The One That Got Away

Posted on April 21st, 2008 in Brewers, Gambling by whazzmaster

Due to my current geographical quandry I was unable to see Gagne give up back-to-back homers and a single to blow the sweep of the Reds, though I did get to hear all about it when I had the ESPN Phillies/Mets game on in the hotel room.  Say lah vee.  There, my blood pressure has returned to its semi-normal levels.

My flights kinda/sorta/really sucked.  From Madison to Kansas City I had the delight of sitting next to a larger lady with horrible BO. Seriously, she was like the Stink Monster from Lost or whatever.  On the second, longer leg of my journey I sat across the aisle from an older couple.  For more than half the flight they alternated standing in the aisle facing their seats doing knee bends and exercises while their asses came perilously close to my face.  I stoically read my book.  I did get in early to SFO yet all I did with my extra time was pay $5.68 for a Miller Lite and watch the dumb NBA Playoffs.  I would have gone down to do some gardening but I was scheduled to have dinner with a co-worker and his family.  That was good too, though, as I got some good ol’ Mexican food from Los Charros in Mountain View.

Starting on Wednesday I’ll be reporting LIVE from San Francisco at the Intuit Tech Forum.  Co-starring, The Madddddddddd Scientist or as we call him these days Worky McNoGamble.

Kruppin Ain’t, Kruppin Ain’t Easy Man

Posted on April 16th, 2008 in Brewers, Gambling by whazzmaster

I had to wake up early this morning and get the apartment in order (and order some new coffee filters!).  For some reason, the financier of the apartment building we live in is randomly touring units?

Our lender requires an annual tour of the Tobacco Loft Apartments. We send a rent roll to the lender and ranom apartments are selected.

On — between 10:30 and 11:30am we will be conducting a tour of your apartment. I will accompany all who enter your home.

So some bean counters are going to be dusting for fingerprints or counting my socks or whatever– not sure.  It was a little tough waking early due to the Brewers dogged insistence on sucking last night.  We were over at the Main Depot and things got slightly-but-not-too out of hand when the new bartender-in-training was practicing making shots like ‘Red-Headed Slut’ and ‘Pussy Juice’.  Pussy Juice = Crown Royal, Pineapple Juice, Something Else.

Lawman has been hunting well for the perfect craps table for Joe’s and I can assure you he’s getting close.  Even spacebee is getting in on the action; she wants to ‘get good’ before we hit Vegas in a week and a half.  Nice: we’re either gonna lose all our money in the first 15 seconds or become fucking rich.  I wanna stay in that groovy suite with the bowling alley– AND THEN BOWL 10 FRAMES OF GUTTERBALLS.  Moo hoo ha ha.

Gotta run and hide my socks ‘n shit.

NerdFest 2008

Posted on April 14th, 2008 in Brewers, Gambling, Nerd Stuff, Tha Weekend by whazzmaster

Spacebee indulged me today and we went to Pegasus Games to do a little geek shopping.  She picked out some party game where people guess answers to trivia questions and then everyone places wagers on whose is correct.   I’m looking forward to mixing my destructuve love of gambling with a fun, party atmosphere.  I got a felt craps layout for Jack’s Casino, so there’s that, and then I picked up two World of Warcraft TCG Starter Decks.  Somehow I got spacebee to play a game with me; I liked it a lot, but when I asked her if she hated it her reply of, “no, I don’t hate it” didn’t really convince me.  I kinda wish I had more nerd friends to play nerd games with.  Sigh.  We’ll always have craps.  At any rate, I’m still planning on going to PAX this year in Seattle with alandovos so I’ll just build a deck so some Seattle Super Nerd can kick the holy fuck out of me.  Time to buy some booster packs.

After a disastrous Friday evening game the Brewers took the series from the Mets this weekend, which is awesome.  Sheets has been good in his outings this year, and the offense is clicking (even if Braun and Fielder are off to a slow start.)  I haven’t been to a game yet this year, and the upcoming trips to California and Vegas suggest it’s not in my immediate future.  Wwhazz/Lawman, what about sometime in May– wanna plan a Saturday or Sunday Brewer game?  Also: fishing.

CoCo Cooperative Cool-Aid

Posted on April 11th, 2008 in Brewers, Wrestling by whazzmaster

Francisco Cordero came into the Brewers/Reds game last night to save the game and was roundly booed by those in attendance.  Wwhazz and I thought it may have been better if Dusty Rhodes Baker was walking to the clubhouse earlier in the day and found CoCo knocked out under a cart of hot dogs buns.  Milwaukee Brewers GM Doug Melvin would have to organize a game-long search for the culprit, and Bud Selig would declare that the Reds would field a Mystery Closer of his choosing.  At the bottom of the ninth, huge fountains of flame would erupt from each of the four bases and ~~BY GAWD~~ THE BIG RED MONSTER KANE would saunter out of the bullpen.  He would throw six straight strikes, then Pete Rose would run onto the field and get a tombstone piledriver.  Sadly, it would still result in a Brewers loss.

On The Receiving End

Posted on April 10th, 2008 in Brewers, Housing Bubble, Site News by whazzmaster

The Brewers really took one (or twelve) to the chin last night.  I’m not sure why everyone is/was so keen on Dave Bush; I’ve never seen him as anything other than mediocre.  His fastball is slow, he works slowly, and he regularly gets roughed up for a bunch of runs (particularly early).  Good ol’ Ned is high on the kid, though, so that means he’ll be pitching (and losing) for the rest of the season.  Early in the game things looked good.  It was in the fifth that the Reds really broke the door open and streamed through.  Say lah vee.

In the ‘April Showers Bring May Flowers’ equation, we’re firmly in the ’showers’ part.  Rain two days ago, rain yesterday, rain today, thunderstorms tomorrow.  The grass is starting to turn from brown to green, which is heartening and I was able to jog to the gym yesterday.  I just gotta wait out the next week; then it’s off to California from the 20th to the 26th, followed by a Las Vegas vacation.

I decided to start writing about the housing crash and my opinions on it, but I haven’t posted anything yet because I’m unsure where to start and because, when dealing with a contentious topic such as this, I really hem and haw when discussing it.  I need to make sure I present my views correctly.  I hope those posts will be more thought out and edited than the dreck I currently serve to you, my adoring friends.

Weaks

Posted on April 9th, 2008 in Brewers by whazzmaster

But seriously, folks, I’ll be here all weak– er, week.  Anyways, Gagne blew another save last night– that french canadian lunkhead, but everything was Happy Day again as Weeks hit a grounder to left to score Hardy in the bottom of the 10th inning.  Brewers are 6-1 and I’m definitely looking forward to watching tonight’s game on FSN (no offense Uecker and Powell).  Anyone want to join me? I got some Miller Lites left from Opening Day last weekend.

Cal– sign up for Twitter, it suits your Snappy One Liner Discourse perfectly.

New WordPress, Design, Twitter, CAL

Posted on April 8th, 2008 in Brewers, Site News by whazzmaster

WordPress 2.5 was recently released so I upgraded the software running the site. I also updated the visual design to a 3-column layout so that I could add a new Twitter feed. Twitter is an interesting app that lets me post quick little blurbs to the blog from instant messaging, text messages, or the web. Kinda cool, and I wanted to try it out for awhile. While I was working in the site admin section I took the opportunity to clean out the cruft in the links section: removing sites I don’t go to anymore and adding new ones that I frequent often.

In other news, the Brewers have started the season well by taking 2 of 3 from the Cubbies at Wrigley, then sweeping the hapless Giants in the Miller Park opening weekend. With the extreme exception of the Gagne Explosion on opening day, the bullpen has looked good. They kick off a series at Miller Park tonight against the Cincinnati (boo!) Reds. I don’t hate Cordero as much as everyone else seems to; if Cincinnati wants to lock up a closer for 4 years at close to $50 million, go ahead. I actually wouldn’t have felt very good about the Brewers laying out that much dough for a closer. If Cordero works out well for them, ok, if not then “ha-ha”.

BTW– Scientist, that vocoder link was fucking awesome. Good find, I’ll link to it here for posterity.