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Mug Root Beer is by far the root beer most likely to steal your purse.
My guess about Gruden is that he’d come back if the Raiders were willing to make him one of the highest paid coaches in the league (currently Pete Carroll and Sean Payton at $8M/year). That’s never been the Raiders way, though…Dennis Allen was the lowest paid coach at $3M. I can’t imagine Gruden coming back from a middle of the pack salary.
They would also have to let him buy all the groceries I’m assuming.
Well, he would be starting with a pretty empty cupboard.
If the FB photos are any indication, I missed a good time at Gus & Jesa’s Halloween thingy.
Thanks, and go As.
Me too :(
You and me both – at least I was stuck on a plane with mechanical issues though!
(overhead bin lock failure – 2 hour delay)
They dont carry bungee cords for that?
They had to clear the plane and send on a team of 6 to fix it … apparently removing the bin door requires disassembling the oxygen mask system.
I had an hours-long delay once due to a windshield wiper malfunction.
If you ever have a windshield wiper malfunction lasting longer than four hours you should consult a physician.
I sang a song.
Actually it was horrible.
Rick Tittle decided to sexually harass my girlfriend and her sister and then tell me to go fuck myself when I told him that he was being inappropriate. We had to leave the event early. They cried the entire way home and the event was incredibly triggering for them.
I would appreciate it greatly if he was no longer invited to the Free Kraut tailgates.
Somehow, this does not surprise me about Lick Spittle.
That sucks. Sorry.
Thanks, and go As.
Thanks. Its appreciated.
WTF :(
Bleugh … that sucks.
Wow, what the hell. That’s terrible.
yuck.
Damn…
Sorry to hear that. Shitty that people are that awful, and that it landed on you guys.
Yeah.
I would just appreciate if people could agree that he is not welcome at kraut events. This wasn’t a misunderstanding or someone rubbing someone the wrong way, this wasn’t a situtation where someone rubs you the wrong way and you just don’t talk to them at an event, this was someone who said things which were deliberate and made it unsafe for people to be in a krautspace.
Works for me.
Well, I’d say that I won’t show up to anything he’s at in your honor, but that’s probably not very meaningful. Seriously, it baffles me just what that asshole could have done to cause all that, but I don’t think I want to know. What you’ve said is more than enough to suggest he’s a royal d-bag.
Thanks NM and DMOAS… means a lot to me.
that sucks.
Fucking allergies. Had to be put on steroids again. Jennifer SMASH.
Jennifer is on the juice…I hope you feel better soon.
We now have to screen every patient for Ebola. Today the following happened:
Me: do you have a cough, etc?
Pt: yes
Me: have you had any recent travel?
Pt: yes
Me: outside the United States?
Pt: yes
Me: where?
Pt: New England
I ended up putting a mask on them so I didn’t have to look at their face.
that got a laugh out of slf
Next pt:
You: Where?
Them: New Mexico, I drank the water and I think I have the runs.
Was it Yoenis Cespedes?
I laughed.
And then cried a little.
huh. so this is what a ghost feels… forgotten, wanting to say “i wuz there!” though nobody can hear, left maybe the off chance that somebody else* remembers.
when there were only 2 and a half bars in williamsburg and it was called the sweetwater tavern, this was my bar, goddammit. where not that many people would go that far from the L train for a drink. where there was actual punk in the jukebox. where through friends and cheap drinks you could get really pretty wasted under 15 bucks. and where i made an impossibly perpendicular fucking bank shot into the opposite side pocket to win the game once. ONCE.
okay, there were 5 bars, but teddy’s and vera cruz, where i got in a fight with the chef via the waiter when i asked for refried instead of black beans in my burrito and he said refrieds have the wrong consistency for a burrito (WHAT?), but those were restaurants that served drinks, really, and the charleston which you only wanted to go to about half the time if you thought there might be free pizza and could stand the creepy owner with that laser pen light that he’d flash at open mic performers as a form of cheap-ass stage craft.
* thank you to the comment by RM for echoing my sentiment, and surely RND’s sub comment was about that shot i made. and somebody buy me this book (if nothing else, read the kokie’s link in this… and i guess i have to amend to 3.5 bars out of 6, though this wasn’t really a watering hole).
In other news — everybody knows about ZOMG TEH GREATEST EVAR!!!1one!!! retiring, and with like zero fanfare another solid as hell player for years and years hung up the boots.
100+ caps. First American to captain an EPL team. Most international goals by a US defender. 15 years, 5 countries, 2 World Cups, 6 years as USMNT captain.
Thanks Carlos.
Thanks, and go As.
Yeah, but Fulham.
aka America’s Team
Craven Cottage looks like a neat place, and the pub there is named after USA legend Brian McBride. The USA is going to play Colombia there next month.
Great player and leader for the USA whose career sadly got derailed on the back end by Rangers mismanagement. Also the only soccer player in the world who ever made my wife stop whatever else she was doing while watching a game with me and say “Who is that? He’s beautiful.”
He is certainly a dapper FKer.
Thanks, and go As.
I have about a dozen caps. (seriously, I had no idea what that was. I read it three times in the past 2 days so I looked it up. Wikipedia editors: you can edit. Really all you needed to say was a cap is a term for playing in an international game. then you go into detail why. wait a minute, Vince, is that you?)
i have to wonder what entry you read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap_(sport)
i read that one.
I thought the first sentence was overly wordy and should have been a paragraph by itself. It confused me, which may say more about my reading than the writing, but still, I had to read it twice.
That is an impressive number of caps for Iker considering his competition for the job hasn’t exactly been terrible.
also, klinsy in FIFA manager of the year shortish list.
That’s some bullisht, man. I’m in the camp that says he’s done a pretty good job, but putting him on that list is either disrespect for our players or outright pandering for American media attention.
FIFA pander???
Justin Smoak to Toronto on a waiver claim. I’m leaning toward Jemile Weeks being the best of the Smoak-Weeks-Wallace triumvirate at this point.
I probably would have claimed him just for depth if he has options left but Toronto is higher on the claim list anyway.
Thanks, and go As.
His 2015 option is for $3.65M, which is a bit spendy if he’s a replacement level guy who can only play 1B.
Sounds like Nick Punto
He’s a more expensive Nick Punto who can’t play the middle infield.
(Yes, he’s also younger and theoretically still has considerable upside.)
I weighed defensive versatility and upside equally
So, you tend to be more demanding on these things than I…
I’ve been having a civil discussion with some learned Cleveland fans re: a Donaldson trade.
In return, Oakland would receive Jose Ramirez, Giovanny Urshela, Trevor Bauer, Tyler Naquin and either of Luis Lugo or Mitch Brown.
Thoughts?
Like Bauer always have… but that seems a little light on star quality upside to me.
Im not big on Urshela
Lugo looks like Dan Straily 2.0 to me.
Ramirez could be good.
If im trading donaldson I want more.
Naquin is hurt and doesn’t do much for me.
I need two A-/B+ specs plus some nice secondary pieces. WAR concentration and affordability make it clear to me that we should only deal him for something really good.
Ramirez Bauer Walters and Justus Sheffield as a PTBNL?
ehhh ionno im not even liking that package.
How about lindor + bauer and sheffield as the PTBNL?
The conversation started with the Cleveland side offering Chisenhall/Lindor/Bauer.
I said Chisenhall didn’t work for Oakland and suggested Urshela in his place, plus extra. They balked at Lindor/Bauer/Urshela. I tried Lindor/Urshela plus extra but by that point they lost their nerve on Lindor.
Naquin got his wrist broke by a pitch. Lugo is 6’5 200, left-handed and heading into his age 21 season… and you compare him to Straily??? You’re missing out on Urshela.
Do you mean Tony Wolters?
I will never, not ever, play the PTBNL game in a discussion of this sort. The 2014 draft class is untouchable at this time so they won’t be a factor in the conversation.
They got Walters from WASH for Cabrera
As my son would say, “No thank you.”
honestly i don’t think CLE is that good of a fit.
There’s no one better.
Boston is going to pursue Sandoval and Headley. If the Dodgers keep Hanley they’re out. The Royals should be interested but no way to they give up on Moose after this post-season. The Angels could cut Freese but honestly… fuck the Angels. Toronto could have interest but they’re farm system is arms + A-ball position players.
If you don’t like the one that you can do and there’s no better one then you stand pat and keep him. Next year he’ll still have good trade value unless he falls apart.
True.
My point is Cleveland has the pieces and the need to make a Donaldson trade work. I’m not saying it’ll happen because that’s not my department; I’m saying if it does happen the Indians are the best fit.
what about Pitt?
Pitt has Harrison, a budget smaller than Oakland’s and at least 2 holes in their starting rotation. Expect them to hold tight to Glasnow and Tailon but they have a quantity of arms and outfielders to potentially deal; I think they’re a good trade partner if Beane deals Kaz or Shark or even Norris.
I agree with all of that… Im just not sure they think Harison is real
They’ll believe in Harrison enough to focus on their rotation and hoard their top prospect talent.
fair enough
Your son is very polite.
He is.
sounds like it… also i don’t think I gave congratulations on your nuptials.
Thank you.
I love Bauer for no real reason.
Thanks, and go As.
Probably because deep down, you don’t want the terrorist to win. And by terrorist, I mean those fuckers across the bay.
I started out hating this package, but it’s grown on me. Put Danny Salazar in place of Bauer and I might just do it. And I’m an avid keep Donaldson fan.
I’m not sure how doable that would be… it might be more possible to get Lindor/Bauer/Urshela than Ramirez/Salazar/Urshela.
Fans are strange.
Id rather have the lindor package.
If Beane could get Lindor/Bauer/Urshela, whatever else comes after is fine.
In terms of value to the team that drafted them, Wallace and Smoak each netted that team a very valuable player, even if it was short lived (suck it Texas).
I switched to a mac computer recently and the thing where you’re listening to some non-apple media through earbuds and you push the pause button on the headphones and it decides that means you want it to launch iTunes is seriously annoying.
YOU WILL GET WHAT CUPERTINO DEMANDS OF YOU AND LIKE IT, OR ELSE.
LEAVE ME ALONE, BONO!
I think I’ll just say no to the last couple of U2 albums instead.
Whoops
Well, it’s nice to know that Jose Canseco isn’t shooting blanks, even if he is a little premature.
So, in honor of Red Ribbon week the Aces schools are doing themed dressup all week. I’ve never really understood what that has to do with a drug free life, but whatever the kids can have fun.
But it just clicked for me-both the elementary and Jr High have been doing different things each day. But tomorrow it is unified-they both can wear sports team clothes, which are normally against school rules. They did it assuming a WS victory so all the clones can put on their new mad bum shirseys didnt they?
The kids already knew what they would wear but I may need to go out and get new Rickey shirts instead because screw these people…
Maddon -> Cubs
Can I have $2.85 million to buy Coco’s fancy house?
rancho mirage and vicinity are gross. there’s like 1.65 golf holes per permanent resident. (and by permanent resident i mean the $20/hr help who actually live in indio.)
but i’d totally go in on this and the twin castle on the corner (berkeleyites are gonna be, “oh shit it’s a chain???”) to start a hipster snow bird colony.
and yet, i’m jealous of the pool.
biblical CGI epic… ridley scott??
i hope it’s the sequel to GI jane.
Work rant:
Stop asking me to fucking work for you. I’ve been working 5 and 6 twelves a week. Day shifts. Night shifts. Five in a row. Whatever is needed. I picked up hours THREE times this week already. You know what, YOU’VE already asked me to work already once for you this week and I said no. You just got back from Mexico on Monday. Yeah, your husband had surgery on Tuesday, but HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN HE WAS GOING TO HAVE BACK SURGERY. Don’t guilt me in to doing it. It’s always the same people picking up shifts. Have someone else do it. I’m worn out and sick of always being the one who covers shifts.
Sounds like a plan to me.
I’ve been there and as easy as it is for these folks to ask you to cover for them it’s even easier for you to say “No.”
Rant away, Jennifer. Rant on.
Does anyone cover for me? Nope, not a single person who asks me to cover them. The bad thing is this person is a good friend.
Not that good of a friend.
I cover a lot because I’m an OT whore. However, when I ask for help and get denied I make a note of who turned me down… and the next time they ask, I tell them “No.” And I keep saying “No” until they step up when I need them to.
Or until my battalion makes it an order and then I go work the extra shifts… :)
I also love the pay. Night shift? OT? Critical shortage? Fuck yes. But I feel like a rope slowly unraveling.
I blame the steroids.
You need to learn where the line is for yourself. I burned myself out one season, working 14 days or more straight. The next season I told TPTB I’d work 6 days in row if necessary but if we weren’t on an active fire on the 7th day, I was taking the day off. And if that meant my engine couldn’t staff on that 7th day… oh well.
I also took some of that extra money I was making and splurged on myself. I made it a habit to go get an hour and half massage, then lunch on my day off. You need to take care of yourself, ’cause you can’t count on anyone else doing so.
Yep, I’m now working tonight. BUT! My paycheck this week was literally double what it usually is.
You deserve to have some fun with that money.
follow up: So I found out why my check was so much extra. They overpaid me 22 hours of night shift pay. :(
And now they want it back…
Do you have to cut them a check or does direct deposit suck it right back?
Sucks it right back. I’m going to ask them to do it in monthly installments so I don’t die.
Dinner is on Jennifer everybody.
Can I pick where on her?
Thanks, and go As.
I think we can all guess your preferred location.
Nice.
Stop saying yes. I mean, say yes sometimes, but no sometimes as well. If you always say yes it becomes an expectation; it’s up to you to inject the uncertainty.
I would also ad that everyone knows who picks up shifts in a given workplace, and usually there is a reason: they need the money, they want to say as far away from the family at home as possible, they are trying to get promoted, or they are a sadist. Mostly those reasons don’t change. I would suggest letting people know that you feel overwhelmed and aren’t interested in picking up shifts. They probably don’t know that asking is a burden.
Chivas USA disbanded, LAFC announced to begin playing 2 years from now.
Thanks, and go As.
Nomar and Mia in the “leadership” group, along with Warriors/Dodgers co-owner Peter Guber.
There are some big money people in the ownership group. I’m betting that they will be able to pony up for some pretty expensive DPs.
Thanks, and go As.
Vincent Tan is certainly no joke.
Not sure Cardiff fans would agree with you.
Well, he’s rich anyway.
(puts black gloves and sunglasses on)
I never take mine off.
san jose’s got an intimidating strategy there. beat us, get disbanded within a week.
also, is erick torres the cousin of eddie torres?
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in other news nobody GAF@, willie caballero got called up for the portugal and croatia friendlies in england. (meanwhile, the other martino call-up goalie wants to forget last night.)
barça might be rid of PK, thanks chelsea?
zarate chooses chile because he’s too deep in line behind messi, higuaÃn, agüero, tevez, etc.
river plate is still on a tear if you wanna watch a good team that the int’l press hasn’t noticed yet. they haven’t lost in game play since april 6 (there were two game play ties, a friendly against millornarios of colombia and a copa argentina 1/4s against belgrano, that they did end up losing in the shootouts). on a scheduling happenstance, they’re in the middle of a 3-game series against estudiantes (RP won last night’s first leg of sudamericana 1/4s 2-1, they play a regular tournament game on sunday, and second leg of 1/4s next weds).
happy birthday diego. 54 yrs old and still acting like a punkass.
tonight boca and cerro porteño (paraguay) meet in the first leg of their sudamericana 1/4s.
i still don’t know where to start.
I put on matches on the weekend for the kids to ignore and hear spanish, but I really don’t know which where to focus attention.
MLS playoffs are on at 5. Pretty sure it’s carried on Univision too.
Thanks, and go As.
ESPN deportes on TV and online if you’re on right ISP. (u-verse doesn’t seem to be right ISP.)
am I rooting for ny or skc (whoever that is)
I decided on the blue stripe people just.in.time.
Sporting KC — last year’s champions, they have some really good players. Matt Besler and Graham Zusi are both National Team guys, Dom Dwyer is the young guy who is really promising, etc.
New York have been around awhile and are somewhat disliked because Red Bull bought them. They have one of the best players probably ever in Frenchman Thierry Henry, but he’s 37 and likely retiring at the end of the year. Tim Cahill is an Australian who is a pretty cool guy and scored (IMO) the best goal of the World Cup (youtube), and they also have Bradley Wright Phillips, a British guy who tied the MLS record for goals in a season this year after almost flaming out in the league previously.
Thanks, and go As.
cool.
there are so many teams and leagues. I have no idea how you keep track
TBH, I don’t.
I follow MLS closer than any other soccer league because it’s convenient. English leagues are on super early on weekend mornings and that is usually more important soccer time for me (the kids)
Thanks, and go As.
right, I noticed that. they are all at the same time on saturday? like 8 AM?
We too have two soccer games every saturday. milo hit a very pretty left footer up in the far top corner over the goalie last week.
Some of them are on at 5:30 am. Manchester City – Manchester United on Sunday, for example. I used to like stumbling out of bed early and sort of half dozing on the couch watching games.
By the way, I think I my kids’ team may have played yours a couple of weeks ago in Balboa Park. There was a kid named Milo and some of the adults were speaking iffy Spanish to the kids. If that was his team, they were pretty great.
yes, we were at balboa park. Are you one of the star king teams?
Yes! Luckily I have a girl, so she wasn’t on the field where your dudes were tearing our boys a new one.
I was the dude yelling at the boys and doing subs. FOr some reason I am in charge of the boys.
I wonder if Kathy was there on the girls side. She is better than most of the boys. little long black hair.
Your girls were struggling a little bit. I’m guessing she wasn’t there since it usually only takes that one player to flip the table.
the “vamos vamos vamos” from some of the adults is a little embarrassing.
It was funny. We don’t even try with the Chinese. Except for the actual Chinese people I guess.
I did convince the boys to use spanish on the field, but all they say is “Aqui aqui!”
are you at marina green saturday? Our game is at 11
I think we have a bye, so we’re having a pizza party.
we have pizza after. then the older boy has his second to last game at 4.
my milo has pink and turquoise boots.
I think I remember seeing those.
“you said it correctly but you have a terrible terrible terrible spanish accent. No offense, but you have a really bad spanish accent. “
I went to an MLS game in KC years ago. I think they were called the Wizards then.
When the league launched they were called “The Wiz.” It was an embarrassing time.
uhg, can you imagine taking a pack of 13 year old boys to see the whiz v the crew?
More like the poo amirite?
But nobody beats the Wiz.
Not even Nipsey Russell?
The opposite of pro is con;
That fact is clearly seen;
If progress means move forward,
Then what does Congress mean?
you should meet my mom. it’d be fun for me.
my aunts say they can’t really understand my dad’s arabic because of his american accent
boca won, 1-0.
is that the one we were just watching?
were you? i was. navy blue with horizontal yellow stripe vs mostly white with blue-red vert stripes on upper chest.
Enough with the fucking sabermetrics, AV.
yes.
I pop on spanish language stuff for them to ignore
that’s the best way to learn really.
I learned most of my Spanish watching Danish day time television.
what’s the matter with barça??
and who should i be / is everybody else rooting for in the MLS playoffs?
Process of elimination:
LA Galaxy, Seattle Sounders, NYRB are all no. Big market MLS Darlings, SJ are rivals with LAG and Seattle anyway. LA will always have a special place to be hated because of the way MLS and AEG (and Alexi Lalas) manufactured the Landon Donovan move, MLS bent/created new rules for Seattle to get Dempsey, and NY is NY.
Real Salt Late: No, I don’t like Beckerman.
FC Dallas: No, they cut my kid’s coach! (long run that worked out)
DC United: They have Eddie Johnson. Fuck Eddie Johnson
Columbus Crew: Not bad. Silly but I love Barbasol is their kit sponsor.
Weird to root for Boston, but I like the Revs a little — Jermaine Jones just transferred there and Charlie Davies is renewing his career.
Thanks, and go As.
and nguyen doesn’t care. he’ll just run it in and score.
from the 30 minutes i’ve seen, new england does look solid.
Is this game on the TV somewhere?
i had an univision feed but it’s over now.
Red Bulls. Thierry Henry, one of my all time favorites, goes out with a title. Plus, don’t let the name fool you. They’re Newark’s team, not New York’s team.
I’m torn on Seattle. I like the way they play, love Dempsey, Yedlin, and Martins. But I do not want the title match played on fake grass.
I do like some of Seattle’s players, but their fanbase is full of douchebags that act like the sport was invented in the Pacific Northwest.
Thanks, and go As.
They don’t think they invented the sport. They think they invented being fans of the sport.
makes sense. it’s next on the list after inventing coffee.
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now that i’ve seen 4 games and am an expert, revolution ought to win. revolution-red bulls is the final. galaxy or sounders are both good enough to get lucky twice and go through, and even have a chance to win in if the red bulls use up all their luck on the semi and have none to spare. but if they can keep the same shape up for 2 or 3 more games, revolution takes it.
bulls is through.
Yay. I’m on the bandwagon.
river – estudiantes is getting interesting. estudiantes just tied the aggregate in the first minutes of the 2nd half. river gets ahead again with 30 to go.
winner meets boca at semifinals of sudamericana. in the other semi, it’s sao paulo v atletico nacional (colombia).
(edited. thought it was a 45 clock. it’s a 90.)
and funes mori again for river a couple minutes later. the home crowd goes wild.
ok, no more minute by minute. this is a good game.
Arlington’s own Rogelio Funes Mori? I wonder if he’s a Rangers fan.
mendoza’s own, technically. go my home town!
but yes, apparently he went to arlington HS and got discovered through sueño MLS and FC dallas signed him (or something).
he’s got a twin. but i confuse him with someone else.
is that what I was listening to on the way home on 860?
huh. you were. nice one 860 for covering the sudamericana.
was there a penalty kick that someone scored on about 530? that’s the only thing I could really make out
yep.
you missed the dogpile in front of the goal at around 6:15.
i was out of the car then
oh right… it’s gonna be boca – river in the semifinals. home and away. that should make up for the supersoaked and superlackluster superclasico a few weeks ago.
it’s been a while since they’ve had more than for-pride matches. last time they met in an elimination was the 2004 libertadores (boca 1-0, river 2-1, boca won in penalties). before that it was 2000 (boca won).
this time, river has been riding a nice wave for months on end and boquenses should be worried. meanwhile, boca started like crap, got rid of bianchi, and has since been building into some sort of respectable shape. boca has one advantage, realistically being math’ed out of winning the regular tournament and only having the sudamericana to play for, that it can field the team it wants, where river has to stay ahead of a tight field in the regular tournament and might have to make tactical compromises.
first leg…
beautiful expectations.
ugly game.
the lowlights.
0–0
Things sound non-good in First Look Media land.
Most news organizations eventually come to terms with the idea that when you hire a bunch of people who are professionally trained to question assumptions and roll their eyes at bullshit, you should not be surprised when they question your management’s assumptions and roll their eyes at your corporate bullshit.
I have to say the 6 minutes of the World Series I watched was exactly 6 minutes long.
The more you know…
Never go spelunking in Arkansas with a German.
Coulda told you that.
I’m thinking about becoming a Charlotte Bobcats fan.
hartford whalers
St. Louis Browns
Washington Senators
Washington Senators
You’re too late for the Bobcats. But the Charlotte Hornets are bringing teal back in a big way.
I’m thinking about investing in Enron.
I’m thinking about voting for Calvin Coolidge.
Keep cool, Bed. Keep cool.
I’m as cool as the other side of the pillow as long as the other side of the pillow has been laying on top of a heating pad.
I’m thinking about moving to Champa.
I’m thinking about becoming Mae West.
when you are bed, you are really bed
Ha!
I may have screwed it up. Should it have been “when you are bedm you are bedder?”
The first one works better to me.
I’m thinking about going to http://www.freekraut.com
I’ll be doing my annual breakdown on what the A’s should do this off-season by the second or third week of August.
I’ll be watching the Raiders game in spirit on Sunday. But the Pats v Donkeys game will be on my TV. Thanks, Raiders…12 years of suck has finally broken me.
you’ll never get in the billboards now
I’m also not paying 6 bucks a gallon for gas so I’m cool.
How the heck is the premium for full serve that much??
Beats me…I’m just happy that gas has gone down. I paid $2.63 a gallon to gas up today.
it’s gone down a bit.
http://www.oaklandgasprices.com/index.aspx?fuel=C
Those prices aren’t too bad. We get the added benefit of all you can find roadkill here in Arkansas to go with the lower prices so I still feel like I’m winning.
those prices aren’t quite our normal. something’s going on but i wasn’t paying attention enough when i heard it to repeat it. or maybe it’s just another pre-election.
For Cheap Gas…VOTE QUIMBY!
speaking of raod kill, are you guys all using WAZE for car navigating? It alerts you to cops.
ED HAS RAOD RAEG!
I have used it. It’s quite useful on 280.
i like that it knows back ways.
Full release.
For 6 bucks a gallon I better get a happy ending.
I do not harbor any illusions about the Raiders winning this week.
If any trick or treaters really want to scare me tomorrow night they’ll come dressed up as Reggie McKenzie.
Has any rock band released a great album after the the members of the band were over 45?
with or without one of its members dying within months of the release?
Enough with the fucking sabermetrics, AV.
then the answer is obvious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tits_'n_Ass
Wait…Golden Earring is still releasing albums?
is WHIP partly about balls on bases?
Enough with the fucking music criticism, AV.
The Obliterati / Peter Prescott (maybe doesn’t count, because I don’t think the other band members were quite as old)
You could be making those names up and I’d have no way of knowing…have I mentioned I really like Coldplay?
Ragged Glory is another borderline one – Neil was not quite 45, but two of his bandmates were older.
“Send” by Wire.
Saw them in 2000 (give or take a year). They looked like a bunch of engineers. it was awesome and horrifying.
Saw the Buzzcocks around the same time. Not as good looking.
They were old farts (punkatively speaking) when they started the band in ’76. They’re all pushing 70 now.
I was thinking about putting that one up. It’s a FKing awesome album, but the problem is that it still doesn’t live up to their peak. On the other hand, I think that Obliterati is my favorite Mission of Burma album.
The other day I was listening to 154 at work. I started thinking that I wanted to include the currently playing song (On Returning, I think?) on a mix. Then I realized that the “mix” I wanted to make was just the entire 154 album.
You know I’m starting to think that show Elementary is a rip off of Sherlock Holmes.
I agreed to be in a NBA fantasy league at work despite the fact I haven’t watched an NBA game in like three years. It turns out Charles Barkley is no longer a player.
I got Jack sikma in my keeper league
He’s pretty spry for an old white guy.
does he still play for the sonics?
He’s Seattle’s leading scorer so far this season.
I’m like Wayne Newton…I’m from the streets.
Would you rather go on a date with Courtney Love or give full body massages to the entire San Francisco Giants roster?
I want her to give massages to the Giants.
thing is, they’d probably like it. that’s how everything with that team backfires on us.
A full body massage from Courtney Love…a strange 20 minutes that leads to a life long STD.
I’m being serious here when I say I always enjoy asking music questions because you folks usually come up with some interesting stuff that I’m not familiar with.
speaking of, av, you know how you were saying that you can find everything on you tube or the like and not have to buy it. Everyonce in a while I want to link to this song, and its never on the interwebs.
Its kinda neat. and a great song, I totally recomment spending 3 buck on it if you like kitty wells
wonder what the context was when i said that. just last night i wanted tav falco’s shadetree mechanic in response to a panik comment, couldn’t find it.
you were looking for a record, you knew you could hear it on the internet, but you refused to do so until you found it for realsies.
If you go obscure/local enough you can always find a song that the internet cannot find. I have a list of probably 4-5 songs I want to ask around and find but wont take the time. The worst part is 1 I am sure a sort of friend has a copy since he was in the band, another I am sure I have on tape in the garage, and still another I can find easily but it is the band rerecording it and I prefer the original.
how frustrating. not only do i wanna know what that record was, i wanna hear it in any format whatsoever, right now.
it’s like… i remember almost everything. except what i think.
The greatest tragedy of modern times is that Falco didn’t live long enough to collaborate with Tav Falco.
i think a greater tragedy is that some of the clerks at amoeba still get them mixed up.
Point taken.
God, I love music.
I love God and his son, Phil Collins.
and his collection of random expensive Alamo crap.
I can’t wait until next Wednesday…this election cycle has been long and brutal.
You know I’m starting to think this show Dancing with the Stars is a rip off of Sherlock Holmes.
I’m starting to wonder if my life long dream of being a roadie for Creed is ever going to happen.
I stopped liking games when even my own wife picked me for kill during a game of M,F or K.
I am a little worried. I think SLF thinks the game is called F, M, then K.
And its still her turn
F,M. then K…that was how my grandma went through 4 husbands.
Okay, I just had a weird one about a Ronald Reagan impersonator, the actress who played Winnie Cooper, and the band Oingo Boingo.
Are you suggesting that you employ some sort of filter on these? We’re not getting them all?
Yep…I actually do a director’s cut for all my lounges. You get the NR version if you buy the DVD.
one of my roommates claimed he had to drop a class because he spent too much time staring at winnie cooper during the lecture
I’ll bet no one else could pay attention either with Daniel Stern narrating the whole time.
Glorious Mundy wins the lounge.
I saw adult Winnie Cooper about 7 or 8 years ago giving a talk about girls and math…I too did a lot of staring.
Most of the posts I don’t post are about Miley Cyrus, my racist rants about the Dutch, and the life and work of Simon MacCorkindale.
MacCorkindale…seriously, just say it. I guarantee it will make you 6% happier to be alive.
Although saying it won’t make MacCorkindale 6% happier to be alive…since he’s dead and whatnot.
Remember this Halloween that the razor blades go in the apples while the rat poison goes in the popcorn balls.
I’ll leave you with this…
It is better to have loved and lost than to get a full body massage from Courtney Love.
that doesn’t make any sense
But it’s provocative!
Fielding Bible Winners announced.
We have a countdown! Pitchers and Catchers report on 2/19. Which if my counting fingers still work puts us at 111 days!
Too soon.
Nope. Be cause once we have a countdown we no longer have to talk about “last year”. So after today the 2014 gnats might as well be the 1903 Boston Americans.
The nice thing is that we have a fancy new spring ballpark for their bandwagoners to attend on Cactus Opening Day.
I really want to be one of those. I have never gone to spring training and would love to get a good week down in the sun.
I’m just saying skip the first game. Soaker knows what’s up.
Ah, perfect. The dates I selected before any schedules were released were March 5 thru 13, so not only do I miss the orange and black infestation in the opener, I’ll also leave the day before their second appearance at Hohokam.
I’ve only been once (what up 2009), but it was a lot of fun. Spring Training gives you access to treasures you would be hard pressed to get elsewhere, like my Daric Barton signed pennant for example
It’s way far away from Scottsdale though. I don’t know if the Mesa bar scene resembles Walnut Creek enough for them.
I wish the 2015 concert and festival schedule would come out.
How’s the weather up there Soaker?
Windy, but still sunny and 58 degrees. It will drop real fast once this thing starts moving in and we could get about 6 inches overnight. The annual snow tire switch was executed this morning.
…or 0.06 inches overnight. How feeble, although some ski resort PR guy must have dusted off “EPIC Halloween Storm!!”
the late in the day rain and saturday rain stayed away. WHich was nice for Halloween and the early grass field soccer game. I imagine it wasn’t helpful for the EPIC drought.
Oh, bullshit. It looks like there was a light storm at the end of October, and 65-degree temps this week should take care of even that.
I ran a 5k this morning with 40 degree temps, 25 mph wind, and rain/snow mix. It actually went pretty well once we got started.
Shout out the kid trick or treating in SF as Rollie Fingers.
Last 3 Breeders Cup races: ALL/5/6. Watch that last race if you can, great field of horses.
Well I got the ALL part right. Exciting last race.
SB Nation link. Non-OC variety.
Consider it a preview for something I’m going to write over here.
That’s actually a really cool way to utilized that sort of blog setup.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m looking forward to it.
I just don’t see them as beint close enough for contention to take on Kaz… now if youre trying to sell them on a trade and sign of shark… then we could potentially get owings and some interesting parts.
The fan base wants a rebuild, its the FO of LaRussa and Stew that are talking contention in 2015 while cutting payroll from $110+ million to $90 million.
I got a little bit of traction when I originally dangled Shark but I’ve got a hunch Pittsburgh just might re-sign Martin in which case they’ll have 2 rotation spots open and a very limited budget to fill them; Shark to the Pirates would yield a nice return. Plus he’s a better asset in a straight talent-for-talent trade than Kazmir.
There a lots of teams who could use a 1 year SP rental. AZ just happens to offer a great lab for this experiment!
Is that blog dead? Didn’t seem like a helpful commnet
At least I avoided the shut-out!
A group of little kids came into the ER today and brought me a brownie. One of the cute little bastards told me it was a thank you for helping take care of other people. Then they scurried out to their mom waiting in the car. It made my day.
Someone should get me drunk.
being drunk is rather unpleasant
Drunk people are the worst. I hate dealing with them.
Being drunk can be a lot of fun if you know how to do it right or get really lucky with your speed and type of drinking.
I 100% do not know how to do it right, but on my way to no bueno I usually see about 15-20 minutes of superduper fun time. Actually ran into the lucky scenario this weekend. Through no wisdom of my own I kept a good pace and was at just the right buzz most of the night. Got to take advantage of the extra hour and spent Sunday feeling great instead of hung over. I assume that will never happen again.
You’re going to die next week.
I am quite good at being drunk. I think.
of course, one of my favorite stories I have been told ends with me, sober, and hung over, unknowingly going out in pants I peed myself in the night before.
I am quite good at being drunk. I think.
of course, one of my favorite stories I have been told ends with me, sober, and hung over, unknowingly going out the wearing the pants I peed myself in the night before.
you’re wasted now, aren’t you?
Do you smell something?
I could edit my comment and make you look like an ass…
as if. i can look like an ass all on my own, thank you very much.
and yet we still havent gotten that beer!
i have a plan. SLF has practice this friday, I am going to trade that for a night out the following week
I like this plan.
Friday I will be shwasted at a billionaires house.
have a crumpet for me
Have an invite for me?
A key is to remember to enjoy getting drunk, which is at least as much fun as being drunk.
now that most people have seen this one, and no one has commented, did none of you people hear/read/see hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy?
ask a glass of water.
thank you
I thought you didnt like drunk. Perhaps someone could get you on a bacon and sugar high?
You get me.
Getting drunk is the gift you give yourself.
getting drunk is borrowing happiness from tomorrow.
But it’s just sad when you do it alone.
When I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.
I’d settle for a poolside retreat, though.
Day 9 of laryingitis and I am really fking sick of it. This is that time where you wish your job wasnt spent on phone calls and you didnt have to parent 3 kids to SHUT UP AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK/CLEAN YOUR ROOM/STOP HITTING HIM!!! for the remaining hours.
Nothing more pathetic than when the ol’ voice cracks while yelling at your kid. I just want to sit on the steps and sob at that point.
It really is awful. And the kids all have different reactions with it. The eldest Ace keeps mothering me and telling me I must stop talking. The lilest Ace forgets and just wants to spend every second talking Minecraft.
Lil Miss Aces of course has the worst approach. She is acting out, bugging the boys, etc. Then when I try to tell her something she either laughs at the voice or ignores me. Then once I am forced to yell she says “dad stop yelling your gonna damage your vocal cords..youre out of control right now”.
She will be the cause of my first cardiac event, but god she makes me laugh.
I assume the “STOP HITTING HIM” is directed at yourself, as it would be in my household
milo got into project runway and now he likes top chef. we are watching Season 2 the first one with padma. Its interesting to see her in that season compared to today.
I still don’t like her.
Boo! Padma is delightful. As I’ve said before, the role of competition reality show host/head judge is a lot harder than it seems. Compare Padma to, say, Alyssa Milano. No contest.
I will admit that Padma got less endearing when she started thinking her opinions of the food were useful.
Can I just think of Padma and Alyssa Milano together instead? And Padma sounds like Padme, so executive decision..I will be adding in Natalie Portman.
season 2 is a good season.
Was the one with that schmucky guy with the poofy hair and the terrible attitude?
yes. and they kick the black guy off
I’m in love with the copy machine repair man at work. He’s from New Zealand and has a sexy as fuck accent.
This guy came in the record shop about 20 years ago. He was buying about a 3 foot stack or records, so I started randomly cutting off a dollar here, and there as I am ringing the shit up. each time I did he said “cheers.”
The 19 y/o me found that delightful as I had not encountered people from the commonwealth at the time. So I kept giving him discounts just to hear him say “cheers.”
It wasn’t until a few weeks later when I was telling the story that I realized he was just saying “thanks.” which was disappointing.
Kiwi accents are awesome/hilarious.
Did you seen John Oliver’s show last week – this bit about the flig is pretty funny.
I like that their current flag has the Southern Cross on it.
Dear Quakes:
If you won’t go and buy Mix from Rosenborg, then dammit make Benji Joya happen.
Thanks.
Thanks, and go As.
What would it take to get Cubo Torres? Having a potential rising star for El Tri wouldn’t suck from a marketing standpoint.
Not gonna happen. Because he’s a Designated Player he doesn’t go through the regular dispersal draft, where SJ would potentially have a chance to snag him.
Instead, it’s gonna be some clusterFK like with Dempsey, Bradley, and Jermaine Jones where MLS basically draws straws but then awards him to the team they want no matter what anyway.
Honestly I think it would be best if he was somehow retained by the new LAFC, loaned somewhere for 2 seasons, and then is the marquee face for the club when they start playing in ’17
Thanks, and go As.