there’s a “Please confirm that you are at least 18 years of age to continue to Athletics Nation” message on this site. Judging from this thread, it won’t be long.
it’s been a few years since I’ve tried, and I was pretty consistently in an altered state in those days, so my hand-eye coordination was prolly a little off…
with the talking oven that tells the sandwich maker to “put it in him” and then makes him talk in a sexy voice. Kind of makes one hungry and horny at the same time.
It’s something to do with the sexuality of it (and, in their complaining, they don’t mention the first part, where the oven asks him for a favor and he says, “I’m not doing that again—it burned.”—what are they, ignoant?), but it’s not the sexuality of it. Overt or even subtle sexuality in advertising doesn’t bother me, and I’m not homophobic, by any stretch. But there’s something creepy and wrong about it, in a dark way.
Is this our first 3 threader?
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
seriously,
as i asked in the last room, when did game threads become sensory overloads?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
its crazy
I have to refresh every 5 min. so I can keep up.
brian.only - April 2, 2009
Is that code for something
naughty? It should be.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
It is to me.
mikev - April 2, 2009
Rawr.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
roomy.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Yay!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
Let's go, Oak-land
worldblee - April 2, 2009
Clap clap
clapclapclap
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I actually heard that.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Clap, Clap...Clap, Clap, Calp!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
That last one
sounded…different.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
I swallowed it.
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
You're so bad.
Which, of course, is good.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Its what you like about me,
right?
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
{nods, repeatedly}
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
lol… the sound of one hand slapping or something
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
Let the beatings begin!
(and the degrading too)
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
I just did both!
{retreats to corner}
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
You pay extra for that in Bangkok
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
In Union City, it's free.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
lol
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
Our pitching is getting torched right now
Athletic - April 2, 2009
NOT
encouraging.
brian.only - April 2, 2009
Clap clap
clapclapclap
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Haha!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
I’m so glad the A’s worked all spring on pounding the strike zone.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
This is all about setting up the Angels
Get ’em overconfident.
worldblee - April 2, 2009
I like your thinking.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
It's a skill.
Practice makes perfect.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Sandoval may be a great hitter, but he really sucks in the field
doctorK - April 2, 2009
It would be hard to catch
If the ball looked like a pea in comparison to your body.
worldblee - April 2, 2009
It's like asking a rhino to play fetch with a tennis ball
worldblee - April 2, 2009
He’s friggin’ eating. Between innings isn’t enough?
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
He sure does perhaps he needs to lay off the bigmacs
Athletic - April 2, 2009
I'm warming up to Pennington.
brian.only - April 2, 2009
My picture just turned to B/W briefly
doctorK - April 2, 2009
I'll have what the doctor is having.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
waves hand to the bartender
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
Your avatar is embarrassed by ouer pitching efforts?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
It's turn back the clock night?
worldblee - April 2, 2009
remember Giambi with the HUGE collar? Awesome.
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Sandoval reminds me of a poor mans Vlad plus 100 lbs
Athletic - April 2, 2009
I cannot see the television,
but that is a frightening image.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I’m not sure if any of his hits were strikes. The first two were down and in and that last one was the Vlad golf ball.
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
It's Captain Italy!
micdog2001 - April 2, 2009
oh, Fail
micdog2001 - April 2, 2009
K-aptain
brian.only - April 2, 2009
Wow that was a filthy pitch
Athletic - April 2, 2009
We like them filthy
Oh, you said “pitch”.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
that made me laugh.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
was it hearty?
I’ll be happier if it was a hearty laugh.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
no
it was only a chuckle.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I can handle that.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Up, Up and Away ...
doctorK - April 2, 2009
he's taking batting tips from Crosby?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Oh, that's right. I forgot Hannahan sucked.
mikev - April 2, 2009
too much whiskey?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
That's about when he started to suck, yes
Nico - April 2, 2009
I'm not sure
If you mean what I might think you might mean.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
you're mean, I think
Nico - April 2, 2009
me or him?
I’m not sure there’s such a thing for me
mikev - April 2, 2009
I meant you.
But I didn’t really mean it. Know what I mean?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
HANNAHAN!
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
The 2009 Oakland LOB's
brian.only - April 2, 2009
Hannahand!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
I sure hope Chavez stay healthy
after watching that
micdog2001 - April 2, 2009
I'm going to bed a happy girl tonight.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
......
…..
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Me too!
Goodness, how I’ve missed this!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
Me too!
Oh. Ahem.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
I'm going to Bangkok!
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
How can you say that and not laugh?
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
It is an interesting name for a city
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
And it lives up to its name!
Bring some cash, and a healthy appetite for opium!
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
We'll have to live vicariously through DCinWC
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
There's a good book out on Town names in the UK
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Bring your wallet!
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
That sounds like it would hurt.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
And that's bad?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
You all degraded my comment.
But that’s ok.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
just be grateful you're not in Bangkok.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
be grateful
bangok’s not in you.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
or Bangkok
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Well, if it is, it costs extra.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I would probably like it.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
Me thinks you would.
A lot.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
That would depend on who's it is.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
It's what we do
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Amen
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
Which will be higher this season:
Sandoval’s batting average or fielding percentage? And who can we trade the Giants to get Sandoval as our DH?
Nico - April 2, 2009
Cust?
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
That would be a defensive upgrade for the Gnats
doctorK - April 2, 2009
Zito?
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Who is the oldest guy on our roster?
mikev - April 2, 2009
Giambi?
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
Springer?
micdog2001 - April 2, 2009
Yes he's older than Giambi
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
I hardly know her.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Springer for Sandoval.
Do it.
mikev - April 2, 2009
Damn.
I have a recap due soon and missed some of the game. Can’t I just say they scored a touchdown, and we scored a field goal?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
No you have to reread the whole thread
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
recap at midnight.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
That's in a half hour for me
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
My midnight.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
It's OK I saw the game on TV
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
It's on TV?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Indeed
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
{smacks self}
{enjoys it more than I should have}
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Chavey and Giambi turn back the clock
Relief pitching and the rest of the offense fail to show up.
worldblee - April 2, 2009
Pretty much...
brian.only - April 2, 2009
Ziggy!
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
And Booby!
worldblee - April 2, 2009
Ziggy ziggy ziggy
Can’t you see?
Somehow your sidearm hypnotize me.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
ZOMG sticks and ground balls!
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
We’ll see how he does with Jabba the Hut
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
Now thats a combo I can get behind!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
I left for a while and I just tuned back in
What the f*** happened?
likeiwouldtellyou - April 2, 2009
straight fastballs
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
likeiwould...
nah, too easy.
Like me.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
CSNCA has gone B/W again
This happening to anyone else?
doctorK - April 2, 2009
I donna think so.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
You eye-talian?
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
only after the meednight.
It’sa da humidity. Etsa making mea Italiano!
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Rawr
Quadruple rawr.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Must be the cable system in Sunnyvale
Seems like we have problems with the digital channels.
doctorK - April 2, 2009
On MLB.tv, it's periodically gone ALL black
but not B&W
worldblee - April 2, 2009
Three up, three down inning for Ziegler
YAWN.
worldblee - April 2, 2009
He may have to pitch 162 complete games for us.
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
How many times has Pedroia polished that trophy?
Rated-R Superstar - April 2, 2009
Is that a euphemism?
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
At least four times tonight
worldblee - April 2, 2009
STOP WITH THE FUCKING STUPID PEDROIA COMMERCIAL
Jeeze, what an annoying asshole that guy is.
mikev - April 2, 2009
He's such an asshole
He should play for the Red Sox, Yankees, and Giants simultaneously
worldblee - April 2, 2009
Don't foret the Angels
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
I may add them after our first series of the season
worldblee - April 2, 2009
yes
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
I can't wait for the day when
there’s a “Please confirm that you are at least 18 years of age to continue to Athletics Nation” message on this site. Judging from this thread, it won’t be long.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
I can confirm that.
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
(feels chastised)
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I told you to lube.
Oh.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
now that one was hearty.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I knew you had it in you.
Oh. OH.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
+1
doctorK - April 2, 2009
with the 18 y/o out, it will be ALL like this
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Truth.
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
You haven't been reading game threads long, have you?
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
I'm usually spent before it's even started.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Oh Ryan, no.
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Don't admit that.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
DO. NOT. TOUCH.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
I like it touched though.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Where's mikev?
He’ll do it.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
Damn right. I have no shame.
mikev - April 2, 2009
That's why we dig you.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
+1000
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
Joe Dillon?
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
Bob Dylan.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
ump has a hooker waiting or sumethin
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
do they give discounts for the blind?
Nico - April 2, 2009
Strike zone inflated to the size of a zeppelin that last inning.
Lovejoy - April 2, 2009
Speaking of inflated, I have to go enjoy my other evening activity
Nico - April 2, 2009
wow
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
.....
(fails to come up with funnier response)
(falls into self-pity and deep self-loathing)
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
BoCro, low outside breaking ball, predictable result
doctorK - April 2, 2009
Weird. Crosby struck out on a low and away breaking ball?
mikev - April 2, 2009
That would be like
me burning a quesadilla or something.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
67, there's your angle for the recap
“The unthinkable happened”. And then link to the boobies game from Role Models. Done.
worldblee - April 2, 2009
I like your thinking
Especially when I’m drinking.
And this thread his sinking.
Am I Wonka?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
more of an R-rated Dr. Suess.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Really?
I was going for Wonka. But yeah, I can see that.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Wonka was more completely insane.
But my judgment has changed quite a bit since seeing Tim Burton/Johnny Depp’s version.
BTW, Depp is the original, “I’m not gay or anything.” RAWR.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
No doubt on all accounts.
Esp. Depp.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
The Burton version was not NEARLY dark and twisted enough.
Huge disappointment, especially considering Nightmare Before Christmas.
Look, I’m just sayin… a GOOD dark remake was the video game American McGee’s Alice
Am I wrong?
mikev - April 2, 2009
I agree with you there
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Wow.
That does look cool, Mike. What system was it for?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
It was a PC game actually.
Pretty kickass first person shooter back in its time (early 2000 I thnk)
mikev - April 2, 2009
classic Crosby K
micdog2001 - April 2, 2009
Crosby K's on a slider low and away.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Learned it from McGwire.
oblique - April 2, 2009
C'mon Landon!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
Christ, what a Crosby
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
OK, CSNCA officially sucks
Its been breaking up, changing colors, etc for the last three innings at least.
doctorK - April 2, 2009
Are the walls breathing?
worldblee - April 2, 2009
Oh man.
Those days.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
The lunatic is on the grass?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I can't tell
Are you calling me a lunatic? I mean, it’s cool. We’re friends.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
You raise the blade.
You make the change.
You rearrange me til I’m sane.
You lock the door
And throw away the key.
There’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
Really?
well, if I’m late, I got stuck making signs.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Back to the sign shop?
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
{Watches The Wizard of Oz}
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
I've NEVER been able to line it up!
You?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Oh totally.
The third roar of the MGM lion. It’s pretty awesome.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
well, in fairness,
it’s been a few years since I’ve tried, and I was pretty consistently in an altered state in those days, so my hand-eye coordination was prolly a little off…
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
That's no good.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Razorblades! Razorblades! The Mountians are Electric!
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Seriously, I wish I was on something
This would be an interesting trip in an altered state.
doctorK - April 2, 2009
Like Florida?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
No, Florida NEEDS altering.
like a pair of slacks that run too tight in the crotch.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
man you crack me up!
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
no seriously.
this place licks balls.
and not in that good ball-licking way.
(oops, sorry, Ryan)
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
That tickles.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
I see you have come around.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
I was never complaining!
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Luke, join me and together
we will own this blog.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Oh. My. God.
Geek!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
Whatever.
I’m not the one who dressed up like Princess Leia and insisted I dress as a wookie.
Leopold Bloom - April 3, 2009
Rally!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
Yay Landon!
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
There goes the touchdown and a field goal angle
Two safeties?
worldblee - April 2, 2009
Game.
Rated-R Superstar - April 2, 2009
Yay! Its over..
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
A's lose
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Damnit!
HATE losing to them!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
agreed
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Or to anyone for that matter
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
A's K 12 times, Giants BB 7 times
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
That is how not to play baseball
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
Sandoval did have 2 errors, but the A's OF didn't look good.
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
Even Rajai - arc-routing a fly ball into a triple
Nico - April 2, 2009
Seriously?
oof.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Ya that looked strange
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
It was windy as hell
but it still wasn’t fun to watch.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
The weather was windy. The route was windy.
Words are fun.
Nico - April 2, 2009
Hopefully getting it out of our system now
worldblee - April 2, 2009
that could how the A's play this season
which stinks
micdog2001 - April 2, 2009
7 BBs, 7 runs
Remember that, A’s young ’uns.
Nico - April 2, 2009
And Springer
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
But I barely know her!
That one might get old around the 2,518th time.
Nico - April 2, 2009
So 2,516 to go?
WaddellCanseco - April 2, 2009
Babe Ruth had 2,518 career hits.
I don’t know what this means.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Yeah, right,
and Grizzly Adams had a beard!
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Call me crazy
But I feel like I bring out the best in you. You are on a roll tonight. Which is how I like you. On a sourdough roll.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Just as long as it's sourdough.
Which brings us to reason #4,675 that Florida sucks:
No sourdough.
(oh, and you’re crazy. but I’m not sure why you’re asking)
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Def. sourdough.
I was just feeling a little normal lately, and needed to be reminded that I wasn’t. Thank you for reminding me just how crazy I am.
I feel like we should do our own Quizno commercial. Or has that already happened, and I didn’t realize it?
Oh well, it’s not like anyone is going to read any of these comments.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Sometimes I peruse old gamethreads
from pre-season games.
Though tonight definitely felt like regular season.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I think we're ready.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
I like him that way too.
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
with provolone?
Leopold Bloom - April 3, 2009
Mystery of the sucky cable picture solved
Our cable system in Sunnyvale – It’s Com-crap-tastic
doctorK - April 2, 2009
picture changing
colors shifting
A’s miss strike zone
giants winning
DCinWC - April 2, 2009
those commercials are disturbing.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I still like the Quizno's one
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
dude, the Quizno's one is disturbing as well.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Those were the best ever!
{looks up on youtube}
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
Freakin awesome.
Video Here
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
That's almost too weird for me.
mikev - April 2, 2009
But they got a pepper bar!
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
I think LB
and I had a different Quizno ad in mind. But I can’t speak for him. He doesn’t like that.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Which one are you referring to?
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
The one
with the talking oven that tells the sandwich maker to “put it in him” and then makes him talk in a sexy voice. Kind of makes one hungry and horny at the same time.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
I don't remember that one,
but that’s a different type of disturbing.
ZigFan31 - April 2, 2009
It's fairly new actually
Can’t find the vid, but here’s a link to people crying over it.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
I have a different complaint.
It’s something to do with the sexuality of it (and, in their complaining, they don’t mention the first part, where the oven asks him for a favor and he says, “I’m not doing that again—it burned.”—what are they, ignoant?), but it’s not the sexuality of it. Overt or even subtle sexuality in advertising doesn’t bother me, and I’m not homophobic, by any stretch. But there’s something creepy and wrong about it, in a dark way.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
And
here is the vid.
It’s the combination of sexuality and shame that seems to be going on. It’s subtle, but very there.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Oh Yes!
That commercial is awesome!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Er, your liking that commercial disturbing.
Leopold Bloom - April 3, 2009
OK, let's say
Sandwich boy is a midget. Change things a little?
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Not if said midget
is ashamed of his/her sexuality.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
actually, that was grover.
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
I'm actually speechless.
And everyone knows how impossible that is.
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
Ick!
lynnzgal - April 2, 2009
Im still puzzled the A's haven't taken a chance on Mulder
I am sure they could of signed him to a minor league deal, if he sucked it up in Spring training he could have been optioned or cut loose
Athletic - April 2, 2009
Mulder still hasn't allowed anyone to watch him pitch.
vegAN ryAN - April 2, 2009
Is he shy?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
Did he not get his big boy hair yet?
Leopold Bloom - April 2, 2009
RECAP
67MARQUEZ - April 2, 2009
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