No more Yankees, no more idiotic Girardi-ARod drama. Well, the latter's probably going to go on forever, but at least they're out of the playoffs.
67 thoughts on “October 19, 2012: They’re Out”
Oh great, a new adaptation of Carrie, because that old one sucked too. And no, I don't think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in this one.
That's too bad. JGL would be great playing Hurstwood.
"I'm not like you, Julia. I don't make threats, and I don't make promises." Would sound great from his lips.
Would sound great from his lips.
Again, we could be talking about anything here.
I love these mornings where its as dark as midnight at 7:15am because of the overcast sky.
That's been nearly every morning here for weeks. Yuck.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the two teams the media covers the most, the Yankees and the Red Sox, have turned into the two biggest soap operas in baseball. I think maybe I'm glad they ignore the Twins.
oh, no doubt. I haven no problem being relegated to the back of SportsCenter.
baseball continued after yesterday in Detroit? Say what???
Just looked at the Brackef. If StL wins one of the next three games, it's down to Magoo and I, determined by the WS winner. If it's the tigers, he wins, and if it's the Cardinals, I win. Bonus points for series-length game count won't matter.
If the Gints can win three straight elimination games against a red-colored NL Central team, then I'm out and I haven't looked at the implications for others,
If San Fran wins World Series I am pretty sure I take it.
freealonzo can now only get four points if the Giants win, putting him at 14. The Pirate can get four or eight, putting his total at 11 or 15. HomerDome and rowsdowser are out. bS would get four points from a Giants NLCS win, putting him at six. That's still behind free and TDP. If the Giants win the WS, that puts him at 12 points. Still not enough to top them, so he needs the Giants to win the WS in five. That would be an additional six points, finally putting him in first place at 18 points.
We live in an age of miracles. If not me, who? If not now, when?
The Pirate can only get eight, as the only way the Gints win is in seven. That puts him at 15.
The Cards could be disqualified for their postseason voodoo.
Them ain't the ones becurst theyselves in lettin Teddy win th'race.
which means that Freealonzo cannot win.
If the Gints win the NL, brianS gets eight more (because 7 is guaranteed), putting him at ten, five points behind Pirate. If the Gints win the WS, BrianS wins.
So...
Tigers: Magoo
Cards: AMR
Gints: brianS
bS predicted Giants win in six, so he only gets four points if they win the NLCS.
I looked at it wrong then.
I had switched to Rowsdowser's line.
Revised!
Tigers: Magoo
Cards: AMR
Gints: brianS iff in 5, else Dread Pirate.
Dang, I thought you only got 2 extra points for having the right number of games in LCS. I'm out of it regardless if SF makes a miracle comeback.
I'm out?
C'mon EPL brackef!
Speaking of:
Place
Player
Points
1
Homer Dome
16
2
Buffalo
13
3
DK
13
4
Daneeka's Ghost
12
5
The Dread Pirate
12
6
AMR
12
7
MagUidhir
12
8
Spookymilk
11
9
davidwatts
8
10
Freealonzo
7
18 of 20 teams have 7 matches played. Sunderland & Reading are on 6 matches. Since this week was an int'l break, this is as current as it gets. League matches resume tomorrow morning.
Who's going to take home the much coveted 'most improved, comeback kid of the brackef' award?
bS will if SF comes back. A two-fer: MVP AND Comeback Kid!!!!111one1111!!!
Dream on, doc. Dream on.
So Fernando Rodney won the AL Comeback Player of the Year. Huh. I guess you can't argue with 48 saves and a sweet ERA.
Comeback Player of the Year is the Save of year-end awards.
My first year on the debate team, I won the "Most Improved" debater award. It was my FIRST season, so basically the award was saying, "You really sucked hard early on, but you put up a couple of good showings at the end, so congrats on arranging your season that way." Thing is, my record after my first three debate tournaments was 9-4, so it's not like I started out poorly anyway. I just had a really good final tournament.
I won the Most Improved on the HS track team TWO years. The first year was basically for surprising them that I could actually do something, and the second year for bringing home some bling after being put into the correct event (mile).
Still, even if I hadn't won either, I wouldn't have whined like the Sox fans over Adam Dunn and Alex Rios snubs.
In Ireland, one of my good friends on the rugby team told me that I "wasn't as shit as I used to be". Made me feel good.
High praise indeed.
Congeniality Floats?
Comeback Player of the Year is the Save of year-end awards.
Something new for me to track next season.
There were more deserving players, but .777 WHIP and 3.7 rWAR as a reliever are pretty crazy.
He had a fine season, no doubt. It just feels weird.
15 minute phone interview at 3:00. Ugh, I hate phone interviews. I'm so uncomfortable on the phone. I'd much rather do this in person.
Put a cardboard cutout of someone on the wall near the phone, and talk to it. On speakerphone, if that's an option.
That was a lot less stressful than I thought it would be. I pretty much nailed it. Got a meeting with the next higher up next week.
THAT'S what we like to hear!
Break a leg, sir.
Updated standings. I always like to look at what the regular season standings look like after you add in the postseason results, and whether or not that would shift the regular season standings. With the longer postseason, you might expect that someone with a dominant run (say, 11-2 or 11-0 or something) could move up the standings and pass up other teams in the postseason.
This year, though, St. Louis and Detroit were so far back that even if either one were to win the rest of their games, they would both still finish last in overall (regular season + post-season) win%.
Of course, it's not quite fair to count post-season wins as ordinary wins, since they are against better competition. Similarly, it's not quite fair to count post-season losses as ordinary losses, since they are against better competition. Even that makes it kind of tough for the Tigers and Cards to gain ground. The most extreme shift I could think of is giving post-season wins credit for 2 regular season wins and post-season losses as credit for 0 regular season losses. With that weighting, Detroit has passed Texas (but only Texas) and St. Louis is still last in the NL. Under that extreme weighting, the Cards could also pass San Fransisco if they beat SF in the game 5 and win the WS. The Tigers would actually overtake everyone in the AL if they win the WS under that weighting, though, even though their adjusted record wouldn't be better than Washington's adjusted record.
If you award 2 losses for every post season loss when a team is swept, you'll have my approval.
So it's after 3:00 Michigan time and DadBoner still hasn't tweeted about his meeting with the Head Honcho. Kinda concerning?
I think he and the head honcho might end up in some sort of drunken haze, if past is prologue.
So where you when you heard Dadboner got fired?
Slowly put my headphones on, cranked up Van Halen's Poundcake on the Discman, and power walked outta there with class and dignity.
Now that is a bold power move. I'm using that when I head honcho comes after me.
I pretty much expected this when Nosey Lady didn't say much to Karl earlier this week. That's always a bad sign. Now I almost want to root for the Tigers to win it all.
Me too. Karl deserves it.*
*Also, I win the brackef in that case. But Karl.
I don't understand this. On what basis did they terminate him?
Without charging a fee and without granting any sort of credit/degree/certification, I fail to see how Coursera courses are substantially different from reading a book from the library and discussing it on a message board.
And I assume similar notice has been given to iTunes U, in this case.
While silly, I think it should be pointed out that they didn't ban it now. The quoted law has been there for "at least 20 years".
I think online learning is going to be huge in the very near future but it won't be without issues. The status quo will fight this one.
I see great potential in online learning, but I also see the possibility for someone to dominate the segment (like, say, Google dominates internet search), which wouldn't necessarily be a great thing for education as a whole.
It would definitely lead to concentration in education.
I could see it really eliminating the college acceptance process. If the marginal cost of accepting another student is close to zero, one school can educate a lot of people.
It could also reduce college costs.
Interesting idea, ubes.
It's not clear to me that online education is a field in which a "natural monopoly" is a very plausible outcome. Good assessment is hard to automate, which means that there aren't really big economies of scale and scope. I.e., above some size, the brand name becomes increasingly hard to defend, which means the perceived value of the degree/credits diminishes.
It just seems that even though there are really low barriers to entry on the web (sites are so cheap that even we can afford one), there aren't really that many sites that are remotely popular. I could be wrong, I could just be afraid of change, it's just a thought.
Oh, I don't disagree that the numbers of popular sites is small.
On the flip side, I disagree that the barriers to entry in online education are low. If your online degree/credential isn't recognized by others as meaningful, then it is not (very) meaningful. You have to invest quite a bit to build a reputation as a deliverer of educational value.
so, we have lots and lots of educational institutions out there with valuable reputations. Some are venturing into online education where, conditional on having a valuable reputation as an educational institution, the barriers to entry are low. Marginal costs of provision are not zero, however. You have to assess the students, and manage the instructors, or eventually you will dilute/diminish/destroy the brand. So there should be lots of room in the market for providers, and the providers will be limited in size.
She said she has not decided yet on her outfit for Friday night.
Not something you'd see written about an NBA coach very often.
Okay... assuming the Cardinals win this thing, this means that we're going to have the following scenario:
Kyle Lohse pitching to Delmon Young.
I think I'm going to shed a tear...
Schell's Oktoberfest is full of malty goodness.
This is true. Last year, I noticed hints of raisin.
Schell's Octoberfest is actually the first beer I bought legally.
On the morning of my 21st birthday, I was at Zipp's waiting for it to open and I picked up a case of the Octoberfest.
Oh great, a new adaptation of Carrie, because that old one sucked too. And no, I don't think Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in this one.
That's too bad. JGL would be great playing Hurstwood.
"I'm not like you, Julia. I don't make threats, and I don't make promises." Would sound great from his lips.
Again, we could be talking about anything here.
I love these mornings where its as dark as midnight at 7:15am because of the overcast sky.
That's been nearly every morning here for weeks. Yuck.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the two teams the media covers the most, the Yankees and the Red Sox, have turned into the two biggest soap operas in baseball. I think maybe I'm glad they ignore the Twins.
oh, no doubt. I haven no problem being relegated to the back of SportsCenter.
baseball continued after yesterday in Detroit? Say what???
This is getting ugly for the NFL, and it's not going away anytime soon.
Just looked at the Brackef. If StL wins one of the next three games, it's down to Magoo and I, determined by the WS winner. If it's the tigers, he wins, and if it's the Cardinals, I win. Bonus points for series-length game count won't matter.
If the Gints can win three straight elimination games against a red-colored NL Central team, then I'm out and I haven't looked at the implications for others,
If San Fran wins World Series I am pretty sure I take it.
freealonzo can now only get four points if the Giants win, putting him at 14. The Pirate can get four or eight, putting his total at 11 or 15. HomerDome and rowsdowser are out. bS would get four points from a Giants NLCS win, putting him at six. That's still behind free and TDP. If the Giants win the WS, that puts him at 12 points. Still not enough to top them, so he needs the Giants to win the WS in five. That would be an additional six points, finally putting him in first place at 18 points.
We live in an age of miracles. If not me, who? If not now, when?
The Pirate can only get eight, as the only way the Gints win is in seven. That puts him at 15.
The Cards could be disqualified for their postseason voodoo.
Them ain't the ones becurst theyselves in lettin Teddy win th'race.
which means that Freealonzo cannot win.
If the Gints win the NL, brianS gets eight more (because 7 is guaranteed), putting him at ten, five points behind Pirate. If the Gints win the WS, BrianS wins.
So...
Tigers: Magoo
Cards: AMR
Gints: brianS
bS predicted Giants win in six, so he only gets four points if they win the NLCS.
I looked at it wrong then.
I had switched to Rowsdowser's line.
Revised!
Tigers: Magoo
Cards: AMR
Gints: brianS iff in 5, else Dread Pirate.
Dang, I thought you only got 2 extra points for having the right number of games in LCS. I'm out of it regardless if SF makes a miracle comeback.
I'm out?
C'mon EPL brackef!
Speaking of:
18 of 20 teams have 7 matches played. Sunderland & Reading are on 6 matches. Since this week was an int'l break, this is as current as it gets. League matches resume tomorrow morning.
Who's going to take home the much coveted 'most improved, comeback kid of the brackef' award?
bS will if SF comes back. A two-fer: MVP AND Comeback Kid!!!!111one1111!!!
Dream on, doc. Dream on.
So Fernando Rodney won the AL Comeback Player of the Year. Huh. I guess you can't argue with 48 saves and a sweet ERA.
Comeback Player of the Year is the Save of year-end awards.
My first year on the debate team, I won the "Most Improved" debater award. It was my FIRST season, so basically the award was saying, "You really sucked hard early on, but you put up a couple of good showings at the end, so congrats on arranging your season that way." Thing is, my record after my first three debate tournaments was 9-4, so it's not like I started out poorly anyway. I just had a really good final tournament.
I won the Most Improved on the HS track team TWO years. The first year was basically for surprising them that I could actually do something, and the second year for bringing home some bling after being put into the correct event (mile).
Still, even if I hadn't won either, I wouldn't have whined like the Sox fans over Adam Dunn and Alex Rios snubs.
In Ireland, one of my good friends on the rugby team told me that I "wasn't as shit as I used to be". Made me feel good.
High praise indeed.
Congeniality Floats?
Comeback Player of the Year is the Save of year-end awards.
Something new for me to track next season.
There were more deserving players, but .777 WHIP and 3.7 rWAR as a reliever are pretty crazy.
He had a fine season, no doubt. It just feels weird.
15 minute phone interview at 3:00. Ugh, I hate phone interviews. I'm so uncomfortable on the phone. I'd much rather do this in person.
Put a cardboard cutout of someone on the wall near the phone, and talk to it. On speakerphone, if that's an option.
That was a lot less stressful than I thought it would be. I pretty much nailed it. Got a meeting with the next higher up next week.
THAT'S what we like to hear!
Break a leg, sir.
Updated standings. I always like to look at what the regular season standings look like after you add in the postseason results, and whether or not that would shift the regular season standings. With the longer postseason, you might expect that someone with a dominant run (say, 11-2 or 11-0 or something) could move up the standings and pass up other teams in the postseason.
This year, though, St. Louis and Detroit were so far back that even if either one were to win the rest of their games, they would both still finish last in overall (regular season + post-season) win%.
Of course, it's not quite fair to count post-season wins as ordinary wins, since they are against better competition. Similarly, it's not quite fair to count post-season losses as ordinary losses, since they are against better competition. Even that makes it kind of tough for the Tigers and Cards to gain ground. The most extreme shift I could think of is giving post-season wins credit for 2 regular season wins and post-season losses as credit for 0 regular season losses. With that weighting, Detroit has passed Texas (but only Texas) and St. Louis is still last in the NL. Under that extreme weighting, the Cards could also pass San Fransisco if they beat SF in the game 5 and win the WS. The Tigers would actually overtake everyone in the AL if they win the WS under that weighting, though, even though their adjusted record wouldn't be better than Washington's adjusted record.
If you award 2 losses for every post season loss when a team is swept, you'll have my approval.
So it's after 3:00 Michigan time and DadBoner still hasn't tweeted about his meeting with the Head Honcho. Kinda concerning?
I'm worried as to where he woke up this morning.
As if on cue
I think he and the head honcho might end up in some sort of drunken haze, if past is prologue.
So where you when you heard Dadboner got fired?
Now that is a bold power move. I'm using that when I head honcho comes after me.
I pretty much expected this when Nosey Lady didn't say much to Karl earlier this week. That's always a bad sign. Now I almost want to root for the Tigers to win it all.
Me too. Karl deserves it.*
*Also, I win the brackef in that case. But Karl.
I don't understand this. On what basis did they terminate him?
Bold. Power. Moves.
Minnesota to Stanford: Piss off!
Without charging a fee and without granting any sort of credit/degree/certification, I fail to see how Coursera courses are substantially different from reading a book from the library and discussing it on a message board.
And I assume similar notice has been given to iTunes U, in this case.
While silly, I think it should be pointed out that they didn't ban it now. The quoted law has been there for "at least 20 years".
I think online learning is going to be huge in the very near future but it won't be without issues. The status quo will fight this one.
I see great potential in online learning, but I also see the possibility for someone to dominate the segment (like, say, Google dominates internet search), which wouldn't necessarily be a great thing for education as a whole.
It would definitely lead to concentration in education.
I could see it really eliminating the college acceptance process. If the marginal cost of accepting another student is close to zero, one school can educate a lot of people.
It could also reduce college costs.
Interesting idea, ubes.
It's not clear to me that online education is a field in which a "natural monopoly" is a very plausible outcome. Good assessment is hard to automate, which means that there aren't really big economies of scale and scope. I.e., above some size, the brand name becomes increasingly hard to defend, which means the perceived value of the degree/credits diminishes.
It just seems that even though there are really low barriers to entry on the web (sites are so cheap that even we can afford one), there aren't really that many sites that are remotely popular. I could be wrong, I could just be afraid of change, it's just a thought.
Oh, I don't disagree that the numbers of popular sites is small.
On the flip side, I disagree that the barriers to entry in online education are low. If your online degree/credential isn't recognized by others as meaningful, then it is not (very) meaningful. You have to invest quite a bit to build a reputation as a deliverer of educational value.
so, we have lots and lots of educational institutions out there with valuable reputations. Some are venturing into online education where, conditional on having a valuable reputation as an educational institution, the barriers to entry are low. Marginal costs of provision are not zero, however. You have to assess the students, and manage the instructors, or eventually you will dilute/diminish/destroy the brand. So there should be lots of room in the market for providers, and the providers will be limited in size.
The future is now for the Gophers.
Oooh, girlfight.
also,
Not something you'd see written about an NBA coach very often.
Okay... assuming the Cardinals win this thing, this means that we're going to have the following scenario:
Kyle Lohse pitching to Delmon Young.
I think I'm going to shed a tear...
Schell's Oktoberfest is full of malty goodness.
This is true. Last year, I noticed hints of raisin.
Schell's Octoberfest is actually the first beer I bought legally.
On the morning of my 21st birthday, I was at Zipp's waiting for it to open and I picked up a case of the Octoberfest.