- 5:30? Not much sympathy, dude.
- Bill James: douchebag, dumbass
- All Close Plays in the Age of Photography Are the Same, Chapter … One
- “The young and engaging Giants”? Really, Roger?
- Or does he while away the evenings putting on puppet shows for himself? (The parenthetic is really good, too.)
- Ugh. What a nasty family.
- Ugh. What a nasty party.
- Yglesias has no understanding of hospital economics
Yankees at Rangers @ 5:07 PT, Rangers lead 3-2
Like the GOP, al Qaeda believes that provision of healthcare coverage should be left to individuals on the open market.
The return of the final serial comma’s vital necessity
Kristofferson, what an apposite role
(Duvall, what an Apostle role.)
via tango, there’s some pretty interesting stats-based stuff here.
Main takeaway from the current entry: the NBA season is way too fucking long. I’m curious what the values for the NHL would be. My guess is more like baseball than like basketball.
I heartily endorse reducing the NFL season to 11 games. Ideally on the front end.
… and also reducing the MLB season to 67 games, presumably.
Jays won’t confirm that Farrell is new manager
And when a Jays runner is thrown out at second …
Terry Crowley is lucky he’s in fuckin’ baseball, for crissake
The Orioles would do better with Aleister Crowley.
Hell, they’d do better with Sgt James Crowley (especially visiting the Red Sox).
I can’t wait to see Kevin Costner in For Lovecraft of the Game
Say what you will about the tenets of historical reenactors …
Passing rain shower hits The Ballpark in Arlington, resulting in this wonderful disclosure from Eric Nadel (Rangers radio guy):
“The grounds crew couldn’t get the tarp deployed as fast as they normally would, because when the rain hit the National Anthem was being performed by B.J. Thomas.”
That is almost a TWHS
And from the TBS crew “Raindrops kept falling on BJ Thomas’ head”.
Coast, what an atoll/Coast, what an Astute
That’s an absurd missed call … Swisher crumples to the ground, the ball changes direction and goes between the umps legs, and it’s not called a HBP.
Another dumb IBB
Now I would presume that a low-run environment would make any hypothetical IBB even more costly, right?
That Cruz HR just added $20m to the Yankees offer to Lee
I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the concept of Colby Lewis, pennant-clinching pitcher.
Dallas Braden, perfect-game pitcher is more plausible?
Why is it that I think Lewis is going to face Buster Posey and Cody Ross in the World Series and turn into a steaming pile?
If Posey is the WS MVP I’ll never be able to talk to a giants fan again.
Nationally, though, the Hamilton/Lee hero worship is much worse. At this point, the Rangers have to lose in order to bring the universe back into balance.
Really this is a test for Christ. What does he care about more, helping Josh Hamilton win baseball games and become even more wealthy than he already is, or helping me eradicate words like “aura” and “presence” and “redemption” from the sportswriter lexicon? My quest is unassailably righteous, but also probably fruitless. Hamilton’s quest is meaningless but doable, and will also lead to more people liking Christ. I think if Christ is true to himself, he will not sacrifice my noble dream for a cheaply bought spike in his own popularity.
Sports stuff that hasn’t happened in my lifetime (50 years next spring):
1. Chicago Cubs play in the World Series.
2. Texas Rangers play in the World Series.3. San Francisco Giants win the World Series.
4. A team from Texas wins the World Series.
5. Cal plays in the Rose Bowl.
Go Phillies.
We welcome you onto the bandwagon, Buffalo boy, late to the party though you be.
Ah, but they’ve only played teams that I ranked lower, so I’ve been rooting for them all along.
Honestly that is the only safe and sane choice left for A’s fans.
I love Roy G Biv!
I thought Sanchez was gonna get shelled in Game 2, as I’ve though in each of his big game outings over the last month. Now I think he’s gonna pitch well. Hope I’m wrong again.
Sanchez and the Phillies D are both looking suspect. Is Chase Utley’s walkup music really Kashmir?
When Sanchez starts coming unglued, it’s just like watching Bad Gio.
Man, Sanchez’ headcase side sure showed up tonight.
Crap. Friggin Uribe.
I can’t tell if Bork’s pitching moves have been canny, panicky, or uncanny/weird.
Well, the Lincecum move tells you exactly what, deep down, Bochy thinks of Jairo.
Gp
Panicky.
PT and I are gonna go celebrate.
Wilson really is a heart attack on wheels, isn’t he?
Fuck.
I wasn’t entirely sure before, were it to come to a Texas-SF series, which team I’d be rooting for. But I am now: Fuck the Giants, from their apple-cheeked wunderkind catcher to their silver-pompadour’d, hideous orange and black bow-tied owner.
h8rs unite!
Yeah. Easy call for me.
Yep. I was really hoping for a “heartbreaking” Phillies comeback.
I’ll be supporting our AL West rivals, in much the same way as I root for Pac-10 teams in nonconference games. All in all it benefits Cal if the Pac-10 has a strong nonconference record, so I even root for Stanford and USC…especially when they’re playing somebody evil like Notre Dame, so there’s something of a parallel in this World Series. A Rangers World Championship brings a bit more attention and respect to the AL West and I don’t think it impacts the A’s long-term chances one way or the other.
Thin gruel, FSU.
After 3-4 innings of Buck & McCarver talking up Andrus’s free-spirited youthful spark-inducing dynamism and Michael Young’s professional hitterness and how super humble and inspiring Josh Hamilton is and how Ron Washington really connects and motivates and gets little-kid excited and waves runners around third from the dugout and also did you realize Cliff Lee was a strike throwing machine, you will switch sides.
Dad’s a Giants fan, so no animosity here towards the guys across the bay.
Ditto.
Ditto ditto, multiplied by my whole family (not just late dad). I rooted for Giants last week, I’m rooting for them this week.
Bah humbug.
Was chopping vegetables to cook a batch of Rancho Gordo beans this morning (eye of the goat), and had a million-dollar idea: I need to move to NYC and start a soup counter called Mirepoix on 34th Street.
No matter who wins, Bengie Molina gets another World Series ring, striking another blow against the tyranny of healthy eating zealots.
Is that a first (the ring-regardless-of-outcome, not the zealots)?
Not one word, FSU, not even a peep.
Oh my!
Heh heh. Long time coming.
Still, it is testimony to what being a Raider fan has become that their 38-7 lead at halftime found me thinking “they could totally still blow this.”
I’d wager that feeling has long since left the building and victory has now settled comfortably into your soul.
I’ve settled into cleaning my sock drawer and reading my ballot.
My friend in Boulder took his two impressionable young sons to the game yesterday. I imagine they’re
scarredRaider fans for life.At least there won’t be any more of the stupid “we want Carr” crap.
LOL
We want Carr to hand off to Gore!
I wondered if you would show up here or whether you’d just pull the Prius into the garage and see what happens.
Finally indeed.
70 MPG!
I’d still want an all electric for personal convenience reasons, but still.
We’ll see about that. Is this car’s body going to be substantial enough to pass modern safety standard requirements? I loved my 1986 Honda CRX, which got up to 45 mpg on a long highway drive if I was disciplined about speed, but good grief that thing was flimsy. That was before airbag requirements too. If I had ever been in a major accident in the CRX you guys and gals wouldn’t have to suffer through my comments here, that’s for sure.
“we want Car”
Jack FKin Cust
He keeps this up, the economy will make Palin competitive in ’12.
Yep.
Not a good decision.
whoa
Uh, whoa, indeed.
My first reaction was “lowball,” but:
Looks like it’s Skinner in ’12.
If they wanted to align coaching staff contracts with the manager’s why wouldn’t they have offered a 3 year deal 2 years ago?
Does anyone give coaches 3y deals?
WTH?!!! This day just keeps getting worse.
Ever had to work closely with someone you don’t respect? For a while, maybe a long while, you can put the differences aside, but eventually something’s gotta give. I’ll speculate that Young made this decision the day in September when the A’s picked up Geren’s option for 2011. Young has a great reputation; he obviously would have been justified in thinking that he’d have his pick of jobs if he decided to move on.
How do you know Young disrespects Geren? I haven’t heard a peep about Young having issues with Geren since Geren became manager.
I think it’s more likely a combination of him wanting to take advantage of recent, more lucrative/prestigious opportunities that opened up (Red Sox/Cardinals pitching coach position, for example) + the A’s not wanting to offer a multi-year deal.
They are speculating on **, that he may be taking a job with Arizona. If that is the case, uh, well, uh maybe he has family in the greater Phoenix area?
He does and if true, perhaps they’re also offering him more money/years.
Well, shit.
More toxic waste (of space) from BP.
YAY! WAY TO SUPPORT EM, SAN FRAN!
I assume Obama keeps them somewhere in the folds of his Muslim garb:
OK, so you’re the president, and you have the nuke codes on a little (presumably laminated) card. You can’t lose it, and you’ve got to take it everywhere you go. Where would you put it? As absurd as it sounds, rubberbanding it to your credit cards seems like as good a strategy as any (though obviously you have to be careful when you pay for dinner).
I guess inner suit jacket pocket would be an option. But presidents take their jackets off all the time. You can’t drape the nuke codes over a chair during a town hall, for crissakes. Plus every day you’ve got to execute the jacket to nightstand to next day’s jacket transfer. You can’t put it in your shoe (comfort issues) or your underwear (extreme comfort issues). So it’s got to be the wallet.
Yeah. Except a president probably doesn’t have much occasion to use credit cards either.
I’m glad to see that they are safeguarded with the same care I use for my Supercuts frequent buyer card.
We do stupid things.
How dumb do you have to be to mint money at a loss?
Is it really possible that the CNBC-watching crowd doesn’t understand that right now a weak dollar is good for America?
You think it’s better if we spend all that money on useless things?
Isn’t Cahoots a Gold Rush town up in the foothills?
Good news!
That’s just so that the Bilderbergs can track their investments in ownership of US natural persons more easily.