- CCSOTD
- Is this someone we maybe ought to pursue? (Um, no, not TLR)
- TWMSS:
I love my teammates, so when we do something good that’s just how I’m wired. I want to share that love with my teammates.
- TWMLS:
Take a good look, because it’s the last time you’ll see this beaver.
- This was probably pretty interesting
- RIP Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish
- The petty feuds, terrible analysis, back-biting, and overall super dorkiness of everyone involved makes the world of SABR hilarious and sad at the same time. As long as you like baseball stats, of course. And you’re still a giant nerd.
- Jacques ees back!
- MMIOTM …
- LB bait
- I Want a Sandwich
- Christ, what an ass flow
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4. TWMYS:
2: What possible use could we have for a centerfielder with a 127 OPS+ in his age-23 season?
1: WANT.
Affordable.
Showoff
2: It’s absolutely someone we could use. Also almost certain to be cost-prohibitive.
Cost prohibitive suggests it would be too expensive. He’d be a more worthwhile investment than Matt Kemp.
Yeah. I’m saying the talent cost could be a disaster.
Eh, if ownership/mgmt is stupid enough to value Smart Tony over him and it’s public knowledge that they want/have to trade him, they’d be significantly underleveraged.
But, yeah, what you said.
I’d do, say, Carter + Rodriguez. Is that realistic at all?
From the comments:
Rickey Henderson didn’t do this? I’ll have to look.
…
ricky only had 66 career triples in 25 seasons- that is pretty hard to beleive with all that speed
Rickey didn’t need triples, he just stole third after lounging into second base.
You know, I’m positive that Rickey dogged it to second sometimes in order to do just that. It sounds silly, but Rickey has clearly stated he preferred stealing third to second, so…
Also belongs under #4?
7 is hilarious. FK tagline:
5. Yes it was, I’m told by my friend who works for the Giants.
9. Joanie on last night’s episode in the mink – just wow.
Mink? Shouldn’t go under #4?
No, that was Peggy.
Last night I dreamed that someone had written a biography of Jack Cust. I can’t remember the title, but it was something like The Way We Were. It was printed in that old “pocket” size paperback and they were selling it at my local health food store. For some reason my mom bought a copy. Then they made a movie of the book, and when I saw the movie poster I couldn’t figure out why it had an all African American cast.
Was I there?!
OKCupid on gizmodo. As pointed out by SFGate, “For every inch a man is below 5-10, he needs to make about $35,000-$40,000 a year more to appear equally attractive.” So…I would need to make a quarter of a million more than I do right now to be as attractive as someone who is 5-10.
I really enjoyed the few OKCupid blog entries that I’ve read; they do great things with all their data. This is one of my favorites.
TWOKCS
TWILPS
I want to restore America’s values and have anonymous gay sex in a dirty portapotty.
What is the first draft of the Preamble to the Constitution, Alex?
LOL
You feel so clean inside!
Needs moar lube?
No Santorum at the rally
Needs moar rube?
The Gold Bug Variations
Enema of the State
Anyone else (besides Oblique) make it out to Eat Real this weekend? We went Saturday, and at first I thought it was going to be too overwhelming, with too many people and insufferable lines for everything. But it proved to be quite manageable, as there were about twice as many trucks/stalls as last year. And though the beer lines were sometimes long, if timed right (as in leave a little in your cup for sipping while waiting) it wasn’t too bad, and the wine lines were quite short. HIghlights were a Malaysian star-anise chicken curry, beef empanada, and bao paired with Black Diamond Saison. We missed the kraut demo but did see the goat butchering. It was a wonderful day, if a little windy, showing off Oakland at its finest.
We went yesterday. A little crowded for my tastes, but we mostly just went for the stuff with short lines, and as you say even the longer lines tended to move reasonably quickly.
Favorite dish was the cuban sandwich from Ebbetts, which I sought out after reading about them on berkeleyside last week.
Sounds good, I’ll have to try to find them sometime.
Good to see you out there! Sorry I almost missed you — out of context disorientation + lots of food + some beer + sunshine all worked against me.
Great to see you too, and a pleasure to meet your fiancee. I think it’s the out of context thing that is often so weird at events like that – “I know you from somewhere, but I’ll be darned if I can figure it out”. Plus I can be convinced that lb looks like BB after enough food+beer+sunshine, so I was relieved that you weren’t some random OIG.
Oh no no no, all a misunderstanding — this was just about defense against sun exposure.
Beck was wise to ban signs, but he forgot to ban shirts.
Heavy drinking FTW (or, at least, for second place)
Apparently it’s because the non-drinkers are all depressed friendless recluses. Score another point for social lubrication.
Wait. Am I supposed to start drinking again?
They appear to have excluded ex-drinkers from the teetotaling cohort, so the data may not support falling off the wagon as a healthy life choice.
Wednesday Sept. 8 I have an extra ticket, want to join me?
YES. I will be honored, sir.
Excellent, I’ll drop you an email sometime this weekend on the logistics.
Woo! FSU fun time!
But there’s more old drunks
Than there are old doctors
So I guess I’d better have another round
Oh, crap. Please tell me that the poster for this was not designed by this guy. (Looks like a lame ripoff. I hope.)
Yeesh. This is all quite frightful.
It could be MUCH worse.
We’ll start means-testing only Jews and Turks?
2. Geren is a Larussian genius!
So who would Geren take to the Beck-fest? It could have been the one time Chavez was too Mexican.
Remember: molecules are your friends.
It’s even organic!
KOTD: And so it was, is, and will be again
Nice.
Awesome.
Was their marketing slogan “Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band: The Cure for the Common Polka”?
Lyrics by Richard Schmidt-Mann
Free Kraut: it may seriously damage your ears, or else inflict severe mental harm
What’s wrong with a little flair?
This is funny stuff
Shutting off tonight’s game early gave me a chance to finish the Charlie Finley book. Overall I thought it was well worth reading. The middle of the book is devoted to the move from Kansas City and the three world championships, an era that has been written about extensively. I found that part a rehash of information I was already very familiar with. The early part of the book about Finley’s rise as a businessman and the Kansas City years was very interesting, as was the discussion of the period following Catfish Hunter’s departure, which shed light on the impact of Finley’s divorce and financial problems; his departure from baseball was not nearly so simple as the “Bowie Kuhn forced me out” line which he put forth at the time.
There are a few times where the authors repeat themselves and a couple of nitpick errors I could have pointed out if they’d let me read the manuscript (“the light-rail Bay Area Rapid Transit system”, “the Haywood Daily Review”), but the quality of the research is very good. If your interest in A’s history of that era goes beyond the 1972-1974 world championship teams, this is a good book to read.
Thanks for the review, it does sound interesting. I have a massive biography of Connie Mack staring at me from one of my bookcases, so until I tackle that I doubt I’ll go after Charlie O.
I’m still trying to make time for On Bended Knee: The Art Howe Story.
Not to be confused with: On Bended Knees: How Ken Macha Got His Job Back After the 2005 Season
Or On Busted Knees: How Ryan Sweeney Went From Teh Awesome to Teh Suxx0rz
Or Bury My Season At Wounded Knee: Brett Anderson’s August.
Or What I Kneed: AJ Pierzynski’s Last Days As a Giant
Salb8:
MY is on an immigration-is-good-for-everyone kick.
Convincing?
Not really, although I don’t have time comment at the moment. For the record, I’m also unconvinced that we need a tighter immigration policy.
There’s also this, which while may be legit from a econwonk perspective, but would likely result in some terrible cultural blowback.
That’s one of my two links.
Ah, didn’t see the second.
TWSS
It seems to me that Yglesias is majorly oversimplifying things in a couple of different ways.
First, it’s not necessarily useful to talk about “immigration” as a single entity. The arguments for and against are very different for a PhD engineer than for a migrant farm worker or a hotel maid, and there might be good reasons for supporting one while opposing the other. And even within each of these groups there are other subtleties that might make loose immigration policy a good idea in some instances but not in others.
Second, his thought experiment about cleaners in the first link leaves out a couple of other related possibilities:
3a) Those jobs would be filled by other workers who are currently idle. (I believe MY is aware that we are not currently anywhere near full employment)
and
3b) Decreased competition for jobs in the unskilled sector would push wages up in those areas, leading to higher costs for those of us who eat in restaurants or stay in hotels, but also ultimately leading to better working conditions for people in those industries and a more equitable distribution of wealth in the US.
The counterarguments, as I understand them are
A) Immigrants don’t just fill jobs, they also create jobs because they consume goods and services
B) Any potential benefit to the US from keeping people out is balanced by a corresponding detriment in another country. Ultimately it’s best to let labor flow to available jobs.
Ultimately, I mostly agree with these latter arguments. But the accounting is considerably more complicated than he’s making it out to be.
This is fair.
The SF Fed thinks the accounting isn’t necessarily that much more complicated.
1. That’s a lot different than what MY wrote (even though it’s the study to which he was linking).
2. Per my 3a) above, the answer may well be different in a recession than in a period of full employment.
In between experiments, I just want to share how excited I’ve been the last few days: picotrebuchet is starting preschool this week, and he is about 90% potty trained (slept all night in underwear last night!). We took him to Target to pick his own underwear, and he chose “Daffy Duck” (actually Donald) and “Lightning The Queen” (Cars themed; I’m not sure where he learned that from since we’ve never watched the movie).
Femtotrebuchet is this close to walking, too. It has been an exciting week in the trebuchet household!
Boy, it’s a good thing you picked “trebuchet” and not “male” …
But “boy” would have been great if there were a 3rd to come.
Go trebuchets!
Lily started kindergarten this morning, uniform and all.
AAAAHHHH!
pics or it didn’t happen.
Nice.
she’s tall…like my height.
I’ve met her. She is.
Awww. Are those shorts underneath? Perfect for playing on the monkey bars!
Yup. She loves to hang out with her friends upside-down.
Very cool. I’m surrounded at work by a lot of people sending kids to their first pre-school or kindergarten. Crazy stuff.
pico has been in daycare for a while, and the preschool is actually in the same building, so it’s not a huge transition for him. But it still seems crazy – kids don’t nap if they don’t want to! they take out and prepare their own lunches! they use the preschool climber! no diapers or pacifiers! kids have classroom jobs (pico waters the plants)! they have computers (!) in the class!
Between this and JP learning to sweep the leg, FK 12.0 looks to be in good shape.
MikeVI won’t like the interface
1. Yup.
2. If everything worked the first time, and you discount building/maintenance/repair of the apparatus as well as the shit ton of reading the scientific literature, I think my published experiments and related analyses were probably about 10-12 weeks of work (packed into five short years). This also assumes that I never chased down all the dead ends and that I designed the experiments properly the first time. It’s kind of a trick question, though – the processing “breakthrough” that I made was actually a negative control that happened to work. The original process I was planning to use never actually went anywhere, so I went back to the process that wasn’t supposed to work but did and turned it into a thesis.
3. I know it is “McQueen,” but pico calls it “the Queen” and apparently nothing in the world will stop him. He’s a determined one. Now we’re having the problem where he uses the potty as a bedtime procrastination technique.
3. My dog does that when she wants to keep smelling something–she fakes like she’s peeing.
In fairness, I do this, too.
Re. 2, I think it’s easier for theorists than experimentalists, especially at the PhD level where your supervisor has some solid ideas already. I was my supervisors first PhD student, and had a lead-authored paper within 3 months of starting.
Wow, three months! All I had done after three months was gotten trained on a machine and subsequently broken it.
But were you using it as a bedtime procrastination technique?
It was also a happy accident – I started just as a new area of research was opening up, so there was lots of low-hanging fruit, but it required reasonably advanced computing skills, so there weren’t many other pluckers out there.
luck, design, and all that.
this is awesome. all those years i didn’t watch indian movies with my mom when i had the chance…
Wow – Bollywood at its finest.
I actually LOL’d. That is PURE awesome.
I’ve never felt sub-continental pseudo-nationalistic pride until now!