Cup of Coffee: April 3, 2008
Posted by SBG on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 6:11 am
The Twins are not exactly hitting the cover off the ball yet.
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Keeping up with the ex-Twins:
Cincinnati purchases the contract of Mike Lincoln.
Florida releases Travis Bowyer.
Pittsburgh releases Hector Carrasco.
As I was half-asleep this morning, I heard the local radio people saying that "some magazine" has reported that the Twins have purchased the domain name landolakespark.com.
Since these were professional journalists we're talking about and not someone reporting from their mom's basement, they were sure to name their source - "some magazine."
It's on online magazine!
It's not an online magazine... it's the World's Greatest Online Magazine!
It's mentioned in Shooter's column today as well, but he paints it as if the club owns the three domains he mentioned. Wish he wouldn't have just parroted the club's line about domains - wheatiesfield.com and bestbuypark.com are registered to some guy out in Blaine who looks like a cybersquatter because he owns quite a few potential domain names. 3mpark.com is owned by 3M itself.
I thought they probably got it from one of the newspapers. All these guys do is read the newspaper.
Here's what Shooter said:
Thanks to Charley for actually attributing his information to this site. That's cool. (Although, where's the "World's Greatest"? I definitely have to file a trademark application.) The "are not available for purchase" is a neat little turn of a phrase, separating them from the "dozens" that the Twins own without recognizing explicitly that the Twins don't own them (but do own landolakespark.com). CarterHayes has done a great piece of investigative work and I thank him for allowing it to be published here. Free beer for you at the Convention.
Free beer? Whoohooo!
You can't really see what my mom's basement looks like in the picture above.
You must have tapped into zooomx's wine cellar, too.
Duff beer. A delightful middle-american lager made with mild Springfield hops and high-yield Barley-Malt grown just outside of the Burn's family estate and power plant. Not a delicate flavor profile, clearly designed for mass comsumption (in both senses of the phrase)
The wine looks to me to be a Lambrusco: A sweet Italian wine popular in America in the 70's. A common man's wine.
A common man's wine.
Say what you will, but Lambrusco was a step up from the bum wine swill I drank in college. Mad Dog 20/20, check. Thunderbird, check. Arriba, check. Wild Irish Rose, check. Night Train (an insalubrious little vintage with undertones of nightshade and ragwort, a robust peppery finish, and a pertinacious afterburn), check.
I never realized that Mad Dog 20/20 was a wine.
ah... the memories twayn... Mad Dog 20/20, Night Train!
Just to clarify, there are some nice Lambruscos in the world I am told. I was just flashing back to the sweet red wine my dad sold at our little town bar and grill in the 70's and earlly 80's
Mad Dog 20/20 : Wine :: "Lite/Light/Dry Ice Lite" Beer: Beer.
Lambrusco was to the seventies what Sangria was to the sixties, I think. According to Wikipedia, Lambrusco has a long history, dating back to Etruscan times, and it was prized by the Romans for its outstanding yields (Cato the Elder wrote that just 2/3 of an acre of Lambrusco grapes could produce 300 amphorae of wine). I think it's underrated by most wine drinkers these days because it's a young wine that lacks complexity, but it does go well with meaty pasta dishes and pizza, as well as with morally deficient coeds.
an insalubrious little vintage with undertones of nightshade and ragwort
Stick, I hope you are tracking here for candidates for the Hokme Award.
put your pants on, CH! The PiPress reader might stop by today!!
Isn't that the standard uni for the PiPress reader?
speaking of beer, I was reading the local paper, and discovered there is a brew pub in the area! Its 1 year old, and this is the first I have heard of it.
link to online story
so if you are traveling up or down I-35, and feeling a bit adventurous, make that 10 minute off the beaten path trip to Northwood Iowa to check it out
speaking of beer
one of the most beautiful three-word phrases in the English language.
Enjoying a beer
Three words that slip over the tongue even more beautifully.
Heading to the dome today! I'll be there at 10, right when the doors open. I have seats right on top of the Angels dugout, so I'll be sure to tell Torii a very unenthusiastic "Hello" from the Nation!
Let him know he chases the outside slider. That seems to impress him in a fan base.
Be a dear and tell him for me that we're going to be okay without him.
You know your day is off to a good start when 3 different people, including your boss, comes up to you with the same purchase order 3 different times to talk to you about the same mistake. If I write it one way, we stand to lose 20%+. If I write it the way I did, then it messes up our stock quantities. So, I'm screwed either way I write it. Considering I left the bar in a pretty bad mood last night and woke up still cranky, this is not helping the poor bastard I have to tackle in practice tonight.
hummm... yeah... if I could have that TPS report on my desk by Saturday, that would be great.
so twayn, in another thread I saw you went to SCSU. I took classes there from 86-90. When did you attend?
During the Reagan administration...pretty much the whole thing, expect I took a year off in 1985-86 at the behest of the University to re-evaluate my educational goals. I finally metriculated in '88, so we would have been there simultaneously for at least a couple of years.
matriculate: " To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register."
so, were you just auditing prior to 1988?
God, and I didn't even spell it right! So much for the quality of public education.
Hey Boss! Since you've got nothing better to do, here's a site suggestion. How 'bout a page listing a "top ten" of posts, either by most links or most hits (mebbe with a separate category for game logs)?
sounds mildly laborious to program, I suppose, but it would be cool.
and, wtf. maybe expand it to a page of descriptive stats on the site: e.g., graphs of users/pageviews by month over time. you could put it in the "About Us" page, I suppose.
and while I'm at it, when is ubelmensch going to put some bio up on the "About Us" page? It's embarrassing for us wanna bees to be there without him.
I'll get to it, I'll get to it....
and while I'm at it, when is ubelmensch going to put some bio up on the "About Us" page? It's embarrassing for us wanna bees to be there without him.
I don't really want to know who Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny or ubelmann is in real life. Why lose the magic?
Santa Clause?? Stupid Tim the Toolman Taylor infiltrating my psyche!!
Oh, I don't expect that he'll reveal his identity. More like he'll add to his WGOM persona.
Ubelmann is better as an idea than a real person. Man is but a bridge to the ubelmann
I don't have a way to capture views to a page with the stat counter that I use. Let me assure you that CarterHayes' recent post is about #2 on the all-time list. As for the top comments, that is easily accessible now, if you know where to look. (Warning that page is poorly formatted, one of several generally hidden pages that I have (not) been working on to fix.)
A general comment on page views: during the season, 2000 page views a day is about what I would expect. Having said that, since the beginning of this season to right now, we've had > 11,000 page views. So, things are trending upwards.
I started really following the Twins again at the end of 2006. Last year, I was looking around for information sources and started out spending a lot of time at the LaVelle/Joe/Howard trio of Strib blogs. After finding the WGOM and increasingly realizing how much time I was truly wasting browsing through braindead/repetitive comments at the Strib, I pretty much started just checking the game log comments here. Actually I think it was the sort of extreme, no-holds-barred braindeadery of the Strib Vikings blog comments during the football season that was the final straw.
I think as more Twins fans get into following the day-by-day through blogs, the more reasonable obsessives out there will end up here. It doesn't surprise me that your traffic is going way up: you guys have a good thing here.
gm, you're a member now, so it's
you guyswe have a good thing hereAwww.
Well thank you. The site is totally reliant on those who participate.
The Royals are an unbeatable juggernaut!
The Twins will be lucky if they are 2-5 by Monday morning.
My prediction of the Royals finishing above the Twins may be true.
New York pols have nothing on those in the Golden State. From my SacBee "Capitol Alert":
If the new ads are to be believed, [state] Sen. Jeff Denham is a narcoleptic, massage-loving gambler who's hurting schools and taking secret pay raises on the job.
btw, Boss. Whose visage are you sporting these days? It looks vaguely familiar, but....
Charlie Watts.
guuuuuh. I kept trying to go more in the direction of Dag Hammarskjöld, but I knew that wasn't right. Still, a major figure in international relations.
I'm thinking an astronomer or physicist. Maybe Georgia O'Keefe.
I kept trying to go more in the direction of Dag Hammarskjöld
Vad er du innebära?
What a craptastic game today. There were some positives - first, we got unexpected comp tickets from Best Buy when we were about to purchase cheap seats tickets and my daughter spun the wheel at the KSTP booth and won 2 tickets to the April 16 D-Rays night game. I also had her yelling GoGo Gomez every time he batted. I called the Hunter HR before the game - but missed it due to a restroom break.
big hockey game tonight at the X
the Wild can win the division and secure the 3rd slot in the playoff tree with a win tonight
Great game...Gabby should have had a hat trick, any of three different ways (the goal that got waved off for no reason, the 2-on-1 where Kip made a terrific save, the empty netter that he shot wide) but it was a fun one nonetheless.
I like their chances this time around in the playoffs. Of course, I am a hopeless homer when it comes to my teams.
Regarding the domain names issue, looks like Channel 9 isn't as progressive with crediting the alternative media as Shooter was. Still, all those extra domain names registered by the club confirms something I've heard from other sources.
sources? You got access or summat?
I don't know if "sources" is the most precise term, but I've had an interesting conversation since that original post was published. There's a post in the hopper that I want SBG to look at and approve before it goes public.
Gee, FOX 9 isn't progressive?
Let me add another encomium to your sleuthing prowess, CH. Great work. You're the WGOM's equivalent to Woodward and Bernstein. All the Preznit's Men.
Gee, FOX 9 isn't progressive?
Well, I don't live in the Twin Cities' media market, so I couldn't say if that station is more or less open-minded about blogging/citizen journalism than any other. Let's just say I'm not holding my breath waiting for somebody like Keith Olbermann to call me. Any guy who has the guts to use the phrase "the Internets" or "the Interwebs" on a show broadcast nationally each night gets my seal of progressive journalism approval.
Thanks for the kind words, E-6, but a lot of credit has to go to SBG, too. I might have connected the dots, but I would have been a voice crying out in the wilderness of summat were it not for the great site I was able to post it on. As he said in an email to me earlier today, there have been a ton of people trying to figure out the name for the new park. I just was lucky enough to put a few things together and know where to look.
Well, I don't live in the Twin Cities' media market, so I couldn't say if that station is more or less open-minded about blogging/citizen journalism than any other.
Fair enough. I'm not sure that any of them would qualify as progressive, anymore. I will say, a once-proud TV news market now offers little more than their parent company's company line. And apart from shilling for their own web-sites, I don't think any of them understand the power of "the interwebs."
(Plus, I just felt the need to get a dig in at the FOX News brand.)