Comments on: Italian Sausage Wins, and other observations from Maryvale Park

By: bla bla bla

bla bla bla — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:32:27 +0000

I didn’t think of it as dehumanization or find any malice in it… I just thought it was a slight. A really crappy slight, but no more than a slight nonetheless.

Your response, though, is absolutely glowing; in a Florio-esque kind of way. Perhaps a little more bran in your diet…

By: padraighansen

padraighansen — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:14:21 +0000

And That Scooter….”thing” is why the Brewers will trade Rickie Weeks in the next 12 months.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:45:48 +0000

Maybe you could pantomime choking out at the end — I know the people in the seats around you would love that.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:43:50 +0000

Without a kraut. He’s made it this far without a spring training injury. We don’t need any last minute mishaps involving fanny-packs, drunken Batman impressions, or Geezers Gone Wild antics.

By: paperlions

paperlions — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:39:58 +0000

Shouldn’t that song be updated to: From the mountains, to the corn fields, to the oceans, black with oil

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:36:35 +0000

I’m sure he disagrees with us. he’s reached that age where a fell has something to prove. After all, he’s on that paleo-diet thingy and he’s had a good pep talk from Hunter Pence. I imagine he’s somewhere in Arizona reading this and trying to bust a move with an angry scowl on his face and his WPA hat turned to 1430 hours. I hope he doesn’t hurt himself.

By: crankyfrankie

crankyfrankie — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:36:26 +0000

No story with a Cecil Cooper reference can be bad.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:33:07 +0000

He can probably do an old man shuffle.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:31:33 +0000

Saw a youtube clip of Guido doing The Harlem Shuffle. Think Craig can Harlem Shuffle? I bet he barely manage an Ohio Shuffle.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:29:04 +0000

I could see that — Calcaterra’s a sausage magnet.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:26:31 +0000

Yep. He’d be in a pickle, all right. I imagine that when he goes out to eat, Guido orders “two Calcaterras with everything”. The eats them both in one bite.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:21:38 +0000

Oh yeah. Guido would leave him in the dust and he’d never ketchup.

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:20:40 +0000

Craig aint got the mustard or the onions to hang with Guido.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:16:44 +0000

BTW, I would really love if Craig posted pics of him and the sausage out on a bender tonight. Ah, yes, I would relish that.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:13:40 +0000

I thought it was funny, m’self. And, do you think he has a sister named Vespa?

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:11:25 +0000

Oh definitely switching out to Jobu. You get two easily irritated demographics at once that way.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:09:48 +0000

Which do you think would piss people off more: changing it from God to Jobu or just singing This Land Is Your Land instead?

By: cur68

cur68 — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:06:36 +0000

You should post this at the start of every HBT day. Just to be more patriotic than everyone else. That’s the name of the game after all.

By: Craig Calcaterra

Craig Calcaterra — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:01:38 +0000

Yes, because I clearly meant to dehumanize him rather than to comment on how anonymous he is to most baseball fans. Malice was so very clearly in my heart.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:45:17 +0000

Craig was possibly suffering from sunstroke. I am sure that he did not actually intend to insult Scooter’s mom and dad.

By: petey1999

petey1999 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:27:49 +0000

Seriously, Craig. Is this really who you want to be as a baseball writer?

By: bla bla bla

bla bla bla — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:20:26 +0000

"Something called Scooter Gennett? Very poor form, Craig. I daresay you owe the young man an apology.

By: historiophiliac

historiophiliac — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:16:30 +0000

GOD BLESS AMERICAAAAAAA/LAND THAT I LOOOOOOOVE/STAND BESIDE HER/AND GUIDE HER/THROUGH THE NIGHT WITH A LIGHT FROM ABOOOOOOOOVE

FROM THE MOUNTAINS/TO THE PRAIRIES/TO THE OCEANS WHITE WITH FOOOOOOOOAAAAAAM/GOD BLESS AMERICAAAAAAAA/MY HOME SWEET HOOOOOOOOOME

GOOOOD BLESS AAAAAMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MY HOOOOME SWEET HOOOOOOOME

freaking Taliban

By: losangelesfan

losangelesfan — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:14:00 +0000

For a minute there I thought this was another post about Tommy LaSorda.

By: cur68

cur68 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:05:48 +0000

That race was win-win: when a sausage wins, we all win. Glad the big fella’s back racing after his harrowing ordeal being kidnapped and all. I imagine Wilson Ramos and he can share a beer and reminisce over their days as captives.

I wonder what our old friend halladaysbicepts would have said about the Great Sausage Napping? I wonder if he’d have decried Americans for their wanton acts of savagery towards Racing Italian Sausages? I can just hear him now: “America !?!? A place where a sausage isn’t safe on its own! If you can’t let a sausage be, then you shouldn’t be here, America!”

Ah, the season of ‘cepts…those were good times..