random pieces

tbridge:

No matter what I have for lunch, it will now be inadequate.

tweetface:

For Jaime.

ffoodd:

Bacon Guacamole Grilled Cheese Sandwich (by Kevin - Closet Cooking)

Dammit, Tom. Now I’ve gone from thinking about lunch to thinking about how I’ll inevitably be let down by lunch.

tbridge:

chartier:

Square is at it again:

Pay with your name. Set up a tab at your favorite places. Order a coffee or sandwich, and walk away. Payment is automatic.

Oh my golly. Yes. Please.

The list of places in DC needs to get longer.

That said, maybe I’ll get to try this when I’m in SF in a few weeks.

tbridge:

mightyflynn:

Bethany Heck, the designer behind the The Eephus League of Baseball Minutiae, reports that she’s working on making EL scorebooks available soon. Here’s the latest:

I’ve been working on an alternate scorebook design that’s a bit larger and a little more down to business. There are more slots for tracking stats and an additional inning per games, and the grid is a bit larger, so you have more room for notation. I’ll also be able to put a lot more cards in a book with this size, probably at least 40 games. These will be 7×10, which is bigger than the pocket size but it’s still purse sized for the ladies and less cumbersome than a 8.5 x 11 spiral bound beast.

See the larger page layout here.

If you’re a regular visitor to the Eephus League site, you’ve probably seen some of my posts over there, as well as those of other baseball tumblrs and blogs. It’s all a part of Heck’s plan to build an EL community. I couldn’t be happier about being asked to contribute, and I hope you’ll visit the site often and do your part to ensure its success, too.

This covers three of my core competencies:

1. Baseball
2. Paper Product
3. Scorebook

If you need me, I’m going to be over here dreaming about what is to come. *faint*

I want this so hard that I don’t even have the words for it.

Pretty much every year, there’s something that makes me think I should score kore baseball games. Looks like we’ve got 2011’s temptress.

tbridge:

nightline:

This move is called the prime minisMACK

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin goes Bruce Lee in St.Petersburg on Dec. 22, 2010. (Ria Nosto, Alexei Druzhinin /AP Photo)

Today in Pictures

I think, if our President did this? He’d be way more awesome.

Instead, he gets stitches on the basketball court instead of giving them. 

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

Reminds me of back when Clinton got busted with Lewinksi, et al. One of the news mags (Newsweek?) had a quote from a Russian man on the street-type who said something like “I did not like Bill Clinton before. But now I know he is a real man.”

I wish I could find the actual quote / source someplace.

tbridge:

mightyflynn:sbnation:jeffbaum:sbnation:moooradley:

WHY YES, THAT IS ROY OSWALT PLAYING LEFT FIELD.

Only one pitcher — Javier Lopez in 2009 — has played a non-pitching position since 1980.

Not true! As documented in the classic documentary “1986 - A Year to Remember”, The Mets pulled the following off:

The Mets were 13-3 at the end of April, 31-12 at the end of May, and 50-21 at the end of June. The Mets quickly developed a reputation around the league as an arrogant team that would brawl at the drop of a hat. Third baseman Ray Knight was perhaps the prime offender, charging the mound after being hit by pitches, and starting a fight with Cincinnati’s Eric Davis after Davis slid hard into him at third base.

This particular game was a demonstration of Davey Johnson’s managerial skills. The Mets and Reds were tied 3-3 in the tenth inning when Knight and Davis were ejected, and the game dragged on to an eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth inning. Johnson, with his short bullpen, replaced Roger McDowellwith Jesse Orosco, but sent McDowell out to play left field. McDowell and Orosco then alternated between the mound and left field, depending on whether the situation called for a right-handed or left-handed pitcher. Ray Knight’s replacement, Howard Johnson, stroked a three-run homer and won the game in the 14th inning.

The SBNation post missed several cases of pitchers in the field, but I love the juxtaposition of these three cases.

• Oswalt: forced into field to replace an ejected player.

• McDowell and Orosco: truly a bit of ingenious managing to make the best of what could’ve been a very bad situation for the Mets.

• Lopez: sucked so badly that the manager banished him to RF and had then-right fielder come in to pitch. Straight out of little league.

This was 2 days after he dropped the 3rd out of the 9th inning and allowed the winning run to score from third.

It probably shouldn’t come as a shock that Sox let Lopez go 10 days after his adventure in right field.

…and no, I don’t miss him. Why do you ask?

gatsbylives:

rufustfirefly: (via sonicbloom11)

Years on and I still  blame the general TV viewing public for their inability to recognize how awesome this show was.

It’s simple. We need an Aaron Sorkin channel. New Studio 60, new Sports Night, and The West Wing where Sorkin does’t leave after the 4th season.