I'm kind of fascinated with Low's single-song set at Rock the Garden and the reactions to it.
DJ mabel would be proud.
Shoot, I'm proud and I only caught in on the radio. Great way to push the envelope says I.
Did somebody say Drones?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lO0_T01TrI
(Didn't hear it, but as a long time Low fan and someone who owns several of the Sonic Youth SYR discsand Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, I probably would have dug it.)
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I'm torn. It's amusing to hear about it on the internet, where I can just say "huh, would you look at that" and go on my way.
On the other hand, I'd be a little irritated if I had actually attended that show.
On the other other hand, it was a festival, so spending the money hoping to only see the one band (a band that does a fair bit of toruing in MN, being from the state and all) is a little silly.
I dunno. Art?
Pretty much this. I had it on the radio while making dinner. It was just impenetrable noise, so I turned it off.
I thought it was cool. They were a lower bill act on a festival show. At that spot in the bill it's ok not to do a 30 minute set of radio-played hits, especially since that is their vibe anyway.
Also I heard it on the radio and was fascinated. The singing part early on was the weakest part of the song. Part of it was me thinking "I can't believe this is playing on the radio." Doubt I would have even remembered a standard set and no way would we be talking about it at the WGOM. Isn't that enough right there reason enough to appreciate what Low did?
If I had gone, it would have been to see Low, so I probably would have been ticked. Or amused. Although I haven't gone that far back into their catalog, so probably ticked. Or ticked yet amused despite my frustration. Yeah, probably that. Hey, it'd be nearly as good a story to tell as that intentionally godawful Ariel Pink set I was subject to back in 2005.
Alan's been going that way lately. His Dub & Rock* trio Retribution Gospel Choir had two side-length songs on their latest album. (And they had a 10-minute 4-song EP earlier that year, just to balance things out.)
*Not at the same time, alternating songs in the same set. Not sure if they're still doing the dub stuff now.
which allows me to link to this story in which Neil deGrasse Tyson opines that beanballs thrown at 90 mph impart roughly the same force on their target as "a .22 caliber bullet fired from a handgun".
Two things. Thing one, the physic-related comments are hilariously hissy. For an astronomer, nay, for pretty much any physicist, any difference less than an order of magnitude is "about the same," so lay off!
Second, and more importantly, Craig Calterra's opening statement and one of the comments are both awesome.
Even though Neil deGrasse Tyson is on record preferring Superman to Batman, he does retain at least some residual credibility in a few areas. Such as physics.
earpaniac - Jun 13, 2013 at 1:10 AM
Like I said, over 50! Green Lanterns tried to stop Superboy-Prime, and the official death toll was 32! And you think just one can stop Superman?!
My friend was on that bus as the trainer for E-town. He described a pretty horrific scene.
Watch the seams!
Crazy. I'll never tire of these clips.
R.A. Dickey pitches in a wonderful time.
aye. This is the freakiest, coolest one yet.
i love watching the catcher's glove trying to hone in on wherever the hell the ball's going to go.
That poor man. I can't help but watch his twitching glove and feel bad for him.
Yeah, the one against the Phillies is the funniest because the glove goes left and the ball goes right (after starting to go left).
There used to be a bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn, called Great Lakes. I believe the owner(s) had a MN connection. It's closed now, so apparently this one is filling the slot.
I got No. 5 right specifically because I've seen it in a Twins game. I believe it was Mientkiewicz falling into the stands after catching a ball and then the runners were allowed to advance. However, I can't seem to find a reference to it online.
6/10. Got at least one right for the wrong reasons.
I got number 5 right because I read ubes' spoiler. Also guessed a different ruling for #7 that was right due it being different from the ruling the question was asking.
I thought the infield fly bunt was interesting. I didn't know that bunts were not included, though I think it makes sense, given that bunts are treated specially in other ways (mainly as 3rd strikes.) I don't have a great gauge on how high 20 feet in the air is, but assuming the hitter didn't quit on the play--and he really shouldn't in any situation like that--if the infield can turn a triple play after letting the ball drop, it probably wasn't so high that anyone would normally expect the infield fly rule to be invoked anyway.
The ability to help another runner around the bases. Softball rules must be different on that, because a few years back there was that feel good story about the opposing team needing to help the player round the bases and such.
Maybe not. The description said it couldn't be done on a scoring play.
I forget the exact softball situation (that is which player was injured), but the idea is that someone who is not a live baserunner is not allowed to aid a baserunner. There is also the rule about not passing the baserunner, so in effect, a hitter could carry someone from first base to home plate on a home run, but no one could aid a home-run hitter who, say, broke his leg, unless perhaps a baserunner in front of him could drag him. But then the dragger would have to be careful not to double back too far on the bases, since you can't relinquish a base that you've successfully claimed. The dragger would have to stop dragging when he touched home plate, though, because you can't aid after you've scored.
The whole "can't pass another base runner" thing was part of what made me think touching was too far... practically speaking, it'd be far to easy to extend a limb past the runner in front of you, thus resulting in an out for this rule to be judicious.
I think that's one standard you could apply. I think there are many others which could make as much or more sense. You're not finished with a race on the track until your chest breaks the finish line. I see no reason why the same standard shouldn't be applied to the relative positions of baserunners--you haven't passed the other baserunner until your chest is closer to the next base than his chest.
I got that one right under the assumption the fielder had to be under the ball first before the infield fly rule could be called. If a bunt goes 20 feet in the air, then a fielder probably wouldn't be able to position himself under the ball to make the catch.
I got it wrong but felt that the details were not clear enough, and I should have marked the other way, but not for the bunt condition. I figured it it popped to wherever the catcher was standing then it would be ordinary effort, but the situation didn't describe it well enough.
I don't like #1: Bias for Revere for sure, but sliding safely into base on a SB attempt but the ball was hit fair, and getting called out for interference sounds ridiculous. Now if he held out his hand to stop the ball or something. What was Ben supposed to do?
#2: I did not know that.
#3: see above
#4: Hey! One I got right for the right reasons!
#5: see above
I don't like #6: runner could actually deflect the path of the ball to prevent it from getting to fielder. Also too subjective, while "struck by ball" is pretty clear.
#7 makes absolute sense but I wouldn't have guessed that. Also: Twins bias. Don't want Mountie's slump-breaking Homer undone by stupid rules and stupid Willingham not touching the stupid bag with his stupid foot.
#8 I was just biased against Petunia
#9 That does make sense as well.
#T I looked up CI rules a few years ago when Chris Coste had one in one of his first few games in the Bigs, but I didn't know the rule but it was intuitive.
Ugh. Heat on a run with their defense that pretty much has to be seen to be believed. Spurs shooting ice cold, too.
Talking heads on ESPN this morning were marveling that this could be a 7 game series with only one close game. I immediately predicted a tight game 6.
It almost wasn't, but this Heat run has been some of the better basketball I've ever seen.
it's the best NBA basketball I've seen in about 3 years.
Referring to a specific series?
no. the last time I watched any NBA basketball. It might be more than three years, I'm not sure.
Danny Green's gonna want to have a better game 7 to hang on to that Finals MVP.
Well, well, well.
I think Tony Parker would like to take a couple months off after tonight.
AW SNAP
I laughed.
In moderation, I still find it pretty funny. Glad to hear there's agreement.
Holy crap. So, this is happening.
Yeah, looks like i don't have to worry about Shane Battier winning a championship.
You mean in addition to the one he won last year.
Right, but i was trying to forget about that.
Also, i shouldn't have said anything.
Eddy Curry won an NBA title last year, too. #neverforget
That offensive rebound was everything.
Holy salty balls.
yeah.
The game deserved this, I suppose.
Couldn't it have been Birdman with the rebound out to Miller or James instead of the two guys actually involved, though?
I'm sure glad I stuck around for the last part of this last quarter.
Looks like we're headed to game 7!!
/cheaptoy jinx
Can it work a third time?
Nope
Doesn't look good.
We may have over thought this jinx business.
Ugh, Ray Allen.
Ugh, Chris Bosh.
This was like the last likeable way a team could possibly win.
I have to say that while I'm not particularly a fan of Miami, there seems to be such an expectation of perfection surrounding LeBron that I find myself rooting for him as though he's an underdog. Partly this goes back to him entering the league and the media just waiting--seemingly hoping--to deflate their own hype surrounding James, but even now, I sense a consistent undercurrent of "well, if LeBron doesn't win this Finals, his legacy is tarnished and I guess he's just not that good."
I also find that I don't really like the way Miami plays, but they are just puzzling enough that I find them interesting. I've been convinced since the beginning of the Big 3 that Bosh is overrated and hey, he came up with some big plays tonight, but I still can't convince myself that his narrow face is really bringing that much to the table. Chalmers seems capable, but good? Wade has flashes, but doesn't strike me as a max contract player. At times, it seemed like Ray Allen was Miami's second-best player in Game 6. The whole thing almost makes me wonder if LeBron really even improved his supporting cast that much by moving out of Cleveland. Spolestra also seems like half the coach that Poppovich is.
I pretty much agree with everything you say. I'd say, at least in my head, that LeBron's legacy was tarnished the minute he was dubbed King James (not that it was necessarily his fault) when he came into the league and sealed it in with "The Decision" (he's certainly culpable for that, but I wouldn't be surprised if ESPN had more to do with that, which is a much softer position than I used to have. Really, lets all just blame Jim Gray.) So really, the number of rings he gets is irrelevant. But, I think I'm ready to call him one of the two best players to ever play, even if I strongly dislike his public persona.
At this point in my life, with my strongly re-kindled enjoyment of the NBA thanks to Ricky and Kevin, I want the Spurs to win this series because they play the game so well that annoying people call it boring, which I think this series is proving to simply be un-true. Maybe with the strong ratings and the "going to a game 7" thing will help enough people see it that it will, for the most part, stop.
Also, I want more Spoelstra sad face.
This hasn't stopped being funny yet.
Yeah, I gotta say Van Gundy saying he likes the no-cal, but that it's a foul the rest of the game is a supremely stupid thing about the NBA. that was two no-calls at the end that had to much of an impact on the gamedespite clearly being against the time book.
Yeah, that's always pissed me off, too. It's not much of a rule if you can't stick to it in the game's defining moment.
After thinking about it last night, I'm not even sure what bothers me more, that it changes at the end of games like that (which happens in all sports) or that Van Gundy expressly endorsed it. Joey Crawford was involved, so its skewing my opinion towards the former, but man, Jeff, don't be saying its a "good" thing.
If we can't call fouls because "we don't want the refs to decide the game", then why have referees at all?
Does it happen in all sports? I guess a strike zone might flex in late in a baseball game, but that's not really the same thing.
That might be as close as baseball gets, but its a different animal than a sport with continuous action. (so ok, maybe the "all" was a little strong.) But football, hockey, soccer, and so-forth almost surely have some rules ignored/enforced differently at the end of games. Really, though, I don't like the idea of it in any sport. That it happens in them lowers my annoyance of it in basketball slightly is all I was getting at.
So, college basketball. So much better than the NBA.
"They look like they're not even trying!"
People talked about how big tonight's game was, but I really think that the next game will be the most important.
No worries, it appears we're just reusing yesterday's grounds & filter.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6tJQ05YJ58
Minnesota Twins: Things Sam Deduno Must Do to Continue Hot Start
good insight
I'm kind of fascinated with Low's single-song set at Rock the Garden and the reactions to it.
DJ mabel would be proud.
Shoot, I'm proud and I only caught in on the radio. Great way to push the envelope says I.
Did somebody say Drones?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lO0_T01TrI
(Didn't hear it, but as a long time Low fan and someone who owns several of the Sonic Youth SYR discs and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, I probably would have dug it.)
Edit: This was in the spam folder, so I approved it - Mags
I'm torn. It's amusing to hear about it on the internet, where I can just say "huh, would you look at that" and go on my way.
On the other hand, I'd be a little irritated if I had actually attended that show.
On the other other hand, it was a festival, so spending the money hoping to only see the one band (a band that does a fair bit of toruing in MN, being from the state and all) is a little silly.
I dunno. Art?
Pretty much this. I had it on the radio while making dinner. It was just impenetrable noise, so I turned it off.
I thought it was cool. They were a lower bill act on a festival show. At that spot in the bill it's ok not to do a 30 minute set of radio-played hits, especially since that is their vibe anyway.
Also I heard it on the radio and was fascinated. The singing part early on was the weakest part of the song. Part of it was me thinking "I can't believe this is playing on the radio." Doubt I would have even remembered a standard set and no way would we be talking about it at the WGOM. Isn't that enough right there reason enough to appreciate what Low did?
If I had gone, it would have been to see Low, so I probably would have been ticked. Or amused. Although I haven't gone that far back into their catalog, so probably ticked. Or ticked yet amused despite my frustration. Yeah, probably that. Hey, it'd be nearly as good a story to tell as that intentionally godawful Ariel Pink set I was subject to back in 2005.
Alan's been going that way lately. His Dub & Rock* trio Retribution Gospel Choir had two side-length songs on their latest album. (And they had a 10-minute 4-song EP earlier that year, just to balance things out.)
*Not at the same time, alternating songs in the same set. Not sure if they're still doing the dub stuff now.
Elizabethton team bus involved in fatal crash.
sad story. Glad that nobody on the team was hurt.
which allows me to link to this story in which Neil deGrasse Tyson opines that beanballs thrown at 90 mph impart roughly the same force on their target as "a .22 caliber bullet fired from a handgun".
Two things. Thing one, the physic-related comments are hilariously hissy. For an astronomer, nay, for pretty much any physicist, any difference less than an order of magnitude is "about the same," so lay off!
Second, and more importantly, Craig Calterra's opening statement and one of the comments are both awesome.
My friend was on that bus as the trainer for E-town. He described a pretty horrific scene.
Watch the seams!
Crazy. I'll never tire of these clips.
R.A. Dickey pitches in a wonderful time.
aye. This is the freakiest, coolest one yet.
i love watching the catcher's glove trying to hone in on wherever the hell the ball's going to go.
That poor man. I can't help but watch his twitching glove and feel bad for him.
Yeah, the one against the Phillies is the funniest because the glove goes left and the ball goes right (after starting to go left).
a home away from home in brooklyn.
There used to be a bar in Park Slope, Brooklyn, called Great Lakes. I believe the owner(s) had a MN connection. It's closed now, so apparently this one is filling the slot.
This is a good rules quiz.
I remember they put that rule in just a few years ago.
yeah, that one is recent.
It came up for or against the Twins back when I had cable,
6/10. I don't want to spoil any of the questions, but that was fun.
6/10. Got at least one right for the wrong reasons.
The one that surprised me was
Maybe not. The description said it couldn't be done on a scoring play.
I got that one wrong too.
This.
6/10, but I'll admit I guessed on probably 6 of them so I can't claim any prowess.
4/10, but same, so I can't claim any stupidity.
5/10, and a lot of guessing involved.
3/10. Guessed wrong on everything, pretty much.
Snazzy. Get one, Rows!
Ugh. Heat on a run with their defense that pretty much has to be seen to be believed. Spurs shooting ice cold, too.
Talking heads on ESPN this morning were marveling that this could be a 7 game series with only one close game. I immediately predicted a tight game 6.
It almost wasn't, but this Heat run has been some of the better basketball I've ever seen.
it's the best NBA basketball I've seen in about 3 years.
Referring to a specific series?
no. the last time I watched any NBA basketball. It might be more than three years, I'm not sure.
Danny Green's gonna want to have a better game 7 to hang on to that Finals MVP.
Well, well, well.
I think Tony Parker would like to take a couple months off after tonight.
AW SNAP
I laughed.
In moderation, I still find it pretty funny. Glad to hear there's agreement.
Holy crap. So, this is happening.
Yeah, looks like i don't have to worry about Shane Battier winning a championship.
You mean in addition to the one he won last year.
Right, but i was trying to forget about that.
Also, i shouldn't have said anything.
Eddy Curry won an NBA title last year, too. #neverforget
That offensive rebound was everything.
Holy salty balls.
yeah.
The game deserved this, I suppose.
Couldn't it have been Birdman with the rebound out to Miller or James instead of the two guys actually involved, though?
I'm sure glad I stuck around for the last part of this last quarter.
Looks like we're headed to game 7!!
/cheaptoy jinx
Can it work a third time?
Nope
Doesn't look good.
We may have over thought this jinx business.
Ugh, Ray Allen.
Ugh, Chris Bosh.
This was like the last likeable way a team could possibly win.
I have to say that while I'm not particularly a fan of Miami, there seems to be such an expectation of perfection surrounding LeBron that I find myself rooting for him as though he's an underdog. Partly this goes back to him entering the league and the media just waiting--seemingly hoping--to deflate their own hype surrounding James, but even now, I sense a consistent undercurrent of "well, if LeBron doesn't win this Finals, his legacy is tarnished and I guess he's just not that good."
I also find that I don't really like the way Miami plays, but they are just puzzling enough that I find them interesting. I've been convinced since the beginning of the Big 3 that Bosh is overrated and hey, he came up with some big plays tonight, but I still can't convince myself that his narrow face is really bringing that much to the table. Chalmers seems capable, but good? Wade has flashes, but doesn't strike me as a max contract player. At times, it seemed like Ray Allen was Miami's second-best player in Game 6. The whole thing almost makes me wonder if LeBron really even improved his supporting cast that much by moving out of Cleveland. Spolestra also seems like half the coach that Poppovich is.
I pretty much agree with everything you say. I'd say, at least in my head, that LeBron's legacy was tarnished the minute he was dubbed King James (not that it was necessarily his fault) when he came into the league and sealed it in with "The Decision" (he's certainly culpable for that, but I wouldn't be surprised if ESPN had more to do with that, which is a much softer position than I used to have. Really, lets all just blame Jim Gray.) So really, the number of rings he gets is irrelevant. But, I think I'm ready to call him one of the two best players to ever play, even if I strongly dislike his public persona.
At this point in my life, with my strongly re-kindled enjoyment of the NBA thanks to Ricky and Kevin, I want the Spurs to win this series because they play the game so well that annoying people call it boring, which I think this series is proving to simply be un-true. Maybe with the strong ratings and the "going to a game 7" thing will help enough people see it that it will, for the most part, stop.
Also, I want more Spoelstra sad face.
This hasn't stopped being funny yet.
Yeah, I gotta say Van Gundy saying he likes the no-cal, but that it's a foul the rest of the game is a supremely stupid thing about the NBA. that was two no-calls at the end that had to much of an impact on the gamedespite clearly being against the time book.
Yeah, that's always pissed me off, too. It's not much of a rule if you can't stick to it in the game's defining moment.
After thinking about it last night, I'm not even sure what bothers me more, that it changes at the end of games like that (which happens in all sports) or that Van Gundy expressly endorsed it. Joey Crawford was involved, so its skewing my opinion towards the former, but man, Jeff, don't be saying its a "good" thing.
If we can't call fouls because "we don't want the refs to decide the game", then why have referees at all?
Does it happen in all sports? I guess a strike zone might flex in late in a baseball game, but that's not really the same thing.
That might be as close as baseball gets, but its a different animal than a sport with continuous action. (so ok, maybe the "all" was a little strong.) But football, hockey, soccer, and so-forth almost surely have some rules ignored/enforced differently at the end of games. Really, though, I don't like the idea of it in any sport. That it happens in them lowers my annoyance of it in basketball slightly is all I was getting at.
So, college basketball. So much better than the NBA.
"They look like they're not even trying!"
People talked about how big tonight's game was, but I really think that the next game will be the most important.