Time to Hug It Out
Because we've seen a few, er, contentious threads of late, I thought I'd throw a big, LGT-size olive branch on the fire.
This is a reminder that the Indians Annual ships TODAY.
How can that not improve your mood? Imagine how silly you'll feel if you haven't ordered yours while everyone else is curled up in a Snuggie, reading Andrew's brilliant analysis of the loosey goosey nature of the band Nelson asking if they could tour with Radiohead. We'll be reading happily, with the sounds of Hammy on our old-school radio telling us that Kerry Wood slammed the door again, and BALLGAME!
about 3 years ago
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Let’s be serious here… this book won’t make it to April. I’ll be lucky if I haven’t finished it by the first spring training game.
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on Feb 16, 2009 1:26 PM EST reply actions
Tabler, how can you include a tag of “can you take me high enough”, which is so obviously a Damn Yankees song, when Nelson’s “(can’t live without your) love and affection” is CLEARLY more appropriate for a fanshot with this title?
Is it wrong that I know that song by heart?
1. I screwed up the tag? Awesome. I think that makes it better.
2. I am not surprised whatsoever that you know these songs. You probably remember who sang that one tune that was on our drive-to-get-beer CD back in college (“Hum along, regret it.”)
3. That said, it is beyond disturbing that you know the proper parenthetical title of that song. I mean, Jesus.
i wish. would have saved myself $5. although since i just found $5 on the ground walking back from a coffee break, i guess i’m sitting even.
apparently President’s Day is also $5 Fairy Day (hmm…that sounds kind of dirty when I write it out…)
(near the sink)
read: “I did not fish it out of the toilet”
by Logodaedalus on Feb 16, 2009 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
I found $5 at Taco Bell in the food court last week.
Burn on, big river, burn on...
by Turkmenbashi on Feb 16, 2009 4:29 PM EST up reply actions
You know who you are?
You’re EVEN STEVEN!
Signature to be named later.
by emd2k3 on Feb 16, 2009 5:07 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Crazy story that shows it all comes back to Chip Case:
For Christmas for my dad, my brothers and I restored a 1966 diary of his 50-day trip to Europe with his two best friends (Chip being one). We typed up the book, added fresh reflections and pictures of where they went, the whole nine yards. But it shipped late and nearly missed the Christmas Eve deadline.
Well, odldy enough it was printed in Rochester, but I was not permitted to pick it up here. It had to be shipped. It went to Boston, then Memphis, then Cleveland. So annoying.
I put together a similar Xmas gift for my family a few years ago – typing up every christmas card my parents have sent out since they were married (going back to the 60s) plus a few other correspondences here and there, scanning in pictures appropriate for the letter, and putting it all together into a single document. It was fun (and free).
The full-squad is in-house. In fact, the addition of Tony Graffanino means an even 60 players are in camp. So each and every one of the 60 lockers in the Indians’ clubhouse is spoken for.
Contentious?!
"Lotta heart in Cleveland." - Ian Hunter
by Denver Tribe Fan on Feb 16, 2009 5:06 PM EST reply actions
Just purchased it, $17 postage!!! $55 NZD all up, taking you all at your word that it is good? Hopefully it arrives before the season starts!!! Any chance of an autographed copy?
One day I'll get over to watch the Tribe play
by new zealand tribe fan on Feb 16, 2009 8:02 PM EST reply actions
Heading down to Hawkes Bay next weekend, unfortunately a round at Cape Kidnappers isn’t on the agenda, Lionel Ritchie concert instead (inserts apology). They played a 4 man chalIenge recently (Kauri Cliffs and Cape Kidnappers) with Adam Scott, Hunter Mahan, Anthony Kim and Brandt Snedeker, there was TV coverage, would be well worth seeing it, there are plenty of pictures on the net.
One day I'll get over to watch the Tribe play
by new zealand tribe fan on Feb 16, 2009 9:43 PM EST up reply actions
NZTF – I’m supposed to go to Australia – Brisbane, Alice Springs, Melborne – sometime in May. I might be able to convince my management that I need to go to Christ Church to do some kinda folderall on the jatropha tree oil project we’re running. Long story short – I could hand carry you a copy quicker than our screwed-up mail system can.
Chuck any chance you can buy two copies and I pay you for one down in Goodyear?
by supermarioelia on Feb 16, 2009 9:36 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, I’ll look into that. Stay tuned.
BTW, did you share any of the BMI discussion with your profs? I’d like somebody who actually knows about this stuff comment.
Still on psychiatry. I would only get blank stares.
by supermarioelia on Feb 16, 2009 10:12 PM EST up reply actions
Christchurch is in the South Island, I’m in Auckland (North Island), if you can arrange it be happy to catch up.
One day I'll get over to watch the Tribe play
by new zealand tribe fan on Feb 16, 2009 9:45 PM EST up reply actions
i’ve heard it’s just like “lord of the rings”
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Feb 17, 2009 8:15 AM EST up reply actions
I’m actually a dwarf
One day I'll get over to watch the Tribe play
by new zealand tribe fan on Feb 17, 2009 3:09 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
From what I remember, isn’ there some crazy person in Cathedral Square at all times pontificating and such?
Don't be stupid. PUT IN MELOAN.
The Wizard
One day I'll get over to watch the Tribe play
by new zealand tribe fan on Feb 17, 2009 2:55 PM EST up reply actions
YES. The Wizard. Let’s get him a Tribe Hat and have him explain the great works of St. Grady.
Don't be stupid. PUT IN MELOAN.
I thought that was the kid who was really good at Nintendo.
by cleveland teamer on Feb 18, 2009 9:40 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t want to rain on anyone’s feel-good parade here guys, but as a State Employee, I’m here to tell you they didn’t ship USPS today.
Happy President’s Day.
Il faut d'abord durer.
I’m also planning on surreptitiously hawking them at $20 a pop inside Mud Hens games, like the guy who sold girly mags out of his locker in middle school.
“Hey, ya wanna see the real AL Central?”
by fleerdon on Feb 16, 2009 10:38 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Haha — I asked my wife for it, also. Nothing says “I love you” more than Indians baseball!
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
by Buckeye Brad on Feb 17, 2009 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
You guys actually receive V-Day gifts?
Or is it like, you get something for fifteen bucks, she gets something that’s $200 and a huge hassle?
I set a precedent six months into my relationship with my then-future wife — nothing. It’s a long story as to how I pulled that off, and it’s a little too far off-topic. But I do try to do something really nice for her within a few days of V-Day, before or after, just to make sure she doesn’t forget how much I appreciate her while seeing other women get flowers and stuff.
The problem I have is that Manhattan is ridiculous on V-Day. Prix fixe menus are awful, booking a restaurant a month in advance
I like your method, will probably try something like this
I imagine it’s tough to pull off at any point after the first year. It helped that a few months earlier, only six weeks into the relationship, I made a huge fuss over her on her birthday, so my spurning of V-Day couldn’t be mistaken for being lazy with regard to romantic gestures in general.
Yeah, I try to avoid the prix fixe menu dealie — they’re almost invariably worse value because restaurants know people will pay extra to go out on Feb. 14th. I set a precedent in the first year of celebrating Groundhog Day as a romantic holiday, thereby preempting V-Day. She, of course, found this very cute, and now we generally do something in the general vicinity of Valentine’s (often in the name of “belated Groundhog Day”), but without the “market inefficiencies” of celebrating on the 14th itself.
by Logodaedalus on Feb 18, 2009 3:50 PM EST up reply actions
I’m on this boat. And not only that, my girlfriend is too. We didn’t even say Happy Valentine’s Day to each other. Screw it.
Does that sound like I’m bragging? I don’t mean to.
by NickFantana on Feb 17, 2009 10:29 PM EST up reply actions
You’re on a boat? Are you with T-Pain?
Burn on, big river, burn on...
by Turkmenbashi on Feb 18, 2009 1:48 PM EST up reply actions
I got the CD. It’s so absurdly funny. And surprisingly, some of the music is actually pretty good.
I'm *always* in the driver's seat, cugino -- Chuck
by Turkmenbashi on Feb 18, 2009 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
Just remember: When you go all out on Valentine’s Day, what you’re really saying is that she’s only worth one day of extra effort a year — a day when large companies seeking your money tell you to go all out. And if that doesn’t say love, well, perhaps nothing says love.
Not really, but she asked if I wanted anything for V-Day and I’m going to buy the book anyways, of course, so I said that. It’s not really an official gift.
I get her something but don’t spend anything near $200. Actually, this year I made it kinda special (with many small gifts) because she deserved it for everything she’s been through the past year with me. Also, last year I was in the hospital on Valentine’s Day so obviously I couldn’t do anything for her then.
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
by Buckeye Brad on Feb 17, 2009 8:09 PM EST up reply actions
god i love being single again.
/looks around, sighs to himself.
So 2009.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 19, 2009 3:31 AM EST up reply actions
I figure mine will be one of the first to arrive since I’m in North Carolina. Sound about right?
-Erik
by drerikbrady on Feb 19, 2009 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
assuming these are actually printed in MA (Maple Street Press is based out of MA), I’m hoping to get mine today. If the mail comes while I’m at home for lunch I’ll try to upload a picture.
Not postal service, apparently the printers sent the books on the wrong type of truck, so it took MSP an extra day just to get them unloaded. I imagine a few people will get it tomorrow, but most early next week. I got a few, but I assume those ship to the editors directly from the printer.
william elliott whitmore show.
So 2009.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 19, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
Sigh, I know I won’t get mine until at least the first week of March since I’ve placed a hold on my mail next week as the family and I are on a weeklong roadtrip.
I can’t wait to see how long it takes me to get caught up on missing a weeks worth of fanpost/comments this time.
I’ll call Mrs. drerikbrady and see if mine has arrived yet.
-Erik
by drerikbrady on Feb 19, 2009 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
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