Merry Christmas Uncle Google
by meercatjohn on Dec 9, 2010 12:36 PM PST
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Eric joined us two years ago to manage True Blue LA, and has worked hard at:
1. Keeping you informed about everything you care about related to Dodger baseball
2. Making you laugh with his captions
3. Making you laugh with his comments
4. Making you laugh with his bannings
Most of all, Eric has made a place for you to congregate.
During these two years Eric has never asked for any donations. For those of you unfamiliar with how SBNation works, the manager of the site (Eric) works for a nominal fee, when I say nominal I mean it won't pay his gas bill to Dodger stadium. We have 3,000 members, if each member simply sent 1.00 that would awesoke, if 10% of the membership sent 5.00 that would be double awesoke, if 1% of the membership sent $10.00 that would not be so awesoke but it would at least be a nice little Christmas bonus for the man who works so hard to bring all this information to you.
Many of you have asked for a way to repay Eric for everything he has done. He's too humble to ask, so we will do it for him. If you would like to send money to Eric then click on paypal and use his email to send him your appreciation for all the work he has put into this site that many of you use all day long to make your workday go easier.
His paypal email is
mof328
@yahoo.com
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Eric - you are the best! BTW LOL AEG
Giving LA City a 3 month window to work out the new stadium? They don’t work well if you put pressure on them. Especially with City Council out for weeks around the holidays? Forget about it. Add DT to the long list of stadium sites gone wrong.
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2010/12/08/news/doc4d000f2171799319714567.txt
Thought this was interesting
That the official Twitter account of MLB would tweet this:
Happy 40th Birthday to Tony Tarasco! (Jeffrey Maier is now 26.) Relive @MLB history: http://bit.ly/9clqpL #inseparable
Hey, let’s celebrate a jackass kid that affected the outcome of a playoff game by doing something expressly forbidden on the back of every ticket we ever sell.
That said, it is definitely a memorable moment.
IOKIYOY
It’s OK if you’re a Yankee
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 9, 2010 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
D’oh! Acronym fail.
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 9, 2010 12:45 PM PST up reply actions
That ended playoff baseball in Baltimore
or seemed to.
You can be (incompetent and a nice guy), you can be (competent and an asshole), but if you are an (asshole and incompetent), your only future is to be Keith's boss otherwise you are unemployable
I think Sandy Alomar did the next year actually.
by StolenMonkey86 on Dec 9, 2010 1:37 PM PST up reply actions
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You can be (incompetent and a nice guy), you can be (competent and an asshole), but if you are an (asshole and incompetent), your only future is to be Keith's boss otherwise you are unemployable
by meercatjohn on Dec 9, 2010 12:46 PM PST reply actions 7 recs
The second character is a letter, not a number
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
The first iteration was even worse
I had copied his email address into the subject while I wrote it down in the comment column. Except I forgot to delete it from the subject before posting the comment thus doing what Rawhide did.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Wait a minute, I’m confused. The second character here is a zero. Is it
em-oh-eff
or is it
em-zero-eff
??
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Is there something you are looking to purchase? I would be more excited to give if i knew you were going to do something cool with it.
He's going to get a new laptop
so he doesn’t have to keep using this and being the laughing stock of the press box
You can be (incompetent and a nice guy), you can be (competent and an asshole), but if you are an (asshole and incompetent), your only future is to be Keith's boss otherwise you are unemployable
Indeed it did
I worked on one, notice the two floppy drives, no hard disk. Fun times
You can be (incompetent and a nice guy), you can be (competent and an asshole), but if you are an (asshole and incompetent), your only future is to be Keith's boss otherwise you are unemployable
Oh forget it
I forgot you all wouldn’t even recognize a floppy drive
You can be (incompetent and a nice guy), you can be (competent and an asshole), but if you are an (asshole and incompetent), your only future is to be Keith's boss otherwise you are unemployable
meercatjohn:
I learned Word and Excel on a Lisa. My boss bought 2 of them, and I think Apple only sold about a thousand. Little tiny 9" screen.
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
Funny
my boss at the time also bought a Lisa. She thought they were going to change computing. Oops
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I’m just glad I never had to learn how to feed hole-filled paper into a reader to do calculations.
Disregard females, acquire currency.
Other then college work
neither did I. The biggest fear was dropping your keypunch cards.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Me either
I did have a part-time job while in college where I did occasionally operate a teletype machine though.
My first professional programming gig was using a (monochromatic) screen, 24 lines by 80 characters.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Oh sure
my first five years was working with those. Prime Computers, using the Prime Information (pick) operating system.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Teletype machine of that, uh, type
the telephone connection is not pictured here.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I dropped a stack of cards once upon entering the computer room in college…………………after i picked them up, cancelled my computer time, and re-sorted the cards, i went back to the keypunch room tore-do the bent cards.
Early computers were a great experience.
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
Ha
at Cal State LA the computer help guy was blind, but incredibly good, not sure how good he’d have been at sorting a stack of dropped keypunch cards.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
My first computer exposure was
Having an Apple IIc in the house growing up. We had some sweet 80’s games on floppy disk.
I could have sworn it was a Commodore 64!
(they’re very fast, you know)
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
Apparently catholic priests
enjoys more protections on this board then I do. Damn you!
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
when a Catholic priest starts posting here, he’ll be fair game too.
Priest / child molester jokes are a bit passé.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
but
nolander / child molester jokes have been fair game is my point.
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They are becoming
passé as well. And there are no bitter edge of truth to those.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
OT but Milledge?
I didn’t use to be a fan but he supposedly improved both his work ethic and his numbers last year. The MSTI guy has been trying to convince me he’d be a good platoon guy to look at for LF. Check out his splits last year vs LHP:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/split.cgi?id=millela02&year=&t=b
Just an idea.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
What are we the Pirates:)
How many players can we sign that the Pirates didn’t want?
Belisario
Giminez
Milledge
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Well Giminez can get the boot
and Belisario ended up being a bargain at least for a time, and maybe still is. Milledge, yeah, I wasn’t thrilled with the idea, but he might not be a bad idea.
Hey we’ve given them some guys we didn’t want. (And one guy I wish we did want, but never mind.)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Between Hall and Milledge
I’d rather have Milledge.
He’s another of the 2005 Winter AFL class that looked huge and has totally sucked Gordon / Wood / Milledge / LaRoche / Loney. Then the two guys no one was impressed with Andre and Kemp have kicked all their butts.
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Yeah Milledge instead of being a total bust
given all the hype he got (which he’ll never live up to, but never mind that) seems like he may have gotten his act together enough to be a useful contributor at least.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Seems that way
But still looking at guys who could indeed help at least somewhat more than the current set up alone. But.. yeah.
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
Dream scenario:
Greinke
Kershaw
Billingsley
Lilly
Kuroda
Garland
Padilla
Solution: Skip Garland’s spot when necessary. Use Padilla exclusively in a set-up role, with Garland available in long relief on weeks his spot is skipped. This could work.
To Silverwidow: On Bonds
I imagine whatever Pujols gets would be a good indicator
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Giants make offer to Renteria
http://topicfire.com/share/Giants-offer-contract-to-Renteria-16283303.html
Maybe now his big post season heroics can finally pay off!
For Giants rivals.
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I’m guessing no more then 15 people.
Funny how the mind works. Pavillions did something that I thought was brilliant. They have placed brown bags full of foods near the pay out counters. To help the local missions you simply pick up a bag and buy it, they then take it and put it into the food bin. The food is chosen so that the food they need is in the bags. They have taken all of the thinking out, you simply pay for the bag and you know that you are only buying food for the shelters. It was much easier for me mentally to buy these bags. JMO
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Barnes and Noble is doing a similar thing, with books up at the counter you can purchase and donate to a local Boys and Girls club. They’re short little three dollar books, and actually physically seeing what I was donating made the decision a no brainer.
However, I don’t think everyone works on this level, cause the lady at the counter damn near had a heart attack when I said yes.
I dislike the cash solicitation at the register (if I want to send money to Jerry’s Kids, I’d just call him up), but the buy the stores goods and donate immediately idea resonates with me.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
on the serious with the cash donation. My mind doesn’t wrap itself around adding a dollar to my bill and not seeing any results. How do I know what percentage of the donation actually gets to a sick kid? But I’m pretty sure B&N can’t skim off the top of a paperback book
Doesn’t stop me from feeling like an asshole though.
“Would you like to donate a dollar to the hungry?”
“No, I’d rather have 60% of a pack of gum thank you”
I am OK with the cash-donation-at-the-register in one very specific circumstance: you are at a non-profit and that same non-profit is asking for a donation to help sustain it.
This is what the Natural History Museum does. Admission is $9 for adults and they ask if you would like to make a donation to the museum when you buy admission. Sure, round it up to $20 for me and the Bride, that’s fine, keep the change.
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ha ha
True when you say no and then look at the pointless shit you buy, guilt kind of has a way of finding you.
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The only jars I stuff money into are tip jars, like for the baristas. And the Vegas cocktail waitresses.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I like to stuff tips into jugs — wait, what are we talking about?
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by Humma Kavula on Dec 9, 2010 2:07 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I pick and choose the charities I wish to support after researching them. If I got a couple extra bucks lying around, I’ll send it to them. Also, with no reasoning to support it, I feel like if I direct larger amounts to selected charities, it’s more effective than shotgunning a few bucks everywhere.
I also dislike the slush-fund work org that we have to collect money and distribute them to charities. I like to pick my charities myself, thank you very much.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I think you may have underestimated the people on this site.
It’s Christmas, and everybody gets a little sentimental around this time. And being as only a couple people that have commented since I’ve been here are complete assholes, I would expect Eric to be able to buy that new Escalade he’s been dreaming about. (Too far, huh?) Well, maybe he’ll be able to buy lunch at a decent restaurant. Thanks, Eric
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
and he's not going to get
enough to afford the gas to drive into town
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You must have a high threshold for asshole level!
Seriously, we are damn fortunate Eric took this gig.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
NoLander seems to have reached his limit
I’d say we leave him alone on that subject, it is only funny for so long, then it must get annoying.
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Good point
Especially since I probably made more of those jokes than anybody. I’ll stick to Batman and Angels cracks now, Nolander. ;)
by Eric Stephen on Dec 9, 2010 1:41 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
ephebophilia jokes I didn't mind
the others…. yeah.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Leave my wife out of this!
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Maddz and Josie didn’t want to do that.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
oh, I was confused
yes, she is attractive. And Nolander and his wife make an attractive couple.
Winter is coming.
at the very least
a humorous one due to the juxtaposition
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the big white man
and the small asian woman. Her parents where definitely wary of the white devil.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
My grandparents were wary too, but grew to actually like my father very much. To demonstrate how well your union can work out, just show your in-laws me as an examp—- oh, wait.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
lol
I won them over by killing them with kindness. Well, her mom at least. Her dad seems to only exist as a presence in the room, only time I’ve ever seen him talk once was when they come over to my parents for Christmas.
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Filipino
They grew up there and moved her in their 20s I think? Or at least her dad did, and I think her mom followed later. They are very, very, very catholic.
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I could feel the vibes of experimental ideas in the room.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I should totally teach Spawn that song. If I can get her to shout “Tequila!” at just the right moment, that would be a winner, I think.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
should do the trick.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Hmm, I am unfamiliar with that drink, because it doesn’t sound like “Jameson, neat.”
Winter is coming.
I think he means ordering it without getting looks. Being very secure in one’s masculinity. Etc.
Winter is coming.
I ain’t no mod, but it was me who drew the line, and I just think one’s religion and one’s politics are the two things that should never be made light of.
Even if
they worship C’thulu?
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
to paraphrase a movie: “you believe you know for a fact that this person is worshiping the essence all darkness and horror, and you want to make fun of this person? good luck.”
I will admit that one never forgets one’s first love.
However, sometimes one’s first love tramples all over one and leaves one a desperate, heaving mass, wondering who changed.
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My Dad and I ......
Used to go to 4 or 5 Rams games every year in the sixties and seventies. We’d park down on 66th place in someone’s front yard and walk to the stadium. My dad actually went to the first NFL-AFL Championship game.(Superbowl later on) There were only about 45,000 people there. It wasn’t that important then.
I went to the Pro Bowl, when it was always at the Coliseum, six or seven times in that period.
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
You, David, and I
can have some great Ram memories.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I only attended one Rams game ever
They still wore blue and white uniforms then. My fuzzy memory says rookie Bob Thomas ran for 144 yards and they won fairly easily, but I could be off. But I followed them closely and watched all the games on TV. I only go as far back as the late days of the Fearsome Foursome, the George Allen era, Roman Gabriel, Dick Bass, Dick Enberg, Jack Snow, Sr. etc.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Like normal food?
I had reindeer while I was there, that was interesting. Like venison in that it was gamey.
Winter is coming.
That’s what I was looking for. I was watching Man V. Food and he was eating shit like Carabou burgers, etc.
Bear Grylls is awesome
That clip of him sinking his teeth into that fish and its guts starting to fly everywhere makes my girlfriend cringe every time.
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
I saw that episode
I would say that’s pretty normative in terms of what to expect. Wild game is a specialty. And fish! Mmm, salmon.
Winter is coming.
Whats Orange County food taste like?
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Sounds like high desert. Wish I could Rec from my phone.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 9, 2010 1:53 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
There aren't any Applebee's in OC
maybe 1. Chili’s and Red Robins ran em out of town.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Red Robin owns the shit out of Applebees
by Michael White on Dec 9, 2010 1:53 PM PST up reply actions
Chain restaurants I hate
Johnny Rockets
Applebees
Denny’s
IHOP
Tony Romas
There’s more, but this is just what I can think of now.
6 year old me
has fond memories
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Johnny Rockets is the bee’s knees. When they all start singin’ and dancin, and they do the flower or happyface with the catchup, and you can actually eat on the cheap unlike most of the retro diners
Slower and more expensive
then Ruby’s if I recall correctly
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We live in opposite worlds
the only place theirs a Johnny Rockets near me, their is also a Rubys in the same center.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
happyface with the catchup
It takes a while before my wife can build up the courage to break up the happy face.
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Never in her life
has she been able to smash her piggy bank. I’m sure they all have names.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
You would love my wife, but she does not drink, otherwise she’d realize she’s married to an idiot.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Bride drinks, but rarely these days — pregnancy and now breastfeeding. She bemoans her lack of tolerance.
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hahaha
my dad doesn’t drink anymore. My mom is like, “well, more for me!”
I love the Irish side of my family. Both my mom and my aunt drank me under the table at my grandmother’s wake. I got alcohol poisoning. They were fine.
Winter is coming.
My wife drinks because she is married to an idiot.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Dec 9, 2010 2:12 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Whoa whoa whoa
is it a special occasion or something?
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
you’re right, you’re right. Of course, not too special an occasion. Weddin’s gotta be done at the Olive Garden
You joke but...
I’ve done that. Not my wedding, but a friends. It was in Lake Forest, but they where from Bakersfield originally, and wanted to get married before he shipped off to Iraq, so they got married at the County Courthouse and then we went down the street to Olive Garden.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Nephew’s rehearsal dinner was at Spaghetti Factory, and it was awesome.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 9, 2010 1:59 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
There was a couple I worked with that was going to get married at our local dive bar (and believe me, calling this place a dive was doing it a favor, it was probably a couple steps below that, and it was a Raiders bar for those who got kicked out of OTHER Raiders bars), and I was so troubled and sad by it that I told my then-boyfriend, in a big breach of protocol, that I would kick his ass if he ever suggested that.
I’m a hopeless romantic. So when they decided to move it to the park, I got flowers and made the bride-to-be a bouquet. I was determined to not let the whole thing be too depressing.
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The Nectar
it’s on Balboa and Parthenia. My apartment was right behind it and work was across the street.
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If I remember correctly.....
That used to be ‘Lucky Pierre’s’. It was a strip club.
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
Can I ask, what, exactly, is a “lucky Pierre?” Is it a MMF threeway? A MMM threeway? Something else?
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Right, but guy in the middle of any specific kind of threeway? MFF, MMF, MMM? Or doesn’t it matter?
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I guess as long as he’s giving or taking it doesn’t matter. I usually assume MMM when I hear it though. I haven’t put a lot of thought in this.
I’ve just heard the phrase several times recently and while I had a pretty good sense of it I wondered what, exactly, I should be taking from it.
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No joke
Last Saturday night I was propositioned by a random girl and her boyfriend for a MMF threesome.
I stayed calm and denied the proposal, but it kinda freaked me out. I have zero interest in the MMF variety of threesomes.
If the girl is otherwise out of your league…..
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Still no dice
Fairly certain they both wanted to touch me.
Pedro Guerrero says it’s not gay if he touches you.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Eric
must be proud knowing that the Uncle Google Pay Post now has devolved into threesome discussions.
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by Phil Gurnee on Dec 9, 2010 2:24 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Did the Bride
approve of the threesome payment plan?
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Bride would roll her eyes at the idea until I tell her that Eric lives in Victorville.
Then a small tear would run down her cheek, and she would say, “May God have mercy on his soul.”
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I know how she feels
I had to spend two and a half years there. I can’t even imagine what it’s like know that the Air Force Base is gone.
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
I think I know of that phrase
from SVU.
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I am simultaneously impressed and troubled by this discussion. So much so that I am going back to reading about the socialization of religion.
Winter is coming.
Why? We are keeping it clean and free of disparaging remarks. I support all of these combinations in a whatever-floats-yer-boat kind of way. I just like to know what words mean.
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hehehe
I think I’ve heard about the Kandy Kat (Candy Cat? Classy Cat?) a few times.
Winter is coming.
They were up to the Kandy Kat 3 when I was in high school.
by Michael White on Dec 9, 2010 2:23 PM PST up reply actions
I believe there are still at least two.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Cheesecake Factory
Is the number one restaurant in the NBA.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 9, 2010 1:58 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
OC
has great Vietnamese food. I’ve also found quite a few decent Korean spots. I would say this is its culinary strength.
It's been a while
I went to UCI many years ago and would head to Little Saigon every chance I got. I’m sure there are better places, but we found some great ones.
I'm going to assume
this is in Westminster?
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yes
though we also went to costa mesa/anaheim area a lot too. Korean galbi might be my favorite dish in the world.
I think I went there in September with my cousin and his wife.
by Eric Stephen on Dec 9, 2010 2:28 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Heh
to be fair to OC, there is north of the 55 OC, and south of the 55 OC, and the OC most people think of including me is south of the 55. Its not exact, but ya know.
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There are a bunch of supposedly good thai places
near where I live that I’m trying to get too. There are places, you just have to look hard for them sometimes.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Is sending money to Eric
the definition of sunk cost?
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man
No.
A sunk cost would be if Eric decided to quit anyway and you give him money in a last attempt to get him to stay.
by Michael White on Dec 9, 2010 2:27 PM PST up reply actions
You weren’t supposed to say anything!
by Eric Stephen on Dec 9, 2010 2:30 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
True story
I was driving to a meeting like an hour ago, and a guy in front of me on the street ran over a big tumbleweed.
Tumbleweeds blow down my street regularly this time of year. My exchange student from Spain was super excited the first time she saw one, “just like in the movies!”. Sagebrush is native to the SFV, I believe. The open field just west of the Northridge Mall, and just east of Lowe’s, is full of sages just waiting to be tumbleweeds.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Never, ever stop in Baker, not even to use the bathroom. The rest stop over the next hill (Vegas-bound) is new and clean. Or plan to stop in Primm, the casino bathrooms are large and cleaned frequently. Plus I like the casino sights/sounds/smells as “foreplay” for Vegas.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
it’s big enough that you can take a picture as you drive by instead of stopping.
Disregard females, acquire currency.
That place is really cool. My sister fell into Rainbow Falls. Well, just below it. That’s what she gets for trying to jump on rocks.
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Rainbow falls is great. Lots of decent hiking in that valley behind Mammoth Mountain. A portion of the John Muir trail runs right be there. A side trip to Mono lake is nice too. But I’ve yet to find any alien life forms there – just Giants fans.
Some J. Mart news
The Red Sox are considered the frontrunner for Martin, reports ESPN.com’s Buster Olney (on Twitter).
I have to admit, it’s better than if he became a Yankee. That would fill my soul with despair. Whatever lingering good feelings I have for the Red Sox pushes this into a grudging acceptance.
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It's not gonna happen, but..
if his offense returns playing in that ballpark, they could rival the 97 indians lineup.
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at least he won't be worried
about the hitting coach telling him to go to RF with the wall looming in LF.
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how is fenway for a dead pull hitter?
seems this was all russ was interested in his last two years.. hence the incessant tapping out to 3b/ss
by hee came hee seop'd he choi'd on Dec 9, 2010 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
Gammons
says that it has not been a HR hitters’ park the last few years and it profiles much better as a LH hitters’ park. If he knows anything, he knows Fenway.
Overqualified in an underqualified world since 2008.
According to Brian Walton of Scout.com, the Cardinals are re-working Colby Rasmus’ swing this offseason in order to make him more of an “opposite-field slash-and-run hitter.”
Fucking genius.
::roles eyes::
You don't think
they should tinker with a guy who hit 860 swing? Nonsense, nothing can go wrong.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Another graduate of the Ned Colletti School of Destroying a Player’s Trade Value Just Before Getting Rid of Him.
Now with 33% more Kavula
Mine did
but new comments are now normal
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
right
I’m outta here, things are about to blow
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
But
only from a certain point down. Where the Rams’ Super Bowl is mentioned.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I’m a gonna go out on a limb and say iiidown didn’t close a tag, which isn’t your fault sir, just yeah, that’s what would happen
usually this software is pretty good at protecting against that.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Not that good
I’ve seen it happen a half dozen times
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
but just like the FBI and CIA
have you seen how many times you have been protected and never knew it?
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Not knowing the specifics of their code and whatnot...
it really should never happen, it really shouldn’t be that difficult to check the syntax before letting it go out into the wild.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
I deleted the comment that caused it. Refreshing now will “fix” it.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Great
now you will win the moderator of the month award. Fuck
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Doesn’t Eric usually award that to himself?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Giving it to the boss is one way to get ahead.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
It means someone left the bold tag open
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
doesn't work for everyone
they’ll have to delete the offending comment
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
On one of the Beatles tribute shows yesterday, an American woman said Paul would show up and say “it’s F day” and they would neck (her words, not mine). Classic.
You would get the threesome your way too.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Ha
Threesome? More like whatever you would call an 8some!
An octopussy?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
by David Young on Dec 9, 2010 2:53 PM PST up reply actions 5 recs
Oh yeah, and their manager (Brian Epstein) wrote Paul love letters “begging” for something (not explicitly mentioned, but obvious).
Sorry rawhide
I deleted your comment because we intentionally tried to present the e-mail address in a form that might hinder spam bots. I added a reply to the comment with the Paypal e-mail address in it to clarify that it is a letter, not a number in that e-mail address. [Sometimes Phil is an idiot :-) .]
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Crap. Sorry. I'm guessing
You can’t put an email address on a blog. Sorry about that. I’m still using my Commadore 64.
There are ’bots constantly scanning the internet for mailto tags and well-formed e-mail address on web pages under the assumption that they are more likely to be live.
That said, my e-mail address is in a mailto tag on the bottom of every TBLA page and I don’t get much spam.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Good job David and deleting the well intentioned Rawhide post. I kept hitting action action action and nothing was happening until I realized that you probably beat me to it.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
It works
action action action and nothing was happening until I realized that you probably beat me to it.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Anybody remember Jon's email address
and how when you paid him via paypal
it said you payed ShiftyJ
and you wondered if your other wife ever looked at your payments what she’d think about the payment to ShiftyJ?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Just call me Danny Zapala
with my 18 kids
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Classic
One of the benefits of being single I guess, not having to have that conversation. :)
(I realize the other side of the ledger is far more plentiful)
Unfortunately, I will access to this story
Buster Olney in his Insider (Premium) column -
I planned on writing on the Dodgers’ ownership situation before Crawford signing crashed onto the sport last night. More on that later this week. Steve Garvey wants to lead a group to buy the Dodgers, but Frank McCourt says he’s not selling
I think
Cey, Lopes, Russell, and Garvey should buy the Dodgers.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
It'll just make people more angry
when they don’t operate at a huge loss.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Just heard this
Barry Bonds is not an option for LF.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Name some cool places
0 to 120 miles away from Los Angeles , Nature related that most people don’t know about
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Just one per person, name your favorite place
to go when you want to get away,
You can snide like Nolander or you can say Summerland, and the park right across the train tracks, right above the beach.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I gave one snide answer
and one proper one
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
Star Trek fans
Vazquez rocks is a well-known location for movie and television shows, famously was the site of the first Star Trek series episode when Kirk fought a lizard-man type alien.
Lots of fun mountain biking trails
in south OC.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
One of my favorites
is actually a golf course, two of them.
Los Verdes in Palos Verdes, one of the best shoreline and affordable golf courses in California, crowded and slow but some great views.
Rancho Park in West LA – once you make the middle part of the course, you would not believe you are in the middle of the densely populated West LA area.
there is a cool mini lake
that you can hike out to and jump off big rocks and things, its right around where mulholland hits las virgines coming out of malibu canyon
too cold to swim in the winter though
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
You mean
after you hike to it from Malibu State Park?
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ya i believe so, but its only like a mile from the road, so you can park and hike to it
or continue higher up to lookout point or the top of a cool reservoir, I’ve only checked it out once, was awesome on a hot summer day though, lots of people were out there swimming, and it was neat to swim in fresh water for once
William Doolittle at your service, a.k.a. will do.
Depends on the nature activity for me
For surfing, Dolphin Tanks off the tip of Point Loma or The Ranch in SB are amazing. Both require a boat to get to which means little to no crowd, beautiful scenery and excellent waves.
I used to ride dirt bikes a lot and loved this place in the desert off the 8 freeway called Superstition. Really cool desert and rock formations and one large random formation of sand dunes. Also Ocotillo Wells, but that is much more popular. Still you can ride from camp to the Salton Sea going about 80 down dry river beds. Its amazing.
Hiking – two small remote hikes that I love. One is Piuma Road which is one of the random windy roads that connects the valley (Calabasas) to Malibu. There is one particular spot where you can park and cruise around. Supposedly the scene of Donnie’s burial in The Big Lebowski was filmed there, but I can’t verify that.
Other one is in this canyon in the San Elijo lagoon in Solana Beach (San Diego). You can cruise through the canyon and get to these crazy sand rock formations and caves known as The Mushroom Caves. Also, you can pick fresh wild peaches if you go at the right time of year.
Refugio State Beach
above Santa Barbara. Little cove, nice beach, grassy play area, lots of trees.
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
Refugio
a group of us (about eighty) used to take over the place during Easter vacation. Surfing, volleyball and beer drinking around the campfire for a week. It took another week to recover.
I'm sayin' "What's in it for me?"
I've camped at El Capitan Beach
but never up at Refugio. I’ve seen it though – looks plenty nice.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I used to camp there with my dad until we got
sick of the trains at night coming by right behind where we were camping. Pretty spot though. I do like Refugio too. (My mom used to correct me and say it was pronounced “Refufio”, don’t know if she was right or not)
There's no need to fear, Underdog is here! / Broncos/Dodgers/Lakers fan in Niners/Raiders/Giants/Warriors country, and damned proud of it.
It is pronounced that way in Spanish
It means shelter.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
because the Yankee's are interested?
You think putting Posada as a full time DH and giving Martin the starting Catcher gig is going to make them better?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Also
the Yankees and Red Sox both have veteran catchers and young catchers who probably are ready or will be ready sometime next season, so they could take a shot for Martin to give them one year.
If he doesn't
then f’k em.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
I just wanted to say to the auto-loading MMA advertisement with sound
that is prevalent on many sites, including Baseball-Reference….
Fuck you.
That is all.
why do I see that turning into an Eric v. Silverwidow cage match.
Disregard females, acquire currency.
I hate all
auto-playing sound ads. As Dennis Hopper says about Heineken, “Fuck that shit.” It is really fucking irritating to go to a page and have sound blasting at you.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
This picture that Josie posted earlier
Has some more details about the timing of Dodger roster decisions. This was taken on November 30, because that’s the day Uribe was at Dodger Stadium, finalizing the contract. It was two days before the non-tender deadline.
40-man roster players are in blue, coaches in red, and non-roster invites in orange. If you’ll notice, Martin and Oeltjen were listed as roster players here, meaning they hadn’t made the decision yet (or at least didn’t tell Mitch Poole, or whomever wrote this). But one player missing already was #52, George Sherrill, who everyone knew was gone.
I am trying to confirm that the Dodgers have invites to J.D. Closser and Jon Huber, but haven’t heard definitively yet, as many were en route back to LA today.
you were right
99 is available.
What a royal fuckton of coaches.
Disregard females, acquire currency.
Also, looks like — at least at the moment — Kenley isn’t trading in his football number.
Now with 33% more Kavula
is that a season record? wonder who has the career record.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Trying to research this.
Apparently Billy Wagner is the ACTIVE career leader and the all-time leader among lefty relievers. He passed Jesse Orosco, according to this article (search for Wagner).
Now with 33% more Kavula
Can't imagine anyone more
I’m surprised Mike Marshal did not hold the single season record given he threw over 200 innings as a relief pitcher.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Lee Smith is close with 1225 as a reliever.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
According to this
Dick Radatz is number one not Brad Lidge for single season.
Player SO Year Age Tm SV IP ERA+ OPS+
Dick Radatz 181 1964 27 BOS 29 157.0 168 62
Mark Eichhorn 166 1986 25 TOR 10 157.0 249 47
Dick Radatz 162 1963 26 BOS 25 132.1 192 62
Brad Lidge 157 2004 27 HOU 29 94.2 230 43
Dick Selma 153 1970 26 PHI 22 134.1 147 75
Rich Gossage 151 1977 25 PIT 26 133.0 244 38
Dick Radatz 144 1962 25 BOS 24 124.2 185 68
Mike Marshall 143 1974 31 LAD 21 208.1 141 79
Rob Dibble 141 1989 25 CIN 2 99.0 173 49
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 12/9/2010.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I thought I'd see
Gossage more then once, and maybe even Fingers or Sparky Lyle, but not Mark Sidewinder Eichhorn.
Dick Selma brings back memories.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
The Lidge reference above is “NL record”. Radatz did it for the Red Sox. Glancing at his stats, looks like they blew out his arm, but what a year in ’64.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
How about Dibble
141k’s in only 99 innings. Nasty boy indeed.
Lidge even better. Nasty stuff when he was in Houston. Isn’t that right Mr. Pujols?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Carlos Marmol had a 16 K/9 last year. It beats out anything Gagne or Lidge ever did. Is it a record?
@andrewngrant
I tried running the report also
and my links don’t work either. Must be a b-r problem.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
K/9 >= 14 with 50 IP min
Rk Player SO/9 IP Year Age Tm Lg 1 Carlos Marmol 15.99 77.2 2010 27 CHC NL 2 Eric Gagne 14.98 82.1 2003 27 LAD NL 3 Billy Wagner 14.95 74.2 1999 27 HOU NL 4 Brad Lidge 14.93 94.2 2004 27 HOU NL 5 Arm. Benitez 14.77 78.0 1999 26 NYM NL 6 Billy Wagner 14.55 60.0 1998 26 HOU NL 7 Billy Wagner 14.38 66.1 1997 25 HOU NL 8 Byung-Hyun Kim 14.14 70.2 2000 21 ARI NL 9 Rob Dibble 14.08 70.1 1992 28 CIN NL
Interesting that they are all in the NL. Can’t just be because the pitcher bats, because these guys are all closers, not likely to have ever faced a pitcher.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
By the way, can it really be true that Jesse Orosco was the career leader in Ks by a lefty reliever until Wagner passed him?
I mean, I know he pitched until he was 294 years old, but still…
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My finest work in that regard was last December, when I was bored one morning and deciphered that Jason Grilli signed a minor league deal with Cleveland.
in honor of his sister?
Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man
by mleadman on Dec 9, 2010 4:12 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Oh right. I was thinking the trade happened after signing Uribe…..
Tim Wallach has the number Rod Barajas wore for LA last year.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Every number Barajas has ever worn in the majors (according to b-r) is assigned or retired.
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Interestingly, some coach — can’t read who — has my number… #86.
That is my number for two reasons.
1 – it is Maxwell Smart’s number.
2 – Everything I write should be 86’d.
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I’d make this a post, to cool to be lost here.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Today is the first day I visited
Eric’s updated for 2011 payroll worksheet. Nice work E, looks great!
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
Color coded and everything
Looks professional!
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
2012
looks depressing, 2013 looks promising with the almost blank slate.
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For fun since Eric will bury this in a second
1st – Sands
2nd – Uribe
SS – Gordon
3rd – Lemmerman
C – AJ Ellis/Wallach
CF – Trayvon
LF – Russell
RF – Kemp
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Sand and Russel
combine for more then 32 homers alone
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
1st Sands > Loney
2nd Old Uribe = almost old Uribe
SS – Gordon – bloody all-star buddy or didn’t you get the news
3rd – Late Night totally out hits Blake and becomes the Dodgers answer to Longoria
C – AJ Ellis puts up a .400 OBP, no one knows why but pitchers refuse to throw him strikes
CF – Trayvon just keeps getting better
RF – Kemp – that is MVP Kemp in 2013
LF – Russell – does indeed strike out 200 times but also hits 38 bombs
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Zooey's Twitter profile pic
Looks like a Prius dashboard to me, but I’m not sure about the fancy rear-view mirror. Maybe it’s a Lexus?
@davidyoungtbla - The commenter formerly known as El Lay Dave.
I hope the Titans
win. Ok, now I need a shower.
LAST SEASON, I led this team in ninth-inning doubles in the month of August!
"he shoots from the hip"
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