Payback: Griffey Style

by Brian Floyd on May 15, 2008 8:04 PM PDT

We've all probably paid off a bet in pennies at one point or another, but $1,500 in pennies in the players locker is impressive. I wonder what the look on the bank teller's face was.

Fun penny fact of the day: To "spend a penny" in British idiom means to urinate. The etymology of the phrase is literal; some public toilets used to be coin-operated, with a pre-decimal penny being the charge levied.

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Josh Fogg now pitches for the Reds. Out of the bullpen.

by Gomez on May 15, 2008 8:44 PM PDT reply actions

by JI on May 15, 2008 10:12 PM PDT up reply actions

What a goon.

I wonder if he and Laird are related.

Is it just me, or is this AJ trade looking worse every day?

by The Alaskan on May 16, 2008 8:34 AM PDT up reply actions

Not as funny

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/SEA/SEA200606300.shtml

by Robert on May 15, 2008 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions

We were over .500 that season?

holy crap

by JI on May 15, 2008 10:40 PM PDT up reply actions

Then it must have been the other, younger, whiter, group of untalented high school kids

who were in before the Seahawks.

by JI on May 15, 2008 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions

The Cougars?

by Robert on May 16, 2008 12:06 AM PDT up reply actions

They showed up too.

by JI on May 16, 2008 12:46 AM PDT up reply actions

We still managed to let Fogg throw a shutout with only 1 K.

That’s terrible.

I like using semi-colons; they make me feel smart.

by Llewdor on May 16, 2008 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions

Mariners hitting: your pitching's slumpbuster since 1977

by Gomez on May 15, 2008 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions

We took 1995-2001 off.

by JI on May 15, 2008 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions

I thought payback Griffey style

was to come back to your old team and suck.

by Fett42 on May 15, 2008 9:23 PM PDT reply actions

Just you wait

That ones coming soon to a team near you

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

by Brian Floyd on May 15, 2008 9:26 PM PDT up reply actions

Heh.

I had the same thought. Griffey didn’t like Seattle, asks for trade to Cincinnati, does well for a few years, hopes to get back at Seattle by going to the World Series in Cincy, that doesn’t happen, hangs on waaaaaaay too long, formulates plan to keep playing until Seattle will inevitably trade for him for his “veterany-ness”, suck hardcore, Seattle picks up his option, sucks more, then retires and lavishes in his piles of money.

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on May 16, 2008 7:39 AM PDT up reply actions