Now They Are Tooling On Me In The Sports Section

The NY Times profiles Yankee DH Travis Hafner with this baffler of a headline:

The Yankees’ One-Tool Player

C'mon - everyone knows the five tools are run, throw, field, hit, and hit with power. Hafner won't make Yankee fans forget Lou Gehrig but his career numbers suggest he is an adequate two-tooler at the plate.

Well, I don't think he is where we are pinning our (fading) hopes anyway.

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

A veritable cornucopia of bad and occasionally lewd pun opportunities.

[narciso]

Yeah I don't see how they come to this conclusion;

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/_/id/4752/travis-hafner

[Danube of Thought iPad]

And what would his two tools be?

[PaulV]

Hits and hits with power. NYTimes is preparing Yank fans for bad year.

[Cecil Turner (on mini-pad)]

This is all sort of inside baseball to me.

[DrJ]

Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no...

What's a Saturday morning without Monty Python?

[matt]

It's the Yankees. meh....

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

--everyone knows the five tools--

Actually I'm only familiar with the three in front;

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

The next time bubu stops by to tell us NOBODY is talking about gun confiscation just refer him to this lovely example from our neighbors to the north in Oregon.

Good rule of thumb;
Bubu says what lefties want people to think they believe,
Dudu says what they really do.

[jimmyk]

Ig, does that make them useful idiots?

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

Ugh Iggy. That pix pretty much ruined my day.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

SloJoe better be careful come spring turkey season or somebody's liable to touch off a round from their balcony should they see that under-chin wattle strutting by.

[Danube of Thought]

Hits and hits with power

.278 and 22 HR per year?

[Danube of Thought]

From the Oregon legislation:

This 2013 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2013 Act takes effect on its passage.

Keep in mind the "rational basis" test. This law, if enacted, is going down.

[Rick Ballard]

Ignatz,

My mind keeps trying to tie the Oregon gun grab to the "shoot on sight" order issued by LA security forces on Dorner. The indiscriminate slaughter occasioned by the shoot on sight order did not get very much media coverage while media immediately pimped the fact the last security officer shot by Dorner left a widow with a child. It will be interesting to see if there is any follow through on the 'tears for security forces' meme.

I find it very regrettable that the authors of such legislation will not be at risk of dieing during attempts to enforce it.

[narciso]

Yes, that's unlike the language of the South African FireArms Act of 2000, mostly boilerplate, but in light of Herr Pistorious, worthy of note.

[AliceH]

DoT: They seem to put that exact language into lots of bills. With a 10 second review, I found it in a bill requiring collection of tolls from bicyclists if tolls are collected on motorists, a bill to define who and how the SoS must designate state voting agencies, and more.

[Frau Steingehirn]

@11:29- is that a paper teleprompter the preezy is using?

[maryrose]

DOT:
There is no emergency and yes that bill is going down. These legislators are real idiots. Where are all the qualified, normal good people to run for office and protect us from this knee jerk idiocy?

[Rick Ballard]

Frau,

I believe the President and Vice-President ran across a two syllable word in that memo and are puzzling it out together.

[Frau Steingehirn]

My eighty year old next door neighbor is a naturalized citizen from Canada. He has family members in Canada, the UK and South Africa. Three years ago, his older brother in South Africa, living next to a national park, was tied to a tree and tortured until he told what valuables he had and where they were. Of course, there wasn't much to be had but the man was tortured to death. He could have used a gun for protection.

[narciso]

The problem with tools, is they are supposed to be useful'

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/trayvon-martin/os-george-zimmerman-crump-hearing-20130222,0,4304478.story

this is why, I would have thought an indiscriminate use of a weapon like Herr Pastorius displayed would be more strongly sanctioned,

[Frau Steingehirn]

Rick, you had me go back and look at the picture of the confederacy of dunces, so I noticed the carpy Obama administration sign on the wall. If there is ever again a candidate with his own set of logos, that person should be immediately disqualified. It's disgusting.

[jimmyk]

"They seem to put that exact language into lots of bills. With a 10 second review, I found it in a bill requiring collection of tolls from bicyclists if tolls are collected on motorists, a bill to define who and how the SoS must designate state voting agencies, and more."

Great find, Alice. Keep on googlin'.

There should be a "cry wolf" rule of how many emergencies a legislature can declare. This takes Rahm's crisis-opportunity thing a step further. Make everything out to be a crisis, then take advantage.

[narciso]

Actually that's the ARRA 'stimulus' logo, representative of what Sheriff Joe, told us, he would keep an eye out for.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

--Great find, Alice. Keep on googlin'.--

If I read her right I believe she is yahooing.

[Captain Hate]

Good luck getting a full season out of Pronk. When he's feeling good he can crank it out of any park but he spends lots of time on the DL.

[AliceH]

--I believe she is yahooing.--

I was getting 504 unable to reach gateway errors with Yahoo, so actually that last search was via McAfee Safesearch, which also uses yahoo but doesn't make a fuss about it. :)

[AliceH]

--There should be a "cry wolf" rule of how many emergencies a legislature can declare.--

How cool would it be if they had to apply the same scrutiny for "emergency bills" as required of citizens claiming self-defensive?

[AliceH]

*self-defense*

Someone's auto-correct obviously infiltrated my laptop.

[pagar]

"his 2013 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist"

IMO, based on the damage they do to America,
a state of emergency should be declared the moment any Democrat is elected to any public office.

[Danube of Thought iPad]

Eleven thousand gun homicides per year; 35 in mass killings. Seventy-five thousand alcohol-related deaths per year.

[Captain Hate]

Anybody know if Rob Crawford is attending the Days of Resistance rally in West Chester, Ahia?

[hit and run]

TM:
C'mon - everyone knows the five tools are run, throw, field, hit, and hit with power.

I am the 40%.

[narciso]

Typo or aggressive ignorance;

http://twitchy.com/2013/02/23/cpac-invitation-calls-msnbcs-chris-hayes-one-of-americas-leading-conservative-voices/

[maryrose]

narciso:
Aggressive ignorance. He's an Obama mouthpiece.

[Frau Alte Flinte]

Nothing close to me, but here's one in TK's neighborhood:

San Diego, CA Day of Resistance Rally
Location: Old Poway Park, 14122 Midland Rd, Poway, CA
Time: 1p
Sponsoring Organization:
Contact Information: Roger Cotton rcotton@san.rr.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Diego-CA-Day-of-Resistance/154181874735129

[MarkO]

I bring this up because I believe until "our side" buys a stake in the MSM, we are DOOMED.

http://datechguyblog.com/2013/02/23/the-right-should-buy-the-boston-globe-and-staff-it-with-conservatives/

[Jack is Back]

After reading narciso's 12:54 on the GZ/TM case want to venture how he will walk in a SYG hearing much less a trial by jury? I know these are all preliminaries but it seems to me that even the defense is acting desperatedly and don't seem to have any kind of agressive plan to bring justice to GZ.

GZ better get use to more isolation every day.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Super battery may make annoying electronic devices even more pervasive.

[narciso]

I was thinking more along Tony Stark's ARC reactor, I don't know JiB, when the fix is in, what do you do, when they've poisoned the well so thoroughly.

[MarkO]

".278 and 22 HR per year?"

Not your father's Solly Hemus.

[Jack is Back]

Iggy,

Interestingly, graphene has been around and used in a lot of composite applications. But this is why Republicans are so much anti-science because most of the good stuff is accidental anyway:) Who needs research? Another drain on the budget.

[maryrose]

MarkO
When I heard they were selling it I thought the same thing. Why not buy it? It might increase the chances of repubs running for office in Massachusetts actually winning.

[jimmyk]

"If I read her right I believe she is yahooing."

That was a lower case 'googlin', in furtherance of the effort to make Google lose its trademark.

The battery thing sounds intriguing, but I always figure there's a lot of hype to these stories in an attempt to get backers and funding.

[maryrose]

CH:
Going out to dinner tonight with my husband's sisters and brother to "The Harp" Any suggestions as to what would be good to order?
I call this time of year the "dead season" for sports.Can't wait for March Madness!

[jimmyk]

I think Clarice suggested we buy the Globe for $1 (probably fair market value) the other day. It's a mystery why conservatives, or even just good capitalists, can't take over these companies when the libs make a hash of their balance sheets.

[jimmyk]

@iowahawkblog is on another tweeter roll over sequestration:

#SequestrationThreat Mohair prices dangerously unsubsidized

[henry]

jimmyk, union workforce a la Hostess. You want the assets and a free hand, not the corp & the cumulative baggage of decades of bad decisions.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

I bring this up because I believe until "our side" buys a stake in the MSM, we are DOOMED.

I agree. The Worcester Telegram is also for sale. I had a long talk with one of the Telegram photographer's at the 2nd amendment rally earlier today. He said they have no offers at this point that he is aware of, but the paper is earning 5x what the NY Times set as the baseline goal.

The rally was very very very cold. I thought my bones were going to crumble. I carried a US flag. It blows my mind to see how many people (mostly young) will give the finger to the flag.

[Jack is Back]

jimmyk,

Could it be that most conservatives have a more experienced understanding of business economics and know a dud when they see one (ala Maurice Taylor's analysis of the French tire maker?).

Fallling circulation + diminishing ad revenue + union contracts and pension plan liability = losers! Let a bunch of progs buy it.

[Captain Hate]

maryrose, I don't think we've been there so I have no idea what fine Irish fare you should choose. If JiB is around, I'll be sampling Orval Trappist Ale tonight.

I have no idea why CBS has chosen to feature an SEC basketball game, which is unsurprisingly horrible.

[jimmyk]

JiB, depends how much of that is really the result of the lefty managment skillz and remediable. Seems like News Corp/WSJ does better, just like Fox vs CNN. Substituting propaganda for news has a cost in the marketplace.

[jimmyk]

Meant to include Henry in that last response. I don't know if the union stuff is really a killer or not. Why not buy it and try to break the union, or demand concessions?

[AliceH]

If this is the menu for The Harp that you are going to, maryrose, I'd be go with Shepherd's pie for the main course, and the Guinness ice cream sundae for dessert.

Not a lot of Irishy food on there, as a whole.

[AliceH]

errr, menu.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Conservatives need one of the three alphabet networks if they wish to rectify the MSM's status as cheerleaders for Washington DC State, also known affectionately as ol' FU.

Alternatively, next time they're in charge of congress and the WH they could gut NPR and PBS and make them house organs of the Republican Party.
I'll wager the lefties will suddenly discover privatization has its merits and in any event gov funding of any media is a pretty lame idea.

[sbw]

Be careful. Newsweek was overpriced at a dollar because of pension liabilities, etc. Now they don't even print.

Disaggregating newspapers into local, regional, and national, its the national that has lost its purpose.

I would sooner discover who owns the local weeklies surrounding Boston and contribute useful content to them.

Remember, news puts information in context to help you better plan your future. News, contrary to the NY Times, does not lead you with an inaccurate map to do what the publisher thinks you should do.

[Extraneus]

There is a lot of hype Jimmy. Supercapacitors have their advantages and disadvantages. Yes, they charge up faster than batteries, but they self-discharge at a much faster rate, and as they discharge the voltage across them reduces. They also can't currently compete with batteries in terms of stored energy per unit weight. They're good for specialized applications, but not battery replacements, at least not yet.

They're dangerous, too, since they discharge immediately when shorted out, like capacitors and unlike batteries.

[narciso]

I wondered about that, well it sounded too good to be true, like the ARC reactor,

[Janet]

Here's an interesting article that was on FB. It gives some of the history of Kermit Gosnell.

He's been around a long time.
It's like a whole world of crime & scumminess that we never hear about.

[Jack is Back]

CH,

Valley of Gold in the Ardennes. I love that beer. It is very "hoppy and malty" but not over so. You are a lucky sod. My wife calls them "duck pins" because of the bottle shape. Very distinctive coupe to serve it in.

[Jack is Back]

narc,

Based on that, ya think I should keep breeding thorium in the garage?

[rse]

sbw-

In the USSR and behind the Iron Curtain the media were used to invalidate memory.

I would argue that is precisely what the MSM now does and what the Common Core as it is actually intended to be implemented is intended to do.

I mentioned on an earlier thread that zuboff's subsequent book mentions numerous names I recognized. What I did not mention is how many of them were tied to Facing History which is really designed to be moral character devt.

All of the references to using primary materials need to be filtered through those primary materials being selected for their propaganda value. Think Rachel Carson or even Paul Ehrlich.

[Laura]

Ah RSE, the AP US history curriculum comes to mind as a very effective use of primary sources to completely destroy a belief in foundational American values.

[narciso]

I think that's a good bet, JiB,

[Danube of Thought iPad]

Maryrose, the nadir of all dead seasons runs from the end of the NBA playoffs to the Kickoff Classic.

[Jack is Back]

DoT,

I forgot that San Diego had a baseball team:)

[Sue]

I am watching that great Amerikan Jane Fonda in Cat Balou. I always have to rewind to watch Lee Marvin drunk riding. Whoever that stunt guy was he could ride a horse.

[Danube of Thought iPad]

Tenth Circuit on concealed carry:

"The Second Amendment's guarantee of a right to bear arms does not extend to the right to carry a concealed weapon in public, a federal appeals court in Denver has ruled.

"'We conclude that the carrying of concealed firearms is not protected by the Second Amendment . . .' Justice Carlos Lucero wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"Lucero cited case law dating to the 1800s that put restrictions on walking around in public with a gun.

"I'n light of our nation's extensive practice of restricting citizens' freedom to carry firearms in a concealed manner, we hold that this activity does not fall within the scope of the Second Amendment's protections'" he wrote in the ruling issued Friday."

[gmax]

Cmon TM, every baseball fan knows what a tool the Yankees are!

[Barbara]

"Veterans Receive Letters From VA Prohibiting Ownership or Purchase of Firearms"
From Gateway Pundit on Friday, 2/22/13

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/shock-report-veterans-receive-letters-from-va-prohibiting-ownership-or-purchase-of-firearms/

The article doesn't contain much information WRT who receives the letters (e.g. soldiers with a claim of PSTD) or whether they are being sent to all military vets. Your views?

[Jack is Back]

BTW, fans injuried in the Nationwide Saturday prelude at Daytona. Happened during crash on last lap. Watching the EMTs carrying them off during simulcast of the golf.

[Sue]

Kid Shelleen does sit ups about like me.

[Extraneus]

Is it possible to "bear" arms in the sense of giving birth to them?

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Well lets see; CA just banned open carry and now concealed carry is not a right.
Seems like one or the other has to give or we'll be bare arms.

[AliceH]

I think that concealed carry judgment related to a guy with a permit from a state (Washington?) with no reciprocity in the state he wanted to conceal carry (Colorado). CO has reciprocity / honors CCW permits from other states only if they accept/honor those granted in CO.

[rse]

Laura-given what the College Board tried to do to World History that is precisely what I expected. It is consistent with the sample curricula I have seen too.

I think David Coleman went from heading up Common Core to being Pres of CB precisely to get the AP courses in line with creating the desired false beliefs and sense of grievance.

[Extraneus]

The right to wear sleeveless shirts shall not be infringed.

[Extraneus]

.

[Jim Miller]

Here's one for daddy: Lisa Murkowski is threatening to hold up Sally Jewel's nomination until Interior will agree to a road to the King Cove/Cold Bay region.

Even from the rather biased AP article, it looks to me as if they should let the people have the road. (Which they need for emergencies, from time to time.)

[Danube of Thought iPad]

Barbara, thathysterical headline is not warranted by the article itself.

[Barbara]

Barbara, that hysterical headline is not warranted by the article itself.

I agree, DoT, but was wondering if there is any substance to the claim that such letters have been sent out. I Googled the subject and found a bunch of links, but not any useful information.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Barbara,
We had a fairly extensive discussion of the subject a day or two ago on a different thread.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

This one.

[Barbara]

Got it, Ignatz. Thanks.

[pagar]

Barbara, this site explained the VA letter a little better IMO.

http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=34265

I felt better about the subject after reading it, but IMO, there are some real anti veteran people working for the VA. It is also,IMO, much harder for the Veteran to win when appeals are needed to overcome a VA decision than it needs to be.

[Barbara]

Thanks, pagar. The link you posted is very helpful and has cleared up a lot of my questions.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vjnjagvet]

It is also,IMO, much harder for the Veteran to win when appeals are needed to overcome a VA decision than it needs to be.

It is IMO too, Pagar. The sad fact is that the quality of the "veterans' representatives" is, to be charitable, highly variable. However, there are many who are excellent, and thanks to one of them I was able to overturn an erroneous VA determination on my disability benefits without resort to the appeals process.

If you know anyone who gets an adverse determination from the VA, tell them to contact their local representative of VFW or similar organization.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

They are now saying 24 people in the hospital because of the Daytona crash - and they were all in the audience.

[MarkO]

"Kid Shelleen does sit ups about like me."

I can't believe you are watching Cat Ballou.

[Jane - Mock the Media!]

27 people - or maybe 28.

[hit and run]

Extraneus:
The right to wear sleeveless shirts shall not be infringed.

But should there be sensible regulations on assault fingers?

[matt]

Just got back from seeing Lincoln and all I can say is wow! What an incredible perspective and rendering of a critical time in our history.

As I sat and watched the interplay between the different factions and their reasons and the consequences and Lincoln's steadfast commitment, it brought home to me the greatness of the man and of our country. David Strathairn and Tommy Lee Jones, and for that matter, the entire cast were magnificent.

As we were leaving, I said to Querida that three of the Oscar nominees are really sort of America-only films; Zero Dark and Argo are the other two.

I find it quite odd in light of the Left's antipathy to our history. There was no glory for Carter in the Teheran affair, and Zero Dark has the Left in a tizzy.

So if this is true, then how can a good Stalinist in Hollywood vote for any of them.

Querida noted at lunch after, looking out over the ocean, that the Democrats still are oppressing the African American population after all of these years. It has been nonstop BS ever since 1865.

[Sue]

Oh Mark, you don't really know me, do you?

[centralcal]

Okey dokey - so I was away from the threads yesterday afternoon and until just now...

Usually, I ask what have I missed?

ha ha ha ha!

Apparently, Sue was scampering about yesterday in her delicate undies (thank gawd, not a thong). Training, I suppose, for her future career as a Pole Dancer Deluxe.

Almost afraid to ask what Jane and Clarice have been up to!

[Chubby]

typepad eating my posts

just testing

[hit and run]

ccal:
(thank gawd, not a thong)

Speak for yourself.

[narciso]

Strathern, plays Seward, who was the real abolitionist in the cabinet, and Jones, plays
Thaddeus Stevens, who was the leading member of that faction in the House, and who often thought Lincoln was too uncommittal not to say splunge.

[Chubby]

wierd, I posted something with a link in it, which appeared to have posted perfectly, but when I tested the link in my post, and then attempted to navigate back to JOM, the post had disappeared.