March N/V: FLAMINGOS ARE...A GO? (Awesome starts on page 46)

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How exited are you now? This poll is closed.
Really excited	76	46.34%
Kind of excited	16	9.76%
Not really excited	6	3.66%
My team sucks, why bother	6	3.66%
My team sucks, this is going to rule	51	31.10%
Which teams will be good, I need to know who to root for	9	5.49%
Total:	164 votes

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Senf: Nov 12, 2006; SPIEDER-MAN

A friend of mine recently reminded me that this place exists: http://www.jumpskyhigh.com/

I need to go.

EDIT: Joba gonna have nightmares of this loving place

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:22

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# ? May 25, 2013 22:35

Meat Recital: Mar 26, 2009; the first cut
is the deepest

jeffersonlives posted:

I'm pretty sure the concern with Joba right now is whether he'll ever be able to walk normally again, not whether he'll be able to pitch.

I'll have you know Jim Mecir had a long and productive major league career.

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:27

Groucho Marxist: Dec 9, 2005; Here stands baseball's perfect warrior.

Here stands baseball's perfect knight.

jeffersonlives posted:

I'm pretty sure the concern with Joba right now is whether he'll ever be able to walk normally again, not whether he'll be able to pitch.

Doctor, can I crack the rotation?
Sure you can.
Well I couldn't before!

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:28

UltimoDragonQuest: Oct 5, 2011

PTI tragically overlooked this when discussing Job.

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:29

Gunjin: Apr 27, 2004; Om nom nom

O's 2009 top pick, Matt Hobgood, is out for the year with rotator cuff surgery. What a waste of a pick, he was a reach at 5, wasn't any good in the minors, and now he's done.

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:32

The Blue Caboose: May 20, 2007; randy johnson: murderer of pidgeons and scourge of left-handed batters.

My parents have a front room with a 20 foot vaulted ceiling with a balcony from the master bedroom overlooking it... I thought was normal to have a trampoline inside my house.

I actually never hurt myself on it.

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:36

gyroball: Jul 29, 2003; Fortunately, the people found a mighty Rosenthal, called Trevor.

jeffersonlives posted:

I remember when all the Cardinals fans called me all kinds of names for predicting exactly this would happen.

Not all the Cardinals fans! I thought we'd find out he was pitching with a torn ligament in game 7 or something.

I do wonder if the nerve irritation was something that actually started last season and the underlying reason he wasn't throwing between starts/pitching on fumes in the playoffs.

Time to call up Roy so he can ~~replace Carpenter~~ keep Carpenter company on the DL.

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:45

the popes toes: Oct 10, 2004; 10 bucks says I'm safe

Senf posted:

A friend of mine recently reminded me that this place exists: http://www.jumpskyhigh.com/

I took a bunch of unruly kids there once in there Houston place. The reek of vomit was discernible under the odor of plastic disinfectant. But the place was packed and pretty infectious with fun. Intriguingly, they offered evening sessions for adults including a bar. Which is probably where teh vomit originated.

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:49

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

Trampolines are awesome because even my fat rear end could do front flips, back flips, and whatever the hell kids are calling a backflip with a half twist these days.

# ? Mar 23, 2012 23:50

jeffersonlives: Jul 22, 2007; But I set fire to the Raines
Watched it pour as I stole your base

gyroball posted:

Not all the Cardinals fans! I thought we'd find out he was pitching with a torn ligament in game 7 or something.

I do wonder if the nerve irritation was something that actually started last season and the underlying reason he wasn't throwing between starts/pitching on fumes in the playoffs.

Time to call up Roy so he can ~~replace Carpenter~~ keep Carpenter company on the DL.

There's an interesting discussion buried in here about how a team should handle a guy in a situation like Carpenter's. It was like watching a slow-motion trainwreck the way they slagged a guy with a long history of shoulder and elbow problems who just didn't look right, but on the flip side a 36 year old pitcher is only going to have so many more chances at a ring and postseason immortality. Did they do the right thing here? Would the answer change if Nellie Cruz hadn't taken a Victorino route to a flyball to right?

# ? Mar 24, 2012 00:01

Zamboni Jesus: Jul 3, 2007; We don't really care about what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to say

Shadow Ninja 64 posted:

Trampolines are awesome because even my fat rear end could do front flips, back flips, and whatever the hell kids are calling a backflip with a half twist these days.

*gets seriously injured on an escalator*

# ? Mar 24, 2012 00:08

AlleyViper: Sep 15, 2007; "I think I am just an exciting player to watch, because the things I do are a little bit different."

jeffersonlives posted:

Did they do the right thing here?

I think a lot of it comes down to the player's feelings on whether they did the right thing. It's one thing to let Grady Sizemore continue to go out there every day while he is clearly hurt because he wants to GUT IT OUT FOR THE TEAM instead of telling him "no, you're hurt, sit your rear end down before you're completely broken." It's another when it's the World Series and, as you said, it's an aging, broken down vet with one last chance for glory.

I think as long as Carp understood the risk of what damage may have been done to his arm then at the least St. Louis didn't do the wrong thing. If it were Waino or Jaime Garcia in his place it gets foggier.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 00:08

Jagfire: Aug 16, 2003; Boing!

Joba did ruin his season but you should've seen some of the stuff he was landing before the fall

# ? Mar 24, 2012 00:17

jeffersonlives: Jul 22, 2007; But I set fire to the Raines
Watched it pour as I stole your base

AlleyViper posted:

It's another when it's the World Series and, as you said, it's an aging, broken down vet with one last chance for glory.

Right. Knowing how it all turned out, I'm a million percent sure that even if Carpenter never throws another MLB pitch (and he very well might not), he'd trade those last three or four seasons he'd have had left for a ring that he carried a not-so-great team in the postseason to. He had probably the greatest clutch pitching performance in modern baseball history and pitched another gem to win Game 7 of the World Series, and those types of things are the stuff we all dream of playing little league as kids.

But he could have pitched every bit as well and not had those things happen, too.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 00:21

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your Mother!

BrooklynBruiser posted:

gently caress. Whatever you do, don't GIS "open ankle dislocation."

I looked at the trap, Ray.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 00:35

Combo: Aug 18, 2003

AlleyViper posted:

I think a lot of it comes down to the player's feelings on whether they did the right thing. It's one thing to let Grady Sizemore continue to go out there every day while he is clearly hurt because he wants to GUT IT OUT FOR THE TEAM instead of telling him "no, you're hurt, sit your rear end down before you're completely broken." It's another when it's the World Series and, as you said, it's an aging, broken down vet with one last chance for glory.

I think as long as Carp understood the risk of what damage may have been done to his arm then at the least St. Louis didn't do the wrong thing. If it were Waino or Jaime Garcia in his place it gets foggier.

That, and I guarantee that if you asked him what he would have preferred to do, he'd take the ball in game 7 even if it meant his arm would come off after. If he was fine with the risk I don't know that anyone would be right to tell him different.

It really sucks to lose him for probably the year though, and maybe his career.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 01:02

Regnevelc: Jan 12, 2003; I'M A GROWN ASS MAN!

Carp had a post season for the ages. He likely wouldn't trade it for anything.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 01:11

Gendo: Feb 25, 2001; His place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

PTI tragically overlooked this when discussing Job.

Poor bear

Poor Joba.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 01:13

UltimoDragonQuest: Oct 5, 2011

Gendo posted:

Poor bear

Poor Joba.

That bear was unharmed and sent back into the wild.

Sadly another bear died in a copycat incident when a makeshift trampoline did not work.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 02:14

SporkOfTruth: Sep 1, 2006; this kid walked up to me and was like man schmitty your stache is ghetto and I was like whatever man your 3b look like a dishrag.

he was like damn.

Jagfire posted:

Joba did ruin his season but you should've seen some of the stuff he was landing before the fall

Joba could never be in a Cirque du Soleil production.

Yes, I know that's from a Cirque show, what of it?

# ? Mar 24, 2012 02:16

unsanitary: Dec 14, 2007; don't sweat the technique

Spring training needs to end ASAP because there's nothing I'd rather read on the somethingawful MLB thread than what everyone else did on a trampoline especially so shortly after the yankeesfans.gif parade a few pages ago

Fistbumps to everyone who had royal rumbles on trampolines. I knocked a friend off and dislocated his shoulder once

# ? Mar 24, 2012 02:22

BrooklynBruiser: Aug 20, 2006; Oh my god. The microchip has been compromised.

Timby posted:

I looked at the trap, Ray.

Intentional choice with your av, or wonderful coincidence?

Someone needs to work yankeesfans.gif and trampolines together, ASAP.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 02:29

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.

Someone call up Robb Nen and ask if he has any regrets about his WS performance.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 02:50

AlleyViper: Sep 15, 2007; "I think I am just an exciting player to watch, because the things I do are a little bit different."

I miss Robb Nen because I loved his toe tap.

Thankfully Jordan Walden is around to fill the Funky Closer Delivery quota.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 03:00

Grozz Nuy: Feb 21, 2008

seiferguy posted:

Someone call up Robb Nen and ask if he has any regrets about his WS performance.

I don't know what you're talking about.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 03:07

peepoogenderparts: Jun 1, 2008; If I'm posting a new thread, it means there is a thread already posted and I failed at using the forum search correctly

Cardinals medical staff.

Also, Mets' medical staff.

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# ? Mar 24, 2012 03:13

Incitatus: Dec 16, 2005; RIANNE
TANNYHILLS

CraigK posted:

I think that the Cardinals Medical Staff is one minimum-wage intern looking poo poo up on WebMD

My brother actually got a job reading x-rays by studying on Google to see how to view different diagnoses on the x-rays. He had no formal medical training at all and the company never did a background check. He worked there for close to half a year before they figured it out.

Hopefully Joba can bounce back from his injury.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 03:35

Carlton Banks: Jan 5, 2004; "The Tigers' biggest obstacle to a championship will be keeping a straight face. The Tigers in three."

peepoogenderparts posted:

Cardinals medical staff.

Also, Mets' medical staff.

Dr. Nick Stavinoha

# ? Mar 24, 2012 03:44

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.

Incitatus posted:

My brother actually got a job reading x-rays by studying on Google to see how to view different diagnoses on the x-rays. He had no formal medical training at all and the company never did a background check. He worked there for close to half a year before they figured it out.

Hopefully Joba can bounce back from his injury.

Please tell me they still kept him afterward.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 03:47

Incitatus: Dec 16, 2005; RIANNE
TANNYHILLS

seiferguy posted:

Please tell me they still kept him afterward.

Nah they had to let him go, but to keep him quiet they didn't contest his unemployment benefits for like a year.

Also he found out about the job because while he was working as a waiter some guy who worked at the hospital told him to come and apply for the job.

When I say it was reading x-rays it was for poo poo like analyzing them for irregularities or things like tumors.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 03:57

will_colorado: Jun 30, 2007; Genuine Rocky Mountain Man.

Carpenter threw 273 total innings in his age 36 season, is anyone actually shocked that he suffered SOME kind of injury this year?

# ? Mar 24, 2012 04:02

Qwertyiop25: Jan 19, 2011; D is for Dank
It's Hammerin' Hank
Green in his name
And Green in his bank.

Incitatus posted:

When I say it was reading x-rays it was for poo poo like analyzing them for irregularities or things like tumors.

This is something people go to graduate school for.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 04:08

wukkar: Nov 27, 2009

What was that celebrity basketball in the 90's with multiple hoops worth like 50 points each and special spots to stand that were worth 10, we'd do that on the trampoline.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 04:09

Incitatus: Dec 16, 2005; RIANNE
TANNYHILLS

Qwertyiop25 posted:

This is something people go to graduate school for.

Apparently you can study Google for a few hours and pass the in-house test at the hospital.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 04:10

Incitatus: Dec 16, 2005; RIANNE
TANNYHILLS

wukkar posted:

What was that celebrity basketball in the 90's with multiple hoops worth like 50 points each and special spots to stand that were worth 10, we'd do that on the trampoline.

Wasn't that Rock N Jock or something on MTV.

Or Maybe Wild 'N' Crazy Kids?

*EDIT* Yeah Rock N' Jock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RugNzto1ktg

Bill Bellamy

# ? Mar 24, 2012 04:11

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.

It was Rock 'N Jock, and there were 3 tiers of hoops. It owned.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 04:15

The broken bones: Jan 3, 2008; And sometimes when I'm falling, flying or tumbling in center I say
Whoa so this is what NedCo means.

AlleyViper posted:

I've got a scar above my eye from when I nearly broke my orbital...on the night of my high school graduation. Having a shiner in all my graduation pics is awesome and made the night way more interesting. Trampolines own.

Huh. Does this story include how you got your name, av?

# ? Mar 24, 2012 04:34

Capt Murphy: Nov 16, 2005

seiferguy posted:

It was Rock 'N Jock, and there were 3 tiers of hoops. It owned.

The Rock N' Jock softball was even better. I used to have an Awayboys t-shirt somewhere and now I miss it dearly.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 05:03

Good Dog: Oct 16, 2008; Who threw this cat at me?

N: Kendrys Morales hit a home run today and is 4 for 6 in his first 2 games.

V: Spring Training but I am still excited for this year. No video yet or Angels radio broadcast, just the Indian's radio guy with the call.

# ? Mar 24, 2012 05:10

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# ? May 25, 2013 22:35

FairGame: Jul 24, 2001; Oh, I feel it! I feel the Kozmas!

jeffersonlives posted:

Right. Knowing how it all turned out, I'm a million percent sure that even if Carpenter never throws another MLB pitch (and he very well might not), he'd trade those last three or four seasons he'd have had left for a ring that he carried a not-so-great team in the postseason to. He had probably the greatest clutch pitching performance in modern baseball history and pitched another gem to win Game 7 of the World Series, and those types of things are the stuff we all dream of playing little league as kids.

But he could have pitched every bit as well and not had those things happen, too.

I hate that I'm going to end up on the side of morons here, but Jack Morris in 1991 probably was "more clutch"

# ? Mar 24, 2012 05:14

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