Private equity: Chuck Norris does not believe in leverage. Chuck Norris believes in crowbars.
If Chuck Norris devised the bank stress tests, not even the Treasury Department would survive.
4. Don’t look now, but Zito’s velocity is up a couple of ticks this year.
Looking through his game log from 2008, there appears to be an extremely strong correlation between those couple of ticks and him not sucking. If he can keep throwing 87-ish, he will probably continue to be decent.
5. The Hipster Grifter speaks. (WARNING: The linked video is completely safe for work, but also completely uninteresting, and will ruin all romantic notions you may harbor about hipster grifting and the charismatic hipster grifters who practice it. This woman is not awesome like Annette Bening.)
Psychotherapists Carl Rogers and William Coulson arranged for the nuns to take part in encounter group, essentially a form of fashionable 60s group psychotherapy aimed as well people rather than patients for ‘personal growth’.
The effect was disastrous for the convent, with hundreds of the nuns defaulting on their vows, and several, including Sister Mary Benjamin, discovering repressed lesbian desires.
The convent eventually collapsed and was closed in 1970.
“With his arm, that’s still 80 mph on the short hop and that’s a tough play,” said Geren, who doesn’t fine players who successfully score despite disregarding signs.
8. Buster Olney applauds Trey Hillman for sending Tony Pena back out to the field with a broken bone in his hand. Because that’s what real men do, and goddammit there’s no stat for determination (other than WINS AND LOSSES, that is).
Pena was ready to do what he needed to do early in a season when the Royals have been successfully pulling oars together, so he stayed in the game, fielding a couple of ground balls gingerly, swinging the bat carefully, almost with one hand. “Just protect your hand,” said Hillman.
It turned out that Pena had a broken hamate bone, and has been placed on the disabled list. The Royals would win the game in the end, the kind of game, some players and staff agreed, that Kansas City would’ve lost in the past.
It doesn’t seem like a good sign that I’m way more excited about getting a free fleece blanket tomorrow night than I am about actually watching the A’s play. Braden is starting, right? So I guess that’s something.
So this graphic is on the front page of today’s Sporting Green. First it made me laugh, and then it made me bang my head against a wall. And now I am day-to-day.
Would you ever spend three days (including bunking at their apartment) with someone you have 1) only known for about a month, 2) never met, 3) never had a real conversation with? Is that weird? I’m not really thinking it is, so maybe I’m on too much medication. Hey, I’ll save $600!
I’m trying to judge my parents’ reaction before I tell them what I’m doing.
A. My kids school is shut down this week by order of the Berkeley Public Health department due to swine flu fears. It’s the only school in Alameda County to have been shuttered thus far.
PLUS
B. I’m going to the game tonight. And because my kids have no school this week, I’m taking them to the game with me on Wednesday.
EQUALS
C. The entire A’s roster is about to die. Not to mention the poor suckers in the stands with me the next couple of days.
I don’t get it. But, speaking of court-ordered, both LA college hoops programs backed away from this guy because they thought bringing him on-campus might get NCAA courts to start ordering them around. This story is a fun read if you like your sources anonymous and your high school club programs lucrative.
LOL! But I finished a big, scary-ass thing that was due TODAY by not photographing your dogs!
This is both on-topic and a great source for a surefire strike-worthy sigline at **.
Also on-topic and mikeA-baiting
A robot?!?
Fights! Monks! Broken bones! Crosby! Zito! Chuck Norris! Credit Default Swaps! Lesbians! Grifters! Brooding women with cigarettes!
(Unless this isn’t the DLD. In which case you can ignore everything except the monks and the lesbians.)
1. Old ads for books. (FSU, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 is here)
2. Trainman?
3. Chuck Norris, investment banker:
4. Don’t look now, but Zito’s velocity is up a couple of ticks this year.
Looking through his game log from 2008, there appears to be an extremely strong correlation between those couple of ticks and him not sucking. If he can keep throwing 87-ish, he will probably continue to be decent.
5. The Hipster Grifter speaks. (WARNING: The linked video is completely safe for work, but also completely uninteresting, and will ruin all romantic notions you may harbor about hipster grifting and the charismatic hipster grifters who practice it. This woman is not awesome like Annette Bening.)
6. Psychoanalysis, monks, nuns, and the Pope:
7. Valuing outcome over process:
8. Buster Olney applauds Trey Hillman for sending Tony Pena back out to the field with a broken bone in his hand. Because that’s what real men do, and goddammit there’s no stat for determination (other than WINS AND LOSSES, that is).
Any particular reason to play DFAvis tonight? Is it yesterday’s sterling glove work?
Slusser’s getting the hang of this blogging thing.
It doesn’t seem like a good sign that I’m way more excited about getting a free fleece blanket tomorrow night than I am about actually watching the A’s play. Braden is starting, right? So I guess that’s something.
I like that nickname.
So this graphic is on the front page of today’s Sporting Green. First it made me laugh, and then it made me bang my head against a wall. And now I am day-to-day.
David Ortiz: .208/.298/.302
Okay, random question:
Would you ever spend three days (including bunking at their apartment) with someone you have 1) only known for about a month, 2) never met, 3) never had a real conversation with? Is that weird? I’m not really thinking it is, so maybe I’m on too much medication. Hey, I’ll save $600!
I’m trying to judge my parents’ reaction before I tell them what I’m doing.
No, I’m not going to stay with ArakSOT.
My groveling knows no bounds.
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Looks like Patterson and Gio down, Gallagher and Blevins up.
A. My kids school is shut down this week by order of the Berkeley Public Health department due to swine flu fears. It’s the only school in Alameda County to have been shuttered thus far.
PLUS
B. I’m going to the game tonight. And because my kids have no school this week, I’m taking them to the game with me on Wednesday.
EQUALS
C. The entire A’s roster is about to die. Not to mention the poor suckers in the stands with me the next couple of days.
Kurt Suzuki C, Orlando Cabrera SS, Jason Giambi 1B, Matt Holliday LF, Jack Cust DH, Bobby Crosby 3B, Travis Buck RF, Gregorio Petit 2B, Rajai Davis CF
I could see where the 24 year-old needs a day off.