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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, February 07, 2013
There’s a freakin’ pants load here…wheel in the Hoyer Lift!
Both Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein and Hoyer were members of the Red Sox organization in 2008.
“The first I ever heard of that was this morning when I saw it, so clearly, no, it didn’t ring true to me at all,” Hoyer said Thursday on The McNeil & Spiegel Show on 670 The Score. “I can tell you it would be preposterous that Theo or I would be involved in that. So I can comment for the two of us. I obviously wasn’t there. I don’t know the story he’s talking about so I can’t comment on the rest of it. I can tell you certainly it wasn’t Theo or me.”
...Hoyer responded Thursday by saying he has never been involved in a direct conversation about a player using PEDs.
“In my position going from intern to baseball operations all the way to assistant GM and GM it’s never something I’ve ever been confronted with, no,” Hoyer said. “But it is something that is a constant discussion in baseball because whether it’s a guy tests positive or there’s suspicions, it’s something people talk about, but it’s never something I’ve ever been directly confronted with.”
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Posted: February 07, 2013 at 04:22 PM | 162 comment(s)
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Deflating Trump's ego? There's a difficult target...
Doonesbury made its share of Trump jokes, but it was also willing to take on people and issues that were much more controversial. See, for example, the storyline about Andy Lippincott's long, losing battle with AIDS. A strip like this one still has real punch even 20 years after it first ran.
The 1980s kicked the crap out of the 1960s and 1970s.
A memorable strip to me was when the father told Calvin that the sun sets in Flagstaff, Arizona and is the size of a quarter.
Decades are like baseball, they are "best" when we reach a certain age and then decline. Yard. Off. Get.
Seriously though all decades have their + and -. Musically it is hard to beat the 60s though.
I know the perceived self-importance outweighs any good for Esoteric, but it's for strips and issues like that and homelessness and PTSD for soldiers that still make me wonder what he's reading.
Er, no -- that would be "Mallard Fillmore."
One-note political hack strips don't even qualify for the award. You can add Prickly City into that category. Whenever the right wing wants to complain about affirmative action, those two might serve as Exhibits A and B in the realm of comic strips. The only liberal counterpart I can think of to them would be that unbelievably lame thing ("The Strip") that runs in the Sunday Review section of the NY Times. It's a tenth rate ripoff of Tom Tommorow's "This Modern World", and I can't figure out how it ever got in there to begin with.
Let me give a shameless plug for my friend, who will very soon be debuting an iOS webcomic reader app, Comic Chameleon.
Pretty much any continuity strip with strong identifiable characters that you only read sporadically is going to present the same problem. It's neither you nor Trudeau who's at fault.
Yeah, you can accumulate a lot of internal continuity in 40 years of daily strips.
That makes me chuckle. The Denver Post used to run "Doonsbury" on the editorial page, and then all the whiny Dittoheads started crying so they picked up Filmore and ran it alongside. Then they stopped running Doonsbury, leaving Filmore unopposed. I wrote a letter to the editor decrying the resulting lack of balance and demanded that to provide a counterweight they run another strip that was either funny or well-drawn.
this reflects your inattention and general failings as a reader. i finally win one!
seriously, for all its innovation and high level of writing, some of doonesbury's stuff falls flat. he's had trouble with some of his characterizations. ron headrest was dumb. i didn't think he handled the bushes well, either, and i hate those @ssholes.
the whole 'red rascal' arc is just really boring. joanie and rick's kid is pretty uninteresting, i think. zipper, on the other hand, is inspired. trudeau's finding his rhythm again with some of the other younger generation characters like mike's daughter and her husband. that said, i don't get uptight about missing an occasional doonesbury. i'm more into pearls before swine, sally forth and lio.
When Trudeau went on his hiatus I was in 7th grade, and we got an assignment to draw a recent important news event and to convey our opinion.
I did a drawing of a small crowd around a couple, happy and celebrating post-birth, fawning over a baby while someone walked away, only their back, hands in pockets. It had the whole long-shadows noir thing going on. I mean, Im' sure the drawing SUUUUCKED (it looks awesome in my head, trust me) but I was pretty proud of the concept despite having absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever.
When I tried to explain it to the art teacher I got the blankest of blank stares you have ever seen in your life. I think I got a C- and some kind of comment on what constituted an important event.
Concur on fims, although the special effects suffer these days.
Concur on Tom the Dancing Bug.
1925 vs. 2013
Coke. The party never stopped.
I prefer Richard Thompson performing "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"
I did a drawing of a small crowd around a couple, happy and celebrating post-birth, fawning over a baby while someone walked away, only their back, hands in pockets. It had the whole long-shadows noir thing going on. I mean, Im' sure the drawing SUUUUCKED (it looks awesome in my head, trust me) but I was pretty proud of the concept despite having absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever.
When I tried to explain it to the art teacher I got the blankest of blank stares you have ever seen in your life. I think I got a C- and some kind of comment on what constituted an important event.
WHY DIDN'T YOU INCLUDE AN EXCLAMATION POINT!!!!!
In terms of music, I've always been a huge proponent of the 70s. A lot of what was best about the 60s trailed into the early 70s, and a lot of what was best about the 80s actually occurred in the late 70s. If you're a reggae person, then the 70s are head and shoulders above all other decades combined. The 70s were probably the last decade in which there was significant overlap between jazz that is vibrant and jazz that is mainstream. The 70s were the last gasp of what we might call first-wave soul (i.e., not the extremely slick studio soul that appeared later). The golden age of funk started at the end of the 60s and ran through much of the 70s. Disco. Krautrock. Glam. Prog rock had its heyday in the early/mid 70s. Led Zeppelin. Early peak metal. Punk in the middle and at the end. New wave at the very end. Oh yeah, outlaw country.
Lots of Fairport Convention's best stuff is from the 70s. Nick Drake was 69-74.
edit: And All Things Must Pass of course.
Thanks to digital music forms, the song once again rules as the proper unit of popular music. And folks are making great songs.
And this one
This one was my favorite involving Calvin's dad.
That said, most of what we consider great music was also fairly popular at the time it was made.
You forgot:
John Carpenter's: Escape from New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live
David Cronenbergs': Scanners, Videodrome, The Dead Zone, They Fly, Dead Ringers
John Hughes: Breakfast Club, Wierd Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'
Most of the Cohen Brother corpus is post 1990 but still had Blood Simple and Raising Arizona
Midnight Run
Real Genius
In the Cusack category: The Sure Thing, Better off Dead, Tapeheads, Say Anything, Sixteen Candles (John Hughes)
#143 How could you forget the original Die Hard? Basically the prototype for the modern action movie.
we just need more time. f'rinstance, i really really like 'adaptation' but have no idea how it will age. i recently watched benjamin button again, and was surprised about how much i liked it. i hope it goes on to achieve some cult status.
@145s are all good too, although The Shining was in the original list.
As a kid in the 80s, it always seemed like some of the strangest, most wildly imaginative stuff out there was being made for children. 'Flight of the Navigator', 'Explorers', 'Short Circuit', 'Neverending Story' - they weren't always good, but they really went for it. Was this the influence of out-there Japanese animation for kids pushing the boundaries, post-Star Wars ambition, or just really, really good drugs?
The most depressing site on the internet -- three-panel Peanuts
Another depressing takeoff.
Biff--got three suggestions you want to share, of the kind we'd tend to overlook?
It's a sorrid story
I will but my tastes lean more towards the metal end of the spectrum so they sort of have a limited audience. I've been listening to a lot of Agalloch lately (doom/black metal), and the track Falling Snow is particularly apt given the current state of affairs in the Northeast. (Warning - death vocals which are a turnoff for most people.) I always recommend Porcupine Tree (prog rock/prog metal) because they're my favorite band and they have a very diverse catalog. The song Where We Would Be is an excellent pop song which could appeal to anyone. My favorite release from last year was Devin Townsend's Epicloud, which was pop metal (if that's even a thing). My recommended song from that CD is Save Our Now.
I will say that, without radio, MTV, or even "albums" to give some sort of centralization and guideposts to the process, finding music now feels like more of an obscure pursuit. Of course, it's basically impossible for the music most easily accessible to you to exactly correlate with the music you'd enjoy the most, so it's always been necessary to do outside research. But it seems like more, now.
On the other hand, it's certainly a lot easier to do outside research these days.
It was certainly the best era for Tommy Tutone music.
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