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#Athletics agree to terms with Brandon McCarthy and Joey Devine on one-year contracts, avoiding arbitration.
— Oakland Athletics (@Athletics) January 17, 2012
- The A’s should start a Despond Squad
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Source: Ludwick deal with #Reds is one year with a mutual option for 2013. #MLB
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) January 17, 2012
- Cool old ’20s-’30s footage of SF
- Holiday Meat Tree
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1. LOF
Thanks, and go As.
What awesome people!
So Mrs McCarthy how do we get a ride of you?
Yea, hopefully with that fancy new contract she can get a phone that has a better autocorrect.
Thanks, and go As.
either that or they’re in an open relationship!
yay! Do we know how much?
A little over $4 mil.
FKwiz time:
1. Which team have the following players played the most games for?
Magglio Ordonez
Carlos Beltran
Johnny Damon
Placido Polanco
Carlos Guillen
2. What other team(s) have the following players played with?
Jim Thome: CLE, PHI, CWS, MIN
Pudge: TEX, FLO, DET, WAS
Polanco: PHI, DET
3. Over the 2009, 2010, and 2011 seasons, 6 A’s position players have had a season where they received fewer than 25 major league PAs. Who were they?
4. In 2010, the A’s had 9 position players have fewer than 75 PAs. Three returned to the A’s in 2011: Josh Donaldson, Eric Sogard, and Conor Jackson. Who were the other 6?
1a MO White sox
1b CB Mets
1c JD Boston
1d PP Phi
1e CG Sea
2a LA
2b
2c
3 Landon powell (i kid i kid) 1-Anthony recker 2-japanese guy whose name I forget 3-michael taylor 4-
4 1-japanese guy
1b/c KC?
3. Jai Miller
Ed’s Japanese guy would be Iwamura.
1. One yes, one no.
3. Miller is correct.
3/5 on 1.
2a. Yes
3. Recker, Yes. Iwamura, no. Taylor, no.
4. Iwamura, yes.
1) White Sox, Royals, Royals, Tigers, Tigers?
2) Thome: Dodgers
Pudge: Astros
Polanco: Cardinals
3) Recker,
4)
1) 3/5
2) All correct. Pudge has one more extra team.
3) Recker is correct
It’s amazing how fast I forget things now. Must be dementia
1. White Sox
Royals
Yankees
Tigers
Tigers (but that must be wrong)
2: No idea.
3: Barton / Buck / Pennington / Taylor / Donaldson
4: No idea.
1. 2/5
3. None of the above.
Ooooh. Great FKwiz.
Thanks. I’ve done a lot of FKwizzes here, figured I’d make one myself.
It’d be great if people started posting FKwizzes as stand-alones, especially with the Exodusplosion.
Agreed.
The GOG’s gotta be here and separate, too.
Yup.
Agrd. Hopefully they can be a little less burdensome here than they were over there – I was getting pretty burned out coming up with questions towards the end of last season.
We should definitely put some thought into how to help with that.
I preferred your style of questions, which were more straightforward and easier to write. There were times when I spent a lot of time trying to come up with something that was new or different and it failed disastrously.
Yeah. For me I liked having a few canned questions and just needing to find some that highlighted something in the matchup I found interesting.
Still, it’s a long season.
I didn’t participate in them because I knew I’d slack off and fall behind, but I thought it’d be interesting sometimes if someone who doesn’t play every day is one of the questions once in a while. Make people think about, first of all, will he play? Then how much, and try to guess based on that.
There were definitely a few questions like that – I’m guessing I could find a couple about Powell, for example.
Ahh, shows how much I paid attention!
Well, when I was doing the scorekeeping software it did leaders by average too (so you’d have been fine)
Nevermoor, how tough is it to grind through a 162 game season /Fosse
I’m not gritty enough.
Standardize the questions with maybe one “special series” question. If you do that, it would probably be “relatively” easy to program that to collect data etc.
will do
Will do in future.
With the comments closed
I’ll win every time!
Let the record reflect that, as with DLDs, the first FKWiz was posted by me. Let the record also reflect that “Rickey” must be an answer to all FKwizzes.
In former Sal’s ultimatum, all FKwizzes must be an answer to “Rickey”
Trying my best not to look at others…
1. White Sox, Royals, Royals, Tigers, Mariners
2. No idea!
3. Eric Chavez, Eric Sogard, Anthony Recker
4. Matt Watson, Jeremy Hermida, Jake Fox, Eric Patterson, Sogard
1) 2/5
3) Sogard, yes. Recker, yes. Chavvy, no.
4) Watson, Hermida, yes. Fox, Patterson, no. Sogard came back last year.
I’ll post answers at 11.
Shit, you mean Eric Patterson got more than 75 PAs with the A’s?
111. Jake Fox had 106.
1. White Sox, Royals, Red Sox, Tigers, Mariners
2. LAD, …
3. Recker, Donaldson, One of the Matts, Langerhans
4.
1. 1/5
2. Yes
3. Recker, yes. Which Matt? Donaldson, Langerhans, no.
The answers:
1.
Ordonez: White Sox
Beltran: Mets
Damon: Royals
Polanco: Phillies (prior to his re-signing in 2010, it was StL)
Guillen: Tigers
2.
Thome: Dodgers
Pudge: Yankees, Astros
Polanco: Cardinals (where he started his career)
3.
Eric Munson (all of 1 PA in 2009)
Chris Denorfia (all of 2 in 2009)
Matt Carson (2009)
Eric Sogard (2010)
Anthony Recker (2011)
Jai Miller (2011)
Bonus: Gregorio Petit had 31 in 2009
4.
Travis Buck (who I’m surprised no one got)
Jeremy Hermida
Akinori Iwamura
Matt Watson
Steve Tolleson
Jeff Larish
Whoa, Jeff Larish, wonder what he’s up to nowadays…
Something like this, I’d presume:
He’s a hot feisty looking woman?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I used to make more money than that guy (and his understudies/cousins) per hour on the Wharf. Hell, I used to make more than the Bushman, at least on weekdays.
I used to do stream-of-consciousness improv songs about people walking by, and when they’d realize I was singing about them, they’d often stop and request songs about certain people/topics and I would happily oblige.
4. If you’ll excuse a bit of roadgeekery, may I submit a 1957 Caltrans video on the completion of the Cypress Freeway in Oakland. Some of the script is painfully ironic.
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awesome
I could lose a week looking at industrial films
agrd.
what’s there now where that looping off-ramp used to be? is that 15-second park?
Yes, 14th & Mandela; that block is park & fire station now.
i’d been wondering what was there before.
Respect wikipedia.
Loved this.
hilarious.
Thanks, and go As.
Facials!
attraction to degradation vs. a desire to be seen as pure and clean…
that’s a big sore spot with me, but it has nothing to do with jizz on face.
For you hockey fans, this is an amazing goal:
Yeah. He drinks free for life.
Hey Ice Cream — gitcher Sherbatov
IfSU, Sherbatov’s YOU!
Christ, what an ice goal
Best Israeli hockey league goal I’ve ever seen.
Heh.
Cool
Via Calcatera:
Nancy Smash
A SMASHier response would have said that they don’t look like anyone’s idea of a first string, but it’s the firstiest string they’ve got.
#**frontpagers
Heh
So VMart might be out for the season.
Be interested in seeing how exactly he managed to tear his ACL.
Too bad they have Avila. Coulda been a landing spot for Suzuki
Thanks, and go As.
Didn’t Avila have surgery?
nope
Washing his truck while turning off the alarm clock.
Ironing his pants while he was wearing them.
Oof, tough luck Tigers
How not to park a ship:
Thanks, and go As.
here comes johnny yen again
Reminds me of an old WWII joke:
How does Mussolini review the Italian Fleet?
From a glass-bottomed boat.
But the captain wanted to wave to someone on the island …
And people thought motorcycles were unsafe …
“You’re doing it wrong.”
NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT MY STEERING OF THE BOAT
Speaking of which, someone invite oaktoon.
reztips!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Titanic Nation
oaktoon: This is the finest, sturdiest, sleekest, most amazing oceangoing vessel ever crafted by the hands of man!
saint: Someone please take the wheel from Macha. He’s steering directly for the icebergs! He’s trying to hit them!
reztips: That’s what you get for trying to put a boat in the North Atlantic. No one wants to be in the North Atlantic. It’s a watery grave. With really low property values. Now, the Bermuda Triangle — there’s a region of the Atlantic to sail a ship through!
Sharon: That purser is really cute.
Jennifer: Let’s take him down to steerage and lock him in my cabin.
oaktoon: Oh my god!!! This is the leakiest, most bilge-filled rustbucket ever to set sail! We’re all going to drown!!!
monkeyball: The man who runs this shipping line has proved again and again that he only maintains enough lifeboats for 21 out of every 25 passengers.
louismg: [thought bubble coming from Keiichi Yabu’s head] “Gee, I wonder if there’s room for me in that lifeboat.”
Blez: Calm down. There’s room enough for everyone in the lifeboats. Except for … you, you, and … you.
oaktoon: No one builds lifeboats like Billy Beane. My god, these are the best lifeboats I’ve ever seen! We’re saved!
ohad: I stayed up late to welcome the boat at the dock, but no one showed up. What happened?
Jennifer: Take this lifeboat to the enchanted isle of Asslantis!
elcroata: My statistical charts indicate that if we choose right now to go to Asslantis, our likelihood of all drowning is 97.465%. If, however, we choose to pick up the plover’s egg, we have a 55% chance of moving out of the cave. On the other hand, if we choose to turn left, we have to GO TO PAGE 34.
oaktoon: AAAAIIGGHHHH!!! WE’RE ALL GOING TO DROWN!!! I KNEW IT!!!
linky
Jesus. 2005.
Nailed. It.
Wow. Classic.
asvd. We may not have had that back then. Also, it really sucked having to drag those big typewriters and ditto machines around to make comments.
I’m thinking of how much my life has changed in the last seven years, which is a lot. And then I’m guessing it’s changed a lot for the rest of you FKers. And yet, here we are with the same memes, same humor,
samedifferent website. I’m glad for the FK constant.ThanksPlanck’s guys.FKsed
Oooh, we need an FKonstant.
I can’t be that old
you are. you’re 40. old man.
Maybe the captain just wanted to give it a bath
TWTTS
This piece of shit is in so much trouble.
Eminem already vetted this excuse and considered it unlikely:
asvd
Evil Kay sez:
Drown the fucker publicly and then revive him.
Lather, rinse, repeat until the time he can’t be revived.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA. Is he…is he serious?
I suppose the waves carried him to shore and catapulted him onto the docks, too.
Straight into a waiting taxi, no less.
Now that’s luck.
Strong move to bust out an old classic like that one. Didn’t he have all weekend to think that up, too?
#Napo
Gotta admit, that’s a tough place to parallel park.
Dude, I’m just saying — my wife’s ~25K Honda has a rear view camera
HOW MUCH DOES A FKING CRUISE SHIP COST?
Thanks, and go As.
I think they were going forward. They just could see the giant fucking rock in the middle of the water.
HOW COULD THE CAPTAIN NOT SEE THAT GIANT FKING ROCK!?!
“Is that… naw it [schreeeeeecccchh][BOOM]… Huh. Guess it was.”
To read Romney’s platforms is to know this:
Without really thinking about it, sure, it could be a worse position than GWB. But Doesn’t it seem like that is said about everybody and everything?
How is it possible to keep going down the rabbit hole?
Not better/worse, just more conservative.
I didn’t think of Bush as particularly conservative
meh, tomato, lug wrench
It’s hard to imagine that party platforms could get any less relevant to the actual policies being advocated and why that means people should vote for that party. But the platforms these days are nothing more than a meaningless way top appease the extreme elements of the party (both parties), so yeah, there’s still room for them to become even less relevant.
Does anyone even know what’s on the party platforms?
Party platforms?
those rock.
green ‘n gold, baby
Could be the official footwear of Lew Wolff’s Definitely Not Coordinating with Oakland, California Super PAC..
Aw, shit.
height tag FTW!
Thanks, and go As.
yawn. not nearly pointy enough.
Same thing my sister-in-law got me for Christmas
These are Romney’s proposals, not the official GOP platform.
there is nothing sexier than a woman toiling over a steaming-hot griddle full of meat.
The Genius of Paul Krugman knows no limits.
You know who else said that certain things could only be discussed in quiet rooms …
That’s $350,000 he will never see
He’s going blind now too? Some people have no health skill.
I’ll take that bet!
Damn, son.
And Obama wins Wisconsin.
Random acts of journalism!
Can I have $10?
Depends, do you see a health code violation?
I don’t see nothin’.
Huh.
FKed up the html there.
Just. Wow. In some pretty manager way to not be able to edit it. My hats off to you.
Yeah, I know.
Hey, who fixed my awesome FKup?
I did.
Thanks.
FOR NOTHING!
Fine, I changed it back. Happy?
Better.
Holy shit. What the hell does that third sentence even mean?
wow
interj \ˈwau̇\
Definition of WOW
—used to express strong feeling (as pleasure or surprise)
STRIKE!
It means you’ve had too much to drink.
Huh. I… uh… don’t drink.
I found the sentence “Wow” pretty straight forward.
He wishes.
mrs llama’s homemade chocolate pudding
vs
self-imposed ban on post-dinner sweets
Get creative…
Breakfast.
TKO in 5.
Tell yourself you will lift the ban on post-dinner sweets after you’ve emailed yourself.
asvd
Indeed, and seeing as how I haven’t gotten an email, I’m eating pudding now. TKO in thirty seconds, nm.
I was within a big-O of the correct answer.
Dinner Part 2. Problem solved.
(twitter link not working but: Cust -> Astros)
DO they still have Lee and Wallace?
I think so. And they’re still in the NL.
Preparing for 2013, when the playoff seeding changes and the AL adopts 2 DHs per team.
And in 2021, xbhaskarx’s dream of having completely different defense and offense teams will be realized!
the john mcdonald job security act of 2115
I saw this in another thread and thought it was a joke.
Maybe I need to drink more (makes another white russian)
Well, I like Custie, and if he can steal a paycheck or fourteen, even though his days of being a good player are over, more power to him.