So Zito is absolutely on; there's no other way to describe David Wright striking out looking.
Posey officially has a cannon for an arm. I wouldn't be surprised if the Giants don't allow another steal all season.
Zito's bender should have its own name. It's not a curveball its a hairpinball. Sick.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Timmy FTW.
Tim Lincecum: 9IP 0R 0ER 6H 5K
He's back? Maybe.
All I know is, he was making it happen tonight, on top of his pitches and his changeup was crisp. Good Stuff
Go Gigantes!
He's back? Maybe.
All I know is, he was making it happen tonight, on top of his pitches and his changeup was crisp. Good Stuff
Go Gigantes!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Great Roads
Currently I'm looking for a sporty RWD car. I've subscribed to a few message boards, but one post on bimmerforums.com got me thinking. The post is about great roads in Northern California, and I've come up with a few, here is my post from there.
Top 5: 2 are a bit of a stretch for San Franciscans though.
5: Airport Street in Half Moon Bay:
Long Unlit straight good for drags at night, + the drive over Devil's Slide can be fun when there's no traffic.
4: Guadeloupe Canyon Parkway From Daly City to Bayshore and back:
LONG sweeping curves and good hills making for some fun braking into the corners.
3: Sharp Park Road in Pacifica:
Good hill for practicing your apexing and overall driving skills, its short and has reverse camber on most of the turns making it a bit tricky, just watch out for cops when you're going downhill. Also, be very careful when wet, that road is dangerous if you don't know how to correct oversteer (which I assume anyone ITT or reading it knows how lol).
2: Sulfur Bank Drive:
A short back road in Clearlake: Roughly 3-4 Miles with sweet 90° degree banked turns and a clear view around the other side making a really fun apex with no traffic. As you come over the top and you hit last couple corners theres a short downhill straight that you can hit about 80-90 then jam on the brakes before banking right, then left, then right again in a fairly fast set of corners. One word of warning, its a bit rough so be prepared if you have a lowered car.
And my #1 Road in Northern California.
Highway 29 between Calistoga and Middletown:
This highway is a fairly long mountain road up then down. On the Northbound upside you start off with state recommended 15mph turn that is properly banked, then quite a set of solid short tight turns that you'll surely be heel toeing a lot through, and a few short passing lanes. After the first passing lane and a few corners, you hit a 600ft straight passing lane that continues into a hard banked right turn that feeds back to the left, back right again, a few sweepers, another straight, and one more set of sweepers; you're now at the top. As you start your descent, you pass an area where people park to check out the trails and you see some hard fast downhill turns all banked nicely. Quickly upon you is a passing straight of about 700ft, a medium left turn followed by a sharp 90° right turn, and a sweeping left with a wide shoulder making for a good turn in. Then, just when you think its over, BOOM you're thrust into a 100° right and some more twisties. As the sweat is dripping from your head from that 10-12 minute exhilarating rollercoster of a road, and you're wondering how many turns are left, you hit a wide right; as you clear the corner you see an 8-10° bank on a fairly wide left, you dump a gear and punch it as you turn and feel the car lock in hard. When you finish this perfect turn you see an end to the short ones, shift up to cruising speed and continue on your journey.
Another good one, not for the drive so much as the scenery is Highway 1 up by Fort Bragg. You're on a 200 Foot Cliff overlooking the ocean, its amazing. If you've heard of the California Melee you know what I'm talking about. There was some nice 2002's in that rally. Actually, most of the roads we went on on that rally were amazing.
Top 5: 2 are a bit of a stretch for San Franciscans though.
5: Airport Street in Half Moon Bay:
Long Unlit straight good for drags at night, + the drive over Devil's Slide can be fun when there's no traffic.
4: Guadeloupe Canyon Parkway From Daly City to Bayshore and back:
LONG sweeping curves and good hills making for some fun braking into the corners.
3: Sharp Park Road in Pacifica:
Good hill for practicing your apexing and overall driving skills, its short and has reverse camber on most of the turns making it a bit tricky, just watch out for cops when you're going downhill. Also, be very careful when wet, that road is dangerous if you don't know how to correct oversteer (which I assume anyone ITT or reading it knows how lol).
2: Sulfur Bank Drive:
A short back road in Clearlake: Roughly 3-4 Miles with sweet 90° degree banked turns and a clear view around the other side making a really fun apex with no traffic. As you come over the top and you hit last couple corners theres a short downhill straight that you can hit about 80-90 then jam on the brakes before banking right, then left, then right again in a fairly fast set of corners. One word of warning, its a bit rough so be prepared if you have a lowered car.
And my #1 Road in Northern California.
Highway 29 between Calistoga and Middletown:
This highway is a fairly long mountain road up then down. On the Northbound upside you start off with state recommended 15mph turn that is properly banked, then quite a set of solid short tight turns that you'll surely be heel toeing a lot through, and a few short passing lanes. After the first passing lane and a few corners, you hit a 600ft straight passing lane that continues into a hard banked right turn that feeds back to the left, back right again, a few sweepers, another straight, and one more set of sweepers; you're now at the top. As you start your descent, you pass an area where people park to check out the trails and you see some hard fast downhill turns all banked nicely. Quickly upon you is a passing straight of about 700ft, a medium left turn followed by a sharp 90° right turn, and a sweeping left with a wide shoulder making for a good turn in. Then, just when you think its over, BOOM you're thrust into a 100° right and some more twisties. As the sweat is dripping from your head from that 10-12 minute exhilarating rollercoster of a road, and you're wondering how many turns are left, you hit a wide right; as you clear the corner you see an 8-10° bank on a fairly wide left, you dump a gear and punch it as you turn and feel the car lock in hard. When you finish this perfect turn you see an end to the short ones, shift up to cruising speed and continue on your journey.
Another good one, not for the drive so much as the scenery is Highway 1 up by Fort Bragg. You're on a 200 Foot Cliff overlooking the ocean, its amazing. If you've heard of the California Melee you know what I'm talking about. There was some nice 2002's in that rally. Actually, most of the roads we went on on that rally were amazing.
Political Correctness and Expansion of Knowledge
An anonymous commenter pointed out my use of the word 'retard' as a noun. At least he read the entire article.
He said it's use was highly inappropriate and offensive. While I suppose you can look at it that way, I don't. It's quite simple why: I'm not a politically correct person; if you can't handle that, this blog isn't for you. I feel that quite a few people get uptight about irrelevant shit. When I say 'retard', I'm not referring to the mentally handicapped, but the lack of thinking before saying something. I can be a retard, I've had to eat my words before. I am always willing to admit my mistakes.
He then used my own expression against me. Expansion of Knowledge.
When I say we should all expand our own knowledge, I mean that we should all keep learning. If you don't know something, figure it out. Ask someone, Google it, Yahoo Answer it. This has nothing to do with being politically correct. Learn about stuff, things, and whatever else you are interested in.
Now would I be politically incorrect in say, a job interview? No, of course not. A business or professional setting? Absolutely not, it's not smart for me to do so. This blog is neither of those.
He said it's use was highly inappropriate and offensive. While I suppose you can look at it that way, I don't. It's quite simple why: I'm not a politically correct person; if you can't handle that, this blog isn't for you. I feel that quite a few people get uptight about irrelevant shit. When I say 'retard', I'm not referring to the mentally handicapped, but the lack of thinking before saying something. I can be a retard, I've had to eat my words before. I am always willing to admit my mistakes.
He then used my own expression against me. Expansion of Knowledge.
When I say we should all expand our own knowledge, I mean that we should all keep learning. If you don't know something, figure it out. Ask someone, Google it, Yahoo Answer it. This has nothing to do with being politically correct. Learn about stuff, things, and whatever else you are interested in.
Now would I be politically incorrect in say, a job interview? No, of course not. A business or professional setting? Absolutely not, it's not smart for me to do so. This blog is neither of those.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Craigslist is the English Teacher's Nightmare
I've been looking for a new to me car, and craigslist is the end all be all for any item you need, so that's where I've begun to look. I love craigslist; it's simple, effective and usually yields the product you want for a decent price.
One thing that drives me nuts is the complete abomination of the English language. It really is absurd. In car ads its usually the word 'conditions'. As in 'the car is in good conditions'. At first I thought it might just be a typo then I saw it in at least 20% of the total ads and 80% of the ads where conditions or condition was used. The ridiculous thing is that I think I understand what the goal of the sentence is. The goal is to say that all of the parts are in good condition, however, this is a poor way of putting it. When you say the car is in good overall condition, that works, you don't need to drop an S at the end of it.
I'm fine with poor punctuation because this language has so many rules and exceptions to said rules that it's hard to keep up. I've taken it upon myself to figure out how to use a semicolon, but I don't expect the average person does or even should care as it's used so infrequently. That brings me to a side note: I highly suggest that if you don't know something, google it. Expansion of knowledge will never hurt you. Anyway, back to the point. Things like it's and its are fine and dandy, but if you can't figure out out to use you're and your in context you're an ass hat. Apostrophes are the third element of punctuation you learn in school after the period and comma, FIGURE IT OUT.
Spelling is whole 'nother beast. If you're allowed to drive you should know how to spell 'brake' in reference to stopping, yet constantly people use break instead. I just don't understand it. Now some of you might be thinking this is just people who use English as a second language. I would tend to agree normally. If I were to agree with that in this instance, I'd say that a good 90% of craigslist users are not from this country. A fact I would doubt highly. Considering how easy it is to add a spell checker to your browser of choice, there should be no reason to spell like a 4 yr old. You see, Google Chrome has this neat little feature where, if you misspell a word, a little squiggly red line appears under the word; you right click it and BOOM, you're presented with many options to correct your mistake.
I know, you're saying 'its a craigslist ad fuckin' chill'. I'm all for informal grammar in craigslist ads, but when you type like a jackass, you're inviting people who are jackasses respond to your ad. Then again, craigslist will invite jackasses regardless. That's why I always overprice my item according to how much I think I'm going to get lowballed.
That's another post for another time however.
Cliffs:
Google how to use grammar.
Don't be a retard, download a proper browser with spell check.
Overprice your items on craigslist to counter lowballers.
One thing that drives me nuts is the complete abomination of the English language. It really is absurd. In car ads its usually the word 'conditions'. As in 'the car is in good conditions'. At first I thought it might just be a typo then I saw it in at least 20% of the total ads and 80% of the ads where conditions or condition was used. The ridiculous thing is that I think I understand what the goal of the sentence is. The goal is to say that all of the parts are in good condition, however, this is a poor way of putting it. When you say the car is in good overall condition, that works, you don't need to drop an S at the end of it.
I'm fine with poor punctuation because this language has so many rules and exceptions to said rules that it's hard to keep up. I've taken it upon myself to figure out how to use a semicolon, but I don't expect the average person does or even should care as it's used so infrequently. That brings me to a side note: I highly suggest that if you don't know something, google it. Expansion of knowledge will never hurt you. Anyway, back to the point. Things like it's and its are fine and dandy, but if you can't figure out out to use you're and your in context you're an ass hat. Apostrophes are the third element of punctuation you learn in school after the period and comma, FIGURE IT OUT.
Spelling is whole 'nother beast. If you're allowed to drive you should know how to spell 'brake' in reference to stopping, yet constantly people use break instead. I just don't understand it. Now some of you might be thinking this is just people who use English as a second language. I would tend to agree normally. If I were to agree with that in this instance, I'd say that a good 90% of craigslist users are not from this country. A fact I would doubt highly. Considering how easy it is to add a spell checker to your browser of choice, there should be no reason to spell like a 4 yr old. You see, Google Chrome has this neat little feature where, if you misspell a word, a little squiggly red line appears under the word; you right click it and BOOM, you're presented with many options to correct your mistake.
I know, you're saying 'its a craigslist ad fuckin' chill'. I'm all for informal grammar in craigslist ads, but when you type like a jackass, you're inviting people who are jackasses respond to your ad. Then again, craigslist will invite jackasses regardless. That's why I always overprice my item according to how much I think I'm going to get lowballed.
That's another post for another time however.
Cliffs:
Google how to use grammar.
Don't be a retard, download a proper browser with spell check.
Overprice your items on craigslist to counter lowballers.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Welcome to my Blog.
Hello, welcome to my blog. I am the Gloff or just Gloff, more of why that is later.
In my blog, there are many things I may talk about, such as baseball, random facts, expansion of knowledge, cars, boats, and other non-sense.
If you know me in person, you know I'm a witty SoB, at least I like to think so. If you don't know me, then please realize if something is offensive, take it as sarcasm, it's better for both of us.
I kid, I kid (see what I did there?)
As for why I'm called the Gloff, my last name is McLaughlin, you just said (phonetically) Mick Gloff Lynn. That's Wrong. It's Mick Glock Lynn. I constantly point this out to coworkers and friends. I pointed this out to a friend of mine, that you'll hear a bit about over time, Luis and he just laughed and said 'Whatever Gloff' and it stuck.
I would like to hear your opinions/questions/suggestions and such. I whole heartedly believe in working together, so if you have a blog suggestion you'd like me to write about shoot me an email:
The.Gloff@hotmail.com
In my blog, there are many things I may talk about, such as baseball, random facts, expansion of knowledge, cars, boats, and other non-sense.
If you know me in person, you know I'm a witty SoB, at least I like to think so. If you don't know me, then please realize if something is offensive, take it as sarcasm, it's better for both of us.
I kid, I kid (see what I did there?)
As for why I'm called the Gloff, my last name is McLaughlin, you just said (phonetically) Mick Gloff Lynn. That's Wrong. It's Mick Glock Lynn. I constantly point this out to coworkers and friends. I pointed this out to a friend of mine, that you'll hear a bit about over time, Luis and he just laughed and said 'Whatever Gloff' and it stuck.
I would like to hear your opinions/questions/suggestions and such. I whole heartedly believe in working together, so if you have a blog suggestion you'd like me to write about shoot me an email:
The.Gloff@hotmail.com
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