Punches and jabs

Goose Gossage made the hall of fame. My HS buddy Travis Fryman did not. When Goose was pitching for the Cubs, I saw him play at Chavez Ravine. My seat was right by the bullpen, and I asked him, "Hey Goose, who was the bigger asshole, Reggie or Billy".

Without missing a beat, he glanced at me and said "George".

Fuckmook Glenn Beck is bailing on his planned suicide. Pussy.

George Shinn is, surprise, a fuckmook. The new deal has this nice exit clause, which will allow him to move the club to Oklahoma City Seattle after next season. 4 to one he does it. Greedy, evil sonofabitch.

The escape clause is based on an average attendance number. I say, we say "fuck it", and have 2 games a year in the dome. We'll get 50k plus, and that will be enough to bring the numbers into line. We can out mook the mook.

Cox Sports Television is showing "The Night of Pistol Pete". Watch this, and see what an amazing talent he was. And this was without a three-point line. Basketball was actually enjoyable back then.

I flew Southwest this week, and their inflight mag had an article on rollergirls. Woo hoo! They also had a nice article on the Pinball Hall of Fame.

John Zogby, who guaranteed a Kerry victory on Jon Stewart a few years ago, explains why polling firms are so utterly non-scientific, inaccurate, and full of shit.

From Ray: Beaumont Vance is a NIMBY, clueless fuckmook.

Check out Slimbo's homage to Harry Lee.

Nicholas "My ego is even bigger than Rudy G's" Negroponte claims that Intel undermined his One Laptop Per Child initiative. Yeah, right. Get your ass to the lower nine, Nicky, and I'll show you some third world shit, motherfucker.

Even if he is elected president, I will never forgive BO for this.

Will Smith is handing out vouchers for free "personality tests", courtesy of $cientology. Bye, Will. Why don't you make a movie based on "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", where the only thing in common with the book would be that the lead character was named Tom Sawyer? That would be keeping in character.

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Update: Fuckmook Glenn Beck whines about getting Fentanyl for pain when most docs are afraid to prescribe Vicodin. Pussy.

Comments

[Tim]

I am so with you on that awful "I am legend" junk. My Darling Wife and I went to see it expecting a cool sci-fi story. What we got instead is a mindless monster movie. So many possibilities untapped, so many plot twists and character issues hinted and then left unresolved. The ending, so fake and contrived and just stupid... Wil Smith lays an egg.

Peace,

Tim

[liprap]

Aw Hell Naw! Not Will Smith!!

http://www.suite102.com/baldo/archives/2007/12/index.html#001995

[Richard P.]

Is Obama the Gary Hart of the 21st century?

[ashley]

Richard, I like that analogy. But Obama has no Monkey Business or Donna Rice to take him down.

Will Smith...there's only one of them now.

[Sophmom]

Yet another jab: Kerry endorses Obama. Say it isn't so.

[ashley]

I think that Kerry always resented Edwards, and Edwards wouldn't do all of the dirty work that Kerry expected him to. This endorsement doesn't surprise me.

[Puddinhead]

Ah, Travis Fryman. I thought he was destined for greatness (or at least "Alan Trammell-ness") when he first came up. Still, he had a few seasons as a fantasy semi-stud at shortstop....not so much after he moved to 3B.

[ashley]

My HS infield featured Travis Fryman and Jay Bell. Yet we came in 2nd at state. Pitching is everything.

[Marco]

The Goose was one of the best relievers. I knew by the way he threw that he was straight up. You confirmed it, man

[Varg]

Your HS buddy? You were a 'Tater? Ah geez. Y'all had cows are your campus right?

[ashley]

Varg, you are on very dangerous turf. Yeah, so I drove tractor for driver's ed. What's your point...

[Varg]

Just that I'm glad yall were good at baseball because I know Emmett ran all over you guys all four of his years at my alma mater. Come to think of it, in the eight years that the Vargas boys were at Escambia, I can't recall Tate ever beating us at varsity. Y'all did have a good band though. Show Band of the South right?

[ashley]

Well, my senior year, we kicked the Escambia Rebels...er...Gators ass and won the state championship, beating a Shula-quarterbacked team from a private school in Miami.

When I was about 20, I used to play tackle football on Sunday afternoons with Emmitt and about 30 of our closest friends at the field in front of the Little Flower church. Then his HS coach found out about it, and that was that.

Our band ruled. One day I'll pretend I'm Ray and scan in a picture or two, like the band marching at the Orange bowl parade, with me walking through Clydesdale shit.

[KamaAina]

Here's how to out-mook the mook Shinn: Have sports radio embark on a program of massive Hornets tix giveaways toute suite. Then, get sports- and (allegedly) civic-minded figures such as Messrs. Georges, Couhig et al. into the act by having them buy blocks of tickets to give to public school students who make their grades and attendance.

Problem solved! -- except that Mook Shinn will have to keep getting his lattes at Rue rather than the oh-so-twee Pike Place Market. One, two, three, AWWWWWWW!