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O's sign Cust to minor league deal (w/ Custer Reprise)

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weams Hangout Grand Counsel

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Thanks, always like to check out the minors a couple times during the spring

It's the best value and most fun of the vacation. It's like a step back into the baseball of our youth. The luxury of just enjoying the warmth and fine weather while watching those who aspire be taught by those who traveled these fields at a kinder time. A time of certainty and awe.

And now, this season, raising from the ashes of the flamed out phoenix of his baseball career.

The one and only Cust will arise and hit baseballs in to neighbors front lawns.

Causing much consternation among the geriatrics walking by.

Lo. The great Cust has arrived to entertain and amaze the fans. And the Children. Think of the children.

Free admission to Custer's Last Stand.

The Phoenix rises. Despite all the snickers, sneers, and spiteful comments, DESTINY will have her way and we will stand back in awe and amazement at the power of hope and faith.
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It's the best value and most fun of the vacation. It's like a step back into the baseball of our youth. The luxury of just enjoying the warmth and fine weather while watching those who aspire be taught by those who traveled these fields at a kinder time. A time of certainty and awe.

And now, this season, raising from the ashes of the flamed out phoenix of his baseball career.

The one and only Cust will arise and hit baseballs in to neighbors front lawns.

Causing much consternation among the geriatrics walking by.

Lo. The great Cust has arrived to entertain and amaze the fans. And the Children. Think of the children.

Free admission to Custer's Last Stand.

He will, for he is Jack Cust, son of Jack Cust, Sr. He will rake and rake and rake and I will cheer him.

Thus he shall. And thus, he always will be.

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For many, baseball has become a world of numbers. A world filled with useless letters like OPS, ERA, WHIP or XGTSZQY. To those that clutch their decimal filled spreadsheets and calculators with the religious fervor or a born again accountant, the game of baseball has become a never ending duel of meaningless statistics. And with each equation, loudly and arrogantly proclaimed to have the ability to predict the future, baseball becomes a heartless and confusing exercise with loyalty to only the almighty numeral. For the apostles that pray at the altar of the decimal, baseball is a vain attempt to measure the human spirit. Unless your name is Jesus, you do not have the ability to use numbers to predict what a player will do in the future. And if you can, call me, and I will pay your way to Las Vegas.

Soon the journey will begin? For the hyenas of hate, the time has come to whimper in the corner. Sweet Destiny is approaching.

And on a cool October evening, on a green pasture of competition, a long suffering franchise will again walk down its chosen path. And on that night, in a final irony, the chosen one will again wear an Orioles uniform and the final appointment with fate will be fulfilled. The Mighty Cust will be the fulfillment of all the hope, faith, and prayers of those that still believe baseball is a game that is decided not by numbers but by that which is not measurable the human heart.

I have just as much chance of getting it right as someone who says they can see the future based on a bunch of stats of The Mighty Cust from the minor leagues. But I have one big advantage. I know that baseball is not a game played by calculators, but is played by humans and the HEART of The Mighty Cust will take him to his final destiny.

Behold the birth of a legend.

Risen as is his muse.

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Harbinger of Homerdom.
Sultan of Swatitude
Wizard of Walks. Oracle of on-base percentage. Tyrant of the three true outcomes.
If we let the ride to destiny of The Mighty Cust degenerate into another tedious stat food fight, the magic of The Mighty Cust will be lost forever.

Baseball is a story........not a math quiz.

And as does Spring Arrive, So does that Mighty Man of OPB.

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If we let the ride to destiny of The Mighty Cust occur again the magic of The Mighty Cust will not be lost forever.
Stick to lavish hyperbole about Jack Cust, you're not nearly as fun when you actually try to talk about baseball.
I thought it was a joke. Custer has been right all these years.

He is Babe Ruth.

You can not stop Jack Cust you can only hope to contain him by keeping him at triple AAA.
Barry Bonds, David Ortiz, Vladimir Guerrero... There are some major league hitters you just can't let beat you in the late innings of a close game. Chief among them all, however, is almost certainly Jack Cust. Cust would have gotten his chance years ago, but every GM in baseball knew that to use him was to risk shaking the very foundation of the game. That Cust has had to wait until 28 for regular playing time will probably prevent him from reaching 1,000 career homers, which is a shame. Still, 500 is very much in reach, perhaps by the end of the season

This Misandy of Musculature must be stopped!

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Ok. If you insist. BobMc can come look, right?

With kudos to Geoffrey Chaucer:

WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote

The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote,

And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth

Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne

Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne,

And smale fowles maken melodye,

That slepen al the night with open ye,

(So priketh hem nature in hir corages:

Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

(In this case Sarasota Twin Lakes Park!)

You go boy (and girl)! :clap3:

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