I'm gonna try to find the others now. Updates in bold.
For some reason, I know that between the Rays and A's is the Round Rock Express. Do I know them from a video game? Probably.
I shoulda known that one right away, but it didn't process. My old roommate used to use the Astros in MVP Baseball franchise mode, so the Express are very familiar to me.
The N in "Magazine" is from the NY highlanders.
Chris Creamer tells me it was used from 1903 to 1904.
The now-classic overlain NY from the Yanks' caps came in 1909.
so far, so good, except for "[bat]". it's actually a "[stick]" (wink, wink).
Cuddy will be the hero, making game-saving defensive plays in RF, at 2B, and at 1B.
CC to cheaptoy and jobu: Re: last week's Father Knows Best column. Seriously guys, put your kids in their cribs from the get go.
I had just mentioned that to my wife yesterday. She was initially skeptical that it mattered, but I told her that I am getting my information from first-hand experience.
It matters. Trust me. I went from having a perfect son to having a baby who wakes up every two hours again. Last night I slept on the nursery floor.
I really wish I had just put him in the darn crib from the get go.
I had just mentioned that to my wife yesterday.
Me too actually. Cornsilk didn't seem skeptical, just horrified at the possibilities. Breastfeeding class tonight...yay.
I'll pile on. We put the girls in cribs immediately, and neither ever had a problem sleeping (well, until our home invasion last year caused Skim to have nightmares).
Babies love routine. Their routines matter. If you try to mess with them, they get pissed. They're a lot like grown men.
Babies love routine. Their routines matter. If you try to mess with them, they get pissed. They're a lot like grown men.
Funny because it's true.
Just wait until you go from the crib to a "big boy/girl bed." That's when the fun really starts.
Because then they are mobile and can move into your bed if they are scared, hungry, sick, etc. Then you have the battle with your wife about allowing the kid to sleep in you bed with you. As with the chair issue, nip it in the bud or you'll have a kid in your bed until they are 4 or 5.
I never had this problem either. Don't hate me.
*Dido header*
Winning!!!
The Boy would stay in his big-boy bed and ask whether he could get up and out in the morning.
The Girl, on the other hand, just did whatever she damned well please. Kind of like now.
I'm with spooky. Kids were always in their cribs and have always stayed in their beds.
Never, ever, have we allowed them to sleep in our bed. If they need consoling or something, we hold them in a chair and then put them back to bed. And they have never, ever, asked to sleep in our bed, because they never thought of that as a possibility.
We made a couple of exceptions after Skim started having nightmares about the home invasion. She slept in our bed once, and remained so scared that we pulled her bed into our room and she slept on the floor there for a month before finally letting go of "the bad guy who came to our house."
or 6 or 7...
nice timing, as the little bugger is finally coming home today. jailbreak! i'll be sure to deposit him into the proper sleeping receptacle.
Terrific news.
dido. and great pic, jobu.
Man, that Pete sure has style! Edit: stick said it better...
Wow, that's a big mouth that runs in the family famished...oh, that's a pacifier.
Good shot, dude.
Cute!
Nothing like a good hat to tie the outfit together.
Wish I'd known about that a long time ago. Do they have one for radio and TV, too?
if we must jeterbate, I want to note that "giving" Derek Jeter his 3,000th hit baseball back for a mere $70,000 in memorabilia and tickets now counts as modesty and generosity. Oh, and a tax bill.
Ok, then.
I believe that makes him a bit of a moron in my eyes. Of course, this is coming from someone who wouldn't even have had to think about not giving it back and auctioning it off.
I would've auctioned it off even if it was Joe Mauer's 3000th hit.
Yeah, I think I would have done the same. That money would be entirely too enticing for my not-rich self who has a mortgage.
If it was Mauer's, I might just keep the damn thing.
Assuming it's inevitable that I'll end up with his 3000th hit, I'll just have to be rich by then.
It would end up destroying me like the One Ring.
"My precious! Mauer Ball precious! It came to us! It should be ours!"
At least Robert Plant could then sing about you. That would be cool.
Joe's got plenty of money; make sure to tell him where the auction is.
Oh, I don't know. $70,000 will get you, what? Tickets to two games at Yankee Stadium III?
Or one game and two beers.
Compared with the free market value of the ball, that's a pretty generous deal for Jeter. Of course, I'll never "get" the memorabilia market. The idea that someone would pay $250K (or whatever) for something that commemorates achieving an artificial milestone that they had nothing to do with reaching boggles my mind more than a little. Given that reality, though, I wonder what I'd do if it was, say, Mauer. On the one hand, I'd prefer for Mauer to have the ball if he wanted it. On the other hand, I don't want to be single again, so I couldn't just give it away. Maybe I could get it appraised and offer it to Mauer for half the appraised value or something. Even then, I guess it'd be hard to do that, because half the value of the ball would be worth a lot more to me than it would to him, but I would avoid auction fees and I would gain some certainty in not having to go to auction (where the bids could disappoint.) Tough call, I think.
The man in question could deal with his tax situation by being somewhat practical. They gave him tickets to every Yankee home game for half a season. I love my baseball, but making time to go to every home game for half a season would be difficult. I'd ask the Yankees to market half the remaining tickets so that I'd have roughly $16K and half the tickets and I could use the $16K to cover the cost of the taxes, then bank the leftover amount.
Similar to a guy I worked with who won on The Newlywed Game. You want to win a package of prizes, so you can "sell off" several to pay the taxes on what you keep. Bummer if you win (just) a fabulous but expensive trip.
Paul Francis Sullivan's love letter to fans of Paul Sorrento and baseball cards.
Also, is anyone else just a little creeped out by this?
Resisting urge to make ironic joke....mustn't be so hacky.....
Thank you thank you silence....
🙂
The weird thing is that Nancy Grace loves Alanis.
Speaking of the Devil, listen to her bs reason for calling Casey Anthony "tot mom".
ll, you know what? To you, I will finally reveal where "tot mom" came from. When I was in law school I would often give cases that I had to memorize hundreds and hundreds, sometimes thousands of pages of legal documents for class, and it was easier for me to remember a case by the content of the case not the name Smith vs. O'Shaughnessy. So I would name each case by the content. In this case, I needed content that would fit at the bottom of the screen so our viewer would know what we were talking about and "tot mom" fit.
Now, I never went to law school (oh wait, yes I did), but I would imagine that not learning a case by at least one of the parties' names would be a little, um, inconvenient. Nancy's final in ConLaw "In Mixing school kids, the Supreme Court overruled Segregation." Yeah, sure.
Hopefully not stepping over the line, I'm amazed that she as able to make O'Reilly sound like the reasonable one in that interview.
The Supreme Court wouldn't have struggled with Mixing Schools Kids if it had only decided New Orleans Train Passenger and That Park in Bloomington correctly.
Right, New Orleans Train Passenger. I was a little sloppy in my citation.
Speaking of the Devil, listen to her bs reason
NOT a bS reason, however!!!111one111!!!
The Milkmaid just surprised me by tracking down and bringing home a sixer of Red Chair. Methinks this will be the best All-Star Game ever.
Rhambis gone. Kahn presser in half an hour. Hoorah.
Rambis looked like such a geek when he played that the 13-year-old Milkman just had to identify with him. I really wish he'd turned out to be a good coach, but...damn.
Dwane Casey, welcome back!11!1!!!
If only that were possible. I imagine it'll be Bernie Bickerstaff now that his son joined the Rockets staff. That would just be too perfect for this FO.
Karl Hobbs is available if you guys truly want to see what it looks like to have no offensive plan.
I wonder if that would be better than having an offensive plan with the incorrect pieces and no defensive plan.
This coaching search has the potential to be really ugly. If Bernie Bickerstaff decides to say thanks, but no thanks, we could slide into bolivion here.
What you got against South America? I hear Bolivia is lovely this time of year.
Yep, same here. But as coach he no longer wore geeky glasses - maybe they were to him what hair was to Sampson (and I don't mean Ralph).
I blame the lack of glasses, too.
I'm listening to the Kahn press conference. He's hilariously smug.
The first one I got, and the very first I guessed, actually, was Whitey Ford. I have no earthly idea what made me think of him before all others. I also typed "Ryan" about six times before finally getting the hint that he hadn't managed the feat.
That one was Lefty Gomez. I saw 1938 and typed Lefty Grove about 50 times and also tried Dizzy Dean. After than, my mind went blank as to who could fit that clue.
Eight. Would never have gotten any of the ones I missed.
SoCal is in da house! Literally his own house. I left the family in Lake Stevens with the in-laws and drove just over 1,200 miles in almost exactly 20 hours.
Lord Haw Haw sez F-Rod to the Brewers.
sean: is there a way to shut off some of the editing options in comments (e.g., the spam button) for the mobile version? My fat Droid fingers accidentally hit the spam button on a comment when I was reading the CoC tonight. I came down to the laptop to rectify, but it looks as though the comment didn't get flagged after all. But anyway.
Hats banner!
I got a Dido banner. I chuckled
Both hj's. There's another hat one by hj (I don't know which Rhu_Ru saw) and new art by E-6.
Edit: Everyone's noticed the "Our Headers" tab by now, right?
Edited Again: Oops, the other is logos, not hats. Never mind.
anyone wanna take a stab at NCISing them?
Off the top of my head...
Senators, Orioles, Redwings, ?, Diamondbacks, Snappers, [bat] Giants, Rays, Express, A's, Twins, Expos, Mariners, Rangers
Storm Chasers, Rock Cats, ?, Indians, ?, ? [ball] Twins (Again), Braves, ? , Angels, Zephyrs, ?, ?, (Elizabethton) Twins
I'm gonna try to find the others now. Updates in bold.
For some reason, I know that between the Rays and A's is the Round Rock Express. Do I know them from a video game? Probably.
I shoulda known that one right away, but it didn't process. My old roommate used to use the Astros in MVP Baseball franchise mode, so the Express are very familiar to me.
The N in "Magazine" is from the NY highlanders.
Chris Creamer tells me it was used from 1903 to 1904.
The now-classic overlain NY from the Yanks' caps came in 1909.
so far, so good, except for "[bat]". it's actually a "[stick]" (wink, wink).
Frankly, I'm tired of it, too.
He's got both kinds of music country and western.
Cuddy will be the hero, making game-saving defensive plays in RF, at 2B, and at 1B.
CC to cheaptoy and jobu: Re: last week's Father Knows Best column. Seriously guys, put your kids in their cribs from the get go.
I had just mentioned that to my wife yesterday. She was initially skeptical that it mattered, but I told her that I am getting my information from first-hand experience.
It matters. Trust me. I went from having a perfect son to having a baby who wakes up every two hours again. Last night I slept on the nursery floor.
I really wish I had just put him in the darn crib from the get go.
I had just mentioned that to my wife yesterday.
Me too actually. Cornsilk didn't seem skeptical, just horrified at the possibilities. Breastfeeding class tonight...yay.
I'll pile on. We put the girls in cribs immediately, and neither ever had a problem sleeping (well, until our home invasion last year caused Skim to have nightmares).
Babies love routine. Their routines matter. If you try to mess with them, they get pissed. They're a lot like grown men.
Funny because it's true.
Just wait until you go from the crib to a "big boy/girl bed." That's when the fun really starts.
Because then they are mobile and can move into your bed if they are scared, hungry, sick, etc. Then you have the battle with your wife about allowing the kid to sleep in you bed with you. As with the chair issue, nip it in the bud or you'll have a kid in your bed until they are 4 or 5.
I never had this problem either. Don't hate me.
*Dido header*
Winning!!!
The Boy would stay in his big-boy bed and ask whether he could get up and out in the morning.
The Girl, on the other hand, just did whatever she damned well please. Kind of like now.
I'm with spooky. Kids were always in their cribs and have always stayed in their beds.
Never, ever, have we allowed them to sleep in our bed. If they need consoling or something, we hold them in a chair and then put them back to bed. And they have never, ever, asked to sleep in our bed, because they never thought of that as a possibility.
We made a couple of exceptions after Skim started having nightmares about the home invasion. She slept in our bed once, and remained so scared that we pulled her bed into our room and she slept on the floor there for a month before finally letting go of "the bad guy who came to our house."
or 6 or 7...
nice timing, as the little bugger is finally coming home today. jailbreak! i'll be sure to deposit him into the proper sleeping receptacle.
Terrific news.
dido. and great pic, jobu.
Man, that Pete sure has style!
Edit: stick said it better...
Wow, that's a big mouth that runs in the family famished...oh, that's a pacifier.
Good shot, dude.
Cute!
Nothing like a good hat to tie the outfit together.
Hey, hey! (Great pic, btw.)
Think 84 All-Stars is a ridiculous number? It used to be worse.
Should Major League Baseball Have More Than Two Teams?
That was almost Onion-worthy.
Upon reading Buffalo's link, I figured that's where it was sending me. Turns out SB Nation has decent jokesters after all.
It's also unfortunately similar to a lot of Onion articles in that the joke is essentially told with the title and the story is superfluous, but meh.
The writer is of Dugout fame. I'd say they have at least one great jokester.
Ah, I didn't notice that. Now it's coming together.
I liked the "giant forest full of wolves" bit. Good article, very thought provoking!
http://www.jeterfilter.com/
Wish I'd known about that a long time ago. Do they have one for radio and TV, too?
if we must jeterbate, I want to note that "giving" Derek Jeter his 3,000th hit baseball back for a mere $70,000 in memorabilia and tickets now counts as modesty and generosity. Oh, and a tax bill.
Ok, then.
I believe that makes him a bit of a moron in my eyes. Of course, this is coming from someone who wouldn't even have had to think about not giving it back and auctioning it off.
I would've auctioned it off even if it was Joe Mauer's 3000th hit.
Yeah, I think I would have done the same. That money would be entirely too enticing for my not-rich self who has a mortgage.
If it was Mauer's, I might just keep the damn thing.
Assuming it's inevitable that I'll end up with his 3000th hit, I'll just have to be rich by then.
It would end up destroying me like the One Ring.
"My precious! Mauer Ball precious! It came to us! It should be ours!"
At least Robert Plant could then sing about you. That would be cool.
Joe's got plenty of money; make sure to tell him where the auction is.
Oh, I don't know. $70,000 will get you, what? Tickets to two games at Yankee Stadium III?
Or one game and two beers.
Compared with the free market value of the ball, that's a pretty generous deal for Jeter. Of course, I'll never "get" the memorabilia market. The idea that someone would pay $250K (or whatever) for something that commemorates achieving an artificial milestone that they had nothing to do with reaching boggles my mind more than a little. Given that reality, though, I wonder what I'd do if it was, say, Mauer. On the one hand, I'd prefer for Mauer to have the ball if he wanted it. On the other hand, I don't want to be single again, so I couldn't just give it away. Maybe I could get it appraised and offer it to Mauer for half the appraised value or something. Even then, I guess it'd be hard to do that, because half the value of the ball would be worth a lot more to me than it would to him, but I would avoid auction fees and I would gain some certainty in not having to go to auction (where the bids could disappoint.) Tough call, I think.
The man in question could deal with his tax situation by being somewhat practical. They gave him tickets to every Yankee home game for half a season. I love my baseball, but making time to go to every home game for half a season would be difficult. I'd ask the Yankees to market half the remaining tickets so that I'd have roughly $16K and half the tickets and I could use the $16K to cover the cost of the taxes, then bank the leftover amount.
Similar to a guy I worked with who won on The Newlywed Game. You want to win a package of prizes, so you can "sell off" several to pay the taxes on what you keep. Bummer if you win (just) a fabulous but expensive trip.
Paul Francis Sullivan's love letter to fans of Paul Sorrento and baseball cards.
This was a fun read.
Dido.
Stoopid fan nearly dies at HR derby. I'm particularly fond of the photo of him standing barefoot on the table in a puddle of spilled beer.
A $6 ball is totally worth it.
Hey if it was a gold ball it's worth $150!
If only there was something to warn him of the dangers.
Also, I heard his recent album is really good.
I really enjoyed this today.
Also, is anyone else just a little creeped out by this?
Resisting urge to make ironic joke....mustn't be so hacky.....
Thank you thank you silence....
🙂
The weird thing is that Nancy Grace loves Alanis.
Speaking of the Devil, listen to her bs reason for calling Casey Anthony "tot mom".
Now, I never went to law school (oh wait, yes I did), but I would imagine that not learning a case by at least one of the parties' names would be a little, um, inconvenient. Nancy's final in ConLaw "In Mixing school kids, the Supreme Court overruled Segregation." Yeah, sure.
Hopefully not stepping over the line, I'm amazed that she as able to make O'Reilly sound like the reasonable one in that interview.
The Supreme Court wouldn't have struggled with Mixing Schools Kids if it had only decided New Orleans Train Passenger and That Park in Bloomington correctly.
Right, New Orleans Train Passenger. I was a little sloppy in my citation.
NOT a bS reason, however!!!111one111!!!
The Milkmaid just surprised me by tracking down and bringing home a sixer of Red Chair. Methinks this will be the best All-Star Game ever.
Rhambis gone. Kahn presser in half an hour. Hoorah.
Rambis looked like such a geek when he played that the 13-year-old Milkman just had to identify with him. I really wish he'd turned out to be a good coach, but...damn.
Dwane Casey, welcome back!11!1!!!
If only that were possible. I imagine it'll be Bernie Bickerstaff now that his son joined the Rockets staff. That would just be too perfect for this FO.
Karl Hobbs is available if you guys truly want to see what it looks like to have no offensive plan.
I wonder if that would be better than having an offensive plan with the incorrect pieces and no defensive plan.
This coaching search has the potential to be really ugly. If Bernie Bickerstaff decides to say thanks, but no thanks, we could slide into bolivion here.
What you got against South America? I hear Bolivia is lovely this time of year.
Yep, same here. But as coach he no longer wore geeky glasses - maybe they were to him what hair was to Sampson (and I don't mean Ralph).
I blame the lack of glasses, too.
I'm listening to the Kahn press conference. He's hilariously smug.
Surprisingly difficult Sporcle quiz: 3+ All-Star Game starts.
6 of 13..ouch
Geeze, I only got 7.
I ended up with six, and with a minute left, I only had three.
And, of course, there are no obscure names up there (okay, maybe about one and a half). There's just...so much history in MLB.
ack. Six as well.
Weird aside:
Oh, wow. Of all the names I guessed - and there were scores upon scores - he didn't come to mind.
I tried all of those, sometimes more than once.
I only got three- brain freeze, I guess.
I got 9 - only one of the four I missed leaves me angry for being forgetful.
Eight. Would never have gotten any of the ones I missed.
a pretty cool story about a woman Official Scorekeeper for the Cubs back in the 1800's
agreed.
SoCal is in da house! Literally his own house. I left the family in Lake Stevens with the in-laws and drove just over 1,200 miles in almost exactly 20 hours.
Lord Haw Haw sez F-Rod to the Brewers.
sean: is there a way to shut off some of the editing options in comments (e.g., the spam button) for the mobile version? My fat Droid fingers accidentally hit the spam button on a comment when I was reading the CoC tonight. I came down to the laptop to rectify, but it looks as though the comment didn't get flagged after all. But anyway.