117 thoughts on “February 23, 2012: But Seriously, Folks”

  1. Home last night after eight days on the road. I had a big project to do before I left, so I got home just in time to catch the 30 seconds of the game on TV. I'm going to head to the basement in a few minutes, but first I'll drink a cup of coffee and pet the cat that's sitting in my lap.

  2. I am tearing up the weekly touch rugby training I go to. Last night, on two separate occasions, I juked my guy really bad and was in for the try. Like "grasping at air and then falling over" bad. The lads have taken to starting a "USA! USA!" chant when I score, in that half-teasing/mocking way that means they like you. All in good fun. Hopefully I can translate this success to the pitch when we start outdoor practice soon.

  3. Also, I don't know if I mentioned or not, but I started my teaching yesterday. My hours are a bit rough, very early and very late, as my clients are business people who work during the day most of the time, but it's nice to be working and making some money. I travel to Vienna on Tuesday to make my visa application. Hopefully all goes well so I'm not kicked out of the country when I come back in May for my sister's wedding.

    1. I saw yesterday that he is fourth in line for the copyright to 'Linsanity'. I think that's hi-larious

  5. An embarrassment of riches for the slaughterhouse this year as Dr. Chop was just offered a possition at a school in florida. This will offer a bit of leverage with the wny job, but in the end I think we ll end up in new Orleans. Sorry, buffalo.

      1. Fo sho. I'm there for the sgc printmaking conference, and to be present at a show opening featuring some of my work (and to live it up...).

    2. Let me know if they convince you to come up to WNY before the job in NOLA is accepted.

      1. The good dr is going to be in the area, although a lot closer to Rochester than buffalo, a week from sunday. I have no idea how this is going to work out.

  6. I'm planning on making a delicious pork dinner tomorrow night yet I can't seem to find any of the recipes in the archives. Can someone point me to a delicious (and pretty easy) pork recipe for two?

    3. I'd opt for carnitas as it makes delicious left overs that can be easily frozen and requires almost no effort...

      1. That looks like the one I'm going to attempt. I'll be off to the meatmarket shortly to get the pork.

        1. Alright, 3.5 pound pork shoulder in the fridge. My mouth was watering just looking at it.

    4. heh, acutally, if you just go to the search bar in the upper left and type "pork", you're pretty well covered.

      1. acutally
        More of the bS phone. And here I thought I was going to be the only hungover dude in the office today...

        1. several years ago, one of the regulars at the chat at StreamingSoundtracks typoed their greeting as "Mronin'", and so many of us there embraced the awesome early morning bleary eyedness of it that we adopted it and use Mronin' as a common greeting now. Equivalent of Rifding Hokme here.

    1. Well, Perkins will almost certainly be better than that in his role. If Baker can stay healthy, I think he'll do better than projected, as well.

    2. Yep, it was Yahoo again. Seems like their mail servers get hacked about every other month. Since the infection is not on my system, I just deleted all of my contacts in the Yahoo! mail address book so there's no place for a virus to replicate to. They were all redundant anyway.

    1. I've always wondered - under circumstances such as these, could the police legally obtain a stool sample for evidence of possession? (I love that even after all that he still had a blunt behind his ear.)

      Sounds like Dukes has been, uh, busy since the Nats let him go.

      1. In my crim pro class, we watched a lot of Cops to discuss warrantless searches. We definitely watched an episode when the driver pulled over had a blunt behind his ear and couldn't figure out why the officer kept asking him if he was going to find any drugs. Finally, the officer reached over and grabbed the blunt and showed the driver who was stunned because he had forgotten about it.

  14. I had a relatively short notice tooth extraction this morning, my first ever. It was a wisdom tooth that didn't have enough room and was causing other problems. From the moment he shot me with the local to the moment he left the room, my dentist took only 17 minutes to perform the surgery. I've not had to take a single painkiller, and there's very little swelling. I'm pretty impressed.

    1. That's a pretty impressive turnaround. I had a filling that took 11 minutes from when I walked into the door until I walked back out again, but that's peanuts compared to a tooth extraction.

    2. Very impressive. I had an extraction probably three months ago now and it was horrible. The tooth wouldn't come out no matter what the doctor tried. It took him probably 45 minutes of rooting around in my mouth to get the tooth out. Next time I have one out, I'll probably pay for sedation.

        1. He just said I had "very strong teeth." That was reassuring, but it didn't make it any easier. He ended up having to cut it into pieces with a drill in order to get it out.

          When I get really uncomfortable, I laugh. I was laughing most of the time he did the extraction, which confused the hell out of them.

    1. MLB has issued a statement saying it "vehemently disagrees" with the decision.

      Surprise, surprise.

      Haudricourt says the appeal went Braun's way not because of the test result, but because of a technicality with the testing process.

      Interesting. I wonder how that bodes for future tests. Was it a mistake that happened to just Braun, or a mistake in the process?

      Braun is the first player to have a suspension overtuned through the appeals process.

      How would we know? It's supposed to be confidential, so other players may have won and it was never reported because no one leaked it originally.

        1. As any of the numerous lawyers around here can attest, "technicalities" are important, and they generally exist for very good reasons.

          1. As one of the numerous lawyers, I'd go so far as to suggest that "technicalities" frequently seem to matter much more than either "the law" or "justice."

            It's a good system.

            1. I don't know if it is a "good system", in the social welfare sense. But if The State can't dot i's and cross t's with care, it has no business throwing people in the pokey. /forbiddenzoneintrusion

              1. I'd like to argue that your point is so uncontroversial as to not cross into the forbidden zone.

      2. part of Braun's argument was that the sample was not shipped in a timely fashion and that the chain of command was broken for two days, meaning the sample was left unprotected

        So some basic evidentiary procedure was apparently not followed (although I'd use the term "chain of custody" rather than command). You have to do that stuff right if you expect to get convictions (or the equivalent).

    2. I think this commenter makes an interesting point:

      ...this statement from the MLB office will still keep a shroud of suspicion over Braun - possibly for the rest of his career. They could have taken this defeat on the high road... but instead they opted to claim that their process is still all good, which effectively attempts to convict Braun through public opinion.

      1. Braun was convicted in the court of public opinion as soon as this leaked, unfortunately. ESPN should not have leaked this, period.

        1. Still, "Major League Baseball vehemently disagrees with the decision rendered today by arbitrator Shyam Das"? Vehemently? There was an appeals process written into the steroids policy and MLB lost the appeal. When a team loses an arbitration case they don't come out and claim that they vehemently disagree with the arbitrator's decision. It seems like an unprofessional language to me. Maybe Braun was on something and maybe he wasn't, but MLB didn't get all their ducks in a row and they didn't get their man.

          If ESPN learns about something like this, they're going to report it, because if they don't, someone else will. Ideally, sure, this never gets out, but I am pretty surprised at some of the stuff coming from MLB's camp in response to this.

          1. MLB has to vehemently disagree. They have to have convince the fans that they have an extremely good drug policy and policing in place, or they start down that slippery slope we've already been down re: performance enhancing drugs. To admit that mistakes can happen is to admit that dopers are still playing.

            1. By disagreeing with the arbiter, they are admitting that mistakes can happen. They should instead take some kind of action against whoever was charged with handling the sample and tell everyone that those sorts of mistakes will not be tolerated and they are making material changes to ensure that it doesn't happen again. As it is, they're just hanging Braun out to dry rather than accepting responsibility for their own screw-up.

  18. NBBW just called me to the living room to watch the Dog Show - some premier dog judging deal.

    "The Skye Terrier, a breed that has been around for 400 years..blah, meh." Kind of dry, English, snobbisme color on the mic.

      1. My nephew's Russian bride (long story) had their baby a couple of weeks ago, about 5 weeks premature. They brought him home today and we went to see them tonight. He weighs in at five pounds and four ounces, but he's otherwise pretty healthy. Nostrovia!

        1. Oops, didn't mean to squat on your thread, NBB. I don't remember clicking on reply, but I am getting old.

  19. I'll probably repost this when we get a new pot, but these two tweets came virtually at the same time this morning:

    Phil Mackey‏ @PMac21 - Morneau: "I don't know how I'm going to feel tomorrow and how I'm giong to feel a week from now, but today I feel good. Just go from there."

    Jim Souhan ‏@SouhanStrib -- Morneau just spoke. Looks skinny, sounds worried. Not good signs.

      1. I dunno, the words he's using and the seemingly one a month indications that he hasn't had any symptoms since last month. I think he's really thinking on things right now.

        Hell, if he's still having issues, he probably should be. He young and he's got a family - he's tried multiple times, and I would say it sounds like he'll give it a shot, but this time is the last time.

        That's just my take on it, though.

      1. The College of St. Shut-up-rube-you-optimistic-fans-are-the-bane-of-sports-you-probably-like-Joe-Mauer-even-though-he-hasn't-given-me-and-exclusive-interview

        He has a very large diploma on his wall.

        1. I wonder what the article would be like if it was about Torii Hunter or Michael Cuddyer recovering from post-concussion syndrome.

          1. There is a @WGOM. I wonder if it would be possible to set it up to allow people, through the site, to then use it as a group account.

            1. I believe Stick had precisely that setup on the old site, because I think I inadvertently once used that text box instead of the search box.

              What it would require is some discretion in the amount of posting. We wouldn't want to be unfollowed because there were too many posts flooding feeds.

              1. Yeah, I think I would have it set up to only allow authors and up to use it. Probably also put it in the admin section of the site, on the dashboard.

                  1. Does that mean we could get Souhan to block the site from his Twitter feed? I hereby move that to minimize damage to our sanity, whatever Twitter account is created only follows "friends of the site".

                1. that one's ours now, too. sean, let me know what you want things set up as, and i'll hand them over.

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