AL Cy Young Award: Justin Verlander Captures SB Nation Honor
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 10:00 AM PST
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PrintIt is SB Nation MLB awards week, and today we finally get to the Cy Young award...from the American League, that is. We have to wait until Wednesday to see how Clayton Kershaw fared, but in the meantime Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers won the AL Cy Young rather easily, capturing 22 of 24 first place votes:
| Rank | Name | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Justin Verlander | 22 | 2 | 162 | |||
| 2 | CC Sabathia | 2 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 96 | |
| 3 | Jered Weaver | 5 | 10 | 4 | 58 | ||
| 4 | James Shields | 3 | 8 | 6 | 31 | ||
| 5 | C.J. Wilson | 4 | 4 | 5 | 25 | ||
| 6 | Dan Haren | 3 | 5 | 4 | 23 | ||
| 7 | Josh Beckett | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 7 | David Price | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 7 | Jon Lester | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 10 | Brandon McCarthy | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 11 | Mariano Rivera | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 11 | Doug Fister | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 11 | Felix Hernandez | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 11 | Gio Gonzalez | 1 | 1 |
Points were awarded as follows: seven points for a first place vote, four points per second place vote, three points per third place vote, two points per fourth place vote, and one point for every fifth place vote.
The Baseball Writers Association of America will announce the AL Cy Young winner on Tuesday, November 15.
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Two people should have their blogger pass taken away.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
McCarthy owns as both a player and a person.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
In the AL: 12th in ERA, 1st in FIP, 6th in xFIP, 9th in WAR. A much better pick than Fister or Gio
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
I think he meant the two first place votes for CC rather than Verlander
by Michael White on Nov 8, 2011 10:16 AM PST up reply actions
Better than Verlander in FIP, xFIP and WAR.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
Congrats Verlander, the trophy's in the mail
now, More Nostalgia!
The Angels have the only logo which could be confused for a piece of a US map.
I had a later version of that. So awesome.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
Today’s version would be so stylistically clumsy with two blank rows in one column, and one in so many others.
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I can’t wait for the 2013 magnet standings board to come out
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
from a comment last thread re: Posey
Is he going to be a catcher going forward?
Unless he can play RF
I don’t think the Giants have a choice
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Yeah, if he’s not a catcher then he can’t be a Giant.
Last year at this time the debate was if Torres was legitimate or not.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I suppose they could consider Huff a lost cause
and move Buster to LF or 1b, but I don’t see that happening next year.
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
or they could run Belt to RF and Huff to LF
that could be amusing
Watch me all in flames, on a butterfly I ride
Have there been any reports about his leg healing? 1B is out of the question? I know they have Huff and Belt, but Huff is kinda worthless anyways.
Home and road patches?
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Assumed the left was a uni patch, the right a decal for other things.
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Weird seeing King Felix so low this year. Hope that does not happen to Clayton.
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Almost the same FIP and xFIP as last year, ERA a run and a half higher. You can’t expect consistency from a pitcher.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:16 AM PST up reply actions
At least we know
that all these players are eligible for the award.
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Tomorrow will be, in a word, interfuckingesting
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
Let me guess
Phil was the one person who voted for David Price because he was on his fantasy team. :)
Joke was good, but I feel compelled to note that Phil and I only voted on NL awards :)
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
Congrats on being better than a league that isn’t playing.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
y’all shoulda known I was up to something when I was so happy about the lockout : )
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 10:19 AM PST up reply actions
it is apples to oranges
The NBA and NHL have more games to drag attendance down while operating at similar capacity. This was inevitable if MLS could consistently approach sell outs
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 10:20 AM PST up reply actions
I would actually throw both the apples and oranges at you.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
Let me guess the order
1. NFL
2. MLB
3. MLS
4. NBA
5. NHL
I would think NCAAF would be up near the top unless you are talking pro sports only. Does the list change if you go by percent of stadium full? Does that bump MLS to #1?
I would guess MLS still wouldn’t catch NFL in that case. Teams like the Giants, Packers, Jets, et al have had sellouts every week since the 70s.
by Michael White on Nov 8, 2011 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
you've got the order right
and yes, NCAAF doesn’t count since it’s not a pro sport, but capacity also varies greatly from big school to small school. I dunno about percent cap, and yeah Mike’s right, the NFL would probably still be tops
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
76% of Americans do not miss the NBA.
83% of United State Citizens have never watched professionally paid adults kick a ball with their feet while wandering back and forth for 60 minutes.
93% of United States Citizens over the age of 50 were aware of a league called MLS
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
and it’s 90 minutes, only since sports with eggs for balls go 60
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 10:24 AM PST up reply actions
Don’t the casual basketball fans get interested in the NBA right around Christmas Day?
I ask based on advertising. I always see ads for the big Christmas Day basketball games replayed ad nauseum. So I just assume that nobody cares about the NBA until Christmas — and that’s not counting the people who don’t care about the NBA until the postseason.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 10:55 AM PST up reply actions
Maybe but is any money ever made from the casual fan of anything? Does anyone really care when they get interested?
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
I would guess that casual baseball fans are where the money is at. I would guess that there are way more people who want to go to a game and get blitzed on watery $8 beers on a Tuesday night than right now are saying “OMG will Clayton Kershaw get the CYA?.”
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
and
ESPN starts airing games from the tipoff of the season, it’s just ABC that takes awhile. So casual fan also doesn’t have cable, or maybe just no cable channels in HD, so Christmas is the first time casual fan can see the colors in Kobe’s sweat
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 10:58 AM PST up reply actions
Right, ESPN and TNT start immediately.
by Michael White on Nov 8, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
You have the hardcore fans who will basically come no matter what, so there’s no point in reaching out to them. If you can get the casual fan to care you broaden your fan base.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
As a negotiating tactic David Stern is going to blow up the NBA. He may win the skirmish but the divide he creates within the player union can’t be good. Lot of squirming must be going on right now.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Link?
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
JMO – basically he has given the players until Wednesday to accept their best deal, after Wednesday it goes back to 47%, (4 % below the current offer).
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Then I hope the ABA makes a comeback.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Didn’t they try that, then it became the D-League or some such nonsense. I went to an LA Stars game at the Forum when I was in high school, Ed O’Bannon was on the team, and I was still a UCLA fan then
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 10:40 AM PST up reply actions
I went to a UCLA game where Shon Tarver played against them on the Athletes in Action team.
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D-League is man on top if there’s no A B or C leagues.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
The old ABA gave us multi-colored basketballs and the three-point line. I wonder what a new ABA might spawn. A no foul out rule?
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Shirts and Skins
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Dudes are so tatted up you can’t tell anymore which is which.
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Apparently
The New ABA is still playing – it includes the Los Angeles Slam and the Riverside Rainmakers, and apparently the SoCal Slam who play in Harbor City. Where in Harbor City do you put a semi-pro basketball team
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 10:56 AM PST up reply actions
Holding out hope the players and owners meet and work out a deal by tomorrow.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 10:31 AM PST up reply actions
My hope is that the ultimatum is Stern trying to coummincate to the players that the owners are crazy enough to really blow up the whole season which I still think is just a scare tactic.
by Michael White on Nov 8, 2011 10:35 AM PST up reply actions
Baseball canceled the last half of the ‘94 season. The NFL had games with “replacement” players. It doesn’t seem completely unbelievable the owners dump the season.
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Didn’t pop to mind, which says something about the NHL. Or me. Or both.
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You’re still waiting on TeamTennis to come back, aren’t you?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
Anna Kournikova was made for that!
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For the owners, it’s a lot of money. For the players, it’s essentially all of their money. Without knowing the nest egg the union is able to work from, the owners know that the players may have less dollars to lose, but they have more to lose.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
The Clippers and Lakers have my money, issuing credits as games get cancelled. They are not paying the basketball arena’s, they are not paying the players, they have small over heads since they have no tickets to sell. Owners can easily win this if they are not interested in making money in 2011/2012 but the price could be long term fan apathy as it drags on and more and more fans realize they got other stuff to do.
As you said the only money the players have are the salaries, and historically the NBA player has been the player the most likely to spend everything he makes.
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I feel for the people who normally work events there that have a drastic income reduction (right before the holidays) with the arena dark for Lakers and Clippers games.
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I don’t think the owners are bluffing
the NBA doesn’t age the same way players do
each year the players don’t play is a significant hit to their lifetime networth
by Hollywood Joe on Nov 8, 2011 12:14 PM PST up reply actions
Didn’t the NFL union have big divides in the last couple labor negotiations? The NFL is surviving nicely. Different situations, of course.
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Other than it happened more recently, I don’t see comparing the NFL to the NBA, rather than the NBA to the NHL.
by Michael White on Nov 8, 2011 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
Point is it is hard to draw straight conclusions about the longer term from possible divides in the union.
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Of all the sports I’ve watched that I never had a chance to play I think Rugby would be the one I’d have enjoyed the most.
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Curling. Those fuckers take smoke breaks!
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I think auto racing would scare the holy hell out of me.
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You can get a taste of auto racing by participating in an autocross day. My friend races, so I went with him once. It is funny as hell, people racing around a coned tracked in the parking lot in Fontana or wherever.
My buddy races two types of cars. He has a Lotus Elise and sometimes races that. But his big thing lately is the 24 Hours of LeMons, which requires a car purchased for a maximum of $500 and all the teams have silly themes.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 10:49 AM PST up reply actions
Don’t be fooled – despite the cheap cars (FYI, safety equipment is not counted in the price) and silly themes, the teams generally take the racing pretty seriously. Not all of ‘em, of course – there’s only so serious you can be in, say, a hearse – but seriously enough. One should have some idea about what one is doing on a track before signing up.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
A good friend of mine died on the California Speedway doing the pretend race car driving just over a year ago now. I would strongly encourage everyone NOT to do that.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I’m sorry to hear about your friend. It certainly underscores, and tragically, that this is a serious, serious sport, and not to be taken lightly.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 10:53 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t mean to be a killjoy. But I do bristle when I hear people thinking of racing cars just for the hell of it. Even the “experts” are subject to the laws of physics (Earnhardt, Weldon, etc. etc.), amateurs are even more prone to disaster.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
That is unfortunate and sorry to hear that.
But there are many other things that I do that people have been killed at. Snow skiing, for example. I try to make sure I know my limitations though, which is why I’ll never drive a car at triple-digit MPH.
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You’ve never hit 100 on the freeway? I mean, I’m not proud of it, but there have been a few times that I’ve chugging along and got going faster than I’d intended and looked down to the speedometer and gotten a surprise.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Beep beep
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions
I haven’t done over 85 in quite awhile. In my youth, I used to enjoy speeding. I rode in a Ferrari once when my girlfriend had it up to 120. That’s the fastest I’ve ever gone in a car
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
You let the girlfriend with the Ferrari get away??
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Unfortunately
She was delivering Ferrari’s to clients. She didn’t own one. Back then her car was a Triumph Spitfire.
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Even out on a lonely desert highway with no traffic, things seems awfully quick somewhere around 95 MPH. Never ever pushed it out to 100.
When I was young and stupid enough to maybe have tried it on purpose, the ’66 Rambler was incapable of it.
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Hey buddy, do you know how to get this car out of second gear?
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
by Nolij on Nov 8, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Just posted that!
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:01 AM PST up reply actions
One of two songs I remember from middle school chorus, along with an Ewok song, but not the one from Episode VI. I think we maybe also sang something by Styx.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great."
I don't watch Glee
Have they ever done Styx? I always Styx was very stagy, like actors singing rock-style show tunes. In fact, for the same reason I’m surprised I’ve never seen someone do Styx at karaoke.
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Again, like in musicals
Don’t you think many karaoke singers like to occupy the stage as long as possible?
Lady is the only short one I can think of.
I bet a Styx song based musical would sell tickets.
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its tons of fun
but man does it tire you out. You run seemingly as much as soccer, but with the benefit of constantly going to the ground hard and having to get back up. You haven’t lived until you have scrummed
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On a lighter note, it would be cool if you engineering birds designed a kick ass TBLA derby themed car for the next Red Bull derby day in Los Angeles.
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Lighter note
We need a TBLA Doo-Dah parade entry.
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Eric can be Frank McCourt, and everybody else can be dollar bills.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
The problem is
we need to move in generally the same direction.
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Doo Dah parade
My astronomy buddies entered as a jazz funeral for Pluto’s status as a planet, and their group featured CalTech’s Mike Brown, the astronomer who played the key role in Pluto’s demotion.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
I suppose I could (and will) go to Google, but what is the Doo-Dah parade?
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
Silly people in silly costumes march in silly parade through Pasadena. Imagine the Rose parade but with nobody giving a shit, everybody having fun, no TV, and many fewer people.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:12 AM PST up reply actions
so it’s like the How Berkeley Can You Be parade, or Bay to Breakers in SF
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 11:13 AM PST up reply actions
The Doo Dah parade started in 1978 and has always been solely humerous. Bay to Breakers has a serious past, and is still partly a serious run. When did the comedic element first show up?
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solely humerous
Except when it was femur.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Imagine the Rose parade but with nobody giving a shit
This is how I imagine the Rose parade. (except for the number of years my nieces and/or nephews performed in said parade)
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
There is nothing about thousands of flowers decorating a float that adds up to not giving a shit. Decorating a float with thousands of flowers is giving many, many shits.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
I had to make the sound.
/callback
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:)
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by Tommy Blackjack on Nov 8, 2011 12:00 PM PST up reply actions
Not worth it
It’s gotten gradually smaller to where they only block off a couple blocks now.
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It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Why wait for a parade when you can just video your little act and post it on youtube.
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Man, after doing some digging, I have even less interest in the Doo Dah parade than I did before I knew what it was.
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
I have never actually attended one. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is one of those things that is funnier in concept than it is in execution.
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I’ve been to one, 20 years ago. It was fun then, it might have progressed into something entirely different now.
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
It’s OK. It’s not long. And when I went, I had friends in the parade, as I mentioned, so it was fun to wait and then cheer for them.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
Speaking of lottery tickets
I’m thinking about buying some $10 scratchers. It’s definitely risk/reward if you don’t have money to throw away, but there’s some decent prizes available. Odds are like 1 in 3 or 4 of winning something.
You would be way better off going to a casino and putting that money on black.
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by regfairfield on Nov 8, 2011 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
Wesley Snipes agrees from his undisclosed location.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:04 AM PST up reply actions
or playing a couple hands of blackjack with the old ladies betting their pill money at the Hustler Casino
by Josie Becker on Nov 8, 2011 11:06 AM PST up reply actions
If you have money to throw away
isn’t it better to learn to be a decent poker player.
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if you have money to throw away, and it’s all for entertainment anyway, what does the return matter? It’s throwaway money.
Which is why I’d rather burn that throwaway money in a real casino, complete with noises, smoke, and cocktail waitresses.
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Sure, but I was more speaking to the general disdain for people spending money on the lottery. If you think this $1 is your ticket to wealth and fame, you’re dumb. If you have an extra dollar and want a minute of excitement, have at it.
That said, when is TBLA Santa Anita happening?
An extra $1, sure. $10 scratchers? I’d rather buy a cigar and smoke it.
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The smoke in your lungs adds injury to insult.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
And slot machines
have 97.6 payback percentages. How can you lose?
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
Few hours left to live:
Would you rather have your loved ones gathered around you as you slowly faded off to the netherlands, drugged out to keep the pain at bay, so they could comfort you
OR
fired off of a huge sling shot capable of launching you 1000 feet up in the air fully cognizant of every moment as you came crashing back to earth for the rush of a lifetime
Patience is for those who die waiting for something to happen
Who knew that when you died, you go to Amsterdam.
Or maybe it’s Utrecht.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:09 AM PST up reply actions
B sounds like an unproduced episode of Northern Exposure utilizing The Fling.
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If I only had a few hours left to live, I tell you what I'd do
Two girls at once.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
The kind of chicks that would double up on a dude like Humma would
by Eric Stephen on Nov 8, 2011 11:15 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Yes!!
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
How small would a chick have to be in order to be Humma’s spinner?
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Phil is the one who is studying Quantum Mechanics. He should answer.
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by Humma Kavula on Nov 8, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
When I go
I want to go out like my uncle, in my sleep.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers
/oldjoke
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
/stillfunny
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by Tommy Blackjack on Nov 8, 2011 12:05 PM PST up reply actions
Check out the fanposts
GScott has put together a reasonable-lookin’ team for a $120 million payroll.
The good news: it looks entertaining and not terrible.
The bad news: it’s not good either.
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since the older generation has mentioned him before
though i’d post this tidbit about Yoenis Cespedes
The scout compared him to a young Torii Hunter/Vernon Wells type. But he went old school with his best comp: Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn. Wynn hit 291 homers and stole 225 bases while hitting .250 over a 15-year career (most of which came in the pitching-friendly Astrodome).
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by Tommy Blackjack on Nov 8, 2011 12:04 PM PST reply actions
Wynn also walked a shit-ton and had a .366 career OBP to go with that. Walked 218 times and K’d 181 in two Dodger seasons.
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Cespedes means lawns? Good name for an OF I suppose.
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The starting pitchers who are known or thought to be available in trades include:
Rays right-handers James Shields and Wade Davis.
*Athletics lefty Gio Gonzalez and righty Trevor Cahill.
*Braves righty Jair Jurrjens.
*White Sox lefty John Danks and righty Gavin Floyd.
*Cubs righty Carlos Zambrano.
*Dodgers righty Chad Billingsley.
*Astros lefty Wandy Rodriguez.
so is it Known or Thought?
WHICH?!?!?!?!
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by Tommy Blackjack on Nov 8, 2011 12:17 PM PST reply actions
well played
"Heroes get remembered, but Legends never die."
by Tommy Blackjack on Nov 8, 2011 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
The McRib as an Arbitrage Vehicle
Key line:
Fast food involves both hideously violent economies of scale and sad, sad end users who volunteer to be taken advantage of
http://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage
It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you're doin'
It's what you're doin' when you're doin' what you look like you're doin'!
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