Now, I’m aware that one may question the DogMa’s choice of subject (and S-O), but her talent is something at which I, as a card-carrying member of the Fine-Motor Challenged, can only marvel. So I’m showing-off this recent evidence thereof.
And like Michelangelo, she does contract-out her art for special occasions and occasional ceilings — she might even paint your porch, mang.
In other news, the WSJ weighs-in on … wait for it … stirrups!
Of course, unfettered competitive zeal is in the subtext. FTFA:
…Colorfast dye dispelled the poison-sock myth. Washing machines eased the germ threat. By the turn of the millennium, pant legs were dropping fast and the stirrup had become a vestigial accessory.
“It’s a negative apparatus, a detractment,” says John Moretz, chief executive of GoldToeMoretz, a giant sock maker based just down the road, toward Newton. “It serves no purpose. Its day is gone.”
To which Mr. Davis replied: “He says that because we make ’em and he doesn’t.”
That’s all I got — do I still get a blue krauthor tag?
DogMa’s quite talented, and I’m sure she captured something here.
W T F : Demetri Martin swings at ‘Moneyball’
I think Soderbergh should cast himself as Mark Ellis.
Michael Lewis is heading for a big fall, and this is how it starts:
“Moneyball” author has small penis, cruel family.
Fill in your best Liar’s Poker joke here.
Some hilarious comments over there…
I hear Tabitha calls it The Loneliest Monk.
bwahahahahaha!!!
That sounds godawful.
I am really looking forward to it. Martin I’ll reserve judgment on (I know nothing about him outside of his fey, emo-ish ads for his show), and Soderbergh can be wildly hit-and-miss, but I think it’ll be an audience-disregarding bit of clever hijinx.
Those are precisely the sort of Soderbergh films (see: Bubble) that annoy the shit out of me.
Haven’t seen Bubble. But, yeah, if it’s anything like Full Frontal (what with the celebritiness and the casually overstudied unstudied wackiness) it could be terrible.
No, I’m with 74 on this. It sounds awful. I wanna punch Dmitri Martin in the face (then maybe he can show me how fucking clever and cute he is) and I doubt a man who sold his soul for cash (Oceans 13, 14, and 15) will treat a subject so near and ear to my heart with the love it deserves.
Bah! 11 is awesome. Truly awesome. 12 not nearly so much, but still clever and more fun that it had to be. 13 … well, yeah, diminishing returns and all that.
Don’t gimme that “sold his soul for cash” bs. Unless you’re, I dunno, Kubrick or Bresson or Herzog, you’re in the film business to get your shit in front of paying customers.
11’s stolen mojo, plain and simple, regardless of how much fun it was.
(Whitey made movies?)
Moses, not Whitey.
Good Soderbergh films (in no particular order):
Traffic
Erin Brockovich
Out of Sight
Ocean’s Eleven
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
The Underneath
The Limey (indulgent, but not shitty)
Shitty, indulgent Soderbergh films:
Bubble
Full Frontal
Soderbergh films I haven’t seen because they sound like indulgent shit:
Kafka
Solaris
Che
Upcoming Soderbergh films I won’t see because they sound like indulgent shit:
The Girlfriend Experience
Moneyball
Soderbergh films I haven’t seen because they obviously suck:
The Good German
Ocean’s Twelve
Ocean’s Thirteen
Schizopolis isn’t on any of the lists! I’m guessing you would call it “indulgent shit”.
My personal Soderbergh rankings:
1) The Limey
2) Schizopolis
3) Kafka
4) Out of Sight
5) Solaris
The others I have seen, in no particular order:
) Sex, Lies, and Videotape
) Traffic
) Ocean’s Eleven
I haven’t seen the rest, Erin Brockovich is probably decent but I can’t stand Julia Roberts.
I’ll be very happy if Moneyball makes the second or third tier. And I’ll definitely watch it, as I don’t expect any other movies about the A’s and stats will be made anytime soon.
1. Out of Sight
2. Schizopolis
3. Solaris (74mk, it’s fantastic)
4. The Limey
5. O11
6. Erin Brockovich
It’s been so long since I’ve seen S/L/V and The Underneath, I don’t have an opinion on them. Haven’t seen Che or Bubble or King of the Hill. Gave up on Kafka after 10 minutes about … 10 years ago. Full Frontal and the Good German were absolutely unwatchable, not even good experiments, just crap. Traffic, in my estimation, is the one film he could be alleged to have sold his soul for lucre to make; it’s shameful, exploitative crap (“Drugs are bad! They make suburban white girls have sex with black men!”).
Feisty assertion: That is a wildly inaccurate reading of Traffic.
CYA backtrack from feisty assertion: I haven’t seen it in years, so who knows, maybe I would think differently if I watched it again.
I’d tell you to give Kafka another shot, but it’s not even available on DVD. If your local video store has the VHS, check it out.
Traffic: It was sub-par throughout, but the Michael Douglas press conference was the SeinfeldWalksOut.jpg moment for me.
I didn’t know Schizopolis existed until just now.
It looks sort of self-consciously madcap, so I hedged my bets by placing it at queue position 26: low enough that I won’t be looking forward to it (and therefore risk disappointment), but high enough that it stands a reasonable chance of eventually migrating to the top.
Obviously, you haven’t heard about Michael Bay buying an option on the Poetic Interludes.
Link?
The Limey may be indulgent in certain respects, but making an awesome revenge movie is a nice gift to the audience. (that one is my favorite too.)
You’ll see moneyball…
Martin as DePodesta has got to be the worst casting imaginable. The two are nothing alike and I’m assuming he’s going to be Martin instead of acting DePo.
He’s dirt bag and deserves nothing but scorn from any of us.
…I say we send a couple normal-looking clowns to his house.
Scott Hatteberg, movie star. Who knew?
Thet-thar’s some fine pigment-daubin’! And some fine cond’ment-barrin’!
And this (from the stirrups article) is some fine feature-writin’:
… but, on second glance, some wretched copy-editin’: why in Ba’al’s name would you hyphenate “low-brick”? It is not the bricks that are low, except in the aggregate as they constitute the building. If anything, a comma could be acceptable (if dimwittedly persnickety) there; a space would be preferable.
Do I recall thet you once played washtub bass for the Wretched Copy Editors? Or was it the Dimwitted Persknickers?
You’re thinking of when I played drums for the riotgrrrl band The Superfluous Hyphens.
They woulda made it big, but for the tragic misspelling of their name.
the tragic missspelling?
Her middle name’s Davey. I can die at rest, finally.
Alderson –> Giants GM?
I think Tango’s moralizing goes off the rails a little here:
Deploying three foot tall pinch hitters in high-leverage situations strikes me as akin to purposely fouling Shaq at the end of the game: within the rules, strategically justifiable, and profoundly uninteresting to watch.
Fans want to see legitimate hitters with legitimate hitting skills square off against pitchers giving max effort. How tiresome would it be, if in every clutch situation we had to watch pitchers lobbing the ball (as in a carnival booth with a stuffed teddy bear on the line) into a tiny strike zone, to “batters” for whom the bat is a pointless instrument?
Also, three foot players are only valuable insofar as they remain a novelty. Their entire advantage is predicated on incongruity, on the difficulty (much) taller pitchers would have hitting an extraordinarily contracted strike zone. If you had three foot pitchers, three foot left fielders, and so on, you’d have a different league entirely, and it certainly wouldn’t be comprised of the best baseball talent on the planet.
You might say, well, if everyone was Willie McGee-fast and Mark McGwire-strong, being fast and strong would also cease to be an advantage. That’s true, except that in addition to being fast and strong, you have to run down fly balls and/or scoop grounders and/or hit fastballs. Whereas there is a (virtually) endless supply of hypothetical three footers able to stand in the batters box for four pitches and jog to first base. After all 30 teams have a three foot pinch walker on their rosters, what happens to three footers 31 though 1000 (equally qualified!) who want to play in the majors? How do teams make decisions as to which three footer to keep, if talent and skill aren’t considerations? Isn’t that the opposite of a meritocracy?
So no, this is not a Jackie Robinson situation.
Veeck atteeck!
What about putting 9 3-footers on the roster in September … then a team could win all of its home games with a 9th inning walkathon. Make home field advantage count!
They all should play here.
Although I find it disturbing that a league “for short players” had it’s max height over half a foot taller than my height.
Can someone explain to me why the NSA was wiretapping Cloris Leachman?
1. They found her dancing was subversive.
2. Blücher!
From Wikipedia:
So she’s clearly a fellow-traveller.
Her proximity to both MTM and Mrs. Garrett from The Facts of Life make it imperative that the government always knows where Cloris Leachman is. It’s a matter of national security.
I sure wouldn’t allow it if I was a negotiator for the government surveilor’s union.
Hey, I thought you quit **
So far as I can tell, I’m the only one who did.
gso’s last comment over a month ago
I’m gog-only.
If I ever leave, my followers on twitter will the first to know.
And you did quite well on the last one. I was tied for 6th – I got a measly -1 for the Red Sux series, just another reason to hate Boston.
also 74mk, sal, maybe fsu.
sal’s still on the bottom masthead
I didn’t necessarily plan to leave forever, and I don’t find Nico quite as intolerable as others do, but now that nearly all the interesting folks/posts have left there’s not much point in returning.
I’m day-to-day.
Will there be a (litmus) test?
Yes. We’ll give you acid for your litmus test.
Oh! Can I have some?!
Thanks for spelling it that way.
I survived space cake — bring on the acid.
I think I must be on acid because I could swear Buck is in a platoon, but Geren said he’s not.
I’m all bark, no bite. Hell, I let Blazes fuck my wife and did nothing about it.
Plus no one was posting a goodbye DLD to me, and I caved.
Plus, it was an unforgivably stupid reason that makes you a big idiot. [/grover]
{sighs deeply}
{fills with more self-loathing}
{vows to eat more pizza}
{wishes Monkey felt more solidarity}
Yikes
Street is the only player to whom it is appropriate to pejoratively apply the term “inconsistent.”
Goodman on BBs2e7
Suddenly severed limbs have rarely been more watchable.
Suddenly severed limbs — wasn’t that the Brooke Shields vehicle?
Unfortunately no.
I picked a good time to get into it; watched the first six last week and the seventh on Sunday. Not as high on it as you or xbx or tg, but it’s still very good, and it’s not often I am wowed by anything, which I definitely was by that scene in the last episode… I’m going to post that whole scene in the next game thread…
Giambi’s head on a turtle would circle the bases at about the same pace as Giambi himself.
… and Gallego would still wave it in as it rounded third …
Excellent review and episode.
From Facebook:
Thumbs up.
The Chron should let Goodman cover sports. And politics.
They’ll probably have to.
Daniel Andreas San Diego tops FBI most-wanted terrorist list.
Sing it with me: Where in the world is Andreas San Diego.
RockapellaHookslide, take it away!ABC News made that joke already.
ABC News can fuck off.
No, seriously, we need sig lines.
But how do you feel about Tango’s moralizing?
You know what to do!
Michael Lewis green with envy.
Out on DVD today: The Wrestler.
The daughter wasn’t so good, but I really enjoyed it.
Not as Aronofsky as his other films, but still really well done.
I need to do my monthly queue purge/reorder.
new people who are or might be hurt: Corey Brown (some kind of knee thing); Barton (left game after hbp).
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=304&f=2062&t=2718182&p=74
There’s a non-free article from melissa lockhard about a bunch of other minor leaguers who are or are not injured.
1. Dana Eveland is the strongest A’s pitcher. He is also pitching tonight. I take this to mean that if the Yankee hitters do not cooperate, he will crush them like bugs (after pausing to fidget with his sleeves).
2. Chicago Tribune = Free Kraut:
But that’s what we do for this website. You mean we could get paid for this?
3. Well, crap. I was hoping Pom Wonderful was the real deal, because I just don’t have the discipline to save enough money to get my head frozen.
The Pom studies are likely total bullshit, but the writer’s use of scare quotes there (and from the way it’s written, gotta be the writer and not the editor) is predicated on the same illiterate confidence game.
And that fast, he’s already lost a vote.
You just don’t understand.
There was an article in wired about twitter and geotagging, and I came away convinced I wanted nothing to do with either of them.
I’m too young to be an old fart, but there you go.
Yankees Building New Vacation Stadium In The Hamptons
Two things.
First, it’s Marquez67’s birthday–if you wanna wish him happy birthday and no longer participate in CB wannabe message boards (aka DLD), email him at work: don@allmodularsystems.com
Second, DCinWC has horrifying news. Apparently, Tom Cruise and John Travolta are considering remaking Butch Cassidy.
At least that will make it a happy ending.
Fun Mad Lib:
Are you sure you used enough ________, there, Butch?
Speaking of which …
Oh, great, thanks a lot. Now I have a mental image of Roger Clemens in a jock.
Newman/Redford version: powder? dynamite?
Cruise/Travolta version: lube?
(grunting) “Who are these guys”
The final showdown will have them cornered at the APA annual meeting.
I don’t get it. They are my two favorite stars.
{ shows it to the Laker girls }
keepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogetherkeepittogether
Devine out for the season, Nomar and Geren are still annoying:
devine out for season, and…..
Not in the lineup tonight.
Like Eric Bedard, who has a reverse platoon split.
Rajai over T-Buck AGAIN:
Ryan Sweeney RF, Orlando Cabrera SS, Jason Giambi 1B, Matt Holliday LF, Jack Cust DH, Mark Ellis 2B, Eric Chavez 3B, Kurt Suzuki C, Rajai Davis CF
That is absurd.
I can only hope that Beane is trying to drum up trade interest to avoid letting him go for nothing.
putting him in the lineup would be a pretty strange way of trying to accomplish that.
Beane should stop using his Blackberry, and instead used Rajai to hand-deliver notes to other GMs.
The lineup, it hurts me.
Can someone kidnap Rajai for a while, maybe try to force Geren to let Travis play?
1. Davis better make like four ridiculous leaping diving stretching tumbling catches (after getting stupendous jumps and running like the wind) tonight.
2. I mean, for crying out loud.
3. Buck, career vs LHP: 813 OPS. Davis, career vs every-fricking-one: 657 OPS.
4. Ugh.
5. Wait, I spoke too soon. Davis is f***ing awesome against lefties. 321 OBP. 3 homers in 210 PA’s.
6. Fangraphs has him valued at -$1.5M so far this year.
7. He has a really unpopular name.
8. I am turning into Cutthemullet.
He’s on pace to zero out our entire team’s payroll. Sweet, free team! (That is how it works isn’t it?)
Top 3 A’s in OPS: Cust (.899), Holliday (.713), Sweeney (.635)
man, that’s depressing.
Cust is the only hitter with a positive VORP.
Q: full year of service time for Devine this year, yes?
A: Yep.
Stomper comes out in favor of legalizing weed
Oh. Oops.
If Stomper waited until 5:00 PM for his first drink the DTs would kill him.
Five o’clock comes early.
game thread open