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  1. Frayed Knot
    =ashie62 post_id=78483 time=1632443176 user_id=90] Can Transmonk pitch?
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    NOT Jonathan Winters ... although I bet this is what you were thinking about [media=youtube]MicAu3vmOtI[/media]
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    White Owl cigars (they sponsored Yanqui games for a time) used the 'We're Gonna Get You' slogan. Perhaps not an appropriate slogan for a health- compromising and addictive product but, hey, it was the sixties. Breakfast cereals back then would boast about how much sugar they added. Don't specifically remember Jonathan Winters but it's possible.
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    Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I got the idea he was a one-time prize fighter who lost often via early knockouts and was now suffering the long-term consequences. Sure, but to be fair, I've gotten that idea for at least 25 years. Well he always was a bit hard to comprehend because a) he's a moron, and he usually had a monster wad of chaw in his mouth (at least the part that wasn't constantly falling out). Now is a bit different and his mouth appeared to be empty during the interviews. This time he sounded either drunk, punch-drunk, or quite possibly both.
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    Not in the doc obviously, but Carter always denied a) that Keith was dictating pitches to him or to anyone using the "No way I'm making the last fucking out" comment. Both may be accurate, but both also speak to Carter projecting/protecting his image so maybe not. No catcher is going to want to agree/admit that someone else on the field not only knew better than him as far as pitch selection goes but also that he would passively cede that kind of authority onto his turf? No doubt that Keith said something along those lines but each party probably remembers the specific wording and direction plus the degree of suggestion/demand from their own perspective. The second comment, at least the specific phrasing of it, goes against Gary's squeaky clean image giving him incentive to clean it up a bit. On the other hand, this was the guy who, when Mookie took a ball to the face in ST, reacted with, 'Oh gosh darn it Mook'
  6. Frayed Knot
    Brewers, btw, likely to be a bit ornery after losing four straight to StL
  7. Frayed Knot
    =kcmets post_id=78465 time=1632435739 user_id=53] =ashie62 post_id=78464 time=1632435095 user_id=90]Is Transmonk sick?
  8. Frayed Knot
    Benjamin Grimm wrote: I had no idea that "hogging up IGTs" was even a thing that anyone cared about. It was for a time back on the MoFo among several of the teenaged denizen.
  9. Frayed Knot
    Hell, we've brought the BoSox, Cards, Phils, Giants, and Dodgers (but not the Yanx) closer to securing spots recently. It was only a matter of time until we'd get around to officially putting one over the top.
  10. Frayed Knot
    Even if there were definitive proof showing Villar to be safe, if I'm the ump crew back in Chelsea I'm rejecting any challenge just on general principles.
  11. Frayed Knot
    Edgy MD wrote: Come on. It's like they're getting crushed by a team from Best Buy. Or maybe by some pickup team from Sweden (who happen to have a bunch of inexplicably dark skinned guys on their team)
  12. Frayed Knot
    Geeeeez, I saw Schwarber was off the base in real time! He didn't bail quite as badly as Gary Sanchez did a few weeks back, but still ...
  13. Frayed Knot
    Man, the Cardinals are up 6-Zip on the Brewers while trying for their 11th straight win and 3rd straight over Milwaukee (they play again Thursday afternoon). It's going to be TLTL to make a difference in the NLC race (Brews +9.-1/2) but the Redbirds are locking up the 2nd WC with this run and looking more like a formidable opponent vs the eventual runner-up among SFG/LAD
  14. Frayed Knot
    So in this game, the offense (from one side anyway) and the high number of pitches thrown have an obvious impact on the pace of the game. But, still, the opening three innings took 90 minutes, a pace for a 4-1/2 hour game. And again, when 3:00 - 3:15 is your baseline for an average game, it doesn't take much to push things up towards four hours
  15. Frayed Knot
    So this is going well.
  16. Frayed Knot
    And the insurmountable deficit had been reached.
  17. Frayed Knot
    Also good to know that we got to face Schwarber on two different teams and the same with Scherzer
  18. Frayed Knot
    Gary is claiming that hanging Ks started at Shea -- presumably for Gooden -- but I remember them being done for Nolan Ryan in his Anaheim days and was dubious about NYM fans copying the act.
  19. Frayed Knot
    So we play the Sawx four times and face Sale while the Yanx get them 19 times and don't see him at all.
  20. Frayed Knot
    What if one or more of his testicles fell out?
  21. Frayed Knot
    Usually it's the mound conferences, pitching changes, and replay reviews which bring the games Up to three hours, but these recent games are usually past the one hour mark before they even hit the end of the 3rd. When that happens, 3:15 or longer becomes the base line with late game machinations just tacking onto things from there.
  22. Frayed Knot
    the Mets have played nine straight regular season games that have lasted at least 3:30 And the sad part is, there's been nothing unusual about this set of games. As a whole they haven't been high-scoring or particularly "strategic" to where a game is sailing along until the brakes get slammed on in the 7th inning. And it's not one of those Septembers of yore with 38 guys on each bench. These games have started slowly, muddled through the middle, and then crept to an eventual conclusion, several of them with me no longer in attendance by that point.
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    Not yet six full innings and yet headed for the three hour mark.
  24. Frayed Knot
    Hey, why not?!?
  25. Frayed Knot
    Frayed Knot wrote: It would be so 2021 if that ill-fated send was the end of our scoring for the night. And of course there was no reason at all to think it would come back to bite us.
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