Indians on Facebook
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Jan 31, 2009 3:47 PM EST
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In general, I get a huge kick out of finding famous athletes on Facebook and friending them. I haven't been terribly successful with it, but I have managed to friend Amobi Okoye (Houston Texans DT) and Chuck Lofgren. Pretty sad and fanboy-ish, I know, but I think it's kind of a fun perspective to get on people who you normally only hear about in scouting reports or game write-ups.
Anyways, I'm wondering: which, if any, Indians/Bisons/Aeros/K-Tribe/whatever players have you found on Facebook and friended? Any interesting results? In fact, I'll broaden my query to include MySpace as well, because I know some of you are 30 year old creepy townies and thus only function on MySpace. Also, I am friends with Leigh Bodden on there (who else knew he read Nietzsche?)
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just look at who Chuck is friends with, he has a lot of his teammates on there I’m sure.
by Belle4Hall19960 on Jan 31, 2009 3:54 PM EST reply actions
oh yeah, there’s a ton of Aeros players on there. I just was wondering if anyone else did this sort of thing, and whether they found it as entertaining as I do.
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Jan 31, 2009 4:01 PM EST up reply actions
well its a pretty cool way to stay in touch with the players, the only one who doesn’t write back is Jensen Lewis.
by Belle4Hall19960 on Jan 31, 2009 4:09 PM EST reply actions
dude i noticed that too. i tried friending him to no avail.
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Jan 31, 2009 4:14 PM EST up reply actions
everyone else on there seems to be pretty good. Talked to Jeff Stevens a bunch the day of the trade. Lofgren hits on my sister. I’ve actually got his # in my phone. J.D. Martin, Wes Hodges, Chris Giminez, Shawn Nottingham, Josh Judy and Jim Ed Warden will all write back if you contact them as well.
by Belle4Hall19960 on Jan 31, 2009 4:27 PM EST up reply actions
Yea… I’ve got one.
And I know Joseph Addai used to be on there… although I didn’t add him or anything.
Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.
there’s at least half a dozen comments in the archives of me complaining about this
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 1, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
Nope. Love that bit. Although the zombies were a little odd. I actually put time and effort into making that mp3, ie, I didn’t just buy it from someplace.
-Erik
since we’ve veered off topic in this thread, i figured it was time to post our favorite mr. show clips.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wuPXymJEldE
shake the crime stick!
by Cap'n Snegiryov on Feb 3, 2009 10:36 PM EST up reply actions
I’ve always liked this one, but it probably loses something without the whole buildup.
by cleveland teamer on Feb 6, 2009 4:35 PM EST up reply actions
Text messaging is actually quite useful. It’s a good way to send someone a quick message if you don’t want to call them. A guy I teach with (who’s 50) text back and forth during every Browns game, and many Cavs games, so it’s not just for young kids. Of course, I don’t text near as often as most teenagers.
Social websites I know nothing about, however.
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
by Buckeye Brad on Feb 1, 2009 10:40 PM EST up reply actions
on facebook I’m friends with lofgren, gimenez, scott lewis, jd martin, ryan morris, nottingham, jeff stevens, josh tomlin, weglarz, matt mcbride, jared goedert, and mike finnochi
im also friends with matt joyce and taylor green
some of the guys i’ve requested that denied me were jensen lewis, josh rodriguez, randy newsom, dave huff, rick bauer lol, and hodges
by i want to eat pizza with sal fasano on Feb 2, 2009 1:08 AM EST reply actions
The idea of being poked by rick bauer is just too much.
by supermarioelia on Feb 2, 2009 10:04 AM EST up reply actions
Although I’m a 40 something old coot, I am posting the very comment through my BlackBerry. Still, I have no time for texting or social networking sites.
Before I shelled out the $ for unlimited text on my son’s phone, I had to pay for him to get a text from his friend that said, “Yo, call me.”. Uhm, Voicemail anyone?
Still, this post makes me wonder who Chuck may friend on one of those sites…
"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.
Again, why is texting suddenly hand in hand with social networks? When did they become partners?
Steel Nick
I was wondering that myself. I almost never text, but use Facebook and Twitter all the time. Is it that texting and social networking are both things that young people do with technology that old people like me traditionally do not?
I am of the prime age of texters, but I’ve sent like 2 in my life.
Travis Hafner is overrated. Clarity is underrated. David Dellucci is David Dellucci.
I haven’t even glanced at Twitter yet so I don’t want to cast judgment, but what the hell is the reason to like it? I just don’t get it. Status updates are the second worst part of Facebook to me (next to the apps) and basically this is a program that features only status updates?
Steel Nick
Let’s just face it, anything communication related has a valuable use. I bet you a Sugardale that if you used Twitter for a few weeks you’d keep using it and discover its utility. I stayed away from Facebook on the same premise you’ve got here and now that I’m on I discovered what I’m missing. Not anything earth-shattering but it makes keeping up with my diaspora of friends quite easy compared with managing an address book inside of Gmail or something. I’d imagine the same is true for Twitter but I haven’t experienced it yet.
I disagree. I love facebook, and I’m a status update junkie. Twitter serves no function that isn’t completely superfluous and can’t be done just as well by any other service. It’s just the new fad.
Burn on, big river, burn on...
by Turkmenbashi on Feb 4, 2009 12:25 AM EST up reply actions
Despite Twitter’s “what are you doing right now?” plastered on the main page, very few people actually use it for status updates. It’s more a tool for instant communication, or blogging in short bursts, or any number of other things. Not for everyone, but it has its uses – I had a problem with Comcast customer service that numerous calls and e-mails could not resolve. One message to the Comcast Cares twitter account, and all was well.
I think text messaging is sometimes useful for things like coordinating plans or asking quick questions, in situations where one or more parties doesn’t have access to e-mail and it’s not urgent enough to interrupt people with a phone call. But I don’t really understand it when people have an in depth conversation with one other person by texting back and forth for several iterations. Seems like then it would be a lot more efficient to just call.
In any case the amount that cell phone companies charge for texting is information superhighway robbery, considering the tiny amount of data actually involved. The cost to them per message can’t possibly be more than a tiny fraction of a cent if it’s anything at all, yet they charge you 10c or more if you don’t have a texting plan, and in fact they get twice that if both the sender and receiver are charged. To call it a 10,000% markup is probably conservative. I pay a quarter of that with my 200 messages/month for $5, but that’s still pretty steep, considering the cost to the carrier.
Texting is nice for times like last night, when I typed out F*** THE STEELERS!! and sent it to everyone in my phone book right before the Super Bowl kicked off. Much easier than calling everyone and repeating the same message over and over again.
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
I’m with you 100% on the first paragraph. I text. A lot. Always quick and to the point, either for something I don’t expect a response to (“be there in 10”) or that only requires a short answer. My girlfriend, on the other hand, likes to have entire conversations via text. When she’s at work between 8-4, I get it. I don’t complain. But I get very annoyed when it continues when she’s available to talk. I just don’t understand.
Steel Nick
To me, the text message is a courtesy from sender to recipient. Compared to voicemail, it takes more effort to send and less effort to receive. If you’re tired of the girlfriend’s texting, just respond to her texts with a phone call, and if she doesn’t answer, leave your response on voicemail.
Oh I do.
Bonus pet peeve: When she or anyone else sees they have a voicemail from me and calls me back without listening to it. I already told you what I needed to say in the voicemail, you’re just making me repeat myself.
To those people, Die.
Steel Nick
He may also have implied indirectly that his girlfriend is Socrates.
by Logodaedalus on Feb 2, 2009 11:21 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Now that it’s out there we can finally change our relationship status on Facebook. Unfortunately I can’t get him to put a picture up; He likes the question mark too much.
Steel Nick
by nickjs21 on Feb 2, 2009 11:27 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
I have to admit, I do that sometimes. I intend it as a gesture that I was so eager to get back to you, I didn’t want to take the time to listen to your message first. I also intend it to discourage people from leaving me voicemail. Be considerate and text me, damn it. Voicemail is a pain in the ass.
I have a bad habit of doing this as well, and when I do listen to voicemail it seems so painfully slow. Suddenly, knowing that you can’t respond to a comment makes a monologue drag on and on. I find myself deleting voice mails the second I get the jist, if I even listen to them at all.
I wonder if I could get away with just not having voicemail on my cell? Your options would be, (a) text me, (b) e-mail me, or (copyright) voicemail on my office landline, which I might not get until tomorrow.
Don’t check your voicemails for a while, eventually your voicemail will become full, and then no one will be able to leave you one.
uhhm… it’s been almost 24 hours and NOBODY is going to jump on this?
Anyways, Jay, check out http://www.youmail.com. It has GREATLY streamlined my voicemail interactions. Basically, it imports your google contacts, then you can specificy interactions for all your friends. For instance, with NickFantana calls me, it says, “Hey Nick, why the hell are you calling me? Send me a Text, jerkoff.” then it hangs up on him. It’s great.
Don't be stupid. PUT IN MELOAN.
Good Lord, are we going to segment into cliques now? Does everyone need to either kick the crap out of someone or become someone else’s bitch?
by Jay on Feb 4, 2009 5:05 PM EST up reply actions
Don’t worry Turk, you’re in. Anyone who gamethreads Cavs games with me is in.
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
by Buckeye Brad on Feb 4, 2009 10:16 PM EST up reply actions
My roommate and I just started a gang called the EIGHT OF CLUBZ KILLAZ. We dress like Christian Bale in American Psycho and carry M1 Garands.
Burn on, big river, burn on...
Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ‘83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Don't be stupid. PUT IN MELOAN.
by gte619n on Feb 6, 2009 3:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
oh my god.
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 4, 2009 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
this pretty much sums up how i use voicemail. my caller id is how i know i need to return your call.
My mom used to always leave me voicemails saying something like “I just called to talk, give me a call back whenever you have time.” I finally told her that she doesn’t need to leave a voicemail; if I see that she called then I’ll call her back. (Our house phone never had caller ID so she’s not used to people having that.)
The best thing probably is to hit [Grady] 2nd -- Jay
by Buckeye Brad on Feb 3, 2009 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
This is a good way to think about it… Though if there are more than two people involved, then the tradeoff is with e-mail: increased flexibility with where you can be to send/receive (assuming you don’t access the web through your phone signal) at the expense of typing speed.
by Logodaedalus on Feb 2, 2009 11:18 PM EST up reply actions
texting is crucial
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 2, 2009 3:10 PM EST up reply actions
i am an expert texter. but the thing is i text with punctuation and proper spelling and capitalization and everything. and i sling so many texts so fast … i love texting.
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 3, 2009 3:07 AM EST up reply actions
to add further, texting is wonderful if your brain has random thoughts like mine that it deems necessary to share to certain individuals.
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 3, 2009 3:08 AM EST up reply actions
Punctuation and such is so easy with a qwerty keyboard. Then again T9 isn’t the toughest thing in the world to pick up. But now I don’t have to put up with T9 pretending not to know curse words.
Steel Nick
Just picked up a phone with SureType, and it is fantastic. Makes it more obvious how terrible T9 is, and makes a full keyboard more or less totally unnecessary. I text like crazy now, even send regular e-mails on it. No problem.
Mostly Blackberry Pearl models, but some other brands have licensed it, mostly on Blackberry.
The key identifier is that it’s a standard phone key layout — three columns, four rows — flanked by one additional column of buttons on both the left and right, for a total of five columns, four rows. The result is that the phone keys are fairly normal-sized and not hard to press, as opposed to the mini-qwerty approach, but most keys represent only two letters and some only one — rather than 3 or 4. That basic difference exponentially improves the hit-rate of predictive texting, and even when it gets something wrong, it’s very easy to fix. And the Pearls also learn your proper nouns very well. For that matter, even in multitouch mode, it ends up a lot faster.
by Jay on Feb 3, 2009 3:58 PM EST up reply actions
i text so fast T9 doesn’t even come into play.
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 3, 2009 1:18 PM EST up reply actions
Dude … if you got a SureType phone, within two days you would think of multitouch texters as silly children. Trust me.
by Jay on Feb 3, 2009 3:59 PM EST up reply actions
i don’t know jay, i text obscenely fast …
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 3, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions
now that’s a good argument.
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 3, 2009 5:49 PM EST up reply actions
i had a text off last night in a bar
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 4, 2009 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
completing the scene were the three empty pbr tall boys i had just swilled
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 4, 2009 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
And you went home alone again.
Signature to be named later.
by emd2k3 on Feb 4, 2009 11:31 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
nah. it’s lets go tribe. gotta expect to take hell from any quarter at any time.
i recced the comment for god’s sake.
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 5, 2009 1:55 AM EST up reply actions
living the single life again. ah, memories.
Anti-Ben Fran before it was cool.
by Gradyforpresident on Feb 5, 2009 1:54 AM EST up reply actions
41 comments on texting and social networking sites. Sweet Chocolate Jesus, how long until pitchers and catchers report?
"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.
O/T: Rich Hill traded to the Orioles for a player to be named later in case you hadn’t heard. I think i remember some minor pining around these parts for him. I’m curious to see what the cubs decided his value is.
Also, Taylor Green is expected to be out for at least the first month of the season because of wrist surgery. Shapiro knows.
Don't forget to pay your parking ticket.
by TheVanillaGorilla on Feb 2, 2009 8:07 PM EST reply actions
He struck out a bunch of guys a couple of years ago and has a wicked curve. His stuff is still there but he apparently went too mental to hit the strike zone.
Steel Nick
Basically he has a nasty curve but hasn’t really learned to command it consistently. There were high hopes for him just a couple of years ago.
Don't forget to pay your parking ticket.
by TheVanillaGorilla on Feb 2, 2009 10:38 PM EST up reply actions
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