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6 page CBU. Er, scoreless-ness-etude. entering the 4th inning.

Oh well. Is that two thrown out on the base paths? The one stolen base was without a throw.

I don't know why, but every time i read "Barney Miller" i think Barney Google. I really don't. (know why, that is)

Please don't make me ask you... Where did you last have/use it?

Game thread reaches 5 pages (at 20 posts per page) CBU er... nose core entering 3rd inning... er... no score, i mean of course.

And then again, maybe not. If i got it right, Suzuki checks, and earns a walk, negating the attempt?

What "today" mean you?

"That's the way things go. But every once in awhile, they go the other way too." (might not have gotten it quite right...)

I'm awake, and turnin' on the game. But i won't be surprised, if it is punctuated by food coma. Recovering from first KFC in a while...

It just occurred to me... The whole point of this September... We might actually be relevant. In a baseball sense. And this is good.

Sweet! Enjoy the game!

"This is true" is quite safe to believe or not as you see fit. You run into trouble should he ever say "this is false"...

Isn't there a song about it? Wait. My bad. That's Hotel California... How's that for irrelevant?

Anyhoo, good night all, good work, sleep well, most likely er... join ya in tomorrow's game thread!

I had in mind the line that ends "how marvelous" but would have accepted the one about "an overdeveloped sense of vengeance"... But i sure approve of most any other line, including "i hope we win!" Thanks for the high turn out! "As you wish" is particularly elegant, being self fulfilling.

(Afore-promised Beppo Roadsweeper quote... I'd almost forgot. I promised to look it up in an actual book, and i typed it up...) "You see, Momo," he told her one day, "it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept." He gazed silently into space before continuing. "and then you start to hurry," he went on. "You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop--and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it." He pondered awhile. Then he said, "You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else." Again he paused for thought before adding, "that way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be." There was another long silence. At last he went on. "And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. What's more, you aren't out of breath." He nodded to himself. "That's important, too." he concluded. This being from Momo by Michael Ende (er, translated by... J. Maxwell Brownjohn)

Got me wishin' i was further north...

I'm proud to be a free range idiot.

Some Princess Bride conversation seems apropos...

I don't think i will either... Not yet at any rate. Good use of the verb to quibble. I applaud.

They had leashes? Who knew?

Good try, Plouffe.

I wanted to see us score a run, not so much 'cause i think we need it, as to get the practice for the future against this here bullpen...

Well took, Sano. We got us a base runner.

If the British Royalty played billiards, and needed to hit a shot that wasn't straight, would they put English on it? And would that be the King's English?