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Thursday, June 01, 2006
Report: Keith Law Resigns as Assistant to the GM, Toronto Blue Jays
This announcement appeared in the N&O this morning, but I can’t find an on-line link at the moment. Best of luck to Keith in his future endeavors.
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No doubt you would take Auburn too. We had two Mexican resteraunts and one was the friggin Taco Bell.
But Buckeye boy is talking smack about the premier affiliation of schools in America. He wants it to be cookoff. All I can cook is Mexican, so I think I get the honors on the duel.
"You're ascribing to me something I have never done."
Uh, sure, kev...
But Buckeye boy is talking smack about the premier affiliation of schools in America.
I wasn't talking smack about the GLCA, I was making fun of you hillbillies and your trade schools down yonder.
Base is over in the mgl thread. I think he wants to play more than I do. I'll just watch this one.
If you relax the standards to just "any city", then Austin would take every town shy of San Antonio and possibly some place(s) in California. I've never been there, so I won't argue against them, but there is no doubt in my mind that Austin is top 5.
I know Wittenberg props up that affiliation, but its not good enough to overcome some of those lesser schools on Beall Avenue.
Chuckles
Wittenberg is not in the GCLA.
The one about the Philly lineup. I don't care if Dial doesn't mind Base's taunts, but he needs to grow up. Of course, I'm saying that here. I should say that there, but I'm turning in. Enough soap operas today for me already.
Then you better start recruiting their ass.
I've been to three of those cities. El Paso has an argument. Corpus and Alberquerque do not. Homestead, I just can't imagine how they have better Mexican. Mexican, not Latin. And Chicago? Better than Austin? Not a chance.
You haven't even got a taste of All My Backlashers yet. Don't wimp out.
*drums fingers together* Excellent.
Guys. acklasherbay got an OSTay on that subject.
General VORPital.
ERAs of our Lives.
Guiding Wright.
MBS!
effKJay oesntday careday.
Ok
Mr. {/if}breaker
Do you know much about Chicago?
Chicago is the city of the dueling sausages. There are sausages of every flavor, color and nationality. And this benefits everyone involved.
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If I recite my stunningly gorgeous bodily proportions, is BL going to call me out SAT-style?
You're missing the obvious point that, now that the Jays are spending more, Law has chosen to leave.
Why now? The team is doing well, the payroll has been expanded, things are looking up. If if was about the money, couldn't he interview with another team for a position that paid a little more? I doubt ESPN is going to pay him very well. They just dumped Sickels and forced the rest of the writers, Gammons included, to earn their keep in Insider.
I surmise that he thought there wasn't a very promising future for him in baseball. ESPN is never going to remotely approach the salary of a baseball GM. He could write there 100 years and he isn't going to make 250K a year.
And if he just wants to be a writer, then why did he take the job in the first place? That's not a stepping stone to ESPN. And he's kind of young to be switching careers. Being 32 is a baby. He also could have seen what happened to DePo and wants none of it. I wouldn't blame him for that.
Kind of young to be switching careers ? Dude - I'm a 23 - I've done something for two years, and might well get another job before going to business school and then doing something different after that. This isn't the 50's - people switch career tracks all the time, because the priorities involve change. Hell, maybe he got married and his wife wants to be in the US - maybe there is some family reason - maybe the money just isn't good enough in Toronto. It seems absurd to evaluate his motives as being one of "failure", especially because the Jays are doing well (as you pointed out). The only way this works is if your definiton of failure is not becoming a major league GM - which is ridiculous.
Nah, I'll just take you to dinner.
The first sentence is just funny. "Hmm, all of the companies in my industry pay very little for positions like mine (only the top execs make real money). I'm not happy with how much I make. Eureka! I'll just interview with another team for a position that pays more!"
The last sentence doesn't really make sense either. It's just as easy to interpret the move to Insider as, "ESPN finds their columnists so compelling that they've decided to charge people to read them, that demonstrates much more financial value than before."
I'm not saying that that's the case; I really have no idea what ESPN is thinking or how their website is doing. I'm just saying it takes somebody with a really negative bias to interpret that the move to Insider translates to less pay for the columnists. Hell, everybody else criticizes Neyer, etc. for selling out.
Well Keith's just LAYING DOWN THE LAW!!! Isn't he?
Ok I'll leave the puns to Brattain from now on.
The fact that he manifests those skills in insults is not necessarily a virtue. So its not like, "I don't care if he TOSes, I just like to watch him post." but a person should know his limitations. I would not be scared to get in a war with Base, but I'd respect his ability. I would not be scared to get in a war with mgl on analysis, but I respect his ability. I would not be scared to get into a war of logic with JC, but I respect his ability. I would not be scared to challenge Srul on the law, but I know his ability. I would not be scared to go after Nieporent in IP, but I've never seen him wrong. Mug-Geography; Burley-Jays; Field-History, Andy-sociology etc. etc.
You knwo what I would be afraid of?
Challenging Kevin in Leg-presses.
I don't want to hurt myself.
Paging Meatwad, Paging Meatwad, innuendo on page 3 requiring an inappropriate comment consult, Paging Meatwad.
I need to come up with some potboiler with mass appeal to buy myself time to do other stuff.
I remember the ones BL came up with for the asian baseball blog I tried up coming up with but just sort of didnt' pick up momentum:
Blog Fu
Shaolin Slider
Some of them were really bad.
What is?
LEG PRESSES, duh
Shaolin Slider
Some of them were really bad.
I assume that includes those.
Oh come on, A Slow Blog to China was good.
Is it just me, or have there been a ridiculous amount of "5+ straight games with a homer" streaks this year?
Yes.
I dont' get the reference actually.
I dont' get the reference actually.
As in "Slow Boat to China." And that is pretty good. But couldn't it have something to do with ninjas? Because ninjas are totally cool, and by totally cool, I mean totally sweet... aw never mind.
Ninjas aren't typically Chinese, are they?
Most ninjas I've met are 9 year old caucasian americans.
Wow. One reference to Real Ultimate POWER!!!! and I get that? Tough crowd.
And yes, ninjas are usually Japanese, but I believe the blog was to be about Asian baseball, not Chinese baseball specifically. Not that I am helping at all.
Big fan of 3 Ninjas, are you?
I do remember in Kill bill that Japanese Swordmaker dude was a baseball fan.
This is more the type of nine-year-old ninjas we're talking about.
I do remember in Kill bill that Japanese Swordmaker dude was a baseball fan.
And Lucy Liu couldn't pronounce her own name.
How about this for a blog name:
Asians trying baseball
Let's misappropriation!
This one's for haiku
Hey, I had to get up early today.
Literally
But does he have a MBS from BTF?
Best Regards
John
I had posted in #146:
and both The Artist and BL asked me to clarify the reference.
I was referring to this comment by The Artist in #142:
Unless you are the GM or one of the other top-ranking front office executives, you're getting paid very little money for very long days and very little "real" responsibility.
-- MWE
David Wells posts here? Heck David Wells is so fat....
10. When he uses a Q-Tip it ends up convered in ambergris.
9. He gets up from his chair and enters the Guinness Book of World Records under 'Powerlifting: Squats.'
8. Any kid who falls for his 'pull my finger' gag is automatically tried as an adult.
7. Every time he lies on the beach Greenpeace volunteers try to drag him back into the water.
6. Krisy Kreme donuts opened a franchise in his kitchen.
5. His toilet paper roll can also be used at the New York Times for printing off the weekend edition.
4. The only reason people are drawn to him is because of the effects of gravity.
3. People ask him what he did between his baseball career and his acting job in "Return of the Jedi."
2. He gives kids an autograph and they reply "Thanks Mr. Forster."
1. He was facing the Florida Keys when he farted and it collided with a cold air mass from the Rocky Mountains and spawned an outbreak of tornados over the midwest.
Best Regards
John
Actually, in his post over the weekend, he was trying for one.
Oh, yeah? Yo momma's got a glass eye with a fish in it.
That makes fits just about everything I've ever read/heard. I'd also think Law's background isn't ideal for moving up to the big chair. Somewhere above, Kevin said that Law's job with the Jays wasn't a stepping stone to ESPN. It would appear that that isn't the case. Think about all the ex-GM and manager types that move to ESPN-TV without any previous such experience. I'd say that a small time baseball writer who gets a few years of actual MLB work experience would find it pretty easy to move up in the writing world. If we're speculating, I'd say that this could have been Law's plan all along. But, like everyone else, there are so many possible reasons for making a job move and we have so little information that it is silly to speculate.
What a timeless classic of a track!
Yo momma's got a afro wit a chinstrap!
My main point was that you said the Jays job wasn't a stepping stone to the ESPN job. Given that the latter followed the former, in Law's case it was a stepping stone. Just because you (or others) didn't foresee it doesn't mean it wasn't important.
Many publications see experience in the field as a major positive for the candidates for writing/reporting jobs. Many of them prefer to take someone with knowledge of the field who shows some writing ability but needs some work in that area rather than an experienced writer/reporter with less direct experience in the field that he/she will be assigned to write about.
Put another way: A fair number of candidates for a job such as this one probably have writing experience that is at least somewhat similar to what Law has, but far fewer can say that they also worked in an MLB front office.
I'm not sure you can get as good Oaxacan cuisine in Austin, however, as you can in Chicago. We'll probably visit Austin sometime in the next year, so I'll try to find out.
You would be wrong.
Publishers like well-known names from TV, or they like people who can be promoted as insiders. They can pay them lots of money, and mention their names to advertisers. There's loads of dopes (like yours truly) who can knock their clumsy phrases into something that makes sense, for a pittance.
The guy generated a 300+ post thread.
That's why putting "former spear-carrier for JP Ricciardi" will count for a lot with them.
I'm writing a book, and the publisher is desperate to get a big name to write the foreword. His name will certainly be in bigger letters on the jacket than mine, if it happens, because nobody know who I am, either.
First of all, it's untrue that no one knows who Keith Law is. Law's hiring was well-publicized both in Toronto and outside.
Second, you missed the second part of fra paolo's comment. Law can certainly be promoted as an insider ("former special assistant to the GM, Toronto Blue Jays" has a nice ring to it).
-- MWE
I'll bet that the Toronto fans know who he Ricciardi is. Ditto the Boston fans. Joe and Jerry seem to talk alot about him, cuz he's a local. I think Don and Jerry do too.
2. The fans who "do" pony up the money for Insider certainly would know who Keith Law is.
-- MWE
Surprising, because outside of maybe Frontera Grill, Chicago's Mexican food is absolutely pathetic compared to what you can get in Southern California.
Do you go to where the Mexicans eat or where the Mexicans work and the Gringos eat?
I've been to places in the Mexican areas of town and have still come away less than impressed.
The same as in the rest of the country, I guess. I don't really know, since I never eat there. There must be at least six better Mexican places just on the way to Taco Bell from my house, and it's less than a mile.
About once a year, for some reason, I crave Taco Bell and get it, and it's usually disappointing. I liked in high school and college, though.
No, I think what he's saying is that average baseball fans don't spend much time reading columns online. They watch on TV, and maybe check the local paper or listen to sports radio or in some cases play fantasy (though most fantasy players are bigger-than-average fans).
Maybe I should ask UCCF if they have Long John Silvers or Red Lobster up in Maine.
The absolute best place (no lie, Speedy Burrito) went out of business in the early 90's when it tried to expand from 20 seat hole in the wall in Dearborn to 3 store chain. Ahh, the good old days.
I've been to places in the Mexican areas of town and have still come away less than impressed.
It's the same as anywhere else. There are families who came here and needed a way to pay the bills and there are people who are great cooks.
I like the place just South of North Ave. on Western, but they've got a "For Sale" sign in the window, so...
But we might just have different tastes, I think Bayless is a great chef, but Frontera's a little overrated in my opinion.
The best Mexican place in San Diego (El Indio) tried expanding into a chain, but the new locations weren't as good as the originals. After a few years, they recognized this and closed them, leaving just the main location. And it's still as great as ever.
It wasn't just the expansion that ultimately doomed them. They also moved the original into a much larger, fancier place (which had gone out of business because even though they were busy, they couldn't pay the bills).
Cost of expansion + cost of new digs for main store = didn't buy all needed insurance.
Cost of damage from broken water main + leveraged to the teeth = went out of business.
La Pasadita's tacos are as good as any I've had.
Speedy Burrito moved into a larger, fancier place that used to house a restaurant that couldn't afford the overhead.
The water damage took out Speedy Burrito (which also couldn't afford the overhead), not the original restaurant.
You ought to put a review on Burritophile (which I just discovered).
My favorite review is for Flash Taco.
Oddly, the guy that reviewed the Flash Taco is the same one that reviewed El Indio.
One thing is that El Indio isn't really a burrito place. Yeah, I'll often get a combo burrito there, but it's drenched in salsa and lettuce and is eaten with a fork and knife -- it's not your typical burrito.
Incidentally, I took yo mama to that drive-in porn theater...
and she didn't have to pay
because we dressed her up to look just like a Chevrolet.
I miss that place.
I wouldn't worry too much about it Hoss. You can't lose what you ain't got.
I've been there. I'm not much into the SF style.
The best enchilidas with mole sauce that I have had is in Austin at Manuels.
And the best mole I've had was outside Tijuana.
There's a relatively upscale Mexican joint here in Seattle that does a very nice mole with their enchiladas del pollo. Goes great with their bistec dish, too.
That word seems to be everywhere now. Worse, some people seem to think it's a real word.
It will be soon -- the language is what we make it.
There is definitely at least one Red Lobster in Savannah GA, for some reason. And an Olive Garden in Pittsburgh, I guess in case you're looking for inauthentic Italian-style food.
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