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Weekend links with Jon Marthaler

Posted on December 15th, 2007 – 10:44 AM
By Michael Rand

000000001five.jpgA Saturday without college football or a televised Wild game? No football
and no hockey make Jon something something … Here I am not counting
Cincinnati vs. San Francisco as a football game. It’s more like an armored shoving match — we’ll call it “helmet rugby” and leave it at that. And so, on with a strangely hockey-centric version of the weekend links!

*I link to ESPN.com hockey guy John Buccigross’s latest mailbag only because of this quote: “I’ve been writing here for years that Minnesota is clearly the best hockey market in the United States. It’s not even close.” Take that, everybody else! Bucci also breaks down his picks for the 2010 American Olympic team, one that has a lot of young stars on it but still would be obliterated by Canada and probably most of the rest of the world.

*From The FanHouse: Chris Chelios thinks that steroids aren’t a problem in hockey. If this were baseball, I would note here that Chris Chelios is 46 years old, yet played 71 games last year and 81 the year before, something no mortal should be able to do. (Side note: In no way do I really think Chelios is on steroids. However, he is a former Badger, so I’ll cast any aspersions on his character that I can manage.)

*The purpose of this link is twofold: one, to laugh at Michigan’s attempts to create a “Hockey Day in Michigan”-type event, except completely indoors at Ford Field. Hello, mitten residents — we already stole that idea from Canada, and we at least have the guts to play outside! The second reason for that link: it contains a picture of a representative sample of Packers fans. Among the denizens of Packer Nation, I’d say that guy is in the 50th percentile on just about any dimension you could dream up.

*And finally, we have to ask — could somebody please get Dwight Smith a townhouse or a condo of some sort? He seems to have a tendency to do things in public that he might want to keep a little more, well, private. To recap: last year, Smith was caught *in flagrante delicto* in a stairwell, earning himself a citation from the local police. Now Access Vikings reports that Smith was cited for smoking pot, outside a strip club, in a car that was impeding traffic. I hate to be the one to explain this to you, Dwight, but an apartment has dual benefits: it is a more romantic setting than a stairwell, and it is rarely if ever in a lane of traffic.

That’s it for me; enjoy your Saturday, which hopefully turns out to be slightly less Arctic than the past few days. It’s been quite a few Decembers since I’ve been rooting for the mercury to break 25˚ F. On the other hand, if it stays cold, we can always hope that the Redactular is changed to an ice-fishing event at the last minute!

31 Responses to "Weekend links with Jon Marthaler"

fasolamatt says:

December 15th, 2007 at 10:49 am

Mmmmm… bacon. Yum.

Dave MN says:

December 15th, 2007 at 11:22 am

My apartment’s in a lane of traffic. Zoning laws are lenient in Edina.

Paul Peter Paulos says:

December 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

Dwight ain’t that bright

Paul Peter Paulos says:

December 15th, 2007 at 2:37 pm

I love when ordinary people and Drs. (who are sometimmes people) and announcers (who are usually not) talk about the side effects of drugs, drugs here, of course, being ‘roids, testosterone in all of it’s many forms from injectable to rub on gels.

Problems however soon occur if there is a side effect that comes from any drug, and if that effect is exhibited routinely, it is not a SIDE effect, but an effect, and there are those who like to hide behind that distinction, effect and side effect. Same with “regular” scripts. If every time someone takes something for, let’s say, a migraine headache, he wets the floor…that’s an effect as someone’s wife will surely tell him in order to have him take that med in the yard in the future.

Yet, over and over we hear how our fine young cannibals take ‘roids to speed recovery time and to build muscle mass..BUT these jugheads and the quasiDocs who supply them will say a side effect MAY be aggression. Duh. When did you see anyone all bulked up with a rapid recovery time NOT want to smash someone. I say let them shoot up, but then have a ‘roid league and a clean league. After a year or so the ‘roid league will have killed each other off. Problem solved..

Ford » Weekend links with Jon Marthaler says:

December 15th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

[…] Here’s another interesting post I read today by Randball […]

Stu says:

December 15th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

Three hockey links from the Substitute Proprietor, thus equalling the yearly total by the Proprietor.

The more you know.

Paul Peter Paulos says:

December 15th, 2007 at 7:33 pm

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Paul Peter Paulos says:

December 15th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

by the commutative property, one phrase that redacts {} a previously redacted phrase {} is equal to that second phrase redacting the first…Take that one and run with it..

Sooze says:

December 16th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

Bacon should be its own food group.

Paul Peter Paulos says:

December 16th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

Lizzy, U R alive ! Why did U nuke my posts ? “We said, she said” later (found below this group of posts)….and don’t plead ignorance and blame it on the censor…that’s too easy and sleasy to try to hide behind your petticoats now !

Lizzy says:

December 16th, 2007 at 3:51 pm

Sooz, bacon is its own food group.

Paul Peter Paulos says:

December 16th, 2007 at 4:05 pm

Lizzy likes avoidance….how unusual for someone who can offer up her own s..t, but not welcome it cordially as a (supposed) lady should…but go back to rapping about bacon….I like it’s smell

RandBall says:

December 16th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

PP, I deleted your posts because they weren’t appropriate.

RandBall says:

December 16th, 2007 at 5:07 pm

PP: Enough. Stick to sports and other things.

ramon says:

December 16th, 2007 at 11:51 pm

I’m wondering… are we still thinking 8 wins for the McLovins? That’s seeming like a tall task. Unless those weird late-season shenanigans that gets under Stern’s skin allow a couple extra W’s…

The other question is: Are we seeing a Celtics(McHale) title or is San Antonio just too darn good? Was thinking about this after seeing both teams minus major cogs and how dominant they were.

Or am I supposed to only be worrying about the Vike’s wildcard hopes. It’s all too confusing….

jama says:

December 17th, 2007 at 7:06 am

Da Bears!!!

Dave MN says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:03 am

And so it begins…

How was everyone’s Redactular Eve? Mine was filled with playing Guitar Hero III and our pool team losing its last match of the season.

Dave MN says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:05 am

Also, it was kind of liberating not paying attention to my RBFFL team. That’s not to say I wouldn’t have liked to be the team to lose to Brandon’s juggernaut, but it was nice to not have to hope that Brett Favre had a good game.

Toonces51 says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:29 am

Guitar Hero III?

I thought you had to be 18 to post on RandBall?

Dave MN says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:40 am

Toonces: Don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it.

fasolamatt says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:44 am

“I thought you had to be 18 to post on RandBall?”

Is that a maximum or a minimum?

Dave MN says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:47 am

I think it’s been proven pretty well by some of our less frequent commenters (i.e. whenever RandBall is on the Strib homepage), that age does not necessarily bring wisdom.

roughkat says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:55 am

GH3 is solid. Rock Band is even better.

RBFFL update -
RandBall - Dead!
Stu - Dead!
Jon - Down by 14 with PJ and Da Bears left to play.
Ryan P. - Down by 1 with The Molester going tonight.

Dave MN says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:56 am

In fact, let me postulate a little here:

Do people get less rational about sports the older they get?

It seems that people tend to go in two drastically different directions the older they get. They either become so intensely bitter and disillusioned with their teams that they keep waiting for the other shoe to drop, or they become the crazy, over-zealous fan who approves of everything and is constantly seeing the silver-lining with no grasp on reality.

This rift in fan-type grows with each year until eventually sports blogs become a text version of one of those shows on CNN or FoxNews that consists of two people at the extreme ends of the spectrum yelling at each other and eventually just calling each other names.

Toonces51 says:

December 17th, 2007 at 8:59 am

Dave - You’re the second or third to tell me not to knock it until I’ve tried. it. And the second or third who will fail to get me to stop mocking it without trying. Seriously, it’s nothing but Dance Dance Revolution (which, I have to admit, thanks to my wife and plenty of whiskey, I actually have tried), without the physical activity. Oh, yeah, and without the benefits of actually learning guitar (you know, chicks, drugs, and the eventual VH1 special).

Dave MN says:

December 17th, 2007 at 9:21 am

I won’t disagree about it’s similarity to Dance Dance Revolution (which I have not played), but it is really fun. And it provided the backdrop to one of the funnier South Park episodes this season. I still laugh when I think about the kid who played Guitar Hero “acoustically”.

Toonces51 says:

December 17th, 2007 at 9:46 am

It may be fun–but I think if you saw the people who line up for the tournaments that they apparently have at the owl themed place that I occassionally hit for wings and beer, you would be scared off it for good. High school kids, and a few adults who could only hope to be as cool as the dad on South Park who tried it (I’ve only seen the commercials for that episode).

Dave MN says:

December 17th, 2007 at 11:01 am

Two words: Heroin Hero

Paul Peter Paulos says:

December 17th, 2007 at 1:13 pm

Jon,

I just this morning scrolled down your
links til I came to ….

“The purpose of this link is twofold: one, to laugh at Michigan’s attempts to create a “Hockey Day in Michigan”-type event, except completely indoors at Ford Field. Hello, mitten residents — we already stole that idea from Canada, …and we at least have the guts to play outside!”

The operative phrase there, of course, being the beloved purple also lacks the opportunity and guts to play outside which anti-Vike fans have been saying for years. Domeball, some may call it, Muffinheads, many names. It all boils down to can marginal receivers and stiff and frozen running backs from Southern states hold onto the ball in 10 degree weather…I’d worry purps..

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