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October 9, 2012: History

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The last time the Orioles had won a playoff game before this season, the pitchers they used were Scott Kamieniecki, Jimmy Key and Brett Myers. You remember it like it was yesterday, don't you?

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        2. Milo & Otis: Origins, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
          Dumberer and Dumbererer and Dumberest, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt

            1. The Toxic Avenger Begins, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
              Heavy Metal 2013, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
              M. Night Shyamalan's Care Bears and the Forest of Feelings, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
              Mario and Luigi, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt
              Re-Inception, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  2. Getting the apartment ready when we moved in involved repairing the built-in dresser in the bedroom. The MDF bottoms were rotted out of all 6 drawers. I replaced them with some stronger sheathing. Even a simple project like cutting squares of sheathing and sliding them into the drawers and nailing them in was so much fun. I found a place near here with wood working classes. I really want to take some as soon as I have the money.

  3. Anyone else excited about the Red Bull Stratos Jump? The mission is set to launch in about an hour, when they'll also resume broadcast. I wonder if I can embed the youtube stream here so I don't have to bookmark it?


    Edit Again: - Guess not so. Hit "Play" to tune into the live stream, if that's your thing.

    From the video description:

    Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space that will try to surpass human limits that have existed for more than 50 years. Supported by a team of experts, Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to more than 120,000 feet / 36,576 meters and make a record-breaking freefall jump in the attempt to become the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall (an estimated 690 miles / 1,110 kilometers per hour), while delivering valuable data for medical and scientific advancement.

    2. This dude just won the internet:

      what if this dude goes so fast he travels back in time to 1947 #Roswell where his remains are thought to be a crashed ufo/weather balloon— ZombieProphet (@ZProphet_MMA) October 9, 2012

    1. No C.E., no H.P., no L.B.
      At least AJR got decent baseball initials.
      No H at all! Time to go with plan "Bossman Junior"?

  5. Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale
    Frick FinalsTom Cheek,Ken Coleman,Jacques Doucet,John Gordon,Bill King,Graham McNamee,Eric Nadel,Eduardo Ortega,Mike Shannon,Dewayne Staats

      1. The size of the pool is way too small for an annual award, it eventually becomes a participation prize. Every lustrum or decade would be sufficient.

    4. Shooter got a quote from Gordon and then had to specifically mention that Blyleven was NOT a finalist.

      1. While I generally agree, I'm a little bit 'worked up' about the official license usage for a we're better than you t-shirt. The same deference wouldn't be granted to the Twins, KC, the Astros etc etc etc.

          1. I should have been more clear. If majestic wanted to print any other mlb team "We're Just Better" shirt I'm sure the mlb would have licensed it. It probably just wouldn't have sold as well so they didn't.

            1. But every other MLB team's "We're Just Bitter" shirt? Those would sell like hotcakes!

            2. With the current state, and quality, of on demand printing available I find it difficult to believe that Majestic wouldn't offer every design to fans of every team on every available garment suitable for 3-d inkjet printing. Yes, I agree that the number of Twins fans that would consider purchasing such a bit of fan apparel are few in comparison to the number of yankee fans that will purchase such an item, but that doesn't excuse the usage of the official license in my opinion.

                1. It's my opinion that using the official license as an f-you to the rest of the league is unsportsmanlike. I don't care that the Cubs haven't won a title in forever, and that fact doesn't make the yankees intrinsically better than them. It's an official sponsorship of the shittiest part of sports allegiance.

  7. Well, this is an icky art/life convergence:

    Seibel also is a professional actor and director who's appeared in movies and TV shows, including an episode of the comedy series "The Big Bang Theory" this year in which he played a senile professor prone to showing up naked in public.

    1. Senility is hilarious! As is having a senior citizen spout profanity, talk about sex, or utter racist comments! We're living in a golden age of comedy, I tells ya...

      1. it's not the senility part that's icky. It's that this guy played a teacher with nudity issues in both real life and on stage.

      2. I'm not sure who I despise more, Chuck Lorre or Seth MacFarlane. They're both really high on the list, that much I can say with certainty.

  8. This National's day game tomorrow is making it really hard to use my tickets. I want this to push to a friday game 5 and for the Nats to move on. There I said it.

    1. I hope that last part means they are considering trading Barrea. I know he can be a poor man's Vinnie Johnson but I've just never liked guys like that.

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