Nice timing. It’s 10-1, bro.

Fun idea, but the original post seems to be in pretty poor taste. Anyone have any thoughts on that, pro or con?

Gallows humor?

I’m not throwing in the towel until July 4th.

I think the whole thread is offensive because it says we’re a bunch of quitters. It ain’t over until we say its over! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!

Well, look, if that’s gonna be the only image it should go away. Certainly we can do better right?

How about a theme?
Movie posters? Marte-as-hulk? Have you seen this player milk cartons?

The Angels have the rally monkey … we have the surrender monkey.

“Casey Blake is Not a Quitter”

But we must learn to be equally good at what is short and sharp and what is long and tough. It is generally said that the British are often better at the last. They do not expect to move from crisis to crisis; they do not always expect that each day will bring up some noble chance of war; but when they very slowly make up their minds that the thing has to be done and the job put through and finished, then, even if it takes months – if it takes years – they do it.

Another lesson I think we may take, just throwing our minds back to our meeting here ten months ago and now, is that appearances are often very deceptive, and as Kipling well says, we must ”...meet with Triumph and Disaster. And treat those two impostors just the same.”

You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.
Closing remarks

But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period-I am addressing myself to the School-surely from this period of ten months, this is the lesson:

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Victor?
Can you tell me where he’s gone?
He rbi’ed lotta people but it seems the good they DL
You know I just looked around and he’s gone

Anybody here seen my old friend Travis?
Can you tell me where he’s gone?
I thought I saw him walkin’ up over the hill
With Victor, Fausto and Josh

That’s more like it.

Did anyone else take this thread as a Sarah McLachlan reference?

No? Ok.

I’ll see you guys at Lilith Fair.

No? Ok.

This is the way I feel at this point.

Being a Cleveland fan is really starting to take its toll on my self esteem…..why now? Not really sure, you think Edgar Renteria would have stole my soul in 1997, but I continued to believe. I am really starting to think God truly hates the city….

Awaiting the WS Ring

You ask how much I need you
Must I say that
I need you my obsession
Like Marte needs at bats

I’ll ask how long to await you
Please tell me true
Until the twelfth of never, I’ll still be awaiting you

Find a closer
Never let him go
Find a closer
Melt my heart like April snow

I’ll await you ‘till the owners learn how to share
I’ll await you ‘till Joel Skinner regrows hair
I’ll await you ‘till the poets run out of rhyme

Until the twelfth of never
And that’s a long long time
Until the twelfth of never
And that’s a long long time

Three Rings for the White Sox under the sky,
Seven for the Red Sox lords in their fens of stone,
Nine for Athletics doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Gotham where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Gothamwhere the Shadows lie.