Friday, October 14, 2005
It's Madness Day...MADNESS!
Welcome to Friday. Welcome to the second-best sports day of the year. Welcome to Midnight Madness day.
No matter if your madness is Mulcahy, Marquette, Manhattan or Mizzou, it's a great day. So get out to your local team's arena and lend your support.
Onto today's stuff:
Tom Gordon wants to be a closer again.
Ok. I'd have him third on the free agent depth chart, behind BJ Ryan and Billy Wagner.
And since the spirit of atonement is in the air - and since he didn't go right from Boston to the Yankees, he made a stop in Chicago - all is forgiven.
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Ordinarily, we here hate the Toronto organization for jobbing (for un-jobbing, for that matter) my man JJ, but Blue Jay catcherGregg Zaun just made the TLBR quote of the week, re: NESN's Hazel Mae.
"Hazel, you're really cool. You are kind of like a guy, but with all the neat playthings."
It's so "Leave it to Beaver," (which, coincedentally, might be a euphemism for the euphemism "playthings," but I digress), but it works.
We're personally big Haze fans out here. Anytime a member of the opposite sex considers watching Law and Order marathons on USA, and can explain the infield fly rule and the notion of hitting behind the runner with less than two outs, you propel up the depth chart.
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Wow.
I mean, yeah. Wow. This helps to prove three points that I've been maintaining for quite some time.
1. Kevin Youkilis is not a good looking man.
2. Keith Foulke is a clown.
3. If you can either hit or throw a curveball, life is pretty good.
Taking over Zaun's spot for quote of the week was my main man Gonzo in the beltway, re: this webshots album: "These guys must have treated these girls like farm animals that night."
I don't know what that means, but it's wrong. All sorts of wrong.
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At the beginning of last week, there were five folks up here in the Al with distinctive baseball followings - Boston, NY, Houston, St. Louis, and the Chi-Sox. Now, there are three teams represented. And in my world, just two.
For my money, something really drastic and newsworthy could happen in the ALCS and I wouldn't care because I wouldn't be watching. Oh, there was? Really? What happened, did the rule of human fallacy come into play? Cool.
It's called Bruins.
But I am strictly an NLCS guy this year. For two, possibly three, reasons.
1. I hate listening to Tim McCarver and mildly loathe Joe Buck. I just do.
2. The American League stopped playing baseball a week ago, in my world. Does that make me one of these arrogant AL Easters? Sure. But I just don't care about the ALCS. And if you put a gun ot my head and said "pick one," I'd go with the Angels because of OC (more on him later) and Vlady.
--and--
3. I want Jeff Bagwell to win a ring. Just because.
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Things are good out here in MKE - which is the "hip" way to refer to Milwaukee. Kinda like how all the pretentious pretty primas in the tri-state area put those hideous "ACK" stickers on their SUV's and luxury cars to let everyone know "hey, I've been to Nantucket." ACK is the symbol for the Nantucket airport, not a quote from Bill the Cat of Bloom County fame.
Personally, I'd like a three-letter sticker that meant "Cram it in your cram hole" to all these people.
But I'm seeing a buddhist about it, it's OK.
Back to the Milwacky talk - it's very nice out here. Indian Summer right now. The new hometown is very underrated.
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Critics talk about how current Red Sox shortstop Edgar Renteria made 31 errors during the regular season and former Sox shortstop Orlando Cabrera made only five. Well, this was one
of them. This was another one.
And no, if you're scoring the game, you cannot assume the double play.
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- Made two iTunes downloads this week: the new David Gray and new Fiona Apple albums.
Normally, I'd have d/l'ed them in a different fashion, but the deeluxe apartment has yet to be equipped with high-speed internet access. Regardless, if you're a fan of either artist, you'll love both albums. I highly recommend them.
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Yeah, as you see, I cruise through webshots from time to time. It's good for time-wasting or for what I call, "cultural assimilation." A little one state, two state; red state, blue state if you must.
For instance, overheard during this photo.
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- I guess I'm finding a theme with today's TLBR. It's "unfortunate candid day."
I'm a pretty good beirut player, but I couldn't imagine having to face this guy.
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Manny has no idea where he is. Or does he? The guy is dumb like a fox.
And if Vick is using "Ron Mexico" as his alias, what does Manny use? Mark Portugal? Iran Barkley? Tom Brunansky?
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More transaction wire fun: NIAGARA DAREDEVILS--Signed C Terry Sellers
Akin to the aforementioned curveball theory, you simply can't teach height.
If i were you, I'd do two things: 1. keep the credit card statements out of sight and; 2. buy stock in DirecTV
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Now, we're going to get the Bill Romanowski-as-a-victim spin. Adam Schefter just wrote a book about Romo, and there will be a 60 Minutes piece coming up about how he abused steroids and HGH and all the various health-related issues he's suffering from.
Um, no. To use a Sheriff Sully theme, get on the bus with Caminiti and Alzado. You get nothing here.
Have a great weekend. USC/ND is a can't miss, and once Fan Fest 2k5 is over, neither is Pats/Broncs. And I don't mean Rider.
One.
No matter if your madness is Mulcahy, Marquette, Manhattan or Mizzou, it's a great day. So get out to your local team's arena and lend your support.
Onto today's stuff:
Tom Gordon wants to be a closer again.
Ok. I'd have him third on the free agent depth chart, behind BJ Ryan and Billy Wagner.
And since the spirit of atonement is in the air - and since he didn't go right from Boston to the Yankees, he made a stop in Chicago - all is forgiven.
-----
Ordinarily, we here hate the Toronto organization for jobbing (for un-jobbing, for that matter) my man JJ, but Blue Jay catcherGregg Zaun just made the TLBR quote of the week, re: NESN's Hazel Mae.
"Hazel, you're really cool. You are kind of like a guy, but with all the neat playthings."
It's so "Leave it to Beaver," (which, coincedentally, might be a euphemism for the euphemism "playthings," but I digress), but it works.
We're personally big Haze fans out here. Anytime a member of the opposite sex considers watching Law and Order marathons on USA, and can explain the infield fly rule and the notion of hitting behind the runner with less than two outs, you propel up the depth chart.
-----
Wow.
I mean, yeah. Wow. This helps to prove three points that I've been maintaining for quite some time.
1. Kevin Youkilis is not a good looking man.
2. Keith Foulke is a clown.
3. If you can either hit or throw a curveball, life is pretty good.
Taking over Zaun's spot for quote of the week was my main man Gonzo in the beltway, re: this webshots album: "These guys must have treated these girls like farm animals that night."
I don't know what that means, but it's wrong. All sorts of wrong.
-----
At the beginning of last week, there were five folks up here in the Al with distinctive baseball followings - Boston, NY, Houston, St. Louis, and the Chi-Sox. Now, there are three teams represented. And in my world, just two.
For my money, something really drastic and newsworthy could happen in the ALCS and I wouldn't care because I wouldn't be watching. Oh, there was? Really? What happened, did the rule of human fallacy come into play? Cool.
It's called Bruins.
But I am strictly an NLCS guy this year. For two, possibly three, reasons.
1. I hate listening to Tim McCarver and mildly loathe Joe Buck. I just do.
2. The American League stopped playing baseball a week ago, in my world. Does that make me one of these arrogant AL Easters? Sure. But I just don't care about the ALCS. And if you put a gun ot my head and said "pick one," I'd go with the Angels because of OC (more on him later) and Vlady.
--and--
3. I want Jeff Bagwell to win a ring. Just because.
-----
Things are good out here in MKE - which is the "hip" way to refer to Milwaukee. Kinda like how all the pretentious pretty primas in the tri-state area put those hideous "ACK" stickers on their SUV's and luxury cars to let everyone know "hey, I've been to Nantucket." ACK is the symbol for the Nantucket airport, not a quote from Bill the Cat of Bloom County fame.
Personally, I'd like a three-letter sticker that meant "Cram it in your cram hole" to all these people.
But I'm seeing a buddhist about it, it's OK.
Back to the Milwacky talk - it's very nice out here. Indian Summer right now. The new hometown is very underrated.
-----
Critics talk about how current Red Sox shortstop Edgar Renteria made 31 errors during the regular season and former Sox shortstop Orlando Cabrera made only five. Well, this was one
of them. This was another one.
And no, if you're scoring the game, you cannot assume the double play.
-----
- Made two iTunes downloads this week: the new David Gray and new Fiona Apple albums.
Normally, I'd have d/l'ed them in a different fashion, but the deeluxe apartment has yet to be equipped with high-speed internet access. Regardless, if you're a fan of either artist, you'll love both albums. I highly recommend them.
-----
Yeah, as you see, I cruise through webshots from time to time. It's good for time-wasting or for what I call, "cultural assimilation." A little one state, two state; red state, blue state if you must.
For instance, overheard during this photo.
-----
- I guess I'm finding a theme with today's TLBR. It's "unfortunate candid day."
I'm a pretty good beirut player, but I couldn't imagine having to face this guy.
-----
Manny has no idea where he is. Or does he? The guy is dumb like a fox.
And if Vick is using "Ron Mexico" as his alias, what does Manny use? Mark Portugal? Iran Barkley? Tom Brunansky?
-----
More transaction wire fun: NIAGARA DAREDEVILS--Signed C Terry Sellers
Akin to the aforementioned curveball theory, you simply can't teach height.
If i were you, I'd do two things: 1. keep the credit card statements out of sight and; 2. buy stock in DirecTV
-----
Now, we're going to get the Bill Romanowski-as-a-victim spin. Adam Schefter just wrote a book about Romo, and there will be a 60 Minutes piece coming up about how he abused steroids and HGH and all the various health-related issues he's suffering from.
Um, no. To use a Sheriff Sully theme, get on the bus with Caminiti and Alzado. You get nothing here.
Have a great weekend. USC/ND is a can't miss, and once Fan Fest 2k5 is over, neither is Pats/Broncs. And I don't mean Rider.
One.
