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Bring Thole home!

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I don't know

getting kidnapped would show grit.

"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."

by Evan_S on Nov 12, 2009 9:45 AM EST reply actions

LOL

only if the rescue involves shooting guns.

by fxcarden on Nov 12, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions

More so if he’s the one doing the shooting.

by TheLetter2 on Nov 12, 2009 8:16 PM EST up reply actions

If the mets are monitoring

Thole’s as good as kidnapped.

by Gina on Nov 12, 2009 12:46 PM EST reply actions

He'll rip a ligament when struggling with his captors

and the Mets will diagnose it as a strain

by Sam Page on Nov 12, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions

Day to day with a gunshot wound

by Bieser's Balk on Nov 12, 2009 1:41 PM EST up reply actions

The kidnappers will ask for a one off $8m payment

and Omar will counter offer with $12m a year for three years

by deadspy3 on Nov 12, 2009 2:16 PM EST up reply actions 6 recs

rec'd

by KeithsMoustache on Nov 12, 2009 4:44 PM EST up reply actions

hahahahaahah

that’s excellent

by JoshNY on Nov 12, 2009 5:10 PM EST up reply actions

LMAO

Rec’d

by fxcarden on Nov 12, 2009 5:29 PM EST up reply actions

Lol...Poor Thole...

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 12, 2009 4:21 PM EST reply actions

The Mets have received reports that Thole is enjoying his time in Caracas without any concerns about his safety, and that he hopes to stay through his scheduled departure date, Dec. 8.

He should be fine. I would believe that actual baseball players are better protected than a private citizen like Victor Zambrano’s mom. Plus, he’s in Caracas; she lives on a farm in bumblefuck, Venezuela.

by boom_roasted on Nov 12, 2009 5:09 PM EST reply actions

I can't find bumblefuck, venezuela on google earth.

by fxcarden on Nov 12, 2009 5:30 PM EST up reply actions

It's that well hidden

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 12, 2009 6:14 PM EST up reply actions

Then how did the kidnappers find it, huh?

by BobbyV_Incognito on Nov 12, 2009 11:49 PM EST up reply actions

They have the premium version of google earth

by Michkin on Nov 13, 2009 11:29 AM EST up reply actions

My friend

lived in Caracas until fairly recently, and he found it to be fine. It’s the backwoods where you have to be careful, as you said.

by deadspy3 on Nov 12, 2009 5:38 PM EST up reply actions

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