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Open Thread: Game 70 - AAA's at Seattle

By The Anti-Blez on Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Rich Harden returns to the Oakland rotation tonight, and in the spirit of Asslickers Nation, we're going to pretend as though we are old-time, hardened baseball insiders and refer to Harden numerous times as "the kid."

For instance:

Harden has been on the disabled list since May 14. The kid was suffering from a strained left oblique muscle. Let's hope the kid has fully recovered and can return to his early season form. The kid is a key piece in the AAA's march back to mediocrity. If the kid can win 15 more games this season, the team will have a real shot at finishing no fewer than 20 games under .500. The kid makes more money in a single game than a T-shirt salesman will ever earn in a lifetime of selling T-shirts and running a network of baseball fan sites on the Internet. Here's looking at you, kid.

OK, OK, enough of the kidding around. But am I really the only one who has noticed that the T-shirt salesman refers to various Oakland players as "the kid" at least once per blog entry? Does he really want to "belong" that badly?

Let's Go AAA's!

2 Comments:

At 6/21/2005 8:22 PM, Blogger The Anti-Blez

We like Harden. We really do.

We just find it laughable that the T-shirt salesman fancies himself as a grizzled baseball scout who has earned the right to refer to wealthy, talented professional baseball players as "kids."

 
At 6/21/2005 10:32 PM, Blogger The Anti-Blez

Zito will do his best to return the AAA's to AA status.

Once again, he'll pitch just good enough to lose.

Beaned again!

 

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