Reasons To Be Cheerful , Pt. III

From Wikipedia

"One of the oldest of the MLB teams, the Giants hold the distinction of having won the most games of any team in the history of organized sports. The Giants also have the most members in the hall of fame. The Giants are also known for their intense rivalry with the Los Angeles Dodgers."

In reverse order of appearance:

1. Duh
2. I did not know this.
3.I did not know this either.

There's a huge list of Stuff I Did Not Know , but for now I'm musing on these two.

Happy Holidays!

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The second one makes me very proud. I knew that thanks to a trivia contest a few years back, but it still rocks.

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Nov 29, 2008 5:44 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Winning the most games/

Owning the Hall of Fame/
And nanny goats…

"When Jackson Williams thinks of how many times Madison Bumgarner has tried to kill Tyler Walker..." Well, apparently he succeeded on that last go 'round.

by multiphasic on Nov 29, 2008 5:48 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

I read this initially as "Reasons To Be Careful"

Met a girl called lola and I took her back to my place
Feelin guilty, feelin scared, hidden cameras everywhere
Stop! hold on. stay in control

by Lars The Wanderer on Nov 29, 2008 6:10 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

“Girl I want you here with me
but I’m really not as cool as I’d like to be
cuz there’s a red
under my bed
and there’s a little yellow man in my head.”

The Denker bus is now bound for San Diego. Those who were passengers on it are now angrily stranded at a gas station in Modesto, CA. Not much about baseball here .

by oldjacket on Nov 29, 2008 8:07 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I get it...

…because I’ve got it.

The Kinks , Give The People What They Want

On vinyl even.

Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers

by victor frankenstein on Nov 29, 2008 11:06 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Vinyl?

Huh?

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Nov 30, 2008 12:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Bigass CDs that don't fit modern machinery.

Because some stuff never made it to digital. Or you just can’t justify $25 for 25 year old music.
Or you like the warm sound – digital is widely referred to as sounding “too sterile”.

Or you can’t just shitcan a thirty year collection.

So I bought a turntable I can plug into a computer…now if I can just figure out the WAV to MP3 encoding nightmare…

Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers

by victor frankenstein on Nov 30, 2008 9:20 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Not WAV to MP3!!!!! Use FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). It compresses your songs, not as much as mp3 does, but does it without a loss of quality. MP3’s are actually a horrible way to archive your music, because when you write those mp3s to a CD, you’ll have a lesser quality sound.

Get foobar 2000. With that you’ll be able to open your WAV files and convert them to FLAC.

And you feel into the sarchasm of vinyl too. I prefer vinyl to any media.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Dec 1, 2008 6:31 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

yes obiwan

I can feel into the sarchasm of vinyl too.

Castillo got the DFA. Guestimate for Castillo DFA to come before the 2009 season = 2.

by kennv on Dec 1, 2008 7:30 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Ha!

You fell into…feel into….um…sarc……dammit.

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by WalrusMan on Dec 1, 2008 7:40 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Vic..

If you’d like send me off an e-mail and I’ll get you some links and info about it. FLAC really is the way to go if you’re archiving your vinyl collection, or any collection. Every CD I own has gone to FLAC so that when they fail I’ll have a perfect copy ready to go.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Dec 1, 2008 7:42 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I was just gonna ask.

See , the whole computer thing started innocently enough as a way of arranging files so as to download them onto a MiniDisc…and now my life is horribly complicated…and no , I don’t know the truth and the light of superior conversions and would of course welcome any ass…sistance…

(I blame Hefner for that conditioned mental hiccup there)

Falling into vinyl’s sarchasm is a feat indeed…that hole is tiny.

Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers

by victor frankenstein on Dec 1, 2008 8:23 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Never trust..

Girls named Lola.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Nov 30, 2008 12:56 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The Hall of Fame thing does kick ass, although it’s partly due to a lot of HOFers who played for the Giants at the shitty end of their careers – for example, Steve Carlton, Gary Carter, Warren Spahn, Duke Snider, etc.

Never has a poster been more correct in the history of the internet. Ever! - ResDog on yours truly

by jcb9 on Nov 29, 2008 7:22 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

So Sabean’s signings are nothing new?

Insanity is just a state of mind.

by giants9107 on Nov 29, 2008 8:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

et al ad infinitum

Omar Vizquel.
Barry Bonds…admittedly , Barry’s “shitty end” is of a whole ’nother variety.

Who has the fun?
Is it always the man with the gun?
- The Stranglers

by victor frankenstein on Nov 30, 2008 11:42 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Omar Vizquel? One year yes but still.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Nov 30, 2008 12:57 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

The Giants are also known for their intense rivalry with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

This is news to Brian Wilson.

by satyricrash on Nov 30, 2008 9:59 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

The Giants have also had two of the top five players to ever play the game.

Catcher are base running. Hitters are offense.

by thehavenot on Dec 1, 2008 12:32 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

FP Santangelo and Armando Benitez!

There amass been plenty of articles written this spring about the stud shortstop Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum , as well as the fluid young outfielders and thirteen basemen Kevin Frandsen.
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by Natto on Dec 1, 2008 1:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs