130 thoughts on “August 25, 2011: Beer…”

  1. this team stinks. there is no way around it.
    all we need is 1500 people in attendance at the Metrodome and it would be the late 90's all over again

      1. I thought you were highlighting the Jamie Quirk game for sure.* Wow, a lot of memorable defeats down the stretch that season.

        * Growing up, the two sports figures who instantly caused both my parents to recoil in horror were Jamie Quirk and Barry Switzer

        1. Ouch! I didn't remember that one.

          I had just moved to LA for my first job right after the Olympics, and getting settled in there I didn't get the chance to follow the Twins as closely as I would have liked, but it was painful just the same. They were 1½ back before that last stretch. A good closer that year would have been all it took.

            2. If I was, I would have move to LA before the Olympics.

              I held off moving there until the '84 Olympics was done, thinking traffic and crowds would be nasty. Turns out, due to companies shifted work schedules etc., that traffic has NEVER been as good in LA as it was in the Olympics.

  2. I'm currently peeling a bunch of potatoes with my Ka-Bar because all my kitchen knives are crap. 2 notes to self - get knives sharpened and get a peeler.

    1. Thankfully, my potatoes are a big hit here at the office for breakfast burrito day. Should be since they took almost 2 hours - 40 minutes peeling and chopping, then a few mixing the spices and oil, then a 40 minute bake.

      1. I'm reasonably confident that the "reason" has more to do with mental illness in these cases than to do with the alleged trigger event(s). Which doesn't detract from the tragedy.

  5. Damn it all, reminding me of the worst Twin of all time Ron "f*#king" Davis. I think I just puked a little in my mouth.

    2. I saw that about a week ago. I'm not sure why I didn't share it, unless I meant to save it for a Friday then forgot. Some of those are particularly mean.

          1. Kevin Smith on Paul Thomas Anderson (specifically, Magnolia):

            “I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their work.”

            Is this idiot kidding me? He made Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, a movie solely designed to answer his critics. That's the most self-important thing I've ever seen.

            1. I wasn't sure if your next post was going to be responding to this or Ingmar Bergman's ripping of Citizen Kane.

              1. Once Kevin Smith put in a dig on anyone, nothing else mattered. Still, I never would have brought him up if he hadn't made such a complete fool of himself, mocking someone for being the thing that defines Smith himself.

                1. I found Bergman's comments weird because Citizen Kane is considered great in large part because of its symbolism, which is a hallmark of Bergman films. Well, whatever. Bergman's a top-three director for me, probably. He can say anything he wants.

        2. The dig on Clapton is one of the cruelest things I've ever read.

          who the hell is Anton Newcombe and why would anyone give a cr@p about what he has to say on any subject?

    3. Eh. I found a few remarks biting (especially when the insult was about the music, not the person), but many of them were unimaginative hate. When that kind of hyperbole gets used I wonder if the kettle is being called out by the pot.

      1. A Twins-related theme emerges, however.

        20. Richey Edwards on The Levellers
        “You could go to any Levellers concert and stand in the middle and shout, ‘Jeremy!’, and 75% of the audience would turn round.”

      2. I agree. A few were good for a snort, but most were sorely lacking in wit (or smacked of, as Beau suggested, hypocrisy).

        Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was legendary for his acerbic comments. For example, Sir Thomas hated the harpsichord so much he compared it to "two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof" and "playing a birdcage with a toasting fork." A few more:

        To a lady cellist: Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!

        No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

        A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

        To a musician during rehearsal: We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

        Of a soprano in Die Walküre: Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.

        Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

        The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

  7. Thanks for the post, Runner, although I'm not sure what happened here. I definitely wrote one last night. I guess I didn't hit "Schedule" or something...?

    1. that reminds me, i posted something awhile back about newsom recording a video for "good intentions paving company", but i never followed up on watching it. i'm going to have to check both of these out once i get home.

      1. The wife and I watch quite a bit of music video-related television. I like almost none of the music, but the snark that she and I dish out is fun.

      2. I feel you, but I think right now they're primarily being used in the same way short films are: a lot of lesser-known directors are using them in the hopes of being noticed for bigger projects.

    2. Heh. As one who's had to write a lot of query letters, I think the response is spot-on (though you'd never get a response that long from a publisher).

      Loved the line about the letter having a sort of "lyrical symmetry."

    1. Chelsea draws Valencia, Bayer Leverkusen, and Genk in Group F.

      For me Plzěn is only about an hour via bus from Prague, and they've been drawn in with Bracelona, AC Milan, and BATE (Belarus).

      1. I paid attention, though I have very little frame of reference for some of the teams. My partially-trained eyes are seeing a not-terrible road for Chelsea, and they're telling me that H is the group of death. Let me know if I'm way off base.

        1. H isn't so bad. Barca and Milan should be through fairly easily. Group A is gonna be a bitch, F less so but still hard.* I would be surprised were Chelsea not to win their group.

          *that is most definitely what she said

          1. Huh, I hadn't really taken a close look at A until now.

            I think I overrate BATE and Plzen because they're often featured in ESPN's "Streak for the Cash" game and they almost always win the propositions they're part of.

    1. There was a guy at my old studio building that had converted his truck engine to run on that stuff. I got hungry every time he pulled into the parking lot. (It was reminiscent of egg rolls.)

      1. I'm always pretty tempted to try that. I'm not even entirely sure you need to convert modern diesels, but don't quote me on that. Problem is, the biodiesel place around here is perpetually empty.

        1. You'd have to filter the crap out of used cooking/fry oil, but any diesel should be able to be tuned to run on it. Grease, now, that's different, you'd have to treat it with acid and then with caustic to get it turned back into a liquid that you could use.

          1. I worded it poorly. I was saying I didn't think any conversion was needed of the engine to run on it. If I had more time on my hands, it'd be great to refine my own biodiesel. A new faux-Tex-Mex place just opened up in town, so there's plenty of grease around.

      1. My retirement grease!

        and

        Here comes a greaseball.
        Hey! Luigi bring-a you kids-a free pizza! Why do you hafta make-a the fun, huh?

        are two of my favorite "Simpsons" lines ever.

      2. like i said before, i would rather have kept him the rest of the season and received nothing than trade him and receive next to nothing...

    2. I like that JI JIM might finish his career where it started. Farewell tours are always a good thing.

    3. Buster_ESPN Buster Olney
      At this moment, 7:10 Eastern, there is no finished deal for Jim Thome. The Indians are hoping that Thome accepts a trade to CLE. We'll see.

      1. I don't understand this. Why would BS even go through this charade if he didn't have Thome's stamp of approval up front?

        1. He probably didn't want Thome to think he was gone and then have to tell him, "sorry, we couldn't make a deal." He'd rather disappoint the Indians than Thome.

          1. On the bright side, the Indians have one more trip to the Bullseye this season (Sept 16-18). I hope those games sell out and the fans give Jimbo multiple standing ovations.

  21. Curtis Granderson just hit the Yankees' third grand slam of the day as the Yankees are beating the A's 22-8. First three-slam game ever. Cano and Martin hit the other ones. A's led 7-1 early on.

      1. Cano's slam made it 7-6 in the fifth. Martin's slam put the Yankees ahead 10-7 in the sixth. Martin had another at-bat with the bases loaded in the seventh but only singled. He's 5-for-5.

  22. Torii needs to learn from Thome:

    When asked if he wanted to stay in Minnesota, Thome replied; ``I don't want to get into all that. I don't want to comment on any of that.''

    Then he ended the session with, ``That's unfair so, have a great day.''

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