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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, November 16, 2008David Cameron finalist for scholarship
If you enjoy USSMariner, vote baseball over politics here. [ I urge everyone reading this to go over there and put in a vote for David. He’s been a part of the baseball analysis community for 15 years, from usenet to StrikeThree to Baseball Prospectus to USS Mariner. Us baseball nerds have to stick together and there’s no excuse for not going over there and putting your vote in, an easy gesture for a valuable gain! -DS]. Vogon Poet
Posted: November 16, 2008 at 05:16 PM | 85 comment(s)
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No justice in the world - what else is new?
And I don't even like or read daily kos.
I mean, give BTF at least this much credit: though we may be 75% liberal and 100% douchechill-snarky, we would muster into the least-organized, most comically ineffective online mob in history if we ever even tried. Here's to cranky anti-tribalism.
Wait, is that like the flash game where you're the abominable snowman swinging his club at the penguins going for the greatest distance? That was fun.
I should root for Cameron. He's a late bloomer getting an econ degree at a small state college. Good for him; despite his anti-ERA stance.
Me too on both accounts.
Wha!...How bout all those years of helping Posnanski change the course of the Royals.
and wiffle ball and poker in the middle of the SABR-vention (ok, small sample)
We also either cured or worsened Mike Piazza's habit of Googling himself during the pre-registration days.
agreed. Also, I think dailykos and ussmariner share a few similarities.
Yep. Internet voting for this kind of stuff is just plain idiotic, it has absolutely nothing to do with who the most qualified person is and everything to do with how many people they can use their blog or other internet communities to drum up votes from.
Thank you Darren. The idea that one kind of get-out-the-vote campaign is OK but the other guy's is unseemly is silly.
BE WARNED : VERY NOT SAFE FOR WORK. VERY. NOT SAFE FOR MOST HUMAN CONSUMPTION.
http://img.4chan.org/b
B is the underbelly of 4chan. This is alot being in the worst part of Camden, NJ. It's a den of trolling, highly pornographic imagery, and various other sundry things. It also happens to be where the genesis of a very fair share of the internet's humor occurs.
And he's right; for example, lolcats started on /b. As did rickrolling.
Wait, is that like the flash game where you're the abominable snowman swinging his club at the penguins going for the greatest distance? That was fun.
Yep, except for whatever reason, that caught the zeitgeist, and it quickly expanded into a whole suite of games. "Yeti Sports" was big time for a while, but we were there before it even stored scores...
Well, for "humor", read "obnoxiousness". Either way, if you wake up one day and there's something incomprehensible all over the internet, there's a pretty good chance it started there.
You read me like an open book. I don't care for that lolcats stuff.
lolcats? What the hell is that? Internet scholarships determined by an online vote? Has the world gone mad? I mean, madder than it already is? I feel lost already this Monday morning. We need some hot stove action to set things right.
That's /b.
Maybe, but it's their money. They can pile it up in the midle of the street and set it on fire if they want.
Hey, that's what I did with my savings this year!
Between BTF, BPro, Hardball Times, and the zillion other assorted team blogs, we'd probably bring in double that.
Still did better than my parent's 401K.
I tied my 401K up to a pole near Half Moon Bay state beach on the night of the first Full Moon of Autumn and then chanted an old Ohlone spiritual until a 47 foot tall kraken emerged from the foamy water and ass-raped my 401K until it died gurgling in the misery of a billion dying worlds.
Yeah, it's been a great ####### year!
There's no arguing with that. I like to think I'm the same person on the internet as I am in "real life" but who knows. I actually swear more in real life than I do on the internet, though.
You still probably had a better return that most. This year has been a bloodbath for anyone with a retirement plan that didn't consist entirely of government bonds. I got absolutely slaughtered this year, and was still pleased because it wasn't quite as bad a slaughter as I expected.
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Funniest thing I've read on Primer in months.
EDIT: first word.
I know. It's been that bad a year. For a lot of plans, an ass-raping by an elder god would have been an improvement.
Thank you, sir.
If I set up a bot to generate a bunch of votes for anybody but Cameron, they could get disqualified, and Cameron could win.
If I set up a bot for Cameron, in hopes of his disqualification, he might *not* get disqualified, and would have a better chance to win.
So I guess I just need to cast as many legal votes as possible for the non-Cameron finalist with the most votes.
Which finalist is leading now?
BTW, Shooty, I missed your campaign suspension speech, if you gave one. Did you?
Then don't talk about it.
Like Sarah Palin, my campaign never ends. I'm already setting up a grassroots organization in preparation for 2012. I don't know who my running mate will be but I can guarantee you she will have big, big tits. McCain had the right idea, he just didn't execute properly.
You are on a roll, this morning. Can't wait to read your "position papers."
Drill, baby, drill!
I'm just glad you didn't suggest Phil Mickelson.
You know, it's probably not a good idea to advertise this - Shooty may change his 2012 platform to include a 100% villageidiom tax.
Windfall profit tax on villageidiom! The greed of villageidiom has destroyed the middleclass of America and cannot go unpunished. Also, villageidiom will be drafted for my war on the Cook Islands for good measure. Folks, this time we're gonna get 'er done!
edit: Flournoy, too.
Of course, that's a heinous, dishonest idea, I'm sure...
EDIT: a possible next step would be to see if you can use an IP-masker to vote multiple times, so you don't have to worry about switching IPs.
Of course, that's a heinous, dishonest idea, I'm sure..."
BTF is NYPA.
Of course it's not. Once he's elected, however, we'll all be part of Shooty's personal army.
Dude, of course it isn't...everyone knows it's Danz and Davidz. C'mon.
BTW, I enjoyed reading your Pirates blog while you had it going. Well-written, meaty baseball content.
Hopefully you'll be back?
EDIT: possessives.
Hopefully you'll be back?"
Maybe. I liked writing it as well (and I really liked having people read it), but it's a huge, huge time sink.
It seemed like it...you has some pretty high word-counts going.
Check out SDS (ultrashort ETF--S&P500;goes down 1%, the ETF goes up 2%). I've jumped in and out at various points over the past 18 months. I'm up 57.5% for the calendar year. I'll get out for good when we hit 770 on the S&P500;and then go back into conventional index funds.
Well, you, uh, sure showed me. I guess.
agreed .. +52
Well, I'm sure it's a virtuous, grassroots bot, as opposed to the cold, calculating bot the Friend of DK would employ.
Yeah, 4chan is the proof of concept of the Greater Internet ####-wad Theory.
Now why are you bringing me and my theory into this?
duh, after all, anything to beat DK is acceptable. they're worse than babykillers. or are babykillers.
Hey Shooty, here's another one for your windfall tax.
In my clearer moments, I suspect there are lots of issues on which we'd vote the same way, but none of them are fun to discuss.
Are these things a bunch of put options?
classy.
Apparently they lack the hive mentality required to pump out the votes...
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