Saturday morning things
by Adam J. Morris
on Jun 28, 2008 9:07 AM CDT
Some good things from yesterday's game, including Chris Davis's first major league home run and another solid performance from the bullpen. But Kason Gabbard had no command once again, and now on the year has 39 walks against 33 strikeouts, a ratio that is simply untenable. With Luis Mendoza having been brought back up to the majors and pitched well, I have to wonder if Gabbard isn't close to being bounced from the rotation again.
Jean-Jacques Taylor says Gabbard should be demoted, and Mendoza should take his place. Anthony Andro notes that Gabbard pitched like he did before he got sent down, throwing 84 pitches, and only 39 of those for strikes.
Richard Durrett's game story is all about Chris Davis, with Durrett suggesting that Ron Washington's proclamation that Davis will get sent down as soon as Hank Blalock is ready may not be quite as definitive as it sounded.
Hank Blalock has had another setback. He hit in the cages before yesterday's game, experienced pain in the wrist, and has been instructed not to pick up a bat again for a week.
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"Hank Blalock has had another setback"...
at this point you might as well just copy and paste that quote into every morning bulletin you do. I’m frustrated every time I hear about another “setback” he has had. At this point I don’t want to hear a thing about him until he’s on the field playing again.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
by slc ranger on Jun 28, 2008 9:15 AM CDT 0 recs
+ 1
and lets bring his ass to his position on a golf cart so he doesn’t hurt himself on the way there.
Iron Mike Tyson works out at my gym.
He's a pretty good boxer.
by LAMuscleFag on
Jun 28, 2008 9:44 AM CDT
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I'll take that one step further
I don’t want to hear about him again until the announcment comes that his option for 2009 has been declined, or that we’ve traded him to the Timbucktwo Yodelers for 100 bats.
The idea of Hank coming back and knocking Chris Davis back to AAA after the trade deadline is just insane. From now on, all I want to hear when first base is duscussed are the names “Davis” “MaxRam” and “Smoak”.
by lonestarJon on
Jun 28, 2008 10:50 AM CDT
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to take that a step further...
(honestly) i don’t see hank blalock in this team’s future, and the team should handle personnel moves accordingly. the ONLY benefit would be to prop him up long enough to get some trade value, and i question the repercussions of that process. sure, this is a non-year with the team out of any playoff contention, but wasting part of this season to rehabilitate hank and make him tradeable seems counterproductive.
i was always opposed to trading hank (in previous seasons) b/c i thought of him as a key component in the future of one of baseball’s best young infields (including tex). i wish we could have received value for him back then, but that’s why i’m not gm.
by sam in so cal on
Jun 28, 2008 10:54 AM CDT
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my idea doesn't seem very original...
had i not been making breakfast and posting at the same time maybe i could have edged this in before my fellow californian
by sam in so cal on
Jun 28, 2008 5:30 PM CDT
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Haha....
Ever see the movie groundhog day with Bill Murray?
Exactly like this Blalock situation.
"No bear or disco for Juan" - Mr. Santos
by miles on Jun 28, 2008 9:26 AM CDT 0 recs
Blalock
Just place him on the 60 day DL and forget about it? Leave Davis up here to see what he can do. He may pull a Hurley and show you that he has no intentions of seeing the minors again.
With Gabbard, I think he needs to go back down. I’m torn though on who replaces him. I would say Mendoza, but I hate to pull him out of a role that he is doing well in. For the meantime though I would say go ahead and give it to him and let Harrison get 4 or 5 more starts in AAA and if he continues to do well, bring him up and let Mendoza go back to long relief. Who takes Mendoza’s spot then in long relief? I really don’t have an aswer for that. Loe? Littleton? Or bring Madrigal up and let Wright and Rupe handle long relief.
by Chris Hanes on Jun 28, 2008 9:36 AM CDT 0 recs
Can Hank be put on...
the 60 day DL backdated to when he was first out. It has to have been 2 months now right? That would open up another spot on the 40 if he doesn’t come back.
I know Wes hasn’t pitched great in OKC but I would bring him up as the long man and send down Gabbard. Rupe has pitched great lately and I would give him a more inportant role. Wes can’t be worse than Gabbard has been. The guy just can’t find the strike zone and needs to go down to work some things out, and not for 2 starts, try 2 months.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
by slc ranger on
Jun 28, 2008 9:48 AM CDT
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F Blalock and F BMac
Both are pansies.
"We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round." - Tony Romo
by kentbenfer on
Jun 28, 2008 12:30 PM CDT
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BMac is a pansy?
Even though he pitched while injured all of last year and performed better than all of our starters who threw 40 IP?
That’s fucked up.
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1. A backhand
2. A stuffing
3. $500 if you promise never to post here again"
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by Chase Irwin on
Jun 28, 2008 12:34 PM CDT
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I agree
"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley
by boomer1 on
Jun 28, 2008 12:38 PM CDT
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Concur
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
by slc ranger on
Jun 28, 2008 12:47 PM CDT
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F U
Stats don't lie
Paul Pierce >> Soft Nowitzki
"The Legend of Rudy continues to grow..." - the other guy on the podcast.
by Longhorn on
Jun 28, 2008 12:53 PM CDT
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Mendoza deserves the start.
Not sure who’s long relief because it seems this bullpen would have better use if Rupe had a better role but for now let him be the long reliever and send Gabbard back to AAA to find the freaking strike zone. And none of this one start all is magically fixed stuff either. He should be down there for a few weeks at least. Maybe he might figure out that if he can’t throw strikes there’s no place on the big league roster for him.
by Hull Fan on Jun 28, 2008 9:43 AM CDT 0 recs
Jennifer Floyd Engel
She wrote another stupid column today in the paper.
by Monkey Brain on Jun 28, 2008 9:48 AM CDT 0 recs
does that surprise you?
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
by rentz on
Jun 28, 2008 9:49 AM CDT
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No
But I don’t want anyone else to read it because it’s nauseating.
by Monkey Brain on
Jun 28, 2008 9:52 AM CDT
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Whats it about?
"No bear or disco for Juan" - Mr. Santos
by miles on
Jun 28, 2008 9:55 AM CDT
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Basically
She said we would be idiots to even think about trading Padilla. She also implied we should keep Bradley no matter what (even though he will be a FA next year and would be 32 before we will be in contention again).
by Monkey Brain on
Jun 28, 2008 10:24 AM CDT
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I don't think that's so stupid
You can’t have 25 players that are 22 years old. Even the great ARod said that.
by Chris Hanes on
Jun 28, 2008 10:28 AM CDT
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Bradley
He’s having a career year and he’s going to fall back to earth soon. We have a chance to get blue chippers for him now.
by Monkey Brain on
Jun 28, 2008 10:33 AM CDT
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amen
To be fair... You are a fan of School of Rock so your ability to judge anything is VASTLY overrated!!!!
~King Billy Royal, Minor League Ball
by ivysafety39 on
Jun 28, 2008 10:41 AM CDT
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hallelujah!
Iron Mike Tyson works out at my gym.
He's a pretty good boxer.
by LAMuscleFag on
Jun 28, 2008 10:46 AM CDT
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Praise the lord
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
by slc ranger on
Jun 28, 2008 12:48 PM CDT
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Agree
I wasn’t totally clear in my post. I like Bradley but I am in the trade Bradley camp. I don’t want to trade Padilla though. We have some good young pitchers coming up, but they have a lot to prove before we go off trading more pitching away.
by Chris Hanes on
Jun 28, 2008 10:58 AM CDT
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I agree with her
.....unless we are blown away with an offer for Padilla. He’s pitched well this year and is in a contract year next year, with full motivation to pitch well again. What if it all comes together next year and we’re short a pitcher because of a trade?
I’m on the fence on Bradley.
There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.
by SarasotaRanger on
Jun 28, 2008 11:31 AM CDT
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So?
So you are okay if Bradley bounces back to earth? and don’t forget he’s a free agent next year and we sign him to a ridiculous contract because of his career year? And the fact he’s injury prone. I like Bradley but the plan is working right now we are loading up the system and we are seeing the results. When the time comes in 2-3 years we will start signing some vets to blend in with the kids.
by Monkey Brain on
Jun 28, 2008 11:56 AM CDT
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You speak like you're hoping
he’ll fall back to earth. True, he is historically an injury risk, having only played anywhere near a full season only twice since 2000. He’s never hit 20 HRs in a season. Those are legitimate concerns. Nonetheless, he seems happy here and is having a very productive year. If a wealth of talent can be brought back, then ok… but if the offer isn’t right, hang on to him and work out a deal.
Really… so much of what determines whether a player should be traded depends on variables, namely what another team will offer for our players. As such, it’s hard to say for sure who out of the rumored “guys on the block”should be traded because we don’t know what the hell yet we could get in return. I am against trading Padilla (unless overwhelmed by a deal that includes ML ready pitching) because…. duh… WE NEED PITCHING.
Regarding Bradley, if the offer is right, make a deal. If not, lock him up. We can’t just give up Bradley for a meh deal because he MIGHT get injured at some point.
There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.
by SarasotaRanger on
Jun 28, 2008 12:11 PM CDT
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JFE quote
Sorry, folks, the promising young arms are here in Hurley, Luis Mendoza, Scott Feldman and Kason Gabbard.
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Everybody else is two years away, at least, with Matt Harrison being the possible exception. There are also the walking wounded, Thomas Diamond and Brandon McCarthy, but relying on them is silly. Diamond is a ways away, and McCarthy is a painfully slow healer, as evidenced by his latest setback in which he is once again off the mound in Arizona.
BMac’s had a setback [?!] – and she leaves out Frisco’s two Tommy’s to go along with Harrison.
by shroomer on
Jun 28, 2008 10:19 AM CDT
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please don't read that biotch's crap.
Stats don't lie
Paul Pierce >> Soft Nowitzki
"The Legend of Rudy continues to grow..." - the other guy on the podcast.
by Longhorn on
Jun 28, 2008 11:17 AM CDT
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So, which happens first:
1. Davis gets 15 HR and 40 RBI
2. Blalock comes back from the DL
by Inkara1 on Jun 28, 2008 10:17 AM CDT 0 recs
1. Davis gets 15 HR and 40 RBI
But he’ll be accomplishing that by next Thursday so that’s not really fair.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
by Gdawg1 on
Jun 28, 2008 10:37 AM CDT
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Hopefully #1
But my fear is that #2 will come to pass instead, and we’ll have to hear about how great it was that Hank battled his way off the DL to come back and fill the great “need” at first base for us, while Davis languishes in AAA.
by lonestarJon on
Jun 28, 2008 10:53 AM CDT
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no mention of CJ
this is getting ridiciulous
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by ab03 on Jun 28, 2008 10:36 AM CDT 0 recs
Should I have mentioned C.J.?
Or are you talking about Durrett and Andro?
by Adam J. Morris on
Jun 28, 2008 10:46 AM CDT
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i didn't word this correctly
CJ’s performance is ridiculous.
But, I guess you could have mentioned CJ’s performance. I was watching the game last night at a bar so not sure what the reaction was to him here but I was pretty upset. It’s getting hard to ignore him just cause he’s not blowing saves. I guess there is a difference between blowing a save and not blowing a save but it seems odd that if he had given up another grounder up the middle, everybody’s talking about the closer problem but otherwise, the story is about gabbard and davis.
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by ab03 on
Jun 28, 2008 11:50 AM CDT
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+1
I was out at a bar too. When MY blocked that ball like a goalie, I was wondering if some on here were bashing him for not making a difficult play or praising him for keeping the tying run at 3rd. I thought it was a great play.
Regarding CJ, he’s missing his spots and nibbling. Irritating to watch.
There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.
by SarasotaRanger on
Jun 28, 2008 12:16 PM CDT
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I have a theory
If you want to nibble, then your nibbling pitch has to look hittable. When Eddie nibbles with his 86 mph fastball, the hitter still thinks he can hit then pitch and swings at it. Fouling it off and putting it in play weakly, but when CJ nibbles with his 95 mph fastball, the hitters don’t think they have a chance and just lay it off, resulting in a ball.
So you have the following outcomes:
1) You have really good stuff, and can hit corners consistently: You are really really good (and thereby not a Ranger)
2) You have really good stuff, but can’t hit corners consistently: Throw strikes and beat them by mixing up with your stuff (Hi CJ)
3) You don’t have good stuff, but can hit corners consistently: Ranger’s Waterloo and our collective hair loss
4) You don’t have good stuff, and can’t hit corners consistently: John Koronka
by Telegraph on
Jun 28, 2008 1:05 PM CDT
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MY
They had the shift set up perfectly and MY screwed it up. I think he had time to get in front of the ball instead of trying a backhand. He screwed up a perfect defensive shift and almost cost them the game.
BTW, Kinsler’s ball was hit just as hard to him, but the play got made.
by Chris Hanes on
Jun 28, 2008 1:10 PM CDT
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He wasn't out of position.
He was almost behind second when the ball came off the bat. That was a screamer that he didn’t let get by… at least not far enough. I had no problem with the play. Agree to disagree.
There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.
by SarasotaRanger on
Jun 28, 2008 1:28 PM CDT
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he didn't almost cost us the game...
...giving up a home-run, and letting another guy reach almost cost us the game.
by oc on
Jun 28, 2008 5:49 PM CDT
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JJ Taylor
Is it just me or is this guy as bad as Galloway?? In my opinion, unless this guy is talking about football, mainly the Cowboys, he has either no idea what he’s talking about or he’s stating the very obvious, like he did today.
"Well, the Dallas Mavericks got beat by the New Orleans Hornets last night ending their season. Word is that someone on the team is dating Jessica Simpson." - Jay Leno
by hinduplaya on Jun 28, 2008 11:25 AM CDT 0 recs
He's not as bad as Galloway
because he just doesn’t know any better. Galloway is a shock factor guy who writes to get more people talking and listening to his radio show. JJT just doesn’t know anything about baseball and should stick to the Cowboys.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
by Gdawg1 on
Jun 28, 2008 11:28 AM CDT
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Obvious?
You have to understand though that what may be obvious to you regarding the Rangers is not obvious to 90% of other “Ranger” fans in the D/FW area. I would say that the majority of the Ranger fans at the game last night found out more about Chris Davis just last night than they ever knew in the past two years if they had heard of him at all.
by Chris Hanes on
Jun 28, 2008 11:28 AM CDT
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Yes but he didnt write about CD
He wrote about Kason Gabbard lacking control last night and how he should be dropped to the rotation. I think that at least 90% of other “Rangers” fans from watching the game last night could’ve decided to drop Gabbard from the rotation.
"Well, the Dallas Mavericks got beat by the New Orleans Hornets last night ending their season. Word is that someone on the team is dating Jessica Simpson." - Jay Leno
by hinduplaya on
Jun 28, 2008 12:07 PM CDT
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Agree to disagree
I understand that he didn’t write about CD. My point was that 90% of the fans aren’t avid followers and don’t really know the ins and outs of the team. Most people that went there last night came away with the thought process of “well, that’s our Rangers. Crappy pitching”. But they don’t really know that there may be someone better in the waiting of Gabbard’s spot in the rotation.
Nonetheless, I do agree that he may be better off sticking with the Cowboys as his subject.
by Chris Hanes on
Jun 28, 2008 1:17 PM CDT
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yes
no reason to listen or read anything he says about the Rangers.
Stats don't lie
Paul Pierce >> Soft Nowitzki
"The Legend of Rudy continues to grow..." - the other guy on the podcast.
by Longhorn on
Jun 28, 2008 11:31 AM CDT
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hey, Houston peeps
does the Sunday NFL ticket give you all Cowboys games here?
Stats don't lie
Paul Pierce >> Soft Nowitzki
"The Legend of Rudy continues to grow..." - the other guy on the podcast.
by Longhorn on Jun 28, 2008 11:36 AM CDT 0 recs
You are talking about the Direct TV package?
If so, yes.
by Adam J. Morris on
Jun 28, 2008 11:45 AM CDT
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yes
thx.
Stats don't lie
Paul Pierce >> Soft Nowitzki
"The Legend of Rudy continues to grow..." - the other guy on the podcast.
by Longhorn on
Jun 28, 2008 11:54 AM CDT
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OT: Twins now have won 10 in a row.
Crickey. Wish we could just win 3 or 4 in a row.
There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.
by SarasotaRanger on Jun 28, 2008 11:39 AM CDT 0 recs
Three things prevent us from
winning 10 in a row.
1. Millwood(road starts kill him.)
2. Gabbard
3. Bullpen
One or two can get hot and go good but not all 3 at once.
"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley
by boomer1 on
Jun 28, 2008 11:46 AM CDT
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True.
Kind of like how we can’t put good starting pitching, good relief pitching, and hot bats together for an extended period of time. That hasn’t happened in 4 years.
There is no such thing as global warming. David Murphy was cold, so he turned the sun up.
by SarasotaRanger on
Jun 28, 2008 12:19 PM CDT
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Yep exactly
Even in 1996 the bullpen let us down in the playoffs and Juan was oneof the few that were hitting but the starting pitching was very good.
"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley
by boomer1 on
Jun 28, 2008 12:32 PM CDT
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if washington's statement holds true
then we will be seeing davis till 2010
Kinsler is the best player on the rangers, BENOIT SUCKS, bring up Harrison
by nice hands on Jun 28, 2008 11:53 AM CDT 0 recs
Rangers would be in 1st in the NL West
Arizona is at .500 40-40. Man I thought the way they started the season and all their starting pitching they would be running away with that division.
"Would you mind walking a time or two so I could drive in some runs"? Milton Bradley
by boomer1 on Jun 28, 2008 12:44 PM CDT 0 recs
Pitching
So…
If Luis is taking to middle relief and has been inconsistent as a starter, what’s the over under on Gabbard starts before Harrison gets the call?
Or would somebody else be next in line?
Go Strangers.
by hightowersmith on Jun 28, 2008 1:10 PM CDT 0 recs
luis is going to get another chance
how long did it take for them to realize kam loe wasn’t a starter?
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by ab03 on
Jun 28, 2008 1:27 PM CDT
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Mendoza
will probably have to wait at least for one more start from Gabbard. If Gabbard isn’t going to throw strikes like he was earlier in the season, he should go to AAA and spend a month on doing just that. He’s got decent stuff and I love how he is great at keeping the ball down in the zone, but he can’t continue to be unable to not walk guys.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
by Gdawg1 on
Jun 28, 2008 3:50 PM CDT
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Ummm...
want a do over on that?
lol
"...my balls are really like a veiny flesh color" blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2008 7:44 PM EDT
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," Bo Diddley
by Rodney on
Jun 28, 2008 3:52 PM CDT
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LOL
Injuries are cheating.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
by Gdawg1 on
Jun 28, 2008 5:15 PM CDT
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heh
gotcha!
"...my balls are really like a veiny flesh color" blueballlefty on Jun 4, 2008 7:44 PM EDT
"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," Bo Diddley
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