Cup of Coffee

July 12, 2013: Glenn Williams

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Must have had the best cup of coffee ever. At least for a position player.

And Glenn's career-length hit streak included three games pinch-hitting!
Just like I'm pinch-hitting today!

Look at me pinch-hitting!

84 thoughts on “July 12, 2013: Glenn Williams”

  2. Spookymilk, did you see me pinch-hitting? That's called pinch-hitting, what I was doing. Philosopher, did you see what I was doing? Pinch-hitting. Hallo, Meat! I say, Meat! What do you think I was doing! Pinch-hitting! BrianS, did you see me...

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    1. I hate this, but I have no choice but to become a Nets fan now. I would follow AK to the gates of hell.

  4. I have an appointment on Saturday the 20th to surrender my cat Hades. He's been obnoxious the whole eight years I've owned him, and at least 500 times I've yelled or swore at him. He is loud. The only way to sleep with him around is to lock him downstairs or sleep to loud music. He hates laps and you have to knock him down seven or eight times before he stops trying to sit on your neck and shoulders and lick your face like a labrador. He scratches furniture. The litter box is his play gym. Despite being neutered, he mounts my other cat constantly, terrorizing here. He occasionally pees outside the litter box and a couple days ago he pooped in the crib.

    But dammit I love him. He's the most affectionate animal I've ever met, and it's going to be one of the hardest things I'll ever do. I know he'd enjoy his life more if lived in a place that could allow him outside, or at least have a huge house so he wouldn't be locked in a five by three room at night. And a place where his owners aren't occupied 98% of the time doing other things besides pay attention to him. But I worry nobody's going to want him and he'll be put down. It's just a stupid cat that I don't even like, but ugh.

    1. I sympathize, Beau. Our first cat was a terrorist. Basically, she didn't like anyone but me. She tried to kill my father-in-law a few times, I think.

      After the Boy was born, she had a nervous breakdown -- stopped grooming, started peeing places other than the litter box, etc. I cried when I had to put her down.

    2. He sounds appropriately named though I can sympathize...not with cats, I can't stand cats, but with obnoxiously affectionate pets who simply don't get the attention* they want, need and probably deserve. Tough choice but it sounds like the right one.

      *and exercise in the case of my golden retriever.

    3. I can sympathize as well. I had to put down one of our dogs last summer because he attacked me (and often bit the crap out of me) nearly ever day and was a risk to do it to children regardless of situation. I also cried when I dropped him off. Not sure how I'll handle our cat or the other dog, both who are nearly perfect pets that show more affection towards me than anyone else in the house.

    4. Cats are my favorite, but I doubt I'd think so if I'd known that one. Still, losing an animal is a pain I didn't learn until I was about 23, and ugh...it's the worst. We had a rabbit who was a lot like that (right down to constantly mounting the other rabbit). Rabbits are cold and hateful in general, but Cornjob was the absolute worst. I never really did grow to like him very much.

        1. Every animal I've ever named has had a pretty stupid name, yeah. The dog I loved more than just about anything was Commissioner Goofypants, although two of my siblings preferred to call him Spunky.

          2. When I was in high school, I found a stray dog outside the school one morning. Took him home before classes started (we lived half a block away) and put him in the laundry room. He was a little guy, part chihuahua and part terrier, stiff black and white hair that stuck out in all directions. My brother named him Scrotum.

    5. Sorry to hear that. We have had to put down a few cats over the years. One that my wife brought home one day shortly after we started dating so it had kind of been the 3 of us up to that point. It was surprisingly (to me at least) emotional. But also a little bit beautiful? She had basically had a stroke, so it was no-brainer to be sure and that probably helped. But I was in the room and pet her while the chemicals did their thing and could feel her heart slow down and eventually stop and maybe I helped her out a little I don't know. Anyway, it sucked but it also didn't.

      1. I was in the room the whole way with our latest loss (several years ago now), a beautiful boy cat who'd made the mistake of sneaking out of the house on the cat-sitter and visiting the neighbor's pit bull. I got home from Santa Fe in time to say goodbye to him. Nothing beautiful in that case, just tears for his suffering and our loss. But it WAS a no-brainer.

        with the devil cat, I was in the room at the end too. Also hard. I felt a lot of guilt in that case, even though I knew (a) she couldn't live with us anymore and (b) she wasn't going to adapt to anyone else.

        1. Guilt, I bet that has a lot to do with how difficult it was to put that dog down. We tried as hard as we could, but we just couldn't help him and I also don't believe anyone else could have, either. It also didn't help that he rode on my lap on the way to the humane society.

      2. Yes, Sheenie adopted Hildy when she first moved here and I was in DC. I thought Hildy was annoying as hell until I moved back. I couldn't believe I cried when we had to put her down. Thankfully, Harriet keeps us quiet busy now.

          1. You know what isn't fun? Having to pry a dead rabbit out of a Jack Russell's mouth.

            1. You mean remove piece-by-piece, right? Rabbits don't last very long as a tug-o-war chew toy, in my experience with my terriers.

              1. Once an animal is in Sadie's mouth, I tell her to stay outside until she's done with it. Of course, I might have a different attitude if it was another pet of if Sadie wasn't a German shepherd.

    6. Our cat, Blue, has become way more vocal in the last several months. It seems she's found new words, and excellent timing (2-3 am) when using them. She's much happier now that dr. chop is back from traveling, but she's gotten way more needier. I feel your pain, beau. I know that I'll be a wreck when our cat has to go to the farm.

      1. Our cat is very "talkative" in the mornings, but not until about 7am (since this is usually around the time Linds feeds her). Unfortunately, on weekends - say, maybe, the day after a late late night out - she is both insistent and persistent about her chats at 7am.

        She also greets us at the door when we home and talks on an off for the next half hour or so, but that's a bit less annoying.

        1. being greeted at the door after work is awesome. I get the treatment from at least one cat most days. makes me nostalgic for when the kids were little and still thought I was awesome.

          1. What's really adorable is how lovey she is after we return from a trip. After we got back from a weeklong trip to San Diego, she doted on us for three or four days.

            1. the afore-mentioned devil cat had a different attitude. Once when we were in grad school, after several days away (what? a vacation? in grad school?) we returned to find (unused!) tampons from a box under the bathroom sink strewn all over the apartment. And we were schnubbed for hours.

    7. I have thought many times about getting a cat or a dog, but Mrs. A and I are both home so little that it never made sense to us. I do love them, though.

    8. Our first cat as a married couple we named Dodger, after a character in the John Hassler novel Grand Opening. We typically prefaced his name with the adjective "pitiful." He was a farm kitten, a tiger stripe with oversized ears and a stubborn streak that would exasperate a mule. The first thing he did when we got him home was make a beeline under my desk and take a leak. His refusal to use the litter box we put in the bathroom was maddening. As far as he was concerned, the bathroom was under the desk and that was it. Eventually that's where we had to put the litter box. But he was also the most affectionate and friendly cat. I have so many stories about him I could fill a book (and maybe I will). Pitiful Dodger. We loved him dearly, but after Elder Daughter was born he got jealous and developed a bit of a mean streak. We gave him to my mom, who gave him to some friends of hers. They eventually moved out of state, so we don't know ultimately what happened to him. But he's become the stuff of legend around our house.

    1. I don't disagree with your thesis, but I'm not sure there's really much of a market for Morneau. Who wants a first baseman with no power? Nobody making a playoff bid this year that I can figure. And the return would be meager. It might be a better move to let him play out his contract, go free agent and take the draft picks.

      1. The compensation rules were changed, so I don't think Morneau will net any draft picks. In order to get one, he has to turn down a qualifying offer, which will be north of $13 million.

        1. I don't think he even qualifies for that, but yeah, there's no way he would turn down a qualifying offer and no way the Twins would give him one.

          1. Everyone qualifies, so it's up to the team to decide if they want to risk the one-year deal.

            Edit: I'm pretty sure everyone qualifies since it depends on them receiving the qualifying offer. That greatly simplifies the accounting of who's worth it.

      2. My hope would be that someone would see the home runs he hit recently and hope that he's found his power stroke. Unfortunately, now he's hit a batting slump. The Twins are just better off letting him go one way or another.

    1. Sheenie's parents were in town last week and told us the whole sordid ordeal. (The Brennan family is also very involved in the Bacchus scandal.) Thankfully, I made it to Breakfast at Brennan's for the first time last year. I just don't understand how a family can hate each other that much.

  7. I never tire of these lists.

    Top 10 Breweries 2013
    The top 10 breweries based on the number of beers placing first (3 points), second (2 points) or third (1 points) are:

    1. Capital Brewery - Middleton, Wisconsin
    2. Sweetwater Brewing - Atlanta, Georgia
    3. Stevens Point Brewing - Stevens Point, Wisconsin
    4. Neustadt Springs Brewing - Neustadt, Ontario
    5. Big Island Brewhaus - Waimea, Hawaii
    6. Reuben's Brews - Seattle, Washington
    7. Nebraska Brewing - Papillion, Nebraska
    8. Mother Earth Brewing - Kinston, North Carolina
    9. Fullsteam Brewing - Durham, North Carolina
    10. Oskar Blues Brewery - Longmont, Colorado

    EDIT: Of note to all the "homers", MN had only 4 beers medal - Minnesota Special Bitter from Badger Hill and 3 from Schell.
    Wisconsin brought home something like 15 medals!

    1. Number 10 is pretty awesome. I highly recommend their silo burger (burger, cheese, Canadian bacon, pulled pork, franks red hot) from their gastro pub. Yeah, shaved a year off my life for that meal.

      2. Oskar Blues has grabbed me lately. I've recently gone from 4 drinks a day to 6 or 7 a week, so I have to be smarter about my choices. Luckily, all of their offerings have been great.

    2. Interesting. Capital is one of those breweries that I rarely find myself wow'd by or buying much of. (and Steven's point is for when I want something ok on a budget.) That said, they have, in the last year or so, changed owners and head brewers from a guy who was only interested in business/making money to a guy who seems to actually want to expand the beer. (he's using hops! First time in Capital history, if I'm not mistaken.)

        1. Seems they could get more props for it by calling it a cream ale rather than a (proudly) adjunct lager.
          But how can there be confusion on this point? I don't know all my beer terms, but I would think that the two beer types would be mutually exclusive.

          1. They're basically the same beer just using different types of yeast for fermentation, so they basically are mutually exclusive.

            EDIT: Ugh, a "There, their, they're" mistake?

            1. I figured it might have cream in it like milk stouts have milk.
              Aren't "Lager" and "Ale" completely different processes?
              Like lager needs to be lagered and ale doesn't?

    1. Dude, you missed the guy chainsawing his way out of a shark! (sorry about that spoiler).

  9. A fun chart from Grantland showing who had the most points from different spots of the court.

    I know it is a popular time from our pals at Canis to kill the Wolves off season but I am pretty okay with it. Martin and Brewer were exactly the type of players this team needed. Yeah, I would have rather given up JJ than Luke. Sure it would have been nice to give Martin a little bit less money. I am not exactly sure why we couldn't get anything at all for Steimer or Brandon Roy's non-guaranteed contact. And of course we all wanted to keep AK. Some of these things were out of the front office's control and some of them were the cost of doing business.

    Flip may be a bozo who deserves to be mocked. And yes, I am generally a believer in process over results, but, and maybe it just just me, I am not totally convinced the process was wrong here.

    Maybe it isn't the ringing endorsement I would like to give the Wolves but this team is going to be better than last year. A lot better. Part of that is Love/others coming back healthy and part of it is going to be competent wing play. As much as it might pain us to say it, this is thanks to Flip. As we learned, not every POBO can bring in wing talent.

    I apologize if the above LTE doesn't make a lot of sense. I totally underestimated how much work a new kid is. I remembered it to be so simple.

    1. Considering a similarly aged JJ Redick got a similarly long contract for a similar amount, I don't think it was possible for anyone to give Martin less money and I'm still annoyed at canishoopus over getting their feathers ruffled over that.

      And hell, seeing as how they'll be paying Ronnie Turiaf over 3 million per year, I don't feel as down about the 5 million for Brewer, who will be more useful to the team that Luke was (if only because Luke was forced to play way out of position and over his head due to the injuries) and Turiaf will be.

      Maybe having kids has made us soft?

      1. I think the Martin signing has been pretty underrated, especially over at CH. Threes and FT's from a wing player have been missing from the Wolves offense.
        Brewer is a nice pickup for a defense/fast real/energy guy. I like the idea of having him on the floor while JJ/Shved runs point on the second unit. He'll be a good option to pair up with JJ or Shabazz, since it won't matter that he doesn't shoot much since they'll take all the shots anyhow.
        I'm not a fan of the Shabazz draft pick, but at least Flip got him at 14 instead of 9. Also not a fan of the Turiaf signing, which I hadn't heard of until now- seems like a bit of an unneeded piece, to me.

        1. The only reason I think the Turiaf pick was not un-needed is because Steamer signed elsewhere, Dieng is a rookie and Adleman hates Chris Johnson.

          Otherwise, yeah, I agree with your points. I am also expecting Shved to be better for longer this year, which will almost be like getting a new player. Plus, with Ricky healthy from the start and Love also healthy, it's like getting two more new players. They've managed a Kahn roster overhaul without all the Kahn-ing.

        2. And hey, at least the Wolves aren't paying Monta Ellis 10 million per year, as the Mavericks are reportedly about to do...

    2. so, people hated on Ridnour last year, the Wovles get rid of him and people are not happy?
      the Wolves need shooters, so they got Martin and resigned Bud and people arent happy?
      AK was good as gone because of the year he had last year and he had a Players Option on his contract. People cant accept that?

      ok.

      1. After seeing the contract AK signed with the Nyets, I don't see any way people can be upset the Wolves didn't bring him back. He probably had this in mind when he opted out of his second year. Can't compete with something like that.

        1. You guys do seem to underestimate the ability of CH commentors to find the crappy side of life.

            1. I kind of feel like he cultivated the current culture over there, though. I'm not sure the current content providers are really the problem so much as the commentors.

  10. You know, its always good on Friday because the workweek is over. It was extra good today because right before we left for the day the boss informs us that he has heard a lot of compliments about how great everything looks, especially compared to the neighboring courses.. (If you didnt know, I work at a golf course)
    so thats pretty cool!

    2. Heh, I read "complaints" instead of "compliments" and was very confused for a bit. It's always nice to know your work is appreciated, isn't it?

      1. it really is.
        I mean, I love my job. Im outside all the time, my boss is great, my coworkers are not annoying, there is something new everyday. The pay could be better, but I get by. Its nice to have a 'good job' come this way.

        1. I worked a couple summers at a golf course. It was pretty cool most of the time. I started out doing night watering with the manual sprinkler heads you put in quick couplers. I had never been on a golf course, let alone this specific course, so getting around at night for the first couple weeks was a pain. By the time I finally got to where I had it figured out, they switched me to the regular daytime grounds crew because they had completed installation of the automatic sprinklers. After that, the worst days were right after big rain storms. I remember one day after a really big storm the course was closed. Carts weren't allowed on the course, so we had to walk the whole course and go to each sand trap and shovel sand from the bottom of the traps to the top edges where the rain had washed it down.

          1. I dont have it that bad. Although the automatic sprinkler system is showing its wear and tear and digging the heads up are a pain in the butt!

  11. Apparently, some writer for the Yahoo! Contributor Network really screwed up this week. Today, I got two mass emails from YCN. The first one was explaining how to avoid becoming too controversial, such as avoiding politics (this is specifically for sports writers), hyberbole, cursing, slang, and personal attacks, and to use reliable sources. YCN is always encouraging us to take a stand, especially on subjects that people will have opposing viewpoints, so this was pretty much opposite of what they've been telling us to do, not that I disagree with today's email. The other one was telling us that we can no longer publish our own articles. Everything will have to go through an editor now. Supposedly, those of us that could publish our own stuff directly will be given priority so that our stuff will be printed faster, but that remains to be seen. I have a feeling this will really slow down everything unless they hire a lot more editors. Regardless, these two emails paint a picture of someone really screwing up and ruining it for all of us.

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