- dogs will hurt you, but cats kill
- Via Poppy, 2010 A’s Promo Sked
- I hotly anticipate watching this in all its glory
Transcript - 12/12 (though I did have to guess on a couple)
- I am starting to see what Twitter is good for (esp w/my new iPhone)
- Free shipping through Monday on some nice items
- I endorse this take
- I do not endorse the last sentence of this — at least not if he’s talking about the book (though I do see where he’s coming from). And having worked in both fields, I can firmly assert that i-bankers are far more evil than admen.
- It’s Log!
A 1-year supply of FREE KRAUT! to whomever gets the titular reference without googling.
Wuertz: 2y deal + 3rd-year option
Yay. Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz Weurtz is good at baseball.
McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire McGuire
Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling Spelling
good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey, good horsey
Byrnes->Mariners
replacing Everidge on the 40 man roster.
fun thread
this
Stop that. I just copied the exact same link.
This too, more for JY’s comment than for the actual pic.
Zavada would be an *awesome* villain.
I’m not sure what the show would be called … but the Byrnes-Koch buddy show would definitely be Itches and Byrnes
What’s with all the “Byrnes can field” crap?
Oh heavens HE HAS A CLOTHING LINE!!???!! Speaking as someone who has worked her ass off for 12 years running a start-up garment company, I think I’m gonna barf.
He just wants people to be excited about running into walls!
LMAO
3. Already heard speech, listening to Q&A right now.
4. 11/12. Close enough, gimme my diploma.
9. Bwahahaha!
Re 4: me too. Got the war casualties question wrong.
I guessed on that, but figured they wouldn’t be asking if it wasn’t counterintuitive.
I had the same thought, but I was a step ahead or behind myself.
I got the Dow wrong because it’s like stats… I hear/read it, I go “Oh.” or sometimes even “That’s interesting.”, and I forget it almost immediately. I don’t know why.
< / monkeyball on defensive stats >
11/12 too…got the oil consumption wrong…
12/12. I made educated guesses on the oil and casualties question. Used the same counterintuitive logic mb suggested above.
This is sad. For real, I got a little teary.
I love Louis CK, but I hate it when people talk about standup comedians like this
Hunh. #1 was supposed to be a link to a Balloon Juice post, but I missed the C&P, and now Balloon Juice is down.
Yglesiasmus interruptus:
Well, that’s part of but not entirely the point — specifically, w/r/t the anecdote he just cited, that Chris Matthews didn’t seem to have the policy chops to dig deeper with Pence on the insurance regulation issue seems to me to be a larger problem than some random relatively powerless GOP team player being a dim-bulb/tool-of-industry.
{snerk}
Yeah, that’s pretty much an uncalled for subtitle.
No no no, Matt — this is how to scale up effective charter schools
4. 12/12 (though I did have to guess on a couple)
Me, mikeA — and now Mars
It started to rain just as you posted that, as if proof of a
lovingvengeful God.fixed
But if He were vengeful, wouldn’t He pour sunshine down upon me and mikeA?
…giving you both cancer, to die a painful death.
nm, mk: Ezra agrees with me.
Also, quasi-related: Obama is smarter than the people who work for him.
This is where I would actually (at least start to) agree with Andrew Sullivan’s Obama ~ Reagan / “let Obama be Obama” thesis.
I disagree with Ezra too (and note that he’s as far from the target audience for that sentiment as anyone).
Every time I see Eric Cantor’s smarmy little face, I just want to smack it. Even when it’s not saying anything. Just smack it for lookin’ smarmy.
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…….
HFS
Re 6: You can buy that at the hippie store for about 1/2 that price. In whatever volume you want.
Some of it, yes, absolutely. That’s a nice price on the yeast and the big vat of Madagascar vanilla, though.
Niedermeyer — dead! HCR — dead! Emanuel — dead!
(Jesus — I would link to Chait directly but for yet another inexplicable round of “We care what McMegan thinks!” And TNR’s inexcusably awful, wispy, unreadable font.)
Yep. If we don’t get ‘er done I might devote my life to hacking FDL and stealing their credit card numbers (somehow, possibly using my MAGICAL FUCKING UNICORN) to use to mail poop to everyone in Washington.
I still think Pelosi’ll pass the Senate bill if that’s what it comes down to though.
You should ask Grover Norquist for help.
I mean, did all the guys in that house sleep with her?
Re 3: I think it was pretty rude of Obama to come to their lunch and berate them with his “gotcha” policy understanding. It’s pretty hard to be ignorant and rude when the guy is standing right there knowing more than you.
The transcript is awesome enough without video.
All of them. Also.
This is truly awesome — but it’s bested by a single comment.
That comment is pretty hilarious.
Bastard. Linking to the only bad season.
This makes me really, really angry. My normal BP is inexplicably terrific considering that I’m fat and way too sedentary, but I can tell that BP’s up right now and my face & ears feel hot.
There’s always more crazy.
seriously, WTF?
I understand conservative values. I don’t share them, but I understand wanting to protect the status quo and I understand buying into the idea of self-propulsion and all that goes with it.
This…this is something entirely different. This is just mean and incredibly insensitive. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with these Kansas people?
These people aren’t conservatives, or anything resembling it. They’re fucked up nutbags.
Nice countersigns, though.
Right. I would go straight to evil. But you can’t use this as an attack on Conservatives, Republicans, or Christians (unless those groups endorse the behavior, which they haven’t)
Indeed, Fred Phelps ran for office as a Democrat.
seriously?!
Which, by the same token, is not an attack on Democrats generally (he finished last every time).
Certainly the fact that he got votes speaks poorly of those who voted for him. And, depending upon the way the Kansas Dems work, on them too.
gee, and my opinion of Kansas was so high before.
As did/does Lyndon LaRouche.
Drink the kool aid already.
good.
Glib Kool-aid references bother me. Lots of traumatic shit got funneled into the collective Bay Area memory that month.
Oh, yes. Mendocino Co., too…sry.
For the last time, IT WAS FLAVOR-AID!
In picture #5, does that person’s shirt say “Sweeds” at the bottom?
I’ve always liked God Hates Shrimp
So that’s why He makes him live in Boston.
Speaking of Boston, anybody see the last 30 Rock?
were you in it?
Yes. I’m sick of Julianne Moore, though. Her accent seems a tad ridiculous. (Not that I would know, having only been to Boston once.)
Yeah, her accent is overblown. But I love her character, and last week they took shot after shot at the parochial locals. I loved it.
It made me think of my college days in Boston. Well, not in Boston, near Boston.
No, not Tufts.
Cambridge Community College?
Monkeys avoid long-winded chatter, preferring to keep it brief, a new study suggests.
Sounds a lot like pre-schoolers to me.
Explains my preference for Atrios over Glennzilla.
I’ve been thinking…my time in the sign shop is probably limited. Here’s some ideas. I’m open to others. We should stock up while I have access.
I’ll take one of each.
so they’re all lame, then?
My favorites are underdog and al.
I’ll take a slap of awesome, please.
Those are exactly the size of the awesome tear-off coupon sheets they used to have…$40 got you like six free field level ticket coupons plus another 16 or so buy-one-get-ones. Haven’t seen those sheets for a couple of years; tremendous deal.
I’d pay double if they had those messages on ’em. I’m especially fond of my city can beat up your city.
So if I make some of these, you people would like them?
Magnets or bumper stickers?
btw, I tried to do this last spring for **, but the response (save a certain pere of perros) was nil.
So…act excited about getting something free, god damn it.
I like “face it NY…” I think I like stickers the best. THX!!
Hey, if you want to do that I would absolutely be thrilled to have as many as you want to send.
I would probably vote magnets.
Free? FREE? Fuck yeah! Whooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Free’s good?
Like I said, I’m open to other ideas if anyone has a good one.
Take my ballpark…please!
I’ve got your hidden value right here.
Show me the Moneyball
Standing on the territory of Giants
Fuck Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick?
ah. yes.
(Saying Bacharach would have confused the issue.)
but have been no less true.
Moneyball doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Black cleats are for losers.
We root for laundry … and for loose change in the sofa
oooh, I love black cleats are for losers.
If they’re free, I’ll a lot more than one of each.
I love free stuff! Almost as much as I love you, LB! {bats eyelashes}
(I also like the “underdog” one…)
Free makes it all the more awesome. Love them all-no preference on stickers or not.
I like the underdog one-could we get a dog on it so it would be under said dog?
Also, a set of jeans inside the red crossed out circle (which is always called the “no bozos” circle in these parts)…
Per mikeA, we don’t allow that sort of discriminatory language here.
I was just clowning around.
I like all of them. A lot.
Awesome. No, it’s not Ratto, you assholes.
Christ, what thaasophobia
I just threw up in my mouth. A little.
LOL
Chance? on the round! Chance? on the round!
Lookin’ like a fool with your Chance? on the round!
I like the circular Monopoly board. A lot. Both practically (the game is in fact a never-ending circle) and aesthetically. But the idea of credit cards instead of cash seems very wrong.
I can’t imagine playing without getting to be banker. I also don’t like the new look house thing.
Having tried the credit card game once or twice, I agree. I like the idea, but in practice it took longer and you had to always remember to use the machine properly (once side was for credits, one for debits-you never had that issue when you were just handing over the money).
Monopoly is dead. Long live Monopoly!
Very torn here. As the owner of over a dozen monopoly games I am sure I will end up buying it, but this is just…wow.
Eric Martin wins political analysis.
You know, I’m getting pretty sick of telling him that Johnny Damon doesn’t even play fiddle.
I’ve just finished season two of The Wire, and I’ve gotta say, so far I’m a lot closer to monkeyball’s view than I am Tim Goodman’s or any of the myriad others proclaiming it the best TV thing ever. It’s good, certainly much better than most TV fare, but so far I’m not getting the awesome. Too many simplistic lines delivered by one-dimensional characters.
I haven’t seen The Wire but if I know my Goodman (and I think I do), he tends to really like (and overhype) this kind of show. I think back to EZ Streets and how he really liked the show’s edginess, grittiness and characters with ambiguous morals. I remember being less than wowed.
This was interesting from the Wikipedia entry:
It’s knowing the reviewer that makes me properly skeptical of Mad Men.
For what it’s worth, Goodman and I align pretty closely. He does, however, tend to attribute depth where there is simply darkness.
That’s a really nice phrase.
Thanks
very overrated.
I liked The Wire, but had it nowhere near my top two (Sopranos and Deadwood), before season four. Season four of The Wire was IMO amazing. I know not everyone feels that way.
Realistically, The Wire still isn’t near those other two HBO shows. But all three are very good, and season four of The Wire made up a lot of ground in my book.
How you feel about Season Four, I feel about Season Three.
Season Three was pretty awesome, too.
I think we may all collectively agree though that season five never happened.
Omar in season five definitely happened.
I thought season 2 was the worst season. I would advise you stick with it.
it was…different. It was sooo divorced from season one and then they went back for season three…
I grew to really appreciate season two, but it was drastically different.
Yeah. It wasn’t that it was poorly done or bad tv or anything. It was just so jarringly different. And I think it pulled them away from the things they needed to be doing to satisfy me.
nm, you were one that really disagreed about season four, right?
I sort of doubt it. 3 is my favorite, 2 my least favorite. Beyond that it’s hard to rank.
Oh, I’ll definitely stick with it, partly because so many folks say Seas 3-4 are fantastic, but mostly because Mrs. Upgrade says so.
Good woman.
9/10…
Missed #4. Wild guess on #8 happened to be right.
3/10 :(
It said my score is like James Buchanan’s ratings: in the gutter! Time to hit the books.
THAT’S what’s wrong with this generation of preschoolers… ;)
The closest we get is the state of the
address.
4/10. Gave me a Nixon quote. I deserve it.
I would’ve done better if I knew what more of the earliest presidents looked like. Those somewhat blurry pictures in the background helped me on a couple questions, though.
(Why am I doing this? I have real work to do. Sigh.)
because grad school sucks.
6/10. Can’t believe you had to guess on 8…that was one of the questions where you could use logic.
Me also. I didn’t realize the blurry pictures were clues until too late.
those were clues? dang.
Perhaps I should’ve read this thread before attempting the quiz…
I can’t even remember what #8 was, now…
7/10. Should have gotten the dead-guys question.
Poppy For President!
3/10.
I suck.
Whu … hunh?
Yeah. That doesn’t make sense.
He’ll be our 144th OF.
xbx return to FK in 3 … 2 … 1 …
0?
He seems busy flamewarring about animated gifs on **.
Honestly, WTF is iglew’s deal?
he’s incredibly weird, but not in a cute and fuzzy way, like me.
wow. I’m glad y’all said something. I may have missed this huge war of words. Fun.
I think his deal is that xbx is a dickhead.
I love that he’s so precious with his super awesome clever ironic gifs that he feels adding a subject line would constitute some kind of affront to his artistic integrity. Whatever. He loves to be a provocative asshole, but hates to be called on any of it. He’s an aggressive but fragile crybaby who will spend the rest of his life complaining that everyone else is too sensitive.
What’s he going to do this time? Storm out of AN again, start some other blog, then go back to AN in three months after the people on that other blog dare to get irritated when he acts like a spoiled douchebag? iglew is persnickety, sure, but also extremely patient and good-natured. If you cannot get along with him, the problem IS YOU. Seriously, screw xbx.
Yeah, but I really don’t get the whole “How dare you sully my front yard” (esp. when there’s a whole host of greater insults and idiocies plaguing ** … such as LETS TRAID 4 HALNEY RAMRIEZ!!!) + “Here’s some arbitrary rules from another site entirely I’d like you to follow.”
Come on. It’s such a small thing. A grownup would have just said hey, no problem. All he can muster is taunts, because he is stuck in 8th grade.
Tired act:
1. Don’t budge. Ever.
2. Pick at the scab, pick at the scab, pick at the scab until it breaks.
3. Become indignant when people get mad at you for picking at the scab.
It’s not like he’s indispensable to that site (or this site). Like someone said in that thread, most of his comments are either generically dickish (but opaque enough that he can then say everyone just misunderstood) or “you/this/everyone is stupid”.
I’ll reiterate: pissy, aggressive, whiny, immature douchebag. AN should ban him and spare everyone further headaches.
Europe would not be the same without France.
Heh.
xbox is good to have around, if for no other reason than to tell us all to go fuck ourselves. too much lb love will make you all soft.
Fuck LB. He hasn’t even delivered any free magnets/stickers.
(sniff)
I’m with mk on this. I don’t think iglew is trying to get anyone to follow any of LL’s rules… and, on the specific point of subject lines, I don’t think that’s arbitrary. *I* don’t care about a subject line, but people at AN who do care about it have given a perfectly reasonable explanation for why it matters to them. It’s a teeny tiny little courtesy that would do absolutely no harm to xbx or to the point of his gifs. And the broader point is that a person who consistently refuses to give a small courtesy (which includes keeping your mouth shut when you have absolutely nothing but a non-constructive insult to offer, regardless of your First Amendment right to offer it) is a dick.
The Computer nerd in me can’t understand why SBN hasn’t solved the problem.
I really can’t stand nsj….. this type of nonsense… writing a long comment after every single transaction about how it’s an awesome move because of service time and maybe the new player could be traded…. the ass-kissing… his obsession with discussing potential things the Yankees might do and for how much money…
I don’t think he minds being called on it, or is a crybaby. He likes to argue.
Also, playing at being Mr. Mature bugs me more than being immature, but that’s just me, or maybe just in this case because I like xbx…
That thread contains xbx at his best
and worst
It was the best of xbox. It was the worst of xbox.
1. Sorry, that’s bs. What he does isn’t “arguing”. What he does is throw tantrums. It is a rare sight to see him actually engage an argument instead of eliding it with sarcastic misdirecton, except of course during those times when he is wailing and pounding his fists against the floor over petty stupid bullshit that a normal person wouldn’t be irked by.
2. There is a difference between “playing mature” and “being mature”. Maybe iglew does the former too much, but he is a pleasant, well-meaning, smart, open, thoughtful person who is extremely easy to get along with. xbx, on the other hand, is only one of those things (the least impressive one).
3. PT runs into trouble sometimes and irritates me in his own way, but in the end he means well and contributes significantly to the discourse. xbx does not mean well, and doesn’t do anything on AN but try his best to piss people off for his own amusement. Why would they keep him around? What does he offer? His entire oeuvre consists of dismissive asides and gifs. He is funny maybe 20% of the time, which doesn’t make up for the other 80% of the time when he is a complete asshole. I would ban him in a second, and three days from now no one would give a shit or even remember that it happened, his presence is so pointless and hollow.
4. Despite my recent half-kidding attempts to welcome him back, I’m glad he doesn’t post here anymore.
I will say that his recent conduct has not been exemplary…
I can’t remember a time when it’s been any different.
Back when I was an active leftist I encountered a lot of folks who embraced the xbx paradigm, “jailhouse lawyer” types who take literalist interpretations of rules to preposterous and tedious lengths. Purity of process is paramount, and if that can’t be achieved, then it’s better to burn the whole place down. Obstinence masked as doctrine quickly grew tiresome in my 18-25 year old revolutionary crowd; it’s persistence beyond those tender years, when one is excused for a bit of high-minded idiotic bloviating, is beyond immature.
The question I find most interesting is one of intent. In the month or two since xbx returned to posting, are the several shit-skirmishes he’s fomented calculated to achieve an outcome (“the community will rise up as I expose the hypocrisy of oversight”) or is it simply a nihilist desire to stir shit up and watch people get mad (and I’d include the FK commentary in that, which I guarantee he’s reading). In either case, that’s classic trollishness.
Deftly elucidated.
I’m dissapointed we’re arguing about this, but I do understand the impulse. And that I started it.
Noyoudidn’t
This is SO you guys.
In search of a less bleak playground, the toddler pedaled faster.
I am not a hipster in any sense. Once I convince you there is nothing positive about Hyde park, I’m coming for Wicker park.
This book review made me think of AN.
Does this fairly describe the model at AN now?
yes.
Surface noise, flutter, and wow?
if you are, indeed a vinyl addict, I have plenty of scrap.
No, I’m making fun of vinyl addicts. People who make a big deal about the deficiencies of digital sound while failing to understand the corresponding problems with analog are like the people who insist that there’s more to baseball than stats but then judge players by batting average and RBIs.
I have leftover vinyl is what I’m saying.
Good line, apt comparison.
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Unrelated note; snippet of email I recently received from one of my employers:
Can I steal that for an opening line of dialogue?
Life’s rich pageant really is great. Been re-listening since it got recommended awhile back.
REM?
yeah
REM’s good.
yeah. I like the A’s too. Do you like the A’s?
yeah.
(stares at ground, slowly feathers bangs out of face)
1980-87 and periodically thereafter (and always live), yes
If you have the extra track version, Stipe hamming up King of the Road is pretty entertaining. Or maybe I’m thinking of a different album. I don’t know. What I’m trying to say is, I’m old and have little recollection of anything I experienced prior to yesterday afternoon.
It’s my favorite rock album.
IT WORKED! IT WORKED! IT WORKED! IT WORKED! IT WORKED!
I’M FREE! I’M FREE! I’M FREE! I’M FREE! I’M FREE!
I was not able to use the wonderful MS Word advice given by my by fellow krauters to fix the page numbers, but my sister-in-law did!! Thank you so much for all your advice, it did the trick.
LB: Is this your graphic design work? (my publicity links are only offerable with snark)
hey, sickels wanted muted, he got muted.
FK field trip.