Santana--Shoulder Surgery, Out For The Season

[Benjamin Grimm]

Edgy DC wrote: ...they have very big question marks in Santana, Bay, and Beltran --- their three highest paid players.

Plus, a lot of money tied up on Perez, Castillo, and (unless they succeed in getting out of it) Rodriguez.

It's hard to see 2011 as anything other than a fallow season in which they position themselves for 2012.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Though it's certainly possible they more-or-less get production out of those guys.

[Benjamin Grimm]

True. And I think that's what we'll all be hoping for as we head into 2011.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

we're gonna rock the casbah in 2011. Book it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

But under the stewardship of whom, All-Seeing One?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm going with Bobby Vee.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm thinking third place under Wally Bee.

[Guest Edgy DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm going with Bobby Vee.

Wow! While reading this post, I subconciously bought season tickets. Without realixzing what I was doing. It just happened.

[Guest Edgy DC]

By the way, surgery was yesterday. Isn't there supposed to be some boilerplate release by now about how everything went as expected and the team expects him to be throwing by blahblahblah?

[MFS62]

While we're waiting for a boilerplate team press release, this seems to be the typical boilerplate used by team bloggers after a loss.


Date
Score
Blogger's name

Expression of resigned exasperation with latest result.

Acknowledgment that result doesn�t matter at this stage of season, yet it is always frustrating to encounter this sort of result.

Link to article spelling out game details.

Snarky aside.

Key example of what went wrong in game.

Assertion of saving grace, focusing on how this was just one game and player who committed key example of what went wrong in game will hopefully improve.

Snide allusion to disliked secondary player�s particularly poor performance.

Expression of resigned exasperation that big picture is as bleak as latest result.

Link to article about newest discouraging development.

Passing attempt to project what newest discouraging development means for foreseeable future.

Explicit admission that future can�t be foreseen but newest discouraging development is indeed discouraging.

Weaving together of various recent discouraging developments so as to suggest overarching discouraging trend that makes rooting for team difficult.

Allusion to most embarrassing recent discouraging development that constitutes most disturbing manifestation of trend.

Link to terrible article illustrating dimwitted coverage of recent discouraging development.

Link to good article serving as counterweight to dimwitted coverage.

Half-hearted analysis of most embarrassing recent discouraging development (undermined by personal conviction that most recent discouraging development was very much a non-story, yet not commenting on it at all after a few days doesn�t feel right, either).

Link to archived blog post to demonstrate longstanding pattern of discouraging developments.

Conclusion of analysis finding all parties are at least partially at fault (should include at least one point nobody else has made).

Assertion of enduring fondness for team in spite of all prevailing evidence that team has become too exasperating to inspire any fondness whatsoever.

Expression of dismay that season will soon be over in spite of latest result, recent discouraging developments and bleak big picture.

Link to archived blog post from when things were better to serve as reminder that things aren�t always this bad.

Gratuitous reference to Mike Hessman (optional).

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

how about crediting the writer you are ripping off

[Guest Edgy DC]

Please. Nobody here reads Faith and Fear.

[Centerfield]

How come no one plagiarizes me?

[Guest themetfairy]

Centerfield wrote: How come no one plagiarizes me?

Because you don't post enough.

Please post more and I promise to steal from you right and left

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy DC wrote: Please. Nobody here reads Faith and Fear.

Not everybody reads the Crane Pool Forum even

[ashie62]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Please. Nobody here reads Faith and Fear. Not everybody reads the Crane Pool Forum even

Bobby Vee does. He is all knowing and omnipotent. A true Warrior-poet.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ashie62 wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Please. Nobody here reads Faith and Fear. Not everybody reads the Crane Pool Forum even Bobby Vee does. He is all knowing and omnipotent. A true Warrior-poet.

You're gonna help him, man. You're gonna help him. I mean, what are they gonna say when he's gone to the Marlins, man? 'Cause he dies when bringing him here dies, when bringing him here dies, he dies! What are they gonna say about him? He was a smart, strategic man? He was a mustachioed man with a restaurant? He had Japanese plans and wisdom? Bullshit, man! And am I gonna be the one that's gonna set them straight? Look at me! Look at me! Wrong! [points to Ashie] YOU!

[G-Fafif]

MFS62 wrote: While we're waiting for a boilerplate team press release, this seems to be the typical boilerplate used by team bloggers after a loss. Date Score Blogger's name Expression of resigned exasperation with latest result. Acknowledgment that result doesn�t matter at this stage of season, yet it is always frustrating to encounter this sort of result. Link to article spelling out game details. Snarky aside. Key example of what went wrong in game. Assertion of saving grace, focusing on how this was just one game and player who committed key example of what went wrong in game will hopefully improve. Snide allusion to disliked secondary player�s particularly poor performance. Expression of resigned exasperation that big picture is as bleak as latest result. Link to article about newest discouraging development. Passing attempt to project what newest discouraging development means for foreseeable future. Explicit admission that future can�t be foreseen but newest discouraging development is indeed discouraging. Weaving together of various recent discouraging developments so as to suggest overarching discouraging trend that makes rooting for team difficult. Allusion to most embarrassing recent discouraging development that constitutes most disturbing manifestation of trend. Link to terrible article illustrating dimwitted coverage of recent discouraging development. Link to good article serving as counterweight to dimwitted coverage. Half-hearted analysis of most embarrassing recent discouraging development (undermined by personal conviction that most recent discouraging development was very much a non-story, yet not commenting on it at all after a few days doesn�t feel right, either). Link to archived blog post to demonstrate longstanding pattern of discouraging developments. Conclusion of analysis finding all parties are at least partially at fault (should include at least one point nobody else has made). Assertion of enduring fondness for team in spite of all prevailing evidence that team has become too exasperating to inspire any fondness whatsoever. Expression of dismay that season will soon be over in spite of latest result, recent discouraging developments and bleak big picture. Link to archived blog post from when things were better to serve as reminder that things aren�t always this bad. Gratuitous reference to Mike Hessman (optional). Later

Used by this one anyway. But I don't generally put the score at the top or Later at the end.

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: how about crediting the writer you are ripping off

Wow! Really!