Well, happy is maybe not the right word. Mindful Anniversary Day, perhaps.
Unless you’re a Cyrus the Great fan. In that case, Happy Anniversary indeed.
In other news, if you like scary clowns, I got your scary clowns right here.
nn1
Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
39 years to the day that Fosse hit his only World Series home run.
Our GOP Senator was one of the 18.
We’re stuck with him until 2018. My Congressman of course has to defend this next year.
Hard enough to draft legislation that will prevent future manufactured crises in the best of times. Even harder when your wing of your party has a loaded gun pressed to the temple of the global economy, Senator.
The wingers are committed to the fiction that “this exact same crisis” is “the government is running out of money!” Some of them are probably even dumb enough to believe it themselves.
Your congressman also has won two elections, each time with 58% of the vote while carrying every county in the district, so I doubt he’s losing too much sleep over the matter.
If a Democrat ever wins the Nevada 2nd it means the Republican party has ceased to exist. The token Democratic challenger will certainly bring this up though.
Jesus FKing Christ, these people.
Here’s the story behind the car atop the infamous 101-280-680 interchange in San Jose. I’m pretty sure that the interchange was not actually completed until after Brown left office in 1983.
That’s a fantastic story!
Places they could send me for my first implementation of the year:
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Washington
Reno
Texas
SoCal
NY
Ontario
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Alberta
Alabama
Colorado
Indiana
Oregon
Arizona
Florida
New Jersey
…and Gilroy.
And guess where I get to go.
Silver lining–I get to be home with the fam for Halloween.
kids loooooove carving garlic for halloween. oooh! and bobbing for cloves!
Vampire costumes not welcome here.
Honestly, compared to many of those choices Gilroy doesn’t sound so bad, at least in this time of year (the Canadian provinces) or ever (Alabama, Florida, Texas, Arizona).
I’ve been looking forward to traveling for a long time, so it’s a bit of a bummer that I don’t get to fly and accumulate miles. And it’s a solo job, so I don’t get to spend time with anybody else from my company.
Also, the last time they sent me to install in Gilroy, I got Bell’s Palsy and lost half my face.
I can certainly find positives in being close to home, but I always enjoy new new people and places. Saskatoon in the winter was brutal, but I made a great friend in the company on that trip.
I hope you found the other half of your face.
Also can I just say your Belle and Sebastian Boy with the Arab Strap recommendation was really really spot on.
I did find it within about a month. Scary, scary thing.
That’s a great album–glad you enjoyed it.
I really liked that post there were definitely some good albums on there
Presumably if you liked Boy with the Arab Strap you have already listened to Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister, but if not, get on that.
Have not but will.
Ive been listening to a couple of really good albums Baby by Tribe and Wildlife Pop by Step Dad. Highly reccomended both of them.
Hell, I even like Dear Catastrophe Waitress.
I celebrate their entire catalog.
It’s really good work music too.
This.
I can’t find much to argue about in Burneko’s hilarious ranking of each State’s signature foodstuff…Mission-style burrito in the upper pantheon, Carolina pulled-pork sandwich solidly among the “Good” entries, New York style pizza properly derided as the mediocre crap it mostly is. Also, LOL @ Arizona and Nevada.
All the bbq items should be much higher, and Chicago pizza should be about 30 spots lower.
Now I remember why we can’t be friends.
Among other things.
This is great, although ranking Chicago pizza above shrimp and grits is insanity.
Also, I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Indiana and never been served that sandwich (which is basically just weinerschnizel in a bun, in which case yum?). I would say Indiana’s signature food is Steak ‘n Shake.
I never had that sandwich in Indiana, either.
I used to love Chicago pizza when I lived there and was in college and didn’t give a shit about instant heart attacks. Now it repulses me.
I’m living in the prime heart attack years, and I’ll eat Chicago-style pizza any chance I get. My wife and kids’ preference for the prevalent wood-fired thin crust kind may be the only thing saving me from death.
Chicago-style pizza is one of the premier advances in pizza history. Although, I’m speaking more from Zachary’s experience than any actual pizza-in-Chicago experience.
For what it’s worth, eating deep dish pizza probably means less carbs/calorie than other styles (because neither cheese nor meat have carbs). Which is not to say it’s healthy, but no pizza is.
I’m young and not forward looking. This is not a concern for me. I have so many arteries left to clog!
1750 calories. vs. 980.
It all depends on how many slices you eat.
Also, yikes!
Calories aren’t really the point I was making, though.
I was sure Minnesota would get assigned the lutefisk, but North Dakota got stuck with it instead. Ha ha, no backs!
Mission-style burrito in the upper pantheon is undoubtedly correct, but his claim that you can now get a tasty one just about anywhere is some serious bullshit.
Yeah, that’s totally false, and I have the scars left by burritos from Wisconsin and D.C. to prove it.
Pics or STFU
Also, too: New Haven, CT. Those fkers are absolutely clueless about burritos.
Among other things.
::shakes fist::
All of New England. It’s really sad, but the best burrito around here come from Chipotle.
But fuck me do they do deli sandwhichs right
A-fking-men.
Hate to say it, but LA kills the bay area in quality of Mexican food, and actually in food overall I think.
While I have not eaten in LA in quite some time, your opinion is wrong and deserving of great scorn.
Actually, back when I was travelling the state frequently my opinion was that LA was much better for full service, sit-down restaurants with Mexican food, SF was best for burritos, and San Diego was best for taco stands.
San Diego is not best at anything. The food, culture, and baseball team are all very very bland.
1. Weather, which many believe to be the best on earth.
2. Fish tacos. 20 years ago they were among the best, but the rest of CA may have caught up since then.
1. Yes.
2. Long Beach, in my limited experience, has better fish tacos.
huh. where at? i lived in LB for 5 years and for mexican, mostly went to supermex for carnitas. never got beyond curiously eyeing the fat fish tacos of theirs. DID I MISS SOMETHING??
(gotta add, to me the LB supermex will always be the glitzy extension of sunset beach supermex, the birthplace of my mexican food love).
I would love all LB recs you got. I spend a ton of time there.
oh man. it’s been forever. and i was in college. mostly we ate tommy burger or norms or stuff you can only stand after you’re drunk.
but, supermex, for sure. classic.
there used to be great thai BBQ but i couldn’t find my favorite spot last time, so we ended up yelping a place called crystal thai cambodian, on E 10th, that i’d like to live nearby to really get to know. we got 2 soups and 3 entrees, and 4 of these were amazingly great, and the other one was frankly disgusting… but in that way that you know you need to develop a taste for it. couldn’t tell you what it was off the top of my head, probably something wet, with pork and fish together.
i could tell you about some egg place if i could remember where it was, etc… but really, so much has happened in food since 1995 that even if the places i used to go to are still there, they’d probably be sad shells of what they used to be. if i was there this weekend, i’d mostly go exploring any place with cambodian writing on the wall.
ok, if it’s still there… DON’T eat at 99¢/entree chinese on LB blvd. hey, i was in college.
Ill eat anything but chinese food is probably my least favorite type of food
I was there for two days about 7 years ago for a conference and stopped at some place downtown, the name of which is escaping me and my Google-fu. The fish taco I had there was probably one of the two best I have had. The other one was in Baja and so I can’t use it for comparison.
i have to know!!!!
Location-wise, from what I remember, the place that makes sense is Taco Beach, since I never really strayed from Downtown on that trip (other than the conference party on the QM).
now i’m hungry.
There is a good bro ey place with a bunch of tap beers called the Abey something that has a really good short rib burger
1. I beg your pardon, but San Diego’s official motto does not contain the words “climate best.”
It really is the blandest baseball team around, especially since they dropped the brown and yellow.
Teehee.
Twins?
as someone that lives in LA this is pattenly false.
The mission is (much?) better than any similarly sized place in LA, but LA has greater riches overall, especially when it cmes to Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese food, which are my favorites.
it’s been a while, but when i used to date someone in LA and would visit from oakland, we tried to find pho that was as good as what we get here and just couldn’t. then again, the best pho we could find we also termed “hipster pho,” a clean place with a mostly youthful nonethnic clientele on sunset and silver lake. i’m saying maybe we didn’t dig deep enough.
I might have been there.
anybody who’s anybody might have. it’s the place to be seen maybe being seen.
its in a strip mall type thing with no sign?
yep.
though the first part of your sentence describes 75% of all commercial spaces in LA…
but i’m sure we’re thinking of the same one.
Its ok. Nothing great.
The whole of San Francisco is better than any similarly sized section of LA.
The west side has some trendy shit. But lets be real I could drive to the French Laundry during rush hour faster than I could get there from down town LA. Most of LA is a food desert. Korean food is the exception. However, Thai food I have found to be better in Long Beach.
A lot of the best stuff is in la county, but not the city. Alhambra, Monterey park, and Rosemead have many outstanding restaurants. In west la, they want to charge you for being in west la even though it kinda sucks.
I live in Silverlake/Echo park. Have really been disappointed by the food for the most part. And the grocery store situation is horendus
this mike take some bicycling… good ethiopian restaurants on olympic near LACMA. also by LACMA, canter’s has classic motza ball soup. luz del dia in olvera street has excellent handmade tortillas and carnitas that are pretty dang nice. is gorky’s still there? (shit, i think gorky’s is way not still there.)
Been to Ethiopian food over there. Luz del dia i was really meh on. The mole wasn’t good but the tortias were very good. I have no idea what gorkys is but will investigate
gorky’s is closed. just googled it.
i’ve always gotten carnitas at luz. my complaint is their guac is too thin. but yes, those tortillas!
I ate bowls of their guac. No kick :(
Went to Langers yesterday. They have an amazing Ruben, which is better than their special sandwhich.
I used to get the Reuben at Canter’s a couple times a year when I lived in LA. Have not had a reuben near as good anywhere in the Bay Area.
Will try it out
“california is awful.” automatically makes all other opinions in this list of no concern and forced me to stop reading even before i got to it. (given the sentence that phrase comes from, i’d say the editor shared my experience.)
One of my bleacher comrades:
Wow, tough stuff. I bet he was an A’s fan too.
Joke I heard last night: Why did the hipster burn his mouth on his pizza?
Because he ate it before it was cool.
Dude I heard that joke a really long long time ago. Im pretty sure on AN.
Before it was cool, no doubt.
hi.
Everyone who liked that joke is here.
But the real avant garde folks left ** about 2 years before that.
Of course.
I made a joke about how PNTBLs Plank stuff wasn’t very hipster because he waited for the universe to cool before studying it.
Tis a good joke… glad you found it.
Tar Heels made a heck of a game out of it but in the end North Carolina, Kansas and Cal still combine to be quite the FKing pile of suck holding up the BCS conferences.
Can anyone help me find an article? I want to say it was written by danmerqury or elcroata but I can’t remember.
It was looking at which minor league stats were best predictors of a prospect’s success after he was promoted to the next level.
Also, hello everybody!
natehst! s’up dude.
Just finishing up school. Only one semester left until I student teach.
How are you? How are things at FK?
On a related note, I need to come around more often.
You do.
There was an article on Addison Russell on AN that compared K-rate, BB-rate and ISO to predict success at the MLB level but I don’t recall anything re: MILB level-to-level jumps.
That article does do a lot of what I’m looking for, but I don’t think it’s the one I’m thinking of.
Anyways, thanks. I’d forgotten about that article too.
k rate no?
I think it was one factor, but I think the best stats changed between levels. I want to say for hitters it was BB:K between High-A and Double-A, and ISO from Double-A to Triple-A.
However, it was too long ago to remember where I read it (if it even exists), let alone the stats examined within the article.
One less sad grumpy fan in Arlington…
I just had to say that Poppy rocks. And Pam, but she is never here. That’s all.
I had to give up on trying to resize that. Not letting me. I apparently don’t rock hard enough… :P
And Nina.
I had a ticket to a concert in Berkeley this evening, so I drove over there after work. One of my colleagues called me as I was at University and San Pablo to say that the host had made a mistake in a program I was filling in as producer for, and part of it needed to be revoiced and remixed. So I had to bail on the concert, drive back to SF, and spend an hour fixing the program. On the way home on 101, something huge crashed into my windshield — I’m not sure what, possibly a ceiling tile or piece of concrete; it was white and square. So I had to get off at the next exit and pull into a gas station, where I hung out for an hour or so waiting for AAA. The windshield is completely smashed, I don’t think there’s a square inch left without a crack, and there’s a fine dust of broken glass on the dashboard. There’s a nice dent and scrape of paint on the hood where it bounced. I’m happy to be alive. And the host of the program has already got his punishment; he drew the short straw of hanging out at BART until the picket lines go up.
Well, that was probably a much crappier evening than you had planned… (I’m happy you’re alive, too.)
Whoa, that sounds horrible. Glad you made it through intact.
Holy crap! Glad to hear you’re ok! I’ve had a few small rocks kick up and chip my windshield, but now I have something new to fear on my commute.
where did the tile come from? just fell from the sky??
Fell off somebody’s truck, I imagine. I think it was lying on the road in the lane next to mine. A car a couple of lengths ahead of me in that lane drove over it. I heard a loud noise, and then somehow it became airborne, smacked into my car, and I’m not sure where it went next. I saw the car that was ahead of me pull over to the shoulder, so it might have blown out a tire or ripped something off their undercarriage. I didn’t have time to be scared, I just yelled “What the FK!”
Damn
woah
i just couldn’t imagine a heavy tile laying on the road getting that much height. so scary!
Jeez! Glad you’re OK!
Fire escape QOTY:
(If you know how to shoot/edit news video, I recommend that you do NOT watch the video attached to the article.)
(Not because it shows guys rappelling in boxers, which it doesn’t and which would be entertaining… but because it sucks.)
what is on that dudes face
Not sure whether that’s his hoodie from Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota, or whether it’s part of a collection of random unisex warm clothes the firefighters have on hand for people who have to escape fires in their underwear. And that somehow reminds me of my thoughtful tow truck driver from last night, who told me he keeps a pack of cigarettes on hand for his customers who’ve been in an accident and need a smoke. “I was thinking I should maybe have a fifth of Jameson too”, he said, “but then I thought that might not be cool if the CHP had to get involved later.”
What? Michael Schnur, the former Fire Joe Morgan blog guy, is now a writer on the show Parks and Recreation? I never would have guessed.
He’s the creator of P&R, and wrote for (and occasionally appeared in) The Office before that.
I somehow missed that shot in last night’s show.
It always made me laugh that the guy who played Mose, the creepy bumpkin farm neckbeard, was the guy who spent years of his life trying to get people to realize that David Eckstein wasn’t that good at baseball.
Seeing “Vorp” just makes me miss Bed.
Tremendous!
I think Schur is actually the executive producer of Parks and Rec, too.
Paging Bed!
I miss that bald bastard.
Yeah because thats not going to bite them in the ass.
I don’t know a ton about Abreu, but wasn’t he putting up similar numbers to Cespedes in Cuba? I could see some teams making an offer like that to Yoenis, even after his crappy 2013. On the other hand, my memory is that Abreu is a 1B, so he wouldn’t offer as much defensive value.
He is an abysmal 1bman according to reports and hit for a lower average in Cuba. When you see a prospect compared to Ryan Howard, you don’t have to go all Ruben Amaro and give him the same disaster contract.
Sounds like a pretty bad deal then. I do think that
CespedesPuig’s emergence is probably making a lot of money for Abreu.fixed that for you
good point
Im framing this comment and putting it on my wall.
now
pitchingbeing pitched for TV: the ports.password: thefarm
hat tip: chickie!
starring: danny glover!!!!! (maybe)
Dumbass doesn’t understand how contracts work.
Bart workers agreed to show up for those days. If Management wanted to lock out the workers they could even though there is a no lock out clause. It would be political suicide, but they could do it if they wanted to. The rights are reciprocal.
linky
Ugh, the camo uniform craze has reached the French soccer league.
(Yes, I am really just looking for a reason to post this ridiculous Zlatan goal.)
they couldn’t find a defense against the behind the head back heel.
Looks like Primera Upgrade is gonna go to her first Cal football game tonight. This may not help with my “stay close to home for college” campaign.
If she takes after Dad she was smart enough to ditch this hideous game and is at a party right now.
OH LORD.
Superhero baseball league! Four teams…the Justice League, the Justice Society of America, the X-Men, and the Avengers…determine who’s the best using the Out Of The Park baseball simulator.
Particularly funny after having watched The Justice League Recombination episode of Big Bang Theory last night.
Fox news: complete and utter B.S., 24/7.
Alternate headline: if this is the best Fox News can do, Obamacare is pretty fucking awesome.
So, turns out the idiot who ruined the 140 million year old rock formation in Utah recently filed a personal injury lawsuit claiming debilitating back pain. So he’ll probably get screwed on that front, at least.
I guess this explains why FK has (at least) three of them. Check out 1970 through 1984:
Woo!
You’re everywhere!
I’m finally popular!
Oddly, Jennifer wasn’t the most popular name in MO in my birth year.
In my case, I was actually named “Merrill.” However as our family lore goes, my dad had an undying affection for the movie Love Story and started calling me Jenny and wouldn’t stop. Finally my mom got so tired of it, she went down and changed my name to Jennifer. In my kindergarten class there were 5 of us and my teacher was having none of it. One by one on the first day she pointed at us “You’re Jennifer, you’re Jenny, you’re Jen, you’re Jen Marie…” I can’t remember what the 5th girl got. I was Jenny and that was that thanks to my dad and my kindergarten teacher.
In retrospect, given the popularity of Love Boat at the time, my dad saved me from a bunch of Captain Stubing jokes.
But you would absolutely rock the Captain’s hat!
Looks like it won’t be this year!
Jennifer D, Jennifer K, Jennifer L, Jennifer M, Jenni, Jennie, and Jenny.
I hate my name. My mom wanted “Gina” but my dad vetoed it because he thought I would be teased for having an “ethnic” name. Guess they hadn’t been in RWC long enough yet to notice the very large Hispanic and Italian American population.
I’d be more worried they stick a Va in front of it.
i’d be more worried to come within shouting distance of martin.
My parents were indecisive enough to wait until I was several months old to name me. My dad wanted Lena after his great-grandmother who emigrated from Norway, but my mom said it would be cruel to send a child to school in Minnesota named Lena, because she would be constantly asked where Ole was. So they eventually ended up with the much more upscale Nina, with the result that I was constantly asked about the whereabouts of my sisters Pinta and Santa Maria.
My parents had my name picked early: Elizabeth.
We did the same thing (genders reversed) for Yonessa.
As someone in the comments pointed out, these maps could be somewhat different if you combined the homophonic names, such as Catherine/Katherine, or the 3,000 different spellings of (BRIT-nee). Although the Jennifer maps would probably be largely the same, I’m sure (I think we had at most four in some of my classes in school).
was really wondering why Catherine/Katherine were homophobic names there for a moment
Same. lol
Trufax: I was originally going to be named Mary Kathryn but my cousin arrived first. :-(
Linea Alba’s name is Katherine Mary.
I wish someone had made it of the whole play, including the interminable seconds when Prince gazes at the approaching Pedroia before apparently deciding that lying down and playing dead would be the best survival tactic.
Saltalamacchia, I mean.
It’s like most of the A’s playoff heartbreak at once.
Slide! Keep running! Run him over!
Bwaha!
I am very, very happy that THAT gif for some reason does not FK with freezing up my computer.
“I believe I can fly…”
My mom’s analysis of the Fielder rundown play: “Saltalamacchia runs HIS knee up that guy’s ass and they run out to check oh HIM?”
Aloha Puto!
It’s not paranoid to fear clowns, it’s just good sense. Drug lord shot dead by clowns.
Worst.Party.Ever.
clowns suck and i hate them.
I was buying alcohol at Raley’s over on the wrong side of the state line this morning. So if you have alcohol in your basket in California now you’re forced into one of the full-service lines? It used to be that in self-service your transaction would halt until the monitor hit the override button, then I noticed a year or so ago that they started making me pull out my driver’s license so they could punch in the actual birth date. Until today though I haven’t been told I can’t use self-service at all. Is that a Raley’s policy or is that the actual law?
That plus having to pay a bottle deposit in California…grrr, makes it more likely I’ll do my shopping east of the line when possible.
the law changed again on friday. :(
GOP’s next attempt to cover itself in glory? Combining its war on women with its war on non-GOP voting demographics.
I’ve had a really long, difficult, frustrating work day (which isn’t over yet), so I just had a really profane wordstream run through my head when I read that. I would like some pats on the head, please, for restraining myself from posting my profane and thoroughly unconstructive wordstream anywhere (or even saying it out loud in a room full of cats).
Or we could do it MadLib style:
[pats] Good Poppy, nice Poppy.
It just adds a nice incentive not to change your name. Along with pissing off conservatives on the general principle.
I would consider changing my last name to my partners name if she wanted to have the same name
Me too. But mostly b/c my last name is a major pain in the ass. No one can spell it, no one can pronounce it. Either way, I sure as shit wouldn’t force it on someone else.
And no one wants the last name of Asshole.
Unless you’re a proctologist.
Hunh. I think “Mrs. Stick” has a nice ring to it
The kids will be Twig 1 and Twig 2, etc.
Is your last name really “dmoas”??
No.
Let’s get married and hyphenate our last names (yours first, that’ll be harder to say). We could really hurt some people.
A friend who just married and her husband just both changed their names to something equally agreeable. While I don’t dispute their right to do that, it seems pretty odd, as there is so much history tied up in a family name.
I don’t particularly like my dad. I thought about changing my name to my moms family name for a long time
That’s a bit different situation, in which case I understand. In my friends’ case, both have pretty solid relationships with their families.
Its more for the desire to do something that isn’t traditional
Tradition is something you only do because you can’t think of anything better to do.
I get it, on one hand, but it cuts off a tie to the historical context of family, which is quite important to me. Of course, since her last name is the 12th most common one in the US (hint: same as a current A’s left-handed pitcher whose arm frequently falls off), it may not have the same historical context as mine, which is tied for the 149,328th most common surname.
I’ve always wanted to do the same. I want to change my last name to something cool like Youngblood just for kicks.
interesting
Some friends toyed with that idea: Roosa + Cohen -> Rohen (or maybe Rohan?)
That makes at least some sense to me (I know others who have thought about it), but they chose a name completely different from their own.
i’m sure someone here knows this food-n-garden berkeley couple, a cornforth and a cohen who became cornhens.
Shit, now I’m gonna have to play matchmaker for the Spawn so that one of them marries the name of a prominent US City – then they can combine to form the (name of city)roks.
these guys?
it never came up. I was surprised when people asked me if SLF was changing her name.
it wasn’t make or break but I did want my name with the kids because I like it better than her’s. Less common. but if she wanted her name on them I would have shrugged it off.
Mrs. PDX decided to change mostly for the sake of the future spawn. And also because of the less common last name. I didn’t pressure her one way or the other, but she was reacting somewhat to her sister’s kids, one of which took the last name of the mama and one of which took the last name of the mommy*.
* – transgendered, but biologically-speaking the sperm-provider.
I suggested that #2 take her name, I think. I thought it at least, but it appears my name won out.
My mom has the worst maiden name ever. And I hate her dad, so I think God every day she decided to take Dad’s name.
woman next door to work took her husbands name and is now Harriet Butts
We know someone related to Mary Koetter Bottorff.
Just be glad his last name wasn’t ditka.
This conversation reminded me of a nursey school acquaintance.
Her name was Kelly Rubert (Colbert pronunciation). Two years deep into skool, we find out her REAL name is Rhonda Jones! She goes by her middle name, and when she got married her husband took HER name and changed her legal middle name to her husband’s maiden(?) name.
We also found out her mother had manic depression and during a period of mania dug out a swimming pool for the family BY HAND. Mom had also made a 2 story tall paper mache kangaroo. The kangaroo had a robotic pouch that delivered candy.
tagline?
Back in Iowa I knew someone whose first and middle names were Amy Sue. Several of us tried to convince her to change her middle name to her maiden name when she got married, because she was marrying a guy whose last name started with S. She refused. I still regret not buying them monogrammed bath towels with both their initials.
hee
Was his initial “DIS?”
Hopefully they hire someone who still feels obligated to give Don Kelly 250 plate appearances every season.
His father-in-law?
Wow, never heard of the guy but that part about Clemente is interesting.
Tommy Allsup says Whoa.
Fascinating live video of an empty mike stand and the outside of the Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter because everyone thinks there’s maybe some kind of BART strike news coming.
My son is also named Bort!
Once the judge solved this problem, the rest of the work rules discussion was simple.
What the FK is up with that heckler?
Incredible.
meh. two touches too many. slightly not serious, it’s one of those goals where if the players’ skills were more refined, they would have had it in already. like, if the pass to 10 lands in front of him, he can just slot it. or, ibrahimovic takes that same heel and puts it in from there instead of going for one last wall*.
(* whatever “pared” is called in english. touch-and-go?)
the last pass is genius though. wiast-high between three dudes who just have to stand there looking.
while we’re translating, how do you say tiki-taka in londonese?
“wanker bullshite”
…and there’s my mid-morning LOL.
I don’t know. I think Norwich had that pretty well defended if not for the one-touch passing at the end. Sure, Ibrahimovic probably scores earlier in the play, but as far as I know the spaceship that landed here from the planet Zlatan was carrying only one soccer player.
i brought zlatan in for continuity.
there’s a really annoying ad on this, but after, the angle shows that the pass to 10 forces him to heel it back (brilliantly) but there was an angle for it to land in front of him, and had it, he had the space to put it in.
i’m over dissecting a bit, of course. a series of improvised one-touch passes is my favorite kind of play.
Because giant Coke bottles and seagulls shitting on you are so tremendously romantic.
Perhaps I’m a puritan, but the romance factor of proposing goes way down once you already have a kid with someone
I don’t disagree.
My son just proposed by dressing their 1 year old in a “Will you marry daddy?” onesie he’d made and sending her in to wake up Mama, which worked for her.
That’s pretty awesome.
Hard to say no to, for sure.
The romance factor of proposing by attention whores like these two is basically a vanishing quantity.
Not true. I would love to have had a proposal that I never got to have because he figured there was no point when we already had a kid. Certainly the *surprise* factor wouldn’t have been there, but something more romantic than a pragmatic/shrugworthy comment along the lines of “So I guess let’s get married next year” would have been nice.
Well Coke was the official sponsor of their proposal.
Are you sure it isn’t just apart of the tour and they do it at every show?
“Thank you San Francisco, you rock the most! Speaking of rocks…”
And the crowd goes mild!
Poor Blevins.
This link just ate your evening.
Connect any two NFL, MLB, or NBA players. Like so:
I was just playing around with that.
My two favorite players of all time both played with Deion.
Also
Brett Anderson played on the 2012 Oakland Athletics with …
Brian Fuentes, who played on the 2001 Seattle Mariners with …
Jay Buhner, who played on the 1988 New York Yankees with …
Tommy John
JIMMER FREDETTE played on the 2012-13 Sacramento Kings with …
Francisco Garcia, who played on the 2005-06 Sacramento Kings with …
Corliss Williamson, who played on the 1997-98 Sacramento Kings with …
Mark Hendrickson, who played on the 2004 Tampa Bay Devil Rays with …
Paul Abbott, who played on the 1990 Minnesota Twins with …
KIRBY PUCKETT
Despite the fact that the instructions include hockey, when I tried Maurice Richard and Mark Ellis, I got:
Yeah. It was an odd choice to include Hockey given this.
BOB MELVIN played on the 1986 San Francisco Giants with …
Steve Carlton, who played on the 1965 St. Louis Cardinals with …
Curt Simmons, who played on the 1948 Philadelphia Phillies with …
Schoolboy Rowe, who played on the 1934 Detroit Tigers with …
Cy Perkins, who played on the 1915 Philadelphia Athletics with …
Harry Davis, who played on the 1896 Pittsburgh Pirates with …
CONNIE MACK
Bill Bradley played on the 1968-69 New York Knicks with …
Dave Debusschere, who played on the 1962 Chicago White Sox with …
Charlie Maxwell, who played on the 1958 Detroit Tigers with …
Jim Bunning
I’m including this one just because the linking player is hilarious.
BOB GEREN played on the 1993 San Diego Padres with …
Bill Bean, who played on the 1988 Detroit Tigers with …
BILLY BEANE
Stephen Vogt played on the 2012 Tampa Bay Rays with …
Kyle Farnsworth, who played on the 2005 Atlanta Braves with …
Brian Jordan, who played on the 1989 Atlanta Falcons with …
Malcolm Taylor, who played on the 1982 Houston Oilers with …
Dave Casper, who played on the 1974 Oakland Raiders with …
George Blanda
It only takes 3 degrees to get from Ryan Langerhans to Bubby Brister!
Ryan Langerhans played on the 2006 Atlanta Braves with …
Brian Jordan, who played on the 1989 Atlanta Falcons with …
Scott Campbell, who played on the 1986 Pittsburgh Steelers with …
Bubby Brister
Took me a while, but I finally broke 9 degrees:
Connie Mack played on the 1891 Pittsburgh Pirates with …
Jake Beckley, who played on the 1906 St. Louis Cardinals with …
Babe Adams, who played on the 1926 Pittsburgh Pirates with …
Paul Waner, who played on the 1943 Brooklyn Dodgers with …
Gil Hodges, who played on the 1962 New York Mets with …
Ed Kranepool, who played on the 1979 New York Mets with …
Jesse Orosco, who played on the 2003 New York Yankees with …
Drew Henson, who played on the 2004 Dallas Cowboys with …
Terence Newman, who played on the 2012 Cincinnati Bengals with …
Andy Dalton
Brutal.
:-(
There are things you learn in nursey school you will probably never see in practice. This reminded me of one I thought I’d never see: posturing. When the brain is severely damaged it just starts doing shit on its own. Depending on the direction the body positions itself indicates where the brain injury may have occurred. Ended up seeing it on a family member I worked on.
is that like the fencing pose?
Thanks, and go As.
Yep.
It’s all abnormal posturing. Decerebrate and decorticate posturing are seen in severe brain traumas.
What do you mean by abnormal posturing? Is it visible in the video? Also was Leal’s injury/death caused by a last, single, unfortunately-placed punch, or was that just the one that pushed his brain over the edge?
Boxing as always fascinated me, as morbid as this situation is.
This is abnormal posturing:
The video is a little goofy at the end. Sorry. :( It’s a good video to see what I’m talking about, though.
The fight video doesn’t really show anything other than Leal being limp (as in the third position depicted). He can’t hold his own head up. He isn’t even blinking, including when the flashlight is flickered in front of his eyes. That’s the corneal reflex, an autonomic reflex. You’re born with it, you can’t control it, and you have those type if reflexes so your brain can protect your body even when your body can’t. Your autonomic reflexes stop working when there’s no signal from your brain to the nerves.
The article FSU linked mentions Leal being “rabbit punched”. I had to Google that. It’s possible. It could have detached the brain from the brain stem (that would certainly stop autonomic reflexes). Another article indicated he died because of a brain bleed. I honestly don’t know enough details to say.
Thanks, that’s really interesting.
As someone who feels uncomfortable watching football these days, I really don’t get how anyone can sit down and enjoy boxing. The sport is about damaging the other guy’s brain worse than he’s damaging yours.
people enjoy violence.
Thanks, and go As.
Happy anniversary to all y’all. Thanks for being a place where I can be myself. I appreciate that I can always do that.
Anyone else weirded out by the fact that the World Series hasn’t even started yet? I feel like I’ve been mourning the 2013 A’s for a month.
Just tuned out entirely beyond the knowledge of who is playing.
Same. I could not possibly care less about these games.
baseball is dead.
whatever number jogging can give us any hope that small-market teams can become competitive over the long haul does not equate to that same team having success in the small sample of a playoff. it seems antithetical even. the A’s, the pirates, the rays, the native americans of the NL or the AL, they may never win it all again. FK it.
long live baseball.
They didn’t cancel the World Series?
You’re in the clubhouse. You’re underneath all that. It’s like iron screeching. Like there’s a train coming through the door. You knew. The auxiliary lights hadn’t even come on yet and I was yelling, “Earthquake!” Dave Parker shit his pants, man.
404 point 0? maybe that error message is on the richter scale…
Hrm. Correct link?
yep.
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i was at the nugget, cal state long beach’s on-campus bar, with very few people paying attention to the sporting event about to start in the background, probably because it was early and serious drinking hadn’t begun for the day, or because we were in college and sports were not music videos, also, i may have been preoccupied with getting my roommate and bartender to find the right moment to slip me an underage guinness, when everybody started pointing at the TVs going WTF, and a minute or two later, we felt the jolts too.
I was stopping by the record store I worked at on a day off. the other guy was there and had the TV on ( I wouldn’t have unless it was a target vid put on to get people to leave) I turned to watch because of the novelty of watching baseball, something I hadn’t done in a while. thought huh. then went on with my day/night.
I am guessing I got drunk/high. (unrelated)
someone remind me, around july of next year, that the defremery pool’s backstroke flags are orange and black and are in serious need of a midnight ratfucking to replace them with more oakland-sensitive colors. seriously. it’s a safety hazard. someone could drown. be all: flags; 5 strokes till wall; 4 strokes till wall; 3 strokes till wall; why am i thinking of the giants?; FK’ING GIANTS!!!; clunk; glug glug; dead.