- Tomsula out. Way to set a nice guy up for a fall, assholes.
- Assholes. We’ll see if these guys decide to commit suicide by federal agent, and see if the government manages to creates some new Ruby Ridge-like martyrs.
- Stability in the Middle-East – eh, who needs it. The Saudis are at fault for executing a guy on what looks like politically-based charges, and the Iranians are at fault for not maintaining the sanctity of a foreign mission on their soil (of course, they have a history of this).
Post away!
roomy
I guess we’re going old school so…muggy!
Despite the fact that the win means the Vikings will have to play the Seahawks in the first round, it sure felt good to see them take a win at Lambeau. Skol Vikings!
1. There’s quite a bit of speculation that Tomsula was the one who undermined Harbaugh. I just hope they get a good coach this time around.
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Yeah, I’ve heard that too. My ‘nice guy’ characterization is based on some things I’ve heard from friends, especially a couple I know who take their son every year to the Niners’ open house for families with special-needs kids. Of course, what Tomsula does (or did) behind closed doors is a completely different matter.
Singleterry is a perfectly nice human being too. Shitty coaches both (with the latter obviously overexposed)
Very, very unlikely they get a good coach. That position is poisonous now.
Eh. There are only 32 jobs like that in the world. If York is really going to stay out of the way, as he said in his press conference this morning, and they’re willing to spend money as they also said, there’s no reason for it to not be a good job.
Brand new stadium
Reasonably high pick
Reasonably good defense
TONS of cap room
Ability to staff as they want
The early rumors are Sean Payton, Chip Kelly, and Hue Jackson.
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Only one of those three could be considered “good.” And there are number of openings. They’ll get a coach, obviously. But the good ones that are out there have a lot to choose from right now and I wouldn’t buy into the idea that York stays out of the way and whoever takes the job, still likely won’t have the control a good coach would want.
If those dummies want to spend their winter boring themselves to death on the frozen tundra of eastern Oregon, I’m pretty much all for it. They’ll give the “economy” of desolate Burns a sorely needed boost. I say, let them stay until spring. And beyond, if they are willing to lead the guided nature walks at the wildlife center.
They’ll starve to death first. They already started FB petition for people to send them snacks. That alone is awesome.
Who doesn’t bring snacks with them to a takeover? Fucking amateurs.
If you have guns and you’re on a wildlife refuge, you ought to be able to figure out something that doesn’t involve Twinkies and Doritos.
Those fucktards probably aren’t smart enough to think of that. Or they’ve never actually hit a moving target before.
They don’t dare – the birders are on it!
That’s awesome
You want snacks? I can get you snacks, believe me. There are ways, Jen. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.
Hell, I can get you snacks by 3 o’clock this afternoon; with soda. These fucking amateurs.
This ridiculousness is totally worth it for having brought #YallQaeda and #VanillaIsis to the world.
Agreed.
Don’t forget the #YeeHawd
the memes are great.
SORRY, WE DON’T HAVE ANY SNACKS BUT CAN WE SEND YOU SOME THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS?!?
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They better start planting those potatoes Martian-style.
Heh
They’re willing to give their lives to the cause. That’s easily a few more days right there. I’d be interested in the Survivor Style Voting for who gets voted into the frying pan. But food is food.
Armed, Pathetic and Hungry: How the Oregon Militants’ Revolutionary Plan Went Sideways http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/armed-pathetic-and-hungry-how-the-oregon-militants-revolutionary-plan-went-sideways-20160105#ixzz3wPAu34u4
Yokel Haram!
lol
I just saw “Cowliphate”!! There are some really funny ones out there.
“Mail here yet?” “Nope.”
Next day.
“Mail here yet?” “Nope.”
Next day.
“Mail here yet?” “Nope.”
Next day.
“Mail here yet?” “Nope.”
Next day.
“Can’t trust the damn government to deliver mail on time, can you?” “Nope.”
“Shit. Knew we should’ve gone with Next Day Delivery.”
some of the gems:
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Great handle, too
An NFL cheerleader followed me on Twitter. I’m kind of a big deal now.
So my sister just forwarded this email. Pretty FKing awesome. For the record, she was back home for Christmas when the visit happened.
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DAMN! That’s awesome.
DePo -> Browns
wtf
Wait, maybe it’s the St. Louis Browns.
He just took a medical job at the Scripps Institute in December. How many jobs does one nerd need?
grabs popcorn
Following this up, I just learned that Peyton Manning’s spokesman is … Ari Fleischer?!
Yup. He masterminded Big Mac’s steroid admission tour as well.
Ooh, and bonus Jeter connection too.
haha
Do any of you have a Capital One rewards card? I’ve been using the southwest mileage card for about 15 years because I always spent enough with my business expenses to get a companion pass every year. Now that I won’t be getting one, I was thinking I should see if there is a better card out there. The problem is until you sign up, you can’t see the rewards part of the website to see how many points are needed for air tickets, etc.
I just use Citi’s double cash card (2% on everything, no limits). Simplifies things immensely, though I suspect targeted rewards cards like the Southwest card give you more than 2% on the rewards you use.
That Citi card is the one I’ve seen recommended most often in objective discussions, for those who pay it off every month. Anybody who carries a balance should probably forget about rewards and seek out the lowest interest rate.
Agreed. I’m assuming you aren’t carrying a balance, but then interest rate differences would be your biggest thing since they swamp rewards.
It’s a great card. Nothing else gives you 2% on everything (and most don’t go above 2% on “special” categories). You can still get better percentages on some things (my Costco Amex is 5% on gas, so I use it for that), and I’m not sure an airline card isn’t a better deal if you actually buy enough plane tickets to use the rewards. But cashing in is easy (I can go click through to a statement credit any time I want, no redemption hoops whatsoever) and there is no reward cap.
Costco Amex is going away this year :(
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I’ll believe it when it actually happens. Though it does seem more likely than some of this announced-long-in-advance splits.
I got a notification in the mail about it. shrug.
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Yeah, me too. (and I agree it’s sad)
I may just be wishfully thinking that they’ll find a way to keep the relationship going (like those prescription drug plans and Walgreens)
It looks like Fidelity has a 2% card as well, but yeah, that’s pretty rare now.
My understanding is that most companies cut back on rewards a few years ago when the CFPB regulations made it harder for them to make it up with ridiculous fees and penalties.
I went from a credit card debt about $10k to almost $4k. This is why I live with my parents, even though I make twice as much as they do.
I will say, I was unemployed for two years, then went back to school. I’M NORMAL, OKAY? GET OFF MY BACK.
HOW ABOUT THE FRONT THEN
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Perv.
…this is news?
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This is relevant to my interests.
I’m going to start paying my bills with some sort of rewards CC, but I was thinking of the southwest one so that I can save on travel if I ever go anywhere.
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This is relevant to my interests.
I’m going to start paying my bills with some sort of rewards CC, but I was thinking of the southwest one so that I can save on flights if I ever go anywhere.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m going to ask something else now.
I was thinking about it, and I don’t really fly anywhere. Using the Southwest rewards card wouldn’t be the best idea for me —
SO.
I’m thinking that a HOTEL rewards card would be way better. With the kids doing travel tournaments, etc, at least a few per year require hotel stays. I know I’ll need them rather than airfare.
So what’s the hot ticket for free hotel stays through points on a card? I figure I’ll start paying all my monthly bills, utilities, etc with the card and then just pay it off monthly.
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For the way you want to use it, a flexible travel rewards card such as Bank of America Travel Rewards might be a good choice. You would charge those monthly bills to accumulate points, then when you travel you also charge the hotel bill to the card, and when the credit card bill comes in you use your points as a credit against the hotel bill. The regular accumulation rate is 1.5% on all of the bills you charge, but if you make sure to charge $1000 on the card in the first three months you get a 20,000 point bonus (worth $200).
The credit cards that are tied to specific hotel chains’ rewards programs…blah. The ones that cater to higher end travelers can have good rewards rates but you’re staying in $250/night rooms so those points will be gone in a big hurry. The ones affiliated with lower-end chains usually don’t have very good accumulation rates, and there’s the problem where you can get a room on a February Tuesday night in Bakersfield for 10,000 points but a room on a summer weekend in San Diego requires 80,000 points. With one like the B of A card, you shop around for the best hotel deal you can find, charge it to the card and then just apply your credit at a penny a point to your bill. Not really as sexy as free nights, but more practical I think.
Ah. That makes sense, and is exactly what I was looking for. Thx.
I also found NerdWallet which has a pretty good breakdown of rewards cards.
I’m thinking either that BofA Travel Rewards, or the Capital One Venture.
BofA: No annual fee, 1.5 points/dollar, 20K bonus points
CapOne: $59 annual, 2 miles/dollar, 40K bonus points.
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That Capital One sign-up bonus is good. Notice that you have to charge $3000 over the first 3 months to earn it vs. $1000 for the B of A. The higher earning rate, 2% Capital One vs. 1.5% B of A, plus that bonus, would offset the annual fee for a number of years.
The Capital One website answers batgirl’s original question indirectly. Notice they say the 40,000 bonus miles = $400 in travel credit, so the redemption rate is one cent per mile applied as a bill credit.
Yeah. My plan is to just pay all monthly bills with it and pay that off.
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Also note that the “first 3 months” is from the date of acceptance, not the date you receive the card (2-3 weeks later).
Yeah, it looks like the Capital One Venture is what I’m going to try. I wasn’t familiar with the bill credit aspect of things, so that really does make it apples to apples compared to what I can shop for with Southwest miles.
I’ve had the Southwest card for a few years and it’s great for getting free flights on Southwest. Anything else like hotels and rental cars, the point usage requirement is a total ripoff. Those Capital One points can be applied equally at 100 points per dollar to any charge classified as “Travel”: hotels, airlines, rental cars, the discounters like Priceline and Expedia, but at least on my report not VRBO.
Do you think the benefits of the Capital One card vs the Bank of America card make it worth the annual fee?
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Yes, because of the sign-up bonus. This assumes you can charge $3000 in the first 3 months and pay it off without any interest charge.
Assume you intend to charge $500 in monthly bills to either card. Here is the analysis over 3 years:
B of A:
Sign up: 20,000 points
Monthly charges: $500/month x 1.5 points per dollar x 36 months = 27,000 points
Total: 47,000 points = $470 travel credit
Capital One:
Sign up: 40,000 miles
Monthly charges: $500/month x 2 miles per dollar x 36 months = 36,000 miles
Total: 76,000 miles ($760)
Less annual fee for years 2 and 3 (first year is free): $59/year x 2 years = $118
Net: $760 – $118 = $642 travel credit
Word.
Thanks, and go As.
Just a note of caution (from ignorance): make sure these are equally easy to redeem. The devil can be in those details, even for cash cards.
this right here is why i am so bad with money, this just looks like a nightmare to figure out
The annual fee is waived the first year, so that’s what tipped it for me.
I started up with a CapitalOne Quicksilver about six months ago. I thought about the Citi double cash card that nevermoor mentions, but I decided against it because of the foreign transaction fees.
Two votes each for Kendall and Eckstein!
Voters getting gritty!
Nobody’s admitting to voting for Kendall. Chaz Scoggins was a vote for Eckstein. I had to Google “Who the FK is Chaz Scoggins?” Evidently he’s the long-time official scorer at Fenway Park. And he does NOT like stat nerds.
My current obsession is watching fights on youtube. Fans in stadiums, street fights, etc.
WORLDSTAR!!!!!!!!!
I enjoyed this video:
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that is pretty cool
But who let Conan in the car?
Also popular on my YouTube:
1. JJ Watt
2. Earwax removal
3. The Avett Brothers
4. Good Mythical Morning
5. Sports Center Top 10 lists
6. Pottery making
7. People cutting their hair
8. Jimmy Fallon
9. Adele
10. Bloopers
Thoughts on Chandler AZ area compared to Portland/Tualatin?
Given that choice, I’d take the Portland area in a heartbeat. (I like water.)
I think you have to look at salary, cost of living and income tax issues before you even start on the apples vs. oranges part.
I know, but I need some other thoughts to add to my spreadsheet and I trust you FKers.
Technically I have no offers yet. But AZ says I am THE finalist and I am flying down next week for a final interview. OR will have a decision early next week as well.
And to add to the questions you had I have more wonderful stuff: AZ probably has at least a car allowance if not a car itself. OR lets me switch to instate tuition for the eldest Ace. That alone may be the deciding factor. If he decides he does want to stay in Corvallis it is near a $100k difference over the next 3 years.
I spent about 3 hours yesterday just driving around Portland going “God I love this, God I love that”. So I also have to see if that is just me loving “Not Fresno” or not.
Either way this is all better than the 2015 routine of sitting at home hoping for phone calls…
Oh crap, Dad just got a job in Portland and now he’ll be an hour away. Ugh. “Dad, Corvallis is too cold for me. I think I want to go to Arizona State.”
Portland is a beautiful city, nowhere near the sprawl of Phoenix. The car and car allowance would be nice because you’ll be in that car a lot. In Oregon ocean is thisaway, mountains and gorge are thataway and Portland itself has plenty of walking and bicycling opportunities’ Phoenix has desert parks at a few nearby peaks but within the metropolitan area the car rules absolutely. It isn’t remotely close for me, but you like Fresno. The weather difference seems to offset, and for every annoying liberal slacker in Portland there’s an annoying conservative nitwit in Phoenix. That cost of living part is pretty big in Portland; from what I read housing has become almost as insane as the Bay Area.
It would take at least 5x the salary to make me choose Phoenix over Portland. Maybe 10x. Phoenix might well be #1 on my list of US places I’d least want to live. Yikes.
But as above…I also like Fresno (or lived here for so long that Ive grown accustomed)
I know it isnt meant as one, but this is the early clubhouse lead for best insult of 2016.
Tagline material for sure, if we still do those.
Taglined.
A few weeks ago I was at a show and the opening act introduced a song with something like “All right, this next one is really depressing but we kind of like it”, and it crossed my mind that Aces would get a kick out of it:
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Obligatory “Fresno” link.
I was hoping it would be that.
It was such a big deal while shooting and right up until it aired. Then we never mentioned it for about a decade or so.
i don’t know if this belongs in pro or con side, but phoenix means feb/march fking visitors
Baseball is one of the few no doubt positives on the PHX side. A MLB team and I will be about 20 mins away from the A’s. (guessing here, next week I will do some drive bys to see where I want to live: where do the Doolittles and such make their winter homes when they live in the Phx area?)
And of course if any of you FKers make it down and dont say hi you are busted. And if you need a crash pad for the night, etc…
The ballplayers who winter there, which is a hell of a lot of them, are almost universally in Scottsdale. Areas labeled “Scottsdale” probably cover 100 square miles or more though. If your job is in Chandler you’ll want to limit your search to areas south and east of Tempe.
Also a November FKing visitor (my folks like out in Gold Canyon).
Do you accidentally go to their previous place half the time?
Dibs!
Ray?
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so far fking visitors have been good, but NRAFs are upstanding folks (now that oz is back from SC). RAFs are rif raff.
NICE!
I haven’t met him personally but we have a couple mutual friends.
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Huh. I’ve never heard he was anywhere on the radar. Good for him.
Turns out Jesse Gonzalez turned down the invite because he’s not decided between the US and Mexico.
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FKwiz:
Who were the last 5 unique HOF players (11 if you’re feeling confident) to wear an A’s uniform?
Answer:
Thomas (2008,2006)
Piazza (2007)
Rickey (1998,1989-1995,1979-1984)
Eck (1987-1995)
Goose Gossage (1992-1993)
Reggie (1987)
Don Sutton (1985)
Joe Morgan (1984)
Rollie (1976)
Willie McCovey (1976)
Billy Williams (1976)
Rickey
Rickey
Rickey
Rickey
Rickey
He certainly is unique.
Huh. I have no recollection of one of those guys playing even a single game for the A’s.
one of them was pounced upon by a over zealous 3b which ead to the beaneiest beane move, bringing into focus the idiots at the OC
Cool. Now I can say I interviewed a Hall of Famer.
Working on my first resume in 18 years. It’s a bit daunting.
There are so many new fonts to choose from!
What do you think–Curlz or Rickshaw?
As long as you use plenty of emojis you can’t go wrong either way.
Ahhh, I see you’re from the Axl Rose school of resumes.
Why couldn’t it have been him, not Kurt, that we lost…
Courtney?
I feel bad for laughing at this
“far beyond the stabbing ability of a human being.”
Yeah, let’s talk about the fact that they have apparently designed a superhuman stabbing robot.
i love the reporter’s side eye when the knife poles through the back of the vest
I hope the vest comes with precise usage instructions for both the wearer and the stabber
Fired MLS coach admits he spanked so many players’ asses that he had to ice his hand in between
2014 World champion A’s
Which, incidentally, was the year that I left the company
The Fred Smoot AMA is pretty great.
Also, all four road teams are favored this weekend (GB @ Wash is a push more or less). I kinda like the Cincy and Houston as home dogs.
Clicked specifically for answers about the sex boat, then was immediately disappointed.
“We call that runnin through the okra patch.”
Oh my god. Amazing.
I… I have so many questions.
The googler never lets me down.
I’m fully prepared to be in a depressed stupor by lunch on Sunday but damn it would be fun if the Vikes could surprise everyone and take out the Seahags.
I’m definitely pulling for you.
I’d love that!!! The good thing is you’re planning to lose already, so when you win, it will be that much sweeter!
0° in the Gophers’ outdoor stadium, should be fun (to watch from my couch).
It’s a dry 0 degrees.
Oh.
Thanks, and go As.
As a 49er hater, Shanahan is my choice because he’s so very, very easy to hate. Or Hue Jackson because LOL!
I actually wouldn’t mind Jackson. He did a good job with the Cincy offense.
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Yeah, I’m with you Mike. I’m not sure why Jackson is an LOL hire. He’s been a good OC and I thought it was stupid when the Raiders fired him after one 8-8 season. I’d take him over a lot of the other guys out there.
I think Cincy’s offensive success in despite Hue, not because of him. He relies heavily on gimmick plays, and as a head coach in Oakland never seemed to have the whole team pointed in the right direction. That 2011 Raider team was 7-4, then lost four of the last five games amid dissension and chaos. A final home win vs a lame Chargers team would have got them into the playoffs; instead they lost ugly and Hue loudly blamed everyone but himself for it.
If you happen to have a great QB, receivers and an O-line already assembled I suppose Hue possibly wouldn’t fuck it all up. Is that what SF has?
Andy Dalton was not a great QB until this season.
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Wait…so FSU and I disagree on something football related? I’ll admit I haven’t watched enough Bengals football to intelligently write about Jackson’s play calling this year but I thought he was a good play caller with the Raiders. All I’ll say about his time with the Raiders is they still haven’t bested his 8-8 record since he was fired.
Shanahan is still alive?
He’s only 63?!?
I’m fairly certain he and Krzyzewski are half-brothers. I mean, just look at them side by side. Krzyzewski is older by about 5 years.
Shanahan looks like a worn out leather boot.
Evil never ages.
Hue Jackson, the most successful Raiders head coach since Gruden?
Fortunately, Chip Kelly also seems quite hatable (hateable?).
Hatulant.
If the Niners get Jackson, their fans should just hope he isn’t allowed to trade a 1st and 2nd round pick for an aging QB in a season where they won’t be making the playoffs.
Well he won’t have control of personnel so..
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No, that goes to the guy who has failed essentially every draft he’s touched in pretty spectacular ways.
That’s a stretch. 2012 was horrific, the rest are OK at least.
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2012 may belong on worst all-time lists. They got ZERO productive players.
After 2010, though, I don’t see a single standout player (except maybe Aldon with a Justin Smith sized asterisk and maybe Carlos Hyde gets there). That’s absolutely awful for that many drafts. And its not like they’re loaded with good-but-not-great talent either.
2011: Culliver, Kilgore, and Bruce Miller are all solid NFL pros.
2012: Shit.
2013: Eric Reid was a pro bowler as a rookie. Patton will, IMO, be a solid WR next year.
2014: Ward was the #1 ranked slot corner by PFF this year. Hyde is REALLY good. Borland was fantastic until he walked. Aaron Lynch is becoming a high caliber pass rusher.
2015: Armstead was WAY better than expected for being so raw. Tartt is awesome. Eli Harold has a lot of potential as an OLB opposite Lynch. DeAndre Smelter is going to be a good WR next year when healthy. Pinion had a few rookie issues but should be an above average P for the next 10 years. Trent Brown was a 7th rounder who took over the starting RG job this year.
Baalke has been a lot better at creating depth via the draft than people give him credit for.
Thanks, and go As.
Did not know that about Ward. Cool!
“Solid NFL Pros” is not a standard for an NFL draft, though. That’s a great result in baseball, but a backup corner, backup OL, and good-not-great fullback isn’t a good year.
As for the more recent draft, I really hope your optimism bears out. I need some.
sigh. protip: don’t decide amend the complaint 5 hours after in limines and 65 hours before the jury panel is set to show up.
its a dick move making prepare for opposing that AND prepping for trial all weekend
Wow, that’s terrible. Prosecutors can do that?
they can try. if the judge says OK, my remedy is a continuance. after prepping for trial all week and weekend
just got the text at 530
Move for sanctions
just got the email.
said it is a move to increase the exposure and in response to the exclusion of some of the rulings today.
I don’t think I will even have to move for sanctions.
“Increase the exposure” means increase the penalty your client might face? That can’t be kosher at the eleventh hour.
right?
i was planning on making the argument that this was a bald face attempt to increase the punnishment, but he just came out and said it.
(he’s new)
mind you, I don’t think he can make the new charges, but they involve a gun, and I am in santa cruz, so, if my opinion about guns is any guide, I have an uphill battle.
If you need any legal advice Ed just let me know. I watched multiple episodes of LA Law.
so saturday, the judge emails that he is not ruling on the amendment, but [of course you can]. then makes an offer himself [that he is not bound to after trial], essentially no new time short probation, no weapons ban… sunday at 3, my guy decides to take it
Woah. The judge can do that (both legally and technically?) Brave new world…
this guy I have known since he was a prosecutor. he is nuts, 0 judicial temperament.
we schedule things all the time over email, but only this guy does actual work like that. I believe when he was in civil, there were a few Judicial Counsel complaints from the real lawyers.
sadly, I don’t use a 170.6 on him because he is actually pretty smart and will be fair-ish on some issues, whereas a lot of our bench will rubberstamp
That kind of sounds like the judge has already decided he’s guilty and sentenced him. So much for juries. And evidence.
yeah. its tough for me. I had an interesting case, but I don’t go to jail if the jury disagrees. the kid was scared of any more jail, and whatever.
I really have mixed feelings.
crap, can’t think
in response to a ruling thatr excluded things in my favor at in limines
I’m off this weekend. Need help?
can you go to the SFYBL coaches clinc, sign in as me, then take the boys to the batting cages with Theo’s team and contruct a jury instruction out of thin air?
I can take the kids to the batting cages.
construct
Did you just correct a mispelling?
Its like i dont even know who you are this year…
I’ll bring my Jeep.
draft some voir dire questions, edit my cross of trujillo and whatever the fk the other cops name is (i’ll do the doj guy and the civilians).
write an opening?
I can only imagine what jury venires must look like in Santa Cruz County.
you like earthy skirts? salt and pepper moustaches? pony tails?
I only like them when one person is rocking all three.
Man, today was a good day.
1. I had a ham sandwich.
2. I won $100 at work.
3. Mike V is badass.
4. I got an RX for free, and it used to be $138.
5. I rendered Dr. Asshole speechless.
6. Dr. Asshole told me I make his days better.
7. I talked someone through starting an IV in a scalp vein successfully.
8. Everyone loved my shirt today.
9. Football tomorrow!
10. Dinner with friends tomorrow.
3. :D
Thanks, and go As.
I went and bought a notebook so I could cover the front with your name. I spent the last three hours drawing purple hearts and swooning.
Taglined.
Booo!
And! The Avett Brothers liked a photo I posted.
I can top that. I smoked weed with 8 out of the 13 Avett Brothers on the roof of the White House during the Carter administration.
My heroes have always been
cowboysrooftop dope smokers.Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be rooftop dope smokers.
Today someone called me a drifter. I was okay with that.
Today I ran over a drifter. I was okay with that.
If I’m reading this thread right the topic in question is which credit card should someone use when they’re in Phoenix or Portland.
Almost. If Dr. Asshole says Jennifer would be a good 49ers coach in PHX or PDX which credit card should she use.
Ah…okay, yeah that makes more sense.
I interview for the Niners job tomorrow. They heard I’m kind of awesome.
It would be the awesome choice that’s for sure.
Did Ryan Langerhans make the Hall this year?
Sausage links or sausage patties?
Yes please.
I was talking to a friend on the phone today and we realized we’ve been friends for 37 years…yep, I’m gonna be dead soon.
Today I video-chatted with my brother, who lives in a stone shed on an island that is currently cut off from the rest of the UK by the storms, and we reminisced about the near-fatal plumbing in our childhood home.
The spatio-temporal flux of technology is bizarre.
I’m assuming there’s a story about…
A. The near-fatal plumbing of your childhood home
B. Why your brother lives in a stone shed on an island overseas.
C. Why people ever eat at Subway
The older I get the more I realize I’m probably not the Highlander.
The biggest disappointment of my life is when I discovered pigs in a blanket involved neither pigs or blankets.
So much football today. And I’m off all weekend. It’s so freaking awesome.
Hey congrats to the Chiefs for their first playoff win in 22 years. I’m sure all Chiefs fans are looking forward to that next playoff win in 2038.
What a ridiculous, utter failure by the Bengals.
Everybody in the Pac-12, or probably even going back to the Pac-10, knew how the Burfict story would go years ago. Anyway, if the Niners have interest in Marvin Lewis I think he’ll be available starting tomorrow morning.
An epic collapse. What a crazy, fucked up, fascinating game.
I needed some popcorn.
I feel that way pretty much all the time.
Holy shit, the Bengals are a mess.
What a meltdown by the Bengals.
I’m going out for donuts and bagels…anybody want anything?
ME!
It’s a balmy 14 with a nice brisk refreshing breeze…just in case your looking for someplace to vacation.
Anybody watch Black Sails? We finished the first season last night and it’s just sorta meh…does it get better in season 2?
I rarely watch anything on the over-the-air TV stations but have seen parts of all the NFL games this weekend. We’re an early caucus state. The big spender on NFL games in Reno appears to be Bernie Sanders. Clinton is close behind, and oddly I don’t think I’ve heard a peep from the GOP.
One of the nice things about living in a state that is basically irrelevant in national politics is no ads for the primaries.
Seven days to go and H–> is everywhere.
Oh sslinger I am so sorry. That was brutal.
Right up there with Gary Anderson and Jeremy Giambi.
I feel bad for Vikings fans although I will admit I do enjoy watching Adrian Petersen fail because he’s a dirtbag.
The Packers are my only hope now, so I’m basically fucked.
For the small talk for calming the nervous patients this week, if you just can’t fake enthusiasm for the Chiefs, the alternative is probably “Oh, my boyfriend is all excited about that but I don’t understand football at all.”
But I’m awesome and love football. :(
I think we all agree you’re awesome Jennifer. The Packers have Rodgers so you never know because he’s almost as awesome as you are.
Aww, I love you.
Well, well, well. I’ll take it.
TWSS
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Reaching.
Eh.
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Eh?
This weekend’s biggest loser is home field advantage.
Twenty One Pilots.
I’m totally into that band. I haven’t gotten into “new” music for a long time.
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1 Ryan brother = 8 wins
2 Ryan brothers = 16 wins
That’s how it works, right?
Bowie … fuck.
I know. What a loss.
Just the worst news to wake up to.
This one really got to me, and I don’t usually care about celebrity deaths. We watched Labyrinth down at South Pole, which was much better than I remembered.
Holy mother of god, they still haven’t played the college football championship game.
I assume they had to take time off for Student-Athletes to take finals.
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They have all the Megacast options again. I liked Film Room last year and will do that again (ESPN2). “Voices” again on ESPNEWS with the paper plates, “Homers” on ESPNU (a neutral PxP with two biased analysts, one from each side) and for dear old dmoas, stadium sounds without announcers again on Classic. A “Finebaum Film Room” where they’ll take live calls on SEC Network.
The Finebaum one might be interesting from a sociological perspective.
Having seen the trailer for The Revenant, I cannot for the life of me imagine why I would want to spend two hours of my life enduring that.
It looks AWFUL. I also have very mixed feelings about Leonardo DiCaprio. I adored him in Gilbert Grape, but after that I’ve had a hard time taking him seriously, for some reason I can’t quite put my finger on. I heard his speech was good last night, though.
Inception was good, and I really enjoyed Django.
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It’s all been downhill since Growing Pains.
I’m really looking forward to it. I only go to 2-4 films a year, and The Revenant will be one. Wilderness, epic survival tale, snow/ice, a bear…I’m in for sure.
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s great. I think most trailers are terrible representatives of their films.
friend of mine told a story about going to some event around the basketball diaries, and jim caroll being left alone while throngs surrounded that kid
It would have been better if you didn’t know about the bear. It’s OK, not great IMO. Definitely some intense scenes.
This season of Downton Abbey is pretty good so far, though I am so tired of Anna and Bates that I could just barf. Also, Lady Mary is the worst.
EDIT: Her father is also very bad.
I didn’t watch last night, but I was fairly pissed that they didn’t leave that horrid Mary twisting in the wind a few more episodes over that blackmail scheme. If I met Lady Mary in person I would strangle her on sight.
I lmao’d over the Liverpudlian hotel maid not only talking her way into LM’s bedchamber, but taking a bite of her toast and tossing the rest in her tea!
Um, what?
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Cool! An underachieving old coach!
@ptbnl: Not marry or kill?
@GM: Don’t worry, it should be over within 10 or 15 minutes of kickoff.
@all: Gravitational Waves!
We’re both already married, and hell no kill.
Tangentially, if LIGO really has detected something it’s possible that it is a synthetic event, injected into the data as a blind test of their ability to recover a real event.
This one was the real thing! But the story about the fake LIGO signal is still one of my faves.
KTOTD
Fitz is the worst.
imagin ricky gervais, he is a good friend of bowie and I imagine he was told pretty early, like right after the golden globes
Sad little fat man
If the NFL makes the Raiders stay in Oakland this will be awkward.
A lot of good stuff in this long article. It’s completely unsourced but had to have come from the Raiders’ written relocation application, which has not previously been leaked to my knowledge. Also, that last sentence is 100% accurate.
is that a promise the city would make? I don’t see that as a promise the city would make.
My inside sources disagree!
Unless they say how much Beltre was offered I dont know if I can believe that.
JUST TRUST HIM ALRIGHT
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Promise is the wrong word. But the negotiation is all about “We can do $X if you do $Y” frameworks, all duly caveated and conditioned. The City side’s posture for a least awhile was that they’d provide land and infrastructure and the team would build the stadium. So if it’s true that they’re no longer offering that, the City definitely has “reneged” on that negotiating position.
Actually, I suspect if a deal gets done it will pretty much still include that civic contribution.
I feel like some of this has to come after so many people have said the last few weeks that MD was going to be left out because he was the only one that had shown any level of comittment to staying in the current home.
Davis was like “well I’ll show you, I can bag on my home as much as anyone else!!” Too little too late.
I hope the Raiders can find a way to stay in the Bay Area. Honestly I wish Davis would sell the team to someone who can actually afford to own a team. If they move to LA I can’t imagine it will work out any better than it did the first time. Every game I went to down there I was struck how lifeless the crowds were. It might be the Northern Californian in me coming out but…LA sucks.
I keep reading that if he’s denied LA, Mark would love to go to San Diego if it’s available. Spanos and the city are at the end of the line re a stadium, but there’s relatively recent precedent for a stadium deal getting done fairly quickly after the original team leaves (both Cleveland and Houston). Looking at Google Earth, I think there’s space to build a new stadium in the Qualcomm parking lot while the old one is still standing, though it might require tearing down a portion of Qualcomm while continuing to use it with the Cincinnati baseball stadiums being an example of that transition. Otherwise I suppose the team could be rented out for a couple years, possibly to London as a test case. I don’t think they would play a couple years in Oakland as a lame duck.
I keep hearing San Antonio.
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San Antonio’s appeal is just that they have money, though (right?)
Seems like it’d be a mistake for the NFL put a team there solely because it’s owner is (relatively) illiquid and a small market has cash on hand.
No idea. Just what I had heard.
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The market’s not that small. It’s on par with a bunch of reasonably successful NFL markets. And northeastern Mexico might be a nice opportunity for cash over time.
San Antonio is also on the short-ish list for MLS expansion, and they have the Spurs backing them. They’re starting a USL expansion team and the aim is to expand to MLS.
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7th largest city in the country, but 25th largest metro area and 33rd largest TV market. So viable, but at the smaller end.
On the plus side Texas is pretty football-crazy. On the minus side a lot of people there are probably fans of Dallas (or Houston) and they would have to convert them.
Florida has three teams similar distances apart. Jacksonville has been a rather weak franchise, but San Antonio would be a much stronger market (#25 metro area compares to #40 for Jacksonville).
Is this true? This sounds like bullshit. I don’t trust a goddamn word that comes out Goodell’s mouth, that’s for sure.
No, this is also true. The A’s have gotten a chunk of Raiders game day concessions and in-stadium signage revenue since the return to Oakland. Because the deal wasn’t labyrinthian enough.
In fairness, that all came about because the city/country screwed the A’s with the Raiders’ return.
If you live in a town called Whitesboro, I dunno, maybe a choose a different town seal?
If you’re going to be racist assholes, might as well own it.
SO Alabama scored with 1:20 left, they ran 13 seconds off, went to replay, and called the TD.
If it was a closer game Clemson would probably be right to flip the FK out.
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I missed the first half but apparently something comparable happened at the end there too, leaving Clemson with a longer FG attempt which failed.
Awesome fourth quarter though.
Yeah by and large I care very little about College FB, but I happened to see it and there’s nothing else on tonight.
Still you wonder, if they had 25 seconds left instead of 12 and recovered that onside kick…
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Shoulda watched porn.
assuming I didn’t
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If I’ve learned anything in life it’s this…the answer is usually C.
Sayonara Jennifer.
Did anyone else get a handful of comments showing up as unread in old posts, but nothing there when you went to look?
yeah
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Yep. Also I have got like 2-3 emails about some of the troll posts. I think the comments were “new users”. I went and spammed 2 I saw in queue.
Somewhat related- if any of you know a person who is just now trying out FK and went with a catchy name like “NFL 16 coins for sale” you may want to go back and approve them so the person can start commenting without issue
Yes, somebody is trying to post links. I just dumped another into Spam. 114.97.202.91 traces to China.
Incidentally, the links go to “madden-store.com” or otherwise have something in the URL that implies some connection with the Madden NFL 16 games. If you want the latest Chinese malware, I’m sure those would be the perfect links to click on.
Right here….BOOM!! You’re infected.
McCarthy still being awesome
http://www.theplayerstribune.com/brandon-mccarthy-mlb-twitter/
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I am not usually big into new music, but I can’t stop playing Blurryface by Twenty One Pilots. The whole album is good.
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Welp. That’s a pretty strong division they’re projecting if -15 runs puts us last.
i am not buying the mariners.
I will assume mediocrity until proven otherwise.
ISTR a similar projection, and similar skepticism here, last year.
Not even if you win Powerball?
If I will Powerball, Mike V will have sex with me.
Only if he trades their good players to us. Then we’d have a good team!
You might think I would spend some time in sports books, but for me gambling = pot smoking. I don’t disapprove, I just don’t enjoy either one. Nevertheless, when I was over in California today I bought a $15 6-pack in the liquor store, including the $4 thrown away on Powerball.
i buy tickets periodically. mosty when I have to get a snapple type beverage when gassing up. its fun, its a larf, its only a dollar or two
Speaking of the A’s, is anyone else still kind of bracing for a Sonny trade?
After Billy’s recent drunken adventures, I’m just bracing.
Can anyone break down what is actually happening at this NFL meeting? I’m lost.
For example, if they vote to allow the Raiders to move to LA, is it a done deal, or are there other hurdles to clear?
Near as I can tell, right now they took the Rams moving by themselves off the table.
The vote will be for either the Raiders/Chargers to move to a privately financed stadium in Carson, or the Rams/Chargers to move to whatever the hell Kroenke is doing in Inglewood.
If it’s the Rams/Chargers, and they don’t have Dodge sponsor the stadium, then they suck.
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OK, that helps a little. Would an affirmative vote on either of those options mean “you two teams are doing this” or “you two teams can do this if you want to, but in the meantime feel free to use this as leverage against your current home cities”?
If I’m understanding right, all 3 teams have filed for relocation, and this vote will be to allow it to happen.
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It’s a truly remarkable clusterFK, isn’t it. I’m just having trouble believing there won’t be another few years of will they/won’t they with Oakland even if the Raiders “win” this vote.
I don’t think either LA stadium project is a done deal with bulldozers ready to go. Notably, the FAA and possibly Homeland Security have raised issues about Kroenke’s project due to proximity to LAX. There’s a lot of tax revenue tied to the retail and entertainment part of the Inglewood project, though, so I bet they would find a way to fast-track that one. I’m not sure where the Carson site stands with regard to matters like EIR.
Looks like we’re stuck with them.
“Their home market” =/= “Oakland”. It only means the Raiders will play in Oakland in 2016.
I feel like they are going to be perpetually with one foot out the door for years, talking about staying just loudly enough to prevent construction of a baseball stadium in Oakland.
The NFL would much prefer that the Bay Area remain a two team market. We’re just too big and wealthy. I figure they give the City/County another year to work something out…and with Raiders/NFL resources now sweetened by ~$500 million or whatever, the City damn well better get it done this time. In a year or maybe two if this doesn’t happen, a quick move to St. Louis seems to me the most likely NFL 2nd choice.
St. Louis is a two-time NFL loser. No way the NFL ever goes back there. The St. Louis Cardinals are a huge winner here, not that they really needed it. Spanos must really hate the notion of being Kroenke’s tenant in Inglewood, so another round in the San Diego battle in 2016 is forthcoming. There’s also an issue with temporary homes for two teams in LA, with USC planning on starting major upgrades at the Coliseum after their 2017 season (they intend to play in the Coliseum in 2018 but with drastically reduced capacity due to the construction). The Raiders’ situation is shoved to the back burner until the Chargers situation is resolved; once that is settled I would say new stadium in Oakland, sharing in Santa Clara, sharing in Inglewood, new stadium in San Diego and new stadium in San Antonio are all in play for the Raiders with it looking as muddled as the race for the GOP nomination at this time.
MLS goes to St Louis, everybody wins.
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I don’t know anything about MLS, but ripping off the roof and the upper deck of the dome and turning that place into a soccer stadium and concert venue sounds plausible.
They wouldn’t need any more than like 30-40K for soccer, and that’s at the high end.
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For the Chargers the #2 spot in Inglewood seems less humiliating than slinking back to San Diego, And certainly more lucrative, which ought to salve Spanos’ wounded pride. Either way, two-time losers notwithstanding, STL seems to offer the NFL a lot more than SD does as a market. Plus Anheiser-Busch.
I’d rank the remaining NFL markets St Louis, London, San Antonio, and then San Diego.
If you’re selling San Diego, I’ll buy. It’s the #17 metro area in the country and the Padres have exclusivity if the Chargers leave.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter:
So MD is a politician, then, in the finest traditions of the black hole?
Interesting. I wonder if he’s hoping the Chargers decline the LA option and thus re-open the chances the Raiders go back there after all. Gentleman’s agreement to let Chargers use STL as their leverage city?
I’m leaning toward STL is just a crappy market.
It’s not a total dump, but as a St. Louis columnist admits:
San Diego is #72 in growth rate in that report (#1 is Provo-Orem and the highest-ranking major metropolitan area at #8 is Dallas-Fort Worth), and the starting point is an economy that was about 38% larger in 2014 than that of St. Louis. While San Diego is not the Bay Area because high tech pays a hell of a lot better than anything else including the military, it’s still a very good economic demographic.
Since 1950, St. Louis has lost two NFL teams, an MLB team, and an NBA team, and the NBA preferred paying the owners of its ABA team a nice chunk of its future TV revenues rather than let them in the league when the NBA swallowed the ABA.
If it weren’t for the Cardinals and the racism of their local police departments, we would think about St. Louis about as much as we think about Rochester.
there is a big waterfront property in sf. around the corner from hunters point
Oh, also, with these extra hundreds of millions the NFL is putting in, plus the lost LA leverage, if the local politicians still manage to fuck this up I will be so pissed off (if not surprised).
Mark Davis is stuck
Hah hah, very nice.
asvd
I still can’t believe the Rams left LA in the first place. The NFL is so weird.
right? I saw someone type “los angeles rams (that is going to be tough to get used to)
fuggin millennials
Watch your wallets, San Diegans.
If I’m buying the Playboy Mansion, Hugh Hefner sure as he’ll isn’t staying.
You’re never getting the smells or stains out.
Are we talking about MY laundry?
At least one Oakland owner says they want to try. #nolie
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I get that he has to be pissed off after this, especially with the committee for LA saying their plan was better before he got slapped down. But that is really a double bird salute to all of the Oakland or bust family.
I have seen a couple of people say this, but I think it is crazy. I need you generally rational intelligent folks to help me make sure I’m not crazy. (FSU, Bed, etc can also join in…)
None of this was a “shrewd game” by MD 20/20 to just get an extra $100M for nothing right? I have seen more than one person say that he has been playing 3-D chess with the NFL this whole time and made the LA plans to get extra funding. While that is sort of what happened, I just refuse to believe this was his master plan from day 1. Thoughts?
No. He’d have been happy to see Carson work, it was a great deal for him. The $100M isn’t nothing, but it’s a bit thin consolation.
Considering how expensive a new stadium costs, yeah, I don’t see $100M *only* if he builds in the bay area a win. Then again, I also don’t see how he could afford to participate in a new stadium in LA *and* pay half a billion in relocation fees.
Isn’t the A’s ownership kind of screwed here? Wasn’t the plan to wait for the Raiders to leave and have the place to themselves? Now they might not even have that.
No. Obviously this means Lew lied and never tried.
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Well, Lew first deemed the Coliseum site the only viable place in Oakland, then he called it wholly unacceptable, then most recently he decided it was one option among several. If Oakland decides to exclude the A’s from a future Coliseum-area development, Lew really has only himself to blame.
Almost like maybe things changed due to other circumstances, like another professional team also being there?
Nah. Couldn’t be.
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Huh? The Raiders came back in Oakland long before Lew joined the A’s as VP for stadium devt under Schott-Hofmann. That circumstance never changed during Lew’s time. What changed was Lew’s sense of the possibilities of greener south bay pastures. He overplayed his hand, and that’s his own mistake, not the City and not the Raiders.
Well, what changed was the Warriors are leaving and the Raiders location is now heavily up in the air with no money really to build there. Now that the A’s are the most likely only team at the Coliseum, it becomes more doable.
Just-released project with mrs ptbnl on harmony vocals:
woohoo stbnl
Matier and Ross say Libby is pushing for Howard Terminal:
“working from home” took a run by the Pac bell, lots of meetings and other activity around there. its better use than current hegenberger, maybe there is an opportun ity cost, but I bet an urban park is attractive
Ed bait
sign him david
Alan Rickman. Just stop death, we’ve had enough of you this week.
I’ve been rewatching Harry Potter with the boys, and we’re about to start the last movie.
Now I wanna watch Die Hard and Galaxy Quest, too.
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Greatest tragedy in American cinema over the last 35 years is killing off Hans Gruber.
“It’s Christmas, Theo. It’s the time of miracles. So be of good cheer… and call me when you hit the last lock.”
Dogma.
Quigley Down Under
I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I
WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK
WOULD HOLD.
“Yes, point taken, but do you have any particular skills?”
— Death consults a job broker
(Terry Pratchett, Mort)
we have a lot more “celebraties.” the baby boomer celebraties are entering cancer years
Chip Kelly…
k.
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At least it should be interesting, right?
He’ll be the best offensive coach we’ve had since, I dunno, probably Mariucci.
Which, of course, isn’t saying much. For all that Harbaugh was a great coach (and he was!), he and Fangio were terrible at making the offense work.
Well Fangio did the defense, but yeah. Harbaugh’s offenses weren’t very good.
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Err… right. Of course.
In case anyone still follows baseball, Sickels did his A’s top 20 prospects.
Based on the grades, we should have 5 or 6 in the overall top 100.
Base…..ball?
I’m happy to see Sickels still pretty high on Olson. Description sounds very Brandon Mossish.
That looks a whole lot better than I was expecting. Let’s trade ’em all and go for it this year!!!!11
I wish there was even one real outfield prospect in there.
I bet we could get one for Reddick.
Mad Max!
Haha Fiorina is back in the loser debate.
She’s very familiar with swift rises and falls.
Can’t she just merge with one of the other candidates and then claim she grew their poll numbers?
Rand Paul refused to participate in the kids table debate, so maybe Carly can claim his voters.
I’m not sure there’s much overlap in the venn diagram of their small pools of voters.
elcroata asked a question a while back: At what point do you start to be seriously concerned about the consequences of a Clinton implosion? I would say now, with the GOP nominee being decided in the next six to eight weeks and Trump and Cruz out in front. I had assumed they would gravitate toward someone of marginal intelligence by now (Rubio, not that I agree with him on much of anything).
Meaning a Clinton implosion in the general that hands the election to whoever the Republicans nominate? I’m not that concerned, because I think the chances of her failing to beat Cruz or Trump are very small, and I like the upside of potential downballot losses for Republicans in such a scenario. She’s a strong candidate, and I just don’t see what would cause her support to fall off a cliff against either of those guys.
However, I think there is a damn good chance either Trump or Cruz is going to be the nominee, and either of them as president is a horrifying thought.
That is my concern. I don’t take Bernie very seriously in spite of winning New Hampshire. The scenario is that Clinton clinches the nomination easily and then there’s some scandal that makes her unelectable. Also, just the fact that we’ve gone two Democrat terms, two GOP terms exclusively since 1944, with the sole exception of Jimmy Carter’s failure in 1980.
If there were a major non-blow-job-related Clinton scandal out there, don’t you think the Republicans would have uncovered it in the 23 years that they have been furiously searching for one?
I’m a little more worried about something exogenous, like a stock market crash or a terrorist attack, pushing the electorate toward a change in leadership. But that could happen no matter who the nominees are.
The Republicans managed three terms in a row from 80 to 92. That’s not very instructive for the current environment, of course, but it’s not like there’s some iron law of politics at play here. Hell, Gore won the popular vote within two years of Clinton being impeached.
read the thread, ed
(81-93, but point taken)
i was assuming rubio all this time, because LOLjeb! is pathetic and the GOP can control rubio, but cruz is looking likelier. Iowa doesn’t really count for anything, but shit, cruz is doing ok other places too
The problem is, over the last 10 years or so, the Republican party has trained its primary electorate to vote for crazies. Crazies like Cruz in Texas, and a ton of other nuts throughout the south and midwest. They have lost control of their base, and their base now regards even far right people like Rubio as too compromised to vote for.
The hope that Rubio will emerge as the establishment candidate and win on that basis may be based on an outdated understanding of the party’s voters. In most of the early states especially (chiefly Iowa plus the whole south), being the GOP establishment candidate makes you unelectable.
As in, Bernie beats Hillary, which hands the general election to Trump (or Cruz)?
Still not very concerned, for a couple reasons.
1) I still think Clinton will win the nomination by a pretty big margin, partly because she will have money and the party machinery working for her in the big states, and partly because unpledged superdelegates have a bigger role for the Democrats (about 20% of the votes) than for the Republicans, so it is still basically true that “the party decides.” (Presumably being selected in that way rather than truly elected as the nominee could also weaken her further for the general election, but not fatally so.)
2) While I don’t believe the claims of the more enthusiastic Bernie supporters that he would actually be a stronger candidate in the general election than Hillary, I’m not sure he would necessarily lose either. A Bernie vs. Trump matchup is so far away from anything we have seen on the national level in our lifetimes that I don’t know how anyone could claim to really know how it would play out.
And I see that GM has interpreted the question in the opposite way.
I pretty much agree with him about that version.
It seems that the post-a-million-articles-about-Bernie-to-facebook-a-day crowd have just discovered the existence of superdelegates. They are not happy.
right? did a memo go out?
how is this a surprise?
The whole super delegate thing is rather dumb to me (more so for the entire election process), but yeah, how is that really all that surprising when it’s nothing new.
can’t have a smoke filled room without superdelegates
To avoid long google searches, how do they compare in number to convention delegates?
They are about 15% of the total (a little less than what I said earlier).
Cheers
she was also squeezed out of the token vp nomination the haley
Life in the ER:
Me, helping a pt high on cough syrup, try to stand to pee: “I need you to help take off your pants. I need a urine specimen.”
The patient then grabbed my pants and tried to pull them down.
Me: “Those are mine!”
Well you didn’t say you needed his urine specimen.
The patient was also wearing multiple pair of underwear. Some backwards. Some forward. It was like a puzzle.
Can’t be too safe.
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Hey, I went to a Warriors game and they didn’t lose. Last time I went they did, so I was worried.