game 2, bitches.
#Athletics vs. #Mariners game two: Weeks 2B, Pennington SS, Crisp LF, Gomes DH, Suzuki C, Cespedes CF, Reddick RF, Donaldson 3B, Ka'aihue 1B
— Susan Slusser (@susanslusser) March 29, 2012
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STUPID TWITTER WIDGET
Thanks, and go As.
Johnny Gomes: Clean-Up Hitter
Kurt Suzuki: #5 Hitter, Clifton Pennington: #2 Hitter….etc. etc.
This may be the worst lineup I’ve ever seen for a team that I’ve rooted for in any game.
You have obviously never rooted for Sindfelfingen Squirrels
How bad are they Squirrels?
They might even lose to the A’s
Hey, Gomes will fit right in!
Also, Vargas – 13 strikes, two balls. Just how afraid of these A’s do you think he is?
Greetings! Today I am tucked up in a blanket at home rather than at the Red Lion….
Hi there! Enjoy
Your 2012 Oakland A’s: Our best hitter is a platoon guy.
Your 2012 Oakland A’s: Where whoever doesn’t play is the best hitter
How lame are these Mariner announcers? I love how they just talked about how Smoak really hit that ball well, not a mention of Cespedes getting to it and no replay to see just how fast he must be to track that one down.
And yet they did choose to do a reeeaally slow-mo replay of Bartolo’s delivery…
Disturbing
And speaking of lineups, it doesn’t look like Shrek is too worried about throwing strikes either.
Lemme try embedding twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/wooden_feather/status/185300799931424769
Double yay! I tweeted and embedded – both life changing experiences!
Hee
WooHoo! There is some hope for those of us non-tweeters! (now I just have to figure out what a “tweet is?.?.)
It’s a pretty profound medium.
http://twitter.com/#!/colinflipper/status/185380046708539392
I was wandering who that guy might be!
From the Roamin’ Empire, obviously!
Asking twitter questions:
Hi, sorry – only asking for short answers from someone happy to explain this – it’s probably better for me to be kept in the dark, so no pres.
Question 1: elcroata uses the hashmark athletics thing, but colin does not. When I go on twitter, it only has ‘famous’ people’s hashmarked comments, so
1) who was able to see elcroata’s comment, and if filtered out, is there an expanded list for #athletics(?)
2) when colin tweets, how does elcroata see it (if it was sent directly to him, it doesn’t show on the embedded link)?
Thanks – sorry.
1) Hashtags are for indicating the subject of a tweet (in a very loose sense). So elcroata’s helpfully indicated that his tweet was about the A’s and Mariners. This might have changed by now, but I think that twitter didn’t initially have any special support for hashtags — it was an innovation on the part of users to make things more searchable. The idea here is that you might search twitter for “poop” and it would return every tweet that includes the word poop; but if you search for “#poop”, then you will only find tweets where the author specifically decided that the tweet was about poop.
2) The only reason that elcroata necessarily saw that tweet was because I embedded it over here (he also might have noticed it because I recently followed him, so then he gets an email saying “colinflipper is following you!” and if he was curious, he would have looked to see who I was and then noticed my brootal put-down). If I really wanted him to refer to him on twitter, then I should include @wooden_feather in my tweet.
Thanks thanks but I still don’t get why #Athletics is always Susan Slusser, Jane Lee, and stuff about track and field.
Slusser’s tweets get shuffled to the top, or elcroata doesn’t make the cut?
In short, how do I post something shocking and malodorous that someone really big like Vince Cotroneo would see?
find his @ abd @ him.
*and
Also, the default Twitter search returns “Top” tweets, so when you search #Athletics the first return you get just shows the Slussers and JaneLees of the world. Once you then change the search to return “All” instead of Top, you’ll see all such tweets in chronological order. Of course, that doesn’t help you get noticed by Vince, sicne you can’t enforce that search protocol on him.
But Vince might follow you if you changed your handle to TexasRangerFellator.
Insult a Rangers expert? Why the need? So negative.
So, did you hear that Twitter buried the hashtags?
(wait for it)
The Tweeters found them and smoked them anyways!
DARY!
Thanks for asking those things, I understand just as little as you do!
Yes, I guess this is just all leading to me tweeting stuff like ‘my butt is a nut.’
I hope the Bed person is putting twitter to good use.
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For a long time, my only follower was Karl Rove. Rove cared about me. And then he went away.
Seeing the Mariners ticket ad on ROOT reminds me: I was talking to a Giants season ticket holder on Monday, and I found out that the Giants don’t offer partial season ticket plans. You buy 81 games or nothing (they have a few 4-game mini-pack deals but that’s it).
One day we’ll be like that
That was my first reaction. Then I remembered one of my cousins in Minnesota telling me how hard it was to get tickets the first year at Target Field. Then once everyone had had a chance to check out the new place, and the team wasn’t very good, it became easier.
One day we’ll be like that too
Yeah, I figure we’ll be more like the ‘five years of OMG NEW PARK, and then back to business as usual’ camp of the Pirates and Padres than the Giants.
If/when Lew pulls the seat license shit, I’mma cut someone.
Sorry ma’am, you do not have a license to sit. If this weren’t a “family” environment, we’d suggest you squat. But we’re going to have ask you to refrain from doing that. I guess you’re just going to have to stand. Thank you.
4 innings in 50 Minutes
Ugh, poor positioning.
Gameday is showing a strike on pitch #5 waaaaay low and outside.
Done with your call, or multi-tasking?
Multi-tasking – though I had to stop following the game while I was giving my own presentation.
I certainly wish I had provided myself with a pizza for breakfast, although I don’t think it would have been the Round Table barbecued beef.
Damn, Jemile.
Yeah, that hurt.
Ramen….now that would be a nice breakfast.
Well that sucked.
I think the Tokyo Dome scoreboard guy was just playing the same bit of hip-hop instrumental that 95.7 used for the Jemile “second base advice” ad.
All right, I have to get dressed and go to work. RALLY CAPS for the new Mariners pitcher and Coco on first!
Yoenis!!!
Yay!
Good morning, folks. (checks, score). Agh, glad to see that the world order hasn’t changed. I don’t think my psyche could handle scoring runs right now.
Check again…
Never mind. Go A’s. Guess I’ll have to pay attention now.
RUNZ!
se va, se va, se vaaa… jonrón!!!
y otra vez
Who are these guys?
Whoo hoo! Best-timed middle of the night pee break wake up ever!
If butterflies can trigger hurricanes, maybe your peeing caused the homers.
Yeah – spawn2 did well in waking up for a feeding. I’ll have to give her some bonus Cheerios in the morning.
Josh!
Time for a Snoopy dance!
h/t to the Mariners’s skipper for nonsensically removing Vargas.
And another one! First Cespedes, now Reddick! Back-to-back middle of the night pee break jacks!
Taglined.
I’m already on record as being against the phrase “jimmy jack”. I’m certainly not going to approve of “pee break jacks.”
3 HRs in a row = “trough jack”
ASVD
How would you describe Cust and Hannahan going on the DL with kidney stones? </Carnac>
Nice Carnac usage.
What about age suspect jacks?
Robin Williams? {shudder}
Scarletpecker!!!
Alright, back to sleep. G’nite!
Your work here is done.
We lead the majors in runz!
nice
Who’d a thunk we’d be leading the division, with the best record in baseball, THIS deep in the season?
and dingerzzzzzzzzzzz!
that was a nice quick game :-) back to sleep!
The bad news is my alarm failed me for both getting up to go to red lion and getting up to go to the game, the badder news is my regular sleep cycle wakes me up by 530
that sucks dogballs.
I was going to stay up and watch the last few innings this morning when I got up to pee, but the game was over already.
Then I couldn’t fall back asleep.
Now I’m on my sixth cup of coffee and blasting Iron Maiden at a loud enough volume that if everybody on the block didn’t have dual-pane windows, we might have a problem.
Now THAT’S the way to start a day.
I wish I was one of her neighbors. cuz that. would. be. awesome.
Yay new guys!
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I think I’m gonna place a Rockathon order pretty soon…
The last one was for “…is off to business” and “Ataxia” by the Circus Devils.
Do you have any recommendations, especially for his 2009-2012 releases?
Yes, I’m like 6 records behind – I think everyone liked the first Boston Spaceships.
For others reading, ‘From a Compound Eye,’ would be considered a landmark, career defining record a la “Who’s Next,” or “Crooked rain, Crooked Rain.” Even within the Bob genre standards, it’s a big record.
Beginner: Alien Lanes
Intermediate: Isolation Drills.
my favorite Pollard albums:
1. GBV- “Alien Lanes”
2. Circus Devils- “Sgt. Disco”
3. Robert Pollard- “From A Compound Eye”
4. GBV- “Propeller”
5. GBV- “Bee Thousand”
6. Circus Devils- “Ataxia”
7. Robert Pollard- “Fiction Man”
8. GBV- “Under The Bushes, Under The Stars”
9. Robert Pollard- “Waved Out”
10. Go Back Snowball- “Calling Zero”
my favorite Pollard songs:
1. “My Valuable Hunting Knife”
2. “U.S. Mustard Company”
3. “Watch Me Jumpstart”
4. “I Am A Scientist”
5. “Dead Duck Dinosaur”
6. “Always Crush Me”
7. “Queen Of Cans And Jars”
8. “On The Tundra”
9. “Avalanche Aminos”
10. “Do The Earth”
(honorable mention: “Beneath A Festering Moon”
Watch my Jumpshot is a big one for me, too. I really like the post-trying-to-get-famous era rock album trio:
Isolation Drills, Univeral Truths and Cycles, and Earthquake Glue.
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was “Watch My Jumpshot” the original lyric?
That’s funny and makes a lot of sense. I always thought it was a song about Jimmy.
hmm… I liked Mag Earwhig better than all of those.
“Sad If I Lost It,” “Not Behind The Fighter Jet,” “Mute Superstar,” “Bomb In The Bee-Hive” and of course, my wife’s favorite, “Jane Of The Waking Universe.”
“Fighter Jet” is Bob’s “Fortunate Son.” To me, at least.
“My Kind of Soldier,” too.
If Robert Pollard was gay and Michael Stipe was straight, REM would have been GBV and vice/versa.
“Losing My Religion” would have been “Twilight Campfighter”
“Hope” would have been “People Are Leaving”
“My Son Cool” would have been “My Dog Cool”
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I’ve never been divorced.
“Twilight Campfighter” is the obvious favorite GBV song for divorcees.
…that and “The Brides Have Hit Glass,” of course
Agree. Also never divorced, here.
But I think Twilight Campfighter also contains a kinda dark sci-fi (not lo-fi) vibe/component.
hmm… I’ll have to listen to it again from that perspective.
I always saw it as a man contemplating life after divorce, and obviously he was going through that at the time.
Quite a lot of Earthquake Glue is futuristic and has dark moments. Hey, it’s all about dystopian these days, I guess..
I heavily associate the Flaming Lips record “The Soft Bulletin” with my memories of the Big-Three A’s. Shakira, too.
Guided by Voices would be like an equal interest to the A’s for me, but somehow the memories are totally separate.
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Took a journey backwards to a revelation I cannot describe
And I must admit it was worthwhile
And it made you smile – it’s that extra mile
When we drove home you slept all the way
Right through the explosion display
Another fine outing, pointing and shouting
“Look, it’s baseball” – Robert Pollard
“The Soft Bulletin” is the best Moody Blues record of all. There, I said it.
slept 10 lovely uninterrupted hours. sorry.
but nice score, people. you did it!
I haven’t done this in a decade
it’s a once-a-decade thing to do.
I’m pretty sure I’m not capable of doing this anymore… not without serious sedatives at least.
Slept 3, conference called for 3, slept another 3.
Now I just feel all FKed up.
kinda what i did 2 nights ago, but with lower numbers in the sleep area. i wish you 10 tonight.
I love Jeff, part 2
If I didn’t know better I would swear that was Ryan Sweeney, right down to the ankle guard.
Except for the hitting the ball hard part, I guess.
I had the same thought
yeah, he wasn’t trying to inside-out the pitch over 3B. Can’t be Swingles.
Thanks, and go As.
From the comments *shudder*
Thanks, and go As.
funny he tried to shave him. when he really just needs a haircut.
So, is it okay to still comment over there, you think?
If it feels good, do it.
…isn’t that why all my clients are in Drug Court, though?
Yes.
i did. (funny my first urge to log into SBN was on LL and not on AN.) immediately got busted for not using the subject line. i hate the subject line. totally unnecessary. FK it and FK them.
they’re kinda strangely militant about some things and obscenely lax on others.
I would.
My line is that I’m done with ** and wouldn’t do anything that provides meaningful financial support to SBN. I still RSS their MLB feed.
plus I absolutely lof Jeff. And Grant.
Then start a campaign to get them to leave SBN and either start their own sites or hook up with something better. Jeff and Grant should be on Gawker, not SBN.
They’re too good to be writing about specific teams, or even the sport of baseball.
Jeff should be up there at Drew Magary’s level, not down there with the SBN slummers.
both are regulars at baseball nation (sbn property). the only things worth reading
I still boycott all SBN sites and probably always will.
Except Grant’s an asshole and everything he writes is stupid.
#Grantbait
I was just gonna log on to say Grant is a total asshole, and that one thing he just said about brandon belt is totally wrong.
Yeah, I interpreted it as him saying that Huff has a much better potential than Belt, which is not only an assholish thing to say, but also shows he has no FKing idea about cricket!
Two games in I’m calling it – we’re not going to win the Pennant.
Prophetic I know.
Meh. I’m just hoping they’ll win 82 games. That’s the A’s Pennant.
That was teh awesome.
VICTORY!
So kind of like Victor?
victor, victory!
(my favorite movie about double-crossdressing war prisoners in a soccer cabaret.)