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Living in the past: Annual countdown RCDS 12-31-09

mjdittmer posted this in The Grill on December 31st, 2009

5. Alternate title: “Fine. I’ll do it (the RCDS DLD ?xq111). Again.” courtesy of jeepers, three years ago.
4. Alternate title/subject: best meta-threads/diaries/comments of the decade … any nominations? �Among some recent ones I dug up recently …

Ice Cream’s “In Apricot’s Killfile“
Wherein monkeyball endorses certain non-sports writers only for their prose style.
mikeA beating monkeyball to a [...]

December 31st, 2009 | Category: The Grill | 159 comments

DLD 12.30.2009

nanotrebuchet posted this in The Grill on December 30th, 2009

SuSlu: A’s in the Aroldis Chapman hunt
Oakland is in the thick of the bidding for the left-hander, according to major-league sources, and there is no reason to think the A’s can’t lure Chapman away from some of the big-money teams, the way they did with Dominican phenom Michael Ynoa two years ago. Oakland paid Ynoa [...]

December 30th, 2009 | Category: The Grill | 74 comments

F(il)K: Bad Tipper

Ice Cream posted this in F(il)K on December 28th, 2009

Sung to the tune of the Beatles’ “Day Tripper”.
Got a good reason for taking gratuities out
Not a good season, he’s taken gratuities out
He was a bad tipper, some say stick it, yeah
It took ‘em so long to find out and they found out
He’s a big teaser, he stiffed ‘em half a percent
He’s a big sleaze (er), [...]

December 28th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: F(il)K | 18 comments

Regifting: RCDS 122809

monkeyball posted this in The Grill on December 28th, 2009

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andeux: With Taylor now, you still think we should beat this?
WHNTFBFI
I endorse this Starkdown as well as this Hey, man!

December 28th, 2009 | Category: The Grill | 107 comments

Merry Christmas, FK!

nanotrebuchet posted this in Conversation starter on December 24th, 2009

Use this thread to share stories, gifts, etc.

December 24th, 2009 | Category: Conversation starter | 37 comments

Yay

mikeA posted this in Conversation starter on December 24th, 2009

Duke!

December 24th, 2009 | Category: Conversation starter | 57 comments

All I want for Christmas: RCDS 122309

monkeyball posted this in The Grill on December 23rd, 2009

All I want for Christmas is a ditch-witch and a cornhole
Milton Bradley: bad tipper?
Also rips Chicago waiters for “bad-mouthing” him.

Needs moar FREE KRAUT!
Neyer: as confused as we are

December 23rd, 2009 | Category: The Grill | 204 comments

Nostalgia Lane: Mark McGwire Commercial

nanotrebuchet posted this in The Grill on December 21st, 2009

No, not Chicks Dig the Longball. Everybody remembers that one. But I love this one:

For something that’s only, what, seven years old, it’s so…dated. A fun-loving Mark McGwire? Lycos?

December 21st, 2009 | Category: The Grill | 150 comments

HCR = The Wire of reform efforts RCDS 12/21

mjdittmer posted this in The Grill on December 21st, 2009

1. Since “fourmoreyearsofarnold” ain’t happening, how about a run at the Senate? (LA Times, via LA Observed)
2. This reminds me of my own townhouse complex, where each association meeting is kind of like the Jerry Springer Show, or like one of those health care town halls.  Next month there’s supposed to be a meeting where [...]

December 21st, 2009 | Category: The Grill | 151 comments

I. Don’t. Get it.

monkeyball posted this in Conversation starter on December 19th, 2009

We just traded Cust for Crisp.

December 19th, 2009 | Tags: | Category: Conversation starter | 38 comments
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