Comic for Monday, April 20, 2009

Posted: 6:25 am, Monday, April 20th

Happy birthday to Sweaty, and I guess smoke 'em if that's your thing. It's back to work with me, and, man, it feels like I've been away for months and months. This bodes well for the summer.

The things people spend their time on never ceases to amaze me (says the guy who played through Star Control II while on break). Here, someone has made paper templates of models for the Wing Commander spaceships. The Dralthi has always struck me as awesome.

I think the guys in the web department of the Times just sit around and think, "What would be a really cool thing we can do with graphics?" And then give us stuff like this awesome slider thing.

Drolett texted me while I was in the park on Saturday, letting me know about the drubbing in the Bronx. 22-4! That's just good wholesome family fun, the sort of ass-whupping that can actually get me to check out the Post in addition to the Daily News. It was worth it - we get to hear the Human Goiters bitching about the prices at their new digs, and also we see that the closed-captioning misses nothing. The commentors at YFSF have taken to calling the New Pit of Hell the Silo, which I love. Oh, wow, check out these photos of the pricey seats (YFSF has dubbed this 'the tea and crumpet zone').

There was a great bit on the Daily Show about two weeks ago that you may've missed, and I forget why I only just now remembered it. Some wingnut on Fox News posits that Obama's tyranny has led to St. Patrick's Day being renamed Potato Day at his kids' school. I mean, what? But, anyway, check it out, here. The best part comes after the first commercial break.

I believe I may have found the dorkiest thing I've ever seen...

Oh, good, the fuckwads aren't content with embarrassing Notre Dame in the pages of the Obsucker, they take it to the Old Gray Lady herself. Thankfully, there's more than enough reasonable alum out there to tell them to can it.

bullfrog

todd -- Monday, April 20 2009, 07:20 am

I saw a couple people at the Blue Gold game with (obviously) homemade "No Obama at ND" t-shirts, but that was the extent of the dissent I saw.

There had been rumors of a big protest being planned for the date, but I guess the likely participants were all protested out from their teabagging earlier in the week.

Awesome.

How was the B&G game? I'm not finding a ton online about it.

Thanks for the Jon Stewart clip, that was awesome.

Kyle Farnsworth has now lost his third game of the season for the Royals. Suck it, Kyle. Man, he's terrible.

Thanks Miah! Have a great Patriots Day!

How did i miss this....

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/01/26/pedroia.brother.ap/index.html

I almost commented on Wang in the same posting as above, but that probably would have been inappropriate.

I don't know how you missed that, Head, it broke months and months ago.

Patriot's day is awesome, and I don't even live in Massachusetts.

Tree: Agree on Farnsworth. Especially when Sora hasn't pitched in eight days. On the bright side: he's not Wang.

And, apparently the New Yankee Workshop, er, Stadium is like a wind tunnel the likes that no one has seen east of Rockies Stadium. You spend $1.5 Billion in essentially taxpayer funds to build the Stadium of Stadiums, and you never noticed that it's design basically launches home runs into right field until four home games in?! (Then again, it wouldn't have helped Wang.)

Miyaa... I didn't know you were an engineer who would have the foresight to see how a stadium would react to fly balls... I am really impressed! The Yankees should have hired a genius like you....

Or a long reliever.

Zing!

Possible explanations of the Silo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/sports/baseball/21homeruns.html

Perhaps the money the Yankees spent on that clutch pitching staff could have been better spent on engineering. Seems to me someone employed to design a ballpark might take into consideration the distance between home and right field.

I'm no genius though...so what do I know?

Who's this "Sora"?

Just like President Obama's detractors three months into his term, all you Yankee doubters - 12 games into the season - will likely be proven wrong. Wang is not a pitcher with a 34.50 ERA - something is wrong, they'll fix it, and he'll be back.

SAnd so what if a lot of homeruns are being hit in the new stadium. The Yankees and whoever they're playing will both be swinging for the same wall and everyone likes homeruns.

And Dustin Pedroia's brother is an accused child molester.

Just saw that the pilot of Caprica is available for digital download-perhaps this merits some wine and pasta salad?

But the Goat Fuckers are *proven* fuckers of goats!

The idea was to keep the stadium's dimensions exactly the same from the old Stadium to preserve the legacy of the great Yankee Stadium. As I am sure many of you know, Yankee Stadium had an short porch in right field and that was one of the reasons why lefties did so well at Yankee Stadium... (that is why "the greatest trade that never happened" -Ted Williams for Joe DiMaggio- would have been good for both teams)

The ball carried really well last weekend and there are a thousand different variables that could affect ball flight. The entire dynamics may change when they complete ripping down of the old stadium or plug in the air vents around the stadium. It will be dealt with...

As Ted's Head rightly put it, you are ripping the Yankees pitching after 12 games. There are 150 more games to go... The Yankees lead by their "clutch pitching" has the same fucking record as the pikeys from Boston... It is early doors.

Miyaa was referring to the Sora, which is a small secretive bird. or The section of Barcelona or The town of Italy or The river in Slovenia or The character in the video game Kingdom Hearts (the best Disney video game) or The tribe and language of that tribe in India. or Sora Aoi-a Japanese porn star... kinky....

Mr Bullfrog... where does this term goat fuckers come from? Is this something you witnessed while on the farm upstate? As a man of the burbs/city, I never had the privilege of seeing a goat being fucked. I guess watching the local goat being fucked is akin to going to the movies... Is it something about the domination one gets on the goat? The fact you completely control that goat for years and years... Explain this phrase for me as I don't understand rural life.

I love that you just had to keep coming back and back and back.

I guess I have battered wife syndrome.