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21 Oct 2009  |  monkeyball  |The Grill
  1. Human beat writers will go extinct before human umpires do
  2. GET MOTIVATED!
  3. Hawt:

    At one point, the former first lady produced a bobblehead figure of herself and mounted it on the lectern

  4. The Force is strong with this one: “This is not the contract extension you’re looking for.”
  5. Byg Twyt on duke

25 thoughts on “Are you surrounding yourself with success? DLD 102109”

  1. monkeyball Oct 21,2009 12:06 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  2. nevermoor Oct 21,2009 12:25 pm

    Does surrounding yourself with success make you less successful, like Obama?

    Fox has the answer, tune in at 6.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. mjdittmer Oct 21,2009 1:21 pm

    Good news for the Mets: They didn’t actually lose money off of the Madoff Ponzi scheme. They actually made money off of it–$48 million!
    Bad news for the Mets: They can now be sued by parties trying to recover money they lost, and so I presume their liability could be as much as $48 million. Unless, as the author suggests, they blow $452 million on the lawyers defending their right to keep the $48 million. It’s called the Carlos Delgado Postulate, wherein one wildly overpays for something that made initial sense but eventually became a galactic money pit.

  4. mjdittmer Oct 21,2009 3:02 pm

    You know, you want these people to be role models, you put them up there and you say to your kids, “I want you to be just like this guy,” and then they let you down. I just don’t know what to believe in anymore.

    • nevermoor Oct 21,2009 3:23 pm || Up

      Silly mjdittmer, the press has never said that the press is a role model. The press has only said that athletes are role models.

      I, for one, am furious with sfgate for violating Mr. Phillips’ right to privacy.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • batgirl Oct 21,2009 4:07 pm || Up

      Nantz and Phillips?! Ay carumba.

      • monkeyball Oct 21,2009 4:25 pm || Up

        They surrounded themselves with a little too much success.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  5. monkeyball Oct 21,2009 4:24 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Oct 21,2009 4:31 pm || Up
      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • green star oakland Oct 21,2009 4:38 pm || Up

      the specialty category was won by … Spotted Dick Porridge with Custard

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • monkeyball Oct 21,2009 5:17 pm || Up

        I think we fans of #32 should refer to ourselves as Custards.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Oct 21,2009 7:57 pm || Up

        “Spotted Dick Porridge with Custard” reads like a suggestive headline from an account of a salacious party in The National Inquirer, Clue edition. Sidebar item: “Miss Scarlet in the Conservatory with the Candlestick.”

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  6. nevermoor Oct 21,2009 4:37 pm

    Ok, so balloon juice is growing on me.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. nevermoor Oct 21,2009 6:47 pm

    I understand spin.

    I understand manipulation.

    I’ve learned to live with a degree of patently dishonest opinions.

    But my god. Self-contradiction in mid-sentence is a whole other level (in the comments):

    There is a GOD after all and his name is not Obama. Kudo’s to all who voted against this asinine “BILL” We need to continue to make certain that the physicians who care for our health needs are paid accordingly.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. JediLeroy Oct 21,2009 7:20 pm

    Wow, those computers are good. I’m most impressed with the made up quote from Vlad.

    “When it comes down to honoring Nick Adenhart, and what happened in April in Anaheim, yes, it probably was the biggest hit (of my career),” Guerrero said. “Because I’m dedicating that to a former teammate, a guy that passed away.”

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  9. JediLeroy Oct 21,2009 7:32 pm

    Also, I can’t wait for the butt-kissing “wow, this was so well-written!” comments at ** when they promote a robot to do the game recaps.

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    • mjdittmer Oct 21,2009 10:02 pm || Up

      And then, in the sequel, the next version of the robot makes those comments. And still another version of the robot disagrees with that first set of comments. Nuclear holocaust comes shortly after the fifth wave of robots.

      • salb918 Oct 21,2009 10:17 pm || Up

        • nevermoor Oct 22,2009 8:29 am || Up

          That might be the cleverest of the webcomics. I especially liked the 9/11 old people one.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Oct 22,2009 9:34 am || Up

        the next version of the robot

        Whoa — ‘toon (and each of his avatars) is a robot?

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  10. nevermoor Oct 21,2009 8:47 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. andeux Oct 22,2009 9:29 am

    Padma looked especially lovely in her little black dress on last night’s Top Chef.

    TINSTAAFK
    • batgirl Oct 22,2009 11:34 am || Up

      I didn’t watch it yet, but I’ll report back tomorrow. Perhaps someone in wardrobe went all Chanel on her “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress. Dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”

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