This blog has been active for exactly a month now and we’ve gotten hundreds of emails asking for us to provide user profiles. We’ve gotten dozens and dozens of emails asking that we provide a way for our readers to publish content to the blog. We hear about FanPosts and Diaries and we’ve responded. We listened.
Each registered user has a profile page. Your latest comments are included and you can add your twitter feed there as well. You can also write your own blog entry. We’ve set up Unobstructed Views to be something that is often called a community blog. If you talk about how great Obstructed View is, you may even get your article promoted to the front page. We’ll have an RSS feed on the sidebar that links to all new articles on Unobstructed Views. There’s a link the menu to it as well as a link taking you directly to the page where you can manager your blog articles. The Unobstructed Views menu item up top also has links to your profile.
We hope you can take some time to publish your own articles. Doing so is relatively simple. Scroll over Unobstructed Views on the menu, click on New Article Or Manager Your Articles. If you do the latter, click New Blog. It’s rather straightforward. When you are done with your article and want to publish it, change Publish to yes. You’ll need to select one of the two categories. Access should be set to Public. Enter a title for your article and then add your article to the editor. There are some icons to help with formatting.
There are several links below the editor (Image, Page break, More, Jcomments On and Jcomments Off). If you need to upload an image, go ahead. I don’t know why you’d want a page break. More creates a link to Read More. If your article is really long, this can be useful. Ignore the Jcomments buttons. Comments are enabled by default.
When you’re done with your article, change publish to yes and then click Save at the bottom. To view your article on the site, click Unobstructed Views on the menu. Then go to twitter, facebook and other social networking sites you frequent and let everyone know. You should also call your family and friends and have them tell 10 people each.
If there’s something you’d like to discuss, post something on it. If there’s a news item about the Cubs or MLB that we haven’t touched on, write something about it. Doesn’t have to be much. There’s no minimum character nonsense.
There’s also a new login for the site. Gone is the bar at the top of the screen and at the top of the sidebar is a new login module. Same username/password and you can now also login using twitter or facebook if you don’t want to register for the site.
Comments
Here comes the wall…
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Wrong one, but fuck it.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Well I have a profile but I still can’t comment using it (dying laughing)
WaLi2Quote Reply
im going to wait until Berselius posts a massive research piece detailing how Soto’s BABIP will regress his VORP 2.0 , let it stand for 30 seconds and then bury it under 5 posts of Alien Porn
dylanjQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]im going to wait until Berselius posts a massive research piece detailing how Soto’s BABIP will regress his VORP 2.0 , let it stand for 30 seconds and then bury it under 5 posts of Alien Porn[/quote](dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
GBTSQuote Reply
I signed in via Twitter and Facebook and am wondering if every single comment will now post there. I’m trying to annoy everyone I know in as little time as possible. Here goes nothing.
AndCountingQuote Reply
Wait. There was a user named Fuck Fagets?
I call bullshit. (dying laughing)
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Damn. I knew it wouldn’t be that easy.
AndCountingQuote Reply
Test
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Suburban Kid]Wait. There was a user named Fuck Fagets?
I call bullshit. (dying laughing)[/quote]
I needed to fill some space.
No homo.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=AndCounting]I signed in via Twitter and Facebook and am wondering if every single comment will now post there. I’m trying to annoy everyone I know in as little time as possible. Here goes nothing.[/quote]
I don’t think it does, but maybe I’m wrong (thus my test post above).
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]Well I have a profile but I still can’t comment using it (dying laughing)[/quote]Is this a problem you only have at work? Can you login with facebook or twitter and post using that?
mb21Quote Reply
That wall brings a tear to my eye. Lots of good memories and good laughs.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=AndCounting]Damn. I knew it wouldn’t be that easy.[/quote](dying laughing) there may be some component to do that, but those are usually with the comment systems like Disqus and Livefyre.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Mish]I don’t think it does, but maybe I’m wrong (thus my test post above).[/quote]Yeah, my guess is it would probably share stuff if you post a UV entry.
AndCountingQuote Reply
The members online module is now active if you’re a nosy bastard
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21](dying laughing) there may be some component to do that, but those are usually with the comment systems like Disqus and Livefyre.[/quote]*spit*
Suburban kidQuote Reply
[quote name=AndCounting]Yeah, my guess is it would probably share stuff if you post a UV entry.[/quote]Maybe. I know there’s a FB extension that will post things to Facebook, but it’s too expensive.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]Is this a problem you only have at work? Can you login with facebook or twitter and post using that?[/quote]
I think it’s my side that is messed up at work. I haven’t tried yet at home. You think I would waste my time on this blog at home? (dying laughing)
WaLi2Quote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]I think it’s my side that is messed up at work. I haven’t tried yet at home. You think I would waste my time on this blog at home? (dying laughing)[/quote]I logged in with your account with no problem so it has to be something on your end, but I’m curious nonetheless.
mb21Quote Reply
It is perfectly clear to me that this year’s blog is completely different from last year’s.
GBTSQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]I logged in with your account with no problem so it has to be something on your end, but I’m curious nonetheless.[/quote]
If I remember I’ll check when I get home. I’ve been meaning to but just haven’t had the chance.
WaLi2Quote Reply
false.
WaLi2Quote Reply
Oswalt left the Phillies to check on family in tornado-ravaged Mississippi. Doesn’t James Russell have family somewhere he’s concerned about?
Aisle424Quote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]It is perfectly clear to me that this year’s blog is completely different from last year’s.[/quote]
Can you back this up?
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Aisle424]Oswalt left the Phillies to check on family in tornado-ravaged Mississippi. Doesn’t James Russell have family somewhere he’s concerned about?[/quote]
IDK, but tell me where his family is and I’ll give him reason to be concerned (or more importantly, reason to never pitch again).
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]It is perfectly clear to me that this year’s blog is completely different from last year’s.[/quote]That’s true. This time last year Obstructed View didn’t even exist. Now it does because of the clubhouse chemistry. The combination of AC, Berselius, 424 and mb21 has really worked out. Berselius is especially scrappy and 424 shows all kinds of heart. AC lets us know weeks ahead of time what we’ll be writing about. I already knew the game was rained out today thanks to ACs advanced planning.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Aisle424]Oswalt left the Phillies to check on family in tornado-ravaged Mississippi. Doesn’t James Russell have family somewhere he’s concerned about?[/quote]Can’t he just be equally concerned about Oswalt’s family?
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]Can’t he just be equally concerned about Oswalt’s family?[/quote]
He must be a selfish bastard.
Aisle424Quote Reply
[quote name=Mish]Can you back this up?[/quote]
Yes, because of posture. Exactly.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Russell’s from Texas, hopefully the tornado will make a pitstop there
fight2winQuote Reply
(dying laughing) I love the wall pic.
PerkinsQuote Reply
[quote name=fight2win]Russell’s from Texas, hopefully the tornado will make a pitstop there[/quote]Then OV would have to take a personal leave to help the families of Ryno, Berselius and GW.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=fight2win]Russell’s from Texas, hopefully the tornado will make a pitstop there[/quote]
They usually do.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
None of the Cubs even showed up today, because Quade told them four months ago there’d be no game on April 27.
GBTSQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]Then OV would have to take a personal leave to help the families of Ryno, Berselius and GW.[/quote]
A 200-mile pitstop?!
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Craig Counsell’s batting stance isn’t nearly as annoying it as it once was.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]A 200-mile pitstop?![/quote]You don’t all live together?
mb21Quote Reply
tornado damage only improves the state of Mississippi
dylanjQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]You don’t all live together?[/quote]
Only on weekends.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]Only on weekends.[/quote](dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]tornado damage only improves the state of Mississippi[/quote](dying laughing)
WaLi2Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]That’s true. This time last year Obstructed View didn’t even exist. Now it does because of the clubhouse chemistry. The combination of AC, Berselius, 424 and mb21 has really worked out. Berselius is especially scrappy and 424 shows all kinds of heart. AC lets us know weeks ahead of time what we’ll be writing about. I already knew the game was rained out today thanks to ACs advanced planning.[/quote]
This is your year.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Make a community blog…let’s see what happens.
MishQuote Reply
I’m surprised they canceled the game. The field must have been in bad shape or something. There wasn’t that much rain flying around on the radar, and both teams are playing late games tomorrow.
BerseliusQuote Reply
I assume there’s an editor process at some point to ensure that your front page isn’t littered with forestgifs.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Berselius]I’m surprised they canceled the game. The field must have been in bad shape or something. There wasn’t that much rain flying around on the radar, and both teams are playing late games tomorrow.[/quote]
Is that an umpire decision or a home team decision? I think if it’s before the lineup cards are submitted, then it’s the umps, right?
Otherwise I guess the Cubs decided that the pitching matchup sucked and called a mulligan… (dying laughing)
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]I assume there’s an editor process at some point to ensure that your front page isn’t littered with forestgifs.[/quote]
We wield supreme executive power, thanks to some watery tart.
BerseliusQuote Reply
Just in case I’m right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yPxwUvc2dc
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]I assume there’s an editor process at some point to ensure that your front page isn’t littered with forestgifs.[/quote]The posts won’t appear on the front page. It’s kind of like a separate blog. We will bring some over to the front page of course, but hopefully it becomes something people use a lot.
mb21Quote Reply
I assume they skip Coleman, right?
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]Just in case I’m right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yPxwUvc2dc%5B/quote%5DThe Sports Science guy makes me want to slam my face in a car door.
AndCountingQuote Reply
Why not just slam his face in a car door?
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Drew Stubbs with the go ahead home run in the 10th
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]Why not just slam his face in a car door?[/quote]It would be kind of stupid to slam your own face in a car door when you could slam his face in it.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]It would be kind of stupid to slam your own face in a car door when you could slam his face in it.[/quote]
Especially when he is a 160-pound faget.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
It’s the ump’s decision only after a game has started. The home team’s decision before that.
Gordo quote a Cubs press release saying something about “respecting the dire forecast even if the current forecast changes” (dying laughing). Translation: we’d really rather not play today.
Gordo also said Coleman is pushed to Sunday while the “top 3” keep their spots thurs – sat.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Maybe they were worried their flights out of town would be canceled later today or something.
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]Why not just slam his face in a car door?[/quote]I can’t reach him. My face is right here.
AndCountingQuote Reply
For all you iPhone users: Go into Safari and in the Google search ‘askew’
Suburban kidQuote Reply
[quote name=AndCounting]I can’t reach him. My face is right here.[/quote]Surely there’s some unsuspecting dope not far away who deserves a good face in the car door.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Suburban Kid]For all you iPhone users: Go into Safari and in the Google search ‘askew'[/quote]Say please.
mb21Quote Reply
That’s pretty cool.
mb21Quote Reply
I can’t understand why they canceled today’s game. It’s nicer today than it’s been for 99% of the games played so far. Cancel games for no reason, Let’s see what happens.
melissaQuote Reply
[quote name=melissa]I can’t understand why they canceled today’s game. It’s nicer today than it’s been for 99% of the games played so far. Cancel games for no reason, Let’s see what happens.[/quote]Not only can they skip Russell, they can also skip Koyie.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
http://www.suntimes.com/5053412-417/empire-carpet-man-elmer-lynn-hauldren-dead-at-age-89.html
I propose 588 seconds of silence today at 2300 hours.
GBTSQuote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]http://www.suntimes.com/5053412-417/empire-carpet-man-elmer-lynn-hauldren-dead-at-age-89.html
I propose 588 seconds of silence today at 2300 hours.[/quote]89? No way. I went to school with his daughter. My dad worked with him. But my dad is more than a decade younger. This will make him sad.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Honestly, I thought he’d been dead for like 10 years. Especially once they started going with the digital version of him in the commercials.
GBTSQuote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]Honestly, I thought he’d been dead for like 10 years. Especially once they started going with the digital version of him in the commercials.[/quote]You’re probably thinking of the Menard’s guy.
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]You’re probably thinking of the Menard’s guy.[/quote]No, but I do think about him a lot.
GBTSQuote Reply
From AZ Phil
Time to get the hype machine out for Whitenack.
Chris DickersonQuote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]No, but I do think about him a lot.[/quote]
Amusing, but wrong.
melissaQuote Reply
Heard Gordo Twittenmyer on the radio this morning saying that the Cubs are forced to use Russell because they claim to have no minor league options at present. According to him the Cubs don’t think anyone is “ready.” Well, Russell, isn’t “ready” either so what makes the difference? Call up pitcher who’s not ready, Let’s see what happens. Wells was a spot starter call up who stuck, why not give someone a chance? It couldn’t be any worse than Russell.
melissaQuote Reply
[quote name=melissa]Heard Gordo Twittenmyer on the radio this morning saying that the Cubs are forced to use Russell because they claim to have no minor league options at present. According to him the Cubs don’t think anyone is “ready.” Well, Russell, isn’t “ready” either so what makes the difference? Call up pitcher who’s not ready, Let’s see what happens. Wells was a spot starter call up who stuck, why not give someone a chance? It couldn’t be any worse than Russell.[/quote]
I get that McNutt, Jackson, Cashner, and Wells getting hurt at the same time is just insanely bad luck, but is there really no better option than a loogy?
MishQuote Reply
mb… It works from home. I guess I must have some weird work firewall
WaLiQuote Reply
[quote name=WaLi]mb… It works from home. I guess I must have some weird work firewall[/quote]That’s the only thing it can be. I think what’s happening is that you’re logging in just fine, but your computer isn’t accepting cookies, which is necessary to remember the login. It’s a setting you could probably change yourself.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Mish]I get that McNutt, Jackson, Cashner, and Wells getting hurt at the same time is just insanely bad luck, but is there really no better option than a loogy?[/quote]Chris Carpenter would have been a better option, but he was bullpen’d. Other than that, I don’t think they do. That’s not necessarily bad. We are talking about the 9th or 10th best pitcher so it’s not like a lot of teams could run out anyone of quality if they were down to that. It’s just frustrating. And funny.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]That’s the only thing it can be. I think what’s happening is that you’re logging in just fine, but your computer isn’t accepting cookies, which is necessary to remember the login. It’s a setting you could probably change yourself.[/quote]
It’s remembering I’m logged in, and says “hello WaLi” or whatever, but when I go to “Add Comment” I have the option to put in my username and e-mail, like I am not logged in. I can send a screenshot to you tomorrow if you care. It doesn’t really affect me too much though since I can still comment.
WaLiQuote Reply
[quote name=WaLi]It’s remembering I’m logged in, and says “hello WaLi” or whatever, but when I go to “Add Comment” I have the option to put in my username and e-mail, like I am not logged in. I can send a screenshot to you tomorrow if you care. It doesn’t really affect me too much though since I can still comment.[/quote]That’s just weird. No need to send a screen shot. I have a better idea what’s going on. Let me see if I can find something on it.
mb21Quote Reply
Are there any special settings for tablet type of computers on this site?
CliffyQuote Reply
[quote name=Cliffy]Are there any special settings for tablet type of computers on this site?[/quote]Like an ipad? I don’t think so. I could probably set it up so that they’d go to the mobile version, but I think Mish said he didn’t prefer that. Is that something I should ask people since so many have those devices now?
I’m not sure what you mean.
mb21Quote Reply
The unobstructed view thing is kind of cool how it pops up on the sidebar there. I’m glad to know that Cashner and Wells are doing okay.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]The unobstructed view thing is kind of cool how it pops up on the sidebar there. I’m glad to know that Cashner and Wells are doing okay.[/quote]Feel free to publish something yourself, RC, if something comes up.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]Like a misting station? I don’t think so. [/quote]
/obligatory
BerseliusQuote Reply
This should have been a FanPost about FanPosts.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]This should have been a FanPost about FanPosts.[/quote]I seriously thought about quoting all of Al’s Posts About Posts for the directions on how to post here. I was very close to doing it. I had the BCB pages loaded and everything.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]I seriously thought about quoting all of Al’s Posts About Posts for the directions on how to post here. I was very close to doing it. I had the BCB pages loaded and everything.[/quote](dying laughing)
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]This should have been a FanPost about FanPosts.[/quote]
MB also forgot to include this vital information
.
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]I seriously thought about quoting all of Al’s Posts About Posts for the directions on how to post here. I was very close to doing it. I had the BCB pages loaded and everything.[/quote]
(dying laughing), what timing. It’s ironic that I would not have done that in 1998.
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=Berselius](dying laughing), what timing. It’s ironic that I would not have done that in 1998.[/quote]False.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]False.[/quote]
I have a source.
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=Berselius]I have a source.[/quote]Deep Sheep?
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
I have a source (dying laughing)
I wish someone would have said no you don’t. I’ll bet a hundred bucks Al would have replied with Yes I do.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]I have a source (dying laughing)
I wish someone would have said no you don’t. I’ll bet a hundred bucks Al would have replied with Yes I do.[/quote]
nuh-uh.
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]I have a source (dying laughing)
I wish someone would have said no you don’t. I’ll bet a hundred bucks Al would have replied with Yes I do.[/quote]No he wouldn’t.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Berselius]nuh-uh.[/quote]Knock it off.
mb21Quote Reply
(dying laughing)
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]Knock it off.[/quote]Amusing…but wrong.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]Knock it off.[/quote]
Shut me right up
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=Berselius]Shut me right up[/quote]Correct.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Peyton Hillis —–> Madden cover
MO ———> (dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing)
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Holy. Shit. That is over 5000 words, over 29000 characters, over 7 pages. No one has ever read that whole thing. Did Alvin really think someone/multiple people would read that? Economy of words mother fucker.
(dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing) I had to cut out part of Alvin’s post b/c this post was too long to submit!
Silky JohnsonQuote Reply
[quote name=Silky Johnson]Holy. Shit. That is over 5000 words, over 29000 characters, over 7 pages. No one has ever read that whole thing. Did Alvin really think someone/multiple people would read that? Economy of words mother fucker.
(dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing) I had to cut out part of Alvin’s post b/c this post was too long to submit![/quote]
This should have been a fanshot.
melissaQuote Reply
[quote name=melissa]This should have been a fanshot.[/quote]You only come here to start fights. You’ve been warned.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Silky Johnson]Holy. Shit. That is over 5000 words, over 29000 characters, over 7 pages. No one has ever read that whole thing. Did Alvin really think someone/multiple people would read that? Economy of words mother fucker.
(dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing) (dying laughing) I had to cut out part of Alvin’s post b/c this post was too long to submit![/quote]That wasn’t the only one he’s written on posting either. He’s written at least a couple ridiculously long articles on it. Here’s the other: http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/2009/2/24/769197/bcb-101-an-overview-of-pos
mb21Quote Reply
SJ, if you register there’s no character limit. I just put a very large character limit for unregistered users just in case. Still, that’s hilarious you couldn’t post it because it was too many words.
mb21Quote Reply
Ryno making fun of A Post About Posts is one of my all-time favorites: http://www.anothercubsblog.net/classics/acb/a-post-about-posts.html
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]You only come here to start fights. You’ve been warned.[/quote]
Nice Snark.
melissaQuote Reply
Figured I’d give it a try…this is a silly thing we’re doing on our facebook page:
http://obstructedview.net/unobstructed-views/cubs/want-some-free-crap-from-the-cubs.html
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]Figured I’d give it a try…this is a silly thing we’re doing on our facebook page:
http://obstructedview.net/unobstructed-views/cubs/want-some-free-crap-from-the-cubs.html%5B/quote%5D
I hadn’t seen that Reed Johnson photo of him coming up short on the slide into 3rd. That was Theriotesque.
melissaQuote Reply
[quote name=Silky Johnson]Holy. Shit. That is over 5000 words, over 29000 characters, over 7 pages. [/quote]FWIW, the Constitution is like 7000 words.
The fact that Alvin actually thought people would both read and abide by those rules before posting on his blog tells you all you need to know about him.
GBTSQuote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]FWIW, the Constitution is like 7000 words.
The fact that Alvin actually thought people would both read and abide by those rules before posting on his blog tells you all you need to know about him.[/quote]Great. Now we’ll get another of Al’s sockpuppets over here defending him. (dying laughing)
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Sam Fuld = OBP machine
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]Sam Fuld = OBP machine[/quote]Get cape. Wear cape. Fly.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
Sam Fuld is worth 1.2 WAR according to FanGraphs. Unreal. When’s he supposed to come back down to earth again?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube](dying laughing)
Sam Fuld is worth 1.2 WAR according to FanGraphs. Unreal. When’s he supposed to come back down to earth again?[/quote]
Never. The earth rises up to him.
Aisle424Quote Reply
[quote name=Aisle424]Never. The earth rises up to him.[/quote]
Well played, sir.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]Well played, sir.[/quote]I don’t think you’re allowed to say that to anyone but Sam Fuld.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]I don’t think you’re allowed to say that to anyone but Sam Fuld.[/quote]
My mistake. I will flag myself, unless Sam Fuld already did it for me.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]My mistake. I will flag myself, unless Sam Fuld already did it for me.[/quote]Sam Fuld doesn’t do anyone’s flagging for them.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
The Sam Fuld phenomenon makes me wish Weird Al would redo his song for Fuld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLnapb-30hA
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Berselius].[/quote]
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
(dying laughing)
Recalcitrant Blogger NateQuote Reply
[quote name=Berselius],[/quote]
Fixed.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Someday Sam Fuld and Lindsey Lohan will be duking it out on celebrity rehab boxing II
Horny GoatQuote Reply
(dying laughing), MO
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=Horny Goat]Someday Sam Fuld and Lindsey Lohan will be duking it out on celebrity rehab boxing II[/quote]As the undercard for Silva-Millar III: This Time It’s Personal (Because Lou Never Told Me When I Was Playing)
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]As the undercard for Silva-Millar III: This Time It’s Personal (Because Lou Never Told Me When I Was Playing)[/quote]
Millar’s comments about Lou still piss me off
Horny GoatQuote Reply
[quote name=Horny Goat]Millar’s comments about Lou still piss me off[/quote]A fucking NRI has the balls to say that shit about a guy that could well end up in the HOF. Unreal. I still can’t believe he said it.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]A fucking NRI has the balls to say that shit about a guy that could well end up in the HOF. Unreal. I still can’t believe he said it.[/quote]
What’d he say? Something about not knowing whether he’d play or not a month ahead of time?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]A fucking NRI has the balls to say that shit about a guy that could well end up in the HOF. Unreal. I still can’t believe he said it.[/quote]
Lou could take the silly runt out with 1 good punch if he wanted (dying laughing)
Horny GoatQuote Reply
Millar knows baseball more than Lou, RC.
Horny GoatQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]What’d he say? Something about not knowing whether he’d play or not a month ahead of time?[/quote]
something like that. He’s just pissed he didn’t qualify for the “wrigley experience”
Horny GoatQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]What’d he say? Something about not knowing whether he’d play or not a month ahead of time?[/quote]Yeah. I can’t imagine any other NRI ever complaining about that shit, and it’s very telling of Millar’s character that he wanted until now to come public with that shit, now that he’s beyond Lou’s strangling reach.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
Lou probably has better things to do.
Check this out…#1 actually made me (dying laughing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dMRR5COiw&feature=player_embedded
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Cow > Bird: http://eater.com/archives/2011/04/25/the-ron-swanson-turkey-burger.php
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
not now, MO, (dying laughing)
Horny GoatQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]Lou probably has better things to do.
Check this out…#1 actually made me (dying laughing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dMRR5COiw&feature=player_embedded%5B/quote%5D
was it paper over rock on that one?
“there’s a jerk in every ballpark”. Give it to a kid!”
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Suburban kidQuote Reply
You should be picking Seamen, SK
MishQuote Reply
So I assume this is the main convo thread for now? I don’t want to go post-hunting to talk to you fagets.
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]So I assume this is the main convo thread for now? I don’t want to go post-hunting to talk to you fagets.[/quote]I figure we’ll keep whatever is at the top of the home page as the main convo thread, but RC has a post up on Unobstructed Views and 424 had a ridiculously funny comment in another one.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]Lou probably has better things to do.
Check this out…#1 actually made me (dying laughing):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dMRR5COiw&feature=player_embedded%5B/quote%5D
#4 makes me lose faith in humanity. Seriously, you’re fucking 30 years old, what are you going to do with a baseball?
XoomwaffleQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]
Like an ipad?[/quote]
mb21 —-> Alvin
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[quote name=mb21]Ryno making fun of A Post About Posts is one of my all-time favorites: http://www.anothercubsblog.net/classics/acb/a-post-about-posts.html%5B/quote%5D
Alvin’s provided us with enough material to make fun of him for years now.
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[quote name=Jame Gumb]mb21 —-> Alvin[/quote](dying laughing)
Suburban kidQuote Reply
[quote name=mb21]and 424 had a ridiculously funny comment in another one.[/quote]
Is this a rumor?
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]Is this a rumor?[/quote]
I have a source, prove me wrong.
Aisle424Quote Reply
http://minors.mlblogs.com/2011/04/27/draft-update-matt-purke-and-other-injury-news/
Good news for him.
It would be nice if an mlb.com blogger could get the facts right, though. Purke didn’t “choose to go to college” instead of signing with TEX. MLB wouldn’t approve the contract the two parties had agreed upon.
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Wrong.
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http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/10879
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]Wrong.[/quote]But amusing.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
[quote name=Suburban Kid]But amusing.[/quote]
Because I imagine Alvin interrupting the meteorologists to ask them what it means. The popular meteorologist spots an opportunity, so he tells him that the last 100 time conditions were exactly like this, it rained so many times. He watched Alvins eyes light up and dash over to his computer to tell his minions. The meteorologists waited until he was out of earshot and died laughing.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Meteorologist: “It’s going to rain”.
Al: “Is that like a misting station?”
MishQuote Reply
Fangraphs added a Rookie filter to its leaderboards.
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]Meteorologist: “It’s going to rain”.
Al: “Is that like a misting station?”[/quote]
Meteorologist: Correct.
Alvin: Oh that’s cool. You mind if I use that on my blog?
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]Fangraphs added a Rookie filter to its leaderboards.[/quote]
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[quote name=Xoomwaffle]#4 makes me lose faith in humanity. Seriously, you’re fucking 30 years old, what are you going to do with a baseball?[/quote]
I gave mine to my kid who was with me at the time. I didn’t run over any other kids though.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
For you draftfags, Rick Gosselin’s final mock draft is:
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Some Bears fan should tell me who I hope the Bears take and then tell me how far they will actually trade down. I’d imagine OT and WR are the top needs but I’m no foosball guy.
MishQuote Reply
I will not be surprised if SF takes Locker or Ponder in the first now. Gosselin knows his shit.
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i would really prefer to pass on a QB at 7
dylanjQuote Reply
I would too, but Harbaugh knows better than all of us PLUS ALVIN combined. If he thinks Ponder is THE guy, I have no problem with him being the pick at No. 7.
There’s no way Andy Dalton is worth a first-round pick, though.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
if seattle picks up prince at 25 that would be a major score for them
dylanjQuote Reply
i read a pretty interesting article last night that said with the lockout being ended by the judge the NFL should postpone the draft. The reason being is that in the 1970’s during a stoppage a federal judge ruled that in the absence of a collective bargaining agreement the NFL draft violates anti trust laws. So if the draft goes on tonight a player who is picked could legally sue the NFL to allow themselves to negotiate with all teams instead of the team that picked them AND have a legal precedence to back it up.
dylanjQuote Reply
And Fairley and Suh next to each other would be crazy.
Seeing Aldon Smith that high makes me happy too. I think he’d be a good pick at No. 7 if teams are that scared of Quinn.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]i read a pretty interesting article last night that said with the lockout being ended by the judge the NFL should postpone the draft.[/quote]
I stopped here.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Austin would be a great pick for the Bears. He’s a stud and he’ll start from day one. JG, do you have any thoughts on Texas CB Aaron Williams? I heard he was a possibility for the Bears at 29.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]For you draftfags, Rick Gosselin’s final mock draft is:[/quote]
Best case scenario for the Colts, I would love for them to get Costonzo.
XoomwaffleQuote Reply
http://www.scholastic.ca/titles/butt/zbbook.htm
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well it took most of april but I have almost lost interest in the 2011 cubs. besides watching Garza pitch or Starlin bat this team is fucking boring
dylanjQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]Austin would be a great pick for the Bears. He’s a stud and he’ll start from day one. JG, do you have any thoughts on Texas CB Aaron Williams? I heard he was a possibility for the Bears at 29.[/quote]
I think some team is going to get a steal in Williams. He had a down year, but he was a top-5 CB in college football as a true sophomore.
Some people are calling him a S, but I think he’s basically what Charles Woodson is for GB right now. He can play the slot, outside (best in press, imo) or over the top.
Just don’t let him return punts. (dying laughing)
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]I think some team is going to get a steal in Williams. He had a down year, but he was a top-5 CB in college football as a true sophomore.
Some people are calling him a S, but I think he’s basically what Charles Woodson is for GB right now. He can play the slot, outside (best in press, imo) or over the top.
Just don’t let him return punts. (dying laughing)[/quote]Thanks for the info. The Bears have a pretty good punt returner so I think that won’t be necessary. Gosselin has the highest 5 year rating on his mocks. He definitely knows his stuff.
MuckerQuote Reply
You can’t believe anything you hear today, but it sounds like OAK is trying to trade into the first for Kaepernick.
Sounds like both of the inept franchises mb follows will have tried to draft the same player.
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i cant understand how 200 people died in the south with those tornados. the town i grew up in was completley wiped out in 1990 by a fucking F5! and nobody died. Do these people not have shelters or basements?
dylanjQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]Gosselin has the highest 5 year rating on his mocks. He definitely knows his stuff.[/quote]
It’s not the teams as much as the placement. I laughed at the idea of Dalton going so high yesterday, but maybe it’s realistic.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]the town i grew up in was completley wiped out in 1990 by a fucking F5![/quote]
What was it fucking?
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]You can’t believe anything you hear today, but it sounds like OAK is trying to trade into the first for Kaepernick.
Sounds like both of the inept franchises mb follows will have tried to draft the same player.[/quote]Jesus! I don’t know what franchise is worse, the Raiders or Skins. I should clarify for the NFL. The Cubs are definitely the worst.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]It’s not the teams as much as the placement. I laughed at the idea of Dalton going so high yesterday, but maybe it’s realistic.[/quote]
So did I. But every year, teams do things that make you scratch your head. I doubt this year is going to be the new 83′ draft for QBs but that seems to be the thinking for some of these teams when they pick QBs. That’s 5 QBs in the first 12 picks. That would be insane.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]i cant understand how 200 people died in the south with those tornados. the town i grew up in was completley wiped out in 1990 by a fucking F5! and nobody died. Do these people not have shelters or basements?[/quote]
Nope. Don’t forget that tornadoes are attracted to trailer parks as well (dying laughing).
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]But every year, teams do things that make you scratch your head.[/quote]
That’s true, but Dalton at No. 12 would be so far beyond a head scratcher.
There’s a good reason so many QBs went in the first in ’83. There are only 3 QBs that should go in the first this year.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Two plays that encapsulate Aaron Williams’ value as a DB:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8fk834FnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk4QdMwWy6Q&NR=1 (covering Niles Paul)
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]That’s true, but Dalton at No. 12 would be so far beyond a head scratcher.
There’s a good reason so many QBs went in the first in ’83. There are only 3 QBs that should go in the first this year.[/quote]Dalton at 12 would be a panic pick. Teams feel like they have to get their franchise QB and they reach or get a bust. QB is the hardest position to draft. If I were a GM, I’d put together the best OL I could. With a great OL, you can have a little wiggle room with your QB and not have to be so perfect with the pick.
MuckerQuote Reply
Here’s Williams as a true freshman.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Was that a safety, JG? I’m pretty sure he came out.
GBTSQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]Here’s Williams as a true freshman.
Wow. Did he forget where he was?
Rice CubeQuote Reply
(dying laughing) at Colorado football
BerseliusQuote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]Was that a safety, JG? I’m pretty sure he came out.[/quote]
I think for a safety you have to be all the way out of the endzone before going back in. Could be wrong, though.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]Wow. Did he forget where he was?[/quote]
What’s funny is that for the first time I’m wondering why Williams didn’t try to strip the ball.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]What’s funny is that for the first time I’m wondering why Williams didn’t try to strip the ball.[/quote]
It looked like he was going for a torpedo hit, or maybe to lead with his helmet and jar the ball loose. The Colorado dude took a step back and you can see Williams juke left sort of in anticipation, but then Colorado dude steps forward just a bit again…the helmet would’ve gone where the ball would be if Colorado dude had kept going back, so maybe he was trying for the ball-stripping hit, but the tackle was pretty good too. The arm wrapping around Colorado dude is also very close to where the ball is, I think he wanted to wrap up the guy rather than make a strip motion as the tackle became the priority.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Still, poke the ball once you wrap up. I guess that’s not a DB thing.
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Regardless if that’s a safety or not, it’s good heads up football. He was coming out of the endzone and went back in. It didn’t look like the ball came out, which I think is the rule, but still, a play that close, you might get the call to go your way.
MuckerQuote Reply
It wasn’t called a safety in the game. But yeah, play ’til the whistle.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]Still, poke the ball once you wrap up. I guess that’s not a DB thing.[/quote]
Maybe that’s the help tackler’s job, but the help didn’t get there in time. I think the primary guy’s job is to secure the tackle…it’s possible he didn’t know whether he could 100% make the strip and also secure the tackle, but with the wave of white jerseys coming in, you’re probably right, he could’ve tried for the strip, still slowed the guy down, and then the help would’ve crushed him anyway.
Still, a very nice tackle.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
You can breath easy now, Sam Fuld is now tweeting. @SamFuld5
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]Maybe that’s the help tackler’s job, but the help didn’t get there in time. I think the primary guy’s job is to secure the tackle…it’s possible he didn’t know whether he could 100% make the strip and also secure the tackle, but with the wave of white jerseys coming in, you’re probably right, he could’ve tried for the strip, still slowed the guy down, and then the help would’ve crushed him anyway.
Still, a very nice tackle.[/quote]
You only come here to argue with me.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
http://gothamist.com/2011/04/28/video_terrifying_tornado_in_alabama.php
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Apparently CAR has the contract parameters in place with Cam Newton.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]http://gothamist.com/2011/04/28/video_terrifying_tornado_in_alabama.php[/quote]I’d be shitting Tiffany cufflinks if I saw a tornado that close.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]I’d be breathing heavily if I saw a tornado that close.[/quote].
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[quote name=Jame Gumb]Apparently CAR has the contract parameters in place with Cam Newton.[/quote]That’s usually how they do it nowadays. What amazes me, is that they have the guy signed and everything and they use 12 of the 15 minutes of their pick to make the announcement. That shit pisses me off. The first round takes forever.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb].[/quote]
(dying laughing) Yeah but that human was probably scared shitless.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]That’s usually how they do it nowadays. What amazes me, is that they have the guy signed and everything and they use 12 of the 15 minutes of their pick to make the announcement. That shit pisses me off. The first round takes forever.[/quote]
The world revolves around whichever franchise is on the clock.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]The world revolves around whichever franchise is on the clock.[/quote]So true. I understand using the time for trade possibilities and shit, but when you already have the guy signed, make the god damn pick already.
MuckerQuote Reply
I think we need an NFL Draft thread.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]I think we need an NFL Draft thread.[/quote]I’ll be around if you do.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]i cant understand how 200 people died in the south with those tornados. the town i grew up in was completley wiped out in 1990 by a fucking F5! and nobody died. Do these people not have shelters or basements?[/quote]
Actually, no, a lot of them don’t. I grew up in Arkansas, and lived in Alabama for a while, and I don’t think I lived in a house with a habitable, shelterable basement until we moved to Iowa. Not nearly as many houses with basements. I don’t know about public shelters, but since state and local gvts. aren’t spending much on public facilities of any kind down there, I don’t imagine they’re in the best of shape.
That tornado that went through Tuscaloosa was a MILE WIDE, dude. That’s part of how 200 people died, tho that number is certainly gonna go up as they dig through the wreckage in Tuscaloosa. it went through some heavily populated parts of town. I’m still waiting to hear from several people, one of whose house I know got flattened and 3 others whose homes were right in the path.
UrkQuote Reply
To echo URK, when I moved to Nashville from the midwest, I was shocked at how much dynamite was used in road construction. Not exactly the great plains, so basements are a lot less common.
GWQuote Reply
i understand urk but the hesston tornado was literally one of the biggest in the history of the US. the entire town was gone and not a single person died. to see 200 people killed boggles the mind a bit but maybe we just have better warning here in KS
dylanjQuote Reply
In case you haven’t heard yet, looks like they found the “flight recorder” from the Air France crash a couple years ago. They are still looking for the memory module which is part of the flight recorder if I understood the article. http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/04/28/air.france.447.airbus.recorder/index.html?hpt=T2
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]maybe we just have better warning here in KS[/quote]
-faget point for kicking a region while it’s down.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
http://www.twitvid.com/4W6PU
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dont worry JG the south with rise again
dylanjQuote Reply
except for Texas. Nothing can save Texas
dylanjQuote Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohIVzIZLuQ
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]except for Texas. Nothing can save Texas[/quote]
Except Texas.
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Was someone in that car or is it transmission fluid?
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[quote name=dylanj]i understand urk but the hesston tornado was literally one of the biggest in the history of the US. the entire town was gone and not a single person died. to see 200 people killed boggles the mind a bit but maybe we just have better warning here in KS[/quote]
Hesston population: 3012; Dead: 2 (according to wikipedia)
Birmingham and Tuscaloosa combined 2010 population:391,685; Dead: 162.
To summarize: .07% of the population died in the Kansas storm, .04% in the Alabama storm.
Maybe they just have a better early warning system in Alabama.
GWQuote Reply
NFL Network is reporting that NFL agents and owners are preparing for free agency and trades to begin Monday.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
Brees is the typical comparison for a 6000-6020 QB with a fringe arm, decent mobility and above-average intelligance. But for every Drew Brees that gains arm strength, how many Drew Bresses don’t?
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Fuck you.
Andy DaltonQuote Reply
My dog would like your jokes, Tim.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Apparently there is a rumor NE is trying to move up to No. 9 by offering Nos. 17 and 60. If true, SF should call NE.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
This might be off-topic for a 49ers/NFL blog, but if anyone cares how the prospects we sent for Garza are doing, here:
http://theprocessreport.com/2011/04/28/a-late-april-update-on-the-matt-garza-return/
MishQuote Reply
GW- nobody died in hesston. the two that died lived a in different towns
dylanjQuote Reply
so a federal judge orders the lockout to end right now and they plan for Monday. I guess the the rules dont apply?
dylanjQuote Reply
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[quote name=dylanj]so a federal judge orders the lockout to end right now and they plan for Monday. I guess the the rules dont apply?[/quote]
They’re appealing, though the judge denied the owners’ request for a stay of judgment.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]i read a pretty interesting article last night that said with the lockout being ended by the judge the NFL should postpone the draft. The reason being is that in the 1970’s during a stoppage a federal judge ruled that in the absence of a collective bargaining agreement the NFL draft violates anti trust laws. So if the draft goes on tonight a player who is picked could legally sue the NFL to allow themselves to negotiate with all teams instead of the team that picked them AND have a legal precedence to back it up.[/quote]
This draft is covered by the previous CBA
/mike&mike
srbutch5Quote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]GW- nobody died in hesston. the two that died lived a in different towns[/quote]
missed the point. storms are capricious and random. you can’t take a burg in bfe and compare it to a metropolitan area and then pat yourself on the back.
GWQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]This might be off-topic for a 49ers/NFL blog, but if anyone cares how the prospects we sent for Garza are doing, here:
http://theprocessreport.com/2011/04/28/a-late-april-update-on-the-matt-garza-return/%5B/quote%5D
You interrupted our flow to tell us four jackoff prospects in some other organization are doing pretty well?
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=GW]missed the point. storms are capricious and random. you can’t take a burg in bfe and compare it to a metropolitan area and then pat yourself on the back.[/quote]
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]You interrupted our flow to tell us four jackoff prospects in some other organization are doing pretty well?[/quote]
Correct.
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]
[/quote]
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GWQuote Reply
In other news, Earth has some water on it.
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[quote name=GW].[/quote]
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you can appeal but that doesnt mean you dont have to follow the rules. The NFL is in breach right now and if the 8th court doesnt issue a stay then the lockout ends PLUS the league could be sued for collusion. They had better pray the appeal court goes in their favor
dylanjQuote Reply
From Phil Rogers (ya, I know)
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]From Phil Rogers (ya, I know)[/quote]
See, who needs first rounders?!
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[quote name=GW]missed the point. storms are capricious and random. you can’t take a burg in bfe and compare it to a metropolitan area and then pat yourself on the back.[/quote]
Disclaimer: I’m originally from Florida and have only been in central IL for 3 years (and unfortunately doesn’t have a basement in his house).
I thought tornados were random and what not, but two days ago they mentioned that this storm was going to be massive and there would be tornados. Isn’t that enough time to figure out how/where to hunker down?
In Florida we get pounded by hurricanes, the advantage being that you know a hurricane is coming way ahead of time. If you are caught in the middle of it you are a dumbass.
WaLi2Quote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]you can appeal but that doesnt mean you dont have to follow the rules. The NFL is in breach right now and if the 8th court doesnt issue a stay then the lockout ends PLUS the league could be sued for collusion. They had better pray the appeal court goes in their favor[/quote]
It sounds like they’re going to proceed with football operations while they appeal.
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]I thought tornados were random and what not, but two days ago they mentioned that this storm was going to be massive and there would be tornados. Isn’t that enough time to figure out how/where to hunker down?
[/quote]
They’re still working on this:
Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/too-many-sliders/
dylanjQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/too-many-sliders/[/quote]
Uhhhh, they make them smaller so you can have more.
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It’s a lot worse than what GW quotes above. DJ looked at one of the luckiest situations ever.
Before we start sucking Kansas’s dick for their tornado preparedness, which flat out fucking sucks compared to where I grew up, let’s compare recent tornadoes. The 2007 tornado in Greensberg killed 0.67% of the town’s population. The tornado that nearly ripped through a college campus in Tuscaloosa killed 0.02% of its population. Everyone agrees that width of the tornado in Alabama was a mile wide and there were varying reports with the one in Kansas. A few reports said a half mile wide. Some said a mile wide. Some said a mile and a half. This is probably due to the Kansas educational system. 1/2 mile, 1 1/2 mile…what’s the difference?
Here in Topeka they blare a stupid fucking horn every time it’s partly cloudy. I look outside right now and spot a cloud. A horn is soon to go off I’m sure. I’d guess the reason only a couple people died in the storm DJ is talking about is because they spent their entire lives in the basement because of the 367,078 times per year the fucking horn blares. Not to mention they test it on the days when there aren’t any clouds so the annoying motherfucker goes off every single day. I’m not joking. There’s a Wallgreens a few miles away from where we live, but we live just a bit outside of town. We go there maybe once a month. I’ve been there with the nearby horn blaring at least a dozen times. I’d say there’s a 10% chance that fucking thing is going off the next time I go there and for no good reason either.
This doesn’t include the annoying as fuck tv tests they do too. I haven’t lived in Iowa for about a decade, but I hope they aren’t as bad as it is here. Per square miles Iowa has more tornadoes than Kansas does. They average 1 death per year. Kansas averages 4 per year. Alabama 6. The population in Kansas is 2.8 million while it’s 3.0 million in Iowa and 4.8 million in Alabama. The tornado path length per sq. mile rank for those states is 2nd for Alabama, 4th for Iowa and 7th for Kansas.
At least Kansas has basements, which is where everybody is 365 days a year because of the sirens. Sorry, but I have no respect whatsoever for this state’s ability to handle tornadoes. It’s a joke compared to where I grew up. I really wish they’d just shut that siren down and let me use common sense. My hearing would be improved and I’d be saved much frustration.
Seriously, this and the dumbass Kansans who drive in the left lane on the interstate (which is seemingly at least 95% of the population). I like this state, but those two things really piss me off. Add in the Phelps clan and maybe we should just move. (dying laughing)
/end rant
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]Disclaimer: I’m originally from Florida and have only been in central IL for 3 years (and unfortunately doesn’t have a basement in his house).
I thought tornados were random and what not, but two days ago they mentioned that this storm was going to be massive and there would be tornados. Isn’t that enough time to figure out how/where to hunker down?
In Florida we get pounded by hurricanes, the advantage being that you know a hurricane is coming way ahead of time. If you are caught in the middle of it you are a dumbass.[/quote]
I think tornadoes still don’t scare people as much because they are so localized. I was in St. Louis when the tornado tore through their airport and flattened a couple of neighborhoods. We got a bit of rain and wind. We were about 5 miles away.
I think after seeing that people think the odds are with them that nothing will happen.
Aisle424Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]It’s a lot worse than what GW quotes above. DJ looked at one of the luckiest situations ever.
Before we start sucking Kansas’s dick for their tornado preparedness, which flat out fucking sucks compared to where I grew up, let’s compare recent tornadoes. The 2007 tornado in Greensberg killed 0.67% of the town’s population. The tornado that nearly ripped through a college campus in Tuscaloosa killed 0.02% of its population. Everyone agrees that width of the tornado in Alabama was a mile wide and there were varying reports with the one in Kansas. A few reports said a half mile wide. Some said a mile wide. Some said a mile and a half. This is probably due to the Kansas educational system. 1/2 mile, 1 1/2 mile…what’s the difference?
Here in Topeka they blare a stupid fucking horn every time it’s partly cloudy. I look outside right now and spot a cloud. A horn is soon to go off I’m sure. I’d guess the reason only a couple people died in the storm DJ is talking about is because they spent their entire lives in the basement because of the 367,078 times per year the fucking horn blares. Not to mention they test it on the days when there aren’t any clouds so the annoying motherfucker goes off every single day. I’m not joking. There’s a Wallgreens a few miles away from where we live, but we live just a bit outside of town. We go there maybe once a month. I’ve been there with the nearby horn blaring at least a dozen times. I’d say there’s a 10% chance that fucking thing is going off the next time I go there and for no good reason either.
This doesn’t include the annoying as fuck tv tests they do too. I haven’t lived in Iowa for about a decade, but I hope they aren’t as bad as it is here. Per square miles Iowa has more tornadoes than Kansas does. They average 1 death per year. Kansas averages 4 per year. Alabama 6. The population in Kansas is 2.8 million while it’s 3.0 million in Iowa and 4.8 million in Alabama. The tornado path length per sq. mile rank for those states is 2nd for Alabama, 4th for Iowa and 7th for Kansas.
At least Kansas has basements, which is where everybody is 365 days a year because of the sirens. Sorry, but I have no respect whatsoever for this state’s ability to handle tornadoes. It’s a joke compared to where I grew up. I really wish they’d just shut that siren down and let me use common sense. My hearing would be improved and I’d be saved much frustration.
Seriously, this and the dumbass Kansans who drive in the left lane on the interstate (which is seemingly at least 95% of the population). I like this state, but those two things really piss me off. Add in the Phelps clan and maybe we should just move. (dying laughing)
/end rant[/quote]
Well we’re not in Kansas anymore.
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[quote name=Aisle424]I think tornadoes still don’t scare people as much because they are so localized. I was in St. Louis when the tornado tore through their airport and flattened a couple of neighborhoods. We got a bit of rain and wind. We were about 5 miles away.
I think after seeing that people think the odds are with them that nothing will happen.[/quote]
This.
That ddn’t stop me from staying up until 2 the other night when tornados were tearing through the part of Louisiana that my wife was staying in the other night (dying laughing)
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I just think this year’s tornadoes have heart. In previous years, they might kill 1-2 people and then give up. This year they are showing more fight.
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]I just think this year’s tornadoes have heart. In previous years, they might kill 1-2 people and then give up. This year they are showing more fight.[/quote](dying laughing)
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[quote name=WaLi2]Disclaimer: I’m originally from Florida and have only been in central IL for 3 years (and unfortunately doesn’t have a basement in his house).
I thought tornados were random and what not, but two days ago they mentioned that this storm was going to be massive and there would be tornados. Isn’t that enough time to figure out how/where to hunker down?
In Florida we get pounded by hurricanes, the advantage being that you know a hurricane is coming way ahead of time. If you are caught in the middle of it you are a dumbass.[/quote]The problem is that larger population centers can’t “hunker down” like smaller areas can. Traffic is often ridiculous in bad weather and not even drivable in a larger city. In a small city you could have every living person in a car and you’d still be traveling like nobody is on the road. In smaller cities, the population isn’t as condensed. There’s no huge company that employs thousands of people. A larger city not only has one of those, but often multiple places where there more employees than a small town even has in total population.
Topeka is relatively spread out. If a tornado came through here it likely wouldn’t kill many (if any at all) unless it went through certain parts of the city where the population density is higher. Take the mall for example. It’s not large by any definition, but it has a lot of employees and customers. If a tornado tears apart the mall or anywhere near it, there are going to be deaths. There are dozens of restaurants in the area and gas stations.
Basically, in a mile stretch in that area you have a mall, a few gas stations, about 10 restaurants (like an Applebee’s) and many other fast food restaurants. There’s a Wal-Mart, a Best Buy, Kohl’s, Barne’s and Noble and a Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s. Probably more. If a tornado touched down in that area and was the size of the one that tore through parts of Alabama there would be many deaths.
On the other hand, if one tore through my neighborhood, there likely wouldn’t be any. There are four houses on a mile or mile and a half stretch of road where I live. Three of the families have kids who are off to college or living elsewhere. It’s just the husband and wife. We have two kids. There’s basically 10 people living in the same mile stretch. We all have basements. After the 79th siren we would eventually go down to the basement.
Take another mile stretch. The first house I bought in Topeka and still own is in a residential section, but toward the outskirts of the city. The same mile stretch would have dozens of houses. Maybe a hundred. Most of the families have children. There is probably no less than 400 people. If it went through there we’d likely see a death or two and several injuries.
The difference in location matters. Without an understanding of the difference the death total is irrelevant. One tornado in Topeka would probably kill at least 10 to 20. Another would kill nobody and injuries would also be highly unlikely. Yet another one would cause a few injuries and maybe a death. Same city. Same size tornado.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=mb21]Basically, in a mile stretch in that area you have a mall, a few gas stations, about 10 restaurants (like an Applebee’s) and many other fast food restaurants. There’s a Wal-Mart, a Best Buy, Kohl’s, Barne’s and Noble and a Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s. Probably more.[/quote]
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[quote name=WaLi2]Disclaimer: I’m originally from Florida and have only been in central IL for 3 years (and unfortunately doesn’t have a basement in his house).
I thought tornados were random and what not, but two days ago they mentioned that this storm was going to be massive and there would be tornados. Isn’t that enough time to figure out how/where to hunker down?
In Florida we get pounded by hurricanes, the advantage being that you know a hurricane is coming way ahead of time. If you are caught in the middle of it you are a dumbass.[/quote]
Out of curiosity, where in Florida were you from?
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[quote name=Aisle424]I think tornadoes still don’t scare people as much because they are so localized. I was in St. Louis when the tornado tore through their airport and flattened a couple of neighborhoods. We got a bit of rain and wind. We were about 5 miles away.
I think after seeing that people think the odds are with them that nothing will happen.[/quote]Exactly. Before I was married I never went to the basement. Not in Iowa and not in Kansas. The odds of any tornado hitting me were so small that it just seemed a complete waste of time to get off my lazy ass and move. Not even that, I’d go outside. I’d go for a drive. One time I was in Utah with a couple friends. I was about 22 or 23. Several tornadoes had touched down near where we were. We did nothing.
Oh yeah, my friends and I were camping.
A hurricane is different because it’s not nearly as localized as you say. The tornado just isn’t likely to hit where you are at that moment. I’ve lived in Iowa and Kansas most of my life and I’ve still never seen a tornado in person. The time in Utah was the closest I had ever been to one where it hit and I was several miles away.
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[quote name=Mish]I just think this year’s tornadoes have heart. In previous years, they might kill 1-2 people and then give up. This year they are showing more fight.[/quote]
(dying laughing) +1 faget point for nice snark.
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[quote name=mb21]Basically, in a mile stretch in that area you have a mall, a few gas stations, about 10 restaurants (like an Applebee’s) and many other fast food restaurants. There’s a Wal-Mart, a Best Buy, Kohl’s, Barne’s and Noble and a Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s. Probably more.[/quote]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANcuDQbXYw0#t=4m32s
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Fleita said. “But both are having good at-bats. There are times when Vitters is too patient at the plate.”
fail
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[quote name=Xoomwaffle]Out of curiosity, where in Florida were you from?[/quote]
Grew up in the Jacksonville Beach area, went to college in Orlando.
WaLi2Quote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]Grew up in the Jacksonville Beach area, went to college in Orlando.[/quote]
So neither are places that get hit hard by Hurricanes.
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The warning system in Kansas isn’t any better. It’s just something they like to use. They figure if they use it so frequently that people will be too afraid to leave their basements. Next up for Kansas legislature: force families to remain in basement forever. Fewer deaths that way.
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[quote name=mb21]One time I was in Utah with a couple friends. I was about 22 or 23. Several tornadoes had touched down near where we were. We did nothing.[/quote]
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(dying laughing) dj, did he really say that?
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[quote name=Jame Gumb]
[/quote](dying laughing)
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[quote name=Jame Gumb]And just in case none of you got that…
[quote name=mb21]Basically, in a mile stretch in that area you have a mall, a few gas stations, about 10 restaurants (like an Applebee’s) and many other fast food restaurants. There’s a Wal-Mart, a Best Buy, Kohl’s, Barne’s and Noble and a Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s. Probably more.[/quote]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANcuDQbXYw0#t=4m32s%5B/quote%5D
If I could +faget point myself for this comment, I would.
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[quote name=mb21]Basically, in a mile stretch in that area you have a mall, a few gas stations, about 10 restaurants (like an Applebee’s) and many other fast food restaurants. [/quote]
Is that like a replacement level restaurant?
WaLi2Quote Reply
he really did http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/5574
thats like saying marmol walks too few batters. if this is the instruction we are giving guys like Vitters is a fucking miracle we ever produce players
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[quote name=Jame Gumb]If I could +faget point myself for this comment, I would.[/quote]
If I were ever to end my Internet posting career, it would be immediately after a comment like No. 258. That might be the best post I could ever come up with.
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[quote name=dylanj]he really did http://blogs.dailyherald.com/node/5574
thats like saying marmol walks too few batters. if this is the instruction we are giving guys like Vitters is a fucking miracle we ever produce players[/quote]
I think they’re frustrated with the taking of pitches within the strike zone, but there are also times when there’s a strike that you either foul off, or you can’t do anything with, so I have no issues with those. I do get annoyed with guys like Soto sometimes for not protecting the plate on borderline pitches that go as called third strikes. Sometimes the ump is just blind. However, given the context of what we know of the Cubs, telling a guy NOT to talk walks if they’re gift-wrapped is stupid.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]If I were ever to end my Internet posting career, it would be immediately after a comment like No. 258. That might be the best post I could ever come up with.[/quote]
Is that a fact?
WaLi2Quote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]Is that like a replacement level restaurant?[/quote]Pretty much. I might give Applebee’s +.1 WAR. It’s an OK bench player for a team that is contending. (dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Jame Gumb]If I were ever to end my Internet posting career, it would be immediately after a comment like No. 258. That might be the best post I could ever come up with.[/quote]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27RzZEOkeA#t=1m27s
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At this point I can’t help but think any comments made by the organization about Vitters are only about building confidence. They know what they have with him. If he can’t hit .300 and hit 30 home runs he’s probably not going to have much of a career in baseball. The guy cannot get on base. At all. Even if he did hit .300 with 30 home runs his value will be limited.
mb21Quote Reply
(dying laughing) saw this question on FB:
6÷2(1+2)=?
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]Is that a fact?[/quote]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANcuDQbXYw0#t=0m20s
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[quote name=Mish](dying laughing) saw this question on FB:
6÷2(1+2)=?[/quote]
2 or 288 are correct.
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KG –
Robert Whitenack, RHP, Cubs (Double-A Tennessee): 6 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 K
Whitenack entered the year with very little fanfare, but he’s generating attention after striking out 25 while walking just one in four Florida State League starts and then delivering six shutout innings in his Double-A debut yesterday. An eighth-round pick in 2009 who had an ERA near five for Low-A Peoria last year, Whitenack’s doesn’t throw especially hard, but his average-velocity fastball plays up due to the downhill plane created by his 6-foot-5 frame as well as the heavy sink he gets on the pitch, while he’s always he a good slow curveball to go with it. His ceiling is as a back-end starter, but that’s a massive improvement from where he was heading into the year as little more than an organizational arm.
#
# Jae-Hoon Ha, OF, Cubs (High-A Daytona): 2-for-5, R, RBI, BB. First walk in 18 games gives him .370/.381/.593 batting line; plus-plus arm recording sixth assist of the year last night and has 25 in 174 outfield games.
Matt Szczur, OF, Cubs (Low-A Peoria): 3-for-4, 2B, BB, K. Three straight multi-hit games raise averages to .310/.385/.379; scouts see a slashy swing with little power, and he’s yet to really use his speed with just one stolen base.
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[quote name=Mish]Matt Szczur, OF, Cubs (Low-A Peoria): 3-for-4, 2B, BB, K. Three straight multi-hit games raise averages to .310/.385/.379; scouts see a slashy swing with little power, and he’s yet to really use his speed with just one stolen base.[/quote]
So pretty much right around the time I bashed him as a prospect.
At least the scouts agree with me.
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[quote name=Mish](dying laughing) saw this question on FB:
6÷2(1+2)=?[/quote]So what’s the answer?
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]So what’s the answer?[/quote]6÷2(1+2)= 3a÷a(a/a+a)
where a = 2, obviously.
WaLi2Quote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2]6÷2(1+2)= 3a÷a(a/a+a)
where a = 2, obviously.[/quote]So the answer is 3a?
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]So what’s the answer?[/quote]The absolute value of -9.
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]So the answer is 3a?[/quote]Maybe this will tell us who owns the Cubs.
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[quote name=Jame Gumb]If I could +faget point myself for this comment, I would.[/quote]
I got you you’re faget point. I love that damn movie.
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[quote name=mb21]The problem is that larger population centers can’t “hunker down” like smaller areas can. Traffic is often ridiculous in bad weather and not even drivable in a larger city. In a small city you could have every living person in a car and you’d still be traveling like nobody is on the road. In smaller cities, the population isn’t as condensed. There’s no huge company that employs thousands of people. A larger city not only has one of those, but often multiple places where there more employees than a small town even has in total population.
Topeka is relatively spread out. If a tornado came through here it likely wouldn’t kill many (if any at all) unless it went through certain parts of the city where the population density is higher. Take the mall for example. It’s not large by any definition, but it has a lot of employees and customers. If a tornado tears apart the mall or anywhere near it, there are going to be deaths. There are dozens of restaurants in the area and gas stations.
Basically, in a mile stretch in that area you have a mall, a few gas stations, about 10 restaurants (like an Applebee’s) and many other fast food restaurants. There’s a Wal-Mart, a Best Buy, Kohl’s, Barne’s and Noble and a Sam’s Club, Home Depot and Lowe’s. Probably more. If a tornado touched down in that area and was the size of the one that tore through parts of Alabama there would be many deaths.
On the other hand, if one tore through my neighborhood, there likely wouldn’t be any. There are four houses on a mile or mile and a half stretch of road where I live. Three of the families have kids who are off to college or living elsewhere. It’s just the husband and wife. We have two kids. There’s basically 10 people living in the same mile stretch. We all have basements. After the 79th siren we would eventually go down to the basement.
Take another mile stretch. The first house I bought in Topeka and still own is in a residential section, but toward the outskirts of the city. The same mile stretch would have dozens of houses. Maybe a hundred. Most of the families have children. There is probably no less than 400 people. If it went through there we’d likely see a death or two and several injuries.
The difference in location matters. Without an understanding of the difference the death total is irrelevant. One tornado in Topeka would probably kill at least 10 to 20. Another would kill nobody and injuries would also be highly unlikely. Yet another one would cause a few injuries and maybe a death. Same city. Same size tornado.[/quote]
Right.Density is the big difference here. I don’t know the exact path of the tornado in Tuscaloosa, but from what I’ve been able to gather it went through heavily populated neighborhoods, near campus, lots of rent houses and apartment houses, (probably none of which had basements or shelters) as well as down a major stretch of in-town highway, probably catching lots of people at work. It just destroyed a friend of mine’s house in Alberta City, a residential suburb to the East. The combination of the width and force of the tornado in Tuscaloosa, and the density of the areas where it touched down, just isn’t comparable to what even a stronger one
could do in a midwestern town of 3,000 folks.
UrkQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]Maybe this will tell us who owns the Cubs.[/quote](dying laughing)
Sorry, I’m not a mathfag. More of a historyfag.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck](dying laughing)
Sorry, I’m not a mathfag. More of a historyfag.[/quote]
The key is you’re a fag.
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]The key is you’re a fag.[/quote](dying laughing) I love this shithole
WaLi2Quote Reply
My opinion is that Alabama has lucked out in terms of deaths. It could have been a lot higher. I’d say the fact that so few people died compare to a recent one in Kansas that they’re doing just fine when it comes to warnings.
mb21Quote Reply
[quote name=Mish]The key is you’re a fag.[/quote]That’s all I ask.
[quote name=WaLi2](dying laughing) I love this shithole[/quote]That’s what he said.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=WaLi2](dying laughing) I love this shithole[/quote]This is the worst thing to every happen on this blog.
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[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]So what’s the answer?[/quote]
I think if we use the Mish method, it’s 9.
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[quote name=mb21]My opinion is that Alabama has lucked out in terms of deaths. It could have been a lot higher. I’d say the fact that so few people died compare to a recent one in Kansas that they’re doing just fine when it comes to warnings.[/quote]False.
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[quote name=Rice Cube]I think if we use the Mish method, it’s 9.[/quote]So is the that the answer?
Mercurial OutfielderQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]So is the that the answer?[/quote]Is that like a solution?
GBTSQuote Reply
[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]So is the that the answer?[/quote]
I think so.
Though berselius said that the division symbol is used as a separator for the denominator, but in this case if we use the order of operations rule, 9 is the answer. Otherwise, if it wasn’t written with the division symbol that most people don’t use anymore, it’s 1.
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[quote name=GBTS]Is that like a solution?[/quote]
No, this is:
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[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]So is the that the answer?[/quote]
The answer is really 9, based on order of operations, but most will view it as 1.
WaLi2Quote Reply
[quote name=Rice Cube]No, this is:
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[quote name=Mercurial Outfielder]So is the that the answer?[/quote]Mathfags, what’s the correct order of operation for that mathmatical equation? Some say you do parentheses first. If that’s the case, 6/2(3) which would be 3×3=9. But some would say 6/6=1 because some might do 2(3) first, then the division.
Or am I a faget?
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=GBTS]Is that like a misting solution?[/quote]
Correct. Apply liberally.
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[quote name=Lukas]I got you you’re faget point. I love that damn movie.[/quote]
As your huckleberry, I have reciprocated.
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I don’t know if the second sentence is supposed to buoy the first or it’s just a statement of fact:
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]Mathfags, what’s the correct order of operation for that mathmatical equation? Some say you do parentheses first. If that’s the case, 6/2(3) which would be 3×3=9. But some would say 6/6=1 because some might do 2(3) first, then the division.
Or am I a faget?[/quote]
Parentheses
Exponent
Multiplication/Division left to right
Addition/Subtraction letf to right
What’s goofy is teh notation, as usually the “/” indicates everything after it is in the denominator. /berselius
But technically, 9 is correct, which is the best kind of correct.
MishQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish](dying laughing) saw this question on FB:
6÷2(1+2)=
[/quote].
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[quote name=Aisle424]I think tornadoes still don’t scare people as much because they are so localized. I was in St. Louis when the tornado tore through their airport and flattened a couple of neighborhoods. We got a bit of rain and wind. We were about 5 miles away.
I think after seeing that people think the odds are with them that nothing will happen.[/quote]I live in a pretty small town. A tornado hit 2 miles away from my house, and I learned of it on twitter. (dying laughing)
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[quote name=Mish]Parentheses
Exponent
Multiplication/Division left to right
Addition/Subtraction letf to right
What’s goofy is teh notation, as usually the “/” indicates everything after it is in the denominator. /berselius
But technically, 9 is correct, which is the best kind of correct.[/quote]
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Holy shit that kid got plowed.
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Mish]I don’t know if the second sentence is supposed to buoy the first or it’s just a statement of fact:[/quote]
Obviously 7.91
WaLi2Quote Reply
7.91 > 7.15, therefore Dempster is a better pitcher on the road.
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A man gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom.
He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting.
“What’s up” he says.
“I’m having a heart attack!” cries the woman.
He rushes downstairs to grab the phone for ambulance, but just as he’s dialing, his 4-year-old son comes up and says, “Daddy! Daddy! Uncle Fred is hiding in your closet and he’s got no clothes on!”
The man slams the phone down and storms upstairs into the bedroom, past his screaming wife, and rips open the wardrobe door. Sure enough, there is his brother, totally naked, covering on the closet floor.
“You bastard!” the man says, “my wife is having a heart attack and you’re running around naked scaring the kids!”
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[quote name=Jame Gumb]Nathan H. from Omaha gets home early from work and hears strange noises coming from the bedroom.
He rushes upstairs to find his wife naked on the bed, sweating and panting.
“What’s up” he says.
“I’m having a heart attack!” cries the woman.
He rushes downstairs to grab the phone for ambulance, but just as he’s dialing, his 4-year-old son comes up and says, “Daddy! Daddy! Uncle Fred is hiding in your closet and he’s got no clothes on!”
Nathan H. from Omaha slams the phone down and storms upstairs into the bedroom, past his screaming wife, and rips open the wardrobe door. Sure enough, there is his brother, totally naked, covering on the closet floor.
“You bastard!” Nathan H. from Omaha says, “my wife is having a heart attack and you’re running around naked scaring the kids!”[/quote]
Trying something here…assuming that Nathan H. from Omaha is of suitable reproductive age, or knows how to perform the act thereof…
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I see what you did there.
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Anybody know how long that mlb.tv Free Game of the Day promotion is going on?
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]Anybody know how long that mlb.tv Free Game of the Day promotion is going on?[/quote]
2882 days.Dr. Aneus TaintQuote Reply
im still shaking my head about Vitters being too patient. A bunch of us follow smokies games. He sees about 2 pitches per AB. That first one must be an underhand lob or something
dylanjQuote Reply
About 4 hours until the draft and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflYjF90t7c#t=0m9s
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[quote name=dylanj]im still shaking my head about Vitters being too patient. A bunch of us follow smokies games. He sees about 2 pitches per AB. That first one must be an underhand lob or something[/quote]Serious question, but does it really matter how patient a guy is in the minors? Yeah it’s important to walk and all but don’t you want to be more worried about his ball/strike judgement then his ability to walk? I wouldn’t necessarily care if he’s swinging at good pitches and hitting them hard but making outs. Isn’t that something you can teach someone when they get called up? How to take a walk?
I’m not implying that’s what you are saying DJ, just curious.
MuckerQuote Reply
no, i dont believe you can teach somebody to take a walk. Its a skill and you either have it or you dont.
dylanjQuote Reply
and yeah i do believe there is a correlation between successful hitters & being patient at all levels including the minors.
dylanjQuote Reply
[quote name=dylanj]no, i dont believe you can teach somebody to take a walk. Its a skill and you either have it or you dont.[/quote][quote name=dylanj]and yeah i do believe there is a correlation between successful hitters & being patient at all levels including the minors.[/quote]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBfdl6hNZ9k#t=0m21s
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Mucker, the other reason is that you expect a guy’s hitting skill to decrease as he moves up the system, so you want him to have some other skills to fall back on. If he can still hit .300 or so no big deal (see Castro), but if not then there’s not a lot of value there.
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[quote name=Berselius]Mucker, the other reason is that you expect a guy’s hitting skill to decrease as he moves up the system, so you want him to have some other skills to fall back on. If he can still hit .300 or so no big deal (see Castro), but if not then there’s not a lot of value there.[/quote]I see. Do you guys believe that the hitters in the Cubs system really are naturally terrible at taking walks or are they being coached to hit the ball and put it in play reflecting their weak OBP skills?
MuckerQuote Reply
[quote name=Muck Muckintuck]I see. Do you guys believe that the hitters in the Cubs system really are naturally terrible at taking walks or are they being coached to hit the ball and put it in play reflecting their weak OBP skills?[/quote]
FWIW, both Sam Fuld and Ryan Theriot said the organization asked them to swing more and walk less.
MishQuote Reply
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/28/local-columnist-tells-injured-twins-to-suck-it-up-and-play/
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(dying laughing)
WaLi2Quote Reply
He’s being way too hard on Gardenhire. Maybe he’s like Quade and scheduled the injuries a month ahead of time to get them out of the way.
Aisle424Quote Reply
For anyone who likes to watch top prospects regardless of organization, Alex White will be starting Saturday vs the Tigers.
MishQuote Reply
Because my dog likes to piss on other dogs’ shit, and sometimes roll around in other dogs’ shit.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
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