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Amazin' Avenue Hot Stove Huddle

Wednesday December 16th, 2009 | at River | West 43rd St. & 10th Ave. - New York, NY | 7pm-10pm Everyone come out of your mothers' basements and meet up with your Amazin' Avenue brethren. I'm working on a panel of guests as we speak.

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Meh

I like my mom’s basement. If I ask her, I’m sure she’d let me invite some people over. We can all hook up our CPU’s and we can each run a 100,000 simulations of the 2010 season at the same time! Then we can make custom spreadsheets of all the information we’ve gathered!

"I see the job in bigger terms. Paperwork, that’s false hustle. It takes away creativity. People who are into paperwork are into covering their asses, so if things go wrong they can point to all the work they did. They’re thinking more about failure than success. The more paperwork the opposition does, the better my chances are. Know what I’m sayin’?"

by Evan_S on Dec 7, 2009 12:18 AM EST reply actions  

If we go to your mom's basement, will there be Tang?

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 7, 2009 12:20 AM EST up reply actions  

Yes

and hell yes

"I see the job in bigger terms. Paperwork, that’s false hustle. It takes away creativity. People who are into paperwork are into covering their asses, so if things go wrong they can point to all the work they did. They’re thinking more about failure than success. The more paperwork the opposition does, the better my chances are. Know what I’m sayin’?"

by Evan_S on Dec 7, 2009 12:26 AM EST up reply actions  

Panel of guests?

I love surprises!

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Dec 7, 2009 12:27 AM EST reply actions  

I already have little to no time

between playing World of Warcraft and figuring out how to completely remove the human element of baseball, but I’ll try to make it out.

by shwebsi on Dec 7, 2009 6:01 AM EST reply actions  

I will try to procure a pair of sweat pants without mustard stains, but it will be tough

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Dec 7, 2009 8:38 AM EST reply actions  

I think I'll make an appearance.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 7, 2009 11:56 PM EST reply actions  

I'll be there

And lobby that someone take minutes, and we all use the first names of a high ranking Mets official instead of our own. Then Eric, Sam, and James can go on a Mission Impossible style operation into the offices of CitiField to slip them into Omar’s inbox. No one will ever know the difference….

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 8, 2009 12:56 AM EST reply actions  

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