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Royale with cheese

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  1. Crawl out? Help me find the keys to my Jeep and we'll drive out.
  2. May 21, 2010--Throwing the ball back to the pitching mound may be the simplest part of a catcher's job, but it's got former Texas Rangers catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia stumped. Physically, he can make the toss, but something in his psyche just won’t let him make the throw, says Dr. Michael Lardon, who is a psychological consultant for Major League Baseball. "When you first start off playing a sport, it's physical -- but at the higher level it becomes disproportionally mental," he said. A mechanical glitch like this can become a persistent unconscious response. In addition to working with sports psychologists, Saltalamacchia has changed his grip on the baseball and is using a tap-tap-throw rhythm for his tosses to the mound, tapping the ball twice against his glove before the throw, according to the Associated Press. So far, so good. The catcher made it through an entire game with only one inaccurate throw on Monday. Tap, tap, Arch.
  3. Well, maybe he should try throwing it through this--swinging--and on the run. They say it worked for some guy named Sammy Baugh . . .
  4. CTJ, probably: "It's not our job to appeal to the lowest common denominator, Doug. It's our job to raise it. If you're going to be the "Education President," it'd be nice not to hide that you have an education."--President Bartlet, West Wing, "Manchester" Part 2, Season 3
  5. "I actually drive better when I'm drunk, 'cause booze sharpens my concentration and makes me even more hyper-alert and careful." (Disclaimer for any Surly Dumbfucks who would otherwise take that seriously. I'm thinking 30%) "When we get to the next red light, put that cooler up here in the cab with us, will you?"
  6. He'll be 65 tomorrow. Just sayin'. 'Course, Keith Richards is 81 and Jagger's 82 and that band's still together, so . . .
  7. Back in the late nineties I was in Lubbock on business (yeah, I know) and had just finished 18 at Lubbock Country Club. Two of us guys sat down at a corner table in the 19th hole. The locker room attendant politely said, "That's Mr. Lane's table. We don't use that anymore." Lane had been dead for years by then, but we said, "No problem," and found another table.
  8. But . . . but, then there wouldn't be any Surly posters.
  9. "I don't think it's that important."
  10. Blue Horseshoe loves Anacott Steel.
  11. Well, there's your problem right there.
  12. I actually had that until 11:15 Saturday morning.
  13. Can't say the same about the handful of posters who ruin the thread for everybody else.
  14. Holy shit! That's Ryan Day!! (Tell the equipment dudes to pack a lot of spinach.)
  15. Coming off a bad year, most touts tend to change their brands--e.g., going from "Bookie Busters" one year to "Can't-Miss Sports" the next. Then, posing as a new, hot entity, they continue to fleece the same customer base. What's amazing is that this guy continues to let his skirt fly up and show his <50% history when anything less than 53% loses money to the books. I sure as hell wouldn't follow a tout who doesn't have enough sense not to publicly brag about a losing record.
  16. This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
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