Tuesday Bird Droppings

the dreaded “liking rich hill as an oriole”

I’d never seen the JP as Roch post. It’s gold. BTW, if anyone here is on facebook and hasn’t friended Roch, do it now. His status updates will make your skin crawl.

Stuff is great. Adds a whole new dimension to the blog. Well done Z.

…I’m a bit confused by that movie, Taken, you quoted in that it was the biggest piece of shit schlockfest that I actually watched the whole way through (on cable) in quite some time. Anybody else have a similar experience?

I remember being upset when Watterson retired. Makes me feel old.

sexually harassing that woman in the video??

Sounds reasonable, but you know baseball purists would have a total fit.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/hotstove09/news/story?id=4869912

1. "…Angelos didn’t want Miller because he wasn’t always an Orioles cheerleader in his broadcasts. Many fans still point to that separation as one of most significant lowlights of Angelos’ ownership of the team."

Peter Angelos is a douchebag – so he fired the best announcer in baseball and hired…another douchebag. This isn’t rocket science.

2. That Youtube video is great—and heartbreaking. That should be our announcing team NOW, dammit.

(Oh, and Douchebag 2: Notice how Miller calls that double play? Yes, he actually TELLS THE RADIO AUDIENCE WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE CROWD NOISE DOES.)

3. "Angelos said, ‘Andy is doing such a good job I don’t think he needs any help from me. What? What do you mean WHAT THE &%$# HELP COULD I POSSIBLY GIVE BESIDES LEAPING OFF THE WAREHOUSE AND GOING SPLAT ON THE PAVEMENT? Hey, where’s the love, the gratitude?!? I’ve never liked doing this, you know.’"

4. Major NOT a douchebag: Bill Watterson: Maybe the best strip – ever. And not one Calvin coffee mug sold— ever. Class.

5. Groundhog Day is on TV here tonight! Russians love it too (it’s the gf’s favorite movie, in fact), so it often runs on this day in Moscow.

Calvin & Hobbes plus Groundhog Day = good antidotes for Peter Angelos

As far as Oriole nicknames. The whole O’s thing has to got. LET’s GO O’s, i think is so dumb. We need to be a little more creative or bring back the O.R.I.O.L.E.S. chants. Now when the bird does the cant it is all well and good, but it would be nice if a few thousand more people did it or we need another fan crowd leader (Wild Bill Hagy or Pat the bugler Walker).

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, February 2 (RIA Novosti)-Residents of the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod were trying to bribe Olesya the Groundhog with vegetables and nuts to induce her to make better weather predictions during a ceremony marking Groundhog Day at the city’s zoo on Tuesday.

The Limpopo zoo decided to support the American tradition and see if spring would come early in Russia with the help of its own weather forecaster, Olesya the Groundhog.

The American tradition states that if on February 2, Phil the Groundhog leaves his burrow where he has been hibernating and sees his shadow, spring is still a long way away, namely six weeks.

“According to her forecasts, we should expect six more weeks of winter, because she did not want to leave her burrow,” a zoo spokeswoman commented on Olesya’s behavior.

She said last year Limpopo workers failed to get a weather forecast from the zoo’s groundhogs as they were still hibernating on Groundhog’s Day.

I’m giving you all first dibs before I go over to Hogs Haven.

I have four season tickets to the Skins, nothing special, just upper level, although we’ll get moved up this year.

I’m looking to save a little money next season and split up my tickets: i.e., I will sell two of the seats at face value to someone. The catch is, I"m doing this to save money, and I’d need to be paid well in advance of the tickets being printed (invoice is due in a month), so you have to be a trusting soul. On the other hand, it’s not like I can hide given my profile here at CC.

You would get the same two seats (Section 449) to all home games (8 regular season plus 2 preseason) at face-value ($64/ticket, $1280 total for 20 tickets). They’d be yours to keep, sell on StubHub, what have you. I will not split up the tickets or the package.

If you’re interested, please email me offline at zknower at earthlink dot net (or use the bottom left link under BIG WIGS). (“BIG WIGS”? When did that happen?). Put something like “Skins” in the subject line so it recognize it in my spam filter.

Thanks, and please don’t turn this into a discussion about the ’Skins. :)

BP came out with their PECOTA projections for 2010 final standings. No surprise that they have the Orioles in 4th, but I am a bit surprised they have the O’s winning 80 games. I’d probably take that.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/dc/

Wasabi peas make an excellent snack.

About a Yankee fan so angry about the Yankees’ off-season moves that he’s canceling his season ticket plan.

http://www.bluebirdbanter.com/2010/1/30/1285048/saturday-night-laugh-at-the

Does anyone who first came up with the term MFY and PHn?

A week or so ago the Orioles took Dennis Sarfate off their 40 man roster. My understanding was that other teams could claim him at that point, at which point the Orioles could try to arrange some sort of deal with the claiming team. If no one claims him after ten days, he can either accept the assignment to Norfolk or be a free agent. That ten days is about up. What is the status of Sarfate?

Really bothered by the fact that so-called “experts” are saying Sandra Bullock should win the Oscar for The Blind Side? Hey, experts, this is the same woman who has a Golden Raspberry nomination for All About Steve. So, why don’t you throw a blonde wig on me and teach me how to speak in a Southern accent?

This whole thing is a load of crap. If the Academy gives it to her (even though I don’t think they will—it’s still a possibility), I will lose every ounce of respect I have for them. Honestly, putting Sandra Bullock in the same sentence as Meryl Streep is mind-boggling. Bullock will never, ever be the actress that Streep is.

guess which is going to get finished first

In the first minute of the show — they flushed 5 seasons of TV down the toilet — and then brought it back, sort of.

I thought it would have been ballsy to just go with the concept that the “reset” worked — it would have been cool but it would also have been a ripoff in that it would have completely let them off the hook for explaining so much. Having the “alternate reality” where they’re still on the island keeps them accountable.