No-Prize Trivia
by Grant Brisbee on Aug 4, 2011 8:50 AM PDT
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PrintShould have thought about this before. Everyone loves trivia, and I don't like giving out prizes. But before I can get a proper Phillies preview up (THERE PITCIN IS GOOD) here's a trivia question to buy some time.
Of all of the players who have been on the major league roster this year, who are the six that have not gotten an at-bat?
Answer is in white text after the ump.
Dan Runzler
Sergio Romo
Santiago Casilla
Brian Wilson
Ramon Ramirez
Brandon Belt
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"There was no torture in the end. Only rapture." - Mike Krukow
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"Orlando before Zod" doesn't have the same nice ring to it.
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by nostocksjustbonds on Aug 4, 2011 8:53 AM PDT reply actions
An official at bat or a solid at bat?
Because if it’s the latter, we can answer this without leaving the Giants clubhouse…with room to spare.
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SECTION!
Nice to see you on here. I’ve been spending more (than usual) time here lately, as there’s not much going on at STR.
by misterbrister on Aug 4, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Hector Sanchez and Five Relief Pitchers
Hitting 74 on the radar gun but hitting my spots.
by VidaWantsYourCar on Aug 4, 2011 9:05 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Who are six people who have never been in my kitchen?
"Baseball is a game played by the dextrous, but only understood by the poindextrous." - Professor Frink
LOLd
The San Francisco Giants are the World Champions.
by The Enchanter on Aug 4, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Belt has a massive hole in his swing. It is known.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Yeah, it’s between the outside corner and the bench.
"All right pie, I'm just going to do this. [chomp, chomp] And if you get eaten, it's your own fault."
by Woody'sShed on Aug 4, 2011 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
oh yeah
he should be called “donut” instead of “baby giraffe”, amirite?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
I read a Dany chapter today where her handmaidens were like
“It is known” and I was all ready for the “It is known” response but then she said “IT IS NOT KNOWN”
PLOT FUCKING TWIST
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
oh, man, I know where you are. shit is about to once again get real.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
that was awesome. Jhiqui was all “It is known” but then Irri goes “it is NOT known” and somewhere or the other it ended up with “It is known you are a cow!”
I think it was over Rakharo.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
It was over who was going to win in the fighting pits or something. It made me laugh pretty hard.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
And people say these books have no humor in them!
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
This is how I know GRRM is being smart, poking fun not only at conventions but on his own inventions. Yeah, self-referential ironic humor is not REALLY sophisticated, but it’s on a level above a whole lot of entertainment.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
It’s up there with the part in one of the other books where Hodor is yelling in a panic the way he does, “Hodor! Hodor! HODORHODORHODOR!” and Bran finally orders,
“Hodor! Stop hodoring!”
♥
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
LOL
I loved that.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I enjoyed it when it was brought up that someone said something along the lines of “No one can accuse Hodor of not knowing his name,” and then you find out Hodor isn’t his name.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Massive hole in swing.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I’ve lost my confidence in him there.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
/starts in CF
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Did anyone else try to highlight “ump” to see if Grant put a j in white text?
Or am I an idiot?
Or both?
Here's to the Dodgers and their bucket of suck.
Just got a hole in your swing.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
In case it isn’t clear, that Marty Lurie comment about Belt’s swing really irritated me.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I have never been able to forget how much he wanted the Giants to get Guillen. To me, that speaks volumes.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Aug 4, 2011 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
You would probably hate me, then.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Aug 4, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
<3
I try.
Lurie is weird, because he is really nice in person. But, yes, he does appear to have quite the ego. Lawyers! Sheesh! ;-)
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Aug 4, 2011 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
He seems nice enough on the radio.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Eh, sometimes. He can be dismissive at times. But, seriously, in person, so sweet and friendly. If you ever see him, be sure to say hello.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Aug 4, 2011 9:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I am sure he is a wonderfully nice guy, and I am sure I would love to talk baseball with him…. just don’t like him on the radio.
BTW, I finally dipped my toe in the 95.7 water this am, and I have to say, i was pleasantly surprised. I think KNBR is in trouble.
I like Whitey and Kriedler, and miss Dibley. I don’t get 95.7 here, however, and am not allowed to stream radio at work, so I will stick with KNBR. Plus, I have serious loyalty to Murph & Mac.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
He’s like Uncle Marty.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
indeed
I think he could use a little more dismissiveness with some of the callers, not to be disrespectful but just to cut them off.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
“Wow. Yeah. Good call. Definitely something to think about… Yeah. Wow. Ummm, good call. Now, I want to talk about Pablo Sandoval. He really needs to get it going.”
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
He really needs to get it going
I am incapable of reading this line without it being in Marty’s voice.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL
Lawyers! Sheesh! ;-)
/waits for McC attorney responses
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I’m allowed to make lawyer jokes since I am one. No one else is, though!
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Aug 4, 2011 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
THEY ARE ALL LIARS
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Perry Mason is as close to the legal profession as Columbo is to detective work.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
My skirts are shorter, though.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
LOL, I wear pants every day.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
That skirt over the pants look is very professional.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
They’re call skorts
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I think that’s something different
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
So you can look good and sit down without crossing your legs if you want to.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s all pajama jeans from 20 onward.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
That’s because elastic waistbands don’t judge anyone.
The San Francisco Giants are the World Champions.
by The Enchanter on Aug 4, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I’ve noticed I sit with my legs far too close together than normal for a guy.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
I think that the typical male pre-pubescent goes through a period of not knowing what the fuck to do with his legs. I sat with them really close together for a while. I think I used to cross them knee over knee when I was young. That stopped working when, well, when that stopped working. Then I noticed there was a “way” that boys sit with their legs, so I started sitting with them way, way too wide.
And somewhere along the way I came to a compromise. And I almost always cross my legs ankle under knee these days. You ankle over knee people are crazy.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
I think it’s just a certain kind of guy who can sit all “blow me” and not really be thinking about it. Not only wide, but finding anything to prop up a foot.
You don’t have this problem, but they’re fucking distracting.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
I’m just going to start sitting with my legs wide, one foot way up in the air, and both hands pointing at my crotch.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
ankle under the knee? So you just hold your leg up? Doesn’t that get tiring?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
The knee is bent, naturally. It keeps the ankle from sliding forward, which effectively ruins the leg-cross.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I gotcha
I do both. I just didn’t understand what you meant at first.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t recommend law school. It was really hard to learn that you can’t win every case with a surprise witness.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Well, if Legally Blonde is in any way representative of law school…
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
it’s practically a manual on how to get into Harvard law.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
When you’re taking the LSAT, if you just nod at yourself, you will suddenly “get it” and get a 175 out of 180. Also, expect to work on a very high profile murder case after you’ve been in school for one month.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Elle Woods and I graduated in the same year, though, so I feel a kinship to her. Plus, we’re both blonde.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Legally so?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
I am. My driver’s license actually lists me as blonde. It also used to list me as 133 pounds. Heh.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Or, rather, blond, in my case.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
It really bugs me when people don’t differentiate between blonde and blond.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Blond is the male form.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I always thought you could use “blond” as an adjective to describe the hair color of either male or female, but refer to someone as “a blond” (male) or “a blonde” female. But, someone corrected me that you always use “blonde” when referring to a female, whether adjective or noun. The movie title is Legally Blonde, also.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
So blonde bock is female?
The San Francisco Giants are the World Champions.
by The Enchanter on Aug 4, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Or when Clint Eastwood’s nickname is ‘Blondie’.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
I used to hate lawyers
until I became a court clerk. Now they have to kiss my ass and I LOVE it!
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
court clerk
the most important people in the court system.
BTW: the 2nd most important people…the high school drop outs that actually files 95 percent of the paperwork.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
That's right
and don’t you forget it.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
and how does the filer know if they're screwed up?
If the clerk says so. County clerks= same way. Just shut up and do what they tell you to do. “Only green paper? It’s your world.”
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Um, no
There’s a little thing called the California Rules of Court. If you can find a code section that says you can file it that way, then I’m happy to comply. After the judge says I can.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
I do have to say that the default clerks seriously irk me.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
right
by which time the train has left the barn. Why bother? Just do what the clerk says in the first place.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Now you're getting it
Actually, tho, sometimes the clerk’s office is wrong and if we are shown the error of our ways, we will change. It takes someone to point us in the direction of the code though. Sometimes, the supervisors miss the changes.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
well I’ve got a damn question for you. Why in shit doesn’t my order go through? I’ve uploaded it twice, and there is no bloody evidence that anything has been done!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Santa Cruz is so poor, we only have efiling for small claims. So I have no idea.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
I WILL DESTROY YOU OAKLAND DIVISION!!!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I'm in Texas
We’ll file a napkin.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
What county? As a legal assistant, there’s a good chance I call you and annoy you on a regular basis!
The first six innings are overrated.
Santa Cruz
We may already be annoying each other.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
LAWYERS DON’T LIKE BOYS, LAWYERS LIKE CARS AND MONEY
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
LAWYERS USE THE BONES OF CHILDREN AS STIRS FOR THEIR MARTINIS OF BLOOD
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Man, Good Charlotte got dark.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Spike Filled Chasm ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
But
I have never been able to forget how much he wanted the Giants to get Guillen
He was also the first media guy I heard clamoring for Burrell last year, so that pretty much evens out. Remember, a lot of people dismissed Burrell as “done”.
The thong is, it happened.
LOL Guillen gets caught with syringes before the playoffs
by the nenth inning on Aug 4, 2011 6:12 PM PDT up reply actions
He strikes me as a guy who would be really cool to let interview great players from the late ’60s, but really irritating to hear talk about baseball players from the late ’Nows.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Is your confidence in Marty Lurie lost?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Big hole in his swing.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
Better than a big swing in his hole.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
If we'd clinched the playoff spot with all the appropriate home advantages, etc. and nothing on the line,
I’d love to see this.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
That #15 is a pretty good hitter.
Maybe we just had him out of position………you know, making out the lineup, managing the pitching staff, giving us coherent complete sentences in the post game interviews.
"I always knew I was going to be thrown at. I was old-school, so I didn't care, as long as they hit me from the neck down.'' Hac-Man One Flap down Jeffrey Leonard
by Penitentiary Face on Aug 4, 2011 9:43 AM PDT reply actions
Alex Hinshaw
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I saw a funny Alex Hinshaw reference today: http://www.baycityball.com/2011/08/04/ranking-sergio-romo%E2%80%99s-historic-relief-season/ (You have to look for the reference.)
I hope Grant doesn’t ban me for linking to Xanthan’s blog.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Aug 4, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I had high hopes for him.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Nice job by your son last night in the hits department. LOL. I love his Twitter, also.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
by kdl on Aug 4, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah!
Decent start too.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
He’s looked pretty good his last few starts.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
He’s coming around after a pretty bad rough patch. His last start against SLC was damn good. Just needs to keep those walks down.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Okay. Lunchtime.
My stomach has spoken, and Washington must heed the will of my metabolism.
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
At this rate, you’ll be able to see your penis in no time.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
I like the texture it gives a sandwich.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Lemme just jot this down…crunchy and disturbing = tasty sandwich.
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
by TheLetter2 on Aug 4, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I believe
it’s mostly compensation for a white bread-type sandwich of dubious content, like most you may have encountered in school lunches.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s like putting fries in a burger.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I do that .......
from time to time. Especially when I’m in a rush and need to eat fast.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
May I ask why?
That’s the whole thing. I’ve done it before. It tastes good. But why? Just eat the chips out of the bag.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I guess i can see that. Many good sandwiches will already have crunch though.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
That’s what the lettuce is for
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
So, so wrong. The crunchy layer is a great addition to a sandwich, if one can endure the ostracism.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
but couldn’t you just use pickles?
The Golden Bear is ever watching
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I like both pickles AND chips in my sandwich.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Bingo!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
So do you crunchies prefer kettle chips? They are probably my favorite chip.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I don’t really care. Any kind of potato chips. I used to use Fritos when I was a kid, but not so much anymore.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I have to say, I draw the line at chips with flavor powder sprayed upon them.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Typically, I think it’s tossed on them. But that doesn’t really alter your point.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:14 AM PDT up reply actions
They don’t taste like crab at all.
They do taste like crab seasoning. So it’s not a total sham.
They’re not as good as they sound, either way.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
If you gre up in Maryland, they taste like crabs since crabs are all steamed in “old bay” seasoning. I have not had them in years, but I did like them when i was a kid.
I had them when I went to Maryland a couple months ago. They’re not bad or anything. I was just all geared up for an awesome crab chip that tastes awesome, and I didn’t get it.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
CRABPIE IS BETTER
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Heh
I have Croix de Candlesticks older than you.
goldengatebeerbars.com
by troymccluresf on Aug 4, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Nope.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
You went to maryland and did not have a crabcake? Oh my. Ok, it is now my mission in life to make that happen. We order them a few times a year. They ship them on ice uncooked and then you just cook em up when they get here. I will make sure you get one. It is something everyone must have before they die.
I was only there a couple of days, and all my meals were provided by the people I was staying with. I ate much delicious food.
When I was in Massachusetts, I did eat whole lobster. It was delicious. Tearing it apart yourself is awesome.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Seems like passing the shell would be… difficult.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Rather have this
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Zapp's Crawtators
A Brandon Crawford favorite!
"All right pie, I'm just going to do this. [chomp, chomp] And if you get eaten, it's your own fault."
by Woody'sShed on Aug 4, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Win... I was gonna scream
if no one mentioned these! Zapp’s are the BEST! And those particular ones are like Crunch Tators 2.0. :D
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Couldn't agree more
It always a special treat to find a place out West that sells these.
"All right pie, I'm just going to do this. [chomp, chomp] And if you get eaten, it's your own fault."
I just buy em online.
I gave them away as a xmas gift one yr.
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How do I get on your Xmas list?
"All right pie, I'm just going to do this. [chomp, chomp] And if you get eaten, it's your own fault."
HAHA.. you got a hot sister
or cousin? We can arrange this. I’m pretty cool. :D
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Proud Adoptive Parent of one of the best Five Tool Players, The Machine.
Utz sat alone in a boggy bag
Totally motionless except for her crab
Mud flowed up into Utz’ pajamas
She totally confused all the passing piranhas
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Just reminds me ......
of my favorite Trailer Park Boys skit.
LOL.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
I *love* TPB!!!
And Archer Farms potato chips, especially the wasabi-mustard and the maple BBQ. I never liked BBQ potato crisps til I tried these. I got spoiled in England, they had quite a variety there – even beef flavor (which my son loved)!
NorCal passion trapped in SoCal pain...
I wanna rage.
by KatSkahnne on Aug 4, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd .......
for knowing what Trailer Park Boys are. Bubbles is my favorite. who’s yours?
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Bubbles
Any man who likes cats and Rush is cool in my book!!
NorCal passion trapped in SoCal pain...
I wanna rage.
oh ..... my ..... God ......
i fucking LOVE Rush. Geddy Lee is so awesome and Neil Peart is the best drummer of all time.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
La Rec'a Strangiato
They’re my favorite band! Saw them @ Gibson Amphitheater in June – still playing with the energy of guys half their age. Can’t wait for the new album!
NorCal passion trapped in SoCal pain...
I wanna rage.
I like
pita chips
Doritos (nacho cheese)
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Unless they are bread and butter pickles. I don’t care for those.
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This
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Wow. A rare point of convergence! /high five
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I’m 2 for 2 today…first breakfast burrito with jhiat00 and now this.
It happens as many times as the Giants score 8 runs in a home game.
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When did you change your username? I am sure I missed some big discussion of this, but I am most curious….
Yesterday…I didn’t like the jd portion of my handle name.
Jponry even banned me…it was my first time and hurt like heck.
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probably both
but who knows what lurks in the dark mind of hers
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so all you have to do to get unbanned is change two letters of your username? When i get banned i will come back as capin
no
she banned me as my new persona.
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She didn’t even ban you. It was just a warning just a warning just a warning just a warning in case you missed it, it was just a warning.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
you’re right…it was a warning…it felt like a ban though…
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I couldn’t figure out how you could be banned and still posting.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I say ban him and find out!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
You do get temporarily banned until you acknowledge the warning, though. So it does kinda FEEL like a ban.
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It was weird
cuz I was posting and then I wasn’t allow too…there was a lot of gnashing of the teeth
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Some people don’t realize the difference at all. A few people have been warned politely and never showed up again after. Others have been warned and created new accounts right after, letting their old ones rot.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I can see that. Didn’t the former happen to WilRiv?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
Yeah, he was warned and then just never came back.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
/ponders this, nods
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:35 AM PDT up reply actions
it was a warning
I thought I was quite clear about that.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
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Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
he probably didn't see it ......
being that the 37,281 people on here with the username beginning with Cal or CalState CalBear were standing in front of him ….. blocking his view.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
YOU FIGHT WITHOUT HONOR!!!
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
who .......
me?
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Bronn <3
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
The actor is perfect.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
They’ve gotten pretty much everyone exactly right so far. Well, I’m not sure about the chick playing Asha – whoops, sorry, I mean Yara – and honestly Jorah doesn’t look anything like he’s supposed to, but I’m not complaining about that one.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I’m in love with the Jorah guy. I’d bear his children.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
People don’t read past the first two sentences. If Grant doesn’t make his point before that, I just assume he doesn’t have one.
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"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
OMG, so gross. Dill only.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
noooooooooooooooo
our family is riven by a chasm worse than that of pie vs. cake!
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"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
If you like bread and butter pickles, I’m not sure we can be friends anymore.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
So, the dill goons got to you too. I don’t know what to say.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think this is the dichotomy. I mean, whether or not dill is good has no bearing on the whether bread and butter pickles are awful.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Great point.
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I like both.
Actually, I like both cake and pie, too.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
I don't really mind dill pickes TBH in sandwiches
but I really do hate dill weed. I think when it’s cooked with the pickles it loses the worst of its taste.
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Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Mrs. Disaster makes delicious dill pickles by fermenting them. No cooking involved.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
well
dill pickles are noxious and poisonous, so if I am to eat pickles at all, that’s where the train runs.
Also, if you’ve never had homemade B&B pickles, I question the veracity of all these declarations.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Ugh
I finally started to like pickles this year, in particular pickles on sandwiches. But as I’d spent so much time disliking them, I didn’t know much about them. I bought a jar of bread and butter pickle chips, thinking they’d be like the ones you get at delis on sandwiches.
They weren’t.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
I don’t know why they even exist.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
They are so wrong.
If j14 were here, he would also be agreeing.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
shame on all of you
dill is not a spice, it is a noxious weed that the herb industry has pawned off on all of you. And that goes for those pickle cartels.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
dill is great with salmon
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LOL animal cruelty
you already killed the salmon, why poison it with dill weed too?
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I tend to agree
this shit grows wild all over my back yard and I have to cut it down every week
And eat it?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
What...
Fuck no I don’t eat that shit lol. I just have to cut it down every week it is a weed
by Falconer88 on Aug 4, 2011 10:58 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
man
some fool at Safeway decided to put it in their “herb salad” boxes, that’s always a rude awakening when I bite some by mistake.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Are you sure it isn’t fennel?
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
If you can’t see the difference between a pickle and a chip I can’t help you. Also, I usually put the chips next to the pickles.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Can I get a mod over here?
I want to formally include sandwich discussions as sex in the champagne room.
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
/sandwich in one hand
/sex in the other
/puts hands together
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"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Pray tell,
what is the beverage ?
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Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Wait
I thought you’re in Mello Yello country?
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Mello Yello > other sodas.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
You are my source of vicarious Mt. Dew enjoyment. I miss having a deli sammich (with chips) and a frosty Dew.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
can?
That stuff comes in a jug with a cork and XXX on the side. College boy.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Chicken Tikka Masala
Pink Lady Apple
Greek Yogurt
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LOL
xanthan is Turkish for “no taste”.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey now..
I’m having Greek yogurt with honey and raspberries for lunch.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Dude Greek Yogurt is damn good.
When I’ve gone to Greece you eat it with just a little bit of honey…mmmm so tasty
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
hmmm sounds good
i love the CHOBANI brand of Greek Yogurt
"Why is no one hugging me right now?!"
-Sergio Romo
by DoubleDeuce22 on Aug 4, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
Trader Joe’s brand is pretty awesome as well
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FAGE is my fave
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
awesome
but rarely on sale. The Chobani one is OK too.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I think I’m going to stop at Costco on the way home and see if my Costco has these too!
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
nice but i dont like the strawberry one as much
i prefer pomegranite and once i even found mango
"Why is no one hugging me right now?!"
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by DoubleDeuce22 on Aug 4, 2011 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone look at yesterdays Box score
drools
That is what a heart of the order box score should look like. LOL at Cabrera 1 for 4 with 3 RBIs.
Time to repeat in '11!
BUT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BREAKFAST BURRITOS
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
AND SCROTUM EATING BADGERS
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Still awesome
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This is how I like mine:
Eggs, chorizo, rice, cheese, guac, hot sauce.
No potatoes or beans or any of that stuff
WWRWD?
I generally replace chorizo with bacon.
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I think I’d rate:
crumbly chorizo<bacon<sliced link chorizo
for breakfast burritos.
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I like the crunch of bacon in a breakfast burrito.
I also like salsa over hot sauce.
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bacon is a good substitute and I agree with rotorueter that crumbly chorizo > bacon > sliced link chorizo.
WWRWD?
Mine
Eggs, sausage, bacon, bell peppers and onions sauteed in olive oil, potatoes. You gotta heat the tortilla on the stove and add the shredded cheese so it is nice and melty when you make the burrito. So good…
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
My formula
Eggs, five cheese blend, fried potatoes, bacon, onions, garlic, serrano peppers
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Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Why would you want to ruin a burrito by putting eggs in it?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
by El Person on Aug 4, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I would think a person of your internet racial heritage would understand
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and followed by a nice yoga session .....
just ask Zito.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I find your ovophobia hateful and disturbing
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Eggs, beans chorizo, salsa, and cheese.
"He knocks a stake through the heart of the Cardinals! The Cardinals are dead! The Giants are going to the World Series!!!" -Jon Miller
It's Posey time!!
My Adopted Squirrel: Heath Hembree
After the ump?
must be a technical blogger term.
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After the ump?
This is why we need replay.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I don't apologize for all my pantshitting during the losing streak...
but, damn, did they make me look silly yesterday. Now, Philadelphia and their pitching and… who the hell knows.
I don’t apologize either. I was pissed after seeing the LoLinup. 8 runs in a game doesn’t change the fact that Belt needs to be playing 1B.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
pretty sure we can rely on Cabrera to hit a clutch two-bagger and Aubrey Huff’s ground balls to find a hole EVERY SINGLE GAME.
by Lies and Perfidy on Aug 4, 2011 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
In certain circumstances, a hole in your swing is appropriate. There are few clubs in San Francisco….
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I want to see Wilson hit once or twice just for funzies.
His AB last year wasn’t that impressive, but he just looks like he could knock it out of the park.
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
I don't
/Dan Runzler
Time to repeat in '11!
by Myemail21479 on Aug 4, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
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by ch3zyp00fs on Aug 4, 2011 10:03 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
He doesn't even play for Benefica
Didn’t they loan his useless ass out to a turkish club
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He's at Rizarspor
He’s been fantastic since joining them. He needed to get out of big city with no distractions. His game has dramatically improved.
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Proud Adoptive Parent of one of the best Five Tool Players, The Machine.
He also played better on the MNT the last few games.
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
He was on Sodium Maleonitriledithiolate?
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
Yes
doper
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Knew it.
I’m still pissed the MNT lost the Gold Cup
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Hey it's US Soccer
not Giants’ baseball, try not to be too much of a pessimist. We’re getting better.
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We do
But no one who can do what he does. He probably has the best vision and best playmaking ability on the team.
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When is that game?
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August 10th I believe.
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why are they announcing the lineups now? Can you imagine if Bochy did that for Giants games?
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They usually call them up early so they can have time
to leave their clubs and come for a training camp session. It goes by pretty fast, but they do need a few days to play together.
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“…which brings us to Buster Posey, who will start the Phillies series in early August.”
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
Also this is just the 22 man squad not the actual lineup
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Yea
These guys are just invited to the camp.
But by the looks of it, Klinsmann is prolly gonna play a 4-3-3 or a 4-3-2-1. Interesting.
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I always sort of felt that stacking the fullbacks over the midfielders was a sign that you’re not a very good team.
There are plenty of examples that run counter to that, but man do I love a strong, stacked midfield.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree. The midfield is where the game is won or lost.
Maybe play the young guys more here… see what they got, we know what the vets bring us:
Howard——————————
Chandler—-Goodson—Boca——Castillo
-Bradley————-Torres————-Jones
-—————Adu———————Donovan———-
-————————-Buddle————————-
And I figure you can make 6 subs… so switch from here.
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Who are all those people?
That like a completely different team.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 4, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait. Where the fuck is their best player?
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Aug 4, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s a friendly and the good players are with their club teams. It’s like the olympic basketball team.
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Maybe this is the new coaches way of checking out what the talent pool is. The key name marquee players I’m sure he already knows of / about.
He should already know what
Howard, Dolo, Boca, Donovan, Demps, etc can do. I want to see how though they integrate with some new guys.
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Landon Donovan needs to leave the WNBA... I mean the MLS and go play in Europe
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Everton wants him back.
And he was fantastic for Bayern Munich in the preseason until they got rid of Klinsmann and their new coach didn’t want him on their team.
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He was good at Everton
But he played in 6 games at Bayern and didn’t score, that’s not ‘fantastic’ really.
Sundrendy!
it's soccer
nobody ever scores. duh
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Which means it should appeal to us Giants fans.
by BestHyperboleEver on Aug 4, 2011 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
the Giants' low scoring doesn't exactly appeal to us either
We only like the opposing team not scoring
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I’m actually usually surprised that soccer doesn’t appear to more baseball fans. I think the two are quite similar.
by BestHyperboleEver on Aug 4, 2011 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Baseball: lots of statistics
Soccer: no statistics
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Baseball...There will be math required.
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by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
And that is reason 1 of 2,465 of how soccer and baseball are nothing alike.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
lol there's alot of random statistics.
Km run, passes completed, etc. But nothing like baseball, that’s for damn sure.
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I suppose I should expand on this.
The primary reasons, on a very simplified level, I think the two are similar and would appeal to similar people are:
1. They ask a lot of the audience. Because of the relative lack of scoring and overtly dramatic events, enjoyment depends to a large degree on an in-depth understanding of the game. If you don’t understand/appreciate the minutia, both can be painfully boring.
2. The nature of scoring. Every point matters. Every point changes the way the game is played from that moment forward.
3. Dramatic tension. This follows #2 a bit. Because points are so important, the build up to each is an event in itself. The drama, after the build up, of a shot sneaking just inside the far post or careening off the crossbar is very similar to me, in emotion and excitement to a runner rounding third and trying to beat the throw to home.
Obviously, to those that love baseball to the stats, soccer doesn’t hold much appeal. While I think the stats are interesting, informative and entertaining to talk about, they’re not why I personally love baseball. I love it for the narrative structure. I love soccer for the same reasons.
by BestHyperboleEver on Aug 4, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
He played well in the preseason.
I think he scored 2 goals in 3 appearances. But once Klinsmann’s time was in doubt, so was his position.
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to be honest I can't blame them.
Munich had some legitimate strikers ahead of him.
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He was always going to be on an unrealistically short leash. He was seen as just another crazy notion from Klinsmann’s California-addled brain.
by BestHyperboleEver on Aug 4, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Other than Klinsmann. he was seen there probably as just a way to
get in the American market.
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by Montreal Giants Fan on Aug 4, 2011 10:21 AM PDT reply actions
Which Giant?
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Plaxico went to the Jets...
So yeah Ill go with LOL ELI cause it also applies to NOGOODSIDE
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
When he is DFA'd do we keep the machine?
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I'm curious to see what happens when Pat and Miggy comes off the DL
Curious is probably not the right word…cringing
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I think Cabrera is a good indication how they feel about MIggy. As for PtB, can’t he just stay on the DL until Sept?
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i would still like to see him bat behind panda and beltran – i could deal with the K’s but he really is our only true HR hitter
also
he would actually be a difference maker in the postseason…
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Good Omen?
I was in Liquor Land in Millbrae, on my way to work (daddy needs his medicine before he can deal with the baboons office) and who strolls in? Mike Murphy! I had to do a double take, but I can honestly say I have never been more star-struck in my life.
And that is saying a lot, because I once waited in line for a gas station bathroom with Tom Hanks.
Anyway, it took all my energy to not ask him for a picture; it seemed like he was a regular, and with the Phillies series starting, I can imagine that he probably didn’t want to be bothered.
It was pretty funny listening to some of the other regulars joking with him about the previous evening’s episode of the Franchise.
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The thong is, it happened.
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
LOL
rec’d
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by DoubleDeuce22 on Aug 4, 2011 12:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Unbirthday parties.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Crumpet Party
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Strumpet Party
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Trumpet Party
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by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
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the Patronage Party
bring the corruption to the little people, finally!
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
The left already tried the "Coffee Party," with minimal success.
I’m a big fan of Divided We Fall, a website that seeks to work across party lines.
Better to be a Giants fan than an Athletic supporter!
The Coffee Party.
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by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
The Pants Party
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
Better yet
the no pants party
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pretty much ......
not as bad as the first one, but still.
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by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:58 AM PDT up reply actions
not really
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Here's the difference.
Old Econ joke: A recession is when your neighbor looses his job, a depression is when you loose your job.
So hang on tight next time.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd say so
Not that wikipedia is gospel or anything, but:
Considered, by some economists, a rare and extreme form of recession, a depression is characterized by its length, by abnormally large increases in unemployment, falls in the availability of credit— often due to some kind of banking or financial crisis, shrinking output—as buyers dry up and suppliers cut back on production, and investment, large number of bankruptcies—including sovereign debt defaults, significantly reduced amounts of trade and commerce—especially international, as well as highly volatile relative currency value fluctuations—most often due to devaluations. Price deflation, financial crises and bank failures are also common elements of a depression that are not normally a part of a recession.
As far as I can tell more or less all of that applies to the current situation. Keep in mind that in spite of the fact that the economy has been expanding since mid-2009, the latest revisions to GDP show that the US has still not reached its pre-recession GDP peak.
technical definition of a depression is a decrease in GDP. Technically, the rescission was over like a year ago since the GDP for the US actually grew.
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No, a recession and a depression are both defined by a decrease in GDP. There’s no technical distinction between the two, though, just the qualitative “longer and deeper” applied to a depression. The 2008 collapse was the longest recession since the Great Depression and by far the deepest. (As I said, nearly four years on we still have not reached the previous output peak.) We had a major financial crisis and a collapse in investment. If you don’t think it’s a depression, that’s fine, it’s a qualitative distinction, but to me it fits the criteria.
During the “Great Depression” did they call it a depression? Or is that a term that was applied after the fact? I’m old, but I’m not that old. I figure there will be some name for this thing we are in after it’s over in 20-30 years…
100 years from now
The beginning of the 21st century will be known as “The Great Clusterfuck”.
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Will we be known as the Clusterfuckiest Generation?
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I'm not so sure
There’s not really a big banking crisis or credit availability anymore. In fact, most banks have more money to lend then they can.
What I think is that consumer demand is down primarily because people have instituted their own personal austerity measures. A couple years ago, we as a country had a negative consumer savings rate. We were were spending more than we were making and racking up debt. Now, the savings rate is like 7%, which is good for the long-term health of us as consumers, but the lower consumer demand is screwing things up right now.
The thong is, it happened.
What I think is that consumer demand is down primarily because people have instituted their own personal austerity measures.
Lack of employment will do that for you. Seriously though, many full time jobs went to part time. A friend of mine is a nurse. Her hours were cut from 40+ to 30 . Why 30 you say ? Most states/contracts determine the difference between full and partime as 32 hours or more. If you are not a Full time employee, you are not eligible for most benefits, including Health Care. Savings per employee could reduce employee cost by about 40%
I mean really, a Hospital cut it’s employees health care ?
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But unemployment and underemployment doesn't explain the increase in the savings rate
If people are making less and needing to buy their own healthcare, you’d think the savings rate would go down
The thong is, it happened.
Deleveraging
I don’t think the savings rate is actually going up because people are investing. Rather they are paying down debt. It is a sign of pessimism about the future.
Here in Nevada, most of the under and unemployed are going without healthcare. If you have a part time job you cannot afford healthcare, other than catastophic coverage.Part of the savings rate increases are IMO, because without having insurance coverage you must save to cover a doctor vist or medication.
Also many believe and rightly so, that their jobs are in jeopardy of being eliminated due the current economic environment. With so much of the economy dependant on consumer spending to generate employment, jobs can go away in the “blip” of a bad report.
With limited or no unemployment benefits available, many have cut non-essential living expenses and delayed Capital Improvements on business and home just to save. They don’t want to be caught where they were in the Fall of 2008. No job, no savings.
tailesin also makes my last point for me before I even post.
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I think banks have money to lend, but the ability to lend it is a different matter altogether. From my own anectodal experience, we recently refinanced our mortgage and compared to the 3 times we had done so pre-meltdown, the process was substantially more difficult bordering on nearly impossible. The amount of documentation we needed was at least 10x higher and even then it was no sure thing.
This is the industry I work in
You can base probbably half of that on government (or quasi-government) guiedlines and the other half on banks having learned a lesson from previously layering risk.
The thong is, it happened.
Revolution party
Back on the market.
by positiveuphemism on Aug 4, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Ummmm, Grant
I don’t mean to be “that guy”, but I have to point out the fact that your last answer is incorrect. He already has 78 ABs this season. This is the sort of misinformation that keeps internet blogs from being taken seriously as legitimate news outlets. For shame, Mr. Brisbee.
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You should consider banning Grant for trolling us like that.
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Is it even possible.
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it was nice knowing you Natto…maybe you can come back as a different type of japanese side dish
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
That thing is actually tasty....
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Well, it’s squid, so it must be tasty. You just have to get over the whole dancing thing.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, that grosses me out. I can’t eat food that is still moving.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Then you would love Drunken Shrimp! Live shrimp presented to you and then incapaciated by alcohol
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Anything bathed in alcohol is good
Also force feeding is awesome… Foie Gras
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then you would love this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14393667
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When your with a bunch of inlaws telling you to eat you eat.
Also I’ve eaten much more disgusting things when working in Ethiopia eg Raw Camel
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Raw camel doesn’t sound that bad.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Which is to say, it doesn’t sound like it would be very high on the disgusting spectrum. Nowhere near natto, at least.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I mean, it’s just meat, right?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Freshly killed camel liver and meat....
It’s no steak tartare
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Pickled Ginger
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Speaking of which
Japanese pickles are awesome.
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And you can watch television on them as well!
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WOW.
that’s when you know things are pretty bad.
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by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
you left out the asterisked footnote
*games may contain Natinals players
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
One of these years I'll buy Nats season tickets.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
better hurry ......
they sell out quick.
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by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
LOL stock market
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Yep
We aren’t going to climb out of this one. Welcome to the new reality.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
I really don’t understand the shortsightedness of the current political landscape. I have given up trying.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
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As the old saying goes there are only 2 things politicians REALLY care about: their last election and their next election.
Recent events make me wonder about this maxim. Both parties seem electorally suicidal all of a sudden.
I gave up on really following it out of depression/frustration right around the time where the only discussion was the amount by which they’re going to slash discretionary spending, and the fact that absolutely fucking nobody is asking them to explain how this could possibly help the current economy.
The first six innings are overrated.
Well…there was one entire house of Congress who did.
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Not all that well. The debate was essentially Republicans want to cut x.x Trillion, but Democrats only want to cut x.x Trillion. There were very few politicians making any strong arguments for avoiding cuts, mainly because the whole “Americans are tightening their belts in this tough economy so Washington should do the same” thing sounds good but is absolutely fucking stupid from a policy standpoint. And there were even fewer making a case for any sort of stimulus.
Same goes for media coverage of it, but to an even greater degree. I’m surprised Krugman hasn’t completely lost it by now.
The first six innings are overrated.
I hear you.
“We cannot get by on cuts alone. We need revenue.”
/no mention of raising revenue
“Shared sacrifice!”
/tax cuts for the rich
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Getting close to sex
but the cuts thing came from the need to get a deal. I think if it was up to Obama/Democrats…there would be a lot more tax hikes and less cuts.
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Obama’s obsession with consensus makes it seem to me like it wouldn’t have been much different no matter what. I’m not convinced his policies have been any different from those of Bush at all.
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He’s a realists. He has always been a realist. There was an article discussing how when Obama became the editor of the Harvard Law Review, some minorities thought that he would lean toward their agendas. Instead, he played it down the middle.
He has been vastly vastly different from Bush already. I really think he will go all out if he gets re-elected.
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“Obama 2012: Let’s Get Wacky”
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What is realism? It means demarcating Things We Cannot Do because They would disapprove, and we need Their support if we are to do anything (not including the Things We Cannot Do, because those are off-limits). I’ve had enough of that shit.
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No it’s called getting stuff done. As Alan Gosbee stated on the Daily show last night…not everyone in D.C. has their tray table in the upright and locked positions.
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No, George Bush got stuff done.
Why is Guantánamo still open? Why did it take so long to repeal DADT? Why isn’t there public healthcare?
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Because they campaign on that shit to get votes but don’t really want it.
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Bush got stuff done because Republican get in line and had the majority in both houses for 6 years.
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This is the correct answer.
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Republican priorities:
1. getting exactly what they want
2. no government action
3. getting only some of what they want and having to give some things up
Democrat priorities:
1. getting exactly what they want
2. getting some or most of what they want, even if concessions are required
3. no government action
Both sides are aware of this, and it absolutely dictates how things get done.
The first six innings are overrated.
Two things
1) Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals 2-1 in the US. That changes the dynamic pretty dramatically.
2) There was a poll not too long ago that asked people whether they wanted their elected leaders to stand up for principles no matter what, or to compromise to get things done. Two-thirds of republicans said principle no matter what, two-thirds of democrats said compromise.
Me neither. He’s continued and/or escalated pretty much everything Bush did.
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3/4 of the troops out of Iraq, getting rid of DADT…
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Yeah, I’m disappointed for a lot of reasons, but to say that he’s the same or more of the same isn’t accurate.
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Also, perhaps more importantly, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
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Kegan’s appointment had an overall affect of shifting the court to the right. She replaced the court’s most left leaning judge.
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John McCain appoints someone drastically different than her, is what I am saying.
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You are probably right but he didn’t even try is what makes me mad. He has yet to advocate something truly progressive and then fight for it.
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Probably because of this:
Image cut off, gallup poll here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/148745/Political-Ideology-Stable-Conservatives-Leading.aspx
If you want to know why Obama hasn’t governed like a liberal, it’s because very few people in this country count themselves as liberals, and he wants to win re-election.
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That’s because “liberal” has become a dirty word. The answers change when you ask about policy decisions. You’ll find that out soon enough.
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I appreciate your patronizing.
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Yeah if you poll people strictly on issues they would be more left leaning I’m sure.
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This is pretty much true.
Healthcare reform all together: AWFUL
Break apart the pieces: People love them.
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On some issues
Everyone likes it when they get stuff.
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We have the reverse problem
The conservatives consistently poll a few % under their true support, it’s called ‘Shy Tory syndrome’, among other things.
Sundrendy!
Eh?
It’s been pretty conclusively proven that there’s no special Tory underpolling; it’s just that unpopular government parties poll worse than they fare at the ballot box. Look at Labour last year.
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DADT thing was good but Bush didn’t implement that IIRC.
Iraq: In Iraq — where we have been repeatedly told the U.S. war has ended — U.S. forces joined Iraqi forces for a night raid on a village near Tikrit “that left the tribal Sheik and two others dead, and several wounded, including two young girls.” That led to the following, from the NYT reporter who visited the village:
Surrounded by perhaps two dozen men, they took us through the village, recounting the raid and blaming the Americans. . . . “We will follow them to America and file cases there against them,” one of the villagers said. “There were more than 30 people here that saw what happened and all are ready to be witnesses.”
One tribal sheik, Youseff Ahmad, spoke about the debate about the future role of United States forces here that has dominated Iraqi public life of late. “We want them to leave, even before the end of this year,” Mr. Ahmad said. “They’ve destroyed us. They’ve only brought killing and disaster.”
There is much, much more: escalated Afghan war, droning wars, war on whistleblowers, states secret BS, etc…
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I was rattling off things that Obama has done that McCain would not have.
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Speaking of Krugman, David Frum says what conservatives need to hear: http://www.frumforum.com/could-it-be-that-our-enemies-were-right
I really like him. He talked about how the conservatives are shooting themselves in the foot first with the healthcare debate and now the debt ceiling thing.
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Krugman lost it a long, long time ago
=)
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I’ll just say that on economic matters over the last few years, he has been right again and again and again and again.
It's easy to be right when all you do is advocate for spending more than anyone is willing to spend
Then, if things go bad, you say they didn’t spend enough. If things go OK, you say it would have happened faster if you’d spent more.
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He said the stimulus wasn’t big enough before it even passed. He was right.
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the stimulus stuff
is something where neither side will ever accept the other’s evidence.
To ignore Professor Krugman on international trade, the dollar and inequality (stuff where being an expert actually means something) is to do so at your own peril.
Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention.
Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
But he barely talks about that anymore.
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I’m guessing you are not an avid reader.
Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention.
Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
Fair, I'm not
I read his op-eds in the NYT and occasionally browse his blog, but not religiously.
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Still
it’s like working tangentially for the Dodgers
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HARSH
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
by shanghaijim on Aug 4, 2011 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
"Americans are tightening their belts in this tough economy so Washington should do the same"
Lifetime free healthcare ..cough…congessional pension..cough…
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I understand the sentiment
Cutting those things would be pretty useless.
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Go after “Defense”. Lots of money to be saved there. Tax loop holes too.
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Hey! They need those $600 designer wrenches to fit those $2,000 designer washers!!!! It’s not like you can just bop on over to Ace Hardware and buy replacement parts for your broken down tank!
That reminds me I need to get a tool box.
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This should be explicated. People are all worried about saying they want to cut defense spending because they’ll come across as unpatriotic or that they don’t want soldiers to get paid, but the targets should be the contractors who inflate costs billed to the DoD just because they can.
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also…the secretary of defense says that he doesn’t really the money but Congress keeps saying no you really do.
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This is what you meant to say right ?
the secretary of defense says that he doesn’t really the money but Congress keeps saying no you really do.
the secretary of defense says that he doesn’t really the money but Congress keeps saying no you really do. no our friends in the defense industry really do.
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F-35 FTW
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Zoom and Boom
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KUTS WILL GRWO THE ECOMONY
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by jhiat00 on Aug 4, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I dunno. We’ve had some pretty gnarly financial situations in the past in this country.
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If we’re lucky a world war will break out!
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Let’s legalize alcohol again!
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:53 AM PDT up reply actions
It’s not like the Great Depression was the first crisis we’ve ever had though. Check out the Panic(s) of 18XX.
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Back then, the US had a huge industrial base to build on. That doesn’t exist anymore. We’ve given it away.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
You mean slavery?
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Since when does manufacturing automatically mean slavery?
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
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by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Biggest issue now
is that the US is not the biggest baddest dude on the block anymore. the EU, China, India, Japan all have big stakes in the global market.
US is dying from the lack of innovation which is usually the way it has pulled itself out of economic problems.
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and
crazy and irresponsible
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I think it might be nice to transition to democratic socialism like Europe has done following their world leadership phase.
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Exactly. It might do us some good to not be the overwhelming biggest and baddest.
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I like the month off during the summer and free health care for all parts.
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They haven’t dismantled the good stuff yet, though.
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Did more nations drop out?
Denmark did, right?
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:56 AM PDT up reply actions
And half of them need to get their economic shit together as well. They aren’t much better than the US at this point.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
AND THEN TEH BURN!!!!
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Aug 4, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Compared to what?
There isn’t one European conservative government that would ever entertain the idea of privatizing the health-care system. Conservative parties in Europe are mostly, on the US political spectrum, somewhere close to Mark Warner. The real crazies would be analogous to Olympia Snowe or something. I don’t think there’s any such thing as a European Jim DeMint or John Kyl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs
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I should have been more clear
I am referring to European conservative parties that might actually lead the government at some point. Obviously the Front National and Geert Wilders and these sort of guys are as wacko as anyone the US can throw out there, but they’re not in any imminent danger of winning a parliamentary majority. (Although, if the Euro collapses and there’s an even bigger economic collapse, who knows?)
Comparing European “right-wing” or “left-wing” to how we apply the terms in the US isn’t all that useful or meaningful.
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That is, of course, because political parties in the United States are so different from parties elsewhere that they really shouldn’t even be included in the same category.
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You will take
China and like it.
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China can go play in the sandbox, and we can turn our revenues toward increasing the standard of living.
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The key for China
is whether it can be self-sustaining…a 1.2 billion population can support itself.
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They're not doing a very good job
If they’d allowed their currency to appreciate much more quickly since 2006 or so, they’d have a much larger domestic consumer base and wouldn’t be so dependent on export markets to sustain their growth. They weathered the recession OK thanks to massive stimulus, but I’m not sure they’ll be able to repeat that if there’s a double-dip.
The other problem is that it’s run by a bunch of paranoid politicians who have more interest in suppressing the masses and keeping themselves in power/money.
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The other problem is that it’s run by a bunch of paranoid politicians who have more interest in suppressing the masses and keeping themselves in power/money.
This describes every system of government in existence.
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions
No one does it better or more blatantly than the CCP.
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I don't know
I think Putin can give them a run for their money. But certainly they’re birds of a feather.
They’re giving it “the old college try” here.
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they intentionally deflate their currency
so they can keep the price of their goods cheap, and grow foreign dependence upon their manufacturing base. This is all on purpose.
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Correct
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by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Sounds kinda smart actually.
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their best idea
since demanding payment in silver for tea.
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
much better than
becoming a nation of addicts of opium
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OK
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
becoming a nation of addicts ofopiumWorld of Warcaft
fix’d
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Not really
It has a limit as a strategy for a country with more than a billion people. You can only grow so much as an exporter when you’re that big. There’s not enough people in the rest of the world to buy all the stuff that China could produce if it had the GDP per capita of the US, so eventually they have to sell stuff to their own people.
I can see that. Getting others dependent on your manufacturing first seems like a good move though.
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It is, er, was
But they have been far too slow to start shifting toward a consumer-driven economy.
worked for us
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and
if other manufacturers can’t compete, they go out of business.
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by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 12:25 PM PDT up reply actions
there are an AWFUL lot of Wal-Marts in this country
and they get their goods almost exclusively from Chinese factories. If they couldn’t sell the goods they produce, they wouldn’t have so many factories, but they are going for total saturation.
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So far
Only about a quarter of Chinese workers are participating in the industrial economy; the rest are peasants. What happens when their manufacturing output is twice as large?
Need to have buyers. A lot of the workers are going back to the farms because the wages are so awful.
Also once you get a majority of people in the industrial workforce, they’ll start demanding thing like living wage and health regulations.
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I know
But that is because powerful business interests are pushing the government to keep the CNY cheap to benefit their export businesses. It’s not good for the country as a whole, though; they’re artificially depressing the living standards of the vast majority of their population. And it’s not a good long-term strategy either, because they can’t grow much larger as an export-only economy.
if the Chinese had a standard of living comparable to other countries of their well-deserved economic stature
The now-rich populace wouldn’t stand for the revolutionary communist horseshit. They have to do what they’re doing or lose power.
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back to the problems identified with the CCP.
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exactly
revolution is for poor people. Rich people just want stability and representation of their interests.
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It seems like if that were true, more despotic regimes would concentrate on spreading the wealth instead of impoverishing the populace as they seem to do.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Not
if you’re the one holding all the money.
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sometimes rhetoric is meant to compensate for actual policy
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Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
Also
good old nationalism!
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The trick is convincing the poor people that they’re middle class.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions
To this day, I’m convinced that I’m middle class.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I actually was raised smack dab in the middle class, but thought that was just how everyone lived.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
my parents’ income probably was in the bottom quartile of the US. I had no idea at the time.
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This is the line I grew up in.
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What
you mean the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is neither democratic nor for the people?
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this is why the names of communist political parties are always hilarious
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What is the definition of middle class? What is the range of income?
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:42 PM PDT up reply actions
the middle class is the group of people
between 25% and 66% of households by gross income.
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It's pretty broad
The range of household income that falls in the second through fourth quintiles is 18,500-88,300. Obviously living standards between the bottom and the top of that range would be pretty different.
So those making more than $88,300 are not in the middle class? For some reason I though it went to 200K or something like that.
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If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
My parents make like 300K and they’re convinced they’re middle class.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
In the SF bay area that’s about right.
by BestHyperboleEver on Aug 4, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Jeff Kent agrees.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
It’s really not. If you are making 300K you are not middle class, in the Bay Area or Manhattan or anywhere else.
This argument cracks me up. “But my house cost a million dollars! I’m not really rich!” Dude, your house cost a million dollars.
I read an article once
they interviewed a ton of people, from someone just above the poverty line to someone making like 500k a year and they all thought they were middle class.
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Yeah, I make more than that, but I am so middle class that it hurts.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I would say that people who make 200K (95th percentile of income) probably have more in common, in terms of lifestyle, with those making 90K (80th percentile) than they do with those making 1M (99th percentile). But I still don’t see how you can be considered “middle class” if you make more than 95% of the population.
From two months ago this article.
Like most of the comments here, there seems to be a broad renage depending on your geopgraphy and perception.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
my perception is what Wikipedia tells me it is
So your article can sit on it
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
the real issue
is not really how much you make but what you can afford as to where you live.
To buy a average house in Irvine means you need to make about $150-$200K…that’s average here.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
So you need to be above middle class to buy a house in Irvine.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Exactly
People who buy average houses in Irvine are not middle class. But they think they are, because they only know people who can buy average houses in Irvine.
I am not saying whether or not one is middle class but rather what one can afford is more important than the income.
A 6 figure income is more average if you live in California than if you live in SD.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
That makes it even worse for those who are in the middle class to live in Irvine.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I live in Irvine
But I rent, I can’t afford a house.
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I want to be middle class in Hillsborough.
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Average listing price for a home $1,281,889
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I look down on South Bay types.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s such a silly arbitrary line. Is someone making 100K but saving 25% of their income middle class or upper class slumming it with the middle class until they get their savings up to par? Is someone making 60K but living at a 90K income through home equity loans and credit cards upper or middle class?
It seems like a pretty good rule of thumb to me. The person in you first scenario is upper class with a big ass savings account. The second is middle class and headed for the poor house.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I CAN HAZ UR PARENTS?
I’m good about calling on birthdays, holidays, etc…
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Whatever I’m doing.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
taliesin,
you must have the highest rate of intelligent comments/total comments of any poster
Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention.
Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
And we're actually making efforts to dig in even deeper
Fun!
The first six innings are overrated.
Why hello there John Maynard Keynes
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
Why hello there James Herbert "Maynard" Keenan
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
It's not so bad
Wait till the job numbers come out friday.
18K last time and 85K expected.
I’ll be surprised if its double digits
by posey yaknowsy on Aug 4, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Insurance is in fact legalized gambling. They are essentially the “house” that runs the casino: make a bunch of bets that you’re more than likely to win. You’ll lose some, but you’ll make a profit overall.
I don’t really buy that stocks are a form of gambling, although some people do treat the market that way.
stocks are much crazier than gambling because the odds are human dependent. In gambling, the odds always remain the same. In stocks, human emotions and market tendencies drastically alter the odds.
Insurance is actually more science and statstics.
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2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Human emotions drastically alter the odds in the short term, we have a lot of data to show that in the long term the investments are monetarily worth it.
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions
There’s nothing intrinsic in stocks that ties their value to the success or failure of the company they represent. Investing in stocks seems to me to be no different than betting on sports, except that in one case there is a clear relationship between something real (the outcome of the sporting event) and the payoff, whereas in the other case the relationship is unclear.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
There’s nothing intrinsic in stocks that ties their value to the success or failure of the company they represent.
What makes you say that? There must be some kind of misunderstanding going on. I will say though, that what matters is not whether the company does well in absolute terms that affects its stock price; it’s whether it does well relative to expectations.
I mean, a company could be hemorrhaging money and its stock prices could go up. A company could only exist on paper and its stock prices could go up. The only thing governing the price of the stock is supply of and demand for that particular stock, which depends only on how willing people are to buy or sell it. It’s not tied to anything.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
No
The price of a stock is the present value of all expected future dividends. For highly speculative stocks it can be very difficult to determine what the expected future dividends might be, but the price is definitely tied to expectations of future dividends (and hence earnings).
it’s whether it does well relative to expectations.
Often times it can be whether it is perceived to do relative to it’s expectations.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
If you buy a life insurance policy
You are betting the insurance company that you will die very soon. They are betting that you are, in fact, immortal.
So yeah, it’s all gambling.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
I say that California secedes and we elect Jerry Brown president.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
But only Northern California.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
better idea.
"Career potential: situational lefty." Situation: Ragnarok, bases loaded, Odin at the plate. You know who's getting the call.
-Adopted Giant: Dan Runzler
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles
And never frowns
Soon I will be president…
Carter Power will soon go away
I will be Fuhrer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school!
California Uber Alles
California Uber Alles
Uber Alles California
Uber Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can’t happen here
Big Bro’ on white horse is near
The hippies won’t come back you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay!
[Chorus]
Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It’s the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You’d look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don’t you worry, it’s only a shower
For your clothes here’s a pretty flower.
DIE on organic poison gas
Serpent’s egg’s already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown
[Chorus]
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Apparently there was a Pacific Coast League team nicknamed the Twinks
Gus was optioned by Chicago to Hollywood in the Pacific Coast League. Ready to make another fast start, Gus hit four home runs, had a .487 average and scored 17 runs in his first 10 games for the Twinks (Hollywood Stars).
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
informal nickname
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
is their mascot a Twinkie?
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh just a white washed asian.
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Proud Adoptive Parent of one of the best Five Tool Players, The Machine.
Do they prance around the bases while singing tunes from glee?
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
Also holy shit this guy hates baseball
Zernial is such a fan of the DH that he believes it should be extended even to fielders and runners. Baseball, he believes, should allow DH substitutions at bat for fielders who cannot hit and designated runners for hitters who cannot run, Zernial believes. He said that this would allow for better bench utilization, similar to what is done in other major sports, and make the game more exciting.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I was raised on the street too..
The Sesame Street.. and we did’t have any stupid DH substitutions….
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
We had some kids with some physical challenges so being the enlightened northern California neighborhood that we were… some kids hit while others ran for them, some didn’t play at all on defense. “You on the crutches! Permanent catcher’s catcher for both teams!”
That is so nice!
"You on the crutches! Permanent catcher’s catcher for both teams!" made me think of posey :(
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
DH substitutions at bat for fielders who cannot hit and designated runners for hitters who cannot run
This gave me a brief but debilitating headache.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Seriously
What sport in their right mind would have a separate team for offense and defense? That sport would be sure to fail.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
exsqueeze me? baking powder?
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Some Giants stuff in today's KLaw chat
Ray A. (San Francisco, CA)
Could Gary Brown be the next Jacoby Ellsbury?
Klaw (1:12 PM)
I don’t see Brown ever having the power Ellsbury is showing right now.
Mick (Chicago)
Is Joe Panik the next great hope for a long term solution at shortstop for the Giants?
Klaw (1:48 PM)
I see him as a utility guy. Interesting stat note: He hit 3 HR in his first 9 games in pro ball, 0 in 127 AB since.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Please note
These are not predictions.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
Actually that is correct, they are opinions.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Aug 4, 2011 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
About what will happen in the future. Isn’t that the definition of “prediction.”
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
No, a prediction is something that defines exactly what will happen. As in Brown will NEVER hit for 18 hr’s in a season.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Aug 4, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ah, so if I preface my prediction with qualifiers like “I don’t see” then it’s ok. I get it now.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Yes, because you’re not making definitive, declarative statements about the future; you’re saying, “Based on what I see here in front of me, this is what I think is a reasonable expectation.”
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Meh, using weasel words doesn’t mean you are not making a prediction, it means you are a weasel. When one of those comes true, Law will not be reminding anyone that he qualified his prediction with ‘I see’.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
He’s definitely making a prediction. I think that’s his job. I also don’t think opinion and prediction are necessarily mutually exclusive, either. But, I agree that its weasely to try to act like it’s not a prediction.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
He said he doesn't see that happening.
Which is different than saying it won’t happen.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Well if we're going to get all technical
What things in the future does he currently “see”? Nothing, because it’s in the future.
The thong is, it happened.
Um, isn't that what the gypsy fortune tellers in the movies always say
“I see a dark man”
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
I would be happy to see if Gary Brown can just be Hunter Pence.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
That's the thing I don't get about KLaw's comment
Who saw Ellsbury showing this much power before he did it?
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Also
Stephen (Palo Alto)
Saw your twitter back-and-forth with Andy Baggarly. Is he not the best beat writer in the game?
Klaw (2:14 PM)
Andy’s awesome. A real coffee geek too.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
LOL dodged the question.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
To be fair
I never would have thought Ellsbury would ever show the kind of power that Ellsbury is showing right now.
I hate when I’m playing the worst team in the entire league, you know, the team that the manager hasn’t checked in months and that has all those injured players in their starting lineup, and they get like 9 home runs out of two of their healthy players and beat my team with that shit.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:07 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
that’s exactly the reason why I retired from Fantasy Baseball.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
I think I’ve decided to go during a station break and say, “You’re the only one who can hear me. Think about it,” and leave it at that.
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
by TheLetter2 on Aug 4, 2011 11:09 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
You should use some Kruk & Kuip-isms during your broadcast for fun.
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
This.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:11 AM PDT up reply actions
“Payin’ babe from Half Moon Bay.”
lol.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Say "By the way, I really like that pink shirt you're wearing."
It’ll really creep out the one person who happens to be wearing a pink shirt.
I think you should drum up revenues
“Paid for by listeners like YOU.”
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Needs more aggression
“Paid for by listeners like YOU. YEAH YOU…YOU LEECH.”
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Welcome, Phillies
Today’s high: 62. Last night’s rain fogfall: .01". Gametime prediction: fly out to deep CF.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
oh sweet
59 first pitch, 56 by game end.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Coldest month in SF.
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
nah
usually June or July, but bring the parka anyways for a night game. Late August can be an early Indian summer, but that will be obvious if that’s how it is.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
if we were still playing at the Stick .....
then you would need the parka.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I am not kidding about the parka
I mean, in the sense of the Jon Miller kind from the other day, not the military surplus kind with the fur-lined hood like I have.
Anyway, later in the month will be better.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Mark Twain'd
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I’m just saying. I like it to be 90 when I get up and 90 when I go to bed. That’s summer.
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
You’re going to need some hot water bottles, I think.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
The cocoa is for sale in the stands from vendors with cocoa-filled backpacks and marshmallow dispensers. The chains are available just a few blocks from the ballpark on Folsom Street.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
ah, this really should go
in the McC guide to SF.
I like when the same vendors switch from selling soda to coffee after 4 or 5 innings. And I always feel bad for the high school kid stuck selling ice cream in the 8th.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
vendors with cocoa-filled backpacks and marshmallow dispensers
Those guys always remind me of Ghostbusters for some reason.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
But it's ok to cross those streams
It just fills your cup up faster.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions
o_0
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s going to give you guns, so you can kill an animal and wear it’s fur.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
That sounds rather extreme. Cuddling with some of those bears I keep hearing about would more than suffice.
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
Well, if you get a hotel room above the fog it probably will be.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Aug 4, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
You’re confusing summer with hell.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
I used to work in SF and live in the East Bay. I would leave work and it would be 60 degrees. By the time I arrived home, it would be 95.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Growing up in Sonoma we would have mornings where we had to break the ice of the animals water troughs and the hit upper 90’s in the after noon.
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Aug 4, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Similar to us when we lived in San Jose and commuted north to Giants games at the ‘Stick. We’d have all kinds of scarves and parkas and blankets in the back seat of the car. When friends in SJ would get in our car in the summer, they were freaked out by our winter-wardrobe cargo.
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
Yeah that is a huge change than what they have been playing in..
Kickham where it hurts
by say hey nation on Aug 4, 2011 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
we just had a power outage FFFFFFFFFFFFF
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
i hate those.
"A Giants game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings."
I'm an avid protester against "the Wave," "the Fist Pump Dance," and "Like a G Man."
by GIANT stoner on Aug 4, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Now you know how the Giants have felt all season.
That is cray-z.
by DrDC on Aug 4, 2011 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Jponry turns into Madison Bumgarner in the dark.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
So what's up with Belt?
I’m on MCC everyday, and I still feel a bit confused about Belt not getting playing time. Is Huff the only reason he’s not in there on a regular basis??? Is it Boch? Does Sabes just not like his last name?
hole in his swing
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
HUGE
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Nah
just good old veteran preference by a manager.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
And GM.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I think Sabean pretty much lets Bochy do whatever he thinks is right and tries not to micromanage. In drastic situation, he does something (i.e. Molina) but that’s not really viable in the belt situation.
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Confidence eroding.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Speciesist Organization
They love Pandas but despise Baby Giraffes.
"They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." ~ Gaylord Perry
Must be the Templars
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Needs more experience
to get more experience
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
$22M Dollar Contract
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
"unprofessional hitter"
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I didn't choose to be a Giants fan, I was born into it. November 1, 2010 World Champions.
Proud Adoptive Parent of one of the best Five Tool Players, The Machine.
I'm ignoring the big thread tbh
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
probably me.
/Dolorous Edd’d
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
I’m trying to stay out, also. You’d think I’d love confrontation, but I hate it.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
you love bread and butter pickles
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I hate confrontation. I get all RAGE and murderous. It’s probably because of a lack of self-respect or something. I should call a radio shrink about it.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
I just don’t want anyone to not like me. I’d rather not stand up for myself. How pathetic is that?
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I used to be the same way but the older I get, the more I don’t care what people think about me. I’m not confrontational at all, but if someone is being a a jerk, I will say something.
I am a coward who will say something to a stranger who is being a jerk, but not to someone I know.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
That’s almost a good thing though. My problem is often that I am too patient with people I don’t know, because I worry about their opinion of me, whereas I can be too critical with people I actually like because I am comfortable with them.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
You have never been more wrong, jerkface!
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
It is. But, certain people will react poorly regardless of how you say it.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Which is their problem.
How did you get into law, anyway? It’s the most confrontational thing ever.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
I think
you’re ready to call KNBR. Salty Jim in the Fog on line 2.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
I've been more confrontational lately
And loving it. Less anger throughout the day. You got to let it out.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Oh yeah, well that too. It’s just that I was a very violent child when I was angry and I had to crush it down into a little bitty black ball of pure hatred I keep locked up in the dark heart of my soul. I’m fine now!
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
You know what else? My failure to confront people I know just ends up making them be even shittier to me.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
You just wrote about four chapters of my autobiography, right there.
TheLetter2: East Coast Boogaloo
conclusion: be an asshole at least 30% of the time.
It works for me.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Eh
You dont have to be an asshole. Just realize that you dont have to take other people’s shit. I’m a lot happier lately because I tell people that they are bringing me down. Stop or STFU.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Chapter 5: resentment that is just about to boil over at any second, but really only leads to sitting on the couch and eating ice cream out of the carton.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Speaking of West Wing
I really liked the Emily Proctor character but then they got rid of her pretty quickly.
Also, Emily Proctor looks pretty weird on CSI.
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Chapter 6: Endlessly fantasizing about confrontations.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I do this when I'm caught off guard
I’ll be surprised by the dickish thing said or done and I’ll be too surprised to say or do much. Then after the moment passes I’ll realize how I should have reacted and then kick myself.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh shit don't even
I’m still fighting battles in my head with my Post-Colonial Lit class 12 years later.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
I used to be like this
somewhere along the line a switch got flipped, so that the way the confrontation went determined whether I cared what the other person thought of me.
Not saying everybody can do it, but it made me happier.
Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention.
Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
I have had people react poorly to confrontations (or even just telling them they’ve hurt my feelings or whatever), starting as a child, so I think that scared me off. It’s probably easier to be confrontational in my job, because everyone I’m “confronting” is expecting it.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
SONORA DID THIS TO YOU
din’t it?
Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention.
Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
YOU KNOW IT, FELLOW NATIVE
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I had similar experiences.
Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention. Jonathan Sanchez isn’t likely to be traded unless the Giants fall out of contention.
Mark DeRosa is more than the sum of his tendons.
/R. Kelly'd
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Sorry to hear that. If someone is constantly shitty to me, I write them off. Why hang around someone who makes you feel bad?
Usually, I do. But, most of them are some combination of shitty and nice (versus constantly shitty) that leads to me just letting it go. Also, some of them are in my family, so I’m stuck.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
You seem like a nice person. You might find that the older you get, the more courage you’ll have. As for family, well…I’ve written off a couple of members…no loss for me.
Thanks. :)
I’m actually not that young, but I think I usually just slowly drop the person from my life without ever reaching the confrontation stage. It makes people mad, but it’s not my job to change them.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
If confrontation is not an option, I suggest spitting in their coffee and smile as they are drinking it.
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Ew.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
I can’t help you if you’re not even going to try.
Slash a tire? Key a car?
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
Hm. Sometimes I complain on Twitter in a passive aggressive manner.
@legaleagle88
Giants Baseball: Why Not?
I thought Nate Schierholtz was cool before it was cool to think Nate Schierholtz was cool.
Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
This will work
Wise words by wcw: "Nobody cares about your Pokemon."
"There’s a new celebrity inside the organization, and it’s a three-foot inanimate object," - Larry Baer, my adopted son.
I didn’t like Mallrats.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Me neither. I hung out at Hidden Park with the stoners.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t really care for Chasing Amy, either, actually.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
WHY DO YOU HATE COMICS AND MOVIES THAT REFERENCE COMICS?!!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Ben Afflek’s character was a dumbass.
And he was the main character.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
And he was a dumbass.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
That really was a major problem with the movie
But I thought it had enough going for it to make up for it.
Now that is pretty jacked up
Suck it Mat Latos rolls off the tongue so nicely
by Cant_buy_a_run on Aug 4, 2011 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
lol both Girls' Generation and #snsd4thanni are trending in San Francisco
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
Suju just came out with a new song/MV
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
But there are only like 10 of them left now
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
It's ok they'll just absorb more members
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
But the Phillies have Voldemort.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Every team scare me at the moment
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
especially the Giants
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
I need a series preview thread to save me from myself
Must… not… talk… about… Paul… Krugman…
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
Instead let's talk about how the national media is out to get the Giants
Matt Cain: He'll save children, but not the Dodger children.
I call him gerald. he’s a pristine white handkerchief, though? nediB eoJ Joe Biden ‽ Joe Biden.
Why does Paul Krugman hate the Giants?
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Because they don’t spend enough.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
And I’m out.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Paul Krugman’s favorite team is the Yankees.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
hahaha
It is known.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Anyone read this yet?
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6832278/the-end-barry-zito
I’m gonna create a Fanshot with the link as well. You remember Fanshots, don’t you?
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Grant’s land is talking about the Giants now? Odd.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Wow
I’m always calling stat nerds on their shit but that article was just stupid. Barry Zito not living up to a ridiculous contract does not mean the contract made him suck because of its psychological weight.
I mean, jesus, that is just fucking stupid.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
The theory would work better
If he hadn’t already been getting steadily worse between 2002 and 2006.
I remember laughter
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
And the taste of strawberry's?
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
There seems to be
a direct correlation between the oddity of the player’s personality and the size of their contract. Manny Ramirez was a weird dude, too, and he got $160 million from the Red Sox.
/sample size of two players
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Best line
“They definitely heightened my expectations of myself,” Zito told me not long after, remembering that afternoon in Newport Beach. “I was actually kind of aroused.”
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WTF?
He had a shrine built to Sandy Koufax in his bedroom
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
OT: Why did Barry Bonds not play in the 2007 home run derby at AT&T park?
He played in the all star game, why couldn’t he have played in the derby?
"I never stop being amazed by how much people who hate stats because they’re "flawed" quote so much more obviously flawed stats. " -Joe Posnanski
by RichHerreraHomer on Aug 4, 2011 12:03 PM PDT reply actions
I think I remember him saying he's too old and tired
and he didn’t want to mess up his swing or something
Fonte-maybe, Fonte-so
Fonte-come, Fonte-go
Fonte-high, Fonte-low
Fonte-yes, Fontenot!
Knee + Swing
He didn’t want to mess either of them up.
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by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh... I mean...
He would only do it if he could use a swastika bat to properly honor Adolf Hitler, but he didn’t give them enough advance notice to manufacture one.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions
His head wouldn’t fit through the Lefty O’Doul gate.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
OLD
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Aug 4, 2011 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s what Howie was referring to. He didn’t want to mess up the timing in his seal-clubbing swing.
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
One hit kills are tricky once everything is slippery with baby seal blood.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
I complained about that pretty loudly at the time
After the Giants and their fans made such a huge effort to get him elected, blowing off the home run derby seemed like quite a snub to both.
The thong is, it happened.
Good things to come out of market crash
Crude oil prices have gone down dramatically. Gas will be cheaper. The dollar is stronger vs. the yen and Euro.
The crude oil thing is the most important factor. High gas prices mean to consumers that they have to pay an extra forty dollars a month or so for gas- big fucking deal. To a business, however, it means the difference between hiring new employees and not hiring employees. If employers can hire, people can pay their mortgages. Boom, problem partially solved.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Is this a reply fail, or did the other thread reach the boiling point?
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
I hardly think I was dominating that conversation.
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
LOL MARGINALIZED
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe something was deleted?
Jonathan Sanchez: Often maddening to watch, but capable of perfection on a moment's notice---just like his adoptive father.
no, nothing was deleted.
I was simply beginning a new subthread as the previous one is now unwieldy.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Cool
Now it’s in two places to avoid.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
I got gas yesterday and it was $3.79.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I was in Fort Collins, CO on Monday and gas was $3.30. I came back to Chicago and filled up my tank on Tuesday…$4.39.
Holy shit! I don’t feel so bad now.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
If you ever feel bad about anything, such as weather, gas prices, taxes, politicians, crime, etc, just think about me out here in Chicago and cheer up!
Why do I like it out here so much?? Making that list kind of got me depressed
I live in South Dakota if that makes you feel any better. It is by choice but I’m thinking a move may be beneficial in the next few years.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Well, in that case, scratch the weather from list of things I can help you feel better about
Yeah, definitely going to have to switch it up before too long
I wonder how much it is in Barstow?
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Gah, I hate driving from NM to California because I need to stop there to get gas unless I plan really well.
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
that's why they can charge so much
people get there, expecting reasonable prices, and are just like “Holy shit” but they have no choice because Barstow is the only thing for miles around.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
First time I made the drive we got to Barstow and were like “Hokey Smokes, gas is expensive in California.” An hour later we felt cheated.
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Red or Green?
Sorry, my girlfriend is from NM and is obsessed with all things related to NM/ABQ, so I couldn’t resist
Usually red but green chile stew is pretty darn good.
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
There is no question
Chili Verde rules.
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
I used to think so but then I really got into Carne Adovada.
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Teh red arrows point to two gas stations. Same company they are about 5 miles apart
by say hey nation on Aug 4, 2011 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
This reminds me of
the people who wait in line for like 20 minutes for gas at Costco so they can save like 0.20 a gallon.
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If I need gas from Costco I go out for an early lunch or on the way to work at 6:00. I never stop there on the way home from work.
by paboperfecto on Aug 4, 2011 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I know
The weekends are the best though…people lined up for 30 minutes
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I think of it as driving the market economy
If enough people go to Costco that it affects the regular companies’ business, they have to bring their prices down.
The thong is, it happened.
maybe
but the amount of unneeded expenditure of gas results in higher demand.
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
When Grant posts the series preview
Can we go back to talking about boobs, pie vs. cake, and baseball instead?
We can talk about boobs in space to make it a little more interesting for you.
by GuyWhiteyCorngood on Aug 4, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Zero G does wonderful things for bewbs
Dearest, Susan - The Patron Saint of Patience
by Lars The Wanderer on Aug 4, 2011 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s been a long time since boobs have been discussed here, I think.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Aug 4, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn it!
I just gave Fox News a click!
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
I scrolled over first and knew better.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions
speaking of boobs
Yesterday when I was at the game, I missed Vogey striking out Upton in the 1st because my friend called me up to say she was gonna model her breast reduction on my boobs. So, go me, I guess.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
she was gonna model her breast reduction on my boobs
I want to understand this, but fear being slapped.
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
I guess she likes my boobs. That’s what I took away from it.
Get well soon, Buster & Freddy.
Welcome to the Yiyants, Carlos!
I’m going to need photographic evidence to make a ruling.
2010 World Series Champions!
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by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
She wants boobs that look like Tortured’s which are smaller than hers are now. And also, apparently, better looking.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
There is also some plaster molding involved, I think.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Sweet Tea v. Non-sweetend Tea?
Brian Wilson: "Don't Quote Me"
Buster Posey: "I Ain't Havin' It"
Pat Burrell: "The Patural"
Aubrey Huff: "Let's Get Weird"
by slackersphere17 on Aug 4, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Arnold Palmer ?
I'm a Giants Fan, but I'll always be rooting for Matt Downs
Adopted Son:Dan Burkhart , Future Backup To Buster Posey.
Where is WCW?
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
It had so much potential!
But Vince had to put his guys in the forefront. Can’t have the WWE look weaker than WCW.
I found that distasteful even for wrestling standards.
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
My main issue with the Invasion angle
Was their mistreatment of Lance Storm. Man was a legend and they turned him into a punchline.
These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. -Groucho Marx
Dude I loved Lance Storn un ECW, Tammy Lynn Bytch was HAWT
in a dirty way. I have an old video of a three way dance with RVD vs. Lance Storm vs. Jerry Lynn. CLASSIC!!!!!
The silver lining out of this whole economic mess
is that the rest of the world is a lot worse off than the US.
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San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Fine, this gorgeous guy in the sexiest I-don’t-care-about-my-appearance outfit has taken out a battered spiral-bound notebook and an old laptop and is editing an article on Sonoma County and making me feel like a poser. Here I am talking to all of you!
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
n00b issue. I fucking hate when the thread bounces up and down to the new comments
how do I cut that shit out?
Does this stop auto-refresh?
My boy Joe Staley plays lineman on Sundays.
"I will never apologize for watching Bonds dominate" – Duane Kuiper
by Soulbrother16 on Aug 4, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Can you imagine how active this thread would be if there was a prize?
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
nah
people would actually do research or something.
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The cameras are rolling when Bruce Bochy tells Belt that he’s coming up to the majors. Belt is extremely emotional. Bochy tells him to get a beer. I hate Bruce Bochy. Belt is sent back down to AAA on his 23rd birthday, and this time Bochy doesn’t offer him a beer.
Hahahahaha.
Delightful.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
LOLMAD
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
LOL SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MAD
Billy Hayes: His job is better than yours.
@productiveouts | Productive Outs
That coming home song was a little much though.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
The dubstep remix, however, is faaaaantastic.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
LOL review
I don’t know why anyone would watch an hour of something they detest so much, then spend the hour(s) required to give such a detailed review. Get a life! I for examply only have about 2,300 Sports Nation posts.
Lol no but really, getting so upset about the 5 game skid that my gf was mad at me was a little eye opening. Just a game, entertainment. If you get that upset about it, find something more healthy to like\love.
Time to repeat in '11!
by Myemail21479 on Aug 4, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
This was hilarious until the part about Buster Posey.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I’m choosing to ignore that bit. I don’t think there’s a productive conversation to be had there.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
My favorite part is when he calls Posey a whiny little baby.
My adopted Giant, the young Reinier Roibal
Think it’s a she.
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
I will expect her to give birth in stoic silence then.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
rec'd
even if you are whining.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
So wait, someone please explain
The Giants shouldn’t talk up the idea of being UNDERDOGS because obviously they are not;
Yet the only reason they beat the Phillies in the NLCS last year wasn’t because we were the better team, but we just got hot at the right time and the Phillies bats went cold?
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
I think
you’re overthinking that august piece of literature.
May 29, 2010: Steven Revetria becomes Giants General Manager. The rest is history.
"118 elements, and still no stanfurdium"- carp, paraphrased
Bandwagons are fun- that's why people get on them in the first place.
by natteringnabob on Aug 4, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL WHAT
ProFootballTalk ProFootballTalk
49ers e-mail every team, saying Taylor Mays is available http://t.co/3KlrVeR
Quote from my adopted son Mike Krukow: "We're the Giants. We're San Francisco. And we're World Series Champions!"
This information would never get out
If the 49ers would just bother using BCC.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
The Niners also made the mistake
of un-friending Taylor Mays on Facebook.
"I could hear the angry MCC cacophany in my head."--Oldjacket, 7/4/10
Prodigy was the first form of intertubes I partook in.
Proud parent of SD-born Shane Loux.
If Cain is with us, who can be against us? - atxgiantsfan
Speculation is that he wanted his uniform tailor made, and the team wouldn’t do it.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Pre-game "breakfast with champoin" event for season ticket holders
Anyone else going?
It’s a an early morning event where they’ll have a fan Q&A. Scheduled to appear (subject to change at any time) are: Buster Posey, Pablo Sandoval, Ryan Vogelsong, Javier Lopez, Cody Ross and Carlos Beltran.
I’ll take pics and share any cool nuggets like I did at that pre-season event they did the night before Fan Fest
The thong is, it happened.
The program with the players will begin PROMPTLY at 9:30AM. We encourage you to take a seat as soon as possible(ushers will guide you to available seating in the stands along the first base side) so that we may begin on time. This program will be taped by Giants Productions for a future broadcast!
(Emphasis mine)
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
does dreadful excitement count?
The Golden Bear is ever watching
2011 Giants Adoptee: Orlando Cabrera (because everyone needs to be loved)
San Francisco Giants Won the 2010 World Series: Not a Typo
Rebecca Black can hardly contain herself.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
Like a fox.
Once more, coming to you by proxy.
by howtheyscored on Aug 4, 2011 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
‘Neato’
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I PREDICT A NO HITTER. I PREDICT IT!
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
/looks shifty
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Aug 4, 2011 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
No-prize?
Irving Forbush and FOOM say hello!
"The two worst things in football are: 1) They think that a 30-year old professional athlete has to be locked up in a hotel room, with a curfew, the night before a qame; and 2) They're right."
- Cowboy safety Cliff Harris
So all this Krugman talk really did
was force Grant to write the preview thread faster.
I'm not fat, I'm a carousel.
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lol i don’t get it?
"Lee pitches...Renteria hits a high drive, deep left-center field, David Murphy going back, he's on the warning track—it is...go-one!"
OT: My Color Blindness caused me to be late
I was half an hour late to work because new pants that I thought were charcoal looked brown to me this morning, which in turn caused me to freak out. I pride myself on being able to coordinate through the color deficiency damn it, which is why I avoid brown pants. I had to ask my pop, who is a coworker as well if the pants were indeed charcoal. This sucks
Suck it Mat Latos rolls off the tongue so nicely
New thread is new:
http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2011/8/4/2344791/giants-phillies-series-preview#storyjump
Giants 2010 in review: One Jerry Garcia bobblehead, one world championship. Questions?
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