Tuesday Bird Droppings
by Stacey on Jan 24, 2012 8:00 AM EST
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PrintProspect Watch: Top 10 second basemen | MLB.com
Jonathan Mayo continues his list of top prospects at each position and has named Jonathan Schoop the second best second base prospect in baseball.
Why Wilson Betemit makes sense for the Orioles - baltimoresun.com
Because he can hit right-handed pitching. My favorite line of the article: "For those of you thinking about it, the acquisition of Betemit won’t affect the Orioles’ stance on Fielder."
What Do The Orioles Want With Prince Fielder? - Baseball Nation
The Orioles are bad because they don't have enough good players. They should acquire more good players. This Fielder fella is a good player, and he should be for a few years yet. The Orioles acquiring Fielder would fit with that whole "acquire good players" strategy.
Orioles FanFest: A Recap | I Hate JJ Redick
Meghan, aka @QweenofDiamonds, gives a FanFest rundown from a parent's perspective.
Steve Melewski: The pitchers say they are ready for rotation battle in camp
Melewski lists ten guys who will try to make the five-man rotation and leaves Alfredo Simon in the bullpen category. Personally I'd rather have Simon in the rotation than Brad Bergesen.
Rangers trading Koji Uehara to Toronto? | Yahoo! Sports
Aw, man.
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Koji! Koji! Koji!
Bring him back, DD. It’s not often that good players have a strong desire to play for the Baltimore Orioles.
Maybe Koji can be our spy in the Blue Jay organization. Serve up lots of HRs, get released, return to Baltimore. Everybody wins.
Well, except the Blue Jays.
And the Eagles.
Because they’ve got Andy Reid.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:11 AM EST up reply actions
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" gets a Best Pic Oscar nom
Really?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
by duck on Jan 24, 2012 9:01 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I know enough about it to know I never will
Much like Human Centipede or the Saw franchise.
"You should put the secret group of people that you carry with you on your tech equipment second to the person you're sitting with."
- Merrill Markoe
this
it bombed with critics. it bombed with audiences. general consensus is that it’s beyond exploitive.
i swear, sandra bullock must have incrinimating pictures of several academy members. after the blind side fuckup, it’s mind boggling this would happen again.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I wasn't criticizing him for being incredulous
I was just wondering. I don’t know anyone who has seen it.
did you watch the michael bolton vid?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
(this was a non-sequitur)
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I just saw it a couple of days ago.
I didn’t like it. I wouldn’t say it’s terrible. But it isn’t good. Exploitative is a common criticism of the movie and I wouldn’t say I disagree. I guess I wasn’t repulsed by its exploitative reach. I thought it was sort of boring and there’s a character who has zero point to the plot.
The Artist has finally landed at my AMC so I guess I’ll check that out next.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I haven't, but it got pretty tepid reviews
Probably only got the nod because they expanded the category to ten nominations and had to fill it up. Same reason why War Horse is there, I’d assume.
War Horse...
I can’t watch movies in which the central character is an animal. That’s another movie that getting a lot love that I didn’t like. I didn’t like Tree of Life either. I’m very pleased that Michelle Williams landed a best actress nomination.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
subject line, n00b
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Maybe I wanted to force you all to look at a picture of a cougar!
Besides it is small and way up thread. What, can your slave crafted Apple product not handle it?
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
I speak for the PC-afflicted masses
My Apple product has already displayed the GIFs you are posting tomorrow.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'm sure since you're criticizing Apple for using Foxconn
you don’t own anything made by Acer, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, HP, Intel, IBM, Lenovo, Logitech, Microsoft, Motorola, Netgear, Nintendo, Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, or Vizio. Foxconn makes everything.
I was just pointing it out.
Obviously all that shit is made with wage-slave labor. Doesn’t even matter what company is making it. Not criticizing Apple any more than any other company, even if it seemed like I was.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:35 PM EST up reply actions
Thank you?
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 3:02 PM EST up reply actions
But Mr. Big and Aidan!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 24, 2012 2:02 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
MAN, The Good Wife!
Just started watching this year. That is an excellent, EXCELLENT show.
We stopped with the new ones and are catching up on the first two seasons on DVD.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
At first i had no interest
and then the AV Club started constantly giving episodes really high grades and i figured I had to give it a try. So glad i did.
did you watch the first couple seasons?
having seen a few eps from this year, and now going back, it’s pretty cool to see how they’ve all evolved. i think it’s a very well-defined group of characters.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Yeah, i've watched the whole thing
It started off a little slow, but once they moved past the general premise of the wife of the adulterous politician, it got really really good.
If you're still around in June/July,
the highly-acclaimed National Theater production of War Horse is coming to the Ahmanson this summer. I tried to get into it twice during its Lincoln Center run and couldn’t. It’s supposed to be pretty spectacular.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'm fairly certain that I'll be around.
And maybe even moving to LA. I have a second interview coming. The company is crafting me a job. I take that as a good sign. So I could be down.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
awesomesauce
having a job grafted for you. If you have any interest in Los Feliz, maybe you can take over my super cheap apartment.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
*crafted. Freudian slip.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I think i'm going to look around Burbank.
IF I get the job. I don’t want to jump the gun. I’ve interviewed for so many jobs in the last 5 months that I don’t want to get excited yet. But things look good so far.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Also, I wasn't impressed with Hugo either.
I much rather swamp out Loud and Close, Hugo, and War Horse with Dragon Tattoo, Ides of March, and…. I don’t know My Week with Marilyn.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
yeah
bumpy at times, but overall a seriously groudbreaking film
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I've been reading "Scorsese by Ebert" recently.
Very good read. They started their careers at basically the same time and Ebert predicted that Marty would hit it big time very early on.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
Ides was good.
But it was so inconsistent throughout the film, so I wouldn’t say it had a shot at Best Pic.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
Loved Ides
Warrior and Ides were my favorite movies of 2011.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
If Ides had been longer, it would have been a lot better.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:19 PM EST up reply actions
all i know is that Jennifer Lawrence was looking fiiiiiiine with that red hair
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
She looks fine no matter what hair color she's got.
And she freaking lost to Megan Fox. Disgusting.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:10 AM EST up reply actions
oh i agree
i just have a thing for redheads, so she just got elevated even more in my mind
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
pics?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:12 AM EST up reply actions
i was just watching the video feed of the live announcements
you might be able to re-watch it here
http://oscar.go.com/blogs/oscar-video/live-nominations-announcement
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Oh damn.
That red hair is pretty awesome.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:18 AM EST up reply actions
Also the kid who played George Clooney's "daughter" or whatever in the Descendants is hot.
I put that in quotation marks because she’s essentially my age and not a kid at all.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:19 AM EST up reply actions
I didn't know who she was before that movie.
Not bad at all.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
i believe so.
Shai Woodley.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 2:03 PM EST up reply actions
this?
Insanely hot????
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:06 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
She’s cute. But insanely? She’s not supermodel Cthulhu, where by gazing upon her my mind shatters as I contemplate the madness that is her (hot) existence.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 2:09 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm just talking about what she looked like in the Descendants.
The picture above isn’t anything special.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
yeah... looks about 12 there
I recall her looking kind of young in the descendents trailer too, but everyone looks young to me now.
That was done purposely, I'd imagine.
She was playing a kid who was supposed to be like 16. She’s 22.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 3:32 PM EST up reply actions
Also...l just said hot....not insanely hot...somebody added the adjective.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
SHE'S INSANELY HOT.
INSANE. I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Hey man....I'm cool with it if you think she's insanely hot.
Different strokes for different folks.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
No, you must agree with me.
I will not allow people to draw different conclusions about the hotness of various women.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
You guys throw around insanely hot too much
She’s attractive, sure. But does looking at her drive men insane? No, no it does not.
I'm going insane right now!!!!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Nothing short of black lipstick and dyed black hair would drive you insane.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
Jessica Alba has never had either of those things
That I know of, of course.
Nor has Alison Brie. I am fairly certain if I saw Alison Brie in person, the language centers of my brain would shut down.
Is she the one doing the announcements along with the old guy?
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 11:23 AM EST up reply actions
Yep.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
This.
Pretty weak all around.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:13 AM EST up reply actions
idk...
between “Jack and Jill,” “What’s Your Number,” and “New Year’s Eve,” there should at least be enough to keep 2011 on the map with critics for the next few decades.
how dare you leave "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" off that list
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Hah! I had completely forgotten that was even a thing.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bucky_larson_born_to_be_a_star/
not too many movies get a 0% rating.
Warrior better sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 9:19 AM EST up reply actions
that'll be easy since it only got one nomination
Nick Nolte for best supporting actor
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Are you shitting me?
ONE nomination!?!?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 9:34 AM EST up reply actions
Oriole'd it up is right...
That was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time.
It also win’s the WW award for “Movies I thought looked horrific and didn’t bother seeeing until I was bored and decided WTF, why not and was amazingly surprised with”.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 9:40 AM EST up reply actions
it should have received a damn best picture nomination.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
It's an MMA movie
We’re lucky Nolte got a nomination
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Silence of the Lambs is about a cannibal. It won best picture.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
That was all about who was in the cast and who directed it
along with the fact it was a good movie.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
true
but 2012 looks absolutely packed. Lots of good stuff that’s already on my calendar, starting with Coriolanus and The Grey (to showcase my divergent tastes).
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Don't forget the potentially greatest movie of all time...
The Avengers!
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
apparently there's a new Bourne movie being released this August
Jeremy Renner stars. Not replacing Matt Damon, “not a sequel or prequel,” just an original story in the Bourne world. Huh.
Is that actually happening?
I’ve heard tons of mixed reports about that.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:54 AM EST up reply actions
Oh I don't actually know
I was just scanning a list of movies being released in 2012 and that was listed under “August.” It wasn’t a site I’d ever heard of before, so it could be wrong I guess.
imdb says its filming.
They’re going to ruin a perfectly good trilogy. One, there were only three novels. Two, don’t bring back 3/4 of the original cast to film a non-Bourne related film. You can’t replace the Damon version of Bourne. Even with a new guy.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:57 AM EST up reply actions
I like Jeremy Renner
his arms are pretty jacked. He looks good holding a gun at arm’s length. That’s all I need from an action star
There were nine, actually
The Bourne Legacy was the first to be written by Eric Van Lustbader, chosen by the Ludlum estate to continue the franchise.
The movie, The Bourne Legacy, actually has no semblance to the book by the same name. Anyone who’s read the book knows Renner is decades too young to play Bourne in this plot. So, it’s a complete side journey with a new plot, keeping only the title of the book.
Anyone who buys the book after or before seeing the movie is going to be very, very confused.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Renner isn't playing Bourne
It’s not like a Sum of All Fears situation where Jack Ryan is being rebooted or anything. Renner is gonna be a new character… but they’re keeping the Bourne name for the movie. I guess the word “Legacy” says enough to make it work.
Yea....the remaining six novels were not considered part of the original franchise.
The Ludlum estate sold the rights to the name Bourne only. The plot had very little to do with the first three novels. In any case, it’s still terrible. You can’t say “it’s not a sequel to the third movie” and include most of the major cast from that movie and then say the plot is about a different CIA agent dealing with the aftermath of the Bourne affair. So basically, it’s a sequel.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
I only read the first Van Lustbader book
and it wasn’t bad. And the plot of the fourth did connect to the first three.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Eh.....very very vaguely.
That’s the only one I read. I thought it was pretty crappy and decided it wasn’t worth it. I loved the books as a kid and enjoyed the films (even though they weren’t really connected to the book) just as much. Also one of the few times Hollywood didn’t start off with a great movie and destroy the sequels.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
Dude, Alex Conklin gets, um, resolved....
he starts back in the States as David Webb, teaching, his Vietnam back story gets filled in. There’s lots of continuity.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I thought the Vietnam part was bad.
They should have left that part out….it was way better with Ludlum just leaving it up to the imagination.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 10:50 AM EST up reply actions
I read the trilogy after I watched the first movie.
I was confused. But at least they tried to stick to the very general plot of the first book.
The next two were nowhere close. Matt Damon pretty much said, ‘yeah, the only thing we took from those books were the titles.’
I figure that is the direction they will take with any further movies that they do… though I have not read any of the post-Ludlum books to compare.
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.."
Yea...Robert Ludlum helped produce the first movie (scheduled for the second one, but he died).
The whole idea was to update the franchise. The books were Cold War-era and they wanted to update the plot to a more modern CIA feel (the whole “Black Briar” thing was officially for spying on and eliminating terrorists in Europe and North Africa…..of course, we know from the movies it was really just a kill squad for a highly corrupt group of individuals).
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
IMDB sez it is filming
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/
On page for Aug 3 2012 release. Pretty strong cast. Scott Glenn is the man.
He was in the third original Bourne movie....CIA director.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 9:59 AM EST up reply actions
Oh man, I forgot!
And Superman, right?
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
It can't be worse than the last one
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
No matter how good Spiderman may be (and i don't even know if its supposed to be)
it will never be as good as the Donald Glover spiderman would have been
Just read the new Ultimate Spider-Man books
it’s basically him anyway
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
im excited about hunger games
yeah, not high literature, but much better than most hollywood crap. Pretty good cast as well.
Prometheus (sp)
That looks crazy good
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not a Ridley Scott fan,
other than Alien. But he does have talent and he is getting back to what he is really really good at. Hopefully it is as good as it looked in the trailer.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 1:57 PM EST up reply actions
I have to name drop on this, not for the first time
That script was written by a friend of mine from undergrad. Yeah, it has also been doctored by Lindelof, but the main elements of my friend’s plot and story are intact.
I would say his life is about to change, but it already has. :)
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
agreed!
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
Abe lincoln vampire hunter looks like it has potential too
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
agreed,
that my friend is a quality choice!
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
AND! The guy playing Lincoln is going to be in a Paradise Lost movie?
I take it back hollywood! I love you!
adam scott should play young lincoln
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
by Andrew_G on Jan 24, 2012 10:42 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
are we having fun yet?!
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 10:43 AM EST via Android app up reply actions 1 recs
Oh, it's getting made
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
really?
Let’s try again:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
you're missing the reference!
In Party Down, Adam Scott is almost given the part of Lincoln in a movie where Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe hunt vampires in Olde Baltimore. So one part The Raven, one part Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
Yup, completely over my head
You hipsters and your copious amounts of free time to consume media….
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Dark Shadows in May
Barnabas Collins – a vampire before vampires were cool.
Johnny Depp as Barnabas & Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman, who tries to cure him.
OK, with those 2 you get 3 guesses who’s directing.
"You should put the secret group of people that you carry with you on your tech equipment second to the person you're sitting with."
- Merrill Markoe
oh oh oh ..
is it michael bay?
i bet it is. it most certainly wont be Tim Burton thats for sure.
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 11:00 AM EST up reply actions
I've never seen the show
but my grandmother had a Dark Shadows board game that my cousins and I would play all the time. It was scary and fun.
CollegeHumor strikes again!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5941081/tim-burtons-secret-formula
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
God dammit
I hate Helena Bonham Carter.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
What?!?!?!?!?!
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
by duck on Jan 24, 2012 12:32 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Maybe it's just that I hate that she's in every Tim Burton movie
It’s frankly tiring.
I likely wouldn’t have an opinion on her otherwise.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah I'm with you on that
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 1:00 PM EST up reply actions
It almost feels like a pity nod
if they actually announced the votes, i’d bet it finishes dead last for best picture
Nope
But I don’t remember a Best Pic mom that has been so universally savaged by critics.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
by duck on Jan 24, 2012 9:28 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I have a Best Pic of Birdman's mom if anyone is interested
She has also been universally savaged.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Jan 24, 2012 9:42 AM EST up reply actions 7 recs
alright, enough.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 24, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
My apologies
all the makings of an epic joke were there, and I needed someone to aim it at. You were the only logical choice. I didn’t want to do it, but I couldn’t leave that one undiscovered. I’m usually not the birdman’s mom joke type.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
You broke him!
daveh wins the pot!
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
it's scope!
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 9:07 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
He needs to legally change the pronunciation to "shoop" then.
My enjoyment is the priority here.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 9:10 AM EST up reply actions
Maybe he can be like Marco Scutaro and change how it's pronounced every year.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
Why does MLB.com list him as a 2B prospect when he played 3B all last year?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 25, 2012 1:44 AM EST up reply actions
a couple reasons
1) that’s not accurate. Once he was promoted to Frederick he played 2B almost exclusively, with 63 games there, 12 at SS, and just 3 at 3B. Before that in Delmarva he split time between SS and 3B, but played more at SS.
2) He’s a higher prospect as a 2B than a 3B because of his bat.
I love ordering stuff online and not paying for faster shipping
only to find out its being shipped from <100 miles away and that it will arrive the next day anyway.
This
I also love it when you ship something using regular shipping and it arrives like 3 days in advance. Unless I need something before a trip or for some emergency, I never use expedited shipping. Just seems like a waste.
@sibsinExile
I love it when my stuff is on a train.
And the train leaves the rails.
Then my stuff magically appears in Spokane,WA
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
yup, i always check the shipping location on half.com for that reason.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Tablets
Does anyone have a tablet?
Does it actually increase your work productivity or is it more of a toy?
What’s the learning curve on replacing tasks previously done on the computer (spreadsheets) or paper (notes in a meeting / datebook) with the tablet?
Here comes the 1000 comment day...
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Sorry, I'm not trying to start a drag-out debate.
I was just perusing some tablets and I’m more interested in how people have used their tablets than on any argument over which tablet is the bestest.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
Oh, it's not your fault
It’s just there is always an iPad debate that follows.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Yeah... that's why I thought for a bit about before posing the questions.
Here’s the thing. Prior to my promotion, I was typically given a task that would take me the entire day. At the end of the day, I reported to my supervisor and was given a new task for the next day. After my promotion, I’ve now got 20 different short tasks to do every day. Taking quality notes during discussions is even more important.
Long story short, I’m looking for a sexy secretary to keep me organized so I can get my work done without fearing that I’m missing something.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 10:21 AM EST up reply actions
would you be leaning on the tablet for notetaking?
what would be the primary purpose for getting the tablet? How would it streamline your workflow?
Organization...
I sit down with my supervisor and she goes over a task with me and generally outlines the goals for the next few days. I run down to the scan room and write down notes about which cases I need to give personal attention to. Stuff gets emailed to me and I write down and / or flag what’s important and archive the rest.
With all of these notes getting jumbled together, I sometimes have to ask about something that I feel we’ve already addressed. My supervisor is awesome and has never showed annoyance about this, but I’d hate to still be doing it after I’ve been here longer.
I’ve got a new day planner and notebook sitting at home to start using, but if I could consolidate everything, that’d be nice. I was wondering if anyone had any first hand experience becoming more efficient at work using a tablet.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
I'm bullish on Windows 8
I know zk will disagree, but W8 tablets are going to be awesome for this sort of thing. Full desktop capabilities combined with very tablet-friendly start menu.
i'm not gonna disagree
i’m not gonna weigh in, because i don’t own a tablet, and don’t expect to anytime soon. i certainly am not qualified to compare tablet platforms, etc.
i only weighed in on the preposterous, “there’s no reason to own one!” argument.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Go back and read your Apple terms of service
you’re not only qualified, but obligated, to endorse the iPad over all other platforms.
GOOD LORD
I have clicked that iTunes acceptance screen 100 times, without reading. Just now I went back and checked it and YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
You may also be legally required to form a human centipede...
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
did you see the Com Cen special about the making of that episode?
fascinating stuff.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Late reply
Organizationally, I have an iPad. It’s amazing for days that you’re in meetings. Connect a few apps to the servers (eg: filebrowser) and you pretty much have a repository at your finger tips.
Once you get over the learning curve of typing on it, it’s a very good portable note taking device; no dragging around 7 different note books, etc.
Depending on your job, you might also have a few things that will help. Expanded calendar, apps that work very well with your job functionality (I’m not sure what you’re doing, but usually there is an app or two that pretty much anyone can use).
To keep things fair, yes I have an iPad, and yes, I love it. Although I’m not going to knock any Android tablets (I simply have not played with them)
I'd definitely go with the cute young secretary
Otherwise, pencil and paper. Perfect for taking notes.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
The old apocryphal story about the space program...
The USA spent millions designing a way for ink pens to work in zero gravity.
The Soviets used pencils.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
We landed on the moon.
They didn’t.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
Oh right....I forgot.
It was all a hoax. They just filmed everything on a set in Los Angeles.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 10:38 AM EST up reply actions
That's half of the challenge isn't it?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 10:38 AM EST up reply actions
Note to duck...
The tablets I’m referring to are different than the ones you’ve used.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 10:39 AM EST up reply actions
Duck saw the extra 5 commandments
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
That's cuz it's a Kindle and not somethin else...
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
I only have a Kindle Fire, so I’m not sure if that counts or not (probably not), but typing on it is a pain is a pain in the ass.
It’s great for playing addicting, mindless android games, decent for reading (good indoors, very bad outdoors), and fine for browsing the internet.
It’s a great time-wasting toy and for me it fills the niche for which I’d been drooling over an ipad (entertaining on business trips and reduced the need to take my laptop — which is technically a work laptop — on non-business trips if I still want to be able to check email, camdenchat, etc.),but typing more than a couple words is a slow process. There are note and spreadsheet apps but I probably won’t even try them.
I don't even really like it for browsing the internet
Sites render pretty slowly, scrolling up and down is janky.
Your typing comment is spot-on. I can touch type on a keyboard; why would I want to suffer through typing on a touchscreen with my thumbs? It’s one thing on a smartphone, where the touchscreen keyboard is small enough so your thumbs don’t have to travel far between letters. The Kindle Fire’s screen is just too big to comfortably type with my thumbs. And then there’s the whole issue with extended characters, punctuation, etc.
All these complaints are the same for Android tablets and the iPad. For me, anyway.
Sites seem to usually render for me pretty quickly when I’m at home, but if I’m somewhere else where the wi-fi signal’s not quite as strong (still indicates strong signal, just not “full bars” like I have in my living room), it gets really slow.
I’m still glad I have it and I think it’s a good value for its price (In general, I mean….I actually got mine as a gift). There’s some stuff that an Ipad (and maybe other “real” tablets) has that I wish I had, but for what I’m using it for the $200 Fire is fine.
For it to be really useful as an organizing tool, I think you’d need to be able to write on the screen w/a stylus, and then be able to save your notes (whether hand"written" or convert to text)…although I guess there are people that are probably really really fast at typing on a tablet screen. If Tez is one of those people, I guess it would work, but a bigger screened device would probably be more useful.
I need a second laptop, which will replace my very old, slow PC and keep my work laptop only for work. I don’t think even a higher-end tablet would have filled that niche for me.
re: stylus
We’re getting closer:
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note/index.html?type=find
That is a pretty nice device. Certainly a step in the right direction. The stylus will be back in the near future.
the thing that I find most frustrating about typing on a tablet...
isn’t the actual typing (im pretty good at that)… it’s the editing. If I need to go back to a sentence and insert a word, or rearrange a paragraph, or replace a word with a different word, it’s pretty slow at these tasks. The Touchpad is a little better than the iPad here, because you don’t have to “press and hold” to place your cursor or select text. But what you gain in speed, you lose in accuracy.
Also, anytime you are bouncing around a lot between letters, numbers, and symbols is a huge pain in the ass. Maybe I just need more practice at that.
I had an HTC Touch many years ago when smart phones were just coming out.
(The Touch preceded the original iPhone by a couple months.)
It was great because it allowed you to use your finger to control things, but it also had a stylus. I could write text messages with the stylus and it would convert them very accurately. Good little phone.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 10:52 AM EST up reply actions
between my wife and I, we have a HP Touchpad and an iPad.
I would not rely on either one as a productivity machine. They are both toys and/or couch internet browsers. Get a netbook.
I think they have some use as creativity boosters (well, the ipad at least). If you are brainstorming and don’t need to take detailed notes, it can be useful to pull you away from a computer and all of it’s inherent distractions. The touch interface I think forces your brain to work differently as well, particularly if you are manipulating audio, video, or images. The hardware isn’t really up to snuff on that end, so it’s really more of a supplement to a real computer.
For your needs, have you considered a netbook?
I have a netbook at home.
It’s my wife’s, but I could bring it to work if I wanted.
What do you feel gives a netbook an advantage?
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
you can take notes and work in spreadsheets much better
while remaining slimmed down and ultraportable. See my comment above to BrianS about mixing use of symbols, letters, and numbers on a tablet. It is cumbersome, and you will be doing it a lot on a tablet if you are working in spreadsheets.
Ultrabooks are here
Basically MacBook Air clones, but PCs. Around $900 so certainly more expensive than NetBooks but they’ll be capable of doing actual multitasking (something Netbooks are not very good at).
Or you could get an actual Airbook for $99 more.
NOW let the comment deluge begin!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'll bite.
I agree. Macs are very nice, but so damn expensive. I think the chief advantage of products running windows is how cheap they can be compared to apple products. If you only have to spend $99 more to get the apple version of the same idea… why not? This is exactly why expensive android tablets have had a hard time catching on. Why not just get an Ipad for a little bit more?
for that matter
get a refurbished airbook for only $800.
I buy mac refurbished all the time and have never had an issue. the way I see it, everything has now been checked over twice.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Well the other argument is whether the Mac products are worth that at all.
I personally wouldn’t spend that much on any device. You can buy a really solid windows laptop for about $350 these days, so I don’t see any need to pay double to have it be a little lighter. But I can see how if you decide you want that, there are definitely decent options.
i know my wife would rather spend a little more on her work computer if she had a vote
she has to lug that thing home all the time, not to mention travel with it. it’s a state of the art laptop, but not an ultra-portable one. thing must weigh 4-5 lbs.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
That's a good point.
They’re definitely a good option for people who want light computers. There’s no question the future will yield lighter and lighter devices.
??
Are you suggesting the Airbook USB isn’t normal? It appears normal to me.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I thought it pointed down and you needed an adapter for usb sticks etc
but some Google-fu sez that was an unfounded and wrong assumption on my part. I’d still want more than one, though.
more than one makes a bigger computer
seems easily solved with a hub. personally, i’d want firewire.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
fast external drive access
for video editing.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
And some of us still have mini-DV cameras that use it
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
by duck on Jan 24, 2012 12:34 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
do you have to keep turning the crank to get the files to export?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Macbook Air 11 and 13 inch both have two USB ports
Using one now.
for work
I dont really see how multi-tasking is such a plus. I mean, I’m multi-tasking right now cause I’m on camdenchat and have my project running at the same time. I feel like I would be getting a lot more done without the multi-tasking.
This is a little known fact
but multitasking does not require one of the tasks to be screwing around on the internet
But Camden Chat is not screwing around!
This is serious shit.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 24, 2012 11:19 AM EST up reply actions
I would think
that having Excel, Word, whatever you use for email, and your browser all running at the same time would be quite productive.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Excel, Outlook, text editor, browser, file explorer, and a few proprietary programs
that’s pretty much my day. Would be very painful to use a netbook with all of those open.
are you guys actually using your browser for work-related purposes most of the time?
The human mind isn’t really set-up to multi-task, so why is it so important for our computers to do it?
Also, i’m really just referring to the ease and speed with which you can multi-task on a computer compared to a tablet. I think there is something to be said for the way a tablet forces you to focus on one app at a time. I think W8 has a nice way to bring another app into the picture when needed rather elegantly
The human mind isn’t really set-up to multi-task, so why is it so important for our computers to do it?
Because that’s one of the ways you can offer value (and make a buck). Charging for speed, and for your ability to multitask when human minds are not set up to do so.
One of my side jobs is to cut acting demos for clients. Doing it well, often with them taking part in the session from a remote location, can involve several simultaneous tasks/programs: communicating with them via skype, downloading an extra file of theirs from elsewhere via FTP, editing it in Final Cut Express, doctoring a frame in Photoshop, uploading it all to the web and previewing it there, and then directing them to a link to see the result.
That’s having 4-5 programs open, some of them very processor-intense. But if I can deliver a crucial edit in an hour, it’s worth it to client, and extra income for me.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
yeah... i guess I was just speaking for myself.
Just about everything I actually need to do at work can be done within one application. For the occasional bit of web-research or email, there’s no reason for it to be running in conjunction with that application. Basically, anytime something takes more than 2 seconds to load, I’m tabbing over to Chrome and getting distracted for the next 15 minutes.
so
that’s more a question of your efficiency multitasking than it is your computer’s. ;)
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
oh... no doubt
i am easily distracted.
Bringing it back to a discussion from earlier in the week…I dont know how I would have made it through HS and college if every time I sat down to write a paper at midnight the day that it’s due, I could simply jerk around on the internet for hours on end. I mean we had the internet, but switching around wasn’t as convenient than as it is now. Once wordperfect was up on my computer, it stayed there until the bitter end..
It's different when the deadline is looming
for me, anyway. I have trouble focusing on deadlines that are several weeks/months in the future (hence my current participation in this conversation and not working) but as a deadline nears, my “last minute panic” mode kicks in and I hunker down and get it done. Stressful but it’s how I’ve always worked, so I guess there’s no real point in trying to change it now.
I haz iPad
Processor is lightning quick. reading some of Phil and brians’s comments below, I can say that iPad loads, scrolls, browses faster than anything I have ever owned.
I have used Pages (Apple Word) only sparingly. It seems like it would take awhile to learn everything again on a new format after using Word for a decade plus. But I think with some diligence it could be done. What concerns me, and what i admittedly haven’t toyed with that much, is saving and retrieving files with pages. I’m not sure how easy it would be to move files around, other than just emailing every document to yourself and then opening it on another computer. Then there would be file format issues too. So that part I’m not sure about, but I’m sure that Word and Excel could be learning if a company made the effort to go “all in” with that format – set up air printers, make desktop mac-compatible, whatever else.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
emailing files to yourself?
why not just save everything in Dropbox?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Like I said, I've only toyed around with it
I don’t really use Word that much outside of the office
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 11:49 AM EST up reply actions
Microsoft Office is probably coming to iOS sometime in the near future
OneNote is already available. Microsoft is a software company, after all.
On the Fielder article...
I’m happy to sign Prince, but I don want to sign any player to an eight year contract that is fully guaranteed. Let’s see if the Nationals pony up the cash this week. If things stall there, there is no reason not to try to work our way in on a four year deal.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 10:46 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Fielder
Think he ages better than people think. He’s more Warren Sapp than Mo Vaughn. 8 years is too long though.
Most arguments are really about context.
by SheaWasBettor21 on Jan 24, 2012 11:06 AM EST up reply actions
I think it's a good comparison though
to the Tigers. And the Orioles need to make a statement at some point, don’t they? This caliber player probably won’t come so cheap again, it’s a weird market this year. Plus, we don’t have any 1st basemen in the minors, do we?
No.
It’s a perfect fit. Had this debate on Lone Star Ball, and feel he fits best on the O’s. Think they benefit more than any other team by adding the Prince. A Markakis, Fielder, Wieters middle of the order could be pretty fierce.
Most arguments are really about context.
by SheaWasBettor21 on Jan 24, 2012 11:38 AM EST up reply actions
totally agree
And stats aside (I know people love them) there is something to be said about great clubhouse guys, which he is one. He’s just going to make the players around him better and take alot of pressure off Wieters and Markakis and Jones. We just need a big bat in a big way. I’m really seeting myself up for dissapointment, aren’t I?
Nice.
I thought you were trying to write with a bad italian accent…Seriously though, let me just have these couple of days of hope. Just a couple…
It's a me, Mario!
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 11:48 AM EST up reply actions
1 up
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:57 AM EST up reply actions
Kakes-Lead Off?
I find myself wondering if Markakis should bat lead off if they sign Prince. How would you guys feel about that?
Most arguments are really about context.
by SheaWasBettor21 on Jan 24, 2012 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
I've been banging that drum for a while now
regardless of any additional signings
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
I can support this.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
three, sir...
betemit 2.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 1:07 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
oy
What about markakis, jones, JJ, Fielder, Wieters, reynolds, betemit, riemold, andino. Makes sense right?
obviously this is all a fantasy, but
not having B rob in the fantasy makes me sad. if Roberts were in there, that would potentially be awesome.
i support any line-up without Chris Davis in it
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 24, 2012 1:41 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Absolutely rec'd
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
and green'd
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
and the head of a live rooster.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Read this..
…and checked out Hardy. Where the F did 30 HRs come from?
Most arguments are really about context.
by SheaWasBettor21 on Jan 24, 2012 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
Signing Fielder
will be the difference between 64 wins and 68 wins. Can’t get excited enough about that.
by InfrasonicTom on Jan 24, 2012 12:12 PM EST up reply actions
i disgree
but only one way to find out :)
So long to The Incredible Hurk.
He’s been DFA’d to make room for Wilson Betemit.
Incidentally, I may end up calling him Betemitavegemin. whistling I Love Lucy theme song
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 11:25 AM EST reply actions
that's german....
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
he's got that pep..
that won’t poop out on you.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 11:29 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Wait...why did we sign this guy for two years?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
He's gonna be the DH, per Britt (quoting Duquette)
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 11:38 AM EST up reply actions
lolwut??
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
Well, all reports are that he sucks in the field.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 11:40 AM EST up reply actions
He's not that much better at the plate.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
He did put up a 140 wRC+ in 2010 for the Royals
Sure, his career is only 104, but… uh… Maybe?
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 11:46 AM EST up reply actions
Championship.
I had better go book my playoff tickets.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 11:48 AM EST up reply actions
so he's basically taking over for Luke Scott
He’s 3 years younger, probably a little cheaper, and over the last couple of years has put up a comparable wOBA (although, for his career his offensive #s are all over the place).
Of course, the closest he came to playing a full season was 140 games in 2006 so there is that. Is he our everyday DH, or a platoon DH? It seems best for the team to have him in a platoon role, but then, why are you paying him several million $ to do that?
We signed him for two years?
The report I saw said one.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 11:41 AM EST up reply actions
The initial report was one.
The second report was two years with a PA-based vesting 3rd year.
I still haven’t seen the $.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
Oh. Lovely
Glad to see it’s business as usual, but with Asians.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
Other baseball news that isn't as exciting as our HUGE FA signing:
Posada retires (yawn), Astros might change their name, Jays signed Morrow to a large extension and signed Omar Vizquel who is now like 94 years old. I think the Red Sox signed Cody Ross too.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
I dunno
I don’t mind them as long as they are an improvement over the old name.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 12:24 PM EST up reply actions
I can't imagine getting better than the Astros
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 12:25 PM EST up reply actions
Meh
Astros doesn’t evoke any strong positive connotations with me. The first thing I think of (other than the sports team) is the dog from the Jetsons.
I guess since Houston is tied so closely to the US space program, the nickname is appropriate, though.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 12:30 PM EST up reply actions
That's exactly where they got that name.
Completely positive connotation.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
I know it HAS positive connotations
I’m just saying it took me a while to get from “Houston Astros” to “Houston, where they have mission control.”
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
Well yea....JSC is a ways outside the city, so it would take you a while to drive there.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 12:36 PM EST up reply actions
That's not the Astros' fault.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
*shrugs*
I don’t think most people would immediately make the connection, but it could just be me. I think Astros is a perfectly cromulent name, but if they changed it I wouldn’t be upset unless they changed it to something lame, like a name that sounds like a soccer club.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
I'm pretty sure like 98 percent of properly-aged America knows that connection.
Properly aged means above like 10 years old.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 12:43 PM EST up reply actions
Immediately?
I got the connection after a few minutes, but it’s not something that immediately came to mind.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
Congratulations, you are the 1%.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions
Awesome!
I knew I’d get there some day.
by Holymittens on Jan 24, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions
We talked this over at lunch
and my favorite was Houston Devil Dogs
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
The Houston Energy Traders
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
by zknower on Jan 24, 2012 2:29 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Devil Dogs = US Marines, so no.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
I don't know why I keep doing this
but I mean “Desert Dogs” which is one of the AFL teams I think.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
A story of my day at FanFest with a press pass is on the front page.
http://www.camdenchat.com/2012/1/24/2729701/somebody-for-a-day-the-fanfest-insider-experience
It’s not the whole story, but it’s a story, and I hope people think it’s a good one.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 12:07 PM EST reply actions
Flip Saunders out as the coach of YOUR Washington Wizards.
I’m surprised JB hasn’t been here to tell us all the news.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
You know he needed to drop a celebratory deuce first.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Probably in the copy room this time.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 12:48 PM EST up reply actions
Put it on FB
I’m stuck at the freaking pharmacy waiting for over an hour.
Playing Temple Run until I get carpel tunnel.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 12:53 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
Reply fail
Using the stupid SBN app.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 12:54 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
HA
I was stuck at the pharmacy for a full hour yesterday dealing with an insurance mix-up!! AND I PLAYED TEMPLE RUN THE WHOLE TIME.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
It's insanely addictive
I just found it yesterday and got my million badge today. Played probably 10 hours already.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
Are you going tomorrow?
Witt has Ves AND Booker in the starting five. This should be interesting.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 1:15 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Vesely... starting?
That’s insane. Unfortunately I have pneumonia (why I was at the pharmacy). I personally blame Billy Cundiff.
Anyway, hey, did you get the aisle seats the other night? I couldnt remember whether the two on the aisle were seats 4 and 5 or 6/7.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
That's where I ended up..
Whether I was supposed to or not. I’m in 6&7 tomorrow. Great seats, by the way.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 3:36 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Good to hear man...
But I can switch out your tickets if 6/7 weren’t the aisle seats I’m saying.
We’ll definitely get together for a game this year. I’ll probably hit up about 8-10 more.
Will probably be at the Bulls game Monday to see my boy D. Rose.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 3:47 PM EST up reply actions
Have any singles for that one?
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 4:59 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I'll email ya later.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 5:05 PM EST up reply actions
So, today's random Mitch Hedberg quote
I’m saved by the buoyancy of citrus!
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
by duck on Jan 24, 2012 1:41 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
"I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle."
Heard that one on the way to work this morning.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
Where's that one from?
Not the ComCen 30 minute special or Mitch All Together…
I MUST KNOW!
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I don't know.
Heard it on satellite radio. Not finding the source in my quick Googling.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
definitely not
maybe on the posthumously released Do You Believe in Gosh? I’m not sure about that though; haven’t listened to it in quite some time.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 24, 2012 4:30 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Gotta pick those two up on iTunes or Amazon
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Just get dropbox
I have it
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 5:13 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, I have Dropbox.
Email me the deets.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Yeah I remember listening to it in my car, so it's the one you mentioned.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
have you heard his newest cd. the one that was released after he died?
do you believe in gosh?
thoughts?
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 2:50 PM EST up reply actions
its really raw
you can tell he’s still in the early process of refining the jokes on there. its Mitch though, so its still better than most of the dreck that gets released as comedy cds.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 24, 2012 4:34 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
My fave one.
I’d rec ya, but I can’t seem to via the mobile app.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 24, 2012 4:32 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
The money is in on Betemit
2 years/$3 million – vesting option could make it 3/$6M.
The price is right.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 1:57 PM EST reply actions
Meh, whatever signing.
Bye bye Ryan Flaherty.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
my thoughts exactly
Bye bye Ryan Flaherty.
I know he is now, according to BA, one of the O’s top ten prospects, but realistically was he going to be the answer? Do they see if he becomes a legit option or just fall back on a so-so vet?
he's getting sent back to the cubs before opening day unless there's an injury.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I'm happy with this signing
Most of us have said that we don’t see the point in signing a major FA to a long term contract right now. But at the same time, I don’t want us to field a bunch of replacement level scrubs for the next 3 years and lose 120 games per year. This is the type of guy we need. He’s a low price veteran who will help give us modest production for the next few years. This is what a player who is bridging a gap’s contract should look like. As long as he’s not blocking any young players with actual potential (which he won’t be at the DH spot), I love it.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
plus
he can give Reynolds a break at 3rd, and Feilder a break at first. Yeah, it kinda works.
Used correctly, it's a nice piece of the puzzle
Our problem is, we’ve signed guys worse than him for more money to be starters for about 10 years now.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
That's why this is great:
In response to both you and to EME below, PA and Buck won’t feel like they “owe” Betemit anything. There’s no unspoken agreement that he will start and bat fourth all year. We can do whatever we want here: start him, bench him, platoon him, trade him, release him, start him for half the season and then bench him if we’re out of it and we want to give a AAA guy some AB’s.
Let’s hope this is a sign of a change in the organization’s mindset when it comes to signing FA’s.
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
For real.
This isn’t sending us to the World Series, but it beats the hell out of having an old, slow Vlad at more than 2x the cost.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 2:19 PM EST up reply actions
As long as he’s not blocking any young players with actual potential (which he won’t be at the DH spot), I love it.
Depending how they use Chavez in LF, Moldy will lose ABs… again!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
i hope Chavez isn't a regular starter
Betemit DH against RHP, Nolan DH against LHP with Chavez starting in LF. Otherwise use as a late inning defensive replacement.
No platoon for Moldy. Full time job!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
That's fine.
but I have a feeling Betimit will eat into that 30% at the DH spot if Reynolds and Davis stay healthy.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
in that situation, Betemit is the DH 70% of the time...
that’s already far more ABs than he’s had in a season recently.
I really have no idea how the lineup is going to look this season… it definitely seems like even more of a clusterfuck with betemit than it already was.
flaherty will be one who will get fucked.
dino and antonelli can play second. they’ll be fine.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Buck said on Saturday he wants Nolan to be the LF.
He has to earn it, but hopefully the standard for earning it isn’t insane, and he won’t get jerked around once he earns it.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
that's a good signing
super tradeable, definitely a useful bat. Not a game changer, but pretty good.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
but is he going to be an everyday DH?
or is this going to be a platoon thing…
how about with Chris Davis?
against lefties last year:
.350/.381/.906
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Well, Davis is at first base
unless Matt Antonelli or Ryan Flaherty can win a starting job, which would be a big upset.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
yeah...
I think this is a good signing if we sign someone to play first…but it’s kinda lame is it is all we’re going to get.
What about 2B?
I’d think Antonelli is the favorite right now since Dino is seen as a backup at 2B and 3B
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 25, 2012 2:32 AM EST up reply actions
I'm OK with this. I was expecting a lot more money.
But unless he completely crashes that option will vest and I don’t think 3 years of Betemit is in my best health interests.
Also, I thought Buck wanted to go with a flexible DH. I was totally behind that.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 25, 2012 2:26 AM EST up reply actions
http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/01/24/mlb-12-the-show-reveal-trailer?objectid=122251
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 1:59 PM EST reply actions
Blargh
Guess I’ll be replacing the cover again this year
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
haha,
I really wish they would make a great baseball game for 360. MLB 2k isn’t bad, but it isn’t all that fun to keep playing for a long period of time.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
Stop importing cologne and buy a PS3
hell, you can even order one on Amazon so you have an excuse to go to the mail room.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I'm not ready to own a 360 and a PS3
That is too big of a commitment.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions
Sell your 360
There are a lot of reasons I stayed with PS3, but for a baseball fan as big as the lot of us are, it just makes too much sense. The Show is head, shoulders, knees, and toes above 2K.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I favor the 360 over the PS3 for everything but baseball.
I wouldn’t sell it, plus I got it as a gift recently and would feel like a dick if I just sold it.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
My pc can barely handle Portal (the graphics card is el cheapo)
of course I don’t care, because I own a PS3.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Capable of playing some games maybe, but current games outpace computer capabilities quickly.
With a console, you know developers are designing to your system instead of having tailor your system to the games.
Buy a PC that has the same capabilities as a 360
You’ll be able to play the majority of XBox 360 games, plus a bunch more games that are only for the PC.
Have fun with that
I’m sure a computer with the same capabilities as a 360 would cost much more than a $299 360 250GB model.
But you can play more stuff than what the 360 does
And do other things that you can’t do on a 360.
If you are gonna spend $300 on a 360 and $300 on a computer to surf the web and do other stuff, better to spend $600 on a computer and play everything you would on the 360 plus other stuff.
Of course you'll have to wait a number of months for it to come to PC
and no longer play with any of your friends who own 360s. And not get all 360 games.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
apparently the LIVE social aspects remain intact
I just did a little research.
Still, I don’t want to play games on my PC. Enough said.
I dunno
I’d use my PC to play an RTS game but that’s about it. The only game I even still play on my PC is Railroad Tycoon 3, and I haven’t loaded it up in a few months.
I like sitting on the couch and playing my 360. I like everything about the experience. I like the dashboard, I like the layout, I like the social aspects, I like the synergy with netflix and espn etc, I like playing games on it. I’m just a console gamer and I like it that way.
Most of that stuff can be done on the PC too
The couch may be a bit harder because of the logistics, but all the other stuff…
Anyway, I always find it strange when people say “I’m a PC gamer” or “I’m a console gamer”. I’m both. I own a PS3 and Wii and a powerful gaming PC. I like to play all good games, regardless of platform.
You're just not presenting a convincing argument
“You can do all of that stuff on the PC too.” Okay, fine. My response is still: “And?” I don’t want to buy new hardware. I don’t need a PC connected to my television. I can play Railroad Tycoon and Sim City on my laptop.
I’m not as hardcore of a gamer as you, I guess. In the past year I’ve played Halo: Reach, Limbo, Portal 2, NFS: Hot Pursuit, and now I’m working my way through career mode in Forza 4. That’s really all I have time for.
I was approaching it from the angle of someone who had not already made the purchase
If you’re going to buy a new 360, spend the same money upgrading your PC instead, play the same games, and play more games to boot.
I've got wireless xbox controllers for my PC
and a long HDMI cable connecting my TV to my computer as a second monitor. It’s awesome.
YES! RT3 rocks!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 25, 2012 2:35 AM EST up reply actions
I don't.
I only have a laptop which can’t run any game made after 2009.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
I definitely don't do CPU gaming...
but own a 360, I like it, and they are winning this out of town baseball fan over by adding MLB.tv as an app for the upcoming season!
When they look up from the gutter where their dreams have gone to die they will see only orange and black. -EME
worth it.
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
I guess if you already pay and use the xbox gold blah blah blah stuff
but there are devices that will let you stream your MLB.tv account to your tv for free. Roku for one.
If it's like its PS3 counterpart
the app is free. Your current mlb.tv subscription just links with it. No added costs.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Right but you need 2 monthly subscriptions to do it on the 360.
right? Don’t they make you pay for the online stuff on the 360? AND you’re paying for your mlb tv thing. costly.
Oh yea
but I’d imagine he’s already paying for gold.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Yeah I'm already paying for Gold
Moved to ID from NC, good way to still hang out with the brother and friends from home. I also have done MLB.tv for several years now seeing that in NC I was in the mountains and wasn’t in MASN range. No extra cost to me that I wasn’t going to use anyway, I had it able to stream on my blu-ray but my 360 connection is much stronger so I’m hoping for less lag.
When they look up from the gutter where their dreams have gone to die they will see only orange and black. -EME
It's something like $50 a year
It’s basically like paying for Amazon Prime. Worth it for what you get.
They didn't already have one?
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I got a free UFC PPV because I had XBL
No one on PS3 got a free UFC PPV.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
WHAT!?
Well shit! Now I’m totally going to have to keep my Playstation and still not care at all about UFC!
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Obvi Fan Boy is Obvi
but srsly, I have all three of the current gen consoles and don’t care what the glorious PC master-race thinks.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 5:57 PM EST up reply actions
I'm really not though
I had both. Just got rid of the XBox because I’d never use it and didnt want to pay fror playing online. I just made the joke because I found it funny that the free UFC fight was supposed to be a big selling point.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Oh I was referring to Duck...
not you, but I kind of reply failed.
Clearly Microsoft can’t let go of their fantasy to become the all in one console, what with the streaming TV/Movies and such. Sony doesn’t quite know what it wants to do, and they really need to do a better job of providing devs with tech instructions, it took like three years before people (outside of Kojima-san) started utilizing the PS3 completely.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 6:03 PM EST up reply actions
XBox does a pretty good job at being a media console
I prefer Roku, though. It’s just a great no-bullshit solution.
I'm paying through the nose...
with Fios, mostly because I’m too lazy to look for any alternate solutions.
I don’t mind MS trying to be the all-in-one service, I just want them to remember I bought an XBOX to be called terrible names by 12 year olds.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 6:47 PM EST up reply actions
It's a selling point to me
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
let's put this huge peripheral in your hand
and then have you mimic throwing it at the television. Better hold it tight!
WHY DO THEY MAKE ME WATCH A COMMERCIAL BEFORE I WATCH A COMMERCIAL
fuck that.
Tommy hunter still sucks!
Ok....
I’m on quarters for 2-3 days. I know we’ve talked ad nauseum about TV shows but I need a good show to rip through the next couple days. In the few couple years I banged out: The Wire, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, The Unit, Prison Break, Lost, 24, Sopranos, Friday Night Lights and maybe a couple others. Mad Men and Fringe were pretty much the only couple I gave up on and lost interest.
I need a recommendation.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:34 PM EST reply actions
Oh yeah and Homeland.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:34 PM EST up reply actions
I just finished Firefly
I saw the eppys out of order but I dug it.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Yes, best show of all time
Followed by arrested develpment…
Crap, forgot, I've seen all those too.
Was thinking more drama.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:45 PM EST up reply actions
DEADWOOD
The End.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Especially because,
it’s only three seasons long. You’ll get through the whole thing.
COCKSUCKAH!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'm not a big fan of old-timey shows
I couldn’t really get into Boardwalk Empire either. Maybe that’s why I couldn’t dig Mad Men either.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
Deadwood is soooooo much better than BE
Seriously, try it. If you aren’t hooked after the third episode, I’ll eat my hat.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit
Ok, downloading it now…. (errrrr, buying it from iTunes I meant)
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:48 PM EST up reply actions
If you have HBO, you have HBOgo.com so the downloads won't be necessary.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
OMG
I have never used HBOGo before. I feel like I just discovered treasure!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
And there's a iphone/android app!
I think it’s a little laggy but as a “free” add on, I love it.
Also, I couldn’t get to fill my 1080 screen. Is it possible to fix this?
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
The app is meh
Mine wasn’t too clear when I tried watching the Wire. I can’t imagine watching a significant chunk of show on that thing. But yeah, the HBOgo thing is pretty beastin’. I just cancelled my HBO because I never watched it though.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
HBO Go is the best thing ever in the history of everdom
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
be sure to give it at least 3 eps.
It starts a little slow. But I think you’ll love it soon enough.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Both Deadwood and Firefly are good recommendations
since you can (unfortunately) knock out the whole series in a couple days
Sex and the City
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
by birdman on Jan 24, 2012 2:36 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
bwahahahahaha
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
My favorite show of all time...
Spaced (not for everyone though, admittedly)
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Screw it
I have about 5-6 movies I’ve been meaning to watch anyway.
Starting Moneyball now… this better be good. For some reason I just haven’t felt like watching it… like ever.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
It's fine.
It takes a number of liberties. The book is better.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I really enjoyed it
but it’s definitely more “entertainment” than something you’d learn something about baseball from
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I don't really care to learn dick about baseball anyway...
I just want the guys in orange and black to have more points than the other team at the end of the game. If that happens, I’m happy. If it doesn’t, I’m pissed.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
we just finished the first half of season 4... so we're getting close to the end.
To postpone ending my relationship with the show, I took a break from that and started watching SOA. A little bit into the 2nd season and I love it.. although I think my wife isn’t on board.
A few
Life on Mars, Better Off Ted, Red Dwarf, That Mitchell and Webb Look, Leverage, Chuck, BSG (had to repeat it)
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
one of the best cartoons of this generation!
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
DEADWOOD!!!!!
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 24, 2012 4:37 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Another quick question
Can you use Dropbox to send someone else files? I mailed Duck a hard drive with The Wire on it once and just realized I could have given him my Dropbox password and I could’ve just dragged a few episodes in at a time overnight.
Am I missing something?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:51 PM EST reply actions
But you can't send files to another count
In essence you just have to trick it to thinking you’re moving it to yourself right and give your buddy your user id and password.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
Yes
I do it all the time.
You don’t need to give him your password or anything. You just need to add him to your allowed list through Dropbox, which is basically “type his e-mail into a box.”
Ahhhhhh.... cool.
Can’t believe I didn’t think about this till recently.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks Dave II
This place has to be the greatest place ever for quick practical tailored information.
Thanks fellas.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
you can also share an individual folder in your dropbox
make a folder called “Duck” and only share that with him, thus protecting your other stuff.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Sure, and I'd block out a few days to download it.... :)
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
No bro
I could just dump a pile of em in overnight. Or like they said, give access to the folder and you can just copy it over onto your hard drive.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 5:14 PM EST up reply actions
I like how you get so excited when you discover current technology
and you just HAVE to use it right away even though it’s been around for forever
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
OMG, are they fucking crazy?
So Cabs goes back to 3B I guess.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
no way
he could already barely play 1B. unless they just don’t care about all the errors he gives up, they’ll have to split them between 1B and DH
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
This
VMart is out for the year, but what happens when he comes back next year? Didn’t he sign a 4 year deal
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
he signed a 4 yr/$50 million deal in 2011
so they’ll still have 2 years left on his deal once he comes back in 2013
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
that is an epic amount of money being put toward two people who will play 80 each at DH.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
The Tigers are now worth more than the entire city of Detroit
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
i was in such an excited fervor to rec this and instead i may have flagged it.
my bad. rec worthy in my opinion however!
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 3:18 PM EST up reply actions
Who the hell even knows that is true any more
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
scott boras.com is tweeting that the deal is done.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Well, slap my ass and call me Charlie.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
holy shit
looks like boras earned his money on this one.
wonder how much the Nationals were used to drive up the price?
ahahahaha
top tweet on Fielder right now is this from two days ago:
MLBinsideNews Scott Swaim
#Breaking: #Nationals to sign Prince Fielder to 8 year deal.
go that guys’ account and from one hour ago it says,
MLBinsideNews Scott Swaim
This is still a done deal folks. Boras keeping it quiet
Dude, time to update your twitter feed quick. ’cause you are SO wrong right now.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Bogus MLB insider tweets have been all the rage in the last two weeks.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:18 PM EST up reply actions
Not just MLB
Stacey’s boy Rob Lowe said Peyton was retiring.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
At least Rob Lowe is a real person
Perhaps with inscrutable motives, but not just some anonymous idiot trying to get attention on Twitter.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
I knew he wasn't going to the Nationals.
Scott Swaim don’t know shit.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 3:44 PM EST up reply actions
Kevin Goldstein is really laying into Swaim on Twitter now.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
robothal is confirming that figure now.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
so, he got a $2 billion deal?
that’s a pretty good negotiation for boras.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
by zknower on Jan 24, 2012 3:07 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
boras was adamant about beating the pujols contract.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
markakis and reynolds beg to differ
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
is he just trying to prove something to his dad?
by playing for his team?
I think he's trying to prove someone will pay him 214 million dollars to play baseball
but signing with the team that will pay him 214 million dollars
lying in the weeds
Dombrowski, with the poker face, 5 days ago:
“Of course we’d consider Prince Fielder,” Detroit Tigers General Manager Dave Dombrowksi said Thursday afternoon at a stop on the team’s Winter Caravan.
“But realistically, it’s probably not a good fit,” he said.
Dombrowski said he didn’t think Scott Boras, Fielder’s agent, would agree to a one-year deal, and that’s a problem for the Tigers.
“We anticipate Victor Martinez coming back in 2013 and playing at the level he was at last season,” he said.
Later, asked if his statement should put the Prince Fielder speculation to rest, Dombrowski said he wasn’t going to address any specific player.
“I would just say that the fit is really not there at this point.”
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Imagine what Prince would have gotten from Detroit if the GM hadn't played coy in the press.
Sheesh.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:30 PM EST up reply actions
lying in the weeds
that’s how it’s done son.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
The best thing about this signing?
Mark Reynolds won’t be the worst fielding 3B anymore.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 25, 2012 3:27 AM EST up reply actions
and Lincecum agrees to a 2 yr/$40.5 million extension with the Giants
between him and Fielder, that’s a lot of dough getting thrown around
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
and my day is ruined
well, there’s always next off-season…
no way.
Ive heard markakis is in the best shape of……oh….
:(
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 24, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions
We need these young players to prove themselves
then a few can get moved next winter for some proven talent.
my drive home will be insufferable
the local radio folks are all about making a “splash” in free agency.
Yeah I hope Jeremy whatever his name is on 105.7 can STFU about Fielder now
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
by Astronaut Mike Dexter on Jan 24, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
True for the majority of Baltimore's general sports media, I suspect.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:27 PM EST up reply actions
It's because they don't..
Considering Royale was their ‘expert’ this past year. I think it’s a testament to how long it’s been since the Orioles were relevant. The game has changed dramatically and they haven’t been paying attention.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 3:51 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Splash is the sound...
A falling object makes when it slams into water after jumping out of a plane, right?
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 24, 2012 3:27 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
File this under
WUT?
From Robothal today:
Don’t count on it happening, but the Orioles are perhaps the Yankees’ most logical trade partner for right-hander A.J. Burnett.
Burnett spends his offseasons in Monkton, Md., and the Orioles have pursued him in the past (albeit under different general managers).
True, the O’s are optimistic about the progress that right-hander Jake Arrieta and lefties Brian Matusz and Zach Britton showed at a recent mini-camp. True, they’ve signed two free-agent lefties from the Japanese league, Tsuyoshi Wada and Wei-Yin Chen, to go with their ace, righty Jeremy Guthrie.
Still, the Orioles’ rotation is far from solid. If the Yankees paid enough of Burnett’s contract, he might be worth the gamble. The Yankees owe Burnett $33 million over the next two years.
Why would the Orioles want to trade anything of value to a division rival for another shitty starting pitcher who is currently fucking up that rival’s rotation?
Don’t we have enough shitty starting pitching as it is?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I saw this earlier and couldn't believe how dumb it sounded.
It’s logical in the sense that the Orioles tend to make idiotic moves.
I still like the idea of taking Burnett's contract and prospects to get him off of their hands.
We can send them back a surplus utility infielder or 4th outfielder.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
Perhaps...
Wilson B?
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
i'd be willing to betemit.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 3:26 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
mlb network interviewing Cecil Fielder despite the fact he doesn't have any relationship with his son.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
scott boras.com is saying that Prince will play 1B. Cabs will move.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I am sure they'll both spend some time at 1st
Prince might spend more time there, but no way get doesn’t get at least 30 games at DH assuming he’s healthy.
Yeah, 28 minutes in and they mention one of my favorite players....
CHAAAAAAAAAAAAD BRAAAAAAAAAAAADFORD!!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 3:31 PM EST reply actions
Toss up, who was luckier over V. Martinez' ACL tear?
Boras or Fielder?
I don't think V.Mart's injury had any role.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
You react to a DH injury by spending $214.
DET was interested from Prince from the get go and waited for the market to play out.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Sure,
I’m just saying you don’t spend $214 on the whim.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
What about on a used PS3?
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 3:48 PM EST up reply actions
i agree that they must have maintained some level of interest as things dragged out
but i’m sure when V-Mart went down that made them up the ante a little bit. need to take advantage of Verlander while he’s still in his prime
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
is that what they did?
because the figure doesn’t look like a “played out” market to me.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Looks more like a "got played" market.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 4:15 PM EST up reply actions
I mean they waited long enough to see everybody's cards.
They had to wait until Darvish signs to see Tex’s cards. Once everybody’s hand was played, DET dropped their bomb.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
What do you think was the next-best offer that Fielder had received?
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 4:25 PM EST up reply actions
NO WHERE NEAR 9/214
Something like 6/140. Who would go beyond six years? Rangers? Hell no. They’re a saber friendly office. Orioles? Hell no. They’re the Orioles. Nats? They were willing to go 8 or 9, they would have done it long ago.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
edit: IF they were willing to go 8 or 9, they would have done it long ago.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I think zk's point is that a "played out" market would be, you see the high bid and beat it modestly.
We’ll go with your guess of 6/140 as the next best offer, just for the sake of the argument.
Letting the market play out would be, it gets to 6/140 and then a team comes in with 6/150 or 7/154. Dropping the 9/214 is overkill. That’s not playing a market.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
i couldn't have said it better myself.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Oh I certainly agree then.
I just meant played out in the sense that they wanted to see what other bids were. Why they killed the market is beyond me. Stupid.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
yea, it had to have some!
I mean with those pitchers they had to go somewhere to replace Vmart’s production at the plate.
This made me laugh.
Ken Rosenthal @Ken_Rosenthal
Text from exec: “A good journalist should check if Tonya Harding is a Boras employee and if she was anywhere near VMart in recent weeks ;-)”
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:48 PM EST up reply actions
Next I'll wear a bow tie.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 3:52 PM EST up reply actions
Stetsons are cool
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 5:54 PM EST up reply actions
If you're the right age, the reference will always be understood. :p
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 4:16 PM EST up reply actions
I understand it, of course
Man, the Orioles front office! I’ve not seen that many blunders since Louis VII’s war with Theobald II of Champagne!
heyman tweeted that 3 teams were in on Fielder until the end:
Tigers, National, and a “mystery team”
really? I would assume the tigers were the mystery team.
Scott Boras never knows when enough smoke has been blown up peoples asses
I think it's against the bylaws for the mystery team to remain a mystery after the player has signed.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 4:19 PM EST up reply actions
time to snag us Koji
how mad do you think he would be if we traded for him, then traded him again at the deadline? haha
Now we just need someone else to sign Edwin Jackson so I can stop worrying about him signing here.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 4:42 PM EST up reply actions
I'm more worried about the O's getting Roy Oswalt than EJ.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I don't mind EJ if he came cheap too.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
EJ isn't coming cheap.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 4:56 PM EST up reply actions
this.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 5:53 PM EST up reply actions
Oswalt wants to re-establish value
Pitching in a hitters park in a hitters league in a hitters division on a losing team seems to not fit that mold
OPACY is doesn't really play as a hitter's park
Just sayin’
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Im pretty sure it boosts HR value, it isn't just the park measurements
At least it has been mentioned on fangraphs as the second largest HR booster behind arlington
it's a B-R thing somewhere
compared to other parks, it’s now actually more on the pitcher side, though not by much
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
depends...
certainly tends more that way than t’other.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 5:03 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Only because 50% of the at bats
are by Oriole hitters.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 24, 2012 5:29 PM EST up reply actions
Yea, but the other 50% are facing O's pitching
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
you probably weren't there for this EME,
but at Fanfest, during the Buck and Duq Q&A, someone said something about growing impatient with the rebuilding process because we’ve been rebuilding for 15 years [sic] and that the team needed to go out and sign Fielder NOW. This line brought more applause than I had heard at any other time (even more than during the 9th Inning replay of Andino Day)
there are a lot of things wrong with that line of thinking
and when confronted with its popularity all I can do is sigh
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
I just don't understand the people who think Prince Fielder would have been the ultimate solution for our problems.
If the ultimate signing price was modest, sure, I might have been irked if the O’s weren’t in on it. But 9/214? Jesus, no way.
"So I said, 'Looks like they've finally got Ogea in the pen. I wonder if the glove fits.' I thought I was going to get fired." - Mike Flanagan, RIP
by Eat More Esskay on Jan 24, 2012 5:36 PM EST up reply actions
Bahahahaha
I just LOLed pretty hard at the seen where Jonah Hill fires Pena
(just trying to live up to my always behind the curve moniker)
Pena: “Is that it?”
Jonah: “Yes”
Pena: “ok”
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 4:46 PM EST reply actions
Dayquil liquicaps are so weird
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 5:29 PM EST reply actions
How old is Prince in that picture and how much does he weigh?
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Is he wearing a Detroit hat, NY Giants shirt, and Cubs pants?
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
it would appear that way
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
I remember those pants in the early 90s were very trendy.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
zubaz!
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 6:22 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Best shape of his life right there
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 6:07 PM EST up reply actions
Who is that pathetic piece of shit behind him?
God baseball players used to be so ridiculous.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
You mean the dude who's slouching like it's his job?
Dunno.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 24, 2012 6:15 PM EST up reply actions
looks like trammell.
"Three thousand years of beautiful tradition,from Moses to Sandy Koufax,YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I'M LIVING IN THE FUCKING PAST!"- Walter Sobchak
by j.q. higgins on Jan 24, 2012 6:23 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Man just imagine that damage that Prince and Cabrera are going to do to some post-game spreads
Do you think they’ll have eating contests? Of course they’ll have to select something mutually agreeable that’s vegetarian – my money’s on donuts. I bet prince wins at first, but when Cabrera gets in mid-season form watch out.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Those two will win all the drinking competitions too.
"You're gonna be so sad when they get crushed by the Packers later." -kba26, on Jan 15, 2012 10:23 AM PST.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 24, 2012 5:45 PM EST up reply actions
You don't know anything about my problems!
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
If those two were Orioles we could all be making fat jokes every game
instead of complaining about Nick Markakis’s arms.
Haha... I love this guy
Dylan Bundy:
Love it when my nephew goes to the 20 pound dumbells and starts to move them. He is only 19 months old .
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 24, 2012 7:06 PM EST reply actions
Anyone else think we should take a flier on Justin Ruggiano?
MLBTR says that the Rays DFA’d him. I woulnd’t mind DFA’ing Angle to give Ruggiano a look. He seems to offer more upside than Angle.
Of course, having Jai Miller and Endy Chavez probably makes this more complicated than a simple Ruggiano-for-Angle switch.
Anyone the Rays dump and we pick up will not be good
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
and anyone we dump and they pick up will be good.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I don't think that you can make a general statement like that.
The Rays decided to DFA Ruggiano when they signed Peña because they have Jennings, Upton, Joyce, Fuld, Guyer, Zobrist and Scott. All of those guys will see some time in the outfield this season, so Ruggiano didn’t fit.
Ruggiano’s ceiling might be fringe-average starter or platoon partner* (1 – 2 WAR), but Angle’s upside is probably slightly above-average 4th OF (0.5 – 1 WAR). I think that we have to go with the higher-upside player here, even if the Rays decided that he doesn’t fit into their plans.
*He’s posted a 42 wRC+ in 96 PA against lefties and a 90 wRC+ against righties in 111 PA, FWIW.
you might want to check your sarcasm meter.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Fair enough, I didn't pick it up.
I guess I just don’t usually read into internet sarcasm when I’m interested in debating/discussing something.
Everybody offers more upside than Angle.
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by mdterps0325 on Jan 25, 2012 12:10 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Nice of him
Too bad he’s no longer affiliated with us. I guess it’s true… all the best ones are always taken….
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