dj fury once asked, is it bass or quad? though it may have been a trick question. i think in that youtube-unavailable case it was both, in the same song, just depended on wether you put it on at 33.3 or 45. but the question as i’d like to rephrase it is, WTF is quad if it’s not bass? seriously. i can’t find a definition, description, or even a list of elements thereof. but quad is there (here it is). it even seems to offer medical advice to sore athletes. and it sounds just like bass, therefore i… like it (i can already hear a retort to me saying this… “mmm gurl, i know he di’int.”). but i do, even if i honestly don’t know what it is.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I’ll be out today, definitely need to give the quad a week off. Tried a test run up the block last night and pulled up in pain after three strides. Hope a week is enough.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
i didn’t realize this was a week old already. i thought it was thursday activity to friday sore. sounds more like a strain more than fogey sore. (did it start with a sudden twinge while actually running? strain!) some possible timelines.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Apparently the lines between the definitions of muscle strain, pull and tear are quite blurry and overlapping. I prefer to think of it as a bad owie. I have a heating pad for just this situation. In any case, I can do pretty much anything at jogging speed but nothing at full speed, so maybe I’ll avoid the outfield when I play next week.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I went to the beach today. The hike should require snowshoeing in mid-January but the trail was bare. It was windless, so pleasantly warm for about 4 hours. A couple of my summertime friends were among the half-dozen or so. One works at Northstar in the winter and isn’t sure he’s going to be working that much longer. The drought situation is getting pretty dire.
I thought of you tonight because some people went to great lengths to set up a soak tub here at the South Pole. Unfortunately, the heater wasn’t quite up to the task, but it got at least warmish. I wasn’t going in though…
Needs to be at least body temperature, preferably 4 or 5 degrees above that. Of course natural, geothermal heating is best. (Probably a repost, best absurd hot springs scene in an incredibly stupid Pierce Brosnan movie.)
Reeds maestro Steve Grossman is 63 today, and what better way to party for your right to funk than with a sliver of Stone Alliance, the only fusion supergroup ever cited by name in a Beastie Boys track. I believe Steve may have scorched a few satellites with some of these stratospheric saxophone explosions, captured live on their 1977 tour of Earth.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
saw BoR20’s bobblehead yesterday. in my dream last night, i had to describe it to someone and by the time i was done, josh was wearing yellow and gold swimming flippers and was doing a dolphin kick to get over the tarp.
also, someone remind me. was i at that game? the line between live and TV is starting to blur for me…
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I’m torn. I want this bobblehead, and I’d kill to see the A’s again in person and to see you guys and the Bay again, but fuck that shit, I’m mot waiting in line. This is coming from a person who has waited in the cold rain for 12 hours to get barrier at a concert.
Agreed, I hate waiting in lines. I like bobbleheads, and I’ve been lucky enough to have been given some by kind FK buddies, but given the choice of how to spend three hours I’ll take the parking lot over the line every time.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Chowed down on some shanghai style dumplings today on Taraval Street. Where have these pan fried pork buns with the sweet crunchy bottoms been all my life?
oh right. was meaning to ask. i thought shanghai dumplings were soup dumplings (as found at joe shanghai). but you say pan fried, and crunchy… hm… a) i want to try those too. b) did you see if they had the soup ones? i haven’t found those outside NYC.
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I’m somewhat of a soup dumplings afficionado. There are plenty of places that do them in L.A. and I’ve found a few places that do them in the Bay Area, either as specials or a consistent menu item. Shanghai Dumpling King in SF has them as a full time menu item (their most popular), but I think they’re hit or miss. Renee’s Place on Solano has had them as a special from time to time. The Bay Area unfortunately is not the greatest for soup dumplings (at least that I’ve discovered so far). The ones I’ve had in L.A. may be the best I’ve had, and even South Africa had better ones than I’ve found here. But even when they’re not the best, soup dumplings are still delicious, so you can’t go too wrong.
The place I went to is called Dumpling Kitchen. It’s across the street from another place called Kidngom of Dumplings. You know, the dumpling district.
People who follow the NFL closely will watch both games, as this is traditionally one of the two best Sundays of the season. Casual local fans will only watch Oakland’s Marshawn Lynch versus that red-and-gold clad team. 4:00 is probably your better choice for open aisles.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I was a pedro martinez fan in my non baseball fan days. I like how he was sticking it to Tommy Lasorda who thought he was too small, and I liked when he signed a contract extention with boston and said “That’s a lot of money, huh?” I rooted for them on his start days.
New England +5.5 at Denver. Hard game to pick. Before last week I would have picked Peyton to abuse the retread New England defense, and that probably will still happen. But Denver’s defense is also suspect. If a mediocre San Diego team can score enough to cover, surely Tom Brady can too.
San Francisco +3.5 at Seattle. This line is just too high, given how well the Niners are playing. Much as it pains me, I think SF is going to win this game outright.
2-5-1 playoffs to date so far.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Three straight road wins, boy that is a lot to ask. Seattle to cover.
I don’t have a sense of which team will win in Denver, but Manning and Brady vs. those defenses in perfect weather? It looks like the over/under is 56.5 and I’ll go with the Over.
The weather is too nice to sit on one’s ass watching 7 hours of football. On my way out to tromp through the pathetic remains of six-week-old snow shortly. I’ll probably catch the end of the first game and then all of the second game.
I got outside yesterday, lovely hike from the hills to the ocean in Marin’s Tennessee Valley, named (I now know) after the wreck of the S.S. Tennessee in 1853. No casualties.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Every time I go home, that is a mandatory running route. The only problem is that when I get out to the beach it is so gorgeous that I have to stop and look around, even if I’m supposed to keep running. It’s too bad that the arch collapsed though.
Speaking as someone who did spend all day inside on Sunday and justified it with big Monday plans, you made the right move. I subsequently got sick and barely dragged myself outdoors at all yesterday.
and thanks. you’re confirming my impulses. except on cab-volt. i see them as starting out postpunk and ending toward techno-industrial and i was trying to decide between these, but you went dark wave. i can see your reasoning though, if you listen to the mood and that they scratched the charts when people saw their poster on ferris bueller’s bedroom wall.
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huh. i don’t know when that name started but it fits my categories better than saying goth. more inclusive. less makeup.
and a lot of the classification is physical. today i’m moving this batch from 12″ boxes to 4′ shelves, so there’s a little flux going on right now. maybe i should say goth, and move the lighter stuff to either new wave or post punk, then alien sex fiend from industrial to goth, but then i don’t know what to do with the smiths.
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I’ve always thought of Voltaire as industrial, and back then that’s where they were filed in record stores, but if I think of something like ‘Sensoria’ I think more techno dance than anything. It may have been more their bleak aesthetic and timing than the actual music they are known for in retrospect.
I am ashamed to admit that my wife once wrote a chick lit / Red Sox fanfic novel for NaNoWriMo. I think it was a thinly veiled account of dating Kevin Youkilis*, but happily I have never read it.
The more of the AFC Championship Game undercard I watch, the more I find myself enjoying watching the New England Tuck-Rules getting their asses kicked.
I feel very, very, dirty. Like, impossible-to-get-clean dirty.
I like Joe Buck’s play-by-play work on football. The “despicable act” bit was over the top, sure. But he outgrew that and his pompous tone translates to football better than baseball.
Yeah, he’s an acceptable football pxp guy, probably because the whole sport has no sense of humor about itself, thus the Joe Buck pomposity fits right in.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Intentional grounding on Cam Newton Russel Wilson.
On a related note, the NFL should revert to the old rules for grounding. All this “out of the pocket” and “ball reaching the line of scrimmage” business is nonsense.
I don’t mind the current rule on that, but speaking of the officiating, the failure to call roughing the kicker when the poor guy almost had his ankle broken will definitely be a point of contention if Seattle wins.
So word now is that it was both. ACL requiring surgery, MCL will heal on it’s own. That had to hurt. The damn knee bent sideways. It’s not exactly supposed to be able to do that.
On the other hand, they let DB’s get away with holding 90% of the time. Honestly, if you’re not gonna call it, never call it. But then, start letting receivers push off.
The running into/roughing FKup basically cost the niners the game, IMO.
The fact that MULTIPLE calls that have the capability of shifting the entire game are missed like that — and not just in the SF game, you can basically point to 3 or 4 wrong calls every game that are significant — is making me edge closer and closer to ignoring the NFL.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Personally, I think anything that could constitute a potential 15 yard penalty should be reviewable. Those are the extreme penalties that should absolutely be called. A 5 and 10 are much more minor and less important/impactful, but pretty much anything that would result in a 15 yarder is a pretty serious offense. And that’s for both assessing and removing the penalty.
That blown call certainly didn’t help, and it certainly awarded extra points to Seattle. But I think the fumble and two interceptions during get-it-DONE time is what cost the Niners the game.
There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
The one that really hurt was the non-roughing the kicker call that was a running into the kicker instead. That one would have allowed them to hold onto the ball and iirc lead to that big TD that Lynch had during that eventual possession.
THe safeties blowing their coverage on the 51 yd pass that set up Seattle’s first FG, and then again on the 4th and 7 where Wilson went 35 yds for the end zone and got the TD really hurt.
I agree that Denver will win, but I could also see the line getting driven up higher that it should be, given the strong defense from either of these NFC teams.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
On a neutral field, we would have won. With neutral officiating (not just the roughing and the punter, but literally every other marginal call all game long), we would have won.
Sigh.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
It seemed to me like the niners overcame all of the bad calls other than the punter thing, such that they didn’t affect the outcome. Seattle just made one huge play and kapernick made a couple of huge mistakes that turned the game.
What a crazy series of turnovers, called and not called. What can the rationale possibly be for not allowing a review of a fumble recovery in the field of play?
(And as I write this Kaep gets picked, 3rd turnover in the last 5 minutes of this game.)
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
I remember once the rule was that you could review to see whether there was a clear pre-pile recovery. Obviously what happens in the pile is unreviewable.
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
Sherman has lost his mind. And the funny thing is, I thought he was ok at Stanford, but when he graduated it wasn’t like I thought “shoot we’re losing Sherman.”
I don’t admire the guy for it, but you have to admit it’s more entertaining when you have a player willing to call the guy he just vanquished a “sorry ass” on live tv.
I don’t hope for injuries on anybody, but if he never played again I would not care one bit. Plenty of people win and do it with class, fuckups like that guy shouldn’t succeed.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
There was another 15 yarder against the 49ers that was BS, can’t remember who it was. Really badly officiated game, but if Kaepernick made better passes, it wouldn’t have mattered.
The one on Whitner where: A) He didn’t go helmet to helmet or anything to helmet and B) The guy was LITERALLY knocked INTO him in a way that he had ZERO way of avoiding.
It really is sad that the majority of his hits upon review were perfectly legal and “safe” hits. Adds more credence to add that to the reviewable call list.
Also cars that jump onto the top of trains, and beer commercials that don’t actually promote the beer but just tease the company’s Super Bowl ad campaign.
OTOH the local ads in Reno are fun. They consist of a LOT of sleazy lawyers (ambulance chasers, DUI defense and the tough woman who Fights For Men’s Rights in divorce cases), pawn shops, and the cheesy spots for low-end casinos.
The one that had several commercials running yesterday was Hobey’s. Others include Rail City, across the freeway from the Nugget in Sparks, and of course the Bonanza up past the university, which I believe was featured in that Muppets movie.
Downtown, in addition to Club Cal-Neva the Sands is also still thriving. I’ve actually stayed in the cheap-ass rooms there before 6 a.m. flights out of the airport.
I love the Sands, my favorite place to play downtown that still exists. Used to do a circuit of Sands, Sundowner, Comstock, Cal-Neva, and the Pioneer just on the other side of the river, all great games for the modest-stakes sharp blackjack player. Of those, only the Sands and Cal-Neva still exist.
Rail City is a great decaying throwback joint too, at least it was when I last played there more than 10 years ago, and presumably it has aged accordingly since.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Most of the smaller places seem to have ditched their table games though. Even the Horizon, one of the Big Four here at South Shore, has done that. The smaller casinos survive on their slots and video poker now.
I kind of like this Seahawks team if I’m being honest, but those fans patting themselves on their backs for their epic fan-ness is extremely irritating.
and for the record let’s be sure we state that today’s top dB level in that place was 108, according to the TV screen readout… Game 5 in the Coliseum last October got up to 109.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
The Lye Tuppa Bowl. Instead of a trophy, the winner gets a 3-foot-high dual chamber blown glass bong made by a dreadlocked guy named Rainbow in Santa Cruz.
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
I’m so happy for Champ Bailey. Ever since our Super Bowl hey day he has been my favorite Bronco. So glad he’ll get to experience at least one trip to the Super Bowl.
The line opened Denver -1 and is up to -2 or -2.5 now. I’m thinking it climbs above 3 before game day, so maybe today’s the day to get in at the shorter odds, then go the other way if it gets to 3.5 and hope for that juicy 3 point middle.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
It amazes me that the Cow Palace is still standing. And Lew thinks the Coliseum is obsolete. I think the first professional sporting event I ever attended may have been there, a Cub Scout outing to a Warriors game in the 60s.
Minor-league hockey franchises are historically fly-by-night operations, much like independent baseball leagues. Plus, minor-league anything is a tough sell in a major metropolitan area.
Leaving the Cow Palace will eliminate the amusing scenes in December when half the people wandering around the parking lots are wearing hockey sweaters and jeans, and the other half are wearing crinolines and top hats for the Dickens Fair.
Possibly lost in football-mania over the weekend was the start of the Vancouver-Calgary NHL game on Saturday night. I once saw a minor league game in San Diego start exactly this way.
I love how the first couple guys get in it and the rest are standing around, and then pair by pair, they just say “Fuck it, might as well throw down too.”
For those who just scroll over, “situation” isa link to a christina karhl article about the outing of a trans woman in the “this” link. I encourage you to read “situation.”
I wonder about the whole thing, I don’t think the freelancer sells the piece to grantland or anyone if its just a story about a putter with a fabricating inventor. its just not interesting. at least to be paid enough to justify all the reporting. I bet the guy thought the trnas angle was his payday. Sad really. Karhl says it better than me. but the writer blew it and if any editors were knowledgeable on what he was doing and didn’t stop him, they blew it too.
SLF spent years writing for alt weeklies. being a freelancer is not a way to make a living unless you can sell 3-10,000 word pieces regularly. this is part of the post printed newspaper problem that needs to get worked out
just read the “grantland” piece. Now I want to throw things.
That motherfucking asshole made every excuse available. Did not acknowlege key facts. Key key facts that were expressly put in the original piece. After reading that, I am more comfortable blaming teh writer and editors. they were not “careless.” they were deliberate and acted with malice.
I had to go through a box of old papers, mostly concerning my radio past, and discovered some of my ticket stubs from the 1991 postseason, just in time for the deflation of the Metrodome!
You can replicate the experience if you know anyone with a basement with fluorescent lighting….just put a 13-inch analog TV at one end of the room and put a hard plastic chair as far away from the TV as possible. Turn the sound on the TV up as loud as it will go. Now find yourself a cold hot dog and a bag of Old Dutch potato chips and you’ve got it. But remember, there is NOOOO SMOOOOKING in the Metrodome!
also, just noticed bruce jenkins has an IMDB writing credit on an otherwise unhelpful listing for a pretty neat documentary that i believe is still VHS-only, but available at the oakland public library last time i checked.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I’m hoping I can watch the livestream from my desk Friday without being too slackerish. It’s also being televised on the NBC Universal Sports Network, whatever that is.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Not that I know anything about surfing but it does look like there are some nice waves out there. NBC Universal is on DirecTV 625, which I get but not in HD so I think the online broadcast is probably your best option. The surfer-talk by the commentators already has me chuckling.
I imagine everyone has already seen this, but nevertheless it is awesome. Michelle Obama is cooler than the next three coolest first ladies put together.
last week, my over-dinner, off-the-cuff, total guess that tanaka would go to yanks was immediately poo-poo’d for not taking into account the luxury thingy and how the yankees are going nowhere for a year or two anyway. both of which had to be explained to me. and yet…
seems the less i know the righter i am. (quit explainin’ things to me!) ((at least he’s not at dividion-rival rangels.)) (((AAV? am sad to find out i’m the single-A version of AV’s.)
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Being AV instead of AAV just means you’re not average!
And while I think the Tanaka contract is kind of insane, money means less than it used to and Tanaka is supposed to be pretty good, so I too am glad that he’s not on an AL West team
According to PSA the Yankees’ AAV payroll is projected at $207,045,854.40, so they’re over.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they signed Stephen Drew, what with their 2B/3B/SS situation of Kelly Johnson, Brendan Ryan, Brian Roberts and Derek Jeter.
game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened.
Two Blevinses are better than one when you consider the disappearance of our one Blevins last October. I’m actually fine with the midseason thing, since he should be fresh for the stretch run and won’t take up a roster spot during the sorting process of the first couple of months.
Well EOF is definitely better than Blevins (assuming he can return to pre-2013 form). The guy had a 1.4 fWAR season. I wouldn’t mind the deal, since it’s cheaper than the Balfour deal was and that’s not counting for inflation. I don’t even really mind the Gregerson deal since Gregorson is quite good and Smith would be a FA next year. Plus Gentry is the better player.
O’Flaherty has gotten lefties out better than Blevins but this is negated by the fact that he’s coming back from a significant injury so we’re not really sure yet how he’d perform going forward.
This deal makes sense for a team short on bullpen depth and didn’t used to have Blevins. I don’t understand why they didn’t just keep Blevins who, unlike O’Flaherty, we know can perform reliably the entire season, if they don’t believe in Abad.
And there’s a few real holes on this team (LH C, 2B, SP) that I feel should have commanded more attention than spending willy nilly on the bullpen.
The A’s have really gone all out on the bullpen this offseason, which seems to go counter to the A’s philosophy that paying for bullpen arms is usually not worth it. I wonder if they’re changing their views there or if these are just the opportunities that have presented themselves.
Aside from Jim Johnson, though, none of them are particularly expensive salary wise — and Johnson’s salary is exactly what enabled them to get him for cheap, trade value wise.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Okay. 30th birthday extravaganza is Saturday. Unbeknownst to me, I chose a fancy smancy restaurant ran by my hospital’s CEO’s son. Two entire rotations of nurses and their spouses are going. We are taking a bus. CEO told us today he told the son to “hook us up”. I’m officially excited. Hold me.
Yay, Happy Three-Oh! You definitely didn’t have to settle for Waffle House for the big one. I’m sure you’ll be “hooked up” with the finest cuisine Golden Corral has to offer!
Oooh, the hotel where I stayed for the A’s series last July was a couple blocks from the Plaza, lots of great restaurant choices down there. I remember going to Jack Stack the first day in before the night game.
Maybe?
Remind me again, who are you?
It’s me! Tits McGee!
Of course. A picture is worth a thousand words.
You wish.
batgirl bait: Puppy Bowl fantasy league. Requires facebook, so I’m out, unless I get Nurse U to draft on my behalf. Still, cool idea.
It’s weird, they don’t have all the participants available to draft. It’s an outrage!
My left quad muscle is completely fucked up on account of playing sports while old. And being too stupid to properly stretch.
Want me to rub it for you?
Depends on what you rub it with.
Sand paper and salt.
dj fury once asked, is it bass or quad? though it may have been a trick question. i think in that youtube-unavailable case it was both, in the same song, just depended on wether you put it on at 33.3 or 45. but the question as i’d like to rephrase it is, WTF is quad if it’s not bass? seriously. i can’t find a definition, description, or even a list of elements thereof. but quad is there (here it is). it even seems to offer medical advice to sore athletes. and it sounds just like bass, therefore i… like it (i can already hear a retort to me saying this… “mmm gurl, i know he di’int.”). but i do, even if i honestly don’t know what it is.
Boo, hope you make it tomorrow!
Should be interesting, I pulled something in my forearm yesterday.
I’ll be out today, definitely need to give the quad a week off. Tried a test run up the block last night and pulled up in pain after three strides. Hope a week is enough.
The sand paper massage didn’t help?
FSU is so gritty, he made the sandpaper smooth.
i didn’t realize this was a week old already. i thought it was thursday activity to friday sore. sounds more like a strain more than fogey sore. (did it start with a sudden twinge while actually running? strain!) some possible timelines.
Apparently the lines between the definitions of muscle strain, pull and tear are quite blurry and overlapping. I prefer to think of it as a bad owie. I have a heating pad for just this situation. In any case, I can do pretty much anything at jogging speed but nothing at full speed, so maybe I’ll avoid the outfield when I play next week.
Get better buddy,take your B complex!
Watching Pulp Fiction without all the bad words is kind of compelling, in a too-horrible-to-look-away kind of way.
I went to the beach today. The hike should require snowshoeing in mid-January but the trail was bare. It was windless, so pleasantly warm for about 4 hours. A couple of my summertime friends were among the half-dozen or so. One works at Northstar in the winter and isn’t sure he’s going to be working that much longer. The drought situation is getting pretty dire.
I thought of you tonight because some people went to great lengths to set up a soak tub here at the South Pole. Unfortunately, the heater wasn’t quite up to the task, but it got at least warmish. I wasn’t going in though…
Needs to be at least body temperature, preferably 4 or 5 degrees above that. Of course natural, geothermal heating is best. (Probably a repost, best absurd hot springs scene in an incredibly stupid Pierce Brosnan movie.)
Yeah, it’s nice to have sunny days and all, but we really need some rain soon.
Reeds maestro Steve Grossman is 63 today, and what better way to party for your right to funk than with a sliver of Stone Alliance, the only fusion supergroup ever cited by name in a Beastie Boys track. I believe Steve may have scorched a few satellites with some of these stratospheric saxophone explosions, captured live on their 1977 tour of Earth.
saw BoR20’s bobblehead yesterday. in my dream last night, i had to describe it to someone and by the time i was done, josh was wearing yellow and gold swimming flippers and was doing a dolphin kick to get over the tarp.
also, someone remind me. was i at that game? the line between live and TV is starting to blur for me…
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!
OMG I MUST OWN THAT
it’s a good one.
20,000.
thank you a’s marketing
I bet it’s already on sale at eBay.
I like the dirt-stained knee.
I’m torn. I want this bobblehead, and I’d kill to see the A’s again in person and to see you guys and the Bay again, but fuck that shit, I’m mot waiting in line. This is coming from a person who has waited in the cold rain for 12 hours to get barrier at a concert.
Agreed, I hate waiting in lines. I like bobbleheads, and I’ve been lucky enough to have been given some by kind FK buddies, but given the choice of how to spend three hours I’ll take the parking lot over the line every time.
I kind of miss this place and you guys. I was down in the dumps for a month or so.
20,000 is better than last year, yeah? I think lining up when gates open would be sufficient.
I’d agree.
Hope so!
Oh, I am ALL OVER this. *WANT*. *WILL GET*. If I can get a 3rd person to come to that game with me, I’ll get you your BobbleJosh.
But you’ll have to come back to Oakland to get it from me. ;)
Bwhaha!
Front row seats are still currently available that day, and we have a standing promise of flights and accommodation …
just saying
(Speaking of… did you request 3/29 for me even though it’s not in the original list?)
I did, but I think it had already been claimed. I’m still waiting for the definitive answer though.
If so, oh well, I do at least have other 3/29 tickets already… and will also have my other opportunities for the front row seats :)
Has this been posted yet?
Loved it. “And now a man from prison has come out onto the pitch. What’s he got to say? Two syllables…mouth! Fist”
Ha, good stuff. The Bad Lip Reading videos are hilarious too
The keezer is complete. Now I just have to brew something to put in it!
Nice!
Thanks – though my friend Joe provided all the skilled labour (wood-working).
Sweet!
Today I saw what my boobs would like if I lived to be 90+ years old. It wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be.
Chowed down on some shanghai style dumplings today on Taraval Street. Where have these pan fried pork buns with the sweet crunchy bottoms been all my life?
That sounds delicious. No life couldn’t be improved with the addition of more dumplings
oh right. was meaning to ask. i thought shanghai dumplings were soup dumplings (as found at joe shanghai). but you say pan fried, and crunchy… hm… a) i want to try those too. b) did you see if they had the soup ones? i haven’t found those outside NYC.
I’m somewhat of a soup dumplings afficionado. There are plenty of places that do them in L.A. and I’ve found a few places that do them in the Bay Area, either as specials or a consistent menu item. Shanghai Dumpling King in SF has them as a full time menu item (their most popular), but I think they’re hit or miss. Renee’s Place on Solano has had them as a special from time to time. The Bay Area unfortunately is not the greatest for soup dumplings (at least that I’ve discovered so far). The ones I’ve had in L.A. may be the best I’ve had, and even South Africa had better ones than I’ve found here. But even when they’re not the best, soup dumplings are still delicious, so you can’t go too wrong.
Shanghai Dumpling King is my go to spot.
There is a place in Milbrae that is really good. on the main row off el camino
Where do you like in LA?
hope i remember this next time i’m in milbrae.
Nom Nom Nom. Maybe we need to have a preseason FK Up, Chow Down.
i’m down!
also, with this and GM’s place, i detect a trend in nomenclature.
The place I went to is called Dumpling Kitchen. It’s across the street from another place called Kidngom of Dumplings. You know, the dumpling district.
got it. i misread “nommynoms.”
A (soup) dumplings FK Up would be one of my favorites
yup thats the one… so good
I’m thinking Mei Long and Din Tai Fung, but this was back in 2009 or 2010, so I’m not positive if I’m remembering the right places.
ill take a look at them for sure… love me some soup dumplings
thank you thank you thank you.
Yank Sing does soup dumplings. I’m not enough of an expert to know how they compare to other places, but I like ’em.
this thread is beginning to need a road trip.
Oh, I at some awesome soup dumplings too. I’d had those before though. This is something different.
damn.
OK, this is awesome.
Yes, brilliant!
I hope the witch stops by at some point today, it’s a rare event indeed that finds me rooting for that New England team.
how does it work? will the average bay area football fan watch both games, or just the SF one?
(am planning an optimally quiet supermarket trip. is noon OK? or wait till 4?)
People who follow the NFL closely will watch both games, as this is traditionally one of the two best Sundays of the season. Casual local fans will only watch Oakland’s Marshawn Lynch versus that red-and-gold clad team. 4:00 is probably your better choice for open aisles.
At 2 p.m. the beer aisle at your local Safeway will look like Walmart on Black Friday.
red and gold cla… the fort lauderdale strikers are playing? WHAT CHANNEL??
The only time I’d ever root for New England would be if they were playing prison rules against a team of child molesters.
Or against the Red Sox. But wait, you already said that.
If they were on top of a building and someone started chanting “jump”.
That said I have found myself rooting for them so far. YMMV
I was a pedro martinez fan in my non baseball fan days. I like how he was sticking it to Tommy Lasorda who thought he was too small, and I liked when he signed a contract extention with boston and said “That’s a lot of money, huh?” I rooted for them on his start days.
its not terrible in moderation.
In the AFC, I’m rooting for a meteor strike or other natural disaster. As for the NFC, I’m very grudgingly pulling for the Seachickens.
Basically, whoever wins, it sucks.
New England +5.5 at Denver. Hard game to pick. Before last week I would have picked Peyton to abuse the retread New England defense, and that probably will still happen. But Denver’s defense is also suspect. If a mediocre San Diego team can score enough to cover, surely Tom Brady can too.
San Francisco +3.5 at Seattle. This line is just too high, given how well the Niners are playing. Much as it pains me, I think SF is going to win this game outright.
2-5-1 playoffs to date so far.
Three straight road wins, boy that is a lot to ask. Seattle to cover.
I don’t have a sense of which team will win in Denver, but Manning and Brady vs. those defenses in perfect weather? It looks like the over/under is 56.5 and I’ll go with the Over.
The weather is too nice to sit on one’s ass watching 7 hours of football. On my way out to tromp through the pathetic remains of six-week-old snow shortly. I’ll probably catch the end of the first game and then all of the second game.
I got outside yesterday, lovely hike from the hills to the ocean in Marin’s Tennessee Valley, named (I now know) after the wreck of the S.S. Tennessee in 1853. No casualties.
Oooh … that’s a great hike. Did you manage to drag the kids out too?
Yes! Mandatory family hike. The kids’ equivalent of the Bataan Death March, with sandwiches.
I hope they were salt sandwiches.
Every time I go home, that is a mandatory running route. The only problem is that when I get out to the beach it is so gorgeous that I have to stop and look around, even if I’m supposed to keep running. It’s too bad that the arch collapsed though.
Speaking as someone who did spend all day inside on Sunday and justified it with big Monday plans, you made the right move. I subsequently got sick and barely dragged myself outdoors at all yesterday.
eggcam
wait a minute. there’s like 5 different cameras there. and a little editing. this was no falconing accident!
darkwave, postpunk, or industrial? (your vote counts.)
alien sex fiend
cabaret voltaire
OMD
YMO/kraftwerk*
jah wobble
tuxedomoon/snakefinger/mx-80*
bongwater**
butthole surfers**
scratch acid/jesus lizard**
meat puppets**
—
talking heads… punk for historical accuracy, or new wave ’cause that’s what they sound like?
—
* conjoined for shelving purposes only
** there’s a 90s/grunge category too (think pavement, smashing pumpkins, MBV, breeders), but it’s an iffy fit, right?
1-ind 2-dw 3-PP 4-Ind 5- PP 6-PP 7-N/A 8-PP 9-PP 10 PP
bonus New waive. same for go-gos
6 of 10.
what does 6/10 mean? (you only left 1 of 10 unanswered)
nothing. pretending it was a quiz
the extra credit got you an A-.
and thanks. you’re confirming my impulses. except on cab-volt. i see them as starting out postpunk and ending toward techno-industrial and i was trying to decide between these, but you went dark wave. i can see your reasoning though, if you listen to the mood and that they scratched the charts when people saw their poster on ferris bueller’s bedroom wall.
and the eternal question… camper van beethoven? they behave both as waves and particles.
Was darkwave a thing back then? I assumed that it was part of a 2000s-era explosion in sub-genre names.
huh. i don’t know when that name started but it fits my categories better than saying goth. more inclusive. less makeup.
and a lot of the classification is physical. today i’m moving this batch from 12″ boxes to 4′ shelves, so there’s a little flux going on right now. maybe i should say goth, and move the lighter stuff to either new wave or post punk, then alien sex fiend from industrial to goth, but then i don’t know what to do with the smiths.
(Hang the DJ joke here)
I’ve always thought of Voltaire as industrial, and back then that’s where they were filed in record stores, but if I think of something like ‘Sensoria’ I think more techno dance than anything. It may have been more their bleak aesthetic and timing than the actual music they are known for in retrospect.
Why is Jon Bon jovi sitting with the Krafts?
He likes cheese.
Baseball romance novels!
at least the characters all have likely baseball names…
cutter/holder/alexander??? i hardly know her!
I am ashamed to admit that my wife once wrote a chick lit / Red Sox fanfic novel for NaNoWriMo. I think it was a thinly veiled account of dating Kevin Youkilis*, but happily I have never read it.
*DEFINITELY NOT something she has actually done.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
She totally needs to crack that out, plug in some fake player names, slap a “Squeeze Play” title on it and sell it to Dugouts and Diamonds!
The more of the
AFC Championship Gameundercard I watch, the more I find myself enjoying watching the New England Tuck-Rules getting their asses kicked.I feel very, very, dirty. Like, impossible-to-get-clean dirty.
O. M. G.
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
Congrats. This distraction is going to totally fuck up your Puppy Bowl party, though.
I actually thought about that briefly!
I like Joe Buck’s play-by-play work on football. The “despicable act” bit was over the top, sure. But he outgrew that and his pompous tone translates to football better than baseball.
It helps that he’s not paired with a football version of Tim McCarver, which is good.
Yeah, he’s an acceptable football pxp guy, probably because the whole sport has no sense of humor about itself, thus the Joe Buck pomposity fits right in.
Let’s Go, Oakland!
ROLL ON YOU BEARS
(Pete Carroll is such a weenie though…that offsets it quite a bit)
Clap, clap, clap-clap-clap.
I don’t have football game on, but when I clicked on the score on yahoo, it said “sea commits 19 year penalty.’
i cannot for the life of me figure out what that would be
Intentional grounding on
Cam NewtonRussel Wilson.On a related note, the NFL should revert to the old rules for grounding. All this “out of the pocket” and “ball reaching the line of scrimmage” business is nonsense.
I don’t mind the current rule on that, but speaking of the officiating, the failure to call roughing the kicker when the poor guy almost had his ankle broken will definitely be a point of contention if Seattle wins.
And good grief, now the blown fumble recovery call plus broken leg. I can hear MikeV screaming all the way from here.
These playoff games this season are a great argument for keeping the regular season officiating crews intact (also the need for competent refs).
BROKEN LEG?!?! WHAT?
Might be an ACL/MCL tear instead.
Boner kill.
So word now is that it was both. ACL requiring surgery, MCL will heal on it’s own. That had to hurt. The damn knee bent sideways. It’s not exactly supposed to be able to do that.
That was a brutal replay-viewing situation. “I want to see if it was a fumble… AAAAAAAH, NO, DO NOT WANT TO SEE A LEG DO THAT!”
Just terrible officiating. I mean, the Niners didn’t get it done in the 4th quarter, but they had to fight both the Seahawks and the refs.
Being old, I remember when any contact with the kicker was 15 yards. This is another rule that should revert.
Also, beast mode FAIL.
I agree on both. Especially the IG call. Given all the advantages they’ve given to the offense and QB, it’s the least they could do.
On the other hand, they let DB’s get away with holding 90% of the time. Honestly, if you’re not gonna call it, never call it. But then, start letting receivers push off.
The running into/roughing FKup basically cost the niners the game, IMO.
The fact that MULTIPLE calls that have the capability of shifting the entire game are missed like that — and not just in the SF game, you can basically point to 3 or 4 wrong calls every game that are significant — is making me edge closer and closer to ignoring the NFL.
Thanks, and go As.
Personally, I think anything that could constitute a potential 15 yard penalty should be reviewable. Those are the extreme penalties that should absolutely be called. A 5 and 10 are much more minor and less important/impactful, but pretty much anything that would result in a 15 yarder is a pretty serious offense. And that’s for both assessing and removing the penalty.
That blown call certainly didn’t help, and it certainly awarded extra points to Seattle. But I think the fumble and two interceptions during get-it-DONE time is what cost the Niners the game.
The one that really hurt was the non-roughing the kicker call that was a running into the kicker instead. That one would have allowed them to hold onto the ball and iirc lead to that big TD that Lynch had during that eventual possession.
That’s the “that blown call” that I was referring to… it did lead to TD on the ensuing Seattle possession that they shouldn’t have had.
THe safeties blowing their coverage on the 51 yd pass that set up Seattle’s first FG, and then again on the 4th and 7 where Wilson went 35 yds for the end zone and got the TD really hurt.
Holy carp, this is turning out to be a great game.
It really has been.
Apparently I’m in the minority in thinking that Denver will beat whoever ends up winning it.
I agree that Denver will win, but I could also see the line getting driven up higher that it should be, given the strong defense from either of these NFC teams.
I think so too. Manning can out play a good defense.
I stand by my prediction that the seahawks were going to win today and lose the SB. I’m not sure it’ll even be close.
On a neutral field, we would have won. With neutral officiating (not just the roughing and the punter, but literally every other marginal call all game long), we would have won.
Sigh.
It seemed to me like the niners overcame all of the bad calls other than the punter thing, such that they didn’t affect the outcome. Seattle just made one huge play and kapernick made a couple of huge mistakes that turned the game.
SF committed three turnovers and gave up > 100 yards to Lynch.
1. Bad call on the “fumble”.
2. Oh man, Bowman’s knee is not supposed to bend like that.
I think the real bad call on that one is that it’s not reviewable. I can totally understand and accept it being missed on the first go.
What a crazy series of turnovers, called and not called. What can the rationale possibly be for not allowing a review of a fumble recovery in the field of play?
(And as I write this Kaep gets picked, 3rd turnover in the last 5 minutes of this game.)
Yeah, that’s a stumper.
And that last pick was brutal. I’m guessing that he just didn’t see that guy.
I remember once the rule was that you could review to see whether there was a clear pre-pile recovery. Obviously what happens in the pile is unreviewable.
Sherman has lost his mind. And the funny thing is, I thought he was ok at Stanford, but when he graduated it wasn’t like I thought “shoot we’re losing Sherman.”
I really wanted Erin Andrews to look at him and say “You seem nice”.
LOL at Erin’s thought bubble: “I’m calling my agent in the morning and seeing if that Entertainment Tonight offer is still available.”
She handled that perfectly.
Lol. That would have been hilarious.
It was a tremendous play but the shit talking in the receiver’s face after it ruins it for me, not called for.
He’s going to have a loooooooooong two weeks. And richly deserved.
Fucking hate every single one of them.
I don’t admire the guy for it, but you have to admit it’s more entertaining when you have a player willing to call the guy he just vanquished a “sorry ass” on live tv.
Sherman didn’t do a fucking thing ALL DAY until one play.
He’s a piece of shit.
Thanks, and go As.
Give the man his respect. He’s the best piece of shit in the league.
meh. He had respect until he lost it. Fuck him.
I don’t hope for injuries on anybody, but if he never played again I would not care one bit. Plenty of people win and do it with class, fuckups like that guy shouldn’t succeed.
Thanks, and go As.
I would prefer him made look silly in Superbowl
He’s enough for me not to want Seattle to win any games. Pete Caroll is just the bonus.
Well, that one play was a pretty big play.
“more entertaining”… you may have something there.
I guess it’s too much to ask to beat Seattle and the refs in Seattle.
Thanks, and go As.
We wouldn’t even be playing in Seattle if the 49ers werent screwed on that strip sack of Brees.
Yep. We’ve had some impressively bad luck that way. And, of course, Whitner got another 15 yarder on a legal hit.
The hit, the fumble that wasn’t called, the crap call on the punt that should have been roughing the kicker…. Just a complete joke.
Thanks, and go As.
There was another 15 yarder against the 49ers that was BS, can’t remember who it was. Really badly officiated game, but if Kaepernick made better passes, it wouldn’t have mattered.
The personal foul on a completely legal shove out of bounce?
The one on Whitner where: A) He didn’t go helmet to helmet or anything to helmet and B) The guy was LITERALLY knocked INTO him in a way that he had ZERO way of avoiding.
That was particularly ridiculous
It really is sad that the majority of his hits upon review were perfectly legal and “safe” hits. Adds more credence to add that to the reviewable call list.
Both plays you guys are mentioning, actually. Usually, bad calls balance out, but not in this game.
That was the first full football game I’ve watched this year. I had forgotten how many ads there are for pickup trucks and shitty movies.
The DVR has made watching football so much more enjoyable.
Also cars that jump onto the top of trains, and beer commercials that don’t actually promote the beer but just tease the company’s Super Bowl ad campaign.
OTOH the local ads in Reno are fun. They consist of a LOT of sleazy lawyers (ambulance chasers, DUI defense and the tough woman who Fights For Men’s Rights in divorce cases), pawn shops, and the cheesy spots for low-end casinos.
What low-end shops are still making a go of it in Reno? Cal-Neva always struck me as a shop that would never die, cockroach-style.
The one that had several commercials running yesterday was Hobey’s. Others include Rail City, across the freeway from the Nugget in Sparks, and of course the Bonanza up past the university, which I believe was featured in that Muppets movie.
Downtown, in addition to Club Cal-Neva the Sands is also still thriving. I’ve actually stayed in the cheap-ass rooms there before 6 a.m. flights out of the airport.
I love the Sands, my favorite place to play downtown that still exists. Used to do a circuit of Sands, Sundowner, Comstock, Cal-Neva, and the Pioneer just on the other side of the river, all great games for the modest-stakes sharp blackjack player. Of those, only the Sands and Cal-Neva still exist.
Rail City is a great decaying throwback joint too, at least it was when I last played there more than 10 years ago, and presumably it has aged accordingly since.
Most of the smaller places seem to have ditched their table games though. Even the Horizon, one of the Big Four here at South Shore, has done that. The smaller casinos survive on their slots and video poker now.
Harbaugh believes Bowman tore his ACL and Iupati fractured his ankle. I’m guessing they’re waiting on MRI’s to confirm that.
You have got to be joking. Fuck that fanbase.
Thanks, and go As.
Classy bunch.
I kind of like this Seahawks team if I’m being honest, but those fans patting themselves on their backs for their epic fan-ness is extremely irritating.
BFIFB
I don’t hate the Seahawks players, except for Sherman. Their fans are insufferable.
and for the record let’s be sure we state that today’s top dB level in that place was 108, according to the TV screen readout… Game 5 in the Coliseum last October got up to 109.
I don’t think the crowd was a factor at all.
I’m sick of hearing about the 16th man shkt or whatever.
Colorado versus Washington in the Kine Bud Bowl!
The Smoke A Bowl.
nice.
The Lye Tuppa Bowl. Instead of a trophy, the winner gets a 3-foot-high dual chamber blown glass bong made by a dreadlocked guy named Rainbow in Santa Cruz.
Speechless?
I’m so happy for Champ Bailey. Ever since our Super Bowl hey day he has been my favorite Bronco. So glad he’ll get to experience at least one trip to the Super Bowl.
The line opened Denver -1 and is up to -2 or -2.5 now. I’m thinking it climbs above 3 before game day, so maybe today’s the day to get in at the shorter odds, then go the other way if it gets to 3.5 and hope for that juicy 3 point middle.
shoot. i got kinda excited about http://oaklandwiki.org when i read it in the paper this morning. it needs so much work though.
FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA!
What.
I was thinking of going sometime, but am put off by going to the cow palace
It amazes me that the Cow Palace is still standing. And Lew thinks the Coliseum is obsolete. I think the first professional sporting event I ever attended may have been there, a Cub Scout outing to a Warriors game in the 60s.
Minor-league hockey franchises are historically fly-by-night operations, much like independent baseball leagues. Plus, minor-league anything is a tough sell in a major metropolitan area.
Leaving the Cow Palace will eliminate the amusing scenes in December when half the people wandering around the parking lots are wearing hockey sweaters and jeans, and the other half are wearing crinolines and top hats for the Dickens Fair.
Players paying $3000 rent?
Well, they could live like other 19 year olds.
Oakland is Seals territory.
So they change their name.
I was just telling a friend yesterday that I wished the Falcons would come back for some old time Hockey.
Old-time hockey! Eddie Shore!
Piss on Eddie Shore!
Possibly lost in football-mania over the weekend was the start of the Vancouver-Calgary NHL game on Saturday night. I once saw a minor league game in San Diego start exactly this way.
I love how the first couple guys get in it and the rest are standing around, and then pair by pair, they just say “Fuck it, might as well throw down too.”
I can’t help but wonder what Kay would have to say about this Grantland situation.
For those who just scroll over, “situation” isa link to a christina karhl article about the outing of a trans woman in the “this” link. I encourage you to read “situation.”
I wonder about the whole thing, I don’t think the freelancer sells the piece to grantland or anyone if its just a story about a putter with a fabricating inventor. its just not interesting. at least to be paid enough to justify all the reporting. I bet the guy thought the trnas angle was his payday. Sad really. Karhl says it better than me. but the writer blew it and if any editors were knowledgeable on what he was doing and didn’t stop him, they blew it too.
SLF spent years writing for alt weeklies. being a freelancer is not a way to make a living unless you can sell 3-10,000 word pieces regularly. this is part of the post printed newspaper problem that needs to get worked out
The karhl piece is great. Why they didn’t consult her before running the original story is beyond me.
ah. i missed that there were three links there.
Seems like most people involved in the process completely screwed up, with a blend of ignorance/thoughtlessness and less savory instincts.
just read the “grantland” piece. Now I want to throw things.
That motherfucking asshole made every excuse available. Did not acknowlege key facts. Key key facts that were expressly put in the original piece. After reading that, I am more comfortable blaming teh writer and editors. they were not “careless.” they were deliberate and acted with malice.
Fucking assholes.
I had to go through a box of old papers, mostly concerning my radio past, and discovered some of my ticket stubs from the 1991 postseason, just in time for the deflation of the Metrodome!
$25 for the World Series, $20 for the Divisional Series. That actually seems kind of pricey.
lollapalooza ’91 was $25.
I’ve never been to a dome stadium. That was one of the few I would have liked to have gone to see a game. I know it’s not a pretty place, but still.
You can replicate the experience if you know anyone with a basement with fluorescent lighting….just put a 13-inch analog TV at one end of the room and put a hard plastic chair as far away from the TV as possible. Turn the sound on the TV up as loud as it will go. Now find yourself a cold hot dog and a bag of Old Dutch potato chips and you’ve got it. But remember, there is NOOOO SMOOOOKING in the Metrodome!
proceed with caution. may induce nightmares. but frankly, it’s the only way to un-see the cyrus version.
hat tip, noava.
Mavericks may go on Friday!
maybe not.
also, just noticed bruce jenkins has an IMDB writing credit on an otherwise unhelpful listing for a pretty neat documentary that i believe is still VHS-only, but available at the oakland public library last time i checked.
General curmudgeonly outlook on sports notwithstanding, Bruce Jenkins actually does know his surfing pretty well.
It’s a go! First heats at 8:00 AM.
I’m hoping I can watch the livestream from my desk Friday without being too slackerish. It’s also being televised on the NBC Universal Sports Network, whatever that is.
Not that I know anything about surfing but it does look like there are some nice waves out there. NBC Universal is on DirecTV 625, which I get but not in HD so I think the online broadcast is probably your best option. The surfer-talk by the commentators already has me chuckling.
I imagine everyone has already seen this, but nevertheless it is awesome. Michelle Obama is cooler than the next three coolest first ladies put together.
(I’m sorry FSU, I’ve edited this comment to include the awesome, awesome, awesome gif as a link, right here, click it, click it! Much love, Poppy)
Bwahahahahaha! I had NOT seen that! And it is totally worth the ten minutes it took for my laptop to load this page.
The portrait of Washington is my favorite part. I bet Martha never posterized anyone.
she tried her best to posterize george.
Tanaka to Yanks.
via wikipedia
naturally
Once they cleared out A-Rod money…
Thanks, and go As.
but i thought that was to get under luxury. are they now over again?
Depends on how the deal is structured maybe? They only need to get under the cap for one year and it resets.
Also $22 million AAV for a pitcher who’s never pitched in the majors before is kind of insane.
last week, my over-dinner, off-the-cuff, total guess that tanaka would go to yanks was immediately poo-poo’d for not taking into account the luxury thingy and how the yankees are going nowhere for a year or two anyway. both of which had to be explained to me. and yet…
seems the less i know the righter i am. (quit explainin’ things to me!) ((at least he’s not at dividion-rival rangels.)) (((AAV? am sad to find out i’m the single-A version of AV’s.)
*division
Being AV instead of AAV just means you’re not average!
And while I think the Tanaka contract is kind of insane, money means less than it used to and Tanaka is supposed to be pretty good, so I too am glad that he’s not on an AL West team
I wasn’t poo-pooing!!!! I guess they are less concerned with the luxury tax threshold than I thought.
but i found your poo-poo rather convincing.
I guess I was pooing a bit enthusiastically. But still.
Darvish must be pissed looking at the deal Tanaka got.
The large posting fees to let someone out of his contract a year early have never made any economic sense.
I don’t think it does. I think AAV is used.
According to PSA the Yankees’ AAV payroll is projected at $207,045,854.40, so they’re over.
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if they signed Stephen Drew, what with their 2B/3B/SS situation of Kelly Johnson, Brendan Ryan, Brian Roberts and Derek Jeter.
love the ¢40.
They still owe him another $60+ million.
O’Flaherty eh?
game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened, game 4 never happened.
I find this move to be really FKing stupid. More expensive Blevins except he’s injured and out until midseason.
The A’s have committed nearly 19 million to three relievers next year (Johnson, Gregerson, O’Flaherty).
Yeah, I’m with you on that one. That’s a lot of money for a guy who could be toast and we won’t know it for a year.
Two Blevinses are better than one when you consider the disappearance of our one Blevins last October. I’m actually fine with the midseason thing, since he should be fresh for the stretch run and won’t take up a roster spot during the sorting process of the first couple of months.
Crap, forgot we don’t have the original Blevins anymore. Forget everything I just said.
Well EOF is definitely better than Blevins (assuming he can return to pre-2013 form). The guy had a 1.4 fWAR season. I wouldn’t mind the deal, since it’s cheaper than the Balfour deal was and that’s not counting for inflation. I don’t even really mind the Gregerson deal since Gregorson is quite good and Smith would be a FA next year. Plus Gentry is the better player.
The real strange one was the Johnson deal.
And for what (little) it’s worth, Braves fans think we got a good deal.
O’Flaherty has gotten lefties out better than Blevins but this is negated by the fact that he’s coming back from a significant injury so we’re not really sure yet how he’d perform going forward.
This deal makes sense for a team short on bullpen depth and didn’t used to have Blevins. I don’t understand why they didn’t just keep Blevins who, unlike O’Flaherty, we know can perform reliably the entire season, if they don’t believe in Abad.
And there’s a few real holes on this team (LH C, 2B, SP) that I feel should have commanded more attention than spending willy nilly on the bullpen.
The A’s have really gone all out on the bullpen this offseason, which seems to go counter to the A’s philosophy that paying for bullpen arms is usually not worth it. I wonder if they’re changing their views there or if these are just the opportunities that have presented themselves.
and there is still that fernando rodriguez cat floating around.
Aside from Jim Johnson, though, none of them are particularly expensive salary wise — and Johnson’s salary is exactly what enabled them to get him for cheap, trade value wise.
Thanks, and go As.
Corey Brown DFA’d
Best. Book. Ev. Er.
Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be
So far my ER BFF has missed just 2: a gerbil and a banana.
LOLZ
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“Everybody Poops 410 Pounds A Year…” – Deuce Flanagan
Deuce?
What an excellent title, and one where the now-obligatory colon in mid-title really works.
#win
How are you not one of the authors?
Okay. 30th birthday extravaganza is Saturday. Unbeknownst to me, I chose a fancy smancy restaurant ran by my hospital’s CEO’s son. Two entire rotations of nurses and their spouses are going. We are taking a bus. CEO told us today he told the son to “hook us up”. I’m officially excited. Hold me.
Happy impending birthday Jennifer! Sounds like a good time will be had!
If the bus crashes, the hospital is going to be fked.
wasn’t an entire season of house built on that premise?
No.
Also, thanks.
I ♡ you, dear.
My gift to you:
Yay, Happy Three-Oh! You definitely didn’t have to settle for Waffle House for the big one. I’m sure you’ll be “hooked up” with the finest cuisine Golden Corral has to offer!
I miss sizzler and the all you can eat shrimp.
Yes, I’m FKing classy.
Thanks, and go As.
I do wonder what “fancy smancy” is in Jennifer’s neck of the woods. I’m betting it’s something like Cattlemen’s. Mmmm prime rib.
We are taking a bus to the plaza.
Oooh, the hotel where I stayed for the A’s series last July was a couple blocks from the Plaza, lots of great restaurant choices down there. I remember going to Jack Stack the first day in before the night game.
I take the bus all the time
I hate the bus. It’s never going where I want when I want. And it always takes 3+ times longer than if I got in my car and drove there.
You know, Cattlemen’s probably has the best burger I’ve ever eaten.
Thanks, and go As.
:D
Thanks, and go As.
A little lower.
:d
Thanks, and go As.
ASVD
Woo! I wanna see the menu.
And happy birthday!
Ozz, check your twitter. Looks like you’ve been hacked.
Thanks, problem should be solved now. Sorry for that.
I blocked you.
What took you so long?
Happy almost birthday times!
I’m birthday mooning you. (No pic, sorry.)
Best. Birthday. Ever. I KILLED playing blackjack for the first time. I wore a crown. I ate good food. I got free dessert.
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Woo-hoo!
Right on Jennifer!
THATS the way to start off your year!
Sounds fun!
It’s almost time for The Walking Dead to return.
Will our favorite episode re-capper return as well?
Bear?
Meik would like that.
ISWYDT. I like it.
This is the Ultimate Bed Bait right here
dead sexy
Boo.