So I have been thinking about twitter account to post some bed thoughts. Mostly to see what would happen.
I don’t know what to do about it. like what would be a good handle, should the profile link back here etc.
So anyway, are you in it? what are your thoughts?
Hopefully this should distract us from the unpleasantness of:
Beane says unlikely #Athletics look to add a shortstop via free agency.
— Joe Stiglich (@JoeStiglichCSN) November 29, 2014
I have $5. No I don\'t.
I believe in Stephen Vogt, if that helps.
Do you believe he plays short stop
HE CAN PLAY ALL OF THE POSITIONS. EVEN THE ILLEGAL CANADIAN ONES.
Damn Designated Rovers!
Roveurs
@freekraut, right? I mean, it would still be like 90% Bed, but occasionally someone else would say something
stupidfunny enough to get on there.I like that. I am hoping nm is ok with it. there is also another perso who….
I’m not opposed. I’m also not in a position to set it up myself.
I can set it up.
@freekrautdotnet
@freekraut.com(oops).net
exactly
I’m alone with the boy tonight, and having a “Go the FK to sleep” moment. He’s been in his crib yammering to himself for 45 minutes, and I strongly suspect his pacifier has been thrown from the crib (usually we have like 3 in there, so he can find one and soothe himself, but I could only find 1 at the time).
Option 1. Go in and deliver more pacifiers. Upside: He goes the FK to sleep. Downside: He might freak out when I leave the room again.
Option 2. Do nothing. Upside: He goes the FK to sleep. Downside: He doesn’t ever go the FK to sleep.
Option 3. Wait until he actually starts crying, then go in and deliver pacifiers. Upside: He goes the FK to sleep, possibly without my intervention. Downside: He may be really difficult to settle down once he’s that worked up.
Option 4. Trade him to the Blue Jays for a stuffed monkey, a cup of coffee and a wagon wheel.
Other options?
Arm crawl into the dark room and throw a pacifier into the crib like a grenade.
Pretty sure I’ve done this one.
in deer hunter makeup?
A possibility. I think he may have gone to sleep in the last 5 minutes…
good work
Thanks – that was option 2, so I’m not sure I get much credit! Now the question is, do I wait till mid-cycle and sneak in to deliver more pacifiers? I’m thinking “yes” but it would not be without risk.
Definitely. The payoff is too large not to.
OK, going in for pacifier delivery. Wish me LK.
Done. No apparent consequence.
5. Go in, deliver pacifiers, and then sit in there until he crashes.
6. Go in there, stick a pacifier in his mouth, rock him to sleep.
5 may work. 6 .. he gets very indignant when anyone tries to rock him to sleep, but the equivalent is to put him in a carrier and bounce for a while. Then the transfer is the tricky part.
The transfer is very awkward. Women seem to be better at it than men.
have you done the slowly back away thing?
Where you go in with pacifiers, sooth fir a minute. then stand a foot away, for a minute then a few feet more, etc till you are gone.
Use reassuring touches when he cries at first, then your voice then leave?
Could work – haven’t tried it b/c so far he flips out as soon as he’s in the crib, and I haven’t figured out how to soothe him in that state (without picking him up). Partially because I haven’t had to; for the last 6-7 months, we could consistently just put him in and leave, but he’s got a cold now so that makes things harder..
Easy. Benadryl and whiskey.
obviously. but what do you give the kid?
For me, or him?
Share a bottle.
No way. He’s got a cold.
Okay, drink a bunch yourself, then let him nurse off you.
We had a boob emergency at work last week. One of the nursing nurses I work with forgot her breast pump. I almost called Mike V, but before I could get my phone out, one of the mothers shared her pump.
hi.
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Damn-didnt read down far enough before posting.
Place pacifiers in Dewars. Then give to baby. Then you are done for 12 hrs or so.
We tried that but Baby Phil can already drink me under the table.
I say sweeten the deal with some international slot money and extract more value from the Jays.
We’ve made a living on Option 1. Sure she screamed when you walk out, but short lived. Because she had a pacifier.
The first kid was so easy…the sequel likes to let us know he’s there a bit more.
How many mozzarella sticks can you eat before you start to regret your life decisions?
17
Its all about the timing.
that’s why he is the king
how many are in the bag?
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A twitter thing might be fun that gives an idea of what the site is about. As I’ve said before if you like something I post feel free to use it and call it your own.
I liked that $5 bill you posted. I am gonna use that
Enjoy your #2 combo at Burger King.
You know you’re getting older when all the bands you grew up with now have career spanning documentaries about them. We watched the REM and the new Genesis one today…I can report I have more hair than Phil Collins and Michael Stipe.
I’m counting down the days until the documentary about the singer from the Jesus Lizard’s dick.
The thing I noticed is within 10 years Collins and Stipe are going to look exactly the same…and in about 25 years I’ll be joining them.
Good effort today by KU…we only lost by 38 to K-State. Congrats to the Wildcats…enjoy the cow tipping or whatever it is you folks do in Manhattan.
Who did the A’s trade again?
Some guy who’s a headcase or the boss is punishing, or something like that.
I think we can all agree that I’ll have forgotten the whole thing by Tuesday.
We don’t talk enough about Tabitha Soren here on Free Kraut.
Mrs. Moneyball!
I’m pretty sure she only uses her official title for state dinners and what not.
I posted a video with her in it last week!
I remember 1994 like it was twenty years ago.
I don’t care if it’s Fritos, Cheetos, or herpes…everything is better when you share.
So does the winner of tomorrow’s Raiders vs Rams game get to move to LA?
So does the loser of tomorrow’s Raiders vs Rams game have to move to LA?
Move the Cardinals to LA and the Rams to Arizona.
And move the Raiders to Irwindale!
There should be a law that only Dan Fouts is allowed to have a beard.
We’re having steak this year at the Christmas party. It almost makes me want to go.
Do you just use the room of a coma patient to have the party in…or is that just for sex?
They usually rent out the country club. Sadly, most of my coworkers show up. There’s usually vomiting.
A bunch of doctors getting drunk at a country club…yep, that never happens.
Two years ago Dr. Hottie drank an entire bottle of something expensive we got him for Christmas. It got ugly. His wife sat in the car most of the night.
Up next on Missouri Medical…
There should be a law that Tom Cruise isn’t allowed to use a beard.
I would pay to see John Barrowman fight Tom Cruise to the death.
The winner becomes John Thomas Barrowman-Cruise, and will guest star on all sci-fi TV shows and cameo in all superhero movies from here on out.
Oooh. I hope John wins!
I’ve always wanted to go to an event that could be called a wingding.
How bout a shindig?
Or a ballyhoo?
too many bedbugs.
So, if the apes had been clean would Heston have liked them more? Could all these problems have been solved by a quick shower? Are most of my questions this stupid?
I’ve always wanted to go crazy enough to be called a wingnut.
I’m pretty sure this is porn for Republicans.
fap fap fap
Is Ed now pretty on the inside, or no longer pretty on the outside?
that is a graduate level class at cal state Stanislass
Up next on Arkansas Attorneys…Cletus loses his case to get his cousin/wife Cletusa exonerated on horse thieving charges. Billy Bob wins his appeal to start a Church of Kenny Rogers. The law firm of Keith, Kyle, & Kross gets new t-shirts made with the firms initials on them for the company softball team.
The Church of Kenny Rogers’ softball team would totally kick KK&K’s softball team’s ass.
The power of Kenny compels them.
Enjoy the Peking Duck.
Are there podcasts about people doing podcasts about podcasts?
I tell you what…called ID really took the fun out of death threats.
Even though she’s gone I’m pretty sure you’d find there’s sunshine if you just stepped outside.
What do you get when you cross beef, pork and the theory of originalism?
Up next on Vermont Veterinarians…uh…um…Howard Dean eats some Cherry Garcia while castrating a poodle.
You know I’m starting to think Elvis Costello isn’t his real name.
I was thinking the exact same thing about Declan MacManus.
“I must break dance with you.” Ivan Drago from Rocky IV
“I must break our pre-nup with you.” Brigitte Nielsen after Rocky IV
I don’t want to get all political here but…cranberries are tangy.
— Sirbed(@freekraut) November 30, 2014
Mad pornbot followers already!
I’m a human!
Did you notice two have the same picture.
She’s really into kraut.
Bob Dole!
Already has more followers than I do.
we should start hashtagging*
Too tired tonight.
*I feel dirty already
George Carlin’s twitter account found the hashtags and smoked them already.
They must have had a lot of paraquat in them or something because he died shortly thereafter.
we have a follower who I don’t think is any of you guys and isn’t a pornbot
I went exploring behind the scenes and…that’s the tweeter with 19.6K followers? Whoa, Ed, that didn’t take long.
There’s TWO!
A couple of suggestions that you should feel free to ignore.
1. Drop Sirbed. Just call it Free Kraut and post all the interesting posts here on the site.
2. Make the location The Lounge rather than Arkansas
3. If you’re going to use But seriously, folks…you need the comma and the ellipses.
Again, it’s your site Ed so do what you want with it but that’s my two cents.
good notes
Anyone can post there. I was going to put a couple of jennifer’s comments, but she has her own account and I wanted the OK before.
anyone can log on and make comments. Don’t be a dick.
Considering his comments I thought the public availability of the password was questionable so I made a rare use of my FKing editor powers. Repost the password if you want, I won’t change it a second time.
i thought about that. thank you. i wanted to take it down after i posted but forgot
Out.
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oh, you try Mike, but I don’t think you can be an actual dick.
..oh
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I’m out.
Help yourself.
TWSS
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I don’t like the name being free kraut. Any suggestions?
I love that it’s following Phil Collins.
My twitter handle is different than here… maybe me? If it has zero tweets ever, I’m a likely suspect.
I don’t like the name being free kraut. Any suggestions?I have retweeted stuff. I am sure I am busted.
Please retweet and star things. also log on and make jokes. I want to see what happens
Something like @fklounge?
@TheGrill
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interesting…
I am liking it.
I hope it’s something we can all have fun with. There are a lot of clever and funny people on this site.
password: deletedbySoaker
(Password not changed, but public posting erased for the moment — Soaker)
I just found out about reverse searing a steak and my mind is blown.
Who am I kidding? I don’t cook steak.
Meh. 2 min per side as hot as you can get it. Done.
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LIES.
Assuming you’re talking about a normal steak, that is a perfectly seared rare meal.
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Dude, there is a site called Steak, and it’s nothing but pictures of steak. A few days ago there was a picture of a 72 ounce prime rib and a 64 ounce porterhouse.
i actually don’t like prime rib
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(Neither do I.)
Raiders look good.
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Is it a bye week?
they’re playing like it
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Man, what a shitshow. When the defense plays this bad the Raiders are easily the worst team in the league.
They should have played McGloin the whole 2nd half. Carr wasn’t the only problem but he was still horrible; he needs to sit and watch and come back next week.
Maybe it’s just me, but it doesn’t look like there’s an offensive line playing at all. I don’t know how you play 11 on 6.
They may need to trade for Harbaugh at halftime.
They should make O coordinator Greg Olsen stand back there and run those plays he’s calling.
4 more points and this is by score the worst loss in Raiders history…WE CAN DO IT!
Matt Schaub comes in and BOOM pick six…perfect.
Whoever comes in next year we all need to realize the Raiders are basically an expansion team. I’m not sure this roster could compete in the SEC.
52-0 loss to a 4-7 team.
I thought you were kidding.
They hit you with the full deck.
I do a picks contest with some friends and I picked the Raiders to go 2-14…I may have been overly optimistic.
If I’m Mark Davis I don’t just fire Reggie McKenzie…I plant heroin in his house and call the police.
Hire Raleigh McKenzie and hope he turns out to be the good twin.
I like it. He really couldn’t do any worse.
I may just let my kids become Cowboys fans.
Beddie don’t let your babies grow up to be Cowboy fans.
Well, it’s better than the alternative.
I think Harbaugh is a really good coach but if I’m the Raiders I’m not sure I’d give up draft picks for him. This team needs all the picks they can get we just need someone smarter making the picks. If the 49ers fire him though I’d love to have him even though I know he’d probably burn out within 4 to 5 years.
Agreed here. When you need many many MANY players losing your chance to get good ones is a bad idea.
I was thinking about this though, in a world where retread coaches are the norm, how is it possible to have 4-5 coaches in a row that more than likely will never get a HC gig again in the NFL. Am I missing anyone here?
Shell
Cable guy
Lane
H-Jax
DA the football coach who coaches football players
I guess maybe Kiffin could get another gig in a few years, but man-that is a collection of something right there…
Our collection of head coaches and quarterbacks has been nothing short of amazing since Gruden/Gannon.
Well, you wouldn’t have to give up a #1. And you’d use that #1 to collect several picks. And you’ll use those to get several picks. I think there’s room to work with.
For what it is worth, Bill Barnwell wrote a column two years ago on Harbaugh having the best value of any contract in the NFL.
I would offer this years third and next years second, contingent on Harbaugh signing some sorta extension with Oakland.
Okay…enough Raiders. Time for something less dreary.
Donaldson for MVP!
Who’s that?
Warriors!
Poking yourself in the eye with a spork!
ptbnl wins the lounge.
May the spork be with you… always.
So Beane has moved on to Dire Straits, right? Money for Nothing?
and trading chips for free.
I want my MVP!
i like
Outside of the San Diego game, I have yet to see really anything from Carr that says he will be anything more than an average quarterback.
Mariota at least has the tools to be a superstar.
While trading the number one pick for a bounty of selections is ideal, drafting Mariota should be a no brainer for a franchise that is so helpless lost with no direction whatsoever.
Man, that game was tough!
I’d like to see what he can do with better coaching and talent around him. I am concerned about the fact that he really struggles to complete passes that aren’t out of the 3 step drop. His yards per attempt is 33rd in the NFL at only 5.54. That’s really awful.
Im the least objective person here on this subject, but I agree. The trouble is so much can be blamed on a terrible o-line and always playing from behind. I hope they sit him down for better or for worse at this point. He isnt learning anything more out there.
If you’re going to put these on Twitter here’s some that I’ve liked over the years (That I can remember)
In no particular order…
1. This one time at Rand Camp we objectified the individualist.
2. My Tom Brokaw impression hasn’t helped me with the ladies as much as I thought it would.
3. Hey! Hey! LBJ! how many coconut waters did you drink today?
4. So, I’m sitting here playing my nightly game of Russian Roulette when it hits me…I don’t have to eat wheat bread if I don’t want to.
5. I’m so shallow Daric Barton is afraid to be near me.
6. My waitress asked for a tip so I told her to invest in pork belly futures.
7. Like most people I spend much of my free time trying to figure out the complex mythology of Eight is Enough.
8. Okay, this is where I should probably admit I’ve never eaten an Almond Joy…or experienced love.
9. Anytime I walk into a stadium and see they only have bench seats I think to myself…I’m too old for this sit.
10. I once spilled water on a shirt in Reno just to watch it dry.
I’ll shut up now.
this is great.
I like it all.
#9 is my favorite.
I’ll do more later
Okay, that was the saddest The Walking Dead in a long time.
It must have been the power play.
This is unbelievable. I would like to believe that it is only in St. Louis that cops are this arrogant and thin-skinned. I would like to believe that.
I can see inflammatory without squinting too hard but the rest is pure nonsense.
2-1 Seattle over LA right now, 55min in.
2-2 on aggregate, LA have an away goal so they’re in front and Landycakes plays another game if it holds.
I’m rooting for both teams to lose
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you were half right.
Of course they go straight to Landon who missed TWO chances that should have absolutely been put away.
I’m glad Seattle lost, but dammit LA won. sigh.
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Enjoy the flounder.
I just recreated Who-ville for work using my coworkers’ heads on cartoon bodies. I consider this my Michelangelo. I’m so excited to put it up tomorrow I can’t sleep.
Anybody who does this to my beer will suffer intense pain.
I personally love a good Michelada, and I want it to be spicy. But 1) You will never find a good one that is premade and 2) you cannot do it with a stout. I agree that this should result in some sort of punishment.
Sounds like something you would prescribe to induce vomiting.
Well that sounds terrible. Rogue sure does come out with a lot of big whiffs
I’m not actually sure they have a beer I like.
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I like their Hazelnut Brown ale, but that’s the only one I can think of
[walks out.]
[inadvertently walks in somewhere else.]
[curses stoppard.]
[waits for AV some otherwhere else.]
[curses beckett.]
nice.
So are we trading Samardzija today, or what? Let’s get this over with. Rip the damn bandaid off. My body is ready, as Jennifer would say.
If they trade Smarooorileyautopartszzza before I learn how to actually spell his name I’ll be disappointed.
sub margarine.
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I like that one.
Like Chad Bradford but with fewer crickets.
1 year olds make really good heating devices.
whoa. i was just having practically the same thought: “the problem with the netflix star rating system is that children are morons.”
Baby Phil is more into Amazon Prime.
Also their toenails are little daggers.
Where can I buy a few to throw on the fire next time we have a cold spell?
Well, we have clan of people here in Arkansas who have like 37 kids or something…I know they have a TV show.
What match up do you want to see in the Super Bowl this year?
Bud vs. Bud Light
I was thinking Oakland Raiders vs Cordova High School…we might…might…be able to pull that one out.
Oakland Raiders vs. that family in the NFL commercial that roots for the Steelers, Bengals, Cowboys and Eagles
I put the Raiders as 2 point favorites with the over/under at 3. The Mom is a hell of a tackler and the son has good speed once he gets to the outside.
I wonder how many team planes would have to crash to get the Raiders into the Super Bowl?
30.
I’d add Alabama’s and Oregon’s.
Your math seems sound…and to a Raiders fan, sad.
How’s this math: One. One plane. Put all your Raiders in it. Crash it into the Dome in Glendale. You’re in the Super Bowl!!!
I’m in as long as McKenzie is the pilot.
you really took GM’s comment seriously…
spuds McKenzie is a bitch.
Dude, we have our own school now.
Raiders vs Rosemont High @ RHS FTW!
SF vs not the Broncos.
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While I enjoy seeing the Broncos getting killed in the Super Bowl I hope another AFC team makes the cut as well.
I’m a purist, the only thing I want in my macaroni and cheese is macaroni, cheese, and Tom Arnold’s love.
I like my cookies to have Debbi Field’s love and other natural ingredients in them.
A while back I bought an electronics item from a company called SpyTec. So now I get e-mails pitching their various wares, and some of it is pretty interesting. For example, the “Mini Clock Radio Night Vision Hidden Camera”. A clock radio, usually you would put that in a bedroom. Now why would you want a hidden camera with night vision in a bedroom? It makes me think it’s worth having a look around in a hotel room or especially places like VRBO short-term rentals.
Rock out with your clock out.
MLS Jerseys with craft beer sponsors
First thoughts: The Philadelphia Union/DogfishHead jersey is absolutely amazing. I also like the Columbus Crew/Great Lakes Brewing one.
Do not like the Lagunitas/Earthquakes. There are plenty of breweries in the South Bay. 21st amendment, drakes, Gordon Biersch, or the perfectly named Faultline would be better picks IMO.
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i’ve also been thinking MLS kits. it needs some iconic ones, is my thought. something to cement a few teams in the populace’s imagination. same way that the average person in europe might not know the infield fly rule but would recognize a yankee cap as A) baseball and B) if not the team at least the city it comes from. it’s not really happening that way with MLS kits though.
not sure if it’s a function of not enough time for tradition to build up, or that the kits themselves don’t carry a necessary iconicism (too many little stripelets and details that change from year to year… even colors. is FC dallas red horizontal stripes, or blue ones? or both?? or one of each??? just pick a pattern already!!). there really isn’t a kit that a non-soccer USian would look at once and recognize. mmmmmaybe LA’s blue diagonal?* but it’s not cemented yet, not like river’s red diagonal. or any of the other teams that even if you don’t follow that country you know at a glance… milan, inter, united, arsenal, real madrid, blaugranes, boca, chivas…
they should really sit down with a cocktail napkin and work on that aspect, create a throughline for kits, relying on color and maybe one thing that the team’s going to use forever (stripes, or the diagonal, or a color), and take off anything that distracts from that (such as the fade over the body, or the mini arm stripe, or even the watermark) and stick with it until the brand is cemented. (i realize this is just some guy who did it, not actual MLS, but i say his spirit betrays a little bit of MLS’s misguidedness too.)
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* i’m refusing to admit the most iconic kit is the red bulls logo. gah!
Part of the problem is that the league signed a deal with Adidas to design all of the kits, so they all kind of look alike, albeit with their own club-specific elements. I think they were trying to make the get ups look more obviously “soccery” after the a period following the league’s launch where things were pretty garish. Now they’ve swung the other way, making it too conservative and too much of a Euro copy.
I wouldn’t mind seeing, for example, the KC third kit become more of the standard. Or seeing the Galaxy go back to their original, pre-Beckham logo. A little bit of pizzazz is needed to stick in the mind.
makes sense it’s one group designing all of these.
i was hoping for plainer, like DC united when it didn’t have red on the sleeves (oh you know i meant this one). so argyle is an angle i didn’t expect. but i’m not against it if they stick with it. a pattern could carry out with a few teams. timbers, lumberjack plaid? but we still want some solids and some traditional soccer patterns. i think i want earthquakes in their current colors but vertical stripes. inter, a touch more electric.
San Jose Clash throwbacks please.
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These may be the worst of the bunch.
KC Wizards?
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I honestly kinda like those.
they’re terribly awesome in that 80’s houston astros style
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i spoke too soon. barcelona is breaking 115 years of tradition and going with horizontal blaugrana next year. fuck it. sensical design is dead. let the whims of marketing reign.
Changing the direction of the stripes is one thing, but putting a completely different color scheme on the flip side? That’s going to be visual chaos. The league shouldn’t allow it.
oh wow. i thought that yellow one was the alternate second, not the back of the first! yeah, that’s trouble.
wait..
me too.
That’s ONE jersey? EWWWWWWWWWWW
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proves to be the alt, thank goodness.
it’s like BarcelonAtletico Madrid.
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ok those are awful
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Has Qatari airlines been the sponsor for 115 yeas?
Italy, perhaps not surprisingly, is really the best at not messing with indelible designs. Juve, Milan, Inter, Sampdoria, Roma, Lazio, Napoli, hell even Palermo. You instantly know who you’re looking at, and they don’t mess with what works.
very much. and you could start with palermo. if ever there was a show of direction and fortitude in not changing a color…
OTOH, calcio could fall to the international marketplace too. wait till sampdoria gets sued by dc comics just in case that logo happens to be a bat.
Hmmm I didn’t know that San Francisco where 21st amendment is located was considered the South Bay.
farther south than Petaluma. Their logo doesn’t lend well to a jersey anyway.
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fair point
Goose Island is part of ABinBev now, which I think contradicts the “craft beer” label.
Mike, I’m gonna need you to come over and cook me a steak.
Whys that
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Rough day at work. I was hungry. That has passed.
K. I had chicken tenders and rum.
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I had chicken tenders and pecan pie.
I’ll probably have more rum.
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I had Xanax.
i’m choosing to read this in the voice of mae west.
I chose to read that in the voice of Marcel Marceau.
I thought Kayne’s mom died?
Warriors off to a great start, they’ll probably trade Klay Thompson at the deadline for whatever the NBA equivalent of Jon Lester is and make the playoffs as an 8-seed.
Too soon.
Rajon Rondo?
Old friend Mark Kotsay is the hitting coach in San Diego now. I have to guess that these coach jobs are based more on technical knowledge than the quality of the former player’s career.
Love Kotsay.
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you know… when i was a kid, i never realized the tony randall character was gay. in fact, the way he hung out with the little girl gave me the creeps and i though it was an even more pedophile version of punky brewster. but actually, it’s some TV executive’s fault and it’s ironic, but telling, that they decided it was better to cover up the gay part of his character and allow pedophile overtones instead.
oops, my bad. that’s “love sidney.”
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Yup, likeable guy for sure.
This is great. Also great is that no one noticed for two months because he came out in Referee Magazine.
The comments section that you get initially has some real winners too. Thankfully it wasn’t an Angel Hernandez or some clusterfuck of an ump instead. Instead it’s a name you recognize but neither have good thoughts nor bad which is what you want out of an ump.
Obviously he’s gearing up for a move to the Earthquakes.
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Genghis or Chinggis?
Not an Ögedei fan?
Chinggis or volunteer work?
Genghis Khan or Courtney Love?
All I know is they both like to spoon.
Hmm…or is it
Genghis or volunteer work?
Wait…shouldn’t waffles be a part of this somehow?
“I don’t care what anyone says…the Moon is made out of cheese.” Governor Rick Perry of Texas.
“I don’t care what anyone smells…I didn’t cut the cheese.” Soon to be Minority Leader of the Senate Harry Reid
First data release, top of the front page of the Times.
Second data release, buried inside and leading with the lack of internet access.
this better be good. i don’t usually burn one of my freebie clicks this early in the month.
oooh. opens with a tie-die image. go berkeley!
it checks for cosmology… totally over my head.
the palazzo looks amazing. who needs internet when there’s a c(r)ockery display.
This seems like a bit of an overstatement.
i did wonder what the 6 were.
Presence, residence, consent, in rem are the only 4 I know.
Density of matter, density of baryonic matter, spatial curvature, present day expansion rate, amplitude of scalar perturbations, spectral index of scalar perturbations
I like fudge.
Cosmological parameters, given the standard model of theoretical physics.
That picture is super cool looking, but do you know what the heck it is actually showing? Caption says “temperature and polarization” — did they encode polarization by applying a sweet paint swirl filter or something?
No, the caption is bollocks.
It’s the magnetic field inferred from the polarization observations on top of the temperature map.
Everth Cabrera is available.
So is Adam Rosales.
But is Everth too… not good at making good decisions… or hitting… to consider?
This, this, a million times this.
My emphasis.
Duh. He should have lowered all taxes to 0%, shut down all government agencies, and handed over all control to the country to the Republicans. I don’t see how that’s too much to ask of him. So simple. Just look at Kansas, they know what’s good for the people.
Ouch. I’d have to go on state welfare to afford groceries.
Well what you could have done was to not let Max fucking Baucus write your healthcare law with a bunch of insurance lobbyists and made your own proposal, had derbin introduce it early and not dicked around sapping your momentum and political capital while you waited for Kennedy to die, which would have meant that you wouldn’t have to lick scott brown’s taint to finish dodd frank. You could have passed meaningful student loan reform first which would have given you legislative momentum for a bigger haul on HC.
What exactly do you think Lieberman or that asshole in Nebraska would have gone for that Obama didn’t get?
Ben Nelson?
Student loan reform. Let loans go bankrupt.
Mortgage reform. Force banks who received TARP to allow for reasonable refinancing.
keeps the young people motivated. keeps the middle class motivated.
Both of those would have been broadly popular.
Yes, Ben Nelson. He was very much posturing as the 60th vote and pushing ACA policy to the right.
On student loan reform, Obama did pretty darn well (income-based repayment, cutting out middlemen, etc.). I think bankruptcy would have been very controversial because nearly every graduating student who used debt to fund their education would be able to demonstrate bankruptcy. I’m not even sure I support it. Repayment assistance makes a lot more sense to me. I suspect if you’ve lost me, you’ve also lost Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman. Heck, probably also Schumer.
“Reasonable” refinancing certainly sounds like a great policy, but I’d need to better understand what you mean beyond what HARP did/does in order to really respond.
Also, too: Obamacare is a pretty darn good policy already.
Bait for our soccer fans.
That was actually nominated for FIFA goal of the year
Somehow Tim Cahill’s didn’t make the final 3 over van Persie’s header. and by somehow, I mean people are stupid.
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honest question from a nonplayer to someone who actually laces them on, was cahill’s more technically difficult or better executed than VP’s?
For me yes – several reasons.
A. For the most part headers are an “easier” skill than volleys. Granted, diving headers are tougher etc but a full volley is one of the hardest things to do in the sport IMO.
2. The situations surrounding each goal. RVP’s was one of a 5-1 demolishing of Spain in group play and he basically had a free run up the gut for the header and realistically could have brought the ball down and tapped it past the GK to score, Cahill had 2 defenders in the box and had to let the ball come across his body, time the hit, AND get it on frame/past the GK which is frankly a LOT harder on a volley than a header.
D. Cahill is not a lefty. That was with his weak foot.
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I’d say context favors RVP. The final score was a demolition, but Holland was down a goal when he scored that. And yeah, Spain had a bad cup, but they were still the defending champs and things only started to turn bad with this goal.
I would also say, without disputing that Cahill’s was technically more difficult, that RVP’s gets points for its sheer beauty. I might put James’ goal against Uruguay above Cahill’s for the same reason.
Cahill’s goal was directly after kickoff after a Netherlands goal, for context.
I disagree on the beauty part, I’ll take a volley over a diving header every day.
James’ goal was nice but I don’t even think that was his best of the tournament.
also I thought it was funny that the Camilo Sanvezzo goal was nominated by FIFA but not by MLS as goal of the year
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i’d buy all that. like, i do admire that cahill didn’t have to stop the ball first and then shoot. didn’t even think of what footedness he is…
but i always think of headers as generally directionable. like, you can aim it within 10 degrees of accuracy, but not more than that. and kicks as highly directionable (barring that you just suck or hit it wrong), with “tres dedos” accuracy plus the ability to put effect on the ball.
and i remember thinking at the time of VP’s goal about how he aimed it as accurate as a kick, to get the lob and the corner of the goal, rendering casillas moot, whereas most headers like that would have been the typical “aim somewhere toward the goal, bounce it along side of the goalie, and hope that’s enough that he can’t stop it.” so the execution of VP’s still sticks in my mind. not to mention when that goal came, which GM covered.
That logic kind of goes away with a volley though as opposed to a ball that is stationary.
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Basically to make it as simple an explanation as I can: As a beer league hack of a player now, I have full confidence that I can hit a diving header, but I have zero confidence that I can hit a full volley across my body with my weak foot.
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nice breakdown.
I dunno I guess I don’t have a good explanation, but it is kind of interesting the different viewpoints, like certain people will be like “Wow RVP’s goal was so pretty!” and certain people are like “Holy fuck how did Cahill hit that with his weak foot!??”
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i was saying that worked for me. i still think there are headers and there was that header. but i see the case for skill on cahill’s now.
Yea I was more just thinking out loud about the different ways people would see the two goals.
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totally.
I’ll give you ONE guess as to what kind of shot I hit on frame (keeper made a great save) tonight at my indoor game…
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missed this.
was it a volley??
naturally.
It wasn’t my weak foot though so Cahill still had me beat.
Oh and he scored.
Oh and it was in the World Cup against the Netherlands.
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on target but deflected shot of the year!
heh
(that is what my link was about too)
it’s not really moneyball until there’s either a crimes above replacement stat or a greek god of walking the beat. (i’m burnin’ my 10 NYTs this month!)
I heard a rumor about the NYT, or maybe it was the Wall St Journal, but if you do a google search for the title of the article the first result linked will be the full article without hte counter thing.
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I’m holding auditions for new friends. If you’re interested and/or qualified, you’ll know how to contact me.
Damn. I’m used. Are you looking for a used friend?
Gently used.
I’m out.
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Rode hard and put away wet, eh?
something like that
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I am a horrible friend, I admit this. I am a bitch most of the time. I am not easy to get along with. I am 100 percent certain this group of people and I would not be friends if we didn’t work together. I told them this, too.
I’m not friends with the people I work with. I work with them.
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i work alone. with nobody else.
so you have lots of friends at work
Just the Delaware Destroyers.
We all worked the same long hours and same days, so we became friends. We bonded over our mutual experience. We can’t really talk about what we go through with anyone else who *really* knows. That’s where what we have in common ends.
Sitting in a garage in December, drinking and singing karaoke for 6 hours isn’t fun to me.
Never change, Torii.
Yesssssssss
He just needs to add in a bit about people living in their parents’ basements.
Welcome to my first December post, this time in honor of Birthday #66 of one John Osbourne of Birmingham, UK. There’s only one John Osbourne — OK, that’s a common name and there are likely thousands of John Osbournes — but there is only ONE Ozzy. Blog with us now for a very tasty hour-long set from down the decades… that’s correct, it’s a PAL DVD of Heavy Metal heroes Black Sabbath, with the man himself out front at the tender age of 22, touring their PARANOID platter through Europe at Christmas of 1970!! This show is so heavy I had to hire the Santini Brothers to lift it onto the Internet!!
Maybe a couple of cans of Copenhagen or something, too?
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What’s funny is that Reddick may find himself traded and Butler wouldn’t have needed to get him that.
Winch side are you on, boys?
Reddick peeling out of the Coliseum parking lot in a monster truck towing another monster truck yelling “so long, sucker” at Butler.
there are going to be 0 kids shirts this year
I was thinking about this a few days ago, they pretty much have to go 100% Crisp shirseys now, at least for the mass distribution outlets.
Butler, but only in Childrens XL.
Damn I wish Billy had traded that redneck.
I would not be opposed to signing Medlen to a one-year “rebuild-your-value” deal.
I can see that the Tar Heels are going to frustrate me again this year by losing to mediocre teams at least occasionally.
That was a great win for the Squawkeyes, which will make ass-kicking at the hands of my Cyclones next week even sweeter.
Ahem.
I like Jimmy Fallon.
A couple months ago my daughters had to explain to me about “Turn Down For What”, in reference to the Michelle Obama “Turnip For What” thing. Then last week I saw Fallon do one of his hip-hop medleys (holiday themed) with Rashida Jones and the one thing that popped out at me was “Turducken For What”. Cracked me up.
His youtube channel is my favorite vortex to get sucked in to.
Monster cable. Truth or Truth with Amy Schumer. Box of Lies.
stop you had me at sucked
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That doesn’t even make sense!
try harder
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Nope.
sad.
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Okay, maybe.
Woo.
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(high five)
i agree
But he’s a Red Sox fan.
He makes me forget.
I use Scotch for that.
Tape?
who could love a red sox fan?
A horrible horrible person I suspect. You agree?
I do not.
(colin may have married into a red sox family)
pfft…I can top that. I married David Ortiz last month.
who’d you marry him to?
So is the nickname deserved?
andeux wins the lounge.
So… Bond 24 is called Spectre.
I wonder if Spectre will be involved! I guess we’ll have to wait and see if that pesky secret society is unveiled in the film.
finally! some baseball to talk about!!
Him and Johnny Pesky.
Looks like they are doing the “John Harrison”/Khan thing with Christoph Waltz playing “Oberhauser”.
Waltz should be loads of fun. Hopefully he’s Blofeld if that character still exists.
Well, lets hope Bond 24 pulls off that trick better than Star Trek Into Blowing Shit Up did.
Next year-watch as Bond faces his greatest challenge yet: the John Birch society.
Nah, his greatest challenge would be passing a bill through the U.S. Congress.
dude. it’s james bond. not some impossibly unachievable boyhood fantasy superficially polarizing good versus evil along the lines of a political zeitgeist entrenched in ethnicity- and gender-based attitudes.
I’m seeing Ed Sheeran tonight!
Congratudolences!
I’m looking forward to it, I like Ed Sheeran. I think he’s the most promising young songwriter I’ve heard in many years.
Not as excited for Train and Christina Perri. But I’ll manage.
People probably assume I like Train…I do not.
People probably assume I have no idea who Ed Sheeran is…I do not.
I know one Christina Perri song.
Nothing frustrates me more than two opening acts. The Avett Brothers had ZERO opening acts and played for over two hours. That was heaven.
I’ve found the best shows I’ve seen have no opening acts.
I lied. I know two.
Kay…how did you come up with the new name? I’m hoping it involves a chance meeting with William Shatner somehow.
Jennifer…how did your parents come up with your first name? I’m hoping it involves a chance meeting with DeForest Kelly somehow.
I was originally going to be named Mary Kathryn. That’s all I know.
Hmm…that’s odd my parents were originally going to name me Mary Kathryn too.
Cool Ranch Doritos have to be close to 30 years old…I’m pretty sure that means they’re no longer cool.
If they bring back the Frito kid they’ll be swell in no time.
I gave a speech today and no one set themselves on fire or even worse fell asleep. I got mad word skills, yo.
a juror i my friend’s trial was feeling dizzy during cross examination, so the took a break. She passed out before getting out of the courtroom
sure sign she’s guilty.
When it comes to onions…Better Dead Than Red!
Isn’t it ironic that stamps don’t involve using your feet in any way?
Isn’t it ironic that Wednesday is followed by Thursday?
Isn’t ironic that Tommy Lee Jones middle name is the same as David Lee Roth’s middle name.
Also Jamie Lee Curtis. And serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.
Isn’t ironic that high blood pressure doesn’t involve marijuana?
Three things I’ll never do..,
1. Time travel
2. Become invisible
3. Vote for a Democrat
The Great Lakes really should be more modest.
How many bad sequels in a row should a movie franchise get before it gets put into Movie Jail?
Ok, Christina Perri was adorable in her Santa hat, very elfin. Surprise duet with Ed too, big crowd pleaser. Solid B+ set.
Train knows how to play to the house. Very engaging. And I do love a strong bass line. Entertaining; they also get a B+.
Train is still together?
Seemingly.
Did you get drops of Jupiter in your hair?
The Masonic is a nice venue, never been here before. Maybe 3,000 seats, great sight lines.
Also I am pretty sure I am the only one here in a Raiders hat. Represent!
I have to go to the doctor tomorrow. Dr. Hottie. His assistant, who I normally see, is gone this week. I’m not looking forward to this.
Annual pap?
Kidney stones
5mm! Not my biggest, but just under the surgery threshold.
I take everything I said about Dr. Hottie. He went above and beyond.
I can’t imagine the agony of an annual pap:
Like fucking hell I’m going to see a doctor I work with for that. They see me with my clothes on and that’s it.