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24 Jan 2011  |  nevermoor  |The Grill

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In a day with no A’s news, I needed to delve deeper into the tagline. We can all relax, Otter Pops production elves hand wash. Automatically.

Other links:

  1. DFWAS
  2. YOTD, new information division
  3. We were always at war with Eastasia poor people.
  4. Linked for two awesome comments. Do you prefer Wellington or Sam Johnson?
  5. As always, when it comes to toughness, I’ll trust Urlacher over Deion Sanders. And, of course, be right.

84 thoughts on “Grilled Otter Pops”

  1. monkeyball Jan 24,2011 1:45 pm

    environmentally conscience

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  2. monkeyball Jan 24,2011 1:47 pm

    2. “The view that people suffering pain should get relief subject to the binding constraint that we need to fight addiction has a nice Puritan logic to it, but it doesn’t make any real sense”

    We can’t all live forever so why does it matter what kind of health care pain relief we have?

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    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 1:49 pm || Up

      I know, right. I stubbed my toe the other week and no one gave ME vicodin.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. monkeyball Jan 24,2011 1:49 pm

    3. I could have sworn that Slate’s run virtually that exact article at least twice before

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    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 1:54 pm || Up

      I’d never seen it.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 2:03 pm || Up

        Google isn’t helping me make my case, but really — I swear I’ve seen Slate do a US-government-poisoning-alcohol-during-Prohibition article before. A couple times. Down to the chased-by-Santa anecdote and everything.

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        • andeux Jan 24,2011 2:05 pm || Up

          This one is dated almost a year ago.

          TINSTAAFK
          • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 2:09 pm || Up

            Dur. I still haven’t adjusted to it being 2011.

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          • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 2:12 pm || Up

            Yeah, I only got there through the MY piece.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  4. andeux Jan 24,2011 1:56 pm

    Researchers weigh benefits of a new Kilogram standard
    How about just defining the kilogram in terms of the amount of gold you can buy with a dollar?

    TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 2:03 pm || Up

      The plan is to eventually relate the kilogram to a universal number known as Planck’s constant. But the technology needed to do that is not yet fully developed.

      Huh?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 2:07 pm || Up

        Compromise solution: they go halfway between that ideal and andeux’s suggestion, and define it in terms of the number of a vintage baseball card you can buy with a dollar — call it Planck’s Konstanty.

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      • nanotrebuchet Jan 25,2011 8:16 pm || Up

        I’m not so sure i understand either – wouldn’t it be fairly easy to define it in terms of the mass of some of number of carbon atoms, or similar?

        • ptbnl Jan 25,2011 8:27 pm || Up

          Could you get a pure enough sample of a single carbon isotope?

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • nanotrebuchet Jan 25,2011 8:27 pm || Up

        what about Lyle’s Constant?

        • the llama Feb 23,2012 11:09 pm || Up

          Man, where was doctorK/mikeV when I posted this?

          • doctorK Feb 24,2012 12:14 pm || Up

            We were pissing away our time at the OC. (runs away crying)

      • the llama Feb 23,2012 11:11 pm || Up

        That technology is being developed.

        The watt balance – first proposed by Brian Kibble at NPL in 1975 – relates electrical power to mechanical power. This allows for very accurate measurements of Planck’s constant in terms of the SI units of mass, length and time. The SI units of length and time are already fixed in terms of fundamental and atomic constants. If the value of Planck’s constant is fixed, the watt balance would provide a method of measuring mass.

  5. monkeyball Jan 24,2011 2:10 pm

    Elephants on Market Street? Elephants on Market Street.

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  6. FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 24,2011 3:03 pm

    5. The real interesting part of the Chicago QB-go-round yesterday was that the Bears made the change to the Hanie, third-string guy, with two plays remaining in the third quarter, which per the roster rules around “emergency” quarterbacks meant that neither of the first two QBs could re-enter the game. Had the Bears waited until the 4th quarter, then no such re-entry restriction would have applied. But as it stood, had Hanie gotten hurt, they would have had to put someone else behind center. I bet Deven Hester would do OK.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 3:20 pm || Up

      Well, it was pretty clear that anyone in the stands would have been better than their “veteran backup”

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • andeux Jan 24,2011 3:31 pm || Up

        Todd Collins has had an amazingly long career considering how terrible he is.

        TINSTAAFK
        • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 3:37 pm || Up

          He must sell jeans.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. mother pucker Jan 24,2011 3:12 pm

    5) The amount of shit being tossed Cutler’s way, all through Twitter, is really disgusting, and clearly unjustified. For all the current players attacking him, it seems like its just another form of narcissism. I use to find Jason Whitlock’s columns, if nothing else, interesting and different, but lately, this masterpiece has engendered a change of mind.

    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 3:19 pm || Up

      Yeah, that’s awful.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • batgirl Jan 24,2011 7:14 pm || Up

      I am far from unbiased about Cutler, and even I agree this has been totally overboard. My instinct, matches this guy’s:

      Part of me wonders if it was more an indictment of Cutler’s standing with his peers than it was a serious questioning of his toughness. If you don’t like someone, you’re going to be much less likely to give him the benefit of the doubt.

      Cutler has a reputation for being a punk, so it seems like this is just an excuse to pile on him.

      Also, I’m delighted that Green Bay won.

      • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 7:33 pm || Up

        Booo

        Both the teams I was rooting for lost. Now I’m going to curse the Packers by rooting for them.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 24,2011 8:58 pm || Up

          Green and yellow team with a key player named Crosby. Money in the bank.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • MikeV Jan 24,2011 9:43 pm || Up

      and it turns out, he had a fucking torn MCL. Grade 2.

      I mean what QB would need to do things like move laterally or plant their foot to throw the ball.

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

      Thanks, and go As.

      • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 9:49 pm || Up

        Yeah. But Deion once tackled someone. I mean talk about tough.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  8. monkeyball Jan 24,2011 3:18 pm

    Well, this is … interesting.

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    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 3:30 pm || Up

      To me too. If only I had started work a decade earlier.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 24,2011 4:25 pm || Up

      Since the A’s Coliseum lease will expire before any move to a new park takes place (even a new park in Oakland), a legal case that the team should be bound by terms which are no longer in force strikes me as even weaker than the already-weak case the article outlines. Russo hints that they’d claim the A’s have been acting contrary to the lease term while it was in force, leading the the subsequent post-lease relocation. But that seems dubious to me, especially given the Coliseum Authority’s lack of progress on a new park over that same time. So maybe the City-County has a long drawn out claim for some kind of damages, but I can’t imagine any judge enjoining the franchise from moving into a new park in SJ based on this weak claim.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 4:27 pm || Up

        You’re underestimating the amount of time it would take from point A to point B, and the fact that it would reduce the franchise value in some amount.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  9. monkeyball Jan 24,2011 3:26 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 3:36 pm || Up

      To be fair, there’s no particularly strong reason that health plans don’t cover those areas. In fact, some health plans do cover vision!

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 3:42 pm || Up

        Yes, but neither the gubmint nor the competition-stomping (and government-enforced) medical cartels made/enforce that split.

        What puts the glib in glibertarianism is the sense that it’s a random set of cranky complaints (about White People Problems). And that post there is a random set of cranky complaints (about White People Problems).

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  10. andeux Jan 24,2011 4:12 pm

    Via twitter:
    Mortensen traded to Rockies for RHP Ethan Hollingsworth
    Andy LaRoche signed to minor league deal with NRI
    Bunch of other NRIs announced

    TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 4:24 pm || Up

      Hollingsworth has some pretty good strikeout rates for a SP. I like.

      LaRoche is a perfectly good move.

      And, of course, the buried lede: The Giants might have Zito, but we have VINNE MOTHERFUCKING CHULK y’all.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 4:25 pm || Up

      Also, twitter fail.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 24,2011 4:26 pm || Up

      Nomenclaturally, I could see Ethan becoming the new Chad.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 4:30 pm || Up

      So … we started the offseason with a shaky pen but impressive depth in the rotation …

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      • andeux Jan 24,2011 4:49 pm || Up

        eh, Mortensen was at best 7th out of 11 on the SP depth chart, and Humber somewhere below that.

        TINSTAAFK
        • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 5:02 pm || Up

          Really?

          Braden
          Anderson
          Gio
          Cahill
          McCarthy
          Harden

          Cramer?
          Outman
          Ross?
          Moscoso?
          Hollingsworth

          I see a whole lot of injury risk and performance uncertainty in the top 4, and whole lot of WTF in the rest. Mortensen wasn’t anything special (solidly in the WTF camp), but we’ve lost a lot of that WTF depth this offseason. And I think there’s a reasonable chance that no A’s SP hits 175 IP in 2011. Which means a whole lotta WTF innings.

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          • lenscrafters Jan 24,2011 5:04 pm || Up

            Man, if Braden or Anderson miss serious time…

            • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 5:17 pm || Up

              … and Cahill regresses exactly as everyone assumes he will, and Gio’s walk rate and emotional maturity remain volatile …

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              • Future Ed Jan 24,2011 11:58 pm || Up

                I can’t tell if you are serious.

                To me Gio’s “emotional problems” are kinda like the Sequoia’s bigfoot problem.

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                • monkeyball Jan 25,2011 7:09 am || Up

                  I didn’t say “problems” — everyone around him has been saying he needs to focus, not let bad calls and location struggles/borderline pitches get to him, not let innings mushroom.

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          • nevermoor Jan 24,2011 5:17 pm || Up

            Or, a whole lot of 5IP starts with a solid bullpen to finish.

            I think a lot of the moves are based on that issue from last season.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 5:21 pm || Up

              You can’t make 5IP starts from the DL. And I think we’re counting on a whole lot of 5IP starts from Cahill, Gio, and the 5th spot already — someone’s going to have to make a few 7-8IP starts.

              Also, my comment from the other day still holds: just how many members of the ‘pen do you feel confident letting face multiple batters/oppo-handed batters?

              I think the A’s entire ’11 pitching staff is being built around best-case-scenario projections.

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          • andeux Jan 24,2011 5:35 pm || Up

            Depth chart looks about right. Outman, if he’s healthy, would be above Cramer.

            Just about every pitcher has a whole lotta injury risk and performance uncertainty. I don’t see Anderson (despite his missed time last year), Cahill, and Gio as any worse than average in those regards. Braden has more injury risk given his leg issues. Three of them managed 190+ innings last year.

            Your supposition that all of their arms will suddenly explode seems to be mostly an article of faith. And if that happens, yeah, we’re screwed. Absolutely. But I don’t see how having one additional mediocrity like Mortensen around would change that at all.

            And I really don’t see how we’ve lost depth: Duchscherer, Sheets (if you even count him), Mazzaro, Mortensen lost, Harden, McCarthy, Moscoso gained plus Outman hopefully back. Humber come and gone. Seems like about a wash overall.

            TINSTAAFK
            • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 5:43 pm || Up

              Last paragraph: I agree. I also agree that the loss of Mortensen alone isn’t much to mourn (see my WTF comments).

              Where, though, did I say that all of their arms would explode? Braden’s foot is his issue. Where did I say anything about Gio and Cahill getting injured? Are you more optimistic about Cahill than most everyone else? To be sure, I’m probably more pessimistic about Gio than is reasonable/common.

              And I find your parenthetic about Anderson to be puzzling — really? He doesn’t present above-average risk, given what happened last year?

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              • andeux Jan 24,2011 6:04 pm || Up

                None of them reaching 175 IP could really only happen if they all get injured, given that 3 of them averaged 6+ innings/start last year, and Anderson was just a hair below that. Even if the A’s do take advantage of the improved ‘pen and baby them a bit more, they’re not going to literally be taking them out after the 5th every game.

                Cahill and Gio I would expect will both regress to the mean somewhat (ERA-wise), but still be pretty good. ERAs around 3.60 maybe.

                Anderson, I don’t know, maybe I am being too optimistic. He missed a big chunk of time, but finished the season healthy and effective.

                TINSTAAFK
            • lenscrafters Jan 24,2011 5:45 pm || Up

              Anderson had two elbow related issues last year both due to the same problem, forearm tightness, which is only a step away from TJS. I fail to see how he’s anything close to “average” in the injury risk department.

            • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 5:56 pm || Up

              Also: IP counts 2007-10 (minors + majors)

              Braden 148-125-136-196
              Anderson 120-105-175-131
              Gio 150-157-159-200
              Cahill 105-124-178-205

              Am I correct in recalling that there’s been some analytic work correlating a big single-season jump in IP with arm injury in subsequent years? Looks like we might have already broken Anderson, and now that I look at those numbers, a compensatory/cascade arm injury for Braden wouldn’t surprise me at all (though I’m not expecting it).

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              • lenscrafters Jan 24,2011 6:08 pm || Up

                Gio’s usage was rather needless. He ended up throwing over 100 pitches in 5 of 6 starts last September (over 110 in two of those starts) when he really should’ve been shut down in mid September, around the 175 inning mark. But I guess Bob decided it was more important for him to throw 118 pitches in that Sept 30 game in which the A’s were beating the M’s 8-1.

              • andeux Jan 24,2011 6:12 pm || Up

                “The Verducci Effect” (and similar claims from Carroll and the BP guys).
                Seems to have very little predictive value.

                TINSTAAFK
                • monkeyball Jan 25,2011 7:09 am || Up

                  OK, thanks.

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    • lenscrafters Jan 24,2011 5:09 pm || Up

      There’s a part of me that really wants him to beat out Kouz for the starting 3B job…

    • Future Ed Jan 24,2011 11:55 pm || Up

      Choice?

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • nanotrebuchet Jan 25,2011 8:19 pm || Up

      finally have laroche, after all the clamoring to trade for him about three years ago.

      • nevermoor Jan 25,2011 9:34 pm || Up

        Now lets not give him a chance and complain that it was a dumb move.

        /Murton

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. monkeyball Jan 24,2011 5:36 pm

    NEEDS MOAR DR TERWILLIKER
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=YfkNEq1XioE%3Frel%3D0” frameborder=”0″ allowFullScreen>

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    • monkeyball Jan 24,2011 5:37 pm || Up

      Balanced response:

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Future Ed Jan 25,2011 12:03 am || Up

      I don’t want watch that again. Were there ANY people of color in it?

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      • monkeyball Jan 25,2011 7:10 am || Up

        Pink is a color.

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      • nanotrebuchet Jan 25,2011 8:21 pm || Up

        i’m pretty sure i saw martin luther king jr.

    • monkeyball Jan 25,2011 12:33 pm || Up

      Yglesiasm:

      Absolutely nothing in the imagery of the video or the policy agenda of the Republican Party is suggestive of freedom. It’s full of flags and grim-faced folks and bourgeois respectability and military jets flying in tight formation. It’s an ad from a conservative politician that’s about exactly what an ad from a conservative politician ought to be about—about preserving a way of life against Muslims, freeloaders, sexual deviants, and other threats.

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  12. Leopold Bloom Jan 25,2011 4:08 am

    So, I’m home now. When’s the box office tailgate?

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 25,2011 8:59 am || Up

      Weather’s predicted to be clear this Saturday. If we do this, say from 10:00 am to noon, how many of you FKers would show up?

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • nevermoor Jan 25,2011 9:46 am || Up

        10 is too early for us, but noon is almost certainly doable.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • andeux Jan 25,2011 9:48 am || Up

        I might.

        TINSTAAFK
      • ptbnl Jan 25,2011 9:54 am || Up

        I can’t make this weekend.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • sslinger Jan 25,2011 10:44 am || Up

        Doubtful.

      • batgirl Jan 25,2011 10:51 am || Up

        Not me, I’ll be at the Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale gettin my shop on.

        • batgirl Jan 25,2011 10:52 am || Up

          Wait, cancel that, I thought the tix went on sale this Sunday. Well, I still probably would not be able to make it. I think I have a blood donation appt in the morning.

      • Leopold Bloom Jan 25,2011 11:24 am || Up

        Me! And I’d probably bring Mikie. Maybe DMOAS, if he’s up to leaving his home…

      • monkeyball Jan 25,2011 11:48 am || Up

        Doubtful. Clear weather forecast means more time huddling in the monkeycave. Also, Saturday am is farmers market time for me ‘n’ JP.

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      • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 25,2011 12:32 pm || Up

        OK, I’m hearing nevermoor possible on the later side, andeux possible, and Bloom and Friends likely.

        I’ll confer with the Upgrade family and friends tonight re time availablity, and I’ll post a Saturday beer and ticket party thread tomorrow sometime.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • Leopold Bloom Jan 26,2011 2:21 am || Up

          Wooop Woop!

        • nevermoor Jan 26,2011 9:54 am || Up

          Should we try to set an early-season FK confab before saturday so that we don’t have one person fronting all the cash?

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • FreeSeatUpgrade Jan 26,2011 11:10 am || Up

            Might be hard to commit to get many solid commitments this early out. I like the Saturday games with 6 pm starts for tailgate fests; first one of those is May 28 vs Baltimore, followed by fireworks.

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
            • nevermoor Jan 26,2011 12:16 pm || Up

              I like fireworks games too.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"

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