Friday Bird Droppings
by j.q. higgins on Jan 27, 2012 6:37 AM EST
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Anyways, Prince is off the board, Cespedes and the second tier starters are the focus now. What in the world will the Warehouse do next?
Pro Bowl this weekend. Do you care?
Orioles remain interested in Yoenis Cespedes - baltimoresun.com The sky is also blue.
Charley Walters: Carl Pavano will be Twins' Opening Day starter - TwinCities.com Guthrie v. Pavano, Book it.
Amber Theoharis: Duquette targeting specific stats in effort to improve O's You had me then you lost me, Amber.
Camden Depot: O's Kim Sung-min in Dan Duquette's version of Rashomon Is Keith Law Max Mercy in the Nolan Reimold movie?
Ray McNulty: Bitter memories about spring training's unhappy ending in Vero Beach " TCPalm.com Another flattering account from our friends in Florida.
Happy Birthday, Brother Lo! It's also the birthday of Tom "The Professor" Trebelhorn and Ken Huckaby.
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‘Birds go back to basics with Saturday’s Hot Stove Banquet
Instead of usual routine of featuring a guest speaker, the team went in a different direction by making Saturday’s event a roundtable discussion. This year’s panel features bloggers Pete Kerzel, Steve Melewski and Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com, former Shorebirds manager Gary Kendall, Shorebirds manager Ryan Minor and Tripp Norton, director of baseball administration for the Baltimore Orioles.
“We’ve done the banquet for several years and our thought was about reinventing it,” Shorebirds general manager Chris Bitters said. “These guys are the ones who have a deep knowledge of the Orioles farm system because they are around it nearly everyday and I felt it would be a good way for fans to ask questions about what they’ve wanted to know.”
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I can identify two people who do not have a deep understanding of the Os farm system.
by crawdaddy on Jan 27, 2012 7:05 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I can identify one person who does not have deep understanding of baseball.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
self-policing, self-policing, self-policing.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Anyway, my only point is that guys like Kobatko and even Melewski would probably not claim they have a deep understanding of the Orioles farm system. That is not Kobatko’s turf and Melewski just does interview and report pieces. Neither of them are MiL analysts. I don’t think there exists an MiL analyst that is local and is also real media. It is just too small a niche.
my only point is that melewski doesn't know much about anything.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
That's uncalled for
If you don’t agree with his stuff that’s fine, but let’s lay off stuff like that.
Okay, I went too far there.
It’s just that he treats anyone who disagrees with him in his comments with contempt.
He's actually quite a pleasant fellow to talk to in person
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
He is. He is a good guy. I have talked to him a couple times and I have casually tried to get some information out of him about particular minor league players…I often have the feeling that I know far more about them than he does.
Of course, I am trying to treat him like a prospect analyst. That is not who he is. He is a minor league beat reporter. That is a needed and respectful job. I get irritated with his writing because I want it to be something that it is not. This is particularly true when he tries to cross over into the analyst territory. That just is not who he is.
But, yes, good guy and good local MiL beat guy.
I had his future super star pre-rookie card back in the day
I always was excited for him. Still am for some reason.
Yeah
Unless you’re being sarcastic. Married a Salisbury girl, will be the Delmarva manager as long as the O’s want him, I expect.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
That's kinda cool.
I like seeing former Orioles, even the less-successful ones, stay with the organization.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 8:56 AM EST up reply actions
I love going to the Revs games
I get a kick out of all the former orioles associated.
Interesting story...
I was talking with Rick Krivda one day about the time the Revs started up. He talked about trying to get involved with them but they went with Tippy Martinez instead. Seemed to tick him off a little bit.
heh I am not sure I know who Rick Krivda is
Tippy Martinez I get a kick out of because my dad was at the game where he picked off three baserunners in one inning and always tells me about it.
He played with the O's for like 3 years
In 1997, Krivda dazzled with Rochester, going 14-2 with a 3.39 ERA, walking only 34 in 146 innings. He finished fifth in the International League in ERA and led the league in both complete games (6) and shutouts (3). He had a chance to lead the league in wins as well but spent the last couple months of the year with Baltimore. He had a 4-2, 6.30 record in 10 starts for the Orioles, a significant decline from his first two cracks at the majors.
He pitched at the end of the rotation along with Rocky Coppinger
if my memory is in proper order. I think it was the Muss, Erickson, Key, Coppinger, Krivda, and Kamieniecki time period.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I dunno what happened, I know every single one of the other names there
but he just slips through the void
Wow, names I have not heard in a long time
Suddenly I’m filled with memories for heading down to the Harbor for a day, watching some winning Orioles baseball with my Mom when I was in high school, those were some good years.
ROCKY
remember when he beat Roger Clemens and was gonna be great? If I remember correctly members of that era also included Jason Johnson and Josh Towers and Sir Sid, no?
Tommy hunter still sucks!
I think Rocky Coppinger pre-dates the rest of those guys by a couple of years.
"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 27, 2012 3:49 PM EST up reply actions
Yea
Without looking it up, I’m pretty sure Rocky wasn’t with those guys. Those guys are more during the dawn of our age of suck, while Coppinger was at the twilight of our age of pretty good.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
it looks like his two years were '96 and '99
he didn’t really play in ’97 and ’98
Tommy hunter still sucks!
Yeah, I don't recall ever seeing a Coppinger
But Johnson, Towers, and Sid were there when I was a young O’s fan.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:54 PM EST up reply actions
I love that too. Off the top of my head:
Hoiles (Former manager)
Etch (current)
Tippy Martinez
Ryan Minor
Brooks Robinson (some vague part of the ownership group)
Matt Riley
Ramon Nivar
Tike Redman (Was one of the first Revs to sign, but signed w/the O’s system before the season started)
Val Majewski
I see former O’s all over the atlantic league, but I think those are all the ones who played for York.
That was fun.
Doesn't Brooksie own the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs?
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 9:25 AM EST up reply actions
You think Prince/Cabrera weight is nuts, what till you compare salaries
1985:
1B — Dave Bergman: 262,500.
2B — Lou Whitaker: 670,000.
SS — Alan Trammell: 517,143.
3B — Tom Brookens: 250,000.
Total: ……….. 3,397,477.77 (Adjusted for inflation).
Prince/Cabrera……44,777,777.78
Unreal.
What is a shame is how little the played’ were paid then. Part poor business models, part technology, and part need for a stronger union.
by crawdaddy on Jan 27, 2012 7:17 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Not sure, but owners were working together to keep salaries low.
Players got more power, got more money, forced owners to do more shady dealings with city and states, and now you have a pretty crazily subsidized industry that does not hurt for money.
by crawdaddy on Jan 27, 2012 7:35 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Owners still work together to keep salaries low
here’s an interesting thought
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 8:03 AM EST up reply actions
That is a pretty heady paragraph.
In lower-tier football and basketaball, the compensation cap is set at $0 and they make a pretense that it’s an “amateur” activity even though everyone except the players is pulling in six or seven figure salaries.
This referring to college athletics?
I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s referring to, yeah.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
I think there are more factors there than just inflation that results in that discrepency
But even with that in mind, that’s pretty ridiculous.
@sibsinExile
I don't know if anyone's into tennis
but supposedely there is a pretty eopic match between Murray and Djok going on right now
@sibsinExile
But he won!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:01 AM EST up reply actions
I had to leave for work once he went up 6-5 in the 5th
but the end of that set was getting pretty ugly for Djokovic until he turned it back on for the last couple games.
Honest question
After watching moneyball, isn’t the point of getting high OBP not to waste the walks and hits by trying to steal? I recall a part where beane specifically said that they were not going to steal anymore so they didnt throw away base runners.
obviously...
the point is to not waste outs, but there’s a seasonally adjusted point at which basestealing makes sense. i think it’s like high 70s/low 80s.
"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 27, 2012 8:34 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
I am not sure I follow the 70's / 80's number
is that approximately how many steals a team should have if they are doing it right?
I think the break even point is about 67% now.
The point is to increase run production. SBs can be a big part of that.
by crawdaddy on Jan 27, 2012 9:19 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
AH! I just said the same thing and then found this.
Yeah, I thought the whole article was good and then suddenly just went on a weird tangent. It felt like it was written by someone else suddenly.
Our success rate stealing bases is way too low to push the idea of swiping more bags. I love the flashy moment as much as any fan and the fantasy boost is always nice but I just don’t want my REAL team doing it. I’m glad that Buck doesn’t send them more. And if we WERE looking to steal more bases, we would have signed Coco Crisp, right? Thankfully, it looks like we aren’t trying to do that.
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 12:11 PM EST up reply actions
Random note
I was trying to find a copy of the Ryan Minor baseball card I used to have and came upon the list ot top 100 prospects by year from baseball america. 2006 is a very interesting year for the Orioles.
21. Nick Markakis
45. Adam Lowen
62. Troy Patton <——WOW
64. Adam Jones
81. Hayden Penn
99. Nolan Reimold
patton
apparently, had a hell of a fastball before he fucked up his shoulder.
"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 27, 2012 8:49 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Patton was kinda the centerpiece of the Tejada trade
We knew he was injured, but figured he was worth a shot if he recovered well enough.
He did not.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I'm skeptical that we knew.
it turned out he was injured and then the organization was like, “oh yeah we totally knew”
Tommy hunter still sucks!
This says we knew he was injured
he just wasn’t THAT injured yet
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Wow...almost 2000 comments yesterday on various topics of conversation.
Today’s topic: pixie sticks.
Talk amongst yourselves.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
Can you believe the shit they do at these little girl pageants?
They give them candy (pixie sticks they call pageant crack) and energy drinks to keep them addled and awake so their mothers can pretend to be princesses. All of this crap to win a $1000 grand prize. They spend way more than that on all of the crap! Your daughter isn’t going to become a model! She’s going to be an object of pity!
I wish the FCC would shut down that crap "Toddlers and Tiaras" show on TLC...
… and file child abuse charges against all of these mothers.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 8:59 AM EST up reply actions
My wife watches that show all the time
Those little girls forming the alternate personalities scare the hell out of me. The mothers are turning their daughters into these monsters they may think its cute she is being “sassy” or whatever but that is going to be a terrible life lesson as she gets older.
I love that these moms, who, judging by their own weight problems, are not exactly dietitians
are saying “I don’t think it’s bad for her health.” And they put them on diets! Not “lets be reasonable about what we eat” diets, but “let’s lose some of that fat, fatty!” diets. Terrible.
I do that to my kids all the time.
But then I just give them some pepsi to keep them awake. I consider it a health food since its got..um….bubbles…in it.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:08 AM EST up reply actions
strikegently.com
always posts disaster clips from that show and some of the things i hear these 3-5 years old say is rediculous.I heard one little girl calling the other one a prostittue, as she sips her special juice and talks about her “sexy” legs.
Mind blowing.
"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 27, 2012 9:35 AM EST up reply actions
I like blue and purple flavors of just about everything
from hard candy to gatorade, etc. For me, the color spectrum of tastes goes:
Best Purple > Blue > Red > Orange > Green > Yellow Worst
by PhilR8 on Jan 27, 2012 9:13 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
It doesn't get much more racist than this, folks.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I want that PURPLE DRAAAAAANK
Wtf is juice?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:33 AM EST up reply actions
I see what you did there!!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
We have grape drink!
It’s not the same formula! WTF is JUICE??
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:36 AM EST up reply actions
I miss Dave Chappelle
Best comedian I’ve ever seen live.
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, not cool at all...
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 9:37 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Oh come on... that's one of those good stereotype jokes right?
Black people like grape drank (joke from a black comedian, the great Chapelle). White people smell like bologna….
I can dig it.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:39 AM EST up reply actions
I'm fine with racist jokes
I mean, they’re jokes, right? If there’s no real malicious intent (and you don’t actually believe what you’re saying) I’m ok with almost anything in the name of comedy. But It’s still really quite racist.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Oh JB...
I’ll chalk it up to existing rapport my man, but there is no such thing as a good racial stereotype.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 9:48 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Ahhhhh cmon....
What if I said Javale is a low IQ goaltending machine? lol
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
I'll allow it!
Only if you edit it to be “low basketball IQ”.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 9:57 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I'm pretty sure the whole grape soda stereotype existed way before Chappelle
Maybe white people only knew about it when they started watching Chappelle and understanding what they could of black people
That racist?
@sibsinExile
who said anything about soda?
I don’t look at stuff as racist or not. Its just an association of a damn beverage. Who cares.
White privilege.
Why would you look at stuff as being racist or not? You’re not the one being told by the people in the hospital that “oh I bet you’ll love our Black History Month meal” (fried chicken, greens, watermelon). Nor are you being pulled over by the police on suspicion of kidnapping your infant daughters just because they’re lighter than you.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 9:55 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Too late..
I know this is the Internet and all, but just try to think twice when trying to be funny about race, because most people fail pretty hard.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:05 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Bahhhhh
You’re piling in two DRASTICALLY different stereotypes. One is innocuous about a person’s taste. My black friends always joke with me about this “of course I love chicken, who the fuck doesn’t”, and it’s all in good nature. Granted, I wouldn’t walk up to a stranger without prior rapport and be like “you gettin’ the chicken”. But I mean, taking it to racist cops pulling over dark skinned people because they “fit the description” are two drastically different things.
But I digress…. I wasn’t even the cat that said it. So Newt Jr. up there can fight his own battles.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:59 AM EST up reply actions
First example was the nurse in the hospital...
To my wife and FIL before I entered the room after Theo was born.
The second was my FIL getting repeatedly pulled over with his kids in the cars in the early 80s. He got taken to a station so many times that he finally stopped driving without MIL being there to help vouch for him.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:10 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I probably already went into this more than I should've
I just think those are two very different types of racism. The meal suggestion or whatever could’ve just been an honest lapse in etiquette and was meant to be good-natured. The cop was obviously racist and being a total dick.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
Symptoms of the same disease...
But really I know where you’re coming from. Iggles took it to a bad place with the whole “why should I care blah blah blah”.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:17 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I can't take you seriously b/c of your handle
I am sorry.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
Check my resume...
Or, you could simply Google that shit.
You made a racial joke. It wasn’t funny. I called you on it. Nut the fuck up.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Can't believe I just gave that site another hit
But I was curious where it came from.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:40 AM EST up reply actions
I thought about linking to the infamous...
cover of the New Yorker, but I wanted to spell it out for him. I’ve thought about re-registering with a more “professional” handle given that I’m working on some pieces to be posted as fan posts, but I figure Andrew_L would be seen as too derivative.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
We could have a TFJ renaming contest...
I nominate “OfficialCamdenChatPet”
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
I'd go with
Igglesdoesntrule13
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
huh?
I’m not clicking on that site. Please enlighten me.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
Oh for fuck's sake man...
even Camden Chat’s official Red State asshole (love you JB – I’ll buy you a beer Monday) clicked on that link.
The title is: Fox Anchor Calls Obama Fist Pound A “Terrorist Fist Jab”. There’s a video there if you dare.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:51 AM EST up reply actions
I didn't think his name was plural
I read it like “James doesn’t rule”
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:54 AM EST up reply actions
i mean, Iggles is another eay of saying Eagles right?
you wouldn’t say “the Eagles doesn’t rule,” you’d say “the Eagles don’t rule”
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Say whatever you want
eagles don’t rule would be my vote.
Why are we changing my name?
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
Ahhhh, I didn't even put that together.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
My wife would live on these two foods if I let her.
Watermelon is absolutely huge in China and KFC is bigger than McDonald’s there now.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
Asians love watermelon and fried chicken... FILED
I kid, I kid.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
She also wolfs down chicken feet like nobody's business.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
I was once at a wedding in China.
My wife gives me a bowl of soup. It’s not bad and I don’t see any other food on the horizon, so I grab the ladle to pour another bowl. As I pull the ladle up, I see something floating in it…
… a tiny little rat’s foot.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
I was pretty well done with it at that point.
I’ll have to post some pictures sometime of my culinary adventures in Asia.
At our wedding restaurant, I walked around a corner and stepped within inches of a cage holding a 4’ alligator.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:27 AM EST up reply actions
Based on this alone
I love my wedding but I can say yours was much cooler than mine.
Oh, come on.
You don’t think eating a cow’s testicles would be ANY worse than just eating a cooked piece of burger???
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
I've never been presented with the opportunity
but if i was in a nice restaurant and trusted the chef, I would try pretty much anything
But
You can at least SEE how one would be perceived as “grosser” than the other.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
Well, thats probably the "grossest" thing you could come up with
whats the difference between gnawing on buffalo wings and eating chicken feet?
I'm not Rex Ryan
I’ll take the wing
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
Damnit!
Same joke!!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:34 AM EST up reply actions
The difference is that one is a wing and the other is a foot.
Nobody wants a foot in their mouth. Other than Rex Ryan.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:34 AM EST up reply actions
We all eat hot dogs
But when someone sees someone else eating an animal’s intestines, they freak out.
@sibsinExile
There's a difference.
You had haggis before?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:40 AM EST up reply actions
Ugh....it was gross.
Then again, lots of what they eat up there was pretty bad. Mushy peas? Yuck.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
Yea but that's preperation
I was just saying it in general terms. Not specific types of food
@sibsinExile
My objection to haggis is more the preparation than the ingredients
There are some British restaurants that are really improving British cuisine. Fergus Henderson’s St. John in London is one of the best restaurants in the world and its menus are very offal-heavy.
I wouldn't eat it
but I was just being a d***
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
I dunno, cultural norms?
They eat horse all the time in europe and here horses are untouchable because they are such graceful and spiritual creatures….
Yea this is pretty much correct
But I hate when people are like ewww you eat that. Some things are acceptable in some cultures and others not. It’s not that hard to understand.
@sibsinExile
I'm Harry fucking Potter and I eat unicorns.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
Exactly
Colbert did a whole thing about how a Chinese businessman died when a rival poisoned his cat stew. It was only funny because we don’t eat cat here.
"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
Allez Cuisine!
"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
Horse slaughterhouses just
Became legal again in the US.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 27, 2012 11:43 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Really?
I’ve always wanted to eat horse. I heard it’s awesome.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Yea
back in November. It happened pretty quietly. Rider on some other bill or something. I only heard about it, because my girlfriend’s family own horses.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 27, 2012 9:33 PM EST up reply actions
I don't object to certain parts being consumed, even if I don't particularly care for them.
I’ve tried chicken feet. I find them to basically be a method for transferring sauce to your mouth. They’re basically a thin layer of skin over bone. The skin holds no flavor at all, except for the sauce.
In Korea, I had just learned how to read and write Korean. I go out to a restaurant with a few friends and I’m reading down the menu. I get to an item called 닭똥집 (dalk ddong jip). The first word means ‘chicken’. Okay. The third means ‘house’. Okay. The middle means ‘poop’. Err… chicken poop home?
A vigorous debate follows of whether the item in question is the intestines of the chicken or the actual anus. After about 20 minutes, we ask the chef at the restaurant and he answers, “I don’t know.”
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
You're not selling this "Asia is better" argument very well.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
I have never once tried to sell that any geographic location is better than another...
… different isn’t better or worse. There’s a lot of things I loved about Asia and there’s a lot of things I hated.
However, since the vast majority of you live in the United States, my American-based stories are probably less interesting than my Asian-based stories… so I go to that well more often.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:39 AM EST up reply actions
I would eat watermelon every day all day for the rest of my life
if it weren’t for the whole “malnutrition” thing.
As for Fried Chicken, the last time I went to KFC was in December 2010 and it made me the most violently ill I’ve ever been in my life….
so I’d pass on that.
Ha. I even remember exactly what inspired me to go
My wife and were having a marathon watching of this BBC show called “Peep Show” (which is fucking hilarious, and I recommend to everyone) on Hulu, and one of the characters goes to KFC.
That was clearly a case where product placement worked….much to my eventual dismay.
Awesome!
Everyone else I’ve ever mentioned it to just gives me blank stares.
Superhans and Mark’s boss are two of the greatest comedy characters ever…
There are so many great little moments in that show.
It’s not about big jokes. Very early on in the series he runs into the office supply closet to avoid Sophie and starts thinking “Blitzkrieg! I’m in the Ardennes! You can’t touch me in the Ardennes.” That is still one of my favorite tv moments ever.
KFC went from insanely delicious to insanely delicious with a side of Colon Blow.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
by NSOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 11:25 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I'll be honest with ya, I'm not big on watermelon OR Fried chicken
Dead serious.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
way to be that guy
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 27, 2012 9:49 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
purple's a fruit!
"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 27, 2012 9:15 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
no, it's one of the main ingredients in grape drink
sugar, water, and purple
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
No
1) Purple is wrong.
2) Blue is wrong.
3) When red is cherry, it is always the best. When it is strawberry, it is wrong.
4) Yellow is second. Always. Because yellow is lemon. If yellow is pineapple, I am legally entitled to murderize the decisionmaker that made yellow be pineapple.
5) Green as apple is bad. Green as lime is good.
6) Orange? It is wrong, but not as wrong as purple and blue.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 9:19 AM EST up reply actions
So does "green apple"
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:28 AM EST up reply actions
banana laffy taffy is the greatest creation ever
even if it does tear my teeth apart every time i eat it
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Bananas are wrong.
As a fruit. As a flavor.
There is nothing evenly remotely redeeming about bananas. They are in the same class as pineapples – sins against humanity.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 9:24 AM EST up reply actions
I like bananas
…sometimes. I have to be in a very specific mood. If I try to eat a banana when I’m not in the mood I’m totally disgusted by it.
When there are bananas at my house that are at the correct stage of ripeness
(juuuuuuust starting to get the tiny brown dots on the peel.. you’re weird if you eat them at a different time)
They will all be eaten, by me, within 15 minutes.
I would say that's cause you've only tasted one variety of banana in the US
but you’ve lived in Asia and I’m assuming you’ve had multiple varieties there.
So you’re just crazy.
@sibsinExile
AAAAAAAAAAAAAASS.... HOOOOOOOOOOOLE
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASS…… HOOOOOOOOOOOOLE
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:29 AM EST up reply actions
I shoulda thrown pink in there too
Pink is after Blue but before Red EXCEPT when pink is watermelon. Then it’s at the very bottom.
Revised: Purple > Blue > Pink > Red > Orange > Green > Yellow
Fun Dip > Pixie Sticks
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 27, 2012 9:06 AM EST via Android app up reply actions 2 recs
Absolutely false.
The candy that you were supposed to dip in the sugar was terrible. Rock hard and tasteless. Once you ate all of the flavored sugar, there was nothing left.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:07 AM EST up reply actions
There are two schools of thought on this.
I could never stomach eating that flavored sugar straight. I would dip the stick in there about twice, get tired of the powder and just eat the shit out of that delicious candy stick. (no offense to anyone…. but this is getting erotic…)
Hey!
We agree!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:24 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Ha! 'rec
and I’d imagine we agree on a lot more things than we disagree on.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 27, 2012 7:47 PM EST up reply actions
Almost broke 2 G's, Jesus
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 27, 2012 9:57 AM EST up reply actions
It just said that
the Rangers expect to get prospects in return. And also that they had a deal to trade him to the Jays and Koji nixed the trade.
Oh god we're going to give up prospects for him aren't we?
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 9:24 AM EST up reply actions
No.
We don’t have any…
"They're throwing bottles at your house...Come on, let's go break their arms." - Henry Fool
by Fahrenheit 451 on Jan 27, 2012 9:29 AM EST up reply actions
zing!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:29 AM EST up reply actions
I assumed they meant pitching prospects.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:32 AM EST up reply actions
Depression Friday
Get about 5 deep into this list and then shoot yourself: Prospects?
"They're throwing bottles at your house...Come on, let's go break their arms." - Henry Fool
by Fahrenheit 451 on Jan 27, 2012 9:40 AM EST up reply actions
I still have hope for Espo, Demon-ico, and the Kleinsauce
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 9:48 AM EST up reply actions
I'll be curious if
Texas gets a better haul than Hunter and Davis. Given the dearth of talent in our system, I think it was kind of criminal how little we got for Koji in terms of long-term prospects. I fully expect both of those guys to get DFA’d this year.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 9:41 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
At the reasonable price of.......Kevin Gregg
Sure. Otherwise, probs not. I can’t imagine Texas giving him away fo’ free.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:12 AM EST up reply actions
If Texas gets prospects for Koji
it will only underline how poor the Orioles did to trade him for Davis and Hunter
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Ugh...this.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:37 AM EST up reply actions
Andrew
Outside of Schoop, Bundy, Machado… what “prospects” do we really give a shit about. I’m not even being snarky. I mean, I guess it’s a good idea to keep Buck Britton and Bobby Bundy around for good measure to keep the brothas happy. But cmon…. who else really should protected at this point?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:40 AM EST up reply actions
HOOOOOOOOOOOOES!
Well, I do at least
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I guess the idea is that...
as far away as this team is from competing, why not get 2-3 younger players to add to the MiLB system, rather than taking a chance on guys that were pretty close to being known quantities?
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 9:43 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Yeah, but I'd give up Oliver Drake (who I'm sure won't be effective in the bigs ever) or some other garbage for him.
He’s special. And I want him back. I really don’t think it woudl take much. Texas would be happy enough to probably shed the 4 million with their crowded bullpen. I bet one C level prospect and maybe some cash or a PTBNL would get it done.
(Disclaimer: I have no clue about these things)
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
I dont see it costing too much
I mean didn’t Koji not handle the heat down there very well?
Yeah... he looked gassed just walking in from the bullpen.
I suspect Texas would unload him to Baltimore in a sort of “gentleman’s agreement”.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
He was horrific, they'll be happy to dump him.
And they know he’ll come back here no problem and they already wasted time trying to deal him to Toronto and he nixed it.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:52 AM EST up reply actions
Does it make any more sense for us to have that 4 million than it does for Texas?
That said, it’s PA’s money and if there’s a guy the fans love and he’s the rare (complete assumption) guy who really, really loved being an orioles, let’s make this happen.
Seriously, he'll obviously immediately be a fan favorite and someone everyone is gonna love having around.
What do I give a shit if PA is 4 million poorer, he spent twice that on Vlad and Koji would be ten times more useful to have around.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:00 AM EST up reply actions
Ah, I see, I misread your comment.
You’ve got a point: outside of the five or six guys we are counting on, who cares if Tex wants Predro Florimon etc.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:12 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Just like his brother.
And…. GO!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
I will give you back John Beck...
and throw in Graham Gano for Joe Flacco. Deal?
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
If you take Cundiff too.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
DEAL!
Let’s make this shit happen!
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
I'm not a boxing fan at all, but this is a very interesting article.
In 1807 he upset Jem Belcher in a brutal 41-round match, then leveled the giant Bob Gregson in a bloody fight in 1808.
Good god, 41 rounds?
No round limits
You fought, bare-knuckles, until someone quit or was knocked out.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Here's a funny line...
The prize ring was “one of the corner stones towards preventing effeminacy from undermining the good old character of the people of England” and preserving “the daring intrepidity of the BRITISH SOLDIER.”
I think about it and it sounds ridiculous. Then I think about it more and I can understand the ‘logic’ behind it. Then I think about it more and am reminded that modern Brits are proof that it didn’t work.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
Look up John Sullivan
Apparently he and a Jake Kilrain went 75 rounds in a fight. The only reason why it was stopped was because Kilrain’s manager threw in the towel.
Yikes.
Watch Ken Burns' doc on Jack Johnson.
Longass doc but it seemed like it flew by because it was so damned good.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
This needs a movie made
Thanks for the post, it was a fun read.
Remember, back then boxers circled each other without throwing punches until sometime around the 30th round
And they said “good show” a lot.
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:14 PM EST up reply actions
Are you having a bully day?
I’m having a bully day!
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
Great apropos song by Primus
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 27, 2012 7:55 PM EST up reply actions
blue
duh
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 9:25 AM EST up reply actions
I dunno...this one?
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 9:27 AM EST up reply actions
I did like the lemonade light one though...
it had a cool ad campaign.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 9:50 AM EST up reply actions
Glacier...
the ultimate in hangover relief. And doesn’t stain your carpet when it comes back up.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
yeaaaaah 20oz purple Gatorade always helps me cure a hangover
that and a sugary bowl of cereal usually do the trick
That's become my hangover drink of choice.
So much that people at work can generally tell I’m hungover since that’s the only time I drink it.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:52 AM EST up reply actions
Whatever happened to him?
Along with Ernest “the Cat” Miller, and Wrath & Mortis.
"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
Mortis was Chris Kanyon.
He had a brief run in wwf. Came out of the closet. Quit wrestling became a political advisor for someone he also died recently.
"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 27, 2012 9:43 AM EST up reply actions
The Jersey Triad, "Who better than Kanyon?" guy?
I did not know that. Thanks for the info.
"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
Yep. Thats the guy.
"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 27, 2012 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah he passed away of his own accord. One of the few publicly "out" wrestlers.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
Orange was the one flavor I never liked when I was playing sports.
Give me red and yellow over that all day.
I like throwing baseballs & footballs. Walks on beach are cool, especially w/wife & kids or some Bieber beats. Shoes are my passion and I love to ride bikes. - Guts' Twitter Bio
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions
Lemon Lime.
And it isn’t close.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:28 AM EST up reply actions
Boom!
Redstate power
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:29 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Bam!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:32 AM EST up reply actions
So is Patty Hewes
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:33 AM EST up reply actions
haha!
"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 27, 2012 9:41 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
First 3 episodes yesterday...
I’m getting into it, but it’s not Breaking Bad.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
some of the acting is awful...
but i think ted danson’s pretty good and so’s that guy w/ the crazy slavic name.
"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 27, 2012 9:56 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Speaking of this...
I just watched the first episode of BB on Netflix streaming on my Nintendo 3DS. Oh holy shit, I am way too excited to be able to watch TV anywhere there is wifi AND play the shit out of some Mario. BB was pretty good too.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
It's the greatest show ever made.... in history.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
this...
100 times and then some.
"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 27, 2012 9:42 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
It's GREAT!!! It tastes like SWEAT man!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
Baseless argument.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 12:39 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Bwahahahaha
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 27, 2012 9:34 PM EST up reply actions
Red, blue, yellow, orange, purple.
it’s all good as long as you don’t accidentally grab that low carb shit.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
Random Mitch Hedberg quote of the day
By the way, you don’t have to be sweaty and holding a basketball to enjoy a Gatorade. You could just be…a thirsty dude! Gatorade forgets about this demographic! “I’m thirsty for absolutely no reason, other than the fact that liquid has not touched my lips for some time. Can I have a Gatorade, too? Or does that lightning bolt mean ‘No’?”
"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 27, 2012 9:43 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I got
a Gatorade at Towson University once and it was two years expired. So moldy is not a favorable flavor.
That's just nasty.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 9:29 AM EST up reply actions
So my birthday
is in a few weeks and I will be 22. As my username suggests I registered here at 18. Crazy times.
I love the diverse range of ages here
Reminds me of the bar I used to work at, where the regulars ranged in age from 24 to 78;
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
So "The Tick" is on Netflix Instant now.
I think I gave this show short shrift when I was a kid, because it’s god damn hilarious.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 9:52 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Oh shit yeah
And a friend of mine just gave me her Netflix password the other day.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
Of course, whenever i hear Warburton's voice
I just think Brock Sampson.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
Squeak, squeak, squeak'um.
That’s what I hear when I see him.
Man, I love “The Emperor’s New Groove.” Vastly underrated Disney cartoon, Eartha Kitt, John Goodman, Wendie Malick, David “the ONE time his personality works for his role” Spade. Great, great Disney cartoon.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
agreed.
wholeheartedly
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 10:02 AM EST up reply actions
Here's my "Wow, I did not know that & never would have guessed it" fact of the day
Wendie Malick was born in 1950.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Havent’ seen “New Groove”, but my wife and I quote “Lilo & Stitch” all the time.
David Ogden Stiers is very good as “Evil Genius Scientist”
You owe it to yourself to find a copy
and watch Emperor’s New Groove. It’s got a 1950’s feel to it with its use of shadows and geometric shapes and lack of background in some interior shots.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
One of my teacher friends actually has that as one of her classroom rules.
Complete with a image of Kuzco next to it.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Same here
Even when he’s Joe Swanson. He’s just Brock Sampson.
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:15 PM EST up reply actions
i used to play the shit out of The TIck video game for SNES back in the day
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Yea I hate it too
It seems like all the jokes are very obvious and on the surface. The writers don’t really try too hard on that show.
@sibsinExile
Two Broke Girls is just as awful with the low hanging fruit jokes
but of course since it’s on CBS, it’s the #1 NEW COMEDY ON TV ZOMG
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
"Two Broke Girls" is the most racist Hollywood-produced TV show since...
… “The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu” in 1956.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
Never seen it
It only started after I moved out of the US, and it didn’t seem appealing for me to randomly start watching it.
@sibsinExile
You're not missing much
Except Kat Denning’s wardrobe
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Technically "!ROB!" comes after "Two Broke Girls"...
… but it’s absolutely making a hard charge for the front of the racist-TV-show pack.
I honestly have no idea what the person who green-lighted this crap was thinking.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
How is it racist?
I haven’t seen a single episode, because despite Kat Dennings, it looks terrible.
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:16 PM EST up reply actions
only read a little about it
but every character is a stereotype of their race.
‘2 Broke Girls’ Creator on His Show’s Racial Stereotypes: But I’m Gay!
Describes it perfectly
every character is a stereotype of their race.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:25 PM EST up reply actions
Here's an introduction to the racism on that show:
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
Ah, Grantland.
It really is a go-to resource.
New topic. Favorite Grantland writer? I have a crush on Katie Baker.
"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 27, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not a huge fan
I find most of their articles uninteresting.
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:29 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah...
I’m fully on team Deadspin so Grantland just irritates me for some reason.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
Gizmodo and io9 are two of my go-to sites each day
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
gizmodo?
Engadget was better and now The Verge is infinitely better than both of those (for tech).
@sibsinExile
I like Gizmodo
So sue me.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
i'm another fan of gizmodo
despite the obvious trollish articles they put out for page views/flame wars everyday.
They just cover a broader range of topics than engadget and theverge. Also, the verge is the shittiest layout in the history of shitty web layouts.
Oh, there's WAAAAAY worse website layouts out there
MMAPlayground.com for example.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I actually like the design of verge
gizmodo kind of annoys me. PLus verge’s articles seem to be more in depth.
@sibsinExile
Click the blog view on Gizmodo
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
yeah...
they definitely aren’t as in depth as the verge and the writers can be annoying with their editorializing and sensationalizing of stories.
But I probably go there more for the not explicitly tech stories like like this, this, and this.
You love the layout?
Wow, what a visual ball of confusion that site is.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
it feels like something that's designed for some time in the future
when all of our computing is done on 20" touchscreen tablets
I like the visuals
and I didn’t even object to the visual layout of the Gawker redesign. What I HATED was that different columns would move independently of each other depending on where the cursor was hovering; with The Verge (and almost all other sites, including the Gawker blog view) the scrollwheel moves the entire page no matter where the cursor is.
But there seems to be no rhyme or reason to the structure of the home page
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Yea that's a little tricky
But it’s clean without 8 trillion ads popping in your face so I live with it. I mainly like the content and the articles look really nice after you actually click something.
@sibsinExile
I didn't mean that in a derogatory sense (though now that I reread it, it seems like that)
I was just wondering why in case I should jump ship
@sibsinExile
I suggest falling right into a lifeboat if you do jump ship.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
Just had to throw current events in here.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
It's aimed at the tech-knowledgable consumer
and not so much the industry types. Engadget always seems like I’d stumbled into the wrong club after school, looking for the French Club and winding up at a Math Team meet.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I prefer to think of it as
they write for a different audience.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
fair enough
I think I’ll have to stick with The Verge just because I’m a huge nerd though.
@sibsinExile
The Verge has the best reviews, bar none
I wonder how long until the shine wears off, though. I wonder what their business plan is?
Vox is now in the process of poaching the beast video game writers from around the web for a Verge-style Video Game site.
KICK HIS ASS C-BASS!!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
C-Bass seems like a good band name.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
"WE LANDED ON THE MOON!!!!"
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 27, 2012 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
Hey, you leave duck alone.
How he gets his updates on new technology, like the Archimedes’ screw, is his choice.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 1:19 PM EST up reply actions
I don't read Deadspin at all
I hate their shitty site layout.
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
You and about 3 million other people...
have been saying that since the redesign. I find the mobile site to be much more useful.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 12:33 PM EST up reply actions
blog.ANYTHINGGAWKEROWNS.com
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
More for me, I guess.
Most of the writers are funny and thoughtful and I like that there’s a variety of different topics regularly getting covered. Although the footnotes/sidenotes are getting out of hand a little bit.
"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 27, 2012 1:21 PM EST up reply actions
There is the good side of 2 Broke Girls, which is the half Whitney Cummings wrote, and the terrible racist half thats all Michael Patrick King
for some unknown reason Whitney took off and Cummings is spending all her time there, leaving King to ruin 2 Broke Girls.
I think a lot of the CBS stuff is that way... (it is cbs, right?)
Guaranteed laughs, and not a lot of risks. It’s why their so popular. I’m not knocking it really, it’s just not my thing.
"Whitney" (and I suspect the new follow-up show that comes on after it)...
… should be declared a violation of the Geneva Convention. The producers, writers, and actors should be punished accordingly.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
It is like television saw that expensive dramas that people love to watch
and decided that if they can’t make cheap reality tv anymore they will just revert back 15 years in time to the canned laughtrack set-up and punchline sitcoms.
HAVEN'T YOU HEARD?
It’s filmed in front of a live studio audience. THAT’S RIGHT! Those are real idiots laughing.
good lord there is always some jerk that guffaws through the entire thing
I’d rather turn the sound off and put on captions.
The Chelsea Handler Show
i won’t dignify it with it’s actual name. My gf loves that book so she started watching it, and even she says it’s terrible.
I think as far as laugh track sitcom’s go, Big Bang has much better writing than anything else mentioned.
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 27, 2012 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
A Team Dave Divided!
I enjoy it quite a bit. It’s actually taken over my “nothing is on so I’ll just watch another episode of this because it’s on in repeats on every single channel” title from Law & Order.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Yeah, I dig it as well.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah I enjoy it
It’s mindless but it’s pretty funny. Yesterday with the Flags of the World podcasts was hilarious
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 27, 2012 10:02 AM EST up reply actions
Watched a new ep last night for only the 2nd time this season
I keep kicking myself that I forget when it’s on.
“Sheldon Cooper presents…Fun With Flags!”
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
My fiance never watched it until a few months ago
she works with kids with autism and watches it now b/c of all of Sheldon’s “quirks.” (Implied high functioning aspergers).
I have watched it from the beginning and they need more random chicks in that show.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
The few they have are quite attractive
Google up a few pic of the actress that plays Bernadette.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Know what amazes me about this show?
I employs half the main cast of Roseanne (David, Darlene, and Jackie), yet (as far as I can tell) doesn’t have any ties to that show. How does that happen?
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I would suspect that one actor recommends another whom the first actor worked with in the past quite often...
Sadly, any show that does not include Sarah Chalke is completely failing its attempted “Roseanne” connection.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
THAT IS NOT A GODDAMNED GIRL'S NAME
My name is Eliot and i approve this message.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
The second 'L' changes the name's gender...
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
Don't take this the wrong way buddy...
… but Sarah Chalke is attractive enough that her television characters can be named whatever the hell they want and I’m a-okay with that.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
Elliot
Hottest chick with a guy’s name ever (no pictures required).
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:17 AM EST up reply actions
Interestingly...
… last night my wife and I were perusing Netflix for a random movie to watch. We settled on “Chaos Theory” starring Ryan Reynolds. However, it has a cameo for Sarah Chalke in it.
Too bad she her arc on “How I Met Your Mother” was so short. :-(
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
Yea
and now I hate her b/c she left Ted at the alter.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
I think I'd forgive her.
Especially because Ted is the douchiest of all douches that have ever douched it up.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:20 AM EST up reply actions
Well yea
but it is about the principal! if you are going to dump some one, do it ANY OTHER TIME.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
he was always kind of douchey
but he’s gotten really bad in the past couple of seasons. i just think it’s because they don’t know what to do with his character and Josh Radnor has openly said he’s sick of doing the show.
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
They should totally kill him off...
… and Bob Saget turns out to be future-Wayne Brady.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
They should just write in the mother story
and have it be done with and then close with the kids being like “cool story bro”
Man, when Scrubs was good, those were the days.
Before it jumped the shark around season 4 or 5, it was awesome.
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 27, 2012 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
Season 8 was a great finale for the series (we're not going to mention Season 9, which never occurred).
I don’t think “Scrubs” ever really jumped the shark. It was always quirky and there was good character development.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
Season 9 was so weird
it was like scrubs fan fiction. Someone took all the characters and wrote them into a completely different story without really having a firm grasp on how the show worked.
Season 9 did. not. happen.
The series ended with JD watching the film reel of his future life with Eliot (which was a really touching scene).
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
No way no way
It totally jumped the shark somewhere in the middle. I’m not gonna research it. The writing got way worse and it just turned into JD falling down 500 times an episode and being completely over the top goofy and moronic. In the first 3 or so seasons he was naive and clumsy but still acted like he had half a brain
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 27, 2012 11:11 AM EST up reply actions
Honestly
The whole JD personality wore out it’s welcome with me around Season 5, or like the tenth time he and JD got together and broke up again (think it was the he got together with her but just wasn’t happy and was just settling arc, ugh). I watched it more for Dr. Cox.
JD was in love with anyone that showed him even the slightest bit of attention...
… but since he showed himself the most attention, he was always his own most important love.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:17 AM EST up reply actions
good way to put it
your like a Scrubs savant.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 11:19 AM EST up reply actions
Dr. Cox is one of the best sitcom characters of all time.
Janitor was originally supposed to be a figment of JD’s imagination (Janitor never directly interacts with anyone in Season 1), but he was so good that they made him a full character.
Also, apparently Janitor improvised 3/4 of his stuff on the show. The writers would just put into the script, “Neil should do something funny here.”
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:17 AM EST up reply actions
that is awesome
and yes Dr. Cox was amazing. I still love that he was in Office Space.
haha, like when he fucked with the head of medicine
can’t remember his name.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
Who has two thumbs and doesn't give a crap?
this guy.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 11:20 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd
every time i buy a muffin I think about him or the muffin shop in seinfeld
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
I don't know what this says about my family
…but he always reminded me of my dad.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 11:41 AM EST up reply actions
Well he was also portrayed as a caring guy deep down
but he just had to throw his weight around to make himself feel good.
I don’t think that is a bad thing.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
In high school we had to watch an old HBO special about AIDS.
There was this guy on a medical board arguing to provide greater care because people are suffering. He was played by the same guy who played Bob Kelso. I was so confused.
Most of the characters were pretty great
That’s what made it so awesome. I mean, Todd, the dermatologist dr they always shit on, Leonard the hook handed security guard. All awesome.
@sibsinExile
Seriously...
JD was the weakest character on the show, which is why I understand a lot of people not liking him. I thought he was good, but the rest of the cast was so awesome.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
Weakest is being a little strong, but I know what you mean
I hated Keith for some reason.
@sibsinExile
Well, Keith's entire thing was his relationship with Eliot...
… and their relationship with him being a nice guy and all of her hangups was pretty funny.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
I'm with you.
I understand his place in the arc, but he just grates on me for some reason.
Yeah
Let’s say the Keith years are when things got a little out of hand
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 27, 2012 11:30 AM EST up reply actions
Shit I forgot we need to cater to everyone's interests
Quick! Change the subject to puppies
@sibsinExile
YOU LIE!
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
True, duck.
Kittens are indeed awesome. Especially when they know how to log on and use Camden Chat.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
it's cause my name is Keith, smartass
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 27, 2012 11:32 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
love Scrubs
hate that the douchiest character on the show has the same name as me
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
There was nothing wrong with that name...
until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass-clown started winning grammys.
"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.."
You and Michael Bolton...
/Office Space’d
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:43 AM EST up reply actions
I don't have a puppy...
… but I do have a border collie who is awesome.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:33 AM EST up reply actions
Nice!
they are awesome dogs.
I have a Weimaraner.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 11:34 AM EST up reply actions
I give you...
Wolf Mode
Crouch Mode
Reflex Mode
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:35 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Who's ready for the Puppy Bowl???
The starting lineups were announced recently. I think Gracie’s coming away with the MVP this year
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 27, 2012 1:10 PM EST up reply actions
That's awesome, I didn't know he improvised
That makes him ten time awesomer. How did they keep a straight face while filming if they didn’t know he was going to start talking about armies of taxidermy squirrels in his garage?
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 27, 2012 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
I really identified with JD's goofyness.
And I have totally insane daydreams like he does.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
I could never get into Scrubs.
I always felt like it was trying to hard. The humor always seemed forced. “HERE’S THE JOKE!”
i loved it
that forced “Heres the joke” was part of its charm.
"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 27, 2012 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
From how often people tell me I'm crazy for not liking it
I have always judged that it must be okay. Just not my thang.
I always enjoyed Scrubs
One of the few comedies in recent memory that I could actually stand.
This is probably going to sound absurd
but anyone who liked Scrubs should absolutely watch Cougar Town. Its the exact same sense of humor, just with a terrible name.
Penny Can!
I am pissed they cut the episode numbers this year while keeping some other craptastic shows in their lineups.
Ha, even the creator hates the name.
I’ve only seen a little bit of Cougar Town, but I love the tie-ins with Community.
They've discussed changing the name
but they’re worried about losing the small audience they already have
Season 6 was when it started getting bad for me.
But I kept watching. Funny thing is, I randomly thought of Cal Turk earlier today. “We don’t sell insurance, we sell peace of mind…but only to white people.”
He was a writer, but I don't think he ever got into producing on "Roseanne".
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
according to IMDB
supervising producer – 24 episodes, 1990-1991
co-executive producer – 25 episodes, 1991-1992
Wikipedia, you have led me astray for the last time!
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:34 AM EST up reply actions
those are just fancy names
for “writer”.
they are not real “production” jobs in the sense of EP.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Well, the point only was that there are ties between Roseanne and The Big Bang Theory
even if he was only a fancy-titled writer, he presumably knew the cast well enough to want to recast them in The Big Bang Theory
Learn something new everyday...
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
this serves as my reminder
to not pay attention to all of the TV recommendations that come up on camdenchat
Since we've already gone gatorade and pixie sticks...
Favorite Pop-Tarts?
Mine were chocolate pastry with vanilla cream. They got very hard to find in the late 90s and seemed to disappear completely. Earlier this year, they came back as “Ice Cream Sandwich”, but are gone again, those bastards.
Frosted Strawberry, almost toasted
That is all. There is no other answer.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Only if you put cheese on it
Then it’s PERFECT
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
LIES! BLASPHEMY!
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Smores!
and frozen. We’ve been through this one thoug.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
We never re-discuss things here.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:12 AM EST up reply actions
Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon
All others are needless.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 27, 2012 11:01 AM EST up reply actions
Oreo
Then again, I like just about any Oreo related.
I believe that would be Dairy Queen
They had the Oreo Blizzard first, although it is possible someone else came up with the idea before them, the first time I had it was at Dairy Queen.
I really want a Blizzard right now.
I don’t know any DQs though.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
I'd settle for a McFlurry
Whos’ going out? Think they could pick up some Chipotle while they are out? WW?
Never talk about Chipotle
I haven’t tasted the deliciousness in almost two years now :(
Stop this food talk!
@sibsinExile
Part of the reason America's the best!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
that is always packed.
I live on the other end of town or I would go more.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Yea...Chipotle!!
WW! Hop to it!
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
Sorry, some old lady is buying everyone Costco pizza today.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
Wow. Costco pizza.
That’s a delicacy right there.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
i don't know if you're being sarcastic
because Costco pizza is actually really good
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
It's aight.
Could be worse, I guess.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:52 AM EST up reply actions
Sounds right up there with 7-Eleven Pizza
Not that I’ve ever had either…
Just not the same.
At DQ, they’ve got this brownie blizzard which is like 98 percent brownie batter mixed with 2 percent soft serve. It’s amazing.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
162lbs.
But yea…I’m getting fatter. I blame my desk job.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
I can't remember the last time I was at DQ
I have like 5 local ice cream shops within a 15 minute drive. I go there.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
It's been awhile for me too
It may have been summer of 2010 while we were at the beach.
Waffle bowl sundae! Also, strawberry cheesequake blizzard. Yummy stuff right there.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
Oh shit....I remember the cheesequake blizzard.
Amazing stuff.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:57 AM EST up reply actions
I have it once every 2-3 months or so, and it's worth the hit to the lifespan.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
It's probably about 6 billion calories, but quite delicious.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 11:00 AM EST up reply actions
Not blizzard related
But I urge you all to go to Brusters and have a waffle cone of Birthday Cake ice cream.
Not Cake Batter (they have that, too), Birthday Cake.
It’s huge globs of delicious frosting mixed in amongst Cake Batter ice cream.
I don’t want to think about how bad it is for me, but it’s so delicious.
Why do you taste so good?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Wow....it just got awkward here.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:09 PM EST up reply actions
yeah....
reminder to self: self-policing, self-policing.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I seriously wondered, but....
hey, it’s Rolling Stones song, right????
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
That's why the ladies don't come around Duck
Please tell me that was a reply fail.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:12 PM EST up reply actions
Cookies and creme, and cinnamon/brown sugar.
I like throwing baseballs & footballs. Walks on beach are cool, especially w/wife & kids or some Bieber beats. Shoes are my passion and I love to ride bikes. - Guts' Twitter Bio
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
watched the first episode of dexter last night.
It was good. It hasnt fully grabbed me yet, but im going to hammer out the rest of the season just to see where it goes..
"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 27, 2012 10:16 AM EST reply actions
I started it recently, and I like it
There are some pretty bad acting performances from some of the supporting characters, but the plot is interesting enough to make up for it.
YES!
2nd season will get you super hooked.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
ive got all seasons
currently “being purchased” from my favorite torrent site right now. Im hoping to maybe take a few sick days and watch a big portion..
"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 27, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
Awesome
Dexter is easily my favorite show.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:26 AM EST up reply actions
Trying not to spoiler the guy, but the Lithgow season was the best if we wanna.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
John lithgow is one of my favorite actors..
are you telling me he makes an appearence?
"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 27, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
Lithgow has the best line ever in orange county.
“If you do this, I will eat your face!”
The first few episodes were slow for me
but once you get like halfway through the season, it’s hard to put down
So I got hired by the Orioles...
Who is going to be the next usher at Oriole Park? This guy.
by Michael18 on Jan 27, 2012 10:25 AM EST reply actions 6 recs
Dude, are you serious!!!!
I’d ask for a hookup, but being a rook, you’re gonna be UPPER DECKING it…
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
Every section because it doesnt matter once you get it in the park
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:26 AM EST up reply actions
What do you mean by that?
I’ve seen tons of people kicked out for having water bottles of vodka. A hush hush usher would be helpful. But then there’s the whole “Please put your job on the line so I can drink” thing… so I’ll just get drunk before I come in and buy ONE of their million dollar beers.
I've brought my own booze into the park numerous times and have never been caught.
It’s more the fault of those people with their vodka water bottles than it is the usher. You gotta play it cool and nobody’ll even notice.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
Oh yeah, those $3 ticket buyers just shower em with cash.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
Well that's what I mean.
BUT if I knew it meant I could get away with drinking my own supply I would totally slip the usher some money.
Shouldn't put tip in quotes around this crowd.
Next thing you know they’ll be tapping their feet in the stall next to you.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
by NSOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Thank you for taking care of this for me.
I really am trying to cut back.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
your going to take advantage of a fellow CCer?
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
your 21
i’ll buy u a beer after the game.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:34 AM EST up reply actions
you're**
C’mon, bro.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
I have to take the
bus through some of the worst projects in baseball to get to the stadium. I’m not sticking around after the games! shiiiiiiiiiiiit
you actually use the Baltimore bus system?
you might be the first person i’ve ever met that does
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
you're (got it right) point made
no longer.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
Um....you did not get it right.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
their all wrong, and its a travesty.
affect
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
I was going to WRITE
you’re (got it right) right.
then I changed it to “point made.” simple proof reading error.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
sometimes we yell at the grammar in what other people rote by wrote.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 11:01 AM EST up reply actions
TWSS
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 27, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I do have some questions for ya though!
I always wanted to be an usher there when I retire. What are the hours and compensation like. Will you be there like 8 hours on game day?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 10:26 AM EST up reply actions
Usually its about 5 hours pay
every home game. It’s only $8.00 an hour but I’m doing it in the evenings as a second job for extra cash.
I've always been curious though
Do they tell you that you can’t watch? It seems like they’re forced to face AWAY from the game. I’m always bummed to see that.
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
My roommate was an usher for RFK several years ago
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
THAT'S where the $150K W-2 came from!
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Yeah congrats!
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 27, 2012 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
Wow
10:30 and already more than 300 comments.
This is impressive.
CC's been active lately.
Think we’re all a little restless for the season to start?
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
Nah
It’s better before the season, that’s when you can actually have some hope, there’s not the crushing reality of 90+ losses coming, you can’t lose when you aren’t playing and we can look forward to the potential of not losing. Or it’s January, football is over, and we’re just really bored.
So, how about those Blast, 18-2 vs. Norfolk or something crazy like that?
Hey, my Hoosiers broke out this year. Who knows?
Of course, they don’t play in the AL East. Although I suppose the Big Ten is pretty much the college hoops equivalent.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
Mid-season form, bro.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 10:35 AM EST up reply actions
Shit, Dairy Queen.
I know what I’m getting for lunch. And let’s just say Wilford Brimley knows all about it.
The DQ in town is only open seasonally.
But if I’m going to that side of town, I hit up Sonic anyway.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
if there was one closer to downtown
i would be eating there allllllllll the time
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Thanks to living in a Midwest town
there is never any shortage of chain restaurants.
Although there are a lot of good local places too.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
chipotle shit?
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah...the Orioles guy (who was in PR, I think) really Orioled it up
He was good at making this weird pouty face, though
Okay...these are getting played out, but this one's actually amusing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3BaBY_Ehd18
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
Cam Cameron is back as OC with the Ravens, apparently
I can hear the gnashing of teeth.
"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 27, 2012 11:22 AM EST reply actions
Shoot me in the groin.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 11:25 AM EST up reply actions
The shot in the groin next season will be when the Ravens come up short again.
Probably due to offensive ineptitude at a key moment. In a game they may well be playing in the road on the playoffs because they blew a winnable game in the regular season due to running the clogged toilet offense and not adjusting.
"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 27, 2012 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
Although, in his defense....
a lot of those dumb passes were Flacco audibling out of a run. Two egregious ones in the last 3 minutes of teh HOU game were run calls by Cameron changed to stupid passes by Flacco.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
This
I’m not sure who to blame. I’m not sure if there is anyone to blame. We’ve got a 12-4 team that hasn’t been able get hot in the playoffs and make a run. That’s 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 27, 2012 11:40 AM EST up reply actions
Sounds like the fucking Capitals.
I’m not even sure why I still watch hockey.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah I don't watch hockey but that certainly seems to be the case
The Mid Atlantic can’t have nice things.
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 27, 2012 11:53 AM EST up reply actions
We have Duke basketball!!!!
Okay yea….we suck.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 11:54 AM EST up reply actions
I wonder how the offense would have fared
if the receivers could actually hold onto the ball.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
My expectations for next year have been lowered considerably
Between this, probably of cap issues with Rice needing to get a payday, Pagano taking HC position with the Colts (damn Indy), and a much tougher schedule (although that could be good, we play better against good teams and effing New England FINALLY has to come to Baltimore for a change) as well as improvments made to other teams within the division (notably Cincy, if they can build on their success fromt his year, something they have struggled with in the past) it’s going to be a rough year I think, which makes last weeks loss sting a little bit more. Then again, I’ve had similar thoughts the past several years and have been wrong every time, so we’ll see.
Yeah next year is going to be tough
This year was truly our year. Easy schedule, Pittsburgh finally stumbled, everyone was healthy. Grumble grumble grumble Let’s all blame Cam Cameron
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 27, 2012 11:33 AM EST up reply actions
I cant get over how crazy easy New england's schedule was this year
their matchups to end out the season were just ridiculous.
LOL Ravens...
That guy called horrible drives to end the NE game. He’s going to get Flacco run out of town.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 11:44 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
I'd say it's the reverse
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Don't worry...
WW and I worked it out so that you’ll never be cursed with Flacco again. Enjoy Beck and Gano.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 12:30 PM EST up reply actions
Deen Pees the new DC
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 11:51 AM EST reply actions
Not much, he was our LB coach
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 11:53 AM EST up reply actions
He was also the Patriots DC for several years
but left to become our LB coach. So this’ll be his first time calling the defensive plays
Let's hope he's more of a Pagano than a Mattison.
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 27, 2012 11:54 AM EST up reply actions
Well this doesn't sound good
from after he was fired/left New England:
Dean Pees has a philosophy that simply doesn’t work in the NFL.
He doesn’t teach his defensive players to be aggressive. He doesn’t call games in an aggressive manner. He teaches his defensive players not to screw up. He calls an excruciatingly conservative game. Blitzing is something he’s just not comfortable doing.
Because of his conservative style, opposing quarterbacks end up getting extremely comfortable against his defenses. Passing offenses become nearly unstoppable.
What the hell?
That’s not exactly a…um….glowing recommendation.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 11:57 AM EST up reply actions
Well, thats the first article i found
and “He doesn’t call games in an aggressive manner” makes me question is accuracy. Belichick calls the defenses in New England, not the DC.
this article doesn't talk about his style so much...
but he did appear to have quite a bit of success in NE
Its hard to read much into his time in NE
the NE DC and the Baltimore DC are very different roles. This’ll be the first time its really his defense. With the patriots, you’re really just helping implement what Belichick wants to do.
He looks like a Mr Belding.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
by NSOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 11:58 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
we just need to hire back Hue as QB coach
then i think we’ll be ok
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Ambers post was strange
Did anyone else notice how she only read the first quarter of moneyball? Or maybe just watched the movie? She went from discussing the value of OBP to stating that the Orioles should attempt to steal more bases. Um… really?
Adam Jones 60% success rate dictates that he should run more? Am I the only one who thinks this is strange? I’m not trying to attack Amber but I wonder if there’s something I’m missing here.
Yea, I stopped reading it b/c it wasn't good.
Only person I was ever comfortable stealing bases was BRob.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
Reimold has a good success rate.
He picks good times to run.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 12:17 PM EST up reply actions
Good point
What was the rational for not playing him again? Just poor defense?
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:19 PM EST up reply actions
Reimold lacks blackmail-quality photographs of any Orioles decision makers.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Why's it gotta be black... mail.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 12:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
he's a bad defender and has been an erratic hitter
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
oh, and when you have the chance to block him with Vlad, you do it.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Ok, thats what i thought
just wanted to make sure.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
Duh, Vlad's a Hall of Famer
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 27, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
dude he hit .300 last year, duh!
gotta pressure that defense!
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 1:25 PM EST up reply actions
i used to go to happy hour a lot
in SoCal, it’s kind of blah chainy place.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Not a fan
Everything I hate about big-city restaurants. It’s a claustrophobe’s worst nightmare.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I always get yelled at there
when I start screaming SAKE! SAKE! SAKE!
…then I get drunk
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 1:26 PM EST up reply actions
How do we here at camdenchat feel about
file sharing? To torrent or not to torrent? that is the question.
"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 27, 2012 12:11 PM EST reply actions
Well lets branch it off a little bit
how about the punishment and basis for the file sharing. $80,000 per song is the last figure i saw. Could be up to $170,000 per movie.
"I don't have an on-deck circle for ideas. It's just 'Batter up!!' Even though they're bad" - Mike Birbiglia
by Parkinglotninja on Jan 27, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
Well that makes Limp Bizkit's "Three Dollar Bill, Yall$"
worth about 1,040,000… so yeah I’d say that’s about right.
I don't use torrents...too risky and my ISP doesn't like it
I pay to subscribe to a file sharing site. Its worth doing for direct d/l which are much faster.
the best are those newsgroup things. I would do that but I can never figure out how it works.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:14 PM EST up reply actions
newgroup things.
Ive never heard of them. and direct downlaod from a pay site has always seemed liek bad news to me. (i.e. megaupload pro service.)
"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 27, 2012 12:25 PM EST up reply actions
Sheeeeeeeeeit, Piratebay is legit
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
Just admit that it's "wrong" and move along...
I don’t want to be the guy that starts two thread wars today.
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
I use them for certain things
Usually old or extremely rare music that I can’t get anywhere else or episodes of TV shows that I’ve missed but aren’t being shown online anywhere (I missed a half season of Community because my roommate decided to delete my setting to record it, so I downloaded the episodes from a torrent and watched them).
I do not torrent movies, full seasons of TV shows I’m going to buy on DVD, or music released within the past 5 years that I can get from iTunes or Amazon or something.
by Holymittens on Jan 27, 2012 12:29 PM EST up reply actions
bad.
don’t do it.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
The act of torrenting itself is not bad.
You can torrent free stuff. Obvi, very few people limit themselves to that. If companies would wise up and put their stuff on Netflix they wouldn’t have this problem.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 6:38 PM EST up reply actions
if we get Cespedes
and he starts in the minors, and (if only) there are no injuries in the outfeild or anywhere, would it be worth it to keep him, Reimold, markakis, and Jones? rotate the outfeilders at DH to give them a break, and have Cespedes play center and jones left? just thinking out loud here, or would someone have to be traded?
I just figured if we did end up getting
Cespedes, that would only increase the chance we would trade Jones. Though those dual intertwining transactions (think the Angels shopping Morales after signing Pujols) never seem to work out as well as they should.
"Tragedy is what happens to me. Comedy is what happens to you." -Mel Brooks
Is Cespedes a 30-year-old journeyman?
No.
Then why the hell do you think the Orioles would sign him?
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 1:21 PM EST up reply actions
In the O's defense
we also sign late 30’s has-beens.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 1:27 PM EST up reply actions
but Jones would be a great left feilder, no?
it would be nice to see that outfeild…
I hope none of you guys are waiting for your Cundiff jerseys
Somebody at the Ravens online store is going to get fired.
by BrianS on Jan 27, 2012 12:15 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
non baseball question
anyone have any thoughts about Miracle Whip?
poor mans mayonaise.
Hellmans ftw.
"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 27, 2012 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
yeah
that’s kinda what they are dealing with.
at work
and a friend of mine is trying to come up with a pitch…thought I would see what people in the homeland were saying…
Never had tuna fish and MW?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
so someone mentions Mircale Whip
and you automatically think “donkey semen”? not exactly a glowing recommendation there…
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 27, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
This reminds me of The Oatmeal's cartoon about miracle whip.
I would link it, but I fear to tread to The Oatmeal on my work computer.
"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.."
Love mayonnaise
I love a good sandwich with yellow mustard and mayonnaise. Yum. My favorite gut-buster is a spicy breaded chicken patty with mayo, yellow mustard, pickles, and banana peppers on a roll from Sheetz. I’m drooling just thinking about it.
yeah mayo is gross
however! Homemade mayonaisse, which is easy, is really very nice indeed. As long as you aren’t drowning your food in it.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
love homeade mayo
but never buy helmans or anything from store. it taste weird to me.
I do not advocate the use of Miracle Whip. It is wrong and tasteless.
Okay…yea…I didn’t even know what it was until two seconds ago.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
It has a taste.
It tastes like barf.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
Mayo and mayo substitutes are equally gross.
"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 27, 2012 12:59 PM EST up reply actions
You people are all nuts...
I love Miracle Whip, Hellmans, Chick-Fil-A has some banging mayo too…
I always make fancy sauce for my fries wherever I go too. Shit ton of ketchup and mayo and mix it all up.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:02 PM EST up reply actions
my friend would do that in high school
we had condiment pumps and he would get a big pump of mayo, mustard, ketchup, and relish on the same plate and mix it all together. Was pretty good.
they say Miracle Whip lovers
or those that will admit to loving it, are the rebels in society. Willing to go against the grain. Brave. (dare they say…Heroes).
cut the false modesty
you may not be the hero we need, but you are the hero we deserve.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Fine
I fucking shower in that shit…
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
Jaeger bommmmmbs
Jaeger bommmmbs
Jaeger booooooommmmmmmbs
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 27, 2012 2:03 PM EST up reply actions
I got all kinds of Miracle Whip in my fridge.
Meaning, like, the only kind.
I love me some Miracle Whip though.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
I actually really like it.
Goes great when making a tuna or flakes of ham sandwich, and I’ll even put it on my hamburger bun once in awhile. It also makes a club yummier than plain ass mayo as well.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
Yeah it is. Some jokers will even put it in their beer, but it seems to be a big seller.
I’ve tasted it and never again.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
I feel if you have to add anything to your beer, you're drinking shitty beer anyway.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
I toss an orange in my Blue Moon
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
Does it?
I also put limes in my Corona… like everytime. Does that help paint an even better picture?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:59 PM EST up reply actions
Corona tastes super skunky without some citrus in there
…but Blue Moon is just bad all the time.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 1:59 PM EST up reply actions
the fact that you drink Corona and Blue Moon?
yeah, it does explain a lot
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Um, cool bro
I drink probably 20 different kinds of beers, just depends on my mood.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:03 PM EST up reply actions
Lemme guess, just straight IPA and moonshine for you eh toughguy?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:04 PM EST up reply actions
um
1. Moonshine is awesome
2. I don’t claim to be any sort of beer snob, really don’t drink any IPA’s except on rare occasion. i just know that Corona and Blue Moon and straight up doo-doo
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Yeah, unfortunately Hooters HH doesn't serve moonshine or I'd be right there with ya brah...
I’ll settle for whatever they have.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
Tell ya what...
Pick my beer for the evening and Ill paste a pic of the receipt with the date and my name on it how many of X I had.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
Ok, for clarification
I’m going from Hooters, to Finnegans, to Kingpinz this evening so it has to be something mainstream.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:09 PM EST up reply actions
This ain't duck's time anymore...
Everything is mainstream.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
FYI....you shouldn't store beer on its side.
Wine absolutely, but beer, that’s usually a no-no.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
I typically don't.
I just put ’em there for that one day party we had.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 2:18 PM EST up reply actions
it has to be beer?
cause i as going to say Long Islands
if it has to be beer though, I think it would be hilarious to see drinking Mich Ultra for an entire evening
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
You're call...
It’s a LOOOOOOONG night, like 10 hours of drinking ahead of me so I don’t know if I can keep up with 20-30 long islands and I don’t sip…
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR YOUR
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:20 PM EST up reply actions
actually, i changed my mind
i think you should drink either Bud Light Lime or Miller Chill for the entire evening, which ever one is available. i would love to see a tab that says “JB – 20 Bud Light Limes” on it
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Smirnoff Ices
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 27, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
Dude, I'd never make it with all that sugar...
It’d be like eating 30 packs of Fun Dip
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
hahahah...I can't take this stuff seriously after the Chi City fridge clip.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
Bah.... I'm gonna get draft probably early on because that's the HH special.
I hate Bud Light Lime with a passion. Can’t I just do Corona and lime and drop a hundo.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:25 PM EST up reply actions
Deal, it'll probably be at least two though bc I'm going to diff places
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
Please son.
I can’t afford all this fancy crap. Corona 32’s with a lime all day!
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:32 PM EST up reply actions
They charge 8.99 for a 6er of that at Total.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:12 PM EST up reply actions
Nice. It was $54 a case at the only distributor I could find it.
Just finding 6ers of it is the problem here in PA.
Ah yea.
I wouldn’t worry about though, since it’s basically English Budweiser.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:22 PM EST up reply actions
PA's beer laws are the dumbest ever
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
they are dumb but nowhere near the dumbest in the nation
some states will not allow sales of beer over 5% ABV, some states like NJ will not allow breweries to also operate a bar and vice versa. PA’s laws are stupid but compared to other states they have it pretty good.
How did a liberal bastion like MD
become so hand-off in the selling of alcohol? My county allows liquor only through a dispensary system, but that’s my county, not MD doing that.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
While the majority of the population of Maryland is liberal...
… something like 20 of the counties pretty routinely have conservative-dominated local politics.
Liquor laws are decided at the county level these days.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 3:00 PM EST up reply actions
and yet the red staters in Carroll County
recently approved Sunday alcohol sales, while the blue staters in Baltimore County do not.
Smithwick's!
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
You should add a little grenadine too
The ladies loved that when i was tending bar. Good for an extra dollar tip if I magically turn their beer red and more delicious
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 27, 2012 2:04 PM EST up reply actions
I'm utterly agape that such a thing actually exists.
Tomatoes, clam juice, and beer? Who on earth thought that would be a good combination?
I would have been stumped at the tomatoes and clam juice combo myself.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
that shit is gross
it tastes like V8 with just hint of ground up fish parts. Worst bloody mary I ever had.
MW isn't mayo though, is it?
I thought it was a mayo-like spread of some sort.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
i have no idea what is in it
But it is mayoish…
They call it salad dressing
but I think it’s just mayo with flavour. I checked the ingredients and it probably gets a lot of its flavour from the mustard and garlic in it.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
interesting
mustard makes the tang. I like mustard, but kinda hate MW
Non-baseball question!?
This is an Orioles blog, buddy.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
obviously
my baseball question got 3 responses (all sarcastic) and my mayo question got 250 responses, mostly about beer…
Were you testing us Dan? Did we pass.... did we fail?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
lol
no, just terribly bored here. I don’t really like beer, more of a scotch guy, but it was entertaining to see the conversation devolve from donkey semen into drinking challenges. I have read many of the post to my officemates, as they were pretty hillarious…so…pass?
that's because donkey semen tastes way different bro
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:33 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
it did up here
though almost made my boss vomit at lunch. she gagged a little.
I heard about the fear factor thing on the radio this morning, and they said one jar of donkey urine and the wouldn’t even say the other on the radio. The DJ was just too horrified.
oh yeah
the office is all a buzz over it…we’re now talking about it again thanks to you guys. just found out about the urine chaser. why does that kinda sound worse?
Even your Cundiff jersey misses wide left!
Okay…these are usually the worst articles ever, but the premise of this one is just funny.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
Sheeeet.
2 minutes in the penalty box for me.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
GOOD ONE!!!!
Where did i see that before? Hmmmmm…… (racking brain)
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 12:41 PM EST up reply actions
maybe if he spelled your when it was supposed to be you're
you would have seen it. haha.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
Maybe if it was actually supposed to be you're, I'd have spelled it that way.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
I am sure you would have. Some ppl just have an I for that stuff.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
Yea people
The amount of people that make that mistake is really I opening. Eye can’t even believe how many people get that wrong.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Ahhhh....it's times like these when the comma omission makes such a huge difference.
I read this as you making love with Igges.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I read awful*
my mind is playing tricks on me today.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:57 PM EST up reply actions
So Duck (and any other UFC fan)
It’s Dana White v Anti-SOPA hackers. Who will own it?
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 12:40 PM EST reply actions
DFW lost by TKO in the first last night
DFW = Dana F’ing White for the uninitiated
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
anyone else here with a jailbroken iphone
new legislation is being considered to remake jailbreakign illegal again. :(
http://www.motoringcrunch.com/news/mobile-tech/9780-jailbreak-iphone-4s-illegal-ipad-2
"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 27, 2012 12:53 PM EST reply actions
sorry about all the spelling and grammar errors today.
I hate my new work laptop keyboard.
"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 27, 2012 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
If it weren't for jailbreaking
no chance I have an iPhone.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 27, 2012 12:55 PM EST up reply actions
I'm so fiending to watch a baseball game at this point
that I have to settle for this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIu159yJNbg
"Tragedy is what happens to me. Comedy is what happens to you." -Mel Brooks
Preferably Baseball that I don't have to pay for
I’ll even take live Caribbean league games at this point.
"Tragedy is what happens to me. Comedy is what happens to you." -Mel Brooks
Anybody refinance recently?
I’m trying to figure out whether to go with a reputable bank with a pretty good rate or some bank I’ve never heard of for an amazing rate. Also my damn wife isn’t answering the phone so I’m nervous about pulling the trigger.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Risk anyone?
"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 27, 2012 1:24 PM EST reply actions
same
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
can one of you guys set it up
ive never done it and well i frankly dont know how.
"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 27, 2012 1:29 PM EST up reply actions
redocumented at gmail .c-o-m
"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 27, 2012 1:35 PM EST up reply actions
Yea....you gotta have a game title, bro.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:42 PM EST up reply actions
Oh, well, I made another one anyway.
I’m never setting up a game again.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
I really don't understand why I start in the exact same countries every game.
With small exceptions, I have the exact same starting countries that I did in the other game yesterday.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah
First game I tried to set up I had Egypt and Middle East again.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
I start in Asia in most of these games.
I dunno how it decides that stuff.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
Seriously, that kid needs to wake up already.
Goddamn Oregonians.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
He's awake, he's just having his morning reefer and weaving flowers in his hair.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
Worst Coast
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 27, 2012 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
Through Pandora I discovered Mumford and Sons
just bought it on my phone, and damn it is catchy and great.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
I saw them in concert.
Pretty good.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
Meriweather Post?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
I was there....
had a big thunder storm just before they played right?
Definitely one of my favorite mainstream bands, and one my wife and I can easily agree for road trips. I love that the production sounds very modern, but the songs and instrumentation could be from 100 years ago
Yea.....that was it.
So freaking glad I didn’t have lawn seats for that.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:51 PM EST up reply actions
I was offered free lawn seats at the last minute but passed
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 27, 2012 1:52 PM EST up reply actions
Smart choice.
I was on the lawn for another rainy concert there a few years ago because I got free tickets and it was the worst thing ever. I was covered in mud within about 5 minutes. Totally soaking wet.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:55 PM EST up reply actions
yup me too
Picture from the show:
I don’t go to concerts nearly as much as I did in my early 20s, so when I actually do go somewhere like merriweather, I absolutely have to have pavilion seats.
Dang...you weren't that far away from me.
I was somewhat closer to the center, but not much.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 1:57 PM EST up reply actions
You guys weren't far from me.
I wasn’t at the concert, but I used to live at the apartment complex right next to Merriwether on S Entrance Rd.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
MISSED CONNECTIONS
If you bought beer at that event, you probably bought it from my college roommate.
I wanna say we were about the 5th row up (from when the seats actually start), and on the left center aisle
there was a couple in front of us who were pretty drunk and pretty close to having sex. The girl was in a sun dress and the dude kept pulling it up over her ass and rubbing his hand all over her private areas. She was wearing a thong, so you could basically see everything.
I was amused/entertained, the women in our group and around us were not.
wow.
No such action in my section. Although I was with a girl I was somewhat seeing at the time, so maybe it was better that way. She definitely wouldn’t have approved of such..um…“entertainment.”
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:06 PM EST up reply actions
Seriously?
You guys are just fucking with me at this point, right? Trying to get me to say something to get in trouble…
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
I mean isn’t that gonna be really hard?
Do you really think you can go all day?
You always left me satisfied and smiling…
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
I was trying to describe them to a co-worker over lunch
I couldn’t quite do it. It sounds like rock meets gospel meets bluegrass meets a bunch of other stuff, and that sounds stupid as a description.
Anyway, they’re great. If anyone has any other Pandora-esque jumps I can make from them to someone else, I’m all ears. The Pandora station that got me to them was, by the way, Arcade Fire, who are also great.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
It's almost Emo-y
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:57 PM EST up reply actions
Nah, I dig some of it...
I love Deathcab
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:04 PM EST up reply actions
Deathcab is great
"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 27, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
It’s money when I’m feeling introspective
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:04 PM EST up reply actions
Good Old War
I’ve been digging them lately. Start with “That’s What’s Wrong” and “Here are the Problems”
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 27, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
They've got that acoustic thing going without being emo singer/songwriter stuff
Little bit country. Closest thing to Mumford I can come up with off the top of my head.
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 27, 2012 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
The Head and the Heart sorta pulls that off too.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
"That's Some Dream" is wicked catchy too.
Also fun to play on guitar.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
They're one of those bands...
Where I just saw them at a day long concert (Bamboozle a few years ago) not knowing who they were, and they put on an awesome set, and now I love them. That’s my favorite way to find new music is to find bands that go on early at festivals who put on a great show. Something about live music is just awesome, I rally wish concerts weren’t so expensive nowadays.
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 27, 2012 2:15 PM EST up reply actions
I think it sounds like English/Irish pub drinking music.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Avett Brothers
I heard them last year at Jazz Fest about 2 acts after Mumford and thought they were great. Similar take on bluegrass, I thought.
Yeah they're good
One of the few “mainstream” (if you want to call it that) bands out there right now that i really like
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 27, 2012 1:46 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah I know I just hate using that word
Makes me sound like a music snob in my opinion.
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 27, 2012 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
Through a radio show up here called Q, I discovered this band.
I know they’re far from new, but I like em. The video’s…..weird.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
i wonder if Billy Cundiff has been getting any fan mail like this this week
7-year old writes letter to Kyle Williams
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Guys! Do you realize happy hour is only like 4 hours away!?
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
Mine starts in 93 minutes
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:57 PM EST up reply actions
Haircut in 32 minutes
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
Do you mean you're getting a haircut in 32 minutes?
Or that you just haircut your 93 minute estimate down to 32 minutes?
Because the second one seems better.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:05 PM EST up reply actions
Haircut @ 2:30... Chris Cooley's wife cuts it...
Yeahhhhhhh buddy
HH at 3:30
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:06 PM EST up reply actions
That. Is. Awesome.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
I won't post pics to scare off the lurking hordes of women, but they're out there.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Uhhhh.... "can you take a little more off the top"
That’s me everytime
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:14 PM EST up reply actions
Or you can just go look off my Facebook.... BYAHHHHHHHH
#friends
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
just conduct a search for "generic white guy". WW is the first name to come up.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Less than three hours for me.
But I’m probably staying away from it today.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
Change your handle
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
agreed
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
Oh boy now we're talking
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 27, 2012 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
I hope everyone enjoyed my live commenting of the Rep. Debate.
We had a nice roundtable that followed as well.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:10 PM EST reply actions
I wont be around.
But someone should ask some questions on behalf of CC. It’s at 1.30 PT / 4.30 ET
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
Since we're talking beer...
… I’ll share my favorite beer source in the world.
http://www.perfectpourcolumbia.com/
Best selection of microbrews and international beers I have ever seen.
@masnroch
#orioles have signed Andres Aguilar, 18-year-old OF from Guatemala. Plus arm and speed. Will be assigned to GCL or Dominican Summer team
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:25 PM EST reply actions
nice!
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
also...first baseball post in....7 hours?
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
I went to a beer site
and a baseball blog broke out
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
Taking BP
"They're throwing bottles at your house...Come on, let's go break their arms." - Henry Fool
by Fahrenheit 451 on Jan 27, 2012 2:38 PM EST up reply actions
he didn't play softball until last year, did he?
if not, sounds like a good signing…
Ok everyone I need to brag a little here
but I’m going to have my name on at least one article in The Fielding Bible III this spring. I’m freaking jazzed.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
by Andrew_G on Jan 27, 2012 2:29 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Nice.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:30 PM EST up reply actions
very cool
so are you like a professional? hanging out with all us amatures?
I'm more like an amateur hanging out in some professionals
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
there go all the women lurkers...
"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 27, 2012 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
hmmm...
this is a pretty epic typo (freudian slip?)
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
Congratulations!
Stacey’s gonna have to up your pay!
by TerroristFistJab on Jan 27, 2012 4:06 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
It's after 2:30pm and we haven't even broken 1,000 comments yet.
I have no idea how y’all are gonna push through the Friday afternoon down-time and blow through Happy Hour. I feel like we may end the week on a whimper.
It's called real life.
I just woke up but I’m pretty much out.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
You want to break 1,000 comments?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand, have a nice weekend everyone!!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_index_(economics)
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
Oh... so they fell off a cliff at the end of 2008 for some reason.
I guess the tax cuts were finally taking effect!
Yeah, it may generate comments.
But trolling is trolling.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 3:15 PM EST up reply actions
Obvious Troll is Obvious
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I forgot
The POTUS has TOTAL CONTROL over the economy!!!! Great point! And the president before him clearly in no way caused this situation.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:19 PM EST up reply actions
Well, you can't really use that excuse indefinitely... at some point it became "President Obama's Economy"
At what point is up for debate but no doubt by now it totally is.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
Nope, he was awful too (not sarcastic)
Happy Hour calls. Good day gents.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
This is fun
Job losses/growth Bush/Obama:
Corporate profits under Obama (anti-business socialist):
S&P performance under Obama (anti-business, economy killing, socialist):
And then lastly just for fun – when the debt was accumulated and by which administration:
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
by O'sFan21 on Jan 27, 2012 6:19 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
All I'm gonna say is
that you can find statistics to prove absolutely anything, and those are awfully selective.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
I quibble with the first part of that sentence, but accept the second.
And point out that of course WW’s stats were awfully selective as well.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
you're expecting objectivity in a sword fight?
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
No,
but with the recent discussion of things that push people away from joining the community, the predominance of left-of-center political views here – and often-flippant attitudes towards those who disagree – is something to think about as well. Political discussions in the open threads have certainly led me to check out for the day on several occasions.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
conservative bashing should be added to the self-policing topics.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
What the fuck?
My post was in direct response to the exact same thing from the other side of the aisle, yet you chose mine to respond to?
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Well,
your post was the more recent one, and the one I thought used more selective statistics, so yes, I responded to you rather than him. I’m certainly not saying that when WW or someone starts something from the other side, you can’t or shouldn’t respond. Birdman’s comment simply made me remember something I debated pointing out in the open thread yesterday, but didn’t get a chance to.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Please explain how the statistics are more selective.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Nope.
That’s not my main point, and I don’t want to argue with you tonight.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
I'll take that as an "I disagreed with them more so they must have been more selective."
Have a good night.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
And BLAM-O
Osfan21 goes to jerk-mode. I believe that there was Vuff’s point.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 7:57 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I agree with him on all points.
He said stats can be made to prove anything….truth. He said yours were selective….truth. He also said WW’s were selective….truth.
Nobody said they were wrong. He just said they were selective.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 8:04 PM EST up reply actions
He didn't just say they were selective - he said they were MORE selective.
If you agree with that please explain.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Oh...I didn't see that part.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 8:07 PM EST up reply actions
As someone who works with statistics for a living...
He said stats can be made to prove anything….truth.
This is not true.
1) From the most fundamental view, even statistics can’t prove that the Orioles are a good baseball team.
2) From a more careful perspective, statistics can be manipulated through selective use and throwing out other evidence, but that doesn’t mean that they have proven anything.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 8:22 PM EST up reply actions
It absolutely is true. This coming from somebody who also works with statistics for a living.
You can manipulate a statistic to tell you whatever you want it to. Statistics themselves don’t prove anything in an absolute sense, but I was using the term very loosely.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 8:26 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, this is what I meant.
I should’ve put “prove” instead.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
I think the problem is more cherry picking than "manipulating" a statistic.
If you have some statistic (a mean, a chi-square test, a regression beta, etc.), there’s only so much manipulating you can do before you run out of options.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
They are like a giant if then statement
the stats you are showing are true, but preceded by: “the assumptions and data population we have chosen show that…” Just like “If we don’t factor in inflation, then I am the winner”.
yeah, but you can judge the assumptions on your own and decide if they're problematic.
I usually don’t have a problem with the assumptions.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Sure they can
With the right PR guy.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
O'sFan21 is the fast from 0 to jerk on the web.
But he’s right on this topic.
A political bomb was thrown. O’sFan21 responded. Another responds, but only criticizing O’sFan21. It’s like the old thing in school where the instigator never gets caught… only the retaliation.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 8:19 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
That doesn't mean he's right.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 8:26 PM EST up reply actions
Geez, O’sfan21 didn’t get pissed until Vuff responded to me. And in response to me, he’s only saying that he’s tired of the conservative bashing here (“the predominance of left-of-center political views here – and often-flippant attitudes towards those who disagree.”). I didn’t the big deal with Vuff’s comment… at least in response to me.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I'm not sure where I've been unfair,
certainly not without conceding so. I registered disagreement with the statistics I thought were less indicative and had more arbitrary endpoints; I’m not required to be even-handed there, nor elaborate on my assertion. I then responded to birdman’s comment, because it caused me to remember something I’d meant to say yesterday, but hadn’t. I deliberately did not make the point about conservative-bashing in response to O’sFan21, because he had reason to respond to WW, which I agreed about once he responded to my complaint.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
All I asked was that you explain yourself
not sure what the big deal is.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Haha
First off, I was intending to be a funny troll thinking it would be ignored. My intent wasn’t to discuss politics but to throw up some polarizing graph because whatshitnuts said something about needing to get to 1,000 comments.
It was purely comical because someone had just posted it on Facebook so I was just like “hey, you want your 1,000 comments… BLAM-O”.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 28, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
Dude, it's dueling graphs
I’m waiting for a screen cap of Perot holding up a sign.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Sword Fight!
Just jump to 2:32 for the visual.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
FANTASY QUESTION OF THE DAY
I’m trying to pick my last keeper. I have seven keepers and I’m pretty sure that I’m keeping four bats (Hunter Pence, Dan Uggla, Miguel Cabrera and Michael Bourn with Michael Morse being the unfortunate close call that I’m going to cut) and two arms: Jeremy Hellickson and Jordan Zimmerman. Obviously, I need pitching BAD. I finished fourth last year, despite having the best offense in the league in almost every category.
Essentially, it’s down to Matt Moore or Adam Wainwright, both of whom I picked up at the end of last year for this very reason. Keep them out of the draft.
Does anyone have an opinion on this? I’m leaning towards keeping Wainwright and targeting Moore early, but my brother and friends are all saying keep both and cut someone else. I’d love input.
I'd keep both Matt Moore and Adam Wainwright...
… forget Uggla.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 2:51 PM EST up reply actions
Someone else pointed out my attachment to Uggla. And yes, it IS dumb. But...
Besides last year, Uggla is the man. Even with last year, he has the most power for the already thin middle infield slots and thus I think I want to keep him. He has a legit chance to hit 40 HR’s and as his hitting streak proved last year, he just had a REAL bad start to the season. He still has an incredible bat.
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 2:55 PM EST up reply actions
i'd keep Moore and toss Wainwright back
i’d want to see how he comes back off the injury before I’d feel comfortable keeping him over Bourn or Pence
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
This.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 2:54 PM EST up reply actions
Tough call.
Obviously we need to know more about scoring, and how the keepers work, as per usual with these requests.
Do we absolutely know that Matt Moore is guaranteed a rotation spot this year? And is Wainwright ready for opening day? If both of them are in the rotation at the start of the season this year, I’d probably cut Bourn actually. I don’t draft speed guys that offer no contribution to power categories. There’s been tons of articles written about not reaching for these types of players, particularly in reference to Carl Crawford as a 1st round pick the past few seasons.
And however your draft is set up, if you’re giving up a high draft pick or a lot of cash to keep Uggla, I’d absolutely throw him back. You’ll probably be able to re-draft him for less than it would cost to keep him. It’s rare to find an instance where you should keep a player for a higher cost than it would take to get him in the standard draft.
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 27, 2012 2:55 PM EST up reply actions
i was kinda leaning this way too about Bourn
but i’m not sold enough on Wainwright to keep him over a guy that’s going to get 50+ steals
as far as Uggla goes, I would have a tough time throwing back a top-5 2B, given how that position falls off a cliff after the top 7 or 8 this year
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Dan Uggla isn't going to be a top-5 2B this year.
I bet he puts up maybe a .720 OPS. Decent for 2B, I guess… but not keeper.
His career has peaked and is headed downhill. With the Braves, he’ll start to lose playing time pretty quickly, too. They’re not going to play a sub-par defensive 2B if he’s not bombing the ball. They rely too much on pitching to risk that.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
I'd keep someone like Jemile Weeks over Uggla.
I’d put Uggla around 15th for 2B.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 3:05 PM EST up reply actions
now i just think you're trolling for the sake of trolling
if you would rather keep J. Weeks over Uggla, i really want to play in a fantasy league against you
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 27, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I absolutely would...
… and while I don’t have the option of keeping Uggla this year (because he’s never been on my roster), I am keeping Weeks.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 27, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
Which again, is something we can agree on.
I love the Weeks brothers and if Jemile can find some power… BOOYA
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 3:17 PM EST up reply actions
Isn't he on Oakland though?
No support in that lineup, pitcher’s park. Do not want. Yankees’ #8 hitter > Oakland’s cleanup hitter
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 27, 2012 3:25 PM EST up reply actions
Not that Jemile would bat cleanup but hopefully you get my point.
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 27, 2012 3:26 PM EST up reply actions
Didn't they just pay him like $40 mil? They're not gonna bench him
Wainwright was a top 10 SP before he got hurt. He has tremendous upside if you can keep him at a reasonable cost.
SB is the least important stat category, except for maybe saves. Power influences every category except steals, whereas steals only slightly boost run totals. And Bourn is in the NL and bats leadoff, so there is hardly ever anyone on base for him to drive in if you’re doing standard scoring.
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 27, 2012 3:07 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, the benching thing is just silly
Do you remember how bad he was WITHOUT being benched last year? It was stupid. Why would they get itchy now?
I think you might have convinced me Mike, I might cut Bourn. Would it be crazy to keep Michael Morse instead? I loved having him for his breakout year but I really wonder if he can replicate last year’s numbers.
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 3:09 PM EST up reply actions
Again, I'm not sure how your keeper system works
Do you just keep any 7 players and then have a normal draft, or do you lose picks in certain rounds if you keep players?
If you can keep Morse for what I assume would be the cost of a late round draft pick, then yes I would keep him. It’s all about getting value out of your keepers.
Keeping Morse at the cost of $1 or a 20th round draft pick > Keeping Uggla for $25 or an 8th round draft pick
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 27, 2012 3:13 PM EST up reply actions
But if there's no consequences, I'd keep Uggla over Morse straight up
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 27, 2012 3:14 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry, I did a quick explanation but it got bumped
I’m bad at formatting these posts.
At this point, everyone gets 7 keepers and thus the draft starts as normal, but with a pool of elite players already on teams. This is not a bidding draft and thus the value of keepers is kinda simple to estimate. Would you rather have x or y for the years to come?
And it’s not a question of Morse over Uggla, but maybe Morse over Bourn.
Uggla, despite the protests of some, I’m keeping no matter what. Bourn and Morse are on the edge of being replaced by the discussed pitcher. I know I’m going to keep either Moore or Wainwright, it’s a question of which.
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 3:16 PM EST up reply actions
Okay so if there's no cost to keeping players you'll get the most value out of keeping the players that you think will be drafted the earliest
So that makes it a tougher call. Obviously Moore is your best keeper option long term, but you might be able to pick him with a fairly low draft pick if you don’t keep him. Bourn and Wainwright are probably the two that will be chosen highest in the draft, so it would make sense to keep them if you thought you could get Moore with a late round pick.
Personally, I would keep Wainwright and Moore, and let Bourn and Morse go into the pool. Moore is your best long term keeper option and I wouldn’t risk losing him. Wainwright has the most upside, could regain top 10 SP form. Morse and Bourn play very deep positions, and can easily be replaced with someone fairly similar to what they are 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 27, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
God, I hope you're wrong.
Obviously, last year looked bad but I’m curious as to just why you think he peaked. His second half was far superior to his first half and yeah, he’s 32 but I still think he’ll hit for crazy power. 36 HR on an off year at 2B? And he’s 15th? I’m not going to argue about the Defense but I honestly don’t understand where you’re getting your OPS estimate. I’m not hating, but if you know something I don’t, let me in on it.
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 3:07 PM EST up reply actions
I play in a custom points league
Which is awesome, and I think that yes, Matt Moore with his new contract will be given a rotation spot. Wainwright’s Tommy John was last March, so I say that he is still months away from 100%, but I’m more concerned about the end of the season than the beginning. I want him for the playoffs.
Good call on Bourn. He put up incredible points in my league and I think that’s why I’m attached to him, but I’m forgetting that I too don’t really like speed guys. I’m not giving up cash or a pick (other than those discussed I guess) in order to keep Uggla and I insist that he’ll have a better year this year. Call me crazy.
Regardless, great input. Thanks Mike!
by Bird of Pray on Jan 27, 2012 2:59 PM EST up reply actions
If you want to read about some actual baseball
Vuff wrote a nice piece (with charts!) on Brian Matusz: http://www.camdenchat.com/2012/1/27/2749799/the-brian-matusz-myth
I didn't comment on it because I was busy
but that was a very nice piece. It wasn’t too far over my head and gave me some hope for mr. brian. +5 points for inspiring some hope.
Thanks for the front-paging. :)
I’d be around more, but these big open threads lately have been killing my work computer.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Thanks for talking about baseball :)
And don’t worry, baseball starts in a few months and everyone will have less to talk about.
Does anyone else find it hard to focus on fantasy baseball?
It’s not that I don’t have the time or anything, I just find it a lot less interesting than FFB. Anyone else feel like this?
I like throwing baseballs & footballs. Walks on beach are cool, especially w/wife & kids or some Bieber beats. Shoes are my passion and I love to ride bikes. - Guts' Twitter Bio
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:36 PM EST reply actions
i'm the opposite
i enjoy baseball so much more than football. it actually requires you to pay attention to your team and do some research before and during the season. so much of football is just about luck and match-ups on a weekly basis.
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
nope...
quite fond.
"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 27, 2012 3:39 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Speaking of fantasy baseball...
This is my reminder to Stacey that she hates fantasy baseball. Don’t do it this 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 27, 2012 3:40 PM EST up reply actions
She loves it
You better do it again this year Stacey
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
but I don't like it!
I always think I’m gonna like it and then I never do. That’s why I told EME to remind me that I hate it when it gets close to baseball season.
I'd co-manage...
I just don’t want a full-time team. You game?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 4:05 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
No, I'll co-manage!
I was thinking of skipping this year anyway, and it’s no fun if I don’t get to beat Stacey.
In conclusion, PICK ME OVER WW!
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
I'm looking out for you.
"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 27, 2012 4:07 PM EST up reply actions
Yea, I prefer Baseball mogul or OOTP 12 for my fix in that
Can’t really figure out why, but I enjoy those kind of games over doing fantasy baseball.
I like throwing baseballs & footballs. Walks on beach are cool, especially w/wife & kids or some Bieber beats. Shoes are my passion and I love to ride bikes. - Guts' Twitter Bio
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:43 PM EST up reply actions
Nope, just play the computer.
I like doing historical stuff, like right now I’m working on the Expos from the 1969 expansion and on.
I like throwing baseballs & footballs. Walks on beach are cool, especially w/wife & kids or some Bieber beats. Shoes are my passion and I love to ride bikes. - Guts' Twitter Bio
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jan 27, 2012 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
I still haven't tried it, on Mogul for this.
I like throwing baseballs & footballs. Walks on beach are cool, especially w/wife & kids or some Bieber beats. Shoes are my passion and I love to ride bikes. - Guts' Twitter Bio
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jan 27, 2012 4:06 PM EST up reply actions
I hate fantasy baseball
All of the stats are reliant on things that aren’t as controllable such as pitcher wins. I just get annoyed also I still dont know how baseball has so many injuries for a comparatively mild sport. I play fantasy hockey and football and i think my mosed ravaged team last year was the baseball team.
Haha probably due to the little sunlight my team saw
from June on after I got bored and stopped updating my pitching staff.
Well, we just missed the 20th anniversary by a week
http://murkavenue.tumblr.com/post/16553509655/i-found-ice-cubes-good-day
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
1000th comment fo the day!
great way to go in to the weekend, peace outttt
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
So, what do we do now that WW is getting plastered on Shirley Temples?
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
On my SBN app baby!
I’m addicted to CC.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 4:18 PM EST via iPhone app reply actions
What'd you go with drink wise?
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
Miler Lite is a buck right now.
No brainer.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 27, 2012 4:23 PM EST via iPhone app up reply actions
Let's not kid ourselves.
There’s every reason to get drunk.
Always.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 27, 2012 4:40 PM EST up reply actions
You can get drunk on dollar beers.
In fact, you can get drunk rather quickly on dollar beers.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 8:02 PM EST up reply actions
no reason to rush it
from stories told in the past, it sounds like WW is gonna be at the bar for the next eight hours or so. No reason to get drunk right outta the gate.
40 minutes until my favorite bar opens here.
I have to go downtown anyway, I might end up having a drink.
I am not a responsible adult.
Robert Andino, let me buy you a beer.
twisted.....
a total missed opportunity! :(
I realized today I could have brought a 6-pack of that beer in carry-on, and then handed it to you over espresso at Peregrine’s.
Sigh. Next time.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
oh fuck!
I didn’t even think about that. I checked out at like 245 from work today too (I’m like 3 metro stops away). Had plenty of time for coffee.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 7:59 PM EST up reply actions
i went by there today too.
the one in SE.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I think that's the only one....in Eastern Market.
I work right near L’Enfant Plaza so it’s like 3 stops away. I’ve gone down there for lunch a few times during work.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 28, 2012 8:44 AM EST up reply actions
The wife is out of town
so do I a) go out drinking with friends, or b) drink by myself and watch a bunch of episodes of Breaking Bad since she’s determined it’s too depressing for her?
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
invite your friends over to watch breaking bad.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I don't want those assholes at my house. haha
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Bad then. You need to start a fight club then.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I'd go with B first, then A
Watch a few episodes, then go out.
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 7:59 PM EST up reply actions
well, my night so far was
get pizza with a preggo wife (that is 3 weeks away) and my 20 month old at 6:00 pm. come home, watch Dora, and I just looked over and see them already asleep on the couch (8:30). So I come to CC and I see you have the opportunity to go out. Shit son, get your lazy ass dressed and drink way to many for me. DO IT.
LOL
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 8:34 PM EST up reply actions
no hablo espanol
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 27, 2012 8:50 PM EST up reply actions
This, about a million times
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
LAST!
I think we all learned some things here today. Political discussions lead to tension. Saying black people like purple drank is racist. Bananas are delicious. Gatorade flavors are personal. WW knows how to run up a bar tab. But most importantly, and I want you all to remember this: miracle whip tastes like donkey semen.
goodnight.
Not last anymore...
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
dammit..
I saw you making your responses to everything as I was typing that out, and I realized it wasn’t going to stand for long.
What can I say, I just got home
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I can dig it. I've decided not to go out because I'm going to take a practice LSAT tomorrow morning.
being responsible is less fun.
Oh, it wasn't fun
It was more Daddy’s Taxi service.
One year, six months, and 1 week, and the oldest turns 16 1/2 and can drive by herself!!!!!
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
the LSAT is such a stupid test
i can’t complain because i’m really good at standardized tests, but it proves nothing
168
I was really hoping to break 170 and would have retaken it if i bombed one section, but i got a few wrong in each and figured my score was just as likely to go down as it was to go up on a 2nd attempt.
Oh do you get a detailed report back as to which ones you missed?
that would be nice… I’ve been consistently scoring over 160 on all of the practice tests I’ve taken, so I’m hoping I can just keep that up on game day.
tip #1
there is NO guessing penalty on the LSAT, unlike the SAT.
so never leave any question unanswered, even if it means choosing “C” 6 times in a row in the last 30 seconds.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Well.
If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it’s that a male model’s life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn’t mean that we too can’t not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
if i may,
what in the fuck are you talking about?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I did
at first i thought it was a joke. Drexel’s a big school, but its not like we have Speaker City money
hot boxing the armory.
I thought it was a joke too. they have come along way since eve6 and 3rd eye blind
Zoolander is an amazing movie
anyone that feels differently has a terribly incorrect opinion
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Agreed.... it's freakin' great.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 28, 2012 10:51 AM EST up reply actions
Yes.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 28, 2012 1:22 AM EST up reply actions
But it did answer your question.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 28, 2012 2:00 AM EST up reply actions
Seriously?
Folks have been using “your” for “you’re” all day. What’s wrong with you people???
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 28, 2012 8:46 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 28, 2012 8:45 AM EST up reply actions
I'm sad about how drunk life gets.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
how does drunk life get?
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 28, 2012 8:45 AM EST up reply actions
sure
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
by twistedlogic on Jan 28, 2012 8:44 AM EST up reply actions
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