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a little creativity

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I think Todd Linden can play first base.  He's athletic and eager.  If people think Bonds can play first, Linden could clearly do no worse.  I see this as an option if Sabean makes the mistake of signing some joker to play center field.  I hear John Fogerty is available...

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Re: a little creativity
He started a little at first in college. I'm on board, if only because I still think he can be an above-average hitter in the majors.

by Grant on Nov 15, 2006 9:24 PM PST   0 recs

Re: a little creativity
i second that
"Do you know what F.P. stands for?" "Fuckin Pimp"

by sfgiants114 on Nov 15, 2006 9:38 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Put me in coach I am ready to play today...
look at me I can be 1B. Giants are in need of a 1B and Linden appears do be one of their better players. I do like his contract.

by wilriv21 on Nov 15, 2006 9:53 PM PST   0 recs

Re: a little creativity
I would not mind any manuever to get Linden in the lineup, as long as it doesn't block either EME or Ishikawa from moving up at some point, at which point hopefully he gets moved back to the OF.  Bad enough we don't have too many position prospects, but to block one who could make it up would be insanity.

I share Grant's belief that Linden can be an above average hitter.  Hopefully he will get a chance to prove it with the Giants.

Get. Burrell. NOW!

by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Nov 15, 2006 10:12 PM PST   0 recs

Re: a little creativity
I've said it before, I'll say it again...I can rake at the dish and play a not half-bad first base in my corporate softball beer league.  Put me in coach, I'm ready to play...

In all seriousness, if we're trying to fill the void by putting anyone with a pulse at first base, I think I might just shoot myself right now.  Get real here, that move would be nothing but another stop-gap.  And I'm sorry, but we've used all of those up already with NOTgardo behind the dish, talk of Stanton being the "new" closer, and people considering Klaus Von Hindenburg to fill in for hacking at slop nightly Petey.  Enough already.  Enough I said!

Hats for bats, keep bats warm !

by PacBellBoozer on Nov 16, 2006 12:23 AM PST   0 recs

Hitler said this and ducked
That was Claus Von Stauffenberg, you fatty toad!

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2006 1:31 AM PST   0 recs

Re: Hitler said this and ducked
hahaha...you're not going to let that one rest are you?  
Hats for bats, keep bats warm !

by PacBellBoozer on Nov 16, 2006 8:38 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Fatty Toad, like Benitez, just won't go away
Our Fatty Toad closer may stick around for a while, and this pungent phrase is lodged in my cranium.

(Note: Hitler, by the way, was in the bunker yelling at the original Fatty Toad -- Goering -- when he uttered the above.)

(Extra Note: It helps to use Gene Wilder's frantic voice in Young Frankenstein whenever you scream "Fatty Toad" with a German accent.)

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2006 1:09 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Fatty Toad, like Benitez, just won't go away
What?  Speak in a German accent you say?!?

Colonel Klink: [trying to demoralize Hogan after air-raid] ... No damage was done and your bombers suffered severe losses at the hands of our illustrious Luftwaffe.
Schultz: [walking in to the office introducing a Captain] Herr Kommandant, this is Captain Müller. He barely escaped the terrible raid!
Colonel Klink: That raid was a complete failure!
Schultz: No, Herr Kommandant! They knocked the stuffing out of the Messerschmitt factory and got away from the Luftwaffe!
Hogan: Illustrious Luftwaffe.
Schultz: Illustrious Luft...
Colonel Klink: Shultz!

Hats for bats, keep bats warm !

by PacBellBoozer on Nov 16, 2006 2:06 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Hilarious Schultz, too, was a Fatty Toad
Favorite Moment from Hogan's Heroes:

Hogan and the entire camp leaning to starboard because they jacked up one end of the German lookout tower.

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2006 2:33 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Hilarious Schultz, too, was a Fatty Toad
Favorite Hogan's moment....oh that's right, it was WAY before my time.  Have never seen a full episode of it.  
Hats for bats, keep bats warm !

by PacBellBoozer on Nov 16, 2006 3:04 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Periodically on TVLand, Nick, or such channels
Hogan is MustSee TV:

The concept: Hollywood pokes fun at a bloodthirsty nation that sponsored the Holocaust.

How they made it funny is a study of the seemingly impossible.

by Moggeee on Nov 16, 2006 3:13 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Periodically on TVLand, Nick, or such channels
Humor is a way of enabling us to cope with people, places, and institutions that would otherwise render us powerless.  Hence the cartoons from that era. Charlie Chaplin, Abbot and Costello, The Three Stooges and myriads of others made entire movies ridiculing Hitler and Nazis. Made the Nazis seem less fierce and powerful.
Younger Faster Stronger, Healthier and more competitive? MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

by E Ticket on Nov 17, 2006 10:09 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Periodically on TVLand, Nick, or such channels
Makes me think of the movie, "The Producer" by Mel Brooks, and starring the incomprable Zero Mostel and a young Gene Wilder, the idea of a musical about Hitler was inspired insanity!  
I'm bored, how about you?

by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Nov 17, 2006 4:23 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: Hilarious Schultz, too, was a Fatty Toad
My favorite Hogan phrase is Shultz's "I KNOW NOTHING!  I HEAR NOTHING!  I SEE NOTHING!" (or in some order like that) That's up there with Klink's "HOGANNN!"  I wonder if it ever got syndicated in Germany?  :^)

Though I don't think I can ever see the show again without thinking about that movie about Bob Crane's life that starred Greg Kinear as Crane.

I'm bored, how about you?

by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Nov 17, 2006 4:28 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Mamas, don't let your children grow up to be Nazis
I didn't see that, but I saw those gruesome photos of the murdered Crane on one of those Forensic shows.

Oof.

by Moggeee on Nov 17, 2006 11:41 PM PST to parent up   0 recs

Re: a little creativity
Linden did make some great plays in the OF though when he got a chance to play.

by BarryR on Nov 16, 2006 8:47 AM PST   0 recs

Re: a little creativity
Nah, Linden just took bad routes and made them look great. He won't be able to make a career out of it like Jim Edmonds though...
DFA Everybody

by JakeS on Nov 16, 2006 10:52 AM PST to parent up   0 recs

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