Another classic Spam message from the CH inbox:
From: Kathy
Subject: Would this Interest your Blog Readers
Message:
Dear,
Thought you might be interested in some fun stuff for your blog readers. Please take a look how fire thrills...... and kills. Watch a fire-breather's head blow up in a freak accident.
It’d be great if you can share this with your blog readers
Regards,
Kathy
I'd include the link, but would then probably get 1,000 messages a day from Kathy.
Oh, and an update from this CH email....I pulled the trigger on that '88. It arrived last month and is currently in my back yard. It needs a little welding work on the boiler (looking to hire), a large family of Cuban refugees were found in the hull, and a pack of raccoons found their way into the electrical system. Whatever. I'll get that bad boy cruising the shores of Lake Michigan in no time.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Really?
Somebody still thinks its a good idea to give Eric Gagne money to play baseball.
Gagne Signs With Cam-Am Team
Hat tip to Cobra.
Gagne Signs With Cam-Am Team
Hat tip to Cobra.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
From The Chuckie_Hacks@yahoo.com Inbox
We get truckloads of spam to the Hacks email address. All kinds of mess. Inbetween "LOTTERY WINNER," and "FROM THE KING OF ENGLAND," this one stood out:
Subject: Vessel For Sale
Dear Sir,
We are putting up the following for immediate transaction:
- 1 Unit of BRAND NEW 7,000dwt Oil Tanker (Built Nov, 2008 in China)
- 1 Unit of BRAND NEW 7,000dwt Oil Tanker (Built Nov, 2008 in China)
- 1 Unit of BRAND NEW 6740dwt Chemical Tanker (Built Nov, 2008 in China)
- 1 Unit of 1002dwt Chemical Tanker (Built 1988 in Japan)
Please contact us for more infomation.
Best Regards,
Judy Qian
Please contact us for more infomation.
Best Regards,
Judy Qian
Sure glad I got this because I've been in the market for an '88 Chemical Tanker for months!
Monday, February 2, 2009
Billups of the Week
There are several reasons I got into this business people. Namely...I'm in it for the money, the fame, the women, the glory, and the downright SATISFACTION I get from being right all the time (except the times when I'm 100% wrong).
But sometimes people...sometimes...stuff comes along which make me LMAO in such a way that it cannot be properly described. This time...it came in email form.
Remember my post about Trenni last week? Just Woz being Woz right? Just doing anything to write about Trenni right? Did you ever say to yourself when reading that..."oh noooooo...Woz shouldn't have done that!"
Well...The CH inbox received this lovely nugget of an email from the current Billups' of the Week over at NFL Juice.
Hey Chuck head-
Listen up, sport. It's a joke. But for the record, we do know Trenni- personally. Great girl, and yes, she did go to Cancun in 97' with UW-Oshkosh, where she went to college before transferring. We've got the pics to prove it. She's not a slut or a dirtbag, we just wanted to get her name out there.
Lies? Check your sources before you call out other blogs.
Max, Turd, Burgundy
NFLJuice
Oh man...what's the term...I can't think of it...oh wait...I know...LOL! LOL!
Are these tools serious? They actually fired off an email from that post! And check out some of the language.
"Hey Chuck head..." Ummm...ok
"Listen up, sport." Sport? Did you just get done re-reading the Great Gatsby last night?
"It's a joke." Oh really? A joke? I never would have thought. Newsflash: So was my post you donkeys.
"We've got the pics to prove it." I'm sure you guys do. And I'm sure they are used frequently before bedtime.
"Lies? Check your sources before you call out other blogs." Oh man...check your sources? Like I have any sources? That was a "call out?" If we're talking about "checking sources" perhaps they should actually take a look at our blog and the number of Trenni posts we've (I've) had on here. She's a regular topic...and ummm...usually there is some satire involved.
So what's Trenni's take on all this? Unfortunately, she was unavailable for comment.
Congratulations to the NFL Juice for their first Billups of the Week win. Good times people...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Email Fun with Chuckie Hacks' Bloggers
After I saw Brad the Dinosaur's post yesterday making fun of VORP...I felt an email was in order to him explaining a few things. After writing a long email...I realized that I write for a blog...so I might as well throw it up as well for the masses to see.
I never have proclaimed to be a stat wiz, but I do understand the basics of all this new age stuff. And yes, from what I've read, VORP is already outdated to some other crap that I haven't learned yet. But it still doesn't diminish what the number represents, or the basic conclusions that you can draw from said numbers. Enjoy the exchange...Brad did.
Woz to Brad (Matt & Goldy CC'd)
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/team_audit.php?team=MIL
Brad,
Here, read up on VORP...this is last year’s team all ranked based on their VORP. Obviously Braun and Prince were 1 and 2 for hitters, while CC & Sheets were 1 & 2 for pitchers. Looking at stats like this is another reason why I’m a fan of Mike Cameron. He’s a big part of this team this year and was a huge part last year. We’ll need him to match last year’s production. His value cannot be overlooked.
The reason this stat is useful is that it tracks overall offensive value of any player across the whole league. That’s why you can compare Pujol’s VORP to Braun’s, or Hanley Ramirez’s to Lance Berkman. The point is not to factor who a potential “replacement player” would be on each team. Obviously some teams have a better guy they can bring up at 3b or RF in case one of their guys goes down. But that doesn’t mean that since that “replacement player” is better, the current guy in the position should have his VORP calculated based on that or whatever. Again, the replacement player they are referring to is a guy who has a VORP of 0…he brings nothing to the team. It’s an imaginary guy with stats that overall don’t contribute to a single run…which is the unit that VORP is measured in…runs.
And Yes, Bill Hall had a negative VORP. He literally cost the team runs this past year. If you would bring in some chump from Triple AAA or whatever (the “replacement player” , some guy that got the same number of plate appearances as Hall and would have had a VORP of 0, they are saying the Brewers are better off with that chump getting the at-bats instead of Bill Hall. Again, forget the replacement player. The stat is there to intuitively prove that Bill Hall is absolutely terrible.
Here’s the final ranking of NL VORPS from last year. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/sortable/index.php?cid=309868
Note how ridiculous Albert Pujols is. That’s why I scoffed at people saying he wasn’t the MVP. Dude was the best. Period. Without him, the Cardinals would have been a joke.
A final thing to point out is that sabremetrics states that roughly every 10 runs that a player contributes (based on VORP) is worth 1 win. I think there may be a stat for that called WARP or something…but I’m not sure about that so let’s just ignore it.
So basically you can say from looking at these year end stats that both Braun and Prince single-handedly accounted for about 4 wins each for the team. If you read Keith Law or Rob Neyer or other stat guys that say stuff like, “He’ll probably be worth 2-3 wins for the team this year” this is what they are talking about.
Finally, add up all the VORPS of all the Brewers from their offensive stats. Unless my math is wrong, I came up with 198. So using the whole “roughly 10 runs equals a win thing here” we can project the Brewers should have been around 19.8 games over .500 last year based on these stats. Lets say 20 games to round up. Well…they went 90-72. 18 games over. Again, this is ridiculously crude, because I’m sure the stat nerds convert VORP into something else and go from there to calculate winning percentages and what not. But to start, they always try to project VORP, because it’s the basic value of what a player is worth, and it’s used in comparison to every other player in the league.
So while I enjoyed your other acronyms on your last post (quite funny indeed), hopefully this will help you understand VORP a little better. I can send you a couple of books if you’d like it to be explained in more detail or better than what I just did.
Goldy to Woz, Brad, & Matt
I like the fact that Woz has a library of VORP
books.
Brad to Woz, Goldy, & Matt
Hmmm, interesting. Is it possible for someone to have like a great OPS, but a bad VORP? Or vice versa?
Woz to Brad, Matt, Goldy
I can’t comment on any direct correlation, but on the surface a guy with a high OPS would have a “higher” VORP…but again, VORP is also the measure of runs provided based on PA’s, so a lot of it depends on how much the guy plays. Two great examples for the Brewers last year were Gabe Kapler and Russell Branyan.
Russell actually had the highest OPS (920), but his VORP wasn’t as high because he didn’t play enough. Kapler’s figures are similar.
But our top 4 guys in terms of VORP (Braun, Prince, JJ, Cameron) all had OPSs over .800. As far as I’m concerned, by any quantifiable measure, these 4 guys were our 4 best offensive guys last year.
On the flip side, check out Counsel and Kendall’s OPS…and compare then to the VORPs. Both guys VORP’s were around 0, and their OPS were around 650 (which is incredibly weak).
But Counsell and Kendall’s value goes beyond their offensive contributions (obviously)…anyway I don’t think anybody is saying these guys are on the team for their offensive contributions.
I like the Counsell signing BTW.
Matt to Brad, Goldy, Woz
But Mike Cameron strikes out too much!!!!!! I hate him!!!!!
And...that's where the thread ended. I actually had to work at that point.
Point? VORP ain't bad. It helps you understand what you should already know. Just another stat for the arsenal.
I never have proclaimed to be a stat wiz, but I do understand the basics of all this new age stuff. And yes, from what I've read, VORP is already outdated to some other crap that I haven't learned yet. But it still doesn't diminish what the number represents, or the basic conclusions that you can draw from said numbers. Enjoy the exchange...Brad did.
Woz to Brad (Matt & Goldy CC'd)
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/team_audit.php?team=MIL
Brad,
Here, read up on VORP...this is last year’s team all ranked based on their VORP. Obviously Braun and Prince were 1 and 2 for hitters, while CC & Sheets were 1 & 2 for pitchers. Looking at stats like this is another reason why I’m a fan of Mike Cameron. He’s a big part of this team this year and was a huge part last year. We’ll need him to match last year’s production. His value cannot be overlooked.
The reason this stat is useful is that it tracks overall offensive value of any player across the whole league. That’s why you can compare Pujol’s VORP to Braun’s, or Hanley Ramirez’s to Lance Berkman. The point is not to factor who a potential “replacement player” would be on each team. Obviously some teams have a better guy they can bring up at 3b or RF in case one of their guys goes down. But that doesn’t mean that since that “replacement player” is better, the current guy in the position should have his VORP calculated based on that or whatever. Again, the replacement player they are referring to is a guy who has a VORP of 0…he brings nothing to the team. It’s an imaginary guy with stats that overall don’t contribute to a single run…which is the unit that VORP is measured in…runs.
And Yes, Bill Hall had a negative VORP. He literally cost the team runs this past year. If you would bring in some chump from Triple AAA or whatever (the “replacement player” , some guy that got the same number of plate appearances as Hall and would have had a VORP of 0, they are saying the Brewers are better off with that chump getting the at-bats instead of Bill Hall. Again, forget the replacement player. The stat is there to intuitively prove that Bill Hall is absolutely terrible.
Here’s the final ranking of NL VORPS from last year. http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/sortable/index.php?cid=309868
Note how ridiculous Albert Pujols is. That’s why I scoffed at people saying he wasn’t the MVP. Dude was the best. Period. Without him, the Cardinals would have been a joke.
A final thing to point out is that sabremetrics states that roughly every 10 runs that a player contributes (based on VORP) is worth 1 win. I think there may be a stat for that called WARP or something…but I’m not sure about that so let’s just ignore it.
So basically you can say from looking at these year end stats that both Braun and Prince single-handedly accounted for about 4 wins each for the team. If you read Keith Law or Rob Neyer or other stat guys that say stuff like, “He’ll probably be worth 2-3 wins for the team this year” this is what they are talking about.
Finally, add up all the VORPS of all the Brewers from their offensive stats. Unless my math is wrong, I came up with 198. So using the whole “roughly 10 runs equals a win thing here” we can project the Brewers should have been around 19.8 games over .500 last year based on these stats. Lets say 20 games to round up. Well…they went 90-72. 18 games over. Again, this is ridiculously crude, because I’m sure the stat nerds convert VORP into something else and go from there to calculate winning percentages and what not. But to start, they always try to project VORP, because it’s the basic value of what a player is worth, and it’s used in comparison to every other player in the league.
So while I enjoyed your other acronyms on your last post (quite funny indeed), hopefully this will help you understand VORP a little better. I can send you a couple of books if you’d like it to be explained in more detail or better than what I just did.
Goldy to Woz, Brad, & Matt
I like the fact that Woz has a library of VORP
books.
Brad to Woz, Goldy, & Matt
Hmmm, interesting. Is it possible for someone to have like a great OPS, but a bad VORP? Or vice versa?
Woz to Brad, Matt, Goldy
I can’t comment on any direct correlation, but on the surface a guy with a high OPS would have a “higher” VORP…but again, VORP is also the measure of runs provided based on PA’s, so a lot of it depends on how much the guy plays. Two great examples for the Brewers last year were Gabe Kapler and Russell Branyan.
Russell actually had the highest OPS (920), but his VORP wasn’t as high because he didn’t play enough. Kapler’s figures are similar.
But our top 4 guys in terms of VORP (Braun, Prince, JJ, Cameron) all had OPSs over .800. As far as I’m concerned, by any quantifiable measure, these 4 guys were our 4 best offensive guys last year.
On the flip side, check out Counsel and Kendall’s OPS…and compare then to the VORPs. Both guys VORP’s were around 0, and their OPS were around 650 (which is incredibly weak).
But Counsell and Kendall’s value goes beyond their offensive contributions (obviously)…anyway I don’t think anybody is saying these guys are on the team for their offensive contributions.
I like the Counsell signing BTW.
Matt to Brad, Goldy, Woz
But Mike Cameron strikes out too much!!!!!! I hate him!!!!!
And...that's where the thread ended. I actually had to work at that point.
Point? VORP ain't bad. It helps you understand what you should already know. Just another stat for the arsenal.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Aaron Rodgers is no Ryan Braun
I received the following email and picture from loyal female Hacker MD (Hat Tip dear lady).
Not sure if any of your other loyal blog readers attended the Packers meet and greet at Mayfair today so I thought I'd give you some pics. Aaron seemed annoyed that people were there to take pictures of him. Wasn't too impressed with the cocky attitude and eye roll when I asked him to look at the camera. The big spenders mostly just wanted to get to Aaron. I must say I was kind of disappointed because he was actually starting to grow on me. I didn't expect him to be such a diva. When I asked for a picture he said "What...." refusing to look up, and his handler said "Aaron has to work". What is the point of doing a public appearance if you aren't going to embrace your fans? He was wearing a really douchey hat too. He is nowhere as near as hot as you Woz.
Ok...99% of that is true. Here's the picture.
Hmmm...this douchey hat issue isn't new...is this an ongoing theme? I hope not.
Anyway, Chuck Rodgers acting like an arrogant tool doesn't surprise me. He's got that "look" to him. Mr. 3rd place in MVP voting Ryan Braun is arrogant, but by no means is he a tool. He's the man. Every man is WI wants to be Ryan Braun. He's cocky and arrogant, yet he pulls it off because he doesn't do stunts like Chuck did here. So Chuck, if you're going to continue wearing those sorts of hats, at least take a lesson or two from Ryan Braun and know how to work the crowd. Ok.
Not sure if any of your other loyal blog readers attended the Packers meet and greet at Mayfair today so I thought I'd give you some pics. Aaron seemed annoyed that people were there to take pictures of him. Wasn't too impressed with the cocky attitude and eye roll when I asked him to look at the camera. The big spenders mostly just wanted to get to Aaron. I must say I was kind of disappointed because he was actually starting to grow on me. I didn't expect him to be such a diva. When I asked for a picture he said "What...." refusing to look up, and his handler said "Aaron has to work". What is the point of doing a public appearance if you aren't going to embrace your fans? He was wearing a really douchey hat too. He is nowhere as near as hot as you Woz.
Ok...99% of that is true. Here's the picture.
Hmmm...this douchey hat issue isn't new...is this an ongoing theme? I hope not.
Anyway, Chuck Rodgers acting like an arrogant tool doesn't surprise me. He's got that "look" to him. Mr. 3rd place in MVP voting Ryan Braun is arrogant, but by no means is he a tool. He's the man. Every man is WI wants to be Ryan Braun. He's cocky and arrogant, yet he pulls it off because he doesn't do stunts like Chuck did here. So Chuck, if you're going to continue wearing those sorts of hats, at least take a lesson or two from Ryan Braun and know how to work the crowd. Ok.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
From The Chuckie_Hacks@Yahoo.com Inbox
Avid reader Plesac's A Traitor passed along this link. The Hardball Times says Ben Sheets will get about $55 and $65 million! That's a lot of Benjamin's. Will the investing GM be disappointed, or rewarded? An interesting question.
Thanks, Plesac
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
From The Chuckie_Hacks@Yahoo.com Inbox
From loyal reader and MVP commenter Garcia:
I was down in Orlando this past weekend and saw a familiar face....The intro song was by Switchfoot ... "We were meant to live"~~Garcia
I was down in Orlando this past weekend and saw a familiar face....The intro song was by Switchfoot ... "We were meant to live"~~Garcia
Monday, April 14, 2008
From the Chuckie_Hacks@Yahoo.com Inbox
Jared from Right Field Bleachers told us to pass along this memo urging fans to cheer Jenks during his return to Milwaukee - I totally agree.
Hey guys,
This is Jared with Right Field Bleachers, a Brewers' blog/fan site at RightFieldBleachers.com. I've e-mailed/talked with several of you over the last couple years as we've run across each other on the Web or in person, but I don't know a lot of you too. Basically, if you're getting this, it means you're one of the Brewers blogs I subscribe to and read daily (and your e-mail address is easily found somewhere on your site). Thanks for what you do. Over the next couple of weeks, the guys here at Right Field Bleachers are going to be trying to get the word out about Geoff Jenkins' return on Wednesday, April 23. We're just sick of hearing boos when former players return to Miller. Sure, it's fine if it's the Sheffields and Hammonds of the world, but when we were there to hear the boos come down on class acts like Burnitz and Brady Clark, we could just shake our heads in disgust. Jenks deserves no such treatment. Love him or hate him, he was on the team for a decade and gave it his all every day. He loved the Brewers and Milwaukee and we want to do anything we can so that he comes back to a warm welcome.
We put together a post detailing some of his accomplishments here, and the post includes links to signs that fans can print off and bring along to the game with them if they'd like. We're also planning on talking about some of our favorite Jenkins moments over the next couple of weeks on the blog to build up to the game. If other Brewer blogs make posts encouraging fans to applaud his return, maybe a few more people will come to the game to cheer Jenkins or at least not boo. It's worth a shot anyway... I'll keep my eye out for cool stuff related to Jenks' return and post it up on our site. Thanks. And keep in touch. We love meeting other Brewer bloggers. Have a good one and...
GO CREW! -- Jared
Hey guys,
This is Jared with Right Field Bleachers, a Brewers' blog/fan site at RightFieldBleachers.com. I've e-mailed/talked with several of you over the last couple years as we've run across each other on the Web or in person, but I don't know a lot of you too. Basically, if you're getting this, it means you're one of the Brewers blogs I subscribe to and read daily (and your e-mail address is easily found somewhere on your site). Thanks for what you do. Over the next couple of weeks, the guys here at Right Field Bleachers are going to be trying to get the word out about Geoff Jenkins' return on Wednesday, April 23. We're just sick of hearing boos when former players return to Miller. Sure, it's fine if it's the Sheffields and Hammonds of the world, but when we were there to hear the boos come down on class acts like Burnitz and Brady Clark, we could just shake our heads in disgust. Jenks deserves no such treatment. Love him or hate him, he was on the team for a decade and gave it his all every day. He loved the Brewers and Milwaukee and we want to do anything we can so that he comes back to a warm welcome.
We put together a post detailing some of his accomplishments here, and the post includes links to signs that fans can print off and bring along to the game with them if they'd like. We're also planning on talking about some of our favorite Jenkins moments over the next couple of weeks on the blog to build up to the game. If other Brewer blogs make posts encouraging fans to applaud his return, maybe a few more people will come to the game to cheer Jenkins or at least not boo. It's worth a shot anyway... I'll keep my eye out for cool stuff related to Jenks' return and post it up on our site. Thanks. And keep in touch. We love meeting other Brewer bloggers. Have a good one and...
GO CREW! -- Jared
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