Friday Bird Droppings
by zknower on Feb 5, 2010 7:01 AM EST
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And slim pickings out there, but it's that time of year.
O's prospect Brian Parker suspended 50 games | MLB.com: News
Because there haven't been enough Orioles suspended for prohibited substances, right? (first mentioned by matman008 in the Bédard thread yesterday) -zk
Rebuilding blocks include trades, free agents, homegrown talent - USATODAY.com
USA Today takes a look at rebuilding teams. Nothing you haven't heard before about the Orioles, plus reviews of the Mariners, Indians, A's and White Sox.
Baseball Nerd: Wrong - Keith Olbermann
An interesting column I stumbled across by Olbermann muses on the 1995 strike, and whether its replacement players (including Kevin Millar) should be held ou of video games as a result. Bizarre, but a good read. -zk
On February 5 in CC history:
All the world will be your enemy, Open Thread. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Thread with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
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And on this day in 1979
I was born! On that day, much like this year, God celebrated with a ridiculous amount of snow.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
C днем рождения!
Tip one fer me! But make sure you eat something with it— y’know, You go, grill!
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
Nah
But I’m pretty sure we’ll get sent home early, so that’s something.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
First of all, happy birthday
And my job is closing at seven, instead of ten, but they’re having me come in 4 hours early to make up for it. Usually, they send us home early and still pay us for the hours, but this time, they decided ahead of time to close at seven.
The stock market will never recover, our armies will never again be #1, and our children will drink filthy water for the rest of their lives - HST
by the fix is in on Feb 5, 2010 10:38 AM EST up reply actions
3 hrs. early dismissal for me.
Don't give up, don't ever give up. - Jim Valvano
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Feb 5, 2010 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
No school for me.
They were originally going to follow the county (2 hr. early dismissal) but today we had some party thing for the seniors (a going away party, I guess?) so the rest of the school was supposed to come in at 10:30. They figured, school for 2 hours? Not worth it.
jesus.
you were born in 1979? oy vey.
happy birthday!
"I doubt he could reach [second base]...mostly cuz his fucking arm was in Aybar's nuts." – twistedlogic
I’m pretty sure jesus was born before 1979..
What up?
by snakethejake on Feb 5, 2010 10:57 AM EST up reply actions
No, he was born in 1986 in Goose Creek, SC.
You should know this by now.
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
Happy Birthday
It’s almost exactly 6 months until mine.
"I think it's a disgrace they only beat the average team by 10 games in the standings with three times the money. I'd fire that GM. You don't need a GM. All you have to do is buy the last Cy Young Award winner every year" - Steve Bisciotti on the NY Yankees
Yes, Happy Birthday.
Mine was yesterday, February is a good time of year to be born.
"I'd like to do something. We all would here," he added. "As I've said before, you just don't want to do anything stupid that you're thinking in May, 'What in the God's green earth was I thinking about?'" - Andy MacPhail 12/8/09
I'm really irritated.
You see, the seniors graduate early at my school (the ceremony is this Sunday) because they go on this 3 1/2 trip to Poland/Czech Republic/Israel. I’m annoyed that I have to wait two years.
Czech Republic hint-- for *very* mature senior friend(s) only (who will love you upon return)
Prague: “U Fleku”. That’s all I’m saying.
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Churchill,1942-- a rebuilding year.
u fleku?
not bad, but theres a whole nother schlew of establishments i’d rec for even more “mature” seniors in prague.
"you know what the orioles could use right now? a day off." - joe angel
I heard Prague was beautiful.
I have a friend (in my grade) who is obsessed with Eastern Europe—particularly the Czech Republic—and she’s been there. She did an entire project on it in 9th grade. It looks nice from pictures…what didn’t you like about it?
its pretty nice
some really dirty areas and like all of europe, tons of pickpockets. pretty cool place to hang out in tho.
I didn't have the greatest experience there
I was traveling with one of my other girl friends, and we both weren’t treated great when we went into a few restaurants, and she in particular was harassed a couple times when we tried to go off the beaten path. I mean, the city is really beautiful, but there’s really clear delineations of where tourists can be and where they can’t be. Not sure if that makes sense… also, we had spent a week prior to that in Budapest, where the whole city felt very inviting, and we liked wandering around and trying to find places to eat and such on our own. If you wandered into a random restaurant in Prague you got yelled at or ignored. Still, again, beautiful city.
I think a lot of places in Europe are that way.
We have a family friend who went to Italy with her sister and they were harassed. In France they hate most Americans, but my Jewish history teacher said that if you go there and attempt to speak French (and it’s obvious you don’t know it) they’ll be much more polite and speak to you in English. However if you just go into a place asking a question in English, they’ll be very rude. I guess it has something to do with “not respecting the language.”
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston (I don't know who that is...but it's a good quote.)
Oh yeah Italy's the worst
I studied there for a year… and toward the end I would never leave my apartment without headphones on because I was so tired of hearing the catcalls. Don’t get me wrong, I love Italy, but gawd their men need to catch up to modern times.
its not the best
but a decent place to live
"you know what the orioles could use right now? a day off." - joe angel
ha! first time in like a bajillion years that uva cancelled classes
weather.com says we’re getting “light snow” right now. looks pretty heavy to me.
The Snowpocalypse has begun!
I may die in the course of shoveling this weekend. It was nice knowing you all. God save the Queen.
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Feb 5, 2010 12:24 PM EST reply actions
I may die in the course of
consuming all of the alcohol I purchased at the liquor store this week.
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
Your deaths sound a lot warmer than mine.
Cry havoc and unleash the Esskay hot dogs of war! - The Wayward Oriole, Opening Day 2008
by Eat More Esskay on Feb 5, 2010 1:04 PM EST up reply actions
I was just at the liquor store
The line was like 25 people long, apparently everyone has the same idea
I got a case of beer just to be safe
Hopefully I don’t end up drinking them all… I’ll have to be rolled out of the house on Sunday
From what it's sounding like
The liquor stores might not have anything left by the time I get off work.
"I think it's a disgrace they only beat the average team by 10 games in the standings with three times the money. I'd fire that GM. You don't need a GM. All you have to do is buy the last Cy Young Award winner every year" - Steve Bisciotti on the NY Yankees
Having NFL Network during Super Bowl week
is truly awesome.
Don't give up, don't ever give up. - Jim Valvano
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Feb 5, 2010 4:22 PM EST reply actions
Your not getting sick of the coverage
They’re basically talking about the same issues over and over, and its with Steve Mariucci, Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin no less. I never really enjoyed the week before the Super Bowl, because there was very little of substance discussed. The media usually just latches onto one relevant story and then plays it up to death. This year it was Freeney’s injury, in the past it was Jerramy Stevens and Joey porter jawing at each other, Eugene Robinson with a drag queen hooker, etc.
I don’t know. Maybe I’m just bitter because for the first time in my life I won’t be present in a room during the Super Bowl, because I’ll be flying to Israel at the time. Every time the NFL had regular or a postseason game on, I watched it, and now I won’t watch the Super Bowl.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
Have fun in Israel
Don't give up, don't ever give up. - Jim Valvano
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Feb 5, 2010 7:07 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
Its Birthright. If I had gone before I would have been ineligible for the free trip.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
Ah that's awesome.
I considered doing that before I enrolled in the day school that does the trip to Israel. I actually went with my family two (three?) passovers ago. We were originally going to go the summer before, but the war with Hezbollah broke out and much of our trip was in the north—in other words, big NO.
The problem with going during Pesach is, while you can at least eat out, the food is terrible. The restaurants in Jerusalem weren’t that bad, but I’m glad I’ll be able to go and eat real food when I’m there—at least for a time because we spend Pesach in Israel too.
How long is Birthright?
Its ten days. The only thing is that I’m leaving for JFK on sunday, and I need to hope 95 is drivable, which I have every reason to believe it will be.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
You're gonna have to explain that to us Gentiles...
"The moment you stop thinking you're the best, it's time for you to get out the game." -'King' Mo Lawal
Birthright is a program
that sends jews ages 18-26 to Israel, all for free. Everything is paid for, the flight, your meals, the hotels, everything. The only thing is, you’d be ineligible for the trip if you had been to Israel before.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
I was about to explain it.
You’ll have an amazing time, by the way. If it’s possible, you should go back for a longer time later in life. It’s such an amazing country…do you know the itinerary?
We went for two weeks. We had a guide because I was the only one who spoke some Hebrew. He’s a native, lived there his whole life, and he hasn’t seen all of Israel—not even close.
The amazing thing about Israel is that for a country the size of New Jersey nearly every inch of it is beautiful. I particularly enjoyed the Roman ruins. If you are up for a hike, try climbing Masada. My mom and dad didn’t want to do it (they took the lift) but my brother and I did.
The thing I most love is the stories. Every place has a story.
As a history teacher....
I’m kind of ashamed I’d never heard of this. Then again, there was exactly 1 Jewish kid in my school as a kid. Not like it would come up in conversation, I guess. But I’ve never seen this referred to in any news nmedia or anything I’ve ever read. Learn something new every day…
"The moment you stop thinking you're the best, it's time for you to get out the game." -'King' Mo Lawal
by duck on Feb 6, 2010 9:44 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Did you grow up in Baltimore?
If you did, I honestly find it really surprising that you had only one Jewish kid in school. Of course, for the most part the Jewish community in Baltimore is extremely observant, so they tend to send their kids to Jewish day schools.
It’s a fairly well-known program amongst Jews, and it’s also really old, so that may be why you haven’t heard about it—it’s been around a while.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston (I don't know who that is...but it's a good quote.)
duck's on the eastern shore
I will lead these Peoples to the promised land, also known as "Slightly Ahead of the Blue Jays." ~WietersRunDry
Oh, well, never mind then.
I don’t know how many Jews live there, but I’m guessing not many.
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston (I don't know who that is...but it's a good quote.)
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