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September 17, 2013: The Brink

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My Kickstarter now needs $17 to be funded, and from there it's all about stretch goals. I got to play a game on a Google Hangout last night and we had a blast. I hope there are more Google Hangout games to come.

59 thoughts on “September 17, 2013: The Brink”

    1. Let's see if can put a poll in a comment. I might have to make a post for it.

      Yep, need to do a post. Annoying.

    4. Who should or who is? I don't think anyone can look at the roster and say the Twins should have been much better. I'll be shocked if Gardy isn't managing next year unless he decides to retire or something, which I doubt. I'm oblivious to it since I'm fairly confident his replacement would be Ullger or Sciosica after he's fired by the Angels.

  2. For those who have opinions on these sort of things... assuming Ponder isn't salvageable, how would you feel about Tebow? I don't think that's a thing, but should it be?

    1. It would be a thing if you're committed to losing. Those draft spots are valuable. I don't think the Vikings have given up hope on the season yet though.

    2. You could run a set with him, Felton, and Peterson and have Tebow and Felton act as fullbacks. That's about the only thing he'd be better at than Ponder.

      And that's more an indictment on how awful Tebow is than a statement of how good Ponder is. He's really, really, really bad.

      1. I can honestly say that I don't think I've ever seen Tebow take a snap, so I don't really know. I just know the name.

        1. It's probably for the best. I laughed and laughed that year he snuck the Broncos into the playoffs and beat the Steelers, but the guy is awful.

            1. I don't know that I'd grant that, but when you're choosing between two guys who shouldn't be in the NFL you might as well go with the fan favorite, right?

            2. I'll give you Gabbert, but at least with Gabbert the media coverage of him is at least proportional to his skill on the football field. Tebow on the other hand...

                    1. I... I don't know how you've missed this for so long. Its practically the definition of Mark Sanchez at this point.

    3. no.
      no.
      no.
      no.
      no.
      no.
      no.

      if you want to tank games with a running QB, the Vikings still have Joe Webb on the roster.

    4. If taking on Tebow can kill the stadium before construction begins and gets the team to move to LA, then I'm all for it.

      1. You really shouldn't make me read such things when I'm drinking coffee. Now I have to clean off my monitor.

        1. A very hypocritical one, due to my fantasy football involvement.

          Actually, it'd be great if just all teams could move to either coast and Texas. That would make it way easier for me to keep the bauble from knowing what football is.

            1. Oh, I knew that. I was just saying that based on that memoir, its clear that that is what still needs to happen.

    5. I talked about this with a friend of mine the other day. We agreed the read option with Tebow and Peterson would be something to behold. That was the one thing Tebow could do well, but I just wonder if defenses have figured that out and could stop it pretty easily since they wouldn't have to defend the pass at all. It's no longer a "trick" offense like it was when Tebow was with the Broncos, so defenses are a lot more used to it. Kind of like what happened to the run and shoot. Once a number of teams had played it for a couple years, it wasn't nearly as effective.

    1. Good read, dw. I found myself nodding in agreement with a lot of the points raised. Especially, "Fuck Nick Swisher!"

  6. Forgot to mention -- add to the multiple unusual things to happen to me while flying; had our first medical "emergency", and it was a member of the flight crew. Our flight attendant was in the back and became ill; a few medical professional passengers attended to her during the last half of the flight. They didn't divert to a closer airport or rush her off the plane, so I'm assuming she was fine.

  7. What, what? Hide the wimmin and chillin. "Auto-brewery Syndrome??

    That's right, folks. According to Cordell and McCarthy, the man's intestinal tract was acting like his own internal brewery.

    The patient had an infection with Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cordell says. So when he ate or drank a bunch of starch — a bagel, pasta or even a soda — the yeast fermented the sugars into ethanol, and he would get drunk. Essentially, he was brewing beer in his own gut. Cordell and McCarthy the case of "auto-brewery syndrome" a few months ago in the International Journal of Clinical Medicine.

          1. Well way back, cripes, it must have been fifty years now. Doesn't seem that long but wow how time...
            Anyway, Jory was workin at his ma's home, this was about a year after Mr. Soil died and things he'd a-fixed weren't. So's Jory's down in the basement lookin' for a ball-peen. I was helpin' him that day so's I go down an' see what's holdin' him up.
            An' Jory shows me this... equipment. Like a chem set or something, but hand-made, and bigger. An' some barrells.
            Jory an' I we bring them up to the garage and when Mrs. Soil gets home, Jory asks her what in the Sam-Hell it is. She tells us Mr. Soil used it to make his ales. Well Jory din't know nothin' about no ales, Mrs. Soil says she's sure we kids had been in them time to time, so long as we din't take too much and din't get sick there wasn't no harm. Jory's all curious and wants a-know more, an' Mrs. Soil, she tells us to look for a book down there with his recipes, she knows Mr. Soil wrote some stuff down. Jory finds it and gets to readin' it.

            Anyway, to make a long story short, Jory gets to makin' his own an' he was getting good at it too, until Sheriff Willis finds out an' tells him he either gets written up an' could go to jail. Or, he could surrender everything an' promise not to do it again. I bet Ol' Willy drank all them bottles hisself. Hope mos' broke on him an' the rest 'ere sour. Jory kept the book. I know that. Willy din't care. He weren't gonna read it.

            Don' know if he picked it up again after Willis retired. By that time I had left on my bike an' with no family I never had reason to come back so I never did see Jory again. When I fine'ly did come back aroun', no one really knew too much about Jory, or at least they never tole me and I felt like I shouldn't be askin' any more questions about Jory Soil. They said it like it left a bad taste just sayin' it made 'em wanna spit. Won'er what he done.

            So but yeah, Jory Soil was the first micro-brew I ever knew about, but no one called it that.

            I liked Jory, he was always nice to me. Maybe not to other folks, not after I left, but I liked Jory.

  10. Sometimes I just sit back with my jaw hanging down, shaking my head and wondering what's next. I'll be attending another funeral on Thursday, this one for the mother of one of Elder Daughter's oldest and closest friends. They went to school together from K-12, had sleepovers together, played softball and soccer together, were in Girl Scouts together, you name it. We were friendly acquaintances with the girl's folks, sat and chatted with them at many games, school and social events, though I wouldn't exactly call us close friends. The mother was always pretty quiet and reserved. We found out a few years ago that she had a long history of alcoholism and depression, had been in and out of treatment and mental health facilities, and on Saturday she took her own life, at home, while her daughter was the only other person there. Mrs. Twayn and I will be going to the funeral with Elder Daughter, who is pretty shook up and really hurting for her friend. Life sure does throw a lot of curve balls.

    1. very sorry to hear this, Twayn. I'm glad you and Mrs Twayn can be there for Elder Daughter, and that she can be there for her friend.

        2. As I've recently learned, the death of a parent is unspeakably heartbreaking. My wife's mother passed away a few days ago after battling cancer for the past 12 months. I'm not typically prone to philosophical postulations about much of anything - I'm not that deep. However, if there were some gradation of tragedy in the circumstances leading to death, being present when your parent dies - having lived for a time with the knowledge that it was coming - is most certainly preferable to being present when they take their own life. My condolences to your daughter and her friend.

          1. Condolences to you and the wife, as well. I wasn't with my own father the day he died, but I was with him for most of the day before. We knew time was short, and he was ready to go; he'd run his race and was fine with how he'd run it. We spent our last day together watching a Twins game in his hospital room. It's a sad memory, but a good one, too. I've thought about him every day since, and probably always will.

    3. So, his reasoning for keeping him around is to give him 30 starts because a lot of greats were awful in their first 30 starts. Hendriks has 28 starts so far in his career. The Twins have jerked him around plenty, but his strikeout rate is trending the wrong way.

    4. I agree that a) they should've given him more of a chance, especially given what their options have been and b) they're not going to. I have no idea whether going to another organization would get him straightened out, but I hope we get the chance to see.

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