96 wins takes me way beyond proud. Can you imagine how 107 would feel?
We have a few days to cool our heels and watch, so Lounge if you wanna :P
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We didn’t get an Eleven this weekend, but the boys put on a helluva three-day run at the Greek. Yesterday’s afternoon show was outstanding, so much energy. Bobby looking and sounding good, which is nice to see after the collapse in NY.
Glad ye had funz… honestly I am not at all a Deadhead. Bob Weir, while I’m sure a very nice person, makes my skin crawl as a guitarist and singer 99% of the time — the exception being the version of Long Black Veil they played as an acoustic set staple back in May and June of 1970. I stick with Spring 1970 and Spring 1977, and for me the 16-track “lost” mix of Aoxomoxoa (only available in that 180 gram vinyl box that came out in 2011) is their best record by far and away.
Those setlists look very familiar. The visual of the 50-something women trying to twirl and going down with pulled hamstrings and strained obliques is tough to clear from my mind though.
I’m sick of hearing about Breaking Bad.
That makes 2 of us! Mariano Rivera’s on that show, right?
LOL!
It’s recording right now! The hours until the kids go to bed and I can watch! Incredibly excited.
Orly? How excited?
Wait. Nope. Don’t care.
Like kid on Christmas Eve level of excitement. If Santa were a terrifying middle age chemist from whom no level of evil was too much to expect, carrying a machine gun and fatal poison he made himself.
Also, I know you’ve been gone… I asked for good book recommendations in another thread. Have any? Make them dumb; I’m not a smart as you.
I only read about one or two books a year.
I only read medical shit.
By BNFF discovered a Facebook page that is amazing. It almost made me get a Facebook account. Bizarre injuries. I was queasy and aroused all at the same time. I needes stories behind the injuries though. We also watch surgeries on YouTube. Mostly in third world countries. That’s how I usually spend my time. I’m trying to broaden my horizons.
crash, jg ballard
Good call, Jennifer you would love that book.
I never saw the movie they made from it, figured they’d never be able to get it right.
Does this mean that you want recommendations that are medical-related? Or are you looking for other stuff?
Anything. I currently just read medical stuff. Education books, not fun stuff.
I posted a variety of things under your request in the other thread. But I sort of forget now what I said there. Junot Diaz, for sure.
Thanks!
Colin also mentioned Telegraph Avenue (next on my to read list). If you were gonna go with Michael Chabon, you might like Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, since you like superhero stuff.
I enjoyed this book of short medical-related stories set in the Bay Area by a UCSF doc. I would give you my copy but I already gave it to my niece, who did her residency at UCSF.
I’ve very much enjoyed reading the episode synopses here on FK. I can’t wait until they come out in book form!
Set my alarm for noon tomorrow. I don’t want to waste the day.
I can’t wait for The Walking Dead.
Yay! So you like that show, but not Breaking Bad?
There’s no accounting for taste.
For sure. Breaking Bad is the best. The Walking Dead is second best.
True. But you were to account for it, her taste is pretty damn good.
It’s true. After all, she doesn’t like you.
You mistook “you” for “me”
watched ST: into darkness on the plane. when did they introduce the alternate reality stuff? was it in the first ST reloaded? or did i miss an entire ST movie?
The first one.
weird. totally watched it. missed it.
must have been mentioned during that hour and a half in the middle when i was stoned out of my mind.
Huh, apparently DDJ’s wife is on the Amazing Race this season.
While looking up the television info I came across this. We hope Buck and McCarver work at least 8 A’s postseason games, but what then?
On what planet would either of those two make a good can- Oh. Right. McCaaaaaavar has been doing it for 24 years.
On what planet would anyone consider AJP’s season “excellent”?
But he hit dingerz!
OT – I just had a nightmare about you.
Muhahahahaha?
You were stalking me (Right?) and mailed me a picture of yourself. You were posing like a rapper on a rock on the top of Mount Davis. You were kneeling with your arms crossed, wearing an old black jersey. In one hand you had playoff tickets and in the other hand was a gun.
wow. WTH!!!!!!!
Don’t worry. I wouldn’t touch a real gun. It’s fake. Strange that you spelled raper rapper.
When they say “both,” they mean “either,” right?
so i know nobody here cares but holy hell that pats game was fucking insane tonight.
I saw bits and pieces. I’m glad your team won. :)
my wilfork was hurt. :( :( :(
I know. :( But football happens.
When my marriage ended, I thought I felt as sad as I ever could. And then Breaking Bad ended and I knew I was wrong.
Without giving any spoilers, it went of the deep end in terms of believability, but damn that was a good show.
Not sure where they’re going to go w/ Better Call Saul, oddball comedy?
off of*
=, ugh…
I think BB set the bar so high, that Better Call Saul is almost doomed to flop. We can discuss tonight’s episode in the show thread. I think maybe it should double as a series thread, too.
I know. I know. I’ll do it tomorrow.
No rush, let’s give people who dvr’d it a chance to catch up.
I hope so. Odenkirk is awesome at oddball comedy.
Get David Cross in on it too. They’re a great team.
Uhh.
Thanks, and go As.
NL WAR values (I looked them up because I don’t pay attention to the NL at all)
1. McCutchen — 8.2
2. Gomez — 7.6
3. Matt Carpenter (who the FK is this guy?) — 7.0
4. Kershaw — 6.5
5. Goldschmidt — 6.4
6(t). Votto — 6.2
6(t). Wainwright — 6.2
8. Harvey — 6.1
9(t). Yadier Molina — 5.6
9(t). Tulo — 5.6
With the Pirates having their first winning season in forever, how do you not give the award to McCutchen?
Yeah, best player in the league and his team is in the playoffs for the first time since the Louisiana Purchase
Thanks, and go As.
That’s a certifiable no brainer if ever there was one. Best player AND most valuable to his team.
I think you’re ignoring the crucial fact that Goldschmidt is the only major leaguer ever with the last name “Goldschmidt.” EVER.
Not. I’m just not putting the weight of gold on it.
I love Brad but his opinions about things are often pure, unadulterated partisan-infant madness.
I had a dream last night that MLB announced that both the Friday and Saturday games would be in the morning, and then I woke up in the middle of the night not knowing whether it was real or not but too tired to check my phone, so instead I lay their obsessively trying to sort out how to wriggle out of my various responsibilities to make it.
They really need to announce the times already before I go completely nuts.
That’s weird… I had a dream kinda like that, mixed with my experiences of my day at Folsom Street Fair…
In my dream, somehow, getting the hood off my head would keep the A’s off of MLB Network (which means radio only for most of us NRAF’s, right?), so I had to find out which booth my domme was at so I could beg her to take the hood off my head so I could watch the A’s game.
That’s what I get for a day of barking at random gay men in Doug Fister jerseys, I guess.
FWIW, the TBS program schedule shows them carrying three games, beginning at 10:30, 2, and 5:30 pacific. MLB Network’s schedule does not show a game time yet, but it seems likely to me that they will want it to be a late game with, say, a 7 pm start, which means us as the only west coast game. Sorry.
On Saturday I expect a 2 pm first pitch, since they will want the Red Sox in the 5:30 slot.
…tagline?
I don’t have strong opinions on any of these guys except CB Bucknor, who is terrible.
Okay. I thought they were supposed to have the BEST umpires involved in playoff games. Bucknor has been rated as the WORST umpire.
This call alone, from a couple of days ago, should have eliminated him from contention for a postseason crew.
Exactly. (He says without looking, I’m guessing it’s the “Tag with the hand without the ball while holding the ball in your glove ‘out’ call” he gave).
That’s the one. I’m struggling to remember a worse call. The ball never got within a yard of the batter-runner.
if there’s enough time for you to check the evidence, you’ll find a worse one.
We really got the all star team, didn’t we.
The smugness on his face when he threw Hananananana out bothers me the most. He fails to verify the ball was in his glove. Didn’t he consider that he didn’t throw the ball BACK IN. And then has that kind of nerve. God. MLB needs to fire these guys. Yes, we may not replace them with better umps. But then again, we may just do exactly that. And just keep tossing them back at the end of the year until you do.
At least make them fear getting fired if they repeatedly fail to do their jobs properly. You know, like those folks in Congress.
Umpires are exactly like Congress. Except without the special interest groups.
At least they aren’t shutting down baseball.
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? i heard on fox sports it was bug selig who’d trying to shut down baseball. doesn’t have his priorities straight, apparently. he oughta focus a blue ribbon comittee on syrian territorial rights instead of this drug testing nobody cares about.
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in actual baseball-related news, the fox website quotes yogi berra on its headline about the budget.
Is Fox Sports the Fox News of sports channels?
nah, just going for the rhyme.
Hallion also doesn’t have a good reputation, and Reynolds was the gm 1 HP ump who gave Verlander that ridiculous zone. Thanks MLB.
You’d think pulling umps from the top 60% would net them a better crew.
Do you have any friends on the Facebook who constantly “like” stuff you post, so you feel obligated to occasionally like something they post, even though it’s all boring crap?
*likes*
No
Funny, that’s the only place I have friends.
Those are the people that go in my “acquaintances” bin, so I don’t have to read their boring crap.
If I make them acquaintances, do they know that?
I don’t think so.
(idea light)
Hey, NM, can we add an acquaintances function here?
no. FB is geared and lubed toward passive, shallow, nonthreatening interaction. hence the like in the first place (i mean, where’s the don’t like??).
I only like ironically
LOVE.
We need to get that one on the Coliseum scoreboard for umpiring decisions in the postseason. (They have a thumbs-down hand now, which gets used in situations such as an opposing pitcher who throws over to first too many times.)
Just make a giant sign and raise it.
Better yet, record strike outs that way. Forward, backward.
first half yes, second half no.
So this is why I never get any “likes” from you. Not even a sympathy like every now and then. Throw me a frickin’ bone.
well… i set everyone as an acquaintance and get nearly nothing in my newsfeed from nearly anyone. (i like it that way. makes FB look dead and i don’t go there but to communicate with people whose emails i don’t have. or to look in the lounge as a lost ANers check.) but the moment i like something, the FB thinks i’m interested in their everylastmove and it fills my newsfeed with buyables about children’s movies i never liked in the first place, misspelled politicized memes, prods into instashallow indignation, buzzforcefeed links, and other echoes of the echoes of the echochamber. unfortunately, i do like to read what people say, but since such few people say anything rather than link stuff, and that filter hasn’t been invented since isn’t to FB’s market-based advantage…
oh but i like *you* though.
now I know why you never like my posts about the religion I have started with you as the deity, AVism.
It’s a shame, because there’s hot young ladies always signing up to worship you :P
sounds nice, though… the problem with all these hot chicks bending down and worshipping me everywhere i go is, i never really get a chance to check out their butts.
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whew. took me all night to work up that persona. i’m exhausted. going back to bed. quiet-hours worshipping only please.
False. Nobody likes me.
That’s true.
When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.
Like she’d have the sex with you.
You think that’s some great revelation, but I already know that. Also, that sentence could apply to any woman in the world in reference to me.
Or you.
I’m not trying to give it to you.
That’s not what you said last night.
I think you’re thinking of Oz.
Lies.
Well she sure as shit ain’t paying you for it.
So surgery is Monday.
Oh good–hopefully you’ll be groggily waking up to the A’s sending the Tigers packing.
My ultrasound tech said, “This is the largest gallstone I’ve ever seen.” This should be interesting. I might make it a ring. One week off, followed by a week of light duty.
Yikes. Good luck. The ring idea is awesome though.
I’m gonna make people kiss it.
Good luck Jennifer! Bounce back fast, we need you for all of October (and beyond).
I’ll be thinking of you during my same-day intravenous pyelogram.
Ooo. Those are fun.
If only the A’s were at home that day, it could have been a walk-off Pielogram.
IT’S IN DETROIT? Noooo. I’ll miss it.
We don’t know the times yet. Could be the early, early game. Could be the latety late game.
The late game will be in LA, the other three are all in the Eastern time zone, so could be in any order.
In central time, there will be the latety late game.
Dr. Asshole will be in SF this afternoon if anyone wants to stop by and say HI!
OMG, is he at this convention?
“use the hash tag #ASSHmtg for your own meeting-related tweets.”
Mid afternooner over here.
surgery’s so funny, it puts you in stitches.
but seriously, ma’am. good luck and quick recovery.
good luck Jennifer :)
Thanks, guys!
Awesome, get that thing out and be done with it.
If I were a news broadcaster, I would find it hard to say “Tropical Storm Karen” in anything other than Ray Liotta’s voice in Goodfellas.
can we stop naming natural disasters after people, thanks..