Lookout Landing

Also I don't know why CHONE should be pronounced like Chone.

Surely it has nothing to do with Figgins. I pronounce it with the hard CH and the long O.

Like ice cream cone

The H is silent for me.

Actually

It has everything to do with Figgins. It was named after him. Imagine if Red was an economist who developed a baseball projection system and called it BELTRE. How would you pronounce it?

I think you mean sadism, not masochism,

and I don’t think they’re synonymous, since sadism implies enjoyment with actual participation.

ChristopherA - March 17, 2010 reply

Oh, for some reason I thought schadenfreude was masochism. My bad.

It's one on those German words with no English equivalent, that's why we use it.

I usually hear it defined as "malicious satisfaction in the misfortune of others."

JAH - March 17, 2010 reply

Right, and we don't have a single word for that, so we use theirs.

marc w - March 18, 2010 reply

Nice intro song.

thehemogoblin - March 17, 2010 reply

A bit derivative of John Cage's "4′33″"

Ah you beat me to it.

Remember that Family Guy where Peter forgets how to sit?

. . . no

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Red_(drink)

Big Red

Big Red was definitely a soda

http://www.bigred.com/

was/is

It was also a gum

OlSalty - March 17, 2010 reply

Correction

Topics this time around include PECOTA, Jose Lopez, Dustin Ackley, trains, trains, trains, Tui, Catchers, Shawn Kelley, Mike Koplove and depth.

Good stuff.

Glad to hear Matthew confirming what Divish told me about Texeira. I have been pulling for the Aardsma-League-Lowe-White-Kelley-Texeira bullpen.

JonBBT - March 17, 2010 reply

Did you guys mean to put the podcasts in the "Blues" genre or is that just some auto-select thing?

kentcheesehead - March 17, 2010 reply

It's Matthew's deep voice

Sometimes, I use it to lure snakes

Matthew - March 17, 2010 reply

?

BrianL - March 17, 2010 reply

It's the default genre when exporting in Audacity

There's no genre called "Teals"

So this is as close as they can get.

Also, depending on how the season goes….

WOW!

Do you hate Rob Johnson!!?!

I loved the ‘breakdown’ of Rob. Yeah, it would be wierd if he started hitting. Hope he gets healthy because the FO has committed to him a little. Him and Moore, give them a shot and try to work through the no hitting and pass balls.

Love the M’s talk! Keep it up.

Montucky - March 17, 2010 reply

Jeff you got your Defcon levels mixed up.

Standard peacetime protocol is DEFCON 5, descending in increasingly severe situations.

Whoopsadoodle

Probably 13, Jeff

seattlebruin - March 17, 2010 reply

At least you don't live in San Diego anymore and those fucking trains that go through Gaslamp for like fifteen minutes

seattlebruin - March 17, 2010 reply

Coal fired power plants provide about 50% of consumed electricity in the United States.

I cannot believe I didn't know this off the top of my head

Important Details

Preach it, Journal Of Commerce!

In 2008, for example, BNSF Railway increased the length of double-stack trains on its high-volume corridors to 10,000 feet from 7,500 feet. The longer trains each carry about 325 containers compared with 250 containers carried by the more common 7,500-foot trains.
…
Lange said UP’s average train length is 6,000 feet, although the railroad does run trains as long as 12,000 feet in high-volume corridors such as between Los Angeles-Long Beach and Chicago.

So length does matter

The first 30 seconds had me dying of laughter.

Decatur - March 17, 2010 reply

I am glad to see you recovered

Luckily it is a short recovery time

I betcha he is happy as a clam right now.

Bedard Passes Physical, Deal Done

Rec'd for Family Guy reference

Poochie - March 17, 2010 reply

I thought that Bedard couldn't be put on the 60 day DL yet?

From Dave at USSM,

If you’re wondering, they can’t put Bedard on the 60 day DL until the end of spring training, so for now, he’ll use up a 40-man roster spot.

A bunch of teams have already put players on the 60-day DL

It’s clearly active.

Jeff Sullivan - March 18, 2010 reply

But is there any benefit to doing it?

Is it retroactive in any way? I have no idea, but I suspect not, and the 60 day count starts on opening day. The M’s may not want to put Bedard on it because they are hoping he could be ready in May; whereas other teams are putting players on it because they are going to be out for 60 days minimum.

The count might start on opening day but it opens up a 40 man roster spot now.

Mariner John - March 21, 2010 reply

The full saying is...

…happy as a clam at high water.

I guess if happiness is not getting dug up, pried open, fried, chewed and digested.

doublemazaa - March 18, 2010 reply

Trains

I must be drunk to write this.

First, how the hell do you expect the people of Denver to get really heavy shit? Trains! They’re awesome! They are the things that allow the people of Pittsburg to make steel and sell it to people in Seattle so we can make 21st century technologies. They minimize transaction costs so that we can exercise our comparative advantage in really cool shit.

Second, they don’t fill the train cars with coal while they’re attached to the damn locomotive. Locomotives have better things to do with their time than wait.

philosofool - March 18, 2010 reply

23:25 to 23:35

Not sure what was going on there, but it sounded fun.

Also, I was fooling around with playback speed

And I discovered that at 1.4x speed, both of you sound pretty much like Dave Cameron.