DLD 12 March 2009
by andeux on Mar 12, 2009 11:32 AM PDT
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PrintThe A's had an off-day yesterday. In the WBC, the US lost to Venezuela 5-3. Marco!
Susan Slusser has a short article about Joe Dillon, and blog posts about Eric Chavez (who is throwing, sort of) and Michael Ynoa, Angel Garcia, Jeff Gray, and Chris Schroder.
The paper of record profiles Yankee Nick Swisher
Girardi said Swisher was "fun to be around" and "loves to play the game." As for baseball skills, Girardi said Swisher was a patient hitter who worked the count, something that used to be a Yankees trademark.
Erik Bedard has sore buttocks. According to Don Wakamatsu
He had some stiffness in there about four days ago
And in non-baseball news Chuck Norris is considering running for "President of Texas"
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Cabrera also will get $250,000 if the A’s trade him.
He really loves Oakland!!!
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory. ----Hero Defector Montgomery
Finally a free agent who wants to play here!!!1!1
I am Ray Fosse's infatuations with Clay Wood and high-definition television.
by franks a lot on Mar 12, 2009 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Adventures with "we"
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory. ----Hero Defector Montgomery
so...without much in terms of veteran pitching
maybe another though about pedro in order? or is that horse already on its deathbed?
Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC
Posnanski on Pujols
evidently this is his first article to get the cover of Sports Illustrated. Gotta love Pujols.
And
gotta love Posnanski
To be hit by Moriyama's fastball is an honor exceeded only by being crushed under the wheels of the imperial carriage
what happened to scott podsednik
The Not-So-Casual Fan
Y'know what?
Posnanski has a point. I’m gonna start believing in players again, especially Pujols. What the hell is the point if you can’t lose yourself in the game?
I just remembered I love Eric Chavez.
a couple of things
this is one of the more proposterous things i’ve seen in a while.
and, if anyone in the bay area whats to get some free culcha, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra is playing some free concerts this weekend, celebrating Felix Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday. Go Felix!
what have i got myself into this time... http://damiansthirtyyearchallenge.blogspot.com/
by alea iacta est on Mar 12, 2009 12:11 PM PDT reply actions
Stringy, brassy, and windy Felix.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."
starting A's lineup for today's game (3/12)
according to Slusser:
Here’s the lineup against Arizona. Rajai Davis CF; Travis Buck RF, Matt Holliday LF, Jason Giambi 1B, Mark Ellis DH, Landon Powell C, Bobby Crosby 3B, Cliff Pennington SS, Gregorio Petit 2B
i wonder why
they don’t try Hannahan or Crosby at 2nd. Also, when will we see Cabrera?
Let's have our Piazza and eat the Cust too - SPWC
by closetasfan on Mar 12, 2009 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Geren said that Crosby needed more practice at 2B
before he could play it in a game, but that 3B is fairy easy for a shortstop.
Once of the reporters’ blogs (forget which one) mentioned that Cabrera would DH sometime this weekend, and probably start at SS soon after. Nomar is a couple of days behind Cabrera in terms of readiness.
1. Chuck Norris knows the last digit of pi.
2. Tech question:
What is the best way to capture/record streaming video? The array of available software is sort of dizzying, and I have the feeling I’m overlooking some obvious and super-easy way to accomplish this.
I want to be able to grab pieces of video from anywhere (Hulu, mlb.com, C-Span, whatever), convert them to wmv/mpg, and also maybe cut/paste/re-arrange the content (e.g. edit a 3 minute clip down to 20 pertinent seconds).
I dunno.
But the lack of contention around here is driving me nutty.
Therefore…
I think you’re wrong to ask tech questions and to mock Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris is an American hero and deserves our respect, not our mockery and scorn. And what kind of self-respecting nerd asks tech questions on a sports-related website?
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Unfortunately I’m way too much of a dilettante to ever apply my nerdiness in a constructive fashion. All my knowledge of classically nerdy subject matter runs approximately an inch deep, enough for me to keep my ID card (so long as no one scrutinizes it too closely), but insufficient for productive endeavor.
I’m not going to sugarcoat this. You know it, I know it. It’s a shameful state of affairs. It’s bad enough that I can’t even fake my way through a discussion of wOBA or positional adjustment, now I’m asking wincingly dumb tech questions in the DLD? Pathetic. Embarrassing. Unredeemable, probably.
Chuck Norris doesn’t have these sorts of problems, I can tell you that much.
When Chuck Norris donates blood,
he wills it out of his body.
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:47 PM PDT up reply actions
The easiest for grabbing videos off sites
is use firefox and add the Video DownloadHelper add-on
by Athletix Man on Mar 12, 2009 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
You are not overlooking any obvious and super-easy way
The websites that post this stuff want you to have to go to their site to view it. That’s why they use formats that aren’t easily copied and saved.
Not that it’s impossible, since that would be too hard to prevent, but they have no incentive to make it easy. It’s not like you can just say “save as” and put an mpg on your hard drive. You have to use some tricky utility, and the websites would foil that, too, if they easily could.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."
Great news for bachelors and bachelorettes
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory. ----Hero Defector Montgomery
Hold on, hold on... not just yet...
We’re focusing on, like, getting through school and just getting an education and stuff
Gotta give those sweet intellects, like, a little more time to, you know, ripen and stuff.
...then Pennington takes over.
Festive.
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Obviously done at band camp
Gimme Steam!! - P Gabriel
by somebodyelse on Mar 12, 2009 7:10 PM PDT up reply actions
what is he like 15 in that picture?
Just downright hanus!
Zeigler to Geren…."A-Rod? He’s my bitch." -alox
But it's better than the reverse
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Unrestricted?
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 13, 2009 6:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Copied from today's game thread -- Dellums wants the A's to stay
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_11897637?source=rss
This could be just a reaction to San Jose’s aggressiveness, but maybe, just maybe, it means something.
Losing this team would be a huge failure for this city and an affront to Oakland’s great sports legacy.
As he stands outside Lew's window
in the rain, holding the boombox over his head?
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
by 5Aces on Mar 12, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
LMAO
+1!!
"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all games and holes are created equal." --George F. Will
I'd like to think
Oakland will make a push. But something about the letter makes me think it is more Ron Dellums putting on a show so he can say “I didn’t just let them leave.” Of course, what the hell do i know and I hope I am wrong.
myspace music
Well, at least Oakland's trying
Making an effort can only be a positive thing. And frankly, Brunner’s name attached means a lot more in actual follow through than does Dellums’. Fortunately, there’s more going on in Oakland right now than just letters to Selig.
Why a letter to Selig, though? First, there’s Bud’s long antipathy to Oakland “never should have moved there in the first place, contract the bastards, I wouldn’t be caught dead there,” or something like that. But besides that, when has Bud Selig ever intervened to overtly keep a team from leaving, anywhere? The whole Selig-era franchise MO has been to threaten relocation, if only as leverage to extort the incumbant municipality. When I think Selig and relocation I think about Montreal, and letters for public consumption that warn of relocation unless… Bud appointing an MLB emissary to work with Oakland to keep the A’s seems awfully unlikely.
In man's evolution he has created the cities and the motor traffic rumble
But give me half a chance and I'll be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Mar 12, 2009 7:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Season tix!
And a cool little stadium bag thing!
I’m not really digging the ticket design, though. Six words: Less Travis LoDolce, More Michael Zagaris.
...then Pennington takes over.
All I ever got was a stupid pin...
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
+1
they have bags now?!? booooooooo
Poppy, did you get the early pay deal where they make a fake giant ticket of you hitting a walkoff homerun?
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
well, that's the other way to get those daypacks
I have been envious of the kids for some time now…at least now I have my own ;-)
Anything to make a buck these days...
Who was this sultan of sock, this hero of hosiery, this stalwart of shinwear? Ah, Wimberly — Corey Wimberly. -Uni Watch
That's what Travis' parents said
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Mar 12, 2009 11:08 PM PDT up reply actions
The dad from Family Ties
is apparently now a hospital administrator in Boston.
AN: the new twitter of sportsblogs. -Dogfather
Because of what's happening this weekend.
It’ll be all the more satisfying.
Who was this sultan of sock, this hero of hosiery, this stalwart of shinwear? Ah, Wimberly — Corey Wimberly. -Uni Watch
i hate my stupid life.
AN: the new twitter of sportsblogs. -Dogfather
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
The first two days
of this week flew. The last two have effing dragged. Tomorrow will no doubt be worse.
I'm here to talk about the past.
we've been getting depressing emails about the budget all week
so the week has been an incredibly painful crawl
There's no crying in baseball!
Shut up.
Losing this team would be a huge failure for this city and an affront to Oakland’s great sports legacy.
But you get to go to France.
Not too shabby!
Who was this sultan of sock, this hero of hosiery, this stalwart of shinwear? Ah, Wimberly — Corey Wimberly. -Uni Watch
I get....
Florida in summer! Again! In a sign shop!
yay.
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
That *almost* sounds naughty.
Who was this sultan of sock, this hero of hosiery, this stalwart of shinwear? Ah, Wimberly — Corey Wimberly. -Uni Watch
My former boss used to say
“You’ll get your reward in heaven”. No wonder she’s a former boss, yes?
"You have to score to win"~Rickey Henderson
Hmm...
Pathetic, Whining, Annoying Co-workers works too.
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the Pathetic Western Athletic Conference
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
"We have a [double expletive] in the audience."
I’m a cursing connoisseur, a sultan of swearing if you will, and I’m ashamed to admit that I’m drawing a blank on this one. A “f#$k f#$k”? A “s*#t f#$k?”
I just remembered I love Eric Chavez.
F#$king A$$#%LE
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If he somehow pulls this hoax off,
He will be regarded as an Andy Kauffman type comedy genius.
If it fails terribly, his career is so over.
I’m leaning toward the latter.
Gimme Steam!! - P Gabriel
by somebodyelse on Mar 12, 2009 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions
So not real, then?
AN: the new twitter of sportsblogs. -Dogfather
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I read that Swish piece yesterday
The Yankees are a bunch of goddamn squares.
I just remembered I love Eric Chavez.
Never seen a better collection of greater chodes in my life. Swish not included.
sanity is insanities underpants...
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
If I were a crackhead this would be my spot!
Seriously though, is this the by the guy w/ the amazing photo blog?
I have it bookmarked at home- awesome haunting stuff, I’ll link later if i remember.
sanity is insanities underpants...
just makes me think
If you want to build something, and you want to do it in the United States, just go to Detroit. Lots fo buildings and factories you can buy for cheap, and people who are desperate for work.
Chicago. Where the Dead can Vote. Where the Voters of Tomorrow are found in the Obituaries of Today.
Looks like the stage lighting still works okay...
NIN should do some shows there.
Gimme Steam!! - P Gabriel
by somebodyelse on Mar 12, 2009 6:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Lokss like the stage lighting still works,
Or maybe that’s just a hole or two in the ceiling.
Nonetheless, NIN should play some shows there.
Gimme Steam!! - P Gabriel
by somebodyelse on Mar 12, 2009 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn those repeat comments
Gimme Steam!! - P Gabriel
by somebodyelse on Mar 12, 2009 7:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Thank you for sharing this--I would not have seen it otherwise.
“Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes…the volatile result of the change of eras and the fall of empires. This fragility leads us to watch them one very last time: to be dismayed, or to admire, it makes us wonder about the permanence of things.”
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:01 PM PDT up reply actions
you don't read time?
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory. ----Hero Defector Montgomery
I don't read Time,
But Time do read me.
(taken from PeriodicalsBowie)
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Down with "an hilarious"! Down!
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Dang it, I was expecting more of a fight.
:)
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
You're WRONG,
JediLeroy. WRONG!
AN: the new twitter of sportsblogs. -Dogfather
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
but...
if she would’ve written, “That is AN hilarious story,” would that be acceptable?
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh man.
I’ve said it before, but I’m going to say it again:
I love BBC America.
Right now I’m watching a program about a group of women across the pond wanting to legalize brothels in the UK. Not bad, right? Except the group of women are all over the age of 60. Two of the ladies traveled around the world visiting legalized brothels, and the first stop was Amsterdam. There is something heartwarming about an 80 year old granny – with a British accent, cane, and a bun in her hair – going into a brothel and talking about butt plugs.
It makes me want to move to the UK.
"Smells like summer camp!"
Actually, wouldn't the idea be
to move there when you’re 100 and pick up young chicks?
"I hate the Wild Card." - - Dave Stewart
by eastcoasta'sfan on Mar 13, 2009 8:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Wonder if the Queen is one of the old gals?
Okay, bad form.
Gimme Steam!! - P Gabriel
by somebodyelse on Mar 12, 2009 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
It just keeps getting better, really.
The ladies got around (no pun intended) the British law on brothels by making the brothel “mobile”.
It’s an RV.
Now, the old gals are driving the Mobile Brothel to Parliament.
Here’s a little bit on the program via USA Today:
Remember “Calendar Girls,” the British comedy about a group of Women’s Institute members of a certain age who raised money for cancer research by posing nude?
Seems that’s not all members of that venerable federation of women’s clubs are up to.
After the Hampshire chapter of the WI, as it’s called, suggested the British government take steps to protect prostitutes, reporter Nicky Taylor prodded two members to investigate with her. The result, “Brothels: The Ins and Outs” (9 tonight, BBC America), is an earnest yet undeniably hilarious documentary that probably deserves its own movie. At Taylor’s urging, Jean Johnson, 62, and Shirley Landells, 73, embark on an international tour of legalized houses of prostitution that takes them to the red-light district of Amsterdam, a “bunny ranch” in Nevada and to a small worker-owned outfit in New Zealand.
Meanwhile, back home, Taylor sets herself up in a shop window – the way some women are in Amsterdam – to gauge public reaction and finds a surprising lack of chill in the air of a country we tend to think of as stuffy.
It’s Johnson and Landells, though, who shine, as they learn, yes, the ins and outs of the sex trade, from the use of small appliances to the importance of placing sinks at the height of customers’ “dirty bits.”
If there is a movie, I’d love to see them played by Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.
Maybe Judd Apatow could direct.
"Smells like summer camp!"
That's
DAME Judi Dench, if you please.
…let’s give her the butt plug line.
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Wouldn't that make her DAMN Judi Dench?
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Dame Judi “Back Door” Dench
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 13, 2009 6:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Fucking refs!
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory. ----Hero Defector Montgomery
And I don't mean the BBC America show! Gah!
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory. ----Hero Defector Montgomery
I know you're not talking about the UConn-Cuse game
because that game appears to have no refs.
Heading to the 6th OT now…amazing.
In man's evolution he has created the cities and the motor traffic rumble
But give me half a chance and I'll be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Mar 12, 2009 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Go Orange!
I was in the States the last time they won and I will be until April 7th this year, too. I think this sample size is more than enough to turn them into heavy favorites.
To be hit by Moriyama's fastball is an honor exceeded only by being crushed under the wheels of the imperial carriage
Just for Funsies
Remember when this guy used to be cool around here?
"If Bowden was a general contractor, he'd build houses with nine bedrooms, six garages, no bathrooms, and half a roof."
Smart girl, cutting him off before he can declare himself a baseball player.
It’s like she knew something we all didn’t.
tell me about it
april needs to be here now
"If Bowden was a general contractor, he'd build houses with nine bedrooms, six garages, no bathrooms, and half a roof."
by DyeLongJustice on Mar 12, 2009 9:42 PM PDT up reply actions
The naked chick who posts never
We never actually see her per se, but rumor has it she posts in the buff. But the rumor wasn’t confirmed by Beane or Forst, and she hasn’t actually posted yet, so you have to take it with a grain of salt.
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We do need more April, then.
I concur.
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't we all post in the buff?
I figure anything posted after 10:30 is a naked post.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers."
the girl reporter from teenage mutant ninja turtles.
"If Bowden was a general contractor, he'd build houses with nine bedrooms, six garages, no bathrooms, and half a roof."
by DyeLongJustice on Mar 13, 2009 8:32 AM PDT up reply actions
he left...
With stout hearts, and with enthusiasm for the contest, let us go forward to victory. ----Hero Defector Montgomery
and he took his magic monkey mojo with him.
I was a good second fiddle for MB, but I canna carry the act alone. And Nico doesn’t wanna play anymore. Now I’m trying to pick fights just to relieve the boredom…
AN: the new twitter of sportsblogs. -Dogfather
by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions
The problem is you're allergic to bananas
so being first banana is going to be tough.
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I wrote a rather lengthy email to a client last night
about how my design monkey was all excited because if she approved the proof, he’d get extra bananas, but that his potassium-deficiency should not influence her decision.
So it’s safe to say I can dispense bananas, but becoming the lead banana is a fruit of a different color (say, green).
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by Leopold Bloom on Mar 12, 2009 10:38 PM PDT up reply actions
i know it's the 13th now
but when i got there it was the 12th
i guess it’s still the 12th in oakland…
that was amazing. all i can say.
that was the longest i have ever sit in on place and watched one basketball game
Bad spellers of the world untie.
Don't drive around baseball stadiums
Unless you have some insurance on your van
To be hit by Moriyama's fastball is an honor exceeded only by being crushed under the wheels of the imperial carriage
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