Hey, Rhu_Ru, how about we have a Zoom chat during tonight's game?
30 thoughts on “September 10, 2020: Meet Cute”
*I considered this for a few seconds
Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) tweeted at 10:25 PM on Wed, Sep 09, 2020:
Using 1871 as MLB’s start date, 29-9 is MLB’s first Scorigami (new final score) in over 20 years!
Before today, the last Scorigami was on May 19, 1999 when the Reds beat the Rockies 24-12
This is cause for celebration.
Unless you're a Marlins fan. Poor Jordan Yamamoto.
That's taking one for the team! I wonder if 2 pitchers (ala López and Yamamoto) have ever given up 20 (or more) runs (19 earned runs) in a game before? Seems unlikely.
Tommy Milone gets 29 runs in support and can't get the W. Of course, the game also featured a save.
4ltr: Gerrit Cole has a home run problem. What's going wrong for the Yankees ace?
How about "bandbox"?
Basically, he's still quite good, but expecting him to repeat last year was kind of foolish.
We are going to invite 4 fans over for the Viking/Packer game Sunday. Tell my why you want to use the Urinal or post a pic of your friends who want to come over. We will choose a winner. pic.twitter.com/uL1WqXSQ2t
I can't even imagine how many beers Tommy Kramer and Jim McMahon can pound collectively. (Also, check out McMahon's slippers!)
Related: Tommy Kramer once crashed our company's big holiday shindig downtown. I did not stay there long enough that night to see that.
probably a good choice.
His first wife (I think) was from Spamtown. My buddy's sister and her then-husband operated the Old Mill for a number of years. Apparently TK and her family members were frequent customers. He's remembered as a, umm, significant patron, but always a friendly one.
In 1993, my family moved four blocks away from where he lived during his Vikings career. The tales of some of the parties he hosted were legendary in the neighborhood.
Fred Smooth used to live two miles from me. Lots of For Sale signs around him.
Kramer's Twitter feed is kind of nice, just a retired dude living his best life.
I agree. I call him Vikings Bill Murray.
So right now I am homeless. Sold my house of 24 years at 9:00a and don't buy my new place until 1:00p.
Man, it was tough walking out those doors that last time. Lots of memories, mostly good, some sad.
And your car will keep wanting to drive there for a while, too.
South Msp is unlucky to lose you to the east, but it's also kinda cool that a new family will get a chance to live of those good times
We had a similar situation moving to our current house, closed on the townhouse in the morning and on the way to the next closing got a call from our mortgage agent that there was an issue...THAT was not an enjoyable call. Thankfully it all worked out with just a 30 minute delay.
Leaving the townhouse was very emotional for me too, brought two sons home to it (and two wives) so definitely had the some good, some sad memories. I get emotional about cars in the same way.
I'm in my office for the first time in several weeks (I'd been coming in once a week for most of the summer), and WOW does it feel good to be away from all the interruptions of home!
The Big Sister is at her grandparents' this week. My Mom and Dad came up over the weekend to help rebuild the porch. They took her back with them, and today they're handing her over to my in-laws (they live <1mi apart) to return to us this weekend.
This is her first trip without us, the first time she's ever slept in a different building than me^. It's strange, but the quiet has been quite something, definitely welcome.
^Edit: Almost. I went to Spain without her, but she stayed at our house and my parents stayed her with her.
Well crap, 2020 just got a whole lot worse, if that was even possible. RIP, Emma Peel.
Well turds.
she was a bad-ass long before her bad-ass turn as Lady Olenna Tyrell:
Landing the role of Emma Peel, the sexy and capable female lead in “The Avengers” TV series that ran from 1965-’68 catapulted Rigg into a new world that didn’t just come with acting challenges.
“That was my first battle with male authority. I discovered after a while in ‘The Avengers’ that I was earning less than the cameraman. I made a bit of a song and dance about it and demanded more. I was ahead of the game, in that respect, because nobody backed me up. There was no sisterhood. In those days, you were on your own.”
Rigg admits she felt “lonely” during moments such as this, but because it was “just simply so unfair,” she knew she had to speak out. Her demands were met, and the respect followed. “Not only that, I’m happy to say — a touch of fear,” she says, evoking a little bit of her “Game of Thrones’” Lady Olenna Tyrell-like glee.
I am quite excited about this. I'll probably be ponying up some cash in the coming future to this project.
Drew Magary is afraid of the ball.
I remember being afraid of the ball. I don't remember exactly what the transition point was for me. It might have been accidentally catching a fly ball in a pickup game with my brother's (4 years older than me) friends when I was about 8 or 9. Maybe it was a little later. And I remember being afraid of getting hit in football. I didn't start playing tackle football until 9th grade, because my parents wouldn't let me play youth football (and my brother was a walking emergency room visit). I remember being verry tentative as a sophomore, starting the first game of the season at nose guard for our sophomore team. I sucked, and the coach let me have it at halftime. But that got me over it, somehow, although I never played nose guard again (moving to DT).
My brother was afraid of the ball. Then he played a fair bit of paintball, became good at that, and was not only unafraid of the ball, he had a extreme confidence boost in general.
Whatever they're calling the podcast has been a welcome addition (reunion?) to the rotation.
I signed up for a monthly subscription today and am happy to have this collection of writers all in one place again. Excited to see what kind of off-the-wall and non-sports articles pop up.
Reading through the history of the site was something, I remember stumbling upon Deadspin pretty early on (Leitch was still running it) while wasting time working in my cube. That feels like a lifetime ago at this point.
I started during the 2006 Men's World Cup. Then I completely dropped it during the Daulerio Era. I had started to visit again, though less frequently than way back in the day, in the last few years until it was shuttered.
I went to a Deadspin meet up at a Nats game in RFK in 2006. I expected this underground community and laughed when I bumped into a friend of a friend with whom I had partied two days earlier at a wedding in Pittsburgh.
*I considered this for a few seconds
Jeremy Frank (@MLBRandomStats) tweeted at 10:25 PM on Wed, Sep 09, 2020:
Using 1871 as MLB’s start date, 29-9 is MLB’s first Scorigami (new final score) in over 20 years!
Before today, the last Scorigami was on May 19, 1999 when the Reds beat the Rockies 24-12
This is cause for celebration.
Unless you're a Marlins fan. Poor Jordan Yamamoto.
That's taking one for the team! I wonder if 2 pitchers (ala López and Yamamoto) have ever given up 20 (or more) runs (19 earned runs) in a game before? Seems unlikely.
Tommy Milone gets 29 runs in support and can't get the W. Of course, the game also featured a save.
4ltr: Gerrit Cole has a home run problem. What's going wrong for the Yankees ace?
How about "bandbox"?
Fangraphs had a pretty good article about this.
Basically, he's still quite good, but expecting him to repeat last year was kind of foolish.
I can't even imagine how many beers Tommy Kramer and Jim McMahon can pound collectively. (Also, check out McMahon's slippers!)
Related: Tommy Kramer once crashed our company's big holiday shindig downtown. I did not stay there long enough that night to see that.
probably a good choice.
His first wife (I think) was from Spamtown. My buddy's sister and her then-husband operated the Old Mill for a number of years. Apparently TK and her family members were frequent customers. He's remembered as a, umm, significant patron, but always a friendly one.
In 1993, my family moved four blocks away from where he lived during his Vikings career. The tales of some of the parties he hosted were legendary in the neighborhood.
Fred Smooth used to live two miles from me. Lots of For Sale signs around him.
Kramer's Twitter feed is kind of nice, just a retired dude living his best life.
I agree. I call him Vikings Bill Murray.
So right now I am homeless. Sold my house of 24 years at 9:00a and don't buy my new place until 1:00p.
Man, it was tough walking out those doors that last time. Lots of memories, mostly good, some sad.
And your car will keep wanting to drive there for a while, too.
South Msp is unlucky to lose you to the east, but it's also kinda cool that a new family will get a chance to live of those good times
We had a similar situation moving to our current house, closed on the townhouse in the morning and on the way to the next closing got a call from our mortgage agent that there was an issue...THAT was not an enjoyable call. Thankfully it all worked out with just a 30 minute delay.
Leaving the townhouse was very emotional for me too, brought two sons home to it (and two wives) so definitely had the some good, some sad memories. I get emotional about cars in the same way.
I'm in my office for the first time in several weeks (I'd been coming in once a week for most of the summer), and WOW does it feel good to be away from all the interruptions of home!
The Big Sister is at her grandparents' this week. My Mom and Dad came up over the weekend to help rebuild the porch. They took her back with them, and today they're handing her over to my in-laws (they live <1mi apart) to return to us this weekend.
This is her first trip without us, the first time she's ever slept in a different building than me^. It's strange, but the quiet has been quite something, definitely welcome.
^Edit: Almost. I went to Spain without her, but she stayed at our house and my parents stayed her with her.
Well crap, 2020 just got a whole lot worse, if that was even possible. RIP, Emma Peel.
Well turds.
she was a bad-ass long before her bad-ass turn as Lady Olenna Tyrell:
Defector is here.
I am quite excited about this. I'll probably be ponying up some cash in the coming future to this project.
Drew Magary is afraid of the ball.
I remember being afraid of the ball. I don't remember exactly what the transition point was for me. It might have been accidentally catching a fly ball in a pickup game with my brother's (4 years older than me) friends when I was about 8 or 9. Maybe it was a little later. And I remember being afraid of getting hit in football. I didn't start playing tackle football until 9th grade, because my parents wouldn't let me play youth football (and my brother was a walking emergency room visit). I remember being verry tentative as a sophomore, starting the first game of the season at nose guard for our sophomore team. I sucked, and the coach let me have it at halftime. But that got me over it, somehow, although I never played nose guard again (moving to DT).
My brother was afraid of the ball. Then he played a fair bit of paintball, became good at that, and was not only unafraid of the ball, he had a extreme confidence boost in general.
Whatever they're calling the podcast has been a welcome addition (reunion?) to the rotation.
I signed up for a monthly subscription today and am happy to have this collection of writers all in one place again. Excited to see what kind of off-the-wall and non-sports articles pop up.
Reading through the history of the site was something, I remember stumbling upon Deadspin pretty early on (Leitch was still running it) while wasting time working in my cube. That feels like a lifetime ago at this point.
I started during the 2006 Men's World Cup. Then I completely dropped it during the Daulerio Era. I had started to visit again, though less frequently than way back in the day, in the last few years until it was shuttered.
I actually wrote an article for the Leitch-era Deadspin. I'll see if I can find it. Edit: https://deadspin.com/drake-bulldogs-365555
I went to a Deadspin meet up at a Nats game in RFK in 2006. I expected this underground community and laughed when I bumped into a friend of a friend with whom I had partied two days earlier at a wedding in Pittsburgh.