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Angels @ Astros Series Preview
« on: June 28, 2013, 10:02:41 am »
I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink
I'm so tired, my mind is on the blink
I wonder, should I get up and fix myself a drink?
Don't think twice, it's alright.

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Re: Angels @ Astros Series Preview
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2013, 10:09:42 am »
Excellent work! i wanted more!
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« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2013, 10:20:31 am »
How mysterious.  I read it twice, and once backwards, and I'm still baffled.  I hate Puget Sound.
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« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2013, 10:48:06 am »
holy cow. I need to read it again.

Dark Star certainly started something. the writing here is outstanding.
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« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2013, 10:57:52 am »
holy cow. I need to read it again.

Dark Star certainly started something. the writing here is outstanding.

Your writing isn't too shabby either, Coach.
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« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2013, 11:06:30 am »
Your writing isn't too shabby either, Coach.

thank you.
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« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2013, 02:03:55 pm »
Nice work Eb. I can hear a song.
Morphine style or maybe Talking Heads.
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 I met the man from Killeen
Everyone's talking, few of them know
The rest are pretending, they put on a show
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« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2013, 02:07:05 pm »
Outstanding, Ebby.
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« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2013, 02:56:50 pm »
Damn, that was good.  I hope you're sleeping well now.
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« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2013, 07:26:29 pm »
I'm pinch-hitting one of these things in a few weeks, and I'm starting to get nervous. Nice job, Ebby.
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2013, 07:45:59 pm »
I don't know what the hell it meant, but I liked it.
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« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2013, 07:56:14 pm »
I don't know what the hell it meant, but I liked it.

I'm a little suspicious of his conviction that the people he was dealing with were actually men. Having just been in Seattle myself I will say that a good 30% of the time I had no idea whether a given person was a man or a woman or what.
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« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2013, 08:02:30 pm »
I'm guessing what.
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« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2013, 08:06:36 pm »
I'm a little suspicious of his conviction that the people he was dealing with were actually men. Having just been in Seattle myself I will say that a good 30% of the time I had no idea whether a given person was a man or a woman or what.

Dude, its not that difficult... Seattle (and Portland) women are the ones with hairy legs and pits - if the person has shaved legs and pits, its definitely a guy... 
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« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2013, 08:15:35 pm »
Dude, its not that difficult... Seattle (and Portland) women are the ones with hairy legs and pits - if the person has shaved legs and pits, its definitely a guy... 

That sounds about right. There were many times where I realized that someone was a woman (or a what) only because she was coupled up with a butchy dykey looking chick. I would be like, That's weird, a goofy looking dude hanging out with an angry lesbian... oh, wait.
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« Reply #15 on: June 28, 2013, 10:24:23 pm »
I don't know what the hell it meant, but I liked it.

These things are supposed to mean something?  It's bad enough they have to be entirely about baseball.

Thanks for all of the kind words. It was a fun night.
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« Reply #16 on: June 28, 2013, 10:29:43 pm »
Baseball?  They're supposed to be about baseball?
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« Reply #17 on: June 28, 2013, 10:31:41 pm »
Baseball?  They're supposed to be about baseball?

Ah, hell...
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« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2013, 12:48:41 am »
These things are supposed to mean something?  It's bad enough they have to be entirely about baseball.

Thanks for all of the kind words. It was a fun night.

You know you don't need to track down a dude from Killeen for that, no?!? After all, its perfectly legal now in Washington state...
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« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2013, 06:55:04 am »
I'm pinch-hitting one of these things in a few weeks, and I'm starting to get nervous. Nice job, Ebby.

You'll do just fine. I wrote my first one earlier this season.
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« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2013, 11:59:04 am »
Excellent work, as always. As others have said, the level and sophistication these Series Previews have recently risen to is both a little startling, and exhilarating. And a bit scary, too; if one has to write one oneself pretty soon.

I really appreciate the effort. And I'd like to take credit for it somehow, but that would be total bullshit.

So, you know, I think I will.

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« Reply #21 on: June 29, 2013, 02:45:33 pm »
Excellent work, as always. As others have said, the level and sophistication these Series Previews have recently risen to is both a little startling, and exhilarating. And a bit scary, too; if one has to write one oneself pretty soon.

I really appreciate the effort. And I'd like to take credit for it somehow, but that would be total bullshit.

So, you know, I think I will.

I know. I've got one coming up in a few weeks.
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« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2013, 02:06:11 pm »
I don't know what the hell it meant, but I liked it.

holy shit, you're one to talk.
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« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2013, 03:37:42 pm »
I have to write the next one.  I think I'm going to cut and paste something from 1999.

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« Reply #24 on: July 01, 2013, 04:38:44 pm »
I have to write the next one.  I think I'm going to cut and paste something from 1999.

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« Reply #25 on: July 01, 2013, 05:34:19 pm »
That was excellent, Ebby.  Sounds like a very nice sunset. 
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