71 thoughts on “December 5, 2012: Long Story Short”

  1. If you are interested in the NBA and like podcasts, you should listen to Jalen Rose. It's pretty darned good.

  2. A big semi just went past my office window with "SBG" on it in big letters. Is the Boss Emeritus advertising now?

  3. I had a dream last night that the Twins got Jair Jurrjens for free because nobody else wanted him and he reported to spring training in All=Star form. Then I had a dream about my best friend cheating on his wife. I sense an underlying theme.

      1. I liked this from 4ltr on last night's game.

        The Lakers fell to 1-7 this season when Bryant scores 30 points or more.

        "We need to share the ball again," Howard said after the game, making a not-so-vague reference to Bryant's disproportional shot total.

        Howard's going to be longing for the good old days with SVG pretty soon at this rate.

  5. LEN3 is reporting the Twins have made offers to several pitchers, including Liriano and Joe Saunders.

  6. Roch Kubatko ‏@masnRoch

    #orioles are 1 of the teams that the Twins have contacted to gauge interest in 1B Justin Morneau. Want young pitching in return (of course)

    2. Apparently Revere's name has come up in trade talks. No idea who with or who for. They said they'd "want a CF in return," so that confuses me. I might be irrationally hopeful, but I'd be okay with Maestro manning center field for a couple of months while Hicks is getting ready in Rochester if they could trade Revere for a decent, cost controlled pitcher.

            1. I'll be damned if I let the Twins training staff get anywhere near a Shved pitcher. Non-traditional shortstop it is.

                1. Mark Belanger and Cal Ripken as former Orioles' SSs with some altitude (I guess Belanger listed only at 6'1", but he was a giant for the times relative to your typical, short, latino all-glove-no-stick middle infielder in the 1960s and early '70s).

                  Just to continue the Bal'more theme.

                  1. I had Buford, Blair, and Belanger cards at one point. Unfortunately, all were attached to bike spokes with wash line pins and are worthless now, even if I could find them.

      2. I would imagine that all sorts of names come up in trade talks. It doesn't necessarily mean anything is likely to happen.

  7. the Twins medical staff moved to Eden Prairie

    Tom Pelissero ‏@TomPelissero

    Frazier on Harvin: "He’s done pretty much the things that the trainers have asked him to do, but he won’t be practicing today."

    1. Take Five is in my top-5 favorite songs of all time. He was an iconic figure at UOP in nearby Stockton.

    3. WFCR (NPR out in NBB-land) playing Brubeck tonite on Jazz A'la Mode at 8PM EST.

      I will be listening whilst making Madras Curry.

  9. it shouldnt bug me, but it does. There is a Culvers commercial that touts 'searing the burger seals in the flavor' when in fact searing doesnt seal anything. it creates flavor by carmelizing (or what its called) the meat

        1. That damned duck. I'd say with relative certainty that there is no type of business with more consistantly annoying commercials than insurance companies. The AFLAC duck, pretty much every Geico commercial, Flo (the worst for me)...

          The single worst commercial for me, though, is the Subway one where the adults speak with children's voices. It's a terrible concept, executed poorly. Combined with my distaste of Subway (both the food and as a corporate entity) this commercial makes me see red every time I have the misfortune of seeing it.

            1. Jared wasn't annoying when he was just a "fat" guy walking to get a veggie sub...or not.

          2. I will didon the distaste of the new Subway ad campaign. Women bullying the geeky guy and taking his sandwich? This does not make me want to spend money at their stores.

            1. I fully agree. It's easily the dumbest commercial running, which is saying something considering the competition.

              1. Well, Dr. Pepper 10 is still trying with its whole "it's not for women" campaign, so...

                That being said, the Subway commercials have a mean spiritedness to them that has come up more than once at work, so I guess I can agree with you.

                1. The Dr. Pepper ads are dumb, but they look like they're supposed to dumb. My feeling is that someone at Subway actually thinks their ads are clever.

          3. What gets me are commercials that make me instantly change the radio station/channel/web site.

            Weather.com had this annoying dancing lady mortgage advert. Both my wife and I switched over to wunderground.com in disgust - vote with your feet.

            2. Yep, the other weather sites' ads drove me to wunderground as well.
              I'd been using one or the other, bothered but never too ticked to put in the effort to look for another. Then ran across something mentioning wunderground and noticed that a guy a block away from my house has a station, so I'm 95% switched. (One of the old ones does a better job on severe weather maps.

    1. Jackie O: Mind if I sit here?

      J. Fitz: Me likes me some French onion soup baked in peasant bread.

  11. +10 to bS on the birth of a new verb (attention OED'ers) didon. Linguistic history here, pallos.

    didon v. To agree with an earlier dismissal of a promotional effort. e.g. I will didon the distaste of the new Subway ad campaign. [2012]

      1. People: the sidebar (and mobile?) does not know superscripting. If you read from a regular browser, you should see dido with a superscripted n.

        Nonetheless, I approves of Bo's verb-age.

  14. After 3 hours chatting with support technicians from Comcast, Samsung, Cisco and Linksys, both on the phone and via "chat", I remember now why sometimes, I F*CKING HATE TECHNOLOGY!
    We bought a Bluray 3D/DVD player with WiFi direct and internet accessiblity for each other for Christmas. I had it all hooked up and the stupid thing would connect to my wireless network, but not the internet. First it was the ISP, then it was the router, then it was the player - all of the suggestions were about the same (unplug the router, reset the player, disconnect the modem, reset the router...). Finally, Cisco sent me to their third-party system engineers who wanted to charge me $65 to configure my brand new Bluray player to the router. I said, no thanks and went back over to the support pages for more online chatting. I finally got connected to a support tech who responded promptly to my questions and had actual, useful questions for me. He helped me figure out that I to select the something in the device setup that would allow it to communicate with the router. And also to push the refresh button on top of the router to allow it to connect to the device...I asked him what he'd had me do but didn't understand his answer. I kept all of the transcripts, so if anyone's interested in deciphering what the hell I've been up to - let me know and I'll put up a post.
    Phew...I was on the verge of throwing stuff. And this after watching the Wolves game!

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