- “You are the starting third baseman. You’re just not starting there tonight.â€
- Jim Harbaugh, shot dead on a field in Durham
- monkeyball/DFA bait
- Holy crap but this is cool
- Mitt Romney was vague on [day of the week] about how he would deal with [issue/policy]. On the other hand, though …
- UNDERGROUND STADIUM!!! / mikeA bait
3. Related
How can they possibly skip Noe? It’s stroller-palooza.
NOPA would be my choice for bringing up children if I were to right now. Noe I agree with especially if you are a lesbian family :-P Bernal Im surprised isn’t on there as well.
(looks up)….did someone say lesbian?
I would recommend the Mission.
Yeah the bugaboo to car ratio is approaching 1:1
1: and the platoon denialism begins anew.
Holy crap!
So apparently the NFL is bringing their lame OT rules to the regular season instead of, you know, just playing an additional 15 minutes of regular play.
Asking those guys to brutalize each other for 60 minutes is already more than enough.
I’d want a full quarter for the playoffs and a tie for the regular season.
Agreed. All regular season games are 0 minutes long, and the playoffs are 15 minutes long.
That should keep the concussions down!
Just have 32 teams in the playoffs, elimination style.
I like the old sudden death system….it was exciting and if you can’t win a game in 60 minutes then you have no right to bitch if you lose in overtime.
I agree. And returning kickoffs to the 35 instead of the 30 made it pretty close to even as to whether you should prefer to kickoff or receive in general. (In any individual case it depends on the relative strength of your offense and defense.)
Football just isn’t designed for a sudden death system. I mean, I guess you could set the ball on the 50 yard line, both teams on their own 35 yard line and let them race for the ball to begin OT. Short of that, putting the ball into one team’s hands to start things off isn’t conducive to fair play. The argument isn’t “you can’t win a game in 60 minutes” it’s “busting your ass for 60 minutes only to have the game decided on a coin flip.” And basing sudden death on a coin flip is bull shit.
But it’s not decided by a coin flip. Even if you get the ball first you still have to score most likely starting from your own 20.
Receiving the ball is a HUGE advantage in football’s overtime. Why should who gets that advantage be based on a coin flip after both teams just spent 60 minutes busting their asses? If the goal of any decision making process is to make things fair, not even, but fair, then the only way to handle it is remove the sudden death or make getting the ball a free-for-all.
Actually, the idea of dumping it on the 50 yard line and letting them fight for the ball sounds kind of fun. Maybe have 2 or 3 guys on each team on the 35, the rest on the 25. Does the first set of guys go for the ball or do they go in to block? Can you get the ball cleanly or do you knock the ball into the other team’s protective coverage? If you get the ball cleanly, can you get guys up to block and get yourself into the end zone? I’d also completely eliminate place kicking in this scenario too. For those guys to put the ball in the end zone for 6.
I don’t think it’s a huge advantage. I thought the stats were like the team that gets the ball only scores about 56% of the time and that was back when most of the kick offs didn’t become touchbacks like they are now. Seems fair enough to me.
From 1974-1993 with kickoffs at the 35, it was exactly even (47% – 47%, with about 6% ties).
From 1994-2000 with kickoffs at the 30, it was a big advantage for the receiving team (60%-36%).
Now that kickoffs are at the 35 again, it might still be an advantage for the receiving team (kickers are better at long field goals than they were 20 years ago) but it isn’t a HUGE one.
Alternatively you could scrap the kickoff and auction off starting field position – whoever agrees to take the ball closest to their own end zone gets it.
I like that. I would be happy with just posession at the 20 for a coin flip and no kickers, but you introduce an entirely new strategy. I would love to see the captains go out and start the bidding.
I’d prefer a steel cage knife fight using monkeys.
In football’s stultifying ultimatum, monkeys’d prefer a steel cage knife fight using you.
Okay, but only if I get to use a Ginsu knife….which you can buy for $19.99…but wait there’s more act now and we’ll add a second knife for free.
Ginsus are so 1985. Step on up to ceramic, baby!
I like the auction idea… …adds a Monopoly element to, well, a monopoly.
I love this idea. It would be interesting to see if the “market” for field position would settle on the correct yardline at which to stop bidding in every instance (a “price,” if you will), or if the machismo factor would goad coaches and players to make very, very bad decisions.
Rex Ryan would insist the other team get the ball and start on the 15 yard line to show how great his D is.
He’d just let Tebow handle the bidding while he goes and has a goddamn snack.
…of feet.
I like the idea. Continuing on your thought here, who gets to start the bidding? It seems like it wouldn’t take much time before people find the “break-even” market starting position. Then, if we do assume that bidding would generally stop at the break-even point, whoever gets the first bid would bid the break-even position right off the bat if they slant toward offense or a yard before it if they slant toward defense, right?
yes. unfair because it’s a game of taking turns. sure, there are turnovers available, but it’s really close to having sudden death in baseball. top of the 10th, team scores 1 run, they WIN!
Not a problem for the A’s.
el croata bait
Just so you know Bed bait would either involve drunk clowns or articles about the earned income tax credit….if we’re lucky….both.
http://twitter.com/#!/YankeesWFAN/statuses/185041133414522880
I always say if you can’t cut it with the Astros try the Yankees.
I was thinking that after getting let go by three of the worst offenses in baseball his career might be over. Silly me.
That’s you being logical and stuff….I’ve never tried that.
I like his repeated “beat Yankees” background.
He just might be better than Raul Ibanez.
I doubt he’s better than Raul Julia at this point.
For 2 weeks in 2007, he was better than John Astin
Cust, what an Astin.
asvd
It was because I brought my Jack Cust game-(slightly) used bat to the Red Lion so that people could mock him.
A jack Cust Game Held Bat!!!! AWESOME!!!!
oh wow. i saw the bat and everything. didn’t know what i was beholding at the time.
Geez. If you’re going to mock it, you should give it to someone who will appreciate it …
So, I haven’t really looked here for a few days. Where do I go first?
Just read my posts of course.
Review my posts for Magary links.
too much worky worky?
Or you can just say FK it and re-post links from days ago :-)
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Magic/Kasten group buys the Dodgers and Chavez Ravine for 2.15 billion.
These were the guys to borrow $5 from…
That’s a lot of scratch.
watching the replay now
Really? Allen sac bunt attempt after Cespedes double in the 7th?
Thanks, and go As.
New bob thought since he was a 1st baseman, and Barton used to be our DB(designated bunter)…
yep. wasted inning.
I would hope that Billy threw a chair, but I sense he really doesn’t care enough anymore.
Fucking MLB network
“tune in as Ichiro Suzuki’s homecoming continutes as the Mariners take on the A’s”
YEAH WE’RE THE HOME TEAM THOUGH .FUCK YOU.
Thanks, and go As.
at the very least, they’re not playing sweet caroline at the end of our “home game.”
Watching that MLB Extra Innings commercial: do you suppose anyone has told Albert Pujols what the song “Everybody’s Talkin” is most closely associated with?
Frankly, I find your dinosaur offensive!
God what a bunch of wussies we’ve become.
Sigh. No one had problems with these words until they were told they should have a problem with them.
I remember in grade school having 1-2 kids in my class every year who “couldn’t do the Christmas project”. Now I don’t know how they felt, but I don’t remember any of us ever saying or thinking anything about them other than how lucky they were to not hav to do this crappy project.
I don’t recall there having been much in the way of Christmas projects in grade school, with the exception of putting on A Christmas Carol in 6th grade. I never really thought much of it and certainly never objected to having to do it – my parents certainly never raised a word of protest, although they were of the generation that valued Jewish assimilation into mainstream/Christian America.
We made ornaments and stuff (like drawing santa on plastic that was then semi melted in the microwave or something).
But yes, the culture of being offended 24/7 is a new development. I’m finding it fun to watch the right (who, to be fair is newer to that particular party than certain democratic elements) fumble their way through it. We are all Al Sharptons now.
We made ornaments in kindergarten, and I apparently came home with a six-pointed star made out of popsicle sticks and glitter. I don’t know whether it was my idea, or if the teacher said: “You’re Jewish, do this.”
we had plays and such. We likely made ornaments.
Its really stunning to me now that that was all done seemingly unquestioned.
We did things celebrating both holidays in 1st & 2nd.
That’s what we did, and I remember maybe simple drawings and at least 1-2 gift exchanges. I remember the exchanges because once I got the JW kid in class and somehow the teacher didn’t know and I ended up with a generic make up gift that was for kids 3-4 years younger than me.
But yes, the offense is new and just odd to me. They talk about how the questions might start discussion on “x”. I don’t ever remember leaving a test in elementary school and thinking about the deeper meaning of questions. I said the test was easy, or the test was hard. And then I ran to the monkey bars and turned on my tape recorded to listen to tunes..
Holy shit I hate everything.
Thanks, and go As.
Love it!
It might take a second to get it and when you do and if you want to comment on it use spoiler font :)
I love it. I can’t figure out the third one down on the left though.
Spoiler:
Ah. That’s a bit out of my range.
Wouldn’t have gotten that one.
I have no idea what the FK that is. /dumbguy
Thanks, and go As.
I am with you.
Hey guys!!
100100010000
100001001
11
10001
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Me too.
Top left set is:
Spoiler:
I get four of them (top left, top right, third row right, bottom left). Plus I read ec’s spoiler for third row left.
I got all of them but the bottom right.
At first, I thought it might have something to do with danmerqury’s new piece up at THT, but then the coffee kicked in.
I feel like the bottom right should be easy, but I have no idea.
Spoiler:
someone might as well tell me second one down the right. i bet i’ll never have heard of them either.
Spoiler:
i’ve heard of them!
3rd on the right?
hint. one of their friends is one of FK’s members.
Still not getting it, but I’m blaming the broken night.
you’ll kick yourself to sleep.
Ah – I know of them, but I’ve never seen them.
Spoiler:
That was the one I couldn’t figure out, so I’m glad it’s due to ignorance of the reference rather than inability to make the connection.
Same.
A3 and B4 were my absolute favorites when growing up
i think those two aren’t very well known in the US, even if they’re mainstays in other countries.
I should’ve known A3 from foreign language in high school, but it didn’t sink in.
That would make sense of why I’ve never even heard of B4.
A3 was a favorite of mine too. Tintin as well. I wonder why I just never came across B4 then.
Saw this a couple of days ago. Eventually got all except top right and bottom right. And after seeing the answers, still didn’t know what that latter was.
That is way cool.
’cause i’m a teenager, with a little bit of gold and a
pagergullible.(i know, the rhyme kinda falls apart there. what can i say?)
Just because it rhymes doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.
/me every morning when my carpool buddy insists on listening to writer’s almanac.
Hey now!
Time to meet friends for dinner, but before that:
Who needs how long to solve it is a really good hint
oh, so the correct answer is
.
Spoiler:
Got it.
Also noted that for numbers > 2 this is the number of prime factors minus one, but wasn’t sure how the choices for 0 and 1 fit in.
AV’s explanation is simpler and obviously what was intended. Damn my higher education.
Your first line is how I came to the right answer. AV’s explanation as to why that was the right answer I didn’t get though.
Me too/neither.
really? (is it because i repeated a word and made the sentence hard to parse?)
Sorry, bad wording on my part. I understood your explanation, but I didn’t come to it on my own.
Same
oh, i see now.
Got it I think – I’ll post this before I check: Spoiler:
.
Spoiler:
like if Mickey Mantle was still alive and raffling off ham.
Of course, after reading the above spoilers, Spoiler:
why does mine have the added “Spoiler:” text?
I never typed that.
The code adds that automatically before the “div” but you can delete it before posting your comment.
I can take it out if people don’t like it.
It does seem a bit redundant. Not really a big deal though.
TWHS
I don’t care, now that I know to look for it and delete it.
i find that there is a type of problems (make 4 equilateral triangles using 6 regular equal toothpicks without braking or bending any of them) that are of the “think outside the box” variety. it’s not about the math/geometry, it’s about can you get outside your typical way of looking at thing despite the distractions leading you to your typical ways of looking at things. is that not really a problem to solve? i’m saying, just like adding is a skill, finding a patter is a skill, and thinking outside the box is a skill. and these can all be tested. just because you thought the problem was one kind and it turns out it was a different kind, well, that doesn’t make it less of a problem to solve!
A waiter worked that toothpick trick on me just last week.
typing clearly is a skill. that i failed at. remove s, add s, add n. you problem-solvers know where.
I didn’t actually ponder the problem to solve it. I pondered it to find reason not to, because things like that are almost always in the realm of “joke played on the participant” than anything else, and I hate those and find them to be offensive. If someone came to my door with that, I’d FK with them like I FK with the JW’s.
However, I’m pretty sure I never would have solved it, even if I tried.
don’t you mean?:
yep, every item is its own meaning unto itself. communication becomes impossible. if i type “A” and you see it, why would you understand it as anything else than a slightly triangular shape drawn on your screen rather than (a letter) (a variable) (a grade) (a very short word) (a signifier meaning first of a series) or a combination of these and others which your mind can sort through just as quickly as mine did when typing it to use the useful and disregard the extraneous, and in a way that shapes and/or suggests meaning so that there is understanding between what i’m sending and what you’re receiving?
yay! we’ve just used logic to obliterate the beauty of the human mind: to find meanings through signification and move between them effortlessly through metonymy and metaphor, even whey they coincide in one way but contradict in another.
did i ever talk about my favorite words that mean the exact same thing but also mean the exact opposite of each other?
are we there yet? (we’re not there now.)
are we there still? (we’re there now.)
we’re yet to get there. (we’re not there now.)
we’re still to get there. (we’re not there now)
Aloha!
Some things are too core and too important to question their
. Letters and numbers are definitely in that category.
why is 6 afraid of 7?
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Because 6 did too much acid and thinks 7 is trying to steal his soul.
Seven is a muther fker.
Though, Seven of Nine is pretty hot
and her husband did pretty well on Iron Chef, too.
Agreed.
resistance is
futilenot what i was thinking.but t’pol and 7 aside, the alien who first furled my brow was ro laren.
I want Trill spots.
a roman walks into a bar.
he orders five beers.
I’m with you on that. It’s not matter of “I can’t figure it out” because if I really tried, most times I’ll find the catch. And it’s not that it’s not interesting, but it’s generally posed in such a way that it’s less a challenge or truly philosophical question so to speak, but one that’s more inclined to create a “ha-ha, I know more than you” moment. (Not that that was the intent in this particular case because that’s just not how I see elcroata, but that’s how it’s frequently intended or comes across).
ha-ha, I know more than you
Well played, Croat. Well played.
Do pre-school children ever focus on solving something for 5-10 minutes?
Yes (you do mean 0 to 1 right?)
Thats what I was thinking. If I took it over to the littlest Ace right now, he would look at it for 30 seconds, look up at me, yell “hot dog” and then go run back to his Trash Pack toys.
Shit, you mean “hot dog” isn’t the answer? I’m going to have to start over again. Another hour of my life wasted.
I belive he thinks it is the meaning of life:
What did you do at school today: HOT DOG
Where did you put the remote control: HOT DOG
What do you want for dinner: ok, maybe that one was me…
Hot dog hot dog, hot diggity dog …
perry como, is that you?
My little 3 yr old nephew is going to be an odd duck, like everyone else in the family.
His favorite thing to do is to hand you something and say in a deep voice, “THIS TICKET… IS NON-TRANSFERABLE!”
I originally read that as “an odd fk”.
I’m pretty sure cria1, age 4, wouldn’t get it because he recognizes and identifies numbers as such. He knows what they all represent. Cria2, age 2, would try to eat the computer.
Of course, you have to identify numbers as such to solve it (because otherwise, what does the integer answer mean)
True. The gap between recognizing numbers and understanding what they represent is pretty small, though. I doubt a preschooler would get it quickly, but the hint is a good one – don’t be contstrained by the representation you see in front of you.
The hint was what helped me solve it. It basically told me to
hint? i thought that text was the instructions!
I don’t understand why they think that programmers would have an advantage in solving the puzzle. Because of general out-of-the-box thinking?
Because of sex-life that equals that of pre-school children?
As a program I resent that comment… mostly because of the truthyness of it.
algorithmically deduce patterns?
Awesome:
guau! (spanish for wow. but also the sound a dog makes in spanish.)
funny, i read the end like this: gracias a dios mi esposa tiene uno y siempre lo atiendo. (thank god my wife has one and i always attend to it.)
My Spanish is improving.
My pidgin translation was: “Thank god my wife has one and it’s always at attention”
and my new vocabulary word for today (gleaned from context) = “culo”
When I was courting Mrs. Aces her family introduced me to one of the family “classics” they would watch during holidays, etc: American me. It has the great line “you’re so cool I’ma call you CULO.”
Other must see holiday movies: Blood in Blood Out, Scarface, Evil Dead, and the 10 Commandments.
I read it that way, too. Probably because whoever wrote this can’t spell
#dfa
fker
DFA bait
dude that looks awesome
I do something different for my Lunch Beat
No idea if ifs not a hoax
Can I have $7,950,000?
(plus construction costs)
Thanks, and go As.
That seems like a bargain.
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