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23 Nov 2009  |  ptbnl  |The Grill

Awesome:

Awesomer:

Could this be the model for a new A’s promotion next season?

If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.

73 thoughts on “Footie Monday: RCDS 112309”

  1. monkeyball Nov 23,2009 9:59 am

    Wasn’t Debacle at Tottenham The Tottenham Debacle [fixed:gso] one of the posthumous Ludlum novels?

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 3:34 pm || Up

      My bad — I was thinking of The Haworth Premise.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  2. monkeyball Nov 23,2009 10:01 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Nov 23,2009 10:19 am || Up

      Remember, Cust is a divining rod for baseball knowledge.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 10:36 am || Up

        Right message, wrong metaphor.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux Nov 23,2009 11:02 am || Up

      That seems not to make sense on a number of levels. But what do I know?

      TINSTAAFK
      • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 11:05 am || Up

        It works if you assume Adam Rubin’s been sniffing paint fumes.

    • lenscrafters Nov 23,2009 1:52 pm || Up

      jeepers and Trainman are quivering with anticipation.

    • salb918 Nov 23,2009 2:02 pm || Up

      What a weird rumor.

      • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 2:23 pm || Up

        Yeah, I’m trying to figure out what goes through a writer’s head when he makes up out of whole cloth “reports” something like that.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 2:53 pm || Up

          He’s thinking, “This is a New York paper…I’ve got to fill copy space with rumors…how many A’s fans could possibly read it…so what if it’s not true–plausible deniability…they pay me by the column inch…where’s my spray paint and brown paper bag…”

  3. nevermoor Nov 23,2009 10:03 am

    States Rights! States Rights!

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 11:07 am || Up

      That Sheriff Joe, he’s a divining rod for abhorrent, racist behavior.

      • FreeSeatUpgrade Nov 23,2009 7:56 pm || Up

        Seriously, and I am not one to throw the word around lightly, but Arapaio may be the single most obviously fascist office holder in the U.S. today.

        See this story from last week where a Sheriff’s Dept. officer who is a close associate of Arapaio stole documents from the defense attorney’s table in the middle of the trial!

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • green star oakland Nov 23,2009 9:49 pm || Up

          Is this an example of Godwin’s conundrum?

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  4. monkeyball Nov 23,2009 10:13 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 10:38 am || Up

      Actually, now that I think about it, an Aguirre tv series (Aguirre, P.I.?) would be great — each week’s episode, no matter what wacky hijinx he’d been up to, would end with (SPOILER ALERT) Aguirre floating down the river on a raft full of spider monkeys.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  5. monkeyball Nov 23,2009 11:06 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  6. nevermoor Nov 23,2009 11:56 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • green star oakland Nov 23,2009 12:08 pm || Up

      Mauer receives a $100,000 bonus for winning the award, and Cabrera gets $200,000 for finishing fourth.

      So presumably Ian Kinsler receives $1,400,000 for finishing 28th.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 12:15 pm || Up

        My bonus for finishing entirely out of the running is incalculable.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • salb918 Nov 23,2009 2:03 pm || Up

      For all the bitching and kvetching, the writers are doing a bang-up job this year.

      • nevermoor Nov 23,2009 2:21 pm || Up

        Agreed

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 3:03 pm || Up

          Well, they haven’t slobber-knobbed any Yankees or BoSox. There’s that.

      • FreeSeatUpgrade Nov 23,2009 7:59 pm || Up

        See, they let Will Carroll and Keith Law have votes and the whole thing goes to hell.

        The blowhard critique of the NL Cy vote has been amusing to watch.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • andeux Nov 24,2009 10:32 am || Up

          I get the impression that in a case where it was pretty obvious who the best pitchers were, Law and Carroll went a bit out of their way to be contrary.

          TINSTAAFK
  7. salb918 Nov 23,2009 2:02 pm

    Obama and China:

    1. (is SNL trying too hard to avoid the “soft on Obama” tag or are they just not funny?)

    2. Is Obama losing the Europeans? (what is Der Spiegel’s politics, roughly?)

    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 2:22 pm || Up

      2. Of course he is — he’s racist, didn’t you hear?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  8. Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 3:11 pm

    Here’s an interesting thing:

    National coverage
    and
    Local coverage

    Same event, right?

    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 3:28 pm || Up

      Palin’s father, who greeted visitors as his daughter signed copies of the book, said in an interview that Obama’s handling of the military white people was “scary.”

      “I see a decline in our might,” Chuck Heath said. “People used to be afraid of us and respect us, (but) they’re not afraid of us and don’t respect us anymore.”

      Fixed.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Nov 23,2009 3:43 pm || Up

        Huh. Didn’t know there was a real Ft. Bragg.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 4:52 pm || Up

          I might move there upon returning.

          • FreeSeatUpgrade Nov 23,2009 7:59 pm || Up

            Me too. I loves me some North Coast.

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
            • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 9:02 pm || Up

              and Ft. Bragg is especially special to me. I randomly showed up there one year when they were having Paul Bunyan Days, and me and the ex-wife fell in love with it.

              • green star oakland Nov 23,2009 9:52 pm || Up

                I spent my honeymoon in Albion (and left a couple of days late).

                If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • JediLeroy Nov 23,2009 9:56 pm || Up

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • green star oakland Nov 23,2009 10:03 pm || Up

                  … which is just north of Elk, Mendocino

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 10:10 pm || Up

                  I spent my Honeymoon in Tahoe, but my one year anniversary was at Sea Ranch, whose chef at the time made perhaps the best two days of food I’ve ever had.

                • JediLeroy Nov 23,2009 10:18 pm || Up

                  Our honeymoon was in Roseville, but our real honeymoon was is Southern Cal. And then our real honeymoon was in in Guatemala.

                  We postponed the real thing until we could afford it.

                  az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
                • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 10:43 pm || Up

                  I guess I was either too much of a grad student or not married long enough to get a real honeymoon.

                  (sigh)

                • green star oakland Nov 23,2009 11:22 pm || Up

                  We eloped to Vegas for the wedding and I was back at work the next day (this was only weeks before BOOMERanG got the front cover of Nature); then we got *married* at the Alpine Club on Mount Tam 6 months later, and the honeymoon was 2 months after that.

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • salb918 Nov 24,2009 7:21 am || Up

                  Long weekend in Montreal. Now that we have kids, I’m assuming that was the real honeymoon.

                • FreeSeatUpgrade Nov 24,2009 9:42 am || Up

                  Did you stay at the Albion River Inn, by chance? I’ve been there a few times ; great place, great restaurant.

                  "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
                • green star oakland Nov 24,2009 11:05 am || Up

                  We rented a hot-tub (with attached cottage) on the clifftops,

                  but ate at the Inn a couple of times.

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  9. Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 3:15 pm

    It’s getting to be the holidays.

    Time for gifts.

    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 3:29 pm || Up

      Price, you’re priceless.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 3:30 pm || Up

      nm, we need a bigger magnification on the previews.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Nov 23,2009 3:43 pm || Up

        No.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Nov 23,2009 4:15 pm || Up

          Better get some squeegees, then.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • JediLeroy Nov 23,2009 4:02 pm || Up

      /vomit

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • Ice Cream Nov 23,2009 7:53 pm || Up

      What a cunning stunt.

      Where is the good in "good-bye"?
      • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 9:02 pm || Up

        I thought you were dead.

        • JediLeroy Nov 23,2009 9:04 pm || Up

          He can’t die–he can only melt and become soup.

          Or some kind of human excrement.

          az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
          • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 9:24 pm || Up

            Could he have a big pink dome and taste like peanut butter and jelly soup?

        • Ice Cream Nov 24,2009 6:18 am || Up

          The report of my mort is de rigor.

          Actually, I was having a lot of fun not winning this.

          The winning entries were:

          “Clo ahead, milk my day.”

          “You had me at Clo.”

          and

          “Heifer Lasting Love”

          Naturally, I liked mine better.

          Where is the good in "good-bye"?
          • green star oakland Nov 24,2009 7:12 am || Up

            But what was yours?

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
            • Ice Cream Nov 24,2009 8:14 am || Up

              I thought this might win:

              “Re-mooable Energy”

              My favorites though were:

              “Cow is the winner of our bliss/content.”

              “Sip Into Something a Little More Comfortable”

              “Dip the Light Fantastic”

              “Chew Ere is Ruminant, Chew Forage Bovine”

              “That Sweet Dairy Air”

              Less favored (but entered):

              “Udderly Delicious”

              “Graze Anatomy”

              “A Pasture is Worth a Thousand Curds”

              “Drink Outside the Box”

              Where is the good in "good-bye"?
              • green star oakland Nov 24,2009 11:09 am || Up

                An excellent selection. I’m also surprised the zeitgeist-rich “Re-mooable …” didn’t win (especially since the actual winner is pretty underwhelming), but “Cow … ” is my favorite.

                If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
                • nevermoor Nov 24,2009 11:57 am || Up

                  I like “Sip” because clover in an alluring pose would be hilarious.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • batgirl Nov 24,2009 12:50 pm || Up

                OK, yours are really good. I submitted, and obviously didn’t win:

                Dairy Moodini
                Just Dairied
                and about 6 others I can’t remember. My friend is still smarting from not winning 20 years ago when she was in grade school with:

                Clo’s encounters of the curd kind

  10. monkeyball Nov 23,2009 3:40 pm

    T-shirt printer?!? LB, have you gone rogue?

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  11. monkeyball Nov 23,2009 5:01 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  12. monkeyball Nov 23,2009 5:26 pm

    OK, OK, OK — yes, I prefer Beane’s evasiveness, obfuscations, and pat answers to this sort of thing.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  13. Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 6:27 pm

    Monkey analysis.

    I think the op-ed page is next:

    “We need to kill this monkey. It’s a drain on our resources, and it will only lead to Socialism!”

  14. JediLeroy Nov 23,2009 8:38 pm

    I’m done reading unthreaded comments from the masses on popular websites for the day. I really hate know-it-all douchebags that are too in love with their own words to realize that they don’t know $#!+.

    ERA and WHIP are now cyber-stats, the PS3 RULZ and 360 SUXX, and Adam Lambert’s new techno album is the BOMB.

    az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • Leopold Bloom Nov 23,2009 9:05 pm || Up

      Tough to run the world.

      I couldn’t even handle a single sign shop.

      In lighter news, I’ve found that I’m not so jaded as to not be touched by an obviously fawning/star-struck Stephen Colbert singing for a laryngitis-prone Elvis Costello. The majority of the time he has a “Holy fucking shit, I’m singing this song with the man who wrote it!” look on his face. It was quite sweet.

    • andeux Nov 24,2009 10:08 am || Up

      In my world it will be illegal to refer to something as a “new-age stat.” Unless you’re talking about Darren Daulton.

      TINSTAAFK
  15. salb918 Nov 24,2009 8:34 am
    • monkeyball Nov 24,2009 9:21 am || Up

      Oh, puh-leeze:

      show[ing] students … the dark side: how to commit fraud at a company [is] often the only way [to] make idealistic students comprehend how attractive unethical decisions can be, and teach them how to avoid such traps.

      Has the writer ever MET a b-school student? (Or been laid off by one?)

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Nov 24,2009 10:46 am || Up

        Reminds me of my 5th grade DARE program

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

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