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I didn't see it mentioned but
Sam Walker - Fantasyland
For anyone who has ever had felt obsessed with fantasy baseball, you will not be alone. One of my favorite books of all time.
Another good one.
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Dodger Dogs to Fenway Franks: The Ultimate Guide to America's Top Baseball Parks
One of my all time favorite books. I used to get this out of the library all the time when I was younger, and when I recently read it again it still held up.
It is from 1985, so it is about as outdated a book on ballparks as you could find, but the stories the author tells and the experiences along the way are just as great as the descriptions of the parks: from having his car burglerized in California to his trying to beat a potential baseball strike, even his epic adventure trying to park at Memorial Stadium (with which I'm sure many here will relate :laughlol:).
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The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
Both by Leigh Montville, and both great.
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I remember I really enjoyed The Glory of Their Times a while ago. It was a bunch of older players talking about the game in their day.
Thank you for bringing that up.
I've heard about that book in repeated sources, so I've always wanted to look it up.
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Three must-read books:
For all baseball fans:
http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Baseball-Through-ONeils-America/dp/0060854030
Thanks, Poz :laughlol:
I'll second that one. Hell of a book.
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball... books are really cool.
And, of course, another vote for Moneyball. At least if more people read it there will be fewer people to talk about it without any understanding :laughlol:
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I still want to get through The Communist Manifesto. I had to put it on hold as MBA classes started up again for the semester. I hope to get it done around the holidays. It looks like a quick read, but a book like this is one I can't get through quickly. I have to re-read sentences, paragraphs, etc. to make sure I understand it all.
Honestly, a much better window on Marxist (or, specifically, Marx's) thought is his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts from 1844. The manifesto is dry in comparison.Damn pinkos...:laughlol:
Actually, I'd like to read it sometime, just as an informative text.
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I recently read A Voyage Long and Strange and Confederates in the Attic, and am finishing-up Blue Latitudes, by Tony Horwitz.
Basically, he chooses a subject (the voyages of Captain Cook in Latitudes, the remnant memories of the Civil War in Confederates, a series of journeys about the discovery of America in Voyage) and follows the subject for a considerable time, interviewing people and trying to gain perspective on why the subject is important.
I'd recommend all of them, both for the history and for the storytelling.
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The Wendy's Montery Chicken Ranch sandwich.
Rax, like, the entire place. A little bit of a pine for Roy Rogers, too.
There's a Roy Rogers a mile from my house!
(Of course, it might be the only one in the Greater Baltimore area...)
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But every other run is counted twice -- once as a run scored and once as a run driven in. Why should the run scored by the batter who hits the HR be devalued by 50 percent compared to all other runs scored? If anything, it should be valued more than other runs because it gets scored independently of what any other hitter in the lineup does.
I'm not following.
For an individual batter, when you add RS to RBI, the only thing counted twice is a home run, which goes under both.
When you subtract the number of home runs, you aren't taking all the runs from those home runs out, just one run from each, which was the batter driving himself in.
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I've gotten involved in a knock down, drag out online argument with another Cardinals fan over RPA (Runs per Plate Appearance). This is not the same as the RPA which Mike Gimbel trademarked in an article posted at The Think Factory, which stands for Run Production Average. It's what Tom Tango defines as Runs Produced (RP=R+RBI-HR) and I'm having difficulty following the TangoTiger explanation why subtracting home runs makes it a more valid stat for comparing the value of a hitter.
I'm assuming there have been a lot more discussions of this on the internet, but I've not been able to find any and would appreciate any links to such discussions, or thoughts one way or the other on the issue.
Just looking at that, it seems that since a home run counts as both an RBI and a run scored, it shouldn't be counted twice in that system.
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Heh actually that's sorta cool.
McLovin, can you make it so that it says "(aka World's Biggest Studmuffin)" whenever anyone typed "Pedro Cerrano"?
Pretty please? :-)
Should say something about "Jobu"...
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You didn't lick anything in the house while I wasn't looking, did you?
You might want to duck, because someone is going to take a swing at that lob and hit it a mile :laughlol:
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Bad:
Every local car commercial, ever
If Scott Donahoo is wrong then I don't want to be right.
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I was thinking about it. But who knows how long it would have taken, and having her think I was constipated would have been just as awkward. I was also considering snapping at her to just go the heck away, but I tend to swallow my thoughts in favor of keeping the peace at the time and then ranting here right afterwards.
I don't know if you two have a history, but I doubt she would go around spreading vicious rumors about your regularity.
And that ends today's broadcast on WTMI - Way Too Much Information Radio.
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WOW. (And possible TMI alert)
So our half of the floor has three bathrooms: male, female, and co-ed. Each has one stall, one urinal, two sinks, and two showers. Not the ideal arrangement. The accepted MO when you walk in and see that the stall is occupied is to immediately leave the bathroom and go to the co-ed bathroom or come back in 10 minutes.
I just went to, uh, board the #2 train and a girl walks in while I'm sitting there doing my business.
Instead of leaving like a normal person, she turns out to be a major freak and just STANDS THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATHROOM WAITING FOR ME TO FINISH. Oh. My. Gosh. I am flabbergasted, embarrassed, angry, and anything else you can think of. She stood there waiting for me to make sure I "got it all," wipe, and flush. Thankfully, it wasn't one of the time-consuming versions, so once I realized, stunned, what she was doing, I was able to make a fairly quick getaway, wash my hands, and glare at her on the way out. But I am FURIOUS right now. Who does that? Who is disgusting enough to stand around watching and listening (and smelling) while somebody goes #2? And why would you want to go in right after that anyway? What is WRONG with this girl? This has never happened to me before. I have never done this to anyone else. I didn't know anyone was actually weird and clueless enough to do that. YUCK. I feel extremely violated.
You should have made her wait. Sat there until she left or something.
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I can't believe I haven't mentioned this yet, but the damn Mercury campaign. All of them. Why? That incredibly stupid tagline. "You gotta put Mercury on your list."
They sell themselves short in their own marketing campaign, and I don't think they even realize it! It's like they think it's the most genius thing they've ever heard or something. Instead its like a beg or a plea to just consider them. Idjits.
I think they are going more for the "hot girl in a Mercury" campaign
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Anti-Rants
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I was a Diet Coke addict until someone told me that people use Coke to clean engine parts. I have not touched it since... Well, I try not to...
Just think like that doofus in the Tangaray (or whatever the hell it is) commercials talking about cocktails vs. shrimp cocktails: always in moderation!
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Anti-Rants
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I should go start a rant thread on Diet Coke, because it might be the most disgusting thing I've ever drank (and that includes the Coke I got from a McDonalds in southern Georgia once that tasted like Okefenokee swamp water and made me sick for a week in Disney World).
As for PB&J, I don't eat them much, but they are GOOOOOOOOOOD. My uncle actually eats PB&P (peanut butter and pickle) sandwiches.
Just to add my own: Is there any meal better then a greasy sub and soggy fries from a sub shop?
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The espn commercials overall are great but man' date=' they really missed the mark with Trey Wingo, has anyone noticed that he is just not funny anyway[/quote']
Well, except for when Chris Webber was making fun of his name
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2)The Holiday Inn commercial with the Joe Buck ballwashers
That might be the most painful series of commercials out there now.
Intentional unintentional comedy can be some of the worst crap possible.
Joe needs to keep his day job (although now that I think about it, I'm not sure what that would be...)
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Clearly you're right, but why do I find myself nodding every time the beer can falls on the feminine male?
Coors Light commercials are my least favorite. Who the hell came up with "the coldest tasting beer" slogan? It's the coldest? Really? I can't stick a Natty Light in the freezer to make it even colder? Cold is a measurement of mean kinetic energy in a given area, not a taste! Screw you Coors Light, your beer tastes like piss.
Yeah, but it's really cold-tasting piss...
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My mom HATES that commercial, almost as much as the Sloman's Shield ones (which is BAD)!
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Hey Cindy...you aren't this Cindy, are you?