UN-REC TIME Happy Birthday to Me DLD! September 8th, 2009
by micdog2001 on Sep 8, 2009 3:22 AM PDT
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PrintIsn't it kind of an AN tradtion to post a DLD on your birthday? Maybe it was just a few people fishing for birthday wishes? Well I got my pole out, lets see what happens? (TWHS)
I am 26 years old today, I was born September 8th, 1983. Lets take a look at September 8th, 1983 in history.
Notable September 8th Birthdays
The only person on that list that I know is David Arquette, not exactly a Superstar but he is more famous than I. I'm sure some of the AN smarties will have heard of some of the others.
Another list. More people, less details
1157 - Richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England (1189-99)
1889 - Robert A Taft, (Sen-R-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act)
1908 - Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert (seriously? famous for dispoing bombs? awesome, but famous?)
1925 - Peter Sellers, England, actor (not now Kato, Bobo, Pink Panther) (I LOVE THIS GUY! YES!)
1950 - Will Lee, rock guitarist (Late Show with David Letterman)
1966 - Peter Furler, Australia, christian musician (Newsboys) (Cool, my wife's favorite band)1971 - Brooke Burke, American model 1978 - Marco Sturm, Dingolfing GER, NHL forward (Sharks, Team Germany 1998)
1978 - Gil Meche, American baseball player
1979 - Pink, American singer
1981 - Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Bethlehem PA, actor (Randy-Home Improvement) (whoa, my wife had a crush on him when she was a teenager, weird)
I like that list a lot better. I guess I could delete the first link but whatever.
The September 8th Wikipedia page
Things that stood out to me
Events
1504 – Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence.
1951 – Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
1966 – The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC.
1968 – The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit Hey Jude.
1998 – Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season off of Steve Trachsel (Chicago Cubs), breaking Roger Maris' long standing record of 61. (I went to the A's game that day for my birthday with my Uncle's family, I remember hearing about Mcgwire in the car on the way)
Lots of cool things happend in baseball on September 8th, including
1965 -- Bert Campaneris of the Kansas City A's played all nine positions but had to leave after a ninth-inning collision with Ed Kirkpatrick of the Angels. The Angels won 5-3 in 13 innings.
The A's on September 8th since 1983.
The first A's game played on my birthday while I was alive (1984) was a success.
Rickey stole 2 bags and Carney Lansford went 4-5 with a double and rbi.
We won't talk about what happend in1985 or 1987.
Curt Young was good that day - 8IP, 1 ER, 7 K. And Eck got a 1 out save.
In 1990 Rickey saved the day with 2 HR
In 1991 it was a team effort for the win
14 runs but no HR, Carney went 5-6.
Bill Gates gives the A's the win in 93'
In 1996 the first 9/8 extra innings game while I was alive ended in the A's favor, thanks to a Tony Batista HR in the 10th
In 1999' the rare Jason Giambi triple made an appearance and Olmedo Saenz hit a solo jack in the win
(quick side note, I'm watching game 1 of the 1974 WS on mlb network and Reggie Jackson was just interviewed. He talked about Finley's crazy stunts and commented on how he liked "Hot Pants day" because he got some phone numbers and dates that day!)
In 2002 Zito, Mecir, and Rincon shutout the Twins and Piatt and Tejada hit HRs
So on my B-Day since 1983 the A's have 11 wins and 11 losses (edited). Not that great but it could be worse. No games were played on September 8th in 83, 86, 94, and 07. Come on 09 squad, give me a birthday present!!
Dump away AN, let me know if a link doesn't work because it is getting late and I need to go to bed.
UPDATE - 09/09/09
I added up the wins and losses incorrectly yesterday. The A's were actually 11-11 on 9/8 since 1983 but with the win in 2009 the Athletics are now over .500 at 12-11. Fellow ANers Ice Cream, ZigFan31, and Santa Cruz Surfer rejoice!
Might as well add a new link since I'm updating.
Today is 09/09/09, last set of repeating, single-digit dates that we'll see for almost a century (until January 1, 2101).
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Rays lose two games and 1 HR leader in the same day
Carlos Pena hit in the hand by a pirch and breaks fingers, out for season.
I think that means they are done for the year. They were already losing a ton anyways. This also hurts my fantasy team but I know no one cares about that.
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Even ex-A's are now catching the injury bug
I’ve moved beyond blaming the trainers. I’m now in the occult phenomenon camp. I believe Al Davis is a warlock who’s kept himself alive by feeding on the prime young life-force of players in the Oakland A’s clubhouse. Billy Beane trades away the drained souls each year for fresh bodies to feed the Raider demon.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Sept 8 is my birthday as well.
1972. I believe Ron “Pigpen” McKernan was also born on the 8th of Sept.
by Santa Cruz Surfer on Sep 9, 2009 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Yay for birthdays!
Happy B-Day SCS!
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Happy Birthday!
Great idea for a link dump. Very cool. Maybe it has been done before, but it’s new to me. Tough game tonight. Want to see Oakland win, but Carlos Torres from the White Sox is also a Kansas State University product, so I’d like him to keep pitching well and hopefully lock up a spot for next season. Should be fun to watch either way.
Might as well Jump! - Van Halen
Happy Birthday!
1968 – The Beatles perform their last live TV performance on the David Frost show. They perform their new hit Hey Jude.
Tomorrow The Beatles:Rock Band comes out.
And their remastered albums too.
I'm sure that I'm in a huge minority
But I’m not a Beatles fan.
Also, this always gets a rise out of the crazy insane cult type Beatles fans:
"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."
I don't especially like the Beatles;
their first three albums are quite fun, but ‘serious’ Beatles fans seem to dismiss them and concentrate on the White Album instead, which, to be honest, is terrible.
When they started to take too many drugs and went prog, they really turned music (whether it’s their fault or not is a debatable point) down a boring path.
I like to imagine a different history where the Beatles didn’t have their success, and the Velvet Undergrounds, ? and the Mysterons and the Walker Brothers are the real musical primogenitors of the second half of the twentieth century.
Almost every band that claims to have a Beatles influence has been insufferably boring, to my ears.
I AM THE WALRUS!!!
koo-koo is right, weirdos.
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Wow, I can't believe that people
would admit to not liking the Beatles….
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Whoa
I can’t believe that this thread got three people to admit they don’t like the Beatles. And no one else has come out to beat you up for it yet, either.
I guess it helps if you don’t also claim the Beatles signaled the decline of popular music (not that anyone would do that…).
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
well, there was this
Almost every band that claims to have a Beatles influence has been insufferably boring, to my ears.
Not exactly the same sentiment, but similar.
Since the list of bands with a Beatles influence basically consists of
“bands with people who were born sometime after 1930,” yes, I’d say the sentiment is more than “similar.”
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
I suppose one could say they find something unusually boring about people who ADMIT a Beatles influence
Maybe if you’re really into arrogance and/or self-deception in your music?
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
this.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 8, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not sure what this means, either
All music that doesn’t admit to a Beatles influence is by people who are arrogant or self deluding?
Really?
Apologies if i’ve mis-interpreted what you’ve said.
opposite.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 8, 2009 4:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not sure that's true, either
there are plenty of down to earth bands who claim a beatles influence, who just aren’t very good, or interesting.
And, I’m sure, plenty of arrogant so and sos who don’t.
I just don’t think the two things are related
ok
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 8, 2009 5:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not sure what you mean by this -
Are you saying that every post-Beatles band has a Beatles influence?
I’m pretty sure that this isn’t true.
Yes
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
In that case, I think you are incorrect
Unless you have some odd definitiion, that you’re keeping to yourself.
To use an extreme example, someone like, say, Einstürzende Neubauten are clearly not in that lineage.
I assume you realize that
“bands with people who were born sometime after 1930” is a ridiculous exaggeration.
That would encompass, among others, the Platters, the Temptations, Buddy Holly and the Crickets, the Everly Brothers, the Kingston Trio, and Peter Paul and Mary. Are you really asserting that all of these were influenced by the Beatles?
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
I love the Everly Brothers, incidentally
Have we discussed this? I’m not sure. Either way. They are one of my favourite bands with the word ‘Brothers’ in their name.
If the band actually disbanded (heh) before 1964, then yes, you can claim they weren't influenced by the Beatles
Buddy Holly augered in several years before that, iirc, so he’s in the clear.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
When the Beatles were formed, Buddy Holly
had been dead for a year, so he’s certainly in the clear.
I’m more interested in a band like the Temptations. They were more or less contemporaneous with the Beatles — started about the same time, ages (for the original five) roughly the same. Would you consider them influenced by the Beatles?
For what it’s worth, my opinion would be that both Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers had a strong influence on the Beatles, not the other way around. The motown and folk (loosely categorized) groups I named I think are in a different genre and the Beatles had no significant influence on any of them other than to squeeze their market by further popularizing pop-rock.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
It’d be hard to over-estimate the influence of Smokey Robinson on Motown. Didn’t Dylan call him America’s greatest living poet?
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Sep 9, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
While I'm not in any way denigrating the greatness that Smokey may have been,
Dylan’s done nothing but free word association with the media for a number of years now.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 10, 2009 2:53 PM PDT up reply actions
He said it in 1967, fwiw.
Smokey’s still worth seeing, btw.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Sep 10, 2009 11:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Stepping outside my snarky position on this thread and actually speaking seriously for a minute,
I don’t really know enough about the depths of those groups’ catalogs to say. Basically the only songs I know by those guys are the ones which were popular enough to crack oldies radio stations, which probably isn’t a representative sample.
Still, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t some degree of cross-fertilization by the late 60s.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
PT being serious?!
The hell you say…
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
they’re not horrible, just overplayed. like what, once an hour on most oldies-classic stations? are there really that few bands in the history of the world that we need to hear the beatles that often?
yeah, my top-two musical wishes toward a new musical order: turn on a commercial rock station knowing that they won’t play the beatles; go to a party knowing that i won’t have to dance to michael jackson. there are plenty of other good songs i’ve never heard before, so let me hear them.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Sep 8, 2009 3:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Part two of your wish is tough to overcome (warning, sports similie ahead)
Party music is a like a short fourth down in football. You’re better off risking it and going for the bold extra yard by playing unknown songs and pushing the party up a notch. But man do people hate you if you miss the mark and the music’s awful. So instead most people just opt for the punt, play MJ, and hope something else wins the game for them.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
I don't think that the Beatles signalled a decline in popular music
I’m not even sure that popular music has declined, for starters.
What they did do, is bring a chin stroking, overly worthy aspect into the field, with their later work. See, when they were young and dangerous, they had awesome songs with handclaps about stuff that really matters – broad emotional spectrums, that people can relate to, breakups, sex, dancing, fun, happiness, sadness; when they got rich and older, they started writing songs about tax problems, drug nonesense, wishy-washy spiritualism. Oh, and they started using the bassoon. The bassoon! They started making music that wasn’t for people who really needed it to make a difference, to create excitement in their lives, and more for middle aged men with expensive hi-fis who would tell you what was ‘Good’ and what was ‘Bad’.
This, I have no interest in. Music is the only art form that can cause you to have a physical reaction (apart from pornography, perhaps); if it doesn’t make you want to dance, laugh, cry or f*ck, then frankly, it’s not worth a penny. A Day in the Life, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – this means nothing to me (Vienna).
This is just my view, of course
What is a perfectly good if subtle, understated and, yes, chin-stroking Billy Joel song doing in the middle of that list?
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
Every time I attempt to parody myself
people take the comment seriously.
No one was suggesting that you think the Beatles signaled a decline in popular music, Bob.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
uh, right. Missed that one
Can you put a large flag on it, next time? I’m not good at recognizing internet parody.
Either way, I find it an interesting topic to talk about, so perhaps I was just looking for an opportunity
okay, mocking their expansive use of instruments is just stupid
Plenty of artists have haughtily claimed to be influenced by Bach, but the Beatles were the band with the balls to use Coronet and Flugal Horn on songs that were popular with a wide ranging audience. Who else has been able to do that? And to put down the strides they made in studio recording techniques is like saying Les Paul was wasting his time by making an electric guitar.
I mean, some of the kow-towing to them is uncalled for, but they did a lot for music and belittling their accomplishments is just as dumb as the hero worship.
???
Louis Armstrong? Bix Beiderbecke? Duke Ellington? Chuck Mangione? How do these guys not count as “popular with a wide ranging audience”?
The only reason it was ballsy for the Beatles to use a cornet is because it rock and roll had pushed band instruments out of fashion for about a decade. But outside of rock, the tradition never really died at all. Burt Bacharach’s band featured flugelhorn all through the 1960s, contemporary with the Beatles.
Also, I’m pretty sure cornet has been featured in some Indigo Girls songs.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Well you know what they say
The Velvet Underground & Nico only sold a few thousand copies, but every single person that did afterwards went out and started a band.
I’d say Velvet Underground’s influence on modern music is a lot more strongly felt than you think.
Almost every band?
So you’re bored by The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Tom Petty, Guided by Voices, Stew/The Negro Problem, Ozzy Osbourne, Olivia Tremor Control, Nirvana, OMD . . . ?
I’m all for giving the Velvet Underground their due. In fact, I think they, along with the Beatles and Kraftwerk, are the actual primogenitors of modern rock/pop. But I really don’t see how their contributions to rock music (whether you’re talking about songcraft; advances in production; their influence on and incorporation of trends in fashion and art; etc.) can be seriously dismissed, even if you dislike their songs.
heh
Well, I’m not a crazy insane cult type Beatles fan, so you’re safe from me. I’m more a crazy Rock Band fan who likes the Beatles and looks forward to playing a new game. :D
With you on the Beattles
they’ve never done anything for me. I can appreciate their impact on the music industry as a whole, but that’s about it.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
For those who like rock band, this game will blow the other versions away!! I pre-ordered mine the day that I found out it was coming out. A little upset that the violin shaped guitar is right handed, but I can get over that….I think.
Yeah,
I’m very excited about it. Like I said, I’m not a huge Beatles fan, but I enjoy their music, and the game just looks awesome! That opening cinematic is beautiful. And the harmonies look difficult but fun.
I also preordered, but I did it through Amazon, and I’m too cheap to pay for shipping, so I won’t get it tomorrow. I’m hoping it will arrive by the weekend. I figure I won’t have much time during the week to play anyway, but I will enviously watch other people playing it in the meantime.
Yikes.
Through the night, the crews have worked nonstop – for almost 70 hours
I think I’d rather have well-rested crews work on a massive steel structure before I drive on it…
(p.s. Happy Birthday, micdog2001!)
Prithee, be not perturbed by yon third bagger.
Hopefully,
the crews of that quote is very, very plural.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Some random links, and a downer
This is really gross. Let’s hope they can keep them away from Anaheim. Maybe someone can coax these guys into these plants.
Now for the downer. We had to put our beloved dog to sleep on Sunday evening. She was fifteen. The poor thing had an enormous cancerous tumor on her left hind leg that was causing her agony. Rest in peace, Cocoa.
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
sorry about the family dog, drK.
I love dogs.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 8, 2009 9:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks
We got her when she was 6 months old from the Humane Society shelter in Santa Clara. She was a stray dog who probably ran away from an abusive home – she used to go street-rat crazy whenever men came to our house, but women were typically allowed to enter after an initial barking fit and a quick sniff. We gave her 14 and a half years of a life that she probably would not have had, so I feel like we did alright by her, and I now treasure the memories of her early destructive behavior which, at the time, was not so much fun. Like:
Tree humping.
Jumping through window screens.
I used to have a back lawn – now I have a desert because I could not water it properly as she would eat the sprinkler.
The time she bit some guy walking past our house (thankfully, he was an older gentleman from Romania, and was not of the mindset to sue me).
All my chewed shoes.
The occasional garbage strewn throughout the house and in the back yard.
All in all, she was a good dog, and I’m glad her last sight was of me.
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
Aaw, doc, I'm sorry...
We had to put our 19-year-old cat to sleep a few months ago (also cancer), and knowing it’s the right thing to do doesn’t make it any easier… :(
Prithee, be not perturbed by yon third bagger.
Sorry about Cocoa
I have two cats at the moment and have had cats and dogs all of my life.
I had a dog when I was younger that lived to 17 1/2 years old. Had to have her put to sleep when she lost control at the end and I put her in a clothes basket with her sheepskin rug and sent my mother off to the vet with her. I refused to watch her put to sleep and wanted to remember her alive and not have the last memory of her checking out.
They are like your kids and I dread the day when they are no longer here.
Hopefully you will get another dog. It does not replace her but it will help.
bummer doctorK
sorry about your dog friend.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Thanks for giving her a great life, Doc.
Including its conclusion when she needed your help to ease her over the threshold. That’s a great love.
Good thoughts and condolences to you and yours.
The meaning of life is not so much 'found,' as it is 'made.' --Opus
by The Dogfather on Sep 9, 2009 8:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Thank you, Dogfather
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
Another name to add to your list of b-days(may have been in the link)
Neko Case
ken korach's voice is like peanut butter on velvet, not joe buck's.
by mrbendy on Sep 8, 2009 8:58 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Folk / Country type
big fan of her solo work, less so of her stuff with the New Pornographers.
Her blog is rather entertaining, and is the joke she tells about a zoo.
Oh, and she’s insanely hott.
Musician.
Pretty decent one at that, too.
"You're just jealous. You wish you had a rally animal..." -CardinalWraith
People, people, it a DLD
All questions are answerable through linking
Neko Case – Maybe Sparrow
It’d be good on a road trip through the old country.
FYI, the e in her first name is pronounced like knee.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Happy Belated Bday to me!
I would have done a DLD but I’m lazy and we don’t do that many weekend DLDs.
Happy Bday micdog2001!
Happy Belated Bday!!
was it the 5th or 6th?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Is a birthday offically belated exactly 1 day after?
or is there a specific time period required before it is belated? I would think 2 or 3 days would be enough to be called belated.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Happy belated.
I’ve got something for you.
"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."
A's are looking at the 8th pick in the draft next year
although they’re tied with Toronto in the standings. I didn’t realize Toronto was so bad this year! Also, they aren’t very far from the #5 slot or even the #4 slot. With a bad month they could really shoot up (er, down?) in the standings here. Personally, however, I have too much team pride to root for that; I want my damn A’s to win! Every game!
"To tell the truth, I'm not excited to go to Cleveland, but we have to. If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying" - Ichiro
You don't need to root for it
LEt it be warm comfort after Geren inexplicably brings in Casilla in a 2 run game
Looking at it
there is a decent shot that one of SanDiego or AZ can beat up on the other erasing that 1 game deficit.
I don’t think anyone will catch Balitimore with them having Yankees Rays and Redsox left.
Its (pardon the expression) war with cleveland this next (pardon the expression) homestand.
Many Happy Returns of the Day
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
And just a reminder
Labor Day weekend is over, the bridge is fixed….so now is the time to send your PayPal or checks to Lynn if you want to be part of the final tailgate! Don’t forget about it until the last minute…like me!
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
I made a DLD on my birthday
So I hope its not pathetic.
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
so far it seems like most people are OK with it because it gives them a new DLD.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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I almost forgot!
I heard a song called Fireflies on Live105 a couple weeks ago and really liked it. So I went and bought the CD and have really been enjoying the music. It is electronic/dance music but with a more pop sound. It is good music to relax to and I can’t help but paint a picture in my mind of the things he is singing about.
Track number 9 (firelfies) is the best song IMO but tracks 5, 6, and 11 are good too
Apparently the guy is an insomniac and writes music when he can’t sleep or something.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Fireflies buzz around folk music as well
Allette Brooks Sorry, couldn’t find the whole song
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
I may have found the best.song.ever.
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
There's some seriously awesome names on that first list
if you’re into European literature at all.
Ariosto is surely among the top ten of all time in Italian literature. I think you could make a good case for him as #4 (after Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch).
Mistral is practically the definition of Occitan/Provençal literature, which is a variation of French.
I’m surprised you’ve never heard of Joaquin Miller. He was a writer and adventurer, sort of in the Jack London mold. When Miller finally settled down to retire, he did so in Oakland. There’s a park and a road named for him.
Pedantic objection: Dvořák is not a “Czechoslovakian” composer. First of all, the proper adjective for someone from Czechoslovakia is “Czechoslovak” with no -ian. Second, Czechoslovakia didn’t exist during Dvořák’s lifetime. He was simply Czech.
(Dvořák is the guy who wrote the New World Symphony, which you may have heard.)
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
I was negligent
in not providing links. Forget about the others, but if you’re a native Oaklander (or just a fan of the city), take some pride in local history and read Wikipedia’s short biography of Joaquin Miller.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
pedantic and (dia)critical. i like it.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Sep 8, 2009 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I had a feeling you might know some names on that list
I don’t know much about literature, European or American.
I also have only really been to the ballpark and Jack London Square in Oakland. I guess I went to the Oakland Zoo also, but thats about it.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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anyone going to the game tonight?
I’ll be in section 120. I’m anticipating tiny attendance because I got lower level tickets off of stubhub for only $9 each.
Tiny attendance
If true, then you should feel like you’re in Oakland.
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
Madison Bumgarner called up?
Wow. The Giants website has him starting tonight, as Lincecum is hurt. Wow.
Founding member of the Eric Patterson fan club.
wow
McC must be going nuts. This front-pager already has almost 1700 comments. (I don’t recommend clicking the link unless you have a lot of RAM).
"If Vin Mazzaro comes anywhere near me with shaving cream he’s gonna be coming away with a bloody stump" – Dallas Braden
Brian Sabean: General LOLager
Only good thing for Giants fans: Makes the theory that Sabean will be cut loose if the team doesn’t make the playoffs incrementally more plausible.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
I would be for this because it would be closer to my home. I know it is only in jest though.
Mondavi Field?:A guest post by gojohn on New A’s Ballpark Blog analyzes the San Jose report and concludes that some of the assumptions are conservative. A sidelight is that the A’s draw much better from Napa County than a statistical model would suggest, a move south would especially hurt those fans. He jokingly suggests building Mondavi Field in Napa and “have glasses of merlot, chardonnay, cabernet sauvignon race around the field” between innings. Take that, Milwaukee!
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/athletics/detail?&entry_id=47069#ixzz0QYrqepNO
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Outside of the potential traffic disaster
I’d be all for it.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
oh yeah, the 101 would get backed up probably
although recent improvements have made it better.
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The wine would spill out of the glasses
Oversight, or irony?
The world wonders.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
I'm guessing that, like Milwaukee not using REAL sausages
They wouldn’t use REAL glasses of wine.
"I’m Joey Devine, I’m what Joba Chamberlain would be if he was good and nobody had ever heard of him."
spill the wine, take that girl.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 8, 2009 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Brings to mind a fun quote from Harold Brown, drummer for War:
“All ladies are beautiful. You’ve got to look at them. God, I believe, put all of us here and made us all different so we could be like the flowers, you know. Like women. I look at them as beautiful flowers. Even when they get older, the flowers and so on, and that’s what it really boils down to, they can be skinny, big, fat, I’ve seen some fine voluptuous women. And then I’ve seen some that are skinny, and if you look at them, they could be beautiful, depending on personality and stuff.”
Anyway, great song.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
If Ice Cream is twice as old as micdog...
and ten years ago, he was…
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 8, 2009 5:46 PM PDT up reply actions
According to a random internet article which I spent five seconds finding,
If you are dealing with a four option multiple choice test, you will tend to score about 5 percent higher by randomly guessing “B” and “C” as opposed to “A” and “D”.
Link to the source, Scantronnomics
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
What's really interesting about that is
that the people who design the test know that B and C are more commonly correct than A and D, and they know that some people taking the test know it, too. So why don’t they fix it?
Because it doesn’t improve their test to do so. In the industry, a test is not an effective test if it doesn’t produce a nice spread of scores. If you were to produce a test in which 50% of the test-takers got the same score, that test would be an utter failure. This is so even if it happens to be true that 50% of the test-takers really do know the material equally well. If that were the case, from the industry’s point of view it would only demonstrate that the test is measuring the wrong material.
The economic function of a standardized test is to help its clients (ie, employers and college admissions programs) sift through a pool of applicants that is too large. Any question in a test which yields too many right answers or too many wrong answers is ipso facto an ineffective question: it takes up limited space in the test and fails to deliver sufficient useful information. The testing services do a huge amount of statistical work to ensure that their tests are effective, and one result of that is the B and C anomaly.
In effect, what is happening here is that to a certain extent what the test is measuring is the ability of test-takers to “beat the test” (which presumably is itself a proxy for resourcefulness). So long as some people know the B-or-C trick and some don’t, it will remain effective. When that knowledge becomes universal, the phenomenon will correct itself as the testing services continue to tweak their tests to evolve with the student base.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
I see you've done more than five seconds of research on the subject
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Definitely. It's a fascinating subject.
Back in the 1980s, when my sister was studying statistics at Cal, I used to hang out with some of the other stats guys there. A few of them had done time at ETS, which was then the main producer of standardized tests (and probably still is now) and thus a source of employment to young statisticians. There’s a whole lot more to those tests than meets the eye, and a lot of it is counter-intuitive.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
If Ice Cream is twice as old as me
it probably doesn’t taste good anymore.
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Happy Birthday, Ice Cream! Welcome to 52!
I’m in a vintage postcard mood today. 
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
To all the Swiss girls...
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 8, 2009 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks for the birthday wishes and postcard, Englishmajor!
San Pablo and Broadway!
Just up the street at the foot of Telegraph & Broadway:
Moose Tracks
I wonder how many "Tallest buildings west of the MIssissippi" when they were built
there are.
I do know how many toughest critter west of the Alamo there are though.
Not sure where you read that, but I'm pretty sure it's wrong.
Wikipedia show Oakland City Hall at 320 feet. The Daniels & Fisher Tower in Denver (1910) is 371 feet. Smith Tower in Seattle (1914) is 462 feet.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
It's true. I'm a humorless stat-monkey.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
{flings poo}
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
well, if nothing else, his spirit lives on.
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 10, 2009 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Happy Birthday to you too!
Whoa, sssooooo crazy ; -0
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Congrats on the big day micdog
I shall now expect a new DLD every Sep. 8th.
About that Dvorak fellow, here’s the 4th movement from the New World Symphony. I’m a fan for many reasons, but you DLD monkeys should all check it out because the start of the piece is eerily similar to the theme from Jaws.
Here’s the wiki page on the symphony. It’s all about a late 19th century Bohemian (he’s actually from Bohemia!) visiting America and writing a tune after being influenced by Native- and African-American sounds.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
we'll see if you remember that in 2010 ;-)
can I just copy this one since it will all still be true next year? (jk) Maybe something spectacular will happen tonight and I can link back to that.
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Interesting idea
copying old DLDs. I think you’ve hit upon a fantastic new AN feature fanpost. DLD’s of yore. Dig up some two or three year old classic DLDs. Stuff with links like “Obama announces candidacy for Democratic primary” and “A’s projected to win AL West”. Here’s to another year of DLD glory. I’ll leave it to you to post B-day ‘10. At least the A’s have (hopefully) brought your b-day record back up to .500.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
I'm actually enjoying the 4th movement btw
I don’t usually listen to classical by my own choice. Althought I loved Hooked on Classics when I was a kid because it had a cool drum beat with all the songs. Maybe I can find a link?
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well, that was easy
Wiki Page – Hooked On Classics
I love that CD!
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Wow,
I just hit the flight of the bumblebees part. Amazingly not bad at all. I too am a sucker for any piece of music with a catchy, funky beat is attached to it. Good stuff.
If you need some more disco classical mix, may I direct you to here:
Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band – A Fifth Of Beethoven
Found it on this cd, which was well worth buying for a dollar out of the scrap pile at the used cd store
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
I have that song on a disco compilation CD
plus I have a CD by Thicke (now goes by Robin Thicke) that samples the 5th of Beethoven in his song When I Get You Alone
I also like the mash-up of Goldigger by Kayne West and 5th of Beethoven (and I think a little of Ushers “Yeah!”). The video is probably NSFW because of scantily clad women. It was previously posted on a DLD a few months ago.
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Way to bust out the college a cappella cityplANner!
Quite a few of my all-time favorite covers come from that genre of music. Did you ever arrange any songs?
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Happy Birthday!
micdog and Ice Cream!
Virgos are awesome!
Hey, Raburn! YOU ever dive into the shallow end of a pool?--noava22
Today is 09/09/09!!!
Yahoo article on today’s special date.
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Nein! nein! nein!
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Aaagh! They influence *everything*!
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
happy belated birthday!
your birthday dld is much more accomplished than mine, although mine did have Debbie Gibson.
I care about your fantasy team.
You say it's your birthday?
It’s my birthday too!
Al: We gotta form a government for the settlement.
Merrick: Who does?
Al: Us! You and me. Come to me in a vision! You stupid bastard
by Leopold Bloom on Sep 10, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Worst sports column ever?
Various blogs (eg, here) are nominating this piece from the OC Register.
They have a point. In terms of clueless bad taste, it’s hard to beat.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Wow. What were the editors thinking when they decided to let that run?
And what was the author thinking when he wrote it????
There's no crying in baseball!
I could see the author having a brain fart
but an editor should have pulled it. My guess is that the organization was on autopilot somehow and no one really noticed until it was too late.
Sort of like that one that went out with a headline that said “Headline to come”.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
When I was a sophomore in HS, I was on the newspaper staff.
Since I was one of the only ones good with computers, I got to do layout (Aldus Pagemaker!). The editors of each section were supposed to come up with the headlines, but the sports guy wasn’t around at the time I was doing the sports page. I was going to ask him later, but in the meantime, I went with the title “Golf Masters Kick Ass” since our golf team was really good and actually did kick much ass. Well, being in crunch mode as it usually is, I never did connect with the sports editor. And the teacher, being kinda ditzy and also in a rush most of the time, didn’t catch it. So the paper ran with it. The sports editor was not pleased. I never did find out what the principal thought, but apparently not much since I never got reprimanded.
by LoneStranger on Sep 10, 2009 8:36 AM PDT up reply actions
At least your headline was an honest mistake
When I was working on my community college paper, we came up with this world news headline:
Holy Shi’ite! Iraq to Hold Elections
It was originally a joke, but we actually went to the press with it. Our paper had near zero readership, so the thinking was try out the theory of “any publicity is good publicity”. Amazingly, we we didn’t suffer anything worse than one small reprimand from the principal’s office.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Well, not totally an honest mistake. I might have remembered a couple times and just...um... neglected to change it.
But that Shi’te thing is pretty damn good.
by LoneStranger on Sep 10, 2009 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Follow-up
The author’s initial reaction was to be surprised that so many people were offended.
But by the next day he had come around and offered an apology that seems genuine and reasonable to me. Time to move on.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
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