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Re: The Commissioner Comes to Houston!
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2013, 04:51:42 pm »
alas i am stuck in austin..someone please please spread the manure...ummm i mean the news
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2013, 06:34:07 pm »
I would hope no restaurant would serve him. I would also hope any organization in Houston would reconsider having him appear in any capacity. It just validates his behavior.
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« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2013, 06:55:16 pm »
I hope the Hyatt Regency gives him a room with an open roof.

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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2013, 08:54:31 pm »
I would hope no restaurant would serve him. I would also hope any organization in Houston would reconsider having him appear in any capacity. It just validates his behavior.

Attendees to the event should all stand up and walk out as soon as he gets up to speak.

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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2013, 11:33:55 pm »
Attendees to the event should all stand up, yell a hearty "FUCK YOU BUD",  and walk out as soon as he gets up to speak.
A small edit.
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The Commissioner Comes to Houston!
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2013, 09:27:00 am »
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« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2013, 09:40:49 am »
can you  make that into an avator
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« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2013, 10:52:19 am »
I hope the Hyatt Regency gives him a room with an open roof.

I hope the HFD gives him a fire hose enema.
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« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2013, 11:33:32 am »
not sure even that would clean him out
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« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2013, 12:24:25 pm »
not sure even that would clean him out

... and he might like it!

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« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2013, 09:20:05 pm »
we should have invited bud adams down to give him the key to the city
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« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2013, 09:27:37 pm »
we should have invited bud adams down to give him the key to the city

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« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2013, 10:33:50 am »
Meh. I toot in his general direction.
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« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2013, 03:23:08 pm »
I see where Sheila Jackson Lee will be there.  Maybe the congresswoman has some interesting conspiracy theories on the Astros' move to the AL that she can discuss w/ Bud.
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« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2013, 12:57:07 pm »
Someone stink palm him

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« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2013, 02:21:07 pm »
I don't really care about him going to Houston, I'm looking forward to when the commissioner goes to hell.
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« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2013, 02:29:29 pm »
agreed
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« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2013, 02:46:45 pm »
I don't really care about him going to Houston, I'm looking forward to when the commissioner goes to hell.

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« Reply #20 on: June 20, 2013, 09:44:11 am »
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Among other topics Selig addressed:

The designated hitter position will remain and a universal DH won’t be on the agenda unless MLB teams are geographically realigned.

What does one have to do with the other?
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« Reply #21 on: June 20, 2013, 09:47:45 am »
What does one have to do with the other?

It would move a bunch of teams from one league to the other. 
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« Reply #22 on: June 20, 2013, 10:02:10 am »
What does one have to do with the other?

...and why does it have to be a universal DH?  Why not universal not DH?
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« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2013, 10:12:35 am »
It would move a bunch of teams from one league to the other. 

I see. Maybe Houston could be more properly realigned geographically. Maybe with some other teams from the central US.
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« Reply #24 on: June 20, 2013, 10:17:49 am »
I see. Maybe Houston could be more properly realigned geographically. Maybe with some other teams from the central US.

Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago (1). 

Or maybe the Southern US.  Tampa Bay, Miami, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas.
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« Reply #26 on: June 20, 2013, 10:37:20 am »
Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago (1). 

Or maybe the Southern US.  Tampa Bay, Miami, Houston, Atlanta, Dallas.
That's crazy. Why would you want to separate the Astros from their hated rivals the Mariners, A's, and Angels?
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« Reply #27 on: June 20, 2013, 10:41:01 am »
and everyone wants to stay up till 9 to see the game start
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« Reply #28 on: June 20, 2013, 10:59:59 am »
That's crazy. Why would you want to separate the Astros from their hated rivals the Mariners, A's, and Angels?

You're right.  God I hate the Mariners.
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« Reply #29 on: June 20, 2013, 12:04:18 pm »
That's crazy. Why would you want to separate the Astros from their hated rivals the Mariners, A's, and Angels?

Man, there have been some CLASSIC games against those guys.  I'd hate to see that kind of tradition messed with.  It would make me stop following the Astros completely. 
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« Reply #30 on: June 20, 2013, 12:12:33 pm »
and everyone wants to stay up till 9 to see the game start

Speaking of which...WTF is up with the Texans' season opener being on a Monday night at 9:20pm Central?

Has Ssssssssssssselig been talking to the NFL?
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« Reply #31 on: June 20, 2013, 12:14:55 pm »
Speaking of which...WTF is up with the Texans' season opener being on a Monday night at 9:20pm Central?

Has Ssssssssssssselig been talking to the NFL?

Well, the Texans are going to drop back down to being a .500 team this year, so the fewer people who see it from the beginning, the better.

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« Reply #32 on: June 20, 2013, 01:13:53 pm »
FYB

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« Reply #33 on: June 20, 2013, 01:16:06 pm »
Remind me again why Drayton McLane bent over for this stinking tower of pus?

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« Reply #34 on: June 20, 2013, 01:16:55 pm »
Remind me again why Drayton McLane bent over for this stinking tower of pus?

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« Reply #35 on: June 20, 2013, 01:17:19 pm »
It's always about the money.
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« Reply #36 on: June 20, 2013, 01:17:30 pm »
Damn it.
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« Reply #37 on: June 20, 2013, 01:33:25 pm »
It's always about the money.

Except when it's love.
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« Reply #38 on: June 20, 2013, 01:49:39 pm »
Except when it's love.

...of money.
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« Reply #39 on: June 20, 2013, 02:25:03 pm »
http://blog.chron.com/ultimateastros/2013/06/19/selig-houston-will-have-to-wait-for-all-star-game/?fb_action_ids=10151737487599365%2C10151736696524365&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%7B%2210151737487599365%22%3A635897456437833%2C%2210151736696524365%22%3A186221311541909%7D&action_type_map=%7B%2210151737487599365%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%2C%2210151736696524365%22%3A%22og.recommends%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

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“If my memory serves me correctly, you just had one here in ’04. … We have 30 teams,” said Selig, who gave a keynote speech during the 2013 MLB Diversity Summit at the George R. Brown Convention Center. “We have 30 teams with a long line of people that want it. And, look, the All-Star Game was great here, but I’m having trouble enough with clubs who haven’t had it for 40 and 50 years. And if I keep going back to the same places we’ve been, I’ll have more trouble.”

The difference being, Bud, that you didn't fuck the other 29 teams up the ass as a condition of a sale two years ago. What a piece of shit.

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« Reply #40 on: June 20, 2013, 03:43:08 pm »
did you ever see the south park about bono being the worlds biggest poo? well they have a new contender in the most unloved commish of baseball 
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