12/1/08: First DLD of the last month of the year
by gigglingone on Dec 1, 2008 12:41 PM PST
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PrintThe fog is back, that must mean it's December....
I got links today:
- Hot Stove Report. Nothing new today, but still good to keep an eye on.
Happy Monday everyone! If you have any extra Pumpkin Pie, can you bring it to my office? I'm hungry....
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sweet--a new DLD!
I was thinking of putting one together tonight, but you saved me since I have no links :)
I like the fog, it’s just like on Scooby Doo!
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
+ a gazillionty-eleven
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
It's even foggy in SJ today. I'm happy.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
It's so foggy down in San Diego, it's collecting on trees and dripping.
And it only lasted an hour. Bizarre.
The Aces are all fog lovers
or at least we were until Mrs. Aces got a job last month that is an hour from home and in the middle of the densest of the dense fog. Now she gets to drive home in 1/4 mile visibility at night.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
Fog = never having 90 degree weather
So put me down for liking fog.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
hey, buddy...
it was foggy in Sacramento, too, and in our summers, 90 degrees is a cool day
"I have more questions after these."-WaddellCanseco
by Gaijin_Suketto on Dec 1, 2008 2:18 PM PST up reply actions
Down in Fresno too.
The worst of both worlds-105 in the summer, frost and fog in the winter.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
Eh,
it’s not like there’s anything in Fresno worth seeing.
(Is that you waving at me)
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
This is (to a degree) true
The nicest drive along highway 99 usually is the one where you have to have the CHP escorting you through the Tule fog. Although the beauty of numerous trailer shops and auto dismantlers does have a certain charm….
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
Though the Billboards tend to
distract one from the scenery. Nothing like gripping the wheel while driving 55 mph only to see a girl passing you while she puts on her makeup….all while visibility is less than 100 feet.
And now all of AN knows why 140 cars simultaneously decide to occupy the same space at the same time in Fresno.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Non fog related topic
but the A’s could have gotten a break as it seems the Tigers will not offer arbitration to Renteria. This clears the way for the Giants to sign him, possibly leaving the A’s as the frontrunner for Furcal.
For all your holiday gifting
Safeway — at least the Safeway in Albany, affectionately known as The Worst Safeway In The World — has a display of 2009 calendars as you enter the store. For just $9.99 you can purchase the Oakland Athletics Team Calendar from Scoreboard Publishing.
Mr. June is Huston Street. Okay, print deadlines and all that — maybe.
Mr. May is Joe Blanton.
are you
sure it’s the 09 calendar? Wouldn’t it be just like those guys to pull the old rustler trick – draw a little semicircle under the 7 and pass it off a 9 – to move a little obsolete merch? And they think we can be fooled that easily!! ha!!!
"...in baseball you wear a cap." -- george carlin
Albany Safeway is not that bad...
better than the Dominics in Chicago that I had to frequent last year. (who are, btw, affiliated with Safeway it seems).
facepalm.jpg
There are many good Dominics in Chicago
Just bad luck you picked bad ones.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
I kindof like the DePaul Dominick's
It’s quirky, although the fact that starbucks takes up 1/3 of the store is annoying.
The Dominicks on Clybourn and Division is a lot nicer though, and if you’re loaded there’s the Whole Paycheck on North and Sheffield.
PS. There’s also a Peet’s Coffee next to the whole foods, so you can avoid Starbuck’s crappy brew as a bonus.
No
I lived nearby for a while, and now live on North and Larrabee, so it’s my neighborhood.
Didn't know you were in Chicago, too.
The Chicago people here really ought to have an A’s outing at Comiskey next year. There are at least 3 of us.
by thejd44 on Dec 3, 2008 7:49 PM PST up reply actions
Or at least find a good place to watch opening day
Preferably somewhere that has Two Brothers on tap, since Bell’s is gone.
Yeah, I've seen that calendar
and wondered about Cupcakes being in it. Usually there’s four or five guys that aren’t on the team by the time the season rolls around (the worst was 2005’s calendar, featuring Hudson-Mulder-Zito on the cover, if I remember correctly), but they usually weren’t traded mid-season. Calendar company = fail.
So I had an A's-related dream last night:
It’s Opening Night, but for some reason I’ve forgotten about it until someone reminds me. So I go online to see if the game’s still going on, and it’s the bottom of the 9th, and the A’s are losing. We’re playing some random team like the Pirates. I turn on the TV in time to see the tying runs score (I believe Travis Buck is one of the runners) and then the winning run scores, driven in by none other than Emil Brown, RBI Machine, who, I notice during his celebration at first base, is possibly wearing high socks (or maybe they were Jamie Moyer-esque socks). I think, “Huh, I didn’t think Emil was going to be on the team this year. AN won’t be happy when they find out about this.” Then I woke up.
This morning when I was reading the sports section, I saw a blurb about the free agents the A’s weren’t going to offer arbitration to, including Emil. Then I remembered my dream—and was relieved that it was, in fact, a dream. Maybe it was more like a nightmare—after all, it’s quite unlikely that we’ll ever see E.Brown in an A’s uniform again, and even more unlikely that I’ll forget about Opening Night…
The safest place to be while driving in the fog...
Behind a big rig. If anything happens in front of him either 1) he’ll see it with enough time to stop or 2) he’ll plow a trail for you to follow. Either way your car (and you, by extension) should be safe.
Advice was given to me by a rig driver.
Course in LA there is no fog. But when I drive home to Stockton in the winter I feel much safer.
99 MPH with as much control as a deflating balloon - CurveballKing on H-Rod
You may want to rethink that one.
A couple of my friends responded to an accident involving a big rig vs auto. It was a while ago so I can’t remember if fog was a factor, but alcohol was involved, this time by the rig driver. The two teenage girls following the rig didn’t have time to react to a sudden stop and drove underneath it and were decapitated.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Well, yeah, you still gotta pay attention.
And there are risks involved. The main idea is that your car will be able to stop quicker than the truck.
Besides most teenagers drive like they have no heads anyway.
99 MPH with as much control as a deflating balloon - CurveballKing on H-Rod
They did stop faster than the truck.
The car behind them, however, did not. Quite a gory mess from what I’m told. The worst part was that it wasn’t a clean decapitation. What bothered my friend was the mice scurrying in the field where the accident happened. Care to guess what they were doing?
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Ohhhh, didn't think of that.
99 MPH with as much control as a deflating balloon - CurveballKing on H-Rod
I love fog.
And that poll is entirely inconclusive. But excellent work on the DLD, gigglingone.
If I don't comment on your comment how will you know you are completely wrong? -Rocktopus
I wonder what inspired more people to vote for the third "Never" than the first two.
by whiteshoes40 on Dec 1, 2008 10:10 PM PST up reply actions
I wanted to vote for all three "Nevers"
One isn’t enough.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
[Insert grover-esque rant about name spelling here]
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
It has to do with leaders and followers
Leaders picked the first never. No hesitation, just went right after it, and continued on with their day, kicking ass, taking names. Followers aching to be leaders picked the second. Held the cursor for a minute or two over the first never, then settled on the second. And went about hating themselves for the rest of the day. Followers totally comfortable in their role shamelessly clicked the third never, but only after making sure someone else had done it first.
I'm here to talk about the past.
Yay! I'm a leader! Bold and decisive!
If that’s okay with you guys, that is… I mean… just let me know, okay?
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
You fogged up?
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
by kaweahkaweah on Dec 2, 2008 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
It means you have no right to complain about fog.
I’ll be watching you from now on.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
Speaking of fog...
This job sounds so good to me right now.
Ray: "How fun is it to be up here playing in the Big Leagues?"
Gio: "It's *SUPER* fun!!!"
you could hop on a boat
and come over to my house for the a’s games. i’m probably a 20 or 30 minute boat ride away.
There's no crying in baseball!
it sounds good
except for all the cooking and cleaning. My dog would love it, though! BEST. BACKYARD. EVER.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
or disc jockey 
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Dec 2, 2008 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
The Fogdather
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
"bals," said the, uh, Queen ...
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Dec 2, 2008 1:32 PM PST up reply actions
Shut the fog up
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy."
-Charles Manson
the email I just got from the A's....
Anyone else notice that the Half Price Holliday Pack only has games through the end of June???
There's no crying in baseball!
If he was expected to be traded..
Shouldn’t it run until the end of July then?
"To this day and dating back 25 years, before every game he plays, Henderson stands completely naked in front of a full length locker room mirror and says, "Ricky’s the best," for several minutes."
by VORP is too nerdy on Dec 2, 2008 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
I have a new sig.
25 Best Rickey Stories (new window)
"To this day and dating back 25 years, before every game he plays, Henderson stands completely naked in front of a full length locker room mirror and says, "Ricky’s the best," for several minutes."
by VORP is too nerdy on Dec 2, 2008 1:57 PM PST reply actions
Yeah but come on
Doesn’t everyone stand naked in front of a mirror and say Rickey’s the best for several minutes?
Oh, that’s just me?
Never mind.
I'm here to talk about the past.
I once lost my hair because of Mario Kart
It involved college and a lot of drinking.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
The only things I've lost because of Mario Kart are my temper and the respect of others
au contra ire
I stopped playing with a buddy of mine
because he’d throw the controller anytime he lost. Which was quite often.
99 MPH with as much control as a deflating balloon - CurveballKing on H-Rod
That was completely awesome.
Mario Kart for N64 was the best. I tried to play the Wii version a couple months ago and two kids totally schooled me. Dang kids. Bring back the 64, and I’ll show them how it’s done.
I love the Doo-doo-doo-doo in the beginning
I didn’t even realize it was the race starting at first.
au contra ire
Nah, the wii version is pretty cool except
you can’t play on 150cc or extra on multi-player, unless I just haven’t unlocked it yet. Because at 100cc it’s just a race between 1st and 2nd the whole time. And you don’t get anything good in 2nd place from the boxes.
I haven’t gone back and played the 64 version yet, which admittedly is friggin awesome. But it would kill me not to have that boost on the power slide and the jumps. I’m so used to it now.
Jesus, you’d think at 32 I’d have stopped playing video games by now.
99 MPH with as much control as a deflating balloon - CurveballKing on H-Rod
Why?
Sure, we may not play with Transformers anymore (at least not the toy kind), but I see no reason why we should abandon our hobbies just because we’re aging. It always seemed to me that the indictment of video games by our parents was more due to the fact that they didn’t have them growing up. Dern new-fangled time wasting video games (as said parents watch 3-4 hours of television or movies every night).
au contra ire
I don't know.
It just seems like something I would have grown out of, like playing with Transformers.
There was a long period that I didn’t play. I managed to make the giant leap from NES to the first Playstation, and if it wasn’t for GTA I don’t know that I’d have even bought a PS2.
I absolutely loved playing GTAIII on the computer and just had to be able to play Vice City. I get my jones now by playing at my buddies, mostly Mario Kart and GH/RockBand. And The Show. That game is freaking awesome.
99 MPH with as much control as a deflating balloon - CurveballKing on H-Rod
I never liked the N64 version. I still prefer the SNES version of Mario Kart.
by thejd44 on Dec 4, 2008 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
They're all good.
But other than the GBA version, the N64 one is my least favorite.
Wii>SNES>Gamecube>N64>GBA
And the original Mario Kart might be my favorite game on SNES. There’s a lot of competition for that title.
au contra ire
Mmmm... Bart-tastic
Matier and Ross are usually pretty good at this stuff.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
oooh
Avery was suspended indefinitely by commissioner Gary Bettman for making “inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game.” The punishment came down only hours after Avery used a crude term about his former girlfriends now dating other hockey players…
Avery’s ex-girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert of the television show “24” and the movie “Old School,” is dating Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf; she also had been romantically linked to Mike Komisarek of the Montreal Canadiens.
When can we expect the new line of Elisha Cuthbert designed female fan gear for the NHL?!?
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Hockey? Boring?
Huh. OK.
Do you like soccer? Hockey is like soccer except sped up to about 3x speed and without the wussiness.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
Did you really try to convince somone hockey isn't boring by mentioning soccer?
(for the record I watch some playoff hockey and can’t stand soccer)
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
Scrapbooking is like 3 times as awesome as a tea party
Full disclosure: I like hockey, love soccer, and support my wife’s scrapbooking addiction.
au contra ire
Caught red-handed
< Takes a picture of own hand >
< Prints picture out on employer’s color laser printer, using employer’s paper supplies >
< Cuts aforementioned picture of hand out with zig-zaggy scissors >
< Uses magic two-sided tape to affix said picture to a two-tone earthy card stock >
au contra ire
He's English. I think.
For the record, I actually don’t mind soccer, although I like hockey a lot more.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
And the major difference: something is actually always happening in hockey
I’ve only been a hockey fan a few years. I thought it was boring, too. Then I started to understand that enough it seemed like “nothing happens,” there’s actually a ton of action. While scoring is low, one team is always just a couple seconds from scoring. That’s why it’s exciting. Soccer, on the other hand, doesn’t have that. There are great stretches of the game where there’s virtually no chance of anything exciting at all happening.
by thejd44 on Dec 4, 2008 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
"While scoring is low, one team is always just a couple seconds from scoring."
That also explains why you’re an A’s fan.
I'll send you a postcard from Space Mountain. @('.')@
My problem with hockey is that it is so "raw"
Important disclaimer: I’m not saying players aren’t sickly talented at all.
Baseball is – by far – the smoothest sport. Errors are rare and what should happen almost always does. You can see entire games without any obvious mistakes.
Football is much less smooth. Passes are dropped, blocks are whiffed, etc. Much of that is you’re competing against a person rather than a ball, but still. I can’t imagine there has ever been a game without a dropped pass.
Hockey is at least as much below football (on this scale) as football is below baseball. Passes are routinely missed, for various reasons. Pucks frequently skitter away from sticks. I like watching it in the playoffs because the intensity is exciting, otherwise I find the lack of polish on the sport in general frustrating.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want" -Bill Watterson
Elisha Cuthbert is annoying.
Or maybe I’m just associating her with Kim from 24, who was extremely annoying.
But also extremely hot.
I actually didn’t think Kim was as annoying as Teri.
by thejd44 on Dec 4, 2008 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
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 love old movie posters
and starring Steve Jones as The Guy Who Gets Killed By Some Unknown Creature
au contra ire
Just groom, baby! (brief video)
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Dec 4, 2008 6:00 AM PST up reply actions
In other news, Alyssa Milano now a clearance rack item:
Not only that, but it’s “buy one — get one free” time.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
I'd like nothing better.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Dec 4, 2008 10:05 AM PST up reply actions
Free The Puppies!
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Dec 4, 2008 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Dec 4, 2008 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
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