SB Nation User Blog: tk

Who's going today (10/1)?

tk — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:55:22 -0000

Who's going today (10/1)?

Besides me? Anyone? I'm probably going to get those $9 seats up in 333 or wherever.

Hasn't someone always wanted to put up those Ks?

tk — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:23:45 -0000

Hasn't someone always wanted to put up those Ks?

Someone on Craigslist is selling the tickets where you get to put up the Ks ... tonight! I wish I could go, but I can't. So I wanted to point it out because I'd love to see a McCoven get it.

Livejournal jumps the shark

tk — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:41:04 -0000

Livejournal jumps the shark

For those who don't follow LJ links, and wise you may be, The Writers' Block Question of the Day is:

Imagine you manage a coven of baseball-playing vampires. The Cullen family is really strong this year and you want to bring in a ringer. Which currently active MLB baseball player do you sire?

.... I am so not fucking around, this is what it says. Is it some kind of Vlad-returns-to-the-Angels spooage? Is it a hit on Mauer for being so cute he could maybe be in a Twilight movie? Is it surrealism to see whose tastes could possibly intersect over fantasy baseball and Twilight?

Jesus Christ in the morning. WHAT IS IT AND WHERE DID IT COME FROM.

Jon Miller Bobblehead plea

tk — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:17:00 -0000

So we're going to be in the Big Easy on Friday night, the night of Jon Miller Bobblehead giveaway. I was wondering if anyone here might be able to score me and Mr. TK a bobblehead? We may be the only people on this board with a custom-made MILLER hoodie (it's a matched set with teh Flemming). We are huge fans. jdd wants to put it on the stereo during the games. I can recompense in cash, zucchini bread, or drinks at the next meetup. Let me know and my sincere thanks!

ETA: Ms. Events has my back, as ever. So we are taken care of.

Offday Truths, Ads Edition

tk — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:17:37 -0000

The Giants on the radio are one of the great joys in life. I think we can all agree on that.

But the ads? The ads. It's enough to make me shut it off sometimes when the Hellmouths of Anaheim-Los Angeles are beating us anyway and 2/3 of the broadcast is commercials.

Here are some from the hall of shame:

• Frat-Rat Wasteoid. "Potato chips come in a cylinder. Energy drinks come in a cylinder. Sperm donors come in a cylinder. Cylinders are my friend!!"

• Door Number Three. "Are you a dickless wonder with a t-top Mustang, a sexually submissive CEO in a Beamer, or a minivan-driving soccer mom who eventually will throw down with one of the drum majors just after the kids graduate from high school? WHAT'S DRIVING YOU?"

• Dennis the Menace, Revisited. "Ohhhh. You're Lisa Stevens from Wells Fargo Bank. My dad said you'll drop trou for an autographed bat!" "Kids say the darndest things!"

• Mars-Venus. "Girls want beach vacations, garden hoses, and pretty, pretty appliances. We menfolk only want to save a dime. It doesn't matter what product this is for. It applies across the board."

• Gam-Anon. "If you win on a lottery ticket, you'll have not just a few thousand bucks but also the miraculous ability to play a decent piece of hair metal and get mad hookers and blow. Always play responsibly!"

• Brokeback Brewery. "Herrre in the Rrrocky Mount'ns, where for some reason we all tawk like we're from Texiss, we combine mule piss and acid runoff and call it 'bear.' Coors sponsorship, I wish I could quit you."

• ADD Generation. "As if you don't get enough overstimulation listening to these ridiculous ads atwhichtheytalkfivethousandwordsasecond, follow KNBR on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Bing, Geocities and Livejournal! Becausesportsmovesfast! Muchfasterthanyoucouldhearitontheradio orwatchitonTV! We're so hard for social media we're going to push it even though it's going to make us obsolete!"

You're up!

Post-Meetup Fun Chatter

tk — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:38:31 -0000

So great to come out to the park and see everyone who made it to the Baby Giants.

I didn't bring my camera, so I can provide neither photographic evidence nor witty comments, but highlights were:

-The background to the "jcb = RAGE" story that I never did hear the beginning to.

-Fist-bumping jcb's kid and fawning over his baby, much to the alarm of my husband.

-Hatching plots, too late, to introduce said husband as the user SneakToBetterSeats.

-Talking wine-barrel potatoes and hot 40-something managers, not with the same person (I don't think ...).

-Meeting Kevin, who did such a great job of organizing this whole thing. Kudos! More of this please. Also, I liked your write-ups.

-Merkin and his girlfriend's AMAZING matching heckling voices, about one octave apart but equal in volume.

-E-Me's and my matching *~*~*VINTAGE*~*~* <--LOOK! (oops, eBay moment) McChrons t-shirts. Grant's right, the official printed ones fade like crazy. I suggest you go with CafePress, as mine is still doing well, even though my dog peed on it two years ago. Bleach and All Free & Clear fixed that right up. Is my dog a Dodgers fan?? Help.

-The food. I think it was better than at Mays Field, though maybe that's because it was free with the ticket.

-Seeing the Baron, obvy.

-Oh ... baseball? Alderson is scary good! And we won! And the big Giants won too! Which thanks to the miracle of modern technology, we got to keep an eye on!

So, in short, lovely to meet you all and thanks again a million times to BruteSentiment for setting this up. Hope to see everyone again soon!

Jim Rome shows seeking writers

tk — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:06:35 -0000

Jim Rome shows seeking writers

Thought I'd pimp this here, as we have such awesome sports writers. But are you "willing to grind"?

Postgame 4/11 -- what did he say?

tk — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:12:20 -0000

So here's how this dialogue went last night ...

Broadcasters: Taking the piss over Dave and Kruk agreeing with each other all postgame ...

Dave: That was a great broadcast tonight, Kuip.

Kruk: Thank you, Dave ...

Kuip: [unintelligible]

All three: Giggling like schoolgirls

Dave: It is kind of cold in here.

Kruk: I just don't have anything to say to that.

All three: Giggling like schoolgirls on Pez.

Kruk: Smooth, I can't believe you said that.

... So what did he say?!

Perplexed in Peninsula

New levels of Tomko stalkination

tk — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:15:57 -0000

New levels of Tomko stalkination

So I was doing my usual semidaily Brett Tomko google-stalk. (Are there any news stories? Any new blog posts mentioning him? Any new PHOTOS, por dios?) And I came across the photo linked in my post. I peered at the t-shirt. Deep Three, huh?

I emailed Deep Three basketball apparel with the photo link and said I was looking for one of those t-shirts and did they have any (because it wasn't on their main retail site)?

They wrote back saying it was an old tee but that they looked in a conference bin and found two and did I want one?

OF COURSE I WANT ONE!

So yeah. I have Brett Tomko's t-shirt winging its way toward me in the mail. Well, not exactly the same one he had on in the picture, more's the pity. But, closer than before.

Pathetic, me? NEVAH HAPPEN.

Dog Days today

tk — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:50:38 -0000

Is anyone going to Dog Days today?

JD and Charley-dog and I will be there, in the bleachers. Section 141 row 25 seats 4--6 -- or rather, two of those and one lap -- anyway, if anyone's coming and wants to meet the Long Dog, come and say hey!

We've been hovering around the Dog Days games for four years and always said "next year we'll have a dog and we'll go!" Now we finally get to. We aren't going to do the parade around the warning track though -- I would love to, but it's going to be too early and I don't want to have to bail out of the game early.

JD suggests that if Zito stinks up the joint, everyone gets to set their dogs on him.

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