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Oh, i learned to jump off before the end in those instances... But your lesson is good to learn too. And i was always envious of Mary Poppins' ability to slide up too.

I'm lookin' forward to seein' that hit! And i'm a big fan of banisters. An actual slide is cool, but almost feels like cheating...

Ah, the way baseball is supposed to be watched... What a novel idea!

Ah, it's the teams that lose... That had not occurred to us, dude. Thanks all for the company!

Does that mean we're winning? (Too lazy to go back to the beginning of the thread.)

Yeah, we should string some hits together... Make us some organic molecules... Or maybe hit 'em where they ain't.

Yup. That one. Someplace down town (SF Opera House?) was performing it, and folk could watch a simultaneous telecast on the big screen in center field for free. Can't say i'm particularly well versed in opera*, though when they got to that song, it did sound familiar. So i guess tragedy in AT&T (i want to say ATAT) field isn't foreign to my experience... *-unless you count Gilbert and Sullivan...

I've actually been there once (i've been to 5 major league ball parks) while visiting friends. We watched Rigaletto.

Did i just see what i thought i saw?

Autocomplete? Some people are so good at it they don't even need a computer to do it for them... (And we got 2 on, so maybe we can get something back. I hope...)

I don't know... "Play ball" is traditional. I bet i could come up with worse. Both to the game and the game thread...

I finally remembered enough to track it down... "not" sounds like "what" if you don't pay to close attention. Otherwise, i guess it doesn't sound so close. But here it is: ... I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are ... Judy blue eyes, Crosby Stills Nash and Young (and thanks to google search...) If only i knew my music better, i'd have figured it out quicker.

When i read it, i was tryin' to come up with ways that it would lower: sacrifices, or ways to reach base sans PA (hit by pitch, or interference) and then get erased by double play, picked off, or caught stealing. But yeah, in context i think it was just to get a reasonable lower bound. Otherwise, i went lookin' back at Carlos Silva's 2005 9 walk season, but there wasn't more than a 4 game gap between walks there that i saw...

That sounds like song lyrics, or at least almost... I bet it's gonna keep me up tryin' to figure out what the song is that they aren't quite the lyrics to...

Thanks! I think i take too many called strikes. That, and i can't catch up to the fastballs...

I did not know that. Does that mean vegetables might taste better on the ceiling?

Hmmm... With two hits to start the next inning, I think the Padres think it's a jinx. But yeah, if MNGap is asleep, i don't think it matters to him.

I did in fact check back, so no need to even dare the likes o' me. Thus it would be a waste of a double dog dare... Hope the Babe Ruthers have a good game! I'm bad at all the satisfaction survey scales... I'll try my hand at google image search, and see if i can find something appropriately scary. Um... Best i can do, i think:

Is that a double-dog dare? Or just an ordinary one?

Thanks for the reminder. I kinda glossed over it quickish, and wasn't so sure i wanted to know the results of the subsequent discussion: the finer points of "ick" vs. "ish"... Anyway, rereading it, it is indeed excellent! I think it has quadrupled my knowledge of the area, which previously was staying a night or two with relatives in the area before driving cross country, and that was a while ago. The relatives have since moved. And if i recall a friend's beef, Lord Stanely originally dedicated his cup to amateur hockey, so on that basis, perhaps they got a chance... Anyway g' night! And enjoy the ice cream all!

I'm glad the warning track is there... If the fence were where the grass ends, there would be a few less padres' fly outs.

That's why you always run things out.

I think we've had our fair share of runless hits the past few years, that a few hitless runs have to happen now and then.

I learn something new every day...

I'm still tryin' to wrap my mind around "ten foot rubber gloves..." And all i can think to say is... "you have ten feet on your right hand... someone is looking for you."