Daily/Weekly F******* Link Dump: 11-3
by Englishmajor on Nov 3, 2008 9:19 AM PST
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In the same issue of the NYT's Play, Dexter Filkins had an essay about the frustrations of trying to follow his favorite team (NFL, in his case) from the Baghdad bureau, through online game reports and the occasional spotty streaming audio. The ultimate NRF experience?
And in non-sports news:
From HIGH WIND ON BRIDGE to HIGH WIND ON BRIDGE SO WHY NOT GET OFF AT POWELL AND GO TO IKEA INSTEAD?
Dump away. And don't forget to vote if you haven't already! There's a free coffee in it for you. There's only 20,20,24 hours to go!
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Happy f****** Monday everyone
And remember, if you see Kaye, tell her “Hey!”
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
What's with the censorship? SAY THE WORD PEOPLE, IT'S OKAY!
Fuck.
:D
Happy Monday, all! (GYMNASTICS.)
Supposedly it's not nice
to say that word in mixed company, but isn’t it in mixed company that f***ing takes place?
I'm here to talk about the past.
so everything that people say to you you don't take seriously?
That could cause some problems….
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
No, it's just that very little offends me.
Especially something as insignificant as words.
Something that would have a negative effect on my family or my children, that’s another story.
oh. ok
you mean you don’t sound like you usually do on here to your family?
That’s good, I think.
I MISS BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
AHH!!! IT'S YOU!!!
yay! I’ve missed you to!! WHERE’S ILOVEGREGSMITH?!??!! Just because it’s the offseason doesn’t give her any excuse not to show!!!!!! lol
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
Words are insignificant?
That is a totally fucking ridiculous statement. At the very least, it is an incredibly fucking imprecise statement.
Also, in certain contexts, bleeping can make swearing funnier and/or more effective than it might otherwise have been. “****” doesn’t necessarily indicate prudishness.
Words by themselves are, yes.
Those with the ability to weave them into something greater than simply words are not.
Words by themselves are [insignificant], yes.
Not to be unkind, but that strikes me as an ill-considered distinction.
I guess you’re saying that the meaning of a word is significant, whereas the word itself is not. But with the meaning stripped away, does a word even remain a word? I’d say it’s just an agglomeration of sounds at that point. I’m not sure words can exist independent of their meanings any more than you or I can stand outside our skins.
Those with the ability to weave them into something greater than simply words are not [insignificant].
I don’t know. Are words insignificant when inarticulate people use them? Is someone who never did well in English and/or doesn’t own a thesaurus definitionally incapable of using language to express love, regret, pain, cruelty, bravery, or fear?
Yes, words that come out of my mouth are less compelling (in every respect imaginable) than words birthed from the ink of, say, Cormac McCarthy’s pen, but that doesn’t render the entirety of my communicative endeavors “insignificant”. (or maybe it does, in which case I should sew my lips shut, smash my laptop into a thousand pieces, and retreat to a remote mountaintop to contemplate the whistling of the wind and the desperate groans of incoherence reverberating inside the walls of my skull)
I think you're taking it much more seriously than was intended.
In short: It’s up to us to determine the meaning of the words.
Not at all.
Post #1 = Joke. (fucking … fucking … etc.).
Post #2 = “Serious” point, but hardly uber-somber or anything. Just disagreeing with you. (also with bonus joke in final sentence!)
Post #3 (this one) = It is most assuredly not up to us to determine the meaning of the words. But if I were to write a bunch of complete sentences here to explain what I am saying, that would I suppose run counter to blog comment convention (pithy! quick! ALL CAPS! no caps!), and therefore erroneously indicate that I am approaching the topic at hand with undue seriousness. So I won’t do that.
What wrong with saying "gymnastics" in mixed company?
In search of a new signature. Say something funny and you may see your comment here!
Is he perhaps suggesting that
“fucking” and “gymnastics” are pretty much the same thing?
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
With all the under-12 girls involved
I surely hope not.
by green star oakland on Nov 5, 2008 3:49 PM PST up reply actions
So I watched Game 3 of the '06 ALDS on Saturday afternoon,
while it was raining. I don’t think I had ever actually seen the entire game, since I was out of the country when it happened, so it was like watching a brand-new game (the only thing I remembered was the outcome). It was… bittersweet. Good times, with an almost entirely different team. Sigh.
Easily in the top 10 of games I have seen in person.
The mood was different from the start. We knew we were going to finish it off right there.
I'm here to talk about the past.
Oh, by the way,
apparently I lied about having newspaper clippings from ‘02. I checked my A’s box, which is mostly full of (almost) every A’s magazine since ’03, but nothing from ’02 except my ticket stubs. I guess I imagined saving more things than I actually did.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 3, 2008 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
I'll pretend not to be mad.
Actually I appreciate you checking. Went through some old stuff myself this weekend. What else are rainy days for? Well, besides that.
I'm here to talk about the past.
That sports reporter NYT piece is a fun read
Includes these two nuggets among many:
They had come to see John Sawatsky, a slender 60-year-old Canadian who is something of a guru on the ESPN campus. His title is senior director of talent development, but you could just as easily call him the jock whisperer.
And then this one, which I’m pretty sure is what’s running through Ray Fosse’s mind when he composes his queries:
It’s a bit like Plato asking Herakles after his 12th labor, "Champ, what happened out there tonight?"
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Nov 3, 2008 10:24 AM PST reply actions
OK, mini-rant about the road signs causing delays.
These signs are large. You should be able to glance up and see them from 1/4 mile away, read it, and move on with your life, without slowing down. It’s just that so many people drive by staring at the bumper immediately in front of them, and then when something “unexpected” happens (like a road sign, apparently) they hit the brakes, messing things up for everyone else.
If people didn’t drive like morons, if they looked ahead as far as they’re supposed to, if they didn’t fixate on one thing at a time but divided their attention between the things that are important to road safety (cars 10 seconds ahead, speed, engine indications, road signs and the ever-important peripheral vision) and not on the things that are unimportant (cell phones, text messages, hair, radio, etc) then none of this would be a problem.
I’m not a driving instructor, and I’m sure there are plenty of things I do wrong, but inattention and braking for no reason are not on that list.
Grr.
< /rant >
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
+1
All of that and when people merge on to a freeway at 40 MPH while traffic is going 70 MPH and you are stuck behind praying not to get taken out by a big rig.
Every day is just a little worse than the previous, that means every day is the worst day of my life.
by shooting4life on Nov 3, 2008 1:29 PM PST up reply actions
+1
"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all games and holes are created equal." --George F. Will
I'm sorry?
I was too busy checking out that billboard to read what you were saying…
by PositionPlayerProd on Nov 3, 2008 6:46 PM PST up reply actions
I so wanna be sedated.
I feel even more agitated right now than I do each July. My attention span is
LOOK!!! A squirrel!!!
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
I feel like I am sedated
without the sedative.
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on Nov 3, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
I've reached that point of the semester where my physical addictions are at their peak.
I can’t get everything done without caffeine… but, because of all the caffeine, I can’t get any sleep later without alcohol. Then I can’t get going in the morning without caffeine.
So I’ll just be detoxing from Dec. 16 – Jan. 22. And then I’m going to clone myself (after my cells are clean enough), or maybe get myself a wife. Wives really come in handy when you’re too busy to take good care of yourself.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Since this is a baseball site,
I know you’re referring to Emil Brown…
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
dammit. blown opportunity for visual instead of verbal there
I’m flagging myself for a strike
Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are. @('.')@
Everybody ought to have a maid.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
No Sondheim fans?
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Thank you!
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
OMG, are you in my brain?!?
So like, yeah, to everything you said. Except the detox part.
"I'm going to take a camera crew and march into Billy Beane's office and demand to know why instituting his newfangled cost-saving measures means that the run manufacturing plant had to get shut down." FJM
I'm dealing by listening to really depressing music.
This is so dumb. It was like 40 degrees outside this morning.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
so am I. I need baseball, or at least something else besides school.
I am SO not happy right now. UGH.
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
You wanna be sedated?
So did these guys.
"However, at Elias, I think they keep track of the amount of sunflower seeds spit in a dugout each night." - Brad Ziegler, 8/7/08
I. LOVE. THAT. SONG.
That’s what I was thinking of when I read their comments!!! Good song.
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
Farewell, last tattered remnants of the Huddy trade.
by whiteshoes40 on Nov 3, 2008 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
An End to the Dan Meyer Era
And I couldn’t be happier. No more “Dan Meyer” diaries. No more “Dan Meyer” Subject Lines. No more “Dan Meyer had bone chips removed from his shoulder because he was an idiot” comments… We can finally move on.
I wonder if he'll suddenly be awesome now.
Wasn’t there a series of posts around midseason claiming that phenomenon existed?
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
Great...
The overall prospect of getting older is depressing enough. Now I need to worry about getting killer hemorrhoids.
I am Ray Fosse's infatuations with Clay Wood and high-definition television.
by franks a lot on Nov 3, 2008 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
The A's are trying to make us/themselves feel better
with a list of accomplishments from 2008. If Ellis doesn’t get a gold glove this year, I’m going to be MAD.
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
Bobby Crosby hit 39 doubles this season, which is tied for the ninth best single season total in Oakland history.
Atta boy, Bobby!
I'm here to talk about the past.
does that make you not want to trade him anymore?
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
didn't think so.
I’m still happy for him, though! at least he actually did something relatively good in an A’s uniform…
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
Dude, don't set yourself up for disappointment
You know it’s going to Pedroia.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I'm already set up for disappointment.
too late now. but still, if he’s been leading in fielding percentage, can’t he PLEASE just get a gold glove ONCE? is that too much to ask?
I can answer myself on the question: yes.
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
He will never get it.
Ever. And certainly not after batting .233.
PT’s right, it’s going to be Pedroia with his wussy range.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
I absolutely HATE that.
HATE HATE HATE. isn’t it supposed to be a defensive award???
and Poppy, I thought you liked Ellis??
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
I *adore* Ellis.
Those half-dozen or so people wearing Ellis t-shirts early in 2003? One of them was me. And I only waited that long because the team store wasn’t selling them yet in 2002.
Of course the GG is supposed to be a defensive award… but it’s never actually awarded that way. Consistent defensive excellence year after year and record-setting fielding percentage isn’t enough to catch award voters’ attention if you’re also a low-key, non-spotlight-grabbing, average-hitting guy who plays for a West Coast market’s underexposed “ugly stepchild” second team.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
well when you put it that way....
I can still hope though!!!!!!!!!
and you beat me; I didn’t own an Ellis shirt until a couple of years later…. but now I’m told I wear them too much… :p
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
There is NO such thing as too much Ellove! ;)
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
yay!!!!! GO ELLIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :p
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
Yunel Escobar?
Atlanta is apparently willing to give him up in a trade?
Atlanta is looking for pitching… something involving Duchscherer perhaps?
Doubt they're looking for short-term upgrades
It sounds like they want an experienced MLB starter for a few years, in which event Oakland is out of luck.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
You don't think they'd extend Duke?
Aside from being a health risk, I think he’d dominate in the NL East.
I just don't think they see him in that light
I’ve actually come around to the position of wanting to extend Duke’s contract here. When they go to arbitration this year, instead of signing a 1-year deal, give him 3/17. He’s made it pretty clear that he wants a retirement nest egg more than maximizing his theoretical potential salary.
It’s not too much of a risk. We know he’s not very durable, but even if the contract is a loss it won’t cripple the payroll.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
I wouldn't mind an extension along those lines either.
It’s likely that he’d be more valuable to Oakland than whatever he’d return via trade. He’s not viewed as a front line starter.
particularly since he couldn't stay healthy
I imagine he wouldn’t have much trade value unless he could get through at least the first couple of months of 2009 without going on the DL.
I'm voting in person tomorrow.
Lines are short by my house and I need to get out of the office for an hour.
What makes me happy....Dan Meyer is finally gone
'That's something we do...thirteen hits and not score'-Terrence Long
More free stuff on election day...
- Free ice cream
- Free Donuts
- Free vibrator (possibly NSFW)
- Free body piercings (in Missouri)
- Free Chick-fil-A (but apparently only in Tampa)
There's no crying in baseball!
Oh, but here in California, this is all illegal
So if you go to get the free stuff, they can’t require that you show proof that you voted.
There's no crying in baseball!
That's good, because I voted by mail
so I don’t have one of those cool stickers. But if they really want to get technical, I guess I could show them the stubs from my ballot…
In 2000, San Mateo County sent out stickers with the absentee ballots
It was awesome. I kinda want to swing by the precinct tomorrow to get a sticker. But I kinda don’t want to stand in line. So I might make my own sticker.
There's no crying in baseball!
I've got a spare!
Santa Clara did that this year. I’m going drop off my mail in ballot, so I can pick a sticker up for you. (I also have one left over from 2006, I think, which I’ve been meaning to give to my 3 1/2 year old niece…)
by PositionPlayerProd on Nov 3, 2008 4:16 PM PST up reply actions
Does it have the county on it?
Because I’m in Contra Costa County now. I don’t want anyone to falsely believe that I voted in the wrong place……
If it doesn’t have the county, then yes please. :)
There's no crying in baseball!
No county…
…though it does say “Halos in 09” on it! ;) (Actually, it’s just a flag with “I voted” on it.)
I have to go to the post office tomorrow a.m., so email your address to babybeats@gmail.com, and I’ll throw it in an envelope before I leave work — and possibly forget…
by PositionPlayerProd on Nov 3, 2008 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
"Cool" stickers?!
I always found them a little self-righteous, which isn’t real cool.
At least they aren’t as bad as “My Child is an Honor Student at Overpriced Academy” etc.
I thought that might be the case at first…
…until I got and wore my first one. I felt pretty good after voting but hardly superior to anyone else who didn’t — or at least wasn’t wearing a sticker.
On a side note, there was an interesting story on NPR’s “On the Media” show on Sunday about how voting used to be public (versus it being private, in the booth now) and that studies have shown that the more public voting is, the higher the turnout (if I’m remembering the story correctly):
If that theory’s true, then one can think of the stickers as marketing device.
by PositionPlayerProd on Nov 4, 2008 1:12 AM PST up reply actions
The best thing about the sticker
is it makes those damn GOTV kids stop hounding me.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
Will blog for mealworms (and an occasional cage cleaning)
boingboing passes along this fine tale from a man who ordered a real live spider monkey from a comic book ad in the 1970’s. The tale ends well, I was surprised and delighted to read, despite starting this way:
As soon as I opened the cage, it leapt up and grabbed onto the plumbing up on the ceiling and started using them like monkey bars, and he was just shooting along in the basement, chirping pretty loud. It was heading towards the finished side of the basement, where there was a drop ceiling, and if it got into those channels, I never would have got it. It would have been days to get this thing out of there. I grabbed it by its tail, and it came down on, starting literally up by my shoulder, like a drill press it landed on my arm, and every bite was breaking flesh. It was literally like an unsewing machine. It was literally unsewing my arm coming down, and I was pouring blood. I grabbed it by its neck with both my wrists, threw it back in the cage. It’s screaming like a scalded cat. I’m pouring blood. My friend’s laughing uncontrollably, and my father finally comes in the basement door and goes, ‘Jeffery! What are you doing to that rabbit?’ And I go, ‘It’s not a rabbit, it’s a monkey, and it just bit the hell out of me.’ ‘A monkey? Bring it up here!’ I’m pouring, I wrapped a t-shirt around my arm to stave off the bleeding, carried the cage upstairs, and I don’t know why I bothered sneaking it in, because they fell in love with it, and it was like, there was no problem at all. They took me to the emergency room and I got 28 stitches on my arm."
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
'My friend’s laughing uncontrollably'
That would be me
Woo hoo! A's mailbag time!
link. apparently the A’s might pull an Angels and become The Oakland A’s of Fremont, if they ever end up moving…
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
It's what they should be... christ, they don't call the Cowboys the Arlington Cowboys
or the Giants the New Jersey Suburb Giants…
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Urban heaves an implied sigh that he must deal with such morons,
lecturing that any idiot can find the answer with a two second Google search…He then proceeds to botch the answer!
Urban in his mailbag: “The A’s haven’t said what the team name will be if they get Cisco Field built, but they have said it likely will include the words "of Fremont.”"
For myself, another idiot with Google access, I find:
1/16/07: Wasserman asked about the team name, and Wolff responded "Whatever it is, it will be ‘AT Fremont’, and not ‘OF Fremont.’ "
10/19/08: The team would change its name to the Athletics at Fremont.
Urban’s is of course quite a minor mistake…unless you’re a paid journalist who’s prefaced his error with sanctimony.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Nov 3, 2008 6:59 PM PST up reply actions
awwww... but I like the Oakland in the front!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no fair!!!!!!
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
something along the lines of Oakland @ Fremont?
Um… Wolff did say that Oakland will NOT be in the name.
facepalm.jpg
He wants Blanton because if you give Blanton 4 or 5 runs per game, he will do great...
um… so will most pitchers in the Majors, Mike.
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Article from John Shea
with some new quotes from Forst regarding the A’s potential offseason/offensive additions.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/01/SP3C13SEIP.DTL
I was able to get to it…
…by copying and pasting the whole thing into a new window.
Thanks for the link!
by PositionPlayerProd on Nov 3, 2008 5:42 PM PST up reply actions
ummm... it wasn't working for me at first... took a couple of refreshes...
would this work? link
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
UCSB v Cal Poly Soccer Game
To all those A’s fans that went to one of California’s Central Coast Schools or just love a amazing soccer match.
The Stockton Ports pitching staff is better than the Orioles.
Go Mustangs!
Loves those little teams that can.
by SwisherGirl33 on Nov 3, 2008 7:34 PM PST up reply actions
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
If I don't comment on your comment how will you know you are completely wrong? -Rocktopus
Go Gauchos
NCAA champs a year or so ago.
Officially awaiting the 2009 season.
by One won lost won on Nov 3, 2008 11:00 PM PST up reply actions
Predictions?
I’m going with O = 310, M = 228 (51:47%)
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
You're in esteemed company
That’s precisely the outcome that this guy is predicting.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Nov 4, 2008 9:17 AM PST up reply actions
also realclearpolitics
silver: 353 (349)
rove: 338
intrade: 364
rcp: 338
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
link:
The final economic values (“final” as of October 30, 2008) are 0.22 for GROWTH, 2.88 for INFLATION, and 3 for GOODNEWS. Given these values, the predicted Republican vote share (of the two-party vote) is 48.09 percent. So the prediction is 51.91 for the Democrats and 48.09 for the Republicans, for a spread of 3.82.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
I'm in a betting pool
where we picked each state back in September. I picked the exact same 353 that Nate Silver was showing as of last night. My main competition is another guy who picked the same except for Indiana, which has turned out to be a nail-biter.
So tonight I’m like the guy at the Super Bowl who bet on the underdog to cover the spread. We all know who’s going to win the game, but if M pulls out Indiana, it’s a hundred bucks for me.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
I think the Mariners will make it a lot closer than a lot of people think.
The O’s Palin comparison to.. okay, I can’t even finish that horrible joke
au contra ire
In another land, where they execute those audacious enough to attempt such puns,
you’d Diebold.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Nov 4, 2008 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
Who?
I of course was predicting the outcome of the cricket match between Ouagadougou and Mogadishu.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Nov 4, 2008 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
How's Ouagadougou doing these days?
I haven’t watched a whole lot of cricket of late.
I'm here to talk about the past.
EC: 338-200
%: 51.5 – 47
M: GA, IN, NC, MO
O: PA, NM, CO, NV, FL, OH, VA
Prop. 8 loses
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
not a lot of good betting options at this late stage, the map is pretty close to how things will likely end up.
maybe M in NC and possibly MO. maybe even VA, O should win but 90-10 is a bit extreme.
for O, IN may be a good deal, possibly FL but that’s it.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
i just realized these will probably change throughout the day and my post may not make sense. currently:
NC: 62-43 O
MO: 59-49 O
VA: 92-10 O
IN: 37-65 M
FL: 77-25 O
OH: 85-22 O
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
so based on the O +15 difference between your predictions and mine
you think O will win NC and the results will be exactly the same as the final state map on fivethirtyeight?
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
Am I the only one who's wondering what she bleeped out?
What stars with F and has 8 letters?
Freaking?
Flannels?
Flavored?
Fantasty (it’s like a combination of fantasy and tasty)
au contra ire
Note on stretching, nor not stretching, from the NY Times
Mentions golfing or “hitting a baseball” in the video. Weaker after static stretches??
Maybe that would explains Jack Cust’s droughts between HRs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112pewarm.html?_r=1&em&oref=slogin
Officially awaiting the 2009 season.
by One won lost won on Nov 3, 2008 11:02 PM PST reply actions
Fun stretching story:
Joe Gibbs once asked Fred Smoot why he wasn’t stretching before a practice.
“You ever see a dog stretch before he chases a car?”
He should’ve said he did all the stretching he needed to do on a boat…
by thejd44 on Nov 5, 2008 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
Since I live in New York now
I voted absentee in Colorado, and it kind of sucks that I can’t participate in all the hubaloo of actually voting today…though I suppose if I went and stood in long lines and wrestled with breaking machines, I’d think differently.
The Poppy family has voted.
Including, for the first time ever, Poppy Jr. Other than selecting some local office candidates on the basis of “who has the coolest-sounding name,” I think he did okay.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
I consider myself a fairly well-informed voter
But in the race for Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board, where I get to select up to 5 of the 7 listed candidates, I confess that I’m deciding solely on coolest-sounding jobs and/or names. So I’m voting for the Artist, the Record Label Manager, the Personal Assistant, and the folks named Clydis and Igor. Too bad for you, boring Incumbent Jack and Legislative Aide Nicole.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Nov 4, 2008 9:28 AM PST up reply actions
Fashionista
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Here in Massachusetts, you don't have to worry about
making a decision – three out of the four (IIRC) of the local-ish elections had Dems running unopposed.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
weird, huh?
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Now we'll know who to blame
if rents in Berkeley become dangerously unstable.
Thanks for tomorrow 'cause I've had enough
OTOH, if Nico was on the Board, rents would become dangerously stable
Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are. @('.')@
don't you mean dangerous IN THE stable?
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Yeah, I have to admit...
that even after age 19, I was voting for the Artists and such in local races. And today, I did lean toward Malcolm “Nappy” MacNaughton for Sequoia Healthcare District board of directors, just for the nickname.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
He would've loved my ballot
where I had guys named Booze and Butt running for City Council
There's no crying in baseball!
Were they running against each other?
That would be a really tough choice for Pam.
I think this calls for a poll.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
HEY!
Never mind. I do like both.
If I don't comment on your comment how will you know you are completely wrong? -Rocktopus
LOL
I knew you’d say that.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
I'm predictable.
But honest.
If I don't comment on your comment how will you know you are completely wrong? -Rocktopus
I was proud to be an American today.
For the first time ever, I served as an Election Judge. I cried. Yes, cried at an election. There were so many people voting in the area I served. And the little old people warmed my heart. Some of them could barely walk in or see or write, yet they were there at 6:00 with their identification ready to vote. And the young people! I wanted to hug everyone!
I had to much fun today.
But he came back. And there was much rejoicing.
by Jennifer on Nov 4, 2008 6:27 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Andrew Carignan, RHP, Oakland Athletics: He has really good bite on his breaking ball. Didn’t get a velocity reading but fastball looked above average.
Sean Doolittle, 1B, Oakland Athletics: Hitting well down here, but I thought his swing looked long, certainly longer than it looked in college. Maybe he is trying to hit for more power? He played with more energy than most players down here.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
so, you're saying the lefty is showing surprising power in Arizona today?
Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are. @('.')@
F the CC
Just in time for this link dump, the Supreme Court is hearing a case about the FCC’s rules regarding profanity on TV:
At issue is the FCC’s policy, adopted in 2004, that even a one-time use of profanity on live television is indecent because some words are so offensive that they always evoke sexual or excretory images. So-called fleeting expletives were not treated as indecent before then.
The words in question begin with the letters “F” and “S.” The Associated Press typically does not use them.
Shit, just say what words you’re talking about.
Chief Justice John Roberts, the only justice with young children at home, suggested that the commission’s policy is reasonable. The use of either word, Roberts said, “is associated with sexual or excretory activity. That’s what gives it its force.”
Justice John Paul Stevens, who appeared skeptical of the policy, doubted that the f-word always conveys a sexual image.
“Isn’t it true that that is a word that often is used with no reference whatsoever to the sexual connotation?” he asked.
Fuck yeah.
Thanks for tomorrow 'cause I've had enough
Isn’t there a children’s book called “Everybody Engages In Excretory Activity”?
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
My excretory activity don't work in the playoffs
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Odd
I wonder why they change it to “forget you” instead of “sex you”? When I get pissed, surprised in a bad way or find something bad, I’m going to start yelling “Sex” instead.
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That is simply false on its face
The F word does not “always evoke sexual images”, and Utley’s little impromptu exclamation is a demonstration of that.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
A judge said it was true, therefore it was true
I love that. Funny how the complaints about “judicial activism” have died down lately…
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
The fact that the word can
magically adapt itself to virtually any part of speech ought to be a clue that the word isn’t to be taken literally.
What Justice Stevens should have said to Chief Justice Roberts is, “Shut the fuck up.” How can “fuck” possibly have anything to do with sex there? I mean, how do you even parse that sentence? It makes no sense except as a meaningless interjection.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
How can "fuck" possibly have anything to do with sex there ?
Judge Thomas was eavesdropping.
by green star oakland on Nov 5, 2008 3:52 PM PST up reply actions
No, I think it is
“Nobody Gives an Excretory Activity”
I just like the phrase "excretory activity."
It sounds so… I don’t know… elitist. As in, “Consumption of arugula enhances my excretory activity.”
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Cedar Rapids was just up on the map.
CEDAR RAPIDS!!!
If I don't comment on your comment how will you know you are completely wrong? -Rocktopus
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
If I don't comment on your comment how will you know you are completely wrong? -Rocktopus
4 & 8 early results are harshing my buzz, though.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Scratch that re: 4... it's going back & forth.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
4 and 8
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Not that 4.
This one.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
and they put 4 on the ballot every time and it always loses so don't worry...
The A's colors are green and gold.
By less & less, though.
Isn’t there a “3 strikes” thing for ballot measures?
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Yeah, I'm wondering who the hell those 15,000 people are.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
I can tell you precisely which neighborhoods they live in
Oh, if people only knew how frugal we are. @('.')@
not sure about SF specifically
Exit poll data showed seven in 10 black voters and more than half of Latino voters backed the ballot initiative, while whites and Asians were split.
Though blacks and Latinos combined make up less than one-third of California’s electorate, their opposition to same-sex marriage appeared to tip the balance.
7/10 black voters
>50% latinos
67% christians
6/10 married voters
6/10 seniors
i don’t know if most of those groups are concentrated in specific SF neighborhoods…
i’m not sure what SF neighborhoods you’re thinking of, unless it’s bayview – hunters point…
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
What's 4?
I don’t live in California, but I sure am disappointed in your state for what looks like the outcome of 8.
by thejd44 on Nov 5, 2008 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
MAJOR disappointment
we actually decriminalized marijuana possession in Mass
never thought I’d see that
"The Athletics at Fremont" is terribly bad
I smoke before Mass all the time
Makes me feel closer to God.
(I hope my Mommy isn’t reading this)
I'm here to talk about the past.
Pfffft.
Imagine how happy these people would have been had the Cubs won.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
And hey, wasn't Ditka running for something? Or talking about running for something?
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
puts little hearts over the i's
If I don't comment on your comment how will you know you are completely wrong? -Rocktopus
Yay!!!!!
I LOVE monty Python!!!!!!!!
I actually dressed up as a gumby for a surprise birthday party… but maybe I shouldn’t go there…
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
I got paid, of course. I would never do that for free.
Awww… Unicorn's optimistic. And a cheeseball. That’s cute. ~Whiteshoes40
With 63% of votes in
Bob Wasserman, the pro-Cisco Field incumbent, is leading in the Fremont mayor’s race. Steve Cho is second; Gus Morrison, the ballpark village opponent, is third.
Incredibly, the results paint a rather favorable picture for the A’s and their hopes to get the baseball village built. Several potential obstacles in Fremont have been removed. Incumbent mayor Wasserman, who has been the staunchest public proponent of the project, will stick around to see it through the EIR process at the very least. Wieckowski, also a supporter, will be there as well. They’ll be joined by Chan, who is also a project supporter. Neither of the project’s biggest critics, former mayor Gus Morrison and Sierra Club chapter leader Vinnie Bacon, placed higher than third in their races.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
Won't somebody think of the children?
How can we expect our kids to become interested in politics when the elections don’t end until past midnight on the East Coast? When I was a child, I remember bringing a transistor radio out to the playground so we could listen to Walter Cronkite call the election. That’s the way it should be!
While the networks are making a money-grab, children are snoozing while the elections unfold. The president needs to step in and change the timing for the good of our country.
Also, isn’t it ridiculous that the elections end in November? It could have snowed last night!
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
by salb918 on Nov 5, 2008 6:11 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
HeeHee Salb...
Ya gave me a real giggle…
As for that election … I was so disappointed today I expected the market to be up…because of Obama. I wanted to recoup some of my monies. I have been harping and harping on the Hubby about losing so much money. He finally got sick of it at one point and told me to invest $5000 . So I thought about it and decided that WaMu couldn’t possibly go lower. So I bought some and the next day it went to 12 cents a share and I was out the 5 grand in one day. Anyway, I am hoping that Obama brings some upturn in the market.
ordinarily I'm not much of a John Shea fan, but ...
… today’s item on the GM meetings has a really, really great and subtle transition:
Other, more free-spending GMs suggested it might be a time to consider restraint, which would be rare in the baseball community. The White Sox’s Kenny Williams compared the top contracts for free agents to golden parachutes handed to CEOs and said, “It seems to reason that we all should bear a certain amount of the same hurt and struggle that’s going on with the rest of the society.”
Elsewhere at the palatial St. Regis Monarch Beach resort […]
Did you overpay for those eggs? @('.')@
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