I still like the guy. He did something dumb, sure, but I got no moral outrage in me over PEDs.
For me, it’s simply a head-scratcher about why guys are jeopardizing themselves by procuring supplements outside a supply chain administered by their team or MLBPA. I don’t know where meds prescribed by team doctors or specialists are dispensed from, but I suspect that’s pretty well handled. Where it seems to get dicey is around supplements & other OTC stuff that players are using, particularly in the offseason. I think MLBPA should be saying to members, “Look, this is a matter of accountability for us as your union. We think it’s in the best interest of all members for us to set up a health & wellness plan that ensures everything you get comes from a reputable source. Our union has the means to do this, and we have the incentive to protect all members from loss of wages due to a PED suspension. We also are going to more intentionally engage young players in this plan to ensure they aren’t losing development time due to needless suspensions while they are busy becoming the next generation of big leaguers & MLBPA members.”
There's a healthy dose of skepticism in me on this front, where I think individual players are looking for an edge towards making more money. If there are injuries or you're on the cusp, getting a little boost might be worth it. You try to time it so that your known tests are clean and hopefully you miss the random chance wheel on the other tests. I see it in my cases too: people think they can beat the system. And sometimes they're probably right.
Seems to be more prevalent in the Latin Am players
This is amazingly faithful. So much fun. I've got a rooting interest in the NL Central now.
Until the Twins remake Field of Dreams, the Brewers will have this edge on us.
The Sandlot is the superior baseball movie, so the Brewers would still have the advantage.
I mean, one is a comedy, the other a drama. Can't we just love both for being the best of their own thing?
Fair point. I'm all in favor of Golden Globesing this.
As long as the Mariners' eventual ironic, yet touching rendition of Pride of the Yankees doesn't get categorized as "comedy".
I'm still laughing.
I’m pretty sure the Pohlads said, “If you build it, we will contend.” I’m still waiting for them to ease our pain.
I was sick for about four days with a persistent headache, pulled out of it yesterday and woke up with a sore throat. Time to get my co-workers sick, because I’m hoarding sick time for a July vacation...
I have to wake up about 4am tomorrow for primary election judgin'. I early voted on Saturday, told the person checking me in that my first gig was on Tuesday, and asked if there were any secret handshakes I should learn. She looked bewildered and earnestly told me that she didn't know about anything like that.
I've spent all morning looking at my ballot and the various races/candidates, lots of options in our district, not a lot of incumbents. It will be an interesting election cycle, I think.
We’ll soon be getting a new home computer for the first time since I bought my laptop in 2010. I you would’ve told me then that I’d be buying a desktop computer in 2018, I would’ve laughed. The 12.9” iPad Pro I was issued for work is a total laptop replacement as far as I’m concerned.
No matter how nice the convertible, there are times when you really need that pickup truck.
It's fantastic. I have only the 34" one now but next time I'd probably try the 38" monitor.
So is it pretty simple then to size different windows to what you want? I know with two monitors I'd just drag and maximize the window.
It requires a bit more work. The issue is Windows doesn't have a tiling window manager, but other programs exist that can fill that role. I have things split into three columns, loosely: left secondary, primary thing, right secondary. I can easily send things to either side. The middle is a bit harder but I only ever set up one primary window and leave it be.
So...you can't have two of those monitors then?
Not enough vertical room.
So when will you be getting two 38" monitors?
True. In this case, we’re probably looking for the equivalent of a station wagon. This machine will replace two laptops — one from early 2008 and another from mid-2010. It’ll be the first “computer” the Poissonnier encounters* It’ll be the unified repository for our family’s digital archives. Like my old Volvo wagon, it’ll be able to haul (the digital equivalent of) 800 lbs of pavers when called upon. Can’t do that with a sedan or a convertible.
* It’s amazing to see how intuitively she engages with our smartphones pocket supercomputers & the iPad, even in the very limited time gets with them.
I'm totally with you; I'd feel naked without my home PC, docking stations be damned.
Going to DC next week. Other than the normal museum/monument attractions, anything I should be sure to include? Kids ages 11-17.
Ben's Chili Bowl has my favorite meal on earth (chili cheese half smoke, chili cheese fries, and banana milkshake).
Yup.
Also Zoo if not on the list already.
I recommend the National Portrait Gallery too. If you're going to pick just one of the art places to check out, make it that one. It's a few blocks off the Mall, but the ones on it just aren't as good.
Bring a resume; you never know when there’s likely to be a Cabinet-level opening.
I actually said that to a neighbor!
Spy Museum. Costs, but kids would love it.
I was just in DC, staying in Foggy Bottom. My work event was at the Park Hyatt. Which my wife reminded me was where we had our wedding reception. I did not recognize that fact. Sue me, it will have been 30 years this coming May.
If you are willing to go to Dulles, the Space Museum there blows the one on the mall out of the water.
National Cathedral in Cathedral Heights,
Fredrick Douglas's house in Anacostia,
The National Arboretum and Botanical Garden is AMAZING.
I'm not big on Ben's, but Old Ebbitt Grill is a really good spot for a family dinner.
Old Town Alexandria is a fun place to spend some time.
Navy Yard is also cool.
Uh I guess that's probably enough huh?
Thanks!
I might just put a big list in front of the kids and say "Choose."
For the curling fans out there, Rich Ruohonen was practicing next to our match last night. He would have been impressed by the nearly-impossible shot we made that turned a +4 into a -1.
Hey, we did that last week! We had a shot for 5 on a board weight takeout that should have been pretty easy if it weren't for the piece of straw from one of the cleanup brooms that the stone picked up making it go sideways 5 feet from the house.
Madison raiding your club a couple weekends ago was pretty funny because pretty much half of our Sunday league teams were searching for subs that Saturday.
He's a curler? I only know him for being the R in TSR Time (and for a jury trial he handled when I was a law clerk).
TSR actually brings cases to trial?
They did that one (and got a much bigger verdict than I expected).
Wild-Kings tied late. Both teams probably pretty happy to take a point and let OT fall where it may.
Or the Kings D will just leave Erikson Ek all alone. I'll take it.
Your wish is granted.
I'd rather have had an empty-netter.
Will Eric Staal (39) break Marion Gaborik's (42) Goals in a season record?
He's got at least two more ENG in him this season, I bet.
Went to the Kings game tonight. Sat in literally the next-to-last row. Still a good view, albeit of mostly boring and sloppy play.
Observations:
Andre Drummond is a large man.
Everyone hates Blake Griffin
The worse the matchup, the more inane, amplified crap they subject you to.
At first I thought this was another Hockey thing.
Hockey people also hate Blake Griffin.
Junior pitched 2 innings of a combined no-hitter and Trey got a hit to spark a tiebreaking rally in the final inning, so it was a good day baseball-wise for games that counted, at least.
Junior is in varsity high school and Trey is in Major Little League.
I still like the guy. He did something dumb, sure, but I got no moral outrage in me over PEDs.
For me, it’s simply a head-scratcher about why guys are jeopardizing themselves by procuring supplements outside a supply chain administered by their team or MLBPA. I don’t know where meds prescribed by team doctors or specialists are dispensed from, but I suspect that’s pretty well handled. Where it seems to get dicey is around supplements & other OTC stuff that players are using, particularly in the offseason. I think MLBPA should be saying to members, “Look, this is a matter of accountability for us as your union. We think it’s in the best interest of all members for us to set up a health & wellness plan that ensures everything you get comes from a reputable source. Our union has the means to do this, and we have the incentive to protect all members from loss of wages due to a PED suspension. We also are going to more intentionally engage young players in this plan to ensure they aren’t losing development time due to needless suspensions while they are busy becoming the next generation of big leaguers & MLBPA members.”
There's a healthy dose of skepticism in me on this front, where I think individual players are looking for an edge towards making more money. If there are injuries or you're on the cusp, getting a little boost might be worth it. You try to time it so that your known tests are clean and hopefully you miss the random chance wheel on the other tests. I see it in my cases too: people think they can beat the system. And sometimes they're probably right.
Seems to be more prevalent in the Latin Am players
This is amazingly faithful. So much fun. I've got a rooting interest in the NL Central now.
But... but... they're our MLB sanctioned regional rival!
Until the Twins remake Field of Dreams, the Brewers will have this edge on us.
The Sandlot is the superior baseball movie, so the Brewers would still have the advantage.
I mean, one is a comedy, the other a drama. Can't we just love both for being the best of their own thing?
Fair point. I'm all in favor of Golden Globesing this.
As long as the Mariners' eventual ironic, yet touching rendition of Pride of the Yankees doesn't get categorized as "comedy".
I'm still laughing.
I’m pretty sure the Pohlads said, “If you build it, we will contend.” I’m still waiting for them to ease our pain.
I was sick for about four days with a persistent headache, pulled out of it yesterday and woke up with a sore throat. Time to get my co-workers sick, because I’m hoarding sick time for a July vacation...
I have to wake up about 4am tomorrow for primary election judgin'. I early voted on Saturday, told the person checking me in that my first gig was on Tuesday, and asked if there were any secret handshakes I should learn. She looked bewildered and earnestly told me that she didn't know about anything like that.
I've spent all morning looking at my ballot and the various races/candidates, lots of options in our district, not a lot of incumbents. It will be an interesting election cycle, I think.
We’ll soon be getting a new home computer for the first time since I bought my laptop in 2010. I you would’ve told me then that I’d be buying a desktop computer in 2018, I would’ve laughed. The 12.9” iPad Pro I was issued for work is a total laptop replacement as far as I’m concerned.
No matter how nice the convertible, there are times when you really need that pickup truck.
I love my desktop with two monitor set up.
Two monitors is so last decade.
You just saying wider monitor?
It's fantastic. I have only the 34" one now but next time I'd probably try the 38" monitor.
So is it pretty simple then to size different windows to what you want? I know with two monitors I'd just drag and maximize the window.
It requires a bit more work. The issue is Windows doesn't have a tiling window manager, but other programs exist that can fill that role. I have things split into three columns, loosely: left secondary, primary thing, right secondary. I can easily send things to either side. The middle is a bit harder but I only ever set up one primary window and leave it be.
So...you can't have two of those monitors then?
Not enough vertical room.
So when will you be getting two 38" monitors?
True. In this case, we’re probably looking for the equivalent of a station wagon. This machine will replace two laptops — one from early 2008 and another from mid-2010. It’ll be the first “computer” the Poissonnier encounters* It’ll be the unified repository for our family’s digital archives. Like my old Volvo wagon, it’ll be able to haul (the digital equivalent of) 800 lbs of pavers when called upon. Can’t do that with a sedan or a convertible.
* It’s amazing to see how intuitively she engages with our
smartphonespocket supercomputers & the iPad, even in the very limited time gets with them.I'm totally with you; I'd feel naked without my home PC, docking stations be damned.
Going to DC next week. Other than the normal museum/monument attractions, anything I should be sure to include? Kids ages 11-17.
The National Building Museum is a very underrated visit.
Ben's Chili Bowl has my favorite meal on earth (chili cheese half smoke, chili cheese fries, and banana milkshake).
Yup.
Also Zoo if not on the list already.
I recommend the National Portrait Gallery too. If you're going to pick just one of the art places to check out, make it that one. It's a few blocks off the Mall, but the ones on it just aren't as good.
Bring a resume; you never know when there’s likely to be a Cabinet-level opening.
I actually said that to a neighbor!
Spy Museum. Costs, but kids would love it.
I was just in DC, staying in Foggy Bottom. My work event was at the Park Hyatt. Which my wife reminded me was where we had our wedding reception. I did not recognize that fact. Sue me, it will have been 30 years this coming May.
If you are willing to go to Dulles, the Space Museum there blows the one on the mall out of the water.
National Cathedral in Cathedral Heights,
Fredrick Douglas's house in Anacostia,
The National Arboretum and Botanical Garden is AMAZING.
I'm not big on Ben's, but Old Ebbitt Grill is a really good spot for a family dinner.
Old Town Alexandria is a fun place to spend some time.
Navy Yard is also cool.
Uh I guess that's probably enough huh?
Thanks!
I might just put a big list in front of the kids and say "Choose."
For the curling fans out there, Rich Ruohonen was practicing next to our match last night. He would have been impressed by the nearly-impossible shot we made that turned a +4 into a -1.
Hey, we did that last week! We had a shot for 5 on a board weight takeout that should have been pretty easy if it weren't for the piece of straw from one of the cleanup brooms that the stone picked up making it go sideways 5 feet from the house.
Madison raiding your club a couple weekends ago was pretty funny because pretty much half of our Sunday league teams were searching for subs that Saturday.
He's a curler? I only know him for being the R in TSR Time (and for a jury trial he handled when I was a law clerk).
TSR actually brings cases to trial?
They did that one (and got a much bigger verdict than I expected).
Wild-Kings tied late. Both teams probably pretty happy to take a point and let OT fall where it may.
Or the Kings D will just leave Erikson Ek all alone. I'll take it.
Your wish is granted.
I'd rather have had an empty-netter.
Will Eric Staal (39) break Marion Gaborik's (42) Goals in a season record?
He's got at least two more ENG in him this season, I bet.
Went to the Kings game tonight. Sat in literally the next-to-last row. Still a good view, albeit of mostly boring and sloppy play.
Observations:
Andre Drummond is a large man.
Everyone hates Blake Griffin
The worse the matchup, the more inane, amplified crap they subject you to.
At first I thought this was another Hockey thing.
Hockey people also hate Blake Griffin.
Junior pitched 2 innings of a combined no-hitter and Trey got a hit to spark a tiebreaking rally in the final inning, so it was a good day baseball-wise for games that counted, at least.
Junior is in varsity high school and Trey is in Major Little League.