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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

If It's Wednesday, This Must Be Paraguay

It's Svrluga Wednesday! Hopefully he's not jet-lagged today, and will be back on his A-game, after his lackluster performance last week.

Join in the fun at two!

107 Comments:

I've already submitted 10 questions each about Dayn Perry and Will Carroll.

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 10:45 AM
I've only got two questions. I feel so inadequate.

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 12:32 PM
I'm at 8

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 1:14 PM
I've come up with my favorite weird location yet ... let's see if it comes up.

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 1:25 PM
I've got two in. Bring it on!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 1:51 PM
how did this St. Barry stuff start?

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 1:57 PM
The nickname?

I started calling him St. Barry of Svrluga.

Part because he's good. And part because Svrluga sounds more like a place than a surname.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 1:59 PM
All Rise as Svrluga enters

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:00 PM
1/1! :)

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:00 PM
Glad to see he started on time, unlike some people I could mention.

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:01 PM
12 doesn't make sense only if you're not carrying dead weight like Blanco.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:02 PM
Narnia? What the hell is that?! Come on! ;)

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:04 PM
Inning Endy reference !!!

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:04 PM
I guess it's ok to call Baerga a fat load in public then. Works for me!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:04 PM
Guzman may be catching it, but he's throwing half of them away!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:06 PM
Love it

Cheltenham, Md.: Any chance of Clemens going to the O's later this year if they still look to be in the chase?

Barry Svrluga: Let me think about that.

No.

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:06 PM
He is St. Barry because he has an edge to him

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:06 PM
some in the organization don't think Carroll can play the position on an every-day basis.

I guess Ryan's and OMGs! beatdown of him caused him to go back on his remark ;)

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:08 PM
*Sigh*... Anytime I see a strange place name I'm just going to have to assume its one of you all over there. I would ask a question, but I gots nothing.

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:11 PM
Don't worry, D. We obviously don't have much either!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:12 PM
If you were to pick five pitchers from the national league to build your rotation this year (not fantasy rotation), who would you choose?

If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:13 PM
There's a BPG poster for sure.

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:14 PM
From another site:
The Washington Post is also going all-out on the Nats, although vigilant Baltimore fans have kept the paper from cutting Orioles coverage too much.

"Some people seem to be obsessed with that question," said Barry Svrluga, the Post's Nationals beat writer. "In some ways I think it's bumped the Orioles coverage up."

Two sportswriter positions at the Post that had been left unfilled due to a hiring freeze were "unfrozen" to accommodate the additional reporting demands of a new team, Garcia-Ruiz said.

Take THAT BPG Weenies!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:15 PM
Kowalickites!!!

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:16 PM
I think it needs the phrase "teh suck" in it.

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:16 PM
WTEM is teh stoopid!!!111!!!

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:17 PM
Barry's covering his tracks in the Guillen answer so as to not inflame Ryan.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:17 PM
I feel better now.

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:17 PM
He did a good job, too. That was teh reasonable!!1111!!!!

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:18 PM
am I the only one who doesn't really like the DC hat? I don't mind the DC logo, but the entire cap design is minor league.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:18 PM
What kind of fucking question is that hat one? That is a BPG guy

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:18 PM
i definitely prefer the script W - classic

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:19 PM
I'm a block W guy, but I'll even take our current Walgreen's monstrosity over the DC.

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:20 PM
Think of the mothers, Angelos! Think of the mothers!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:20 PM
My wife wants to get the DC hat, but she was a former Howard Dean volunteer, so he distaste for red, script Ws I can somewhat tolerate. She's also going to send one to my brother in law in SF.

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:20 PM
but St. Claire is probably the most respected member of the Nationals' coaching staff from the outside.

Is this a compliment?

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:21 PM
at least it's a Nats-related question that matters

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:21 PM
i concur - can we talk baseball instead of merchandise and concessions?! It pisses me off to no end the people who complain about the lack of beer selection or no sushi at the ballpark. There's a ballgame going on, people!!!!!!! Who cares?!

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:21 PM
Brian on the pole?

Good job with the coding!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:22 PM
Panera questionas are always softballs sure to make it. ;)

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:22 PM
South Pole? [[Ding!]]

Oh boy...

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:23 PM
copy and paste at its finest

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:23 PM
I like how you specified Antarctica so as to separate it from the South Pole in Myanmar.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:23 PM
Myanmar? you mean Burma?

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:24 PM
Forks of Salmon... not bad

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:25 PM
Constantinople? Istanbul?

I come from a poor town. We had old maps. ;)

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:25 PM
I need this letter delivered to the Prussian consulate in Siam by autogyro!

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:26 PM
[elvis] thank you. thank you very much [/elvis]

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:26 PM
Soriano's even less of an ideal leadoff man than Wilkerson. He has speed, but less discipline and less OBP. He's a run-driver-inner. Not a run-setter-upper.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:28 PM
All hockey sticks are gently used these days.

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:29 PM
Agreed on Wagner. He's an older closer with arm problems. And he's not worth the 8-10MM a year he's going to cost. For that price you can get a real shortstop! :)

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:30 PM
Billy Wagner is at the end of the road ... if you are going to go after a closer, go after one in their prime (not that I agree they have to)

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:31 PM
NJ for the game? I can see it. Derek Lee has to cool off first though, bc Helton and Pujols are locks.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:31 PM
If John Astin makes the All-Star game, the 'stache has to go

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:31 PM
Give him a break, he was in The City, felt like the 'stache would help him fit in.

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:32 PM
If Astin keeps the 'stache, maybe a fan club with appropriate cheesy fake moustaches will appear (a la the Wolf Pack in Philly)

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:33 PM
Cordero does two things well:

Beat the hell out of left-handed pitching, and;

Beat the hell out of women in his life.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:34 PM
wrong Cordero Chris

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:34 PM
Screw you all!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:36 PM
and rhyme with Chuckles?

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:36 PM
Yeah, the pen has been pretty damned good. And as long as they refuse to start El Gigante, it's pretty damn deep.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:37 PM
You were clear, it's just that Chris has this Bud White LA Confidential thing going on.

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:37 PM
Squirrels? Is that a CC Music Factory reference?

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:39 PM
I don't get the squirrel thing, Dog!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:40 PM
harvest your nuts!

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:40 PM
From "Everybody Dance Now" by C+C Music Factory, I think...

"It's your world,
and I'm just a squirrel
trying to get a nut
to move your butt
c'mon let's dance
everybody over here
everybody over there."

I think, if I remember. Of course, I could be real off on that one.

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:41 PM
That sounds about right, Matt!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:41 PM
QUALITY LHPs ... but the Nationals are on a long list of teams looking for that

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:42 PM
yuda cracks me up

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:42 PM
Subtext on the Fagelson answer, as seen by Jacques Derrida:

"Fuck Goff. Fuck Soccer."

By D, at 5/11/2005 2:42 PM
The squirrel idea isn't original to that song or anything. You know, it's Barry's world and I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut.

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 2:42 PM
the obligatory attendance question

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:42 PM
He even avoided back problems on the Bill Bray question. Way to keep up with the team, Barry! :P

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:45 PM
Hinckley is in Potomac ... no?

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:45 PM
oh Jesus ... I am not looking forward to the BPG board when early drawings are released

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:46 PM
Hinkster just joined Harrisburg.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:46 PM
I submitted the Sox question. Relax ;)

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:48 PM
Crazy Woman Creek --- niiice

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:49 PM
Nope... they started him off in Potomac. Weird. He was originally slotted for AA. I guess they want time for his arm to heal and him to not overthrow.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:49 PM
thank you again

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:49 PM
WOW...

But St. Claire doesn't talk like he grew up at the bottom of the East River.

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:50 PM
Then keep participating in the comments here, Matt. We veer off on tangents, but there are some good points made too! :)

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:53 PM
BPG Cliff notes for Yuda:

Ballgame!!!
B-O-O-N-D-O-G-G-L-E
Kowalckites!!!

Period

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:53 PM
whoever "Washington, D.C." is with that Nats anger question better watch out or he'll end up in Guantanamo Bay or something!

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:53 PM
but there are some good points made too!

Who? Name one person. ;)

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:55 PM
nationals.scout.com board used to be pretty good until people just seemed to desert it.

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:56 PM
How many times is he going to answer a Hinckley question?

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:57 PM
MattNats - you'll never be the same again after spending gameday in one of those chats... think hard about this!

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 2:57 PM
Dammit... answer my double switch question

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:57 PM
I HATE it when people start clamoring for prospects for the sake of prospects....

Just like that godawful nugget about Desmond I read this morning.

I submitted a Frank question similar to the one he took, but was more specific. I wish he had taken mine instead-- it would've forced a different kind of answer.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 2:58 PM
I was listening to KC pre-game at lunch (yes I am a loser), Baird said Pena has some "personal" issues.

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 2:59 PM
Why was Armas' pitch limit at 110 in the first place? He wasn't going that deep into games in the minors. And the guys a constant rehab case!?!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 3:00 PM
Bah - he didn't really answer my question. Yeah, there are a lot of potential starters, but Rauch is at least the fifth-best one, right?

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 3:00 PM
Rumor is Pena had his own Missouri version of Desparate Housewives going on.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 3:01 PM
Disappointing answer for the ol' fellow from Bayern

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 3:01 PM
and thus concludes another hour of wasted productivity for YOUR federal government

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 3:02 PM
You can't leave us! I've got questions still, damnit!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 3:02 PM
Bah - St. barry's losing his touch

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 3:02 PM
Much better than last week, I must say.

By Ryan, at 5/11/2005 3:02 PM
Don't forget the private sector!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 3:02 PM
it was better than last week, true. maybe i just get so let down when he leaves

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 3:03 PM
Wily Mo works much better if you think of him in terms of the cartoon Coyote.

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 3:03 PM
rocket ... did he leave you at your "peak"? ;)

By Brian, at 5/11/2005 3:04 PM
Rocket, take solace in the fact that he's doing it for us. So that we can read 500 words of good copy. Plus a notebook!

By Chris Needham, at 5/11/2005 3:04 PM
PENIS JOKE ALERT!

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 3:04 PM
funny, it was hard to find a good rocket picture that didn't look sexual

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 3:06 PM
damn you, disgusting mental picture

By Rocket1124, at 5/11/2005 3:08 PM

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If It's Wednesday, This Must Be Paraguay

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