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My arm! 164

  1. He’s fighting male genital mutilation
  2. McMegan Is Always Wrong, Chapter XVI
  3. 1, 2, 5, 54, 64
  4. Welcome to FK, Goldman Sachs employees!
  5. In college, I played shofar for Goldman Sachs and the Liberal Funk
  6. Drum is really down on Obama, Part II:

    You know, if I’d wanted Dick Cheney as president I would have just voted for him.

  7. Duncan Black keeps his Grill extremely clean
  8. Kinsler->DL, Rangers may get Cantu
  9. Oswalt->Philly?
  10. What a joke!

164 thoughts on “My arm!

  1. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 11:04 am

    This is a great book cover:

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  2. MikeV Jul 29,2010 11:06 am

    9. Happ, 2 guys who aren’t Singleton, and almost half of Oswalt’s salary paid for.

    Philly did pretty good.

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

    • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 11:32 am || Up

      Good thing they traded Lee.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • ptbnl Jul 29,2010 11:48 am || Up

        Imagine if they hadn’t … that would be a formidable rotation.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • MikeV Jul 29,2010 1:03 pm || Up

        Lee wasn’t willing to sign an extension, Halladay was.

        At least that’s how I saw it.

        And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

        Thanks, and go As.

  3. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 11:19 am

    Random-ish SF/film moment: last week, I was driving and was reminded that the back side of this shop (the front signage of which bis still extant on Battery Street) is clearly visible in a couple of shots in this movie (which is solid fun, and particularly so for the location shots of the contemporary SF waterfront).

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  4. nevermoor Jul 29,2010 11:37 am

    7: Photoshop!

    (also, fried peppers are really really good)

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  5. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 11:43 am

    We support the definition of manure as natural fertilizer.

    (Oh, also: sorry, nm, we’re kicking you out. TDF, too, if he ever shows his face around here.)

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    • andeux Jul 29,2010 11:49 am || Up

      The first thing we do, let’s kill denaturalize all the lawyers.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 1:04 pm || Up

        Add grain alcohol to ’em?

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 1:05 pm || Up

          We do plenty of that ourselves.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 1:20 pm || Up

            That would explain the whole “blind justice” thing.

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    • ptbnl Jul 29,2010 11:54 am || Up

      They’d be in good company, with all the Nobel Laureates.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 12:12 pm || Up

      If I’m nobility, which of you wants to be in charge of adding our nightsoil to the supply of natural fertilizer.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 12:17 pm || Up

        Here’s the thing that slays me about the whole thing: the thirteenthers are all hung up on the whole “nobility” thing (conceptually, at least), yet I’m sure that, to a man, they all support abolishing the “death tax.”

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  6. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 11:44 am

    Sal?

    I dressed as a Jawa for the Star Wars theater release

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  7. nevermoor Jul 29,2010 11:51 am

    2: McMegan is right that a 30-year fixed mortgage is, theoretically bizarre. The reason is that it isn’t really fixed (because you can prepay any amount at any time). That flexibility is priced into the loan, so basically when you take a fixed mortgage you’re betting that you’ll exercise the prepayment option before the bank thinks you will (or, in other words, that rates will go down).

    This is precisely the bet you don’t intend to be making when you opt for a fixed-rate.

    In other countries, there are true fixed mortgages (no prepayment at all, you WILL make the payments for 30 years), but those mortgages either stay with the house or with the person rather than being satisfied at the time of sale like ours are. It’s a whole different system, but the upshot is that you get a more rational product.

    Megan’s criticism, however, is stupid.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 12:04 pm || Up

      Basically, every post she ever makes consists of Coffee Talk: “The New Deal was neither new nor was it a deal. Discuss.”

      I’m retiring “McMegan” and will henceforth refer to her as “Linda Richman.”

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      • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 12:15 pm || Up

        This is more substantive than that.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 12:21 pm || Up

          Any substance she actually hits on is entirely inadvertent. She’s an ideologue engaging in agitprop. (And she’s dumb/enough of an ideologue to not be getting paid for it [yet] by the institutions it benefits.)

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          • salb918 Jul 30,2010 7:28 am || Up

            an ideologue engaging in agitprop

            Takes one to know one, bub.

            (Alternasnark: That’s FK’s motto!)

            • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 8:08 am || Up

              I do it professionally. That was my point. She’s positioning herself as an honest broker.

              As I’ve suggested before, I strongly suspect the reason Ezra and Matt take her seriously is because she slept with them.

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              • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 10:16 am || Up

                Then again, I’m just a piker compared to the real pros.

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  8. nevermoor Jul 29,2010 12:13 pm

    6: Obama has been terrible on “national security” issues. Yglesias’s take

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • RLangford Jul 29,2010 1:59 pm || Up

      Obama has been terrible on a whole host of issues. It started with bringing in Goldman Sachs to run the treasury and the financial markets, so well documented by Matt Taibbi and others. Then a complete reversal on the “we don’t have to sacrifice the Constitution to keep ourselves safe.” Apparently, we do, even beyond Bush-Cheney in some cases. The Kagan nomination. The betrayal on a public option. The attack on whistle-blowers. The lack of transparency. Motherfuck–this has been awful. And worst of all, this just creates a new normal, a new middle for so many of these positions.

      • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 2:26 pm || Up

        I’m not quite that pessimistic. Kagan doesn’t bother me, nor does the public option. What is your lack of transparency complaint? (I thought, based on very little he was one of the most transparent but still less than he promised.)

        I agree 100% on the safety.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • RLangford Jul 29,2010 4:48 pm || Up
          • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 4:58 pm || Up

            Duh: he’s black. He absorbs all the light.

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 5:56 pm || Up

            Fair enough. Most of that reads more like the protection to me, but I can understand distinguishing.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • RLangford Jul 29,2010 6:35 pm || Up

              Sure, they go hand in hand. So we’re talking about the same thing.

      • mk Jul 29,2010 7:55 pm || Up

        Motherfuck–this has been awful.

        Health care reform. Stimulus. Leaving Iraq. Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. SCHIP expansion. DOJ focusing on civil rights enforcement rather than prosecuting phantom voter fraud and working to elect Republicans to congress. Financial regulation. Credit card consumer protection. No more torture. More money to mass transit and broadband. Fewer land givaways for oil and gas development. Regulatory rehabilitation: tougher stance on medical radiation, doctor-Big Pharma incest, antibiotics in meat, mountaintop mining. Improved relations with Russia: START treaty, missile shield in Eastern Europe nixed. Public school funding reform. More money for math and science. Reduced federal involvement in the Great War on Weed. Visitation rights for gays and lesbians. DADT rollback. Also the rest of the world likes us better.

        Basically, this:

        Letting people get health insurance who have preexisting conditions, subsidizing health insurance for all Americans who can’t afford it, allowing gays the right to be with their partners and take control of their medical care, strengthening non-proliferation efforts and international cooperation, and implementing urban-friendly transportation policies are all progressive achievements.

        And this is what I mean when I argue that Obama is basically a progressive. But when I look at the progressive blogosphere and the values that seem to proliferate and dominate among the participants in the progressive blogosphere, and I compare those values to the values of the country at large, I realize that we probably only represent somewhere around 20% of the electorate. And it’s worse than that because we’re really concentrated in a few metropolitan areas. Our representatives tend to win reelection with over 65% of the vote. And the congresspeople that have to fight for reelection are mostly serving in districts that aren’t all that attuned to our values. Or, if they are, they are still vulnerable to the kind of crazy fact-challenged attacks that the Republicans excel at spewing out.

        You can’t elect a open progressive to statewide office in most states and you certainly can’t elect one as president. And, even if you did, they’d have to deal with the plain fact that nearly half of their own party’s congressional caucus is not progressive at all.

        So, this is what progressive change looks like in a country where progressives are badly outnumbered (especially in Congress). We have to retreat on some things, and the big comprehensive bills have to be crafted to meet the broad center, which isn’t progressive at all. But, around the edges, on the small things, on the regulatory stuff, we can get big gains.

        • sslinger Jul 29,2010 8:23 pm || Up

          I think we have tomorrow’s grill – thanks mk!

        • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 11:31 pm || Up

          I agree that he’s been a great president. I think he’s already easily top-10 and probably top-5.

          That said, he’s been shitty on defense stuff.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • ptbnl Jul 30,2010 12:02 am || Up

            He’s been shitty at refudiation.

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
            • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 6:32 am || Up

              I still think he should have had Reid and Pelosi push single-payer through in refudiation.

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  9. batgirl Jul 29,2010 1:05 pm

    Which one of you FKers stole my pea puree?

    • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 1:20 pm || Up

      Probably the same one who stole my laptop bag the other night.

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    • andeux Jul 29,2010 1:30 pm || Up

      It’s still not clear to me what really happened with that.
      And as usual, the editing seemed designed to manipulate rather than to illuminate.

      TINSTAAFK
      • sslinger Jul 29,2010 2:18 pm || Up

        Agreed – with all those cameras going, there’s no way someone doesn’t know what went down, so show us already.

        • batgirl Jul 29,2010 2:33 pm || Up

          Colicchio weighs in

          First of all, if there’s a single viewer who still wondered whether the judges know what goes on behind the scenes (and make decisions with any of that in mind), I would hope that this incident would have laid that to rest forevermore. This episode surely proves that we judges absolutely never have access to behind-the-scenes conversations or goings-on, as there is no way on earth that we would blithely have judged the dishes as we did this week without delving into the matter of the creator of that puree. We just judge the food on the plates in front of us. Not even I knew about the controversy, even though I spent some time in the kitchen, as I had arrived there after Ed had gone searching for his pea puree and there was no mention of the issue to me by any of the contestants while I was there. The other judges and I first learned about it just as you did, by watching the episode this week, and I was not happy to learn that there had been any question of impropriety. I’m surprised, frankly, that the producers didn’t choose to depart from normal protocol and say anything to us to clue us in about the matter.

          I think, though, that the reason for that lay in Ed himself. Watching the episode, I expected Ed to call Alex out on the matter to his face, but he didn’t. Ed may have been concerned that to do so would make him look unsportsmanlike, but I think there’s more to it than that: I think that Ed himself may not have been wholly convinced that Alex took his puree.

          • sslinger Jul 29,2010 2:44 pm || Up

            Huh, seems odd that they can’t know what really happened. I would think there would at least be some footage of Alex making a puree, and if not, then it’s clear that he took Ed’s. Option 3 makes no sense – if he thought it was his and took Ed’s by mistake, then there would have been Alex’s left over in another container. Then they could have argued over who’s was who’s if they were vastly different, but that’s another issue.

        • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 29,2010 2:47 pm || Up

          See, I think the producers genuinely couldn’t figure it out. Typically in such instances they’ll find the moment to reveal the smoking gun camera shot…maybe Ed leaving his puree alone on some back shelf, maybe skinnybalddude skulking away with ed’s pot, something. They even tried to do a similar thing with teh flashback of skinnybalddude hearing about Ed’s pea plan the night before. But last night they didn’t have that money shot, leading me to believe that they pored over footage and couldn’t find it.

          I think skinnybalddude accidentally took Ed’s pea puree, realized his mistake once Ed started hollering about it, and then wouldn’t fess up.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • batgirl Jul 30,2010 10:49 am || Up

            I forgot to comment on this earlier, but that whole toothpick thing blew my mind. I had no idea that was the law. Is that really true? Sigh…oh to own the mini plastic sword concession in DC…

            • mikeA Jul 30,2010 11:10 am || Up

              I liked the hapless guy’s comment about that: “That’s a good law; otherwise lobbyists could just buy some laws!”

  10. nevermoor Jul 29,2010 1:18 pm

    The plot thickens

    At the National Association of Black Journalists convention in San Diego, Ms. Sherrod said she would “definitely” file a lawsuit.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 1:21 pm || Up

      I would expect Fox News to give her a reasonable settlement through intermediaries. I really don’t think they or their sponsors/benefactors want to go through discovery re Breitbart.

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      • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 1:31 pm || Up

        If, of course, she wants to settle.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 1:27 pm

    Honestly, can anyone tell me why Drum is so worked up over interchange fees? This seems to me to be on par with his weird jihad against frequent-shopper cards.

    Oh, shit: McMegan Linda Richman Is Occasionally Not-Wrong, Chapter I.

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    • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 1:33 pm || Up

      Blogging defined in 11 words:

      So maybe I’m genuinely missing something here.

      But barreling ahead regardless

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • mikeA Jul 29,2010 2:15 pm || Up

        Well, it was a pretty confusing sentence.

    • andeux Jul 29,2010 1:45 pm || Up

      I have to admit, I don’t understand MY’s “retailers’ monopoly rents” in this context either, and I agree with Drum that merchants should be allowed to pass these fees on to consumers if they want (and shouldn’t a (g)libertarian like McMegan agree with that one too?).

      OTOH, “we lose our humanity when this becomes merely a shrug of the shoulders” seems just a bit much.

      TINSTAAFK
      • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 2:28 pm || Up

        I’m confused about that. Gas stations routinely have a cash price and a CC price. Are they special? Student loan processors also accept credit card payments, but at a surcharge.

        Also, people routinely give discounts for cash payment in service industries (although part of that is probably tax avoidance).

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  12. andeux Jul 29,2010 1:52 pm

    Brett Wallace traded to Astros for Anthony Gose (one of the prospects they just got in the Oswalt deal). That’ll be his fourth organization in just over a year.

    TINSTAAFK
    • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 6:38 am || Up
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  13. mikeA Jul 29,2010 2:03 pm
  14. andeux Jul 29,2010 2:12 pm
    TINSTAAFK
  15. andeux Jul 29,2010 2:39 pm

    Tejada->Padres

    TINSTAAFK
  16. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 3:32 pm

    Anyone want to sponsor an Ellis photo conversion?

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    • andeux Jul 29,2010 3:36 pm || Up

      Nah, but I might chip in for one of Kendall. Or Cheney.

      TINSTAAFK
      • sslinger Jul 29,2010 3:47 pm || Up

        • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 3:48 pm || Up

          Gah! He’s everywhere!

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • Poppy Jul 29,2010 4:18 pm || Up

      Sorry, that guy’s got nothing on drmmerchk when it comes to capturing the essential Ellis…

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  17. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 4:32 pm
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    • Poppy Jul 29,2010 5:10 pm || Up

      Why did I visit that moron’s website?

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 5:13 pm || Up

        You thought “swrc” stood for “smokin’ weed in rural California”?

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  18. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 4:41 pm

    This seems like a sensible summary to me:

    Coco Crisp (Athletics) – Crisp has had big problems staying on the field the last two years, but he’s the one legitimate leadoff-hitting center fielder potentially available and that would seem to give him some trade value. The Padres bid on him in the offseason and still have a need for him now, and he’d be quite a weapon as a part-timer for the Braves, White Sox, Yankees or Rays. The A’s could choose to retain him and exercise his $5.75 million option for 2011, but as much time as he’s missed, he should come cheaper than that next year.

    Certainly after the Sheetstorm (and Duchscherer, Chavez, etc etc), I don’t see the advisability of exercising Crisp’s option for ’11 (working out a deal beforehand where they decline it but have a framework in place to renegotiate, ok), and I’m not sure that any team acquiring him would definitely keep him for ’11. And I’m really curious as to how much his sub-Damon arm eats into his defensive value. We’ve got meh options in-house to replace him next year (Rajai/Gross/Carson), but, again, with the inability to stay on the field and the wet-noodle arm …

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    • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 4:57 pm || Up

      I like him. And Mrs. N likes him a lot b/c of the CLE connection.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 5:00 pm || Up

        I like him better than Rajai — but no one’s likely to want to trade for Rajai, and Rajai is cheap.

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    • andeux Jul 29,2010 5:00 pm || Up

      The option has a $500K buyout, so the cost of exercising it is really only $5.25M. The smart guys tell us that buys you about 1.3 WAR on the open market, which coincidentally is almost exactly what the A’s have gotten out of Crisp this year, despite the fact that he’s played in only a little over a month’s worth of games.

      I think it’d be batshit crazy not to exercise it, especially considering just how meh those meh options are.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 5:17 pm || Up

        I was going to try and be clever and suggest that Rajai’s negative WAR should be factored in to adjust Crisp’s value downward for the missed time, but it’s positive.

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        • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 5:56 pm || Up

          Speed kills.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  19. JediLeroy Jul 29,2010 4:43 pm

    So, three months ago I weighed 232 pounds. Now I weigh 214.

    18 pounds in three months.

    I went to see the doctor about a persistent cough (4+ weeks), and chest x-rays showed no problems. Afterward, the doctor alternated between the words “sutoresu” and “arerugi” (stress and allergy), repeating them in a slow, booming voice seemingly meant for someone with severe brain damage and/or hearing loss.

    She didn’t offer any other words until I showed clear discomfort with the way she was speaking to me. I had already established in many previous visits (as well as the current one) that I speak and understand Japanese. I think I’m done with that hospital.

    az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 4:47 pm || Up

      I’d be happy to give you 18 pounds.

      Hope you get things cleared up.

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      • nevermoor Jul 29,2010 4:58 pm || Up

        My thoughts exactly.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • JediLeroy Jul 30,2010 6:54 am || Up

          Thanks, guys.

          az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
          • JediLeroy Jul 30,2010 9:19 am || Up

            So, yeah. Panic attacks are very, very real. And they’re very unpleasant.

            It’s nice to know that you aren’t having a heart attack, though. Gives you some control over the situation.

            Thank goodness for friends–especially ones who have already experienced your trials.

            az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
            • 5Aces Jul 30,2010 9:37 am || Up

              Panic attacks are way beyond unpleasant. My sister-in-law started getting them about 2 years ago, shortly after she moved in with us so I have seen many bad cases first hand.

              What makes it so bad from what I can see is that it doesn’t feel the same. When I get a cold this winter, I will know it’s a cold because it will feel the same as most every other one I have ever had. With each attack, my sister in law has believed that this time it couldnt be a panic attact because it feels different Even after the paramedics assured her it was she had trouble believing it.

              If you are having bouts of panic attacks JL I send you my best…

              Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it? -Steve McCatty
              • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:08 pm || Up

                The end of Florida was filled with not leaving my house and panic attacks. Suck. Full of suck.

  20. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 4:50 pm

    Ruh-roh:

    [Bailey] threw again today and still felt pain, so he’s going to be examined by the Rangers’ team doctors. That means he’s definitely unavailable tonight, and you have to think the DL is a possibility given how long this has lingered.

    Also — GEREN URGES BATTING-PRACTICE BATTERS: PLEASE HIT ME IN MY GUY REGION (I think “Guy Region” must be Hustonian for “Ron Mexico”)

    Finally, here’s tonight’s lineups, with Daric Barton and Jack Cust getting the night off against lefty C.J. Wilson.

    A’s: Crisp CF, Davis LF, Suzuki DH, Kouzmanoff 3B, Rosales 1B, Ellis 2B, Powell C, Carson RF, Pennington SS

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  21. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 5:01 pm

    {snerk}

    maximum backdate

    Isn’t that what FSU and LB look for?

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    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 29,2010 5:33 pm || Up

      I’m more into petite but firm backdating.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • monkeyball Jul 29,2010 5:55 pm || Up

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  22. monkeyball Jul 29,2010 5:24 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 29,2010 5:38 pm || Up

      You see it all the time, but it’s still always struck me as weird the way some people are just prone to being true believers, almost regardless of what the belief is. David Horowitz, for instance, leaving one extreme belief set in favor of an opposite, equally extreme belief set. I expect Anne Rice to start in with militant atheism next.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • ptbnl Jul 29,2010 9:27 pm || Up

        Or Christopher Hitchens.

        And, sig-wise, in FK-land I think “infamous” should be “unfamous”.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • Ice Cream Jul 29,2010 9:36 pm || Up

      Once Smitten, Rice Shies

      Where is the good in "good-bye"?
    • mikeA Jul 29,2010 9:56 pm || Up

      That’s a great line. Makes me want to join some groups so I can quit in style.

  23. ptbnl Jul 30,2010 12:16 am

    The still accompanying Mick LaSalle’s review of “Dinner for Schmucks” put me in mind of nightmare-inducing childhood visits to Potter’s Museum of Natural Curiosities (Mr Potter being an opium-addled taxidermist)

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 3:27 am || Up

      That is both scary and…well, scary.

      • ptbnl Jul 30,2010 10:12 am || Up

        And that’s before starting on the freak-show stuff, like the two-faced kitten

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
        • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:08 pm || Up

          I’d prominently display either piece in my home.

          • ptbnl Jul 30,2010 1:38 pm || Up

            The whole collection was sold a few years back, and I was surprised to see how cheap some of the pieces were.

            If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  24. FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 30,2010 9:00 am

    Notes for possible attendees of Tuesday’s informal pregame meet-up:

    1. It’s a Free Parking Tuesday. I plan to be in the lot by 5:30 at the latest, and probably closer to 5:00.

    2. I’ll park in my usual place, North lot off of 66th (right turn at end of foot bridge for you BARTers), 3-5 rows back from the Coli…A’s marks the spot:

    3. I probably won’t have a ticket in advance; I figure we can buy as many low price tix at the box office as needed, and then all sit together somewhere, maybe in Poppy’s section, annoying her upstanding, legit-seating neighbors. Or, we could all spread out to different sections to make the crowd look bigger and strike fear into the hearts of the Royals.

    4. I’m not bringing most of my tailgating gear. However, I have eight frozen burger patties left over from my July 4 family BBQ, and the vegetarian Mrs. Upgrade has ordered me to get them the hell out of her freezer. So I’ll be bringing coals and my most portable Small Butt Grill™, and can serve up burgers and fixins to the first few folks who want ’em. And I’ll have some mediocre beer.

    Hope to see some of you there.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • JediLeroy Jul 30,2010 9:16 am || Up

      Sigh.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:10 pm || Up

      I’ll be there. With Mikie.

      • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:12 pm || Up

        And I think we have leftover hot links–FSU, you got condiments?

        • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 30,2010 2:16 pm || Up

          I’ll have the essentials–ketchup, mustard, and kraut–and hamburger buns, but probably no hot dog buns. I may get it together enough to have lettuce tomato anad cheese, or I may not.

          Who’s bringing the andrenochrome?

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • batgirl Jul 30,2010 1:22 pm || Up

      I plan to be there.

    • Poppy Jul 30,2010 7:28 pm || Up

      I’ll be there, although I still don’t know who wants my other ticket. I think batgirl and LB were going to mud-wrestle for it in the slough.

      Or, if anyone wants guacamole, I can bring some of that and they can wrestle in the leftovers…

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • sslinger Jul 30,2010 8:51 pm || Up

        I’ll be there with Ms. S, should get there from the airport by around 6. We already have tickets.

      • mikeA Jul 30,2010 9:20 pm || Up

        Jokes about wasting guacamole aren’t funny.

        • Leopold Bloom Jul 31,2010 2:31 am || Up

          This.

          Plus that skank batgirl’s going down.

          • batgirl Jul 31,2010 8:15 am || Up

            Please to rephrase.

            • monkeyball Jul 31,2010 8:20 am || Up

              BFF!

              you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • Leopold Bloom Jul 31,2010 2:12 pm || Up

              Me. You. Guacamole.

              Two hits. Me hitting you. Both of us hitting the guacamole. With chips.

      • batgirl Jul 31,2010 8:16 am || Up

        Hey, I dibsed that ticket faster than Fosse.

        • Poppy Aug 1,2010 2:16 pm || Up

          Okay, it’s yours! LB’s on his own… or something…

          There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  25. JediLeroy Jul 30,2010 9:37 am

    I think that 67MARQUEZ might be their biggest asset over there when he does his thing.

    az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
    • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 9:50 am || Up

      Quez, what an asset.

      Agrd. That interview/article was really great. elcroata’s Piazza interview was also quite good.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • 67MARQUEZ Jul 30,2010 11:06 am || Up

      You are way, way too kind, Jedi. Not sure if I agree, but appreciate the sentiment.

    • Soaker Jul 30,2010 11:25 am || Up

      Marquez is quite good, and I still like the minor league stuff. The comments on minor league posts are the only comments I find readable anymore. Only a few people venture in there, but the ones who do are usually well-informed and stick to the topic.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:19 pm || Up

      I agree. And I’m their biggest asset, god damn it.

      If any of you haven’t read Don’s book, I highly recommend it.

      • nevermoor Jul 30,2010 1:28 pm || Up

        mike v is the biggest assest grillest

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:32 pm || Up

          true. It is quite awesome. Attaches right to the back of his truck…

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 30,2010 2:20 pm || Up

      I dropped Don an email inviting him to meet us for the Tuesday game and/or the 8/21 shindig; he may make the former and is definitely planning for the latter.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Soaker Jul 31,2010 9:11 pm || Up

        I just approved his comment above, which appeared to have been sitting there unnoticed for a day and a half. Sorry about the delay on that, Don.

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
  26. nevermoor Jul 30,2010 11:49 am

    Upcoming technical issues.

    FK’s host has informed me that our usage exceeds what they’re willing to provide for free. I’ll be transferring us to a $3/mo plan (which I was already considering doing because the free account was going to limit our ability to archive comments in the database).

    I assume there’ll be a bit of an interruption.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 11:53 am || Up

      Joke’s on us: FK to institute subscription fee before ** does.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Jul 30,2010 12:07 pm || Up

        Heh.

        Just wait until I start spewing sponsored posts to subsidize myself.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • salb918 Jul 30,2010 12:41 pm || Up

          Brought to you by Eagle Hands Laundry. If your Eagle’s hands are dirty…

      • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:11 pm || Up

        I refuse to pay a nickel a month.

        I propose we have lottery. All of us, names in the hat. Loser pays for the year.

        • nevermoor Jul 30,2010 1:29 pm || Up

          No worries. I got this.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • Leopold Bloom Jul 30,2010 1:32 pm || Up

            That’s less fun. We should have some kind of contest or something.

            • Poppy Jul 30,2010 7:30 pm || Up

              Guacamole wrestling! It’s good for everything.

              There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
    • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 11:54 am || Up

      Either that, or we’ll have to go with rolling blackkrauts.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • salb918 Jul 30,2010 1:14 pm || Up

      Do you want us to chip in for the plan?

      • nevermoor Jul 30,2010 1:29 pm || Up

        No need.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • ptbnl Jul 30,2010 1:32 pm || Up

      You can take it out of your bridge winnings.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • sslinger Jul 30,2010 4:23 pm || Up

        Are we changing partners next time?

        • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 4:58 pm || Up

          TWFPAMKS

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 30,2010 5:03 pm || Up

            You can never have too many Kekich-Peterson references on a quality kraut singles blog.

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • sslinger Jul 30,2010 5:08 pm || Up

            I’d have gone with MFALB, but this is (nominally) a baseball blog.

        • ptbnl Aug 17,2010 11:20 pm || Up

          $200,000 should keep us going for a while.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
          • nevermoor Aug 18,2010 1:01 am || Up

            I’m eagerly awaiting my check

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • sslinger Aug 18,2010 8:55 am || Up

              {crickets}

              • nevermoor Aug 18,2010 9:43 am || Up

                When you get hustled at $100 a point it can add up.

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • sslinger Aug 18,2010 9:57 am || Up

                  Especially when there’s only one person who knows how to keep score.

                • ptbnl Aug 18,2010 10:34 am || Up

                  TWSSS

                  If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • nevermoor Jul 30,2010 4:14 pm || Up

      So here’s the plan:

      The new account is set-up, but this stuff is not yet copied over.

      This evening (~10) MB is going to set the url to point to the new webspace and I am going to ask the host to copy things over. Any comments made here after the copy will be lost on the new version (which would happen if the copy is made before the url pointing takes effect. If the url pointing takes effect before the copying is done, you’ll be pointed to a blank site.

      This issue is unavaviodable, but we should have a faster host going forward (and we can keep all our archives up).

      I’ll make a post when the transfer is complete.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 30,2010 4:59 pm || Up

        OK, everyone, stop being funny or interesting until nm tells us the transfer is complete.

        OTOH, feel free to be obtuse and offensive, as your comments will vanish and your offense will be impossible to prove. Fuckers!

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 5:01 pm || Up

          Oh, blow it out your small-ass grill.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • sslinger Jul 30,2010 5:09 pm || Up

            Yeah, and we better see some Perky Jerky at the game Tuesday.

            • monkeyball Jul 30,2010 5:14 pm || Up

              I’ll show you some PerkyJerky

              (iFSU, PerkyJerky shows you)

              you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • FreeSeatUpgrade Jul 30,2010 7:58 pm || Up

            Those are…SAG RUNS!

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Poppy Jul 30,2010 7:33 pm || Up

        God damn it. I was hoping our new host would still be avaviodable. The change sucks. I’ll miss all the avavioding. I’m leaving.

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
        • ptbnl Jul 30,2010 8:15 pm || Up

          Finally. Sheesh.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
        • nevermoor Jul 30,2010 9:22 pm || Up

          Joke’s on you. No change yet.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • Leopold Bloom Jul 31,2010 2:34 am || Up

            how about now?

            • Poppy Jul 31,2010 7:34 am || Up

              Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

              There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
              • nevermoor Jul 31,2010 9:11 am || Up

                That’s it, I’m pulling the car over.

                (And no. I’ll make a post when it happens.)

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball Jul 31,2010 8:12 am || Up

            That’s not-change we can believe in!

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come

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