With apologies to George Jones:
I can hardly bear the sight of high socks in the infield when he plays
Battin’ cold out in the eight spot, but he’s the only thing that we’ve got
At shortstop
Oh we thought a cup of coffee while Jed Lowrie was hungover from some drinks
But it turned into every day, that’s so much worse than just Jemile Weeks
Not a good year for Rosales
Billy Beane still brings him here
Not bad at fielding and throwing
Funny I don’t even care
He can turn the double play
But he swings at awful balls; is
The only thing I have to say
“Its been a bad year for Rosales”?
After three full years on the roster, it’s not the first time that we have seen your worst
But every time you draw a walk ‘n’, we know how you’ll go a’sprintin’ down to first
While your high socks go a-racing down the line, we find we can’t muster the words
From the basement the keyboard sounds of free kraut cryin’ goes unheard
Excellent work camelid.
Nice!
Can one actually purchase this, my gf would love it.
Yours for $12: http://shirt.woot.com/offers/cthulhu-hears-the-call
Ooooh, thanks for the link!
Good stuff! Touching, even. When he gets sent down I hope Rosales goes to Sacto via riding lawnmower.
It is my favorite country tune of all time.
This might be the weirdest thing I’ve seen all year…
WARNING this link contains Michelle Bachmann.
The soft rock guitar solo really fking puts it over the top…
Pe-emptive campaign funds meltdown mitigation?
Hahahaha wtf
That is bonkers.
At least she looked directly into the camera this time.
what the..
nice
This is one way to deal with a problem like that:
That was awesome. If he were smart he’d be spraying them with urine instead of water.
Slideshow from the Sierra Club magazine of 10 of the strangest natural landscapes on Earth.
Neat.
Also, I’ve had the Yellowstone spot on my list for a while.
Stole this from Gigs on FB: http://io9.com/old-spock-battles-new-spock-in-the-greatest-car-commerc-493836696?fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582&ref=profile_open_graph&fb_source=timeline_og&fb_action_ids=10151325088626653
From Ostler’s (surprisingly decent) article about the Heyman mini-controversy
A-FKin-men A.J.
Ostler was ripping into Heyman on twitter, too.
Thanks, and go As.
One of the benefits of the Chronicle’s paywall is that Bruce Jenkins now only teases his column on his blog; without a subscription you must soldier on without his keen insights.
Ostler, C.J. Wilson…this Heyman incident is bringing everyone over to our side.
To quote Saul Alinsky: “Don’t worry boys, we’ll weather this storm of approval and come out of it as hated as ever.”
#communistconspiracy /glennbeck
Heyman’s tweet was a false flag operation.
Same old story, you think you’re working for a disruptive organization and then the bureaucrats take over.
Want another reason why I’m giving up the pursuit of a photography career? You got it:
http://jimromenesko.com/2013/05/30/report-sun-times-lays-off-entire-photo-staff/
Damn. That is sad.
I read that earlier this afternoon. Pretty shameful.
Anybody else feel like this Will-Smith-trying-to-turn-his-son-into-a-star thing is a little creepy and likely to end badly?
Yes. And his son can’t act worth shit. And in their latest venture together, nor can he from the looks of it.
to children, everywhere… your mothers and fathers… the understanding youths thing? they’re doing it very little or not at all.
(gah! i wish there was a catchier way to put this sentiment.)
You go to school to obtain knowledge, not for a demonstration of fashionable clothing.
The charges to my credit card from stores at Bay Street argue the opposite.
What did you expect to happen when she asked you for Adidas, and you bought her Zips? You should accept that you were buggin’.
As likable as Will Smith’s movie characters are, I’ve heard nothing but bad things about him behind the scenes. Keanu Reeves on the other hand is apparently like the best person ever.
woah
#Win.
Yeah, everything I’ve heard is that he’s a major douchebag in real life. Though, watching him act, it’s really not terribly surprising. There’s a bit of hint of “Better Than You” in all his performances.
I keep looking at this Filk and wanting to offer a response, to the tune of “I don’t know, maybe it was Rosales.”
I swear I did not see this comment until just now, but I guess GMTA…. see below, FSU :P
This story out of Chicago got buried under all the tornado chasing today. 10 years is a pretty long time. #DFAbait
I remember seeing a handful of picketers outside there pretty much whenever I went past.
Rough day at work. I cried, and I’m usually the heartless bastard when it comes to kids.
Hugs.
I love my peeps. When someone needs help, anyone can pick up the phone and the person at the other end will drop what they are doing and be there.
this
Thanks, boys. I ♡ you two.
Wha happen?
It’s best not to know.
But now I do. And I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
I’m tempted to whip up a version of “It Must Have Been Rosales” to the Grateful Dead’s “It Must Have Been the Roses”. Nice work :D
***EDIT after getting high and going for it***
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Adam laid his bat down like a ballast
He was toothy, toothy, toothy in his big wide grin
I don’t know, maybe it was Rosales
that never seemed to drive the runner in
I don’t know, it must have been Rosales
Rosales killed a rally then he threw the ball away
I don’t know, maybe it was Rosales
Nak him out, he doesn’t have to stay
Ten games more he sprinted out to play the field
Thinkin’ well if I hit a bomb a month and also flash my hose
Pretend that I’m a major league contender that’s for real
Perhaps they’ll keep me up here til Jemile’s head explodes
I don’t know, it must have been Rosales
who left another ten on in the ballgame yesterday
I don’t know, maybe it was Rosales
Grant Green should get the FK up here and play
One hit a week in the big show
A’s fans are complaining, no, it can’t get worse than this
Quadruple A, the title that was given to the man
who sprinted down to first when hit by pitch
I don’t know, it must have been Rosales
the shoe that fits, you know you have to wear it so to speak
I don’t know, maybe it was Rosales
I know it wasn’t Hiro, Green or Weeks
Adam laid his bat down like a ballast
He was toothy, toothy, toothy in his big wide grin
I don’t know, maybe it was Rosales
that never seemed to drive the runner in
HA HA HA
And now if someone could please F(il)K a Rosales DFA to “Black Peter”…
Nice
Nice going man!
I have no faith that grant green would be any better when you factor defense in
I’d rather find out than keep watching Rosales.
Id rather watch Green. I think Rosales is a safer better bet
to SUCK ASS!!!
They tried to reach me for comment on this story, but I was a little tied up at the time.
I miss kay
Same. Kay was always entertaining and interesting.
And she always had nice things to say to me that made me feel better about myself.
Potemkin lives
Is he planning a ballpark in Fremont?
I hadn’t noticed that the idiotic score-reversion rule was reinstated on a limited basis for this season. The only reason it didn’t cost the Royals their 3-run game-winning rally last night is that the umpires (doing something right for a change) waited four and a half hours until after 3 a.m. to complete the ninth inning.
Did that rule ever go away for the regular season? I thought it was only changed for postseason games, to ensure that none would ever be determined with less than a full 9 innings played.
That was my understanding too.
That situation where the visiting team comes back to take the lead but then the game is rained out before the home team completes its at-bat in the bottom of the inning has been a suspended game for about the last 30-35 years, to be completed at some future date. Prior to that, the visiting team’s runs in the top of the inning were wiped out, the score reverted to the end of the previous full inning and the home team was declared the winner. I know this happened to the A’s once in the 70s, but I think it was after it happened to the Yankees that Steinbrenner exploded and the rule was changed. Now, because the scheduling is so complicated, if it’s the last game of the season between the two teams, as was the case with KC @ STL last night, we’re using the reversion rule again. If the umpires had waited a normal time, like 2 hours or so, the Cardinals would have been declared 2-1 winners of an 8-inning game.
This is the game where it happened to the A’s, on the surface a 4-3, 7 inning home win by the White Sox. Retrosheet describes what happened in the top of the 8th:
That isn’t quite right because Herb Washington never batted and Claudell hadn’t been called up yet. Somebody else pinch-hit for Angel Mangual and Herb pinch-ran for him. In any case, the A’s had tied the game in the top of the 8th, but because of that rule the run was wiped away and the score reverted to the end of the 7th inning, so the White Sox won.
Wow. That really is a dumb rule, made dumber by interleague play and generally fewer games played by each team against each other.
Apparently they hadn’t posted the new version of the rules until this morning.
How fking stupid.
He’s wrong about that. I downloaded the 2013 version some time ago and it has the changes underlined.
Hm, it might be that the 2013 version was there, but the main “rules” link on the MLB website still went to the 2012 version. Not clear from his post.
Huh, that same umpiring crew is calling a game today at Wrigley starting in 10 minutes. That ought to be interesting.
And the weather problems continue in St. Louis.
Confirmed tornado in the STL area near St. Charles now.
They must issue those warnings in the 7th inning of most Giants home games too.
hey-o
I would be ok if it wiped out the Giants.
What’s with the men’s fashion industry trying to sell us pocket squares all of a sudden? Are people other than Tom Wolfe actually wearing these?
I have a bunch
I had a feeling…
You’re so square.
I have never owned one, but I do see them on others and they look sharp. I especially like the jagged toothed way of folding/displaying them.
My first suspicion would be that it comes out of the NBA dress-clothes thing, since players have really gotten into stuff like that.
I could totally see that.
Is anyone else getting a thing where the sidebar shows a whole bunch of unread comments in a whole bunch of different threads, but then when it refreshes it (correctly) shows no unread comments at all? It’s been happening for at least a week.
I had it happen once.
I had something similar where I had only two threads where it was unread then finally correctly showed that I had a ton of unread.
Yes, I see that occasionally. Seems like some kind of clock issue.
Server clock crapping out or hanging could certainly cause that.
YEEEEAAAAHHHH BOOOOOOOOOYYYYYY!!!!!!!
Very sporadically for the last few months, and yes, the issue seems to vanish as soon as I refresh or click through to another FK page.
Gah, trying to travel anywhere near the 4th of July is terribly expensive. Boston to SF should not cost this much.
What are your parameters (date range(s), preferred flight times, number of people)?
I have a strong feeling of comfort knowing that if Mickey Morobito goes on the DL, you can be called up and the A’s schedule will not miss a beat.
It’s just me, any time during the weekend after the 4th (so July 6th or 7th), and I’m open to times. Right now, I’m probably flying out at 5:30 AM on Saturday, so it’s hard to get much worse than that.
It’s part of a multi-city trip (SFO – CLT red eye over June 21st night, MYR – New York any time on July 2, and Boston-SFO on weekend after July 4th). From what I’ve been researching, the Myrtle Beach leg is a pretty standard price and the SFO – CLT leg isn’t great but is ok. It seems to be the Boston – SFO leg that’s driving a lot of the extra price.
And the Charlotte/Myrtle Beach and New York/Boston legs are otherwise covered? It may be the double open jaw that’s causing problems.
What’s the price to beat?
Would it? Yeah, I have rides between Charlotte-Myrtle Beach and New York-Boston currently. When I looked at cutting those out, it didn’t seem to save much, but I could fly directly into MB instead of Charlotte or out of New York instead of Boston if it made a difference.
Flying into Myrtle Beach tends to be extra expensive, which was the driver for flying into Charlotte instead. The Boston over New York departure was just around people I’d be visiting in the northeast.
Missed the last part there. Current price is $750, although the lowest possible I could find that technically works with my dates was $700. I went for the more expensive of the two because I’d rather leave in the morning of the 2nd than the evening, to maximize time in the north east.
Is this just for the BOS-SFO flight, the $700 amount? JetBlue is showing a couple afternoon flights on the 6th for $475 and a morning one on the 7th for the same.
No that’s for the whole trip. The cost for that $500ish one way ticket is why I think the Boston to SF leg is driving up the price.
Ugh.
I was also going to suggest JetBlue for Boston->SFO. When I flew out to the Bay Area a month ago, it was like $375 round-trip (gets more expensive in summer, I know).
I looked at Southwest’s “low-fare calendar” for Boston/Manchester/Providence to Oakland/San Francisco/San Jose and Dial C is right, this is a July 6-7 specific issue.
Completely blocked out, yep.
So I booked yesterday. I’m still within the 24 hour grace period (until about 3), but I felt like I needed to before it got even worse and it was before I saw any replies here.
Sorry – I had to leave for the game and ended up getting home late and now I have to dry-hop and pack for tomorrow’s 8am flight.
No worries. Maybe next time I’ll mention things here a bit earlier on
ozzbait
I’m the dance sensation that’s been sweeping the nation?
A week in Minnesota and I’ve finally had a beer that made me go wow: Great Water Hand-Pulled Cask-Conditioned Oatmeal Stout. Creamy and delicious. And in the old Hamm’s building to boot.
The Twins sweeping the Brewers bodes well for the first leg of the road trip. Although watching last night created some cognitive dissonance – at home at Target Field, Twins were wearing vintage St. Paul Saints road grays while the Brewers were wearing vintage home whites. Strange.
what the?
Summit also makes a good oatmeal stout.
Summit in general is pretty good. This one from Great Water would have made our top of the list at firkin fest.
http://www.uni-watch.com/2013/05/31/brewers-and-twins-wear-1948-throwbacks/
Includes a mention about why they had the grays at home.
cool.
Love those stirrups, a great look.
They are a thing of beauty, love the Brewers script ala Braves as well.
I REALLY like the look of it. To the point I went over to Ebbets to see if they had it (they dont…).
I really enjoyed the one evening I spent drinking in Minneapolis. Surly is really good. Also, I was on a general midwest nostalgia trip, because I that particular evening happened about two years after I left Chicago. Out here in Boston, I just don’t know where to find a divey bar with tallbikes parked outside (probably should look down by MIT).
Surly is good, not least for the name of Surly Furious.
So I’ve been sick all week. I hurt my bavk coughing, and this morning on the way to get ice dor my back, I fell down the stairs at my parents house. I’m a drugged up hot mess.
I see.
I have poor judgment. And typing.
Needs video.
apparently there is.
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That’s cute.
Hah, awesome. I didn’t really think it was actually possible to do
You gotta run those out Lowrie….
Watching the Rays debut by Chris Archer, easy 97-8 mph FB, pretty deadly looking slider, I think I now know how other teams may feel about our perennial sprouting of pitching talent.
Where do they get all these guys?
Crazy thing is Ol’ Greybeard Giambi has drivin in all the runs against him today!
Shitty fan treatment in Cleveland: the team tweeted out a picture of a happy, smiling family in matching Indians ponchos sitting out the rain delay:
With the current scheduling plan the approach to weather delays and postponements needs to be re-thought.
That score-reversion rule that came into play in the Royals-Cardinals game the other night was probably put in because on the surface it would seem to apply in extremely rare situations. But since it applies to the last game of the season series between any two teams, it turns out that’s actually 20 games out of a team’s 162-game schedule (the A’s play the 14 other AL teams, the Giants and all 5 NL Central teams).
All true – though in this case it was the first game of the series (albeit the only series).
In the situation in Cleveland last night, as the author of the linked articles suggests, there needs to be more willingness to schedule single-admission doubleheaders as a better option than screwing over the paying fans the way they were last night.
The suspended-game situation requires more creativity. You might not need mutual off-days. For example, if the Royals are playing the A’s in KC while the Cardinals have an off-day, perhaps the Cardinals fly into KC to complete the suspended game prior to the A’s-Royals game.
A pt today asked me to take off my pants so we would be “even”. Then told his family to watch out for me because I was crazy and would give blow jobs for candy.
I didn’t even know MikeV was sick.
Bwhahahaha!
im still laughing at this.
Awe. Some.
and now I have all these bags of skittles and starburst just laying around.
Thanks, and go As.
Isn’t that where you pick up the hypodermic that’s meant for elephants?
I had already stuck him for labs. I was trying to get him to take his morning meds. I was supposed to be in the ER. I actually don’t mind old people hitting on me. Better than them calling me fat and ugly.
I made a rather magnificent mixtape of the rather magnificent old psych soul group Rotary Connection, sort of focused on the rather magnificent singer Minnie Riperton, who died many years ago from breast cancer but remains forever magnificent.
*twitch*
no
some of them work. The road grey versions are fugly though.
The Astros hat is particularly heinous. The ‘H’ is almost invisible.
So. It’s okay to splatter Chief Wahoo with stars, but not the Blue Jays bird? I mean, if you’re going to go full on inappropriate, don’t go half way.
ik,r?
First thing I thought of when I saw the Cleveland hat was “indian blackface.”
canadian
I’m aware. Taking the most racist image in sports that represents the annihilation of an entire people and then sprinkling stars all over it to represent the genociders is much, much worse than sprinkling stars over a Canadian team. Ergo, “if you’re going to go full on inappropriate, don’t go half way.”
You don’t fuck with Canada Matt. You just don’t.
They will kick your ass five ways and then apologize ten ways.
And will treat you with free health care.
While entertaining you.
the llama. Nice!
Thx!
Excellent! Way to FilK!
And again!