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Anyone want a Hand blow Old glass of monkey?
Re 2: Yes. I would be ecstatic with 5/90.
Stars (5+ win players) are the new undervalued commodity. Sign Holliday!
Re 3: Without decoding the abbreviation, let me say that I love when someone like Nate Silver supports my editorializing.
Also, more fun math:
If we say it is worth $10 million to us to prevent one passenger from being exposed to a potential terrorist, we would be willing to pay $6.7 billion to prevent the terrorist-inflicted casualties and potential casualties. That would justify us raising travel costs $0.96 per passenger. TSA fees are $5 each way, not to mention the myriad other costs we impose on every passenger.
FISCAL CONSERVATISM! (it would be a reasonable theory if anyone actually followed it but still, in my opinion, a bad idea)
The winner, of course, is this:
Eric Martin doesn’t often win the internet. Let alone twice in one day.
That blog really misses hilzoy and publius. I almost always agree with Eric Martin, and he seems like a good-natured fellow, but his writing is tough to slog through sometimes. The second post you linked to, though, is gold.
Since everyone here is too cool for the NYT, here’s your depressingly accurate thought of the day. The subtext, of course, is that Republicans win at economy-ing.
I’m not! I started carrying it again.
Of course, I’m not cool.
It was either Marley and Me or The Mechanic last night. Since I wasn’t in the mood to watch a dog die, I opted for Charles Bronson.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie as proud of its own trashiness. I thought it was going to be a gritty thriller about a professional hit man who runs afoul of the mob. Instead, it is a tale of sadistic, double-crossing gay lovers with Raskolnikov complexes who work for a guy with a pet cheetah and spend a really high percentage of their waking hours wearing bathrobes.
Okay, the gay lover part isn’t explicit, but there is a ton of double barreled hair flip/lustful gaze action from both Bronson and Jan Michael Vincent. They date (each other). They even embark on a doomed romantic getaway to Naples. I mean, c’mon:
The homoerotic energy dial is cranked to eleven throughout. For every action sequence, there is at least one lingering shot of Jan Michael Vincent’s abs and/or ass.
They muse about “standing outside of things” while sauntering past a Hitler mannequin in a wax museum. Bronson does a weird role playing thing with a prostitute. He also takes karate lessons, which I guess is supposed to lend an eastern zen mystical loner samurai nobility to the Superman idea (the only thing missing was a shot of Bronson meditating in the moonlight with a Buddha statue somewhere in the background). In the most fucked up scene of all, Bronson and Vincent watch a girl cut her wrists as they eat sandwiches, trade casual chit-chat, and (no shit) time her march to death with an hourglass. I’m sure modern era torture porn (Saw, etc.) is more graphic, but I doubt it’s any more twisted.
Verdict: zero stars. Should have gone with Rachel and the labrador.
Hmmm, the 0 stars is pretty discordant with the review.
I am, alas, unable to embrace camp with same enthusiasm as you and monkeyball.
I should have stuck with Sound of Music, which, even with the commercials and the almost unwatchable non-widescreen format that cut off anyone at the edge of the picture would have been better than Nights in Rodanthe (the house was the only likeable element of the whole movie – we started skipping to other shows – football, SoM, whatever, and guessing what was happening when we went back; kissing – bingo!; crying – yes!!) and Body of Lies (ridiculous waste of talent all around). I have books, wtf was I thinking?
I have books, wtf was I thinking?
Amen to that. Story of my life.
My other New Year’s resolution is to rehabilitate my attention span. More books, fewer movies. Less interweb wandering. Maybe I will do something radical like duct tape my laptop to my TV, and throw the whole soul-sapping bundle off the balcony.
Eventually (once the transition is complete), rather than posting cheeky movie synopses and f-bomb riddled political rants to FK, I’ll contribute erudite deconstructions of Pynchon novels and Latin American poetry.
New Year’s Resolutions
As long as you’re joking about FK
I’m not sure where on that list the transition occurs.
Well the world needs more semi-professional rugby leagues (do you play?) so I’m hoping it’s not just a transition thing.
I play second base, catcher, and right field for an intramural slow-pitch softball league. I bat ninth. I’m shorter than Earl Boykins. I’m built like a 10 year old girl. I have a bad shoulder that gets flares up when I *sneeze*. I routinely ask 90 year old women to open jars of peanut butter for me.
Do you think I play semi-professional rugby?
I know you’re short, but there’s room for that on a rugby team. I would imagine not semi-pro since I’m not sure that even exists, but you could play period. Otherwise it’s an odd sport to name.
FK Book Club!
I’ll start. Just finished: Sabbath’s Theater
Excellent book. The part where Mr. Sabbath pisses on his dead mistress’s grave is pretty good, but even better was his earlier trip to the cemetery where he enjoys a meal of sticky flowers.
I haven’t read much Roth at all, need to go back and try some of them. Would you recommend starting with that one? One of the Zuckerman’s?
My most recently finished book was A Long Way Down. I always like Nick Hornby, he’s one of the few writers that can make me laugh out loud. Even in a book about suicide. A good read.
It’s only the second one I’ve read, so I’m not really the one to ask. I would definitely recommend it, though.
Every baseball fan should read The Great American Novel. I’m in the middle of Portnoy’s Complaint which is a decent read, but kind of dated and juvenile.
I thought the exact same thing about The Sound of Music starring “ulie Andrews and Christopher Plumm” last night. Watched anyway as I love that movie. I think last year’s Sunday after Christmas followed the exact same path: watch the Broncos lose in a soul-crushing way followed by The Sound of Music.
The “favorite things” from the movie is way better than any of the 25,000 jazz covers of it.
Uh, no. John Coltrane owns that song.
Starry Bush-Rhodes?
1. I know Rajai may regress next year, but why do you want him gone? Is there someone on the Cubs you think we might get in return that would be worth the trade?
I still would prefer (cheap) Rajai to (not-cheap) Crisp, but since we’ve committed to Crisp, I don’t see the reason to have both of them on the roster, let alone both in the starting lineup (that’s a whole lotta noBP). Getting rid of Rajai, even for organizational-filler material, at least renders the Crisp signing quasi-sensible.
It may be a whole lotta NoPS, but not really NoBP, unless they both regress a lot. And I don’t mind the idea of the Runnin’ A’s instead of the Swingin’ A’s for a year or so. You know, the old “speed doesn’t slump” thing.
Yeah, I dunno — .335 ain’t good. And I think that’s a too-generous projection for both of ’em. I’d guess they’ll both be544444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444677777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777
Yeah, well, that’s what one of my cats thinks, anyway.
I like your cats. They should express their opinions more often. Also, you less.
So, wait — they’re going to install a lesbian ghetto near the water?
Today’s low will be tomorrow’s high (25 F).
siiiiiigggghhh
I do like Kurt Suzuki.
Sickels’s list for the A’s. He likes Green and Desme.
Interesting. It’s a different list than I expected.
Uh–oh
Huh? The Glanville piece is fine, but repetitive and obvious. Also, the point that political power improves social outcomes is uncontroversial.
(maybe if I use enough big words…)
“Tiger Woods has been transformational for the game of golf in so many ways. That is indisputable.”
I thought WaitWait! got it right, when they suggested that it was Golf that had demonstrated its power to transform Anybody into a lecherous old white guy.
No, that would be Money.
Greed is good.
Dirty hippie.
…and often barefoot, the punchline goes.
Although that does explain a lot, here.
The stimulus should work well in the short term, but I’m concerned about it as a wise long term investment.
I’m not sayin she’s a gold digga…
And Klein goes there.
Late December means FARK.com’s HOY Contest voting. Early/often!
From Monday’s Drumbeat, talking about Hardball Times columnists Chris Jaffe’s new book, “Evaluating Baseball Managers,”
We should get this guy to manage the A’s:
Pic is acceptable Only if that’s the rally monkey.
Sometimes I forget to do things in a timely fashion, but 11 years?
Hair stylists shouldn’t drink and drive — all that bobbing and weaving through traffic, you know.
Not to mention cutting people off.
And I think you meant bobbing and weaving do and ‘fro.
It’s a sad sad day for all of us.
Another depressing (and apolitical) link.
I saw those pics a little while ago. They’re magnificent (if sad).
Goldstein’s top 11 prospects. Very similar to Sickels’s list. They both like Green and Desme, not wild about Cardenas.
“Perfect World Projection: He’s likely to be a .280- to .300-hitting first baseman with 30-40 home runs annually.”
So is that perfect world, or likely?
Likely!
Ynoa still third? Has he even pitched yet?
He’s working on his eephus.
Exactly how I spent my morning!
Let’s see…he’s 18 years old, so let’s say he would have been eligible for the June Draft earlier this year. A big lefty drafted out of high school with a low- to mid-90s fastball could easily be ranked in an organization’s top 3 prospects by a scouting-heavy publication.
I wonder how they feel about the high socks.
First they come for my tights…
the anti-lycrites of the world must be stopped.
lycranthrope: a werewolf in tights
Sounds painful upon removal.
Winter league recap
Fox: sucked.
Cunningham: good then injured.
H. Rodriguez: sucked
Petit: sucked
Leon did ok.
More (slightly less apolitical) depression.
Do we really still have to debate that actors aren’t all rational and perfectly informed?
That linky no worky for me.
Here’s the link I should have posted.
The ol’ politely-worded-letter-to-the-maniacal-dictator tact. I doubt that Bill Clinton will make a jaunt over the date line to secure his release.
I hate to continue being a downer, but does anyone who understands economics have a better explanation for this than “because they are in the pocket of Wall Street/Corporate interests”?
You’re sending links to your google reader today.
Oops.
… and the Mets have outbid themselves for J. Bay.
Terrible contract… too bad it wasn’t the Sox/other AL team. Damn.
4/66, paying 5.5 MM/win assuming 3 wins per year for the next four.
Outbid the Sox by about 6 MM, although whether or not the offer was on the table at the time he signed with the Mets is unknown.
Eek.
Although isn’t it fair to expect better defensive numbers in not-Fenway’s-LF? Or has that adjustment been adequately figured out since last I looked?
I don’t think projecting his defense anywhere near his recent uzr numbers is reasonable, but at -5 for next year and slowly getting worse, he’s still really not that great of a player.
I think 3 wins per year is probably generous. He projects at 3.5 for next year at best.
I agree. If he’s 3.5 next year and you knock off half a win per year, you get an average of 2.75 wins per year. Let’s call it 2.5-3 wins/year, at 5-6 MM/win not figuring for inflation. You could give the Mets a bonus, since they are probably at a good place in the win curve and have larger revenues to work with.
I don’t think it’s a terrible contract, but it’s not good either. Prediction: in year four of the contract, someone ** thinks we should trade for him to be our DH.
Good place in the win curve? As in, they sucked so much last year that he may make a measurable difference (until he gets hurt like the rest of their expensive talent)?
I think Beltran, Wright, and Santana can be superstars again. I assume Reyes is essentially healthy. Between the four of them, you’re looking at 15-20 WAR. Pelfrey and Maine are pretty solid, probably another 3-5 WAR. The right side of the infield is another 3 WAR. I don’t know what their pitching staff will look like, but their bottom two starters plus bullpen could pitch in another 3-5 WAR. So that’s something like 74 to 82 wins. If you’re optimistic (~82 wins) and they plan to sign/trade for another piece, then yeah it makes a lot of sense to overpay for a 3 WAR player.
Further to my whole “reacting with fear is a bad thing” position.
Amen. I think it’s ironic that the law-and-order guys who are calling for secret tribunals don’t trust the rule of law, after all. They should just drop the “law-and” part and be “order” guys.
We try them bastids in public court because that’s what
freeFREE KRAUT! people do.so you’re saying they’re more jerry orbach than sam waterston?
Yeah, with Waterston as Abe Lincoln, and Orbach as Dr. Jake Houseman.
… and Sarah Palin as the random bimbo-of-the-season assistant-assistant DA? (Boy do I miss Angie Harmon.)
What’s she doin’ these days?
Huh, guest episode of “Samantha Who?” guest episode of “Chuck”…so the answer is, “Not much.”
Looks to me like zero roles as good as her L+O one since she left.
Jason Sehorn.
What is he doing these days?
You mean: if he has any sense, at all?
win
DUH DUH
What f—ing universe are we living in that Mark DeRosa is described as a big bat?
(but he would have to be considered one on the A’s, right? I mean, it’s all relative…)
ouch
I would have liked that signing for the A’s.
I would have had no objection to that