Spacebee, her sister, assorted friends, and I all went to Summerfest on Thursday. I got her Tim McGraw tickets for her birthday back in February and she was ready to cash in. All in al it was a good Summerfest trip– we stayed at the Hilton in downtown in Milwaukee and I got mistaken for Jason Aldean when we pulled up in front. The concert itself was pretty fun (really drunk) and then we walked back to the Hilton from the Summerfest grounds afterwards.
Saturday morning we played disc golf out at Elver Park. I’d like to do it again, so anytime anyone wants to toss some discs hit me up. I also played golf on Tuesday at University Ridge with Scubby and down in Racine yesterday with my brother and JOEY~! Yo wwhazz, my bro said he was going to have a poker tourney at his new house for his birthday this year– reserve August 23rd or 24th.
Finally: C.C. Sabathia. I’m of mixed thoughts about it. On one hand I hate to see them deal LaPorta; I would have rather them dealt Prince now and brought LaPorta up. But I see why they did what they did– in a push for the division they’d rather have a known arm AND a known bat rather than take a chance on bringing up LaPorta in the heat of a pennant race. However- I’m seriously concerned about next year at this point. Sheets will be gone, CC will be gone, our top prospect is gone, Cameron is gone. At a cookout the other day when someone broached the idea of dealing Prince I was shocked at first, but the idea makes a lot of sense. He hasn’t really shown consistency, and his leadership seems (from afar) more like bullying. If someone else wants a guy who hits 50 homers one season and 25 the next, and wants to deal us an arm for him I say go for it. More and more in retrospect I like the Braun deal.
So, overall I’m concerned that they’ve mortgaged the future to make one final push in the division. I suppose that’s pretty much the only way a small-town team can do it these days. But if the Cubs keep surging and the Brewers fizzle out– *shrug* there may not be much to look forward to next season. I’ll stay optimistic for now, though. This is the first time the Brewers have won a mid-season pickup sweepstakes in… well, ever?
1. Your blogging skills are slipping. You need to give a link to a Jason Aldean photo up there or, better yet, a side-by-side with you in yer cowboy hat. I had to take time to Google it and time is money, I think. Maybe?
2. Un-mix your thoughts about Sabathia and start partying. This is the best move the brewers have ever made. We are ten over .500, the NL is weak this year and we just added a reigning Cy Young winner. Who was our last Cy Young winner? Rollie Freakin Fingers. Fuck the future, they can put boards over the windows at miller park or use it for monster truck rally’s because there is no future that is brigter than a Sheets and Sabathia 1-2 cock punch. LaPorta, whatever. When the time comes Prince will net us a new one, but til then I want Prince on our team. Laporta is in AA and a jump to MLB seems unlikely unless you are a shitty team that is banged up and playing for the future. That aint us for once. Plus, CC is really, really, really fat.
From fire ned yost. I like this plan:
There’s no reason to dump Suppan. Just get him out of the rotation for now, make him long relief, and give McClung and Bush a short leash. They screw up, Soup gets his turn back. But until then, let’s play the hot hands of Bush-McClung.
So if Bush goes nuts in the 2nd, you have a chance to have a “do over” with Soup and not destroy the pen.
I like this order:
1. Sheets
2. CC
3. Parra
and be flexible with the bottom two like the poster said. And isn’t there a chance for Gallardo to be back in October?
Future thought: Parra and Gallardo become our new top two. That aint so bad.
1. Link added; thanks for the constructive criticism of tha skillz. here’s the same link so you don’t have to scroll up.
2. I’ve got no problem with our top two being Parra and Gallardo.
3. I like the idea of suppan in long relief also.
4. I hope the cubs explode– zambrano came back strong from that shoulder-thing, though. However, they did get bottom-of-the-ninth-fucked by st louie the other day.
5. Pittsburgh sweep! Tied for second with St Louis! Things are looking up, and that’s WITH Braun in a slump.
6. Wanna get together to watch a game this week? You, me, and lawman ain’t kicked it in awhile what with everyone’s crazy schedule.
Madd: I’m flying into seattle aug 28th-31st. Can I crash at your place the night of the 28th? Disc golf?
the outlook on the division from an mlb.com writer
my vote for best brewer move ever hands down is the richie sexson trade but i like this one too. all they need now is somebody to CLOSE GAMES… too bad gagne didn’t work out…yeah like that might have worked out… what the hell are you thinking? didn’t they pay him a mint too? i suppose it’s not as bad as the hightest paid pitcher ever $126 million over seven years BARRY ZITO. some guy on the radio said it was the worst move IN THE HISTORY OF BASEBALL. zito might lose 20 games this year and the giants are paying him 18 million a year for the next SIX YEARS!! way to go giants! remember when the twins fleeced them for joe nathan AND francisco liriano AND boff bonser ? for aj pierzinski??? absurd. while we’re on the subject here’s an interesting anecdote… I couldn’t quite remember how this went down but wikipedia to the rescue… in 1962 the indians traded Harry Chiti to the mets for a player to be named later and after six months the mets sent back harry chiti. in summary:
1) Brewers Good
2) Giants Bad
3) Harry Chiti Bad
4) You Look Like That Dude
everybody watch the Women’s 1500 this summer in Beijing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/07/SPJU11KTHO.DTL
Four players for CC? That’s a steal. Oh, wait – you’re not trading for weight?
“gong show with dave attell” starting july 17th
Ho, ho, ho, what’s this?
i know this may shock you all – but I think we should trade madd. we’ve had some great years but we need fresh blood… i know what you’re thinking.. why not trade you cal? well that’s easy: YOU SUCK WHY NOT TRADE YOU!
I thought the Sexson trade was the shit for a long time, but in the end it was pointless. Sexson turned to shit and the players we got for him amounted to zilch:
In exchange for Sexson, the Brewers acquired shortstop Craig Counsell, second baseman Junior Spivey, first baseman Lyle Overbay, catcher Chad Moeller, left-hander Craig Capuano and pitching prospect Jorge de la Rosa.
The Counselor? Whatever.
Spivey? Shitwad.
Overgay? He was alright and we parlayed him into Dave Bush which is…ok.
Moeller? He hit for the cycle once and won a motorcycle, but besides that…
Cappy? Up and down. Mostly down and is injured with a career threatening injury.
Jorge? He’s bounced all around the league.
So… in the end we have Dave Bush. Wow. We also have Counsell, but we re-signed him as a free agent, so I’m not sure that counts, and the rest of the dudes formed a nice job squad that marked time while we waited for Fielder, Braun, Hart et al. to ripen.
We could get some sweet prospects for him and his best years seems to be behind him. He lost weight, lost his poker mojo. He works now. I bet there are some junior high kids that have better potty mouths.
We might get a sweet potato too,
or sweet potato chips.
Wwhazz- wanna watch the Brewer game tonight? Main depot? Or somewhere on State St? BW3 dinner? Lawman is in. I’m in.
yeah i guess that sexson trade wasn’t so hot… but at least they didn’t get into some giant contract with that dude and have him stink like he does now… jfdklajfkdljfkdjfdakjfdkjfdkjf i want to go to the main depot or an equivalent establishment too.
Too bad you live in Expensive, USA
The dollar store is having a sale on Fig Nortons.
you said it. freaking Costly Earthquakes, California
hey has anybody seen Hancock? all the terrible reviews give me a feeling it might be worth seeing…
Hancock’s original name was “He Comes In The Night”. Hand. Cock. Haha.
where’s wwhazz? is he down to ride tonight?
focus man! forget wwhazz! here is my question: can. handcock. fly. answer my question! wait- answer this question first: fjdksajflkdjfdlkj
1. No
2. Yes
Yo woodpecker, turn your phone on. I caint cal you if it aint.
i’m a city cop now. give me a liter of cola.
Litera Cola? Do we have Litera Cola?
do not fear rich harden… cal’s prediction: DL by Sept 10
possibly even late august… you heard?
YA HEARD?!!#%(
YA CALD?!#%
Anything new on the price of flour?
no, but robots are about to FLEX YOU
paid $4.699 today to fill the ack. fucking robots.
I would play that thing anytime and for any stakes– even if it meant a John Henry-death.
Who are the “good” players. I want to see world champs not just the best scientist (no offense) or janitor in the building.
dumb bet. the robot claims a 3 to 1 edge AT WORST. i trust that every enthusiast within 20 miles has heard rumors of the robot and booked time. i trust the data set.
for belly
Dude.
I can beat that robot. It has never played a name player. I would have heard about it. There is no definition of a “good player” besides what they call a “good player”. Also, and more importantly, there are no established rules: the robot just plays ‘D’ and waits for perfect shots. With a shot clock, the robot would be forced to be creative and from what I’ve read and seen on youtube the robot is not capable. Also, why are all the youtube videos of the robot playing a really slow game? Like a special Olympic game? Why not show its full power?
If you can use your Internet savvy and shit talking skills to set up a match, I will not disappoint.
yeah add a shot clock and WALL-E’s fucked. or program it to play tic tac toe and it will realize there are no winners in war, tic tac toe, or air hockey… because the “winner” of the game feels bad for the “loser” thus becomming a loser himself. they should program those chuck e cheeze robots to play air hockey. then the cheerleader would finally have something to do. had to have a repeat viewing of this:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/675882/
made e watch it she didn’t believe they were robots. “there are people in there!” apparently old timey england never made the transition to robot entertainment like we did… we both enjoyed the robot show.
Bet that robot never hits its thumb.
Hey cla, tell her that you are a robot and if she doesn’t believe you, do that thing where you cut the skin off your arm with a knife to peel and reveal a terminator arm like Arnold did it T-2.
It’ll hurt but the look oh her face will be priceless.
Greg!
“Good players would ‘sucker’ the robot into overextending, then slip a goal in behind the arm while it was recalculating. We fixed that by automatically retracting at the end of each move,” Worry said.
***********
this is an obvious sign of very unintelligent architecture. robocop had a simple priority list. #4 was secret, but i hacked the hex dump and found it to be “stroke greg”. i don’t know what that means… but an air hockey robot that didn’t initial know that it should begin to move back to a blocking position in front of the goal whenever it can is just retarded.
If the robot was programmed by someone intelligent… like greg or me or anyone but cal, i don’t see how you could beat it.
it should general grievous style move their… uh… what do you call an air hockey thing that you hit the puck with? it should move it back and forth at speeds that would never allow a puck through. you can’t compete with that.
you’re not allowed to talk you got traded.
So it moves super fast, back and forth, in front of the goal. That sometimes pulls the puck into the goal. Also, it has to come out away to make a shot. Fuck it man, I can beat that thing.
I’ve been watching video after video and no one is attempting really advanced shots. And the robot is just playing D. Youtube the texas state championships and see the shots those dudes pull. I need to see the robot block one of those.
Also, the robot sees from above: what if you try to use your wrist and forearm to cover the puck? Like bounce it off the back wall and follow it up before you blast it. Goddmanit I hate that robot.
post links of the cool air hockey! sorry madd i un jinx you ok? i’m sorry — it’s just– i care for you…ok? so much you don’t know. every day i post and i post… is he listening? does he read? forget it…
wait… really post those hockey links don’t make me search that crap. let’s get some good robot links too. dang!
DO NOT upgrade your iPhone to 2.0 firmware yet. It bricked my shit because it needs to fucking connect(!) to the iTunes store to complete installation. Since 6 million motherfuckers are trying to do it at once, the connection fails and now I can’t do anything with the fucking phone. Goddamn mothercuckolding apple.
hey does ewaz love on the road or what? he must right? i’m finally reading it and all i can think of is ewaz ewaz ewaz ewaz
mp did you read the emmigrants? huh? huh?
Kcar loves it and mp read your stupid book. He already told you that.
My phone is working again– I manually clicked ‘Retry’ about 30-40 times. Barf.
OMG is your finger ok?
AWESOME!!! mp did you like it? read all four!!! THE EMIGRANT SAGA!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Moberg
DUDE!!
http://www.collegehumor.com/picture:1822626
can somebody help me here… i’m pretty sure i’m half best friends with nig. i have 0 clue where this is though.
hey cal, what do you think about syrup and peanut butter being store in the fridge? also, what about bread? what about bread in the freezer? what about greg? what about your friends? standing their ground on the low down? big shouts to my girl love up above. left eye… i miss you, girl. peace is fine.
don’t waste your time looking stuff up rita, the answer is downtown wisconsin dells. nig got me drunk a lot. thanks nig.
OMG, i just got off the phone with greg and he said cal had $5,000 drapes!
Fabric
he also said everyone was coo coo and cooking bricks
welcome to the world of web 2.0
have you ever used mac teleporter? you run it on multiple machines, and then you can mouse off the edge of one screen and you’ll be controlling the other machine. it even keeps the clipboard functionality so you can copy text on one machine and paste to the other. daddy likes.
Google Spreadsheet still doesn’t have freezepanes on column and row labels. my shit is o so much mo tite.
Plymouth, MN named the best small city.
From the article: “known for miles around for housing a dog capable of hollaringit, plymouth puts on a yearly laser show”.
somehow madison made the list too…. as a “small city”….
also, i’ve gone fishing on that very bridge w/ rach-o. i caught a bass on wax worm.
check my new bar idea…
TVs! EVERYWHERE! BUT#%)!#% but but but… SLOW MOTION!
everything is in slow motion. sit coms, cartoons, news, sports, movies… and the same thing never appears on more than 3-4 screens at once.
slow motion.
i’m up for suggestions about other sensory manipulation concerning humidity or music.
how about this… turn the heat way up, but balance it with a 1000 foot deep cave that pulls large volumes of fresh filtered cold air from the cave and disperses it via a large hole in the center of the room with a hood to create a ring that puffs out to fill the whole room and lasts just not long enough to where you miss it as the room quickly begins to warm again.
and cal is the dj.
i think syrup and peanut butter belong in the pantry..frigde is ghetto…
help me!!!
i need a home
*fridge
seriously..help me wwhazz ..you’re my only hope
Follow your nose; it always knows.
Yea, I can help.
Yo skeezer, do you ever read about the UB and Absolute poker scandals? I don’t think I’ve ever talked with you about that.
where ex employees built in shit to be able see other peoples cards?
Yeah, why didn’t you build me one of those?
you can’t just be any ex employee… you have to be an ex employee of an online poker site.
it is beyond shady that it could happen. RIGGED.
Anyone want to guess where I am whazzing from?
Here’s a hint- waterfalls in the lobby, lots of neon and wwhazz is in poker heaven.
JOE’S CASINO
try my new game… go to the video site of your choice.
search for “fat kid dances” and somehow pick a random result that you are very sure contains a fat kid dancing as it’s focus. watch only 1 video.
now search for “kid faceplants” and again watch a random result preferably with a roof or wheels involved. pogo is a plus. watch only 1 video.
repeat.
they balance each other out like cilantro and all spice. delicious.
Did anyone see that Rampage Jackson got arrested yesterday for hit and run in a giant monster truck that says “Rampage” on it and has a life-size decal OF HIMSELF of the side?
funny. just got 13th in the $55 ploiter. 9 fucking pay. 1100 for 1st. had Kd2d34 on Ad5Qd flop and get all in 3 ways for a chipleader sized pot. showtime: AQ23 and 559J. nobody has any diamonds.
2 or a 3 and i scoop with the wheel. 4 6 7 8 i chop the low… but then i’ll have a gutshot straight draw on the river to quarter him. high diamonds and i scoop. low diamond and i quarter a guy.
FIRST IS 1100, I’LL BE CHIPLEADER FINAL TABLE.
BRICK. BRICK. mighty mighty lettin it all hang out.
SO. FUCKING. RIGGED.
i think it came T, pair the board.
took it with a dingy. CAL’S DINGY.
greg.
i KNOW it came T, pair the board.
Mr. Rampage getting arrested
When I first saw the picture of Rampage on the ground behind his truck, I thought it was photoshopped. Too weird to be true.
i got 33. you?
http://www.sporcle.com/games/simpsons.php
Sad to say: 53
29, you prick.
wow 53! i am impressed… you’re the robot arm of simpsons characters
YOU’RE NOT CAL! WHAT DOES CAL KNOW OF ROBOT ARMS?!
if i’m not cal how could i know about your secret… the one you only told cal… in the bell pantry about how you love all things minnesota and feel like wisconsin is a “soulless travesty of a state” but were afraid to admit it to anyone because you knew springer would find out and follow you around with his camera lecturing you on aldo leopold. but you told cal didn’t you? you told your old buddy cal all about it. i totally spaced on “otto” what a freaking idiot.
vertical pizza
best video in a few days. i was sold after invisible hot wings and then they slapped me 2-7 more times.
they don’t know his name, only know his initials
spelled C.A.L. with elected officials
learnin up the law, makin something more of it
i’d still rather hang with adam horowitz.
HURRRRRRICANE
if 7 people support the idea of me giving quincy a punk mohawk dyed black……. i’ll do it.
I support the idea.
i support this idear
i vote no
i got busy in frisco
fooled around in fresno
i got over on the scientist
you know he never says no
i just watched the horse whisperer, unlike the dog whisper, the horse whisperer is dumb and long. it’s like one enormous 2 hour ad for the gap. alright alright i’ll buy some jeans just please stop pleading at me from the 90′s robert redford. your eyes pierce my soul robert redford.
HELLLLOOOOOOOOO WHAZZMASTERRRRRRRRRRRR
whazzman, whazzman, he’s a hell of a site
you know the web is up and he’s a hell of a guy
saw my pizza video and bust a little chuckle
greg gets a taste of my gold finger knuckle
HELLLLLLOOOOOOO WHAZZMASSSSSSSSSSSSTERRR
he thrusts his fist against a post and still insist he sees a ghost
HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLO jen h?
i support quincy’s haircut
yo. whazzmaster. let’s get some new content up on the ‘ol whazzboard howsabout. i know you are a busy man but your public needs you
here cal, rick ross was a cop!
push it to the limit!
wow smoking gun, you’ve finally cracked the case! i can’t believe some guy i’ve never heard of was once a security guard! finally, the truth is clear: rick ross was a cop. hey smoking gun, there is this weird set of keys i have on the bottom of a drawer- they aren’t ke
ys to my apartment… THEY AREN’T KEYS TO MY APARTMENT!
They’re the keys to greg’s heart. Duh. Why don’t you slam your wiener against a law book and insist you see a tort.
greg was a cop too
SHUT UP!
I’m sorry I told you to shut up.
did you see i put qbasic4.5 in the URL? hahaha. .net too like greg really was a cop! .net
Hey you! I got something to say: I’ll update the site sometime this week. Sorry I’m busy. But…..
GIBBONS! gibbons! GIBBONS!!!!!two!!!
prince CHARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLES!
Cal, there was a time back in 2006 when all of whazzland implored you to let madd take you under your wing instead of law school. Or at least I did:
W-whazz said [at 1:15 am on September 21st, 2006]
Cal, the skeezer has two computer screens. On one, you will play cards and on the other he will regale you with videos of exploding toilets. He also has a lap top, so you can work on your own special cal projects. Sometimes he will drink vast quantities of Captain Morgan’s and you will fan him with a towel, maybe even take control of a runaway tournament he registered for and passed out. Day will become night and night will become mid afternoon. You will dance in St. Paul and when it is all said and done, you will bend the very laws of mathematics that created the MADD SCIENTIST…you just might bump into Arlo. AND THEN YOU WILL BE READY… to become KING of your very own small world.
So you went the law school route. Happy? Regrets?
Madd’s farty old wing, duh.
that is an interesting inquiry, let me meditate on the question for awhile and respond.
meditating…
now i have 2 monitors and 2 laptops
dude brett farve looks like hell boy. what’s up that guy needs sun block
yo cal, from a legal standpoint… why shouldn’t i vote for ron paul? why shouldn’t i vote for paul wall?
duh you want gun control s’why
I’m voting for Ron Paul because I want gun control. What about Paul Wall?
Gibbbbbbbbbbbons
Gib gib
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebons
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebons
Yo cal, from a lunch standpoint, why shouldn’t I have a Caesar Salad? Why shouldn’t I have a Ceasar Salad?
Fuck it. I’ll meet you in the middle. Little Caesar’s. Dude’s out front holding a sign: $5.