disaster averted

We interrupt tonight’s urgent homework session to bring you the following breaking news: the Cardinals have finally won a game. About d@mn time, we almost got to the third eight-game losing streak of the season. This better mean we’re going on a hot streak in which we win about ten games in a row. When [...]

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yeah… i’m gonna need you to come in saturday…

Ah, what an unfortunate time to be neck-deep in academic research.  This is the first time since Thursday or so that I’ve actually turned my computer on and sat down to do anything that wasn’t directly related to any of the research projects, reports, session plans, readings, or other studying on my docket. Over the [...]

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vomit jellybeans

I won’t rant & rave, because that’s just not what I do. Usually, anyway. I’m just going to say that with no outs and a tie game in the bottom of the ninth, I told my friend I’d pick her up as soon as the Cards game was over, “which shouldn’t be long. Johnson’s going [...]

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narf!

It was awfully nice to see Jason Marquis not on the mound tonight for any reason.  Back spasms, religious observance, benching for benching’s sake, flat-out replacing, I really don’t care.  I’ll take it.  Marquis pitching in the juicebox when we need to be getting wins is something to be avoided at all costs.  Similarly, it [...]

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bloody hell and magic numbers

Did Weaver pitch tonight? No? I was expecting the superiorly magical Carpenter to show up tonight, but instead we got a mere Muggle that we’d be pretty happy to see on the mound any other night. Just not on the night that Carp takes his turn.
Since I remember how Carp was at the end of [...]

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