The other night, Miss SBG got out of bed about 9:00 and I asked her why she wasn't in bed sleeping and she told me that she couldn't sleep because she had a smile on her face. That smile kept waking her up. Now, if that was my worst problem, life would be really good.
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Cup of Coffee2010 Prediction ContestSpreadsheet The third window is now open. Mail your changes to WGOMContest [at] stickandballguy, etc. Remember, the first change that you enter will be the one that I accept. The window will be open until the beginning of the 140th game. I have updated the spreadsheet and will try to do so after every game while the window is open. WGOM Sign InLog InCitizens Online26 Users Online Users: rob, strategery, spookymilk, UncleWalt, FirstTimeLongTime, Beau, 13 Guests, 7 Bots Recent Letters to the EditorIn Response to Capps Askew, Beau wrote: Thanks for this. What it all boils down to is that the role of "closer" inherently generates a ton of stress. In a situation where everyone expects perfection, only one or two people… spookymilk wrote: Great stuff as always, CH. The point about where we are in the season is the most important one, I think; I don't trust Capps in the playoffs, and that's why I can't get… FirstTimeLongTime wrote: Let me preface by saying I am not a Matt Capps fan. With that out of the way now there is something the Boss in March/April that stuck with me. Something along… In Response to GB Leighton - Twins Territory, FirstTimeLongTime wrote: If you are not having fun why play the game, right? cheaptoy wrote: That was the first time I really sat down and listened to that song. I got to the first chorus and could go no further. At least the kids in the front seemed to be… brianS wrote: Someone is trying to bring the Shat out of retirement. In Response to Game 140: Twins hosting the Royals, brianS wrote: because drinking beer while on-line would be pathetic otherwise? ;-) Milt on Tilt wrote: If youre not wishing for success, what's the point of fandom? DK wrote: Yeah, you're probably right. It's funny that I read this little bit before any of the bottom section of this log. This part feels like a whole other game now. brianS wrote: I assume socal was joking there. DK wrote: Yeah, I missed the game log at the time, and I certainly wasn't happy about the ending of this game as it was happening, but a lot of this log does read like some of… brianS wrote: I don't think any of us would be here if we didn't want him (and every other dude in a Twins uniform) to succeed when called upon. To borrow a line from Jean-Luc Picard: "Wishing… Milt on Tilt wrote: I'm not saying don't criticize him. I'm saying we should all want to see him succeed at this point. brianS wrote: Not having been here for the game, my spleen is still intact. And I can see socal's point. I think we collectively went off the deep end on Capps tonight. As in GOSO territory. sometimes… DK wrote: And I do think the numbers bear out that Capps, himself, has been shaky a lot but alright. There's been a lot of baserunners, but there's been a lot of BABIP, too, and I… DK wrote: Again, I'm sick of this whole "he's our guy we should be behind him" blind devotion thing. I refuse to look at anything uncritically. What the Boss said the other day was right… In Response to Cup of Coffee: September 8, 2010, spookymilk wrote: Oh, I see. Yeah, it's a wretched title. Well, now I can check it out with my hopes undiminished. AMR wrote: No, I meant the title sucks. It smacks of an overthought concept album (TI vs TIP, I am... Sasha Fierce). Luckily, that didn't happen and the album's very good. I went online… punmanbowler wrote: After tonight's victory, the Twins are 7-11 after winning the first two games of the season. Also, the Twins have been swept in a 3 game series only ONCE this year. In Milwaukee.… spookymilk wrote: Is it bad? Damn. I've been thinking about checking it out, but their peak seems to be long gone. 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I don't know if you guys have heard but the F-Bomb is looking good:
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Here is a You Chose: F-Bomb- Over/Under 4.5 FIP?
I'll believe it when he's seeing success in the last week of Spring Training or the first week of the season.
But he says he feels great!
I'm withholding judgement until I hear what Gardy has to say.
Gardy has said, and will say again, that "he's throwing the heck out of the ball."
No living fire? Then I'm not convinced.
He DID say living fire, but he was only repeating second hand information. I want to hear him say it from first hand viewing.
I guess that's better than throwing the stuffing out of the ball. I agree with Yick... err.... eschapp, though, if there's no living fire involved, I remain skeptical of any supposed improvements made.
i was wrong yesterday. swizzleback is only throwing the heck out of the ball. liriano's the one that's throwing the god fearing, everloving, living sh!t-fire out of the ball.
what I hear Buffalo saying is that F-Bomb can't sleep.
Exactly.
cc to Stick: I've been away for the last couple of days, but going back over the last few CoCs I saw your signal flare. Are you still planning on being in Winona tomorrow? I'll actually be out that way because I'm doing an oral history with a WWII vet over in Trempealeau Saturday afternoon. If you'd like to grab some coffee or something, that'd be cool.
I will be there. ETA 11:00AM. drop me a line at sbg at stickandballguy and we can exchange contact info and see if it works out.
On the one hand, I will be in Chico all day tomorrow (band festival). Home of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (and a mighty find restaurant/brewpub). They always have some interesting things on tap that don't make it to bottles.
On the other hand, the Music Boosters Club is paying for a bus. So I can't get there. :-(
I would give you major props if you found Kyle Lohse's childhood home and took a bat to the door.
For the writers in the room, an interesting piece at The Atlantic: The Search For Jewish Narnia
Don't get me wrong, I love Joe as much as the next guy, but he's inching into Jeter territory with all the fawning.
The fawning may be Jeter-like, but the story really shows that as a person he's the anti-Jeter. Mauer is an "Average Joe" that doesn't act like a primadonna, while Jeter is a playboy in New York City. The only real similarities is that it shows Mauer has a fierce competitive nature, which Jeter has a reputation for having as well.
Yeah, I wonder how often Jeter plays in bowling tournaments with some guys he just met.
This will all change when people find out Joe Mauer is into cat juggling.
Twins game on the radio and here's the starting lineup according to LEN3:
Denard Span, CF
Orlando Hudson, 2B
Joe Mauer, C
Justin Morneau, 1B
Michael Cuddyer, RF
Jim Thome, DH
Delmon Young, LF
J.J. Hardy, SS
Danny Valencia, 3B
Carl Pavano, RHP,with Matt Guerrier. Jon Rauch, Clay Condrey and Rob Delaney among the scheduled relievers.
That could be your Opening Day lineup. I would love to see Valencia win the job since he would actually have to go out and win it. Just need to replace Kubel with Thome. It's nice to see all the new players starting in the first home spring training game. Lets the fans see the new players. Interesting that Delmon is batting ahead of Hardy and there was talk of Hardy batting second before O-Dog was signed.
Neck Tat is Tall.
got to love the 4 run first inning
Twins shut out BoSox 5-0.
- Four runs score in the first, with Lester finally retiring the sixth batter for the first out.
- Morneau with the 2 run double; Rams and Parmalee also double
- Mauer 0-1 with a walk + threw out the only SB attempt by Boston
- HOF'ers Thome and Toby Gardenhire each strand 3
- Ullger gets his first runner thrown out at the plate; strong start, Scotty.
- Pavano with the win
- 'Lexi did not look that good in the great CF experiment
Tomorrow F-Bomb throws the ever-livin' cr@p-fire out of the ball for the Twins.
Things are looking grim back up in Fargo:
This no melting at all is not only frustrating in terms of a seemingly never-ending winter, but the result is that the snowpack is just sitting there until the temperatures spike way up and cause all hell to break loose.
A question for the Nation's husbands:
Last night was something of a disaster at Chez Hayes. At 7:00 I met up with some friends, a few of them fellow vets, for a screening of The Hurt Locker, which I hadn't yet seen. I had four beers during the movie (this variety), talked for a bit afterward with the guys I'll be TAing for next semester, and then drove the 35 minutes across town to home. When I get there, Mrs. Hayes says I'm jittery, smell like weed, have bloodshot eyes, am acting high. Take a shower before you come to bed, she says. I've never smoked weed in my life (possibly the only person my age who hasn't?), and the only time I've been high in my life was following surgery when I took oxycodone on an empty stomach. Now, given my intimacy with the subject matter of the film I would have liked to smoke a few cigarettes before I came home (I quit the tobacco snacks five years ago out of consideration for Mrs. CH's wishes), but didn't precisely because I didn't want to smell like smoke and upset her. Go figure.
Since I'm only a year into the gig, I'm wondering - is this experience some sort of husband rite of passage? I mean, it's not like I came home smelling of some undergraduate's cheap perfume. Heck, I don't even know what I came home smelling of, and the best answer I got was "I may be stupid, but I'm not that stupid."
You smelled of hops, no joak. As it turns out hops are part of the same plant family that produces "tasty buds". The volatile oils in particular hops (and combinations of hops) can seep out of your skin emitting an oder very similar to that of skunky weed. On the other subject, I've found that during the 4 years of marriage (and the extra 6 while we were living in sin) we have had some interesting fights that boil down to the fact that it's easier to lash out at the person you share a space with than it is to deal with unrelated problems (see: work, school, finances...). Just my .02.
Boy are you right on the money there, man. Mrs. CH is under a lot of stress right now. She works for three partners in the tax department of a local CPA firm, so that's meant 60 hour work weeks since mid-January.
And you were out drinking with your buddies. Not saying you did anything wrong, but one must be careful about such things. Oh hell, don't listen to me. I'm as clueless and desperate for answers as anyone else.
One of the problems with her moving up here a few years ago meant that most of the friends we have were my friends first through the university and have become hers by extension (although by now we're talking about some really good, strong friendships for everyone concerned). Mrs. CH's lady friends are mainly down in Chicagoland, and she doesn't see them regularly. So, yeah, she's a bit starved for her own social circle independent of our marriage and mutual friendships, and I could see her being upset about my night out with the boys simply because a similar night is unavailable to her presently.
I have no idea. I do know that when we moved down to Chicagoland, I could spend time with people I knew from work outside of work. But all of my wife's friends were back here in the Twin Cities. That created some tough times. Then she got pregnant with our second child and the needle went to 11.
I've definitely been in that boat before (and I'm just past the 2 year mark). It always seems like a balancing act because my wife, at least, is super sensitive about stifling my friend time but at the same time hates to be away from me (and moreover hates going to bed alone). That invariably leads to her being annoyed after if I do go but annoyed before if I have the opportunity and don't take it. It seems like in my case, the best way is to keep communications open.
And on the plus side, everything like this just gets more exciting once you're expecting!
I could see her being upset about my night out with the boys simply because a similar night is unavailable to her presently.
I don't know your wife, of course, but with some women (I dunno, a lot? most?), their own social connections, or lack thereof, is all beside the point. They just don't want their husband going out to have fun without them anymore--and to go out for drinks with the boys, particularly, may require a special punishment. You leave the house without her, man, you best come back bearing gifts, food, or a paycheck! Possibly a note from your doctor or mechanic will do, if it's not yet dinnertime.
Private time tends to be a sticky issue in my marriage, and I know someone who is getting divorced largely because his wife wanted to control his social life and couldn't handle his occasional night out with his buddies (he's also former military, btw). If you can get this issue out in the open with your wife, before you have kids, I think you'll be much happier for it down the road.
Luckily Mrs. CH is pretty good about private/personal time. I have a monthly music club I attend on my own, and I get together with profs occasionally for beers and shop talk, and she's never begrudged me that time. On the contrary, I think she likes it, because it gives her a chance to have the house to herself so she can watch all the bad TV she can while I'm not there to comment on it. I do try to include her in some other things, like a "survivor's group" of fellow students of a certain former West Point prof I study under, so I think she understands I'm trying to strike a good balance. I could probably try bringing back a present occasionally following a night out, just to see what happens.
Socially speaking I'm in the same camp that your spouse is in, I'm at the mercy of my wife's social connections through her department. My opportunities to meet people are pretty limited and when we do go out it's generally with the like minded folks from her job, not that I'm complaining. It's rough on a spouse who isn't really socially adept as in the case of our friends here, he isn't particularly social, fun guy, interesting, smart, funny, but kind of shy and thus far he really hates Tejas. The other rough part is feeling like your social identity is tied to your spouse's job evaluation.
So, in a nut shell: you out with the boys + stress from job / home / whateveresle + possible social frustration = powder keg. The key to this is to let it pass. Dr. Chop and I have very different social patterns and desires, I could stay out all night to listen to a band in a bar, even a crappy band in a crappy bar, she can not. There is usually very little pressure on me to leave any social engagement, but I've found through the years that I would rather end a night a bit early to hang out with her at home, well at least most nights anyway.
meat, you bring up some good points that I'm going to have to keep in mind as I progress down the same route as Dr. Chop. Goodness knows where we'll wind up, but I'm going to have to be cognizant of the social dynamics once we reach that stage, all the more so if we have kids by then as UncleWalt and rob attested.
A present tied to a night out might make you look like a suspect, like you're guilty of something.
Try offering to get her a massage or something of that nature, not tied to your night out.
Good call, Moss.
If you want a marriage to last, you have to pick your battles. This sounds like it may not even be related to your night out with the boys, though, it may just be a case of displaced aggression. Hard to tell with women sometimes. Have your forgotten a birthday or anniversary or anything lately?
Thankfully, no forgotten birthdays, anniversaries, or anything like that. I was slow on the draw with getting my 1098T to her (though it was on her desk at home before I left last night), but that's the only real burr in the saddle in the last few weeks.
Always wise to pick your battles. Not just which ones, but when. I would say tread carefully until May considering her occupation. Also, if she lashes out at you, try to be sensitive to where she's at instead of taking it personally. Ask her is she's OK. My wife's a teacher, and after 14 years I've found that she sometimes just needs someone to vent to and if she can't vent to me, she'll vent at me. Usually, just listening with empathy to her frustrations is all she needs.
Thanks, socal. I'm going to talk to her tonight about the workload she's been shouldering. She knows I'm concerned about her being overworked because I've been pretty vocal about some of the liberties her partners have been taking, but it never hurts to reiterate my support/concern and keep communication open.
I have walked more than a few miles in a similar pair of shoes, my friend.
I got home real late last night. My cats meowed. I decided not to fight that fight. I fed them and went to bed.
did you actually drink that beer, or were you trying to make a point ;)
Trust me, I wondered this morning what I had uncorked last night!
mmm, Flying Dog!
It will pass, CH. Just remember, you are wrong and she is right.
Having been in situations that are similar, but not the same (I had huge drug problems years before I met my wife and have always been very candid with her about them), I think it's possible she wants a reason to be mad at you for leaving her alone for the night, and in the absence of a good reason, she created one. I mean, I don't know her, but I know that this has happened to me. FWIW, when this happens, she admits it a couple of days later.
Looks like frightwig covered this already. Okay then.
Thanks for sharing the perspective and advice, guys. As I type this Mrs. CH is crashed out on the couch next to me. Riverwalk Jazz is playing on the radio, and meat's hops explaination seems to have gone over pretty well. We haven't discussed much else yet, but there's plent of time left before I hit the road tomorrow, and it's probably just as well that she's resting. Cheers to everybody who chimed in; I really appreciate it.
Chester Taylor is a Chicago Bear. (via twitter)
aarongleeman
RT @Adam_Schefter: Chester Taylor reaches agreement with Bears on a four-year, $12.5 million deal that includes $7 million guaranteed.
Not surprising to me (I fully expected him to leave), but disappointing. He's been a good soldier for the Vikes. Best of luck to him.
Yea, that's a sweet deal. Good for him. Too bad it's the Bears, I think there's a curse on RBs with that club.
In related news, the Vikings can now sign an unrestricted free agent for up to $12.5 million. Apparently teams in the final four (or is it eight?) of the NFL cannot sign unrestricted free agents unless they lose one first and then for only the money that their lost FA got.
Just imagine if the Yankees were so constrained.
What I wonder is if that can be a 1 year $12.5 million deal of if the structure of the deal must be similar.
The gossip on ESPN today is that the Bears are close to signing Julius Peppers, as well. Fair warning to Brad Childress. He can start thinking about alternate plans for blocking Peppers, now.
Peppers' gonna look awesome in those old school Bears uniforms. Those Teal uni's of the Panthers never did him any justice.
Bryant McKinnie's Planter Fascitis just got a whole lot worse.
Those Panther unis are sub-Arena League.
This from LEN III:
Oh and KFAN's Common Man has source who is reporting that Mauer will sign by Sunday at 8 yrs and 22 mill per year with option for years 9 and 10 at 23-25 mill per year.
Now I know it's the Common Man, who I loathe, but he's been right on this stuff before and he's close to Mark Rosen. So there could be a kernel of truth there. We'll find out by Sunday I guess.
Common also makes up 98% of his show
My best guess for the next guy to have made a bazillion dollars in the NBA and end up without a pot to pee in:
Hmmm. A drinking problem, a gambling problem, a variety of legal problems, a divorce and child support for five kids? He's going down.
It's a sad deal. I've always liked AI. He's got his demons, no doubt, but he played very hard.
Throughout his career, he's had a reputation for running with a large entourage, as well. And, according to The Repository, the rapper's name he chose for himself, when recording his unreleased album in 2000, was "Jewelz."
On an unrelated note, or maybe not, did you know that his sick daughter's name is Messiah? Bless the little girl, I hope she gets well. But what goes through a person's head when deciding to give a name like that to a baby?
So I finally get a chance to buy/play MLB 10, and the PSN is giving me trouble and I can't even get into the game (I need to download an update). I'll see y'all eventually, I swear...
I won't see ya. Unless of course I'm able to steal someones Wifi in my apartment. At least not for a while.
I was having some wifi connection problems with my router at home so I disabled encryption for a couple of days while I fiddled with settings. I finally stabilized the connection, then while doing some speed testing and diagnotics discovered somebody in the neighborhood was running a server on my internet connection. Oy.
Those dirty rotten thieves. How dare they!?
heh
I hate getting stuck with an update when you fire up the game. MLB's patch is over 300MB I think, which takes forever with my crappy DSL connection. Even worse are the stupid firmware updates.
I normally have a nice connection, but the area is having issues today so my downloads are brutal.
My WiFi here is fine, but I found out that the motor on our treadmill puts out enough RF interference to bring the wireless to a crawl...
awesome! my second favorite new show 'Community' on NBC got picked up for a second season. My favorite new show is 'Modern Family' on ABC
I love Modern Family.
I know that this was covered yesterday, but it makes me a little sad that The Way Things Go isn't being talked about along side the coverage of the 'ground breaking' vid by OKgo.
Awesome! (And a better "soundtrack", to boot.)
FTW.
Watching the Indians-Reds on MLB Network and quaffing a Grain Belt. Jay Bruce just snapped his bat in two on a checked swing, and got rung up for strike three because the bat finished the swing even though the batter didn't. I've never seen that before. Also, according to the announcers, Orlando Ballgame is the reason the Twins won the AL Central last year. I'm not sure when New Guy got the announcer gig, but there you go.