Has anybody heard of big news coming?

[xxx]

I was talking with a co-worker and he said he had heard that the Astros are supposed to make a big announcement on Friday. I had not heard anything and said maybe they made a deal with Oswalt or Bagwell is offically going to retire. All he said was well I heard it's supposed to be good news for the Astros. I wouldn't think they would hold the news on Oswalt signing so I am not sure what else there could be. Anybody heard anything?

[Bench]

The rosters will expand.

[jwhudson]

try this The Link

[MusicMan]

The 5th dentist caved and switched to Listerine.

[Andyzipp]

 

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 They couldn't send Wilson to the Minors, because players with five years of big-league experience can  refute  the assignment.

Your assignment is not true!  I will prove that I haven't been sent to the minors!

[bubba]

Wow, Footer doesn't mince words or sugar-coat things much, does she? It's a little surprising that she not more "homer-ish" writing for a team's official web-site.  Excellent work, though.

[MusicMan]

Footer is the Berkman to the Chronicle's collection of Clarks.

[pravata]

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I was talking with a co-worker and he said he had heard that the Astros are supposed to make a big announcement on Friday. I had not heard anything and said maybe they made a deal with Oswalt or Bagwell is offically going to retire. All he said was well I heard it's supposed to be good news for the Astros. I wouldn't think they would hold the news on Oswalt signing so I am not sure what else there could be. Anybody heard anything?

The Oswalt negotiation is in progress.  The story is they want the deal done by the "end of the month". Friday is 9/1

[astrox]

Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

[pravata]

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Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

I'd say she was dead sober when she wrote all that.  Her points are as sharp as they always are.

[Fredia]

keeping roy in the fold would be a major accomplishemt since i read he plans to play a few more years  the go back to missiissippi and farm.if that happens i cant even begin to imagine what his going away presetn from drayton might be.. i had the privledge to see his first mlb start.. hope it is a long time before his last one

[MusicMan]

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Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

I'd say you get to turn in your man card for providing that link.

[Bench]

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Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

I'd say you get to turn in your man card for providing that link.

Wow.

I definately second that. I just assumed it was some Lisa "Left Eye" scandal I hadn't heard about. I pray that I never enter someone's house and see those things sitting on the coffee table.

[Alkie]

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Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

If we prove that we're liberals with openly gay friends since high school, is it ok to call other users "fag" here?

[utastro]

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try this The Link

Ha, I love Footer's direct statement to the media. Priceless.

"A note to national reporters, broadcasters and world wide leaders: It's Tav-ER-as. That's Tav-AIR-as, not Tav-ARE-ez. The reliever for the Red Sox is Tavarez. The Astro with the 30-game hitting streak is Taveras. Thanks."

[MusicMan]

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Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

If we prove that we're liberals with openly gay friends since high school, is it ok to call other users "fag" here?

Do you know how I know you're gay?

[Alkie]

Well, seriously. I'd have kicked my WIFE'S ass for sending me that link.

[Arky Vaughan]

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Well, seriously. I'd have kicked my WIFE'S ass for sending me that link.

If Spack finds that link, somebody's going to get his ass kicked.

[MusicMan]

Some sort of penalty is called for - a changing of title from "Prime Time Player" to a more appropriate moniker.

Suggestions?

[astrox]

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Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

I'd say she was dead sober when she wrote all that.  Her points are as sharp as they always are.

Yes, but when I got to this part:

"He was on pace to drive in around 70 runs on the year. Whoop-dee-do. "

I had to laugh, and I could envision her taking a huge pull off of an upturned bottle of wine.

[Arky Vaughan]

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Some sort of penalty is called for - a changing of title from "Prime Time Player" to a more appropriate moniker.

Suggestions?

Spack could force him to carry that link as his tagline.

[Arky Vaughan]

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Yes, but when I got to this part:

"He was on pace to drive in around 70 runs on the year. Whoop-dee-do. "

I had to laugh, and I could envision her taking a huge pull off of an upturned bottle of wine.

She's been no-nonsense in the mailbag for a while. I remember  a guy complaining that Garner switched the line-up too often, screwing up his rotisserie league, to which she wrote, "My heart bleeds for your fantasy team."

[Craig]

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Some sort of penalty is called for - a changing of title from "Prime Time Player" to a more appropriate moniker.

Suggestions?

Merlot Mangina

[pravata]

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Wow, this Q&A was a bit more pointed than usual.  I'd say Footer has chosen not to heed TLC's "Merlot and Email Don't Mix" Life Lesson.

I'd say she was dead sober when she wrote all that.  Her points are as sharp as they always are.

Yes, but when I got to this part:

"He was on pace to drive in around 70 runs on the year. Whoop-dee-do. "

I had to laugh, and I could envision her taking a huge pull off of an upturned bottle of wine.

She could've typed Whoop-dee-fuckin-do and she still could have recited the alphabet backwards. Wilson was not the hitter the Astros wanted. Just as a comparison, Adam Everett has 49 RBI right now.

[Jacksonian]

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Some sort of penalty is called for - a changing of title from "Prime Time Player" to a more appropriate moniker.

Suggestions?

Vagisil User.

[Ty in Tampa]

Figurine.

[MusicMan]

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Some sort of penalty is called for - a changing of title from "Prime Time Player" to a more appropriate moniker.

Suggestions?

Vagisil User.

I was leaning towards "Has to sit to piss".

[Limey]

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Ha, I love Footer's direct statement to the media. Priceless.

"A note to national reporters, broadcasters and world wide leaders: It's Tav-ER-as. That's Tav-AIR-as, not Tav-ARE-ez. The reliever for the Red Sox is Tavarez. The Astro with the 30-game hitting streak is Taveras. Thanks."

Next week, she'll address the the whole Beeezeeeoh thing.

[astrox]

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Some sort of penalty is called for - a changing of title from "Prime Time Player" to a more appropriate moniker.

Suggestions?

Vagisil User.

I was leaning towards "Has to sit to piss".

Damn!  So, I'm the only one who has to appease his wife by switching over to TLC in between innings??

[MusicMan]

You're hardly alone in wife-appeasing.

You are quite alone in not only paying attention to the appeasment, but ACTUALLY LINKING TO IT.

[austro]

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You're hardly alone in wife-appeasing.

You are quite alone in not only paying attention to the appeasment, but ACTUALLY LINKING TO IT.

Really.  It's one thing to conjure up the image of Footer taking a slug from the bottle and then cranking out her response.  It's quite another to KNOW THAT THERE'S A FIGURINE DEPICTING THAT VERY SITUATION.  And, as MM says, ACTUALLY LINKING TO IT.

[UpTooLate]

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Damn!  So, I'm the only one who has to appease his wife by switching over to TLC in between innings??

Just wanted to throw in my  two-cents.

But seriously Astrox, I feel your pain.  Since I'm divorced now, I just don't feel it as often.  Just as a warning to the marrieds out there, even when you live in seperate households, they find new and creative ways to fuck with you and get you to appease them.

[Limey]

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But seriously Astrox, I feel your pain.  Since I'm divorced now, I just don't feel it as often.  Just as a warning to the marrieds out there, even when you live in seperate households, they find new and creative ways to fuck with you and get you to appease them.

They will drive you to fatally stabbing a loyal subordinate in the leg, and then avoid a bullet in the brain by showing you their tits.

[Gizzmonic]

That sounds like a good movie.  Especially the tits part.

Reminds me of the Venture Brothers character "Molotov Cocktease."

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But seriously Astrox, I feel your pain.  Since I'm divorced now, I just don't feel it as often.  Just as a warning to the marrieds out there, even when you live in seperate households, they find new and creative ways to fuck with you and get you to appease them.

They will drive you to fatally stabbing a loyal subordinate in the leg, and then avoid a bullet in the brain by showing you their tits.

[JimR]

i do not. i marry people who like baseball.

[ybbodeus]

Was it Ed Norton's line in Rounders:  "In the poker game of life, women are the rake,"?

[Alkie]

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i do not. i marry people who like baseball.

Yeah, crazy idea, huh?

I have no idea how guys who marry women who hate baseball get thru the day.

[JimR]

by posting links to TLC

[cougar]

"Major announcement" following tonight's game in the press room.  Timmy P. and Drayton will be there.  The night Roy O. is pitching.

Draw conclusions.

[utastro]

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They will drive you to fatally stabbing a loyal subordinate in the leg, and then avoid a bullet in the brain by showing you their tits.

That poor cocksucker.  But now I know that blood oozes out of a dead body.

[Col. Sphinx Drummond]

I think "The Disfigurines" would make a good band name.