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Warning Track Power
by bigfatdrunk
By popular demand (BWHAHAHAHA!!!), I am delighted to introduce you to our new, wonderful, awesomest baseball blog, Warning Track Power.
Though I imagined all of us on a grand stage, flowers being tossed at us lovingly by our admiring fans, well, that just ain’t gonna happen. I think we’ve put together an outstanding starting cast of contributors to the site, including Matt, Tim from BRB, and a couple of extra special guest stars.
I think it’s safe to say that you can expect the high level of polite discourse at WTP as we exhibit here, except without the filipino tranny porn.
So, if you’re a baseball fan, join us over there for some baseball fun. The site’s still a work in progress, but I am truly excited about it. WHEE!!!!
March 28th, 2008 by bigfatdrunk Awesomeness, Bloggerating, Self-Referential Stuff, Shameless begging, Warning Track Power Trackback
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March 28th, 2008 at 10:18 am
I’m locked and loaded — by that I mean registered and ready to help get the site off the ground. Congrats and good luck.
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March 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
No Filipino tranny porn?!? I’ve been duped!
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March 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Hey guys, love the site. Very good at keeping a Texan fan living in the Northeast (hate the bias) in the loop. I heard about this site through a guy that lives in cleveland park, DC, in case you wanna thank and/or chastise him.
Excited to see what WTP is gonna provide. I’m curious though if you have any hate-hate relationships with any Astros players like you do here with Petey? Or did they all get traded away/cut? Unfortunately, I still have to hear the name Tim Redding up here.
Keep up the good work!
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March 28th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Okay, we need to set some ground rules first!
Texans : Petey
Rockets : Rafer
Astros : ???
who is the token punching bag? We already traded Jason Lane away.
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March 28th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Good question, TexanTerp and grungedave, I’m so glad you asked.
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For me, it comes down to two people: Brad Ausmus and Drayton McLane. You can also - more or less - add Ed Wade to that list.
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Ausmus could throw out 100% of runners on the base paths, and he would still be a net loss to the team. How in the hell does he have a job? Why did we re-sign him? He hurts my brain. But, he’s a part timer now. I’ve got a lot of hate for Kaz “Anal Fissure” Matsui. Tejeda will be absolute ass this year.
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I’m going to start working on an article for WTP in a few.
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March 28th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
BTW, I forgot to add a special shout out to Edgar for finally getting my ass into gear to work on WTP.
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March 28th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
see, I would have volunteered any of the following to be the Petey analog: Tim Redding, Russ Springer, Orlando Palmeiro, Jason Lane, Assmunch (I mean Ausmus)…
all except Ausmus are gone. Lane is now the fluffer for the Yankees I think.
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March 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
@ grunge: I vote for Kaz Matsui, though he has a loooooooooong way to go before he inspires the kind of rage in me that a sighting of Mike “Gas Can” Gallo and/or Dan “The Missile” Miceli did.
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March 28th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
there are a series of Astros relief pitchers that inspire that kind of emotion, Tim!
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March 28th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I was actually almost ejected from Minute Maid Park in 2004 due to one profanity-induced tirade when Gallo entered a two-run game in the seventh, right down to security hovering over me and grabbing my shoulder. I completely lost it.
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March 28th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
My Astros whipping boy nominee is Kaz Matsui. What he does to get his anus torn up in his personal time has now ruined our lineup for the first part of the season.
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March 28th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
What ever happened to Zeke Astacio? Did he give in to the giant growth on his face? Now there was a guy you could rag on.
John Franco was always good for a not-so-subtle jab or too as well. He was our “clean-up” pitcher. We’d bring in somebody like Springer or Harville to load the bases, then Franco would give up the base-clearing double/homer.
Good times. I suppose this year it’ll have to be Woody Williams (assuming he somehow avoids the ax, which would piss me off). But really, every time he gives up a homer, I blame Purpura.
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March 28th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Woohoo, you guys actually listened! Really glad to see you all take the initiative, cant wait to see what you all come up with.
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March 28th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Just a suggestion for the new site…..any way we can keep that one from getting banned by virtually everyone’s web filters at work?
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March 28th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
@ Shake: That’s entirely up to the Astros. If their pitching staff is anywhere close to as bad as I think it will be, the amount of swearing posted on WTP could very well render it blocked by every server from Houston to Auckland.
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March 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Yep. Then you’ll all be coloring me a hypocrite for contributing to the ban.
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March 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I’m voting for Woody as the red headed stepchild. But then again, he may not even make the team.
If that happens, I submit Geoff Geary as the dark horse whipping boy; there’s something about his name that says “four run seventh inning.” Besides, I don’t trust anyone who can’t spell “Jeff” right.
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March 29th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Nice. I’m a huge ‘Stros fan, so good to see you guys are doing a baseball blog. I went to spring training this year for the first time and it was awesome. Can’t wait for the season. I don’t think we’ll be as bad as everyone thinks.
Here’s looking forward to imaginary conversations on the pitching mound between JR Towles and Wandy.