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DLD 051409: Hard Pore Corn 118

14 May 2009  |  monkeyball  |The Grill

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  1. Anyone up for some old-fashioned cornholing? (I’ve pimped Andy’s blog and newsletter before. It’s awesome. They also do a CSA veggie box you can sign up for.)
  2. If someone (say, grover) wants to do a groveresque down-on-the-farm report, they should use this for a recurring logo/banner:

  3. Go chat with Will Carroll and ask him what his fuckin’ problem is with humorous baseball verse
  4. McQuown? That’s gotta be mikA’s nom de cirque
  5. Oh, shit! Selugworth’s flying monkeys are after me! Actual screenshot of my linkedin page:

    6. picture-31

118 thoughts on “DLD 051409: Hard Pore Corn”

  1. Razr May 14,2009 9:44 am

    What the fk is quown pown and how do you pronounce it? More importantly, where can get some? :)

    "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
  2. monkeyball May 14,2009 9:48 am

    Hunh. Anyone know how (or whether) we can do a poll at FK 2.0?

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor May 14,2009 9:54 am || Up

      You could embed a poll in your post that you create on another site (the way some people did at FK 1.0).

      I don’t know if there are plugins to add polling to wordpress.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  3. monkeyball May 14,2009 9:49 am

    Boy, I do NOT like the sequestering of the DLD to the sidebar with the category tag. Very easy to miss.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Razr May 14,2009 9:52 am || Up

      I agree. For a second there, I thought it disappeared. Any way to keep the most recent one on the front page?

      "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
    • nevermoor May 14,2009 9:54 am || Up

      Let’s let it play out. I think most people will find it through the unread comments widget.

      What bothered me most about FK 1.0 is that it was nothing but DLDs and game threads.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • Razr May 14,2009 9:57 am || Up

        It’s back on the front page for me now.

        "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
        • nevermoor May 14,2009 10:01 am || Up

          Yep. MB removed the DLD tag (see below)

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball May 14,2009 9:58 am || Up

        Well, seems to me that the main impetus for starting FK in the first place was … DLDs and game threads, with like-minded folk. I don’t know that we’re going to have a whole lot else besides those 2 — the occasional F(il)K from me, the occasional random “bloggy” short post from me or someone else that gets up-converted to a DLD halfway through the day when no one has done a DLD yet …

        Also: I think we should lose the first 3 category buttons (Ratto, stadium machinations, blogging software) — none of those will be featured or ongoing actual entries. I think tags can take care of those subjects as they arise.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor May 14,2009 10:00 am || Up

          Ok. If you like it that way I can take out the content separation. I just thought it was a shame when, for example, you posted some lyrics and they immediately got buried by a DLD and a Game Thread.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • monkeyball May 14,2009 10:06 am || Up

            We could just add a F(il)K category … or some other name — “F(il)K” isn’t quite working for me, and I want to retire “Poetic Interlude.” I’m open to suggestions.

            Is there a way to have all posts appear on the front page initially, and just be *archived* by category?

            you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
            • nevermoor May 14,2009 10:09 am || Up

              I just did basically that. The “most recent” widgets still collect DLDs and Game Threads, but such entries are no longer kicked to the side.

              "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
              • monkeyball May 14,2009 10:11 am || Up

                Awesome. You rock.

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
              • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:15 pm || Up

                My vanity compels me to ask whether anyone else would be interested in having a “Most recent [F(il)K/PI/name TBD]” added below the game threads and DLDs on the R nav.

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • nevermoor May 14,2009 2:16 pm || Up

                  Honestly, I think if we aren’t excluding from the main page we should take out the “Most Recent” widgets and just have the category bars on the top.

                  "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
                • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:23 pm || Up

                  Ah, yes, that would make more sense.

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • monkeyball May 14,2009 10:17 am || Up

          Which, of course, isn’t to say that anyone should feel discouraged from doing … well, anything they feel like. One of the things I felt ** really failed in was getting away from short, bloggy conversation-starters. And if anyone wants to do more researched/composed long-form stuff, too.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • FreeSeatUpgrade May 14,2009 1:34 pm || Up

      I actually like the dedicated sidebar slot for gamethreads and DLDs. So long as it’s at the top of the sidebar like now, seems pretty easy to track to me.

      Of course, if we rarely/never have front page content that is neither GT nor DLD, then I see your point. But I’m hoping we do start generating such posts…they’re an important part of a well-rounded site, I think, and also help generate debate and discussion. So far qwe all agree with each other too damn much. Dick.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • monkeyball May 14,2009 1:54 pm || Up
        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  4. Razr May 14,2009 9:56 am

    MB, I hope you are not on Xanax.

    "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
    • monkeyball May 14,2009 10:12 am || Up

      {snerk}

      “Travis”

      Maybe that’s Buck’s problem — he’s not anxious enough.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • Razr May 14,2009 10:18 am || Up

        Let’s get him on Xanax immediately. Either he will chill out or go apechimp-shit in the clubhouse.

        "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
        • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 2:28 pm || Up

          Could I possibly use Xanax to lure a new worker-monkey into employment my white van with the tinted windows and out-of-state plates?

          • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 4:27 pm || Up

            My friends call me the ghost of human kindness.

  5. monkeyball May 14,2009 10:01 am

    Also: it would be nice to have an “edit this post” link somewhere — as it is now, seems like if I see something I need/want to edit (like that random URL in my list #2), I have to go from this post to the dashboard to the editable post page — I’d like to not have to go the middle step of going to the dashboard.

    Also also: maybe we should have a permanent (for now … can archive later when the site is perfect) post for tech/bug/tweak/requests/etc.?

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • nevermoor May 14,2009 10:03 am || Up

      People can post bugs over in betakraut (or email me) (or post here), but I can see about setting one up.

      Also, the semi-transparent thing in the upper right of your screen has an “edit this post” link.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • monkeyball May 14,2009 10:07 am || Up

        Duh! Missed that! Thanks.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • nevermoor May 14,2009 10:09 am || Up

          No problem, it’s subtle (which, once you’re familiar with it, is a plus)

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  6. Razr May 14,2009 10:23 am

    The A’s sweep a series when FK 2.0 opens and they won back-to-back games when betakraut opened up. That’s one coincidence too much for me. The statistics don’t lie – every time there is a major upgrade on FK the A’s do good things. nm, we’re going to need FK 2.1 by this weekend, pretty please :)

    "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
  7. monkeyball May 14,2009 10:25 am

    JoePos on Cust

    And then I look back at the mental wreckage I have left behind … all because I stopped to consider Jack Cust. It’s exhausting watching a baseball game.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • Razr May 14,2009 10:34 am || Up

      Cust is awesome! (just wanted to get it out there)

      "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
      • nevermoor May 14,2009 10:35 am || Up
        TOO MANY STRICKOUTS. DFA!!!!!

        Oh, right, wrong website.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • Razr May 14,2009 10:52 am || Up

          FKGV! I’ll report you to….. you? Yeah, that will teach you to hate on Jack!!

          "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
    • mk May 14,2009 12:04 pm || Up

      Two questions, only one of which might be construed as blasphemous:

      1. Why do people always say perscription instead of prescription?

      2. Why is everyone so obsessed with Joe Posnanski? I don’t have any particular criticisms of him, I harbor no ill-will, I think he’s a perfectly good writer, etc., but I’m puzzled by the boundless adoration. Links to his stuff are ubiquitous, and almost always supplemented by “omg he’s soooo awesome” gushing.

      So what is it, exactly, that makes people love him so?

      • monkeyball May 14,2009 12:18 pm || Up

        Myself, I don’t really care for him much. He’s sort of halfway between BBG and Chuck Klosterman. He does seem like a nice guy.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 2:32 pm || Up

          I see a whole lot less BBG and a whole lot more Klosterman. A more approachable Klosterman.

      • mikeA May 14,2009 12:27 pm || Up

        1. I say “prescription.”
        2. He’s really awesome.

        • nevermoor May 14,2009 12:41 pm || Up

          I think he strikes a good balance b/t observations and stats. For example, there’s no statistical argument that cycles are particularly neat but I agree with him that they are fun. At the same time, no AN moderator is going to look at numbers like this.

          Basically he takes a “stats enrich our knowledge without threatening quirky things we like” approach that I approve of.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
          • andeux May 14,2009 1:01 pm || Up

            Yeah. I think he’s at his best writing about people (e.g. his recent Greinke article), but he also enjoys playing around with the stats (both meaningful ones and the quirky, meaningless ones) and he seems to have a reasonable sense of what the numbers do and don’t say.

            He also just seems to have a lot of fun watching, and reading and writing about, sports. It might be that the Royals’ long-time futility helps foster this attitude (see also, James, Neyer, and Royals Review).

            And he has a lot of digressions and lists, which mk should like.

            TINSTAAFK
            • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 2:34 pm || Up

              Surprisingly, MB is not partial to digressions. I think he may either secretly be taking some sort of focus drug (Ritalin, maybe) or he doesn’t like competition.

              • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:44 pm || Up

                Writing should be like a knife. A big knife.

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 3:22 pm || Up

                  Or he’s watched Crocodile Dundee over and over and over and over. And it’s driven him quite mad.

            • mk May 14,2009 8:40 pm || Up

              You know, I’ve listened to that song a billion times, but I didn’t know “every” was “ev’ry” until just now, when, outraged at what I took to be stupendous ignorance on your part, I looked up the lyrics.

      • JediLeroy May 14,2009 4:35 pm || Up

        The mispronunciation of ‘prescription’ is actually pretty easy to explain.

        Just as with the word ‘prevent’, there seem to be two acceptable pronunciations of the ‘pre’ prefix in ‘prescription’: [pr?] and [pr?].

        The first option is much more resistant to laziness/change. The one I say, [pr?], is easily confused in rapid speech for [p-syllabic ‘r’], which is the typical American English pronunciation of ‘per’.

        People hear it wrong, and those that pay little attention to orthography actually start to say ‘perscription.’ Then it gets perpetuated over generations.

        So, what you hear as ‘perscription’ could either be a product of ignorance or your ears playing tricks, depending on who says it. Most likely it’s usually the former.

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • JediLeroy May 14,2009 4:36 pm || Up

          the first option is supposed to be pr-long e, the second, pr-schwa

          az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • mk May 14,2009 8:28 pm || Up

          I had to look up “schwa” and “orthography”, but I think I understand: the more passive vowel pr-schwa morphs into per over time.

          Do people who say it incorrectly spell it incorrectly as well? My intuition would be no, which would mean that when those people are reading or writing or typing the word they’re oblivious to the dissonance between the spelling and their own pronunciation.

          I suppose that’s sort of an obvious observation (those are the only kind I make, JediLeroy). It’s interesting, though, in what it implies about how we learn to talk versus how we learn to read and write.

          I need to learn more about how our brains negotiate language. Is it too late for me to become a neuroscientist?

          • JediLeroy May 14,2009 9:54 pm || Up

            Do people who say it incorrectly spell it incorrectly as well? My intuition would be no, which would mean that when those people are reading or writing or typing the word they’re oblivious to the dissonance between the spelling and their own pronunciation.

            Bingo. For many people, there’s a disconnect between the written word and the spoken word. My wife and many kids in her family struggle with spelling. She constantly asks me to spell words, which I do without blinking. We read out loud together every night, and she often will say words that aren’t on the page and replace words with similarly-themed words that start with the same three-or-so letters. I’ve always found it odd that she does this, since I see each word in its entirety when I read. I rarely have to consciously examine a word from beginning to end to recognize it–and that’s usually only with scientific Latin and made-up words in fantasy and science fiction books.

            But my wife is not stupid or uneducated. Her reading comprehension puts mine to shame. I can read long passages eloquently and swiftly, yet I often struggle to summarize what I read. I think it’s because I visualize the words themselves, while she actually pictures the events that she’s reading about. I’m almost positive that my wife and I use different parts of the brain when we read.

            When I was getting my linguistics degree, I considered specializng in neurolinguistics or psycholinguistics. They’re both so absolutely fascinating to me. If you’ve got time to kill, read up on Noam Chomsky and the theory of Universal Grammar. If your head doesn’t explode, maybe you can tell me what you learned so that I can begin to understand it myself.

            az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
  8. monkeyball May 14,2009 10:39 am

    Oh, fuck, no. This is a worse abomination than the Videodrome remake. I wish Rob Marshall’s mother had exercised her Constitutional rights.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • mikeA May 14,2009 11:02 am || Up

      Should those be periods instead of commas? I despise Judi Dench. I watched 8 1/2 once many years ago, and I had a very hard time reading the subtitles which made for a sort of exhausting experience. Stuff liked the linked movie gives me the image of a bunch of people being really fucking pleased with themselves and makes me want to smash their spectacles or maybe throw ketchup onto their nice white shirts.

      • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 4:10 pm || Up

        You’ve just summed up my grad school experience in a threatening phrase.

        Could you try it in a haiku now?

        • mikeA May 14,2009 5:02 pm || Up

          Angels and Red Sox
          Ortiz Bay and Pedroia
          Worthless little fucks

          Mike Sciosciapath’s
          Ghastly gules-goggled gremlins
          mike A kill them all

          • monkeyball May 14,2009 5:29 pm || Up
            worthless little fucks

            8-year-olds, Dude.

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  9. nevermoor May 14,2009 10:51 am

    But… but… it “looks exactly like Harry crack” so it must be good.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  10. monkeyball May 14,2009 11:28 am
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux May 14,2009 11:55 am || Up

      Unfortunately for you Will Carroll will be screening the applications.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:26 pm || Up

        There may yet be hope for me!

        Will Carroll: Well … I’ll apologize again for the lateness. I’ve honestly had to go back and re-read all 500+ entries because I’d forgotten, so all entrants got two reads from me. We’re having a conference call today on it.

        I’m choosing to interpret this as “the two other judges made me re-think my categorical humor rejection policy.”
        Meanwhile, I keep wondering whether my submitting a “Lola” adaptation to a contest judged by Christina Kahrl was very smart, or very dumb.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 4:26 pm || Up

          you know what? Fuck Will Carroll. There, I said it.

          He just did a fucking BS Report with Bill Simmons. You gotta hate Simmons more than a Klosterman-DFW lovechild: he’s painfully, intentionally tangential and he’s loaded with fake gravitas and maudlin and every other hackneyed journalistic concept known to man. He’s the columnist who got lazy. Plus he loves the fucking Red Sox. Fuck Bill Simmons and fuck Will Carroll right in his dirty fucking ear hole. If he doesn’t recognize your brilliance for what it is, then it’s his fucking loss, Monkey.

          • monkeyball May 14,2009 4:37 pm || Up

            I prefer the eye hole.

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            • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 5:39 pm || Up

              Christ, what an eye hole?

              • monkeyball May 14,2009 5:42 pm || Up

                How is it that no one’s dropped a “Christ, what a cornhole” in this DLD?

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • Leopold Bloom May 15,2009 10:17 am || Up

                  Well, you lobbed in across the place for me with eye hole, so I kinda had to, or I couldn’t really call myself a FKer…

    • mikeA May 14,2009 11:58 am || Up

      When I was in the store the other day, I noticed Time’s “100 most influential people” issue, where they have some sort of celebrity blurb about the 100 people. The cover people evidently thought shoppers would be most attracted by these 3, which they put on the cover:
      Michelle Obama by Oprah Winfrey
      George Clooney by Bono
      Rush Limbaugh by Glenn Beck

      What a country.

    • Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 2:35 pm || Up

      So turn up the crazy and twist off the knob.

  11. mk May 14,2009 11:29 am
    Re: McQuown

    The latest Depth Charts still foresee 120 IP from Duchscherer, with a good 3.97 ERA

    Which means the latest Depth Charts are stupid.

    Slusser:

    I’d say tack on at least a week to 10 days to that June 4 date if Duchscherer is to rejoin the rotation.

    Translation: early July, possibly post-all star break. And I’m sure there won’t be any sort of relapse or new injury, because that never happens.

    The A’s starting pitching is hard to assess, in the sense that on the whole, their results have probably been better than their execution, but on the other hand I’d expect their execution (health permitting) to improve. And Duchscherer making ten or so starts certainly won’t hurt.

    Also, apparently Will Carroll is a “stats guru”:

    • mikeA May 14,2009 11:41 am || Up

      It means the depth charts haven’t been updated.

      I clicked on Simmons yesterday vaguely hoping that what was billed as a “debate” between he and Gladwell would be a “debate” wherein he would take Gladwell to task for his idiotic nonsense about basketball (or really any of his idiotic nonsense) but it was just ass-kissing.

    • nevermoor May 14,2009 11:41 am || Up
      Well…

      Only when he’s being fluffed in a promo.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  12. salb918 May 14,2009 11:43 am

    My first FREEKRAUT comment.

    • nevermoor May 14,2009 12:03 pm || Up

      You’re fired.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  13. green star oakland May 14,2009 11:58 am
    Launch footage

    Just in case anyone forgot to get up at 6am.

    So far so good – we’re already getting telemetry data.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  14. mikeA May 14,2009 1:00 pm

    #5: Not Selig, Kendall.

    • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:12 pm || Up

      What’s he gonna do — try and hit me?

      < moves in 20 paces >

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  15. salb918 May 14,2009 1:20 pm

    MLB continues policy of “retarded P.R. will continue to help our business grow.”

    I mean, yeah, you have a contractual obligation to both parties and it’s some kind of technical achievement. But why highlight it on the website trafficked by one of the two parties, particularly for whom the technical achievement serves as only an annoyance?

    • nevermoor May 14,2009 1:25 pm || Up
      +1

      In other news, MLB successfully screws all non-NYY fans every Saturday with their patent-pending “sell the entire effing day to fox” technology.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux May 14,2009 1:33 pm || Up

      I’m not even sure there’s any technical achievement there. They look up IP addresses and credit card info. The USPTO really needs to start taking the “non-obviousness” clause seriously, especially when it comes to software patents.

      TINSTAAFK
      • salb918 May 14,2009 1:36 pm || Up

        yeah, particularly when, in my experience, that non-obvious clause is prosecuted pretty aggressively on hardware/devices.

        • nevermoor May 14,2009 1:54 pm || Up

          The USPTO is basically a rubber stamp because it makes life easier for them. This is why every big law firm has an IP group.

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:09 pm || Up

      < refrains from posting out of fear of Selugworth's minions tracking me down >

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  16. salb918 May 14,2009 1:21 pm

    Also, the Rangers have having some kind of magic this year.

    • green star oakland May 14,2009 1:31 pm || Up

      < waits for grammar nazi cat to pounce >

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • salb918 May 14,2009 1:36 pm || Up

        Feh. I have the power to edit my post, but I’ll refrain. Behold my lack of command of the English language!

      • nevermoor May 14,2009 1:40 pm || Up
        Too busy

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • andeux May 14,2009 1:39 pm || Up

      The Mariners are what we thought they were.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:46 pm || Up
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    • doctorK May 14,2009 1:56 pm || Up

      From LL today:

  17. salb918 May 14,2009 1:31 pm

    Well, this is a fun little illusion.

    The three best visual illusions in the world were chosen at a gathering last weekend of neuroscientists and psychologists at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Florida.

    The winning entry, from a Bucknell University professor, may help explain why curve balls in baseball are so tricky to hit.

    A properly thrown curve ball spins in a way that makes the air on one side move faster than on the other. This causes the ball to move along a gradual curve. From the point of view of a batter standing on home plate, though, curve balls seem to “break,” or move suddenly in a new direction.

    This year’s winning illusion, created by Arthur Shapiro of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, may explain this phenomena. His animation shows a spinning ball that, when watched directly, moves in a straight line. When seen out of the corner of the eye, however, the spin of the ball fools the brain into thinking that the ball is curving.

    So as a baseball flies towards home plate, the moment when it passes from central to peripheral vision could exaggerate the movement of the ball, causing its gradual curve to be seen as a sudden jerk.

    The visual at the link is really, really cool.

    • mikeA May 14,2009 1:38 pm || Up

      You just killed Dan Johnson.

      • salb918 May 14,2009 1:41 pm || Up

        Try watching that illusion with sunscreen in your eyes.

        (BTW, HT: THT)

    • lenscrafters May 14,2009 1:50 pm || Up

      Hmm, does this mean that batters with open stances have a slight advantage when facing breaking pitches? Open stances generally provide better central vision.

    • monkeyball May 14,2009 1:58 pm || Up

      Does this mean that the Good Barry Zito never actually existed?

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  18. FreeSeatUpgrade May 14,2009 1:41 pm

    Free Kraut used to be cool before it dumbed down to drive traffic from the addled-masses in the shark-jump over to 2.0.

    (Someone had to say it)

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • nevermoor May 14,2009 1:55 pm || Up
      Why I otter…

      Dumb you down. With my fist. In your face. Also.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • FreeSeatUpgrade May 14,2009 2:34 pm || Up

        I kid, of course. FK 2.0 is teh awesome. And I assume that the great mountains of cash you and the FK insiders will make from the torrent of addled masses traffic with be a potent salve to your wounded pride.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
        • nevermoor May 14,2009 3:05 pm || Up

          Speaking of, can I have $5?

          "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  19. monkeyball May 14,2009 2:08 pm

    Oh, and — the cornholin’ photo, properly cropped, would probably make a good rotating-banner pic. Could even photoshop some player names/numbers, or Otter Pop sponsor logos, on the seed buckets.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  20. Leopold Bloom May 14,2009 2:45 pm

    MB, are you filled with regret?

    • monkeyball May 14,2009 2:48 pm || Up

      Monkeys appear to be able to use fictive information to guide their behavior

      Shit, anyone here could have told you that, mister scientist man.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  21. monkeyball May 14,2009 3:24 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  22. monkeyball May 14,2009 3:26 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  23. andeux May 14,2009 4:40 pm

    David Ortiz is 0-7 with 11 runners left on base (7 of them in scoring position with two outs).

    TINSTAAFK
    • nevermoor May 14,2009 5:25 pm || Up

      But he’s clutch

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  24. FreeSeatUpgrade May 14,2009 4:56 pm

    I wore the famously hideous Barry Zito Father’s Day tie to work today. If I remember, when I get home I’ll take and post a picture of my natty ensemble.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • monkeyball May 14,2009 4:59 pm || Up

      Shouldn’t you have worn your Natty ensemble to Warrantless Wiretap Park yesterday?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • andeux May 14,2009 5:08 pm || Up

      I’m afraid to look. I have natty dread.

      TINSTAAFK
      • monkeyball May 14,2009 5:30 pm || Up

        If FSU had made that a standalone post, and then a new post knocked it down the front page, that’d be a natty bumppo.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • FreeSeatUpgrade May 14,2009 8:58 pm || Up
      Yeah baby, I make this shit look good

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Razr May 14,2009 9:01 pm || Up

        That is one fugly tie.

        "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
      • JediLeroy May 14,2009 9:02 pm || Up

        So, do you now understand pathophysiology?

        az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
        • Razr May 14,2009 9:07 pm || Up

          No comprendo

          "Quit your jibber jabber fool!" - Mr. T
          • JediLeroy May 15,2009 12:42 am || Up

            Back when the picture was full-size, you could read the textbook titles behind FSU.

            az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
            • FreeSeatUpgrade May 15,2009 8:58 am || Up

              Wow, you’re fast…I couldn’t have had the full-sized one up for more than two minutes.

              And no, all that material is the province of my wife, Nurse Upgrade.

              "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  25. monkeyball May 14,2009 6:12 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  26. green star oakland May 14,2009 7:23 pm

    An ugly, odd, outing for Gaudin against the Cubs today – 102 pitches to get through 4.1 innings with 1 hit and 7 walks yielding 4 runs, although 3 of those were runners inherited by Perdomo, who replaced Chad after he’d walked the bases full, faced 3 batters, and didn’t record an out.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • monkeyball May 14,2009 9:36 pm || Up

      Don’t you mean Predomo?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • green star oakland May 14,2009 11:29 pm || Up

        Let’s call the whole thing off.

        If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  27. doctorK May 14,2009 8:27 pm

    Anybody out there? The Scutaro walk-off game against the Wankees is on right now on CSNCA. Right now it is the top of the 6th, A’s leading 2-0.

    • Leopold Bloom May 15,2009 10:20 am || Up

      reason #5,456 I fucking HATE FLORIDA!

      I want Round Table, And Old Chicago and Negri’s and old A’s games and A’s games on Demand, and A’S GAMES IN PERSON AND FUCKING SAAG’S WITH THE FUCKING PEPPERS AND THE FUCKING ONIONS!!!!!!!AAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!

      {kills sign monkeys, goes on cross-country blood rampage}

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