06.24.08: Insomnia DLD
I can't sleep. Not sure why. I should be doing something productive, like cleaning or returning emails, but I'm not. I'm jumping into the fray and lovingly creating for you my first DLD.
The A's didn't play any baseball yesterday, and that was sad for me.
First things first: Jon Carroll writes about LOLcats today (and introduces me to another cat-centric site, Gato Island - which is, to put it quite simply, adorable):
I decided to check in at icanhascheezburger.com, which is ... I dunno what it is. It's about cats and strange syntax and, perhaps, people from an alternate universe. Page down through it; it's either hilarious or it isn't.
Jon. SRSLY. It's hilarious.
MVN interviews Tyson Ross, who is set to debut for Kane County in the next few days.
THT finishes up their look at The Virtual 1980 Oakland Athletics. (Part 1 is here).
SuSlu pens an ode to Dale (his glove and his splits). Yeow.
Don't forget! Food Bank Wednesday this week vs. the Phillies. Bring your cans and/or donations and get a free ticket to an upcoming A's game!
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Heh, I know how you feel
I too am prone to insomnia. I too used it to my advantage last Monday night/Tuesday morning and created my first DLD.
You, alas, have better luck than I do. Right, as I went to post my DLD, my Firefox window abruptly shut down. I was able to restore the session, but all of the text that I had entered into the window was gone. Needless to say, I was a tad bit peeved. The fact that the A’s had had the day off then too and as such, most of my links revolved around evidence supporting the sports media’s East Coast bias eventually helped me to calm down.
ANYWAY, http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/bird-land/bird-land/2008/06/tale-of-the-take-the-mulder-swap/
following the link above will take you to a nice piece from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Cardinals blog regarding the Mulder trade. There’s nothing terribly new in the piece, but it does do a solid job laying out just how lopsided the deal has proven to be. In light of Mulder being scratched from his rehab start last night, on the same night that Haren shut down the Bo Sux, it’s all the more noteworthy.
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by Wes7 on
Jun 24, 2008 1:45 AM PDT
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I cant remember
what did the A’s get in the Big Mac trade?
by A'sfaninNC on
Jun 24, 2008 11:46 AM PDT
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There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 11:51 AM PDT
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tj matthews
and more crap
"Iron man, iron man, does what an iron man can"
by pieful35 on
Jun 24, 2008 12:28 PM PDT
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Insomniacs rule the WORLD!
I’ve always been the guy who has a tough time falling asleep, but still able to wake up in the morning, making me drag all throughout the day. During the summer days, I would be the one to fall asleep at 5am and wake up at 12pm or 1pm.
Let it be known, ladies and gents, that I have now put this insomnia to good use. I will now work the night shift as an ER Nurse hahaha
white esurance sign behind home plate..oh so that’s why durham is an absolutely terrible defensive second baseman.. - xbhaskarx
by BigTuna on
Jun 24, 2008 2:09 AM PDT
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Scoping for another job
Hence my insomnia.
The zombie hours were always the best hours for me to get work done.
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on
Jun 24, 2008 2:12 AM PDT
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Jason Windsor pitched yesterday!
For the AZL team. 3 innings, allowed 2 runs, 10 groundouts though. He’s got a very uphill battle to make himself relevant in this organization again, but I’ve definitely got my fingers crossed. He’s an afterthought now, and I’m not sure people realize how close he was to making it in 06. 17-2 between AA and AAA, with a nearly 4/1 k/bb and over 1k/9. Bulldog mentality as well. He pitched poorly when he was called up, but it was only 13 innings. If he had ran into some luck in in his 13 innings, his story could be entirely different today.
by 31Boots on
Jun 24, 2008 6:18 AM PDT
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At Least I've seen one of his starts
Living in England I don’t get to see the A’s that much, I’ve only seen them once this millenium, that was in Baltimore a year or so ago and Jason Windsor was the starter. It’s likely that he is the only one of the current A’s pitchers that I’ve seen live! Can’t say he’s ever been a favorite though.
Any similarity between my spelling and that deemed correct, is pureley accidental.
by Dalesman on
Jun 24, 2008 6:05 PM PDT
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Jeff got a little unhappy last night..
As did the entire lookout landing community.. to the tune of 1000+ very unhappy comments.
The lesson here is.. don’t mess with Felix Hernandez.
by CoryC123 on
Jun 24, 2008 8:30 AM PDT
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Egads.
I’d hate to see what would have happened if Beltran had really done something wrong.
by sslinger on
Jun 24, 2008 8:48 AM PDT
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Indeed
Blocking the plate without the ball the way Hernandez did is a) against the (never-enforced) rules and b) just plain dumb.
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
by andeux on
Jun 24, 2008 9:26 AM PDT
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Players who are good should know that it is important for them to avoid injury.
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
Jun 24, 2008 9:27 AM PDT
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if you can't sleep, watch a movie


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
Jun 24, 2008 8:48 AM PDT
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Can't sleep, clown will eat me

Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 9:22 AM PDT
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Can't walk, Clown wil stalk me

Pessimism FTW! ... Wait what?
by Zonis on
Jun 24, 2008 10:02 AM PDT
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Can't play

Homey don’t play that.
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on
Jun 24, 2008 3:35 PM PDT
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You talkin' to me?
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
by andeux on
Jun 24, 2008 9:30 AM PDT
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wow, how did i forget that one…
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
Jun 24, 2008 9:30 AM PDT
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You forgot it because you've wisely disabled avatars
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 9:32 AM PDT
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[runs over little girl]
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
by Jennifer on
Jun 24, 2008 9:30 AM PDT
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{loses alarming amount of weight}
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 9:36 AM PDT
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[rolls body up in rug]
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
by Jennifer on
Jun 24, 2008 9:40 AM PDT
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{rolls Jennifer up in a carpet and throws her off a bridge}
I generally bemoan the profusion of Mr Sabermetric Sporks in the Scrabble ranks who don't know the meaning or usage of 50% of the words they use. -monkeyball
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Jun 24, 2008 9:42 AM PDT
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< mangles michael ironside's arm >
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
Jun 24, 2008 9:44 AM PDT
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{digitally erases Michael Ironside's arm, then gives him a robotic prosthesis}
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 10:01 AM PDT
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i was expecting a starship troopers reference from you.
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
Jun 24, 2008 10:26 AM PDT
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Nooook 'em
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 11:17 AM PDT
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Ed Neuemeier is god
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 11:35 AM PDT
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Historical fact of the day:
The Mongols had a social taboo against shedding the blood of people of high rank. Naturally, this caused a problem when trying to kill them. If you were not too important, they solved it by strangling you with a bowstring (since they were steppe nomads, bowstrings were not exactly in short supply). However, if you were really important, they would roll you in a rug and then charge a bunch of cavalry over you.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on
Jun 24, 2008 9:58 AM PDT
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It's all internal bleeding...
For obvious reasons, they didn’t have the most accurate concept of the circulatory system.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on
Jun 24, 2008 10:18 AM PDT
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Internal to the rug maybe.
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
by andeux on
Jun 24, 2008 10:20 AM PDT
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it really tied the steppes together
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
Jun 24, 2008 10:27 AM PDT
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another little-known fact
The Mongol cavalry included a division of strong-backed female camp followers, who would be called into action to form human bridges over shallow streams.
They were known as the steppe-ford wives.
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 11:20 AM PDT
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Another little-known fact
They were poised to overrun Europe (at the walls of Vienna) but simply abandoned the attempt because the Khan back home died.
by nevermoor on
Jun 24, 2008 12:41 PM PDT
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Minor detail
It’s true that Mongol forces had conquered most of eastern Europe and were poised to overrun central Europe, but they were never actually at the walls of Vienna.
I think you’re getting them mixed up with the Ottomans, who really were at the walls (twice) a few centuries later.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
by iglew on
Jun 24, 2008 2:04 PM PDT
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Fair enough
I wasn’t confusing them, just overstating. They would almost certainly have made it all the way west. Medieval Europe had about the dumbest military system imaginable.
by nevermoor on
Jun 24, 2008 7:11 PM PDT
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And Subedei was the greatest general
in the history of the world. Seriously.
Would Europe have been any worse off for it? Was China any worse off for the Yuan dynasty? I don’t think so.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
by iglew on
Jun 25, 2008 5:33 PM PDT
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Asdrubal Cabrera disagrees with that statement
(The first one, I mean.)
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on
Jun 26, 2008 10:00 AM PDT
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The whole way home they screamed
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on
Jun 24, 2008 2:11 PM PDT
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Poppy hates earworms
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 2:38 PM PDT
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i'm not sure if that's the reason, but i know the governor of the central asian city of otrar
had molten silver poured down on his face when he was captured after a long seige.
fyi otrar is also the city where timur (“tamerlane”) died…
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
Jun 24, 2008 10:13 AM PDT
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Bye, Bye, Bye
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
by Jennifer on
Jun 24, 2008 10:25 AM PDT
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Oh, cry me a river!
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on
Jun 24, 2008 3:37 PM PDT
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that’s “siege”
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
Jun 24, 2008 10:29 AM PDT
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tapir + lemur = timur
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 11:20 AM PDT
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That THT piece is great.
I’m close to according the site a prized slot on my quick link bar.
I was insomnia-plagued for several years, though I think it was mainly attributable to the obscene volume of caffeine I ingested during that stretch of time. And in any event, all those sleepless nights dovetailed with my residence on the east coast, meaning that I was wide awake for 1-2 am EST finishes to weeknight A’s games.
So if this is true, why is it that we’re so eager to DFA/trade/castigate “our” players? Shouldn’t we be evolutionarily predisposed to overvalue Huston Street?
Lastly, two slightly divergent takes on last night’s Nats-Angels debacle, specifically the Felipe Lopez error that allowed the tying run to score …
First, Manny Acta:
“I’m not going to overanalyze it,” Washington manager Manny Acta said. “He should have had the ground ball and he didn’t catch it.”
Next, a disgruntled Nats-fan friend of mine via email:
Dude, I was at the game last night. I was about to go on the field and give Felipe Lopez a beat down. He can’t hit, he can’t field and his attitude blows. As I told my friend Steve awhile back, I say trade Odalis Perez, Paul LoDuca and Lopez for anything they can get for them, even if it’s a microwave burrito and a couple of old Hustlers. At least Stan Kasten could then use the Hustlers as evidence of sexual harassment to fire Jim Bowden.
by 74mk on
Jun 24, 2008 9:02 AM PDT
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Watching that error unfold on gameday did not gruntle me one bit.
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 9:09 AM PDT
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Huh.
In societies with markets, customers can go elsewhere. But in a small, tribal society there may be no alternative seller. In that case, those who were reluctant to trade might get better prices. It may thus make sense for an owner to be psychologically predisposed to hold out for a high price as soon as someone else expresses interest in one of his possessions…
Sounds like baseball – it’s a small, tribal society with limited buyers and sellers. Perhaps those GMs that are reluctant to trade might get better prices.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
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Jun 24, 2008 9:10 AM PDT
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This may just be my scrambled brain talking, but...
DFA Brown
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Jun 24, 2008 12:42 PM PDT
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That would scratch my itch
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
by andeux on
Jun 24, 2008 12:53 PM PDT
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People ARE predisposed to overvalue their players...
just check out any of those prospects-for-veterans trade threads for evidence of that.
The effect is clearly overridden by the disciplinary impulse to punish players for perceived wrongdoing, when it comes to the level where we actually care about results (the majors).
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on
Jun 24, 2008 9:31 AM PDT
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"disciplinary impulse to punish players for perceived wrongdoing"
There’s a provocative essay* in there somewhere.
*I tried calling them fanposts. Really, I did. I thought to myself “swallow your silly snobbish disposition this one time, and acquiesce to the accepted site vocabulary”.
But each time my fingers tap out that hateful seven letter sequence I can feel, deep in my bones, in a way too profound to articulate, a small chunk of my self-respect crumbling away, irrevocably. I’ve come to believe that invoking that word is the blog equivalent of not relinquishing your bus seat to an elderly lady, or parking your Hummer in a handicapped space while you run out to procure a nine dollar latte/scone combination from Starbucks. It’s just wrong, and I can’t go on like this.
by 74mk on
Jun 24, 2008 10:10 AM PDT
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It's okay if you use derisive KrAzY kApS when you do it.
fAnPoSt. See?
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 10:16 AM PDT
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I think I lack the requisite finger dexterity to pull that off with any kind of efficiency. Plus, I start doing that, next thing you know I’m using emoticons and lol-ing people. The abyss is not far away, Poppy.
by 74mk on
Jun 24, 2008 10:31 AM PDT
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That's too easy
Blah, blah, Foucault, yadda yadda, juridico-discursive hey nonny ho nonny, metaphysical ontology blah blah leukemiization of society etc etc.
It practically writes itself.
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on
Jun 24, 2008 10:23 AM PDT
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The two stages of Foucault:
1. Woooo! A book about sex!
2. D’oh.
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 10:31 AM PDT
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Ugh.
I spent a semester second-guessing my choice of educational programming, and then I took one of those required classes where I was forced to wade through Foucault (and Orientalism). Man I’m glad I’m an engineer.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
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Jun 24, 2008 10:38 AM PDT
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It ought to have taught you
that westerners such as methodrampage trade in the discourse of “asian people as deficient in height, and thus reliant on wiles.”
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 10:57 AM PDT
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Nightmares! Nightmares!
Quick, someone give me a problem set!
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
Jun 24, 2008 11:37 AM PDT
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here you go
Don’t cheat and look at the answers!
by colin on
Jun 24, 2008 2:52 PM PDT
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the intro of Les Mots et Les Choses is great

I taught a film class where I had the class read Foucault’s intro, and then we watched the photo-enlargement/navigation scene from Blade Runner.
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 11:33 AM PDT
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I re-watched Blade Runner a couple of weeks ago.
1. That is a great scene.
2. I find it amusing that Edward James Olmos stars both in that film and Battlestar Galactica, given their thematic similarities.
3. Did they know about your dubious De Palma defending ways when they let you teach that class?
Interviewer: “I see here on your resume that you made it through Dressed to Kill without wincing even once at its hamhandedness. Mr. monkeyball, I like you, we’re both A’s fans, and your knowledge of cinema is certainly prodigious, but this …”
monkeyball: “I harbor an irrational affinity for Angie Dickinson. It clouds my judgment. I can’t help it. I have every episode of Police Woman on VHS.”
Interviewer: “Uh, I’m not sure that admission helps your cause.”
monkeyball: “Look, I have this one flaw. It’s not the end of the world, and I’m in therapy to try to rectify the problem. I implore you to focus on my positive qualities: quick with a clever quip, expert at classic song remolding, master of obscure political references, dedicated purveyor of all things feces-related. If you can’t overlook this minor personal embarrassment … “
[chokes up, fends off tears]
Interviewer: “I … I mean … I’m sorry. You’re right. And you know, The Untouchables did kind of rule. You’re hired.”
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Jun 24, 2008 12:17 PM PDT
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watching Angie Dickinson is the only thing that stops the itching
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 12:21 PM PDT
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Very good point
I think we overvalue our PROSPECTS because we never see them except through scouting reports which always give them “ceilings” that we’d love to have.
We hate our actual players because the nature of baseball is that everyone fails most of the time, and as avid fans we see them fail a lot.
As a result, the prospect for veterans trades get a bit wacky b/c we act like we’re trading super-santana every time.
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Jun 24, 2008 12:45 PM PDT
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That's one of seven deadly negotiating irrationalities Max Bazerman discusses ...
... in Negotiating Rationally. An Oldie, but a pretty good book.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on
Jun 24, 2008 9:40 AM PDT
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Hmmm... without clicking the link
1. Thinking you can out-negotiate Samuel L. Jackson
2. Thinking that the poison gas you release into the school building will kill only the terrorists and not all the kids too.
Can’t think of the rest.
The A's colors are green and gold.
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Jun 24, 2008 9:46 AM PDT
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"You think you can talk me down, Farley?"
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on
Jun 24, 2008 10:21 AM PDT
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"Never say no to a hostage taker, It's in the manual."
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
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Jun 24, 2008 10:44 AM PDT
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So here is the series of events:
1. pam claims (I do mean claims) to have started several dlds in the past only to see someone else post one.
2. gaijin suketto’s diary.
3. pam posts first dld.
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 9:16 AM PDT
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Pam has 20/300 vision.
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
Jun 24, 2008 9:20 AM PDT
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are you saying that Pam is really Oaktoon in disguise?
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on
Jun 24, 2008 10:44 AM PDT
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Very logical train of thought there.
pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:13 PM PDT
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From the Tyson Ross interview
I would like to be able to pitch in Oakland, the stadium I have seen so many games in, before the team moves to the new location in Fremont.
Gotta love this kid.
"May a nit suck Cajun geese?" wonders Red. No, we see gnu Jack Cust in a yam.
by andeux on
Jun 24, 2008 9:23 AM PDT
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No more Swooney; I only swoon for Tyson Ross
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Jun 24, 2008 9:35 AM PDT
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I already like him, just from that interview.
He sounds like he has a lot of confidence without being a dick about it.
(totally unrelated weird note… the buttons at the bottom of this comment composition screen are “preview” “cancel” “cancel”...)
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 9:57 AM PDT
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we really encourage you not to post comments.
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
Jun 24, 2008 9:59 AM PDT
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Hey, I'm already boycotting computers, what more do you want?
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 10:17 AM PDT
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oh, great, so now you're running for president?
... of, uh, AN {fends off CGV with a runcible spoon}
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
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Jun 24, 2008 11:34 AM PDT
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The Most Interesting Cat In The World
He’s a lover, not a fighter. But he’s also a fighter, so don’t get any ideas.
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 9:46 AM PDT
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The ads on that site are a little ... strange
I would have assumed that people who were interested in looking at pictures of cats would not be the ideal target audience for that sort of thing. Could a computer-assisted ad placement service have misconstrued “pussies”?
Don't blame me, I voted for Ice Cream
by Englishmajor on
Jun 24, 2008 9:58 AM PDT
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"Stay funny, my friend."
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
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Jun 24, 2008 10:36 AM PDT
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Subpar DLD
Try harder next time, Pam.
Might as well Jump! - Van Halen
by sprtsnwyn on
Jun 24, 2008 9:59 AM PDT
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it gets easier
"The Athletics at Fremont" is obscene
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Jun 24, 2008 10:18 AM PDT
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Not really.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
by Jennifer on
Jun 24, 2008 10:32 AM PDT
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...to ignore Pam's DLD skills.
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
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Jun 24, 2008 10:35 AM PDT
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I thought the idea was to ENCOURAGE new DLDers
"The Athletics at Fremont" is obscene
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Jun 24, 2008 10:52 AM PDT
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Seriously.
First and LAST!
pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:11 PM PDT
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Ouch.
Where’s YOUR DLD?
pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:11 PM PDT
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You posted yours
RIGHT before I was going to post mine. Thanks for the heads up on Ozomatli. They rule.
Might as well Jump! - Van Halen
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Jun 24, 2008 1:13 PM PDT
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At least hers provided some links
which is better than some DLDs I’ve seen….
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
by iglew on
Jun 24, 2008 2:23 PM PDT
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Is it really that crappy?
I thought I did a pretty good job. This is bad for my DLD ego.
pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.
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Jun 24, 2008 2:27 PM PDT
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Take it from someone with a whole lot of crappy DLD's, yours is quite good. Plus we
don’t need a masterpiece, we just need someplace to dump, but make sure you wipe.
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Jun 24, 2008 2:34 PM PDT
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I did not consider it crappy.
It wasn’t one of those fantabulous, work-of-art DLDs, but it was good enough to get the job done.
I give points for promptness, too. Not that 1:00 am is so much better than 8:00 am, but some days it’s well past noon before the DLD appears, and that’s lame (though better late than never).
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
by iglew on
Jun 24, 2008 2:43 PM PDT
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Ditto what theblackpearl said,
except that his DLDs are usually less crappy than mine.
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 2:57 PM PDT
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For those of us too lazy to use the search function,
what makes for a good enough DLD?
I’m not talking FSU Pulitzer-type good, just sufficient to avoid opprobrium .
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
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Jun 24, 2008 3:07 PM PDT
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How the hell would I know?
Have you seen my DLDs?
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 3:15 PM PDT
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So, we should do whatever it is that you do, only the opposite?
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on
Jun 24, 2008 3:22 PM PDT
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The correct date, other than that, no criteria
by theblackpearl on
Jun 24, 2008 3:25 PM PDT
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+ a clever title
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Jun 24, 2008 4:33 PM PDT
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distinctive link/blockquote patterning is a plus
"The Athletics at Fremont" is obscene
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Jun 25, 2008 8:32 AM PDT
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Good enough =
A few links with one-sentence descriptions so you know what you’re clicking to. Should be at least four links, and at least two of them should be somehow related to baseball.
Pam meets the test.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
by iglew on
Jun 24, 2008 6:42 PM PDT
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Not crappy
1. THT article = awesome.
2. To follow on iglew’s comment above, you get many bonus points for posting at 1am. Afternoon DLD’s are sort of like tuning into a mediocre Bruce Willis movie at the 40 minute mark after channel flipping your way to TNT on a dull gray afternoon. Conversely, 1am DLD’s such as this are akin to a night out at a big theater, situated comfortably among a semi-sparse, good-natured crowd, with a giant bucket of buttered popcorn in your lap.
3. The comments already contain a bizarre itching discussion, various disdainful references to Foucault, a funny Costco quip, and an intellectually lazy defense of Don Imus. That’s a success any way you slice it.
4. Top 4 June DLD’s, by comment volume:
6/23 (Zonis) 282
6/9 (salb918) 199
6/18 (batgirl) 180
This one.
With any luck, the #2 slot will be yours by close of business today. Basically, you’re the Jay Bruce of DLD authors.
by 74mk on
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Yeah, but several of those comments are mine
And therefore mostly useless.
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Jun 24, 2008 7:14 PM PDT
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How subpar can it be when it gets 140+ responses?
Not sure the stats, but i’d bet she’s now in the top ten in Responses per DLD. Granted it’s a small sample size, but what a start?
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A's tix @ Costco
Well A’s fans…in effort to sell more tickets, you can buy 4 plaza level tickets for $40 (a $54 savings) at Costco for non-premium dates. I’m not sure when this started but I suppose this is a good way to get people to A’s games and sit in the crappy plaza level.
As previously mentioned, apparently Barton isn’t that bad at first:
"Even the first six weeks of the season, when Barton made more mistakes than he has the past two months, he was rated as baseball’s best defensive first baseman, according to John Dewan of the Fielding Bible."
I’m not sure who this Dewan guy is…perhaps the rest of AN has heard of him…any insight?
G likes Barton too. I think he’s trying to make up for the "I’ve always wanted to be a Yankee" b.s.:
"He looks good, he has a lot of talent, a lot of tools,” Giambi said when the Yankees were at the Coliseum earlier his month. “People take first base for granted, they think it’s easy and it’s not, especially with as much foul territory as there is, you’ve got to pick the ball or you’re going to be running a long way. He’s going to do well there."
“Barton also takes a good at-bat. He puts the ball in play, he drives in runs and he’s got some pop.”
J. Weeks should be in the mix soon:
"We just started speaking,” A’s general manager Billy Beane said. “We’re not anticipating that it will take very long. I can’t imagine we wouldn’t come to an agreement.”
As if 16-yr olds aren’t big headed already…the Inoa watch continues:
Beane said he might return to the Dominican Republic next week as the A’s try to woo 16-year-old phenom Michel Inoa, who is allowed to sign any time from July 2. Beane already has visited the 6-foot-7 right-hander twice, and owner Lew Wolff accompanied him on one trip. “We anticipated that there would be a lot of competition, and we’ve been pretty aggressive,” Beane said. “He’s still very young, but he’s very talented.”
Fresno St. needs to win to stay alive after they lost 7-6 Monday night:
Four Cal/Stanford basketball players should get drafted for the first time since the NBA draft downsized to two rounds:
Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water, the other third is covered by Kotsay...in his prime...like 3 years ago.
by carp on
Jun 24, 2008 11:03 AM PDT
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wow, a third trip to see inoa:
Beane said he might return to the Dominican Republic next week as the A’s try to woo 16-year-old phenom Michel Inoa, who is allowed to sign any time from July 2. Beane already has visited the 6-foot-7 right-hander twice, and owner Lew Wolff accompanied him on one trip. “We anticipated that there would be a lot of competition, and we’ve been pretty aggressive,” Beane said. “He’s still very young, but he’s very talented.”
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
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Jun 24, 2008 11:16 AM PDT
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I wonder if they're actually targeting him or they're looking at somebody totally different
and just using Inoa as a smokescreen
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Jun 24, 2008 11:28 AM PDT
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of course they may be looking at other players while down there, but no way they’re not attempting to sign inoa.
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
Jun 24, 2008 11:47 AM PDT
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Unfortunately at Costco
you have to buy a multipack of 100 sets of 4 tickets each.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on
Jun 24, 2008 11:51 AM PDT
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really? Are you sure?
Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water, the other third is covered by Kotsay...in his prime...like 3 years ago.
by carp on
Jun 24, 2008 12:57 PM PDT
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He was just there looking for multipacks of " ;-) " but they were out.
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 3:07 PM PDT
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What Poppy said....
Sorry ;-)
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on
Jun 24, 2008 4:19 PM PDT
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Dewan is, if I recall rightly, involved with the plus/minus fielding metric
which is one of the more consistent metrics out there, in that it produces results that make some sense and don’t vary spectacularly from year to year.
It’s pretty much universally agreed by every fielding metric that Barton is one of the best defensive 1B in baseball. It’s basically him, Pujols, Kotchman, maybe one or two other guys and then a huge dropoff to the next group.
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by PaulThomas on
Jun 24, 2008 11:56 AM PDT
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thanks for the info!
with these metrics, is it possible to consider how Barton compares to a guy like JT Snow in his prime (say 8-10 years ago)? It would be cool to see how he stacks up against one of (if not the best) defensive first basemen of all time.
Two-thirds of the earth is covered by water, the other third is covered by Kotsay...in his prime...like 3 years ago.
by carp on
Jun 24, 2008 12:57 PM PDT
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I don't think the data has been made public
I can’t recall seeing advanced metrics from before about 2002. You’re pretty much stuck with Fielding Runs, which kind of sucks but is better than nothing.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:19 PM PDT
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This article about itching is excellent, and perhaps pertains to Billy Koch:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=2
It contains the following paragraph:
One morning, after she was awakened by her bedside alarm, she sat up and, she recalled, "this fluid came down my face, this greenish liquid." She pressed a square of gauze to her head and went to see her doctor again. M. showed the doctor the fluid on the dressing. The doctor looked closely at the wound. She shined a light on it and in M.’s eyes. Then she walked out of the room and called an ambulance. Only in the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, after the doctors started swarming, and one told her she needed surgery now, did M. learn what had happened. She had scratched through her skull during the night—and all the way into her brain.
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 11:42 AM PDT
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Eew.
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 11:48 AM PDT
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Everyone should read the article
It features a Dr. Oaklander, and lots more crazy stuff, such as:
Along with the football helmet, she had to wear white mitts that were secured around her wrists by surgical tape.
The A's colors are green and gold.
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Jun 24, 2008 11:53 AM PDT
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it also refers to the Irish philosopher George Berkeley
Let me guess—her condition is only cured when she finally goes to see a Dr. Fremont?
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 12:07 PM PDT
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I don't want to read the article.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
by Jennifer on
Jun 24, 2008 12:07 PM PDT
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It is guaranteed to make you itch....
and the only cure for itching is…... mirrors. crazy.
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 12:09 PM PDT
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Huh
Patients with psychosis can have cutaneous delusions—a belief that their skin is infested with, say, parasites, or crawling ants, or laced with tiny bits of fibreglass. Severe stress and other emotional experiences can also give rise to a physical symptom like itching—whether from the body’s release of endorphins (natural opioids, which, like morphine, can cause itching), increased skin temperature, nervous scratching, or increased sweating. In M.’s case, the internist suspected tricho-tillomania, an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which patients have an irresistible urge to pull out their hair.
Let’s just say that I know someone who is on medication because of “itching” problems caused by other emotional experiences.
"JOAN! Are you watching Bombast? Did you see Lack Bust drop that fly call?"
by Jennifer on
Jun 24, 2008 12:17 PM PDT
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What your "acquaintance" needs to do is
watch staged footage of Tejada and Byrnes arriving safely at home plate, and the “itching” will go away.
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 12:27 PM PDT
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I once saw a girl spun out on drugs told to remove her contacts...
which she did. Along with the lens over her cornea. She itched a lot too.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
by alox on
Jun 24, 2008 2:17 PM PDT
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how is that even possible
is her hand a bloody stump now because there’s no way fingernails are hard enough to scratch through a skull, which i’m sure has a hardness much greater than 2.
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
Jun 24, 2008 11:52 AM PDT
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Christ, what a scratch-hole
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 11:58 AM PDT
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She could do it because of a secret gov’t conspiracy
Maybe she was made into Weapon X by the Canadian government with out her knowledge and has just now been able to use her new claws. Damn Canadians and there mounties and Canadian bacon
by A'sfaninNC on
Jun 24, 2008 12:05 PM PDT
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maybe she should see Dr. Ike Arshall
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 11:56 AM PDT
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Sorry..that joke was just not up to scratch.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on
Jun 24, 2008 11:59 AM PDT
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I expressly told Gawande our interview was off the record
... he spends much of his day, after his wife has left for work, alone in the house with their three cats, his shirt off …
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
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You’ve likely had an experience of phantom sensation yourself. When the dentist gives you a local anesthetic, and your lip goes numb, the nerves go dead. Yet you don’t feel your lip disappear. Quite the opposite: it feels larger and plumper than normal, even though you can see in a mirror that the size hasn’t changed.
i always wondered about that as a kid.
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
Jun 24, 2008 12:22 PM PDT
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Guess who is back?
Jose Garcia. He is an intriguing player.
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Wow, it's like a MASH unit down there
Windsor… Garcia… is Shane Komine pitching tomorrow?
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
by PaulThomas on
Jun 24, 2008 12:53 PM PDT
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{ snerk }
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
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Of course, the Rangers can't make it easy
They’re slowly becoming enemy no. 1 in my book. First Smoak, now this:
The Texas Rangers and Cincinnati Reds have joined the Oakland Athletics in a bidding feud for the services of Dominican pitching prospect Michael Inoa
Can we start the firejoshbyrnes.com campaign?
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those things rock
and they go pretty quick, too.
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Imus comments today.
It’s been getting way to much media coverage today but here’s the story:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3458377
The first time I heard the recording I thought for sure he was negatively associating black players as being more prone to being arrested. After hearing his explanation of the comment and I can see where he could have been defending them. Either way, I did some research and found this site listing player arrests from the NFL:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/nfl/arrests.html
Now, my counting may be a little off because I havn’t had too long to research, but I believe only 2 of the 40 players arrested in 2008 have not been of African American decent. It seems to me it’s about time people should stop complaining about racism and start looking at the facts….
What about Barry?
"Barry who?" Forst said, and I felt like I was in the middle of a knock-knock joke.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:04 PM PDT
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[rolls eyes]
Your 2008 Athletics: It's Nothing Personal.
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I'll remember that the next time the white security guard follows me around the mall, although
I make 4 times more than he does, and have no inclination to steal.
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Obviously...
not every person in the same race acts the same way. It’s just disturbing the high number of minority athletes who are getting arrested. It seems so often the media just pulls out the PC card before actually looking at stats or actually addressing the issue at hand. The first problem with this, is the fact that so many professional athletes are getting arrested in the first place. These guys make millions of dollars, and play a sport for a living. It seems as though they have no respect for the law or anyone else for that matter. The majority of the crimes are substance abuse issues like drunken driving. Not only are they putting themselves at risk, they are putting other innocent people at risk, and that is what should be being discussed. When someone in the media like Imus makes comments like his today everyone is so quick to jump all over him and criticize him, but they totally ignore the fact that about 95% of NFL players arrested are actually african americans. If people spent half as much time trying to fix this as they do critiquing every little non politically correct comment, maybe these crimes would stop happening.
What about Barry?
"Barry who?" Forst said, and I felt like I was in the middle of a knock-knock joke.
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OK
Let’s stipulate (I don’t actually believe this) that 95% of the athletes getting arrested are black. And that the arrests are genuine, i.e. not the result of bias.
So what?
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38/40 = 95%
You can look at that website I posted for the list of arrests. I possibly may be off by 1 or 2 so thats why I said about. Most places say the NFL consists of about 70% African American players. But your comment of “so what” is exactly my point of what is wrong with this topic. Instead of actually addressing the issue, all people do is make excuses for why the statistics are false, or how the arrests really aren’t that bad. The big problem is that there have been 40 NFL players arrested in 2008, and the year isn’t even half way over with. The vast majority of these guys have been of African American descent.
These guys aren’t committing crimes of passion, or trying to feed their families. The crimes aren’t a result of being in a bad neighborhood in the wrong place at the wrong time with no where else to go. They are being completely negligent and blatantly disrespecting authority. The question at hand should be why these guys feel they are so impervious to the laws set in place for everyone?
What about Barry?
"Barry who?" Forst said, and I felt like I was in the middle of a knock-knock joke.
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Because society caters to athletes.
Not just black athletes. Not just football players. All athletes.
In school, the best athletes get to slide by without doing much (any?) work. As long as they keep putting W’s up on the scoreboard, it’s all good. As long as they keep selling shoes, it’s all good. As long as the college keeps getting paid obscene amounts of money to have sports shown on national television, it’s all good.
There’s a lot more to it than black players getting arrested. A lot more.
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Or, in the case of my college's football team
Putting Ls up on the scoreboard. Not that they seemed to care much
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so, you're saying if athletes were raping people to feed their families, we wouldn't have such a burden on us to stop them?
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
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I feel like Socrates here
(Not in the “wisdom” sense, mind you. More in the “I have to extract this info by means of incredibly tedious questions” sense.)
What on earth does the race of the athletes have to do with anything?
And, again stipulating here, suppose black athletes really were more crime-prone than white athletes. What are you going to do about it?
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There is nothing that can be done. When some corner of society has
a disproportionate amount of one race, then whatever data you extrapolate is going to skew towards that race. Like politicians gettting arrested in bathrooms, 100% white
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Best. Statistic. Ever.
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
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BUT also 100% hetero!
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
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The problem...
A part of the facts here is that number of arrests does not equal (and I’m guessing does not even correlate that well with) number of crimes committed, due to race-based selection in who gets followed more closely by law enforcement.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on
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at AN, we don't look at the facts
we face the fact
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
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You're right to want to look at the facts,
but you need to dig deeper. By controlling for other variables, you can determine whether arrest rate really is correlated to race per se, or just to other factors which correlate to race.
A very oversimplified example, just to illustrate the point: Suppose that you discover that upper middle class black kids rarely play baseball, but poor black kids from broken families often do; and suppose you also discover that poor white kids from broken families rarely play baseball, but upper middle class white kids often do. In that case, it might follow that black players are more likely to be arrested, but it’s a function of family background.
Whether this is exactly the case, I don’t know, but if one is serious about the subject it’s the sort of thing one would look into.
Plenty of other questions worth investigating, too: For example, is a white player less likely to be arrested for the same crime?
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
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Good points
I’d add to that last one, how many crimes in blindness of race were committed without the player being caught?
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Well, first of all..
I looked at the list for 2 seconds and didnt look at every guy, but at least 4 of those 40 are not of African-American descent.
Bring back Hammer.
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Stupid Question.
When making a comment, how do you put in a link where it has a phrase or word in place of the actual address? When I make a new fanpost I can just hit the little link picture and it asks for the word and address, and it is added to the post no problem. When doing it as a reply when I hit the link button it just asks for the address, but doesn’t give a place to put in a name description for it.
What about Barry?
"Barry who?" Forst said, and I felt like I was in the middle of a knock-knock joke.
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Jun 24, 2008 1:28 PM PDT
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you highlight the wording in the comment before hitting the link button.
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Thanks man.
What about Barry?
"Barry who?" Forst said, and I felt like I was in the middle of a knock-knock joke.
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Baseball themed for the Oaklanders (or others)
the Temescal Street Cinema is showing Touching Home on Thursday, July 17th. I haven’t heard of this movie or heard anything about it, actually, but it looks good. (such a resounding review, I know)
This week they’re showing Girls Rock! which is supposed to be awesome.
Anyone else been out there for a movie yet?
pam5981: Patience is a virtue that I do not possess.
ohtobe21likehuston: But you're good at drinking and cussing. Two out of three ain't bad.
by pam5981 on
Jun 24, 2008 1:44 PM PDT
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Help finding a jersey
Anyone know where I can a jersey like this:
http://shop.mlb.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1790057&cp=717873.1671828.1671862
Preferably something cheaper than $325.
Don’t really need a name on it, no numbers or name would be fine.
-Dan
by ironliver on
Jun 24, 2008 2:38 PM PDT
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I would check ebay
A couple of years ago, these jerseys were not being made, so I got a knock-off version of it. It was a lot less expensive (like $125), and at the time was my only option.
It doesn’t look EXACTLY the same (“you get what you pay for”), but the number, name, and patches are right, and no one looks at it oddly.
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on
Jun 24, 2008 2:43 PM PDT
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Check out the dude selling the knockoffs at the bart bridge of the coli
I know he was hawking knockoffs, but a lot of them have the legit patches on them.
I don’t know how much he was selling them for, but he did have a Rollie Fingers jersey.
Green Hulk Fists
by oaklandSMASH on
Jun 24, 2008 3:55 PM PDT
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I bought one off the BART bridge last homestand...
....for $60 it wasn’t bad, any serious fan would notice that:
- Eckersley didn’t play for the A’s when they wore the 70’s green “A’s” jersey.
- The green was too dark.
- The apostrophe in A’s was backwards (my wife caught that one, and she doesn’t like baseball).
- Name was sewn on to the jersey, not a nameplate.
- The jeresy has the 40th anniversary patch, and was sold as a “2004” model, yet was the too dark version of the classic green 70’s model. It also has a hall of fame patch.
- It the smallest “size 60” that I’ve ever seen, good thing I wear a 50 these days.
I like it though, it looks good.
by Dr Pez on
Jun 24, 2008 4:03 PM PDT
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Jeresy -- that is brilliant!
I’m not picking on the typo, honest—I’m just very much enjoying the term “jeresy” to mean jersey that really shouldn’t exist.
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on
Jun 24, 2008 4:55 PM PDT
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if someone buys one, does that make them a jeretic?
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 4:59 PM PDT
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Slide, Jeresy, slide!
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
by iglew on
Jun 24, 2008 6:46 PM PDT
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So... if you hear on the news tonight
that some wild-eyed middle-aged woman stormed the Registrar’s office at San Jose State while shrieking “DON’T FUCKING PUT ME ON HOLD AGAIN!!!” in an insanely piercing voice… yeah, that’ll be me.
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 3:56 PM PDT
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They were SPARTANCUSSED!
Pineapple Poppy Seed
by Ice Cream on
Jun 24, 2008 4:07 PM PDT
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bwahahaha!
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 24, 2008 4:11 PM PDT
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insanely piercing, or piercingly insane?
Can an aging lemur suffer from dementia? @('.')@
by monkeyball on
Jun 24, 2008 4:52 PM PDT
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I was going to post
a picture of someone with too many freaky piercings … but the pictures I found were just too icky.
"Dispatch knuckleheadedness with Bond-like aplomb." –74mk
by iglew on
Jun 24, 2008 6:49 PM PDT
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Has this already happened, or are you thinking it might?
"God doesn't pay attention to your cute little hypotheticals." -- Jeff from LL
by oblique on
Jun 24, 2008 5:09 PM PDT
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I... I can't remember...
There's no textbook for how to treat a geriatric tapir.
by Poppy on
Jun 25, 2008 11:23 AM PDT
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Tyvon Ross made his debut today, pitching 2 no hit innings in the KC Cougars
7-1 win. He had 2ks with no walks.
by theblackpearl on
Jun 24, 2008 4:16 PM PDT
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oops, I meant Tyson Ross. I am now combining the A's and Raiders, as the Raiders 4th round
pick is Tyvon Branch.
by theblackpearl on
Jun 24, 2008 4:18 PM PDT
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You think black people are all named alike
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 4:33 PM PDT
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Shaq is my favorite person ever
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-shaq-kobe-rap&prov=ap&type=lgns
Video mentioned in article:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eLJ65×0mbv0
Best thing about the NBA finals was Shaq maintaining his ring lead over Kobe.
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 4:35 PM PDT
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Well next year when Bynum is dominating, and being finals MVP, what will Shaq say. It isn't that
Kobe needed Shaq, he needed a big man, which the Lakers have, and I am a Warriors fan, so it pains me to write this. Bynum is that good.
by theblackpearl on
Jun 24, 2008 4:44 PM PDT
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yeah, Bynum is great,
and he’s been greater than normal against the Warriors…
The A's colors are green and gold.
by mikeA on
Jun 24, 2008 4:53 PM PDT
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