Coco Go Loco -- Gets Red Socked

LMAO!!! I think we should all go and hit Vegas!!

I feel LUCKY!!

GO SOX!

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Good news about your Dad. YAY!!!

Actually, the Rangers have been surging ahead lately. They're only one game below .500 and 8 games ahead of Seattle in their division. Of course, they are also 7.5 games behind the division leaders, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (best team in the American League).
The Rangers record puts them in a virtual tie with the Yankees.

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I know BJ! I have been following that as well. I didn't want to brag though...we will mess it up, we always do.

All I care about is my news, we had a 1 in 5 chance and he beat the odds! He will go home in 4 to 5 days.

Trust me, the Rangers will suck at the end of the season. That my friend is a guarantee!!


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I am so happy for you and your Dad. I have experience with the "sitting around and waiting for the doctors to tell you what's going on." My mother survived both a stroke and colon cancer before her heart finally got her.
I really hope your father has many years left to watch his grandchildren and, by the grace of God, great-grandchildren grow up.

I had a very happy day today though not as good as yours. My youngest graduated from high school today and she won the Science Prize.

As far as the Rangers are concerned. Hey, pigs may fly and H#ll might freeze over too. After all, we managed to break an 86 year curse.

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Oh geez J! BJ is a smart one but means no harm. Baseball Junkie, she is a wealth of medical knowledge but like me, not so much on baseball. Lets all chill!!!

Yee-Haw for my good news!

Go Cowboys? :P

BJ! Congrats on your daughter and her prize! Your youngest? Way to go gilfriend...it is defenitly PARTY TIME for you!

So sorry to hear about your mom.Yes watching and waiting is hard. J knows for sure.

My Dad had a triple by-pass last year the same time my mom went into total kidney failure. He has recovered from this and my mom is now on dialysis 3 days a week. None of that matters, They will celebrate their 55 year anniversary in November and yes, my kids and I are not ready to say goodbye.

Be proud Momma, you have wonderful silly sucessful kids. They take after you in every way!!

"36. Die Hard and all you other Yankee fans: I can believe that Jeter would never charge the mound if he was plunked. That pu$$y wouldn't dare. Even ARod has more cojones than Jeter and he's the one who chopped the ball out of Arroyo's hand in the 2004 ALCS. (That was a real classy move.) ...Posted at 8:32PM on Jun 6th 2008 by Baseball Junkie"

blah ... blah ... blah I was talking about Jeter, not A-Rod (although I'm glad his bat is in our lineup). As
far as Jetter being a pu$$y, it is actually known as cla$$ - something you Boston fans know nothing (and, may I repeat, nothing) about. Ha! Arroyo's looked like a fool!!! Catch the damn ball already. NYers are still laughing at him. Whine, whine, whine ...
one championship in how many years and you're an expert? Time will tell.

P.S. I do have to agree that letting Torre get away "may" have bee a mistake but I'm almost glad that he isn't here b/c the finger pointing would be directed at him right now.

There's a few more games to go this season, so I'm not worried.

How many guys out there who would NOT want to be Derek Jeter right now? Harvey need not respond to that one.

Kelli, yeah, celebrating 55 years of marriage is fantastic. My in-laws had their 50th last November and my husband and I will be celebrating 28 in September. It's hard to keep a marriage going these days because people get pulled in so many directions.
It is great that they're all off on their own now, (except for some minor things like tuition) but I'm suffering some major "empty nest" depression. You want to see your kids out on their own, growing up and leading their own lives and yet you always miss when they were babies and you were their whole world. Trace surely has it right. I never really missed high school or that first apartment and not having trouble making ends meet but I'm even beginning to miss the temper tantrums. It's like what my husband calls postpartum amnesia. All the time you're having the baby, you're cursing him out and swearing you'll never do this again and then the minute they put that baby in your arms you start thinking about when you can have the next one.
But, Irish Spring and BJ take a chill pill are right. I do get too serious about baseball and, for that matter, all arguments. I'm not sure why but it can be a problem in the real world as well as here. I get p.o,d when somebody tells me to chill out but a lot of the time they're right.

Oops, I better say something about the topic or somebody will b!tch about us being off it again. Pitchers taking revenge against opposing batters for hitting a home run or a possibly dirty play and definitely in retaliation for one of their own being hit is an old tradition in baseball but the league officials are trying to change it. Partly because of the players who've been severely injured by it. I only know of one player who actually died from being beaned and they think that was unintentional but both Tony Conigliaro and Don Zimmer (yes they were Red Sox players. I can't keep all of baseball history in my head. I need to leave enough room for breathing and such.) were hit in the head and never fully recovered. Don Zimmer has a metal plate in his head because of his injury although he continues to work in baseball. Oddly enough he's working for the Rays now after many years with the Yankees. Tony C. was one of the best young players ever, the youngest to ever hit 100 home runs. If he hadn't been beaned, we might not be worrying about whether Bonds home run record is legitimate. But he was and he lost too much of the vision in his left eye to have the career he should have. Still, he won an award as the Comeback Kid and an award is given in his honor every year by the Baseball Writers of America to the player who has achieved the most despite adversity. in 2007, it went to Jon Lester who beat lymphoma. He pitched the last game in the 2007 World Series and the pitched a no-hitter earlier this year as I mentioned in a previous post.

Hey, what can I say? I love my Sox.

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Die Hard, actually it's 2 World Championships and counting. In the 21st century. When was your last? I remember you got whupped by the Marlins in 2003 (Now I'm feeling stupid because I just realized I confused the Marlins and the Devil Rays in an earlier post. Oh well, two types of fish from Florida. An easy mistake. :-) ) Oh, yeah, 2000 when you managed to beat the Mets. Arizona whupped your a$$es, too. So, it's been 9 years. So 4 for Torre in 13 years. I'm betting that he was hamstrung in the later years by management although he did have some personnel problems. (What is it with Mussina? He's got a winning record this year but an ERA over 4? and worse at home than away. Not to mention Pettitte.) And before Torre took over it had been 18 years. They really should have kept Torre. See, what you Yankees fans seem to forget is the past is just that, the future is all that counts. We'll see who has won the most Championships in the next 13 years. And then the next 18.
Arod has a good bat, I'll grant you. (although not that time when he was arguing with 'Tek). And I'm looking forward to his legitimately beating Bonds record whatever fake number that ends up being. ARod is a good fielder too. But try checking the tape of that game if you dare. Arroyo had clearly caught the ball and was throwing it to first when ARod flipped his arm up and knocked it out of Bronson's hand. ARod's move was pure bush league no matter what you idiot Yankees fans want to think. I know, you still can't get over the fact that we came back from 3 down which had never been done before and whipped your @sses. And you haven't been able to get anywhere since. We broke our curse and passed it back to you.
Still, how can you say that a Herpes infected skank like Jeter is a class act, I'll never know. I know too many women he's gone after even when he was supposed to be in a relationship. And his moves there are pretty bush league also. He's an arrogant jack@SS off the field, no matter how good he is on it. And a statistical study of his fielding versus other shortstops showed that the Yankees would have been better off moving him to 3rd and letting ARod play short. I wish I still had the citation so I could put it in here but my d@mn browser ate all my bookmarks and history files. If you want to see it, I'll try to find it again. And by the way, have you looked at his fantasy ranking? Putrid if you're going to claim him as a great shortstop. Lugo's worse but then nobody ever tried to say he wasn't.

Still, you're right that it's early in the season and anything could happen. We were up by 14 games at one point last season and still, the division title came down to the last few days. I don't know if Torre could do anything with the players you've currently got. I know about Joba, of course, but what other young players do you have this year? I think trying to turn Joba into a starter so early in his career could be a major mistake. They should have kept him in the bullpen this year. Start him in short relief and then extend him. It's usually a bad idea to ask so much of a young pitcher so soon. And you're going to be needing a closer, sooner rather than later. Mariano just doesn't have his best stuff anymore. He needs to switch to finesse and closers are usually flamethrowers. Still, I may be surprised and he could have more left in him than I realize. I also think Damon is going to be slowing down soon. His knees and shoulders are starting to go from the number of times he's slammed into the wall. I am surprised how well Giambi is doing since he's stopped juicing. Pity he ever started since he can do so well without it. And you do have a good catcher in Posada although he's not as good as 'Tek but who could be.

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Coco Crisp is a big girl. Cut the girlie man hair....be a man. You are a mess. You are an embarassment. Loser.

Baseball Junkie, the lone casualty from being beaned in Major League Baseball was Ray Chapman, a shortstop with the Cleveland Indians. The pitcher was Carl Mays from the **gulp** New York Yankees.

On August 17, 1920, Chapman was beaned. He died early the next morning.

The link to the story I got the information from is here: http://z.lee28.tripod.com/sbnsforgottenintime/id5.html

Coco was foolish to charge the mound...

in the game of baseball..everyone gets hit....he looks like he needed some some press......well..he got it..

and it is stupid press... he looks like an idiot

He's Chocolatey Dilicious!!!!

Partially Pregnant, Thanks. I knew I had read about it in a baseball history book but I didn't have that handy when I was writing the comment. I also remember that they were very good friends and Mays was never the same again. He wanted to go to Chapman's funeral but was afraid both of the crowd but also that it would hurt Chapman's family to see him.

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