Comments on: Greetings from the 2012 Winter Meetings

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:54:54 +0000

Allison will save him.

By: Cris E

Cris E — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:27:13 +0000

This has happened before:

[Bill finds out Mr. James lost him in a poker game]
Bill: You can’t bet me in a poker game.
Jimmy: I’m afraid I can, check your contract.
[Bill pulls out his contract]
Dave: Wait a minute. You carry around your contract?
Bill: At times like these, it doesn’t sound so ridiculous, now does it?

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:58:08 +0000

*same flight*

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:56:30 +0000

The winter meetings were in Las Vegas in 2008. The most interesting thing in my opinion was that my next door neighbor’s kid got a job in player development for the Tigers.

He happened to be on the same as the Cubs FO.
Kid: Do you know if that’s Jim Hendry?
Stewardess: Yup.
Kid: Could you give him this? (Hands her his resume)
(A few minutes later Hendry walks over to him)
Hendry: You need to talk to Randy Bush about this. I’ll introduce you when we get to the airport.

So he had his first interview in the baggage claim area.

By: cur68

cur68 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:50:17 +0000

ooooo…Fountains. You said fountains. Do be careful.

By: sportsdrenched

sportsdrenched — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:54:46 +0000

This is always my favorite week of the off-season. Well, next to the off-season actually ending. (The way our weather has been, that’s next week? Right?) If the Royals actually do land a legitimate ace, I might be excited about their 2013 campaign.

By: sportsdrenched

sportsdrenched — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:44:14 +0000

what about the classic: “Pour Some Sugar In the Jarro”

By: sportsdrenched

sportsdrenched — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:39:53 +0000

I lead an Advent Study at my Church. I said yesterday if you honestly think Jesus is the reason for the season, you need to remember that during the month leading up to the Summer Soltice too.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:10:35 +0000

Craig must have found the tear in the jalousie window screen where the chipmunks get in and out.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:07:05 +0000

you mean in your afterlife, right? Last I heard he was still dead.

ah well, what did I do with my Old and in the Way vinyl?

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:51:56 +0000

A wine tree is a tree made of wine bottles (full). I put it on my Christmas list, but, disappointingly, did not get one. Socks are a poor substitute.

I see OG does not support my War on Christmas. FYI, no matter how many times you remind people that Christmas was actually banned in some places in the colonies (because it was a drunken fest) and that the whole holiday season thing developed in the 19th century and that the holiday was co-opted, it does no good. I like that we have a holiday where we pretend there’s goodwill, but I hate all the “Jesus is the reason for the season” signs I see around. Sigh.

By: buccobrigade

buccobrigade — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:49:09 +0000

Hoping the Pirates do something exciting that is good for the team this week but I won’t hold my breath.

By: mrwillie

mrwillie — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:19:51 +0000

If you’re looking for some old time fiddle playing you need some Vassar Clements in your life.

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:18:59 +0000

The marinated secretaries part doesn’t sound too bad, OG, although I can do without the music and the fundamentalist bellyaching over some non-existent war. Bad Santa is one of my favorite holiday movies. All of a sudden, I’m craving a sandwich.

By: snowbirdgothic

snowbirdgothic — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:14:47 +0000

I assume the band played their classic tune “Armaugh Gettin’ It”

By: Charles Gates

Charles Gates — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:14:35 +0000

Orioles’ Twitter feed just said they signed a deal with tickets.com’s ProVenue ticketing platform.

Take that, Dodger’s TV agreement!

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:13:25 +0000

PS – and that sound you hear is the deceased being cremated.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:12:17 +0000

Isn’t that Bernie Madoff over there at the Blackjack table with Dustin Hoffman, and isn’t that Fred Wilpon over at the crap table with Will H. Macey?

And hey – there’s Craig Calcaterra over by the slot machines with Hunter Thompson!

By: Pierre Cruzatte

Pierre Cruzatte — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:10:21 +0000

Can’t believe Mom let you out of the basement again after the WS debacle. Hopefully she packed some hand sanitizer for you, this time.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:09:41 +0000

I love Irish music - especially old Celtic music, without that horrible English stain. I sure hope I'm still around when somebody writes the second tune.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:46:51 +0000

Ugh - all this faux-philanthropic babble, janitors dipping their cuticles in the punchbowl on the invitation of the stockboys, marinated secretaries getting drilled in the stationery storage by not-quite pickled midlevel execs who will claim not to remember anything in the morning, the elevators fill with horrible music and the stockboys are dumping Downyflake over the mannequins in the shop windows, fundamentalists bellyaching that they can't have the inclusive rhetoric of holiday greetings all to themselves. Even though the prospect sickens, brother here we go again! Yeah, it's the holiday season. I need an antidote. Time to pull out my Bad Santa director's cut edition..."Willie! You pissed yourself again!" Now that's more like it.

By: heyblueyoustink

heyblueyoustink — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:44:12 +0000

“We are coming to you live from Music City U.S.A. From the largest non-casino hotel in the country”

This makes me wonder, what would happen if they held these meetings in a casino?

How good is Ruben Amaro’s poke face, really?

Could the Wilpon be that guy who loses it all?

Would Cashman be the no limit bully in the poker room?

Could one lose Bryce Harper on a prop bet with Sam Rothstein?

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:37:26 +0000

Like I always say, it’s not Christmas until the performers on stilts show up. Seriously, it sounds pretty cool. Forgive my ignorance, but what’s a wine tree? Does it dispense wine? If so, I like this tree.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:12:44 +0000

I an a quarter Irish myself, but for old time fiddle music, I watch Hank Snow and Hank Williams on YouTube. Snow always had a fine fiddler in his band.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:53:05 +0000

I’ve been to the Gaylord Texan and that is big too (although obviously not as huge as Nashville). The Christmas decor is AMAZING and there are these random touches like a performer on stilts walking about. Oh, and there was a 6 foot wine tree. Everywhere we went, whenever we passed a staffer, they said: “Welcome to the Gaylord.”

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:44:42 +0000

Hey! It’s appropriate anywhere. Fiddle. Pipes. Although there appear to be neither in that picture. Hmmm, I may have to call BS on that.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:20:43 +0000

You are in Nashville and you listened to Irish music?

By: indaburg

indaburg — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:20:33 +0000

Def Leprechaun. I’m imagining little elvish men with long flowing 80s rocker hair singing “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” It’s not pretty.

I clicked on the link to a map of the hotel. That’s insane. There are some countries smaller. Lichtenstein or something.

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:38:47 +0000

You’re up awfully early for someone on vacation, aren’t you?