Tuesday (A little ugly) edition: Wha’ Happened?
Posted on January 22nd, 2008 – 8:57 AMBy Michael Rand
For just the second time all season, the Wild and the McLovins won on the same night (Dec. 8 was the other). We’re not sure if that is cause for celebration of introspection, but it does seem we have a nice little run of sports going on if, you know, you don’t mind counting vicarious Sunday victories. Is it then possible for the Wild to keep the good times going with a victory in Calgary tonight? The rear end of a back-to-back in a place where the Wild has traditionally struggled mightily? It’s asking quite a bit, but maybe the good times will continue. If anyone has anything fun to add about yesterday’s games, feel free. We barely saw any of it.
*What else: “Coming to America” accurately predicted the outcome of the Giants/Packers game. This is really quite awesome.
*Tom Brady with a walking boot on his right foot. Ruh-roh!
*And, almost finally, the little ugliness: We’ve noticed the comments getting a little out of hand lately. We don’t mind things that veer a little off-topic, nor do we mind when a little harmless fun is poked (particularly in our direction). But we don’t want to see any more personal attacks on anyone, from any direction. There have been quite a few things that have crossed the line in the past few weeks from several different corners. Enough of that. The comments are for enlightened, rational and humorous discussion. Please use them accordingly.
*Fasola-link! Rambo, by the numbers.
34 Responses to "Tuesday (A little ugly) edition: Wha’ Happened?"
“The comments are for enlightened, rational and humorous discussion.”
There goes my next 10 posts. Let me know when you are looking for dull, boring, and irrational. I’m the man for that job.
McLovins/Wild - Great game for the McLovins. It’s nice to know we really do have some talent on our squad and not just a couple of guys that would take 4-pointers if only they were made available. Hoc-key???
Coming to America - Stay off the drugs.
Brady - He’ll be fine come Super Bowl Sunday. The media is just getting started cooking up stories. BTW - Did you hear that The Bus is from Detroit? True story.
Comments - Kumbaya, my Lord, kumbaya
McLovin’s/Wild - As Jon points out in his blog, it’s the first time this winter that both teams have won on the same night. I think that failure falls more on the McLovins than the Wild.
Coming to America - Yes! Yes! In the face!
Brady’s boot is just a genius ploy. I’m convinced that this is a mind game being played with the Giants and the media.
Comments - It is a new, brighter day in RandBall. Rather than an eye for an eye, how ’bout a hug for a hug?
And, with that, I’ll go poke my eye out in shame.
MCLOVINS
1. When is Ryan Gomes going to sign a 5 year $45 million contract. If Hudson got over $30 million for a couple playoff games isn’t Gomes entitled to around $45 mil for one good game.
2. Do the Wolves realize that the Heat are trying to catch them for the worst record? Winning does not help this cause.
3. The McLovins need to hire a Defensive Coordinator. Buddy Ryan would look great in a Wolves uniform.
Is there someone we can trade a first round pick to for Ryan Gomes? He might even be worth two.
(roughkat gives Dave a hug)
Can one of you pop culture mavens explain this to me?
The comments are for enlightened, rational and humorous discussion.
You can all go to hell.
Can one of you pop culture mavens explain this to me?
The juxtaposition of Soulja Boy and the young Lark Voorhees is a treatise on man’s inhumanity to his fellow man.
Can one of you pop culture mavens explain this to me?
It’s fun to spend hours splicing clips from TV shows to match the Soulja Boy? I mean, I’ve seen Barney do the Soulja Boy, I’d imagine there’s a Sesame Street Soulja Boy out there, and now Saved By The Bell is doing the Soulja Boy. As a Screech look-alike, I have never been prouder.
I thought I’d seen every Saved by the Bell episode imaginable. Must have missed “A Very Special Saved by the Bell: The Exercise Video”.
Here in AZ, we await with trepidation the simultaneous onslaught of New Yorkers and Bostonians. Is it the apocalypse? Can the locusts be far behind? Lord, help us.
Quick book your flight to Australia ASAP. Oh yeah make sure you are sitting next to a nice dime piece. (Do kids still say this?)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080121/od_nm/milehigh1_dc;_ylt=Aoywhs.I4zieCiGw0shTsmCs0NUE
(roughkat gives Dave a hug)
Does that mean that, in the past, you would have poked my eye out?
I’m already a fan of the new comments. Considering that I already poked one eye out, I don’t need to lose the other. Screen readers have monotone voices and I think I’d lose my mind if I had to listen to it read all of your comments.
Then again, I could change the voice for every commenter. Stu would get the “Whisper” voice, Roughkat would get the British Child voice, and AZGopherGirl would get the female voice (easy pick). All of the rest of you would share the original monotone screen reader voice. Sorry, there aren’t enough voices for everyone.
I choose the Elmo voice. He gets all the chicks.
I’m just happy to be in there somewhere.
My twenty-one month old is refusing all Elmo diapers, insisting on “Cookie!”
In other news, we bought a Roomba, which is allowing us to keep the house picked up because the kids want to see it run…
My twenty-one month old is refusing all Elmo diapers, insisting on “Cookie!”
Well, it is common knowledge that geniuses choose “Cookie”…
I missed this yesterday, but did anybody else notice that Big Jimmy got an F-Bomb through the censors in a rant about Joe Buck…
http://nc.startribune.com/blogs/randball/?p=1415#comment-159341
Kudos, Big Jimmy.
Danonymous: I didn’t catch that. I actually had to do a “find” on the f-bomb to locate it. I just read right over it.
I guess if it’s not in bold or caps and it’s in a big paragraph, you could probably throw just about any word in and quite a few people would miss it.
RE: Brady’s boot.
There was just a discussion on the WWL about the kind of flowers he had in his hand when the photo was taken.
So, if you were wondering if the story could get stupider…
“But we don’t want to see any more personal attacks on anyone, from any direction.”
Well, I’m sure McHale just breathed a huge sigh of relief.
(Free egg roll to the first commenter to identify which local sports genius’ syntax I ripped off in above comment. No Strib employees or family eligible.)
How’s this for “enlightened, rational and humorous” (pick one)…
It’s that time of year, a most sad time of year. That time when only one football game remains, two really but most purists don’t count the Pro Bowl with that game being little more than a ludicrous tackle me softly event. But, it’s not simply the ending of this season that upsets me. After all, there is no football left in my heart after my team’s recent and most tragic loss. No, it’s that now I can see the future as I see it every year…can see that those enormous athletes in pads will soon disappear from my view only to be replaced by far smaller men in leotards. Some, of course, look forward to this change. I do not. Bring on Fall…
P3, who are the “smaller men in leotards” that comprise the remainder of the sporting year?
“Tackle Me Softly”, wasn’t that a song by Roberta Flack?
If I really had to pick one P3, I would say that your comment is leaning towards rational, which is a notable accomplishment for you. However, your post was neither enlightened nor humorous, and the part about the small men in leotards is the only thing keeping your post from being completely rational. The activity where men generally wear leotards is ballet, which I think most would agree, is an athletic artform but hardly a sport.
“The comments are for enlightened, rational and humorous discussion.”
I believe you call it SOCCER!
Thank God for March Madness.
And, wait. Is there, like, an Olympics this year? Remember when they used to have both summer and winter in the same year? It was a simpler time back then. Now I have to struggle to remember if I need to bone up on rhythmic gymanstics or the 2-man luge.
bone up on rhythmic gymanstics
/obvious joke
actually, dano, I know some guys in school who did figure dance (we had to share rink time with them when we played Pee wee hockey (a funny name all by itself), and the guys I knew were very slight indeed (as was their God on Earth, Brian Boitano). Anyway, many of them did wear leotards. You could see that when close up, but less so from high in the stands. Same with the women. They all wear leotards. Made their legs look good, I guess, just like nylons do…and when I ran cross country many runners also wore them for “muscle rebound”..making the muscles bounce back faster after exertion I was told.
As for this schtick being humorous, I bounced it off some people who like to laugh and they thought so, but what’s that phrase “you can make some of the people laugh some of the time, but not everyone if their mind is set against it.” I liked it. That’s all I care about anyway…
what’s that phrase, “you can make some of the people laugh some of the time, but not everyone if their mind is set against it.”
0 hits on Google. Congratulations, P3! You’ve coined a new phrase!
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice…don’t get fooled again.
I KNEW Dave MN was a pseudonym for someone famous. Welcome to Randball, Mr. President.
Someone above used the phrase “artsports” but I can’t find it now, but it’s a right on phrase since figure skating and gymnastics, for that matter, strike me as more of
a pose in motion or an art form in tights than a sport. For me, to be a
sport, the performances during an event should be measured
objectively as with a stopwatch or a meter stick. More importantly, the outcome of that contest should be determined solely by the athletes on the field and never by some ill-
defined “style experts” in the stands. As an example, hockey goals are never disallowed if the shooter falls while shooting, nor is a skier penalized for being all over the course. In short, a real sport (as opposed to an “artsport”) does not need
Miss Ohio Danceline 1976, to tell them they have done well.
Thanks for sharing
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:
