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Tuesday Halolinks: What's the Buzz? Facebook, Cats, and Idiots!

The week between Christmas and New Years is notorious for being the slowest baseball news period of the year. It's almost like being a Pittsburgh Pirates fan during the rest of the year...yeah, that boring. So while billionaire owners vacation in exotic locations and millionaire players are trimming their trees with hundred dollar bills, we riff-raff will have to pass the time with this:

  • Speaking of Pittsburgh Pirates' fans: Man jailed after Facebooking a store burglary - msnbc.com. "An 18-year-old Pittsburgh man is accused of burglarizing a market with three teens, then posting pictures on his Facebook page showing the suspects mugging with some of the loot." Then the brilliant detective added, "Well, I guess they're just stupid kids," Detective Valerie Milie said Monday. Obvious quote is obvious.
  • The only question I have is...why did it take 6 hours? Man crashes Lamborghini 6 hours after winning it - San Francisco Chronicle. "A Utah man who won a $380,000 Lamborghini in a convenience store chain's contest says he crashed the sports car six hours after he got it."
  • Ahhh, that's soooo nice! Anonymous donors pay strangers' layaway accounts. "Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register." Mrs.Pujols spending her ashtray money.

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Who's cooler?
Buzz Lightyear
114 votes
Woodie
123 votes

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Winning a $380,000 car would suck...

Seriously, the tax on that alone would be something like $160K – the only way to pay the tax bill is to sell the car. Then, you could take the extra $200 K and buy like 4 nice luxury cars.

Super-rich folks are crazy. Who buys a car that expensive? And why?

How does this team win with this offense? Hey, anyone....DRAW A WALK!!!

Jim Scully
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by jimmuscomp on Dec 27, 2011 8:44 AM PST reply actions  

I think most people who win these do sell them

for that very reason. I know that sometimes they offer a cash award as an alternative. What’s a middle class guy gonna do with a lambo? BIG TARGET on back!

by firebird81 on Dec 27, 2011 8:51 AM PST up reply actions  

Crashing it is the smart move money-wise.

Now he gets the money for the car’s brand-new value, which he can use to pay the tax, and then he walks away with a cool 160K. The only problem he’ll have is if the insurance co takes him to court for fraud, claiming he intentionally crashed the car—it’d be difficult to prove, but you can bet for 160K, they’ll try.

~Till the Halo burns out...

by Zu Long on Dec 27, 2011 10:45 AM PST up reply actions  

I think most of those high end sports cars don't work that way.

I know that Ferrari takes even a totalled car and rebuilds it to factory spec. They frown on people selling their cars as used cars. Not sure about Lambo, tho.

by firebird81 on Dec 27, 2011 11:10 AM PST up reply actions  

I don't know either

Sure, I’d buy a Lexus or BMW or something if I had the money, but a car that’s as much as a good-sized house? Nope.

Maybe it has something to do with creating jobs?

Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.

by Commander_Nate on Dec 27, 2011 11:16 AM PST up reply actions  

My almost 2 yr old will vote for Buzz being slightly cooler

but he likes Woody too. And damn if I don’t know all 3 of the Toy Story movies and can recite the freakin dialogue verbatim.

CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!

by steelgolf on Dec 27, 2011 9:24 AM PST reply actions  

Im going to say the younger crowd will vote Buzz, while the older crowd will vote Woody. Mainly because the two age groups can relate to both toys. Us young people prefer all the Technical cadgets and stuff, while the older crowd tend to be old fashioned and boring. haha

Be a Angel Fan till I die... The only good team to come out of Texas is my Dallas Cowboys Baby

by Nord15 on Dec 27, 2011 10:05 AM PST up reply actions  

Git off'n mah lawn, y'darned kid!

Rassum fassum mumble grumble, darned kids today…

If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?

by red floyd on Dec 27, 2011 11:00 AM PST up reply actions  

So we can now say...

Pull the Buzz Lightyear out of your ass!

Peanuts...Get your Overpriced Peanuts!

by Angel Hawker on Dec 27, 2011 9:25 AM PST via mobile reply actions  

Did the lightsaber guy have the death penalty in 12 systems?

If the Halos don't care about the way they play, then why should I?

by red floyd on Dec 27, 2011 9:57 AM PST reply actions  

huge gap

Between the 2nd and 3rd movies..brought 2 dif generations of kids to enjoy toy story..genius

me and the wonder dog got high!

by YOUknowulovetheIE on Dec 27, 2011 10:15 AM PST via mobile reply actions  

Buzz

Because anything in space is automatically twice as cool as that same thing in another environment.

Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.

by Commander_Nate on Dec 27, 2011 11:17 AM PST reply actions  

Well, according to "Stinky Pete" the prospector in Toy Story 2 you are correct.

As he put it," Woody’s Round Up" was cancelled mid season because of 2 words “Sput Nik”

CONGER, CONGER, CONGER !!!

by steelgolf on Dec 27, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions  

And James Bond

Scioscialist Party of America - Redistributing your defense since 2000.

by Commander_Nate on Dec 27, 2011 1:25 PM PST up reply actions  

MLB 12 the show

I skipped 11 because they were going to implement a new control style.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

Follow the Chicken on Twitter

by SportsChicken on Dec 27, 2011 12:30 PM PST up reply actions  

The new control style isn't too bad.

I don’t use it much. Luckily they kept the old style as an option.

Winning doesn't matter. -Lyle

by 5thStarter on Dec 27, 2011 5:37 PM PST up reply actions  

rofl

What do you need a fancy suit for, Charlie, you ain't got no job to wear it to.

by clover_black on Dec 27, 2011 12:41 PM PST up reply actions  

Obviously Woody's cooler.

Buzz is probably pretty hot right about now.

Winning doesn't matter. -Lyle

by 5thStarter on Dec 27, 2011 11:49 AM PST reply actions  

I'm too G.A. right now to do anything about it, but....

… someone needs to build an Internet groundswell for us trading for Chase Headley! He has been described as the Pads’ most sought-after trade chip; they’re listening to offers (and asking for the moon!), they need outfielders and bats, he will start being expensive for them extremely soon, they have two 25-year-old 3Bmen who are ready or near-ready for a shot….

Callaspo, Izzy, Jepsen (hey, Bud Black knows him!), Vernon Wells, Vernon Wells’ salary-$9 million, Abreu, Abreu’s salary, any prospect not named Trout/Richards/Conger…. BE CREATIVE IS WHAT I’M SAYING.

Yeah ok it won’t work, because they’ll want Bourjos. But bro’s 28, is a very good hitter away from Petco, bats from both sides, and just close your eyes and imagine that infield for the next five years (after we extend Aybar/Howie).

by mattwelch on Dec 27, 2011 12:56 PM PST reply actions  

How is Chase Headley much of an upgrade on Callaspo?

He’s better away from Petco but no way is he worth trading prospects for.

CJ Wilson is OUR douche now!

by ryanfea on Dec 27, 2011 1:12 PM PST up reply actions  

Six reasons

1) Lifetime OPS+ of 105 vs. 97 (the exact career difference between, say, Johnny Damon and Mark Kotsay).
2) Strong reason to believe he’s an even better hitter than that, given road stats: .303/.364/.441 (OPS+ of 119) vs. .276/.323/.405 (100).
3) One year younger.
4) Under team control for three years instead of one.
5) Better baserunner (44/10 SB/CS, for example).
6) Has shown steady, consistent improvement on offense, vs. being up one year and down the next.

Callaspo has been great for us on D, and I doubt that Headley would be better. But main point for me would be both upgrading somewhat at the position and solving it for a solid three-year window (during which we should be contending every year), instead of scrambling next offseason when we have far fewer trading chips.

All that said, I still think the absolute top priority for this team is trading Vernon Wells, by any means necessary. You could dump Wells and Abreu, and still not have regular ABs for Trumbo, if Morales is healthy. That’s messed up.

by mattwelch on Dec 28, 2011 12:04 AM PST up reply actions  

Seriously?

It could be the I’ve-got-the-week-off-and-therefore-I’m-drinking-tequila-in-the-morning talking, but I can’t believe that many people are voting for Buzz Lightyear. Eight seasons of Home Improvement? Seriously people, that bit was funny for about five minutes.

Woody is a beautifully restored ’55 Studebaker. Buzz is an ’82 DeLorean. OK, that could be the tequila talking.

Is it wrong that the Randy Newman/Lyle Lovett duet of “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” gives me a woody? And now we’re back…

by JohnBonhamRocks on Dec 27, 2011 1:58 PM PST reply actions   1 recs

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