DLD 9/11/07 - Because YOU wouldn't do one!
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 12:08 PM PDT
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He's an ex-parrot. A bird that was smarter than you died.
A Whale of a Mistake Some think that estimates of the Grey Whale population contain huge errors.
French explorer Jean-Francois La Perouse sailed into Monterey Bay in the 1700s and complained "there were so many whales, that they stunk up the air with their breath," Palumbi said.
It's Britney, Bitch. Britney gets called a "pop tard" after a lackluster performance at the VMA's. Not enough sizzle, too much steak. Whatev, I'm not losing any sleep over poor Britney.
Womens World Cup The U.S. came from behind to get a draw with N. Korea in their opener.
That is all.
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And yesterday was the 10th.
And tomorrow's the 12th.
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Since the dawn of time, about 4000 years ago.
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Try 13.6 billion years ago, Carl ;-)
by green star oakland on Sep 11, 2007 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Okay, Carl.
Other Carl. ;)
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good dog, Carl.
by LAXile on Sep 11, 2007 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is Carlton, your doorman...
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 4:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love those books.
And I miss reading to my son. Well... not that there's much to read in the "Carl" books, but I miss reading other books to him... you know, with words... Does anyone have a preschooler I could borrow for reading to? Damn it, if my kid was as industrious as Elijah Dukes, I'd have half a dozen grandchildren to read to by now.
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Carl drops the baby in the fishtank.
That book freaks me out. I'll try to bring my daughter to the next AN day so you can read to her. On a related topic, a woman I know who does sleep research recommended reading books like Good Night, Moon to yourself before bed as a cure for insomnia. Might piss off anyone actually asleep, however.
by LAXile on Sep 11, 2007 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good night, bowl of mush.
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
He didn't drop the baby! LOL
And I could read the game notes to your daughter. If I'd read this season's notes, I would have had to do it with a Scary Ghost Story Voice to illustrate all the grisly transaction reports and vanishing offensive stats ("...and then... the A's just left the runners on base!")
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
and they're STILL THERE!!!
by monkeyball on Sep 11, 2007 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'd lend you my 2 year old
but she's way ahead of us ...
by green star oakland on Sep 11, 2007 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nope... and Nope...
Only if you used the old Roman, Julian or Gregorian calendar and even then they screwed up the leap days so much that the day named September 11 would not be the same astronomical day we consider September 11ht all the time.
Then, you have the non-Roman calendars where clearly September would not have existed.
by Donner on Sep 11, 2007 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
About 12 hours ago
(on the West coast)
by andeux on Sep 11, 2007 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Score Bard
provides some perspective.
by andeux on Sep 11, 2007 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
In sad scary football injury news...
Bills' tight end Kevin Everett sustains life-threatening neck injury.
"A best-case scenario is full recovery, but not likely," orthopedic surgeon Andrew Cappuccino said. "I believe there will be some permanent neurologic deficit."
(Sorry if that was linked earlier... I just heard of it last night.)
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 12:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Dr Cappuccino?
I'll bet he's tall.
by monkeyball on Sep 11, 2007 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
"neurologic deficit"
I think I've got something like that, but my variety is "intellectual deficit".
monkeyball's is "scatalogical defecat"
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I thought Britney
was Pop Lard?
oh, and vote for AN on Bloggers Choice Awards
by closetasfan on Sep 11, 2007 12:13 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
vote for
Pop Turd
by Satchmo22 on Sep 11, 2007 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
No way, dude!
Pop Douche is so much funnier!
by iglew on Sep 11, 2007 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
But not nearly as tasty...
as Pop Tarts.
Or poppy tarts.
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I beg your pardon!
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sorry, we can only commute your sentence
by monkeyball on Sep 11, 2007 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
"Pardon I your beg!"
by andeux on Sep 11, 2007 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Parts of it do
<looks at mikeA>
<looks in mirror>
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Lookout Landing is much Jennifer.
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 12:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I disagree.
AN is the Jennifest.
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Leave Britney alone [sniff, sob]!
No youtube link, 'cuz I like you-all.
by The Dogfather on Sep 11, 2007 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Russell on the verge of signing....
Raiders and JaMarcus Russell agree in principle to a contract....
by gigglingone on Sep 11, 2007 12:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Cross Toronto off the list of Cros destinations
John McDonald signs 2-year extension with Jays.
by monkeyball on Sep 11, 2007 12:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Sad, But True
John MacDonald > BoCro
by Colorado Fan on Sep 11, 2007 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Or at least equivalent.
The only difference is that Crosby has a bat that's supposed to be doing something.
by jeepers on Sep 11, 2007 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That was awesome. I'm still laughing.
by capper3 on Sep 11, 2007 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
wow
If I were her, I'd hate them both. But I'm not, so I'm still laughing..... :)
by gigglingone on Sep 11, 2007 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I liked the Yankees fan who said
"I figured it was because he's ugly, and he's a Mariners fan."
by Englishmajor on Sep 11, 2007 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that has to be fake
by xbhaskarx on Sep 11, 2007 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I just watched all the Prank Wars.
It makes me thankful I don't have friends.
by Jennifer on Sep 11, 2007 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You have a lot of friends.
But, as a prank, I contacted all of them and told them to shun you. Hahaha!
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
NO!
Wait till I get my camcorder!
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Its OK
we have her under constant surveillance.
by green star oakland on Sep 11, 2007 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We know. We've been watching you.
I'm not kidding.
by McFood on Sep 11, 2007 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wasn't there a more meditative way to say that?
Ichiro deflected a question about whether the team is pressing.
"I don't even comprehend that word," he said through his interpreter. "No one is trying to win two games in one game. If someone did 100 sprints before games, then maybe he'd be pressing, but there's no such idiots on this team."
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 12:33 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
That was awesome.
I love Ichiro so much. Stupid contract extension.
by jeepers on Sep 11, 2007 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Where's Barton's mohawk?
by batgirl on Sep 11, 2007 12:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
On Gaudin's chin.
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
that is truly awful, isn't it?
by batgirl on Sep 11, 2007 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oh please dont tell me they did that!
by Katie on Sep 11, 2007 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Too cute
"I'm getting a Daric Barton jersey when we get home," pitcher Dallas Braden announced in the middle of the clubhouse.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...
by pam5981 on Sep 11, 2007 1:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
they are a fun bunch again! :)
i like this braden comment too:
When Barton arrived Monday, Braden had asked him, "How'd you manage to get on the plane with all the River Cats on your back?"
by gotgreen on Sep 11, 2007 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Can a player be nominated for QOTM?
by jeepers on Sep 11, 2007 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
more fremont park news
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_6860533
"FREMONT — An elementary school included in the Oakland A's ballpark village proposal would be located adjacent to or within a planned residential neighborhood, rather than beside the Tri-Cities Landfill, where it originally was penciled to go.
"We're definitely going to move it somewhere else," A's co-owner Keith Wolff said Monday at a Chamber of Commerce Luncheon attended by the entire City Council and four members of the school board.
Wolff, who shared the stage with his father and fellow co-owner, Lew Wolff, also said that at the request of city leaders, the A's will propose taller residential buildings fronting the stadium — three to four stories — to make the neighborhood more densely populated. "
...wait... ...MORE densely populated? That doesn't make sense because
"Preliminary renderings showed the stadium surrounded by residences beyond the home plate and foul line areas and a mix of storefronts and residences beyond the outfield. The closest stadium parking lots would be about five blocks away."
....five blocks away? Don't forget anything in your car!
by popcornjames on Sep 11, 2007 1:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Wow. That really makes me ill, that Wolf&Co.
would build a school next to the dump. (Or plan to)
by LAXile on Sep 11, 2007 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
obviously, Lew reads AN
Who wouldn't want to get schooled right next to the DLD?
by monkeyball on Sep 11, 2007 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That's encouraging to me.
I like that they're listening to the community in which they develop the ballpark. The community made a stink about the school location, and they're responding.
I also like the increased population density around the park. If we can't bring the community of Oakland to the ballpark, maybe we can at least bring a community.
by jeepers on Sep 11, 2007 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
You have a point, but the fact that the developer
was trying to sneak that school in there adjacent to the rotting, toxic pile of waste is disturbing. I guess I'm just a "glass-is-half-empty-of-sludge" kind of guy. Instead of Shoeless Joe, we have Clueless Lew: "Build it and they will come....to school, and develop some rare indetectable form of cancer." Maybe I'm over-reacting, but who would choose to send their kids to a school next to a dump?
by LAXile on Sep 11, 2007 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'm not seeing it as that malicious.
I'd be shocked if the A's weren't acutely aware that within our political climate, environmental concerns are the largest threat to the completion of the stadium project. I doubt there's a scientifically valid reason to worry about where the school would be located, but the A's quickly realized there was a popular one, and acted accordingly.
by jeepers on Sep 11, 2007 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Funny... I kind of picture it like this:
Wolff: Here's a block land, put this, this and that in this block of land.
Planner: Okay, I'll put this here, this there, that here. Done. Here Lew.
Wolff: Looks good. Let's roll with it.
Planner & Wolff: Here you go City of Fremont.
City of Fremont: Um... did you really mean to put that school next to the dump?
Planner & Wolff look at each other awkwardly: Oops... we plan to move that, say, over here.
by DMOAS on Sep 11, 2007 8:04 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
needs more conspiracy theory
to get from "near a landfill" to kids getting cancer, maybe we should assume wolff is illegally dumping toxic chemicals on the land.
then wolff will build a cancer treatment center in the ballpark village and really make some money.
by xbhaskarx on Sep 11, 2007 8:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
<scribbles notes for Peanutball 8>
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Sep 11, 2007 8:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
nah, "more conspiracy theory" looks like this
Wolvves: Huh. There's a parcel in our development that abuts a landfill.
Planner: Yeah ... if you want, you could do a massively expensive cleanup of it. Thatr would get you ahead of publin opinion on the matter.
Wolvves: How expensive?
Planner: This expensive. < displays abacus >
Wolvves: <laughter>
Planner: OK, so what do you want to do?
Wolvves: <drying tears> Well, no one in the tax bracket of our target market would want to drop $1.5M+ on a condo next to a freakin' landfill. What do you think we want to do?
Planner: Um ... put, ah, the, uh ... school there?
Wolvves: <lick chops> Mmmm, children ... <drool>
by monkeyball on Sep 12, 2007 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
my middle school
was across the street from the sewage treatment plant. I haven't detected any indetectable cancers yet!
by colin on Sep 12, 2007 7:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nice goiter!
by McFood on Sep 12, 2007 7:59 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
An offshoot of the "BB is an idiot" school
from FJM.
Warning: may cause nausea in anyone with a love of the English language.
by green star oakland on Sep 11, 2007 2:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
pagsadamblog
This guy is incoherent enough to make me believe that he is actually Joe Morgan.
by doctorK on Sep 11, 2007 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
LOL
Other general manager disciples such as Epstein, Cashman, Daniels, and Richardi have larger money blankets than Billy Beane, but they don’t use their blankets to warm Billy when he flounders and produces a product void of luster.
This may be the most wonderful sentence I have ever read. This sentence holds the English language by the throat, pushes it against a wall, and slashes it across the face with a broken beer bottle.
by Poppy on Sep 11, 2007 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
how about
This is painful. Pags, sweetheart -- have you ever read...anything?
But then at the end, FJM goes astray and suggests that Pags probably DID read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, insulting Judy Blume by association in the process.
by rubin sierra on Sep 11, 2007 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
god, that was awesome
talk about tearing someone a new one.
by Backspin on Sep 11, 2007 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
good lord
i just clicked the link to the actual pags blog. lots of good comments in response to his post.
however, some of the comments in response to those comments...i was almost blinded by the stupidity...
http://www.baselinereport.com/baseli...
by blueconversechucks on Sep 11, 2007 6:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
New sig line
"(Beane) watched as his army of nerd robots won many division- and wild card titles."
by jeepers on Sep 11, 2007 5:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
OK, but since when is it wrong
to use "back-to-back infinitives"?
Maybe I need to learn to write better, but I always thought that was OK.
(I was going to try to find a rule about it, but now it's time to go to sleep, so I guess for now I'm going to have to take his word for it.)
by iglew on Sep 11, 2007 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
5 more years of ozzie
for the white sox!
by gotgreen on Sep 11, 2007 3:10 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Ewwww!!!
This headline , that is.
Anybody want to give odds that the White Sox will now try to sign Eckstein?
by doctorK on Sep 11, 2007 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
The ChiSox are a void of lustre.
by The Dogfather on Sep 11, 2007 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Barton's batting 2nd!
Someone's been reading my lineups!
Tonight's Lineup:
LF Stewart
1B Barton
RF Swisher
DH Piazza
2B Ellis
3B Scutaro
SS Murphy
C1 Suzuki
CF Thompson
by Zonis on Sep 11, 2007 6:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
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