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Swallow Alert level III
Posted by: MOTW | April 24, 2006 at 09:54 AM
Swallow Alert - please swallow or spit out anything you have in your mouth before reading. Blog not responsible for any damage to electronics, including (but not limited to) computers, monitors, telephones, CD/MP3 players, etc.
Posted by: MOTW | April 24, 2006 at 09:56 AM
"Last night he couldn't do it from inning to inning." - Well they DID say he failed to perform, so isnt this sentence a bit redundant?
Posted by: CoastRaven | April 24, 2006 at 10:00 AM
MOTW - The use of "swallow" in a thread built upon "Wang" could lead things in an unintended direction.
Posted by: pogo | April 24, 2006 at 10:03 AM
see... and i'd have thought it would be the other way around.
Posted by: puppytoes | April 24, 2006 at 10:04 AM
I fail to see the humor in this.
Posted by: Theodore J. Humpenschnauzer | April 24, 2006 at 10:10 AM
If Wang is a Yankee, then who is the Yanker?
Posted by: random thunking | April 24, 2006 at 10:15 AM
Maybe it's all for the best...I'd hate to see the headlines if he was doing well, it'd be a bad flashback to the eighties..."Everybody, Wang Won Tonight!"
Posted by: JT | April 24, 2006 at 10:22 AM
As a Red Sox fan this story just makes me happy.
Posted by: Addicted to 24 | April 24, 2006 at 10:26 AM
*SNORK* at random:)
"The 26-year-old right-hander was unflappable" -- so, uh, if Wang wasn't flapping, wouldn't that mean the the right-handed Yank was effective?
Posted by: Betsy | April 24, 2006 at 10:26 AM
He told reporters, "This has never happened before, I swear.."
Posted by: Sean | April 24, 2006 at 10:36 AM
WooHoo, I got a SNORK.
*takes off pants, does the SNORK dance*
Posted by: random thunking | April 24, 2006 at 10:37 AM
t wasn't an encouraging outing for Wang
Maybe Wang needs to lay off the junk food & beer. A poor diet can have an effect on performance.
Or try those Mr. Happy pills that are advertised during all major sporting events these days.
I love the warning to call a doctor if certain...conditions... last longer than 4 hours. If that happened to me, I'd be calling everyone I know to brag about it, including my doctor.
Posted by: lurker | April 24, 2006 at 10:52 AM
The Orioles manager said after the game, " We really flogged Wang tonight."
Posted by: Sean | April 24, 2006 at 10:52 AM
I went to school with a guy named Peter Wang. I swear by the Flying Spaghetti Monster I am not making that up.
Posted by: Kid Charlemagne | April 24, 2006 at 11:10 AM
pogo - duly noted, thank you for rescuing my reputation.
Posted by: MOTW | April 24, 2006 at 11:14 AM
lurker, I always suspected that thing about "certain...conditions...lasting longer than 4 hours" was a very sly marketing strategy!
Posted by: nannie | April 24, 2006 at 11:30 AM
die, yankee pigdogs.
yours truly, met fan.
Posted by: queensbee | April 24, 2006 at 12:04 PM
The problem could be the whole "yanking" thing.
Sometimes a gentle touch is called for.
Posted by: Pete | April 24, 2006 at 12:04 PM
So that $200,000,000 payroll is just overcompensating for certain, um, shortcomings?
Posted by: Just Happy To Be ALive | April 24, 2006 at 12:20 PM
die, met scum slime
yours truly
yankee fan
nannie, I've always thought the same about the "4 hour" commercial - very clever. You can just picture the men watching and thinking to themselves, WOW, could that be? I'll try it.
:)
Posted by: Eleanor | April 24, 2006 at 12:26 PM
grrrr....yeah, well, yesterday Big Unit Spanks O's. Compensate that! :)
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 24, 2006 at 12:37 PM
Public Service Announcement:
(I believe this is the third year in a row for this one:)
"Stienbrenners Yankees" = "Intense Beery Rankness"
Posted by: mudstuffin | April 24, 2006 at 12:55 PM
With the mounting uncertainty in the Yankees' starting rotation, all they want out of Chien-Ming Wang is consistency.
That is all.
Posted by: Sondra | April 24, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Do these people read their headlines before publishing the articles, or what??
Posted by: V for Vee | April 24, 2006 at 12:57 PM
It's gonna be a lonnnnnng summer.
Posted by: Bill | April 24, 2006 at 01:10 PM
It coulda been worse, guys. The headline could have been "Torre Pulls Wang in Sixth."
Posted by: Ford79 | April 24, 2006 at 01:13 PM
Ford79 - and he's done that, often not soon enough. If he pulls him too late, you can lose a lot.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 24, 2006 at 01:25 PM
*zips in*
I seem to be in somewhat of a brouhaha on another thread, so whatever Annie says here, I agree with.
*zips out*
Posted by: Eleanor | April 24, 2006 at 01:32 PM
Yay, I got posted *does the happy dance*
*trips over 2nd left foot*
Posted by: Mew | April 24, 2006 at 03:13 PM
{{ Mew }}
brouhaha, schmoohaha, El - we love your learned point of view!
Posted by: MOTW | April 24, 2006 at 03:23 PM
This is totally wrong.
Any copy editor with half a brain, workin' part-time (I know that seems like an oxymoron, but please bear with me here ...) should've known that the proper order of that headline would be:
Yanks Wang fails
Merely sayin' ...
Yanks Wang, Fails???
Failure Yanks Wang???
Wang Faiure, Yanked by Yanks???
See the Wang, failing there, with his Yankees pulling him????
Posted by: O. the U(manity) | April 24, 2006 at 03:43 PM
Thanks, MOTW! My daughter stopped by with lunch so I haven't been back there for a while.
I think I'll go and blurk, unless I'm unable to remain silent, which, unfortunately is usually the case.
It's a burden - being too talkative. *sigh*
Posted by: Eleanor | April 24, 2006 at 03:54 PM
As a diehard O's fan a limp wang is worth two in the bush or something like that.
Posted by: Kat | April 24, 2006 at 03:54 PM
mounting.... *snork* unflappable... *chortle* ground balls.... *guffaw* *falls off chair*
Posted by: Mike "Dr. Mad's Dork" Weasel | April 24, 2006 at 05:04 PM
Maybe he should get some advice from Rafael Palmiero who played for Baltimore and was the former spokesperson for Viagra?
Posted by: shopgirl | April 24, 2006 at 10:02 PM