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+ Thanks to [Bad username or site: avaio / @ livejournal.com] for the heads up on this, from last week:
1B Mike Jacobs won't be observing Passover this week. Contrary to what many fans have thought since he came up through the Mets system, Jacobs said he is not Jewish.
That didn't stop the Marlins from planning a Mike Jacobs youth T-shirt giveaway May 28 -- "Jewish Heritage Day" on the team's promotional calendar.
"I asked them what [their] thinking was but they said that wasn't why," Jacobs said. "I didn't know until I played for the (Class A Brooklyn) Cyclones (in 2001) that Jacobs was a common Jewish name."
[Bad username or site: phantom_hpuff / @ livejournal.com] and I just about died laughing when we saw that on the promotions schedule a few weeks ago. (Um, I may or may not have been googling for Mike Jacobs shirts when I came upon the planned giveaway >.>) The whole recurring BUT I'M NOT JEWISH thing kinda slays me.
+ "We know we're up against the world, pretty much. Everyone thinks we're going to lose 100 games. But we're not a 100-loss team. No way." -- RHP Matt Herges. -- Awww. I'd give you props on that line, Herges, but I feel like you've been on the mound for at least three blown games, so I'll just keep glaring in your general direction.
+ Fish are in Chicago to play the Cubs. Given that the Cubs occasionally like to smack around the Cardinals, let's...just not get embarrassed too badly.
+ From The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same files.
Alright. Ethics. Or maybe some IP first. Either way, buckets of fun to be had.
ETA: I was amused by this story this Phillies announcer told on-air yesterday. You know how sometimes teams check their players in to the team hotel under aliases so the guys don't get phonecalls and otherwise harassed? Story goes that the Marlins were checking into the team hotel in Philly, and the hotel liason came out to the lobby with the rooming list. Takes one look at it and goes "Wow, you've sure got a lot of aliases on this thing" and one of the Marlins said "No...those are our real names." LMAO. **pets them** It's okay, kids. I know who you are! Well, like half of you. 5 or 6, anyway.
edit 2: Seeds of discontent brewing among A's. I can't nail the tone of this piece - is it supposed to be funny hmmm? or funny haha? Either way, I couldn't stop laughing as I was reading it.
1B Mike Jacobs won't be observing Passover this week. Contrary to what many fans have thought since he came up through the Mets system, Jacobs said he is not Jewish.
That didn't stop the Marlins from planning a Mike Jacobs youth T-shirt giveaway May 28 -- "Jewish Heritage Day" on the team's promotional calendar.
"I asked them what [their] thinking was but they said that wasn't why," Jacobs said. "I didn't know until I played for the (Class A Brooklyn) Cyclones (in 2001) that Jacobs was a common Jewish name."
[Bad username or site: phantom_hpuff / @ livejournal.com] and I just about died laughing when we saw that on the promotions schedule a few weeks ago. (Um, I may or may not have been googling for Mike Jacobs shirts when I came upon the planned giveaway >.>) The whole recurring BUT I'M NOT JEWISH thing kinda slays me.
+ "We know we're up against the world, pretty much. Everyone thinks we're going to lose 100 games. But we're not a 100-loss team. No way." -- RHP Matt Herges. -- Awww. I'd give you props on that line, Herges, but I feel like you've been on the mound for at least three blown games, so I'll just keep glaring in your general direction.
+ Fish are in Chicago to play the Cubs. Given that the Cubs occasionally like to smack around the Cardinals, let's...just not get embarrassed too badly.
+ From The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same files.
Alright. Ethics. Or maybe some IP first. Either way, buckets of fun to be had.
ETA: I was amused by this story this Phillies announcer told on-air yesterday. You know how sometimes teams check their players in to the team hotel under aliases so the guys don't get phonecalls and otherwise harassed? Story goes that the Marlins were checking into the team hotel in Philly, and the hotel liason came out to the lobby with the rooming list. Takes one look at it and goes "Wow, you've sure got a lot of aliases on this thing" and one of the Marlins said "No...those are our real names." LMAO. **pets them** It's okay, kids. I know who you are! Well, like half of you. 5 or 6, anyway.
edit 2: Seeds of discontent brewing among A's. I can't nail the tone of this piece - is it supposed to be funny hmmm? or funny haha? Either way, I couldn't stop laughing as I was reading it.
