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Here is a very good article in the New York Times about the A’s and the Giants and Oakland and San Jose. Nothing new for most of us, but a good primer to send to your friends and relatives who haven’t been following the saga.

If you want to blow another of your 10 free NYT articles for the month, here is an interesting story about the University of Nebraska Press and its leadership in the baseball book world.

And here is a lovely piece by the lovely and talented Angela Woodall of the Oakland Tribune about the history of our beautiful pile of concrete and some of the people who’ve kept it together, such as:

Harold Miller, 82, who worked as a ticket-taker that day (the Raiders’ opener) and is now the longest-serving employee at the Coliseum. His full-time job while the Coliseum was being constructed was as an equipment operator, and he helped lay the water main to the complex.

Meanwhile in stadium news, the 49ers groundbreaking ceremony date has been set for April 19.

Who’s going to the Bay Bridge games? I’m going tomorrow night….

134 thoughts on “Why Grills Begin On Opening Day (of the Bay Bridge Series)

  1. ptbnl Apr 2,2012 12:03 pm

    Given how trivial it is to bypass the NYT block by simply trimming everything that looks extraneous at the end of the url, their recent reduction from 20 to 10 “free” articles per month is both pointless and ridiculous.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • gonealookin Apr 2,2012 12:05 pm || Up

      Is there an easy way around the LA Times block?

      What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
      • beebo Apr 2,2012 12:24 pm || Up

        I’ve noticed that clearing the cookies from my browsing history seems to work against the LA Times paywall. Not sure if that will work for everyone, though.

      • YonYonson Apr 2,2012 2:29 pm || Up

        :-(

        "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
        • AV Apr 2,2012 2:31 pm || Up

          are you speaking as a journalist who likes to get paid for his work?

          *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
          • YonYonson Apr 2,2012 2:43 pm || Up

            Yes.

            "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
            • Leopold Bloom Apr 2,2012 3:02 pm || Up

              Should’ve thought of that 10 years ago.

              Stupid industry thought it was irreplaceable.

              • YonYonson Apr 2,2012 3:17 pm || Up

                I was just getting started 10 years ago. A columnist from the Contra Costa Times got me all inspired, not letting me know that it’s a dying industry. I’ve just been too stupid over the past 10 years to get it out. I don’t wanna get too far into this, because I’m not really coming from a position of any kind of authority in this kind of argument, but it does kinda hurt when I hear about people trying to get around paywalls.

                I’m trying to get out, though. It’s amazing how much people FKing bitch and moan about something that is largely free to them. (Not directed toward you, gonealookin, ptbnl or anyone on FK, who are all outstanding people. Just a general gripe.)

                "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
                • gonealookin Apr 2,2012 4:56 pm || Up

                  Specifically WRT the LA Times, I have very limited reasons to go there, mostly for their college football stuff and occasionally for the Angels, so there’s not enough there to induce me to pay for the content. I survived the 80’s and 90’s without ever reading a single LA Times article and it’s pretty easy to go back to that so their choice is to have me as a limited free customer or not have me as a customer at all and as best as I can tell they’ve chosen the latter. Screw ’em, I deleted the bookmark a while back.

                  What I discovered Blew. My. Mind. -- Pat Boone
                • AV Apr 3,2012 9:02 am || Up

                  there’s very little reason for me to ask women out, mostly for sex, but that’s not enough for me to pay for dinner. i survived most of my life masturbating and it’s pretty easy to keep doing it, so women can just fuck me hungry or not fuck me at all, and as best as i can tell they’ve chosen the latter. screw ’em, i wasn’t going to call them back anyway.

                  *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
                • dmoas Apr 3,2012 9:54 am || Up

                  Are you… me?

                • monkeyball Apr 3,2012 10:12 am || Up

                  I survived most of my life masturbating and it’s pretty easy to keep doing it.

                  Tagline!

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 11:55 am || Up

                  We are very different.

                • AV Apr 3,2012 12:04 pm || Up

                  i get it. this comment is groundwork…

                  *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
                • Leopold Bloom Apr 2,2012 7:47 pm || Up

                  It’s how my family buttered its bread, my man.

                • monkeyball Apr 3,2012 10:13 am || Up

                  Leopold Gripe, of the General Gripes?

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • Leopold Bloom Apr 3,2012 1:18 pm || Up

                  Pulliams. Aka…Quayles.

  2. ptbnl Apr 2,2012 12:13 pm

    Gunman opens fire in East Oakland – stay safe people.

    If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • ptbnl Apr 2,2012 12:33 pm || Up

      Meanwhile, the Feds are busy with the much more important business of raiding Oaksterdam University.

      If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
      • the llama Apr 4,2012 9:32 pm || Up

        What would the feds have done with a gunman in Oakland? That’s local police work, unless you want a detail of feds patrolling oakland on a regular basis…

        • ptbnl Apr 5,2012 7:44 am || Up

          It was more a comment on the relative regulation of guns and pot.

          If this is His will, He's a son of a bitch.
    • Englishmajor Apr 2,2012 1:05 pm || Up

      Shooter’s in custody, apparently he got all the way to Alameda South Shore Center before they apprehended him. This was a small Korean American religious post-secondary school across the freeway from the Coliseum, near the In-N-Out/Walmart. Shooter may have been a student.

      • andeux Apr 2,2012 1:34 pm || Up

        Wow, I used to work a block from there, on Capwell.

        TINSTAAFK
        • monkeyball Apr 2,2012 1:44 pm || Up

          As apposite a street name as Shotwell

          you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  3. Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 12:29 pm

    6 years, $127.5 million for Cain, plus (if I’m reading this right) a player option for a seventh year at $13.5 million. With full no-trade clause. Damn.

    • Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 12:56 pm || Up

      Looks like they went back and edited the story. Now it says 5 year extension with $112.5 million guaranteed (including $7.5 million buyout on the player option for sixth year.

      • Leopold Bloom Apr 2,2012 12:58 pm || Up

        still. damn.

      • lenscrafters Apr 2,2012 1:05 pm || Up

        It’s a terrible baseball decision but you can’t fault the Giants for building and maintaining their brand.

        • Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 1:09 pm || Up

          He’s a better investment than Zito was, at least.

          • Leopold Bloom Apr 2,2012 1:39 pm || Up

            …in retrospect. But then again, maybe not. Time will tell.

            • Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 1:42 pm || Up

              Zito was a terrible investment from the start. He was average at best his last year with the A’s.

            • dmoas Apr 2,2012 2:05 pm || Up

              Would it be wrong for me to hope he blows out his arm in his first start of the season after signing that contract and, like Mulder, is never the same? I mean, I don’t wish anything bad on him, per se, but having another albatross contract right off the bat would have quite the schadenfreudey value. And at least Cain would walk away with a shit ton of money.

              • Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 2:06 pm || Up

                Yes. Very very wrong. Shame on you. (Fingers crossed.)

              • MikeV Apr 2,2012 2:16 pm || Up

                No, I hope he just loses 12mph off his fastball and turns into an ineffective soft tosser, just like Zito.

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

                Thanks, and go As.

              • nevermoor Apr 2,2012 4:28 pm || Up

                Well… I just drafted him for my fantasy team…

                "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • MikeV Apr 2,2012 1:16 pm || Up

          Except they’re not going to keep Lincecum.

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

          Thanks, and go As.

          • Englishmajor Apr 2,2012 1:43 pm || Up

            And if Oaksterdam U is closing down, there goes our chance of luring Timmy over here….

          • lenscrafters Apr 2,2012 3:02 pm || Up

            It’s really too hard to be sure of that as a lot could happen in 2 years. The Giants could be in line for one of those billion dollar TV deals, something might happen to Lincecum that hurts his value, etc. Lincecum’s ratios have been steadily declining every year as well.

            In any case, extending Cain makes more sense as Cain’s extension begins with his age 28 season whereas whoever signs Lincecum will be getting him age 30 and beyond. I’d say locking up Bumgarner right now is critical for them.

        • Kylianna Apr 2,2012 2:27 pm || Up

          Yeah. It’s an awkward situation for them — they *have* to hold onto Lincecum and Cain, and yet they can’t hold on to Lincecum *and* Cain.

          …I’d much rather have that problem, though, than ours.

          Crossing my fingers that Cain turns into Zito Mark II (since, y’know. I’m a bitch like that.)

          • Tutu-late Apr 2,2012 2:30 pm || Up

            I would rather our guys turn into Lincecum, or Felix. (Saves me a lot of hate.:)

          • OldhamA Apr 2,2012 3:09 pm || Up

            To be fair it’s never the pitching that lets us down.

            • Kylianna Apr 2,2012 3:13 pm || Up

              It’s true.

              But the issue of which of the pitchers to keep is never an issue for us, since the answer is always ‘ahahaha NONE OF THEM’.

              :(

              • OldhamA Apr 2,2012 3:19 pm || Up

                On a related note, are you still outside in the bushes?

                And it’s all Beane’s fault: “Quick this pitcher has value and the fans are taking a measure of enjoyment from watching him throw a baseball. Trade him now and replace him with a AAAA guy who puts up a 4.00ERA”.

                Every. Single. Time.

                • YonYonson Apr 2,2012 3:21 pm || Up

                  Yeah, seeing the Cain extension news did hurt a little bit. The last guys to get extensions in Oakland (who were not traded) … Anderson and Suzuki (?).

                  "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
                • OldhamA Apr 2,2012 3:23 pm || Up

                  I’m 90% sure he planned to trade Zooks, only he got worse. Same with Anderson.

                • YonYonson Apr 2,2012 3:24 pm || Up

                  I’m still waiting for Fuentes’ extension and subsequent trade.

                  "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
                • OldhamA Apr 2,2012 3:32 pm || Up

                  We’d be stuck with the extension.

                • MikeV Apr 2,2012 3:30 pm || Up

                  lol

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

                  Thanks, and go As.

                • Kylianna Apr 2,2012 5:31 pm || Up

                  I am. I look forward to the two weeks of sunshine I hear you Brits have in the summer. I think I’ve started to grow lichen.

                  If Billy would just get us crappy pitchers all the time, it would hurt less. It’s getting the nice, shiny toy, and then having him punch us in the face and take it back.

                  (I will actually for-real be in your neck of the woods in a few weeks, SO WATCH YER BUSHES.)

                • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 9:13 am || Up

                  Where is my ‘neck of the woods’?

                • dmoas Apr 3,2012 9:55 am || Up

                  Just above your “torso of the woods”.

                • monkeyball Apr 3,2012 10:13 am || Up

                  #christina hendricks

                  you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
                • Kylianna Apr 3,2012 11:43 am || Up

                  Cambridge.

                • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 11:56 am || Up

                  Oh really? Cool, what are you doing there?

                  Also I’m available for booty calls and ‘might as well go to the tourist centre’ tours of the city.

                • AV Apr 3,2012 12:04 pm || Up

                  …to make this comment enticing.

                  *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
                • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 12:08 pm || Up

                  90% sure Kster prefers your answer.

                • dmoas Apr 3,2012 12:24 pm || Up

                  Hey now, if anyone’s going to be her booty call…

                • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 12:27 pm || Up

                  Fine. I’ll stick with the Texas School Marm then.

                • dmoas Apr 3,2012 12:29 pm || Up

                  Pfft… like it’s up to either anyone but them.

                • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 12:34 pm || Up

                  Well, I think it’s clear as day that Shoes digs me.

                • dmoas Apr 3,2012 12:47 pm || Up

                  There’s a shovel and burial joke in there, but it has escaped me.

                • Leopold Bloom Apr 3,2012 1:19 pm || Up

                  She would crush you.

                • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 1:25 pm || Up

                  Is she Ivan Drago?

                • MikeV Apr 3,2012 1:26 pm || Up

                  holy FK that would be awesome

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

                  Thanks, and go As.

                • Leopold Bloom Apr 3,2012 1:30 pm || Up

                  yes. yes, it would.

                  Death by Kyli would be fun.

                • MikeV Apr 3,2012 1:31 pm || Up

                  i could think of worse ways to go.

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

                  Thanks, and go As.

                • dmoas Apr 3,2012 2:06 pm || Up

                  You say that like it’s a difficult thing to do… or that I’d mind…

    • Kylianna Apr 2,2012 2:29 pm || Up

      So. Drinks are on Cain tonight, then.

      There was a part of me that was really, really hoping they wouldn’t get a deal done and Cain would end up a Dodger. Just for the lulz.

    • Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 4:28 pm || Up

      And Cincinnati has supposedly signed Joey Votto to a 10-year, $225 million extension with full no trade that doesn’t even start until 2014. Insanity.

      • nevermoor Apr 2,2012 4:45 pm || Up

        Better him than Ryan Howard

        "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
        • Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 4:59 pm || Up

          True, but this contract is twice as long for almost twice the money.

          • nevermoor Apr 2,2012 9:58 pm || Up

            But it starts sooner after it’s signed.

            "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • Kylianna Apr 2,2012 5:31 pm || Up

        Holy crap.

      • Dial C for Concupiscence Apr 2,2012 5:39 pm || Up

        So it’s a 10 year contract that doesn’t even start until he’s 30? Wow.

      • the llama Apr 4,2012 9:49 pm || Up

        If I have this right, the first year of the extension will be 2014. Assuming in 2014 the $/FA-win is $5.5MM, and that that value will increase at a rate of 5% per year, then the Reds are banking on getting 30-35 WAR over the life of the contract. You gotta figure they’re counting on him for 7-10 WAR in 2012-2013.

        Votto has 20 career WAR already. So, the Reds are counting on Votto turning in a borderline HoF career.

        • FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 4,2012 10:03 pm || Up

          Dave Cameron sees the Votto deal as the first reflection of the new world of TV revenue, where teams are expecting that the recent LA deals (LAD and LAA TV and LAD team sale) will mean that everyone else’s next local TV deal (for Cincy 4 years off) will be much, much more lucrative. So if true, the dollars for WAR ratio is going up fast.

          "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
          • SPWC Apr 5,2012 9:27 am || Up

            SPWC sees the new world of TV revenue as a temporary bubble that will be popped within a decade by the further erosion of cable to new media happening faster than the re-valuation of TV content that people actually (supposedly) watch live with commercials.

            \"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
            • SPWC Apr 5,2012 9:28 am || Up

              or something like that…

              10 years from now there will be less geezers with cable and more DFA’s that eschew it.

              \"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
            • Dial C for Concupiscence Apr 5,2012 9:59 am || Up

              It’s possible and certainly an eventuality, but I don’t know if I’d bet on it within a decade. TV as currently constituted is pretty obviously a dying content delivery system. Compared to on-demand, commercial-less streaming, there is absolutely no benefit that TV has. Streaming provides more choice, more convenience and more control. The reason for these massive TV deals (the fact that live sports is one of the few things that people still reliably watch TV for), could easily change with further advancements in baseball streaming.

              Of course, as MLB has full control over streaming as an MLB content delivery system, there’s not much chance things will change too much in 10 years. If TV deals are bringing in this much revenue, MLB is going to do everything they can to extend them, even if it means screwing over fans to the full extent of its capabilities. Pretty much, I expect MLB to drag this out as long as there’s even a dying breath in TV left to squeeze money out of.

              • SPWC Apr 5,2012 10:36 am || Up

                Yeah, but when cable companies refuse to pass the huge increases on to customers and instead don’t carry RSN content AT ALL…

                San Diego will be an interesting test case if Time/Warner (or whoever the cable megalith is…) doesn’t cave.

                \"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
                • andeux Apr 5,2012 11:08 am || Up

                  In many cases the cable companies are the ones that own the RSNs. Even in cases where they aren’t the owners , passing those costs along to consumers – and more generally bundling channels together in expensive packages, even if you only want a few of them – is basically their whole business model.

                  I agree that that business model will die off eventually, but it will take pressure from outside competitors – in this case, improved versions of the netflix, roku, apple tv, etc. a la carte model. But that’s complicated by the fact that the very companies that want to sell their expensive TV packages – in the bay area Comcast and AT&T with Uverse – are the ones providing most people with internet connectivity, and they use tactics like bandwidth limitations and traffic shaping through throttling to make competing technologies harder to use for their customers.

                  It will take some small company making 100 Mbps fiber to the home widely available (like Sonic is trying to do) before the incumbents’ business is really threatened.

                  And even then, MLB’s TV revenue will start to fall off, but it will be made up for at least partially by getting more people to pay via MLBAM. The leagues are starting to realize that, even with illegal streams available, lots of people are still willing to pay for the legitimate source if it is available, reliable, and reasonably priced.

                  TINSTAAFK
                • the llama Apr 5,2012 7:32 pm || Up

                  Lessons learned from RIAA/Napster.

                • SPWC Apr 6,2012 7:22 am || Up

                  The whole profit model is based upon non-watchers paying for RSN’s as part of their basic packages.

                  IF only people who watch baseball pay for it, the revenue will go WAY DOWN.

                  \"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
    • the llama Apr 4,2012 9:35 pm || Up

      Cain is <.500 W-L lifetime. Loser.

  4. elcroata Apr 2,2012 1:46 pm

    Tyler, remember us? (perhaps NSFW)

    Because survival is insufficient
    • MikeV Apr 2,2012 1:47 pm || Up

      based on the URL name that can’t possibly be safe for work

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

      Thanks, and go As.

      • elcroata Apr 2,2012 1:50 pm || Up

        I’m the one with least idea about that. And not to provoke any more controversy (it’s only text, but who the hell knows), lemme label that

        Because survival is insufficient
      • AV Apr 2,2012 1:58 pm || Up

        there’s no nudity. and it’s hilarious. but yes, it says the same thing you saw on the URL.

        *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
        • Englishmajor Apr 2,2012 2:16 pm || Up

          I hope that sign wasn’t bigger than 3 x 6.

  5. MikeV Apr 2,2012 2:04 pm
    And I have to say: mikev is one of my favorite people on here -slusser.

    Thanks, and go As.

  6. lynnzgal Apr 2,2012 3:02 pm

    Yay, EM! Me, too, tomorrow night. :)

    • sslinger Apr 3,2012 8:41 am || Up

      Double yay EM – just heard your piece on the radio. Nice job!

  7. AV Apr 2,2012 3:22 pm

    and i thought ticket prices were expensive for fans…

    *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
    • YonYonson Apr 2,2012 3:24 pm || Up

      AV, I heard the Mets have this super pitching prospect. Sidd Finch. He’ll be fun to watch!

      "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
      • AV Apr 2,2012 3:25 pm || Up

        byline says april TWO!!!

        *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
        • YonYonson Apr 2,2012 3:28 pm || Up

          It seemed like a really lame April Fools attempt. The user even signed up this morning.

          "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige
    • AV Apr 2,2012 3:24 pm || Up

      crap. should have finished reading before posting.

      The motivation for the offer from the Commissioner’s office may be tied to recent revelations that none of the staff at MLB have been putting money in the honor can next to the break-room coffee pot.

      now i can’t tell if this is for real or not.

      *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
      • MikeV Apr 2,2012 3:32 pm || Up

        Really

        “We know he has the money, otherwise we wouldn’t have extended this offer,” continued the spokesman, “We wouldn’t waste our time on some broke-ass chump.”

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

        Thanks, and go As.

        • AV Apr 2,2012 3:52 pm || Up

          okay, okay! so i went in hook, line, and stinker!

          *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
  8. MikeV Apr 2,2012 6:32 pm

    Is the game not FKing televised???

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

    Thanks, and go As.

    • andeux Apr 2,2012 6:40 pm || Up

      CSN-CA at 7:30

      TINSTAAFK
      • SPWC Apr 2,2012 6:58 pm || Up

        wow that’s a late start…

        I was raring to go, but now I’m gonna watch a cooking show first while I make stir-fry.

        \"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
        • beebo Apr 2,2012 7:08 pm || Up

          The Bay Bridge games have always been my favorite to watch, but being in a new city/time zone every year is starting to catch up to me. Damn it.

          • SPWC Apr 2,2012 7:14 pm || Up

            Yeah… I’ve lived in this time zone for almost a decade straight… back in my hometown, until the levees or the sewer plant fails…

            \"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
  9. FreeSeatUpgrade Apr 2,2012 7:12 pm

    That is a good overview of the sitch by the NYT. I’m glad they gave some ink to the proposition that Wolff wants to make Oakland look bad to make his South Bay case stronger. Would have been even happier if the NYT writer had then presented “but maybe they’re just incompetent” as a counterpoint.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • Glorious Mundy Apr 2,2012 7:39 pm || Up

      Also helpful that the Grey Lady finally debunked the idea that we’re just “one big patchouli party” out here. That misconception has been allowed to persist long enough.

  10. wistful witch Apr 2,2012 7:33 pm

    baseball, hurrah.

    • SPWC Apr 2,2012 7:44 pm || Up

      Hi, beautiful!

      Your multi-faceted awesomeness is diamondlike yet warm and fuzzy

      \"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
      • wistful witch Apr 2,2012 7:47 pm || Up

        awwwww…now i feel warm and fuzzy! hello, sweetheart! :)

        • SPWC Apr 2,2012 7:57 pm || Up

          I hope all is well for you.

          Today was an emotional rollercoaster for not a whole lot of reason(s)… I’ll chalk it up to the hormones.

          I’ve had a few like that lately.

          \"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
          • wistful witch Apr 2,2012 7:58 pm || Up

            it’s a good thing to chalk it up to. i know those feelings. >:(
            mercury direct in two days!!!!!!!! :D

    • brian.only Apr 2,2012 7:50 pm || Up

      Finally, I think I might go tomorrow!

  11. brian.only Apr 2,2012 7:47 pm

    Awesome AB for Yoenis, do we actually have a bit of threat in the lineup?

  12. Future Ed Apr 2,2012 7:57 pm

    Good inning from godfrey

    I have $5. No I don\'t.
    • SPWC Apr 2,2012 7:58 pm || Up

      yup.

      \"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
    • brian.only Apr 2,2012 7:59 pm || Up

      Premature Posey was pretty satisfying.

  13. Englishmajor Apr 2,2012 8:01 pm

    I maded a game thread.

  14. brian.only Apr 2,2012 8:24 pm

    This is an April Fools prank that was turned in late right, right?

  15. nevermoor Apr 2,2012 10:15 pm
    "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  16. OldhamA Apr 3,2012 9:13 am

    I love the song at the end of Moneyball.

    Gets me strange looks when I sing it though.

    • AV Apr 3,2012 9:14 am || Up

      tell ’em to just enjoy the show.

      *i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
      • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 12:41 pm || Up

        I’m just a little bit caught in the middle, life is a maze and love is a riddle….I don’t know where to go, can’t do it alone I’ve tried and I don’t know why….

        So. Damn. Catchy. I prefer her pacing to the actual song too.

        • Glorious Mundy Apr 3,2012 12:42 pm || Up

          It made me choke up a little bit in the theater.

          • OldhamA Apr 3,2012 12:43 pm || Up

            Like most of the film, it just hit the nail on the head.

            I really didn’t want to enjoy it (cos I’m bitter about the current team), but it’s a wonderful movie. And yes I choked up a little and I don’t even have kids!

    • dmoas Apr 3,2012 9:56 am || Up

      Are you sure it isn’t because you’re not wearing any pants?

  17. OldhamA Apr 3,2012 12:39 pm

    I had my appraisal today. My boss lofs me.

    • monkeyball Apr 3,2012 2:58 pm || Up

      “Appraisal”? Are you being rezoned?

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • DFA Apr 3,2012 7:24 pm || Up

          Rezoned for death by Kylie… most neighbors don’t want to deal with the subsequent mess.

          In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor

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