Add another honor to Clayton Kershaw's trophy case. The ace of the Dodgers has been named the 2011 Sportsman of the Year by the Los Angeles Sports Council. He will be presented with this award at the seventh annual LA Sports Awards on March 15 at Club Nokia at LA Live.
The Sportsman of the Year Award is given to "the local male athlete whose performance and character best exemplified the ideals of sportsmanship during the calendar year." Kershaw is the first Dodger to win the award.
| LA Sports Awards Sportsmen Of The Year | ||
| Year | Player | Team |
| 2011 | Clayton Kershaw | Dodgers |
| 2010 | Derek Fisher | Lakers |
| 2009 | Pau Gasol | Lakers |
| 2008 | Kobe Bryant | Lakers |
| 2007 | David Beckham | Galaxy |
| 2006 | Elton Brand | Clippers |
| 2005 | Matt Leinart | USC |
For his efforts on and off the field in 2011, Kershaw was named an All-Star for the first time, he won the National League Cy Young Award, was the Dodgers' nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, won a Gold Glove, was named to the Sporting News National League All-Star team, won the Warren Spahn Award given annually to the top left-handed pitcher in baseball, and was voted by his peers as the NL Outstanding Pitcher by the MLB Players Association.
The LA Sports Awards will air on Prime Ticket, with airing dates to be determined.
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Suck it Landon
Xeifrank - January 12, 2012
I feel fairly confident in saying this
that Clayton Kershaw sure is a nice young man. His kin must be proud
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
I bet he doesn’t drink many caffeinated beverages.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
yeah, I bet he doesnt even drink alcohol…. he is a straight edged kid forsure…. probably didnt go to one party in highschool.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
He did not live a Varsity Blues life I bet.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
I don’t want your life!
Nolij - January 12, 2012
I don’t want…
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to wait for our lives to be over.
ishXdavid - January 12, 2012
shave those pits
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
I've always been suspicious
of seemingly squeeky clean good guys. Not with Clayton. Real deal.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
amen
I loves him much
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
If he drops to a knee
all bets are fuckin off
mleadman - January 12, 2012
My favorite Martin
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
haha
Maddz - January 12, 2012
First and foremost, let me…
Nolij - January 12, 2012
… praise my Lord and Savior for making me a lefty!
David Young - January 12, 2012
David Beckham won it in '07?
He’d only been in America half a year when they gave out the award
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
who knows… Fisher in 2010? what the hell did he do? By the way, whom did we draft Josie, and is he any good? when is Beckham gonna resign?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
MLS: http://losangeles.sbnation.com/2012/1/12/2702452/2012-mls-draft-ucla-juniors-kelyn-rowe-and-chandler-hoffman-go-in
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
That doesn’t have Galaxy info, never mind.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
LAGConf: http://www.lagconfidential.com/2012/1/12/2703047/2012-mls-superdraft-la-galaxy-select-tommy-meyer-and-kenny-walker-roster
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
I do need to update the Galaxy offseason thread with the draft picks, this morning has been exhausting
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
the Galaxy had last pick in both rounds, so the picks are…ehhh. MLS draft is becoming more and more like MLB draft, where you’re stocking the minors more than you’re filling holes on your roster.
Beckham. Who knows, he’s the new Brett Favre
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Dodgers sucked, Clippers sucked, Angels and Lakers both out in first round of playoffs. John David Booty didn’t exactly capture the hearts and minds of LA.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Maybe the Avengers?
Nolij - January 12, 2012
Does not compute
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
might as well have said Los Angeles Riptide, amirite?
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Emma Peel captured my heart and mind.
David Young - January 12, 2012
Classic show done wrong by Val Kilmer and that awful group of people who call themselves screenwriters.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Nah, Val Kilmer ruined the other great series, The Saint.
Ralph Fiennes ruined The Avengers.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
Thanks, I did misremember that.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I guess Man from Uncle will be the next series to be bewitched.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Are they still talking about Clooney for man from uncle?
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I just wish them into the cornfield
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Bride really hated The Saint for Elisabeth Shue’s portrayal of a quantum physicist. “I almost have cold fusion solved! It’s on these little pieces of paper! I just need an hour to figure out the correct order to put these little pieces of paper!”
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
seems fair to resent that
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
I love Mrs Shue, I still found it unwatchable.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
what is it
attainable yet still hot?
sweet and a little slutty?
Homey and safe?
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
If she can go for the completely repugnant Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, she can go for me, too!
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
that’s it
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
my dad worked with the guy who wrote Leaving Las Vegas.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
The question is
did he live Leaving Las Vegas?
mleadman - January 12, 2012
I’m guessing she would not be a fan of the TV show Eureka
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
the saint was a tv show?
til
nolander - January 12, 2012
did your Google break
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
blow yourself
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saint_%28TV_series%29
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I only remember the val kilmer The Saint movie, and I loved it.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
And he still stirs his tea anti-clockwise.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I’d have gone with Blake Griffin myself
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
In 2007?
Nolij - January 12, 2012
Phil has always been a forward thinker
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Hides in hole, I did some assumptional skipping
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
This kind of stuff drives me crazy
Apparently, you will be unable to watch Mariners games in Alaska.
I dated a girl in college from Alaska who was (and presumably is) a huge Mariners fan. If I understand this correctly, Alaksan fans who want to watch baseball will have to buy League Pass and then be able to watch all teams but the Mariners.
Michael White - January 12, 2012
The MLB blackout policy is so dumb.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Give that man an extension
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
The weirdest part of the blackout policy is that teams are signing 15 year deals that continue it.
If baseball is only available on cable 15 years from now, it’s going to seriously hurt the sport’s ability to attract younger fans who will look to the web for everything.
Just Jake - January 12, 2012
your TV is going to also be your household’s hard drive and server soon, where you can access any tv station or website from any screen in the house wirelessly. Paying for NFL Sunday Ticket and MLB.tv full game packages will be the same thing.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
except that won't be allowed to happen with the deals that jake is referencing
content providers are going to take everyone down with them before they will be willing to join the modern age.
nolander - January 12, 2012
sounds like the music industry
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
yep
nolander - January 12, 2012
If the modern age is you don't have to pay for it
then yeah, they will take everyone down.
mleadman - January 12, 2012
I would love to pay them
to be able to get my content in a modern forward thinking way. Instead they refuse to take my money.
nolander - January 12, 2012
i want to have a centralized server for my residence and be able to play my music, movies, and internet from any screen in the house. It’s not hard, just expensive right now. I want to play WoW on my TV without hooking up the cpu tower dammit.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
wireless streaming to your tv can be done for under 200
but thats to just like… 1 tv
nolander - January 12, 2012
right. the potential of wireless information and services is still largely untapped.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
I doubt I'll get
to the point of wanting more than 1 TV. My mother, by the time she died, had a TV in every room, always on the same channel
mleadman - January 12, 2012
was she the architect?
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
If she was
then they’d all be the same thing, but they’d all be slightly different. Its like a TV version of “spot the differences.”
EMDarrow - January 12, 2012
well if its just you no need for 2
I have my battlestation in the living room, my wife has her adequate tv in the room.
nolander - January 12, 2012
i want a second tv monitor next to my current one, but have no idea what i’d use it for.
Shut up, David.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
as long as I have my Ipad to carry around I have no need for TV
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
If I had a separate TV I wouldn’t be able to have an opinion on Storage Wars or Millionaire Matchmaker.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
ha ha
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
seriously dude
millionare matchmaker? That is just not ok. That show makes me both want to vomit and put my fist through the tv at the same time. “hi i’m patty and i’m going to help people find love by being the biggest bitch in the room”
nolander - January 12, 2012
I like that you know about that.
I am going to have to hug G for not subjecting me to that shit when he gets home.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
some of it was at my old apt the gfs controlled the tv
and my computer was in the living room so what can you do. Some of it is my wife still watches that crap. I refuse to be in the same room.
nolander - January 12, 2012
It’s amazing because she fails almost every single time, which makes me happy because she’s a terrible person.
I’m not a big TV watcher so I generally just cede control.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
hah
I guess that works as a silver lining
nolander - January 12, 2012
I like
battlestation as a description
mleadman - January 12, 2012
nolander - January 12, 2012
As a matter of policy anyone living in Alaska should be allowed to watch anything they want for free. Anything.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
like an Alaska version of the AFN
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
If I lived in Alaska
I’d need the Alaskan version of the AMF
mleadman - January 12, 2012
I think that’s how Palin’s daughter got knocked up
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Also, she dumb, that’s how.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Well yeah, she drank an AMF.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
serious? shit im moving to Alaska…. probably isnt anything to do over there but get wasted… my kind of state.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
they also have no sun for part of the year.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
Isn’t that made up for the 24 hour sun other parts of the year?
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Robin Williams and Al Pacino told me so.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
When I saw Insomnia, I was like, “WTF? That’s why they have blackout curtains. Big heavy curtains, no light gets through. Boom, darkness, you sleep.”
Then I went up north of the Arctic circle and saw the midnight sun. They had these thin sheets on the window. I didn’t catch a wink of sleep.
I completely changed my opinion of the movie.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
HUMMMA
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
HERE I AM
Rock you like a mild sprinkling.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
wasn't this addressed in the movie
that it was actually really dark and he was ust going bonkers
nolander - January 12, 2012
I was too angry to pay attention to what was actually happening in the movie.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
baseball round the clock!
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
A friend if mine used to play in the Alaska summer league back in the 80’s. They would play games at midnight. Then, he’d go to the bar. The bars have to close for one hour each day, so at 5 AM they would throw everyone out. My buddy would get a newspaper and read for an hour, then go back in. He had no trouble sleeping (er,,,passing out.)
iiidown - January 12, 2012
it is
but not being able to see the sun makes people a bit cray cray
Maddz - January 12, 2012
You bet
I fucking hate standard time. I’d die in the northern latitudes
mleadman - January 12, 2012
You’ll also die in the Altadena latitudes
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I like to think
it was Palin who got knocked up but covered it up by pinning it on her daughter
mleadman - January 12, 2012
and the father was an elk
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
I like to think it was Michael Palin that got knocked up because someone didn’t know he was called Dennis.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
The whole state is a reality show.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
Dorah The Explorah
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Dora the Explorer goes to Bora Bora, shouts, Tora! Tora! Tora!
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
...and then blows it
…by screaming Bonzai!
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
Lights a menorah, sees the Aurora with Richie Sambora and Cat Cora while listening to “Shake Senora.”
Nolij - January 12, 2012
Dancing the hora?
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
And perhaps putting some of the local flora in an amphora.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
and drinking the wine with old Cat Cora
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
I like her.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
damn it, Cat was already used
Too bad in Japan they don’t pronounce it Sayonora
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Melvin Mora?
Nolij - January 12, 2012
in the south they say Zorro(a)
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
on the flora
and how about you fauna, ya wanna?
mleadman - January 12, 2012
Fat Cousin!
kinbote - January 12, 2012
Table fail?
David Young - January 12, 2012
Not showing up for you?
Or did the commenter say something to draw your ire? :)
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Ned just signed Jose Mesa.
Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache - January 12, 2012
Man, I loved Jose Mesa.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
What are your thoughts on Omar Vizquel?
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
He’s a spark plug.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
He has potential
Let’s wait a couple years
mleadman - January 12, 2012
So you weren’t an Indians fan is what you’re saying.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
When I started playing roto fantasy baseball as a freshman in high school, jose Mesa was a solid mid-late round pick!
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Because anyone who saw the 97 world series knew to stay the hell away :)
And today I learned Mesa had a big league job in 2007.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
The first two rows render white text on white background for me, so they appear as if they are blank. (I see the text black when I select it.)
David Young - January 12, 2012
Weird
What browser are you using?
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
I didn't realize until I opened the article in the editor that the background in those rows is supposed to be blue!
Firefox.
I just now edited the thing, copying the bgcolor specification into the td tag (my terminology is likely AFU) and leaving it in the tr tag. It renders correctly for me now.
David Young - January 12, 2012
c'mon Dave
Babies know that. You know what that makes you? A fetus!
Tommy Blackjack - January 12, 2012 via iPhone app
cells and rows and tables can GF themselves
nolander - January 12, 2012
Throw in hashes
and I’m with you
mleadman - January 12, 2012
When something seems as perfect as Clayton seems to be I can’t help but feel that were being duped. I’m a strong believer that when something seems to good to be true it always is.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I hope you are tasting your own blood right now from biting your goddamn tongue
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
as far as what? his baseball skill seems real, does anything else matter?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Awarded to man who got a divorce because he cheated too much.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
is there such a thing as cheating to little?
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
No, but there’s cheating within acceptable limits in some relationships.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
if its within acceptable limits
then it shouldn’t be reffered to as cheating
nolander - January 12, 2012
Extramarital activities?
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
we are all adults here(no we aren't)
SEX
nolander - January 12, 2012
there was a polyamorous couple on Nightline last night, reminded me of Berkeley
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
I listen to Dan Savage’s podcast every week. Poly is discussed just about every single episode. I’m at the point that I’m no longer surprised/shocked by it. It just seems like another way to live.
Not my way, of course. I only have eyes for Bride.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
this was a previously monogamous couple, but the man dude didn’t want to have a kid, so he suggested his wife take up another lover, and they all live under the same roof
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Wanna make sure I follow: so she had a kid with dude #2 and now all four of them — woman, dude #1, dude #2, and kid — all live under the same roof? Is that what’s happening?
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
yes
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
so dude #2 and wife take care of baby, and dude #1 just what, hangs out with wife sometimes?
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Where does she find the time?
nolander - January 12, 2012
she schedules intimacy time with both lovers (seriously) and they sort of raise the kid village style (kid is a toddler now). Dude #1 now apparently likes the kid, now that he’s a person.
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
OK, so dude #1 has changed his mind about raising kids now that the kid is here? I retract my statement below.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
now there is just the awkward “say hello to Uncle Bob” talk when the kids asks questions in a couple years.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
I imagine the awkward part
will be the kid having to deal with everyone else who will give him shit about it.
nolander - January 12, 2012
right, but now he’s helping to raise some other guys kid, and that other guy occasionally has sexual relations with his wife
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Yeah, THAT part I think is OK after listening to too much Dan Savage.
It’s the “I don’t want kids but I will live in the same house with you while you have a baby” that didn’t make any sense to me.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
ditto
minus the savage part
nolander - January 12, 2012
This is unamerican
lets burn them at the steak. Mmmmm steak. Shut up stake.
nolander - January 12, 2012
I didn’t think anyone there was married.
David Young - January 12, 2012
I’m sure at least one pairing has signed domestic partnership papers
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
You're probably right.
Even if they haven’t, this is a palimony state. They lived together long enough to be “common law”.
David Young - January 12, 2012
I was under the impression there is no “common law” in California.
Michael White - January 12, 2012
Most states, including California, DO NOT recognize common law marriage. Colorado, Rhode Island, Washington, DC, and a handful of others do acknowledge common law marriage.
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
funnily enough, most states don’t recognize common law, but DO have illicit cohabitation laws on the books.
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Given that you can get palimony, does it really matter? I guess you don’t get next-of-kin privileges?
David Young - January 12, 2012
My opinion there: That is not going to work out for Dude #1. The reason you don’t want to have a kid is that you don’t want to raise a kid. That is OK. There is nothing wrong with not wanting kids.
But if you live in the house with the kid and the kid knows you are having a romantic relationship with mommy and you are always around, you are raising a kid.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I think Dude #1 now wants a kid and the woman doesn’t want any more kids.
David Young - January 12, 2012
Cue Strother Martin
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I don't really see how that solves the I don't want kids problems
now there are kids everywhere, but none of them are his. Do the kids actually just leave him alone? I mean their still gonna be loud and obnoxious, cause, ya know, their human. Her 2nd husband was human right?
nolander - January 12, 2012
yes, he wasn’t a cat
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
The house looked pretty fucking big. These folks had some serious dough. Or serious debt.
David Young - January 12, 2012
well thats one way to solve that problem
Most people would just hire a Manny
nolander - January 12, 2012
I saw that, sort of. Was doing other things while it was on. But those two guys came off as pretty damn wimpy. Esp the first paramour. No wonder she needed more.
Bet you were watching for Ty Pennington though.
David Young - January 12, 2012
I was using my rabbit ears (only way I can utilize the HDTV in my room) and was flipping back and forth between 30 Rock reruns and Nightline. Then I saw that wimpy bloke who let a more attractive guy get it on with his partner and I was like “Oh, Berkeley”
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Robert Heinlein is wondering what is the big deal. When is the world going to grow up.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I'm past the morality part of it
and into the logistics part
nolander - January 12, 2012
I've told this story before but
My co-worker’s son met his now-wife on the set of Starship Troopers. In the shower scene.
David Young - January 12, 2012
I have never been to one of those parties
well, that’s not exactly true, but HJ don’t roll that way
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
From knowing the type of people that do I learned I don’t wanna be one of those people.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
marriage is complicated enough
nolander - January 12, 2012
I’ve never met a person who does. That I know of.
David Young - January 12, 2012
I know someone who once was a second (the piece on the side, if you will). She knew (and liked) the wife, she knew (and liked) the wife’s boyfriend. After about a year, the husband and wife broke it off with their pieces on the side to focus on each other for a bit, but it all seemed amicable. Don’t know how it worked out after that.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I have more than my hands full figuring out how to relate to one woman. Two or more?? No way.
David Young - January 12, 2012
JMO – any woman who gets into a relationship with a professional celebrity and expects them to behave like the other 99% of the people is simply living in a world that does not exist. I’ve no doubt many understand this so this must be the level of little – too much.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
That is an allegation, not proven… I dont think.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
it doesn’t matter either way, right?
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
hell nah, shit Kobe got 5 rings, he can do what he wants…. 105 women, divided by 5 rings… thats 21 women per ring… that sounds about right.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
That divorce didn’t happen in 2008. Neither was he in Eagle, CO that year.
David Young - January 12, 2012
I know im in the minority, but the character shit means nothing to me. I wouldnt even know who the hell Clayton Kershaw is if he wasnt a Dodger and very good baseball player, so his character, whatever…. For me Character is measured in rings and banners haha
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
so Kershaw sucks then
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Okay
but this thread is discussing his award, or I think it is.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Give it a few minutes
and it’ll be discussing taco trucks and FIrefly.
EMDarrow - January 12, 2012
There was an episode of Firefly that had a bunch of cows in it. Think of all the tacos you could make!
(Figured I’d combine the two.)
VegasBlues - January 12, 2012
Actually there was two episodes, but the other was only briefly at the end.
/geek
EMDarrow - January 12, 2012
Oh who am I kidding, that never turns off.
EMDarrow - January 12, 2012
Its cool and all he’s a really great person, doesnt hurt at all…. but im just answering Phil that if his character isnt for real, thats ok with me…. as long as his skill in baseball is real. That what I meant.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
No
Skills and/or egos are measured in rings and banners.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
yeah, skills, thats what I meant.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Kershaw, sportsmanship
I do remember Clayton telling a player that, “he’d find out tomorrow night” and then plunking him.
Michael White - January 12, 2012
after he qualified for the win of course :)
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
it was sporting
of Kid K to warn him of his impending doom
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Punking Gerardo Parra is well within the realm of being a good sport.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
BRING THAT SHIT TO ME
Maddz - January 12, 2012
CLAYTON CAN HANDLE IT
BECAUSE HE IS A MAN
nolander - January 12, 2012
It's like you're a Dback fan right now
Ivdown - January 12, 2012
I’m starting to get a better picture of who uschris is. I feel like once I understand someone, I get along with them a lot better. I’m starting to get there with you. I don’t agree with you, but at least I’m starting to get you.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
USCCHris is an Arkansas boy living in Southern California
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Keith would like a word with you
Maddz - January 12, 2012
haha, ok, could be true… but why? Arkansas is full of assholes that just care about winning?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Nah, Arkansas is full of good people, who like to get wasted, watch college football, and laugh. As with any state also has some assholes, but for the most part you go to Arkansas, I think you’d meet your folk.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
sounds pretty cool actually, but thats ALL they like is college football? I like more then that.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Phil is thinking of Kansas. If all you want to do is drink, smoke, and fuck, Kansas is the state for you.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Cannot make any guarantees of the quality of any of those three activities.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Hey now, I have excellent friends in Kansas and all they do is fuck.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
sheep
VegasBlues - January 12, 2012
If people in Kansas didn’t fuck, I wouldn’t be here
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
You fuck one Kansan
mleadman - January 12, 2012
but see, Arkansas, nor Kansas, has the quality weed we do, so there lies the issue….. thats why Im bringing that Arkansas/Kansas mentality to the San Fernando Valley baby, so I can have it all!!
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
ha.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Now all I need is snow… not the Sheen kind, but real, actual snow once in a while would be cool.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Informer….
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
OHHH, then you want Indiana.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Speaking of which
Joe, are you still in Naperville? I hear 8 inches of snow today in Chicago
mleadman - January 12, 2012
I saw the snow was coming so I got out on the 6:45AM before it really started falling
Trouble was I didn’t get to bed until after 2AM.
Waking up drunk after a few hours of sleep, showering, packing, and hustling through an airport is a terrible thing I do way too often
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
you seem to drink alot
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
eat alot
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
travel alot
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
yet not cheat alot… hmmmm, HJ is a good man, and clearly not a professional athlete.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
My sister has a great story
of being in Berlin, drinking until 5 am, then catching a 7m am flight for LA. She said people were leaning away from her the booze smell was so bad.
mleadman - January 12, 2012
In Berlin the smell leans on you
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I’ll rec that.
David Young - January 12, 2012
that is awesome
I used to be a big proponent of pouring oneself onto a plane.
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
You know what you get with uchris. I like that about him
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
you can at least respect the consistency.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of a little mind
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
well sure, but at least you know where he’s coming from with each and every thing he says. As opposed to people who change their stance on things depending on who they talked to last.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
sorry about that
nolander - January 12, 2012
I like to think of a changing stance as someone who is open to being educated about a misconception on their part.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Sure, but not back and forth and back and forth. That’s what I thought “who they talked to last” was getting at.
David Young - January 12, 2012
I just felt like using the quote
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
i’ve not heard it before, so thank you. whose is it?
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Ralph Waldo
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Ahhh, [swirls wine, sips] interesting.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
I just dont get the fascination people have with who someone is character wise that they dont even know…. why does that give me a little mind… I mean maybe I do have a little mind, in my huge ass head, shit, lord knows ive smoked enough weed, but just because I dont give 2 shits about the character of a player that I dont know, but is on my favorite team that I just want to see win, what is so little minded about that??
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Doesn’t, as Joe said he just wanted to use the quote.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
yeah - I was on a binge last night and I was all over Whitman and Emmerson
My fav Whitman “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes”
I think it compliments the Hobgoblin quote nicely
and yes, I contradict myself all the time
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Also, the Hobgoblin was the hobgoblin of Peter Parker’s mind.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
Dickens was larger, with yet more multitudes. But he didn’t say so.
berkowit28 - January 12, 2012
But he made us put up with all that David Copperfield kind of crap.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
it was the worst of times and the worst of times
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
That said, I don’t like rooting for assholes.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
truth
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
What if Griffin turns out to be an asshole? What if he wins 5 titles with Clippers? it would lose its luster?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Yes, he’s already starting to bug me with his theatrics, just play the game quit acting like a pussy.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Just curious, real question. How many superstar players were truely a good person? Would you say its the same amount as the asshole ones?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
I would guess there are fewer humble elite athletes than there are d-bag elite athletes.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
my guess as well.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
thats what I think… and I think its because to become truely great, you need that cocky, arrogant, asshole side to become great…. so thats why I dont mind it in a player…. You have to be full of yourself to fullfil your potential…. OR, maybe its their skill and being so good that leads them to being an asshole.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
I think you can know that you’re really good at something but if you have someone to check you from being a giant asshole or something else that will make you humble, then you have the chance to not be BronBron.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
Wayne Gretzky was a great athlete and a fine human being.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
He's Canadian
we all know they’re freaks of nature.
/dontreallyknowthat
EMDarrow - January 12, 2012
I don’t need a “good” person, just don’t want to actively root for an asshole. Was not a fan of being a Dodger fan during the Brown / Sheffield years.
I don’t care about humble, I don’t really believe any elite athlete is humble unless they truly believe the gift came from God.
I don’t consider marital infidelity a sign of an asshole. I’m not sure how to define an asshole but I know when I see it.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
It just seems that so many successful people in life, money wise, power wise, whether its sports, business, acting, producing, politics, whatever, are assholes… So the question is, is it their arrogant, asshole personality that drove them to their success, or is it their success that drove them to their personality? I dont know the answer.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
I guess it could be either way for some of them, maybe a little of both.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
almost every successful person I know
who made their fortune themselves is refreshingly humble
maybe I have been lucky, but that has truly been my experience
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
That is a key caveat. For the rest of us, to succeed in the corporate world, you do need to be in touch with your inner asshole, and know how and when to draw upon that. It is a weapon to be used judiciously, but there are those occasion when it is what you must do. (And that is very frequently, or almost always, up the hierarchy, not down.)
David Young - January 12, 2012
I haven’t met a lot of assholes though the world seems to be full of them.
I haven’t met one Dodger who I would classify as an asshole even though my first question to them is always “Why do people think you are an asshole”?
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
EXCEPT YOU RICH DONNELLY
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
You never met
Larry Bowa?
mleadman - January 12, 2012
Yes, when I asked him that question he said “because they confuse me with Lenny Dykstra”, we both laughed, had some beers, and talked about beavers. Great guy
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
You know, I am torn on whether or not this is a true story. I mean, that is a great question to ask Larry Bowa.
David Young - January 12, 2012
uh-oh
I you think for even a second this was a true comment now I’m worried about the gullibles.
Phil Gurnee - January 13, 2012
flip-floppers!
mleadman - January 12, 2012
I prefer
Thongs
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
I prefer thongs too, they look very nice on certain women.
…not those kind of thongs?
EMDarrow - January 12, 2012
versatile word
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Use it as a verb.
Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache - January 12, 2012
I sure thonged that dental floss last night.
David Young - January 12, 2012
actually, the verb form of thong is archaic and means to whip or flog
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
My sentence still holds.
David Young - January 12, 2012
(sings)
….and now you show everybody that you wear a thong
peekin’ out above your waistband, somehow it seems wrong
i guess you don’t mind, i guess you don’t mind, that the whole world can see
The fabric you pull down when you gotta pee
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I got it
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Dumps like a truck. Truck truck.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
You said it better than me :)
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
mostly unfiltered and sometimes purposefully provocative
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
I should have asked you what to do with these chicken parts before I threw them away. I am ashamed.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
I don’t always eat the parts, but try to at least eat the liver right then and there
cooked up fast and simple like
Sometimes saute’d in a pan, other times wrapped in foil and placed on the grill. You can also skewer them yaki tori style. Always well seasoned, sometimes with pepper. It is a great snack with a slug of wine, while you wait for the rest of the bird to cook
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
my dad used to cook them for the cats. i think the cats would enjoy them. but they’re currently sleeping on Gs clothing. Apparently his clothing > mine.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
god damn it. I just washed those.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
When cats are in the house you must do one of two things. Keep them out of your room where your clothes are or put your clothes away right away and in a dresser with heavy drawers they can’t open.
Or kill the cats.
VegasBlues - January 12, 2012
no it’s clothing you haven’t washed. apparently bodhi now likes you more. koufax is sleeping on top of the sheet monster he slayed.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
i have spent the last 4 months playing with bodhi every single time we enter the same room so he doesn’t hate me. It’s been paying off lately.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
well
everytime i try and play with him your cat comes in like the enemy of fun and ruins it!
Maddz - January 12, 2012
bodhi seems to just want to know that you know he’s there. if you play with Koufax and mix in a pet with bodhi he’s happy.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Gary has become the Cat Whisperer
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Almomst all of my training is in behavioral studies, apparently it works for cats too.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
how does it work on PHD candidates?
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I PLEAD THE FIF
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Too late, I drank the fifth. Your pleading will get you nowhere.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
Pleading Sex
The best or the worst
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Is there any other kind?
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
Apparently scheduled.
David Young - January 12, 2012
We will find out if you direct her to the school that you want her to goto without her knowing you did so.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
she knows my first choice of school for her PhD is whatever school will make her happy and progress her career the most, in that order.
she also knows I was disappointed when UCLA didn’t work out and am now pulling for Oxford.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
I believe this to be true of pets but particularly of cats
and I say this with no experience but no matter how many times you treat them nicely, the cat like the One Ring, knows their true master and will always always prefer them to anyone else.
bhsportsguy - January 12, 2012
Yeah, I can pick up Bodhi without him spazzing out and destroying everything in his path. I win.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
Definitely true for dogs as well. We had three dogs and three humans in our house for a number of years and it was quite clear what the human/dog pairs were.
David Young - January 12, 2012
thankfully bodhi still jumps on me at 4 in the morning when he’s hungry. i’d feel bad for you if you got both cats.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
put them in crates
works wonders with my dogs. Maybe I shouldn’t so I actually get up at 7
nolander - January 12, 2012
you’ll get up at 4, but bright side, 3 hours of extra video game time.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
I don't have to go to work till 10
so if I get up at 7…
nolander - January 12, 2012
6 HOURS OF VIDEO GAMES
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
dude, when is GTA 5 coming out? still no date?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
probably next year
nolander - January 12, 2012
or christmas
nolander - January 12, 2012
who cares, Diablo 3 is almost out!
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
SWTOR is out!
and its glorious!
nolander - January 12, 2012
it killed my entire WoW server.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
yeah but isnt that a role playing game?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
yeah, and i understand if that isn’t your thing.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
could be, are all role playing games like the game in Tom Hanks BIG? Where you give the command what to do, but then the computer actually does it for you? Instead of going up to it yourself and pressing a bunch of buttons to kill it?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
no
Diablo 3 is an action rpg which means you retain complete control over the movement of your character. So when you hit the “a” button or whatever you just shoot off a fireball in the direction of whereever your pointing and so on.
nolander - January 12, 2012
Great
I married a 13 year old
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
hah
love that commercial.
nolander - January 12, 2012
LEEEEROOOY JENKKKIINNNSSss
NotJoeTorre - January 12, 2012
heh
my dog always sleeps on my sweaters if I don’t hang them up, and I never do
nolander - January 12, 2012
If I don't hang up my clothes
my younger dog shreds them
mleadman - January 12, 2012
I'm thankful my dogs are not destructive
nolander - January 12, 2012
I wish my puppy wasnt
tho she’s two now, so its hard to call her a puppy. She shreds pillows, mangles fingers, fights dogs. She’s my little black nightmare. Second training lesson is Saturday.
mleadman - January 12, 2012
Willard Mitt on traveling with dogs
“This is a completely air-tight kennel, mounted on the top of our car," Romney says in the ad.
http://www.newser.com/story/137319/treatment-of-family-dog-seamus-dogs-mitt-romney.html
Nothing stated about whether he provides the dog with scuba gear.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
Clear what the problem is
Marty tardy.
David Young - January 12, 2012
Yes, kidneys, liver, and such goes to the cats.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
lucky cats
cook that shit fast, get some carmelization on the surface, bust out a chunk of crusty bread, eat like we did before we became soft
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
I like to take the leftover chicken parts, show them to the cat, look them straight in their dead eyes and say “this could have been yours” as I throw it away.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Hannibal Lechter
Has a cookbook for you :)
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
Like a Chimay.
Tim Crews' Dastardly Mustache - January 12, 2012
I do love Trappist Monks
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Much better Belgian export than mayonnaise on fries.
David Young - January 12, 2012
Character always matters
Just ask Lebowski.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
yes
nolander - January 12, 2012
If you put “silverwidow” with quotations in Google Images, it’s basically everything I’ve posted here. Hilarious.
silverwidow - January 12, 2012
Just don’t do it past the point where you need glasses.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
lmao at the first picture
a picture of medical cannabis
matthewmafa - January 12, 2012
I now have a new movie that I simply must see
an Indian movie called Singham.
All I have seen is this scene, and this is right up there with Crank for me in the “so terrible it’s great” category.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
The dialogue seems a bit weak.
KellyStephen - January 12, 2012
You talking about the movie or this comment section?
David Young - January 12, 2012
awesome! that Indian Robot looks even better.
Venergy - January 12, 2012
Recorded Red Riding ’80 last night. Incredibly, had not heard of the trilogy until on TBLA last week. I have become less nekulturny!
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
Worth watching? I almost put it in my NetFlix queue based on TBLA
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I watched the first of the 3 (In the year of our Lord ’74) last week. Very dark, very bloody English, absolutely loved it.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
they're all great. the first one is really good.
it IS very dark. (Sometimes literally. Quite a murky film.) But really great.
underdog - January 12, 2012
Lakers’ Steve Blake has a fracture in rib area. Anyone have any idea how long he will be out?
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
day to day
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Aren’t we all?
Nolij - January 12, 2012
If Kobe had this injury, he’d play….just sayin.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
it’s the cartilage that connects his ribs to his sternum. considering that a lot of contact in basketball happens with torsos, fuck that
Maddz - January 12, 2012
Kobe is toughest athlete non – football this town has ever had.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
For the record, Kobe would be playing with the bad toe McRoberts has, the chorro that Murphy had, and even if his wife was having twins…. he’d play with all 3 combined too, and the rib injury…. this is why I love you so Kobe!!!
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
By the way, Kobe said his wrist is feeling better, and will be fine for the playoffs… god dammit Kobe, you arent human!!!
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
I dunno, some of those hockey dudes are pretty damn tough.
That said, Kobe is one tough mofo.
David Young - January 12, 2012
almost certainly not playing the two games this weekend.
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Now you get to see how lousy 2nd round point guards are
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
RELEASE THE KAPONO
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Come on Phil, give us Mo williams already!
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Sorry but Mo wants to play for a winner
Michael White - January 12, 2012
haha, 8-4 isnt winning enough? dam.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
Lakers will just move Lamar to the point.
Xeifrank - January 12, 2012
Maybe they knew that Lamar had become a TV Star and was no longer into basketball. Is he still blowing chunks with the Mav’s, I missed the game last night against the Celts.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
yeah he is still not doing that well…. looks like a good move to dump by the Lakers but who knows how much he is still shaken by not being in LA, or wanted by the Lakers. Or also learning the system in Dallas.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
She tweeted it but I am now leaving the room
bhsportsguy - January 12, 2012
formula.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
yeah, no.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
uh oh, discord on what to feed the kittens
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
of course
if a baby has teeth, probably time to move to bottles. Hahaha.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
the euros will let that kid suckle until he shaves
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
In all seriousness:
Spawn was breastfed/bottle fed on breast milk until she was a year and ready for cow’s milk.
Folly was breastfed/bottle fed on breast milk until Bride said enough of this shit and we switched to formula.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
so the answer is the pump
nolander - January 12, 2012
If Maddz wants to have any kind of a career at all and children, she will either have to invest in a pump or in formula. Or take a year off of working, I guess. There is no way to breastfeed a child and do a job.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
some new agey jobs have breast feeding rooms next to the breakroom
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Pump rooms, not breastfeeding rooms, usually.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
ah, of course
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
there is a couch in my office
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
laughed out loud on that one
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Seriously
this a couch in HJ’s office.
bhsportsguy - January 12, 2012
Our first was on breastmilk/bottled breastmilk exclusively for about 8 months, and then nursed once at night til he was about a year. The baby’s almost six months now and
we’reI’m ready to move on to formula.Nolij - January 12, 2012
I. Just. Can’t.
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
my first thought would end my political career
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
“Let me kiss it and make it feel better” ???
KellyStephen - January 12, 2012
Moan?
mleadman - January 12, 2012
What worked for us
is shouting “STOP BITING THE NIPPLE, THAT IS DADDY’S JOB” until the baby screamed.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
Get a new baby, obviously.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
Perform the google search carefully.
David Young - January 12, 2012
well this died as soon as I got here
Ivdown - January 12, 2012
rally killer
NotJoeTorre - January 12, 2012
Bobby Down is worse than a strikeout after a leadoff double.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
but not worse then a home run
nolander - January 12, 2012
i never agreed with that. a rally is meant to score runs, a home run scores runs.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
nobody does
nolander - January 12, 2012
my high school coach once told a kid his home run was a rally killer (we had runner on 2nd and 1 out). I was just in amazement. “coach, he gave me a 2 run lead”… “Home runs are rally killers unless they come with two outs”.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
The 3 greatest rally killers of all time
Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and some ass named Bonds
Not a Cookie Rojas in the bunch
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Death, where is thy sting?
mleadman - January 12, 2012
What fresh hell is this?
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
Studies have shown that after a home runs clears the bases, fewer runs are driven in by the next two hitters.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Well yeah, they scored already.
The difference between a bases loaded home run and and bases loaded double is smaller than you’d expect it to be but it’s still better to hit dingers.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
Really Reg, you actually gave a measured reply to my snark?
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
I’ve been watching progress bars move for the last week I’m not thinking right.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
Studies have shown that pitchers have a higher ERA pitching out of the stretch than the windup.
Chew on that
Michael White - January 12, 2012
Studies have shown that in total, more runs are scored in games that I’m not watching than in games I am watching.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
hey now
NotJoeTorre - January 12, 2012
Captain Contest!
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
I can’t.
Maddz - January 12, 2012
Caption:
Bleep. Blorp. You’re doing it wrong. Bleep. Blorp.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
crying, omg, crying
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
he’s a hero. Gonna take this…oh
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
with a nod to humma
Bleep. Blorp. You have a pretty mouth. Bleep. Blorp.
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
This one is the winner.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
and kids, as long as you stand off to the side, you don’t risk getting hot oil shot in your eye
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Captain Kangaroo
What do I win?
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
You win
A haircut just like the Cap’t.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
It would appear that Justin Bieber is left-handed.
Nolij - January 12, 2012
Bleep. Blorp. The tip turns orange when I am angry. Bleep. Blorp.
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
I thought the My Drunk Kitchen girl was gay.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
she is?
what’s her phone number?I figured the guy in the drunk baking episode was her boyfriend.Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Nope, she doesn’t call herself a giant homo in her bio anymore but
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
I'm going to marry this woman
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
I guess since I’m ineligible you have dibs.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
Selena shall never hear of this.
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
Clayton Kershaw is the perfect example of what baseball should be
NotJoeTorre - January 12, 2012
Why is Mammoth Mountain bombarding my inbox with ski and stay packages?
when we both know that there is more snow on the year old chicken in my freezer than there is on that damned mountain
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Both are man made
and there’s more of that on Mammoth
mleadman - January 12, 2012
Mountain High can be seen from the entire Antelope Valley, I’m not sure how anyone can ski right now
NotJoeTorre - January 12, 2012
how much does one of the man made snow makers cost… Thats what I need.
uschris0304 - January 12, 2012
we can make mountains now?
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
Yes, but the the ones made in France are using industrial grade silicone, so you have to be careful.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
all you need is a molehill and some over reaction
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
bless your heart
Josie Becker - January 12, 2012
I’ll be forever jealous of this comment
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
christinahendricks.jpg
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
Dave does that better than you do
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Well, I am still chasing the dream of mediocrity.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
And how is living under the trestle at Aviation and Rosecrans going for you?
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
It’s perfect, except that the cars do not stop at that corner. My shit keeps getting thrown all over the place.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
Meanwhile, from the Don't try this at Home file:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/penis-tattoo_n_1195324.html?ref=weird-news?hpweird=y
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
I will need to be paid if I am going to click on that link. I’m not gonna do it for fun.
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
It could very well haunt your dreams if you do.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
JUST HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT ME TO DRINK, RAILWAY?
HOW MUCH?
Humma Kavula - January 12, 2012
I like that this question is asked by “railway”.
David Young - January 12, 2012
Good news
My neighbor Jason survived surgery, still in an induced coma, but prognosis is better. I’m fairly certain I’ll be able to beat him in horse for a few years. The Gurnee hook shot and the Wilt underhand free throw always did him in.
Phil Gurnee - January 12, 2012
Phil, that is great news, for him the family, and you.
jim hitchcock (railway) - January 12, 2012
that's good to hear
Tommy Blackjack - January 12, 2012 via iPhone app
Good news so far. Nice to hear.
David Young - January 12, 2012
Nice to hear
kinbote - January 12, 2012
That is good news, very good, will keep fingers crossed on his recovery!
underdog - January 12, 2012
Great
News
bhsportsguy - January 12, 2012
Reading link about Casey Blake on MLBTR, I suddenly became upset that he signed with Rockies
(not really upset, more just wishing he’d signed with an AL club so I could still root for him.)
Given that he’s supposedly (accent on supposedly) healthy now, makes me also worried he’ll be great for a division rival. But just as likely he’ll get hurt again and not be much use.
On other hand, still would’ve rather brought him back than signed Adam Kennedy. whatever that’s worth.
underdog - January 12, 2012
The only non HOF 3B who has had 200 PA and an OPS+ over 100 at age 38 or older is Graig Nettles. I wouldn’t worry too much.
regfairfield - January 12, 2012
How many 3B over 38 got to hit in Coors Field as their home park? ;-)
David Young - January 12, 2012
doesn’t OPS+ adjust for that?
G.Scott - January 12, 2012
… one of Humma’s laws …
David Young - January 13, 2012
And Nettles could never even spell his name right! ;)
But yeah, the Coors factor may help him. Still, it’s more a nostalgia thing (I like Blake) than a realistic thing…
underdog - January 12, 2012
Healthy, or Best Shape of His Life?
EMDarrow - January 12, 2012
Well I am glad this national nightmare is over
Per the NY Post – Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly have patched things up.
bhsportsguy - January 12, 2012
“Baby I promise, I’ll only autograph bats from now on for you.”
Tommy Blackjack - January 12, 2012 via iPhone app
Gift basket budget was getting tight.
David Young - January 12, 2012
Is it a guarantee that Dee Gordon leads off this year?
I’m getting some Juan Pierre flashbacks…
Joey Joe - January 12, 2012
death and taxes
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
If only
Gordin could channel the younger Pierre years
bhsportsguy - January 12, 2012
and lets be honest
Juan Pierre as a shortstop would have been a heck of a player even as a Dodger
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
first and foremost I am not Dave Young,
secondly when taking a shit on a player by comparing him to JP positional awareness is probably warranted
Hollywood Joe - January 12, 2012
Positional awareness has nothing to do with batting order though.
Pierre batting 8th was easier to take than batting 1st.
Joey Joe - January 12, 2012
JP as a SS is Hall of Fame type shit
NotJoeTorre - January 12, 2012
His arm wouldn’t have been strong enough to play short either.
Nolij - January 13, 2012
Holy shit, Dwight Howard’s line tonight.
45 points, 23 rebounds against Golden State.
21 for 39 from the FT line, new NBA record* for FT attempts in a game.
*Regular season; tied Shaq in Game 2 of the 2000 Finals
Eric Stephen - January 12, 2012
Hack-A-Dwight
Tommy Blackjack - January 12, 2012 via iPhone app
About 25 of those FTs were intentional fouls as soon as he crossed half court
The Dude Abides - January 13, 2012
Impressed with the qty of free throws not so much with the % of them going in. This is not a surprise, new coach for the Golden State Warriors brought out the Hack a Jordan on opening night before the 2nd half was warm. At 3 – 7, this does not seem to be working out.
Phil Gurnee - January 13, 2012
NPUT
http://www.truebluela.com/2012/1/13/2703785/clayton-kershaw-salary-arbitration-dodgers
Phil Gurnee - January 13, 2012
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