Saturday a.m. things
by Adam J. Morris on Mar 7, 2009 8:37 AM CST
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PrintWell, after I ragged on him Thursday night, Andruw Jones woke up yesterday and hit well, going 2 for 4 in the A game. Clearly, he's just trying to make me look bad.
Neftali Feliz struggled yesterday, but Ron Washington says that's a product of Feliz getting overly excited.
T.R. Sullivan has a story on Brandon McCarthy's outing yesterday, with McCarthy saying that all is well on the health front, despite the scare earlier this week about his shoulder.
Anthony Andro has a story on the importance of the Rangers improving their defense this season, with the theme being that more stability in terms of who is out there everyday should be a big help.
Evan Grant runs through some key things to watch today, with the focus being on Vicente Padilla.
Gil LeBreton has a column on the Rangers opting to give a bunch of ABs to Jones this spring, in order to evaluate if he has anything left.
And Mike Hindman offers some thoughts on Johnny Whittleman and Neftali Feliz.
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It's great
to have Evan back. I hadnt thought about MY fielding bunts at third. What a day! I get to see the Ranfers on the tube. Play ball!
by BEW on Mar 7, 2009 8:58 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
I'm in the freaking
Shenandoah Valley visiting inbred inlaws…
I’m assuming I can listen to the game online, right?
My cool sig.
Grant told me yesterday that they have set up a Twitter account for his D Blog, but I don’t think he’s actively using it yet. So if you’ve got an account, he’s out there so look for it to get going soon.
I still don't understand what Twitter is.
I guess I’m going to have to look this up.
by Black Francis on Mar 7, 2009 9:06 AM CST up reply actions
basically it’s a way to send out mass updates about things via an application.
some people use it for useful things, like wfaa sends out weather updates other people use it tell the world what they are doing every minute of the day
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Shaq
uses it to give away tickets to his games.
“I’m n the mia on the beach whoever touches me gets 2 ticket u have 30 min.”
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
- Thomas Boswell
by The Best Micah on Mar 7, 2009 9:22 AM CST up reply actions
Exactly
His tweets are amusing. His grammar drives me crazy though.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
- Thomas Boswell
by The Best Micah on Mar 7, 2009 9:29 AM CST up reply actions
Here are a few more examples of his posts...
“Weee weee wha weee weee wha weee wee weeee what’s song is this”
“I’m goin to the alamo tomorro to get one of those daniel boone squirrel tail hats, I’m n san antonio, in case u didn’t kno were the alamo is”
“At firehouse subs, dat turkey on wheat wit extra mayo is gooder dan a mug, lol”
“I’m at the areana I build, amyway arena n orlando, dam I’m old”
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
- Thomas Boswell
by The Best Micah on Mar 7, 2009 9:31 AM CST up reply actions
in his defense, it’s really hard to type on a phone
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
I get that
But…“gooder”….really?
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
- Thomas Boswell
by The Best Micah on Mar 7, 2009 9:34 AM CST up reply actions
i guess lsu doesnt really stress academics with the basketball team
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
okay....me and Twitter: The Odyssey Begins
I have signed up and do not understand yet what the hell this thing is. It’s like a giant instant messenger? I guess I’m dense or something.
Anyway I think I found Shaquille O’Neal but don’t know because the name is “fake shaquille o neal” or something but it sounds like him talking as far as I can tell. Then again, what I’m reading doesn’t sound as stupid as some of the things posted above.
So it asks what I’m doing. What if I type something in there? Would the entire twittering world see it?
by Black Francis on Mar 7, 2009 12:11 PM CST up reply actions
You want "The Real Shaq"
and you can find me if you want — mkc2317
Only your “followers” will see what you type in. Although you’ll occasionally get some lurkers. Unless you make your tweets private, like I have.
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
- Thomas Boswell
by The Best Micah on Mar 7, 2009 12:42 PM CST up reply actions
yep
I think I got the Shaq thing straightened out. I think.
So if I click on “Everyone” it appears I can see what a whole lot of people are doing or thinking or whatever…most of it makes no sense to me because I don’t know any of them. I typed in the “What are you doing?” box and said “I’m trying to figure out what twitter is”. Nobody can see that? Why can I see everyone else’s stuff then? Strange.
I have no followers. I only know of one friend of mine who uses this thing and I just signed up like 10 minutes ago.
by Black Francis on Mar 7, 2009 1:17 PM CST up reply actions
im on it
whats your name?
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
mkc2317
-- Micah
Baseball Is My Boyfriend
"More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood."
- Thomas Boswell
by The Best Micah on Mar 7, 2009 10:36 PM CST up reply actions
except
thats fake shaq i thought…
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Mar 7, 2009 12:24 PM CST up reply actions
Use
I use it as essentially a boiled down blog reader. For example, I subscribe to all kinds of info like Defending Big D, BBTIA, CNN, and many music and other news feeds. When I log in, all of those people’s updates show up in my feed so I get a condensed feed of news and information on my page. I sent an e-mail to AJM asking him if he had a feed, but he refused to mail me back. Oh well.
I'm sorry
I got your email, meant to respond, and then forgot.
I don’t have one on LSB. Some of the SBN blogs have them, I think. I’ve sort of viewed Twitter as having to inevitably go bankrupt, because it has no business model and no way of making money, so I’ve ignored it.
by Adam J. Morris on Mar 7, 2009 9:45 AM CST up reply actions
step 1 steal underpants. step 3 profit!
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
That reminds me of this
LoneStarBall....You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
by LSBUser on Mar 7, 2009 10:05 AM CST up reply actions
wow
I vaguely remember that thing. I’m not surprised that they ended up going broke.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
Yeah
I got one of those free Cue-Cats. I was planning on using it somehow, but it’s probably still acquiring dust in one of my boxes.
On twitter – as Adam said, it’s not looking good as
1) I’m not sure how they’re going to monetize their views and they don’t get that many page views in the first place,
2) They’re not really reliable yet or at least they used to go down very frequently, and
3) They can essentially be replaced with Facebook status updates (and EVERYONE is on Facebook).
R
I'm a twittering idiot
OK, so we signed me up for a Twitter account yesterday, but I haven’t quite had time to figure everything out. We will, however, Twitter. I think it may be a quick and easy way to distribute daily lineups, injury updates, etc., that might only be a sentence or two. …. If you’ve got suggestions on ways to use it, you know what to do, hit me up: evan.grant@dmagazine.com
Talk to Pete Delkus
He is a twittering freak.
Keith Law on Greg Golson, "He's similiar to Cameron and Hunter in that all three are black."
what he does is kinda cool
weather updates via twitter
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
got my opening day seats!
section 47 by the bullpen.
almost bought a $60 ticket on the 1st base side but decided to sit in the shade in case its like 90deg
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
I'd actually be cool with 90 degrees...
…mostly because it’s been cold and sort of terrible the last two years. We don’t live in Chicago; it should be warm and gorgeous opening day!
last opening day i went to
it was in the 50s and i was in the very last row of the upper deck wearing shorts like a dumbass and froze my butt off
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Got mine, signed on and was ready to go at 8:58
and they were already selling them? What the bag they weren’t supposed to start till 9:00. Anyone got an official time?
by groundingout on Mar 7, 2009 11:08 AM CST up reply actions
supposed to be 9am
i logged in around 8:58 and it said they were on sale but it didnt refresh with a purchase screen till after 9am
as usual MANY more tickets opened up for sale that werent there during the inside pitch presale.
seriously, whats the point of a “Special” presale for fans that get the newsletter when all you can get is upperdeck seats if you want more than 1 ticket.
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
wish i was going to be there
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Mar 7, 2009 12:25 PM CST up reply actions
If whittleman can't have a breakout year in A+
how likely is it that he will have one in AA? Not very. And to say he is limited to third base is really overstating his utility there as well. By midseason, I think the whittleman love, comprising one axis of the the Schlact-phillips-whittleman triangle, goes the way of the dodo.
FYI
Texas pitchers rank 11th out of the 14 teams in the Cactus League in runs allowed.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
Upon further review...
a really useless stat because the Rangers were 3rd (out of 12 teams) in runs allowed last spring.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
also upon further review
its SPRING TRAINING
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Mar 7, 2009 12:25 PM CST up reply actions
What does that have to do with Whittelman
You’ve learned to use the reply button, now just learn how to use it correctly.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
I thought you could
only speak if Hodson had his fist jammed up your backside.
Congratulations on joining the rest of the free world.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
wow, graphic and uncalled for
Go eat a cock meat sandwich
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
by Gdawg on Mar 7, 2009 11:18 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Maybe Robbie Alomar meat?
Keith Law on Greg Golson, "He's similiar to Cameron and Hunter in that all three are black."
LOL
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Mar 7, 2009 12:26 PM CST up reply actions
Are you determined
to have none of your replies be relevant to the posts you’re replying to?
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
I discuss what I want
and when I want.
I haven’t given up on Johnny Whittleman yet cuz I loves me some players who have plate discipline.
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
" I discuss what I want and when I want."
Wow, you’re such a douchebag that you can’t even troll right.
By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw
JW
if JD is on it, its shit.
if nolan is on it, its the next big thing.
blahblahblah, im a dirty whore lol
/JW
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
but, but I'm the great outlaw Josey Wales damn it!
Keith Law on Greg Golson, "He's similiar to Cameron and Hunter in that all three are black."
Everyone here discusses what we want, whenever we want
you’re not unique in that respect. What makes you unique is your inability to make replies relevant to the comment you clicked “reply” for.
G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....
me too
And I think it is mainly because he is lefthanded and has a decent FB and a nice curve and has punched out right at a batter per inning in his career. Plus he has avoided injury and appears to be durable with three seasons with 140+ innings. He’s still worth following.
Doctor please. Some more of these.
He definitely does not fit in as a Rangers pitcher. Him inability to get injured hinders his ability to stay with the club.
I miss 1989. I miss 1996. Please make me miss another season in 2008.
Boggs had his breakout in Double-A
and Whittleman shares a lot of similarities with Boggs as a hitter. But if Whittleman doesn’t bust out this year, he’s going to slide off the map altogether.
mjh
who would you rather have get 400 abs with the Rangers this year, Boggs or Byrd?
"Dying ain't hard. It's living that's hard."
Boggs out of those two for me.
Keith Law on Greg Golson, "He's similiar to Cameron and Hunter in that all three are black."
YEP
hopefully Byrd doesn’t get off to another slow start so we can get a nice pitching nugget for him. and give Boggsy a chance to get some AB’s.
What's the Nef tally??
this is what i would like to see happen
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Mar 7, 2009 12:26 PM CST up reply actions
what Big Guns said
that would seem to be the best scenario for the Rangers
by mjh on Mar 7, 2009 2:02 PM CST up reply actions
Vol-Queso pitching for the Dominicans on ESPN2 WBC right now
bases loaded, 2 outs as I write this…1 BB, 2 infield hits, 1K
No sign of Nelson Cruz….could be DH, haven’t seen the lineup yet – Tejada at 3rd w/ Arod out…
Sidney Ponson starting for Netherlands…
Ya....That's Real Mature.
WP by Edinson allows Netherlands to score 1st run
Error by Hanley Ramirez up the middle allows 2 more runs to score
3-0 Netherlands Top 1, still 2 outs…
Ya....That's Real Mature.
HanRam should be moved to CF
Stability is key, and JD is a Beast.
Jindal - 2012
"AMMIITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABHH!!!"
Or put Reyes at 2B
and move Cano to 1B. Not sure how you don’t have Hanley and Reyes in the lineup every game.
by groundingout on Mar 7, 2009 11:11 AM CST up reply actions
why
hes not that bad at SS anymore (IIRC he was about average this last year)
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Mar 7, 2009 12:26 PM CST up reply actions
He was passable/average defensively at SS last year, and they have Maybin in CF for the foreseeable future.
Hanley is scary good and should stay where he is, imo.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
I hate Michael Young.
"I don’t have any respect for anybody on here. Everyone on here is a fucking asshole who thinks they’re god compared to everyone else." -iorange555, throwing one of his patented sandy-vagina'd hissy fits.
Heh. Oh, were u just talking about the WBC...? Never mind then.
The 40 Trumps All!!!
I hate Michael Young.
"I don’t have any respect for anybody on here. Everyone on here is a fucking asshole who thinks they’re god compared to everyone else." -iorange555, throwing one of his patented sandy-vagina'd hissy fits.
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