Lookout Landing

I'm not sure how you can claim you guys aren't rich in money.

I’m sure you all save a ton of money on rent, seeing as how your parents probably don’t charge you for living in the basement.

Also, I may be able to make this one. I’ll have to see what I can do.

Hmm...

Is it sad that between this, my 10 year high school reunion, and a memorial gathering for my grandfather, I wish to attend this the most?

Omerta - June 11, 2009 reply

Similar boat for me.

10-year reunion, blessing for my niece, or this. Hmmmm. Which should I choose?

Reunions are always a complete waste of time so that's one off both your lists

And nieces don't have money to mooch off of so I say skip that.

She won't even know I wasn't there either.

Funny how you don’t remember much from when you were a month old.

That stuff is always just about the parents wanting praise for how cute their child looks

as if they’ll need an excuse to bore you with the details for the next 8 years.

I constantly find myself regretting the fact that it doesn't cost my sister money to send me texts.

I mean, how many times can you take the same picture of something that doesn’t even move on its own yet and then send every single version of that picture to your entire family?

You should block your sister's phone number for a week.

Sec 108 - June 11, 2009 reply

I'd only want to see maybe 4-5 people.

And those people probably aren’t even going. So, no real draw to go.

Especially 10 year reunions.

Unless you like re-living the cliques as established in high school. They remain intact at 10 years— 15 not so much, and 20th plus, pretty much breaking down.

The bonus there is that 20 years later you don't give a damn about anybody you went to HS with that you aren't still talking to

so no need to go!

I just want to go so I can laugh at everybody for getting old, fat, and bald

Kermit. - June 11, 2009 reply

I thought you meant the meetup.

I laughed.

Now I have Les Bourgeois by Rod McKuen stuck in my head

Kermit. - June 11, 2009 reply

You dog, you know how I love Rod McKuen.

I stopped giving a shit about everyone I went to HS with

(at least people that I wasn’t still close friends with) about five minutes after I graduated.

Testify!

You can't pay me enough to sit in a room with the douchebags I graduated with.

BrianL - June 11, 2009 reply

You mean you don't want to hang out with the ex-HS quarterback who wasn't good enough to play in college but wasn't smart enough to pass classes so he came back home and is now the HS football coach...

…but he still thinks he’s the shit because, goddammit, he was the starting quarterback 10 years ago!

You mean the guy that sold me my oil filter at Kragen the other day?

schadenfreude is awesome.

Ath the $20 donation level,

Matthew will generate a heat map of your choosing and personally autograph it!

?!?!

I am considering donating $20 even though I’m not attending the event to see a heat map of pitches thrown to Jose Lopez in 2008

Does it have to be baseball-related?

No!

I will donate twenty dollars but I don't need a heat map. Can you draw a picture of Alice instead?

Can I draw it with heat blobs?

You're in charge, big man.

Wait can I donate?

Yes.

Write yourself a check.

I don't see where I get any cut of that.

What about a comic?

Requires a $35 donation.

This is remarkably tempting.

I've seen his comics and they're quite amusing.

Sounds hawt

Based on the positive feedback from this,

LL has been vastly wasting money-making opportunities.

How much for LLinsider?

I am going to pronounce this "yinsider"

You're perfect.

What donation level do we have to reach to get a recording of Jeff cursing at Griffey?

LL audio recordings start at $100

with $500 for a full on podcast. It would take a lot to get us to do another one.

Just take him to an Angels game. Done.

abender20 - June 11, 2009 reply

If he's playing next week in San Diego, zero dollars

I can easily see him patrolling the vast outfield of Petco

If we raise 1000 dollars in donations I will personally drink a six pack of Dogfish 120 in one day.

One 24-hour day or one drinking session?

Doesn’t seem that six dogfish in 24 hours is that much of a challenge.

It's Robert

I would think that even Robert could manage one beer every four hours

I think he was still drunk 24 hours after the last 120 he had.

One Dogfish 120 is like four beers

so it’s like four beers every four hours

Drinking one 120 Minute every four hours would be like taking four shots of vodka every four hours.

I'm with pdb. This does not sound difficult.

Sec 108 - June 11, 2009 reply

Yeah. How about one right after the other until the whole six pack is gone?

And we want video.

I'm not terribly interested in Robert-snuff films, no thanks.

yeah, I don't need to see it either

21% ABV

If consumed over 24 hours that just means a well-sustained buzz

a big buzz, but still. That’s why I’m trying to nail down the definition of “day”.

Robert is not as much of a lightweight as he used to be but he'd be hammered after each one.

About halfway through that’s going to add up.

I don't even know Robert, I just like to instigate

I think even I would have trouble drinking six 120s in 24 hours.

I'm fairly convinced I could do it

If it wouldn't set me back ~$70 I would try it.

I would donate 20 dollars to watch

How much will people chip in if I do it on the 8th?

Depends on if this gets you to cranky Matthew stage

No guarantees beforehand.

In that case, zero.

I would pay top dollar if you morphed into Thomas "Giggles the Top Hat" Carruth

For this I would chip in.

I could do it.

If I liked the taste of it I could do it

but I can’t stand 120 minute.

I think sb and I have some drinking to do when he gets here.

I will tag along and he and I can consummate our internet flirtations.

I will host the nuptials.

Upon further thought I will only do this if we raise $2,000 and I will instead do it in 12 hours

No thanks, I'll just do it myself.

Not nearly as amusing

It is for me.

Lame.

I changed it because if the expected 300 come than only 66 percent of them had to not be cheap asses

That is why it's so reasonable.

Not to mention, this is as good of excuse as any for you to drink six 120s in one day.

I have a wedding to attend soon!

How is it that Robert posted this nearly two hours ago

yet it only has one rec? As good of a reason as it might be to support the people who give tremendous amounts of their time for our benefit, this is the easily the greatest reason to give money.

We gonna try to get donations to pay for Dave's wife as well?

rtang - June 11, 2009 reply

She married him willingly, there's no need to pay for Dave to get a wife

oh wait

Just because Dave & Derek are taken care of in the wife department...

Dude, craigslist is free

and here I've been paying for Craigslist Prime all these years

Not again.

Never again

I missed my chance!

We're only seven days from the one-year anniversary of a LL HOF thread, you know

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/6/18/554269/the-solving-the-jeff-sulli#6833924

It was one of those historic LL drama days when the edgy new character showed just how far she would go to fit in

Did she sell out her own gender in the process?

Would it surprise you to know that I do, in fact, know this?

Yes?

My goal is to use that day to make my 20,000th comment on LL

You'd better pace yourself.

No gamethreads for a week!

You're never going to make it.

Also, we can start talking so much shit about him

and he will be unable to respond for long.

Up my game, however, and I might

Naturaly, my schedule has me flying to Prudhoe Bay on the 7th.

I never get to go to these. What’s even more frustrating is that I will be in Seattle that week anyway visiting friends.

thewyrm - June 11, 2009 reply

Sorry guys I don't think I'll be able to make it

For the next six days I’m going to be out of town on a little trip, so main page posting will be minimal, if not entirely non-existent. Fortunately there are few better times for a baseball blogger to neglect his website than the middle of February (unless you’re a Giants blogger, in which case October’s as good a time to go away as any), so you won’t be missing much.

Dewey N - June 11, 2009 reply

I, for one, will not be attending.

Yeah like if you had a coin attached to a string that you Keppinger pocket

God dammit do we have to do this again

I'm done talking.

Dewey N - June 11, 2009 reply

You know what?

Fuck it. Great post. Let’s make a deal right now. You want to post something, you email me first. I’ll tell you when you’re being stupid or over the top, and you can tell me when you’re going to get off of my lawn.

Love, soft as an easy chair.

Jeez you guy enough with this junior high OT nonsense

This is a baseball blog. Nobody cares about this crap.

Would love to be able to make it

but it’s so not going to happen, still I’ll happily to donate to the event cause.

Between these two blogs there sure can’t be as much high-quality independent coverage of a sports team that rivals this elsewhere.

MarkE - June 11, 2009 reply

I have a question:

Is this event likely to fill up in the near future?

Because I want to go and my schedule may even permit the day-trip down to Seattle, but I won’t know till July sometime. So is it reasonable to expect spaces to remain available that longm or should I just get a ticket now and hope I’m able to attend?

Vatinius - June 11, 2009 reply

Wait

You should probably be okay. We’re at ~70 right now (assuming there isn’t a big group that bought tickets but didn’t fill out my form), and while I think we’ll end up between 200-300, I would imagine that if we sell all the tickets, it won’t be until closer to the August 4th deadline. I’d imagine there’s a lot of people like you that won’t be able to know for sure if they can go for a while.

When we start getting to ~50 tickets left, I’ll do a post at USSM that tells everyone that.

davidcameron - June 11, 2009 reply

Thanks, Dave.

I'm totally going

And I’ll totally be drunk!

section331 - June 11, 2009 reply

Before you enter the conference, yes?

EnglishMariner - June 11, 2009 reply

So drunk she'll be cussing out Big Z, calling him Bavasi!

Par-Tay!

Z Unit!

Fin - June 11, 2009 reply

That's a lot of drinking...

section331 - June 11, 2009 reply

Of course!f

Actually, I’ll probably just have a beer, because, well, it’ll be a day that ends in “y”.

section331 - June 11, 2009 reply

Any special guests coming?

Fin - June 11, 2009 reply

Yes

other than yourself

Griffey.

I'm acctually already going to that game as a birthday present.

You need one of our tickets to get into the Q&A

It was more just noting my poor fortune, as I'm going to be in the area, but my girlfriend isn't going to want to go. =(

Sounds like you've got a problem that needs fixing

girlfriends come and go but rooting for laundry is fuh evah

So in conclusion, I have a problem that needs fixing?

Sounds like you should fix a problem

Seems like you ahve a lame girlfriend

Be sure to let her know that USSM comments included rave reviews about the ladies last time

because that'll sway her opinion

“Hey honey, random people on the internet liked this! You will love it!”

I refuse to believe people actually commented on the looks of random girls in the audience

Did you not see USSM's comment section?

No

This is what I could find.

Here.

I was actually surprised at the number of females (probably a 15-1 ratio, but still, I was expecting like 1 chick total). I think most of them were girlfriends though.

If that’s the case those are some hella lucky boyfriends.

Boom Chacka Boom

That ratio is so much better than the average mom's basement. Which would probably just be a mom.

Dammit. I just made a mom’s basement crack, I should have quit while I was ahead.

Kermit. - June 11, 2009 reply

She is a Red Sox fan. =(

KILL IT WITH FIRE

Ummm, I mean I'm sure she's very nice.

What the fuck dude.

Who the fuck would date a fan of a rival

You have a lot of splaining to do too.

I actually don't understand the mindset.

The only woman I've dated that liked a different team is now rooting against that team almost nightly.

It's a lot of fun.

I’ve had two Mariner-fan girlfriends.

At least it wouldn't be like dating a fan of a team which crushed your hopes and dreams in a major championship

Graham MacAree - June 11, 2009 reply

Perhaps time will tell.

That was the fucking joke

Really?!

Graham MacAree - June 11, 2009 reply

I know, what a retard

I know, but I live with myself by telling myself its not a division rival.

I would fuck the fan of a dating rival

;)

Plug

If you’re on the fence about going, take it from someone who is not in charge of either USSM or Lookout Landing – these events are always incredible. The special guests are always worthwhile, you come away with a lot of “insider” information & a better perspective of how your favorite team is run, and it’s always fun to put faces to the names that you see on the blogs. The fact that for the price you’re paying you get a ticket to the game is just icing. If the USSM/LL events were all the money you spent on baseball each year, it would be a solid investment. Do it, and offer a donation to the admins too.

A++++++ WOULD ATTEND AGAIN

Fuck you all yet another one I'm stuck on the east coast for.

Although I'm pretty I offended everyone I met last time I came out, so maybe it's for the best.

you offend people with your prettiness?

you must be one beautiful mofo.

Damn you, pdb, I was hoping that people wouldn't notice that.

I'm a pedantic little sumbitch

You and your semantics.

How could we not notice how pretty you are?

marc w - June 11, 2009 reply

Maybe he was with one of the lucky mofos mentioned above.

You did?

Sure, you don't see Kermit talking to me anymore.

It’s like he wants to forget I exist entirely.

Faux - June 12, 2009 reply

He told me he thought you were cute.

royalcurve - June 12, 2009 reply

And I also said that was just between us girls!

Kermit. - June 12, 2009 reply

(Sorry Kermit!)

royalcurve - June 12, 2009 reply

Why can't you people ever do these on my off days?

Goose - June 11, 2009 reply

Hopefully I can make this my first USSM/LL event.

And softball? Count me in!

Zwakamatsu - June 11, 2009 reply

Same here - I'd love for some softball in late June or July (which would be my first LL event as well, Z)

I also already bought my tickets from USSM today, so I’m good to go! Can’t wait for the event.

Decatur - June 11, 2009 reply

Do we have to sit in our assigned seats?

Hell if I know but I'm sure negotiations will be possible

You will, however, have to go to the bathroom in pairs

Dibs on NOLA!

I'm hoping to score the island of Manhattan