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  1. monkeyball Oct 23,2009 12:38 pm

    I did not know Buster was originally from VT. Randolph really is a tiny little burg.

    His second book sounds … interesting.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux Oct 23,2009 12:43 pm || Up

      Josh Wilker of Cardboard Gods has written a few times about knowing Olney when they were both growing up in VT.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Oct 23,2009 12:52 pm || Up

        We used to play Randolph Union twice a year in every sport in h.s. Looks like Wilker’s got 2 years on me — I could conceivably have taken a hacksaw to his shins on the footie pitch.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Leopold Bloom Oct 23,2009 2:19 pm || Up

      I despise the Yankees, and thought his first book was good, though it is just as much about the end of the dynasty as the dynasty itself.

  2. monkeyball Oct 23,2009 12:54 pm

    I always enjoy reading Calcaterra.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • sslinger Oct 23,2009 2:09 pm || Up

      Pretty amusing, but Simple Minds was more than a one-hit wonder.

  3. monkeyball Oct 23,2009 12:56 pm

    Hey, if you’re gonna go ad hominem, this is the way to do it.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Oct 23,2009 1:27 pm || Up

      I don’t know about him. I think it’s unproductive.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux Oct 23,2009 1:31 pm || Up
      TINSTAAFK
  4. nevermoor Oct 23,2009 12:57 pm

    This should be in the SBN Terms of Service:

    MGL’s rule # 4.817:

    The difference between a smart person and an ignorant one is not that the smart person always knows the right answer. It is that the smart person knows what it is he doesn’t know and the stupid one thinks he knows everything or at least a lot more than he really does.

    Tango and I only know the answer to this question because we did the requisite research to figure it out (with some degree of certainty of course – IOW, there is finite chance that we are wrong). NO ONE can figure it out without doing some numerically based research. Opinions don’t matter. This is a factual issue. Whether you like chocolate or vanilla ice cream is a matter of opinion. Baseball strategy questions are NEVER a matter of opinion. That is not to say of course that we know the answer to all those questions with 100% certainty in all situations. We don’t.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  5. monkeyball Oct 23,2009 1:13 pm

    Honestly, I just don’t understand what they’re doing.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Oct 23,2009 1:28 pm || Up
      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  6. salb918 Oct 23,2009 1:43 pm

    I used to write for the SBN site beyondtheboxscore. In those, the site administrator was Marc Normandin, now of BPro “fame.” I guess he got some amount of the revenue – and it was a very small amount – generated by the site. Marc’s a good guy, and he split the money with the other site writers. I assume this is at the discretion of the site admin, since AN, well, yeah…

    Anyway, he sent me a check – did I mention that it was for a very, very small amount? – and mailed me a copy of Olney’s book “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty.” I read the whole damn thing. What drove Marc to put me through that, I’ll never know. But I don’t hold it against him. He’s still a good guy.

    • green star oakland Oct 23,2009 1:49 pm || Up

      Can I have $5e-14?

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • nevermoor Oct 23,2009 1:59 pm || Up

      Dollars to donuts he got it for free for running the site and didn’t want it.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. nevermoor Oct 23,2009 2:01 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • salb918 Oct 23,2009 2:08 pm || Up

      Not feeling Obama love today.

      This whole f—ing school is falling all over itself for the presidential visit. Remember my comments in the Obama cult of personality thread? Jesus f’ing Christ, I never thought this degree of groupthink was possible.

      Now, having said all that, I haven’t seen or read the text of his speech. That could change my attitude. From what I hear, he mentioned a technology that is about two degrees removed from the technology a start-up I’m involved with is developing.

      • nevermoor Oct 23,2009 2:20 pm || Up

        I know that feeling. Clinton visited while I was in college and the place went absolutely nuts. Part of that might have been Bush fatigue, but still.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. andeux Oct 23,2009 2:08 pm
    TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Oct 23,2009 2:23 pm || Up

      Stuff like that makes me glad newspapers aren’t dead yet. No blog is going to break that story, and I think it’s important to have.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. sslinger Oct 23,2009 2:13 pm

    Are we safe to assume mikeA is referring to the last sentence?

    • salb918 Oct 23,2009 2:25 pm || Up

      That’s how I took it.

    • Leopold Bloom Oct 23,2009 2:39 pm || Up

      my mind says yes. So does my heart.

      My penis thinks for itself.

      • andeux Oct 23,2009 2:49 pm || Up

        and it says no?!

        TINSTAAFK
        • Leopold Bloom Oct 23,2009 2:52 pm || Up

          It’s independently-minded.

          I think my penis voted for Ross Perot in ’92.

          • green star oakland Oct 23,2009 3:30 pm || Up

            Little guys always stick together.

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
            • Leopold Bloom Oct 24,2009 12:49 am || Up

              Your penis can talk to a boll weevil and get his opinion, but that don’t make it right.

              • 5Aces Oct 24,2009 3:15 pm || Up

                Hey, I’ll tell you what. You can get a good look at a butcher’s ass by sticking your head up there. But, wouldn’t you rather to take his word for it?

                Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
      • dmoas Oct 25,2009 12:28 am || Up

        What about your ass? One would hope it would be the smartest.

  10. Leopold Bloom Oct 23,2009 3:11 pm

    Sock puppets don’t like Otter Pops.

  11. Poppy Oct 24,2009 3:43 pm

    Bear on ice skates kills tormenter

    It is unclear what caused the bear to attack Potapov…

    Are you fucking kidding me?! It was a bear… on skates. Pretty sure he didn’t just lace those things up by himself and was just angry about not having the rink to himself.

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  12. salb918 Oct 25,2009 6:52 pm

    Keeping Saunders in the game cannot possibly be the correct move here.

    • lenscrafters Oct 25,2009 9:59 pm || Up

      I never understood why people are shocked when Scioscia makes stupid moves. This guy is one of the dumbest tactical managers I’ve ever seen (not just in the postseason). But wait! He and his teams are gritty, aggressive, and ballsy so he must be a good manager.

      It’s too bad that most managers range somewhere between inept and completely functionally retarded.

  13. nevermoor Oct 25,2009 6:52 pm

    Tinfoil hat time.

    This had nothing to do with the affair except that the affair was a great excuse to fire a crappy “analyst”

    Also, champagne is flowing chez nevermoor over the firing.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"

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