Green-watch! ← FREE KRAUT!

Green-watch! 22

Here’s hoping the broadcasters can pause in their slobbering all over the Yankees long enough to give us any important updates.

C’mon Tomko–let’s beat these weasles.

22 thoughts on “Green-watch!

  1. batgirl Aug 17,2009 7:36 pm

    Am I crazy? I don’t think the Hairstons look alike at all, let alone “be twins.” Thoughts?

  2. salb918 Aug 17,2009 7:38 pm

    Did you know…

    …Brett Tomko was on Seattle’s 116-win juggernaut in 2001?

  3. salb918 Aug 17,2009 7:56 pm

    Based on my extensive, expert observations tonight, Brett Tomko is the greatest pitcher in history.

  4. Poppy Aug 17,2009 8:16 pm

    I think Burnett got goosed by a unicorn horn.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  5. salb918 Aug 17,2009 8:22 pm

    A’s sign Ian Krol, according to Fosse and Kuiper.

    Yay!

  6. andeux Aug 17,2009 8:58 pm

    Green signs

    TINSTAAFK
    • batgirl Aug 17,2009 9:00 pm || Up

      Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

    • nevermoor Aug 17,2009 9:42 pm || Up

      Did we sign enough of our guys to make it a good draft.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • TJ Aug 18,2009 9:57 am || Up

        As I recall we had 4 tough signs: Green, Stassi, Krol and Dyson. Dyson was the most unlikely and Stassi had the highest value relative to draft slot.

        Signing 3/4 of them including the biggest upside pick (Stassi) definitely sounds like a win to me. Really any draft where you can get 2 first-round caliber position players is likely to return strong value. Any value that the amateur pitching lottery turns up will be gravy.

        The knock on the draft would be in failing to draft and sign the 3rd round pick (LHP Justin Marks, a polished college junior out of Louisville) when we didn’t have that many high picks to budget for. That and signing another Crosby.

        • andeux Aug 18,2009 10:18 am || Up

          Marks signed and pitched to seven batters in rookie ball (retiring none of them) before being sidelined with a groin injury

          TINSTAAFK
          • nevermoor Aug 18,2009 10:39 am || Up

            So you’re saying he’s a natural born A?

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • TJ Aug 18,2009 11:12 am || Up

            OK- that’s good to hear (that he signed, anyway). This page had him as unsigned so that’s what I was going off of.

            An ERA of *.**, that’s really good, right?

            • andeux Aug 18,2009 11:46 am || Up

              Leyland and Consigli are also signed and playing in rookie ball.

              TINSTAAFK
        • nevermoor Aug 18,2009 10:39 am || Up

          Thanks.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. batgirl Aug 17,2009 9:25 pm

    Sweet. Stuff it Yankees.

  8. nevermoor Aug 18,2009 12:51 pm

    Yglesias: I still have a stupid.

    Priceless comment of intense nonsense:

    I agree with this completely. Except for a few multi-lane boulevards, cars should never be going faster than bikes in a city in the first place.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Poppy Aug 18,2009 1:18 pm || Up

      I was in Paris a couple of eons ago, and enjoyed a lovely afternoon atop the Arc de Triomphe watching the cars, scooters, bikes, and pedestrians navigate the one-way traffic circle around the arch (where I think twelve streets converge), with no signs or road markings. Very entertaining. Here’s a video that’s not mine.

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • nevermoor Aug 18,2009 1:32 pm || Up

        From there, I wish our system worked this way too.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. monkeyball Aug 18,2009 4:42 pm

    Back in the ’90s, I played Farfisa organ for Shabby Bungalow.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Aug 18,2009 4:47 pm || Up

      (Also, I really like the decontextualized phrase “shabby bungalow of a man.” As in, Walter Matthau played Morris Buttermaker as a shabby bungalow of a man.)

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Aug 18,2009 4:50 pm || Up

      … then I traded the Farfisa in for a Vox with the splinter group Factory Logjam.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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