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lil_brown_bat has posted 184 links and 5262 comments to SportsFilter and 59 links and 689 comments to the Locker Room and 5 columns.
How to go 0-8 and still win the ballgame: if your DH isn't getting it done as a DH, pretend there's no such thing as a DH rule and make him pitch.
posted by lil_brown_bat to baseball at 09:27 PM on May 06 - 9 comments
Back button don't work with Chrome: Post a comment, hit the back button. You go back to the page where you were editing your post. Hit back again, you go to the thread with the comment posted. Back again, you\'re back to the edit page. Back again, thread with the comment posted. The bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain, and what do you think he saw?
posted by lil_brown_bat to feature requests at 11:01 PM on January 26 - 2 comments
Not your business: after a yes-it-is-no-it-isn't ruling on the permissability of her underwear, Tina Maze tells the FIS where to get off.
posted by lil_brown_bat to other at 09:11 AM on January 19 - 8 comments
The members of many collegiate women's sports teams....aren't: Aren't what? Aren't women? Aren't team members? Aren't athletes? The answer: yes.
posted by lil_brown_bat to other at 08:23 AM on April 26 - 13 comments
Jets fined $100,000 for Alosi tripping incident: the NFL has announced a $100,000 fine against the New York Jets for violating league rules in the incident where Jets strength coach Sal Alosi tripped Dolphins gunner Nolan Carroll during a punt return.
posted by lil_brown_bat to football at 09:03 PM on December 30 - 3 comments
I don't think that would be true to the average person though.
You'd hope, though, that someone called on to approve or promote a deal like this would do due diligence that went far beyond the corporation's celebrity public face. And that's why you'd choose politicians over venture capitalists: the former are seemingly well out of their depth, the latter less so. Although with the benefit of hindsight, I'd say that everyone involved would have benefited from a big huge "Ha, no" back when the deal was done. Acceptance can buy you much more trouble than rejection.
Latest news, they will pay RI (something at least). It's their employees who won't get paid.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 01:26 PM on May 18
Is this a direct response to the Fenway debate or is this a general statement?
It's directly relevant to Fenway, because that's the park that I know the best. I moved to that neighborhood in 1991 or 1992, I think it was, and when I left in 2000 the changes were just starting to really get underway (the whole "build a big new park somewhere else/build a big new park right next door/work with what we got" debate was in the recent past). I still work in Boston and so I've been by there on a regular basis ever since, and the changes are really jaw-dropping. And, of course, I watch a lot of games, mostly on television, and I've seen plenty of changes as viewed through the small screen, too. And the real change isn't in the development and the "standing room only" section and the corporate boxes -- it's the whole change in emphasis. It's not a ballgame anymore, it's an "entertainment experience". Mind you, I have every reason to believe that this is widespread, perhaps even universal, in MLB today. But this is the one park where I have the most feet-on-the-street experience with the whole process of this change as it happened.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:43 PM on May 17
Saw this earlier today. I'd be happy to see Schilling take one on the chin, but unfortunately I have a friend whose husband is employed by 38 Studios who moved and who bought a house near Providence when the company relocated to RI. Schilling will probably be just fine; it's people like my friend and her husband (and of course the state of RI) who will be hurt. But, that's the chance we all take when we take a job, I guess.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 10:33 PM on May 17
But I have seen Baseball games in many parks around the league and NOTHING comes close to the experience of a game in Fenway or Wrigley field. No high end steak restaurants, cheesy pyrotechnics or mechanical fish for me, just a great ballpark and the game itself.
Have you been to Fenway recently? Like, in the last 15 years or so? I ask because it's changed quite drastically under the current ownership. It seems to me that their efforts in stadium renovations have all been aimed around upscaling the experience, and they sure have been effective in marketing the whole "going to see the Red Sox at Fenway" experience as an exercise in getting sentimental about faux nostalgia, collecting an "I was there" memory to talk about around the office water cooler, taking some vid to post to youtube of you and your buds drinking overpriced beers...about a whole lot of things that are peripheral at best to the game of baseball. No mechanical fish that I've yet seen, but overpriced bars and restaurants abound, and the cheese factor is thick enough to cut with a knife. I don't know how real fans can deny it or hope to reclaim it, not when it's been turned into a "vicarious time machine for Ivy League nostalgics and slumming politicians". Sorry, real fans, it just ain't about you any more.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 11:22 AM on May 17
I don't have face or palm enough for this story.
I think I would rather hear Charlie Pierce say (in whatever way he's saying this time) "--but it gets better!", than hear just about anybody say anything.
(except perhaps, "Congratulations, you just won the Powerball.")
posted by lil_brown_bat at 12:28 PM on May 15
While the irony of it is initially amusing, the violation of a person's rights, whether they be gay, straight, or bigot is not a good thing.
If, indeed, they are rights. Free speech is not an unrestricted right, and never has been, in the United States or anywhere else. More to the point, the right to free speech in the United States has never meant that you have the right to speak without consequences. You have the right to publicly state your low opinion about gays...but you don't have the right to retain your job if your employer hears that opinion and forms the judgement that someone with that attitude is not going to be able to perform the job correctly.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:59 AM on May 14
We have the right to deny others' rights? Is that the idea here?
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:25 AM on May 14
The first amendment applies since he is a state employee speaking out on a matter of public concern.
"A matter of public concern"? Who someone has sex with is "a matter of public concern"?
For God's sake, please tell me that I've completely misunderstood and that you didn't just say something that any reasonable person would have considered antedliuvian forty years ago.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:02 PM on May 13
Give university officials credit; there are probably a number of schools where officials would have succumbed to this pressure and fired him even though there's probably almost as much support for him. Of course, the school would have faced a lawsuit which it would have had little chance at winning.
You're a lawyer, well-versed in employment law, and so are speaking from experience?
I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK "bigot" is not a protected category. If I'm wrong about that, please correct me.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:55 PM on May 12
Oh my, Zap Comix. You know, in a lot of ways, I think this was an extremely healthy influence, and I do say that in all seriousness.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:59 PM on May 10
"Acceptable", no, not in my house. It will be interesting to see whether CBS considers it acceptable.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 09:45 PM on May 10
All the way throughout their history, the Astros have dominated in the ugly uniform category. They always look like they are wearing uniforms made from a 1962 Holiday Inn bed spread.
Oh, I love this.
What they failed to mention as they kowtowed before the NY pinstripe altar is that not every player looks good in those pinstripes. Winfield looked stylish and regal. Sabathia looks like Winnie the Pooh in pajamas.
Hey, let's not forget that the pinstripes' slenderizing effect was also completely inadequate to make David Wells look like anything but a fat slob. He made Sabathia look lean and mean.
(also, my vote for best looker in the pinstripes? Mo. Hands down.)
posted by lil_brown_bat at 11:11 AM on May 10
What the hell is an eephus?
In the '70s, as a wet-behind-the-ears fan of the pinstripes, I just knew this as La Lob.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:48 PM on May 08
tahoemoj: in fact, it means a great deal. Thanks for that.
posted by lil_brown_bat at 08:40 PM on May 08
Rockies Eject Visiting Fan for Throwing Homer Back
I don't get it. I mean, if they're going to toss every fan for making a stupid dickhead gesture, they're going to empty the stadium, and as stupid dick gestures go, that one is pretty tame.