Comments on: So Bad Yet So Good

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:49:50 +0000

What was that “extra value is what you get when you buy coronet?”

What the hell was that even about?

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:03:38 +0000

[34] Love it!! Impossible to explain to anyone not from NYC what these things are about.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:55:52 +0000

[16] Oh, God, Garden State Brickface and Stucco.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:54:44 +0000

[14] I remember those both, I think. Must have been very early eighties?

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:53:44 +0000

[12] Agreed.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:52:05 +0000

And of course we can’t forget the Money Store, now can we?

Ah, good, I see william’s already on it.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:50:46 +0000

[5] Hah ha ha hah ah !!!

I know, it’s preternaturally infectious, isn’t it? Fortunately, it’s really not even offensive, as far as jingles go.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:49:51 +0000

[3] Of course! “The center of it all.”

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:48:59 +0000

Oh, and apparently Crazy Eddie was an alumnus of my esteemed high school.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:45:35 +0000

[15] YES!!!

PIX PIX PIX PIX PIX PIX!!

Some people tried to actually say PIX strategically and judiciously but I think the best approach was to just flood the airwaves with a barrage of PIXPIXPIXPIXPIXPIX!

God, that really does take me back.

By: weeping for brunnhilde

weeping for brunnhilde — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:44:19 +0000

I worked at Carvel from like the age of 15 until I went to college.
I still sing that Train to the Plane song in my heard pretty much every time taking the train to the plane in any city even crosses my mind as an option.

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:34:48 +0000

One more..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQbsPH3jt3Q

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:15:40 +0000

In the midst of a hellish work period, this post & the comments after have made me so so happy. Thanks everyone!

By: Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO

Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:14:33 +0000

[9] Damn William, I was going to link to the Money Store!!

I got this one for youse guys though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUsXliGhhHU

By: knuckles

knuckles — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:21:35 +0000

No love for “beautiful Mount Airy Lodge”?

Those heart shaped hot tubs…the gracefully carved s-turns on the bunny slope…the perms? God bless the Poconos.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:50:27 +0000

William! You da man!

By: LHerman

LHerman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:33:46 +0000

I remember watching Paddy Chayefsky’s The Hospital on channel 5 at 11:00 PM. Every commercial break had 7–count ‘em, 7–Crazy Eddie commercials. Overall, a very surreal experience.

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:20:17 +0000

Fudgey the Whale!

I always had a Carvel ice cream cake for my birthday. Yum.

By: YankeeAbby

YankeeAbby — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:07:02 +0000

[15] AWESOME! Totally takes me back PIXPIXPIX!!!!

Great memories from all of you!!!

By: thelarmis

thelarmis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:03:54 +0000

not sure what thread to post this on, but our very own WilliamNYY23 got into Neyer’s Sweet Spot today with his response to FIP:

In a blog post trumpeting the accomplishments of Brett Anderson, I mentioned Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) in passing, and a couple of commenters weren’t exactly impressed.

First, from Williamnyy:

The whole notion of stripping away lucky is very slippery. For starters, FIP completely ignores the fact that a pitcher might have control over how well a batted ball is struck. Intuitively, I think we all know that premise is nonsense. The fact that batters hit so many line drives off Sergio Mitre, but always seem to weakly put the ball in play against Mariano Rivera is not a factor of luck. While the concept of FIP does have some predictive value, it is but a minor tool. Using it as the basis of an assessment is lazy at best. Using statistics sloppily does more to hurt the field of Sabermetrics than ignoring them altogether.

good job, william! : )