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December 16, 2012: The Lowest Form

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There's nothing like a tragedy to bring out the worst in people. I've heard and read some of the cruelest and most awful things in my life in these past couple of days.

I adore and need you guys, and I know I'm not the only one.

29 thoughts on “December 16, 2012: The Lowest Form”

  1. FWIW, I think our experiment has been a qualified success. We had a venue for venting; it was off the sidebar so as to keep it away from those not wishing to participate; and participants were admirably thoughtful.

    Not sure that I would want to make Forbidden Zone posts a regular feature, for all of the good reasons that we chose to (mostly) ban politics from the site, but I think that as a very rare, occasional outlet, it would work fine.

    2. I did glance through the experiment a few times over the last couple days. It looked like some good discussion was going on, and like bS says, sometimes, it probably just needs to happen.

      I'll definitely echo meat's "almost never" comment, though.

    2. I may try to avoid watching football as much as possible, and feel bad about it when I do catch some games, I would almost certainly tune in to the last game of the season if AP is on the verge of breaking the rushing record.

      (Edit: Unless the Wolves were playing at the same time.)

      1. He needs to average 169 yards over the last three games, including today's. So far, he has 142 today. It will require a lot of yards, but it's not totally crazy.

            1. Houston, Green Bay to finish the season

              the second big run (51 yds?) was awesome, but Kyle Rudolph demolished some big to spring Peter up the field on the cutback. I gave a Ric Flair style 'woooo' for that

  4. First snow of the year here in Omerha. Light dusting on the lawn, skating rink on the driveway.

  5. So, over at CdL I've taken to doing podcasts with people about Spookymilk Survivor. If you're curious how we sound or how obsessive certain people are about the game, here are the first two:

    The Dread Pirate (he was on a phone, so the sound quality isn't very good):

    daneekasghost:

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    Also, now that I (sorta) know how to do these, it might not be a bad time to do some Get To Know 'Em podcasts. If anyone's up for that, email me.

      1. I'm alright with this signing, contingent on the contract. I'm scared about that last part given what they gave Correia.

        1. I remember the days when I was wishing Pelfrey was one of the pieces of a then-hypothetical Santana trade. Nowadays, even if he's healthy, he's pretty meh, although less meh than Correia.

          1. Yeah for some reason my perception of him was much higher than his actual performance.

            Sounds like it's $1.4 million with $1.5 million in incentives. He's still pretty young, so I don't know, I'm okay with this signing.

            1. Heyman reporting $4M with $1.5M in incentives for one year. Before surgery, he average 196 innings and 1.3 rWAR for the previous four full seasons. Pelfrey does get about 20 percent more ground balls than average. The Twins need to make sure their infield defense is good, because it will be seeing a lot of action with the pitching staff they are putting together. Diamond, Worley, Pelfrey, Correia and Gibson are all well above average in getting ground balls (and Deduno would be as well if he is in there instead of Gibson). Plus, only Worley and possibly Gibson would be above average in Ks.

              1. my guess (barring any FA pickup or trade), Carroll gets second, Florimon gets SS, and Plouffe better be working with every coach available to help out with defense.

    3. My feeling about this is similar to my feeling about Correia. He's not going to be great, but he's not supposed to be. The Twins are continuing to build for the future, but they still have to play games this year, and they need to put together something that at least looks like a major league rotation. The goal with these guys is just to get by for a year or two until the young pitchers are ready to do what the Twins hope they'll do.

  7. Well, I had a fun day. Dug a rotted post and 2.5 feet of cement out of the ground, continued digging (with help of neighbor -- it's a shared fence) down to 3.5 feet. 50 lbs of pea gravel, chunks of cement (not really concrete -- it was a bit crumbly, thankyouverymuch) and backfill tamped down around the post, then reattaching fence.

    I only have about 6 more broken posts to deal with (2 with the same neighbor, 4 with a different neighbor). w00t.

    Whose brilliant idea was it to pour cement around fence posts? they rot faster (or at least no slower, particularly when the cement is all a foot below ground level), are a major pain in the ass to remove, and really are no more stable than what I got with the pea gravel and backfill.

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