This Jeff Pearlman anti-Bonds screed in The Athletic is a little nutso. There aren’t enough ways to argue against Bonds’ enshrinement without first wrapping your white self in Hank Aaron’s struggle?
And, just, this writing…
This is what it was to be a black man in America.
This is what it was to be a black man in America, having the gall to erase a beloved white icon from the record books.
This is what it was.
Aaron, as we all know, is tougher than salted leather, and on April 8, 1974, he hit home run No. 715 into the Braves’ bullpen at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. Over the next 2 1/2 seasons he socked 40 more, and when his 23-year career wrapped with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1976, 755 wasn’t merely a baseball figure, but a civil rights figure.
Arguably the civil rights figure.
Then—like flame to paper—Barry Bonds came along, cheated and rendered the number irrelevant.
Poof.
Seems to me that desperation like this suggests Pearlman knows Bonds is going to get in soon.
Anyway, I’m low on links, but the grill is hot. Toss ’em on.
This Jeff Pearlman
anti-Bonds screed in The Athleticis a little nutso.FTFY
Bonds/Clemens are running at around 72% of the publicly disclosed ballots so far, just under the 75% threshold. But they have also done worse overall than on the published ballots in past years, probably because those who publish their ballots skew younger. And most voters have made up their minds on that particular issue. So I would expect them to continue falling short for at least a few more years.
vegan ryan has made a name for himself
Forgive me if this is a repost, but here are the A’s ZIPS projections.
Favorite No. 1 comps:
AJ Puk = Jon Lester
Matt Olson = Mo Vaughn
Boog Powell = Curt Flood
Chris Hatcher = Jim Mecir
Simon Castro = Ryan Dempster
I hope the AJ Puk comp isn’t based on pick-off moves
What??
Is there an “n-word” for vulcan?
I’d rather have john woo
why am i mr pink?
because you’re a tribble, alright?!
Cook’s Country recommends Eden organic sauerkraut. Runner-up Libby’s.
Bed bait in yesterday’s NYT crossword:
Eight letters for “Smokin’ hot”
Iowa State has made football much less stupid today.
I realize that all of these bowl games outside of the Playoff are exhibitions, but for the Pac-12 to follow a very mediocre regular season with a 1-8 record in its bowls is an embarrassment. They didn’t even need Cal to chip in with a loss to get to that record. C’MON MAN. I didn’t watch that much of it, except for Furd getting the 21-3 lead the other night and then getting blown out of the building for the last 2-1/2 quarters.
Jeff Pearlman, making a career of hypocritical trolling since at least 1999.
What’s the point of letting both networks show doubleheaders for the last week if you then move all the relevant games to the later time slot?
At least dump out of this hideous Jets game which is going to ~80% of the country (I know, Tom Brady!) and let us watch the Browns go for ignominy.
Shouldn’t they be taking him out at some point? Or are his magical antioxidants enough to protect him from injury?
Ha, on 4th down, Kizer makes an amazing escape, finds an open receiver, and the pass goes right through his hands.
You’re doing a heckuva job DePo.
The graphic providing one final kick in the teeth.
After all these years of failure, from spectacular to mundane, somehow the Browns can still out-Browns themselves. It’s remarkable, really.
And with the Bills win, I guess the Browns (2002) are also the new incumbent for longest streak without making the playoffs.
Seattle Mariners (2001)? (in the major pro sports)
Yup, it’s the M’s.
Stanford should be very embarrassed to blow a 17-point lead at home to this Cal men’s basketball team.
One wonders what horror awaits the Buffalo Bills in the next hour and a half.
I dunno, somehow they’re feeling Cinderella-y to me. Could the glass mukluk fit?
Surely not nearly as horrible as Raiders fans have endured all season.
I’m hoping the Gruden rumors are true – this entire coaching staff needs to go.
I doubt MikeV, even in his wildest alcoholic dreams, would have seen the Niners finishing with the same record as the Raiders.
JIMMY G IS NEVER GOING TO LOSE A GAME.
Thanks, and go As.
He’s for real. Now we just need 21 more.
If they hit like they did in the draft again this year, they’re a playoff team next season.
Thanks, and go As.
The week 16 win certainly suggests that.
Yeah, I’ve been a JDR fan but when different parts of the scheme fail every week you kind of run out of people to point at. That said, reunion coaching gigs seem to fail a lot more than they succeed.
Best part of today’s game was the long camera shot of Mark Davis sucking his fingers like dolt.
That 4th-and-one call at their own 17 should seal JDR’s fate.
Greg Papa: “The Raiders’ offensive unit is the most disappointing unit in the whole league.”
Tom Flores: “Embarrassing. Embarrassing.”
Lincoln Kennedy: “Yep.”
Del Rio officially fired.
LeSean McCoy ankle injury is a solid start.
It comes down to asking the Cincinnati Bengals to hold on to a lead on the road…
whoops
Clearly too much to ask.
One last teASe in 2017.
HOLY FKING SHIT
Holy shit, the A’s never do that.
Playoffs?! PLAYOFFS??!
Yay andeux!
When I’m posting from the nursing home in 2047, and Cal needs to score on fourth and goal with :03 remaining in the Big Game to get to the Rose Bowl, please remember that I was rooting for you on December 31, 2017.
If NCAA Football is still around in 30 years, I will do so.
Apparently the ghost of Marvin Lewis is a Bills fan.
Roll-call of your most bizarre holiday gifts.
I’ll start with toss-up between some weight-lifting gloves and a water-damaged Eric Plunk Topps card.
Does literal garbage count? FIL and sMIL go to the recycling center at the Amherst dump. Every year some of the gifts in the big christmas package is from there. This time it was wood cut nesting cats. Its not as bizarre as it is useless.
Also very disappointed that the 31 new comments were CTE ball and not Bed saying HNY
Bed must be at the super-secret Phil Collins NYE show. I’m enjoying Phish at MSG (midnight ET edit: Soul Planet > Auld Lang Syne > Free), with My Morning Jacket from Colorado later. I decided to retire from any direct NYE participation unless something unusually appealing comes up in the future.
It crossed my mind to do a separate football thread which could be ignored, a la the World Cup which I appreciated and I guess also served as a spoilers thread, but aside from the Bills I don’t think there’s enough FKers’ interest in what remains of football, college or NFL, to justify it.
I don’t mind. allows me to stay informed.
3 lb bag of Japanese salt
huh. my oddest gift was a stovetop salt cellar.
not odd, but bolstering my personal rule about not giving an expert something within his/her expertise (derived from the time someone found out i was into hot sauce and they got me… tapatío), i got a really, really badly designed, and badly printed, book about book design.
Large quantities of hand lotion (which I never use)
Always love the weighty/bulky gifts for the folks who have to fly home.
There was also a bottle of soy sauce, which I was sure was going to break in my luggage (but it didn’t).
We did a gift exchange this year where all the adults get to choose and steal from each other. The way it worked out, I ended getting my own gift.
Oh yeah, we did one of those with my wife’s cousins and it is a strong contender for most bizarre holiday gift. Two of the cousins independently gifted Poo-Pourri toilet spray, so of course my wife and I ended up with both bottles. I contributed three cans from Tree House Brewing, which took ~80 minutes of waiting in line in Massachusetts December weather.
The left-over Tree House was delicious, thanks.
I’m glad it survived the trip!
Should have a rule that if you have your own gift at the end, you get the option to steal.
The trouble with the white elephant/gift grab games is being #1, with the risk of hours of boredom if the gift you get is something crappy that no-one would ever steal.
My favorite strategy in that situation is to select a gift but refuse to unwrap it.
Hmmm, now I’m wondering if I can turn next year’s event into a Monty Hall Problem for someone.
i like it
It needs more random elements to make things interesting. Like a dice roll after each round where if you hit something like 1, you have to randomly pull a name of someone who already has a gift out of a hat and swap. So sure, you can swap out the worst gift for the best, but there’s still a chance afterward of being forced to swap it back or swap it with someone else. That way the person stuck with the worst always has the potential of not getting stuck with the bad one. Maybe even do something after that 1 is hit so that whoever has the worst gift has a higher chance of getting selected.
The family who does it best in my circle has a spin-the-wheel element that includes various swap-combos.
That would actually work pretty well. And with mobile phone spinners, you can add and tweak options each round.
(pitches 2017 over railing of Bill King Deck onto granite boulders below)
May 2018 bring us a team that’s competitive enough to hold our interest well into August (I’m optimistic) and a new ballpark plan that can actually proceed past the “pretty pictures” stage (less so). Happy New Year, FKers!
Happy New Year to FKers near and far. Less than three months until Opening Day (which promises to be quiet if they don’t actually put tickets on sale).
Another interesting piece in the emerging history of the fossil fuel industry’s long knowledge of the danger of anthopogenic climate change … a 1959 keynote address to the American Petroleum Institute by Edward FKing Teller!
1. Happy New Year!!
2. Go Bills!
3. I Tonya is pretty good. Worth a DVD. She had a pretty lousy childhood. If her mom is even a 10th of what’s depicted…OMG.
Buster Sooner
Sad day. Lincoln got dramatically outcoached at halftime, and man does #9 the linebacker suck.
I was kinda looking forward to being able to post “Iowa State 38, National Champs 31”. Oh well.
is it june yet?
:(
Thanks, and go As.
shit. i’m gonna have to do better remembering what i can and can’t say.
It’s OK, I’m just going to root for Messi to get his.
Thanks, and go As.
me too. he deserves it.
i jumped the gun.
is it march yet?
A’s finally announce ticket sale dates.
* Tickets for Free April 17 50th Anniversary game available Weds Jan 10.
* Individual game tix available to registered fans (i.e. those who get the emails) in pre-sale Tues Jan 16 at 4pm.
* Individual game tix available to regular stiffs Weds Jan 17
* Fan Fest is Sat Jan 27, 10am at Jack London Sq.
oooooooooook
Those are a lot of words for a saying absolutely nothing truthful.
god dammit. it’s been like 30 minutes and i still can’t get “up in here, up in here” out of my head.
SAME!!!!!!!!!
lol
The funny thing is that I wasn’t even fully conscious of how it got in there until you mentioned it. But I had been muttering “y’all goan make me lose my mind” to myself.
Lebendowski had nothing to do with the campaign
Manafort had nothing to do with the campaign
Bannon had nothing to do with the campaign
hmm.
bannon says the probe is gonna end up on laundering.
trump insults bannon.
sanders goes live to explicate insults.
meanwhile, manafort announces suit, that his laundering had nothing to do with election.
—-
i’m not saying they’re in concert. it’s just all so sudden after a get-the-story-straight break.
Junior had nothing to do with the campaign.
Kushner had nothing to do with the campaign.
Pence had nothing to do with the campaign.
Donald Trump Sr. had nothing to do with the campaign.
Ah, Scotland
In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Peter Falk said: “I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, ‘Try this.’
Yes. “Exciting.”
Exciting for her! Anyway, it’s more full-time people covering the A’s, which I like.
Until the Athletic vanquishes the print dailies, as per their explicit goal, at which point I assume the layoffs and salary cuts begin.
wait, you can do this?
Sure, can’t you sue anyone for pretty much anything?
If you are willing to eat the Rule 11 sanctions, yes.
Seems to me like there is a distinct chance that Manafort’s suit will backfire, resulting in a judge’s ruling that Mueller can investigate whatever the FK he wants. Not that it would prevent Trump from continuing to whine.
On the other hand, maybe Manafort is filing the lawsuit somewhere where he knows he will get a sympathetic hearing.
He filed it in the federal court for the District of Columbia, and it was assigned to the same Obama appointee who has his criminal case. I suspect she will view this as a stunt.
I’m glad to hear that this isn’t looking like some savvy tactical move then.
I just filed suit against the DA in all my cases.
Check and mate, sir.
asvd
I’m beginning to think Paul Manafort may not be the brilliant tactician I took him for.
Arsene Wenger’s head is going to explode.
FSU Rootability Index, NFL version:
1. Buffalo. Just Marv Levy is reason enough.
2. Philly. The nicest fans on earth deserve this.
3. Minnesota. Almost as much fail as Buffalo.
4. Jacksonville. As NFL owners go I’ll take Shad Kahn.
5. LA Rams. Goff.
6-7-8. Tennessee Atlanta New Orleans. I can’t bring myself to care about any of these.
9. KC. I can’t wait to see how Andy Reid blows it this time.
10. Carolina. As NFL owners go especially fuck Racist McGropesalot.
11. Pittsburgh. As NFL QBs go especially fuck Rapist McDrunkalot.
12. New England. The undiluted seed of Satan.
So you’re saying we should bet on a Pittsburgh/New England superbowl?
How much would you like to bet on that?
I’ll be laughing all the way to the bank when the NFC is abolished on January 20th and the AFC Championship game is declared the Superbowl by proxy.
I dunno, anyone who bet along with the FSURI in 2017 MLB postseason made out pretty well.
12. Evil League of Evil.
Thanks, and go As.
12 – In addition to everything else about the team that I hate, Brady is a major seller of woo. Perhaps we should refer to the team as “Woo England”.
I believe in this index and would like to purchase funds in it.
I might move LA up simply as the hometown team. (gargles bleach as I finish saying that)
The better FSURI teams are 5-3 heading into the Conf championships, and the NFC is sure to be repped by a fine team in LII. Now go Jags! Slay the beast!
Agreed on the NFC! I’m tempted to say if the Vikes win that I’d love for them to play and beat the best in the Super Bowl so bring on the Pats, but I’ve seen that script before. So Blake Bortles, you go on and be da man!
The president fake threatening a lawsuit to prevent publication of a book that hurts his feelings while a major motion picture about the Pentagon Papers is in theaters is a bit much.
Also, maybe these dipshits should google the “Streisand Effect.”
well that figures.
went to sleep listening to the last podcast in my queue. the one that would zero out my unlisteneds. so i can start with fresh new pods this morning.
(ok, so i meant to do this by 1/1. there were a lot of pods tho.)
woke up, however, to a fucking brick sleeping next to me. (and i reacted with as much horror as the dude with the horse head in godfather.)
two weeks for the repair. i’m going to be so very pod-behind.
i mean, by 9am i already was!!!
sigh.
You should always wear a bicycle helmut
Kohl? Schmidt? For nighttime use I recommend Newton.
av will know
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it was my first thought.
I’m dipping into Treks and the City which your boy Lovett just appeared on.
the level of can’t wait till my phone comes back fixed keeps going up.
Wha happen?
Thanks, and go As.
semi-bricked via some “known issue” with a recent update. not sure what update, or if it was even an android one. i accept them all as soon as they come. there may have been 2 or 3 yesterday.
it tries to power on but doesn’t ever get there and starts the cycle again. in recovery mode, it said “no command.”
shipped back to samsung now.
either that or spectre meltdown!!!!!
Mr. Trump then asked, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?”
There’s a certain kind of loyalty which you just can’t buy.
“Roy was not gay. He was a man who liked having sex with men….”
-roger stone
Here is a video. we have 6 named sources corroborating. A statement from trump and geotags from his phone. All showing/saying he was on 5th ave on May 13, 2016 shooting and killing a hobo.
Joe Thornton got in a fight tonight in which a handful of his beard hair got ripped out. This hurts just to think about.
this cannot be true, but it makes me happy
It took me until midway through the third paragraph to be sure.
He would never kneel. He’d have 2 lackeys come in and raise the TV up to his level.
No reason, just a lovely picture
Someone must be spiking the punch at P.F. Chang’s.
What’s Tom Walsh doing these days?
RIP Rob Picciolo.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/sd-sp-long-time-padres-coach-rob-picciolo-dies-at-64-20180103-story.html
Oh no. Reach for the Peach!
Will this work?
Can the charity intermediary really spend interchangeably relative to the govt? Is an entire state budget just as easily run as a 501c3?
Funny that the cited precedent is a religious school donation case.
If Bed happens to be lurking…the book I have selected for the February plant-my-ass on the beach in Maui trip is Grant by Ron Chernow.
If Mariotta can throw himself another TD or two the Chiefs could yet blow this game.
Hah hah hah LOL Chiefs.
satisfied?
Yes, an inexorable collapse can sometimes be even better than a cataclysmic fuckup.
Hang on…he was clearly across the line of scrimmage when he tried to throw that. Not a penalty because was immediately deflected?
No, the rule is silly. The entire body has to be across the line.
Thanks, and go As.
Only two things could out-do the Chefs’ failure – the Titans winning next week in Fuxboro, and the Jags beating the Stillers.
Squeaky bum time in Nottingham.
who needs to go to 11
A penalty that wasn’t, illegally dispatched, should be enough.
Eric Lichaj sighting!
Thanks, and go As.
Offensive firework in Jacksonville
This isn’t even a good pitchers’ duel. Nothing but pop flies and routine grounders.
4th & 1 on the 3 yard line … how do they screw it up, andeux?
Three goals to nil!
It’s only the second set though.
It is absolutely amazing to me that Bortles and Taylor are the QBs of playoff teams
Thanks, and go As.
Bills were counting on snowstorms throughout the playoffs
Sure, go for the two passes toward the sidelines, so that Jacksonville doesn’t have to burn any timeouts
They managed to:
1) Get a personal foul on a punt return
2) Shave off entire 22 seconds off the clock with Jags using only one timeout
3) Punt 34 yards
That was an anemic half of playoff football to be sure. But gripping!
But the announcer just called it “magisterial football!!”
Oh wait, that’s Ray Hudson calling the Real Madrid game.
In America we don’t do royalty, our football is “plutocratic”.
Words like “magisterial” can only be read in a ray hudson voice
I have only ever heard that word screamed by him.
Now the Jags will run the Four Corners until the clock expires.
It has been 18 years since America was subjected to the atrocity of a Bills playoff game and I hope it’s 18 more years before we get stuck with another one.
I watched Syracuse vs. Notre Dame yesterday. Not sure which is uglier
Raise your hand if you had Bortles as the leading rusher in the game
My leading rusher was also named Bortles.
Peterman miracle ending not happening.
Miracle would have been a game without interception
See, though, that start vs LA earlier prepared him for just this situation. About the same INT-per-minute rate, too.
Here’s an idea. In order to simplify these catch/no-catch calls, how about this – if the ball touches the ground, it’s incomplete.
They really throw the book at you for intentional grounding.
ESPN has 20 separate productions for the Alabama-Georgia championship game. ESPNU will show all 5 of the “Voices” productions simultaneously, which sounds like a mess.
List of all 20 telecasts (many only available via streaming)
Update listing additional names for Voices and Coaches Film Room
For me, Coaches Film Room is the one that makes it worth watching.
2nd and 26 with a choketastic kicker waiting to blow it again…
The unknown frosh backup QB redeemed him. Too bad, it really looked like Alabama was ready to be vanquished.
The coaches on Film Room were all screaming “Where the hell is Jalen?” during and after that first series out of halftime, but boy had they changed their tune by the end of the game.
Driving down the Eastshore Freeway in our 2007 Subaru Outback on Xmas night, out of nowhere the car filled with smoke and every light on the dashboard started flashing.
Fast forward 1 week and $200, and the Subaru dealership tells me the radiator cracked and lost all the cooling fluid and as a result the engine overheated and blew its head gasket.
Fast forward 2 weeks and $2000, and they’ve now removed and disassembled the engine and discovered that is is indeed bricked.
What now?
Having the dealership install a new engine would cost more than the Blue Book, but we would end up with a car we like with a new engine under warranty.
Having a non-dealership mechanic install a salvaged engine would surely be cheaper, but with a greater risk of becoming a pit we keep shoveling money into.
Writing it off would mean going car shopping again, just as we need a winter’s worth of Tahoe trips.
Thoughts?
Big picture: if my family only had one car, which often went on vacation trips, I’d want the peace of mind from something more reliable than a 10 year old car on a second engine. Especially if there may be reasons to think more trouble might be coming.
Details:
* $2,200 spent and nothing’s been fixed yet? That’s way too much for a diagnosis. Does that get credited against the final repair total in some way (e.g., mechanic pulled the engine so that covers much of the labor if I do have them replace it)?
* The order of failure is important here. A radiator losing fluid and blowing a head gasket is common enough. But not likely to seize the entire engine unless this was a longer-running problem. Had the temp gauge been running high? Had you needed to keep topping off the coolant? Sudden radiator failure can happen but rarely with that costly a catastrophic failure.
* “Car filled with smoke…” Literally smoke? Or might it have been steam? Because if the root cause was electrical first, causing smoke, maybe a melting plastic smell, the harness is garbooned. Don’t invest another cent and run away from this car. If it might have just been steam then that fits the radiator-first theory (but again you likely would have seen symptoms earlier).
* A salvaged engine isn’t necessarily a bad choice, if you trust the source and the mechanic who installs it. I’ve been told that Japan’s air quality restrictions functionally force cars off the road much sooner than here, and reliable lightly-used Japanese engines are then exported here.
So, the replace path could work out, if you’re certain of the initial cause and feel good that the car is otherwise good for another 50,000 miles. But, if the cause might be something else, or augurs poorly for other car health indicators, OR if you consider how you’ll feel driving steep narrow snowy roads and you worry, then maybe time to get a new ride.
I was hoping you’d chime in!
Definitely what gives us pause about a reconditioned engine.
As I understand it (and I’m seeking clarification) this is for removing the engine and disassembling it enough to tell that it is toast. The first $200 was a 1 hour diagnosis; the next 10 got us to “its a brick”. And yes, if we put a new engine in they obviously won’t have to remove the old one.
The temperature gauge definitely hadn’t been running high, and there was no sign of a long-term coolant leak (we always keep an eye out for stains on the driveway). It had fairly recently had all the fluids checked and we hadn’t had to top anything off. It seems it was a sudden radiator failure.
Sudden smoke just before it stopped running – I’d assumed burning oil after the gasket blew. No plastic smell though.
Any recommendations for source and/or mechanic? We started with Art’s Automotive on San Pablo, who were great to work with but not especially good at, y’know, fixing things.
Aye, there’s the rub. Up till now it has been extremely reliable, but this was so unheralded that it is hard to be confident that other things won’t just suddenly fail.
If we do write it off, what do we do with an engine-less body? One of your Lemons friends?!
With the caveat that I don’t know what you authorized {“Fix it, damn the expense!”), $2,200 just to be told your engine seized seems wildly unreasonable. Like, didn’t give you sufficient info on the possible outcomes unreasonable. My cost point is not that you don’t pay to reinstall a dead engine, obv, but that the price they quote for a new engine install includes labor you’ve now already paid and thus should be credited for, if you end up doing the full job.
Art’s has a good rep and I’ve used them. No idea who else might do a refurb engine.
I’m still stuck on the cause. No signs of leaks, no previous need to regularly top off the rad. Maybe if you were at the end of a six hour drive without stops during which a fresh substantial leak arose? Or if the rad caught a big piece of debris. Put it this way: unless the mechanic can show you exactly where the rad failed, I’d be worried about another underlying cause, that may well still exist after a new/refurb engine, magnifying the loss many times over and leaving youm right where you are now.
Not much demand a 2007 Subaru shell, maybe get $100 for the scrap metal from Pick n Pull.
100% in agreement. I would be absolutely losing my shit over this, honestly.
Thanks, and go As.
They quote 20 hours labor to remove, disassemble, fix, reassemble, and reinstall the engine, and 12 of those just to remove and disassemble (which seems oddly imbalanced); if we got a new engine they’d then charge the other 8 hours to assemble and install it.
They also said they’d “never heard” of someone towing their vehicle away without the (dead) engine being reassembled and reinstalled, but grudgingly agreed that that could be done!
They couldn’t find the technician, so couldn’t tell me exactly what state the engine is currently in that makes it irreparable.
Being a 2007, the $6700 “new” engine isn’t even new, but re-manufactured (1 year, unlimited mileage warranty). It also doesn’t come with the heads, which would need to be machined ($1000).
Meanwhile Art’s is quoting 10 hours instead of 20 and offer a 3 year warranty on a $5500 re-manufactured engine with heads.
For $6700 you could buy an entire 2007 Subaru Outback.
Thanks, and go As.
re. underlying cause, I was just waiting to be told it was due to running the gas tank dry …
all that does is clog up your gas filter with tank debris.
you end up on the side of the road going, “how can this car be stalled?? gauge says there are still a couple cl’s in the tank!!”
And this just in from the technician:
“The whole engine is warped from overheating, also looks like the heads have been machined in the past and one of them has a crack in it.”
Warped sounds obvious enough that you wouldn’t need to do much disassembly before writing it off, but I guess they charge the quoted hours regardless.
All you’re missing at Tahoe is rain, anyway.
There is that!
It’s not the driest winter I have seen here. It is, however, the warmest. Ponds and estuaries that are reliably frozen from Thanksgiving into February are liquid. Usually on a dry morning in December and January, when I wake up and check the thermometer it’s around 15°-18°; I don’t think I’ve seen <20° but a couple times and it's usually been more like 26°-30°.
If the “whole thing is warped” that sounds like something that you’d be able to tell without even touching it.
“Warped” in this is case an amount sufficient to impede the cylinders, not necessarily clear to the naked eye. However, once the heads were off at least you should be able to manually rotate the crankshaft with a breaker bar, or in failing to do so learn that the engine was seized. I suppose they might say that they didn’t want to risk doing more damage that way, but I agree they more likely just charged you the quoted hourly rate.
The easiest and most convenient solution sounds like having the dealership put in a new engine, but as someone who tends to hold on to cars too long (16 years for that first-generation RAV4), I dislike making a huge expenditure like that at >10 years because then you’ll feel obligated to keep fixing all the smaller things that will certainly go wrong anyway. That’s a mistake I’ve made that I swear not to repeat, although it will require overcoming my tightwad personality. Going car-hunting now is probably the best solution in the long run.
Indeed … hard to put another $8K into installing a new engine and then treat that as a sunk cost.
Ideally a new engine should get us another 150K miles or more, but even at 12K-15K miles/year that would still make it a 20+ year old body.
I defer to FSU on the mechanical aspects, but just on the psychological part if we’re talking $8K there’s no issue. I was mad that I spent $1500 on the old RAV4 and realized a few months later it was a waste. It sucks that you can’t take the deduction until April 2019 but that 1-877 song might be a pretty good solution here.
almost anyone else, though, they are pretty bad as a charity
We’ve invested too much to stop now! That’s when a car has gone Vietnam on you.
similar.
my 1991 6-cyl diesel has a bad head or cracked cylinder or something horrific. coolant disappears, and reappears as gray frothy oil in the dipstick. hyrdolock is a word i’ve learned. mech will open the head for $1k to diagnose. engine was about 300K miles.
there’s a for-parts of the same model, 100k miles, up beyond chico in a non-op title for about $1k. plus hitch rental to get it here. plus actual mechanic (whom i do trust) for ~2k? 3k?
apparently these engines are great. unless you lose the rare lotto on the same thing that happened to mine.
the upswing is all those other spare parts in the second car… maybe i can fix the sunroof? future sunk cost is already paid for!
should i?
The latest chapter in the saga (after spending the afternoon dealing with a neighbor stealing our mail, forging a check to herself, and trying to cash it) was to canvas the businesses on the street, since we’re just off Broadway Auto Row, and get an offer of $4K total to install a “good” replacement engine.
Man. Tell me more about the charms of life in the East Bay…
(that said, we have installed one of those locked mailboxes since one of the “great benefits” of NextDoor is that whenever anyone has their mail stolen, the entire city–and most especially Mrs. N–gets to be scared by it.
Slight elaboration: “We’re 100 percent focused on Oakland and the best location that marries the community as well the A’s needs and we’ve identified three final locations,” Kaval said, adding that this time, there is no timetable for an announcement. “We had a preferred location, a lot of thought went into that and we just want to make sure before we make another announcement that we’re very thoughtful about how we approach it.” Kaval is good with teh words.
And kinda neat about the A’s new offices at 55 Harrison: a memorabilia display which includes “…the orange ball Charlie Finley proposed using, and, side-by-side, the amateur scouting reports on Reggie Jackson and Matt Olson.”
Kaval is worlds better at handling PR/Fan Relationship than the prior Prez.
Yes, a great example of how even making the effort to appear responsive can gain you better support. That won’t last forever, they still need to deliver a stadium and a winning ball club. But it beats the previous regime by miles. And it essentially costs them nothing.
OMG.
Thanks, and go As.
I’m surprised by that. I figured he would be one of the three or four who would rotate for 30-40 games each per season when Fosse retires or dies.
The encouraging part being the suggestion that Fosse is either talking retirement or being pushed that way.
I like Braden too, but I’m worried that he’ll wear thin a little faster than Mulder.
On the plus side, Braden on the sidelines (and Kara, for “selected home games”) presumably means no Angela.
While it’s good to be rid of Angela, Kara’s presence indicates that they’ve defined the job to be “conducting annoying, distracting interviews with people in the stands and pitching merchandise while the game is going on” so that part of it isn’t going to get any better. Not a criticism of Kara, rather a criticism of the broadcast content.
kara is good people, though
Angela may be good too, but in the kimited times I saw her, she didn’t have personality or knowledge.
Kara’s function is mostly in-stadium bits between innings, only has ancillary broadcast role. Not really comparable to the unlamented Angela.
Here’s the RSN ratings summary for 2017. The A’s had the lowest average rating among the 29 US teams, and worse, the Giants’ telecasts outdrew the A’s by more than a 5:1 ratio (2.92 to 0.56) in spite of the Giants falling on their faces right at the start of the season, losing nearly 100 games and losing 28% of their audience vs. 2016. This puts Braden on the telecasts for 89 games, and while I wouldn’t say Mulder is a “scapegoat”, I can see where Braden would bring some spice to the telecasts that Mulder couldn’t. Hardcore fans who might think Braden wears thin will be watching anyway.
braden *feels* like you have a window into the clubhouse, Mulder is dime a dozen analyst. Fosse is waiting for dusk on the 4th of july so the fireworks and Sousa Music will finally drown out pappy’s stories you have heard every summer since you were 5.
Also I’m glad to see you apparently survived your crash through the table at the playoff game party.
The bruises are mostly psychological.
Free Tickets acquired for 4/17.
I declare tailgate.
Thanks, and go As.
You guys tailgate?!
I’m out of practice. According to twitter, Casey Pratt and Slusser will stop by. I have apparently owed her grilled eggplant for a few years now.
Thanks, and go As.
4 tickets here too .. G/A is going to be a zoo.
I’m tempted to do the “tailgate and stay in the lot” thing, but I’ll have my boys with me so we’ll probably go in at some point and just float around
Thanks, and go As.
Dave Cameron is going to work for the Padres
“Sneaky Dianne Feinstein”
That one needs some workshopping.
Oakland Police Department has an online form to report a crime, but you’re not allowed to use it if you know whodunnit!
Now that I’ve gotten used to going to the post office every other day or so to pick up my mail from the locked box (since USPS doesn’t deliver to residences here), I find the notion of having mail delivered to an unlocked box at my house unthinkable. There are also those places like UPS Store that have locked boxes, probably more expensive than the post office but maybe more convenient.
We’ll probably go the locked box route, though we haven’t had any problems in 17 years till yesterday.
At this point we have a name, address, phone number and facebook account for the perp, and two witnesses and security video at the bank. Now all we need to do is get OPD interested (6 hours and counting since we called; no response yet).
if you get OPD interested, then you need to get the DA.
its a long road in a county where real crime happens.
(here in SF, use of SLFs card are home depot, verison and burger king has resulted in 0 investigations, 0 arrests and 0 convictions)
11 hours and counting to submit an OPD crime report.
the young buck who had me stand on the sidewalk telling him about my assault a few years back had zero ability to listen and less to write down all the details i was giving.
maybe spend your wait by writing the narrative down in short, easy to parse sentences, and making sure your stapler is loaded.
Because we know who did it, the report has to be taken by a local beat officer.
Because it’s not a crime in progress, it’s not a priority.
Basically we have to wait till there is no crime in progress in Oakland before we can make our report.
12 hours and counting.
but reported crimes are down 23% in oakland!!
…wait a minute.
we gave up on a home burglary (when we were home) because the process was so ridiculous
CYA-652P?
good form
Please tell me “KodakCoin” is an early April Fools joke.
Part of that article, written yesterday, is way out of date. Closing prices of Eastman Kodak (KODK) stock:
Monday: $3.10
Tuesday: $6.80
Today: $10.70 (traded as high as $13.27)
You don’t say.
(Related)
Going back in the Historical Data table, KODK was around $15-$16 at the beginning of 2017 before falling to $3, and further back than that it was in the low $30s at times in 2014.
Which means the SearsCoin announcement should be coming no later than Friday.
Same money as Billy Butler. I think this will be your Better DH Value.
i admit i didn’t read this. didn’t want it to ruin the headline.
I track it real time in my body.
Lemurs conquered BBC reporter
This may be the worst techbro idea ever, and that’s a very competitive category.
did I hit the wrong link? because some nonsense popped up
It’s an app for creating a quickie contract demonstrating that you have consent before you do the nasty with someone.
like i said, nonsense
He’s going to run from his constituents and move houses to run in the jungle primary against one of his Republican colleagues? This would be amazing.
Vaping congressman vs. arson congressman?
WARNING! STEP AWAY FROM MY CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT!
This is cool
I did not even remember that he was on the A’s
I remember cursing his name a few times.
Wow. This is really something.
Cool state of affairs we’ve got here.
yes, can we now just admit Clinton lost because there are enough states that are majority racist? Or do we have to continue pretending she didn’t appeal enough to “working” class?
Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. Clinton ran a shit campaign.
she could have done better. Yes.
But Feingold got trounced in Wisconsin. racists showed up.
It was assumed that trump was too racist to win, but turns out racism wins
I figure a lot of Norwegians woke up this morning thinking, “Why would I want to emigrate to that shithole?”
Surf’s up, fuck yeah!
apparently not. called off for today/tomorrow.
Yeah, surf’s still big but both winds and tides are unfavorable. The new WSL management seems to have their shit together a lot more than the clowns who had it the last few years.
wolves like anal??
Croatia, replacing anal/fecal references with carnal ones since 925.
yeah yeah yeah we know he is a monster, but this is so fucking outrageous.
There’s a CBGB-branded restaurant in the Newark Airport with fake graffiti on the walls and everything.
and fake pee smell.
unless that’s just newark.
dog poop?
when they previewed that bob garfield would interview michael wolf, i was excited for contentiousness about method.
but it was all softballs.
boooooo.
i love this account
EPL sound on fox is better than bundeslige
bundeslige must have the A’s style guide
OMG, Skol, Vikings.
The FK was that cornerback thinking?
I like how Keenum seemed just as stunned as everyone else in the building.
The Vikings always play the role of devastated victim in this script, and everyone there knew it, right up to the moment when they didn’t.
Hopefully the 100 year old lady sits out the Philly trip.
We’re in Cambridge watching the littlest Sslinger so we recorded the game. Watching it late we got right up to where NO was going to kick the fg and the recording ended. As a Vikes fan, I figured that was just adding insult to injury, but figured I should check online just to confirm he made it. Holy FK did I get a surprise.
This almost happened to me too. Comcast’s “automatically extend” DVR setting is a crock of shit. In my case I had fortunately caught up with the live broadcast by then, so after a moment of DVR terror I switched over to Ch. 5 in time to not miss anything.
Time blocks for NFL games are usually 3:00 (ha ha) or 3:30. For regular season games I extend the DirecTV DVR for 60 or 90 minutes to get to 4:30, which would always be safe for OT except for something like a lightning delay. Yesterday I went super-safe to 6 hours each. I have plenty of space on there, which reminds me I need to get around to watching that MLB Network Billy Martin documentary.
The CBS time block for today’s PGA Tour event was 12-3:30. I knew CBS had the Grammys so in the event of a playoff they would have to cut away no later than 4:30. I extended the recording 1 hour to 4:30.
If there were a playoff, it would go over to Golf Channel, possibly as early as 3:30. I set a recording for Golf Channel from 3:30 to 5:30, because there was no way they could play in San Diego past 5:30 unless they were using the fans’ smart phone flashlights.
At 5:30 Jason Day and Alex Noren were walking up to the green on the 5th playoff hole, basically playing under cell phone flashlights, when my recording ended.
And, by the way, they’re coming back at 8:00 a.m. for the 6th playoff hole on Golf Channel. I set the recording for 4 hours, 8 a.m. to noon…
Here’s hoping you get it all in.
McCutchen to the Giants.
Gerrit Cole to the Astros.
The Pirates hate us.
I’m less annoyed about McCutchen than about Cole.
mccutchen seems nice, but he is bad at the outfield
FK you too, Marcell Ozuna.
Matt Holliday II successfully avoided. It’s a common-enough sentiment, as seen by the no-trade specifications in contracts, and will be until the new ballpark opens, but most guys are smart enough to keep their mouths shut.
i’m rebuilding my podlist. this is a pain in the ass.
but found this gem. (haven’t listened yet. the gem is the title itself…)
the only thing you should name an english-language podcast about argentine soccer.
I’m in Santiago for conference, and the amount of soccer shit-talking between the Chilean and Argentinian cosmologists is impressive.
The most tragic moment was when an Argentinian whose children were born and are being raised in the US confessed that his daughter supports Brazil.
i gather this was presented as evidence for a paper on how the world actually ended in 2012 as predicted by the precolumbians, and that everything that’s happened ever since is merely a perverse reflection of reality based on our worst nightmares.
It certainly makes more sense then any other explanation.