A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
by afh4
on May 23, 2008 11:19 PM EDT
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
The shout has gone out from the mountain tops, echoing against ranges as it flows out of Ricola horns:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
The men have gathered around the campfire and the women around the churn. Now is time, they shout:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
The animals run for cover, the voices sounding like earthquakes, distant. From some bushes, a Grizzly:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
Airwaves sputter, spit, spring. Breakers break, popper pop, lockers lock. A single end to end burner:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
A special session is called, table tops are struck with first palms then gavels. H B 282 is proclaimed:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
Blacksmiths strike metal in harmony, cobblers clap leather like hands, deskmakers make desks loudly:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
A national meeting is called, everyone is mistaken for strangers, but everyone agrees, holding placards:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
Rooms are rented, group rates, at the Sheraton. Possibilities are discussed poolside, over mojitos:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
Finally, everyone walks into one room, an infinite chair is sat in, coats are unbuttoned, proceedings:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
Everyone sits in the infinite chair, a few get up to refresh coffees. Everyone sits, assuming the future, looking to the obvious:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
Everyone sits, no one even shuffles feet or breaks eye contact. Nothing happens. It's not awkward, it's factual; look somewhere else:
A CHANGE NEEDS TO OCCUR
Everyone sits and waits. Solutions are not theirs. Everyone is afraid. Everyone sits and asks permission to trust in someone else. Is someone worth trusting coming? Is someone worth trusting already here?
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I’m not sure what’s going on here, but I think it might be funny.
Disclaimer: this post doesn't mean what you think it means.
by AngG on May 22, 2008 1:33 AM EDT 0 recs
afh4: the Ricola hornsman atop the mountains of change.
by still ill on May 22, 2008 4:01 AM EDT 0 recs
Tom Hamilton read that went all apoplectic.
I tried to make Paul Reuschel my Avatar, but he didn't fit into the box.
by emd2k3 on
May 22, 2008 9:01 AM EDT
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Trot Nixon needs-to-eat-his-Wheaties deep.
Il faut d'abord durer.
by CU Adam on
May 22, 2008 10:22 AM EDT
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I already changed my avatar once. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!
All I do is give and give and give ..
by Toxicadam on May 22, 2008 9:28 AM EDT 0 recs
Is it natural to feel frightened?
Burn on, big river, burn on...
by Turkmenbashi on May 22, 2008 9:47 AM EDT 0 recs
Thanks for the laugh.
Where’s the irrational overreactions thread that I need with overreactions that will seem more rational and less reactionary than ever?
by The DiaTriber on May 22, 2008 10:33 AM EDT 0 recs
It looks like this is going to become that thread. Let the irrrational overreactions commence. Or, if you prefer, rational ones.
Free Andy Marte!
by woodsmeister on
May 22, 2008 11:40 AM EDT
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A CHANGE
A CHANGE
A CHANGE
Disclaimer: this post doesn't mean what you think it means.
by AngG on May 22, 2008 11:02 AM EDT 0 recs
Ooh, well played. And damn you for getting that song stuck in my head for the rest of the week.
Burn on, big river, burn on...
by Turkmenbashi on
May 22, 2008 11:06 AM EDT
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This website is starting to look like a Barack Obama commercial.
by DaytonDogg on May 22, 2008 11:11 AM EDT 0 recs
HIRE DYLAN?
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by AngG on
May 22, 2008 11:48 AM EDT
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Everything’s better with Dylan!
Free Andy Marte!
by woodsmeister on
May 22, 2008 11:52 AM EDT
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Remember that time Brenda and Dylan did it on prom night? OMG.
Disclaimer: this post doesn't mean what you think it means.
by AngG on
May 22, 2008 11:55 AM EDT
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“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie” Bob Dylan
by elsandito on
May 22, 2008 4:14 PM EDT
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with help from itunes, 6 results for change
Give Marte a Chance. FIRE SHELTON. Find Wedge a Hot Seat.
by westbrook on May 22, 2008 12:35 PM EDT 0 recs
HIRE BOWIE (I’m not sure the lyrics fit the occasions, but what the heck.)
Changes
David Bowie
I still don’t know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets
Every time I thought I’d got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I’ve never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I’m much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don’t tell t hem to grow up and out of it
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Where’s your shame
You’ve left us up to our necks in it
Time may change me
But you can’t trace time
Strange fascination, fascinating me
Changes are taking the pace I’m going through
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Oh, look out you rock ‘n rollers
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Pretty soon you’re gonna get a little older
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
I said that time may change me
But I can’t trace time
by peter m on May 22, 2008 12:44 PM EDT 0 recs
I could have sworn I hinted at this in Tibe Alive’s fanpost Changes???
by talonk on
May 22, 2008 1:22 PM EDT
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Don’t know. I didn’t see that. The credit (or blame) is all yours if you want it.
by peter m on
May 22, 2008 2:44 PM EDT
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Nah, was joshing. I didn’t put the lyrics in it, just referenced Bowie.
by talonk on
May 22, 2008 3:35 PM EDT
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Hire Jose Conseco as a Strength and Conditioning Coach?
I’m not above cheating at this point…
by gte619n on May 22, 2008 2:00 PM EDT 0 recs
Maybe we lure him in by saying we want to pay for him to fight Pronk?
Once he agrees to meet, we make him an offer he can’t refuse.
by steincat on
May 22, 2008 2:11 PM EDT
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There’ve been times that I’ve thought I couldn’t last for long
But now I think I’m able to carry on
It’s been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come
by SuddenSam on May 22, 2008 2:12 PM EDT 0 recs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p8DVxc16CA
Phantom Planet – “Do the Panic”
by Toxicadam on May 22, 2008 2:33 PM EDT 0 recs
Amazing. It looks as if he could grip a splitter between digits 5 and 6.
by ken from alexandria on
May 22, 2008 6:24 PM EDT
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Oneli Perez – El Pulpito.
Antonio Alfonseca, has 6 fingers on each hand and 6 toes on each foot. His nickname is “Pulpo” (octopus).
by steincat on
May 22, 2008 6:44 PM EDT
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Mordecai Brown?
"A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself."
by Fiddlesticks on
May 22, 2008 5:01 PM EDT
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HIRE CHANGE
Give Marte a Chance. FIRE SHELTON. Find Wedge a Hot Seat.
by westbrook on May 22, 2008 7:35 PM EDT 0 recs
or not?
we’ll have to settle for this dude
Give Marte a Chance. FIRE SHELTON. Find Wedge a Hot Seat.
by westbrook on
May 22, 2008 7:37 PM EDT
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A lot of people don’t realize … 
... change is a two-way street.
by Jay on May 22, 2008 7:41 PM EDT 0 recs
hey jay can we get a game thread up so i can start swearing how manny isn’t playing again?
by Gradyforpresident on
May 22, 2008 7:43 PM EDT
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Nah, I want to see you stretch a little.
You know, like, “That darn Wedge!”
by Jay on
May 22, 2008 7:46 PM EDT
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“You know how we make our money? Volume.”
-Erik
by drerikbrady on
May 23, 2008 6:58 AM EDT
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I’ve been stuck in airports for the past 48 hours and let me just say…
WTF? Are you nouning kidding me? I repeat my demote the offense and bring up Lake County’s offense suggestion.
by APV on May 23, 2008 2:43 AM EDT 0 recs
“If we couldn’t laugh, we’d all go insane.”
... oh, and I’m not laughing
"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.
by Harry Doyle on May 23, 2008 10:10 AM EDT 0 recs
My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, and I Don’t Love Jesus seems somewhat appropriate right now.
Hard truth: Your eyes lie.
by AngG on
May 23, 2008 11:14 AM EDT
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unless, of course, Jesus is riding a dinosaur – side saddle.
"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.
by Harry Doyle on
May 23, 2008 12:12 PM EDT
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Even Jesus riding a dinosaur can’t save us now. He can’t hit a curveball.
Hard truth: Your eyes lie.
by AngG on
May 23, 2008 12:42 PM EDT
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Wasn’t it Kevin Millar who once proposed that his triple-A squad replace the Florida Marlins? I propose the same, though with selected minor leaguers.
Weglarz, Goedert, Mills, Marte, Snyder, Barfield, Choo, Aubrey. Victor catching.
Would that lineup be measurably worse? It’s not possible, right?
by tabler84 on May 23, 2008 12:44 PM EDT 0 recs
What, no Trevor Crowe? No Matt Whitney?
And would Aubrey have made the cut a week ago?
by Jay on
May 23, 2008 1:10 PM EDT
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As bad as the offense was, at 22-19 was there an eight-man purge even pending a week ago? Two Aubrey HRs, six game losing streaks, and consecutive sweeps by lowly opponents have funny effects on us.
by CBusSteve on
May 23, 2008 2:04 PM EDT
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It’s worse though. It has to be worse. I proposed this lineup of all Triple AAA guys a couple of days ago, but it wasn’t serious enough for Tribe Alive:
3b- Russell Branyan
2b- Marshall McDougall
1b – Aubrey
SS- JP
OF- Jon Van Every
CF- GS
OF- Jody Gerut
C- Vic
DH- Trot Nixon
Util – Jolbert Cabrera
by dgcambridge on
May 23, 2008 2:38 PM EDT
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I didn’t think it could be true but:
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/8170920?MSNHPHMA
It's the Arizona talking, really.
by RD74 on May 23, 2008 5:08 PM EDT 0 recs
I was looking for this on MLB Trade Rumors, but no sign yet. I’ll give it some time.
Also, what a concept:
The bat trade wasn’t the first time Calgary came up with some creative dealmaking. The Vipers once tried to acquire a pitcher for 1,500 blue seats when they were renovating their stadium, Young said.
Think of how many blue seats a player like Laffey or Miller could get us?! We could have the bluest damn field in the major leagues!
by steincat on
May 24, 2008 9:06 AM EDT
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During three years in the low minors, John Odom never really made a name for himself.That sure changed this week – he’s the guy who was traded for a bunch of bats.
Okay, I gotta say it: A trade like this only happens once in a blue moon.
by SuddenSam on
May 24, 2008 2:06 PM EDT
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I tried to make Paul Reuschel my Avatar, but he didn't fit into the box.
by emd2k3 on
May 26, 2008 2:10 PM EDT
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Wrong thread, if some of you were scratching your head over this comment.
-Erik
by drerikbrady on
May 24, 2008 9:17 AM EDT
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Bumped to the front, and the top. I mean, why the hell not.
by Jay on May 23, 2008 11:19 PM EDT 0 recs
I took a picture at tonight’s game that epitomizes the state of this team and our fandom. It’s on my sister’s camera so I don’t have it but basically it is a guy a couple rows behind me just completely passed out and this was by like the fifth inning.
by ahowie on May 23, 2008 11:54 PM EDT 0 recs