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27 Sep 2009  |  ptbnl  |The Grill

It has been quite a summer here. And yet, despite everything, this is the first thing that has really made me consider auto-trepanation.

If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.

80 thoughts on “I want that 6:15 back”

  1. JediLeroy Sep 28,2009 4:14 am

    To whomever made that video:

    az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • mk Sep 28,2009 2:12 pm || Up

      Pretty damn funny.

      I would have given him a point or two, except Cabrera likely initiated the hug, and we can’t see Holliday’s face … good stuff.

      • JediLeroy Sep 28,2009 4:51 pm || Up

        Aww, thanks. Not quite as funny as this, though.

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
  2. salb918 Sep 28,2009 7:56 am

    “They did by letting you be involved.”

    OH SNAP!

  3. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 9:25 am

    When do they all take off their clothes and start fucking?

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  4. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 9:26 am

    this is the first thing that has really made me consider auto-trepanation

    Christ, what a brain hole.

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  5. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 9:57 am

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  6. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 9:57 am

    Geez. RIP, Bill Safire.

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  7. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 9:59 am

    No matter where Milton goes, I suspect he’ll still get fan letters. And Jack Marshall will find off-field reasons to vote against him 5 years after he retires (not that Milton’s on-field numbers would justify it anyway).

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    • mk Sep 28,2009 10:34 am || Up

      At what point is Milton just not worth the trouble?

      This says that as long as he’s good (2008 good), someone will put up with him (I could’ve told you that, but the article has charts and stuff). It also says:

      [W]hile 1.5 wins may be the maximum negative win contribution a player can have on a team, the maximum positive clubhouse impact is probably much smaller.

      • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 10:39 am || Up

        At what point is Milton just not worth the trouble?

        2006?

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  8. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 9:59 am

    No.

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  9. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 10:00 am
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  10. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 10:35 am

    Ex-A’s management updates: 1, 2, 3

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    • andeux Sep 28,2009 11:26 am || Up

      1. Weird. I heard that Peterson left because he and Macha were basically not on speaking terms during his last year here.
      2. I think Krukow accused the A’s of doing that during a Giants/A’s broadcast a few years ago, and then retracted it a couple of days later.

      TINSTAAFK
      • salb918 Sep 28,2009 11:39 am || Up

        What was his deal with Jason Kendall? I can’t remember.

        • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 11:53 am || Up

          He was being paid through intermediaries by the tobacco industry to molest him

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  11. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 10:38 am

    Whoa. Did I read that right? Joe Posnanski was arrested in Switzerland?

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    • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 11:02 am || Up

      13 year olds, dude.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • mikeA Sep 28,2009 11:31 am || Up

        I had thought the Swiss maintained a studied neutrality on that issue.

        • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 11:35 am || Up

          Your legal opinion is full of holes.

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    • mk Sep 28,2009 11:09 am || Up

      Have you seen this? I tried, but I kept falling asleep.

      • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 11:32 am || Up

        No, I haven’t. One of the guys at LG&M made a pretty sweeping dismissal of the docu that I find convincing. I’m a huge Polanski fan, but I also think what he did in Jack’s house was reprehensible. I’m basically agnostic on whether at this point it’s worth pursuing prosecution.

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  12. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 11:32 am

    Now that’s Change I can believe in!

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  13. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 11:32 am

    Um, wow.

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    • mikeA Sep 28,2009 11:35 am || Up

      Polanski studied under Woody Allen at the Manhattan Institute. I didn’t know it was involved in this type of stuff.

  14. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 11:39 am
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  15. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 11:42 am

    Ugh. God, do I loathe Ken Burns.

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    • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 12:32 pm || Up

      Why?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 12:39 pm || Up

        Buckets and buckets of sanctimony, cooked narratives with stock villains, ignorance of counterfactuals (or even possibilities of counternarratives), “tastefulness” … he’s Thomas Kincaid for NPR listeners.

        But mostly it’s the fucking sanctimony.

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        • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 12:53 pm || Up

          I don’t know. He gives good documentary, at a time when documentaries almost universally suck. I liked Baseball and The War. I imagine I’ll like the new one if I ever watch it.

          To the extent you’re mad about the “America’s Best Idea” tag, I will say that TR makes my top-5 in significant part because of the Parks.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 12:58 pm || Up

            I have nothing against the NPS, conservation, or the celebration/promotion thereof.

            I don’t particularly care for simple-minded sanctimony that spends inordinate amounts of time congratulating its audience for their preconceived notions.

            When conservatives complain about “the liberal media,” this crap is the sort of thing that gives them ammunition.

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          • mikeA Sep 28,2009 12:59 pm || Up

            I think there are lots of good documentaries these days. In a weak moment, I might say that we are in the midst of a docussaince.

            • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 1:03 pm || Up

              It’s easier (and cheaper) to put together a good docu than a good narrative feature-length — and a better proposition on ROI for investors/distributors. I’d agree.

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            • the dogfather Sep 28,2009 1:25 pm || Up

              Has anybody seen Food, Inc? I’m inclined to invest the time on the strength of Michael Pollan’s association with it, but would be interested in any reactions.

              The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
              • sslinger Sep 28,2009 4:38 pm || Up

                Mostly stuff you probably already know, but well-presented. Some interesting stuff with a woman chicken “farmer” who was willing to go on record about how bad it is despite knowing she’d get her contract with the distributor cancelled. Stuff about the revolving door between big agra and FDA. A very cool farmer in the south (Tennessee, I think).

              • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 4:42 pm || Up

                Block that metaphor!

                Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer

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                • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 5:19 pm || Up

                  They’re goin’ to the chapel…

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • mikeA Sep 28,2009 1:15 pm || Up
          • andeux Sep 28,2009 1:33 pm || Up

            The problem is that he is more propagandist than documentarian. I thought Baseball was worth watching, despite having way too much bloviating from the likes of Will and Goodwin, but Jazz actually made me angry. He clearly had no interest in or appreciation for anything from the last 50 years or so, but purported to cover those years anyway in his highly slanted and not terribly accurate way. And even in the parts about the Swing era, he seemed far more interested in his cultural narratives than in the music itself.

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            • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 1:45 pm || Up

              I take no position on Jazz.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 2:24 pm || Up

              I thought Woody Allen made Jazz, on a sub rosa assignment for the Manhattan Institute.

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        • mikeA Sep 28,2009 12:56 pm || Up

          This is correct. He is an appalling failure by any standard other than enabling people who are 1)gauzily liberal; and 2) over the age of 80, to feel good about themselves.

          • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 1:18 pm || Up

            That’s too strong (and I think you know it).

            Having not seen the new one, I don’t know about (1), but I know it is not a fair criticism of The War or Baseball. As to (2), his ratings are way too high to be limited to seniors.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • mikeA Sep 28,2009 1:29 pm || Up

              2 is of course an exaggeration. My parents are big fans… I think 1 is definitely a fair and accurate criticism of The War and Baseball. A further criticism is that they are just not very interesting, although that is not exactly the point.

              • mikeA Sep 28,2009 1:36 pm || Up

                burbling fatuousness is a nice turn of phrase.

                • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 1:56 pm || Up

                  Which would much more accurately describe the review.

                  It basically lists a whole lot of positives and ends with “but Ken Burns is a jerk, so I hated the documentary.”

                  I also think there could be a worthwhile debate over whether the assertion “in extraordinary times there are no ordinary lives” is true.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • andeux Sep 28,2009 5:31 pm || Up

          But mostly it’s the fucking sanctimony.

          Ken Burns is **** with a big budget.

          TINSTAAFK
          • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 5:49 pm || Up

            Good lord.

            I didn’t realize Ken Burns was FK’s irrational-hatred boogeyman.

            The chief administrator is a talentless hack who thinks he’s funny. Burns is a successful director who has made significant contributions to his profession. He may be a little bit full of himself, but the justification for that is non-zero.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • andeux Sep 28,2009 5:52 pm || Up

              “Irrational” = disagrees with nm. Got it.

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              • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 6:26 pm || Up

                Irrational = equates Ken Burns with the chief administrator (among other admitted hyperbole). That’s a flame more than an opinion.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • mk Sep 28,2009 6:31 pm || Up

            Isn’t The Civil War universally considered to be awesome? (I’ve never seen anything he’s done)

            • mikeA Sep 28,2009 6:40 pm || Up

              I don’t consider it to be awesome, so apparently not. It has a nice soundtrack. You would be amazed at how little you would learn about the Civil War from watching it. Or maybe you wouldn’t, but I was.

          • the dogfather Sep 29,2009 8:37 am || Up

            Sanctimony is a wonderful, satisfying term to use. But like NM, I’m having trouble squaring its proximity to “Ken Burns.”

            So — in which of its several shades are we seeking to dress Mr. B?

            The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
            • mikeA Sep 29,2009 2:43 pm || Up

              that is a bad definition…. m-w gives “affected or hypocritical holiness,” which is much better.

  16. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 12:37 pm
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    • mk Sep 28,2009 1:49 pm || Up

      “Maybe even brilliant” is in my irritating phrases hall of fame, sandwiched between “virtually unparalleled” and “long road to hoe”.

  17. mk Sep 28,2009 1:54 pm

    1. This is a 16 year-old piece on Ricky Jay that is about 10 paragraphs too long, but is nevertheless kind of fascinating. It contains the phrase “serendipitous microbursts of legerdemain”, as well as the following exchange:

    “Thomas, I don’t even have a B.A.”

    Wright replied, “Well, you know, Ricky, a Ph.D. is just a sign of docility.”

    2. Revenue streams are for cowards:

    As for how Twitter managed to raise money and score an impressive valuation without ever actually bringing in any significant revenue on its own, that apparently was never a problem.

    • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 2:29 pm || Up

      16 year-old, Dude

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    • the dogfather Sep 28,2009 2:50 pm || Up

      His Eddie Sawyer was just one of the many reasons to love Deadwood.

      The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
      • Leopold Bloom Sep 29,2009 6:46 am || Up

        Ricky Jay was just creepy wonderful before Deadwood. I’m fairly convinced he’s some sort of mythical creature.

        • monkeyball Sep 29,2009 9:34 am || Up

          They really should have cast him as Mr Tumnus in the Narnia films.

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  18. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 4:27 pm
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    • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 5:22 pm || Up

      It’s sad that the rantings of crazy people are this powerful.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 5:39 pm || Up

        I may need to change my sigline

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        • nevermoor Sep 28,2009 5:50 pm || Up

          That would be quite the honor.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux Sep 28,2009 5:33 pm || Up

      “by stressing the politics, the article irritated more readers.”

      I don’t know why those readers would expect coverage of this issue to be different than that of any other one.

      TINSTAAFK
  19. monkeyball Sep 28,2009 4:29 pm

    In college, I played jester’s bells for the Mischief Candidates.

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  20. lenscrafters Sep 28,2009 8:28 pm

    Rajai Davis is rapidly becoming one of my least favorite players to read about.

    • monkeyball Sep 28,2009 10:31 pm || Up

      Ken Burns and Woody Allen have been paid by the Manhattan Institute to overhype him.

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      • JediLeroy Sep 29,2009 2:16 pm || Up

        Cue a picture of Rajai Davis, slowly panning and zooming. Suddenly it stops, and Rajai Davis turns to the camera and laments about how little pleasure he receives from stealing a base

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • monkeyball Sep 29,2009 2:18 pm || Up

          I prefer the old, funny Rajai.

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