OTFPOTWeekend, Thanksgiving Weekend
by seattlebruin on Nov 25, 2009 4:42 PM PST
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Where are you going for the weekend? Family? Friends? Travel?
What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?
OK to stuff yourself for no apparent reason on Thanksgiving even when trying to be healthy?
Are you shopping this weekend? If so, are you going to do the whole Black Friday line-up Thanksgiving night thing?
Great Thanksgiving travel and food stories
What's your favorite holiday?
Most importantly, what are you thankful for this year?
Hilariously, this FanPost was 74 words long when I tried to publish it the first time. Never been so close yet so far.
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Answers!
- Going to hang out with some friends who are also here without family for dinner, and hopefully then just mill around the rest of the weekend
- Stuffing! I’m not a huge gravy person, so stuffing and sweet yams save the day
- Yes, a thousand times yes. Only time of year (besides Korean BBQ) that I’ll eat for no reason other than to eat
- Probably. I don’t have any money, but I want a Blu-Ray player and a new GPS to replace the one that was stolen. Definitely will not spend over $200, so it’s really a choice between electronics and clothes
- Favorite holiday used to be Thanksgiving, but seeing as how I haven’t had Thanksgiving with family since 2002, it’s probably now 4th of July, since it’s the one time of year I get to be in Seattle and it’s actually nice outside
I'm thankful for a beautiful place to live, a cozy and convenient job, and not living in Temecula.
I’m thankful for good beer and better company, and great MW2 teammates.
I’m thankful for Lookout Landing giving me a place to rest during the day, and for Robert getting me the easiest 60 recs anyone will ever get.
I’m thankful for New Moon.
Most importantly, I’m thankful for my family and friends, no matter how distant. I love the holidays because they remind me how important it is to remember the people in our lives, and appreciate them for enriching it so much. Even from two states away.
by seattlebruin on Nov 25, 2009 4:58 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
xo
I’m Amtraking it to Portland to hang with the family. It’s hokey but fun.
I love every single traditional Thanksgiving dish. Turkey, pie, stuffing, yams, green beans, rolls, the works.
Yes, of course. Who on earth would avoid Thanksgiving foods for any reason other than allergies?
I am not personally shopping but I am accompanying mom on some Black Friday morning adventures.
I have no good stories :/
Favorite holiday is this one. Easily.
My pets, my family, El Bencho, Bullpen Rally Cuddle, Eyebrows, Griffey tickles, well behaved babies and not being dead yet
I'm staying home
I’ve got a turkey thawing and I’m making my mothers pumpkin pie recipe tonight. Tomorrow I’ll be making the classics, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, corn bread stuffing.
I’m doing Amazon’s black Friday and that’s it. I’ve learned my lesson on going to the mall.
Great stories? My senior year at USC my gf and I decided last minute to drive to Washington to spend time with my family. We told my mom that we weren’t going to make it on time in hopes of surprising my family. We ended up pulling into my parents drive way right as they were getting ready to head to my grand parents (my parents live in Spanaway, grand parents in Oak Harbor). If we’d been 5 minutes later we would’ve missed my parents, whoops!
I’m thankful I still have a job and a place to live, and for my doggies. And that I’m not a bRuin.
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Woo Steam Sale
25% off DA:O so tempting. That THQ pack is ridiculous too, but I already own half the games.
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Wow
If I didn’t own almost all of those games already the Valve Complete Pack is a crazy deal.
You get every half life game, every half life 2 game including episode 1 and 2, every counter strike game, left 4 dead 1 and 2, team fortress 2 and portal all for 100 bucks.
Okay.
All the way to Redmond. For the first time in years we are not going to my sister’s in Cle Elum— there have been years where the weather turned us back, but this is the first time we made the decision two weeks ahead of time. Our dad is almost 91, and he wants to save the drive for the Christmas visit.
I feel a little bit like I’ve already had thanksgiving— I spent the making turkey & trimmings so my dad can have turkey leftovers, since my brother decided we are having ham tomorrow. There is a pumpkin pie in the oven, and another crust waiting for chocolate cream filling to be made in the morning.
I’m a fan of the classic turkey/mashedpotato/stuffing/gravy melange. And the pie.
You can eat too much of the healthy stuff, too.
No shopping if I can possibly avoid it. I need to replace the old laptop, but I have not the strength of character (nor a real idea of what I want) to face the sales. Amazon has a black friday sale??
No good Trains/Planes stories. We spent our childhood trading off christmas & thanksgiving with the cousins in Bremerton, and then the most centrally located sister after we lost our mom. A few years ago, we were heading up 90 and the snow started snowing- fortunately we hadn’t passed that last forest service turnaround, so we got back around, and didn’t spend anytime sitting on the pass. Not much excitement other than stressing the weather :)
Thankful for family and friends, for still having a job, for the extended baseball family that has grown up the last few years….
I am not thankful for still not having figured out things like accidently striking through comments.
I forgot.
I think my favorite holiday is Christmas … I like all the stuff leading up to it, the music (in moderation) and the lights (no moderation) and even though I complain about the card making and the baking and the candy making each year.
If I could just figure out how to do it in July instead of December.
Answers
Heading back down to Edmonds to see the family and have our big family get together. Thursday morning gonna be playing the annual Turkey Bowl with my old high school friends then pretty much booked solid the whole weekend with family stuff.
I’m a fan of the mashed potatoes especially, my aunt makes this special recipe with garlic and sour cream that is probably little more than a concentrated heart attack sauce but it tastes amazing. Also, the canned cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie.
I always stuff myself on Thanksgiving, it’s only one night and I feel like I’m kind of insulting the cook if they spend all that time to make all that food and I don’t eat my fill of it.
I’m staying as far away from shopping centers as possible. I learned a while ago that you can find pretty fantastic deals online for most things these days that don’t involve annoying crowds, as long as you order them well ahead of time.
Don’t really have any great travel stories.
Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday.
Thankful for friends, family, and great people to talk baseball and castration by whale with.
We're heading to my parents tomorrow.
There are certain foods that I love, but for whatever reason I only eat during the holiday times. These include pumpkin pie, turkey, and cranberries. While I eat it more often, I’m also a big stuffing fan. I’ve never tried green bean casserole before, but I learned today it’s supposedly a big Thanksgiving dish. I’ll be preparing that to be my contribution tomorrow (along with wine, mead, and store bought rolls).
It’s fine to stuff oneself on Thanksgiving. I don’t like it, but I’ve always found that winter is a time to gain the weight one will be working off in spring and summer.
I used to be very gung-ho about Black Friday, all getting to Best Buy before 1am to wait in line. This year? I’m almost entirely done with my Christmas shopping already, and there is very little room left in my checking account to buy additional gifts for myself. I’ll likely go to a few stores like Fred Meyer or Target, though – stores that have decent sales, but that aren’t necessarily going to be madhouses either.
Christmas is my favorite holiday, but I really do like Thanksgiving. It gets the whole holiday season rolling.
I’m thankful the Mariners are on the upswing, even if the Seahawks are not. And for family & my wife.
Oh hey I was just joking but this works.
I’ll give you a sneer right back
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Nov 25, 2009 7:05 PM PST up reply actions
I'm thankful that someone was crazy enough to try to mash up and eat a pumpkin.
The Yankees suck-a-doodle-doo!
I'm driving out to my mom's sometime tomorrow afternoon.
My top 3 thanksgiving foods gotta be ham, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.
My buddies and I ultimately decided against doing the early morning black Friday shopping. Basically, none of us wanted to get up that early. Though I may still mill around later in the day. I’m more or less done with my Christmas shopping already, so anything I pick up would be for me.
This is probably my 2nd favorite holiday, with 4th of July being #1.
Also, I just got the book Ball Four today as a gift. I think I remember a few of you saying it was a pretty good read.
"you don’t drive in runs with base on balls."
~gitanoloco
oh, and best online crack after the initial news about Moyer's hospitalization
from someone named The District Attorney:
“Confound you! Merely affix the leeches, you mountebank!” Moyer complained. "
Hey!
Fiddlecat can be seen fiddling on Comcast ch. 114, Thanksgiving morning at 7am, as they show March of the Wooden Soldiers
by msb on Nov 25, 2009 6:16 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
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-Going to Olympia to hang out with family and the soon-to-be-in-laws tomorrow. Work on Friday.
-Mashed potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce for the main course, sweet potato pie for dessert.
-Of course. It’s what the holiday is all about and if you don’t allow yourself the opportunity to guiltlessly splurge every now and again you’ll never enjoy yourself.
-Maybe. We’ll see.
-Don’t really have any.
-Christmas. Easily.
-Finding out that the person I love and want to spend the rest of life with is insane enough to marry me, some wonderful new friends, finding a new job that I like, getting over my fear of growing up.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 25, 2009 6:36 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
Oooh, I'll play.
Where are you going for the weekend? Family? Friends? Travel?
I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. I stay at home, rent three movies (whatever’s new) and make both chocolate chip pancakes and my spectacular Macaroni and Cheese. It will be year 6 of this tradition.
What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?
See above. Pumpkin pie is pretty good though.
OK to stuff yourself for no apparent reason on Thanksgiving even when trying to be healthy?
No, fat ass. Eat a salad.
Are you shopping this weekend? If so, are you going to do the whole Black Friday line-up Thanksgiving night thing?
I would, but all I want for myself is an electric razor and I found no good deals. For the holidays, I usually just buy my friends little trinkets from Fuego, so no need to shop early.
Great Thanksgiving travel and food stories
Last year I found out that my chocolate chips had molded. Since I wanted to keep with the tradition and all the grocery stores were closed, I made my pancakes with the moldy chocolate chips anyway. Otherwise I don’t really have good stories since my celebration of the holiday is all of nothing.
What’s your favorite holiday?
Channukah? At least I don’t have to fast or eat cardboard.
Most importantly, what are you thankful for this year?
Coffee. Having a legitimately exciting social life. That there is someone insane enough to marry acblue. Finding myself a year older, a year more experienced, and not becoming emotionally damaged during the process. Also, I can bowl over 150 by spinning between my legs. So… I’m thankful I have learned how to control the bowling ball so that I don’t accidentally swing it into directly into my crotch.
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These don't seem to go together.
I stay at home, rent three movies (whatever’s new) and make both chocolate chip pancakes and my spectacular Macaroni and Cheese. It will be year 6 of this tradition.
OK to stuff yourself for no apparent reason on Thanksgiving even when trying to be healthy?
No, fat ass. Eat a salad.
I'm neither large nor trying to be healthy.
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Molded?
do you mean they had a faint grey covering? if so, that is just ‘fat bloom’— fat or cocoa butter separating from the chocolate
Oh, maybe.
It was super white though all over, to the point where it came off on my fingers a bit. But it was still just a white film.
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This is really off-topic...
But I just saw that your LL User ID (I think that’s what it stands for) is ‘leet’. You win. Forever. I’m going to rec everything you post, and women should be performing fellatio on you upon sight.
The Yankees suck-a-doodle-doo!
by JamMasterJesus on Nov 25, 2009 8:39 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
As someone who has experienced it I can tell you that it is really awkward at family gatherings.
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by CapSea on Nov 26, 2009 1:08 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Why not. That was the find of the century.
The Yankees suck-a-doodle-doo!
by JamMasterJesus on Nov 25, 2009 11:40 PM PST up reply actions
Holidays based around food suck for people like me.
Going to the parents house tonight, Working tommorow afternoon, Pizza/beer/MW2 with other retail orphans and people without family around for dinner/ Doing my 5th and so far easiest Black Friday shift, Drinking and friends likely to follow at other parts of the weekend
Thanksgiving food is disgusting.
If you want to be gross then go ahead. Christmas is a different story.
The stuff that you see discounted is stuff that is normally marked up to all hell. So yeah it maybe a cheap ass TV but it’s going to be a no name POS that I wouldn’t count on lasting very long. The stores normally only carry a handful of the big name stuff so if you want to get them you have to get there early and fight for the stuff. Whatever floats your boat but humanity fucking sucks.
Not a Thanksgiving story but the best travel story that I have is when I stayed up for 68 hours with only 4 hours of sleep thrown in there (51 hours straight) while traveling to a different continent for the first time in my life. The last 8 hours involved me walking 12 miles. By the time I finally got some sleep, I had been imagining conversations with the person that I was traveling with, had a sense of humor that went completely haywire and was falling asleep on my feet while waiting to cross the street.
Fourth of July but Christmas time is my favorite time of year.
My family’s health (only 1 member died this year and he wasn’t even blood related!), getting closer to friends both old and new, not dying while living on my own, falling in love with the Sounders, falling back in love with the Mariners, my new John Carlson jersey, having arguably the best year of my life after a miserable 08.
With kids, everybody wants to see them and it's like traveling with satan.
So no we’re starting our own tradition, home for the holidays. 30 different people can come visit us, we’ve got the only grand kids on both sides and strangely enough that puts you firmly in the drivers seat. Funny how accommodating parents can suddenly become, who knew.
Food: Just about all of it, except celery in the stuffing. It’s the stringy bits, ewwww.
Gorging yourself: Hells yeah, it’s amnesty day. Too bad they don’t have college football on all day, hand tucked in the pants with a fat tummy and a cold beer.
Hate hate hate shopping. You can put me in some batshit crazy situations and I don’t even register half the time. Shopping? Total anxiety fit, like trying to put a cat in the bathtub. Quick in, quick out, go home, off-peak shopping only.
4th of July, or maybe Labor Day. Summer weather, 4 day weekends, water, explosions on the 4th are fun, but for the crowds.
I was very fortunate to have made the acquaintance of some terrifically fascinating people this year. Even managed to make a few new friends out of the deal, that’s pretty tough to beat. They even manage to ignore my social gaffes, brilliant.
Idea for a podcast? A Very Special Holiday Lookout Landing Podcast could be interesting.
Here is the only cool/interesting thing I have to add to this conversation.
For a few years during my early 20’s, after the holiday dinner was over with I would gather with several friends downtown at a bar or a dance club. We always seemed to have a great time on those nights. I usually don’t do well at such places and so I rarely go but Thanksgiving was an exception.
Anyways, that is the best story I have for Thankgiving.
I tend to like Thanksgiving slightly more than Christmas nowadays, but I have not been really big on the holidays for the last few years.
Also, I am thankful for Look Landing (actually meeting a few people via here was pretty neat), USSM, the Mariners in general (on and off the field and media folk) and the Mariners Front Office.
… I am thankful for other things but those are not baseball related.
As many of the regular commenters/mods as possible.
There would be some Mariner talk mixed with some sing-a-long holiday songs.
Maybe there would be some guests: Rick Rizz? Shannon Drayer? You know, all the people that would show up for a very special holiday Lookout Landing podcast!
Answers!
1. We were going to go to Seattle, but my wife woke up this morning with a hellish evil migraine. When she gets these she’s usually out for three days. So, barring a miraculous recovery, we’ll just be staying here and I’ll be the guy at Fred Meyer at 7 tomorrow morning frantically buying whatever Thanksgiving-ish meal I can cobble together, since we don’t have anything in the house due to our planned trip up north.
2. Anything brown. I like green vegetables just fine, and there’s plenty of room on my Thanksgiving plate for them, but I don’t really eat turkey, stuffing, or gravy very often at all during the year – Thanksgiving dinner is pretty much my favorite meal of all holiday meals. Don’t give me any of that newfangled “cuisine” crap, either – I want a turkey with a pop-up timer filled with white-bread-and-celery stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy made from turkey drippings, and some sort of buttermilk biscuit to sop it all up with.
3. Yes. I work out 3-4 times a week, plus I bike a minimum of 60 miles most weeks – if I want two plates of gravy-covered goodness followed by a slice of pumpkin pie topped with enough Cool Whip to drown a circus midget, then by god that’s what I’m gonna do. The gym’s open Friday.
4. Good lord no. I am the person for whom online shopping was invented.
5. Most of my Thanksgiving travel stories involve Reno, large quantities of alcohol, and a boisterous family that feeds me lots of meat and alcohol in a short period of time. They all blend together into one giant pile of awesome. I love Thanksgiving more than any other holiday, because it’s a time for families and friends to hang out without any religious overtones or gift-giving pressures; you just chill, drink, eat, and see people you haven’t seen in months. It’s an awesome day.
6. Thanksgiving, easy. Even more than my birthday, even more than Christmas; it’s a pressure-free fun time, always.
7. I’m thankful that my wife, migraines aside, is healthy and that we’re happy; I’m thankful that my whole extended family is still alive and ticking for another year; I’m thankful that my two autistic nephews are starting to develop basic speech; I’m thankful that their mother (my sister) is such an amazing and patient mom with two challenging kids. I’m thankful for all the people I’ve met here (either in person or just online), I’m thankful that I have people around me that love me (so they say) and care about what happens to me. All in all, my life is pretty goddamn good, and I’m more thankful for that than I can possibly express.
I just discovered that half a turkey breast cooks up relatively quickly, and will give you a fair amount of meat
if such a thing is in the bin at Fred Meyer
That is great news about your nephews.
Without getting too LLLJ, our eldest son also has autism so I fully understand how thankful you and your sister are for them to develop any language. With them, any new word is a good word – even when it’s a naughty word.
The first time the oldest one said "shit"
his dad couldn’t decide between feeling anger because it was a swearword, pride because it was a new word, or overjoyed because it was a new word used in the correct context. He went with overjoyed, followed by a mild scolding.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 3:06 PM PST up reply actions
I feel the same way.
My wife and I laughed so hard when he used “fuck” appropriately the first time that it took a few months of the mild scolding to get him to stop saying it. Now he just whispers it and does the “I’m naughty” smile.
This Thanksgiving will be spent with family (wife, kids, wife's grandmother) and a few childhood friends.
It’s cliche, I know, but I am most certainly a turkey leg kinda guy.
I try not to over-eat, as I’m trying to lose weight for a search-and-rescue team tryout, but I probably won’t be able to help myself.
I won’t be doing any shopping this weekend, mostly because the nearest shopping mall is two-and-a-half hours away, but I also have no need to stand in line with a bunch of other people that would probably just end up pissing me off.
And I’m thankful for a great family, super friends, an online community that is both knowledgeable and fun.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, LL!
Say it with me: Washington Capitals. Capitals.
Preserved In All His Greatness - R.I.P. The Reignman 1989 to 1997
A couple Thanksgivings ago
my dad, who had broken his shoulder the day before and was hopped up on I don’t know how many painkillers, solemnly asked us all to “thank Squanto” before we sat down to eat. I love this holiday.
Answers!
1. I’m going to spend Thanksgiving at my grandparents’ home in Oak Harbor, back home for the rest of the weekend.
2. Everything but cranberry sauce.
3. It’s okay to have a cheat day every now and then. So long as you don’t make a habit of eating like crazy you can afford one day of gluttony.
4. Probably not. I’m going into my last academic week at school for the quarter so I need this weekend to finish off projects.
5. Nothing really stands out to be honest.
6. Probably Christmas. The love for that holiday I’ve held since childhood never died.
7. I’m thankful for my wonderful family, a stable job, the chance to go to college, and this crazy but fantastic community we call Lookout Landing.
Hello!
1) Nowhere! I like that! I will probably have to work 2 or 3 days this weekend, and I do not like that.
2) I’m going to be honest here, I was never much of a Thanksgiving person. I hope we can still be friends. I suppose I can say mashed potatoes, because they’re great. But I eat them all the time, so maybe you think I’m dodging the question. I’m so sorry.
3) For all of those waiting for marc w’s permission to stuff yourself while trying to be healthy, it is hereby granted.
4) Like Kermit/pdb, I viscerally hate shopping in a physical place that isn’t a record store, so no. I made the foray out to Black Friday to buy a TV about 3 years ago, and while I was pleased with the deal, I’m done for 10 years. I’m out. I have a computer, and UPS can find my house, so I’m good.
5) Eh, no real thanksgiving-specific stories. I’ll save the others for when I’m drunker.
6) That’s a good question, and I don’t really know. Maybe 4th of July? It was a big deal for my family for some reason. I have no family in Washington, and my folks never wanted to travel, so Thanksgiving was always just us and some childless friends of my folks. Which was fine; it was often quite pleasant, but it felt like any random Sunday. I like Christmas, just because we’ve made our own traditions. I still don’t really know what to do on Thanksgiving, other than watch football.
7) If I told you, I’d have to kill you.
Now seems to be a good time to try this.
Where are you going for the weekend? Family? Friends? Travel?
I am headed across the lake to Kirkland for dinner with my uncle, his partner, and assorted misfits. I make the cranberry sauce. It’s low key. But it is not filled with tasty foods.
What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?
I grew up in a family that didn’t cook—so I am not enamored with box stuffing or dry turkey. However, bacon stuffing or artichoke spinach stuffing…that I could eat pounds. And I have. Also pumpkin pie is a delicious breakfast.
OK to stuff yourself for no apparent reason on Thanksgiving even when trying to be healthy?
Again pumpkin pie makes great breakfast.
Are you shopping this weekend? If so, are you going to do the whole Black Friday line-up Thanksgiving night thing?
We might go to 99 Bottles as they have Chocolate Pumpkin Porter and holy crap that sounds like Thanksgiving.
Great Thanksgiving travel and food stories
I was in Nicaragua for Thanksgiving a few years back. To make it feel like home (since we had no turkey, but we did have roast chicken and mashed potatoes, along with beans and rice), we rented Planes, Trains and Automobiles and then got drunk off Flor de Cana rum mixed with ice cream. Although I have never done this at my actual Thanksgivings, somehow it felt like home.
What’s your favorite holiday?
Christmas Eve
Most importantly, what are you thankful for this year?
Having been in Seattle for a year. Being in a steady job and having a bit of a side income as well. My soccer team challenging the top four. Being closer to my family, and being able to see them more often than once a year. The amazing analyst, writer, and snarkmaster I call my boyfriend. Excellent beer. And finding a wonderful circle of friends who are both willing to stand in the middle of a bar and yell at the Mariners or just sit around and have intelligent conversations. And the fact that LL will put aside the jokes sometimes and say that they really are thankful for some great things in their lives.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Nov 25, 2009 11:10 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
So this is something of an odd question I think, but I need an unbiased opinion;
is glucosamine actually effective? The noises my joints make aren’t the kinds of noise you want to hear at 27. There has been nothing indicative of arthritis to this point, and I’d like to keep it that way. In the past I’ve never been quite brave enough to spend the dough, but I can get the stuff relatively cheap now. I’m curious to hear about the experiences of others.
I have written thousands of articles on Glucosamine.
As far as I could tell from legitimate sources, it does a little, but not a lot, and likely not enough to notice a significant difference. It’s also better on certain areas. Still, it’s harmless and not entirely useless. Chondroitin I’m even less sure about. Found several places calling it useless, but Mayo Clinic says it’s useful for Osteoarthritis.
Not first person, sorry, but I did look this up quite a bit. Hope that helps a little.
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No, that's quite helpful.
I love my job and I think the company I work for is a very good one, but things tend to get slightly…dogmatic, maybe? I don’t know if that’s the best way to describe it, but at any rate people around the office might not be as objective as I might like.
It’s a weird place to be, because I honestly believe that there are many homeopathic/natural remedies that are quite effective, but I’m also skeptical enough to believe that a lot of this stuff is total hokum. Admitting that you’re selling things that aren’t effective isn’t really all that conducive to a healthy business. I get that. Really though, I’d just like to stop sounding like a walk through the forest every time I move.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 26, 2009 2:27 AM PST up reply actions
You should be skeptical. Most are bunk.
I write pro-herbal positions because I’m paid to, but in the course of my research, all of the legitimate places I find claim the vast majority of them don’t work. Kava works. Saw Palmetto is supposed to work a little, Glucosamine works a little. Most others don’t. But I mean, think of it logically – there are thousands of natural health problems, what’s the chance that these random plants actually combats a specific illness? Or, as the marketers claim, multiple health problems?
The irony is that you shouldn’t let that stop you from taking them. If you’re unsure if it works, and you take it and you feel it working, even if the reality is that it is just placebo, who cares?
While I’m sure you’ve seen many things like this, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4997728/ gives a good intro to herbal medicine, though the article itself is about women, and I even doubt their theory of Echinecea (as far as I’ve read, it doesn’t do shit), but it’s an okay intro…
At this point I’m rambling. Basically, the vast majority of herbs probably don’t work, but the vast majority also don’t kill you, and the same reason you shouldn’t trust herbs (poorly designed studies, etc.) is the same reason they could easily work. SSS and all that. Michael Saunders hits .330/.400/.500 his first week as a Mariner, it means nothing, but just as you can’t prove he’ll do that well in the future, you also can’t say definitively that he won’t do even better.
Yep.
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It does work a little but the popping in your joints might not be due to arthritis at all
Not to bring up cats again but as I mentioned in the cat thread, my old cat has pretty severe arthritis in his hips so we’ve been giving him glucosamine for about year. There’s definitely been some improvement. It had reached the point where he wasn’t even cleaning himself anymore because of the pain, but now he does again. Cats.
Do you feel pain in your joints along with the popping? Because it might not be a cartilage issue at all, sometimes it’s just a buildup of carbon dioxide in the joint tissue that releases with sudden movement, and some people have it naturally more than others. It could also be a thyroid issue but that’s more unlikely. For instance I’m only 24 and have had similar issues with joint popping, but in my case it’s probably a side effect of the medication for hashimotos hypothyroidism. Apparently when you have too much of the main thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism, which I got when the original prescribed dose was too high) you can get popping and pain in your joints all over your body.
It can’t hurt to take glucosamine anyways though as a preventative measure.
My hips and elbows hurt a lot.
My elbows will occasionally lock up and not move past a certain point, which means I have to make a really violent motion in order to regain a normal range of movement. That hurts like a motherfucker.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 26, 2009 10:00 AM PST up reply actions
Might be a bone spur in that case
I’m not a doctor or anything but it sounds like it could be a tendon or something snagging on an abnormal bone growth. Which could be arthritis related but at 27 it’s probably not. You’d probably have to get an MRI to find out for sure.
It's not localized though.
Both elbows and my ankles sometimes. I think I’ve just got bad genes.
by Aaron Campeau on Nov 28, 2009 12:26 AM PST up reply actions
Might as well give this a shot
Where are you going for the weekend? Family? Friends? Travel?
I am going to eat with at my aunt’s house in Bellevue with my mom’s siblings and my cousins. Generally a fun time since I only see these people 4 or 5 times a year
What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?
Green bean casserole and pumpkin pie could be the only two dishes served and I would be happy.
OK to stuff yourself for no apparent reason on Thanksgiving even when trying to be healthy?
Hell yes
Are you shopping this weekend? If so, are you going to do the whole Black Friday line-up Thanksgiving night thing?
I’m going to do Black Friday, hopefully, if only to witness the (in)humanity of it all. Having worked retail the last two Black Fridays, it will be nice to have a stress free day. I am still not sure about gettin up that early but it’ll hopefully be worth it and I’ll have all weekend to sleep.
Great Thanksgiving travel and food stories
None really as Thanksgiving for me has always taken place in Bellevue or Kirkland
What’s your favorite holiday?
I’d have to say Christmas just because it’s such a peaceful and care free day in general. I’ve always liked the presents but it’s just always been a good day in general.
Most importantly, what are you thankful for this year?
I’m thankful to have the opportunity to go to college. I’m also thankful to have a healthy and intact family and a fairly large group of friends I can count on. Most importantly I’m happy that I am able to live pretty well and not have to worry about starving or having a place to live or not having insurance. (Sorry, one of my classes has made this especially apparent to me)
by Mariner John on Nov 26, 2009 2:54 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
Answers
I’m overseas studying and working, but I’ll be Skyping my gathered family tonight after going to a thanksgiving dinner and then going out with my several of my classmates and the girlfriend of one of them who just flew in tonight (D’awww)
What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?
I love cranberry sauce more than any other garnish/condiment/whatever you call it. Turkey and cranberry sauce (or any sandwich with cranberry sauce) is the best sandwich there is. I prefer canned cranberry sauce because it’s what I know and love. The homemade kind seems a little adventurous and intimidating, but I’ll try it someday.
It’s your call on the stuffing yourself if you’re on a diet – do what makes you feel more confident about the diet/healthy eating – if you gotta splurge one day to keep your sanity, then do it, but otherwise don’t.
Great Thanksgiving travel and food stories:
The cuisine of ThaiLLand that I made last week was actually for a Thanksgiving dinner celebration – my colleagues and I held it early on the weekend because many of us are going on various trips today.
What’s your favorite holiday?
I dunno. Good question.
Most importantly, what are you thankful for this year?
I’m thankful for the internet, because I can keep in close touch with my friends and family and my beLLoved Mariners on the other side of the world because of it.
Well, all right.
- I had a class 4-6 on Weds that wasn’t canceled until two weeks ago, so my mom opted to fly here and we’re hanging out and such. I think tomorrow we’re going to the Guggenheim to see the Kandinsky exhibit. We might go to some other museums too, but the semester is winding down and I’m grinding things out.
- Stuffing maybe? Or the yams even though they may not actually be yams?
- Yes. I extend “all things in moderation” to the practice of moderation itself.
- Maybe online.
- Sorry, can’t think of any. I have one great Christmas story though.
- Maybe this one, but primarily because everyone in my Dad’s family can cook really well. Food is pretty much something that can’t disappoint.
- I’m thankful for a lot of things. I was tempted to leave it at that, but…: continued health of friends and family (with those needing help getting it), good gigs (baseball and non), good people to work with (baseball, academic, and non), great people to drink with, Columbia’s media library for reducing my need for a Netflix subscription, the generosity of their scholarship department for making sure I’m not going through the couch for spare change so I can eat (though I don’t have a couch and I will be unemployable soon enough), Microsoft for getting off their asses and making an O/S that doesn’t have schizophrenia (also Zune, praise Zune), that one street vendor on Broadway where I got the complete editions of Wallace Stevens poetry and prose and Borges’ fictions, and an assortment of other items I can’t quite think of at the moment.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Other things I'm thankful for:
- Not getting the swine flu despite living in a cesspool.
-American Spirit Perique Blends for allowing me to remain pretentious even though cloves are now illegal.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Huh.
somehow I missed that David Bell managed the Carolina Mudcats last year. He also managed the Saguaros for the AFL this year
M's interested in not-Chapman Cuban defector
Left-hander with FB in low-90s, curve, change, slider, and solid command? Yes, please. Probably going to cost $9 million though.
Preemptively, Fuck the Yankees.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
I'm in Vegas again, which makes for a weird holiday.
I get the day off as a technicality, but things are too busy to actually take the time to do more than check LL for anything interesting. I eat with the other coworkers that get stuck out here, and get bugged about going out to “party”, as partying goes in LV. I won’t. Instead, I’ll go back to my hotel room and hit the gym since it’ll be empty and go to dinner (see below).
Stuffing is pretty high on the list for me, but my favorite Thanksgiving food was always a good steak. Tonight I’ll be making a trip to StripSteak at Mandalay for the best Kobe Filet on the strip. It’ll make up for the subpar traditional dinner, but moreso it’s something that I’ve always done for myself when doing the holidays thing.
I thought that it was illegal to not stuff yourself.
No.
All my stories are more tragic than funny when it comes to holidays.
Jesus I hate holidays. I don’t have family or friends, everything is closed and it’s impossible to get anything done.
I don’t really know how to answer this question. I’m thankful for the teriyaki jerky I bought yesterday that will tide me over until my dinner, I guess?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Wow, I'm a downer.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Ha! Halloween to New Years and I'm right there with you.
Metaphorically speaking.
In the Thanksgiving post on USSM, a commenter used "sediments" instead of "sentiments".
That’s a new one.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Let's see
Where are you going for the weekend? Family? Friends? Travel?
Family
What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?
Potatoes
OK to stuff yourself for no apparent reason on Thanksgiving even when trying to be healthy?
OK
Are you shopping this weekend? If so, are you going to do the whole Black Friday line-up Thanksgiving night thing?
No
Great Thanksgiving travel and food stories
None
What’s your favorite holiday?
New Year
Most importantly, what are you thankful for this year?
Ms. Jeff and Trader Joe’s Corn Puffs
What am I doing this Thanksgiving day weekend?
Watching the University of Portland Pilots stomp UCLA into the dirt baby!
50!
This makes Seattle U's loss to them less embarrassing.
by Mariner John on Nov 27, 2009 12:28 AM PST up reply actions
Well, there is some speculation that they could beat Gonzaga this year.
They are pretty good this year.
50!
I'm more scared of them coming to Hec Ed
than of playing Georgetown in Anaheim….
The Hawks should be better.
by Woodinville_12thMan on Nov 27, 2009 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
As a Georgetown alum who's going to said game in Anaheim, I should probably take issue with that.
But having watched Portland play UCLA and seen three underwhelming Hoyas games, gadzooks I think that’s spot on.
Yes, exactly!
Looking at the schedule before the season started I would say Georgetown would for sure be the toughest match but after seeing them play Temple I think it was I was pretty underwhelmed. They still have talent though and are a good team, so it is a tough game but Portland against UCLA looked damn good, the Dawgs could sleep on them.
The Hawks should be better.
by Woodinville_12thMan on Nov 27, 2009 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
Something that kind of went unnoticed today.
Holy crap, I had no idea he was 99 years old!
"you don’t drive in runs with base on balls."
~gitanoloco
From that voice, I'd say it's about right.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Nov 27, 2009 7:59 AM PST up reply actions
You must not have heard the radio side when they went to NY over the last few years...
Rizzs loves Bob Sheppard, and would talk with (or about him) a lot
dear dipshit corporation
If you expect me to be in at 5 fucking am and expect me to sell fucking shitty products all while maintaining a god damn fucking smile perhaps you can fucking making fucking god damn fucking sure that you fucking credit card servers don’t go fucking three fucking mile fucking island. Fuck.fuck fuck fuck. Fuck
by Robert on Nov 27, 2009 6:36 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
My gosh if you are this upset with an event at work then I dread to think how you would react if something bad happened to a sporting team that you follow.
by EnglishMariner on Nov 27, 2009 7:11 AM PST up reply actions
Yes, but 5 am start times are rarely conducive to happy thoughts.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Nov 27, 2009 7:49 AM PST up reply actions
This doesn't sound too good
Professional golfer Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car accident early this morning, the Florida Highway Patrol just reported.
Woods, 33, pulled out of his driveway in the Isleworth community about 2:25 a.m. when he struck a fire hydrant, and then drove into a tree at his neighbor’s property, FHP reported.
"you don’t drive in runs with base on balls."
~gitanoloco
That's strange because every golf broadcast would always mention that he was such a good driver.
by Robert on Nov 27, 2009 12:18 PM PST up reply actions 10 recs
From the Fark thread on the subject:
TFA says he drove into a water hazzard and ended up in the rough.
Is he 6 under yet?
He hit a fire hydrant then hit a tree hard enough to seriously injure himself?
It’s safe to sat he wasn’t putting along.
I hope his condition swings around.
His short game was always better than his drive.
And so on and so forth.
"you don’t drive in runs with base on balls."
~gitanoloco
My own news feed says the "Serious injury" was that he cut up his face.
...and now I'm here
Heading down to the Showbox to see
The Lonely Forest and Telekinesis play tonight. Should be a fantastic show.
The Hawks should be better.
by Woodinville_12thMan on Nov 27, 2009 12:58 PM PST reply actions
Bahahaha NU smoked Notre Dame with our best player out for the year.
This is probably also the fault of Charlie Weis.
Go find the Nov 30th issue of the New Yorker
to read Roger Angell’s annual recap of the WS. So what if that means he talks Yankees, it is Roger Angell:
“No words of succor can mean much to Mats fans … This time, the Mets’ problems and psyche may require something more than better luck and the customary between-season signings and statements for them to reverse things — some fresh attitudes, and perhaps less conviction of their own wonderfulness. And I don’t mean another manager.”
“The Tigers led, 3-2, early on, fell behind but tied it up, then took the lead again in the tenth only to be retired, and died, 6-5 in the bottom of the twelfth.Their manager, Jim Leyland, stood in the late going with one foot up on the step of the dugout and the same gaunt Dorothea Lange expression on his face that we first saw back in 1991 when his Pittsburgh Pirates, caught up in a seven-game NLCS with the Braves, scored no runs in the last eighteen innings of the year.”
“I’m not going to get around to CC Sabathia’s sunny looks and pavilion-sized pants and weird, white-toed spikes, or ask batters how they feel about his fastball-cutter-changeup assortment that arrives (he’s six-seven and two hundred and ninty pounds) like a loaded tea tray coming down an airshaft.”
There is a wonderful, long description of Cliff Lee’s pitching motion (always one of Angell’s strong suits) and of fellow Arkansan AJ Burnett (“Burnett, a Tom Joad with beads, has that Ozarky look, too”), his thoughts on the change in Alex this year, and brief but pointed observations of the likely-gone Damon & Matsui
Fucking hell Portsmouth.
Just had to keep United out for 45 minutes and you go and concede three goals instead. Nice.
They're reminiscent of Derby from a few years ago, which is such a stunning fall.
Remember kids, if you MUST sell yourself to a Russian oligarch, make sure it’s the right kind of Russian oligarch.
Overheard in the produce department...
“Are the Mariners going to get anybody?”
“No.”
“’Cause they have no money?”
“They have money but they won’t do anything, because they are the Mariners.”
Why do Mets fans routinely have more hope than we do?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Nov 28, 2009 8:31 PM PST up reply actions
Bob the Money Tree caterpillar is apparently making a comeback
according to ads that are on during the Apple Cup Preview.
I am afraid.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Nov 28, 2009 3:24 PM PST reply actions
Good.
I much preferred him over that cartoon caterpillar.
If every strip mall in Western Washington has to include a loan shark Money Tree, it may as well be a Money Tree with a fantastic mascot.
I'd rather have the dramatically lit people from checkmasters
who try to take the social stigma out of payday loans.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Nov 29, 2009 1:54 AM PST up reply actions
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Broberto!'s tips to surviving the holiday season while working in retail: #24
When you make a smart ass comment about a screaming brat make sure you aren’t making it to the child’s mother.
Multiple recs if that's what you actually said.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Nov 28, 2009 8:12 PM PST up reply actions
Wait, what?
So, the Jewish dude was going to beat up the douchebag because he vomited on the douchebag’s girlfriend?
"you don’t drive in runs with base on balls."
~gitanoloco
As a neutral observer, with no proverbial horse in he proverbial race
I can say, with pretty much 100% certainty, that the 2009 Washington State Cougars are the worst college football team I have ever seen. And I grew up watching Memphis St. lose to Arkansas St. at home. Sweet Not-So-Merciful-Heavens, they are tetrible.
They wouldn't have won 7 times out of 10 though.
by Mariner John on Nov 29, 2009 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
Is this sarcasm?
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
I remember thinking he was going to turn that program around.
Shows what I know.
I remember thinking that he had fat baby lips.
by abender20 on Nov 30, 2009 12:01 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I remember being happy that a white man finally got a chance to see what he could do at Notre Dame.
by Teej on Nov 30, 2009 12:03 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
I remember being happy that this means that Rick Neuheisel can secretly interview for this job and subsequently be fired from his current one
by seattlebruin on Nov 30, 2009 12:03 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Did you know that an Orca is not a whale, but a dolphin?
My childhood was ruined when I found this out. I thought I knew everything about whales and orcas when I was a child.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Nov 30, 2009 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
Geez Grady if you're going to take a nearly nude photo with only an item covering your junk at least make that item much bigger than the junk itself
Not doing yourself any favors with the coffee mug.
How have I never thought of this?
Then again, I never realized the hilarity of “Pujols” until my wife pointed it out to me.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Nov 30, 2009 2:55 PM PST up reply actions
Fanshot jokes hrrr hrrr hrrr
This is killing me. So his girlfriend is a Playboy bunny, the cynic in me says this was a career move.
Is that what you told Grady?
I fucking hate you Mariners
Finally, something good for the Royals?
Mark Teahen is the Hutch winner.
Of course, being the Royals, Teahen is now a member of the White Sox.
Goddamn Comcast, 4 nights in a row now I get up in the morning and my internet is down. I have to reset my router to get it to come back up.
"you don’t drive in runs with base on balls."
~gitanoloco
You think so?
It’s weird because during the day I have zero problems with my connectivity. But at night it either goes down alltogether or is off and on.
"you don’t drive in runs with base on balls."
~gitanoloco
Comcast has decided to show me how cool it is to not watch TV
Since roughly half of my channels display a black screen with a message reading “Your service has been temporarily interrupted. Please try again in a few moments” except it has said that for nearly a week, and every day more channels get disappeared on me. I can’t even watch ESPN or FSN anymore. It’s a bunch of bullshit
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Dec 1, 2009 10:01 AM PST up reply actions
Ever since the digital transition service has been spotty at best.
Seriously thinking of looking elsewhere right now.
Did I ever tell you how bad Time Warner is?
One time, they made me wait for one whole extra hour at home before getting there for my service call! And sometimes, my box takes like five seconds to change a channel after I input it on the remote!
by seattlebruin on Dec 1, 2009 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
I can't look anywhere else
I definitely don’t want satellite. At least I’m not paying for my cable service, since it’s included with other stuff. That said, the lousy way things have gone since we moved in are not making me excited about upgrading with them to HD and the like. I was going to, but now I’m considering against it, especially since I feel that what they have been doing is basically forcing me to upgrade
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Dec 1, 2009 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
You need a digital box.
The non HD ones are free.
abender20 hates freedom.
by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 1, 2009 1:18 PM PST up reply actions
I've got one of their boxes
My TV has a built in converter though. When I first moved in, a cable plugged directly from wall jack to my TV gave me all the same channels I have now plus the local HD channels. Then, they made me use their free box when my channels started to disappear before. Now, the channels don’t even show up while using the box. Were I to get anything more from them at this point it would be an HD DVR, but I don’t want to give them any more of my money.
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
What kind of SS would you project this 2B to be
~ 5 < x < 10 overall at 2B, +7.5 range runs per season past two.
Somewhere around neutral? Slightly positive? Slightly negative?
Dave Cameron answered your question
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 1, 2009 9:52 AM PST up reply actions
For Robert
Dewing Him In: Wizards forward Caron Butler was asked to stop drinking Mountain Dew by his team. Butler was averaging approximately 19 points and six 12-ounce bottles of green sugar a day. “Those first two weeks without The Dew were the roughest two weeks of my life,” Butler wrote on his NBA.com blog. “I’m talking headaches, sweats, and everything.” The two-time All-Star lost 11 pounds and feels better than he has in years.
Except you drink orange soda and generic mountain all the time.
by Kirk on Dec 2, 2009 9:24 AM PST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
By the way
if you search for “diabeetus” in Wikipedia, it takes you to the real diabetes page.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 1, 2009 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
I used to drink a 2 liter a day.
And a 24oz Bookoo.
abender20 hates freedom.
by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 1, 2009 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
My wife made me cut down to one can of soda per day, which wasn't really that hard.
I was doing 2-4.
I don’t really feel any healthier tho.
I cut out soda completely
And with just so ho hum exercise dropped 20lbs.
abender20 hates freedom.
by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 1, 2009 1:32 PM PST up reply actions
Ditto
I drink soda less than once a month, and almost always it’s when I’m drunk. Cutting soda plus cutting fast food was the easiest 15 pounds I ever lost (and I’m pretty skinny to begin with)
Mmmmmm, fatback...
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
On this note, my breakfast here in LV consisted of half a pan of day-old Stove Top and a bowl of chips and salsa.
And I washed it down with a bottle of non HFCS RC cola. (WOO RC COLA I LOVE YOU WEST COAST)
Yeah, that two hours in the hotel gym earlier this morning, why bother?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Corn chips are sooooo delicious.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 2, 2009 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
I have such an affinity for the taste of corn in my chips
that I don’t particularly like Tostitos tortilla chips, because they’re not “corny” enough. Give me cheap Santitas anytime.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 2, 2009 1:59 PM PST up reply actions
That's the one!
Approximately 1/2 bag of Santitas kills a nic fit like you wouldn’t believe. Anybody ever make some lazy guy guacamole and just mash up some avocado and salsa?
Nope.
Purple onion, cilantro, tomato, serrano pepper, lime juice, avocados, salt. It isn’t that hard and it’s well worth the effort.
In massive quantity, sure.
In proper quantity, it’s necessary. Use shallots if you prefer.
I have issues with onions in general I think.
I eat them a lot, but I always want about 1/3 of what everyone else seems to think is the proper amount.
try sauteing them a little first. That will take some of the bit out.
Racer X. You have to love those amarillo hops.
p.s. fuck you angels
No, lazy guacamole is mashing the avacado with mayo.
by msb on Dec 2, 2009 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
True guac just has lime juice and garlic added to the avocados, though.
Plus a wee bit of salt.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 3, 2009 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
I used to have a 20 oz of soda just about every day, if not more.
Since arriving in New York, I’m down to maybe one of those a week.
I don’t really feel any better, and haven’t lost any weight, but I’m guessing it’s not any one thing like some claim.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 1, 2009 2:32 PM PST up reply actions
If you'd stop watching TV with a bucket of lard in one hand and a spoon in the other
the weight will just fall right off!
by pdb on Dec 1, 2009 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
But it slides right down!
I don’t even have to chew! The worst of it is having to lift the spoon to my mouth. I’ve been trying to set up a microwave to I can just warm it up a bit and then chug, but it’s too much of a fire hazard to have it sitting on the couch next to me.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 1, 2009 6:47 PM PST up reply actions
Tell me more of this wonderful device.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 1, 2009 10:29 PM PST up reply actions
Patton Oswalt on the KFC "Famous Bowls":
“If you could put my lunch in a blender and liquefy it and put it into a caulking gun and then inject it right into my femoral artery, even better. But until you invent the lunch gun, I would like a failure pile in a sadness bowl.”
Commentary on the Spurs-United match:
“..we’re back into the dominant pattern of Spurs probing politely, like a slightly shy gynaecologist”
by Graham MacAree on Dec 1, 2009 12:40 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Generic United prospect who will have a better reputation than his true worth because he is a 'United kid'.
Will probably end up at Hull or Sunderland in two years time for 4 million pounds, and do very little with them.
by EnglishMariner on Dec 1, 2009 3:02 PM PST up reply actions
I ♥ goat titty beer.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 1, 2009 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
Ah me.
“Check out the Hot Stove League Show with Shannon Drayer and Rick Rizzs live from the Southcenter Mariners Team Store from 6-8pm tomorrow. Santa Moose will also be there from 7-8pm and we’ll have prizes, including autographs & Team Store gear, throughout the evening. Can’t make it? Listen live on 710”
elicited the following exchange:
Hey, maybe the M’s can just focus on winning some more games next season instead of hocking more merch.
soooooo… you’re saying the Yankees don’t sell merch?
I’m saying I’m not buying any more M’s stuff until they make the playoffs, and no one else should either. The organization doesn’t deserve any more of our cash until they put a decent team on the field.
More sales = more $$$ = more wins
No, it doesn’t. Mariners ownership has more money than god. They just don’t know how to spend it.
I LOVE ASHLEY YOUNG
I want to get a notebook and write little hearts and my name with his last name.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 1, 2009 1:37 PM PST reply actions
Ashley Young.
♥
Mrs. Young.
Mrs. Ashley Young.
NOLA Young.
Mrs. NOLA Young.
♥
by msb on Dec 1, 2009 1:41 PM PST up reply actions
Just like that.
I like the last one.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 1, 2009 1:43 PM PST up reply actions
Dear BrianL
I am sorry, as I appear to have enjoyed a link you posted, forgot where it came from, and re-posted it on LL as my own.
As a token of my regret, I shall give you one free rec on your original post.
Sincerely,
SB
Not to brag but, ah what the hell
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/soundersfcblog/2010364964_feliz_dia_de_gracias.html
I’m actually a little surprised no one read this, but I think it’s because it was a Thanksgiving day article.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 1, 2009 2:51 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I read the paper, but obviously skim the Sounders :)
by msb on Dec 1, 2009 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
And I only read the paper while at the office.
However, I usually read his posts, which is why I was so surprised.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 1, 2009 3:02 PM PST up reply actions
Congratumalations!
Any plans regarding what you’re going to spend it on?
That is amazing.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 1, 2009 3:03 PM PST up reply actions
LIFE IS SO FUCKING BORING WITHOUT BASEBALL.
WHAT THE FUCK.
...and now I'm here
This is why there are liver-crippling amounts of alcohol
gotta get through the dark months somehow.
by pdb on Dec 1, 2009 9:03 PM PST up reply actions
I like your style...
During the Offseason – Drink to make the months go by faster.
During the Season – Drink because holy shit we like the Mariners.
Being over is soberrated.
...and now I'm here
If there's anything I've learned from my deep extensive Irish roots
it’s that there are two reasons to drink: to celebrate and to mourn. How those two terms are defined is completely up to the definer.
by pdb on Dec 1, 2009 9:15 PM PST up reply actions
Interesting, I've gone through something similar.
If there’s anything I’ve learn from being Jewish, it’s that my religion hopes I’m wasted most of my life so that I forget how many people hate me.
...and now I'm here
Okay this is pretty damn awesome
I’ve always said one of the things I love most about Bruce Springsteen is the unbridled joy, even after all these years, he shows when he’s on stage with his band. Even during songs he’s played a billion times, in a billion ways, with a billion people watching, he still looks like he’s having more fun than anybody anywhere.
This is a whole bunch of videos from his last shows at the Spectrum in Philly – at THE last shows at the Spectrum in Philly – that show off his joy, his sense of fun, his sense of local history, and his band’s almighty chops, all at once. Even if you’re not a huge fan of his stuff, check out some of these clips and be awed by what a master showman can do when he’s firing on all cylinders. If you watch nothing else, watch the version of “Higher and Higher” and be prepared to be reduced to rubble by a mighty band that has forgotten more about music than you’ll ever know.
by pdb on Dec 1, 2009 9:34 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
No no no no
it’s a saga, not an epic. Says so right in the title!
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
I haven't laughed that hard in a theater in a while.
abender20 hates freedom.
by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 8:46 AM PST up reply actions
I'm hoping Avatar will prove to be as hilariously awful as all the previews seem to suggest it will be
because that could be a huge comedy festival as well.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 8:53 AM PST up reply actions
Except I think Avatar will actually be good.
Plus Toot saw the 3D trailer and said his pants got wet.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 8:58 AM PST up reply actions
Or started taking his medication.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:03 AM PST up reply actions
What looks so good about it?
It looks pretty generic to me
Because you saw it in 2D.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:09 AM PST up reply actions
Intriguing as New Moon!
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:20 AM PST up reply actions
I've been disappointed by every movie I've seen in 3D so far
Seems like they tend to put way too much emphasis on making it visually appealing just because it’s going to be a 3D release rather than making a good movie.
I have seen a few trailers and it looks like one of the most epic failures in modern film
it’s basically a $300 million James Cameron vanity project, which is terrifying.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 9:22 AM PST up reply actions
But you can't really judge anything on a trailer.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:26 AM PST up reply actions
I'm setting myself up for such a huge disappointment.
Its going to be like Watchmen all over again.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:29 AM PST up reply actions
I watched it this weekend and couldn't see what all the fuss was about
It wasn’t great, it wasn’t horrible. It was long. I never read the graphic novel so I don’t know the story, but I was just kinda blah about the whole movie. Except for the lead woman oh my god she’s a horrible actor.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 9:40 AM PST up reply actions
See Blah was the problem.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:44 AM PST up reply actions
I think on it's own merits it was just a mediocre movie
But compared to the graphic novel it was a travesty.
I have heard that.
I do want to read the novel now, though, so I guess that’s one good thing that came out of the movie.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 9:45 AM PST up reply actions
Holy Jesus the 3D trailer looked amazing
At this point the story could be complete shit and I’d still probably go see it 2 or 3 times. 3D is legit
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
Its directed by the guy that did 30 Days of night!.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:12 AM PST up reply actions
The Woods frolic scene is the best.
As is when Jacob rallies up on his motorcycle with his flowing indian mullet.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:13 AM PST up reply actions
And when he wipes the blood off her brow with his shirt and somehow misses virtually all the blood
I guess all that working out didn’t help you notice when there’s a giant red stain on a girl’s forehead any better
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 9:19 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Also, the wolves ran like squirrels, it was wonderful
at least Ashley Greene looked hot (as usual)
Not to mention the constant blue balling of Jacob.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 9:22 AM PST up reply actions
At dinner on Monday night, two girls next to us talked about New Moon for twenty minutes straight.
Then later they mentioned “non-billable hours”.
Please someone tell me there is another profession besides attorney that uses that term.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 3, 2009 8:42 AM PST up reply actions
There's no way around it.
You’re going to like Twilight in three years.
I like Twilight.
I just prefer to not spend 20 minutes comparing and contrasting the book and the movie. I would rather mock both.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 3, 2009 9:14 AM PST up reply actions
But yes, consultants do too.
Billable hours = hours of your work you can charge the client for time spent on their project.
There's no way these people were old enough to be consultants.
MAYBE lawyers just out of law school.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 3, 2009 8:45 AM PST up reply actions
A surprising number of consultants are fresh out of college/grad school
Consulting firms grab them because they’re willing to work the 75 hour weeks that those of us who are older and sane are no longer willing to put in.
by pdb on Dec 3, 2009 8:46 AM PST up reply actions
And MBA's too
most of what used to constitute the Big Six consulting firms won’t even look at you unless you have an MBA these days. It’s an overachiever’s paradise.
by pdb on Dec 3, 2009 8:49 AM PST up reply actions
Used to be that they wouldn't wait for MBAs...
like Aron, when I graduated from college, it seemed like everyone I knew was going the consulting route. Econ/econometrics was big, so it made some sense, and this was before the dot com crash, so the industry was still huge and growing. Anderson/Deloitte scooped up tons and tons of 21/22 yo, though I wonder how many of them were still with the firm after the dotcom bubble (and how many then survived the enron-fueled collapse of Anderson).
Ah, the go-go 90s.
Overachiever might not be the word I'd use.
That has some positive connotations.
I’ve known some econ/business types who do this sort of thing and are basically Adderall addicts who mix themselves cocktails of stimulants, then hop planes criss-crossing the country to con investors into business deals for their start-up, then spend the entire night partying and drinking (because they don’t sleep) and driving sportcars up and down freeways at a few times the speed limit.
Their goals are usually nothing short of controlling the economic workings of entire cities and they are the most terrifying people I’ve ever met.
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, that's kinda the type of person I was thinking of
by pdb on Dec 3, 2009 9:09 AM PST up reply actions
I had class with one of them.
He lost more money in a two or three month span than I’ve ever made in my lifetime. The solution was not to develop a better business model or behave in a more responsible manner, but to gather more investors.
It wasn’t unusual for him to hire and fire fifteen or so interns in the span of two weeks, only to start the cycle over again because they couldn’t live up to the regiment he put himself through.
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 9:20 AM PST up reply actions
Is this what I have to look forward to as a possible Econ major?
by Mariner John on Dec 3, 2009 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
Depends on where you are and who you're with.
I’m in the neighborhood of Wall Street, so everything I deal with is exaggerated several times over from what it would be elsewhere in the country.
Mostly, what you would deal with is a lot of math, unwieldy formulas, and theories which have questionable application to the real world. Which, incidentally, hahaha…. ha…
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 10:36 AM PST up reply actions
But when you get away from Wall Street a bit
you find that typical consultants of the type discussed in this thread are workaholics that go from place to place for weeks at a time, working insane amounts of hours on nothing really tangible, that are only valuable to VP’s that are so disconnected from the actual workings of their companies that they’ll keep paying consultants to tell them what their own employees could tell them for free.
It’s a pretty sweet gig if you have no conscience.
Basically, yeah.
It seems bizarre that people would have enough money to throw around to hire these people, but it happens anyway. They’re exploiting their own little market inefficiencies. But I fault them more for taking extraordinary risks with the livelihoods of others and doing so rather casually.
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
C'mon, that's not what most econ majors do.
It’s what a small subset of bizarre people do.
Based on my sample size of two people I know that do this all econ majors do it though
Can’t argue with the numbers!
It's one of those things.
Not all econ majors are megalomaniacs, but most of the megalomaniacs I know are econ majors.
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
It's just a specific form of megalomania
You’re in English – I’d say MOST people who think they can support themselves through writing suffer from some form of megalomania, albeit a different type. I was an English major! I took classes with/from these people!
I knew you were going to respond with this!
and yes, I know plenty of people in the arts who have these delusions of grandeur. It varies from one to the next, because it seems more extreme in something like theatre when many of the aspiring acteurs and actrices are very much in it for the attention while techs slave in the back. Vocals, though I know of only a few (one is really good, both as a person and a singer) probably have the same going on.
And in writing, of course, there are lots of people who want nothing more than the same. They love to read aloud, often by themselves but sometimes by others. I dealt with one of these last year, a frosh who heard of our magazine’s spoken word contest for guaranteed print space, as voted by the audience. He brought in his entire fraternity to vote on it and effectively rigged the whole thing. On artistic merit alone, I concede that he deserved to win, but he made it a landslide with a genuinely dick move, and to make it worse, he had the same poem printed in at least one other magazine the same semester, taking advantage of the not-clearly-articulated exclusivity loophole.
But I can allow him that because for the most part what he did harmed no one. He alienated our entire staff, but his poem, which he submitted anyway, would have been one that we accepted, and the closest runners-up also submitted and got theirs in. Art megalomania is rarely injurious unless it’s painfully vapid and drags the baseline down. Monetary megalomania fucks the system with a lot more at stake.
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
I was going to bring up theatre
Art megalomania is rarely injurious, but despite the fact that I’ve had several conversations with the consultant species described above, they’ve not injured me, apart from ruining a few dinner parties. But guess who’s ruined MORE parties?
Monetary megalomania fucks the system, but a large percentage of THAT isn’t a huckster with a wharton MBA and a book full of meaningless jargon. It’s the type who hires them, thinking that “rebranding” or whatever is more important than adding value or delivering service. It’s the type who mindlessly plug numbers into a risk model they don’t understand. 99.9% of econ majors will sadly not be high-rollers who destroy lives solely because they were hungover or coming down off speed, but it’s also true that 99.9% of people had a state in ‘fucking the system.’
Right
There’s culpability all down the chain for making no effort to understand the mechanisms involved. The whole would be better off knowing what their involvement is, but real-world application isn’t something that they often excel at. They create the experiment without caring to judge the reaction because it’s mostly the output that matters anyway. That’s a problem that exists whether or not anyone is there take advantage of that volatility. But I still don’t have to be comfortable with the people that do.
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
Right
And there’s culpability everywhere for the image of the tormented artist as a genius who can’t connect to the hoi polloi because he’s somehow BETTER because he’s drugged out and ‘sensitive.’ And if it was so individual, it would take different forms rather than coalescing around certain tropes. The whole thing is very suburban teenage goth.
For the others, everyone demands the experiment because the output is what matters to them too. We don’t like to talk about it, but most people want their 401k to outperform X and their pension to better the Y average. None of us are comfortable with the people who attempt to fulfill these desires, but that’s a pretty common thing.
Yeah, the whole artist thing...
It always kind of bugged me. I’ve kept a sticker on my binder for about seven years now that says “Just because no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist”. But that would rapidly devolve into an entirely different conversation about girls with self-done haircuts who are a bit too into collage and guys who take pictures of themselves wearing berets and looking angry.
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by JY on Dec 3, 2009 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
Our sales people.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 3, 2009 8:54 AM PST up reply actions
Architects.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 3, 2009 8:52 AM PST up reply actions
Another fun Mariners quiz!
I got 99/196 and boy did I miss some real obvious ones
Wow I'm not even going to try that one
I’d probably score somewhere in the 50’s. I have very little retention capacity beyond the obvious stars.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 8:54 AM PST up reply actions
I think that was the last one I got...
I forgot someone named A-Rod.
But it was really, really fun. 135 or something.
I got 96/196
They did not include: Ibanez, Boone, Bloomquist, or Meche
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 9:21 AM PST up reply actions
And Ian Snell isn't on the list?
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 9:35 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, they don't seem to have a lot of 2009 players.
No Fister, no Snell, etc.
It's hilariously busted too.
For example, it will basically take multiple last name entries and fill out other players on the list. Conceivably, you could enter Wilson and get three hits. But this also leads to some funny business, like 91.3% remembering Carlos Hernandez, who played two games with the M’s.
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 9:43 AM PST up reply actions
Also, 69.6% of people remember Mickey Lopez, who played six games.
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 9:43 AM PST up reply actions
Right! And congrats, you got Mickey Lopez!
That’s the deal with all of these quizzes though; it’s not broken, it just pushed up the average score.
So you can roll around on top of it?
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 7 recs
77
It took me 15 minutes to remember Boom Boom. I also managed to ommit Adam Jones, Brandon Morrow, Tui and one that I’ve used as my password for way too long.
Just kidding
I got 112
And I missed some obvious ones like Jeff Clement and Greg Colbrunn because I couldn’t spell his name
I missed both of those.
Jones too.
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
Moyer is out of the hospital, but not done with surgery
“Jamie Moyer is out of the hospital and back home in Bradenton, Fla., but while his latest setback isn’t expected to delay his readiness for spring training, an arthroscopic procedure next month to repair a meniscus tear in his left knee very well might. Right now, the No. 5 starter job will come down to a spring-training fight between Moyer and Kyle Kendrick, and if that makes you uneasy, well, Amaro feels the same way. "
Oh come ON, FIFA
They’re “investigating” Thierry Henry and may charge him and ban him for part of the World Cup as a result of his handball against Ireland. Charge him with….what exactly? Ban him…why exactly? if the decision of the referee on the field at the time is final, as FIFA and everybody maintained after the match, what on earth is the point of this investigation?
FIFA is one of the most shambolic institutions in professional sports
It exists almost solely for the enrichment of Sepp Blatter and his friends, and they seem to make decisions on the fly rather than using actual thought processes. It’s incredibly frustrating. And they’ve already ruled out extra officials or video technology in the WC, so this sort of problem can and will keep happening.
Actually they're now 'investigating' television replay
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:27 AM PST up reply actions
I secretly love FIFA because they just don't give a fuck
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:36 AM PST up reply actions
Wrong side of the country for Wall Street, buddy
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
Let me amend that
I want to be part of a ridiculously profitable organization that does nothing of note and requires a maximum 6 hour work week.
See?
“I regret what I created by what I said and I’m sorry about the headlines,” said Blatter on Wednesday.
“The Irish were very sporting people when they came to see us at Fifa. I’m very sorry about that.”
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
I love how he most regrets that the Irish are sporting
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 11:45 AM PST up reply actions
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Mr Blatter is not just the Fifa president and a powerful man in football, but he’s a very, very good person as well, which is more important.
-David Beckham
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
If you were sold on that, check this out
Sepp Blatter is considering giving Ireland a “special award” for…..uh, not sure why, really. So now, the land of my ancestors, the land that gave the world James Joyce, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, and so many others (and Phil Lynott!), is apparently a 9 year old kid who has to have his tears dried by his mom because he wasn’t picked to play the games the big boys are playing on the playground.
I sincerely hope that the “special award” consists of Blatter patting each member of the FAI on the head and saying “you’re special”.
by pdb on Dec 3, 2009 10:34 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
What the hell?!
Are they going to charge every player who’s ever committed a hand ball? This makes zero sense, if anyone should be punished it’s the refs for not paying attention.
If you hear of a vacancy in the M's broadcast booth I'd be worried
otherwise just revel in the joy of not hearing those three voices.
As long as I was playing on the other team from you
I like winning and all. Kind of like MW2
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
I need to play again!
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
YES YES YES!
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 2, 2009 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
OH MY GOD I AM SO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT THE FUCKING "CIVIL WAR" FOOTBALL GAME
holy jebus, people, it’s just a goddamn football game. I know Oregon as a state doesn’t have a whole lot going on but really, there’s other things to talk about.
Somehow I've been insulated from all the Civil War coverage.
But that could be because I don’t watch the news, read the newspaper, or listen to the radio.
I love living in my own little world.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 2, 2009 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
I look at OregonLive once a day, and today it's all about the "Civil War"
Side note: OregonLive is the worst excuse for a news website I have ever seen.
I have decided that whenever I hear that phrase I shall say 'You mean the Oregon Derby, right?'
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
I like this approach
I have so far asked a couple people at work when the game is and if it’s going to be on TV. That seems to set them off because apparently I’m supposed to know these things as well as I know my own name.
'Who's playing?' would also be amusing
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
I asked my next door neighbor that when he asked if I were excited for the game
he looked at me like I was a leprous space alien. It was awesome.
Disagree
The closest thing that I can compare it to is if a rouge squadron of super cute rabbit puppies were the only thing keeping the armies of Nazism from roaming the Earth unchecked.
by Robert on Dec 2, 2009 10:39 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Why does the colour of the squadron matter?
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
And actual football.
Go Ducks!
I fucking hate you Mariners
I wish that I had gone to Oregon State
because then I wouldn’t root for a shitty football team AND a shitty basketball team
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 10:48 AM PST up reply actions
My college teams are a hell of a lot worse than yours
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
You went to like 4 straight final fours while you were there.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
Two, and we don't hang Final Four banners at UCLA
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
Doesn't matter.
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by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 2, 2009 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
Can someone please explain why people take the BCS bowls more seriously than soccer fans take the Charity Shield?
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
Imagine there was no FA cup, premiership, or league cup
Only semi-random pairings to determine some sort of champion.
Oh, and some teams got to play Wigan and Wolves ten times each, nine of which were home games. Other teams played Chelsea, Villa, and some conference teams.
This seems absurd, and it sort of is, but…. it’s exciting!
It's important this year because the winner is the Pac Ten champion
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 10:43 AM PST up reply actions
Also, OSU +10 is the mortal lock of the week
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 10:44 AM PST up reply actions
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 2, 2009 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
The correct spelling of wiener is W-I-E-N-E-R.
Though E-I is an acceptable ethnic variance.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 2, 2009 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
How the fuck does anyone let Ferreira score against them?
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 2:39 PM PST up reply actions
I'm stuck on radio so I have no idea
Florent Malouda pumps a free-kick into the box and Paul Robinson flaps at it disastrously, leaving Paulo Ferreira to sweep home from a tight angle.
Also: Fuck.
Fuck Anaheim.
I never watch pens in games I have a rooting interest in
No idea what’s going on!
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 2:42 PM PST up reply actions
So Villa for the cup then.
Fuck Anaheim.
by Eyeball Kid on Dec 2, 2009 2:46 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The BBC's match summarizer on that website is called Caroline Cheese.
I like this.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 2:47 PM PST up reply actions
He saved the game-deciding penalty! He is....a HERO!
I vaguely remember when he was unexpectedly great, the way David James has spells of idiocy-free football every now and again.
What the shit.
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/103598/Early_opinion_CGI_reenactment_of_Tiger_Woods_crash
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The Chinese have our Sims technology
The end is nigh.
I love how Tiger looks like he's driving a Toyota Previa.
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by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 2, 2009 2:36 PM PST up reply actions
Manchester City Vs Manchester United!!!
So we finally break our 28 year Quarter Final nightmare, and our reward is Them in the semi final. The wait until January is going to be torture. If we beat them, it will be better than even the Felix Slam[!]
Carling Cup doesn't count because Arsenal fields an under-11 team for the most part
Sunday was indeed ugly though, and Wenger has said that he’ll be buying a new forward in January, which probably just drove the prices of all available forwards up about 20%.
by pdb on Dec 2, 2009 3:07 PM PST up reply actions
You should join the Official Man City Fans Facebook group and introduce them all to some GTE...
by EnglishMariner on Dec 3, 2009 2:53 AM PST up reply actions
LJUNGBERG
If you truly loved him, you would learn his name.
(Not just at you; I see this misspelling on Sounders blogs and it’s driving me crazy).
Lies.
My facebook told me you were a fan of Aston Villa
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 3, 2009 10:51 AM PST up reply actions
Just to hear Blengino on Edgar & the HOF is a treat
by msb on Dec 2, 2009 6:58 PM PST up reply actions
Just another reason why Edgar will make the HOF.
With people like Blengino and Joe Posnanski preaching it, this is going to happen.
I have no idea how to respond to this front office.
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 6:52 PM PST up reply actions
It is amazing.
Those people on Bakers blog that dislike stat-heads must be spinning after those comments.
I like people to have various thoughts.
So I look forward to his next blog replying to comments on the spreading of SABR to the general radio fan base.
Even I don't have the wherewithal to listen to his podcasts.
so I have missed his most recent wisdom-sharing.
by msb on Dec 2, 2009 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
He used to write his blog
but now he podcasts his thoughts
by msb on Dec 2, 2009 7:17 PM PST up reply actions
Yup.
This last one was on the value of the RBI!
I bet his next one will be on the importance of CERA or pitcher Wins.
Thank Drayer.
I so want to know if Rizzs will actually make use of this next season.
by msb on Dec 2, 2009 6:57 PM PST up reply actions
Not sure about Rizzs, but I kind of expect Sims to quote more stats next season.
I still can’t get over the fact that the TV broadcast was using UZR, RZR, and OOZ.
That is such an excellent point, I hadn't thought of it like that.
I’m so used to radio people blustering and thumping their chests, like the guys doing the Red Sox interview someone posted awhile back.
Maybe if we got a better and bigger score board.
Only thing I really dislike about the SafeCo field is that horrible score board.
That's the same impression I got.
Blengino could have been a bit more clear and succinct in his explanations.
Posted this in the other thread too, here's the basic gist of it
"There are people who are trying to take FIP to the next level. And I’m going to give the folks at Lookout Landing some props here. One of the Lookout Landing guys, Graham, has this tRA stat, which goes beyond just assuming that a certain percentage of flyballs are going to leave the park. He goes into the type of batted ball and the batting average of each type of ball in play. And I’ll give you some more fun numbers….Last year on ground balls, batters hit .233 when they hit the ball on the ground. Last year when major league batters hit flyballs, (not line drives and these are only flyballs that stay in the ballpark) they hit .139. On line drives they hit .725. Now of course you’ve gotta decide where a line drive ends and a flyball begins when you make these judgements, but that’s kind of the next tier…."
Then he finishes by saying that tRA better explains why a groundball pitcher like Tom Glavine is more successful than FIP alone would suggest because he generates a lot of weak contact.
Chef Jeremy says he was trying too hard to please the guys, and made too much food. Guys got fat and the team got a nutritionist.
Deep fryer gone.
Contraband Frosted Flakes discovered in the linen closet.
Real bacon replaced by turkey bacon (which led to the Bacon Scandal of 2009)
American Cheese? Out.
Egg yolks? Out. (“I didn’t know how to cook just egg whites, they were sticking to everything, it was a mess”)
by msb on Dec 2, 2009 7:49 PM PST up reply actions
Turkey bacon is a travesty.
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by JY on Dec 2, 2009 7:51 PM PST up reply actions
There was just a commercial on tv for D&G Watches which featured two dudes and one chick apparently about to have a threeway
While apparently wearing D&G Watches. What the hell.
Apparently the lesson here is that if I wear a D&G Watch I will have to share any woman I want to have sex with with some other random dude who walks up to us while we're making out
Uh yeah let me run right out and get one of those.
What if the third guy in the commercial was Ryan Langerhans?
by Graham MacAree on Dec 2, 2009 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
Why are you competing with Langerhans when you should be competing with the girl?
by Graham MacAree on Dec 3, 2009 6:38 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Huh, I went to Linfield with that girl who wrote the story. Nice gig.
In regards to the story, I always thought running in sand wasn’t a good idea.
I fucking hate you Mariners
You know what's weird?
Three years ago, UCLA was about to go to the Final Four in basketball, we had just beat usc in football, the Seahawks made the playoffs, and the Sonics going for Kevin Durant or Greg Oden while the Mariners were coming off four horrible seasons and were one year away from 101 losses.
Now, UCLA basketball is in utter disarray and might not come back, UCLA football is coached by a dirty cheater who encourages terrible sportsmanship and whining, the Seahawks just went 4-12 and get injured by gusts of wind, and the Sonics are called the Oklahoma City Thunder, as the Mariners become one of the hot franchises of MLB.
Given that the M’s are by far my favorite, I think I can live with this turn of events.
NO FUCK NO IF THEY TAKE PIPELINE PORTER AWAY I WILL FUCKING BLOW THE FUCKING FDA TO HELL AND BACK TWICE OVER
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 11:11 PM PST up reply actions
Is it time to buy every single bottle of Pipeline in Southern California?
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 11:17 PM PST up reply actions
You're telling me that Pipeline Porter is going away and you expect me to save you a bottle?
fat chance
I remember a time when Pipeline Porter disappeared from the shelves.
A time when the season for Pipeline Porter had drawn to a close. From the darkness deep in the Inland Empire, a cry was heard. But no one listened. Amongst the hustle and bustle of Los Angeles, nary a soul flinched. Nary a soul, save for one man. One man with a heart as pure as the winter snow. That man journeyed into the depths of Anaheim, bearing with him the last bottle of Pipeline Porter. When traffic on I5S became too great, he persevered. Through the traffic of Anaheim and through throngs of menacing middle-aged people dressed in red, he persevered. Through the vicious metal turnstiles, cold and uncaring, he persevered. And he did deliver that last bottle of Pipeline Porter to the one that had uttered the cry. And then they watched Felix Hernandez whoop the shit out of the Angels.
by abender20 on Dec 3, 2009 8:35 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Fine, I'll save you a six pack or two
like I’m gonna notice if I end up buying five cases
Wait a minute, you're trying to tell me alcohol can be addictive?
No fucking way.
Also, how the fuck are you supposed to come up with a scientific study proving the safety of the product in only 1 month?
There's a tiny, tiny chance you may be missing the point of this article
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 11:16 PM PST up reply actions
I was ranting about the FDA for doing this.
But considering I have had a few it’s entirely possible
It's not a beer then coffee thing -
it’s coffee in beer, brewed as an ingredient, and they’re treating it like it’s a retarded giant Red Bull vodka for the beer enthusiast crowd
by seattlebruin on Dec 2, 2009 11:23 PM PST up reply actions
I mentioned it over at FG but the timing of this incredibly odd.
Team ownership usually is pretty patient. I figured they would have waited until the end of the season before deciding one way or another on Ruskell, so I suppose it’s possible this move is entirely his own decision.
If they aren't going to re-up his contract, then keeping him on as zombie GM isn't super rad either.
Once Allen/Vulcan make the decision that he’s not the guy for the rebuild, he’s gotta go. I mean, the specific timing is still a bit off, that’s true, but I don’t mind that it’s during the regular season.
I think it's great that this is happening now
the timing just seems strange for this ownership group.
(sigh)
I wonder if there are many professions out there where you don’t have to confront the fact that large swaths of the human population is completely fucking insane.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Any time you have to interact with people you come to this realization so probably not.
by pdb on Dec 3, 2009 7:44 AM PST up reply actions
But is it worth it?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 3, 2009 7:52 AM PST up reply actions
You could always join the nuns.
Those habits are very concealing.
by msb on Dec 3, 2009 7:59 AM PST up reply actions
Unfortunately so.
I was going to suggest guys like Salinger and Pynchon, but I suppose they have their insane fanboys they have to deal with.
And yes, I realize that should be an “are” and not an “is”. I get paid to copy-edit things, wheeee.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 3, 2009 7:52 AM PST up reply actions
Professional enginee-
oh. wait. this is the job where I currently have three coworkers trying to install holiday lights in one of their cubes and don’t understand what stripping a screw means.
I think Geoff Baker is bored, too.
he just put up a poll asking the Times readers to outline Zduriencik’s priorities for the off-season.
You know it is just trolling for Pedro,
I do like that he trolls Pedro.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 3, 2009 9:07 AM PST up reply actions
He is hinting at getting Bay again.
abender20 hates freedom.
by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 3, 2009 10:16 AM PST up reply actions
Wait -- is "Pedro" the same as "Logan"?
(I don’t read the Times comments section that often, but I remember a similar figure named “Logan”)
ESPN really goes out on a limb with their "Next" picks this year.
Kevin Durant, Chris Johnson, Strasburg.
It’s like they can see into the future! How do they do that???
Chris Johnson has been 'now' for like 2 years.
I fucking hate you Mariners
I once headbutted a guy named Chris Johnson for splashing water on my trousers back at school.
by EnglishMariner on Dec 3, 2009 11:56 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Headbutting is never something that comes to mind when I want to hurt someone or feel threatened.
Such a strange response.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Just kick the opponent in the balls and then repeatedly in the face when they fall over
What? It worked in school.
by Graham MacAree on Dec 3, 2009 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
You Nancies.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Yeah I specialized in knee and ankle attacks
I was also a fan of stepping on the person’s foot and pushing them
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
I keep thinking I need to make another trip there to change my opinion
I keep hearing what a great place it is, and I just didn’t see it when I was there. Maybe a reassessment is in order.
Yeah, like the veil that was lifted on maybe my 7th or 8th visit to Portland.
(I used to hate that town, and I was sooooooo wrong and hereby apologize)
No no no no no Glasgow is an absolute shithole, that place is scary stay away!
by EnglishMariner on Dec 3, 2009 1:25 PM PST up reply actions
It *is* goofy looking, come to think of it
More like unappealing to many, but irrationally awesome to me.
Wikipedia says 63 as of the 2000 census
63 people in 17 families, to be exact.
by pdb on Dec 3, 2009 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
Guess what 1/63 is?
The racial makeup of the borough was 98.41% White, and 1.59% from two or more races
So, I'm finally making my way through Angel. So far, I've watched about half of the fourth season.
Cordy and Connor getting it on. WHAT. THE. FUCK.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 3, 2009 1:54 PM PST reply actions
Yup.
Partly because Conner as a character (and as acted) just doesn’t work, and then they had the poor timing of it happening just as Charisma found out she was pregnant, and that threw the plotting off …. I tend to fast-forward a lot. There was so much more they could have done with Gina Torres :)
by msb on Dec 3, 2009 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
I do like season 5
even with the need to wrap things up in a hurry, and working around Boreanaz’ bum knee, which hampers his movement (and also caused him to bulk up a fair bit)
by msb on Dec 3, 2009 2:14 PM PST up reply actions
How did Boreanaz hurt his knee?
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 3, 2009 2:31 PM PST up reply actions
IIRC, he'd messed up the knee in high school, had a minimal repair, and somewhere in there reaggravated it doing stunt work.
there was a knee surgery that involved a lot of sitting and slow moving and looking heftier.
by msb on Dec 3, 2009 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
Wooo my favourite off season baseball annual has arrived!
And I see that Matthew makes an appearance again in this year’s THT Baseball Annual. Whilst this book has been improving each year sadly the same cannot be said for Baseball Prospectus annual, which used to be my favourite before THT came along. They didn’t even bother putting in an index last year, and with the rising popularity of FG not to mention SC, their stats seem somewhat dated these days. I just hope they modernise and return to strength rather than go bust.
Your opinion of BP would appear to be shared by a few people and gaining traction the last few years. Or 10.
I didn’t used to pay much attention to individual authors, unlike now where I’ll follow their work if they move to different outlets, or have multiple. Have they lost key staff over the years or stagnate, or what?
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!
Motherfucking SIMON & GARFUNKEL (!!!!!) in Rock Band on Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 7:18 AM PST reply actions
I could be wrong but it doesn't seem like the average S&G song would present the technical challenge that, say, Tom Sawyer might
by pdb on Dec 4, 2009 7:54 AM PST up reply actions
That's what's great about Rock Band. They don't focus exclusively on the technically challenging songs that Guitar Hero does.
They’ve added Roy Orbison, Squeeze, the Ramones and many other artists that don’t require the technical acumen that say Rush or Dream Theater does. But that’s because they’re usually fun as hell.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 8:19 AM PST up reply actions
The harmonies alone in S&G will be cool I'd think
by pdb on Dec 4, 2009 8:23 AM PST up reply actions
They don't have Harmonies yet in Rock Band 2. Probably won't get that until Rock Band 3.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 8:27 AM PST up reply actions
No, you're right, it's a tiring song. But it's not challenging, though.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
It's already in Rock Band
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
I think Sounds of Silence or something was in an earlier version
And yeah, the drums and bass parts really sucked.
Meh. It's going to be fun as hell to sing the songs.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 8:16 AM PST up reply actions
The singing part was pretty fun
They’re probably not the best songs if you have 4 players though.
More like I am a Rock Band, I am an island.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Dec 4, 2009 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
Anybody else freeze their goddamn selves to death on their commute this morning?
Holy jebus that was a cold ride in. Gorgeous morning though.
I had a coyote sprint past me as I was walking into work this morning. The pee froze on my leg.
In Magnolia of all places. Must have wandered away from Discovery Park.
That's bizarre but oddly kinda cool
except the pee part.
by pdb on Dec 4, 2009 8:08 AM PST up reply actions
I noticed the cold
but the morning itself had the distractions of the young lady who had spilled an entire bottle of cologne on herself, and the muttering fellow who gave the impresssion that in a few more stops he would erupt into shouting…
by msb on Dec 4, 2009 8:07 AM PST up reply actions
If they ever make one of those for bike seats I'll buy one.
by pdb on Dec 4, 2009 8:33 AM PST up reply actions
All you'd need to do is hook it up to the pedals
Electric current, resisters, done.
by Graham MacAree on Dec 4, 2009 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
I can barely tie my shoes without suffering personal injury
if I try to wire something electric to my bike I’ll probably kill myself and black out an entire city block.
by pdb on Dec 4, 2009 8:45 AM PST up reply actions
It would give us lots of good OT material though
Stop being so selfish
by Graham MacAree on Dec 4, 2009 8:52 AM PST up reply actions
This is the season of giving after all
and in that spirit I give you David Beckham, in a suit with a mohawk, looking like a douche in SA. World Cup draw at 9AM!
by pdb on Dec 4, 2009 8:53 AM PST up reply actions
It's kind of a momullet I think
but either way, you’d think either his wife or his stylist would veto that hair with a suit like that. It might work with this classic Beckham look though.
by pdb on Dec 4, 2009 8:59 AM PST up reply actions
Which reminds me..
that I too was startled to hear that Agassi deliberately chose to wear the crap mo-mullet as a hairpiece in his playing days
by msb on Dec 4, 2009 9:24 AM PST up reply actions
It's 25 degrees F this lovely morning in Chicago. And it snowed yesterday.
Winter came on in a hurry.
It's 50 degrees here.
Take that, assortment of people who said that it only made sense for us to have one of the worst winters on record because the last two had been so mild. We ended up having the second warmest November on record. Weather does not obey your puny laws of averages.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 4, 2009 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
So it is now snowing.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 5, 2009 3:47 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it's chilly out
Also, the fog has really set in here in Auburn over the last 45 minutes or so. Barely 300ft of visibility out right now. I love the fog
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Dec 4, 2009 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
I didn't realize
that the sale of Sam Adams Utopia is illegal in Washington due to its high alcohol content.
I'm exceedingly tired of people trying to protect me from myself.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 4, 2009 8:31 AM PST up reply actions
I'm not sure of that, actually, since I very rarely do.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 4, 2009 9:13 AM PST up reply actions
Have you seen high schoolers in Bellevue?
The more expensive the better, man
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Dec 4, 2009 9:23 AM PST up reply actions
And Rumpleminze.
Ooooohhhh Rumpleminze.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Dec 4, 2009 12:59 PM PST up reply actions
I'd be outraged if it wasn't $150 a pop.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
by JY on Dec 4, 2009 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
Well that sucks.
Although I just read someone has made 33% beer.
abender20 hates freedom.
by Scruffy Lefty on Dec 4, 2009 10:08 AM PST up reply actions
That song is so badass
Plus hearing it always makes me think of Die Hard, which puts me in an even better mood
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Dec 4, 2009 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
I've gone full on Christmas-music this morning
that whole Very Special Christmas album and the Phil Spector Christmas album have been all I’ve played. Which also serves to point out what an affront to humanity U2’s version of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” actually is.
I'm restricted to listening to country music here in the office (KILL ME)
They have been sprinkling in some Christmas music the last few days. I grew up listening to country-Christmas music, but I only enjoy the older X-mas stuff they’ve been playing. New country music is so much shit anymore that it’s not even fun to make fun of, and the X-mas songs the new ones make are TERRIBLE.
I want to poop at your house - Thingray
by tootthekazoo on Dec 4, 2009 11:13 AM PST up reply actions
Anybody have any experience recovering from starvation mode?
I’m going on week 4 of a nasty stomach infection, but am looking forward to recovery. The problem is, I really haven’t been able to eat normally during the last 4 weeks, and have dropped a significant amount of weight. However, I don’t want to dive right back into eating like I was before I got the infection.
How long can I expect it to take for my body to leave starvation mode?
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 9:28 AM PST reply actions
Basically as soon as you start giving it glucose, at least from a metabolic regulation sense. Bam, straight into insulin domination.
You’ll just have to deal with your stomach. Start small and bland, like toast and jam or something.
Are we talking weeks or months for my metabolism to stabilize.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 9:46 AM PST up reply actions
Your body's regulation of metabolism will shift very very quickly.
Your appetite and ability to tolerate food? No idea.
Cool. Thanks for the advice.
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Dec 4, 2009 9:51 AM PST up reply actions
Uh group D is terrifying
Germans don’t have it easy at all
by Graham MacAree on Dec 4, 2009 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
I don't see Australia putting up much of a fight
Ghana might, but if I’m Germany I’m only really worried about the Serbs.
Ghana miiiight have the second best midfield in the tournament
by Graham MacAree on Dec 4, 2009 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
Backed by nobody of any real talent in the defence though
Ghana are a threat to score on a break, but a more comprehensive team should beat them pretty easily. Anything’s possible on the day and all that but I really don’t see Germany having too much trouble in that group.
Just have Muntari and Essien in deep roles and suddenly scoring against them becomes very hard
by Graham MacAree on Dec 4, 2009 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
I'll be interested to see how Ghana does in the African Cup of Nations next month
and I would love to see a team actually awarded a cup full of nations.
Ghana is really, really good.
They should win the Cup of Nations going away… not saying they will, but they should.
Yeah, it's going to be fun for me at home too....
Really, it shouldn’t matter – both countries should advance, and it’ll give that first game a little something extra. I and my nationality will be insulted in new and unusual ways!
Rally puppy to attend college!
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/student-hug-puppies-reduce-str/
abender20 hates freedom.
Wow...I haven't posted in AGES...
maybe like a year… but I am quite a lurker especially with twitter and such…
Anyway, is anyone else on here going to Indianapolis for the Winter Meetings? The job fair and such of course…
I’m leaving tomorrow morning…bright and early…
Maybe I’ll start posting again…
We should totally do that some year, travel en masse to the Winter Meetings.
We could be like the New York Jets NFL Draft contingent. It’d be fun.
Batted .393/.614/.464 for 2009 Diablos, #5 in OBP for PSSBL Rocky Division.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Dec 5, 2009 1:14 AM PST up reply actions
Does anybody know offhand, or where to find, the number of adults with ADD age 18-35 or so?
I’m wondering if MLB is a little above the normal.
MLB says they granted 108 exemptions for PEDs this year
I’m not sure if that means 108 total, or 108 in addition to. Also, this might be in line with a normal population distribution, but I’m curious.
According to the Rotoworld ticker on the sidebar, Beltre was not offered arbitration.
That thing is almost never accurate.
I don't know how I missed this.
Padres top draft pick gets in ATV accident, has jaw wired shut.
Imagine what the coverage would be like if he were close to the majors.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
Noel Arguelles signs with the Royals
There goes one of my possible post topics.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett http://mvn.com/marinersminors/
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