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Quote from: Fork on December 06, 2013, 10:38:59 AM
Robinson Cano

Nofe Ork.

Quote from: PenFoe on December 06, 2013, 11:17:57 AM

Quote from: Tony on December 05, 2013, 09:24:29 PM
Has anybody else heard Jim Gray's weekly radio interviews with Tom Brady before the Monday night or Thursday night games? They sound like a deleted scene from Leave it to Beaver. They're just so.... nice. It's sickening.

Tonight they talked about Brady's kid's letters to Santa and Nelson Mandela.

He did this for a while with Larry Fitzgerald also, when Larry was going back to school to get his degree.

They were so awkwardly cheesy I was always half-sure it was a bit.  

I've accidentally heard about three of them. Your assessment is dead-on. They're basically corporate-sponsored commercials. Macy's I think. Larry's were sponsored by U of Phoenix. Absolutely pointless, even if you're the biggest Brady dong-chuggar this side of Bill Simmons. If either party actually said something interesting during the exchanges, the sponsors would probably shit themselves and pull the ads.

It really bugs me how canned and edited they sound. There is a millisecond pause between Gray's questions and the start of Brady's answers, leading me to believe they edited out the actual space and any uh's or breaths that Brady may have emitted before his pat response.

In a way, it's actually a tiny bit insulting to listen to. But my commute is like 8 minutes from the gym to the house and if the other station's on commercial, well...

Quote from: PenFoe on December 06, 2013, 11:18:47 AM

Quote from: Eli on December 06, 2013, 11:17:53 AM
I didn't realize that Felix was the only Mariner under contract after 2014. The contract is insane, of course, but it explains why they had so much to spend. Sounds like they're going to go hard after David Price now.

But WE were supposed to get David Price!

WE'll get nothing and like it.

Quote from: Sterling Archer on December 05, 2013, 04:58:27 PM
Apparently the new Phoenix and Sigur Ros sucked.

This was actually a pretty damn good year for music, though.  What are your lists, Desipiots?  Chvrches at #3 is a pretty good showing for a debut band, but there's an argument to move them even higher.  I think the Naked and Famous deserve more love for In Rolling Waves than they're getting, too.

How in the blue fuck are people putting Kanye at the top of these lists? He was second on Rolling Stone's. I feel like people are listening to it, and feeling like it's really not good but they're afraid to admit how bad it is to each other. One day somebody's going to stand up in a room full of these motherfuckers and say NO!!!! NO!!!! KANYE IS FUCKING TERRIBLE AND I HOPE HE GETS HIS TONGUE CUT OUT OF HIS FUCKING HEAD AND FED TO A GILA MONSTER!!!!!

I'm gonna fucking die.

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 04:01:02 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on December 05, 2013, 03:38:32 PM

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Quote from: Sterling Archer on December 05, 2013, 03:10:22 PM

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Quote from: Tinker to Evers to Chance on December 05, 2013, 02:52:38 PM

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Quote from: Eli on December 05, 2013, 02:20:50 PM

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 01:17:30 PM
Yet in those 118 innings he gave up 105 hits and 45 walks. 

Those numbers are pretty good, Stew.

Are you doing a bit?

I think he's doing a bit and he has a few people going. I'm not buying it anymore but I'd like to see how far he can go with it.

I don't think this is a bit.  I think he's a meatball.

Maybe he just wants his Desipio back. This used to be a place to come and kvetch about the Cubs. But we all have Jepstink's dong lodged in the lining of our cold, dead hearts and do nothing but agree with them - save for random fits of Chuckwrongness. So now Stew sees a move, and maybe it's a completely insignificant move like the Kotteras trade, or a low-impact signing like Wright and he just wants to kvetch dammit! I don't think it's meatball, but just a bit of fun. Not at our expense or anything, just some sort of exercise in butthurt. I do it all the time.

Are exercises in butthurt sort of like kegel exercises?

Damn!  If I can't sulk here, where can I sulk?  I think that it is worth noting that a bunch of billionaires bought our team and we are being very considerate of their desire to spend as little of their money as possible.  There is a difference between spending wisely and foolishly.  We became accustomed to seeing stupid deals made by Hendry, so now we are forgiving of an ownership of a major market team pretending that it is running a non-profit corporation.  

See?

...and furthermore,  I watch what Oakland has been doing for years.  There is more to it than parsimony.  (I think that's the word.)  If Brad Pitt can produce a winner on a shoestring, why can't Epstein/Hoyer?  And if you tell me that it is a few years away, at my age that is like saying that they can't.

Beane took over as GM of Oakland in 1997 and they didn't reach the playoffs until 2000-03.

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 03:36:07 PM

Quote from: Sterling Archer on December 05, 2013, 03:10:22 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on December 05, 2013, 02:59:32 PM

Quote from: Tinker to Evers to Chance on December 05, 2013, 02:52:38 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on December 05, 2013, 02:34:31 PM

Quote from: Eli on December 05, 2013, 02:20:50 PM

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 01:17:30 PM
Yet in those 118 innings he gave up 105 hits and 45 walks. 

Those numbers are pretty good, Stew.

Are you doing a bit?

I think he's doing a bit and he has a few people going. I'm not buying it anymore but I'd like to see how far he can go with it.

I don't think this is a bit.  I think he's a meatball.

Maybe he just wants his Desipio back. This used to be a place to come and kvetch about the Cubs. But we all have Jepstink's dong lodged in the lining of our cold, dead hearts and do nothing but agree with them - save for random fits of Chuckwrongness. So now Stew sees a move, and maybe it's a completely insignificant move like the Kotteras trade, or a low-impact signing like Wright and he just wants to kvetch dammit! I don't think it's meatball, but just a bit of fun. Not at our expense or anything, just some sort of exercise in butthurt. I do it all the time.

Are exercises in butthurt sort of like kegel exercises?

Damn!  If I can't sulk here, where can I sulk?  I think that it is worth noting that a bunch of billionaires bought our team and we are being very considerate of their desire to spend as little of their money as possible.  There is a difference between spending wisely and foolishly.  We became accustomed to seeing stupid deals made by Hendry, so now we are forgiving of an ownership of a major market team pretending that it is running a non-profit corporation.  

See?

Quote from: Sterling Archer on December 05, 2013, 03:10:22 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on December 05, 2013, 02:59:32 PM

Quote from: Tinker to Evers to Chance on December 05, 2013, 02:52:38 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on December 05, 2013, 02:34:31 PM

Quote from: Eli on December 05, 2013, 02:20:50 PM

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 01:17:30 PM
Yet in those 118 innings he gave up 105 hits and 45 walks. 

Those numbers are pretty good, Stew.

Are you doing a bit?

I think he's doing a bit and he has a few people going. I'm not buying it anymore but I'd like to see how far he can go with it.

I don't think this is a bit.  I think he's a meatball.

Maybe he just wants his Desipio back. This used to be a place to come and kvetch about the Cubs. But we all have Jepstink's dong lodged in the lining of our cold, dead hearts and do nothing but agree with them - save for random fits of Chuckwrongness. So now Stew sees a move, and maybe it's a completely insignificant move like the Kotteras trade, or a low-impact signing like Wright and he just wants to kvetch dammit! I don't think it's meatball, but just a bit of fun. Not at our expense or anything, just some sort of exercise in butthurt. I do it all the time.

Are exercises in butthurt sort of like kegel exercises?

I'm sure I don't know.

Quote from: Tinker to Evers to Chance on December 05, 2013, 02:52:38 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on December 05, 2013, 02:34:31 PM

Quote from: Eli on December 05, 2013, 02:20:50 PM

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 01:17:30 PM
Yet in those 118 innings he gave up 105 hits and 45 walks. 

Those numbers are pretty good, Stew.

Are you doing a bit?

I think he's doing a bit and he has a few people going. I'm not buying it anymore but I'd like to see how far he can go with it.

I don't think this is a bit.  I think he's a meatball.

Maybe he just wants his Desipio back. This used to be a place to come and kvetch about the Cubs. But we all have Jepstink's dong lodged in the lining of our cold, dead hearts and do nothing but agree with them - save for random fits of Chuckwrongness. So now Stew sees a move, and maybe it's a completely insignificant move like the Kotteras trade, or a low-impact signing like Wright and he just wants to kvetch dammit! I don't think it's meatball, but just a bit of fun. Not at our expense or anything, just some sort of exercise in butthurt. I do it all the time.

Quote from: Eli on December 05, 2013, 02:20:50 PM

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 01:17:30 PM
Yet in those 118 innings he gave up 105 hits and 45 walks. 

Those numbers are pretty good, Stew.

Are you doing a bit?

I think he's doing a bit and he has a few people going. I'm not buying it anymore but I'd like to see how far he can go with it.

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 01:17:30 PM

Quote from: ChuckD on December 05, 2013, 01:04:17 PM

Quote from: PenFoe on December 05, 2013, 01:01:46 PM

Quote from: CBStew on December 05, 2013, 12:57:44 PM
I am waiting for the obligatory "I like this signing" post.

I don't know why anyone wouldn't like this signing.

Unless they hate good pitching.

Stew, would it help if I said that Wesley Wright has a 123 ERA+ over the past 3 seasons?

Yeah, but he went 2-6 so he's garbage.

Um.  Guys?   in 3 seasons he appeared in 168 games, but only 118 innings.  So mostly he was called in to pitch against a lefty and then taken out.  Yet in those 118 innings he gave up 105 hits and 45 walks.  His managers clearly had a lot of confidence in him.

I know right? Not exactly 2001-03 Randy Johnson, this guy. Epstink is terrible!

Quote from: Fork on December 05, 2013, 09:18:23 AM
Another sitcom that I find enjoyable. Follows a family in the 80s. Jeff Garlin yells a lot.

But it does give some insight into the youth of a certain Desipiot:

I lol'd.

Quote from: Bort on December 04, 2013, 04:59:16 PM

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on December 04, 2013, 03:51:45 PM

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Quote from: Internet Apex on December 04, 2013, 12:59:48 PM

Quote from: Slaky on December 04, 2013, 12:54:43 PM

Quote from: Eli on December 04, 2013, 12:45:26 PM

Quote from: R-V on December 04, 2013, 11:19:29 AM
Phildo's legacy of hard-hitting analysis is in good hands at the Trib.

Quote from: Paul SullivanIn a down year, Konerko ($2.5 mil) had 12 home runs and 54 RBIs in 2013. Ellsbury ($153 mil) had nine home runs and 53 RBIs.

I'm pretty sure he was kidding.

He most definitely was.

I think he was too, now. I also think Ellsbury is 29 and has a sordid injury history and may not be worth the neighorhood the Yanks have put him in contract-wise. But I agree, they can afford it and admit I don't give a rat's ass.

Well I guess I've been roasted. DAMN YOU SULLIVAN!

If you had seen the clothes he was wearing at Kitty O'Shea's a couple years ago, you'd know that he's mostly a troll these days.

Well that and the fact that he lives under a bridge and eats goats.

He very well may eat goats but the first part is wrong.

Quote from: SKO on December 04, 2013, 04:42:31 PM

Quote from: Eli on December 04, 2013, 04:40:34 PM

Quote from: Yeti on December 04, 2013, 03:40:59 PM

Quote from: SKO on December 04, 2013, 02:36:35 PM

Quote from: Internet Apex on December 04, 2013, 09:31:39 AM

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Quote from: R-V on December 04, 2013, 08:45:30 AM

Quote from: Tony on December 03, 2013, 11:30:34 PM
If any part of their reasoning to kick the field goal before 4th down is to get a second chance at it if there's a bad snap, why do they have a roster spot devoted to a long snapper? Mannelly never fucks up a snap, so there is even less reason to kick early.

And as pointed out on Boers & Bernstein yesterday, if there WAS a bad snap and they had to fall on the ball at, say, the 40, they'd be out of field goal range on 3rd down.

Devil's avocado here, Larry. Taking that into account, kicking the try on 2nd down does at least make more sense than doing it on 3rd down, as you'd still have a down to gain some of that back before kicking it on 4th, right?

Still dumb... so dumb.

Let's chalk it up to a learning experience and wait to see if he does it again.

Or let's just not watch the Bears until next year. Either way.

I've tried and I just can't not watch. The trainwreck took it's time to materialize but the engineer is snoozing at long last.

And...

If Cutler returns and puts 400, 4 and 0 up against the Cowboys AND they give the mic to Ditka so he can go, "BAABABBBABBABAAAAABBBAAA....111!!!!!!!" at halftime, I'm back in.

I was honestly hoping Trestman would say "I had a CFL flashback, thought we only had 3 downs, and it won't happen again." I'd have accepted that over just about anything he's said.

Either way I feel bad for screaming in front of a bunch of Minnesotans who were utterly appalled by my profanity that he should took "take his fucking genius ass back to Canada". I'm not well.

We get it, you were at the game and yelled.

Can you say "we get it" on the first reference to something?

I mentioned it in the shoutbox, Eli, therefore it is impermissible on Desipio.

There's a thread around here that gets bumped when stuff like this happens. But the important thing to know is whether or not TDubbs is impressed with Yeti's assholish behavior.

Quote from: Slaky on December 04, 2013, 12:54:43 PM

Quote from: Eli on December 04, 2013, 12:45:26 PM

Quote from: R-V on December 04, 2013, 11:19:29 AM
Phildo's legacy of hard-hitting analysis is in good hands at the Trib.

Quote from: Paul SullivanIn a down year, Konerko ($2.5 mil) had 12 home runs and 54 RBIs in 2013. Ellsbury ($153 mil) had nine home runs and 53 RBIs.

I'm pretty sure he was kidding.

He most definitely was.

I think he was too, now. I also think Ellsbury is 29 and has a sordid injury history and may not be worth the neighorhood the Yanks have put him in contract-wise. But I agree, they can afford it and admit I don't give a rat's ass. 

Quote from: R-V on December 04, 2013, 11:19:29 AM
Phildo's legacy of hard-hitting analysis is in good hands at the Trib.

Quote from: Paul SullivanIn a down year, Konerko ($2.5 mil) had 12 home runs and 54 RBIs in 2013. Ellsbury ($153 mil) had nine home runs and 53 RBIs.

nice choice jim

That's atrocious. If I see him today, I'll tell him.

But I do think the Yanks overpaid for Ellsbury.