Jennie and Jim.
By B - 4-26-05

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WordUpThome:  I LIKE YOUR BUSH
finch_windmill:  What??

 

 

 

 

WordUpThome: 

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finch_windmill:  Oh :)  That's not a bush, that's my olive leaf wreath I wore when I got my gold medal.
WordUpThome:  I WONDER WHAT ITS LIKE TO WIN THE BIG ONE.  I TRY SO HARD EVERY YEAR.   SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I LET MY TEAM DOWN.
finch_windmill:  You've never won the World Series?
WordUpThome:  I PLAY FOR THE PHILLIES.
WordUpThome:  I WAS THERE TWICE.  WITH THE INDIANS, 1995 AND 1997.  I HIT A HOMERUN IN 95, BUT WE LOST TO THE BRAVES.  SO I HIT TWO HOMERUNS IN 1997.  BUT WE STILL LOST.
finch_windmill:  That's so sad.
WordUpThome:  DONT FEEL SAD LITTLE LADY.  WHEN THE PHILLIES REACH THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN I WILL HIT THREE HOMERUNS.  THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN LOSE.
finch_windmill:  There you go, that's the spirit :)
WordUpThome:  SOMETIMES I WISH I'D NEVER LEFT CLEVELAND.  I LEFT SO MUCH THERE.   BUT, IN A WAY, PHILADELPHIA HAS GIVEN ME JUST AS MUCH.
WordUpThome:  SOME DAYS YOU HAVE TO WAKE UP AND HIT THAT HOMERUN, NO MATTER WHAT LETTER GOD PUTS ON YOUR HAT.
finch_windmill:  I've never met anyone like you.  Who thinks the way you do.
WordUpThome:  IT'S EASIER THAN WHISTLING DICKS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WordUpThome:  LET ME SHOW YOU A PICTURE.

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WordUpThome:  THAT'S MY FRIEND TREVOR.  HE WAS DYING AND WANTED HIS PICTURE TAKEN WITH ME.  I ASKED HIM IF HE WANTED PETE IN THE PICTURE BUT HE DID NOT KNOW WHO PETE WAS.
WordUpThome:  THINK ABOUT IT.  YOU ARE DYING AND THE FIRST THING THAT COMES TO MIND IS 'I WANT TO TAKE MY PICTURE WITH JIM THOME.'
WordUpThome:  BIG-BELLIED SLUMPING JIM THOME.  WHO PLAYS FOR THE PHILLIES.  WHO HAS PEE ON HIS HAT.
finch_windmill:  oh...
WordUpThome:  HEY DON'T FEEL BAD.  I PRAYED THAT TREVOR COULD HAVE A SOUPED UP JETSKI IN HEAVEN BECAUSE I THINK JETSKIS ARE BOSS.  JESUS AND I ARE LIKE CROSSED FINGERS.
WordUpThome:  I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER KIDS WHO HAVE A SKY-DOO.
finch_windmill:  That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard in my entire life.  You've got me crying over here, Jim. :(
WordUpThome:  I HAVE ALSO SERVED AS CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE UNITED WAY SOFTBALL SLAM FOR MANY YEARS.  THE OTHER CHAIRMEN HAD TO GET USED TO ME BECAUSE I SPEAK IN A LOUD VOICE.
WordUpThome:  SO YOU CAN SEE HOW I HAVE A SOFTENED SPOT FOR SOFTBALL PLAYERS.
finch_windmill:  See, there's no way somebody like you could be on steroids.
WordUpThome:  WAIT WHAT
finch_windmill:  Oh it's nothing.  All of my friends just think you're on steroids.   I can't wait to tell them all the things you've done, it'll really shut them up.  
WordUpThome:  YOU NEEDED ME TO TELL YOU THAT I DID NICE THINGS BEFORE YOU KNEW I WASN'T ON STEROIDS
finch_windmill:  Well, no, I assumed that you...
WordUpThome:  ASSUMED MY ROSEY RED BEHIND.  HOW COULD YOU THINK I WAS ON STEROIDS.   I'M JI
WordUpThome:  JIM THOME
finch_windmill:  Jim, I didn't say you did steroids.  All of my friends on the team were telling me that you did because
WordUpThome:  DO YOU KNOW WHAT
WordUpThome:  I DON'T CARE WHY.  I HAVE HAD MY "PHIL."  GOOD DAY, LITTLE LADY.
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finch_windmill:  because they were jealous that I'd started to really care about you. :(
Jennie Finch:  Olympic Gold Medalist

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