- O RLY, Mitt?
- O RLY, Rick?
- Have you seen the 2012 A’s? There’s no way they’ll be the good one!
- Ogando back to the pen
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#Rangers also release minor leaguers: RHP Jorge Marban, 1B Clark Murphy, OF Kendall Radcliffe, INF Jonathan Roof, OF Ruben Sierra.
— Richard Durrett (@espn_durrett) March 28, 2012
- “I changed the world with my inferior products.â€
/beane(Also, taglined: Innovators in the field of mediocrity.)
MY certainly isn’t wrong about the foodstuffs, argument, but he goes entirely OTT McMeganesque with the healthcare comment at the end.
In the hands of uncreative people, that would be a recipe for laziness and mediocrity 241
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http://twitter.com/#!/susanslusser/status/185321403246055424
True. They traded Ryan Sweeney AND Andrew Bailey.
Thanks, and go As.
And by that she meant…?
I wondered that, too. I guess because Sweeney doesn’t homer? (much… does Reddick?)
She was talking about this several weeks ago and explained it more then. Basically, one scout said that Reddick was the equivalent of Sweeney (no power, etc.), so the A’s were trading one Sweeney to get another of the same type. After seeing Reddick hit, Slusser disagrees — she says that Reddick is the opposite of Sweeney, in that he is smaller but has power (whereas my long-lost Ryan is taller but has no power).
OMG I so totally love the GOP.
http://twitter.com/#!/politicalwire/status/185426317146193920
http://twitter.com/#!/DemocratMachine/status/185423552252620800
Why do we remain fans of
REMthe A’s?Interesting piece, I’ll look forward to the rest of the cycle. BTW, have you read Juliet, Naked? His discussion of the relationship of a rock star to his/their fans made me think of it.
Nope. Looks interesting.
I enjoyed it, but then I like most everything Hornby writes. If you want to borrow it I can bring to opening day or 4/21.
Hornsby? That’s just the way it is. Some things will never change.
Hornsby? I hate guys with an extra “s” on their first name, but I would take a 2B that hits .380+ every year…
That’s just the way it is. Some things will never change.
..and you can go FK yourself, San Diego
Thanks, and go As.
Aaaaand I beat National Review to the (unintentional) joke.
Yeah… there’s nothing visually on that video that could even be used to ID the guy let alone what injuries he may have had.
3. Just this morning, I was thinking about how game recaps are something that I don’t miss at all from the OC, because they generally didn’t contain anything that I couldn’t get with less effort from a box score. Jeff’s recaps, on the other hand…
I’m thinking of starting to comment over there again.
I’m thinking of spending the next three hours listening to my stomach.
Better than the twenty minutes you spent listening to mine outside that bar in Crockett?
I don’t know. I’m a little scared. My throat also gurgles so I think my body is plotting against me.
…kind of like that night in Crockett!
…and if you saved half your oatmeal from breakfast in a baggie and brought it with you to work like Bloom, you wouldn’t have that problem.
It’s not hunger noises. I had just eaten and it just wouldn’t shut up about it.
hmmm. well, you’re clearly going to die. I advise you to make peace with whatever deity you believe in.
That’s what I thought too.
OC or LL?
LL
I approve. For what little that might be worth. I’m totally cool with patronizing good peoples.
I lof Jeff.
I say we just lure him here.
Thanks, and go As.
Good call. He can even talk M’s here if he felt like it.
Sure
danke.
I think it’s fine. I still comment at the NU site, mostly because it’s the only blog out there and it’s a small enough community that they haven’t had to flex any bANiNation muscles.
I’ve been considering starting. I have been reading it pretty often.
I’ve had an account for a few years.
When I was a high fallutin’ sign executive, I offered them banners for cost, but they took it as me trying to scam them, I think…
Maybe they were thinking outside of the box… thinking that the letters didn’t actually imply words…
hmmm. No, they just seemed generally hostile for the most part. Some of them realized I was just being nice, but…no one took me up on the offer.
mock me! (i like it.)
I wasn’t mocking you… I was mocking whoever made that joke/problem/thought experiment.
Your arguments in that thread make a lot of sense. It’s just that there are some things that shouldn’t be joked about. Without basic implied meanings, we wouldn’t exist and dolphins would have rightfully taken over the world (whistles and clips longingly for a better alternate reality…)
Dolphins ain’t taking over anything without opposable thumbs and durable goods.
A good friend of mine was born without thumbs. She has five fingers on each hand but the fifth one is not an opposable thumb, but more of another pinky in its place. Her daughter was born like that, too
Whoa.
It took me quite a while to notice, though
If I knew someone like that, I’d either a) stay away for fear that I would crack wise and offend them or b) get to know them really well so I could crack wise and it would be all good.
This. A kid in the neighborhood we just moved from was born with six fingers on one hand. When Lil Miss Ace pointed it out it became the hardest thing in the world not to walk up to him every time and say “give me six!”.
He was a nice enough kid and I didn’t want to be an a$$ so I had to learn some self control. But Once I knew he was also 6 years old I couldn’t resist the urge to give him a baseball nickname and thus he was “Big Six” from that point on.
Thanks, and go As.
so your nickname/handle means you have 5 middle fingers?
5 hands each with one finger only.
and, since my sarcasm filter is not working today, here is the real reason:
Brian Kingman made that cover how?
He started off the season with 3 of the better starts of his career and he was the WP to get us to 10-0 to start the season with a complete game shutout over the M’s. But I really think it was simply that he was starting and the whole idea was how the Billyball team was such a throwback and the starters were completing games, etc.
I actually had never seen the original article until after the fact. The first I had ever heard of it was in a follow up issue (I actually think it was the 4/1 issue that had the Sidd Finch story) a few years later with all of the pitchers out of baseball and injured.
…and then there was one
Thanks, and go As.
Still… best twitter icon ever.
MB: how did you not use this as your pull quote?!? (?!?!?!?!?! (??!!!111))
Is anyone by chance interested in buying a 3 foot (approx 1 meter) tall mixed media statue of a clown barfing in the tank of a toilet, pissing in the deck, and squatting over the open mouth of a severed Kewpie doll head?
#mikeA bait
that mikeA fellow musta been a cool cat…
…either that or batshit insane like me…
bit o both, really…
Only he was a woman who decided to be become a man.
Oh, sweet irony!
We call it…the Aristocrats!
and for $500, it could be all yours!
This is sickening.
A shitload of those people used real names… real Googlable names, which lead to addresses and employers and facebook accounts…
With just a little bit of knowledge and a lot of deviousness, one could really ruin some of those cats’ lives, without them ever finding out who did it…
#ToMyUnbornChild If you become a bigoted douchebag, I’ll probably just disown you.
Pretty much all young men.
way to go, bilbao.
aupa athletic!
Gentlemen, please: English only at these tables.
Um… why is it that we’re now the only two at this table? It’s not because we’re all snuggled up together is it?
blackballing bastards.
I know, right? It’s not like we’re totally naked or anything.
thank god for fezzes.
I’m still shocked we found two in green & gold and big enough to fit on top of our heads.
Sonoma State!
Hey baby, wanna play with my radar gun?
Wow! Wuth thet tipe of intents trainin’, we don’t need no advamced stuttestical analis.
Like Adam a lot. Smart dude. Have talked with him pretty extensively.
The air conditioning unit in this building is a deafeningly pulsating B flat. If I had my keyboard with me, I’d freestyle a melody to go with it. As it is, everyone around me will have to settle for my own voice mimicking the sounds of a bagpipe.
lol
I totally do that every time I vacuum.
Ha! Me too.
I go deaf as a result of the vacuum. It hits a frequency that my ears can’t manage properly the results of which all other noises fades. Same thing with the engine on a plane.
destructive interference?
15 yards, loss of down
So instead of wasting our time and money on HSR, we should be doing this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/rewriting-rules-high-speed-travel-153438350.html?ugccmtnav=v1%2Fcomments%2Fcontext%2Ffe7e8351-0890-3bce-b17d-e63d8c12e706%2Fcomments%3Fcount%3D20%26sortBy%3DmostReplied
SF to LA in 4.5 minutes.
It’s still HSR… FKingHSR
HST, not HSR. And 100 billion would be absolutely worth being on the ground floor of making that happen.
Oh yeah, it’s maglev… so no rail, I guess. What’s the T for? train?
Tube.
mono means one and rail means rail
well sir, there’s nothing on earth like a genuine bona fide electrified six-car monorail.
Didn’t we talk about that here once and determine that it would be a practical impossibility to build/maintain.
Maybe today.
I would totally put this in the category of established technology, just really expensive to build at this kind of scale. But I don’t think I was around for the discussion you refer to, so I might be overlooking something that makes it impossible.
yes, the llama had lots to say. I trust his opinion.
I do work on a project that ihas accomplished impossible engineering and is tasked with accomplishing impossible science. So I may not be right guy to ask.
I am pretty sure that is what you said. Its “possible” but the energy needed and something else makes it centuries away, I think
Here’s what I said.
Suppose you weren’t trying for top speed, accounting for some drag, that should only affect the overall speed, not necessarily the viability, no? Shooting for say, 500 – 1000mph instead of the full 4000mph? That’s not to say the other issues there on that list that wouldn’t need to be addressed, but possible?
500-1000 mph is roughly the speed of current airliners.
And yet people don’t have a problem building a system that’s half the speed of that? And if you start with that, you can continue to fine-tune the system to continue to build more speed into which isn’t particularly easy to do with planes. Add in the fuel/energy costs. If you can match a plane and be cheaper and more environmentally?
Developing supersonic commercial aircraft can be expensive sure (Concorde) but I’d imagine it’d still be a fraction of the cost of developing, building, and maintaining transoceanic, supersonic railways. At the very least, the technology for supersonic aircraft has been around for decades; refining it to make it better and more cost-efficient is likely to be both more plausible and less costly than these proposed railways.
Anyways my original point is that it makes little sense to build those 500-1000 mph railways when current commercial planes can regularly cruise at 700+ mph groundspeed (depending on tailwinds). Now if you can build 2500+ mph transoceanic railways…
Part of it is that trains (usually) go city center to city center. So a train that moves at airplane speeds would save you ~3-5 hours of commute time per trip.
I think that’s probably a pretty wild overestimate. Getting to where you want to go departing from, for example, SJC or Diridon is nowhere near a difference of 3-5 hours. Anyways, this might be moot as I doubt it’d be practical for supersonic trains to utilize city center train stations unless they were underground.
1. Travel to airport
2. Bag check at airport
3. Security at airport
4. Pick up bags at destination
5. Travel from airport
Hard to make that much less than three hours, since nearly all airports are pretty far from downtowns. O’Hare, for example, takes approximately three weeks to drive to in any kind of traffic. And LAX is worse.
Okay but why wouldn’t things like security, delays, long lines, and other current airport hassles become the norm with this form of transportation as well?
They haven’t yet, and train travel is well-established out east/in Europe/etc.
They haven’t yet because (market-wise compared to planes) nobody rides the train except for DC bureaucrats and journos who ride the Acela.
If we as a country invested the effort, money, land, and marketing to make medium-to-long-distance train travel a mass-market option, the amount of opportunism, rent-seeking, and bureaucratic overreach would be equally massive.
Well yeah. They aren’t the fastest form of transportation like air travel currently is and faster-than-air-travel trains would become.
I mean, you can’t possibly be claiming that taking a supersonic train would be exactly like how we would take an Amtrak train right now.
Well, I doubt they’d move the train stations way outside cities (because trains just don’t need the same footprint). And I would also expect that the same relative-lack-of-weight-restrictions would provide enough passenger / baggage space to prevent the need to check.
Now I feel like booting up my old copy of Railroad Tycoon.
You also can’t really effectively crash a train into a building. You can really only blow one up.
Unless you are already at the airport (eg. connecting from another flight) London/Paris is significantly faster by train than plane, and that even involves passport control.
@mb. This.
(Also, no offense, but I find all the fascination with a 19th century mode of transport kind of…odd.)
DFA and his fixie haz a sad
one less velocipede.
Needs moar cow catcher
Yeah but I don’t live close to the city center and you can’t make me. :D
Thanks, and go As.
Did you not read your eviction notice?
We’re replacing casaV with an indoor soccer facility to be managed by Christina Hendricks
Why can’t he stay and be her boy-toy?
That’s the plan.
Thanks, and go As.
@MikeV
You’re my hero!
I was mostly asking for the science of doing it at a quarter of max speed. Think about it in these terms, though. You’re *staring* at a reliable, consistent match to the best we have now. Wouldn’t it make more sense (even though more expensive to establish) knowing you could then slowly over time potentially build it up to 4000mph? Don’t think of it terms of matching it to what the best planes can do now. Match it to back when commercial planes were when they first started launching. Our *start* point is the max plane speed with the promise of a shit-ton faster.
Also consider starting much, much smaller. Forget transatlantic and focus simply on a NorCal to SoCal tube. At best it takes an 45min – 1hr by plane with all the without all the BS involved. You’re not really going to beat that time in a plane. But a 500 – 1000 mph tube covers that in half the time or better. Then you build the system up from there as the tech gets better and the kinks get ironed out to the point that by the time you’re actually considering transatlantic, you’re talking about 2000-3000mph or better some 50-200 years from now.
I’m not sure of the science but I think the technology behind a 500 mph train is vastly different from a train that has to go 5 times the speed of sound at sea level, to the point where you can’t just “improve” on the infrastructure to get where you want to be.
And I’m pretty sure you’d have to deal with air travel related BS if you ever build a train like that.
I’m sure the TSA would figure out how to FK it up.
THE TERRORISTS COULD PUT A BOMB ON ONE OF THOSE TRAINS AND SEND IT TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!!!1!
{fires up Final Draft}
Well sure. But I’d imagine if you start with the 500mph version, each addition would be an improvement. So while you’d still be stuck with the slower “connectors,” when you start building the bigger system that’s going around the world, you’d be basing it on a higher tech version, one that would presumably support the faster tube. Assuming you planned ahead appropriately (unlike how we handled trains) you could build in future expansion into the track (vertically?) to support an eventual retrofit of the faster version that would be build much, much later in the future. You’d never remove air travel from the equation. You’d simply reduce air travel and change the pattern from long distance to intra-regional travel with the big hubs being where the tube stations were located. You’d want to do that anyway since you wouldn’t want a lot of stations along the route slowing down the travel, though I suppose you can build in switch tubes to bypass the stations.
Science-wise, I’d say that it doesn’t really matter whether you design it at a quarter of max speed. For a quarter of max speed, you’d allow the pressure to be 25x the pressure required for max speed. A difference in air pressure of 25x isn’t a lot when you’re talking about vacuum. You might as well go down all the way.
TWSS
Thanks, and go As.
Okay then. Let’s start saving our money and steal from the Chinese after they spend trillions trying to figure it out.
I’m telling you, driverless cars.
Too fucking slow.
Ford worked on that idea in the 80s
It’s time to try again. My guess is it would (net) reduce carbon emissions while raising standard of living across classes.
The problem is the liability, not the technology.
Crashes will happen, and as it stands now (and, probably, should stand) it would be the manufacturer’s fault.
Yes. The problem will be convincing people that the net reduction in accidents will be worth it, and every robot-induced failure will be given far mroe scrutiny than your run of the mill human-induced error.
The first casualty as a result of automated driving will be the end of it after all the lawsuits.
What Ford was trying to do, was to use the cars we already have, but link them(10-20 cars) via a magnetic device for long runs on the freeway. Individual cars would be able to couple/decouple as needed, This would allow for local driving as well as the benefits of aerodynamics in longer trips. It would require quite a computer control system, which was the drawback of the era.
Yeah, that’s sort of what I was thinking. In the past, whenever I have looked at a project and thought “we can do this on small scale, but there’s no way to pull it off at the much larger scale proposed”, I end up being wrong.
For example, LIGO: who knew that you could make a 4 km long interferometer with 50 kg mirrors that is able to measure changes in the length of its arms that are the size of an atomic nucleus?
… and still not see anything ;-)
Well yeah, but that doesn’t take away anything from the engineering feat.
True.
The political feat is equally impressive though … they’ve managed to use the “give us one more upgrade and we’ll see gravity waves” argument multiple times now.
but but but enhanced LIGO!
Also, a little closer to home, just wait until the current generation of B-mode experiments (+Planck) fails to detect gravity waves.
CMBpol FTW!
Now you’re just speaking Welsh again
Too many vowels for Welsh.
I think we have today’s winner, unless Bed makes me spit up milk again in the lounge!
I spent 15 minutes this afternoon having a discussion about whether or not PIXIE is bullshit.
Funny, I’m pretty sure I overhead two 9 year olds saying the same thing today.
So what’s your take?
They don’t spend all that much time in the paper breaking down the noise, but I generally believe their calculation (though like 2/3 of their photon loading comes from CMB, rather than dust — is that realistic for an instrument with a band out to 6 THz? I don’t know, cause my thesis was at 40 GHz). But assuming that the photon loading number is right, my main problem is that their sensitivity is equally spread between all frequency bands, so you need to believe that 4 THz, 4.02 THz, 4.04 THz, etc, are all useful for measuring CMB. You either have a typical dust model with spatially varying spectral index and then all of those high frequency channels are basically giving you redundant high signal-to-noise dust maps, or else you find out that you are measuring dust so well that you have to develop obscenely complicated dust models to account for what’s in your data and all of the free parameters eat up your sensitivity.
I was just looking at this comment and thinking that it might be the most gratuitously technical comment in the history of FK, but then I realized that is almost certainly not the case.
Yeah dude, you’d obviously have to be on the dust to think that!
What do you think about the length of the path/number of reflections in the optics? From a very cursory look by someone with no experimental experience, I’d worry about that distorting the polarization. And aren’t beam asymmetry and band-pass mismatch going to be issues, especially for a differencing experiment?
Nerds.
Thanks, and go As.
NERDS!
Be careful what you say, colin. It will show up as the primary thesis in ptbnl’s commentary in Nature. :-)
The number of reflections is kind of scary. Also, I’m an electronics guy, so optics = magic, as far as I’m concerned. But the beams get mixed and then re-mixed by various wire grids, so I think that you actually end up with a lot of redundancy that could provide good rejection of beam issues.
I didn’t try to figure out what would happen for mismatched bandpasses between the four bolometers — that would almost certainly make the “good rejection of beam issues” less good.
TWSS
Clap harder
Correct. The fact that we can fire 192 40 cm x 40 cm beams of 354 nm light and then focus all the beams on the inside of a 5 mm can to implode a 2 mm bead to fuse hydrogen isotopes is pretty insane. Still seems like magic to me, yet we do it almost every single night. From an engineering perspective, it’s absolutely miraculous.
After pondering the maze of overpasses and flyovers on I-5 between downtown and east Portland, I’d prefer investing tax dollars into developing an affordable, green Jetson mobile that would allow cities to reclaim their roadways for greenspace.
They’d just replace them with houses, warehouses, and malls.
Probably for late adopters. But I figure in places like Portland, Eugene, Ashland, Berkeley, SF, and Seattle there would be at least some reclamation.
Actually, the more I think about this, the more I hate it. I have a house next to a school. Teenage flyers = bad idea. I can easily imagine those fkers crashing into my roof or backyard all the time.
The key is to automate the routes and have all of the Jetson mobiles talk to each other so that the teen flyers have no say in the matter.
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Apparently not all that far off.
That downtown Portland area is roadgeek heaven because of all the highway planners’ conceptions that ended in abortions. On and off ramps ending in midair everywhere. And if you are coming off 405 and need to get on the Ross Island Bridge you have one of the great little drives anywhere in the USA.
And Ba’al forbid you’re using GPS and not paying attention to the road every second …
Or your PDX-native wife asks you to drive home from the airport while she tends to screaming kiddies in the backseat.
I’m not FROM P90X, but I have been living there…oh….PDX…that’s different, huh?
Yeah, that’s the part I was looking at coming from south waterfront back to downtown. Fortunately, I only take the Ross Island Bridge about two times a year.
It would be horrible to have to drive all of that regularly at rush hour but as a visitor I find Portland’s freeway system almost an attraction. It’s like a trip back in time to the dawn of the interstate age. Much of that appears to have been designed by the person who designed the original Autopia at Disneyland. The Bay Area is on its second generation of freeways as almost all the original structures have been removed in expansions. There’s still one terrific bit of obsolescence to be seen as you drive from the Claremont Hotel down to Montclair on 13 with the old narrow lanes and bridges and sharply-curved ramps. The entire riverfront portion of Portland’s freeways is like that.
380 seems to end abruptly in SOuth city or wherever that is
It never occurred to me that the lanes are particularly narrow here, but we certainly don’t lack for sharp curves. I’ll have to pay more attention when I’m down there next.
When I was down there in October, I was pretty happy with what they did at the 85/101 exchange going toward (I think it was the HOV-only part) and coming from SF.
Well said.
Win Ben Stein’s
moneycontemptI loved that show and had passed the audition and made their list of qualified contestants to be scheduled, and then it went off the air.
Dang, that sucks. You two would have had a great time talking politics.
I passed the College Jeopardy knowledge exam, but failed the screen test when they paired me with a insanely personable wheelchair-bound redhead.
I can walk!
bummer. it was a fun show. I was uneasy about jimmy kimmle, but though he was funny. My uneasiness was shown justified by his next project
Hooray for Canada. First, an intelligent health care delivery system, and now the penny is toast.
hands off my tooney
Indeed. Sucks to have to envy Canada’s political system
Now, replace it with Steve’s $.99 coin!
Why do they have to take it out of circulation as opposed to just not minting more?
I would think they could go a decade or so before a penny shortage, and by then, cash will be almost obsolete anyways.
Because the processing of pennies is expensive for everyone involved.
Isn’t the value of the metal in pennies, alone, worth almost as much as the pennies themselves? I.e. you could get most of the value back by just melting them for scrap.
Not any more. U.S. pennies are mostly made of zinc now; each actually worth around a half cent in metal value. Those made before 1982, when they were mostly copper, are worth about 2.5 cents each. Per this.
You might be thinking that the cost of making pennies is more than 1 cent each, which is true.
FSU is exactly right about the other part.
Yeah, I knew about the “value less than cost” part. Wasn’t sure how much of that was overhead and how much of it was the cost of bulk metal, though.
Interestingly, it looks like nickels really ARE more valuable if you melt them for scrap.
Yeah, some end-times types have been hoarding nickels for the past few years. Though really, as with gold hoarders, if civilization collapses raw metal ain’t gonna be as fungible as the survivalists would hope.
Honestly, the most valuable thing would probably be bullets (unless it’s a kill-all-flora-and-fauna type catastrophe and all anyone cares about is canned goods)
Bingo. Can’t eat gold.
Wild TURKEYS!!
Sez you!
Mmm… chocolate.
…and another thing…
If we end up with a completely cashless economy, it is imperative to create and tacitly accept black market electronic currency systems, because the black market economy is very important towards keeping society afloat in times when the white market economy sputters and/or depresses.
I doubt that’ll happen for a long time, but if it does my guess is that people use shell accounts rather than different currency.
That’ll make the Fermi problem a lot easier…
Caption this:
“Don’t be fooled by the blue lightsaber.”
“These aren’t the votes you’re looking for.”
winner
“I like to pretend I’m Obi Wan, but the Secret Service has advised me not to wear the hood”
(also, props to whoever made sure his lightsaber was blue)
mos def, that intern should get a prize.
also winner
“Christ, what an asshole.”
Haha! It really does work, every time.
“Ask Ringo, you bastard!”
“If I had a son, he’d look just like Luke Skywalker”
“You fools. Bringing a saber to a lightsaber fight.”
“That’s not a knife. Here’s a knife.”
“He pulls a knife, you pull a lightsaber. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That’s the Chicago way.”
“For SCIENCE!”
Today’s safety email…to the people who work with the world’s biggest and most powerful laser, capable of delivering 192 beams of an ultraviolet laser totaling almost 2 megajoules of power in billionths of a second…was a reminder not to shine laser pointers in your eye.
To be fair – as I always say – such emails wouldn’t be necessary if someone, somewhere hadn’t been injured by pointing a laser in their eye. Don’t do it, kids.
Everyone knows laser pointers have only one use: feline entertainment
To be fair, this distinguishes them from other items in zero ways.
Apparently one of mine is scared shitless of it. Another loves the thing and the third likes watching the one who loves it jump around.
Please don’t point a laser into your remaining eye
depends what the laser is pointed with. NSFW repost.
http://athleticsfarm.com/2012/03/23/exclusive-as-super-scout-and-moneyball-bad-guy-grady-fuson-gives-the-lowdown-on-life-in-baseball-and-as-prospects-to-watch/
Very nice interview with Grady Fuson, including his take on A’s prospects.
Fail.
No. 5: That blew my mind. I thought perhaps I was back in the bigs, giving it another go. But then I thought: How old am I? So I did what we all do when we forget how old we are–I looked it up on wikipedia. I’m 47. Am I trying to make a comeback attempt at 47?
Nope.
I have a son? I have a son? I have a son!!!
I wonder what Diego Chavez would have to say about all this.
Well played.