The Grill of the Winter Meetings.
Wake me when the A’s make a big move, would you?
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The Grill of the Winter Meetings.
Wake me when the A’s make a big move, would you?
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“I did nothing, and I would not go back and do something if you gave me the opportunity to do so.” Put that man in the Hall of Fame.
Two big moves for the A’s today: NOT trading Sonny, and NOT asking for Danby Swanson.
Now it’s a party.
I hope they walked through the lobby in slow motion.
Walked in through the kitchen in a one-shot.
Better than walking through the kitchen in a onesie.
What kind of onesie?
A Gnats one.
Ew
AC/DC blaring on the speakers?
Somehow, “Back in Green and Gold” wasn’t really a hit for them.
They’d be in black. Funeral attire.
Who died? Other than all of my hopes and dreams, that is.
Isn’t that enough?
I was hopeless to begin with. So no.
Thin Lizzy
Where do I find the mashed potatoes?
That was one good line from the latest SNL/Baldwin Trump spoof: Trump – why is that picture of me that I hate sitting there? K Conway: that’s just a plate of mashed potatoes.
learn something new. thanks vince and ken
The view from Soaker’s window.
Nice downward slope covered in ice. I can’t tell but no one has chains on or it’s just that bad?
People in cities usually have snow tires, not chains. In some cases chains are even prohibited because they tear up the roads too much.
There must be a really bad layer of ice under the snow.
Montreal in the summers is beautiful, though. Well, at least it was during the few days of the one summer when I visited.
I think chains are usually OK, because nobody would use them for very long. It’s studded snow tires that are prohibited due to road damage in some states where they would be the most useful (Minnesota, Michigan), because you would be driving on them continuously for months. Studded tires are legal in CA and NV but not that many people use them (noise and lousy ride on dry pavement). I run the unstudded Bridgestone Blizzaks on the AWD RAV4 and haven’t had any issues; you still have to be extra aware to avoid the need for a sudden stop. Of course once you lose it on an icy hill AWD or snow tires won’t help, you’re probably just along for the ride.
Those icy roads videos on Youtube are great, especially late at night after you’ve had a few drinks. I especially recommend the Russian dashcam ones. Those people are FKing insane.
I lost traction on an icy hill when I lived in Cleveland. In a ’92 Corolla. I was going really slow, and it was a short distance, so it was no big deal. I hit a concrete barrier, but no damage. It was kinda scary and kinda fun, all at once.
It’s all fun until the snow plow is sliding down after you.
It’s Cleveland. You take your fun where you can get it.
The next time someone tells me Californians can’t drive in the rain, I’m gonna send them this video.
According to my brother, people in CO *really* can’t drive in the rain. Snow? No problem.
I’m not saying Californians are great drivers.
Of course it’s the police car that does a 180 before joining the pile-up.
The cop car was the funniest part to me. I’m not sure why.
Same for me.
Fools never differ.
What’s the more ridiculous item Nordstrom is selling? These rocks?
Or this thing?
At $1200 the cloud wins.
It’s a Nordy exclusive!!
Another 80 point half for the Warriors.
Just
5760 points for Klay in the third quarter.Never attend a winter meeting in a park in Russia.
straight out of martin cruz smith.
Here’s a nice story.
How am I just now learning of the BBC’s “In Our Time”? Perfect podcast.
partly because i’m inept? following your link, it seems i’ve only been getting a tip of that iceberg and cursing that it comes out so seldom. didn’t realize there were sub-categories. but yeah can vouch for at least in our time: culture.
also, can’t wait till crime town comes to my town.
I seem to be subscribed to a general feed that gives all of them. The history shows are fantastic.
yeah, found the umbrella one now that you opened my eyes.
What is “crime comes to my town”?
I think it’s this. I’m curious because a lot of my wife’s family is from Providence. People around there still like Buddy Cianci!
That looks FKing awesome.
I have some Brown in my family, and their dispatches re: Cianci always left me slackjawed.
Yeah, my BIL is Italian from RI, and he probably knows some of the people in these stories.
whoops. i spelled it wrong. crimetown. the the-jinx-related podcast that plans to investigate crime in one town per season. so far, providence RI. oakland can’t be far behind.
A lot of dead rubbers today in the Champs League, but Benfica-Napoli (Espn3) is a good one with a lot on the line. I tuned in just in time to hear the entire stadium in Lisbon singing a haunting fado song pregame.
and at first, and short, maybe in right, some relief pitching would help
Dyson is only under control for one year. I could see trading Hahn for him but Cotton or Mengden would be ridiculous.
This is the type of gamble I’d like to see the A’s make. Wilson Ramos hit .307/.354/.496 last year as a catcher. He’s only getting 12.5 guaranteed because of ACL surgery, but it’s a good high upside gamble for around the price of an annual Alonso.
They kind of did cheaper versions of this last year with Hill and Alvarez. One of those worked out nicely.
this is gross
Bogut’s an extremely strange guy, and leaving the Bay Area seems to have made him more comfortable releasing his inner dumb ass.
Huh.
Thanks, and go As.
Speaking of winter meetings, best to be as safe as possible. Also, it’s winter and you’re gonna want to keep warm.
Yeah, that seems like it could very easily be correlation without causation.
Walking down College Ave the other evening two women were approaching me and talking together, and just as they were close enough to hear one of them said something like “…the worst was when I got it all taken off here..” and put her hands on her crotch. Then they both looked up and saw me, and the three of us all just cracked up. Pretty funny little shared anonymous moment.
Timing is everything.
I think that’s most likely.
Possibly, though the study claims to have controlled for age and # of sexual partners. Shaving also leaves short-term micro abrasions which could at least theoretically increase spread of blood-born pathogens.
This is all reminding me that I need to recharge my clippers.
Easiest way to avoid STI’s and STD’s is to be thoroughly unappealing to other humans. This is a skill I have mastered!
I dunno, I thought this was pretty damn funny.
About damn time.
Awesome.
Hooray!
This makes me happy
I still hate you 2016, but this warms my heart with joy.
Only good things to come out of this year are this, the new Tribe album, and Atlanta.
(sort of) Legal weed.
Not if Jeff Sessions has anything to say about it.
That’s the “sort of” part.
Sessions (or more generally the feds) can probably prevent the establishment of public dispensaries by sending the DEA after anyone who tries to open one, seizing property, etc.
But he can’t change state law back, which is still a pretty big deal.
And the Broncos won the Super Bowl!!! (My god that seems like a lifetime ago.)
And the Gnats DIDN’T win the WS.
In retrospect that clearly augured the continued horribleness of 2016.
Oh Gawd do I have to root for the Raiders tonight? I just threw up a little in my mouth.
Welcome aboard the Silver and Black express! You’ll find an air sickness bag in the pocket of the seat in front of you.
Raiders uniforms for tonight are pleasant enough although IIRC the silver numbers are sort of hard to read. The Chiefs running around like miniature fire engines, not so much.
The Raiders look good. The numbers pop just fine.
I would guess my memories of the silver-on-white numbers are influenced by having seen those on a crappy 19″ Zenith.
Huzzah!
I can now go to the HoF at some point.
I assume Korach will speak on his behalf.
He was outstanding. And on a more personal note, he is one of the voices of my childhood. Probably for a lot of us, really. I still miss hearing him call games.
Indeed. I have a few Bill King games saved as mp3s from his last season and listen to a few innings every now and again. Him making the Hall is making me really happy today.
The ex-Oakland Trib has linked a half dozen excerpt/highlight videos in this article. Listen to a little of that 1970 Warriors call to hear why many said basketball was Bill’s best sport.
Thank you! I wish someone would create a youtube channel with clips of Bill King.
Fun to hear. Bill King’s ability to paint word pictures kind of spoiled me for all other announcers. He was underrated as a baseball play-by-play man because he was so masterful at football and basketball. You always knew where people were and what was happening. And his wonderful knack for an anecdote, combined with an ability to unleash poetry at just the right moment, really were unique.
Wanna share, FSU?
Yes please.
If someone can set up some sort of file transfer plan I’d be happy to.
I have used Dropbox for the few audio files I have uploaded. 2 GB free account. Here is a little baseball on a rainy Thursday.
uhg.
Not “holy shit”?
holy shit those guys were good and we have joey wendle to prove it!
Sigh…one of the last highlights before all hell broke loose.
I miss baseball.
This was Machado’s first visit to Oakland after he threw his bat at Donaldson, right?
The pope has some thoughts about the shitty state of modern media.
It’s getting to the point where the cabinet appointees who are merely wildly unqualified or destructive to the principle of civilian control of the military are a relief.
I disagree. people need to lighten up
maybe
My argumentative powers have grown!
[menacingly rubs hands together]
don’t blame me
I’m starting to wonder whether it is really true that the arc of history is long, but it is always twirling, twirling toward freedom.
ALWAYS twirling.
Damn that’s a helluva rebuild for the White Sox.
Holly FK!
Holly Jolly FK!
I don’t even care, that’s FKing awesome.
Thanks, and go As.
It really is.
Can we have a block on such trades too?
No wonder he didn’t smile
I mean anybody surprised at this doesn’t actually remember 2009. Fans fucking HATED him.
Thanks, and go As.
Hahahahahahahaha
Leaving unanswered the question of why the A’s would even want to trade for him.
Booooooooring.
The guy who shot up that pizza place in DC looks disconcertingly like Jonny Gomes.
So wonderful!
Newt Gingrich being all classy and shit.
wtf?
I mean, he started out with a tweet about how December 7 is a good day to remember that the world is dangerous and we can be surprised even when we’ve been warned. Which is kinda inappropriate, since it should be about remembering those who died. But then he tweeted this and really just shit all over our vets.
A’s draft no one in Rule 5 draft, lose Dylan Covey
He only threw 29.1 innings in 2016. Not sure what the injury was. He had a pretty solid 2015 — 3.59 ERA in Stockton is nothing to sneeze at.
Mediocre K/BB numbers, but seems to get a lot of ground balls and doesn’t give up dingers.
…does our team play the baseball any longer? It appears we’ve stopped.
We move the chess pieces.
I haz a sadz.
They’re bad at throwing the ball, catching the ball, and hitting the ball so I’d say no.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we get him back.
Fan Fest will be Jan 28. This year is free and at Jack London Square, not ticketed and at the Coliseum. Unlikely to break my noon-attendance streak. Though maybe we could tailgate on the grass near the ferry terminal.
http://view.ed4.net/v/QEC90G/N3V0Q3/LBZZS82/407SSLL/MAILACTION=1&FORMAT=H?partnerId=ed-11035410-950153963
nobody will go. it’s too hard to get to. bart’s too far away. park, where? you can get hit by the train. there are chemicals in the ground. plus, the crime.
sentence three. sentence three is when I got it.
Ed’s comment. Ed’s comment is when I got it.
I got it when I slept with that prostitute. But I’m hopeful to get rid of it.
Dude. NEVER sleep with a prostitute. You can sleep for free. If you’re paying, there’s other stuff they’ll let you do.
I’m skeptical.
Grab your Trivial Pursuit board and go find a hooker. You’ll see.
In Hillsboro, OR, the holiday outdoor ice rink is closed today due to the possibility of ice.
It’s bad enough asking guys to play another football game on three days rest. Trying to get loose on a frigid night on top of that has to be tough.
That “Silver and Black Express” is looking like BART on a bad day.
It’s ok. At least the Dubs are looking good.
Carr definitely needs the 3 extra days. The 50 extra degrees in San Diego will help a lot too.
A fade didn’t work at the end of the game? Where have I seen that before
Thanks, and go As.
Argh.
On another note, the best survival reality show ever starts back up tonight. Alone, on History Channel. Intense.
I don’t know why they talked to Alex Smith after the game, when it was the Chef’s defense that won that game. That and Carr being just awful.
While I do not want to totally write off the division, being one game back with the tiebreakers from KC is gonna make it tough to catch them given the schedule. And while the playoffs are not a lock, a LOT would have to go wrong for the Raiders to miss out. Given all of this, along with that Carr cannot actually line up under center, I would strongly consider sitting him to let his pinky heal. I do not see Oakland winning a playoff game otherwise.
QB’s always get too much of the credit when their team wins.
nooooo! what’s the point (anymore)?
30 for 30 podcasts just stole jody from 538. assholes. i mean it’ll be great too. still, need him among the civilians.
Is this really how the process works? What individual or business is going to pay to get inspected. A fine I can understand, but an inspection fee?
Furd’s band missing out on El Paso bowl game trip among other events. Too bad; considering the opponent is North Carolina, they may well have planned a Salute to Lung Cancer halftime show.
Frankly, bowl game or not, being spared a trip to El Pisshole is something to be grateful for.
Years ago one of the utility companies there was “El Paso Gas”. You could buy stock in them. Sadly, they were merged into some other company.
For some reason, this reminds me of the episode of “I Love Lucy” where Ricky and Fred think Lucy is investing in stocks.
El Paso Natural Gas, even better. They were the underwriters of a 1980s precursor to The California Report called CALNET that was applying for distribution by Public Radio International when I worked there. They sent us a bunch of demo tapes, and several of us thought the underwriting credits were fake – that they’d wanted to indicate where a real credit would go, and had thought of a ludicrous company name.
“If the band isn’t going, neither am I!”
I don’t blame him for not wanting to get hurt in an exhibition game, but he’s missing some upside.
The Heels allowed 235.5 yards/game, just 37 fewer than the wretched Golden Bears, who allowed him to rush for 284 yards and 3 TDs.
Literally an oil company CEO for our top diplomat. He told us about his “take the oil” policy over and over again, and no one listened.
its like the transition team presents someone terrible and he says NO, WORSE!
And with John Bolton as Deputy SOS. It’s Cheneyism, but with resource-grabbing replacing democracy promotion as the casus belli. Best hope of avoiding war with Iran is that Putin talks or blackmails Trump out of it.
@Soaker: I figured they’d have a gender identification restroom song-and-dance all mapped out.
Or, parading Dean Smith’s “corpse” around in an open casket and setting it on fire. For local color in El Paso, a how-to session on shooting people who try to climb over the wall. There were many possibilities.
“Interests: 9/11 Truth, Not watching TV, Ancient Alien Theory, Social Conditioning, Megaliths, the New World Order and False Flags; I’ve seen several UFOs😮 I love to smoke weed but really don’t care for alcohol at all.†Her statement ends, “Oh and this is important!! I don’t want a golden shower!â€
https://blog.longreads.com/2016/11/29/truther-love/#
Thanks, good read
Great ideas from NRA-supported state legislators (Washington state), sports-related division:
That could make for some interesting safe/out discussions
Lance armstrong would have touched home
Armstrong would have claimed that he was safe and everyone else was out, overwhelming evidence notwithstanding, and somehow millions of people would believe him.
This makes me think – do you guys have a Sports Secretary?
is that a political office?
Thanks, and go As.
In some countries. In some it’s a shared office with, say, culture.
Would that mean we have to have culture first?
SNL had Walter White for head of the DEA.
When satire ceases to move the limits of acceptable more than the reality does, is it still satire?
I’m happy that he called him “little buddy”
[whoops. forgot to check for “real”]
If the Niners are looking for a new QB in the offseason (duh), they might be able to get one from the Rams. There’s a former #1 overall draft pick, lightly used, strong Bay Area connections, who could be available at a deep discount.
I’d take Goff in Chip’s offense.
Thanks, and go As.
The Niners need a new everything. Other than Carlos Hyde and maybe Tom Rathman, there isn’t a player or coach on this team who isn’t expendable.
I’m not sure I agree with that.
They are certainly a good draft and a good free agency offseason away from being respectable, though.
Thanks, and go As.
This team is so lacking in talent. Their WR corps is a joke, their OL can’t pass protect to save their lives, their secondary frequently blows coverage, and their front seven just plain blows. Chip Kelly is completely unable to make in-game adjustments. It really shows in the 2nd half, when his team pretty much packs it up and goes home.
WR, yes. They need a legit #1. They should back up the brinks truck for Alshon Jeffery in the offseason. Jeffery, Smith, Kerley, and Patton is actually OK.
The OLine should get better with another year, IMO. Staley has a few more good years left, and Brown and Garnett both have huge potential.
The (lack of) 2nd half adjustments are a concern. A big one.
Thanks, and go As.
I can’t speak to Brown and Garnett.
Jeffery would be a major upgrade. Smith as a #2 is good, but they need a QB who can find him and an OL that can give the QB time to find him. He actually seems to get open a fair bit.
It’s unbelievable how bad the offense is in the 2nd half.
OLine guys rarely step in and dominate. Brown will almost assuredly take over at LT after Staley hangs them up, and then Tiller can take the RT spot.
You can squint and see a pretty good OLine in a season or two, honestly.
Thanks, and go As.
OMFG
after years of bad superclásicos, finally (FINALLY!) a game where they came out to play. like, really play, no bullshit. best soccer game I’ve seen in forever.
just, before you go in, pick a side. are you a red-stripe river plate gallina (chicken), or a yellow-band boca bostero (shit loader)? no really, pick now.
I only like Boca Seniors. SOrry.
Thanks, and go As.
yeah, but they cheat with their canes.
What if I’m a chicken shit loader?
hey, once a chicken shit loader, always a chicken shit loader.
i picked the away equipo, because I am a dick that way. DOn’t like seeing people happy.
Did not end the way i thought is was going to from your description.
not sure how i misled. but i was trying to instill partisanship, because i found it pretty dramatic to the last second that way.
i thought it was going to be tied in stoppage
ah.
Sometimes I have the feeling that city of Stuttgart hired Karyakin to be its Construction Site Manager and told him his king is wherever I want to go.
Gotta get him in time trouble.
I like the West Ender Broom Handles. They’re peachy.
Lane Kiffin has another head coaching job. Good grief.
Wow. That’s almost impressive. Dude must REALLY have an incredibly persuasive personality:
“I know EVERY job I’ve ever had was a complete and total dumpster fire, but THIS time I’ve got ALL the answers!”
Car savvy people: I won’t be doing this any time soon, but I want to switch to taller than stock tires on my car. Is it necessary to run shorter differential gears too? I have a stick shift and I’m thinking that launching a car with taller tires but stock gearing may require more clutch slippage? Since my car has full-time AWD, I assume the front and rear diffs have to have the same ratio? Also, can I expect to see much difference in mileage? Specifics: my car comes stock with 24.9 inch tall tires and 3.90 gears. The shortest gears Subaru offered in any of their cars at the time were 4.44, on automatic Foresters. Since the diff is the same (well, almost; the Forester had open diffs front and rear whereas my car is open in the front and limited slip in the rear), I’m thinking they probably interchange. I’d confirm before making the purchase of course. Anyway, if I use 4.44 gears and 28.4 inch tires (225/70-16, vs. the 205/55-16 stock tires), I should end up with virtually the same gearing, right? Would engine braking be greater with the shorter ratio, or would the taller tires negate that? Would my speedometer be very far off? Would it read faster or slower than actual vehicle speed?
woooo, freaky early morning goosebumps even with the heater blasting. alex castellanos just told axelrod, speaking of trump, the center cannot hold. and this whole time i’ve been wondering, what rough beast?
now wondering about comma/not comma in “i’m like a smart man.”
“survahlance.” yes, i’m quoting brooke gladstone.
ok, this one‘s particularly good. maybe if you don’t listen to ToE regularly skip the ongoing inside-gag at the beginning (the snowden movie account, with the music on the background) but the rest is pretty connective.
Baseball Prospectus has put out their 10 ten list for the A’s. It’s interesting that the BA and BP lists have the same top 6 players (not in the same order) and both have Gossett at #8 but other 3 names are completely different. Of course I like the BP list since it validates my desire to be right.
1. SS Franklin Barreto
2. RHP Grant Holmes
3. LHP A.J. Puk
​4. RHP Frankie Montas
5. 3B Matt Chapman
6. RHP Jharel Cotton
7. RHP Daulton Jefferies
8. RHP Daniel Gossett
9. RHP Dakota Chalmers
10. RHP Logan Shore
I guess I wasn’t paying a whole lot of attention back in August when the Reddick/Hill trade went down. What’s the deal with Grant Holmes? I was happy with what we saw from Cotton and just assumed that he was the main return in that trade.
He’s a bit of a longhair.
motas seems interesting. But injured
Montas is a beast. He’s a big dude who throws really hard (100mph hard), with questionable control. Lots of talk that he will have to move to the pen, although the A’s have continued to use him as a starter. He only pitched a few inning during the regular season due to injuries, but he dominated the Arizona Fall League as a starter.
BA on Montas:
And BP:
Cotton is big league ready, but the knock on him has been that he’s small for a starter and may be better out of the pen. His MLB success out of the box was a bit of a surprise. Holmes is further away, but considering where he is in terms of development, evaluators give him a good likelyhood of being a mid rotation starter.
Here’s what BP says about Holmes:
@ozzman: Here’s what my buddy the car writer says.
1. If he’s talking about going to 225/70/16s from 205/55/16 tires, then
the only noticeable difference is going to be that the speedometer reads
a bit slower than actual speed. Those tires would raise the ride height
of the car by about a half-inch, so not a radical change.
2. Changing differential gear ratios is amazingly expensive, but yeah,
he’d need to make sure the front and rear differentials had identical
gear ratios. For such a minor tire-size change, changing gear ratios
doesn’t make much sense. If he’s got the money, he can get nearly any
ratio he wants, because there are a lot of crazy Subaru people out there
and lots of aftermarket parts.
Cool, thanks! I wasn’t sure how much bigger I’d have to go on tires before gearing became an issue. As for the speedometer, it currently reads a bit faster than my actual speed (as determined by those things the cops set up that show the speed limit and your speed), so that actually works out. The extra ground clearance isn’t much, but I’m also planning on adding Forester struts and springs that lift a Forester a bit. That combo should give me around 2.4 inches of lift. And yeah, I’ve noticed that Subaru people are crazy. It seems I’m attracted to such folks. But thanks for finding me some answers! I’ve spent a good deal of time searching, and short of joining a message board and asking them, I didn’t know who else to turn to than you fine (crazy, but not Subaru owner crazy) folks.
He just added:
Because I find such things mildly interesting, I calculated the difference in circumference between 225/70/16 and 205/55/16, coming up with 2266.34mm for the former and 1985.17mm for the latter (of course, real-world circumference will vary according to factors including temperature, inflation pressure, rotation speed, etc.). That’s a bit more than a 14% increase, meaning that the speedometer with such a setup would indicate around 10 mph slower than actual speed on the highway. Having driven plenty of cars with inaccurate speedometers (due to transmission swaps, goofy wheels, bad hardware, etc.), I can say that it’s not too difficult to adjust to the difference. In the old days, you could fix that problem by changing the speedometer drive gear in the transmission, but modern cars use electronic sensors and I’m not sure how one goes about calibrating/spoofing them.
He’s this guy, btw.
Oh, the speedo would be off by more than I thought. That’s ok, I’ll just stay with the flow of traffic. All this is kind of a long way off, I just bought new tires earlier this year. I wonder if the speedo being off will throw off the odometer going forward. And yeah, I calculated a 14% difference also, so I’m glad my math was right. Kinda makes me want to go even taller on the tires.
Your car guy really is a car guy!
that sad little F left of the fivethirtyfox? the FK favicon as it appears on the new macbook touch strip.
WE HAVE TO WORK ON OUR FAVICON PEOPLE!
favicon?
you can’t spell QED without ED, i always say.
Why is that different than what I see in the firefox tab (which is OK apart from being a bit pixelated):
which comes from here:
huh. i’ve never seen that one. simply thought FK didn’t have one. the square one with a single thin letter (i believe) is the default in safari. but now that i’m thinking about it, google products would surely have good ones and here they’re showing up as default. we might need to build our favicon knowledge base as a first step.
Maybe it needs a higher-resolution one for that view.
so these dudes here are called pinned tab icons. generated by safari if one isn’t available.
I also see this in firefox on the mac
i’m on dual safaris right now. on my 2-yr-old that yellow favicon does appear. but only when i put the cursor in the URL box and start typing freekraut. then when i hit return the URL goes to the center of the box and the favicon disappears.
on my brand new laptop, doing the same exact thing gives me the blue earth/globe generic favicon.
i thought i understood favicons. really did.
Yeah you and….nobody else actually. I only every dabbled in favicons once and that made it quite clear that I don’t know anything about them.
I get the yellow FK icon in the title of my chrome tab.
In the address / url bar, I have a little generic grey icon consisting of the letter ‘i’ in a circle. When I click on that, it shows me that FK is not https, lists the cookies used by the site, and lists the hardware permissions (i.e. FK can harvest my keystrokes).
+1
Not here, dang it…
You mean you didn’t like my comment?
<runs away crying>
Me too. The favicon is set up in the theme, no idea how to code other stuff.
don’t do it. pain in the ass.
but this is the answer: https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-favicon/
Hmmm, should I take the time to make a new one? What do y’all think?
Whoa
Assuming I understand the part you’re talking about, I’m pretty sure the other stuff thing with the (i) is standard. It’s the difference of http vs. https. I think I was told at work that starting next year, chrome will be block http access for security reasons.
It’s a little different:
This is what you’d see in the address bar:
Ok, how do I get my posts to have multiple paragraphs? I hit enter and type a new paragraph and it all looks fine until I post it.
My improper formatting bothers me.
I’ve seen that happen, but then once you refresh the page it looks correct again.
Thanks, and go As.
Tried that and it worked. Thanks!
Now, is there a refresh I can use that would make my life look right?
I’ll let you know if I find one for myself first.
Thanks, and go As.
I appreciate you being the guinea pig. Very thoughtful of you.
Just trying to help best I can
Thanks, and go As.
That’s the holiday spirit!
It’s because the quick display thing is a hack I hand-coded, so it doesn’t do all the cool stuff that will happen later (e.g. youtube links don’t get resolved on the preview).
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…
Oh come let us deplore them…
Numbnuts roasting on a dumpster fire.
vox the weeds is weak analysis, right? or am i just annoyed at their voices?
both?
strong analysis.
analysis explained
refuted
Thanks, and go As.
got an email from yahoo about that thing. to two of my current addresses, so if they know those, the acct must be somewhat recent. but if I’ve ever had a yahoo acct it’d be from being forced to via 3rd party, like when ATT makes you open an att.net. probably a now-defunct product. i just can’t remember. how do i find out?!
brb. going to r/the_donald to see what the connections behind this are. very fishy.
Yeah, my yahoo account came about via flickr.
I still had a couple Yahoo accounts, one I set up back around 2000, when Yahoo was state of the art, for communications with family members, and another one that was a junk receptacle (when I sent a donation to the ACLU recently they got that address). Everything else I had moved to Gmail, but I never told my family to switch over there. They were told yesterday that it’s time to switch.
Now I need to go through 15 years of e-mails and see what I want to keep before deleting the account, so I can say “But you clearly stated in 2004 blah blah and here’s the e-mail to prove it!” But, Mom is dead, Dad turns 85 soon, so most of it can probably be dumped.
RRRRRRAAAAAAAII – *hic!* – DEEEEEEEERRRRRSSS!!!!
Bryan Stown was at my juvenile detention facility today giving a talk. We left court to meet him. First thing out of his mouth was “you guys giants fans?”
I didn’t know he was there before I was told to go meet him. I did say “hi” to him earlier in the morning when we were both wandering around the holding area and wondered who the weirdo with a Jeremy Affelt jersey was.
“the A’s win the pennant.” —nate silver.
prediction?? (nah, interview with michael lewis.)
too many triggers in that
More day baseball in 2018
This shouldn’t affect the home schedule too much, since the A’s generally scheduled getaway games for the day anyway, plus there was already a rule protecting teams flying from West coast to East coast. Now the A’s get the same protection at the end of their road trips (except road trips ending in Anaheim. FK Anaheim.)
Should just be rule period, final game of a series is a day game unless both team agree otherwise and be done with it.
It definitely affects the Angels because they are notorious for scheduling night games on a getaway day. The Rangers and Astros will especially appreciate it because they frequently have to play a night game in Anaheim and then head home. The Angels even screw themselves on this, for example April 27 of the upcoming season. The A’s play the following night in Houston, the Angels play in Arlington, yet the Angels have scheduled a 7:07 p.m. game vs. the A’s.
Attention andeux: Shovel snow for at least 4 hours today and get a free ticket to tomorrow’s game, when the Bills host the 0-13 Cleveland Browns. Thank you, Bills and Jani-King!
So…did the season start yet?
hi.
Hey there Mr. Bloom.
As far as I understand we decided to skip this year’s football and baseball seasons.
and presidential election
chess?
I think checkers is more my speed.
Don’t I know you from somewhere?
I’m pretty sure we went steady back in Junior High.
When you were in junior high, I was probably in kindergarten.
Fair point…in reality I mostly went steady with soul crushing loneliness in Junior High. Thanks acne.
I dated my right hand. We’ve been together ever since.
We found Bed. Now where’s Jennifer?
Rivertucky.
Thanks, and go As.
That sounds unpleasant.
I can’t remember are most of my posts about baseball or the life and times of Dabney Coleman?
Hell yes Tennessee.
EVEN MORE HELL YES RAIDERS
Congrats to the Raiders on breaking the league’s second longest playoff drought.
(sigh)
The Cubs won the World Series. Donald Trump is the next President. The Raiders are in the playoffs. Cue R.E.M. It’s the end of the world as we know it.
are you feeling fine? I am not.
I do feel fine. I had money on the Cubs, I voted for Trump, and I’m a Raiders fan…okay, so some of this isn’t true. I’m actually a Jaguars fan.
Reggie McKenzie is some of those things also, you should root for him. Beats having to converse with people who say Jagwires.
I’ve enjoyed the season. Outside of those three hours on Sunday I don’t really follow sports anymore and I don’t even really keep up with the ins and outs of the Raiders outside of the games. They’re really fun to watch and I’m looking forward to seeing how they do in the playoffs.
holy smokes. 20 new comments over a single weekend…
…did bed come back??
I’m pretty sure he’s dead.
So did the Lounge die or did it just merge with the Grill…to be honest I never could tell the difference between the two.
Other things I can’t tell the difference between:
1. Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney
2. Family Guy and American Dad
3. Right and wrong
4. A Chevy and a GMC
5. North Dakota and South Dakote
6. Ozz and a kick in the teeth
Dakota, even
I’ve never gotten a proper explanation why there are two Dakotas…one seems more than enough.
The more, the merrier!
I don’t know…I’ve been to South Dakota and the only time I felt any merriment there was when I was leaving the state.
Funny, the only time the residents of SD felt merriment was also when you were leaving.
It was the one thing we agreed on.
They’re just bitter because you like in a state with a presidential library. And also because you’re so much prettier than them.
The one and it would appear only Clinton Presidential Library. I’ve been twice…it’ll be better once Bill dies but that’s true of all Presidential Libraries.
Live, not like. I wonder, does Dubya’s library only have coloring books?
I got your meaning…grammar errors let us know you aren’t perfect, Ozz…just damn close. I haven’t made it to Dubya’s library yet due to the fact that I don’t want to go.
I would rather die than go to Texas.
I’m guessing they won’t be putting your quote on the Texas tourism brochure.
They should. That’s probably the nicest thing I can say about Texas.
Texas can be fun.
… to use for above-ground nuclear testing?
I basically sit around and talk to myself at night now.
No shame in that. You’re good company.
If you want to talk to yourself this is the site to do it on.
Ditto. Those are the most intelligent conversations I have.
Wait – did I just talk to someone?
I’ve deleted all the news apps on my phone and I haven’t watched the news since election night…this is how I’m dealing with the next four years. Ignorance is bliss.
that’s ok. the news are basically on a 100-year re-cycle right now. something just happened in sarajevo, archduke someone or other. small item, doesn’t seem significant.
Alert the Kaiser!
(cancels reservation for cruise on Lusitania)
You’re on a roll!
#RealAmerica
Ignorance is how we got here in the first place.
Life will continue…the sun will still rise in the west…corn dogs will still be be the national currency of Peru…and the A’s will continue to sell out all their home games.
Pfft… life will be done when Trump drops the bomb.
I, for one, look forward to our cockroach overlords.
I agree…I say let’s give them a chance and see how they do.
They’ll keep us safe from the fire ants.
I assume they’ll build a wall to keep the fire ants from taking jobs away from white ants.
#MakeAntHillsGreatAgain
They’re gonna bomb the shit out of the fire ants.
“fire ants”??!?
what are you… a spicy boys denier?
The Spicy Boys were a one hit wonder band from the ’90’s, right?
I shouldn’t have said anything. I get home, and spicy boys all over my compost. ruthless desperate fuckers after a good rain. a mass of them to just about trigger the motion detector. there was a lettuce butt and a single egg shell in there.
When you use put those words in that particular order, I struggle to understand what you’re trying to communicate.
I’m a walking mad-lib without the blanks.
I’m all blanks.
hey, blanks get the job done too.
Depends on the job.
you internet commentors are all out to fucking lunch
Ooh, where are we going for lunch? I want pasta.
They had it coming.
I’m still curious about what kind of bomb causes diarrhea.
So how has everyone been? Anybody get married…go to prison…grow out their chest hair?
All of the above. The 2nd one first. Then the first.
That seems to be the smart way to go…you get married and a new place to live all in one package.
Honestly, the worst thing about prison is the cornbread. Other than that, it’s better than they make it look on TV.
Cornbread makes me think about my grandmother…which then makes me think about her time in prison…and the wheel keeps on spinning.
Porn makes me think about your grandmother.
Yeah, that’s how most people know her.
There’s not much that woman wouldn’t do for Hershey’s bars and nylons.
I moved to Cincinnati. That’s kind of like prison?
PORKOPOLIS!!!
Are you living on the air in Cincinnati or is that reference too old even for me to use?
town to town up and down the tenure track
I fucking love you.
As God is my witness…
Best.Episode.Ever.
Watch out for the phone cops!
with worse chili.
I fucking hate Cincinnati chili.
I think it’s ok. Not great, but fine as a novelty. I need to do more to explore the porkopolis angle though. The local beer scene is pretty great.
Can you get any pork soda anywhere?
I’ve been to prison and jail a lot
Calling something Jumbo Shrimp feels like fat shaming.
Then stop calling me that.
I must be getting old because I have no desire to see the new Star Wars movie. I am however very excited to find out more about Dennys new early bird special.
What do you mean, “getting?”
If your doctor has a penis, you’re screwed.
I usually try to have a female doctor. They have smaller hands which is helpful for certain things. Also, men suck.
I’m pretty sure the AMA would frown on your doctor sucking. That’s really unprofessional.
The AMA hasn’t been the same since Nick Bockwinkel lost the championship belt.
I think you’re confused. AMA is the channel that Breaking Bad aired on. And it hasn’t been the same since that show ended.
I’m so behind on TV. We just finished the last season of Game of Thrones and I’m watching all of the A’s games from April as we speak.
I haven’t watched and Walking Dead yet this season.
The thing about A’s games is you see one you’ve seen ’em all.
The only thing I miss about A’s games is Ray Fosse…I know a lot of people probably disagree with me but I’ve always enjoyed his work. As far as the team itself I doubt I could name five players.
Okay…
Sonny Gray
Sean Doolittle
Uh….
The catcher who doesn’t wear batting gloves but made the All Star Game
Um…
Bruce Bochte
Bitches!
Hi Dr. nick!!!
I do too. every doctor ive seen in the last 10 years has been a woman. both visits
Did you need a doctor after you drank all my tequila?
i think you needed a doctor for giving me peach lime tequila
I just serve the alcohol, I don’t judge the drinker.
I became a vegetarian again but I’m doing it mostly out of spite and my hatred of asparagus. I won’t rest until I’ve eaten all those bastards.
Vegetarian? Is that even legal in Arkansas?
Probably not but folks here are too busy square dancing with Jesus to notice what I’m up to.
They’re probably already suspicious of you, what with the wife who isn’t your kin and all.
I’m pretty sure we aren’t kin…none of the kids have webbed toes or anything.
Why are you people (Bed) doing here right now? Don’t you have jobs? You bunch of lazy shits.
I have the rest of the year off.
A man of leisure. I’ve always said that educators are overpaid in this country.
I’ve earned it. The last year has been the busiest of my life but I’m closing in on being Dr. Bed…I do miss having all the time off when I was teaching. Bureacrats get less time off.
Dr. Bed! I like the sound of that! But still, women make better doctors. Sorry.
I’m going to be the fake kind of doctor…so don’t bother asking me to prescribe drugs.
Bed, you can give me a physical any time. But only you, not Sir Bed. That guy was a jerk.
He was the worst…as far as my physicals they mostly involve educational policy so it should be fun for both of us.
That’s my dream date right there.
Just wait until I start talking about rural school district funding issues.
Don’t oversell yourself.
I don’t have the time to read all the posts I’ve missed so I’ll assume they’re all about VORP and craft beers.
We never discuss VORP without you.
Well, I am a renowned expert on the subject.
Whereas I am merely a nowned expert.
mostly chess and really bad election predictions
And soccer. Glorious soccer.
So after all that, 2 Republican electors voted for someone other than Trump, while 4 Democratic electors voted for someone other than Clinton? That’s pretty much American politics right now in a nutshell.
Considering the majority of voters were Republican elites who are desperate for any sense of power they can attain, it’s not the least bit surprising.
If we can get this thread to 400 posts I’ll buy everyone a brand new 1987 Pontiac Fiero.
to go with you other one?
Wow, you’re like the poor man’s Oprah!
I’m exactly like Oprah…if you take away talent, charm, and success.
Then I’m exactly like you, if you take away being exactly like Oprah.
Any of you FKers spend any time in Kentucky? I’m headed there next month.
drove through it a couple times. the abraham lincoln birthplace is kinda neat.
I’ll be in Louisville and then Lexington. It looks like it’s an hour outside Louisville. Is it worth that drive?
I can’t decide if the Louisville Slugger museum would be interesting or if after bat 10, it would get old.
Louisville Slugger is worth it. There is a tour of the production line which I found very interesting.
That does sound cool. Since it’s going to be pretty cold outside a museum sounds about right.
I agree, it was cool. I watched them spinning bats for a pitcher, maybe Livan Hernandez. Bought a few small bats as gifts. I had a weird couple days there: gifted tickets to Louisville Downs (not for K derby, but won ~$30), most intense rain storm I’ve ever driven through, got stoned with some guys from W Virginia, and enjoyed some good bbq.
hmm… i guess not really. not much to do. i thought it was grand because it caught me by surprise on a road trip to graceland. famous homes of bootstrappin’ dudes.
That would be cool to stumble across. Particularly on the way to Graceland.
Where were you coming from that Lincoln’s birthplace was on the way to Graceland?
it was on the return trip, after memphis, through nashville, a preference for 2-lane hwys over interstates while heading vaguely back home to brooklyn, and voila. i was wearing a gold sharkskin suit i bought at the red, white, and blue thrift it memphis. and had eaten chicken fried steak for breakfast. god damn i love a road trip.
It sounds glorious. I too love a road trip. We took a fun one this summer and I’m already hankering for another.
All I know is Bourbon Trail.
All I know is what goes up must come down…unless it’s something that keeps going up for some reason…okay, the more I think about it I don’t really know much about things that continue to go up and never come down…I’m pretty sure I had a point here I was trying to make but…hey look a cookie.
You know quite a bit about VORP.
We’re #1
We’re #1
We’re #1
No, they just smell like #1 because the 1% has been pissing on them their entire lives.
Though a cursory fact-check actually puts his $22M net worth in 10th place, with only 1/10th of the wealth of Mark Warner (D-VA) and 1/3rd of Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
I think in honor of our President-Elect, we should all just eschew facts.
That’s just like, your opinion.
I’m pretty sure Mississippi is the poorest state. They’re the state that keeps my state away from being 50th in everything.
You are correct though West Virginia also gives Arkansas a run for its lack of money.
There’s always the Ark Encounter. Taxpayer funded, no less!
I had some surprisingly good tacos in Florence, KY.
There’s a one-hour documentary on MLB Network at 6pm tonight titled “School of Rickey.”
I would like to see that, and I would like to not have the mlb network. I hope, like fastball, it comes on netflix
Just to let you know my posts are now backwards compatible if you want to play them on your Sega Genesis.
We almost got EE if anyone cares.
Whoa, a competitive offer. Aren’t Holliday and Kazmir the two highest-paid A’s so far (for one season)? They would almost have been doubled.
Also, not that I was under any illusions but I notice Billy gets all the mentions in that article and Forst is absent. I’ll deal with the big bucks stuff, why don’t you go scrounge up some journeyman middle reliever.
I just saw that. Why the hell would they think renting EE makes any sense for this team?