DukeNukeEm

Scattered reports of Duke passed out on the side of the road vomiting say otherwise. Apparently I was particularly belligerent and began arguing with inanimate objects. I do remember laying in shower for about 30 minutes before I was finally done throwing up and sober enough to climb into bed. Yea, it was one of those nights. I almost joined a fraternity but I figure my personality mixed with constant access to unlimited alcohol would be a terrible mixture.

Furcal might have the best IF arm in baseball and if Viciedo isn't MLB ready or cant play 3B Raffy could probably play on the hot corner. Of course I dont see why you would sign one of the better defensive SS in baseball then move him for Alexei Ramirez. Furcal would probably have an OBP of .350, steal 40 bases and hit for pretty decent power in the Cell (getting out of Dodger Stadium will help his power #'s). Combine that with his defense and he's worth every cent of a $40 mil deal. This whole thing is very contingent on Alexei's ability/desire to play CF but imagine a lineup like this for the future: SS Rafael Furcal CF Alexei Ramirez LF Carlos Quentin DH Jim Thome RF Jermaine Dye C AJ Pierzynski 1B Paul Konerko 3B Josh Fields/Dayan Viciedo 2B Chris Getz/Gordon Beckham

When was the last time we had 3 prospects who were solid 4 star guys or higher (I think Beckham is a 4.5)? I'm really excited about our roster right now, we have young players producing at the big league level and a pretty solid upper tier in the minors that fill in perfectly.

You'd put Alexei in CF, Beckham at 2B and Viciedo at 3B. Furcal is pretty much what the doctor ordered for our lineup, we need a player like him.

1B: Paul Konerko 2B: Gordon Beckham SS: Alexei Ramirez 3B: Dayan Viciedo Who doesn't belong?

Rafael Furcal.

YES!!!!

I pregamed for the pregame. I really dont know where I went or how I got home.

Never made it to 80's night.

Alcohol dominates pretty much everything else, nothing enables you to make worse decision or sleep with more disgusting girls than alcohol. I love her like a sister, never will we part. OK, heres a bad trip story: Me and 3 girlfriends of mine (thats right, I was the one guy taking LSD with three girls. Duke > World.). 2 of the chicks were pros, they knew what they were doing and were all ready to go. We'll call them K and C. K is pretty cute and usually kind of reserved, but she has violent contact reactions with alcohol and drugs and can turn into either Lucifer or Mother Teresa, this is almost completely contingent on luck. C is a strange but ridiculously sexy girl, she is on a 6 month celibacy binge because she had a s***ty boyfriend. Duke is a lucky person by nature, so he chose to fall madly in love with C the first time he talked to her. The third girl is L, L and I are both Pol Sci majors so we basically f*** around at parties and ruin people's conversations by asking who we think has a better chance in remote congressional districts in Utah. L is not anywhere near C or K in terms of experience with psychedelics, this would end up being her first time trying LSD. (for the record- nobody forced her to take anything. she came to us saying she wanted to try it... this was a big deal because we thought L would never try it) Fast forward: trip stage. Everything is going great, K is rambling on about a bear thats eating L's sandwiches (L made the rookie mistake of thinking you are capable of eating food while on acid, I can assure you it is impossible), C and I are talking about OK Computer, those who know me from other boards might begin to understand why I am so in love with this woman, and L is just watching the lake and making outrageous claims that it is teaching her statistics class. At this point this couldn't be more fun, I am surrounded by 3 very pretty and reasonably intelligent women and am really enjoying my Saturday. This lasts all of an hour. L starts screaming, nobody really knows what set her off but she lost her s***. This wasn't good for Duke, C and K... we did not need some crazy woman running around screaming about whatnot. It's getting late and the sun is going down, even in our condition we come to the conclusion that L needs to the get the f*** inside before it gets dark outside. We dont want to lose her. We get her back to her dorm, she screamed, hollered and cried all the way. She layed there saying that we were all gay, and that life was all about fighting an urge to be gay. Personally this turned me on kinda and I tried to make a move on C, she did not appreciate this and it might have something to do with her friend sitting in a heap on her bed rambling about god knows what. I do this all the time to C when I'm f***ed up and/or bored and usually shes game to sexually frustrate me by cutting me off right when I'm ready to throw down. She is a good kisser and her tits feel great so I take what I can get. If I really need some I go hoggin'. She was in her zone tonight and didn't need any distractions. Bummer. K is L's roommate. K couldn't handle it. K left. So C and I were sitting there waiting for our trip to end and pull L out of it. L didnt come out of it. 24 hours later K comes back to her room, C and I are watching the Office half-awake. L is still tripping and screaming and hollering, of course C and I had been listening to this all night and had grown immune to it. K was pissed off. Then scared. Then K panicked. Before K panicked I got the f*** out of there, C wasn't so lucky. The RA had to come in and take L to the hospital. L was there for 2 days. L's trip ended about a day AFTER she got out of the hospital. L recalls her trip pretty vividly and once the medical bills are sorted out we'll be able to laugh about it. C and K got in trouble with the school for dropping acid on campus and had to write papers and attend meetings. I slept for about 18 hours after I got out of K and L's room. I hope this is coherent enough for you all to follow. Post-mortem: everyone is OK now. K and C finished their papers and only C is on probation (she is not a good liar). L slept with the lights on for a while and couldn't really handle bright colors for about a week. Me and L are back to party crashing. C and I dont look good right now, we still hang out but there is an awkward tension that happens sometimes. L keeps telling me she'll wake up one day (C and L have been friends forever). Sometimes on Saturday nights at about 2 AM the four of us will go to Gumby's and get an XL pokey sticks and recount that night after we stumble out of our respective parties. Greatness.

Tonight will be a great night. I am already drunk, it is 80's night at one of the bars in town, they have $1 pitchers. You know that feeling you get that the night is going to be incredible? I have that feeling right now. A drunken, heartbroken, nearly bankrupt and a nothing to lose Duke is about to descend upon Carbondale. This is one of those nights. (I am posting this so I have proof I called it).

If Viciedo is really only gonna pull 4 years / $4.75 mil then something went horribly wrong at these workouts.

Amazing: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/int...r-on-zogby.html

Nobody knows how either MN or GA will turn out until it's over. How many people said it was over for Begich in AK? These things are crazy.

You couldn't be more disgustingly wrong mags. The man has lungs the size of hot air balloons.

They got to the part with the cattle and the creeping things, they said I'm pretty sure we've heard this one before. Don't it all end up in some revelation? With 4 guys on horses, and violent red visions? Famine and death and pestilence and war, I'm pretty sure I heard this one before. You in the corner with a good looking drifter, two cups of coffee and ten packs of sugar, I heard Gideon saw you in Denver, he said you're contagious. Silly rabbit: Tripping is for teenagers. Murder is for murderers. And hard drugs are for bartenders. ... I think I might've mentioned that before. He's got the pages in his pockets that he ripped out of the bible from his bedstand in the motel. He likes the part where the traders get chased out from the temple. I guess I heard about original sin, I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake. I heard they were naked when they got busted and I heard things ain't been the same since. You're on the streets with a tendency to preach to the choir, wired for sound and down with whatever. I heard Gideon did you in Denver. She's got a cross around her neck that she ripped off from a schoolgirl in the subway on a visit to the city. She likes how it looks on her chest with three open buttons. She likes the part where one brother kills the other. She has to wonder if the the world ever will recover? 'Cause Cain and Abel seem to still be causing trouble. She said: "I was seeing double for 3 straight days after I got born again it felt strange but it was nice and peaceful and it really pleased me to be around so many people. Of course half of them were visions, half of them were friend from going through the program with me. Later on we did some sexy things, took a couple photographs and carved them into wood reliefs. Hey but that's enough about me, c'mon tell me how you got down here into Ybor city." He said: "I got to the part about the Exodus, and up to then I only knew it was a movement of the people. But if small town cops are like swarms of flies, then blackened foil is like boils and hail. I'm pretty sure I've been through this before." And it seemed like a simple place to score. And it seemed like a simple place to score. And it seemed like a simple place to score; Then some old lady came to the door, said McKenzie Phillips doesn't live here anymore. One of the greatest songs ever.

If somebody doesn't like The Hold Steady they just dont get rock music.

I would hardly equate doing drugs once every couple of weeks with consistent intake of caffeine 24/7. Just because s***ty food and coffee is legal doesn't mean it's better for you than other things that arent.

Sure they did, but its pretty easy to ignore a bad indie band.

I have so much fun playing other people's 12 strings I need one of my own.

Caffeine is really bad for you.

The Replacements made indie music possible. Nirvana ripped off the Pixies and gave us a sea of Creeds and Nickelbacks.

Pot is so boring, it just makes you into a lazy piece of crap that doesn't want to do anything. If you're going to do drugs you should do them right, go for the fun stuff (mushrooms, LSD) and do it every once and a while to have a great time. If you want to get f***ed up, and theres nothing wrong with that, just drink a lot.

I was just freaking out when I tried cocaine. Acid is different in that I never panic or go down a "bad trip", it's not like I maintain a sense of reality (I dont) but I just enjoy the whole thing thoroughly. Everything in the world becomes organic and it's a complete joy, you dont know s*** about yourself until you've consulted a toilet, marshmellow or park bench about what you should do with your life.

I got lost in my bathroom tripping on acid. I put on the f*** Buttons (pretty much just trip myself out) and I couldn't get back into the room to turn it off, everyone in there was so blasted and the music was too loud for them to notice me thinking the shower handle was the doorknob. There's a picture of me after we all came down soaking wet in the bathroom. I have a hard time describing exactly what happened in the bathroom, I had a conversation with the toilet about why I should stop smoking cigarettes.