66 thoughts on “December 18, 2012: One Week”

1. R. I. P. ex-Twin Frank Pastore (1986), who passed away as a result of injuries caused by a motorcycle accident at age 55.

   1. Didn't realize he lived so close to me.

2. Apparently, at least four dead in murder-suicide in Colorado today. I'd be shocked if it didn't happen.

3. Pffft. Science.

4. Is anybody up for a beer on the 26th? Someplace in southwest Minneapolis.

   1. i could do something 22nd or 23rd, but not after xmas.

      1. I could do 22nd, but not 26th.

         1. I could mayyyyybe do something the 21st, but not the 22nd or 23rd.

            1. because of the Mayan end of the world?

               1. Yeah. If the Mayan end turns out to actually be the Rapture, then I'm definitely down for drinks, if it turns out to be something else, then I may be busy.

                  1. um, don't be mixing your end-of-the-world scenarios here.

                     1. Yea, what does Blondie have to do with the Mayan calendar?

               2. I think the Mayan end of the world is really more akin to the Y2K bugs than anything else. Some dopey programmer took a shortcut several thousand years ago and now we've all got to wonder whether it means the end of everything.

                  1. Stupid Mayan programmers...

                     1. If you had to carve programs in stone, you'd be looking to save a few characters everywhere you could, too.

                        1. explains the use of base-20.

   2. I just emailed meat last night to see when he was going to be in town because I was planning on proposing something like this. Off the top of my head, I think I'm free pretty much every evening (besides the holidays) except the 27th.

      1. If you're free, then who is Dean?!

         1. I chuckled.

      2. I'm with free DPWY but insert "26th" in place of "27th."

   3. Stuck in Glenwood until the 27th. SiL got engaged and EAR and the third sister are going out dress shopping.
      I guess it's possible we'll come home that day (which is my hope) in which case, the 26th could work (weather allowing).

      1. Glenwood, hmm? That's in my neck of the woods.

         1. I'll be bringing good beer!
            At least a sixer of Jubelale and Snowstorm, and prob two other sixers.
            If I'm uninspired, Summit Winter and Sierra Nevada Celebration. (They're great, I've just had them for two straight Christmases.)

   4. Someone should put together a spreadsheet. We may need to do regional caucii.

      1. I think I should just pick a place and go out every night. I am bound to match up with someone!

      2. Dude	22	23	24	25	26	27
         DPWY	X	X			X
         freealonzo	X	X			X	X
         hungry joe	X	X
         CoC	X	X	X			X
         sean	X
         AMR						X
         Algonad					X

         Darn, I forgot this doesn't work very well without numbers.

         1. I'm good all those nights except 24 and 25.

            1. What do you have going on those days that is so important? 😉

         2. what, a programmer who doesn't know how to use ones and zeros? for shame. What are they teaching in c.s. school these days???

            1. I'm not a CS grad 🙂

               I considered it, but decided that it could be a bit confusing.

               1. Well played.

         3. I'll be available (and in Omaha) every night but the 24th.

            1. thought of ringing you while I was in town the last couple of days, but I don't want to be that guy that pesters a person every time he's in town

         4. Nope 24th is out (I thought that was included in the holidays)

            1. [Dido] but you could add a cheaptoy line and mark him (and me) as available on the 21st (Friday). Oh, and add a column for the 21st too. Also, you forgot to give the Dude his own line and add his dates...hint, hint boss 😉

               1. Hey, I already invited you to a party on the 21st. If anybody else wants an invite, get to me on the Book of Faces.

                  1. Might as well take this opportunity to lament I won't have the opportunity to break out my Cosby sweater for that evening. Well, not at your party anyway...

                     1. But now to whom will I spend the entire night lying through my teeth and smirking?

                        1. You need a special victim guest for that? I thought it was your usual M.O.

                  2. Your party could kick off the caucus season! As for our attendance, I'm still trying to line something up...I'm not on FB enough to use invites as the planning tools they're supposed to be. Just ask AMR.

                     1. He tells the truth!

            2. They're all just free days off to me, so I need help classifying them.

   5. Mags and I will be holding a Rust Belt Caucus the first week of January if anyone else is interested.

      1. Check your email. I've sent a preliminary availability.

5. Maybe Jack Morris needs to put his big boy pants on. How about the goodbye you never gave to Twins fans after '91.

   1. Both he and ii seem to have had the same problem with being disrespected. Maybe it has something to do with Detroit.

   2. Yea, how's he supposed to make the HOF if he doesn't have a regular broadcasting gig from which to complain about not being in?

   3. I know, I know...don't read the comments.

      The only thing I know is that I enjoyed the banter between Jack and Dan Gladden. Their comments were thoughtful and insightful, not trite and superfluous.
      -jovitza Dec. 15, 7:19 PM

      1. Hey, no one knows all the great stories from the early nineties like those two. Why would we want to know about what's going on with the game that day?

      2. And there was much shaking of fists and vacating of lawns.

      3. That's a hell of a paradox, there: someone who knows the words "trite" and "superfluous" not thinking that BlackJack n Dazzle are trite and superfluous.

         1. meh. Someone on the Intertubez just found a thesaurus

            1. I've noticed over the years that the type of person who could use a thesaurus usually either doesn't know they exist or picks the wrong version of the word to thesaurusify (not a word).

               Perhaps I should just engage the Stribbie in question in a level-headed conversation about the matter.

6. The Classical is doing a 3 part oral history on Fire Joe Morgan.

   1. Im surprised Grantland didnt think of that first, since they seem to pump out a 'Oral History of ____' about twice a week.

      1. Three weeks from now on Grantland...
         "The Oral History of The Classical's Oral History of Fire Joe Morgan: We didn't know what they didn't know about what they were doing"

7. Hurry brian, you can be there in less than an hour!

   1. damn!!!

      1. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuDP7c3Zd8I
         (Lyrics NSFW)

8. Tim Tebow to the CFL? that would be tremendous.

   1. maybe he should come to the vikings. would it be any worse?

      1. Jeff breaks the news first.

      2. it could be worse. the Vikings could have Mark 'buttfumble' Sanchez

   2. He's too tall to be Flutie 2: Lost in New York.

      1. you forgot 'The Search For Curly's Gold'

      2. But Tebow plays in New York!
         But Tebow plays for a New York team!
         But Tebow's on the roster of a New York team!
         But Tebow's on the roster of a team that claims to be from New York!

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