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hill should be traded,
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Ryan Howard homered twice during a perfect night at the plate, Jamie Moyer pitched effectively in relief of Pedro Martinez, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 4-2 in the rain Friday. Looking for its third straight division title, Philadelphia increased its NL East lead to eight games over Atlanta and Florida, which lost at home to San Diego.
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Look who is making news again, pie! First-place Yankees getting bang for big bucks. In the interest of saving time - Mark Teixeira is an MVP contender. CC Sabathia is piling up wins. A.J. Burnett is throwing heat — and the occasional whipped cream pie. This is exactly what the New York Yankees envisioned last offseason when they spent $423.5 million on three big free agents: a pinstriped juggernaut in their swanky new stadium.
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Look who is in this news again, pie! Why Your Team Sucks: St. Louis Rams Balls Deep. , @@p:
1. St. Louis is a town known for three things: Baseball (Ironically, I love the Redbirds almost as much as I hate the Rams), Budweiser, and getting shot. It is not a football town, and if you live within 180 miles, you are stuck either watching lame-ass Rams games or the Sham-Wow guy showing you how to clean up hooker blood with his Sham-Wow during the dozens of blackouts that I have put up with.
2. The Rams taught me what shittiness smelled like. My first game ever, I saw Rich Brooks’ shitpile Rams receive the opening kickoff against the 49ers. The 49ers took less than 30 seconds and only two plays, even though they kicked off, to score a Young-to-Rice touchdown. (Ed. Note: As Tim MacDonald use to say: “Same Niners. Same Rams.”) Rich Brooks eventually got fired, but he still had ample time to show everyone how shitty he still is by coming back to coach at my college, UK, and proceeded to win a total of five games in my junior and senior year. He even tried to run the fucking option with a 350 lb. quarterback, Jared Lorenzen.
3. I went to the worst game in the history of the NFL. The score was 15-12 49ers, there were only 431 yards of total offense. 8 turnovers, including 5 fumbles by Tony Banks (4 were lost), one Lost fumble and 3 interceptions by Jim Drunkenmiller. Yes, the same Jim Drunkenmiller that was cut by the XFL Memphis Maniax and later arrested for rape. Here is the box score behold and be in awe of the ass-rape of this terrible game.
4. Brenda Warner: I have to say, she is in style wherever she goes. In St. Louis, she had that mom-jeans-shorthair-middleaged-I-never-want-my-husband-to-fuck-me-again look that is so popular in the Midwest. Now she is in Arizona, she looks hotter than the cougars we tried to pick up while we was in Nashville this weekend. The Midwest just does that to you. That’s why I stayed in the South.
5. Mike Martz is a douche. If you have a Super Bowl MVP quarterback who hurt himself playing, while all of the good player on his team get hurt, and a mediocre piece of shit asshat who looked good because he was put in as soon as everyone got healthy, which would you keep? The asshat, Marc Bulger, of course. You would also quit running the ball, even when you have the lead in the Super Bowl and run off your entire offensive line. He turned the Rams from the Greatest Show on Turf to the, well St. Louis Rams that we are used to.
Thanks, Adam.
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The Atlanta Braves third baseman is an avid hunter and since his home rests on a tract of land near the Mexican border, he often encounters many of brave illegal immigrants stealthily en route to a better way of life.
But Chipper’s a compassionate conservative, so instead of firing his shotgun into the air or unleashing coyotes on them, he just gathers them all up in the back of his truck, gives them some food and water and immediately calls the border patrol to properly dispose of them. What else is he supposed to do?
People say that it’s mean to call the border patrol, but who else are you gonna call? I mean, I’m not gonna spend my whole offseason driving illegals back⦔
Chipper Jones on 790 Atlanta SRI
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I have always been a fan of jones, I have to say, seeing stuff like this gives me mixed feelings.This will be shocking news for jones fans, but there are those of you who will say that you saw it coming from a long way away. I’m pretty surprised. jones is spectacular, I hope this doesn’t affect the season.
Here’s a vid of jones doing his best work:
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Look who is in this news again, Johnson! This time, Hello, Old Friends: Cubs vs. Mets Preview, Friday 8/28, 1:20 CT. :
Let’s push controversy aside for a while, shall we, and try to just enjoy a baseball game this afternoon?
The last time the Mets visited Wrigley Field was more than 16 months ago, on April 22, 2008. That isn’t that long ago in baseball terms, but of the eight starting Cubs that day, four are no longer with the team and one is on the DL. Five other Cubs who appeared in the game are elsewhere as well. As for the Mets, four of their starting eight from that game won’t appear due to injury and three others have departed.
Ronny Cedeno hit a grand slam in that game, just to remind you of blasts from the past. It’s still his only slam. (That’s just about the time we started calling him ONEDEC.)
Two very different teams will take the field at Wrigley this afternoon from that long-ago day in 2008 (the Cubs did face the Mets last September, still almost a year ago, when the Mets were desperately trying to win a playoff spot, which they lost on the last day of the season). The Mets have been decimated by injuries, both to their starting lineup and pitching rotation — the three Mets probable starters in this series, Pat Misch, Bobby Parnell and Nelson Figueroa, were definitely not the pitchers Jerry Manuel envisioned in his rotation in April.
OK, I suppose I can’t resist a couple of links and comments regarding the current Milton Bradley situation. Phil Rogers says the Cubs should just cut him, which would cost north of $20 million and I think is a ridiculous idea, but Rogers also offer some suggestions of other teams’ bad contracts that could result in a trade:
The only way to trade Bradley, according to executives with other clubs, is to up your ante to take on someone else’s bad contract. You know the names — the Blue Jays‘ Vernon Wells, owed $98.5 million over five years; the Giants‘ Barry Zito, $83 million over four years; the Astros‘ Carlos Lee, $55.5 million over three years, maybe the Giants’ Aaron Rowand, $36 million over three years.
The best of those scenarios involves the Rangers‘ five-year, $80-million deal with Michael Young, who at 32 is a productive player. He’s owed $16 million a year for four more seasons.
In a cost-cutting mode because of ownership problems, Texas might consider a Bradley-for-Young trade. But it wouldn’t do it during its ongoing playoff race and it’s going to be increasingly awkward for them to try to wade through a hugely problematic trade.
As Rogers says, Texas is in a playoff race and probably wouldn’t do it now. So are the Giants with Zito, who has actually pitched very well since the All-Star break. The Vernon Wells deal would be more palatable to the Cubs if it didn’t have five years and nearly as much money as Alfonso Soriano’s. But I’d do it. Wells is virtually the same age as Bradley (about eight months younger) and, though he’s had a couple of tough years since he signed his monster deal, at least he does have proven power numbers from the past, and could play CF, allowing Kosuke Fukudome to move back to RF next season (with Reed Johnson retained to back them both up).
And strangely enough, the best local media words on this situation come from the Tribune’s Steve Rosenbloom, who I almost never agree with and who often writes ridiculous bombast. But today he nails it, in a column titled Bradley’s response ought to anger those who take on racism seriously:
Racism is serious. If you are concerned or angry enough to put that in the public discussion, then you seemingly should be motivated to explain when and where this happened. How else do you take a step toward keeping it from happening again?
But when Bradley offers only cynicism and sarcasm, he diminishes the severity of the issue. Moreover, he does a disservice to those suffering abuse but who are willing to fight the fight head on.
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Under no circumstances does anyone deserve to be abused racially. Underachieving baseball player and racial epithets are dots that should never connect.
But Bradleyâs history and now his dismissive response to questions following his serious charges invite the suggestion that heâs looking for ways to shield himself from his problems, self-inflicted or otherwise.
One hundred percent correct, Mr. Rosenbloom. Bravo.
Try to enjoy today’s game.
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Pat Misch’s stats below are with the Mets only; see the pitcher box for his full-season stats.
There’s no profile photo of Pat Misch in a Mets cap available (at least not in that size), so you get one of him with his former team, the Giants. The Mets acquired Misch on waivers in July and he’s spent the last couple of months shuttling between Buffalo and New York, making 15 relief appearances with the Mets (after four with the Giants). He is a Chicago-area native who graduated from Glenbrook North HS in Northbrook in 1999 and has made three career relief appearances vs. the Cubs, all in 2007. This will be his first start as a Met. Only one current Cub has a hit off him — Koyie Hill (1-for-2), but that’s covering only eight total at-bats from all current Cubs.
Ted Lilly is 2-1, 3.86 in five career appearances (four starts) vs. the Mets. His last two starts against them, one in 2007 and one in 2008, were both wins, the last one in the April 22, 2008 game mentioned above. The current Met who has the most AB against Ted is Gary Sheffield; Sheffield is only 5-for-28 against him.
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Discuss amongst yourselves.
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I wonder how ray’s serious fans feel:
â¢It’s pretty much unanimous: everyone hates Liberty National, the golf course built over a toxic industrial site in Jersey City. Well, what do they expect? Nicky Santoro is buried under the 15th green. â¢So, which is worse, a clubhouse cancer like T.O. or your number one receiver being Patrick Crayton? That’s life for the Cowboys for a while, after Roy Williams goes down with a shoulder injury. â¢John Elway to tie the knot tomorrow with former a former Raiderette. Hope he had his fun, because once she says “I do,” she won’t let him near her black hole ever again. â¢Your Little League World Series final four: California, Georgia, Mexico and Taiwan. The semis are tomorrow, and finals on Sunday. So, no need to leave the house to get your crying children fix this weekend. â¢Mike Vick lines up in the slot, in the shotgun and behind center - and only one of his six plays goes for a decent gain. Yup, he’ll fit in just fine as an Eagles QB. â¢Yes, it’s come to this: extreme pogo jumping. Not nearly as hardcore as extreme jump rope, which I believe involves barbed wire. â¢Don’t act like you wouldn’t pay to see this. From “Dr. Coolsex,” the live action Mario Kart movie:
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Johnson should be traded,
When you hit three home runs and score six runs on twelve hits against the Washington Nationals, admittedly a good-hitting team, you really should win. (Such a run total would have won any of the four games the Cubs took from the Nats in Washington last month).
Not last night, unfortunately. Carlos Zambrano looked like he wanted to throw every pitch 900 MPH and win the game singlehandedly with his bat. That’s not how Z is at his best; as I’ve noted several times here, Z’s best games are when he has his heavy sinker working and gets lots of ground-ball outs. Of the 13 outs he managed to record before being yanked after 95 pitches (only 55 strikes), just four were via ground balls.
Still, the game was not completely out of reach when Lou called for Aaron Heilman to relieve Z. Wait, that’s kind of a non sequitur, isn’t it? When you put Heilman in a game, that sort of automatically puts it out of reach. Heilman entered the game with the bases loaded and one out, trailing 5-1. Now, putting Heilman in any game with the bases loaded is a really bad idea, considering the number of walks he issues, but last night Heilman decided to eschew the bases on balls. After managing to get the second out of the inning on a strikeout of Ronnie Belliard, he let Elijah Dukes put the game on ice with a grand slam.
The Cubs attempted to make it interesting with three runs in the sixth to cut the deficit to 9-4, chasing starter Garrett Mock, but then Tom Gorzelanny decided to remind us why the Pirates were so willing to dump him, allowing a three-run blast to Josh Willingham — his second HR of the night — and the Nats had their 15-6 blowout. Willingham reached base and scored all five times he batted, with a pair of singles and a walk in addition to the homers. It was the Nats’ biggest run-scoring outburst of the season and the most the Cubs allowed in one game.
Z’s fourth HR of the season gave him the following distinctions: he is only the fourth pitcher since World War II to have at least three seasons with four or more HR (Earl Wilson had four such seasons, Bob Lemon and Don Drysdale three each), and he is the eighth pitcher in that time frame (and 14th since 1901) to have 20 career homers.
To which the answer is, “So what? We want to win!” And you’d be absolutely correct. If the Cubs’ fading chances at a playoff spot were to come to fruition, we all thought they’d have to, at the very least, sweep the Nationals. That’s gone, but I am not going to give up until the task seems pretty well impossible. It’s almost there, but not quite yet. Win these next two games — and get some cooperation from other teams — and a baseball miracle might still be at hand.
You could, however, see the discouragement in the announced crowd number of 37,297, which is almost 4,000 below official sellout capacity (41,160, according to the Cubs website). The bleachers had large swaths of empty seats — I’m sure you could see those on the TV broadcast — including about half of my section in the LF corner. The bleachers might have been several hundred tickets short of a sellout, and for the first time since May the day-of-game ticket windows on Waveland were closed.
It is still too early, really, to start discussing 2010 and what changes I’d like to see (believe me, I’ll have some when the season is over). Clearly, this team wasn’t constructed too well — although to be fair to Jim Hendry, they couldn’t have anticipated the multiple injuries to key performers. Hendry could have put together a better bench to replace those players, though. Aaron Miles, who managed to turn a 3-0 count into a strikeout while pinch-hitting last night, is rapidly moving up the list of “worst OPS since 1969 for anyone with as many PA as he has”. He currently ranks 36th on that list.
Speaking of injuries, the players appearing on the cover of the Cubs’ scorecard magazine for the past three months have all wound up on the DL within weeks of their appearance (June: Ted Lilly; July: Reed Johnson; August: Carlos Zambrano). Who knew that all we had to do to rid ourselves of Miles was to get the publications department to feature him on the cover of the scorecard?
Enough. Let’s at least beat these guys tonight.
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Take a look at a clip of Johnson doing his thing:
Baseball kills woman (Simon Birch)
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I wonder how pie’s fans feel,
(Click on the thumbnail for the full size image) Just when you think it couldn’t get worse, the Cubs get absolutely spanked by the worst team in baseball at home.The wind appeared to be howling straight out tonight and the Cubs managed 6 runs, Josh Willingham managed 6 RBI’s all by himself, including 2 HR’s, 5 Runs scored and a 4 for 4 night with a walk. Z did hit a home run though (mild applause) and Milton Bradley went 4 for 4 himself with a home run and a walk and then decided it was another good moment to take some frustration out on the fans. “It’s hard to be comfortable when you don’t get a hit, you get booed every time,” Bradley said. “When I go home and look in the mirror, I like what I see. My family’s there, and I have people I can talk to who are supportive in spite of everything and all the adversity and hatred you face on a daily basis. I’ll be all right. I always have.” A bunch of other fun news after the jump… - ESPN1000 reported that Crane Kenney will stay with the Cubs in the same capacity as official enabler of Jim Hendry for multiple years. Hendry and the Cubs refused to comment on the report but Hendry says he’s unfazed by the recent public criticism. ”I don’t really think much about it, to be honest with you,” he said. ”We’ve done a lot of good things the last couple years. We’re having a bad year. I just try to go to work every day and do the best I can.” - Alfonso Soriano was a late scratch with a sore knee and looks to be headed for an MRI. The Rhodes scholar and ultimate team guy had this to say about ignoring advice that a DL trip may have cleared up the problem. ”I said, ‘I don’t want to take two weeks; I want to play.” How’d that work out for you champ? - The Cubs did announce their AFL roster yesterday, just after Arizona Phil’s piece yesterday. The Cubs will send 3B Josh Vitters, SS Starlin Castro, C Welington Castillo, LHP’s John Gaub and James Russell, and RHP’s Andrew Cashner and Blake Parker. 4 of the top 10 picks from this year draft have also been named already to play in the AFL, including the top 2 picks - Stephen Strasburgh and Dustin Ackley. Thanks to our pal Tim Souers for the rather appropriate graphic.
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Look who is making news: ray! This time, Jackson Sets Pace Among Cubs 2009 Draft Picks. For you convenience: The Deadline for signing players selected in this past June’s Rule 4 Draft (”1st-Year Player Draft”) has passed, and the Cubs ended up signing 31 of their 50 picks (including their top 12 picks, and 14 of their top 15), although two of the players they signed (17th round pick RHP B. J. Dail and 23rd round pick OF Jeffrey Pruitt) had their contracts voided last month and are now free-agents.
The Cubs also signed two Non-Drafted Free-Agents (NDFA), but one (LHP Daley Cox) has already been released.
There is no deadline for signing college seniors who have exhausted their eligibilty, but the Cubs signed all of the college seniors they drafted this year.
Of the 29 ‘09 draftees (plus one NDFA) signed by the Cubs who are still in the organization, 1st round pick CF Brett Jackson (Cal) has had the most-impressive pro debut, hitting 328/427/480 with 6 HR & 34 RBI and 13 SB (2 CS) in 50 games at three stops (AZL Cubs, Boise, and Peoria). 2nd round pick INF D. J. LeMahieu (LSU) has also performed very well, hitting 322/370/391 (combined) at AZL Cubs and Peoria, and 4th round pick LHP Chris Rusin (Kentucky) has had a nice debut (2.67 ERA and a 1.14 WHIP with a 8/24 BB/K in 27 IP combined at AZL Cubs and Boise).
A couple of JC guys are flying under the radar and could be steals. 32nd round pick RHP Trey McNutt (Shelton State CC) has an array of quality stuff and looks like he could start or relieve, and 38th round pick Bobby Wagner (a Canadian kid who played JC ball at Panola, TX) is a power-hitting lefty-swinger with a definite HR stroke who was drafted as a 3B, but was moved to LF at Fitch Park.
Jackson, LeMahieu, and Rusin appear to be the most advanced of the 2009 draft picks, and I would think that (barring injury) all three will likely open the 2010 season at Daytona.
2009 RULE 4 DRAFT
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NOTE: click on player’s name for current minor league stats
1. Brett Jackson, OF (Cal) - at PEORIA
2. D. J. LeMahieu, INF (LSU) - at PEORIA
3. Aaron Kirk, LHP (Owasso HS - Owasso, OK) - at AZL Cubs
4. Chris Rusin, LHP (Kentucky) - at BOISE
5. Wes Darvill, SS (Langley, BC) - at AZL Cubs
6. Brooks Raley, LHP (Texas A&M) - at AZL Cubs
7. Blair Springfield, IF-OF (MacArthur HS â Decatur, IL) - at AZL Cubs
8. Robert Whitenack, RHP (SUNY â Old Westbury) - at BOISE
9. Richard Jones, C (The Citadel) - at BOISE
10. Charles Thomas, 3B-1B (Edward Waters College) - at AZL Cubs
11. John Mincone, LHP (Suffolk CC â West) - AZL Cubs 60-day DL
12. Runey Davis, OF (Howard JC) - at BOISE
14. Danny Keefe, RHP (U. of Tampa) - at BOISE
15. Cody Shields, OF (Auburn U. â Montgomery) - AZL Cubs 60-day DL (TJS)
18. Matt Williams, C (Duke) - at BOISE
19. Sergio Burruel, C-1B (Trevor Browne HS - Phoenix, AZ) - at AZL Cubs
21. Greg Rohan, 1B-3B (Kent State) - at BOISE
22. D. J. Fitzgerald, INF (Dyersburg State CC) - at BOISE
25. Justin Bour, 1B (George Mason) - at BOISE
26. Steve Grife, RHP (Mercyhurst College) - at AZL Cubs
27. Corey Martin, RHP (Western Carolina) - at BOISE
28. Jordan Petraitis, 3B (Miami U. of Ohio) - at AZL Cubs
29. Tim Clubb, RHP (Missouri State) - at AZL Cubs
32. Trey McNutt, RHP (Shelton State CC) - at BOISE
36. Brandon May, IF-OF (Alabama) - at AZL Cubs
38. Bobby Wagner, OF (Panola JC) - at BOISE
39. Nick Struck, RHP (Mt. Hood JC) - UNASSIGNED
41. Jake Schmidt, RHP (Concordia U. â St. Paul) - at AZL Cubs
46. Glenn Cook, OF (U. of Miami) - at AZL Cubs
2009 Non-Drafted Free-Agents (NDFA) SIGNED:
Daley Cox, LHP (Santa Fe CC) - HAS BEEN RELEASED
Jesse Ginley, RHP (St. Petersburg CC) - at AZL Cubs
SIGNED - CONTRACT SUBSEQUENTLY VOIDED:
17. B. J. Dail, RHP (Mt. Olive College)
23. Jeffrey Pruitt, OF (Cal State â Northridge)
THE 19 WHO GOT AWAY (deadline is August 17th):
13. Chad Taylor, SS-RHP (Jefferson HS â Tampa, FL) - signed NLI with U. of South Florida
16. Keenyn Walker, OF (Judge Memorial Catholic HS â Salt Lake City) - signed NLI with Central Arizona JC
20. Eric Erickson, LHP (U. of Miami) - JR (rehabbing from TJS)
24. Gerardo Esquivel, RHP (De La Salle Institute â Chicago, IL) - signed NLI with Kansas State
30. Daniel Sheppard, C (Downers Grove North HS â Downers Grove, IL) - signed NLI with U. of Iowa
31. Andrew Clark, 1B (U. of Louisville) - JR
33. John Lambert, LHP (NC State) - JR
34. Rett Varner, RHP-OF (UT â Arlington) - JR
35. Kevin David, C (Oklahoma State) - draft eligible SOPH
37. Peter Mooney, SS (Palm Beach CC) - JC FRESH
40. Eric Whaley, RHP (Cardinal Gibbons HS â Ft. Lauderdale, FL) - signed NLI with LSU
42. Trey Ford, SS (Chaparral HS â Scottsdale, AZ) - signed NLI with Chandler-Gilbert CC
43. Colin Kaepernick, RHP (U. of Nevada) - JR
44. Frank DeJiulio, RHP (Daytona State CC) - JC FRESH
45. Addison Dunn, RHP (Warren Area HS â Warren, PA) â signed NLI with Kent State
47. Joey Jocketty, 3B (Ladue Horton Watkins HS â St. Louis, MO) - will attend Mami U. of Ohio
48. John Nasshan, RHP (Niles West HS â Skokie, IL) - signed NLI with Bradley U.
49. Christian Segar, OF (McQuaid Jesuit HS â Brighton, NY) - signed NLI with Bradley U.
50. Zach Cleveland, RHP (Central Arizona JC) - JC SOPH (will transfer to U. of New Mexico)
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Ha, I can’t get enough of hill,
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Last summer, I did a story about Eagles offensive lineman Shawn Andrews and his self-diagnosed depression issues, but after a recent odd locker room outburst in front of reporters, I’m a little more convinced he’s got some major problems.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s John Gonzalez (AKA: “The Mexican No-Show) scribbled this little Andrews anecdote into his cuaderno and, thankfully, it made the grown-up paper:
Shortly after Shawn Andrews declared he was at his “zenith of my happiness” and that “hell, yeah” he expected to be on the field for the Eagles’ season opener, a strange scene unfolded in front of his locker. Andrews revealed that he texted Andy Reid recently and told his head coach that he was “ready to sell out like a Michael Jackson concert.” When one reporter asked whether that’s sort of a bad omen - since MJ is dead now - everything screeched to a halt and Andrews shook his head.
“What are you trying to say?” Andrews asked. “That I’m going to die?”
Awkward.
The two parties stared at each other in silence for a second while the rest of us just stood there and tried to act invisible. Eventually, the reporter assured Andrews that, no, he didn’t think Andrews was going to die anytime soon.
More blinking. More silence. More weirdness. Then everyone just sort of slowly backed away and dispersed.
I think “More Blinking. More Silence. More Weirdness.” is the perfect title for Andrews’ inevitable autobiography that he’ll write from the safety of his supervised work station at some mental health facility later in life, most likely penned in goose feces and blood on the back of a diner menu.
Bad Guys Just Now Bad Gonzo (second section)
The Shawn Andrews Experience Phil Sheridan/Inky
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