Barney Stinson of “How I Met Your Mother” once enumerated the times that he indulged in the habit of smoking:
“I only smoke in certain situations: post-coital, when I’m with Germans, sometimes those two overlaps, coital, birthdays, to annoy my mom, pre-coital, on a sailboat, the day The Mets are mathematically eliminated every year,…”
Which was, this year, Saturday night. As Jason Bay Watch(ed) from the sidelines on the DL (as predicted on this blog months ago) the Mets wretched second half is now all over but for the shouting and finger pointing. At least we don’t have to listen to announcers talking about how every dámņëd game is a “must win” as if the Mets had any post-season hopes while anyone with the ability to count knew the season was pretty much over weeks ago.
* sigh * Enjoy your cancer stick, Barney.
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Maybe they’ll have better luck on the golf course. I blame Omar.
If the rumor about Kevin Towers being brought in to take over as GM are true, things will get better. He put together some good teams in San Diego on $1.99 budgets. I’d like to see what he could do with some real money.
I just read on ESPN.com that Kevin Towers is going to the Arizon Diamondbacks.
One of my favourite lines about smoking is, surprisingly, from a Friends episode of all things when Chandler is trying to teach Rachel how to smoke and she keeps gagging and coughing and he emphatically states “You gotta push past this, because it’s about to get SO GOOD!” That bit in also when Jackie Boy’s corpse tells Dwight with his throat weezing, “A smoker’s always a smoker when the chips are down” but that one’s a tad darker.
Actually, somewhat mis-remembered that Friends bit but got the line right, which is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCBl7BRTREY
And there’s also that episode of Enterprise when T’Pol and Archer travel back in time and T’Pol is hanging out in a car with a guy from the 2000’s and he lights up a smoke and she looks so horrified she pulls a phaser on him. Those wacky Vulcans. Shouldn’t she have a sturdy Vulcan physiology that it wouldn’t bother her.
Mrs. David should have been prepared for this sort of thing, being from Atlanta.
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Have the Braves managed to blow the wild card yet? (I really don’t pay much attention.)
I don’t see the Mets as wretched. Merely mediocre. They are a .500 club. If you want wretched, try the Pirates. Or even the Cubs.
And I for one like a lot of the young players, and think that the pitching has been really good all things considered. Yes, they aren’t contenders. But they are still pretty entertaining a lot of the time.