Post-Game Recap: Giants Avoid the Sweep...Yet Again
by Grant Brisbee on Jul 8, 2009 3:24 PM PDT
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PrintI suppose it's neato that they're in position to sweep a team in the first place, but it's still just a little annoying when they have a chance to sweep. Some links to take your mind off today's game:
- A video of a cat with his head stuck in a jar of peanut butter
- Jimmy Page onstage with Radiohead
- Original screen test for Christopher Walken as Han Solo
- The classic "F. Scott Fitzgerald Bikini Speed-Reading Team" lost skit from Mr. Show
- Llamas fighting to the death in a bizarre mating ritual
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I've read this story before...
But I don’t know how it ends!
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
i really wish they'd end the voting already
my fingers can’t take anymore!
Did you say Jimmy Page with his head stuck in a jar of peanut butter?!
"The dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp" --TW
Going after the WalrusMan/pedophile demographic, eh?
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Also, fuck F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby = most overrated novel ever written.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Caption Contest!
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by victor frankenstein on Jul 8, 2009 5:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Shut up.
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It’s sad to see that someone so right about Fred Lewis can be so wrong about literature.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
/also doesn’t like Hemingway if anyone wants to fight over that.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Shut up.
Actually, sometimes I feel bad for liking Hemingway (well, for liking The Sun Also Rises mostly, I didn’t like A Farewell to Arms and I haven’t read For Whom the Bell Tolls yet) because lol misogyny but I guess I get over it.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
There’s the misogyny, but I think I also like my prose….not florid, but more florid than Hemingway’s.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
I loved 'Sun Also Rises' and '...Bell Tolls'... but stopped there.
I didn’t want to push it by trying ‘Old Man and the Sea.’ I might try ‘Farewell to Arms’ sometime.
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Very accessible read… The movie is also pretty cool, if you can stomach black&white. One of Bogart and Bacall’s best.
If you can’t stomach Black & White you have no business having an opinion on a flick!!!
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Fuggen Rox! You might want to try beating The Bums more than once in 10 games. Try it. You might find you like it.
I find Old Man and the Sea to be very, very boring and mostly pointless.
I get what he’s doing in it. I just don’t get why. And I also don’t get why so fucking dull.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 8, 2009 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I have that problem with most books written more than 40 years ago. With Catch-22 I always say that the chauvinism mostly comes from the characters, not the author. Almost all the characters are seriously flawed, so I just look at it as another one of their flaws (and one you’d expect to be pretty common, considering the setting). But sometimes it’s harder. I’m reading Grapes of Wrath now, for example, and I think I like it so far, but once in a while there’s a comment about Indians that’s kind of hard to ignore.
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Then you're really not going to like Shakespeare, opera, the Declaration of Independence, the 1787 U.S. Constitution...
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Actually I’ve read some Shakespeare, and Taming of the Shrew was definitely hard to swallow (though I liked The Merchant of Venice, and thought it’s pretty clearly anti-antisemitic). The Bible can be kind of hard too. But really, when it’s that old, it’s much easier to justify it.
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“Hard to swallow” and Shakespeare just makes me think of Titus Andronicus.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Not about justifying discredited things in the past; it's about understanding something about the past IN ITS whole context.
The Declaration of Independence calls the Indians “merciless savages” who are bent on killing and raping our women; the original Constitution counted slaves as 3/5 of a human for census purposes but still didn’t call them citizens. Stay away from the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision.
I am not saying to ignore bad things from history, but rather suggesting that it is dangerous moral ground and a total lack of intellectual ground to JUDGE the past without its context. It is a moral vanity that is quite limiting.
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I don’t know if you can really talk about fictional, literary works on the same level you can judge historical documents.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
I'm betting he can.
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by victor frankenstein on Jul 8, 2009 5:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Absolutely. It is the same intellectual inquiry, whether fictional or not:
What does [the work] mean or not mean in the context of its time/society/culture/etc? There is absolutely no difference in understanding that ‘Tom Sawyer’ was written in its time and understanding that the Dred Scott decision was written in its time and place. It is the same intellectual function.
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Okay, but it’s not the same thing. The Declaration of Independence is, fundamentally, a political document – that’s its reason for existence. While it may have an artistic value of sorts, that’s only important inasmuch as it helps forward its politics.
A novel, while it may have political import, is fundamentally a creative work. It’s also FICTION, which means that there’s not as direct a correlation between what it explicitly says and what its author means to say by writing it.
In writing the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson may have had several goals, but clearly his principle goal was to advance the cause of American independence. We can quibble over details, but this central purpose is pretty much beyond question. What Twain was attempting to do in writing Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn is trickier, and is substantially up to interpretation and reinterpretation.
Of course, they’re both also historical documents of a sort, and they both should be seen as products of their time. But to say there’s no difference between interpreting a fictional work like a novel and a political document like the Declaration or the Constitution is, well, crazy.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
False distinction.
Of course interpretation is different. Nobody suggested otherwise. Different works call for different analytical tools, and there are far more distinctions than merely fiction and nonfiction for that. That’s not the point I am making.
In order to truly understand something from another time, one must understand something about its historical/cultural context. This is true of fiction, nonfiction, whatever. I would think that is obvious. One cannot understand the Declaration nor ‘Tom Sawyer’ without understanding — among other things — the societal context in which it arose. Of course there are inquiries one would make of one of these docs that wouldn’t be asked of the other, and vice versa.
But this subthread is in the context of Cookyman’s comments that it bothers him to read things from other eras that conflict with mores he holds in the 21st Century — a reaction that every historian and literature prof I ever had warned severely against as a barrier to understanding and a mistaken path of judgment that will lead away from understanding.
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Very well said.
From our point it is easy over look just how “radical” (to use that term of the day) to have a written constitution. It was just not done that way. And the closest progenitors of the Declaration of Independence were Martin’s tracks posted on the door and written petitions to the Crown and Parliament (something the colonist did repeatedly before 1776). It truly is change on the level cell phones changed society in the last 30 years and how the idea was talked about in Sci Fi for about 30 years before that.
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Fuggen Rox! You might want to try beating The Bums more than once in 10 games. Try it. You might find you like it.
I’m not really judging anyone. I was talking about literary works, from a personal point of view. Yes, Grapes of Wrath was written in the 30’s, but I’m reading it now, not in the 30’s, and I’m just saying that some parts of it were hard for me. The Joads lose their land in a heartbreaking moment. They talk about how that land is a part of them, how they’ve earned the right to work it, how “grampa took up the land, and he had to kill the Indians and drive them away”. Kind of ruins the moment. The context in which it was written doesn’t matter – I live now, and I’m trying to sympathize with the Joads, and that line makes it a bit hard, because now a part of me feels that they had it coming.
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That IS judgment! That is the whole, total, complete, utter essential judginess of judging!
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Unless you’re a computer (hi xanthan), I don’t think it’s possible to read anything short of the phone book without making these sorts of a judgments on some level. No matter how much we understand of context and relativism, we still bring our own perspective to everything we read. That’s inevitable. That’s also what makes literature interesting in the first place.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
I can agree with that.
But it is being aware one is making those judgments and how they might affect things that needs happen. Sadly I think it is something being less and less stressed now days. It seems we get more of a Nancy Regan " Just say, No!!" approach and that does not work well.
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Not really. I’m talking about how it makes me feel, subjectively. Judging would be taking those subjective feelings and trying to turn them into some objective truth. I don’t pretend to know enough about Steinbeck or the 30’s in order to really say if he was racist or not. But when I read the book I don’t think about him or about the 30’s, I think about the characters, and what they’re going through. And whenever they, or in some cases the narrator, say something that sounds offensive, I find myself having to make excuses for it, and even if those excuses are completely legitimate, just having to make them hurts the reading experience.
Adoptive parent of Noah Lowry.
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You might consider that those feelings are in fact the result of having made a judgment, and that judgment is interfering with your reading pleasure.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 9, 2009 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
I disagree. By that logic, feeling anything toward any character is the result of having made a judgment. And, since most of the characters I read about grew up in very different environments from the one I grew up in, which means that I’m not in a position to judge them, then feeling anything towards any of the characters hurts my reading pleasure. Except without those feelings, there is no reading pleasure.
If that is how you define judgment, then it is impossible to enjoy any sort fictional work without judging the characters. Reading is all about developing feelings towards the characters – liking some, hating some, being annoyed by some, being bored by some, etc. If you can’t do that, what’s the point of reading anything?
Look, let’s say you meet a man who was unfortunate enough to be raised by two racist parents, have only racist friends, be taught by racist teachers, etc. That man, through no fault of his own, grew up to be a racist. Except for that, he’s a really good guy. So you hang out with him, and you constantly remind yourself of the environment in which he was raised, understanding that had you been raised in the same environment, you’d most likely be as racist as he is. You try not to judge him. But that doesn’t mean that you can, or even should, just stop being offended by any of his racist comments. You may understand why he says those things, but it’s still hard for you to hear them, and to know that he thinks them.
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I can usually kind of compartmentalize/attribute it to sign of the times, etc but sometimes it’s hard.
I have a feeling, for example, if I went back and reread Little House on the Prairie, I’d be horrified.
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The Sun Also Rises is an absolutely fantastic piece of writing. I don’t think Hemingway did a whole lot else that was worth my time, but I adore that book with a very real and fiery passion.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 8, 2009 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I definitely agree. I love that book to death, and none of his other novels come close to touching it.
Some of his short stories were also quality, though.
"El once, chico. Eleven."
Hemingway’s fiction was way too choppy and disjointed for me. I like him in the “we’re journalists-authors yey” group, but his fiction is meh IMO.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 6:03 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m reading that right now and think it is amazing.
by positiveuphemism on Jul 8, 2009 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve never read Watership Down, but I don’t think it could be more overrated than I find TGG to be, since I’ve never heard anyone say Watership down is the greatest American novel of the 20th century.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Shut up.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I haven’t read that book in years but I sure loved it when I was 10 years old.
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Well I can definitely see why that would be. It’s easy to read, the main characters are likable, it has a feel good ending, etc. But when you think about it, it has a very standard plot, the characters are really flat and stereotypical, and the whole thing is just kind of pointless.
Also, for a book about rabbits, it’s pretty damn chauvinistic.
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It is kind of pointless and as far as I can remember, it wasn’t particularly allegorical or anything (maybe there’s something I missed when I was little à la Narnia & Christianity). I would agree that it’s definitely not a classic book, but it’s definitely a fun read when you’re little.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
I probably would have like it a lot more if I had been 10 when I read it, but my high school made me read it when I was 15. I agree that it’s a good children’s book (well, except for the chauvinism). A lot of serious books that use animals as main characters don’t succeed at first because people assume they’re children’s books (like Animal Farm), and I think WD has the opposite problem – it was clearly written for kids, but somehow people decided that the book has more depth to it ,when it clearly doesn’t. It should have been left as a kids book
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The female rabbits are basically there for baby-makin’ and little else.
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Sounds good to me, AMIRITE GUYS?
Please don’t fall into the sarchasm on this one
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McCC = McClain Chronicles
That’s what I use all my female rabbits for.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 8, 2009 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Meh, I’d say it was well written, but I detested the characters. I find it only slightly overrated.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I find the characters one-dimensional and uninteresting, the plot paper-thin, and the love story unconvincing.
Fitzgerald was a good stylist, but I don’t think he was even close to as good as the best prose stylists of the 20th century.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Yeah, pretty much. The way it was written was good, but everything else seemed to be a bore. Some of the time, I couldn’t get what he was saying. /shrugs That’s just me, though.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 3:44 PM PDT up reply actions
I actually think that the way it was written was the worst thing about it. It was by far the most calculating, emotionless prose of Fitzgerald’s that I’ve ever read. I think Fitzgerald was extremely capable of being beautifully florid and deeply touching as a stylist, but he pretty much threw both qualities completely out the window when writing The Great Gatsby. It’s the thing that really frustrates me about that book.
But the content of the novel is deeply, deceptively layered and extremely dense. But it doesn’t lay it out there. It’s a book that you really have to read with any of the following on-hand if you want to unfurl it: 1) a concordance, 2) a true scholar, or 3) lots of time to read it very, very slowly.
But the read aboslutely feels light. I guarantee that it’s not, though.
It’s not a perfect book, and it often frustrates the hell out of me, most often for being so damn… detached… but it is most definitely a literary achievement in my eyes.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 9, 2009 12:05 AM PDT up reply actions
The book feels like it was specifically written to be read by high school students until the end of eternity. The symbols are so blatant and obvious that it really takes away from the book as a whole
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McCC = McClain Chronicles
There are some pretty blatant symbols, yeah, but there’s a lot hiding behind them, too.
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by howtheyscored on Jul 9, 2009 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Agreed. Although The Grapes of Wrath was similarly painful to read for different reasons.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jul 8, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I kind of enjoyed that one
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I like Steinbeck.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Steinbeck’s cool.
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 4:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I like everything else of Steinbeck’s I’ve read, but The Grapes of Wrath was just interminable for me.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jul 8, 2009 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
The only book I ever found interminable was "A Son Of The Circus"
And I’m a big John Irving fan.
Now HERE’S a classic…
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by victor frankenstein on Jul 8, 2009 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I LOVE Ferdinand! I read it to the Heir of Mayor about every other week.
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+1
Looking forward to taking classes with the leading Steinbeck scholar, on staff at San Jose State. :D
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
That is AWESOME. :D
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by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions
/nerdgasm
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 7:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Those are really 2 different things.
I have no problem with ‘f*^k F. Scott Fitzgerald." But TGG is not overrated at all. I don’t know how old you are, but I read it in college, and kind of shrugged my shoulders. I read it again at 33 (in the middle of a divorce), and after some life experience (or Gary Radnich might say, “after living a little”), it was a different novel completely. Of course, that’s not true— the novel was the same but the reader was drastically different. I recommend reading it again in 10 years.
‘Watership Down’ blows bunny balls, b.t.w.
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I’m 29.
For what it’s worth, my father, who’s in his 50s, probably dislikes that novel more than I do. So I’m inclined to think it’s not just age.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Honestly, a lot of people just don’t like The Great Gatsby and, despite my response to you earlier, I can understand why.
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Well, sure. Honestly, a lot of people just don't like [fill in blank with ANYthing], and despite my response earlier, I can understand why.
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Disagree
I can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t like Pablo Sandoval.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
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New Law
Anytime you are tricked into clicking on a link to the ballot, you have to vote 10 times.
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We have to have the most failed sweep attempts this year. Jeebus
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What’s a “jah-wah”? What the hell is this picture about, anyway?
Merkin Valdez? Manuel Mateo? A rose by any other name...
I had never heard of this
Kevin Spacey is freaking amazing
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
They are similar in that they’re both bastions of effete snobbery.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 8, 2009 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
They’re also both jerks who wouldn’t let me into their stupid schools for jerks.
Okay so I didn’t apply to Cal (I followed the CSU transfer pattern, slightly different than the UC one at my community college) but Stanford turned me down. Because they’re jerks. But I’m sure Cal would too as they are similarly jerks.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Effete jerks.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 8, 2009 6:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Uck, the quarter system. I took some summer classes, and it was SO FREAKING RUSHED. Had I been on the quarter system, I suspect I would’ve felt that way for always.
Also, why do they call it the quarter system? There are three of them in the main academic year. Okay, they count the summer as the fourth quarter, but in that case, shouldn’t other universities call their terms trimesters, not semesters? EXPLAIN THAT HIGHER ED BRASS!!!!
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
Quarter does suck for summer classes
but it’s awesome for the regular school year
For some, perhaps, but I don’t think it would’ve been for me. I like to go as in-depth as possible. Even semesters sometimes felt rushed.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
I loved quarter system. As an undergrad, taking a bunch of classes you didn’t give a hoot about – hello general ed requirements and such gems as “recreation and leisure studies” – it was nice to get the crap over with ASAP. My major classes seemed to flow from one to the other so it was sort of like taking a year long course with a break every 10-12 weeks.
I’ve taken some semester courses and since then and OMG those 16 weeks are a freaking eternity.
Ha! Nice reference, but I went to the college of loading trucks until 4 in the morning. Summer semester was a real bitch, let me tell you.
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by Johnny Disaster on Jul 9, 2009 8:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, whatever.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jul 9, 2009 12:12 AM PDT up reply actions
They wanted to make it a fair game.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
by KTJ on Jul 8, 2009 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
It look like the game only went 6 innings?
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by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
oh ok
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
He needed to get home to vote for Sandoval
You mean that link isn’t a Pab-roll?
"The BB's are out. The BB's are being arseholes to me." - Brian Wilson.
OH GREAT!
a 7-0 loss and now life of brian is on.GREAT DAY!
by sadison bummedgarner on Jul 8, 2009 3:48 PM PDT reply actions
Score!
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Its not often
you get to watch someone play a videogame on TV
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions
He doesn’t do a bad job of acting in that commercial with the two girls berating him. He comes off appropriately douchey enough that I wonder if he doesn’t ‘play it up a bit’ in real life?…
He does need a haircut though.
Insanity is just a state of mind.
by KTJ on Jul 8, 2009 4:35 PM PDT up reply actions
all part of playing it up.
I can’t believe BWilson=master thespian/performance-artist is an actual theory of mine. I guess I’m just trying to find a way to like the guy.
He has an IQ of 188
It’s been proven.
Certified genius.
by Bay Area Sports Guy on Jul 8, 2009 4:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Either that's off by a decimal point, or it's not in base 10
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
188 base 9 = 161 base 10
Higher bases would be even higher, and lower bases wouldn’t be possible. Thus, off by a decimal point. QED.
Brian Wilson is secretly Andy Kaufman.
Meet my new son: Sundrendy Windster, coming soon to a minor league near you.
I was thinking...
Orson Wells
lololol ok I can’t go on with this anymore.
How bout Romo closing it out the other day?
TIMMY DAY TOMORROW
Makes this god awful loss just awful
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
I almost started singing Annie
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions
ANNIE ARE YOU OK
ARE YOU OK
ARE YOU OK ANNIE
ANNIE ARE YOU OK
ARE YOU OK
ARE YOU OK ANNIE
Judgment Day is coming
comics | art | Nattowear
Took me a couple seconds
Smooth Criminal
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Is it bad that the Alien Ant Farm version popped into my head first?
Chris Dominguez: Bringing dingerz back to The Bay (In a while)
Is it bad that I like their version better?
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s just so off the wall and unexpected. I laugh uncontrollably when it comes up on my iPod.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions
voting
Does refresh / f5 work to vote again so you don’t have to do the validation key again?
Less arm, more talk. Raisingcain is a GAMER.
Adopted Giant: Henry Sosa
no
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions
random question
Have the Giants been able to complete a sweep this season? I can’t recall.
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 4:06 PM PDT reply actions
Yes
Against the Rangers and A’s in the last homestand.
Judgment Day is coming
comics | art | Nattowear
Thanks.
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Didnt we sweep the dodgers?
Felicitations, malefactors! I am endeavoring to misappropriate the formulary for the preparation of affordable comestibles. Who will join me!?
by MetalFaceDoom on Jul 8, 2009 4:36 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Damn.
It would be a lot better if it were the other way around.
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
fail
having to use the mouse to click on ‘vote’ and ‘vote again’ slow me down
I found tabbing to those spots and hitting “Enter” works faster. You can leave your mouse in the spot where it unclicks the “send me junk mail” box and keep clicking out of that.
My adopted Giant: "Raptor Jesus" Guzman
put in a fake email address and you don't have to lose time unchecking that box.
or the email address of an enemy. But don’t lose valuable time unchecking that box.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
Has anyone noticed
That you have to actually click “VOTE NOW!” to have your vote to count?
If you just hit enter, it will say you voted whether you correctly type in the validation code or not. But if you click the button, it will count your vote if you typed it correctly and tell you you typed it wrong if you didn’t.
me 2
The San Francisco Giants: Where old men go to die.
by GrahamCrakalaka on Jul 8, 2009 4:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Someone should register at the Phillies blog and tell them how much faster things go if you just hit enter instead of doing all that annoying clicking.
GROUGTHINK ALERT
Why wouldn’t typing the correct validation code then enter count your vote?
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on Jul 8, 2009 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve either voted a shitload of times incorrectly, or it works both ways. I guess I’ll click the VOTE NOW from now on…
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on Jul 8, 2009 8:00 PM PDT up reply actions
HANGING CHADS DAMMIT
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on Jul 8, 2009 8:08 PM PDT up reply actions
who what when where
did the pact with ranger fans start? just curious.
The game sucked, as we all know.
I went as the guest of el Mayor. We had time to vote for about 45 minutes at the voting area on the promenade level, and I made a Panda at the Build a Bear. They were selling out fast so I grabbed one. He’s wearing the road grays and a KNBR button. The button was donated by Mayor.
Also the lady at the Build a Bear place thought the Mayor was my dad. lulz
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 5:55 PM PDT reply actions
Maybe he is.
Ya burnt.
Saving countless runs with my Brian Horwitz
by lyricalkiller on Jul 8, 2009 6:04 PM PDT up reply actions
(spending lots of time looking mournfully in the mirror)
About two sighs away from hyperventilation.
Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit... Maybe.
verbatim from phillies nation on victorino for allstar game
“Consider his numbers as opposed to other outfielders; he is tied for first in hits and runs scored, sixth in batting average among outfielders with a minimum of 250 at-bats, and tied for tenth in on base percentage.”
Wow, except for runs, this makes victorino seem worse than i thought he was. 10th in OBP among outfielders with more than 250 PA? Is that something to brag about? 6th in AVG among outfielders?
Sandoval has a top ten OPS (a stat that means something) in the national league, and of those ten, is the only one not already on the all star team. His slugs better than Braun, Gonazalez, Beltran, Howard, Upton, Tejada, Zimmerman…who are all stars.
I hope the voting ends in a tie between Pablo and victorino and they make them fight for the last spot and that in the fight Pablo throws dipshit onto the moon.
lol inorite?
Victorino looks good compared to other outfielders?
Great! Pablo looks good compared to every other hitter in the National League.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
Victorino sez: “vote for me! I’m your last chance!”
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 6:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Not that we should quit voting, cause Democracy Counts, Vote or Die, etc, but Beltran is going to be replaced, right? So even if Victorino makes the roster, then Manuel needs to pick somebody else to replace Victorino, and Panda is far and away the best player available. Yeah? OK, back to voting.
Saving countless runs with my Brian Horwitz
by lyricalkiller on Jul 8, 2009 7:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Er, to replace Beltran
Saving countless runs with my Brian Horwitz
by lyricalkiller on Jul 8, 2009 7:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Shit that's fuck.
emperor nobody: "can ben copeland play third will the mcgwire throwback jersey be sponsored by balco labs i think i am having non-nerve-damage related chest pains well there’s holliday’s homer for may"
Clayton Tanner. I have nothing witty to add.
by walkoff baltimore chop on Jul 8, 2009 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Worst game ever...
Well okay, the worst game we’ve ever had the displeasure of attending.
Bleh crowd, bleh game. Some of the people in our section 110 were antagonizingly annoying; although that didn’t compare with the weird middle aged couple in section 109 that was literally all over each other. I’ve seen 15 year olds with greater control of their hormones! I think someone avtually called security on them it was so bad.
We DID get sundaes…. that was fun.
I’m glad that wasn’t our first experience at the park!
Stupid K-Rod
FINISH THEM
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jul 8, 2009 7:37 PM PDT reply actions
Fresno Bottom 1st
* John Bowker doubles (19) on a line drive to right fielder Aaron Cunningham.
* Offensive Substitution: Pinch runner Joe Borchard replaces John Bowker.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN GIANTS BRASSSSSS
I’ve never heard of a guy getting pulled from a game to get called up. They call them up before the game, usually.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006, and bringing you all your California League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 8:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Schulman says he could be on his way to San Francisco
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jul 8, 2009 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s comin’ to git ya bruther!
Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Bowkermania walks wild on you?
by rightcenterfielder on Jul 8, 2009 9:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I stand corrected.
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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 8, 2009 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions
it means
you have too much time on your hands.
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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PARPG- Indy post-apocalyptic roleplaying game currently in early planning stages.
Neal hits a HR in his first game back
GET THIS MAN TO AA
LOLdgers
Andruw Jones with 3 HRs tonight
Giant Dirtbags: John Bowker, Steve Hammond. MIA List: Todd Jennings, Brian Anderson
Wronghanded Affeldt pitches right
by Giant among Angels on Jul 8, 2009 9:58 PM PDT reply actions
Welcome Back , Andruwoo!
I’ve always been a fan of his.
NL West TempestTeapot
Nothing matters , and what if it did?
by victor frankenstein on Jul 8, 2009 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate how he spells his name
MY way is the ONLY proper ANDREW spelling!
Extremely proud adoptive parent of Paul E. Stanley, hacker extraordinaire
Thanks to roger
I've never been happier to have Crabs
“I’m sorry, but you walk 80 times a year, and you don’t hit .300 ever in your career, you’re not that good,” he said. “But he’s up there, putting it on the line. Guys who walk a lot, they say they have a good eye. Maybe they’re just protecting their average. They’re protecting their average, cheating the game.”
-Shawon Dunston
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/06/SPO618JUOP.DTL
Fail
Still in despair.
BRING BACK MARMOL!
konakona:「つかさに教われと...なんか非常に負けたような気がする。」
Shun Kakazu: MOAR JAPANESE PROSPECTS PLZ
by Zetsuboushita on Jul 8, 2009 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, for the record
Shawon Dunston is an infield coach for the Giants according to the article. I cannot tell you how angry this, combined with the above quote, makes me.
THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jul 8, 2009 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Also for the record
Shawon Dunston was a career .269 hitter. Of his 18 seasons, he had over 350 plate appearances 10 times – and he hit .300 or better in one of those ten seasons.
So much fail.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that pie > cake, that Bochy is endowed by his creator with certain undeniable traits, that among these are veteran man-love, a gigantic skull, and the pursuit of the double switch.
Adopted Giant: Fred Lewis, who can still draw a walk.
OTOH
"Ohhhhh, wait … a … minute!" Weaver bellows. "That was my favorite right there, on-base percentage! Don Buford wasn’t getting to play under Hank Bauer [Weaver’s predecessor]. He’d get in a ball game every now and then and feel like he had to get three or four hits. I told Buford, ‘I’m willing to play you as long as you have a .400 on-base percentage.’ All of a sudden he becomes a regular, and he’s walking a hundred times and hitting right around .300." Buford had played 669 career games before Weaver was named Orioles manager on July 11, 1968. His OBP was .335. He played 617 games over the rest of his career, all for Weaver. His OBP under Weaver was .388.
♥Earl Weaver♥
http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1157671/index.htm
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
PABLO SANDOVAL AM STEAL DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS.
ESPN Flashback
While doing a Rockies-Nationals highlights, ESPN showed a flashback of Lasorda being knocked over by a bat (I think one of the umpires was knocked over during the Rox-Nats). In that clip, they showed Bonds trying to put catchers gear on Lasorda. I forgot he did that.
I will never ever ever ever eat a mini buffalo ranch chicken sandwich.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
I’ve had them. They’re okay.
Supporting San Francisco Dugout since 2005 and Manny Burriss since 2006, and bringing you all your California League needs since 2009.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jul 9, 2009 12:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Jack in the Box commercials have pretty much convinced me to never eat Jack in the Box again.
My least favorite is the one with the guy who is tripping over the 99 tacos for two cents thing. He’s going through a DRIVE-THRU! WHY ARE YOU ADVERTISING SOMEBODY WHO IS HIGH AND DRIVING!? FUCK YOU JACK IN THE BOX.
My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.
by howtheyscored on Jul 9, 2009 12:28 AM PDT up reply actions
On the way into work this morning...
I saw the guy dressed up in a giant sunflower costume again at the corner of Ygnacio Valley and Civic in Walnut Creek. The previous time this guy was there was the day after Lincecum’s last complete game shutout. Obviously, this guy is getting ahead of himself and feels pretty confident about Timmy Day.
by Lars The Wanderer on Jul 9, 2009 7:40 AM PDT reply actions
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