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26 Jun 2009  |  monkeyball  |The Grill
  1. “JP is great”? Yeesh — if this snippet is legit, I cxan see why they put it in turnaround. More legit-news-source detail.
  2. I agree: JP is great!
    jp-at-peets1
  3. I have no basis on which to asses this
  4. Not that that’s ever stopped me before:

    This is a trend, people. When the [particular MLB team med/training staff] downplay the extent of an injury, then give the player a few days off before sticking him back out there, and only later realize the injury was worse than expected THREE TIMES in the span of less than three months, this is not bad luck. This is incompetence, plain and simple.

  5. Xbx, here’s a radical-centrist link to draw you out
  6. And to balance that out in my ledger
  7. Do they really need to know, like you said, the date and time that we leave mental stability?

37 thoughts on “JP is great: DLD 062609”

  1. monkeyball Jun 26,2009 12:37 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  2. FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 26,2009 1:26 pm

    He has your hair.

    "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
    • monkeyball Jun 26,2009 1:33 pm || Up

      Quite literally

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • the dogfather Jun 26,2009 6:25 pm || Up

        Say, you know — somebody really oughtta write a book about fatherhood. Not your father’s fatherhood, either, or his father’s, back to the beginning of human consciousness, but a hip, “with it” sort of modern, urbane look at fatherhood, full of fresh insights born of your own unique stature as a precious snowflake. The world needs a book like that!

        fer instance, didja score any ring-dings from the vending machine during labor, thereby rendering your wife the loneliest mom?

        The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  3. monkeyball Jun 26,2009 1:51 pm

    Scouts: still dumb

    “In this day and age, unproven talent means a lot more to teams than what Matt Holliday has done in the major leagues for a long time, which is crazy to me,” [the scout] said.

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  4. monkeyball Jun 26,2009 1:52 pm

    reztips?

    Holliday has rebounded nicely from an April slum that saw him hit only .240, slug only .360, hit only 1 homer, and drive in only 12 RBI.

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  5. monkeyball Jun 26,2009 2:05 pm

    Awesome! Now I know the Latin term for “supercilious, clueless douchenozzle”: vox clamans in terris

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • mikeA Jun 26,2009 2:31 pm || Up

      That’s a great article. And the letter from Reagan in the link at the end…

      All over America, millions of people look up to you as an example. Your deep faith in God and adherence to traditional values are an inspiration to all of us, especially young people searching for something real to believe in.

    • batgirl Jun 26,2009 4:00 pm || Up

      In today’s Post there were already reports that some youngsters were turning away from Mr. Jackson in favor of a newcomer who goes by the name “Prince,” and is apparently planning a Washington concert.

      • monkeyball Jun 26,2009 4:03 pm || Up

        “Wait a minute, this sounds like rock and/or roll.”

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
  6. monkeyball Jun 26,2009 3:24 pm

    Uh … wow

    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • FreeSeatUpgrade Jun 26,2009 3:36 pm || Up

      Um…

      The new firm, to be called Nigaz…

      "Kraut will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no kraut."
      • monkeyball Jun 26,2009 3:41 pm || Up

        Nigaz got oil

        you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • the dogfather Jun 26,2009 4:10 pm || Up

          Once again, the ghost of Ken Saro-Wiwa wanders the delta, shaking his head in dismay…

          The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
      • mikeA Jun 26,2009 4:22 pm || Up

        more:

        The tastefulness of the new firm’s name was questioned by a board member, but his concerns were dismissed and a spokesman for President Medvedev downplayed the objection as the idle prattlings of a vox clamans in terris.

  7. monkeyball Jun 26,2009 3:42 pm

    Interesting take on the Froomkinfuffle. There’s many a good and previously unreported/unremarked-upon detail in there, but the overall case/conclusion is way overstated.

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    • nevermoor Jun 26,2009 5:47 pm || Up

      I have to admit I’m not particularly interested (but then I never read the column). Newspapers are firing writers. Froomkin is a writer. He got fired.

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
      • mk Jun 27,2009 7:20 am || Up

        Agreed.

        The blogospheric hand-wringing (“Fred Hiatt Crushes Brave Progressive Voice”, etc.) struck me as overwrought in the extreme. But then, like you, I rarely read Froomkin, so I suppose my indifference is unsurprising.

        The only Washington Post opinion pieces I ever read are Krauthammer’s, because I like to keep tabs on what the crazy people are thinking.

      • the dogfather Jun 27,2009 7:43 am || Up

        “He got fired.the opportunity to find out what his words are really worth in the great, undisciplined, unregulated blogospace of ideas.”

        Does the SBN Nats site need have any front-page talent?

        The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  8. the dogfather Jun 26,2009 4:24 pm

    I’m guessing this photo is getting a Lot more googly exposure than “Mistress Tootie Belle” ever anticipated.

    The meaning of life is not so much found, as it is Made. -- Opus
  9. monkeyball Jun 26,2009 5:16 pm
    you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
    • monkeyball Jun 26,2009 5:17 pm || Up

      And when Yglesias is on a roll, he’s good:

      If you want a usable nuclear weapon, you need to cut taxes on capital gains and marginal rates on high-income individuals. That will spur investment and innovation. Everyone knows that! After all, that’s why NASA had to fake the Moon landing.

      you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
      • mk Jun 26,2009 7:34 pm || Up

        Yglesias and mikeA are very similar in tone, diction, and approach to organizing/presenting arguments. If in the course of some future DLD mikeA ripped off his mask, Mission Impossible-style, to reveal Matt Yglesias’ face, I would register only mild surprise.

        • mikeA Jun 26,2009 7:37 pm || Up

          Would Yglesias start writing a snarky comment about your misuse of the word “diction” and then before posting look it up and realize it wasn’t misused at all?

          • mk Jun 26,2009 7:52 pm || Up

            No, he’d post the snark, with like four misspellings.

            Actually, the fact that your posts aren’t riddled with typos does kind of throw a wrench into my doppelganger theory.

            • mikeA Jun 26,2009 8:02 pm || Up

              I think if you go back and read anything I’ve written longer than a paragraph you’ll find a trove of typos.

              • monkeyball Jun 26,2009 9:02 pm || Up

                Yeah, but you make typos — Yglesias (and Ezra, as well) makes homonym-os.

                you better hope to God you don't show up in this little community, because you'll wish you had never come
        • mikeA Jun 26,2009 7:43 pm || Up

          Ripping off masks Mission Impossible style requires that there be more than one mask to rip off.

    • nevermoor Jun 26,2009 5:53 pm || Up

      acquire a pet chimp

      Now I get your love for “The King of Pop”

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
  10. mk Jun 26,2009 8:08 pm

    1. In other news, apparently hand-eye coordination is a key skill shared by successful major league baseball players:

    A group of movement researchers studied which fundamental action abilities were the best predictors of belly dancing skills in 1st-4th grade students and, in another study, in 5th and 6th grade students. Rhythmic coordination seems to be a key skill across most age groups.

    2. I don’t understand this notion that you can make up for a lack of range by having a good arm (via Korach, Gallego said that about Tulowitzki). I mean, if you don’t get to the ball, you don’t get to the ball, and wtf does your arm matter at that point? It’s like saying you can make up for terrible BO by belching the alphabet with extra gusto or successfully using “concatenate” in a sentence. The BO doesn’t go away. It’s still there. You still smell bad.

    3. Vince is upset that Cust is sriking out more recently. I’m like two stupid remarks away from trying to raise Bill King from the dead by cutting off one of my toes and/or sacrificing a chicken while chanting some kind of Oprah-approved “will to success” mantra. (maybe I need a better plan, but you get the point)

    • nevermoor Jun 27,2009 8:40 am || Up

      1. Does anyone think it’s strange that this study came out when MJ was in the news? I’m a little creeped out.

      2. It’s not quite that silly. If you use all of your range to get to a ball, you need a strong arm to make the throw. Someone else with more range could get to the ball and position themselves for an easier throw. That said, your point is right. I think the solution is to have good range and a good arm.

      3. :-)

      "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want"
    • batgirl Jun 27,2009 1:24 pm || Up

      Plan sounds totally sound to me.

      • batgirl Jun 27,2009 1:26 pm || Up

        Oh, except for the chicken part. I don’t think the chicken should have to pay for Vince’s sins.

  11. mk Jun 26,2009 8:26 pm

    Re: “When Brad Pitt says he’ll do your movie, 20 million dollars or not, he’s doing *you* a favor.”

    Is there actually a solid correlation between revenue generation/profit and the presence of a “star”? I vaguely remember a Gladwell anecdote about how star-driven movies aren’t nearly the guarantors of success they are commonly thought to be. And if Gladwell said it, you know it’s true (and clever! and counterintuitive!).

    • Poppy Jun 27,2009 1:50 pm || Up

      I was or am some combination of annoyed and appalled by the “Moneyball” movie, regardless of who writes or directs it. But I’d see it anyway if it had Brad Pitt in it, because I’m not appalled enough to stay away entirely if I have one good enough reason to attend. And I’m sure I’m not alone. The real question is whether Brad Pitt’s presence would attract enough “Moneyball”-the-movie haters (like me) to offset the number of people who wouldn’t see the movie precisely because it had Brad Pitt in it. It’s a weak and untimely movie idea, so I think it would be pretty close.

      There's a wild thing in the woolshed and it's keeping me awake at night.
  12. Leopold Bloom Jun 26,2009 8:47 pm

    You’ve been hit by a smooth criminal.

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