smitty wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Asked about making a trade, Amaro again put the onus on the team’s current players to start producing.

“It would be like giving a Tic Tac to a whale,” he said. “These guys need to produce. I could add Mickey Mantle and it’s not going to have any effect if the guys we already have don’t hit.”

Amaro is always thinking about whales

I've had some old friends of mine who work in the underground bunker, give decoding Amarospeak into plain English a try. I mean, translating Amarospeak phrase like "We're not making any trades" into the English "We're making a big, huge blockbuster trade" is pretty easy.

But I asked them to translate the above. They determined the key words were tic-tac; whale; and Micky Mantle.

Tic-tacs are a minty treat. So is gum. Wrigley makes gum -- Wrigley Field is in Chicago. The Chicago Whales were that city's entry in the Federal League. Mickey Mantle had a great year in 1961. That was the year of the Cuban Missile Crises. He was 29.

Chicago White Sox SS Alexi Ramirez is nicknamed the Cuban Missile. He is 29.

The Phils gonna trade a couple of prospects who will never be heard from again for Alexi Ramirez. The White Sox will also give Amaro 9 million dollars in gold bullion.

I can't wait.

smitty wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Asked about making a trade, Amaro again put the onus on the team’s current players to start producing.

“It would be like giving a Tic Tac to a whale,” he said. “These guys need to produce. I could add Mickey Mantle and it’s not going to have any effect if the guys we already have don’t hit.”

Amaro is always thinking about whales

I've had some old friends of mine who work in the underground bunker, give decoding Amarospeak into plain English a try. I mean, translating Amarospeak phrase like "We're not making any trades" into the English "We're making a big, huge blockbuster trade" is pretty easy.

But I asked them to translate the above. They determined the key words were tic-tac; whale; and Micky Mantle.

Tic-tacs are a minty treat. So is gum. Wrigley makes gum -- Wrigley Field is in Chicago. The Chicago Whales were that city's entry in the Federal League. Mickey Mantle had a great year in 1961. That was the year of the Cuban Missile Crises. He was 29.

Chicago White Sox SS Alexi Ramirez is nicknamed the Cuban Missile. He is 29.

The Phils gonna trade a couple of prospects who will never be heard from again for Alexi Ramirez. The White Sox will also give Amaro 9 million dollars in gold bullion.

I can't wait.

drsmooth wrote:

smitty wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Asked about making a trade, Amaro again put the onus on the team’s current players to start producing.

“It would be like giving a Tic Tac to a whale,” he said. “These guys need to produce. I could add Mickey Mantle and it’s not going to have any effect if the guys we already have don’t hit.”

Amaro is always thinking about whales

I've had some old friends of mine who work in the underground bunker, give decoding Amarospeak into plain English a try. I mean, translating Amarospeak phrase like "We're not making any trades" into the English "We're making a big, huge blockbuster trade" is pretty easy.

But I asked them to translate the above. They determined the key words were tic-tac; whale; and Micky Mantle.

Tic-tacs are a minty treat. So is gum. Wrigley makes gum -- Wrigley Field is in Chicago. The Chicago Whales were that city's entry in the Federal League. Mickey Mantle had a great year in 1961. That was the year of the Cuban Missile Crises. He was 29.

Chicago White Sox SS Alexi Ramirez is nicknamed the Cuban Missile. He is 29.

The Phils gonna trade a couple of prospects who will never be heard from again for Alexi Ramirez. The White Sox will also give Amaro 9 million dollars in gold bullion.

I can't wait.

what I get from this is:

Rollins to left

smitty wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:

Asked about making a trade, Amaro again put the onus on the team’s current players to start producing.

“It would be like giving a Tic Tac to a whale,” he said. “These guys need to produce. I could add Mickey Mantle and it’s not going to have any effect if the guys we already have don’t hit.”

Amaro is always thinking about whales

I've had some old friends of mine who work in the underground bunker, give decoding Amarospeak into plain English a try. I mean, translating Amarospeak phrase like "We're not making any trades" into the English "We're making a big, huge blockbuster trade" is pretty easy.

But I asked them to translate the above. They determined the key words were tic-tac; whale; and Micky Mantle.

Tic-tacs are a minty treat. So is gum. Wrigley makes gum -- Wrigley Field is in Chicago. The Chicago Whales were that city's entry in the Federal League. Mickey Mantle had a great year in 1961. That was the year of the Cuban Missile Crises. He was 29.

Chicago White Sox SS Alexi Ramirez is nicknamed the Cuban Missile. He is 29.

The Phils gonna trade a couple of prospects who will never be heard from again for Alexi Ramirez. The White Sox will also give Amaro 9 million dollars in gold bullion.

I can't wait.

CalvinBall wrote:im guessing rollins failed?

jerseyhoya wrote:SPEAKING OF CD from PhilliesPhans misspelled Ryan Ludwick's last name 26 times in the same thread today

http://philliesphans.com/viewtopic.php_ ... &start=225.html

BigEd76 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:SPEAKING OF CD from PhilliesPhans misspelled Ryan Ludwick's last name 26 times in the same thread today

http://philliesphans.com/viewtopic.php_ ... &start=225.html

Ludwick is right

philliesphhan wrote:Nice to see he's still doing the ridiculous "Ibáñez" spelling though. What an incredible tool.

I saw someone else spell it that way as well. I hope they didn't put in a filter for that as well.

edit: Wow, they DO have a filter changing Ibanez to Ibáñez. lol. Even if you type it the fully correct way of "Ibañez" it changes it. Hahaha.

jerseyhoya wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:SPEAKING OF CD from PhilliesPhans misspelled Ryan Ludwick's last name 26 times in the same thread today

http://philliesphans.com/viewtopic.php_ ... &start=225.html

Ludwick is right

I imagine allentown or phillychuck put in a filter for Ludwig -> Ludwick

philliesphhan wrote:Nice to see he's still doing the ridiculous "Ibáñez" spelling though. What an incredible tool.

I saw someone else spell it that way as well. I hope they didn't put in a filter for that as well.

edit: Wow, they DO have a filter changing Ibanez to Ibáñez. lol. Even if you type it the fully correct way of "Ibañez" it changes it. Hahaha.

Yesterday, the Mariners organization said Seattle, too, would begin taking pains to ensure that all televised games, Safeco Field scoreboard listings and uniforms would reflect the proper spelling of home and visiting Latino players' names....

As for Ibanez, you may note that in the previous column, a tilde was placed over the "n" and an accent over the "a." Today, those marks are banished altogether. Why?

In good conscience, I have to report that the Mariners last week consulted the Manhattan-born Ibanez about the apparently missing accent marks and tilde from his name. And his response was that his family has never used any.

The B1G Piece wrote:Stootes cut his hair.

The B1G Piece wrote:Stootes cut his hair.