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Baseball Stat Comparison 2003-06

2006-10-02T18:33:00.000-07:00

This shows how Cheney compares to Zuff last year and me the year before.StatGel-'032003-HighZuff-'042004-HighTait-'052005-HighTait-'062006-

It's Time Again

2006-02-04T19:31:00.000-07:00

Yahoo site is up

Baseball Stat Comparison 2003-05

2005-10-03T20:06:00.000-07:00

This shows how Cheney compares to Zuff last year and me the year before.StatGel-'032003-HighZuff-'042004-HighTait-'052005-HighRuns820886878913848848RBI872887806848894894SB116133131132128130TB245525872545258826512651OBP0.3620.3650.3530.3990.3560.365Wins93101100112107107Saves105138143143117128Ks117912101390139011941194ERA3.823.343.393.393.123.12WHIP1.281.221.141.141.161.16

History Class

2005-03-24T23:46:00.000-07:00

Ahh, message 100, this was really the start of the draft of the league rules. 2001 was a fun season, all kinds of arguments about how things worked... because they hadn't had to work before. For the 2001 draft we just selected from a list of players with a round after them. At any rate this was the birth of the definition of R used in the league rules posts (that is R = "original drafted" = "

Hey, it's that time again: Draft of Down With Baseball Rules

2005-03-10T00:34:00.000-07:00

Did note that this was a draft? That's why it's in this color rather than black. The keeper syst really isn't that weird, I was just trying to be complete, eh. UPDATE: 03/24/05: I corrected one rule (and it's application in two illustrations.) I despise the formatting as it now sits; I am going to have to do this over again on the blog starting from a raw text paste.

Props to Bruce

2005-03-10T00:03:00.000-07:00

That's cool getting linked by G. Reynolds.Last semester Chester linked my blog, which was pretty cool. Then finals and my moot court crap hit and I've fallen off the planet.

I will, however, use this blog to finish off the lyrics quiz

2005-03-06T15:49:00.000-07:00

Y'all (the readers of this blog) got 1 out of 25. I'm choked up.There were hints in the the following posts: Mass Appeal - sorry for the pun. This post actually did have a "nonsensical sentence incorporating the the remaining unhinted at unanswered song titles (not including the ones in French and Latin)" posted in white text on a white background. I'm Not Happy With This - One link had a

D'oh.

2005-03-06T03:18:00.000-07:00

I was going to post a long commentary on Social Security but I've decided to spawn off my own blog and use it as my first real post.The blog will basically be filled (not really filled, I doubt I'll post that often) with the sort of nonsense I post here; concert reviews and uhh... whatever.This'll keep this blog more fantasy sports related (i.e. generally empty.)

Back To Grey Again

2005-02-21T22:55:00.000-07:00

For anyone reading this but either not checking their email or not getting the Group email (I kill me) a new baseball league is starting. The link above has been updated.Keith, last year the league was 2381 (unless I have already forgotten it and wrote that wrong.) I think you were closer.Also, the Mason Jar is closed, indefinately. Pretty Girls Make Graves has been moved to the Old Brickhouse

Like a cool hunter watch the disarray

2005-02-19T13:08:00.000-07:00

Reference: I just finished this book (OK, the above is a line from a Sonic Youth song but I figured you'd get that anyway since there was so much response to the lyrics bit below [ISTINAH]) as noted in an update on an earlier post.I didn't expect this, from Gibson. I mean much of it is pure WG but there are dimensions here I've never before seen from him. It does, however, seem condensed,

Memory of Sporting Championships

2005-02-07T21:56:00.000-07:00

Matt writes about what he did (or didn't do) for the Super Bowl at his blog, noting that "Earliest one I remember seeing is from 1984 when the LA Raiders annihilated Washington." I found that interesting because that's the earliest Super Bowl I remember. In fact, that's the earliest sports championship I remember. (Note: Matt used the year of the game, not the season. I'm going to continue

Rhap

2005-02-03T23:47:00.000-07:00

I am currently listening to Hunger Strike. Live. By Pearl Jam. Except that Eddie is singing Chris Cornell's parts. And singing Corin Tucker singing Eddie's parts. That's all I have to say. UPDATE: Their new album (not Pearl Jam's, not Temple of the Dog's) is scheduled for May 24th.

Celebrity!

2005-02-03T21:09:00.000-07:00

Our very own Matt the Bruce has been linked by the blogfather here! Sincere congratulations.

2005-01-31T01:18:00.000-07:00

For those who don't feel like clicking through to the Coachella main page this years line-up is as follows: Saturday Coldplay Bauhaus (!) Weezer Cocteau Twins (!!) the Chemical Brothers (tent) Wilco (unless they drop out again) Keane Snow Patrol Rilo Kiley Cafe Tacuba Doves Sage Francis Armin Van Buuren the Raveonettes Bloc Party Mercury Rev (!) Fantomas

Mass Appeal

2005-01-22T11:47:00.000-07:00

The response to my lyrics quiz thus far has been better than expected. What I didn't expect was that this blog would still be dead(ish) what with the end of the football league and no basketball league running (or, Gel, did people [and simply not me] join the one you started?) Ah, well, I figured people'll eventually congregate back here to watch me and a few others argue about stuff like

I'm not happy with this

2005-01-15T13:49:00.000-07:00

but I gotta issue a top 10 for 2004 anyway. There are several 2004 albums I've just gotten (PJ Harvey, Singapore Sling, the Shemps) and many, many more I've heard either barely or not at all. Oh well. This shall always be the case so I suppose I should accept it.I'll start with the honorable mentions:Budget Sinatra (local): Either Way I Win; Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands; Detachment

Oh yeah, B&S won.

2005-01-14T23:47:00.000-07:00

"goth favorites"I can think of at least two things wrong with that description (but they still would've gotten my vote.)Anyway,Sons and Daughters opened for Clinic; I didn't know who they were but one of them spoke before they started playing. My response: Oh, they're gonna be good. They're Scottish!The entire Top 50 is available elsewhere.UPDATE/Correction/Addition: ISTINAH. For most of the post

As mentioned previously

2005-01-11T22:37:00.000-07:00

This shouldn't be happening. But it is. Since Matt (whom I've met once, for either a 49ers-Cardinals game or a Rams-Cardinals game, there is some controversy... amongst myself atleast) and various people whom I have not met (that I know of) are doing it, why can't I? (I swear, that is not a hint [henceforth abbrev'd "ISTINAH"]. But see below. Also, while I'm being parenthetical [and when am I

Upcoming

2005-01-09T21:19:00.000-07:00

Pretty Girls Make Graves played LA this last Saturday... which would've been nice to know about that more than 3 hours before showtime but alas it was not to be. Then again, if I did know beforehand I may've tried to drive out directly after paintball... which would've been bad considering how sore I currently am without 11 hours of driving (not to mention several hours of standing/etc. in one

Fattest?

2005-01-09T19:36:00.000-07:00

Men's Health says that Houston is the fattest city. You would think that the criterion might be weight. Instead, the criteria include "fast food restaurants per capita, TV watching, air quality, and parks." Air quality? I guess distilling oil makes you fat. I can kind of see fast food as a proxy, but what type of restaurant qualifies as "fast food" -- Subway, Boston Market? This is just

Music Reviews

2005-01-09T17:33:00.000-07:00

Those Pitchfork guys sure can write. But, with the profound amount of respect I have for Jack & Meg, I read these reviews to see if they their music, not to look for advice. For those of you scoring at home, I'm 7-for-7 on immensely enjoying WS songs: FiLWaG, THBtB, 7NA, DLotDG, IJDKWtDWM, WGtbF, HY. Just got four from the first two albums to see if the magic's always been there... Good line: "

Salt

2005-01-04T22:12:00.000-07:00

The morning game we got on FOX was Minnesota at Washington, there was no afternoon game on FOX. We didn't get a morning game on CBS, the afternoon game was Indianapolis at Denver. And, by the way, yes, I can say "morning" and "afternoon" as for me the games start near 11am and 2pm. Interestingly, though, at 2pm our CBS coverage started with "bonus coverage" of New Orleans at Carolina. FOX

My Queue

2005-01-01T20:05:00.000-07:00

UPDATE: 03/06/05: This is no longer being updated here. Check for updates at my personal blog.UPDATE: 40 46 44 books are currently in the queue and 1446 pages of finished books. (02/19/05) Also, yes, I understand that "pages" sucks as a counter - for example Pattern Recognition was about 75 pages longer than F/32 but the latter had more words and took longer. Oh well, I'm not going back to

Not gonna happen

2005-01-01T13:46:00.000-07:00

As I mentioned below I have, off and on, considered doing my own blog. I'm not going to start one now because I don't want to bother starting if it's not going to work (this, distilled, is one of my biggest faults, a lazy, defeatist, perfectionism, sort of, if you will.) It's not yet time to post my top 10 CDs for 2004 but in preparation for that I wanted to look at my list from last year (

Cheese and Crackers: Tsunami Video

2004-12-28T15:35:00.000-07:00

I had a generally idea about tsumanis, but these videos are nuts.

My blog post didn't change their decision?

2004-12-14T19:55:00.000-07:00

On November 13th, at this very blog, I commented on a Phoenix Symphony concert with guest conductor Michael Christie. I said, in part (referring to the Keeping Score bit), "I include the guest conductor's name not to promote the guy but to warn anyone who might have to sit through this nonsense." The Phoenix Symphony hired him to fill the vacant Music Director post starting 2005-2006. These

Don't Know Why This Wouldn't Post...

2004-12-09T16:34:00.000-07:00

There have been four >110 point losses: Naders (119.3) in Week 10 to Duds (119.85) potatoes (125.6) in Week 12 to Jibba (153.8) Cheney (112.05) in Week 13 to Jibba (121.6) potatoes (129.6) in Week 13 to Midnight (167.35) There have also been four <75 wins: Duds (67.1) in Week 4 over Midnight (49.65) potatoes (71.2) in Week 5 over Parsins (58.7) Duds (72.2) in Week 7 over Parsins (36.55) Parsins

I had a title

2004-12-05T17:16:00.000-07:00

I don't have a lot of interesting stuff to report; I'm just here cause I don't want to do anything else at the moment. That's not so true but it's something to build upon. I have toyed around with the idea of spining off my own blog and letting this one lie dormant until the football season ends but well, I just don't care to babble here that much (and that's precisely what I'd be doing.) I went

Small Sample Size

2004-11-21T14:07:00.000-07:00

Eugene Volokh and Orin Kerr have asserted that the Volokh Conspriacy will refrain from sucking despite selling out to the law.com blog network. The problem is, since Eugene's first message announcing it ("Volokh Conspiracy Sells Out") there've been two posts on the sell out, one on some search site, and the following two: Alan Sokal and the Social Text Parody on a ridiculous bit of nonsense (in

Ok, the game is TiVoed

2004-11-13T11:17:00.000-07:00

It's still chill to say "TiVoed" even though I'm using a Cox Cable DVR, right? Also I don't like the -ed ending but I'm sure that an apostrophe doesn't belong there. In the absence of a known standard.... On Veteran's Day the PSO played some Barber, Chopin and Richard Strauss. The concert was rather unremarkable; I am not a big fan of the latter two composers but I wanted to hear Barber's

More shows

2004-11-13T09:48:00.000-07:00

I've got about 15 minutes before coverage of the Michigan game starts which means it'll be about time to head down and get breakfast and turn on the TV. I can't just sit and watch the entire game because ASU's last home game is this evening and I almost have to go because I've only made it to one other one which is embarassing when you're talking about free season tickets. Until all that

Lying

2004-10-31T17:02:00.000-07:00

Yes, I know this is late, but, well, this is partially in preparation for something else. I'll start with excerpts from the 2nd presidential debate on 10/08/04 (yes, I said this was late) [Kerry was asked a question about tax money funding abortions. He didn't answer explicitly but talked about a bunch of stuff not important to me right now since this is not about abortion. Then came Bush's

More concerts

2004-10-28T01:11:00.000-07:00

Last week was Earlimart and Clinic; this week involves Rilo Kiley, the Phoenix Symphony and Interpol. Rilo Kiley was, well, by now, last night. Jenny Lewis and the band were wonderful, the set-list was as brilliant as it could be without containing Science vs. Romance, Plane Crash in C or Spectacular Views. One of the opening bands was The Elected, who AMG users can easily find out is Blake's

Placebo

2004-10-21T15:37:00.000-07:00

Greg Hansen needs a better editor: He is smart enough (and articulate enough) to become the first college athlete this year to use the word "placebo" in a sports quote. "Last year, we made excuses for each other," Frye said Tuesday. "The NCAA tournament was a placebo for our team. Everyone kept saying that once we got to the postseason, things would be different. Instead, we couldn't overcome

Phoenix Symphony - Sept 30

2004-10-09T14:58:00.000-07:00

When I said I was catching up I meant on things that I should've posted. I got half-season tickets for the Phoenix Symphony this year, which means tickets for 7 concerts plus 1 voucher. I'm still not sure what I want to do with the voucher, there are far too many worthy options. For example I want to go to the all-Tchaikovsky special concert Thanksgiving weekend but traditionally I am out of

Surpassing 1000 hours

2004-10-09T13:59:00.000-07:00

I'm catching up here. After finally catching Marillion (first trip to the US since 1998 - at the time I was unable to travel to see them) at the Sunset Strip House of Blues I stopped at the Hollywood Amoeba Records. After leaving my CD collection had officially surpassed 1000 hours. I can say that Chroma Key's This is a Recording was the CD that put me over 500 hours but I have to point to a

The Grey Race

2004-10-07T22:18:00.000-07:00

Heh. One thing I enjoy about HTML is that instructions that aren't understood are ignored without a lot of errors and crashing; thus one can have a lot of nonsense codes and it won't matter. At any rate I tried to manually edit the template so everything we had a bit of a border or a margin on the left (the right too would be nice but I didn't get that far) so it doesn't look quite so odd. All

2003-2004 Stat Comparison

2004-10-04T15:20:00.000-07:00

This shows that Zuff destroyed us, even in a historical context. For example, he won 4 categories, while I didn't win any. Something else to note is that we added a team this year, which should have artificially diluted stats by 7%. It might also be useful for projecting things, like how many SBs will be needed for a 15 (133ish). If anyone knows anything about HTML tables, please fix this big

Funny

2004-10-03T01:37:00.000-07:00

This; especially #1 and #3.

Ramones <> Bush

2004-09-22T21:06:00.000-07:00

Liking a band (even to the point of purchasing and subsequentially wearing a shirt in public) does not neccesitate subscribing to the political (or other) opinions of the bandmembers. I'm certain that plenty of the members of bands for which I have a t-shirt have/had opinons I disagree with. I don't care and finding something like that out wouldn't disallusion me. Furthermore I have never

Bumbershirt

2004-09-16T22:38:00.000-07:00

At Bumbershoot, a lot of people were wearing Ramones shirts. By a lot, I mean that it was the only band I saw more than one of, and by more than one I mean at least a dozen. Now I wonder if it was implicit support of Bush. By the way, it seems like a new Ramone dies every year. What's the deal?

Ken Jennings Rumor -- Perhaps Good News for Matt

2004-09-08T21:58:00.000-07:00

SPOILER Alert: http://www.kottke.org/04/09/some-ken-jennings-news

Template

2004-08-29T14:02:00.000-07:00

I am not so happy with the new blog template. Was this a manual change or some sort of automatic Blogger-wide change? I'd fiddle with the html code but it's been a while and I'm not that interested at the moment. Maybe we should go to a totally different template. That might be fun. I will allow time for objections/other people to change it before I play around.

Bob Dole Doesn't Like That

2004-08-27T11:37:00.000-07:00

Read http://instapundit.com/archives/017393.php and you'll probably either agree or disagree, depending on where you already stood. I'm not interested in that part; what amuses me enough to post is just how distinct Bob Dole's word style is. It's sort of like a Faux Hemingway parody but not quite.

Kerry's 1971 Testimony on C-SPAN

2004-08-27T11:25:00.000-07:00

Did anyone watch this? I did; I'd have mentioned it hours ahead of time on my own blog if it weren't down. Keeping partisanship out of it as best I can (you probably already know where I stand): This testimony actually made me feel more favorably about him. He spoke quite eloquently, even if the Boston Brahmin quasi-British short A's in his dialect confused me. He had some strong,

Oh Yeah, The Rest Of My Team

2004-08-27T11:18:00.000-07:00

QB: Steve McNair RB: Ahman Green RB: Brian Westbrook (but see below) WR: Terrell Owens WR: Peerless Price TE: Kellen Winslow II K: Paul Edinger (total random default; my team was one of the last to get a kicker) D: Michael Strahan DL: Simeon Rice DB: Rodney Harrison Bench: David Carr (QB), Quentin Griffin (RB) (he'll probably start; I can't believe how late I got him), Marcus Robinson (WR), three

I Hate Non-Live Drafts

2004-08-27T11:13:00.000-07:00

In a football league with co-workers from three jobs ago (the baseball statistics people), where the commish set us up for an automatic draft rather than bother finding a time when we could all met. Fair enough, except that I did a lousy job of pre-ranking, specifically in that I overthought the whole process. It's one thing to downgrade Marshall Faulk and Fred Taylor as injury risks, quite

Yesterday's Musical Interlude

2004-08-27T11:03:00.000-07:00

Apparently the radio gods knew I'd have a lunchtime errand to run. On KFOG's New Music Thursday, I heard the latest R.E.M. single. Forget the lyrics but the chord structure blew my mind: vi - bVI - IV - bIII in the verse, I - V - IV - ii in the chorus. (Or if you prefer sheet-music style: E minor, E-flat major, C major, B-flat major in the verse; G (the tonic), D, C, A minor in the chorus.

Today's Excel Oddity

2004-08-27T10:59:00.000-07:00

For alphabetizing, Microsoft Excel apparently *ignores* hyphens. So "T-Bone" will come after "Tawny" but before "Tease." That seems wrong to me but I can't finger why.

Holy Interface Change, Batman!

2004-08-27T10:56:00.000-07:00

This is way different from the Blogger interface I knew and loved. Probably several steps up. Time to break the Mad Dog posting streak... By the way, my personal blog site is down and has been for over a day. My friend and sysadmin, Mr. Matthew Boggie (Boston U. '98, Accenture), is doggedly pursuing justice from our service provider. Meanwhile, I may just core-dump here this afternoon if

Curiosa - Phoenix, AZ 08/25/04

2004-08-26T20:54:00.000-07:00

Ahh, the Cure. And, well, 6 other bands. I was happy even though I figured I'd miss somebody good. As it turned out I missed nobody. They had two stages set up. Mogwai started on the mainstage at 5pm sharp. They were done at 5:35 and then somebody announced that Scarling would be starting on the second stage in five minutes. This pattern continued; a band would play a 35 minute set on one stage

Built to Spill, 08/11/04

2004-08-12T21:33:00.000-07:00

There was one huge highlight to this show but I shall approach it slowly. By first stating that I downloaded some mp3s of the Long Winters from the Barsuk website (just checking out their roster since they're nice enough to include mp3s from everyone.) They didn't open the show or anything (a decent local band the Necronauts did) but the song "Stupid" is brilliant. UPDATE: Sweet, they have two

Reference Message Board

2004-07-31T19:53:00.000-07:00

1) It is silly to consider the article on Bush and the Cleveland Browns as bias compared with say, talk about Clinton. a. Bush is running for president, Clinton is not. b. Clinton is likely to be on Letterman promoting his book, and if you'll remember, there was a lot of talk about the political motivation behind the timing of My Life. c. Is there really that strong of a specific Indiana/

Minority Troopers

2004-07-29T20:45:00.000-07:00

Starship Troopers was on last night and something interesting occured to me. I really like what Verhoven did with this movie even though it is not very faithful to the source material [and I like the source material, it's not the Moon is a Harsh Mistress but it's good stuff] what with the overall sarcastic tone and the fascist portrayal of the military/government. [There were various other

Is this still here?

2004-07-22T17:21:00.000-07:00

Ha! It makes sense that there being two active leagues open would siphon posts from here. I get to get my bottom wisdom teeth out tomorrow, meaning I won't be able to go see Modest Mouse at Celebrity Theater. I wasn't thrilled that they were playing a seated venue but I then learned that it's still all GA so it still would be possible to get good seats. Now I'll be done around 12:30pm and

RED HOT

2004-06-18T22:15:00.000-07:00

What's in the water? Hey, has anybody noticed that it's a good thing to be from Shadow Mountain High these days? In the new millennium, the school's alums have: • Won the Indianapolis 500 - Buddy Rice. • Won an Olympic gold medal in swimming - Misty Hyman. • Been named to an Olympic basketball team (although he has withdrawn) - Mike Bibby. • Won a World Series MVP award - Curt Schilling.

From the Stands

2004-06-02T21:46:00.000-07:00

The reason that the Bush campaign is upset about judicial activism is because the court used Roe (which I've commented on before) as the precedent. The Graglia definition of judicial activism (which I agree with) is holding something unconstitutional that isn't. In this case, the constitution says nothing about abortion, partial birth or otherwise, nor even about medicine or physical well-being

From the bench

2004-06-02T17:15:00.000-07:00

I'll give that there are times when various members of the judicial system could be said to be "[legislating] from the bench" but how could this be one? The context: The article is about a ruling by a US Distict Court Judge that declared the Partial Birth Abortion Act unconstitutional. This act outlawed a medical procedure that doesn't involve "birth" or anything like it. But that's not the

Past Rosters (Part 1 of 5)

2004-05-31T21:47:00.000-07:00

With some time on my hands, and some newly-d'l'ed Rush tracks on the Winamp, I may as well try to recollect as much as I can about my previous squads. Even though I struggle mightily with figuring out what last year's squad was, for some reason I can do pretty well with earlier teams. 1999 Prominent Teamname: SchillingAttendedMyHighSchool (I miss the days of virtually limitless names) This

Worst President Ever

2004-05-25T21:43:00.000-07:00

Comic Book Guy intended. XP-GreedyBlog. These are my bottom 5 presidents: 43. LBJ 42. FDR 41. Carter 40. Johnson 39. Jackson For the most part, I look at how they impact me. Hence, the Great Society programs and Vietnam war, both huge blunders in my opinion, make LBJ the worst. WWII might balance out the New Deal (I don't think so), but the implications of the New Deal (unrestrained federal

Spite and Malice

2004-05-21T19:15:00.000-07:00

I was at Zia the other day and when I was purchasing my items the guy at the counter asked if I had seen that the new Morrissey album was out. I would've figured that he was only asking this of people who were buying albums by the Smiths but he had also asked the previous customer a couple minutes earlier. And a new update - since I just followed that link to the Zia Records website - no,

50 Worst Songs

2004-05-17T17:22:00.000-07:00

I was going to include this in a comment at Matt's blog but then I realized that this was too off topic for the comment. Thus y'all get it (edited differently) here. I was watching VH1's video countdown of the 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs of All Time (from the list with Blender) and something occurred to me. These aren't the 50 worst songs of all time, far from it. They might, however, be the

A Whine

2004-05-08T01:02:00.000-07:00

When you get used to setting your starting lineups any time before first pitch, it's easy to space on the midnight deadline for add-drops. I honestly wanted John Lackey's start tonight, seeing as how it was the Devil Rays. Blah.

News

2004-05-06T20:16:00.000-07:00

So the Pixies are coming to Mesa Amp; this I've mentioned. What's not coming is Lollapalooza. This site has their schedule and the line-up; I am very pissed that this schedule doesn't include anything roadtrip-able from Phoenix. Or atleast not for a weekend roadtrip. But the line up includes Le Tigre and Modest Mouse and the FLips and Sonic Youth and more headlining and the likes of Broken

Funny

2004-05-06T12:42:00.000-07:00

See here. I've now seen 6 Hessman ABs in my life, all 6 for Ks.

My favorite quote of the Coachella weekend

2004-05-04T16:20:00.000-07:00

I was at the mainstage waiting for the Cure who closed out Sunday. I was wearing my white Arizona Cardinals jersey (#59, "Joyner" is written on the back.) Some big, drunk guy pushing his way through saw it and said "Thank god for Wally Joyner." Several others commented on the jersey, many without seeing the name on the back or asking who it was (there were many more comments on that on than

Lurking

2004-05-03T14:07:00.000-07:00

Oh, i read it every once & a while, but not big on posting. 1999: I got ARod at the end of April. My staff ace was Smoltz. Cirillo at 3rd. Shannon Stewart. I don't recall who my top outfielder was. I would like to think Andruw jones was my second outfielder, but it might have been him. maybe knoblauch 2000: i think this was the year i had bonds. waiver claim for zito (doesn't meet the

If you think that's bad...

2004-05-03T12:04:00.000-07:00

Look at this and this (closest thing to their original post (now shut down, apparently, but mentioned in a comment: "Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan"), where the comments were even worse than the headline -- AnalPhilosopher has some examples).

For Posterity

2004-05-02T22:06:00.000-07:00

Something hit me that I thought would be kind of fun. I'd like to see which players spent, say, >75% of the season on the eventual league championship squad. This is especially easy at this point, of course, since we'd only really have to ask two people, or maybe just one, since Keith's hegemony only ended last year. Anyways, I highly doubt we/Keith could remember things to any significant

Here It Is

2004-05-01T23:20:00.000-07:00

Finally, I'm getting a chance to read what I believe will be one of the stupidest articles that has ever been written. Never mind ironic. Never mind condescending. Just plain stupid. I'm off to read, and we'll see how this turns up... I'm verbally constipated here, so I'm not gonna analyze this thing right now. Suffice to say: it's incredibly offensive, more for his petty sniping,

Wow

2004-04-27T20:20:00.000-07:00

I shut down and lose net access and worry about missing out on all the action on the blog and... nothing. It's very kind of y'all. Access at home might be coming soon. It should be next week; or the week after that. I'll keep y'all informed.

Just As Predicted

2004-04-20T13:18:00.000-07:00

Clarett's case was stayed and will probably will be reversed. I predicted this event here. See, the $400 I spent on Sports Law didn't go completely to waste.

Weird Stuff

2004-04-17T18:20:00.000-07:00

1. I heard Modest Mouse on the radio. On the Zone (101.5 FM) even. 2. I did not see Modest Mouse from SXSW on MTV2 last night. I probably won't see it Sunday night. Though maybe we get MTV2 at the new place. 3. Moving is freaky. It is weird to pack up (almost) all your things into a truck and have people carry them around. Hopefully I'll live at this place long enough to get rid of some of

Conan Analogy

2004-04-16T23:39:00.002-07:00

French Open : Balls flying all around Paris :: Hilton sisters : [see French Open] I think that is 2nd all-time to... Britney Spears : 100 lbs of jailbait :: Christina Aguillera : 100 lbs of clown whore makeup In reality, I think Nicky Hilton is the better looking sister. But, she is less skanky and thus less photographed and publicized. Speaking of underpublicized, every now and then I

Easter

2004-04-13T12:28:00.000-07:00

brook We all fisked his NBA post to shreds, but I'll give him credit for this post. This is the type of discourse that makes for positive debate. UPDATE: Also check out the next to earlier post. I think you could do something similar to that for Iraq. It would go something like this: President Bush was impeached today based on his failure to take action in the war on terror. After

Line of the Day

2004-04-12T18:54:00.000-07:00

G. Roberts 1.0 IP, 3H, 4R, 4ER, 1BB, 1K, 2HR, 48.60 (current ERA) So, indeed, Grant Roberts giving up 4ER in 1.0 IP actually *lowered* his ERA. I might add that I think he also received a Hold for today's game, in which the Braves brought the tying run to the plate in the 9th after being down 10-0 earlier.

Six O'Clock on an Easter Evening

2004-04-11T17:55:00.000-07:00

and all for what? I'm packing up my CDs, how about you?

Going Blind

2004-04-10T23:42:00.000-07:00

This is pretty tight. I tend to lose the one in the upper left, fwiw. Btw, I think we should call the league finished as of 10 APR 04. Not that I'm all that concerned with the standings at this terribly early day (i.e. only one time through my pitiful rotation), but, well, my team in the quizbowl league just lost 27 points, dropping from a good-sized lead all the way into third. It doesn't

Suspect Analysis

2004-04-06T20:24:00.000-07:00

First and foremost, this is a shitty write-up. There are so many question, one wonders how much "summarizing" was done. No statistics or even links are given (why not, they've supposedly got the numbers), just rankings and analysis. There is no definition of any variable (more on that later), especially whether anything is per capita. Coffee shops is per capita, but is amount spent on flowers

So, Adam...

2004-04-04T22:34:00.000-07:00

The "scene" is always a tough one for soME of us. Anyways, explain this. I'm just wondering how you can be in the #1 city and not be the Daddy Mack while I'm in the #65 city and presently starring as...ok, not the Daddy Mack either.

and I am a better team over there too.

2004-04-02T04:50:00.000-07:00

wierd. my little april fool's bonus right? i just added a bookmark in my favs list for Old BALCO. I propose we try and keep up with those teams and see what happens. tribe

Catching Up

2004-04-01T19:48:00.000-07:00

First off, eric, you do realize you added Omar Vizquel in the old/fake/non-PLUS league, correct? If yes, yay! someone else cares about the old/fake/non-PLUS league. Matt I'm not at home so I don't know the link to your blog but you recently were wondering where Julie Delpy went (scroll down, it's near the picture of Robyn Hitchcock.) Dallas is currently up 101-81 with 12 minutes left in the

Typo?

2004-03-30T21:24:00.000-07:00

The first sentence of this story is incorrect. I haven't seen Lampe play other than a couple of horrible ugly horendous minutes early in the year, but he seems to have been coming on during the recent win trend. Does anyone else notice that after they go grocery shopping, the last thing they want to do is cook? If anyone likes Vanilla Coke, I highly recommend Safeway Select Vanilla Cola.

FukYoCru

2004-03-29T09:46:00.000-07:00

My money is on this team, mainly since we share 5 players. Although he does only have one closer... I hope Chuck lets us view this league all year long. By the transactions, it looks like they're active. By the message board, it doesn't appear so. By the draft, they don't know what they're doing.

The Way It Is

2004-03-28T23:59:00.000-07:00

Just saw the Sounds and the Strokes and the Suicide Machines. The first opened for the middle; the latter was at a different show. Julian's voice was way off; he complained about being sick quite a bit - the result was way more talking from him than I've ever seen. Still a good show, though. Other than the openers who were, uhh, not exactly boring but not exactly good either. Z, the old

Snoops

2004-03-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

Bad News: I dumped the link to the old league, and know of no real way to get back into it. It will hopefully be around for a long enough time that we can enjoy its fruits and juices. Good News: OTOH, if you click on the present link and replace "b2" with "b1", you find a public league with at least three teams with naughty names. My money's on baddang, with his first bat selected being Jeff

Moving

2004-03-28T14:59:00.000-07:00

I just changed the links at the top to point to the new PLUS league. I am not sure what to think with regards to the deletion of the old league. I half want the old league to be removed for the sake of clairy clarity but I also half want the old league to continue for that way we have two leagues. I, at least, plan on fully participating in both as long as I may. In the Tourney pick'em I can

T-minus Six Hours (and a few minutes)

2004-03-27T02:38:00.000-07:00

Good luck everyone! May you all get the players you want, especially if they're players I don't also want. Then again if there's anyone I want way more than he's worth, may he be taken by one of you even higher than I would have. In other news, file this post away as a serious idea for next year's March Madness. (ZD you've already seen it and commented on it; given your seal of approval I

Pre-Draft Picks

2004-03-25T11:00:00.000-07:00

1 Alex Rodriguez 2 Vlad Guerrero 3 Curt Schilling 4 Barry Bonds 5 Pedro Martinez [added in by ZD] 6 ... We should update this post as pre-draft picks are made.

Yoda Hand

2004-03-24T21:48:00.000-07:00

Check out this passage from Sheldon v. Metro-Goldwyn Pictures Corp., 81 F.2d 49 (2d Cir.1936): Borrowed the work must indeed not be, for a plagiarist is not himself pro tanto an "author"...

Planet of Sound

2004-03-23T16:39:00.000-07:00

The Pixies are reportedly playing V2004 in England, Bumbershoot on Sept 6 and a full US headlining tour playing venues of "2,500 - 10,000." Mesa Amp, please? But speaking of the Bumbershoot date, wow, and I thought the line before REM and Wilco was big. Speaking of Wilco, they are playing Flagstaff as well as Tucson - but not Phoenix. I guess I can hope I get to see their Coachella set. I

Draft Sheet

2004-03-23T14:56:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to the draft sheet. Note the two Excel sheets.

Ah

2004-03-23T10:03:00.000-07:00

I suppose her little brother also pitched for ASU. Was she the head?

Potent Quotables

2004-03-22T21:25:00.000-07:00

From Blogger's homepage: "Valentines [sic] Day is almost here..." From tonight's Baylor/UF WNCAA game, commenting on a "bulky" player who slimmed down a touch in the offseason: "She was a McDonald's All-American last year...and not in the good way." From tonight's Coca-Cola tournament commercial: "...if you run around the house naked." That wouldn't merit any mention, of course, had

Trips

2004-03-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

I saw that a Throwing Muses related band was going to play Solar Culture; I will not, however, be making it down for the show. What with seeing Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers last night and working this morning and needing to see Godot either sometime this weekend or next and strongly leaning towards going to Solar Culture on Monday and all. The everything bagels I'm eating right now from

50 Foot Wave / L'~

2004-03-17T04:44:00.000-07:00

Those who can should be making the trip to Tucson this Saturday to see the above mentioned band. It is fronted by ex-Throwing Muses lead Kristin Hersh (on of my favs) and features some rippin tunes. You will not be disappointed I promise. The show is at the Solar Culture Center with Howe Gelb doing electric solo as the opener. I being in snowy Cleveland can not make the trip but if only if

Post Title

2004-03-16T22:38:00.000-07:00

Sounds good to me. This is actually what I envisioned: a collaborative effort, both in content and structure. Unless someone really screws up the format, which I doubt will happen, I say go ahead and make changes at will. However, if they require us to do something different (e.g., add a title to posts), we should be forewarned. UPDATE: I went ahead and did it. In fact, I've edited this post

2004-03-16T20:13:00.000-07:00

Show Title Field I wouldn't mind changing the Formatting (found under Settings) so that it does. Would this upset anyone? Wow. The current ad in my browser (after I sent a message via Y! mail) is for LAUNCHcast. It boasts various stations you can listen to, one being "alternative rock" which features "Linkin Park, Evanescence, Audioslave and more." I am salivating over who the "more"

2004-03-16T05:00:00.000-07:00

Tribe Picks Mantei Matt 9 Randa Joe 11 Redman Mark 12 Sabathia CC 15 Lofton Kenny 18 Romero J.C. 21

2004-03-15T22:47:00.000-07:00

Final Keepers -- I Claim A-Rod 1. Wood - 3 2. Isringhausen - 7 3. Mueller - 12 (FA) 4. Borowski - 13 (FA) 5. Soriano - 14 Jennings - 19 6. Mora - 23 UPDATE: Removed Jennings at 19 and numbered since I had included 7 keepers in the original post. Also fixed the positions of my free agents.