DLD 7.31.11: Something for Everyone
by iglew on Jul 31, 2011 6:08 PM PDT
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PrintA simple DLD this evening before July comes to a close. No crazy epic iglevian thematic arc this time. Just a few links that might please you. And lots of big words. And YouTubes!
Ironic Pop Culture Humor
My girlfriend has taste like yours. She loves web comics like the Oatmeal; TV shows like Top Chef, Arrested Development, and Mad Men; and all that vapid unfunny "edgy" pop culture stuff that I see discussed here on AN but which bores me completely. (Equally unfathomably, she likes me....)
She thinks this is the funniest thing in the world:
Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions (warning: YouTubes!)
She played it for me about ten times and laughed hysterically through each one. I thought it was a little bit funny, but only once. But her taste is more like yours than mine, so maybe you'll like it. Assuming you haven't already watched it a million times yourself, that is.DIИGERZ!!!
Oh, and speaking of things to watch a million times. The new guy we got in the Brad Ziegler trade is Brandon Allen. (For me, he falls near the Corey side on the Corey Wimberly to Reggie Willits spectrum.) It's possible that he will suck like the rest of our prospects, but at least he is large and hits gigantic dingers.
In case you missed it, here is one from a few days ago:
Brandon Allen's epic dinger (Warning: quasi-YouTube on the MLB site!)
A sampling of reactions from AN: "Holy shit" "WANT" "WOW!" "Holy Crap" "Damn!" "BOOM" "OMG".
Hot Underwear Models!
In case you missed the news, our very own thewhizkid has a new girlfriend. And WhizDad approves. (Warning: AN mega-thread with 1,000+ comments!)
In matters of starlet idolatry I tend to be contrarian, but in this case I have to concur with the rest of the universe: Kate Upton is quite lovely. Elcroata objected to the plasticky photoshoppery of the billions of Kate pictures that flood Google image search, and he's absolutely right. They are terrible. To truly appreciate the pulchritude of the future WhizDaughterInLaw, you need to find her doing something other than modeling underwear and trying to look sultry. (And by the way, no one can truly be sultry at 18. You have to be at least 25. Or 23 in Latin America.)
Here is my favorite: Miss Kate is chair-dancing while attending a basketball game. Contrary to her usual habit, she is fully clothed here, but if your workplace is strict it might still be NSFW due to extreme jiggling.
Kate Upton Dougie (Warning: YouTube!)
Apparently she is demonstrating a popular dance called the "dougie". I have no idea what that is, but I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with elcroata's Adriatic island paradise Dugi Otok.
Stats for Science
Did you know that baseball stats are actually useful in real life? I mean, not just for picking your team in the roto league, but as real data for real statisticians who don't even care about baseball. It's because it's one of the few resources we have where there is basic life information on people going back several decades. It's especially true for research in left-handedness and right-handedness. A lot of that stuff where you read about how people who are left-handed are more likely to do such-and-such rely in part on statistics about baseball players.
Here is a silly study where someone uses baseball data to help prove that you are more likely to live longer if you have cool initials like "G.O.D." or "A.C.E." and die sooner if you have bad initials like "S.O.B." or "A.S.S." Apparently the study actually got published, though the link there only gives you the abstract.
If you think that sounds ridiculous, you're not alone. Here's another study, with the complete PDF this time, where some other guy questions the methodology of the first. Among other things he complains about small sample size. Seriously, how many guys actually have the initials "F.U.K."? I mean, besides Frankie Ubaldo Katzenbaum.
Assuming we omit people who don't have exactly one middle name -- as well we should, you freaky four-name and two-name mutants! -- there are 26 x 26 x 26 = 17,576 possible combinations of initials. I think there are more than 18,000 famous people you've heard of. So if the initials are evenly distributed, you ought to be able to come up with a person for any combination of letters.
But of course they aren't evenly distributed, and there must be a million times more MJB's than XNQ's. But if the letter combination is above average frequency, you should be able to come up with one. "DLD" seemed like it would be relatively common, but I had a bitch of a time finding any. I finally came up with two. Some obscure baseball player named Daniel Lynn Dumoulin, whom I had never heard of, and a composer named David Leo Diamond, whom I actually had heard of most of y'all surely haven't. The former was a reliever who appeared in all of eight games. The latter has a reputation for being one of America's better composers of the 20th century, but he wrote in that hideous modernist style that dominated "classical" music from the mid 1960s through mid 1990s. I think I once sang in a piece by him during my chorus days.
Can you think of anyone whose initials are "DLD"?
Stats for Real Life
OK, enough trivia. Here's an example of how statistical analysis can help you with real world problems. This is an ancient link -- by which I mean it's almost two years old, OMG! -- but it contains valuable information for you. OKTrends, the statistical arm of the dating service OKCupid, did a thorough study of what sort of picture will get you what sort of responses on a dating site.
The Four Big Myths of Profile Pictures
Some of the results are surprising. Like that angle where the girl holds the camera above her head actually works. Here we all thought those girls were stupid, but in fact they are smart. And it's still true even after you control the sample for cleavage. The camera angle is more predictive of success than the boobies. Who would have thought?
See, now that's important information. You should read the whole thing. It has lots of pretty pictures and pretty graphs. This one is my favorite.
It shows that if you are a woman, the benefit you get from showing cleavage in your picture is negatively [positively] correlated with your age. So if you're a young maiden fresh out of high school, keep the goods covered, but if you're approaching MILF range, bring out the boobies!
The story presents this as counterintuitive, but it makes perfect sense to me. (Also, I may be slightly misrepresenting that graph....)
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Brandon Allen with leather
While we have all looked at that video of the titanic homer that Allen hit earlier this month I like what I see with the leather here:
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=11603037
He was rather nimble on that play. I like this.
Of course it was only one play but he could be a player……
Jack Cust: Nothing but true results…. career .813 OPS
by Athletics fan and runner on Jul 31, 2011 7:24 PM PDT reply actions
Wow.
OK, he’s already ahead of Chris Carter and Josh Willingham on my LF depth chart.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
He actually went after the ball
That alone puts him in front of Carter in LF. And, he didn’t faceplant himself, a’la Matt Carson
i've never tried to rank them to be honest. i guess i like beer.- stm72
something like 475 (or 457) feet in a neutral context (air, altitude, temperature, etc...)
the artist formerly known as inbillywetrust
it looked like his throwing was strong too
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Wolff interview on newballpark.org
Part 1 of a 5-part interview with Lew Wolff is up. Enjoy folks.
by vertig0 on Aug 1, 2011 12:09 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Awesome. You should create a fanpost with all 5 parts linked on Friday.
Official Athletics Nation Rotating Tagline Editor - Pam liked my old sig better.
My thoughtful watermelon is easily mistook for an early American catapult.
DURRRR THEY’RE TOO OLD, BABIP IS TOO HIGH, TOO MANY Ks, DURRRRRR
That's right
I was tempted to delete your comment, Miss Cleo.
Ha!
I had no clue on the hints though. I suspected if it was an interview, it had to be someone big like Quan or Wolff or someone in Baseball Oakland, but I couldn’t tie back to them. I learned a little about Buckminster Fuller though. Can’t wait to see how those hints were pulled from the interview.
Excellent read
Tends to cut through the speculation. Selig is the roadblock, at this point. He needs to get off his duff, and make a decision. That way we, as a franchise/fanbase, can move forward.
i've never tried to rank them to be honest. i guess i like beer.- stm72
Great work on the interview, definitely a must read for A's fan.
Keep up the good work on the website.
Great interview, man
Maybe some of the “sports” columnists in our local fish-wrappers could read it and learn something.
I don't feel that I'm feeling your feelings, about these feelings that you feel.
OMG NO, WILLY EYRE IS OPTING FOR FREE AGENCY
Official Athletics Nation Rotating Tagline Editor - Pam liked my old sig better.
My thoughtful watermelon is easily mistook for an early American catapult.
DURRRR THEY’RE TOO OLD, BABIP IS TOO HIGH, TOO MANY Ks, DURRRRRR
Who?
Do you mean the kid from Charles in Charge? Scott Baio’s best friend?
i've never tried to rank them to be honest. i guess i like beer.- stm72
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"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented." —Stephen King
No idea
I haven’t checked it since I posted it. If it’s got 16, then, unfortunately, yeah…
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented." —Stephen King
was merely OK. here. i boiled down everything he said to two minutes and 43 seconds of elvis costello.
by AV on Aug 1, 2011 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
you can download the interview here
http://www.957thegame.com/pages/10468880.php
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
First caller on "The Wheelhouse" basically called them out on all the Giants talk, but Lund asked the guy what he would want to talk about today, if he had a sports show.
Lund just said the A’s are the “B-record” in the Bay Area. He couldn’t come up with an A’s topic they should discuss.
I'm really glad the guy called them out!
I was super-pissed with all the Giants talk – if i wanted to talk about the friggin’ Giants (which i DON’T), I’ll go listen to KNBR. I come to the FM station (btw, why have such a douchey name like “The Game”??), I want to hear and talk about the A’s. I remember when Chris Townsend was holding his first show on the new station, and he pumped me up SO MUCH about the A’s having a home!! Now I guess we’re just gonna have a random f***ing sports station that happens to broadcast A’s games. What a crock.
There are a million thing about the A’s to talk about, but whoever owns this station clearly thought ratings weren’t high enough in the miniscule amount of time that 95.7 has been a sports station, so they just brought in some douchey guys to talk about the Giants. F*** me.
CGB: Wasting Your Potential, Your Time, & Your Life Since 2006.
CT manages to come up with an A's topic EVERY DAY.
I mean hey, not like the A’s just made a trade or anything and are 10-5 since the ASB and leading the big leagues in offense and have the 2 best hitters in baseball since the break.
NOPE, NOTHING TO SEE HERE. OH BY THE WAY THE GIANTS GOT SWEPT LETS TALK ABOUT THE PHILLIES BEING AFRAID OF THEM
Official Athletics Nation Rotating Tagline Editor - Pam liked my old sig better.
My thoughtful watermelon is easily mistook for an early American catapult.
DURRRR THEY’RE TOO OLD, BABIP IS TOO HIGH, TOO MANY Ks, DURRRRRR
in CT's defense, one-third of his show is him complaining about how hard he works...so there's that too.
the artist formerly known as inbillywetrust
That annoys the hell out of me
The answer to “Hi Chris, love your show” is “Thanks, what would you like to talk about,” not a two-minute monologue on how much effort you have been putting into “building something.”
by Glorious Mundy on Aug 1, 2011 2:55 PM PDT up reply actions
95.7 Has a 'major announcement' coming up at 5pm today.
My best guess is that the Sharks are going to be broadcast on 95.7 this upcoming season. They start preseason the third week of September and the regular season on Oct 8th, so there would be very little overlap.
Other guesses are UFL Mountain Lions or SJ Earthquakes.
...and on 95.7, one of the guys starts talking about how they're gonna talk about what's hot....blah...blah...blah
But he says “Yes, we’re the home of the A’s,” pauses, and before he continues his thought, he throws in “and the home of the Sharks” and continues to talk.
I’m leaning even more toward the 5pm announcement being Sharks on 95.7 this year.
He actually said, the A's aren't relevant. That pissed me off. If someone on your flag station, says your team is
irrelevant, he shouldn’t bring his ass back tomorrow.
by theblackpearl on Aug 1, 2011 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions
And the announcement is that they're gonna get exclusive 49ers content on the station every Monday.
Baalke and a player, it sounds like.
Not bad, but not terribly earth shattering, either.
Hisashi Iwakuma
still could be a free agent this offseason, but is no longer represented by Don Nomura.
Iwakuma hired Paul Cobbe of Sosnick-Cobbe Sports as his new representative several months ago, but delayed the announcement out of respect for his community and the victims of the March earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Japan, home of the Eagles. He had also been occupied until recently with rehabilitation from a shoulder injury that sent him to the disabled list in late May. Iwakuma recently rejoined Rakuten and his fastball was clocked at between 89 and 92 miles per hour in his last start.
Although Iwakuma’s decision will reverberate throughout Japan, Cobbe said the pitcher does not plan to address his professional future during the Golden Eagles’ season.
“Iwakuma-san has instructed me not to discuss Major League Baseball with him during the 2011 season,” Cobbe said. “His sole focus is bringing a championship to Rakuten.”
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented." —Stephen King
Rehabbing a shoulder injury?
He was meant to be an Oakland Athletic
with all the warnings about youtubes I was unprepared for the link to the 1200 comment trade thread with Upton's pic
luckily it didn’t freeze my computer like large threads normally do.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Ooh, good point.
I edited to add a warning.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
you da man
its my own fault for not using firefox to read AN
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
a couple of things...
1) why hasn’t whizkid addressed the rumors surrounding his love life. must be true then.
2.) the linky to the myths surrounding profile pictures is awesome. believe it or not, there are people that have consulting businesses around setting up profiles, creating dialogue, responding to queries and helping to set up dates. they get paid for successful first dates created. awesome.
the artist formerly known as inbillywetrust
Statistical corrections
The benefit of cleavage is positively correlated with age – the higher the age, the larger the benefit. I would also point out that it benefits everyone to flash a little. The benefit simply is more substantial for those of more advanced age. Just thought I’d help out my straight brothers with that correction. Doesn’t do a thing for me.
Oh crap, I got negative and positive mixed up.
Oh well, hopefully this all falls under my “misrepresent” disclaimer.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
79% benefit at age 32, huh?
[looks at calendar]
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I look forward to your new avatar!
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
And he's proud of it.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
salacious!
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Oh man, I hated that thing.
I never saw the new movies so I can’t compare to Jar Jar, but he was definitely the most annoying thing in the first three.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
This isn't an internet dating site!
Well…never mind that.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
The ways of AN are strange.
DFA used to get frustrated by how often a FanPost about serious baseball discussion would get hijacked with gossipy silliness in the comments. So today I make a FanPost for gossipy silliness and it gets hijacked with serious baseball discussion!
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Sure we can. What's for lunch?
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
The island picture?
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Christina Hendricks
I’ve always liked boobs. I don’t know what took everyone on OKCupid so long.
Maybe we should a nicest boobs subpoll. First vote is for C.H. Others?
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
by cuppingmaster on Aug 1, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder if there are any other websites
that ever thought of having a poll to rate boobs.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Are you suggesting that an A's site
shouldn’t be so A’s-s-centric?
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Nothing wrong with that, as long as it's equal.
Ppl posting unminimizeable (yes I just made up a word) pictures of Rich Harden in boxer shorts isn’t exactly kosher in my opinion.
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
pffffffffft.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
It can be a striptease gif for all I care, just give me the option to minimize it.
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
hmph.
too much smirk.
not enough backside.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I like the backside.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I like the backside.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I love that after all these years,
no one has ever cropped my scanner bed out of the top of the photo. That’s how I know it’s the one I scanned way back in the day.
YOU
must have lots and lots of good pics. I just dumped some of my A’s magazines…even the one with Chavvy on the cover…so hot.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
WHY would you do such a thing?!
Speaking of Chavy, when I was hunting for that Huston and Andrew Brown photo earlier, I stumbled upon THIS. It made me laugh.
i'm de cluttering.
or trying to. i hadn’t looked at them in forever. but…he’s so hot!
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
and, LOL.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
so much ungh.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
oh cool
I’ve never seen those pics. good times, good times.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I am now sad
reasons;
1. Those teams (2000-2006) were so cool and interestings and had so many studs. The teams since then haven’t had many cool guys and are low of studs. This year twitter has kind of brought us a few characters (HA! that works for twitter) Crisp, McCarthy, Anderson (only on twitter though, on the field, dull. Although Anderson is best when talking with McCarthy so maybe its not him), and Mrs. McCarthy. Dallas Braden is cool but hurt, Matsui is “cool” but not super interesting (possibly due to language barrier?), Grant Balfour is cool in an angry Aussie way, and now Jemile has brought some personality. I think I might make a poll of the “coolest” current A’s player. I think the current A’s are more “good guys” or “nice guys” like Andrew Bailey, Kurt Suzuki, Josh Willingham, and Cliff Pennington.
2. Despite being so good and cool there was still so much dissapointment in the playoffs during the 2000-2006 era. Seeing the photo of Tejada in emotional pain and Zito trying to console him was painful. Two guys so cool and good but just couldn’t take it all the way.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
holy cow
i actually remember those photos from back in the day…with the whole cast of characters. is michael zagaris still with the team or did he move elsewhere ? talented dude…
LOL.
Cropping is so much work, especially when the actual subject of the picture is so distracting…
I remember seeing your scan of that pic before I actually got the magazine myself. I was very grateful then, and remain so now. It’s one of my favs.
This place used to be so much better!
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
So my wife's initials are B.A.D.
Which I see is not good.
My fault really. It was my last name that did it to her.
Was it a BAR or a BAT I married?
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
If the study was based on baseball players
it means it was men only. Maybe it’s the reverse for women?
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
There you go
I’ll let her know how lucky she is
My friend's initials are EPT
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented." —Stephen King
My initials are E.M.O
I’ll be gone soon.
Someday her tombstone will read,
"Here Lies MissOakland Barton. Hot baseball wife, beloved friend, defender of aprons." --Kyli
my initials are AV (shocker!). i’ll be watching TV.
by AV on Aug 1, 2011 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
mine are CUP
….
just kidding
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
by cuppingmaster on Aug 1, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
That would be too perfect
Someday her tombstone will read,
"Here Lies MissOakland Barton. Hot baseball wife, beloved friend, defender of aprons." --Kyli
I knew there was a suspicious-looking hole in the stall wall
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
by cuppingmaster on Aug 1, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
dunno what tv is. just know that i won't be watching it.
the artist formerly known as inbillywetrust
Great
I thought I was missing out on something.
i've never tried to rank them to be honest. i guess i like beer.- stm72
When I was "mdl"
my initials were MDL. As Iglew, they are IJL.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Go away, mutant!
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
What does the M stand for?
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
I'm guessing Michelle.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I'll go with Marie
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
by cuppingmaster on Aug 1, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
That's a better guess.
Everyone’s middle name is Marie.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
mine is.
Don't let your alligator mouth bite off more than your humminbird butt can back up. Dr. Phil.
mine either.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Mine kind of is...
Marion= Son of Mary
i've never tried to rank them to be honest. i guess i like beer.- stm72
Tutu Marion Late
fits ;-)
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
by cuppingmaster on Aug 1, 2011 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Cuppy wins
Someday her tombstone will read,
"Here Lies MissOakland Barton. Hot baseball wife, beloved friend, defender of aprons." --Kyli
woot!
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
by cuppingmaster on Aug 2, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
My mom's middle name is Marine too.
Triplets.
Someday her tombstone will read,
"Here Lies MissOakland Barton. Hot baseball wife, beloved friend, defender of aprons." --Kyli
I KNEW it.
Also, I do not know how to spell my middle name unless one of you pranksters changed it to Marine.
Someday her tombstone will read,
"Here Lies MissOakland Barton. Hot baseball wife, beloved friend, defender of aprons." --Kyli
That would have been my guess, too.
But then I remember how young MO is, and I wondered if I was stuck in the 1970s.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Plus then her middle name and last name would rhyme.
I want to rescind my guess.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Yeah, that's kind of weird.
I like rhymes but it wouldn’t really sound good in that name.
I think Maeve would sound good, and it’s consistent with the Irish theme. Megan also would sound very nice, and much more plausible. I’m guessing Megan now.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Oh, yes.
Someday her tombstone will read,
"Here Lies MissOakland Barton. Hot baseball wife, beloved friend, defender of aprons." --Kyli
middle and last rhyming names?
no thank you
Someday her tombstone will read,
"Here Lies MissOakland Barton. Hot baseball wife, beloved friend, defender of aprons." --Kyli
I'm guessing Margaret
Don't let your alligator mouth bite off more than your humminbird butt can back up. Dr. Phil.
I don't have fun initials.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Just be glad your middle name isn't Isabella.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
very glad.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Mutant freak.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Reserved for those with zero or two middle names.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Mutant freak!
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I'm sure you could come up with a good one.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
hotness.
Official Athletics Nation Rotating Tagline Editor - Pam liked my old sig better.
My thoughtful watermelon is easily mistook for an early American catapult.
DURRRR THEY’RE TOO OLD, BABIP IS TOO HIGH, TOO MANY Ks, DURRRRRR
Yeah, but you're British
You all have silly names like Nigel Desmond Cuthbert St Giles.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
What, did you think my parents gave me a girl's name or something?
Johnny Cash style?
JJ sounds good.
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
Woah, you're saying James Francis isn't fun?
My parents won’t be amused!
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
Good stuff, iglew
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Also
Never knew that Dugi Otok has its wiki page
2011 Oakland Athletics: We have Cy Young pitchers and make yours look like it, too
I think it would be quite a challenge to
find any island with a population over 1,000 that doesn’t have a Wiki page.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Hey
we didn’t have any streets on the island till some 15 years ago
2011 Oakland Athletics: We have Cy Young pitchers and make yours look like it, too
Still want to go there.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Enh, whatever
There are a couple of islands in the San Juans with no streets that rate a Wikipedia page.
Heck, even that little rock to the side of the San Rafael Bridge has a Wikipedia page.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Sestrunj has a page.
Does it have any streets?
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
wow
nope. I guess it’s combination of the fact that more Croatians live abroad than in Croatia, nostalgia, too much free time and easy access to Wikipedia
2011 Oakland Athletics: We have Cy Young pitchers and make yours look like it, too
It's not just Croatia
Someone in Estonia, for instance, seem to have plenty of free time.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Is it wrong that I'm in love with this advert?
I’m not sure if it’s cos the girl is super cute, or cos it mentions Wigan (and Hull!), or just cos the whole premise is adorable.
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
My sound isn't hooked up at work,
but even silent it’s pretty adorable.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Hmm.
It’s an awful lot like this one. Pams Okay.
The track, before you ask, is Don’t Wait Too Long.
The artist is Madeleine Peyroux. (Swoon!)
by harensheir15 on Aug 1, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Meh, the British one is way way better.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Oh, they're both sappy and vapid.
Just pointing out that the British commercial isn’t exactly original.
My swooning is limited to Madeleine only.
by harensheir15 on Aug 1, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I beg to differ.
The British one is totally adorable, sappy in a good way, and not vapid. The Dockers one is just bleah whatever.
There is a vague parallel in that public transit is involved and at least one character makes a surprise move, but in the most essential part — the role of the music — they are totally different. In the British one the guy is actually singing to her and she hears what he says and responds to it and there’s even a progression to the story. In the San Francisco one, Madeleine’s song is non-diegetic which immediately makes the whole thing fakey and cinematic. The characters don’t hear it, and their only communication is their knowing looks at each other with no story at all. The music is not real; it just exists as an artificial accompaniment, a narrative intrusion trying to insinuate a story where none is shown. The British one is real, and that’s why I love it.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Allow me to rebutt.
First, I want to be clear about what the topic of our disagreement is. You prefer the British one because it’s “totally adorable” and proceed to give your reasons why you do. That’s well and good. “Adorable” or “better,” I’m sure you’ll agree, is a matter of preference. I don’t think either is adorable. Or at least, if I had to choose, Dockers would be slightly closer to that label. My original post said that it is similar to the Dockers one—an idea used more than 5 years prior—making it (for me) less ….shall I call it “adorable?”
The parallels are not as vague as you seem to think. Public Transit isn’t merely involved. It’s the setting after all. In both commercials, the both people are or would be travelling in opposite directions. That two people are in the place (not just physically) is certainly allegorical. There is a mutual attraction for both would-be couples. Each member from each couple does, in fact, take a chance (The English woman, too. By correcting the wrong guesses and agreeing to prolong her time with the bloke). In each case, the spot ends with a happy union. These are vague?
I agree wholeheartedly that the role of music is much much different and understand perfectly why its use in the British spot might be preferred. (I had fun looking up the etymology for “non-diegetic”, by the way. Thanks.) I also grant that there is a progression with the story. They are both “adorable” ways to evoke a response. But, hopefully, I have made it clearer why I think they’ve outright lifted the framework from the Dockers ad.
I also disagree with your reasoning for why the Dockers one is “just bleagh whatever.” It’s prematurely dismissive to call it “fake” based on what you view as “artificial accompaniment.” (And the British one isn’t cinematic? I understand you’re not a movie buff but surely even you agree that its “progression” is the plot of nearly every romantic comedy ever made, no?) I think they mean to present a duality in lieu of a progressing story. A mirror image even. The music doesn’t exist outside the commercial and definitely doesn’t feel like a “narrative intrusion.” I think the song is playing in the minds/hearts of both characters. Sure, neither knows the other is thinking/feeling the same thoughts/feelings. But that just serves to provide symmetry. A symmetry, which I might add, pays off in the end. Cinematic? Sure. Real? Not really. But then is the premise of a guy serenading a girl across the train tracks real? A British guy? If you’ve answered yes, please let me borrow your optimism.
Yeah, really the whole thing was just an excuse
to use “non-diegetic” in a comment.
As for the rest, de gustibus non disputandem est and all that. Optimism comes from years of happy life. I recommend girl watching.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
Now that I have that boring stat post out of the way
I can come back to what AN is really about – linguistics!
The Spanish version of that Latin phrase is “sobre gustos no hay nada escrito”. Literally translated, it means “There is nothing written about taste”.
And I loved what Virginia’s art professor said on the topic. “There are lots of things written about it. It’s just that nobody reads it”
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el buen gusto de la gente de mal gusto es el mal gusto de la gente de buen gusto. ~my dad
by AV on Aug 3, 2011 8:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Heh
Mentioning “Romantic comedy plot” just forces me to repost this Vonnegut gem:
which in turn forces me to post the rest of exactly the same thing I posted 2 years ago
Now there’s a Franz Kafka story .
A young man is rather unattractive and not very personable. He has disagreeable relatives and has had a lot of jobs with no chance of promotion. He doesn’t get paid enough to take his girl dancing or to go to the beer hall to have a beer with a friend. One morning he wakes up, it’s time to go to work again, and he has turned into a cockroach. It’s a pessimistic story.
2011 Oakland Athletics: We have Cy Young pitchers and make yours look like it, too
Thinking a bit about it,
A Sine function might best describe the events.
For one, you’re going to go through periods {ha!} of good and ill fortune.
And, the company would determine coefficient of amplification.
At first, anyway. Until the Universe ends not with a bang….but with a Plouffe.
If I know you well enough,
you’re hashing out a plan right now to graph story events using a fourier series.
Well, they do have excellent convergence properties.
And, my god, I love your signal processing.
by harensheir15 on Aug 4, 2011 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions
It is
Sorry, completely siding with the Brit version here for reasons iglew explained.
It’s a bit like Eddy Izzard’s take on film differences on two sides of Atlantic
2011 Oakland Athletics: We have Cy Young pitchers and make yours look like it, too
Oh dear EC.
No need to apologize for your preference.
I just think the two are similar in a lot of ways.
Sorry, I used up the five minutes I had typing that response to iglew and now can’t see the Izzard link. But I generally have a favorable opinion of things he has to say. Certainly of the way in which he says them.
Ooh, now I just watched it with sound,
and it’s even more adorable.
I know you and I don’t agree often, Oldham, but I’m totally with you on this one. Soooo cute!
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
We don't agree on much, and yet we get along fine. Strange that.
And yes it’s a fantastic little advert. I love it.
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
Oh and she's gorgeous - for all those saying I'm too picky.
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
Yes, we agree on that, too!
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
She's 28.
So the chances of her having a cleavage picture on Match.com is good. That’s why she gets the cute guy serenading her.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
I've clearly missed something here. A cleavage picture?
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
You didn't read iglew's DLD.
The funny thing about baseball is that people will believe what they want to believe. —Joe Posnanski 8/29/09
Twitter feed to follow
Real scientific/medical journal articles on funny stuff. Sample tweet:
@ncbirofl
NCBI ROFL
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MLB Trade Deadline Power Ranking
By Grant
http://mlb.sbnation.com/2011/8/2/2310916/mlb-power-rankings-august-1-trade-deadline
The Kenny Williams one is great
"Once you go Bed....everything else is dead." - Bed
"So you're saying we should skin the Rangers and wear them as uniforms? I’m down." - Kyli
I liked #12.
Excellent effort by Grant, but nothing beats Jeff’s spring break classic from a few years ago.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
I think its a solid article
But I also think are some needless shots taken at Moneyball in there too.
I don't think I read any of those shots.
I think the truth is the part where other teams have caught up and Beane hasn’t been able to find another method to get ahead.
What a downer of an ending.
Hearing that the A’s will be “treading water” for the next few years didn’t depress me as much as being reminded that very soon the Raiders will be destroying our beautiful grass.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— / We murder to dissect.
They've been treading water.
The thing I don’t like is that Beane says it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.
Bud Selig, make a decision soon please.
I'm sure Jennifer is already on top of this, but if not:
Finally! A chance to get a front man that doesn’t mumble the lyrics. This could be their big break!
"Nah, you look like Elijah Wood." - danmerqury
MIKE V!
get this little guy’s dad US citizenship, stat. look how much you want the son on the USMNT (in like 10 years or so).
click the vid in: http://www.clarin.com/deportes/Nace-nuevo-Messi_0_528547362.html
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