39 thoughts on “September 26, 2016: One in a row! The other way.”
The local football team is taking their trolling to a whole new level this season. What's going to stop them in the big game this time? Marshall-like safety? Earthquake? The rapture?
There's still Blair Walsh.
Too passé. I expect that he'll nail a 60 yard field goal to put them in the position to inflict a far more esoteric misery.
I left it open whether he makes or misses it for maximum misery.
As in he gets dropped, picked up by another team, and hits the game winner for them? Yeah, that'd do.
Inauguration Day is January 20th, 2017, so probably that.
Half-time show tragedy. NFC Championship game, some part of the new stadium will fail and crush the half-time performers. Vikings forced to forfeit for being poor hosts.
large flock of geese collide with glass, raining shards on the fans below them. ASPCA protests turn bloody.
Rapture isn't far off, especially if the Cubs win the World Series
Meet your new President (of Baseball Operations): Derek Falvey.
I think he's the guy who tells the doctors when to do Tommy John.
I don't know the particulars, but you can acronymize it as POBO, which makes me think of Poobah, which makes me think of this:
Grand Poobah is a term derived from the name of the haughty character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado (1885).[1] In this comic opera, Pooh-Bah holds numerous exalted offices, including "First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Chief Justice, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Admiral ... Archbishop ... Lord Mayor" and "Lord High Everything Else". The name has come to be used as a mocking title for someone self-important or locally high-ranking and who either exhibits an inflated self-regard or who has limited authority while taking impressive titles.
Maybe it'll be easier just to call him Lord Falvey.
Apparently Falvey pitched in college and has a degree in the dismal science. Before he was one of Cleveland's AGMs he was one of a two-headed Director of Baseball Ops, responsible for player personnel & acquisitions. I'm seeing a lot of the usual kind of "well regarded in the industry," which often seems like code for something else. Similar language is in articles covering his last two promotions.
Falvey's wedding website through The Knot is publicly accessible, as is his LinkedIn profile. As with domain registrations, we'll see how long that lasts.
I'd been hoping for McLeod, myself. I wonder if keeping Molitor was a roadblock, or if Falvey was the top choice.
I'm curious what else that might be code for?
Passan wrote a piece last season, "Why Cleveland has the best – and most futuristic – rotation in baseball," that cited Falvey as the person responsible for supervising Cleveland's pitching program. A point in his favor, I'd say, depending on how intimately he was involved in the development of the program (rather than simply its administration).
Wow! Thanks for the link.
I woke up to a news alert on my phone from ESPN. I swear it said not only Falvey to be POBO, but also Keith Law to be GM. I might have misread it since I can't find anything to corroborate it and I also dismissed the alert so I can't read it again. Still, my thoughts on such a thing is that the Twins could not have gone any more opposite direction than they had been going than that.
The Twins will hire Indians assistant general manager Derek Falvey as their president of baseball operations, according to a report from Keith Law of ESPN.com
Stupid semicolon.
In honor of Arnold Palmer I went to make an Arnold Palmer and found that I had no tea. So, I substituted Goslings Ginger Beer and, it's freaking delicious.
not here
non-alcoholic, but very spicy.
Also, New Orleans.
Got a letter from our insurance co. this morning notifying me that they were reducing our coverage by 100K because ... ? I called my guy and gave him holy hell. He submitted photos of the renovations etc and got back to me with them reducing our coverage 'only' 51k. We're supposed to be okay with that?!?! That coverage would leave us owing the bank a lot of money if something happened to this house. I've now spent more than half my day off calling insurance companies to try to get coverage that actually covers. I get that we live below sea level, and I'm willing to pay more because I know that I live below sea level, but c'mon. Just provide what you say you're going to provide at the cost you quoted me.
Not sure there is anything I pay for that I hope to use less than my home insurance.
I think about where the line is for a hypothetical repair where I'd go ahead and file a claim instead of just fixing it even if it costs more than the deductible.
I had a total loss of an apartment that payed out the total value of the claim a number of years ago. They fought me tooth and nail about every detail only to issue me a check at the end of the process for the total amount. Years later I get my deductible back with an explanation that they'd recouped their outlay dude to legal action and that I was owed my deductible. I dug a bit and found out that they sued everyone involved and won settlements covering the loss of my property. Why, god, why did they have to put me through the exhaustion of fighting every claim I made if they were just going to get re-insured. The shell game is absolutely maddening. All I want to do is pay you for peace of mind. Take my money and cover my house for the value we paid for it.
Insert picture of the boss from the Incredibles here
I am thinking life insurance is something I want to exercise considerably less than home insurance. Just saying.
If you keep it long enough, the probability of collecting climbs to 100%!
Yeah, the only way to get around having that exercised at some point is to not have it.
The thing is, none of us will be around to use our own life insurance.
Not unless we commit fraud, anyhow.
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Mrs. Runner is always telling me that I'm worth more to her dead than alive
The local football team is taking their trolling to a whole new level this season. What's going to stop them in the big game this time? Marshall-like safety? Earthquake? The rapture?
There's still Blair Walsh.
Too passé. I expect that he'll nail a 60 yard field goal to put them in the position to inflict a far more esoteric misery.
I left it open whether he makes or misses it for maximum misery.
As in he gets dropped, picked up by another team, and hits the game winner for them? Yeah, that'd do.
Ooh. Hadn't considered that. I'll bet that's it.
Half-time show tragedy. NFC Championship game, some part of the new stadium will fail and crush the half-time performers. Vikings forced to forfeit for being poor hosts.
large flock of geese collide with glass, raining shards on the fans below them. ASPCA protests turn bloody.
Rapture isn't far off, especially if the Cubs win the World Series
Meet your new President (of Baseball Operations): Derek Falvey.
https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/780429674497339393
Whats a President of Baseball Operations?
I think he's the guy who tells the doctors when to do Tommy John.
I don't know the particulars, but you can acronymize it as POBO, which makes me think of Poobah, which makes me think of this:
Maybe it'll be easier just to call him Lord Falvey.
Apparently Falvey pitched in college and has a degree in the dismal science. Before he was one of Cleveland's AGMs he was one of a two-headed Director of Baseball Ops, responsible for player personnel & acquisitions. I'm seeing a lot of the usual kind of "well regarded in the industry," which often seems like code for something else. Similar language is in articles covering his last two promotions.
Falvey's wedding website through The Knot is publicly accessible, as is his LinkedIn profile. As with domain registrations, we'll see how long that lasts.
I'd been hoping for McLeod, myself. I wonder if keeping Molitor was a roadblock, or if Falvey was the top choice.
I'm curious what else that might be code for?
Passan wrote a piece last season, "Why Cleveland has the best – and most futuristic – rotation in baseball," that cited Falvey as the person responsible for supervising Cleveland's pitching program. A point in his favor, I'd say, depending on how intimately he was involved in the development of the program (rather than simply its administration).
Wow! Thanks for the link.
I woke up to a news alert on my phone from ESPN. I swear it said not only Falvey to be POBO, but also Keith Law to be GM. I might have misread it since I can't find anything to corroborate it and I also dismissed the alert so I can't read it again. Still, my thoughts on such a thing is that the Twins could not have gone any more opposite direction than they had been going than that.
He's the one that reported it initially, perhaps?
Stupid semicolon.
In honor of Arnold Palmer I went to make an Arnold Palmer and found that I had no tea. So, I substituted Goslings Ginger Beer and, it's freaking delicious.
not here
non-alcoholic, but very spicy.
Also, New Orleans.
Got a letter from our insurance co. this morning notifying me that they were reducing our coverage by 100K because ... ? I called my guy and gave him holy hell. He submitted photos of the renovations etc and got back to me with them reducing our coverage 'only' 51k. We're supposed to be okay with that?!?! That coverage would leave us owing the bank a lot of money if something happened to this house. I've now spent more than half my day off calling insurance companies to try to get coverage that actually covers. I get that we live below sea level, and I'm willing to pay more because I know that I live below sea level, but c'mon. Just provide what you say you're going to provide at the cost you quoted me.
Not sure there is anything I pay for that I hope to use less than my home insurance.
I think about where the line is for a hypothetical repair where I'd go ahead and file a claim instead of just fixing it even if it costs more than the deductible.
I had a total loss of an apartment that payed out the total value of the claim a number of years ago. They fought me tooth and nail about every detail only to issue me a check at the end of the process for the total amount. Years later I get my deductible back with an explanation that they'd recouped their outlay dude to legal action and that I was owed my deductible. I dug a bit and found out that they sued everyone involved and won settlements covering the loss of my property. Why, god, why did they have to put me through the exhaustion of fighting every claim I made if they were just going to get re-insured. The shell game is absolutely maddening. All I want to do is pay you for peace of mind. Take my money and cover my house for the value we paid for it.
Insert picture of the boss from the Incredibles here
I am thinking life insurance is something I want to exercise considerably less than home insurance. Just saying.
If you keep it long enough, the probability of collecting climbs to 100%!
Yeah, the only way to get around having that exercised at some point is to not have it.
The thing is, none of us will be around to use our own life insurance.
Not unless we commit fraud, anyhow.
﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
Mrs. Runner is always telling me that I'm worth more to her dead than alive
Twins at Instructs.