No game tonight OT-Aug 26
by msb on Aug 26, 2010 3:25 PM PDT
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I have no good questions to kick this off, so instead ...
100 Best First Lines from Novels
1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
4. Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. —Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967; trans. Gregory Rabassa)
5. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. —Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
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Heh. This song has some charm.
Cee Lo Green – FUCK YOU (NSFW if you didn’t guess)
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 26, 2010 3:31 PM PDT reply actions
I posted this in either the last OFFTOP or the one before, but goddamn it's good.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
Well count me out,
I don’t read novels.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
What? this doesn't suck you in?
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
By the way ... this opener has lead to an annual contest
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
“where "WWW" means "Wretched Writers Welcome"”
I'm not saying that doesn't sound interesting,
I’m just saying my attention span is far too short.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I am much more interested in non-fiction when I do any serious reading.
I have three new books to read at home. One is about the life of a minor leaguer, one is about Nirvana, and the other is about Warren Zevon. The last books I read before that were about an expedition in the 1800’s 0to the North Pole, and about life at the research station in Antarctica.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Odd Man Out?
It’s been sitting on my bookshelf or a couple months now and I haven’t gotten to it either.
The Bullpen Gospels, by Dirk Hayhurst.
I finished it last night, it was a pretty good book.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Auburn is out of the Little League World Series
is anyone cares.
…they should send down Huntington & Nutting, because they aren’t ready, either. - royshowell
You can't leave Anna Karenina off that list if only for its adaptability.
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 26, 2010 3:34 PM PDT reply actions
For example, I recently saw a couple of kids who looked like they were very much tripping
sitting on the very edge of the platform on the 59th st 4-5-6 stop, which prompted “all good trips are alike; every bad trip is terrifying in its own way”
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 26, 2010 3:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Nathaniel West sighting!
that guy doesn’t get nearly the attention he deserves. As good as Fitzgerald and writing on a similar theme.
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 26, 2010 3:38 PM PDT reply actions
Probably because he couldn't drive for shit.
Although Fitzgerald was only seven some years older when he died so….
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 26, 2010 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
"The legend lives on from the Chippawa on down to the big lake they call Gitchigoomie"
Wait, I think I’m doing this wrong…
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
What is the most cringe worthy sports moment that doesn't have to do with your team?
I am talking about a highlight that is painful to watch because you just feel so bad for everyone involved.
Are we not counting plays where people were injured?
Because I can think of many cringe worthy moments like that.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
The Texas high school football championship game
No question.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 26, 2010 4:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm pretty sure it's been posted here before, but
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 26, 2010 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
That's just brutal.
I love the kid at the very end, after that last touchdown is scored, who is posing just outside the endzone with the “we knew we had it” body language.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Awesome
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 26, 2010 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions
HES GONNA SCORE! HES GONNA GO ALL THE WAY!
Dude he is like 30 yards out.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions
I think you mean
I near wet ma britches
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 27, 2010 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
This might not really count because the US were playing
but Andres Escobar’s own goal from the 1994 World Cup makes me really, really sad.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 26, 2010 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
The 30 for 30 series that ESPN is running did a doc of his story
It was very sad to watch, but it was very well done.
by seattle_since_81 on Aug 26, 2010 6:19 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
One of mine is when Robert Horry bodychecked Steve Nash in the 2007 playoffs.
The resulting suspension of guys for rushing to the aid of their teammate cost the Suns a title. Which is just super fucked on so many levels.
by SethGrandpa on Aug 26, 2010 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
I personally love watching a good choke job.
Especially involving the Little League World Series.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 9:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Depends on how far into the forest you walk them.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
ESPN 30 for 30 series is doing a documentry on the 1982 Kirkland team
It’s also really cool because my moms cousin was on the team.
…they should send down Huntington & Nutting, because they aren’t ready, either. - royshowell
by Marinerfanjake on Aug 27, 2010 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
How they could they leave out "The place stank." from Who Goes There?
That’s a brilliant line! Sure it’s not technically a “novel”, but…
Of course, the second line is even better:
“A queer, mingled stench that only the ice-buried cabins of an Antarctic camp know, compounded of reeking human sweat, and the heavy, fish-oil stench of melted seal blubber.”
Food.
So I’m trying to find spelling or evidence of this pizza online but so far I haven’t. Maybe someone else can help out. Either way, you’ll be happy you heard about it.
My friend called it “Cacciapori” (spelling is a guess. Pronounced Catch-Uhh-Pour-Ee)
As simple as I can describe it: Pizza dough, feta cheese, sunny-side up eggs.
Online I found something called a “Bismarck” as a traditional italian pizza with egg, but it didn’t have the feta. The feta is a big part of what made it amazing for me. And this wasn’t something he made up, he ordered it from a pizza place called “Mama’s Original Pizza” down here in California. Apparently this kind of pizza is popular in other parts of the world, I don’t know why not here. It’s phenomenal.
*I think he ordered it from "Mama's" But I didn't find it on their website.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 26, 2010 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
No idea.
I can’t find anything even remotely close to it via internet searches either.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
It's weird that it wouldn't come up in a Google search. He made it seem like it was pretty common in other parts of the world.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 26, 2010 5:37 PM PDT up reply actions
?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=bismark+pizza&aq=f&aqi=g1g-sx2&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Or, a little more filtered:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=bismark+pizza+-bismarck&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Heh, sorry. Read the top part in one sitting, the bottom in the next.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Still don't see it with feta...
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I've had it, and it's good, and it was called just a bismark for me.
I’ll ask my pizza guy (off the boat Italian) and see what he thinks tomorrow night.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Could it have been Capricciosa?
It’s a little more gussied up than what you had, but it could be a variation.
From this
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
What is that,
a clay sculpture of Picard?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Kennewick Man was captain of the Enterprise?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I'll have to check the historical documents.
Maybe they explain how he came to be buried there.
Threw in a reference to Galaxy Quest
Where the aliens thought the Star Trek style episodes were real and called them the historical documents.
???
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
by joof on Aug 26, 2010 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
There's a little sandwich shop in Kent with a bunch of old ads and stuff from the 50's and 60's on the walls
Among them is a record cover about some of the best boners in radio (or something to that effect). Never ceases to draw a chuckle out of me
by tootthekazoo on Aug 27, 2010 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Remember, "boner" meant something very different not all that many decades ago.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Get off my lawn.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Back in the day, boner just meant "error," like gay meant "happy.'
But what do I know? I’m just an old cock.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day
Wait, I mean, what’s a novel?
It was a dark and stormy night.
Kermit was tightly tucked into his bedsheets snug, wearing his longjohns with the hatch in back per usual. He dreamed of teenage vampires with abs like Dodge Ram grills. The end.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
Harkeneing back to the last offtop --
In asking about character assassination, I believe people got the idea I was trying to be the aggressor, when in actuality, it’s happening to me. So the question remains, what’s your defense/recourse? Has this ever happened to you? What did YOU do?
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
You have to be very careful when doing that type of thing
There’s some fine lines that are very confusing, at least to me. Such as keeping notes on private conversations, I think it’s called “keeping book”, however I am not a lawyer. Some of that stuff came up in an NCO class for the army and are very fuzzy memories. Plus it might not even apply outside the military.
Thanks my pal - I'm keeping any and all written communication, for sure.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
With the keeping book thing, it's possible you might get in trouble for that one.
Or they can, whatever. There might be some fine lines between documenting that you spoke to a person (and when and where) and the gist of the conversation, vs. putting down word for word what was said.
Basically I have very little idea what I’m talking about, other than you should be careful. And find somebody that can line you out, not some barracks lawyer crap. This kind of stuff can be dynamite if a situation comes to a head, you really need to know what you’re doing way out in front if you’re documenting or it cold blow up in your face.
Sigh. Basically there are a lot of things said publicly by word of mouth,
then both weird FB postings and emails direct to me. I’ve taken the high road on both FB and word of mouth, but I’m saving the emails and responding to them in the barest of terms.
Alright people, I might as well say I’m getting a divorce from the mother of my beloved four year-old son.
Too LLLJ?
Fuck it. I need help from friends.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
Boy do we have things to talk about
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 26, 2010 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I feel for you man...
I’ve never been through a divorce, and I don’t have kids. But I know from watching friends and family go through it that it can be messy. Just remember the most important thing is that wonderful little four year-old boy, and what is best for him.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I'll put my email up over on the Wave, get in touch if you need anything.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Naaah, I'm already too good a person and too crazy to let it really let me down.
After all, I enjoy you people. Holy crap, what a mindfuck.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
I hear yeah.
This place has made me laugh during similar times.
Horray for Lookout Landing!
You're dead to me.
There's no one else in Zdeattle with a name like Zdat, so we knew what you mzdeant.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
by kevin_ess on Aug 26, 2010 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I don't go there often, but I assume the worst...
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you." Roger Zelazny (Trumps of Doom, 1985)
Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink." Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
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“Marley was dead, to begin with.”—Charles Dickens, A Christmas carol
“Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer’s wife.”—Frank L Baum, The wizard of Oz.
“Oh, damn!” said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus.—Dorothy L Sayers, Whose body?
“Now, touching this business of old Jeeves — my man, you know — how do we stand? Lots of people think I’m much too dependent on him. My Aunt Agatha, in fact, has even gone so far as to call him my keeper. Well, what I says is: Why not? The man’s a genius. From the collar upward he stands alone.”—P.G.Wodehouse. Jeeves takes charge
“I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.”— Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
“When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature. "—Charles Darwin, Origin of the species.
I love this one:
"When we look to the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they generally differ much more from each other, than do the individuals of any one species or variety in a state of nature. "—Charles Darwin, Origin of the species.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Unfortunately, one of my favorite books, "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck ...
does not have a great opening line.
Sadly, no written report of the Mariners this season has begun with a good line. :)
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
"Hey there! We're in Eden. Well, not really Eden per se, but East of Eden."
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
This Mariners' season deserves ...
It was a dark and stormy night …
And Don Wakamatsu felt a sharp pain in his back and could see nothing but a blinding light.
by Ryan Divish on Aug 26, 2010 8:19 PM PDT up reply actions 5 recs
I've seen bunting. It's not all that great around the house.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back. I Am Legend
Of course the real gems are the last two lines.
SPOILER ALERTish
“A coughing chuckle filled his throat. He turned and leaned against the wall while he swallowed the pills. Full circle, he thought while the final lethargy crept into his limbs. Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever.
I am legend."
It may not be high art, but I laughed.
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2GPPSCA102Z7D/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
There have been a few of these.
I remember seeing The Aeneid as a series of Facebook posts a while back.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 26, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
That was sweet.
The Dido book was ripe for a FB retelling
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 26, 2010 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Totally.
Aeneas joined the Carthage network.
Aeneas and Dido are now friends.
Dido changed her relationship status to Married.
Aeneas changed his relationship status to It’s Complicated.
Dido is no longer online.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 26, 2010 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
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by Aaron Campeau on Aug 26, 2010 9:58 PM PDT up reply actions 13 recs
Here's a question for y'all: Who's the best you've ever seen at doing a single thing and what was it?
As in, who have you seen do something so well that you’re convinced you’ll never see another human being do something that well? It could be anything from an athletic endeavor, musical skill, or something more simple (maybe someone made the best omelet ever). I’m curious what people’s experience with the absolute pinnacle of something is.
For me, it was watching Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic play the marimbas. I’m a music junkie who has seen a lot, but no one I’ve seen has ever touched his skill level. It was beyond virtuoso – the type of thing where your jaw literally drops while watching it because you can’t believe what you’re seeing.
Well, Federer in his prime certainly comes to mind
and of course Antonio Alfonseca pretty much dominated the majors in the number of fingers category.
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 27, 2010 1:03 AM PDT up reply actions
"He just went out there and had a lot of fingers."
by Eyebrows on Aug 27, 2010 9:08 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions 4 recs
He led the league, followed by a 210 way tie for second, and Bob Wickman came in last with 9.7.
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 27, 2010 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Fuck that, Peach can wipe the floor with him.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 27, 2010 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Ray Allen coming off a screen - Catch and shoot.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Sam Perkins slowly lumbering down the court and taking 11 seconds to go from catch to shoot.
Nobody does it better.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
But he was big and smoove....
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
This is a good thread; I hope people embrace it.
I saw Dragonforce live a few years ago. Obviously I knew the guitar playing was sick, but seeing the 2 guitarists shred in person absolutely floored me. As a guitar player, I can’t imagine ever being that good.
Also, the keyboard player was so great at jumping around, with his keyboard rocking back and forth wildly on 2 legs, I can’t imagine anyone doing that better than him without knocking shit over. Wish I could find a picture of that in action.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
The end of guitar hero cannot come soon enough.
Not ONE of my good guitarist friends can play that fucking game. We shred – others play Simon Says. Good on it, but I’m apparently too old to do a guitar version of that lame-ass dancing game you see in arcades, what with the kids sweating all over the damned place.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
The music game genre is in pretty sharp decline
Activision is still trying to whore it, but people are tired of plastic instruments.
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Rostropovich
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by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 27, 2010 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
The rainbow ones?
He’s a proud guy, god bless him.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
I can only seem to think of music ones.
Marc Ribot getting a guitar to make weird noises.
John Lurie playing the sax and looking silly while doing it (he’s also the world’s premier fisherman)
Beth Gibbons singing the fuck out of some songs.
That’s mostly YouTube though. I mean, I can think of other things that would be difficult to quantify, like Frank Kermode being an intellectual and such.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Also my friend Shannon at drinking whiskey.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Watching and listening Victor Wooten play bass live was amazing in the same manner you stated.
I also had the chance to spend some time with a mid-60’s Aboriginal fellow when I was in Australia. The agility and nimble way he moved through the bush while describing the flora, fauna, and geography of the land was mind blowing. He seemed like more of a walking, talking piece of the land than a human.
Holy fuck - I have two of his live CDs, and the stuff he does with Bootsy is amazing.
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
His solo from Sinister Minister from Bela Fleck & the Flecktones Live Art album is great.
I don’t know how he can play a bass like that.
Cliff Lee pitching.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Aug 30, 2010 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Anyone else getting a popup spam ad thingy when they try to view the Kotchman front page post?
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 26, 2010 11:51 PM PDT reply actions
I actually got it trying to open this up, and not for the Kotchman post.
by drblacknwhite on Aug 27, 2010 12:02 AM PDT up reply actions
"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing."
-Norman Maclean, A River Runs through It.
The first time I met Wonderboy, he pissed on me
We are all made of glue – Marina Lewycka
I sure hope they don't screw up that business model.
Privately held company, that’s seems pretty amazing for a business that size.
They seem to be coming at an impasse because of their success. An important time for them it seems.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 9:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Comparing every business to Starbucks is vaguely annoying
Guess I should get over it, because man did they ever blow it. Sounds like Joe’s is night and day from what happened there though.
There's two Starbucks in the strip mall just down the road, c'mon already.
Who thought that was a good idea. You would think that kind of mess would be fairly simple to avoid
There is 2 spots in Bellingham
Where there is 2 Starbucks located within 100 feet of each other.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I bet if they took one of those Starbucks out, there would be somebody bitchin' about it.
Greatest Country in the World.. Mofos??
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh I would bitch about it.
I just goto whatever one is less busy.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Where I work downtown, there is literally at least 1 in each building, sometimes multiples
For example, the building I work in has a Starbucks on the lower level of the building. However, it’s faster for me to exit on 3rd avenue and walk across the street to the Starbucks there, than go down the stairs to the Starbucks on 2nd avenue IN MY BUILDING.
Blows my mind.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
When they opened the one in Bellingham
There was a traffic mess around it for 3 weeks.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I promise that I won't do this often, but my first post is up at World Soccer Reader and I am really excited about it.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 27, 2010 9:31 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Go ahead and toot your own horn!
I’m pretty sure people won’t mind reading it because the author is a pretty good writer.
by seattle_since_81 on Aug 27, 2010 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Huh I didn't create this.
Nor did my brother….
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Joel-Magic-Legs-Bergsma/145645955468969?ref=sgm
People are making up pages about you?
Either bask in the glory, or report the page!
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
But not surprising.
In a way, this may be a good thing for him, since it will temper the expectations. As long as he makes a full recovery that is.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
He's having Tommy John surgery, I can't think of any possible way I would consider this a "good thing"
by seattlebruin on Aug 27, 2010 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
The good news is that there is a very high recovery rate for that surgery.
I could make a long list of very good pitchers who have gone on to long successful careers after having TJ. I’m not saying injury or surgery is a “good” thing in itself. But in the long run he may be better off just because people will ease up on their expectations.
Right now it seems like 90% of the planet expects him to have 400 K’s per game, and run a negative ERA.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
It's a good thing for the slavering fanboys who expected perfect games with every start for the next 20 years
by pdb on Aug 27, 2010 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Or the fanatics who wanted to blow every game from August through September so we could draft him.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Proud 2%er!
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I stayed mum because I stopped giving a shit once everyone jumped on.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
There is a good joke in here somewhere.
“Mum”, “shit”, “everyone jumped on”…
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
The Aristocrats!
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
*jazz hands*
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I was a (overly) vocal 2% as well
Needless to say, I don’t think Strasburg getting injured plays a whole lot into the debate anyway. Ackley could have bruised his ribs carrying his suitcase to his hotel room.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I will ban every single person here if we have the "should we have tanked for Strasburg" debate again
by seattlebruin on Aug 27, 2010 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Is this a "because he would have been made a reliever" joke?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
It makes me want to write a post about why steroids would be good for baseball, but I am too lazy.
He would get back from this injury faster if he was allowed to use them and it would make all of our lives better.
If it were an average person, it would be fine for us to use prescribed steroids to recover.
I don’t see why athletes can’t do the same. It’s the non-prescription usage that I think is BS (or the BS prescription usage).
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Well at least now Rob Dibble looks like even more of an ass.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Is that possible?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Turns out, yes!
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 27, 2010 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
At this point, one almost starts to wonder if we shouldn't allow pitchers like Strasburg and Kerry Wood
to have the kind of movement+ velocity that they do. Tell them to tune it down a little.
You're dead to me.
You mean tell a guy that throws 100 to ease up?
Easy to say, hard to implement.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Not sure if this actually happened, but didn't they do that with Verlander?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I know he doesn't throw as hard as he used to.
But I don’t know if that was a health concern issue, or a control/movement issue.
If I recall correctly, Felix had been told to ease up at some point too, just because his fastball flattened out when he tried to throw it too hard.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
How many guys stay consistently at 100 without getting injured?
Verlander was up there for a while…Broxton? Jimenez? Feliz? Seems like most of them get injured, though.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 27, 2010 1:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I've read (with no scientific proof) that 100mph is about the human max for throwing.
So it would make sense that no arm would last very long at those speeds. Didn’t Zumaya get hurt too?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Zumaya was playing too much guitar hero.
There were other guys who were rumored to throw harder though.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
That's right.
Stupid video games.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
As the example I could think of...
Colt Griffin was throwing 100 mph as a HS kid. You can see how his career went.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Worth reading on a day like today to realize just how lucky we are.
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/4/18/115120/406
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/4/18/23439/1167
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/4/19/1272/88043
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/4/19/114230/281
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/4/19/181231/804
http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2007/4/19/164230/361
Ackley!
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Looks like a little safer pick now, doesn't he?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
The hitter generally is.
It’s a fine line between “oh his arm is fresh” and “he’s never dealt with this before”
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Do you think they coddled him to much at SD State,
or do you think the Nats rushed him? (or none of the above)
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Strasburg was kind of a unique case throughout.
Coming out of high school he was just some fat kid who had an okay heater and then they got him to trim down and fix his mechanics and suddenly it was “holy shit he’s throwing 100 mph”. It’s a nice story but it doesn’t take a whole lot of mental work to think that there are risks involved.
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Really?
I didn’t know his history. I always thought of him as a Bryce Harper kind of kid, who had always been a phenom.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
If he had always been a phenom, he would not have gone to to SDSU and most likely would not have pitched in college
by seattlebruin on Aug 27, 2010 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
I've seen highly touted ballplayers go to smaller colleges before.
But you’re probably right. He wouldn’t have passed on a huge signing bonus in the draft just to go to SDSU.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
It varies.
Sometimes there are guys that are known to have good track records as preps but are barely even written about because the college commitment is pretty much unwavering and everyone knows they’ll be better in three years anyway.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Not that he could have gone pro from prep,
but look at Jake Locker. It probably made zero sense for him to commit to UW in the first place, then it made less sense for him to risk staying for his senior year. But some people have reasons for attending certain schools, or staying certain places that go above and beyond money or draft ranking. Others do not.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Nope, he was barely on the radar as a prep.
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Not even drafted out of high school, right?
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Looks that way.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember reading that and thinking that must be really rare for a kid to go from undrafted in high school to so hyped up coming out of college.
I mean, so many random projects get drafted out of high school it seems.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Ackley was never drafted either before we grabbed him.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm guessing that might have something to do with his size,
which always seems to be a concern?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
He screwed up his elbow his senior year.
But otherwise, people knew he could hit and he was playing shortstop and pitching. Plus he had bloodlines in his favor because his dad was a catcher in the Red Sox system for years. He was known, they just didn’t think there was a chance in hell they’d sign him away from UNC.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I thought his elbow injury was a college thing.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
It was what kept him playing first while they were doing TJ and the like.
I don’t think they realized the severity of it when he was a senior in HS.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought he played CF in college, hurt is arm,
then moved to first. But my brain shut off for the weekend about two hours ago.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I don't think he played CF until his junior year but I could be wrong, I'd have to look it up.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't do it on my account.
I think I just have my time frame messed up. I thought he started in CF then moved to 1B because of his arm, but it’s probably the other way around.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Yeah it looks like he had surgery after his sophomore year.
But the same season he was at first for most of the games and only in the outfield a handful of times.
Trying to figure out what he played his freshman year…
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep, 65 of 73 games at first as a freshman.
So I’m thinking his elbow was screwed up for a while and they just took some time before really figuring it out or probably getting him to agree to surgery. He screwed it up at the end of HS then, my memory isn’t fucking with me.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope, your memory is fine.
It was me fucking with you (unintentionally).
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
No big.
I usually remember things pretty well, but that also means I remember the times my memory didn’t work so well and overestimate that factor.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Interesting.
So if Bryce Harper had said “I am going to Rice. You are stupid if you draft me. I am going to Rice.”
Does he get drafted?
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
He at least falls in the draft I would think.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Probably, because you can always see if a literal briefcase of money will change his mind.
And if you don’t, then you get the comp pick next year.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
With talent like Harper, he probably gets drafted anyway.
Some team risks it. It’s usually the guys who would be taken in rounds three to ten as preps that end up in these situations.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Shipers was different though because he didn't have a HS baseball team.
He was just a summer tourney guy, so he was a bit of an unknown. Otherwise, yes, that’s a good example of what can happen with those fellows.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
The Angels drafted Locker in the 10th
With him basically saying the same thing.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Locker was a marginal baseball recruit though, wasn't he?
Kind of a “project athlete”?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Only because he said he was going to UW to play football.
He can really play baseball. And if he would of committed to it he would of gone much higher out of high school.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
It's the driveline mechanics post where they said Strasburg's mechanics might lead to Tommy John down the road
by seattlebruin on Aug 27, 2010 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I still don't buy that there is a reliable way to assess that risk yet.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
It's basically all correlation = causation, right?
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From what I've read, yes
they do a pretty decent job analyzing mechanics from a repeatability/stuff standpoint though, at least in my opinion
by seattlebruin on Aug 27, 2010 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
That's not all that difficult, but I'm sure they have nice visual aids.
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One can only hope they get AIDS.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I was waiting for someone to do this.
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I was going to say it anyways.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
How many people have you met in your life where you knew them for a while
and afterward legitimately thought to yourself “wow, for your sake, thank God you’re hot”
Yes, but substitute with "You'd be so much better off if you were hot"
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Wait, are the quotes about you or the other person?
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
90% of the cocktail waitresses and strippers I've ever met.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I usually take the "It's really a tragedy you're hot, because now your idiocy will never be weeded out of the gene pool."
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Ignore the terrible grammar, but hopefully ya'll get my point.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Why do you gotta be staring at my ass?
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
I have yet to meet a hot graphic designer.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
[ScruffyAbs.jpg]
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Scruffy now has a facebook athlete fanpage.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd Like it
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Pfft.
I was one of 3 men in my graphic design course. The other were 27 women that were not hot.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
They most likely are not getting work then, because around here firms only hire
good looking women who are clueless. I would prefer unattractive and proficient myself.
Ugly ones need lovin' too.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I work with a girl who I think this.
Then I think “Holy shit, if she were smart AND this hot, the world would be brought to its knees.”
Hard work never killed nobody, but I won't take my chances.
How about this:
What are your silly little pet peeves. Not things like “boys leave the toilet seat up”, but things like I just pulled a tissue out of the box at my desk, and even though it’s almost full, then next tissue didn’t pull up. So now I have to dig around in the box and pull the next one out so it’s ready for the next time I need one.
“There have been no dragons in my life, only small spiders and stepping in gum. I could have coped with dragons.”
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Same thing happens with the paper towel dispenser in the kitchen in my office.
Annoying.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
The woman who makes her lunch, from scratch in the staff lounge, and uses virtually a roll of paper towels to dry a handful of romaine, and then the salad spinner, and then and then....
but can’t use one of those miles of towels to dry the area around the sink and/or the floor when she is done.
OOOHHH!!
This one bugs me too. None of the people in my office clean up after themselves when they make lunch. So by the time I get in there, anything I set on the counter gets soaking wet with coffee, water, or whatever else they’ve been using or pouring.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
SOMEONE NEEDS TO LEARN HOW TO FUCKING FOLD THINGS.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
It's easier to just pop the lid, that slot is only there as a form of population control
If you keep using it you’re likely to throw both it and the baby right out the window. And then go hunting for the wife because why not just clean the slate
I take straight from the refill package because I gave up on the plastic tub.
Pull the sticky seal about half way back and fold/stick it to the side.
I hate it when cars in front of me creep up a couple inches.
Then do it again, and again waiting for the light to turn green. Then when the light turns green they DONT FUCKING MOVE!
I can see this subthread getting me all fired up
Sounds like more than a pet peeve to me.
Sounds like something that PISSES YOU OFF!!!
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I always thought of them as minor annoyances, that probably shouldn't even annoy you in the first place.
Road rage is not a pet peeve.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
One of my biggest pet peeves is when a coworker/boss asks you to do something
and spends more time describing to you what you need to do than the time it would take to actually do the task itself.
Happens all the time at work. It’s especially aggravating when someone sends a book-length email for something that would take a minutes’ worth of time to complete.
by ThomasG on Aug 27, 2010 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, one person I work with, I can ask a very simple question and the response is something like "Okay, turn the computer on. The on-switch is located..."
HOLY FUCK GET TO THE POINT
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I like when my boss asks me to make a phone call for her,
then spends 15 minutes telling me what I should say in the call. Why not just make the call YOURSELF THEN?!?!
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I work with some people and think "Wow, you are a lot smarter than me. But my people skills are going to take me farther."
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
My boss isn't a genius,
but she’s been at this forever, so she thinks nobody else will know how to do things the “right” way. That’s why I handle my business and very seldom have to see or talk to her.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I'm guilty of that sometimes
But it’s because I recognize my failings in dealing with stupid people, so I usually have someone nice and with more patience make a call for me.
That's why they call me "The Cooler" at work.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Pet peeve I'm having right now.
When you click on a link on a page like this and you’re like “why the fuck won’t it open?” and then realize that it did open, just in an already opened window. I wanted that to open in a new window. Of course, part of the blame falls on me, part on the way that it’s designed, and hardly a big deal – but it is a pet peeve.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Another one:
When someone borrows your fine tip sharpie or highlighter, and returns it with the tip all flattened out.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
If you let people borrow a fine pen like that, it's your own damn fault.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
I didn't think they'd destroy the tip in ten seconds,
like some cheap hooker.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
by Thingray on Aug 27, 2010 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Sounds like you need deeper hookers, so you don't hit bottom.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Aug 27, 2010 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's the ones with braces that really kill me.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I am going to find a way to use this line at my family function on Sunday
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Tangled wires, ropes or hoses.
Fuck the Angels
And another:
When people list an address as: 1456 13 Ave NE.
It’s 13th Ave, not 13 Ave. At least to me that’s how it should be.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
In NYC, that'll get you lost.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
In addition, people that don't give you postfixes for streets.
Is it 8th ave or 8th st? Why would that matter, I don’t know…
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
That annoys me too.
Or when they leave off the NE or SE or whatever it may be.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
So there is a "9th" street, as well as a "9" street?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
No, but there's 9th ave and 9th st, and the signs just have 9 st
It makes it very confusing as a person trying to get to job interviews without having been around the city much.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Of course this might just be NYC being retarded and having numbered streets going perpendicular to eachother.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Looks to me like it's an issue with the size of their street signs.
Make them a little longer than six inches NY.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
This is not as bad as driving in LA freeways when you are new in the area.
“Take 10 East to the 110 N” and then the sign says “110 West” And then it might say “101 South or 101 West”
One time trying to get to and from Hollywood I think I drove non-stop for about 45 minutes taking on-ramps and off-ramps and winding up in the exact same place I started.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Paging Corco, Corco to the OT, Corco...
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by JY on Aug 27, 2010 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
You'd have to pay me a ton of money to live in LA.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
The street signs are low on the list of reasons.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I hate that too.
We have a fellow at work that uses them, but improperly (i.e. 13 th ave), which also is a peeve of mine. And seriously, is it all that hard to put the third letter in the abbreviation for avenue? Seeing “AV” in an address makes me want to throw sharp objects at unicorns.
Fucking automatic paper towel dispensers
One in particular that has done this to me many times. I wave my wet hands all around in front of the sensor, under, to the side, no paper towels come out. Finally I get fed up and walk away, and the movement of me walking away makes it dispense a paper towel. Also, if I fake walking away, it knows and won’t give me a paper towel. Also, when other people walk in, I look like a fool.
And it’s in a kitchen and will often just spit paper towels at you while you’re cooking.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 27, 2010 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
They put the dispenser at work right next to the bathroom door
When you walk in, towel. When you walk out, more towel. When you need a towel, it’s empty. WHO’S THE GENIUS THAT THOUGHT OF THIS ONE
Don't touch the things on my desk.
People that don’t say thank you when I hold the door open for them.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Ungrateful sons of bitches right?
I held this door open for a mom and the brood she had with her at the zoo and she even seemed annoyed that I was slightly in her way. I wanted to choke-slam her
I stopped for gas last night, and I see a lady in a Mercedes trying to figure out how to put air in her tire.
So by the time I finish pumping my gas, I can see she still has a flat. So I walk over and ask “would you like a hand with that?”, and she looks up, backs away three steps (clutching her cell phone) and says ’MY HUSBAND IS ON THE WAY HERE".
Well fuck you then lady, hope your imaginary husband shows up soon.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
by Thingray on Aug 27, 2010 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
What a loser.
Who marries someone who can’t change a tire?
by d0nkey on Aug 27, 2010 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
She wasn't even trying to change the tire, she was just trying to put air in it.
But whattabitch.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
None of my friends in high school knew how to even check their oil level.
by Eyebrows on Aug 27, 2010 2:42 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
My sisters drove their shared 1976 Corolla until the engine seized because it was bone-dry
Surprisingly, it only took a little work on the engine to get it chugging again. I can’t imagine a newer car driving 1,000 miles without barely any oil and being recoverable.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
New pet peeve, my fucking frequent and heinous grammatical failures.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Mid 70's to early 80's Corrola's kicked ass for this.
My family has owed a bunch of them, and you can fix almost anything with very little work.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I'm not even good with cars, but I could still figure out my way around that Corolla
Built like a little tank, too, considering how tiny it is.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Yep, love those things!
I’d drive one today if I could find a decent one.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
One time while on the ferry, I held a door open for over 200 people
But lucky me most of them thanked me.
…they should send down Huntington & Nutting, because they aren’t ready, either. - royshowell
by Marinerfanjake on Aug 27, 2010 6:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I forgot there were steps down immediately outside a door
As I stepped through I checked over my shoulder and yup, an attractive woman was right behind me so I held the door. Then fell down the steps. The door slapped shut and smacked her right in the face. Holy crap did I feel bad about that one
by Kermit. on Aug 27, 2010 7:51 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Those are rather heavy doors.
…they should send down Huntington & Nutting, because they aren’t ready, either. - royshowell
by Marinerfanjake on Aug 27, 2010 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions
They were the glass with steel frame type on a convenience store
With an overly snappy hydraulic arm thing. Just a bad string of circumstance that led to her eating the door.
Also that reads like I only held the door since she was attractive which is wrong
It was just kind of funny “Wow!” ooof bang boom bing POW right in the kisser
Eh?
I don’t really consider myself the type to get my blood up over things like this. Most of the time I just think “well that was shitty. And now it’s over.” Doesn’t seem worth the energy for the most part.
The one exception I could come up with was when someone comes up to you with four or five things to tell you and can only remember two of them and is going to interrupt you for the next few hours each time they remember another one. I don’t think that’s unjustified though.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
People who consistently don't wear deodorant
And I can tell the difference between “burns through deodorant” and “doesn’t wear deodorant.”
Occasionally is forgivable, but consistently (or on purpose?) makes me want to jump out my 13th floor window.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
(Ducks because he ran out of deoderant this morning and had to go dry)
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
This is acceptable
Everyone forgets/runs out occasionally. But if you’re that guy (or girl) I dread talking to because I know you’re going to walk over to my desk, and I know you’re going to stink up the place, and I know I’m going to hold my breath as long as possible and gag visibly when I have to breathe, well…
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Luckily I don't have much funk.
So I can get away with a day in the office without pitting out. But I’m stopping on the way home to grab a new stick.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I'm pretty sure this girl would actually kill me if I sprayed her with anything
100% guaranteed slaying.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
Try leaving a stick of new deoderant in her desk drawer, anonymously
It might embarrass them a bit but it sends the message without the awkwardness of the confrontation.
I usually don't
but I somehow don’t stink at all. Only the stress sweat or if I don’t sleep for a couple of days, then it gets rancid. But I’ve had the same deodorant stick for two years I think.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 28, 2010 6:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiinng!, Native Son.
This is the most beautiful place on earth., Desert Solitaire.
Such is the good City or State, and the good and man is of same pattern; and if this right every other is wrong; and the evil is one in which affects not only ordering the State, but also the regulation of the individual soul and is exhibited in four forms., The Republic.
Fuck the Angels
How do people find funny stuff on the internet?
I always wondered this.
- - How do obscure Youtube videos get found? Just one person finding it and then spreading the word over time? Because sometimes an obscure person will post up something and within a day it has 100,000 views.
- - Sometimes people here post stuff from random websites that are hilarious. Where did thy find?!
Basically, I want to find some funny stuff right now. Not youtube because I’m at work, but funny stuff to read. But also, in the future, need good funny-finding skills.
I've wondered this myself.
I think there are websites out there that link to things like this. Probably called boredatwork.com or something (don’t try to go there, I just made it up and don’t know if it exists or not, or what it may contain).
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I don't really know what the fuck that is, but I like it!
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 1:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Good show sir. I will read of this Benchley.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Knowyourmeme is a decent way of tracking these trends.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Also 4chan but then you have to deal with btards.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh, they're alright once you realize this:
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
by Faux on Aug 27, 2010 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I just don't find them interesting, but I know a btard or two.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
What exactly is a btard?
Can we not say r*tard around here?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
/b/ is one of the main 4chan boards.
It’s denizens are often referred to as btards. Or Anonymous sometimes. It depends on the context.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Okay, I got it now.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
No, retard is still encouraged.
I wish I didn’t know what a btard was. 4chan/b/ is the most confusing site ever.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Incidentally
I’m happy to have pointed people in B3ta’s direction because one of their memes is the is a Kotchman clone.
Digg and Reddit are good, but both kind of have those cliquey inside joke things
StumbleUpon is the best. Not necessarily for funny things, but for general randomness on the internet. And you can tailor it to your interests, so if you want random funny things, it’ll usually give you that. Takes a few hours of going to random websites and liking and unliking to get it to the point where it knows you, though.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 27, 2010 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Stumbleupon was the one I was trying to think of.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I'm not sure how I do.
I have a lot of friends in creative agencies that send me stuff. But often times I just venture out and follow the links.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa
“I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it – without knowing why.”
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Yet only 12 hot dogs.
What the hell man?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
If you're putting hot dogs in your taco shells,
You have bigger problems than an extra shell.
What, this isn't normal?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
One of my favorite meals is a hot dog in a tortilla with some cheese.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
To someone with Celiac,
You guys have definitely piqued my interest.
What is Celiac?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
It's a form of gluten intolerance.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Ouch.
But taco shells and tortillas are okay?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
If they're completely corn based.
No flour tortillas.
I just started working part-time at a place that does a gluten-free pizza.
Surprisingly I did not hate it.
The taste of the gluten-free products depends on what is used as the substitute for wheat.
I think the worst thing I ever took a bite of was a pre-made non-dairy, gluten-free pizza that was soy based. I think Annie’s made it, but I’ve tried to block out that memory.
The U.S. hasn't exactly made strides on that front.
Since it’s not something you can really medicate, there’s not a lot of money that goes into research for it. If you go to most European countries or Australia, they’ll have celiac option, but in the U.S. not a whole lot of people know about it.
I researched and copy edited an article on this a while back so….
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, it doesn't seem like a curable condition. Either you can or can't digest gluten.
I used to get a pile of gluten-free food when I worked for a natural/organic food distributor a few years ago. I can digest gluten, so I don’t pay much attention to that market anymore. I remember Pamela’s Products made great cookies and their pancake/baking mix is the best dry mix I’ve ever had.
Both my brother and wife are gluten intolerant.
And I fear I might be as well.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn't be surprised.
I know at least 10 people that are.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Any respectable human being would simply die of gluten poisoning before they'd give up all gluten.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 3:14 PM PDT up reply actions
This is my stance.
I’m not giving up Wheat beer till it kills me.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not respectable then!
It really hasn’t been as big of a deal as you’d figure.
I know there is Gluten Free Beers
But this is where it would kill me. Though I’ve tried to cut it out in certain parts of my diet because well I just feel lighter.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I've cut way, way, way down on gluten because I don't want to run the risk of making myself intolerant.
And there really is an important distinction between gluten intolerance and celiac.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 27, 2010 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh I know.
Sister in law is celiac and brother is gluten intolerant.
Which is funny because my brother just found out even though they’ve been married for 5 years. And since she cooks he has been eating gluten free that entire time without knowing he was actually allergic.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Sake has been a godsend.
It is a way healthier diet though.
I have way more energy than before, and have combined it with a workout program that’s put me in the best shape of my life.
I'm more inclined to think that 100% of the world is to some degree
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 27, 2010 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
This is like how no human is really meant to drink cow milk and that's why we have to pastuerize the shit out of it.
Or at least, thats what I hear.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
It's not the pasteurization, but yeah.
We’re not real good at digesting a lot of stuff.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 27, 2010 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions
The trainer at my gym who gives me a lot of good tips explained to me how milk is really a shitty thing to drink.
They take all of the good nutrients out of it just so we can drink it because we can’t digest the enzymes or whatever when its pure.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Watch out for Sec 108...
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I care man.... I care.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Fine then.
Pasteurization kills bacteria in the milk that are considered a health hazard to people with weak immune systems. It is those very same bacteria that are needed to digest the milk properly. So, he didn’t have it completely correct. We in fact only encounter the difficulty digesting milk because of the pasteurization while raw milk is rather easy to digest.
Interesting.
I am interested to hear these things and am merely the messenger of the message I heard from the trainer.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I drink a gallon of milk every 3 days or so.
I’m pretty sure I digest it just fine. But I guess I wouldn’t really know if I wasn’t
I ate a MASSIVE bowl of ice cream last night,
and I paid the price a bit this morning, but I think it was overindulgence more than anything to do with dairy.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
No human is meant to drink any milk past a certain age.
That your bodies (not mine) can now tolerate it is considered an evolutionary advantage.
Take that, Tennessee.
That's not evolutionary
that’s adaptabliity.We couldn’t have evolved to drink milk – time frame is too short and the selective pressure not strong enough.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 28, 2010 6:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, poorly-worded on my part
Lactose tolerance itself is a genetic mutation is what I was getting at.
Mmm I don't think that's accurate though
we are all lactose tolerant because we are mammals, but before dairy farming lactase transcription would be quickly shut down upon weaning. I think we have adapted to maintain lactase transcription into adulthood but it is not necessarily a genetic feature. If a kid drinks milk after being weaned the gene may remain active via epigenetic mechanisms. Sorry to geek out, its my field.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 28, 2010 8:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Ah, gotcha.
For some reason I thought that there had been a recent discovery that lactose tolerance was tied to a genetic mutation, but that seems to be only partially-correct, at leastaccording to this.
(I’m at work so my surfing capabilities are a bit limited. There may be a better article out there than the one I linked.)
Yeah the paseurization is so it keeps better
you can drink it warm from the udder just fine (I was made to do this as a kid and still find milk disgusting on account of it). And while we maybe didn’t evolve to digest it, the stomach is pretty adaptable and the high fat diet is one of the things that powers our pretty fucking big brains.
There’s an idea out there that domestication of animals and subsequent uptick in fat and cholesterol intake coincided with a big IQ bump in early humans.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 28, 2010 6:25 AM PDT up reply actions
It could be.
The ways it tends to manifest are usually rather specific. Like, you have stomach or intestinal trouble, villi get agitated, gluten gets in the cracks, crazy shit starts happening.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I could have made that more clear.
In restaurants, they’ll have things on the menu that are designated as being okay for those with Celiac.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh ok.
I was actually pretty surprised at the amount of restaurants that do that here in MT.
Missoula’s maybe 80,000 people, and I think I have like six or seven options of restaurants that have either gluten free menus or dishes they guarantee to be gluten free.
I imagine in a place like Seattle or Portland you’d have tons of options.
Seems to be a Northwest issue.
But thats only cause I’ve known people that have been diagnosed as Gluten intolerant only to find out they were super Vitamin D deficient.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
It's all around the world and doesn't really have much to do with Vitamin D.
Although the condition can affect how you absorb certain things leading to all kinds of issues.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh I know.
The symptoms of the two things are just really similar.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Most gluten free stuff tastes pretty normal.
It’s just usually expensive and often hard to get/find.
Cooking at home all the time, it really isn’t any different. The main problems are when you’re on the road and need something to eat in a hurry.
And going over to friends’ for dinner is now very awkward and inconvenient.
Your friends should know about this and be more than happy to accomodate you.
I have friends with food issues, and I don’t mind making them something special.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
My friends are cool with it,
It’s just the being an inconvenience that sucks.
And also never knowing for sure if they got everything right on it.
I’ve been completely gluten free for six or seven months, cooking five or six meals a week, and I still mess up on occasion.
Not to get too personal, but what happens if you accidentally eat gluten?
Is it uncomfortable, or is it more of a life threatening thing like a severe peanut allergy?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Just a day of horrible gas and mild stomach pains.
And you can say it just doesn’t stay in my system long you know?
I hear ya.
(and I wish you would close the door)
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Gluten free food is exploding in popularity lately
And it seems the overall quality is improving because of this.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
This is like what they did with powerbars and following protein bars.
Back in 1995 there was nothing more disgusting than a powerbar. Now they’re candy bars with protein.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 3:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Even more shocking is I didn't hate the vegan cheese.
It doesn’t really taste like cheese, but they got the texture right. Flavor wise it was more like a mix between velveeta and theater popcorn butter.
I've never had decent dairy-free cheese that didn't contain caesin.
Which to me defeats the entire purpose.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 27, 2010 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I had to go a couple months of being completely lactose free,
And that was WAY harder than being gluten free.
Here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/38884172#38884172
I think he is stocking up to donate his wealth before he dies.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
That's probably it, morbid as it may be
by tootthekazoo on Aug 27, 2010 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
If thats what truly happens.
I would consider it the greatest lawsuit ever.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 27, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I know he's sick, is he actually dying?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
First thing I found is that non-hodgkins lymphoma is what he has and 43% of people with it die within 5 years.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 3:57 PM PDT up reply actions
He already beat regular Hodgkins but I think that makes this dicier :(
Hopefully the fact that he is the richiest person in history to get it will help his odds.
I'm pickling, there's a difference.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
No.
Pickling is pre-preserving our bodies. We do this by consuming copious amounts of alcohol as often as possible. No embalming fluid needed.
Stop trying to take all the fun out of drinking dammit!
Huh, become a father and get all responsible and shit. Geez!
We've lost him Todd...
Let him go! You can’t help him now!! :)
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Good lord, I just realized I have not had a drink since Sunday.
I promise to rectify this behavior tonight.
You may be saved yet...
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Holy shit. Yeah he is.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
It's awesome
His company holds a patent for a service suggesting things you might like
by tootthekazoo on Aug 27, 2010 3:52 PM PDT up reply actions
His company holds a patent for a service which suggests things you might like on other services.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I've seen this somewhere before...
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
We are not helping you remove Robert from your house
by seattlebruin on Aug 27, 2010 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
The allude/elude mistake is always fascinating.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions
It was also awesome in class this summer when a girl referred to a work's "illusions to the Bible"
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I usually let stuff like that slide because.. whatever.
HOWEVER. If you are in a situation where it is appropriate to talk about a work’s ‘illusions to the Bible’ then you really, really ought to know better.
De Gutibus non disputandum est
by Bearskin Rugburn on Aug 28, 2010 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I got a kick out of it. So did the prof.
But yeah, it was embarrassing for her.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 28, 2010 3:17 PM PDT up reply actions
It's nice how this little man makes references all the time.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Apparently, I should read down, because someone already noted this.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
If they remake Back to the Future while Michael J Fox is still alive,
I may actually go firebomb Hollywood.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Totally inappropriate and classless,
but worth stealing because it’s funny as hell.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Only because he's rich and doing just fine...
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 4:24 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
I don't get it.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
For example:
Michael J Fox can turn a regular gun into a machine gun because he shakes so badly.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 27, 2010 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I get it now.
Over-inflated tires from a simple pump, telegraph from a hand held horn.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Stolen from some comedy bit circa '95-ish
Still gives me grins
Well the other name I had in mind
was “Kermit gives me grins.”
I sometimes find myself engaged in combat with hobos.
What do McDonald's and Michael J. Fox have in common?
They both have terrible shakes.
by ThomasG on Aug 27, 2010 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This has already been debunked.
British tabloids are even less reliable than American ones.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 27, 2010 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Michael Saunders MRI showed no shoulder damage
Woohoo! Games have been very boring with no Saunders.
Hopefully they find him some time at 3rd, 2nd, and maybe even 1st or DH.
Lopez, Figgy and Kotchman have nothing to prove.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Figgy would be my last choice to pull,
but it can’t hurt to give him a day off every month or so.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I think Figgy has a lot to prove.
But the other two should be DFA’d.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 27, 2010 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't know why Kotchman is still here.
Lopez is at least young and has some decent recent history. Kotchman was a gamble we took that didn’t pay off.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
That's great news.
Hopefully he plays out the season in LF.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Random question--anyone know where you can find a lineup for the Rainers game, if one is posted?
The Rainiers website doesn’t have one up, not sure if they ever do. I’m going to the game tonight, and am wondering what I’m getting.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
It's probably not posted yet, but would be up on their website/Milb.com when it is.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 27, 2010 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions
They don't usually post until about half an hour before the game if that.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 5:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that just because of staffing, or the fluid nature of MiLB lineups?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Largely staffing I would say.
You can get to Everett when gates open and the lineup will be posted on the whiteboard. It might take a while for the box score to get set up though.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Makes sense.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Twins acquire Brian Fuentes for a PTBNL
If they use him as a situational lefty, I think it’s actually a fantastic pickup. If he’s used against righties, not so much.
In his last three segments Calabro has used to following artists when coming back from break: Papa Roach, POD and Jimmy Eat World.
His guest asked Z about hiring Lou Pinella and they just had a Tuiasosopo on air.
I don’t want to alarm anyone but it appears a temporal warp has opened up between current day and 2001 and Calabro has decided to broadcast from it.
Boy do I hope that he doesn't have any travel plans in two weeks!
by Robert on Aug 27, 2010 5:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Did Halman talk about how it was his birthday yesterday or something?
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope.
they asked him about where he was from, how he began playing, what languages he spoke. However, it is Jim Thome’s birthday today, and he was feeling pleased he’d gotten to keep playing until he was 40.
Considering there's only two games left in the AZL season, they might not get him on the field this year.
That is unless they want to try for Everett.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 6:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey guys, we're 94-37!
Thats a .718 winning percentage so far. If we continue on this pace, we’ll tie the 1908 Cubs with 116 wins!
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
Oh fuck I'm going to be in New York in a week and a half.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 27, 2010 5:55 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Better get in a New York State of Mind.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
So I didn't realize until just now that Strasburg continues to burn service time while on the DL
That makes this significantly more devastating. 1-1.5 years of club control down the drain just like that.
by Fuckmikereilly on Aug 28, 2010 12:43 AM PDT reply actions
Question - Is there anywhere that keeps stat totals for a Organizations entire minor league system?
Like HR totals for the entire Mariners system?
You could do things like this.
So it looks like we’ve had 736 home runs in system thus far. Trying to see that stacking up to the other teams would require additional page clicks though. There’s no easy way.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Ok so heres what I got -
(7 teams) Arizona – 463
(7 teams) Atlanta – 376
(9 teams) Baltimore – 445
(7 teams) Boston – 431
(8 teams) Chicago Cubs – 439
(7 teams) Chicago White Sox – 481
(8 teams) Cincinnati – 516
(7 teams) Cleveland – 443
(7 teams) Colorado – 454
(8 teams) Detroit – 427
(7 teams) Florida – 451
(8 teams) Houston – 479
(8 teams) Kansas City – 481
(7 teams) LAAA – 472
(7 teams) LA Dodgers – 546
(7 teams) Milwaukee – 402
(7 teams) Minnesota – 373
(9 teams) NY Mets – 552
(8 teams) NY Yankees – 483
(7 teams) Oakland – 475
(8 teams) Philadelphia – 428
(8 teams) Pittsburg – 440
(7 teams) San Diego – 437
(7 teams) San Francisco – 436
(9 teams) St Louis – 568
(9 teams) Tampa Bay – 456
(7 teams) Texas – 437
(7 teams) Toronto – 539
(7 teams) Washington – 431
(9 teams) Seattle – 736
Seattle is killing the competition – The next closest is St. Louis with 568.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 28, 2010 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Can we make a connection to the new workout yet?
Which is supposed to be implemented at the major league level starting next season.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 28, 2010 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Not bad at all.
You can’t really make it all out to by HD either because a lot of the other parks are neutral-ish, or pitcher favored. The only exception I could think of is Everett for left-handed power hitters.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 28, 2010 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
*to be
not to by
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 28, 2010 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Interesting. I averaged (to take out # of teams as a factor) to see who the worst was.
SEA – 81.78
LAD – 78.00
TOR – 77.00
CWS – 68.71
OAK – 67.86
LAAA – 67.43
ARI – 66.14
COL – 64.86
CIN – 64.50
FLA – 64.43
CLE – 63.29
STL – 63.11
SD – 62.43
TEX – 62.43
SF – 62.29
BOS – 61.57
WAS – 61.57
NYM – 61.33
NYY – 60.38
KC – 60.13
HOU – 59.88
MIL – 57.43
PIT – 55.00
CHC – 54.88
ATL – 53.71
PHL – 53.50
DET – 53.38
MIN – 53.29
TB – 50.67
BAL – 49.44
Ta-da! It’s Baltimore.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Hahahaha
From the comments
They’re going to have a hard time finding 3rd world children with IT degrees.
I've just watched Samurai Zombie and I have to say I enjoyed more than I thought I would
I only bought it because I saw Ryuuhei Kitamura’s name on the case. It’s definitely not as good as Versus or Sky High but that’s maybe because he didn’t actually direct this one, just wrote it. The first 10 minutes or so is a bit iffy but it really picks up after that and was quite a lot of fun.
Just remembered a good opening line
‘Imagine that you have to break someone’s arm.’ – Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
So I was already looking forward to Machete.
Then I saw this and about pee’d my pants in sheer joy.
http://www.screenjunkies.com/movievideo/new-clip-proves-machete-greatest-achievement-cinema-history/
The Old Spice Guy won the Emmy for Best Commerical.
So at least there’s some justice in the world.
by SethGrandpa on Aug 29, 2010 9:51 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Hey look an LCD TV deal
32" Sylvania LCD for $287. Is this too good to pass up? Looking for an improvement for my dorm room over a 12" CRT and it looks like this costs about as much as a 22" or 26" would. Is Sylvania generally reliable?
That's a tempting price.
Almost makes me want to grab one to put downstairs.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
and McHale!
@joelmchale Here at the Emmys. Yeah, I pulled every muscle I have during the dance routine. Didn’t know I had a “ball” muscle.
@joelmchale Dream come true: I danced w/Jane Lynch & met @NathanFillion while wearing wool. Okay, it’s more of a fetish than a dream
Maybe I'm a jerk but I pretty much decided right at that moment that I wasn't going to watch the Emmy's.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
That makes us a pair of jerks, but I find award shows boring and wasn't going to watch it anyway.
I just happened to walk by the TV when my wife had it on.
I watch the Oscars only. With the Emmy's let me guess the nominees: Mariska Hartigay and Mad Men?
Oh and get ready for 10 years of Modern Family noms.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I never watch the Emmys because most TV shows are boring
but someone sent me this and it was pretty cool.
I'm just bitter because Jimmy Fallon ruins everything he touches and I really liked everyone else in that number beforehand.
Except for Glee kids cause I’ve never watched that show.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I find Jimmy Fallon incredibly unfunny
but I will give him credit because he does do some pretty good musical impressions.
I saw Charles Gipson do this once
No, I lied, actually Gipson pinch-ran for Posada and was picked off first by Borowski to end his career.
Yankees!
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
by HititHere on Aug 30, 2010 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Suzuki Kizashi
So, looking to get a new car. Saw that nice car thread in a OT a couple weeks ago.
However, while my ‘old’ car was getting worked on I drove a Suzuki Kizashi around for a few days. In my limited time in it, what a nice car. It’s only around 21k, but that’s a lot to invest in a Suzuki car. Anyone else hear anything about this car, because up until a few days ago I had never heard of it.
I fucking hate you Mariners
Everytime I hear an ad, I think that would be a good ballplayer name.
Now pitching, no. 55, Suzuki Kizashi…
I would just disagree in that the most important thing Jack Z will do in the offseason is find major league hitters not hire the "right manager"
Wak was right one year and wrong the next. Just get someone who appropriately can hit 3rd in the order.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I recently started playing diplomacy.
Any tips on either diplomacy or strategy games in general?
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
I finally caught up on Dexter and watched the season 4 finale last night.
Fucking bullshit man, fucking bullshit.
I love the show, but that just pissed me off and it added nothing to the season for me.
Maybe I’m just more of a happy ending kind of guy.
Oh well. I’ll still watch season 5. Hopefully season six of the Office is happier.
Side note- am I the only one that waits until shows come out on DVD to watch them?
I havent watched season 4 yet. I am typing this without looking at the screen. Do I have to avoid this part of the OT for spoilers?
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah probably.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
If you click on the title, it closes the text!
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Not that it helps the rest, but oh well.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Wow, I've been a horrible commenter the past couple weeks.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
(it's ok there's truth in it)
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
Fair enough.
It's hard to convince people to let you eat them if you're an asshole. - Thingray
It was foreshadowed.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Still pisses me off.
They killed off the whole side story of him trying to lead a normal family life, which was a huge part of the story. For me at least.
The previews of Season 5 indicate that's not going away entirely.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
Slow day here and I need to build up more posts so I can avoid the Dexter thing. No worries BigR, you understand.
So I went to the store (Trader Joes) on Saturday and I spent about $20 on food. I figured that would keep me for a few days. Then I couldn’t help but start trying everything. I feel like shopping ahead of time is a useless effort.
Do you have the will power to not eat food you just bought? Do you feel often that you go to the store, spend $40 or some amount, then put the food away and then feel like your fridge and cupboards are just as empty as they were when you left and “Where did all my money go?”
I hate that.
Never go shopping when you're hungry.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
That's a good rule of thumb. I think the main issue is I bought a lot of food I had never had before.
I was so curious. Luckily it was TJ’s so it was inexpensive, but I wish I hadn’t eaten that much this weekend. Better than McD’s though.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I do this too.
Hungry or not, when I buy something new I want to crack it open right away.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
And always go with a plan
if I don’t have a list of things I want to make for the week I end up buying all kinds of random stuff
[DELETED ZOMG NO POLITICS]
Just the "where'd my money go" part.
M's fan in PA, soon to be LA
by perfectstrat on Aug 30, 2010 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
I think that's fairly common for all premium network shows.
I did get HBO for things like True Blood and very soon BOARDWALK EMPIRE (WOOT WOOT!) but Showtime? I don’t think so.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, the guy is pretty direct about what's going to happen when you call.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
My system here at work is locked up too.
Still haven’t heard from our IT guy, and I called him about two hours ago.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
We must work together and not know it.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
HELLOOO... Hello..... hellooooo.....
Hear anything?
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
No, because I AM the IT guy. And I ignore all such callings. Can't help it.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Kiss my shiny metal ass then.
And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Yeah, this isn't full, but it's slid down the list pretty far.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
This one has a distinct lack of interesting subthreads.
by thehemogoblin on Aug 30, 2010 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Sure.
The best part is that it’s finished, so there’s no wondering involved.
Just know that Season Three doesn’t feel quite right at first and Four is largely uninteresting.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 30, 2010 3:49 PM PDT up reply actions
The other best part is that it was allowed to finish unlike some other great HBO shows.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't wait to see and have my heart broken by Carnivale!
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
by JY on Aug 30, 2010 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions
There's nothing wrong with some Six Feet Under. A long series, so it should keep you busy for awhile.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I found out after the fact that I knew one of the actresses in Rome.
Caught me off guard as she did not talk one bit about being an actress.
Possibly but probably not Cleopatra
You should watch the show. It’s exceptionally un-stuffy for a historical drama.
I've been entertaining myself watching old Almost Live sketches on youtube...
well, not right now, you know, but over the last few days.
I wish they could find a way to make Almost Live work now.
I feel like that was one of the best things about Seattle.
Charter Member: Dave Sims Sweet Hat Club // Batting .400 in 30 AB for Rocky Diablos, PSSBL.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 30, 2010 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Is anyone familiar with the board game "Dominion"?
I’m not terribly good at it, but I enjoy the game play a lot and just bought the “Intrigue” expansion.
Charter Member: Dave Sims Sweet Hat Club // Batting .400 in 30 AB for Rocky Diablos, PSSBL.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 30, 2010 3:26 PM PDT reply actions
Nope.
Just thought I’d chip in with an utterly useless response.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
TETRIS ATTACK
Are you ready?
Charter Member: Dave Sims Sweet Hat Club // Batting .400 in 30 AB for Rocky Diablos, PSSBL.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 30, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Absolutely not, I gotta go hook up my SNES and practice! But on another note FUCK YEAH!
I’m still waiting to see where the softball is—if it’s too far away (I live in the south end) I may not be able to come because I’m too poor for gas money.
I’m about 75% yes now.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I cannot properly describe my excitement.
Charter Member: Dave Sims Sweet Hat Club // Batting .400 in 30 AB for Rocky Diablos, PSSBL.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 31, 2010 4:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Never even heard of it.
Then again I haven’t played a true board game in at least 10 years.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
I suppose it's not so much a board game as a card game
But it’s a card game more like Pit than Poker or Magic.
I won’t go into explaining it, because it would take a long time to do it justice. Suffice it to say that you should play it.
Charter Member: Dave Sims Sweet Hat Club // Batting .400 in 30 AB for Rocky Diablos, PSSBL.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 30, 2010 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I love Dominion. It was played near weekly at my school's board game club.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
This shirt on eBay
makes me want to punch the Mariners’ history in the face.
Woo, we won the division a couple times!
Better than Rangers history.
For now…
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Well that's about useless.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Movies I watched this weekend.
Daybreakers: Really stupid. An intriguing idea, poorly executed. And really, again, quite stupid.
In the Name of the Father: I guess the only bad part about it was, despite not knowing what the movie was about going in, the opening credits say “Based on the book ‘Proved Innocent’” So I sort of knew what was coming. Still an interesting story with perhaps the greatest actor of our generation. I think younger than I’ve ever seen him before too which was interesting for me. Oh, thats Daniel Day Lewis if you aren’t familiar with the movie.
The Collector: A low budget horror movie that came out last year I think. Actually pretty good. It’s a booby trap, suspense, serial killer movie that takes place in one night. I really liked it.
Repo Men: Just like Daybreakers except a better concept that was even more stupid. God what an overall sucky movie.
He's a great actors,
but I don’t tend to like the films he’s in. Kind of annoying actually.
I feel the opposite way about DeNiro. I usually love the movies he’s in, but I think he’s overrated.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
"actor"
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
So, how do you feel about Gangs of New York?
by Chris Hafner on Aug 30, 2010 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Never saw it.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
The Crazies, Kick Ass and The Perfect Getaway.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 30, 2010 7:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Olyphant Weekend! Weee!
I love Mr Olyphant. But wow I just realized The Crazies was forgettable. Too bad, I had high hopes. I think I thought it was okay. The Perfect Getaway was decent. Kick Ass was one of my favorite movies of the year.
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 31, 2010 8:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Crazies was cool technically but it was a remake.
The perfect getaway may have ruined the only chance of convincing my wife to hike the kalalau trail.
by Scruffy Lefty on Aug 31, 2010 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions
[snort]
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Derek Dressendorfer They must be WHACK if they think I’m gonna drop some serious cash on a LOSING team. How about rewarding us with a WINNING team for once, you greedy ownership? Seriously. We fill your stadiums year in and year out, and all you do is pocke…t the money, and our reward every year is NOT being in the playoffs, NOT being in the World Series, and so my word to you is…. GET US INTO THE PLAYOFFS, then MAYBE I’ll pay for a jersey or something. I got tired YEARS ago of buying tickets to games where all we do is LOSE, LOSE, LOSE, LOSE, LOSE, LOSE. I’ve been a life-long fan, but I’m not a Life-Long ENABLER. You start putting a winning product on the field, I’ll start investing dollars into you again, but I will NOT ENABLE ownership’s need to be greedy at our expense. We’ve literally put BILLIONS into this organization with our support, and gotten NOTHING in return except players that GO AWAY unhappy like Randy Johnson and Lou Piniella did. Because they KNEW ownership wasn’t committed to winning, just committed to pocketing our dollars. You want to know why? Winning COSTS TOO MUCH. That’s why the Mariner’s will never go anywhere while we have ownership like this who care more for pocketing the bux instead of investing them into playoff contending players who WILL get us the wins we need to make it to the World Series.See More
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I have to admit I love the use of the term "ENABLER"
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Anything else you want to say Dressendorfer?
Probably got kicked off the little league team because his name wouldn’t fit on the uniform.
"Seems to me if you bought your Sunday beer on Saturday night, this becomes a complete non-issue."
Derek is so mad that his daddy never got more than a cup of coffee in the bigs.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
by HititHere on Aug 30, 2010 4:15 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
This reminds me about a Rick Honeycutt baseball card I had as a kid.
I don’t know why I was drawn to it, but I had a Honeycutt card and he was instantly one of my favorite ball players. This was before I even watched much baseball, certainly didn’t follow it.
Any similar stories out there?
by Kenneth Arthur on Aug 30, 2010 4:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I was a big fan of Todd Van Poppel
Mostly because I got his card in a pack sometime early in my youth, and always thought of Popples.
I am going to come into your house at night and rec up the place.
I collected Tom Gordon 89 donruss rookie cards.
I have no idea why. Don’t think I even watched him pitch when I was 11
Kate Beaton did some book cover comics with Nancy Drew mysteries and they are lovely.
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett Mariners Minors
I just finished Farscape last night, and I'm legitimately sad.
Usually, I look forward to finishing shows, but I was enjoying Farscape so much that I didn’t want it to end. I definitely recommend it for sci-fi fans. The first three seasons are on the Netflix Instant Watch.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 31, 2010 8:20 AM PDT reply actions
I was the same way with The Shield
I loved it so much and was legitimately upset that it finished. I looked forward every night to watching 2 or 3 episodes with the Mrs. and when it finished we were both a bit lost
by tootthekazoo on Aug 31, 2010 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I've just started watching it. It's been fantastic so far.
Morgan Ensberg for Manager 2011!
AL Scout on Rendon: "I would peg him as a poor man's Jose Lopez."
There are a couple of dead spots. The first half of the second season, and the first half of the fourth season are pretty slow.
The payoff, though, is that the second halves of those seasons are incredible.
Also, make sure to watch The Peacekeeper Wars. It’s the mini-series that wraps up the show, since the fourth season ends on a huge cliffhanger. They were expecting to have a fifth season, but it was suddenly canceled.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Sep 1, 2010 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
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