It’s finally come to it. We never wanted to close the doors of this blog, but we’ve decided it’s time. While we’ve tried to contribute to this place over the past 2-3 months, it’s just not something we have the time for. We thank everyone who commented, contributed and e-mailed us over the 6 months that we ran this place full time. This truly was a therapeutic outlet for us while we were determining what the next step in our life was. But never fear…
We’re still contributing at other outlets. Beadlemaniacs and our new Cubs blog, Waiting for Next Blog will be places you can find our content. Again, thanks to NickJ, YoungLefty, smarden, zulin and yes, even mrejr8234 for their contributions. We still feel bad about that Buckeye mess from November. Cocaine Alcohol is a helluva drug.
Who knows, if we feel strongly about something not Cubs or college basketball related, we’ll maybe throw up a post. It’s been a fun ride though.
We got home late last night after working at the bar and it’s pretty difficult to fall right to sleep after a bar shift. So, we flipped on ESPN Radio in order to have something to listen to at 3 a.m. that wasn’t a replay of the monumental New Mexico Bowl. To our joy, we got Mike Tirico’s Weekend Blitz where he was talking with Kirk Herbstreit and breaking down the BCS Bowl games. When they got to the FedEx Orange Bowl, Mike’s exact words were, “Oh, and the FedEx Orange Bowl, Herbie. This game does nothing for me.”
We have been waiting all offseason to see who the Cubs could dump Milton Bradley’s baggage and bloated contract on. As of yesterday, the Cubs best offseason acquisition were the draft picks for when Harden got signed (oh wait, we didn’t offer him arbitration) was John Grabow. They had been waiting to launch Bradley so that they could turn their attention to other needs… of which there are many on the north side of Chicago.
Normally we don’t comment on massive of the field/court/course/ice issues until they’ve gotten so big that the news cycle is simply saturated. Tiger’s “indiscretions” have taken over every medium, not just those that report on sports. We’re going to give our two cents, but it’ll have nothing to do with Tiger’s private life. We’re more interested in how this impacts golf on the whole.
We were about to just write an open letter to Ruben Amaro Jr that simply contained four words, “What the fuck, man?” What was it that Cliff Lee failed to provide that the Phillies think that Roy Halladay can? There’s no doubt that Doc is one of, if not the, best pitcher in the majors. Let’s look at the numbers though, both financial and baseball, to see how this can possibly make sense for the two time defending NL pennant winners.
Seeing as how we haven’t done a post here since the last Iowa game of consequence, we figured it was time to have something else besides us belaboring our ID theft problem at the top of the blog. It was bad for business anyways. According to sources at Penn State, the Nittany Lions are headed to the Capital One Bowl where they’ll likely play LSU. This almost certainly puts the Hawkeyes into Glendale and the Fiesta Bowl. Presumably, they’ll hook up with the Fraud-cos of Boise State. More sources and explanations can be found here.
The rest of our BCS predictions and some other thoughts on the upcoming Bowl season after the jump.
Think I fixed it… not really sure. If I did, I’ll attempt to rehash what happened over the weekend. Suffice to say, that phishing scams are not very cool. Neither is sitting on the ball with 52 seconds left on the road in a tie game with a Rose Bowl berth hanging in the balance. Still bitter.
Jonathan Moxon played a solid game though. Throw us a comment if you can “see” this.
Points of Interest is the daily link dump for your morning or afternoon commute in and out of Souvenir City. We’ll be throwing together some other stops from out there in blogdome and the interwebs to peak your interest. Some of them will actually be what some might consider educational. Most of them, are going to everything but that.
A day off. It’s been nice. Really nice. But, it’s not a full day off because we’re going to work tonight. So, in the interim we’ve got a link dump to probably end the day. Depends if we’re feeling itchy about something hockey related. Not a whole lot going on except Sidney Crosby is in a career long streak of suck. Keeley Hazell has always been our favorite. One of the photos from this shoot is our desktop background.
Ever since we’ve been old enough to operate the magic box known as a television set, we’ve had cable. We never just had the network channels because we were not old enough to have lived during that time. However, when there were was just CBS, NBC and ABC, football coverage was drastically different than it is now. RedZone is the greatest invention EVER by the way. Not to get off on a tangent, but we had heard the name “Jimmy the Greek” but never knew the person or his role.
Jimmy the Greek was a superstar. He was the first guy to really publicize sports gambling. And ESPN did a phenomenal job of characterizing him last night.
You know what the World Series of Poker needs? What every other sport absolutely can’t stand, that’s what. Most other professional sports (for the record, poker is NOT officially a sport) strive for parity so that all of their teams/players have a chance at winning something and being involved. The NFL does a great job, as does the NHL and the NBA. MLB has a problem with higher payrolls. Well, poker needs less parity and more big names winning championships.
We only watched the Final Table of the WSOP last night because Phil Ivey was in it. After he got eliminated, we turned it off.
It’s finally come to it. We never wanted to close the doors of this blog, but we’ve decided it’s time. While we’ve tried to contribute to this place over the past 2-3 months, it’s just not something we have the time for. We thank everyone who commented, contributed and e-mailed us over the 6 months that we ran this place full time. This truly was a therapeutic outlet for us while we were determining what the next step in our life was. But never fear…
