100 thoughts on “March 2, 2016: OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER”

  1. Rhu any chance you'll be at Saturday's game? If you are let me know and I can find you and say hi.

    1. Sorry, I'll be at Tuesday's game. Don't wreck the place!

      We will be arriving in Ft. Myers on Friday (through the following Saturday) and staying in Ft. Myers Beach -- you want to try meet up somewhere for supper?

    1. Also Marty Cordova's disease. Nothing I've ever heard about it sounds like it's much fun. You are in our prayers.

        1. For some reason I think of him as a neck injury guy instead of a foot injury guy.

          1. Michael Williams will always be my association with "Timberwolves" and "plantar fascitis". He played well for two season, got P.F., and only played 35 games in 4 years before being traded away.

        1. I'm going to blame my lack of sleep on wording this poorly! I meant the event. The vasectomy wasn't fun per se, but it wasn't that bad.

            1. I was worried this would be the case as I did lay there for close to an hour waiting for the doc. I'm pretty sure he was done in about 10 minutes or so? I was surprised it was done so quickly, to be honest.

              1. I was in the small percentage who get a postoperative infection. Cleared up with antibiotics, but, you know, Jerry Lee Lewis in the meantime.

                My wife liked to relate the story of our kid "sharing" at preschool that daddy was home in bed over the weekend with an ice bag on his "tummy".

    2. What storytelling event?
      And if you think a vasectomy is fun, wait til you try a reversal!

      1. It's called The Tell. Basically, people who want to tell a story put their names and a media release in a hat, and they draw out 8 of them, and those people all come up and tell their story. There's a jury who ranks the stories, and picks a winner. The 8 winners come back at a Tell Off to see who wins for the season/year. I'd heard about it a while ago, but this was the first time I went/told a story.

    3. Well done!

      You must admit that there was a certain synchronicity, though, in the artist's name and the procedure you were having.

    4. 1. That's hilarious.
      2. You look so comfortable onstage! Did you practice beforehand?

      1. 1. Thank you!
        2. I've told the story a few times in the last several years, but I didn't do any real practice, other than just trying to keep my story beats straight in my head in the days leading up to the event. I was a theater kid in junior high and high school, and I've done tons and tons of group presentations, but it's the first time I was on stage in like 15 years? It felt good!

  4. Buxton CF

    Nunez 3B

    Vargas 1B

    Sano RF

    Arcia LF

    Park DH

    Polanco 2B

    Murphy C

    Tovar SS

    Hughes RHP

    That's a pretty good lineup for a road game this early in spring. Of course, it was just a year ago that Vargas and Arcia were considered locks for the Twins starting lineup on Opening Day and a big part of the Twins' future.

      2. Whoa, free scooped in concert pre-sale!

        Speaking of, any details on Flight of the Conchords tickets?

                1. Pre-sales usually only 1/3 of tix. Try again Friday when the rest go up to general public.

                  1. That's my plan, but I'm behind crazy firewalls at work and it's quite a hassle from phone. I'll find someone to get them for me.

  8. Park has struck out in each of his first two spring training at bats. Push the panic button!

  9. Apparently I was just being impatient yesterday as I got a call to go back in for a second interview on Friday. So woohoo for that!

  11. Provus mentioned earlier that Danny Santana is going to only be an outfielder this year. If that was announced during the off-season, I must have missed it.

      1. Yeah, that caught me by surprise, too, but it's true. Their first year was 2012.

  13. So Leicester tied yesterday, so all Tottenham and Arsenal had to do was win (Tottenham would move to first, Arsenal would move to 3 points back)

    So of course both lost.

    hahaha

  14. The dude at the Beer Cave with whom I discuss Pynchon et. al. told me that part of reading Infinite Jest was also reading the footnotes, of which there are ~90 pages. So I have to go back and start over.

        1. Ah, that makes more sense with your edit.

          I honestly imagined an official IJ bookmark set.

      1. That's pretty much the thought those of us that have never read it have when you guys are discussing it.

    1. The 30 for 30 titled "Broke" covered this pretty well. The NFL now has a registration process for financial advisors.

      I think there are education opportunities out there. The question is whether the player will take advantage of it.

  16. I think David Kahn took over the Houston Rockets

      1. I want to see the defensive ratings number when both Harden and Beasley are on the court together.

      2. I watched yesterday for the first time in awhile. OMG, that bench is hideous. Payne and Tyus look like they couldn't start in a high school league. Smith was about the only player on the bench who even remotely contributed.

        1. Tyus has shown enough flashes of competent play that I don't mind him getting minutes this season. He just gets bullied by bigger guard (so pretty much every guard in the NBA) and gets lost on defense (a reoccurring thing for most young players under this Mitchell coaching stint)

          1. In all fairness, I think he started and performed quite well in high school.
            And that was only a couple years ago now...

  18. A ceramic measuring spoon that is broken in the garbage disposal is a thing that really sucks.

    1. Some folks treat garbage disposals like they're magic, food-disappearer portals. My wife may be one of these people and may have recently shoved enough down one to plug an adjacent PVC pipe.

      1. Every year, my grandma clogs the disposal with potato skins after she peels them. Every. year.

        2. "Why don't you peel them where we won't have to dig them out of the sink?" I say, calculating the inefficiency.
          "Why don't you shove it?" she might reply...

      2. My wife is one of these people. No matter how many times I tell her a lemon/lime will not go down, there's always one in there that I have to get out. Worse, though, is that she treats both sinks like they both have a garbage disposal. One time the garbage disposal wouldn't drain because the other side was clogged.

        To be fair, though, she didn't realize the measuring spoon was in there when she turned it on.

        1. treats both sinks like they both have a garbage disposal

          Funny because it's true. At least ours has the little strainer so nothing bigger than a finger will get through.

    2. Composting kitchen scraps is a great way to keep them out of the disposal--everything goes in the bin instead. (Of course there's that point every winter when it's full and frozen and you have to wait a few months before using it again. . . . Is it spring yet?)

      1. We tried that, but our dedication was lacking. Also, my compost bin is overflowing with spent grains. I should probably open that thing up this spring and see if there's anything useable in there.

        1. Composting spent grains you say? Stick a spile in there and collect the whiskey!

          Also, I compost and recycle with fanatical zeal. We have a garbage disposal on one drain that never gets used, because we have "old" plumbing and a septic system, and a drain screen on the other side for the same reason. I occasionally send baking soda from the fridge freshener packs and lemon/lime peels down, but the disposal side mostly just holds the drying rack.

          1. I gave up having a compost pile, but I do put peelings and such in our yard waste bin. I mean, compost, amiright?

            I still can't get the Mrs to be consistent in putting vegetable matter in the bucket rather than the garbage. She insists on throwing away coffee grinds, among other things.

            1. I pull coffee ground-filled filters out of the trash at least once a week, but I won't go in after vegetable matter.

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