Right before you re-posted, I went over to the non-mobile site to guess which train-related article it might be. I was right. I wonder what she was planning to do with it if she had been successful.
Side note: I approve of the amount of nudity in Swedish newspapers.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
I was hoping for something spectacular and probably impossible about urinating subway guy — like third-rail-electrocution; apparently he just tipped over. Still, Swedish winters must be tough on brain cells.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
I know you and he have beef right now, and I understand why, but I think you should let this one slide. He was either joking or saying something not worth getting offended by.
You can call it whatever the hell you want, but if you think I’m not gonna say anything or shoot back after you repeatedly insult where I come from, where I live, and my way of life then you are completely fucking mistaken and seem to have forgotten who you’re talking to.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser
Do you have a fucking 7 plus foot wall space just hanging around? Most people have shit like furniture and posters and art and shelves.
The cost of the extra space to put a 7 foot TV and be able to sit back far enough to see a TV which is quite far actually just doesn’t exist in most places INCLUDING LIVERMOR as you so frequently remind us with your home search. You would need a giant fucking extra room.
Like I said its not a real demographic of people that can afford that and will drive the 8k tv market
Dick.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Yes, DFA, I know it’s hard to comprehend but single family homes regularly have large walls that can have large TVs, so continue to show your ignorance.
Have fun in the city.
Also Livermore has an E on the end of it.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser
Me? Well, Biggest + Cost affordability is my criterion. I’d actually love to replace my 40″ with something bigger but it’s not really something I can afford right now.
right and if 4k is as slow to pick up as 3DTV its unlikely that anyone is going to start pumping out 8ks at a reasonable price in the next decade. Also you are going to have to convince a whole host of people that their 4k tv that they just bought isn’t good enough.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
It’s really going to come down to content and functionality. 3D has always sucked ass. They try to bring the image forward outside the frame which is contrary to best viewing practices. When they do 3D, they should have been focusing on pushing the image inward and creating more depth of space. But I could see how having higher resolution may create side benefits for additional features. It does make having a larger screen (even, say a 60in) a better proposition.
My claim was that there wouldn’t be a market because they are too big for most people to drive the market that would ensure that there is enough content for them to continue to drive the market.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
You are confusing the practicality of being an early adopter compared to what I was saying which is whether or not you can technically fit it in your house doesn’t mean that you have space for it.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Even in my typical Portland craftsman, I have a space that could accomodate an 85″ TV – we opted for a 40″ TV. Really only one space, but there is a space. My father’s fairly modest 2 BR/2BA house in Sunnyvale could accomodate one and has the space and you could sit back far enough to enjoy it and still have space leftover for furniture, art, etc. Now if he would only get decent furniture and fill that wall space up…and maybe get some real dishes and fill his refrigerator up with more than hot dogs and ice cream.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
My point exactly. Its like owning a hummerrediculousrediculousrediculous.
I have the theoretical space, it I configured my house just so… Its not practical though and most people aren’t going to buy a tv that costs a car when they need a giant fucking living room to put it in.
Also every pdx house that I have been in would look ridiculous with a 85 in tv, its not enough space to make it realistic
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Of the 12 houses on the street (cul-de-sac) where I grew up, seven were the exact same model. As far as my mom, she drove a van and she’s only become conservative since meeting and marrying my slightly-left-of-fascist step-dad.
So there!
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
No, I think that your tendency to project your preferences, experience and spelling as universal and/or optimal lead you to miss things (references, allusions, jokes) that fall outside of those bounds.
Why are we hung up on 85in for 8k? Also, An 85in TV is 6ft by 3.5ft. If you stick it high up on a wall, it’s a lot more doable than you’re thinking. You can still have your lounge furniture around it for gatherings while keeping space further back for optimum viewing. And the higher the resolution, the closer you can sit to it without distortion.
It is for me. I’m technically looking down, since I’m using lounging around anyway. Either way, if you’re only talking 3.5ft of vertical space, so even mounting it mid-way along the wall isn’t going to be blocked by a chair or couch.
I could fit one pretty easily on the wall in my hamster cage of a bedroom without changing much of my wall art. If someone wants to prioritize space for a TV of that size in their life, finding a place for it is not impossible or even overly unreasonable from a logistical standpoint.
And is true in the case of about any electronic device (i.e., more people will buy a computer with a certain amount of memory, power, ability when the price drops). Except for i(devices), since Apple has created a whole new type of addict wherein we have a relatively inelastic demand.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
I think you need to re-read what he said. “ABOUT” any electronic device. Then he listed attributes related to what prices cap off: memory, power, ability.
As nm suggested, the “optimum size” continues to increase as TVs get bigger and less expensive per unit area. There may be a point where people simply can’t accommodate the size due to space constraints and I think that is your point. Without the data in front of me to prove it, there are sufficient numbers of people who incorporate home theaters into their homes, or buy homes that will accommodate those – my mom’s next door neighbor, for one. 85″ may be the limit for many people, but there are enough people who will continue to find a way to accommodate bigger, as long as they determine that bigger is affordable.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
NM’s data doesn’t suggest that at all. It suggests that what was affordable previously was sub optimal, not that 85 inches is more optimal than 60 50 or whatever.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Agreed. It isn’t proof people will want 85″. It is circumstantial evidence that costs aren’t low enough to know how large a tv the median consumer wants.
Despite your certainty.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
It used to be rare for people to buy 40in and up because it wasn’t cost effective. Now that it is, people are not often buying 60in and up. But as prices fall, the bigger the TV you can get for the money, people actually are buying them. There’s basically a happy price range that people are willing to shell out for and if it doesn’t hit that, they don’t buy it. It’s less about the actual size itself. And this has been historically true.
I’ve seen nothing to suggest there is a size limit. So far, only size and image quality have been the only mitigating factor for what a person will buy. Show me something that suggests there is a size limit unrelated to price and quality. Then we can talk.
Biggest I’ve found so far is 92inches. But I’ve heard of 100in screens. And at one point about a month or two ago the prices were double what they are now so they’re coming down in price as well.
and yet it still shows large screens as the lowest bough category except the weird 37 to 39 in size.
that trend could very well be people buying larger sets from the smaller ones that they had rather than buying larger sets than the large sets they currently have.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Except that it’s been historically true that as price falls, the desired size of the TV has gone up. Will 85 inch ever be hit? Who knows. Affordable 60in TVs (under a grand) weren’t even conceivable 5 years ago. Now they are. Who’s to say the same won’t be true of 85?
When personal space travel becomes affordable, I’m moving to HD 1690 b. I heard the beaches there are epic, there are no gun control laws, and I’d have enough space for my own 35,000 seat stadium.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
This is the big jump. Heck, I remember hoping one day I could get a 32 inch TV because that was really the optimal size-to hell if I was gonna have one of those projection units taking up half the living room floor.
…Uh. The lack of large sales numbers for huge TVs disproves that if someone really wants one, it’s not impossible or even impractical that they could be capable of reorganizing their space to fit one?
…O… kay…
I’m in no way saying that there is a drive for hella people to want 85″ TVs, I’m saying that fitting one in a non-mansion is not-impossible if someone does want one and wants to prioritize the use of their space that way. I am also assuming cost has a place as well in the argument, not just the size/practicality factor.
I’m guessing RiP Reagan, sadly. The south generally remains way, way out-of-balance in terms of save-rates, once an animal is “sheltered.” A dog checked-in to a shelter below the Mason-Dixon Line has a significantly less-than-even chance of leaving by the front door. Still.
Most likely scenario is Scott-to-former-owner-to-shelter-to-rendering-plant, quickly and, they hoped, quietly. It would be in-character for that FKg PoS. Maybe not, but I’d need odds.
The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
Not bad, but High Cotton across the street is better. Or at least it was. Too bad I didn’t know you, then. Ozz(soontobeex)wife(thengirlfriend) worked for the company that owned both restaurants. Could’ve gotten you 50% off.
If you must write prose and poems
The words you use should be your own
Don’t plagiarise or take “on loans”
There’s always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
If you should write prose and poems
The words you use must be your own
Don’t copy words or take “on loans”
There’s always someone, near here
With a big nose, who knows
And who pushes you and guffaws
When you fall
Yeah, all over the MW too, there was one right smack in front of my bus transfer stop all through middle and high school, had more than my fair share, sour cream or blueberry might be their best.
THOSE ARE THE ONES!!! I actually went to their website right now to check. They have them on there, but appearantly they do not have them anywhere near me =( I’m pretty sure they stopped making them entirely so they are probably just too lazy to take the whole thing off the site.
Hrm, not recalling that one, they did have one that was a sandy brown that didn’t quite sit right ( cinnamon-y )w/ my adolescent taste buds, could have been that one?
I get coffee there from time to time, but it’s best to think of it as something completely different from normal coffee. I mostly drink coffee black with no sweetener and get picky about beans, roast, preparation, etc. But for Dunkin’ coffee, I just get it loaded up with cream and enough sugar to give me the shakes.
Its more their roasts, lacks taste when brewed at home.
I ended up using almost twice the amount of beans I usually do of the 3 batches I got for xmas last year, and yes it was fresh.
Love Stumptown, wish we had one, it would be extremely successful.
FWIW I have the same feeling to a lesser extant about Blue Bottle.
Both 4B and BB feel under roasted to me, like the oils haven’t emerged yet. I’d be interested to see the temps they are roasting to.
I was about to say the same thing. Neither place lets it go beyond first crack, I’d say, except in the darkest of BB’s roasts (which are delicious). I think this is because it is trendy now to underroast in order to supposedly show off the flavor of the beans. That often results in some sour, bile-flavored brews.
I’d love to shop with independent, locally owned businesses. There aren’t many around here when it comes to most stuff, though. We have some great restaurants, but most everything else is a chain.
I don’t drink their coffee, but the americanos are better than average and consistent. If I am in a place where I don’t know any better place, Starbucks is fine.
Peets is fine too, in the same way.
Vivace in seattle is the best. In the city I still fly the ritual flag
I have no hate for Starbucks. Mostly because they will let you sit there on the internet while drinking a venti iced tea for 6 hours without saying a word. I value that in my coffee shops.
I’m not sure how I didn’t go to one (or don’t remember having done so) when I lived there, given they are all within a 10 minute walk of where I lived. Apparently, there’s one here in town, but only in the part of Portland that I avoid for fear of being treated like a hobo because of my middle class clothing.
A soliloquy of fresh-sounding ideas which would probably be disastrous.
They are lining up franchisees in Reno with the intention of opening quite a few stores in 2014, so you’re going to have to defend both your south and east flanks.
The pot farms will prevent northern incursions quite handily. And we have natural donut-eater-repelling-mountains to the East. I’m worried about the I-5 incursion though. If we put all our resources on that point they could end around on highway 1.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Good muckraking from Deadspin
Apart from the sheer creepiness of the whole thing, Te’o probably just cost himself an awful lot of future endorsement dollars.
It was the bit about his parents thinking he was going to marry her that made me wonder if he was just trying to buy himself some breathing room. He invents this girlfriend, they’re satisfied for a while, but then they’re agitating to meet her, so he makes a martyr of her and he’s in the clear for as long as he needs. Then it gets out of hand. Seems like a more plausible scheme for a 20-year old kid to pull than a mere publicity grab.
The idea that the fake girlfriend is a beard is juicy and I think a lot of people WANT that to be true. But there needs to be a second Occam’s Razor that states that the lamest explanation is often the correct one. And Te’o being a gullible idiot who went along with a hoax just because people seemed to like it is the lamest explanation.
Why the surprise? I thought we’d already conclusively proved that every girl you meet on the Internet is actually a fake persona created by a creepy old man.
I first noticed Ms. Oakland during a time of one of Kay’s self imposed hiatuses. I assumed she was a fake account made by Kay to lure internet boys to flirt. Something G_S had said he (I suppose at the time he is correct) would do.
I interacted with MO as if MO was G_S. Even asking how wiffleball went on sundays. I only stopped when I met MO in person.
Yeah, no way. It’s not even credible to believe he’s staggeringly naive. The deadspin scoop has instances of Te’o purporting to have done real-life things with this fictional woman.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Yeah, if he bought white roses to send to a funeral someone wiuldve said “uh..dude, she aint here”.
I guess you could say he figured it out at some point and then was embarassed, which then became the Disney channel small lie snowballing effect, but at some point Occam tells you to STFU he had to be in on it.
A closeted homosexual scared of losing his fundamentalist family, or a very naive virginal-type from a sheltered culture. That’s why I think it will reflect better on him in certain ways if he really was in on the scam, as opposed to being duped by a cousin for nebulous reasons.
Read the SI transcript here. One thing that got my attention:
Before I went to campus, I had conducted lengthy interviews with Brian Te’o, Manti’s dad, and Dalton Hilliard, a close friend from Punahou High in Honolulu who played at UCLA.
Never, NEVER, trust someone from Punahou.
It isn't Dirty Dancing 'cuz it doesn't make you vomit.
Well LL hates the Jaso for Morse bit of the trade. Jaso is a pretty good hitter for a catcher and he makes a simple platoon with Norris as Jaso really struggles with lefties. Jaso has 3 years of control left, so that’s nice. Jaso would be a nice leadoff hitter if someone really wants Coco.
I like Kottaras but I’d be surprised if he makes the team now. Cole had #1 upside, but I can live with this trade so long as Cole is all we’re giving up.
I really hope it’s not really a “good” prospect. Jaso’s a nifty pickup. I like Dave’s comparison to Hatteberg. But the great thing about Hatty is he was a scrapheap pickup. You don’t trade former top 50 prospects and another good prospect for a scrapheap player.
The headline on ussmariner is “Mariners Do Stupid Thing”. From their perspective, it’s just a Morse-for-Jaso swap, so even if it’s bad for the M’s, it could also be bad for the A’s, depending on your projection for Cole.
I don’t mean this as a way to start a fight. I’m honestly curious. Why can we look at 151 PA’s and decide that Jaso can’t hit lefties, but we can’t look at >2300 PA’s and decide that Carlos Gonzalez can’t hit outside of Denver?
We can’t. If I wanted to project Jaso’s stats against lefties, I would have to regress it 95% to the mean and his projected split would be basically a normal LHH vs LHP split.
But, if we have a catcher who is part of our future who is a righty (and therefore probably hits lefties better), might as well platoon them.
Well, Cole did have a rough time in A+ but he’s only 20 yrs old.
Jaso had a surprisingly good 2012, .372 wOBA, 143 wRC+ in 361 PA’s.
He’s in his prime, and has always made good contact (86.9 contact%), not too horrible I guess.
Don’t catchers tend to drop off quite a bit right around 29 or 30? I hate parting with Cole. All I can say is Jaso better have one hell of a Twitter feed.
I feel like catchers tend to be a crapshoot, look what A.J. Pierzynski did at 37?
He’s never gotten more than 500 PA’s in a year so he should still have some tread on his tires.
I haven’t really followed him so not sure about his injury history.
I was excited for Cole but the A’s do know pitching, I’ll reserve judgement until he becomes a superstar and I hate life. #ojoslocosniff
So what do people think about Jaso’s power? He was extra good this last year because his ISO suddenly jumped from 115/130 all the way up to 180. He managed to do this even while playing half his games at Safeco (though he bats left-handed, so I think he gets spared the worst of Safeco’s power suppression).
Seems like sample sizes are fairly small. But that, his BB%, and his wRC+ are on the higher end of what he’s done throughout his major and minor league careers.
Great deal for the Nats. With little leverage, Rizzo somehow parlayed one expensive year of a not very good Mike Morse into AJ Cole and 2 other prospects.
From the Mariners side, all I can say is that Jack Z is definitely desperate to save his job.
I think it’s fair from the A’s side. It hurts to lose Cole but this is a good win now move and I’ve been saying all offseason that they needed to upgrade C. I still would have rather they swooped in and signed Napoli though; apparently, he’s only going to settle for a one year contract now with the Red Sox.
If Napoli still hasn’t signed, I still wouldn’t mind swooping in. Excellent C/DH/1b insurance. But if I were Napoli, playing at Fenway to build value makes more sense.
Looks like he signed for 1 year $5M(!), with incentives taking that up to $13M potentially. There must be some significant stuff going on with his hip.
His defense is really awful though. I’d be ok with him as the backup (because most backup catchers are bad in one way or another), but wouldn’t want him starting 100 games.
They’re saying Cole, Treinen and a ptbnl now. The “good” spec stuff has disappeared. I have no idea what level of ptbnl it’s going to be though, so I’m still withholding judgment on this. At least we’re getting 3 years of Jaso, which could turn out quite well depending on how much of a fluke 2012 was for him.
AJ Cole has TOR upside. I just don’t see how you anchor the Gio deal and then need more spec to get traded for a platoon catcher without a disasterous year.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
It’s puzzling for sure, but I’m guessing getting ‘pants’ in 6 of his 8 starts in A+ didn’t help his value.
TINSTAAPP, esp. an A ball player, I’m okay w/ the guy in the bigs getting on base.
if Milone can keep it up, Peacock remembers how to pitch, and Norris performs it’s better than a wash w/out Cole’s promise.
I want him to revolutionize the way NFL games are coached. I want to see him go for lots of 2 point conversions and 4th and short conversions (with surprise deep passing plays 20-33% of the time, especially in midfield). I want to see a large handful of surprise onside kicks. I want him to get a good young running QB and maybe take the read/option thing to the next level.
Yes and this too. Which is absolutely NOT to say that women in abusive relationships don’t many times face huge obstacles in trying to get out of those situations. But yeah, when you’re chained to a tire axle in the woods and then shot, hanged or electrocuted at the first sign of non-compliance…well, let’s just say I’d really love to see Patrick Willis get a clean open shot at Vick a few times.
Is it? I don’t really follow rugby, but do they go around the world throwing obscene gobs of money at all the best players? Or is it just a matter of hating teams that win a lot?
429 for
Essential two-piece suit (choice of eight fabric options)
Choice of any dress shirt (excludes shirts over $99)
Choice of any tie
Choice of any tie clip
Choice of any pocket square
Choice of any cufflinks
do you want me to send you an invite?
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
I have an Indochino suit. I like it. But it’s a made-to-measure thing where you measure yourself at home according to their instructions, send that in, and then get your suit in about three weeks. At best, it will need some minor tailoring, and they give you a $75 credit to get that done. At worst, it’s all effed up, and you send it back and they to start over.
I avoided the measurement problem by going to an event they held in SF where they had tailors there to measure you.
Going to SF to see Eddie Izzard performing test material tonight at the Brava Theater. 360-person capacity. It’ll be my fifth time seeing him, second in a small setting like this with some test stuff.
* goat ghosts
* the kraken
* human sacrifice
* how crappy Latin was
* horse dressage
* how different LOTR & The Hobbit would be if they smoked cigarettes instead of pipes
* how the only people you see today smoking pipes are all on crack
* raptors speeding, and turtles wanting Ferraris to beat the hare
Plus more. Always great to get new Eddie material.
A couple phone pics to show how close I was:
I made them a little smaller to fit a bit better here, but you can view them directly to get the larger size.
He painted his fingernails, had earrings in both ears and may have had a small amount of eyeliner, but he hasn’t really dressed the part for quite a while now as far as I recall.
I seem to remember him saying something about toning it down in public. Preferring to be known as a really funny comedian rather than that transvestite comedian.
Yeah, I lucked out. I got an e-mail through his mailing list on Dec. 18 and when I went in that night to get a ticket there were very few available for the night I wanted. Turned out there was that one in the second row and I jumped on it.
Funny thing is I jokingly told someone in the front row “I’m so jealous of you right now!” for being so close as people were filing in and we talked for about ten minutes about past shows and concerts. She said she told her sister or friend (I forget which) about the one ticket in my row and said she’s better be quick about it, and I ended up getting it.
So much of Eddie’s comedy is about his own expressions and actions that it’s nice to be so close, but Brava was so small it didn’t really matter.
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. The only reason I know that he thinks the A’s won the trade is from the link that I followed from twitter to get to the article.
Also, thanks James for correcting him about AJ Cole pitching in high-A, not AA.
I’ve been pretty unimpressed with Keri’s work at Grantland, I must say. Simmons has gotten some very good basketball, football and soccer writers, but the site’s baseball coverage is pretty weak so far.
Honestly, I don’t expect people to be perfect, but if he’s going to cite what Cole did in the minors last year it’s not that hard to get the levels correct. I know there’s more than one level of “A-ball” but it really isn’t complicated to figure them out.
Every once in a while I think it’s fun to go back in time. What would have happened if one thing had happened differently? Well what if grover had been the A’s GM in 2008 and made his proposed trade here?
The proposed trade: Street/Mazzaro/Carter/Henry Rodriguez/Cardenas for Ryan Zimmerman
Zimmerman’s contract (signed 4/20/2009, 7 months after the post): 5 yrs/45 million
Zimmerman’s WAR since then: 7.3, 7.2, 2.5, 4.5
Percentage of people who though we gave up too much: 60%
Trades it may have prevented:
Holliday for Street, CarGo, Smith
DeJesus for Mazzaro, Marks
Willingham for Rodriguez, Brown
Players we (arguably) have instead:
Michael Taylor, Shane Peterson, Daniel Robertson, Matt Olson, Bruce Maxwell
Carter of course is still on the team. Cardenas was let go on waivers.
Haven’t been following this that closely, but My limited experience in fed court made me wonder why people on facebook and various blogs were so up in arms about Aaron Swartz potential sentence.
sounds like the US Attorney wanted multiple felonies and a little bit of jail time. I don’t get it. if what is stated in the comments is true, the defense knew of the offer that the USA made. I can’t imagine not communicating that to the client.
Because going to jail for doing something that was murky at best (he had official access to MIT, downloaded stuff, and didn’t use it) and the “victim” isn’t pressing charges feels like too much. And, of course, you need to blame somebody.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Victims don’t want to press charges frequently and people are prosecuted. people go to jail in murky circumstances all the time.
To be clear, I agree it looks like an over reach. I have a problem with the public outcry. things like this happen to poor people all the time and prosecutors are lauded.
March 2-11 here for 9 A’s games (and one FKing off day, thanks so much WBC). I’ll be at the usual luxury accommodations at the Motel 6 near Old Town Scottsdale, with the pancake place in the old Sambo’s in the front.
I got it big-time seeing Erubiel Durazo play for the D-Backs in 2002.
However, I also had it for Jamie Moyer right before he went from Seattle to Philadelphia, and he never played for the A’s, even though he probably would have been a better starter than Tyson Ross was last year.
I’d trust it to quote the Bible for me. I’d trust it to build me an Amish barn, or to quote the Bible. Or to catch a shark that’s eating all the tourists.
She cant handle 80′s films portrayals of Asians, she’s Japanese-American, I dont blame her w/ Goonies as Data, and family, is one of the worst offenders of the stereotype.
From #8 down, most of the list is still in the low minors. Hopefully, more than a few break out this year, but they could all go either way at this point.
I should say, I don’t mean “break out” as in “rip through the minors in one year.” I just mean that I hope they establish themselves as quality prospects. I don’t follow the minors in general, but A’s prospects that don’t establish themselves early generally don’t seem to establish themselves at all.
1. I can’t wait until I can link to something that will tell me what HSR is.
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High-speed rail, I assume. Though there seems to be some missing context.
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Hart-Scott-Rodino. Ed’s super excited about an upcoming antitrust merger review, I’ll wager.
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A+
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Judging from the grill title, I’m assuming we’re getting something with nice views.
GAK! was on my phone.
gimme a minute
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Right before you re-posted, I went over to the non-mobile site to guess which train-related article it might be. I was right. I wonder what she was planning to do with it if she had been successful.
Side note: I approve of the amount of nudity in Swedish newspapers.
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I was hoping for something spectacular and probably impossible about urinating subway guy — like third-rail-electrocution; apparently he just tipped over. Still, Swedish winters must be tough on brain cells.
That’s quite some allmänfarlig ödeläggelse.
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This week’s Swedish legal term is brought to you by…
On a related note, this was a piss-poor way to go.
So. Um. Hi.
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Hey
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How’s it going?
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you would know if you were around more
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I don’t like not being liked.
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you are causing confusion.
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I like causing confusion.
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That’s just bloomie, throwing his hat in the room ahead of entering, to see if anyone shoots holes in it.
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that IS it!
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So, how’s your hat?
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It’s got holes in the back. But mostly because it’s adjustable.
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We’re all pretty adjustable. :)
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Pretty good. Apparently I’m still a moron who lives in the suburbs.
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Moran.
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to be fair, DFA and I likely consider Bernal heights suburbs.
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TBH, I don’t really care. I’m getting fucking tired of reading all the jabs made at not living in the middle of the city. The elitism is really old.
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You really shouldn’t take DFA seriously on that issue.
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I’m taking DFA seriously on less and less.
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I know you and he have beef right now, and I understand why, but I think you should let this one slide. He was either joking or saying something not worth getting offended by.
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You live in the middle of the city.
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I live in the middle of 3 cities.
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I live in the middle of the country.
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I live in a van down by the river.
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I live on an island in the Bay. :)
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How do you like Guerneville? They used to have the best burger around. I forget the name of the joint…Garden Burger, or something.
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Tri-Valley Chest Bump!
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I am from Orange County. Its doesn’t get more suburban than that.
for the record, I am not better than you
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You probably are.
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Maybe just a little. Maybe.
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I FKing love that neighborhood and that park.
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Sooooo you get to call my home a shoebox but I can’t call yours a cultural abyss in a suburban wasteland? Got it.
#Thinskin
#hypocrisy
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You can call it whatever the hell you want, but if you think I’m not gonna say anything or shoot back after you repeatedly insult where I come from, where I live, and my way of life then you are completely fucking mistaken and seem to have forgotten who you’re talking to.
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Can’t we all just get a Long?
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Right because saying that most people don’t have space for a 85 inch TV is insulting your way of life.
Get a fking grip.
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Are you fucking joking? I mean, you just don’t remember at all what you said or you’re just trolling right now.
Because this is saying that:
You:
Me:
You:
Maybe you just don’t realize what the hell you’re saying and how much of an elitist dick you come across as. Whatever.
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Do you have a fucking 7 plus foot wall space just hanging around? Most people have shit like furniture and posters and art and shelves.
The cost of the extra space to put a 7 foot TV and be able to sit back far enough to see a TV which is quite far actually just doesn’t exist in most places INCLUDING LIVERMOR as you so frequently remind us with your home search. You would need a giant fucking extra room.
Like I said its not a real demographic of people that can afford that and will drive the 8k tv market
Dick.
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Yes, DFA, I know it’s hard to comprehend but single family homes regularly have large walls that can have large TVs, so continue to show your ignorance.
Have fun in the city.
Also Livermore has an E on the end of it.
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No its really not hard to comprehend. Especially looking at the modern tv market where giant TVs arent selling very well.
Do you know how far back you have to sit with an 85 inch tv?
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sigh. I’m not going to keep repeating myself. I’m done.
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Not nearly as far as you would if you had an 8k TV.
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I have space in my bedroom to put one in and view it. I wouldn’t because it wouldn’t be worth the cost, but theoretically I could.
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How many people buy the biggest thing that you could possibly fit in your home.
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Me? Well, Biggest + Cost affordability is my criterion. I’d actually love to replace my 40″ with something bigger but it’s not really something I can afford right now.
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so basically you won’t be adopting an 85 inch 8k tv for probably 7 years?
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Oh, I doubt I’d ever be able to afford one. Beside, they’re only NOW talking about 4k. It’ll be several decades before 85in 8k tvs are realistic.
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right and if 4k is as slow to pick up as 3DTV its unlikely that anyone is going to start pumping out 8ks at a reasonable price in the next decade. Also you are going to have to convince a whole host of people that their 4k tv that they just bought isn’t good enough.
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It’s really going to come down to content and functionality. 3D has always sucked ass. They try to bring the image forward outside the frame which is contrary to best viewing practices. When they do 3D, they should have been focusing on pushing the image inward and creating more depth of space. But I could see how having higher resolution may create side benefits for additional features. It does make having a larger screen (even, say a 60in) a better proposition.
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In fact, I could do it in my apt in the city if I so chose
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Me too. Easily.
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Im sure you could but is it a practical decision that you would make? No.
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The goalposts… where did they go?
If your claim is that cutting-edge, unuspported, super-expensive TVs are impractical… I agree.
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My claim was that there wouldn’t be a market because they are too big for most people to drive the market that would ensure that there is enough content for them to continue to drive the market.
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Every new technology starts as impractical, though, so this new goalpost is not connected to that claim.
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You are confusing the practicality of being an early adopter compared to what I was saying which is whether or not you can technically fit it in your house doesn’t mean that you have space for it.
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I’ve got miles of walls and I live in the hood.
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We use a video projector.
#easiertosetup
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pico projector?
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Mmm, pico.
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Naw an NEC, dead easy to set up and autokeys and focuses. :)
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I am always a fan of that.
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All of this.
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I dress up the stray cats in the neighborhood and have them act out scenes for me. They’re not very cooperative, but it’s cheap and 3D.
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Even in my typical Portland craftsman, I have a space that could accomodate an 85″ TV – we opted for a 40″ TV. Really only one space, but there is a space. My father’s fairly modest 2 BR/2BA house in Sunnyvale could accomodate one and has the space and you could sit back far enough to enjoy it and still have space leftover for furniture, art, etc. Now if he would only get decent furniture and fill that wall space up…and maybe get some real dishes and fill his refrigerator up with more than hot dogs and ice cream.
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At least add hot dog buns, cheese, and chili to the fridge. Sheesh.
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He might have ketchup, but it’s probably at least three years old.
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My point exactly. Its like owning a hummerrediculousrediculousrediculous.
I have the theoretical space, it I configured my house just so… Its not practical though and most people aren’t going to buy a tv that costs a car when they need a giant fucking living room to put it in.
Also every pdx house that I have been in would look ridiculous with a 85 in tv, its not enough space to make it realistic
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Not sure how rediculous got posted so many times.
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Lack of self-control?
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The post had enough space in it to create an echo?
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yeah but sunnyvale is just a bunch of no-culture, cookie-cutter-dwelling vapid conformist conservative suv-driving soccer moms so it doesnt count
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Of the 12 houses on the street (cul-de-sac) where I grew up, seven were the exact same model. As far as my mom, she drove a van and she’s only become conservative since meeting and marrying my slightly-left-of-fascist step-dad.
So there!
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true story.
Actually its a bunch of vapid tech people that have more money than they know what to deal with but pretty much the same thing.
Do you have space for an 85 inch TV?
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GUYS, LET’S KEEP THE FOCUS OF THIS DISCUSSION WHERE IT BELONGS: ON THE TV.
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Which was my whole point anyway.
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NM, we reallyreallyreallyreally need that Wooooosh button.
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no i get it you think im being an ass by preferring my living situation and disputing your claims about the critical nature of others to culture.
I care about the technology and whether it will get adopted more than I care about the suburbs.
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In fairness to DFA, the TV conversation was much more interesting a topic than whatever started this mess.
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No, I think that your tendency to project your preferences, experience and spelling as universal and/or optimal lead you to miss things (references, allusions, jokes) that fall outside of those bounds.
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1 We all know that English langauge spelling is nonoptimal\
2 I also get plenty of jokes think theyre meh to funny and move on. Like here.
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You really are determined to piss off as much people possible today, huh?
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My parents do in the home I grew up in.
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they have a 85 inch tv?
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I think theirs is in the 60 range
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One of these dicks is not like the other ones…
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It’s OK – he’s got binders full of dicks.
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WIN
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Why are we hung up on 85in for 8k? Also, An 85in TV is 6ft by 3.5ft. If you stick it high up on a wall, it’s a lot more doable than you’re thinking. You can still have your lounge furniture around it for gatherings while keeping space further back for optimum viewing. And the higher the resolution, the closer you can sit to it without distortion.
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If you stick it up higher you have to push your furniture back farther.
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TWSS
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Not in my room. I just tweak the angle of my mount arm to point downward.
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you would still be looking up which isn’t comphy
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It is for me. I’m technically looking down, since I’m using lounging around anyway. Either way, if you’re only talking 3.5ft of vertical space, so even mounting it mid-way along the wall isn’t going to be blocked by a chair or couch.
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how would you look down?
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Huh?
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using = usually
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are you laying on the floor?
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Bed.
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I could fit one pretty easily on the wall in my hamster cage of a bedroom without changing much of my wall art. If someone wants to prioritize space for a TV of that size in their life, finding a place for it is not impossible or even overly unreasonable from a logistical standpoint.
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This is historically disproven by poor huge TV sales.
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What is disproven is that people BUY huge TVs. But that’s not the issue. The issue is whether people could USE huge TVs.
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people don’t think that they can use a huge tv enough to buy one.
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until the price drops sufficiently to buy one.
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I think this is an important point.
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And is true in the case of about any electronic device (i.e., more people will buy a computer with a certain amount of memory, power, ability when the price drops). Except for i(devices), since Apple has created a whole new type of addict wherein we have a relatively inelastic demand.
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I like how there a ton of 20 inch tablets… oh wait
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There is no relation between the size of a TV that will remain in the same spot vs. the size of a tablet you will carry around with you all the time.
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PDX said any electorinic device
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I think you need to re-read what he said. “ABOUT” any electronic device. Then he listed attributes related to what prices cap off: memory, power, ability.
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What dmoas said. It’s not always about size. (That is what you said, isn’t it? Was it good for you?)
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This suggest that there isn’t a middle optimum size for TVs for the vast majority of people.
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As nm suggested, the “optimum size” continues to increase as TVs get bigger and less expensive per unit area. There may be a point where people simply can’t accommodate the size due to space constraints and I think that is your point. Without the data in front of me to prove it, there are sufficient numbers of people who incorporate home theaters into their homes, or buy homes that will accommodate those – my mom’s next door neighbor, for one. 85″ may be the limit for many people, but there are enough people who will continue to find a way to accommodate bigger, as long as they determine that bigger is affordable.
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NM’s data doesn’t suggest that at all. It suggests that what was affordable previously was sub optimal, not that 85 inches is more optimal than 60 50 or whatever.
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Agreed. It isn’t proof people will want 85″. It is circumstantial evidence that costs aren’t low enough to know how large a tv the median consumer wants.
Despite your certainty.
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I don’t think you have a large enough sample of television-addicted white trash exurbanites.
In that culture, television size, motorcycle engine size, and perceived penis size all directly correlate.
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This is possible
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It used to be rare for people to buy 40in and up because it wasn’t cost effective. Now that it is, people are not often buying 60in and up. But as prices fall, the bigger the TV you can get for the money, people actually are buying them. There’s basically a happy price range that people are willing to shell out for and if it doesn’t hit that, they don’t buy it. It’s less about the actual size itself. And this has been historically true.
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This suggests that we don’t hit a size limitation in addition to cost.
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I’ve seen nothing to suggest there is a size limit. So far, only size and image quality have been the only mitigating factor for what a person will buy. Show me something that suggests there is a size limit unrelated to price and quality. Then we can talk.
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There is a size limit for wall space and mounting.
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Maybe. But 85 inches isn’t it though.
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TWSS
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85 inches is huge
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Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
Biggest I’ve found so far is 92inches. But I’ve heard of 100in screens. And at one point about a month or two ago the prices were double what they are now so they’re coming down in price as well.
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Looks to me like TV size is increasing over time. That suggests to me that cost, not available space, may be the limit on huge TV sales.
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and yet it still shows large screens as the lowest bough category except the weird 37 to 39 in size.
that trend could very well be people buying larger sets from the smaller ones that they had rather than buying larger sets than the large sets they currently have.
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Let me put it this way:
1. 8K is a future technology (like HD was when I was a kid)
2. I agree most people don’t own 85″ TVs, and suggest that BOTH cost and house space contribute to that choice.
3. The size of a median TV is expanding over time, as costs per square inch decrease. This suggests people want bigger TVs than they can afford.
Do you disagree with any of those?
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3 I disagree with 3. The expansion doesn’t mean that people want 85 inches big.
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Except that it’s been historically true that as price falls, the desired size of the TV has gone up. Will 85 inch ever be hit? Who knows. Affordable 60in TVs (under a grand) weren’t even conceivable 5 years ago. Now they are. Who’s to say the same won’t be true of 85?
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Whose to say eveyone won’t have a 37ft tv?
there is a limit to availible space
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I’m holding out for a holodeck.
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When personal space travel becomes affordable, I’m moving to HD 1690 b. I heard the beaches there are epic, there are no gun control laws, and I’d have enough space for my own 35,000 seat stadium.
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I claim Risa!
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That isn’t the claim in three.
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What if I just call it?
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fine i disagree with expanding. has expanded… yes.
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@ozz do you have a flag?
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Not yet, but I think I have time to make one.
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Enjoy Risa, I think I’m an Angel One sort of girl. >:)
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Yes, I do believe you are.
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I think the improved side viewing angle has allowed people to buy bigger TVs as well
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That, and thinner TVs.
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this is the biggest one. its not that people couldn’t fit a 50 inch tv but the whole tube thing was way way too big.
but it is unlikely that tvs will be any thinner than they are now unless they are buiit on walls.
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Thinner no. But they’re making them lighter and strangely flexible.
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Lighter matters so you aren’t pulling your studs through the wall.
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There’s a glory hole joke in there somewhere, but damned if I’m gonna go looking for it.
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True. A 90in TV right now weights about 150lbs. They have mounts currently available to handle that.
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This is the big jump. Heck, I remember hoping one day I could get a 32 inch TV because that was really the optimal size-to hell if I was gonna have one of those projection units taking up half the living room floor.
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…Uh. The lack of large sales numbers for huge TVs disproves that if someone really wants one, it’s not impossible or even impractical that they could be capable of reorganizing their space to fit one?
…O… kay…
I’m in no way saying that there is a drive for hella people to want 85″ TVs, I’m saying that fitting one in a non-mansion is not-impossible if someone does want one and wants to prioritize the use of their space that way. I am also assuming cost has a place as well in the argument, not just the size/practicality factor.
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This is my point.
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Okay.
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don’t retreat bloom, its time for the gags.
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Gag time? Where’s K?
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Like, a ballgag, or an inability to deepthroat?
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He made that windbreaker himself out of a hefty bag he stole from the Metrodome’s outfield wall.
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Hey Bloomie
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Hi, zombie lover.
bg/df bait
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I’m guessing RiP Reagan, sadly. The south generally remains way, way out-of-balance in terms of save-rates, once an animal is “sheltered.” A dog checked-in to a shelter below the Mason-Dixon Line has a significantly less-than-even chance of leaving by the front door. Still.
Most likely scenario is Scott-to-former-owner-to-shelter-to-rendering-plant, quickly and, they hoped, quietly. It would be in-character for that FKg PoS. Maybe not, but I’d need odds.
So help me out tin foil hat or no?
MLB pushed to have steroid/amphetamine testing and punishments to occur after Bonds broke McGwire’s record to have Bonds be the boogie man.
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Ridiculous. Someone is making that argument?
I knew Strom Thrumond was a dog, but not this much of a dog.
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wow.
I am disturbed by that story
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Right?
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What a sick fuck. And what a pathetic shithole of a state, where people still idolize him.
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Do they?
By the way, I happened to be in Charleston on vacation the day he died. Talk about wall to wall coverage.
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Yeah, people here still revere him. It’s sad and annoying.
Funny, I was in Charleston that day too.
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I dined that night at S.N.O.B., as I recall.
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Not bad, but High Cotton across the street is better. Or at least it was. Too bad I didn’t know you, then. Ozz(soontobeex)wife(thengirlfriend) worked for the company that owned both restaurants. Could’ve gotten you 50% off.
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That wouldabeen great. I really liked the town.
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Come back this spring, before I leave.
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I wish. The fam and I have been considering a Carolinas trip for a while, but I don’t think we’ll be able to do it that soon.
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Oh, that’s too bad. Well, whenever you get a chance, there’s some fun stuff to do.
There’s egregious plagiarism, and then there’s issuing a flimsy defense of your egregious plagiarism.
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I wouldn’t be exactly shaking in my boots
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Sonnets fired.
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Terror dactyl.
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Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is a pantoum!
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If you must write prose and poems
The words you use should be your own
Don’t plagiarise or take “on loans”
There’s always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
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It’s like I’ve always said:
If you should write prose and poems
The words you use must be your own
Don’t copy words or take “on loans”
There’s always someone, near here
With a big nose, who knows
And who pushes you and guffaws
When you fall
Scooby doo?
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They really tied the room together.
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He used them for all his urine tests.
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asvd
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this.
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Maybe he should loan one to Donald Trump.
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Maybe they meant ‘Armstrong Use Drugs’
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Like, they’re giving him a command?
I am with Calcaterra on this one
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Best comment there:
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Can’t stop laughing at this
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It’s weird. It almost looks fake. It’s like you can reach your hand through his chest.
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It looks like a commemorative plate that you buy on TV.
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Heh, totally!
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So true!
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And if you order today, we’ll throw in a set of Ginsu knives and a smokeless ashtray.
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Call in the next five minutes, and your tattoo removal is half off!
SLF will haz excite
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Their chocolate donuts taste weird, of course all donuts are welcome.
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Their hot coffee sucks, but their iced coffee is pretty good.
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i don’t think its the taste as much as nostalgia for east coast roots
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Yeah, all over the MW too, there was one right smack in front of my bus transfer stop all through middle and high school, had more than my fair share, sour cream or blueberry might be their best.
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Do they have iced Devil’s food? That is the one and only reason I miss Krispy Kreme and I hate Entenmanns for not making them any more.
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I miss the Entenmanns coffee cake-like donuts with the little powered nuggets of awesome all over them.
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Those were the shit.
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I know. I still crave them and I haven’t had them in over a decade.
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THOSE ARE THE ONES!!! I actually went to their website right now to check. They have them on there, but appearantly they do not have them anywhere near me =( I’m pretty sure they stopped making them entirely so they are probably just too lazy to take the whole thing off the site.
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God, those were so fucking good.
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Hrm, not recalling that one, they did have one that was a sandy brown that didn’t quite sit right ( cinnamon-y )w/ my adolescent taste buds, could have been that one?
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Probably not. FTR, I have never been to a DD, just thinking of the one that they had at those other places and thinking they may have had similar.
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I get coffee there from time to time, but it’s best to think of it as something completely different from normal coffee. I mostly drink coffee black with no sweetener and get picky about beans, roast, preparation, etc. But for Dunkin’ coffee, I just get it loaded up with cream and enough sugar to give me the shakes.
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That’s probably why I prefer DD coffee to Starsuck’s. I have a large cup of cream and sugar, with a hint of coffee for flavor.
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The lighter the roast the more caffeine.
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Yeah, I would take Dunkin’ over Starbucks any day.
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Panera is better than both, though.
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You misspelled Peet’s.
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Why would anyone get coffee from a chain?
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Because there’s often no other choice if you go places other than Valencia Street.
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Thats not true. There is a second Four Barrel on Divis now.
God… thats like two streets wtih coffee.
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Four Barrel is weak-sauce.
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false.
Which of their coffees do you disllike.
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Its more their roasts, lacks taste when brewed at home.
I ended up using almost twice the amount of beans I usually do of the 3 batches I got for xmas last year, and yes it was fresh.
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I had a similar experience. Kind of blah.
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There is one of their single source orignins that is really light.
Also I don’t have an apparatus to brew coffee at home.
Stumptown is the best, but I don’t live in PDX anymore.
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Love Stumptown, wish we had one, it would be extremely successful.
FWIW I have the same feeling to a lesser extant about Blue Bottle.
Both 4B and BB feel under roasted to me, like the oils haven’t emerged yet. I’d be interested to see the temps they are roasting to.
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I was about to say the same thing. Neither place lets it go beyond first crack, I’d say, except in the darkest of BB’s roasts (which are delicious). I think this is because it is trendy now to underroast in order to supposedly show off the flavor of the beans. That often results in some sour, bile-flavored brews.
For a local roaster I prefer Equator.
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Sounds like you’ve done some roasting, I really miss it personally asides from everything I owned smelling like coffee all the time.
I’ll have to check out Equator, thanks for the tip!
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DFA won’t like Equator though. They’re in the suburbs.
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So punk rock.
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Fuck San Rafael. Seriously Fuck all of Marin except Point Reyes. They have the meanest librarians
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Also i like the other notes in a coffee so I don’t mind lighter roast if the coffee is super flavorful in other regards.
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Boo! Don’t insult my hometown….and you probably were being mean to the librarians.
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@DFA, most of the flavor is in the oils, which was the whole point of the discussion GM and I had.
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The would scream at me and call the cops on me every time i would even step into the library.
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Sounds perfectly sensible.
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That happens to me whenever I wear a balaclava, what did you expect?
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(From this book)
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I’d love to shop with independent, locally owned businesses. There aren’t many around here when it comes to most stuff, though. We have some great restaurants, but most everything else is a chain.
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i will go on record as a non starbucks hater.
I don’t drink their coffee, but the americanos are better than average and consistent. If I am in a place where I don’t know any better place, Starbucks is fine.
Peets is fine too, in the same way.
Vivace in seattle is the best. In the city I still fly the ritual flag
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I have no hate for Starbucks. Mostly because they will let you sit there on the internet while drinking a venti iced tea for 6 hours without saying a word. I value that in my coffee shops.
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Plus, Starbucks everywhere = nice bathrooms everywhere.
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Peet’s loses.
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True-FKing-story.
A Starbucks can be a blessed sight on a road trip.
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I have seen them kick plenty of homeless people out of them.
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I’m not sure how I didn’t go to one (or don’t remember having done so) when I lived there, given they are all within a 10 minute walk of where I lived. Apparently, there’s one here in town, but only in the part of Portland that I avoid for fear of being treated like a hobo because of my middle class clothing.
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You misspelled “You live in a cesspool of mediocrity, Ozz.”
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SoCal only.
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we are down there enough
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Yet again NorCal FTW.
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They are lining up franchisees in Reno with the intention of opening quite a few stores in 2014, so you’re going to have to defend both your south and east flanks.
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They’re in Oregon too, so we can’t leave the northern flank exposed.
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Maybe we need to ally ourselves with Tim Hortons. Put the squeeze on them.
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Fine idea.
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I had Tim Horton’s for the first time in Victoria last July. Not bad, but probably not worth the amount of hype they get from some.
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Doughnuts is Doughnuts.
I support Canuck donuts over New Jersey donuts.
Actually, flour is evil. I eat it though, but only to get my RDA of evil.
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Are they? Certainly none in this area and I couldn’t find any on their website.
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Further searching suggests they’re independent stores that just show up on a DD google search … the northern border is safe!
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The pot farms will prevent northern incursions quite handily. And we have natural donut-eater-repelling-mountains to the East. I’m worried about the I-5 incursion though. If we put all our resources on that point they could end around on highway 1.
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This
this is funny for those of you that are of 49er persuasion.
long and short, the 49ers posted high school ranking and scouting reports for all their players
Finally, an exciting futbol match!
Good muckraking from Deadspin
Apart from the sheer creepiness of the whole thing, Te’o probably just cost himself an awful lot of future endorsement dollars.
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Holy Shit
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Kay should ask Bob Melvin if Amanda McCarthy is a real person.
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And if so, if he could introduce me to her.
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No kidding. The mind reels.
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You know, making up girlfriends by hyper religious people in uber masculine industries….
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Yeah, not hard to jump to that conclusion.
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I didn’t think of that angle.
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It was the bit about his parents thinking he was going to marry her that made me wonder if he was just trying to buy himself some breathing room. He invents this girlfriend, they’re satisfied for a while, but then they’re agitating to meet her, so he makes a martyr of her and he’s in the clear for as long as he needs. Then it gets out of hand. Seems like a more plausible scheme for a 20-year old kid to pull than a mere publicity grab.
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That makes a lot of sense.
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Useful point by Magary:
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Tori Hunter would approve.
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That is fucking weird.
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A bunch of good jokes on twitter, but this is the one that actually made me lol.
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Winner
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#THASSRAYCISS
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Looks like I got my answer as to how McCarthy’s absence would affect Anderson’s tweets.
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#sorryI’mruiningJustified
(Note: I’ve only seen the first episode, but man was he awful)
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Why the surprise? I thought we’d already conclusively proved that every girl you meet on the Internet is actually a fake persona created by a creepy old man.
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TRUE STORY:
I first noticed Ms. Oakland during a time of one of Kay’s self imposed hiatuses. I assumed she was a fake account made by Kay to lure internet boys to flirt. Something G_S had said he (I suppose at the time he is correct) would do.
I interacted with MO as if MO was G_S. Even asking how wiffleball went on sundays. I only stopped when I met MO in person.
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I remember that. Good times.
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I had hella fake/alternate accounts on **, but I never trollflirted there.
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This isn’t true. Some are Jesa.
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Te’o and Notre Dame are saying he was the victim of a hoax. I have my doubts that will hold up.
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Love the teaser on ESPN.com right now:
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Yeah, no way. It’s not even credible to believe he’s staggeringly naive. The deadspin scoop has instances of Te’o purporting to have done real-life things with this fictional woman.
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Yeah, if he bought white roses to send to a funeral someone wiuldve said “uh..dude, she aint here”.
I guess you could say he figured it out at some point and then was embarassed, which then became the Disney channel small lie snowballing effect, but at some point Occam tells you to STFU he had to be in on it.
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I said it last night, regarding his Twitter bio:
Manti Te’o's bio says, “What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.” Guess we know what today makes him.
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A closeted homosexual scared of losing his fundamentalist family, or a very naive virginal-type from a sheltered culture. That’s why I think it will reflect better on him in certain ways if he really was in on the scam, as opposed to being duped by a cousin for nebulous reasons.
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A beautiful followup:
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LOL
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I might enjoy it even more as random belligerence, but Trump FKed up the authors of the article (Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey, not Tom Scocca).
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Yeah, I saw Ray Ratto of all people mentioned that Trump only got one author right.
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It’s a conspiracy!!!! Show him their birth certificates to prove it!!!
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Ha!
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And now, Te’oing!
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Read the SI transcript here. One thing that got my attention:
Never, NEVER, trust someone from Punahou.
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Haven’t I been saying that for years?
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Hell I remember when you said that at 6:35pm PST TODAY.
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I’m glad someone around here has got my back.
Link link OTD
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Obligatory “Grant is an asshole” comment.
AJ Cole for… John Jaso??
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Well LL hates the Jaso for Morse bit of the trade. Jaso is a pretty good hitter for a catcher and he makes a simple platoon with Norris as Jaso really struggles with lefties. Jaso has 3 years of control left, so that’s nice. Jaso would be a nice leadoff hitter if someone really wants Coco.
I like Kottaras but I’d be surprised if he makes the team now. Cole had #1 upside, but I can live with this trade so long as Cole is all we’re giving up.
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I wonder where the ptbnl and “good” prospect the Nats are apparently also getting are coming from.
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Looks like the ptbnl at least is coming from the A’s.
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Cole+ for Jaso? Seems like the Nats sold high on a Mariners player.
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MLBTradeRumors is now saying Cole, RHP Blake Treinen, and an as of yet unknown player going from the A’s to the Nats.
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I really hope it’s not really a “good” prospect. Jaso’s a nifty pickup. I like Dave’s comparison to Hatteberg. But the great thing about Hatty is he was a scrapheap pickup. You don’t trade former top 50 prospects and another good prospect for a scrapheap player.
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I’d rather they just throw some cash Washington’s way.
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Agreed. This move is addressing a hole for the A’s, but I wouldn’t be comfortable giving up much more than the players we already know about.
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Dave Cameron already has a take.
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The headline on ussmariner is “Mariners Do Stupid Thing”. From their perspective, it’s just a Morse-for-Jaso swap, so even if it’s bad for the M’s, it could also be bad for the A’s, depending on your projection for Cole.
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Lookout Landing seems nearly suicidal, which is perhaps a bit of an overreaction.
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Oh wow, you’d think they traded Felix for Mike Morse.
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USSM is just as bad. I’m pretty sure these guys are what we would be if the A’s were bad for 10 years. We’d all turn into DFA.
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My initial reaction is certainly that the Mariners came in third on this deal.
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jaso for a year of morse?
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I don’t mean this as a way to start a fight. I’m honestly curious. Why can we look at 151 PA’s and decide that Jaso can’t hit lefties, but we can’t look at >2300 PA’s and decide that Carlos Gonzalez can’t hit outside of Denver?
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We can’t. If I wanted to project Jaso’s stats against lefties, I would have to regress it 95% to the mean and his projected split would be basically a normal LHH vs LHP split.
But, if we have a catcher who is part of our future who is a righty (and therefore probably hits lefties better), might as well platoon them.
Scouting can come into play here as well.
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Ok, thanks.
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86%, but the point still stands
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Jaso’s a good hitter, but he didn’t catch much last year. I hope we didn’t just a acquire a DH or a platoon guy.
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were they playing montero at catcher>
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And Olivo.
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And some people wonder why they were bad.
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Well, Cole did have a rough time in A+ but he’s only 20 yrs old.
Jaso had a surprisingly good 2012, .372 wOBA, 143 wRC+ in 361 PA’s.
He’s in his prime, and has always made good contact (86.9 contact%), not too horrible I guess.
I wonder what this means for Kottaras.
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Kottaras gets traded for Stanton. Duh.
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We didn’t have to give up Weeks? SCORE!
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Ok, fine. WITH Blevins
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Fuck that I love Blevins.
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Me, too. I fell irrationally, deeply, passionately, all-at-once in Anaheim.
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I will cut anyone that tries to take that skinny slice o’ man from us.
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I hope George hasn’t signed a housing lease in the Bay Area.
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Don’t catchers tend to drop off quite a bit right around 29 or 30? I hate parting with Cole. All I can say is Jaso better have one hell of a Twitter feed.
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I feel like catchers tend to be a crapshoot, look what A.J. Pierzynski did at 37?
He’s never gotten more than 500 PA’s in a year so he should still have some tread on his tires.
I haven’t really followed him so not sure about his injury history.
I was excited for Cole but the A’s do know pitching, I’ll reserve judgement until he becomes a superstar and I hate life. #ojoslocosniff
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Christ, what a Jaso.
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Jaso Horny.
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I like my team Jaso.
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So what do people think about Jaso’s power? He was extra good this last year because his ISO suddenly jumped from 115/130 all the way up to 180. He managed to do this even while playing half his games at Safeco (though he bats left-handed, so I think he gets spared the worst of Safeco’s power suppression).
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The 115/130 ISO values are from 2010 and 2011, both while playing for the Rays, yet another pitcher’s park.
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Seems like sample sizes are fairly small. But that, his BB%, and his wRC+ are on the higher end of what he’s done throughout his major and minor league careers.
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His FB% took an 11% dip ( 39.2% 11′/ 28.2% 12′ ) but his FB/HR rose 8% to 14.3%.
Loving the OBP from what we’re used to from C- .394 (.359 career).
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Platoons R Us: Chapter 2.
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Great deal for the Nats. With little leverage, Rizzo somehow parlayed one expensive year of a not very good Mike Morse into AJ Cole and 2 other prospects.
From the Mariners side, all I can say is that Jack Z is definitely desperate to save his job.
I think it’s fair from the A’s side. It hurts to lose Cole but this is a good win now move and I’ve been saying all offseason that they needed to upgrade C. I still would have rather they swooped in and signed Napoli though; apparently, he’s only going to settle for a one year contract now with the Red Sox.
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If Napoli still hasn’t signed, I still wouldn’t mind swooping in. Excellent C/DH/1b insurance. But if I were Napoli, playing at Fenway to build value makes more sense.
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Looks like he signed for 1 year $5M(!), with incentives taking that up to $13M potentially. There must be some significant stuff going on with his hip.
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Going from the original $45 for 3, yikes.
Kottaras designated
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Too bad. Kottaras has some value. .350 OBP last year. Seems a lot like a poor man’s Jaso.
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His defense is really awful though. I’d be ok with him as the backup (because most backup catchers are bad in one way or another), but wouldn’t want him starting 100 games.
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I am super bummed I never got him to answer my yelled requests for his opinion about curling.
Also, I feel like his underwear alone during the playoffs should have helped in his favor. Oh well.
Not a fan of this deal, Cole FDLS, and a “good” spec for 4 months of Kottaras and Jaso? Pass.
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Where is this additional “good” spec talk coming from? Seems unlikely that the ptnbl is going to be anyone notable.
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MLBTR
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Are they considered reliable now?
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So that’s Treinen then. Is he good?
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24-year-old with mediocre numbers in high A. I’d say no, though presumably there is something the Nats like about him enough to want him.
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So you’re telling me the Washington Times is passing misinformation? Now I’ve heard everything.
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heh
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4> K>BB rate at every stop.
Only started starting this year tho.
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They’re saying Cole, Treinen and a ptbnl now. The “good” spec stuff has disappeared. I have no idea what level of ptbnl it’s going to be though, so I’m still withholding judgment on this. At least we’re getting 3 years of Jaso, which could turn out quite well depending on how much of a fluke 2012 was for him.
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No point in including FDLS for Kottaras now. That’s a sunk cost. It’s nice that we get Jaso for 3 years.
Cole (and FDLS) both had high upsides, so it hurts a bit to see them go, but Cole is a long way away from success in the majors.
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True, but if Cole bounced back with a strong season this year, his value could be quite a bit higher.
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He bounced back after he was sent back down to A.
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Id have rather including him in a bigger package at the deadline.
fine you are trading Kottaras, Cole, Treinen and a PTBNL for Jaso.
Not a fan.
Billy hearts John
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His numbers are very Beane-y.
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16% B/ 14% K, whats not to like.
I’m warming to this guy.
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That there are only 13 seasons with a walk rate that high in the last 10 years and he had a BABIP > 400
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Buh? His big league BABIPs are .282, .244, .298?
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Jaso’s BABIP was .298..
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Shit i miss read Cameron’s fangraphs article. My bad.
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His BABIP was .298 in 12′.
Career in 1048 PA’s he has a 13.4 BB/ 13.3K.
It’s okay if you don’t like him but dont make shit up. ;)
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Again. Miss read the BABIP from Cameron’s article.
But his 2012 is 35% of his career PA and was flukey high on the BB rate.
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A crazy-high walk rate means it is likely to go down, yes, but it also means that even when it does go down it is still likely to be good.
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Yeah didn’t see your other response.
2010 in 404 PA’s 14.6% BB/ 9.6K – he got worse!!!!
I think Jeff is right, he’s sneakily decent to good.
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Right… hes not a bad player.
AJ Cole has TOR upside. I just don’t see how you anchor the Gio deal and then need more spec to get traded for a platoon catcher without a disasterous year.
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It’s puzzling for sure, but I’m guessing getting ‘pants’ in 6 of his 8 starts in A+ didn’t help his value.
TINSTAAPP, esp. an A ball player, I’m okay w/ the guy in the bigs getting on base.
if Milone can keep it up, Peacock remembers how to pitch, and Norris performs it’s better than a wash w/out Cole’s promise.
Happy Dance Happy Dance!!!
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This makes us happy why?
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You don’t think that will hurt Oregon? I know they’ll still have major $$, but I would think this would not be great news for them.
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Oh, well yeah. I thought you were happy for the Eagles. The problem with hurting Oregon is that it makes Gigs not happy.
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I’ll be happy if Kelly crashes and burns Philly and drags that shameful franchise down with him. Then I’ll be downright giddy.
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I’m pretty sure the entire population of this state agrees with you. Half due to spite; half due to schadenfreude.
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I want him to revolutionize the way NFL games are coached. I want to see him go for lots of 2 point conversions and 4th and short conversions (with surprise deep passing plays 20-33% of the time, especially in midfield). I want to see a large handful of surprise onside kicks. I want him to get a good young running QB and maybe take the read/option thing to the next level.
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Then again, I want to see helmets and pads banned and evolve the game away from high-speed collisions as well.
I know I’m a nut.
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I want to see helmets and pads outlawed just for Michael Vick.
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heh
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Im not sure why he is worse than Milton Bradley.
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People have the ability to get away from him if they choose to. The dogs have no such choice?
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fair point.
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ARM THE DOGS!!! :) [just joking!]
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Yes and this too. Which is absolutely NOT to say that women in abusive relationships don’t many times face huge obstacles in trying to get out of those situations. But yeah, when you’re chained to a tire axle in the woods and then shot, hanged or electrocuted at the first sign of non-compliance…well, let’s just say I’d really love to see Patrick Willis get a clean open shot at Vick a few times.
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Yeah, it’s like choosing between Ted Bundy and Hilter (though perhaps less extreme). They’re both bad, it’s just a matter of scale.
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They’re both douchebags.
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And yet well all rooted for one of them.
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Hey you can take helmets away from Milton too. There’s apparently no limit on despicable asshole!
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did you not root for him?
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When Milton was with the A’s, IIRC he was more of an argue-with-fans-and-management douche rather than a wife-beating asshole.
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You don’t remember that the cops went to his house for a domestic violence call in the offseason before he joined the team?
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No I don’t.
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Thats surprising.
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Usually your nutty stuff is too nutty for me. But I’m in full agreement with this. It’d be kind of like rugby that way.
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How about we as a nation just decide to like rugby?
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Thirded.
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Yes please.
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I might have to emigrate.
Again.
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Then you’d stop tooking our jobs!
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This is actually relevant for me. Job search is brutal.
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All those damfurriners, I tells ya.
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It’s not just the jobs – I got me a woman too.
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Wait, an American woman? I thought that was illegal!
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Nope – despite the GOP’s best efforts, women aren’t yet illegal in America.
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Not if he messes her mind.
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I don’t find this an unreasonable proposition so long as we can have a local team.
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I use to date a rugby player.
Shes a horrible person, but rugby is awesome
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FK. Niners or All Blacks?
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Niners. Definitely not All Blacks
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Love my Niners, but I like the All Blacks. NZ is just cooler than most of the rest of the world.
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Rooting for the All Blacks is like rooting for the Yankees.
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Is it? I don’t really follow rugby, but do they go around the world throwing obscene gobs of money at all the best players? Or is it just a matter of hating teams that win a lot?
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The latter. Rugby is by nationality
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I have no problem with teams being good. My problem with the Yankees is that they just buy up every player they can.
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agreed
even tho they are awesome, it is like being an American soccer fan who is a fan of Manchester United.
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I don’t follow soccer at all, but my impression is that Man U is much more like the Yankees than the All Blacks are.
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probably has
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Absolutely correct – they even have a cross-marketing agreement.
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The only thing All Blacks do that is cool is the haka. Everything else, and the Wallabies are the superior choice. They’re green and gold!
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I’ll take anything NZ over anything Australian any day.
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Every time a kiwi moves to Australia, the average IQ of both countries goes down.
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Australia would be a great place if it wasn’t for the people.
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Have some color loyalty!
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Then I’d be rooting for the Packers.
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Have intelligent color loyalty!
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Better!
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Haka is one of the greatest things in sports, agreed. I tend to fixate on a player at a time (O’Driscoll, Percy Montgomery, etc).
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Mmhmm.
Good timing, too.
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Fine by me.
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I would love this.
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are you still looking for a suit?
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Think you got me confused with someone else.
Or maybe I need my own WOOSH button.
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sorry, thought it was you.
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I read that as “slut”. And I was thinking “I AM!!!”
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Im pretty sure DMOAS, I am not the slut you are looking for.
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Clearly. But you may have found one for me. Not sure why you would have, but hey, I guy can dream, can’t he?
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I was the one looking for a suit. And I haven’t made any progress since back when we were discussing it.
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gilt is having an Indochina special today…
429 for
Essential two-piece suit (choice of eight fabric options)
Choice of any dress shirt (excludes shirts over $99)
Choice of any tie
Choice of any tie clip
Choice of any pocket square
Choice of any cufflinks
do you want me to send you an invite?
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um… sure, but I’m probably not quite ready to jump on it. How often do they have good stuff?
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the indochino is a good site and its a gift card.
gilt is more expensive shit than i can afford but its good deals on stuff that if i had money i would buy.
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I have an Indochino suit. I like it. But it’s a made-to-measure thing where you measure yourself at home according to their instructions, send that in, and then get your suit in about three weeks. At best, it will need some minor tailoring, and they give you a $75 credit to get that done. At worst, it’s all effed up, and you send it back and they to start over.
I avoided the measurement problem by going to an event they held in SF where they had tailors there to measure you.
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Don’t worry, Stanford will be fine so long as they don’t lose Harbaugh.
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Ha! I’m still going to be happy!
Yeah, baby, Mavericks is happening Sunday AM! Will be livestreamed.
Going to SF to see Eddie Izzard performing test material tonight at the Brava Theater. 360-person capacity. It’ll be my fifth time seeing him, second in a small setting like this with some test stuff.
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Jealous!!!
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Me too – though I’m off to the New Parkway tonight instead.
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I am pretty much incapable of jealousy (thank Goddess). My life would be a shambles if jealousy were to enter it.
I wish I could bestow this gift upon everybody, because from what I hear, being jealous can be a painful burden, not unlike gout.
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So last night was lots of fun.
Among the things he talked about:
* goat ghosts
* the kraken
* human sacrifice
* how crappy Latin was
* horse dressage
* how different LOTR & The Hobbit would be if they smoked cigarettes instead of pipes
* how the only people you see today smoking pipes are all on crack
* raptors speeding, and turtles wanting Ferraris to beat the hare
Plus more. Always great to get new Eddie material.
A couple phone pics to show how close I was:
I made them a little smaller to fit a bit better here, but you can view them directly to get the larger size.
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Is he done with the whole genderqueer thing, or was he just in “boy mode” last night?
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He painted his fingernails, had earrings in both ears and may have had a small amount of eyeliner, but he hasn’t really dressed the part for quite a while now as far as I recall.
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That’s genderqueer enough for me. It’s a broad spectrum.
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There WAS a transvestite reference during the human sacrifice bit, though.
Also a cake reference when doing something related to “join or die” when it came to a religion bit, if I remember right.
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I seem to remember him saying something about toning it down in public. Preferring to be known as a really funny comedian rather than that transvestite comedian.
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So cool–thanks for sharing!
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Was fun!
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Im super bummed that his Zspace shows were all sold out when i heard about it.
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Yeah, I lucked out. I got an e-mail through his mailing list on Dec. 18 and when I went in that night to get a ticket there were very few available for the night I wanted. Turned out there was that one in the second row and I jumped on it.
Funny thing is I jokingly told someone in the front row “I’m so jealous of you right now!” for being so close as people were filing in and we talked for about ten minutes about past shows and concerts. She said she told her sister or friend (I forget which) about the one ticket in my row and said she’s better be quick about it, and I ended up getting it.
So much of Eddie’s comedy is about his own expressions and actions that it’s nice to be so close, but Brava was so small it didn’t really matter.
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Oh, that’s fun.
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Here’s about 25 minutes, audio only, from Thursday:
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Let’s try that again.
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For those who missed him (and have passable French comprehension).
Hmmm. Thoughts?
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/47774/how-two-teams-found-a-way-to-lose-a-three-team-trade
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The article doesn’t really match the headline.
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Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. The only reason I know that he thinks the A’s won the trade is from the link that I followed from twitter to get to the article.
Also, thanks James for correcting him about AJ Cole pitching in high-A, not AA.
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I’ve been pretty unimpressed with Keri’s work at Grantland, I must say. Simmons has gotten some very good basketball, football and soccer writers, but the site’s baseball coverage is pretty weak so far.
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Honestly, I don’t expect people to be perfect, but if he’s going to cite what Cole did in the minors last year it’s not that hard to get the levels correct. I know there’s more than one level of “A-ball” but it really isn’t complicated to figure them out.
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yep
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its grantland. Something is going to be wrong
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It does seem not to match, yes.
Every once in a while I think it’s fun to go back in time. What would have happened if one thing had happened differently? Well what if grover had been the A’s GM in 2008 and made his proposed trade here?
The proposed trade: Street/Mazzaro/Carter/Henry Rodriguez/Cardenas for Ryan Zimmerman
Zimmerman’s contract (signed 4/20/2009, 7 months after the post): 5 yrs/45 million
Zimmerman’s WAR since then: 7.3, 7.2, 2.5, 4.5
Percentage of people who though we gave up too much: 60%
Trades it may have prevented:
Holliday for Street, CarGo, Smith
DeJesus for Mazzaro, Marks
Willingham for Rodriguez, Brown
Players we (arguably) have instead:
Michael Taylor, Shane Peterson, Daniel Robertson, Matt Olson, Bruce Maxwell
Carter of course is still on the team. Cardenas was let go on waivers.
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Monkeyball made substantive, baseball-related comments on that post. That’s…different.
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It was a simpler era
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Not unusual pre-2009 there (or for three years here).
Haven’t been following this that closely, but My limited experience in fed court made me wonder why people on facebook and various blogs were so up in arms about Aaron Swartz potential sentence.
sounds like the US Attorney wanted multiple felonies and a little bit of jail time. I don’t get it. if what is stated in the comments is true, the defense knew of the offer that the USA made. I can’t imagine not communicating that to the client.
Anybody have any different thoughts?
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Because going to jail for doing something that was murky at best (he had official access to MIT, downloaded stuff, and didn’t use it) and the “victim” isn’t pressing charges feels like too much. And, of course, you need to blame somebody.
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Victims don’t want to press charges frequently and people are prosecuted. people go to jail in murky circumstances all the time.
To be clear, I agree it looks like an over reach. I have a problem with the public outcry. things like this happen to poor people all the time and prosecutors are lauded.
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That I agree completely with (and have seen mentioned, but only rarely).
Also, if there’s one thing the internet is always going to support its people crusading to free information.
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Probably not by the people who are up in arms about Swartz. Ignored maybe, but not lauded.
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Ignored is a fair description.
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He had to break in to get the access tho.
Yay, we get to see the full team in regular spring training.
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I think I’m going to ST for a few days! I’m so excited!
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March 2-11 here for 9 A’s games (and one FKing off day, thanks so much WBC). I’ll be at the usual luxury accommodations at the Motel 6 near Old Town Scottsdale, with the pancake place in the old Sambo’s in the front.
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Later for me, and not as long. March 20-23. I get to see the A’s play the Reds, which I’m excited for.
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Rats, I was hoping you would be there for my off-day. It shouldn’t be hard to find a place to do some shooting down in Sheriff Joe country.
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Or to get shot at…not sure Sheriff Joe would like the cut of aardvark’s jib.
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Tejada is on the DR roster for some reason.
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Hes trying to make a comback for next year.
This Jaso thing might work out…
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oops, didn’t get the img in there:
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Looks like Carney Lansford in the bottom left one.
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Note that his GF
LennayShannon refers to him as “my hippie fiance”. So I’m guessing Tampa Bay sucked, Seattle was awesome and the Bay Area WOO HOO!!up
He’s from Humboldt, so…
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Every once in a while, I see a player, and I say to myself, “Someday, that guy’s going to be on the A’s.”
When Jaso came up with Tampa, my “Future A’s-dar” pinged, big time.
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I like this “A’s-dar” concept.
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I got it big-time seeing Erubiel Durazo play for the D-Backs in 2002.
However, I also had it for Jamie Moyer right before he went from Seattle to Philadelphia, and he never played for the A’s, even though he probably would have been a better starter than Tyson Ross was last year.
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Wait, so we now have 2 catchers who willingly shaved off awesome beards? What the FK?
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Jaso’s scraggly beard whimpers and cowers away from Norris’s beard’s awesomeness.
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I wouldn’t trust that beard to build me a shed.
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Maybe some Ikea furniture, but that’s about all.
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I’d trust it to quote the Bible for me. I’d trust it to build me an Amish barn, or to quote the Bible. Or to catch a shark that’s eating all the tourists.
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I’d trust that beard was about to ask me for a ride and if I was holding.
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I agree
This is incredible — Bargain Bin Blasphemy
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I totally wanna hear “They Can’t Find Me Blessed.” I bet it’s sludgerrific!
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but I’m sure it won’t hold a candle to “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Pain”
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Ironically, they don’t have to change anything to make “Kodachrome” satanic.
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This is beautiful.
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Finally, a plausible explanation for Art Garfunkle having had success in anything, ever.
Anyone going to see the Goonies at the Parkway tonight?
GOONIES!!!
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I’m going to see Life of Pi there.
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Inferior choice
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I booked them a couple times years ago, AWESOME band.
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I hear it’s transcendental.
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Ba-doom-tishhhhhh.
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Nice.
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HEY YOU GUYYYYYYYS!
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
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I’m still on the fence cuz my friends are pumpkins and I don’t want to make my gf go with me, she’s not a fan of the film.
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The Goonies is entirely enjoyable while rollin’ solo.
Also… wait. Your girlfriend isn’t a fan? ….HOW.
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She cant handle 80′s films portrayals of Asians, she’s Japanese-American, I dont blame her w/ Goonies as Data, and family, is one of the worst offenders of the stereotype.
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Yeah its pretty racist in that regard.
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I had a friend growing up (during that time) who’s family reminded me exactly like that.
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Okay, I got full respect for that.
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I am actually going out tonight to see 17 reasons
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I totally blanked that the big brother was played by Josh Brolin until about two weeks ago.
This is the yearly “Bed posts in The Grill post”…we now send you back to your regular programming.
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I’m glad that got cancelled quick.
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It was more like one of those “FYI” or “One To Grow On” or “The More You Know” 60-second filler spots than an actual series.
“Monsignor Meth” Having Sex in the Rectory. It’s like the most perverted game of Clue ever.
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Pfft. You call that a cross dressing priest? He’s dressed nothing like Jesus.
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That headline is so good I’m not even going to read the story.
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This is why the Pope needs to embrace collar control.
WUT?
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Well, shit.
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Best comment on that article:
“I thought they said he was a receiver?”
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the twist is the assault was reported by the green bay defense.
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I’ve only seen that it happened after that game. Where did you see that?
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nowhere it was a joke.
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win
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I’m skeptical, not that he couldn’t have done it. The timing is suspicious, though.
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I wouldn’t worry to much. He’ll probably get the Sandoval treatment.
Eighteen in 2 years? I don’t know, but that seems like a lot in such a small state.
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I’ll start:
Wooda been mor, but the reporter run outta fangers an’ toz.
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Adorable. Is it your cat?
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she is my roommates’ cat but she spends most of her time with me :)
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Awww!
Of all the places to see an old Philly A’s thing…
http://www.uni-watch.com/2013/01/19/logo-a-go-go-volume-ii/
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The Phillies logo looks like the guy is beating someone who’s already on the ground.
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The 49ers one is the worst of the lot.
I missed it it yesterday, but John Sickles posted his A’s prospect list. Russell #1, not A prospects.
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From #8 down, most of the list is still in the low minors. Hopefully, more than a few break out this year, but they could all go either way at this point.
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I should say, I don’t mean “break out” as in “rip through the minors in one year.” I just mean that I hope they establish themselves as quality prospects. I don’t follow the minors in general, but A’s prospects that don’t establish themselves early generally don’t seem to establish themselves at all.
First Earl Weaver and now Stan Musial. Someone better sacrifice a chicken to the baseball gods before someone else goes. RIP.
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I think a few idiots already took care of that a while back.