Phil Rogers' time machine

[flannj]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

[Andre Dawson's Creek]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Facts are best when it's 1-on-1.

[Slaky]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

[Jon]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

Adrian Belew solo.

[Oleg]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

Adrian Belew solo.

James Brown is dead.

[Quality Start Machine]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

Adrian Belew solo.

James Brown is dead.

Chinese food makes me sick.

[BH]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

Adrian Belew solo.

James Brown is dead.

Chinese food makes me sick.

Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

[flannj]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

Adrian Belew solo.

James Brown is dead.

Chinese food makes me sick.

Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

So that's two George Michael references in this thread.

[Oleg]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

Adrian Belew solo.

James Brown is dead.

Chinese food makes me sick.

Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

So that's two George Michael references in this thread.

For the record, mine was a lyric from some techno-ish group -- who's name escapes me, right now -- from the early 90s.  Also, I believe it was a lyric in a Tom Tom Club song they did in the middle of the Stop Making Sense film.  It was a Brian Eno inspired post, sort of.

That techno-ish group is LA Style.

[Quality Start Machine]

In fairness to Phil, he thought Jerry McGuire was from 2005.  Facts are his enemey; have been for a long time.

Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts dont do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts dont stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape

Bleep bloop bleep blop Brian Eno

Adrian Belew solo.

James Brown is dead.

Chinese food makes me sick.

Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

So that's two George Michael references in this thread.

[flannj]

Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

So that's two George Michael references in this thread.

For the record, mine was a lyric from some techno-ish group -- who's name escapes me, right now -- from the early 90s.  Also, I believe it was a lyric in a Tom Tom Club song they did in the middle of the Stop Making Sense film.  It was a Brian Eno inspired post, sort of.

That techno-ish group is LA Style.

Is the Phil Rogers' time machine anything like the George Michael (the unghey one) Sports Machine?  Because, if so, I want to climb aboard right now!

[MAD]

[Andre Dawson's Creek]

Is the Phil Rogers' time machine anything like the George Michael (the unghey one) Sports Machine?  Because, if so, I want to climb aboard right now!

Other things to climb aboard:

[Bonk]

Another Gem, from fellow homo Paul Sullivan:

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/cs-070223cubs,1,1760433.story?coll=cs-home-headlines

Corey Patterson spent a few years in the minor leagues being promoted as the next great Cubs outfielder, only for impatient fans to run him out of town because they wondered when he was going to live up to the buildup.

Hmm. It's our fault Corey sucked balls?

So do we get credit for his solid 04 season?

#*($* Sullivan.

In the two seasons since, K-Patt has had OBPs of .304 and .238. Yeah, those two really know what the fuck they're talking about.

I guess that's Cubs fans' faults, too.

[MAD]

Also, in order to be historically accurate, Don Baylor would deserve more of the blame than Baker in the handling of Patterson.  Baylor and Ed Lynch could not wait to get Patterson up to the bigs--Lynch to prove that his farm system didn't suck balls, and Baylor for gord-only-knows-what-reason--during the 2000 Spring Training, and their exuberance only engendered Korey's sense of entitlement, which led to him turning into a stubborn motherfucker who was unable to deal with failure when it arose later in the 2000 season and every season thereafter.  And even though Patterson struggled for the first time in his life during the 2000 season at West Tenn (he got off to a hot start at Rookie Ball, Low-A and the Arizona Fall League which is what had Baseball America drooling over him for a couple years), the Cubs went against any good judgement they may have had and still called him up in September.  And, instead of sending him back to West Tenn for the 2001 season, they let him start at Iowa, where he struggled again and AGAIN they called him up to the bigs.

By the time Baker got his retarded hands on him, Patterson was an underdone prospect that had repeatedly gotten undeserved promotions.   Baker merely put the finishing touches on him.

I'm not saying Patteson would have been a good player had he been in an organization that knew what the hell it was doing but, in retrospect, he really had no chance whatsoever considering the clown college that was in charge when he came up.