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  2. andeux: With Taylor now, you still think we should beat this?
  3. WHNTFBFI
  4. I endorse this Starkdown as well as this Hey, man!
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107 thoughts on “Regifting: RCDS 122809

  1. monkeyball Dec 28,2009 8:35 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  2. nevermoor Dec 28,2009 9:09 am

    Re 2: Yes. I would be ecstatic with 5/90.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • lenscrafters Dec 28,2009 1:06 pm || Up

      Stars (5+ win players) are the new undervalued commodity. Sign Holliday!

  3. nevermoor Dec 28,2009 9:12 am

    Re 3: Without decoding the abbreviation, let me say that I love when someone like Nate Silver supports my editorializing.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • nevermoor Dec 28,2009 9:18 am || Up

      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.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  4. nevermoor Dec 28,2009 9:51 am

    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:

    Six years ago, “it was standard practice not to pay for things,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  5. nevermoor Dec 28,2009 9:53 am

    Eric Martin doesn’t often win the internet. Let alone twice in one day.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • mk Dec 28,2009 10:01 am || Up

      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.

  6. nevermoor Dec 28,2009 9:54 am

    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.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Leopold Bloom Dec 28,2009 4:00 pm || Up

      I’m not! I started carrying it again.

      Of course, I’m not cool.

  7. mk Dec 28,2009 10:00 am

    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.

    • mikeA Dec 28,2009 10:23 am || Up

      Hmmm, the 0 stars is pretty discordant with the review.

      • mk Dec 28,2009 10:28 am || Up

        I am, alas, unable to embrace camp with same enthusiasm as you and monkeyball.

    • sslinger Dec 28,2009 11:25 am || Up

      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?

      • mk Dec 28,2009 11:46 am || Up

        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.

        • salb918 Dec 28,2009 11:53 am || Up

          New Year’s Resolutions

        • Be more patient with my kids.
        • Wake up earlier.
        • Eat less sugar and eat more vegetables.
        • Run 2 miles every morning.
        • Spend less time on FK and BTF.
        • Read more books.
        • Get a real job.
        • Pick a religion and stick to it.
        • Start smoking and then quit.
        • Run for local office.
        • Start a semi-professional rugby league.
        • Debut on national television.
        • Solve a mystery.
  • sslinger Dec 28,2009 11:57 am || Up

    FK Book Club!

  • batgirl Dec 28,2009 12:52 pm || Up

    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.

  • monkeyball Dec 28,2009 11:47 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  • sslinger Dec 28,2009 11:47 am

    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?

  • monkeyball Dec 28,2009 11:48 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  • salb918 Dec 28,2009 1:32 pm

    Today’s low will be tomorrow’s high (25 F).

    siiiiiigggghhh

  • nevermoor Dec 28,2009 1:43 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  • mikeA Dec 28,2009 1:51 pm

    Sickels’s list for the A’s. He likes Green and Desme.

  • monkeyball Dec 28,2009 2:14 pm

    Uhoh

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  • nevermoor Dec 28,2009 2:41 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  • the dogfather Dec 28,2009 6:11 pm

    Late December means FARK.com’s HOY Contest voting. Early/often!

    The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  • Leopold Bloom Dec 28,2009 11:18 pm

    From Monday’s Drumbeat, talking about Hardball Times columnists Chris Jaffe’s new book, “Evaluating Baseball Managers,”

    Billy Martin “was the most fearless manager in baseball history.” His aggressive basestealing tactics were “insane” according to the math, but he dramatically improved most teams he managed, including the 1980-81 A’s, for a season or two before they flamed out. He says the leader most comparable to Martin is not a baseball manager but conquistador Hernan Cortes, who burned his boats prior to taking Mexico.

    The act was not the important part. All that mattered was the message it sent the men: there was no going back — they needed to win.

  • Leopold Bloom Dec 29,2009 2:58 am

    Sometimes I forget to do things in a timely fashion, but 11 years?

  • nevermoor Dec 29,2009 9:18 am

    It’s a sad sad day for all of us.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  • nevermoor Dec 29,2009 9:41 am
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  • mikeA Dec 29,2009 9:45 am

    Goldstein’s top 11 prospects. Very similar to Sickels’s list. They both like Green and Desme, not wild about Cardenas.

  • salb918 Dec 29,2009 10:03 am
  • mikeA Dec 29,2009 10:12 am

    Winter league recap
    Fox: sucked.
    Cunningham: good then injured.
    H. Rodriguez: sucked
    Petit: sucked
    Leon did ok.

  • nevermoor Dec 29,2009 10:29 am

    More (slightly less apolitical) depression.

    Do we really still have to debate that actors aren’t all rational and perfectly informed?

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  • salb918 Dec 29,2009 11:13 am

    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.

  • nevermoor Dec 29,2009 11:45 am

    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”?

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  • monkeyball Dec 29,2009 11:52 am

    … and the Mets have outbid themselves for J. Bay.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  • nevermoor Dec 29,2009 12:18 pm

    Further to my whole “reacting with fear is a bad thing” position.

    [T]he numerous calls for trying Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in military tribunal rather than in a civilian court mistakenly serves to elevate his status from common criminal to soldier/holy warrior. Former McCain campaign aide Michael Goldfarb goes further, seemingly ruing the fact that torture will be off the table. . .

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  • salb918 Dec 29,2009 7:50 pm

    What f—ing universe are we living in that Mark DeRosa is described as a big bat?

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