True Blue LA

This group is the “Oh, I forgot about that guy” edition. I could see St. Clair being useful someday in the bullpen, perhaps even this year.

Some day Russell Mitchell will shake his fist at this ranking. AJ Ellis remembers what it was like. Now he’s a starting catcher.

“Now” meaning Feb. 9th.

BCG

His professional history has been to begin a season slowly, seemingly make adjustments, then finish strong. He didn’t embarrass himself in the Arizona Fall League this year – he hit OK. If he could develop more discipline at the plate (ie – learn to take a walk at least once every few games), seems like he might be a viable AL DH candidate down the road.

latenite - February 9, 2012 reply

Baez

I’ve been a proponent of moving Baez to the mound for a while, but I can see why they don’t. We have a lot of nothing at 3B and if the guy could put together a good season, he could skyrocket up the ladder for us. Give him every opportunity to fail at 3B and if all else fails he could possibly be a relief pitcher.

OB12 - February 9, 2012 reply

GScott suggested catcher many moons ago.

I could see that, but we at least have some signs of life at catcher. We literally have nothing at 3B.

OB12 - February 9, 2012 reply

I think he’s been given the opportunity at 3B. Problem was never his defense.

Yeah from what I recall he has a great arm, good defense but especially his arm

and his bat has just been crap. Thus the idea of moving to pitcher Jansen style. But seems like they would’ve tried that by now if they thought it had merit. Oh well.

Softball

Jon with some funny softball related thoughts at his most recent DT post. I especially like the sunscreen comment. :)

These kinds of things without links are just rude.

I figured most people know Jon’s site. If not, colour me rude. :)

Knowing the site and having the direct link to the relevant post are horses of different colors.

http://www.dodgerthoughts.com/2012/02/09/its-time-for-more-softball-and-les-nessman/

if the post was buried I would’ve direct linked it. Yes, that’s lazy – but it is easy to find.

Matt Kemp workout routine, makes me tired just watching it

on ESPN today
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7557608&categoryid=2378529

Recap: Maddz loved it. Gary thought it was cool. Joe said sorry.

also dee gordon can be seen in the video

I thought that was an urban myth about Three Men and a Baby?

Dee is missing his own Guy Who Carries Him Up the Stairs

RoBar

It really is

because he’s not trying to get super swole in the chest, just totally leaned out.

also, he’s really flexible.

TBLA’ers come out to play.

A gauntlet tossed by Jon Weisman

Don’t be surprised to see me, like Dr. Johnny Fever, playing left-center in the comfort of a lawn chair. But at the same time, don’t be surprised if Dodger Thoughts players like David Guerreva, David Higgins, James Higgins, Anthony Mason, Brian Rafeedy, Eric Velazquez, Mary Whitfield, Matt Worland and the Dodger Thoughts commenter known as Xeifrank are poised to shock the world. I’ll tell you this, True Blue L.A.: You don’t want to see us in the finals, unless you’re there to apply sunscreen to our winning faces.

Which team are you playing for? Or are you doing the announcing?

Actually

I have stuff to do in the morning (last stop is downtown LA) so I won’t get out there if at all until probably during the last regularly scheduled TBLA game. I will probably hang out and watch the DT team game at 2 and then head back home. No playing or announcing for me.

Bring some ice packs and tylenol for our coach.

seems like ive seen you post here way more then over at DT.

We all remember our first Dodger

blog.

I think my first one was

DodgerDugout

Phil Spencer right? Spendodger?

no way, so was mine….. still do from time to time… that shoutbox is pretty cool I think…. Whats was your name on there?

IIRC

I think my DodgerDugout handle was DodgerBlueBleeder or DodgerBlueBlood… or something along those lines. It had to be back in 2002, I think.

I went from ESPN message boards in the early 00’s, to then Dodgerdugout years ago, to then DT, and now here….

Where’s next? j/k lol

haha funny… I dont know man, pretty sure ive reached the mountain top of Dodger blogging. It started off rough, like DT did, but ive gotten pretty comfortable here now lol.

like an old marriage, Chris you don’t even try anymore

Fire Ned Colletti Now.

Back in the days of prospect profiles and such.

Don't forget

Fire Jim Tracy. That was a fun one. Where is Steve nowadays

Never knew about FJT.

I started reading FNCN regularly in early 2009, though i had seen some stuff from there in 2008.

In The Beginning

There was Dodger Thoughts. I even got quoted in the Sports Illustrated end of the year bonanza issue in font 248 from our infamous 4+1 chat at DT. I may bring my 2 copies of the magazine along with my 100 Things book for coach J to sign.

For a time I frequented the dodgers.com discussion forums. Yeesh.

haha no way, that is pretty bad.

not as bad

as ESPN.

So did i.

BigBadJon51, i was. Giants fans had so much fun with my account name.

I haven't been on there regularly since 2007

I do remember iSkeptic always making fun of Ethier and trolling everyone with like 200 accounts by that time.

YES.

And guess what, he was still there when i started, in 2008-2009, and a bit in 2010 too. I think he’s stopped though.

“tee hee hee bigelow tea” or whatever he said.

4+1 game

Being there to see it, my one regret was not being online to comment on it (yes, thinks like apps and smarter phones were years away).

I went to sleep when the Padres went up early and missed the rest of the game

I did too, then

My morning newspaper said, “Dodgers hit four home runs in 9th inning [I got excited] to tie game.” I switched on ESPN to see final score.

It was at the first or second DT day at Dodger Stadium when I was first shown DT on an iPhone and was fascinated.

It was the day we met with McCourt

and Branch Rickey was the one who had the phone. Greg Brock soon bought the phone as did Eric Stephen.

Statue to the Fans. Yucch.

I am still torn

cue 60’s love song

I did a double-take when I looked at our DT roster and saw your name. I had an incredibly misguided preconception of your identity.

ha ha

please tell me this was in response to Xeifrank and please tell me that this means that Xeifrank is a chick

it is...

but it has nothing to do with gender.

dammit.

It was Xeifrank and in my case it was because I thought he was Asian so I missed him at the first blogger night because I had type cast him based on his knowledge of the Eastern Rim.

Yeah, I’m about as arian as they get. Not that that is a bad thing.

I just hope that means you can hit home runs over the fence.

I’m Jon’s age, so mostly gap power. :)

EXACTAMUNDO!

“Kuo = Guo”, “Xei”, and I know a handful of Chinese guys named Frank. I saw the roster, and it blew my mind. I guess it shows that despite all the Law & Order re-runs I watch, I’d be a shitty detective.

My wife is Chinese (from China). Dave calls me a Chinafile. Which I’d rather be than a porn-afile.

Had me fooled too.

I believe the actual term would be a Sinophile, which sounds like something they would sell at Office Depot or something.

The only time i've ever heard that before

Was in the song “Captain Jack Sparrow” from the Lonely Island’s new cd, lol.

from the late latin for Chinese

Sinophile would be the term I used.

the Eastern Rim

the part of ones tookus that is furthest from the sunset

Bet you I could take Mary.

I’m gonna cupcheck Matt Worland

Then we should chest bump and grab our crotches while screaming “Nyaaaaaah”

TBLA ain’t nothing to fuck with

The Smash Sisters

Tommy Blackjack - February 9, 2012 via iPhone app reply

I see reg mixed it up with Macciello on Twitter

Are you the reason why I watched some of RW/RR challenge today at lunch?

Did you enjoy it?

During last week’s episode, I turned to my wife and said “I think we’re too old to watch this crap anymore”

I watched a little at lunch today. Some questions:

1. Is Emily the one that used to be superpretty? She’s now all bodybuildered up.
2. What is up with Wes? Is he like tattoo man?
3. Who can’t spell “auditorium?” Someone put a “t” as the third letter.

I think MTV has created a new subspecies of human being with these people.

1) I think you’re thinking of a different Emily.
2) I don’t think those are real. I think he used crayons or markers.
3) To be fair, they were hanging upside down over a 30 foot drop into a lake. That tends to mess with your mind.

Thank you. It’s almost like watching Shame and Dignity themselves die in front of your eyes.

For a guy with access to 10 billion dollars he spends a lot of time claiming he has access to 10 billion dollars.

you stole my mind

Money don’t talk, money walks

Macciello is also posting on Chad’s website

You are guys are truly entertaining to me and at the same time have trouble listening to people when they speak. I said yesterday that i was under the impression that i was still in because reports came out that Blackstone called folks and told them they were not in the bidding process. I NEVER HEARD FROM THEM AGAIN! Which is why i went on air and exposed my bid and proof of funds. If you listen to what people say you may not misquote anybody in the future.

Lighting fire to bridges

is what his interview on the radio was doing. Not saying he burned down those bridges, but he was atleast getting pretty close to doing so.

Basically everything he has done in the past few weeks would make Bud Selig NOT want him to be an owner.

If he even had the money to do so.

go away tool

When I attempt to spend more than a billion dollars on something, I prefer to make assumptions like ‘not hearing from the seller is a good thing.’

Just caught up with that. Good stuff.

Poser

that looks like the “i had a cookie for you but I ate it cat”

Are you accusing the Internet of recycling memes?

Tommy Blackjack - February 9, 2012 via iPhone app reply

i would never do that

i just love that meme

koufax is trying to play fetch with gary right now, while gary is attempting to play call of duty. koufax is hilarious

Is this Gary's new job?

apparently

and koufax found a DIFFERENT mouse

and brought it to gary. gary threw it…and came back with a completely different mouse.

we really need to clean this apartment.

Does Gary have any other COD game except Black Ops?

Don’t think so.

lame

Black Ops is fun, just not as much as Modern Warfare 2.

which is not nearly as fun as Modern Warfare

It's too old for me to want to play online anymore

MW2 still has awesome maps and it’s super fun to play, while MW3 has a couple good maps and nowhere to snipe which was one of my favorite activities :(

he apparently has MW

/shrug

damn

Though I could probly get it for like 5 bucks now.

not sure which number. he just fell asleep or i’d ask him.

Ahh

Mid-afternoon naps… I’m jealous.

Does Gary have OCD?

It is precious

Tommy Blackjack - February 9, 2012 via iPhone app reply

Are lolcats still a thing? Like, does icanhascheezburger still get a ton of hits every day?

yup!

I’ve been out of the loop since the lolrus achieved the perfection that could never be topped.

This is why I root for him so much

Matt Magill is from my wife’s hometown of Simi Valley

Any guesses as to the AA rotation this year?

Hmmm

Withrow
Webster
E. Martin/Lee/Gould/Sanchez
Redding
Magill

I think Eovaldi goes to AAA for one. For another, I think one of the four in the 3rd spot will get a shot at the AA rotation, either Martin going back to the rotation, or Lee/Gould/Sanchez getting an early shot at AA to see how they handle it.

Derek Lowe, Kerry Wood…

i went there too.

soooo your wife and Matt Magill are cops??

I really must have missed the part where everyone from Simi Valley are cops, lol.

Rodney King era reference.

All you old people have such vast knowledge bases :P

Accumulation of useless information.

watch out for that tree

Man, Cuevas looked BAD in that at bat.

even his hit he got jammed by an average fastball

I know i noticed that too

he might have ranked a little higher had I not watched that

Brandon Lennox - February 9, 2012 reply

SSS and all, guys get fooled sometimes, but that pitcher wasn’t much yet he made Cuevas look like a DT softball player.

I’m waiting for Phil to put up a Dodger Bobbles preview post. We have to play a team of homeboys and you get to play Dodger Bobbles? Who did Phil sleep with to pull that shit off?

in my dreams the Dodger bobbles are a team of bra-less bikini models in tight white dodger t-shirts

we lose 15 to 0

/Chick pitches

/HJ stares at rack, dumbfounded, called strike three

then except josie and i to win the shit out of that game for you

because if i wanted to see boobs i would just go in front of a mirror. BORRRRING

I plan on wearing short shorts and stretching like all the time
/usemyassets

funny, that was

my plan too!

I guess I have to find a vneck tshirt somewhere.

Rosie O’Donnel taught me this is how you get taken seriously as a female ballplayer

I don't think you should be allowed to sing the Anthem

in that case

or is that Roseanne

yes, yes it is

There were some very hittable girls in the movie but Rosie was not one of them.

the meercat needs a pair of these

If you can't hit her you must have poor aim

Wouldn’t that be Team Kardashian?

and the sprinklers come on at 08:22

It would be all kinds of awesome if
http://www.dodgerbobble.com/
the owner of the blog Mr. Bobble fielded a team of Dodger Bobbleheads

What if he fields a team of Dodgers who’ve been immortalized with bobbleheads?

Seattle Mariners

Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in two days (Feb. 11) due to early start in Japan this year.

they will need the early practice

So

Is Oswalt going to do the old skip-spring-training ruse by signing late? I’d probably do it if I were a pitcher.

I would do that with any job I could if I were independently wealthy. It’s essentially what I’m doing with the softball tournament.

It’s good to be the king.

I predict 2 players from this group have a positive career WAR

St. Clair
Magill (for another team)

I’m with you on Magill. He had a great age 20 year and last year wasn’t nearly as good but it wasn’t a steep dropoff. He’s still young enough to progress one year at a time and still be on line for the majors.

stuff is stuff he’ll be Steve Johnson, he’s not going anywhere

meercat’d

hey, Johnson might have a shot to get into positive WAR territory as soon as this year.

or further into negative WAR

Because I refuse to post in the dead thread

Here is a relevant replay to the “erection more than four hours” comment in there: a poem.

For the Man with the Erection Lasting More than Four Hours
BY JOHN HODGEN

He’s supposed to call his doctor, but for now he’s the May King with his own maypole.
He’s hallelujah. He’s glory hole. The world has more women than he can shake a stick
at. The world is his brickbat, no conscience to prick at, all of us Germans he can ich
liebe dich at. He’s Dick and Jane. He’s Citizen Kane. He’s Bob Dole.
He’s Peter the Great. He’s a tsar. He’s a clown car with an extra car.
Funiculì, Funiculà. He’s an organ donor. He works pro boner. He’s folderol.
He’s fiddlesticks. He’s the light left on at Motel 6. He’s free-for-alls.
He’s Viagra Falls. He’s bangers and mash. He’s balderdash. He’s a wanker.
He’s got his own anchor. He’s whack-a-doodle. King Canoodle. He’s a pirate, Long John
Silver, walking his own plank. He has science to thank. He’s in like Flynn. He’s Gunga Din,
holding his breath, cock of the walk through the valley of the shadow of death. He’s Icarus,
hickory dickerous, the mouse run up the clock. He’s shock and awe. He’s Arkansas.
He’s the package, the deal, the Good Housekeeping Seal. He’s Johnson & Johnson.
He’s a god now, the talk of the town. He’s got no place to go but down.

thank you for this

you have thus destroyed your dream forever

Boy this guy is a good poet.

Here’s another from him that you guys might like. John Hodgen is the poet’s name. I wonder if his father ever said “bitch of a jackass.”

My Father Swearing

Bitch, he’d say, always, when he could not work the wood his way,
bitch, as if there were a goddess of all his troubles, grinning,
a woman at the wellspring who skewed the nail, split the joist,
drove his hefted hopes deep into the ground,
bitch, his woe, his wound, his eldest curse.

And we would gather, hidden, my brothers and I,
huddled like shepherds by the door to the shed
to hearken to the litany surely to follow, the dam that would burst,
his power and rage, hammer and tongue.

Bastard then, predictably, and a marriage was made,
like an Adam come lately to a paradise of swearing,
the bitch and the bastard driven out of the garden
to bedevil him further, to beat the bejesus,
like a two-headed god, both mouths washed out with soap,
come to witness, come to share in the blame.

Then son of a bitch, and it all became clear,
a family, procreation, the Gilgamesh epic,
a new generation gathered against him,
and we were the children and he was the father
as he battered the wood, the precision gone out,
gone into the word, the word become flesh.

Then, always, incarnate, the rhythm established,
a flurry, a billingsgate of bitch of a bitch,
and bitch of a bastard, and son of a bitch of a bitch
of a bastard. There structure was born,
prepositional phrases, like blue Chinese lanterns hung out
beneath the moon, this swearing to God, this awful begatting.

We broke at that point, skedaddled, running off to the lilacs,
covering our mouths for fear we’d be heard,
to say in that darkness what was forbidden in the light,
a language mixed with laughter lifting up between the trees,
a forefathers’ song, the words that made the world.

bitchin’ poem

tl;dr

a billingsgate of bitch of a bitch,

in which we finally learn the truth and coverup regarding the alleged icy staircase.

There is only one weak spot in this po-em

He’s Arkansas

Whaaa?

No one talking about Gallagher huh

what do you think Phil…i know he’s one of your favorites. too high or too low on this list?

Brandon Lennox - February 9, 2012 reply

Too high IMO. If he can only play 1B, how will he ever make the bigs?

And hit singles.

You didn’t provide us with plastic covering for protection so we didn’t bring him up.

Is this a dick joke or a Gallagher joke?

I report

you decide

could be a Dexter joke

it always comes back to shoes

I have never seen a minute of Dexter.

first season and then bail

Bail, then bail.

hay now

well, what does it taste like?

soapy

I got nothin’ I am willing to write down here

I was buying perfume today

apparently if you taste it and it tastes soapy, it is not agreeable with your body chemistry

I got nothin’ I am willing to write down here

interesting

do you just spray it in your mouth, or lick you wrist?

I should have edited this

almost relevant

now going to sleep mode

I got nothin’ I am willing to write down here

that’s a good question. i didn’t do that. i just sprayed my wrist and made gary smell it. boyfriend approved!

just tasted mine, tasted like a high concentration of alcohol

Mine tasted like gasoline. Then I remembered, I’m not wearing any perfume.

I like the hint of perfume

but not enough to feel a tidal wave of it coming at you

If your perfume makes my allergies act up

you are wearing too much

To be fair, she probably shouldn’t have been wearing Pollen, the new scent from Calvin Klein.

I hear fennel pollen is the “it” spice.

It is the greatest

on a nice roast pork, very tasty.

are you coming to the softball game?

no

but I plan to make a TBLA Night this year.

too bad – have fennel pollen

rich with it right now

loves me the fennel, one of the all time greats of the veggie kingdom

my favorite veg is brussel sprouts, oh how I love me the brussel sprouts

YES

I like it when it pulls me in, like a whisper instead of making me recoil like a shout

It's really bad phrasing to ask this question when the thing you're responding to

mentions dick

if by “bad” you mean uncomfortably funny, then yes it was terrible phrasing

ivdown, not wanting the “you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?” response.

Yes

(I think I did that right.)

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an Oasis joke though.

I think he should retire and stop wasting his and our time

Hmm

no SW comments today, maybe he stayed home, watched his Sharp TV with some Chili Dogs and Arnold Palmers

And new raise and new barber. (Why do I know this?)

Because you spend too much time on TBLABook

the truth hurts

Ah

yes, maybe his barber with all Enzo on him.

I’m guessing he got an infection from the new razor his head wasn’t used to, and had to stay home today.

for someone who works hard at keeping his identity

secret, he says a lot of personal things.

I’m here. :)

Didn’t realize I didn’t comment. Not much big news except for the fact that I asked a girl for her number and she said no….LOL.

i like the solid effort though

That’s OK. You were probably allergic to her perfume anyway.

keep asking, the “No’s” make good stories and the “yes’s” make good times

The sooner you realize that you don’t die when told “no”, the better the rest of your life will be

baseball players are paid good money to go 3 for 10

attagirl.

you was raised right

I said that in the office on Monday or Tuesday

my coworker was like “Really???”

It’s odd when you talk to people who don’t know stuff like that.

I’m glad you said it like this, and not “players who fail seven times out of 10 make the Hall of Fame” so we could nitpick about what a horrible OBP that would be :)

But what’s his FWARCS?

Fucking Wins Above Replacement Cock Suckers?

One night after a bar with my friends

We went to In and Out around 2 am. It was super packed, and I saw these two girls sitting at a booth with a couple chairs open. My friends dare me to go over, sit down, and ask them for the seats.

I get told I can have the chairs but not the seats. I wonder if I should have been offended, haha.

Just don’t be that drunk guy that hits on every girl at the club. Then you make for a good story for other people.

well, not every night

You don’t want to get that #creep brand on your forehead.

you probably didnt ask for it bad boy enough.

“gimme your number, we’ll go out”

he should give her a slurpee in a big gulp cup with his number attacthed

he won’t need to say anything.

“The next time there is a five for $5 sale on chili dogs I need your number because I have two dogs with your name on them.”

“would you like to try my slurpee?

taste like perfume

“Want to go to the newsstand and read something with me?”

Problem was that he was watching some Uptown Girl who actually bought a magazine and thought she might want to slum it with him.

"do you have any TVs you are throwing out?"

she didnt say sorry, but im seeing someone? or I have a boyfriend? It was just a no?? atleast she didnt lie then.

“Dude, is that a chili strain on your trousers or are you just happy to see me”

Get this

She was all like, “are you…nevermind…” I think she wanted to know if I was single but stopped short of asking. I said yes, which led to the number question. REJECTION.

"Are you...

…done with that report I needed 20 minutes ago?"

"Are you...

…done with the half and half?"

"Are you...

…going to finish that burger?"

"Are you...

…Cory Wade?"

what did she look like?

This thread is effing hilarious, btw. Makes my day.

She was a really cute blonde, early 20’s. Told me she was taking the Greyhound to Sacramento today, for reasons I didn’t quite hear. And that’s that.

Bitch rides the bus to some cow town and had the audacity to say no

damn, you must have really worked your game on her

hmmm

exactly

Ain’t no good reason to take the bus to Sacramento. You dodged a bullet.

There is a really cool train museum

the Rivercats are a team

i dont like minor league ball

John Sickels should slap you.

I’d rather take a train to see a bus museum.

you just want to be contrarian

I went there in the 4th grade

I had a good time

Me too

4th grade.

Julio Nievas - February 9, 2012 reply

bus to SAC = low self esteem

i would have been all over that

EXACTLY

I saw a golden oppo there.

like i said up there

solid effort.

Oh, look, she's coming up near me, time for me to not strike out

/Kidding,I’mTakenAndTooYoungForHer

plus

nevermind

You shouldv'e said

Take my greyhound and leave the driving to me

Ladies and gentleman, the one, the only, Mr Marty Leadman!!!!

are you rich would of been my guess…. but they do like involved men too

"Are you...

…going to pay for that?"

“are you…russ mitchell?”

First time I asked my future wife out, she turned me down (gave me the “let’s be friends” line).

Mrs HJ when we was dating would often tell me she was busy when I would call to ask her out

that shit set the hook in hard

my only problem with continuing to work on a girl that already rejected you is, how do you know she didnt settle on you?? “Well, fuck it, nobody is asking me out, guess I’ll give this Jon guy a try, he has been trying really hard”

you need a sitcom

I mean, a girl knows within the first 5 minutes right?? so why did it take longer then that?

on fire

I didn’t keep working on her. For once, I played it (semi-)cool, and she called me three months later and asked me out.

that’s right

man played it

good move Jon… so weird how it works that way.

Good to know that doesn't mean the end

the blue bus is calling us
driver where you taking us

weird scenes

inside the gold mine

I am the Lizard King......

I can do anything.

No one here

gets out alive

Love me two times
I’m going away

one for tomorrow

and one just for today

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding

Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind

Andalusia with fields full of grain
take me, Spanish caravan

killer on the road

his brain is squirming like a toad

not to touch the earth, not to see the sun
nothing left to do but run, run, run

Bobby’s bus driver is Ms. Frizzle

Climb on the Magic Schoolbus!

better to try and fail

What line did you use?

I was always deathly afraid of approaching girls.

An old was visiting from Sacramento this past Tuesday, so naturally we head down to Hermosa Beach to drink for old time’s sake. This Australian girl working at the bar collecting email addresses for the mailing list struck up conversation with me on the patio. She said she needed someone to drive her home to Laurel Canyon because she was too drunk. She offered more booze and weed to continue the party. I just got engaged this year, so I told her to ask girls to take her home because local Hermosa guys are douchebags. Was she vaguely asking me to take her home? I doubt it, but either way I’ll never know.

yes, she was asking

and that isn’t vague

Haha

So she could invite you in and have her huge drug addict BF rob you at gunpoint.

Exactly!

I’ve seen enough Law & Order.

my co-worker

got a lip piercing after work yesterday, put the pic on twitter, everyone made fun of him, and he called in sick today

I felt so bad, I really thought that was a dyke in the photo!

your comment was the best though

Well now I need to go to the archives.

relevant

and also relevant

Was anyone's first Dodger blog experience "Fire Jim Tracy?"

How I wish Steve hadn’t removed his archives from the Internet.

Fairly certain my first Dodger blog experience was Dodger Thoughts. I was on the Rob Neyer message boards on ESPN forever and I think found you through a link from there.

Mine was here. I have no idea how I found this place, though.

my story has been told, it not need be repeated

Cue Nolander

[inception.jpg]

Mine was here too

A David Young fanpost on Chad Billingsley and the Verducci Effect got me started.

Therefore it's his fault!

How I tell them apart

the Bernoulli effect makes a curve ball break

the Verducci effect makes me roll my eyes

Links in the sidebar from Yahoo articles brought me here.

I found the texans sbnation blog first... but I have no recollection as to how

I think figured why not see if htey had a good ole dodger blog for me to spew my idiocy all over?

x

exactly how I found Dodger Thoughts. Right at the end of the Toaster

Same here

read some of the other ones but I am sure I first joined DT during the can’t wait for the Jacksonville 5 to come up to LA period in August/September 2005.

mine was Dodger Thoughts

because I saw you on TV advertising your book

Hope Jon doesn’t mind signing book(s) this Saturday.

I don’t mind signing, but I’d prefer selling :) I do have some spare copies lying around …

Okay, I will buy one to be rewarded to the MVP

of the tournament. As I will not be around to present it to said MVP, that will have be done by some worthy person who is still there watching the game. I ask Jon just to sign it without personalizing it.

MVP will be the guy who is putting on the tournament!!!

well I was going to buy one, but now I just want to win tournament MVP

I think my first Dodger blog was Kamentzky

Who linked an article to DT. Then DT was my blog of choice. Made it to TBLA after I’d already been active on ClipsNation and realized that the only registration I needed for TBLA was clicking the “agree to terms” box.

Ross Porter steered me toward DT in the summer of 2004. My life has sucked ever since.

I know the feeling. I sometimes picture the alt-universe in which I never heard of blogs.

i think i started in DT in 2004 as well

Yay for the year of Beltre!

NATE!

OMG OMG

Hi Maddz! how's life?

it's good!

and you?

been busy

traveling a lot for work..and a lot of yahoo stattracking for fantasy basketball.

those two things have consumed my life.

PURCELL!

DUDE!

Tell us you will be in town when we all hit Spring Training.

Are you talkin’ to me?

Well, sure, you too.

But REPLY FAIL, that was supposed to be to Nate.

heh

I’ll be there …

with a love to see through

BIG TIME

Dodger Love!

I think that was Steve Garvey’s line.

That’s my signal

cool, TBLA in Glendale, AZ. It will be epic.

2012 Spring Traning!

I guess if I’m going to go, I better make a decision soon, huh?

yes

G and I will be going from the 10th to the 18th

The GF has spring break that week. Gonna try to go one of the weekends, maybe the first one since she doesn’t have class on Fridays.

I should be sometime

when are you guys all going? I’m going to Vegas for first week of NCAA Tourney. The rest of the time I should be in town.

I will be there for a few days, beginning February 19 and ending April 1.

that is a very broad range of dates.

yeah
like every day

That fucker is covering the WHOLE DAMN THING!

I will be out Mar 15 – 19.

I will be fortunate to be there on fucking day

oh snap.

i’m missing jokes left and right.

No joke

Eric really will cover every day of Spring Training.

sounds like too much work for me lol

Too much drinking, you mean.

sigh

i cant drink like i use to.

Who can?

keep trying, it comes back

I think I’m reaching my peak right now. Which is sad because its all downhill from here.

" … cut my heel
had to cruise on
back home …"

well you can just check in and try to help out
along with tony Jax

We had a great time last year, both in the pressbox and on our informal microbrewery “tour.”

heh

lol

yoyoyoyoyoyo

hey guys!

I should lie and say mine was here, but I had 2 or 4 posts on Dodger .com. Man they suck the life out of you.

Grimjack - February 9, 2012 reply

I think I got to FJT from your site. I believe I started reading Dodger Thoughts in 2003, though it may have been early 2004

UFC

Nick Diaz tested positive for marijuana. Faces losing 1/3 of his purse for the Condit fight and a pretty lengthy suspension since it is the second time he tested positive.

What an idiot.

jackass

hee came hee seop'd he choi'd - February 9, 2012 reply

weed doesn’t strike me as a performance enhancing drug.. why is it illegal

Pain killer

is the explanation I think

Because its illegal.

Some say it is a pain suppressant, but whatever.

The point is that he KNEW going in that if he was caught smoking weed, he would be punished. And he did it anyway. Hence, he is an idiot.

hee came hee seop'd he choi'd - February 9, 2012 reply

adding to the extensive mountain of evidence that nick diaz is a dummy

He got kicked in the face with a shot that would have knocked me to the ground. He didn’t even flinch.

if this happened when playing football on the beach would have cost him a cool grand

Granted, he’s a professional fighter and I’m not. But you get what I’m saying.

He also has nothing inside his skull

so that probably helps

Yeah. I think the only time I ever saw him even hurt by a punch was by Paul Daley and Daley has some of the hardest punches in all of the welterweight division.

And of course Diaz finished him.

Dammit, why cant people smoke weed? it doesnt enhance performance, not it that way anyways.

I wish I knew Ricky Williams, not that he retired, I bet his whole mansion it hot boxed right now.

i just realized

reg called this before the fight even happened, LOL

Calling that Nick Diaz would screw up in a dumb way in a big fight is a good one, usually. Hell, even before the fight (St. Pierre)

yeah

but he actually said that Diaz would test positive for weed. It was in jest, but still, LOL

Western Conference NBA All-Star reserves

Nash
Westbrook
Parker
Love
Aldridge
Dirk
Marc Gasol

I can’t believe the Lakers traded away all star Marc Gasol

yeah I just read Pau was snubbed. I think he deserves it over Dirk off this years stats no?

already have two Lakers

If you completely ignore the second half of last season, which would be the case if ASG were only about first half stats, sure.

There is no stat-based argument for Dirk being there other than he is Dirk and he also just won a ring.

Also, since last year’s ASG:

Dirk: 48 games, 20.9 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 2.5 apg, 0.6 stl, 0.5 blk, 57.2% true shooting %
Pau: 50 games, 17.6 ppg, 9.9 rpg, 2.9 apg, 0.5 stl, 1.2 blk, 57.1% true shooting %

Pretty similar.

Factor in that there are already two Lakers, plus Dallas won a ring and swept the Lakers in the playoffs, there you go.

Four foriegners on the WC bench. Wonder what the record is for foriegn born players on an all-star squad.

not as good as Foreigner Four

Some good songs on that one — Urgent, Waiting for a Girl Like You…

yes

Marc making it over Pau is the correct call

That really pleases me

Dirk making it over Pau

is not.

Barbaroi - February 9, 2012 reply

Milsap is having a better year than Dirk and Pau.

At least Marc is a true center. I was going to be pissed if Pau made it as a center when he’s not as good as his brother and he’s not a center.

you and I

we get pissed at different things

If it makes you feel any better, I wouldn’t be actually pissed. I’d just go on living my life.

damnit, I wanted you breaking shit angry

breaking plank angry

There are only 2 players in NBA that average atleast 16 pts, 10 rebs, and 3 assists, one is Blake, the other is Pau. What it means, I dont know.

I means those numbers were convenient requirements to pick.

It means absolutely nothing

ok, im fine with Marc as the backup center making allstar team, but where does the better then his brother stuff come from? Is that your biased view, or just to piss me off??

it just doesn’t matter

haha im jk man, its all good….fug it.

obvi you are the arbiter of non bias

Michael’s is as biased about Memphis as you are about the Lakers.

No chance. I’m a bit of a Marc Gasol (and Zbo) fanboy, but his love affair with Kobe is pathological.

I’d say you are unique while he is simply what 97% of Laker fans are.

whatever, you can say its because im a Laker fan…But Id say he is in the minority on people who think Marc is better then Pau, when Pau has him beat in career avg in almost every stat, for a much longer career so far as well. But I could be wrong, I dont know.

I’m evaluating this season, not their careers. Don’t move the goalposts.

I also find the, “well, everybody knows Pau is better than Marc” pretty unconvincing.

Yeah, but im saying even this year I think Pau is better, he averages more ppg, at a higher fg% rbs and asts are basically even, Marc does avg 1 more blk per game though… But Marc is below 50% field goal percentage. But they are pretty close stat wise this year, I dont know…. oh well, guess we just disagree then.

They are close. You know why I say Pau has NO argument over Marc? Because one of the two is actually a center.

You need to think of this like WAR position adjustments in baseball. A shortstop who puts up roughly the same hitting stats as a right fielder is more valuable. Likewise, a center who puts up roughly the same stats as a power forward is more valuable.

I actually like Pau and he has an argument to be in the game over Dirk and possibly Blake. But not over his brother, and not over Milsap.

Sorted by wins produced

It’s not all about you

Come on, it means Los Angeles rules the shit out of the 16/10/3 line.

Marc is not better.

Dirking off

As NBA scribe Tom Ziller noted, 19 of the 24 NBA All-Stars were drafted in the top 10

This is not shocking

What is shocking is why the other five were not – probably Euro’s or Southie’s

or Kobes

Nash

is Canadian but went to school here, drafted 15th.

Marc Gasol

2nd Round pick, Tony Parker picked first round 28th pick

One of the ones not drafted in the top ten

Kobe Bryant

are all foreign players drafted?

yes, at least subject to the draft.

yes, the Spurs being better at it then most

The end of the TIm Duncan era?

that corner has been turned

It ended last year but Popovich was the coach.

He had a good run.

Lakers are wearing gold uniforms tonight in Boston. Celtics are wearing green & black. Yuck.

neither throw backs nor throw forwards?

simply throw ups?

it’s shameful, really is what it is. National TV and you’re gonna throw that on

DodgerofTrolleys - February 9, 2012 reply

I mean, actually throwing up would be worse, but still.

haven't seen Scrapmetal on the rankings yet

the G. Scott endoresment must have earned him points, right Brandon? :)

dude throws incredibly hard

better believe it

considering him for #1

Brandon Lennox - February 9, 2012 reply

Brandon with the hay-maker

Scrapmetal being?

Juan Rodriguez

one of the three we got for Trayvon

Ah.

source: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3465398&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

for silverwidow: Cardinals with a Manning forehead. Theres one for every team.

enjoying this!

You just now realized that the Washington Redskins’ mascot is racist?

probably best not to turn depictions of native into neanderthal men

what if the neanderthal is one of the best QBs of all time and a real swell and smart bloke?

I thought it was the John Ireland model

well in that case it would be offensive

that guys signoff needs to be “They’re magically delicious”

4Down

I have COD MW3

Serious softball question

Does anyone on our team have a real softball bat?

Like a modern good one?

I have four, one is 25 years old, one is 15 years old, two are seven years old. Unfortunately best bat doinked so only three are functional in a tournament.

So no

crap

we are bringing butter knives to a gun fight

Should have bought a good one while in India.

That’s where they’re all made, right?

He was to busy making money to spend money.

on Josh Lindblom’s bacon-wrapped elk steaks for dinner:

Could be using those knives

WTF

Aluminum foil?

Don't you think xeifrank or JJ24

might lend you their bats

mei you

We’ve come to bury TBLA not to praise it?

Xeifrank strikes me as a cheap guy, doubt he has a ’great" bat

I own a bat. But it’s sole purpose in life is to beat the crap out of anybody who breaks in to my house.

ha ha – I have bats in every room, it is the only weapon I know I can wield effectively.

This one sounds SO EXCITING
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/spo/2841668204.html

I once chased away someone breaking in to my car (roomate left door unlocked in carport) with a bucket of tennis balls. I figured I need to upgrade to something more lethal since I saw a group of guys hanging out in the area carrying tennis rackets.

HITNG

cause you can't rec on a mobile phone

Should be fluorescent yellow.

Do they let you rent them at the fields? A new one costs a lot of money, no?

http://www.demarini.com/demarini/product.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198674756975&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302760195

This is what you want

Maybe I can ask some of my softball playing girlfriends if they’d be willing to lend me their bats for that day.

be sure to ask a big'un

I like a 34

that is a $180 – 250 dollar bat. I would not lend it out. I’ve seen fools do things to great bats

i asked her for old ones

and she said i could borrow them, sure, no problem

but then i told her it was slow pitch and she doesn’t have those

she used to play for great britain’s national softball team and would have been in the olympics this year but alas

Good try

250 bucks…..

I take things I could never justify for, well, $250, Alex

Right. Slow-pitch softball bats are ridiculously expensive. But obviously someone is buying them. Josh Macciello should supply everyone with one made out of gold.

the same guys buy these bats as the guys who are always buying a new driver in golf

compensating

Recently in a Sports Authority, I noticed ASA approved softball bats ranging from like $40 to like $400. Re-god-damn-diculous.

On the phone with Big League Dreams

they rent bats for all day use with an ID

Nice to be the first game, let’s get there early and get the pick of the litter

ID + $, no?

Have the Dodgers announced

all the giveaways this year? I imagine a new transistor radio has to on the list, with all those 790 radios out there suddenly useless

Dammit, those were gold

looking at mine right now, it was cool

i got my Bobblehead ticket package

i’m good

You should be playing for the Dodger Bobble Blog team

reverse ringer?

The good thing about bobblehead pitchers is that they never shake the catcher off.

http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/schedule/promotions.jsp?c_id=la

I think so

that Cy Young replica is mighty nice

and a DS replica? How bad ass is that!

seriously, I gotta get tix to both those games… maybe even be sober so I dont drop them.

I thought I left my Duke Snider bobblehead at DS

because I could not remember grabbing it when I left. My bro had them though. Way too drunk at that game.

The first Dodgers game that I went to, I don’t really remember the last few innings. They had a FULL BAR less than a 30 second walk from my seat.

It wasn’t my fault, I had no choice.

Barkley is a riot

Ira Winderman
Seriously, does Shaq last the season in TNT studio? Shaq: "Rondo is the best point guard in the game." Barkley: "Is Derrick Rose dead?

Who killed Chris Paul?

hee came hee seop'd he choi'd - February 9, 2012 reply

barkley likes his pgs to shoot first, ask questions later

said Nash didn’t deserve to be in the ASG as well

Steve Nash should have a lifetime pass to the ASG. He was born to play in that game.

well Chuck says no

because the Suns are turrible, so all Steve Nash has done is be less turrible than his turrible teammates.

meatbawls

Richard Deitsch:

The @wingoz discussion of Omar Little v. Chalky White has me thinking of my Top 5 alltime TV characters.

Made me think who my top five favorites would be (not necessarily best). Not really in order except for number one:

1. Omar Little
2. Jesse Pinkman
3. The Doctor (Dr. Who)
4. Benjamin Linus
5. GOB

1. Dylan

For me, No. 1 is probably Buffy Summers. Ask me again, though, and I might have a different answer.

who is no. 1?

Probably Carol Burnett’s persona on her variety show. Ask me again, though, and I might have a different answer.

who is no 1?

Probably Sgt. Dietrich on Barney Miller. Ask me again, though, and I might have a different answer.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think I’m going to stick with this one. When Steve Landesberg died, I watched a lot of his clips from the show and I realized I modeled my entire adult personality on that character.

Rob Petrie

See below you old fart!

I hadn’t yet Z’d down to it.

rought list in no order

barney stenson
adama(honestly I could name a bunch from BSG easy)
locke
Jack Donaghy
Someone from firefly
Ron Swanson

I almost felt like having a drama list and a comedy list because it seems like characters like Ron Swanson and Donaghy are just in a different world than Omar Little and Walter White.

Oh, and I warned you about following my @fbihop account on Twitter! (Saw that you unfollowed me).

Too much NM politics for anyone who doesn’t care about it. I’m surprised anyone outside of the state follows me at all.

heh

I realized you had the 3_2count and I swapped. I actually sorta enjoyed your NM politics tweets, but they started cluttering the feed as of late

Yeah, the session is the time of year where I both gain and lose the most followers.

Al Swearengen

everyone else is a distant second

you can’t list The Doctor without specifying which one

Any of the rebooted doctors. That’s all I’ve watched. But I’d say 11 then 10 then 9.

who would you say

is the most famous one Josie?

This guy says, "Search me!"

I’d say it all depends on when you watched Who. Our scarfed friend up there for the original run, David Tenant in the reboot.

So you like Dr. Who because of the hair?

he doesn't always have big poofy hair

So it’s either poofy or goofy?

absolutely!

Poofy & Goofy is a popular morning show in Las Cruces.

Aren’t they all the character Dr. Who?

yes, but, that’s like saying Jesus Christ Superstar featured the same jesus as The Passion of the Christ

Meh, never watched Dr. Who. Tried in the late 70s or early 80s, but it was too cheesy.

That is a big problem with the old series. It is very cheesy and production values are extremely low. The reboot is quite good, though, especially in the episodes written by Steven Moffat.

it’s the Brit version of original Battlestar Galactica vs. reboot Battlestar Galactica

You are not making it sound appealing.

The new ones are good. The old ones are cheesy. There you go.

The new one was more than a little cheesy too, though, depending on the writer of the episode.

So

stinky cheese is for eating, not viewing?

Oh yeah. Saint Andre tonight. Yum.

True. But the good episodes… man, they are good.

very similar to Buffy in that light

The original Star Trek. (By the way, how does a blog comment section not get a Star Trek mention on this topic by this point?)

because Star Trek was a bad TV show

My dad told me that the cool kids would watch Star Trek and the nerdiest kids would watch Doctor Who on PBS.

Ouch. It had its moments. Much of it doesn’t hold up, and was cheesy to begin with, but there are moments. I like the one where Mr. Spock is rutting and smacks Kirk around.

Bad judgement on a show that ended before you were born.

set our faces to stunned.

Pow!

You don't see me going around calling Citizen Kane a bad movie

DS9 and Next Generation where good

Anyone else really enjoy Stargate SG-1?

are there people who don't?

My girlfriend didn't like it when i showed her the original movie,

and then the episode “Window of Opportunity”, the one where O’Neill and Teal’C are caught in a time loop.

I had a sad.

you mean ex-girlfriend

HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE THE ORIGINAL STARGATE?! JAMES SPADER!

No McGuyver.

MacGruber>McGyver

Is it harder for him to chew science-fiction scenery?

I know who only two of those even are.

Omar is from The Wire, Jesse is from Breaking Bad, The Doctor is from Doctor Who, Benjamin Linus is from Lost and GOB is from Arrested Development.

Have not seen The Wire (yet), Lost (never), Arrested Development.

how did Linus not even occur to me

smh

My list, in no particular order

Buffy Summers
Lorelai Gilmore
Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Don Draper
Doctor Gregory House

Honorable mentions: David Tenant as the Doctor, Starbuck, Leslie Knope, George Michael Bluth, Michael Scott, Alex Mack, Rocko, Lisa Simpson

Rocko

from Rocko’s Modern Life?

I assumed it was a combination of the The Rock and Mr. Socko.

The Rock N’ Sock Connection!

I knew someone would say that.

Big Foley fan

guy never cared about looking goofy, and some of his matches, goodness gracious sakes alive.

I got him to sign a few of his books

I am so surprised that he’s not dead yet.

I can't believe

he still wrestles

Kind of. He moves like his knees don’t work.

they don’t……..they just don’t

he’s one bad ass wallaby

especially

in that episode where he goes to the grocery store with the “99% of everything” sale

or when he goes to France

or the Spring Cleaning one

or when he goes to see Phlem Rock

or when he gets his license back

even though he didn’t get “The Fat Guy”

or when they all go camping

or when he and Filbert have to get Heffer’s brain when it was sucked in by the TV

okay that was probably my favorite : )

I think you left out a ‘g’ when you hocked that one up.

More stream of consciousness than ranking

Dale Cooper
Sgt. Dietrich
Rob Petrie
Joe Mannix (a badass)
pretty much anyone in Pushing Daisies
Marcia Brady

Dave, you and I are old.

No shit.

You forgot Steve McGarret & Dano!

McGarrett was too stiff for me.

Stiff is an understatement.

He needed to see a doctor every four hours.

Trillian!

Dale Cooper. Holy crap. That series was loaded with great characters. Did any series take as great a tumble from Season One to Season Two? Even shows like Veronica Mars and Sports Night that were so good in their first seasons didn’t fall as hard as Twin Peaks did.

It was a good thing it had great characters*, atmosphere and mood because the storylines, such as they were, did go all to hell by the end. I thought the second season started ok, but about one-third or so of the way in, they really lose their way. I can think of no other more precipitous drop over the first two seasons for any show.

*that said Peggy Lipton was woefully underutilized from pretty much the get-go.

Limerick

A few years ago, I wrote this one:

News Item from the Frankenfood file: They’re working on stemless cherries.

A limerick, titled:

WHOEVER THOUGHT OF THIS OBVIOUSLY WASN’T A TEENAGER IN 1990

It’s pique that we’re feeling, not zen!
The cherry stem fascinates men!
We all will agree
What we want to see
When we’re flirting with Sherilyn Fenn.

damn, I totes forgot Pushing Daisies. I think I’d put Chenowith’s character as my favorite

Would

Bob Hartley count or is every TV character that Bob Newhart played in a series pretty much the same guy?

I say he counts

His Newhart character was a little bit different, different dynamic with differently odd characters around him, etc.

Man, this is tough, I’ll have to think about it.

Jim Phelps.

The Virginian
Gomez Addams

Good God

John Steed and Emma Peel !

Loved that show.

Teddibly Brritish!

Magic Johnson

Off the top of my head

in no real order, comedies only (will think of dramas another time)

Rev. Jim Ignatowski
Blackadder
Hawkeye Pierce (except when he turned switch to maudlin)
More recent: George Christopher (Ted Danson), Ron Swanson, Homer Simpson + Philip J Fry

You can get away with a lot

when your name is Kobe Bryant. On and off the court!

he sure…um…stood there

If I do that in my rec league soccer game, I get yellow card. If a pro does it, its nothing.

I have no idea what he is saying there.

Given his body language

“can I get a double double? order of fries.”

I got yellow carded for dissent once. I took issue with being called for a foul by elbowing a girl in the back…who was behind me.

she had it coming

That reminds me. As I was walking through the parking lot at work the other day, some dude was blasting the soundtrack to Chicago. He shut off the car engine right as it was going to go into “And all — that — ja-a-a-a-a-a-zz.” i picked it up, whistling it, and impressed one person and annoyed half a dozen others.

fuckin' right.

actually, it was funny – i was playing up a division in AYSO cos I was eligible for high school soccer and I was old for the division (so I played U 16 instead of U 14). During tournament season, I got called to play U 14 since I was a ringer, and well, the refs decided they needed to protect the tiny 12 year olds.

fuck that

I’ve got two yellow cards in my life. One for a slide tackle from behind and one for mistiming a volley and instead kicking someone in the stomach.

Surprised I’ve never been given a yellow card for dissent, I tend to be sarcastic with referees when they blow a call.

my friend considered it a bad game if he didn’t get yellow carded. he was a sweeper and pretty much would start the game by doing something terrible to a forward.

I had a teammate like that. Which was fine except for when he got a red card in a 3v3 tournament. 3v2 is basically impossible.

hahaha that’s messed

I did get a blue card in indoor a few weeks ago (2 minute penalty) but that was because I jumped onto the field before my teammate got off the field. Too many men on the field.

You play for the Giants?

Or Patriots, for that matter.

did you give the ref back his cell phone?

221 seconds left to decide this one, in Boston

Fuck the Celtics.

in the heart

Murray State defeated.

present

I am not a fan of most of the content of his radio show (though he has good chemistry with Steve Mason and it’s not that terrible), but I have to say, John Ireland is a much better basketball announcer than I expected.

9.8 seconds left. Celtics ball.

82-82

If Kobe wins this with a baby skyhook….

OT

oooooooooooooooooooovertime

6.1 seconds left, Lakers up 1. Celtics ball.

Terrified of Ray Allen right now.

garnett has money on the lakers

PAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

lulz ray allen

nice layup attempt

SURVIVAL!!!

tomorrow night

jeremy lin

Jeremy Lin is the Josh Macciello of the NBA

Except Jeremy Lin is for real.

Yeah

Horrible insult to Lin.

He is the Justin Sellers of the NBA :)

He’s the David Eckstein of the NBA. Slightly undersized Asian-American instead of very undersized ginger-American. Decent player, value positions, probably wildly overrated now, which will equalize out eventually.

FUCK RAY ALLEN!

garnett

was 6-23 from the field.

yet managed a +6

Which shows how much that stat sucks.

That stat is the Jeremy Lin of stats.

The Tim Tebow of stats.

just some high school QBs in 06

so apparently stafford has always and will always look like a bro

also, huge calfs

meatheads

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-sound-efx/09000d5d8147c551/Sound-FX-Matthew-Stafford-mic-d-up

can't stop the bro

Who is who?

Freeman is on the far left, Tebow is obvi and Stafford is on the far right

the rest didn’t make it all the way to the NFL.

note that all the QBs who made it held the ball in their left hand in the photo

CHANNEL 4 NEWS TEAM

ASSSEEEMMMMBBBBLLLLLEEEE

5 favorite TV characters

1. Ralph Kramden
2. Captain James T. Kirk
3. Reverend Jim
4. Lisa Simpson
5. George Costanza

i actually know most of yours

Reverend Jim is where I’m drawing a blank

I want to say… Taxi?

yes

I’ve never seen it, but heard it is great. Wish it was on Netflix Instant.

Taxi

Kids!

Can’t believe the after work crew came up with something interesting

Bob Hartley
Wojo
Fonzie
BJ Honeycut
AL Swear Jen
Lou Grant
Reverend Jim
Illya Kuryakin

Hell

Spock has to be on the list

I only know who three of them are.. Spock, Fonzie and Reverend Jim.

Fucking kids.

Shows were
Bob Newhart
Barney Miller
Happy Days
Mash
Deadwood
MTM
Taxi
Man From Uncle
Star Trek
Still Standing

OK, I should have known Honeycut and Hartley. Don’t feel bad about not knowing the rest.

fonzie always creeped me out

I think I’ve said this before

Sure, but his character was fresh back in the day. I would not be able to watch Happy Days now, but when I was in my teens he was the man.

Seriously, man, you gotta watch yourself some Barney Miller.

and can’t leave out Bill and Judy Miller my favorite TV parents of all time

Lenny & Squiggy

Nice

he

lloooooooo

Nowdays, I don’t tell anybody which shows I like, because when I do, that show will be canceled. I’m the Anti-Neilson.

I just wait a couple seasons before commiting

Can you start liking the Big Bang Theory?

there are better targets then that man

2 and a half men for example

Never even seen a minute of either of those, but if you want them gone, I’ll start watching and tell everybody.

i'd ask you to watch Jersey Shore

but I don’t want to inflict that on you

that show died with charlie

Yeah, but BBT went up against Community and destroyed it.

anything on cbs is going to destroy community

its sad but true, fuck america

But it destroyed 30 Rock harder!

love 30 rock

you mean ex-girlfriend

the commercial for Kay Jewelers with the couple in the photo booth

the woman is gorgeous

Need advice

Have ahi tuna steaks, would like to sear and serve with asparagus and mushrooms.

Tips for the searing?

Use heat.

a bold strategy cotton

Don’t mind me, I’m like Humma after some gin. A little drunk.

salt and pepper – generous with pepper – press into flesh

can add other things like cayenne, but I like straight S & P

hot pan – like smoking hot with a bit of oil

about a minute per side

take it off and serve

can pour a little olive oil on top when done

I was just saying I need a HOLLYWOOD JOE batsignal. Thanks buddy.

you’re lucky

I should be a 9PM conf call, but just moved back to 9:30

so I get to watch 1st quarter of that superbowl I missed

Spoiler

Nothing to add here except yep, this is the way to do it.

The other way is to marinade the fish for a few hours with soy sauce and garlic, then sear.

did not think to marinade, and I want to cook it tonight, so it’s getting S&Pd on

any particular pan?

cast iron, i presume

that works

hot pan

I use a grill pan because I happen to have one. If I didn’t, I’d use cast iron. Failing that, go with whatever is going to heat the most evenly.

if you want to get fancy and don't have time for a marinade

you can take some soy sauce, garlic, lemon juice, and maybe even some honey. Spice it up a bit, toasted sesame seeds also make a nice addition

mix and pour into a saucepan – reduce by half, pour over fish

I tend to like it naked, but this rocks too

we have mango

thoughts/feelings

mango only pawn in game of life

i choked on a cookie for this. Well done!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKRma7PDW10

Do you have any heat to add to said mango?

Um…define heat.

Some kind of pepper.

Jalapeno?

Use the Siracha or cayenne

using fresh pepper, I would want some time to have it marinade

That’ll do. Chop that up, and an onion, maybe some cilantro. Brother, you’ve got yourself a salsa going.

so here are some pictures of us being disgustingly cute to give you ammo for making fun of Gary

gary is yelling at me to help him with the food

waiting for humma

Waiting for me to do what? I remember being young, childless, and in love. Now I’m an old angry troll, but even the cold black stone that exists where I used to have a heart remembers that time.

“I was once a maaaaaannnnnnnnn.”

i’m an old angry troll, but I’m still childless, what does that make me?

foolish pup

a liar

you aren’t odl until you turn 27

32

The answer, as always, is 42.

BUT WHAT IS THE QUESTION

The answer and question are mutually unknowable. Or something like that.

i’m 25 going on 67

A very good year

a good year for getting hitched to dark haired girls who break your balls

Truth:

If they aren’t willing to break your balls, they’re aren’t worth doing anything else with your balls either.

but I’m blonde :(

I just hurt myself lifting with my back for the first time so I agree.

you have two legs

but only one back

/mottofromUPSdays

anyone else hear So Happy Together in their heads?

That was dedicated to me on KOST 103 once.

nicee

I married the girl !

double nice!

you mean doublee nicee

reec'd

Picture 3 simultaneously captures both of your good sides.
/Recycled stuff

I appreciate the picture where I’m kissing G and he doesn’t give a fuck and is holding an orange

filled with meaning

Stanley Kubrick rises from the grave to say, “Yeah, but I have no fucking clue what that meaning is.”

Then he crawls back into his grave.

in the next picture, i am falling over

girl, you fell a long time ago

but showing more of the gams!

GScott approved

oranges are delicious

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

only fruit i’m holding

Two oranges are better than one.

something something hand bush something something not in hand

/stilldoesn’tgetwhichpictureyou’retalkingabout

..1..
2..3

but they are in twos, so you mean the 3rd one down? or the 1.5 picture.

The right half of the second one down.

I like most of the pictures

Several are very good actually. I still like the piggyback one. Could easily be a magazine ad photo.

The real question though is, how did you not use Mrs. mintxcore for this shoot?

I train with him at a gym and he was doing a discount on portraits. :)

and hilariously enough

the piggyback picture was the result of me randomly jumping on gary and surprising him

See, spontaneity is the best.

how the fuck do you peel a mango

waiting for humma

The same way you filet a human body, I would think.

I’ve said too much.

damn

now I can’t compare methods

I brute force it with a potato peeler but I’m sure there’s someone that knows a not dumb way.

craig did give us a fancy zester as a christmas present. i could brute force zest it?

How ripe is this said Fruit?

not super over ripe, just about good

cut off ends
use sharp paring knife to just take off skin

Now you should have messy naked fruit

pit is flatish and oblong – like halibut shaped

shave off slices as close to pit as you can get

chop

it’s solid

are you sure it isn’t mediocre?

Maybe

quite

kit

I got (click-click) ssssteam heat

Brilliant

It’s a movie with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Features a pretty classic shootout seen in downtown Los Angeles.

But that’s not important right now.

And the first dialogue between DeNiro and Pacino ever, when both were at least near the tops of their games, but with that scene shot about as awfully as possible.

mango marinade sounds fantastic

chop that up and cook it down with some sugar and some cayenne – or even a squirt of siracha

add a little balsamic or lemon or soy

tasty

this is fun, like online chopped, what else you got in the basket

oh man

We do have sriracha

sweet, hot, sticky, and slightly acidic is the recipe for joy

Not just with food.

amen

I know!

/We’reTalkingAboutCoffeeRight?

Just talkin bout sex, baby!

it applies everywhere

Roofing sealant.

You laugh, but just wait until you are on your leaky roof on the one day it’s not fucking raining.

ONE MORE THING

FISH SHOULD BE CLOSER TO ROOM TEMP -DONT REALLY WANT THAT THING FRIDGE COLD

Why am I shouting?

ok so

after all these wonderful suggestions, can we get a consensus?

jalapenos are bad.

Your ingredients are:

Olive oil, salt, pepper, cayenne, sriracha, mango, garlic, onion, other assorted spices

jalapenos are not bad

I think Regs salsa sounds tasty

if I was doing a reduction, I’d probably stay away from them unless I had time to break them down in an acid for a while first

crunch texture good in salsa, not good in sauce

no, i love jalapenos. these particular jalapenos, however, have gone bad.

is freezing hot peppers bad?

I’ve got a big bag of serrano peppers in my freezer because thats the only way fresh and easy sells them(for like a buck fifty too)

I’ve always assumed that the water content of peppers makes them bad for freezing, but I would defer to the TBLA gourmands.

We freeze lots of green chile (anaheim peppers) every year.

good to hear

if anyone would know about peppers, it’s this guy

Only the one pepper. Though I do put it on everything.

Hamburger? Always better with some green chile. Quesadilla? Without green chile it is just tortilla and cheese. Grilled cheese with green chile? Yes, please. Scrambled eggs? Could use a little kick.

There are even some Italian places around here that put green chile in alfredo.

do you just sautee it for the hamburger and tortilla?

On the burger, yeah. On quesadillas, I’ll cook it with the green chile already in it. Hard to screw up green chile, though.

never done it

how hot are we cooking the mango stuff at?

med to low – want it to reduce not scorch

stir

taste

adjust

Didn't

Someone say he had to work at 9:00 tonight

call got pushed, dialing in now

Cheddar is the best cheese, of all the cheeses

wrong

but better than its rep

HJ is correct.

Parmiggiano-Reggiano is the best cheese of all the cheeses.

fact

i have a soft space in my heart for some sheeps milk cheese though

If you like sheep’s milk cheese, look around for Ewephoria. The name is too cute, I know, but it’s really very, very good — a gouda-style cheese made with sheep’s milk. It can be hard to find though — easier to find is Lamb Chopper which is similar and almost as good.

Trolling for a troll?

I’m neutral.

By that, I mean I am partial to swiss cheese.

we’re not liberal with the recs round these parts, but this gets mine.

No politics.

i’m ron paulian with my recs

The free market has spoken.

I’m socialist with my recs. I rec everything equally!

but only in theory!

I’m more of an American neo-communist. By that I mean I’m a college student who wears a Che Guevara shirt.

hipster

I remember getting really drunk one night for some reason registering hipsterwatch.net and hipsterwatch.info.

I still own those domains.

you renew them just for kicks? #wordplay

I think I ended up buying it for like three years.

(Drunk fbihop)

FUCK! hipsterwatch.com is TAKEN! Well I gotta get something….

Sadly I cannot confirm this account due to not remembering.

That may or may not be the same night my friend tried to drunkenly teach me some Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

thats just asking for a dislocated testicle

Considering my shoulders are beyond fucked up and I already had to have surgery on one because it kept dislocating (I’ll never pitch again!) it was particularly stupid.

Fact: the color you are looking for in your cheddar cheese is blue — as in, it should have veins of blue running through it.

but then it would be blue cheese

Incorrect. It would be cheddar.

cheddar that blue itself

What the shit is this shit?

cheddar?

with blue veins. I want some so hard right now

she's

begging for it

Pay attention to your teleconference!

and no one will just give it to me

I will!!

i have this friend..

(it might be me)

is this where we go to the spa and eat cheese? (please?)

i know what i’m doing for my 26th birthday

Laughing at those of us who are twice your age?

while clinking our champagne!

Bitches of jackasses!

/clink!

I should have many many lines here, but…..

More on blue-veined cheddar

Montgomery’s cheddar

I get that one regularly. It’s great.

oh Josie you blow hard

AD quote gets a rec.

but not the other one?

Didn’t see it.

but cheddar is yellow and comes from a cracker barrel

(shrugs) Just saying what I’ve found. If you disagree, you can eat what you like.

we should go to the artisan cheese gallery if you ever want to come to the valley

on ventura?

place is INSANE

my friend of the sriracha cookbook used to work there and just give me cheese for free

I have found in the last couple weeks

that grating your own cheese is oddly satisfying

and I plan on shredding a ton of mozza tomorrow in an attempt to make some deep dish pizza

mmmmmm deep dish

other then BJs there aren't really any deep dish places nearby me

makes me sad

and let’s be honest, BJs does not go all the way

Can be sufficient to go though.

its not bad

but expensive and hard to get to

Note: I know nothing about said pizza.

good ones do

we grate, humma grades

I am interpreting that euphemistically.

One

I love using my food processor for shredding cheeses. Two, Parmigiano Reggiano is the king of cheese. Three, I do enjoy a sharp Chedder but I also like several cheeses with that texture. Four, bleu cheese is a treasure.

Some blue cheeses I really like and others are not for me. For example, Roquefort — to me it’s just a punch in the face, the blue overwhelms everything. Even Stilton can be too much sometimes.

But St Agur? Bleu de Bocage? Those are creamy and delicious with just enough of the pungent blue to make it interesting.

By the way, tonight’s cheese is the triple cream Saint Andre. Yummy yummy yummy.

No

One talks cheese like Humma

I am annoying as fuck at the cheese shop. All I do is ask questions.

come with me seriously

I rarely get to the Valley. But if I do, sounds like a plan.

Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?

Not today, sir.

we need to grab BH (and anyone else who wants to come along)

go to cheese shop

go to wine shop

pick up baguette and terrine

pears and apples, maybe good cherries or grapes

sit in the sun in my back yard

feast

that sounds like the best day ever

I don’t think I’ve ever had a terrine. Pâté, sure. The occasion has never cropped up.

I found a Nero d’Avola today, by the way.

/clink

also the HJ signal

I opened it. Very, very nice. Smooth.

Although I find most descriptions of wine where someone tries to compare it to other tastes (typically, cherries, chocolate, and various other things that I find a total stretch – what makes people find that sort of wine writing laughable, and at the best is “metaphorical” – like something else supposedly, not the genuine taste), I swear that this wine has the genuine, very strong scent and even taste of rosemary. Do you know if they grow rosemary, or some Sicilian herb with strong resemblances in the same area where they grow the vines? It’s very distinct.

(You’ll remember we had a conversation some months ago where I mentioned I had had a Sicilian red in a New York restaurant, and you guessed it might be Nero d’Avola. Later I found the piece of paper where I’d written the name down, and that indeed was it. So this was a callback, though likely you’d be the only person to recognize it, maybe.)

on the phone, slight buzzed

talking market caps and operating margins

Gary just dropped the pepper cap in my wine. Gary is a jackass.

Thirsty Thursday all around!

Balks in the kitchen too?

nice

Catching up on this thread was fucking hilarious.

TBLA is the best. Which is why we will kick ass on Saturday, either on or off the field, if not both!

TBLA

WINNER!

Question for HJ

Have you ever made the “cheat” recipe for risotto? Rather than stand over the stove for an hour, you BAKE it (the raw rice and broth) for 45 minutes, adding the cheese, wine, and the last cup of broth at the end.

My verdict: it’s not as good as proper risotto, of course, but it’s a fuckload less work. It’s dependent on using good wine and cheese.

You ever do this? Thoughts?

This question is also for BH or anyone else who’s tried doing this, of course.

Never one that

After HJ throws his laptop across te oom, we can see what he says.

ha!

I thought about that reply

My

Guess is that it is not as creamy.

That is correct, but I would say “creamy enough.”

I love risotto, but my days of standing in front of a stove for an hour are definitely on pause.

I’ve heard this before.

gummy right

and the rice texture should be al dente

never have

I have rushed it over high heat, which takes good stir conditioning

its ok, but time taste better

and Mrs HJ is really the risotto cook in our house – I love it, but a northern dish, we didn’t eat it growing up

Rush risotto? Would you rush a brisket sir?

pressure cooker, not as good as not using said pressure cooker

Dave does

does nice job with his slow cooker

yes he does!

pulled pork ftw!

Thanks

I thought I probably needed to make another cup of BBQ sauce though, for a little more moistness and flavor.

The car smelled pretty damn good for the drive over though. I even could smell it Monday morning!

I coulda useda more sauce, but it was delicious

TBLA Chopped

Success! Gary made perfect asparagus, and the tuna is awesome (though I may have added too much sriracha).

TBLA history is made.

you can always add more heat

took me many a too spiced meal to learn that

more heat?

oh god no

i know

we get enough of Lebron as it is

I meant always good to start with a little heat and then add more to taste as you go along

heat is easy to add and still get the flavor

yeah, I basically I should have done that

I like asparagus, but I am none too fond of its aftereffects.

sniff
sniff

Did you know that there is some significant portion of the population whose pee doesn’t smell like asparagus after they eat it? I remember having this conversation in college and this one girl was like, WTF are you all talking about.

I am one of those people

This tribe is unknown to me

I think it smells like penicillin, not asparagus.

it is a distinct odor

it stings the nostrils

heh

dodger fan

bravo

I love it

a favorite on the grill – I like to over cook it that way

Also

A part of the population that cilantro tastes soapy to them.

I like cilantro in my food, but find it a little pungent in the nose.

like ivory soap?

Bizarre. I always go, “Oh yeah, I had asparagus tonight!”

“And I have an ulcer! Oh, wait, I ate beets.”

I have had beets once in my life, it was weird. From one of my ex-coworkers… actually my boss. She used to be a food critic and is a very, very good cook.

Anyway, before that my only knowledge of beets is what I heard from the cartoon Doug.

beets are fantastic

amen

growing some in my garden right now, cannot wait, will eat the beet, the greens, the stalks

Roasted

Beets, jamming

and so flipping easy

I like them the next day, cold, on a fork, while I stand in front of the fridge with the door open

… nekkid as a jaybird …

…the whole damn thing.

/Robert Shaw

Killer TOFU!

I need mo allowance

YODEL-EH-HEE-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kings

might just steal one from the Thunder

it’s a Viking game

Chris Webber

Is a pretty good analyst.

Sheesh!

Wanted to post some Dodger fan art, but all the rules about copyright infringement. forget it.

fan fart

go on…

I said love
sister
It’s just a kiss away …

Curiously enough, that is my favorite Rolling Stones hit record.

coke

You’re sending the uschris signal?

68elcamino427

that’s my signal

Laker win was fun

heart poundingly so

by one point
the Kobe
effect

beating the Celtics will never not be fun.

Fuck the Celtics and the green and black uniforms at home.

it was a fun win

i enjoyed it.

the kitten has

attempted to get into a 350 degree oven
eat sriracha mango
play fetch
drink mango black tea

he’s a dick

OK, so talking about how to cook something is the HJ signal. Trying to find the etymology of a word is the Josie signal. Mentioning drugs and/or the Lakers is the uschris signal. What are the other signals?

I’m sure I have a signal, it probably has to do with feminist things

just cross your legs
to be
safe

You can’t do yourself.

I do Ok

god and shit

that too

The Eric signal

$5 pitchers.

prospect talk

reg signal

your favorite prospect is bad.

“and here’s why!”

#33 Blake De Witt?

true story, prospect comes from the word prospectus, and studying either will get you nowhere in life

Talking about Kyle Russell is the ivdown signal, but he will repeat something after the fact, not realizing it was already discussed.

which is, in turn, the Tripon signal

Joey Joe talking shit about James Loney: The GScott Signal

Chili dogs

VegasBlues - February 9, 2012 reply

what are these

signals?

character reduced to caricature

we are slowly becoming sit com characters

Newman!

/laughter

When you mention the topic the person always seems to immediately chime in, even if they haven’t commented in a few hours.

Like the bat signal.

Talking about signals

The Nate Purcell signal apparently

my winter slumber is over!

i thought I left you in the clutches of the giant squid

ah…

Fuckin’ A Deuce Jack!

my bat signal is the bat signal

Softball bats?

in field grounders?

finished Arkham Asylum yesterday, might be awhile before I get to play City though

its probably better that way

playing AC brotherhood too soon after AC2 was a bit much.

yeah

i’m hoping to get Uncharted 3 from gamefly first

good call

not as good as 2 imho, but still epic

2 was really fun

though I don’t know how many times my reaction to the situations presented was “are you fucking kidding me?”

but in a good way!

indeed

I killed a tank!!

Talking about how Deuce is doing these days is the K3Vo signal, since both are ghosts.

and they do it

Kings win

The soon to be Anaheim Angels.

Anaheim Amigos

of Houston

damn you

that’s where Albert Pujols went to school

Performing

int the Anaheim Convention Center
1969
BABY!

in front of no one!

Anaheim had some guy’s dad playing guard apparently

The Oakland Oaks were a shitty draw, obviously.

sweet unis

Coached by Elgin Baylor?

Can't figure this out

If young HJ was an American Idol Hollywood week contestant would he
A) be more interested in chasing tail
B) want to kill all of these self-indulgent drama freaks
C) Be so filled with B that he doesn’t even make a play on A

I always hated math.

C

he should be on the Voice instead

The Gong Show

I’d like that

To Tell The Truth!

not until I was married

“stepped on a pop top …”

if it's B

how would the show continue without the judges?

If Fox Sports was ESPN

Troy Aikman would eat wings on air, while Joe Buck bought life insurance or something

like in groundhog day

did he try to kill himself on one of the days?

several

been awhile since I’ve seen it

I’ll watch it any time it is on

same day
many times

don't drive angry

I wonder if he had to spend time in limbo, before waking up again

Maddz

where did the concept of limbo originate and how many world religions have such a concept?

are you bad
or
are you
Good?

oh I have no idea

I’m guessing that’s a later invention because in antiquity they didn’t think there was an afterlife period
Christians start to change that though

I’m pretty sure it was invented later too. Something to do with trying to explain what happens to babies that die before they get baptized or something.

the guf

the never ending one

I wasn’t really asking, I was making a signal joke but blew it by getting distracted and not making it funny

Baseball players fail 70% of the time. You’re good.

Soooo things to catch up on...

1. Victor Martinez fucked us for Prince Fielder.
2. We’re going to have a new owner soon.
3. I can’t think of anything else…

yep
yep
yep

do we have a preference for the new owner?

magic

why magic?

I would never want to hate Magic

So I never want Magic to own the Dodgers

yeah

most want Magic

I am intrigued by Caruso group

Reg is still on Team Frank

why the fuck would anyone still be on team frank?

or did you make a funny? my TBLA joke detector is off and needs recalibration.

funny

not believing a change will happen
until the ink is dry on the contract

it seems like a change is inevitable. there has to be a complete 180 change for Frank to keep the team. I mean, it’s gone this far; i dont see any turning back.

not collectively

my personal preference is the group headed by Magic Johnson and Stan Kasten

Charles Barkley apparently wants to take a page from hockey and have Kobe and LeBron pick their own teams for the All Star game. That would be so awesome and hilarious that it would never happen.

no

it is really happening

For the NBA All Star game? Not just the rookie game?

Why not for the regular season?

i like the idea for the rookie/soph game

with the GMs drafting the players.

OK, I’m confused now.

I haven't checked

Is Bill Simmons spitting blood over Larry Legend talking up how much he’d like to play with Kobe

that combined with the superbowl must be like a knife in the heart

WINNER

He seems to hate

Giants and Eli more than any other player/team.

Have the Lakers beat the Celtics in the finals and he’ll hate Kobe more.

Nah

He thinks the Patriots, Brady and Bellicek coud have been the greatest of all time if not for those two Super Bowl losses.

if if if

suck it simmons

He’s dumb.

could have

but didn’t

Barkley tonight

Just said Kobe is the 4th best laker of all time behind Magic, Kareem, and Jerry West

and a triple cheese burger

and a side of

meatbawls

lakers have had a lot of really good players.

He played against

He first two and Jerry is the logo.

Delias man

Would prefer Frank keep the team.

shit – I said Reg was Team Frank

Npurcell

Eric will be in Arizona for 6 weeks starting a week from Sunday.

that's a long time.

That

Is probably longer than you stay in town these days

this is true

i havent been home for 6 weeks straight in almost a year.

sooo

are we winning the pennant this year or whatz?

Matt Kemp will hit 40 home runs

so if kemp hits 40

we’re going to the world series!

against the pujols lead angels! the battle of LA that will collapse socal into the ocean!

Just like Tool predicted!

Back
Back
Away Back
She Is Gone!

Campeones, the Galaxy!

all the pennants

yeah, right now I am feeling pretty good about something that makes no sense happening

she’s a real cutie
a Mexican beauty
how she got here
I haven’t a clue …

Seems inevitable

Kobe playing GM

Chris Forsberg
What did Kobe tell Gronk? “I told him the Eagles need a tight end. I’m recruiting. He’s a freak athlete. He shouted at me, I shouted back.”
about 2 hours ago

lol

Humidor in Colorado Springs?

Link:

• The Rockies will attempt to add a humidor in Triple-A Colorado Springs this season. The pinball scores in recent seasons have made it difficult to develop pitchers and evaluate hitters’ numbers. “We are getting close to doing that. We are moving forward, we just have to pull everything together. It’s not a financial issue. It’s the logistics of how it’s going to be managed.”

Albuquerque could maybe use that too. Colorado Springs is 800 feet higher than Albuquerque, but Albuquerque is warmer.

every one on the high desert

makes sense

nolander - February 10, 2012 reply

nite nite

I must find occasions to use this gif