DeStubbled
I hope you're happy, beat writers. I hope you find some sick pleasure in running another Cubs legend out of town by crucifying him with broken prose. Maybe you live in some alternate universe where it's okay to violate a man's privacy and print things like his baseball stats and the lack of influence he has on a team's ability to win, but I expect better from the society I live in. But my own values of treating others with dignity and grace have no consequence in the cutthroat media machine in Chicago. Nope. Blake DeWitt is no longer a Chicago Cub. Well, technically he was designated for assignment, but we all know what that means: banished from the hallowed halls of Wrigley because the Tribune, the Sun Times, the Daily Herald, Fangraphs, Baseball Reference, Yahoo! Sports, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and other sour-hearted media bullies of their ilk carried out their vendetta against another hardworking go-getter. They all apparently feel entitled to print whatever they want about the man, no matter who it hurts, no matter how deep the blade of reckless truth may cut.
What really sickens me is that the Cubs are trashing him as well. In their official press release, they pull no punches. The weak of stomach are advised to turn away:
DeWitt, 26, batted .265 (61-for-230) with 11 doubles, five home runs and 26 RBI in 121 games with the Cubs last year, his first full season with the club after being acquired from the Dodgers on July 31, 2010. He is a career .260 hitter (283-for-1,087) in 404 major league games with the Dodgers (2008-10) and the Cubs (2010-present).
The man has a family. Have these people no decency? How is DeWitt supposed to find a job when his former team spews bile about his personal performance? Disgusting. I can only hope the team, the media, and fellow Cubs fans can learn their lesson, finally, that it does no one any good to pay attention to how well any of these players do on the field. That's not what this is about. It's about heart, and I'm pretty sure Blake DeWitt has one. I wish I could say the same thing about everyone in Chicago.
Is There a Cubs Game Today?
No.
Fun but not funny
I just can't laugh today. Not without Blake.
Comments
Fangraphs really does a number on him. They post his wOBA and his projected WAR for next year. No mention of the beard. At. All.
Typical.
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
They’ll be ESPN before you know it.
MishQuote Reply
(dying laughing)
Mobile RiceQuote Reply
Thanks for telling us new shit was up, AC.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Yeah dick. I know you are in mourning over the loss of DeWitt, but the least you could have done is mention that the new edition of DFP. Instead SK and I were stuck talking about mullets in the old thread.
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WaLiQuote Reply
Good luck in your upcoming case, SK
http://boingboing.net/2012/02/02/anal-fireworks-lead-to-lawsuit.html
MishQuote Reply
(dying laughing) @ the DeWitt bit here, AC.
mb21Quote Reply
SK, what was the issue you were having with the mobile version? Last night when I made the switch the image sizes were automatically changed on my iphone. However, I wasn’t able to get the home page to show up in the desktop version. If I click on an article it went to the mobile version. It was late so I gave up, but will look into it sometime today or tomorrow.
mb21Quote Reply
I didn’t have an issue with the mobile site – that was someone else. I haven’t been on the mobile site lately.
Just this morning it seemed like the format changed a bit and avatars weren’t showing up and images weren’t displaying. But I can see the avatars now.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
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mb21Quote Reply
@ Mish:
When I have a firework explode in my anus, my lawyer says that I deserve $1 million in punitive damages and $1 million in compensatory damages, especially since fireworks confuse and frighten him.
http://listoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/08/classic-snl-clip-of-day-unfrozen.html
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Try posting an image now. I think the image you tried to post in the last thread couldn’t show up because of hotlinking. That’s all I can think of. Yeah, the avatars are back. I just wasn’t going to fuck with it last night.
Mobile users, please let us know how the mobile version works.
mb21Quote Reply
Comment text bigger or smaller? I increased the size of the text in the articles.
mb21Quote Reply
mb21 wrote:
http://youtu.be/eplbDbp6XJQ
Suburban kidQuote Reply
For youtube videos to show up it has to have this after .com: /watch?v=eplbDbp6XJQ
That’s the id for that youtube.
mb21Quote Reply
mb21 wrote:
The comment text could use some embiggening, though not that much
BerseliusQuote Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eplbDbp6XJQ
mb21Quote Reply
Bruce Miles suggested that Blakey could end up accepting a demotion and coming as a non-roster invitee to ST. (dying laughing). Though I guess he knows the mediocre level of competition he’d be facing here.
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
Done. Increased from 13px to 14px. OK now?
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
Yeah, looks better.
BerseliusQuote Reply
What would 59px look like?
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Suburban kid wrote:
Sorry, I had typed out a comment on the last thread and never posted it. Rediscredited.
AndCountingQuote Reply
We never did solve the DeeWitt/DooWitt/DuhWitt controversy.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ AndCounting:
Lame
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
about 4.5 times larger than the current text.
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
I was having issues with the mobile on Droid X2. The frame for the comments wouldn’t “fit” to my screen. The old version would “fit” so I wouldn’t have to scroll. The new one I have to scroll to center the comments on my screen. Then I can’t zoom.
WaLiQuote Reply
mb21 wrote:
I like it.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
I added a max-width attribute that should fix it. Let me know.
mb21Quote Reply
@ Berselius:
In that case he’d still be owed the 1/6th of the salary and not the whole million, right?
@ mb21:
It’s like you’re yelling at me *cries*
Rice CubeQuote Reply
B-Pro subscribers, an article about grit and scrap via Calcaterra:
http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/02/07/willie-bloomquist-is-the-pavement-of-baseball-players/
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Avatars showing up on mobile now. Well done!
Your “post comment” button on the desktop version needs a bit of reformatting as the “t” in “comment” is being snipped off. Not a big deal if you don’t care about feng shui though. Plus I guess you should re-implement GBTS’ special links so he can come out of the fetal position.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
http://www.buzzfeed.com/babymantis/15-wacky-us-town-names-1opu
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MishQuote Reply
@ mb21:
Don’t tell me what to do.
Also, it seems to work well now based on my 2 second test.
WaLiQuote Reply
So how many games you guys planning to go to this year?
joshQuote Reply
@ josh:
As many as I can get into for less than $10.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Odd thing to see the Cubs listed as “highly analytical”
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/2012-sabermetric-teams-the-market-for-saber-players/
MishQuote Reply
@ josh:
Just the one.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
You mean Game 7 of the World Series, I take it?
joshQuote Reply
I think I’m going to sit this season out. I think a 1.5-year-old + 3 hours of patient sitting would be a disaster. I’ll find a babysitter if I get WS tickets.
joshQuote Reply
I’m wondering if it’s just a cache issue for me, but when people go to obstructedview.net on their mobile phone, do they get the mobile version? I keep getting the desktop, but then when I click an article I get the mobile version.
You can also use the mobile version as a stand alone app on the iphone.
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
No, but sometimes at home, when I go to the home page, I get yesterday’s version of the page until I reload.
joshQuote Reply
@ mb21:
I get the mobile first, but I think the mobile theme toggle button doesn’t show up on the desktop version until you actually clear the cache etc. On our page it detects that the user is mobile and will have that toggle button no matter what. I just remember this from the last time I accidentally hit the toggle button and had to spend a few minutes trying to get the mobile theme back (dying laughing)
So I’m not sure if you fixed that or not, or think it’s even necessary.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ josh:
I might go to a game or two in Houston, but that’s about it. I’ll have to make sure I’m mentally prepared first.
BerseliusQuote Reply
http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/20589/nl-central-showdown-position-rankings
(dying laughing) at Mesoraco/Hanigan ranked ahead of Geo
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ josh:
This happens to me as well. Didn’t seem to happen before.
WaLiQuote Reply
I meant to ask yesterday but couldn’t get signed in but is there some meme I’m not aware of regarding Hoyer? I see everybody calls him Thoyer? Is that a combination of Thor and Hoyer or something?
MuckerQuote Reply
Mucker wrote:
Theo-Hoyer
BerseliusQuote Reply
Berselius wrote:
Jesus Christ I’m a fucking dunce.
MuckerQuote Reply
@ Berselius:
If their bus breaks down in Champaign, I’ll go over and ogle. I seriously wouldn’t mind going to one this season. I bet good seats will be available up to the day of for about every game.
joshQuote Reply
Jeremy Bates——->New Bears QB coach
Great sign. Hopefully he becomes the OC after next year.
MuckerQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
Who is he?
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
He was Cutler’s QB coach in Denver. Actually, I think the Bears wanted to interview him for the OC before Martz if I remember correctly but he went to Seattle with Carroll because I think he’s a USC guy.
MuckerQuote Reply
josh wrote:
.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
Alvin’s version of the meme is super clever. TheoJed.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
@ josh:
I’m lucky if I get to Chicago once a year. This is not one of those years I’ll be going to several games when I’m home. One nostalgic whiff of the troughs will get me through 2012.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
Visitor’s visa to US ————-> Cespedes
He’s probably meeting the Marlins tomorrow
BerseliusQuote Reply
Suburban kid wrote:
I like to add a little backslash in there. Theo/Jed.
I guess I’m not as clever.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Suburban kid:
Just don’t make eye contact. You don’t want the wrong kind of Wrigley Field memory.
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
Boy or girl?
I brought my son to a game at the Cell when he was a little older than 2. He fell asleep.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Mucker wrote:
I would like to see this.
MishQuote Reply
The mobile theme should be working pretty well now. Let me know if any of you have any issues. It’s set by default to hide the comments to speed up loading times.
mb21Quote Reply
@ Mish:
Behold as Jed Hoyer, Jewish God of general managing, expels Blake DeWitt verily from the hallowed halls of Asgard/Wrigley!
*imagines Jed Hoyer holding Mjolnir*
Rice CubeQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
When you factor in the commute up from Champaign as well, I think it’s too much.
joshQuote Reply
Josh, Fangraphs is using WordPress 3.3.1, which is the newest version and the same one we’re using. So that comments vote has to work. I’ll try it out and if I have trouble I’ll contact David Appleman.
mb21Quote Reply
Rice Cube wrote:
I really don’t know Thor that well beyond the movie. (dying laughing)
MishQuote Reply
@ mb21:
It works!!!
WaLiQuote Reply
@ Rice Cube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4y7209adbQ
WaLiQuote Reply
So that works, but I need to move it to the bottom of the comments.
mb21Quote Reply
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BerseliusQuote Reply
WaLi wrote:
Are the +/- reversed from joomla? My mouse keeps going to -1 when I want to +1. Or maybe my brain is just feeling contrarian today (dying laughing). Bug hunting will do that.
BerseliusQuote Reply
@ mb21:
Sweet.
joshQuote Reply
red is down, green is up, b.
How can I move those to the bottom right? Or even bottom left? I can’t even find any styling for it. (dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
And you need to make it turn green, but this is a step in the right direction
WaLiQuote Reply
@ WaLi:
That will be later on. I’m pretty much burned out from website shit right now. I just want to write articles. (dying laughing)
mb21Quote Reply
@ mb21:
That was the problem I ran into, was how to change anything. The only options are that you can choose to have comments collapse after a certain number of negative votes. Seems like that function could be hijacked to be the highlighting function. I really don’t know php well enough to understand how the plugin inserts itself, let alone how to move it around.
joshQuote Reply
@ mb21:
I guess we can give you a pass (dying laughing)
WaLiQuote Reply
So I heard the Cubs signed some pitcher named Concepticon from Cuba. Is he any good?
MuckerQuote Reply
@ Mucker:
Concepticons attaaaaaaaack!
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
(dying laughing) That’s the same thing I thought of when I first saw his name spelled like that.
MuckerQuote Reply
Mucker wrote:
His numbers look lousy and he’s young, but the scouts love him.
BerseliusQuote Reply
josh wrote:
Concepticons would only attack theoretically.
BerseliusQuote Reply
Berselius wrote:
(dying laughing) Yeah, I should have used the rhetorical question font. I was being a smartass. Serious question though, what’s the deal with the compensation? Has that been resolved, anybody know?
MuckerQuote Reply
Hooray for the return of faget points!
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Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Berselius:
They would be the basis for the theories behind attack, without being attack itself.
joshQuote Reply
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Aisle424Quote Reply
Suddenly I’m too stupid to load a picture correctly.
Aisle424Quote Reply
@ Aisle424:
Maybe the comment parser doesn’t like % in links
BerseliusQuote Reply
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WaLiQuote Reply
My turn!
[img]http://tinyurl.com/725k4lh[/img]
joshQuote Reply
Can we no longer edit comments?
WaLiQuote Reply
Josh wins.
Aisle424Quote Reply
I shortened it with tinyurl. So, maybe Berselius was right about %, or maybe it was just too long. No idea.
joshQuote Reply
josh wrote:
That is way too much work.
Aisle424Quote Reply
[img]http://tinyurl.com/7aqno7b[/img]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBkOlgU3MYY
Aisle424Quote Reply
I was just curious if it would work.
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joshQuote Reply
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MishQuote Reply
@ Mish:
Don’t tell me what to do
BerseliusQuote Reply
Woooooah…I fear change.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Test…QaPla!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnBY2X0kc24&feature=player_embedded
Rice CubeQuote Reply
Well, it embedded at first, but I guess it doesn’t like edits. Here is another try…
/edit
Okay, I see…it just didn’t refresh immediately and auto-embed the comment after the edit. Weird.
Rice CubeQuote Reply
What did you try to do, RC?
mb21Quote Reply
test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_zYS2ZzF4
mb21Quote Reply
new shit: http://obstructedview.net/transactions/cubs-claim-adrian-cardenas-designate-blake-dewitt.html
mb21Quote Reply
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Suburban kidQuote Reply
Hearing rumors of Josh Vitters ——-> Red Sox as Theo compensation. I want this to happen simply because I called it back when the Theo talks first began.
AndCountingQuote Reply