemary or Thyme. Cooking (or baking) gets better when you throw the recipe away and simply pwnnnn the dish…

mikey

“this is not the way to get my attention”

I don’t think it’s about getting your attention.

Hell, you’re giving that away. With bonuses.

It’s more a matter of, I dunno….moving on?

Yeah, I like to experiment when I cook. Every once in a while you screw something up, but when you get a little experience and a knowledge of how things work together, you get burned less and less often. A good metaphor for life.

Halftime.

One of the Shoes said…

“Liberal haters.”

No, I love liberals.

“No respect for those… who created wealth,”

Progressive tax codes create wealth by putting a greater percentage of our GDP into the hands of those that spend it. Circulating money = greater wealth for all. Money sitting in bank accounts = less economic growth and less money for all.

“who bear the burden (especially taxwise)”

BWAHAHA

“and a desire to get it all for nothing.”

See Republican’s preference for taxing work instead of wealth.

“Goddamit I hate liberals. I hate them. I want them all to die, hopefully at the hands of terrorists.”

Ah, a traitor. Neat.

“But no. They are chicken. They do not have the BALLS to fight the terrorists on their soil, like so many of our heroes who have sacrificed.”

Liberals have fought and died for many beautiful causes. Kicking out King George and establishing an American republic? Check. Freeing the slaves? Check. Destroying Nazism? Check. Rich Republicans don’t fight at all, but they’ve been happy to have others fight for slavery, empire, and cheap gas.

“I am fighting for America, here, in the belly of the best, the enemy within is my enemy, and it seems to be many of you.”

America is a great nation and will never be brought down from without. Anyone that would council civil war like this bozo has given up on America. Real shame.

w00t. I’m not a huge wine person, meself, so cheap wine is a good thing. I’ll play around with different brands. I think the last one i used was a Napa Vally merlot that iwas to impressed with, i couldnt’ even stand to drink it by itself.
Hmmm… now, if someone could figure out how to cook with malt Bacardis, I’d be ALL over that…
Hmmm… actually, I bet i could work that into some flavored-chocolate cakes…. TO THE KITCHEN!

Pffft. Why go to all the trouble of responding to the limp one or impersonating him when you can just call the princess a princess to get him all bothered n jealous?

N what I want out of you, mikey, is the secret to space cake. I never put enough keef in the mix for brownies to have sufficient effect, at least sufficient for me.

Wait, this isn’t one of those “Royals accidently acquire belly itcher” jokes, is it?

“N what I want… is the secret to space cake.”

A: Tang.

N what I want out of you, mikey, is the secret to space cake. I never put enough keef in the mix for brownies to have sufficient effect, at least sufficient for me.

Co-worker made some brownies for the staff Christmas party* few years back. During the baking process, he used to much of the good stuff and passed out from the fumes. A brownie and a half also caused me to take two-and-a-half hours to get up off a stool.

Best I ever had, though, was at a wedding reception. Cupcakes. Y’know how most pot brownies aren’t all that good as far as brownie-ness goes, but you really don’t care cause of the weed? These were damn good cupcakes. I ate three of ’em. I was in the middle of explaining the link many make between quantum mechanics, Jungian sychronicity and virtual reality, plus how it all ties into the direction Nashville country music production took in the late ’70s, to the guy who played bass on Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right Woman” when a little voice said, “Hey, Matt…you might oughta head on to the house.”

Good damn brownies, son.

*Which my openly Jewish employer ethusiastically embraces, but mainly cause he’s a guy that lives for throwing parties.

Oh wait, there really is such a thing as “space cake.” I thought you meant to say “spice cake.” My bad.

Personally, I’m totally groovin on winter squash (butternut), diced and baked, then purreed with maple syrup, butter, black pepper, vanilla and brown sugar. Brought it to temp, not boiled, and served with broiled NY steak. Yummy….

M

Well, there’s such a thing as spice cake that has nothing to do with Cheech and Chong, as well.

mikey, that with some stuffing and pumpkin pie. I’d be set for life.

Maybe it’s just my tolerance levels, then. Space cake hit me nicely the one time I was in amsterdam, but no baked goodies since have worked for me since. I’m kind of a fiend, tho. Brownies which made others trip made me wonder where the nearest joint was hiding.

Brad. A simple suggestion. You go with it for what it is, not what you want it to be. Then you have more fun and better experiences. Just my thoughts….

mikey

Thanks for the advice, but I’m experienced ’nuff to not psyche myself out of fun. I just generally have enough thc in my blood to stun a horse, n digesting it doesn’t put it into my system fast enough, I suspect.

Not having read the previous 98 comments, but having done a quick CTRL-F, I can safely say “He’s the Greg Ostertag of baseball!”

Having now read the last half of the previous 1847 comments, I now want to kill myself.

How many times in human history do you think someone has done a CTRL-F for Greg Ostertag? Maybe once or twice by his mother, and this one time by norbizness,

Don’t do it, norbiz!

The phrase “the face only a mother could love” cannot be applied to Greg Ostertag, because even his mother is not enamored of that face.

Build any fences lately, Different Brad?

I like pie! Just wanted to join the pie-fest…

Hi Mikey! I like pie, too!

For wine, I’m partial to Oregon Pinots, but then, I grew up in the Willamette Valley. I don’t know how they work for cooking though. I can’t bring myself to use them for anything but drinking.

But back to pie… I could really use some right now…

Attention, Namestealers!

Hmmm… suggested add on for point number 2:
“i m in j0r strik3 zones! 1 am kilin ur outs!”

Here’s another, Mr. Mordant.

Thanks for that link. Not that it’s pleasant to remind myself of that shit once again, but you know what I mean…

It’s horrifying to look over our world and realize that the very same things happen over and over. It’s all related, and some refuse to expand their vision beyond one small happening. They want to cordon off one event or situation and claim it lives alone, is not related. It would hurt too much to see the obvious patterns recurring. It might mean that their favorite notions are false.

I still get amazed when I see handwringing over our self image, or some lament to the effect of “I want my country back!”. No, you want a cherished illusion back. Might as well start believing in Santa again if that’s your thing.

So yeah, anyway, I’m filling up my bladder as we speak. It’s the least I can do in tribute.

I still get amazed when I see handwringing over our self image, or some lament to the effect of “I want my country back!�. No, you want a cherished illusion back. Might as well start believing in Santa again if that’s your thing.

Not so. I don’t want an illusion back, I want an ideal back. For all their faults, the Founders of the United States had some pretty damn fine concepts of how a free people ought to run a country and they did their best to write them into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The fact that men have perverted the ideal, that the ideal has never been perfectly implemented (and may never be perfectly implemented) is beside the point — the ideal persists regardless, and is worth striving to reach.

JK47 said:

The signing of Jason Marquis by the Cubs is actually much worse.

Maybe not. Marquis is like the Nuke character in Bull Durham. Million dollar arm and 5 cent head. If he ever starts listening to a pitching coach he could wind up as a No. 1 starter for almost any team.

Though I weep and gnash to say it, Gil Mesh is likely to be our ace and make us better. Brad, would you consider closing for the Royals? Our owner runs walmart–think of the perks. Sorta.

That’s good as far as it goes, Dan, but I’m talking about people who think Bush 43 is some sort of gross anomaly, from say, the enlightened examples of the U.S. in Southeast Asia and Central America, just to name a pair. Bush is just a cruder, dumber and more boorish version of the same old thing. I’m fine with striving for possibly chimerical ideals. I’m not fine with people being so oblivious as to pretend that this sort of thing only began six years ago.