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And Chief Justice Rehnquist is dead.

We are so, so fucked.

That is all.

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Oh my god, I WROTE something!



TITLE: "Transition"
AUTHOR: Cathryn (catslash33@yahoo.com)
FANDOM: Major League Baseball RPS
PAIRING: Vaguely Alan Embree/Mark Bellhorn. Pre-slash.
SUMMARY: There are different ways to move on.
RATING: PG for language.
NOTES: Mark Bellhorn and Alan Embree are both former Red Sox who performed poorly this year, were released, and ended up going to the hated rival team, the Yankees (Embree earlier this year, Bellhorn just last week). This is a pair of drabbles about how each of them handles the change.
NOTES THE SECOND: Written in thirty-three minutes for the contrelamontre Random Quotes challenge.
DISCLAIMER: This is total fiction. I do not know the thoughts and attitudes of these two players, so I just made something up instead. This is not intended to represent the truth. Because it's fiction.



"This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same." - Real Live Preacher

( Transition )

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So here's a question it's never occurred to me to ask: if you are the starter in an away game and the home team is ahead going into the ninth and stays that way because your offense hates you so much it wishes you were dead, so you only pitch eight innings instead of nine, is that a complete game? (Okay, okay, I know the answer to that, but fucking hell.)

Because if it is, then boy did I ever watch the wrong CG today.

Because not only was David Wells not thrown off by his six-day suspension, but he came back from it to throw his first complete game of the season, a one-run seven-hit beauty. (Okay, technically he had another CG, but only because it was cut off by rain after six innings.) We won 5-1.

Yeah, I didn't watch that one.

I watched Jeremy Bonderman's brilliant CG instead, and if I was worried about him being thrown off by the extra day of rest provided by a rainout, I didn't need to be. Actually, it obviously did him good, it being late in the season and him being tenth in the league for innings pitched and all. This was his fourth CG for the season, with two runs on five hits and six Ks and one walk, and it was wonderful to see him look so good after how shaky he's been recently.

And it made me fucking want to puke and die. Because do you think he can get any kind of run support? Do you think the Tigers offense can get any further once they get men into scoring position several times? Are you fucking kidding me?

2-0. We lost TWO FUCKING ZERO BECAUSE OUR OFFENSE CANNOT GET ITS HEAD OUT OF ITS ASS AND PLATE THE GUYS WHO GET ON BASE.

Okay, yes, Jon Garland also threw a CG, and a pretty one at that, BUT. I mean, Jesus, it's not like we never had a chance; we only got four hits, but we got more men on base than that, and we had a man at third twice, and we even managed to draw a walk (whoa). We had opportunities to score, and we wasted every single one of them.

Hell, Bondo's last CG was also a two-run loss, although, gosh, at least we got ONE run that time.

Tigers offense, you suck. You suck and I hate you and not only do you not get cookies, but I will find a way to TAKE AWAY the cookies that you do not have. Do not put it past me. I will go to school and take math class after math class until I am super smart and I will invent a new kind of math that will allow me to leave you with the negative cookies that you deserve. Because I hate you. And you suck. Now go sit in a goddamn corner until you think you understand why you are being punished.

An underrated yet crucial test of blossoming adulthood

Sure, when you're all grown up and shit, it's important to pay your bills and stuff.

But what about the little things?

Today, for example, I faced a truly nasty clogged toilet. I will spare you the details except to mention that there was biological matter involved. And for the first time in my life, I could not quietly close the lid and leave it for a parental unit to find.

I had to fix that sucker all by myself.

And I did it. And I only had to call my daddy for help once.

I am so proud.

(And while I was talking to him, I jokingly explained my conspiracy theory about how releasing Embree and Bellhorn were clever schemes designed by Theo Epstein at least in part to sabotage the Yankees. He seems to have taken me seriously. Hee.)

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I have just discovered that I will root for Mark Bellhorn no matter what.

GO MARK! Homerun!

Rest of the Yankees, please SUCK! A's, SACK UP!

Because GO MARK! <3

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A-ROD JUST FELL FLAT ON HIS FACE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sometimes baseball is the best thing ever.