Fir's~Forever Trusting Who We Are

firerosearien @ 2009-09-17T20:26:00

2009-09-18T00:28:01Z

I realize not all of you are among his fans, but Pete Abraham is leaving the Journal News for the Boston Globe and the Red Sox.

Love him or hate him, no one did what he did with that access.

firerosearien @ 2009-08-06T10:22:00

2009-08-06T14:23:18Z

What the hell?

Twitter is down completely and Facebook's not much better...did someone launch a cyber attack on social networking sites?

firerosearien @ 2009-07-19T18:02:00

2009-07-19T22:11:35Z

"People forget he had about 150 innings in the minor leagues, which is not a whole lot, I mean I talked to Ron Darling earlier today, he said he had about five or six hundred in the minor leagues, and he's got 30+ starts under his belt in the big leagues. I mean, it's not a ton of pitching."

http://www.zshare.net/audio/6289291080f893a9/

My blog posts from earlier this week:

July 16, 2009 and July 17, 2009
A Deceptively Simple Cause for Joba’s Problems, and, The Joba Theory, Explained and Expanded

Tonight, I appeared as a guest on Steve Keane's Pro Baseball Central show on BlogTalkRadio.
Through much arguing and bickering about the importance of the eighth inning and what will happen when Mariano Rivera's contract expires, there was a point raised that I found worthy of further investigation:
Among the many reasons cited for Joba Chamberlains's inconsistency and lack of stamina, I have not yet seen someone tackle the issue of whether or not Chamberlain's lack of innings pitched--both in college and in the minor leagues--and the affect that might have on him now.
If you look here, you can see Chamberlain's innings totals for both his time in Nebraska and his time with the Yankees.
What do you notice?
Chamberlain did not even pitch 100 innings in the minor leagues; at Nebraska he did not reach 120 innings.
This season, he's already logged 89 innings--and if we keep the Verducci Effect (the idea that excess increases in innings pitched from year to year substantially increases injury risk) in mind, he probably won't top 130 IP--perhaps 140 if the Yankees are feeling like living on the edge with a pitcher who sustained a can't-be-overlooked shoulder injury last season.
How does this compare with others?
Roy Halladay, since he's topical, pitched about 640 innings in the minor leagues; with about 150 or so (if my random mental math is accurate) after his first call up to the major leagues.
Dan Haren pitched 472 innings in the minors; about 128 of them coming after his first call-up to the majors.
Justin Verlander pitched only 118 innings in the minors (over one season), but preceded that with three straight 100+ innings pitched seasons in college ball--Chamberlain only had two years at Nebraska and only pitched more than 100 innings in his first season.
Johan Santana pitched 340 innings in the minors; some after his first call up but the majority before.
Notice a pattern here?
It would seem, then, that there is perhaps a case to be made for "Joba hasn't pitched enough" as a reason for his depleted stamina--which in turn means lower velocity, more hittable pitches and shortened outings.
Now, there are some things to consider:
1) Chamberlain was injured in college--which is part of the reason he fell to the Yankees as low as he did in the draft.
2) He was rushed through the minors because he had been pitching so well--and also because the 2007 Yankees needed pitching help like, uh, (pick your own grossly inappropriate comparison)
3) Going from 89 innings pitched in 2006 at Nebraska to 112 innings pitched in 2007 for the Yankees at multiple levels was a 23 inning increase--perhaps not the Verduccian 30, but for a guy coming off an injury, probably close enough. I'm not sure how many innings pitched he was on pace for before he got hurt in 2008, but it's probably safe to assume that again the Yankees would have been toying with the Verducci line.
Now, already at 89 innings pitched, it doesn't seem likely that Chamberlain will be able to pitch himself out of August without really risking damage, which, of course, would create a whole other set of problems--but you knew this already.
At the time, back in 2007, I don't remember there being too much debate about Chamberlain being rushed--the team's needs were that desperate at the time. In the off-season, Chamberlain was hailed as untouchable by the fans when discussing Santana rumors, but no one--or nearly no one--suggested Chamberlain be sent back down to the minors to build up arm strength, even though the conversion from reliever to starter would surely require that.
It is--perhaps in some sick sense--almost amusing that an issue we as fans (and even writers) have seen as so complicated and so mysterious might actually be really simple: he hasn't pitched enough.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure how you'd address that situation. We're already at a point in the season in which even if you did send Chamberlain back to the minors to work on his pitches, he's pitched so many innings that it's hard to see exactly how beneficial it might be.
It's certainly, however, a warning sign--if the Yankees did trade Chamberlain for Halladay and Toronto did have Chamberlain pitch substantial innings in the minors to build up arm strength and stamina (given Toronto's history in developing--or, as it were, not-- pitchers, they'd probably take this to the other extreme), Chamberlain could yet end up being the effective starter the Yankees hoped for in the first place.
What it seems we're seeing now, then, is all the development and growing pains that should be happening at the minor league level--only it's not at the minor leagues; it's at the majors, where the hitters (excluding those on the Royals, Padres and Mets) don't let mistakes go unpunished.

Part II
Many of you saw the post I wrote last night, in which, with the help of a couple of Mets fans, I arrived at a very, very simple conclusion for the pitching woes of Joba Chamberlain.
Now that I've had a night to sleep on it, I thought I'd go and expand it, mention some caveats and correct some errors on my part, as well as provide you with some raw data--so if you'd like, you can draw your own conclusion.
The "Joba theory", as I'm callling it (feel free to call it whatever you want) centers around one basic premise: the pitching woes of Joba Chamberlain may be at least partly, if not wholly, attributed to the fact that, combining college and minor league performances, Chamberlain has not built up the proper arm strength to be a starter over the long haul.
Reduced endurance/stamina can be a cause of reduced arm strength, which in turns means reduced velocity, more hittable pitches, more pitches thrown and shorter outings.
That's just the physical aspect of it--there's also something to be said for the psychological aspect that without adequate time in the minor leagues, pitchers who experience sudden success at the major league level may not know how to handle the situation when they first begin to struggle. That, would, however, be over-reaching. Only a player and his psychiatrist/psychologist/whomever knows what's really going through his mind.
I am digressing.
Back to the theory at-large.
If I were to make a statement about what the theory is, without using the words "Joba" or "Chamberlain", it would be thus:
While long stints in the minor league do not guarantee a pitcher success, not pitching enough, either in the minors or in a combination of college ball and the minor leagues, can actively work against a pitcher's development.
This is what I wrote last night re: Joba
If you look here, you can see Chamberlain's innings totals for both his time in Nebraska and his time with the Yankees.
What do you notice?
Chamberlain did not even pitch 100 innings in the minor leagues; at Nebraska he did not reach 120 innings.
This season, he's already logged 89 innings--and if we keep the Verducci Effect (the idea that excess increases in innings pitched from year to year substantially increases injury risk) in mind, he probably won't top 130 IP--perhaps 140 if the Yankees are feeling like living on the edge with a pitcher who sustained a can't-be-overlooked shoulder injury last season.

Now, I did leave out the winter ball that Chamberlain pitched in 2006. While that does bump his 2006 innings total over 100 innings, you are still left with Chamberlain having pitched two years of college ball and one year in the minor leagues.
How does that compare with others?
Take a look at the chart I created here (it's in PDF form).

Now, some notes and observations:

* The pitchers selected are, for the most part, considered either the #1 or #2 pitcher on their team, are no longer rookies (I believe Gallardo is an exception due to last year's injury) and are either considered young or in their prime--ie no Randy Johnson or John Smoltz or Andy Pettitte, all of whom are on the obvious downswing of their careers.
* The first column is innings pitched in the minors before a pitcher's first call up; second is whether or not the pitcher was sent back down; third is total innings in the minors and fourth is the number of years in the minors.
* I included the innings pitched totals for college ball for Tim Lincecum and Justin Verlander because of the low number of innings they pitched in the minor leagues. Both Lincecum and Verlander pitched three years of college ball--not Joba's two--and pitched over 100 innings in each season. It's not the minor leagues, but it would certainly contribute to stamina.
* Aside from Verlander and Lincecum, only Mark Buehrle (out of 20 pretty randomly chosen pitchers) pitched less than three years in the minor leagues before their first call up. Six pitchers not named Verlander or Lincecum pitched between 200 and 300 innings, with Cole Hamels at the low end and Johan Santana at the high end (at 294). Twelve pitched at least 300 innings before their first call up.
* You can guess a lot at those who went back down to the minors--shorter stints likely indicate rehab for an injury, while longer stints may reflect ineffectiveness or else that a team wanted to further develop a pitcher.
* If we want to establish a baseline for what is most common--ie, the rule and not the exception--it'd seem to be three seasons in the minors (with a potential call up to the majors in the third) and 200 innings pitched. Even if you make the argument--and you can--that the combination of Joba's college innings and one year in the minors puts him over the 200 IP mark, he's still missing a year. He's not the only pitcher to have ever shot through all four levels of the minor league system in one year, but such things are an exception, not a rule, and sooner or later the law of averages tends to catch up.
* Twenty pitchers, even twenty name-brand pitchers, is still of course far too small of a sample size, so I'll work on expanding it. Theoretically. If there's a pitcher you would like to test, it's pretty simple--go to the Baseball Cube, type in the pitcher's name, and look at the inning pitched in the minor leagues. Have fun! Ones you might consider trying, for the hell of it: Phil Hughes, Clay Buchholz, Mark Prior, Kerry Wood, Chris Carpenter, Ben Sheets, Josh Beckett, Josh Johnson, Mike Pelfrey, Matt Garza, et al. Stay away from rookies who may be riding beginner's luck.
* Relievers don't work here, either. Since relievers by their very nature don't pitch as many innings, the endurance they need to build is not as important as brute arm strength: Can you throw it 100 mph? Can you locate it vaguely close to the strike zone? Can you make believe it's got movement? Congratulations, there's team waiting to sign you right now! Starting pitching is a much different thing.
This is, of course, just a theory.
There are certainly holes, exceptions that don't fit and other issues to consider--like, perhaps, whether or not a pitcher has a history of arm injuries--but it does fit the model of Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is usually the best.
Unfortunately, merely knowing what the problem is won't solve it--and with Chamberlain, that's a whole, other impossible-to-answer question.

http://www.puristbleedspinstripes.com/2009/07/deceptively-simple-cause-for-jobas.html
http://www.puristbleedspinstripes.com/2009/07/joba-theory-explained-and-expanded.html

Have I mentioned that I don't believe in coincidence?

I think Joe Girardi reads my blog...

firerosearien @ 2009-07-17T20:37:00

2009-07-18T00:38:12Z

Walter Cronkite has died.

There are celebrities, and then there are the men and women worth remembering.

"That's it. If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."

firerosearien @ 2009-07-11T18:14:00

2009-07-11T22:15:04Z

I repeat:

Fuck orange county. Fucking fucking fuck it. What the fuck good has it ever fucking done for humanity?

firerosearien @ 2009-07-11T18:00:00

2009-07-11T22:00:28Z

Fuck the entirety of southern california.

firerosearien @ 2009-06-23T21:44:00

2009-06-24T01:44:13Z

Fuck the Yankees.

Fuck my computer.

I'm not sure which I hate more right now but I am really, really fucking pissed.

firerosearien @ 2009-06-18T21:56:00

2009-06-19T01:54:12Z

So tonight, I am embarrassed to be a Yankee fan

firerosearien @ 2009-06-15T12:53:00

2009-06-15T16:51:09Z

Those concerned about the recent coup in the NYS senate should read this post from liamstliam .

firerosearien @ 2009-06-02T11:51:00

2009-06-02T15:49:53Z

I love my life.

Got this in my email this morning:

Rebecca,

We're reaching out to New York baseball fans to find out which of the two new stadiums is the best – the new Yankee Stadium or Citi Field?

NBCNEWYORK.com is hosting a citywide debate on our website as part of our most recent Golden Locals debate. Fans can vote on which stadium is the best and more importantly, they can share their opinions about the new ballparks.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/around_town/debates/

The voting ends next Wednesday and right now it’s a dead heat between the two parks. The winning team gets a live trophy and we expect to have a small awards ceremony at an upcoming game. We’re going to be giving this debate online and TV coverage.

I’m a biased Yankees fan, so I’m reaching out to all the Yankees blogs with the hopes of tipping the scales. We’d love it if you could highlight our Golden Local debate on your site and encourage your readers to vote and chime in.

If you're interested, send me your phone number and I’ll pass it on to our TV producers. They’ll be looking for Yankees and Mets bloggers to interview.

Thanks in advance!

firerosearien @ 2009-04-29T14:56:00

2009-04-29T18:54:58Z

Facebook exists in "Pirate". My life is now entirely worth living.

I've made it to Page five. So I am 25% doneish. I think. I still have 15 more pages to write and I don't really know what i'm talking about.

Good thing I plan to write really, really long footnotes.

firerosearien @ 2009-04-13T02:30:00

2009-04-13T06:28:49Z

Got my thoughts on paper.

Dear Yankee Fans: It's April. You don't need to freak out. No, seriously.

http://tinyurl.com/denbfp

firerosearien @ 2009-04-02T22:50:00

2009-04-03T02:49:05Z

Post I wrote on my blog and the incredible comment a reader left:

For Love Of The Game

With baseball season just days away, many of us are excited about the possibility of seeing the new Yankee Stadium and perhaps even Citifield.

Sometimes, though, it can feel daunting, as though the game itself takes a back seat to the team and to the notion that you are watching titans and not humans.

So what's one to do to get close to the game? To remember why it is we're attracted to the game in the first place?

Here are some things to do throughout the course of the season:

Take in a minor league game. Not just an AAA game, where you probably already know the names of all the prospects, but AA and A games as well, with players not out of their teenage years, getting their first taste of professional ball. Many minor league teams have their bullpens just beside the first or third base line--if you go on a cold or damp night, when no one else is around, walk down to those seats next to the bullpen and watch the relievers warm up. Also--it's a great place to get a foul ball.

Go to a college game in your area. Sure, aluminum is a bit different than wood and it's a little harder to find information on the players, but you never know--you may very well be seeing the next Derek Jeter or Joba Chamberlain...

Find some friends and find someone's park or backyard, use some old tennis balls and play a sandlot game of baseball. You don't have to play only nine innings; play until the sun goes down or there's a thunderstorm warning. Just make sure to wear a helmet if your pitcher actually, you know, pitches.

Take a glove and a ball and go to the park with a friend, brother, sister, parent, cousin, child... and just play catch. There is nothing more basic than having a catch. Turn it into a game with your own rules or just toss lazy fly balls. Doesn't really matter. The beauty of baseball is that as long as you have a ball, you can play catch.

The one thing it's so easy to forget over the course of the season is that nothing is bigger than the game. Nothing.

No player, no team, no stadium is bigger than the game.

The funny thing is, though, the game is at its biggest when its at its smallest. The game is the best, the most pure, when there are no bright lights or giant LCD monitors or $500 lower level tickets.

In the end, baseball's a game. That's what's at the heart of it, that's why we watch it, why we're fans.

So while you're busy marveling at the new Stadium, make sure you don't forget what this is all about in the first place.

Posted by Rebecca at 6:47 PM

Mike said...

Correction. Baseball was a game. Now it's a business. At least that's how I feel every single year at this time, the cold indifference of a jilted lover almost. Baseball in general, and the Yankees in particular, spend each winter making me lose all interest, filling me with nothing but contempt for the greed that oozes from every pore...nothing, maybe, except a bit of nostalgia, too, for how much better it used to be (and how much better everything used to be, and 20 years from now I'll be saying today was so much better than the future-present). And yet...

And yet, when those first spikes step out onto the grass, even though I know it's wrong, even though at the core of my being I know it's the wrong grass (the right grass is gone, the right seats are gone. Right Field, my childhood playground, is gone. Right field, where Al Kaline landed on my father and his father the day before father's day in 1963, a story I heard only a million times, often in right field itself. Right field, where my parents saw Chambliss and Jackson etch their heroic deeds in the record books. Right field, the long shadows, the imposing upper deck, my favorite corner in all the world of baseball, is gone. There is a new right field, but it's the wrong right field) and the wrong spikes (another player I don't want, another ego we don't need, yet another personnel blunder in the post-O'Neill era). Even though I know a year from now I'll go through the same cycle of cynicism and despair all over again, none of that is going to matter. I guess what I'm really trying to say is...

Dammit, baseball, I can't stay mad at you! C'mere, you big lug! Is it opening day yet? I'll even learn to love the Interactive Yankeetainment Experience if I have to...just don't leave me again.

But you will. Hopefully later in October than the last several years, but you will.

But it doesn't matter now. Now it's April, and there is only possibility. Only the columns of zeroes in the standings and in the stat charts. Only the fresh grass. Only six more months with you, baseball, waiting for me when I come home from work each day. And that's fine with me.
April 2, 2009 10:45 PM

firerosearien @ 2009-03-08T22:49:00

2009-03-09T02:48:51Z

My friend Brent asked me to share his videos--they are fan videos, but they include every song U2 played, including the two after GMA signed off.

Source 1 thinks you need to Get On Your Boots because you're so Magnificent

Source two thinks I'll Go Crazy if I don't Go Crazy Tonight

Source Three thinks it was a Beautiful Day

Source Four thinks you need to Breathe

Source four wonders if you've got Vertigo

firerosearien @ 2009-03-08T21:48:00

2009-03-09T01:47:44Z

C/P'ed from the blog:

(Today, 8 March, is International Woman's Day. In honor of that, I offer this post, on my thoughts, feelings and experiences as a blogger.)

I don't know how it started, my interest in sports.

There's really no logical reason for it: neither of my parents were very interested in sports, I was such a bad athlete that I got cut from my middle school basketball team when fifteen tried out for twelve spots, and I can't begin to enumerate the number of times I was picked last for pretty much everything remotely athletic.

Everything from my childhood states this girl should not be a sports fan, and yet, here I am.

By some odd confluence of events and circumstances, I am here now, a blogger, a writer and a die-hard sports fan.

I remember the year it happened. Twelve years old, my math teacher nursed a passion for the Yankees I had never seen anyone have before (his son was taken in the 2008 draft by the Minnesota Twins), and I, ever the teacher's pet, latched on to it. There was nothing quite like the feel of competition, and, unlike the Nets, who never won, and the Devils, to whom I had not yet been acquainted, the Yankees won, and they won a lot.

I remember learning about David Wells' perfect game, about one of Darryl Strawberry's giant home runs (which happened to, as my older brother says, "bounce off my friend's chest"). Of course, in the pre-Stub Hub days, it was possible to get $12 bleacher seats on game night, and such things seemed more possible than they might now.

In 1998, the year of Sosa and McGwire, it was impossible not to fall in love with the Yankees.

We watched Game One of the World Series as a family, and when Tino Martinez came up to bat in the seventh, worked a 3-2 count with two outs, it wasn't hard to figure out what would happen next–these were the Yankees, after all, and the season was 1998.

There was, however, one drawback.

There were few people with whom I could share it.

Most twelve year old girls care about boys and trying to get away with being more grown up than they are. Trust me on this–I was one of them. Most twelve year old girls do not care so much about baseball unless they are on the field, playing the game.

I never really bothered to hide it when I became obsessed, and it was probably a very short track from being obsessed to becoming a blogger, though blogs first had to be invented and my ability to be critical of the team, instead of blindly delusional, had to develop.

Still, develop it did, and now I've been at this small thing for about a year and a half–just over it, actually.

I've been fortunate enough to be able to do this at a time where women baseball bloggers are not an absurdity, even if we still are a little unusual. For instance, in January, when guest bloggers appeared on The Yankees LoHud Blog, I was only one of two women to make an experience. Actually, thinking about it, I can't actually remember if the second woman scheduled to post ever did post...

I have to be honest. The most sexism I've ever seen are comments left by trolls, which obviously don't count, and that is, perhaps, an incredibly encouraging thought.

Granted, a blogger will never experience what a beat writer or broadcaster will, as we don't exactly get press passes here, and thus will likely never be in an all-male locker room. It's no secret that until recently women weren't even allowed in the press box, so you can imagine how much trouble the locker room may have been for the first to integrate it.

Even if we can't stand Suzyn Waldman's nasally voice or Kim Jones's, well, not very questioning questions, you have to remember that as recently as 30 years ago, a time that many of you, dear readers, may remember, the idea of a woman broadcasting or a woman in the locker room would have been preposterous.

Women may still be underrepresented in baseball (though that is changing), but the wonderful thing about blogging is that, at least in the fan community, that ratio is getting narrower.

I am lucky enough to be a part of it now.

It means that in ten or twenty years, as the case may be, I can tell my (future) daughter, that yes, she can be a sportswriter if she so desires, and that her being a sportswriter in itself won't be an objectified spectacle.

My grandmother was born only three years after women in the United States won the right to vote; I have grown up in a world where traditional gender norms have been questioned to a point where we can banter around terms like 'transsexual' and 'transgender' without much thought.

Still, it's hard to be completely satisfied. I have this opportunity, but many do not.

In Iran, for example, women are not even allowed to watch their national football team , never mind being a sportswriter that covers male teams.

Even here in the United States, Title IX legislation was needed to ensure girls of an equal opportunity. While such legislation may no longer be needed as attitudes have shifted, that there is still a debate shows that this is not the same thought everywhere.

I started my blog because one person told me he'd read what I wrote. I don't actually know if he still reads–if you do, ChiDave, more power to you–but, it got me to do something that has utterly changed my life for the better.

I hope there are more women out there, willing to take the opportunity.

Cheers, and since I don't say it nearly often enough, thanks for reading.

U2 @ Fordham University/GMA Winter Concert Series

2009-03-07T02:18:57Z

[Sorry mods, I'm running on four hours of sleep here...)

U2 played a free concert this morning at Fordham University in the Bronx, NYC as part of Good Morning America's Winter Concert Series

So my own camera battery died, hence the generic Youtube clip:

Source

They played six songs, three songs per set, which isn't a lot, but dude, it was free. When I was in the same city as them last time (Dublin '05) tickets were going for ~$350!

Anyway, some of my friends were on line as early as 4 AM, I think getting up when it's dark out sucks, so my friend and I wandered over around 6 AM...and we paid dearly for it, getting stuck towards the back.

And there was a lot of standing around and just waiting.

However, today was much warmer, a balmy 40 F, than it was in the beginning of the week when wind chills were in the single digits.

The building they're performing in front of is Keating Hall, which is probably the most famous building on the entire campus.

Which would, of course, explain why I've never gone in it. The stained glass windows looked amazing in the sunrise.

SOURCE: Dude, I was there!

I'm a narcissist.

2009-03-04T06:37:07Z

This is the TEST shipment you asked for

12:19 Holy crap I did well on an assignment for Maryanne. And the five minutes of exposure was certainly enough to give my fingers mild frostbite #
13:31 @proctorsarm Dude, I'm following 75 on Twitter and your updates are filling my page...I thought liveblogs were supposed to be on the blog?! #
16:34 @Blackrosebugg So if I keep twittering about the Yanks, Nick Swisher and CC Sabathia are gonna call me and ask me to come work for the team? #
18:18 making utterly no progress. RIP Cooper + Smith. #
18:21 making utterly no progress. #
19:58 A-Rod continues to bring trouble: tinyurl.com/bvb8ne

It's all Derek's fault? #
20:11 @CC_Sabathia get a picture with @THE_REAL_SHAQ? #
20:37 @russiawithglove hard to fill seats after the economic collapse of doom #
20:43 @proctorsarm iT'S ALL DEREK'S FAULT! #
21:11 @proctorsarm karma is such a bitch #
21:35 I get it: Republicans think the credit Crisis is the fault of stupid homeowners; Democrats think it's the fault of the idiot banks. #
21:56 @FLWbooks Yeah, so my dad's name is Irv Glass. I was kind of confused. #
21:56 @missxanthropy *hugs* my thoughts are with you hon #
22:48 @NickSwisher They've got some talent, but the Yanks have a helluva lot more. #
00:34 @TheRopolitans Ahahaha. That amuses me. #

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firerosearien @ 2009-02-07T00:11:00

2009-02-07T05:11:26Z

I flat-out bawled watching this.

I mean, like, I'm still wiping my tears.

"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.

I'm a narcissist.

2009-02-02T08:00:22Z

12:51 let's go Steelers! Mmm, Super Bowl, best unofficial holiday of the year! #
01:05 pointing and laughing at Tuscon's Broadcast Malfunction--someone's seen Fight Club one too many times! #

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2009-02-01T07:11:31Z

15:40 thinking the Devils kick all sorts of ass. #

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firerosearien @ 2009-01-31T17:34:00

2009-01-31T22:38:48Z

Since I'm bored,

FRIENDING MEME

1. Name
2. Location
3. Hobbies
4. TV Shows
5. Movies
6. Sports
7. Politics
8. Dream job
9. What makes you awesome.

DO THE FRIENDING MEME

I'm a narcissist.

2009-01-31T10:17:56Z

11:36 wonders if this is what a hangover feels like #
15:12 understands why she doesn't want to be a philosopher #

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2009-01-29T06:51:34Z

15:29 ready for winter to end. I want my baseball. #

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2009-01-27T07:08:32Z

10:56 Massive fail, Pope, Massive fail. #

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2009-01-26T06:57:33Z

17:25 pissed at Syracuse for sucking, and finding that wine makes databasing easier to handle. Still gonna be the worst in the class, though #
00:31 Good luck, Martha. #

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