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Both days should be holidays!
We could use more public holidays. I feel like this could be a real winner. MAKE IT HAPPIN CRAL POLAD!!1!
And the third, too. Pretty steamed it’s not.
The whole country was founded, man. We should get a whole week, or at least like five days. “The Five Days of Independence.”
July 1: Canada Day. Why the hell can’t we celebrate with our neighbors on their high holidays? (Kindof like attending local celebrations of Chinese New Year. Also, we should observe Canadian Thanksgiving.)
July 2: Independence Vigil.
July 3: Independence Eve.
July 4: Independence Day.
July 5: Summer Boxing Day.
Seconded.
Lets have a vote of the First WGOM Holiday Reform Convention.
And then make sure we make the date of the WGOM vote a holiday, too!
dude, we can’t even remember the .org’s birthday.
Or the year, for that matter.
The original site was born on July 17, 2004. That much, I know.
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NationalWORLD holiday, to be sure!so…
Declaration of Independance: July 4, 1776
U.S. Constitution: Sept 17, 1787
wgom.com: July 17, 2004
wgom.org: April 15, 2011
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wgom.gov: ???
Nitpick: we paid taxes first and then started up the .org on the 16th.
MOAR HOLYDAYS SEAN! GET IT DNOE.
Banks would love nothing more than another day that you can’t take your money out of their accounts.
Secondy-seconded.
From the respository:
A whole month of celebration!
August 2: Independence Reprise
The highs today through Friday are all expected to be 100º. This really sucks.
Turns out Saturday was a great day to recharge the AC in the van.
Its been 100 here in DC for what seems like forever. I feel your pain. Stay hydrated!
We DID manage to sneak a little rain through from pop-up thundershowers yesterday, so the evening was quite nice. That’ll probably be it for another few days, though.
+crotch pot cooking.
High of 62 today, warming up to a high of 75 this weekend. It seems like May or even April.
Joe Mauer: .327/.417/.446, $11.7 million worth of value, which projects out to just over $23 million for the season.
I am stunned, STUNNED by this. Actually, no, I’m not.
These daily reminders that Joe Mauer is good at baseball won’t sway my opinion from the contrary.
I should add that Derek Jeter has underperformed his contract seven (7) times, with this season likely being the eighth (8th) time he’s accomplished that feat. Meaning, of course, that Joe will have to underperform his contract every single year to catch the Cap’n. Assuming, of course, that Jeter stops underperforming, which I don’t see happening. This season, he’s on pace to deliver about half the value of his salary.
When Mauer has five rings, he can underperform all he wants. Actually, I’d be happy with one, not that I’m unhappy with Mauer at all.
Dude, hello, intangibles.
Intangibles are only worth psychic income.
AJ: 14 HRs and 45 RBI, $billions of value (or $10m, if you believe made-up statistics).
Joe: 4 HRs and 37 RBI, worthless. Who you gonna believe, made up statistics, or your eyes on the HR and RBI lines?
one of my favorite running gags this season is the “boooo”-ing of Joe Mauer. it never gets old.
The fact that Reusse continues to trump Mauer and will actually talk about positional relativity makes me like him more and more. Pretty much every other tool on the radio, even when they defend him, say he’s not worth 23 million. These clowns must have failed math, or something.
I’m convinced that Reusse knows his baseball and as long as he’s not trolling (which he will do sometimes), he usually has pretty sensible opinions on the game. I can imagine him back in 1965 defending Ziolo Versalles as AL MVP, despite a .273 batting average, 77 RBI, and 19 HR. Not eye-popping numbers at all, but he led all position players in the AL in (at the time non-existent) fWAR that year. It’s a bummer that he’s not open to more advanced stats because he’d probably agree with them more than he’d like to admit.
I think Mackey rubs off on him on the radio. I really liked Reusse writing the anti-Souhan article a couple weeks ago.
for those interested in Smog Tales, my guy tells me that I need a new catalytic converter. The last one went in 3+ years and 40-ish thousand miles ago. I’d guess that the rate at which I’m burning oil probably had something to do with its early demise. apparently the law changed shortly after the last replacement (which was replacing original equipment on this 1995 Saturn wagon), so that my cost is going to be several hundred dollars higher this time. Ugh. But still cheaper than buying a replacement car….
Probably should just move to ND. They let you do almost anything there.
Not sure, but I think spitting on the sidewalk is illegal.
Well played.
But not enforced probably. And burning through oil is now a state pastime, so bS should be good.
Only in sight of a lady.
and only if accompanied by vulgar words of language, in which case the approved remedy is to grab a log chain and administer justice. Or is that only in Oklahoma?
That song contains my favorite lyric ever, “Through this would I’ve wandered, I’ve seen lots of funny men, some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen”.
It’s a nice piece of poetic myth-making. My favorite version is Zimmy’s on Folkways (a great “classic” album that needs someone to review it around here!)
FYI, yesterday was Union Pacific RR’s 150th birthday. Another holiday in the making!
Also, sad to hear that Andy Griffith has died. I’ll go ahead and enjoy the theme song whistle in my head for a while…
Loved the A.G. Show episode where buxilicious Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie) comes to town, and opens up a nails shop. Pretty soon, all of the local guys are getting their nails done, including said Sheriff. Classic.
I went to see the Mariners play the Red Sox over the weekend, and I don’t know if it was the extra couple innings or what, but it really hit home that during most half-inning breaks, the Mariners will just play some music, encourage people to dance, and then put them on the video board. (Perhaps this was worse than usual because they were running a “Viva Las Vargas” promotion--maybe the lamest promotion I’ve ever been to.) Each next time they did this, it struck me as more and more tedious. I’m not opposed to a little frivolity, but I really didn’t go to the game to find a dance party and for that matter, a dance party with really bad dancers.
It struck me that a much better way to use the video board, especially for west coast games when almost all of the days’ games have been completed, would be to just show highlights of other games between half-innings. That would be awesome. As it is, the only baseball-related video they showed between innings was a blooper reel. If you’re going to show bloopers, why not show highlights?
Surely MLB teams aren’t blacked out/legally restricted from showing highlights from around the league, but it wouldn’t surprise me if somehow they were.
Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised either, but it seems like a case where if everyone showed highlights at the games, it would overall be a win-win scenario. For one, compared to overall TV viewership, attendance at the game is minimal (60K max), and some of those fans will go home and watch SportsCenter or whatever anyway. But personally, if I’m devoting 4-5 hours of my day to going to the game and coming back home, I don’t have any time left to watch a highlights show afterward. So this would be purely value added from my standpoint, and I would be more up-to-date on the league, which would keep me hooked and make me more interested in seeing other teams that are coming to town.
I would almost think it would be such perfect advertisting that MLB Network would want to buy between-innings video board time to show highlights.
They would certainly have to get expressed, written consent first.
(btw, did you see the latest Lews?)
This may be one case in which I probably will NOT be “going Rogue”.
Oh, you HAVE to. I totally would, if given the chance.
I agree. I’ll be purchasing one of those if they’re available in NOLA.
Off for interview #3. If it goes well, hopefully interview #4 isn’t too far down the road!
How about job offer #1? That’s what I’m hoping comes next.
What Stick said. Good luck on #3, but damn, I thought even that was a crazy number of interviews. Two is the most I’ve ever had to deal with.
It makes some sense, given this particular office. And so long as I keep moving up the chain, I have no complaints with the process.
At what point do you have to start recruiting others to get their first interview?
If anyone is looking for something on TV, “Hellboy 2″ is on FX.
Ugh…thanks again, Runner. Once again, I fell asleep early.
I haven’t mentioned this anywhere, but it’s probably time, since I’ve been a little absent. I got a call a couple of days ago that armed me with the knowledge that, barring a major surprise breakthrough, the TV show is dead.
I hate this business.
sorry to hear that news :/
That TV graveyard is a big one. My condolences.
And I suggest you move Rhustler’s Rhapsody up on your Netflix queue in memory of Andy Griffith and for the comedic balm.
Eff.
Craptastic. Sorry to hear that.
Dido. We are all still counting on you to remember us when, spoons. Hang in there.
BOOOOO! (in the usual sense…well, the usual sense outside of this place…you know what I mean -- sorry for the shit news).
Damn, spooks, that blows. I’ll keep hoping for some surprise news for you.
Sorry to hear that, spoons. Something’ll work out.
Crap. There goes my reason to hook up the cable to the TV…
Bummed for you, I was excited for this.
I see on the Twitter machine that Liam Hendricks is going back down to Roch and Cole DeVries is back up.
I feel a little better about the chances to win when Cole pitches.
Twins are 3-9 in Hendriks’ appearances, 3-1 in De Vries’ appearances. Apparently, that
EdinaEden Prairie cake-eater just knows how to win.Wait, deVries just pitched on Saturday -- when did he get sent down?
he was sent down after the Saturday game. there is a new rule stating that if you have a split douleheader, you can call up a 26th man to the roster without adding an option to his status.
I remember that new rule now that you mention it. I didn’t realize they applied it to deVries in this situation. Thanks, dw.
there is a proven close ™ back on the market
If the Twins could add him and bring Capps back, they’ll have four proven closers!
I really like Perkins: