I really wish I could take the time and head over to beautiful Pete Bieden field today to watch the Diamond Dogs go for the sweep against UC-Irvine. It was always been fun for me that the start of the college baseball season falls around my birthday. As a kid it was a great present.
1. Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles/Fresno/Topeka
2. Your Oakland Athletics
3. Seattle Rainpeople
4. Dallas Non-Cowboys
5. Houston we still have a problem
AL Central (In the land between the lands that matter)
1. Motor City Kitties
2. Cleveland Jake Taylors
3. The Other Chicago Baseball Team
4. 2014 American League Champions
5. Do they still have a team in Minnesota?
AL East (Sponsored by The World Wide Leader in Sports)
1. The Every other Year Team (American League Version)
2. The City where The Wire was filmed
3. Toronto Maple Leafs
4. The Evils
5. Turn out the lights the party is over in Tampa
1. The Evils (LA Version)
2. The Padres…wait…what?
3. The Every Other Year Team (National League Version)
4. The Dave Stewarts brought to you by Tony La Russa
5. The Team in Denver that virtually no one cares about.
1. The Cardinals usually win in the end
2. Uh…Pirates?
3. Pete Rose is betting on this team
4. The North Side Losers
5. Juuuuusssttt a bit outside of Green Bay.
1. Washington Senators
2. I don’t know…Atlanta, I guess.
3. Florida Marlins of Miami/Orlando/Topeka
4. Are the Expos still around? No, okay I’ll pick the Mets
5. Philadelphia Flat Earth Society
I’d guess that Bill Clinton is one of the more popular people in America. People tend to like former Presidents and he has a bigger than life quality to him.
The opening bloatstravaganza for this game featured Christina Aguilera with seemingly CGI cleavage singing “Living for the City.”
First: Yes, that song is about New York, but it’s kind of about how New York is scary and horrible, no?
Second: No. It’s not OK for her to sing that song.
So the Saturday Night Live anniversary stuff starts shortly and goes for like 5 hrs.
My question to those of you who have ever watched it-is the cast that you consider the “best ever” the same cast from when you were in High school? I have talked to a few different people and this seems to be the case. I think it is a similar disease to the “baseball was best when I was 10” syndrome so many people get as they age.
nope. they were horrible when i was in high school. some of their worst years, with hans und fran_, and they’re gonna bore you out.
(my last letter of the alphabet key still doesn’t work.)
i’ve always been a fan of original and 2nd wave. i should maybe admit these reruns were on M–F at midnight when i was in high school and i’d watch pretty much every night.
mystery of the week, someone bought my wife a subscript for rolling stone, we found out when the SNL issue arrived. anyway, pretty decent ranking/rundown of all 141 cast members in there.
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i do love phil hartman. and possibly they fired joan cusak, robert downey, anthony mh, and randy quaid to pave the way for my 16th year season. but still, i think you’re saying i imprinted on the church lady. and frankly it does explain a lot.
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I haven’t watched the show in more than 10 years, so I’m not qualified to say. But I still have no doubt that the best cast was when I was in middle and high school (the Hartman/Carvey/Farley era), and the second best was when I was in college (the Ferrell era).
I think Washington and Lincoln are no brainers and then everything else is up for debate. Jefferson wouldn’t be on mine and Teddy wouldn’t even be considered. I wouldn’t want it to just be four Presidents but FDR would be tough to leave off.
I’m not a big Jefferson guy. You have to have at least one founding daddy and I’ll stick with George. Right now I’m leaning George Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Phil Collins.
If Reagan somehow got on there I would root for some sort of natural disaster to tear it down. Once we’re all dead Reagan will be a mostly forgotten mediocrity.
I don’t see that happening. History written by the victors etc, but even beyond that, Reagan ushered in a fundamental change to the American body politic. The death knell of New Deal/Great Society thinking in favor of the corporatism which still dominates the political framework now, three decades later. I despised the man and his policies, basically shaped my life around the need to combat them, but 50 years from now the American history books will still treat Reagan as a monumentally important figure. And that’s probably accurate.
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You can definitely make the argument that he was successful in getting what he wanted done…it’s an argument I’ve made before…I just don’t think history will be kind to him because most of his policies didn’t end up working. Fifty years from now he’ll definitely still be studied but I have my doubts he will be in a hundred years.
Yes. As time goes on I expect America to have economic policies closer to Western Europe. Our population is aging and we’re going to have to spend less money on defense and tax cuts for the wealthy as time goes on. A lot of conservatives will need medical and financial help as they age too and then they’ll suddenly see the wisdom in the safety net.
we’re going to have to spend less money on defense and tax cuts for the wealthy
We’ve been having to do this since (at least) the Reagan/Bush years. Changes in campaign finance laws have only made it more difficult.
A lot of conservatives will need medical and financial help as they age too and then they’ll suddenly see the wisdom in the safety net.
Again, the politics of that end up not being so simple. Even beyond the most blatant “get your government hands off my medicare” cognitive dissonance, people in general are much more sympathetic to Social Security and Medicare than they are to things like welfare and food stamps. Part of that has to do with racial stereotypes, and that will still be an issue for at least a couple more generations.
I’m not trying to imply these things will happen in the near future. I’m talking 30 or so more years from now at the very least. I think we’re in a rough transitional period that still needs to be played out.
At least around here the new tech libertarianism embraces that lazy miniorities who need to get off welfare/foodstamp philosophy,so I don’t really see it going away.
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Interesting list. I’m a well known Truman guy of course. Polk is one of our best one term Presidents. I think the first Bush was solid and history will be fairly kind to him. Grant is such an interesting case…he’s easily on the great American’s list but his Presidency was hit or miss…with some corruption mixed in for good measure. Everyone who loves history should read his autobiography.
I probably give Grant too much credit for his good intentions. He really tried to keep southern blacks in the body politic and avoid the horrors of the next 80-90 years. He couldn’t pull it off, but his heart was in the right place. Which is more than I can say about nearly all of the other 19th Century presidents not named Lincoln.
Grant’s Presidency is an interesting one to study for the reasons you laid out. It seems like his Presidency is growing in esteem with many current historians. I’d be curious to come back a 100 years from now and see if the trend continued.
If you could graph such things, views on his presidency over time probably have more ups and downs than any other. Not surprising since he’s so closely associated with Reconstruction, and all of the shameful “history” that was published about it during the dark years. I feel like historical resentment over his anti-racism probably informed a lot of the understanding of the corruption and other stuff.
That said, the economy did go deep in the toilet on his watch.
Yep on all four for me. I wrote a paper as an undergrad, that I wish I had kept, whacking Wilson as our most overrated President. My Prof thought I was dead wrong but he liked my passion.
i watched to the end. basically, WI ended its innings looking on top of the world, but the irish were relentless in taking advantage of poor bowling and about half way through their innings there was little doubt (unless WI changed pitchers. don’t they know about changing pitchers??) the match would end with pie, probably shepherds.
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i’m confused because it looks like NZ won by 4 runs. especially since it doesn’t say in the score itself how many wickets scotland suffered. and i don’t get how neither team got to 50 overs.
did scotland go first, and wicket itself out of the game at 142 runs in 36.2 overs? so NZ just had to get over 142 without wicketing itself out? if this is the case, how come the headline isn’t “NZ won by 4 runs”?
or did NZ go first, and as scotland was trying to reach 146 it ended up all out. sorta makes more sense except, then how come NZ only batted through 24.5 overs instead of all 50?
also, how many wickets do you get in a game? i thought it was one per batsman (11), so how come it looks like scotland was out at 10?
this is all so confusing!
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did scotland go first, and wicket itself out of the game at 142 runs in 36.2 overs? so NZ just had to get over 142 without wicketing itself out? if this is the case, how come the headline isn’t “NZ won by 4 runs�
This is correct. The idea is that the Kiwis could continue to get a bunch more “runs” in their 3 remaining wickets. Basically like a walk off win saying the A’s won by 2 outs.
i had it in my mind that the walkoff situation was yesterday, with ireland getting as many runs as WI while they still had overs they could use to keep scoring.
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What I like is that it is bloated, yet I heard the one of the most famous alums, Eddie, did basically nothing.
I am recording it to watch once the kids arent at home and I can blast it loud enough that even my deaf ears can hear everything. I assume since I can skip the bloat I will be done in about 23 minutes.
US soccer, new away kits. the design department takes another cue from successful soccer forwards (by completely changing directions unexpectedly and confusing the hell out of everyone over and over).
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I read about that. If I was a parent of an SF school kid I would be furious that I had to arrange for special child care while schools were closed yet I worked in Thursday and Friday, then take the kids to school on my holiday Monday.
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I can’t make an argument that the creation of President’s Day is the worst thing Nixon did but it’s in my personal top 5. Hey, great let’s celebrate Rutherford B. Hayes. We should have just stuck with celebrating Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays.
I’ll start this by saying I never saw Tina Fey or Seth Myers do it, and add that my pick has become an unfunny crazy person, and go with Dennis Miller. Norm Macdonald is a fairly close second.
Agreed with Dennis Miller. He was the first I remember seeing. So later, when I saw Chevy and the others who did it like a real newscast I was totally confused.
I’m going with having only one person from a sport.
Babe Ruth, Wilt Chamberlain, Walter Payton, Jack Nicklaus.
Okay…it’s too American-centric and there are no track and field people or boxers, but there is a golfer, which might be silly. Also I’m taking Wilt over Jordan or Magic and Walter over Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, or Jim Brown. It’s tough to come up with just four names.
Well, it’s an American mountain so that seems fair. Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali are the two no-doubters for me. After that I’ll say Jordan. But there probably has to be an NFL player, since that’s the definitive American sport of the last 50+ years. And since NFL MVP = QB, then I guess it’s Joe Montana. But I don’t feel good about it.
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My Dad loves Ali so he’d agree with you and I’m sure he’d make most people’s lists. I was going with people I thought were the most dominant in their sport but it’s certainly something that can be debated.
It’s certainly true in general that “NFL MVP = QB” but to me the football analogue of Gretzky or Jordan, not merely better than his peers, but seemingly playing the game on a whole different level, was Jerry Rice.
I think it’s crazy to have a law forcing adults to wear bicycle helmets. My bias might be showing here though as I don’t tend to like Nanny-State laws.
When I get my bike out to go on an errand in the neighborhood and the helmet is not hanging on the bike and I have already locked the door, I might not go get it. but that is rare, and I might go in anyway
What differentiates bike helmets from motorcycle helmets is the danger in single vehicle accidents. With a motorcycle, if you lay down even by yourself, you are fucked and my ER has to deal with you. On a bike, its possible but less likely.
oh i strongly disagree. I don’t care about single vehicle accidents. If idiots want to die, whatever, its more as a society thing. As a driver, you should want people that you hit to be less injured. Lowers insurance rates for everyone. Also I don’t see anyone here arguing against seatbelt laws, despite them being basically the same thing.
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It’s not something I’m willing to go to war for but I don’t think there should be laws forcing adults to wear seat belts or motorcycle helmets. I always use both but I don’t think there should be laws forcing it.
there’s one major difference between mandatory seatbelts and mandatory helmets. that even if mandatory seatbelts lower car drivership as much as mandatory helmets lower bike ridership, we want there to be fewer cars; we do not want there to be fewer bikes.
so i’m as fine with an arbitrary obstacle that makes driving inconvenient as i am with berkeley mid-neighborhood turnabouts and blocked intersections.
but i’m not fine with an arbitrary obstacle that lowers biking numbers, especially under the guise of safety, when it’s been demonstrated that higher numbers of riders is one of the best ways to raise bike safety.
in fact, i’m as fine with separating the issue as i am with separating bike lanes from car lanes. especially if single-vehicle (and i’d add, bike-on-bike) accidents are, as you imply, negligible.
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There is a simple answer. Use the proceeds from tickets or additional fees from cars to buy helmets and give them away to low income people. Problem solved.
Also I didn’t say that single vehicle accidents were negligible just ask anyone who has tried to cross light rail tracks. What I said is that from a societal prospective we should support the laws (along with free income based helmet and light distribution programs) because they lower total societal cost.
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if that’s the answer, we may not be on the same page about what the question is. in simplest terms, what’s the problem we’re trying to solve? lowering a cost?
i thought we were after bicycle safety. how to increase it.
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safety isn’t about cost. safety is about safety, despite the cost. ie, spend the money on separated bike lanes. now. that moves the safety needle more than helmets do. if the question is how to increase safety, that’s the answer. everything else is jibberjabber. and then increase ridership. not only does that move the safety needle more than helmets do, helmets move the needle in the wrong direction as a sub-category of what ridership does.
that’s real safety, better safety, and in higher numbers. not mitigated helmet law safety, which is BS in the big picture, a red herring where you can still get hit by a car and have to rely on getting lucky enough with your injury that it’s in that slim percentage of instances that the helmet actually affects the result positively — somewhere between getting killed or suffering brain injury even WITH a helmet (which could have been avoided if the bike wasn’t in contact with a high velocity vehicle in the first place), and suffering a head ouchie that hurts but doesn’t represent real danger even though you weren’t wearing a helmet.
and if cost is of actual importance (though i think cost is a red herring too, comparing say, the cost of making sure commuters don’t have to shatter their sense of personal space and individualistic bumper sticker pride by building and re-building more voluminous bridges across the bay that allow them to park their cars close to work for 8 hours a day), i’m pretty sure down the road separated bike lane the vastly increased number of car-bike collisions will save tons of money (to the health insurance industry and the price-fixing medical-related administrators it’s in cahoots with!).
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they’re using more than one source. (because basically, they don’t stop reading when they find one item to pick on that doesn’t necessarily disprove the point anyway.)
One of the studies in the article you linked to says that mandatory bike laws are effective depending on the riding case, and the one I pointed out is super flawed.
At the end of the day, your argument is essentially
Helmets decrease ridership by placing a barrier to entry -> larger ridership increases overall safety -> overall safety decreases from lower ridership > head trauma minimized or prevented by helmets.
But if your first premise isn’t correct, which you are relying on for the totality of your non because i don’t want to argument, the rest falls apart. The first article in this post suggests a 15% mortality reduction in kids with mandatory helmet laws.
One of these articles basically says that the plan that I have proposed, massive subsidies of bike helmets and making them available to bike sharers is being implemented by Melbourne. Finally the vancouer sun piece contains no hard evidence either way, and merely attacks strawmen. No one thinks that a helmet prevents you from getting in a crash, or that building bike lanes doesn’t make folks safer, and guess what, you can do both.
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at the end of the day, they have to convince me that helmets are that effective per incident, that often, and always positively in a crash for me to treat the argument for mandatory helmets as more than jibberjabber.
you can’t get to having both lanes and helmets without getting to one first, and i’d rather focus the energy on the one that’s more beneficial to riders.
ie, i’m more into preventing crashes with vehicles than providing brain buckets for when crashes with vehicles happen, yet somehow the argument rages on for the one that’s infinitely arguable, and there’s not enough talk about the one that’s no argument.
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At realistic impact speeds of 5.4m/s (1.5m drop) and 6.3m/s (2.0m drop), bicycle helmets changed the probability of severe brain injury from extremely likely (99.9% risk at both 5.4 and 6.3m/s) to unlikely (9.3% and 30.6% risk at 1.5m and 2.0m drops respectively). These biomechanical results for acceleration and HIC, and the corresponding results for reduced risk of severe brain injury show that contemporary bicycle helmets are highly effective at reducing head injury metrics and the risk for severe brain injury in head impacts characteristic of bicycle crashes.
This study shows that bike sharing programs which usually don’t offfer helmets increase head injuries in cities that implement them.
Im all for bike lanes. But helmets work. At the end of the day I think your argument is essentially we shouldn’t mandate airbags or seat belts because we should be spending all of our money putting in traffic lights to prevent accidents.
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that’s only one type of possible hazard, the straight linear drop. straight falling off your bike, which is more likely among children.
doesn’t account for rotational and angular possibilities.
and it’s about impact at 12-14 miles an hour, so it’s not about getting hit by cars.
and it’s not a reduction to zero.
gray areas in a narrow margin.
as they say, “the difficulty in conducting epidemiology studies that will be regarded as definitive.”
i still call jibberjabber.
separate bike lanes, nao! close off entire streets to bikes.
which this law is not geared toward. the second part of the law wants everybody to wear reflective vests when riding at night.
it’s clearly about second-classing biking, furthering the view that it’s a freaky allowance of society, so that cars don’t have to lose any ground in their quest for surface area domination, and it provides a cop out for insurance when there’s a problem. it’s not a “we’ll do both things” gesture. it’s like… [stretches an awkward analogy, but the sentiment from the lawmaker feels about right] this.
so enough with this helmet distraction. let’s not waste any more words on it.
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forum just had a piece on this. not having thought too much about it, maybe the answer is make bike riders liable for head injuries that would have been prevented by helmets.
Appeal to the insurance industry which, although totally evil, is the onnly player the legislature cares about
Thats funny. The last time I read Forum it was about a guy who was driving to Las Cruces and saw a van broken down on the side of the road. It was being driven by the local college girls volleyball team. And you wouldnt believe what happened next…
1 Most head injuries/fatalities nationwide are with kids on bikes, having adults wear helmets gives kids positive adult role models with helmets so its no longer seen as cool to not wear them, so you will increase kid safety, primarily teen, an age where a large number of fatalities occur.
2 I strongly believe that arguments about access to helmets are super overblown or easily fixed based on an equipment giveaway programs viability.
3 I believe that there reaches a point where there is less marginal utility with increasing ridership for safety. At some point people just look for bikes and some of the marginal utility of increased ridership is lost.
4 It would be a legal nightmare to decide what part of a head injury was caused by lacking a helmet. It would dramatically increase court costs.
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1) huh. so… if most injuries and fatalities are within the one group that wears helmets by law, doesn’t that say something about the law not providing the real safety it purports to?
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Not all riders are created equal. Younger riders are more likely to do stupid things because of lack of experience/their brains not being fully formed yet, etc.
Other groups of high risk are young college age males and older nearing retirement age males. All of which is pretty easily explainable.
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on 4) at first blush, I don’t see that as an impediment. Law firms and experts are also big campaign donors, this means more money flowing to them in the short term. Within 10 years at the most, it will be fairly settled law what is and isn’t caused by the lack of a helmet, and only the most marginal of cases.
I would guess by that time even more bike lanes in uban communities* will be set up and a higher percentage of people will be wearing helmets anyway.
Civil lawyers may correct me on this, its really just a guess.
*I wonder what the breakdown of fatal accidents are in urban/suburban/rural communities are
So I just arrived at my parents house in orange county. I have a conference in downtown LA tomorrow. planned on taking metro link. fine. easy enough.
Go to the metrolink website, type my parents address and my destination, it tells me what station and when and how much. Along with DRIVING directions to the closest station. and no option to change that.
Fine. GO to the local transit autority, type in the addresses. straight shot, 2 buses (no transfers) $4. bus 1 takes you far out of the way north, to connect wih bus 2 going SE.
Now I am trying to find a bike. No one seems to have one. One of my Nephews (18 years old) does not know how to ride one. He is waitlisted at Davis.
but the trains? each train car has spce for 2 (two) bikes. 6 car train means 12 bikes can board.
I only saw one bike on board. in my morning commute, I saw the bike car symbol on the side of a car and I walked forward to another car as is the custom pn carltrain not to be a non biker on the bike car.
Hang on just a FKing minute here. Liam Neeson has another goddamn movie where he’s a tough guy dad murdering the isht out of people to protect his child, but this time it’s his son and he’s not the same guy from Taken? This is out of control.
He was solid in Walk Among the Tombstones but it was a flop. It was more of a character study and a slow burn detective story and I think people prefer him as Mr. Badass.
If he had signed with the A’s, we get 3 more years with Giambi added to Miggy/Chavez/Big 3 core (a 6.6 win, a 4.8 win, and a 0.0 win season). We also may not have signed Chavez to the long term contract.
I have to think it would have meant a ring or two.
Calling all record enthusiasts for advice: I have a fairly old Bang and Olufsen turntable and Bang and Olfusen speakers that were my grandfathers– is there any market for trying to sell them? I can only assume the turntable works, because it does not have a needle, so I can’t test it.
I’m honestly shocked he’s even interested in a comeback after all the money he made. Maybe he secretly wants to be a country musician and this is just an excuse to move to Nashville.
Also Monday, MLB.com’s Jesse Sanchez reported that Olivera “is seeking a five-to-six-year deal that rivals the contracts awarded to Arizona’s Yasmany Tomas (six years, $68.5 million) and Boston’s Rusney Castillo (seven years, $72.5 million).”
Isn’t that kind of a lot for a 29 year old who hasn’t played for a year?
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
Consider this: Olivera was one of the most prolific offensive players in Cuba when he was healthy, and by all accounts, the infielder is literally in the best shape of his life.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
loving the s. african getups they’re wearing in the stands, not sure if they’re warmup jackets or actual game unis. they hit a lot of notes for me, with the main color on the body and second color on sleeves, plus adidas stripes. if i had any need for green and gold in my life, i’d be looking at those.
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Blessed vibes to all of Tuesday’s children this morning, as we fire up yet another birthday tribute to yet another astonishing innovator. Composer, teacher, erstwhile Henry Cow-boy, Art Bear, Aksak Maboulian, and dweller in the Naked City… welcome to the 66th Earth-i-versary of a man who never met a nail clipper he couldn’t affix to a stringed instrument of some sort. Blog along with us now as we sample a sweet 1989 FM broadcast — remastered by me all day yesterday — of KEEP THE DOG, better known as the band that plays nothing but the compositions of their leader, the one and only Fred Frith!
Never suck on a Blow Pop with the microphone open.
…then add a -2e charge at second base, and +1e charge at first base. Describe the resulting electric field configuration assuming Sandoval to be a perfect conductor. Next, suppose he eats so much cake as to become effectively dielectric with index epsilon. What is the difference in the total potential energy of the electric field between these two states?
i’m reading they were originally called strong football club before adding the article and the suffix. no mention about being the stronger in the interim.
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i like schalke 04 and BVB 09. just weird to have numbers.
river plate is pretty classic if you think about it. it all starts with a river, that supposedly led to a mountain rich in silver. then, to make it sound authentically english for soccer purposes, someone mistranslates plata (silver) into plate…
all boys sharing a league with old boys.
deportivo wanka. if you’re a fan, you’re a wankero.
It’s Tuesday and this week already sucks. My doggy is really sick again. I had an ER pt this weekend I had major concerns about. The pt went home and died today.
Puppy might get to come home tomorrow. He hasn’t had any vomiting and diarrhea yet today, so that’s an improvement. Had been doing both since Friday night. The vet has been sharing his sandwich from lunch with him, but that’s all he’s been eating a day. He’s just really old and the vet said he probably won’t make it too much longer. The vet said he’s sick, but isn’t suffering. He was really bad Saturday night and the vet didn’t think he was going to make it through the night.
Friday night he woke me up in the middle of the night and had had diarrhea through the entire house.
The unconditional love our dogs give us is one of life’s great pleasures. I’m sorry to hear yours is sick but I’m glad he was there all these years to wag his tail for you when you needed him.
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
how great is that explanation, ptbnl, which is what you do, explain things, in an english way, the country, not the language, although you use the language too.
Footnote: It’s the first time in the history of ESPN that they’ve carried a UNC-Duke game (they’ve shown about 50 of them) and Dick Vitale won’t be there.
I’ve never been a Dickie V hater, though I can certainly sympathize with that view. But plain and simple, Bilas is a very good analyst, and Vitale is a cheerleader. So no argument here.
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I’ve just seen the recording. That was definitely winnable. I’m not sure that taking Tokoto out in the final minutes of the regulation helped. I get it that you want your better free-throw shooters in when leading, but he was one of the best rebounders and also the man most likely to pass into the post successfully. That shot that Paige took was horrible, just like the most of the ones he took.
Yeah, Paige is having an hard year. Trying to play through plantar fasciitis is tough (cf Mark McGwire). Last year his MO was to be unstoppable in the second half; this year he mostly hasn’t been able to find that stroke.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
Also, as I’m watching Heels vs Ga Tech from earlier today: Tokoto is an absurdly gifted athlete, great ballhandler, passer, and defender. Almost tragic that he’s such a horrible shooter; he’d be like Dominique Wilkins.
"Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
but the game to watch is coming up. corinchans v sao paulo, 4pm.
a note to pass the time… tomorrow river plate is going up to oruro, bolivia (higher than la paz, at 12,250 ft), and they’ve announced that they hope to fight the elevation by taking a cocktail of caffeine, aspirin, and viagra. the color guy on fox sports goes, not sure i’d want to be in that locker room after the game.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
i consider it essential on cold meatloaf sandwiches. and i like it on burgers. and fries (but not exclusively. roughly, i dip in ketchup once for every 3 fries dipped in mayo). we don’t keep it in the house. would rather have mayo in most condimentable food circumstances.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Both of those sound bad to me, but then I don’t like the taste of sriracha. Either way, that’s different that what I’m talking about where they’re ostensibly just trying to make a better standard ketchup and failing.
(Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if sriracha ketchup’s ingredients are sriracha and heinz)
I have yet to find a sriracha or curry ketchup that I prefer to your standard Heinz-type ketchup. I always try them, because I naturally lean that way with most foods and food preparations, but so far I have a 100% disappointment rate on this front.
Ketchups and flavoring just doesn’t mix well to me. Tinker the shit out of some mayo or mustard and I’m all over it, but ketchup is simply good as it is
The only one that I have ever really liked was here. Their bacon ketchup is pretty damn good. But then again, most everything at 50/50 is like that. One of the few things to enjoy in SoCal.
I assumed during the world cuo in brazil all the white people rooting for African countries were austrailians and new Zealanders on holiday having a lark, who are the white people having a lark rooting for Zimbabwe if they are already in new Zealand?
don’t know the exact numbers, but most players going to the WC would be playing in european leagues anyway. and it does totally fuck up the schedule. 5 weeks prior training, 4 weeks WC, several weeks recovery… right in the middle of the schedule.
what hurts the US is the TV scheduling, with lowly soccer trying to gain an audience during NFL/NBA season…
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
Having the World Cup at the end of the MLS season will be hell on the players, and European players will be in midseason and not nearly as worn out.
Not only that, but Qatar’s bid was for a FKing June-July world cup. Pretty sure if the US or Australia also got to bid for a potential WC in November/December they wouldn’t have to promise to invent new climate control technology to somehow cool outdoor stadiums when it’s 120F outside and literally build a new city where the opening and final games will be held.
And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here
-slusser.
I’m hoping to get a glimpse of the guests in the adjacent hotel room before I leave this morning. When Screamin’ Sally wakes you up at 3:40 a.m. the curiosity about what she looks like wants to be satisfied.
1- If the A’s are healthy, they’ll get a Wild Card spot. If the A’s don’t get it, the Astros will. (86 wins)
2- Alex Rodriguez will be traded to the A’s midseason and actually be productive.
3- Scott Kazmir will win 20.
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I kinda want the Yankees to trade us Rodriguez and $45m for a bucket of used balls and Barry Zito, or something stupid and fun like that.
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And I’m not even pessimistic about Kaz. It’s just so rare for any pitcher to hit 20 wins these days, and I don’t think the 2015 A’s will be an offensive juggernaut (even if they are good).
Even if you’ve already seen the awesome photobomb of the Levi’s Stadium ice installation cam by a crow, you must read my colleague’s awesome take (particularly nevermoor).
they changed bowlers, finn was absolute crap, and Woakes dismissed McCullum, after 77 on 25, 84s 7 6s, on some straight up high cheese. The Ian even called it a “baseball shot”
the studio Ians (we are on a lunch break) are lamenting the changes in one day cricket, I mean, they are saying Englnad sucks, to their credit, but its basically fosse.
(PS one of the honey shots was of a blond in a yankees cap that she hadn’t pulled on her head correctly)
So today was THE DAY. We call to check on him, and he’s been up wagging his tail and had SIX donuts for breakfast. Hasn’t had any more vomiting or diarrhea, either. The son of a bitch is on his way home now. I’m floored.
Just enjoy the heck out of what time you have. Spoil the hell out of him, take photos, take video. My heart is breaking for you. I’m already terrified of when the day will come for Bronte. I think what I may miss most that I can’t photo or video is her wonderful musky smell.
Definitely top five in their catalog, maybe higher. I’m not sure what the precedent is for a band making an album this good and this fresh sounding 16 years after their debut record.
I listened a couple of times when NPR was streaming it. I’m inclined to like most everything they do, so I’ll back you up on your assessment. But I’ll also point out that even though they’ve been around for a long time, “top five in their catalog” doesn’t mean anything more than top half — this is their ninth full-length by my count. I very much enjoyed Enter Sylvia Plath, which is the most immediately obvious new sound (though still clearly a B&S song, if you ask me).
It’s an album that rewards multiple listens with headphones, for sure. Good point on the number of albums. It’s more that I’m surprised they can put out something that’s among their best at this point in their career together. Also I really like all of their albums (though a couple of them less than the others), so for me this is saying something.
My rough pre-existing mental B&S non-instrumental studio album rankings
Tier 1: If You’re Feeling Sinister; Tigermilk
Tier 2: Dear Catastrophe Waitress; The Boy With the Arab Strap
Tier 3: The Life Pursuit
Tier 4: Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant; Write About Love
Frozen muggy.
I’m pretty sure the War of 1812 was fought so we wouldn’t have to learn the metric system.
I thought it was so we wouldn’t have to measure our football players in “stones.”
I was all geared up to inhale a burrito from my local burrito place, only to find out they are closed on Sundays. My stomach is so mad at me now.
I swear that the only time I think about having Chik-fil-a is on Sundays.
The number of times I’ve gone to costco and wondered why there isn’t a drive-thru line only to curse myself…
Closed on Sundays! I hope you dumped a half-ton of garbage at the bottom of their 15 foot cliff.
It is such a beautiful April day today.
I really wish I could take the time and head over to beautiful Pete Bieden field today to watch the Diamond Dogs go for the sweep against UC-Irvine. It was always been fun for me that the start of the college baseball season falls around my birthday. As a kid it was a great present.
Predictions…
AL West (aka the only division that matters)
1. Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles/Fresno/Topeka
2. Your Oakland Athletics
3. Seattle Rainpeople
4. Dallas Non-Cowboys
5. Houston we still have a problem
Predictions…
AL Central (In the land between the lands that matter)
1. Motor City Kitties
2. Cleveland Jake Taylors
3. The Other Chicago Baseball Team
4. 2014 American League Champions
5. Do they still have a team in Minnesota?
Predictions…
AL East (Sponsored by The World Wide Leader in Sports)
1. The Every other Year Team (American League Version)
2. The City where The Wire was filmed
3. Toronto Maple Leafs
4. The Evils
5. Turn out the lights the party is over in Tampa
Predictions…
NL West (Like the AL West bunt buntier)
1. The Evils (LA Version)
2. The Padres…wait…what?
3. The Every Other Year Team (National League Version)
4. The Dave Stewarts brought to you by Tony La Russa
5. The Team in Denver that virtually no one cares about.
Predictions…
NL Central (Beer, Bratwurst, and Bowling)
1. The Cardinals usually win in the end
2. Uh…Pirates?
3. Pete Rose is betting on this team
4. The North Side Losers
5. Juuuuusssttt a bit outside of Green Bay.
Predictions…
NL East (The AL East’s ugly cousin)
1. Washington Senators
2. I don’t know…Atlanta, I guess.
3. Florida Marlins of Miami/Orlando/Topeka
4. Are the Expos still around? No, okay I’ll pick the Mets
5. Philadelphia Flat Earth Society
Willie Brown: anti-skateboarder vigilante.
Predictions…
World Series
Washington over Detroit
AL MVP
Babe Ruth
NL MVP
Whoever does the best job covering up his PED use.
AL Cy Young
Cy Young…he’s back and he wants what’s his
NL Cy Young
Brigham Young…he’s back and he wants what’s his.
AL Rookie of the Year
Uh…someone I’ve never heard of.
NL Rookie of the Year
You know…that kid that plays for that team in the National League.
AL Manager of the Year
Derek Jeter
NL Manager of the Year
Derek Jeter…Yep, he’s just that damn good.
NBA All Star Game time, y’all.
Chazz Palmentieri hasn’t gotten this much screen time in 15 years.
Bed bait: Bill Clinton got a huge ovation when they panned to him during the anthem.
Sitting next to Dikembe Mutumbo
I’d guess that Bill Clinton is one of the more popular people in America. People tend to like former Presidents and he has a bigger than life quality to him.
There’s a pretty big overlap between NBA fans/players and Bill Clinton fans for sure.
Well, hoops are his favorite sport so that makes sense.
The opening bloatstravaganza for this game featured Christina Aguilera with seemingly CGI cleavage singing “Living for the City.”
First: Yes, that song is about New York, but it’s kind of about how New York is scary and horrible, no?
Second: No. It’s not OK for her to sing that song.
I’ll just assume CGI cleavage is something MikeV created.
Implants, not CGI. But very implanted.
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(man, some of this ages poorly)
(it was pretty awkward back then too.)
That is just ever so punk rock.
don’t buy it. lee ving is all premeditated abrasive persona.
For the soccer fan contingent: Steph Curry headed a loose ball to himself.
So the Saturday Night Live anniversary stuff starts shortly and goes for like 5 hrs.
My question to those of you who have ever watched it-is the cast that you consider the “best ever” the same cast from when you were in High school? I have talked to a few different people and this seems to be the case. I think it is a similar disease to the “baseball was best when I was 10” syndrome so many people get as they age.
nope. they were horrible when i was in high school. some of their worst years, with hans und fran_, and they’re gonna bore you out.
(my last letter of the alphabet key still doesn’t work.)
i’ve always been a fan of original and 2nd wave. i should maybe admit these reruns were on M–F at midnight when i was in high school and i’d watch pretty much every night.
mystery of the week, someone bought my wife a subscript for rolling stone, we found out when the SNL issue arrived. anyway, pretty decent ranking/rundown of all 141 cast members in there.
good golly those were bad years. but it freed me from ever watching the show again.
That’s always been my theory. Your favorite SNL cast is the one that was around when you were 16.
i do love phil hartman. and possibly they fired joan cusak, robert downey, anthony mh, and randy quaid to pave the way for my 16th year season. but still, i think you’re saying i imprinted on the church lady. and frankly it does explain a lot.
The Hartman, Carvey, Myers, Farley, Miller, Hooks, Nealon cast is my favorite and yes that cast was around when I was 16.
good cast. college years for me.
Early 90’s was a strong period.
Same as you. And I very stable period in the cast from about 86-91 or so.
Aykrord, Belushi, Radner, Chase, Curtain, Newman, and Morris.
I haven’t watched the show in more than 10 years, so I’m not qualified to say. But I still have no doubt that the best cast was when I was in middle and high school (the Hartman/Carvey/Farley era), and the second best was when I was in college (the Ferrell era).
Once Ferrell left I kind of lost interest.
Once Ferrell joined I lost interest.
This Ariana Grande person is distressingly young looking.
Which four Americans should be on Mount Rushmore?
Rickey.
Rickey.
you split Rickey in quaters and you have 4 people that should be on Mount Rushmore
Tough to answer. To really represent America it should probably be Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and the Koch brothers.
To the intent of your question, though, I’ll go with Jefferson, Lincoln, MLK, and, hmm, maybe Edison.
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I think Washington and Lincoln are no brainers and then everything else is up for debate. Jefferson wouldn’t be on mine and Teddy wouldn’t even be considered. I wouldn’t want it to just be four Presidents but FDR would be tough to leave off.
FDR replaces TR. Abe and Washington switch spots. I’ll leave Jefferson on there for the Louisiana Purchase alone.
I’m not a big Jefferson guy. You have to have at least one founding daddy and I’ll stick with George. Right now I’m leaning George Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Phil Collins.
How about we leave TJ’s spot blank for now as an incentive for future prezes to step up?
Only problem is Congress would have the biggest, ugliest Reagan bust imaginable up there within a week.
If Reagan somehow got on there I would root for some sort of natural disaster to tear it down. Once we’re all dead Reagan will be a mostly forgotten mediocrity.
I don’t see that happening. History written by the victors etc, but even beyond that, Reagan ushered in a fundamental change to the American body politic. The death knell of New Deal/Great Society thinking in favor of the corporatism which still dominates the political framework now, three decades later. I despised the man and his policies, basically shaped my life around the need to combat them, but 50 years from now the American history books will still treat Reagan as a monumentally important figure. And that’s probably accurate.
You can definitely make the argument that he was successful in getting what he wanted done…it’s an argument I’ve made before…I just don’t think history will be kind to him because most of his policies didn’t end up working. Fifty years from now he’ll definitely still be studied but I have my doubts he will be in a hundred years.
This argument seems to assume that the changes FSU describes will get rolled back, yes?
Yes. As time goes on I expect America to have economic policies closer to Western Europe. Our population is aging and we’re going to have to spend less money on defense and tax cuts for the wealthy as time goes on. A lot of conservatives will need medical and financial help as they age too and then they’ll suddenly see the wisdom in the safety net.
We’ve been having to do this since (at least) the Reagan/Bush years. Changes in campaign finance laws have only made it more difficult.
Again, the politics of that end up not being so simple. Even beyond the most blatant “get your government hands off my medicare” cognitive dissonance, people in general are much more sympathetic to Social Security and Medicare than they are to things like welfare and food stamps. Part of that has to do with racial stereotypes, and that will still be an issue for at least a couple more generations.
I’m not trying to imply these things will happen in the near future. I’m talking 30 or so more years from now at the very least. I think we’re in a rough transitional period that still needs to be played out.
At least around here the new tech libertarianism embraces that lazy miniorities who need to get off welfare/foodstamp philosophy,so I don’t really see it going away.
I agree with this 100%
Mount Overrated: Reagan, Wilson, JFK, Jackson
Mount Underrated: Truman, Grant, George HW Bush, Polk
Interesting list. I’m a well known Truman guy of course. Polk is one of our best one term Presidents. I think the first Bush was solid and history will be fairly kind to him. Grant is such an interesting case…he’s easily on the great American’s list but his Presidency was hit or miss…with some corruption mixed in for good measure. Everyone who loves history should read his autobiography.
I probably give Grant too much credit for his good intentions. He really tried to keep southern blacks in the body politic and avoid the horrors of the next 80-90 years. He couldn’t pull it off, but his heart was in the right place. Which is more than I can say about nearly all of the other 19th Century presidents not named Lincoln.
Grant’s Presidency is an interesting one to study for the reasons you laid out. It seems like his Presidency is growing in esteem with many current historians. I’d be curious to come back a 100 years from now and see if the trend continued.
If you could graph such things, views on his presidency over time probably have more ups and downs than any other. Not surprising since he’s so closely associated with Reconstruction, and all of the shameful “history” that was published about it during the dark years. I feel like historical resentment over his anti-racism probably informed a lot of the understanding of the corruption and other stuff.
That said, the economy did go deep in the toilet on his watch.
I admire him as a person. There are about ten figures in American history I’d love to be able to write a book about…he’s one of the ten.
Yep on all four for me. I wrote a paper as an undergrad, that I wish I had kept, whacking Wilson as our most overrated President. My Prof thought I was dead wrong but he liked my passion.
How was Wilson overrated? People hate hate hate him.
Historians who rank Presidents don’t seem to hate him. He is usually ranked in the top six or so.
Sounds like I need to read your paper.
I was proud of it at the time…I imagine some of it would make me cringe now.
I think we should have a reverse Mount Rushmore, sort of a cautionary sculpture: Andrew Johnson, George W Bush, Warren Harding, and James Buchanan
And then we should hold inaugurations in front of it to remind the new guy how badly it’s possible to FK up the job.
Hmm…I kinda like this idea.
[Herbert Hoover smiles triumphantly, having been left off]
He was on the first draft.
I thought the same.
SNL is an American institution at this point but it strikes me that it is also perhaps the most self congratulatory one as well.
Well…okay, Miley Cyrus doing a Paul Simon song. Fifty ways to turn the channel.
Yeah, that was terrible. She even managed to slow down the uncontrollably peppy chorus.
A friend of mine at work gave me a self defense key chain today. People apparently fear for my safety.
Pfft…safety should fear you.
I should have had it while I was in California with all the FKers.
I never head back to Cali unless I’m strapped.
I’m not heading back to Cali any time soon.
I will actually be in LA for two days in a couple of weeks.
So they’re not afraid of you any more?
My sweet Upgrade. That’s wonder and amazement, not fear.
All the schools have canceled school for tomorrow and it hasn’t even snowed yet. This is not how we won World War II.
We’re now at hour 12 in the SNL anniversary show…hey, another music act…great.
Your Arkansas Weather Update…
We have THUNDER SLEET!
this west indies bullpen is just giving the game away.
Must be the power play.
usually comes earlier
I was out. and the bar refused to put it on.
Looked exciting
i watched to the end. basically, WI ended its innings looking on top of the world, but the irish were relentless in taking advantage of poor bowling and about half way through their innings there was little doubt (unless WI changed pitchers. don’t they know about changing pitchers??) the match would end with pie, probably shepherds.
This thing is on regular TV?
someone explain the NZ–scotland score to me.
NZ: 146/7, overs: 24.5/50
scotland:142, overs 36.2/50
headline says NZ won by 3 wickets.
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i’m confused because it looks like NZ won by 4 runs. especially since it doesn’t say in the score itself how many wickets scotland suffered. and i don’t get how neither team got to 50 overs.
did scotland go first, and wicket itself out of the game at 142 runs in 36.2 overs? so NZ just had to get over 142 without wicketing itself out? if this is the case, how come the headline isn’t “NZ won by 4 runs”?
or did NZ go first, and as scotland was trying to reach 146 it ended up all out. sorta makes more sense except, then how come NZ only batted through 24.5 overs instead of all 50?
also, how many wickets do you get in a game? i thought it was one per batsman (11), so how come it looks like scotland was out at 10?
this is all so confusing!
This is correct. The idea is that the Kiwis could continue to get a bunch more “runs” in their 3 remaining wickets. Basically like a walk off win saying the A’s won by 2 outs.
ah, ok. thanks.
i had it in my mind that the walkoff situation was yesterday, with ireland getting as many runs as WI while they still had overs they could use to keep scoring.
And you have to have 2 batsmen available for the game to continue, so all-out is indeed 10 wickets.
i just cleared the table in a hurry to come here and say i’d figured it out! only took me an hour to do the math, and a steak to keep me going.
is it still 10 for an all-out if the overs are not limited for one-day play?
Yup. If there aren’t two batsmen left you’re all out whether it’s one day or five.
There are words there but I think they’re in the wrong order.
Thanks, and go As.
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…and now Paul Simon is going to sing…I guess he should do a Miley Cyrus song.
I hope he twerked.
I think he would have broken a hip if he tried. Even his fake hair looked old.
This SNL show is so bloated I’m starting to think Dick Ebersol produced it…when does Anthony Michael Hall show up?
What I like is that it is bloated, yet I heard the one of the most famous alums, Eddie, did basically nothing.
I am recording it to watch once the kids arent at home and I can blast it loud enough that even my deaf ears can hear everything. I assume since I can skip the bloat I will be done in about 23 minutes.
The Eddie Murphy part was about as funny as his films the last 20 years or so.
US soccer, new away kits. the design department takes another cue from successful soccer forwards (by completely changing directions unexpectedly and confusing the hell out of everyone over and over).
Yuck. I hope it looks better on the field.
I miss the Centennial kits.
Thanks, and go As.
There is no good reason not to just wear those forever.
I would also accept the Where’s Waldo jerseys and the Rocket Pops.
Thanks, and go As.
i say again: jim. thorpe.
SNOW DAY!
BEACH DAY!
Wanna trade?
isn’t it a holiday anyway?
Not in San Francisco schools. They’re in today so they can be off Thursday and Friday for Chinese New Year.
[makes plans to sip his puer extra slow in begrudging protest]
I read about that. If I was a parent of an SF school kid I would be furious that I had to arrange for special child care while schools were closed yet I worked in Thursday and Friday, then take the kids to school on my holiday Monday.
Yeah.
but holiday with no kids…
And lunar new year is always off and a “WTF, really?” day for us every year.
I have a plan this year
Malcolm X’s birthday is my annual “WTF, really?” Berkeley holiday.
Is that for real? Amazing.
3rd Monday in May, yes indeed. All Berkeley schools and city offices closed.
This might surprise you folks but we don’t get that day off here in Arkansas.
there’s only one holiday this week. and i’m honestly pissed we didn’t go.
I’ve never been to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, definitely something I want to see some day.
Not quite the same, but there is this local parade tomorrow.
One of my favorite customers sends us a King Cake every year. OUrs arrived today I’m already several pieces in.
I’m pretty sure most weddings happen so people can get a cake.
and some happen because they already had the cake… and “found the baby.”
Turns out it is really unsettling when you find the baby and it’s missing an arm.
Any chance I’m younger and still have my hair in the Chinese New Year system?
It wasn’t for me…we don’t celebrate your federal holidays here in the South…WE WILL RISE AGAIN! YeeHaw!!!…now, where’s my cousin/wife?
oh ok. i better go to work then. i’ve been sipping my coffee extra slow in begrudging protest.
I can’t make an argument that the creation of President’s Day is the worst thing Nixon did but it’s in my personal top 5. Hey, great let’s celebrate Rutherford B. Hayes. We should have just stuck with celebrating Washington and Lincoln’s birthdays.
Not for me either
Your favorite Weekend Update anchor?
I’ll start this by saying I never saw Tina Fey or Seth Myers do it, and add that my pick has become an unfunny crazy person, and go with Dennis Miller. Norm Macdonald is a fairly close second.
Agreed with Dennis Miller. He was the first I remember seeing. So later, when I saw Chevy and the others who did it like a real newscast I was totally confused.
Who is on your Sports Mount Rushmore?
Non-Rickey division?
Yup.
Ford, Obama, TR, JFK
John Elway, Terrell Davis, Mark Ellis, Jackie Robinson
Hmm…the odds of that first fellow making my list are…shall we say…slim?
I’m going with having only one person from a sport.
Babe Ruth, Wilt Chamberlain, Walter Payton, Jack Nicklaus.
Okay…it’s too American-centric and there are no track and field people or boxers, but there is a golfer, which might be silly. Also I’m taking Wilt over Jordan or Magic and Walter over Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, or Jim Brown. It’s tough to come up with just four names.
Well, it’s an American mountain so that seems fair. Babe Ruth and Muhammad Ali are the two no-doubters for me. After that I’ll say Jordan. But there probably has to be an NFL player, since that’s the definitive American sport of the last 50+ years. And since NFL MVP = QB, then I guess it’s Joe Montana. But I don’t feel good about it.
technically it’s a native american mountain. jim. thorpe.
He would have to get serious consideration. There really needs to be a great movie made about Thorpe.
it’s 2015, bed. great movies aren’t made anymore. they’re reloaded.
is burt lancaster still available?
I wish he was…I love Burt Lancaster…great actor.
My Dad loves Ali so he’d agree with you and I’m sure he’d make most people’s lists. I was going with people I thought were the most dominant in their sport but it’s certainly something that can be debated.
It’s certainly true in general that “NFL MVP = QB” but to me the football analogue of Gretzky or Jordan, not merely better than his peers, but seemingly playing the game on a whole different level, was Jerry Rice.
I have Jerry Rice as the second greatest football player ever. I have Sweetness number one but Rice has a very strong case.
Ruth, Jordan, Gretzky, Rice
Thanks, and go As.
No Canadians please
might be a time and place thing, but I will always think Magic and Wilt ware more transformational than Jordan.
Jordan was just good.
Your LA bias is disgusting.
basketball has been fixed for a while. How the hell did the lakers get magic?
They traded for the Jazz’ pick and won a coin flip.
“won” a coin frlip
That was a bad draft other than Magic, too.
How dare you rip a draft that had Mark Eaton in it! Yeah, it was a pretty mediocre draft.
you dare sully the name of Bill Cartwright
Thanks, and go As.
Wilt was just bigger than everybody and played in a different era.
Magic was great, one of the best of all time.
Jordan transcended the sport.
Thanks, and go As.
might be a time and place thing, but I will always think Magic and Wilt ware more transformational than Jordan.
Jordan was just good.not gonna fix it
Gretzky has a strong case. He might have dominated his sport more than any athlete ever.
None of you have Secretariat so I assume this is just all make believe.
i’m glad to’ve already flogged it to death.
I’m looking forward to what someone writes about this post in 2019.
I don’t like mandatory. I mean, I always wear one, except when I don’t.
I think it would discourage people from riding. that is a bad thing
I think it’s crazy to have a law forcing adults to wear bicycle helmets. My bias might be showing here though as I don’t tend to like Nanny-State laws.
A helmet would cover that right up
very nice
Dial C for Concupiscence wins the lounge.
this is why you should always listen to the radio and god bless the boys at KFJC for the timely airtime:
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wait. WHAT kind of geek??
wondering if there’s a little bit of danny elfman’s inspiration for peewee’s great adventure soundtrack there at the beginning.
Has to be. In fact, I was half paying attention when I started it after reading your comment and thought it WAS PWBA.
Then youmade me think about Big Top Pee Wee and all the Elfman music I played in HS marching band. Time to go buy Music for a Darkened Theatre…
I like mandates because Im a liberal.
Yeah I agree. I think it’s foolish to not wear a helmet, but that doesn’t mean you need to drag the law into it
When I get my bike out to go on an errand in the neighborhood and the helmet is not hanging on the bike and I have already locked the door, I might not go get it. but that is rare, and I might go in anyway
I wear a helmet when I ride my motorcycle. I don’t ride bicycles…I’m a Republican.
Because cars really care if you know what you are doing when they don’t see you and plow into you.
which is why wearing one is good.
What differentiates bike helmets from motorcycle helmets is the danger in single vehicle accidents. With a motorcycle, if you lay down even by yourself, you are fucked and my ER has to deal with you. On a bike, its possible but less likely.
oh i strongly disagree. I don’t care about single vehicle accidents. If idiots want to die, whatever, its more as a society thing. As a driver, you should want people that you hit to be less injured. Lowers insurance rates for everyone. Also I don’t see anyone here arguing against seatbelt laws, despite them being basically the same thing.
excellent point
thanks!
Oh, I’m not a big fan of seatbelt laws either
It’s not something I’m willing to go to war for but I don’t think there should be laws forcing adults to wear seat belts or motorcycle helmets. I always use both but I don’t think there should be laws forcing it.
there’s one major difference between mandatory seatbelts and mandatory helmets. that even if mandatory seatbelts lower car drivership as much as mandatory helmets lower bike ridership, we want there to be fewer cars; we do not want there to be fewer bikes.
so i’m as fine with an arbitrary obstacle that makes driving inconvenient as i am with berkeley mid-neighborhood turnabouts and blocked intersections.
but i’m not fine with an arbitrary obstacle that lowers biking numbers, especially under the guise of safety, when it’s been demonstrated that higher numbers of riders is one of the best ways to raise bike safety.
in fact, i’m as fine with separating the issue as i am with separating bike lanes from car lanes. especially if single-vehicle (and i’d add, bike-on-bike) accidents are, as you imply, negligible.
There is a simple answer. Use the proceeds from tickets or additional fees from cars to buy helmets and give them away to low income people. Problem solved.
Also I didn’t say that single vehicle accidents were negligible just ask anyone who has tried to cross light rail tracks. What I said is that from a societal prospective we should support the laws (along with free income based helmet and light distribution programs) because they lower total societal cost.
if that’s the answer, we may not be on the same page about what the question is. in simplest terms, what’s the problem we’re trying to solve? lowering a cost?
i thought we were after bicycle safety. how to increase it.
Cost to society. Lack of safety is one type of cost.
safety isn’t about cost. safety is about safety, despite the cost. ie, spend the money on separated bike lanes. now. that moves the safety needle more than helmets do. if the question is how to increase safety, that’s the answer. everything else is jibberjabber. and then increase ridership. not only does that move the safety needle more than helmets do, helmets move the needle in the wrong direction as a sub-category of what ridership does.
that’s real safety, better safety, and in higher numbers. not mitigated helmet law safety, which is BS in the big picture, a red herring where you can still get hit by a car and have to rely on getting lucky enough with your injury that it’s in that slim percentage of instances that the helmet actually affects the result positively — somewhere between getting killed or suffering brain injury even WITH a helmet (which could have been avoided if the bike wasn’t in contact with a high velocity vehicle in the first place), and suffering a head ouchie that hurts but doesn’t represent real danger even though you weren’t wearing a helmet.
and if cost is of actual importance (though i think cost is a red herring too, comparing say, the cost of making sure commuters don’t have to shatter their sense of personal space and individualistic bumper sticker pride by building and re-building more voluminous bridges across the bay that allow them to park their cars close to work for 8 hours a day), i’m pretty sure down the
roadseparated bike lane the vastly increased number of car-bike collisions will save tons of money (to the health insurance industry and the price-fixing medical-related administrators it’s in cahoots with!).Building separated bike lines is not mutually exclusive.
You can do both require that people wear helmets and also protect them with protected bike lanes and lower deaths.
read.
write.
you realize that what they are using to prove that helmet laws decrease ridership is 25 year old data from a different hemisphere right?
they’re using more than one source. (because basically, they don’t stop reading when they find one item to pick on that doesn’t necessarily disprove the point anyway.)
http://bikeshare.com/2013/04/debate-rages-over-mandatory-helmet-laws/
http://www.vehicularcyclist.com
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Pete+McMartin+Forget+bike+helmets/10135397/story.html#__federated=1
One of the studies in the article you linked to says that mandatory bike laws are effective depending on the riding case, and the one I pointed out is super flawed.
At the end of the day, your argument is essentially
Helmets decrease ridership by placing a barrier to entry -> larger ridership increases overall safety -> overall safety decreases from lower ridership > head trauma minimized or prevented by helmets.
But if your first premise isn’t correct, which you are relying on for the totality of your non because i don’t want to argument, the rest falls apart. The first article in this post suggests a 15% mortality reduction in kids with mandatory helmet laws.
One of these articles basically says that the plan that I have proposed, massive subsidies of bike helmets and making them available to bike sharers is being implemented by Melbourne. Finally the vancouer sun piece contains no hard evidence either way, and merely attacks strawmen. No one thinks that a helmet prevents you from getting in a crash, or that building bike lanes doesn’t make folks safer, and guess what, you can do both.
i appreciate you read through.
at the end of the day, they have to convince me that helmets are that effective per incident, that often, and always positively in a crash for me to treat the argument for mandatory helmets as more than jibberjabber.
you can’t get to having both lanes and helmets without getting to one first, and i’d rather focus the energy on the one that’s more beneficial to riders.
ie, i’m more into preventing crashes with vehicles than providing brain buckets for when crashes with vehicles happen, yet somehow the argument rages on for the one that’s infinitely arguable, and there’s not enough talk about the one that’s no argument.
Are there people that are saying that helmet use negatively correlates to head injuries in crashes in some circumstances?
This study showed that helmets are highly effective
This study shows that bike sharing programs which usually don’t offfer helmets increase head injuries in cities that implement them.
Im all for bike lanes. But helmets work. At the end of the day I think your argument is essentially we shouldn’t mandate airbags or seat belts because we should be spending all of our money putting in traffic lights to prevent accidents.
that’s only one type of possible hazard, the straight linear drop. straight falling off your bike, which is more likely among children.
doesn’t account for rotational and angular possibilities.
and it’s about impact at 12-14 miles an hour, so it’s not about getting hit by cars.
and it’s not a reduction to zero.
gray areas in a narrow margin.
as they say, “the difficulty in conducting epidemiology studies that will be regarded as definitive.”
i still call jibberjabber.
separate bike lanes, nao! close off entire streets to bikes.
which this law is not geared toward. the second part of the law wants everybody to wear reflective vests when riding at night.
it’s clearly about second-classing biking, furthering the view that it’s a freaky allowance of society, so that cars don’t have to lose any ground in their quest for surface area domination, and it provides a cop out for insurance when there’s a problem. it’s not a “we’ll do both things” gesture. it’s like… [stretches an awkward analogy, but the sentiment from the lawmaker feels about right] this.
so enough with this helmet distraction. let’s not waste any more words on it.
You are so getting an A’s bicycle helmet for your birthday…
He takes an extra-large.
any size will do, he can then affix stickers
it’s like she said… my head’s not extra large. just seems that way because it’s extra hard.
You realize that “you realize…right?” is the single most obnoxious way to frame an argument on the internet, right?
real eyes realize real lies!
The ayes have it.
hey ed, remember what i said about taking san leandro to go to lynn’s?
check
forum just had a piece on this. not having thought too much about it, maybe the answer is make bike riders liable for head injuries that would have been prevented by helmets.
Appeal to the insurance industry which, although totally evil, is the onnly player the legislature cares about
Thats funny. The last time I read Forum it was about a guy who was driving to Las Cruces and saw a van broken down on the side of the road. It was being driven by the local college girls volleyball team. And you wouldnt believe what happened next…
asvd
Well I think its a couple of things.
1 Most head injuries/fatalities nationwide are with kids on bikes, having adults wear helmets gives kids positive adult role models with helmets so its no longer seen as cool to not wear them, so you will increase kid safety, primarily teen, an age where a large number of fatalities occur.
2 I strongly believe that arguments about access to helmets are super overblown or easily fixed based on an equipment giveaway programs viability.
3 I believe that there reaches a point where there is less marginal utility with increasing ridership for safety. At some point people just look for bikes and some of the marginal utility of increased ridership is lost.
4 It would be a legal nightmare to decide what part of a head injury was caused by lacking a helmet. It would dramatically increase court costs.
1) huh. so… if most injuries and fatalities are within the one group that wears helmets by law, doesn’t that say something about the law not providing the real safety it purports to?
Not really. It could just as easily say something about how much that law is actually followed, not necessarily the validity of the law itself.
Not all riders are created equal. Younger riders are more likely to do stupid things because of lack of experience/their brains not being fully formed yet, etc.
Other groups of high risk are young college age males and older nearing retirement age males. All of which is pretty easily explainable.
on 4) at first blush, I don’t see that as an impediment. Law firms and experts are also big campaign donors, this means more money flowing to them in the short term. Within 10 years at the most, it will be fairly settled law what is and isn’t caused by the lack of a helmet, and only the most marginal of cases.
I would guess by that time even more bike lanes in uban communities* will be set up and a higher percentage of people will be wearing helmets anyway.
Civil lawyers may correct me on this, its really just a guess.
*I wonder what the breakdown of fatal accidents are in urban/suburban/rural communities are
70% of the fatal accidents are urban according to the NTSB
I think this is the link i was looking at yesterday.
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Cats/listpublications.aspx?Id=45&ShowBy=Category
So I just arrived at my parents house in orange county. I have a conference in downtown LA tomorrow. planned on taking metro link. fine. easy enough.
Go to the metrolink website, type my parents address and my destination, it tells me what station and when and how much. Along with DRIVING directions to the closest station. and no option to change that.
Fine. GO to the local transit autority, type in the addresses. straight shot, 2 buses (no transfers) $4. bus 1 takes you far out of the way north, to connect wih bus 2 going SE.
Now I am trying to find a bike. No one seems to have one. One of my Nephews (18 years old) does not know how to ride one. He is waitlisted at Davis.
I thought it was common knowledge that OC sucks ass.
It cost 50 bucks round trip from union station to Anaheim stadium like 5 years ago, and it also took me over an hour to get there.
transit out of la is terrible.
much much better now.
an hour 10 from tustin. $10.
Union station is bustling.
many trains, many tracks. lots of directions to travel
Metrolink is wrking I think. I even saw a station from MOCA to the valley and the west side.
but the trains? each train car has spce for 2 (two) bikes. 6 car train means 12 bikes can board.
I only saw one bike on board. in my morning commute, I saw the bike car symbol on the side of a car and I walked forward to another car as is the custom pn carltrain not to be a non biker on the bike car.
I feel dumb
If your nephew ends up at Davis, he needs to learn to ride. Now, if not sooner.
Yeah, that campus is enormous.
I don’t know how you get from 8-16 without a bike. especially in the suburbs.
He is accepted at UCI, Pomona and a few others. I think he wants SLO or davis though.
I did not know how to ride until right before I started at Davis. I still walked a lot in Davis, but I’m a big walker.
To drive traffic we should just change this site to blog about bicycle helmet laws.
There’s starting to be too much stuff in the house. It might be time to trade in one of the kids. What’s the market for a “like new” 1 year old?
Eh, you lost like 50% of the market value when you took him/her out of the box.
Damn…oh well…I guess we’ll keep him.
Hang on just a FKing minute here. Liam Neeson has another goddamn movie where he’s a tough guy dad murdering the isht out of people to protect his child, but this time it’s his son and he’s not the same guy from Taken? This is out of control.
He was solid in Walk Among the Tombstones but it was a flop. It was more of a character study and a slow burn detective story and I think people prefer him as Mr. Badass.
but not for long! he’s putting his foot down… SOONISH!
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/11/liam-neeson-to-quit-action-movies-two-years-taken-run-all-night
Taken 5: You Are NOT Gonna Believe What Happened… AGAIN.
Thanks, and go As.
“I have a particular set of pills…”
So Giambi retired. I’ll always remember that time he snubbed us for the Yankees. Dick.
Thanks, and go As.
Well, this is news to me. I thought he’d retired three years ago.
I’m now officially too old for MLB. Damn it.
If he had signed with the A’s, we get 3 more years with Giambi added to Miggy/Chavez/Big 3 core (a 6.6 win, a 4.8 win, and a 0.0 win season). We also may not have signed Chavez to the long term contract.
I have to think it would have meant a ring or two.
Calling all record enthusiasts for advice: I have a fairly old Bang and Olufsen turntable and Bang and Olfusen speakers that were my grandfathers– is there any market for trying to sell them? I can only assume the turntable works, because it does not have a needle, so I can’t test it.
i’d look up ebay sold items to see what the actual amounts have been, to see if they make sense to you and how much effort you want to put into it.
(do search, bottom of left column, hit “more refinements,” hit “show only,” check “sold listings.”)
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40%7CR40%7CR40&_sacat=0&LH_Sold=1&_stpos=&_nkw=bang+olufsen+vintage+turntable&_sop=3
Here’s one pitcher reporting:
Hah. I don’t mind this.
I’m honestly shocked he’s even interested in a comeback after all the money he made. Maybe he secretly wants to be a country musician and this is just an excuse to move to Nashville.
As long as he doesn’t get anywhere near Oakland.
But they finally got someone who could beat Verlander in the playoffs!
Watch Detroit counter by bringing back Nate Robertson.
Me neither. If it works, great. If not, no biggie.
He’s TWENTY-SIX!
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all three available
Excellent addition of essential whimsy to the Hohokam spring. This delights me greatly.
What happen to all those reports about how we weren’t interested.
Zito only likes you if you play hard to get
Goodnight and never watch Good Luck Chuck.
gtfo, Farhan
Isn’t that kind of a lot for a 29 year old who hasn’t played for a year?
Thanks, and go As.
hahahahahahaha
Thanks, and go As.
Fantastic
I’m imagining this as said by Chris Traeger.
win
OMG. i totally read it in that voice.
i know i said no more baseball gear for me, but…
how about this?
i do like the colors of some of these unis. bright combos. bangladesh now, india the other night.
Too many vest uniforms in this world cup.
loving the s. african getups they’re wearing in the stands, not sure if they’re warmup jackets or actual game unis. they hit a lot of notes for me, with the main color on the body and second color on sleeves, plus adidas stripes. if i had any need for green and gold in my life, i’d be looking at those.
Just got back. Haven’t seen that yet
Blessed vibes to all of Tuesday’s children this morning, as we fire up yet another birthday tribute to yet another astonishing innovator. Composer, teacher, erstwhile Henry Cow-boy, Art Bear, Aksak Maboulian, and dweller in the Naked City… welcome to the 66th Earth-i-versary of a man who never met a nail clipper he couldn’t affix to a stringed instrument of some sort. Blog along with us now as we sample a sweet 1989 FM broadcast — remastered by me all day yesterday — of KEEP THE DOG, better known as the band that plays nothing but the compositions of their leader, the one and only Fred Frith!
Someone got a long-term contract.
We’re not athletes…we’re ballplayers.
Is that Cutty from The Wire before he went to the joint?
And/or Tyreese from The Walking Dead before the zombies got him. He probably got fatter in Walking Dead because he couldn’t get his hands on smokes.
Assuming that a circle is a perfect shape, then Panda is indeed in the best shape of his life.
Consider a spherical panda….
…then add a -2e charge at second base, and +1e charge at first base. Describe the resulting electric field configuration assuming Sandoval to be a perfect conductor. Next, suppose he eats so much cake as to become effectively dielectric with index epsilon. What is the difference in the total potential energy of the electric field between these two states?
also
too
is it me? am I the one with a terrible memory?
geometry may say it’s perfect, but cinematography asks a deeper question.
The cake falls down in front of him now.
Ed, av, colin, ENet al. bait
libertadores started, btw.
Featuring one of my favorite soccer team names: Club The Strongest
My favorite cricket team is Toad the Wet Wickets.
makes sense, Mr. toad and Jiminy Cricket were always a good pairing
i’m reading they were originally called strong football club before adding the article and the suffix. no mention about being the stronger in the interim.
Other personal favorites:
Heart of Midlothian
Borussia Monchengladbach
BSC Young Boys
Newell’s Old Boys
Tottenham Hotspur
Vasco da Gama
i like schalke 04 and BVB 09. just weird to have numbers.
river plate is pretty classic if you think about it. it all starts with a river, that supposedly led to a mountain rich in silver. then, to make it sound authentically english for soccer purposes, someone mistranslates plata (silver) into plate…
all boys sharing a league with old boys.
deportivo wanka. if you’re a fan, you’re a wankero.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL_Fart
Torn between wanting to show that link to my kids and wanting my wife to continue speaking to me.
Sheffield Wednesday
Hamilton Academical
Inverness Caledonian Thistle
that one is so fun.
Thanks, and go As.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Ahead_Eagles
not living up to their name… the strongest is receiving a 6–0 beatdown from river plate right now.
and thank goodness. i don’t know how else i’d survive this day off from the ICC WC.
This super-sized NBA all star break is killing me. A full week with no real games.
82 plus playoffs, right?
Yep.
bangladesh is hitting dot ball after dot ball. no wickets, but I think they may have to lower the mound for this game
ohhhh. it is the 18th over there.
ICC is ON!
also, bangladesh flag… if you see the RED DOT…
right? confuses the fk out of me every time
ha ha! how’s lent treating you, new zealand?! give something up! assholes.
It’s Tuesday and this week already sucks. My doggy is really sick again. I had an ER pt this weekend I had major concerns about. The pt went home and died today.
Sorry Jennifer, that sounds horrible.
Puppy might get to come home tomorrow. He hasn’t had any vomiting and diarrhea yet today, so that’s an improvement. Had been doing both since Friday night. The vet has been sharing his sandwich from lunch with him, but that’s all he’s been eating a day. He’s just really old and the vet said he probably won’t make it too much longer. The vet said he’s sick, but isn’t suffering. He was really bad Saturday night and the vet didn’t think he was going to make it through the night.
Friday night he woke me up in the middle of the night and had had diarrhea through the entire house.
Puppy will have to be put down on Friday. :(
Oh gosh–I am so sorry. Hugs to you
I don’t have many friends, but he was my BFF. He didn’t care what I looked like or how much my day sucked. He was always there wagging his tail.
The unconditional love our dogs give us is one of life’s great pleasures. I’m sorry to hear yours is sick but I’m glad he was there all these years to wag his tail for you when you needed him.
NO!!!! :( DO NOT LIKE.
So sorry Jennifer. Most I have ever cried as a grownup was when I had to put my dog down.
So sorry to hear that, Jennifer.
I’m sorry :(
Thanks, and go As.
oh, that’s terrible
Really sorry to hear it :-(
Holy shit
but nobody notices the hand-shaking twin in the background is wearing a 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methyl-amphetamine shirt…
You do a lot of acid av? back in the joe morgan days?
And here I thought 10 cent beer night was cool.
spoiler
There’s no way that’s not a drug reference. At the height of Timothy Leary? Even Texans aren’t that oblivious.
Yeah
seems like a big understatement, specially since, as they note, his middle initial wasn’t even S.
I’ve decided to handle my stress, anxiety, and depression by eating ice cream in bed and crying in the shower.
i’m sad you’re sad, and i hope the plan works out. if it’s any help and you need to consolidate, eating ice cream in the bathtub is pretty nice.
I really did consider eating my ice cream in the tub. I didn’t want anyone to hear me crying though. The shower masks the sound of my sobs a little.
A woman with a plan is a force to be reckoned with
My wife’s parents had to put their cat down on Monday, so it has been a pretty sad animal week around my house too.
did that dude just say “the wicket is intact, yes, but they aren’t really going for the gravy?”
can’t help. sound off.
now the two indian fosses are talking about chocolate and biscuits
Two Fosses?! I really don’t understand cricket.
It’s really very straightforward:
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s in goes out, and when he’s out he comes in and the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out, the side that’s out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
Now I want a double double.
have an orange instead.
how great is that explanation, ptbnl, which is what you do, explain things, in an english way, the country, not the language, although you use the language too.
lol.
he got all of that one.
yup. he seemed very happy
He was smiling a lot. I don’t know about the unwritten rules of cricket, but I bet the next bowler throws at him for that.
Fuck Duke.
Sorry, no picture, no hanky panky.
Fixed
Thanks. My first try at pic posting on phone. Needs work.
It just had the double http:// thing.
Footnote: It’s the first time in the history of ESPN that they’ve carried a UNC-Duke game (they’ve shown about 50 of them) and Dick Vitale won’t be there.
Wow, I actually feel kind of bad for him. And they replaced him with a double Duke grad!
I’ve never been a Dickie V hater, though I can certainly sympathize with that view. But plain and simple, Bilas is a very good analyst, and Vitale is a cheerleader. So no argument here.
Bilas is a smart guy who hates the NCAA, so he’s OK by me.
And most importantly he’s bald.
Damnit. So close. Got back off the mat a bunch of times, had the game in our hands at the end of regulation, couldn’t seal the deal.
With the exception of the occasional blowout victory I pretty much never enjoy myself while watching Carolina basketball.
I’ve just seen the recording. That was definitely winnable. I’m not sure that taking Tokoto out in the final minutes of the regulation helped. I get it that you want your better free-throw shooters in when leading, but he was one of the best rebounders and also the man most likely to pass into the post successfully. That shot that Paige took was horrible, just like the most of the ones he took.
Yeah, Paige is having an hard year. Trying to play through plantar fasciitis is tough (cf Mark McGwire). Last year his MO was to be unstoppable in the second half; this year he mostly hasn’t been able to find that stroke.
Also, as I’m watching Heels vs Ga Tech from earlier today: Tokoto is an absurdly gifted athlete, great ballhandler, passer, and defender. Almost tragic that he’s such a horrible shooter; he’d be like Dominique Wilkins.
Yeah, he is really a pleasure to watch, unless he pulls up for a jumper.
Real Madrid is rocking hot pink from head to toe today.
Chicharito looks especially ridiculous.
soccer?? who cares?! when there’s a futbol game on…
bo’! dale, dale bo’!
1–0 at the half against palestinos in chile.
yay, 2–0 in the opener.
but the game to watch is coming up. corinchans v sao paulo, 4pm.
a note to pass the time… tomorrow river plate is going up to oruro, bolivia (higher than la paz, at 12,250 ft), and they’ve announced that they hope to fight the elevation by taking a cocktail of caffeine, aspirin, and viagra. the color guy on fox sports goes, not sure i’d want to be in that locker room after the game.
mikeV bait.
corinthians 1 – sao paulo 0, at the half.
Damn, that “defense” got torched.
Thanks, and go As.
watching live, my eye followed the wrong guy twice on that one.
river – san jose de oruro is coming up at 5pm, fox deportes.
as planned, river took their viagra cocktail.
and it’s working… i have a boner for a trainwreck. hope my vision doesn’t blur.
apparently the blue pill works. they didn’t look that breathless. but i guess river’s goalie had his mind on other things.
san jose 2 – river 0
It sounds like it will be a hard flight home.
Fancy burger joints need to stop with the house-made ketchup. It’s all bad.
“We can make better ketchup then Hunts or Heinz.” No. You can’t.
It’s the one thing in this world that has been perfected.
boobs
Thanks, and go As.
um… that’s two things.
Actually they can, you just think that heinz is what ketchup tastes like, because it is omnipresent. Just like people think that all rye should taste like it comes from here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably-from-a-factory-distillery-in-indiana.html
That’s just, like, your opinion man.
Absolutely. Also my eating profile is that usually Id rather have strange things than familiar things, which is more rare.
it looks like ketchup. it tastes like ketchup. but brother… it ain’t ketchup!
:)
I don’t remember the last time I ate ketchup. It never did much for me. I’m not big on French Fries either…it’s possible I’m a communist.
i consider it essential on cold meatloaf sandwiches. and i like it on burgers. and fries (but not exclusively. roughly, i dip in ketchup once for every 3 fries dipped in mayo). we don’t keep it in the house. would rather have mayo in most condimentable food circumstances.
I prefer mustard to ketchup. It’s not even close, really.
Thanks, and go As.
I prefer mustard over most of the members of my family. I love it.
agreed.
It’s one of the burger elements that doesn’t need tinkering with
But pan-seared artichoke bracts muddled in a mango reduction are an essential ingredient of craft ketchup.
I disagree. sriracha ketchup and curry katchup are great.
Both of those sound bad to me, but then I don’t like the taste of sriracha. Either way, that’s different that what I’m talking about where they’re ostensibly just trying to make a better standard ketchup and failing.
(Plus I wouldn’t be surprised if sriracha ketchup’s ingredients are sriracha and heinz)
surprise!!!
Flavored Ketchups are great with fries.
Rosamunde has some curried ketchup thats great.
Also I now feel inclined to make one for a fk up.
Ketchup is not meant to be gourmet. By it’s very nature it’s meant to be cheap and “lowbrow.”
it’s got a pretty long history for anybody to say what it’s meant to be. well, unless you want to say it’s not meant to be made out of tomatoes.
Nor do I.
I find Sriracha to be vile.
Thanks, and go As.
I have yet to find a sriracha or curry ketchup that I prefer to your standard Heinz-type ketchup. I always try them, because I naturally lean that way with most foods and food preparations, but so far I have a 100% disappointment rate on this front.
Ketchups and flavoring just doesn’t mix well to me. Tinker the shit out of some mayo or mustard and I’m all over it, but ketchup is simply good as it is
The only one that I have ever really liked was here. Their bacon ketchup is pretty damn good. But then again, most everything at 50/50 is like that. One of the few things to enjoy in SoCal.
Zimbabwe and UAE is getting exciting
ooh, a nailbiter!
yay zim!
I assumed during the world cuo in brazil all the white people rooting for African countries were austrailians and new Zealanders on holiday having a lark, who are the white people having a lark rooting for Zimbabwe if they are already in new Zealand?
i don’t know. but i’m rooting for chigumbura’s buttocks.
sean Williams was born in zimbabwe
i had no idea you were a birther.
not my captain
Rhodesians.
So the World Cup in Qatar is being moved to winter.
Fuck you so bad, FIFA. I honestly hope we see teams boycott.
Thanks, and go As.
it will only be a problem for the eurpoean leagues, and the south American, and African.
no problem for the MLS though
don’t know the exact numbers, but most players going to the WC would be playing in european leagues anyway. and it does totally fuck up the schedule. 5 weeks prior training, 4 weeks WC, several weeks recovery… right in the middle of the schedule.
what hurts the US is the TV scheduling, with lowly soccer trying to gain an audience during NFL/NBA season…
Corruption cares not for schedules
Having the World Cup at the end of the MLS season will be hell on the players, and European players will be in midseason and not nearly as worn out.
Not only that, but Qatar’s bid was for a FKing June-July world cup. Pretty sure if the US or Australia also got to bid for a potential WC in November/December they wouldn’t have to promise to invent new climate control technology to somehow cool outdoor stadiums when it’s 120F outside and literally build a new city where the opening and final games will be held.
Thanks, and go As.
…with slave labor.
I thought I mentioned that, too. Only 1100 deaths so far, no biggie. Oh, you also can’t drink in public in Qatar and being gay is illegal.
Forget the whole country, California alone could host the WC with basically no notice. So could Texas.
Thanks, and go As.
who doesn’t have room for a plaque?
I’m hoping to get a glimpse of the guests in the adjacent hotel room before I leave this morning. When Screamin’ Sally wakes you up at 3:40 a.m. the curiosity about what she looks like wants to be satisfied.
Kay’s weird predictions for 2015:
1- If the A’s are healthy, they’ll get a Wild Card spot. If the A’s don’t get it, the Astros will. (86 wins)
2- Alex Rodriguez will be traded to the A’s midseason and actually be productive.
3- Scott Kazmir will win 20.
hmm… I actually think that #3 is the least likely out of those.
Me too.
I kinda want the Yankees to trade us Rodriguez and $45m for a bucket of used balls and Barry Zito, or something stupid and fun like that.
And I’m not even pessimistic about Kaz. It’s just so rare for any pitcher to hit 20 wins these days, and I don’t think the 2015 A’s will be an offensive juggernaut (even if they are good).
Even if you’ve already seen the awesome photobomb of the Levi’s Stadium ice installation cam by a crow, you must read my colleague’s awesome take (particularly nevermoor).
Excellent, and the headline is brilliant too.
I think Mccullum is going to beat England singe handedly.
At least the stadium is full
they changed bowlers, finn was absolute crap, and Woakes dismissed McCullum, after 77 on 25, 84s 7 6s, on some straight up high cheese. The Ian even called it a “baseball shot”
I don’t think you are putting words in the correct order, Ed.
Thanks, and go As.
you are right, that should say “8 4s”
and shite, not crap.
See, now it makes complete sense.
Thanks, and go As.
the studio Ians (we are on a lunch break) are lamenting the changes in one day cricket, I mean, they are saying Englnad sucks, to their credit, but its basically fosse.
(PS one of the honey shots was of a blond in a yankees cap that she hadn’t pulled on her head correctly)
I mean, England is 123 all out (33 overs), NZ 112/1 9 overs!
few days ago, there was an asshole in a giants hat.
but that’s redundant.
Someone sedate me.
so what you are saying is, you want to be sedated?
Yes. I am doing a terrible job at managing life right now.
Dude, give yourself a break. There’s no way to “manage” life in times of sorrow. You’ll be OK.
She’s too young, Ed.
No, I got it. I just didn’t give a fuck. I literally want to avoid tomorrow and possibly the next two to seven weeks.
I don’t want tomorrow to get here, but at the same time I never want it to end. I don’t want to say goodbye.
that sucks
So today was THE DAY. We call to check on him, and he’s been up wagging his tail and had SIX donuts for breakfast. Hasn’t had any more vomiting or diarrhea, either. The son of a bitch is on his way home now. I’m floored.
Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do?
Yay?!
I don’t know what to think anymore.
Don’t think. Feel happy, enjoy every minute of it and be thankful.
Enjoy the time you have regardless of how long it may be. I’m hoping for the best.
Just enjoy the heck out of what time you have. Spoil the hell out of him, take photos, take video. My heart is breaking for you. I’m already terrified of when the day will come for Bronte. I think what I may miss most that I can’t photo or video is her wonderful musky smell.
hug.
OK, I was unsure at first, but after enough listens, I’m ready to call it. The new DFA-friendly Belle and Sebastian album is really good.
Definitely top five in their catalog, maybe higher. I’m not sure what the precedent is for a band making an album this good and this fresh sounding 16 years after their debut record.
I listened a couple of times when NPR was streaming it. I’m inclined to like most everything they do, so I’ll back you up on your assessment. But I’ll also point out that even though they’ve been around for a long time, “top five in their catalog” doesn’t mean anything more than top half — this is their ninth full-length by my count. I very much enjoyed Enter Sylvia Plath, which is the most immediately obvious new sound (though still clearly a B&S song, if you ask me).
It’s an album that rewards multiple listens with headphones, for sure. Good point on the number of albums. It’s more that I’m surprised they can put out something that’s among their best at this point in their career together. Also I really like all of their albums (though a couple of them less than the others), so for me this is saying something.
My rough pre-existing mental B&S non-instrumental studio album rankings
Tier 1: If You’re Feeling Sinister; Tigermilk
Tier 2: Dear Catastrophe Waitress; The Boy With the Arab Strap
Tier 3: The Life Pursuit
Tier 4: Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant; Write About Love
I think this one belongs somewhere in Tier 2.
Love B&S…will definitely be checking out