Angels Spring Training Advent Countdown
by WiHaloFan on Feb 17, 2010 5:38 AM PST
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Bad Santa did it
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."
by Quad Fin Rider on Feb 2, 2010 1:20 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
I thought it was a satellite photo of the current storms
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
It looks like a backdrop to a formal portrait.
Mrs. Halofan, perhaps?
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
I love HalosHeaven!
Do any other sbnation’s come up with these awesome ideas??
First we had a Salmon and now we have a Trout, let's see the same results.
Is this one of them sliding squares puzzles??
I wanna play. I wanna play.
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
believe it or not i tried sliding them when i first saw it...
What a let down…
Now stuck in Colorado Springs
by stuck in Romania on Feb 2, 2010 4:05 PM PST up reply actions
Good evening, Doctor Falken. Shall we play a game?
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
Thermonuclear warfare perhaps?
I can’t believe I knew you were quoting War Games. Damn I’m old.
by Lompoc Angel Fan on Feb 3, 2010 9:25 AM PST up reply actions
Shouldn't that be *GLOBAL* Thermonuclear Warfare?
Or maybe just Tic-Tac-Toe.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
You are correct sir
Forgetting the Global part makes me feel even older.
It’s funny to watch that movie now and see the ’high-tech" computers from those days.
by Lompoc Angel Fan on Feb 3, 2010 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
Such as dial-up modems. With acoustic couplers.
Or roadside phonebooths…
With screw-off mic covers in the handset.
Or beer/soda can removable pop-tabs that could be dound lying around in the dirt.
Or analog public phone networks that could generate dial-tone through a simple short.
Or large scale computer systems that require panels full of dozens of blinking light bulbs.
Or jeeps.
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
Those are still easy to come by, and they still work on the public phone network.
I see them in antique stores all the time, Usually about $40 – $120, depending on age, style and greediness of the seller. Even in the past year I know I saw one for sale from the 30’s, with a cotton fabric solid core wire cable. Probably up in Santa Barbara, in one of those shops on State Street.
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
Ventura, too. They've got a metric assload of antique shops on the cross-streets west of California St.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Slightly smaller than a metric shit ton, and way smaller than a metric fuck ton
You have to ask PhiSlamma for the exact size of the last one.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 4, 2010 8:30 AM PST up reply actions
It's also slightly larger than an imperial assload.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Anytime, opiejeanne. You know we love you!
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
The thing about War Games is
that, WOPR aside, it’s considered to be one of the more “technically correct” computer movies.
Too bad for me that Swordfish isn’t… I’d love to have Halle Berry … “encourage” me to crack passwords.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Being the "more technically correct" computer movie is hurdling a pretty low bar.
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
beggin' for a...
“the voice of experience?” :P
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby
I'd already been married to Mrs. red floyd for 13 years when that movie came out.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
is it Gary Busey?
They want power. We want respect...
by SenorChuckles on Feb 2, 2010 2:00 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
Only if there's bales of cocaine in the next few squares.
Thank you, Omar Minaya! Thank you, Mets (Vaughn, GMJ) AGAIN!
Garey Busey did a baseball movie called "Rookie of the Year"
It could be a film clip from that.
The 2009 Pregame Picks Winner and Iron Man of Halos Heaven.com
Oh man, Im so excited already...
what a great idea.
Let's make it "another halo victory" for Rory...
by BryanHarvey'sMoustache on Feb 2, 2010 2:12 PM PST reply actions
and i thought my jesus calendar for christmas was sweet!
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
I'm almost as excited about the start of spring training
as I am about the new talking sexbot (announced yesterday as available for purchase).
Though at $7000, it’s a bit steep.
Most of us will have to wait for the $300 Walmart version that just belches….
Still, if it can vacuum and do laundry also, my wife might agree to the purchase…
That's just disgusting and I'm seriously offended!
(Let me know when they go on sale).
You should be ashamed of yourself!
(No, really. Let me know)
Why would anybody pay $7000 for the lifetime privilege of having yet another ass to wipe?
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
You wipe your w---oh nevermind.
TMI.
RIP Nick Adenhart.
"When the Babe tries to call his shot, I hope Nick puts one in his ear."
--RallyMonkey5
I like the mute button option ;)
[the following is for mature audiences only]
but apparently you can have “her” (or “him”…there’s a male sexbot model too…—why do images of Data come to mind suddenly?) programed to talk about stuff like, oh, I don’t know, the Angels chances this year, or whatever, during sex. That might work for some of you (ouch!)
What exactly would it yak about?
like; “How come you never take me anywhere?”
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."
by Quad Fin Rider on Feb 2, 2010 5:44 PM PST up reply actions
Its main topic of converstion
would be: "Oh, you are the best; you are so awesome! And honey, you are always right about everything…’
The male version would just say over and over: “I’m sorry, honey. I was wrong. And you look great in that outfit” ( I do love “Lost”…)
After all, YOU get to decide what it says, from I understand.
I'm watching it (Lost) right now (commercial break)
20 minutes in, and I already said “WTF” a few times.
Well, at least they promise some sense of closure
by the finale…tying up about 300 loose ends should be interesting.
But rumor has it that there may be a whole new Lost show of some sort—a spin off?
This is win. I hope.
RIP Nick Adenhart.
"When the Babe tries to call his shot, I hope Nick puts one in his ear."
--RallyMonkey5
Only a few more weeks
Until your in AZ!!! Best part of the year the Angels are my home team for 2 month’s!
Lou Brown"You traded my best player to our rivals for no-one?"
Roger Dorn"Well i didn't get nothing, i got a player from the Giants....Not those Giants"
RIP Nick Adenhart.
I can't wait for ST
my girl is dreading the day baseball starts again.
Aybar is a nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
by princeton11loveshalos on Feb 3, 2010 6:59 AM PST reply actions
Psh, you guys are amateurs!!!
I don’t even have a Mrs. Commander_Nate during baseball, that’s how hardcore I am!
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 8:34 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah... Hardcore...
That’s why you don’t have a mrs. Commander_Nate. Riiight.
by BruinHalo on Feb 3, 2010 8:47 AM PST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
lol.....ZING
Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. - Peter Gibbons
by norcaliangelsfan on Feb 3, 2010 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
Priorities man, priorities ;)
You gotta understand the kind of chicks I’m typically dealing with. One was over during the World Series and had no idea who Alex Rodriguez was…she thought he was a pitcher.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 9:09 AM PST up reply actions
well you see
my girl stayed with me and watched the entire 13 innings of the ALCS game. Now thats called devotion.
Aybar is a nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
by princeton11loveshalos on Feb 3, 2010 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
See, now that I could deal with.
I hate A-Rod as much as anyone, but there are some things you should just know as a functioning member of society.
Not knowing these things and then babbling incessantly about Jersey Shore, American Idol, and the latest developments of Miley Cyrus is unacceptable.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
I guess that's what I get...
For mainly hanging out with sorority chicks in college. Some of the ones that have been out a year or two like me still act that way.
I suppose the fact that all 3 of my roommates are still in college and bring this element around doesn’t help either.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 3:01 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, BillyMac has that market cornered.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Follow-up
The scary thing is that when I was in B&N, I noticed that Amanda Bynes was on the cover of Maxim.
Crap! I remember when my daughter used to watch her on “All That” and “The Amanda Show”. Her being on the cover of Maxim is Just Wrong™
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Maurice Chevalier is kind of famous for a particularly creepy song about this.
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
"Thank heavens!
for little girls!" lol
But the key line is “they grow up in the most delightful ways”—makes it a little less creepy and ramps up cuteness factor.
or it’s still just creepy…
BUT....
…in the context of the period into which the pice is placed, “grown up” means 16 years old.
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
Polonia was our little Polanski, too.
Thank you, Omar Minaya! Thank you, Mets (Vaughn, GMJ) AGAIN!
Maybe you'd be interested, Nate,
in one of those $7000 sexbots
Link
www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/01/sex.robot/index.html
(how do you do one of those “linkie” deals?)
F no! Picking up some random bar skank or a hooker for a 1 night stand is cheaper
And better looking. And you can ask them to leave in the morning, and never speak to them again, etc.
For the link you click the little chain picture and paste the URL into the box. Then you type what you want it to be labeled as between the last two “><” where it says “>”.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 9:20 AM PST up reply actions
* where it says ">< /a>"
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 9:21 AM PST up reply actions
Yes, my thoughts too--what's up wi'dat?
I think Nate is right—“random bar skanks” are more attractive…
(o, and sorry about defiling your cool post with this sexbot stuff…I have to live up to my name on occasion…)
It's cool.
We need an “catch-all” area where we can post anything. This can be it for the next 2 weeks.
Don't remember which game it was.
Post Linky, so we can all laugh at how off topic everything was.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
im trying to figure out why i posted
“fat man caught dinner”
What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.
by clover_black on Feb 4, 2010 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
Well, just ask yourself this, Raaddad
Would you, as a rad dad, purchase this for your son if you had one?
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 10:41 AM PST up reply actions
Good question
As to who would actually purchase these and why, well, I would assume older men will buy them for themselves—who else could afford it? Or wealthy wives who want to make their husbands “happy” and who sleep in the other room, if you know what I mean…Apparently they’ve got 20,000 orders already (at least that’s what they say…—could be part of the marketing strategy)
Ever since “Bladerunner” and Dick’s novel (and other archetypal texts), many of us Sci-fi buffs have been waiting for, discussing, teaching about the A.I. android sex slave scenario as something feasible (unlike the flying car), and pondering the actualities of it. Dick’s narrator in Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep? finds the “girl” to be ultimately cold, cruel and “dry,” whereas in “Bladerunner” Deckard runs off with her to parts unknown—but then the film Rachel is definitely not a cold, cruel and dry ‘being’ (love Sean Young…).
People responding to the CNN piece posit the increased sense of aloneness and alienation relationships with sexbots might cause, a sensibility which already pemeates our society. Others remind us that many people are physically unable to have relationships, etc., and could find soul-sustaining pleasure in the sex bots.
But as to your question about purchasing Sexbot Sally for my kid—the answer is no. But I couldn’t afford “her” for myself let alone my son. Still, I’m sure there will be those out there who may add the sexbot to their son’s (and daughters?) exponentially expanding technotoy collection; after all, it would be safer than a girlfriend or boyfriend (or one of your skanky bar skanks)—no STDs, could offer actual ‘training’ besides said bar skanks and the old standby—a Playboy and the left hand, and would involve a lot less aggravation then dealing with teenage girl hell (as Diablo Cody put it: “Hell is a teenage girl”)
And as for my 13-year-old son (who does in fact exist): it would have to look a hell of a lot more like Megan Fox… ;)
(what it looks like in the picture is pretty scary—as WiHa says: “frickin’ UGLY”)
Either way, it looks like we're on our way to becoming 21st Century Digital Boys (and Girls)
The day fully interactive holograms like on Star Trek become a reality is the day birthrates plummet and the global population stabalizes…maybe even declines.
Perhaps some green energy and sustainable development money should be directed towards this goal. ;) Hell, it’s already started in Japan.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
good point
maybe that is the solution for over-population.
I think most of us would prefer the Star Trek holodeck and virtual reality chamber shown in Minority Report, rather than a physical robot creature you have to pull out of the closet or something. That’s just a little too creepy…
But what about android baseball players? Hell with steroids…
We could make an Artificial League for them and keep the human MLB
They wouldn’t be allowed to use unauthorized CPU’s or power cells though.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
Both
We’ll have them battle each other as a side attraction to the HOF.
Barry Bonds v. HomerTron 1.0, the first player to homer in each of his first 500 at-bats.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 1:23 PM PST up reply actions
RE: safer than a girlfriend or boyfriend
Uh, unless one of your housemates finds it and has his/her way with it.
I love this team.
by Downing Rules on Feb 3, 2010 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
"You slept with my roommate Roboette?! You filthy whore!"
/slap
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 3, 2010 12:09 PM PST up reply actions
The wife re-wires the bot, secreting in an electrical short.
The husband dies via electrocution. The murder weapon is a robotic sex toy.
New meaning is given to the term “safe sex”.
Had I owned the Pittsburgh Pirates, I could have saved America.
By far...
…the longest comment in this post is Raaddad’s ruminations on a sexbot.
Another sure sign of the apocalypse.
Shows you where my head is at...
Afraid my Hud piece is a bit long too…but less tangential.
I’m going to calm down for awhile after today…I promise…
Like you said earlier: it’s addictive…
Looks like George Costanza & Sarah Jessica Parker in that photo
except the sexbot probably has fewer synthetic facial features than Sarah
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."
by Quad Fin Rider on Feb 3, 2010 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
It looks like
The floor of a shower….
LBPhadDJaxFirst
by Figgi4life on Feb 3, 2010 7:49 AM PST via mobile reply actions
On a serious note...
does anyone know the list of non-roster invitees to spring training?
I love this team.
I'm not sure that they've announced them yet
Which would be weird because they usually announce them mid to late January. There’s usually a press release on the team site but I couldn’t find anything.
Tape an aspirin on it
The only thing I can possibly see in the square opened today...
…is a boo-bee. A sort of pathetic looking one but…hey that’s what I see.
The answer is obvious
By applying a Pythagorean prediction and extrapolating, it is quite evident the image is DaVinci’s Last Supper.
To more more precise statistically, i should state the first two images suggest with a 95% probability, it is DaVinci’s Last Supper.
(I must confess though, I did not deduce this myself, Rob Neyer has previously posted the results yesterday)
Now that #14 is revealed...
…I’m guessing it’s an autographed photo of the Rev with someone else (Arte or Salmon).
It's an autographed photo of The Rally Monkey!!!!!
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 4, 2010 8:29 AM PST up reply actions
I would like to solve it.
It’s Albert Einstein writing something on a chalkboard.
by eyespy on Feb 4, 2010 4:44 PM PST reply actions 3 recs
He may be wrong...
…but eyespy’s created another photo that needs to somehow appear in one of your comic strips.
So … it’s Einstein writing something on the board, except you’ve photoshopped somebody’s face over Einstein…
I’m guessing the Monkey.
Game's the same, just got more fierce.
by Sam Miller OCR on Feb 5, 2010 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
rev?
Aybar is a nowhere man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
by princeton11loveshalos on Feb 5, 2010 9:03 AM PST up reply actions
Somewhere, someway there is an edit button.
Some of the comments here have mysteriously vanished from this fanpost.
Einstein explaining the Halos greatness
Free Brandon Wood!
It's Einstein writing this quote to BP and PECOTA:
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I knew I used that quote properly in one of these other threads!!!
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 5, 2010 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
I think we have a win on the base pic, anyways!
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Follow-up.
There are a bunch of Einstein picture generators on the web using this photo.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
sorry about that, bro...it's eyespy's fault ;)
good one Big D
(but we still don’t know what your message on the board is, WiHa)
It is going to be one of those baby-stealing-Babtists pleading for their release
from prison in Haiti.
The 2009 Pregame Picks Winner and Iron Man of Halos Heaven.com
or Einstein attempting to explain his theory about how a 2-5 pitcher with a 4.40 ERA is worth $11 million
…and failing miserably
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."
by Quad Fin Rider on Feb 5, 2010 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
Is it Jackie Autry holding up her WWE King of the Ring belt?
Thank you, Omar Minaya! Thank you, Mets (Vaughn, GMJ) AGAIN!
Octomom complaining that...
she only has 8 kids and cannot field a complete team.
I love this team.
by Downing Rules on Feb 5, 2010 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
I thought that was a sexbot?
Check the 9V battery cover on the right hand, Raad.
by Big Daddy OB GYN on Feb 5, 2010 7:22 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
It was 44FAN who posted it, so it doesn't count.
Angels baseball. We do what we must, because we can -- HaloDutch
Wait ...
Is Einstein only predicting the Angels win 78 games??
That guy isn’t as smart as he looks (well, maybe only as smart as he looks).
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by matthiasstephan on Feb 11, 2010 7:47 AM PST reply actions
Anybody who wears a rival's Jersey is a Traitor !!!
Can’t wait for Hunter and Morales to pound John Lackey’s butt on the mound !!!
I dunno
Considering the discussion of a certain robot above, it maybe be a bit more on topic than you initially thought.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 11, 2010 1:16 PM PST up reply actions
Mariners = 78
That’s my new guess.
"You gotta have nuts." - Torii Hunter / Part-Time Nemesis of the HH Reply Function
by Commander_Nate on Feb 11, 2010 10:12 AM PST reply actions
Ah
I think we have a weiner
"That ball went where he threw it!" - Rex Hudler
by Zoe Necrosis on Feb 12, 2010 7:07 AM PST up reply actions
I think...
…the lower right is a scratch out of “PECOTA”, and the balance is the number of wins & ranking of all 4 teams in the division.
And is WiHaloFan really projecting the Angels with 101 wins? Or 91?
101 win season!!!! Nice.
Rest in peace, Rory. When I think of some of the greatest moments in my Angels fandom, I hear your voice describing them. Thanks for everything you gave us.
If pitchers and catchers report Feb 17..
when do Mathis and Bulger report??
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine."
by Quad Fin Rider on Feb 16, 2010 11:38 AM PST reply actions
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