- Well, we can probably lay the Beane’s-leaving talk to rest now that Jenkins has jumped on the bandwagon (Really, Bruce? Dodgers? And no talk of the Lew-to-LA rumors? For shame — the Rumormongerers Local 101 shop steward will note this on your timesheets. Also, what’s up with that closing line? Are you implying that Wolffisher is going to move the franchise to the Off-World Colonies?)
BillyDavidBilly, call Dayton STAT- I think this has been the A’s organizational business philosophy
- TWDHS
if it puts something good on the table, I’ll give it a look and let you know.
- TWGGBPS
It’s been too wet and it won’t stick
- In college, I played kettle drums for the Frickstad Viaduct Demolition
- Don’t blame me, I voted
foragainst shark attack - I prefer the term “Lesmon” (and I still think the stealth strategery may be for Obama to replace Biden with Huntsman)
- I am monkey #1
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Re 5: DFA’s been organizin’
Sometimes a prosthetic leg has its advantages.
They just thought it was his eponymous appendage
that reminds me, when are you going to FilK “DeJesus Was Way Cool?”
Meh…DeJesus Was Just Alright with me.
8. Temple garments gnomes
Clever.
I just watched the movie preview on the A’s website. The movie may suck, but I’ll probably need to go just to relive the 20 game streak.
All pro sports franchises are the same, chapter XXVII
DFA Bait
Thanks, and go As.
3. That view of the organizational workforce very much mirrors my experience.
Also, “the HBR Blog Network.” Blez’ new foothold in the Ivy League?
1. “A franchise so irrevocably doomed”?
Must be referring to the Chronicle.
He forgot the init cap there
nm bait: one, two
Re. two, surely stoning is the way of the future.
JEHOVAH JEHOVAH JEHOVA!
1: Brilliant!
2: I find that less funny
1. quite funny.
2. Why the hell are you Sooner fan? Oh, wait, I read that wrong. nm, are you involved in NCADP?
3. The monkey’s effing title has me singing effing Def Leppard from when I was 12.
2. Mrs. N is from OKC.
She left when she realized that they could?
Kind of, but it’s actually generally a nice place (though just when I let my guard down I surpass my maximum tolerance for confederate flags and melt down again. Also, megachurches are scary.)
3. It got this song running through my head, which is especially odd since it’s not something I ever really listened to, but something I remember a Metallica-loving friend quoting back when I was 15.
2.
What the fuck kind of hammer is in your kitchen drawer?
a regular hammer? also a meat hammer?
It never occurred to me to store the hammer in the kitchen drawer.
what’s next? you don’t have a chain-saw there either?
Under my pillow just seems like a more natural choice.
My crazy aunt had an axe underneath her bad in her final months/years.
did she cut off your finger?
No, that was a neighbor kid. I didn’t have so much contact with her. I remember when Virginia first came to Croatia to visit the family, speaking no Croatian back then, we went to visit her. After the visit my aunt told me really loud and in Croatian “This one has good legs, let’s see how long she will last”.
A neighbor kid cut off your finger?
In former Soviet satellite state, neighbor finger cuts off your kid.
He didn’t mean to. I was a hyperactive 4-yr old hanging around the older kids and I happened to put my hand in the wrong place as he was chopping some wood
TWECS
TWJGS
Holy fuck!
That’s eerily similar and the age is the same. We were at my uncle’s house at the river, also some 30 miles away from the nearest hospital. But my finger got chopped much higher, just around the last knuckle. I remember that my parents were very strict and that I picked up the chopped part and went to my 15yr old sister and asked her if we could keep it a secret. We couldn’t.
So my Dad drove to the hospital, they did their thing and then for weeks, I think, my parents and my sister had to do shifts while I was sleeping to make sure I don’t turn into a position where circulation to my hand would be impeded. That was awesome, I was like a little prince and had the cast all the way to the elbow and all the kindergarten kids were envious. I also remember that it didn’t hurt at all when it was chopped off, unlike most other finger accidents I had.
But, I think the important question is, as mine was recovered and his wasn’t: Do former Soviet satellites have faster cars or better health system?
So… you gonna get the band back together?
Also, our health system is worse than just about any developed country.
Sunday, September 18. Last home weekend game of the year. I plan on tailgating with some family and friends; anyone interested in joining me? May not elevate this to the level of an official Free Vent (e.g., probably not buying a block of tickets in advance), but I’d be happy to host as many of you FKers as are inclined to attend.
can we sit in the value deck and pee on those below us?
That’s the one with free Moneyball tickets attached, yes?
I’ll be there, but it’s also the day that the Yale Club gets to meet Breslow in advance, so I’ll be doing that.
do I get to tour Braden’s garage, too?
Whales and bulldogs…you’ll use just about any animal excuse to get out of hanging with us FKing lowlifes, huh?
It’s actually quite possible our seats will be close. I have no idea where we are sitting, but the whole thing was like $30/person including a donation to his charity, so that sounds about right for the MB movie passes section.
I doubt I’ll go with the Moneyball coupon offer myself…$26 per ticket plus online “service” and “delivery” fees for the not-all-that-great outer parts of the Field section doesn’t scream hidden value to me. I’m more inclined towards the value deck unless the forecast is for oppressive sun that day.
However, for a 1:05 start time I’ll probably have the tailgate up and running by 10:00 AM, so if you or anyone else is inclined to stop by before going inside, that’d be great.
I’d be very interested to hear Breslow’s account of being a super smart guy within a pro sports clubhouse. Back in the 80’s the older brother of a good friend of mine was a hockey player at Harvard, who briefly pursued an NHL career, and he said he found the atmosphere almost brutally anti-intellectual, to the point where he said it made him quit (it could of course also be that he just wasn’t good enough).
Yeah. I’ll look into exactly how it’s going to work and report back.
I thoroughly enjoyed Matt McCarthy’s book Odd Man Out which I’ve mentioned here before. McCarthy was a teammate of Breslow at Yale and pitched a season for the Provo Slegna. Some of the details in the book have been challenged as inaccurate so take it with a few grains of salt; it’s still entertaining.
Although he didn’t go to a fancy learnin’ school with books and sech, Dick Hayhurst’s THE BULLPEN GOSPELS is pretty much a smart man’s walk through dumb baseball.
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silly monkey. I canna be bothered to click on the links you’ve thoughtfully and painstakingly gathered for us.
…and then obfuscated the content within the links with inscrutable link-text.
I liked the Mcarthy book but, the voice was a little on the “I am smarter than you, but honestly, I am a regular guy.” So that took away from it for me
Valid point, but that tone will address FSU’s interest in what it’s like to be “a super smart guy within a pro sports clubhouse”.
I agree, the FSU question did come through. I felt that the anecdotes about people talking to him about going to Yale didn’t advance the narrative, but simply reminded the reader that he went to Yale.
I’m pretty sure we have tickets for that game, so we’ll probably join you.
I’ll probably be up for a tailgate and ballgame that day.
9/18 … why does that date ring a bell?
Constantine the Great’s victory over Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine’s sole control over the Roman Empire? The final episode of The Guiding Light, which ended a 72-year run for the show? Something in between?
Ryne Sandberg’s birthday?
Weeks Will have To hit a homerun Sometime
/Kendall
I almost drove off the road. I didn’t know catchers were able to throw runners out
Who the hell is Neil Wagner?
Neil Hamburger
Rangers just called up some guy named Mark Hamburger.
Man. Sometimes I can’t decide if I wish spam filters were better than they are:
I’d help him, but frankly, if the satellites have been attacking him for 10 years and he’s still cranking out Supreme Court briefs, the damages just can’t be that substantial.
It’s all part of their plan.
I like that he believes the government is using mind-control satellites on him, but also seems confident that a court injunction will stop them.
Jeez, I ask you ONE TIME for help …
Your first mistake was looking in Seattle.
Your second was leaving me alive, you damn dirty ape!
[throws spear at mb]
Well played.
when he wins, won’t you look foolish
No, because there’s no way he’d want to / be able to pay me. And boy would that not get past the Pro Bono committee.
You guys have a committee devoted to helping that guy from U2.
It’s one of the great things about being a lawyer. Every one of us gets to work with Bono
One of my friends was asked in our PR class whether he thought the bar should require pro bono work.
He said “I don’t even like to work when I am getting paid, there is no way in hell I am working for free.”
To be fair to him, that’s the attitude taken by essentially every other profession there is.
and it all leads back to one of the main human problems: Work.
I sincerely hope that through biotech advances, humans can eliminate the need to eat regularly, and almost all of their diseases.
The way I see it… if you can eat dirt or garbage and don’t need shelter, you don’t need to work, either.
Write him back, tell him the Masons will be in touch with him soon.
My favorite part of the whole thing is the bit about how I shouldn’t be nervous to sue the president, because Obama won’t really read it.
he’s Kenyan–don’t read ‘merican.
Also accepted:
he’s American-he don’t read.
I am amused on several levels by this story of the Cheese Board’s Chez Panisse celebration getting shut down by the Berkeley fuzz.
That is great.
“Cheese Board shut down by Berkeley fuzz” sounds like there’s a local mold genus affecting their stocks.
Rays release Dirk Hayhurst
Slippery fish, slippery fish, sliding through the water,
Slippery fish, slippery fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by an …
Octopus, octopus, squiggling in the water
Octopus, octopus, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …
Tuna fish, tuna fish, flashing in the water,
Tuna fish, tuna fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …
Great white shark, great white shark, lurking in the water,
Great white shark, great white shark, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …
Humongous whale, humongous whale, spouting in the water,
Humongous whale, humongous whale,
Gulp! … Gulp! … Gulp! …
BURP!Pardon me!Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …
Japanese, Japanese…
only the Cannibals, Aliens, and Space Whales left to go from there…
Space Japanese?
Salb8
Sounds to me like an argument against terrorism.
… or against reacting to terrorists with terror.
7:
Somebody call Krugman!