Friday OT Thread

1. Is anyone else stuck at work?
Why yes I am – how did you know?

2. Who had some crazy black friday action/story? Any pepper spray?
I’ve never had a true black friday experience. I bought a $200 smart phone for $00.01 online a couple days ago, but online doesn’t count. The only time I’ve purposefully been at a store on the day after Thanksgiving was at the Mall of America….but that was a planned vacation. And the MoA was not particularly busy.

3. Give me your best creative Thanksgiving leftovers meal. Simply reheating doesn’t count – you have to create something new out of the leftovers.
Shepards pie is a good one. Chop up some leftover turkey, mix with some vegetables/stuffing and a little gravy. Spread mashed potatoes over the top like meringue, and bake until everything is heated through and the potatoes get kind of crispy.

Making soup stock out of the carcass is always a good idea, though not exactly a specific recipe.

4. I just got my first smartphone – give me some android apps/games (preferably free) that I need to check out.
I’m a big fan of the gmail app!

5. Do the Royals make another major move (major for the Royals that is…major would basically be defined as inolving a member of the 25 man roster…) this offseason?
I’ll say we acquire an iffy starting pitcher (minor league deal), a veteran reliever to a major league deal (it will be one of those ‘not horrible but serves no real purpose head scratchers’), and a maddening major league deal for a position player – some old, gritty white guy that will take playing time away from some one more interesting.

1. I don’t know that I’m “stuck”. I don’t absolutely HAVE to be here (one of the benefits of being a partial small business owner). However, the wheels of justice must keep rolling for my clients…even if that means rolling over Black Friday and leaving it in the dust.

2. Given that I think getting up early (or even sleeping in) and venturing out to join the consumer throngs on a day like this is the height of lunacy, I don’t have any personal anecdotes related to this day. No pepper spray in my office…so far.

3. Why mess with perfection? Just plop another serving of everything I ate yesterday onto a plate and heat it up for me. I guess I’m a simple man.

4. I’ve got an iPhone, so I got nothing for you on Android apps. Sporcle is a good/fun time-waster. So I’d download that if it’s available on Android.

5. Trusttheprocess’ answer to this was basically the Official Dayton Moore Offseason Playbook. Hard to argue with tradition, but I still think Dayton wants to pull off a trade for a top-level (i.e. #1-3) starter. I think he’d be content with having Monty and Duffy both open the season in AAA, and I think even Dayton knows that Crow isn’t a realistic rotation option. If one or more of them pitch lights out, then he’ll probably look at trading Sanchez mid-season.

Star-divide

1. Is anyone else stuck at work?

No, but I’m about to go stick myself at work. I need to finish a writing project—-MSS due March 15.

2. Who had some crazy black friday action/story? Any pepper spray?

Nothing. “Black Friday” is a ridiculous made-up American concept.

3. Give me your best creative Thanksgiving leftovers meal. Simply reheating doesn’t count – you have to create something new out of the leftovers.

Nothing to offer.

4. I just got my first smartphone – give me some android apps/games (preferably free) that I need to check out.

My family only has one cell phone—-a regular old flip phone (which does happen to have a camera—-woo hoo!).

5. Do the Royals make another major move (major for the Royals that is…major would basically be defined as inolving a member of the 25 man roster…) this offseason?

I’d love to see them pick up—-by trade preferably—-two more quality starting pitchers. I’d love our starting 5 to be 7 deep with above average quality. If GMDM is going to bring anything here from the Braves, it’s the idea that you can never have too much starting pitching.

At this point I might even be an advocate of moving Soria to the rotation (if they’re not going to move Crow there). We have 3 high-quality bullpen pitchers. Why not move one up and call up another to spend a year learning in the bullpen as a 7th or 8th inning set up guy? – TL

Feel a major move coming

1. I too am stuck at work. Worse yet, there is nothing to do.

2. Not a chance in hell you catch me out shopping today.

3. Other than a turkey and dressing sandwich with a side of gravy for dipping, nothing too creative.

4. Can’t help you there.

5. My gut tells me that Kelly Johnson may be signed soon.

1. Not at work.
2. Not shopping.
3. I make turkey tetrazzini every year with the left over turkey and gravy.
4. I’ve got an iPhone, but i assume theres some crossover. Weather Channel, Yelp, Angry Birds, and Sportaneous (if you like playing pickup sports).
5. I really don’t know. I think Moore believes that the current roster will compete in 2012.

1. Nah, but if your on RR at work then it ain’t work.

2. Screw “black Friday” and all the sells that make the day retarded. When I worked at Wal-Mart I refused to work this day.

3. Basically just take some leftovers and make a grilled breakfast burrito out of it. Best one was pork chops, potatoes, and cheesy broccoli with salsa. We do this a lot with leftovers.

4. Words with friends. You will become an addict. (anyone wants to play, hit me up at PhattStairs)

5. Probably a shuffle some papers move like Mitch for a relief pitcher…oh no…the letters would get really sad.

1. Is anyone else stuck at work?

Not I.

2. Who had some crazy black friday action/story? Any pepper spray?

Last night was the first time in my life I’ve ever actually tried to go out because the Emerson TV deal at Wal-Mart was too much to pass up. I didn’t get it, but at least due to the ticketing system I knew right away and could leave. I’m just not a fan of the shopping hordes; I like to put off my Christmas shopping as long as I can. I think my personal record is December 23.

3. Give me your best creative Thanksgiving leftovers meal. Simply reheating doesn’t count – you have to create something new out of the leftovers.

Turkey pizzaconey. Tell me this wouldn’t work!

4. I just got my first smartphone – give me some android apps/games (preferably free) that I need to check out.

I’m actually a fan of Shazam, but removed it because I was running out of space and something had to go. I found it useful (it’s the one that recognizes what songs are and tells you).

5. Do the Royals make another major move (major for the Royals that is…major would basically be defined as inolving a member of the 25 man roster…) this offseason?

No.

I decided to engage someone on Twitter who said that 2B should be an open competition between Colon and Giavotella in ST for the Opening Day roster.

I also was stuck at work today. Sadly, we do not have Royals Review access on our computers. It was dead dead dead.

This is the first year in about 11 years that I have not been working retail at the holidays. Pretty weird. However at the bookstore Black Friday was never a big deal, especially not in the morning because the “serious” (i.e. insane) shoppers were out in the morning and we had nothing big enough to tempt them and everyone was sleeping in or avoiding anything shop-like until the afternoon. I remember one year this group of women came into the store to get some caffeine from our cafe. They had matching bright pink t-shirts with their shopping team’s name on them and they had maps and were calling their other team members. I was pretty happy when they left. Although I can appreciate if you’re going to engage in that insanity having a plan, but the t-shirts and the Bridezilla-like vibes coming off them made me just want to punch them in the face.

In our line of retail, the Saturday before Christmas and December 23rd (the last full shopping day) were the completely insane days. Honestly – I’m going to miss it. I kind of loved working when it was busy and we were pretty much just doing crowd control and inventory control and I had an excuse to not get sucked into a long conversation with crazy, lonely people (a constant hazard at the bookstore). It’s my favorite time of the year.

1. I did work today, was done at 11

2. Nothing crazy happened, I don’t work in a high end enough store to really worry… Creek Rats are pretty tame.

3. Nothing comes to mind, Im making Turkey Salad in the morning… Thinking about throwing some of the left over Home Made Stuffing in it.

4. Astro File Manager, and then you can pirate apps (if you do that sort of thing).

5. I think the Royals have a shot at Darvish.

Normally they are $5. Yes that’s right, a punch thrown over four dollars in savings. Black fucking Friday.

The Royals will probably trade for Gio Gonzalez or Jair Jurrjens, Jurrjens being the most likely target. The Royals will also put a $40 Million bid in for Yu Darvish, and get him with a 4 year, $60 Million contract. The Royals will put Darvish and Jurrjens in the rotation, leave Duffy in AAA for depth, and put Chen in the bullpen as a long reliever.

The Rotation will look like:

1-Yu Darvish
2-Jair Jurrjens
3-Luke Hochevar
4-Jonathan Sanchez
5-Felipe Paulino

Suddenly, the Royals are a good team, and everyone is happy.

1 No work, full time student.

2 Black Friday always seemed like a bad idea. Like willingly subjugating yourself to torture and mean people just for more stuff (which most people have plenty of). But there is no Thanksgiving in England so no Black Friday…

3 Not really. No pumpkin pie in England either. That’s really unfortunate.

4 I hear there’s this app called email…it’s pretty neat. Get I am T Pain for kicks.

5 No. I think he’s done. The only possibilities is a blockbluster trade or useless acquirement.