Athletics Nation

facepalm

Yeah, kinda torn about the whole thing, really

(not the holocaust, obviously) – it’s good that he gets exposed as a simple minded racist on live tv, and free speech is important, but it also gives them the oxygen of publicity, and helps to legitism them as a political party.

Jean Marie le Pen, the odious leader of the French equivalent, the Front National, said recently they when they let him go on French TV in the mid 80s, though he did get the shit kicked out of him, verbally, it was the start of his party’s remarkable success…

Isn't the BNP guy kind of a moron, though?

Le Pen is hateful and disgusting, but he’s not an idiot.

Can he list you as a reference?

oh yeah, Griffin is an idiot

and a jerk.

best thing is, though – the BNP might, by law, have to let non-whites join the party; if enough do, they could vote him out of the leadership, and make BNP be something else entirely…

that's an interesting strategy....

Throw the Danes out of the Danelaw!! England for the Angles!!

over-enthusiastic policing

(blinks)

wow.

i know, right?

Ooh, I missed this

Why couldn’t they have found that out years ago and spared us all umpteen renditions of “God Bless America”?

you and me,

we think alike.

bring back take me out to the ballgame please

why do I have to swear allegiance twice a game?

tell me about it.

effing NYers. This is all Guilliani’s fault!

I think we should blame Rudy for almost anything

Dude gives me the creeps

might be a vampire.

IT'S ALL ABOUT FLORIDA

that joke may have passed its expiration date

That was the worst presidential primary campaign strategy in a long time

he was a moron

yep he's not a fan of people who like bagels

and date me

Hey wait - I resemble that remark

Oh – you said Irish tenor, not German(-American) tenor. Nevermind.

TY to the ads needed by the FoX network

there was a funny typo in FOX but i fixed it….think sux

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

Been watching while doing a mailing for work

Seeing all the celebs at Yankee Stadium just makes me want to see the Yankees lose, lose, lose. And then I remember that that would involve the slegnA winning.

And then I reach for my rum.

sage.

Might qualify for QOTM??

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

I take it your not stuffing envelopes or emails for CHASE, if so, take me off the list.

No, for JRoll

For BBG:

But why is the rum gone??!?!

Because it's so yummy

What's with FOX's three camera split screen?

It’s like they’re expecting the Brady Bunch to come on screen or something.

They're hoping for a shot of Kate Hudson, Rudy Giuliani, and Paul Simon celebrating together

50 ways to watch the Yankees win

because the Angels chances are slip sliding away

There is a very good chance that I love you

who's marcia?

MARCIA MARCIA MARCIA

A-Rod def.

so the long flowing hair is a wig?

yup.

he’s REALLY grow to like it, though.

No, isn't he Jan?

“Everywhere I go, it’s JETER JETER JETER!!!”

good point.

It's a douche-y network covering douche-y teams.

with douche-y announcers.

……….

At least they’re consistent.

Don't forget the part where it's sponsored by BlackBerry

Black taco?

black dog

black magic

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

Black & Decker

black lace undies

black cat

purrrrrrrr

Why aren't there more Cialis, Viagra, and FloMax ads on Fox?

because they're a left wing conspiracy

us crazy left wingers

love good blood flow

that is correct sir

good blood flow's good.

Bad blood clots

but does it taste great or is it less filling?

TASTES GREAT

I hate that shot

NO MORE OF HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED

what? where?!

warm up your car Bloom

IS HE AT THE GAME?!

No he's in a pine box that I have buried in my backyard

let’s see if he can get out Kill Bill style

just to be safe, let's light your lawn on fire.

And it's lit

I hear some gritty screaming and my neighbor can’t believe what he just saw

I love you.

(blows a kiss back)

HOLY SHIT GUYS. IT'S MARIANO'S 84TH POSTSEASON APPEARANCE.

Thanks, Fox.

I just hope one of these guy deposits over that short RF wall

just to shut these two muppets up.

Waldorf and Statler are at the game?

How cool.

did you take the time ot look up their names or did you know them already?

Hahaha.

+

I loved those guys

win

I know my muppets, LB

I may not know where my pants are (seriously, does anyone have any insights?), but I know my muppets without resorting to the interweb for help.

Google "where is nico's pants"

It’s on the first link. You’re welcome.

apparently you've lost them on something called "styleforum"

whore.

Oh yeah!!!

What do we send for 84th anniversaries?

A baseball over the fence?

CHONE! (shakes fist)

I laughed so hard watching Jeter miss that one.

he's been his own nemesis this series.

That play would have been more awesome

If Jeter had fallen on his face after failing to catch the ball.

Yankee fans, stand up if you're a douche

Thank you for confirming what I suspected.

dazzle

and dazzling pitch too, mind you

Color me Beadazzled

and me: bewitched, bothered and bewildered (johnny mathis anyone?)

Now pitching: Drimble Wedge

Texeira you boom sexy animal!

almost another baseruning fail

this game is getting depressing

It's the Angels and the Yankees.

It was depressing from game one.

this

Amen

A team we loathe is going to lose

a team we loathe is going to win

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

my head hurts

It's like a Buddhist koan

Maybe Fox can interview Kate Hudson about it.

It's a metaphor for life in America

The lesser of two evils?

People I hate everywhere?

try watching a Raider game if you want to see depressing

we can't, they're blacked out

I don't know if that's more depressing or less depressing.

God I miss living in California sometimes

but that is a Silver lining

That was super sneaky by Vlad

Vlad - get your head in the game

Vlad looks like he's in a lot of pain every time he swings.

Probably feels no worse than having someone stab you in the knees each swing

(I can't believe I'm about to type this) Come on Vlad, get a hit!!

You did it!

it worked!

Boo

closer to game 7!

Vlad!

Tying run’s at the plate…

OMG Rivera's post-season ERA just went up! This demands a new graphic!

and a BREAKING NEWS banner on the ESPN ticker

and a congressional investigation

"Paging Ken Starr to the white courtesy telephone"

Yankees should have let Vlad walk

well boy howdy, the ex A "did not compound the situation"

slippery butter-bat

hmmm

[reloads page to see what kind of webs ads show up]

Girardi's quite anal about his pitchers.

hi everyone, I'm back home watching the game

what kind of upscale, locally grown finest ingredients did you have? aside from spirits

Did they throw you out for being too rowdy?

yeah, sure

actually I decided I’d rather see the end of the game at home. it was pretty quiet there. The staff was carving pumpkins.

After giggling one and I split the calamari, I had a burger and nice thick cut fries….definitely not your sports bar dive…

hi...

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

That cutter sawed off Morales's bat.

At the hands.

gigs, quick!

Wish for another hit!

too late

patience young man

I’m gathering the hit wishes for a ninth inning extravaganza, crushing the spirits of the yankees “fans”.

Well at least this has been a good game

Even against the Yankees... I can't comprehend rooting for the Angels

I can't comprehend

algebra and the Raiders offensive scheme

JaMarcus?

When did you join AN?

I have the extra time to waste while my teamates learn the playbook

the Raiders playbook is pretty tough.

Yeah, I can imagine

It's a good thing he can comprehend food.

And interceptions.

I'm incapable of wishing for hits for either of them

I'm rooting for a game 7.

And then for an earthquake or typhoon or hurricane or something to wipe out Game 7 indefinitely.

And the Phillies will win the World Series by default.

And the Yankees and Angels won’t be seen again until spring.

How about the ground opening up beneath Yankee Stadium

and swallowing it whole?

as long as not all of nyc is swallowed up

Oooooh, wouldn't that be awesome?

what, so they can charge the tax payer to build them another new one?

No silly -- just use it as an excuse to go to war somewhere!

I have to admit...

Mariano Rivera is one of my favorite non-A’s. In general, I want him to succeed. Just not when facing Oakland.

ew. seriously. ew.

I like the fact that he does not act like every save was game 7 of the WS

Unlike a certain former-slegnA closer.

Or a certain Red Sox closer.

That's more what I'm talking about

He just goes about his job.

I really want to see that goat movie.

I have no idea why.

great cast.

quirky.

Me too.

Yeah, any movie that bills "Goat" as an actor on its poster

has got to be awesome.

it's nico's influence.....

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

just don't stare at it

I hear the book that it's based on, which is more of a non fiction thing

is pretty good.

So I’m intriegued by the film, also

There's a zombie on your lawn, there's a zombie on your lawn....

Tell 'em Halloween is SAT. They're a few days early...

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

So I got a 1230 on my Halloween?

At least this should be over in plenty of time for Mad Men.

Does anyone else find the "Tommy Boy" Direct TV ad with David Spade and Chris Farley to be in unbelievably poor taste?

not only is it poor taste,

David Spade was supposed to be his good friend.

Yes, we do

Wait til you see the Salena ad.

Eh I only know her by name but I loved Farley

he’s dead but Chris Kattan will live forever

big time

we talked about this the other day

I just saw it for the first time tonight

Really gross. How the hell do you pitch that to the client?

You don't. You walk the client and set up the DP.

lol

how the hell do you pitch that to Spade and get him to say yes?!

$$$$$

kazmir should have kashmir as his warm up song

so do the boys think down at the Plant.

A bit of advice

don’t stay up until 4am playing a game and then drink a 12 pack of Diet Coke to get through the day if you’re over 30.

Another bit of advice

Don’t do it if you’re under 30, either.

I could do it when I was under 30

but man it’s harder at 36. Damn you Bloom for saying Fallout 3 was so good and being right!

it's video game crack, m'man.

thank God I have to go to work tomorrow or I'd be up all night tonight I think

playing that game.

After a 12-pack of Diet Coke

your stomach acid should be able to eat through the rebar that Big Hurt used to swing in the on-deck circle.

I put a penny in my mouth and it melted

you following me with a camera or what?!

Please, no more background shots of Guiliani

and of course

he has his token PD/FD hat on

Ooooh, it's a Moneyball showdown!

They're gonna stop calling it "New Yankee Stadium" after this season is over, right???

"year old Yankee Stadium" "two year old Yankee ....etc. etc.

They're changing the name to "God's Gift to Mankind" after this season.

The House That Jeter Built With His Tongue

"The Ark"

You can ask Minka Kelly about that one.

Swisher still bunts like an Athletic

I think it's funny when Swisher pumps up his bat

If he was playing Wii he’d be doing great right now.

Kendrick FAIL

CLANK

Someone post a picture of the Fail Whale from Twitter

Except with the birds carrying Kendrick.

oh my hell

super fail.

big whoopsie!!

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

DOH!

The gods really dont like the Angels tonight

so that's why they didn't play Kendrick more

Yes, Maicer Izturis -- now there's a 2Bman who always makes the play.

OMG, triple fail

good god

that was laughable

I seriously am still laughing

It hurts, but I’m laughing.

I laughed so hard

I almost rolled on the floor.

Trainman - October 25, 2009 reply

more FAIL.

OH My God!

That was sweet

It's almost like the Angels don't deserve to play in the WS.

Its like they don't WANT to play in the WS

almost.

you got that right

OMFG.

WTF WAS THAT

Kazmir tossed a grenade over 1B.

lmao

Slegna FAIL.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Okay, I’m not rooting for the Yankees…but damn. That was funny.

+1

I am, in fact, LMAO at the moment

How to you eff that up ...twice?????

self destruction mode is on now

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

McCarver: "Baseball remains a simple game..."

stupid is as stupid does

well, this is worth a quick view of HH

good point. Quick, before they hide their shame.

report plz

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

they....

um…they’re not what I’d call happy with Kazmir.

and even less so now that we have the GS in order.....

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

"OH THE SOUND FUNDEMENTALS OF ANGEL BASEBALL. COCK SOLID"

I laughed

Someone post that awesome lawn dart Mariners gif.

wow...just wow

someone go to the angels blog

Here's a selection:

DON’T GIVE UP YET!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s not over yet!
I saw the World Series get thrown away with that baseball
I am blowing my entire season’s use of F-bombs when I say FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER FUCKER.
who was that TO? the cop standing in row 2?
omg that was the funniest thing ever

paris7 - October 25, 2009 reply

I like "season over" by Rev Halofan

Excellent role modeling.

Rev Halo has never been one I would refer to as a role model...

He is an excellent role model

If the role one is trying to model is how to be an asshat blog admin troll.

Rev FAILofan is the reason I want the slegnA to lose more than the Yankees

to be fair,

there were more FUCKER’s.

Shucks! I wanna see!

It appears as if The Rev deleted the entire game thread. Loser.

baseballnut020 - October 26, 2009 reply

gag

C’mon Nick…pull these guys together and help us comeback…

Amen

Miss you Nick…! RIP

by K3YEROUT on Oct 25, 2009 8:39 PM PDT

I may just have thrown up a little in my mouth

aaaaaand the Golden Child is up. GREAT.

What was the point spread n this game, and can we have a look at Kazmir's bank account

One of the A's best moments this season might have been

when the Angels traded for Kazmir. Way overpaid.

word

One of the A's best moments this season might have been

when the Angels traded for Kazmir. Way overpaid.

at least he never gets hurt

oh wait

you can tell Kazmir hasn't been there long...his cap is still clean!

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

Jeter FAIL

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Yes, that was the silver lining in this inning so far

Jeter would have climbed over 8 rows of fans and caught that

Only if the Angels in the Outfield had lifted him up and carried him

I want a balk

I'm guessing wild pitch is next

Catcher's interference

Time to remove all sharp objects from within the reach of Angels fans

So we can leave their brains right where they are?

hahaha!

ZING!

winner

Nice!

Oh, and QOTM.

Easily.

Exactly!

let's go phillies!

Rated-R Superstar - October 25, 2009 reply

World Series

I’m rooting for the Phillies, but I’ll take the Yankees in seven games.

i'll take the 7 games but a yankee win is too depressing to think about

I like the St. Louis Browns over the Buffalo Bisons in 15 games

Remember that whole "root for schadenfreude" thing?

Oh yeah.

I hope this series gives the A's more confidence next time they play the Angels

whoa, loaded

Who is the better pitcher Kazmir

or Zamfir, master of the pan flute?

Zamfir is better at covering a bunt

Though the pan is too prone to the wok.

heh heh

that did not stir things up

Wait -- suddenly now you're in Northern Idaho?

What happened to Colorado? You’re running from the cops, aren’t you?

and I fully expect to be out of here by summer

Witness Protection Program?

upwardly mobile

Then Canada can't be far behind.

actually, maybe Anchorage

To a small farm in Nebraska, to a gold mine in Alaska...

It depends.

are we talking about setting the mood for bed or blowing game sixes?

Wait...Bed, blowing...what?

Whatever, I’m in.

hauntingly melodic

Arizona beat NY too?

Jeez, this day is PERFECT sports-wise so far.

Come on, DP time!

Auugh, another Guiliani shot

don't invite him into your home.

Buck just got a Broner on that fly ball

he may have a rooting interest.

good thing his dad was who he was or else l’il Joe Buck would be the assistant district manager for the Burger King in the Greater St. Louis area.

i dont know who his dad was...

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

Jack Buck

Long-time Cardinals broadcaster – and a very good one, unlike his progeny.

Oh - thanks...

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

Skip Carey would work the drive-in window

With the Hawk taking fry orders from "Skippy" and "Jojo"

YOU CAAAAAAN PUT IT IN THE REGISTEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR...YESSSSS!

QOTM

is anyone EVER going to do those again?

I can't remember who,

but someone said they were thinking of resurrecting it for the offseason.

Like a zombie-QOTM?

LOL!!!!!

That made me laugh.

el campysino - October 25, 2009 reply

+1 to that

LOL

You want fries with that?

no

okay so you want fries with that then

no

fries it is then

I hope they appeal to 3rd and Gardner gets called out!

oh, damn, the baby back baby back baby back ribs are...well, back.

do you love 'em?

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

they are too rubbery

I used to think Scioscia was a good manager

He is. Other than occasionally waiting 5 innings too long

to put the pitcher in the game who arguably should have started.

Details, details

I used to think Geren was a bad manager

oh wait I still do

Geren's sitting at home thinking,

“I can do THIS!”

I thought he was busy washing Billy's car

Bob Geren is just boring

Boring to listen to, boring to watch.

Well, he's not a bad manager now -- wait til February

FIRE GEREN NOW

sorry, just a reflex

I used to think Geren was human

with a brain and breathing capabilities…

I'm sure he can breathe but I'm iffy on the brain part

he doesn't have gills?

hmm I don't know that seems fishy

he is very tall in person

i feel we should do a rally against the yankees

I'll do a Halle

I refuse to rally for either team in this series.

I'll do a rally if we can protest our health care system at the same time

What do we want? Healthcare reform and the Yankees losing!

Though Healthcare reform can wait!

We want single payer --

and we want Steinbrenner to be it.

You just nailed it

Nice

or he just get Jeter to heal us all with his, uh, healing touch

Winner!

Isn't he married?

i agree with this!

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

agree - anybody posting a rally pic should be bANninated

I'll be damned if I'm gonna root for any form of rally primate.

How many Yankee Fans

know that the LA Angels aren’t really Los Angeles?

I haven’t heard any Beat LA chants…

I'm drinking out of my beat LA cup

though, I do that a lot anyway

I'm drinking my 14th Diet Coke

I’m starting to feel a little jumpy

They root for New York football teams from Jersey.

I think they’ll give LAA a pass.

I doubt they care

any predictions??

here’s the fangraph

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

I predict that Halos Heaven will boil over with rage.

That'll be somewhat satisfying.

from heaven to hell

I think I'll end up in the warm weather one

In the trailer for The Box movie

does the gal press the button…..it’s too quick for me to catch

The only thing keeping me going in this game

Is that I’ve had the sound off for the last three innings.

So a east coast WS then

well ESPN will be happy

f'ing yankees

Luckily the freeze cam was there to show the broken bat

A camera shot as cold as the Rockies.

TM.

http://www.youtube.com/u2

On an unrelated note, the Rose Bowl looks insane tonight

benny hinn?

oh yeah, my friend was posting pictures on his FB earlier

once again, Bono showing the lightness of touch for which he’s famous

subtle as a sledgehammer, that one

I take it the Bruins aren't playing?

Just wait til they hit the stage!!

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

Juan Rivera: You are not Vlad Guerrero.

Of course, Vlad is not himself either these days

Tim McCarver should be prescribed as an emetic

cuppingmaster, where are you?

i’m sure you’re overjoyed right now

Death, Taxes and Rivera

you try to avoid them all?

Someday, he'll have bionic parts

And he will be known as RoboCloser.

For the love of god,

NO MORE KATE HUDSON.

just wait until the WS

and Guilliani

Rudy should try to steal Kate away from A-Rod

I mean, he hasn’t had a new wife in at least five years.

I feel extra dirty for wanting to see the Angels lose

Also, sick to my stomach

That 'Fallen Angels' sign makes no sense

tell that to the left side of the infield

If the Yankees were going to win this series

why couldn’t they have done it in Game 5, in front of a whole stadium full of suffering slegnA fans?

That would have been better

I bet they would have come back if the rally monkey was there

HIgh five, very nice. --- hello gypsy girls

gah

looks like the Angels are about to be sad.

hee hee.

whiteshoes40 - October 25, 2009 reply

Rivera never looks excited

only if he wins the world series

Gag.

And the evil empire strikes back

Go Phillies!

Let's go, Phillies

Well alright, then.

Go Phillies.

GO PHILLIES!!!

yuk

well there it it.....go phillies!!

BERRYJO - October 25, 2009 reply

Angelfreude. Love it.

GO PHILLIES!

+1

New Jersey Turnpike Series

Its true!!

Money can buy happiness!!

Or a facsimile thereof

That robs all others of any possibility of joy.

i'd like to find out if that's true

Also, Blanton for World Series MVP

Or Stairs

Either of those things would be sweet

Start spreading the manure

Oh wait, FOX has been doing it for the last four hours.

For the next couple of weeks, we are all Fluffyans

And for the next couple of days, we are all bored.

not me I'm going to watch the Raider game over and over until they win it

might take a while

that's pretty cool bob

"nick swisher can exhale"

jeebus, as if he was the only one prone to not-greatness and reliability on the whole team….an ever present potential liability.

yeah, Posada was what, 0-5 with two GIDP tonight?

and he’s a total jerk?

"All ex-A's please ride in the short bus to the airport"

Well, no more games until Weds. Boo.

p.s. – does anyone here know Excel well?

Somewhat.

What’s up?

what formula will count the number of different values i have in a column of data?

Hmm. Can't say I'm familiar with anything that will do that.

kind of like a crude stem-and-leaf plot

How many rows in the column? Hundreds?

Hmm

Did you try this

Note that I for

I'm okay at it

though I’ve never had to use any of its more sophisticated math capabilities.

yeah, I do

see what i replied to danmerqury

you want to count unique values, right?

yes yes!

ok - do you have blanks, there? and do you have any text, or just numbers?

just numbers

ok, this should work, i think

=SUM>0,1))

adjust the cells to match yours

it works on mine, but I have the latest version of excell – i don’t remember if this is one of the formulae they tweeked or not (that was quite annoying when they did that, incidentally)

i guess i should be more specific

i have one array of data that are all unique and another array of the same data, but some aren’t used and some are used.

(I’m trying to match controls to experimentals)

woah.... i just noticed that the formula i pasted got mangled

ok – it sounds like it wouldn’t have worked, anyway -

to clarify – you have two columns, A and B (for example), and first of all, you want to see which ones from A are not in B, and secondly, you want to know how many that is?

i just need to know how many different values are in column B

screw col A for all I care, it’s just that I pulled the values from there and I thought it would be easy to compare. I want to use something like Len but that’s only for text

oh, ok. in that case, my first formula would have been fine, if it had come out ok

for some reason, double brackets screw this up. lemme try again

=SUM (IF (FREQUENCY (A1:A6,A1:A6) >0,1 ) )

ok, that worked better

just remove the spaces that I had put in to make this work here

jode

except, B instead of A

yes!

muahahaha. thanks!

NP

I do love Excel, a lot.

Incidentally, the vlookup method I desribed below is a great way of comparing two large arrays of data, and will work for text and numbers, should you ever need to do that in the future

i get the one you did above

but the vlookup one I have to try. I think I get what it’s doing though.

yeah, when combine it with the filtering function

it’s super useful.

incidentally, should anyone reading this want to hire me to crunch excel data, I’m available.

God knows that’s true

Can you use an if:then?

First, select the column and sort by value, lowest to highest.

Then, in the next column, write a little if:then comparing the value of row A+1 with the value of row A.

If the values are the same, then define the neighboring cell as value 1. If not, then value 0

Find the zeros, add up the intervening 1s, and you’ll have a sort of clunky way of counting.

the formula above should work

your way would work, too, if you did a =countif(range, >1), or similar

if that's the case, first do this:

=vlookup(A1,B$1:B$20, 1, false)

this will tell you if cell A1 appears in the array B1:B20. If it does, the formula will return that value, if it doesn’t, it’ll says #N/A, or similar.

so, having done this, copy that cell down to the one below, so it says

=vlookup(A2, B$1:B$20), 1, false)

and so on, so you have all the values in column A checked against B. The absent ones will be the ones that have not been used.

then, you can use the formula, =COUNTIF, which will give you the count unused numbers

Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck

Go Phillies!

fansince1980 - October 25, 2009 reply

go phillies indeed!

now I can say this without hesitation: FUCK the Yankees!!

No World Series since 2000?

Quel dommage!

LOL when they kept playing the last pitch and the reactions from the players

and the crowd noise. That seemed like a slegnA doll was being stabbed everytime the crowd roared.

Now Go Phillies!!!!

Trainman - October 25, 2009 reply

I had to give the remote to Mrs doctorK

Holy mother of pearl – how many replays do we have to watch?