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Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:29 pm

I just figured it out. Kara is Crows wife.

Red Bird · Post by **Red Bird** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:56 pm

That was just a clue, kara. I suppose you'd have to be familiar with Cincinnati culture (a misnomer, I know) to get the whole picture

I guess so.

I should have known better. And I do.

Thanks for the hint, Blue Cat.

Bluecat · Post by **Bluecat** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:09 pm

Hint No. 2: The Jungle has not been that fearful of a place -- in 1981 and '88 certainly, perhaps only twice since the Reds last won a World Series though -- 2005 and '09.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:30 pm

Was I just stabbed in the back?

Bluecat · Post by **Bluecat** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:33 pm

No. Least it wasn't my intention. I didn't realize the origin of the moniker was a secret.

Bluecat · Post by **Bluecat** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:34 pm

Besides, I don't even know where the "Rat" originated, I just know of whence comes the "Jungle".

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:36 pm

It's not. I just want someone to YouTube her head exploding.

Red Bird · Post by **Red Bird** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:50 pm

So the Jungle is the Bengals' stadium.

That makes purr-fect sense. Only, I don't remember rat talking about football much.

Honest to god. . I had no idea. All this time. WOW.

I can be so totally oblivious.

Thanks Blue Cat.

Red Bird · Post by **Red Bird** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:54 pm

All these years I've been cutting Rat slack because I thought deep down somewhere he had a soul.

Another illusion shot all to hell.

Red Bird · Post by **Red Bird** » Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:41 pm

Another tough loss tonight. The Cardinals take an early lead and the starters can't hold on to it. Then the bullpen throws some gas on the fire and - my eyebrows are singed just reading the box score.

You know you're in trouble when you stop watching games because you just know bad things are going to happen.

Saint · Post by **Saint** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:29 am

who the hell is jwmatthews anyway?

AlabamAlum · Post by **AlabamAlum** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:11 am

I'm not a big fan of the all-star game being a HoF criteria either - not because of the "fan vote" which sometimes is better than the experts - but because the votes go in when less than half the season has been played. aTm mentioned 1999. At the time the votes went in, Matt Williams was about equal with Chipper in many categories. Of course, Chipper ended up having a monster year in 1999 and was the best choice for MVP.

But comparing Bags and Chipper's line is off-base. Bags was going up against a ton of big-hitting 1Bers. Chipper is not.

Chipper will retire after this year. Currently, this is what he has going for him (ie, what the fans and writers will look at) if the season ended today:

* 3B is the most underrepresented potion in the HoF
* He was never suspected of taking steroids
* Career .305 BA
* Career OPS of .937
* More than 2500 hits
* More than 1500 RBIs
* More than 1500 runs scored
* More than 500 doubles
* 440 HRs
* Was on a WS-winning team
* BB'ed more than he K'ed
* Likable guy (unless you're a Met fan)

What will hurt him:

He won't get to the magic 500 dinger line.
Only one WS win in five attempts

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:21 am

I always assumed Jungle Rat was the equivalent Bengals term for something like Bleacher Bum for the Cubs or the moronic Best Fans in Baseball for the Tards.

Jungle Rat · Post by **Jungle Rat** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 9:42 am

aTm wrote:I always assumed Jungle Rat was the equivalent Bengals term for something like Bleacher Bum for the Cubs or the moronic Best Fans in Baseball for the Tards.

Good thinking.

Stormaktstiden · Post by **Stormaktstiden** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:16 am

Saint wrote:who the hell is jwmatthews anyway?

Faggot, mostly. Some say he was born with an ass two sizes too small. Yep, that prick-teasing little bastard sent many a fruitloop home with a frustrated nutsack having failed to negotiate his tiny hiney. Many an hour was spent weeping. Eyeing his disappointing little brown traitor with a mirror. Cursing its lackluster elasticity.

Nothing worse than failed homo. You get the usual dose of public scorn for being homo in the first place, then heaped atop all that you've got unfullfilled homo added to it. Yep, that pencil turded bastard has hid as far away from the world as he could get up there in Alaska. Just him and his really small ass. Poor unpenetrated bastard. No wonder he's such a disagreeably tight asshole.

Red Bird · Post by **Red Bird** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:43 am

Plainly, I'm not as clever as aggie.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:38 pm

Seton Hall has got some sweet 80's Astro style rainbow guts uniforms.

Red Bird · Post by **Red Bird** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:47 pm

I'm excited about tonight's schedule. We're playing the Cubs, so maybe we can win one.

aTm · Post by **aTm** » Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:42 pm

Fifer · Post by **Fifer** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:52 am

And a child in every town in the National League
A real terror with Hooter Girls

AlabamAlum wrote:I'm not a big fan of the all-star game being a HoF criteria either - not because of the "fan vote" which sometimes is better than the experts - but because the votes go in when less than half the season has been played. aTm mentioned 1999. At the time the votes went in, Matt Williams was about equal with Chipper in many categories. Of course, Chipper ended up having a monster year in 1999 and was the best choice for MVP.

But comparing Bags and Chipper's line is off-base. Bags was going up against a ton of big-hitting 1Bers. Chipper is not.

Chipper will retire after this year. Currently, this is what he has going for him (ie, what the fans and writers will look at) if the season ended today:

* 3B is the most underrepresented potion in the HoF
* He was never suspected of taking steroids
* Career .305 BA
* Career OPS of .937
* More than 2500 hits
* More than 1500 RBIs
* More than 1500 runs scored
* More than 500 doubles
* 440 HRs
* Was on a WS-winning team
* BB'ed more than he K'ed
* Likable guy (unless you're a Met fan)

What will hurt him:

He won't get to the magic 500 dinger line.

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one WS win in five attempts

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