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Monday, May 26, 2025

Game Thread - Memorial Day 2025

What you got back home, to play your fuzzy Yarbrough on ?  

I bet you got, say, some pitiful, portable picnic players.  

Come with Uncle and hear all proper !  

Hear Angels' trumpets and Yankees' trombones.  

You are invited !

37 comments:

Doug K. said...

I see you found Malcolm McDowell's YES audition tape.

AboveAverage said...

. . . . . . y e s

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Sooooooo, is the metaphor, the phact that I will need the eyelid openers to stay awake enough to watch the gem.

so sleepy, soooo sleepy, sleeeeeepy....

or, am I just singing in the pain?

Rufus T. Firefly said...

AA,

I found Bo Peep. She seems to have settled down in you area.

https://wiki.characterswiki.net/42466/little-oral-annie-wiki-biography-age-height-husband-net-worth-family/

Although I think this article may be as realistic as Duque's expose on Little Peggy.

We all know she was a dwarf in the bowery dwarf throwing contests. Remarkable talent but different.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

*your* area.

Too lazy to repost.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cale_Yarborough

Rooting for the starting pitcher.

Now, back to the moonshine.

AboveAverage said...

Rufus:
“Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English.”
Kubrick used as much of Nadsat as he could when he wrote the adaptation for his film.
“Yarbles” in Nadsat is often used to mean genitals. Tonight’s pitcher for the Yankees has a last name that sounds similar to Yarbles SO I decided to use Alex from Clockwork Orange again for the game thread photo illustration.
If you ever find a bowler hat with a Yankees pin on it like the one little Alex is wearing PLEASE buy it for me and I will reimburse you for your outta pocket.
Now let’s get on with the game!

AboveAverage said...

Kevin usually pops in when I reference A Clockwork Orange…

AboveAverage said...

YES’ audio was messed up there for a bit

BTR999 said...

Can’t stand these WC games. This is gonna be a rough week.

Make that a rough 2 weeks.

AboveAverage said...

They have a lot of those games out here.
Poor JM must be unconscious.
Vivas is better than Gleyber.

AboveAverage said...

I wonder……..
Is El Duque watching the game?
Is he monitoring the blog?
Is he getting enough Carvel ice cream in his daily diet?

ONLY heCAN TELL US

AboveAverage said...

Stang has also been silent.

Is Stang OK?

Is he still alive?

How many fingers am I holding up? *

* I am holding up a number of fingers

AboveAverage said...

THREE shhhhhhhhh

TheWinWarblist said...

Volpe is still terrible.

AboveAverage said...

Can you smell Volpe where you are, VonWinny?

TheWinWarblist said...

I have fucking human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Which blows.

Hinkey Haines said...

The symptoms sound remarkably similar to those experienced when watching Aaron Boone try to manage a close game. Hope you feel better soon.

AboveAverage said...

And Bites . . . .were you bitten by a tick?

AboveAverage said...

Good Evening Hinkey Haines

AboveAverage said...

Leiter is our savior

Wezil1 said...

Why is Weaver in this game? So typical.

BTR999 said...

Weaver again. With a 4 run lead Boone is burning him out.

Wezil1 said...

Didnt i just read this? When Boone latches onto a pitcher, he ruins the guy.
It hasnt happened yet but he has to be wearing down

AboveAverage said...

Boone is an Idiot

AboveAverage said...

Weaver IS showing fatigue

ED you could open on this point in the AM on Tuesday

AboveAverage said...

Boone is too busy feasting on seeds to be concerned with his actions having any impact on future games.

Publius said...

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van.

AboveAverage said...

Thank you Publius.

Joe of AZ said...

Did Weaver NEED to pitch today... good god

AboveAverage said...

The Yankees won

AboveAverage said...

Nope. As JM would say - BOONE IS AN IDIOT

BTR999 said...

When Kay is criticizing the managerial strategy, you know it’s bad.

BTR999 said...

Very nice outing by Yarborough. Volpe had the big hit! Peraza and Vivas continue to struggle against MLB pitching. We need another infielder, waiting for Chisolm is not working. Jizz was only batting .181 while striking out 35% of the time, so he is no savior.

HoraceClarke66 said...

I was cured all right.

Incidentally, whatever happened to The Dystopia? I mean, the Dystopia that we were promised? The one Anthony Burgess assured us would be full of leering Teddy boys spouting pidgin Russian? Or that New York that Frank Miller and his many droogies continue to guarantee us will be overrun by deranged villains requiring a Dark Batman?

How come all these fascist fantasies kept coming, hot and heavy, even as the crime rate plummeted, and our cities were overrun with...real estate agents?

Funny how we never got the Dystopia, just the Reaction.

AboveAverage said...

That made me smile, Hoss.

There's still time.

And there's still entertainment.

(for a few more months at least)

Real Horror Show


TheWinWarblist said...

Boone is a Professional Idiot.