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by Grant Brisbee on Oct 21, 2009 10:40 AM PDT
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PrintThe case against Shane Victorino is strong. He's a grubby little weasel who has no problem grabbing your junk and twisting it like an apple stem if it means breaking up a double play. Some people call that "gritty." Most sane folks call it "dirty." He went into right field to break up a double play in Tim Lincecum's debut, soiling what should have been an entirely magical day. Victorino was the winner of the final vote for the All-Star Game, beating out Pablo Sandoval.
So Victorino is the natural enemy of Tim Lincecum and Pablo Sandoval, who are two of the greatestest things nature has ever produced. So Victorino is against nature. He's a vile aberration.
At least, that's what I think right now. If the Phillies win today, though, it might be time to reevaluate Victorino. He's murdering the Dodgers in this series. He hit a crucial, eighth-inning home run in last year's NLCS. He probably wants to rip off Russell Martin's ears too. How can the enemy of true evil be evil himself? This is some real Aristotle stuff right here.
In a Victorinoless world, the Dodgers might have won the World Series last year. They still have a chance this year, but Victorino has helped put the Dodgers in a deep hole. Do you know what's worse than watching the Giants lose 90 games? Watching Dodgers spray each other with champagne. What's worse than falling just short of a playoff spot this season? Watching the Dodgers spray each other with champagne. There's still a chance that might happen. There's still a chance that Russell Martin will hug Jonathan Broxton in a couple of weeks as they look into each other's black, soulless eyes and say to each other, "We did it, buddy! We're world champions!" There's still a chance that on that night, they will have champagne with their puppy-fetus tacos instead of the usual goblets of goat's blood.
If that doesn't happen, though, Shane Victorino will be a big reason why. It's almost too much for my brain to handle.
Yeah, that's not a true spectrum, but you get the idea. If the Phillies win tonight, Victorino's somewhere up there. He'll be a hero, an anti-hero, and a force of evil working temporarily for the forces of good. (And, yes, I know it's very McCarthy of me to describe the Soviet Union as "evil", but work with me here.) I don't think I'll ever like Victorino -- I think that wiring is permanent -- but if he's responsible for a second straight Dodger ousting, there's no way he'll be a part of a hated-player list filled with Steve Garveys, Mike Piazzas, and Eric Gagnes. He'll be on the second tier, and he'll have begrudgingly earned a little respect. He'll still be a dirty player and a grubby little weasel, but if that's what it takes to prevent the Dodgers from winning....
Only if the Phillies win this series, though. Only if they win this series. Let's go Phillies. Don't let us down.
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i applaud the inclusion of han solo, but where is boba fett?
Les Plack = more chicks
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by Headhunter Rollins on Oct 21, 2009 10:48 AM PDT reply actions
Digestion time: 1,000 years
Star Wars universe: Long time ago
It’s hard to say.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
how far is “far, far” exactly?
Les Plack = more chicks
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by Headhunter Rollins on Oct 21, 2009 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Utah.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
You know, measuring the Kessel Run in parsecs isn’t by definition inaccurate, even though a parsec is distance not time. If I recall correctly from by days as an uber-nerd Star Wars fanboy- back before George Lucas dropped trou and took a dump on us all- The Kessel Run was complicated by the Imperial Navy on one hand and a black hole on the other. The reason that the Falcon’s run was so impressive is because it took Han and Chewie closer to the black hole than anyone else would dare risk.
So if the shortest commonly-used route was, say, 18 parsecs, it would be a darned impressive testament to their skill and daring (not to mention the power of the Falcon’s engines) if they used a route that was less than twelve. It would also, obviously, shave a good deal of time off the trip.
/retcon’d
/Is a little disappointed but not really surprised to find that someone’s already thought of this and put a great deal more thought into it.
Schadendodgerfreude 2009!
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 21, 2009 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
holy shit
that was probably the nerdiest thing I have EVER read.
But it was still interesting, even though, as I said, it was OMG NERDY
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Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
my son has a subscription
to the Lego club. They have a running “clone wars” cartoon in it.
In one of the panels, the cartoon Gunray talks about “parsecs” as a unit of time, and one of his Battle Droids corrects him.
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
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That’s pretty cool.
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He escaped from the sarlacc:
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Boba_Fett
"Just another ahahahaha... laugher."
bok bok bok... BOCOCK!
NOT IN THE MOVIES!!1
SO IT DIDN’T HAPPEN!!!11
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To be fair
Most of the stuff in the EU is utterly retarded.
"Vhet ere-a zee oodds Booster Pusey ifer pleys fur zee Geeunts?"
"He-a vun’t pley unteel he-a gets sume-a mejur leegooe-a ixpereeence-a."
Absolutely agree
can’t stand him, but sometimes you have to make concessions. I feel the same about tom brady, but when he was throwing 6 TDs for my fantasy team it was hard to hate the guy.
Not the same thing, but still.
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
Honestly dude, i don’t hate Tom Brady, he might be cocky, but he’s damn good, plus he’s done really nothing to the niners, so it’s aight.
The comparisons to montana piss me off
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
(even though they're somewhat warrented)
if he played for anyone else I wouldn’t hate him as much. Unless it was the Vikings
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, deserved all-star and hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
he's not brett favre, that's for sure
people got automatic brownie points for not being:
a) related to the dodgers
b) espn loving
c) brett favre
And there's this
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LOLston
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WHY HAVE YOU BETRAYED US, KRISTI?! WHYYYYY?!?!
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I want to hate him, but then he wears a Giants hat at the Boston Garden.
FIRE BRUCE BOCHY NOW!!!!!!
AND TAKE BRIAN SABEAN WITH HIM!!!!!
My wife (a big Sillies fan) and I were at Game 4 Monday night, and every time Victorino did something I cursed at him a little under my breath. Otherwise of course I was cheering on the Phillies— I especially enjoyed the four or five “Beat L.A.!” chants.
That chant is what made me root for Boston in the NBA Finals. Hated both teams, but you just can’t argue with a good “BEAT LA” chant. That’s in the Bible, so it’s science.
by troymccluresf on Oct 21, 2009 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
At the Phillies games I went to this year, I gave a Bay product like Rollins a nice clap every time he came up…but for Shane it’s loud boo’ing every time. Screw Shane Victorino. Watching him beat the Dodgers is like a movie script where you have no choice but to work with the enemy, who you know is going to betray you as soon as the objective is complete. It feels terrible doing it, but you know there’s no other choice.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Puppy-fetus tacos
God, I love this place.
Anagram of "suck it Russell Martin" = TRUER SKILL: SCUM STAIN
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Oct 21, 2009 11:10 AM PDT reply actions
Black puppy-fetus tacos
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YEAH IT WAS FROM GREEN BURRITO
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HE’S BEING DIRTY!
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I will never like Shane Victorino. It’s a temporary alliance at best – and even while it lasts, what I’m really rooting for is for Phillies OTHER THAN Shane Victorino to beat the Dodgers.
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HAHAHAHA! Ok, so you heard it here first, this guy believes that the ROyals will be legit in 3 years
You or Grant?
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Yeah
I’m not sure I understand this comment. Was something already deleted in this thread?
Proud father of Juan Carlos Perez. Think Albert Pujols at a position to be determined.
GOAL!
(one man football GDT)
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OT: By the way guys and gals, at Miami… Best Mexican food is at Chipotle…. wow, poor midwestern folks
miami, OH?
what were your expectations?
by atxgiantsfan on Oct 21, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
I praise baby Jebus I live walking distance from El Castillito.
by troymccluresf on Oct 21, 2009 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Chicago actually has surprisingly good Mexican food. Likely because it has a surprisingly large Mexican-American population.
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I would imagine.
Mexican food is also bleak in the northeast. Even in the big cities.
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Philly has awful Mexican food. As do NY, DC and Richmond (from my experiences).
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
There’s really no good Mexican food there. Even bad Mexican food is hard to find in a lot of neighborhoods.
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NYC and Meican food
Its coming up, thanks to immigration from Mexico, and California+SouthWest. Today, there is ‘authentic’ type places in Mexican neighborhoods, California-type places in trendy neighborhoods, cheap and expensive taco trucks, Southern mexican cuisine where it begins to blend with Guatemala and other central american cuisines, and gourmet-pricey type places.
It’s not just Chinese restaurants that also serve Mexican food (or just make the switch entirely) like it was 3+ years ago. And its not just Chipotle like was 1+ years ago. Decent or fancy Mexican food seems to be all around me nowadays. Amazing and cheap Mexican food… not so much.
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Last time I had Meixcan in NY (about 6 months ago) it was one of those fancy Mexican places. Ugh. If Mexican food isn’t cheap they’re doing something wrong. The cheap stuff back home in the Bay was better than the fancier expensive stuff anyways…
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 11:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Was it Dos Caminos? I went there for Valentine’s Day a couple years ago. My girlfriend is from San Antonio, so obviously we both know our Mexican food. They charged us something like twelve dollars for the guacamole alone. Like, one avocado’s worth of guacamole. I was pissed. It wasn’t even as good as my own.
If Mexican food isn’t cheap they’re doing something wrong.
Fo’ rillz! Even the cheap stuff out here oft has something… off about it. I think the ingredients available just aren’t quite right. I found one perfect little hole-in-the-wall joint in Greenpoint that gets it just right, though. Turns out it’s run by a lesbian couple transplanted from Portland, OR that felt it was high time for a decent burrito place in the city.
Schadendodgerfreude 2009!
by WhereThere'sAWillieThere'sAMays on Oct 21, 2009 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
brooklyn has some that's tolerable.
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The closest they have to Mexican people there is Puerto Ricans. Funny note: idiots from Jersey think Puerto Ricans are Mexicans.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
An idiot like me thinks all people from New Jersey are Italians.
by Every6thDay on Oct 21, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Fuhgeddaboudit
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Having lived in Jersey
I have to say, DUH, JEWS.
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It is VERY bad, like if you asked your WASP grandmother to make a burrito, this is what NYC comes up with.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
I would lose my mind if I lived in a place that didn’t have good Mexican food available.
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I once ordered a burrito in a restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin. I was just too shocked it was actually on the menu.
"It's too late now."
How was it?
"Vhet ere-a zee oodds Booster Pusey ifer pleys fur zee Geeunts?"
"He-a vun’t pley unteel he-a gets sume-a mejur leegooe-a ixpereeence-a."
NYC had THE WORST I have had, though i didn’t find a burrito in London, so there is room further decline.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I haven’t been to London since 1997, but at that point at least, Londoners considered Mexican food very bizarre and exotic.
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I had pizza in London and it was the worst pizza I ever ate — even when compared to school lunch pizza. So I bet London can steal the medal away from New York (LIKE THEY DID THE OLYMPICS)
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I never had pizza there.
One lesson I did learn, though: if you’re in an English pub, and the menu says something comes with a salad, they actually mean a single wilted piece of lettuce and maybe one or two other tasteless vegetables. No dressing.
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I had good pizza in London at a couple different places. It’s definitely a different style than the pizza here, but tasty all the same. I did enjoy that an “American Pizza” was pepperoni and a “Spicy American Pizza” was pepperoni and jalapenos, since those are frequently found on pizza here.
by W8ingForATitle on Oct 21, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
This was like someone put ketchup and parmesan on a Bisquick biscuit crust. BARF
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
PizzaExpress is pretty good.
Like an upmarket pizzeria. PizzaExress in London’s Soho is also a pretty neat Jazz club. (Saw Mose Allison there). I was disappointed when I learned that PizzaExpress was actually a chain all around the cities of England, with decent food, but not always decent jazz.
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FIRE BOCHY FIRE MOLINA
Decent ingredients for Mexican food is available in grocery stores in Europe, but it is way expensive. Cheaper to buy a couple nice steaks. This may be why you don’t find Mexican restaurants in Europe.
by W8ingForATitle on Oct 21, 2009 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
And they say AMERICANS are cheap and lazy. SHEESH. Get your act together, EUROPE.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Yet somehow, NYC doesn’t. I mean, 8 million people, you’d think SOMEone could roll up a decent burrito. Thank god for the Burrito Tunnel.
by troymccluresf on Oct 21, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
I just don’t think mexican food can be found at a high quality anywhere too far from the border, i don’t think city size relates much at all.
by atxgiantsfan on Oct 21, 2009 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
The key factor is: are there actual Mexicans living in the area? In the Northeast, no matter how dense the population, the answer is always no.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
out of curiosity, what’s the farthest anyone’s been from the border and found bueno mexican food?
by atxgiantsfan on Oct 21, 2009 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
San Jose/San Francisco. Apparently others have been to Chicago, which is sort of close to a border.
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Well, there’s a ton of people here at school from Chicago that just love to think they are the best and claim to have the best everything, i just shake my head
Californians would NEVER do that!
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
People from LA do… haha, no i mean there are people that do that from California, but this is just bad
Oh, no, people from NorCal do it, too.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
We are the best!
But we don’t have the best everything.
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Having not lived permanently in NorCal for like 6 years now…yep, that’s definitely me.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Chicago’s pretty nice and has a lot going for it. It also sucks in a lot of ways, though. It might crack my top 10 favorite American cities, but probably not the top 5.
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have a friend first semester at dupaul, loves it
by atxgiantsfan on Oct 21, 2009 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Rupaul?
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RON PAUL 2012
Why do San Francisco teams insist on having terrible offenses? Frank Gore and Pablo Sandoval can't do it all.
NIBIRU 2012
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by shanghaijim on Oct 21, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Good things about Chicago:
- extensive public transit
- awesome ethnic neighborhoods
- good universities
- architecture
- lots of baseball games to go to
- Taste of Chicago – awesome annual food festival
- Printers’ Row – awesome annual book festival
- the weather’s real nice about two days a year
- the Lakefront’s pretty cool (but can’t compare to the ocean)
Bad things about Chicago:
- slow-as-fuck and crumbling public transit
- arguably the worst, most corrupt state and local politics in the country
- the weather is almost always actively unpleasant
- O’Hare Airport
- Cubs fans
- it’s really, really, really, really flat. mind-crushingly so
- despite the last point, they have the audacity to give their suburbs names like “Chicago Heights” and “Chicago Ridge”
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I definitely noticed the flatness.
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Fun fact
It was caused by glaciers during the last Ice Age. Crushed everything flat.
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Plus: Art Institute
You can't solve your problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems - Albert Einstein to Brian Sabean
One of the great shames of my three years in Chicago: I never made it to the Art Institute.
Another is that I never made it to a White Sox game. Not that it’s such a great ballpark, but going to new parks is fun.
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what, no mention of Wrigley?
bestest ballpark evar
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
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by greatgiantfan on Oct 21, 2009 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I mentioned all the ballgames you can go to there – Wrigley’s a sub-category of that, I guess.
I agree it’s nice, but it’s not my favorite ballpark.
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HOT!
The worst part about the cold, though, is that for ONE DAY in the early spring, it’ll be gorgeous and warm out and it’s so wonderful – and then the next day it’ll be the 30 degrees again. It’s soul crushing.
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Yeah I know what you mean. In the second day of a 3 day stretch of nice weather in Philly (the week before was awful)…and I basically expect this to be all we get for the whole fall. Summer, winter for a week, 3 day fall in between, then back to winter until June….ugh.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I’d give my left nut for 30 degree weather. Come live in the Central Valley for a year and you’ll know what I mean. It’s like God tricks us every year for a few days into thinking we’re actually getting a spring season, only to get 5 months of 100+ degree heat.
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by UnleashTheGore on Oct 21, 2009 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
The thing is, Chicago has that, too. You really do get screwed at both ends.
"Why not trade Bumgarner for some banger stud?" - sfgiants.com commenter or online porn ad? You be the judge!
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trust me, the water here is no relief either, unless you like warm bath water.
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by UnleashTheGore on Oct 21, 2009 4:38 PM PDT up reply actions
At least it’s dry heat. Most of the rest of the country gets cold, crappy winters, and then summer is all humid, which is way worse than 100 degress California heat…
(Also, it gets a hell of a lot colder than 30 degrees in a lot of places)
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
I guess I can’t speak to the rest of the country’s heat. However, the cold weather part of it still sounds awesome. I’m a very cold-blooded person.
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by UnleashTheGore on Oct 21, 2009 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
The heat bothers me a lot more than the cold – if it’s cold you can bundle up, but when it’s hot as fuck you can be naked and it’s still miserable.
With that having been said, I hate the cold too. I’m a total Bay Area kid – I like (gasp!) pleasant weather.
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I’ve heard people make that argument “oh it’s a dry heat” many people agree until they spend a brutal August or September baking in the central valley. What many people don’t realize is that it is an unrelenting dry heat sometimes lasting long into the evening/nighttime hours. And there’s no rain shower or cloud cover to provide any relief from the piercing hottitude.
Not that humidity is any fun either, they are just different types of uncomfortable.
Well yeah, once you start hitting 102+, its just hot no matter if its humid or not. Its more the 85-95 range that’s much, much nicer without humidity.
What many people don’t realize is that it is an unrelenting dry heat sometimes lasting long into the evening/nighttime hours
Well this is one of the things about humidity – it keeps the air temp at night. On nice nights where the humidity isn’t brutal (no T-storm coming in or anything), and its not too hot, a nice amount of humidity keeps it so nice at night, but on those really hot humid summer days its just miserable at every hour of the day. It doesn’t go away.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 8:28 PM PDT up reply actions
People in SF tend to go crazy on the one or two nice warm nights we get a year.
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
Yeah…I dunno whats wrong with yall. East Bay (over the hills) is the place to be, so much warmer than SF (but not brutal like the central valley)….
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 8:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Novato, CA
My hometown
Aaron King is still my homeboy... iffy mechanics and all
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Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva managed to have awesome ethnic food. Had some great Thai food too.
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by ringleader3 on Oct 21, 2009 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Interesting. I have cousins in Switzerland and they don’t get any ethnic food at all where they are. Of course they’re in a totally different part of the country from Geneva.
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A woman I know from Australia told me that they don’t have waffles down under. WAFFLES.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
How do they survive?!
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That’s pretty disgusting.
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Spread it all over, JUST NOT ON WAFFLES, CUZ YOU CAN’T.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
half of me is actually tempted to google vegemite..
by atxgiantsfan on Oct 21, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Eh, it’s not as exciting as that picture.
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It’s a malt-based food spread. It’s salty and weird.
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It is GROSS.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, like I said, Chicago has surprisingly good Mexican food because there’s a long-established Mexican-American population there. It has more to do with Mexican population than distance for the border.
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the history of Mexicans in California is not a pretty picture; maybe that would account for the mostly crappy mex food here.
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
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by greatgiantfan on Oct 21, 2009 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions
There’s a lot of crappy Mexican food to be had in California, but also some of the best.
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Just a lot of Mexican food in general, some good some bad. Once you figure out a couple good places in the area you live, you’re set.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 8:30 PM PDT up reply actions
THIS INFORMATION WILL COME IN HANDY
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Fortunately, I’m never going to Ohio.
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I never thought in a million years I’d be moving to northern Florida, and yet, two months from today…
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Come to think of it
I’ve never stayed in any Midwestern cities for an extended period of time. I was briefly in Chicago to switch planes on a flight from NY back to SF, but that’s about it. I’ve been to most of the states on both coasts though.
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I went to Chi a few years ago and really liked it. Definitely worth checking out.
by troymccluresf on Oct 21, 2009 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I certainly want to visit it sometime. I have some friends who live there whom I haven’t seen in a long time. It’s just a matter of finding the time and opportunity.
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If you do make it, you should hit me up for tips on stuff to do and stuff to eat.
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ROAD TRIP!
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, and it's totally grown on me.
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by ringleader3 on Oct 21, 2009 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
THE HELL??
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
And Columbus has way better pizza than the Bay Area. That is a scientific fact.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
I liked the panhandle
when I visited there. Nice beaches. Not crowded.
FIRE BRIAN SABEAN... UNLESS HE KEEPS DRAFTING WELL. .. AND SIGNS UNDERRATED PLAYERS LIKE AFFELDT OR PHELPS. .. OR ALRIGHT WHO'S PLAYING WITH THE ALIEN MIND-SWITCHING RAY?
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/cries and rips up Natto’s invitation to Rotorueter’s birthday party
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
/sees invitation
/blows nose on it
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Someone should make NATTO cry!
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I live to crush dreams
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CHUNK!
I don't know anything about minor league players, so I adopted the Coke Bottle, and it's totally grown on me.
'The longer I do this the smarter I get' --Brian Sabean
by ringleader3 on Oct 21, 2009 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m never moving to the Midwest then.
FIRE BRUCE BOCHY NOW!!!!!!
AND TAKE BRIAN SABEAN WITH HIM!!!!!
The Midwest isn’t so bad. Chicago, Minneapolis and Ann Arbor are good cities. Food-wise, you just have to adjust to more of a meat-and-potatoes palate. Good, cheap steakhouses abound.
The only dealbreaker for me is the weather. No to snow and no to 100+ temps and humidity.
Dude, Ann Arbor is awesome, i feel like i’m in Berkeley when i go there. The food and just the people that live in the area are just awesome
I’ve never been, but I’ve been really meaning to go.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
I have not enjoyed a minute of these playoffs and will not until the Dodgers are eliminated.
"It's too late now."
Maybe not relieved… but at 3-1 with another Cliff Lee start coming soon… you’ve got to feel good about that.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Oct 21, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't actually root for the Dodgers
…obviously.
But if by some act of Satan, they were allowed to win tonight, watching the Phillies crush the Dodgers in front of what’s left of Dodger Stadium’s home crowd would not be the worst thing ever.
Tempting
But I don’t want to chance it. End them now.
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by shanghaijim on Oct 21, 2009 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Stalin in WW2: evil but useful
Just redact “USSR” (and probably “ultimately”) and it works perfectly.
oh so this is what wide does …
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Oh, the USSR was evil, especially under Stalin. He may have murdered more people than Hitler. Evil is a good description for sure.
Defeated Hitler, with our help, and in that sense useful, but evil definitely for the next 50 years (at least)
And he brought us this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU67r0-QgZs
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So when Sabean brings in Victorino as a 36 year old free agent for a six year deal, will we be able to put the past aside?
No, because by then he will be hitting .203.
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by Stuttering John Tamargo on Oct 21, 2009 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Grant, I’m glad you brought attention to this important issue. Shane Victorino’s bugged-out, greenie-fueled blood-shot eyes and Joker-ish grin just make me want to… well… shake my fist at the TV, but reading someone else’s disdain for the man — on the internet, no less — turns my shaking fist into a thumbs up… at this site!
Oh joy, a couple of guys in suits just came to my door to discuss the Bible.
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There are a few black Mormons, so that’s possible, but they weren’t on bicycles.
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So you didn’t talk to them? Did you just turn off the lights and hide behind the couch?
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
I told them I was working and went back upstairs.
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Somewhere on the Secular Web there used to be a whole list of how to handle missionaries at the door. I can’t find it now, but it was pretty funny.
“Put on a bathrobe, grab a carving knife, dip it in ketchup. Open the door and tell them you’ll be right with them after you are finished with the virgin sacrifice.”
J-Dubs! Woohoo!
but, no, they do field work on saturdays.
No, sounds Mormon to me.
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by shanghaijim on Oct 21, 2009 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Usually when I see Mormons doing missionary work, they’re better dressed. These guys were wearing suits like I’d expect to see on Vince McMahon in the 80s.
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Those are JW’s alright.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Bill Maher?
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Not unless he’s shaves his head, gained a lot of weight, and has decided to start going door-to-door in blackface.
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shave
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Oh! “He’s shave his head”. That makes more sense.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
shaveD
The d and l keys on my keyboard have been giving me trouble for weeks, dammit.
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Since the english language is always evolving, why not introduce a d-free version of the word? Like “shove”. He shove his head.
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
Or shoven.
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shav
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by shanghaijim on Oct 21, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Chivas.
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Super Chivas!
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So maybe?
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nod nod nod
There’s a camera in that bible.
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by shanghaijim on Oct 21, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
MY HALLOWEEN PLANS!
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by satyricrash on Oct 21, 2009 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
And come to think of it
I also had a run-in with a crazy homeless guy earlier. So it’s been a great morning!
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Good morning!
Good morning!
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I was wearing my New School sweatshirt. He said hello, I nodded politely.
“Let me ask you something,” he said. I cocked my eyebrow and paused.
“The New School – is that about ‘schooling’ your,” he pointed to his forehead. I looked at him funny.
He glared at me. “So it is!” he said.
I mumbled something about how it has a tradition of both academics and social activism.
“I have to go,” I said.
“You don’t have anywhere to go!” Angry now.
“Uh, I really do, actually.”
“My son from SF State, he’s a model at the New School!”
“Okay, I really have to go now.” I walked away.
“FINE, SHUT THE WORLD OUT!”
Whee!
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You didn’t get robbed like Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson?
FIRE BRUCE BOCHY NOW!!!!!!
AND TAKE BRIAN SABEAN WITH HIM!!!!!
I was pickpocketed in Berkeley circa 2000, but not since.
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The most devastating theft in my life, though: when I was eight or nine, I brought my baseball card binder to show off at my after school program, and it was stolen.
/sobs
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that is horrible. I tend to keep mine in hiding.
well, it was really gary thomasson--the great, giant, fan
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by greatgiantfan on Oct 21, 2009 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
hbp
The perfect rooting solution was what happened I think the game before last – HBP. Helps the Phillies, hurts rectum-face. Every time Victorino comes up, that’s what I’m rooting for.
GOAL!
(omgdt)
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This is a tough postseason to enjoy, given the four teams remaining, but Victorino notwithstanding, the Phillies are certainly the least unpleasant of the lot:
—Jimmy Rollins (Bay Area product, future beneficiary of 5-year contract by Brian Sabean in 2011)
—Scott Eyre (one of my favorite Giants relievers ever)
—Cole Hamels (winner of the Stephen Malkmus lookalike contest)
Once they take down the Evils, the next step is to destroy the Yankees. I’d be down with that.
"Those that drink the Kool-Aid, please leave the room."
I would like a Yankees-Phillies World Series for some obvious reasons. I’m torn on who should win though.
On one hand as a suffering Giants fan, a team’s fans having back to back World Series victories seems totally unfair.
On the other hand, it is pretty funny when the Yankees spend so much money and don’t win it all.
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
On the other hand, the Giants have the most wins of any MLB franchise, and the Phillies have the most losses of any MLB franchise, so at least we have that.
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3 hands is a lot of hands though. Are we now joining with each other to count hands?
YOU EAT YOUR DAMN EGGROLL
Join this hand?
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Antonio Alfonseca has six fingers on each hand – maybe that can help us somehow?
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Phils have payback on their minds (1950)
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by greatgiantfan on Oct 21, 2009 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Fun fact
The Philadelphia Phillies did not win their first World Series until 1980, after 98 years of existence.
(tmgdt)
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“The Milan fans were in good voice there for a moment.”
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Why was that last goal disallowed?
WHY IS BOCOCK?!
by Lars The Wanderer on Oct 21, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
So, I was just watching the video of the blown call at third base last night. Turns out Tim McClelland’s also the guy who made the Greorge Brett pine tar call.
Didn’t he also blow a call for us in the last couple of years? I have a vague recollection…
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ruiz with the winning run
Chip Caray: “Here’s the throw to the plate — not in time!” Except, as far as I can tell, there wasn’t actually a throw to the plate. Caray made it up. I was also flummoxed by his call of Belliard’s “high, fly ball … into shallow left center field”, caught by the shortstop, to end Game 1.
I ragged on Dick Stockton in the NLDS, but now I’m full on the anti-Caray bandwagon.
Someone around here, in the last week, made the comment if Flemming keeps getting better we are going to lose him. I already think he is better than either of the two mentioned.
Who’s brain did you bring me?
Brain SabeanOranother.
Yeah, Flem is going to be gone before long. Someone is going to offer him a top job and he is going to take it — he should take it.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2009 3:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, by “top job” I meant a #1 broadcasting job with one of the major league teams. Here in SF he’s #2 to Miller. Even last year (or was it ‘07?), he was #2 to Greg Papa when Papa subbed in on the weekends, which didn’t make sense to me.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2009 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah. There are plenty of good announcers out there but the networks have stuck with the current crop of shitheads over them all.
by troymccluresf on Oct 21, 2009 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions
What other announcers would y’all rate as among the best? Every time I hear a non-Giants broadcast I only seem to catch the awful ones. The Hawk Harrelsons of the world, if you will.
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I don’t have any systematic sense of the field, but I think the Mets’ TV crew — Gary Cohen on play-by-play with Darling and Hernandez as analysts — is pretty good. Darling I like more than Hernandez.
Vin Scully has been around so long that I think he’s outlived his genre — the cultural norms of what we think of as good broadcasting have changed and yet he’s still around. I feel like criticizing him is to commit an act of historical short-sightedness. But you listen to him for a while and you do realize he is very, very skilled.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh, it sounds like the Mets’ crew has totally turned over from the days when I lived in New Jersey and listened to WFAN in the 90s.
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Well, this is the TV side. The radio guys are — lemme check — Howie Rose and Wayne Hagin. Yeah, they’re both fairly new to the Mets, so you wouldn’t have been listening to them in the 90s.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2009 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Hey, Wayne Hagin was with the Giants at one point too – back when Greenwald was gone.
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There are none, silly.
"Vhet ere-a zee oodds Booster Pusey ifer pleys fur zee Geeunts?"
"He-a vun’t pley unteel he-a gets sume-a mejur leegooe-a ixpereeence-a."
There was a throw in the direction of the plate.
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Hmm. Very well. I will rescind the pie ambush I had ordered out on him.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2009 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Ooh, don’t do that.
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I could have one of the beat writers throw a shoe at him.
by non sequitur on Oct 21, 2009 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
The ball wasn’t even close to the infield when Ruiz scored.
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Seriously
there are no good announcing teams on TV in this year’s MLB playoffs. In fact, I’d like someone to tell me a single sport that has good top announcing teams. The only one I can think of is CBS football- most of their guys are really solid, but Nantz is probably the worst and he’s their number 1 guy.
Remember the “old” days? We had Pat summerall and john madden. That was the absolute golden age of sports announcing. I’m not old enough to remember way back, but for as long as I’ve been paying attention, baseball’s top national announcing teams have been god-awful.
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I've never been happier to have Crabs
I talked to some people at work (who are older than me) about this – I think the nature of announcing in general has changed for the worst. They agreed. Announcing has gone the way of political pundits, it’s not about describing the game or giving people facts anymore, it’s about throwing out opinions that get viewers these days. It’s really weighing down announcing in general. They didn’t use to 2 or even 3 guys in the booth before – they just called it how they saw it (very eloquently), kind of like Jon Miller does, and I think that’s the best way to announce.
Now it’s about creating a spectacle. Creating controversy. Turning every issue into a big thing. Making your opinion heard. TBS isn’t bad, I honestly don’t mind them, they’re a huge step up from Fox and other networks…but I still think they could do with less and just give us more play-by-play and less punditry.
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions
the announcing has really turned me off from the playoffs. I tried to watch some last night and then ARod came up and Buck started going off about his unclutchness in the past as a Yankee and all this stuff.
The thing is, I never read or hear anyone say they like Joe Buck. I hear how much he sucks on a constant basis though. How is he so successful?
We're all basically Pedro Feliz.
You probably hang out with people who care. Joe Buck is for the really casual fan that doesn’t know anything about baseball. Fox is absolutely brutal I’d rather watch it on mute than listen to their bullshit. It’s been nice though cause I’ve been watched the Phillies and they’ve been on TBS but I haven’t watched or cared one bit about the Yankees series, so I haven’t had to deal with his crap…
by Missing Barry on Oct 21, 2009 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions
NAH NAH NAH NAH .... NAH NAH NAH NAH .... MAAANNNYYY .... GOODBYYYEEE!!!!
BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR!!!!!
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