It’s not likely that any of you care about J.R. House. Nor should you be expected to I suppose. He had a grand total of 63 major league plate appearances with a line of .167/.206/.367 for three teams. He had a much more respectable .302/.363/.475 in 3886 plate appearances in ten minor league seasons, mostly in the Pirates organization.
But he’s a West Virginia boy, as I consider myself to be, so I’ve always paid attention to whatever it was he was doing for the past decade or so. I never had any illusions that he was gonna make a big splash, but I always kind of hoped he’d make it. According to a story in today’s Charleston Gazette, however, he hasn’t gotten a call to be anyone’s organizational soldier this winter, so it’s quite possible that he’s staring a coaching career in the face.
Frank Thomas. J.R. House. And so it goes.
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- Old Gator - Feb 12, 2010 at 5:38 PM
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Back to your Vonnegut, Craig. There’s no “And” in “So it goes.”
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- Craig Calcaterra - Feb 12, 2010 at 5:41 PM
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Damn. That’s pretty inexcusable. I always liked Sirens of Titan better than Slaughterhouse anyway.
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- archilochusColubris - Feb 12, 2010 at 5:50 PM
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Plus while baseball may be important, these fellas ain’t so much dead quite yet.
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- Old Gator - Feb 12, 2010 at 6:04 PM
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A prime example of why I always preferred Boididae to Colubridae any day, hey hey hey.
Craig: Cat’s Cradle for me. Greetings from New Tralfamidore, home of the green chile wet burrito.
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- Rick - Feb 12, 2010 at 6:04 PM
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Hey, any of you bozos wanna know how big Kilgore Trout’s pecker was? I guarantee you he wasn’t on the ‘roids.
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- Dan - Feb 12, 2010 at 6:07 PM
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Did Craig just admit his love for Billy Joel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_So_It_Goes
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- Traco Bucco - Feb 12, 2010 at 6:39 PM
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Or Nick Lowe…
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- Grant - Feb 12, 2010 at 7:22 PM
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A few years back a large number of Orioles fans really wanted the team to give House a legit shot. They didn’t. I suppose he wouldn’t have been good enough, but I guess I can always wonder.
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- Curious George - Feb 13, 2010 at 9:10 AM
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Poo-tee-weet.
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- Old Gator - Feb 13, 2010 at 11:54 PM
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Make me young! Make me young! Make me young!
