Comments on: Oooof! http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/ In-your-face baseball commentary Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:48:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nick Kapur http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53092 Nick Kapur Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:14:54 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53092 Ack. Sorry about the glaring errors, guys. Stupid Japanese Time. Stupid no internet access! I'm sad that I'm missing out on all these rollicking discussions... Ack. Sorry about the glaring errors, guys. Stupid Japanese Time. Stupid no internet access!

I’m sad that I’m missing out on all these rollicking discussions…

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]]> By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53091 Sarah Green Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:19:27 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53091 Wamp wamp waaaaamp. If you go 0-for-18, Jason, don't cry! Captain Intangibles, all you can do is try! Wamp wamp waaaaamp.

If you go 0-for-18, Jason, don’t cry!

Captain Intangibles, all you can do is try!

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]]> By: Brian Sadecki http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53090 Brian Sadecki Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:14:23 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53090 He even showed his love of making mistakes by putting up this line: .254 .358 .398 He even showed his love of making mistakes by putting up this line: .254 .358 .398

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]]> By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53089 Sarah Green Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:03:53 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53089 It was the "everyone makes mistakes" line that really captured my imagination. Just imagine the Captain wearing a huge, feathery yellow suit with a C over his heart, signing the following to a snuffling Gagne: If you make a mistake, you shouldn't start to cry. Mistakes are not so bad, and here is why: Oh everyone makes mistakes. Oh, yes they do Your sister and your brother and your dad and mother too; Big people, small people, matter of fact, all people! Everyone makes mistakes, so why can't you? It was the “everyone makes mistakes” line that really captured my imagination.

Just imagine the Captain wearing a huge, feathery yellow suit with a C over his heart, signing the following to a snuffling Gagne:

If you make a mistake, you shouldn’t start to cry.

Mistakes are not so bad, and here is why:

Oh everyone makes mistakes.

Oh, yes they do

Your sister and your brother and your dad and mother too;

Big people, small people, matter of fact, all people!

Everyone makes mistakes, so why can’t you?

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]]> By: Rich http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53076 Rich Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:50:41 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53076 Sarah, I can at least respect you're pulling an Obama, rather than a Hillary. You were against it from the start, even before it went south. Fair enough. Hopefully this won't look like the wrong end of the Heathcliff Slocum trade. (First one to continue the political talk gets tasered!) But ease up on Tek. He's the Captain and the catcher. Is he really going to hang a teammate, let alone a pitcher, out to dry? @Coley: Bring back more Japanese pitchers! These Candians stink! Sarah, I can at least respect you’re pulling an Obama, rather than a Hillary. You were against it from the start, even before it went south. Fair enough. Hopefully this won’t look like the wrong end of the Heathcliff Slocum trade.

(First one to continue the political talk gets tasered!)

But ease up on Tek. He’s the Captain and the catcher. Is he really going to hang a teammate, let alone a pitcher, out to dry?

@Coley: Bring back more Japanese pitchers! These Candians stink!

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]]> By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53075 Sarah Green Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:54:19 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53075 Brian: meh. I will speak for Nick, who is on Japanese time these days. We both agree. The Gagne deal looked good on paper in a casual sense, but if you really gave that paper the once-over with the magnifying glass, it looked "meh." Here are the links to our posts about it, for historical purposes: http://umpbump.com/press/a-lone-ranger/ http://umpbump.com/press/?p=1150 Brian: meh. I will speak for Nick, who is on Japanese time these days. We both agree. The Gagne deal looked good on paper in a casual sense, but if you really gave that paper the once-over with the magnifying glass, it looked “meh.”

Here are the links to our posts about it, for historical purposes:

http://umpbump.com/press/a-lone-ranger/

http://umpbump.com/press/?p=1150

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]]> By: Brian Sadecki http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53088 Brian Sadecki Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:47:21 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53088 Way to not publicly trash one of your own teammates. King among men. Way to not publicly trash one of your own teammates. King among men.

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]]> By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53082 Sarah Green Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:40:15 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53082 And this is what Varitek had to say about Gagne: "He has to know, from all of us, that we need him. You know what? People can get down, but everybody makes mistakes. People don't get hits in the right situations, make an error, do those things. But you know what? He's got good stuff, he can pitch, and he's going to help us." I just sort of love that even though Gagne has been unspeakably bad---by my count, without his blown saves, the Sox would be 5.5 up from New York today---there's Varitek, sounding like my old, worn-out recording of Big Bird's "everybody makes mistakes." My parents *will* still love me even if I spill my milk! Varitek will still comfort you even if you almost singlehandedly torch the team's division lead! And this is what Varitek had to say about Gagne:

“He has to know, from all of us, that we need him. You know what? People can get down, but everybody makes mistakes. People don’t get hits in the right situations, make an error, do those things. But you know what? He’s got good stuff, he can pitch, and he’s going to help us.”

I just sort of love that even though Gagne has been unspeakably bad—by my count, without his blown saves, the Sox would be 5.5 up from New York today—there’s Varitek, sounding like my old, worn-out recording of Big Bird’s “everybody makes mistakes.”

My parents *will* still love me even if I spill my milk! Varitek will still comfort you even if you almost singlehandedly torch the team’s division lead!

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]]> By: Brian Sadecki http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53081 Brian Sadecki Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:34:48 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53081 Well, no, he's terrible. But it looked good on paper before he Felix Heredia'd. And, Sarah, I clearly said "It feels stupid to argue this point now" which excuses me from all criticism, now and forever. Well, no, he’s terrible.

But it looked good on paper before he Felix Heredia’d.

And, Sarah, I clearly said “It feels stupid to argue this point now” which excuses me from all criticism, now and forever.

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]]> By: Sarah Green http://umpbump.com/press/2007/09/19/oooof/comment-page-1/#comment-53087 Sarah Green Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:32:48 +0000 http://umpbump.com/press/oooof/#comment-53087 Oh, and also, despite my description of David Murphy as middling, he's hitting .364 in 77 at-bats in Texas. His OPS is 1.001. Why. God. Why. Oh, and also, despite my description of David Murphy as middling, he’s hitting .364 in 77 at-bats in Texas. His OPS is 1.001.

Why.

God.

Why.

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