Poor Don Sutton

[witt is the shitt]

there are some ex-players (like gwynn) who seem destined for commentating.  but, there are some (like brantley) that have no business commentating and are doing it just because they played major league baseball.

[redsfan1470]

Kurkijan is great because he seems like such a tool.  One time Fred McGriff had a good game and Ravech and H.R. started woofing and barking whenever the Crime Dog got a hit.  Then Kurkijan said in his dorky voice, "Do I have to bark?"  We still get mileage out of that one.

[witt is the shitt]

Kurkijan is great because he seems like such a tool.

seems like?

[redsfan1470]

OK... He is a big tool.  But it's still funny to laugh at him, and he isn't as creepy as Mike McFarlane.  And he doesn't have a 1970s porn 'stache like Jayson Stark.

[Gwynn3k]

i'll take stark and his porn stache over macfarlane and his bland insight any day...  as for red sox homer gammons, someone needs to tell him there other teams outside chowdville.

[Wilfong]

looks like don is going to make it...  he is in stable condition and hopes to be back in the booth with harry's son in 6 weeks...  donnie moore is going to have to wait for company in the deceased category... i will take odds that either doc gooden or darryl will be the first to join him...  

Who are going to be the next RBIers to kick the bucket? My top five (#1 being the most likely to go next). Yep, 4/5 were Mets. Canseco seems like he should have played there for a couple years.

1. Straw
2. Canseco
3. Doc K
4. Orosco
5. Nails

This thread is also interesting for the perm mullet discussion and steroid talk. We're going back to 2002 here.

[BeeJay]

I like how all the edits were done on New Year's Eve, 1969.  So Gantry and Gdavis, can you tell all us kids what the summer of '69 was like?

[Gantry]

That's even older than Zorba...

I'm going with an oddball and say Steve Lombardozzi will be the first RBI'er to die in the 21st Century...

[nightwulf]

I like how all the edits were done on New Year's Eve, 1969.  So Gantry and Gdavis, can you tell all us kids what the summer of '69 was like?

Best guess? The forum software at the time those edits were made didn't store the specific date/time when a post was edited. The current software must (stupidly) not be handling this correctly, and using a time of "0." In POSIX-compliant operating systems (all flavors of Linux, basically any OS that ends in an 'x'), dates are stored as a number of seconds since "the epoch." Most systems define "the epoch" as 11:59:59 pm on December 31, 1969 (I'm not sure where 6:00pm is coming from). So, a time of '1' would be midnight on New Year's Day, 1970. As I write this post, it's currently 1112554584.

So that's where New Year's Eve, 1969 is coming from. Not that you were asking or probably care, but I'm full of useless knowledge like this, and it's my duty to spread it around.

Edit: stranger still ... see the "1029042000" in each of those "edited on" strings? That works out to be midnight on August 11, 2002.

Nightwulf

[TempoGL]

I like how all the edits were done on New Year's Eve, 1969.  So Gantry and Gdavis, can you tell all us kids what the summer of '69 was like?

Best guess? The forum software at the time those edits were made didn't store the specific date/time when a post was edited. The current software must (stupidly) not be handling this correctly, and using a time of "0." In POSIX-compliant operating systems (all flavors of Linux, basically any OS that ends in an 'x'), dates are stored as a number of seconds since "the epoch." Most systems define "the epoch" as 11:59:59 pm on December 31, 1969 (I'm not sure where 6:00pm is coming from). So, a time of '1' would be midnight on New Year's Day, 1970. As I write this post, it's currently 1112554584.

So that's where New Year's Eve, 1969 is coming from. Not that you were asking or probably care, but I'm full of useless knowledge like this, and it's my duty to spread it around.

Edit: stranger still ... see the "1029042000" in each of those "edited on" strings? That works out to be midnight on August 11, 2002.

Nightwulf

linux nerds, what "time" is it now? is anyone geeky enough to actually refer to time as such on a consistent basis?

[defen]

I like how all the edits were done on New Year's Eve, 1969.  So Gantry and Gdavis, can you tell all us kids what the summer of '69 was like?

Best guess? The forum software at the time those edits were made didn't store the specific date/time when a post was edited. The current software must (stupidly) not be handling this correctly, and using a time of "0." In POSIX-compliant operating systems (all flavors of Linux, basically any OS that ends in an 'x'), dates are stored as a number of seconds since "the epoch." Most systems define "the epoch" as 11:59:59 pm on December 31, 1969 (I'm not sure where 6:00pm is coming from). So, a time of '1' would be midnight on New Year's Day, 1970. As I write this post, it's currently 1112554584.

So that's where New Year's Eve, 1969 is coming from. Not that you were asking or probably care, but I'm full of useless knowledge like this, and it's my duty to spread it around.

Edit: stranger still ... see the "1029042000" in each of those "edited on" strings? That works out to be midnight on August 11, 2002.

Nightwulf

linux nerds, what "time" is it now? is anyone geeky enough to actually refer to time as such on a consistent basis?

There was a big to-do about how the time hit 1234567890 a few days ago.  I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is no, though.

[Gantry]

I would have to say that nobody is that fkn dorky, as it would take a lot of math that would have to be done all the time. 

[Gantry]

PS - I see this thread bumped and I thought Don Sutton was dead.  Thanks a ton Strassy

[ultimate7]

Time right now is 1236744664

[ultimate7]

There was a big to-do about how the time hit 1234567890 a few days ago.  I'm pretty sure the answer to your question is no, though.