Wednesday morning Rangers things
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 25, 2009 10:30 AM CST
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What a letdown.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
Samething let me see if there is any news for the Texas
Rangers
IF you see a opportunity you take the opportunity
It's Hard to be a Spurs Fan in Dallas
by sportsfan900 on Nov 25, 2009 10:40 AM CST up reply actions
Elvis went 1-4 R
Julio is hitting .207 6-29 2B 3BB 5K 2SB 1CS
"I was going to say, 'You’re gay for Elvis.' But then I realized that I, too, am gay for Elvis." ~Adam J. Morris.
Lol
look at yahoo Sports page for the Texas Rangers has
November 25, 2009
Montgomery County inmate hangs himself – (Beaumont Enterprise) External link
Rusk County: Answers sought in inmate’s death – (The Longview News-Journal) External link
New Black Panther Party set to march in Henderson next month – (The Daily Sentinel) External link
November 24, 2009
Ailing inmate hangs himself in Montgomery County – (Houston Chronicle) External link
Search under way for a new Taft City Manager – (Corpus Christi Caller-Times) External link
Somebody blinked in Fort Worth – (Denton Record-Chronicle) External link
Tom Schieffer’s exit from Texas Democrats’ gubernatorial race sets the stage for Bill White – (Dallas Morning News) External link
POLICE NEWS: Chase ends in shooting, arrest near Mexia State School – (Waco Tribune-Herald) External link
Houston Mayor Bill White to consider running for governor – (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) External link
November 23, 2009
Attorney: Irving officers didn’t identify themselves before shooting man – (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) External link
Democratic candidate Tom Schieffer quits Texas governor’s race – (Dallas Morning News) External link
Schieffer drops out of Texas governor’s race – (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) External link
Police: Shooting victim had gun – (Amarillo Globe-News) External link
There thinking of The Police Group
IF you see a opportunity you take the opportunity
It's Hard to be a Spurs Fan in Dallas
The rules of capitilization
Pfft. He sneers at them.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 25, 2009 10:55 AM CST up reply actions
I hadn't followed Jonny Lang for a while, but I recently got caught up on youtube, and I think
he has put together a really interesting catalogue of tunes. Anyone else care about blues music?
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
I'm not real up on his entire body of work, but...
…the stuff I’ve heard was pretty good IMO.
I have no objection to man walking on the moon.
by Chad Crudup on Nov 25, 2009 10:53 AM CST up reply actions
Love the blues...
But older stuff, I need to get into some contemporary artists….got any for me?
I like swampy, boogie type stuff….like delta, Mississippi hill country stuff…
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
Not a lot of new artists in that genre. Tons of really good old stuff, of course.
Paul Wine Jones isn’t all that young and he died in 2005 at age 59, but was among the contemporary delta blues kings. Same can be said of R. L. Burnside.
I think you kind of have to go there to hear the younger delta blues folks. Not too many MP3s or CDs made in that genre. Billy Jones is about the youngest guy out there doing any straight delta blues amidst his blues catalogue, and he got signed to a record deal in Denmark.
Here is a youtube playlist called Delta Boogie with a bunch of bands I don’t know.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
North Mississippi All-Stars are pretty good, you should check them out.
Thanks for that youtube thing.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
I hear that Ron Washington is stuffing his turkey with sunflower seeds this year.
Might try it.
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
heh ...well I hope he doesn't leave it in the oven too long.
Good help doesn't come cheap.
- Gil LeBreton
I bet you can carve the turkey just by like karate choppin it.
Or squeezing it against your biceps/shoulder.
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
What? Make your eyes move like that?
I don’t think it’s possible for a real person. That is a cartoon, I/O Range.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 11:15 AM CST up reply actions
I believe people have been able to go "crosseyed" since 1921
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
by iorange555 on Nov 25, 2009 11:17 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Right before realizing you don't have to pull your pants all the way down to pee.
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
by iorange555 on Nov 25, 2009 11:19 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
During the "I'm tired of seeing your ass everytime you pee" Movement in 1920
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
by iorange555 on Nov 25, 2009 11:20 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I was forced to attend a different elementary school
after 2nd grade. The school I had been at was turned into a middle school. We young’ins peed without a bare ass.
The first day of 3rd grade at my new school, I walk into the bathroom to a bunch of kids pissing with their pants at their ankles. It shocked me, and disturbed me. I thought it was a school rule, “One must drop pants to feet while urinating.” I refused.
"you stupid motherfucker?!?!!?" - Josey Wales
If you stuff your turkey with sunflower seeds
Do you have to cook it on a spit ?
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Nov 25, 2009 12:14 PM CST up reply actions
I see what you did there
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 12:16 PM CST up reply actions
Drove home from Houston yesterday for Thanksgiving
2 yr old Infiniti, transmission shot. stranded on 59 for a while. FML.
"Clearly, I've been wrong. VY is awesome." - AJM
Winters Past...
We’ve had some fun off-season speculation around here. But, I’m getting concerned this year may be one of the worst ever.
No Zito chatter, No Tex trade considerations, no managerial changes, etc.
Oh what to do.
Bitching about supposed PED users sounds like a good time
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Nov 25, 2009 10:58 AM CST up reply actions
have you?
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Nov 26, 2009 9:44 AM CST up reply actions
Perhaps the complete and total radio silence means something gigantic will go down out of the blue
I will await a Newberg Flash that says:
“Multiple sources are reporting that Jon Daniels has traded Justin Smoak, Julio Borbon, Scott Feldman, Frank Francisco, Blake Beavan, Kasey Kiker, Danny Gutierrez, and Wilmer Font to the St. Louis Cardinals for Albert Pujols and Chris Carpenter.
Wow.
Much, much, much more in the next Newberg Report."
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
That'd be a fucking steal.
the quantity is there, but the quality only shows up in a few spots.
"Blister please, with those wings in your spine.
Love to be with a brother of mine.
How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth,
In a struggle to find secret songs that you keep,
Wrapped in boxes so tight, sounding only at night as you sleep." ~Jeff Mangum; Neutral Milk Hotel
OT: Fantastic Mr. Fox
I got to see it last night at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and it is amazing. Visually it is incredibly well done, and it walks the line between a children’s movie and an adult movie as well as any movie I can remember. Definitely Anderson’s best work since Tenenbaums, and maybe even Rushmore.
It was sort of funny because Anderson’s parents were in attendence and he the way he always portrays his mothers as passive and quietly supportive and his fathers as ecclectic, which his children vying for his affection…you just sat there thinking “I already know you people.”
What is this, Horseville? Because I'm surrounded by naysayers.
Movie game anyone?
Owen Wilson — Bottlerockets
Next…
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
So, the next person selects and actor from Bottlerockets and lists a movie that person was in.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
Will Ferrell -- Wedding Crashers
"Nothing we do here has a point" - Czar Morris
by inactive lsb user on Nov 25, 2009 12:21 PM CST up reply actions
Heather Graham -- Boogie Nights
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
Mike Myers - Austin Powers
"BIg whoop, wanna fight about it?"
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
by lost in space on Nov 25, 2009 12:40 PM CST up reply actions
Mike Myers - So I Married an Axe Murderer
(he played multiple roles in Austin Powers so I’m using him again)
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 12:52 PM CST up reply actions
Can't do that - Rob Lowe - St. Elmo's Fire
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
Ineligible. Robert Wagner - Wild Things
Lowe was only in the sequels… when a movie is listed without subtitle, it’s assumed it’s the original film in the series.
Kevin Bacon - Footloose
Actually, the way I was wrong is Heather Graham wasn’t in the sequel with Rob Lowe.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
Richard Dreyfuss - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 2:32 PM CST up reply actions
Terri Garr - Dumb and Dumber
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
Sarah Jessica Parker - Mars Attacks!
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 1:17 PM CST up reply actions
Damn!
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 1:19 PM CST up reply actions
Jack Nicholson - Terms of Endearment
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
venturafearsnolan beat me to the punch
you are stuck with All That Jazz. I never saw it, so I’m stumped.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 1:42 PM CST up reply actions
I never saw it either which is why I refused
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
That's cheating.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 2:11 PM CST up reply actions
Debra Winger - An Officer and a Gentleman
You just don't sit in a rocking chair, when you've built a revolution.
Louis Gosset Jr - Enemy Mine
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
How did that comment get edited?
It used to say Austin Powers. I didn’t think comments could be changed once posted.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 2:34 PM CST up reply actions
Rushmore
One of my favorite lines ever haha.
These are OR scrubs.
Oh, are they? hahaha
"More than likely JW never played sports above the youth level. It amazes me that he seems to have no concept on the common reactions of an adult athlete or their normal interactions between each other." - laxonto
by Michael Cave on Nov 25, 2009 11:33 AM CST up reply actions
Limited release
I saw it last night at the Angelika.
by brettgardner on Nov 25, 2009 12:25 PM CST up reply actions
I've become more of a fan watching them again.
It’s obviously a bit annoying that every movie has essentially the same characters, but I enjoyed Rushmore a lot more after seeing it again recently.
by brettgardner on Nov 25, 2009 1:18 PM CST up reply actions
I actually rewatched it a few months ago...
It was for a film forum I’m on… I hadn’t seen it in probably 7-8 years, and while I didn’t hate it, it didn’t do much for me… basically, the same reaction I had the first time.
I think his film that I’m the strongest about was Darjeeling.
And to take this in a controversial tangent, save Broken Flowers, I could take or leave Bill Murray’s “serious” filmography.
Darjeerling I really enjoyed.
Do you count Ed Wood as serious? If so, I thought he was fantastic in it.
by brettgardner on Nov 25, 2009 1:26 PM CST up reply actions
Loved Rushmore...
Tenenbaums, not so much.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
Thank you.
I get a lot of shit for disliking Tenenbaums. But I loved Rushmore, and I still don’t see the appeal of Royal Tenenbaums.
Tenenbaums is excellent...
from Alec Baldwin’s narration to Mark Mothersbaugh’s score.
I thought it was a pitch perfect droll comedy.
Rushmore is one of my favorite films and is Anderson’s best. Bottle Rocket is unpolished but genuine. Darjeeling Limited is very poignant and beautifully made. And goodness, the music in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is fantastic and Bill Murray fights pirates with a bare-chested intern. What’s not to like?
I know it’s a hipster thing to say, but I dig Wes Anderson’s stuff.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 25, 2009 5:23 PM CST up reply actions
Fair enough.
I was ok with Tenenbaums, but it wasn’t a movie I would go out of my way to watch again like Rushmore was (or Darjeeling).
"I know it’s a hipster thing to say, but I dig Wes Anderson’s stuff"
See, I don’t think that’s the case anymore. I think the hipster 2009 move is to play the contrarian and talk about how lame or overrated he is.
I agreed w/ everything else you said above, except Life Aquatic. That movie was just awkward and off key for me. It almost felt like I was watching a film that would have been better served by a different director, as odd as that sounds. It was like the timing was off.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 25, 2009 6:58 PM CST up reply actions
This was in my E-mail under Texas Rangers
http://www.moneyhelpyou.com/online-application-texas-rangers%C2%AE-extra-bases%C2%AE-credit-card/
So, there’s always that.
I'm just goofin' new boot goofin'
could be worse, you could be at the airport fighting holiday traffic
Nobody is perfect, i am nobody, therefore, i am perfect
by 34express on Nov 25, 2009 11:13 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
I've heard airports aren't that bad this year....
lots of empty seats on planes. But yeh I’d rather not be at one myself.
Good help doesn't come cheap.
- Gil LeBreton
I cannot tell you how many times I've used Flight Aware during various Texas A&M coaching vacancies and rumored coaching changes
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
OT: I read this and it reminded me of all the arguments on this board
People should definitely read this and take the advice to heart.
How to Lose and Online Argument
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 11:10 AM CST reply actions
Doh! That should be "an Online Argument"
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 11:11 AM CST up reply actions
Every device he claims will lose an argument is how I win mine
In my mind at least.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
John Sickels has an interesting interview with Billy Beane.
He doesn’t come right out and say it, but I don’t think Beane thought the A’s had as good a team as lots of others (myself included) thought he did this year.
I don’t think saying Beane knows baseball and his team better than we do is a stretch, though. . .
I never understood...
…why so many people were picking them to be so successful last year.
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 25, 2009 11:24 AM CST up reply actions
To be fair. . .
. . . their pythag (and third order) wins were only about 3 or 4 fewer than I picked them to put together. I just thought that would be enough to win the division. Hey, by third order, they were a winning ball club and only five back in the division.
Yeah, same here
It’s like everyone looked at the team and said, “this appears to be a crappy team on the face…but Beane wouldn’t build a crappy team, so he must have something REALLY tricky up his sleeve…A’s will win the AL West!!!”
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
No.
For me, at least, and I’m sure others, it hinged more on thinking the AL West was going to be weaker than it ended up being than thinking the A’s were going to be really good.
The projections completely missed on the Angels and Rangers
Why people keep projecting the Angels to be an 85 win team astonishes me. They have outperformed their Pythagorean record 6 straight years, in some cases by many games. I’m pretty sure that that is closing in on a statistically improbable trend (especially if you consider the magnitudes); something must be going on with their style of play/roster construction. Pythag is an approximation that makes several assumptions – the key one being that runs scored and runs allowed are independent; it is conceivable that a team’s style/approach can violate this. Basically, if teams are biased such that they typically win games by 1 or 2 runs and lose by many more runs, then they will consistently overperform their Pythag. It is easy to imagine how optimal bullpen use (only use your best pitchers in close wins, allowing losses to get out of hand and blowout wins to regress towards close wins) would yield this.
The Rangers were just missed because it is difficult to assess the contribution of defense and make projections for rookies.
Go Rice Owls!
Angels third order record was like 86 wins.
You may have a good argument that the Angels do something specific to outperform their pythag, but until that’s actually known, you don’t include something like that in a scientific projection formula.
You can, however, include it as a part of your subjective alterations once such a system has done its work.
Oh, I'm not saying to include that in a formulation
I’m just saying that when people run their projections and see that the Angels will likely only score 50 runs more than the allow next year not to start dismissing them out of the race.
Go Rice Owls!
BTW, concerning the Angels.....
John Dewan’s stat of the week has them as the #1 baserunning team, excluding steals, meaning their ability to go first to third, second to home, and first to home was best in the majors in 2009.
I wonder if this is related to their ability to beat their pythagorean w-l? I haven’t seen anybody analyze this possibility.
For the record, here are the top 5 baserunning teams, excluding steals:
Angels +77
Rockies +70
Blue Jays +62
Phillies +46
Giants +45
DBacks +45
Plus means more number of extra bases taken relative to league average runners.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
I doubt it
I think it does help explain why they beat their 2nd and 3rd order wins, since those use expected runs and expected runs allowed based on individual offensive components, but not Pythag.
by Adam J. Morris on Nov 25, 2009 12:15 PM CST up reply actions
Right. Of course, pythagorean w-l doesn't care where the runs come from or how efficiently they've scored.
Hopefully, I was thinking 2nd and 3rd order wins when I typed that, but I don’t remember.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
I've always thought the exact same thing
(about why the Angels outperform their pythag).
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 12:21 PM CST up reply actions
yeah
It seemed like the people picking the A’s assumed that their pitching would be good as always and their hitting would be at least adequate with Giambi, Cabrera, Holliday, and Cust. Then, it turned out Giambi was old, Cabrera was a bust, Holliday was good but suffered from a huge park effect shift, and Cust is more limited as a player than his advocates like to admit.
Heck, their pitching was great this year, especially their bullpen. All from a bunch of young kids. I think people need to treat Oakland’s offense like they treat Texas’s pitching: assume that it will be awful and horrendous until proven otherwise
Go Rice Owls!
Hm.
When a player first reaches the majors, he’s in survival mode, just getting use to the pace of the game, the big league setting, the travel, playing against the best guys he’s ever faced before. Eventually they move beyond that survival mode, they get comfortable, and then you see how good they really are. The time it takes is different for every player, some of them the adjustment happens fast, sometimes it takes longer, sometimes there are setbacks. Right now, we have a lot of players who are making that transition from survival mode to realizing they belong. But once it clicks, the upward improvement can be incredibly rapid, and it is a beautiful thing to watch happen, for the specific player and when it happens to a team as a whole.
So Nellie was just stuck in survivor mode for too long?
I don't think all the comfort in the world
is going to make the players currently on that roster hit the ball.
Go Rice Owls!
by the way
who do you think the A’s would give us for Nellie, assuming divisional rivalry didn’t exist? You know that Beane would see a lot of value in the guy (after all, he traded for him 10 years ago or so). He’d be a good piece on that team.
Go Rice Owls!
So Chris Davis just needs to get some survival training with Bear Grylls?
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS
Maybe someone could say something political
That always gets things stirred up
Would have been fine if he just added the 'stache
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 12:30 PM CST up reply actions
Man...
We ain’t doin’ that shit again (at least I’m not).
Being Texas Rangers fans carries a certain political ambiguity. Texas is a super-conservative state. Those that live within the cities tend to (judging by county votes for president in the last election cycle) vote liberal. So I think no matter what, we’ll constantly be at odds.
I think we just have to agree to disagree and just fucking love baseball (and the Rangers). The end.
6 degrees to kevin bacon
connect kevin bacon to kevin spacey, go!
"More than likely JW never played sports above the youth level. It amazes me that he seems to have no concept on the common reactions of an adult athlete or their normal interactions between each other." - laxonto
Kevin Bacon with Billy Crudup in The Sleepers
Billy Crudup with Frances McDormand in Almost Famous, Francis McDormand with George Clooney in Burn After Reading, George Clooney with Kevin Spacey in The Men Who Stare at Goats
Kevin Bacon with John Vernon in Animal House
John Vernon with Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales (or alternatively, Dirty Harry), Clint Eastwood with Kevin Spacey in Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
I didn't even realize Brad Pitt was in the The Sleepers
That could have saved me some time. The Sleepers, though, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, and Brad Pitt… I good one to keep in mind when playing the game.
don't forget Brad Pitt was in True Romance
you can tie him to Spacey I’m sure through Christopher Walken or James Gandolphini, Dennis Hopper, Balki from Perfect Strangers, Patricia Arquette, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman…so many people…
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
by Walter Sobchak on Nov 25, 2009 11:57 AM CST up reply actions
He must of thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 25, 2009 4:57 PM CST up reply actions
Sleepers
Pretty sure there isn’t a “the” in front of it.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 25, 2009 4:52 PM CST up reply actions
I've got the Outlaw Josey Wales on it's way from Netflix..
I wanna see what the real deal is like. I’m guessing we’ve got a watered down version here.
Good help doesn't come cheap.
- Gil LeBreton
He's given an outstanding movie a bad name
Josey Wales is one of my all time favorite movie characters. Great movie.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
John Vernon had an awesome little bit part in that
Don’t piss down my leg and tell me it’s raining…
That’s also the film where the phrase, “I’ll kick you so hard, you’ll be wearing your ass for a hat” originated.
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 25, 2009 5:00 PM CST up reply actions
was wondering that last night.
I’m getting one for my dog.
"Sometimes you just want to sit back and watch somebody throw 100." - Jeff Passan on Neftali Feliz
Have you read Joe Posnanski's analysis of the Snuggie informercial?
Phenomenal. I’ve read it probably five times and end up laughing hysterically until I cry every time.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
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Touche
http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/01/07/snuggies/
He starts off by analyzing his other favorite informercial products and it only gets more awesome from there.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
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Not to my knowledge
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
Heh.
I never understood why these toy windmills were supposed to be fun. Hey, look, I can make this thing go around! I mean, how many minutes of entertainment can even the smallest kid get out of that? It’s like those party favors that you blow, and the little paper unwinds and you hear that kazoo sound … really, you do that twice and haven’t you more or less drained all the possibilities?
Maybe Joe could take up the post-FJM slack.
The narrator says: “Blankets are OK, but they can slip and slide.†I love the early concession — Blankets are OK. This is not an attempt to put blanket people out of business, they want that clear up front.
The snuggie bear scares me.
Anyone seen the mad TV skit with the Snuggie Bear?
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Forget Smokey
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS
x
I don’t understand all the people raising the roof in the snuggie commercial.
Just more proof that people will buy anything.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
by GhostofSteveFoucault on Nov 25, 2009 11:55 AM CST up reply actions
There's clearly a market for multiple products.
We have Snuggie and Slanket, right?
So I’m going to start marketing something similar and call it “The Robe You Wear Backwards.”
How huge will Twins Snuggies be at their new stadium
when it opens in April…
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
by GhostofSteveFoucault on Nov 25, 2009 11:59 AM CST up reply actions
they need to put some velcro ...
on the damn things so you can close up the backs.
Good help doesn't come cheap.
- Gil LeBreton
Good point. That damn product is nothing more than a backwards robe.
Except robes have a way to close them up.
it would of cost nothing to do that...
who the hell wants to sit at a cold game with the back open?
Good help doesn't come cheap.
- Gil LeBreton
Tripping hazard?
If the thing is long enough to cover your feet (which are what are always cold for me), how can you get up and walk around without tripping?
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 12:49 PM CST up reply actions
Just silly
I’ll stick by my footy pajamas with the ass flap thankyouverymuch. Warm feet and poopability.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
Poopability!
That’s it! That’s why the Snuggie doesn’t velcro in the back. Mystery solved. The inventors are actually geniuses.
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 1:43 PM CST up reply actions
Wreck this bad boy up
I’ll be at the hallowed grounds of Edwin Jackson Kyle hoping to send Colt McCoy off with a 1-3 record against the Farmers.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
Internet greatness http://www.lonestarball.com/2009/11/10/1125340/will-carroll-calls-out-josey-wales
I have been posting regularly this season as to why Cart is not a Heisman contender.
And boy oh boy do UT fans get fucking PISSED about it! They generally respond with something like, “Colt McCoy is the winningest quarterback in history, dude.” which isn’t really an argument for the Heisman.
by FuturePants on Nov 25, 2009 11:54 AM CST up reply actions
I'm a UT homer
but Colt doesn’t deserve the Heisman this year. All of his numbers are down, except interceptions, and the offense hasn’t looked nearly as dominant as it seemed last year. If Colt couldn’t win it last year with the ridiculous numbers he had, (332/433 76.7%, 3,859pyds, 34td, 8int, 173.75rat, 561ryds, 11td,) he shouldn’t win it this year just because the pool is weaker and he set the all-time wins record. Oh and \m/ Hook’em Horns \m/ tamu sucks.
"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage of weapons is in my favor..." Hank Aaron
That's exactly what I don't get.
Can anyone explain to me just in what way Colt McCoy’s wins (or any other statistics) from previous seasons apply in any way, shape or fashion to this year’s Heisman Trophy – especially considering the Heisman is an annual award?
People who think Colt should win the Heisman are wearing UT blinders
I am a huge Longhorn homer and don’t think he belongs in the discussion. People point to his completion percentage but in that offense alot of guys could be close to that accurate. A vast majority of his throws are very short. It works but its not Heisman type performances
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
There's nothing logical about the Heisman
and, yes, Colt has a good chance at it this year and frankly people who call him Cart because of an injury he suffered from a late hit really do deserve the suckapalooaza that is aggy right now. As far as I am concerned aggy can keep on sucking until the end of time and it wont be long enough
praying for a miracle here
Man I’d love to see us ruin the day for Longhorn nation.
Favorite bumper sticker of all time, seen on a VW bus:
"Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody rides for free"
Oh boy me too.
I want to knock those arrogant jerks off their perch. If we can’t win a title or the Big XII, may as well ruin those fans’ day.
by FuturePants on Nov 25, 2009 11:50 AM CST up reply actions
Yes, cuz when the aggies were on top way back in the day, they were the height of humility
Neftali Feliz says sit your 5 dollar ass down before he makes change...
Hi, Keith. Is this the year Edinson Volquez finally wins RoY?
by Brian Thomas on Nov 25, 2009 5:03 PM CST up reply actions
GO FROGS!
TCU AD/PR Student: I Need A Job
by FormerLSBUser on Nov 25, 2009 12:09 PM CST up reply actions
Purple Rain?
http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/1791344.html
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Nov 25, 2009 11:40 PM CST up reply actions
Farmer's Fiiiiight!
Farmer’s Fiiiight!
Let’s say some more bullshit automaton yeeeells! (It’ll make us feel better for wearing overalls in our 20s!)
Yeah, I was a 2%er. Probably because I was at uni when A&M sucked donkey balls at football yet everyone on campus pretended that we were still FSM’s gift to football.
happy thanksgiving LSB
I have enjoyed reading all the baseball stuff this year. :)
I soloed in the Mile High Club!
by horsedooty on Nov 25, 2009 11:38 AM CST reply actions 2 recs
Josh Rupe is gone
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/11/royals-sign-josh-rupe-buck-coats.html
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Sad times
So much for contending in 2010.
"Dying ain't hard. It’s living in the wake of a thorough public humiliation that’s hard.--JDT217
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Royals have signed a bunch of these type of guys.
I don’t know what’s up with Drayton. He signs cast offs and throws away Gutierrez. Looks like to me that the Royals really aren’t going to spend money this offseason, since they put so much into their bullpen last offseason and appear to be doing just the opposite with the bullpen this offseason.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
supposedly they are pushing hard for Bedard
Favorite bumper sticker of all time, seen on a VW bus:
"Gas, Grass, or Ass. Nobody rides for free"
And I was just starting to like the Carl Everett trade
It was weird to see Anthony Webster playing against the St. Paul Saints in the Indy league this year. I had so much hope for him years back.
I think the Rangers traded the current version of Anthony Webster (ie Tim Smith) for Gutierrez.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
The only news of note that I've seen posted anywhere is that the Rangers aren't mentioned
in the Noel Arguelles list of potential suiters.
Pro baseball has always been a dream, so this is pretty freakin’ cool out here. -- Tim Steggall, undrafted Rangers minor leaguer.
OT: Would you include Paul Molitor on a short list of the greatest third basemen ever?
Or would you have a DH list?
Just from doing a quick look at his wiki,
He played 44% of his career games as a DH. Thats slightly under half his games played. I would still put him under 3rd.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
That's the position he most manned.
It could go either way. He did get statistically better from 87-98. 87-90 he was still playing 3rd base about the same if not more according to Baseball Reference. 90-98 he played DH with a little first. That means you would be basing a 21 year career over 8 years if you put him as an all time DH.
Don’t get me wrong, he never slowed down his stats shifting from 3rd to a DH.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
That could be incorrect
Wiki says he played 44 % at DH. The other 56 was mostly 3rd base.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
Why are you looking at his wiki?
Baseball Reference gives you the exact numbers
He played 1174 games at DH, 791 at 3B, 400 at 2B, and then played some more games everywhere but catcher.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
I cant believe how much better offensively Molitor got becoming a DH
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
Which is it? (I'm too lazy too look)
Don’t get me wrong, he never slowed down his stats shifting from 3rd to a DH.
or
I cant believe how much better offensively Molitor got becoming a DH
"What ... 92 miles per hour?" Feldman scoffed. "That's not gas. Feliz throws gas."
by NorCalRangersFan on Nov 25, 2009 12:36 PM CST up reply actions
His career tOPS+ at DH was 103.
Which suggests he was slightly better as a DH than he was otherwise, but not by enough to matter.
He was significantly better at 1B in a smaller sample. Without doing too much work, it does look like his totals in batting runs jumped quite a bit in his DH years, though. Of his 5 years of 30+ batting runs, 4 came in DH seasons. Pressumably staying healthy easier played a part in that.
put it this way. When he became DH he never looked back.
His stats got better with age. This is something MIke Young needs to come to terms on. It will help him and us long term.
The bloggerformelyknownasBigBaddBubbaJ
Oh, you mean, we've found a replacement at 3rd already.
J/K, but yeah, when that time comes, FACE should bow out of his position again. lol.
"Blister please, with those wings in your spine.
Love to be with a brother of mine.
How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth,
In a struggle to find secret songs that you keep,
Wrapped in boxes so tight, sounding only at night as you sleep." ~Jeff Mangum; Neutral Milk Hotel
That was not meant to be sarcasm.
I agree. It’s just a replacement 3rd baseman seems to be a while away.
"Blister please, with those wings in your spine.
Love to be with a brother of mine.
How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth,
In a struggle to find secret songs that you keep,
Wrapped in boxes so tight, sounding only at night as you sleep." ~Jeff Mangum; Neutral Milk Hotel
OT: Computer repair
How worried should I be about taking a computer to a computer-repair store, in regards to personal security I suppose
I was trying to get some kind of spyware/virus off of it; my brother and i used to download a ton of music via a software sharing program and it had kinda been running slow since we stopped using that program as frequently
That seems to be how some pedophiles get caught
Taking their computer in, repair guy finds illegal stuff. Sooooo….
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
If you have weird porn or nudes and ex...
no matter how well you think you’ve hidden it, it will be found.
Burn it or flash drive it before you take it in.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 25, 2009 5:25 PM CST up reply actions
Honestly, I'd trust a friend or relative that knew more than dick about computers...
…than some repair place that will charge you out the ass for a pretty simple set of (pain in the ass)
argh...damned cutoff
…simple set of (pain in the ass) procedures.
Spyware/malware is pretty easily gotten rid of. It just takes the right tools and/or wiping the whole fucking harddrive.
If you're fine with some extra work
You could avoid the problem by backing up all your important data and then just doing a clean re-install of your operating system. Its not that hard to do on your own, cleans any junk you had on the computer, and makes your computer good as new (unless there’s a hardware problem). If your computer is that bad, they might end up doing this anyway at whatever computer repair store you’d take it to.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
OT: this Leno/Schwarzenegger skit is pretty damn funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXI2GxxW-S8
Good help doesn't come cheap.
- Gil LeBreton
Leno...
is seriously the number 1 villain on the planet.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 25, 2009 5:26 PM CST up reply actions
I actually find him a lot easier to take than Jimmy Fallon.
Fallon scrapes along my nerve endings like a cheesegrater.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS
Yes...
but Fallon is just an unfunny young asswipe. Leno actually is evil and will someday ruin your life.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 25, 2009 5:46 PM CST up reply actions
Well, the facial structure does indicate some kind of alien in there.
I failed my LSB ethics test.
"It's kind of a new stat that's in vogue" - Joe Buck on OPS
Fallon
Fallon as Neil Young covering the Fresh Prince of Bel Air song is fantastic.
He’s really not as bad as people make him out to be. Don’t get me wrong, he’s not very good right now (his interviewing skills are practically non-existent), but people still think of him as that douche that broke in half of his sketches on SNL.
I can't forgive him...
for breaking so much. It’s true.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 25, 2009 5:59 PM CST up reply actions
That was all...
Mark Paul Gosselaar doin’ what he do.
by ghostofErikThompson on Nov 25, 2009 5:48 PM CST up reply actions
Too true...
but I don’t think it would’ve happened on another talk show where the host didn’t love Saved by the Bell as much.
TV question
Just thought I would throw this out here if anyone else has run into this problem. I have 2 lcd tvs of the same brand in the same room but I am running into the problem of one remote seems to be controlling both of them. Does anyone know the cheapest solution to fix this? It seems like a universal remote would run into the same problem
Simple answer
You’re screwed. Unless you can reprogram the TV and remote control frequencies, then you’re going to always have that problem
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
"I am one of the biggest Texas Ranger fans out there but I'm also one of the smartest. Deal with it."
-The Outlaw
Yep
Get something to cover one of the IR receivers on your TV and you are just gonna have to switch it between the two tvs whenever you want to change the other one
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Alright
thanks for the help. I asked around the sony store but nobody up there knew anything about what they were talking about. As far as changing the frequencies, it seems like Sony has been using the same freq. for a couple of years and has no way to change it. Thanks again for the help.
If this is a situation where.....
you are just wanting to change the channels on one TV…..then run the channel changing through a VCR, cable box, or digital TV convertor box on one the TV’s.
Then….you can change the channel on one TV, push the button for VCR/AUX on the remote and change the channel on the other TV.
Wash is an idiot!!
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