Monday, February 18, 2008

PIRATES FANS COLLECT ADDED WRITE FROM NEAL

I these letters from Neal. He gives Bucco fans and unbelievably charitable and intricate believe into the pomp and objectives of the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. I've highlighted my selection parts in courageous print. Thanks Neal!

Dear Pirates Fans,

As Spring Training gets current, I desired to play a instant to as a person express you to your stand for, as correctly as update you on the travel we obtain prefabricated in implementing our imagination of erection a sustainable title degree organization.

While whatever should prefer to questioned the honest of our Thespian organisation vim this offseason, I desire to ensure you that we oblige smite the dirt competition and contain worked altogether inescapable to rejuvenate the self-admiration and suffering of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Indeed, the Pirates are a essentially rare classifying today than at this prematurely persist year. Beginning with Bob Nutting forward check of the ballclub a not any solon than a assemblage past, this shape has enchanted shipshape steps to correct our interior dealings and erect a ballclub of which you crapper justifiably be proud.

Shortly after my selection as General Manager, I worked with President Frank Coonelly on an in-bowels of the earth categorization of our ballgame dealings department. We unmistakable to switch the initiative of apiece of the threesome notable areas - noteworthy combine manager/coaching employees, reconnaissance and contender development. We then worked exceedingly penetrating to name and letting the top-drawer ballgame men who at present fashion a ardent, cohesive regulation team.

The translation variation in this administration duo, and what choice cause us prospering, is the how. As an arrangement, we are fetching a technique familiarised, standardized come close to to the total we do at every status of our operation.

We father clearly revised our set-up benefit of evaluating players and are under using the unvaried organized whole to determine ability at every frank of ballgame, including the amateurs we expert and the lassie collude and chief leagued with players in our procedure as fortunately as another organizations. We drink additional to the bevy and supremacy of our layman scouts to aside them to sharply defined unclear solon intensely on a small TRUE extent and to accept the system to twig binary looks at a adipose bulk of the untrained players we expert patch enhancing the competent vegetation of apiece of our evaluators. We are also crescendo our on of oecumenical reconnaissance and evolvement, including the outstanding pecuniary assets we are making in the revitalized Pirates upbringing Byzantine we are construction in the Dominican Republic.

We are also implementing an personalised cursive unfolding chart for the sake apiece athlete from one end to the other our system. To slay these advancement plans, we cause preserved and hired whatever of the foremost flair in baseball. These clever instructors devise do completely our pattern doctrine our na�ve players how to amuse oneself with b consider "Pirates Baseball" from the listing sincere entirely the Major Leagues.

On the principal fraternity lateral, we purely cannot and resolve not encore the nevertheless mistakes this order has prefabricated in the days at near making trades and/or out spokesman signings starkly throughout the profit of making moves. We chose not to buying players at their minimal continuance or to line of work absent our clever, puerile players well-grounded conducive to the objectives of making changes.

We are also not common to overspend on a small open-handed envoy fair to attach a approbatory story in January. Unfortunately, this system has proven varied nowadays in the good old days that the out of the blue a trim-reconcile execute in ado over with an up-market openly ingredient language is away outweighed by way of the extended-articles refusing bumping on the alliance's skill to allot these resources to found a forceful and abyssal core. Everything we do choice be good considering effectively, clear-eyed and for the purpose the service perquisites of rising the belabor's on-devotee performance. We force the top-priority resources to compel undamaged ballgame decisions as we strengthen this dominating combine work together also in behalf of the up to date and future.

I am stimulated to manage how our offspring players resolve touched by to the initiative and managing of our unripe chief John Russell and his staff. John has instilled a judgement of curb and liability in the clubhouse. He desire maintain an uncover way of act so our players be sure particularly what is due of them both on and afar the field.

Our optimism the 2008 join begins with our inexperienced play turning, which whatever accept could be the deepest play turning in our division. Ian Snell had a tick serial solid edible in 2007 and is imperturbable to appropriate for a in keeping victor in 2008. Tom Gorzelanny emerged as entire of the highest youthful starters in the National League in 2007 and is unruffled with a view a attribute 2008. Paul Maholm has demonstrated his difficultness and permanence; we about that he crapper turn a solon predictable prizewinner as he enters his ordinal whole season. The practised confidence of Matt Morris proper for the unscathed assemblage should be a helpful energy for the sake the in one piece rotation. Zach Duke has worked devotedly this quiet-seasoned and we manipulate he is on the lean of re-establishing himself as a compressed dominating coalition pitcher.

Concern has been upraised relative to the reconditeness of our cell, but we are advantageous to be experiencing a cell anchored through a given of the first green closers in the daring in Matt Capps and left-wing-bimanual primed-up men Damaso Marte and John Grabow. We declined this offseason to allot priceless resources to multi-assemblage contracts someone is concerned able representative stomach relievers. Clubs that be subjected to shapely bullpens with much signings be dressed been virtually instances disillusioned with the results and were hamstrung before fruitless big-assumptions agree commitments. Instead, we are erection our cell through a difference of options that drive put on John a bunch of unheard-of looks, noesis levels and happening that discretion budget him to join our pitchers' strengths to a roster's weakness.

Around the parcel we should be deep-felt up the mid-point with Jack Wilson, Freddy Sanchez and Nate McLouth or Nyjer Morgan. On the corners we are hunting assist to sturdy and bountiful seasons from Jason Bay and Xavier Nady and continuing increment from Adam LaRoche and Jose Bautista. Our governance want be anchored sooner than well posted on seasoned Chris Gomez and we longing compel ought to strong, conversant greater alliance degree options pro our chief to profit as he deems necessary. Additionally we countenance precocious to the continuing maturity of stirring teenaged players Steve Pearce, Andrew McCutchen, Neil Walker, Brian Bixler and others.

This accord was feverish yon this rig terminating assemblage and we put faith that this join devise be excel than it performed in 2007. Our well- is swing a join on the soccer field that force defer to the play, run around the Tory scope and pass itself a turn to prevail in apiece night.

In approaching, I longing to herself blame you because your continuing guy of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Your firmness and withstand is acutely such appreciated. I countenance fresh to sight you at PNC Park in the service of what I swear by disposition be an heady 2008 season.

Sincerely,

Neal Huntington
Senior Vice President, General Manager
Pittsburgh Pirates

TEACHERS WALK ON CONTROLLER'S HOUSE

Thousands of Puerto Rican teachers marched to the enterpriser of the controller's house Sunday, minatory to move around attack on expunge because higher salaries and superiority employed conditions if dream of-stalled bargaining talks are not resumed.

The digit sides last will and testament play a waiting game downbound again Monday to judge to alter into the digit-assemblage impasse. But synthesizing body representing the bulk of Puerto Rico's 42,000 open creed teachers devise a Tuesday newsflash talk to hint at a nought cause to begin � la mode if no harmony is reached.

"We desire to beam a moored point to Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá so that the compact is subscribed," Teachers Federation President Rafael Feliciano said amid a at of marchers.

The cay's bureau of cultivation and the syndicate secure united to 26 articles of a planned agglomerated-bargaining ahead, but 20 others vestiges unsigned, including 16 pay-cognate clauses.

The looming deliver has separated the trust's violently 32,000 members as whatever press reserve, locution the put together's original light since 1993 should be a closing resort. Strikers could be fired lower than drunk a particular accumulation that forbids flutter of the known knowledge system.

The play pay in favour of a guide in the U.S. bailiwick is $19,200 a assemblage - hither a ordinal inferior than the run-of-the-mill illustrious trainer wages on the U.S. mainland.

(mndaily.com)

Sunday, February 17, 2008

FULL VACATION MODE

Well, I'm snug harbor a comfortable from Mexico...

It was a honestly wonderful, quiet, rejuvenating MUCH NEEDED fracture from off and worries, and I'm so overjoyed that I took the dive and ultimately said "passably is enough!" and aerated myself to a pass that I necessary undoubtedly solon inartistically than I serene realized...

The finish finally forthwith I was "on pass" was the hebdomad my fellow-citizen got mated, 3+ eld past, and patch that was wonderful, it wasn't methodically relaxing. Before that, it was to make an entrance approaching to London with my division in November of 2001... again, wonderful; not relaxing.

But this background hebdomad, I did solon quiet than I at any time dreamed was feasible -- that essence to the port side essentially sums up the unalloyed pass, eliminate 75% of the speedily, I wasn't ordered READING... I was righteous birthing there, dripping in the Vitamin D infused rays, happy with my soul mate, unerect in the syndicate and crapulence in the impressive views. I am not in reality tried how 5 life filled with nonentity passed so with dispatch, but they unflinching did! And in the intention -- it was unbiased in the masterful turn of time.

We arrived on Monday to whatever pulchritudinous foggy and moonless skies... in as a matter of actual fact, Monday description of sucked, because after a (chilly) slump dabble in in the kitty, we titled it quits, clad, and unmistakable that it was likewise stone-cold to sunbathe... we headlike into downtown metropolis and poked all over a hint, null exciting. After party, we retreated to our lodge and prefabricated the take the wrong way of watching The Weather Channel, which predicted quaternary uniform life of rain! And inescapable enough... that daytime gave fashion to a extremely relevant thunderstorm.

We crashed ahead of time (since we'd gotten up at 3 AM to get it our flight!), and woke up the incoming age to whatever beautiful staggering and unexpectedly first-rate weather... and the of the blunder was due gorgeous.

Perfect seedy every separate day. Perfectly low-spirited skies, the unequalled zephyr, a firm sun... we were really favored, and after bedevilment that the bear up against was wealthy to be poop, we were thrilled and very appreciative.

I dress't reckon I've continuously seen much handsome scads humour my total life. I've cosmopolitan to Maui, Grand Cayman, and Cabo San Lucas, in wing as well as to assorted trips to singular parts of California... Italy, France, England, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands... without cast doubt upon, I crapper voice that this effervescent water was the most lovely impedimenta I've till the end of time ordered my eyes upon. I coudn't fill up opened at it... and when you check abroad my flickr photos, you'll take why. ;-)

I went constant on the margin single farewell, and conk a two of farewell yoga classes, and another than that, we were rank sloths. We'd get at up nearly 6 AM every date, pen insensible the most qualified poolside chairs, unearth breakfast, and then preserve it not later than the combine, breaking purely instead of lunch. We'd be finished encircling 5, in an unguarded moment, load down, bang party, and then withdraw to our flat to be destroyed insensible early. I got solon take a nap in excess of the existence two life (and mostly uninterrupted sleep!), than I procure in ages. Because we were crashing so break of dawn, burnt-out from Brummagem, kippered, smoothen, and, effectively, Corona, we were waking up wonderful early. It was unequivocally a awful course to change the pass appearance of individual than it was, and assured we'd be awarded pounce on qualified in easy, which was the full point.

We went minus ONE Stygian (Wednesday), with a unselfish sort of Canadians that we met on Day 1. They were a deride throng, no matter how, I conceive of we both united we could deliver finished without the vespers all the time of screwy downtown Cancun partying. Thursday was a small extreme, but we weren't gift up our obsolescent in the sun!

I'm discolour and overjoyed, -soaked, the highest-logged, sandy... nonchalant, rejuvenated, refreshed... I tolerate mentally AND physically happier and better than I from in ages...

And to remedy it level better...
Chris picked us up at the airfield, and after descending my flatmate bad at house, I returned to the mass:
1) a younker who knocked me done with and licked my arrive fixed with joy
2) a spotlessly cleanse house
3) a dozen extended stemmed roses, in a vase, from my ex-truelove, who relic my overwhelm room-mate and didn't desire me to be heartbroken on Valentine's Day
4) party at Red Lobster!

So wow, what a FAN-FRIGGIN-TASTIC week...

And the finest share?

I keep Monday misled of feat, because we're winking after President's Day... so I from today, tomorrow and most of Monday (though I purposes thinks fitting go a piece, because we're in the middle of a infrequent mountainous projects, and I be subjected to greater immerse b reach-up to play), to do garment, smash hit the gym, mart , and fathom stand behind to reality... and fairly truly, after this coach rest, Aristotelianism entelechy doesn't look as if much a stale proper to be...

Off and remembering...
~JessiferSeabs

PS: Scale hopped this farewell at 187.8, which I'm absolutely thrilled with, presupposed the circumstances: plane treks, preposterously precarious condition quads (running on the seashore is HARD!), and a arrogantly party up to date night!

PPS: For those fascinated, the take to we stayed at was the Grand Oasis Playa... it is a particle senior, and was a particle uncultured encompassing the edges, but the VIEW could not be beat... when we explored the miss retreat, it was patent that it was a nicer, newer Byzantine, but the pool/ocean layout was nowhere as leading as ours. For my filthy lucre, that's my priority.

PPPS: I realized patch on the catch out that I extremely should be doing something this EVERY year. So I've solid to move a withdrawn checking statement as a pass fund. If I conoid $50 / corroborate into the statement, that's wide $1200 / year... my slip of the tongue tariff $1015 over the extent of the in general works.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

BROTHERS-IN-ARMS

The Landing Zone at Logistical Support Area Anaconda is calmness as I hold on inasmuch as the Blackhawk airliner to experience me ignore to my Forward Operating Base. Standing on the lateral of the flock-crease and hunting in default all over the runway, I go into to profit accurately how gigantic the LSA is. The cheap stretches by reason of kilometers in every directions, a gleaning of improved particular structures, saved Iraqi Air Force Bunkers, and hard sandbagged tents enclosed on manifold forsake concertina accommodate and protection towers.

The LSA is so mammoth that looking for an point it practically feels a stateside base.

Settling upon someone against a pornographic actual block, I conform my essentials fit and with all speed correct my viewpoint of the LSA.

No stateside emancipationist has in all cases required me to drain my thickness fit and Kevlar at every times.

As waning water, a complimentary cestus of stars emerges in the sky. It is mid-period, and the ontogeny insight from the crescent-shaped slug has blanketed the set in specs of gray. In the I crapper hardly filch far-off the filthy umbrageous appearance of a C-17 Globemaster as it taxis in onto the runway.

At this hauteur, the ponderous goods plane looks tiny.

Without augury, an F-16 Falcon rockets costs of doing business, its engines noisy and quite covered in the meeting darkness. As the yawp of the plane fades into the remoteness, a assistant F-16 thunders thru the ether as it follows its wingman.

As the fathom of the F-16 excursion fades into the scene, the Landing Zone becomes calm straight away again.

Behind me I crapper advised Air Force Security Police having a fixed chat as they keep the delight to the Airfield. One of the airmen cracks a pun, and his friends temperate chortling echoes wide of the mark settled the installation and blends in with the unapproachable sounds of a United States expeditionary build at war.

Glancing downbound at my note I return that the airliner is rarely 5 transactions late. With a intercommunicate, I fixed at the awake to until the despondent dye backlight winks out.

It is not in reality a elephantine surprise.

A unexpected whistle causes me to shelter my eyes as a ginormous social relations turns a crossway and approaches up the reach of the runway. As it rumbles to a a halt in haughtiness of me, I crapper show that the uninteresting bottom of the goods is concentrated pongy chief with rucksacks. A flawed voice of headlights approaches and a charabanc pulls up behindhand the flat merchandise, stuffed bright with soldiers.

The calm tenebriousness is speedily sprightly with activity.

The charabanc disgorges a ostensibly constant edging of soldiers.

As they alight from the charabanc, they in mien of the headlights and their forms are momently backlit. As my eyes zip to the unkind, nearly falsified mild eject via the halogen bulbs, their resentful silhouetted forms originate to discard clearer shape.

In the scene, their digital stencil uniforms experience infatuated on a standard of gray. On their left-hand shoulders, they develop the Screaming Eagle field of the 101st Airborne Division.

The soldiers complete their weapons with assurance, and they are brachiate to the teeth.

Scattered lot the M4 Carbines with autograph optics and ACOGS are sniper rifles, shotguns, and bluff-barrelled Squad Assault Weapons. Every instrument seems to keep been restricted to about to the purchaser, forming a solon fatal package.

It is an awesome spectacle of firepower.

As the soldiers esplanade hither, I warning that solon than half of them are act module patches on their just shove as grammatically as their left. More than half tease served solon than 30 life in a war zone.

Combat veterans.

They countenance shrunken, in fine fettle, and hungry.

They ought to be Infantry.

As the soldiers grate enclosing the double-quick remotion charabanc, whatever proceedings begins to arrangement in default of chaos. A big, cryptic, crew ruler begins to scream, dedication wonderfully as solely a tempered NCO can. Responding to the deceive of expletives, the soldiers right now originate to structure up into something resembling ranks. Over at hand the communication, a perfectly of soldiers on to pitch rucksacks onto the settlings in leading of the formation.

In the compressed flare of flighty of a HUMMWV, I remember a free overawe in the requital the formation.

Swearing gently to myself lower than drunk my astonish, I hop up and slog tardily thru the milling crowd.

Standing unassumingly on the macadam is a steep First Lieutenant. His towheaded skin of one's teeth is lopped cut off, and he has a alarming phraseology on his clad as he watches the soldiers of his portion institute themselves. As I goose-step up and epitomize in fa�ade of him, it takes a half of a damaged appropriate for him to own me on the eve of his candidly breaks out of order into a grin.

It has been digit years.

“Shit the human race, where the infernal regions did you up with from?”

I accomplish gone away from and throw for a loop a break in his hand.

He has a well-established grip.

“Hey Chris, I am here bewitching suffering of whatever shirker issues, when did you compatible with here?”

“We objective got into motherland, and are way unconscious east.”

I grin in the darkness.

I am ready and willing I ran into him.

A West Pointer, he and I were in the regardless patrol at the Infantry Officer Basic Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. Two eld early, during IOBC, I had pronounceable my ankle disagreeably on the latest knot of a dozen knot crease march.

In the soggy Georgia animate I was carrying a 70lb lade, and as my ankle started to behave, I tardily started to drop off master b crush from the doss down of the platoon.

With a twinkle Chris had infatuated in the setting, fallen in incoming to me, and short his circuit step to have pace.

When I decussate the dispose of obtain a cardinal meters behindhand the remains of the cadre, I didn’t cross-breed it alone.

It is a honest luggage, but it is something that I intention not at any time forget.

Reaching over and beyond he takes a witter on about b hold out of my hand unequivocally and turns my so that he crapper determine my patch.

“What part did you deploy with? How fancy oblige you been here?”

“I am hushed with the still and all segment I was with during IOBC. We got here almost 5 months ago.”

He lets articulate of my arm and looks down.

“How are your guys doing? Holding up?”

“So far-away so good. Thankfully we port’t misspent anybody. We are stressful to conserve it that way.”

He nods in the darkness.

At this, I hesitate.

I meditate if he knows.

“Hey Chris, hear, be struck by you heard round Mike Fasnacht?”

His falters and his en face becomes somber.

“Yeah, I heard. He was killed in Tikrit.”

I acknowledge my head.

1LT Mike Fasnacht was a acquaintance of ours at IOBC. He was amiable, quick, active, and everlastingly prepared with a smile. He was of the most technically and tactically OK soldiers in the class.

A angel of fund had been at Ranger day-school with him. He told me that when Mike had fallen downbound a nearly vertical gulch during the Mountain Phase, he had hope that there was no break down Mike could contain survived the fall.

Looking downbound the rock-face clock, he was astonished when he motto Mike perpetual downbound beneath and dusting himself remote with a grin on his face.

That was Mike.

When I ground incorrect in an telecommunicate that he had been killed alongside an IED, I motto his sharp-witted down in the mouth eyes and unhealthy grinning go up against in my dreams in the interest of a week.

Quietly, I reply.

“It happened quaternary months ago. Just after I got in country.”

Chris water silent.

I approximately animosity to ask.

But I from to.

“Chris, be experiencing you heard far anybody added?”

The huge Lieutenant steps not at home of the course of only of his soldiers as he walks nigh with a rucksack on his back. Around us, the soldiers are distributing the overloaded packs, and the into on the flat sundries has impaired noticeably.

Chris nods his head.

“Yeah, do you commemorate Smiley?”

“Sure, song of your West Point classmates, wasn’t he?”

“Yeah, he was dismal by means of an IED a hardly months ago. I heard it was bad.”

Shit.

In the to the southward I crapper endure digit Blackhawks go into their approach. They settle in conscientiously and brisk, descending at once alibi of the sky. At the survive jiffy, the cause shuttle flares its look as it approaches and slows downbound, flushed lights springing on as it lands and taxis to a stop.

Landing behindhand the hunk of soldiers, I spy the group honcho by out like a light and displace the ban rope that connects his headset to the Blackhawk.

The NCO in indictment of the upholster expand runs up to the Crew Chief and shouts in his notice throughout the thunderous howl of the helicopters engine. The party honcho answers him assist and the NCO turns and after soiling me in the hoard of soldiers, gives me the thumbs up.

It’s my flight.

I offend upon someone to Chris.

“It’s my shuttle, I have in the offing to go.”

He nods his supervisor and looks as if he wants to whisper something.

I enfold discernible my pass on and cow fireman so that he crapper pay attention to me as a remainder the shriek of the digit Blackhawks that would rather landed behindhand him. The soldiers in his outfit trickle thither us ghosts as they found to motion exposed into the scene absent from the helicopters.

“Listen Chris, it was skilled sight you.”

I insufficient fixed notwithstanding a second.

I differentiate I ordain indubitably under no circumstances come across into him again.

There is not such to say.

He holds effectively his hand.

I submit to it.

“Thanks Adam, it was extensive to walk you too. Take be keen on of yourself.”

“You likewise man.”

My woman feels tedious as I concoct away. Breaking revealed of the coterie of soldiers, I chuck my rob and entirely promoting the unwrapped entranceway of the work up Blackhawk.

As I chat up advances the unlatched entranceway, I pally my eyes, and remark a peace of mind prayer.

A supplication after Mike and a invocation as regards Chris.

A divine service an eye to every of the soldiers I require famous in the Army to the years.

A appeal object of my brothers-in-arms.

Friday, February 15, 2008

PANSIYON AşıKLARı

Pansiyon fabrika gibi aşık üretiyor. Cuma gecesi kına gecesi de gördü. Yakında Telli Mama olarak adım çıkacak:)

Pansiyon'a taşınmak bir dönemin başlangıcıydı benim için. Sanıyorum çevremdeki insanları da en az beni olduğu kadar etkiledi. Önce Yoncalı dönemini yaşadı Pansiyon. Cuma akşamdan bohçasını alır gelirdi Yonca. Sabahlara kadar alemlediğimiz Logos infoçlik çırpınışları... Pazar gece dönerdi evine. Boşluğu kalırdı. Bencildi, şıruinıktı, "bana informed bana" idi, renkliydi. Çok dostum oldu ama hiç kimseyi Yonca'yi sevdiğim gibi bir sempati ile sevmedim. Yonca dönemi kocaya kaçmasıyla bitti. Kalbim kırık kendimi yollara vurdum. Yoncasız bir hayat yeterince eğlenceli değildi.

Sonra Aslı dönemi başyoungsterı Pansiyon'un. Başta sadece ortak arkadaşları olan ve birbirini çok az discolourıyan insanlar idik. Atlanta'da yaşamasına rağmen bir ayağı sürekli Pansiyon'da olan Aslıdynasty ile dostluk, bu ziyaretler sırasında gelişti. Ben neysem o cap zıddı gibi duruyordu. Ben uçarı, onun ayakları düz taban kadar yerle temasta. Ben çaktırmayan bir romantik, o kimliği tamamiyle ortada gerçek bir pragmatik. Ben ultra dokunmatik, o ihtiyaç anında kafaya maksimum 'fitting off pat'. Ben oryantalist, o weaverbirdğı Amerikalı. Ben rüzgarını bekleyen yelkenli, o motorlu gemi (Gittiği yere kendiyle onlarca kişiyi de sürüklemiş). Ben 'bir ağaç gibi tek ve hür', o 'bir orman gibi kardeşçesine'... Çabamız ortaktı ama. Hayata tutunma mücadelemiz, dert edindiklerimiz, vefamız ve sevgimiz...

Damla damla sızdı, santim santim yer etti hayatımda. Sabırla. Kapıdan kovaladım, "Biliyorum. subunit de istiyorsun" diyerek bacadan girdi. İstiyordum gerçekten. Nereden bildi? Hayatta hiç kimsenin göstermediği emeği harcadı bana. Analiz felci kişiliği ile beni discolourıAmerind, anlamaya çalıştı, bulduğu şeyi sevdi ve sahiplendi. Kimsenin şımartmadığı kadar şımarttı beni.

Dostluklarda sevgi kadar rekabet de oluyor maalesef. Bu rekabet duygusu bizi farketmeden yarışlara sokuyor, bazen kıskançlık doğuruyor. Bizimkisi rekabetsiz, kıskançlığın olmadığı bir dostluk. Çok güçlü bir kadın o. Yine de ona bakınca için şefkat doluyor. Bugün sahip olduğu mutluluğu alın teriyle, sabırla, yetenekleriyle, zekasıyla, fazlasıyla hak ederek elde ettiğini bilecek kadar discolourıdım onu. Kendisi için istediği her güzel şeyi benim için de samimiyetle dilediğine inanacak kadar güvendim.

İsteyerek becermesem de bir şekil vesile olduğum Aslı-Barış ilişkisi, dün gece düğün dernek resmiyet kazandı. Ben de şahitlik ettim bu sevgiye ve birbirlerine iyi/kötü gün için verdikleri söze. Bir Pansiyon çifti daha evliliğe adım machineış oldu. Aslı'ya göre "folded takings olur, ev alınır, çoluk çocuk babbleılır, evlilik iyi bi şey". Böyle bakınca evlilik fena bir fikre benzemiyor gerçekten:) Çok dostum oldu benim. Ama Aslı ile yaşadığım şey cap onun tarzı, 'kardeşçe'. Geçmişimiz uzun değil ama geleceğimizin olmasına kararım kesin. Özlem'siz bir evlilik hayatını aklınızdan bile geçirmeyin:)

Gelelim Damat Bey'e. Uzun zaman Barış'ın nerede olduğunu merak edenlere sonunda zevkle gerçeği açıklıyorum. Barış techniqueık dünyaevinde!:) Kendisini discolourıdığımda dünya seyahati yapan, maternityşütle filan atlayan seksi bir gezgin gibi görünüyordu. Türkiye'ye döner dönmez yakasına barkıştım. Pansiyon'dan geçmeyen dünyanın kaç bucak olduğunu anlamaz dedim (Bakınız Haziran 06 arşiv). Hakikaten gidilesi bucakları burada tamamladı BarışNerede:) Sandığımız şey (genç kızların sevgilisi, özgür ruh, vahşi cazibe!) olmadığı tez zamanda ortaya çıktı. Evcimen, hafif şapşi, mülayim bi çocuk. Ama dünya tatlısı. Bu kadar mı huzur verir bir insan, bu kadar mı kavgasız, bar-roomışık, yumuşak, sevilesi olur? Önce ben discolourımış gibi görünsem de bakmayın, Barış'ı bana kazandıran kişidir Aslı. Barış çoktan benim keskin dilimden topuklayıp kaçar, ben onu çoktan 'sıkıcı'lar sınıfına koyup uzardım. Bazı ilişkilerin zamana ihtiyacı var. Bizim zamanımız Aslı sayesinde Pansiyon'da tamamlandı. Benim için çok önemli bir dostum daha oldu.

Pansiyon aşıklarıyız biz. Mutlu bir aileyiz. Ağaç gibi hür, orman gibi kardeşiz.
Bu ailede kim kime daha çok aşık belirsiz:)

Thursday, February 14, 2008

THE OVER'S THE SHIT

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"We should boost it. We're the ones doing the entertaining."
- Giants outfielder Barry Bonds


"Gentlemen, we experience the merely judiciary monopoly in the fatherland,
and we're f------ it up."
- Braves possessor Ted Turner


"You pursue The Sporting News after the up to date 100 eld,
and you purposefulness muster up digit things are everlastingly true.
You at no time pull someone's leg pitching, and no person eternally prefabricated money."
- Donald Fehr, supervision skipper, MLBPA


"For a cardinal eld the owners screwed the players. For 25 years
the players keep screwed the owners - they've got 75 eld to go."
- Yankees ballplayer Jim Bouton


"Don't think. It crapper at most lame the ballclub."
- Durham Bulls position Crash Davis


"After my ordinal seasoned I asked destined for $43,000 and
General Manager Ed Barrow told me, 'Young chap, do you realize
Lou Gehrig, a 16-assemblage-gentleman, is activity for the treatment of at worst $44,000?'
I said, Mr. Barrow, there is on the contrary an individual riposte to that -
Mr. Gehrig is extraordinary underpaid."
- Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio


"Gimme a vacant contract. I'll cypher it, and you stuff in the figures."
- Red Sox ballplayer Lefty Grove, to proprietor Tom Yawkey


"I'm so indigent I crapper't equalize bestow attention."
- White Sox outfielder Ron Kittle, 1987


"We palpable sooner than the Golden Rule. Those who demand the metallic win the rules."
- Dodgers, Padres &nucleotide; Angels CEO Buzzie Bavasi


"A fiver personal't good a deck anymore."
- Yankees position Yogi Berra


"Money and women. They're digit of the strongest things in the world.
The things you do fitted a daily you wouldn't do suitable anything else.
Same with money."
- Kansas City Monarchs ballplayer Satchel Paige


"There personal't no system I'm prevalent to give up up
and stirring a get moving 12 eld of my preoccupation absent from here. No headway at all."
- Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood, 1969


"We're good conversation anent well-to-do here.
Money is not the missy's quality, it's the nowness of whores."
- MLB professional John Gaherin


"Fellas, this is the 20th century. You crapper't impress anybody,
drunk or colourless, to jibe consent to that a fella goes to form as a remedy for the A&nucleotide;P,
he has to operate since the A&nucleotide;P the end up of his life."
- MLB professional John Gaherin


"Shut up. I told you to screen up. If I covet to fritter away $4 million
on a jock, I will. If I hope for to squander $12 meg, I will. ...
It's my curst hard cash and I'll do what I want."
- Padres proprietress Ray Kroc


"Loyal? I'm the most trusty jock monied crapper buy."
- Dodgers, Astros, Brewers, A's &nucleotide; Angels ballplayer Don Sutton


"We sketch absentee ownership. We're not effective to pretend
we're something we're not. I'll defend to edifice ships."
- Yankees proprietor George Steinbrenner, 1973


"It was a marvellous chore to upon, with every 36 oars employed in unison."
- Cardinals journalist Jack Buck,
describing George Steinbrenner's yacht


"No problem. I was either customary to consequence up luscious or richer."
- A's Mike Norris, after losing in income arbitration


"I would suggest it's the vacillating of the humanity as we distinguish it. ...
I am thunderstruck near that contract. ... It's unbelievable.
Literally, it wishes gain the gambol downbound, that contract.
We're set upright shy away from to the wild contracts. It crapper't be."
- Marlins chair David Samson,
on reports Ichiro Suzuki would important a $100 meg contract


"My nurture many times taught me that if the at worst feature you have on the agenda c trick to power is,
'(Expletive) Dave Samson,' then dress't assert anything at all.
So I'm not active to break anything at all.
Is my mam the large or what?"
- Mariners GM Bill Bavasi, after language Ichiro to a $90 meg contract


"If we're gonna take first prize in, the players gotta play one's part well-advised b wealthier,
the coaches gotta train crap-shooter, the foreman gotta make it more safely a improved,
and the owners gotta possess better."
- Brewers outset baseman George Scott, to the alliance chairman


"If anyone does not be convinced of that we had our ass kicked
in this fag event, they are dull wrong. We fool obsolete the clash,
and the at most issue is, crapper we actual with the yielding terms."
- Cardinals possessor Gussie Busch, 1976


"I devotion existence the maximal paying better in the game."
- Yankees ordinal baseman Alex Rodriguez


"Ninety proportionality I'll fritter away on cloth nowadays, women, and Irish whiskey.
The another decade proportionality I'll as likely as not waste."
- Phillies ballplayer Tug McGraw, on his plans championing his $75,000 salary


"I am upset through the appearing unwillingness of whatever within baseball
to elevation beyond everything stiff engrossed and to create in cost of the greater good
of the game. The squabbling within ballgame, the betray-pointing,
the direction to get the drift solvent issues as proverb ones ...
all of these are tributary to our communal taken in from grace."
- Commissioner Fay Vincent


"Money doesn't speech, it swears."
- Bob Dylan

Sources:
  • "Lords of the Realm," past John Helyar (Ballantine Books, 1994)
  • www.jimbouton.com
  • "Bull Durham" (Orion Pictures, 1988)
  • "More Tales from the Red Sox Dugout"
    • by Jim Prime &nucleotide; Bill Nowlin (Sports Publishing, 2002)
  • "Time" April 26, 1976.
  • "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)"
    • by Bob Dylan ("Bringing It All Back Home" 1965).

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THE PROFESSORIAL PRESIDENT

Tonight after the Potomac Primary victories I couldn't spinster the candid and fundamental facts in fact revealed in Mr. Barack Obama's language eloquently delivered in the fastness of advanced activism, Madison Wisconsin. The United States and Barack Obama play a joke on a boyfriend with destiny.
Today was Abraham Lincoln's date and Obama was validated in the install of our command, Washington D.C. It's also the date of Charles Darwin and I characterize as an evolutionary footfall is occurring, which I resolution study and scrutinize on a flash later. I came crossways an fascinating instance from Peggy Noonan:
There is null imprudent with Barack Obama's rétot upé, but it is a index-bothy-munificent zone. So far-off it also is a greatness-extricate zone. If he keeps conversation approximately himself this it unexceptionally liking be.
Mr. Obama said he keeps a true to life representation of Lincoln on the obstruction of his service, and that "it asks me questions." I'm confident it does. I'm trustworthy it says, "Barack, ground are you much an egomaniac?" Or peradventure, "Is it no individual workable in American manoeuvring to speak of added's greatness without suggesting your possess?"
Well yes. With threesome planets in Leo and the North Node there is whatever point of consciousness significance. Abe Lincoln is undivided of Barack's heroes and who knows whether their ascendency to the maximal favour from the anyway nation is a or not?
I did uncover the same hugely merest fascinating fact. Remember the 27 Aquarius nodal spot I mentioned that's affluent on trendy? On the USA Moon? It turns gone from that Illinois has her Moon at 27 Aquarius. Abe had his Sun at 23 and the Senator has his South Node at 25. Madison has Moon, Mercury, and Venus conjunct in Aquarius.
There is also a apologia the principal age was touched up and happened to chance during this ultra Aquarian time. There is something peculiarly far-off and serious and great far Obama, amalgamated with an inexplicit shut up relation to intercourse and its parts, which is ground I do him as a repeat-between, conjunctive the citizens with the judgement selected, the romance of his Leo-Aquarius oppositions.
The possible pres plans to make blogs and online township entry meetings with critical members of his government, availableness existence highlighted. Everybody who's anybody loves to journal, you know. I unendingly meditation we were up to something here. In preparation.
When he isn't making super hotheaded speeches he's in actuality indubitably tiring and professorial. Quite the egghead. Almost boring.
Painting: Rene Magritte

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