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Almost exactly two years ago, though it seems more like two eons, I was making the case that Odalis Perez wasn't done as a pitcher despite a horrific 2006 season.
Perez has alienated many of even his biggest supporters with his body language, his susceptibility to the big inning, his dismissive quotes and above all, his overall performance, and the last thing I came here with today is any kind of predetermined agenda to defend him. Perez is 28 years old, young but not so young that he couldn't be facing the end of his career.Perez never did turn it around in 2006 – or 2007, for that matter. Well, he wasn't quite so abysmal with Kansas City as he was for those last few months in Los Angeles, but he was still pretty weak. Only in 2008, with an ERA+ of 102 for the Washington Nationals, has Perez (who turns 31 Saturday) shown the barest semblance of regaining form.Unlike Erickson and Nomo, however, there are signs that Perez is capable of a turnaround.
On balls hit in play off Perez this season - balls that in theory Perez has little control over - opponents are batting an astonishing .395. So, there is more than a little truth to his recent shrug to the media that he has been unlucky. In previous years, the BABIP against Perez has been .292 (2005), .272 (2004), .299 (2003) and .255 (2002).
The BABIP is more significant this year because Perez's strikeout rate is slowly declining, down to 5.74 per nine innings. Perez can't afford as much bad luck as he could before - and he certainly can't afford as much as he's having this year.
But the thing about luck is that it can change. I've even heard it does change from time to time. It would be extremely unlikely for Perez's BABIP to remain anywhere close to .395 - among pitchers who threw at least 100 innings last year, the highest BABIP was .358. Even Jose Lima was only at .320.
At the same time, there are other numbers already in Perez's favor. Perhaps most importantly, teams are giving Perez death by a thousand pinpricks rather than a sledgehammer. Perez has allowed five home runs in 42 1/3 innings as a starter, the equivalent of 19 over 162 innings. That's fairly acceptable - in fact, it's an improvement on his career numbers.
Even though opponents are batting .353 overall against Perez this year - 92 points over his career average allowed of .261 - the increase in slugging percentage allowed by Perez is only slightly higher. It's 109 points - .522 this year vs. .413 over his career. Opponents are not hitting Perez with much extra power compared to previous years.
Although he's keeping the ball in the park, Perez is walking 2.55 batters per nine innings, a better rate than Brad Penny or Derek Lowe. Perez is also striking out batters more often than Lowe, and Perez's groundout/flyout ratio is 1.46: slightly below his career average of 1.62, but an improvement over last year.
Batters are getting plenty of Perez pitches to swing at, and they're hitting them, but they're not hitting them very far.
Perez is not going to make any kind of late run at the Cy Young award this year or ever again. But the stubbornness in Perez that we find so annoying could work to his advantage, because given the opportunity, Perez can perform over the rest of the season at the level people expected of him: at a league-average ERA or better. Producing six innings of three-run ball would make a big difference in the Dodger season - as you can see by looking at the other back ends of the Dodger starting rotation. ...
I bring this up because tonight's scheduled Dodger starter, Penny, fits the scarily Odalisian profile of being a former ERA title contender falling on harder times. Penny's 2008 ERA is 5.66 (77 ERA+), and he's striking out barely one batter every two innings. In only two starts this season has he struck out more than four batters, and not once more than six.
Like Perez in 2006, Penny is getting hammered on balls in play. His BABIP for the season .332, and in May it was .358. In 2007 Penny's BABIP was never higher than .333 in a given month and was well below .300 for the first half of that season.
Of more interest might be the fact that Penny, who in recent seasons has been living off a stingy rate of allowing home runs while his strikeout rate has declined, surrendered five round-trippers in 32 2/3 innings last month – the most for him since August 2006. Not since 2002 has Penny for a season allowed more than a homer every nine innings. Inside and out, Penny has just been slapped all over the park. (Interestingly, however, his groundball rate has never been higher.)
During those times that I'm paying close attention, Penny still throws pretty hard – into the 90s. I don't really see him laboring out there. I just see him getting in ruts where hits against him come in bunches, no matter what he throws. Is it possible he's just getting frustrated out there during tough innings and leaving the ball for batters to batter? Don't hold me to that belief - it's just something that's crossed my mind.
You see, I'm not really working overtime to be optimistic about Penny – his falling strikeout rate has long had me worried he was a pitcher poised to implode. At the same time, he's been fairly effective for long stretches, as recently as April of this year, and so I'm not convinced we're witnessing the end right now.
My theory is that he is more a pitcher who is off his game than a pitcher who has lost his stuff. The specter of Odalis out there, and I can't be wholly sanguine. But like Lowe, who has oftened followed a bad month with a good one, I wouldn't bet against Penny turning things around on, if you'll forgive me, a dime.
Let's watch tonight and make note of how hard Penny gets hit, regardless of whether the batter reaches base or not. Let's see, just for tonight, if luck or stuff is the dominant factor.
* * *
Apart from that, I think the world really did need the word "Odalisian."
Apart from that, I think the world really did need the word "Odalisian."
It might also be interesting to note that with a few changes, a similar column could be written about Jones ("young but not so young he couldn't be facing the end of his career") or Kent ("has long had me worried he was a [hitter] about to implode").
http://myespn.go.com/s/conversations/show/story/3423801
Jon, or anyone, do you remember reading anything about concerns Penny was/is tipping his pitches? I feel like that came up at some point last year but don't remember where. I agree with jujibee, too, that the problem may also be the pitch calls, since clearly his velocity is okay and he seems to have good enough stuff. Either players are being tipped by something Penny does or they are just way too predictable in how they call his pitches.
Maybe he should talk to Chan Ho, who came up with a new delivery release point this year that has helped him, making it harder for batters to pick off what's coming.
The main difference between Penny and Odalis, I think, is that Penny hasn't experienced the sort of loss in velocity that Perez did. Early in the year he was maxing out at 90 and it was worrisome, but in his last three starts he's been the same old Penny at 95 mph and has still been getting hit hard.
Someone with access to pitch data (Bill James Online?) might be able to confirm/refute the theory that (a) Penny is not throwing anything other than the fastball for strikes, (b) He's therefore throwing more fastballs than he used to, and (c) He's giving up more hits to the opposite field.
2008: 62.3% fastballs
2007: 71.8% fastballs
I found this reader comment especially funny, this article at least briefly put Joba at Chuck Norris status
ArtimusG (7 hours ago)
I'm blowing off attending the birth of my first child to watch Joba's first start. I can always have another child, but there will only be one Joba's first start.
The greatest walk ever issued in the history of mankind!
From Bill James Online:
Penny 2006
Fastball - thrown 73% of the time
Curve - 19%
Change - 5%
Penny 2007
Fastball - 71%
Curve - 13%
Change - 15%
Penny 2008
Fastball - 70%
Curve - 17%
Split-Finger - 10%
Change - 3%
Could it be that the splitter is not splitting?
Or maybe opposing teams are fingering the splitter...
Very nice.
18 Yes, indeed, that's what I'm wondering, too. Either that, or again, there's a pattern recognition going on that's making it easy to hit off him.
2008: FB 70%; Curve 17%, Split 10%; Change 3% (Maybe they are charting the change as a split this year).
2007 - FB 71%; Change 15%; Curve 13%
2006 - FB 73%; Curve 19%; Change 5%
So he has increased his change or offspeed pitch in the last few years but basically his pct. of fastballs to other pitches remains the same.
(a) Stop throwing the splitter
(b) Let the growing pains continue (hopefully for not too long) so the pitch can develop into an asset...think Tiger Woods revamping his swing around 2002. :)
The splitter also appears to my non-expert eyes to be the main pitch he's been unable to control in '08. We do know that Penny threw the splitter in 2006 and '07, even though the numbers in 18 don't include that pitch. Here's a Russell Martin quote from 2007:
Martin, who extended his hitting streak to eight games, said the splitter Penny took out of mothballs has made a big difference. "It's helped his whole arsenal," said Martin. "In the first half last year, he used the changeup, then went to the splitty, then back to the changeup. In Spring Training, when he was getting hit, he was working on the splitter. Now he's able to mix it in well."
So if we look at the numbers on the fastball and splitter combined -- which, given the data we have, is the only way we can compare 2007 to 2008 -- here's what we get:
2006: 73%
2007: 71%
2008: 80%
He also has cut his changeup from 15% to 3%, a rather drastic dropoff.
1. Can pitchers control their BABIP? If so, to what extent?
2. Could/Is Brad Penny hiding an injury?
3. What is Brad Penny not doing this year that is causing his Strkeout rate to drop?
4. Is his velocity down?
5. Is his command of his pitches a problem?
vr, Xei
vr, Xei
Maybe the lack of control on the change has caused him to scrap that to some extent too?
Or it might just be a classification issue on BJO. Some splitters were either fastballs or changes in past years apparently.
I signed up last week using Firefox, with no problems. I eagerly await my credit card statement with "Be Jolly, Inc." on it.
Does the world really need another pitcher named Chris Carpenter? The first two were confusing enough, thank you. On behalf of baseball fans everywhere, I'd also ask that in the future, if your name is Alex Gonzalez, Jeff D'Amico, or Ryan Braun, please consider entering a profession other than baseball. We have enough of those too. Thanks.
vr, Xei
But I think Arizona sent their Edgar Gonzalez to the minors.
Top 3 (in no order): Billingsley, Furcal Martin
Bottom 3 (in no order): Jones, Kent, Pierre
they've come to find you odalisque
as the light dies horribly
on a fire escape you walk
all rare and resolved to drop
and when they find you odalisque
they will rend you terribly
stitch from stitch til all
your linen and limbs will fall
Is it possible to acquire a triple crown winner and still be a clear loser in the trade?
VORP heading into today:
Hamilton: 31.3
Volquez: 28.1
But the Ranger pitching has been awful. Would Volquez be so good if he stayed in Texas (I'm thinking coaching differences here, not ballpark per se)?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5pvza
The actors for the Simpsons agreed to a pay increase from 300K to 400K an episode.
Who wouldn't.
Were you lucky enough to acquire Tex in your fantasy league...?
I have Morneau, Votto, and Cabrera available for first base.
Texeira belongs to a 7-year old.
I'm beginning to worry a little bit about your "fantasy" league. It's not being run by Catholic priests, by any chance, is it...?
You really think that the Reds won the trade? I'll take the all-star center fielder over the pitcher any day. We are talking a center fielder putting up Willie Mays numbers and who has the skill set to continue to do so. I don't have much faith that the pitcher will continue to have such success.
I remember when BA wasn't sure that Hamilton would ever be able to recover his skills due to the time he lost. I guess that doesn't get brought up anymore when discussing him.
It used to be that the rule 5 draft netted nothing. Now when you look at Uggla, Hamilton, Santana, and even Victorino to some extent, you are looking at some sweet returns for 50,000.
Joba Chamberlain's first (highly anticipated) MLB start is over.
Looking at fangraphs, Penny needs to do what he did in 07 - less splitter, more changeup.
Chad Billingsley has started 47 games before he turns 24 years old.
Who was the last Dodger do start more than 47 games before he turned 24?
I had to look it up.
Don Sutton made 96 starts before he turned 24.
Fernando Valenzuela made 166 starts before he turned 24 (according to his 1960 birthday).
Looking at Fernando's numbers its amazing his arm didn't fall off in those first five years.
He pitched nearly 1300 innings. in his first four plus seasons.
Kershaw and Billingsley likely won't beat that total prior to their free agent year.
I think I felt a strange, almost supernatural sensation as we whipped past Sikeston, MO on I-55.
Just looking at the trade from the Rangers perspective, I'd say up to this point they have lost the trade.
Bradley could have been playing center, with Catalanotto picking up the extra ABs, and Volquez could have taken the 9 starts by sub-50 ERA+ guys thus far.
Obviously, going forward will determine the outcome of the trade, and long term it may very well benefit the Rangers. But right now, I'd say the Rangers would be better off with Volquez.
And if there was a warning track for the warning track, that's where The Vegetarian's out landed.
That's a good point. Keeping in mind that Celtics fans are also probably Red Sock and Patriot fans really helps me hate them more than I realized.
Go Lakers.
Blood...boiling.
wow, so this is gonna be my first Lakers-Celtics Finals matchup in my lifetime.
Already, im getting pumped for it.
Go Dodger! and Lakers!
Most people just laugh at the Reds now anyway.
Good News: The satellite dish has not been affected. I will see the Dodgers tonight.
Many of them I don't remember.
What a weird, wonderful world we live in.
I see that another of my fave players is in there for Colorado, tonight.
Scott Podsednik! He still sucks!
He struck out too much last year, and I thought that would be his downfall in 2008. But now he's cut his K rate drastically, although his walk rate has dropped sharply along with it, which could bode ill for the future. Right now a lot of his value is tied up in his high batting average, and who knows if that can be sustained.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Volquez is 24, while Hamilton, while we think of him as young, is already at the age where players begin to decline. I wouldn't be surprised if Hamilton ended up having a Jim Edmonds-type career, but then again I wouldn't be surprised if he collapsed in the second half and ended up having a Russell Branyan-type career.
Oh yeah...
NY Knicks (you know the best basketball team ever) 2-3
Milwaukee Bucks 1-1
Los Angeles Lakers 9-7
Boston Celtics 5-2
Golden State Warriors 1-0
Portland Trailblazers 1-2
Seattle Supersonics 1-2
Washington Wizards (Bullets) 1-3
Philadelphia 76ers 1-4
Detroit Pistons 3-2
Chicago Bulls 6-0
Houston Rockets 2-2
San Antonio Spurs 4-0
Miami Heat 1-0
Phoenix 0-2
Orlando 0-1
Utah 0-2
Indiana 01
New Jersey 0-2
Dallas 0-1
Cleveland 0-1
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/2008/06/02/Russell-Award-0/
At least amonth ago I commented that there was a blank I didn't want to fill in, but I might at a later date. I realize this is the chicken way out, but at the time I felt it was a bit early to point this out, and it might not be fair. What I witheld is that the feeling I got off Perez is so very similiar to the feeling I got off of Andruw Jones.
Here I have to pause because it is too common for D's pitchers and specifically
Penny to get two easy outs and then implode
We got through that.
But I had this terrible premonition where Odalis' facial expressions, body language, body type, excess weight, approximate age, and many small quirks reminded me so strongly of Andruw that I once had a dream about it. I know---one is a hitter and one is a pitcher---but can anyone understand.
Hey this is not how Maury Wills played! What a joke.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/c/countme01.html
Forget bears, they can't even handle wrestling dead deer.
They were too tired from bear-wrestling.
Something borrowed, something BLUE.
Is it just me or has Jeff Kent been playing better defense since he came back from his rest break?
(shiver)
on the other hand, Pierre led off with a double.
On the other other hand, Pierre was picked off.
On the fourth hand, I need to eat dinner.
it should be o.k. PW is a switch hitter that is all, maybe Ethier doesn't have good numbers against Francis.
That run was all on Penny, though.
that was his best but his best just wasn't good enough.
Is Penny on drugs, maybe?
Exactly like that.
as long as Francis gets the same K zone I'm cool with it, We'll feast off of him (salad tossing lefty) with a SMALL STRIKE ZONE I dig it.
Just now starting play in the fift after a rain delay. And Lohse bloops one to right for an RBI. 5-0 Cardinals.
Oh no, not the Ministry of Silly Walks!
it was a little high judging by sight a lone, but I'm thinking Matty was thinking off-speed the way he swang.
He was looking change up. That 1-1 change up that matt swung at was what he was looking for in that last pitch. So it wasn't so much the velocity...he just couldn't adjust.
You've been saying Kemp can't hit a fastball this year. I was at the game last night and didn't notice the velocity of the balls he hammered, only the velocity at which he hit them. Were they fastballs?
Thats one reason why I've criticized Matt's approach lately. Against a guy like Francis where everything is so slow, you sit on the fastball and adjust. Looking offspeed in a 2 strike count is just asking for trouble.
He's hitting under .200 on fastballs this year. Thats pretty putrid.
Yep, they were all balls. And after he had just walked Hu on 4 pitches. Ugh.
I think the perfect example of whats wrong with Penny was the Podsednik and Seth Smith at bats. He has absolutuely no command.
He had Pods 1-2, then completely wastes that advantage by throwing a curve and then a fastball in the dirt. I mean, you have to at least keep it somewhat close to get him to swing! And then he throws a fat fastball and gives up the sac fly.
Against Smith, he had an 0-2 count, then threw a fastball right down the middle which Smith luckily fouled off. But then the next pitch he hangs a curve and Smith lines it for a base hit.
AOme might say thats dumb oitching, but I think hes just lost his control because of altered mechanics (maybe because of an injury?).
That's my bad on Milton Bradley. I assumed he was playing the OF for Texas.
But then I think about a spectrum of outfielders from Willie Mays down to Del Young. And you know what most of them would have done. Throw him out!
it could be a # of things, I'm a big fitness guy, maybe it's a combination of all of them, who knows.
I don't like this Penny.
http://tinyurl.com/6ghfvf
>>Peter (Tarzana, CA): Hey Bill, In the back of your mind, are you worried at all about the Celtics potentially losing their lead in all-time championships? If the Lakers win this series, they'll only be one back.
SportsNation Bill Simmons: You're counting the four from Minneapolis? Really?<<
Why would he say something like this, other than to antagonize Laker fans? I also heard him on ESPN Radio say any Laker fan counting the Minneapolis championships is kidding themselves.
Needless to say, I feel toward Celtics fans the same way Jake Taylor would have felt if Roger Dorn tanked one more ground ball.
Crap! I'm going to the first two games in San Diego. Those were supposed to be Kershaw/Billingsley games!
http://tinyurl.com/5lkz22
music to my ears, thanks Jon.
lol, DO'H!
I think it might have been last year that Vin was saying Francis was 20.
who let the dawgs out!??!
HU! HU HU!
also, great AB from dewitt.
Oh what do I know, he just got Atkins out.
I would imagine he needs a day or two more after a 63-pitch Sunday (plus a 2 IP Friday).
I stand corrected. Kuo's 2 IP game was Thursday, not Friday.
100% true.
I was more surprised to discover that Hu tripled off of Wainwright.
I harumph. Harumph I say!
You know what I mean.
Hah. Vin brings up that marathon extra inning game in which Jeff Hamilton came in to pitch.
And Penny picks up where he left off: Sucksville, population: him.
Pierre has an abnormally small head. I believe his hat size is under 7. So he has to wear a cap under the helmet so it fits well enough.
But I could tell you of times when it was common for all batters to wear caps under their helmets. Then they would take the helmet off while running the bases.
That's when men were men and massive head injuries were just something people shrugged off.
Lots of guys do that at lower levels of baseball, but I've never really noticed how many pro guys do it. I'm sure there's quite a few others.
http://tinyurl.com/5k5mb5
those we're simpler times though Bob, It just wouldn't "look" professional these days, bah!
Wikipedia has lied to me before. Surely 5.25 can't be right.
I'm pretty sure Penny isn't the only Dodger to fill out a census form in Sucksville.
No offense to Jeff Francis, whom I think is a fine pitcher, but I'm not a big fan of the name Francis in sports being almost autmoatically given the nickname "Franchise".
I'm sure 99.9% of my ire is meant for Steve Francis, but my overall point still stands.
5.25 seems like an infant hat!
I'm at 7.75.
295 No, no, Tomko ran unopposed as the governor of Atrociousatussets.
He can still be called Franchise if you want; I just wanted to get that off my chest.
Not sure if I'd trust Joe Beimel reading a joke line up much more than Wikipedia, but for what it's worth.
Eric Gage recently was elected Prime Minister of Suckskatchewan.
Sigh, Loney.
From Kevin Baxter in the Times:
With the Dodgers playing a day game after a night game today second baseman Jeff Kent is expected to get the day off.
at least.
Didn't you read my news item? Eric Gage is the newly minted Prime Minister of Suckskatchewan. :)
Not to be confused with Eric Gagne of course.
All and all can only fall, with a crashing but meaningless blow.
Loney has one option year left, yes, but to quote Gob Bluth, "Come on!"
I respectfully decline to comment.
Did Beimel balk or was it a legit pick off?
As most lefty moves, it probably could have been called either way.
The phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" comes to mind.
Tomorrow's Times "Dodgers FYI" (up on the site already) makes it seem as if Nomar isn't really close to coming back though.
Kershaw back in the Lone Star State?
The Dodgers next need a 5th starter (after tomorrow) on June 14, assuming Kershaw is skipped on the off day of the 9th.
2 runs, two innings...come on blue
6/4 vs Col - Kershaw
6/5 vs Chi - Billingsley
6/6 vs Chi - Kuroda
6/7 vs Chi - Lowe
6/8 vs Chi - Penny
6/9 - OFF
6/10 at SD - Billingsley
6/11 at SD - Kuroda
6/12 at SD - Lowe
6/13 at Det - Penny
6/14 at Det - Kershaw (9 days rest unless he pitches in relief)
6/15 at Det - Billingsley
6/16 - OFF
6/17 at Cin - Kuroda (5 days rest)
6/18 at Cin - Lowe (5 days rest)
6/19 at Cin - Penny (5 days rest)
6/20 vs Cle - Kershaw (5 days rest)
6/21 vs Cle - Billingsley (5 days rest)
6/22 vs Cle - Kuroda
6/23 - OFF
6/24 vs CWS - Lowe (5 days rest)
6/25 vs Cle - Penny (5 days rest)
6/26 vs Cle - Billingsley
6/27 vs LAA - Kuroda
6/28 vs LAA - Kershaw (7 days rest)
6/29 vs LAA - Lowe
6/30 at Hou - Penny
And now it's 0 for 36.
I'd even let Furcal drive himself to the ballpark just so he'd get there quicker.
(Too soon?)
Torrealba might get a suspension if his mitt to the face is deemed a punch.
I would guess that if the Dodgers are still trailing Wade will pitch the 9th.
Torrealba bumped him pretty deliberately which pissed Kemp off. They'll both probably get like 3 games.
The silver lining!
Let's vent!
It looks like Torrealba shoved Kemp out of the way just a tad to get to the ball, then Kemp accidentally grazed him in the helmet with his foot and then they each shoved each other. That's how wars sometimes start, a silly misunderstanding. Or is that Three's Company episodes?
Sigh. Well, 3 runs isn't insurmountable. Unless your the Dodgers today.
I like to think of Jeff Kent as the Ralph Ferley of the group, complete with matching wardrobe.
That doesnt mean it wasn't intentional. Yorvit was obviously pissed, and he used the situation to give Matt a little shove. Matt isnt going to take that kind of crap, but obviously he should have acted in a different way.
that's how we do it...
Ya, but that wouldnt have been as fun. You can tell that guys on both sides are plenty frustrated, and things like that happen. As Woden said, it wasnt even that big of a deal.
Really good point on a weird night, I agree.
The Dodgers feeling was probably that they would need 9 batters over two innings anyway to score two runs, and Hu certainly wasn't going to bat again. So they would need two pinch hitters in that period, and since Maza could step in at SS while moving the P spot back a batter it still works.
Ethier is due up th in the inning and will need to bat for the Dodgers to tie (unless they win before him) anyway.
Wasn't there a pitcher recently who was reportedly sent down for not throwing at an opposing batter in retaliation? My Spidey Sense is saying Ozzie Guillen in Chicago, but I can't say for sure. Could also be a complete fabrication on my part.
Sean Tracy of the White Sox, in aught six.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2485365
And look who's coming up!
I jumped the gun on 432 .
Nice, Pee Wee.
Let's go Solution!
In case you're trying to track him down in any database.
Congrats, Woden.
Now if they'll be so kind as to lose tomorrow, they have my permission to then start a winning streak after that.
449 classic!
At least the dbax suck too...
Of course I miscalculated the number of batters starting with the #9 spot in the 8th, it would be 10 batters not 9, and Ethier ended the game in the on deck circle!
Off to do some writing, night all!
I won't be able to join you for tomorrow's game unfortunately. So, I'll wish you good luck.
I can't remember Kemp ever making a smart play
Gob Bluth says "Come on!!!"
Ha.
loved seeing russ and loney as the first two guys in there at least, you knows these guys have got each other's back, which is a good sign nonetheless
via WGN, of course.
I think you gave Plaschke an idea for his new column!
That statement is so bad it deserves to be dissected and made fun of on FJM.
There's something wrong with your memory.
Left-hander Scott Elbert returned to Class AA Jacksonville almost one year to the day he underwent season-ending arthroscopic shoulder surgery.
How did he feel, no reports from the clubhouse?
Now we just need Andy in LA.
So what, Sweeney smacked a double the other day!!!
that's his on camera answer, or is it?
It fired me up so much that I punched my living room wall.
Then again, I'm 22 and a moron.
I really don't get the impression that either team is going to go headhunting tomorrow, but I've been wrong before.
Beat that, Loney! Or Russ!
Does that surprise you?
Okay, now back to rewriting the same scene over and over again.
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