Comments on: Drugs, illness, the pro-PED doctor and other fun things in San Francisco

By: anxovies

anxovies — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:28:52 +0000

Not one word about the pathetic Yankee collapse in the ALDS? You must be sick. Get rest.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:48:36 +0000

Your book needs a chapter on the Macondo exception. I hear bananas get massacred there, or something like that. You better consult with Old Gator.

By: Chipmaker

Chipmaker — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:33:49 +0000

Once I was in Las Vegas suffering a nasty head cold. I was playing some nickel slots, it was a slow afternoon time, the waitress came around and asked what I would like to drink. I asked for hot tea with honey, she could tell I was off the mark, and when she returned with the blessed tea with honey she mentioned she had slipped in a nip of brandy as well. It was heavenly, and my slot machine soon entered the bonus game where the points can REALLY pile up (and did). And then it went into the bonus game again. When she came back around, I was still nursing my tea, but I tipped her $10 and asked if she’d bring one more next time around. Which she did. I didn’t get into the bonus game again, but I walked away up several hundred dollars. Good service when you’re feeling poorly can be magical.

By: annaalamode

annaalamode — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:45:00 +0000

This post is pretty much a hit list of everything I like about San Francisco, short of Crissy Field and Green Apple Books.

By: mybrunoblog

mybrunoblog — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:41:28 +0000

Being sick sucks but think how much $ NBC is going to save when you won’t be renting in the room porn.

By: goawaydog

goawaydog — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:11:33 +0000

GO … TO …. THE … GAME …. NOW!

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:20:38 +0000

He should just eat the banana.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:15:49 +0000

See, I would’ve just written you off as a loser pothead if you had said: “you should of bought…”

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:45:23 +0000

Cur-if he has the dreaded SF sinus infection of death he’ll absolutely need the antibiotics. Since I moved out here from the East 8 years ago I’ve only been sick twice and both of those have been sinus infections.

Still, his prose was remarkably clear and his whining lacked color. Probably a virus, don’t you think?

By: hojo20

hojo20 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:45:15 +0000

“I walked by a group of three guys, one of which asked me if I wanted to buy some pot.”

Nice one. That happened to me in Golden Gate Park. I wasn’t shocked as I was a few blocks from Haight/Ashbury.

By: APBA Guy

APBA Guy — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:42:16 +0000

You should be glad he didn’t make a right off Market before backtracking and end up in the Tenderloin. We’d have to send the Marines in to get him out (they call it an “extraction”).

By: randygnyc

randygnyc — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:36:55 +0000

As someone who has been fortunate enough to attend EVERY Yankee home post season game, since 96, (except this year), including world series games (and the games at Shea in 2000), I’d advise you to go tonight. NEVER take for granted your ability to attend future WS games.

By: sdelmonte

sdelmonte — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:14:45 +0000

Man, you sure write purty when you’re sick and strung out on cough syrup and HGH.

I say, stay at the hotel and rest up. And don’t forget to turn off the volume and turn on the radio. Good choice of Shulmam or Miller.

By: mrwillie

mrwillie — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:06:15 +0000

Bourbon, honey, sleep.

By: natstowngreg

natstowngreg — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:27:18 +0000

Not dead? Eyelids not jammed? Definite Hallmark(TM) get well card material.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:18:12 +0000

I would but I forgot what my password is. My computer knows but wont tell me. I sit here, a 21st century person, a man of means and accomplishment, and all I can think to do is suggest that his girlfriend priority mail him bananas. Clearly I’m suffering some sort of deficiency. Perhaps some fruit will help…

By: libertynchurch

libertynchurch — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:13:55 +0000

Could you atleast congratulate Panda on his historic performance? A nice, firm handshake followed up with one of those man-hug, back-slappings things should do the trick.

Just kiddin. Plenty of fluids. Get well soon.

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:12:59 +0000

Maybe we can get someone from our group to share their ID and he can join our chat.

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:11:17 +0000

Ain’t love grand?

By: acdc363

acdc363 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:09:44 +0000

You should have just bought some pot

By: Stiller43

Stiller43 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:04:39 +0000

“There I witnessed a deranged woman in her late 40s wildly swinging two garbage bags full of what looked to be pillows…”

$100 bucks they were cats, not pillows.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:00:40 +0000

I think there’s a market for banana based cures. I may write a book on the topic.

By: dink53

dink53 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:59:17 +0000

San Fran? Drugs? Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair… Oh… nevermind

By: indaburg

indaburg — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:57:20 +0000

Aw, shucks.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:55:20 +0000

Not flying to him in his hour of need? Man’s at death’s door there. Of course he DID pick against your team…tough one, really. What gesture has the right amount of sympathy coupled with the rage of him picking against your rooting interest especially in light of how things worked out last night? I know: send him a banana, priority post. The fruit will do him good and the state it will be in will serve as a lesson to not cross you.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:50:25 +0000

See, that’s what we love about you, Craig. Even in the throes of death, you still keep a sense of humor. I noticed the dateline but I didn’t comment on it because I figured since you were “reporting”, you needed a dateline.

That doctor? Sounds awesome. Seriously. The marriage of eastern and western medicine is cool.

My unsolicited advice as a nurse is to bag the game, stay in the hotel and watch the game from there. You’re not going to get anything from attending the game other than wearing yourself out, and you’ll just be spreading your germs everywhere which is an unkind thing to do. Oh, and lots of fluids and all that jazz.

Look at the bright side. At least your eyelids aren’t jammed.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:48:48 +0000

My mother says with all that talking you are definitely not dying. She wants to know what your fever is. If it’s less than 101, she says to take your rump to the park. She also has this rule where she pretends she can’t understand what you’re saying if you’re whining.

(PS she once sent me to school for 2 weeks with pneumonia. Hint: If you cough until you throw up a little, she will relent and let you stay home. Just fyi.)

By: allisonhagen

allisonhagen — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:47:23 +0000

I still think you’re sick because you predicted the Giants will win, and you’re still getting the turkey neck at Thanksgiving and nothing else. Maybe some of my mom’s shitty wine on ice.

I’m glad you didn’t die, though.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:45:35 +0000

Dear Dog Almighty: leave the basement and nearly die? Man, skip the game. Get some sleep. Oh and take some advice from a pretty smart lady I have the good luck to know:

“A banana, a multi-vitamin and a litre of water before bedtime” -Indaburg.

You keep swigging from that hip flask and you’ll be glad I passed this one along. Get well soon.

By: Bob Timmermann

Bob Timmermann — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:42:20 +0000

Stay home to avoid turning into the blogging version of George Gipp. Although I suppose Urban Meyer could try to use you to fire up the troops at halftime. If we could only make your surname catchier.