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Bay Bud: Keppinger traded to the Giants

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Archie
Bay Bud you got any good Wally Backman stories?

or maybe Mike Scott or Glenn Davis stories?
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backman. not really other than he was part of that dad-burn '86 mets team.

i dropped a glenn danzig, er, davis batting practice homer one time, hit me right in the hands and i fuckin' dropped it.

saw mike scott five years ago at a reunion they had for the '86 astros, but never talked to him other than 'hey' and a handshake. got to talk to joe sambito and terry puhl that day. sambito thought it was weird that my wife named one of our cats after him.

i do have a good jose cruuuuuuuuuuuuz story for you. buddy of mine had a tuck-n-roll detail shop in southwest houston for a while. cruz would bring some of his classic t-birds in for a spit-shinin'. talked to him for 15 minutes one time just about classic cars and t-birds, never once talked baseball.
 
Archie
who plays 2nd now for the stros?
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looking just at the current roster, i'd think matt downs might get some playing time there to see what he can do. definitely has pop in bat.

Archie
do you think mike scott scuffed the ball?
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no. but he may have still thrown a scuffed ball.

a lot of pitchers were throwing scuffed balls back then. not all of them were doing the scuffing.
 
Archie
not really that is a popular misconception
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you're kidding, right? how many third basemen have the bucs gone through since mid-2003? every player traded may not have gone on to a hall of fame career, but the pirates have been the go-to team for a while now for those teams looking to add a chunk of talent for the last half of a season.

by the way, if i was running the astros i would be very tempted to deal a player or two to either the cards or brewers to help them out in the nl central race against the pirates. i'll never forgive pittsburgh for dealing both aramis ramirez and kenny lofton to the cubs in 2003. both players had already done damage against the astros and then got to play even more games against houston with the astros' schedule being cub-heavy from july forward. and yes, it was a difference maker in the division standings when chicago edges houston by one game.
 
i'm not denying that they've traded alot of players MCB and Bud

but that those players Aren't that Talented ANYMORE when they trade them. they just have big well known names and big salaries.... their returns have been better on almost all the trades.

I typically don't really Count the Aram traded, because they didn't want to trade him..... but had to to comply with a MLB debt ratio rule.... they were planning on trading Kris Benson who had the same salary but benson got hurt right before the deadline and they couldn't trade him...
 
Archie
I typically don't really Count the Aram traded, because they didn't want to trade him..... but had to to comply with a MLB debt ratio rule
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:rotfl:

ok, my turn to tell a story.

y'all gather round children, some of you cuter ones can snuggle right in. today's e-tale is titled 'the kid that made the golden picks' and is a direct rip-off of the old aesop's fables story about a goose. you will no doubt notice the direct reference to that later on when i mention two of the characters serving foie gras on their cheeseburgers.

once upon a time long ago, around 1970, there was this couple in east philly that ran a restaurant down around fitler square called flippo's. they had a boy child and named him after his father, anthony antonio tony de luca the second. 'little tony' was a pretty normal kid growing up, a good catholic boy who was always working around the family's restaurant and dreamed of going to st. joe's.

his dad, 'big tony,' used to take little tony to the track with him from the time the kid was about five. ok, maybe two or three. the kid would just sit there and listen to his dad and the other gamblers, and eventually became the proverbial fly on the wall. big tony was a big fucking loser at the track, and at one point he almost lost flippo's going into debt with some of the city of brotherly love's least friendly loan sharks.

by the way, flippo's was named for the original big tony's father, filippo francesco antonio de luca. only big tony didn't spell his dad's name correctly on the restaurant licensing forms, though that's not important right now.

this one time when little tony was about 15, his dad was just about busted and facing a payment deadline with the loan sharks. little tony was at the track and he saw a big beautiful gray filly named abitchlikehermother. he begged his dad to bet on the horse, finally convincing the old man to put $2 with the promise he'd never tell mom about the lady his dad brought with him that day. the 12/1 shot came in and original big tony started putting $5 on all of little tony's picks.

seven races, seven winners, including a 30/1 long shot in the last race of the day. big fucking tony was fucking flush with fucking cash and couldn't fucking believe it as he grilled the fucking kid on the fucking bus ride home.

the kid said he just knew they'd win.

so big tony took little tony back to the track the very next day and just as sure god made little green apples, another perfect day picking horses. the third day saw little tony finally lose one, but only one of 12. two losses the fourth day, a perfect 12-for-12 the next, another two-loss day and so on and so on. big tony's bankroll grew, and so did his greed. and his cocaine habit. plus his bitches, big tony rolled with a lot of bitches.

little tony was a huge success during the first nfl season, but by the time the next football season rolled around and little tony ripped off an 80% run the first six weeks, big tony was being refused by most locals and limited everywhere he went.

still, when he asked his son to tell him how he picked the winners, little tony's only answer was he just knew.

this went on for a few years, little tony constantly picking winners and his dad constantly living beyond his means. about the time little tony was set to graduate from schuylkill high, he told his dad he wanted to go join the peace corps and go work in the congo. the revelation didn't go over too fucking well but big tony finally agreed only if little tony told him the secret to his winning picks.

again, little tony said he just knew, that it was a voice inside him that told him the winners.

so big tony fucking snapped and cut his son up with knives, saws, cutting torches, et al to find the secret inside him only to find nothing and eventually die in prison some years later after being convicted of one of the most gruesome murders in history. nancy grace covered the trial for over four years, three of those after the conviction arguing that the juror let the s.o.b. off easy with life/no parole.

big tony's wife and little tony's mom -- maria francesa giovanetta isabella de luca, nee rizzo -- went on to expand the flippo's empire worldwide thanks to the help of her longtime lover and former chauffeur, alfredo alanzo alonzo columbo, who she'd been banging on the side all those years herself. one of the new menu specialties was a cheeseburger served with a slice of foie gras, but you already know about that.

the moral of this story is do not ever tell someone about the secret voices inside your head, even your dad.
 
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