tangledupinblue

BRINGING IN FRANCO

Today's developement of note on NYFansite.com -- the best message board of all time -- it is no longer correct to say X "jumped the shark." Now one should say "X went and Brought in Franco."

Yes it is a tribute to a relief pitcher having an historically bad season, a man costing my team a shot at post-season with alarming efficiency, a man killing his team to collect a paycheck with the complicity of a overloyal owner and a rube manager.

Some examples of how to use the new phrase that pays:

"I used to love her strange and freakish ways, but she went and Brought in Franco when she started seating her pet warthog at the table."

"The Mets still had life, but then Howe went and Brought in Franco."

"Boy, sometimes it amazes me how little time it took for Vin Diesel to go and Bring in Franco."

Question though is it better to say that "Vin Diesel got Franco Brought in on him --" as though he was the unsuspecting Mets fan base whose late game lead was immediately dissipated by a 3-1 bomb (frequently hit by TONY FUCKING BATISTA) on a BP fastball served up by Captain Craptastic, John Franco?

What are your favorite examples of Bringing in Franco? Personal or Cultural?

'My love life was good until X went and Brought in Franco and got that book on Pleasure with Meathooks'

would be a fine example.

So maybe it is more than than just jumping the shark. It could either be a slow demise, like Franco's last obscene contract, or a sharp kick in the nads, like every one of Franco's recent appearences.

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Franco,

RETIRE ALREADY YOU COCK KNOCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!