July 2010
4 posts
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Blue Scholars’ “Summertime in the...
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Phonat's new Cockroaches EP →
Thinking I’ll wait for the iTunes download, which I assume will happen. Phonat isn’t notable enough for his own Wikipedia page?
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What Would Your Walk-Up Song Be? →
Coinciding with yesterday’s question, tell me, if YOU were an MLB player, what would YOUR walk-up song be?
Phonat’s “Love Hits The Fan”, specifically the breakdown that starts around 2:35. (About 1:23 in the video.)
Either that or Jeru the Damaja’s “Too Perverted”.
In other news: Toronto Blue Jays Walkup Music. Also, atbatmusic.com seems stalled. Should...
June 2010
3 posts
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@phonat and @5eya DJ mix
Phonat + 5eya World Session/Tronik Show 60mins mix by MofoHifi Records
The DJs were sensible enough to include a downloadable MP3 on their SoundCloud.
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Expanding TransLink's Tweets: Ped MVI
RT @translink: Ped MVI on Cordova St. 3, 8 go Hastings & Main; 4, 7, North Van rtes via Pender & Columbia. ^DS http://bit.ly/zY9cG
http://twitter.com/translink/status/15137076631 Expands to:
Motor vehicle incident involving a pedestrian on Cordova St. To hop on the #3 and #8 buses, go to Hastings & Main. The #4 and #7 and North Vancouver routes go via Pender and Columbia. The link...
Expanding TransLink's Tweets: Introduction
TransLink, Vancouver’s transportation and transit authority, has a habit of stuffing as much information as possible into their individual tweets while at the same time losing as much comprehensibility as possible. So every now and then I’ll try my best to expand the compressed tweets to get at what they were trying to say.
May 2010
26 posts
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Introducing Pixar Canada
Dig the scenes of a renovated Workspace (RIP).
(Direct link if you can’t see it here.)
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MP3s of the 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All... →
vanmega:
Remember that 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Samples Of All Time list Complex.com put out recently? It was great not only because of the songs curated, but also because it used a flash-based player that allowed you to listen to every song listed in its entirety.
I did some snooping through the Complex’s source HTML code. Turns out that the flash player actually uses high quality mp3s for each...
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Trade Chip
Dave Cameron:
[José Bautista] won’t keep this up all year, but he will be an interesting trade chip for the Blue Jays. He’s capable of playing all four corner positions, makes just $2.4 million this year and is arbitration eligible at the end of the season, so he’s not strictly a rent-a-player. Come July, when Toronto’s efforts to keep up with Tampa Bay and New York have fallen short, don’t be...
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Imaginary Conversations with American Apparel... →
Or how about our Chalupa Supreme, with our famous crunchy, chewy Chalupa shell—
—I’m going to have to ask you to leave.
daily seinfeld... →
I hope it doesn’t turn into a “why we think Seinfeld is great” blog. Just show why.
vanmega:
Carpet - Don’t Be Weird [mp3]
Hey,...
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WSJ profile of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully →
From last year.
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All 27 outs from Dallas Braden's perfect game →
Yes yes, not a nobody anymore, take that A-Rod, 209, etc. etc. Here’s a link to all 27 outs of the game. Added bonus, forgotten in the frenzy: ump rings up a batter before strike 3. Which happened to Posada last year too.
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“[Oakland A’s pitcher Dallas Braden] doesn’t make too many headlines...”
– Dallas Braden Attacks Alex Rodriguez Again. Is Baseball’s “Code” Really Still Relevant? by FanGraphs’ Alex Remington.
FanGraphs is a silly blog about a silly league. I only ever read the articles about Blue Jays players and about baseball in general. Any more and I’m...
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“Gazing around the crowd (mostly 20-30 year olds in the outfield where I sat), I...”
– kev.in.distress: Baseball, a modern day ritual
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Grizzly Memories →
Cecily’s physiotherapist’s worked as the trainer for the Vancouver Grizzlies.
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Stealing Home: A trip to Major League Baseball's... →
Yes, dammit, I’m aware of this series, and subscribed immediately. Summary RSS feeds make the gwai lo cry, though. So maybe I’ll wait until the book comes out?
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What makes baseball great: radar guns
Jerry and Alan, the radio team covering the Blue Jays, just talked about the variance in “accuracy” of radar guns at Major League Ballparks. They claimed that the radar gun in Baltimore would sometimes show 100 mph for Oriole pitchers just so they, the pitchers, could see themselves throwing 100 mph. File that under home field advantage.
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At-Bat Music →
A blog, but should it be a wiki? iPhone app?!?!?!
Requisite Twitter account: http://www.twitter.com/AtBatMusic
Old effort at ESPN Page 3. Never-ending ilxor thread.
Also needed: a reference of relief pitchers’ entrance music. For example, Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” for Mariano Rivera, AC/DC’s “Hells Bells” for Trevor Hoffman, etc.
Triangulation →
April 2010
11 posts
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How Matt Taibbi would save baseball →
Instant replay, time controls, salary cap and floor, drunken mascots, fer-ners, expanded rosters, and more husky first-basemen. (Found it looking for something else.)
Attendance is down 7 percent?! What can I do to help?
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Atlanta Braves misunderstand the infield fly rule →
With two runners on for the Mets (on first and second), José Reyes pops it up in infield. All four umpires call Reyes out, the rule in place to prevent a deception which leads to a double- or triple-play. At least two Major League Baseball players thought they had to tag the batter-runner Reyes (wrong, he’s already out), so the Braves’ catcher threw the dropped ball to first with...
Jay-Z vs DMB →
Are mashups ever a good idea? I have yet to hear one that blew me away. The Grey Album, which blew me away, is not a mashup.
vanmega:
NOT A GOOD IDEA.
“For the Blue Jays, this is an immediate upgrade over Jose Bautista, a player...”
– FanGraphs: Fred Lewis To Toronto
Wait, that’s bad! Bautista’s my favourite Blue Jay! And I don’t want him in the infield. Keep him in right, like my favourite Blue Jay of all time, Jesse Barfield (also a mediocre hitter with some pop and a strong arm)!
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“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the...”
– Fmr. MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti, The Green Fields of the Mind. (via langer) (via napoleonsbattleplan)
March 2010
10 posts
My Huffduffer collective →
Huffduffer’s signup screen is the best I’ve ever seen. Add me to your collective why not?
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