Duck-Billed Catechist

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Aaron Crow finally signs.

He is pretty amazing. It worked out pretty well for the Twins to draft the cheaper Mauer over Mark Prior.

"Joe Mauer invented hitting." - Hawk Harrelson. Heh.

I would be surprised if either the White Sox or the Twins caught the Tigers. Morneau is out, you kneau?

It would be fun to go to a U2 concert with Analogman. He might push their "spaceship" into a creek.

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Kristofor,

I definitely think this deserves its own thread, but wanted to give you a heads up that there has been some discussion of this in the Wilco while you're out and about thread:

http://forums.viachicago.org/topic/32068-wilco-heard-while-youre-out-and-about/page__view__findpost__p__1364102

I heard on the radio that Terry Francona was the Baron's manager during Jordan's stint at Birmingham.

He just wove some lines of the song into the intro to "Beautiful Day." Or maybe just a little bridge between the last song and "Beautiful Day." The band wasn't playing the song, exactly, any more than they're playing "Blackbird" when Bono sings some lines from "Blackbird," etc. And as the original poster pointed out, it wasn't even remotely the melody of "Far, Far Away." Bono sang the first two lines (between them he sang something else) and then maybe another line ... finishing up with "Kiss and ride on the CTA."

I was reminded of

"This song is not a rebel song"

"Jesus, Jay!"

Hey everybody - sorry I've been away... just a lot of moving, changes in the life over the past year or two! Still as big a fan as ever though.

 

I got a last minute ticket to see U2 on Saturday and Bono sang the first verse of Far, Far Away - ending on the words "kiss and ride on the CTA." They played it in some really bizaare U2-kind-of-way with a lot of high-pitched ambient guitar rocking going on and Bono completely changed the melody to the point I kept saying "is that? wait, is that really? huh, is Bono singing Far, Far Away? What's going on here?!?!?"

 

It was a cool show, obviously - just the whole experience of 60k+ fans surrounding a rock-and-roll spaceship screaming was great.

Bono sometimes sings random lyrics from other songs in theirs. I don't think they were really playing Far, Far Away other than Bono's ramblings. It was fun! Did he really sing the rest of the verse? I didn't realize that.

He probably mentioned Chicago 30 times last night with enthusiastic wooing every time. There is also some IATTBYH footage in a U2 video, but I doubt the band had much to do with that.

Sportswriters do not vote for Gold Glove. The league managers do. I sincerely doubt fellas like Charlie Manuel and Lou Piniella are studying stats that only fantasy-leaguers value. They vote on what they see and reputation, of which Scott Rolen has a damn great one. Kouzmanoff may have only three errors, but it's possible that he's statuesque at the hot corner, grabbing only what's in arm's reach. I don't know. I haven't seen a Padres game since the day Tony Gwynn retired.

That's the whole point of defensive metrics--trying to measure that sort of thing. Because errors are a lousy measure of defense. UZR has nothing to do with fantasy baseball. I have not seen much of either player this year, but UZR suggests that they have both been above-average and non-elite. I have a hard time imagining that Scott Rolen would still be an elite defender after all of the injuries he's had over the years.

I don't think there's any sort of technical eligibility issue. I doubt that many sportswriters will vote for him because of the trade. I am not totally sold on any defensive statistic, but Rolen's UZR/150 suggests that he was once elite and now is a little above average.

To prevent the reproduction of ugly and poor people?

Thank goodness there's going some some effing rhyme and reason to this year's Thanksgiving. The last VC turkey day was a complete disaster!

White Sox pitcher Daniel Hudson started the season out at low-A and has been worked his way through 4 levels before making his major league debut tonight.

Joe Nathan blew a save today. Damn.

And he was booed!

I almost thought that was written as a shout-out of sorts.

DBoon has been married on VC a few times. He has some great parties as well.

Same dress, different bride?

I would like to know what the Rockies are doing giving up a halfway decent prospect for Jose Contreras.

I'm doing play by play for FIU football on the student radio station. I'm a little nervous, actually.

That's cool. Have you practiced?

Well, of course Kyle Orton isn't close to Jay Cutler's level. There's a reason he was traded with a bunch of draft picks.

Fake your own death a couple of days before her birthday and surprise her on the day of.

Woah. The board reformat brought back Mr. Kinsley. Carry on.

So is there a method of retrieving previously purchased songs/albums from Amazon? I can view my past purchases (that were downloaded to my now-whiped hard drive), but I can't find any place where you can redownload.

Good thread. I am brewing up a long-winded response.