It's still here. We got up to 90 yesterday. Which is perfectly fine by me.
Is he asking where Summer went? Or is he asking where you went this Summer? Typical half-bakef ambiguity
Didn't think of it that way. I never really went anywhere, other than to visit my parents or to go to Annual Conference. I am hoping to make a trip next summer, though.
Michael Russo announced on Twitter yesterday that he is leaving the fish wrap. Rumor is he is going to The Athletic. I truly hope his new gig has him covering the Wild heavily. Russo has been my favorite local sports writer for a decade.
Interesting. I wondered when The Athletic would expand into the Minnesota market. If it was to land some readable, mature-yet-modern Twins writers, I'd consider subscribing.
I perused their site earlier. Not sure if I am a fan of the layout, but I saw Ken Rosenthal had an article on the Twins. I have never subscribed to a pay for news site as there is enough free articles out there. I will miss Russo on KFAN. He was one of the few voices I could tolerate on that station.
I'm digging their front page. It reminds me of the simplicity of a newspaper (sports) front page where it's all content with hooks to get you to the inside with more ads. Except here, there are no ads so it's 100% content.
Personally, I despise ads and think they've caused so many problems. Google and Facebook earn a shocking percentage of all ad revenue in the country. They do good work but that's a lot of money consolidated in two companies and a tiny fraction of people. I liked it better when I could complain about bad writing/reporting in the paper or TV instead of complaining about nothing available at all.
I linked to the site before and I'm pretty sure I'll subscribe once the Twins have a section. With them hiring Rosenthal, that means there will be some MLB-wide reporting too I can read.
I agree with your assessment (though I'm not so sanguine on the goodness of Facebook (in particular) or Google). What I think has become most toxic for sites outside of those two realms is the pressure ad revenue exerts on editorial independence, eventually warping content in a way that resorts to employing clickbait headlines and listicles to inflate page view numbers. And let's not even talk about "sponsored articles/content" and advertorials. I just about threw up the first time I saw that on The Atlantic.
I think Facebook has done good work connecting people globally. They've done amazing work in pushing the cutting edge of hardware and software in the open. Google is even farther ahead but they don't talk publicly about anything until it's five years old internally. And it's still ahead of the industry. So I'm biased by that.
I would still burn it all down. They do good work but it's not intrinsic.
You mean it's not just about Oakland's baseball team?
I assume he is heading for either an NHL.com and or whatever the big Canadian hockey news site is.
Who is left of the good beat writers in town? I prefer Mike Berardino at the PiPress over any of the Strib guys. Can't really think of any others right off the top of my head.
La Velle said The Athletic.
La Velle just said on @KFAN1003 that Russo is going to @TheAthleticSF. Big get for them. Russo is one of a kind, in a good way.
Seems a weird move unless they're hiring him as an NHL guy rather than to build the Minnesota section. He's been covering the Wild for a while so moving up to covering the NHL as a whole seems like the right kind of career progression move to hire away someone.
Berardino is the only one I'll read.
32 games left. Twins have 1.5 game lead. Record 67-63.
Q1. How many games/wins will it take to get in the playoffs?
Q2. How many games will the Twins win in the last 32 games?
1. 86
2. They'll get to 85, but be two games back going into the final day.
In other news, there's now a small part of me that is getting excited about a potential playoff and thinks it's possible. Of course, OF COURSE, it would likely be against the Yankees. Of course.
Ya know what? I'd take the Yankees. Happily. Only player left is Mauer, right? (Perkins?)
After suffering through so many bad seasons it's fun to dream about being beaten by the yankees in a playoff game.
'90s Braves vs '00s Marlins. Or, '90s (post '92) Twins vs '00s Twins.
Hey, a one-and-done victory to knock out the Yankees would be a step in the right direction
I'm saying 82, and the Twins have it exactly.
Hey, an 83-win Cardinals team won the World Series.
I had it in my head that since the 2nd wild card was installed the second spot ended up being much closer to a .500 team than my actual review of the records now shows. Eh. Maybe my idiocy will prove prophetic.
The Royals have not scored in 43 innings.
According to BR, they've tied the full game streak at four consecutive games. It's a ten-way tie. Last team to be shut out four consecutive games were the Cubs in 1992. I don't feel like checking the before and after for every team so I don't know the innings streak for any of them. It appears the record in 48 innings so if the Royals manage one more shutout, they'll break the tie and record.
I haven't been paying attention -- did they win any of those?
I was hoping they won the first game of the streak but they lost that one too.
When Arya handed the dagger over to Sansa, it was clear their spat was a ruse. I wasn't predicting Littlefinger would get it next, but that scene was delightful.
I wonder if Jaime will give them the plans for the Scorpion (i.e. the giant crossbow) so they can shoot dragonglass bolts at zombie dragon.
And I thought giving the blade to her was a clear foreshadowing that he was the next death. But yeah, the Littlefinger death was a nice payoff. People loved to complain about that whole series of events as Sansa and Arya being stupid and annoying, but it seemed so completely obvious they were setting him up.
At this point, after how ineffective the crossbow was to a living dragon, it almost has to be used to fling dragon glass around.
Why did they need a ruse? Sansa is in charge, Arya can easily take him out, and Bran has all the information. It's not like they needed to catch him in the act - they used Bran information at the "trial" anyway. Plus, they didn't really catch him red-handed doing anything. It was more dramatic for the audience, but it didn't really make sense.
I took it as the audience they were playing it for was the Northern Lords. Also, I don't think the loyalty of the Vale was in question, but publicly outing the Arryn's murderer can only help that equation.
And I agree on both counts: cheaps called it and it was delightful.
From Mike Berardino:
Joe Nathan will retire as a #mntwins member on Friday at 3. Nice gesture. Would make a great special assistant.
GOAT Twins closer. Mariano Rivera is the only closer I would prefer over Nathan in the 9th.
It seems that WGOM is broke on a daily basis, with no posts going through for several hours in the afternoon.
It's still here. We got up to 90 yesterday. Which is perfectly fine by me.
Is he asking where Summer went? Or is he asking where you went this Summer? Typical half-bakef ambiguity
Didn't think of it that way. I never really went anywhere, other than to visit my parents or to go to Annual Conference. I am hoping to make a trip next summer, though.
Michael Russo announced on Twitter yesterday that he is leaving the fish wrap. Rumor is he is going to The Athletic. I truly hope his new gig has him covering the Wild heavily. Russo has been my favorite local sports writer for a decade.
Interesting. I wondered when The Athletic would expand into the Minnesota market. If it was to land some readable, mature-yet-modern Twins writers, I'd consider subscribing.
I perused their site earlier. Not sure if I am a fan of the layout, but I saw Ken Rosenthal had an article on the Twins. I have never subscribed to a pay for news site as there is enough free articles out there. I will miss Russo on KFAN. He was one of the few voices I could tolerate on that station.
I'm digging their front page. It reminds me of the simplicity of a newspaper (sports) front page where it's all content with hooks to get you to the inside with more ads. Except here, there are no ads so it's 100% content.
Personally, I despise ads and think they've caused so many problems. Google and Facebook earn a shocking percentage of all ad revenue in the country. They do good work but that's a lot of money consolidated in two companies and a tiny fraction of people. I liked it better when I could complain about bad writing/reporting in the paper or TV instead of complaining about nothing available at all.
I linked to the site before and I'm pretty sure I'll subscribe once the Twins have a section. With them hiring Rosenthal, that means there will be some MLB-wide reporting too I can read.
I agree with your assessment (though I'm not so sanguine on the goodness of Facebook (in particular) or Google). What I think has become most toxic for sites outside of those two realms is the pressure ad revenue exerts on editorial independence, eventually warping content in a way that resorts to employing clickbait headlines and listicles to inflate page view numbers. And let's not even talk about "sponsored articles/content" and advertorials. I just about threw up the first time I saw that on The Atlantic.
I think Facebook has done good work connecting people globally. They've done amazing work in pushing the cutting edge of hardware and software in the open. Google is even farther ahead but they don't talk publicly about anything until it's five years old internally. And it's still ahead of the industry. So I'm biased by that.
I would still burn it all down. They do good work but it's not intrinsic.
You mean it's not just about Oakland's baseball team?
I assume he is heading for either an NHL.com and or whatever the big Canadian hockey news site is.
Who is left of the good beat writers in town? I prefer Mike Berardino at the PiPress over any of the Strib guys. Can't really think of any others right off the top of my head.
La Velle said The Athletic.
Seems a weird move unless they're hiring him as an NHL guy rather than to build the Minnesota section. He's been covering the Wild for a while so moving up to covering the NHL as a whole seems like the right kind of career progression move to hire away someone.
Berardino is the only one I'll read.
32 games left. Twins have 1.5 game lead. Record 67-63.
Q1. How many games/wins will it take to get in the playoffs?
Q2. How many games will the Twins win in the last 32 games?
1. 86
2. They'll get to 85, but be two games back going into the final day.
In other news, there's now a small part of me that is getting excited about a potential playoff and thinks it's possible. Of course, OF COURSE, it would likely be against the Yankees. Of course.
Ya know what? I'd take the Yankees. Happily. Only player left is Mauer, right? (Perkins?)
After suffering through so many bad seasons it's fun to dream about being beaten by the yankees in a playoff game.
'90s Braves vs '00s Marlins. Or, '90s (post '92) Twins vs '00s Twins.
Hey, a one-and-done victory to knock out the Yankees would be a step in the right direction
I'm saying 82, and the Twins have it exactly.
Hey, an 83-win Cardinals team won the World Series.
I had it in my head that since the 2nd wild card was installed the second spot ended up being much closer to a .500 team than my actual review of the records now shows. Eh. Maybe my idiocy will prove prophetic.
The Royals have not scored in 43 innings.
According to BR, they've tied the full game streak at four consecutive games. It's a ten-way tie. Last team to be shut out four consecutive games were the Cubs in 1992. I don't feel like checking the before and after for every team so I don't know the innings streak for any of them. It appears the record in 48 innings so if the Royals manage one more shutout, they'll break the tie and record.
I haven't been paying attention -- did they win any of those?
I was hoping they won the first game of the streak but they lost that one too.
Anyone have ESPN insider? How does our FO measure up (ITO)?
So I watched the GoT season finale last night. I just wanted to point out:
One of the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim bumpers:
the writing on Game of Thrones
2011 - 2016
From Mike Berardino:
GOAT Twins closer. Mariano Rivera is the only closer I would prefer over Nathan in the 9th.
It seems that WGOM is broke on a daily basis, with no posts going through for several hours in the afternoon.
Or so it seems.
WAR Position Players
1. Altuve • HOU 7.1
2. Simmons • LAA 6.3
3. Judge • NYY 5.5
4. Trout • LAA 5.4
5. Betts • BOS 4.9
6. Upton • DET 4.9
7. Correa • HOU 4.7
8. Schoop • BAL 4.5
9. Ramirez • CLE 4.4
10. Buxton • MIN 4.3!!!!!!
The day off moved him from 9th to 10th.
whomever is responsible for the sausages, peppers, and onions banner: well played.