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As the World Turns

is that what they're calling it? I call it a circus. If we can't win, we might as well attention wh0re. Seriously. Dancing with the Stars beating the WS in ratings is just pathetic. Hope all is well in Keeper World StarM 03:10, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

I stopped watching sportscenter. Can.not.handle.another.moss.or.favre.update. I'm so done with the purple. They are a midwestern team, acting like Dallas (in both the 1980s glama-drama and football team sense). Embarassing and excruciating. Keeper | 76 03:43, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Not sure what they accomplished with the W but it was a nice boot in AZ's ass. I'd like nothing more than the Rams to get the NFC West for a) Spags and b) new mediocrity. Since the Seahawks are unbeatable and all. Steelers in primetime three weeks in a row, urgh. Not rooting for the dirty birds but would love to see McNabb get benched again StarM 04:47, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Well, the Jags are 4-4, which is better than I expected. :D 59-yarder to take out the precious Colts was the highlight of my week a little bit ago, too. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:05, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

That Scobee kick was ridiculous. RIDICULOUS. With the Colts my #2 I wasn't happy, but that was impressive. Scobee is also my fantasy kicker so I was OK with his scoring me a bit. Jags and Tampa impressive - and I was thrilled when the Jags kicked the crap out of Cowgirls a couple of weeks ago but tha Titans/Jags MNF game was a travesty. And yet it beat the ALCS even in NY. Of course, I was watching football. This season is nuts. As one of the talking heads said - parity, just another way to say no one is any good. Aren't you a Sox fan, Ed? Or am I thinkin of someone else? Jags and not Pats fan? StarM 13:40, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

I don't even know who to like anymore. I can't fathom cheering for any other team in the NFC north - egads. Packers, Lions or Bears? oh my. For moral (read: Twins) reasons, I canNOT cheer a new york team, sorry giants. I'm not a big AFC fan either. Go Atlanta? Meh. Don't think so. Definitely not the 'Aints either. I think I may stick with college for now - the O-Ducks are friggin amazing. Keeper | 76 03:58, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Good god, the Duckies are playing like there is no opposing defense. Star, I loved Scobee's kick... that guy has one strong leg. MNF, on the ohter hand, was gross. I turned it off.

Yes, I'm the Sox fan, and yes, I like them and the Jags. It's a long story. :P Keeps, go for the Saints! Who doesn't love Brees and his little son? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:14, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Oregon is amazing. Also behind my favorite sports headline so far this year. "Quack Attack" . I love college football purely because I have no allegiance (Div III for grad and undergrad and neither had football) so I can truly just enjoy games. Except always wanting Bama to lose. Keeps, what about the Rams? Nice to see a team that has sucked for the last 5+ years do well. Hell I was even rooting for Tan's Lions over the Jests the other week. Ed, I never turn off a football game, no matter how bad. I will curse the TV though. StarM 13:49, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

They just squeaked out a win v the Cal Bears, sheesh. Don't like the Saints, never have not sure why. Didn't like them when they were bad (which was pretty much always), so it doesn't seem right to start liking them when they have a couple of good years. Same thought process on the Rams, although they are showing some promise. Agree Star about Bama. I feel the same about Auburn, but couldn't tell you why (because I don't know why). Oregon is just fun to watch, they are so damn quick - appealing to my short attention span nicely. Same reason why I've always (secretly) admired Mark Buehrle - he pitches fast. Keeper | 76 23:52, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Ed, wow your Jags almost took one today. Crazy game. Still amazed Giants pulled it out. Keeper, hope your Vikings improve under Frazier but not when Giants out there please. BCS craziness this weekend too. Did not expect Bama to blow that one - and it hurt to be rooting for Bama. Ditto the late Boise Setate loss. My title game thoughts are LSU/Oregon but it's not happening. Nice ties with Ohio State/Michigan State/Wisconsin. Badgers are ridiculous as well. I think that may sum up all of football. I'm so tired of Jeter and his drama. Hope he and Lee sign somewhere soon, don't particularly care if it's the Yankees. I'm so burnt out. Oh and why do I want Auburn to lose? Because Cam Newton is yet another cheater. Hope you all had a good Thanksgiving. StarM 05:05, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Haven't seen the highlights yet -- I worked all day. Keeps, your Vikings are falling apart... it's a sad sight. :/ I watched the second half of the Boise State game, and I can't think of anything more thrilling in recent memory. Couldn't believe the ending. Same with Bama. Ridiculous. Personally I want a Standford/Oregon rematch, but that's not gonna happen. Jeter wants way too much money for being 37 years old, IMHO. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:35, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Don't be shocked to see Jeter switch to national league. Dodgers, perhaps Giants. Maybe even Braves. He won't be a Yankee, and he's rather untouchable for other AL teams, IMO. StarM - LSU/Oregon is my pick for title game too, funny. Probably right though, and you're def right about Newton. In local news, Joe Mauer did a charity bowling event, I almost got to participate but had too many conflicts. Bummer city. Keeper | 76 20:33, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd have said Dodgers but I don't think so with Joe gone. If it's about money, he won't get what he thinks he's worth from any team unless they want to say fuck you to the Yankees. Only two I can think of doing that is NYM and Sox. If he walks fo rmoney I can't wait to boo his ass. Oh wait, I already did that. Ed, sorry to spoil the game. There were some good ones. Going to be some interesting games. Hate Bama and Auburn - crap Keep do we actually agree on a team thing? Haven't seen much of Stanford this yr. but I like what I'be seen of Luck. Shame the Bills had to blow their chance to draft him. Going to be an interesting class. StarM 04:42, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Stay safe

heard due to the Giants being unable to land that you're having some nasty weather. Stay safe and warm. Thanks for dealing with litter on my page. Not sure what the current undelete interest is StarM 00:12, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

The whole north is getting whipped! We got about five inches, and we're still going to get hit with a belt that goes past Chicago! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 00:20, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

You stay safe too. Where are you, Ed? NYC has nothing but wind and rain from what I've heard. Had visitors from Australia who wanted to see snow . We got flurries day after they left :-( StarM 01:29, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Haha, poor Aussies. Tell them to come to dis neck of da woods, eh? We've got plenty to go around. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 03:57, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

We chuckled - they should have gone to London whihc got snow last week. Stay warm and dry. The footage of the Pillow Dome collapse is eerie. Glad no one was there to be hurt. Amazing that with all the snow Minnesnowta gets that it collapsed now. Think it means a move to La La land sooner? StarM 18:24, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I heard about Keeper's dome when I got up – crazy. How are they even planning to fix it? They'll have to get all the snow off (somehow), rebuild the top, and stretch the pillow over it again... not cheap and definitely not a simple task. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:47, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Bit of a crazy weekend round my place, for sure. What's funny about the dome is that it isn't the first time it deflated because of heavy snow. Happened the first winter is was constructed, and the next 2 winters as well. Great design, geniuses. There's a very good, snowy reason houses in Minnesota aren't made of fabric (or flat, for that matter). Dummies. Had to dig out my mailbox (literally - it was completely buried, now just the face of it sticking out), and had to go up on my roof to unbury my direcTV receiver, also completely gone into a snow drift (imagine an old man standing on his pitched roof, poking the snow with the handle end of the shovel trying to locate a Dish so he can continue to watch tv, and you'll understand why life insurance sales are usually vigorous in my neck of the woods...). Looking forward to watching Farv stand on the sidelines in Detroit tonight. Keeper | 76 21:19, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

I'd say sorry about the score, but we both know I'm not. Is it time to end the bad TJax experiment? That was just a total offensive fail by the Vikings. I was worried early with the Minnesota monkey on Eli's back. Yikes on digging out. Roof? No thanks. I prefer my feet firmly on the ground. I saw some photos from a friend who is in St. Paul and wow, his SUV was close to hidden. The side by side shots of the Dome are amazing. Is it worth trying to fix? Is it fixable? Nice offer from the Carrier Dome of the panel. I see the desire to celebrate 50 - but maybe it's smart to find somewhere else to play? Don't guess they like Ford Field much. Apart from the snow, I hope all is well. StarM 04:11, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

I don't even watch the games anymore, honestly. Too frustrating, life's too short to cheer for a drama-laden team. It makes me like the Twins, in the understated and underappreciated professionalism, even more. I'm so done with football in its entirety. Keeper | 76 18:07, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

You wouldn't be saying that if you lived in the Philadelphia area!! kek15 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.49.47.144 (talk) 18:39, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Still here 2

Happy New Year Keeper! – Just to say my annual thanks to you (three years now), and to remind all your talk page watchers that encouraging new editors, as you did for me, is worthwhile. I've managed another scuba GA and have a FL under review right now. I've also made lots of new wiki-friends (mostly among the miscreants like Bishonen, His Excellency Giacomo, and Jack Merridew), and spent time trying to improve accessibility on the 'pedia. I'm now close to retirement, so I guess I'll have even more time to contribute in the future. Next time the cynics remind you of all that's wrong with Wikipedia, just remember that there's an upside too. Here's hoping you have a great 2011! Best wishes --RexxS (talk) 01:24, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

So nice of you to stop by to say hello, Rexx! I'm very rarely onwiki for the last 2+ yrs, mostly just to jabber on my talkpage about baseball. Glad you are still finding rewarding places to contribute high quality writing. Happy New Year to you as well, good sir - Keeper | 76 01:15, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

and it's all over

At least I'm happy NYG got a pride win *and* that no more Vikings in 2011. Seriously, was so tired of that match up. Coughlin is coming back, Eli will have less bad luck and Giants will make the playoffs. Hope you have some similar luck. Ed, as a Colts fan I appreciate the Jags laying down. Seriously?! Not playing Garrard or MJD in a must-win situation when both played through their injuries previously. Hope you both had a good Christmas and New Years StarM 04:26, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Not too happy about the Jags... they had a playoff spot with just one more win, but nope, three straight losses. Now I'm on to my second-favorite team, the Saints! (no, I'm not a bandwagoner, I've liked them since they had Aaron Brooks!) My college football team, UConn, just lost their superstar running back and long-tenured coach. Bad couple days in football land for me. :| Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:02, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm a Big Ten fan (Illinois my favorite for reasons unbeknownst to me - probably because the MN gophers are unfathomably disappointing every year - in every sport. At least the Illini make a go of it once and a while). I'm terribly happy that the vikings season is over. I'm happy for Tanthalas that Detroit pounded their faces in on Sunday and I'm happy to be done with Brett the Jet and I'm looking forward to the Leslie Frazier era, which should be good being that he's a student of one of the most brilliant coaches in modern history. Sorry about Eli's gang, Star. I was pulling for GreenBay to lose for you, honest. Keeper | 76 01:18, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks. Not loving the NFC this yr. I'm sort of rooting for the Saints as lesser of evils. Will root for the Packers next week just to roast the Eagles. I was pulling for Spags and the Rams, but really 7-9 is just pathetic for a playoff team. Hoping Colts survive the Jests, who I hate with a firey passion. What happened to UConn RB? Declared for the drat? I know about Edsall going to Maryland but don't follow players all that closely. Nice thing about the college game for me is can just enjoy a good game without worrying about who wins. Unless, of course, it's Bama who I hate. Benefit of college and grad school without football. I've watched a lot of college football in the last few months though. I was happy for Tan and his putty tats. Had a pretty decent year even beyond their record. Gave NYG a run for their money. Just think, you have Joe Webb to look forward to <g>. Purple Jesus is going to surface somewhere next year. His arm hasn't fallen off yet. Is it Opening Day yet? Ed, apparently we don't even need to play the season. Red Sox and Phillies are going o the WS. Did you hear? StarM 04:52, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I think I'm rooting for the seahawks, underdogs for me. A losing record, and a home game? Against the defending SB champs as the wildcard? Too crazy to not cheer for seattle. Keeper | 76 18:44, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

watching now, hoping for a good game. StarM 21:29, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

Nice W. Guess you earned that after suffering through the Purples. Have a good evening Keep StarM 02:32, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

If you would've told me Bears/Packers/Jets/Steelers, I would have called you a damn fool. Yeah, Seattle/Saints game was brilliant. I saw that coming a mile away. Pete Carroll is growing on me, he's kind of a big kid. Heard tonight that Vikes picked up Singletary, which on paper should be good news. Football is over. For 4 worst possible teams are the only ones left. Jets? Blech. Bears and Packers? Divisional rivals. Double blech. Steelers? One word: Detestlisberger. Hate that guy. Isn't supposed to get above 10 degrees at my house for the next week, mostly staying below zero. Baseball is soon, but feels like eons away. Keeper | 76 04:35, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Belated agreed. I'd decided before last week's games that I was rooting for the NFC because a) I'm over the Steelers b) HATE Jets. Not crazy about the packers because I'm tired of St. ARod but yeah, Douchlisberger indeed. Weather here has been awful. When it finally got above 20 we got another foot of snow. 36+ inches for Jan and over 55 so far this winter. January is a record and I'm sure we'll obliterate the winter record too. This is ridiculous for NYC. Hope you're staying warm and safe. Titans are the Raiders East. StarM 04:15, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

"Titans are the Raiders East" is definitely the quote of the week. Made me laugh on several levels. :-) Less than 2 months to baseball. It's 8 degrees out, another 6-7" of snow - you'd think because this is normal for us it would be less painful, but I hate it. I dislike all winter sports, hockey included. Skiing is stupid - cross country are just people that can't afford cars or snowmobiles, downhill is just insane (strap slippery sticks to your feet and plunge down the side of a mountain? Who's the first jackass to think that one up?) Can't wait for Superblah to be over on Sunday. Pathetic probowl game too, although they're all pathetic. Keeper | 76 19:12, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Not happy right now, I was excited to get in the first word about the frighteningly bad Pro Bowl only to read your last sentence... the changed rules make the game even worse then it would have been. Which I thought would be hard to do. I'm kind of excited for the Super Bowl, though – I'm thinking it'll be a shootout with amazing plays or a close defensive chess match, both of which I like to watch. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 09:14, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

PB, SB and deletions

Yeah, Pro Bowl was lame. AFC clearly decided to try to set the record for INTs. At least the Browns' C scoring was amusing. I don't want football to end because I need football. Waaay too much HGTV and TLC. NYY are going to be interesting to watch this year. NYY fan 'til the day I die but this season's pitching? EEEEEEK. ustin Maxwell? Andruw Jones? Who whats? Also can one of you have a look at my talk and see what's up with the undeletion requests? I can't see why they're landing on my page as I haven't touched anything in eons. StarM 01:36, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry - been away for a bit here. Last football news for the winter for me - heard an absolutely hilarious idea on the news for financing a new vikes football stadium in the suburbs: add a sin tax to beer sold at Packer loyalist bars and taverns located in Minnesota (there are dozens of them). Minnesotans that like the packers (other than Sconnie transplants, that's understandable) are a special kind of doofus, and they should have to pay more for their booze. In warmer news, pitchers report to sp training tomorrow. I'm absolutely giddy. I'm riding a T-nish buzz. Keeper | 76 16:11, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

It's not the lockout that brought me here. Been meaning to. I so can't wait for baseball. So antsy. I've even tried to watch basketball. Ugh. You know who Nishi is. Some of your team do not. Looks like Nathan will be back? That's pretty mpressive. Hope all is going well StarM 01:49, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Funny - I hadn't logged in in a couple of weeks, and here I show up an hour or so after you. Sock.  :-) I like Nish. Mauer will be barely healthy, but healthy enough. Pavano looks sick good so far. Morneau will be back strong. And, oh yeah, the save leader for the last half decade. He's back too, and his catchers have already commented that he throws harder, straighter, and with more bite than ever. I'm ecstatic about this coming year. Ec. Static. Keeper | 76 03:15, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

We have our priorities, and they are baseball :-) I wouldn't even bother logging in anymore if it wasn't to come visit you. We've renamed the Hrbek bobblehead (http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/08/twins-to-give-away-souvenir-glorifying-blatant-cheating-awful-underhanded-play/) as a "Herbelhead". He actually came up the other day in a consonant discussion. Talking about fantasy drafts and players you can't draft if you can't spell. I'm so antsy for baseball. Nova is surprising me. I find ig amazing that Morneau is still having issues 6ish months later when AAron Rodgers etc. come back a week later. And there's a hockey player too. I worry about their post career health StarM 16:09, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

I think the key difference between Morneau and the others is the coaching/training staff. Twins were doing well without him (actually improved, record wise, two years in a row after he went down), why rush him? Packers on the other hand had NOBODY if they lose Rodgers. Think maybe the docs/trainers face a little front office pressure? I wouldn't put it beneath them to rig a diagnosis. Lots of money on the table, including the trainers paychecks....Keeper | 76 20:49, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I cannot wait for Opening Day. Seriously. I hate basketball and have been watching this year because there's NOTHING ELSE on. Bupkus. We play next week. Time for an early war? I'm impressed that Nathan is back after Tommy John last spring. That alone makes your Twinkies better. But as Ed undoubtedly knows - the 2011 World Series will be between the Dead Sox and the Philthies. No one else should even bother playing apparently. I actually don't mind the Phils, or anyone else who beats the carp out of the Mess. Brew, don't hurt me :p Anyone watching my fantasy baseball draft would think me to be a Twinkies fan as 3 of my top 10 picks were: Mauer, Cuddyer and NIshi. So we'll see. I think the best shortcut for here would be AN:MLB. :-) ETA: blue>? WOW. What language StarM 01:50, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Glad to see Cuddyer getting some fantasy respect, he's SOLID. Give that man an allstar appearance, for the love. My prediction for WS11 is Twins/Braves 1991 rematch. Those Braves look dang good this year if they can get their pitching going, which they will once the humidity kicks in mid-July. I'm panicking a bit up here in snow-ville, we still have a good 6-9 inches of white stuff on the ground, home opener for twins is a week from Wednesday. Field is in good shape - top-notch blankets and underground heating, but the fan areas are pretty trashed. I'm sure they'll get it going in time. Also panicking because I haven't been able to get any tickets as of yet, games are getting limited. Read somewhere that twins payroll is #10 in the league. So much for me bragging about the over-achieving small market team. Hrmph. Keeper | 76 02:23, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

What I like re: Cuddyer is his multi position eligibility - 1B/3B and OF. So useful when my starter at either position is off/hurt/etc. Very flexibile. I have no actual vote on WS other than media hype. I basically ignored baseball from when football season started so I have no idea. I have no yankees tix yet but it's supposed to be snowing Thurs so yeah, not feeling that. I heard they only just started to repair the pillow dome? Has there been that much more snow this winter since the collapse vs. a std. MN winter? I still can't believe AN:MLB is a blue link - and it got me spammed by that Wiki. Meh. <48 hours. Happy Cari. StarM 03:04, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Its been one of the worst snow years on record for the state, top 5 in total snow depth all time. I hate snow. Always have. Repairs underway at the dome (almost gagged when I heard some local politician blowhard seriously touting the 'job creation' of around 100 or so people that get to help inflate that damn thing. For like 3 months, then back on unemp. Woot.) I think the phils will falter this year. They're aging - and unlike wine and cheese, aging isn't good in baseball. Lots of injuries this year, and they have no depth. Braves win the NL east. Cincie takes central, Giants repeat and Padres nab the wildcard. Although, if you remember from earlier conversations, I don't really follow the NL that well until it matters. As in October. As far as AL playoffs? Twinks (of course) repeat in Central, Angels west, and BoSox east. Don't be surprised to see showalter's O's stealing a lot of games from yanks/tampa/bloods this year. Not enough to come up to wildcard, but enough to give Detroit the wild out of the central...you read it hear first folks....Keeper | 76 03:43, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Needs to be a way to favorite posts. I think Sox and Phillies are human. not ready to give AL East to Boston. If NYY can cobble together a rotation (remember '09 include Meat Tray and gaudin!) they'll be OK. Too much panic and celebration on all sides after two games. Hey, you're a NYY fan this week with us beating on a rival of yours. I had a trip to FLA in Feb and I seriously wish I could manage to be a sow bird. StarM 03:48, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

You are a horrible, useless admin who should return the salary you've earned

How dare you say I retired. ;)

I can't believe I missed given you crap about two Twins' chokes in the playoffs. I'm sure you've downed several cases of Leineys (sp?). OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 20:37, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Well, shit. I was just thinking about you the other day when I watched Syrachoke get snuffed out of the Madness. Very. Early. Although to their credit they totally manhandled Indiana State..... LoL! Glad to see you back. Of course, without your ascerbic witfugdery to keep me motivated and admin-button trigger happy, I actually retired shortly after you did. (Let the sock accusations commence). I only pop in once and a while to banter with a few loiterers about baseball (see entire 2009-10 archive of this talk). Anywho. I don't remember the last time I performed an adminly function, unless you count snubbing my nose at the community-at-large to be adminly. :-) And before you even go there - yes, I'm in Minnesota. And no, I'm NOT a gopher fan. Keeper | 76 20:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Heh. I thought of you (keeper) when visiting Minneapolis and dropping by a bar during a Twins game. It was clear I was from out of town and there was no hiding I was from Milwaukee, so I did my best to not be thrown out as a bitter rival. ;) Protonk (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Orangemarlin, and now Protonk? What is this, reunion week? Love it! For the better part of the year, it's been Star and I bullshootin' about baseball. (I keep talking to her even though her damnyankees keep demolitioning my twinpride. She's good company). I wonder who else is lurking about? Anyone else out there want to show me 4 tildes? Sign in folks! Keeper | 76 20:46, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Good god, I can't remember the last time I got an edit conflict on this page... So I scrolled down Marlin's contrib list and was really confused about Keeper's "retired" comment until I realized it said "15 March 2009" ... took a wee little break, did ya? ;-) And Keeper, I could have sworn you were a mighty Pyrite Gopher fan... maybe I was just overwhelmed with Minnesota comments from you. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 20:49, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Fighting Illini for me, Ed. Can't really explain why. Maybe I just really like corn fed (as opposed to lutefisk-fed) athletes. Keeper | 76 20:56, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

So you've done nothing for Wikipedia and still get that massive salary? Yeah, I decided to come back after using Wikipedia for a reference (ok, marginally) and keep getting frustrated with bad grammar, bad spelling, and POV. I would correct spelling here and there as an anonymous IP address. But an anonymous IP address can't have a decent watch list, especially when I have nothing but dynamic IP's. Anyways, yes, you were my first contribution, since I noticed some page protection thing from you. I thought busting your nuts would be the best thing to do to celebrate my return. Glad to see you around, but I might need you to watch a bit more. You'll have to unblock me when I invariably piss off some douche on the Florida Marlins page. Twins looking good. We'll see if they can get past those evil Yankees. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 21:01, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

You found a page protection of mine? Shudder. I didn't do many of those, especially after the Sarahpalinwheelwarofterror crap. I'm curious what protection I applied that is still applied. Too funny. And on a serious note, I'm glad you're back. This place has developed the personality of a block of cheese, and I fully expect you to correct that. No promises that I'll unblock. No promises that I wouldn't block either, I suppose :-)Keeper | 76 21:07, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

I guess while I was gone the anonymous IP drive-by's were frequent, so a couple of years ago you protected my user talk and user pages. Someone unprotected them last week, however I've been getting hit again. LOL And I've noticed this place has gotten weird. I watch a few thousand pages on science and medicine. I barely see any edits, just one or two. And I'm not seeing new articles. Where has everyone gone? It's too quiet. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 23:13, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

It's quiet because I stopped blabbering around everyone's talkpages probably. At one point, this silly little talkpage experiment toward wiki-stardom had more hits than Jimbos. All with general silliness, which apparently is sorely missing now. All seryus biznus now. I vaguely remember protecting your page, I was tired of watching it pop up on my watchlist, lots of attacks and reverts, and not seeing your retorts to defend yourself, well, I guess it just didn't seem as fun anymore. Figured you were gone for good. And the editor population, all around, is down. I'm sure a stalker can point you to some navel-gazing-sky-is-falling reports about declines in general editorship and adminship. I will say that in general, the articles are good though, I still frequent them often for factchecking, etc, ip-ing a doublespace or spelling error here and there. Rarely log in to actually edit. I did actually start an article (had to get an admin to create it for me) and get it to DYK as an ip, that was a fun experiment. Seems like it was 2 years ago or so, don't remember the guy's name to be honest. A dead person, I'm pretty sure, some obscure athlete. Keeper | 76 02:18, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Opening day!

It's 80º here in SoCal, so we're ready for baseball. Sorry about your snow, glaciers, and freaking cold in the Midwest. Well, not really. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 14:57, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

I will take the cold and the perenially good Twins over warm weather and a bad baseball team every time. Every time. Keeper | 76 03:17, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Bwaaaahaha, Orangemarlin pretending that baseball in California is real, and you pretending that the Twins can beat the Yankees. Bah. Y'all need to follow a real team !!! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... like the Red Sox, whose payroll now exceeds the GDP of most developing nations. It's like the end of Animal Farm: the animals looked from the Yankees to the Sox, and back again, but already it was impossible to tell which was which. MastCell ^Talk 18:05, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Ah, but you can tell the difference by looking at the fans! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:07, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

... or at least the police sketches of their fans... MastCell ^Talk 18:12, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Now that is a keeper !! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:18, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Red Sox fans are officially the MOST annoying on the planet. They whine about everything. We Californians leave during the 7th inning which leaves us time to grab a cappuccino on the way home, and we can whine about easterners on our beaches. :P And let me check where that last World Series champion is located? Might it be in California?. And Zolio Versailles still sucks. :POrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 18:20, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

You leave during the 7th inning to avoid the horrible traffic-- admit it. The Giants are still AAA ball-- they got lucky once. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:26, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Maybe I should start some wiki-drama about you and your POV commentary about baseball. LOL. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 18:56, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

/sadface I have to wait 'til the 5th for a home game I can make it to. Protonk (talk) 18:58, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

I had Terry Cashman's Opening Day on repeat all day Thurs. It's such a day to be a kid. So much celebration and panic over two games . Not sure when I'll get to a live game. Soon, I hope. I don't do arctic ball. StarM 03:50, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

My goodness Star! Look at all these people still watchlisting my page! Egads. I best behave. Nearly had congestive heart failuer watching Nathan eke out a save tonight. 30 pitches on a rebuilt robo-arm, had to have Gardy sweating, especially because he already used Capps. Somehow, going 0-3 in Toronto, only to be followed by a 4-set in the House-that-We-Buy-Our-Talent-Built was making me nervous. Somehow, 1-2 is better. Can't wait for the homeopener. Chance of snow early this week, we'll see. Keeper | 76 03:03, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Keeper, give me a freaking break. You absolutely LOVE that we watch your page. Of course, it means one of two things: you are interesting, or Wikipedia is so dull that you're the highlight. Actually, either choice is kind of pathetic. LOL. Joe Nathan is going to give you a lot of heartburn this year. Trust me on that. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 03:42, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's the latter. Your observations on your page were unfortunately correct, this place is rather dull. Not sure who the culprit is, but I'm positive that a contributing factor - if not the only factor - is the damn blockhappy powertripping civility police admins that think it makes them look "grown-up" if they talk down to people. They win. They have a very nice and polite unreferenced encyclopedia about Family Guy. Keeper | 76 14:00, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

The civility police are definitely power hungry. I always assumed they were some fat sweaty guys sitting in their underwear. I, of course, keep the A/C on, so no sweating here. And I don't bother with underwear....it allows me to scratch my balls without encumberance. Oh wait. Too much information? But seriously, all of these ArbCom's and such just seem to be a way for certain people to improve their lives. I'd rather have admins with balls, frank talk, and who provide documentation that they're not fat sweaty guys sitting in their underwear. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 23:54, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

And now I have that mental image to deal with. Thanks. There are at least 3 sane people on Arb that I'm familiar with - solid, fair editors that don't take a lot of shit, and call it like they see it - Iridescent, Xeno and Risker. I recognize some other names, but those three stand out to me as, overall, very good selections. Editors' editors. Hoping the laughably underappreciated bullseye-wearing position itself doesn't eat them alive, a la Fritzpoll. We'll see! I've logged on more this week than I have in the last year. If I'm not careful, I might get a WP:NOTMYSPACE warning soon if I don't edit an article....I blame opening week of baseball. And you. Keeper | 76 02:46, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Sorry. That mental image is going to haunt you. Calisber is also sane. Risker, I like, mostly. I have PhilKnight quoted on my page, but he used to go by another name. One of them (who shall remain unnamed) is a complete douche. The others, I've seen here or there in the past. Maybe you should be on Arbcom. Then I could complain to you about the quality of baseball articles around here. Though I hear Family Guy articles are outstanding. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 05:51, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

I'll through my hat in for arbcom the day you pass an RFA. The baseball articles are very hit and miss. The more numerous and loyal the fanbase, the better the articles. You've likely noticed just how poor the Marlins articles are in this regard, I presume. Keeper | 76 03:06, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Oh we're going there are we? First you insult me about my chances in an RfA. Then you go after my Marlins, who, I might add, have more World Series Championships over the past 15 years than say a certain team in Eden Prairie. Or is it Edina? Minnetonka? St. Paul? Obijwa? OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 03:39, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Maybe if the Marlins hadn't gotten lucky once, you'd all be buried behind my dirty sox. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 03:46, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Lucky is right, Ed. Without a Bartman (the infamous headphoned cub fan) interefence, they don't even get into the series. And who's in Eden Prairie? Is Obijwa even a word? Do you mean Ojibwa? Sheesh, get your tribes right. The Marlins articles would be better, but fans can only do so much. I mean, seriously, how cool it must be that each of them gets their own section to themsevles at the stadium. So cool. Can't really expect each of them to help out around here after that kind of regal treatment. Keeper | 76 04:26, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Like I know anything about Minnesota. And the Cubbies would have lost with or without Bartman. You know better than that. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 03:01, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

You lived here, and you spout on about it like you know it. And then you write Obijwa. Nothing more fun than that. Like a guy calling himself a 'gearhead' because he drives a classic car that he bought with daddy's money, but would need to call triple-A to change a flat tire. Or something like that. And you're right about Bartman. I do know better. I sounded like a Cub fan for a minute there, won't happen again. :-) Keeper | 76 02:54, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

This series

hype is insane. It's April. Right now the Sox are 0-3 and the Os are 3-0. There will be correction. Rays won't be that bad either but I think they lost too much of their talent (and now Longoria on the DL) to be a factor. This series should be good. M&M boys worry me. So does our questionale pitching. HR Derby yesterday. I'm just so glad it's time for baseball. And quityerbitchin' about payroll. Have you seen the Mauer contract? Watching Guerrier implode in LA was fun. He did that many times vs. NYY StarM 12:47, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

As I said a couple of threads ago, I can't woe-is-me too much about being a small market team now that our payroll has hit top-10 in the league. However, the key difference to me is that our payroll is large because we farm-grew our boys, coached them and developed them ourselves to be superior players, and then rewarded them financially. That is a far cry from the YankMantra of we need a new __________________(fill in any position here) who would be the most expensive? Let's go buy him. The only thing close to that last year for us was picking up Matt Capps late. I missed the Guerrier implosion, I'll have to find that! Looking forward to the PaleHose getting the same junk from Jesse Crain. Yankee pitching looks, well, horrible. Sorry, Star, but you are about to have an extremely frustrating year losing games 10-7. Seven runs should win a lot of games, but your team is going to give up 10. A lot. What with the right field bleachers almost in the infield....and who do we have swinging left handed? Oh, I dunno. Bunch of no-namers like Thome. Mauer. Morneau. Span. Kubel. Heck, even Nishioka. Be afraid. If the Twins actually show up, be very afraid. Keeper | 76 13:54, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

1000000000000000000000000000% agreed on NYY pitching. Sadly/luckily (take your pick) that seems to be what a lot of AL pitching looks like so I can see some football-esque scores on the horizon. Neither Hughes (never liked him) nor Colon (used to was) surprised me. I have good hope in Ivan Nova but what I think we're going to need are two long-relief men who can actually hold the other teams scoreless. The only pitchers I have any faith in are CC and Mariano. Everything else is a crapshoot. Will be interesting with this series to see if the HR Derby continues at night as well as in the somewhat warmer weather. NYY home grown: Cano, Jeter, Jorge, Brett (I think?), Nova, Joba, Hughes, Nunez (?I think). This year is exceptionally low but they have grown their talent for a big portion of 96-2000. I think the big name shopping actually hurts in some ways - although you could argue it helped in'09. I don't even think it's a question of outspending - there was some silly money around this year - incl. Guerrier's deal in LA. At least the Yankees mostly spend the money on talent and research good fits - like Swisher, Tex... It's going to be an interesting season. I play fantasy and Mauer is killing me. I think they need to throw out ERA and vatting average week 1 since we know MAuer isn't going to hit .143 over a season. Wouldn't mind if he did for the next 4 days though.  :-) StarM 19:15, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

I'll give you Jeter, Jorge and Cano. I'm green with envy esp for middle infielders, of which we cannot seem to get consistency. Always decent, but never allstar decent. (Punto? Tolbert? Casilla? 50 other no-names? Yikes.) Interesting to see Mauer start slow (he never has before). He'll be over .300, probably .320 no doubt, but I feel your fantasy pain, surely. Wondering this morning if Morneau will actually finish a season healthy. Although, we always seem to play better without him, everyone else steps up instead of sitting on his bat....All is right in the world when I can chat baseball on Wiki. God Bless free server space.....Keeper | 76 19:59, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Well there's one in the books. Kubel vs. Mo is always scary. I don't know what else he's done but that Salami last year? Ugh. Baker settled down nicely tonight and the Twins were in the right place on a few hard hit balls. Very nearly got to Nova too. Well played. Good and quick baseball. This is the only thing that has me logging in daily. Even my flirtation last week with editing didn't last. I'm a firm believer that St. Derek is past his prime but tat the same time there's no one to step up to replace him. The 0fers of he and Brett the Wet are killing me. Tomorrow's shuffled lineup vs. a lefty should be interesting. Hasta manana. StarM 01:52, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

That's what makes you a "good" Yank fan TC - you don't consider it blasphemy to criticize them when it's due. You're very right about Jeter - he's got maybe 2 yrs left of fieldwork in him, health wise (don't care how big a contract he signed) before he starts being a really expensive DH when posada retires. Russell Martin was a nice purchase, always liked him in LA. Just glad you didn't get Mr. Minnesota back there behind the mask. That really was a fast game, wasn't it? Kubel is one of the most under-the-radar power hitters out there. He absolutely crushes the ball. Reminds me a ton of McCann down in Atl, he's that good. But he's quiet - and if you look closely, it's because he has a Tourette's like facial tick that, IMO, keeps him off camera. He's one of my perennial faves. 1-3 is about where I expected on this brutal starting road trip. Twinks got a raw deal from the schedule makers this year, starting east coast like that. Oh well. So glad this is our only trip out - would much rather have it in April than August, seriously. Get it out of the way. Hoping we can come home 2-5 or 3-4. Sigh. Keeper | 76 02:41, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Star, I know you'll be showing up here in the next few hours or days. I'll just say - about DANG time the twinks did something in the late innings in new york other than roll over and die. Bout dang time. What a great hit by Nishioka in the 10th. What a great bases clearing, small ball doink double by D-Young. Fun game. Finally they show some LIFE in their game! Twins season officially started tonight. Keeper | 76 03:03, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Of course I am. I actually tried to post the following after the game but my browser crashed *8grumble** nice win ** grumble** Nishi and Delmon Young showing Twinkies can win w/o M&M boys. I actually thought yesterday that a one run lead wasn't safe. NYY need to score late not only early. That said, Tex? WOW. Gardner, Granderson Jeter is deadly 9-1-2. DEADLY. Jeter signed a 4 yr which is what's killing me. I'll give him this. At least he went down swinging. THe one thing we can both like? Sox 0-4. Rooting for Cleveland this week although I think an 0-6 Sox team would be v. dangerous to face. Has the snow cleared up there? Have a friend in Denver on business who was meant to be at Sunday's snow out . She's bummed as it's likely her only trip ut there and they get snowed out. Agreed on April v. August. Let the 'pen get settled now. Like Mo's dinger last year, have it when it doesn't matter. Don't know enough about McCann in ATL but I've heard of him. I'm OK with Martin. A Catcher that can run? Wow. StarM 04:26, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, something is def wrong in the universe looking at the AL east standings right now, won't last long unfortunately. My wish is that each team plays about .500 against division rivals, which will keep all 5 teams at or around .500/.525 ball, which means the wildcard can come out of the Central. Snow's mostly gone except for snowbank remnants (which are basically just piles of roadsalt and gum wrappers collected over 6 months of tundratic conditions). By season's end, you'll be singing "Posada Who" once you see what Martin can do. He's a gold-glove caliber catcher, all star level offense. He's about your team's only chance at settling down and improving the pitching staff, he def has his hands full with them. If anyone can do it,though, you've got the right guy - outside Mauer or maybe a Molina. Agree with your 9-1-2. Twins have a pitcher's nightmare 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. Any one of them can sting you. Span, Nishi, Mauer, Morneau, Kubel/Thome, DYoung, Cuddyer, Valencia? Yes, please. Casilla is only offensive weakspot, but he's a human highlight reel on the infield. Have I told you that I love baseball? I do. Keeper | 76 14:10, 6 April 2011 (UTC)

You like baseball? Couldn't tell. THis is the most lametastic rain out on the planet. I live about 3-4 miles from the stadium as the crow flies and didn't even need an umbrella. On the plus side, I get to watch the Mess come back from 7-0 down to tie it, only to now be down 10-7. And if the Indians can hold on? Then life is good. AL East is on its head right now. I could see the NYY finishing 3rd but not behind the birds. I'm not keen on facing an 0fer Boston team. That's a dangerous Boston team especially in the band box that is fenway. I'm surprised Brew hasn't shown here crowing. Mets better record then the Yankees. Because yes, it's April. CWS looking like they could be your main competition. And the Royals are surprising. Don't know yet what to make of them because the Angels looked so bad. I love MLB Network. I can basically watch baseball 24/7. Maybe when the lockout ends Time Warner and NFL Network will cease their pissing contest. COuld I be that lucky?

Want to know why our teams are classy? Nishi broken leg didn't turn into a brawl. nice surprise. Sox and Tampa 0-6. Worried about this weekend. Oh and really going to hate your Purple People if you get McNabb. What a tool. StarM 22:41, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Agree re:classy - As soon as I saw Swisher's (clean) hit, I said out loud - he just broke his leg. You could almost hear the crunch. You were presumably watching YES, I was watching the MN Fox station (which is very well run, by the way - excellent Dick Bremer and HOF-er Bert Blyleven - you should check out a channel 668 game this weekend, tomorrow night's MN homecoming for example - at least in my market DirecTV and others have opened up all channels for game viewing for opening week so you should be able to pick it up). Anywho, Dick and Bert both let out an audible gasp during the live play. The sad thing about T-Nish is that he doesn't get to run on his home field to an assuredly warm welcome by MN fans. Our middle infield once again shaky at best. Hasn't been good since we unloaded Bartlett. JJHardy had potential, but never flowered in MN. Sigh sigh sigh. Glad to be out of the East for a spell. Keeper | 76 02:40, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

0-6

Well, my team's off to a good start. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 17:29, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

1-6 sounds so much better when you beat up a division rival though, don't it? Keeper | 76 01:59, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Especially when the "1" is against the The Demon Spawn of Satan. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 02:58, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

I wish there was a facebookish "Like" button that I could click on for your blue link. Keeper | 76 03:01, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Related (ZOMG Youtube), honest! Protonk (talk) 03:34, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Protonk, that's a great link. Only time I can't be a fan of Alec Baldwin. ;-) Watched the beginning of the 16-5 destruction of my dirty Sox by the Rays today. I loved watching Fail-K give up 7 runs. Sigh... Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 04:27, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Hey!

Hi Keeper76, we haven't spoken in ages, so I decided to drop in and say hello. How have you been? Acalamari 09:28, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

In a word, good! Of course, you're asking me in April, which is by far the best month on earth. Or at least in the US. Because baseball starts and I heart baseball. Hopefully, if you stop by in October or November I'll still be good, and this article will list my team as champs. Nice of you to stop by - how's your world treating you? Keeper | 76 02:59, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Oh, I think things are good with me for the most part. ;) I'm glad to see that you're stll around, it really is nice to see people who I met here years ago still active. Best. Acalamari 09:46, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Good to chat with you too. Of course, "active" is definitely a stretch. I don't edit anymore, at least not logged in, just use the free server space for shootin the bull about baseball with some WFs. Take care! Keeper | 76 01:46, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

won't let me edit above. Stupid site

how dare it keep us from uber meaningful content . Was AFK this weekend so missed the NYY forgetting to show up in Fenway. Don't have DirectTV so I can't do any of that fancy stuff anyway. Tonight is just a game I want everyone (translation Dead Sox and Cowhells) to lose. No such luck. Tough break for Nishi. Was watching MLB Network and they were trying to blame Swisher and Nishi. It's an accident. Familiar with the word? Nutso. Didn't see the game. Not a fan of day games when I can't be there. Doesn't MLB know they're supposed to schedule around me? :) No idea how your boys did this weekend. Well, I hope StarM 00:10, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

I was getting lost on my own talkpage like the good old days anyway - so many threads this month! Sheesh, almost like I'd started editing again. I'm half expecting someone to pop up on my page telling me to go to a special place because I deleted his band article 3 years ago. Good times. And by "good times" I mean Not Good Times. I'm not worried about the Twins, just moderately concerned with their collectively slow start. Like 1 or 2 runs per game slow. And an uncharacteristic number of errors, and walks. And only 3 homers so far. As a team total. They've never been about homers, but seriously. I would be much more worried if I was a bloodsock or raybies fan, though, because they don't have Gardy. That guy could field a high school team and make it look competitive. Keeper | 76 01:44, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

You mean like the insanity I was getting a few months ago? I went to my first game this season last night - the Muts of all people! April baseball is against my religion, especially evening wise. So cold with the wind off the Bay. And with the way they play... the toilet in Flushing lyric is true. Hope Mauer isn't too borked. Is it sad that he's been on my fantasy bench in favor of Russell Martin? StarM 21:09, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Benching Mauer is probably not a bad idea. I like Butera. Really, I do. If only someone could pinch hit for him each time he comes up to bat...Keeper | 76 03:50, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

Beat the Rays, please? I don't know Butera from Bonzer... but sounds like the issue we had with Jose Molina. Yet he has the distinction of hitting the last HR at Yankee Stadium. Weird. Russell Martin has been Iron Man so far this year and last night was a thing of beauty. Sadly, I had to give up my tix. StarM 16:42, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

As I said a few threads ago, R. Martin is the real deal. You should feel very VERY fornutate that your tema snagged him. Very fortunate. I'm a bit jealous, what with my allstar on the DL for the moment. I will always be a twins fan, and will watch every single game, regardless of record, but the next month is setting itself up to be extremly ugly. Deep breaths, keeper. Keeper | 76 21:19, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I see Mauer is now on the 15 day DL. Something about flu-like symptoms. Just hope it's not something worse, because a 15-day DL doesn't sound like "flu". OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 21:58, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

I heard it was his knees. Hard to keep catchers healthy... MastCell ^Talk 22:17, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

As much as they have invested in him, they need to move him to the outfield. Can't move him to first, since Morneau is there. I wonder why Johnny Bench lasted so long? OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 22:35, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

The whole Mauer thing sounds fishy. Sorry Keep. I hope he's OK but there's somethin rotten in Denmark. I disagree re: Morneu. He gets broken periodically and it could be a spot for Mauer if he can't catch FT. Who's the Twins' DH? Thoughts on Nathan's demotion? Sox and Twins have fwer than 5 wins and each have one or more vs. NYY. Not cool. NYY are playing like monkey poo at times as well. The Yankees' current MOlina hits like Jose and I don't mean Reyes. Meh. Martin may need to catch 161. StarM 17:46, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

I suppose it could be viewed as a blessing, having another allstar closer waiting in the wings in Matt Capps. He did a nice job tonight (finally). I think people (and by people, I mean fanboys like me) thought Nathan would come back and throw 3-batter 9th innings as if he hadn't missed a full year and surgery later. Too good to be true. He's a team guy, this won't hurt his ego one bit, he's been through worse than this. He'll get his arm going, get some good solid ML innings in the 6th, 7th, 8th, and lean on Capps for a while. All good. Our DH is usually either Thome or Kubel, with Kubel also playing right field and Morneau and Mauer also taking turns on DH. Cuddyer has done everything other than pitch and catch, what, 14 games in? Sheesh that guy impresses me, just needs to get his bat going, his age is starting to show. Cuddyer ranks amongst my all time top 5 baseball players, not just twins. The. guy. can. play. He'll never make an allstar team, he'll never win any awards, but he can play the game the way it's supposed to be played and (gasp!) has no desire to flank the cover of SI, or worse, Entertainment weekly. Love that guy. I have a sickening hunch this might be Morneau's last year in a Twins uni. Gotta put Mauer somewhere, he's too slow for a modern outfield, especially one as big as Target Field. Keeper | 76 03:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

I think of you every time that "Well played Mauer" commercial comes on. Maybe you're really Mauer in his free time? :) Is Morneau's contract up or you think they'll be shopping people? I think the Twins will compete. Indians and Royals don't have the depth to compete all season and I think the White Sox are too shaky. What impresses me with Nathan is one article I read that said he voluntarily said he wasn't getting it done - let Capps do it for a change. I wish Jeter would do that. The one who surprised me last night - since out HRing everyone wasn't going to work if CC was giving up gophers - is Chavez. About damn time they manufactured a run. Capps did well last year - as did Fuentes who I currently have on my fantasy team. I like Cuddyer. I just wish he didn't hit the Yankees so well. Lots of panic early. Going to be a long season. StarM 17:25, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Oh, no. You're onto me. I'm Joe Mauer. I like Land o Lakes milk and head and shoulders shampoo, and I went fishing in Cabo with that guy from MLB. Notice how much my editing increased now that I'm on the DL? Too funny. If I were Mauer, my (I mean, his) article would look a lot better, I'd pwn it. I'm not worried in the least about Cleveland or Palehose. The Royals worry me every year, actually, only a matter of time before they bust out of their (almost) 3 decade slump. Detroit is done too. Keeper | 76 00:13, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

3 decades huh? No wonder I have no recollection of their being good. Detroit had no offense and then Martinez is DLed. I refuse to call him VMart. Sounds like a store. What's Morneau's deal? He and ARod Kissing Cousins with both having the flu at the same time. You know, well played Mauer line fits right in there. People here are going nucking futs because the Knicks are getting their asses kicked with Rangers following and oh yeah, Muts suck as usual. Glad for a dose of football today with the schedule but it's nuts. Texas was meant to be invinceable. Wish Martin could throw out Blue Jays StarM 02:17, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Morneau Delmon Young both out tonight with the flu, plus Mauer with a "viral infection", whatever that means, and we lose 11-0 to friggin Baltimore, I team we've owned the last 5 years. Oh well. The team as a whole is actually showing some signs of life, if you look between the score lines a bit. But seriously, don't talk to me about nucking futs sports towns. Have you seen MN sports recently, other than the perennially successful Twins? We've mentioned the Vikings in previous threads, I won't go there tonight. How bout them Timberwolves? Or the Wild? How the hell do you miss the playoffs in the NHL? Don't all the teams basically make the playoffs? "Golden" gophers can't get in March Madness basketball, even with former victor Tubby Smith at the helm. And now, the twins start out flat, and everyone here is in a stupid panic. Keeper | 76 02:56, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

As a baseball fan....

You should watch Rob Dibble as Rob Dibble is edit warring there. Given Mr. Dibble's temper, this might be worthy of popping some popcorn, ordering a beer, and watching. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 21:55, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

That sounds a bit too "Wikipedian" and not enough "baseball bullshootin" for my tastes. I'll pass. Keeper | 76 03:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

is there a two indent rule?

because I can't edit it again. Morneau and ARod, kissing cousins. Both out with the flu. Funny... I was just talking about the Timberwolves today. The photo of Kevin Garnett that comes up in Google image search is as a Timberwolf and I asked my colleague if they still had a team. I don't follow the NBA and the only one I could name was Laettner because he came out of Duke. And how do you miss the NHL playoffs? Ask the Islanders and the Devils as well. Right now the Rangers and Knicks are trying to figure out who can be knocked out of the playoffs first. That's their trophy. NYY pulled one out tonight. Barely. Had to make things interesting. And the Mets are in a 1962'esque spiral. Not cool. But I'm so glad it's baseball. Cone is NYY new color commentator. He needs to go back on the mound. Happy Passover/Easter if you celebrate either BTW StarM 03:05, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

I'm not big on NBA either, never really have been (I fair-weathered the Bulls back in the mid90s but left them when Jordan/Pippin did, but other than that...). The mets are dangerously bad. Don't like Cone (sorry), he no-hit the twins. We have the best color-comm guy in Blyleven. Can't beat that, he's very funny, good dry honest humor, good dry honest baseballman. And at least your non-baseball teams are in the playoffs. Yes, they may play their way right out of them, but still...my sob story is def worse. I mean cripes, we can't even win in Baltimore? Everybody wins in Baltimore...Keeper | 76 20:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

yeah that's about the only time I paid attention to basketball too. Loved the Marvin the Martian best on earth, best on mars stuff. I just can't get into it or hockey as much as I tried. had friends here from Australia last fall who wanted to see an NHL game so I tried to learn. Not sure I've heard Blyleven - will pay attn next time Twinkies are on MLBN. They had a run of Dodgers games on the other week and I <3 listening to Vin Scully. What cracks me out with all these rain outs? NYY in 1st in AL East at 12-6. Tampa is 2nd at 11-11. Making up these games is going to suck. At least Os back in the basement where they belong. Can we send the Boston Bozos back? Happy Monday StarM 15:19, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

WTP on this Michael Cuddyer move? That's gut reaction. Now watch him go on tear StarM 19:23, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

so you scroll up and down

and it's baseball baseball everywhere in AN:K. Life is good. Os beating the Bozos (sorry, Ed!). Can you please use the columnist's stupid words to beat the Rays. Please? StarM 21:06, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

So, the twinks drop 6 in a row, and then in their first game against the palehose, they can only muster 1 run on 6 hits. Shoulda been a loss, frankly, other than the even higher level of futility by the pale hose offense that can't even get a hit against a guy that had an ERA of +9 going into the game. And no-hits them. Crazy game, this baseball. I love it. The way I see it, either last night's Liriano gem will be a catalyst that lights the rest of the rotation on fire, or it will be the sole highlight of an otherwise forgettable 2011 season. Hopefully the former. Keeper | 76 16:15, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

See tonight's Braves/Brewers game? You may get .5 of your WS wish because neither the NYY nor the Twinkies are going. Was at Citi Field for work schlepping out to the Toilet in Flushing again to watch them lose and they had Liriano's gem on the scoreboard since there was nothing on the field worth watching StarM 01:53, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for that beautiful W. Well, I don;t know if it was beautiful, but any Sox L is StarM 02:43, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

I'm living a baseball nightmare. Just saying. Keeper | 76 20:18, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

ditto. Bronx Zoo reincarnated. And I'm not talking animals. StarM 03:42, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

So...

Didja hear the one about the VPILF? - Adolphus79 (talk) 18:26, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

I have an entire 2008 of talkpage archives of the 'one about teh vpilf'. Shudder.  :-) Keeper | 76 16:13, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Sorry I took off like I did, you don't know what kind of hell I've been through the last year... long dramatic story later, here I am, back to at least checking my watchlist every couple days... - Adolphus79 (talk) 05:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

What would life be if not for drama to mark the time? As you can see by my tardy reply, I'm rarely here either. Keeper | 76 20:18, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

RIP

So sad to see Harmon Killebrew die. When I was a kid in Los Angeles, my dad took me to the 1965 World Series to see the Dodgers, and I saw this giant man come to the plate. Though I knew nothing about the Twins back then, I got his baseball card, and kept it for years. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 22:27, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Indeed. He was one of the best - an ambassador of baseball. I have an early card too (not rookie, 3rd or 4th year I think). Was able to get it signed at the dome in the early 90s. Ain't for sale. Keeper | 76 19:36, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Scranton and Rochester would be more interestin to watch

and might be more likely to win. UGH StarM 01:31, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Amen. Ain't it sad that it's only May and I'm already looking forward to 2012? I'll still watch every game. And I'll still cheer when we do good (how 'bout Thomes two homers in one game, the first day off his DL stint? Love it). But egads, the Twins are surprisingly and disappointingly bad this year. No explanation, other than a seriously bad pitching staff. Never thought I'd say I missed Guerrier and Crain. Keeper | 76 19:41, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Their pitching is bad, but it seems like their offense is an even bigger problem. I mean, they've scored fewer runs than the Padres (the NL standard for anemia). No excuse for that when you get to use a DH. The injuries have been tough on the Twins, but it looks like they've started making mental mistakes too, which is unusual for a Gardenhire team. On the other hand, it's still early in the season; the Twins do have a lot of talent on paper; and the AL is extremely weak across the board behind Cleveland, so anything could happen. MastCell ^Talk 20:59, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

The fact that Ed's Dead Sox are .5 out of 1st after an 0-6 and 2-10 start speaks volumes to what you said, MastCell. AL Mediocrity rules. What's surprising with my Yankees is that Colon and Garcia have pitched as well. Both far better than their records indicate due to shittastic offense. I don't think anyone but Granderson is hitting his weight. ridiculous. Stupid insane mistakes. It's only May and like you - I'll watch every painful inning but ARGH. StarM 00:46, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Your Twinkies are waking up

luckily so are the NYY, vs. anyone not named Boston. YOu should be thanking the Stinkees for destroying CLE for you. Hope all is well in Keeper land StarM 21:38, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

I'm quickly falling in love with Ben Revere. Look him up. Keeper | 76 03:26, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

couldn't even blue link him for me? StarM 01:39, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Heavens no. I didn't want you to look him up here, the article says basically nothing. Look him up on your baseball rag of choice. He's the new Carlos Gomez aka Jose Reyes aka Faster Than Curtis Granderson vunderkid. Just saying. Keeper | 76 13:47, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I think he should change hs name to Paul and play for the Bozos. Then that would be funny. StarM 00:48, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

After the worst Apr/May in baseball, Twinks now have the best June in baseball. Can't lose if they try. Amazing pitching. Hoping it's not too little too late, but at least they're fun to watch again. Go Twins, go - officially not in last place as of today! Keeper | 76 02:13, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

you know, when I heard Twins had 8-1 homestand I was just about to wander here, and there you are :-) They are the anti Marlins. Jack McKeon WTF. Should Twins bring back Tom Kelly? And Tigers, Sparky? Nice to see someone besides Yankees playing bad news bear. Cubs. literally StarM 04:22, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Tom Kelly is still a regular, daily fixture at Twins games, in the dugout, and very active in the farm system and in spring training. Sparky won't be coming back, unfortunately, without some sort of divine re-Earthing, as he died back in November...Keeper | 76 22:16, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Ooops. Someow missed that with Sparky. No idea how. Still can't believe Trader Jack is a) back and b) willing to bench Ramirez in his first game. Can someone pleast put an umbrella and/or condom over the midwest to quit the stupid rain outs? My fantasy team requests the presence of your catcher's bat, please. StarM 01:31, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Forget your fantasy team, my reality team would like to see him show up too. All 184 million of him. Keeper | 76 01:49, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

That was the contract, really? Holy crap. I don't think I remembered that. I just hope you cool off before we play again. Not relishing M & M boys slaughtering our 2005 CY Young rotation. I hate interleague. Can someone shoot it please? StarM 03:29, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

So I hadn't heard the one...

...about the VPILF and just had to check your archives out. Naturally I started at #1, and one month later I've read every word (and most of the links) in your archives. God, you and your band of merry men wasted a lot of my time. Enjoyed every byte of it though, and wanted to stop by and say hi. Anyway, to complete this little introduction, go Sox (even though I do think baseball's primary purpose is to get us from March Madness to the real sport), and may the month of October be as kind to us as June has been. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 22:17, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Like Another Red Sox fan appears! (oh, and yes, {{like}} is a "serious" WP template...) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 02:55, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Heh, thought that got XfD'd a while back? Well, maybe not. Of course, by using this though, you are admitting your high (or pathetic) WoW score. ;) Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 14:12, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Welcome, Nolelover. You're about 2 years late. This talkpage used to have more views and edits on a monthly basis than Jimbo's. Now, it's all baseball, all the time. I don't edit anymore, at least not logged in. Keeper | 76 22:18, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

So I've heard. Of course, two years ago I had just discovered Wikipedia, created an account, and started reading WP:List of missing Wikipedians. (Can you tell that I like reading realy long, really old pages that nobody else is interested in?) Nice to meet you too. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 00:47, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Is this where we tell the newb that admitting to being a Sox fan in the presence of an admin is um,... grounds for banning for um... yeah. Something : As a football fan though. I'll give him at least half a pass. : -) StarM

I was waiting for that. :) This is what happens when we clearly outnumber them at AN:BASEBALL. *high fives Ed* -- Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 01:44, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

@Keeper, way above, start editing again then. Restart the entertainment! (eh, it was worth a shot) You both better keep far away from using your block buttons on us poor Sox fans ... especially you Keep, seeing as I have a healthy like for your Identical Siblings. ;-) As for the Yankees... sometimes I wish I could use the 'block' button on them in RL. Oh well. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:23, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

I haven't blocked anyone in over 2 years, (save one random usage in 3/10), and don't plan on using it again. I have no intention of getting rid of admin rights though, I'm a snoop and like the option of being able to see deleted pages. Or can everyone do that now? Keeper | 76 01:52, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Like I said, it was worth a shot but I wasn't expecting to get you back. Although if you feel like reviewing something instead, I can point you at a decent article. ;-) Nope, that's still restricted to admins. On a tangentially-related note, though, there is a proposal to take admin rights away from accounts that are inactive for a year, but I don't think you'd qualify because you still edit this page. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 02:02, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Ironically, I believe I supported an earlier proposal to desysop inactive admins, I might have even proposed it myself, don't remember. I would still support it. I don't use the buttons, and if anyone made a serious stink about me having them, I would relinquish them. But not voluntarily, I like to see deleted stuff when I'm snooping about, which I still do rather regularly. Selfish and petty, but damn convenient to have them. And, if I ever do get serious about this place again, I'll be damn sure to reread the presumably fluid admin rules. And there's no way in a frozen hell I'd go through an RFA again. Keeper | 76 02:31, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Go ahead, sweep us in the regular season. I think that happened in 2009 too :-) I should be banned. I've actually done some editing recently. Don't know what on earth came over me. StarM 03:27, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh we'll just sweep you in the season and playoffs. I'd like that. A lot. Hahah, don't get sucked back in now... :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:49, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Uh huh. Keep dreaming :-) I saw AN Drama and went uh uh, no way. So I tinker. StarM 18:16, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Delmon Young

that just looked awful on MLBN. Hope he's OK StarM 03:28, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

just another DL listing amidst thousands. I wasn't surprised when I watched it happen. Keeper | 76 02:32, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

I think it just looked worse?Spent 3 gorgeous summer evenings/days at Yankee Stadium this week. I love summer and baseball. Can someone tell me how the Brewers were a 1st place team? Because the Stinkees are pretty mediocre and they made that child's play StarM 11:58, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

So, I was watching ESPN

Obviously, this is you. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 22:54, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, OM, for destroying my eyeballs. StarM 00:47, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Sorry. You didn't need them anyways. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 01:10, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Wow...just wow... Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 02:29, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

I've decided that clicking that link was a bad decision. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:22, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

I might have to place a warning symbol. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 08:44, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

said link is dangerous to your understanding of humanity even as a baseball fan? StarM 12:08, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

I refuse to click that link, but I have a feeling I know what it is as it was all over the local news. I have a solid alibi (I much more northern Scandinavian hairless skin) twernt me. :-) Keeper | 76 02:27, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Good choice, five people exploded after accidentally viewing that twice. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 02:31, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Hopefully, Keeper doesn't go ballistic and block for this. Because he knows I never do anything bad on Wikipedia, he might have to slap me around a bit. OrangeMarlin ^{Talk• Contributions} 02:41, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Joe Nathan

is Matt Capps is Joe Nathan? Or something? StarM 02:15, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Joe's back. Couldn't get here soon enough. Capps is soon to be trade bait, hopefully get an infielder or a set up man. Locals are giving Capps a swift kick on his way out - how soon we forget how helpful he actually was last year when Jon Rausch sucked. Keeper | 76 02:45, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Yikes. Was Capps set up or closer with the Nats? Glad to see Nathan return. I always liked him an dnot just because NYY destroy him. Looks like you're on the uptick. And AL Central is mediocre... like the NL Central. Pirates in 1st? WTF? StarM 03:51, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

What have you done for us lately?

Are the fans really turning on Mauer? Or is that just the typical snide, Yankees-loving nonsense one comes to expect from the New York Times sports page? MastCell ^Talk 18:55, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I can't stand the Times' sports coverage. Way too high brow or trying. Sadly I think it's hero worship meets reality in Mauerville. Is he still exceptional? Yes. But he wasn't going to continue to perform at the level he did. That, coupled with the Twins having a year below expectations, means shit is boiling over. I'm surprised to see the questioning of injuries though StarM 03:04, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

this came up during NYY game tonight. Did Mauer really get booed off field? Wow. For being hurt. Oh wait, sounds like what happened with Shaun O'Hara. Injured = suck now apparently. Hey Keeps, you left an XP on the board. Luckily so did Texas. What a mess. But hey, did you know Cuddyer could pitch? StarM 02:14, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm a big Cuddy fan. Loved watching him pitch. I'm a big Mauer fan too, and I'm embarrassed about how fans are treating him. Dude's injured, folks. Full stop. Add him to the list - Delmon Young, Morneau, Kubel, Nathan, D Span, Nishioka....all all-star caliber and/or potential (at least on paper although they'd never get voted in, too small a fan base), all hurt and missing several weeks. It's miraculous that we are in the hunt in our division, mostly because the rest of the division sucks as bad this year. I haven't counted them out, too many good professional baseball players that are due if you believe in the law of averages...Keeper | 76 18:21, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

You're a Yankees fan this week, right/ We did the right thing game one. This weekend was six kinds of insane, and I was in Montreal and watching it on Sports Center. Had spinning. Agreed on the law of averages. Only reason I can see for Twins struggles is Red Wings stinking again. No talent to upgrade? StarM 02:52, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Sox

so we helped you vs. the Pale Hose, and then you don't help yourselves. Can you at least beat the other Sox? Oh and being a VIking is so bad Bomar has to drink to survive camp? StarM 01:22, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

It is not a good time to be a minnesota sports fan. Not a good time. I refuse to fairweather them, but seriously. What's most depressing this year is that the Twins are as bad as the rest of the lot (T-wolves, Wild, Vikes...), they've been mostly decent (at least, enterTAINing) up till this year. I feel lost and confused and in need of whatever that 4th-stringer was drinking....Keeper | 76 13:52, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Wild are hockey? I have no idea. I only know T Wolves for Laettner because I've always followed Duke and remember when he went there. If it makes you feel any better, Giants having major issues. And of course Yankees committing harakiri vs Sox. Meh. My brother is coming to MN to see next weekend's series. I'm jealous. Want to see Target Field. StarM 02:52, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Yep, Yanks/Twinks next week right? I'd say May the Best Team Win, however I'm kinda hoping they (Yanks) don't. Hee. Target Field is an amazing place to watch a baseball game. There isn't a bad seat in the house, excellent - and I mean EXCELLENT - food options. Lots of open air patios and concourses - everywhere you walk you can still see a view of the field. They built a gem out here on the prairie, your bro will love it. Put it on your bucket list. Keeper | 76 19:50, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. They're pretty excited. Other than Yankee Stadium it's the first o the "new" stadiums they've been to since Camden Yards and calling that new is a bit of a stretch. Any must sees in the city? They have guide books and what not, but neither have been to MN before. It will be a good series I'm sure - they always play good ones. Especially since, you know, Mo is "done" and all. StarM 23:53, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Most people would be hard-pressed NOT to end up at the Mall of America. If only just to gawk at the absolute ridiculousness of its girth. Everything is wonderful here in the summer. Make sure they get outdoors. Do they have a car while here? They should drive to Como Zoo and Conservatory - free admittance, but worth the trek to St Paul. Cool place. Lots of great restaurants within a walk from Target field. Also light-rail transportation to the airport/Mall of America. Cool stops along the way, like Minnehaha Falls. Walker Art Center is cool, as is the Guthrie Theater of course (free tours there), Gold Medal Park is excellent outdoor space with amazing river views and skyline views. Hoping everything is blue-linked, it would be tragic if not. A cool 'local' spot that tourists never find is Psycho Suzy's (or maybe Suzie's?) Motor Lounge - cool bar, great food, river views - but tucked away in a infrequently travelled residential area. Worth googling if they can get transportation there. Keeper | 76 00:37, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks so much! Sent to my bro who responded with "We'd been debating getting car for convenience. That just swayed us. Please tell your friend thanks for the tips. We owe him virtual beet and will pay it forward f he comes to albany.". Double from me - and NYC. Minnehaha always makes me think of the boat on Lake George. That was my non substantive comment of the day. I know there's something about Snoopy at the Mall of America, and MetLife is close to naming deal with iants Stadium. Snoopy World? :-) StarM 02:49, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

No offense to your brother's choice of living arrangements, but I have no idea why I'd ever go to Albany :-) Keeper | 76 18:38, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and the theme park in the middle of the mall (huge theme park by the way) is no longer Snoopy/Peanuts character themed (they couldn't re-sign the rights to the characters with Charles Schulz' estate), it's now Nickolodean Universe. So, go crazy on the SpongeBob and Backyardigan crap. Keeper | 76 18:40, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

LMAO. Don't think Albany was their choice so much as the job market factors. Snoopy > SpongeBob any day. Sad. StarM 18:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Almost forgot the reason I logged in to post. Did you see this article re: the viability of pro sports in several cities, including yours? Any thoughts? It's well written but I don't know enough about the market economics to comment. StarM 18:58, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Interesting article. If nothing else, it's a good indication that tickets are overpriced. If the population doesn't have enough income to support the teams, lower the dang prices! That said, I think the Wolves and Vikings are both endangered species. The Wolves will likely cease to exist without a major arena overhaul or New-Garnett signing (Rubio is not it), the Vikes are likely following the trail blazed by the Minneaopolis Lakers...good riddance to both. Not to get to football-y in August (you know me), but fricking McNabb? Are you serious, Vikings? How many washed up, creaky kneed twilight careered QBs can one team endure? Cunningham, Moon, Favre, McMahon. And now McNabb. Good grief, they need a new, forward thinking front office. Keeper | 76 20:25, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I watched the SeaChickens last week, because I will watch any and all football. TJax sucks. He's so not ready for prime time so good riddance but to let Rice go? Wow. McNabb is SOL without a good oline. What's yours behind Hutch? Not that I should talk since NYG fired theirs. Good point on tix sales. I know nothing re: Wolves, I'd put VIkes as #3 to go to Lala Land after Bills and JAgs. We shall see. StarM 22:49, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Thome

congrats on an awesome achievement. Also, you'll chuckle at this from a Mets tweeter. The difference between Thome and Thole is one letter in the alphabet. And 594 homers. StarM 02:45, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Insert facebook like symbol here. That's funny stuff. My favorite part was that he hit it over Delmon Young's head, who was traded to Detroit earlier that afternoon. Too good. What is fascinating to me about D-Young, other than he never fully lived up to his top-draft-pick status, is that he was up to bat in the Cleveland game earlier this week, when the game was postponed for rain. In the middle of his at bat. The game ended up postponed, he never finished the at-bat! So, what do the Twinks do now? Bring back Delmon for the rest of his at-bat, or put in a sub? Crazy funny to me. Don't think that's ever happened in MLB, guy gets traded in the middle of an at-bat. Keeper | 76 18:37, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I was surprised at the move. Not that he was traded, but that he went to a division opponenent after the trade deadline. And no one claimed him sooner to prevent him from falling that far. I believe Ricardo Rincon was traded mid game but not mid AB. That is all kinds of craziness. Pinch hitter I guess? StarM 18:56, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Rollback permission inquiry

Hello there. I've recently made a request for permission to use Rollback, which was denied with administrator Fastily suggesting I should contact you. In my request, I wrote, 'If I still am denied permission to use this function, [...] I would like to know what I still need to do in order to meet the criteria to gain this permission.'WPA 16:51, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

I no longer actively administer on this site. Sorry! Keeper | 76 18:35, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

introducing your new RFer

wow!. That's just special. C'mon Yankees, hit to Mauer all day long. StarM 22:47, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

“The outfield of Rene Tosoni, Ben Revere and Mauer has four homers combined this season, compared to 34 for Curtis Granderson of the Yankees.” StarM 17:35, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

First, Cuddyer pitches an inning in a lopsided loss, now Mauer in right. Surreal season. I'm officially looking forward to 2012. Liriano no-no and Thome 600 are the only highlights in a dimly lit injury plagued season. Wouldn't be surprised if a lot of players get shelved in September. (Morneau, Mauer especially). Grr. Keeper | 76 19:00, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

If it makes you feel any better, those injuries also killed my fantasy team. c.f. Mauer and Cuddyer. Ugh. What a weird weird season StarM 01:35, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Or, you know. You could face BadAJ daily and be 162-0 StarM 00:46, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

townhall

I don't think townhall should redirect to townhall.com. I think redirecting to the Town_Hall_(disambiguation) would be more appropriate, what do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calfaro (talk • contribs) 19:58, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

• That deletion debate was three years ago. I think if you want you can redirect it to the disambiguation page. Protonk (talk) 20:58, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

thanks Protonk! Keeper | 76 01:57, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

I don't follow the twins so I gotta do somethin on this page! Protonk (talk) 04:24, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Mostly I just wish the Twins would follow the Twins. Good grief they're horrible this year. Inexplicably horrible. Keeper | 76 15:36, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Puny pop

yeah and bad puns too. Series aside, my brother loved Minneapolis. In addition to the games they went to the Mall of America, the Walker, a big park downtown whose name I can't remember. Had a great time. They want to go back when they have more time. Thanks for the recommendations. Hope Morneau is OK. I like him. StarM 02:33, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

We (meaning the twins) seem to have one good game per series. Which is why they're in the basement I suppose. Gurgh. I'm one of the slowest to let go of the 2011 season, always the optimist and knowing that the Twinks usually have a good September. But even I say they are too far gone, too late. On paper, they were fixin' to be a lot better than this, which makes it even more painful. 2012 is right around the corner, right? Hrmph. Glad your bro liked the cities, I'm a big fan myself - so much so that I honestly cannot imagine myself living anywhere else and enjoying it as much. Love this place, seriously, and not just for the sports. Your brother was probably in Loring Park, or maybe Gold Medal Park (named after Gold Medal Flour, not Gold medal as in "we think we're cool like the Olympics" - how un-Minnesotan would that be...). Anywho, it's a great place to live. Keeper | 76 23:19, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Is this where you root for everyone who plays the Royals to keep Twinkies out of the basement? Heard Morneau was out again with concussion symptoms? Reminds me of Brian Westbrook his last yr in Philly. Some times long health is more important than playing time. Hope he's OK. Do they have any reason to keep trotting him out there? My bro and his wife - urgh that sounds weird since he's my baby bro - really loved it. They like off the beaten path trips so to have a semi off the beaten path city was fun for them I think. StarM 01:48, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

The Twinks are officially worse than the Royals, thanks to the White Sox double header on labor day. Ugh. End the misery. Now. Keeper | 76 00:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Ouch. I'm sorry. Rebound in the cards? The anti swoon? East coast under rain cloud. Never going to get this week's games in StarM 01:43, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

The Twins were finished in last place in 1990. Just saying. Keeper | 76 23:20, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Didn't you say that this yr.? Just saying... :-p StarM 04:31, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

The Twins won the division last year, ahem. So no, I wouldn't have said that. Seems the Twins only win World Series after they've had a truly miserable season the year prior. So I'm hopeful for 2012. Pretty please don't take away the last straw I'm grasping. :-) Keeper | 76 13:39, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Meant your WS predictions :-p Forgot we have a mkeup game coming up. Maybe you'll get lucky and JoeG will continue trotting out AAA lineups. StarM 02:36, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

You could trot out your single A lineup. It wouldn't matter, as we seem to have called players up from the little league world series. And, in football news, the Vikings squandered a 10 point halftime lead, in Viking Style. 0-1. Seems fitting. Go Lynx!. About the only 45th parallel team to be worth anything. Lindsay Whalen and Maya Moore make womens' basketball worth watching. I'm grasping at straws (and low attendance sports) here, but dammit, I need something to be proud of...Keeper | 76 23:41, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Oops didn't see this. Romine, Montero, Nunez in RF. It's gotten to the point I'm usually "him. #45. Who's that again?" because Clueless Joe isn't playing to win. Tampa sure making things interesting. I know nothing about NBA, women or otherwise. Christian Laettner is probably the only timberwolf I could name. StarM 02:08, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

WT:RFA

LOL, you rascally troll, you stirred 'em up, as you surely expected. Almost too easy. Even for silly stuff like that, it's good to see your sig somewhere besides your talk page occasionally. --Floquenbeam (talk) 16:32, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Heh :-) The responses were EXACTLY what I was expecting. Same old crappity crap. Love it. Glad to make your day Floq - Keeper | 76 00:13, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

An AfD for the TPS

just found this old AfD Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Boca_Grande_Taqueria in Category:AfD_debates_(Organisation,_corporation,_or_product). Not sure if it was never opened, or closed. Or something. I haven't done much adminny in ~ 2 yrs. Can someone do the deed here? StarM 04:38, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

 Done Keeper | 76 13:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

You're better than me, since I was total link fail. Thanks. StarM 02:36, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

in NFL news

could McNope be worse than Purple Jesus? What about K. Collins? How on earth do you throw for a TOTAL of 39 yds? StarM 02:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Football. Ugh. I'm not ready. The Indy dynasty is over. I'm not sad. Giants looked a little shaky this weekend too, what's their deal? Missing people? I haven't paid too much attention, not doing anything fantasy this year. Vikes season is shaping up to be a dead last finish, unless Stafford gets hurt in Detroit (again). Packers - and I hate saying this - are def a force to be reckoned with. They remind me of the (non-old) Brady years at NE - frikkin unstoppable both sides of the ball. I'll honestly be shocked if D-nabb makes it to the bye week without injury. My prediction for the season for the Purple Plunders? 3-13. (Do they still play 16 games? Sheehs, I'm out of it...) Keeper | 76 19:57, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Not over, on hiatus until Peyton returns in 2012. I'm not convinced they can't compete - AFC South is a cluser fuck. Giants have injuries on both sides of the ball: Terrell Thomas and Jonathan Goff are out for the yr. Justin Tuck, Prince Amukamara and Osi Umenyiora injuried. They'll right themselves if Eli can stay upright. OL sucks. Do you have hope for Christian Ponder? Stafford will break and the Bears will wobble. They have no QB... StarM 02:33, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Bah. The Eagles' defense will make Eli Manning cry this year. Sort of like they do every year. And I thought Osi just had his feelings hurt by the Giants' front office - I didn't realize he was physically hurt.. MastCell ^Talk 03:58, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Seminoles fan here, so Ponder's been my QB for a couple years and I think I can say that if he plays extensively this year, his career will be done. He's a guy that really needs time - I think he can be a solid (Eli) Manning type (which seems a bad comparison after Mastcell's cmt), but no way this early. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 15:44, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

<---re: Star - yikes, that's a lot of injuries - sounds like the Twins of football. Vikes are at least relatively healthy. And thanks for dissing the Bears and Lions. Maybe we'll finish second instead of last. The Packrats are just too much this year, I'm afraid. And Nolelover - I agree about Ponder! I'm about the only vikie fan I know that actually had heard of him and thought it a good pick, but he needs to be slow groomed. Nailed it. And Mastcell. Mastcell mastcell mastcell. Eagles. Really? I thought I knew you better than to like someone like the eagles. You've always struck me as sophisticated :-) Keeper | 76 01:17, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Well, given a choice, I'd prefer to take high tea and watch Vassar engage Amherst in a spirited field-hockey match. But if I have to watch football, then yeah - I enjoy the scared, bumbling, Romo-esque Eli that emerges when he faces the Eagles' D. And it's only going to get worse now that Nnnnamdi joined the Eagles' secondary. I miss the old Vikings - the classy, Culpepper-led, dried-piss-and-Whizzinator-packing, Minnetonka-party-boat Vikings. Those guys had character. Or, wait... what's the opposite of character? MastCell ^Talk 04:52, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

• Packrats? PACKRATS!!? I'm off to WP:WQA! Protonk (talk) 01:39, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Beagles? You allow Beagles fans on your page? So Vikings' issues last season were all Favre & Childress, right? And McNabb's issues in DC were all due to Shanahan. Do I have that right? I missed most of today's games due to a road trip, so playing catch up. I know it has been a fantasy nightmare, to say the least. I don't know anything about Ponder so no opinion there. I'm an Eli fan, always will be. he's the best QB the Giants have had seen Simms. How many rings do Romo or Vick have? Vick has never been able to put together consistent seasons, and St. Steve Smith has barely gotten on the field. Dallas showed last yr. that all the acquisitions mean nothing - and Eagles can't get out of their own way in the post season. Hoping Giants show up to play vs. them this season. StarM 22:53, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Class act, as always. MastCell ^Talk 18:04, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

can't play videos on my computer. But based on title, are you really going there? DeSean Jackson's celebrating? I don't condone dances. I think they're dumb. Act like you've been there before. StarM 01:45, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Haha! Awesome video, Mastcell. Simply divine. In minnesota sports news, the Minnesota Lynx are in the second round of the playoffs. They've sold like 30 extra tickets for home games, WNBA is all we got. I feel like a Marlins fan. Keeper | 76 04:00, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Cry Eagles Cry

Still can't see video on this computer. Forgot to check on the other. Eli throws for 4 TDs, Eagles can't stop the Giants and cry like a bunch of sore losers. Asomugha and Samuel non factors and Eagles' OL lets Vick get fileted. Vince Young, author of "dream team", is 3rd to Kafka. Wow. Yep, life is good. Some bizarre scores today and if the Jets' score holds, Bills stand alone atop the AFC East. Ugly ugly world. Sorry about your game, Keep. Know your Quacks won. Don't know about Ilini. StarM 23:07, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

On the plus side

Astros beat you to the worst record in baseball. Something to be proud of, no? I'm not even watching the AAA Bad News Bears playing tonight. Don't want the Rays in, they have to pay their dues. Either Sox or Angels would be fine. I'd like to see the Sox, the 'greatest team in major league history' collapse for the LOLs but the Rays don't deserve to be in the post season. Even if these games meant anything, I'd still watch football over baseball. But meaningless baseball? It's not even close. Don't you have the Gophers? Pretty sure NY's WNBA and soccer teams suck. StarM 02:35, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Personally, I'd like to see a Scioscia team in the playoffs, cuz he's a damn fine manager. Really like Kirk Gibson's style down in D-back territory too, man alive - who knew that guy had brains?? But you're right about one thing - it shouldn't be the rays - way to inconsistent this year to sneak in. I've never been a Goofers fan, btw - I'm a MN transplant of sorts and have other (much more viable) faves in the college arena - mostly U of Illinois, a taste of Oregon football as well. Keeper | 76 14:21, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

Not just this year's inconsistency. Team needs to pay its dues. Did you see Lasorda's gig last night? Nice tribute. Wouldn't mind Angels making it in. If Sox end up needing these games don't know how/when they'll make them up. Raining all weekend in NY. Your team? Needs bubble wrap. I can live with the Quacks. They're my brother's team. I love college ball because I don't have to worry - just enjoy the games. Illini, huh. With Giants adding Steve Weatherford there has been a lot of Illini chatter. StarM 02:01, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Damn You Delmon Young

curse of the Twinkies? Also, let's go Twins! Hope you have a good weekend. StarM 22:53, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, definitely bittersweet to watch D-Young play (although he's hurt now, may be done for the year...). I've decided I'm pulling for the Cardinals, for sentimental reasons, as I've always been a huge Nick Punto fan and would like to see him get a ring - he's one of the purest baseball players out there - old school. No glory, all guts. Think Brandon Inge without tats. Keeper | 76 02:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

And in other news, Vikings managed to not lose (and I see the giants managed to blow it at home against the oceanbirds. Yikes.) Illini are undefeated and looking formidable. Gophers suck, but I don't like 'em anyway. Keeper | 76 02:30, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

To be honest, Giants didn't blow it. They never had it. Shit ass game. Was only not a blowout since Seachickens are so bad. But on to next week where they better win because I'll be there and I don't do live losses. Young lives to see an other day. Sad to see Ordonez injury but it doesn't look like the putty tats are long for this world :( Im agnostic - Cards or Brewers. Leaning Brewers slightly since they haven't been there in forever. StarM 01:35, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

they should ask Mauer to take a pay cut

that saves serious dough. Is this as surprising as it seems from out of market? StarM 15:47, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

VIkings or Twins

saw this, thought of you. Hope all is well in Keeperville StarM 01:52, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Heh. That is seriously funny. I'm still alive, just super busy with life and such. A nutshell of my autumn: football is horrendous, baseball was horrendous, and is now dormant, and the worst news of all in MN sportville? The Timberwolves might be back on the court soon. Ugh. How's Star? Keeper | 76 03:13, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

ditto on football. Ugh, Giants but at least played hard today. Baby steps. Still better than the Beagles. & St. Vick. Glad things are going well for you. Ditto busy. We have our big event tomorrow so living in the office but end and some PTO in sight. StarM 01:42, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

As a longtime fan of NFC East football, it's really sad to see the state the division has descended to. MastCell ^Talk 04:15, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

wholly agreed. Was so strong for so long and the last few yrs really hasn't been solid. '07 was the last good one, I think, when all three contenders made the playoffs. Now we're paying for it StarM 19:59, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

It's been awhile, any TPS'ers still lurking?

Thought posting on my 21st birthday could be fun, along with a distraction from the paper that's due in six hours. Yes, you read that right. Keep, I'm sorry to see the state of your Vikings. You can be happy in the fact that the rest of the division is sickeningly good, notwithstanding with the Lions' recent slide. Packers fans around my neck of the woods have gotten incorrigible. I'm going for the Saints now because I used to like them and they need knock the Pacmen off their high horse. Let's just not talk about my Jaguars... although they've won at least. What in the world picked up the Colts, chowed down, swallowed, and pushed them out the other end? I mean, Peyton is the obvious answer, but a total breakdown of zero wins from a formerly guaranteed 10-6 team is unheard of.

P.S. Debate starter. Palin PILF 2012? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 11:48, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Happy birthday. Now you don't have to go across the bridge to buy booze anymore. MastCell ^Talk 23:32, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Heh, I wish that had been an option, that would have been a 3.5 hour drive just for alcohol! Thanks Mastcell. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:00, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

When I was an undergrad, it was only a 25 minute drive. I lived in Wyoming where (at the time) the drinking age was 19, but once you were 19 you could drink anything you wanted. 25 minutes away was the border with Colorado where (at the time) you could drink 3.2% beer at 18, but had to wait until 21 to drink anything harder. Within a mile of each side of the border there was a bar catering to people from the other state. Too many times to count there were head-on car accidents at 2:00am with drunk freshmen from Wyoming driving home from a night of drinking 3.2% beer in Colorado, and slamming into sophomores and juniors from Colorado driving home from a night of drinking the harder stuff in Wyoming. --Floquenbeam (talk) 23:46, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Eeek. Suddenly I'm a lot happier SSM was 3.5 hours away -- we wouldn't have had the head-ons but I don't want to imagine the drunken college kids driving back on a winter night in the land of ice and snow. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Happy Birthday, Ed. Colts quit when Peyton had his surgery. Orlovsky showed promise Sunday and when that's an improvement, it's just sad. Lack of WR success is a QB issue but 18 hid the run game issues for years. Freeney and Mathis aren't doing what they used to and their OL still sucks. Football as a whole is a mess this year. Pack are good, Saints have holes. Yes they can master some major offense (colts, giants) but they're feast or famine. This year's Rams' loss - the Seachickens last year. Your Jags are going to be an interesting team, but they need a QB. StarM 20:02, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Happy birthday Ed! Didn't know you was a Yooper, ya. :-) I'm done with football, eh. Watching the pack win every week is depressing as hell. On with baseball! Great moves - love the Pujols move, even more I love the Buerhle move - good riddance to a bane of the AL Central! (he's one of my favorite pitchers of all time, simply brilliant. Friggin killed my team everytime though, ugh.) Keeper | 76 03:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Saints do have holes, but I'm still predicting a Saints-Packers showdown in the NFC title game if the brackets work out right. The Jags need an o-line and receivers to see if Gabbert is a good QB -- 2.5 seconds to throw just doesn't cut it. Keep - I'm not a true Yooper, I moved from the east coast in 2003! Let's see if your Twinsies can dig themselves out of the hole they've been in. Pujols was an interesting one, I can't tell if he went for money, the heat, or the teammates. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 21:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

• FWIW, I still lurk AN/K (if checking this page every 2 weeks counts). Not because I care about the sports being discussed (I've lost the spark, and can't even bring myself to get all excited about Tebow's bizarre effect on my old team), but for the dose of nostalgia for Wikipedia's Golden Age that it brings. You eavesdrop on a better class of people when you lurk here.

  Happy belated birthday, Ed. It amazes me that the Palin stuff on this page was more than 3 years ago. --Floquenbeam (talk) 17:44, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

• luuurrrkkkkk Go packers Protonk (talk) 18:21, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
  • Agreed, Flo. I missed most of the Palin material, but I caught the tail end of the goodness. We really do need to kick Keep until he comes back and this talk page heats up again. Protonk, I'll slap you for that when I see you in July. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 21:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
    • All the better since I'll probably have completely forgotten about it.  :) Just so long as you explain why afterwards. Protonk (talk) 23:08, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi all. Happy Holidays - whatever your chosen one is at this time of year. I'm allergic to Palin and all things politics but I come for the sports. Ed, probably right about the OL but that whole set up in banishing Garrard the week before the season began? Bizarre. I don't care if it's St. Luck or the best QB ever (way too tired for a MOntana/Unitas/Brady/Manning/Elway argument), they weren't winning with no weapons and thrown in the deep end. Del Rio, Haley and Sparano can go have a "holy fucked season" convention. I don't care about the Packers either way - Giants almost knocked them off but I'm tired of the hype. it's worse than Pats in '07. If Saints take the #2, they're lucky because they cannot play outdoor football. 49ers were a nice story but I think they're a blip on the post season roster. If anyone decides they want to win the NFC East, they're going to be an interesting piece of the puzzle. Ditto the Falcons/Lions if they take the wild card. Bears are dead with Hanie and no Forte, and I'd dearly love Teblow and the Broncos to make Brady go off again. I don't actually dislike the Pats because I *hate* the Jets, but I'm tired of St. Drama Can do No Wrong. Pack's issue is their D, and I think given a 2nd go, Saints or another strong offensive team could knock them off. Will be interesting to watch. As for baseball, I've paid so little attn it's sad. My Twitter TL NYY/Knicks peeps keep talking about Crawford and since I don't follow NBA, I think Carl and wonder who on earth would want him... StarM 04:54, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

• • • Palingate was 3 years ago? Cripes, time flies. I miss my talkpage at times too, but I can't say I miss the hours on end of wiki-adminning that I had gotten sucked into. Life is too sweet to spend here. :-) I feel like I had made some actual friends though - if that's even possible, and I miss the bullshittery on talk, for sure. Happy holiday(s) to all still lurching about :-) Keeper | 76 17:53, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Star - yeah, that whole thing was weird. To drop Garrard in favor of Luke McCown? Who really thought that was going to work? The Packers have almost been overshadowed in favor of Tebow, which is weird. The Packers have no defense yards-wise, but sometimes I wonder if they just play for interceptions and fumble recoveries. Keep - this is why you'd never find me at ANI. I like researching my South American ships, and I like the people I work with. Beyond that? Eh. Glad to see you're having a good time out there in what I like to call "real life" :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:25, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

Oops missed this. Real life? What's that thing you speak of? There seem to be a total lack of gnomes about. I find more article I stumble on with egregious phrasing, editing. Some times I fic but I check edit history. Some have way too much drama. Somehow, the entire state of Florida played bad enough football to lose their head coaches. Was a bizarre season. Glad my Gmen squeaked in, even happier the Jests are home. Keep - Ponder, Webb or RGIII? Packers are crazy - but is any playoff team not flawed? Seems as if none have a defense beyond maybe baltimore. Lions/Saints should be a good shoot out. This is when I miss Tanthalas.... Only Lion fan I've met I think StarM 02:11, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Oh there's plenty of them in Michigan now... funny how they all come out of the woodwork as soon as the team starts doing good. Eli had a bunch of luck to get into the Prop Bowl over Stafford. We'll have to see if he has an magic left to lift them in the postseason. Packers' offense will go down as one of the best in history, hands down. Only question is if the defense (read: Woodson) can get enough turnovers to slow the opposing offense (because they will give up plenty of yards). If they do end up losing because of their defense, I'd place a lot of blame on Nick Collins' injury. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 03:02, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

All true, but if any QB had Megatron, they'd have Stafford's numbers. Let's just see if he doesn't break again next season. ELi has his durability going for him. Stafford will go because one of the QBs ahead of him will be otherwise occupied. My gut is on Brees as I think they're the more well-rounded team than the Packers. Packers ripe for an upset ala Saints last year. Need Woodson healthy & Clay Matthews to find his last season form. Did he cut his hair or get married or something? Reminds me of Jared Allen's fail fest last year. Speaking of Michigan. Sugar Bowl was an epic mess last night. Shoelaces might be a worse "QB" than Tebow. StarM 01:44, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

What a bizarre weekend for football. And by bizarre I mean totally freaking insane. Thought detroit would've played better second half, sorry to see them go down - woulda liked to see them take it to Lambeau. And YES - Star! I've been thinking about Crash-and-burn-Tanthalas-the-great too! Hope he's well, he's one of the good guys. I'm done with Tebow (well, actually, I never started with Tebow), other than I loved loved loved watching his team take out Rotlunchburger and next the Brady Bunch, hoping PrettyBoy #2 (Romo is PB#1) is out too. So Tebow Can haz one moor win. Then get off my sportscenter. I'm pulling for Houston as the only even remotely interesting team remaining. I wouldn't be too upset about the Giants either, although they totally do not deserve to be there and Star knows it :-) Keeper | 76 23:19, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Bizarre indeed. Agree on Ben Rat. I was actually hoping for both of them to lose. I think they need to change the rules for that to happen. Tebow hype & media slobber fest need to die. Don't hate the Pats but I wouldn't mind seeing them go down so they can stop with Brady/Belichick can do no wrong - especially since they haven't won a playoff game since then went undefeated. Oh. Wait. Of all the possible combos, if the Giants get that far I'd like Giants/Ravens most. Revenge is in the air. Yep, Giants 100% don't deserve to be there but unlike Dallas/Jets/ATL, for once they took care of business and won when they needed to. I still don't understand that concept. The only possible matchup that I don't think would be good is Saints/Pack v. Tebow since the kid would get blown out of the water and I'm not in favor of bloodbaths. Except when the Jests or Cowgirls are at the wrong end of it. Tan and I are FB friends but I never remember to check FB. Totally should have when the Lions made it. Ridiculous game where even the refs didn't know the rules. < 100 days until Opening Day btw. Most bizarre? I'm sort of editing again StarM 15:29, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi! MBisanz ^talk 02:48, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Keeper | 76 23:19, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

Just checking in

Happy New year, Keeper.

This is just my annual thank you for the kindness and encouragement you showed me when I first started four years ago. It's to make sure you don't forget that you had a lasting effect on at least this Wikipedian. And don't let the cynics persuade you otherwise! Cheers, --RexxS (talk) 23:59, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for stopping by Rexx! Glad to see you still plugging along :-) Keeper | 76 23:15, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

SUPER BOWL CHAMPS

that is all. At least my team "sucks" productively :-) StarM 05:40, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Congrats Star -- my stepmom is just as happy :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 20:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

You're the Pats fan, right? Does that mean Civil War in your house? StarM 21:58, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Nah, I'm the Jags fan... sigh. However, with my dad being a Packers fan and my stepmom being a Giants fan, there was a civil war a couple weeks ago. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 21:15, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh dear and that' s a diverse sports family you have. My cousin married a Packers fan. Last yr. she was on Pack bandwagon. Now it's back to the Giants. I don't mind the Jags. Kind of sad that the whole state of FL lost their HCs this year. Mularkey should be a good move. Think Gabbert is future at QB? StarM 00:32, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

I swear I haven't been avoiding you, star, just busy...:-) Congrats to the G-men. To be honest, I wanted both teams to somehow lose, but if one of them has to win, I'd rather it not be a boston team. The game made me smile. Keeper | 76 17:16, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, and 2 days! Two days until the real sport begins. I'm cautiously optimistic about my twins. They are getting no love (which is when they do good) and the other teams in the al-cent stacked their rosters. Generally when the twinks do good is when they ain't s'posed to.  :-) Keeper | 76 17:17, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Agreed on the benefit of no love. Saw some Twins press this weekend in Rochester since they're excited about the Red Wings' new season, but I wasn't paying much attention. It has been a bizarre winter here so it's hard to believe spring and baseball are on the horizon. Looking forward to talking baseball, hope you get unbusy by then. StarM 03:26, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Watching the Mutts/Tigers preseason game right now. Loving spring. Seriously concerned/in awe of the Tigers roster. Holy loaded lineup. Keeper | 76 18:50, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Entirely ignored spring training until [Andy Pettitte|yesterday's news]]. I love the 162 games that count. Can't deal with these that don't. Should be a fun season StarM 17:52, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

and it's on like Donkey Kong

didn't even realize we play tomorrow until ESPN just said it. Let's go Yankees :-p StarM 03:10, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Keeper 1, Star 0. Keep it rollin. I heart Willingham. I don't heart Pavano, but I like when he wins in New York. He deserves to win in New York. Keeper | 76 13:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

as I said to a friend last night, we lost to Potato Pavano! I don't dislike Pavano, but it's Pavano! I heart CC and hits with runners in scoring position. StarM 01:23, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

odd series. Nice to see Morneau healthy again but didn't miss him as a Yankee killer StarM 02:25, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Stupid Rivera. His number is retired, he should be too.  :-) A good series either way, I was fully expecting a bunch of 10-2 blow outs, pleasantly surprised at Twins offense. That said, you should honestly be terrified of the lackluster effort of your yanks pitchers. These are the Twinks after all, scoring 6+ runs...that shouldn't be. Keeper | 76 03:10, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Yankees' pitching sucks rocks but I think it will settle down especially with the ejection of Hughes and return of Pettite and a healthy Pineda. Or t any rate they can't get worse. Nice to ruin Sox's 100th birthday party today with HR derby. Can't crank on Mo, you got rid of the two players who hit him badly - Kubel and Cuddyer. StarM 02:05, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Henry Conway

As a contributor to this article, you may be interested to know I have nominated it for deletion. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Henry Conway. Robofish (talk) 01:55, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Palin with humor?

well it's not quite the VP circus but I present Obama Eats Dogs meme. In other words, Wikipedia still doesn't do elections well StarM 02:41, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Heh. I actually took 30 or so seconds to read the AFD. Think I should go wield my adminly buttons and close teh debate early with a lecture about civility and noteworthiness? That should reignite my talkpage :-) Keeper | 76 19:40, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Do it. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:43, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm with Ed here, do it, do it , do it... I give you props for reading that wall of text and pity the admin who even tries to find "consensus" StarM 22:42, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

9 hits in 4 games?

really? I think they should sign you. And yeah, who am I to talk since Yankees not exactly tearing it up either.... I know :-) StarM 20:45, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm looking forward to 2013. Already. Keeper | 76 15:22, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

so am I. I don't care about the New York Rangers/hockey at all, but their playoff loss all but ended any hope for multiple parades this year since neither the Mess nor the Yuckies (so dubbed by my colleague's 9 year old) are going anywhere StarM 03:54, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Frankie freakout?

is that really what fans call Liriano? Long time no chat. Hope all is well in Keeper land StarM 20:35, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Classic Jekyl and Hyde guy. Just too inconsistent, even by the lowly Twins standards this year. Has a no-hitter while nursing a 9.0+ ERA? Unthinkable. We Scandinavians in the fan base cannot handle that level of uncertainty, and team ownership knew it. :-) Hard to see him go to a division rival though - he always played well in PaleHose territory (that's who he no-hit this year). All and all, Keeperland is a good (and busy) place to be. Are you still doing some editing? I suppose I could just snoop a bit...you're Yankmychains seem to be putting together a nice season - didn't think they'd run away with AL-e so easily. Keeper | 76 14:48, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

glad to hear you're doing well. Hoping August helps NYY turn the page from a sub par July. I was there last night with an alum group. Was fun. Wiki wise, still tweaking here and there. Nothing earth shattering. StarM 01:31, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

After Twinkies had scored 10 in 3 innings tonight, a friend said this & I thought you'd chuckle "@I guess the Twins are making up for their lack of runs in the previous 108 games." StarM 01:14, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

I'm not dead! Keeper lives. :-) I never thought it would happen, but I have fairweathered the Twinks a bit this year. I've missed several games (I loyally watched every game for years). Life's too busy to keep torturing myself. Glad to see Liriano go. Glad to see some promising young players (Diamond, Deduno, Carson, Florimon...). Need to clean coaching house, I'm afraid. Done with Rick Anderson - worst ERA in the leagues for 2 years? G'bye. Done with Pavano, done with Blackburn. Fresh start on the mound, do whatever you can to hold onto Willingham (who has been a welcome surprise), and Morneau. And at the risk of getting ostracized by the majority of the Twinkietown population - done with Mauer. Unload. Keeper | 76 13:57, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Damn. Ate my comment. Glad to see Morneau is healthy. Concussions are scary. I've not even been able to see all the NYY games. Just too crazy with work and life. Surprised at your Mauer comments. Is he really struggling? Time to cut bait with Nishioka?

the who whats?

Twinkies cratered and the Vikings are 4-1, losing to the Peyton-less Colts but beating the vaunted 9ers. Pack still overrated. And sorry to whoever the Jags fan is (Ed?) but the Jags are still terrible. My Giants? Crap shoot. Depends on the day. and... Yankees need Jobu for their bats for the ALDS. How's all in Keeper world? StarM 02:04, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

The Viqueens are a welcome surprise, but they'll fall flat. Giants are looking like every other year they win the whole thing - perplexingly bad at times, and then the 4th quarter happens...drives me batty. Speaking of Giants - talk about the dullest world series I've ever witnessed. I was yawning - literally yawning, during game 4. What a waste of an AL team detroit turned out to be. Although, you know my feelings on the primadonnas you favor - glad to see them rightfully swept under the rug for all their shenanigans.  :-) Keeper | 76 14:52, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Winning prima donnas > saved from basement by Royals. Not sure what to think of Vikes after last Thursday's game. They didn't impress StarM 01:12, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

True true. The Vikes are doing exactly what they are supposed to do: disappoint. Hope you and your fam are safe out their in the crazy weather. Another noreaster, bunch of snow on top of the floodwaters? Sheesh. Makes me glad I live in the bufferlands, far from anything worse than an occasional tornado. Be safe! Keeper | 76 16:01, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

We're OK, thanks. I got power back Nov 1 and mom got it back the 2nd o 3rd so we had heat back before the snow. Feel badly for those without power, heat, or homes. About 40K displaced and it's just heartbreaking. StarM 18:12, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

What the hell happened here?

What is this? Several sections of pseudo-serious baseball discussions? Where are the VPILF comments, the EfD nominations, the barnstar for bad behavior discussions? I am disappointed in the direction this talk page has gone lately... this is not the same WP:K that it used to be... - Adolphus79 (talk) 21:04, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Really? WP:K doesn't even link here anymore? Tsk Tsk... - Adolphus79 (talk) 21:05, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I apologize... the link was AN/K... - Adolphus79 (talk) 21:08, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Pretty sure the wiki police got that one StarM 02:45, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Orly? Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 03:50, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Bah, I say... Bah! - Adolphus79 (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

Ah, Adolphus. Your post made me nostalgic - not enough so to start editing again (and if my memory serves me correctly, I never really did much by way of editing anyway, at least as far as making actual articles better...), but nostalgic nonetheless. Happy Christmas, etc to Star, Ed and A79 - thanks for stopping by :-) Keeper | 76 15:45, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Hello

I haven't posted here in a while. Enigma^msg 01:01, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Hi Mystery Man. Happy whatever you are celebrating at this time of year StarM 04:15, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Well, hello Enigma. I haven't posted here in a while either, so I guess we have that in common :-) Keeper | 76 15:43, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

I'd still like to be the au jus to ArbCom's Roast Beef - for the record. --Endlessdan (talk) 01:03, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Gophers?

watching one of the 85 sponsored to within an inch of their life bowl games. At least I've heard of Meineke unlike the Belk Bowl but have to say your Gophers are about as fear-inspiring as my Violets. Happy Y2K+13 and hope all is well in Keeper world StarM 05:11, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

Vikes in the playoffs? WTF!?!??!?! StarM 02:41, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Bah, I say... Bah... Should've been the Buccs all the way... silly purple guys... - Adolphus79 (talk) 04:35, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

You mean Giants, of course StarM 04:13, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Another year goes by

Happy New Year, Keeper!

So that's five years now - and this last one has been interesting (as the Chinese curse goes). I've done less content work, but spent time training new editors for Wikimedia UK and helping folks with accessibility, so I guess it balances out. Hope all's well with you, and here's to the next five! --RexxS (talk) 20:40, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Hello again, RexxS - my how time flies. I've been retired for 4+ of your 5 years here, which seems just as strange, to be honest. Glad you are doing well! Keeper | 76 04:28, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Apropos of nothing

Just remembered you twice in the last few days, and thought I'd ease the nostalgic angst by saying "hi". --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:33, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Seems red-links are a good place to hide me Floq :-). I've actually been editing here and there, gnoming about like the good old days when I see a split infinitive or missing comma. I just haven't bothered to log in much at all (this may be my first log in for 2013? Not sure, I should check that...). So, it warms my heart to know that you wish I would return - be comforted to know that I haven't ever actually left. Just quiet, for now. Keeper | 76 04:20, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Egads - that was my first logged-in edit since the winter solstice?! Time flies when you're outside shoveling all freaking day.... Keeper | 76 04:23, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

You're talking to the peanut gallery, Keep. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:39, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Did someone say peanut gallery? - Adolphus79 (talk) 07:42, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, Marquette - been there, shoveled that. Actually I'm a big fan of the yoop - great stuff up there. At least, in the summer. Keeper | 76 00:10, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Not saying that I will, but if I did...

What would I need to know in order to throw my admin bit around here again? I don't mean what drama have I missed - just what's generally new/must know/must read since, oh, I dunno, 2008? Do we have flying cars yet? Keeper | 76 00:12, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Keeps. We got sticky prods! But only for new unsourced BLPs, and there are a few things re wp:pending changes to look out for. Generally things are a bit tougher re unsourced BLPS, we even take away AutoPatroller (formerly AutoReviewer) from people who create unreferenced BLPS. ϢereSpielChequers 00:23, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Hmm. I think the BLP dust was just starting to kick up with earnestness when I checked out of here. Never heard of "pending changes", that seems interesting....and I've never heard of AutoPatroller/AutoReviewer. Sheesh, I've been out of it for awhile. I used to promote people to something if they were editors in good standing, was that AutoReviewer? Gosh, I have some serious reading to do. Seems I should stay away from my holster for a bit. Keeper | 76 00:29, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

wp:Rollback got unbundled in early 2008 so you may be remembering that - we give it to people who know the difference between vandalism and edits they just disagree with. We make people wp:Autopatrolled if they create lots of articles (>50) and the risk of one of their articles being incorrectly tagged for deletion by a newpage patroller is greater than the risk of them creating an article that merits deletion. What hasn't much changed is that vandals still need blocking after pretty much the same amount of warning, and I doubt that speedy deletion has changed much either. ϢereSpielChequers 00:42, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, rollback! Yes, I remember that - that's a tool for vandal-patrolling correct - to basically undo all of an editor's edits to a particular page? Unbundled. Of course, that seems about right. Take an easy to use tool and make it complicated. :-) Hasn't changed much around here in that case. :-) I kind of miss it. Anything else for me to read? Other than everything? (and general disclaimer - what I won't read are an drama boards or arbcom crap). Keeper | 76 00:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Not too much has changed, shockingly. A few new userrights, BLPs, and deletions have changed. A lot of things are more automated. You should be fine if you take a quick glance at the instructions before doing something crazy. Also WP:BN is that way. So, can I say welcome back? ;-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 01:23, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Rollback reverts all a users edits to a page since the previous user, sometimes that means only going back to a helpful typo fix when you might have wanted to go further. Its a bit of a blunt instrument - lots of folks prefer wp:Twinkle ϢereSpielChequers 11:48, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

You can say welcome back, but I might not oblige with the back part. :-) And, seriously, you link me to the crat board? Like I should run for crat? You can't be serious. I got the admin bit after a shockingly and embarrassingly easy, would-never-pass-today-because-I've-never-actually-written-a-proper-article RFA, a few thousand edits (under 4K at the time, I think?). Then, instead of doing adminly things, I whore out my talkpage to a bunch of Palincruft, and in the process surpassing Jimmywales talkpage for views and becoming a top-5 contributor to Talk:RFA. My time here was a blast, but mostly white noise. Then - I disappear for 4 years, show up again, and say "hey, what's changed?" - and you link me to the crat nom board? You must have your head stuck in a snowbank, Ed. :-) Keeper | 76 02:13, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Calm down Keep. That'd be where you are going to request your administrator rights back. ;-) Nine to thirteen inches of snow are coming down right now... Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:18, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Yup. But Keeps never went so inactive as to lose his Sysop bit. Keeps, one of the changes here is that if you don't edit at all for yonks, I think two years, the Crats take your bits away, but returnees get them back pretty much on request. 24 hours and a few comments that sound like you know what your doing. However you never went that inactive. so no need to go to the crat board. Wikipedia:Pending changes is a bit like the flagged revisions system that works on DE wiki. Except you only apply it on individual pages and you only use level 1 - the equivalent of semi protection. Confusingly the tool has been deployed with the option to apply pending changes on all edits to an article other than from admins and editors with the reviewer flag, but the consensus is never to use that option and only to use the option that allows anyone to edit, but flags IP and newbie edits for checking by a wp:Reviewer. Another big change is that we are moving from the intrawiki links system to wikidata - a central repository. This will cut editing levels as the next time someone writes the Barack Obama article in one of the forty languages that doesn't yet have that article only the Wikidata database has to change - we don't get another edit on each of the other 250 language versions of Wikipedia. PS Delighted to see you around more, whatever you choose to do, ϢereSpielChequers 10:06, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Oops, and I even have popups to show me an editor's userrights. My bad. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 10:09, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

[Jargon alert]! Don't know if they were around in your time Keeps but we have various extra bits of technology now, if you raid my Monobook you'll find some wonderful things that nice people have given me. Including Drop down menus for blocking that save you the faff of finding the right warning templates. ϢereSpielChequers 11:42, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, that makes way more sense, Ed. What I find hilarious, is that I couldn't fathom a reason why you would link me to WP:BN - when I left, the admin tools were for life (other than major implosions at arbcom) - and actually - I think at one time I proposed (or at the very least, supported) that admins lose their bits after a year of inactivity. If my memory serves me correctly, I was shot down in a massive onslaught of "shut your pie hole, you daft fool". I should dig around for a link, probably talk:rfa...Honestly didn't think that one would ever see the light of day, so I couldn't figure out why you were sending me there. In any case, I still have the bit, can see behind the curtains of redlinks, and even scarier - I can still block and chop and protect and strut. :-) Keeper | 76 13:57, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

WSC - drop down menu for blocking? Call me old school, but I can't see how that is helpful. IMHO, blocking should be made more difficult, not more convenient. May as well get a bot to do it. Keeper | 76 14:00, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

"Back in my day, we needed to use the command line to block people" Get with the times, Grandpa! :P Protonk (talk) 14:13, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm willing to bet if I searched enough, I could find a "like" template a la Facebook...isn't that the page all the kids are using these days? Keeper | 76 14:16, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Like - ah, there it is. :-) Keeper | 76 14:18, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

The ed17 likes this. in regards to this. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 03:55, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Whilst I'd agree that we need to be cautious with the block button, I've done a little more than 300 blocks in about four years as an admin, and I like to think my blocking has been pretty uncontentious. But having a drop down menu for something I don't do every day does save me some time, and I like to think that when I do block someone they deserve a pretty quick explanation from me as to why they've been blocked. ϢereSpielChequers 17:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

• It's KeeperRock, the Unfrozen Caveman Admin, frightened and confused by all the unfamiliar menus, buttons, and rules... --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:08, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, Phil Hartman. I could be called much much worse than a Phil Hartman character. Rest his twisted soul...Keeper | 76 14:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

• Ha! So, something that I helped propose in 2008 was actually enacted, 3 years later? That warms my heart. Wikipedia, moving at lightning speed! :-) Keeper | 76 15:32, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
  • When I used to read RFA talk, that idea got shot down several times. I was for it, and every so often it would get proposed, but most people kept resisting. It was funny because almost all of the early admins (ones that were made admin in '05 or '06) were long gone from Wikipedia and hadn't edited in years. And this was when I was checking in 2010 or 2011. A year of inactivity should mean desysop. Enigma^msg 17:52, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
    • Yeah, I was pushing for that too, it only made sense. The main idea being, if you weren't active, no reason to leave adminly tools laying about to be picked up or hijacked, especially if they can be easily reclaimed. Even though I've been basically inactive for about 4 years, I never lost my tools. Not because I adminned anything, but because I showed up on my own talk page a few times a year to prattle on about baseball with StarM et al. Heh. Silly admin. Keeper | 76 03:48, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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When does baseball talk start?

Who knows, the Twins might even outdo the Yankees this year! Enigma^msg 17:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

If you look at production per dollar spent on players, the Twins always outdo the Yankees. And baseball talk technically doesn't ever "start" - it simply never ends, and that is a very good thing... Keeper | 76 03:44, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

They do always outdo the Yankees in terms of money spent per win, but this year they might beat the Yankees in the standings as well, with less than half the payroll. Enigma^msg 17:26, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

GO RED SOX! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:53, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Signpost

As you tromp around the place and discover everything new, would you be interested in authoring an op-ed for the Signpost on what's changed since you were last active? ;-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:32, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, my. In a word - No. In more words, I'm afraid I might be a bit too "opped" for your ed, ed. :-) Keeper | 76 03:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

I think it'd actually be helpful to hear a viewpoint from an admin who has essentially be cyrogenically frozen for four years, seriously speaking. Plus, I'm the editor, so we can work together with you writing and me helping you frame it. :-) Your choice though. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:38, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, so you don't miss out on anything.... ;-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:28, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

The Ed is the Ed? You've come along way from your humble beginnings, good sir. :-) I'll read up on some things, but from what I can tell, really not all that much has changed. Same drama, new faces, and some (sadly) missing old faces. I've poked around a bit, and some of my favorite crankster/pranksters/ridiculously good writers seem to have gone by the wayside or are seriously undercontributing - OrangeMarlin, Malleus F, Fritzpoll, Pedro, StarM, Tanthalas39, Moni3, Iridescent....to name but a few. I see that RFA, from what I've read, is still the same mothlight that it's always been. I've always liked T:RFA, and loved hating it at the same time. I haven't yet dared poke in at AN - is that still the same mudfest as always? The only adminny thing I've done is some CSD clear-outs, mostly obscure bands, etc, hoping to sneak through unnoticed (and unreferenced). Has much really changed? Keeper | 76 00:55, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Yup, that'd be me. Much different from my days of multiple emoticons and gross myspacing. ;-) Not a whole lot has changed physically. It seems like less people are writing nowadays, but that might be just me. It may also have to do with the tighter referencing requirements too. There's definitely a (slowly) declining number of editors and (faster) admin loss. There's still some old favorites around, but there's also plenty of new-ish faces ... you might have to get to know a few new people. Shocking, I know.

AN isn't too bad anymore, but ANI is still a relative cesspool. NPP is the same thing, different face thanks to WP:Page curation. We should have a WP:Visual editor soon too (thank goodness, a lower bar to allow people to edit). The culture has changed a bit—people are much more wary of the WMF, and there's a lot more money sloshing around for many more people, like the chapters, etc. There's a new big focus on GLAMs. Wikipolitics is still going on, but not just on en.wp, but on the Wikimedia-movement-level ... but I won't go into that unless you want to hear it. Also Wikipedia Review is dead, but there's a replacement in Wikipediocracy, which I won't give my opinion on (considering I just wrote a story on them...).

TL;DR, same physical features, but new ones on the way!, less writers, a few less editors, less active admins, somewhat more cynical culture overall, still many good editors though, much more money. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:52, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Yep, that pretty much sums up what I see - the same, but different, but the same. Not much of an article there. I'm going to insist on declining - I'm not sure what the readership of signpost is anymore, but I would rather stay under that radar and do some editing here and there. Anyone that's still watchlisting my page will see that I'm slightly back at it, don't need to advertise it :-) Keeper | 76 13:40, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

That's fine, I knew it was a long shot. :-) We actually have a pretty good amount of readers these days, although it's lower for the actual stories (and even lower when it's on something like a finance committee... but that's understandable). Anyway, enough of me rambling on and on; I'm glad you're back, Keeper. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 20:11, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

"Rambling on and on" - what else would a person do at Wikipedia:AN/K? This page used to challenge Jimbo's talk for page views. :-) It's a bloody miracle I ever made it thru rfa...anywho, I've been having some fun, I'll admit, closing some dust-covered afd's and sifting through CSD, I'll prolly stick around at least for a bit. Cheers Keeper | 76 03:31, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

We can rebuild it. :-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 07:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

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Football Fives

Hi,

We were building Football Fives and I was teaching a co-worker how to use the basic functions in Wikipedia. We run Football Fives at Football Federation Victoria and we have authority to its logos, trademarks and content.

Can you please restore it to its previous status, and we will begin updating the content immediately and remove any tests.

Regards Madridista23 and Jumpingmackflash — Preceding unsigned comment added by Madridista23 (talk • contribs) 01:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

If you are associated with the organization, than typically it is frowned upon to create a page for your own organization, as that is considered to be advertising/spam. If your organization is notable by wikipedia's standards, than an article might be appropriate, and would probably already exist. Find some verifiable, independent third party sources that tell why your organization is notable, and submit an article request/review to Articles for Creation. Regards, Keeper | 76 01:46, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Hero (van Canto album)

You just relisted Hero (van Canto album) at AfD twice. --Jax 0677 (talk) 01:19, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Heh. So I did. Keeper | 76 13:52, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Ferguson (musician)

Hi,

I saw that you did the edit to remove an old AfD day at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old, here.

The problem is that one of those AfDs did not stay closed.  I have put a Category:Requests for Close on the discussion, but no administrator has responded in 24 hours.

I see that the AfD is not listed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old/Open AfDs.  Looking into the technical side, I found the Mathbot Perl script, but there is a lot of code there to read.

Here is the diff in which Mathbot removed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Ferguson (musician) from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old.  Can you undo that removal, or perhaps undo your removal and allow Mathbot to restore the listing?

Thanks, Unscintillating (talk) 02:08, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

I tried to re-add March 7th to the old category - mathbot is a mysterious and frightful little machine....thought better of messing with Mathbot and went and closed the AFD instead as "no consensus" - because there isn't a clear one in my opinion, though it's bordering on a "weak keap". Either way, the article is kept, feel free to renominate, or better yet, improve/expand the article. Keeper | 76 14:03, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexey Lutsenko

Hello Keeper76! I've added a reference. It's OK?

Hello there. Have we met? I can't find anything in my contributions that show we've interacted. There is no WP:AFD called Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexey Lutsenko. - I see the article you are working on, Alexey Lutsenko, and that it used to have a BLDPROD tag that you've removed after adding a reference. Are you asking me if Alexey Lutsenko is notable? I have no idea. Best of luck with the article. Keeper | 76 14:23, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Sorry. May be I've mistaked. I've just created an article without reference and noticed you deleted information at the talk section. I'm freshmen in this deal. Thanks a lot for wishes.

Deleted article

Hi, I added the page "Racial Bias on Hurricane Katrina" last week and I saw you deleted it. I will add the page again and take into consideration on the reason why you deleted my page. If you could please give me time to review it and let me know before what is wrong instead of just deleting it, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Jenks27 (talk) 19:11, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Replied on your talkpage. Keeper | 76 21:47, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

KillWhitneyDead

Why did you delete the KillWhitneyDead page?? It says on your deletion page that its because there isnt information about them online. That is untrue there is TONS of info on them on the web. They have 6 albums out and they are one of the biggest bands to come from North Carolina. Plus you deleted their record label Tribunal Records as well for not being notable?? Are you kidding??? Tribunal has been the launching pad of MANY GREAT heavy metal artists. The biggest of all of their signings being a band named Atreyu who DO have a wikipedia page. You people need to get your shit together. danodukebb

My, aren't you pleasant. To sum up for you, the article was deleted by community consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Killwhitneydead, based on the discussion. If you believe that the band is notable, find reliable references that say why. Wikipedia isn't in the advertising business, so the band (as well as the record label that you are referring to) must have been written about extensively in other, reliable sources. You can see some of the notability guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia here. By the way, I'm not convinced that Atreyu is notable either. It may be, I'm not familiar with them personally. The key isn't whether I've heard of them, though, it's whether they've been written about from independent reliable sources like anything else. It is quite possible that it needs to be looked at further, thanks for bringing it to community attention. Keeper | 76 19:55, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I stand corrected - Atreyu seems to meet the notability criteria. They have moved on past their very early years with "underground" label Tribunal, and seem to have signed with more well established record labels. Keeper | 76 19:58, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah it needs to be looked at further and I'll gather reliable sources of which there were enough it seems based on that deletion page for at least one mod to believe the KWD page didnt warrant deletion danodukebb —Preceding undated comment added 20:06, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

You are welcome to find sources. Once you do, if you feel that the article could stand to be undeleted/restored, bring a request including your reliable, third party sources, to deletion review, which is found here. Keeper | 76 20:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of papabili in the 2013 papal conclave

I don't have a horse in this race at all as far as the outcome, but I happened to notice that your closing statement doesn't really explain your close. You just state that "those making an argument for deleting...the article outweigh those wishing to keep," but that's really not saying anything more than "I decided to close this as 'delete.'" It doesn't explain why you thought the deletion arguments outweighed the keep arguments, or which arguments in particular you found most relevant on either side. postdlf (talk) 20:41, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

In my opinion, a closing editor/admin weighs the arguments given and should refrain from pontificating (no pun intended) about what he/she thinks the outcome should be and why. If I had an opinion, based on wp:policy, about the article, I would have participated in the discussion rather than close it. I didn't, and I still don't. I generally don't put anything as a closing rationale, just "Delete", or "Keep", or whatever other outcome is available based on the discussion (merge, redirect, etc). Closing admins are not required to provide any rationale whatsoever, and too many times have I seen it look like strutting, therefore I rarely do it. Hope that makes sense. If you believe I've come to an incorrect conclusion based on the discussion contained within the afd, you are welcome to have it reviewed. Keeper | 76 21:14, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

As I said, I don't care about the outcome either way. I noticed the AFD topic awhile ago, and when I saw it was closed I was curious to see how, but then found your closing statement too generic and opaque to explain the close, which can really be a problem with protracted AFDs of this kind. Participants will be looking for some kind of reassurance that your close wasn't just a supervote or otherwise arbitrary.

Yes, I know you don't have to give a rationale, and I generally don't either when I close AFDs unless the discussion is lengthy, dense, and divided, as was this one. But when you have decided to write a closing statement, it should help explain why you closed the AFD the way you did, by describing in some way your judgment of the discussion and how you weighed the arguments; otherwise you shouldn't have bothered to write anything.

You wrote that both sides cited policy, but what made you decide that the scales nevertheless tipped to deletion here? postdlf (talk) 21:33, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

That seems fair enough. I get what you're saying. Honestly, when any debate gets as protracted as this one, it honestly doesn't matter what the 'close' is, a good chunk of editors are going to be unhappy about it. To answer your direct question "what made you decide that the scales nevertheless tipped to deletion", it was the arguments posted multiple times about OR/SYN, the LC guidelines (because of the nature of the conclave and its inherent secrecy, no clear definition for inclusion in a list is possible), as well as Recentism/notnews arguments. They overwhelmed the fact that while the article did cite reliable resources, they were in and of themselves speculative in nature, for the most part. I did say that some of the actual information was probably notable, and should be included in the respective articles for the individual cardinals, etc. Hope that helps. Keeper | 76 22:02, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, that sounds like a cogent closing rationale; you should add some semblance of that to your closing statement. postdlf (talk) 22:17, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Nah. (And I mean this in the most positive possible way) - you seem to be the only one that cares. :-) If anyone else stops by, I'll point them to this thread. Happy editing - Keeper | 76 00:45, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Killwhitneydead! , ! .

Very very veeery strange thing removing a band ( and Record company)...VERY strange thing this. Will never really trust editors or wikipedia again. Really really strange logic and ....kind of sick..gaaaah — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xuxu68 (talk • contribs) 20:52, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Please see discussion and advice already given 2 sections up on this very talkpage. Regards, Keeper | 76 21:15, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

From User:Kristijh

• I want to delete this page User:Kristijh/sandbox2

• I want to delete this page User:Kristijh/sandbox

 Done Keeper | 76 13:51, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

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10Ticks

To be honest I am at a bit of a loss. The article published on 10ticks passes all the said Wikipedia guidelines. Containing multiple sources from a variety of different medias, from different countries and many of which are noteable. Further to this when a vote was given on whether to delete or not, the vote was 4 to 2 in favor of keeping. But yet you still felt the need to delete it. Wikipedia is supposed to be a universal encyclopedia, made by the people for the people, changes are based on a democracy. If a vote takes place and the decision is to keep and you delete it, then what are you actually running? What is the point in a vote if you don't take heed of the results? If one admin has the right to overrule many admins surely something is wrong? Very very disappointed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.46.99.136 (talk) 08:08, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GNATS

You closed that as keep? It was relisted yesterday and it's now split. I'm not sure why you closed it the day after relisting, and I certainly would expect a no-consensus where the discussion is now. Perhaps you might reconsider closing it. Toddst1 (talk) 00:58, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

I did not see the relist, not sure how I missed that. The afd was still listed on the "old" list, should have been moved by mathbot. I undid my close, apologies. You are very correct, it shouldn't be closed right now. Keeper | 76 01:00, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

(That said, my interpretation, based on the improvements and sourcing provided by those discussing keeping the article, is that the discussion is leaning toward keep. But still, should not have been closed yet) Keeper | 76 01:01, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Keeper. I suspect you're right. Toddst1 (talk) 14:54, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

40th MPD

I see you removed speedy del tag, I will take up the issue, probably prod. But I wanted to explain, The article does not state that the unit is notable for any particular reason. It has a history, and as such has done something of note, however, I don't think that means every military unit should have an article. Sephiroth storm (talk) 13:57, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

I think the fact that it has a history, and to use your words, "has done something of note" - means you agree it might be notable? If it might be notable, it isn't a speedy candidate, and I would personally even contest a prod, especially an article that's been around for years. Granted, it may not end up staying, but it should be brought to a discussion, imo. Not necessarily an afd discussion, but maybe a milhist/talkpage discussion first. Finding sources, if you chooose to do so yourself, may prove difficult being an older mil unit - I recommend you bring the article to the attention of the milhist wikiproject for some dead-tree sources - I believe they (milhist) are still active? You may even be a member. I have no knowledge of military history stuff personally (or interest), so I won't be of much help. And honestly, they may be entirely NN. No hard feelings I hope, I believe it was a good faith tagging, I just happen to disagree with your call on this particular one. Cheers, Keeper | 76 17:30, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Ah, should have checked the article before replying, I see you brought it to afd. All good - (and you made a nice, detailed nom statement - kudos for that). Regards, Keeper | 76 17:31, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Mills Elementary School

As promised :) Just wanted to follow up and let you know this is done. Cheers! §FreeRangeFrog^croak 18:48, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Ha! You're fast, looks great. Tis a shame that Owasso Public Schools is a redlink - I took a look, there are 24 deleted edits that were deleted as a copyvio, so I can't userfy them. Maybe a school stub would be next on your list? :-) Keeper | 76 23:02, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

I will add it to my ever-growing "to do" list :) §FreeRangeFrog^croak 23:43, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

:-) Keeper | 76 02:02, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Gagik Daghbashyan

Can you please take off the lock so I can create this page? The past people who tried to create it didn't have sources, which I have. --TheShadowCrow (talk) 16:59, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

 Done Keeper | 76 17:04, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. --TheShadowCrow (talk) 17:24, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

welcome back?

do I hear there's a Keeper back in the house? I had a brief return at the end of last year but I apparently lost interest since I hadn't even loaded my talk to see your message. Whoops. I'll try to peek in more often to visit my favorite Twinkies fan. Yankees won tonight saving them from an apparent 0-162 if you listen to fans, media. Was at part of the Yankees game last night. Left early when I couldn't feel my feet! All is well here just crazy busy. How about Keeper-land? What brought about your return? If there's an archive link feel free to link me. StarM 02:12, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

You say favorite Twinkies fan as if you have lots of them...:-) For the first time in 2 years, the Twinks were over .500 on the season. Of course, it was 2-1. And of course, it is now 2-2 thanks to the O's. Oh, well. Lots of interesting new players for the Twinks, lots of interesting injured old players for the Yanks, should make for a frustrating year for both of us. Not sure actually when they play each other this year, is it early again? As far as what brought about a return? I dunno. I just basically showed up again, (mostly to read up on some twins pages to see if they were being updated; they were) and then started poking around, decided to see if the rust could be broken off the admin buttons, closed a few afds, deleted a few csds. Nothing major. No archive to of any major announcement or anything, just started. It's kinda fun again - didn't realize it had been 4 years of nothing much more than our random football/baseball discussions for that long! Time flies. All is good in Keeperland, I'll probably keep poking about, but no where near as active as the late-oughts by any stretch. Way too busy irl as always. Keeper | 76 23:47, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Welome back. Yankees just finished playing football with the Indians. New manager, same old shit by the lake. Although Francona has balls to order Youk's plunking. So odd to have him a Yankee. Yankees will be consistently inconsistent. It's what they do best. Sadly? Ownership doesn't care about winning now or 2014 so even 0-162 wouldn't have gotten rid of Clueless Joe. Not sure when we play. Or who half the Yankees are. I go though fits and spurts here. I'd prefer to write without my watchlist but we'll see with that. Amazing how many articles get totally neglected on important ish subjects. StarM 02:08, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, we just got swept by the Royals. Frickin royals. So, I feel ya. Keeper | 76 19:25, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

9-1 to the fucking Astros. But we're gluttons for punishment! StarM 02:29, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, saw that. I'm actually not looking forward to playing the 'stros - they seem way peskier than anyone is giving them credit for, and the Twinks are notoriously bad against bad teams. I'm pleasantly surprised by our .500 record through April - haven't been above .499 for several years this early. So far, so average! (I'll take average at this point...) Keeper | 76 16:54, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Seriously bizarre season so far. Mayans were right? StarM 00:38, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

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10ticks

Would really appreciate if you could get back to me on why you have deleted 10ticks? It satisfies all wikipedia guidelines for notable having multiple sources from different countries. The result was Keep in favor of 4 to 2, but yet you still delete it and refuse to give an explanation. I guess democracy and following guidelines counts for nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.46.99.136 (talk) 08:21, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Deletion discussions are not vote counts, and wikipedia is most certainly not a democracy. If you wish to have the deletion reviewed, we have a place for that, aptly named deletion review. Help yourself to it. Keeper | 76 19:20, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Inactive admins

I was reading up on the impetus to finally have inactive admins desysopped. The argument against it was always "it does no harm to leave them, why take away their bits, maybe they'll come back." One of the arguments for it (I think I used this) was that if an admin has been away for years, he/she is unlikely to ever return, and if they do, they would have no idea what's going on anyway. 2006 Wikipedia does not really resemble 2013 Wikipedia. I guess what it took was an old admin account being compromised, and it was only a matter of time, with all those dormant accounts lying around. This was amusing. Enigma^msg 20:05, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, I was always a proponent of desysopping inactive admins. I co-proposed something before my own lengthy break of 4+ yrs, got shot down in short order, and I left it alone. Shortly after, I left completely, didn't realize this ever made it out of wp:peren.  :-) Luckily, (dubious, discuss...) I was gabby enough to show up and reply about baseball/football often enough to not get de-adminned. Keeper | 76 16:15, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Well the "maybe they will come back" argument now looks quite prophetic. Guess we will never know how many more would have comeback if they hadn't had their bits revoked. ϢereSpielChequers 16:29, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Not sure what you're referring to? The policy of not desysopping was around for a long time, and the original inactive admins never returned. I'm talking about the ones from 2005 and earlier who became admin without much discussion. As for we'll never know how many more would've come back, I disagree. If someone was an admin and came back 5 years later, they'd at least ask what's going on if they saw they couldn't block/delete. I hardly think it's likely that there are people who wanted to come back but decided not to because they found out without editing that they weren't admins. Enigma^msg 00:49, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

An argument here is pretty much a non-starter, eh boys? What's done is done, it would be highly unlikely to ever change back to the old ways. If I decide to disappear again, I'll turn in my bit beforehand just to avoid the automated notifications as a year approaches. Don't have email set up (and never will), but still. Keeper | 76 16:56, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Discopter

Hi keeper76 I was just about to start a Wiki about the Discopter and wiki stated that you had previously made one and then deleted it. I was wondering what if any information you placed on this wiki. I will be making one very shortly. Thank you for your help! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marissa510 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

I've answered this question at Marissa510's talk page as you don't seem to be about the wiki at the moment, Keeper! Hope all continues to go well. ~ mazca ^talk 14:45, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Thanks mazca! Keeper | 76 18:15, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

So we're frenemies

Are the Twinkies good this year? The Yankees are stinkees, again. StarM 01:50, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Meant to check in during that dreadful series. Ugh. Hard to watch on all counts. Nice "go away" present for Mariano, did you see what the twins got him for retiring? Brilliant. :-) Keeper | 76 01:55, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

whoops. Loved that rocker. Such a good idea. StarM 01:04, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Is it true?

You're alive!! :) Dusti^*poke* 00:10, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, been trying to get someone to pull the plug, but Keeper lives. Sputtering, eyelid twitching, near comatose...but alive. How's Dusti? Keeper | 76 01:56, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Apparently, making inappropriate AfD closures *rolls eyes*. I'd fill you in, but the details are boring. Someone called a relist an inappropriate closure, and someone else called a procedural closure of a frivolous AfD filed two days after a prior AfD closure inappropriate. Meh. Dusti^*poke* 02:00, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

And then I disappear again for a month and a half. Great of you to check in Dusti - I was reminiscing a bit about our history - the stab we took at afd coaching, the "stuff" you were going through IRL - how is everything with you? 4 years can make a big difference in where someone stands in the world - I hope only good things for you. Keeper | 76 00:43, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Believe it or not - I did a "Throwback" and went through the old AfD stuff (:. Things are actually really great. I got married in January so I'm now "Mr. Muniz". We're considering adoption Oh yay!. I operate a wikifarm now called Orain with the help of some others. I've become quite active here as of late and am trying to dab more and more in admin areas (you know, cause I apparently have a death wish. It's sad, kinda missing a lot of people who no longer seem to be around. How's Keeper? Dusti^{*Let's talk!*} 04:12, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Congrats on getting married! That's great big news! I'm sincerely so glad to hear it Keeper is doing well - busier in the last 4 years than I ever thought could be considered reasonable, but all good things. I'm also a family guy - good luck with kiddos if you decide to go that route - it's adventurous, but worth it.  :-) I'm sure I've said it to you before, but there is no glory in admin rights around here. Don't get too hung up on it. That said, if you ever decide on an rfa, and I happened upon it by some (monthly log in) fluke, I would be in the support column. Keeper | 76 01:32, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

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DxO

Hello, you participated in the RFD discussion for DxO Labs a few years ago. Lately, the article has ballooned with the incorporation of large amounts of test result data from DxO. This does not at all seem to me (a) relevant to DxO Labs and (b) appropriate Wikipedia content. Could you take a look at the talk page and the page itself and see what you think? --Macrakis (talk) 04:41, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I've been away. I don't know anything of the subject matter and would be of little use to any discussion about it. Cheers - Keeper | 76 03:23, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Tie game

Vikings played a good ... first three quarters today. Not sure what got Matt Flynn to emerge from football purgatory, but wow. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 02:49, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Amidst all of the losses this year (and there were some ugly ones), somehow a tie at Lambeau stung the worst. A bit like reading a suspense novel right up to the last chapter and then losing the book. I'm pretty much done with football for the year and have returned, much earlier than usual, to MLB network. :-) Keeper | 76 03:25, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Hello Ol' man!

Just wanted to say hello. I am back now and hope to run into you. I hope all is well. JodyB _talk 19:19, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Well, hello there, JodyB! What a blast from the past. I'm not too active around here, at least not for the last few years, other than chatting about on my talkpage with some sports friends I made along the way. I edit a bit as an IP, never seem to remember to log in anymore (and have really not much use for the buttons). I gave them a good go a few months back, but decided they aren't that much fun anymore. I'll hang on to them in case I change my mind someday, but mostly I've enjoyed getting back to gnoming about under the radar. How are things with you? Keeper | 76 03:27, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Enjoying the Crimson Tide Football run again this year. We've about 15 coming to the house Saturday to watch the game. I've been away too, just to busy in RL but I have found my way back. Lost the buttons for a while but asked for them back when I returned. So far it's been smooth sailing. JodyB _talk 04:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

If my memory serves correctly, that wasn't a very good football outcome for Crimson-blooded fans. Boo, Auburn - ruining a perfectly good party....Keeper | 76 19:18, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

0-6 v 1-4

and I may pay money to watch it. StarM 19:23, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

I have no words to describe how painful this is to watch. On both sides. Keeper | 76 03:24, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Can't say I don't think of you: 1, 2 StarM 01:00, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Ha! Great pics! Somehow in the last month, the Vikes have managed to look even worse, and somehow by some fluke, the Giants are (remotely) in playoff conversations? It just ain't right. Keeper | 76 03:20, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

This season, redonkulous. You and CLE can't keep QBs healthy, you need to be evaluated by OSHA. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving and whatever holidays you might be celebrating this month. StarM 03:20, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

If we could take all of our QBs, somehow morph them into a bionic super-human with the best qualities of each of them - Cassel, Ponder, Webb, Freeman - we'll call him CassWebDerMan - even then I don't think we'd win another game. It isn't their health. It is quite clearly their talent/lack of. Hey! Speaking of baseball - thanks for Hughes, following the Pavano-blazed trail. He best have something left for us. :-) Keeper | 76 21:04, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

That implies Hughes had something to begin with! I think our greatest gift to the Twinkies is Joba to the Tigers, because you'll win a few thousand off him. You got rid of the QB with the best name. Bethel McLeod Thompson or something. All last names. StarM 03:08, 10 January 2014 (UTC)

The best baseball news I've seen or heard so far was the banishing of A-Roid for 2014. Thank HEAVENS I don't have to see/hear/read about him for an entire season. He needs to retire and go away forever. Sorry if you like him still - he had a couple of good years. With asterisks. Keeper | 76 02:14, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank HEAVENS I don't have to see/hear/read about him for an entire season. hahaha you're delusional, right? He's like Marvin K. Mooney or a bad apple. Do you honestly think the media won't be running its mouth all season? Not an ARod fan, but he'll still be a distraction. Now and forever. StarM 03:11, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Saints Saints Saints

You best be rooting for them today—they're going to need all the help they can get. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:52, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Now why would I go and do a silly thing and root for the cheat-iest team in the nfl? The 'aints deserved to lose, sorry Ed. :-) Keeper | 76 02:11, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Unfortunate choice, Keep. :-) Hope you're well. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 03:14, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Kike San Martín

A peep at my list of deleted contributions today showed bluelinked Kike San Martín, a bit of a surprise. Last year you closed AfD/Kike San Martín (2nd nomination) as "delete". The current article has lots of references but is mostly mere name-dropping. Redelete and salt, perhaps? -- Hoary (talk) 15:06, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

I've just now created Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kike San Martín (3rd nomination). -- Hoary (talk) 02:39, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Twins

"At best, this team finishes third in the division with 78 wins, but most likely they finish last with somewhere between 65 and 70 wins." [1] :/ Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 19:52, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

Ah, but the future is bright....Keeper | 76 03:50, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Hopefully, for your sake! Buxton looks like he's going to be one scary batter. Meanwhile (in football news), the Saints have released Lance Moore and Darren Sproles. Sad face. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 04:05, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

It's almost spring

although thanks to the polar vortices it sure as hell does't feel like it. and therefore almost baseball. Yay. StarM 02:46, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

We made it to another season. The problem is that it's still often 40 degrees and below here. Enigma^msg 19:57, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Saw a funny on FB. It's a wonderful winter we're having this spring. Be safe and warm, both. StarM 03:12, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

It's 18 april and I still have snow in my yard. Lovely indeed. Twinks have scored lots of runs (to date, leading all of baseball in runs per game, walks, and obp - go figure!), but have given up as many it seems. If this team finishes at .500 it would be miraculous and would probably mean some serious underachievement by other AL central teams. Sad. Haven't been to a game yet this year, have a couple lined up though, including my first Astros game. Which we'll probably managed to lose, oh well. Oh, and Star - thanks for Nunez and Hughes... they seems about as useless in a small market as they assuredly did in a large one... Keeper | 76 02:45, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

a friend said to me the other day that Hughes hadn't given up a HR that day. I asked if that was code for him not pitching. I'd say I'm sorry, but I'm not. Hughesless was a case of buyer beware. Nun-E wasn't traded for much so I call that a no harm, no foul situation. No snow here, but I saw enough this winter to last several lifetimes. Hope you thaw soon. StarM 00:44, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

Hi Keeper. In case you are not aware, there is an upcoming campaign to improve coverage of LGBT-related topics on Wikipedia, culminating with an international edit-a-thon on June 21. See Wiki Loves Pride 2014 for more information. If you are interested, you might consider creating a page for a major city (or cities!) near you, with a list of LGBT-related articles that need to be created or improved. This would be a tremendous help to Wikipedia and coverage of LGBT culture and history. Thanks for your consideration, and please let me know if you have any questions! --Another Believer _(Talk) 16:24, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Request for comment

Hello there, a proposal regarding pre-adminship review has been raised at Village pump by Anna Frodesiak. Your comments here is very much appreciated. Many thanks. Jim Carter through MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:47, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Pre-adminship? What is this world coming to? LOL - Adolphus79 (talk) 13:57, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Is there a TL;DR of this available without the arguing over who was notified? I can't even begin to deal with this nonsense. BTW, we're at war this weekend, Keeps! StarM 02:02, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not even going to read the pre-admin thing. Sounds a whole lot like admin coaching (shudder)..... Wonder if I should prpose a post-admin thing - like how to rejoin a civil society of editors after wielding a sword inappropriately?  :-) And yes, more importantly - yanks/twins. The war is over! Twins take 2 of 3, and dare I say it? I dare! Phil Hughes FTW!!!!! Nunez!!!! Yeah, okay. Twins are mediocre - but Sunday's win felt extra sweet. :-) Keeper | 76 01:33, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Okay, let's be real—that wasn't as exciting of a series as you're portraying it to be. ;-) Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]}

I was away so missed all of it :( Damn Hughes, but it sounds like the 'pen shit the bed. Again. StarM 01:40, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

New thought here this evening as I watch mlb - I wonder if the Twins will ever have a player that gets "the long farewell" tour year like Mo and Jete the last couple of years respectively. It's actually kind of nauseating to see the pomp around these guys. Yes, they're dang good at baseball. (there are some sabre guys that would argue about Jeter's "greatness", but I'll leave it be - he's damn good). Yes, they will be first ballot HOFers, No, they shouldn't get a going away present at home plate of every damn visiting team's field. It's setting a precedent that I don't think belongs. Would love your thoughts on that StarMS, as a Yanks fan? Keeper | 76 03:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

is anyone still on the same team they were this morning?

happy trade deadline chaos. Hope all is well in Keeperville. PS: Yankees = Stinkees this season StarM 02:56, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Heh. We gave Sam Fuld back to Oakland for a washed up pitcher. That be about it. Small market teams never make out well on trades. Speaking of Stinkees - that also rhymes with Twinkies. I feel for yank fans this year - what are there, like 3 players left that started the season? Injury bug strikes for sure. Keeperville is hopping mad. Crazy busy summer, but for the most part, good stuff. Football last night, not much to see in purple/gold - new QB looks promising....in about 3 years.....for another team....after we lose patience with him....Keeper | 76 20:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

the Legend of Sam Fuld. Scary news about your top prospect. Sounds like he'll be OK though? I don't think there are even three. Tex, McCann, Jeter, Gardner, ok maybe 5 with Robertson. It's pathetic. Just hope it means they clean house. StarM 23:51, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Twinkies are historically consistent

Why not? StarM 18:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

I don't even want to talk about it. Ugh. I'm a huge gardy fan, but even I have my limits.... Keeper | 76 04:00, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

The one place for all news baseball

...for various definitions of "all"

Hey Keeper. In keeping (I'm hilarious) with tradition I've replied on your talk page and eschewed that newfangled "pinging" the kids are so enamored with. Thanks for the note on my page. I've been off and on with actual Wikipedia things for the past few years (with an edit counter mostly revealing that I should've gone outside more in 2008), but I do love seeing this talk page get used as the world's weirdest distributed water cooler.

In baseball news, I live in Rhode Island now so I guess I'm supposed to support the Red Sox, or at least hate the Yankees. I did get to a few games at Fenway, which is a cool park. Not sure if it is cool enough to pay 5 dollars for a coke, but pretty cool. The majority of my baseball interest of late has been making skeptical side-eyes at the atlantic, so...not extensive.

Oh, if you're still in the Twin Cities area (zomg WP:OUTING) you should check out Brasa it looks like (and probably is) hipster nonsense but the food is great and it is nice to go to a tapas style place without being fed soggy tortillas between $45 dollar pitchers of Sangria. Protonk (talk) 13:49, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Ah, Rhode Island, the mini-me of states: weirdly named, weirdly shaped, weirdly governed.  :-) Been through there once, didn't stay long enough to have anything other than a typical midwesterner's vague impression of crowdedness and seafood smell.

I'm surprised to hear how inexpensive soda is at fenway. Here at the house that Joe Mauer's inflated contract built , we aren't so fortunate.

Brasa is amazing. If you find yourself in the area (I would recommend waiting 6-9 months, it could snow any day now), ping me and I'll build you a list of local spots that would be well worth your time to hit up.

And as for edit counters, yeah 2008. Definitely one of my paler years as well.  :-) Stay well, Keeper | 76 11:11, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

seeing this talk page get used as the world's weirdest distributed water cooler. best quote ever. Twins suck, Yankees suck (Stinkees as a colleague's daughter calls them) and Sox suck... and my Giants are 0-2. Ooph. You did get good Phil Hughes though. StarM 02:16, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Undeletion Request:

I am not certain if this is the correct method to request undeletion of an article. A Wikipage suggested to address the final editor of the article's deletion discussion - about IM Lawrence Trent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Lawrence_Trent. I can cite new evidence for notability, which occurred after the article's deletion. Where should I share this evidence to have it considered for undeletion? Req: Science Law Chess (talk) 03:47, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

• @Req: Science Law Chess: I'd be willing to move the article into a sandbox for you so you could add those sources to the page. Once you've done that and it looks like the article would address the reasons for deletion given in that debate I'd be happy to move it back into article space. Does that work for you? Protonk (talk) 15:06, 10 October 2014 (UTC)
• @Protonk: That will work, thanks! Just show me where to go, and I will get started. Req: Science Law Chess (talk) 23:25, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Hints of vandalism?

Article Italian Fascism is the case in question. I have added sourced material and at the same time removing that which appears twice (tautologies) or or has nothing to do with the article (ex. Aldo Finzi unnecessary bio descriptions that can be read from the relevant WP article) and reorganisation of sections. Furthermore the I added a more neutral tone the section - Relations with the Catholic Church from Cooperation with the Catholic Church which had a certain biased Anti-Catholic edge to it and added a introductory sentence. I wrote about my additions and changes on the talk page without any ensuing discussion/commentary. Still two editors (maybe one and the same) have delated all the work that was put in. I have again reverted it communicated to them my aim of the changes and hope they would join in the discussion, but to no avail. Sorry for troubling! Cheers, No Source - No Valid Source (talk) 12:35, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

6 months!

I haven't edited anything under my username in 6 months, and damn near nothing as an ip either. Hibernation!

How's everyone been? Anybody lurking around? It's baseball season Star! I'm thoroughly enjoying watching the Yanks squirm with a-roid and paparazzi flashbulbs all around. Keeper lives!

Keeper | 76 02:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Suggestbot suggests these articles......Oakland Raiders (remove guff (nvrmind - removed) from lead about considerable success...OMG they had a coach called Marty Feldman?! cool.... suggestbot forgets about finding more articles and goes and chugs a beer or two...maybe improve Budweiser..if it says its drinkable then that is too positive a POV and needs to be changed "barely drinkable" is acceptable......)

• Always good to see your name pop up on my watchlist, however briefly. All's well here, hope all's well there. Go Mariners, Boo Yankees. After a long, depressing, brutal winter, I watched my first spring training game on TV last weekend. Made it feel like Spring. --Floquenbeam (talk) 14:59, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

For your amusement

[2] Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:21, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Yikes. Have fun with that. :-) Keeper | 76 18:17, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

A beer for you!

Great to see you around, StarM has been lost without you :-) ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:50, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

How did you know I was thirsty? And for future reference, for liquid refreshment, I prefer stouts and porters. Keeper | 76 18:18, 1 April 2015 (UTC)

ITN

Hello. Please see the template's editnotice (which I presume you overlooked). Thanks. —David Levy 04:35, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, my bad. Rules, yeah fine okay. Thought it was fairly obvious that Biden will be added, figured I'd pull an old school IAR. But rules.... I'd go on about instruction creep and such and yada yada, blah blah, but really it doesn't even matter, does it? Carry on. He'll be there after enough consensus-ites have their bolded supports counted. Keeper | 76 04:44, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I'd expect this nomination to have only a remote chance of being successful. He was, after all, only a state AG and a possible gubernatorial candidate - if it wasn't for the last name, it would have no chance. His death has just been nominated, so we'll find out soon enough. --Bongwarrior (talk) 05:09, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

As you seem to be under the impression that WP:IAR is a license to override a consensus-backed process with which one disagrees, I encourage you read Wikipedia:What "Ignore all rules" means. —David Levy 05:26, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

As per usual, icy tones win out over collegial discussion. Jesus, David. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 06:21, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

How, in your view, are my messages "icy"?

In the first, I pointed to an editnotice containing instructions that Keeper76 didn't follow, and I noted my presumption that this was an oversight.

In the second, I implicitly expressed my view (with which you're welcome to disagree, of course) that Keeper76 misapplied a policy, and I linked to a page containing a relevant explanation. This was not intended as an insult or attack; it was constructive criticism of a perceived error and advice on how to avoid repeating it.

Unlike Keeper76, I didn't engage in name-calling or write an edit summary along the lines of "blah blah". To be clear, I wasn't offended (and don't mean to suggest that Keeper76 committed any sort of infraction on this talk page), but I find it curious that you regard my tone as "icy". —David Levy 08:28, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

My very favorite thing is when admins blue link me. Please sir, do continue to blue link me. (By the way, this is sarcasm. <----- and this is irony.) I said "carry on", and you seem to be takiing that in the very literal sense to mean to just carry on with a conversation, when in fact, I thought I clearly meant "carry on" in the sense of go away. Oh, gasp, I edited a template before the 6 or so Template Police editors could circle jerk over it. Ban me now. And please, blue link me some more. I've only been here 8 years. Keeper | 76 17:31, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

When I arrived at this page, I could have typed a sarcastic message regarding the insufficient prominence of the giant yellow banner with a red heading and blinking "stop" symbol, which you either ignored or disregarded when you edited ITN. I could have condemned your apparent belief that you know better than the community (which, incidentally, rejected the proposed item) and are entitled to bypass its processes whenever you feel like it. I could have engaged in name-calling and mocked your inability to follow simple instructions.

I did none of that. I said "hello", pointed you to an information page, stressed my assumption that you acted in good faith, and thanked you.

Evidently, you took great offense. How dare I question your flawless contributions?! You've been a Wikipedian for eight years, so you must be all-knowing and infallible. What a jerk I was to contact you after you wandered onto the site's most visible page and used a tool with which the community entrusted you to address an egregious omission on the part of the editors who bureaucratically abide by the five pillars instead of deferring to your infinite wisdom.

Clearly, you ascribe a great deal of significance to the act of "blue linking" – to the extent that you regard your non-linked invocation of IAR as materially different.

I could have replied with "Oh, gasp, I've only been here 10 years and participated in the establishment of IAR's current (and longstanding) version. Obviously, I'm grossly ignorant of its magical power to justify any and all edits via a mere mention of its initials and the dismissal of a consensus-driven process as 'instruction creep'."

Instead, I conveyed my view that your interpretation of the policy is inaccurate and pointed you to a page on which the topic is addressed. Egad, that entailed "blue linking"! Ban me now. —David Levy 19:13, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

• Keeper! How are you? Regarding snotty back and forth sniping: The only winning move is not to play. Regarding baseball: Mariners and Red So suck so far this year, Twins seem to be in the hunt though. Regarding editing ITN: Yeah, it's not like the old days. That's good and bad, mostly bad. Regarding blue-linking: I hate that too, but it could have been worse, it could have been a template. Regarding missing the glory days of WP:AN/K: I still do. --Floquenbeam (talk) 20:04, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Keeper's all good. Just having some lulz.  :-) Yeah, you are def right - usertalk templates are worse than usertalk blue-linking. (is blue-linking a template therefore the worst?  :-) ). Except those beer ones, I like the beer ones....I seem to have gotten in Mr. Levy's craw, so I'm going to go back to my cave. Was hoping he'd at least thank me for not edit warring. Oh wells. Keeper | 76 13:55, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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Hi my sports loving friend

I'm even less active around here than I used to be - but we can't let a sports season pass. Here's to meaningful foosball in MN and NJ StarM 02:50, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

It's not football season yet! Amazingly, miraculously even, it's still baseball season up in da woods, and it's almost September! Craziness. Nevermind the 4 game sweep at New Yank. bygones. Keeper | 76 04:16, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

YOur twinkies jinxed us - not sure we've won since. :) StarM 02:45, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Is that the Vikings at 4-2? Holy crap, it's almost like there's a little light at the end of the tunnel. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 21:24, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

this season is insane. We goign to have playoff foosball? StarM 03:58, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

VIkings 8-3? What the H? I don't even know what to think, other than they have a brutal last 5 games. Strong chance of finishing at .500. Keeper | 76 22:31, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Sorry dude. That was brutal. StarM 22:57, 10 January 2016 (UTC)

Brutal isn't the word vikings fans use for heartbreak. "Expected" is more apt. 2 months to spring training.... Keeper | 76 03:57, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Overflow at your admintools page

Dear User:Keeper76. Your page User:Keeper76/dashboard has appeared at Category:Pages_where_template_include_size_is_exceeded. You could help us to empty this maintenance category by replacing everything in this page with {{admin dashboard/light}} that provides the same functionality, but is far less prone to overflow. Thanks in advance. Pldx1 (talk) 11:15, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

 Done, since Keeper doesn't show up very much anymore. Keep, if I've overstepped, sorry. --Floquenbeam (talk) 22:11, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:ANK and AN/K listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:ANK and Wikipedia:AN/K. Since you had some involvement with the Wikipedia:ANK and Wikipedia:AN/K redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so.—Godsy^(TALK_CONT) 08:19, 21 May 2016 (UTC)