108 isn’t bad if the low is 68, which I doubt it would be in that part of the country.
\"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
I just looked at the probable pitchers for this series. We’re seriously throwing Ross, Griffin, Milone, and Blackley for a four game series against Texas?
Plus, the A’s should score some runs. I’m thinking split.
\"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
I know he’s likely a short-timer here overall but there’s a part of me that’s very happy to see him finally pitching with a bit of success in the bigs. I’ve seen him in the minors before and he seemed like a decent guy but I guess he’s had a lot of injury (and performance, obviously) issues.
can’t they just drive him out into the country and ditch him?
\"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
They’d probably get more for him that way, if they stopped for a milkshake on the way back. But what if he has a dog’s ability to find his way home again?
I just watched All A’s, which I usually don’t bother with. I should. It’s a good show. This edition had a nice little piece with Reddick visiting science fair kids and a bunch of Raiders players trying to reorient themselves to the baseball layout.
\"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
I wanna watch A’s After Dark, where Josh Reddick shows us his mouthpiece collection and freezer full of obscure Canadian branded popsicles, and Cespedes tries stripping at a Ladies’ Night in some seedy club in Stockton.
\"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
I dropped a small tempered glass bowl on the kitchen floor this morning and was just amazed at how many pieces it broke into, and how far they scattered. Thought I’d got them all by sweeping. I just found another shard – by stepping on it, of course. Now I think I’ll vacuum to find any missing bits, then mop up the bloodstains.
I was surprised at how much blood came out of a tiny and shallow cut. It stopped pretty quickly, though. It’s really reminding me to think about if there were so many pieces from one smallish bowl, how much more would be on the floor after everything breakable in the kitchen fell down during a quake. I hate wearing shoes, so I usually take them off by the front door, but I really need to be sure I have some under my bed as we’re all supposed to do.
You should definitely vacuum the entire area, even if it’s farther than you think a shard would travel. If it’s with the drop spot’s line of sight, vacuum.
It was a perfectly reasonable hypothesis, given the percentage of American households that have carpet in them. I have no idea what that percentage is, of course….
I’m lazy. And when I got Gardassil, I lost use of my arm for almost a week which… is not an option in my line of work. So I want to time my tetanus shot properly, which. Again. Lazy.
Maybe the law-talking guys here can correct me, but from what I remember from an old project, copyright is for intellectual property on a general level, trademarks are for distinguishing products/slogans/logos that are associated with specific entities.
And facetiousness will not be tolerated here. Please keep it to yourself, or use where it’s appropriate and accepted. Like on funeral home message board, or HH.
\"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
meh. she’s wearing a padded shaper bra. Not even a hint of nipple.
\"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
I just watched the replays of the HR’s. What was Fosse talking about when he said Melvin didn’t have to say anything to Ron Washington, after Reddick’s HR?
\"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
\"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
I’m hosting poker tonight for the first time in about a month or so. It’s weird that I’m more concerned that the bathroom and kitchen are clean and that I look cute than I am about preparing for winning. I still want to win, though. It’s going to be harder without testosterone to fuel on. Poker was one of the few things that stuff was actually good for.
\"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
I just did a Google Image Search for the FEAR MECIR sign. There is no picture of it, but this is one of the first results:
I knew it had to be an AN thread, but it turned out it wasn’t even a gane thread. It was a lounge from last year. A lounge in which most of us are saying things we could be saying today, including
The actual REAL temperature one day this week was 108.
108!
by Jennifer on Aug 5, 2011 9:48 PM PDT up actions
But then I saw
I downloaded like 10 fonts today that I absolutely love.
Squee!
by pam5981 on Aug 5, 2011 9:56 PM PDT actions
Sot Ross ha pitched well at AAA this year. When Colon/McCarthy comes back, maybe move Ross to the pen and try to find spots where he can be successful and build his confidence.
That’s like asking if you prefer to pull off a band aid quickly or slowly. But I’d rather he work the lower part of the strike zone, if I have any say in the matter.
LoneStranger had taught his adorable 3-year-old that whenever he saw a picture of Lincecum. “What do we say to Tim Lincecum, Hunter?” “GET A HAIWCUT, HIPPIE!”
\"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
not everybody can edit, just people who signed on prior to (I think) February 2010
\"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
Hmm… I thought it was the Save People from Weird Commenters act of 2010
\"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
\"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
and he would know, because he sneaks into the park and lovingly caresses it during the offseason.
\"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
PS. When I was in college I asked my roommate how he liked his steak cooked when we first moved in together. He told me well done, I told him that was not allowed in our house and he could have medium rare if he was lucky. Dude now eates it as raw as I do.
In play, run(s)! Talk dirty to me gamecast, talk dirty. - Nevermoor
Growing up, my dad was the only one in the family who ever ate steak, and he always had it well done. I’d try a bite and I never liked it. I thought I just didn’t care for steak. Then, one day in college, I ordered a NY strip med. rare (no idea why, I just did it), at Red Lobster of all places. It was actually delicious, and I then realized that my dad’s steaks were just overcooked. Then I met Ozzwife and she introduced me to ribeyes. My life has never been the same.
I think they’re more obsessed with bestiality. Of course, if you argue that it’s just part of a dead cow, than you can combine bestiality with necrophilia. And really, who doesn’t love that?
all i’m hearing when you guys say that it’s one war or another is that you people cook like ‘merukans.
you throw a bunch of briquettes into a parabola that concentrates the flame and only gives you a cooking window of about 5 minutes. the heat is so hot that if you barely touch it the outside cooks and if you leave it in a second longer it’s all dry.
but the fat doesn’t get a chance to go clear if you cook rare that way. (are you guys avoiding eating the fat when you cook that rare? now that would be an abomination.) and yes, the meat is ruined if you cook it all the way through, but gosh, there is something to be said about what heat does to the tenderness of meat…
you gotta slow it down and you’ll get every grade in the same steak, from a crust on the outside to clear fat that you can eat to a strata of “cooked” meat to layers of pink and red inside.
*i’m* AV. alex vause. put this loon in psych before she hurts someone.
I’d eat it straight up raw if it was guaranteed I wouldn’t get sick.
\"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
It was a classic case of him running his mouth on something that had nothing to do with him. He’s a jackass, plain and simple. I wish he’d shut his FKing mouth.
Wait a minute. First Gameday took away my badges. Now I’ve noticed that they no longer have each pitch’s “nasty factor.” It’s almost like they think made up crap might detract from the game itself.
Really? From what I understand of how it’s calculated, it seems like it gets derived from really small samples. Like for each hitter, they take all of his pitches seen and bin them according to location, pitch type, and velocity — so you end up with populations of like 0-5 in each bin — and then look at outcomes to decide how tough that pitch would be for the hitter. I can imagine that a post-facto analysis of the correlation might end up looking ok if you don’t take into account the fact that the NF values get built up over the season based on the pitches seen by each hitter, so the number of degrees-of-freedom < number of pitches seen.
Or, I might be completely wrong about how it is calculated...
Ok, that clarified the part I had wrong. I was thinking that Nasty Factor was calculated differently for each batter, i.e. Bobby Crosby is 0-for-a million on sliders down and away, so we’ll assign NF=100 to any sliders in that zone against Crosby.
But they are actually doing it for all hitters (probably splitting lefties and righties, though). That makes a lot more sense and also provides reasonable sample sizes.
Of course, we all know that my Bobby Crosby example is totally accurate.
Only 97? It was 108 in STL today, with temperatures dropping to a brisk 103 for the weekend.
108 isn’t bad if the low is 68, which I doubt it would be in that part of the country.
Oof. It’s in the 90s here. Thankfully the humidity has lifted, for now.
I just looked at the probable pitchers for this series. We’re seriously throwing Ross, Griffin, Milone, and Blackley for a four game series against Texas?
I dunno… A couple of those guys ain’t bad.
Plus, the A’s should score some runs. I’m thinking split.
You do understand that that’s 4 of the 5 guys in our rotation. Subbing the 5th guy probably doesn’t help us much.
I guess Melvin is pretty wise in keeping an extra reliever on the roster for now.
We’re throwing those guys four out of every five games at the moment, yes.
Blackley’s actually been pretty good this year.
I noticed in his stats at fangraphs that he’s throwing a lot harder than in his previous (very brief) stints in the majors.
I know he’s likely a short-timer here overall but there’s a part of me that’s very happy to see him finally pitching with a bit of success in the bigs. I’ve seen him in the minors before and he seemed like a decent guy but I guess he’s had a lot of injury (and performance, obviously) issues.
But they’re shopping FUUUU. So that’s good news.
shopping?
can’t they just drive him out into the country and ditch him?
They’d probably get more for him that way, if they stopped for a milkshake on the way back. But what if he has a dog’s ability to find his way home again?
To be fair, FUUUUUU probably should’ve been shopped from the moment the ink dried on his contract.
Or just not signed at all. Seriously, they always have plenty of in-house bullpen options.
I just watched All A’s, which I usually don’t bother with. I should. It’s a good show. This edition had a nice little piece with Reddick visiting science fair kids and a bunch of Raiders players trying to reorient themselves to the baseball layout.
The promos for Josh Reddick at Chabot Space and Science Center brought this to mind:
OMG, they turned Ned Colletti into a dog!
I wanna watch A’s After Dark, where Josh Reddick shows us his mouthpiece collection and freezer full of obscure Canadian branded popsicles, and Cespedes tries stripping at a Ladies’ Night in some seedy club in Stockton.
The Comcast Sports Gray Area of FK’s collective consciousness would be fun to watch.
Hm. I’m keeping my expectations low for this one.
Scientist, no. Home run hitter, yes!
Good boy, Josh!
Given that the Rangers are going to win today, I hope the damage is done by players relevant to my fantasy teams (Napoli, Andrus)
Ross is so bad that even Wash isn’t bunting with his number 2 hitter.
I dropped a small tempered glass bowl on the kitchen floor this morning and was just amazed at how many pieces it broke into, and how far they scattered. Thought I’d got them all by sweeping. I just found another shard – by stepping on it, of course. Now I think I’ll vacuum to find any missing bits, then mop up the bloodstains.
Oh shit, I hope you’re ok. Well, you’re obviously ok enough to FK about it.
I was surprised at how much blood came out of a tiny and shallow cut. It stopped pretty quickly, though. It’s really reminding me to think about if there were so many pieces from one smallish bowl, how much more would be on the floor after everything breakable in the kitchen fell down during a quake. I hate wearing shoes, so I usually take them off by the front door, but I really need to be sure I have some under my bed as we’re all supposed to do.
You should definitely vacuum the entire area, even if it’s farther than you think a shard would travel. If it’s with the drop spot’s line of sight, vacuum.
Might want to look into using duct tape too. Glass in carpet is no joke.
No carpet, just vinyl and wood in the adjoining room. But duct tape is good for everything!
Will it damage the finish on your wood floors?
Ah, read the thread LC
It was a perfectly reasonable hypothesis, given the percentage of American households that have carpet in them. I have no idea what that percentage is, of course….
Our home is tile and wood, although we do have a number of rugs as well.
Also, if there were an earthquake large enough to break everything in your kitchen, shards would be the least of your worries.
Well, yeah, but there’s no way to get out of the house (to turn off the gas, for example) without going through the kitchen.
Oh. Then yeah, keep some shoes under the bed.
Make sure your tetanus is up to date!
It is, from when my cat bit me last year.
This is what I need to do, so bad.
It’s been about 20 years since my last tetanus shot, and I work with rusty metal on a regular basis.
One of my bosses is convinced I died years ago and I’m a ghost.
Huh. It definitely sounds like you should be getting regular tetanus shots. They aren’t so bad, just a sore arm for one day…
I’m lazy. And when I got Gardassil, I lost use of my arm for almost a week which… is not an option in my line of work. So I want to time my tetanus shot properly, which. Again. Lazy.
Egads!
That’s how I find dogshit!
BRAWNDON!
Brawny!
ERMAHGERD DEREK NORRIS
Wow that was crushed!
WHICH ONE?!?!?!?!!!
Heh! Norris’s, but I suppose Pennington’s drive was “crushed” relative to Pennington’s usual drives.
Splashed into someone’s beer, I hope!
DINGERZ
I love the stunned silence of the Texas crowd.
The more Norris plays, the less I want Suzuki around. I didn’t know that was possible.
The Hatteberg Effectâ„¢
What’s the difference between trademark and copyright?
I’m waiting for the trademark to be approved.
No, I really don’t know.
Maybe the law-talking guys here can correct me, but from what I remember from an old project, copyright is for intellectual property on a general level, trademarks are for distinguishing products/slogans/logos that are associated with specific entities.
So much for being facetious tonight!
Ah.
And facetiousness will not be tolerated here. Please keep it to yourself, or use where it’s appropriate and accepted. Like on funeral home message board, or HH.
Damn it, banned again!
We’re FK. We don’t ban, we come to your house in the middle of the night and kill you. And by kill, I mean we mercilessly make fun of your haircut.
ANYTHING BUT THAT.
Then you must bring us… a shrubbery!
ARGH!
Suzuki plays the important role of Norris’ leg guard
Posey needed a Suzuki last year.
When was the last time our 8 and 9 batters went back to back?
’89?
Well played.
FKing jalapeno and blue cheese mac. FK yeah.
that sounds pretty damn good, doc.
It was so good, I ordered a side of it to go.
You know, Feldman is probably sitting in that dugout thinking, “FKing scouts said these guys can’t hit.”
Thank you, Amanda McCarthy.
She’s married to a woman now? Cool.
TExas is very progressive, didn’t you know?
i approve of the seethroughness of that shirt.
As do I.
meh. she’s wearing a padded shaper bra. Not even a hint of nipple.
I’ll take what I can get. When I was 12, that photo would’ve been guaranteed insta-boner.
My eyes would’ve probably still lingered too long there if I saw her in person.
That’s completely untrue in my case. There would be no “probably” about it.
Warriors take Harrison Barnes at #7! Fantastic for them that he dropped that far. I think Barnes is the best Carolina pro prospect in awhile.
I just watched the replays of the HR’s. What was Fosse talking about when he said Melvin didn’t have to say anything to Ron Washington, after Reddick’s HR?
I was very confused about that as well.
I’m guessing that Wash said something disparaging about Reddick?
I didn’t see/hear it, but I’d guess it’s about All-Star selections. Washington supposedly thinks he has too many OFers to take one from the A’s.
Well shit, I guess Parker will be the A’s rep, then.
Ya, Fosse means Melvin doesn’t have to say anything to convince Wash to put Reddick on the team; the home run speaks for itself.
Also, he has to pick someone from the A’s and Reddick is the best position player on the team.
I don’t even think Fosse know what he was talking about.
The sober Harry Carey.
Maybe that’s his problem.
Let’s send a few shots to the booth, see what happens.
are we winning yet?
oddly enough, yes.
BLOOM! When you’re here, we all win.
Which ones are we, again?
I’m hosting poker tonight for the first time in about a month or so. It’s weird that I’m more concerned that the bathroom and kitchen are clean and that I look cute than I am about preparing for winning. I still want to win, though. It’s going to be harder without testosterone to fuel on. Poker was one of the few things that stuff was actually good for.
That ominous feeling when the A’s don’t add on in Arlington….
… or anywhere else. I’d like to see a good, old-fashioned blowout tonight. A lead so big even FUUUU can’t blow it.
Mathematically impossible.
You’re prolly right.
You may indeed see a blowout but not the one you want…
I need to stop saying shit like that.
All sorts of bad jinxes.
I’m gonna get me a fantasy team with no A’s players on it.
But how could you hope to win without the might of Cliff Pennington?
I’m gonna pick up BoCro.
That ominous feeling when Tyson Ross is on the mound against a good-hitting team…
Are these SB’s on Ross, or Norris?
Ross. Norris’s throws weren’t impressive but both SBs were off of big jumps.
Thanks.
Wtf Weeks
Oh no, not Miller. Last time he pitched more like late-stage Jim Mecir.
Mecir had that one good year.
I just did a Google Image Search for the FEAR MECIR sign. There is no picture of it, but this is one of the first results:
I knew it had to be an AN thread, but it turned out it wasn’t even a gane thread. It was a lounge from last year. A lounge in which most of us are saying things we could be saying today, including
But then I saw
WE MISS YOU PAMCAKES.
:( I hate the way things transpired.
Without her or iglew, we have no one who could possibly squee over fonts.
I can try, but I never took typography. I’d be offering the squee of an amateur.
You gotta impress with your amateur squees before you can move onto pro squees
I’m gonna take my squeeing to America’s Got Talent.
NO one? what am i? chopped lhf tonic liver?
What happened with Pam? If it’s not too personal for me to ask. I miss her.
I was just meaning the whole AN thing. She chose not to make the jump to FK.
she was kinda gone before the migration
There were other things going on, like her move.
and some AFK issues.
Yes.
Part of it was that she became an NRAF just about the time of the second great AN-to-FK migration.
Doolittle, where art thou?
Sot Ross ha pitched well at AAA this year. When Colon/McCarthy comes back, maybe move Ross to the pen and try to find spots where he can be successful and build his confidence.
Is Miller trying to leave everything up?
would you rather he groove a bp fastball?
That’s like asking if you prefer to pull off a band aid quickly or slowly. But I’d rather he work the lower part of the strike zone, if I have any say in the matter.
Oh, we’re fucked.
Huh. I thought I’d enjoy being fucked a lot more than this.
we began that way
Loading the bases with nobody is always a great way to beat the Rangers. Or anyone else, for that matter.
Tim Lincecum says hi.
Tell him I said to fuck off.
I already told him to go get a haircut.
And a real job?
LoneStranger had taught his adorable 3-year-old that whenever he saw a picture of Lincecum. “What do we say to Tim Lincecum, Hunter?” “GET A HAIWCUT, HIPPIE!”
HA! Awesome.
(Marge Simpson grrrrr)
I wouldn’t like it if I thought he was trying to raise a
jack-booted thugRepublican, but I doubt that he is.Heh!
…I don’t even like children, but I totally love this.
Is it enough to keep you from consuming him?
Medium-well?
maybe.
Take him out!!! Norberto’s ready. Wtf Melvin you fking idiot.
Too late.
Unreal. I’m sorry for the bitching but a toddler would’ve been able to figure out the right move.
(╯°□°)╯︵ â”»â”â”»
Miller’s stay in the big leagues basically ended as soon as Melvin started bringing him in when the team is ahead.
did I miss the games where he was good and it seemed like a good idea to do that?
2-3 nights ago in Seattle CSNCA flashed a stat that Jim Miller had the 5th best ERA among AL relievers.
Fifth best before that game, 8th best before tonight, …
And only one run charged to him tonight.
Yes. Before the Seattle game, he had something like a 98% LOB rate despite a 4.60 xFIP.
Yeah, that was dumb.
LOL Comcast cut Kuiper off in mid-sentence, they were so anxious to get that ad in.
I’d like to think they were anxious to stop having to hear his voice.
the last time martin was up this inning the a’s had the lead
People are talking about the NBA draft and it’s like a foreign language to me.
To me, it’s more like a lullaby.
Yeah, it’s that too. A foreign-language lullaby.
It was a relief this morning to switch off the SCOTUS postgame analysis and turn over to the NBA Draft pregame analysis,
Ugh, the NBA bores me.
(and by analysis, I mean “guessing”)
Lead-off Brandons.
And now Derek the Beard/Derek the NOT SUZUKI…
The actual temperature today, without the heat index, was 104.
Take off some clothes.
It’s not that hot.
It will be if you get nekkid.
Well this game went to shit really quickly.
And trying to come back out of the shit.
It’s nice that there’s some fight left in them.
So I guess everyone left when Miller lost the lead?
I was out looking for some shrubbery.
Well, get on it.
Wherefrom?
It’s in Temescal! Around 40th and Telegraph IIRC.
Cool. Will look for it next time I’m over that way.
Now when I see the wider angle, I can see the red building in the back of the painting is the Temescal library by 51st and Telegraph.
I dislike not having Preview. Linky
Try ‘edit?’
not everybody can edit, just people who signed on prior to (I think) February 2010
Ah, the ol’ first mover advantage. See what all that resistance got you, m’dear? Assimilated anyway — but no edit for you!
since that is when I finally signed up, I like to think of it as the Ed Exclusion Act of 010
Hmm… I thought it was the Save People from Weird Commenters act of 2010
Ah, there you go. I was thinking 40th because of the BART station.
That is fantastic.
You win.
neat!
A’s games in Arlington have a certain sameness to them.
Two OF assists in one inning! Don’t see that too often.
Oh, that was hilarity.
Coco’s best throw of the season.
And 3 hits. I really hope there’s some team that wants him and is watching this game.
Holy crap – Coco almost misplayed that one, and ends up getting a DP.
What the hell, that cricket.
Heh, Fosse doesn’t like crickets.
But it looked gorgeous in 46 inches of high-definition pleasure!!
Yum.
Yeah, I bet if Chef Rodney served Ray some nice sauteed crickets, he’d eat them.
Or “Cribs” – the tasty new ice cream treat with extra crunchy protein inside?
brilliant!
7 innings in Arlington = more offense than 27 innings in Seattle
I kinda miss Seattle.
I miss it a lot right now.
The Ports are having a caption contest, and the entries so far really suck.
Only one fart joke?
That’s a shitty photo to try to caption.
Needs a cat.
Well yeah, it is. But the most of the attempts are boring.
Even “Christ what an asshole” doesn’t really work. And that always works.
I don’t even know why they’d use that photo to try to do a caption of.
Clearly chosen by someone who is new to the concept.
20Chapter9!Do the Rangers get this many infield hits against other teams?
vince says the grass is cut longer than most infields for the pitcher benefit
and he would know, because he sneaks into the park and lovingly caresses it during the offseason.
I hope the Reds score really soon. And a lot.
Long game is long.
Oh man excellent idea to bring in FU when were a run down and a game away from .500!!!
Glen and Ray like their meat well-done. That’s a shocker.
Is that a euphemism?
No, it’s a bit of Bourdain-derived food snobbery that was unkind of me to mention.
I’m no fan of Bourdain, but I detest steak cooked past medium rare.
I don’t like it for myself. But if other people like well-done meat, good for them.
It hurts me to see a good piece of meat ruined. Even worse is seeing someone in a fine dining restaurant ask for ketchup for their steak.
Sigh, total agreement.
I strongly endorse this statement,
Signed,
DFA
PS. When I was in college I asked my roommate how he liked his steak cooked when we first moved in together. He told me well done, I told him that was not allowed in our house and he could have medium rare if he was lucky. Dude now eates it as raw as I do.
Growing up, my dad was the only one in the family who ever ate steak, and he always had it well done. I’d try a bite and I never liked it. I thought I just didn’t care for steak. Then, one day in college, I ordered a NY strip med. rare (no idea why, I just did it), at Red Lobster of all places. It was actually delicious, and I then realized that my dad’s steaks were just overcooked. Then I met Ozzwife and she introduced me to ribeyes. My life has never been the same.
If it was legal to marry ribeyes I would… Im hoping that this is the slippery slope all those right wingnuts are talking about.
I think they’re more obsessed with bestiality. Of course, if you argue that it’s just part of a dead cow, than you can combine bestiality with necrophilia. And really, who doesn’t love that?
Yeah, but you don’t want to be arrested for spousal abuse. And the moment you ate her up you’d be in jail for sure.
Two words: bath salts.
“Honey, I think it’s time for us to… Spice… things up…”
“Salt” things up?
Honey can I baste you in rosemary garlic butter?
I have my steak medium or medium-well.
COME AT ME BRO.
Well sure, overcooked meat makes a nice accompaniment to overcooked boy band music.
Why do you believe that animals should have to suffer for such a tasteless death?
Thats fucking terrible. You destroy the quality of the meat by cooking it past medium rare.
/sniff I love it, even if it’s the sarcasm talking.
<3
The pinkish red of medium rare with just the slight pool of glorious blood is perfection itself.
too cooked for me. I want my meat to barely be warm in the middle. Like a bath you should have gotten out of 30 minutes ago.
all i’m hearing when you guys say that it’s one war or another is that you people cook like ‘merukans.
you throw a bunch of briquettes into a parabola that concentrates the flame and only gives you a cooking window of about 5 minutes. the heat is so hot that if you barely touch it the outside cooks and if you leave it in a second longer it’s all dry.
but the fat doesn’t get a chance to go clear if you cook rare that way. (are you guys avoiding eating the fat when you cook that rare? now that would be an abomination.) and yes, the meat is ruined if you cook it all the way through, but gosh, there is something to be said about what heat does to the tenderness of meat…
you gotta slow it down and you’ll get every grade in the same steak, from a crust on the outside to clear fat that you can eat to a strata of “cooked” meat to layers of pink and red inside.
*one way or another
Mmm… want.
1) A lot of places I’ve eaten have interpreted ‘medium rare’ as ‘rare’.
2) The texture of medium-rare steak freaks me out.
Maybe all the tetanus is affecting your taste buds
I’d eat it straight up raw if it was guaranteed I wouldn’t get sick.
Have you had carpaccio?
tartare ftw
Yeah. Just gotta kill of the bacteria on the outside and that’s cooked enough for me.
Woah woah woah how do you dislike Bourdain?
He’s arrogant and annoying.
If by arrogant you mean a bad ass mother fker and by annoying you mean AWESOME, then I agree!
I mean neither of those things, but I trust my dislike for him in no way affects your adoration.
i like my chefs douchie tho.
I prefer chefs with enough self-confidence that they don’t have to parade around pretending they have the biggest dick in the room.
Can you get on TV like that?
Probably not.
Did you see what he said about Paula Dean? It was fucking awesome.
It was a classic case of him running his mouth on something that had nothing to do with him. He’s a jackass, plain and simple. I wish he’d shut his FKing mouth.
Wait a minute. First Gameday took away my badges. Now I’ve noticed that they no longer have each pitch’s “nasty factor.” It’s almost like they think made up crap might detract from the game itself.
We don’t need no stinking badges.
Oh no. Wait. NF is still there. Wow, that was close.
I prefer to call it “skank factor”.
I like lizards, so I call it the “skink factor.”
Apparently it actually correlates fairly well to outcome.
I’ve never actually paid attention to it, because it serves no actual purpose in my life.
Really? From what I understand of how it’s calculated, it seems like it gets derived from really small samples. Like for each hitter, they take all of his pitches seen and bin them according to location, pitch type, and velocity — so you end up with populations of like 0-5 in each bin — and then look at outcomes to decide how tough that pitch would be for the hitter. I can imagine that a post-facto analysis of the correlation might end up looking ok if you don’t take into account the fact that the NF values get built up over the season based on the pitches seen by each hitter, so the number of degrees-of-freedom < number of pitches seen. Or, I might be completely wrong about how it is calculated...
ec did something about this last year.
Ok, that clarified the part I had wrong. I was thinking that Nasty Factor was calculated differently for each batter, i.e. Bobby Crosby is 0-for-a million on sliders down and away, so we’ll assign NF=100 to any sliders in that zone against Crosby.
But they are actually doing it for all hitters (probably splitting lefties and righties, though). That makes a lot more sense and also provides reasonable sample sizes.
Of course, we all know that my Bobby Crosby example is totally accurate.
It would be an interesting study to see how someone like Hamilton or Pujols has done against various ranges of nasty factors, though.
ohboyohboyohboyohboy…
yeah, after the first inning the Rangers decided they don’t want any part of Reddick. Now if only someone could drive him in…
Come on Theth!!
Aw theth…
That was an impressive at-bat.
The teASe is on.
teAthe?
That sucked.
That was an A+ teAse
I hate when that happens.
I’ll totally settle for a wild pitch
tag line!
So they’re saying Inge is due.
INGEteresting
For?
colonoscopy
[bartolo sighs dutifully and snaps the rubber gloves on.]
He’s such a team player.
We need to invoke BRANDON POWER
Sigh…
Theth chose a bad time to have his worst at bat of the year.
Grrrrr.
I am unable to tell the outcome of the game by the posts in this thread.
Rangers 7, A’s 6; tying run left on third, winning run on first.
Or more concisely: SUCKS
It’s easiest to just look for the “YAY! WINZ!” comments. If you don’t see something very much like that, the A’s lost.
In case you don’t Grill:
Carter up, Ross down.
So Cespedes will DH, Moss wil play 1B, and Carter will.. rot on the bench again?