Let’s just talk (tawk?) it out tonight. And don’t forget to try on your Thundershirt to prepare for tomorrow’s inevitable victory and postgame fireworks.
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Can I have $5?
No, but you can borrow it at negative rates.
In that case I’d like $1B please.
I would, but you’d just piss it all away on something stupid.
… like 100 sessions with her
Boobs.
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So.
I’ve waited my whole life, but they’ve finally made a movie just for me.
Oh, Magic Mike. I WAITED FOR SO LONG.
I saw a preview for it.
It’s basically Showgirls but flip flopped, right?
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Heh. I guess this reply-jinx goes to show that this is the kind of thing that Hollywood likes to remake every once and a while.
And with a plot.
And, y’know, good.
So it’s Flashdance, but with Channing Tatum? (That’s the impression I got from the commercials on TV, anyway)
Just another flick that objectifies men and places us on a pedestal like a piece of meat.
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:)
Testicles.
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[Nods approvingly]
He annoys the fuck out of me for some reason. Oh, and he can’t act. But I’m not sure that’s related.
I don’t think anyone cares about his acting in this movie.
Based on his career, I’d say neither does Hollywood on any of his films.
I keep confusing him with Tatum O’Neal. I’m bad with names.
Huh. I thought Channing Tatum was a chick.
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I’m also bad with gender pronouns.
I keep confusing him with Stockard Channing.
I keep confusing zie with Stockard Carol Channing Tatum O’Neal
Oh, if only they would make a movie starring Carol Channing as a stripper…
She’s still alive, isn’t she?
I always seem to read that as Stockyard Channing.
That would be a terribly unfortunate name.
the channing part is unfortunate enough. i can’t help think of a turkey baster/noodles’ dad every time i hear it.
His acting is less-terrible in this movie than others.
It’s actually based on his time spent as a stripper. It’s about LIFE.
And directed by Soderbergh!
If I hear one more fucking person talk about 50 Shades of Gray, I am going on a rampage.
Before you do that, I highly recommend @50shedsofgrey on the Tweeter for a few lulz.
It’s too late for laughs. I am sick of sexless old hags talking like this is the best thing since sliced fucking bread.
“Oh, you must read it.”
“Fuck. No.”
“Why?”
“Because 1) I have standards, 2) I have been reading fucking Med-Surg textbooks for the last fucking nine months. I don’t want to read shit! I want someone to rub my feet and feed me pineapple while I lounge in a pool and listen to music.”
“But it’s sooooo hot.”
“Fuck off.”
Now if some hot son of a bitch comes up to me and says, “Jen. Please. I want to read you 50 Shades of Gray as we cuddle in bed,” I might think about it.
Jen. Please.
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I said hot.
Oh, my bad.
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That was gloriously cold and it made me love you even more.
Jen. Please.
She said hot.
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No, the correct funny answer would be “she said ‘son of a bitch’.”
good one, Bing.
How about if a not-terribly-ugly son of a bitch asks you to cuddle in bed and do crossword puzzles?
comment attempt 1= BRAIN ASPLODED!
comment attempt 2= the GIF… you know the one… we don’t need to see it…
comment attempt 3= The protagonist has little more self-respect than “O”
comment attempt 4 = I SOOOOOOOO much prefer the Marketplace series by Laura Antoniou, because there’s a lot of empowerment AND deeper dehumanization and lots of LGBTQness even though there’s a lot of straight shit going down too. Plus, she’s the dyke spittin’ image of Joe Maddon. Image search her if you want; You can’t make this stuff up!
comment attempt revision 4.1 clarification: I don’t give a crap about 50 shades of off-vanilla enough to bother with it.
I had a feeling that this would be your reaction.
I had seen a few people talking about it and tried to look it up. I found a book called “Shades of Grey” about a future society where social class is determined by ones ability to see colors. I thought that was cool.
Then I found out everyone else was talking about Twilight fan fiction crap and I set phasers to “ignore”.
It’s just the same old BDSM-lite patriarchal bullshit that tends to re-emerge from time to time. Leave the patriarchal bullshit to the leathermen.
I heard that the author of “Shades of Grey” had a book tour recently and had lots and lots of people show up expecting something else.
I’m sure if he ever tries to do anything with his book from here on out that will be the result.
I thought she was talking about this at first. I heard the artist interviewed and thought it was kind of interesting.
My friend found out a few weeks ago that her 10 year old’s summer reading list included “Shades of Gray,” and thought the school wanted her daughter to read porn.
I’m pretty sure Clayton Kershaw wrapped up the “nastiest pitch of the year” award with this.
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That made me LOL.
Holy shit.
Josh Reddick HR total after tonight: 19
ENTIRE RED SOX STARTING OUTFIELD TOTAL AFTER TONIGHT: 15
Fuck yeah.
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That is kinda awesome.
But they got to have Bailey on their DL
Just wait till Sweeney finds his power stroke, though.
So I had to file a missing persons report on my dad last week. He disappeared for 5 days.
He finally came home Friday and admitted to me he has been driving around his drug dealing friends so they can sell. He also claims he was held by the Bulldogs for 3 days. But now he is stopping and will never do it again.
I’ve tried for too long to help and he will not admit he has a problem and is 1 too stubborn to let us help and 2 too lucid for any agencies to let me just take on his affairs. So I am having to do the toughest thing I have done: he is out of my life until he is willing to let me and our family really help him.
I feel like an ass and I want to crawl into a bottle. But at the same time it is a relief to not be watching the news worried that he is the next breaking story.
Is it meth? Cuz there’s no stopping that, they have to find their bottom and hit it and nothing you say or do will even register with them cuz the shit takes them over like a Body Snatcher.
At any rate, hang in there even though I know it must be really tough right now. I hope your dad makes it through and can get sober and stay that way, for his sake and yours too.
Yeah its meth. There of course is also the huge back story of him not being able to deal with his sexuality, his addictive personality, and the fact that hes 70.
But thank you. I hope every night he hits bottom, and every day I am amazed that we arent there already..
Seconding nobody’s comment, hang in there. You’re doing the right thing by drawing a line and not enabling his behavior.
I don’t know if it would be of any help, but I wonder if your local Al-Anon chapter has any resources you could look into — for yourself and for your dad.
Aw shit. That sucks.
Don’t beat yourself up too much about it, tho. You can’t support someone behaving like that.
Whoa, man, that’s rough. Hang in there.
Yowza … sorry to hear that. And as others have said, I think you have to draw a line for your sake and his.
Yikes. Sounds like you’re doing the right thing, as hard as that thing may be to do.
I think that one of the hardest (but necessary) things to do is to cut ties with a person who you love, but who’s behavior is toxic.
Sounds like it’s been a rough time of late for many here at FK.
That’s really horrible. What a tough decision to have to make. Trust in yourself, though, that you made the right call.
Ugh. Sorry to hear it, but I think you’re doing what you have to in this case.
Wow. Sorry you’re having to deal with this.
Thanks everyone. Reassurances do help. I know I’m doing what needs to be done, but you still stop and say “that was the guy who took me to my first ballgame, etc”.
And I will say there have been light moments. We had to forcibly get him out of the place he was living because he was acting like a danger to himself and his roommate. This then resulted in an hour long process of trying to gather up immediate necessities (you haven’t been home in five days, why do you now need your mock turtleneck?) and another hour looking for the keys to his car so he could leave. If I ever get to write a movie, sitcom, etc I will be using some of it for an episode..
thinking of you. {{{{{5Aces}}}}}
Yeah–hang in there. Not much I can say but I’m sorry you’re going through this and it sounds like you’re doing just the right thing.
You have to do what is going to make you happy in the long run and sometimes that hurts. It sucks and Im sorry.
Can I please share with you all some of the ridiculousness that I saw at the Coliseum tonight, on what was otherwise a great night to be an A’s fan. It was great to see thousands of Red Sox fans just sitting on there hands with nothing to cheer about!
So the family that was sitting in front of me, Mom, Dad and two boys under the age of 11. The parents were wearing Red Sox shirts and SF Giants hats and the kids were wearing Red Sox Shirts and Red Sox Hats. Red Sox fans in the crowd started giving them shit about wearing Red Sox shirts and Giants hats ( I asked the usher to have them removed, you cant possibly be a fan of the two most obnoxious teams in MLB, that cant be allowed can it?). One Red Sox fan asked them what the hell they were doing rooting for the Red Sox and The Giants. Here is there explanation (I still cant believe that I heard this), “See, we were big Giants fans before and since Cody Ross was one of the greatest players to ever play for SF, we became huge Cody Ross fans, when he left and went to the Red Sox we became big Red Sox fans because of him, but we still like the Giants too.” I started laughing, really hard, and some of the Red Sox fans were looking ta them like they were crazy. Red Sox fans continued to give them shit about the hats, so they did what any reasonable person would do, they traded hats with there F’n kids, they put the Red Sox hats on and made the kids were the Giants hats since people werent as apt to give little kids crap. Unbelieveable!
Then I see a teenage boy wearing an A’s hat and a NY Giants (NFL) sweatshirt, ok yes I admit very weird combination of teams. This Red Sox fan walks up to him and says, “Why are you a Yankees fan?” The kid looks at him and says, “Im not a Yankees fan, Im an A’s fan!” The red sox fan replies, “Then why are you wearing a Yankees shirt?” and then he walks away, ummm WTF?
But hey, nice win by the boys in the Green and Gold!! I hope that some of you are coming out to the game tomorrow night, we will do Hot chocolate and coffee in the parking lot for the fireworks show!
We were pleased that they weren’t as numerous as in prior years — maybe summering on the Vinyahd? I expect an onslaught tonight, though, as there will be bright shiny things on display, and loud noises.
Odd people.
Yeah, but maybe not necessarily anything worse than naive…
Example: sunny side up religious family not interested in sports hate… kids got into baseball with the 2010WS hoopla and irrationally latched on to Cody Ross. Kids started following baseball… learned Ross was traded and decided to split allegiances… parents went along because they want to encourage their childrens’ hobbies, yet are naive about how most other fans take the game more seriously and discourage such fleeting rooting interests.
Full Disclosure: After McGwire was traded, my brother and I bought Cardinals hats and went to the first game he played at Candlestick. We didn’t also wear A’s jerseys though.
mcgwire>>>>>>>>>>>>>cody ross
Did McGwire ever have a .294/.390/.686 post season?
’89: .343/.378/.486
which only proves mike’s point, that mcg>>>cr, because he was great AND modest, doing what was necessary to get the ring without needing to show off too much on top.
WHO THE HELL IS MIKE!?!?!?
which reminds me. is there a name for the shirt or the art or the style for those white office shirts that kids used to make big ole ballpoint pen drawings on the backs of? like these on the edges of the cover. but not specifically suicidal/mexican style. i remember waster youth kids had them too. (or was it reagan youth?)
i don’t know. that is a good question.
PS I just drove .7 mile to a park
hope you got to really stretch your legs once you got there.
That’s a significantly worse line (though a good one).
Ross had a .453 wOBA (!!!!)
If you want to say Ross is a bad player, and the Sox were stupid to sign him, I completely agree. If you want to say a Giants fan is stupid to think of him as a great Giants star, I think you’re way wrong. The Giants have certainly had better players, but the SF Giants have only won it all once, and they did it with an objectively bad team featuring a temporarily-unstoppable Cody Ross. If that doesn’t earn him a plaque on the stadium once he retires, the Giants are crazy.
dan.johnson. greatest. ray.ever.
damn skippy!
oh, so now it’s mcguire’s fault that the A’s had won 3 titles already in oakland and he couldn’t be the under-sung lone star.
(please pay no attention to me. i’m giddy with leaving the office.)
Well, it’s McGuire’s fault that he had a HOF-worthy career either way. And a lot of help from his friends in 1989.
W. Not u.
so troo.
Agreed. Much like Gene Tenace.
If he did that over 10 or 15 games in the regular season, we’d just call it a hot streak. Because he happened to get lucky in October, we should call him a hero? Sorry, but I just don’t agree.
We aren’t Giants fans. We don’t have to care.
Again, if Long had done that in 2002 I would absolutely think of him as an A’s hero deserving of some recognition. Heck, I think of him a bit that way for making one good catch.
I just don’t see it that way. I don’t think of John Taylor as one of the greatest 49ers of all time just because he caught the winning TD in the Super Bowl (although he was a hell of a football player).
Rickey hit .400/.609/1.000 in the 1989 ALCS, and .474/.524/.895 in the WS. (b-r does not give the combined total, and I am too lazy to do it myself.)
Edit: .441/.558/.941, per ESPN.
And Rickey is a great Athletic!
The rest of Rickey’s career was slightly better than the rest of Cody Ross’s career.
He was better before, during, and after.
Like this kid with 100 SB in A ball? At that age, Rickey stole 100 in MLB.
I just meant that Rickey is one of the greatest A’s ever because of the totality of his career. Ross just happened to get lucky, and got lucky about when he got lucky.
And as a result, he’s a big part of SF giants lore
As usual, cut Rickey in two and you’ve still got two outstanding players.
Psh. No one likes a .200/.300/.500 hitter
What does religion have to do with it? I became an A’s fan primarily because of Rickey. I didn’t become a Yankees fan when he got traded the first time, but I certainly could’ve gone that way. Sports fandom in youth can be due to hero worship or geographic pride or team colors or you think the teams name is funny or whatever.
As a parent, I’m certainly encouraging my kids to be A’s fans, but since my son is a contrary little snot at age 5, he’ll say he is an Angels/Yankees/Mariners fan just because he knows I don’t like those teams and thinks it’s funny. If he ends up that way, so be it. I’m certainly never going to discourage him from being his own person.
Religion doesn’t necessarily have to do anything with it. I was just using it as a synonym for someone isolated enough from mainstream popular and/or sports culture not to understand basic unwritten fandom rules.
I was a naive sports kid. My parents didn’t give a rat’s ass about sports. They helped out with Little League, but drew the line at taking me to any pro games. The first A’s game I went to (LCF bleachers, 1989), I was shocked and dismayed that fans heckled the opposition so harshly and rudely. It reminded me of the bullying I had to endure at school before I learned how to fight. The blind partisanship seemed very fascist and sinister to me.
Yeah, I agree with this. My daughter likes 1) Barry Zito; and 2) an 11 year old boy who is a Giants fan. If she wants to go to an SFGs game with her “boyfriend” wearing an A’s Zito jersey and a Giants hat, well, good for her.
I wouldn’t be seen in such garb, but I’m not imposing my world view on her, no matter how right I am.
Taglined.
Clearly the quickest way to solve this problem is to play her some of Barry’s music.
But… but… he’s just the boy next door.
Stabbin’ Cabin.
yeah, living in sf is tough to keep the giants away from the kids. they know who they are though.
I guess my biggest concern is if they really called Ross “one of the best players EVER for the giants”. If they really said anything halfway close to that they need to just be removed from the stadium, pure and simple.
Yes, this is indeed what they said….
…which they proudly learnt from the other partisans’ call-and-response.
Well…that’s the Bay Area for you.
Also, NY Giants crap has no business being anywhere outside the Tristate Area, unless you are cruising for a bruising.
Bandwagon moron.
FK the San Francisco, New York, AND Yomiuri Giants.
The ones in “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe” are ok, though. They were on Aslan’s side.
and the Chicago American Giants were pretty badass too.
I had to look them up. I thought you were calling Chicagoans fat.
Who’s avatar is Rube Foster? Someone here’s reppin’ the CAG…
I never really notice avatars, honestly.
brian.only, maybe?
Cody Ross was one of the greatest Giants ever? I mean, I know they don’t have as many great players in their history as, say the A’s, but still. Cody Ross?
I mean… he did singlehandedly win them their first SF-based championship.
It isn’t that silly.
He had a nice postseason, sure. But he’s not a particularly good player.
Sure, but if Terrence Long had done a Babe Ruth impression and won the A’s the series in 2002 I would remember him as a great Athletic.
I guess. Scott Brosius Syndrome. Or Marco Scutaro, minus the postseason.
I dunno. He got lucky at the right time.
Kids have silly reasons for what/who they like sometimes.
I remember liking this one scrub the A’s used to have, mostly because I had about thirteen copies of his 1987 Topps card (compared to 7 or 8 copies of other common pack filler), so I rooted for him even though he was pretty terrible.
Well, it was the parents who where big Cody Ross fans. But yeah, kids have no rhyme or reason to what they like. I became and A’s fan because I liked Dwayne Murphy.
that’s reasonable enough.
I found a Dwayne Murphy pin in a goofy vintage clothing shop in Tokyo a while back. I wonder what the hell I did with it — it’s probably in storage somewhere.
Feel free to sell it to me.
You got it, boss.
Just know that I don’t think you can build the cost of your plane ticket into your price.
I want a Dwayne Murphy Bobble-hat. When you shake it his lip pops off.
WANT
Of course, Murph was far better than Ross could ever dream of being.
Well yeah, that’s true. I became a Dwayne Murphy fan because of a commercial for the A’s in which he made a diving catch.
I think you underestimate how great Ross dreams of being.
Yeah – baseball cards are another basis for fandom. I had a shitload of Amos Otis cards growing up, so I always kind of rooted for him.
My best friend decided that he liked catchers and, in particular, Gary Carter in the early 80s, so ended up an Expos fan. However, since his parents weren’t much for baseball and my father was, he ended up going to A’s games with me and even eventually got the A’s cap.
Tony Bernazard? Ron Cey? ‘Scrub” leads me to believe it wasn’t some Erik Plunk type pitcher..
In his early years in the big leagues Mike Gallego was the definition of a “scrub”. Jackie Moore would not let the guy bat. In his rookie year, 1985, Gallego was with the team the entire season, never DL’d or sent down, yet at the end of July he had a total of 11 plate appearances.
He was actually on the 1989 A’s. I had a shitload of his 1987 card.
I think you could probably stock a few teams worth of better giants than Cody Ross, and I even say that with a Gnats bias..
Maybe but you can’t tell that to a 6 year old who loves the guy
What about the 6 year old’s parents?
Isn’t this a bit like saying that Dubya was one of the greatest presidents ever because he created the largest marine reserve in the world?
And thats it-reading it it sure sounds like the parents said it.
I know this is nit picky snobbish dick talk, but when my kids believe something that is clearly insane I will address it as such with other adults. “Well my daughter thinks Justin Beiber is the be-all and end all and I just happened to have $150 per ticket sitting around..” But you would never hear me just leave it out there that “we” thought something that clearly ‘I” didnt believe.
Plus, the parents were the ones wearing Giants garb, not the kids.
And there’s no reason to either pretend that your child’s beliefs are your own, or that your beliefs are theirs. They are their own people.
i really like go diego go
I hate children and everything pertaining to them. I think the best way to solve world hunger is to eat everyone under the age of 21.
Added bonus: we’d have to have way, way more sex to repopulate the species.
You and I? Um, I’m not sure that’s how procreation works.
YOURE DOING IT WRONG!!!
Is it wrong to cook up some sausage in bacon grease?
If it is, I don’t wanna be right.
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So no worries there then ;-)
I ended up going with a dry non-stick pan, and then I’ll cook my eggs in the sausage drippings.
I think you mean ‘delicious’.
I’ll try it tomorrow. In fact, I may even cook up some bacon, cook the sausage in bacon grease, and then wrap the sausage in bacon. I sure hope they have wifi at the hospital, so I can let you all know how it turned out.
if you’re gonna bacon up your sausage, you gotta butter that bacon first.
Even I got a little grossed out at that concept.
We had deep-fried bacon at the Alameda County Fair last week. It was good.
Did you see the deep fried watermelon?
They were out of it at the stand we went to. Everyone in my party got the deep-fried pineapple upside-down cake, which was mostly pineapple with a small amount of cake batter around it to make it possible to deep-fry it, and a bunch of whipped cream and brown sugar sauce.
I’ve been wondering if I could/should attempt to make bacon confit.
Have you made bacon jam?
No, not yet.
i used to make oven fried chicken and each piece was wrapped in bacon. but then i got unemployed and lost all that weight.
I want to make that.
anybody?? anybody???
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So this is good?
I dunno?
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Yeah, I linked to it in the gt yesterday. Information gleaned so far: He’s an OF, he’s Dominican, we’ll probably never hear about him ever again
Ynoa the Second?
Yay!!!!!!
We gave $450K to a child I’ve never heard of!!!!!
See, and you could have given me 10M, but… NOOOOOOO
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to mike v:
M, M, M, M, M, M, M, M, M, M.
sincerely
ed
Reminds me of the old Sesame Street gag:
1Q
2Q
3Q
4Q
5Q
6Q
7Q
8Q
9Q
10Q
You’re welcome
What is that, about 1/10 what they spent on Ynoa?
Ya, they’re not as generous with Dominican children as they used to be
There’s always one guy that ruins it for everyone else.
They could have sent me that money. Fk tards.
I was just about to post this. DFA’d?
Traded for Cody Ross?
Greatest Giant/Red Sock/Marlin/etc EVER!!
GREATEST. GIANT. EVER.
this has reached meme territory and i’m fine with it.
I LOL’d, though I wouldn’t if that actually happened.
Might just be DL for Fuentes for all we know yet.
That would be ok too. Let him rest for a couple of weeks, rehab in the minors and dominate, and then see if anyone wants him.
But I already popped the champagne I’ve been saving for his release.
He’s down to exactly $3M owed which is about the point where the A’s would consider eating. 50% of $5M for 2012 and $0.5M buyout for 2013.
If that’s true, I think tomorrow should be declared a national holiday.
Well played.
Part of me wants to believe that A’s management planned this knowing that there’ll be fireworks at the Coliseum tonight.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
This is the first time in probably 6-7 years that I have worked the week of the 4th of July. My mind knows this and has taken the day off.
I have Sousa playing on the tablet and will shortly be finding out when/if Yankee Doodle Dandy and the Musin Man are playing today/tomorrow.
The Music Man was on Turner Classic Movies on Sunday afternoon. I hadn’t watched it in a long time.
so, i’ve been meaning to ask… do we get 2 days off? i know it’s irrational that we would, but somehow it seems cheap to only get a 1 day weekend even if in the middle of the week.
I believe tomorrow is the only postal/banking holiday.
:(
It’s crap is what it is. The only silver lining I’ve found is most of our “leaders” are either taking the whole week off or checking out starting today. So I can hide here and get some work done and then take a week off when everyone else is in and they want to waste my time in meetings, etc.
yeah, i haven’t done any work all day either.
Next year when July 4 is on a Thursday, American slackitude is sure to get many of us a four day weekend.
WOOT!
WOOT!
A few hours early but…
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This calls for a celebratory Pepsi Throwback. Watch out Park Circle, I’m going crazy tonight!
I’m pretending instead of “Woo Hoo?” they’re singing “F UUUUU!”
So Bring your Balfour, and Doolittle too
We gonna celebrate no Fuentes with you, come on now..
Yay!!!
I liked that Fuentes was an A’s fan and all, but still.
I’d like to see him replace Greg Cadaret on the postgame show.
Is Cadaret not good?
no, he is not.
Also, I’d like to take this opportunity to recognize and thank Josh Willingham, both for his fine work with the Athletics in 2011 and for putting a whole bunch of nails in Fuentes’ coffin back at Target Field.
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
Dear Brian Fuentes, thanks for getting rid of Geren. That was cool. And the whole ‘setting the locker room on fire’ thing was worth a LOL. I’m sure you’re a nice dude, please consider career choices such as ‘bullpen coach’ or ‘notpitcher’.
That said…. CEEEEEEEEEEEEEELEEEEEEEEEBRAAAAAAAAAAAATE GOOD TIMES, C’MON.
Winning reaction
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A MUCH better choice, even if it’s overdone:
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Inspired by Sean Doolittle, Fuentes will now try converting into a slugging first baseman.
[One year later…]
Yeah… he still sucks ass.
You say that… there’s a chance he’ll be the best 1B in the A’s system.
seems like the last chance to casually drop that fuentes de albondigas means serving meatballs on platters idea i’ve been working with.
whoa. unintentional yet decent garden path sentence there.
The reaction to all of this made me laugh way too hard. I love it.
A good start.
what do you call 1 a’s reliver D’dFA?
So far I’ve seen tweets from people suggesting he should be picked up by the Twins, Mets, Phillies. Cardinals, and Cleveland. Not clear whether these are fans of the teams in question or their opponents.
heh
What does it say about one’s favorite team when the release of a crappy relief pitcher is cause for so much joy? You’d think they just traded for Votto or something.
10 million dollars for -.3 WAR…I can’t think of a more unproductive Beane era signing.
Wow. I knew he was bad, but didn’t realize he was THAT bad.
It’s hard to imagine unless you’ve seen the hard numbers.
Well, I’ve also been watching a lot less A’s baseball in the last year and a half.
I didn’t realize he was that GOOD!
I would have guessed at least -1 WAR for all the pain he put us through.
One of Beane’s early FA signings was Omar Olivares for 2 years/$8M prior to the 2000 season. He had a -0.7 WAR year for the A’s in 2000, and then though the A’s dumped him on Pittsburgh for his -1.7 WAR 2001 season I think Oakland had to pay some of his 2001 salary.
I thought we traded for him with the Angels with Valarde. Or am I thinking of someone else?
He was originally acquired by Beane in the trade with Anaheim in July 1999 but was a free agent at the end of that season. Beane didn’t re-sign him until that January.
Yeah, but those teams were good.
Ah I was using fWAR. FUUUU looks even worse with BBref WAR (-.7 WAR) while Olivares looks alot better with fWAR (.9 WAR).
That’s pretty awful… but it’s still a bit odd to get this excited over the exit of someone who probably wouldn’t have pitched more than 50 innings.
Never try to burp while actively pouring soda down your throat.
LOL
How do you post a video?
I just copy the youtube link. But I think there are better ways to do it. Mine always end up to large..
Hmm, not working for me I think.
I copied the embedded info.
Ooh, that worked. Thanks!
You can copy and directly paste the youtube link or you could use the embed link feature that youtube has. That’s preferable because you can choose the size and whatnot.
That worked for me. Thanks!
Big BART delays if anyone’s heading out. Medical emergency at Embarcadero.
Service restored at 3:30 … “expect residual delays”
They’re going to try to get everything back in shape for “the evening commute”, but I’m sure half the people on the trains were trying to start the evening commute at 2:30 today.
Aww.
That is sweet.
That’s very sweet.
I think there’s some high fructose corn syrup dripping from his beard.
…Always get your manager fired
That made me laugh, doc.
8 runs in 3.1 innings today for little Timmy Lincecum. My heart weeps for his poor suffering father.
Don’t blame me, I voted for kontos.
oops
If the Cespedes photo shoot as sampled below isn’t your cup of tea, you might enjoy this piece of wallpaper instead.
Yummy!
http://austin.craigslist.org/muc/3115741996.html
Texas Country Band Seeks Functioning Alcoholic to Hold Bass
Aim high, texas band, aim high.
Venturing over to the team’s official site, the new issue of A’s Magazine is out and hmmm, it’s not quite what I remembered.
As they say on the Danica Patrick commercials: For more UNRATED CONTENT visit OaklandAthletics.com.
I think you mean: the new issue of A’s Magazine is Out.
heh
The A’s decided to sell jeans.
WHOA.
He’s got nothing on the Brandons.
Who’s Fabio?
#lawyerjokes
I think we just had a practice fly over.
My Chicago bff saw The Amazing Spider-man last night. Apparently the Hearst Ice Falls is in there. Whoo!
WHOO! I wanted to go see that tonight, but it didn’t happen.
Don’t they remake the series on an increasingly faster and faster loop?
Just wait for next year’s reboot, or the three in 2014.
I think a LOTR reboot is long overdue.
We’ve been trying to see Prometheus for, like, two FKing weeks now.
Hi Ozzie! ♥
I might try to see that Friday night. The wife and her friends want to go see Magic Mike.
Eh.
Why they don’t just hire a male stripper is beyond me.
And HI LYNN!!! ♥
Higgs woooooooooooooooo!
Questions to the science-y types:
Is the Higgs Nobel-worthy?
If so, are the Fermilab and CERN announcements sufficient evidence for the next Nobel?
If so, who gets it among the various theorists (presumably Higgs himself if he can hold on) and chief experimentalists (but which projects – LHC, ATLAS, CMS, Tevatron, … )
Was Tuesday’s Fermilab announcement timely and appropriate or a Noble-share-seeking spoiler?
soo here is my question from a non sciencey type. WTF does this mean “Crucially, they will want to know whether it behaves like a mass-giving Higgs, and more specifically whether it behaves like the Higgs predicted in the standard model.” Its from the Nature article
As I understand it, “all” they’ve done so far is to determine that their data are consistent with seeing the Higgs (ie. they see a very heavy boson), but they have not determined if it is the single standard model Higgs, or one of a family of Higgses (eg. from supersymmetry), or some other entirely unexpected heavy boson.
They get the Nobel anyway, for saving the once-thundering herds of boson from extinction.
PS. this is full of win
sure is.
Bear up boson, never say die!
Don’t people usually get a Nobel for doing something about 25 years after the fact, though?
What is the difference between standard model and the very heavy.
I don’t really know the details, but this is my guess about the difference between the Standard Model Higgs and alternate possibilities:
The Higgs Field was proposed as a mechanism to give particles mass and is also a consequence of electro-weak symmetry breaking. So you write down a simple version of the theory, with a mexican hat potential, and then work out the masses for various particles. Of course, we know the mass pretty well for most fundamental particles, so that constrains the parameters in your theory. Now that you have the theory written down and you basically know all the parameters, you can just calculate what the mass of the Higgs boson should be.
My understanding is that the observed particle (125 GeV) falls near the low end of the range that you would predict from the simple theory. A “very heavy Higgs” would be something much heavier than the predicted range, and it would indicate that something was wrong with the theory (but never so wrong that some clever theorist can’t figure out a way around it!). Also, if the Higgs boson was a lot heavier (like more than 250 GeV), then it would have been harder for LHC to detect it.
Unless this leads to FTL travel and galactic domination this a colossal waste of time.
In the very heavy, we use a double-kick pedal.
asvd
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heh. I’mma gonna steal that.
You can do it like this too ~
lml,
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M
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|M|
/M\
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\m/(-_-)\m/
Thanks, and go As.
I like this one the best. But it makes me wish we had a letter in the shape of an l having sex with an m.
I think there’s one of those in Arabic.
He ain’t heavy, he’s my boson.
Another win.
All standard model Higgs bosons are very heavy, but not all very heavy bosons are standard model Higgs.
NPR this morning was blathering on about W-quarks and Z-quarks and stuff.
Basically, I learned that particle physicists don’t speak my language.
Hooray for BOSONS! Heavy bosons, Standard bosons, light bosons, All bosons — they make the world a better place!
Who stars in the sitcom Boson Buddies?
I’ve always thought a Boson would make a very good bosun.
he best news is, that we have safely found
our king and company; the next, our ship.
Yes on Nobel-worthy, but I have trouble figuring out who they are going to give it to. I guess the theorists, with the 2010 Sakurai Prize winners (Guralnik, Hagen, Kibble, Brout, Englert, Higgs) being a decent crib sheet.
I think that a Nobel for the experimental effort would be greatly deserved, but I have no idea how you pick people for that — Lederman got his prize “for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino”. But LHC+ATLAS+CMS is a way bigger effort than the particle accelerators of those days. My guess is that Fermilab would get left out of an experimental award, but I don’t have any real grounds for that claim.
I would say that the ATLAS/CMS result is sufficient evidence, but they also don’t move too fast on these prizes, so those significance will increase before anything is awarded.
Trouble is, with the Nobel you’ve got an upper limit of 3 recipients … so who do you pick?
Yeah, I have no idea.
My guess would be Higgs himself (if it is soon enough – he’s 83 already), Gianotti for ATLAS and Incandela for CMS.
What about me? I did the one, single thing necessary for all of this to happen. I stayed away.
I’m not sure how you and I aren’t shoo-ins for it, TBH.
Thanks, and go As.
IK,R?
Also, too: Colbert for the publicity
It sounds like you have a better idea than me of who are the big shots behind the detector efforts. Doesn’t it seem a little harsh to award people on the two particle detectors but no one on the accelerator? Or do we consider that more of an “engineering task”, not real science?
I think with ATLAS and CMS you’ve also got all of the analysis and science extraction, not just the detector, but I don’t know … it’s the limit of 3 that makes it tricky and presumably kills Fermilab’s chances of recognition, despite being a day ahead ;-)