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Spotted on Sunset Boulevard: a billboard calling out "Hello, Joe" with a mug of the Dodgers' new skipper.
And homegrown Russell Martin continues to wait for the spotlight to properly find him. Someday, Martin's going to die as he lived: dancing the can-can in a Dodger uniform and a catcher's mask.
ocguy4eva: Hey Russell, what's in your iPod right now? Do you guys pick your "walk to the plate" music?
Martin: I lost my iPod, so I don't have one right now but if I did, it would be DJ Khaled and Kanye West or Lil' Wayne. I like to mix it up. I get a lot of the music I don't know the names of, like 80s music, but I like that stuff too.
http://www.sportprojections.com/mlb.html
157 Hard to believe your friend can't find good salsa in Texas. Good salsa in a jar is tough going, but the best I've ever discovered is a brand called JC's Midnite Salsa. So far, I've found it only at the hot sauce store at Farmer's Market, although they have a website you can order from:
http://jcsmidnitesalsa.com/
"Hell Hot" is my preferred level, which is plenty fiery. "Hotter 'n Hell" will lift your skull clear off, and "Blackout" is not to be taunted.
vr, Xei
Was that too D4Pish?
I don't have any kind neighbors. In South Pasadena, everybody hates everyone else and the city is akin to an armed camp.
I've taken to sleeping in my bathtub with the doors bolted and a shotgun beside me.
Or maybe I don't get salsa because most of my neighbors are Chinese.
Isn't it pretty to think so.
17 I've lived outside Utah most my life, so I don't overestimate the number of kind neighbors elsewhere. I'm just grateful for them, and would still avoid any salsa in a jar on a shelf in a store.
I couldn't find their 2007 projections, though I didn't look very hard.
I would get good dim sum if I ever got out of the bath tub and stopped greeting people at the door with a shotgun.
By I'm going to de-escalate my weapons. I'm just going to sleep with an apple corer.
No. But they don't make good salsa.
If Bob wants to live dangerously, he should just mention he is pro 710 freeway.
Thanks for the link but he's looking for some fresh stuff and is just amazed at how tepid the salsa is in Austin. My wife is from San Antonio and she's told him to take a ride south and he'll find the salsa hot enough to make him cry.
He got Lat'd but I liked how the new poster gave salsa a 5 tool rating.
I wonder if these quotes are funny to those who can't envision the characters saying the lines.
(Okay, so they're from Athens, Georgia - Russell doesn't have to know that part!)
If you're in a South or West Texas locale like San Antonio, Laredo, or El Paso, the best thing to do is just go to one of the many great Mexican restaurants and buy some of their salsa, which they almost always sell by the carton.
That's what she told him. Good to see it confirmed.
Utah does have Whole Foods.
Well, you are American, aren't you...? Load up the kids in the Suburban, put $100 gas in the tank, and head out.
Course, if you did that, you'd probably be going to CostCo and WalMart instead of Whole Foods.
He got Lat'd but I liked how the new poster gave salsa a 5 tool rating
Is that an initiation for a first time post or a random event?
How far do you have to pull it?
at yahoo? Thanks.
They could call it "Trader Joseph's".
Blu ray has more memory capability so the soundtrack is technically better my human ears can't tell the difference. If you want wait 6 years and they'll both be put out to pasture by direct download.
Mayo - Disgusting
Mustard - Tasty
BBQ - Good
Ketchup - Sparingly
Salsa - Only Fresh
Guac - Only from my lady who makes the best in all universes.
Gee, that's too bad. I'm just teasing, but there are some aspects of Utah that remind me of that movie "Hot Fuzz."
Again for those of you who live in Utah, I think it's a very nice place with wonderful scenery and wonderful people, so I'm just teasing.
52 This was what I was concluding as well. Get both, enjoy for the next 5 years. Is there really that much difference between an HD/Blu-Ray DVD and an upscaled 480p DVD? I have a nice 1080p LCD if that makes a difference.
I don't see the point of getting him with Laroche, but if they're dead set on not giving him the job it might not be all that bad to pick him up especially if he could be a backup catcher as well....
http://www.gringobandito.com/public/index
Made by Dexter Holland, formerly of The Offspring (Hungry Punker Enterprises or some such is their corporation). Tastes great, and, as he says on the label, it's easy on the pooper, too.
If you're into gaming, it's definitely easier to get both because you could just get a PS3 for Blu-Ray and the Xbox 360 with its HD-DVD add-on.
It really doesn't look like either side is going to win anytime soon. It's annoying to have 2 formats, but the constant price drops are pretty nice.
But I have nothing against Bob and I don't think I'd end up using my weapon on him.
I'm pretty sure that isn't true, because as best as I recall, Trader Joes in MD don't have booze. I can't be absolutely certain, because the nearest one is in Annapolis, which is where I work, but not where I live (I've only made quick trips in to buy flowers). Supermarkets in MD can't sell alcohol.
I was mystified at first when I heard how popular Trader Joe's was with my friends on the east coast. We had one pretty close, IIRC, in Alhambra, but my parents always went to either a Chinese supermarket, or an American one.
WWSH
For example, here are threads that rank picture/audio quality of movies.
Blu-Ray: http://tinyurl.com/2bvbwm
HD-DVD: http://tinyurl.com/2743ho
I shop at trader's several times a week to get dinner and wine. It's pretty inexpensive and I can't cook at all.
Wow, who knew that Utah wasn't the only state with strange liquor laws. I still have hope for Trader Joe's then!
vr, Xei
1) As you discovered, Tex-Mex isn't really Mexican.
2) Over the last decade, the spread of Mexican immigrants outside the immediate border states has vastly improved the quality of actual Mexican restaraunts in northern states. The larger cities often have quality south-of-the-border menus (New York and Chicago are two that come to mind).
Sounds like you might want to consider moving, say, 275 miles or so away.
They have no stores at all in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, or Rhode Island. So if you live in northern Maine and you want to go buy beer at Trader Joe's, you've got to drive 909 miles to Woodmere, Ohio.
That silly Eastern Seaboard needs to learn how to drink.
That depends on how big the screen is too. If you had that 103" plasma at NBC Sports, you can be further than 4 feet away and still tell the difference.
*In a nutshell, Dolby Digital and DTS (found on DVD's) are compressed and lossy, like mp3's in surround sound. The newer formats (Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD-Master Audio, Uncompressed PCM) offer better-than-CD quality (like SA-CD, DVD-A) in surround sound. I don't think the difference in audio quality is as great as it is with picture quality, so you can continue to use your old receiver. That's what I'm doing right now; I'll upgrade the receiver later.
This is a great reference for determining seating distance:
http://tinyurl.com/2zlz8h
Hehe. That would be remarkable. Perhaps impossible.
15 I don't have any kind neighbors. In South Pasadena, everybody hates everyone else...
The diversity of Pasadena may lend to a frosty atmosphere. But yeah, it's just the California way isn't it. When I lived in other parts of the country, neighbors would maintain eye contact and wave. When I drive by people in my CA neighborhood, they turn away at the very moment a wave would be in order. (Yeah I know, maybe they just hate me. Very funny. Whatever.)
A California friend gave me a possible clue as to why neighbors here are so distant. He explained, in an unguarded moment, that he's not nice to our neighbors because "they might start asking for stuff".
If I were Scott Long, I would write a post entitled "Please Explain: Kanye West."
One of the red-letter days of 2007 came when I found out that the Trader Joe's here started carrying the frozen chicken enchiladas in the blue package.
For shame.
it's actually not so far fetched.
we had the best record in the mlb at one point around the all-star break.
and we were in 1st place most of the year, until we had a melt down.
I'm a big fan of a Montreal band called Mobile.
I just keep thinking of people like Snow and bands like the Crash Test Dummies.
I guess there's no time left for you.
But really, I think Neko Case is American, she just lived in Canada for a while.
Actually, I'd probably just stick to Winter Park/ Mary Jane. It's a pretty fun mountain. And try to get into Idaho Springs and go for Beau Jo's Pizza on your way back from the slopes. It's on the way.
Gambling-wise, I don't really know if there's much difference. Bushwhackers an Isle of Capri were pretty popular, but I think it's still $5 limit blackjack everywhere. I would combat that by playing multiple hands and doubling down more than is generally advisable.
One time I bought wine at the 99 cent store. That was some swill.
I was born and raised in LA by a UCLA/USC(a different story/problem) educated public servant who for some reason was a Giants fan and raised me as same (he died young and I never received an explanation for this). I attended virtually every Dodger-Giant game in the 60's including the game where Dick Dietz of the Giants attempted to break up Don Drysdale's scoreless inning streak with his elbow. My father was hit by a woman with her purse at that game (not the reason, he was already a fan). My first foul ball was a BP shot by Willie McCovey. Willie Mays was/is the best player I ever saw play the game. The water ran pretty deep. We moved to the East Bay in the 80's and attended numerous A's games, great seats - cheap. The epiphany came in 1988. I took my 5 year old son to game 6 decked out in his Canseco/McGuire T shirt. His 1st WS game and mine. In about the 6th inning sensing Orel's dominance and the tide of the game, my son, as 5 year olds are want to do, started rooting for the Dodgers. And so it came to pass, a father, two sons and a daugther are blue. My oldest sports the colors in San Diego, my daughter has proudly worn her Dodger hat to games 1 and 2, 2004 and game 1, 2007 at Fenway and the youngest is prowling a midwest campus in the blue. One could call this the worst bandwagon decision in history based upon what has happened since 1988. I prefer to think of it as coming home. My father would understand.
As recently as two seasons ago, in 2006, Lo Duca's .318 batting average ranked seventh in the National League.
http://tinyurl.com/3azt3e
I still like to drink Steel Reserve over domestic beers. Gets you messed up and costs nothing.
Let me weigh in -
Condiments; nothing wrong with Herdez salsa in jar, can is better yet. In my family, the yellow stuff does not qualify as mustard. Until I started trying to feed a toddler, ketchup (no matter the spelling) did not exist, except to mix homemade cocktail sauce. Don't underestimate blue cheese dressing as a condiment. Its surprisingly versatile.
Face of the Dodgers; isn't obvious that Torre was brought in for marketing purposes? Not saying its fair to Russell, but he's got less of a complaint than, say, Grady Little.
Why no doctors?
Great bandwagon story. Never heard of someone jumping ship for the enemy because of their son but we take em anyway we can get em.
Who would be able to read their typing?
Afterward, she was amazed at the number of things people can talk about. "How can they follow so much -- politics, youtube..."
Our answer: "You have to treat people all day long. We have desk jobs."
And Neko Case isn't the leader of the New Pornographers. She is their glittering jewel, but the songs are all written by AC Newman and Dan Bejar, both Canadians, who also handle a lot of the singing.
I love Neko Case. She is the Trader Joe's of female singers. She can sing anything and make it sound great. If she walked into the room right now, I would be tongue-tied like a high school kid.
There's a guy from North Carolina who I think is a doctor. I think he lives in Durham somewhere. I'm forgetting his screen name.
I'm pretty sure he said he was a medical doctor. He hasn't been around in a while.
Shania Twain is Canadian. Though to make amends for it with southern audiences she plead that she's half Indian (native American) on her father's side.
Turns out it was her stepfather.
Led Zeppelin was not Canadian. Nor were the Beatles. I'd be VERY surpised if Elvis was. But Celine Dion, well of course.
Only now has Canadian rock truly found its own voice, with all these good-to-great indie bands with the multi layered cornicopia sound.
Not sure if this has been covered yet, but the most annoying thing with having two HD formats is that certain titles and studios only release on one format and not the other. Personally, I find that maddening. Especially since I have Blu-Ray and that The Bourne Ultimatum is not being released on Blu-Ray.
I've already determined his impostorerity.
Harkening back to the old days and waxing poetic about watching baseball with your (dead) father seems to be the meme of choice these days.
I heard newest Laker Trevor Ariza on the radio today, and he was talking about how his whole family roots for the Lakers. When he called his mom to tell him of the trade, she just began screaming into the phone.
Yes, as Fanerman says, they are very very close to each other in terms of quality. Either one looks great. They each have their small quirks. The biggest quirk is just that they both exist in competition with each other.
Wait, we still have the last one. He just changed his name to protect the innocent.
Unfortunately, this trend has become pathological in automobile repair. While I consider myself generally incompetent at things like automatic transmission repair, I have changed out my own clutch before, and replaced an engine as well. (This was on a 72 Vega, which was probably the worst car ever manufactured by an American maker.) While tranny repair is an art requiring numerous specialized tools, the process of car repair is a branch of generalized troubleshooting -- which is really nothing more than breaking problems down into groups of possibilities and steadily winnowing each down to its root. In this, I still believe I am ahead of the techs they hire at the dealerships.
One prominent example of this came recently on my wife's Prius. The garage door opener built in to the rear-view mirror never worked at our old house, and now that we have a new house, it doesn't work on those garage doors either. My car, an Infinity, will open those doors, as do the remotes that came with the openers, so there is absolutely no question that the problem is on the garage door side.
Some months ago we took our car to the Toyota dealership complaining of this fact. Their reaction was to plug a laptop into the car, at which point the onboard computer told their computer that everything was working just fine, thank you. I repeated this process after complaining about the logical impossibility of the entire situation: if there was a problem with the transmitting antenna on the car (say), unless the laptop had an RF receiver to detect the presence or absence of the signal going to the garage door opener, there would be no way to verify whether the system as a whole was working properly.
The tech replied to me, "It doesn't use the antenna, it uses radio waves."
I tried calling several other dealerships, and they all had the same idiotic stance: if the computer told them the car was working, then by God it was. The computer has become a crutch for actual diagnosis and problem solving. And even with this atrophied state of affairs passing for normal in the service bays, the car dealers still complain that they can't hire and retain qualified service techs.
I have a six degrees of Kevin Bacon doctor to include.
My father-in-law is a physician and his name is Weissman too, but with two s's. Since stealing his daughter's heart, he has become a Dodger fan. He's been dragged to a few games, the most memorable being Lima giving up loads of runs to Anaheim during a 13-0 blowout in 04.
When he saw Gagne close a game that year, he was hooked. Also, living in North Carolina, there isn't much in the way of competition unless you're a bandwagon Braves fan.
...sometimes...
...which doesn't stop me from being the nervous dad, checking on her to make sure she's still breathing.
Latest is that she will make this grunting noise while she sleeps. She's definitely still asleep and we'll hear unnnh unnnnh unnnnh unnnh snort snort unnnnh. Drives us crazy....
Stand corrected, old age. It was game 5. Took Bart to and from the game which Northern Ca still has over LA but that's another topic.
The band even made my wedding. Life is a Carnivale. Belive it or not. And I can't listen to It makes no difference without a tear in my eye. If the singing wasn't enough, the sax solo at the end gets me everytime.
That's one of those special kind of moments where you realize what an idiot you've become.
Plus my dog loves their braided chews. He insists on them. They give him gas, but it's worth it once in a while just to see him so happy.
Ouch. Always connect going to games with my dad and taking my kids. Sorry.
We'd also resisted using a pacifier due to the crazy-making baby books (baby might reject the breast!). That was a huge mistake. I now believe that the pacifier is one of the great inventions in the history of mankind.
Long time lurker, first time poster
I love this site and read it daily. I would like to give something back and will take the baton on Marty's now expired offer to match donations
For those who would like to donate to the Dodger Thoughts, please email me your donation amount. I will match up to $200
It freaks you out a bit that they know how to do this when they are so small and helpless, but it is so natural.
However, stories like Lamar Odom's makes me nervous.
Things that kept us sane and our children safe:
1. Back to bed (on their backs!)
2. Nothing in the crib they can suffocate on, no blankets, no stuffed animals.
3. If it is cold, the sleeper blankets are great for them.
If you didn't use the pacifier, how did you satisfy their sucking urge? My daughter will feed and and be satisfied but still not fall asleep until she gets the pacifier.
The room my wife and I sleep in is very, very cold at night. Bride and I sleep under a down comforter. I worry about everything and one thing I worry about is that Spawn is too cold at night.
So I've been putting swaddled baby under a blanket, which is part of what's freaking me out. What if she rolls and gets under the blanket and......
I suppose I could swaddle her and then put her in a sleepsack in addition, but that seems weird.
They sucked on my finger from time to time.
Trade journal four out of five doctors prefer:
Golf Digest
I sent a paypal this morning, I don't know if Marty counted me as part of the 235 he matched. I emailed him but didn't get a reply back and I suspect it was after the 235. It's possible my work filter kicked his email back to him as I work in a school that filters everything.
Marty, did you get a paranoid android match or should we allow our the Hong Kong Dodger fan to kick in some more for Jon's site? Also, if you didn't email me back that it totally cool, don't read my post as a criticism as it definately is not that in the least.
Marty inspired many of us to get with the program. His match is quite an amazing gesture and he hit a lot of us with the realization that we should contribute.
I hope I'm in a position to do something similar in the near future. Alas, as a teacher living in Palmdale with two small ones, I will contribute what I can for now.
I have no idea. I am already tired of this process.
No way a strictly Canadian band could make "The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down".
So yours can count towards Lurking Dodger fan's list.
Again, thanks to everyone who gave.
Harkening back to the old days and waxing poetic about watching baseball with your (dead) father seems to be the meme of choice these days.
The meme of choice? I hate for you to reduce a nice thing like family reveries to a meme. But I have to say you're right. I suppose the verbal romanticism started with the great thespian Billy Chrystal. Then carried on with lesser thespians like Bob Costas.
OK, an anti-meme then. My dad hated baseball and considered its fans equal to, or slightly above, crash-up derby fans. He had a unique way of making the very word "baseball" sound like an expletive.
My big brother and I had the best arms in the league (well we did) but dad wouldn't let us pitch, lest it screw up our tennis serve.
Emusic's recommendation feature linked NPs to a Chicago band called The 1900s. I downloaded their album, which I like very, very much. Emusic is right -- if you like the NPs, you may like the 1900s, too.
You can listen to the entire album for free at www.the-1900s.com. Click on the pic at the right that says "click to launch music player."
I am not very thrilled with what I am hearing. Especially the stuff that the athletic department would not even let Guerrero talk to Leach, when Leach seemed to be his new favorite.
Nothing changes.
The rundown, for the record
Big Sister - 2 pack a day pacifier habit
Baby Sister - occasional/recreational use
Big Sister - Swaddle hater
Baby Sister - Must be swaddled to sleep
Big Sister - No regular sleep pattern until 11 months
Baby Sister - pretty strong sleeper
Apart from that, they're amazingly similar. Good luck to you guys with your offspring. Its an amazing thing.
He stood during the 7th-inning stretch and sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." When it was over and we sat, he said, without a trace of irony, "Boy, the Dodgers sure got lucky that that song was written about them."
Daughters is another one I like that I forgot about. They are very similar to the Locust and have great song titles.
My son will suck his thumb a bit before he puts himeself to sleep. It isn't a big habit right now, but my daughter never sucked her thumb and she's three and a half.
As far as blanket sleepers go, they are simply great. The child is swaddled but can't bury their head under anything, there is a button at the top.
While you are probably totally fine with a blanket under the child, I would suggest flannel sheets and blanket sleepers instead. That takes any anxiety away from you, you are lacking enough sleep as it is I'm sure. Sleeping through the night seems to happen suddenly and then when it continues, you don't even remember sleepless nights after that.
Relish the cute noises, they are precious. Wait until they can say "I love you dada". I still melt.
Charles Shaw isn't actually a winery. They buy surplus wine off the market and bottle it and pass the savings on to you.
Several years ago, during the wine glut, there was a lot of good wine on the market and Charles Shaw bought a bunch of it. As a result, you could buy a bottle and get a little lucky and for $2 get a very good wine. There was a lot of variation between bottles. But even at that time -- and this is key -- bottles tended to be very drinkable for an investment of two dollars. And if it turned out to be a bad bottle, you poured it down the drain and you were out two bucks.
It's been a while since I've bought a bottle, but I would guess that the variation and the quality of Charles Shaw is down. Still, four or five years ago, it was a good bet for $2.
My dad taught me to play golf for that very reason. Now that I've grown up to be a sleaze bag, all his work on me amounted to nothing. He reminds me of this every time I see him.
Though she was more interested in the ice cream/malt.
Jacob's tip for getting out to the ballpark, have another kid and take that one out while Mom stays home with the newborn.
I've got a daughter due in February and I don't even know what a swaddle is!
Oh you will Grasshoper.
http://tinyurl.com/2gme2l
Pay no attention to the Mr Wilson of the board. He's the love boat captain to oddball. Always the negative vibes.
This is how Jeff Kent felt the entire 2007 season.
I just noted that I love bad Asian accents, horrible pronounciations and stereotypes portrayed in the media.
I got an email back from P (Petros) saying that yes it was a mock press conference. No bite on my other comments.
http://tinyurl.com/37b9d2
He had cancer of the vocal chords which was diagnosed in 1998, treated with radiation (alternative was surgery and a voice box), and that distinctive voice is back.
Thank you, going to baseball games with your dad is a rite of passage not grounds for flippancy. I never had much of a relationship with my dad, but I still value trips to Cleveland Municipal, Crosley Field, Briggs Stadium and watching Tom Tresh break up a Bosox no hitter in the eighth inning with a drag bunt in Yankee Stadium. The stuff of dreams!
KK & the BBQ is good times. Saw them in SD when they just came through. Helluva show, although I must admit I do prefer KK & the Shrines. More like a Garage-Soul Revue.
I also saw KK+BBQ's label mate Jay Reatard when he came through last week. Did you catch that?
1. Spinach Pizza (takes 8 minutes to make, goes great with Vin calling the action
2. TJ's green tea (looks like a Mickey's bottle)
3. Vegetarian Chili -Im not vegetarian, but much like Samuel L. Jackson's character in Pulp Fiction (Jules) "when you date a vegetarian, that pretty much makes me a vegetarian)
4. Any scotch/tequilla. The Black Label and Hornitos are my favorite respective choices
5. Chicken Chow Mein- non-cooks like me cant even screw this up.
Thanks for all the great reading guys, it literally gets me through my afternoons at work.
As for the comments about Ned reading the blog (or any blog), I can assure you that he was joking around with our beat writers at the winter meetings and it came off as flippant. Since three of our regular papers now have blogs, that topic came up and everyone was joking about it, which was when Ned made the comment he made. As someone who sees just how insanely busy his schedule is, it's safe to assume that he doesn't do much reading of media coverage or blogs and I'm fairly certain that he's not alone in that area when it comes to big league GMs. That doesn't mean they don't care about what fans think - it's just that they have to rely on their scouts and baseball people for opinions and then make a decision rather than reading every website out there for input.
Meanwhile, I live in the "best" sports city in the country and I never go to games. Boston sports are unbelievably overpriced, you basically can't get Red Sox or Patriots tickets unless you know someone or you are prepared to pay whatever they ask.
It's nice to know that Norm Chow wouldn't face any discrimination on the job.
Sheesh.
Spin it Josh!
That makes a lot of us feel old, & I'm not that old.
4:00 AM Wake up.
4:05 AM Triathlon training
6:00 AM Breakfast of oatmeal and three raw eggs
6:15 AM Yoga
7:00 AM Arrive at the office
7:05 AM Look at lolCats
8:15 AM Print the best lolCats
8:20 AM Fax printed lolCats to everyone on the Dodger payroll. . .
224 Link I have heard several cuts off Levons "Dirt Farmer" and it is good stuff. He was the only voice in the Band I really cared for. Also if anyone buys it, at least a buck goes to a couple of good charities.
I'm bettin' on smoothies for breakfast.
Dodger-Pepsi fan club, riding the bus to the stadium, listening to Vin while I was supposed to be sleeping & Bill Singer's no hitter while at the park celebrating my 14th are my Dodger 'hooks'.
It is okay, because according to Brian Dohn, Chow nor anyone on the planet wants the UCLA job.
Well, except for his boy DeWayne Walker.
Swaddling: I am 100% pro-swaddling. I tried all the sleeper sacks and easy-wrap items and found nothing worked as well as nice, slightly stretchy blanket. It takes some practice to get it nice and tight, but worth the investment of time.
My twin girls (now 13 months) still get swaddled for bed, even though now it is only for comfort/familiarity. Once put down in their cribs they can bust out in approximately 9.76 seconds, which they always do sometime in 15 minutes after I put them down. This fact is what finally soothed the "crib death" fears for me. If they can get out of any blanket I literally tie them into, they are not in much danger of suffocating from a bunched up blanket.
Now all my fears center around them falling perfectly onto point-ey surfaces, like the edge of a table or a fireplace. Next I plan on following that up with fear of them running into traffic, then a few good years fearing child abduction, before finally settling into years of fearing they will get pregnant. Then later I will fear they won't get pregnant. Finally, I will fear they won't visit me in the home.
You got to have a plan.
That and "That's because I love (insert name) more" every time any of the kids complained that another one was getting some small favoritism.
I will be very pleased if this true as it will assure that we won't be trading away young talent for the likes of Blanton, et al.
actually, i've been scouring to find the KK+BBQ/Black Lips Christmas 7". Guess I should just order it from Norton and quit driving around town.
Let's hope that this is indeed true.
Kurodomania!
I can't wait for the pitchers and catchers to report.
>> It's great seeing them have success in the big leagues. We have great chemistry. <<
This doesn't surprise me at all. The kids seemed to be having fun. It's the PVLs that seem to have a chemistry problem.
you should check out orioleshangout.com, they have at least 200 comments a day dreaming up different Dodger packages for Bedard...and Tejada.
http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/latestnews.php
Great story. Dedicated soccer fans who wanted more control of their team, so they started a trust which people could purchase a part share in for about 30 pounds. Then when they had a big chunk of change, they went out and bought a team in the 3rd division (kind of like A ball). The nice thing about soccer is that if you win you get promoted, so they bought in an area they felt was expanding economically, with the hope that if they do well, and get promoted, the area would support a team at a higher level of competition.
They have hired a manager who has agreed to allow them to decide the roster for each game; there will be a vote, and that's it. Great idea. Not sure it would work in Baseball because of the financial interests of the big clubs, but would be great fun.
thats hilarious, you have really thought this through!
and inspired this 22 year old to never have children!
haha just kidding...i think. someone give me some positives quick!
i myself have put my parents through hell.
starting with hip surgery at 5 months and again at 10 years old.
tonsillitis (not a biggie)
3 broken noses a broken hand a broken thumb a broken arm and a dislocated shoulder, all on different occasions.
Hodgkins Lymphoma when i was 15.
and a multitude of other little things... i dont know how they did it.
and if you believe in the law of averages, if we get enough 4-6 range pitchers one of them is bound to have a 3 type season right? i hope!
Mayo--The single most disgusting manufactured foodstuff on the planet
i don't like mayo at all either, but come on... this title has to be reserved for SPAM.
During the Winter Meetings in Nashville, Tenn., Moore made outfielder Jose Guillen the highest paid player in the history of the Royals with a three-year contract that averages $12 million per season.
and they still have fans?!?
sheesh
Thats a downer.
273,224 One of those aforementioned chatities is the Imus ranch.
1) Dinty Moore Beef Stew.
2) Spam.
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10) Organ meats (liver in particular).
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20) Canned beans and peas of any kind. Inevitably boiled beyond recognition.
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33) Mayonnaise/Miracle Whip. It makes it less gross to think of it as white mucous.
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40) Lima beans.
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45) Pimientos.
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Mayo is alright on turkey sandwiches in my book...
well, regardless i find them both quite appetizing.
i'm with you on all the rest, though.
the news about Kuroda would send me through the roof. hopefully they'll be more to tell come tomorrow's A.Jones conference.
264 i agree nothing is a lock, and Kaz Ishii was a bit of a bust, but are you saying you'd place Esteban in front of Kuroda next year in the rotation?
man, Ned is a stood this year IF the deal goes threw I'll give him an A+ for the winter.
291 , 292 - why would people want to watch porn in HD? Why do people want to watch CSI:Your town here in HD?
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"He has never been with a losing team. Ever," Washington general manager Jim Bowden said. "He wins. That's what he does."
(Lo Duca played for the 1999 Dodgers, who went 77-85. He also played for six losing teams in the minors.)
I will go lay my money down on the Nats in the World Series.
Logan White scouts him and it seems he gave the OKay on it.
Sooo, as Logan goes, I go.
I am guessing it is 95% no trade celebration.
No way Kuroda can be worse than Tomko...I mean, that Before the Bigs special made me give him a few extra chances but man...
After Igawa, who ended up as such a disaster, who knows, but I like to think of it as "no trade" plus up-side. After all, in contrast to Igawa, there's Saito.
Besides, I have a weakness for Japanese pitchers; Nomo's still my favorite Dodger.
WWSH
If the ChiSox can't get Rowand they might want to work a trade with us for Pierre, maybe for some middle relief pitcher.
I guess we should say: "No Kemp trade" celebration.
WWSH
Jon meant a trade we would hate not one that would make us cry with happiness.
1) Do all Japanese pitchers work that slowly?
2) Are the Carp uniforms modeled after the Reds? Is this done with MLB approval?
Hey, someone had to.
mostly a no-trade celebration for me. but i like our odds of getting something if we get kuroda. at least one of schmidt, kuo/guo, kuroda figures to have a decent to very good season.
He's not Daisuke Matsuzaka, but Kuroda a very strong power pitcher with a low to mid-90s fastball and a wicked forkball. In addition, he features a plus shuuto, something like a screwball, as well as an effective change. Even if he only pans out as a third or fourth starter in the majors, he will give you innings, work deep into games, and he should be fairly consistent start to start.
That actually sounds pretty good to me. It at least gives us room for optimism. If Ned can flip Pierre to the ChiSox, this will be a great winter for him.
WWSH
Thanks everyone again.
In fairness to Ned, I think the Schmidt signing was a good idea, considering the market. But that going wrong, combined with the indefensible contract to Pierre was a true catastrophe. Hopefully we'll get karmic payback from the baseball gods and have Kuroda work out this time, unlike Schmidt last season.
WWSH
Is there such a thing as a 3.5 for a pitcher???
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I think the consensus is that he's a gamble.
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http://japanesebaseball.com/players/player.jsp?PlayerID=986
His BB numbers appear to be outstanding, but who knows how well that will translate to the majors.
So hilarious. Some of them are now like, "Maybe Kuroda now allows the Dodgers to put Billingsley in a deal".
LOL.
To me, it's less important about the $ amount. It's much more about the number of participants. I will match up to $300 to allow for more people joining this group activity.
Dream comfort memory despair
And in my mind I still need a place to go
All my changes were there
Leaves us...
Helpless helpless He...elpless
There are days I think that Neil Young is the greatest rocker... ever.
Heart! (The band)
(The words to the song are as they came to my memory. Donno if they're correct. I can't even remember it's name.)
Now that is what is called wishful thinking. :)
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Well he was never mentioned specifically in association with them like he has been with Kuroda.
Actually, would that necessarily be true? Wasn't White still head of amateur scouting then; I assume it's the big league scouts who looked at Carter and Baez, or, at least, looked at tapes of them.
WWSH
I also assume that the Japan scouts who found Saito also looked at Kuroda extensively.
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Condiment Thoughts
Canadian Music Thoughts
Trader Joe's Thoughts
Baby Thoughts (w/ sleepwear emphasis)
High Resolution Video Thoughts
It must be the off-season, but it certainly was enjoyable reading.
I will only add that my Belgian foreign student ate her "Belgian" fries with mayonnaise, Canadian music discussions must include Bare Naked Ladies, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Andy Kim, unlike some other TJ's the grocery store rocks, and thank Ch-i we had it easy raising my daughter (at least when she was a baby).
As for bad manufactured foods, what is "potted meat" in a can? I saw this in a store once and it seemed vile.
Google translation!
The translation is almost comically bad. I suppose only the Dodgers being mentioned in the lead paragraph is a pretty good sign for us, though.
WWSH
weird.
Kershaw, Kemp, LaRoche, Hu, Broxton, and Pierre
for
Bedard, Tejada and Jay Payton
...right?
They apparently were being lead (astray?) by a couple of "insiders".
I can't think of one. Bill Walsh is the closest I can come up with.
Paul Brown coached at Ohio State. I think he was pretty good in the NFL too.
For the record, I didn't say the quote attributed to me about Mayo (it was kinbote), but I really, really dislike it.
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Put me down for the no-(Kemp)trade celebration category if the Kuroda signing will indeed happen.
Jimmy Johnson did OK.
While 3/$30M for such an unknown commodity as Kuroda is somewhat steep, I doubt he'll be much worse than Lohse or Silve who will probably fetch even more per year. I think it's a smart signing given the market and like many have said, it makes it much less likely that Ned will be tempted to trade for an ace.
"They were who we thought they were!"
Vince Lombardi was Red Blaik's top assistant at Army. Hank Stram was a coordinator at Miami. Joe Gibbs coached at several colleges as an assistant.
The usual job path is college assistant --> pro assistant --> pro coach.
It's not like a lot of football coaches spring up fully grown.
Now speaking of "laying it on him," how about Knick fans letting Isiah Thomas have it? Good for them! I'm not a fan of booing or anything like that, but this is a unique situation. Leave it to Isiah Thomas to ruin both the CBA and the Knicks, although The Knicks may have been ruined anyway.
In a way, it still is! Imagine how Pete Carroll owns Los Angeles right now. In the NFL he'd just be another piece of meat.
If Pete Carroll owns L.A., I'm going on a rent strike.
In my life time, I've got Vermeil and Jimmy Johnson. And in the last 10 years, not one college coach has turned immediately into a solid NFL head coach. And a bunch of rich idiots keep hiring these fools to run their teams. And it's always a failure. Because NFL coaches can't pull off the draft
"Elevator love letter" has a Concrete Blonde "Joey" feel to it (to me at least) really nice sound (mazzy starr'ish)
Lane Kiffin!!! ; )
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One I'd like to throw into the fray is Islands (or its previous incarnation The Unicorns) if you're in the mood for some fun indie rock with a hint of twee.
Bands mentioned so far that get my seal of approval:
Neil Young (of course)
Rush
The New Pornographers (and subsequently Neko Case and Destroyer)
The Arcade Fire
and one more to add:
The Stills
Rockies extended Aaron Cook.
2008 (age 29) - added $2,5m bonus to existing $4.5m salary
2009 - $8.75m
2010 - $9m
2011 - $9.25m
2012 - $11m mutual option ($500k buyout)
He's battled injuries, but has put up some good, albeit possibly misleading numbers:
2004 - 115 ERA+, 3.72 K/9
2005 - 130 ERA+, 2.59 K/9
2006 - 116 ERA+, 3.89 K/9
2007 - 116 ERA+, 3.31 K/9
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