In this blog, first you get the leenks, then you get the sausages, then you get the kraut.
Sweet Ba’al Almighty, you should know you’ve broken bad when you’ve lost FF. Welcome one and all. Please note the absence of rules. And please for the love of Bill King, start some threads on your own.
Who’s our best candidate for this? I’d like to see Bloom and DFA as a Badger/Skinny Pete duo.
Dinner here last night. FKin excellent. Had the German charcuterie plate (with extra cornichons for JP), the beet salad, racamoni & cheese, and the spuntino, with a glass of this.
Dinner here last night (because here was tragically full).
Pizza tartufo (mozzarella, parmigiano, mushroom & black truffle) was great, but all the restaurants on Smith Street seem to have gone cash-only, which is tough when the bill for a large family dinner can easily exceed the daily ATM limit. Much better than the previous night here though, when the penne with feta and olives came complete with rogue sausage.
No-one biting on the rogue sausage?
Thank god for that.
Wow, small world. I’ve actually eaten at the second one. I was out in Delaware for a friend’s wedding and we drove up to Longwood Gardnens. We ate at that place on the way back to Wilmington.
Hi. I’m in… Delaware
Thanks, and go As.
We were at Longwood for the Xmas lights and then had dinner there – they go out of business in 2 weeks.
Also: I’m 85% certain I saw Cody Ross there.
I’m working on it!
Been distracted by other things.
Psh. Like what.
Did you not see Salma’s pic on the other thread?
Uncle Lew bought a hotel.
In SJ.
Thanks, and go As.
mmiiikkkeeeevvvvvvv
that is all
What’s crackin buddy. Good to see you here
Thanks, and go As.
Not exactly a bad bet at this point…
True – just throwing up something non-meta …
for the love of pete, please trade him
This.
If you love Pete, send him a flower. I recommend a Rose.
Isn’t Pete Rose a rather disagreeable human being?
Play him not-every-day between now and then. Pair him up with the best pitchers, so his CERA looks good. Or, the ones with the best pickoff moves so his CS looks good. THEN trade him.
Step 1 build a time machine
Step 2 go back to when Suzuki was valuable
Step 3 trade him
Step 4 Profit
Step 5 give time machine to me
Step 6 I have fun. LOTS of fun. LOOOOOTTTSSS of fun.
Hard to think of any teams right now that are in the prospect-trading mood and for whom Suzuki would be an upgrade. Probably right to wait and hope for an early-season injury or a surprise contender with a lousy backstop.
Maybe TB?
TB would probably be more than just an early season injury. How about just a mild pneumonia?
This took me longer to get than I am comfortable admitting.
This is a frequent response to my humor.
I hear antibiotics can clear TB up
That’s a good fit, although they have a minor Molina infestation at the moment.
antibiotics?
They have a Molina brother right?
Jose. I’d rather have Kurt as a contender. But of course, money could be an issue.
I’d trade Kurt straight up for Molina and pay the difference in salary. Molina’s an awesome defender.
Who the hell is Kurt Molina?
I was going to paste a picture of some guy named Kurt Molina here but I’m not sure how without a preview.
you have to use the img button or html code
/ jl bait
Dodgers?
Maybe. I’m not sure what direction they’re going in at this point.
in their quest for 4th place of the NL West?
They were only 4 games back of Arizona in Pythag terms 88-84. None of the NL West teams is great. I can see anyone except San Diego winning it. (Now of course San Diego is a lock)
Note to self.
Put child’s college fund on SD to win the NL West pennant in 2012.
Hee
Might be able to pay for semester’s worth of books in ten years.
Doctork. posts the new ML.
I wanted to move it to this grill.
Now that I think for an extra second, Lew could use this as leverage against a large payout to the Giants, because without the Giants foot dragging that cost the A’s free government money.
Am I off base?
Had the giants not dragged feet, the A’s would have gotten at least some RDA funds. Now, they can’t.
Unless the answer is Oakland, which it can’t be, otherwise it would have been 1000 days ago
Hoping FSU isn’t screwed here.
Eh, just another minor step on the path of the massively defunding of civil society, chipping away at all of us govt workers, but more importantly at everyone who relies on govt services to live. All I ask is to be laid off during baseball season while tickets are cheap.
you work for a(n) RDA?
after college i did in orange county. i did what i now would call community organizing, but the guys desk i took over was the rfp/contract guy for multi unit rehab.I had met him but suddenly he was gone and it wasnt clear to me whether he quit or gotten fired. but when i found a paperclipped pack of about 50 personal bank deposit slips in amounts from $300-$1000 cash I kinda figured it out on my own.
No, but I work for a govt body, and redevelopment dollars directly or indirectly pay for portions of all kinds of stuff…all kinds of state and fed grant matches, multi-jurisdictional planning bodies, transit, schools, cops (and that flexibility is one of the stronger critiques of redevelopment). It’s almost impossible to predict how everything will shake out between the end ReD funding and the ostensible partial replacement back from the state. It’s that kind of ripple effect which could screw me, but who the hell knows. Mostly I get by through being competent and indispensable.
I think at least 5-6 of us FK regulars (pre-refugee crisis) are govt employed or funded to some degree.
My best friend is a UC Irvine grad, ’88.
i am govt funded. my post college jobs (rda in oc, city mnger office in la county, waste disposal planning seattle, public defender now) have all been govt funded
My understanding is that this court decision kills VC dead. The $250M bragged about by Baseball Oakland was RDA money which is now prime for picking by the state. I suppose Coliseum City is still alive to some extent, although I think they were counting on the RDA money to get that project going as well. As for San Jose, they spun off the property in the Diridon area into a separate agency which may or may not be at jeopardy here (expect another lawsuit). Assuming Selugworth pulls his thumb out of his ass and makes a positive decision regarding SJ, SJ can get past this by then having Wolff purchase the land in the Diridon agency’s bank (which he has an option on), then have Wolff buy out the remaining two parcels, etc. Obviously, the biggest obstacle will be to get Bud to actually make a decision.
San Jose did mostly remove its plans from the threat of this decision. And the transfer of property to SJDDA is probably safe, since I’m guessing the state will not pursue a couple of dozen separate court actions against the many localities who took steps to shelter ReD assets thusly over the last 12 months.
But since the City of San Jose is, as has been observed, even more broke than Oakland, the ballpark plan now hinges entirely on Wolffish buying the remaining parcels, which is no small matter…the SJ-owned ones the A’s have an option on for a well-below-market price will be a harder sell for the SJ voters, given their broke-assedness. AT&T-can now be even more hardcore about the parcel it owns. And Wolffish also need to pay for the city infrastructure improvements, the price tag for which is not only climbing, but is also near certain to expand, and possibly by a whole lot, as a result of the EIR litigation and likely new traffic mitigations which will be required.
(watches zombie hand pop out from the grave of the Monkeyball contraction plan)
Okay, for my FKing peeps: This is only .98. Post this code for free shipping: DECFS
People not in line during a tightly choreographed funeral procession? No problem – just ‘shop them away.
Had a feeling it was NK before clicking on that link.
Likely executed, too.
Out of the mouths of babes: “is that the hannukah chocolate you got for Christmas?”
i learned this year that the dradle game is gamblingi am not palestinian enough to stop gambling
As long as you don’t get addicted and lose the chocolate coins you had put aside to pay the rent.
…for the gingerbread house?
you and Sammy Farha.
Freeking good:
Highest and best use of saxophone, right there.
yakety sax?
btw, props to the monkey for the title.
I still need photoshop/video skilz for my BEAKING BAD filk.
If I have time, I could lend a hand.
Is there a guided tour or other breakdown of how this site navigates? I see there are various categories for posts at the top, but I have no idea what they mean. I’m sure I could figure it out if I spent a bunch of time on it, but that would take away from other valuable pastimes, such as farting and drinking beer.
I am interested in contributing. I used to contribute to (insert euphemism here), albeit in various small ways.
The basic mechanics are here.
There are categories, but it’s more like a rolling DLD-ish thing. Typically traffic hasn’t been heavy enough to make subdivisions strictly necessary, though some have evolved roles as spoiler alerts for current tv series (mainly Breaking Bad).
we really dont have law and order. Just roll with it.
“The Grill” probably constitutes like 50% of all posts, our brand of DLD. During the season there’ve usually been daily game threads. Maybe 10-15% of posts are A’s subject-specific, like trades and rosters (often categorized as “groverbaiting” and “slusterbation”), and Ballparked in Neutral (self-expl) and ass-threads. Then there’s whatever else…FKwiz are quizzes, baseball quizzes usually by ptbnl or whatever salb’s calling himself today. F(il)K are the old song/play/book re-writings you remember from the olden days. I do not know what F(il)K actually stands for. f(k) is the serious stat analyses during which Bloom and I pass notes and make googly eyes at each other.
Free Vents are our tailgate and party planning discussions. KOTD (Kraut of the Day) is for discussion of actual fermentation and pickling and the products thereof. POLLO LIBRE are TV-related threads…Breaking Bad, and we’ve just begun under Bloom’s auspices a variant on a book club where some of us re/watch and discuss an episode of the series Deadwood. A Salmagundi is a weekend multipurpose thread, Grill plus Gamethread plus.
As ptbnl (née green star oakland) says, though, the categories have to date been as malleable as anyone wants them to be, and our relatively cozy numbers have made distinctions less important. What any of it evolves into is of course TBD.
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks. Will open another beer, perhaps while sounding the foghorn.
Cool.
And always feel free to start a discussion you’re interested in. You’ll find zero criticism and (at absolute worst) I might tweak the categories.
I ask – but don’t require – that people be careful with new category creation because there is limited real estate to list ’em. At one point we had like 15 one-off categories.
A very succinct synopsis, thanks FSU. I think you’ll find that we’re all pretty much willing to discuss any topic that comes about. As FSU says, 10-15% A’s specific and maybe 30-35% baseball, lots of politics, some religion, and general silliness. As much as we can be considered a sausage-fest due to the composition of the members, I don’t think the discussions are particularly salacious. Especially in comparison to dinners with my daughters.
And in re sausage-festivity, there’s nowt as queer (friendly) as F(ol)K.
Thankfully spwc is helping out with that composition problem. A real trooper that one, taking one for the team like that. Needs it’s own category.
Taking one for the team? I thought he was giving one up for the team.
potato potato.
/ beltre
THANK YOU! I have never known what the FK a F(il)K was.
LMWT4U
Interesting
shut up, Beavis.