72 thoughts on “November 18, 2015: Cy Young Awards”

1. I just noticed that there's a big difference between a "Trojan Horse" and a "Horse Trojan".

2. Anyone else see something like the below in today's HBD post?

   

   It has primarily affected the HBD posts (about 35 in total) but also two Winter League Playoff update posts. Looks like it was occurred late January 2015, early September 2015, and again now beginning in late October.

   1. Yes...also "STARTED" "MORE" "AVAILABLE " and "PRODUCTIVE" down in the text.

      1. Yeah. I've got some sort of virus on my computer. I've tried several things to get rid of it, but nothing has worked so far. I've had it before, but it didn't used to show up on other people's computers. I'm open to suggestions for what to do about it.

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         2. The only sure-fire method is to format the hard drive and reinstall the OS, but I consider that a last resort.

   2. It was there earlier, but it's gone now.

      1. Yeah, I cleaned all of the posts after asking.

3. R. I. P. ex-Twin Carmelo Castillo from a heart attack at age fifty-seven.

4. McHale out in Houston. Wonder if Papa Glen knows about this?

   1. I would imagine that he'll keep Sam along as an assistant.

   2. Here's hoping he doesn't.

   3. Bring him back to the tv booth. Him and Jim Pete analyzing plays together could be super super awesome.

5. Has anyone else ever wondered about the bacon-eating pigs in Richard Scarry's books? Check out this article on animal cannibalism in the world of Richard Scarry.

   1. When I think of pigs eating meat, I think of this:

   2. That has been a topic of discussion between the wife and myself a few times. I don't think we've covered the animal/people distinction however.

      1. You want to get too deep into children's books? Count the girls on every page of Madeline.

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         Who is that girl? Where did she come from and why does no one notice her? The official theory in our household is that it's the cook's daughter. Since Madeline isn't there, there's enough food for the cook's kid to also eat. My real theory is that the girl is a ghost, and the girls don't see her. Only the readers can.

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6. Interesting news in SPACE exploration exploitation.

7. All-Black great Jonah Lomu died overnight.

8. So, not to beat a dead horse (there's gotta be an emoji for that, right?), but... Pepper force-fed me some more Courtney Barnett. The three songs she sent me were markedly different from the stuff I had been reacting to before (namely, "Avant Gardner" which features wordplay that makes me want to vomit (Yes, me. The guy who regularly gets negative WGOM bucks for bad puns. That's because the song is so humorless. Puns without humor... ::shudder::) and "Pedestrian At Best" which I maintain is incredibly sloppy musically.). Anyway, I didn't hate what I listened to, and even actually enjoyed one of the songs. I didn't think it was great, but I would like to now limit the scope of my previous rant to the two listed songs, and not Courtney Barnett's music generally.

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   2. The paramedic thinks i'm clever cos i play guitar
      I think she's clever cos she stops people dying

      I love that song.

      1. For some reason, I absolutely love the way she says "we should amend that."

         1. dido.

      2. I... don't.

         So much pretense, so little substance.

         1. Sorry... sorry. Trying to control the rant. I didn't need to put this here. I'll be good now.

            1. emoji of someone saying "I don't care"

               1. Can't go wrong with ol' Shruggie! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

                  1. How about this?

                     

                     1. So big so I shrank it.

      3. I love that part, too.
         I was about to quote it myself.

   3. "wordplay that makes me want to vomit (.... That's because the song is so humorless. Puns without humor...)"
      You ever think that might be the point? She's depressed. I related.

      I also related to this lyric:
      "I had too much pseudo-ephedrine / and I / couldn't sleep at night"

      Also cool to hear a song with metric temperatures.

      1. Yes, we get the point. It's not deep. That's my point. She is saying something incredibly banal in the most painful way possible. Like I said, all pretense, no substance.

   4. Which other songs did she send you?
      "Depreston", "Elevator Operator", "History Eraser"?

      1. Depreston, Anonymous Club, and Porcelain.

   5. (there's gotta be an emoji for that, right?)
      When this becomes an emoji, I'll start using emojis.
      

9. Facebook didn't have enough vitriol this week, so UND decided to announce their new nickname.

   1. Twitter, on the other hand, has had more than enough vitriol this week.

   2. Why are the Hawks fighting? Isn't that a bit odd? You don't see Fighting Bears or Fighting Tigers out there as mascots. Chicken fighting is frowned upon; I wouldn't think hawk fighting would be found favorable by academia...

      1. Probably picked it thinking it can be short for "Mohawk".

         1. points.

            1. More cowbell.

         2. I was hoping for commentary on prominent native North Dakotan hawk species that might make the name seem a better choice.

            Furthermore, baby coots are hideous:

            1. Testing:
               

               1. Crap. Now I need to know how to resize. To the archives!

                  1. Add the following bolded items to your image to resize if necessary <img src="........" height="X%" width="X%" > Make sure you keep the " around the percentage and teh % itself. If height X != width X it'll stretch/squish your image.

                     1. Thank you. I was never going to find that.

                     2. or, just width="350" or somesuch; don't need a height as well

                        1. That didn't work for me when I resized this one. It was my first option, but no go for some reason.

                  2. Since this is from Wikipedia, you can use the smaller versions that are automatically created. The site will shrink the image so its width will fit on the page. For people with wide monitors, this does allow it to get very large. But on mobile, if you restrict the width to a percentage, it will be the size of a postage stamp. And not a big postage stamp.

                     1. Here's the Wiki page for that image. You picked the 1024px version, which is a fine choice though a bit large. I tend to opt for the 640px version.

               2. That mama coot is looking at the smaller chick in the foreground thinking to herself, "I should drown it now... but what if a pike takes the good one?"

                  1. I laughed a lot more than what was appropriate over this.

            2. baby coots are hideous
               Must be why their parents drown them one-by-one until there's only one remaining!
               (Two in particularly good years.)

               1. AMR, have I told you lately how much I appreciate your contributions to this place?

                  1. I can tell that I'm appreciated.

                     My kids are divided on the appearance of baby coots. HPR thinks they're ugly but CER thinks they're cute.
                     As far as birds go, Coots are borderline between the hideous (songbirds, pelicans) and the adorable (fowl and waterfowl).
                     Seems that the birds with cute babies make us go "so adorable! I'm gonna kill you and eat you when you're grown!"
                     (Exceptions: shorebirds and grebes have cute babies. People eat pigeons even though a squab is not good-looking.)
                     (Exceptions to the Exceptions: People hunt and shoot the larger shorebirds like Woodcock and Snipe.)

                     1. And now I've just read about how that hideousness (the bald head and bright orange feathers) are not an adaptation to any external factor, but a reflection of parental selection. Being chosen as your parents favorite is important when they'll drown you otherwise, and the more hideous the chick, the more likely it is to be the parents' favorite and survive "the cull".

                        I've learned elsewhere how Pelicans will lay 3-4 eggs even though most years only one will survive. The rest are just insurance policies (or in super years, two may survive). In those birds, the parents don't select favorites, but the chicks kick one another out of the nest to fall to the ground and die (from the fall or starvation, whichever).

                        1. Coots and Cormorants are the only two species the guys who taught me how to hunt have ever sanctioned water-swatting.

10. LEN3 with a long blog on Twins and his Cy Young ballot

    1. By Phil Miller

       If I recall, the trend with Japanese players tends to be that the overall value of their contract is roughly close to the posting fee. If so, 3 or 4/$12m+ seems like a decent gamble.

       1. LEN3's name, image, and bio are at the bottom.
          I'm not sure who wrote it.

          1. By Phil Miller

          2. And so is Miller's.

11. Karl Anthony Towns has 13 points 7 rebounds and 3 blocks at halftime. Whoa.

    1. I dont know who Evan Fournier is, but he has daggered the Wolves since halftime.

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          1. I came here to post that emoji. 🙁

       2. Used to be with the Nuggets. French.

       3. Evan "Never Google" Fournier

       4. He has *almost* transformed the Magic. <== nerd humor

12. Just realized the Cubs have swept the first three major awards in the NL.

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