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Yes, well, he sucks.
i watched every AB he had this week against the astros and he's just not able to drive the ball like he used to. 4 of his flyouts would have been out of the park in 05. and even his grounders are weakass.
he looks decent in the field because he know the Box so well, but, he looks cooked with the bat fer SHER
i kinda feel sorry for the guy because if i was him i wouldn't want to go out looking this bad... and here i am feeling sorry for a washed up guy who killt my team for years - kept us out of the series in 04, got on base before The Infamous Pujols Homer in 05, which ended up costing us the series...
retro
wtf is wrong with your handle? what is all them stupid boxes for?
That's how they showed up on mine, too, until I submitted this item. Now, I get an odd combination of boxes, slashes, question marks, and what appear to be Chinese or Korean characters.
In any event, I suppose looking at my fecked up handle is a lot more entertaining than watching Jim Edmonds.
I have no idea where the hell this hodgepodge of characters came from. I kind of like it, though. Just call me the poster formerly known as retro. It's my own personal symbol.
1) the website is expecting UTF-8 on forms because it seems to generically specify that as the output, and
2) the underlying databases are still configured as Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1).
Translating between the two can cause all kinds of havoc. Taking a look at the scharfes S in the last character in your username (I'm assuming you were going for the German word "scheiss", one of those naughty words my high school teacher Herr Bannehr wouldn't give us but my college professor would), the Latin-in-Unicode symbol is U+00DF, corresponding to the ISO-8859-1 encoding of DF. Taking a binary dump of this page and looking particularly at your name derives this snippet:
0000220 275 s n 357 277 275 s c h e i 357 277 275
bd 73 20 6e ef bf bd 20 73 63 68 65 69 ef bf bd
That is some seriously mangled stuff. The correct encoding of U+00DF should be C3 9F. What's escaping the tailpipe at BTF isn't even close, and isn't even well-formed UTF-8. In fact, if you look at this, all the high bit characters are coming out as triplets. Weird.
Here's a test of the scharfes S: ß. Seems to work okay when posting, just not when changing your userid.
Having just come over from the comic cover thread, maybe Retro's handle is like the visage of Galactus, where each race sees him in their own image.
I must just be clueless, because everything comes up question marks. Of course, I live in a world where Jim Edmonds plays center for the Cubs, the Yankees are in last, and Barry Bonds can't possibly help the Mets. I'd hate to become even more enlightened.
Seriously.
I don't know what that is, but it sounds cool as hell.
It is this kind of end to a great career that makes it difficult for one to get into the HOF. Edmonds deserves a look at the HOF as he was one of the best CF ever.
I always thought Erstad was one of the Angels who didn't like Edmonds because he didn't have a punter's mentality.
Pie (27 ABs): .111/.226/.222; .095 BABIP
Not that he should have been sent down in the first place, but this is a particularly bad time to have an unlucky slump.
What your browser decides to do with improperly encoded characters is its business. Firefox under Linux uses diamonds overlaid with question marks.
Well, that's a typically libertarian viewpoint.
Is it unlucky? I'd guess he's sulking. I don't blame him, but that's what I think it is.
Yes, five and a half years from now those voters will never be able to shake the memory of the last 30 games of Jim Edmonds's career.
Yes, five and a half years from now those voters will never be able to shake the memory of the last 30 games of Jim Edmonds's career.
Not that Jim Edmonds is really Hall-worthy, but it doesn't seem like ending a career with bad performances is much of a barrier of getting into the Hall. I mean, look at Steve Carlton.
I was the DB and data migration guy, not the system architect. Was this system hard to maintain? Indeedy, it has. But we did sort out all the code set conversion prior to going live, at least until the French go hold of it and ran into problems using their government mandated French language Front End. (Our company requires all scientific analysis to be written in English! Nipplerent would have seethed over that gov't intervention).
1) For some time prior to the conversion, I had been converting incoming merchant feeds to UTF-8 in the database despite the fact that they were being stored as Latin-1. Lotsa fun there, as some of that became temporarily unsearchable until those magic characters slowly percolated through the system and were converted later.
2) One of our non-merchant data providers were sending us data encoded in three or four different ways without us knowing about it until we started looking deeper at the feed for non-ASCII character usage. Ever hear of DOS-437? Neither had I until I finally figured out that's what they were sending us! We called them on it (it was supposed to be ISO-8859-1, or at least its proper superset, Windows-1252) and they eventually corrected it. Fortunately, the number of titles involved was pretty minimal.
3) Telling MySQL that you're going to change the default character set of a table along with the data inside can have the peculiar side effect of unwittingly changing the field length. In particular, it cuts it down by 75%, because the assumption apparently is that a varchar(1) is now as wide as four bytes. This can have some surprising effects, needless to say. It also doesn't appear to be consistent.
4) PHP is even dumber than Perl when it comes to handling UTF-8. I'm no fan of the Perl Unicode implementation, but at least it's consistent. (Though... why can't you tell XML::Parser that the filehandle it's been given is already set for UTF-8?) But come to think of it, PHP being dumber than Perl is par for the course.
Our migration got started on a Tuesday afternoon, IIRC, and we didn't finish (I should say, I didn't finish) until 6:00 the next day. One of those things where you have to go balls to the wall for sixteen hours or so. I'm glad it's over.
and the other line of note at Iowa is 336/438/418. That's lovely and all in its way, but an ISO of 82 at AAA is not promising. Still I suppose we could do worse than Fukudome in CF and a Hofpauir/Murton platoon in RF. Before anyone makes fun of that suggesting, remembering we are currently proving that we can indeed do worse than that.
The "upside" of the Edmonds signing is it kept us out of the Jacque Jones sweepstakes. :-)
If we're set on having a CF/RF combo where one doesn't hit, let's at least get a Patterson or Gathright or something that can actually catch a lot of balls. Of course we already have one of those (Pie). What's Gary Pettis up to these days? :-)
Edmonds sucks.
You may have learned this from Carl, but the letter "e" does not get an umlaut. There is no such thing, as basically the umlaut is a form of the letter "e."
Put another way an umlauted "o" is essentially the same as "oe."
Ëdmönds sücks.
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo
Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst
Nordfink".
My great-grandfather replaced the ö in our last name with an oe, presumably so that people would use the right pronunciation in an anglicized form. However we are now stuck with a name that people generally mispronounce and can never get the spelling right. When spelling out my last name, I have to do it a minimum of 2 times. My great-great-grandfather's grave is written in German with the umlaut, while his son's has the anglicized name. They are about 50 yards away from each other.
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