Monday Bird Droppings

But I think I’ll get extra days off since I had to work during that time. There was like 10 people in our whole building that week

i had an external HD that had all my movies and tv shows on it that started clicking. After spending hours backing it up, it hasn’t made a noise since.

Can’t get any simpler or cheaper.

I have a couple of them.

see here

there was/is a chocolate shop (Watson’s) on the road between Pittsford and Victor. Pretty place, silly name.

I feel like kind of a poseur since I’m not really from this area, o’ course, but still. Every community needs a Local CC Chapter.

Personally, I think they could be .500 with a few small tweaks to the squad they’ve got. For example, not putting Kevin Gregg in to blow saves, etc.

Only in soccer do you get “fouled” for a light touch. Well, basketball too, but that’s why I don’t watch that sport.

Point, hockey.

see what his scouts are saying

Not really. They need to move Jones. I just think that if they make that deal, it is because they didn’t explore their options around the league but instead fixated on the Braves and Jurrjens, who I don’t like very much at all. If Jurrjens is a significant part of the return, then the O’s are making a poor decision – dealing one overvalued asset for another even more overvalued one.

To me, this entire potential deal is doing the right thing – trading Jones – for the wrong reason, to obtain Jurrjens. But holding on to Jones is also a losing play. If Mike Minor alone was literally the best return we could get for Jones, we would still be better off as an organization. But I don’t think that Minor is the best possible return, and so making that deal is just a different kind of failure to me.

His defense in CF is mediocre/OK in OPACY, just think of what would happen in the whateverthenameis Colosseum.

My ideal last season would have been Belt/Wheeler/Gary Brown from the Giants. Something like the Singleton/Cosart deal that Philly gave up for Pence also would do nicely. But I think you need two high probability/high upside prospects, and one ought to be a position player.

but as pointed out upthread, acquiring Jurrjens makes little sense. Either go all in or don’t. The Orioles didn’t go all in when they dealt Bedard and Tejada because they didn’t deal Roberts. Of course, even if they dealt Roberts, it wouldn’t have mattered. If the Orioles want to tear it down and try to build around Wieters, no use in acquiring Jurrjens.

…Adam Jones was great, and a joy to cover, but the O’s were desperate for pitching and Duquette needed to put his stamp on the team and blah blah I wish I covered the Yankees.

…Jones is only an asset if you spend him. If you keep him, you get nothing.

You heard it here for probably the 1000th time: Romney will be the nominee. He will lose to Obama. You can turn off CNN for the next year now and miss nothing.