It’s not over yet.

Sure, Sandy’s waves aren’t beating down the New Jersey shoreline currently, and the flood waters have mostly receded, but super-storm Sandy’s impact is still being felt. My friends in Jersey City — who live a block from an evacuation zone — just got power back. Today. Cable, and normalcy, to follow. There’s still a shortage of hospitals in lower Manhattan. Long Island is not fully powered. Hoboken still has muck to clear. Families still mourn their lost ones and their losses.

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This was going to be a hyuckster piece full of jokes — what’s in there, the taste of despair with a tinge of of tears, and how’d they crystallize the taste of hubris so well for Yankee cola — but it all pales when put next to this fine piece of advertisement. It’s worth clicking the link even if you don’t speak Japanese, just to see the interactivity and bizarreness in its full splendor. We’ve just spent a couple months hearing about American exceptionalism but have you ever seen an ad here in the states that so well combined the elements of fear, play, sex, sadness and joy?

A scream in the ear of Patrick Newman for sending this my way.

Hipster on a Light Pole #1

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After the game seven win, Angel Pagan did a celebratory 360 flip at the local skatepark. It was fairly sick. You might have called it underrated.

The Hillsboro team in Oregon needed a team name. They were in Oregon, a “proud agricultural” state that produced the second-most hops in America — it was obvious. The Hillsboro Hops will begin play in 2013 with a fancy new logo and an open question at the mascot position. Cheers to them!

Maybe this will open the door for:

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I’d been to a game in “o.co” or whatever that monstrosity is called. I’d gotten a sunburn on a free ticket given to me because I spent money (yeah, real money) on a Warped Tour ticket, and I remembered the vast expanses of concrete, the Shea-like feel of a 1970’s-era bunker. I remembered too much sun, bad beer and baseball that felt a mile away from my seat even while my neighbor felt like he was in my lap. I remembered understanding why someone might want a new stadium if this was their stadium.

But fellow FanGraphs writer Wendy Thurm got tickets and couldn’t make every game, so I ponied up and took my Giants-fan father, who said, sure, but only if it doesn’t rain. They’re a fun story, he said. They’ll be excited, they haven’t been there in a while.

Excited. That was a word for it.

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Tougher one this time:

Speedo edition.

“this is awesome”
“that is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life”

Watch to the end:

A guffah and a back slap to Dustin Parkes on Getting Blanked at The Score.

Should be self explanatory. Which is which? Who is who?