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12 Feb 2012  |  monkeyball  |KOTD · Salmagundi

English muffin batter proofing. Used Alton Brown’s recipe, but subbed in 100% whole wheat (King Arthur) and added a tablespoon of flax meal.

Man, (WARNING: OSTLER LINK) Baer is this close to stepping on my Lew-should-build-a-500-seat-stadium-in-Hillsborough gag. Surprised Ostler didn’t go for the “Caramelized” joke.

76 thoughts on “I love the smell of yeast and melted butter in the morning”

    • monkeyball Feb 12,2012 7:59 am || Up

      Flaxy

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  2. SPWC (Gaijin_Suketto) Feb 12,2012 8:32 am

    Keep us updated.

    If it all works out nicely, I’m going to try it next weekend with a nut/rice flour blend.

    \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
  3. FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 8:49 am

    Link fixed. When I saw Baer golfing the last few days I kept rooting for him to shank it into the ocean, but he actually looked pretty good.

    If the A’s got a Pebble Beach stadium it would make the PacBell waterfront view look like Gary Indiana by comparison.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • dmoas Feb 12,2012 9:02 am || Up

      Unfortunately the view inside the stadium would be of very golf loving aging vet in the league.

    • Future Ed Feb 12,2012 10:13 am || Up


      Home of the railcats

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • Future Ed Feb 12,2012 10:15 am || Up

      dustin hermanson, from Gary

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • JediLeroy Feb 12,2012 3:36 pm || Up

      Back when I said I was going to Chicago, I was actually going to the town next to Gary.

      az di bobe volt gehat beytsim volt zi geven mayn zeyde
  4. FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 9:01 am

    This article (Shea warning) about the upcoming debut of the independent league San Rafael Pacifics is full of all kinds of coolness.

    • They’ll open in May in what might be the smallest park in all of North American professional sports, 750 seat Albert Park in downtown San Rafael. Also, free parking (though tickets cost as much as A’s tix).
    • They had tryouts in Oakland recently, which explains why I saw baseball players on the Laney College diamond as I drove by on 880 a week or two ago. Without knowing the backstory, the sight made me feel warm and fuzzy.
    • Ex-Dodger OF Mike Marshall (not to be confused with ex-Dodger pitcher Mike Marshall) is the manager. “Independent ball has been a part of Marshall’s life – as a player, manager and executive – from when he was a Schaumburg (Ill.) Flyer in 1999 to stops in Albany, N.Y.; Fort Worth and El Paso, Texas; Yuma; and, most recently, the now defunct Chico Outlaws, who won the 2010 NABL title.”

    • Giants fans might remember him for his 10th-inning, game-winning homer at Candlestick Park in April 1987.

      Rounding the bases, Marshall repeatedly pointed at Giants manager Roger Craig, who had intentionally walked Pedro Guerrero a third time to face Marshall.

    • In a more recent on-field spat, he fought with Yuma third baseman Tony Phillips in August. The same Phillips, 52, who played on that ’88 A’s team that Marshall’s Dodgers beat. The Yuma team’s manager? Jose Canseco. Marshall speaks of a series of events leading up to the fracas and “a lot of verbal abuse by Tony Phillips and unprofessionalism by Jose Canseco.”

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 9:02 am || Up

      Hey nevermoor, something is definitely weird about the html list tags.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • Jennifer Feb 12,2012 9:05 am || Up

        Huh. I just thought everything was REALLY important.

      • nevermoor Feb 12,2012 3:59 pm || Up

        It’s just not displaying the bullets. I need to figure out how to turn that on.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Feb 12,2012 9:11 am || Up

      ICIP slap bass and lap steel for the Defunct Chico Outlaws

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • SPWC (Gaijin_Suketto) Feb 12,2012 10:42 am || Up

        Goddammit… Now who the hell am I going to root for this year?

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
    • Mike Garza Feb 12,2012 9:17 am || Up

      Tony Phillips and Mike Marshall going all “Grumpy Old Men” while Canseco tweets from the dugout about how unfair MLB is being to him is possibly the greatest thing to happen to independent league baseball.

      My pop once called Storm Davis an asshole. On my birthday.
    • DFA Feb 12,2012 10:06 am || Up

      Wait Jose Canseco was unprofessional? Alert the media!

      In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • ptbnl Feb 12,2012 10:07 am || Up

      unprofessionalism by Jose Canseco

      From the department of unnecessary redundancy [department].

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • nevermoor Feb 12,2012 4:00 pm || Up

        Department of redundancy department, I think you mean.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  5. ptbnl Feb 12,2012 10:27 am

    Joleon Lescott making a strong push for fugliest face in sports:

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  6. Future Ed Feb 12,2012 10:58 am

    I don’t see the end game. How is this a winning issue?

    Are there pollsters out there that say there is even more than a handful of small businesses that want to deny contraception to their employees? Doesn’t pregnancy cost the insurance and employer more money?

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • dmoas Feb 12,2012 11:17 am || Up

      The GOP will fight to protect companies’ right to fuck the people! Protect the Business Babies!!

      • Future Ed Feb 12,2012 11:23 am || Up

        ooo, “Protect the business babies,” That would be a good placard at the convention in Miami

        I have $5. No I don\'t.
        • dmoas Feb 12,2012 11:31 am || Up

          I wouldn’t mind the Dem’s picking that one up and using it to mock the Repub’s inanity.

        • monkeyball Feb 12,2012 6:27 pm || Up

          Corporations are people, my friend. If a Demorat kills a business with taxes and regulations before it turns a profit, that’s the moral equivalent of abortion.

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 12:46 pm || Up

      Man, no kidding. Can anti-contraception voters amount to even 10% of the electorate? I doubt they even amount to 20% of the Catholic electorate.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • DFA Feb 12,2012 1:26 pm || Up

        and they amount to 0% of the girls I pick up.

        In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
        • DFA Feb 12,2012 1:28 pm || Up

          There should be a truck that just drives around the mission throwing BC and condoms at hipsters.

          In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
          • dmoas Feb 12,2012 2:05 pm || Up

            I’m surprised the GOPers wouldn’t try that. They should be encouraging BC, condoms, & abortions amongst the un-American “socialist” regime.

    • nevermoor Feb 12,2012 4:01 pm || Up

      That’s why the Catholic hospitals thing appealed to me.

      McConnell HAD to do this, and it makes him look stupid.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  7. gonealookin Feb 12,2012 2:18 pm

    This 2012 Tiger who has 5 bogeys through 15 holes on Sunday isn’t much fun to watch.

    What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 2:19 pm || Up

      The fourth round Tiger, anyway.

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • ptbnl Feb 12,2012 3:17 pm || Up

      Challenging Toxteth O’Grady?

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • SPWC (Gaijin_Suketto) Feb 12,2012 8:42 pm || Up

        O’Grady would have been the new Ashrita Furman, if only he could master the stupid bottom burp!

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
    • bear88 Feb 12,2012 3:27 pm || Up

      Mickelson can still be pretty good.

    • PaulThomas Feb 12,2012 4:27 pm || Up

      This 2012 Tiger who has 5 bogeys through 15 holes on Sunday Golf isn’t much fun to watch.

      Corrected.

      • FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 4:46 pm || Up

        I started liking golf on TV a lot more when I started playing golfing video games.

        Also, golf on TV for me is the perfect thing to watch when sick or hungover. It’s so tranquil.

        "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
  8. FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 4:50 pm

    Anyone given any more thought to a good date for the first major all-hands FK Day of 2012? Saturday May 12 is still my first choice. The sooner we pin down a date, the sooner elcroata can book his flight, and the sooner we know when we need to scuttle all the whale watching ships by.

    Also, thoughts on Suite Day?

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • nevermoor Feb 12,2012 5:33 pm || Up

      I’m thinking it makes sense to combine those two and do it on either a weekend or a free parking day so we can get maximum tailgating action.

      And if e/c is booking a flight I think the least we can do is let him pick.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • gonealookin Feb 12,2012 5:48 pm || Up

        Looking back at your original post the suite is 18 seats so you’d have to divide the FKers seating into the suite FKers and the not-so-suite FKers. As far as free parking Tuesdays it seems like it would be best to have the Big Ass Sausagefest on a weekend when FKers coming from outside the Bay Area can get there.

        What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
        • FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 6:03 pm || Up

          Agreed all around. It really does have to be a weekend for a tailgate of sufficiently sweeping scope…weeknights get you two hours of lot time at most. And it would be awkward to have suitened and unsuitened FK groups.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • nevermoor Feb 12,2012 6:23 pm || Up

            Fair enough.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
            • FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 9:12 pm || Up

              I could see the suite night working on a weeknight though, since it’s more socializing friendly. Schedule coordination could be tough.

              "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • Ice Cream Feb 12,2012 6:59 pm || Up

            suitened and unsuitened FK groups

            nice

            Where is the good in "good-bye"?
      • monkeyball Feb 12,2012 9:39 pm || Up

        You’re joking, right? ec already knows what game we will pick.

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • gonealookin Feb 12,2012 5:34 pm || Up

      My preference would be any night when Bartolo Colon is not pitching. Having said that, you know he’ll be starting on May 12, but that date works well for me.

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
    • Future Ed Feb 12,2012 6:08 pm || Up

      I like May 12

      I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • ptbnl Feb 12,2012 6:50 pm || Up

      I’ll probably be in Yurp on the 12th.

      Can we get something going earlier in the season?

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • wacchampions Feb 12,2012 6:51 pm || Up

      I am pretty much good with any date…

    • batgirl Feb 12,2012 6:52 pm || Up

      I’ll be out of town the weekend of the 12th, but y’all have fun without me and I’ll catch the next one.

    • ptbnl Feb 12,2012 7:20 pm || Up

      In case it helps, I’ve put up a doodle poll including all the weekend home games this year.

      Worth noting that a lot of the Saturday games (as well as all the Sundays) are 1:05 starts – the only late afternoon/evening weekend starts are:

      4/7 – Mariners
      4/21 – Indians
      5/12 – Tigers
      6/23 – Giants
      7/7 – Mariners
      7/21 – Yankees
      8/18 – Indians
      9/1 – Red Sox
      9/15 – Orioles

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • nevermoor Feb 12,2012 7:30 pm || Up

        I’ll sit down with that soon.

        The Indians games would be great, though.

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • FreeSeatUpgrade Feb 12,2012 9:48 pm || Up

          I could do 4/21. I definitely have a preference for early in the season.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • DFA Feb 12,2012 10:11 pm || Up

            Thats the day after my birthday.

            In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
    • Poppy Feb 12,2012 7:41 pm || Up

      I’ll probably show up whenever it is, I have no preference on a date. Unless it’s the first two weekends of June, when I’ll be on my way to and then returning from Portland.

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  9. mjdittmer Feb 12,2012 5:07 pm
  10. nevermoor Feb 12,2012 5:50 pm

    Holy shit.

    Not only is it fantastically done, but the twitter comments aren’t awful.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  11. MikeV Feb 12,2012 6:29 pm

    I successfully cooked lobster tails.

    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

  12. YonYonson Feb 12,2012 7:18 pm

    MB, why the warning about Ostler?

    "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
  13. nevermoor Feb 12,2012 9:02 pm

    By the way, I’m diagnosing the IE issue.

    You IE users can fix it by manually setting your IE browser to display FK in standard mode instead of Quirks mode. I should figure out why a certain plugin is killing that at some point, but until then the site (and backend) should display properly in standard mode using any IE > 6.

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • monkeyball Feb 12,2012 9:41 pm || Up

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • SPWC (Gaijin_Suketto) Feb 12,2012 10:03 pm || Up

        Hey… I actually got that one, but only after having to look up and see if George Brett had ever been a Rockies’ coach.

        \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS
  14. nevermoor Feb 12,2012 10:14 pm

    Spreading Santorum!

    “The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,” former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told a South Carolina audience yesterday. “And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom.”

    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  15. DFA Feb 12,2012 11:09 pm
    In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
  16. ptbnl Feb 12,2012 11:14 pm

    I think Marx put it best –

    Downton Abbey repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
  17. monkeyball Feb 13,2012 2:15 pm

    Late English muffin update: success! Recipe came out really well yesterday — so much so that we had no leftovers to photograph!

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • SPWC (Gaijin_Suketto) Feb 14,2012 6:52 am || Up

      yay!

      thank you for sharing.

      I’ll let everybody know if/how it works when I make it with nut flour substitutions.

      \"Weren\'t you already aware the Kay is already writing everyone\'s story? We\'re all just characters who believe we are real. Things make more sense now, don\'t they. Be honest.\"- DMOAS

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