Nothin'.

Nothin'?  Nothin'!?  NOTHIN'!?!?!?

Allen Watson used steroids!

The perfect game I threw with him in Triple Play '97 is tainted now.  I'm devastated!

My hobby: video games.

I just finished Mass Effect which was awesome and am now starting up Assassin's Creed.  I'm pretty excited, it looks amazing.  Please don't spoil anything in the game for me, I literally just finished the tutorial and plan on binging during the vacation.

Who knew the Outlaws were going to be so proactive in the trade market?  

Happy holidays everyone.  I expect things will be pretty quiet around here and I will be doing my typical 2 minute drill when it comes to all my shopping.  I hate to miss the latest news on semi-pro transactions, but that is the way things are looking.

I'm watching Billiards Trick Shot Championships on TV right now. Mark Massey went out in the quarterfinals, and Stefano Pelinga is facing Tom Rossman in the $30,000 final. This stuff is CRAZY! I love watching trick shot competitions.

On a small table I often challenge friends to a version of the tiebreak in which I put anywhere between $5 and $20 on a corner pocket. They can place the cue wherever they want, but they have to hit five rails and each rail at least once. If they can get the cue to REST on the money, they can keep it.

Nobody's made it yet, but I've almost seen it happen 100 times.

The coolest trick shot I ever made is pretty simple but really really hard. Place two balls side to side on the second diamond in the center of the table. Start with the cue ball in THAT side of the table, behind the second diamond. Just bank it off the far rail, split the two balls, and pocket each one. I made this shot the first time I ever set it up, and I've only come close to making it again once, and that wasn't even that close.

My favorite trick shot has to be the Mark Masse 16 foot jump into a boot. Completely insane. Youtube it if you can.

A couple weeks ago I learned how to put right and left Masse on the ball. I still suck at it, but I can do it 60% of the time with varying degrees of curve.

I roll with a Homer Simpson cuestick.

Josh Hamilton was just traded to the Rangers for Edinson Volquez and a Minor League pitcher.

W00t.  Smart move, IMO.

Good god, this is depressing. I was really hoping to get a corner infielder in my stocking for Christmas, but based on the stuff I've been reading, it sounds like a fruit cake or a tie that chimes the jingle bell tune is what Im going to end up with....... again.

Just the other day I wondered where Julian Benavidez was, and lo, I get my answer. Benavidez went to my current college. We're rock stars, so you see.

Are the romance novels in this post smutty? If not I am not interested.

Hobbies...a good way to dovetail into mine, from the smut part. I enjoy writing graphic gay smut in my free time, though lately I have branched out into heterosexual fiction. Some smutty, some not. I'm currently kicking the tires on an idea for a screenplay. The story is a romantic comedy that doesn't suck, sort of like Bridget Jones' Diary except it's a lot more cynical, the heroine doesn't get the guy at the end of the day, and there's copious amounts of cake. I also enjoy making fun of Brian Sabean in my free time.

I'm a cook but we already know that.

I do beadwork here and there. One of my long gestating projects is a Giants rosary. Making the cross part has stymied me because I don't know how to make it. I thought about stitching rows of black and orange beads on a cross-shaped template but I haven't yet figured out the logistics on it.

I read books. Sometimes. Really. Currently reading The Omnivore's Dilemma because everyone and my mom at my school is going OMGWTFBBQ about the book. It's pretty good, plus has some humor. The author expounds upon corn sex, and how the current corn crop we eat and basically live on evolved from a stubborn wild grass that couldn't reproduce on its own. It took some human stumbling by, and splitting it open, thinking "hey this might be good to eat," for it to evolve into the modern corn plant. Good read so far.

I raise dung beatles for fun and profit.

Welcome to my world.

Via FJM:

http://www.flotsam-media.com/2007/12/flotsam-data-special-tangiblizing.html

See if you can guess which hobbies are mine and which are Brian Sabean's:

• Playing bluegrass mandolin
  
• Kicking tires
  
• Reading fiction
  
• Collecting speedy centerfielders with a little pop

One of my favorite hobbies begins anew on Sunday:
We'll be hitting the slopes of Kirkwood for our first ski trip of the year.  Woo hoo!

Hobby:  I do armored stick fighting in the SCA.

Some pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/ciscohitz/SCA

I also play ridiculously complicated hex-and-chit wargames.  Like the ones that require a 4x6 table and play about as fast as WWII in 1:1 time.  Or I would if I didn't have a job and and a wife and a 3.y.o.

I am using my "Player Comp Utility" to run some similarity scores on the young outfielders in the MLB to see which once have the most similar offensive skills.  All OFers are lumped together for players 25 years old and younger.  The Giants player I have involved in the study is Nate Schierholtz.  His three closest comps of players 25 years of age and younger, using 2008 ZIPS projections are...

1. Delmon Young (Min)
   
2. Anthony Webster (Tex)
   
3. Jason Pridie (Min)

Stats used in the similarity score were HR,BB, and K rate.  There are still a couple of teams without ZIPS out, so the leaders could change.  There weren't too many young OFers similar in offensive rate skills to Schierholtz due to his below average HR and K rate and his awful BB rate.

vr, Xei

Hehe...  I've seen the Outlaws play(I live in Chico, transplanted from BA).  It's actually exciting to watch, maybe because the players are under 35, and they are actually good for their level, and they aren't overpaid.  And if they do bad, they sit.  Oh yeah, there are some pretty good arguments happening too.  

Some of their players seem pretty good(including Wade's son, Steve Boggs, and Todd Gossage, who can play 3rd.)