28 thoughts on “February 6, 2016: Dead Season”

    1. I totes balls their supporters, too. I'm not sure which was their better chant at the Etihad today:

      1. "Why the fire drill?" (as Man City fans started streaming for the exit once it got to 3-0); or

      2. "Can we play you every week?"

      Epic trolling

  3. so J.R. Graham lost 30+ lbs merely by adjusting his diet?

    Uh, no. I'm not buying that line. A professional athlete who's not a sumo wrestler or NFL lineman dropping 30 lbs in a few months merely by "adjusting his diet". What, was he ingesting 3,000 calories of candy and soda per day in-between meals?

    During my freshman year (and the following summer) at the Alma Mater I lost about 35 lbs. I did it by (a) having knee surgery, (b) stopping weightroom workouts, (c) getting probably clinically depressed and (d) going on a poverty diet over the summer. It ain't easy to drop that much weight when you start out in good enough shape to perform as a professional athlete.

    2. It may be possible. Maybe his metabolism runs a bit different. Cut out the extra nutritional crap in addition to working out like a professional sports dude and boom weight melts away.

      1. He said his workout if the same but also he's stronger. It sounds like he's lifting the same reps but with more weight, so I don't know if it's true that it hasn't changed at all to help drop the 30 pounds.

      2. if his metabolism runs a bit different, he wouldn't have had the 35 lbs to drop. He'd have been struggling to keep his weight up.

    4. I believe it. It's easier to lose weight when you have a decent amount of muscle mass to start with, and he already works out.

      And per the discussion yesterday, I think teams pay more attention to diet than they used to, but I doubt the Twins do. Dude was likely a natural athlete growing up, got away with shitty habits for a while, got a little chubby, and now he paid some attention to his idea and leaned out.

      1. It's easier to lose weight when you have a decent amount of muscle mass to start with, and he already works out.

        Yes, and.

        And the research increasingly says that in order to lose weight, especially that kind of weight, you are gonna have to significantly change your diet (upping the protein content) AND increase your weight training to minimize or avoid loss of muscle mass.

        It's pretty basic physiology, I think. If you dramatically cut caloric consumption below exertion, your body consumes itself. That means both burning stored fat and cannibalizing muscle tissue for fuel. Hence the need for extra protein and for extra weight training.

        The NYT had a piece on this recently. Note the take-home message. The weight trainers in the study lost about 11-12 pounds in a month while maintaining or increasing muscle mass, but it was really hard.

    1. Blame spoons for actually scheduling a post this morning.

      Here's your sardines, NBB. I like mine in hot sauce or mustard sauce.

      2. Mmm, sar... What cheaptoy said.
        Canned, I too like the hot sauce and mustard-soaked versions, as well as kippered snacks, kippered herring and oysters.

      3. When we were kids in the Canal Zone (Panama), like 1967-69'ish, my brother and I would trot out into the jungle to Clay mountain (actually a small hill) and would set up camp, and consume canned sardines and saltines. Best food evah!

        Many year's later, the wife and I were walking around the streets of Tangiers, and we came around this corner, and I got a whiff of paradise. A Moroccan dude was selling fresh sardines on a brazier on the street. I had never had them except from a can. The smell of the grilled sardine oil was transcendent. We got a paper cone of them and (I mostly) ate them with great relish (с удовольствием).

  6. cc to Rhu_Ru:

    In my spam box was a spoofed email from you, directing me to some bogus website (dentalcard.com something something). Probably not a problem on your end, but fyi.

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