And maybe that guy who called the radio to say he’d bought a 12-game plan (um, really?) just to see Junior, but that now he was going to go home after work and torch his Griffey jersey on the BBQ.
I can't lie, even through all this, if he comes here I'll enjoy seeing him, but I will be bitter because he's now basically crapped on us twice.
So…I’m mad at him for being a douche…yet if I got to see him again, despite him being a .750ish OPS bat with no glove, I wouldn’t boo him or anything. Fandom is a weird thing.
Regardless, I think his backers need to admit he’s done something wrong to the city twice now.
And it’s not like it’s going to kill us or save us one way or the other.
I just want to stop hearing about it and start the “Mike Morse is hitting .750 in ST, we should give him a fulltime spot!” vs. “ST stats don’t fucking matter, you moron.” arguments again.
I think people saw this as the perfect storm, with fate bringing the beloved Kid home for another year.
He’s a free agent, he doesn’t have much time left, it’s a depressed market where he’s just looking for a job, and we ostensibly had a need for a LH-hitting DH.
I’m not saying he owed Seattle anything, but because it seemed so inevitable, people may have taken that to mean Griffey had made up his mind to return to Seattle. When, in actuality, he was looking for the best job he could find.
I have spent time around the man. Granted it was a long time ago, but he was a dick then and he still appears to be a dick.
Yes, everyone is different, but I generally choose to avoid people who have a huge ego in public because they are so insecure that the only way they can deal is by being an ass to everyone.
I almost never see copies of the newspaper these days...
…but on Saturday I was at a friend’s house and noticed that the Times actually put Griffey at the top of the front page on Friday and Saturday. I guess it’s fitting for a medium that started going downhill when Griffey did.
In fact, I’m sure there are quite a few people who have already bought tickets (perhaps even season tickets) thinking that Griffey was all but a done deal. I would hate to be one of those folks right now. Poor Z having to deal with the aftermath of an almost signing he probably was never in favor of in the start of things.
If Griffey signs with the Braves, I will issue an apology to anyone I ever scolded for hating Griffey as much or more then A-Rod, because this stringing out shit is absurd. How often do players get a chance at a storybook ending like Griffey’s getting handed on a silver platter here? TAKE IT DUMBASS.
was when he returned two years ago and received a weekend full of standing ovations when he was expecting to be booed.
I can totally see why he’d be hesitant to sign here, the only upside is the fans here are going to love him for who he used to be, and if today is any indication, they may completely turn on him for no good reason.
“…they may completely turn on him for no good reason.”
Even ignoring the behind-the-scenes info I’ve received (most of which happens to confirm the not-behind-the-scenes info) – nearly all of the information as of this time last week said it was imminent that Griffey was coming back. His latest act of tool-dom towards the Seattle fans absolutely gives reason for those fans to turn on him.
…and puts the certainty of Dave and DMZ over the weekend that Griffey was a done deal into a new light. If they were just going off what everyone in the FO thought, it’s damn hard to even needle them about this.
It looks like Griffey is just an indecisive bastard.
I guess the only reason I feel sorry for them is because many are not the rabid fans that we may be, soaking up every tidbit about the M’s as possible, and thus may have taken all of this incessant talk on the radio and the newspaper as a sign of certainty.
Kind of like how you think a cow has big puppy dog eyes before you eat a hamburger.
When the M’s official site reports it as ‘imminent’ — even though it’s not official (and they disclaim that) — it’s pretty serious. Pretty much everyone involved in the discussions at that point in time were seemingly willing to bet their careers/jobs on it happening.
I think these people who bought tickets based on this information certainly have a legitimate gripe.
Silva fat jokes have nothing to do with LL QC. We are not relaxing our standards here and we’ve made it abundantly clear that Silva fat jokes are not funny.
Wasn’t trying to start a flame war, I just think that’s a shining example of what most of the users in that thread were complaining about. A quick glance through his history didn’t show a trend of the guy being reprimanded for Silva jokes. There’s one way to handle it, and then there’s this. I know I’m not in the LL Club, so apologies if I’m stepping out of line, here. I just thought it could have been handled better. A regular user is one thing, but I think the site reps should hold themselves to a higher standard. I realize that’s pushing it. I’ll get off your lawn now.
But anyway, yeah, Griffey should shit or get off the pot.
My joke wasn’t funny, Matthew called me on it, and I didn’t argue. Then shit went all crazy.
I did like where the whole thread looped on itself in the span of five minutes, though.
Silva fat jokes were kinda funny when he first showed up on the team — not because he was overweight, but because we just hated everything he stood for and looked for any reason to make fun of him — fair or not. But it got tired. Now it’s not funny, and the mods and others are starting to groan loudly, which is really the only way to put an end to it without going crazy legislating what’s funny and what isn’t.
But it’s not like you committed a mortal sin. Everyone is guilty at one point or another of beating a joke into the ground.
I'm hoping at this point
that he takes the David Beckham route and plays in Italy.
I don’t care what he plays.
pdb - February 17, 2009
Backham is returning to LA apparently...
abender20 - February 17, 2009
So would you after being in Milan
One of the least inspiring places on the planet.
MarkE - February 17, 2009
It inspires me to leave...
Matthew - February 17, 2009
Backham... I'm so moronic.
I expected Milan to be beautiful and quintessentially Italian. It was dirty, industrial, and crowded.
abender20 - February 17, 2009
Since when?
And why would he do that?
bluemax - February 17, 2009
No kidding.
What a punk.
ThundaPC - February 17, 2009
I hope he pulls the cloak and dagger on Atlanta like Furcal did.
Wilder. - February 17, 2009
Oh for fuck's sake.
Faux - February 17, 2009
No one seems to have told Softy yet .
heh heh heh.
msb - February 17, 2009
Poor man's going to have a heart attack by the end of the day.
BrianL - February 17, 2009
hmm.
Maybe this is all just to torture him.
And maybe that guy who called the radio to say he’d bought a 12-game plan (um, really?) just to see Junior, but that now he was going to go home after work and torch his Griffey jersey on the BBQ.
msb - February 17, 2009
God damn it
Kirsten Schlewitz - February 17, 2009
So you're saying that this isn't a real photo?
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
I don't think it worked.
Double06 - February 17, 2009
Not posting? Maybe you can't hotlink it.
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
Griffey just needs to shake a magic 8 ball for his answer.
Jed MC - February 17, 2009
I think he's gotten "Outlook uncertain" for the last 100 shakes.
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
...
Faux - February 17, 2009
Remarkably fitting.
Rec’d.
Double06 - February 17, 2009
Great. And I usually don't "get" Penny Arcade either.
esoteric - February 17, 2009
This is the drama I remember from Griffey.
Way to hold your fans hostage asswipe.
Sec 108 - February 17, 2009
Watch as people clamor to trade for him at the deadline when he signs with Atlanta.
Because he can still do no wrong to most people.
BrettJMiller - February 17, 2009
Somehow all of this behavior makes Griffey more lovable than Ichiro to said fan.
Fuck them in their ear hole.
Sec 108 - February 17, 2009
I can't lie, even through all this, if he comes here I'll enjoy seeing him, but I will be bitter because he's now basically crapped on us twice.
So…I’m mad at him for being a douche…yet if I got to see him again, despite him being a .750ish OPS bat with no glove, I wouldn’t boo him or anything. Fandom is a weird thing.
Regardless, I think his backers need to admit he’s done something wrong to the city twice now.
BrettJMiller - February 17, 2009
I fail to see how we're being crapped on this time around.
JI - February 17, 2009
So far, less runup than the Bedard trade.
And it’s not like it’s going to kill us or save us one way or the other.
I just want to stop hearing about it and start the “Mike Morse is hitting .750 in ST, we should give him a fulltime spot!” vs. “ST stats don’t fucking matter, you moron.” arguments again.
Faux - February 17, 2009
I think people saw this as the perfect storm, with fate bringing the beloved Kid home for another year.
He’s a free agent, he doesn’t have much time left, it’s a depressed market where he’s just looking for a job, and we ostensibly had a need for a LH-hitting DH.
I’m not saying he owed Seattle anything, but because it seemed so inevitable, people may have taken that to mean Griffey had made up his mind to return to Seattle. When, in actuality, he was looking for the best job he could find.
Teej - February 17, 2009
But in Seattle, he gets to play with Jose Lopez every day!
they should make sure he knows this before he picks Atlanta again…
seattlebruin - February 17, 2009
I'm sold! Sign me up!
joof - February 17, 2009
I don't feel crapped on at all. I am one who does not want him here.
What I am sick of is his personality and how this whole thing is a perfect example of what a pain in the ass he is.
Sec 108 - February 17, 2009
It's been fun listening to the radio dorks talk about how good he'd be in the clubhouse
Wasn’t he widely known as being kinda bad for the clubhouse, with his own corner of the locker room and a tv and leather chair and all?
tootthekazoo - February 17, 2009
I don't care about in the clubhouse personally.
I have spent time around the man. Granted it was a long time ago, but he was a dick then and he still appears to be a dick.
Yes, everyone is different, but I generally choose to avoid people who have a huge ego in public because they are so insecure that the only way they can deal is by being an ass to everyone.
Sec 108 - February 17, 2009
As a baseball analyst, I don't want him here.
As a fan, I still kind of want him, even if he’s a total jackass. I can’t control my fandom.
BrettJMiller - February 17, 2009
This isn't him though.
This is the media jumping the gun. He has multiple offers, and he’s considering all of them, like any intelligent person would do.
He never promised Seattle he was coming back here this year, he just said it’s something he might like to do.
Thingray - February 17, 2009
I guarantee you he said it was a done deal.
Now, he is waffling because he loves the attention.
Sec 108 - February 17, 2009
I would love to see him decide whe wanted to sign with Seattle
only to have Zduriencik say “Whoops, we thought you were off the table and traded for (Fill-in-the-Nick).”
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
That would be awesome
Corco - February 17, 2009
This would be lovely and may reverse my cranky attitude.
Sec 108 - February 17, 2009
Doyle can DH and hit RHP
Matthew - February 17, 2009
and break his leg catching a fly ball
Corco - February 17, 2009
While DHing? I feel like thats cheating unless you're the home team.
joof - February 17, 2009
during BP
Corco - February 17, 2009
.
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
I would LOVE THIS
royalcurve - February 17, 2009
I think we need to modify this shop:
BrianL - February 17, 2009
We need to send Coach Owens after him
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
I just got up.
What, does Junior think Adrian Beltre is bad and/or overrated? Yeah, fuck that guy then.
Double06 - February 17, 2009
This is the most I've been entertained in quite sometime
I love you KGJ
JI - February 17, 2009
For fuck's sack...
Phil Hatzenbuehler - February 17, 2009
Umm...
sake, not sack.
Phil Hatzenbuehler - February 17, 2009
I prefer the original.
Paytheline - February 17, 2009
This.
Double06 - February 17, 2009
Um?
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
.
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
I'm Marge in that picture...Fuck this crap.
kentroyals5 - February 17, 2009
Ahh! An octopus!
Phil Hatzenbuehler - February 17, 2009
I'm really pissed.
I was all on board for bringing Junior back seeing as how I’m a nostalgic fanboy, but the way he’s stringing this shit along is infuriating.
Fearless Frog - February 17, 2009
but he's Torn! Torn! I tell you!
msb - February 17, 2009
I read that as 'Tony, Toni, Tone'
kentroyals5 - February 17, 2009
That too.
K-Griff is Mad into Music.
msb - February 17, 2009
So you're saying he's on the DL again?
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
JI - February 17, 2009
He's going to sign with the Marlins
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
That's what all of his friends are saying
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
He wants to be closer to his family
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
Zduriencik had no respect for him
SAHME ON YOU JACK
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
The only solution is to crave Washington State off of the continental shelf and move it to a location off the coast of Florida
That way everybody wins
Corco - February 17, 2009
That is no less than Griffey deserves but I wish to also donate him my kidneys just so he has spares
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
You're an engineer
Get on that shit
Corco - February 17, 2009
I'm pretty sure that calls for a surgeon...
abender20 - February 17, 2009
Give him your knee
Kirsten Schlewitz - February 17, 2009
No matter how hard I crave for that to happen
my wishes have so far proved inadequate to create new tectonic rifts.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
You have to use your words, Matthew
Kirsten Schlewitz - February 17, 2009
I tried yelling at Anaheim when I rode past,
but alas, it is still not submerged.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
Walt Disney struck a deal with Neptune.
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
You stole this joke from Jeff but the archives are currently broken so its going to take me a while to call you on it
Robert - February 17, 2009
Heres we go
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/6/5/181049/5775#3548860
Robert - February 17, 2009
How is that the same joke at all?
Matthew - February 17, 2009
Both alluded to Anaheim being swallowed up by a earthquake
Robert - February 17, 2009
Because nobody has ever made an earthquake joke about California.
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
Plus I think it's POURING down rain in SoCal today, isn't it?
Thingray - February 17, 2009
Sunny and 65 here
seattlebruin - February 17, 2009
They had the weather radar on the news this morning,
and it looked like somewhere down there was getting nailed.
Thingray - February 17, 2009
Maybe Los Angeles
it’s nice out in San Diego
seattlebruin - February 17, 2009
It rained on the West Side this morning
but it was clearing and sunny by the time I left for work around 10:30.
bluemax - February 17, 2009
Yeah, that's about right.
abender20 - February 17, 2009
Still ugly down here.
Though not pouring, I don’t think.
Teej - February 17, 2009
Hmmm
it was sunny all morning
seattlebruin - February 17, 2009
I keep getting conflicting reports.
Kirsten Schlewitz - February 17, 2009
Looks like it was the San Francisco area that was getting dumped on.
Thingray - February 17, 2009
I would not know.
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
`
“way to make Anaheim cease to exist. " – Jeff
"it is still not submerged.” – Matthew
Neither actually mention an earthquake.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
You said tectonics plates
Deanna mentioned a earthquake in the next comment. It still counts.
Robert - February 17, 2009
Shut up
Robert - February 17, 2009
JI - February 17, 2009
Go gobble a fountain of cocks.
Cock gobbler.
R.J. Anderson - February 17, 2009
So much for a kinder gentler LL
JI - February 17, 2009
Maybe a third SBN mod can get himself banned from LL
(Kidding, R.J.)
Teej - February 17, 2009
How the fuck is this a green comment?
JI - February 17, 2009
Sup.
SRQman - February 18, 2009
The real question is...
How wasn’t it?
Fearless Frog - February 18, 2009
That would be a stupid question; it is green.
Matthew - February 18, 2009
Seriously how are readers supposed to want to with snarky comments like this?
Robert - February 24, 2009
Because RJ is that damn awesome
Orlando Rays - February 20, 2009
I am still pulling for A-rod to be player-owner of the Marlins.
Sorry that was a bit random.
Fin - February 17, 2009
Congratulations I don't care anymore
Fax me the result when its over
Corco - February 17, 2009
"Later today or early tomorrow morning"
Fuck you, that’s what we heard yesterday Griff.
BrettJMiller - February 17, 2009
Blame the media
JI - February 17, 2009
Yeah, but, see, this time it is Griffey saying it!
so it is different!
msb - February 17, 2009
I'm having a hard time figuring out what people's basis for Griffey love is.
JI - February 17, 2009
Unresolved childhood forced sodomy that results in loving those who inflict pain.
Sec 108 - February 17, 2009
msb - February 17, 2009
Griffey's demanding a trade
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
Griffey's playing golf and laughing his ass off.
Thingray - February 17, 2009
Thanks to the new loophole MLB will be opening
the Braves will sign Griffey and trade him to the Mariners.
Eyebrows - February 17, 2009
We should sign him and trade him for Mike Cameron
Graham MacAree - February 17, 2009
I'm not sure what I would trade for Cameron,
but it’d be a hell of a lot more than I’d have traded for Griffey even five years ago.
Faux - February 17, 2009
And that's why he is a football guru.
John Clayton thinks they need to get Griffey on the Ms because they haven’t done anything to replace Raul’s bat.
msb - February 17, 2009
I thought that was why they signed Branyan
JI - February 17, 2009
Who?
they’ve signed someone on the Mariners?
msb - February 17, 2009
Yeah, some strikeout machine and they traded for some no-hit all-glove scrub.
BrianL - February 17, 2009
Why the hell is John Clayton talking about baseball?
BrianL - February 17, 2009
because Softy was blathering about it as Clayton came on-air.
msb - February 17, 2009
It's easy mmmkayyyy
abender20 - February 17, 2009
.
abender20 - February 17, 2009
.
Big Jared - February 17, 2009
Hey, it's Al Davis!
Fearless Frog - February 17, 2009
Because Sean Salisbury won't mock his baseball takes.
Big Jared - February 17, 2009
He talks about it all the time on his show on Saturdays.
He should stop doing that, because the rest of his show is excellent.
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
I appreciate his insight into Seahawks matters
but I agree, stay the hell away from baseball, Mr. Clayton.
BrianL - February 17, 2009
He's a legitimitely great football reporter.
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
...who was probably shoved into a lot of lockers in high school.
BrianL - February 17, 2009
Unless he went to a high school without lockers.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
That head/neck combination was made for toilet bowls.
abender20 - February 17, 2009
Maybe he got a lot of swirlies and the attractive was sucked off of his face.
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
This looks like someone I know. Someone whose eyes I'd like to stick my thumbs in.
royalcurve - February 17, 2009
Just because one is nerdy, does not mean one will be shoved into a locker.
JI - February 17, 2009
This is true.
In my case it was dumpsters.
BrianL - February 17, 2009
I was a huge nerd and I was never thrown into anything.
joof - February 17, 2009
hang on, I'll be there in a minute
make sure there’s room in your garbage can or locker, please.
pdb - February 17, 2009
Thankfully, we don't have any lockers on campus.
joof - February 17, 2009
So this begs the question
would you permit to looking like a ghoul for the rest of your days in return for being a HOF football analyst?
Omerta - February 17, 2009
Did anyone everplay mutant league football for sega?
I could have sworn that there was a coach that looked just like clayton, possibly the coach of the forty weenies
GarlicFryCubFan - February 17, 2009
I hate to dissapoint John Clayton, but
Ibanez’s bat went along with him to Philadelphia. As did his glove.
The bat was a pretty nice piece of engineering, but that glove was one ugly mofo.
cwel87 - February 17, 2009
John Clayton thought the best team in baseball in May 2001 were the Blue Jays and that it wasn't even close.
Robert - February 17, 2009
I almost never see copies of the newspaper these days...
…but on Saturday I was at a friend’s house and noticed that the Times actually put Griffey at the top of the front page on Friday and Saturday. I guess it’s fitting for a medium that started going downhill when Griffey did.
ubelmann - February 17, 2009
Jon Heyman is a day late and a dollar short.
At least some things never change.
cwel87 - February 17, 2009
This is so annoying.
In fact, I’m sure there are quite a few people who have already bought tickets (perhaps even season tickets) thinking that Griffey was all but a done deal. I would hate to be one of those folks right now. Poor Z having to deal with the aftermath of an almost signing he probably was never in favor of in the start of things.
If Griffey signs with the Braves, I will issue an apology to anyone I ever scolded for hating Griffey as much or more then A-Rod, because this stringing out shit is absurd. How often do players get a chance at a storybook ending like Griffey’s getting handed on a silver platter here? TAKE IT DUMBASS.
Omerta - February 17, 2009
People that bought season tickets because of Griffey without waiting for Griffey to officially sign
deserve their cost.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
I wouldn't describe this as a storybook ending.
JI - February 17, 2009
It's a storybook ending for him, and for his many fans who also happen to be Mariner fans.
Trust me, I’m fully aware that this sentiment is not shared throughout much of the LL/USSM blogosphere.
Omerta - February 17, 2009
The storybook ending
was when he returned two years ago and received a weekend full of standing ovations when he was expecting to be booed.
I can totally see why he’d be hesitant to sign here, the only upside is the fans here are going to love him for who he used to be, and if today is any indication, they may completely turn on him for no good reason.
JI - February 17, 2009
Wrong.
“…they may completely turn on him for no good reason.”
Even ignoring the behind-the-scenes info I’ve received (most of which happens to confirm the not-behind-the-scenes info) – nearly all of the information as of this time last week said it was imminent that Griffey was coming back. His latest act of tool-dom towards the Seattle fans absolutely gives reason for those fans to turn on him.
PositivePaul - February 17, 2009
If the people with inside sources don't know anything concrete about the negotiations
or his motives, then you don’t either.
JI - February 17, 2009
This is very interesting....
…and puts the certainty of Dave and DMZ over the weekend that Griffey was a done deal into a new light. If they were just going off what everyone in the FO thought, it’s damn hard to even needle them about this.
It looks like Griffey is just an indecisive bastard.
esoteric - February 17, 2009
You would be surprised how many people share your sentiment who do not speak up about it.
I didn’t think I would hurt seeing Griffey going to Atlanta, but it does.
Wilder. - February 17, 2009
I agree.
Buying tickets based on rumors is stupid. Besides, he NEVER SAID he was signing here in the first place, the media did.
Thingray - February 17, 2009
They do.
I guess the only reason I feel sorry for them is because many are not the rabid fans that we may be, soaking up every tidbit about the M’s as possible, and thus may have taken all of this incessant talk on the radio and the newspaper as a sign of certainty.
Kind of like how you think a cow has big puppy dog eyes before you eat a hamburger.
Omerta - February 17, 2009
Until the ink is dry on his contract, nothing is guaranteed.
abender20 - February 17, 2009
I've met the cows I've eaten before.
You learn to live with it rather than freak out every time.
Thingray - February 17, 2009
Well they certainly are tasty.
A lot tastier then Ken Griffey Jr.
Damn his eyes.
Omerta - February 17, 2009
I dunno...
When the M’s official site reports it as ‘imminent’ — even though it’s not official (and they disclaim that) — it’s pretty serious. Pretty much everyone involved in the discussions at that point in time were seemingly willing to bet their careers/jobs on it happening.
I think these people who bought tickets based on this information certainly have a legitimate gripe.
PositivePaul - February 17, 2009
They don't.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
They have a legitimate gripe with the Mariners for jumping the gun on their website perhaps.
Thingray - February 17, 2009
Buyer beware until he shows up at a press conference wearing an M's uniform
JI - February 17, 2009
Griffey changed his mind when he heard that we don't play the game the right way
Nick S - February 17, 2009
He hates it when you don't take that extra base.
msb - February 17, 2009
How else would you pull a muscle?
Thingray - February 17, 2009
Sleeping.
abender20 - February 17, 2009
Death threats are obvious solution here.
Robert - February 17, 2009
I can't wait until he signs
then asks to be traded to a contending club in July.
JI - February 17, 2009
Ken Griffey Jr. was traded today to the Houston Astros for cash considerations and a snack cake to be named later.
Silva was leading the negotiations.
James F'n X - February 17, 2009
Wow, a Silva fat joke.
That is pop-n-fresh!
Matthew - February 17, 2009
Mmmm, pop-n-fresh.
James F'n X - February 17, 2009
Everything old is new again
esoteric - February 17, 2009
Except in this case.
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
Once again, for those of you in the cheap seats
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2009/2/6/751936/ll-qc
Garces - February 17, 2009
Silva fat jokes have nothing to do with LL QC. We are not relaxing our standards here and we’ve made it abundantly clear that Silva fat jokes are not funny.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
Silva fat jokes are unamusing, unoriginal, and not to be tolerated
How does that violate LL QC?
pdb - February 17, 2009
How dare those who moderate the site imform people of content they would not rather have on said site that they moderate!
JI - February 17, 2009
I know right?
The nerve of them.
pdb - February 17, 2009
Just trying to raise the politeness level around here
Oh, the internet.
Garces - February 17, 2009
When it becomes apparent that politeness is not working one has to try other methods.
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
Sure
But it didn’t seem apparent here. I missed the FAQ section on Silva fat jokes, and I guess this dude did as well.
Again, our bad.
Garces - February 17, 2009
Regardless of my comment,
posting a link to the QC thread like you did is a pretty poor imitation of being polite.
Matthew - February 17, 2009
Just a reminder.
Wasn’t trying to start a flame war, I just think that’s a shining example of what most of the users in that thread were complaining about. A quick glance through his history didn’t show a trend of the guy being reprimanded for Silva jokes. There’s one way to handle it, and then there’s this. I know I’m not in the LL Club, so apologies if I’m stepping out of line, here. I just thought it could have been handled better. A regular user is one thing, but I think the site reps should hold themselves to a higher standard. I realize that’s pushing it. I’ll get off your lawn now.
But anyway, yeah, Griffey should shit or get off the pot.
Garces - February 17, 2009
I don't mean to be a dick
but if what Matthew said is over the line in terms of tone, I think we’ve gotten way too sensitive.
Aaron Campeau - February 17, 2009
Agreed.
My joke wasn’t funny, Matthew called me on it, and I didn’t argue. Then shit went all crazy.
I did like where the whole thread looped on itself in the span of five minutes, though.
James F'n X - February 17, 2009
My view:
Silva fat jokes were kinda funny when he first showed up on the team — not because he was overweight, but because we just hated everything he stood for and looked for any reason to make fun of him — fair or not. But it got tired. Now it’s not funny, and the mods and others are starting to groan loudly, which is really the only way to put an end to it without going crazy legislating what’s funny and what isn’t.
But it’s not like you committed a mortal sin. Everyone is guilty at one point or another of beating a joke into the ground.
Teej - February 17, 2009
At this point nothing about Silva is funny.
Sec 108 - February 18, 2009
Not even this?
Robert - February 18, 2009
LOL!
Robert - February 17, 2009
HAHAHAHA!!
robrun2 - February 17, 2009
FUCKING GRIFFEY INDECISIVE DOUCHEBAG
chinn - February 17, 2009
Chinn appears. Like the sun.
royalcurve - February 17, 2009
It is a great day, isn't it?
Teej - February 17, 2009
If anybody wants this mess to be over, I bet it's Zduriencik.
All the issues with the M’s, and Griffey’s the biggest problem? This whole mess reminds me of Br’er Rabbit.
Kermit. - February 17, 2009
Interesting quote from Griffey:
I guess I never really thought about it, but dude made it to 39 without ever testing the free market.
Teej - February 17, 2009
Technically, yes.
But let’s not forget 1999, and his 10-5 rights…
While it’s TECHNICALLY not free agency, he still had final say as to where he ended up.
PositivePaul - February 17, 2009
I'm sick of Griffey already
and if he ends up on the Mariners they will be less interesting to me. I would rather pay attention to Felix, Morrow and Bedard.
ignacio - February 17, 2009
This song seems awfully fitting right now
It’s almost like it matches up perfectly with the whole Griffey saga.
OlSalty - February 17, 2009
I'm guessing that if it hasn't happened yet, it's not going to.
Two Rs and Two Ls - February 17, 2009
I should add, that it's not going to happen TODAY.
Two Rs and Two Ls - February 17, 2009
Be gone.
I had two ‘professional’ dealings with him back in his Seattle days.
The man is a first class asshole. Good riddance.
diderot - February 17, 2009
Words escape me right now - let's see if a picture can capture my sentiments. Ah, here we go.....
JLC - February 17, 2009
I say without any irony
that I want this to go on forever, I love love love this saga and am getting mounds of free entertainment from it.
JI - February 17, 2009
I love the word saga. And soggy. Not saggy, though.
royalcurve - February 17, 2009
Perhaps because it rhymes with laggy?
Omerta - February 17, 2009
I knew a girl named Saga once. People take care when you name their children.
She lived up to her name in an annoying fashion.
Sec 108 - February 18, 2009
msb - February 18, 2009
they love me ....
msb - February 18, 2009
Any news?
Fearless Frog - February 18, 2009
http://espn.go.com/mlb/
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb
http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=sea
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb
JI - February 18, 2009
I actually think the NYTimes would be a better site for todays news.
Robert - February 18, 2009
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