The team didn't win 90 games. They didn't make the post season. And as of right now we are not above 500...but factoring in all of the damage this team took, it still managed to stay in flight, and what's more impressive...statistically speaking we could end thus season as the 2nd best team in the NL East. We are also right behind the Brewers looking at those wildcard spots...which statistically speaking would make us better than the 8 teams behind us.
Farnsworth and Valverde...these moves needed to be made, we needed to wait for some more of these arms to develope so we had these guys as incredibly cheap temporary pieces. Think of how many games we had leads in early this year that could have swung in our favor if it hadn't been for Valverde, Farnsworth, or even guys like Scott Rice. The new look bullpenn is now a strength, and there is more depth behind it.
Then there's the starters... (I don't want to say Gees injury opening a spot for deGtom was the best thing to happen this year but...) we already have one ofn the better rotations in baseball...and we have Qualcomms finest representiive returning. Read it with me..Harvey, Wheeler, deGrom...and more depth of highly valuable arms behind them. None of these pieces are garanteed to be here next year, but if they are not, it's because they are bringing in another big piece.
The bats...Murphy and Wright both missed significant time...and I honestly can't point to a game and say "we lost it because those bats weren't there." Actually, when you think about it. We've played damn good baseball in those times. We have bats behind them to take their place, we actually have a slight sliver of infield depth...and like our pitchiers...could help bring in more pieces.
Duda - he hit ball far, he swing back hsrd, Duda smash.
d'Arnaud...get on his case all you want but he's shown flashes of having a big time bat for a catcher. Arguably he is looking like the best offensive catcher we have had since that italian guy...what's his name..hmmmm...ahh yes that LoDuca guy...hmmm their may be some other italian guy I'm not thinking off.
Point is, are you ready, because 2015 is coming, and like it or not, this is our new core.
After the death of Robert E. Howard, an unknown fan had written in to Weird Tales asking if some other author would pick up the series now that Howard was dead - this wasn't necessarily an extraordinary suggestion, as many pulps used "house names" and had characters that were written by many separate authors under that name. Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright responded:
> Sorry to deny your request for some other author to carry on the Conan stories of the late Robert E. Howard. His work was touched with genius, and he had a distinctive style of writing that put the stamp of his personality on every story he wrote. It would hardly be fair to his memory if we allowed Conan to be recreated by another hand, no matter how skillful.
Phil
Black Gate: How Sword and Sorcery Brings Us to Life
When I was working on the introduction to Savage Scrolls, I re-read all of Lin Carter’s Flashing Swords introductions. Something caught my attention: Carter starts Flashing Swords 1 with an epigraph, a stanza from William Morris’s six-stanza poem, “Prologue of the Earthly Paradise.” It is a beautiful apologia of fantasy literature. The speaker, Morris, attempts to comfort his reader, a weary, disenchanted worker, by celebrating the transformative nature of the heroic poetry of premodernity. But Morris does so hesitantly:
The heavy trouble, the bewildering care
That weighs us down who live and earn our bread,
These idle verses have no power to bear.
Morris is not making hyperbolic claims for the power of literature here; he is no Percy Shelley, claiming “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
No. Morris is comparably modest. Do you have bills to pay? Taxes to file? Mouths to feed? Alas, admits Morris, imaginative literature will not help you bear these miserable burdens. But it might help in other, nuanced ways.
Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a tale not too importunate.
This is a compressed, enigmatic passage, worth mulling over. Morris seems to prevaricate. The strangeness of his claim for poetry’s utility could be lost in his flurry of ornamental syntax and figures of speech. So, let’s slow him down: Morris says that his poetry “beats with light wing against the ivory gate” of paradise. What does it mean to spin a tale that “wings lightly” or transports the reader to the very gates of paradise? Is Morris suggesting that poetry can take you to paradise? Really? Can poetry fly you to Valhalla? Is poetry a SpaceX rocket?
We are familiar with this bizarre trope, the idea of poetry as a form of metaphysical transportation. How does Dante, for example, get to hell? He is not brought there by angels but by the poet, Virgil. Imaginative literature might not pay your bills but, for Morris, it might take you to the very gates of paradise. That’s something.
There’s more to this passage. Morris gives us a hint regarding the type of poetry that achieves this quasi-magical power to transport: it is “not too importunate,” tendentious, insistent, or persistent. In other words, the poetry that can most readily transport us to the ve
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Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.
If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.
Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???
Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.
Thank you,
A Dad.
Well, toucan play at that game.
Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.
They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.
I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.
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She said apple-lutely
'Eye-do'
This is my first post pls don't kill me lol.
The people in the comment section is why I love this subreddit!!
Cred once again my sis wants credit lol
Keep in mind, my son is 4 years old, so everything is an original to him.
I had to work late into the evening yesterday, and he was just going to bed when I got home. I had left home for the office nearly 14 hours prior, had a long day, lots of meetings, traffic, etc.
When I walked through the door, I was exhausted, run down, and starving. My wife hugged me and asked how my day was, and I replied, "Done. It was a good day, but has got me exhausted. I just want to grab a bite and go to bed. I'm hungry."
From my son's bedroom, I hear him shout, "Hi Hungry! Nice to meet you!"
Not only did it make me laugh, but I completely forgot about how hungry and tired I was. I went to his bedroom, and we laughed together about it. It was exactly what I needed.
Edit: Thanks for all the awards, kind strangers! I'll let my son know y'all enjoyed his joke too!
I heard parents named their children lance a lot.
First post please don't kill me
Edit: i went to sleep and now my inbox is dead, thank you kind strangers for the awards!
Japan.
it's Hans free now..
second hand stores!
Old Neeeeiiiiighvy
10+10 is twenty and 11+11 is twenty too
A buck-an-ear!
I Thank ye kind Matey for the booty! I be truly overwhelmed! Thank you!
Holy cow! Thank you everyone for the upvotes and awards! I wasn’t expecting this!
"No, the regular kind!" I laughed.
and not:
He should have a good vowel movement. His next diaper change could spell disaster though.
Making it all the way home and realizing that they forgot one of the containers:
Riceless
That was the punchline
It’s for Hispanic attacks
