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DLD 12/18/08. Shake it like an Apricot picture.
by Apricot on Dec 18, 2008 2:14 PM EST
on Athletics Nation
1. Intro
It has been a tumultuous time. Not only was Fanfest cancelled, but Apple left Macworld. I have some very deep (i.e., boring to you, but you know how to scroll, so quit whining, I only post twice a year) things to say about this, but first, let us clear our minds with the following:
Q: CONAN! What is good in life?
(Really, go watch it.)
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DLD 8/1/08: Apricot Peeks Out of the Killfile
by Apricot on Aug 1, 2008 2:54 PM EDT
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hi folks. I've been reading a blog by Joe Posnanski and I think he's fantastic. In fact, he is the only sports writer I'm reading regularly now. He wrote an article about Ziggy which is worth a read, but in some ways is the least enlightening thing I've read by him so far, simply because AN hashes things out so thoroughly. I really like the pieces he wrote about Stan Musial, both the first one and the follow-up where he debunks the story he told in the first one.
There's your link. Dump away.
I have some personal ramblings after the jump in easy-to-ignore form.
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DLD 3/10/08: Goodnight Killfile
by Apricot on Mar 10, 2008 12:49 PM EDT
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Greetings entities.
A small but vocal subset of ANers know and use the poorly named "Apricot's Killfile", as celebrated(?) in past diaries Fanposts like this legendary poetry slam. Well, to be honest, it's just Xbox who uses it. Anyway, I have asked Daniel Martin, the excellent actual author of killfile for Greasemonkey to update it for AN3, and he claims that it is now working. For those who don't know what killfile is, here is a story for you.
In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon and a picture of a giant snowman waving. And there was an old lady whispering hush to annoying AN users. In fact, she used a script called killfile.user which allowed users of Firefox browser to selectively block the posts from her screen. Goodnight room, goodnight phone, goodnight red balloon. Oh, before you go to sleep, remember you need to install Firefox, Greasemonkey, and then get the killfile script, which will make Firefox install the script (you may need to unblock the popup). Then restart Firefox and look for the "kill/hide comment" links next to every commenting user. This script should work across the SB Nation 3.0. Goodnight nobody, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.
Now onto a couple of token links.
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DLD 2/15/08: There's Too Much Confusion
by Apricot on Feb 15, 2008 3:29 PM EST
on Athletics Nation
Where is the DLD? Has it been eaten by the Fanshots?
I tried posting a Fanshot, and (1) it failed, and (2) it doesn't feel the same as having your links lovingly ignored by a hundred hardcore fans.
So. Here is my Link Dump, complete with dumping thought process as a debugging trail for future DLDers and psychologists. This will make it useful to AN3 debuggers and very boring to humans.
{Hey, the cursor randomly jumps out of the textbox when I type too fast and loses focus, much like myself.}
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sort-of fantasy baseball game
This doesn't feel the same as a Link Dump, but I'm trying this out anyway.
DLD 6/25/07: A Day In The Head Of Adam Melhuse
by Apricot on Jun 25, 2007 11:57 AM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Icky weekend. Here some links and cartoons.
DLD 5/11/07: is this thing on?
by Apricot on May 11, 2007 7:02 PM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Uh, did I miss the Link Dump?
DLD 3/31-4/1: killfile and the three bears
by Apricot on Mar 31, 2007 12:16 PM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Hi folks, the Apricot bunch was planning to go to the Rivercats-A's showdown on Thursday and report all about it with pictures and delightful commentary. Oh, it was going to be grand.
AN Photo Contest #2: Call for Submissions
by Apricot on Nov 6, 2006 3:33 PM EST
on Athletics Nation
Okay, by jlaff's request, it's on again.
Here's how it works. I've opened up a new Moneybutt server at
http://owlmelon.com/cgi-bin/photo.pl
Photo Submission Deadline: November 17th, 11:59pm.
Submission Instructions: Open an account at the MB server above, click on the link "add pictures or entities" and follow instructions. You will need your pictures hosted somewhere on the web with a URL. Post here if you have trouble.
Everyone is encouraged to submit photos. Don't worry if your photos aren't slick enough.
DLD 10/20/07: Patience, Profanity & Diego 3 Finale
by Apricot on Oct 20, 2006 4:21 AM EDT
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Looks like the A's might actually take some time looking for a new manager.
DLD 10/19/07: Hug It Out + Diego 3.5
by Apricot on Oct 19, 2006 2:33 AM EDT
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Looks like no quick move is forthcoming on the manager hire. This gives a chance for more people to make completely off-the-wall suggestions as to who should be our next pinata.
DLD 10/18/07: AfterMach + Diego 3.4
by Apricot on Oct 18, 2006 4:00 AM EDT
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Well, we thought we'd have a little breathing room before facing the whole Zito-leaving drama and whatever big moves Billy's got planned. But nooooo, he had to fire Macha. May you live in interesting offseasons.
DLD 10/17/07: Gumchewer 2007? + Diego 3.3
by Apricot on Oct 17, 2006 2:00 AM EDT
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Everyone wants to know who the America's Next Top Macha will be. Presumably Beane is going to haggle hard on the contract with whomever he gets, since we're paying Macha $2M to chew gum without authority.
DLD 10/16/07: Offseason Day 2 plus Diego 3.2
by Apricot on Oct 16, 2006 11:07 AM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Another day without an A's game.
DLD 10/15/07: First Day of the Offseason
by Apricot on Oct 15, 2006 4:43 PM EDT
on Athletics Nation
No link dump yet? Well, I'm opening today's up. Add links to good stuff preferably not about the Tigers series.
This seems like as good a time as any to start hijacking a few link dumps.
Baby Winexp on Games 1 and 2 (with Toy Surprise inside)
by Apricot on Oct 5, 2006 7:37 PM EDT
on Athletics Nation
First as a special reward to people who read these Winexp diaries...
DLD 9-27-06: Group Hugs and Non-alcoholic Bubbly
by Apricot on Sep 27, 2006 11:49 AM EDT
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Here's the only link that counts, thanks to Jonny Oklnd. All other links are superfluous.
East Bay Express on Moneybutt (plus Butt Thread)
by Apricot on Aug 23, 2006 9:43 PM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Well, I thought it was a joke when Rachel at the East Bay Express e-mailed asking for an interview about Moneybutt.
Baby Winexp and the Big Questions of Today
by Apricot on Aug 23, 2006 12:38 AM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Okay, so I fell off the wagon and haven't posted any Baby W diaries in a few weeks. House remodeling plus travel plus insane energy baby = no time.
Anyway, without further ado, here are Baby W's comments on the pressing questions of the day.
(huh? what is this? and what are these pictures?)
DLD Aug 18 2006: Remembrance of Things Moneyball
by Apricot on Aug 18, 2006 11:18 AM EDT
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Moneyball was responsible for taking my casual interest in the A's to a whole new level of fandom. Googling Beane lead to AN, which led to a lot of time down the drain. So in honor of that book I present a few articles looking back.
Moneybutt: The Butts of Summer
by Apricot on Jul 28, 2006 2:04 AM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Update [2006-7-30 2:12:59 by Apricot]: Your many (30,000+) votes have upset the server and caused very annoying data corruption. So, I'm going to have to call off this round for official results until another time I can properly support and wrestle with the server. I'll leave it up, but it will probably continue to need resetting in this annoying way. :(
Okay, it's clearly time for another round of Moneybutt. This began as an attempt to quantitatively rate people's butts, but has grown, like a strange mold, into something bigger.
Winexp Update and a Day at the Park
by Apricot on Jun 19, 2006 2:22 AM EDT
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Sickness and life have conspired to make today the Apricot clan's first live game. This is a little report on our visit to the game today, followed by some win expectancy numbers and pictures.
Winexp: The Season So Far in Graphs
by Apricot on Jun 13, 2006 9:52 PM EDT
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How time flies. Baby Winexp was born September 3rd and she could barely do anything at the time. She could read a Yahoo Sports game log and figure out where baserunners are. How she has grown, and now that she is nine months old, she has just gained the ability to pound out simple graphs comparing player contributions over time. It is damned fun to play with.
Winexp 5-28-06: The Best Hitting and Pitching Since 1957
by Apricot on May 29, 2006 2:42 AM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Don't feel like discussing this bummer of a week. Instead, I'm going to roll out the current win expectancy contribution numbers and conclude with a quick discussion of the all-time great seasons since 1957. Yes, Retrosheet is in the house.
(What is win expectancy contributed? Also, search the archives for Winexp.)
DLD 5/22/06 (continued)
by Apricot on May 22, 2006 6:28 PM EDT
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You people are sick. I'm taking the CGV hit, just because Jeepers couldn't keep his Dump under control.
Winexp 5-21-06: Showdowns Ahead
by Apricot on May 22, 2006 12:30 AM EDT
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It was a grrreat week up in the the top of the 10th yesterday. I refuse to acknowledge the rest happened.
Winexp 6: General Hospital
by Apricot on May 15, 2006 2:04 AM EDT
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A depressing week where the A's struggled to take advantage of their chances and where there were so many injuries that even people who were already injured got injured. These notes will be a little sparse, due to some behind-the-scenes improvements I'm making to the Baby Winexp engine.
Winexp 5: No Hits, No Runs & Big Errors
by Apricot on May 7, 2006 8:36 PM EDT
on Athletics Nation
So nice to have Barry dealing again. He had a monster week, good for #2 in the MLB. This was partly helped by his pitching twice this week, but he gets most of the credit for our performance in his games, as practically every hitter besides Melly and Elly were neutral or negative contributors.
Despite everything, our pitchers and Huff kept us in the running and we squeaked out a 4-3 record this last week.
Link Dump May 4: Suspicious
by Apricot on May 4, 2006 12:12 PM EDT
on Athletics Nation
Where the heck is today's link dump?
Winexp 4: Soggy Week in Review
by Apricot on Apr 30, 2006 10:56 PM EDT
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An awful week that looked okay in the box score, but not on the DL. And I don't mean On The DL.
Here's the week from Baby Winexp's point of view.
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