First time at rick bayless frontera grill. Eating at the airport location so hope its not a let down.
P.s. his bro skip is still a big douche
Frontera
April 19th, 2012opening up…
April 18th, 2012this blog that is to the world.
blogging on one acl
January 31st, 2012i’m back again after some timeoff. hoping to be more active for a couple of reasons: 1. i might lose readers if don’t (kidding); 2. give updates about how my acl recovery is going.
yep, i tore my acl on 1/13/2012 (YEP, friday the friggin 13th!!!!). it happened while i was playing hoops. i jumped up and bumped knees and immediately went down. i could not put weight on it immediately, but managed to limp off the basketball court eventually. after sitting on the sideline for a little bit, i was able to bend my knee back and forth a little bit…and wrote off the pain as just a knee bruise which would disappear after a week or so.
fast forward to 1/20, and the pain still hadn’t subsided…so i decided to make an appointment to see an orthopedist on 1/24. after seeing the orthopedist on 1/24, he determined that based on my symptoms it probably was a torn meniscus. i would be extremely happy right now if it was just a torn meniscus, because after some quick arthroscopic cleanup…it is something that one can recover within a month. the doctor asked me to get an mri to confirm that is what the injury really was….so i scheduled to get that on 1/25, and made a follow-up appointment with the doctor on 1/26. unfortunately, after looking at the mri results…my worst fear came true that i had a torn acl which required surgery/re-construction followed by a really really long (approximately 8 months or so) rehab to get back to where i was at before.
the surgery is scheduled to be on friday 2/17. my knee is fine right now, and i am no longer in pain (turns out pain was due to a bone contusion)…but the knee does feel very unstable. acl surgery is supposed to be a quick procedure which lasts about an hour and half where the doctor takes muscle from either your hamstring, patella tendon, or a cadaver and re-constructs the acl. since it is a completely new ligament being put back together….the rehab is expected to take a long time.
so this is where i am at as of 1/31. i promise to update this more over the next 8 months or so on how my recovery is going.
2011 world series; nba lockout; rick neuheisel
October 21st, 2011eh, at a point where i want to do anything but study…so here are some random thoughts from the the sporting world tonight:
- great come from behind win by the rangers tonight. yes, they were only down 1 run, but impressive to do it in the top of 9th against arguably the best closer by far in the postseason in jason motte.
- key to the whole rally in 9th was the clutch steal by ian kinsler after he led of the 9th with a bloop single. elvis andrus also was great at running the bases advancing to 2nd on a throw home. the rangers have done a great job of running the bases all year long.
- speaking of stealing bases:
- rangers were 5th overall (4th in AL) in stolen bases with 143 in 2011; 7th overall (5th in AL) with 123 stolen bases in 2010. in fact since Ron Washington started managing the rangers in 2007, texas is ranked 7th overall (4th in AL) with a total of 584 stolen bases. seems to me Washington is a big fan of the stolen base.
- ok, so here is where i am going with this: for anyone who has watched moneyball (i have only watched, not read yet), Billy Beane’s big thing is OBP…get runners on base, and make sure they don’t make outs by trying to steal bases. the 2001 a’s team only stole 68 bases ranking 24th overall; the 2002 a’s team was dead last with only 46 stolen bases. for a 5 year stretch from 2001 to 2006, the a’s were dead last with only 301 stolen bases.
- the funny thing is, Ron Washington was the a’s bench coach during this 2001-2006 time period. clearly, he moved on from that thought point since taking over for the rangers in 2007. yes, OBP might be a big factor (rangers 6th overall in OBP since Ron Washington started managing them in 2007), but you also have to be aggressive and make stuff happen on the bases….this is exactly why the rangers have been a success the last couple of years in the playoffs.
- table below illustrates that staying aggressive on the base paths once on base also plays a big part. the a’s have been a bit more aggressive on the base paths the last 5 years, but unfortunately for them the OBP has not been up to par.
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Ron Washington Texas years (2007-2011) SB Attempts SB CS SB Pct SBRank OBP OBPRank Texas 763 584 179 0.7654 7 0.336 6 Oakland 716 546 170 0.7626 9 0.324 22 Ron Washington Oakland years (2001-2006) SB Attempts SB CS SB Pct SBRank OBP OBPRank Texas 579 413 166 0.7133 27 0.335 13 Oakland 428 301 127 0.7033 30 0.338 8
other non world series thoughts:
- the nba is seriously on the verge of losing all of their casual followers. so the owners and players decide it’s time to get serious and try and make a deal by holding a long meeting on wednesday. with supposedly good progress from the meeting wednesday, another one was scheduled for thursday…but apparently all hell broke lose by the end of thursday’s meeting. the owners are just stuck on this whole splitting revenue evenly, while the players are requesting 53% of the revenue. at this point this has pretty much become a he said/she said type of deal now. fans who had some optimisim, no longer have that to hold on to. i wouldn’t be surprised if the association cancelled the entire season…which would be a pretty sad thing. all this after the nba just had one of their best years since the end of jordan era.
- last thought before i call it a night – how long before rick neuheisel is fired at ucla? neuheisel was already on the hot seat before the season started with a disappointing first 3 years at ucla, but he definitely could’ve taken himself a little of the hot seat by winning at arizona (a team that just fired it’s coach not too long ago) on thursday night. the win would’ve moved ucla into a 1st place tie in the pac-12 south with arizona state and usc. the remaining schedule for ucla was easy outside of the games remaining with the first place sun devils and trojans. so what does ucla do on thursday night? lay a big fat egg in tucson. the game was over by halftime with arizona going to the locker room with a comfortable 42-7 lead. to top that off, there was an ugly ugly incident between the two teams right at halftime which resulted in a player from each team being ejected. i don’t think it could get any uglier for neuheisel, and i wouldn’t be surprised if ucla decided to fire him by monday at the latest.
* all statistical information credit goes to STATS Inc.
* follow me on twitter @pnanny for up to the minute information.
Metra thoughts…
August 30th, 2011Love this whole wordpress for android. Now I can blog as I ride the train; shit I hear on the train (like the dude who wants to get his weight down to a “buck 90″); and other shit…
I promise I wont make this space boring ….after today
Ps Metra doesn’t take laminated monthly passes to prevent counterfeiting
Lunch @ Meatheads
August 26th, 2011
My favorite burger place with some ketchapeno
Android post
August 26th, 2011
Testing this post from my phone
Peep my buehrle bobblehead
been a while
April 12th, 2011hoping to add something here soon….
long time…
October 29th, 2010dang it’s been a long time since i have posted (almost a year).
installed a new plugin…so this is a simple test to see if that works.
update
December 30th, 2009hmmm, its been a while since ive posted something, but nothing like before where i was gone for months at a time. i have procrastinated, but with me currently being bored at work i figured i would spit out a few random things.
- i went to grab some lunch this afternoon at fredhots, a spot that is quickly starting to become one of the places that i frequent. i call this place the suburban hot dougs, with a good variety of hot dogs/sausages. so far i have tried the italian sausage, chicken sausage, salmon hot dog, and the greek gyros sausage. none of them has disappointed me thus far. the first couple of times i shied away from the fries (called frites here), but that mightve been a mistake. even a regular frites is more than enough to feed two people, and each order comes with a sauce of your choice. i have only tried the chipotle aioli, but rumors are the garlic aioli is not a bad choice either. i will definitely be going back and trying new stuff at this place with the santa fe chicken sausage being the next thing i try on this list. i would also eventually like to try the reindeer and elk sausages, but will probably have to wait until next winter as the time has run out to try them this year.
- wow has the decent start to the depaul basketball season gone completely down the drain! depaul exceeded the expectations by playing competitive basketball at the paradise jam by first beating a very good northern iowa team, hanging in there tough against tennessee, and beating the always competitive st.joseph’s team. ever since that trip, it has been a complete 180 for depaul. they barely beat an alcorn state team that teams from the big east are supposed to blow out, lost to a previously 1-9 american team, lost on the road to a team (florida gulf coast) that has never beaten a school from the major conference, and lost in the big east opener to a rebuilding pitt team. i place the blame on jerry wainwright (or wainWRONG?) as well as the depaul athletic adminsitration. the man is probably best known for taking the unc-wilmington team to the ncaa tournament and riding the coattails of one brett blizzard to better coaching jobs, first at richmond and now at depaul. his record at richmond was questionable, and at depaul has been terrible thus far. yes, he had a decent showing in the one loser tournament (NIT), but that was with the previous head coach’s (dave leitao) recruits. i am not a talent evaluator, but it seems like the players he recruited are decent, but his coaching is to be questioned. its terrible watching this team that basically has no movement whatsoever on offense, and outside of this year not very good defensively, gets outrebounded every game, terrible free throw shooting, terrible field goal shooting, etc. even this year the only reason that the team looks good numbers wise on defense is because they slow the game down so much. the blame is also to be placed on the depaul athletic department for first of all making a terrible hire like this, and second letting wainwrong coach another year after finishing an atrocious 0-18 in conference play last year. wainwrong replaced his entire coaching stuff over the summer, but that doesn’t seem to have done anything to improve this team. i can just see it coming again this year: depaul will go 0-18 AGAIN this year in big east conference play!
- well the new year is only about a day and a half away, and of course that also means that one of the most overrated days (NYE) is right around the corner. ive only been out to a bar on NYE two times. once was to go to hogs & hunnies, and last year went to fado’s. fado’s wasnt actually too bad, b/c the place wasnt crowded. but for the most part i hate NYE b/c it attracts all the roaches who rarely go out but are out to celebrate this overrated day, all the bar packages are super expensive, the bars are extremely packed, and it’s virtually impossible to get your drinks and food fighting with the crowd. i would honestly prefer doing something at home, or even passing up on the new years eve activities, and save myself for the handful of good bowl games that are on the 1st. checkout this column by steve dahl where he calls nye the amateur night.