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« on: September 19, 2007, 02:53:57 am »
I'm amazed tha this board doesn't already have a special place for those who've over indulged to post their nonsense while still unde the effects of alcohol.

Normally, as a Clrak I wouldn't have the guts to post this here.  But since my drinks tonight were purchased by the one and only Ben Sheets himself.  I think I'm due a pass.

Sheets is huge, friendly, and generous, and at one point asaid he'd like to play in Houston and that he'd hear d that Jake Peavy wants to play here too.  you heard it here first.

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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2007, 03:07:26 am »
You are definately in a sheets to the wind state. 

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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2007, 05:48:53 am »
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to post late at night.

To sum up...

Drink more, post less.

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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2007, 08:04:13 am »
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to post late at night.

To sum up...

Drink lessmore, post less.

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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2007, 08:24:54 am »
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to post late at night.

To sum up...

Drink more, post less.

Implying that he's already well-qualified on the other two points?
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« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2007, 09:23:59 am »
I'm amazed tha this board doesn't already have a special place for those who've over indulged to post their nonsense while still unde the effects of alcohol.


i haven't had any alcohol for four months, but i did get crazy drunk on food at this place http://www.garydanko.com/site/menu.html last night.  that's right, gary danko!  finally!  pancetta-wrapped frogs legs!

also, there was a crazy article in the sf chronicle yesterday about the homeless situation at the transbay terminal (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/18/BAOBS820J.DTL, which is the hub for bus travel to every other part of the bay.  watch where you step.  for anyone who doesn't know, or has never been here, sf has one of the worst homelessness problems of any major city in the country.  witness this frightening story about dirty needles in golden gate park:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/02/MNTQRBGEL2.DTL&hw=Golden+Gate+Park+Sweep&sn=009&sc=261

also in yesterday's chronicle was a less crazy, but still somewhat interesting profile of bruce froemming's impending retirementhttp://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/18/SP60RBRM8.DTL.



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« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2007, 09:40:16 am »
I'm amazed tha this board doesn't already have a special place for those who've over indulged to post their nonsense while still unde the effects of alcohol.


We have a "special place."  It's called the Talk Zone, or TZ for short. :'(
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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2007, 09:56:16 am »
i haven't had any alcohol for four months, but i did get crazy drunk on food at this place http://www.garydanko.com/site/menu.html last night.  that's right, gary danko!  finally!  pancetta-wrapped frogs legs!

That's a nice wine list, but it's going to take a pretty extraordinary event to get me to shell out $400-$500 (to say nothing of the $2000 bottles) for a bottle of wine. And I'm a wine guy.
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« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2007, 09:59:05 am »
i haven't had any alcohol for four months, but i did get crazy drunk on food at this place http://www.garydanko.com/site/menu.html last night.  that's right, gary danko!  finally!  pancetta-wrapped frogs legs!

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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2007, 10:39:55 am »
That's a nice wine list, but it's going to take a pretty extraordinary event to get me to shell out $400-$500 (to say nothing of the $2000 bottles) for a bottle of wine. And I'm a wine guy.

Their wine list is pretty impressive, a lot of high end producers.  Looks like they're going with a 100% markup on the bottles, though, which (unfortunately) is pretty standard in the restaurant business these days.  Better to buy one of those bottles retail and forget about it in a wine cellar for a few years.
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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2007, 10:40:57 am »
That's a nice wine list, but it's going to take a pretty extraordinary event to get me to shell out $400-$500 (to say nothing of the $2000 bottles) for a bottle of wine. And I'm a wine guy.


It takes an extraordinary effort to get me to shell out 75 bucks for a bottle of wine that's $8.99 at Specs.
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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2007, 10:48:28 am »

It takes an extraordinary effort to get me to shell out 75 bucks for a bottle of wine that's $8.99 at Specs.

Do yourself a favor and check out La Vista - you can bring your 8.99 bottle and pay 5 bucks corkage fee.  This is one of our favorite restaurants.  Love the mussels.  Here's their website :
http://www.fatbutter.com/

And a write up in the Chron when they opened the Memorial location (usually the one we go to):
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/dining/cook/4320111.html

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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2007, 10:49:49 am »
Do yourself a favor and check out La Vista - you can bring your 8.99 bottle and pay 5 bucks corkage fee.  This is one of our favorite restaurants.  Love the mussels.  Here's their website :
http://www.fatbutter.com/

What is a corkage fee?

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« Reply #13 on: September 19, 2007, 10:54:08 am »
What is a corkage fee?


The fee for the restaurant to open your wine and use their glasses.
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« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2007, 10:55:42 am »
Do yourself a favor and check out La Vista - you can bring your 8.99 bottle and pay 5 bucks corkage fee.  This is one of our favorite restaurants.  Love the mussels.  Here's their website :
http://www.fatbutter.com/


Website says $7 cork fee, but hey, that's still better than 40 bucks for that $8 bottle of wine.  I'll have to check it out.  Thanks for the suggestion.
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« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2007, 10:56:18 am »

The fee for the restaurant to open your wine and use their glasses.
wow we need something like that in zwolle, umm dont you just twist the top to open the wine>
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« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2007, 10:57:58 am »
wow we need something like that in zwolle, umm dont you just twist the top to open the wine>

I thought in Zwolle you just opened the box.
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« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2007, 11:03:06 am »
I thought in Zwolle you just opened the box.

You've overestimated Zwolle. They haven't yet figured out how to open the box. They poke a hole in it.
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« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2007, 11:03:22 am »
What is a corkage fee?

The line item the A's reported for Piazza's contract.
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« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2007, 11:24:45 am »

Website says $7 cork fee, but hey, that's still better than 40 bucks for that $8 bottle of wine.  I'll have to check it out.  Thanks for the suggestion.

It looks like some of their other prices have gone up a bit too.  Still a bargain for the quality of food they serve, plus knowing you'll like the wine.  Be prepared for a wait - we usually go around 6pm and plan on sitting outside for a good hour or so.  Just pick a fair weathered day to go, good wine, and good company and the wait won't seem so bad. 

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« Reply #20 on: September 19, 2007, 05:27:20 pm »
You've overestimated Zwolle. They haven't yet figured out how to open the box. They poke a hole in it.

What kind of wine goes best with tamales?
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« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2007, 06:39:28 pm »
What kind of wine goes best with tamales?

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« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2007, 06:48:29 pm »
Their wine list is pretty impressive, a lot of high end producers.  Looks like they're going with a 100% markup on the bottles, though, which (unfortunately) is pretty standard in the restaurant business these days.  Better to buy one of those bottles retail and forget about it in a wine cellar for a few years.

Can't resist posting some economics....

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/question-of-the-day-whats-up-with-restaurant-wine-prices/

As you can catch from the URL, this is the Freakonomics duo answering why wine is marked up so much at restaurants...

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« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2007, 10:33:19 am »
Not that it completely supersedes the idiocy that kicked off this thread, but Jose de Jesus Ortiz is teasing an interview with Peavy tomorrow wherein he says that he'd like to play in Houston or Atlanta if SD doesn't work out.  So Sheets wasn't completely speaking out of turn when he said that.

That'd be a big splash for the new GM...
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« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2007, 10:38:34 am »
Doesn't Peavy have at least one more year on his deal? 

Doesn't matter, if we get a good GM, the rotation will be Oswalt, Santana, Peavy, Sheets, Williams.  And all it will cost is Orlando Palmerio.

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« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2007, 10:40:40 am »
Doesn't Peavy have at least one more year on his deal? 

Doesn't matter, if we get a good GM, the rotation will be Oswalt, Santana, Peavy, Sheets, Williams.  And all it will cost is Orlando Palmerio.


I'd rather not give up a proven veteran. A really good GM will get that done for a minor-leaguer.
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« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2007, 10:48:07 am »
I'd rather not give up a proven veteran. A really good GM will get that done for a minor-leaguer.

Obviously.  Isn't Carlos Hernandez still in the system somewhere?  Can we get someone who'll convince Kevin Towers that he's the next Rick Ankiel, without the HGH.
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« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2007, 10:51:39 am »
You've overestimated Zwolle. They haven't yet figured out how to open the box. They poke a hole in it.

So "poke" is Louisianan for "puncture with a shotgun blast?"
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« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2007, 10:52:13 am »
So "poke" is Louisianan for "puncture with a shotgun blast?"

In every usage I've ever heard.
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« Reply #29 on: September 20, 2007, 10:54:21 am »
Doesn't Peavy have at least one more year on his deal? 

Doesn't matter, if we get a good GM, the rotation will be Oswalt, Santana, Peavy, Sheets, Williams.  And all it will cost is Orlando Palmerio.


A good GM wouldn't give up a veteran pinch-hitter.  A good GM would only have to give up Jason Lane.  Of course he'd also get the Padres #1 prospect as part of the deal and only having to throw in Burke.
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« Reply #30 on: September 20, 2007, 10:55:20 am »
LEAVE JASON LANE ALONE!!! YOU'RE LUCKY THAT HE EVEN PERFORMS FOR YOU!!!!
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« Reply #31 on: September 20, 2007, 11:01:10 am »
IF YOU DON'T LEAVE JASON LANE ALONE, YOURE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH ME-Hee-hee...

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« Reply #32 on: September 20, 2007, 01:34:00 pm »
IF YOU DON'T LEAVE JASON LANE ALONE, YOURE GONNA HAVE TO DEAL WITH ME-Hee-hee...

can you believe they are going to give that little twerp his own freakin show?   i think seth green's performance on the soup was much better.

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« Reply #33 on: September 20, 2007, 01:49:16 pm »
Doesn't Peavy have at least one more year on his deal? 

Doesn't matter, if we get a good GM, the rotation will be Oswalt, Santana, Peavy, Sheets, Williams.  And all it will cost is Orlando Palmerio.

Hmm let's see:

Oswalt: $15 Mil/yr
Santanna: $20 Mil/yr
Peavy: $18 Mil/yr
Sheets: $15 Mil/yr <--- will seem like $30 Mil when you consider he only pitches 1/2 a season anyway.
Berkman: $14.5 Mil/yr
Lee: $18.5 Mil/yr

$101 Mil just for those 6 players, throw in another $30 Mil or so for the other 19, maybe as much as $40 if Lidge is still closing.

We are talking a $150 Mil payroll for a team that ought to win 100 games every year for about the next 5 at least.

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« Reply #34 on: September 20, 2007, 02:04:36 pm »
Not that it completely supersedes the idiocy that kicked off this thread, but Jose de Jesus Ortiz is teasing an interview with Peavy tomorrow wherein he says that he'd like to play in Houston or Atlanta if SD doesn't work out.  So Sheets wasn't completely speaking out of turn when he said that.

That'd be a big splash for the new GM...


If it is down to either believing what an award-winning, accredited journalist like Ortiz says, or what a ripped-to-the-tits drunk Astro fan/blogger reports at 3:00 in the morning on the message board of a fan site even Greg Lucas apparently doesn't read, well . . I'm gonna have to think about that one for a moment.  But not for too long.

Meantime, I think I'll have a carafe (Mason jar) of the Zwolle zinfantdel, please; the one with the fruity aroma, and the vague gunpowder-and-lead-shot aftertaste.

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« Reply #35 on: September 20, 2007, 02:22:30 pm »
Hmm let's see:

Oswalt: $15 Mil/yr
Santanna: $20 Mil/yr
Peavy: $18 Mil/yr
Sheets: $15 Mil/yr <--- will seem like $30 Mil when you consider he only pitches 1/2 a season anyway.
Berkman: $14.5 Mil/yr
Lee: $18.5 Mil/yr

$101 Mil just for those 6 players, throw in another $30 Mil or so for the other 19, maybe as much as $40 if Lidge is still closing.

We are talking a $150 Mil payroll for a team that ought to win 100 games every year for about the next 5 at least.

No no no -- a good GM would get the other teams to pick up most of those guys' salaries.
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« Reply #36 on: September 20, 2007, 04:51:41 pm »
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actually in wal mart the other day i saw some new boones farm stuff . really pretty colors.. can probably find a wine that would match your outfit
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« Reply #37 on: September 20, 2007, 10:57:35 pm »
actually in wal mart the other day i saw some new boones farm stuff . really pretty colors.. can probably find a wine that would match your outfit

Do they have anything in a summer? Fall colors make my skin tone look washed out.
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« Reply #38 on: September 21, 2007, 01:41:09 pm »
Do they have anything in a summer? Fall colors make my skin tone look washed out.
maybe something in a sunshine yellow>
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« Reply #39 on: September 21, 2007, 03:06:33 pm »
maybe something in a sunshine yellow>


Wouldn't that be "Citrus Breeze" or something?
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« Reply #40 on: September 21, 2007, 04:03:30 pm »
Wouldn't that be "Citrus Breeze" or something?
you actuallyknow the names..and i get ragged on for zwolle?
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« Reply #41 on: September 21, 2007, 04:15:13 pm »
you actuallyknow the names..and i get ragged on for zwolle?

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« Reply #42 on: September 22, 2007, 12:33:52 am »

If it is down to either believing what an award-winning, accredited journalist like Ortiz says, or what a ripped-to-the-tits drunk Astro fan/blogger reports at 3:00 in the morning on the message board of a fan site even Greg Lucas apparently doesn't read, well . . I'm gonna have to think about that one for a moment.  But not for too long.

Meantime, I think I'll have a carafe (Mason jar) of the Zwolle zinfantdel, please; the one with the fruity aroma, and the vague gunpowder-and-lead-shot aftertaste.


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