DLD 8/24/07 - Unicorn Hunting season Opens
by McFood on Aug 24, 2007 10:14 AM PDT
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PrintI have nothing of substance to say(what's new?), but we need a DLD to dump our links in, and as a repository for non-linear non-sequiturs, so here goes:
http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k...
That's all I've got. Oh wait, maybe one more:
http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k...
That's all he wrote folks.
Bag 'em and tag 'em and dump 'em.
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We thought this day would never come........
None of the fun sfgate commenters has weiged in on SuSlu's wrap of the A's huge victory last night. Perhaps they should bring Urban on board?
Interesting fact:
Tampa Bay's Jason Hammel has made 16 major-league starts and he has yet to win a game he has started - that's the longest such streak since Oakland's Mike Mohler was winless in all 20 of his career starts from 1993-1997.
Sometimes wins can tell you a little something.
Marco was "feeling woozy" yesterday, symptoms apparently reminiscent of Dan Johnson's '04 vertigo. Do you remember the Wooz, that maze thing in Fairfield? I thought that was pretty cool back then. Also, Vertigo is a great movie, though it can only be appreciated by the higher primates.
The Chron also have an article about Cal's big upcoming game against Tennessee, but I'm not going to either read it or link it.
Efforts to eradicate the occult iM Salem back in the day were apparently unsuccessful. Raccoon parts left on doorsteps in Salem:
A witness, Richard Watson, told police he accompanied Graham, Purtz and other people when they put the raccoon remains on the doorsteps. He said Graham hoped to frame a Wiccan businessman who had fired Graham from a psychic telephone business last spring.
Firing psychics is risky business.
Mark Cuban says the internet is dead and boring. I sort of like that guy.
Honestly, none of these links have a damn thing to do with each other. No theme could possibly connect them. Y'all are just making me look bad.
SPOPS!
Well, it's better than McFood's lame "diary"!
Sheesh! Even I try harder than that on days when I don't have any time and just want to throw something out there... :P
lame > non-existent
iPhone unlocked...
...by teenager. I'm sure he's a bright kid, but he's probably not fully mature:
Hotz heads for college on Saturday. He plans to major in neuroscience — or "hacking the brain!" as he put it to the newspaper — at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
sign him up, Billy!
We can put him to work hacking Crosby's brain to disable the "swing at sliders away" bug.
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/69...
"The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us," said Mrs Njeri.
those are ... Nachu runs
Best. Sigline source. Ever.
The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts
The monkey squad are not very good at scaring away the monkeys
For God's sake, the government should take pity on us and move these monkeys away
Even the formation of a "monkey squad" to keep track of the monkeys' movements and keep them out has failed.
This monkey scarer is armed with small rocks
In addition to stealing their crops, the monkeys also make sexually explicit gestures at the women
Monkeys destroyed this scarecrow, according to villagers
your cup runneth over
I like This monkey scarer is armed with small rocks
So let it be written
So let it be done.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Aug 24, 2007 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Monkeys destroyed this scarecrow
This is a terrible DLD. Please make it go away.
SON OF A--!
For God's sake ...
... the government should take pity on us and move this DLD away
I was having an argument with my friend:
I would never go to this place even if I ate meat and even if the food was good (which it apparently is) on general obnoxiousness grounds. Does this sort of thing bother anyone else or just me?
Do you mean the pretentiousness or the attempt to
cover all world cuisines on a one-page menu? I always fear restaurants that try to do too much: there is one place by my apt. that bills itself as a Kosher-Mexican-Chinese-Pizza-Kebab-and donuts joint. Yum yum.
And why donuts?
I see places like this (the hamburger, chinese, Mexican, donut place) and I never understand the donuts. I get that they have fryers so they can make them, but I always feel like the donuts never fit in. I get that you can go to a place like this when the kids cant decide what they want to eat, but who's gonna follow up a big plate of sweet-and-sour pork with a dozen glazed?
did we have these in the Bay Area?
out here, there is an alarming number of pan-Asian restaurants - Thai, Korean BBQ, sushi etc. under one roof. It just makes me suspect they're not doing any of them particularly well.
There's some good Inidia places out here, but the Thai places are way weak compared to their East Bay counterparts. And don't even get me started on what passes for Mexican food out here.
<Cosi meeting>
-"How about Roast Beef. People like Roast Beef."
-"Hmmm. We don't have Japan covered yet. Let's toss some wasabi on there."
I will forgive your vegnorance
Roast beef + horseradish = delicious andtraditional
Just because the horseradish is a cultivar of different color and geographic origin doesn't make it less of either.
<YOINK!> New sig, thanks.
I hear you on the Mexican.
I go home and all I do is eat Mexican food.
I am actually unimpressed with the Indian out here but have found a few acceptable Thai restaurants.
Worst of all, of course, is the price/quality ratio, which is waaaay out of whack here.
I would go home for Thanksgiving break
And eat nothing but Mexican food.
"But I can have turkey there! Give me an enchilada."
Trust me
by GreenNGoldGirl on Aug 24, 2007 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Not if you're mother isn't Mexican ...
I grew up heading down to E 14th a couple of times a week for some of the greatest burritos in the world ...
This goes with my boycott of the Kettle Chips Co.
Island Jerk? Cheddar Beer? Tuscan Three Cheese? Spicy Thai?
And they all have nauseating slogans under them.
BRAZEN spice mellowed by bleu cheese.
ginger with ATTITUDE.
They're fucking potato chips with spices sprinkled on.
the indignation ...
I see you found out
about my new job!
When I was living in DC
They had Cosi's everywhere. You could even get s'mores and roast your marshmallow over a fake flame that they make. I found it to be a hilarious thing to do on a date.
by Henduland in Texas on Aug 24, 2007 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Billy over Swish, 3-1
for "Face of the Franchise"
Beane the only finalist from the front office; other non-players include two managers (Cox, Leyland) and one broadcaster (Scully), which makes me miss Mr. King. Miggy is the face of the Orioles, which just seems wrong. Also wrong is Vlad as the face of the Angels, as Vlad is actually likeable. Lackey is clearly the face of the Angels.
Now you can vote for your favorite franchise face on ESPN, but the idea seems so pointless to me I'm not linking it.
I need some help...
Does anyone here know how to find out what rookie has the lowest ERA ever? I have looked in reference books and almanacs and can't seem to find the answer...but I am not good at that sort of thing...so any suggestions where to find the data? It's for a bet.
Thanks to anyone who can offer a reference or totrivia buffs that might know the answer.
Lowest rookie ERA ever...
Francis McShlurm from the Cheboygan HopScotchers of the Ambidextrous League in 1897 sported a -1.37 ERA.
You could look it up if you had a copy of Fictional Sports Records handy.
Did he play for . . .
by EddieVegas_NRAF on Aug 24, 2007 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
I remember that guy...
he was awesome. Threw 26 & 2/3 innings of shutout baseball. Hell of a litigator. On a day off, he convinced the umps to disallow a grand slam on the account of the fact that he was leaning on his left arm when clearly the rules back then stated in the third inning everyone was supposed to be leaning on their right arm before a pitch could be made (he lied of course, but that's just how good he was). After the game, he was credited with -4 earned runs and the rest was made up, er... history.
Tim Keefe
.857 era in 1880 is the record for both rookies and non-rookies.
If you want a more modern pitcher, I believe it would be Harry Krause with a 1.39 era in 1909. He pitched a bit in 1908, though, so I'm not 100% sure that he was a rookie.
If he wasn't a rookie, it's Big Ed Reulbach with a 1.42 era in 1905.
NP
http://www.baseball-reference.com/le...
I just clicked on the guys that were under 30 and checked if they were rookies.
Check out Harry Krause ... After that incredible rookie season, in which he posted a 1.39 era over 213 innings with an 18-8 record he completely crashed and was out of the league 3 years later ...
"When Joe Jackson was asked who were the toughest pitchers he faced, he replied, 'Harry Krause and Reb Russell.' " - Author David L. Fleitz in Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson (March 2001)
What's interesting is that they were teammates in 1909, Kraus' great season, so he never would have actually faced him that year.
I wish I would have thought of that.
Kid?
I've been feeling pretty old lately ... so thanks, I guess ... (btw, I'm laughing as I type this, just one of those things that often doesn't come across the internet)
Heehee
I see your credentials are in order ...
very well, carry on ...
Here's a nickel, kid, go buy yourself a soda pop
I've got an idea ...
why don't you just pay for the suit yourself, you know, so you can keep the change ...
purely formalist link
Please ignore the content.
and just to balance the formalist scales ...
Honestly, if I had cable, I would be glued to the tv all day tomorrow, not watching the A's game.
King's Row, in particular, is amazing.
Are they going to scroll commentary
on the bottom of the screen noting which events he later claimed to have performed in real life?
Suddenly all those 80's press conferences
will make sense. Ah, Presidential press conferences...remember when we used to have those? Given a choice, I'd vote for actual press conferences citing fictional events over no press conferences at all.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Aug 24, 2007 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
King's Row
do not post spoilers ...
... when the person bringing up the movie has the admin power to delete posts ;)
My next President
Will, with great lawyers, discuss lepers and crooks
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Aug 24, 2007 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
and here I thought Unicorns were endangered
and, thus, protected by law
Like anyone could actually get a photgraph
of a unicorn.
where's the rest of it?!?!
(And thank you for the opportunity to reference King's Row.)
ArakSOT, you are a bad, bad ass.
Also magical
and invisible to impure souls!
Deadspin sez:
MLB.tv Is Five... buffering... Years... buffering... Old
salb918's gripes o' the day
- I can't stand people using the word "gem." Check out this gem from FJM...it's not a gem if you find one every f---ing day. Same goes for pitching performances. Every goddam day someone describes an 7 IP 5 K 2 BB 3 H 0 R performance as a gem. Either our standards have dropped or gems are no longer rare things to be treasured. Want a gem of a pitching performance? Here. That's a m-----f------ gem.
- I hate it when people use the word "piece" to refer to an article. I just wrote a piece on DIPS or Check out this gem from Slusser's thursday piece. Drives me insane. Why? Don't we have better, more descriptive words? The word "piece" should be reserved for firearms or phalli.
You're kind of ass-obsessed these days.
It was my best ass-essment.
ammendment to #2 ...
excrement should be a valid use for the word piece ...
Man, do I need to get me a piece...
Much of what is written on the internet (and linked in places like this) doesn't qualify as an "article" in the traditional sense. And the word "article" is boring anyway. Whereas "piece" positively sizzles with possibility: "Ooh, I see notsellingjeans has a new piece up; I must shirk work to read it." Or, "Hey, I've been having trouble sleeping lately, perhaps Gwen Knapp's latest piece can help." Or (and doesn't everyone here do this?) when using my supposedly clever diaries as pickup lines, I might rasp out a deep-voiced "Hey, baby, wanna check out my hot piece?"
The mind boggles at the permutations. Use the milquetoasty "article" or "diary" if you want, the hackneyed faux-hip ""joint" if you must, but get your goddamned hands off my piece, cuz, or get ready to take a (metaphorical word-based) dirt nap.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Aug 24, 2007 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
in other words,
... we can take your piece from your cold, dead hands?
When pieces are outlawed
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Aug 24, 2007 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Re: Gem #1 - Another game in which Catfish allowed
You know what I hate?
People attaching Latin suffixes to Greek words, like "octopi" and "phalli." The linguistically correct plural of "octopos" is "octopodes." The standard English plural is "octopuses." "Octopi" was just invented by some poser.
...
...but we love you.
to the DL for you
And 15 days from now...
errrrr...
Oh, never f'n mind.
Sorry-- I've been on the 60-day disgruntled list
pretty much ever since I started working full time. Sort of like Carl Pavano!
the notion of the rising Martian proletariat
Attention RAF cinephiles/Sovietologists: fascinating double-feature program tonight at the PFA in Berkeley. Your simian correspondent will likely be there, by way of enticement/warning.
Martians and The Royal Air Force? Sounds good.
This is too freaking weird.
Damn.
The law CAN be fun.
I've written patents on everything from sex toys to semiconductors. The last firm I was at got a couple of patents on bongs.
by LawDaddy on Aug 24, 2007 3:40 PM PDT up reply actions
The guy I work for
I swear, I could not keep a straight face.
by GreenNGoldGirl on Aug 24, 2007 3:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Sounds like my nightstand.
I read that too fast.
by GreenNGoldGirl on Aug 24, 2007 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
no ... he definitely ...
didn't have any complaints about implants that night ...
Ouch.
Braves DFA Wickman one day after he gives up a walkoff homer.
I know he was considering retirement in the offseason. It would be a real shame if last night's appearance was the last game of Wickman's fine career.
hard to imagine a contender won't need some
bullpen help ...
Yeah.
I'm surprised they didn't wait until September and just bury him on the roster. The article says that the DFA wasn't used to free a roster spot.
They were probably just doing him a favor ...
they were going to bury him and didn't want to make him finish his career that way ...
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