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1/12/12 Lounge: The one when gigs remembered Beaker is awesome

I went and saw the original Muppet Movie tonight (you know, the 1979 version). They asked at the beginning who our favorite muppet is, and I automatically said Animal, because, you know, he's Animal. (Did anyone else have the Muppets Unpigged CD? AWESOME drum solo by Animal in that....)

But anywho, I digress.....after seeing the movie, I think Beaker is my favorite. And what's Beaker been up to lately? Well, taking in some classical music....

Ode To Joy (via meepmeepmeepow)


Use this lounge for a few days. Bunker down, hide if you need to, because it's getting stormy again.....

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I'm voting for the Swedish Chef
Hi - haven't been here for a few days.....anything worth checking in to in the LAST one?
Nope....just me whining for the most part.
Agreed. Beaker was my fav too.
Thank you, gigs

I’ll go Kermit…..he’s a glue guy despite the fact it’s not easy being green.

I love Beaker SFM.

But GONZO FOREVER. :D :D

I am not prepared to answer such difficult questions first thing in the thread
And please tell me you've seen the Beaker Habanera.
ooooh, I have not.....

You should.

Me and two friends re-enact it in bars when we get drunk.

(I’m always Beaker)

When I get drunk at a bar I usually end up with an alimony payment.
I assume you make frequent trips to the ER.
I never realized how freakishly long Beakers arms were
Is it sad that Moneyball frustrates me

because I know how shitty the team is now? It’s like if, say, Rudy Ruettiger would’ve gone on to become a crack addict.

I enjoy the book Moneyball for the wonderful piece of fiction that it is.
I can't be frustrated by the movie because A's on the big screen.

But I certainly understand the frustration

No, I feel the same.

It hurts because it’s a reminder of HOW GOOD things were, and there was so much hope, and well… yeah, that fucking 2002 draft class really turned out. :-/

The opening scene

When I see Mulder, I just think… fuck… remember when it felt like the A’s were guaranteed to win 3 out of every 5 games?

And when I saw Mulder, I just thought fuck.
I figured, haha
I'd like to....
He's so fragile though
Not like Harden
apparently I like the fragile ones....
mmmmm hmmmmmmm

care to tell us more?

I never fancied him much

I think because I saw him first at FanFest, reading a picture book to some little kids. He wasn’t very good.

haha...he wasn't the smartest. But he was pretty.
But now that I read his tweets, I think he is smart

Just didn’t know how to convey it before the invention of Twitter.

a twitter Q higher than your average ball player??
And snarky.

Not higher than Brandon and Dallas, we have high standards, but better than most of the others out there I’ve seen.

Yep.

“Oh, the bullpen dropped it for Huddy? FUCK. Well, Mulder’ll pitch 9 tomorrow, then Zeet will have his Crazy Luck.”

When Ted Lilly is the biggest of your problems, you be sittin’ pretty. :( AND WE DIDN’T KNOW. So much time spent raging about an anemic offense, when truly, we didn’t know just how anemic the A’s offense could get.

Maybe the A's should be allowed some steroids
They'd probably all end up as Adam Piatt
we should ask for the steroids that actually work
Then you wouldn't like Joe Montana's comments about Rudy on "The Dan Patrick Show"

He basically discounted most of the whole Rudy movie as hogwash, much to the dismay of the crew on the show. But I still believe! “RU-DEE! RU-DEE! RU-DEE!”

Sometimes I think I should have built a life that ended up with me being in San Diego.
Many of us probably feel that way! I love San Diego.....
I never really got a great feel for San Diego.

Seemed very nice, but I wasn’t there long enough to take a fair impression away.

Anywhere in Cali, near the coast, would do me. Not asking too much…

Yup

That is how I’m trying to build my life. I’ll retire to a Coronado mansion.

Can I come visit when I'm in the country?

Because I’m planning on winning the lottery and then buying up homes all over the world….

Yup.

This will just be my home base. When I hit the lotto, I’m just gonna stay in hotels, traveling the world.

when you pass through the towns I own, you can stay at the chateau
Thanks

I prefer hotels, oddly enough. I don’t have to clean anything and I feel like a rockstar when I get drunk and make a mess of the place.

I prefer women but I'm open minded.
I will have a turndown service in each of my chateaus.

Except the villa at the winery. But I’ll have topless men working the vines, so I’ll stay there often.

Can you swap them out for topless women when I stay there?
I'll have the topless women stomping the grapes

it’s like naked mudwrestling, but edible.

I'd like at least one topless woman designated to work my vine

But hey, once I get rich, I don’t see this being a problem.

And then you have to invite all down for epic R & R.
We'll retire in Hawaii but I have 25 more Arkansas winters to get through.
Why would you want to be in a whale's vagina?

Probably smells like fish in there

Thank you quietfan...whoever the hell you may be....I handed out my first flag as Bed.
tell us!
It's in the new meta thread by PDX
Via Denis Leary's facebook page

Twinkies are headed for bankruptcy? Okay – this recession is REALLY getting fucking serious.

I heard that this morning

I want to go buy cases of hostess cupcakes, just in case….

I learned from Zombieland, stock up
Zombieland....I wonder what that's about?
For fucking reals, I need my Hostess cupcakes and HoHos, I AM CONCERNED.
I just ate a HoHo, one less in the world
I last had one in 1981 so I think I'll make it.
Mmmmm

The pink frosting cupcakes? (shiver). So awful for your health, but OH SO DELICIOUS

What.

This is causing a greater reaction in me than I would have expected.

Conan had a great bit on his show

That was a montage showing a whole bunch of news shows using the phrase “Twinkie Trouble” to describe the Hostess bankruptcy.

Hangover 2....half the laughs, twice the ladyboys.
Hey I just realized I'm finally old enough to run for President this election season.

Bed in 2012: All the VOPR you can eat.

All the what now?
I know so little about VORP I don't even know how to spell it.
I suppose Player's Replacement works just as well as Replacement Player.
VOPR isn't as much fun to say though as VORP
VOPR?

Barely knew ’er!

so, to run for president, do you have to be 35 by the time of the november election, or by the primaries?

just wondering…..

You have to be 35 by the next leap year or have a note from you doctor.
damn

oh wait, doctor’s note, that might work…..

So no William Pitt the Younger for you guys then.
FOUND THE ANSWER!

They have to be 35 by the time of their inauguration.

I could totally run for president this year.

VOTE FOR GIGS IN 2012!!!!!!

Hmm....can I be your Veep?
You're going to have to show long-form birth certificates

for Bed., Bed, Brian, B-E-D… etc.

Hmm....does it hurt that I was born in California which many people consider a foreign country?
I was born in Oakland

I’m screwed

Nah

You come from the state that Reagan governed. Just keep that at the forefront of the Gigs/Bed campaign when y’all go down south.

The Get Gigs into Bed Campaign?

That could be popular.

It okay unless you have a nuclear meltdown while being a sitting senator

of at least that is what The West Wing taught me

you are a white male

it won’t hurt you

America FUCK YEAH!
I could so see that being your slogan
I'd have to ask the Southpark boys if it was alright

of course they’re white dudes so I’ll see them at the next meeting.

they will be in charge of your campaign
Well, I'll win a Tony Award at least then.
lots of good song and dance routines

will hep you will the elections

When I was a lad I dreamed of winning a Tony and dating Alyssa Milano

not necessarily in that order.

well, you would need a date TO the tonys
It's all starting to make sense now.
thats what I'm here for
Mmmm.....Tony Micelli.....
I'd get Aaron Sorkin to write my speeches....and somebody much better than me at public speaking to deliver them.
omg, I totally want Aaron Sorking as my speechwriter!!!

And Josh Lyman must be involved somewhere.

I wish I could have Aaron Sorkin living in a closet to dictate my life.

That would rock.

Oh my god, the ST: TNG bluray release is going to be beautiful and amazing.
I'm waiting for Banachek to be on bluray
I'm also waiting for someone to explain to me what bluray is.
Like DVDs

But fancier, clearer and more expensive.

Yeah, I have two of them.
And apparently more features on the discs

I’m going to have to get a Blu-ray player to see all the Moneyball extra extras — does anyone have any recs?

I always forget to watch the extras.

That and I keep trying to rewind them when I’m done watching the movie.

A total waste of money
I like to waste money
I'll send you my address

I take checks.

Do you take video game tokens from the 80's from Chuck E. Cheese?
Out of curiosity,

why?

the monetary upgrade doesn't equal the quality for me

Also once they decided to do special BD only extras I said never will I spend one fucking dime on it.

Really?

If you look carefully, they’re not that much more expensive. And oh man, the visual difference can be staggering.

My eyes suck as is, now not so much but when they first came out they were.

I’m an early adopter, if you don’t get me in the first year it is unlikely to ever happen.

I LOVED that show

That whole Mystery Movie package was really quite good for the time….back in the Dark Ages when we only had four or five channels to choose from and the stations signed off at 1 am.

Never saw it but I like saying the name Banachek.
You'd like it

He was an ultra-cool insurance investigator with a Boston townhouse, a chauffeur, and a way with the ladies. It’s also interesting in retrospect that it was perfectly okay in the early 1970’s to have the hero of a prime-time series with a different chick (or two) every week.

I love mystery stuff so I probably would like it.
Good lord you're a geek/
sad to say ladies and gents, but AN took a serious turn for the worse today. got a lot of thinking to do.
Nah....quietfan thinks we all need to shut the hell up.
i thought that was funny. quietfan...with his/her yap wide open. teehee
he's today's oxymoron...

which part bothered you….the removal or the meta thread?

his bizarre attitude in the meta thread which followed the hiding of the "modest proposal" thread
I just think he does not know how to handle the whole thing and because of this it just isn't getting better.
Step up...be honest....cut the jokes....explain what happened.....where do we go from here....not hard to do.
that would take...

being grown up and reasonable!

I hate most of those things!
Seriously.

This isn’t going to be swept under the rug here

That was just... I don't even know. Not enough WHAT in the world for his responses.
it was truly f-cking amazing. i'm beyond incredulous.
It really was mind- numbing.
it's a f-cking baseball blog. stop acting like you're saving the world. you're not. it's not that f-cking hard. and get over yourself. F_CK!

that is all. i feel better now

{sobs}

I’m so sorry, stm. I’ll never question authority again. ( but the way, if you had added, (…the GIANTS…) in your last sentence, I would have REC’D! it. :)
On a lighter note, it’s warming up enough for me to go outside and work on the ramp!

yeah that wasn't aimed at you. just at the ether. must be a friday the 13th related diatribe.

it’s gonna be a beautiful day in the city. going to wine country this weekend and it’s going to be epic weather wise, me thinks.

so, sorry and hope you enjoy the day working outside.
WooHoo! It's Friday, January 13th!

My wife and I met on this day, 28 years ago! This is why Friday the 13th is soooo special tuu us. Time to break out the fine China, and have a special dinner.

I hope you have a great weekend in Napa.

( I do know you didn’t aim it at me.☺ I was just funnin’ with you). I thought it was funny, that he/she wanted AN to return to what he envisioned, yet has only 29 comments since 2008. Sounds like a lurker. If he isn’t involved in the conversations, he does nothing to improve/help the site.

When I read quietfans profile, I was wondering...

Is AN just a research site for a grant he has? Is he one who never participates, but uses his position to judge others? very strange that he has so little influence in the day-to-day growth of AN. Hell, SCOTT BROSIUS had more impact!

...Bed. changing names has more impact...

BOOBIES! has more impact. If dan, LB, and others, follow elcroata and leave, What does quietfan bring to the table to help?

i think his/her warning should be a warning to the powers at be. so many great posters have left this site. there are still a few left, but many of them have shifted the market share of their comments elsewhere. it depends what nico/blez want the site

to be. part of being an a’s fan is embracing the sabr-revolution. without guys like elcroata, salb (who left a long time ago), dfa, PT, etc…this site loses a lot of the value that i’ve come to enjoy. it’s not the only thing i enjoy, but it’s an important part of what i enjoy about the game and our little franchise that could/might/someday again be

just my 2 cents

I assumed it was a troll account, TBH.
i think it's okay to be a lurker and complain about the declining quality of the site. congrats to you and the missus. going with a new girl, so hopefully i'm on a beautiful adventure too.
Oh, I have no problem per se.

But if someone doesn’t participate, how does the rest of the site know what they are thinking? I consider it like someone who complains about governments, yet won’t vote. Has he ever posted to stop the meta/snarkiness? Sometimes being quiet is part of the problem.

it's not their silence that's the notable or important. it's that they felt the need to speak up.
I must be missing something, stm.

If he has a problem with the past, yet hasn’t spoken until now, his silence helped get us here. If the silent majority don’t speak up, how is anyone to know where to take the site? If, say, 50 people in the past, had stated the same position as he every time snarkiness presented itself, those who are upset with management’s position may see the they aren’t the majority they envision.

to me it's like a pressure cooker. the release valve only sings its tune above a certain temp/pressure, not below. he's the pressure cooker and he's singing now. the important part is that he's singing.
Ok, I can see that.
that's how i read his comments anyway
Yeah, I know there are a lot of people that have probably communicated their concerns to Nico privately over the years.

He may have been taking lot of heat, that we don’t know about. If they had been more involved publicly, this may never have reached the boiling point.

what's happening is so insane that there has to be more to the story. if it only is what it is, then i've misjudged people horribly.
Me too.

Thats why i think this has been brewing for a long time. mikev may have been just the one who was at the wrong place at the wrong time.

that's why i posted what i posted about this just being a baseball blog. somebody is having delusions of grandeur, i just don't know who it is (though i have guesses).
I'm just a regular old moron.
Yeah, I read that thread...

Damn. Just… damn.

it's fully nuts
Yep.

Me too. Sigh. Such a shame.

it boggles the mind
that what happens when people shove their heads fully and firmly up their own asses

Hi everyone!

Chickie, are you planning to reverse-engineer Twinkies if Hostess goes under?
I already have all the recipes
CHICKIE FOR PRESIDENT!
I WILL BE THE KEEPER OF THE HOLY RECIPES!!
You could re-engineer them

Green Twinkie, gold filling.

DO IT!
they do sell the molds for them...
Oakinkies!
huh

I really like that

Because who doesn't want something called Oh, kinky....
especially the crowd we are going for
Sounds more like a sex toy.
well, the shape is close
If they get stale, maybe
Yeah, I'd imagine the mushy-ness wouldn't exactly be ideal.
oh pshh

we all know they last forever

The Hostess ones do

Yours wouldn’t have 11 million chemicals in them. On the other hand, yours would actually be good, so they probably wouldn’t last long enough to be stale.

this is true

but I can make some chemically ones, just in case

Make those ones orange

with black filling.

I dunno.

We stay in here, waste SBN’s bandwidth, and don’t buy any of the products advertised on the site….is that a problem?

I am totally with you on that
Or better yet, Adblock.
got that running already too
same here
Yep.

I have to laugh when all the complaints about ads heat up. I don’t have to see them.

use the site any way you wish, until you piss somebody off apparently
the lounge will be safe

and it’s been made clear to me by others here that I need to stay a mod solely so that I can open up new lounge threads….

You'll always be useful to us. <3

We just want to use you for your powerz.

just remember, I'm the Lounge Mistress
Ah....have I mentioned how awesome you are?
Spank me, whip me. Make me your Lounge slave.
I guess if I stay on as a front page writer, I can make new lounge threads too.

But I resigned my mod-ship today.

you better keep the power to keep the lounge going too

all we got is you and gigs

oh, stay on as a fpw through the summer

I won’t be around for most of June and July, and we might need more than one lounge thread then….assuming AN still exists then….

maybe it will end up like the original planet of the apes!
The summer's a long time from now!
because of all this?
Yes.
that is a real shame IMHO
We're going through tough times

and unlike the last time it’s only 75% Chickie’s fault.

There's just so much poop everywhere.
[poop]

its my new diet

That doesn't sound very nutritious.

Or tasty.

I AM THE KEEPER!

YOU WILL EAT MY POOP AND LIKE IT!

hey, he brought me mac 'n' cheese after my surgery last week.

I’m willing to cut him some slack this time.

I respect that you did what you felt was right, Dan.
I do too

But I think we should stick around a bit and be part of the solution, if there is one.

I said to Nico how I felt on the meta thread

I feel like I’ve done what I could but if there’s more I can do I will.

There's a lot of wisdom in this.

Honestly, I doubt I’m ready to hang it all up. Just frustrated right now.

That's completely understandable.

Everyone’s (rightfully) frustrated right now.

That saddens me greatly, DanBot

You are one of the finest statistical minds we have on the site. But you gotta’ do what you gotta’ do, I guess. Don’t leave us completely, though, or I’ll deactivate you.

he's giving up mod duties, not front page duties
Oh, well in that case,

who gives a shit! ;)

But seriously, that’s a big symbolic gesture, I respect that.

we all do, but it's not just symbolic. it's a sign that the frustration the posters feel is bigger than a simple misunderstanding. something more troubling is going on.
it's also a sign that even the mods are having trouble justifying what we are being asked to enforce

just sayin….

Yep.

I can’t in good faith enforce something I feel so strongly against.

i hear ya brother. i hear ya.
that's exactly my point. it's not shallow; it's deep.
Deep?

And here I thought it was always derp

Did I hallucinate that you were the one to reinstate mikev?
to be fair, I had a drunken email agreeing with that decision.

though really, it may have already been done by then, but I needed to make sure to get my vote in, even if it meant setting down the bottle of beer to send the message…… ;)

Your first mistake was not using a beer hat.
very true

second mistake was reading AN while drunk. Oh wait, I do that a lot…

Nope.

I pulled the trigger, but it was with Nico’s permission.

Okay, just curious, because when he said in the New Meta that he was the one to reinstate MikeV,

I had a moment of brainpuzzle.

I haven't bought any yet

and god knows I’ve wasted a hell of a lot of AN’s bandwidth the last 3 years.

turn it green!!!

lof this

Two songs for AN

Burn Down the Mission by Elton John and Turn the Page by Bob Seger.

the roof, the roof

is already on fire

what are two artists I don't really care for

unless the former is doing a duet with Eminem

turn the page by metallica. better version.
That's a damned good cover.
it really is...and it fits their road warrior mentality well
After the black album or whatever it is called I started to hate them
i like garage inc and death magnetic
The black album was good.

Load…had its moments, sorta. After that, it was really downhill.

Well, I'll go with the Seger version but he's one of my favorites.
I rarely need a shoulder and neck rub

but I really need one tonight. ouch.

Me too,

I slept all wrong a couple of nights ago and haven’t quite recovered.

I still can't sleep through the night

keep rolling onto my back, which hurts my head, which wakes me up.

We can't sleep through the night either....our new roomie keeps waking us up with her odd hours.
you should kick her out
She could at least help on the rent
you're dreamin' !!!
LOL

spoken from experience, huh?

I had my back scratch today.....me happy.
I got some donuts instead
A worthy substitute
dude, you shoulda said something earlier!

I would’ve given you a neck rub at the movie. Of course, you’d have to sit on the floor in front of my seat, because I would still want to watch the movie, but hey, it works….

hahaha I could just see people stare at us then
The he would have found my phone! :D
this is true

“yeah, while you are down there…”

Gonna go...I think I will make it through this week. ;-)

Hope to see you manana

good night jojo!
Hang in there Jo!
Good night, sleep well!
I like to pretend Future Ed is still here making smart ass jokes at exactly the right time.
I heard past ed is gonna take his place in the lounge
Hmm....I hear all his jokes are older than mine are though.
that cannot be possible
Fair point

the only people with older jokes than me are dead.

I'm stepping out for a bit

I had to come up to the station to do a bit of work. Now it’s done, but I’ll check in again from home. If I miss anyone, see you next time….

So, I started watching the united states of tara on netflix

its a kinda fucked up show. I like kinda fucked up shows

Well, we've now seen every new movie at the video store

and I liked 3 of them.

I downloaded every new movie
I've done that a few times on i-Tunes.

I liked…..Warrior, Moneyball and Blackthorn…..Miss Hawaii liked The Hangover Part 2 more than me but it was okay.

the one that actually surprised me

was friends with benefits. I did not think I’d like it

I saw the one with Natalie Portman that had the same plot but twice as much Ashton.
I avoided that one

even though natalie was in it

I see all her movies for uh.....research.

It was bad but in a pleasant sort of way.

Okay, I made myself promise to turn the computer off at 11 and try to get some sleep, so I'm going to do that.

Goodnight lounge friends. Have a wonderful Friday!

You too, gigs......I hope you sleep better.
nite lounge mistress!
Interesting day on AN....I laughed, I got pissed, I rec'd, I flagged, I made a joke about ladyboys.
So does Bloom only post in meta threads now?

I miss the slim polar bear.

I'm [poop]ing out too

off to netflixland

nite!

You're a wonderful group of folks.

I hope things get better on AN soon…..Be well, Brian

I'm back, but are you all gone to bed?
I'm so happy! I got to be the last one up

That never happens. Back to work on the early shift next week, though.

So I've not been to the Front Page for a while.

Has AN died?

Not quite.

Just a lot of frustrations. It sounds like the cure is coming.

.

Yeah everyone’s gotta have the sickness
’Cause everyone seems to need the cure

cure by metallica

I've noticed FK has a TON more activity of late.

It used to be dead over there.

I just hope the cure isn't worse than the problem

I still have bad memories of some childhood medicines…..

(It's a tale as old as time)
OMG!!!

My boss said we can leave at 3 today!! So I will DEFINITELY be on time for the movie!! YAY!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
I've decided.

Chicken Cordon Bleu, Twice baked Potatoes, and Broccoli/Califlower. Can anyone suggest a good wine to go with this? She prefers white wine, but I don’t like bitter wines.

a nice sauvignon blanc. if you wanna get fancy, a nice sancerre or viognier
all soft whites
or a french style chardonnay (stay away from a california style chardonnay). it's not where it's made, just the style. french chardonnay are softer on the butter/oak taste
Cool! Thanks.

I’m more of a red wine person. This about her, though.

get a soft red like a pinot...sorta replaceable for a white wine and it'll work with chicken
Ooh, that sounds like a great compromise
and pinots are reasonably priced
There is no price tuu great for my Lady! ☺

Anyone who can put up with me for as long as she has…

i didn't say cheap. i said reasonably priced.
I went with the pinot.

We’ll find out in a couple of hours…

I may have eaten too many twizzlers wiht my lunch......

blergh

Red Vines > Twizzlers.

That’s your first problem.

Keep on fighting the good fight, Kyli.
very true

but twizzlers come individually wrapped, which means I can have them on my desk for students so they don’t get their grimy germy hands all over the food I give out.

there is your mistake, giving away candy
We all give away candy in our offices

how else would we get the students to come see us!?!?

...You want them to?

But that cuts into internet time!

well, I need them to come see me once a semester

the candy gets them in during that time.

They called the cops on me when I started giving out candy...

Then Jethro Tull wrote a song about me.☺

hmm unsure how i feel about this, My Little Dragonborn

That's very, very strange

But the details are well done.

needs more pink and purple and rainbows

You feel awesome, that's how.
Dead Lounge is dead.

Someone entertain me.

hi
The kind of entertainment you'd provide (in my head) would get me banned.

So how’s things in Cali for Ziggy?

We should all get banned

and then Nico and his silent majority can laugh about goats.

I'm willing to get banned for the right reasons
Looking for bans in all the wrong places.
Well lookin' for TnA would get me banned.

Honestly I’m not too fussed about the Meta threads because I rarely go on the front page anymore.

There’s NOTHING to talk about with regard to the A’s. This little feud that has boiled over into something significant neither interests or concerns me. It’ll blow over.

It will blow over but I think many folks have left over it

and most of them were people I liked.

For me the worst part is that there are now two guys I really liked that I no longer believe a word they say about anything.

Also, cookies.

I’d get banned for cookies.

I'm influential about cookies according to Klout
I'm influential no where.
ooo la la

Cali is good. Just finished dinner and I’m stuffed. Working on trying to rent out my old place. Wanna move to SoCal?

Hells yes.

There’s just that pesky need for a job, otherwise I’d already be there.

Lots of jobs in SoCal!
I'll take your word for it.

I think that there’s too much red tape for it to happen for me though – from what I’ve read I’d have to be the standout candidate (i.e. the company would have to prove that only I can do the job) to be in with a sniff.

I think you mean Dead AN is dead
The Meta thread looks lively
Oh yes...so much fun

So I guess it’s us loungers who are killing traffic on AN now. Some folks when they become mods begin to act like this is their personal blog.

HEY.

You take that back!

Sorry....I'm such a bad boy these days.

But I’m still here so I guess I must love this place.

Unilaterally BANNED, sir.
And all of AN says..."it's about time"
Am I wrong or is the Pineda trade a steal for the Yankees?
i don't think we know the full deal yet brother. but yes, given what was traded for cahill/gonzalez/latos, the deal seems light for the M's
I only saw a couple of his starts but I was impressed with Pineda

but at least now I won’t have to hear about Montero being in every trade rumor anymore.

I've seen very convincing arguments on both sides, from very smart people.

I’m thinking it’s pretty fair, maybe tilted towards the Yankees a bit, only because Campos > Noesi.

even in the context of what the a's and pads got back for their starting pitchers?
It gives the Evils that second stud starter they've needed for a while now.
Who gets better first.....A's or M's?
A's

The M’s will never get better. They are doomed to perpetually wallow in mediocrity

They are no longer my pick to win the West this year.
If you put a gun to my head and said name 5 Mariners I'd just say pull the trigger.
Jesus Montero

Felix Hernandez
Justin Smoak
Ichiro Suzuki

um…

shit.

gutierrez, league
OH GOD I FORGOT BRANDON LEAGUE
your man crush!
I'm saving my love for Cam Newton
not yours, danmerq's
Yeah I can read I know who you were talking to

I just like to declare my love for Cam whenever I can.

okey dokey
If I could I'd become a Panthers fan

but I’m a Raiders junkie for life it would seem.

Is Harold Reynolds still playing for the M's?
In regards to Montero I've read that Yankee prospects tend to get overrated

is that the case here? He’s been on the block for a couple of years now and he’s not known for his defense so all his value is as a hitter going to a park that’s hard to hit in.

He's a legit A grade prospect, in my eyes.

Absurd upside, very young, his only knock is that he seemed to stagnate in AAA after destroying the league the previous year.

Cause he had no positional home with NY since they have like 3 DH candidates on the field
Half the Yanks infield should DH at this point
Pretty much.

Teixeira and Cano can stay. The other two? Not so much.

That A-Rod contract just keeps getting more and more fun for the Yanks

They’re going to have to eat so much money coming up.

So who looks better right now....Rangers or Angels?

and are the Rangers going to be the Buffalo Bills of MLB?

The Rangers.

Especially if they sign Fielder. Apparently they met with Fielder today. But even minus him, they’re a better team offense and defense.

If they get Prince I agree

that team would be able to rake up and down the lineup.

Mitch Moreland, their 1B, is the only weak link on the entire offense.

God, I’m so jealous.

Me too

Dallas outside of the Cowboys is having a good run in sports.

On second thought, the Angels have a better rotation.

And it’s not close. Forgot about Weaver, Haren, AND Wilson. But Texas is still better, I think.

I really like what the Angels have

That 1-2-3 at the top of the rotation is really strong and I think Pujols is going to have a monster year.

I think Weaver or Santana get dealt this year when they implode before the ASB
When Braden and Anderson get healthy are they gone?

Is Weeks the only guy Beane won’t trade?

Possibly.

And it seems funny to me that Weeks is the only untradeable guy on the roster, since he really doesn’t strike me as an elite talent or anything.

I want to see what Weeks does in year two before I make up my mind on him.

He’s fun to watch and sometimes I overrate fun players.

Yeah, definitely don't get me wrong.

I like him, and I think he’ll be a solid player for a good long while. But not to that “untradeable” level of value.

If I were a GM no one would be untradeable

You never know when a Godfather type offer might come around.

Braden has little value imo

I think Anderson stays for his contract

Why would the contract stop anything?

Certainly didn’t stop Beane from trading Cahill or Swisher.

He could be the new Chavvy
So injury prone player who never leaves?
Ohhhh boy.

Incoming angry posts directed at Nico.

way too fucking long to entertain the thought about reading on a subject that I am so over
I get it now....Nico thinks we're his students

and even if what we want is right it can only comes when he thinks it’s time.

1 more hour of work then I'm clear for the weekend!

It’ll give me more time to change diapers and meta!….so more shit.

Heh.

How’s the kid treating you, Bed?

She's the best thing ever.

I’ve never know better times.

i think i just met a keeper woman. i hope to be where you're at someday
I'm happy to hear that, stm72

I know they say how it changes everything but it really does.

we went to a movie premiere here in sf last night. i was super impressed by how people reacted to her being there. made me think i found good peeps.

i have 4 nieces and 2 nephews. i held every single one on their first day…despite living in new york for some of their births. i’d never trade anything for the first time i held my sister’s first child. i can only imagine what it’ll be like when it’s my first.

If your friends like your GF that's a really good sign

My friends all liked Miss Hawaii more than they liked me within 10 minutes of meeting her and my family loves her.

not my friends, but other attendees that new her. their reactions were genuine and warm. it was impressive.
It does sound like it made an impact on you.
I have to say....I have some really smart students this year.

Most of them are much better students than I was at their age.

Of course I was a smart ass know it all much more interested in sports over school

who didn’t do homework….ever.

I'm starting to think the Packers ball boy will get interviewed for the Raiders job.

I still want someone who has been a head coach somewhere before but outside of Dom Capers I haven’t seen anyone linked to the job that has that on their resume.

the game has changed so dramatically in the past 10-15 years that i agree, head coaching experience is a certain prerequisite.
For me it's rookie owner + rookie GM + rookie head coach = bad idea.
Wouldn't a huge amount of change be an argument that you don't necessarily need someone with lots of experience?

If it’s changed a ton, somebody new would have an easier time than if it was set in its old ways, no?

i'm not saying they need 15 years of experience, just some. as we saw from old bob, there are a ton of personnel things that need to managed and they need to be done so actively. it's a tough transition for a coordinator or a position coach.
I am getting a kick out of how many Raider fans want Gruden back

I’m in but I think there’s a 1 in a billion chance. I want Billick but that’s not going to happen.

i think gruden might be done coaching. he's got his ring, a cushy job and a fat paycheck.
I think he'll be back within 2 years but not with the Raiders

He’ll want big money and a GM that will do what he wants like he had in Tampa with Bruce Allen.

i wanted billick for the niners if harbaugh fell through. the more i study billick though, the fact that he never developed a QB is troublesome
That's true although since we have Palmer we'd only need him to work well with a vet.

I’ve just always liked him and he’s a Walsh guy which is big in my book.

the walsh and parcells coaching trees are amazing
Yep....part of the reason why is that they coached their coaches as well as their players.

In my mind Walsh is the most important football thinker since Paul Brown and it’s not a surprise he worked for him for years.

steve young has said that if bill walsh wanted to be the best defensive coordinator vs offensive mind, he would have been. walsh revolutionized everything about the modern football game...diet, hydration, practice, etc... a truly amazing man.
I agree

and the book he wrote with Brian Billick is one of my favorite books on teaching and coaching ever.

hmm...i'll have to check it out
Imagine where Cincy would be if Brown had named Walsh his successor.
They wouldn't have lost two Super Bowls to the 49ers that's for sure.
It's hard to picture Montana and Rice in Bengals uni's.
It's hard to picture anyone in those awful uni's.
Ha, that's true.

Kinda random, but Ozzwife pronounces it “Bingals.” And then tells me I pronounce it wrong. Um, honey? Bengal is an Indian word. I think I’m a lot closer than she is.

They might be the worst uni in sports

Maybe they call them the Bingals down in Texas.

their loss...
they didn't just not hire him, paul brown tried to black ball him from ever coaching again
Seriously. Walsh must have eaten his puppy while fucking his daughter or something.
The main thing I want to know does the new coach get to pick his own staff

and what type of offense and defense will the Raiders run.

I think they'll trade for Tebow and run the option.
WooHoo!

Hey Oz…..glad to see you….or you talk to you…or um…read what you post on the internet and then reply to it.

If onbly they'd invented the internet when I was in high school.

I would have had WAY more cyber sex.

We had Apple II E's at my HS....you could make green dots do things on them.
We had Mac's and PC's, but no internet.
We had Macs too.....I basically wrote the entire sports section of the school paper on them my last two years.
I barely used the Macs back then.

Now I love Macs.

Those were the only Apples I ever used

and that was back in 1991-1992.

We had Apple II's from 3rd to 8th grade.

And Macs from 6th to 8th, although we rarely used them.

I did have an Apple II when I was 12 or so......didn't use it much.
My parents bought a PC when I was 13, just before HS started.

It had a 14 inch screen, 40 MB HD and 640k RAM. They bought a dot matrix printer as well.

My first was a Commodore 64

back when I was in the 5th or 6th grade….I had it on a 10 inch TV….great for pong.

Haha!

We got a TRS-80 when Radio Shack put them on clearance for $30.

I was on the internet before all my friends with a Packard Bell PC

I like electronic toys I just don’t always know how to use them.

We had Prodigy in the early '90's.

That was kinda fun, but it got old quickly.

There wasn't much on the net back then

mostly just nerds talking about Star Trek and meta about AN.

I believe that ancient cave paintings have been recently translated as AN meta.
Did it involve jokes about goats?
No, but there was a guy who kept saying he was going on sabbatical and then showing up again.
Oh...that guy

I hear the silent majority think he’s the best thing ever.

What about the moral majority?
Fuck those uptight bastards
Ok, the Rainbow Coalition?
take a look...it's in a book...the reading rainbow

cue to the guy from Roots.

I heard he lost his sight and started wearing a hair band across his face.
Games this weekend

Saints over 49ers…sorry Oz…..Pats over the Tebows….sorry Jesus…..Packers over Giants…sorry New Jersey……Ravens over Texans…..sorry BBQ eaters.

wow, i disagree on 3 of 4...only that ravens beat texans.
oh sorry, i think the pats win too
I feel good about all my picks
niners score more points at home than saints score on the road. the saints offense is worse on grass. we'll see. actually i won't be watching the game, so i'll have to read about it. sigh
I'll miss it too. I'm super-pissed.

The other problem for the Saints is that their defense kinda sucks.

detroit dropped how many INTs? they coulda won in NO. it's a winnable game for the niners.
I also think that Alex Smith will be able to burn the Saints D when they blitz.

And I think they’ll blitz a lot.

Two things you can count on with the Saints

Lots of throws and lots of blitzing.

Yep.

ANd they’ve been burned a lot. I think they’ve given up more 40+ yard pass plays than any other defense.

and you can run on them but most teams are down big early so they don't.
I'd love to see the 49ers use screen passes to get Gore the ball with some room to run.

He’ll torch them in the open field, but it seems like Harbaugh doesn’t like to throw to his backs much.

If I'm the 49ers I pound the ball and snap with only 1 second on the clock

and try and keep the Saints O off the field and shorten the game.

Yeah, I'd definitely try to hold the ball for as long as possible.

But I’d also use a lot of play action and some screens and quick slants to try to beat their blitzes.

Play action would be set up by the runs hopefully

Perfect would be 40 minutes with the ball and a 65-35 run pass split and a 17-14 win.

The 49ers have run the ball so much, and so successfully, all year that the play action is all but set up already.

I mean if you’re a LB and you think you see Frank Gore getting the ball, you have to go after him. You have to make Gore a non-factor and force Alex Smith to beat you.

You think the Packers will lose to the Giants?

Sorry, I just don’t see it.

I see the Pack big
Score predictions:

Pats, 38-13
Ravens, 24-9
Packers, 35-21
SF, 17-13

i think the giants are peaking exactly right. especially on defense.
Fair enough.

The Pack just feels like a team of destiny to me. I don’t think anyone is going to stop them.

If it is the Pack vs Saints NFC Title game it's first one to 42 wins.
Oldham will be cussing a blue streak.

He hates offense.

I think you mean offence if we're talking OA
Oh yeah, what was I thinking?
I wouldn't watch.
Oh, and someone will get to 42 by the half in that game.
unless it's the chiefs?
you don't have to. just i do.
I agree with all except the 49ers.

NO has a good offense, but they’re not nearly as dynamic on the road and the 49ers defense is really amazing. When your biggest weakness is a secondary that led the league in interceptions, you’re doing something right.

Well, good luck

I think the Saints will win by 10 or more.

I'm putting this down in writing:

17-13 SF.

Saints 27 49ers 17
i think like 27-24 or so
nite all. time for dinner and drinks.
Have fun, see ya later!
Sounds like a good night....good luck with your 49ers tomorrow.
You ever notice most of the folks who say we should get back to writing about baseball

never post much in the baseball posts but find a way to post about how much they hate meta in the meta posts.

si
Hey Chickie....how's it hanging?
a little to the left

how about you?

Right up the middle.....I'm a moderate.

and I’m doing great except I think I now have about 2 more hours of work.

I'm making cookies for tomorrow
How odd....I plan on tossing my cookies tomorrow.
Me?

Long, hard, across the yard.

Hey Bro.

I hear your woman is divorced, or getting divorced, or something.

getting, yes

I’m fine. how you doing?

Pretty good.

Tried exercising yesterday. It wasn’t pretty, and physically I feel like shit today. But mentally, I feel great and I’m planning to keep it going.

Thankfully I got my run in this morning.....I so needed it.
I tried to run yesterday.

I’m a little sore today and I slept like the dead last night.

Keep at it and you'll feel great soon enough.
That's what I'm thinking.

Or my heart will explode and Ozzwife will collect the insurance money.

So it's a win win.
I just get drunk and dance
That works too.
The amount of alcohol it would take to get me to dance would probably kill me.
We're going dancing tomorrow night.
Good luck with that.
Lucks got nothing to do with it....but I hope to get lucky.
Andrew Luck has everything to do with it, actually.
I need there to be about 34 hours in every day.
Me too.

Eighteen hours of sleep a day just ain’t cuttin’ it.

Shit.....I haven't slept 18 hours this month.
That's what you get for making a baby.
ain't that the truth

although she’s mellow tonight so I feel a good night of sleep coming.

My sister's kids just started sharing a room.

The younger one is 5 months old, so I’m guessing she’s sleeping through the night.

My girl was doing great until this week.....it's been a rough one

Miss Hawaii took her in today and she’s fine so just a bout of being an infant I guess.

Shit happens. She'll be fine.
The damn battery in my 2011 Ford Explorer is dead!
You should turn off the lights when you're not using it.
I'm going to jump it when she gets back from the store
I'd recommend jumping your wife.
I plan to do that as well.
I'm sure she'll appreciate it.
No complaints so far....but it's early.
Shit, I'd be done by now.
Me love you long time
Me love you quickly and awkwardly, then me leave and never call again.
You heartbreaker you
You ballbreaker you
So now Miss Hawaii has the keys to my heart and my Mustang
My heart doesn't lock.
My heart doesn't block worth a damn.
So it could play for the Browns.
It mostly played the field.
I feel like going swimming....too bad it's 20 outside and I don't have a pool

It’s too late to hit the club too…..oh how I suffer.

First World Problems.
Pretty much

the only thing wrong in my life is my blog so my life is fine.

I have it truly rough.

I wanted lobster and prime rib for dinner, but the wife wasn’t interested. So I had to eat 2 kinds of cheese, 3 kinds of meat, and a baguette.

Down to 6 Diet Cokes today but I did do two bumps out of a dime bag so it's mixed news.
I've had 6 dark chocolate peanut butter cups.
You've got good taste
Thanks, I like to think so.
It might 70 here on Monday....might be time for a golf....uh I mean sick day.
It was 48 here today.

BRRR!!!

It's 26 outside right now.....I took the dog for a nice 3 minute walk
Yes, but you chose to live in a place that gets cold.

I don’t choose to live in SC for the people or the politics.

I came to Arkansas for a woman and stayed for the roadkill

I was a California boy who met an Oklahoma girl in Kansas and then moved to Arkansas before trying to move to North Carolina which lead me to marry a Hawaiian girl and move her back to Arkansas.

Now my head hurts.
Mine too...but it all worked out in the end.
It's too bad there isn't a Chez Nico this weekend.....that would be a lot of fun.
I came to work to see my aunt, who is a patient still. (she's pissed she isn't dead yet.)

They asked me to stay around and work a night shift. I did. Now I have someone working a few hours for me in the morning, then I’m coming back in to finish my 16 hour shift. I can do this.

Hang in there.

If my anemic, 90 pound sister can survive a 16 hour shift, so can you.

Did you just call me fat?
Um, I don't think so?

I’m not sure though. I don’t speak Woman.

In Woman it's Bingal
Oh, I thought that was just an accent.
I've heard it both ways
Make sure to eat to get all the energy you'll need.
I have to say Bloom, Future Ed and attijah have been so funny in the lounge I have going in my head right now.
Forgot to take your meds again?
I just miss folks
I understand, it's been quiet around here lately.
Yeah and I know I'm whining but I hate how the site is at the moment and it's all one guys fault.....BL!
I thought it was sirbed's fault.
I wish...nothing he said mattered so we could all just ignore it.
Much like me. Cool.
Yeah Oz...we're killing traffic on AN here in the lounge

unlike the silent majority who have 28 posts in 4 years.

I think the silent majority is just a bumch of sock puppets set up by the evil Chickie.
Sadly all of the Sock Puppet Army is buried with the General in Utah.
I'm sure they got full military honors, though.
That and all the Quaker Oats we could fit in the coffin

It was the right thing to do and the tasty way to bury them.

I am the keeper of the sacred recipes
So Twinkies are not made out of recycled socks?
Better pack a lunch.

I think it’s going to be like this for a while, kid.

I can't wait to see what the dear leader's new plan will be.

I don’t have high hopes.

The new plan is to make you the Blogfather.
My nursey friends and I have a hand gesture that is very.... fitting right now.

BRB, I’ll find a link to a video of it.

We should all switch to your avatar pic for how things are going.
Let's see if you can guess which one it is...

http://youtu.be/YT0JPQH9wW0

I love that movie. I need to watch it again.
I have my avatars turned off.
I'll be flipping off AN for the rest of the night if you don't mind

The donkey will return soon.

What are you talking about, I never left.
I've left twice but sadly I keep coming back

by my next AN break there might just be about 7 or so people left.

oe else the lounge blows up because its the only safe place on AN
I really want to stay here

but if everyone leaves what would be the point?

there will always be some of us staying here

just out of spite. I know I will be as long as there is a lounge

Me too.

Assuming others are still here. I’m not gonna hang out here alone.

The few, the proud, the passive-aggressives!
yeah

what Nina said!

(just because I know how much someone hates the Lounge)
as long as dan and gigs have power

there will be a lounge

They're our only advocates.
People who hate the Lounge can go fuck themselves

Who does it hurt?….it’s not on the front page so if you don’t like it don’t read it.

head ----> ass

thats the only reason. no sense of humor

Yeah some people who think they're funny

sure don’t have much of a sense of humor.

becaue its a selfish humor

its about making fun of others, and not in a nice way and then not being able to take it themselves

Bingo....I tease everyone

including myself and I love it when people tease me…..him not so much.

shut up asshole
You're banned unless you talk to me in person.
you are real?

how would I know, since I still haven’t received neither wedding nor baby photos. I knew you didn’t really love me

Sorry about the baby pics

I’m in negotiations with a slightly overprotective Mom but I’m getting there….I feel bad about the whole thing.

heehee I can imagine
I guess but it does seem like we might be at the end of something special

There are a lot of folks who don’t come around anymore and it shows.

That this is all over one guys BS is what pisses me off the most and the more he writes the more obvious it is that he should leave.

time will bring some back

some will just be too stubborn to do it, but others will miss the friendships and the lounge is here for that

At least his great 2012 A's team will bring us all back.
gotta like these kids!
I really hope the Lounge doesn't get overrun.

I like the group we have. I don’t want a bunch of malcontents ruining it.

it hasn't happened yet

so I doubt it will

Prolly not, since even some AN regulars don't know how to find it.
oh people do know how

they just won’t

That's fine with me.
I don't care what happens

as long as the “rules” here don’t change

Yep.

I think the Lounge is a good thing for AN.

I know huh?

like, how dare we actually talk about what we want, be able to police ourselves, anything goes humor and lots of real friendships.

Yeah, the self-policing thing

is what I loved about old AN. People were civil, there was really no need for rules other than “Hey, don’t be a complete dick.”

yeah

how hard is that? unless you only want to be a dick but not have people be a dick back at you. talk about immaturity

Again it would seem Nico thinks we're his students

We’re not….we’re adults and he along with iglew is not my boss.

thin skin and power are not a good mix
It sure isn't
If I have any authority at all after this is done,

you bet your ass the Lounge is staying.

That's fine.

The Lounge is the only safe place around here.

It's a fucking minefield out there.

I feel like we should start stocking up on supplies and rationing in here.

Or rename the Lounge "The Fallout Shelter."
hell, even before the stupid shit

this was the only place I liked on AN since it was created

AN used to be much different.
yeah, fun

the head wasn’t up the ass so far as it is now

It was easier to write good baseball-related content

when there was good baseball to write about.

thats a huge part of it too

winning cures all ills

Going to be a lot of sick people around here
I've been hiding in the lounges for months

game threads even scared me for a while back in august and september, and the last DLD was sometime in 2009 I think…

Game threads should be good

once we get into the broadcast portions of spring training.

I've loved game threads the most

but like last season I won’t be in very many.

It's okay

The A’s won’t be in very many games.

Hence why I won't be there

If I want to see a loser I’ll look in the mirror.

You're a winner
or the raiders blog
Ah...the Raiders blog

Where there aren’t enough people to have a meta war kind of what AN will be like in a couple of weeks.

Maybe someone could write a program to extract comments of the departed from old Lounges

and re-post them at random?

Sounds cool

there are at least 50,000 sirbed posts about VORP we could use

So there's this funny SFGate blog post about

the 2012 Oakland A’s calendar.

Stunningly, the one Oakland A who will certainly stick with the team through 2012 is not on the calendar. Apparently the scorching June 7 major league debut of Jemile Weeks was too late for deadline. In retrospect, the safest move would have been to make the entire calendar about Jemile Weeks. Jemile Weeks hitting. Jemile Weeks fielding. Jemile Weeks buying a Sprite at the vending machine …

I think I could create a “12 months of tears” calendar, showing 12 players the A’s have traded or failed to sign.

Someone did a FanPost about it

The SFGate post was good. That’s the guy who writes and curates their parenting blog, The Poop.

I honestly haven't checked AN today

and I went right for the lounge.

Wise you are, young one
OHOHOOH boy.

Don’t read anything on the right hand side of the page. It’s best for all involved.

Well, I lied

I read that post this morning. But I didn’t read anything else, like none of the regular fanposts.

Well, I'm pooped.

Good night, all!

Bye Oz...have a good weekend
HOT DAMN....done with work....I just gave everyone a B to be done with it.
I found my ancestor

He looks yummy.....we're gonna have one hell of a bbq tonight folks.
Nobody asks him why he's crossing the road

They just get the hell out of his way.

Don't you know me I'm the boy next door, the one you found so easy to ignore.
If I stay on AN I might only just do Huey Lewis lyrics....that should get me banned.
Please. It's hip to be square.
I want a new drug
I need a new rug
I love the "Bradford" deleted scene in Moneyball

Howe: “I could’ve coached you up, you know?”

Beane: “I don’t think so.”

Howe: “Thought you were that bad of a player?”

Beane: “That’s what I meant.”

The XXX version....

I can feel it cumming in my hair tonight.

what hair?
Hmm fair point both Phil and I have none.
Alternate lines from "There's Something About Mary"?
That would work too
I'm about three knuckles deep in classic movies.

I’m sad to be going back to school.

on netflix? hehe
A little.

I purchased some. Got some from an illegal source, too.

I like your style
Thieving bastards the both of you....I'm calling the FBI, CIA, DHS and MSNBC
don't forget FOX
I try to
canada has
pfft.... Canada...all they now about is hockey and beer.
I always try to guess who used my netflix

when I first see the recent movies watched. It can be quite difficult at times

Guilty. LOL

Paul Newman is my latest kick. But I’m watching “The Way We Were” right now. I bought it though. Robert Redford in uniform. [shudders] I’m less than 10 minutes in and I already want to cry.

I'm glad you are able to enjoy netflix :D
I know I've grabbed the wrong MP3 player when I hear Adele singing about some poor bastard who did her wrong.

Seriously is that all she sings about?…..My wife loves her though so I’ve only heard the songs 14,000,000 times.

How much longer do you have to go, Jennifer?
I have until June for this part. I'll be an LPN, but I'm going to AT LEAST get my RN, so that's another year.

If I get my BSN (why stop?) that’s another year, since I have all my non-nursing classes done.

I've though about getting my PhD but then I remember I like to live life
I thought about getting my NP, but after 2015 I'll need a DNP instead of an MSN.

I don’t know if I want to be that awesome. I come from poor folk. I’ll be the first to get a degree other than an associates.

I was the first person in my family to graduate college.

But my days of being a student are over…..now I’m the one who knocks.

All the nurses here told me not to stop. It's easier to go on now than it is to go back.

This is my second try at college. The first one got me a career that lasted six years.

I remember you talking about this being your second profession

I didn’t start teaching until I was 31….I would have been a lousy teacher if I had started at 25….I had other things I needed to try.

I think I've rec'd about 200 posts today.

Mostly my own.

Have you ever known someone who looks really great sometimes but really awful at other times?
Thanks for letting me look after your haunted house Molag Bal.
He's such a sweet guy, isn't he?
The Pirates site gets more hits than AN.....okay.....it's over.
Um as flawed as Alexa is
Site Information for bucsdugout.com
Alexa Traffic Rank: 345,583 Traffic Rank in US: 55,228
Site Information for athleticsnation.com
Alexa Traffic Rank: 260,401 Traffic Rank in US: 37,603
How did we do in the swimsuit part of the competition?

grover has numbers in iglew’s little manifesto.

As much as I like iglew and I probably agree with what he wrote

I’m not in the mood to read all of that as well as participating in more meta.

It's metastic!
zombie!
Chickie!

You can respond tomorrow, if you must

You've had some great posts on this stuff, UrgentMirth
Thanks Bed.

I was out of town for the initial explosion, but figured I’d weigh in on the subsequent kerfuffles.

Just so long as it's not metastatic
I liked iglew but since he became a mod he mostly seems to like to tell folks what to do.
Against my better judgement I read it and shocking..I agree with him
Well, Cope if I don't like clearly you will....isn't that how everything works?
Just gonna further the myth that iglew and me are one in the same
I can tell the difference

you’re way more laid back

you would like me more if you were.
I'd like you more if you showed up to events I attended I'm sure

as is I still like you very much

this is true

Cope has been to more events than you Bloomie. I never thought that was even possible

um, what?
not on events I'm actually invited to.
At the risk of exposing my psychic abilities, I will share Bloom's response to the next seven events:

“Can’t make it, gotta work.”

I think Cope replaced you

when you stopped going, he started showing up.

okay.
maybe...

he IS you…

no, his goatee is better.
he does have a fine one
Just use Sitemeter.

Linked at the bottom of every page. The little rainbow square.

I blocked those long ago with ABP
I tried that,

as well as blocking fbcdn and the other annoying connectivity one, but it seemed to make the page unstable for me.

I fought the law and the law beat me with sticks and stomped on my rights....and won.
don't forget about breaking all your bones, leaving a gun by your twitching corpse and going for coffee.
Here come the come coppers real crime stoppers
um, should I ask what a come copper is?
No.....I had a bit too much come in that sentence
karma karma karma chameleon...
earlier it was too much cum
With me if you ask me to do something I'll most likely do it

if you tell me to do something you can go fuck yourself.

I have to say the flip off guy in the avatar pic is very preppy.
So I'm going to be gone for the weekend will AN still be here when I get back?
We'll do our best

Or we’ll leave a trail of breadcrumbs.

I'll just look for the dead bodies from the meta wars.
Oh boy....Grandma is back in prison....another bar fight.
at least she didn't use a knife this time....just a beer bottle.
hi.
Hi there

How have you been doing?

I've been a little stressed out and stuff.

I seem to be attracting a lot of rejection lately.

that happens

makes those “yes” moments even sweeter

true, but as a young thin Bloom, I almost never heard no.
I'm used to hearing no

Don’t let it bug you. Just keep on truckin.

Sorry to hear that

You’ll only attract good things here.

lol!
Not buying that huh?

I can’t say I blame you.

things have been hectic.

I’ll quit being a mod if he makes me, but I’ll be damned if he’s gonna run me out of here.

Yep....I won't quit but I am going to tell him to his face what I think of him

same with iglew.

of course WaddellCanseco already took him down.
wait, there's been new?
iglew has his new manifesto of bullshit
oh wow. worth reading or is my serenity better served without?
I think the answer goes without saying
Meh....it's long and it's Class A iglew

I’d pass

I enjoyed the references to The Odyssey...
Those were over my head
I just stick to o brother where art thou
I liked that movie

I learned most of my myth stuff from Clash Of The Titans.

Hi 'shoes!
Hey EM, how are things?
i've been off work all week

That’s been lovely. But I had 1000 projects to do in my time off, and I’ve done about 3 of them.

Three projects done! Yay!

I’m lucky if I accomplish one thing when I’m in a similar situation, so congrats on your productive vacation!

What about the Gilbert and Sullivan ones?
Over my head, but I do appreciate the effort.
It's a new adventure every moment!
Heh

this has been an interesting couple weeks on AN.

Can't we just leave shit alone?

I mean, really?

Sorry Yon but that's not going to happen

Nico has lost most of AN at this point.

The horse isn't dead yet.
LET'S BEAT IT SOME MORE!@!!!!
Not until this gets cleared up....period
It's past the point of fixing things by leaving them alone

which is unfortunate

how's life, bloom?
it's okay. I s'pose.
Bloom, you don't have MLB Network, do you?

If you do DON’T TURN IT ON.

That mustached FUCKHEAD is on, huh?
Well, at the moment Stew is on

But yes, that’s where it’s going.

The Change-Up sucks

Why is it that about, oh, 70% of comedies that come out in theaters suck? Do people actually find this shit funny?

I thought it was okay. I mean, it's a body switch comedy. It's gonna be predictable by its premise.
True
and I like both those actors.
that was the only thing I liked about it really

it just was really mean spirited, which I didn’t expect

oh yeah...I forgot about that. It kinda was huh?
yeah

weirdly so. it got better in the second half, but yeah

Jason Bateman was on The Daily Show promoting it.

And the best thing he could say was something to the effect of “it’s the same story you’ve seen a thousand times, but it’s an adult comedy version…that’s different and new”. With a smirk. He absolutely knew it was utter shit.

yeah, maybe they both owed favors to the same person.
I wonder if salacious photos were involved
that would explain a lot.
That might be the last DVD we haven't rented.

It just looked so bad.

I saw the last part of it at the gym

It looked terribad.

I don't know why I added it to my Netflix queue
Because you're one badass mutha
Okay I told iglew in his post how I felt....I feel better.
and really AN is all about how I feel.
If Robert Redford asked me to drive off a cliff,

I’d do it.

well, that's good, because skinny bloom's neck is reminding me a lot of RR.
I totally read that wrong....

I thought you wrote “I’d do Robert Redford if he asked me to”

That's still applicable.

I’m talking OLD Robert Redford too.

I'd switch teams for Roy Hobbs

I hear he’s a natural in the sack.

It's all good until your bedroom gets struck by lightning
Hi loungers

I went to a movie. I watched two of them.

did you sneak into the second one?
"sneak" sounds so bad

“walked in casually like I didn’t care” is more like it

Sneak level increased
Anything good?
two very different movies

Beauty & the Beast in 3D, followed by The Iron Lady

I want to see The Iron Lady

Beauty and the Beast sounds like my home life.

The Iron Lady was very good

a little depressing at times….

I've always found Thatcher fascinating and Streep is such a great actor.
It's just pathetic we haven't had a woman as head of state here yet.
Hello you all

I just dropped by to say that if anyone is so inclined, my utterly epic 4CD Spaghetti Western compendium is right here for the taking. Enjoy!

um....wha?
you're funny

it’s like deja vu all over again ;)

hi.
hello

can’t stay long, there’s a hot guy in my bed.

[looks]

is it me?

no

it’s my friend I been dating for 6 weeks or so now. I like him a lot.

but...I'm in Arkansas
...and you're heterosexual

dead heterosexy to be exact.

Well, yeah there's that

glad to hear you have something cooking though.

yeah it's pretty badass

he is so good to me, it’s really stirring my soup, so to speak.

that's an interesting way to put it.
Ha!....well, soup is better when it's stirred.
was the lounge just shut down?
I'm still here

and the lounge shall be open until they pry it from our cold dead hands!!!!!!!

anyone have some gloves?

they sell some at the dollar store
it went dead for a couple minutes it seemed
I didn't notice anything
it's my fault

I show up and death and mayhem ensue. I can’t seem to help it.

Maybe everyone was trying to download your compendium

(new euphemism alert)

whoa!

That was not a euphemism… at least not yet.

Sorry, Robert just took his uniform off.
And who rec's lounge threads?
dunno

(but whoever did, let me know so I can send your check in the mail….)

I always thought it was ed.
I can look it up...
still?
Yeah, I still have full privileges.

For now.

I do all the time
Including this one.
I appreciate the folks who put them up....so I rec them
Much appreciated.
what would happen if it got 3 recs?
I think we tried it once...wanna see?
yes please yes please!

{jumps up and down all excitedly}

did my part.
#3
I expected more green

they should fix the programming so that the entire thread turns green once it gets three rec’s

I'm rec'ing this post to do just that.
Nothing.

Same thing that happens when a front page story gets 3 recs.

Grandma always said Brian don't just burn the bridge nuke the fucker.
if you are gonna do it

do it with big badda boom

Was Grandma's name Truman?
No but my hero is named Truman.....his bust is looking at me right now.
Moving on to the hard stuff....Dr. Pepper
On my desk....Truman bust, Carney Lansford signed ball, double eagle golf ball, Raiders mug with pens, picture of Miss Hawaii and the kid.
I have a bust on my desk

maybe I should sit up straight

Ha!......your desk sounds better than mine
[sigh] okay, I'm reading the iglew post.
You got an hour?
I nodded off after the title.
It did peak early
Naw, I just had too many pain killers and alcohol.
That might help you enjoy it.
scary mix, babe.
(psst. I don't drink)
oh. still? I thought you started this semester.
Okay, I do drink occasionally.

But usually when finals are over.

I only drink when I'm driving.
good choice

there’s not enough room on the desk for the exam and the drink

Beverage helmet.
May God have mercy on your soul....heh it's not that bad but it is long and it's predictable.
it's long

and I had to go back and reread a few paragraphs that had big words in them

He does love his big words
And operatic references.
I wish the Saturday games were on Sunday....I'm busy tomorrow

but I like the games tomorrow better.

I have a few big projects I need to get done this weekend

that will be very difficult with football the next two days….

I have a fun day out with Miss Hawaii tomorrow....Grandpa is taking the kid

I’m looking forward to it but I do want to see those games.

Work FINALLY got the telly fixed.

Woot!

I hate to tell you this but I'm pretty sure Telly Savalas is dead
My Grandmother is turning 98 this weekend....she is one tough old broad.
ooooh, happy birthday grandma Bed!
Yeah.....she's amazing

she could probably whip me in a fight right now.

Amoire?
Nah.....she's more like a bed made out of rock.
Mmmmm.....dinner......
We had fish tacos for dinner
Parental units took me to dinner. Chinese food.

I could use a snack right now.

Ah yes the post 4 hour after Chinese food now I'm hungry thing.
so the meta comments in iglew's post are quite good.

iglew’s post, not so much, but the comments are.

It was typical mod version iglew

I do hope that’s the last meta post though….we have 2 of them cooking that’s plenty.

although if we get a 3rd one I can't wait for the people who hate meta to post in it how much they hate meta.
nice avatar, bed.
I stole if from Jennifer for the day
I know.
It fits my mood
I might be past that with AN.
If you do leave....please consider posting it okay
oh, I don't think I'm leaving.

If I stop posting, check over at FreeKraut because he banned my ass.

If he bans you....I'm gone....period.
I'll be damned if I'm going to let him run me off.

I think part of the problem is other people just leave. They don’t stay and fight.

thats what I keep telling them

its best to stay and stick your finger in their eye

nah. It's just...this is my home.

I made this place, not him.

That's why I'm being a jerk rather than just leaving

I’ve put in a lot of time on this site the last 3 years so I’ll fight.

people are genuinely angry.
Yep.....and something has to be done to clear the air

but I no longer have high hopes about it.

oh no, he's not leaving. he's steering into the sun. such a huge ego for such a strange slight man.
As I read more of his posts I realize that now

this is all about his ego and thinking we’re like his students.

Or sheep.

(make your own jokes)

nice.
Honestly I've posted worse stuff today that mikev ever did

but he can’t really afford to ban anyone else….or maybe he’ll……(editors note Bed. is now banned)

baaaahhh

Watch your ass.

YSWIDT?

why do you think that look is upon his face?
I think I went to the prom with her.
Steering into the sun is a great, great way of putting what's coming next.
+ eleventy billion forty-five and a half
Ha!.....I just got an email asking how to find Free Kraut

for others you have to type in freekraut.com……if you leave out the .com you’ll get to old site.

Most the emails I get from AN folks are death threats.
I stink at wrapping gifts.....see if I have a gift bag left.
thats why I love the dollar store

lots and lots of gift bags to choose from

and assorted lotions and creams to dip my balls in.
and cans of baked beans and peaches.
mmmm peaches
walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches!
I'm not going to the dollar store after you've been there, then
they made him wait til after he left the store to do it though
well, sure, after that one PRUDE complained.
its not like she tried to look away either
hell, she's just mad because they were her peaches...
...and you were at her house.
well, to be honest

you did take them out of her basket

Stay out of my orchard and let my peach tree be!
this is devolving into a double entendre 50's underground black people record.
The definition of indecent –

when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

I love you.
I know
What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom?

A pickpocket snatches watches.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeetttt
you spoil all my fun, EM.
I need something classy.....not seeing much
How much does stuff cost at the dollar store?
$5
I spent a bit more on the gift.
I was at the 99 cent store once

where someone kept asking how much something was. and they were serious. it was bad

....was it me?
no

I would have slapped you

oh. I wanna go to the .99 store.
Of course how do I wrap my penis extension?....I did it for her, I swear.
Well, this certainly does explain Little Bed's arrival into the world.
That was back when my little Bed was still little

now it’s a ten pound battle salami.

that made me laugh
I have it....I'll make her breakfast and just put the gift on the tray.
I'll have to whip it out first though.
So you are going to put your penis extension on the tray?

Just don’t serve her sausage or bacon…. because she might confuse the sausage and your extension, and NOTHING wins over bacon.

Good point....I guess I'll just give her ear rings instead.
I should have gotten a belly button ring for myself
I think my dog hates the cold more than I do.....what a pussy.
This is the conversation my mom, dad, and I had over dinner:

Mom: I got a raise today.
Me: Really? Any reason why?
Mom: They said I was versatile.
Me: So you can use your hands and your mouth?

you did NOT.
I DID.

My mother even laughed!

Which is saying something,

because I once had to explain to her that my boss really didn’t have a son named Ben Dover.

My boss is named I.P. Freely
I was proud of that one.
If money was the root of all evil I'd like to be a bad, bad man.
When it comes to sex I've never had any complaints....of course it helps that I pay with cash.
The only problem with trying to go to bed is I usually wake up the baby.
Okay lets play name that tune....what song am I humming?
It's from The Gondoliers, right?
america. fuck yeah?
Ode to Joy is the right answer we would have also accepted Fuck the Police by Ice-T
um
Yes, Mr. Copenhagen
Fuck the Police was Cube, Ren and Eazy-E
you may have a lot of bitches, but I got much more.
What a shock the preppy white guy doesn't know his rap.
(Ice did Cop Killer)
and now he plays a cop on TV
it was so overblown at the time

all during the white fright times of rap

I was busy listening to Genesis at the time....that's right I'm street....I'm hip
Body Count which Ice-T fronted did Cop Killer
Cope you're now my go to guy for rap

I guess I’ll tell Grandma tomorrow she’s out.

I like this one better

Slayer Feat.Ice T – Disorder

Its where he got the idea of making Body Count

Slayer and Ice-T... why....how can I not hit that link?
Chickie your new avatar pic is funny too.
thanks hehe
is that Tila?
Ah that's it.....I kept wanting to call her Pina Colada
close.
Close only counts in horse shoes and hand jobs.
haha I have no idea

I just liked the fact that they ape is doing a double bird

I hate this....I should go to sleep but I'm not tired now for some reason....probably the crack.
crack's good! and good for you! fuck what all them doctors say! doctors don't know shit!
As Ice-T or Ice-Cube or Ice-Tray would say...Fuck the Doctors!

My cat is laying here by my side....see if she'll give me a hit.
OMG you didn't use a subject line....iglew is going to kill you!
thats why I did it

breakin the law!

Chickie is dangerous
dude, not hippie enough? seriously?
Wait...what.....hippie?.....get a rope
blinkblink

http://www.athleticsnation.com/2012/1/13/2705928/how-do-you-want-this-place-run-meta-warning#88631309

oh god no

I won’t do it!

Who is he?
runs Halos Haven.
Oh.....so he's nobody then
hmmm. he's the evil one. Identified Evil One.
Okay....I only go on AN so I don't care about other SBN blogs

Not sure why he’s posting on AN?

Backing up his colleague?

I have no idea, though, because surely anyone with an ounce or more of gray matter knows that to have the Rev endorse anything here is the kiss of death.

So far he seems like weirdo.
seriously.
I mean, even if you agreed with the principle that the blogparent needs to hold all power

it can’t help to have it endorsed by someone whose site is a) rude, nasty, and mean-spirited, and b) boring as all get-out.

doesn't make much sense...
Yes

If I were Toonces, and the Rev showed up in support of me, I’d quit immediately. And possibly kill myself.

There's no worse way to kill your message than to have the Rev endorse it.
Why would you even go there?

I’ve been to LL maybe 5 times and 4 were the Nyjer Morgan meme related and never to HH or w/e the Rangers blog is called

I've gone to both to laugh at them.

I actually comment sometimes at LL. That’s a clever fucking blog.

I've heard it's a fun site but I just don't give a wit about the Mariners
me, neither.
Other things I don't care a wit about

paying my taxes, the NBA, bathing and the 2012 Oakland A’s

damn you for making me go there

but, I have to say, zombie hit it on the head. I say ZOMBIE FOR BLOGFATHER!

AN: Not nearly as popular as the Pirates blog
AN: You'll do what your told and like it!
OH MAN.

Should have watched a different movie.

Scary?
Sad. "The Way We Were"

Robert: “Is he a good father?”
Me: [dies]

AN: Come for A's stay for the meta.
~

Ha!...that mask should solve all his problems.

You crack me up, Cope.

AN: Now serving 37 different flavors of Bed
AN: The best catfish in all of Idaho
AN: Our writers have been PED free since 2012
AN: Nixon's favorite baseball blog
AN: Hey it's not nearly as bad as the Raiders blog
I'm not so sure this is true anymore
I'll have to take your word on that one

I’ve seen true evil on the Raiders blog.

Oh, it used to suck flaming donkey testicles

Once Rich Langford took over moderating that place, it has improved somewhat. And my comment is mainly directed towards the downfall of this place.

Rich is really good

and I agree we may be headed towards the bottom of the barrel.

AN: We fuck goats
AN: Future Ed slept here once
AN: Even if it's a good idea we'll do it when I'm ready damn you.
ok, off to bed to get ready to watch the game tomorrow
Good luck with you 49ers, Chickie....you're the best.
AN: I still love the people here.
Have a good weekend, Mr. Bed!

I’m heading for the bedding myself.

Goodnight, EM
My new plan...wait for the baby to wake up then sneak into bed and it won't be my fault.
Other things that aren't my fault

World War 1, World War 2, The Cola Wars and the War of the Worlds remake.

One of my favorite things to do is to sing have I told you lately that I love you into the mirror.
This place is less full than you'd think at 3 in the morning

I think I’ve forgotten how to sleep.

And now I'd like to tell you about the time I filed with the long form on my taxes.
[sits cross-legged on the floor]
It's quite a story

it involves lust, love, war and the earned income tax credit.

I think we used up our lounge. D:
Uh-oh....we only get a new one every Christmas.
New one now?

Or tomorrow?

I'm here for a while.

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