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April 19, 2013: Anniversary(ish)

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Can you believe it's been two years (and a few days) since we arrived at the new WGOM? Yeah, me neither. Keep up the inside joaks, the beer discussion, the job successes and the procreating, Citizens. Oh, and keep supporting that local nine of ours. Cheers!

98 thoughts on “April 19, 2013: Anniversary(ish)”

  1. Oh my. One Boston bombing suspect was killed by police and another is on the run on foot. One office killed, another wounded. Apparently, the suspects had multiple weapons, grenades and other explosives with them.

    1. I woke up at about 2:30 this morning feeling rested. I couldn't go back to sleep, so I checked twitter to see what was going on in the world, as if there would be anything. Wowza.

      1. I finally went to bed at 3 am after being glued to the TV & Twitter for two hours following what was happening. It was around then when they said they'd probably need to wait for daylight to get the second guy.

        Special shout out to Reddit for spreading two incorrect names for the bombers for hours.

        1. How about the girl that fingered her former classmate, who has been missing for a couple of months, and the graphic that morphed his smiling face into suspect #2? (It wasn't him.) Good job.

          1. She gets an A for effort as well. Good god.

            My mother told me I needed to get my eyes examined yesterday because I told her I didn't think the suspects looked "Middle Eastern." At least she apologized to me this morning.

              2. Well then.

                At least this coworker is out in the open with their intolerance. It makes it easier to dislike them.

                1. I can feel that, Zack. One of the toughest moments of my work life was finding out that a girl I'd befriended over the past couple of months at work - a girl I was maybe even interested in at the time - was a complete xenophobe.

                  1. That feeling is terrible. I get very disappointed when someone who I really like lets some hateful ignorance fly. It's the most disappointing watching it come from my mother. She's had to stay at home due to disability for the last several years, and hours and hours of propaganda masquerading as cable news has really uh... changed her outlook on things.

                    1. It took a while, but I finally convinced my parents not to watch so much cable news. It was really souring their outlook on life. You hear about nothing but bad things happening all the time and you start to think that's all the world is.

                    3. My mother has been soured by working at an elementary school. Needless to say, there have been quite a few family dinners where my brother, a criminal defense attorney, basically keeps slapping his forehead and shaking his head.

      1. If you can't won't improve the product, improve the product delivery methodology.

        1. it sounds like it will be a very expensive way to reduce the volume of the can. and only appeal to douchey guys. I predict it will get some marketing genius fired and will last about as long as New Coke as a thing.

          1. Is this a temporary thing?
            I dislike the beer, but as far as pushing the engineering of cans for a one-time promotion, I think it's cool.

      2. Did the cold activation come before or after the hole, though? Might need to review your "best idea in beerdom" timeline.

  4. Im so glad I live in a neighborhood where the people are friendly. The last two snowfalls, my sidewalk has already been cleared off by a snowblower.

  5. Jose Berrios, who had been on the Elizabethton roster, has been promoted to Cedar Rapids.

      1. Elizabethton is short season and hasn't started yet. Berrios pitched for them last year (and was their No. 1 pitcher in the playoffs). Starting in Cedar Rapids raises the possibility that he could be in the majors in 2015. Maybe even a September callup in 2014.

        1. I forgot he was there last year. From what I've seen from him, I think the earlier he gets to the majors, the better.

  6. Bob Klapisch, going out on a limb:

    No matter what he says to the contrary, the Yankees captain has surely considered the possibility his best days are behind him.

    Wait... his best days are behind him? You mean, he's already peaked? Unpossible!

  9. 3 days without baseball. ugh

    Minnesota Twins ‏@Twins
    Tonight’s @Twins game at U.S. Cellular Field has been postponed due to a forecast of cold and windy conditions.

    1. Oh, for the love. Doubleheader planned? With the conditions across the season, they might just want to go old-school and make it a 154-game season, eh?

      I have tonight off, too. I guess I'll be forced to focus on writing.

      1. According to LEN3, no makeup date has been announced. The Twins make two more trips to Chicago, so I'm sure they would rather wait for better weather.

    2. Foot of snow in late April, No baseball, and HJ's link above.
      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7GA4EZZrw

    1. Me too. BTW, Doogie is one hardworking dude. His columns are always chock-full of interesting stuff.

      1. yep, like this buried toward the bottom of the column

        • The Twins recently lost scout Hector Otero to Dan Lozano's agency. Otero had a big hand in the selections of infielder Eddie Rosario and pitcher J.O. Berrios in the last few years.

        1. I could have done without the Twins love HS outfielders reference. If you include first round supplemental picks, the Twins have had 22 first-round picks in the last 10 years. 13 of those picks have been pitchers. 4 picks were toolsy HS outfielders. Parmelee was a 1B/OF, more like Sanchez and Moses than Hicks, Buxton, Revere, and Span.

          I thought maybe these whole meme would die after last offseason when the Twins showed that you can turn outfielders into pitching through trades. Who knew? Not to mention that even in hindsight, Hicks, Revere, and Span all look like they were solid at worst picks, and Buxton is obviously too early to tell.

              1. 1st-round picks with 10+ rWAR by draft year:

                2009: 1
                2008: 1
                2007: 3
                2006: 5
                2005: 11
                2004: 6
                2003: 8
                2002: 12
                2001: 6
                2000: 5

                  2. Plus, that year the Twins didn't spend much on the draft, and I think it's because they made a push to put more money towards the major league payroll that year, since they had a low position in the draft anyway.

                    1. Right. Well, I don't see much below Revere's draft slot -- so much for the gnashing and grinding of teeth over picking Revere so much higher than he supposedly should have been. The front office did just fine by my reckoning.

          2. The problem is that they have been so much more successful with the outfielders. It is hard to remember the picks that didn't pan out.

            1. Sure, that and the generally long lead time it takes to get a prospect to the majors. Torii Hunter's path to the majors wasn't terribly unusual and it took him from draft day in 1993 until 2000-2001 to become a regular in the majors. By that point, most everyone has completely forgotten the circumstances of the draft when the team acquired him.

    2. My friend that works for the Wolves said Adelman was basically checked out for the second half of the season. Retiring from coaching wouldn't surprise me a bit.

    1. Ugh, finally. I've been waiting for someone else to say something so I don't look pathetic having to bring up my big back-to-back championship.

      1. I would have brought it up, but I'm still sulking. Hopefully the trade we just made in fantasy baseball will ease some of the sting.

    1. The game was okay. I'd give it a C. Mets unfortunately jumped out early and it looked like they might win easily. Then, the Nats made it interesting in the 7th by loading the bases with no outs, but failed to score. Then the Mets pulled away.

      I suppose I could up my rating if the Nats did something amazing here.

    1. In the TV news biz it's called BOPSA video, bunches of people standing (or sitting) around.

        1. Who would take a photograph of their house, driveway, and boat wrapped in plastic? Not me.

          1. This Just In: There is a Bengal Tiger on the boat! (sorry, that's from NBBW).

  16. Hi guys, I'm going to need a pinch hitter for Monday's game log. Turns out that excruciating abdominal pain yesterday was a ruptured appendix. Go Horned Frogs!

    1. I too was plagued by a vestigial issue. Rupture of the plantarsis muscle. Dr. Fierer said no prob, you can run now.

      So I did 4 mi on Wed and Thu (with no issues).

      Looked up vestigial on the I-webs - other vestigials: appendix, coccyx, tonsils, part of our ears, sm. corner in our eyes, nasal cavity, and some other stuff.

      1. Yeah, I too was afraid he'd die in a shootout and we'd never have any answers about what happened and why.

        1. I'm hopeful that we'll get some answers, but I don't know that we will. Or I'm afraid that the answers we get will be completely unsatisfactory - after all, there is no motivation that can justify this.

          I'm also rooting strongly for due process - a conviction obtained justly is all the more sweet.

          1. Oh, what I want to say about this. All I will say is that I will be extremely disappointed if there isn't a criminal trial in the appropriate court.

            1. the apparent (or threatened) non-Mirandaization by the Feds seems already to be sending this on a bad path.

          2. what Philo said. Captured alive ≥ killed. No guarantee that we will ever "understand" why this happened, nor will executing or putting away for life this kid necessarily bring closure or relief to those injured or the families of the dead.

            1. I should also add, and sorry if this kind of thing is too similar to forbidden zone (but I think we're ok here), that I had no confidence at all that he would be taken alive. 0. But hearing not only that he was, but once he was cornered, everyone on the news, everyone they spoke to, etc., seemed to very much want him alive too... That helped restore some of my faith in humanity.

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