Ron Santo has already posed the Pie/pie question. Only once in his mind, but Pat Hughes knows better, though he’s too gracious to put Ronnie on the spot about it.

The real question is, does Felix like Pennsylvania? If he would move there and establish a town named Felix… well, that would be just swell.

Special for you math geeks: pi = PA. There are some convoluted jokes in here that only Coleman and I could come up with, but we’ll graciously skip it. Won’t we, Coleman?

OK, I have some serious Tigers questions coming in the DTW Live thread, so forgive me (and us).

Are you talking about the cream version of pie? When cracking a pun on pie why is the prerequisite practically always pornographic in nature?

Tsk Tsk Tsk =P PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPIE

(See what happens when you duck out of the conversation Loon? This one is on you, as Zen Master Marinelli might say…)

Sorry to hear about Pie, condolences to his great-great-great-grandchildren.

Seriously though, the guy was nicknamed “Pie” (aka the “previous Brooks Robinson”) because he liked to eat pie. I bet if the guy had a fondness instead for, say, chicken, he would not be in the Hall of Fame.

Coleman, traffic in the Greater Chicago area is such that commuting to MN instead would be a time-saver.

Vince, the flow of work at my job is such that I can usually keep an iron in the DTW fire even on a normally productive day, and no one’s looking over my shoulder. But there are those days when work becomes so distracting that I can’t even concentrate on the Tigers at all, and I’m left wondering, “Why am I even here?” OK, a paycheck. That’s a good point. But I ask you this: To what level have we sunk as a society when a guy is forced to work to earn a paycheck?

Treanor’s OK, and I’m glad the whole C thing is squared away now. There’s actually a very funny story behind his wife’s “Turtle” nickname. If I knew it, I’d tell you.

Or maybe he thinks he has a big edge on us now (being aquatic) in Treanor fandom, now that he knows the catcher-wife is known as “the turtle.”

As for SL not posting much, I figure since he is doing most of it from work (at least I seem to remember him saying as much a while back), his “ducking” may be due to his employers keeping the old eagle-eye on him.

But I did a bit of reading, and I think he just moves a bit slowly, so be patient…

“Common Loons spend little time on land and literally have to pull themselves onto land to nest. They generally move one foot at a time to walk, shuffling along with their breast close to the ground. When returning to the water, the loon slides in along its breast and stomach”

Hmm, on second thought maybe Loons are duckers…

“The European name “diver” comes from the bird’s habit of catching fish by swimming calmly along the surface and then abruptly plunging into the water”