E. Coli has hit the Phoenix area pretty hard. I woke up somewhat sick today...I hope that's a coincidence.
29 thoughts on “September 15, 2013: Please, Not That”
And yesterday a boil order took effect for St. Charles and St. Peters after a main pipeline broke. Should be lifted tomorrow morning, so looks like we dodged that bullet.
Weather in Ocean City has been beautifully fall-like. My BIL and wife invited a dozen of their friends, and we had a pleasant evening of visiting and enjoying the Philly accents (although one couple was English, which was also entertaining to listen to). I think today we're going to Cape May, NJ's furthest southern point.
I've lived in New Orleans for 14 months, and I've been through 3 boil advisories. There is a price to living here indeed.
WAS-GB and SD-PHI here. I can't really take issue with those choices, but it makes my decision to ignore football easy again.
I'm leaning toward the Cubs-Pirates game in half an hour.
Christian Ponder is terrible. Just flat-out, completely terrible.
I don't think that this is news to anyone.
Evidently Spielman and Frazier haven't noticed yet.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to get two returns for TDs and still lose a game.
I think he is better than 'terrible' (to me, terrible is Spergon Wynn level) but Ponder isnt 'good' .
He is like the second coming of Tavaris Jackson
This.
Both for the wonderful Spergon Wynn reference* and the "second coming of Tavaris Jackson" part. I never thought of it that way. Enough speed to scramble constantly, not enough to be game changing in any meaningful way, constant questionable throws... great.
* Seriously, the dude played three whole games for the team twelve years ago, yet my mother still remembers his name. He's not quite a Nishioka (no one expected him to be a good player), but he's at least some sort of synonym for terrible play.
the way 'Quarterback Rating' is measured, if you throw 1 pass and it is incomplete, thats 39.6.
Wynn's 3 game stint (2 as a starter) at the helm resulted in a 38.6 rating
also, T-Jack's Vikings career rating: 76.6
Ponder's career rating: 76.4
What I like about the QB rating stat is that it is a pretty blunt instrument: generally higher is good, but it's hardly what you would call an all-encompassing statistic.
Despite its huge limitations, it is almost universally accepted by media types as a really good way to measure a QB's effectiveness. Meanwhile, much more well thought out and analyzed stats in baseball are ridiculed.
a visual approximation of the Vikings games on FOX
Jeff liked this pic on FB and it popped up on my sidebar. The caption is (EM) Random Royals game - 1976., but I think we can be a little more specific than that, don't you?
For starters, Tom Poquette hit is 2nd HR on August 16th at home against Cleveland, so this game is at least after that.
Of the 3 games where KCR hosted CHW after August 16th, the White Sox scored one run in the 1st inning in two of them. Of those two games, Poquette hit second in only one - September 19th. In that game, the play-by-play shows 3 hits for the Sox in the top of the first, which matches the line score on the scoreboard. The rest of the KCR batting order matches up too.
let someone else play next time Mags 🙂
A) It was a little easier than I expected. I figured with they'd have played each other quite a few times, but Poquette's lack of power really helped cut that down, as did the "1976" in the caption, and
b) It's not my fault you guys have lives and weren't camped out here on the minuscule chance something like this would be posted.
Being able to see his stats, the line score, and the lineup would make it very simple to narrow it down even over multiple years.
I figured with all the info presented it wouldn't be hard, but it was quite a bit easier than I was expecting.
What happened on that third pitch pictured, though?
He took it.
Called strike or ball?
so the big Twins cant get the big interleague rival Milwaukee on a weekend, or a 3 game series anymore, but all 57 times time the Yankees and BoSox play each other its on a weekend so its a FOX 'national' Saturday game and a ESPN Sunday night game
boo urns
All rivals for a while will be like that. Mets and Yanks get that treatment, too, right?
That was quite possibly the most tense episode in a series practically defined by tense episodes. Hank dies, the White family falls (complete with knife fight!), Jesse is sold to slave labor, and Walter loses what little bit of humanity he had left. When he ratted out Jesse (and then topped it by telling him about Jane).....oish.
The title "Ozymandius" definitely is appropriate. I don't think anyone with any familiarity with the series and the poem could have seen anything good coming, though I didn't see all this coming. As Ramsey said, "If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention."
I figured Hank would die, but not before a bit of buildup. Uh, nope.
Once that happened, I figured that the rest of the episode was going to be a slow burner, building towards the insanity that the last two episodes would surely unleash. Uh, nope.
I have no idea how this will all play out, and I'm absolutely excited (well, equal parts excited and tensely horrified) about that.
And yesterday a boil order took effect for St. Charles and St. Peters after a main pipeline broke. Should be lifted tomorrow morning, so looks like we dodged that bullet.
Weather in Ocean City has been beautifully fall-like. My BIL and wife invited a dozen of their friends, and we had a pleasant evening of visiting and enjoying the Philly accents (although one couple was English, which was also entertaining to listen to). I think today we're going to Cape May, NJ's furthest southern point.
I've lived in New Orleans for 14 months, and I've been through 3 boil advisories. There is a price to living here indeed.
WAS-GB and SD-PHI here. I can't really take issue with those choices, but it makes my decision to ignore football easy again.
I'm leaning toward the Cubs-Pirates game in half an hour.
Christian Ponder is terrible. Just flat-out, completely terrible.
I don't think that this is news to anyone.
Evidently Spielman and Frazier haven't noticed yet.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to get two returns for TDs and still lose a game.
I think he is better than 'terrible' (to me, terrible is Spergon Wynn level) but Ponder isnt 'good' .
He is like the second coming of Tavaris Jackson
This.
Both for the wonderful Spergon Wynn reference* and the "second coming of Tavaris Jackson" part. I never thought of it that way. Enough speed to scramble constantly, not enough to be game changing in any meaningful way, constant questionable throws... great.
* Seriously, the dude played three whole games for the team twelve years ago, yet my mother still remembers his name. He's not quite a Nishioka (no one expected him to be a good player), but he's at least some sort of synonym for terrible play.
the way 'Quarterback Rating' is measured, if you throw 1 pass and it is incomplete, thats 39.6.
Wynn's 3 game stint (2 as a starter) at the helm resulted in a 38.6 rating
also, T-Jack's Vikings career rating: 76.6
Ponder's career rating: 76.4
What I like about the QB rating stat is that it is a pretty blunt instrument: generally higher is good, but it's hardly what you would call an all-encompassing statistic.
Despite its huge limitations, it is almost universally accepted by media types as a really good way to measure a QB's effectiveness. Meanwhile, much more well thought out and analyzed stats in baseball are ridiculed.
a visual approximation of the Vikings games on FOX
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Jeff liked this pic on FB and it popped up on my sidebar. The caption is (EM) Random Royals game - 1976., but I think we can be a little more specific than that, don't you?
For starters, Tom Poquette hit is 2nd HR on August 16th at home against Cleveland, so this game is at least after that.
Of the 3 games where KCR hosted CHW after August 16th, the White Sox scored one run in the 1st inning in two of them. Of those two games, Poquette hit second in only one - September 19th. In that game, the play-by-play shows 3 hits for the Sox in the top of the first, which matches the line score on the scoreboard. The rest of the KCR batting order matches up too.
let someone else play next time Mags 🙂
A) It was a little easier than I expected. I figured with they'd have played each other quite a few times, but Poquette's lack of power really helped cut that down, as did the "1976" in the caption, and
b) It's not my fault you guys have lives and weren't camped out here on the minuscule chance something like this would be posted.
Being able to see his stats, the line score, and the lineup would make it very simple to narrow it down even over multiple years.
I figured with all the info presented it wouldn't be hard, but it was quite a bit easier than I was expecting.
What happened on that third pitch pictured, though?
He took it.
Called strike or ball?
so the big Twins cant get the big interleague rival Milwaukee on a weekend, or a 3 game series anymore, but all 57 times time the Yankees and BoSox play each other its on a weekend so its a FOX 'national' Saturday game and a ESPN Sunday night game
boo urns
All rivals for a while will be like that. Mets and Yanks get that treatment, too, right?
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