![]() ![]() "Of course you can have the person's name. "I'll just need the person's name, Colonel Armour." ![]() ![]() Or we can do this per A Few Good Men a la Cruise and Nicholson: I ask him, straight up, "Dude, where is my tow line?" Says he, "I am not messing with that." After a brief trip to inquire about a matter with the barkeep, I walks over to the very honorable Dial. I am standing around this joint minding my own business, as one does, when a SABR person I shall not name unless you ask nice starts talking to me about this and that and other things and how much of a genius he is and his stack of notes from his professors attesting to same and how in the name of God do they trade Jose Iglesias for Jake Peavy and it gets louder and more animated and arms are flapping and shoulders are getting smacked and have I told you about Mensa and my not-quite-finished PhD in neuroscience and louder and louder and Brandon Arroyo for Wily Mo Pena and louder and all the clutch hitting studies are wrong or perhaps right and louder and I notice the very honorable Dial across the bar subtly no really giving the situation the once over and then doing it again and and I'd lay eight-to-five that he is figuring a way to help me out and it gets even louder and then he is smiling and smiling more and looking like the Mets just won the World Series or at least put together a rally and finally I spill a drink or lie about nature calling or like that and get my weary carcass out of there. (I wasn't there last year because my son had the audacity to get married that weekend.) ![]()
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