I hope Gameday is working tonight, cause I'm back at work missing yet another, what I'm sure will be awesome, Red Sox game. Get to miss another Josh start too. Wah.
Disturbingly enough, this is my first time on a computer all day. (spent her afternoon playing weird video games with some college friends - the few people on campus who get her, actually)
Gameday is working just fine, it appears. I'm hoping to rely on it less tonight as I try to really LISTEN while getting a few more chores done around the house. I was such a slug today and really need to make up for it.
No doubt, Kristina! I did too. Trouble is, when I finally reconnected with my best friend from college after 25+ years of being out of touch, turns out that she had gone way conservative, had plenty of regrets about her past wildness, and had no interest in reminiscing. We didn't have much in common in the present day, so fell out of touch quickly. But every now and then I hear from other friends from back then, and we have a blast talking about it.
LOL Trish, "incognito." I have to do that too with some of my family. I currently have a couple of e-mails to answer from cousins whose e-mails are full of gushes about various Yankees-related things, and I'm having to do my homework so I can keep up the facade, because they have NO idea I switched sides.
Kristina, what's really fun is that as my class reaches the heart of "mid life," a lot of folks seem to feel the need to reconnect with their youth. I've heard from several people out of the blue, so have been corresponding with them in addition to the several I've kept up with since we graduated.
My family is mostly Yankees with a little Mets pocket (my side), and I'm the only Sox fan - so what my parents, brother and I did for our Christmas card this year was take a picture of the four of us in our jerseys. We got so many angry responses, and I and my Papelbon jersey got the brunt of it...it was so awesome.
Lindsay- doll, I love ya- but you gotta quit trolling for hits on this thread. I let it go last time- and everyone spent half an hour talking about that- but this isn't the place to bug people about that.
It has to do with a friend of mine that he treated like crap. It wasn't a personal or dating thing, he just caused trouble when he didn't have to and the situation was his fault to begin with. Out of respect for my friend that's all I'll say.
Oh mang, Steph, I'd be totally afraid to do that. The Mets fans among my family wouldn't care, and many of the NYY fans would look askance but not disown me, but at least one or two of my cousins would likely never speak to me again! And it would probably make things even weirder between me and my sister than they already are.
Wow, Trish, that's unfortunate. No doubt there are flies on many walls who could tell tales about bad behavior by any number of ballplayers. I'd wager most of them are not total angels!
What I wouldn't give to have been there, 1863 - I have a picture on my hard drive of him that day with the bat slung over his shoulder. I think I have the video of that HR somewhere, too.
I was actually getting sick, so I was really out of it - I kept confusing Lowell and Loretta's names (I must've sounded so damn fairweather!) - so one of my few clear memories from that game was Josh's homer. I can still see the flight of the ball if I shut my eyes...I can remember exactly where I was standing. It was amazing. (I remember laughing hysterically, too, because it was such a pleasant surprise!)
I must've sounded either drunk or fairweather. This is why I should not watch ballgames when I'm sick. (At least Lowell and Pedroia are harder to confuse!)
And it's worth saying - the Phillies have a fantastic ballpark. I've caught a couple of games there now (I wait until the Sox are in town to go, except this year they packaged the tickets on me!), and it's awesome.
Jane, I've had Monday circled on my calendar for a long time. There are also games on TV on 5/11 and 5/12 (ESPN), 5/17 (Fox) and 5/18 (TBS). Check your local listings!
Jane, it also pays to check your local listings (if you're on cable, that is). There's been at least one game so far this year that wasn't in the schedule listings on mlb.com, but ended up being shown on TV here!
Hey everybody. Late as per usual. That damn John Mayer song "Say" is stalking me. I heard it like....500 times this week. I mean granted it's starting to get overplayed, but still. I think it may be trying to tell me something.
Also, I really wish my laptop battery wasn't a piece of shit so I can unplug this laptop and take it to the living room.
He's just...not scary. That picture makes me want to give him a hug. (Granted, pretty much any picture of him makes me want to do that, but right there he's just...not scary. At all.)
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if Justin Masterson was there trying to make him laugh, too, because it was Photo Day and that's what you do on Photo Day...
Erin, that's exactly what I like about him - he's a total dork. He's genuine. I adore that. (And I'm a huge nerd, so Stanford is just....yeeeah. I'm actually wearing my Stanford hat right now...yes, I know how sad it is that I went out and bought one.)
A little, although it doesn't compare to the way he looked the other night after that play at the plate - that was fierce. (And damnit, but I...enjoyed it. Severely. Especially since we still won that game...)
Tex -- there's no outlets near the couch that aren't taken. So I'm darting back and forth. I don't mind it as much.
Trish -- I FINALLY have found some CDs that I yoinked from my brother(well like 5 of them were mine to begin with) so I'll be avoiding that. It's not that the song is a horrible song, it's just that I don't wanna hear it a thousand times.
Well, at least SOME of the WAGs don't try to be what they're not...thinking of Manny and Julio's wives, but of course they would both look really silly as blondes.
MANNY!!!! Funny thing was that I was discussing with a friend last night about Manny's throwing arm being pinpoint accurate and how people run on him and get messed up.
Question: who is the bobblehead on the back dashboard of the cab in that Olympia Sports commercial (with the three SOX dudes)? It looks uncannily like that free Jose Reyes bobble head they gave away with MLB 2K8.
(boots up College GameTracker to watch Oregon State and Washington State) Stanford already played today (and won!), so I'll do this for Jacoby's sake...
LOL Texy about Paps. I can't see him, of course, but can picture it. As for Manny, I think he's a LOT smarter and deeper than most people realize. The very fact that he's taken up yoga and meditation speaks volumes.
"Okay! Let's see which one of us can do the more outrageous things without being caught by the bullpen camera!" (Of course, in this instance they've both been caught, but...eh, go figure.)
I wonder if we all write nice little letters to NESN about putting a little box in the corner of the screen that has a constant pullpen cam they'll do it :D
...I just saw someone steal a base on College GameTracker, and it was the CUTEST THING EVER. The players are represented by little Game of Life pegs, and they actually swing at, throw and catch the ball...it's amazing.
The Diamond Angle. Excellent source for photos of players in college from around '03-'04. (It's got some particularly gawky ones of Jed as a freshman/sophomore...)
The Diamond Angle has something like twenty pages of just pictures of Stanford kids...it's a gold mine. I mean, here's Jed with his helmet in his eyes...
I dont know if thats the picture, but i was on a website and there was a picture like that and this was before the Cy Young winner was announced and on the blog they said "Can CC do this? no, i didnt think so!" it was funny..lol
Lindsay, it took me awhile to warm up to Manny, but once I did...I just can't get enough of the guy. Maybe it's because I'm eccentric too, but he just resonates with me.
Here's a random question -
Do any of you guys know of anywhere that might list everyone's at bat music?
It's just something that's been eating at my brain for a while now....
but i do know that Dustin has a rap song, and it made me laugh really hard when i was at the game the other day because i just couldnt see him listening to it. =P
Okay I'm just going to give the link for these two pictures....I think just seeing it all out in the open will cause a few people to choke on their food.
If it still doesn't work, you can do what I did - I downloaded an Apple II emulator and a copy of the game (I can link anyone who needs them to them).
Sadly, it took me a few times to make it to Oregon, and the first time I did it, everyone in my party was from Oregon (Jed as party leader, plus Jacoby, Johnny Pesky, Trevor Crowe and Steve Prefontaine).
ECL - yes! I try to find high school pictures, but those are hard to find (although I have Jed in high school and as a ten-year-old - don't ask how I found those, because that's Google Images' fault)...the Minor League stuff is usually the closest I can come...
I know even less about computers than Kristina. Sometime, when we have time, someone will have to explain to me what HTML code is and how one uses it to post pictures. Because it looked for awhile like Kristina hyperlinked directly to the URL, then a picture showed up. I have no clue...and also can't figure out how Trish linked to something but the link shows up as a caption.
Yes, ladies, serious education is in order here. When we have LOTS of time.
Guys- if you're posting pictures, it's best to upload them to your own server or some place like photobucket -- half of those pictures above are broken image links because you're linking to someone who has image theft protection on. Also, it's never nice to steal bandwidth.
I never cease to be amazed by the two pictures these gallery owners put up when Jed made it up to Pawtucket...The first one is in high school, the second one is at age ten.
The basics of posting a picture is that you post one of the less-than signs that this site hates (the one on the comma key), then img src=", then the URL of the image, then another quote, a space, a slash (/), and a greater-than sign (on the period key).
From like 2004 or so...what makes it is teh reaction of the guy to the right. God bless my friend for keeping this picture. I keep forgetting it exists(not sure when my super pic link post will pop up)
Um, Liza, where does one put all that? In the body of the post?
And Texy, I'm clueless -- what is bandwidth? I've heard of it but don't know exactly what it is or what constitutes stealing it.
Ya see, I grew up in the Dark Ages. Learned to type on a manual typewriter. There was a computer at my high school that was the size of an entire room. I can word process just fine, but all this code and technical stuff has me completely lost.
Question, part II: I know what Photobucket is. But what is meant by having one's own server?
See, this is more than one can deal with during a rain delay. I still (YES) am planning to do a LJ account. Would have done it before the game had I not run into a snafu involving a late bill payment that I had to straighten out, and I ran out of time. May do it tonight or tomorrow. But after I do that, maybe I can contact some of you and get some lessons on all this stuff. Please?
Di, I love his little Colorado Rockies Little League uniform! It's just adorable! (Also, I think those people in the back are his parents, and he really bears a strong resemblance to his dad...)
ecl--if you have a Yahoo e-mail account you can access GeoCities, which you can use as a place to download pictures. There's also Photobucket and Flickr, both of which are free.
Every time someone visits a page on a website it downloads a certain amount of data. If you have a data limit on your website (which a lot of them do) and a lot of people visit your website, they'll use up all your data--that's why sometimes if a website gets mentioned in big media you can't get on it, because all the data availability's been used up--otherwise known as exceeding your bandwidth.
Bandwidth is the strain on the server that hosts a website every times someone accesses that website (or any of its content). Most server hosts make you pay for the bandwidth- so, for example, when someone links directly to images I have stored in my webspace to use on my website, I get charged more $$. So, what I did (and a lot of folks do) is turn on protection so no one but me can directly link to my images.
Y'all will definitely be the first bunch of people to know when (not if) I sign up for LJ. A blog, I don't know about, but I do want to get involved in all this fun and being people's friend and all that stuff which is so new to me.
Texy, I do apologize for all the stupid questions, by the way.
Photobucket and other simiilar "storage" sites exist so people can link directly to images without fear of eating up people's bandwidth. Flickr is another good one.
(crosses her fingers and hopes for one very specific defensive replacement just because it would be rather nice, wouldn't it? and because she's feeling particularly lame today...)
It's gotten friendlier--when I was up there for Yanks/Sox it was literally an hour before someone yelled YANKEES SUCK at me. Normally I'd hear that within two seconds of getting out of the car.
on May 3, 2008 6:59 PM
I hope Gameday is working tonight, cause I'm back at work missing yet another, what I'm sure will be awesome, Red Sox game. Get to miss another Josh start too. Wah.
GO SOX!!