At least my daughter will have a new favorite player (for, presumably, the month of March). She's got a train fascination currently.

I sneeze at this signing!

I'm still firmly in the Larry Bigbie camp, when it comes to non-roster outfielders.

And there's a picture of a train!

Freeman is presumably AAA filler and nothing more. I hope.

Maybe appropriate?

D4P is probably in favor of the signing==

From the Gurnick item: "He's the cousin of Minnesota outfielder Torii Hunter."

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1. Sgt. Skinner being send out of town on a rail.
2. Reverend Lovejoy's train sets.
3. The time when I think Homer goes on a Wild Animal park ride and is attacked by wild baboons (I could be imagining this one)
4. "I call the big one Bitey" (Monorail episode)

There are probably a lot more (there almost up to 400 episodes) so feel free to add on.

20 Jon, which shows does DT officially endorse? Obviously the Office, but then what else makes the cut?

On the short list of possible best Simpsons episodes ever.

Seriously, there are about 380 tied for number one.

Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You'll all be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I'm on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.

Conan O'Brien wrote that episode.

We now return to your regularly scheduled non-Dodger DT content.

Bad news: two reporters who could have, won't.

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Yes folks .... his game (like his name) is all about deception ...

You know I knew. Just teasing.

42 - I know you knew. But I'm scared. And cold ... very cold.

Kidding.

Are Family Guy references off-limits?

Is there a term for this?

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He was probably too busy working out a roster spot for Hiram Bocachica as Tony Batista's backup to Tony Womack.

1. Candles
2. Champange
3. Dido CD

As did we all.

Choo Choo's HR log (such as it was). He did hit one off of Drysdale.

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Most Mets ever fanned by Koufax was 11

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I think ...

70
Hey, I thought he meant 3!

And what, all of our Dido comments were a coincidence?

I'm with Greg. I thought you had to be joking thinking Sam would suddenly jump all the way back to 3.

They only added to my confusion. I was all like, "Where'd that come from?"

Trust me: I can do blue. I have a blue house with a blue window. Blue is the color of all that I wear. Blue are the streets and all the trees are too. I have a girlfriend and she is so blue.

It's a special occasion.

Yes it is.

It's a nice service for you single guys without dates. I don't want you just sitting around reading Historical Almanacs.

And so she became Emily.

Which in turn angered one of my brothers who wanted that name for a potential daughter.

Well, I hope you'll go back and re-read 62 in context. I'm working on an almost quadruple entendre in that one.

Pretty proud of myself.

Scan your phone.

Speaking of entendres, where's oswald...?

I said almost.

Greg Brock...Hopeless romantic.

So, um, Choo Freeman...Great signing!

The only thing to perk me up is to cook. So, I'm making Chicken Picasso with olives, onions, cucumbers, peppers and a sour cream-gruyerre-parmesan sauce.

That ought a do the trick. That, and the wine.

I'll be over in an hour ...
(for the Chicken Picasso that is)

86 You're wrong; correction is to strike the word just.

95 Given the previous, I though it might be for the cucumbers.

Aggies facing the Matadors!

The Bobcats are playing the Hornets.

At least at the college level.

He did not seem happy.

Or he just hates the Highlander movies.

ahem ..... :-)

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Casey is at the b(c)at now.

The last time Washington State won its conference in basketball was back in the 1940-41 season. WSU came in second in the nation that year, losing to Wisconsin in the championship game, 39-34.

In 1950-51, WSU won the PCC North division and then lost the playoff against the South champion UCLA, 2 games to 0.

The last time WSU finished as high as second in the Pac-10 was 1982-83.

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"The Dodgers will pay nothing to terminate their lease in Vero Beach, Fla. They will pay nothing to move into a new, two-team complex in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Ariz., in 2009. They could earn millions from selling a minor league team in Florida, millions more from running the Glendale facility and millions more by developing nearby land they could purchase at a substantial discount."

I love the tradition of Vero Beach, the hillside boundaries of Holman Stadium, the streets named after Vin, Jackie, Sandy and the Duke but in over 30 years following the team, I could never get there.

I would go to Arizona (ultimate trip Spring training in AZ, March Madness in Vegas).

I understand those who hate this move but the Dodgers are the only team west of Houston that held spring training in Florida. Every AL West and every other NL West is in Arizona, plus both Chicago teams, KC and Milwaukee.