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QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:52 PM) Adam going for the bunt. Also, he seems to be favoring an unbuttoned jersey. Sexy

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:51 PM) I'll take it. Let's get some more runs this inning. I would like to see Adam hit a home run.

You both are an ungrateful disgrace!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:47 PM) *waiting for Hawk to explain "you win 60 lose 60 and then you have 42" for the 500th time in my life Always making it about you, Kyyle

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:38 PM) What did Humber do? Shanked one down the first base line to drive in Beanpole

QUOTE (Karko's Throat Skin @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:36 PM) Would anybody be upset if Uribe grabbed his old #5 from Hudson before the end of this series? Not at all.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:35 PM) Ramirez continues to compile lots of RBI's despite the low 500's OPS. That's one example where OPS doesn't tell the complete story of his value to the team. Btw, what did Alexei do last night to cause us to lose? Didn't catch it. Someone said something about a "brain cramp" but what was it? It's not what you hit, it's when you hit it!

Wow, that first example is like the Ken Caminiti of Pit Bulls

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 11:03 AM) Thanks. I keep telling my wife we need to groom him to be a professional golfer. That way he can pay for my retirement AND I'll have access to sweet equipment and courses. NFL long snapper.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:14 PM) I fail to see what is clever about calling a pitcher a vegetable. But whatever. Phil-er up. PHd of pitching. The Incredible Humber. anything but cuchumber. Or how about this? Phil Humber. That works. I guess I have an appreciation for a nickname that incorporates his name into the word. Probably toxic over-exposure to Chris Berman.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 05:00 PM) I prefer that over cuchumber. And pretty much every other nickname he has thrown out there I actually though cucHumber was fairly clever...Hummer is just stupid.

QUOTE (sunofgold @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 01:57 PM) I am looking forward to this. Hummer is going to be good this Saturday Night. And now you've just gone too far.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 03:36 PM) My grandfather loved great danes, had them throughout his life. He had two when I was young that passed away when I was around 10-12 years old that were the best and friendliest pair he ever owned, they lived to be 13 and 15 years old. He bought the both of them from a backwoods breeder for 50 bucks. After they passed away, he waited a few years and ended up going to a very prominent breeder, and spent 1250 on Marmaduke, lineage papers dating back to 1940. His parents were champions, and there were many champions in his lineage. Marmaduke was the WORST Dane he ever owned, territorial, mean, only liked my Grandfather, tore open my Grandfathers stepgrandsons face to the tune of 25 stitches across the jaw to the cheek. And to top it off, Marmaduke only made it to 7 years old, and died of a heart attack. Sometimes there are just bad apples. Oh there absolutely are. You never know what you are going to get from a breeding pair until you breed them. Once they produce offspring such as what you described, they should never be bred again. And sometimes some of the sorriest looking animals can produce champions. There are always exceptions. However, this is real science. Genetics, heredity, etc, etc. The breed as whole is improved (when I say improved, I mean from the most technical of standpoints...I can already see the outrage coming) when the specimens that produce the best offspring are those that are allowed to breed. There are plenty of theories on just how to identify those specimens, but we know enough to have a fairly good idea. Whenever you have ignorant or irresponsible people pumping out litter after litter from every b**** they can get their hands on, you will be lowering the standard of the breed. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 16, 2012 -> 08:19 AM) sarcasm. My uncle owns one, has just as many problems as any other dog i have had. Ok, so to make a point for Joe's sake...any dog breed that explodes in popularity inevitably suffers bad breeding which hurts the breed in the long run. Golden Retrievers have definitely been one of those breeds. A certain breed gets popular, usually to some exposure in the newspaper, in a radio show or a television show, or maybe because it won Best in Show at the Westminster. Demand rises. Supply is outpaced, and prices rise. People step in to capitalize on the high prices, often people who don't know or care what they are doing. They then hurt the breed standard and the general temperament of the dogs by breeding unworthy specimens and selling their offspring. This has happened over the years with Retrievers of all types, German Shepherds (Rin Tin Tin), Dalmatians, Great Danes, German Shorthaired Pointers, Pit Bulls, Chihuahuas, etc.

As if Kenny needs any extra motivation to try and improve the roster... This is all very depressing, but it is a marathon, not a sprint. The baseball season is all about trying to keep everything in perspective...

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 03:21 PM) Just picked up my ipad3 from the apple store on north ave. Need it for work purposes and demos but it looks pretty nice comparative to the first one I have. You going to get the case with the keyboard integrated into it? I'm thinking of getting one and dragging mine to work as well because I refuse to drag around my company-issued Dell 40 pound laptop, and I am always filling up notebooks at meetings and sooner or later it becomes a bit tough to keep everything organized.

Listening to Scully call our game is pretty great.

QUOTE (Cerbaho-WG @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 08:16 PM) Nah. Outside of playing like garbage, is there anything wrong with the team? Their manager is a doucher

Adam is going to hit 50 homers and knock in 130

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 08:54 AM) Condolences on the loss. Losing a pet is one of the most difficult things you can go through. My pup came through the neutering just fine. As expected, he was extremely groggy when we first got him home, but this morning he was acting back to normal, trying desperately to run and jump and play. He's going to be on a leash for the next couple days inside so that I can hopefully keep the stitches in place... it's going to be a very long week before the stitches come out. Glad to hear it.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 06:04 AM) Food poisoning f***ing sucks.. that is all. Ger, alcohol poisoning is not called "food" poisoning just because it goes down the same hatch, my friend.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 15, 2012 -> 06:57 AM) Scott Merkin ‏@scottmerkin Floyd is staying in the rotation. Nothing close to discussion of a change postgame Yeah, and this is the smart money here...but I sure as hell hope they are trying to come up with a different game plan between starts...his cutter f***ing sucks.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 14, 2012 -> 10:21 PM) Gavin's deal is a $9.5 million club option for 2013. There's no way they're going to exercise that, so we don't have to worry about him being immovable unless things dramatically change the next couple of months. You'd have to say with Danks still iffy and Humber on the way out (along with Peavy), Cooper and KW have to be thinking there's one last shot to get Gavin turned around this season or just turn the page with someone like Axelrod and cross their fingers they can survive or tread water while waiting to add a veteran. There is still plenty of time for him to get his season back together enough so that we exercise the option. But he'd have to pitch well consistently beginning fairly soon. We simply can't give away every game he starts. This is 5 or 6 in a row now.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 14, 2012 -> 09:06 PM) Humber one start from being bumped. Floyd looking even worse, statistically. Danks aching. Quintana...how long will his "luck" last? I'm sure we are afraid to demote Gavin on the chances that we will make him immovable in the offseason. I get that, but we need to at least skip him and give him some time to think or something... Say what you want about Quintana's "luck," but he's light years ahead of Floyd right now. DL Floyd with "missing testicles" and bring up another kid, for all I care. He can't be any worse than Gavin right now.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 14, 2012 -> 08:42 PM) Great advice ^^ I was just speaking with a new friend who took his engineering degree and went to law school. He practiced patent law and really enjoyed it before becoming a writer. Jesus...was he independently wealthy?