Archive for December, 2003

Bye Cammy

Monday, December 8th, 2003

“Recap of the Bill Bavasi era to date:

Sign Raul Ibanez for 4 million a year. Bad move.
Re-sign Shigetoshi Hasegawa for 3 million a year. Questionable move.
Fail to offer arbitration to Arthur Rhodes. Bad move.
Fail to offer arbitration to Mike Cameron. Bad move.

You never know how much you’ll miss something until it is gone. Mike Cameron, thanks for the great years. Good luck with your future team. Hopefully a better ballpark and an organization not obsessed with strikeouts will lead to a year that allows folks to realize the value you have to a club. I’ll never forget

Oh, and the Mariners offered arbitration to Pat Borders “due to the special relationship he has with this club.” I am unable to rationally comment on this tonight.” - U.S.S. Mariner

The Mariners will never win a world championship until they finally get an owner who cares about winning, unlike the current Japanese owner we have who has never even seen a live professional baseball game. We will never win a world championship until we replace the men in the front office who are yes-men to their bosses and who believe in the “spend as little as possible in order to make a profit” philosophy. It is no secret since the owner of the team has publicly stated this his one and only intention is to make money, not to win a championhsip. He understand that a winning team makes the most money, so he spends around $80 million (most of which is spent through highly overpaying many of the players) which allows him to pull in a profit every year since the team he fields does well enough to draw a crowd, but not well enough to beat the big boys.

It’s 1 AM, I have an exam tomorrow that I have yet to start studying for, and I feel more depressed right now then I have in weeks. Fuck my exam, fuck the letter that the The OCPT sent me, and fuck the Mariners.

Somebody remind me why I love this team or else I might have to go and start cheering for a team that actually cares about their fans. I’m talking about your team.

The OCPT

Saturday, December 6th, 2003

We here at Shyzer take foodnaping very seriously. Such an offense should never be taken lightly and it is for this reason alone that I feel I should respond and accept the demands of The OCPT.

I recieved this ransom note earlier tonight and found it quite disturbing. Apparently Fellner has gotten on the wrong side of somebody and they have gone and abducted his prized Oatmeal Creme Pies. We all know how attached he is to his food and I shudder to think of how far and how much food this thief might end up stealing and holding hostage. I’m not quite sure why my name is mentioned in the ransom note, but I can only speculate and come to the conclusion that the OCPT didn’t want Fellner mistakenly suspecting me of stealing his food, which was actually kind of nice of him (or her…)

I’m not sure I would risk going against the will of The OCPT and actually messing with my food. That could really piss him (or her!) off…

Anyways, I felt it was my civic duty to post this note as not only a warning to Fellner, but to everybody else out there. Please, please be on the lookout for The OCPT and if anybody has any information they would care to pass along, they can leave it in the comments for this post. I will personally give anybody $10,000 for any information leading to the capture of this heinous criminal.*

Please folks, we must all band together and stop this madman. Watch over your children as they play in the yard, don’t answer your door if the person outside will not identify themselves, and for the love of God, lock all your food away safely and securly.

Together, we can put an end to the reign of terror The OCPT has brought upon us…

*(minus a $99,999.99 reward tax)

Miserable Failure

Friday, December 5th, 2003

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I stole this from Kat. I thought it was hilarious and so I am share it with you.

Go to Google, type in “miserable failure” and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button.

Thanksgiving break and Dell

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003

So what if I lied to you all and said this post would be up yesterday? What are ya gonan do about it? Huh? HUH? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Like I’ve been saying for weeks, I finally finished comparing Dean and Clark and like I said, Dean is the better option. So eat it Fellner. eat it Fellner.

Thanksgiving Break was awesome. I honestly did way too much to talk about in detail on here, so I’ve decided to give a quick summary. I got home, saw the family, ate some turkey, scored a touchdown, recieved a concussion, went out to dinner with Jess, passed out due to my concussion, went to a fancy dinner in Ashville, stayed up from 5 PM to 8 AM watching a marathon of the first season of 24, spent more time with the family, came back to school. See, wasn’t that all you really wanted to know? I took plenty of pictures, however, so expect an update to the gallery section within a week or two. They are all mainly family photos, so I now have some current pictures of my siblings!

I called Dell last night and was surprised to find out that the wait time for the support help was only around 10 minutes. I soon discovered why it was only around 10 minutes though. Apparently many computer companies, including Dell, hire cheap-labor technicians and set up call centers in India. I was introduced to Apu from the Kwik-E-Mart and he walked me through an hour and a half of stuff I had already tried before. Finally he told me that my initial assumption was correct and that my hard drive had indeed crashed. So in the next 2-3 business days, I should be getting a new drive. And HOPEFULLY this drive will allow me to install Win XP on it, because I am so damn sick of Win ME.

Damn computer

Monday, December 1st, 2003

I just freaking got back in Columbia! So here is your update that you all so desperately want :)
I get back to my apartment, my computer crashes for the 9th time in 4 months, I call Dell, Dell tells me to screw myself, I attempt to but am unable to figure out how, I realize that I am late for work, I stop typing now to go leave for work.

Thank God I have all my Shyzer files on-line. Everything else was lost again for the 9th time and I refuse to replace it all until Dell sends me another hard drive. Tomorrow I am pretty busy, but trust me, I’ll actually post a “real” post then.

Also, this means that Merlin has died. RIP Merlin (2003)