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Let me tell ya a couple of three things: Forget Coco, forget Fat Dom who goes over to Jersey and never comes back, forget my brother Billy.

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Jacoby’s death was entirely Miss O’Shaughnessy’s fault.

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Abraxia is Tek's most sensual nemesis and wears a lot of metal, including a muffin baking dish.

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[he slaps Curt] “... but you're still a punk.”

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Lowell? Lowell? Lowell? I-I know you're playing the part of a stagehand, but why do you have to rehearse hammering?

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Well Drew, This may just be the medication talking, but women are like street cars, they're big and they have bells that go "clang clang clang clang clang!"

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And if I'm right about him, Lester's records are filled with references to your violent nature.

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Mr. Grainger's quoting from "Henry II", when he wanted to bump off Beckett.

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"Gigantor--"

"Ortiz."

"Ortiz, I'm gonna need your help."

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We Need to Talk About Kevin

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Matsuzaka beef is known to be a bright red meat with white fatty parts (called sashi). It is almost a form of art, so intricate that it looks like marbled pattern - (shimofuri). Its extremely tender texture is the best of its kind.

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"Manny!"
"Mr. Hicks! They subpoena me!"

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Pre-contest hot favourite Dustin the Turkey has just won the Irish final with the song Irelande Douze pointe. The popular puppet will now go on to represent Ireland in the first Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade on Tuesday 20th of May.

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But sometimes of an evening, before we went to cards, he would read something aloud out of the Elegant Extracts, very entertaining. And I know he has read the Vicar of Wakefield.

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MD2B - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 12:38 AM EDT (#181590) #

Awesome … I don’t know what else to say.  As a frequent reader but rare poster, I just wanted to give a shout out to all the preview writers.  I am continually impressed by the talented people who make this site so enjoyable.

Mick Doherty - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 09:56 AM EDT (#181594) #

"I'll take Alternate History for $200 million, Alex."

And the question is ..."

"Manny!"
"Mr. Hicks! They subpoena me!"

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

"What is an obvious headline in the Dallas Morning News if that rumored Ramirez-for-A-Rod deal had actually happened?"

 

Magpie - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 01:55 PM EDT (#181599) #
Despite the widely-held view that Beckett's work, as exemplified by the novels of this period, is essentially pessimistic, the will to live seems to win out in the end; witness, for instance, the famous final phrase of The Unnamable: 'I can't go on, I'll go on'.
Mike Green - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 01:58 PM EDT (#181601) #
Beckett is, of course, most famous for his masterpiece, Waiting for Lugo.
Chuck - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 03:15 PM EDT (#181605) #
If Beckett had lived in Toronto in the 70's and hung around the El Mocambo, he might have written Waiting for Goddo.
Alex Obal - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 03:39 PM EDT (#181607) #
The Grogronks of Gronk take (for a fee) all kinds of troublesome, dangerous or cursed magical artifacts; their dimension (Gronk) is, according to Doctor Strange, the "closest thing this section of the Multiverse has to a cosmic landfill." When it's full, the Living Tribunal comes and incinerates all the refuse.
Named For Hank - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 03:49 PM EDT (#181608) #
Oh, dear lord -- "Ortiz, I'm gonna need your help" has led to "It's okay, it was full of cans" being stuck in my head.
Magpie - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 04:46 PM EDT (#181611) #
he might have written Waiting for Goddo.

Oh dear. I may have just injured myself.
Magpie - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 04:51 PM EDT (#181613) #
Apropos of nothing...

When I was back in seminary school - hang on, I didn't go to seminary school. I went to the U of T, and spent most of the 1980s immersed in the modern Irish writers - I am what they call "a Joyce guy." And when you spend all your time reading these people, and thinking about them, and talking about them - they become familiar. They become your friends. You give them nicknames (Joyce was, and always will be, "Big Jim" in my house.)

Anyway - it was "Sunny Sam" Beckett..

Mick Doherty - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 05:42 PM EDT (#181619) #

Would love a rotation including him, Sudden Sam McDowell and Sad Sam Jones ...

Magpie - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 05:50 PM EDT (#181620) #
Why not? From Wikipeda:

A natural athlete, Beckett excelled at cricket as a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. Later, he was to play for Dublin University and played two first-class games against Northamptonshire. As a result, he became the only Nobel laureate to have an entry in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, the "bible" of cricket.

That is so cool. Mainly because it's hard to imagine Beckett doing... well, anything, really. Except sitting there, and brooding.
Magpie - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 05:53 PM EDT (#181621) #
His career stats!

As a cricketer he was an opening left hand batsman and left arm medium pace bowler whose first class experience was limited to two games both against Northhamptonshire, (one as an opening batsman and bowler). His appearances for Dublin University (which played first class fixtures from 1895 to 1926), occurred in the 1925 and 1926 seasons where he scored 35 runs in total with a highest score of 18 averaging 8.75. As a bowler he went wicketless for 64 runs. While not creating any great cricket records during his first class career he presented Northamptonshire's Sidney Adams with a wicket with the latter's first ball in first class cricket in 1926; ( Adams also took a wicket the next ball).

Mike Green - Friday, March 28 2008 @ 07:35 PM EDT (#181625) #
Excellent, Magpie.  The image of Beckett as a John Olerud-type is now fixed in my mind.
Named For Hank - Saturday, March 29 2008 @ 03:18 PM EDT (#181662) #
...sitting at his typewriter, wearing a batting helmet.
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