The DLDing of a New Era (02/12/08)
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 5:00 AM PST
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"I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined." -Homer the Great
AN 3.0 is up, and we no longer have numbers. >:-( Damn, we early adopters just got screwed...
Now that Diaries have been replaced by FanPosts, what happens to the Diary Police? And what happened to OaktownTribesman and his A's-related Photoshops?
Lookout Landing users have created the Meme Police. #1 on my list for AN would be the "day to day" jokes.
Will Caroll has started doing the 2008 Team Health Reports. The first team is the Padres so we don't really care, but:
"Projected lineups appear courtesy of SportsBlog Nation"
Also, did AN diaries show up on Google News before AN 3.0?
Edit: How come this one didn't show up? Athletics Nation Oakland A's Oakland Athletics Google News Oakland Fremont buy Viagra Oakland A's porn sex free Britney Spears video.
Grant is jealous of our photos and our auto-refreshing comments.
John Sickels reviews the top 50 prospects from 2000, 2001, and 2002.
Five Questions answered by the SJ Mercury News and SF Chronicle. I prefer the Chronicle version because it restates the five questions at the end.
Monkeys are taking over THT. The first paragraph has links for various projections and since I didn't read the rest of it, I'll just paste that:
"Player projections! It's become a rite of spring on par with pitchers and catchers. Over the last several weeks we've been treated to projections from Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster, Bill James and Baseball Info Solutions, Sean Smith's CHONE system, Baseball Prospectus' PECOTA and Dan Szymborski's ZiPS. In a few weeks, The Hardball Times will throw its hat into the ring with The Hardball Times Season Preview 2008."
Finally, some non-baseball (but still relevant) stats here (scroll down) and here for the real nerds.
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I'm glad my article was such a hit.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 5:18 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
the poll needs
"ability to see who recommended a diary" as an option...
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 6:15 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I would've voted for that
Knowing who recommended stuff is more important to me that the number of recs.
Also, the # of recs needed to make the top recommended lists seems to have changed, will result in either very few rec'd diaries, or a big surge in users recommending stuff.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 8:48 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
So far this "FanPost"
Has 7 recommendations and hasn't made the most rec'd list. Hmmm...
Also, "FanPost?" Awful. Posts are what I'm doing now, just like it says, POST a comment. A better name for what used to be diaries would have been "Fan Blogs."
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 9:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Weird
Literally as I was writing that POST, the rec list changed and now features multiple FAN BLOGS with 3 recs or more. I think they re-calibrated the recommend-o-meter.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 9:27 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Or "FLOGS" for short.
"He's a misfit. He gets along with everyone." - Reggie Jackson, describing Joe Rudi
by McFood on Feb 12, 2008 3:55 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
it will come in the future
we didn't quite reproduce all the features that y'all had before, but we definitely will eventually. this is one of those.
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 3:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Not sure if you are replying to me Clockwerks
but if you are ... then COOL. Will look forward to seeing that again.
by IM4Oakgal on Feb 12, 2008 3:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
replying to both you & FSU I suppose
since y'all were both talking about the feature of seeing who had recommended a FanPost
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 4:01 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Ok Clock and...It seems like
you guys are very interested in our feedback and really open to getting the features installed that we want. Thank You for that.
by IM4Oakgal on Feb 12, 2008 4:04 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
strange...
believe it or not, some of the poll options are not showing up (and one is on there twice).
among the missing options: More "Larry Davis is overweight and therefore bad at his job" jokes!
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 6:18 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Also, above the pi option:
"A pie eating contest"
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 6:20 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
damn, another one
"More search options / Google search"
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 6:25 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
My head hurts.
"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."
by Jennifer on Feb 12, 2008 6:26 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
story of my life
"Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.”
-Sandy Alderson, former A’s general manager.
by 67MARQUEZ on Feb 12, 2008 6:44 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh well.
Bye.
"There's no real reason why a flight in which one flies naked should be more expensive than any other."
by Poppy on Feb 12, 2008 6:50 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I'm trying to be positive
and make constructive criticism, but...yeah.
(You'll be back.)
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 7:10 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Toodles!
I love you, k^2. -Poppy*
by kaweahkaweah on Feb 12, 2008 7:10 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
what you don't like my FanPost??
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 7:20 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I really hate when things are
given cutesy names by taking the space between the words away. FanPost? Ugh. kRaZeE
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 7:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
don't blame me, i voted for Kodos
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 7:30 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
but
ccmpletely changing the spelling of a word and typing it lIkE tHiS is totally acceptable, right?
Just messing with you salb. I'm surprised at how well I've adjusted to the new AN.
"Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.”
-Sandy Alderson, former A’s general manager.
by 67MARQUEZ on Feb 12, 2008 7:36 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
salb?
is that a cutesy name created by taking the space between the words away?
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 7:39 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
No, becuase it's NotCute.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 7:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 8:05 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Cute, or NotCute?
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 8:09 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
kRaZeE
Look it up in the Ancillary terms, if that even survived them move. It was a commentary on the weekday game thread types. WHY DOAN YOO CHOO SUM GUM WIF UR BF MACHO?
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 7:55 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
ah yes
I haven't had the pleasure in particpating in an A's game thread yet. Bear with me.
"Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.”
-Sandy Alderson, former A’s general manager.
by 67MARQUEZ on Feb 12, 2008 8:05 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I was wondering about the ANcillaries
Did you hear we signed Keith Foulke?
by Englishmajor on Feb 12, 2008 8:33 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
blez hooked me up!
"Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.”
-Sandy Alderson, former A’s general manager.
by 67MARQUEZ on Feb 12, 2008 3:46 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Starting now we must all refer to them as ManPosts
which would be even more appropriate for manly talk in a bar about manly blogging: "Hey, Frank, what were you up to yesterday, I didn't see you at the ballgame." Frank: "Yeah, dude, I was at home working on my ManPost."
"wither fair monkeyball?" ~fsu
by LAXile on Feb 12, 2008 11:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I prefer MonkeyPost
Even if they're clever, they become stupid with repetition. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 13, 2008 8:00 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
How about: "Pan-Primate Sign of Phallic Enormity"?
"wither fair monkeyball?" ~fsu
by LAXile on Feb 13, 2008 8:39 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
NOOOOOO!!!
We need a new poll option: To keep Poppy!!!
[ a.k.a. mkt a.k.a. whiny douchebag ]
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Feb 12, 2008 8:38 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Noooooooooooooo!
Poppy > AN 3.0. By a lot.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 8:59 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If you go, so does my will to live!
"wither fair monkeyball?" ~fsu
by LAXile on Feb 12, 2008 3:00 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Oaktoon, reztips, and jrbh
plot their return to AN 3.0
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
by Nick on Feb 12, 2008 6:57 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
if that's oaktoon on the left, I'd be happy to
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 1:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Daily Link FanPost doesn't have the same ring to it
and my browser keeps crashing
"The Athletics at Fremont" is lame
by ArakSOT on Feb 12, 2008 7:28 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
what browser / OS do you have?
and which pages are you crashing on?
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 7:31 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
safari on a mac is crashing lots
like when trying to post a comment
firefox seems happier
"The Athletics at Fremont" is lame
by ArakSOT on Feb 12, 2008 7:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
what version of safari?
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 7:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm running safari
3.0.4. and it seems to be working alright.
death to myspace!
by malikot on Feb 12, 2008 8:06 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Isn't it
Daily Link Dump? We've already dropped the other D.
"Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies."
by Jennifer on Feb 12, 2008 7:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
you ruined 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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 8:17 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
the diary police
may still be needed...
http://athleticsnation.com/2008/2/12/251726/thsi-is-going-to-take-some
http://athleticsnation.com/2008/2/12/251725/uss-mariner-sims-show-a-s
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 7:42 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Maybe they made FanPosts when they
meant to make FanComment inStead.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 7:54 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
lol
I love that when I went to flag the diary, just to see what that did, the following showed up:
Aliquam condimentum lacus non sapien. Vivamus ut diam quis lacus tempus sagittis. Nullam leo felis, volutpat quis, faucibus ut, venenatis ac, urna. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.Aenean metus. Aliquam dolor lectus, fringilla at, fringilla ac, cursus ac, nulla. In ac est. Donec id mauris sit amet erat ultricies luctus. Fusce scelerisque diam sit amet orci. Proin vel odio.
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 9:11 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Heh.
Good catch. We'll fix that shortly.
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 9:38 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I find it funny ...
... that "greeking" is always in Latin.
The best that can be said about this is that it's imaginative. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 9:39 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I'm down with FPP
It starts with rule No. 1 from coach Don Nelson: Shoot the ball.
by mikeA on Feb 12, 2008 10:00 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You know, when PT and grover and devo
and FSU and who all get into one of their conversations, we're all going to be regretting this super-thin content column. But hey, at least we'll have GrayBars.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 7:56 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I used to be into the Gray Bay scene
until I realized that drugs alcohol and anonymous physical contact couldn't bring me happiness the way AN 2.0 did.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 8:46 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Gray Bay scene? You mean elder hot?
The best that can be said about this is that it's imaginative. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 9:38 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Angela Lansbury.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 9:42 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Francoise Dorleac
(OK, technical violation: she's would-be-elder-but-she-died-young-hot.)
The best that can be said about this is that it's imaginative. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 9:57 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Hey FSU, let's get into a flamewar and see
how far to the edge we can take these comments. I'll start: Lew Wolff is an honest businessman just trying to get by in these hard times.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 9:40 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Only a small, small selfish little
troll who never actually attends games because he lives in a eastern elite bastion of racism could possibly think Lew Wolff is anything but the most evil thing ever seen since Dick Cheney mated with Leona Helmsley.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 10:17 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I heartily disagree.
Take a look at this picture of Lew Wolff:
I dare you to find this good-hearted person to have anything but the best wishes for his fellow A's fans.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 10:23 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Was there supposed to be a picture there?
Or was that a sort of effete arrogance masquerading as a zen koan that we've come to expect from you THT types?
They say Chairman Mao also had a beatific sweet face. I can say without fear of hyperbole that Lew Wolff is a million times more evil than Chairman Mao.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 10:28 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
When you go making comparisons to
Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna...oh, the hell with it.
Listen carefully: I make no attempt to mask my effete arrogance, so to think that I would attempt to masquerade it as a koan. If I were to pose a koan to you, I would be explicit: what is the sound of the one A's fan clapping? Oh, snap!
And that is why the avuncular Mr. Wolff will be our savior, running the team as a public trust and living an ascetic life. And who shall benefit but the smear-minded lowest common denominator, such those who drive red trucks.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 10:37 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
it's showing up now
my mom was recently in china and had this advice: never make plans to meet a group of people by the portrait of mao.
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 10:40 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Huh, I still don't see salb's pic
Seriously, is there something there? Hard to be sure, speaking of someone who thinks this is a red truck:
Can we really have forgotten this plaintive chronicle?
(BTW, red=political bent not truck hue)
Oh, also: I heard Lew Wolff spends at least one weekday morning each month viciously heckling people in line outside the welfare office.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 10:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I must leave my computer for a few hours
Hopefully other users can chime in to keep the flame/post margin experiment going. They don't all have to be Lew flames...Billy's a nice target.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 10:56 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
what if I don't want to write bad things about billy?
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:14 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
can i just write random comments?
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:14 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
without any negativity at all?
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
and get the thread
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
closer and closer
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
to the margin
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
by the way
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
what happened to
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
the seconds
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
that used to show up
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
next to the hours and minutes
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
dang, still not there yet.....
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
you won't get there, it reformats the
posts automatically
by theblackpearl on Feb 12, 2008 11:18 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It just pushes the previous post down, and spaces
it to look threaded
by theblackpearl on Feb 12, 2008 11:19 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It's zeno-phobic!
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 11:30 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
new new AN isn't text-friendly
It's steno-phobic!
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 12:30 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
If we really want to test it
shouldn't someone ask who everyone will be voting for in the June primaries?
by 5Aces on Feb 12, 2008 1:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
It's a picture of David the Gnome
Ex post facto photoshopping of a picture to prove a single word in my entire post wrong is just plain petty.
Also, I have it on good authority that Lew Wolff is actually Santa Claus.
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 10:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That makes sense
I mean, only someone who believes in Santa Claus would possibly approve of the direction in which this franchise is headed. Instead of BART, we can rely on a magic sled pulled by flying reindeer to take us to Wolffisher's mallpark at the South Pole.
"Tomorrow it may rain." - Leo Durocher
by andeux on Feb 12, 2008 11:20 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I can't believe you really believe that
given the horribly crude Photoshop skills I displayed in the Ned Flanders DLD pic.
I think you're very close on the Lew=Santa idea. I'm thinking of a slightly different anagram.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 4:14 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Lew = Australian airline?
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 4:51 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I knew it!
Lew was behind the crash of Oceanic 815!
by 5Aces on Feb 13, 2008 9:20 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
major oversight
How come I can't recommend a FanPost and then flag it for a CGV?
…
by colin on Feb 12, 2008 8:15 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
that ellipsis…
…was supposed to be surrounded by some snarky comment tags. They showed up in the preview, but after I hit post, they disappeared!
Also, when I hit reply, my browser moves back up to the top of the page.
by colin on Feb 12, 2008 8:17 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
AN 3.0 UltraMegaXtreme has snark filters
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 8:21 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Whoa!
xbox, great FanShot of the ghostride. I had totally never seen that before!
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 8:22 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Double whoa!
If you go to a user's page, you can view their voting history!
stat-addled alien overlord
by salb918 on Feb 12, 2008 8:51 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Dead Floridians rejoice!
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
by alox on Feb 12, 2008 8:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Somehow, I voted "Buchanan" in every poll.
WTF?
So it goes.
by jeepers on Feb 12, 2008 11:53 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
so you're into the Gray Bay scene too, eh?
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 12:27 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Wow
It's like a Facebook news feed on there. Yikes.
by lurkerD on Feb 12, 2008 9:26 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
oh, come on.
At least it doesn't tell you relationship status.
"The hard... is what makes it great."
by Jjjsixsix on Feb 12, 2008 1:02 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah
then it would look like that site I hate
death to myspace!
by malikot on Feb 12, 2008 1:12 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
pretty close
they both thrive on drama
death to myspace!
by malikot on Feb 12, 2008 4:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
uh
I think I'll come back later. I'm so confused.
by Colorado Fan on Feb 12, 2008 9:27 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
we're around to answer any questions you have
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 9:39 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
at least trade me for some prospects
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 10:29 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
can't
I think we already have all the prospects.
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 11:13 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Hmmmm...
It took me 20 minutes to find everybody.
So, bring on Bonds! Or, not... then, bring back Langerhans!! -One won lost one
by baseballgirl on Feb 12, 2008 9:40 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
we were hiding in the corner
There's no crying in baseball!
by gigglingone on Feb 12, 2008 9:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Well we will have to try harder next
time then
by theblackpearl on Feb 12, 2008 9:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
KC loves Mike Sweeney......
and if he is healthy will be a true asset to Oakland's clubhouse.
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080211&content_id=2370717&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
Funny Quote:
Pitcher Zack Greinke was amused that Sweeney would be joining ex-Royals outfielder Emil Brown with the A's.
"He and Emil got along really good last year and I was always busting on Emil about, 'What are you going to do without Sweeney?' So I guess they found a way to do it," Greinke said.
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Feb 12, 2008 9:42 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
I think I'm going to need
an hour of yoga or meditation to counteract this experience.
It starts with rule No. 1 from coach Don Nelson: Shoot the ball.
by mikeA on Feb 12, 2008 10:12 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
No joke
So, bring on Bonds! Or, not... then, bring back Langerhans!! -One won lost one
by baseballgirl on Feb 12, 2008 10:12 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Perhaps a stint in the trees
with the unwashed purists would help cleanse your techno-tainted spirit.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 10:18 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Twins signed Livan Hernandez
to a one-year contract. $5 million. You'll have to take my word for it because I can't figure out how to link.
Did you hear we signed Keith Foulke?
by Englishmajor on Feb 12, 2008 10:14 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Link
There's a little link icon. Or I think you can still just type the url yourself.
Twins sign Livan
"Tomorrow it may rain." - Leo Durocher
by andeux on Feb 12, 2008 10:19 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I tried it
but I couldn't figure out how to put in the text. Now I see, you just insert it between the > and the < before the /a; it was more straightforward before.
Did you hear we signed Keith Foulke?
by Englishmajor on Feb 12, 2008 10:41 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
another easier way
you can write your text that you want to link, then select it, press the link button and when you hit OK, it will put the link code around your text
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 10:43 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That poll is going to kill me
I don't like having so many options. It stresses me out. What if I pick the wrong one?
I need a nap.
Kettlecorn! Swishercorn!
by TurnTwo on Feb 12, 2008 10:23 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Maybe this has been covered elsewhere..
But can you disable the avatars for folks, and just have text a la the old AN?
"This is NOT rebuilding. Billy Beane reloaded." -rev
by ST on Feb 12, 2008 10:30 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
no
but that's an interesting idea
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 10:40 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Grumble
I agree with all of this, with the same "it probably means I'm a condescending spoilsport and maybe I'll change my mind once I overcome my initial horror" caveats.
I like the C thing, though.
by 74mk on Feb 12, 2008 10:32 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
still kind of freaking out
just want to post to see if my avatar is working.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
by batgirl on Feb 12, 2008 10:40 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
your avatar isn't working
It's posting at AN.
The best that can be said about this is that it's imaginative. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 10:44 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
it could be one of those working dogs
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
by xbhaskarx on Feb 12, 2008 10:48 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
me thinks
that it will really take the start of the season for us to come in here and really figure this thing out. For now, I know many of us are tempted to stay away because if its difficult to figure out, and if we dont really have to figure it out yet, we wont.
Anyone else besides me have a problem with the user names being really tiny? Maybe the username could be directly under the avatar no? I mean I just feel like I have to go hunting for it and when I do find it, I need a microscope and a lab coat to read it.
by Amnesiac on Feb 12, 2008 10:48 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
we've heard the font size feedack from a lot of people
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 10:50 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks Clockwerks
Just wanted to add my two cents. If you could somehow work new AN to somehow feed me everyday at noon, that would be great as well. :-)
by Amnesiac on Feb 12, 2008 10:58 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Let me chime in..
and complain about the font size too. Throw in the column width also. Posting user names under their avatar would be an improvement. Alas, not all of us view the world through eyes in their mid twenties anymore. Throw a couple bones to the aged and infirm. Other than those complaints, the site has indeed improved.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
by alox on Feb 12, 2008 12:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
The username
isn't small on my computer. But I access it from AOL...which i know is unpopular with most folks.
by IM4Oakgal on Feb 12, 2008 4:19 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a blog
... and a darn interesting one it is, too.
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 11:38 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
More "IF's"
Foulke, Sweeney.....those are two more BIG "IF's" for our team, provided they actually make the team....I like the veteran prescence element too! Give the young guys some vets to look up to, learn from. "IF" Cupcakes sticks around at least till the AS Break, we might have a nice little underachiving team in 2008.
"Signatures are only for people with hands"
by Masaryk on Feb 12, 2008 12:28 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
that's awesome
I'm the SB Nation visual designer, so blame me!
by sixfoot6 on Feb 12, 2008 1:26 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, that guy is incredible.
I've seen a bunch of his work on different sites. Very cool.
It's Rhodes Scholar Night at the Coliseum tonight.
by Scottbass on Feb 12, 2008 1:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Actual A's related link
Someone's rooting for Jack Hannahan.
[ a.k.a. mkt a.k.a. whiny douchebag ]
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on Feb 12, 2008 1:58 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I didn't realize he went to Cretin-Derham Hall
An actual high school in my home town of Saint Paul, and naturally, the butt of many a joke, although more so when Cretin High was a standalone school.
Did you hear we signed Keith Foulke?
by Englishmajor on Feb 12, 2008 2:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
$8K per diem for Japan trip. Sweet.
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 2:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Well -- there are those famous $100 melons
Did you hear we signed Keith Foulke?
by Englishmajor on Feb 12, 2008 3:34 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I didn't know Jose Lima's wife was making the trip
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 3:46 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The best part
of "Thunder from the East," a book by a couple of New York Times writers about the changing Asian political economic scene, is where Nicholas Kristof describes the process of going out to a fancy Japanese restaurant and-- despite having expended several hundred dollars on a basic set of courses-- getting continually hit up for additional purchases by the waitress.
He also relates the inexplicable existence of "no-pan-shabu-shabu" restaurants-- in which waitresses wearing no underwear (thus the "no-pan[ties]" part) are forced by the restaurant's layout to continually bend over and or stand on stepstools to fetch things for drunken businessmen on expense accounts. (No one, other than ill-informed foreigners like him, actually pays for meals at these places with their own money.)
Japan is an odd country.
In other news, I'm back... just when some of you thought you'd shook me.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on Feb 12, 2008 8:59 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I just figured you'd come back as
PaulThomas364 or something like that.
Nice too see you back.
You're late. Suit up.
"Oakland has now increased its payroll to the point that it now ranks third in the Bay Area among all McDonald's franchises.”
-Sandy Alderson, former A’s general manager.
by 67MARQUEZ on Feb 12, 2008 9:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
we need a no-pan DLD
Even if they're clever, they become stupid with repetition. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 13, 2008 8:01 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I don't want to say that the post office sucks
but I just got four tickets to FanFest and a parking pass in today's mail....
Did you hear we signed Keith Foulke?
by Englishmajor on Feb 12, 2008 3:35 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
That's really efficient on their part...
...what with Fanfest being almost a full year away!
by Dr Pez on Feb 12, 2008 3:41 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
And how did they know
you are buying season tickets for '09?
by 5Aces on Feb 12, 2008 4:20 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
we made it this long
and no one checked to see if we can still post pictures of cats?
death to myspace!
by malikot on Feb 12, 2008 4:49 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Let me tell you something else. I've seen a lot of spinals, Dude, and this guy is a fake.
This whole no-embedded-videos-except in "FanShots" is *not* making me happy.
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 5:41 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Agree on two, disagree on one
1. Yes, he seems to have a bit too much control over his legs while putting on the "lift up one leg at a time" act. He does the act well, though.
2. Yes, the inability to embed videos is a big failing. Not as bad as the uber-slow loading, but bad.
3. No, it's less like the Hokey Pokey and more like Musical Chairs, where each iteration leaves a former player left out. You're talking about 3.0, right?
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 6:10 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
molasses in the tubes
Yeah, it was loading fine for me from the T1 at work today, but now that I'm home on my Comcastic! access, it's ... painfully ... slow. I had been hoping that the speed was a server/tweaking issue, but it sure as heck seems like the burden is all on the access side (from my entirely uneducated guesspoint).
Has anyone official weighed in on the no-video-embed issue? Is it a bug, or a feature? (My, again, uneducated guess, what with the new "FanShot" ["fhot"?] thing, is that it's intentional. Which would kinda suck big-time for my current PI scheme.)
And the Hokey Pokey tagline is from Kareem's blog. It's his own description of his skyhook.
Think of it as an athletic version of the Hokey Pokey. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 12, 2008 7:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
home page vs. story page
are both equally slow for you? or is it primarily the story pages w/ comment threads that are slow for you?
I'm one of the guys that built the new SB Nation
by Trei Brundrett on Feb 12, 2008 9:29 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Story pages, by a long shot
and the status bar suggests much slowness comes from assets.sbnation.com. Home page not as bad, though slower than 2.0.
There is an A in Whimsy.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Feb 12, 2008 9:38 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
what FSU said
Even if they're clever, they become stupid with repetition. @('.')@
by monkeyball on Feb 13, 2008 8:03 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
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