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The Dugout: Digging For Fire

Aug 28, 2009 – 7:10 PM
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Jon Bois

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The Astros' Roy Oswalt is frustrated by the lack of fire in his team's clubhouse, and who can blame him? Obviously, they're not going to be able to overcome a team OPS+ of 93, a team ERA+ of 94, and a 9.5-game deficit in the wild card standings, but you know what? With a little get-up-and go, they could conceive of, design, and build a rocket ship so that they could search the universe and join an alien baseball league full of teams that aren't as good.

This evening's Dugout is after the jump.

The Dugout

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Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: gragggg

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: gug og guggg

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: /feasts upon wild fruit

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PattonOswalt: Guys, I'm sick of it. I don't like the direction we're headed.

Kyle Farnsworth

PattonOswalt: This team has no fire. We need fire.

Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: rarg?

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: /chases, kills antelope

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BerkmansWorld: /pokes at open flame with stick

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: /inadvertently sets hair on fire

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PattonOswalt: This is no good, guys. Our team has zero communication ability. We need to develop a language.

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BerkmansWorld: /throws antelope into fire

GRAAAAAAAAAA

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: ME WANT TO TALK ABOUT ME

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: F*** THAT ME WANT TO TALK ABOUT ME

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PattonOswalt: Ugh. You know what this team needs? We need to evolve into a group of guys who possess a sense of altruism.

Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: CAN ME BORROW YOUR ANTELOPE CORPSE

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: NO

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: what do you want to talk about

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: i don't know, what do you want to talk about

Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: i'm hungry

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: sorry man, i kind of killed and ate a lot of antelopes

there is no more fauna in this geographical location, we have to wander elsewhere

Kyle Farnsworth

PattonOswalt: Come on, guys. We are never going to make the playoffs without sustainable agriculture.

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: /toils in field

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BerkmansWorld: /builds shelter out of antelope bones

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: grrr i hate this stupid tool, i can only till the fields a few feet at a time

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PattonOswalt: Guys, guys, guys. This team needs to discover the wheel.

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Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: /tills field with ox-driven wheeled plow

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BerkmansWorld: /runs over antelope with chariot

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: man, today i was out conquering a neighboring city-state but my wooden sword fell apart!

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PattonOswalt: I'm sick of it. You know what this team needs? This team needs to harness the technology of metal smelting.

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: /fastens together house with hammer and nails

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BerkmansWorld: /slaughters antelope with scythe

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: i'm bored

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PattonOswalt: This team is not winning the NL Central without an appreciation for art.

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: /does wood carving of a duck flying over a pond

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BerkmansWorld: /paints image of antelope falling off a cliff

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: wheeee!

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: I want to do this stuff all day. Work sucks! I don't want to ever work again!

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PattonOswalt: I've said it before, and I'll say it again. This team has no chance in the wild card race until we learn how to build some sort of steam-powered apparatus.

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ICrappedMyHunterPence: /warms hands on blast furnace

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BerkmansWorld: /decapitates antelope via locomotive

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: This is awesome! The Industrial Revolution f***ing rules! I want to tell everyone about this!

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PattonOswalt: Guys! What this team needs is a massive communications infrastructure that affords us the opportunity to develop services such as telephones, television, and the Internet.

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Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: WHOA

WHOA I'M IN A CHAT ROOM

Kyle Farnsworth

PattonOswalt: but you were already

nevermind

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: /blogs about killing antelope

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: Wow. Things are just about perfect right now.

Kyle Farnsworth

BerkmansWorld: I'm bored again.

Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: Let's test the safety of our fragile existences and stumble into a series of foolhardy technological advances!

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Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: /turns on light bulb that is powered by emotions

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BerkmansWorld: /kills antelope with mind

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PattonOswalt: Guys.

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PattonOswalt: Our team is never going to win unless we have better players.

Kyle Farnsworth

ICrappedMyHunterPence: hahaha no s***

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