Postureage or Unintelligentness?

by IcebreakerX on Nov 15, 2007 3:39 PM PST Comment 95 comments

Video of Bavasi Talkin' Poo

What you thinks? Jones as the ONLY offensive change? Horacio Ramirez a worthy cause? Willing to only trade relievers?

Huh?

(I didn't actually watch the whole thing. Stole some notes from DOV. Thanks M-Pops)

0 recs | Comment 95 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Is unintelligentness a word?

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 3:40 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I think

it's unintelligentosity, actually.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 15, 2007 3:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Could it be unintelligence?

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 3:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

It is.

I was being sarcastic.

Or, sarcastical. Or sarcastastic.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 15, 2007 3:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Geez

Is our children learning?

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 3:51 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Not on my watch, buster

I teach them over there so I don't have to teach them over here.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 15, 2007 3:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

That's good strategery.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 3:54 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

They're larnin' th' same way ah did

cuss it all t' tarnation. ah reckon they'll be fine.

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 3:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You know he's from Connecticut?

So he has no excuse.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 3:57 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

That's what kills me about the American people

is that a great number of them somehow have been conned into believing an upper-class, Maine-born, Andover and Yale-educated Northeasterner is from Texas.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 15, 2007 4:00 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT

HE OWNS A RANCH!!!!!!!11111

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 4:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

He sure does.

So does this guy.

Funnily enough, they both profit off screwing people.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 15, 2007 4:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Ted Turner owns a ranch

where he raises tasty tasty buffalo. mmmmmm

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 4:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Me thinks that Yale-educated in this context is probably an oxy-moron. That is, unless you're talking about the Northern University of Central Yale, sister college to University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

"I restore a sense of childlike wonder to people's lives; you give them Zunes and Vista." -- Fake Steve Jobs to Borg employees

by PositivePaul on Nov 15, 2007 4:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

No, it's not.

That's why I teach high schoolers, not grammar students.

Detect-O-Vision

Favor the Bold

by IcebreakerX on Nov 15, 2007 4:01 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I also make words in my spare time.

In other words, in the moment.

Detect-O-Vision

Favor the Bold

by IcebreakerX on Nov 15, 2007 4:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Teaching grammar students would be better

because they don't know that a word you teach them doesn't really exist. You could teach them all sorts of cool made up words.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 15, 2007 4:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

This is true. Hmm.

Detect-O-Vision

Favor the Bold

by IcebreakerX on Nov 15, 2007 4:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Drunkled

And forkered

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 4:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

today we're going to learn about how

the moon is made of sausage gravy and how your parents are evil!

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 4:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Tomorrow's lesson

is on how your parents never actually knew each other's names, and why that's your fault. Have a good night, kids!

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 15, 2007 4:09 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

next week:

how to get free candy by climbing in unmarked vans!

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 4:13 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Get into the Van

I have candy

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 4:13 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

It's simple.

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Nov 15, 2007 4:52 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

MySpace and Me:

A Tale of Misrepresented Expectations and Woe

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 4:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Hehe

I once had a friend buy some candy from a random hobo then gave it to his girlfriend.

by Robert on Nov 15, 2007 4:57 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Designating HoRam for assignment

would be a worth cause

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 3:41 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

FFRRAACCKK

... worthy cause ...

apparently I am not worthy.

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 3:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I saw: Video of Bavasi Talkin' Pooh

And thought he's said something like: "Oh, bother. It's empty again. Only the sticky part's left."

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 3:50 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

That's what she said.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 3:51 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Hey look a free GS52

by Robert on Nov 15, 2007 4:02 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

We should try to stage a protest at Safeco

If this is true. I hate my life.

Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.

by BrettJMiller on Nov 15, 2007 4:04 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

We could hold up signs that say

absolutely nothing of relevance like "We want cheese pizza" or "Robocop was here".

by chrisisasavage on Nov 15, 2007 4:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

We already tried that

http://lookoutlanding.com/story/2007/11/4/61720/6642

by Robert on Nov 15, 2007 4:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You can add "were-" to any animal

and make it a dangerous killing beast... like a werebear, a wereboar or a werezebra. But I'm not really clear if these animals turn into humans (like a werewolf does) during non full-moon times.

If so... what kind of person do you think turns into a wererabbit?

by johnbai on Nov 15, 2007 5:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

weremanbearpig?

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 11:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

If you're going to make fun of me for using memes

Don't steal my jokes.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 11:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

were-animals

are humans who turn into animals. You're thinking of dire-animals.

by ningwers on Nov 16, 2007 6:14 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Hmmm...

Somehow "were-hamster" still doesn't sound all that ferocious...

"I restore a sense of childlike wonder to people's lives; you give them Zunes and Vista." -- Fake Steve Jobs to Borg employees

by PositivePaul on Nov 16, 2007 8:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Is anyone else fucking tired of

the mlb.com state farm hank aaron commercial? I must have inadvertently watched it dozens of times over the last few months.

Is it just me or did Bavasi look quite shifty-eyed at the end?

And sadly, I'm actually not that surprised with what Bavasi said. Well, I guess we can look forward to '09. Stronger free agent market, sexson off the books, Jeff Clement (new part time dh/back up catcher/backup 1b?), hopefully vidro's 09 option won't vest, etc.

by redwolf75 on Nov 15, 2007 4:05 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

w/e

wait and see what actually happens. GMs say lots of things. There's about a 0% correlation with what they say and what they do.

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 4:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

And remember

95% of the people who watch that want the exact opposite of what we want. He's just pandering to his audience. Or at least I pray he is.

by Robert on Nov 15, 2007 4:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The Mariners have...

A poor history of saying anything right in the first place, but they also have a poor history of doing anything optimally too.

Correlation?

Hmm...

Detect-O-Vision

Favor the Bold

by IcebreakerX on Nov 15, 2007 4:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

the part that saddens me

is that those people are allowed to procreate, vote and drive.

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 4:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Are genocides still considered to be too un-PC?

by Robert on Nov 15, 2007 4:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I had to kill around a trillion

e-coli in a bio lab today. Genocide. There.

by redwolf75 on Nov 15, 2007 4:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You know what's really fun???

Get one of those tennis racket bug zappers and chase fruit flies. Fruit Fly Genocide!!!!

/purposefully waits a few extra days to empty out the compost bin on the counter just to score some extra points
//can't get that damned image of fruit fly porn out of his mind...

"I restore a sense of childlike wonder to people's lives; you give them Zunes and Vista." -- Fake Steve Jobs to Borg employees

by PositivePaul on Nov 15, 2007 4:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Dammit dammit dammit

Keep Ibanez in left...brilliant!!!

Trading relief pitching for starers worked so great the last time.

How does this guy stay employed?

What do I look like, a guy who's not lazy?

by Rollo Tomasi on Nov 15, 2007 4:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Wow.

Either they really think Ho-Ram is a MLB pitcher, or they're trying to get some trade value out of him.

Either way, they're friggin' NUTS!

"I restore a sense of childlike wonder to people's lives; you give them Zunes and Vista." -- Fake Steve Jobs to Borg employees

by PositivePaul on Nov 15, 2007 4:12 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Perhaps if we had hired Leo Mazzone

as our pitching coach, HoRam could actually be fixed. Stottlemyre, though, is not Leo Mazzone. Sucks.

by redwolf75 on Nov 15, 2007 4:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Mazzone can only...

Fix pitchers that can actually throw baseballs as pitches.

Detect-O-Vision

Favor the Bold

by IcebreakerX on Nov 15, 2007 4:20 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

When HoRam was actually decent a few years back

wasn't Mazzone still Atlanta's pitching coach?

by redwolf75 on Nov 15, 2007 5:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

He was never decent.

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 5:54 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

His 2003 season actually looked

pretty decent -- although granted those are NL numbers

by redwolf75 on Nov 15, 2007 6:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

NL, 4.88 FIP, K rate under 5 per 9

Pretty big meh.

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 6:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Bill James sez...

K/9 < 4.5 = Sucktaculage

Detect-O-Vision

Favor the Bold

by IcebreakerX on Nov 15, 2007 7:25 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, they were meh stats,

but one could argue they were excellent compared to those of the horam we know and love today.

by redwolf75 on Nov 15, 2007 11:05 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Scratch that. Using the word "excellent"

in concert with HoRam is heresy.

I'm just saying that in times past he wasn't quite the disaster that he was in 2007. HoRam circa 2007 is an AAAA pitcher. NL 2003 HoRam was a tolerable 5th starter.

by redwolf75 on Nov 15, 2007 11:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

HoRam circa 2007 is a AA pitcher.

That's not even an exaggeration.

What do I look like, a guy who's not lazy?

by Rollo Tomasi on Nov 15, 2007 11:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Can soft tossing lefties

defy the K < 4.5/9 = suck equasion? Seems like Moyer may have had some good years with very unspectacular K rates. Of course, there's little margin for error when you pitch that way... which is why Moyer sucked for much of his career.

by johnbai on Nov 16, 2007 10:01 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Send him to High Desert

just for fun.

by Llewdor on Nov 16, 2007 11:02 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Nonsense

I don't believe it.

When the team tenders Ho a contract, then I'll believe that this is anything more than trying to talk up some of their trade pieces.

by Katal LM on Nov 15, 2007 5:10 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

The height difference in that video

makes me giggle.

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 6:11 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Hey now...

Who's talking:

//recognizes the difference in camera angles there...

"I restore a sense of childlike wonder to people's lives; you give them Zunes and Vista." -- Fake Steve Jobs to Borg employees

by PositivePaul on Nov 15, 2007 6:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I assure you

that I tower over most of the readers of this blog. (Brayden, of course, being a different story.)

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 6:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

only in height...

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 11:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

How else would one tower?

Height is what makes a building a tower in the first place.

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 11:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

that was the joke.

subtlety is hard to pull off with just plain text. I need a <insert sly grin> emoticon or something.

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 11:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I knew what you were going for.

My defense against such things is to attack the basis of the joke, rather than try to come up with a snappy retort.

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 11:18 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I've found laughing works.

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 11:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Laughing concedes the joke-telling battle

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 11:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Fine. I've had enough of your hostility.

Just go back to Broussard. He's all you ever talk about anyways.

(Besides, attacking the basis of the joke isn't a joke in and of itself so by doing so, you've already conceded. You have to come back with something like "According to your mom, it's not just my height thats monumental")

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 11:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

According to your mom, it's not just

fuck it I'm going to bed. Watch some Demetri Martin on YouTube if you want funny jokes.

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 11:28 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

//does the merry jig of victory

by Matthew on Nov 15, 2007 11:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

//on a burning orphanage

by Jeff on Nov 15, 2007 11:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I prefer to jig on the smoldering remains myself

There's too much of a risk of Mistress Irony suddenly looking sharply in my direction if I was jigging on the still burning building.

Although the sound of the orphans pounding on the locked doors would make for a better back beat....

by ningwers on Nov 16, 2007 6:44 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Dude, that's sick

and funny.

by david h on Nov 16, 2007 9:34 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Should've done one of these dealies

>_<

Works with the Japanese girls.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 16, 2007 12:03 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

IIRC

You've said your 6'5"? Does 1 inch count as towering?

by chrisisasavage on Nov 16, 2007 7:36 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

same

by Edgar for Pres on Nov 16, 2007 8:31 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

It's a tall inch

by Jeff on Nov 16, 2007 5:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

That's what she said.

I overvalue prospects

by Thingray on Nov 16, 2007 5:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

One inch

counts as dissatisfying.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 16, 2007 5:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Who is here

Because I don't know the joke.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 7:32 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I think the joke is just that

Jeff looks way shorter than Bavasi and Dave because he's lower down.

"Kruger! My son tells me, your company shtinks!"-Frank Costanza.

by Coach Owens on Nov 15, 2007 8:20 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Other than Bavasi

I don't recognize anyone. I now know what Bretticus looks like from the football photos, but only because someone said Brett was the dude with the gloves.

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 16, 2007 12:03 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

From left to right...

Dave Cameron (USSM), Devin (LL co-founder, along with Trent who has yet to hitch a plane with Jeff to make it to one of these LL events), some dude's head (who I could neither crop nor Photoshop out), Jeff, and obviously Bavasi doing the pointing. I shot this at the LL/USSM combined event in Tacoma. Unfortunately my distance and family commitments didn't allow me to attend the Everett LL/USSM event the following night. Otherwise, you'd probably have more pix of Jeff with Harry Canary's "seed" all over him...

"I restore a sense of childlike wonder to people's lives; you give them Zunes and Vista." -- Fake Steve Jobs to Borg employees

by PositivePaul on Nov 15, 2007 9:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Ah, thanks.

I've never seen any of you before. What happened to the other founders?

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by Librocrat on Nov 15, 2007 11:57 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Jeff trapped them in his basement

and used their prostrate bodies to incubate his ravenous brood. The baby photos are adorable! ^_^

by ningwers on Nov 16, 2007 6:41 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You'd make a bad publicist

by Jeff on Nov 16, 2007 7:50 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Dude,

babies play well in the key 14 to... well pretty much the entire female demographic.

...

What?

...

She's not so much ooo-ing and aww-ing as she's screaming in terror?

...

So... women... not fans of chest exploding, patricidal spawn. Shit. Well then what the hell am I supposed to do with 5,000 boxes of tampons emblazoned with Jeff's bloodsoaked freak babies?

by ningwers on Nov 16, 2007 9:06 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Boy, that escalated quickly

I mean, that really got out of hand fast.
It jumped up a notch.
It did, didn't it?
Yeah, I stabbed a man in the heart.
I saw that. Brick killed a guy. Did you throw a trident?

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Nov 16, 2007 9:21 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs