Per Connolly: O's intensifying interest in Morales (Roch says he's hearing no)

[scOtt]

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,

And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Bin gar keine Russin, stamm? aus Litauen, echt deutsch.

And when we were children, staying at the archduke?s,

My cousin?s, he took me out on a sled,

And I was frightened. He said, Marie,

Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

THE BROAD-BACKED hippopotamus

Rests on his belly in the mud;

Although he seems so firm to us

He is merely flesh and blood.

Flesh and blood is weak and frail,

Susceptible to nervous shock;

While the True Church can never fail

For it is based upon a rock.

The hippo's feeble steps may err

In compassing material ends,

While the True Church need never stir

To gather in its dividends.

The 'potamus can never reach

The mango on the mango-tree;

But fruits of pomegranate and peach

Refresh the Church from over sea.

At mating time the hippo's voice

Betrays inflexions hoarse and odd,

But every week we hear rejoice

The Church, at being one with God.

The hippopotamus's day

Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts;

God works in a mysterious way?

The Church can sleep and feed at once.

I saw the 'potamus take wing

Ascending from the damp savannas,

And quiring angels round him sing

The praise of God, in loud hosannas.

Blood of the Lamb shall wash him clean

And him shall heavenly arms enfold,

Among the saints he shall be seen

Performing on a harp of gold.

He shall be washed as white as snow,

By all the martyr'd virgins kist,

While the True Church remains below

Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.

scOtt is grooving tonight!

[scOtt]

Sorry for the sidetrack HOPE WE SIGN MORALES but I have been set OFF tonight!

[orioles119]

No thread is complete without the Swedish Chef...

[Capn Vivi]

This thread is the footballer. I don't mind. Drink up!

[El Gordo]

Sorry to interrupt your fun, but I just want to let you know that the O's just bought Aroid's contract from the MFY.

[Rconnell]

Sorry to interrupt your fun, but I just want to let you know that the O's just bought Aroid's contract from the MFY.

With a contract extension on top of it too.

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[El Gordo]

With a contract extension on top of it too.

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Not to mention he and Manny are getting married. But carry on.

[Malike]

Not to mention he and Manny are getting married. But carry on.

A-Roid will make quite the maiden.

[malkusm]

So I just woke up. And I apparently missed all the fun last night?

And...we still didn't sign Morales, and now MLBTR says we are "very close" to signing Cruz.

Lame.

[Rene88]

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