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Today wraps up a half-century as it’s my first day of AARP membership eligibility. I don’t want to call it “the first half-century”; God forbid there would be a second one. Give me another 25 good years, then a few decent but declining years to wrap up the loose ends, then take me behind the barn and do what you have to do.

For about 40 of the 50 years I was a resident of the East Bay. I believe my father took my mother to Candlestick Park when I was very little. She damn near froze to death and swore she’d never go back and wouldn’t let him take the kids there either. But about the time I started playing sucking at baseball, a second major league team moved to the Bay Area and they played at the shiny new Oakland Coliseum, where the weather was much better. So I got to see the A’s pretty much right from the beginning of the Oakland days. When I was 11, 12 and 13 my favorite baseball team won the World Series three years in a row. Talk about a perfect age to have that happen. In those years all I wanted for a birthday present was tickets to Opening Night, when the latest World Championship pennant was raised on the center field flag pole while the players were lined up along the foul line. I knew there would be some rebuilding with new players coming along, but surely by the time I was 50 the A’s would have another 10 or so World Championships under their belt.

Ah well, four World Championships in 50 years isn’t such a bad ratio. The thing about zero Rose Bowl appearances in 50 years, though, now that’s just damned embarrassing. There will be some real tears of joy when that finally happens.

I’ll take a quick look at what’s burning on The Grill. The roster will be cut to 25 after today’s game and Slusser thinks Sogard wins over LaRoche, which seems to be the consensus conclusion (unless you ask LaRoche, I suppose). Also, we have a new 7-day disabled list for players who sustain concussions.

I’ll let mb and the rest of you add more links. My mind keeps drifting to those magic words:

125 thoughts on “A Pirate Looks at Fifty

  1. nevermoor Mar 30,2011 12:53 am

    Happy birthday you old bag of bones.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  2. Leopold Bloom Mar 30,2011 2:20 am

    Damn, you’re old. How are you still walking upright?

    Happy birthday!

    It’s nice to get in on the ground floor of something. You’re an original Oakland A’s fan, man! How cool is that?

  3. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 6:56 am

    TWSS

    take me behind the barn and do what you have to do

    … happy birthday! I’m not especially far behind you on the path to senescence — both in years and in birthday.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  4. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 7:04 am

    I think this will finally tip Sullivan over in favor of intervening on behalf of the Libyan rebels — I mean, look at that guy’s beard!

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  5. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 7:06 am

    It would have been awesome if this had happened to YBMB — and they’d turned Oakland white.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  6. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 7:12 am

    mikeA bait:

    When you’re a clown, you have complete control over your actions.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 7:13 am || Up
      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux Mar 30,2011 10:46 am || Up
      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 11:36 am || Up

        Guys in chicken outfits, they’re funny. If a guy’s in a chicken outfit handing out something, I always take it because I figure anyone that’s reduced to being in a chicken outfit deserves my patronage.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  7. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 8:57 am

    In college, I played squirmish for the Casual Septuplers.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  8. FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 9:19 am

    At an average of about 10 years per World Series championship since ’72, we’re totally overdue.

    Congrats on the first 50. May the next 50 40 30 25 bring you lots more green and gold goodness.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  9. Poppy Mar 30,2011 9:33 am

    Happy Birthday! :)

    There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  10. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 9:59 am

    a new 7-day disabled list for players who sustain concussions.

    {nm clubs Bailey and Utley over the head}

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 10:11 am || Up

      Heh. WTF is the A’s problem there. The season starts tomorrow and they won’t DL him??

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. the dogfather Mar 30,2011 10:13 am

    What you have to look forward-to.

    Eatcher heart out.

    And Happy Aarpday!

    The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  12. nevermoor Mar 30,2011 11:00 am

    Too many DFWAS links today for me to adhere to my own rule.

    Should I go with Greenspan? (nah, Sal would need to see more detail) How about Pawlenty? (nah, presidential candidate knows zero about fiscal policy = dog bites man).

    I think I’m going with the world’s conservative parties. DFWAS.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. batgirl Mar 30,2011 11:06 am

    Happy Birthday!!

  14. batgirl Mar 30,2011 11:10 am

    Whoops

    James “Bubba” Stewart Jr., 25, was driving a 2008 Toyota Tundra pickup northbound on State Road 417 at 4:50 p.m. when he tried to stop another vehicle using red and blue police-type lights, troopers said.

    Unfortunately for Stewart, the vehicle contained two off-duty highway-patrol troopers, who suspected that the pickup was not an undercover police truck.

  15. FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 11:39 am

    DFVPTATWTALW (Despair, for Verducci picks the A’s to win the AL West)

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 12:02 pm || Up

      Yeah. I don’t like all this national attention. It sure jinxed the Niners.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • lenscrafters Mar 30,2011 12:29 pm || Up

      Whoever wrote the AL West preview did a decent job. Nothing we didn’t all know before, but nothing egregious either.

  16. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 11:40 am

    OK, so I’m now a Robothal fan.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 12:17 pm || Up

      Oh, for Ba’al’s sake … now I have to be a fucking Fat Tony fan, too?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • andeux Mar 30,2011 12:51 pm || Up

        He’ll fit in nicely with George Will and Tucker Carlson in your pantheon.

        TINSTAAFK
  17. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 11:48 am

    Nez Balelo“?

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  18. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 12:21 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 1:20 pm || Up

      Oh, the irony that computers could go from causing Enron to writing front page blog posts.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 4:37 pm || Up

        I’m waiting for the robo play-by-play man who gets partnered up with Morgan.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 4:37 pm || Up

          … and Aliens.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  19. nevermoor Mar 30,2011 12:30 pm

    Great tweet, or greatest tweet ever?

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 12:39 pm || Up
      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 1:35 pm || Up

        I am not raised. But, if I needed to reraise:

        (and yes, I’m shamelessly playing with my new toy)

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 1:46 pm || Up

          (TWNMS)

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 1:51 pm || Up

          Ceci n’est pas un comment

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • Leopold Bloom Mar 30,2011 5:42 pm || Up

            I feel the urge to read Proust and smoke a pipe.

            • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:46 pm || Up

              In former Third Republic, Proust feels the urge to smoke you

              you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • nanotrebuchet Mar 30,2011 9:48 pm || Up

        Feh.

        • nanotrebuchet Mar 30,2011 9:55 pm || Up

          From the comments:

          Yes, knowing that K is the symbol for Potassium is hardly intelligent. I can’t believe that people are making such a big deal about this. Are Americans really so science ignorant that when a kid knows K is the symbol for Potassium they all get a raging boner? That’s sad.

    • andeux Mar 30,2011 12:50 pm || Up

      Apparently that tweet, whatever it was, was so awesome that it broke twitter.

      TINSTAAFK
      • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 1:01 pm || Up

        Huh? It’s working for me.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 1:10 pm || Up

          I regularly have trouble accessing twitter pages — Slusser’s I never bother looking at except via the embedded links in her slumbeats.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 1:11 pm || Up

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 1:28 pm || Up

              NOTE:

              I just enabled something called “oEmbed” in the comments. What that means is that if you paste a link to a participating website (or Twitter) ON ITS OWN LINE, FK will automatically do the embed.

              For example, I’m going to paste a youtube link on its own line below, with no code:

              See. Neat.

              (this also works in posts)

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 1:34 pm || Up

                Paste, what an embed code

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
              • Soaker Mar 30,2011 2:58 pm || Up

                Looking at oembed.com it appears the “participating websites” of interest would primarily be Youtube, Hulu, Vimeo and Flickr, in addition to Twitter. I’m not familiar with some of the other sites they list.

                What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
                • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 3:47 pm || Up

                  Yeah. That’s probably right, although my guess is it will expand over time since it looks pretty easy for sites to implement.

                  Anyway, should help us talk about tweets (since some people have trouble with the sites) and make video embeds a touch easier.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • the dogfather Mar 30,2011 4:17 pm || Up

                Mother, Mother Tahoe…

                …made enough money to buy Squaw Valley,

                The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
                • the dogfather Mar 30,2011 4:19 pm || Up

                  It’s ALIVE!

                  The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
                • Ice Cream Mar 30,2011 4:30 pm || Up

                  That was cool!

                  Where is the good in "good-bye"?
                • Soaker Mar 30,2011 4:53 pm || Up

                  Jimmy is excellent for long drives; the lively sing-along nature of his music is great for staying alert. In the living room late at night I still prefer an 18-minute “Sugaree” with nice long jams.

                  I departed Tahoe just before the spring training trip and moved down the hill into the Carson Valley. My landlord at Tahoe terminated my lease because he wanted to move into the townhouse I was renting. I wanted to stay in the area and in Nevada for the income tax issues, which limited my options at the lake, so I’m trying this as an alternative. I’m still a 20-25 minute drive from the lake, there’s much less snow and the rent is so much lower that next winter I can make that trip to see Jimmy in Anguilla along with the spring training trip for free due to the rent difference. And I have a great view of the valley and the surrounding snowy mountains. But, to be sure, it’s not living within walking distance of the lake.

                  Now about that I go for younger women part (yeah right).

                  What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
                • the dogfather Mar 30,2011 5:01 pm || Up

                  Well, most of them are, after all.

                  The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
    • whiteshoes40 Mar 30,2011 2:05 pm || Up

      I probably wouldn’t recognize Brandon McCarthy if I walked past him on the street, but I’m already a little bit in love with him just because of his Twitter account.

      • Poppy Mar 30,2011 5:36 pm || Up

        Srsly! His wife is pretty damn funny, too…

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
        • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:39 pm || Up

          McChrist, what an ass clown

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • whiteshoes40 Mar 30,2011 6:29 pm || Up

          I kind of want to follow her, but I can’t decide if it’s creepy to follow a player’s wife on Twitter. She’s just so funny!

          • Poppy Mar 30,2011 6:37 pm || Up

            I’m just bookmarking her… I think if I was the wife of someone famous or semi-famous (famous enough to be followed by strangers), I would be creeped out by people following me unless I was also famous on my own.

            There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
            • whiteshoes40 Mar 30,2011 6:45 pm || Up

              Good plan. She only has 20+ followers, and I don’t want to give her the wrong idea about A’s fans. We’re not creepy stalkers… just passionate!

  20. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 12:55 pm

    **-FK tailgate? **-FK tailgate

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 1:10 pm || Up

      What the hell is that?

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • Ice Cream Mar 30,2011 1:23 pm || Up

        What goes on in Lot A, stays in Lot A.

        Where is the good in "good-bye"?
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 8:42 pm || Up

      I’m impressed by the fact that they put aside their enmity long enough to make shirts-versus-skins arrangements before beating the crap out of each other.

      Sad to say, what with all the +/- 50 y.o.s around here, FK is probably the redshirts.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  21. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 1:10 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  22. lenscrafters Mar 30,2011 3:58 pm

    Roster finalized:

    OaklandAs Oakland Athletics
    by susanslusser
    #Athletics option Ross, Donaldson and Sogard to Sacramento; select LaRoche from Sacramento; reassign Timmons and Carson to minor league camp

    Cramer presumably in as long man.

    • nevermoor Mar 30,2011 4:11 pm || Up

      Picked a bad time to pull a Knoblauch

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • Soaker Mar 30,2011 4:16 pm || Up

        It’s like Dot Racing, where the leader and apparent winner always collapses just before the finish line.

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 4:38 pm || Up

        If you pull your knoblauch, someone else will be in as long man?

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux Mar 30,2011 5:46 pm || Up

      Don’t they need to make a spot on the 40-man roster?

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:50 pm || Up

        Rosales -> 60-day DL

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • lenscrafters Mar 30,2011 6:17 pm || Up

        Yeah, Rosales to the 60 day.

        Bailey, Harden -> 15 day DL

        Outfielders: Crisp, DeJesus, Willingham, Sweeney, Jackson

        Infielders: Kouz, Pennington, Ellis, Barton, LaRoche

        Catchers: Suzuki, Powell

        DH: Matsui

        Bullpen:
        LHP Blevins
        LHP Breslow
        LHP Cramer
        LHP Fuentes
        RHP Balfour
        RHP Wuertz
        RHP Ziegler

        Rotation:
        LHP Anderson
        LHP Braden
        LHP Gonzalez
        RHP Cahill
        RHP McCarthy

        Four lefties in the bullpen certainly is interesting. On the bright side, we may never have to see Cramer in a meaningful game; on the not-so-bright-side, it may mean Bob is more inclined to ensconce Fuentes as “closer”, instead of using him situationally, as he should be used.

        • Soaker Mar 30,2011 6:55 pm || Up

          With that bullpen alignment, if Balfour is held back for closing situations, Wuertz is going to pitch in the 8th inning in every single game. There’s no way you can use three situational lefties in the bullpen (I’m not counting Cramer; doesn’t matter whether mop-up is LHP or RHP). I’m remembering the season the A’s opened the season with Magnante, Venafro and Holtz in the pen (Koch closing). Holtz almost immediately fell into total disuse.

          What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
          • danny Mar 31,2011 8:34 am || Up

            Breslow shouldn’t just be a situational lefty. He’s allowed a 3.75 tERA and 4.00 FIP against RHB over the past three years, which suggests he doesn’t need to be shielded from them. Ideally, they’d have:

            Co-closers: Balfour,Fuentes
            Set-up: Wuertz, Breslow
            Specialists: Ziegler, Blevins
            Mop-up: Cramer

  23. Ice Cream Mar 30,2011 4:13 pm

    You’re still a young man, baby
    Don’t waste your time.

    Happy Birthday, Soaker!

    Where is the good in "good-bye"?
  24. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 4:35 pm

    You know what I’d like to have been able to see? Moneyball and Aliens.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  25. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 4:54 pm

    Eh, they’re just enforcers of the unnecessary pedagogy cartel.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  26. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:15 pm

    I think this calls for a UNSC resolution and a US-led bombing campaign.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  27. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:15 pm

    Hunh. Giants going with Belt.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  28. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:26 pm

    Ah, right: also HB to andeux!

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • the dogfather Mar 30,2011 5:45 pm || Up

      Sacre bleu! Bon anniversaire!

      The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
      • monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:48 pm || Up

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • the dogfather Mar 30,2011 5:58 pm || Up

          The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
        • the dogfather Mar 30,2011 6:31 pm || Up

          The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
    • andeux Mar 30,2011 5:48 pm || Up

      Shhhh. I mean thanks.

      TINSTAAFK
      • Poppy Mar 30,2011 6:03 pm || Up

        Hirthy Bappday!

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • Soaker Mar 30,2011 6:57 pm || Up

        Happy birthday! Have you ever looked at the list of MLB players born on March 30? You’d think there would be a decent player or two in there by random chance, but wow, what a hideous pile of suck. Josh Bard was our best active player but the Mariners just cut him. We do claim Eric Clapton (66 today) and Secretariat (would be 41).

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
        • andeux Mar 30,2011 9:05 pm || Up

          Yeah, pretty unimpressive list.
          I knew about EC (and am a big fan of the Derek and the Dominos era). Did not know about Secretariat. That’s pretty cool.

          TINSTAAFK
      • Ice Cream Mar 30,2011 8:11 pm || Up

        Hoppy Birthday!

        [hoists imaginary mug]

        Where is the good in "good-bye"?
      • batgirl Mar 30,2011 9:44 pm || Up

        Happy Birthday!!!

  29. monkeyball Mar 30,2011 5:35 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  30. FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 5:55 pm

    My would-be Opening Day comrade having confirmed his flakitude, I find myself with an extra ticket should someone want to join me in the Value Deck.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • ptbnl Mar 30,2011 6:02 pm || Up

      I may be able to swing it – have to talk to the missus first and I’m in Pasadena right now, but if it’s not gone by the time I do …

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • Poppy Mar 30,2011 6:05 pm || Up

        Where is Pasadena going?

        There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
        • the dogfather Mar 30,2011 6:35 pm || Up

          Journalism humor! I thought it was dead!

          The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
          • Poppy Mar 30,2011 6:40 pm || Up

            Journalism humor? I thought it was just “I’m nearly illiterate when I read too fast” humor…

            There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 7:44 pm || Up

        Cool, I’ll stay tuned.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • ptbnl Mar 30,2011 10:18 pm || Up

          OK – I’m in.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
          • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 11:05 pm || Up

            Right on. I’ll email re logistics.

            "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Leopold Bloom Mar 30,2011 6:15 pm || Up

      will you sit with me in the value deck, FSU? I’m up there, too…

      • andeux Mar 30,2011 6:39 pm || Up

        Party in the ValuDeck!

        TINSTAAFK
      • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 30,2011 7:44 pm || Up

        Well, you know how firmly I feel about fans sitting only in their legitimate seats…

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • monkeyball Mar 31,2011 7:22 am || Up

          And Bloom does have a legitimate seat …

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
          • Leopold Bloom Mar 31,2011 4:38 pm || Up

            It’s quite large.

            • the dogfather Mar 31,2011 5:38 pm || Up


              “And Leo’s getting Laaarrrrgggerrr.”

              The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  31. sslinger Mar 30,2011 7:47 pm

    Welcome to the club, Soaker! And HB to Andeux too!

  32. nanotrebuchet Mar 30,2011 9:51 pm

    Happy Birthday to the half-centenarian. Or is it centurion?

  33. nanotrebuchet Mar 30,2011 9:52 pm

    And happy birthday to our resident mathemagician, too.

  34. JediLeroy Mar 30,2011 10:48 pm

    Happy birthday, Soandeux!

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  35. nanotrebuchet Mar 30,2011 10:50 pm

    Odd news of the day: President Obama receives transparency award…”without disclosing the meeting on his public schedule or letting photographers or print reporters into the room.”

    On the other hand, Mikhail Gorbachev presented the Glasnost award to Ted Turner today.

  36. nanotrebuchet Mar 30,2011 11:52 pm

    America’s Next Top Model Energy Innovator

    Seems like a good idea, but I don’t think that licensing costs (at the figures quoted) are the primary or even secondary barrier to technology translation.

  37. nanotrebuchet Mar 31,2011 12:54 am

    Gotta love Braden:

    “I’m riding their coat tails,” Braden said. “They’re throwing around the Fantastic Four. I told them Baby 3.5 and I’ll be the decimal.”

    Did anyone catch this one?

    “I remember the first time I played, I remember hitting the ball and stopping at first, and my dad (David) said, ‘Next time, go to second,’ ” Willingham said. “So the next time I hit the ball, and I ran right over the mound to second.”

    New A’s teammate Dallas Braden might frown at such a tactic (“There’d have been fisticuffs if we were in the same Little League,” Braden joked)

    • nevermoor Mar 31,2011 8:39 am || Up

      That’s hilarious

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  38. batgirl Mar 31,2011 12:12 pm

    A’s reach a deal to broadcast on 95.7 The Wolf. I’m quite excited about this. I was so sick of the crappy signal on 860, having an FM station will be great.

    • FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 31,2011 12:19 pm || Up

      W00t!

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • monkeyball Mar 31,2011 12:20 pm || Up
      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  39. FreeSeatUpgrade Mar 31,2011 12:20 pm

    Top Chef! Kind of sad that while Mike I had his mom, wife, and sister there cheering him on, Richard had only his uncle.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • batgirl Mar 31,2011 4:05 pm || Up

      It was sad! He also made a mention earlier in the show like “I’ve got my wife, but other than that, I’m all alone in the world” or something to that effect. It made me think that either his parents have passed away, or he’s not close with them.

      • Leopold Bloom Mar 31,2011 4:39 pm || Up

        His mom definitely passed away earlier this year. He talked about it earlier this season. I think his dad was already dead.

        • batgirl Mar 31,2011 6:49 pm || Up

          Oh, that is so sad.

          • Leopold Bloom Mar 31,2011 7:12 pm || Up

            I know! But his wife was having their second child, so…he’s got a good family of his own.

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