I made it all the way up to the 16th floor this morning without the elevator stopping at any lower floors. When I got to my office: champagne celebration. Hey, if baseball teams can do it for the littlest things, I can too . . .
I wonder what the odds of Brian Sabean not giving a multi-year deal to a 30 year-old utility guy coming off a fluke season are? 100 to 1? More?
Carlos Zambrano threatens to retire if he doesn’t get better. When I read this, I got an image of him sitting around the rec center of a condo community, tipping over card tables hosting pinochle games and beating the crap out of iced tea dispensers and stuff.
Doug Melvin apparently wants the Brewers’ pitching staff to be fixed in ten minutes.
Was Tony La Russa simply being a jerk when he argued with the Rockies’ groundskeeper on Saturday, or is there something else going on? Not that those are mutually exclusive choices.
I’m sure the Germans have some untranslateable multi-syllabic word that generally means “unspecified jealousy for rather immature reasons.” If I knew it I would deploy it here.
I know it’s not as easy for you as it is for others, Zack, but please, try to loosen up.
Hey, they canceled the Monday meeting! Break out the bubbly!
A little google language tools gives “unreifmissgunst” (pron. oohn-rife-miss-goohnst) for “immature resentment”. “Reif” is cognate with English “ripe”, so it’s similar to “unripe jealousy”—I think that’s sufficiently poetic enough to describe it.
That said, I don’t think any Germans actually *use* that as a word, but it should be grammatical…
LaRussa’s probably just arguing to keep in shape. He knows as well as anyone that a team that clinches early can find itself out of whack by the start of the playoffs, and he knows what he has to do to maintain his mid-season arguing form.
I’d settle for a little ass-pat for a well executed slide deck.
the thought of petersen and randolph reunited in milwaukee seems awesome to me.