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OT: Game of Thrones S2 Preview Feature

7 months ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 40 comments

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la la la whale

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First time I read a full wire article on it. Look, more comment space!

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Random non serious/OT post thread

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McCovey Chronicles OT: Game of Thrones/ASOIAF (spoiled thread)

About the middle of last season during one of the daytime threads, a conversation broke out that left me lost. It featured somebody named Daenerys, somebody named Dany, maybe the same person, apparently a woman, or a king, or a girl, something called Sansa, which wasn't SDRAM or a music player, White Walkers, direwolves, and every now and then, someone shouting "Hodor!"

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OT: So. Joffrey and Sansa. S2.

8 months ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 7 comments

Review of the new novel by Chad Harbach

9 months ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 4 comments

Zeets leads the spot with Cain and Romo, and also Meulens and Torres.

about 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 49 comments 12 recs

Authoritative blog (oxymoron?) A Hamburger Today taste-tests the cult favorites of the fast-food burger world, In N Out, Five Guys, and New York City's Shake Shack. This is very important baseball information.

about 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 27 comments

McCovey Chronicles Cooperstown: Museum, or Shrine?

We can allow that honesty to seep into the gallery in all sorts of ways -- in the kind of informational posters Bob Costas has proposed, even in the wording of the plaques themselves. If we're going to allow Barry Bonds and Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame, the world should know everything they did, not just the good stuff. That would, and should, be a mandatory condition.

But is that what we want? Or would we rather have a Hall of Fame that allows such gaping holes in history that it's willing to pretend all these men who towered over their sport never even existed?

Maybe we would. You tell us (uselessinfodept@yahoo.com). But as one friend of ours put it: "Go to any history museum. You see guys like Genghis Khan in there. It's not all good guys."—Jayson Stark, 4/16/2011

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I haven't seen a columnist for a major paper openly take up the race issue in the Bonds trial, in a long time. I wonder why Rhoden does so now. (This might be behind the paywall.)

about 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 14 comments 2 recs

Ignore the ESPN haterade, Gammons still likes us.

about 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 24 comments

I had always thought the brick was in recognition of all the old brick warehouses that used to be there when the park was built, and it was just a veneer because, well, we all know why the old real brick warehouses are mostly gone now. That said, I always thought the one thing that PNC Park did better was surfacing in the local yellow stone. Though I guess what would that have been for SF -- serpentinite? I'm not well versed in architectural theory and practice of the last few decades, but I gather it's all about making functional structures that meekly meld into their surroundings.

about 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 4 comments

McCovey Chronicles Les Miz Parody: What Have I Done?

Based on "What Have I Done" from Les Miserables

Original English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer

Original version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuFYOypD4VM

 

 

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The New York Times notes the contributions of lil' Babe Ruth, the Ragin Cajun, mini-Sabretooth, Mike Fontenot.

over 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 4 comments

Eighth-grader Ella Chatfield-Stiehler went on the city Police Department's computerized crime data site, crunched comparisons of October 2009 and October 2010 and found that car thefts and auto burglaries dipped significantly last year when the hometown baseball heroes were doing their thong-panda-beard thing.

Fans clog downtown for the Nov. 3 Giants victory parade following their World Series win in the fall.

"October, 2010 was a wonderful month for San Francisco citizens and San Francisco Giants fans all over," Ella wrote in the introduction to her project for this year's science fair. "There was a feeling of happiness all over the city throughout the month of October and into November."

This ebullience, she theorizes, was directly responsible for the drop in auto thefts from about 320 in October 2009 to about 220 in October 2010, and in car burglaries from about 900 in October 2009 to about 600 in October 2010.

Her research also showed that personal theft, robbery and arson totals stayed about the same as '09 levels.

over 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 0 comments

Skip ahead to 2:50. Which one of you is this!

over 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 17 comments 3 recs

Also, not all of the players love constant media attention. Tim Lincecum and Buster Posey, to name two, would be perfectly happy if the media didn't camp out at their lockers. They cooperate, but they can live without bright personal limelight.

over 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 6 comments

This girl has awesome product ideas. I especially enjoy her color scheme.

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McCovey Chronicles Kitspool made me do it: Jim's Dreme


Last night I dreamt my mom was lost in the woods. She didn't look like my mom; she looked like Lestat's mom, Gabrielle, blonde and fierce and in a duster coat with a hat. She had scouted out the trail because she was good with horses. But I was back in the bus with the rest of the tour group, and it had broken down. The sun was setting and I had to find her, but the trail was steep and I didn't know anything about horses.

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"Within minutes the Twitterverse was buzzing. What did Timmy say? Were the Rockies cheating? Were the Giants trying to get into the Rockies heads? What the heck was Major League Baseball going to do about this development?"

over 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 4 comments

Rule 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it." Somebody typed up Timmy/Buster slash. It's all here, including the crying and Wilson's S/M. Clever used of scanned typewritten pages too. Which one of you is responsible.

over 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 13 comments

The first 747 to fly commercially could be expected to enjoy an honored retirement somewhere in an aviation museum. After all, the only jumbo jet more senior — the first one built, which was only used for test flights — now sits outside Seattle's Museum of Flight.

over 1 year ago Crest_tiny shanghaijim 16 comments

McCovey Chronicles Matt Cain is On His Own (Les Miz parody #2)

boublil/schonberg/kretzmer/JG

(EXT. PORTWALK NIGHT)

MATT: And now I'm all alone again
Nowhere to sit, no one to lean on
The trading deadline's not for months
Already people joke I'm first gone
I feel the winter's near
I feel that no one cares I'm here

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