76 thoughts on “February 10, 2014: It Was Worth It”
The winter leagues have all determined their champions. We plan to have a Twins winter league wrap-up post sometime this week.
I'm curious to see how Mr. Sam's career will turn out in a league run by these guys.
It should work out alright for him. The team that takes him will be a team that judges him as a player so it will probably be one of the better teams.
I would not be surprised if he were to end up in San Francisco. The franchise seems to have its house in order.
When Al Davis was alive, the Raiders were well known for bringing in good players regardless of their lifestyle, beliefs, reputation, etc. I believe they were the first major male sports team to have a female GM. Also, they were the team to bring in Chris Kluwe and allow him to compete for a punting job. So I wouldn't at all be surprised if the Raiders drafted Sam. Drafting Sam would probably be a pretty good PR move for the Vikings with the ongoing Kluwe situation.
You might be thinking of baseball's Kim Ng, formerly an assistant GM with the Dodgers and Yanquis.
Well, I think Trask might have reached the highest position a female has ever reached for a major U.S. sports team, but I'm not sure what exactly a CEO for a football team would be. A CEO for a corporation is it's highest ranking officer, so it would be like a team president, wouldn't it? Something like Dave St. Peter for the Twins. Anyways, the Raiders have always been supportive of diversity. Tom Flores was one of the first minority head coaches and was the first minority head coach to win the Super Bowl. Art Shell was made head coach back when black head coaches were still a rarity. (Wikipedia says Shell was the third black head coach).
Damn WordPress rotating photos taken with iPhones.
gotcha covered.
Admin privileges are boss.
not really, i just uploaded a rotated image 😉
Hmm. I don't see an option to do that in the image uploader/media library.
I think hungry joe just uploaded a version he rotated.
Ah. It shows up right on my laptop, so I figured it was something WP was doing.
WordPress doesn't touch the image, that's why it was rotated. WordPress leaves it up to the browser to rotate it. Firefox will, but not in an HTML page (yet, seems it will be fixed in 29). According to a Mozilla bug, Chrome does but not quite right.
Oh my, I would love to have something smothered, covered, diced, and capped right about now.
Madison lacks a really great all-night greasy spoon. Waffle House could make a killing around here if they played their cards right.
Sheenie and I have frequely talked about how great a Waffle House would be in the Twin Cities.
...a really great all-night greasy spoon. Waffle House could make a killing around here
mmmm. Me and my cardiologist thinks that "greasy spoon" and "killing" belong together. Deliciously, but together. 😉
I've been to Waffle House once when we were well into our cups on a business trip (in Jacksonville, Florida, which feels like one of the more appropriate spots for one). We were sitting right in front of the grill, and I don't remember what it was exactly, but the cook whipped up some off-menu chicken wrap that was right tasty.
"...in Jacksonville, Florida, which feels like one of the more appropriate spots for one."
Having lived in Jacksonville for nearly 3 years, and partaking in Waffle House fare for the first time in that locale, you can't believe how accurate this statement is.
There isn't really one in Winnipeg either. This is always a bit of a culture shock for me as I've been eating greasy late night breakfasts at the Fryn' Pan in Fargo for basically my entire adult life. Love, love, love those meals.
The Hospitality icon up top was a wedding present from one of the priests who married us. The one of the Theotokos & Child was from the other priest. On either side of that are icons for the two of us: St. John the Baptist for my wife, Basil the Blessed Holy Fool for me. If we're able to have kids, we'll add more accordingly.
I'm with Phil, those are cool.
I studied abroad in Athens. I've long regretted that I didn't bring one home.
Beware Greeks bearing gifts.
Unless it's baklava. Or pastitsio. Or loukoumades. Or rakomelo. Or...
... ouzo ?
Where's that dollar thingy?
Ouzo's plenty good, but rakomelo – Greek brandy/moonshine mixed with honey, cinnamon, cardamom, and herbs – is even better.
I know very little Greek except baklava, gyro, pita and ouzo. I should have known you already had an excellent alcoholic beverage listed.
Thanks to this little thread and the research it spurred, I now want some ouzo and I came upon another drink I'd like to try- raki.
I had a memorable (or, uh, not so memorable) encounter with a bottle of some sort of mountain moonshine ouzo that my buddy Dean the Plumber (err, urologist; the son of the owner of George's Pizza) shared at a party at his house back in the day. Stuff packed one heck of a whallop.
My experience has been thus (ranking for potency): Russian moonshine > Laotian moonshine > American moonshine/Greek moonshine.
Czech > Irish > Austrian > Tennessee for me.
Did a work trip (long time ago) to Milano, Kafissia, and Istanbul. Every dinner was in multiple courses, usually featuring huge Mediterranean fishes (sea bass), drinks, cigars, and an anisette based liquor. Milano - Sambuca. Kafissia - Ouzo. Istanbul - Raki. And had to get up every morning to meet with the team at 8 bells - zoinks Scoob.
Did anyone watch the Beatles thing on CBS? Word is that Dave Grohl and Gary Clark, Jr. did an amazing rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", but I can't find it online anywhere. CBS is taking down everything, but not hosting on CBS.com (I assume they didn't clear streaming rights to the song). TWO WGOM dollars to anyone who provides a working link.
Can it be as good as when Prince shredded it during the George Harrison tribute show?
Dunno, haven't seen either to be able to compare them. I'm going to preemptively call them Awesome 1A and 1B, it'll be that close to call.
Saw the Prince solo. That was pretty rad. I'm not super into The Beatles, so I don't know all their music ,but "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is one of my favorite songs. Sight unseen, I'm inclined to give the edge to the Grohl/Clark version because few things in music make me happier than when Dave Grohl gets behind a drumset. The combo is likely to make my head explode.
Eric Clapton played the original solo.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the tidbit. That'll probably come in handy at pub quiz someday.
I have seen them both. Prince > Gary Clark.
I am assuming that The Beatles and CBS could not coming up with a licensing deal to have clips available on the internet (and a bigger payday for DVD sales!). Digging around YouTube, looks like WMGGW is a song Gary Clark regularly plays.
Here's the Grohl/Clark/Walsh version (at least for now). As much as I wanted it to "win", the Dave Grohl was inferior to the Prince version. Now we need to make a Grohl+Prince version happen. Call your congresspeople, Citizens.
If you're looking for a Twins fix today, Baseball Prospectus' Effectively Wild podcast released their Twins season preview episode this morning. You-Know-Who is one of the guests, but he manages to not act like a clown while not saying anything he's never said before. Phil Miller is the second guest.
You won't hear anything earth-shattering, but it's baseball talk, and you've got to be starved for that with Spring Training just days away.
A fellow I follow on Twitter replied to him and said he planned on turning it off as soon as brunch got brought up, and was surprised he never had to turn it off. I've been considering listening to it. Maybe I will now.
Gleeman blames Smith for much of the problems, but I still don't think that's fair.
Decent listen, though like CH says, nothing really new gets said.
They mentioned Molitor being a fan of defensive shifting, and said something about him hoping that one of the shifted infielders catches a line drive and Gardy suddenly becomes a fan. I'm guessing it goes the other way and the infield shift experiment will last until the first successful bunt down the third base line.
Terry Ryan has skin cancer. The docs at Mayo say it's treatable. Better than the alternative, but other than that, it doesn't say much.
🙁
🙁
I have a niece who had a squamous cell carcinoma on her face, just below the eye. That was maybe ten or twelve years ago, and she's been just fine for years and years now and is getting married this summer (cc to Rhu_Ru: mini caucus in late June). This is a fairy common form of skin cancer with about 700,000 cases diagnosed in the US each year, and about 2,500 cases resulting in death (0.0035%). When diagnosed and treated early, the outcome is usually very favorable for the patient.
My wife has had two surgeries on her chin with no after effects, but you have to be aggressive in monitoring.
WGOM fun fact: Skijoring races are not normally limited to purebred Northern breed dogs such as the Siberian Husky. On the contrary, the top ranked racing teams in the world are German Shorthaired Pointers, Pointer/Greyhound mixes, Alaskan Huskies, or crosses between these breeds.
So tonight: test the power of the site by continuing with the curling post, or make a new one?
Maybe one more night? Just to test things. But I don' t think we should go past that, for clarity's sake (and to save on scrolling).
I think there's one in the can already.
Yeah, CH has another scheduled for 11 PM.
That works too.
That one starts with the 4am spiels. So we'll see how it goes with the current one, and can switch over to the new one if necessary. I'm trying to keep them to two sessions each.
Clearly this is a test run for postseason game logs.
Women's downhill? Very cool.
Might have to watch the curling I've got on the DVR a little later.
The winter leagues have all determined their champions. We plan to have a Twins winter league wrap-up post sometime this week.
I'm curious to see how Mr. Sam's career will turn out in a league run by these guys.
It should work out alright for him. The team that takes him will be a team that judges him as a player so it will probably be one of the better teams.
I would not be surprised if he were to end up in San Francisco. The franchise seems to have its house in order.
When Al Davis was alive, the Raiders were well known for bringing in good players regardless of their lifestyle, beliefs, reputation, etc. I believe they were the first major male sports team to have a female GM. Also, they were the team to bring in Chris Kluwe and allow him to compete for a punting job. So I wouldn't at all be surprised if the Raiders drafted Sam. Drafting Sam would probably be a pretty good PR move for the Vikings with the ongoing Kluwe situation.
not the GM. Amy Trask was the CEO and came out of the legal department.
You might be thinking of baseball's Kim Ng, formerly an assistant GM with the Dodgers and Yanquis.
Well, I think Trask might have reached the highest position a female has ever reached for a major U.S. sports team, but I'm not sure what exactly a CEO for a football team would be. A CEO for a corporation is it's highest ranking officer, so it would be like a team president, wouldn't it? Something like Dave St. Peter for the Twins. Anyways, the Raiders have always been supportive of diversity. Tom Flores was one of the first minority head coaches and was the first minority head coach to win the Super Bowl. Art Shell was made head coach back when black head coaches were still a rarity. (Wikipedia says Shell was the third black head coach).
Yes, your substantive point still stands.
Damn WordPress rotating photos taken with iPhones.
gotcha covered.
Admin privileges are boss.
not really, i just uploaded a rotated image 😉
Hmm. I don't see an option to do that in the image uploader/media library.
I think hungry joe just uploaded a version he rotated.
Ah. It shows up right on my laptop, so I figured it was something WP was doing.
WordPress doesn't touch the image, that's why it was rotated. WordPress leaves it up to the browser to rotate it. Firefox will, but not in an HTML page (yet, seems it will be fixed in 29). According to a Mozilla bug, Chrome does but not quite right.
Oh my, I would love to have something smothered, covered, diced, and capped right about now.
Madison lacks a really great all-night greasy spoon. Waffle House could make a killing around here if they played their cards right.
Sheenie and I have frequely talked about how great a Waffle House would be in the Twin Cities.
mmmm. Me and my cardiologist thinks that "greasy spoon" and "killing" belong together. Deliciously, but together. 😉
I've been to Waffle House once when we were well into our cups on a business trip (in Jacksonville, Florida, which feels like one of the more appropriate spots for one). We were sitting right in front of the grill, and I don't remember what it was exactly, but the cook whipped up some off-menu chicken wrap that was right tasty.
"...in Jacksonville, Florida, which feels like one of the more appropriate spots for one."
Having lived in Jacksonville for nearly 3 years, and partaking in Waffle House fare for the first time in that locale, you can't believe how accurate this statement is.
There isn't really one in Winnipeg either. This is always a bit of a culture shock for me as I've been eating greasy late night breakfasts at the Fryn' Pan in Fargo for basically my entire adult life. Love, love, love those meals.
I'm with Phil, those are cool.
I studied abroad in Athens. I've long regretted that I didn't bring one home.
Beware Greeks bearing gifts.
Unless it's baklava. Or pastitsio. Or loukoumades. Or rakomelo. Or...
... ouzo ?
Where's that dollar thingy?
Ouzo's plenty good, but rakomelo – Greek brandy/moonshine mixed with honey, cinnamon, cardamom, and herbs – is even better.
I know very little Greek except baklava, gyro, pita and ouzo. I should have known you already had an excellent alcoholic beverage listed.
Thanks to this little thread and the research it spurred, I now want some ouzo and I came upon another drink I'd like to try- raki.
I had a memorable (or, uh, not so memorable) encounter with a bottle of some sort of mountain moonshine ouzo that my buddy Dean the Plumber (err, urologist; the son of the owner of George's Pizza) shared at a party at his house back in the day. Stuff packed one heck of a whallop.
My experience has been thus (ranking for potency): Russian moonshine > Laotian moonshine > American moonshine/Greek moonshine.
Czech > Irish > Austrian > Tennessee for me.
Did a work trip (long time ago) to Milano, Kafissia, and Istanbul. Every dinner was in multiple courses, usually featuring huge Mediterranean fishes (sea bass), drinks, cigars, and an anisette based liquor. Milano - Sambuca. Kafissia - Ouzo. Istanbul - Raki. And had to get up every morning to meet with the team at 8 bells - zoinks Scoob.
Did anyone watch the Beatles thing on CBS? Word is that Dave Grohl and Gary Clark, Jr. did an amazing rendition of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", but I can't find it online anywhere. CBS is taking down everything, but not hosting on CBS.com (I assume they didn't clear streaming rights to the song). TWO WGOM dollars to anyone who provides a working link.
Can it be as good as when Prince shredded it during the George Harrison tribute show?
Dunno, haven't seen either to be able to compare them. I'm going to preemptively call them Awesome 1A and 1B, it'll be that close to call.
Saw the Prince solo. That was pretty rad. I'm not super into The Beatles, so I don't know all their music ,but "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is one of my favorite songs. Sight unseen, I'm inclined to give the edge to the Grohl/Clark version because few things in music make me happier than when Dave Grohl gets behind a drumset. The combo is likely to make my head explode.
Eric Clapton played the original solo.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the tidbit. That'll probably come in handy at pub quiz someday.
I have seen them both. Prince > Gary Clark.
I am assuming that The Beatles and CBS could not coming up with a licensing deal to have clips available on the internet (and a bigger payday for DVD sales!). Digging around YouTube, looks like WMGGW is a song Gary Clark regularly plays.
Here's the Grohl/Clark/Walsh version (at least for now). As much as I wanted it to "win", the Dave Grohl was inferior to the Prince version. Now we need to make a Grohl+Prince version happen. Call your congresspeople, Citizens.
If you're looking for a Twins fix today, Baseball Prospectus' Effectively Wild podcast released their Twins season preview episode this morning. You-Know-Who is one of the guests, but he manages to not act like a clown while not saying anything he's never said before. Phil Miller is the second guest.
You won't hear anything earth-shattering, but it's baseball talk, and you've got to be starved for that with Spring Training just days away.
A fellow I follow on Twitter replied to him and said he planned on turning it off as soon as brunch got brought up, and was surprised he never had to turn it off. I've been considering listening to it. Maybe I will now.
Gleeman blames Smith for much of the problems, but I still don't think that's fair.
There's also mlb.com's Jonathan Mayo picking the Twins as having the best hitter/pitcher prospect duo.
I thought they traded Butters?
Decent listen, though like CH says, nothing really new gets said.
They mentioned Molitor being a fan of defensive shifting, and said something about him hoping that one of the shifted infielders catches a line drive and Gardy suddenly becomes a fan. I'm guessing it goes the other way and the infield shift experiment will last until the first successful bunt down the third base line.
Interested in being part of the All-Star Game hoopla this summer? MLB is looking for volunteers....
Terry Ryan has skin cancer. The docs at Mayo say it's treatable. Better than the alternative, but other than that, it doesn't say much.
🙁
🙁
I have a niece who had a squamous cell carcinoma on her face, just below the eye. That was maybe ten or twelve years ago, and she's been just fine for years and years now and is getting married this summer (cc to Rhu_Ru: mini caucus in late June). This is a fairy common form of skin cancer with about 700,000 cases diagnosed in the US each year, and about 2,500 cases resulting in death (0.0035%). When diagnosed and treated early, the outcome is usually very favorable for the patient.
My wife has had two surgeries on her chin with no after effects, but you have to be aggressive in monitoring.
Twins suing Visa/Mastercard because of their high fees. Note: this will not result in lower ticket prices or anything.
Visa and Mastercard's convenience fees must have been too high.
MLB: Hey, jerks, it's our job to gouge fans with convenience fees and online order-processing fees!
Love doing his best to keep up with the Rockets all by himself.
Watching short track. Don't remember seeing this before, but looks like jockeys skating in a hockey rink. #jockeyhockey
And haven't heard any Sochi talk about synchronized skating. Can't wait.
WGOM fun fact: Skijoring races are not normally limited to purebred Northern breed dogs such as the Siberian Husky. On the contrary, the top ranked racing teams in the world are German Shorthaired Pointers, Pointer/Greyhound mixes, Alaskan Huskies, or crosses between these breeds.
Not the Onion
So tonight: test the power of the site by continuing with the curling post, or make a new one?
Maybe one more night? Just to test things. But I don' t think we should go past that, for clarity's sake (and to save on scrolling).
I think there's one in the can already.
Yeah, CH has another scheduled for 11 PM.
That works too.
That one starts with the 4am spiels. So we'll see how it goes with the current one, and can switch over to the new one if necessary. I'm trying to keep them to two sessions each.
Clearly this is a test run for postseason game logs.
Women's downhill? Very cool.
Might have to watch the curling I've got on the DVR a little later.
Wipeout!