- Whatever
- Yikes
- Also yikes
- Geez, isn’t this the way it always is? You and your pals get together to share some common interests and values, and then once things get big and successful, the Man comes in and starts making you follow “rules”: “bans on suicide bombings against civilians, burning down schools, or cutting off ears, lips and tongues”
- Yeah, good luck with that
- Yglesiasm: “if Grijalva feels the need to take out some anger on the Senate, he should pass health care then go find a particularly annoying Senator and punch him in the face. Just—bam!—pop him. Assuming he picked a reasonable target I might well applaud.”
- See my question here
- Uh … WTF?
- recent evidence suggests northern African pythons are reproducing on the city’s western boundaries
- That’s gold, Jerry — gold!
- WARNING: Atrios link
- Your FK Diverticulitis Update
- F(il)M: this looks fun, this looks … interesting, and this looks GREAT
- A predicate that we all subscribe to
- letters ought to be sealed and private
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8. Ugh. Yeah, WTF?
9. Sounds like Samuel L. Jackson needs to get involved.
15. That calcaterrisk should be required reading for certain sports bloggers. (Edit: Hm, it’s possible that by making this comment I’m now the one being a passive-aggressive condescending prick. Damn, this blogging thing is trickier than I thought.)
15.
With little fanfare (and certainly no FanFest), the A’s announced that single game tickets will go on sale at 9:00 am Saturday, Jan. 30.
My usual M.O. has been to get to the box office some time that day to buy tix for Opening Night and for every available $2 Wednesday game. Yes, tix for those games remain available for a long time after they go on sale, but the quality of available seats within the cheapest sections declines pretty quickly. And in light of the team’s commitment to harshly enforce seat assignments on Wednesdays which I saw last year (removed from my upgraded seats for the first time in over a decade), it’s worth the effort to me to get $2 seats with the reasonable views provided in Plaza Level Sec. 226, say, instead of virtually unwatchable vantage point of Plaza Reserved Sec. 237.
Someone should really snap up the username HarshSeatEnforcement.
… and speaking of Harsh …
Want $2 Wednesday (*night*) seats in 215 that they can’t chase you out of?
Oh my, yes.
Also, my regular ballgame buddy is apparently moving to Colorado this spring (unless I can find a local sign shop to be his ball and chain rather than his CO-based soon-to-be-wife), so I’ll be putting out a casting call for new ballgame pals. BART lot beer drinkers preferred.
I can’t find your email address among my contacts because I remember that it’s something that isn’t your name, but I can’t remember what that something is…
Check your email.
I wasn’t talking to you, Larry. ;)
redtruckertwenty-one at hotmail dot com, except with 21 instead of twentyone.
BTW, for reasons I don’t understand, here on FK if you click the edit button on someone’s comment, the dialog box which comes up includes their email addy.
[Edit: Egad, you’re right!]
Hmm… Good or bad thing? (not that I’m sure whether I can fix it)
FSU- I’m curious to see what you think about the “Value Deck” seats. Basically they took the seats in the 3rd deck behind home plate that they opened up for the “all you can eat” section last year and made them $12 per game ($15 premium) which includes $6 of concession stand value. That actually sounds like a perfect fit for me. It winds up being half the cost of the bleacher seats since I’m guaranteed to use the concession value on at least a beer, if not a dog and a mixer.
For the last several years I’ve always done a Fielder’s Choice package w/ several friends. Every year we end up dumping tons of tickets into the trash at the end of the season (even in years when the A’s were in contention the whole season). We started off doing bleacher seats since we liked being able to pick our own seats especially since we’d often have additional people tagging along with us. Plus the package price of those seats was around $7 so nobody really cared they didn’t get full value out of the package.
Then last year we upgraded to Field Level seats since 1) we all have more disposable income these days, 2) we like being able to see the whole field, and 3) we thought that with the higher cost per ticket we would make more of an effort to either attend the game or sell the tickets and would wind up throwing fewer of them away. Turns out we ended up throwing just as many tickets away as ever and ended up spending a lot more money for a pretty negligible benefit.
This year I’m advocating for a FSU style plan. $2 Wednesday seats and a handful of the Value Deck seats for Friday/Saturday games. From experience- is there generally any kind of line that forms on that day? I think I remember reading a post of yours on AN in the past that indicated you can pretty much walk up and buy the tickets without any wait.
Also- are there $2 tickets even for the premium games? I can’t remember how that generally works. There are Wednesday night games against the Yankees twice and Angels once this year.
I was unaware that the upper deck sections had been rebranded as Value Deck seating. I will definitely check that out this year…$12 is only three bucks more than the $9 lowest priced tix, which are my basic non-Wednesday unit price. I’m not a big concessions consumer, except for games I take my kids to, but I’d surely use $6 worth of concession credit if I had it. I wonder if it’s good for all concessions, though…I’ve been told that the previous All You Can Eat deal was severely limited to a few basic items made available in the third deck stands, specifically excluded beer, and involved waiting in long slow lines of multi-inning duration. But if it’s a $12 seat with a $6 coupon I can use at any concession stand, that sounds like a very good deal. And I’d very much like to get back into my ancestral third deck homeland.
Last year they removed all restrictions for $2 Wednesday tickets, so they were good for all Weds games, including Yanks/Sox/Gints, day or night. Before last year such games were excluded. Hopefully they continue last year’s practice.
As I read it, the description online indicates every concession stand as well as merchandise retailer (you can use the 6 bones on merch as well) in the stadium is able to use the Jumbo Ticket:
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/oak/ticketing/jumbo_tickets.jsp
Good to hear about the $2 tickets, I hope it falls that way this season as well.
I know that’s how the Giants work (Season Tickets get some credit). It just has to be a vendor that has the barcode scanner (which seemed to track vendors that take credit cards).
I just read the Jumbo Ticket FAQ and didn’t see an answer to this– any idea if can you use the Jumbo concession value anytime, or just at that day’s game?
Meaning if I had $6 jumbo dollars on 6 different game dates could I combine all six into $36 to use on a t’shirt at the end of the season? Or do they expire once that game is gone.
Just at that day’s game. In the small print
Yeah. The way it worked in SF (note: I’m assuming based on very little the A’s will be the same) is that your ticket’s barcode could be scanned at a concession and function like a gift card.
OK, thanks for seeing that for me–that makes it much less attractive for me then.
Christ, what a diaspora
This is news to me too – and very welcome. 317 has some of the best seats in the house, and I’d love to be able to bring Eloise back.
Yeah, 317 used to be where I’d sit whenever I went.
Boy, do I hope Sullivan’s right on this:
7. Mind-boggling
Inhofe is truly demented.
I stand by this comment. And this one.
TNC:
I guess that’s true, but what is his point?
Why is the White House still targeting “bipartisan” as an achievable goal?
Are they actually, or are they just saying it?
The former would be bad, the latter is just good politics.
Actually, at this point (IMO, starting ~6mos ago), it’s increasingly bad politics.
Bee. Fucking. Zarre.
(Via Ezra. I need to check out the VoltBros website regularly.)
wow.
seriously, he just cooked bread with a couple
whippetswhip-its, a paper cup and a microwave.I may have to overcome my resentments toward his victory.
Is lv really McGuyver?
“fat bloom”
chunky monkey!
A’s interested in Sheets?
I’d love to get him…
Me too. Depending, of course, on cost.
Whoa:
I’m conflicted about this. (1) It’s circular firing squad approved; (2) it would feel good to extend a middle finger like that; (3) it’s exactly the opposite of productive.
Those people should try to create a third party with a goal of winning house seats but not running a presidential candidate. Get enough of those and you could change the system.
My point in “whoa”ing it was that Ezra is precisely not “those people.” The Dems are seriously endangering their genuine, non-Code Pink, not-GOP’ers-making-points-against-DFHs base here.
Right, I agree with that. And I’m feeling somewhat that way too. I just don’t think I could ever actually do it (and I do think HCR will pass, so I don’t want to do any circular-firing-squadding right now). If it doesn’t pass, I’ll have some soul searching to do.
You have more confidence in Nancy’s Jedi powers/cat-herding skilz than I do. Aside from that, we’re on the same page.
Does anyone know where the locals (Lee, Woolsey, etc.) stand on this?
A Balloon Juice reader called Lee:
My local being Pelosi, I haven’t called. I sort of feel like I should since everyone else is/should be doing it, but I do actually know where she stands and don’t see it changing.
14.
But he didn’t keep Lackey.
Blah. I’m beyond sick of this weather.
I love this weather.
I love drinking water, so I agree.
Send me bus fare. Please.
Eh.
Noooooooooo
Authorities said, “holed up”?
You’d only spend it on signs.
I’m nutty like that.
Four days in and I quite seriously want to burn the place to the ground and dance around the fire.
I’m hardly a stickler for grammar, but shouldn’t a title which includes the word “Predicate” make a particular point of not ending in a preposition?
1. The whole don’t-end-with-a-preposition regime has pretty much been
overthrownthrown over2. Fragment Titles Perfectly OK
Nice edit
otherwise worthless in fantasy realms? Really? For the last 3 years, Chavez’ value has only existed in fantasy realms.
Apropos of nothing, is this any good?
It just arrived in my mailbox, having completed a stealth queue ascension. I am looking at the disc envelope and feeling uninspired.
I actually … hm. I don’t think I’ve seen it. But Melville is great. My fellow SFBABDPFTC members love it.
We here at FK should all netflix-friend one another.
I don’t know, that idea seems fraught with peril.
First, I’d have to spend some time eradicating the mockable items. With 400+ films to sift through I’m bound to slip up, and where will my reputation be when mikeA spies Stranger Than Fiction and Whip It back to back at positions 233 and 234?
Also, the having-a-wife issue would make me perma-mockable. My last five are Primary Colors, Public Enemies, District 9, Julie and Julia, and Up.
At most two of those are non-mockable.
Think of it as a perma-excuse … queue what you like and blame it on her.
Hey, I’m in if others are. Dunno how to set it up though.
Are you talking through the xbox? That’s fun. I’ve a friend that “does it with me.”
There’s a good argument for all of those being non-mockable. I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of Primary Colors, and should really see it sometime. Public Enemies is next after the entire run of LoM in my queue — I’m a huge fan of Michael Mann, Depp, and Bale. District 9 sounded very intriguing. Julie and Julia … yeah, a harder sell, although all reports of Streep’s perf were so outstanding that one could watch it as half of a decent biopic. Up — hey, harmless, far-better-then-it-has-to-be family fare has a certain value.
As for logistics, I don’t think there’s a way to do any sort of “group” thing (NF really should explore that — they seem to have utterly missed the boat on social media, which is ironic/shameful/inexplicable). Basically, you just individually invite people via their email addy. I’ll get started on that today (taking a vacay day @ home today w/JP).
cool. I’ll accept any FK invites (and its my screen name at gmail like always)
Re: Whip it I’ll watch pretty much any movie that has roller skating in it.
was it good?
I don’t know–I didn’t watch it yet. Is it out on DVD? It’s in my netflix list.
also, have ex in Beaumont who’s doing the whole roller derby revival thing. She was a first rate ball-breaker then. I bet she’s mean out there.
I’m not sure I can state this any clearer: Fuck Ferguson Jenkins.
1. Wow. That reads like a parody.
2. Second apropos of nothing of the evening: the zeitgeist might be veering into your wheelhouse, LB:
I have a new sig line! Thank you!
You can therefore now exclude the entire town of Laredo Texas from your romantic searches.
(um, I think most of Texas applies…see above)
I take offense. I happen to own many books (although many of them are still in Cali).
It is sad that HEB is passing for a bookstore in Laredo, though. Granted, I haven’t perused the book section at the local HEBs, but I have a feeling they’re like the small airport bookstores (bestsellers, crime novels, romances). [Side note: HEB’s primary slogan is “Here Everything’s Better.” I think they are just trying to distract from the real origin of their name: founder Howard E. Butt.]
You are a real Texan, then? You’ve completely succumbed to BBQ and guns, then?
…are you near Beaumont? I may have some entertainment for you.
BBQ, I’m okay with. Guns, not quite as much.
I don’t know where Beaumont is. [google map check] Nope, not near Beaumont. SOrry.
You like rollerderby?
To be fair, he may have been coked up when he made those statements.
love.
6: I can’t believe we’ve regressed to the point where that’s ok to say.
One of the other parents at Lily’s school is a professional cyclist, and we were chatting about his contract today. Not surprisingly it contains a list of prohibited activities, and equally unsurprising skiing, sky-diving and motorbiking are on the list. But sumo wrestling …
I am amazed that so many beautiful garments could be made out of burlap sacks. I really liked the one the gal from Oakland made.
Also, very hard to justify the decision on Ping.
My stupid satelite dish is out from the weather, so I’m gonna be on mega delay for this episode. Repairman can’t come until Tuesday. Drat.
Yeah, I liked hers too. She made the skirt look like fur, with the movement and the different colors of dye.
Ping’s dress was… um… yeah. But she’s fun to watch. And (to avoid spoilers) I think the other person in the bottom 2 should’ve been kicked off. I do not like that person.