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'Stache would stand to earn $800,000 if he makes the big club.

Let's hope he gets his blog fired up again.

about 3 years ago Aa_avatar_tiny Eric Simon 18 comments 0 recs  | 

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Feel free to quote your favorite 'Stache blog posts.

Here’s one of mine, from 4/20/2006:

Well, you probably heard by now, Willy’s faith in me finally paid off and I collected a base hit tonight in the ninth inning, raising my average to .063. The guys let me keep the ball. And we’re going to Ground Round tonight to celebrate. Pretty sweet. I hope they still have those baseball helmet icecream sundaes, cause I plan to pig out tonight.

by Eric Simon on Feb 10, 2009 10:34 PM EST reply actions  

Here's a favorite
Afterwards, the media even asked me for reaction. I said:“It was an ugly win, but you’ve got to take any win you can”; just like a pro!!

King of the bling come to lay down the evidence//Not George Bush, L-Millz be da president

by Sam Page on Feb 10, 2009 11:03 PM EST up reply actions  

How sweet would it be

if Castillo blows out his knee in Spring Training, ’Stache comes up and replicates his ’06 season. I love the ’stache.

by cjmulrain on Feb 10, 2009 10:49 PM EST reply actions  

AARP back again!

Go Omar! Get stupid! It’s ya birthday! Get freaky! Get stupid! It’s ya birthday!

Why I drink Jim Beam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMdiRkiYREU

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Feb 10, 2009 10:50 PM EST reply actions  

long live Pornstache!

We've got ourselves a ball club, the Mets of New York town!

by kingcritical on Feb 10, 2009 10:50 PM EST reply actions  

There is no replacement for a stache like that.

If we can’t have Uncle Cliffy back, I guess I can deal with some more STACHE POWER!

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 10, 2009 11:14 PM EST reply actions  

YES!!!

PLEASEEE COME BACK!!!
God, I love the Stache.

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

by squid92 on Feb 11, 2009 12:15 AM EST reply actions  

This signing pleases me.

Stache in ’09!

"But it's not over yet, everybody thinks it over, but if we can just get the Earth to reverse rotation...this thing can be played again. So there you go, New York Mets......motherf*ckers." - Jon Stewart

by pingel on Feb 11, 2009 4:03 AM EST reply actions  

she looks like a really classy lady

of course, even gold-digging skanks don’t deserve to have their sugar daddies give them AIDS

by JoshNY on Feb 11, 2009 11:10 AM EST up reply actions  

I don't think she got AIDS

But that story gave me the heebie jeebies.

by jasondg on Feb 11, 2009 11:48 AM EST up reply actions  

are we even sure Alomar has AIDs?

I mean, his own dad doesn’t know about it. Then again, it would explain the sudden drop in performance. As much as I dislike Alomar the player, I hope this isn’t true – I don’t want anyone to have AIDs.

by cjmulrain on Feb 11, 2009 12:36 PM EST up reply actions  

No

We don’t know if he does or doesn’t – it’s just what the Plaintiff is alleging in her interestingly pleaded complaint. Curiously, though, his attorney issued a non-denial denial and just said Alomar is “healthy” but also that he wanted to keep his health private. Magic Johnson has HIV/AIDS, but you could call him “healthy,” too.

Don’t know about the “sudden drop in performance” theory; Magic was still pretty good when he came back with HIV, and from what I hear, people generally live fine with it these days, as long as they have $$. Then again, Alomar cited back and vision issues when he retired. I have no idea if there’s any connection there, but I would tend to think there isn’t, just because of the timing – he stunk starting in ’02.

Also, why the gratuitous story in the complaint re: getting raped by two Mexican dudes at 17?

by jasondg on Feb 11, 2009 12:57 PM EST up reply actions  

"why the gratuitous story in the complaint re: getting raped by two Mexican dudes at 17?"

I got the impression from the article that the story was connected to his alleged confession to the plaintiff that he had AIDS and, possibly, plaintiff is alleging that the incident was connected to how he contracted the disease. Seems a little remote/spurious, but I ain’t seen the whole complaint so I can’t really speak to the context of it.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Feb 11, 2009 1:02 PM EST up reply actions  

That he

contracted HIV at 17 and lived with it, untreated, for 20 years until suddenly developing severe health issues is tenuous and probably impossible. But I think you’re right, in any event.

by jasondg on Feb 11, 2009 1:13 PM EST up reply actions  

the complaint says it was untreated

but we don’t know that for sure. Maybe he had been getting it treated for years and just never told this particular lady. Magic has had HIV for nearly 20 years now, and it hasn’t advanced to AIDS or caused his health to decline significantly.

by cjmulrain on Feb 11, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions  

AIDS and HIV are not interchangeable though

Magic was fine with HIV, but if it advanced to AIDS, I’m pretty sure his performance would have dropped precipitously. The timeline in this seems to work, if he contracted HIV when he was 17 and it progressed to AIDS around the time he joined the Mets, it could explain the drop in production. Although if it did progress to AIDS in 2002ish, he’d probably be in very bad shape today (there doesn’t seem to be much evidence of his current health status either way, except the word of his lawyer).

by cjmulrain on Feb 11, 2009 4:11 PM EST up reply actions  

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