Tuesday Bird Droppings
by Stacey on Jan 31, 2012 7:26 AM EST
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PrintIs Casey Kotchman A Fit With The Baltimore Orioles? - MLB Daily Dish
I agree with this writer that Kotchman would be a bad decision, but don't think he knows what he's talking about when it comes to Nolan Reimold.
Trade demands currently too high for Orioles - baltimoresun.com
Apparently the price is too high because there is no minor-league depth.
Armando Galarraga, Pat Neshek and Ronny Paulino among Orioles' non-roster signings | MLB.com
If Armando Galarraga makes the team, what is the over/under for how many times in April Gary Thorne calls him Andres?
High school sophomore joins Orioles, drawing ire of KBO | The Korea Times
So concerned are KBO officials over MLB taking their talent that they are going to file an official complaint with MLB.
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Hi everyone.
I haven’t commented in a few days. I was busy reading and wasting my brain cells. You remember that 12-hour layover thing in Amsterdam? Well it turns out for 75 Euros (roughly $99) I can get a private tour of the city. I need to tell him/her where I want to go, and I’m wondering if you guys can suggest some sites. I definitely want to go to an art museum, seeing as some of the greatest artists in history were Dutch, but after that I’m stuck. Anything else would be greatly appreciated!
Contrary to popular belief, I am not Jewish.
The Van Gogh museum is spectacular
but I went like 10 years ago, so I may not remember perfectly.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 31, 2012 8:13 AM EST up reply actions
I was there for 3 days back in July '01
spent all of my time mostly aimlessly wandering about the city. Them Coffee shops will do that to ya!
Checked out Red Light district (but did not partake), Heineken Brewery tour, was going to see the Anne Frank house but the line to get in was about a block long. I do remember going to the Rijksmuseum and enjoying the gardens and reflecting pool.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 8:30 AM EST up reply actions
Also, just down the street from the Rijksmuseum is the Diamond Museum
small little place that might be worth a look. Amsterdam is a huge clearinghouse for diamonds and other jewels.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 8:33 AM EST up reply actions
really liked...
rijksmuseum and heineken tour, though i was 17 when i went.
"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 31, 2012 9:04 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
If you have to pick one museum it’s the Van Goghs for sure.
The Anne Frank house will cost you at least an hour in line, maybe more, and the payoff is pretty weak — unless you don’t already know the story I guess.
And you definitely want to spend a minute just taking in the city. You can do a canal tour on board a boat that will show you a huge sweep of the place.
Skip the red light district — it’s basically a beer soaked tourist trap akin to Bourbon Street.
agree on boat tour
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 31, 2012 9:02 AM EST up reply actions
disagree on anne frank
it’s absolutely a must-see. ask your guide when is time with the least likely wait, and go then. We picked a time based on advice and practically walked in untouched. Why is it a must see? Because actually viewing in person the bookcase and the hidden door behind it that leads up to the attic will give you chills. and the story is very well-presented and told. There is lots of detail there you won’t get elsewhere.
Apart from that, the Van Gogh museum is a pretty obvious choice. Definitely walk around.
NB: the National Museum (Rijksmuseum) has been undergoing renovations, so a lot of its exhibits may be closed.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
From what I read
Go to the Dam Square, Heineken Brewery, Rijks Museum, Anne Franks House, and Eat (Indonesian food). Apparently the Sex museum is pretty cool.
I have never been to Amsterdam (or Europe, for that matter)...
… so take my advice with a grain of salt.
If I had about 10 hours to get around the city, I would probably find just two things to do. The below tips of the Van Gogh museum and a canal boat tour seem like good recommendations. I just feel like any more than that and you run the risk of trying to do too much and not stopping to smell the tulips.
Personally, I’d be perfectly happy to just go to a random spot in the city and walk around taking pictures.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:08 AM EST up reply actions
This
I love just meandering and taking it in. Exploring with no purpose is a blast.
So I was diagnosed with narcolepsy yesterday...
I wonder if it’s a symptom of Orioles fandom
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
Ouch. I hope it's either not extreme or controllable.
I know that’s one of those conditions that people like to laugh about but can actually be quite bad.
thanks.
I’m going on treatment for it now, so I’m ok…and at least it never got this bad:
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 31, 2012 9:01 AM EST up reply actions
So have you just always had a really hard time sleeping, and it made you drowsy all day?
Or did you actually have a few “sleep attacks” where you would pass out during the day?
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 31, 2012 9:27 AM EST up reply actions
More the first one
With constant day time sleepiness and the then falling instantly into REM sleep when I do doze off (which amounts to getting terrible dreams/hallucinations even if my eyes only close for a couple seconds). But generally when the sleep attacks come I just get groggy for 10 or 15 minutes without actually passing out. So, no legal issues or anything like that.
They said it generally gets worse as you get older and most people don’t catch it into their 40’s so I lucked out.
Just because you know how to read, doesn't mean you'll like the book.
by arlingtonOsFan on Jan 31, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
At least you're getting treatment for it
So that’s good.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
Sorry to hear that.
Though I’ve never actually found being an Orioles fan boring. It’s exciting to see how they will find new ways to engage in what can only be described as ‘masterful suckitude’ on a regular basis.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:33 AM EST up reply actions
Really? I need your perspective.
I’ve never actually found being an Orioles fan boring
Pretty much the last 1/3 of the season is always boring to me. What excitement do you find in the team when they are 15+ games back?
That's what makes it so exciting.
Well, really, who are the fans going to call for the head of when the team looks like they might lose 100 games this year. I don’t see anyone actualyl getting fired.
Buck quits before Dan gets fired.
Then goes and coaches the royals and wins a WS.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
I predict that if we don't touch .500 in 2013...
Both get “fired” and we hire Brady Anderson to manage and Cal Ripken as general manager.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
Predict != wish
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:14 AM EST up reply actions
there's no way I see that happening
the first part, sure, both could easily be fired after 2013. No way Cal and Brady take over with zero previous experience at either job. I mean, the Orioles make some head scratching moves, but they aren’t that out there…
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
After 16 seasons of futility...
… and with an increasingly senile Peter Angelos, the O’s roll the dice.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
Someday I'll know what it's like to root for a real baseball team
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Aw, you're leaving Camden Chat?
At least be a Royals fan. They’re not totally despicable and if you hurry, you can still get some street cred for hopping on the train before it leaves the station.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
when I was in Montreal I was motivated to get an Expos shirt
they look like they have a bright future!
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
I have an Expos hat!
They’ve got this great young talent named Vlad. Craziest at bats ever.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
We will be set once buck and dan leave.
Our team leads the league with leadership WATL. Or for those uneducated WATL is an advanced statistic meaning: “Wins After They Left”
Showalter:
1. Yankees- Won the WS year after him
2. Diamondbacks – Won the WS year after him
Duquette:
1. Redsox – Won the WS 2 years after him.
This detailed analysis means that we should fire them both 1.5 years prior to our world series victory. The great thing about WATL is that who we hire doesn’t matter.
August / September
O’s lose 30-3.
O’s lose 6-5 after taking a 5-0 lead into the 9th.
O’s lose 1-0 with exactly one baserunner all night.
O’s lose 13-12, doubling their offensive output for the week.
O’s lose 4-3 when Gregg walks in the winning run.
O’s lose 2-0 on an inside the infield homer when Reynolds and Davis run into each other and knock themselves out cold.
There’s so many new and exciting ways to lose!
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:43 AM EST up reply actions
So true
There’s so many new and exciting ways to lose!
I don’t watch professional baseball to laugh, but I can see what you mean. The O’s go out of their way to lose some games, that is for sure.
O's lose 5-2 when Markakis tracks a deep fly ball and a Russian satellite falls on him.
Markakis then placed on the DL. The RF/#2 spot is left empty for 2 weeks. Offensive production increases 17%.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:51 AM EST up reply actions
I think the O's should get an Asian OF'er
They seem to have better luck her than pitchers.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
I thin Duquette will not rest until the entire 40 man roster is Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese, or Chinese.
I was once on the International Advisory Board for Columbia and went to a conference where local business owners were invited to discuss how they could better serve the large Asian community in Howard County.
I had no idea Peter Angelos was there.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
Actually, Yu Darvish's father is Iranian...
… though his mother isn’t North Korean, so he only gets partial credit.
Speaking of which, we should totally sign some North Koreans.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
One night I was going to photoshop an Orioles hat onto Kim Il-Sung
But it proved to be too much work.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
I'd have put a Yankees hat on him...
You know that the entire ruling family there would be fucking Yankees fans.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:26 AM EST up reply actions
Haha the posting competition
would be in oil and international aid
There's a restaurant in Annadale that serves North Korean food if anyone is interested.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
interesting
Do the two koreas differ much in their dishes?
The within variation is probably not much different than the US (New England versus versus southern cuisine). I haven’t had the NK staple dishes, but they don’t look much different. Sort of like a Chicago pizza doesn’t look much different than a Cali pizza in that they both have dough with cheese and stuff throw on top.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Might need to hit that up
I’ve been to a couple Korean places in Annandale, but I assume they were all South Korean.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
*during Markakis' recovery
it is discovered that radiation from the Rusian satellite has given him super-sized bulky arms.
No longer tagged with the “skinny arms” label, Markakis starts swinging for the fences. His OBP drops 75 points, but he hits 8 home runs in 16 days.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I thought radiation turned you into a spider...man.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:18 AM EST up reply actions
Nicky is a RF-wall....crawler
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
No.
Getting bitten by irradiated spiders turns you into Spiderman, depending on the type of radiation it could have different effects. Gamma radiation, for example, turns you into the Incredible Hulk, which means you’ll have to buys your shirts and pants in bulk from now on. Other types of radiation usually just make you sterile and give you cancer.
geek alert
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Oriole it up a bit
Our new RFer:
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Worth it.
Other types of radiation usually just make you sterile and give you cancer.
For the proportional strength of a spider.
"We weren’t playing for the playoffs, but we were playing for pride, and we showed it tonight."
by killertomato on Jan 31, 2012 11:41 AM EST up reply actions
Signing a high school sophomore does seem a little creepy,
but hegemonic? You take that back, South Korea! Them’s fighting words!
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
Hegemonic might be my new favorite word. It just rolls of the tounge. hege-MO-nic
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 8:17 AM EST up reply actions
The Hedgie-Mon
Like a bad, suave dude. You know what I'm sayin'. COOL. SC 7/24/08
by 33 on Jan 31, 2012 9:07 AM EST up reply actions
One thing that strikes me a little odd...
are sophomores usually 17 years old in Korea?
I was 17 when I graduated from High School, and I never skipped a grade. Of course, I was born in December
Do we know his actual birth year?
Ages are calculated differently in Asia than in the United States. He could be as young as 15, actually.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:05 AM EST up reply actions
Not really
They used to be calculated differently, but not any more, at least in Japan. I suspect the same is true of South Korea.
He turns 18 in April. The school year begins in March. Again, if it’s the same as in Japan, he had to be six to start the first grade, which means he started a month before his seventh birthday.
Even still, that would mean he should be a junior and not a sophomore.
In Korea and China they still are.
They consider themselves 1 when they are born. But they also use the Lunar New Year as a kind of secondary birthday, which is where the random second year of difference can come into play.
I’m not an expert on it, but when I was teaching over there, my students always gave me ages that were older than I expected. My wife also squeezes like 7 birthdays a year out of me. I’m running out of gift ideas.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:59 AM EST up reply actions
Oh, and also...
… there are areas of South Korea where “high school” would mean effectively our 10th, 11th, and 12th grade years. He may actually be the equivalent of a junior.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:09 AM EST up reply actions
Yes, possibly, but this was interesting
While several high school graduates have been signed by major league teams before entering college in the past, Kim is only the second sophomore to ink a deal. In 1997, Bong Jung-keun, formerly with the Atlanta Braves and now with the LG Twins in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), was the first to sign with a U.S. club before entering his final year in high school.
So, whatever his age or grade, it appears he is younger than normal for an MLB signing.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
The new meaning of "Baby Birds".
Hey Buck, stop at the store on the way home and get some diapers, please.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:49 AM EST up reply actions
I am pretty sure kids start going to MLB camps in the DR
at a really young age, around 15 or younger. Only difference is they go their w/o a contract.
Womb-drafting.
Based on DNA samples. We’ll get into a whole new era of advanced, predictive statistics.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 31, 2012 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
Clearly,
genetically engineering baseball players is the next market inefficiency. Get in on that now, Duquette!
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
I like where this is going...
Let’s cross Ichiro with Pujols and see what happens.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
Puchiro!!!
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 31, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
it's the new market inefficiency!!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
If he was a Dominican
No one would bat an eye.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:26 AM EST up reply actions
From Venezuela, but still
The Mariners signed Felix Hernandez as soon as he turned 16, in accordance with MLB rules.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
Rally Squirrel > Skip Schumaker
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Anyone else see the Colbert Super PAC disclosure?
I’m actually sorta surprised they only raised a million dollars
is that how much they've raised or how much they have currently?
I thought it was the former after having already spent a decent amount on those ridiculous ads.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Amount raised
$825,475 in 2011, and about another $200k so far this year. I don’t think they actually spent all that much on those ads, none of them were incredibly expensive to produce, and the ad buys were really small, really just big enough so that they could say they actually aired.
I think I read
speculation that they had spent 50-100k in ad buys. Romney has spent 16 M so far in ad buys just in Florida, so that would seem about right.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I'm not really surprised
His target demo is college kids.
College kids, as a rule, don’t have much money.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
This is the wrongest thing ever espoused on this, or any, site.
Gary Thorne rocks!
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 9:39 AM EST up reply actions
Get the pitchforks...
We done got ourselves and outsider!
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:43 AM EST up reply actions
And the troubling where/wear/were thing didn't trip him up either.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
Fuck...
I hate when the people I disagree with successfully use grammar and spelling correctly.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:50 AM EST up reply actions
I think Thorne does well at the starts of games/seasons...
before it gets REAL good.
Tommy hunter still sucks!
BAHHHHHH!!!!!
INTERLOPER!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 9:50 AM EST up reply actions
.....
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Wish I'd z'd down first...
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
just so you know, Infrasonic
we hate this opinion, but not its messenger.
we all love Gary Thorned (aka “three drinks Gary”) because he is often entertaining (and often unintentionally so) when the Orioles are not.
he’s also a perfect foil to Palmer.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I love Gary
but I can see how he’d rub some people the wrong way. I wasn’t a huge fan when he first arrived on the scene, but he’s grown on me big time.
I can pinpoint the exact moment
it was when he tried and failed to sing “Why do you build me up” for some reason.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Yeah, but it's ripe for inappropriate jokes.
I’m trying to cut back, but this makes it very difficult.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
Now I can't get that darn song out of my head!
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
that was awesomesauce
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Was that the same game where they showed them standing next to each other
and tiny Gary Thorne was laughing so hysterically he was holding on to giant Jim Palmer to keep from falling down? That was my favorite day.
Where you a fan of his from hockey?
I was and the transition was silky smooth.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
when my school went to the frozen four
Thorne covered it for ESPN, and that was the first (and last) time I ever heard him do a hockey broadcast. So I was sort of backwards I guess. I thought it was weird to hear a voice I only associate with baseball talk about icing and so on.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
He is on the NHL 2K-- video games
Love Gary!
When they look up from the gutter where their dreams have gone to die they will see only orange and black. -EME
Yes, I too see how he could rub people the wrong way
It doesn’t mean those people are right, though.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:36 AM EST up reply actions
i actually have a Gary related question
during broadcasts this past season, I noticed that Gary is always rocking this gaudy, and what appears to be a championship, ring. if you look on his right hand, you can see it:
does anybody have an idea of where/why he would be rocking that? my friends and I tried to do some research last year and couldn’t come up with anything
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
BOOM!
Albuquerque, New Mexico: Gary, Is that a Stanley Cup ring on your finger?
Gary Thorne: No. That is my Lone Ranger decoder ring that came from a Fruit Loops box. Just kidding. That’s the 1986 World Series ring I received from the Mets. I broadcast radio for them during those years. It’s a keeper.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
thanks
i’ll be sure to use that bit of trivia to win a round of drinks from my buddies this season
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
The problem is the shortened URL to hide it.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:57 AM EST up reply actions
What do you mean, YOU PPL?!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:59 AM EST up reply actions
What do I mean, what do you mean?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:01 AM EST up reply actions
What I mean you, mean do you what?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
You what I mean, do you mean what?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
US PEOPLE?!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
WHAT? HATS?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
MEEPS!
http://5secondfilms.com/watch/meeps
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
Who rec'd this??
WHO THE FUCK REC’D THIS?
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 31, 2012 3:38 PM EST up reply actions
Downloaded temple run yesterday
Ive put in something like 5 hours. That game is addicting to say the least.
"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 31, 2012 9:51 AM EST reply actions
It's nuts... what's your high score?
I’m sitting around 2.1 million at the moment.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 9:52 AM EST up reply actions
I'm at 4.87 million
but I’ve had it for a bit. Been chasing that 5 million dragon for a while now.
@sibsinExile
I got it last Monday... played about 200 games so far.
A lot of them was going for the 1000m with no coins badge though, so maybe 150 TRUE games.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 9:56 AM EST up reply actions
I think I've played like 400
And you’re right, Magnets are the shit. I don’t even collect anything else really. Just a waste.
@sibsinExile
i have gotten so close on thr 1000m
but i can’t quite crack it.
it’s my only goal now. yesterday i got to 975 and hit a flame arc. gahhhhhh
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'm currently trying to get a million with no power-ups... thats brutal.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:21 AM EST up reply actions
Magnets are the tits.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 9:57 AM EST up reply actions
Magnets...
HOW DO THEY WORK?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Blankets!! How do they work?
How does luggage know where to meet me at?
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
Now I wanna know how many others on here actually got this....
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Hey, I'm not quoting stuff from 2005, at least
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I got the magnets thing
Not NSOsFan’s reply, though.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 12:13 PM EST up reply actions
It's an SNL skit
Was rather amusing
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
The only problem with it
is that the original ICP thing was so ridiculous, that no matter how hard they tried, the SNL thing was only moderately more so.
what character do you guys play with?
"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 31, 2012 10:03 AM EST up reply actions
I can't even tell the difference between them.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:21 AM EST up reply actions
2.1 million is pretty legit.
Im not that good yet. i just barely broke a million.
"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 31, 2012 9:54 AM EST up reply actions
jesus
i’m only at 250k or so. what are you guys doingdifferently?
also, i cashed in and got the female runner, thinking i’d have super powers or something. it turns out she doesn’t do anything differently. did i get robbed?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
it gets easier once you buy some magnets and shit.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Yea you gotta buy all those first before the people
The people don’t help except they increase your multiplier for finishing an objective.
@sibsinExile
Bro, you gotta just work on collecting coins and maxing out your power-ups first.
Grow your multiplier too..
I think mine is 39 now.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:22 AM EST up reply actions
HOW to you grow the multiplier?
I have never figured this out.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Go to the Main Menu and look at objectives
Every one you check off increases it by 1.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:24 AM EST up reply actions
so i can't get any further until I get the 1000m no coin, right?
or do you not have to do them in order….?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Nope, any order.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
600,000
:(
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
Write it down: Kansas City finishes within 8 games of Detroit in 2012. - Tezcatlipoca, 1/30/2012
by BaltimoreSportsFan on Jan 31, 2012 4:43 PM EST up reply actions
Three line sig lines suck.
"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 31, 2012 5:25 PM EST up reply actions
Um, I'm sorry?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
That's why I was apologizing, sorta
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Yours isn't as bad because each line is short.
"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 31, 2012 8:30 PM EST up reply actions
Kids these days
With their sigs
BSF doesn’t know what it was like back in my day. You could have a WHOLE PICTURE in your sig when I was growing up.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 31, 2012 8:31 PM EST up reply actions
My current office gets no reception for my phone.
I’m hoping that when I move to my new office, I get reception so I can use my new phone properly (i.e. dicking around and avoiding work with fun games and such).
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 9:53 AM EST up reply actions
I've been playing the shit out of this game for about the past week
but I’m still not very good. My best score is only 331,734.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
"That ball is gone. We'll pause ten seconds to commit suicide ... I mean, for a station identification."
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:00 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
So I tried to look up the context of this quote, found this from that game
John Wall, ladies and gentlemen.
Jusssst a bit outside.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:23 AM EST up reply actions
Not as bad as his opening pitch attempt for the Nats
Can we get a gif? I’m at work…
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions
I just took them as a combo deal.
Joe Angel will always be my favorite.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
Joe Angel is my favorite announcer of all time in any sport
with the exception of Michael Reghi, of course.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
chuck thompson...
that is all.
"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 31, 2012 9:58 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
never liked chuck
i know i’m in the minority.
way too folksy for me, way too much about non-baseball shit.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I enjoyed Brooks when he used to be on TV with Scott Garceau
Also folksy, but in that Brooksie way that you just have to love.
yep...
awesome.
"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 31, 2012 11:02 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
Chuck & Brooks
then Mel and Brother Lo…
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
ah, yeah...
mel proctor was good, too!
"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 31, 2012 11:51 AM EST via Android app up reply actions
jon miller hands down
joe angel a close second.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I am literally unable to tell them apart by voice
They sound identical to me.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:41 AM EST up reply actions
Joe Angel
From ST last year: “There’s that music of Vlad’s again….It almost makes you want to get up and dance….Oh, Fred!! Now cut that out!!”
"They're throwing bottles at your house...Come on, let's go break their arms." - Henry Fool
by Fahrenheit 451 on Jan 31, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Also up for discussion: Anibal Sanchez
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/01/extension-candidate-anibal-sanchez.html
If the Marlins don’t extend him before he hits free agency, should the O’s bid?
I say yes. He's going to be all kinds of awesome.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
The O's would probably have to overbid...
… meaning we’d be offering 5 or 6 years at $16.5 per.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
yuck.
What year did “O’s will need to overpay” become the norm?
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
I feel like the Tejada signing.
I don’t necessarily think we overpaid for Tejada, but he demonstrated that the O’s are so far from contention that even a quality star won’t help the team win. So now we’re stuck with the situation of having to find a dollar value that stars place on being willing to play on a shitty team.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
I think it's finding the right stars.
Really, does it matter who we play at third or in left field this year if we don’t make serious upgrades to our rotation/bullpen?
Whatever the position...
The O’s are going to have to pay 15% – 25% above what potential contenders are paying to get proven stars in their prime to sign here.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:40 AM EST up reply actions
Good point
I think if we can get some of the young guys to develop, the proven stars would come to Bmore without gauging the team.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:39 AM EST up reply actions
Good god...
I just looked up the 2004-2006 seasons for Tejada and Roberts.
Holy crap, that was a good middle infield.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
2004 and 2005 were also the years Melvin Mora was lighting it up.
Too bad our first baseman was an old and busted ’roided down Palmeiro.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:03 AM EST up reply actions
And in 2004, we had Jose Bautista!
Yes, THAT Jose Bautista!
How did we not win the World Series?
Oh, yeah… pitching.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
Whole lotta very good FA pitchers hitting the market next year
Even with the MFY, PHN, etc….in the market, we might have a legit shot at landing someone worthwhile.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
So my first paycheck is burning a hole in my pocket
and while most of it has to go toward paying off my credit card, i can’t not buy my self some sort of present. I’m thinking something in the $200 range, but need ideas. Go.
1) Opening Day tickets
2) Brian Roberts jersey for good luck
3) Jewelry for the girlfriend to thank her for her support
4) Pay a Yankees fan to let you punch him in the face 5 times
5) Bribe Stacey to make you a Koopa Troopa
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:15 AM EST up reply actions
not jewelry
if you want to thank the GF, get her something cooler, like a Kindle.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
by zknower on Jan 31, 2012 10:20 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I've thought about it
If i had gotten her a kindle early in our relationship, she would have legit broken up with me. She’s vehemently anti-ebooks.
is she pro-jewelry?
my wife thinks jewelry is a racket, thank god. she never wants anything expensive in that category. more like something i see at a crafts fair that i think she’d like.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
yes,
married and living on the Cape.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
i think there are more women out there who don't give a fuck about jewelry than you'd think
the jewelry industry would have you believe otherwise, but i bet that a majority of women (at least in my socio-economic group) do not have any interest in getting a new bauble every birthday, valentine’s day, and christmas/hanukah/etc.
more like something personal for most of those events, and a very occasional splurge because you were inspired, not because there was a sale at Kay’s
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I like jewelry
But I hate the jewelry industry so much that I can’t stand the idea of supporting them.
Do you mean diamonds and gold and the like?
I personally hate the idea of grannies making cat necklaces.
haha what?
grannies making cat necklaces?
I just think that jewelry store advertising reinforces every negative stereotype about women and men. They’re offensive.
"every kiss begins with Kay's"
aka
“no jewelry? no nookie!”
aka
“you have to pay women to get them to have sex with you!”
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Right
Women will only have sex if you buy them pretty things! Men will only buy their ladies pretty things because it will lead to them having sex! Ugh.
When i bought my wife's engagement ring
I asked for proof they weren’t blood diamonds. The dude legitimately pulled out this old folder with dust on it and was like “you are honestly the first person we have had ask that in the past several years” I was like I want to make my wife happy with the knowledge her ring didn’t destory someone’s life.
Most of your more reputable diamond places
now make a point to say that they use “ethically-sourced” diamonds. For example:
I generally try to avoid any type of gem that has the potential to be from a conflict area.
Most of my wife’s jewelry is just silver. She has a citrine necklace. She likes sapphires.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
Wait.... you don't?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
Ron White said it best as to what jewelry companies are about to say...
DeBeer’s came out with a new slogan: “Diamonds: Render her speechless.” Why don’t they just go ahead and say it? “Diamonds: That’ll shut her up… for a minute.”
Not that I agree with that sentiment, but doesn’t that feel like what they’re trying to say?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
The way I see it, there are two jewelry industries.
The big time kay jewelers, zales places, that sell fancy schmancy stuff, and then there’s the former hippies living in new england (and presumably Washington state too, but I can’t confirm) making little pewter rings with kittens and puppies on them.
I absolutely agree with this.
I don’t buy my wife jewelry for the sake of buying her jewelry. I buy her things that are unique or from a place that has a sentimental meaning for us.
I’m also trying to avoid large companies. I’m not a “buy American only!” person, but I am trying to support more small retailers or direct sellers.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
Well I am getting married in March to a somewhat jewel woman
not every holiday but a few times a year she likes a necklace or something. I normally ignore these requests and get a techy gadget that is cool or find a different gift that is better.
Jewelry sucks.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
My wife doesn't even have her ears pierced
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
my boyfriend brought me some earrings home from Africa
he got them at some outdoor crafty area they had in town. Only jewelry he’s ever gotten me. I love them.
by Stacey on Jan 31, 2012 10:26 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd for your BF's classiness
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I can't exactly hop on a plane to other parts of the world on a whim...
… but I do buy my wife earrings from Ten Thousand Villages from time to time.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
I like Ten Thousand Villages
I like the idea of it, anyway. I just wish their items were a bit more my style.
They've got lots of little things that I like.
My wife buys me turtles from all over the world to add to my collection.
I also like a lot of their lamps. I’ve got one of the salt lamps on my desk at home and it’s the absolute perfect amount of light for a computer desk. You don’t want to sit in the dark, but you also don’t want something that will cause glare. I’ll probably get one for my office, too.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
wow
i had never head of this place, and judging by their website, i think i will love them.
thanks PhilR8!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Tez and I are two enlightened individuals
All fair trade products, all-volunteer staff, etc. Outreach of the Mennonites I think. There’s a little shop in Fells Point. I’ve also been to the “original” store in Ephrata PA, which was smaller than I would’ve thought but they had a cool little cafe and they were also selling rugs when I was there. Like, $10K rugs. They were showing videos of how these rugs were made by hand in India. It was pretty intense.
Yeah there's one in Fells
We like to browse in there and Su Casa and pretend we’re rich.
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 31, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
My parents are big fans
they got us some nice home decor stuff from there.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Anti-ebooks in a "gotta stave off the coming robot wars" kind of way?
Or does she just like turning pages? Because I’ve never met an anti-ebooks person (who is actually a reader) that didn’t fall in love once they got their hands on a kindle.
my wife hated the kindle
wants the pages
wants the feel of the book
likes to be able to easily see how many pages to the end of the chapter
I expect when we’re back in NYC she’ll break down once she’s on the subway every day.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
that's what i think will win her over in the end
“Hey honey, imagine you finish this week’s New Yorker, and the next one is already in your bag!”
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
yeah, its more this
She’s hates the thought of not having physical books. But i finally convinced her to get a smart phone, so i think she’s starting to crack on her anti-technology views.
I like having physical books too
But more for collection/display pieces. I’d buy a Kindle if I could afford one.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:46 AM EST up reply actions
I want to get copies of all of my favorite books
The e reader at this point is for finding those favorite books. I was very anti-e reader but there is nothing like bringing 50 books and several magazines with me when I am on a long flight or trip.
I’ve been able to get lots of free e-books on the Kindle, too. I will say, there’s a reason some of them are free, but others have been good authors that just aren’t well-known yet.
Ugg if anyone is into robin hood themed romance novels
then they will have a field day with kindle. There are like a billion crappy themed romance books in the free section to dig through.
LOL…I’m still in my month of Amazon Prime (Though I think I must have accidently signed up for a year of prime when I shipped some gifts) and that widens the free selection quite a bit.
I’ve picked up a lot of police procedural-type mystery novels and questionable-sounding sci-fi stuff that I probably wouldn’t have risked money on if I’d had to spend it.
I have a 23-year-old English teacher who shares my room
who is as anti-ebook as anyone I’ve ever met.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Clearly that's not true
There’s someone you’ve known for longer than this teacher has been alive!
"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
Didn't know you were anti-ebook
Aside from the fact they could leave you unemployed
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Got it in one!
"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
What do you do for a living?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
He's the one who has to handwrite all the books
until the eastern shore can save up and all pitch in for a printing press
Work at a college library
Actual pieces of paper bound together is kind of my entire job.
"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
Dewey Decimal FTW!!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:05 PM EST up reply actions
Beat me to it!
"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
I was mostly kidding
I know the difference between the two, but i have absolutely no idea why one is preferable to the other
Let you in on a secret
No one really does. One is used for public libraries, the other for research/academic libraries. Oh, and there’s an entirely different system for medical libraries.
I suspect the reason for this is “because that’s the way it’s always been done”. Quite a bit of that in the profession. But what I’d really like to know is why it was done that way in the 1st place.
"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
Heh. Not quite
Although we did have one up until 2002 or ’03.
I am in the cataloging dept. I make sure all the new arrivals are cataloged in the computer database before they go on the shelves. With e-books this is done automatically.
"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
I don't understand why people think they have to choose
but there’s always a few people that turn their nose up and say something like, “I just like the smell of books.” Okay, well then let’s just tell the truth here and call it a book fetish.
Also, let's just admit it! We live in the future!
My phone can simultaneously track my bank account, baseball scores, social media, be my tv remote (fios app is cool!), take pictures, play music and movies, and even make phone calls! Why the hell do I need a physical book?
I was debating getting the PNC app for my phone...
… I think I’m going to pass for now, just because of fears that my phone will get stolen and then that app is on there (even if I have security and all).
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
The only reason I don't get an e-reader is because I can't use it on the Sabbath
and that’s when I do most of my reading. That’s also the reason they aren’t popular here. I’ve seen maybe 10.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
What if you CHARGE it the night before?
or what if you got a gentile to press the turn pages button?
by DaveAA on Jan 31, 2012 10:32 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
If your serious, no.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
Ouch.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
The Sabbath is no reason to forget your grammar.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
It's Tuesday!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:46 AM EST up reply actions
I don't see why not.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions
PC or not, this shit is a REC
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
Why not PC (not trolling).
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
I'm pondering jumping to e-reading
for all of the baseball annuals and magazines I want to read. Still intend to keep a full bookshelf or two for novels and things. I think you can happily live in both worlds.
Hey, by the way, do any of you guys have e-reader recs for me?
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Have you ever heard of iPads?
They’re pretty cool. Some other people here might have opinions about them, but i’m not sure.
what's an iPad?
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Look at the new rich hoitey-toitey lawyer...
Kid gets one paycheck and now he’s all ‘iPad this’ and ‘iPad that’.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
What's your budget range?
I like the iPad because I can then get apps for all of the other popular eReaders out there (Kindle, Nook, etc.). But because they are on the pricey side I might look into one of the other readers if it’s not in you budget, which I have less experience with.
I'll just steal yours next time I'm in York
problem: solved
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
My personal experience is that
they’re not great for magazines and newspapers, where I like to browse and jump around. It’s tough to find your way. Much better for books where you just go in a logical progression.
I love my original Kindle.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 31, 2012 10:37 AM EST up reply actions
yeah this is my experience as well
they’re great for magazine articles, mind you, but not for reading a magazine in the traditional sense of flipping through the pages.
it seems to me like this would be simple to integrate
by a simple table of contents that you can always pull up to jump between articles. Is that not how it is?
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
the original kindles
could not even show you a page number, only a “percentage of completion”.
talk about a fail. i think that’s fixed now.
i’d say if it’s a computer, they could actually TAKE ADVANTAGE of that and offer advantages over a book.
like, “swipe this certain way to quickly show how much time to the next chapter….. and based on how quickly you’ve been reading this book so far, i’ll not only tell you how many pages, but also how many minutes…” like a GPS device does.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
it varies from book to book
I don’t have a problem with it, but I know a lot of people do. As for the swiping etc, those are good ideas that I gotta think are being worked on.
yeah there is
I’m still not a fan of using it for magazines or newspapers, though. Mostly because I really like to skim magazines and stop at something that catches my eye instead of reading every page, and that’s not easy to replicate on the Kindle.
exactly
I tried it for a while with the NY Times (I think it came with a free subscription), but I just didn’t like it.
The other thing it does poorly is graphics. The physical books I still own are the photography ones, or the space ones with lots of photos.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 31, 2012 10:48 AM EST up reply actions
I've been using my iPad for PDF books as well
Generally I jump around alot in these books (used for Table Top RPGs) and if there is a well integrated Table of Contents it’s nice and easy, if not, I can scroll through the pages somewhat quickly with the app I use.
If you're not currently in an ecosystem
then you should shop around and just see what you like. I’m a Kindle guy but the nook Simple Touch is really nice.
I would also not recommend the iPad, not because of any anti-apple sentiment but because not only do I find it way way too large to hold comfortably for long periods of reading, but I don’t like the backlight for long periods of reading, either.
without owning one
i think the obvious advantage of an iPad would be the other apps it can take, and its ability to sync with your other apple devices if you’re in an apple household.
and the obvious disadvantages would be: larger, heavier, glarier.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
my problem is
I have enough distractions with my pc and smartphone; when it’s time to read, I want to sit down and use my Kindle to read. That may be a problem unique to me, but those “advantages” would just be distractions.
yes, this.
Also, reading on a kindle vs iPad is soooo much better on the eyes, especially when you are going to sit and read for hours at a time
Camdenchat is the only thing I read.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions
Wieters Weiners' comments at Camden Chat are the only thing I read.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:43 AM EST up reply actions
REC'D BRAH
Hiyooooooooooo!!!!!!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
by zknower on Jan 31, 2012 10:44 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Tez wants to ride unicorns and hold hands with Tim Tebow
and John Elway was overrated
/trolling for a response
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
The main reason I don't really care for e-readers is that there's not much library support.
Well, I don’t know, maybe massive big-city library systems are all organized and integrated with e-books but that is not the case in Maryland. I do most of my reading through libraries because that’s, y’know, free.
That said, my sister bought me a Nook two Christmases ago and I buy things on there occasionally, especially if it’s a book I’d like to read that’s not in the library system anyway.
Another thing I have a hard time getting over with e-books is when you’re getting some new release hardcover that retails for $25 or $30 and the e-book costs exactly the same. I am aware of why this is – authors and publishers are pretty consistent in saying most of the cost of a book is in marketing, rather than production and distribution – but I have yet to be completely satisfied by that answer. At that price I might as well just have a real book.
"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 31, 2012 11:46 AM EST up reply actions
The libraries are starting to get there
also amazon prime members can pick an ebook free each month to have access to. Most of them are fairly mainstream books on their list as well.
Do you like music?
A quality set of headphones is worth spending some coin on (maybe not $200). If you are working in an office they are good for filtering the office noise.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
You're going to drive into Baltimore and look for a girl named Kassidy.
She charges 200 roses for an hour. I think you can find her on craigslist.
First paycheck?
The service provided by the employees at your local version of the Mustang Ranch.
OT: Vocabulary
this morning i got in an argument with a co-worker over whether or not the word “reoccurring” is a real word (she claimed it wasn’t and that it should always be “recurring”). one trip to the Oxford-dictionary later, i turned her in to one bitter English major. it’s all about the little victories in life.
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
bwahahahaha
Over the weekend, got into a huge argument with my wife while driving up i-95 over the difference between farther and further.
she smoked me, and we drove in silence for half an hour.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I reflexively say "further" instead of "farther" way too often.
It’s getting really annoying.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Heh "I am an english major"
Correct response: “That is fine but you are still wrong”
*pats on the back*
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:51 AM EST up reply actions
Knubles where are you?
Everton? Everton!! More signings/rumors than I’ve ever dreamed of
@sibsinExile
What's happening???
I’m just getting out of work.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 31, 2012 3:35 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
We got Jelevic from Rangers
And Saha is off to Spurs, and we may get Pienaar. But in general lots of rumors and activity by us.
@sibsinExile
Pienaar?
I used to rock FIFA 04 with him and Ajax
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 31, 2012 3:42 PM EST up reply actions
Yea
He was on Everton for a long while before he left to Tottenham and now he may come back.
@sibsinExile
I'll forever have PIENAAR, VAN DER VAAAAAAAART, AND YAKUBU stuck in my head
We had a serious dynasty going with those guys sophomore 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 31, 2012 3:55 PM EST up reply actions
I just got caught up on RBM
and tuned in just in time to see Gibson put one in net.
Say no to Prince Fielder in 2012.
by Knubles and Bits on Jan 31, 2012 4:24 PM EST up reply actions
I need a good name for my fantasy baseball team.
(1000 comments GO!)
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
You should name your team:
1000 Comments
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Yes! Creativity!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
"Melvin Mora, Numbnuts"
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
by Andrew_G on Jan 31, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Lincecum in her Buchholz
Hiyooooooooo!!
(It’s a fantasy name, it’s supposed to be dirty)
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:53 AM EST up reply actions
That one is money too!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
Ethier said than Dunn
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
Oooooh, kinky!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:54 AM EST up reply actions
wheres everyone playing fantasy baseball this year?
im looking for a good league this year…
"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 31, 2012 10:54 AM EST up reply actions
I'm playing ottoneu.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:54 AM EST up reply actions
There are two teams you can claim (in leagues) at the $9.99/yr. tier
If someone is interested, you should snap them up, they go quick.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
Link to claim teams
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:57 AM EST up reply actions
I'm in a long-term keeper league...
… but if there were to be a Camden Chat keeper league that would be okay with me finishing last every year and trading all of my decent players for prospects, I’d be game.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
I'd love a CC keeper league!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
this
"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 31, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
It'd be the only fantasy league in the world...
… where Koji Uehara is the highest paid player in the league.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 10:57 AM EST up reply actions
Kevin Gregg! Woot!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:57 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah we should make this happen
In any event we had 3 CC leagues last year. I know this makes me sound like a total elitist, but this year I want one GOOD league full of CC regulars that are actually going to pay attention all year. Each time we do CC fantasy leagues we inevitably get lurkers who never comment, which if fine, but more often then not they also don’t update their teams once they’re in
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 31, 2012 10:58 AM EST up reply actions
Keep it to regulars and make it a keeper league.
That makes sure people are in it for the long run.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 10:59 AM EST up reply actions
I check my fantasy team at least 74 times a day.
In my keeper league, after the auction, we’re given a $50 FA budget. I blew through mine in the first two months and had to start trading players for other teams’ FA dollars.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:00 AM EST up reply actions
That's the thing
If we’re doing a keeper league we need not just year long participation, but mult-year commitments. It might not be feasible.
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 31, 2012 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
Teams can be passed between people if need be.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:17 AM EST up reply actions
Thank you
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 31, 2012 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
Tez, I think you need one of those free coffee punch cards for inappropriate jokes.
You know how sometimes they would give you a little business card-sized thing and it was like, buy 10 cups of coffee and you get the 11th free, and they’d use a little hole punch to keep track and really they were just hoping everyone would forget about it long before they actually got their free cup of coffee?
Yeah, you should do that for bad jokes. Every time you’re going to make one or talk about how you could make one, punch a hole, and on the 11th time you get to make the joke. Process repeats as necessary.
"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 31, 2012 11:23 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I've been reprimanded for joking about making inappropriate jokes.
I wonder if I could get away with just typing the number I’m on and then after 10, I get to make the joke. We may have to up this to 25 or something.
I do like your creativity, though.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:25 AM EST up reply actions
Or you could just not comment if the only thing you're going to say is
“ooh I wish I could make an inappropriate joke”
So now your solution is posting comments with numbers in them?
The real point is that you don’t have to comment on everything, all the time, every day. And that’s not just for inappropriate jokes. You can give yourself a little breather and let some topics slide man.
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 31, 2012 11:28 AM EST up reply actions
I was being facetious about the numbers thing... just making a joke about EME's punch card joke.
But this does bring up the topic we discussed last week of self-policing and what’s going to drive people away or not.
I don’t think I’ve made any jokes that were more inappropriate than what other more long-time members have made. I don’t know if I overall post more than others, but I’ll admit I probably do post more jokes than others. Though, over the past few weeks, I have tried to pull back a bit. Apparently, it hasn’t been enough. I’ve certainly tried to avoid getting into any of the nasty debates / arguments that I used to.
When I first came to Camden Chat, I noticed that there were a couple of good guidelines: don’t be homophobic, don’t be racist, don’t be sexist… but for the most part, it was laid back. Nobody gets bent out of shape if someone swears. Lots of people laughed at jokes about each other or jokes of an adult nature.
That being said, I’m not overly interested in participating in a community where 1) I get singled out for making jokes that are similar to what other members make and don’t get singled out for, 2) I feel like I have to walk on eggshells to avoid offending people, or 3) I’m just flat-out not wanted or viewed as an overall negative.
I’m happy to find somewhere else to blow off steam and relax during the day.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
+1
I think Tez is fine (not in that way).
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:56 AM EST up reply actions
personally, i've never found anything you've joked about to be truly offensive
i think more the point that Stacery, EME, and AMD were trying to make is that if you’re going to make an “inappropriate” comment, just go ahead and make it instead of making a comment about how you were going to make a comment. it’s possible to self-police without letting everybody else know that you’re doing it.
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Tez, I hope you don't think we are trying to drive you off or something.
There were a number of people who were making the kind of comments we were hoping to curb, and it’s fair to say you were one of them, but I don’t think it’s fair for anyone to act like you are the sole source of them or something.
I think maybe it’s a case of observation bias and for whatever reason some people are keyed in to pounce when they see more of those comments from you. Why is that? Well… it sure feels like you were the #1 person perpetuating birdman’s mom jokes, for instance, even past the point where birdman finally had enough, which you may not have noticed a few days ago. Indeed, I think we all know what kind of joke you were alluding to in the comment that spawned this string of posts.
I don’t know that the objections are by and large to the “inappropriate” jokes as the fact that some of them are kind of old and played out, and joking about not making them is the same as making them.
Instead of feeling like you need to walk on eggshells because of vague concerns about PC-ness, maybe just give up the birdman’s mom jokes? And also the jokes about telegraphing that you could have made a birdman’s mom joke except you didn’t.
"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 31, 2012 12:09 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Add duck jokes to that
I don’t think anyone’s hating on you Tez or saying you need to be banned, just chill a little bit. Have a few less cups of coffee each morning. Resist the urge to beat a dead horse.
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 31, 2012 12:12 PM EST up reply actions
You're right
My apologies
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 31, 2012 1:09 PM EST up reply actions
Add jokes about New Jersey to that too
Seriously. We’ll cut you.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
Shit, I missed something then...
Birdman mom jokes are out? I was just catching on.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:13 PM EST up reply actions
It’s played man. I mean come on. I dig mom jokes but it got to point where any small opening would cause the line to be used (and in increasingly tasteless way which yes, tired me) and then the same 4-5 people would rec it on que. I could frankly do with the birdman mom jokes.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I'm glad that you could frankly do WITH the birdman mom jokes.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
=P
Rec’d on queue
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:30 PM EST up reply actions
joking about not making inappropriate jokes
is almost as annoying as the inappropriate jokes
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Please don't create an infinite loop.
These open threads are prone to overflow as-is.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Old programming languages,
like BASIC, had you assign numbers to each line of code. That was, as far as I know, before you had established types of loops, as in C++ and such.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
wow, i feel old
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Ctrl+Break
If that doesn’t work, I’m pulling the plug.
Say huh?
I didn’t joke about NOT making a joke.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
For me, it's not the jokes
It’s the volume. And when you just say “I want to make a joke here but I won’t” that doesn’t diminish the volume.
I’m not trying to call you out, honestly. I like having you around. But if I’m not on the site all day and I come home to 800 comments and a bunch of them are the same kinds of responses over and over again it gets exhausting.
Agreed
It’s firmly entered the “it’s played out” territory. Though, as South Park taught us, if you keep doing it enough it becomes funny again.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
I'm done with TWSS and Lou can hit, deal with it.
They were funny for awhile, but they are played.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
that was old meme from 2009 or so.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I hope “best shape of my life” isn’t played out. I feel like that one stays relevant since every player/manager/coach says it.
best shape of my life meme is a general baseball joke
lou can hit was specific to CC.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
TWSS never gets old for me
but it’s a matter of when it’s creative instead of the obvious.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Dude, you CAN'T leave...
It’ll put me squarely in the crosshairs since I’m probably next guilty of it… but mainly because I don’t catch onto jokes and memes until right around their sell by date.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
You'll be fine, WW. You've got more street cred and I came in too strong when I joined... only get to make a first impression once.
I actually did a search through my commenting history, because I know that at one point I went way overboard with jokes about birdman’s mom. I made one on January 20th. I made two on January 12th. I mentioned the meme but didn’t make an actual joke on December 20th. Before that was December 9th, when I realized I was making too many nasty jokes on a daily basis and mentioned that I’d done so.
January 20th was also when I mentioned I would just type “Inappropriate joke” instead of actually making a joke. Since then I did this 6 times (according to a search, anyway). Certainly there’s a ton of variations that could pop up in a search (such as “TWSS”), but I’m far too lazy to try and conduct a complete statistical analysis of my TIJ (total inappropriate jokes), IJ/9 (inappropriate jokes per 9 comments), and EIJA (expected inappropriate joke average). There’s also the IJMTBABMJ (inappropriate joke misinterpreted to be a birdman’s mom joke), but I’ll take responsibility for that (for example, the joke that started this was actually going to be self-depricating in nature).
Either way, I made my first impression and it wasn’t a good one. Then, by the time I tried to be less rude / inappropriate, the cast was set and that was that.
And before I go, I will apologize to birdman (and his mother) for participating in that meme. I will also apologize to duck if he was offended by age / lack of modern technology jokes.
With that said, Tez out.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
GTFOH
You can’t get all butthurt over a couple people’s comments. Just take the advice and move on… I’ve been called out plenty for being annoying around here. Seriously bro… you’re a valued member of the community and pretty much the only one in my Tebow defense camp.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:44 PM EST up reply actions
I actually like the duck is old comments
Mainly because he doesn’t take them seriously and because people get pretty creative with them. The repetitive ones get annoying though, I’ll be honest.
@sibsinExile
I like the creative ones
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I like “duck is old” jokes too but at least they’re clean!
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
they ARE clean, thanks to 20 Mule Team Borax!!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Borax is awesome.
Such an edgy movie when it first came out.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 31, 2012 5:32 PM EST up reply actions
I’m impressed that you went through the trouble to count all your birdman jokes. I have no clue why I became such a favorite target for you (and yes, there were several people making these jokes so I’m not trying to single you out), but I hope you stick around.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
for the record
I never had the impression of you as the guy who was always making inappropriate jokes.
i’m also not here as often as everyone else.
my point is, i think someone would have to read CC pretty obsessively to hang that moniker on you. you contibute plenty that has nothing to do with inappropriate jokes.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'd be up for it
I haven’t done fantasy baseball in a while, but it was always the fantasy sport I liked the most.
I also did a Bizarro Fantasy Baseball league a few years, where you got points for your players doing poorly. That was awesome.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 11:52 AM EST up reply actions
That's one way to get more Orioles involved
Cesar izturis #1 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 31, 2012 11:56 AM EST up reply actions
DIBS ON GREGGGGGG
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
by Gamecock24 on Jan 31, 2012 11:57 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Dibs on Gregg!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:57 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Nah, Izzy (this year, at least) would be a terrible pick
Not enough playing time.
What you really want is a guy who strikes out and hits into double plays a lot without drawing walks or hitting for power. Or a pitcher who regularly gives up hits and walks and plays on a terrible team. What you don’t want is someone who never appears, because you won’t get any points.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 12:08 PM EST up reply actions
i always used Jeffrey Maier Fan
Since I was in a league with nothing but Yankee fans and wanted them to remeber that they get nothing without cheating…
Do you play with Pink Hat Nation fans?
GAME 162.
That’s your team name.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I don't know them.
It’s an ottoneu Fangraphs league. I’d rather play in a CC keeper league (I want to play keeper) but I don’t know if it’ll get off the ground.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
I will help you organize
But I commish a very competitive money league with my college buddies and it is a big time commitment, so I’d rather not commish the CC league. But I will help set it up and I’ll be happy to offer my experience to the commish as he or she needs 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 31, 2012 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
I'd be willing to if there is interest.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
Okay cool let's make a fanpost when leagues open on Yahoo or ESPN in a few weeks
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 31, 2012 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
Do they have good keeper league options?
Or should we do this old school (spreadsheets)?
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:49 AM EST up reply actions
I'm not sure, we'd have to research
My league is an auction keeper on Yahoo, which is simple to keep track of. Set keeper stipulations. Before season, commish places keepers on teams and subtracts $$ from that team’s starting budget.
If we were doing a standard snake draft or using a different website, I’m not sure how it would work.
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 31, 2012 11:54 AM EST up reply actions
That sounds fine.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
Idea
Not sure how many are going to Opening Day or are taking off the whole day for it but my leave is already in. I want to suggest starting an annual Opening Day CC breakfast. I usually split off and get lost in the Pickles mass of euphoria from like 11am – 3pm, but I’m down for a beer breakfast if anyone is interested.
Thoughts? I was thinking around 9ish somewhere in B-more.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 11:04 AM EST reply actions
If you're organizing...
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 31, 2012 11:06 AM EST up reply actions
I'll organize....
I just need suggestions on a good breakfast place with reasonable parking or a good walking distance from reasonable parking. Also, they must serve beer. We have some pretty cool places in NoVa called Eggspectations which is like a breakfast sportsbar with good food/beer. Not sure what would be comparable in B-more.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 11:10 AM EST up reply actions
9:30 - 11ish then?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
9:30 would probably be better
I’m already imagining the look on my bf’s face if I tell him he has to leave the house at 8:30 to meet up with some strangers from the internet.
Good thing it's not a stranger... it's WW!
"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 31, 2012 11:24 AM EST up reply actions
That makes it even stranger.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit, bring him.
The wifey will probably be with me anyway…. I need a DD and she’ll be 8 months preggers. Couldn’t have written it up any better.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 11:37 AM EST up reply actions
Good... I want to meet the lad.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:19 PM EST up reply actions
Tell him to bring a video of Star Wars Kid
WW will be all gooey-eyed.
When the fuck did we get ice cream???
Just any place in Fed Hill that's doing brunch that day
Shouldn’t be too hard to find. GC is the resident Fed Hill expert.
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 31, 2012 11:14 AM EST up reply actions
I have no doubt that many many bars in Fed Hill will be doing something special for Opening Day
Especially with it being on a Friday
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 31, 2012 11:18 AM EST up reply actions
yeah, they usually do Orange Patio for Opening Day
they usually open at 11 on Fridays but i’m i feel like they open earlier on Opening Day
another option would be the Cross Street Market, grab some breakfast sandwiches from one of the stands and a big beer at Nick’s
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
I love those big beers at Nick's
although early in the day I prefer something more of the mimosa/bloody mary variety
A quick google search reveals
Jimmy’s restaurant in Fell’s Point has both breakfast and beer.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
I'll be down for OD.
Not sure what time, though. But I’d be down for this. Put up some details at some point in the future for those who are interested.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 11:07 AM EST up reply actions
Totally there
Gotta get a ticket, but a teacher buddy of mine and me are going. Don’t even need to take a day off since we’re off for Easter Spring Break.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
bummer about the Koji trade not looking good
No chance they would just take kevin Gregg straight up, would they?
I'm pretty sure we'd have to give a team the deed to the State of Maryland to get them to take Gregg.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
lol
or at least the eastern shore….now how to delete the other post….
No can do. Your reply fail is now etched in the eternity of the interwebs.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:11 AM EST up reply actions
something to be proud of i guess...
it has to be the one where i make fun of where i grew up too…damn!
I think the Eastern Shore actually counts as a negative in this, too.
Although it’s Texas, so they might like that kind of thing.
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
well
they do have the best slippery dumplings…that is a positive. and the shorebirds.
And the beach y'all spend 4 hours in a car to get to.
Yeah, we’ll be demolishing the Bay Bridge when we secede to Delaware….
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
and we used to have the best friend chicken in the world
which I think ruined Calvin Pickering’s carrer
the phrase "best fried chicken"
reminds me of maybe my favorite Justified episode (featuring that one guy from Deadwood!), which reminds me that it’s on tonight! Hurray!
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
O'Malley will declare war on you
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 31, 2012 11:45 AM EST up reply actions
And right now, I'd totally be up for it.
We have Dover AFB, remember.
Seriously, he can go do something anatomically impossible with his teachers’ pensions proposal.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
I wish Ocean City, Bethany Beach, Dewey Beach, and Rehoboth Beach
good luck without the western shore’s tourism dollars.
of course they do
that’s where we in NY send out trash…
our...
damn, i’m going to give up typing for the day…
Hey, more New Jersey jokes!
Welcome to Camden Chat. I hate your face.
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
by daveh873 on Jan 31, 2012 2:28 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
couldn't we just pay the astros
to take him? They’re going to suck anway…maybe we could get some bulgarian 3rd basemen from them or something…
In former Soviet satellites,
Orioles sign you!
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Might I point you to Rule #8 in the Community Guidelines....
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Shore wouldn't.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 11:41 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Someone rec'd this?
Is there a WietersWieners2 now?
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
ah yes
but I’m from the eastern shore, born and raised. so self depricating humor should be allowed…no?
Wasn't aware of that context
Which part?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Salisbury here
My daughter’s travel team is in Berlin, so we’re there once a week for hitting and once a week for practice. Still haven’t gotten a ticket on Rt 50 yet. (knocks on wood and thanks cruise control)
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Ha!
Looking to move back down there in a couple of years, and start a farm. I was looking around Salisbury, snow hill, Pittsville (my wife can’t get past the name)…but my mom said gangs are taking over Salisbury. That can’t be true, is it?
It's true
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
are you in a gang?
is there a good one to join? like one with good dental?
Serious? Gangs?
You know, there's like a boat-load of gangs on this shore.
This one gang kept wanting me to join because I’m pretty good with a bow staff.
i think
I may have a different understanding of what a gang is…
oh, i forgot
everything about that movie other than the liger. ligers are pretty cool…
I saw previews for that cartoon
It is very odd why it is coming out now. Noone has mentioned that show in like 4 years.
You want me to stop? Try and hit me, kba.
I said come down here and see what happens if you try and hit me.
The movie
I don’t think anyone likes the cartoon.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 12:15 PM EST up reply actions
Oh. I've been around only a fleeting number of hipsters since I graduated
and I thought maybe they had latched on to the cartoon for some reason.
well
that’s kinda the thing about hipsters. They like alot of things that aren’t hip. it’s ironic. The problem is, with ND, it’s just a funny movie, so anyone can like it, but to think about it all the time, obsess about it, quote it often, that’s being a hipster.
Yes! This!
Liking Napoleon Dynamite isn’t bad (I’ve never seen it because it doesn’t look like my style of humor). But making huge stretches to repeat quotes from it gets tiring quickly.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 12:22 PM EST up reply actions
I never said only they liked it
They tend to like it and all the ones I’ve known do all they can to utilize quotes from it as often as possible. Quoting from it every so often is fine. Quoting from it (or anything, really) constantly is a drain.
It’s just like annoying nerds with Holy Grail. I love Monty Python’s Holy Grail. I don’t need to hear the goddamn Knights of Ni bit repeated over and over again.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
Hang out with?
Not really. I don’t tend to actually hang out with anyone on a regular basis, unless you count people on the internet.
by Holymittens on Jan 31, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
Republicans think duck is in a gang.
But that’s a different story entirely.
"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 31, 2012 12:12 PM EST up reply actions
Seriously
2nd highest juvenile crime rate in MD, and MD has the second highest rate in the nation, last they gave us numbers, anyway.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
that sucks.
I have to try and hide this from the wife…
Oh, I can, I can
I choose not to.
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Does anyone else use the PNC iphone app?
I hate that theres no way to store my login information. I get that its less secure, but the only way for it to be usable is for me to change it to an easily memorizable password, which isn’t secure either.
You can always use a pattern on your keyboard...
… that utilizes both numbers and letters. That usually gets you pretty secure on your password, but because it’s a pattern, it’s more easy to memorize.
Or you can go with Orioles trivia: [Player’s #][Player’s first name minus vowels] (you may need to use two players to meet length criteria).
It gets you alphanumeric, but it keeps a pattern that you can remember.
I actually use product codes from software packages. I just easily remember alphanumeric codes. :-/
by Tezcatlipoca on Jan 31, 2012 11:23 AM EST up reply actions
Passwords with a lot of letters, even if they're the same, are actually pretty safe.
orioooooooooooooles would be a good password. you’d just have to remember the right number of o’s.
Mitch Hedberg joke time:
I hope the next time I move I get a real easy phone number. Something like 222-2222. I would say sweet. People would say “Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?” I would say, “Just press 2 for a while! And when I answer, you will know that you have pressed 2 enough.”
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
There's our Mitch quota for the day
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Well now I've been using 1password to generate random passwords and secure them behind one really secure login
that way i can have unique passwords for every site but only have to remember one. I have the 1password app, but the pnc app won’t let me go back and forth to copy and paste.
Even a password with only letters but a lot of them is secure.
Something like: ilovebananapudding
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
This
More and more websites are starting to make you change your password up on a regular basis and it’s getting tough to keep track of it all without writing it down, which kind of defeats the purpose.
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 31, 2012 11:34 AM EST up reply actions
I use Keeper for the iPhone
It’s a password locker. Stores all that stuff.
The downside (or maybe a feature depending on how you think) is that they tell you if you lose THAT password you’re S.O.L.
I have begun the epic saga of trying to project the Orioles yet again
I think last year I ended up with 6000 words give or take to get it pretty much really wrong (though I was actually pretty close on the offense). Today, it begins anew:
http://www.camdenchat.com/2012/1/31/2760783/projecting-the-orioles-in-2012-part-i
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
i love projections
I mean, what else are we supposed to do in the winter. What’s the deal with our pitching?
You'll have to wait for Part 2, 3, and 4 like the rest of us DAN!!!
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:13 PM EST up reply actions
patience
projecting the pitching is going to be difficult. I need to think on it a lot more.
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
Mission Impossible....
If Matusz doesn’t make the team out of ST it will be a major let down for me.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:16 PM EST up reply actions
Not difficult... impossible.
I don’t think any stats or even a magic 8 ball can predict the type of seasons we’re going to get out of Britton, Matusz and Arrieta. Personally, I’m not expecting much out of Matusz until he shows us something… I sort of threw in the towel for now after how abysmal he was last season. I have moderately high hopes for Britton and Arrieta. Tillman, I’ve completely given up on. At this point, I think he is what he is. Yeah, he’s been jerked around but he’s thrown enough I think to know what we have.
Guts is going to be the easy one to predict. I’d say he drops about 5% (purely out of my ass) from this past season.
The bullpen… bahahahhaa.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
any good articles
about how our relief pitching is going to be this year? I’m sure it’s been discussed, but I’m kinda new here, and I feel i have no grasp on how the relivers are going to be…for instance, I saw Johnson might start, then I saw he might close, and I don’t know whats going on…anyone got anything?
There's not much point in projecting relievers for the same reason there's no good reason to sign expensive ones.
You mostly don’t know what you’re going to get.
"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 31, 2012 12:14 PM EST up reply actions
Its a vicious cycle
under performing starters leads to overworked pen. When pitchers get over worked they get tired, injured, and pissed off. Perfect storm for late inning disaster. Doesn’t matter how good they are.
Plus, no one the team knows how to win!
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
Well, yeah... they were.
In terms of ERA, the Orioles bullpen last year was 4th-worst in MLB. They also had to throw the most innings, which could be related.
"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 31, 2012 12:20 PM EST up reply actions
It also had Kevin Gregg in it,
which was definitely related.
"Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs." -- Earl Weaver
Now it's back to the good part!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Not only that
but who the hell even knows who will end up in the bullpen? DD has been signing guys left and right whose roles are not necessarily defined at this point. They might start, they might go to the bullpen, and they might go to Norfolk.
this
in order to project the bullpen, we’ll need to find out which of the 20 potential candidates are going to be in it
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
hardy har :P
I’ll have to write it tomorrow, though, because tonight I have to finish up these player comments for The Hardball Times that I’ve completely blown off and they’re due tonight. Oops.
I'll read it for sure
Are you sure you want to put yourself through that?
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
Who are you again?
"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 31, 2012 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
I'm now envisioning a scenario like what plays out between Mr. Spacely and George Jetson
“Esskay, you’re FIIIIIIIIIRED!”
And then I’m just back again for the next week’s episode.
"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 31, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
I see Stacey as more of a Donald trump fire(er)
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
i've actually been interested in writing to write some more legit baseball stuff
my issue has always been coming up with the topic
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
and based off that comment, my writing is not going to go well
meant to say “trying to write”
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
you know what would be cool
both of you write it and post it at the same time. then we can compare and contrast…
I'm starting to think he's the new bullpen coach and he's just being lazy.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
so far today
that is the hardest i laughed.
yes!
I’m pretty bored at woirk these days
I've also been looking for a good topic to write a fanpost
If I can find time to do the research, I’d like to do one of these
LOL.... for reals?
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:34 PM EST up reply actions
I’m guessing that’s partially of function of usage which is difficult to quantify and model statistically. For example, I suspect the Ray’s BP success on the cheap is partially of function of how they deploy relievers. They know how put guys in a position to succeed. I think this opportunity is partially structured by their starters who are a strong group and pitch deep into games. I think Buck initially did a great job in bullpen usage until last year in which he showed a Kevin Gregg fetish over JJ and Koji.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Do you think that could have been a squeaky wheel thing?
With his bulldog mentality I could see gregg being much more aggresive than either Koji or JJ in arguing for the position.
I think Gregg got more opps because of $.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
paging Wieters Wieners
where is the photographic evidence of your bar tabs that we were promised on Friday?
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
I had one dinky bartab during the HH for like $27
I knew it was going to come up and I was going to look like a lying asshole. We went bowling, I don’t like to bowl with stuff in pockets, so I put my wallet in my wife’s diaper bag. She forget it was in there and left with Camden during the second game because he was fussing. There were still about ten people there and I didn’t realize it until the check came so I had to get spotted. I ended up squaring up with my buddy Jack for about $50 later but the bill was a hodgepodge of all kinds of stuff. The bowling alley sold the beer in towers. It wasn’t a good night photograph.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:31 PM EST up reply actions
Not terrible.
I wanna go bowling now to see if I can get a higher score.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
your story is detailed enough that i'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt on this one
clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose...
Not casting aspersions on WW or his story
But detail is the heart and soul of a good lie. Sometimes, a dead giveaway.
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
by Zeke McGeek on Jan 31, 2012 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
I was wearing a grey MD hoodie and blue CHAPS pajama pants.
Also had on a red MD ballcap. Happy Hour specials were $5 and we had cheese frieds and wings. I was using a royal blue 13-pound ball and the Wizards were playing the Rockets in the background.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:40 PM EST up reply actions
Meh... around 5 it seemed around 55ish but pretty breezy.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:46 PM EST up reply actions
it's a lie
no one rembers the weather with that much detail while they are inside, unless something drastic happens. sorry buddy, you’re busted…
Well, I remember I got shitty parking and had a nice 3-minute walk while on the phone with my Dad...
At one point, it was so breezy he was all like “what’s that noise” and I was like “I’m walking outside”.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:50 PM EST up reply actions
Post your phone logs as proof!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 12:51 PM EST up reply actions
THIS, I can do.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
and you mentioned it was 55ish
because you were warm with a coat or cold without one?
I was wearing a grey MD hoodie.
Nice try.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, why yes I did.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:43 PM EST up reply actions
I've done that before too
I will neither confirm nor deny that it was because all my regular pants were dirty.
Bought my first pairs of plain front pants last night
Hope you’re happy, zk!!!!!
"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 31, 2012 1:49 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
How do they feel? Can't believe you were still rockin' pleats.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
I just don't understand what's so wrong with them
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
Not really
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
you get a rec, sir
for how GREAT you are going to look when you wear them.
YAY DUCK!!
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I'm 100% most comfortable in pajames...
I’m married and never trying to pick up chicks and most of the bars I go to I know everyone. If its a Ravens game I’m wearing Ravens pajamas, anything else it’s regular pajamas. For something classy, like a wedding or something, I might toss on some Adidas jogging pants.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
Now we have to keep him in a room without food or water, and not let him sleep.
if he tells the story the exact same way every time, he’s fibbing. If he tells it in different ways, he’s telling the truth! What, you guys didn’t work for the Stasi?
Ahhhh... COME ON! It's the best
It’s about 3 pitchers I believe and it has a thing in the base to keep it cold and they normally run between $20-$25. I first saw em at Chickie and Petes a few years ago but haven’t seen a lot since. This bowling alley has em though, so they’re a lot of fun.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:37 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah. They can be a pretty economical way to get your beer
They have ‘em at the place I frequent, The Chesapeake Inn. But I usually stick to Fat Tire or Dogfish 90 min, and you can’t get those in the tower.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
Bahhh... beat me to it.
I was just clicking post with the EXACT same pic when I saw yours come up.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:38 PM EST up reply actions
They really are a good time... especially when everyone gets their own (kidding, kind of)
But it just takes the party to a different level or sorts. You know how when you get a keg everyone seems to have a better time than when you just get a bunch of cases for some reason. It has that sort of effect.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:39 PM EST up reply actions
I think it is b/c drinking becomes non-negotiable.
With cases you can always put em in the frig for later. With keg/beer tower ppl are like:
“O Shit, I need to drink the beer or it will go to waassssttee.” (Aziz Asari voice)
Ppl hate wasting beer.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:42 PM EST up reply actions
I love a good kegger...
The best ones are the ones that happen for no reason.
“Hey, you want to have a few people over this weekend for cornhole”
“Yeah, HEY… LETS GET A FUCKING KEG!!!!”
“BRILLIANT!!”
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions
Cornhole is tits
especially for a reason to get hammered.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:47 PM EST up reply actions
It's the best.... simply the best.
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by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 12:49 PM EST up reply actions
Penn State Blue-White Weekend
Cornhole boards make their first appearance of the season.
by IggesRule13 on Jan 31, 2012 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
They have em at Claddagh's and the new place in Fells, Dogwatch
Grand Central in D.C. has a few tables with straight up tap lines going to them. I guess you get charged by total volume like a gas pump.
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 31, 2012 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
This seems like a recipe for me to end up in jail. This kind of innovation will never come to York, though!
Not going to happen
ppl are too destructive. White Rose has the giants mugs though, which is awesome.
This weather is absolutely ridiculous.
I just sat on the deck with the dogs for a half hour in a t-shirt and was entirely comfortable.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Were you thinking about work at least?
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by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:38 PM EST up reply actions
thinking
strategizing, mental planning, brainstorming, etc.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Sheeeeeeeit, sounds like double time to me.
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by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:40 PM EST up reply actions
quite likely actually
just bill it to two different clients.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Yeah, I hope it stays that way through the night
I’d like to leave my coat in the car at Ram’s Head tonight. I had to wear it at Sonar and once inside it became quite burdensome.
The Colts really cleaned out the AFC North, didn't they?
Ravens Head Coach, Steelers Offensive Coordinator, Steelers Defensive Coordinator
The DC didn't go... he decided to stay and he cancelled his interview.
Well, it’s actually Pitt’s LB coach. The DC was never going anyway, he’s a like 100 years old.
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by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:44 PM EST up reply actions
Oh really?
Damn. All my Pittsburgh friends were pissed, they think he’s pretty much DC in waiting for the Steelers
He is.... he's staying.
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by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:45 PM EST up reply actions
So now they have Pagano, who we did want, and Arians, who the Steelers didn't?
well this hardly seems fair
Yeah, I like Caldwell though... I'm hoping he can help Flacco take the next step.
I know, I know… he played great in that New England game, but I’m still not huge on him.
Will work for Recs.
by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
I don't think his good games are ever going to be better or more frequent than they are now
What he needs to improve is having fewer awful games, and having them not be as bad
he's got the skills
I think he just needs a better playbook. I can’t blame him for taking sacks when we can’t get receivers open in man coverage.
Yeah old man LeBeau will die on that Steelers sideline
After blitzing seven when you’re at 3rd and 20, because he doesn’t like your fucking face.
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 31, 2012 1:46 PM EST up reply actions
Mystery of the day
Why are the ads on the front CC page for Twilight? Somebody missed their target demographic. Maybe this has something to do with Robert Pattinson being sighted in an Orioles hat in public.
"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 31, 2012 2:14 PM EST reply actions
Could be what has trended in the past
Since Robert Pattinson = Orioles Fan, computer software might have just did a blast to all Orioles related activities.
Just a thought.
I'm not getting Twilight ads
I’m getting ads that are terrifyingly relevant to things I’ve been researching over the past few days.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I keep getting Obama's official website ads
Yet I don’t think I’ve visited any political websites on this computer. Weird.
@sibsinExile
I was researching time tracking services
and Harvest keeps popping up all over the place on CC.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
The Obama ads seem to be default.
I’m workking off a school computer now (that deletes cookies each reboot) and I have a bunch of Obama and weight loss ads.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 2:50 PM EST up reply actions
Ahahahahahaha.....
The AdChoices icon appears on sites that use Google’s AdSense program to show ads. While Google often shows you ads based on the content of the page you are viewing, we also show some ads based on the types of websites you visit, view, or where you interact with an ad or other Google product supported by Google’s advertising services.
Someone loves Twilight!
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
do you see the AdChoices icon? I don't see it.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
That's the thing, though.
I am aware these things are, in some inscrutable way, keyed to one’s own browsing history. I really don’t know where I would have visited that screams, “Advertise for Twilight!”
Perhaps I am approaching it the wrong way, though. Maybe it’s keyed off of visiting IMDB and it’s “Advertise for movies!” and in this case it just happens the movie is Twilight.
"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 31, 2012 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
I have to look at international websites all day here at work
And I get all kinds of crazy ads for Chilean or Argentinian products.
It is because of all of the offended lurkers
We have chased them away with our non-targeted conversation. Quick someone do a which Oriole is most similar to which Twilight character fanpost! I am going to argue troy patton is robert pattinson because he keeps on trying but they just don’t want him.
Haha everything I know about that show/literary mush
I learned from cracked.
It took you half the book?
I got two pages in before I realized I just couldn’t read it. Had little to do with the story itself (which is, from the summaries I’ve seen, crap), but rather it was so poorly written that it was nearly non-sensical.
my wife brought it has her primary reading material on a cruise
she was furious because she had to go dig around in the ships library of danielle steele novels to find something remotely readable.
No
Half the book was how long it took until the unintentional comedy factor was finally outweighed by the “my braincells are dying from continuing to read this.”
no dude...
it’s definitely because you were visiting Twilight related websites. You got caught red-handed, own up to it.
Whatever man... just answer: Team Edward or Team Jacob?
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by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 3:04 PM EST up reply actions
My answer:
And then Buffy staked Edward, The End.
im getting budget moving trucks and itt tech.
looks like CC wants me to move and go back to school.
"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 31, 2012 2:49 PM EST up reply actions
Out of the
major sports in the US does stadium crowd noise have the least amount of effect on the outcome of a baseball game?
I'd probably go with running.
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by Wieters Wieners on Jan 31, 2012 3:10 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
There are those who believe that the Wave has a negative effect for the home team.
"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 31, 2012 3:37 PM EST up reply actions
Government employees are overpaid....who knew?
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/most-federal-workers-overpaid-cbo-223938063.html
I don’t have much tolerance for stupid. Or cheese on food that doesn’t need it. -duck
I really want to work for the federal government.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I mean...
It looks the most significant for people without a college degree. Couldn’t you argue that those people are generally being unfairly compensated by whatever private company is paying them? (1000 comments)
My guess
is that the benefits value is heavily impacted by older employees with pensions/generous retirement packages that have gone the way of the dodo bird. So what this tells me is that by some very generic measure, college graduates make about the same and people with masters and more make less working for the government. It does indicate that the government spends more on people without degrees, but I assume much of that is in the defense area which is one of the few places where anybody can still get a decent paying job without a degree, so that’s neither surprising nor indicative of government overpaying.
I also highly doubt their methodologies, since every lawyer and economist that works for the government is making about 1/4th of their private sector potential even if they have a pension. And how are they comparing people that work for the Fed at 150k/year instead of at hedge funds for 3 M/yeear? And what about all the regulators who could switch over to industry groups or lobbyist for a 3x pay raise? From reading their description of their methodology it sounds to me like they excluded those situations from the analysis.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I will say that if you go look at USAJOBs
If you weren’t already working in the government you need 3 years of Masters level education or a PHD to work as a 30 thousand dollar a year supply clerk.
Just for kicks
I’m looking at three of the most commonly referenced compensation surveys for 2011 and all three show both federal and state/local governments well below all industries with the exception of “social services/non-profit organizations” for total compensation.
I also don’t understand how the CBO dealt with bonuses, stock options, deferred cash compensation, profit sharing, sales commissions, etc that much of the private sector gets and no federal workers get.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I also don’t understand how the CBO dealt with bonuses, stock options, deferred cash compensation, profit sharing, sales commissions, etc that much of the private sector gets and no federal workers get.
It looks like they made estimations but they don’t say much on how those estimations were made. You can look at appendix A in the report.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I started to look through the shit
but looking at that stuff is sooooooooooo boring when I’m not getting paid for it. So I went back to looking at the incredibly boring compensation analysis I am being paid to look at. lol
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I like digging through the technical details.
The takeaway.
However, CBO’s estimates of the differences in benefits between the two sectors are more uncertain than its estimates of the differences in wages. That greater uncertainty reflects the complexity of measuring benefits and the extrapolations that were necessary to integrate the CPS, BLS, and OPM data sets.
Basically, they are admitting that their estimations of benefits should be interpreted with caution (which is completely understandable given their data constraints), but they’ve taken a variety of steps to measure benefits in a way that comparable.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
That's benefits though
not incentive pay.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
that's part of my original point.
the conceptualization details are weak in the report. Incentive pay may very well be rolled into there.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Oh wait,
I see now that include incentive pay in the wages figure.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Yeah but I wonder what "incentive pay includes"
for lots of people in the private sector their salary and bonus is dwarfed by LTI. And if they are including LTI I wonder how they’re treating it – old black-scholes vs. new, expected present value, grant value, etc.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
As far as I can tell, they don’t provide much detail regarding your question.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
yeah
I’d like to see some of the big comp firms respond to this study as I’m sure they will soon – none of them would ever consider using some of the sources the CBO used for this analysis.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Unless they're willing to spend some bucks,
they’re not going to find better data sources than what the CBO used.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
They all already have better data sources than what the CBO used.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
For the last column in the chart, “Professional degree or doctorate,” the economists are probably screwing up the results. If you take them out, the federal government pays better.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I would argue the opposite
that they aren’t screwing up the results enough.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
yeah, this
I believe it for the lower end of the education scale, but for people with advanced degrees I suspect the private sector pays way better.
And more importantly
why would you take out a subset of the sample just because it is impacting the results? Isn’t that the point or a big mostly pointless analysis like this?
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
My god man, I'm just making an observation.
I have no horse in this pissing contest about who pays more.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
I do though!
My horse is pissing ALL OVER the friggin place!
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 4:23 PM EST up reply actions
Well but what did you mean?
Why would you exclude them from the analysis simply because they skew the numbers in one direction as opposed to the other?
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Actually correction.
You would need to take out the engineers and natural scientists as well. I imagine those folks are underpaid in comparison the private market. In the social sciences though, the federal government offer better pay than the private sector.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Wait, i guess i misunderstood
if you take out the ones where the government pays worse, you’re left with the conclusion “of the subset of jobs where the government pays better, the government always pays better”. whats the point of that?
Also
There are many folks still in the government without bachelor’s degrees that have maxed their salaries and benefits and are close to retirement. Every one of them that retires is getting replaced with a position requiring a bachelor’s or higher. Once this shift occurs in the next 5-10 years you will see a dramatic change in the comparisons.
Oh yeah
once the baby boomers are retired this graph will shift substantially.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Insert rant about how Social Security is an out of date, unrealistic model
that has been pillaged too many times for it to recover.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
by J(O's)elskIL on Jan 31, 2012 4:27 PM EST up reply actions
It wasn't my intent to say those folks should retire
it was just that they are at the top of their salaries so it makes the graph look much higher.
Why would you take them out?
"Complacency is your demise." - Kerry King
Proud member of Trainyard Sleepers, BECW: S2
We're gonna win, you know. Stats lie.
and just to follow up more,
That finding changes by discipline. That’s my only point.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
This is certainly true
I’d really like to see which areas the government pays more for – in my day job I’ve yet to run into one.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Demographers, certain type of psychologists (more psychometric types than clinical), and social scientists who do program evaluation/institutional/labor force analysis for Dept of Ed, CJ, and other federal agencies, epidemiologists…. all of these people are paid better by the federal govt than the private sector.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
That’s my own opinion. It’s not based on any rigorous scientific analysis.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Oh ok
I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of those are not really true – for example an epidemiologist would be in high demand at a pharmaceutical company involved in trying to develop drugs to treat a particular disease if that’s the person’s specialty.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
Epi is the one occupation that I'm least sure about.
I have friends from graduate school who do epi stuff and I roughly know their salary. They could make more if they were wiling to move to DC or Atlanta, but that’s the problem. They’re not willing to move. And from own personal experiences of comparing what is listed on USAjobs for program eval/insttutional analysis type jobs (and my own personal experience from the offer I received last summer before the budget fucked me) and what the private sector is paying for comparable work, the federal government pays better. Not a huge difference, but definitely better.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
SSS
I mean, c’mon. Based on who you talked to, and what you saw on a website?
There’s a reason why there are statistics out there. It’s to get beyond SSS.
The website you cited has nearly all jobs in the government topping out in the 150s as the very highest level of salary range for senior epi people. But Merck and other drug companies will start those people in the 130s and go well above.
Also, there’s a reason you get a huge cost of living increase if you move to DC—it’s an expensive city to live in. Imagine how many of the federal gov’t jobs are there as opposed to elsewhere….. probably at least 40% to 50%
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
But couldn't you argue
that the good paying federal gov’t jobs are whats driving up the cost of living in DC and MD as a whole?
i doubt it
the primary driver of COL is real estate.
there are far, far more non-governmental jobs in DC than governmental ones. think about all the lobbyists making $20k per month—and there are hundreds of them—and think about where they all live.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
and aren't quality of jobs (along with quality of school system) a driver of COL?
I agree that far more non-governmental jobs in DC, but it seems government jobs much affect COL at least some.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
i don't dispute that they affect it some.....
but i suspect private sector jobs in DC affect it far more.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Also the DC cost of living rate
extends all the way up to just below harrisburg, PA yet the COL across the PA border is much much lower than the MD/DC area so it isn’t the gov jobs necessarily driving up the living rate.
jeez, man
I already admitted I’m just speaking from own personal experiences rather than scientific data. On top of that, I admitted that epi was one occupation that I was the least sure about. So it should come as no surprise that I agree with everything you said. I have feeling that my experiences with epi people out of ordinary because I know sociologists who do epi stuff, but they are not formally trained in an epi program (but they do pretty much the same work).
So to be clear, I am not at sure about epi. And I am only speaking from own personal experiences not on any rigorous analysis.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
and also to be clear
I’m not trying enter this horse race over who pays better, private sector versus federal government. I thought the report that TL linked was interesting so I made some comments based on own experience. This in no way should be construed as my overall opinion who pays better.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
ok, but
i guess it seems weird to see you say “it’s just my opinion” when you’ve just stated some stuff as fact.
but sorry, i didn’t mean to put words in your mouth.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Sure, and O’sfan21 followed up on my sources since he had the same impression, which was completely fair on his part, and I said this is strictly my own opinion. I was just speaking off the cuff and I didn’t go through the trouble of qualifying my words.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Atlanta, NJ, Boston, or SF is where the money is for pharma jobs.
I am eating you, motherfucker. You cannot hurt me. - PhilR8
I am not saying to take them out of this analysis
but the positions they currently fill are not positions attainable today without a bachelor’s degree.
Private Sector employees are UNDERPAID....who knew?
Aside from the general desire to target any and all evidence of competent governance, in other words, Republican outrage about overpaid federal workers is about the fact that the floor isn’t as low as they want it to be. The ceiling on what federal workers make is a lot lower than it is for private sector workers. But the floor—what a federal custodian or groundskeeper with a high school diploma makes—still includes good health care and a pension, and to the right, that’s a waste.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
I have an extra 5 bucks in ebay money I need to spend by the 2nd
what should I buy?
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
white chocolate m&m's
"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 31, 2012 3:38 PM EST up reply actions
Never white chocolate anything
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
If they only had enough to wallpaper my apartment with...
"things like locig and prrofreading are actually valued here" - zknower
that 12% off makes a difference.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
You obviously need one of these:
NASA Shuttle Flown Nikon Kodak DCS 460c digital camera & lens-9 months in space
OK, you’re only $49,995.00 light on the opening bid. But hey, there are no other bids yet!
"Work fast. Throw strikes. Change speeds." Ray Miller
Temple Run question
is there ever a reason i want to go left or right in particular, or is each fork just random?
I always thought there was
But I’m pretty sure there isn’t. I just go completely randomly.
@sibsinExile
best i can tell its random, although occasionally i feel like it gives you a quick peek of the next few feet each turn
"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 31, 2012 3:56 PM EST up reply actions
2,141,790.
cant put temple run down. that was an intense run
"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 31, 2012 3:55 PM EST reply actions
the more mulitpliers you have
the easier it is to score big. each objective you complete gets you a multiplier.
"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 31, 2012 3:58 PM EST up reply actions
Fangraphs prospect chat is on now.
I'd put it this way; if an offense is a sugar cookie, on base percentage is the pastry part of the cookie, power is the icing, and baserunning is like the jimmies that they sprinkle onto the icing. - Bill James
Does anyone know if
there is such a thing as a Fielding Game Log? Or any other way I could pinpoint every game someone made an error?
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 31, 2012 5:40 PM EST reply actions
baseball-reference play index could probably do that for you.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
doesn't seem to have anything for fielding
I’m probably out of luck.
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 31, 2012 5:50 PM EST up reply actions
Semester started
yesterday and my books aren’t expected to arrive until the beginning of next week. This blows.
Jazz/Blues
I really enjoy jazz whenever I hear it but I never know where to look to get jazz music. You guys have any thoughts on what I should look at to start my jazz collection?
by WestcoastO'sFan on Jan 31, 2012 7:10 PM EST reply actions
Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz
is a great starter for any jazz collection.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
start with Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
It’s the cornerstone.
I know very little aboutjazz, but I would also recommend Tormé and Coltrane.
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
yeah, kind of blue is definitely the very first album to get
People are sort of in a rush to call jazz dead and put it in a museum, so don’t ignore what’s happening NOW. Maria Schneider does amazing big band music. Allegresse is one of my favorite albums of all time. (Bonus: she also did the string arrangement on a Phish song). Brad Mehldau is another one worth checking out, especially his Art of the Trio stuff
Outside of that… what sort of stuff do you find yourself liking? Jazz is a pretty diverse style… do you like old-fashioned dixie? Big Band? Ripping sax solos over a piano/bass/drum rhythm section? Heavy blues feel? Rock feel? Introspective trumpet over tinkly piano? Avant Garde? Smooth? Contemporary?
If you’re interested in checking out “classic jazz” (bebop, hard bop, post-bop, ripping sax solos over…, introspective trumpet), I would recommend:
My Favorite Things and/or Giant Steps by John Coltrane
Another one of my personal favorites, but not iconic, is The Real McCoy by Mccoy Tyner.
might be a little different from what you're looking for
but Duke Ellington Live at Newport 1956 is a load-bearing album on my non-denominational mp3 player
Your cannonball trajectory, it always gave me hope
what a great description! :)
"End of season like this, to make Boston go home sad, crying, I’ll take it all day."—Robert Andino
Thelonious Monk's 'Underground' is my favorite jazz album
and I started with the companion cd’s to Ken Burns’ Jazz documentary.
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 8:37 PM EST up reply actions
oooo...
monk’s dream for me!
"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 Feb 1, 2012 2:09 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
non-denominational mp3 player
That brand has gotten bad reviews and my player is better.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
You can't stop Mitt, you can only hope to contain him.
Kevin Gregg-"You obviously haven't acquired my taste for pitching yet"
Brokered Convention, plz!
He praised my creativity, though he spoke sarcastically...
by PBR me ASAP! on Jan 31, 2012 8:38 PM EST up reply actions
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