A trap because this is a hipster internet meme grill
Creepiest thing you will ever see
What I sound like in my head while cooking
The tumblr is awesome read it here
I like to eat too much to have a cat
There is hope: Stoner Dude Marries Christina Hendrix
Now Time for Baseball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meh, you fail if you don’t learn to push a cat away from your food.
detracts from the foods enjoyment if I always have to do that
Dogs are way worse in that respect. And most others.
But dogs at least stay on the floor.
Oh.
No?
They learn.
My cat isn’t interested in most of the food I eat. Every once in a while it is something she likes the smell of, but even then she will just sit and stare at you.
Keith Law, who writes like he’s got five fingers and half a frontal lobe missing, did not publish any interesting tweets in 2013.
um how is that not an interesting tweet?
OK, so I looked at the whole thing a bit. There is a pretty good outline of what happened here.
Mayo goes on to name four teams and their chances of nailing the first pick, which inspired me to try yo fit that over the other teams. Obviously, with only four points ona very edge of an obviously non-linear fit, I could be way off, but I came up with:
“Balls” are lottery balls, if you prefer to imagine it like this. So, while the A’s had low chances (happens when you win a lot), the Orioles were not much better, yet nailed the second pick (which will probably be pick #33 next year).
Next is the look at what the Athletics’ chances were to nab a pick in each of 12 rounds (next to it is the sum probability to have nailed a pick at least that high):
Put in the terms of expected runs, the A’s entered the draft with the expected value of $940k in slot money, 1.3 fWAR (which is valued at $6.4m on an open market). They also had about two in three chance to hit.
This bar’s website made me think of DFA.
I drink there all the time. Also the saturday ping pong. And their food is good.
Hipster approved
Cool. I’m ’bout to make my first visit and needed to know which jeans to wear.
I would go with skinny tapered.
Seriously it was one of my favorite local bars. Great whiskey selection
that website makes me mad. as does they idea of that bar. I have never been there.
Why?
because you “hipsters” are on my lawn.
Dude thats my neighborhood more than yours… youre like 10 blocks away
Aren’t you like 300 miles away?
I still have lease. Im comming back.
Exurbs
Prior to oct 2005, I lived on Julian at 16th, behind the bank across from esta noche.
fair enough
(plus your version ruins the joke)
I am really good at that
Looks like the kind of place where Lyft drivers would drink.
win
Don’t tell the cabbies.
Went to this place last night. The drink special was shot of Bulleit and a tall can of PBR for $8. DFA levels were through the roof.
I approve
A history of the short-lived 1890 Players League. There are some names that will be familiar to baseball fans: Hoss Radbourn, Charles Comiskie, Dummy Hoy and the 28-year old catcher/part-owner of the Buffalo team, Connie Mack but (of interest only to me)
Critter bait:
When conviviality is outlawed, only outlaws will be convivial.
hee
Want
Im not sure I would want Ruiz if that cost Choice
I think the point is that Utley would cost Choice. Philly seems very reluctant to trade him, since he’s the face of the franchise (and they are kind of irrational).
I still think we should get Espinosa.
I agree
Im doing a piece now on who we should get that is who i want
Cool!
now is a fairly nebulous term. Im still at work.
Sure, but cool that we agree.
But he’s not good.
He isn’t having a good year but he can play a credible SS
his father is an Angels season ticket holder.
pass. (kidding, i don’t care when the angels draft Milo I am going to boo the hell out of him when he comes to the COli)
“Isn’t having a good year” is a huge understatement.
Sure, but he’s finally hitting again in AAA, and the Nats don’t need him. Should be a cheaper trade, plus he can be a 20 HR guy.
stephen drew is on a rehab. red sox don’t need him
I would want inglesias
he already knows the photographers well trap
Do they not need to make way for Bogaerts at some point?
They willish. If Inglesias continues hitting and Middlebrooks sucks then they will put Bogaerts at 3b
He’s hitting .215/.283/.346 in AAA with a 35%(!) K rate. Yes, he’s done better in his last ten games but normally we scoff at ten games being an indication of anything.
Sure, but he’s been hurt, and has a bit of a track record.
He’s still hurt.
This. No need for a guy with a partially torn rotator cuff and a loose body in his wrist. Surgery would seem a smarter way to address both. He must really hate hospitals.
Our luck with guys with injury histories isn’t… good.
I wonder if we’d have any chance at all of keeping Utley, on a one-year “prove it” deal? Probably not, his numbers are in line with his past numbers, so I’m not sure what he has to prove.
I do that deal in a second if we do. If not, giving up Choice for rent-an-Utley hurts. I still like it, though. Chase Utley is fantastic.
I can’t see him doing that. Barring another injury this year, I think he is well positioned right now to get a nice long-term deal from his hometown Dodgers next season.
Yeah, even with all the recent injury blips, he’s still Chase Utley. Odds are good somebody will pay him.
Re Stoner: from the comments
Re bats:
!!!!!
I don’t know about the merits of the idea, but whoever commissioned, wrote and approved that article is not helping.
Bat design has changed a lot in 135 years. yeah its still a stick, but there have been a ton of subtle design chages including, the cup, the knob, flared knob, tapered knob, barrel taper, wood. heat treatment, etc
and I get the point players change the grip at the plate, but label up (or down) is still the only way to swing the bat.
I thought that too.
Oh, it’s from that story above about the bats. I’ve seen that style of bat before, in a metal version.
weren’t we talking about an “Axe” handled bat for Cespedes last year?
Maybe he should just swing Bo Jackson
I don’t recall.
I can imagine how those bats might help, but it’s not like there’s a raging epidemic of hamate bone injuries, is there? Use purely as a preventative would seem quite dweebish, like cartoonishly thick batting helmets.
Like the article says, though, if you break the bone they remove it. So it’s preventative or pointless.
maybe he could market a bat that prevent appendicitis
and he got hurt
but it was April 9th! and he was already over .300! THE TURNAROUND! IT GLOWS!
Entering that day’s play he was batting .333, a robust 6-for-18 in 6 games.
One of those was a 4-for-4 performance.
So, he was batting .143 in the other 5 games.
No XBH, either.
And yeah, he got hurt on the 9th.
Though, he has hit fairly well since returning from the DL.
If he’s available, that’s someone I unenthusiastically would endorse targeting.
Obamacare, NY victory edition.
I can’t wait until all american citizens flee the heartland for a better life in the blue states and the only people left in the middle are undocumented immigrants tending the farms
We’ll always have a Bible Belt no matter what.
The problem is if the subsidies aren’t avialible because your employer offers coverage that is too expensive for you to afford. Then the exchange looks a lot worse.
Right. I understand the 9.5% is too high argument. Doesn’t mean the exchanges aren’t going to help a lot of people.
Absolutely but what they should have done is not prohibit subsidized exchange purchases even if you can get employer coverage
This is probably some trick that they did to get a “better” (cheaper) CBO score, right? That shit is dumb.
Right. The problem is that the bill needed to decouple two things: Employment tied to coverage and profit motives from medicine. The bill didn’t do a good job of either.
I don’t disagree, but I think we still have a difference of opinion about the possibility of incrementalism. There is no chance that the current Congress will pass any fixes to ACA, but some future Congresses might, and in the meantime hopefully the administration can ease some of the problems (yeah, I know that this is not happening so far for the issue that’s on your mind).
I think overall it will do good, but there are going to be a lot of people on the fringe that get screwed
The theory is that if you got an affordable offer from your employer, you didn’t need government support.
That makes sense, except when your definition of affordable is wrong.
And the government frequently fails at definitions.
But it can change them.
Well sure, but first you have to admit you have a problem. Then you have to agree on a solution.
First you have to get the system up and running.
I don’t know about that. This is very much something that doesn’t require it having started running to see that it’s a problem that needs fixing. That’s not the way the world works, granted, but it’s no less true.
Screw the poor people first, then fix it?
Screw some people while helping millions of others, and fix those people’s specific issue.
If we never implemented anything until it was 100% perfect for everyone, we wouldn’t have social security, medicare, medicaid, etc. etc. etc.
In theory yes, I wouldn’t propose *stopping* it in order to fix it, but the strategy should be cater to people most in need, helping everyone else later, instead of helping everyone else, then helping those most in need. It’s just a bit of (selectively) backwards approach.
There are a lot of people in need who will be helped immediately by ACA. Like unemployed people.
This. And everyone currently owning insurance they bought on the individual market (who aren’t usually rich either).
Meanwhile, I get the same shitty insurance as I got last year through work. Joy. (This is neither here nor there regarding ACA since I shouldn’t have been a primary target in that regard).
That’s why they should have passed my law instead.
Well, duh.
yup
Hence the “selectively”
Not really sure who Social Security screwed.
Everyone after?
It initially excluded everyone doing jobs that black people did. You would cry bloody murder if Obamacare was that flawed on day one.
you mean domestic servants?
And farmers
Wasn’t that the part they planned not to audit so it could be cheated?
I like to drink good bourbon during the hot weather outdoor vacationing season. Right now I’m enjoying some Basil Haydens very much. Anyone have other suggestions?
I am currently sipping on the modestly priced Woodinville Whiskey (a Bourbon), distilled right outside Seattle. I do not ever recall seeing it down in the Bay, but I would recommend it.
I thought that it had to be from Kentucky to be a bourbon?
anywhere in the USA
Suntori Yamazaki 12 year whiskey. Its great more like a scotch than a bourbon but is probably my favorite whiskey.
Bulliet and Basil are two of my go tos as they are relatively inexpensive and delicious. The High West bourbons are quite good too as is buffalo trace
OH shit forgot St George’s spirits Breaking and Entering. That shit is awesome
Yeah, that’s one I’ve really wanted to try, on the short list. And yeah, High West is fantastic.
Next time im home we should do a tour and tasting Fk up!
We had dinner at Hutch last night – good food, friendly service, and an excellent selection of Bourbon and other whiskeys. That spot on Telegraph has had a succession of places come and go, I hope these people can make a go of it.
So, ultimately I went both safe and bold. Safe with a High West product, and bold by choosing Campfire, a blend they released last year of rye, bourbon, and a peaty Scotch. Yes, I too recoiled on first contemplating that outlandish mixture, but friends, I kid you not when I say it may be the most perfect blended whisk(e)y I have ever imbibed. The smokiness from the Scotch matches so incredibly well with the bourbon that it really becomes its name. I have drunk a whole lot of whiskey around campfires in my life; nothing was ever as perfect for that setting as this whiskey is. Amazingly good.
good report ill try
huh. i did recoil. thought i read it wrong even. but i’ll have to try it.
At Era in Oakland they serve it with a little stick that they light, blow out, and then give a swirl to the glass. Or something along those line, but I don’t think it was just a match. It was a little over the top for me, but definitely reminiscent of a campfire.
So this is claiming my time:
http://www.amctv.com/games/movie-challenge/all-quizzes
Boo. No Repo Man quiz.
Huh. Didn’t see that coming.
Addison Russell ranked #6 by Keith Law
And #16 by Sickels
Sonny Gray 58th
A.J. Cole at 69
That trade is looking more and more like a stinker
Yes it is: for the Mariners. Cole was and is a nice prospect, but that doesn’t change the fact that Jaso is a valuable piece on a team with a championship window open right now. He’s a lefty hitting catcher with a .375 OBP even in a down year. Plus, it was a win now move that also netter a player with two more years of team control after this one. Good trade for the A’s and the Nats, horrifying blunder by the Mariners.
“catcher”
We always knew the Mariners were going to get screwed.
Jaso’s arm sucks, but is he that bad at the other aspects of catchering? I never know where to start with this topic.
Aren’t his pitch framing numbers pretty bad too? I spent about 30 seconds trying to look it up but didn’t find anything.
When people like Sickels say that a hitting prospect has “outstanding makeup” (in this case it’s Buxton), what exactly do we think that means? I get it with pitchers because you can watch how they control their emotions in tough spots and whatnot, but with hitters, and especially very young hitters, this starts to sound like having the good face.
Perhaps feedback from his coaches
this, and scouts. you can watch the specs demeanor too.
A lot of it is about how they take direction, handle failure/disappointment, whether they hustle, etc.
Are you an insider? Can someone post KLaw’s blurb here?
yes and yes
A month of great Cal league play! Im sold!
You can’t dispute that he is a strong prospect though — even if you include his slow start, he is still an above average hitter (114 wRC+) as a 19-year old shortstop in high-A, while battling some injuries. Plus he was very good last year. You can ding him for the fact that he got injured in the first place (health as a skill) and obviously anyone can quibble with exact placement on a top 50 list.
Not to mention that every report I’ve seen on his defense has been glowing, with no hints of having to move off the position.
This
Health is a skill and it is important
I think he is a very good bordering on elite spec. That being said I think the methodology of declaring him awesome based on a month and a half is suspect.
Who says it’s based on a month and a half? It’s based on a full calendar year of pro ball, plus high school scouting reports.
Nobody
I think it’s a no brainer to include him in a top 20, and that he should be seriously considered for top 10. Given the margain of error on this sort of thing, it seems to me that both KLaw’s ranking (6) and Sickels’ ranking (16) are compatible with that.
Im not saying that it isn’t Im saying that didn’t hit well for two months, now hitting well for less than that. Why not just say that he has had a mixed season with excellent scouting reports and last years track record make it highly likely that the improvement was health realated and more emblematic of his skill level
I think in general, people have a tendency to look more closely at what’s happened most recently as being more meaningful.
In Russell’s situation it’s easy to make the case the slow start was due to injury and getting used to a higher level and now he’s excelling.
To summarize, your problem is not with his ranking, but rather with the blurb that accompanies the ranking. That is fair.
Yes
Although, the problem lays with the interpretation. KL never said that Russell was good because his last month and a half were excellent. He said that Russell was good and his last month and a half were excellent.
Because he wanted to use the word “Gregorian.”
Who doesn’t?
Probably right
114 wRC+ for the youngest player in the league, who plays excellent shortstop is more than “mixed”
To put in into perspective, right now there are 6 shortstops in the MLB who are batting that or better. Jed Lowrie is the worst fielder (measured for this year), and yet he is still on pace for 3 WAR. Ian Desmond, the only one whose fielding is better than average is on the pace for 6 WAR.
When you are considering putting him in the top 10 prospects of all of baseball it is. Usually those players have absoulte domination as their records.
Not when they are that young relative to the league and playing premium positions. Lindor never had a wRC+ above 119. Should he also not be considered for a Top 10?
Lindor is a better defensive short stop
Such certainty about two highly praised 19-year-olds whom you have (presumably) never seen play is amusing.
How much better is his defense? Exactly that much better to put him from say #14 prospect in the game right now to #7? You put precision in these rankings that does not really exist. It’s like “It wasn’t a 100 mph fastball, it was a 99 mph fastball, I can tell”
Speaking of KLaw:
LOL.
Thanks, and go As.
I wouldn’t take it if I were the Phillies.
Yes, it would be too good to be true for us.
Do we really want Ruiz?
Yes, he is better than Norris and probably better than Jaso.
Probably means we could trade Norris for stuff?
is 34 and has posted a wRC+ of 68 and has been hurt
I too, am aware of these facts.
and soft tissue injuries don’t matter because?
lol
Aren’t you the one that is super against Espinosa because he is hurt?
OBPs last 3 full seasons: .394, .378, .400. Still has 120 wRC+ against lefties, Norris becomes injury insurance. Only a one year commitment. Worth taking, but wouldn’t specifically target.
he missed half last year with the bartolo colon flu, yes?
And here is Jason Park’s write up based on the Futures Game:
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaanm.
[faints]
Love me some Professor Parks.
Im glad consensus is that Addison is a beast
Parks is very entertaining to read. Sometimes he falls in love with his own writing, but when he’s on (and appropriately edited) he’s very enjoyable to read.
Personally I love his writing so he can fall in love with it all he wants.
Here’s an example of him at his worst (keep in mind it’s a 2 part article):
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15798
Best line:
Yeah that’s kind of crazy.
My god, that’s sexy.
Oh. I thought you were talking about me.
That was implied.
Phew.
Parks also said of him before the season that he is the guy who could very well be number one next year, with his kind of potential
And Choice would have been in the 80-100 range
Of all the ways I wanted my day to begin, one of the worst is having to interact with a law firm whose url is mofo.com.
Hey, did you get my email?
Yes, just saw it, will try to get an answer to you later today. Jennifer might have some thoughts also.
Perfect. No rush, just wanted to make sure I made it past the spam filter
You rang?
I got a massage first thing this morning. I cried.
Hire me. I’ll call ’em back.
Also, I think it’s a pretty great url.
they milk that.
I have a note pad with their logo on it. “MoFo”
Yep. It was definitely early-internet-era positioning. I just think it’s good positioning.
pwnage
Moooooo!
According to mlb.com, Griffin, Straily and Colon are your starters for the Angels series, with TBD after that. That’s five days rest for Griffin and Straily, and six days rest for Colon. I’m assuming that Milone and Parker will start the next two games are just being given extra long breaks, but I do wonder whether there is any chance they are considering a Gray start in Houston.
I’m very in favor of Gray replacing Milone on an extended basis.
On this point, does anyone else think that swapping Gray into the rotation for Milone would make the team better? Milone’s not terrible, but he just is not getting the results he did last year, mostly because he is walking more batters and allowing more fly balls, which are turning into homers.
(refresh the thread, GM)
One issue is that the team currently plays better to Milone’s strengths than Gray’s. I’m always in favor of a strikeout/groundball guy over a flyball/control guy but when your infield defense composes of Lowrie, Green, and Freiman on an occasional basis, you’ll probably get better results from Milone even if Gray is actually better.
Of course, the issue then is fixing that crappy middle infield problem and not letting a guy who’s probably really good not start.
So trade Milone great infielders?
That’s a good point. I might agree with it if weren’t for the fact that Milone’s walk rate has crept up this year. He’s a good pitcher despite the homers when his control is elite, not so good otherwise.
By the way, do we know that Gray has ground ball tendencies?
Yes, he has strong groundball tendencies (53% this year, 58% last year). Not quite elite Trevor Cahill levels (>60%), but still very good.
Here’s an interesting comparison by one of my old college friends:
That’s a pretty sizable difference between the A’s and everyone else in the second one, but it shows a couple things to me: this year the A’s give up a LOT of fly balls and they’ve probably been fortunate more haven’t gone over the fence. At least they’re good at getting to a lot of them.
Very cool. That’s quite an impressive performance by the OF.
It’s interesting to look at the UZR numbers, which point to Cespedes and Reddick having great years defensively, and Coco and Young being below average.
I thought that fly balls are supposed to have lower BABIP than ground balls. Does that second table include line drives? If so, then one reason that the A’s look so good is that they haven’t allowed many line drives at all.
I guess that’d be the case, re: BABIP.
The columns do note what each of them represents. It doesn’t account for how many of them are actual line drives.
Oh yeah, I didn’t notice that liners are included explicitly (and infield flies). Thanks.
A’s have the lowest LD% in the Majors, by a significant margin — Oakland = 18.5%, Pittsburgh = 19.1%, everyone else > 20%.
They also have the lowest GB% by far, only 39.2%.
Given the sketchy fielding up the middle, it’s probably better the outfield is getting more chances these days.
Yeah, no kidding. But it’s still a startlingly different look from the A’s teams of Cahill/Anderson (and Ziegler!).
psha like Anderson actually was ever off the DL
Bottom line, the Angels suck, and we are better than them at everything.
ROS Steamer projects Gray for a 4.42 FIP, Milone to a 3.81. I think Gray’s is too high and Milone’s too low, but I do think Milone is a good 4th starter. Playoff game starter? Eh, prolly not.
That heavily takes into account preseason projections which are based off of last year’s numbers. Gray had mediocre numbers last year in AA, but a lot of it was because the A’s were limiting his repertoire and making him focus on developing the changeup and two seamer.
We shouldn’t ignore last year’s data completely but we should account for this context, which the projection systems don’t.
Just got a thank-you email from the A’s, as follows:
“Thank you for voting online for the MLB 2013 All-Star Game and selecting the Oakland A’s as your “favorite” or “other favorite” club. As a special thank you for voting one or more times, use online coupon code STAR to access Lower Box tickets for $20 to the Thursday, July 25 game vs. the Los Angeles” slegnA.
We already have tix to that game, but perhaps some other FKer can use that code to get the discount?
Considering who the opponent is, I think that coupon code is spelled backward.
Do they travel with the team? Maybe ARF would lend the A’s a few good mousers or a tar reirret?
Amen, Huey. The A’s use of a live keyboardist at games this year has been a really nice development.
I don’t particularly care what music gets played but there needs to be less of it. Any amplified sound is excessive if you’re getting it between almost every pitch. Once a batter steps into the box to start his AB I think the sound system should be shut off until that AB is over, unless the catcher goes to the mound or there’s some other delay. What they play when a hit or out is recorded, the walk-up music, the between-innings program, I don’t mind because that stuff doesn’t distract from the game. At one point we went from organ music to Hall and Oates, and if the pendulum is swinging back the other way that’s fine.
I think Huey is confused about the roaming Dixieland band. That was “The Swingers” (heh), one of Charlie Finley’s gimmicks. Usually there wasn’t any sound at all over the Coliseum PA between innings; the Swingers would play (not very audible more than several sections away).
Besides, all those guys in the marching band in college need jobs. Create a section for them and let a conductor conduct.
My kid and I went to a Coyotes NHL game during Spring Training and a rock concert broke-out. Complete sensory overload, and hockey’s already pretty frantic.
I haven’t minded the recorded stuff so much at the Collie, especially that which amps the crowd for Doo and Rager. Notable exception: that bed-headed brunette trying waaay too hard to look slutty on the video to TLTQ.
I’ve had this song stuck in my head for the last couple of days. DFA, do you listen to this dude? Seems like it would be up your alley.
I don’t and i feel like I should like it but it doesn’t really move me.
It is stuck in my head so hard right now.
Boom!
I’m curious about how well they can see the exact moment when the drop pinches off. If I recall from my grad school roommates, that is actually a pretty interesting open question.
The story is slightly heartbreaking for the guy in Australia:
Needz moar fibre.
And, lord knows, there’s some competition for THAT Title.
A very nice video/photo “day in the life” of a baseball park (Target Field, but could be anywhere….well, anywhere where you could hear a vendor yelling “Beer here! Getcha beer here! Char-donnay!”)
Is California the only state that prohibits alcohol sales by roving vendors? Everywhere else I’ve been you can get a cold, refreshing Coors Light delivered at your seat for about $9 plus the keep-the-change tip.
If there was such a thing as a refreshing Coors Light, I’d probably pay $9 for the novelty (#beersnob)
asvd
As far as I know yes, CA is only state with such a prohibition (which IIRC has been in place since the 80s). I did very much enjoy beer delivered to me seat when I was at Coors Field a few years back. And I remember very fondly, if not very clearly, getting multiple beers at a time poured by vendors in Baltimore’s old Memorial Stadium on hot summer nights.
KC has a guy who wears a margarita dispenser on his back!
They also had a Boulevard Brewing (local microbrew) roving vendor who carried their Wheat Beer in one of those backpack tanks with the keg spigot; he was never around when I needed him though so I had to settle for Bud tallboys.
They also have mixed drinks at certain vendors. It’s a great place.
The ballpark could have more drinking fountains, but I suppose that would suppress vendor sales of 1-liter bottles of Aquafina at $6 a pop.
A lot of time if I ask nicely, the vendors will fill my souvenir cup up with free ice water.
I would just buy the backpack full of beer
It’s like a mini-keg.
I am fully aware of what I would set out to do.
As does AZ. Went to a game on the bank’s dime and got to hear “GET CHA ICE COLD MAH-GA-RITAS!” Delightful game that I remember small parts of.
{moves to KC}
a) what the fuck is wrong with me, I’ve heard a few country songs lately that I’ve liked.
2) I may have found a place to live. It’s going to be a stretch and it’s in the ghetto but whatever
Thanks, and go As.
2) Congrats.
Altamont? Tracy? Manteca?
When we were looking, there was a geodesic dome out north of 580 — 5 miles from East BumFK. It just screamed Lab Nerd! I might’ve gone for it, but The DogMa was unimpressed.
Livermore. North K street. I’ll be the Eric Chavez of the neighborhood.
Thanks, and go As.
Not Mexican enough?
Precisely
Thanks, and go As.
2) Just be glad it’s not here: http://priceonomics.com/the-san-francisco-rent-explosion/
That’s just fucking stupid. I mean I guess if my take home pay was 8k a month, sure… But that’s like a 175-200k per year job.
Thanks, and go As.
psha all the cool kids live in studios!
I would love to live in a studio. It’s simple. But then I wouldn’t have kids and you couldn’t play catch at tailgates.
Thanks, and go As.
I would have to make like double the amount of money I do now to have kids. And I already make good money. They are just too expensive.
there is usually a second income.
Like anyone would both bare my children and bare me for 18 years.
Dude, why are you and your kids all sitting around naked?
LOL
asvd. and props to dfa for an especially amusing spelling error.
You nudist was gonna happen sooner or later.
hee
I spelled I bear first but thought that must be wrong and changed it, as I thought grizzely joke would have ensued
Nah, nekkidness is always funnier than bears. Not to mention less threatening.
Unless it’s a naked bear, in which case, Hey BooBoo!
he has a tie
And a hat.
he can leave his hat on..
Mrs Aces loved a young Mickey Rourke in 9 1/2 weeks. I didnt mind watching with her…
Too bad Mickey’s face now looks like a can of crushed assholes.
I know love to show him to the kids “mommy used to love him…”. Kids “EWWWWWWEEEW”
So?
That tie wasn’t long enough to cover his twig and berries.
Great to hear Mike. Get ‘er done.
a) Seriously, fix that shit.
2) Congrats/good luck/whatever :)
truck driver music is great.
Modern country, post say 1975 is horrifying.
The videos usually have boobs all over the place though.
2) Got the phone call. It’s mine. I sign the lease today.
I’m going to be so fucking poor. and happy.
Thanks, and go As.
Congratulations – that’s great news.
and terrible news
I’m so conflicted! Do I congratulate him, or not?
woo!
Congrats man.
Congratulations!
About time!
yay
Awesome
Congrats. Having a place is a start, lease or not.
Yay!
Awesome! Congratulations!
FABBO!!!!!!
Damn, I knew I shouldn’t have waited.
Sign-up here for a game-worn replica version, a steal at $99.95.
Don’t delay!
Manny Impresses at AAA
Pairings out for tomorrow. The 9:50 tee time is Mark Mulder, Tim Wakefield and (oh boy) Derek Lowe. I kinda have to follow Mulder since I put $20 on him at 8/1; he’s in the group of 10 or so who have a chance to win the thing. John Smoltz, John Elway and Jerry Rice would be cool but they’ll have a huge gallery.
Lowe formally announced his retirement just yesterday, right? So he’ll be melancholy, and ripe for taunting.
grab your crotch towards him when he misses a put
His name makes me grit my teeth.
The Open started today, and it’s being played at Muirfield, in Scotland, which always makes me think of this.
MikeV alert
MikeV alert
MikeV alert
ERMAGHERD
Thanks, and go As.
Now that 3B is blocked by the best position player we’ve had in years.
But when he gets hurt we can go with a Rosales-Barton platoon.
TAKE IT BACK!
If Donaldson hadn’t made that asinine over-the-shoulder barehanded catch attempt on the foul popup on Sunday I’d consider it. He would have had a tough time winning that game for the A’s if he’d been in the clubhouse with a dislocated finger.
He just wanted to be like David Wright
Sigh.
We’ve had Kevin Kouzmanoff and co. for years at 3B since Chavez broke, and they wait until NOW to try him at 3B?
I’m guessing Barton is finally willing to do it now that his time playing baseball might be ticking.
Even that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. He’s been toiling in AAA for three years now. He’s been DFA’d, only to go unclaimed on waivers. Twice. NOW, he finally realizes this?
Then again, this is staplehead, so maybe.
He had an injured throwing shoulder for most of that time.
Huh, so this I had missed. Didn’t know that, and this explains quite a bit.
Could also be a case of the A’s wanting to see what Aliotti’s got and telling Barton, “You’re going to play 3B and that’s that.”
Or it might be an occasional thing. Too soon to know.
The guy that just got released had been playing 3B. I wonder if there was a conversation that basically said we are getting rid of someone and we need a third baseman…
Maybe. And the Muncy –> AA, Aliotti –> AAA chain was a bit overdue. Maybe they told Barton that Aliotti was getting his AAA 1B job, and it’s 3B or nothing?
Probably some combination of that. Took two DFAs and no claims to realize he’s fked. Could have been given the option of going to Midland or playing third.
Two DFAs and we’d all be FK’d
Okay, but just for a moment, think about what would happen if they disagreed on something. We’d be passing around the popcorn for years.
Personally I wouldn’t worry until they’re on the “verge”.
Meh, I am fine with them getting Garza as long as it costs them something real.
we knew they were going to get something.
Why does it seem like the Rangers trade for starting pitching every damn trade deadline?
Cause they do.
CJ Edwards reportedly part of that deal.
Often enough I’ll be driving along city streets and see an accident about to happen…some other car about to hit a bike or pedestrian or other car, say, but not me; I’m just a witness. In that moment, I always honk my car horn furiously, alerting all around that something bad might happen.
So question: does this help more than it harms? Everyone gets alerted, but they’re looking at me, not necessarily at the imminent danger. Mostly the actors emerge from these little tableaus unscathed, but maybe not any thanks to me, and sometimes they look mad at me.
We need a language of honking that distinguishes between the gentle advisory (the light is green, you can go now), the public warning (omg lookout over there), and the pouring of opprobrium and scorn (you’re texting while driving the wrong way down a freeway, dumbFK)
A friend of mine installed a train horn on his truck as an auxiliary horn. Maybe we all just need different horns. Granted, his is illegal.
I knew a number of bikers in the UK with truck horns installed … excellent for the “oh, I didn’t see you” school of drivers.
Hey Good Lookin!
They probably look at you like they’re made because they are shitty drivers who didn’t know they were going to cause an accident anyway. Or they are constipated.
I’ve seen reports that honking does more harm than good. How credible said reports are, who knows.
When people honk around me, I do check myself first.
then the finger
I am a pretty frequent honker, and I try to modulate for intent per ptbnl above. I do love a good long angry blast to convey what a breathtaking fuckhead I think someone else is (as defined by their driving).
In my scenario I like to think my warning honk helps. But that may just be a yearning to control that which I cannot.
I had a douchebag putter next to me, when i started to go ahead of him before a merge, he hammered the gas, and tried to not only pass me but the guy ahead of me who was easily supposed to be first and ready to, the fucker flipped the guy off for not letting him be an asshole while trying to run the other guy off the road.
On a freeway I once noticed the driver of the car in front of me taking his sweater off – pulling it over his head – while doing 80 in traffic. Having wrestled it off he then picked up his glasses and put them back on.
I was hot and in a hurry, damn it.
Wasn’t that your back hair?
No, I groom that.
This morning I saw a lady frantically look for a place to lay a hot curling iron down, because the light was about to turn green.
That means they must make curling irons designed to be plugged into a car charger.
The one time I was in a situation like that, I saw the accident about to happen and just didn’t react fast enough. I was walking down the street in Hyde Park and some undergrad is biking along the sidewalk (DON’T BIKE ON THE SIDEWALK!). I was on the other side of the intersection and saw clearly that she was about to plow into an old lady who was walking up to the corner from the other direction. Just before I was able to yell and wave my hands, BLAM!
If anyone is jonesing enough for any game, the mother’s day game is on CSNCA right now.
B6, and they are starting to focus on Dallas.
you know its gonna be a perfect game,right? you can say it out loud. You won’t jinx it
YOU FOOL!!! YOUVE DAMNED US ALL!!!
Actually I’m just laughing at:
-shots of oldbob
-team RBI leader KOOOUUUZZZ
-a guy in the stands with a Kiko Calero jersey.
I just learned that Texas has a prospect named Rougned Odor. That’s wild.
1. He’s out of abrasive smell.
I still remember the first time I heard that name. I couldn’t stop giggling for five minutes. ROUGNED ODOR. I don’t even know which part is funnier.
He is pretty good, too
Pfft. He stinks.
His parents should have called him Theodor. He could have been The Double Stink
Also, you know the best part? He’s the nephew of the just-as-awesomely-named Rouglas. Rouglas Odor.
My brother stayed with a family in Nicaragua? El Salvador? no matter, somewhere in the middle. the kids were given what the parents thought we good American English names, Melvin and Minor
Not as good as Wayne Wayne Wayne Jr.
Major Major Major Major
I would love to see the highlight reel of all the times that guy self-sabotaged in order to avoid being promoted to Lt. Colonel!
Born to a family of amateur ventriloquists.
brilliant!
Methinks we need to get Ice Cream on that, stat.
This was in my Facebook newsfeed today. It made me snicker…
Can you call this guy back to California?
We don’t want him here. Send him to Cuba.
USA! USA! USA!
Do you know where (and when) that is from? Not to say that stuff isn’t going on now, but it also looked pretty dated.
No idea. I was watching something from Dawkings (funny to write about it in a DLD that is about hipster internet meme) and it appeared on a related videos bar. It was uploaded in 2010, but that doesn’t mean it is not older. And they mention Dayton, but I guess there are many of those in the US, right?
under further inspection, it seems
I’ve been running in the wrong directionto be Dayton, Tennessee and the clip seems to be a part of a BBC documentary from mid nineties called ‘Science Friction: Creation‘, which also helps to explain why it was offered while I watched DawkinsThanks. Dayton OH was the first to come to my mind, of course, but everyone in the video seemed too white for that. Mid-nineties also explains the clothing.
Nope, it’s the Monkeytown
While I’m familiar with the Scopes Monkey Trial, I don’t think I ever knew the particular town where the whole thing started (or if I did know, then it just for junior year of high school).
There are some awesomely hilarious audio tracks in that documentary
Especially not you, sunshine.
I know people, not religious people, that doubt evolution. TO believe evolution, to them, is to accept that people will come from monkeys. New people, will be born to monkey parents. Since no people are born to monkey parents, evolution is not real.
Its hard to explain to people concepts when they are not taught to think.
Or taught not to think (thanks Texas Board of Education).
@nevermoor
I deleted a spam posting, please kill this user: thaddeusodom1042
So that’s why I got an error when I tried to delete it!
Thanks. Done.
Also, new users no longer have the ability to make posts. I will, of course, upgrade anyone real into that ability.
That’s so AN of you.
(I agree, this should fix that spammer problem – and if they do it as a comment it’s easy to delete and block as well without it eating up the front page)
Indeed. I’ll also be changing the layout to more of a magazine style that repackages my favorite Krugman columns, which will be followed by 10″ of advertising and then a click-to-open comment list.
So basically nothing has changed.
Heh.
Will any of these posts be sponsored? I sure hope so…
Email me.
If I told you, they’d be less effective. Just like Duracell batteries are less effective than Energizer.
It’s this kind of razor-sharp wit that keeps me coming back. Five-bladed razor sharp wit. From Gillete. None of that Shick bullshit.
Schick shtick, surely.
Excuse me while I spit out some Gatorade in laughter. PowerAid is too good to spit out.
speaking of grooming, I am do pumped to wash my hair with head and shoulders today. I am going to tweet about it #freekraut
Pfft, like you have hair. Try Rogain with minoxidil!
And another – post deleted from user Cecelia8nt
That breaks my heart.
How is your confidence?
Shaken, daily.
Mine is stirred.
You got up to wash your face, and when you came back to bed 47 other spambots had taken your face?
asvd
So, Garza is close to the Rangers, who reportedly want to finish the deal in time for him to start tomorrow against the Orioles.
The latest discussed package is
– Mike Olt (pre-season A-, #2 Rangers, #38 MLB, stock heavily dropping after wRC+ 82 in AAA and 33% K/PA – currently unranked)
– C.J. Edwards, preseason #17 in Rangers system
Edwards is having a great year, leading SAL in strikeouts, although he doesn’t get to face Hickory hitters and sporting a 1.78 FIP, while being a ground ball pitcher. A case can be made that he is third best pitcher in the system right now, behind Martin Perez and possibly Luke Jackson, both of whom the Rangers supposedly do not want to trade
– Neil Ramirez, preseason #18 in Rangers system
Ramirez actually went back to AA this year, after his 2012 crack at AAA went worse than his 2011 debut there. His third go at Texas \league is his best one there, with 11 K/9 and 2.96 FIP. He is 24.
All together, probably a B+, B and a B-, or something along those lines.
Chase Utley, please.
Thanks, and go As.
I approve of that deal, I think. We’ve gotta strip the TEX farm system, and that seems like a good start.
I’ve never understood this line of thinking. Even disregarding the fact that the loss of three non-impact prospects probably won’t even put a dent in a strong farm system, what’s our ultimate goal here? Do we want the A’s win as many games as possible this year or do we want a division rival to have a slightly weakened farm system?
We want it all. Which means we want Texas’ organization to lose every trade it makes. Giving up a lot of real prospects for a couple months of Garza probably doesn’t help TX much this year, and could hurt them a lot going forward. In other words, sounds like a pretty solid loss for Texas as described.
Replacing Ross Wolf or Justin Grimm with Matt Garza results in a significant increase in expected wins for Texas and probably less wins and a lower chance of winning the division for Oakland. If you agree with this statement, then I don’t understand how you could possibly think that we could still “have it all”.
Well, there’s the hope that Garza could follow in Dempster’s footsteps.
Well we know they are going to upgrade so hopefully they give up a lot to upgrade.
Yes, I’m resigned to it but in no way would I encourage it.
Also Garza is what a 1 win upgrade over the rest of the year?
Yeah, even less, according to Steamer
This. People constantly over-value late-season acquisitions. You have to have a really shitty player and get a really excellent one for it to really matter.
Chase Utley, please.
For some reason getting a dominant starting pitcher feels different for me, like it has more impact in a stretch run, but that intuition is probably wrong.
By the way, Ross Wolf has somehow put up an 2.14 ERA with a K/BB of 1. That’s crazy.
I don’t really see garza as being dominant.
He really isn’t. That’s why I’m not tripping.
if they were to get Lee…
Exactly. Adding Verlander or something would be a whole different thing. But SP depth is a lot different from SP aceyness.
THASS ACEYNESS
asvd.
Garza’s pitched pretty well recently though. On the other hand, going from the NL Central to the AL West isn’t the easiest transition.
and they cant pick up draft picks with a qualifying offer anymore
I’ll be largely incommunicado for this series. Comment us up a sweep, you FKers.
Bastard.
im going tomorrow with the girl.
I have house keys. :)
Thanks, and go As.
do they fit the lock, too?
I’m sure they fit A lock somewhere.
shit.
Thanks, and go As.
When’s the house party?
Not sure. I can move in anytime. Current plan is to get my storage unit cancelled, which will basically give me 30 days to clean it out, and move stuff in bit by bit.
Thanks, and go As.
Congrats!
Very impressed with this speech by Obama about Trayvon Martin and the black community:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-remarks-on-trayvon-martin-full-transcript/2013/07/19/5e33ebea-f09a-11e2-a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html
Good stuff
Already seeing the expected backlash from some, acting like he’s race-baiting and dividing.
What bullshit.
He’s calling for more understanding and efforts to further reduce racism overall.
He’s specifically citing the history of racism’s effect on the black community and trying to encourage people to grow out of it on all sides.
People who think this is race-baiting are flat out wrong.
Of course they are. Best to ignore such hateful idiots.
Its not about them being right or wrong but rather about them pushing an agenda regardless of the facts.
see also: Birthers, Death pannelists, IRS scandlers, etc.
Looks like we saw Andrew Bailey’s last outing of 2013.
Talk about selling high.
Metal as fuck.
Thanks, and go As.
Sometimes, when you meet a girl at the hacky-sack circle, you know your life has changed forEVer…
“No, silly neighbor! I said bring a can of HAIR spray!”
1. “Phoenix Streets” is an awesome name.
2. “Hall took his few possessions and moved out of his fiancée’s home and into a tree at Mclaren Park.”
he is a nice fella
I figured you might know him. Do you kind of wished you’d caught a case like this? If I was the judge I’m not sure I could stop laughing.
grand theft tractor was pretty funny.
Whaaaaaa?????
this is a good watch
That is written as if that is a legitimate place for one to domicile
Helps with the McD’s budget
Hall is Sogard’s half-brother.
#mikevbait, except too late now
My last compilation living in Hayward has got just the right amount of cowbell. Get it today :D
Yay!
Mouthguard…trimmed facial hair…things are looking up!
It was a fine day at the golf course. The atmosphere is like spring training and everybody shows up in a friendly and relaxed mood, even Derek Lowe. Maybe not Ben Roethlisberger a few years back. Mulder struggled some and I participated in two of his Easter egg hunts, but he made a couple putts down the stretch to stay in contention. Interesting thing about our small group: Mrs. Mulder, whom I’ve met before and recognizes me now, is 5’4″, cute, petite, blonde, nice figure; Mrs. Wakefield is 5’4″, cute, petite, blonde, nice figure, bit older than Mrs. Mulder but they could be sisters; and Mrs. Lowe is 5’6″, cute, petite, blonde, nice figure. Hmmm, what do pitchers talk about when they’re not pitching.
When the Mulder group finished I caught up with the Jermaine Dye-Joe Buck group for their last few holes. Judging by what I saw Joe’s honking broadcaster voice comes in very handy when he has to yell “Fore left!” or “Fore right!”, which appears to happen frequently.
It’s too bad people are so bored from his voice they fail to move.
Bob Melvin’s wife is 6 feet tall and has hair like Cher.
If they were a poly couple I think I’d want to date them.
Free MLB Extra Innings free preview this weekend!
Balfour for Inglesias: Who says no first?
that would be sad, but a good move.
Red Sox say no, I would think.
Bailey is done for the year. They need a releiver badly
and they are not going to give up. their pen sucks. they need something
I’m sure they could find a serviceable reliever for cheaper.
Sure as hell not me.
5 gallons of a Dogfish Head 60 Minute clone now bottled; by the time I get back from Yurp it’ll be just ready to start sampling.
nice.
No 120?!?
Not without the ability to do a full boil, no.
I think the 90 minute is a lot better than the 120.
ESPN is moving in an encouragingly nerdy direction with this Nate Silver hire.
Derek Holland is wearing a camo phiten necklace.
Because nothing says “I Support Our Troops” like junk science.
Isn’t it a little bit insane for the Rangers to be wasting Profar in left field? I don’t understand their plan.
Wait, Chad Gaudin is pitching the first game out of the break?
Playoff odds
looks nice, but I remember the playoff odds from last year.
Of course, lots of new faces did unexpected things for the A’s last year, cf this year.
I just had to gaze and gaze upon the San Francisco Giants and their 6.5% chance of making the playoffs and their 0.5% chance of winning the World Series.
Portland bleg: we go every year to see the llama-in-laws, but we never do anything fun except putter around the house. This year I’ve resolved to:
1. See a Hillsboro Hops game
2. See Multnomah Falls
Any other fun things, family oriented and kid-friendly, that anyone can suggest?
That new ballpark in Hillsboro looks sweet.
Timbers games are supposedly amazing family experiences.
The farmers market at PSU would be fun.
Multnomah Falls is a great idea it is super fun.
Oregon Museum of Science and Indusry was great when I was a kid. They had a star trek exhibit when I was like 6, but you know that was 20 years ago and now they have mummies. Its pretty awesome still though.
I’ve never taken the aerial tram there but it looks like it could be cool. The Japanese Garden is very nice, I would think that would be a good family thing to do.
I shall consolidate my responses to everyone here:
We’ve yet to see the mummies at OMSI- we may this weekend. Or my sister may take Spawn1 there this week, which is fine, as I’ve done OMSI plenty – stop by the submarine if you can.
Multnomah Falls is nice; the other falls (Horsetail, Oneonta, Bridal Veil) are less grand and less packed with tourists and nice hikes.
I prefer the Chinese garden to the Japanese garden and the Rose Garden is probably pretty meh right now because it’s dry, but the views from the latter two are probably better.
Please let me know when you will be here and when you would like to go to a Hops game. I haven’t gone and no one in my family is particular to going.
So, how are ‘come to our stat’ commercial successful?
With all the hoopla about the A’s and the pennant race we are missing what is potentially a historic personal achievement of a fine shortstop who has played for two richest teams this year.
Luis Cruz has wRC+ of 4 (four) over 180 PA, giving him a realistic shot to break Mr. Mendoza’s record for the lowest post WWII wRC+ with at least 300 PA (19)
Can I say in regards to Garza, steamer and Zips expect his value for the rest of the season to be the same as CY’s.
Thats some prospective folks.
I didn’t know Curt Young had value.
hey, Chris young signle handedly didn’t lose todays game
He seems to have had a day today, and now we are moving on to HOU? This is the time for him to either prove those that say he justs needs regular time right, or at a minimum build up a little value.
Are you proposing a Garza for CY_25 trade? I would take that.
I’d do that every day of the week and twice today.
Arrrggh. I just saw ****’s Garza article at the OC and the whole thing is predicated on Garza being a “2-win or so” upgrade, which is asserted without any reference to anything. I think that Garza is a pretty decent pitcher, but it’s really hard to be a two win upgrade over the A’s current #5 starter (Straily) in just one third of a season.
he wanted the A’s to get Garza?
I didn’t read the whole thing.
Ok, I just went and read. He doesn’t say whether he is in favor of it, but reading between the lines I think yes?
I did too. very confusing, but I think he is saying if the A’s get Garza, its a 4 win swing over tx.
It’s almost certainly not a 4 game swing, but I think he makes a valid point that Garza being on the A’s and thus not being on the Rangers has an impact that’s more than just whatever value Garza is projected to provide for the rest of the season.
It’s also why I don’t think simply citing RoS projections for players is a good way to measure the potential value of a deadline trade, but if we were doing that, the RoS projections have Oakland and Texas finishing with the same record. So I wouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the significance of one win upgrades for either team.
but the rangers are going to upgrade, whether its garza or not. Its not the zero sum game that like he is proposing.
The Giants supposedly put a waiver claim in on Cody Ross just to stop a division rival from getting him, and he ended up being the Greatest Giant Ever.
to be fair though, the race between the padres and giants will probably come down to the last day of the season again.
Heh.
Yes it’s not. But the pitching market this year is particularly bare this year so they could try to upgrade post-Garza but can’t. A lot depends on how much worse you think Gallardo or Bud Norris is than Garza.
I don’t think Gallardo is any worse
Agreed. I think he’s going to be fine.
While true, it would mean they’d be taking the next best pitcher available (presumably) at a higher price. Ultimately, I doubt whatever it would require us to trade would be worth it though.
I don’t think anyone will argue that it could be a photo-finish, in which even minor upgrades can prove to be valuable. It is just the “out-of-my-ass” numbers that are amusing.
He saw it with his eyes, he doesn’t need to do the math
A typical Napolysis.
OK, I will invent a number, then show my superior analytic skills by multiplying that imaginary number with two, base everything I write on that and later, when a reader actually calculates that number to be something completely different, I will suavely change the topic to the earnestness I noticed in Billy Beane’s voice when he commented on that topic.
Best wishes and go A’s!
Also funny how they keep calling him a ground ball pitcher
I just pulled up the fangraphs leaderboard of GB% for every qualified pitcher over the last 10 seasons. Garza’s 41.5% groundball rate puts him in the 37th percentile. What a worm-burner!
which is why i endorse TX getting him at a significant cost to their farm.
This is just awesome (in a I do feel bad for the guy, but I just can’t stop laughing way):
Also, “Hannibal Cavemen of a Missouri Prospect League” is just a cool name.
Ow.
Looks like one of those Asiana pilots has already found another job.
Dunno… this guy was coming in too fast.
win
And too high.
Im surprised he could’t get out of the way
Must have not noticed him coming until too late
Which makes you wonder why no one watching didn’t say something. You can see people watching including the umps.
Also, no one seems in a hurry to help him at the end.
Huh.
Yeah. Yikes. Hopefully Colon ends up ok.
I’m going to continue to assume that Colon has done his time until I hear otherwise. What I hadn’t realized until just now, though, is that MLB is taking the position that previously suspended guys caught up in this would not be able to play during an appeal.
I was shocked at first, but then I thought about it more. Probably MLB was threatening a 100 game suspension. This is just 64 games in a season where the Brewers are in last place, 18.5 games out.
On top which the union doesn’t plan on going to bat for them (much) if there’s legitimate proof.
… and he makes $2M more next season than this one. I could hope the straight-faced, slandering liar doesn’t starve in the meantime, except I do.
No one cares about my fantasy team!
Mine either.
We didn’t even get a good half year…
Yep. My team sucks since essentially all my high picks underachieved, but the coffin is well and truly nailed now.
In my favorite league I traded for Braun and Stanton with dreams of bone-crushing marrow-slurping victory, Alas…
apart from the baseball/sports barometer in this story, the whole words-mean-nothing-anymore angle is breathtaking…
(said last year, of course.)
(said… wait. what does that say??)
Juicy Ryan Braun quotes
judging by ESPN on mute for about 4 minutes yesterday, at least it seems popular opinion isn’t buying half this crap.
Basically no one is. I haven’t seen a single person, place, or thing defend him.
He’s not just a cheater, but a lying liar who lies. He probably kicks puppies for fun.
And drowns kitties. That BASTARD!
Not even Aaron Rodgers?
Garza to the Rangers for Olt, Edwards, Grimm and a PTBNL.
I think I’m… happy about this.
Gallardo has to be available now, right?
Edwards is probably their 3rd best pitching prospect and Grimm is pretty good (I wanted to draft him a couple of years ago) as a reliable bet to be a 4th starter who eats innings. Olt is good but a spare part for Texas.
Damn … I’m a Cubbie now?
It’s either Neil Ramirez, or two other pitchers. Also:
Also:
Hope all the Niner fans here weren’t counting on this guy to be the Wright stuff.
We weren’t. The lineman looks like a steal though.
If anyone was thinking of going to Peru on hols, you might want to pack earplugs.
love how they make waking up in britain one morning sound like one of the symptoms. she was fine at first, but then she had headaches and pains… and then she woke up in britain!!
and thanks for my favorite “seemingly random pileup of words that still make sense”â„¢ for today: new world army screw worm fly.
gah! *makeS sense.
SCHLONG GOES LONG
You’re here on purpose, right?
My wrong-thread-fail-fu is still strong!
Can we marry him?
Santa Sano
What on earth is he wearing?
Really?
It’s… hideous.
and amazing.
I love the double belt effect
I was looking over some pictures on my phone and came across this gem:
…and they’re going nuts!
nice
Brought to you by Almond Joy. Because sometimes you feel like going nuts.
i can totally see me (over by the rolled up tarp, right side, 8 rows back or so, the one in white and gold waving a mitt).
.
.
.
stalker.
I think we we just over your head.
is that the new way to say golden shower?
lol