The Winter Meetings start today. Beane and Forst are still hunting outfielders.
Slusser posits that Lowrie is the A’s most likely trade chip.
Eno Sarris thinks the A’s should sign Jay Bruce, who he says is not Billy Butler.
In stadium non-news, Matier and Ross have Dave Kaval blowing off Scott McKibben regarding restarting Coliseum talks:
McKibben doesn’t necessarily buy the A’s pessimism about the Coliseum, saying any development there will get done far faster and cheaper than one downtown.
However, he isn’t getting a warm reception from the team.
Kaval has been silent publicly since the Laney College site collapsed, a development that the team said left it “shocked.” McKibben sent him a text, inviting him to sit down and talk “once the dust settles.”
“The dust has settled,” Kaval texted back. “There is no reason to meet.”
Sounds bad.
More links please.
Hey, we have a power bat!
Several teams, including Boston, called about Davis this offseason and were told he’s not available.
What. Why.
That makes no sense. I can see the A’s holding out for a strong offer, but off the table completely? Hopefully that’s BS.
YEAH JEETS!
Trammell, Morris into the Hall via the something called the “Modern Era Committee.”
If the A’s decide the Coliseum may be an option after all, there’s no particular reason for them to say so right away.
Public and governmental relations are reasons they should say it fairly quickly, unless they are going to pull some kind of a Laney or Montreal shenanigans.
I doubt the A’s are feeling much urge to support the local pols whom the team feels helped sink the Laney site by way of lack of support. And after a full year of the team’s best local public relations effort in decades.
I hope the A’s get back to considering the Coliseum site, and I think there’s a good chance they will. But for right now, my take is that the A’s perceive that the same Coliseum site deal available today will be there a year from now. So tactically why not make the local pols offer more first.
Fair point, but hearing them say all this now is pretty discouraging.
When they announced the Laney plans (or maybe even before) I commented that the Coliseum plan would likely be easier to get done, but Laney would be a better site IF they could pull it off. (And from the team’s point of view, SJ was in that latter category as well.) Now they’re suggesting that the financing to get something built at the Coliseum might not be there. Even if that’s partly posturing, it’s not really what the fans want or need to hear.
Also, right up until the Laney announcement they were running a survey that treated Laney, the Coli, and HT as viable options. So now they are telling us that the Coliseum wasn’t viable after all? I don’t buy it.
Agreed on that one. There’s no rush. They’re currently not looking like the bad guys. They’re not making threats to leave (so far). They’re not doing any sort of ultimatum stuff. So it’s not really hurting their brand at all to effectively stay quite about their future while they sniff around. Quite the opposite, financially it’s in their best interest to wait that out. Once the Raiders & Warriors take off, they still have a long term lease there and the City/County still needs to pay the loan off. The loan pay off will be a few million less. And with that, possibly the price, especially given what little resources they’ll have to pay it off with (two fewer tenants and a brand new arena across the bay to compete with).
“First and foremost, we are committed to being in Oakland and staying in our city.” Note also comments from Wasserman and Ghielmetti, two very heavy hitters in Oakland politics.
Andrew Baggarly on covering the Winter Meetings
That is hilarious. I thought the punchline would be reporters stocking the clubhouse soda machine.
DFA’d last week.
Go ahead, Mr. Wendle
Me neither tbh
I wish we could at least get some decent rumors. Stephen Piscotty talk is not going to get my blood flowing.
His defense isn’t very good, but at least he’s a bad hitter.
Thanks, and go As.
I don’t get this
new guy, placeholder, joyce
chapman, semien, lowrie, olson
maxwell/phegley
pinder, canha, nunez, davis
why?
Wow that’s a FKing bad lineup. It’s like Billy’s trying to have a shitty outfield on purpose.
Thanks, and go As.
It’s Jeter’s fault.
Even without the uncertainty around Maxwell’s off the field issues, catcher seems like the biggest problem to me.
Agreed. I’m not sold on Maxwell as a starter.
OF is pretty bad too though. Steamer projections for wOBA:
Joyce .337, Powell .315, Fowler .298, Canha .311, Pinder .298, Nunez .289
Joyce is the only above-average hitter, and his defense is not great. Fowler and Pinder might both do a lot better than those projections, but it’s not something we should rely on. The rest is a bunch of meh.
That’s FKing horrific.
Also I don’t think Joyce will hit that well.
Thanks, and go As.
It will be tempting to rush Murphy. His defense seems ready, but he may never be ready with the bat.
BORING
I mean, maybe a bounce back candidate. I can’t imagine he is going to cost anything. he is owed a lot and sucks
Sounds like this is happening
Per Slusser, the Cardinals are going to get Ozuna, and then we will take Piscotty off their hands.
Updated
Sounds like this will likely happen.
I guess I’m more positive about it than the rest of you. Not exciting, no. But he has a good chance to be an average player, which is an upgrade over our current outfield, and < $7M/year is not really a lot of money. (He's signed for five years, so it's a lot of money total if he tanks and isn't worth a roster spot at all, but that doesn't seem that likely.) Seems like a better bet than Avisail Garcia.
It’s……….fine.
Headley -> Padres. With holes at 2nd and 3rd now, maybe Lowrie could be an option for the Yankees?
or semien! and sign cozart
RIP Mayor Lee
I met Ed Lee once, at all places at the new Niners stadium, on a tour before construction was completed. I have a lot of respect for the way he transitioned from lifelong bureaucrat (not a perjorative) to elected official while staying true to himself, more or less. I value a municipal leader who knows what running a city actually entails.
he can’t play center garden anymore
I’m more worried that he can’t hit anymore.
Interesting Sherman speculation on Graveman/Manaea to the Yankees (Warning: NY Post link)
I’m not opposed to this idea. I find it really hard to envision a team that’s headed to the playoffs with a rotation led by Manaea and Graveman. Unless you’re very optimistic on Cotton/Mengden/Gossett, etc turning it around, this is a staff with injury issues (and quite frankly, averageness) at the top and #5 starters at 3,4,5. And it’s rounded out with poor quality MLB ready depth beyond that (Triggs, Alcantara, Hahn).
So I’m in favor of blowing it up. Get guys from the Yankees that can come up with the Puk/Holmes/Shore/Kaprielian timeline. If we can get Florial, Frazier, Adams, and Abreu from the Yankees for Manaea, Graveman, and Lowrie, I wouldn’t feel bad about it.
so, the 2016-17 A’s rotation CAN win a world series.
Heh heh.
That sucks. I really want to know how many votes Saban gets.
Sounds like he won’t be back on the postgame show this year.
What a fucking clod.
Do I want to know what he said?
Not really, but curiosity will get the better of you anyway.
Yup.
He is a painfully stupid man.
It’s going around.
I was hoping for some idiocy about Hitler but it was what I expected.
in case there’s any confusion.
Even Roy Moore thinks these kids are a little young.
13? 14?
shit balls
Thing’s I never knew: Minor league baseball presents an annual Chief Bender Award for distinguished service in player development. Grady Fuson just won it.
Also from Chief Bender’s wiki page: “fans often made war whoops or yelled taunts…After an inning in which [Bender] had pitched particularly well, he might yell back, “Foreigners! Foreigners!””
The NY Times speedometer election tracker needle thingy is drunk right now.
Is this going to be Bush-Gore in Florida again? Sigh.
NO! ITS GOING TO BE A’S SIGN CESPEDES!!!!!
JONES TAKES THE LEAD
With the Saban/Malzahn vote currently larger than the Jones/Moore difference.
It’s all coming together.
Final margin: 1.5%
Write-in: 1.7%
As a voter in a NOTA state I love that stuff.
I assume Senator Jones will operate in the tradition of the Boll Weevil Democrats of the Reagan years, but it’s certainly the better result.
He named checked his “mentor” Howell Heflin in his victory speech, so I suppose that is possible.
About 23K write-ins. I hope somebody, a blogger or whomever, does go to the effort to count those.
I will guess:
Nick Saban: 10K
Gus Malzahn: 4K
Something like “ROLL TIDE” or “WAR EAGLE”: 300
Maybe we won’t need the blogger, because of that write-ins > victory margin figure.
Saban got 8 votes in Morgan County.
Other notables include the Duck Dynasty guy with 4, Jeff Sessions with 3, and Ronald Reagan, Condi Rice, “a competent conservative,” Bozo The Clown, and Buddy the Elf each with 1.
It looks like Saban will finish either 5th or 6th; he is approximately tied with Jeff Sessions with some counties yet to report. Saban will be well ahead of Jesus Christ, Robert E. Lee, SpongeBob Square Pants and Jimmy Buffett, among others.
Full list now up (430-page PDF with county-by-county results and in some cases separate pages for various precincts). In Madison County (Huntsville), I see that “Not Listed Due to Graphic Language” (3) trailed Jesus Christ (11) but defeated the formidable combination of God (1) and God Almighty (1).
REDDICK IS GETTING THE PIE!
BANNON DROPPED THE BALL!!
I can’t even imagine what a shitshow that would be with this crowd involved.
But it looks to me like Jones is going to win this by a clear point or two.
Holy shit…
i checked in a half hour ago and it looked other-which-way-wise. got so sad.
not sad i started drinking early though!
7 PM is early?
[looks around]
um, yeah, totally
well, you should see the vat of scotch i dove into.
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my whisky advent calendar.
My clients do this all the time too
And now we know why he didn’t choose the A’s.
Even for someone as reality-challenged as the Trumpster fire, claiming that “the deck was stacked against” a Republican candidate in Alabama is a whole new level of delusion.
mightily.
Well, the deck is sort of stacked against any candidate associated with Trump at the moment.
Julian McWilliams (not Slusser or Jane Lee) is the new fulltime A’s beat writer for The Athletic.
There’s a link to a free trial at the bottom of the story, if you want to snoop around and see what they’re up to.
I hope Slusser parlayed that open position into a raise.
I’m hopeful that the Chron appreciates that Slusser is the best (and best known) daily reporter on the whole paper, and also that Slusser likes her life as is and doesn’t want to look elsewhere. Being able to successfully retire on one’s own terms from a print daily is rarified air these days.
Kinsler -> Angels
Piscotty trade is official. Yairo Munoz and Max Schrock to Cards. According to Jane Lee
Not thrilled about losing Schrock, but it’s probably OK.
I fully expect to see both guys starting for the Cardinals.
https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-airtight-case-for-a-fringe-nats-prospect-as-future-mvp/
Worst case he’s their new Eckstein.
Are these really the stats you want to be advertising?
Difficult to say without coming off as harsh, but objectively: It sounds like his mother’s medical situation was a major consideration in this trade, and as long as that remains an issue it would be very difficult to trade him to anyone but the Giants. I hope he turns into a right-handed Reddick so that’s never an issue.
Definitely a major consideration in the trade, but also maybe a consideration in last year’s performance.
Without sounding like a dick, I don’t understand how it’s going to change this year.
ALS doesn’t go away.
Thanks, and go As.
Technically it does go away. Just… not in the most convenient method. But being closer to her may help. Or make it significantly worse.
One of us! One of us!
Hell yeah
Also lost Brett Graves in the Rule 5 draft to the Jeters.
Maybe we can negotiate them not having to return Graves in return for Yelich.
Principal Poop would be proud.
Eat lots of food and plenty of it.
Dan. Johnson.?
If you have time, the full KCIR report is worth reading.
Current back-of-envelope team status:
Lineup: OK. Dingers.
Defense: Possibly competent outfield, elite corner infield, very limited dp combo, sketchy but better-than-Vogt catching
Bullpen: Better but still not great
Rotation: Fragile, mediocre
Hard to see this team contending for another year or two, at least until the starting pitching starts to arrive from the minors.
What, 3 good hitters? The Matts and Khris? Lowrie is OK if he stays, Semien is OK.
Thanks, and go As.
Joyce is at least in the OK group, borderline good.
With the caveat that he can’t hit lefties.
Same with Piscotty.
I’m unconvinced.
Thanks, and go As.
At best slightly better. Maxwell and Phegley were both better than Vogt at controlling the running game, but worse at blocking pitches.
Basically this team can’t be actually good until and unless Murphy, Puk, Holmes, Kaprelian, Barreto, Mateo, and Fowler all make it.
Dammit
That seems like a good deal, even if you assume that his 2017 offense was a fluke.
The only thing that’s weird is that they already have the world’s best defensive shortstop.
If they go ahead and trade Simmons to the A’s, I would be just fine with it.
He’ll probably move to third. And the annoying thing is that the Reds didn’t extend him the QO, so no draft picks.
edfa is sad.
its true
Fresno manners
damages are pretty speculative, yeah?
I guess it depends on whether he seems to have made a full recovery this year? Maybe he could get an expert to say what the average guy with his prospect ranking could expect to make over the course of a career.
I hate it when news stories don’t link to the pleading they are writing about.
Well here’s one resignation or impeachment we can expect in the near future.
Even sooner than I expected.
Couldn’t we have done all of this in 2013?
Can we turn kendall graveman into something good?
Those five players combined for around $70M in salary last year.
McCarthy (0.7 WAR) had the most value.
gonzalez to be released
Ralph Carney :-(
Fell down his stairs at 61.
Well that was a paper-thin margin of loss for the Raiders.
I was looking at the NFL tiebreaker rules earlier. Buffalo can get a wild-card at 9-7 (doesn’t matter which game they win but one is more likely), but the other result they would need is Jacksonville winning at Tennessee on the final Sunday.
This is my favorite example of the fumble into and out of the end zone for a touchback at the end of the game:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VG-2q42i8U4%3Fstart%3D9993” frameborder=”0″ gesture=”media” allow=”encrypted-media” allowfullscreen>
—Hmph, link embed not working correctly; go to 2:46:33 on the video to see the relevant play—
Re-calculating the “Strength of Victory” tiebreaker, which I assume to be total number of wins by the opponents they have defeated, it’s closer than I thought. If Tennessee beats the Rams but loses to Jacksonville, then Buffalo probably needs to beat the Patriots instead of Miami, because New England adds more opponents’ wins than Miami does. It would fall to that tiebreaker because both Buffalo and Tennessee would be 9-7 overall and 7-5 in conference. I’m assuming Baltimore gets 10 wins and the first wild card.
No, if Buffalo beats Miami, Buffalo (4-1) would be Tennessee (3-2) vs. common opponents (Miami, Indy, Oakland, Cincy).
There’s a full breakdown of all scenarios here. What you said above covers the most likely cases.
This stuff causes short circuits between my ears and I ought to have figured out by now that I shouldn’t bother trying.
Bills now need:
(Bills beat Miami) AND ((Bengals beat Ravens) OR ((Jaguars beat Titans) AND (Raiders beat Chargers)))
So both scenarios – missing the playoffs by choking away a winnable game, and missing the playoffs by losing a tiebreaker – are very much alive. In particular, my playoff hopes could come down to needing help from the Raiders in next week’s afternoon game.
Never in doubt
Interesting piece on Baseball Prospectus arguing that everyone has been doing a bad job of measuring the effectiveness of shifts, and that they might actually hurt run prevention in part because pitchers throw more balls when the defense behind them is shifted.
I’m not totally convinced one way or the other. It seems super hard to get a good measure on something that is deployed as a tactic, because the managers who call for the shift are explicitly doing it in a biased, non-random way. And despite having a large sample size, once you start trying to control for sample biases it can be tough to differentiate between random fluctuations and real effects.
How aware are the pitchers?
I’m sure that pitchers know when the infielders are shifted behind them. And I think they usually adjust pitch selection to encourage ground balls. So it’s totally possible that this could throw off the pitcher’s command.
He’s about to turn 25, so one hopes he’ll be on the fast track to something.
Dan Feinstein:
From BA:
The Lesson of the Day appears to be that putting a 45°, 30 mph curve in the middle of your new “high-speed” rail line is not the best engineering design.
A
walkdance down memory lane. The photo gallery includes good shots of Dave Stewart, Barry Zito, and Bill King, among others.Neat.
Wow
They counted this for the Republican in the House of Delegates race, making it a tie. You can infer that this was a straight GOP voter, but still pretty questionable.
In our work, we’d throw that question out for that case. You can’t make the assumption that it’s a straight liner. And, especially considering they Xed the other person, you can’t make the assumption that the line was intended to cross it out. And I can’t imagine a legal standard that would ever back up the assumption that they intended to vote for the Republican.
I was inclined to accept the line through the Simonds bubble as an indication that the voter goofed and intended to vote Yancey, but then I looked at the two lines through the Gillespie bubble, which was presumably counted in the governor’s race.
The Gillespie bubble likely would have held just because you can infer, without any other evidence to suggest otherwise, that they simply misread the instructions on the first one and accidentally checked it rather than filled it in. Not so much elsewhere. That first one in connection with the second one makes it impossible to fairly interpret what they intended for the House delegate.
iono. that ballot looks like a fairly clear tie.
I guess in Virginia, the playoffs really are a crap-shoot.
The Democrats’ shit didn’t work in the lot drawing.
That whole situation was such bullshit.
The judges who thought that ballot was an unambiguous vote for the Republican must moonlight as NFL replay officials.
Beane comes away from the winter meetings with part-ownership of Barnsley.
Excellent crest
Though I’m not sure about a white shirt in a coal mine.
I says our rotation could use a buff young fellow:
JEETS!
(warning sbnation link)
wat
Thanks, and go As.
that helps the giants?
oh, just saw span. yes, that’s good for them.
Although I think this makes them the SF white giants again.
Top 20 prospects per Sickels
Bristol City FTW!
“American Vandal” on Netflix is great.
Why was I not informed of this?
Also, Peaky fuckin’ Blinders is back.
I’m about halfway through American Vandal and I totally agree #whodrewallthedicks?
I loved it, yes
I finally watched “The Force Awakens.”
My ice cold take: meh
completely agree.
and i haven’t even seen it yet.
i don’t know why i wrote “yet.”
The new one was significantly better than The Force Awakens.
Thanks, and go As.
The acting in The Force Awakens was outstanding (apart from Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher tbh). The writing was kind of bad though. Not prequels bad, but like an uninspired cover version of the original.
Those four actors with a better script and director could be dynamite.
“cover version of A New Hope” is a very apt description
Wasn’t a particularly good cover either. While I liked John Boyega’s part, it hit a nerve every time he got excited and channeled Will Smith. Any time he wasn’t doing that, he was great. Fisher wasn’t around long enough to be good or bad, Ford probably phoned in because fuck it. But overall, yeah, it was listless and uninspiring.
I actually went to that movie for the sole purpose of catching some sleep before a long drive. It didn’t disappoint.
The moment I realized it was bad was when Oscar Isaac’s character shows up again, and the only explanation is “I was thrown from the wreckage!”
I also found the basic premise of the film confusing. After the fall of the empire, there is a new republic? This empire clone called the first order is opposing the republic, but the republic still exists, right? So why would there be a “resistance”? Is Leia a general in the resistance, or in the republic, or both?
I read a weird primer that’s not really worth hunting for but the explanation was something along the lines of the First Order is a nation of it’s own, the Resistance is a group working to subvert the First Order on behalf of the New Republic (independently?), which is a second nation. And magically the First Order blew up the entire New Republic.
But yeah, so much of the story was horribly rushed. Spread out within a trilogy of it’s own, maybe, MAYBE, it could all make sense. But I doubt it. All built into a single film that was basically a clone of a previous one was agonizingly stupid. There’s so much wrong with it that the set up of who’s who really didn’t matter much.
Totally agree. The people who are trashing it because it did things actually a bit different than their pre conceived notions are nuts. I may actually see it again in the theater.
Bed bait
if you play it at 8:58:13 tonight…
start off your shithouse shutdown right.
I’m so FKed … and not in the good way.
NASA, NSF and DOE grant offices will all be shut down, which means no funding come October.
“i’m sorry sir, your card was denied. We can’t let you use that oxygen tank”
Good job for someone
Happy solstice, FKers! Here’s to brighter days to come.
Thanks! See you tonight!
Happy solstice. I’m ready to hibernate now.
To you too!
I have never been so happy to see a year end.
Silver lining:
Dow Jones Industrial Average: +25.25%
S&P 500: +19.85%
NASDAQ Composite: +29.29%
That can go the other way fast, and it’s a good time to check and rebalance your stocks/bonds asset allocation, but you should be in a much better position financially for retirement than you were at the beginning of the year.
Especially if it was in bitcoins
Using VTSAX (Vanguard Total Stock Market Index) with dividends reinvested as a proxy for “investing in US stocks”, 2017 ends at +21.15%, and total return since Election Day 2016 is +28.16%.
Total returns for last four presidential terms (Election Day to Election Day):
Obama 2nd: +61.83%
Obama 1st: +59.89%
Bush 2nd: -2.38%
Bush 1st: -6.36% (using 12/13/2000 Gore concession as the start date)
So in other words, El Trumpador better hope for about +34% next year if he wants to equal Obama before he loses the Congress and gets impeached.
The Bush second term was humming along at a sweet +49.30% as late as October 9, 2007 before being sucked into the vortex of the financial crisis. I envision something similar in this term. The joy of corporate tax cuts is now old news and even if it were a “normal” presidency, the bull market is getting very old and we’re at a point in the economic cycle where inflation and Fed tightening are due to wreak some havoc on the stock market.
With these idiots at the helm, I won’t be surprised if we have a great depression in store.
Minor League Ball has their A’s list out. Sickles doesn’t do as much scouting as BA or BP but it’s still interesting to get his perspective. Pretty similar to the BP list although Neuse is higher here.
1. Baretto
2. Puk
3. Mateo
4. Fowler
5. Luzardo
6. Beck
7. Neuse
8. Holmes
9. Armenteros
10. Murphy
11. Kaprielian
I feel like the jump between A and B is FKing huge. How do you go from “grade A prospects should AT LEAST be regulars and have a good chance at becoming stars” to “grade B prospects end up spending several years in the majors, at least in a marginal role”
Thanks, and go As.
RIP Dick Enberg
A real pro, and to all appearances a genuinely nice guy. Enberg never acted like he was the show, or bigger than the fans (unlike, say, that asshat Musberger). And Enberg called a good game. I’ll miss hearing his voice.
My sentiments exactly. He had the ability to make a big event feel like a big event, and he was never boring, but it also was never about him.
Expect for this: “ELWAY! ELWAY!”
this is my life now
I don’t know how to change the password that came on my Sonic router. It’s 15 random numbers and letters and I have to crouch down under a table to look at the side of the thing every time.
You can change it at gateway.sonic.net (though you’ll need the current password to do so).
I guess I’m bringing the laptop with me next time I go under that table.
TWSS?
Write it down?
lifehack for that: let your phone cam do kneeling and peering.
And then put that perfectly solid random password into your LastPass vault where it keeps securing your wifi but you don’t have to remember it.
Until lastpass gets hacked :(
Thanks, and go As.
This is what I get for commenting before I finish reading the thread…
lifehack: chrome has the full-window screen grab. you can take a pic, read all the greens, come back to FK…
KIDDING.
Take a picture of it. It has saved me so much crouching. And I can text the pic to friends when they come over and save us all time and effort.
Looks like I missed a lot of action in this Arsenal vs. Unknown Orange Team match.
Conceding 3 goals in 5 minutes in a game you otherwise dominate should be enough to tell you who was in orange.
The U.S. Men?
listen to this now.
March Fong Eu dies. Although my mother was a Republican, I recall her being a big supporter of Ms. Eu because of her position on one of the critical issues of the day.
So much going on here:
1. Legal analysis please: why is the City of Oakland liable here? Article says the jury found “…Brooks was acting within the scope of her employment as a city employee” when she assaulted plaintiff at a restaurant on a Friday night. That seems like an awful reach. Are elected officials acting as employees 24/7?
2. Desley Brooks is the nastiest public official I have ever met. Routinely mean and vindictive in public and private, obstructive when not getting her way, and corrupt. Everyone is constantly terrified of her political thuggery; she’s like a black Huey Long.
3. Making plaintiff Elaine Brown is the good guy here, ironic given that she may be a murderer and perhaps even worse gave us David Horowitz.
This is a crazy ass story.
I don’t get the scope of employment thing either. I guess it is because the fight was over a city government issue, and Brooks allegedly threatened to kill the housing application during the fight. Seems pretty questionable.
I deny saying what I just said about denying that I said something that I previously said
I’n not a millionaire? fake news. give me tat bentley
Niners might never lose again
Thanks, and go As.
Festive
Festivus
To all ‘v us.
You could tell me that is a picture of a robot created in some Fox News lab, and I would believe you.
Merry Christmas FKers.
happy nondenominational wintertime holiday!
Thanks, and go As.
Thanks, and go As.
I love that Sullivan’s Twitter icon is the Lawn Dart.
We have no snow on the ground at 6500′, except for a few pathetic patches in the shade, and none is expected to fall for the remainder of 2017. :-( I’m going for an afternoon hike in the balmy 50° sunshine.
White Christmas in Massachusetts and a cold snap is moving in tomorrow. Thursday forecast is for a South Pole-ish high temperature of +5°F.
Happy Rickeymas!
Football is stupid.
I’m actually at the point now where it means a slightly better draft position so go for it. Drop that pass! Throw into triple coverage!
Tedford will be Fresno’s mayor shortly.
in case you missed the latest in entitled assholes punching down…
‘You earn 100 pesos (£4.20) a month, idiot.’ —sampaoli
wtf to every word of this
How many of those clicks came from Roy Moore?
whatever its fine. Ever since guttenberg, the means of production have been getting closer and closer to people. good for them to monetize this.
I don’t stand in the way of kids doing things differently. As long as they don’t make fun of me for having a crush on bobby sherman.
I’m totally shipping you and Bobby Sherman.
edbby!
A friend who has a teenage girl hipped me to that phrase maybe 2 months ago. I am cutting edge
I am still sometimes called “Ebbie” by my mom and sister because I wrote it that way for about a month