The Internets: Did you see Brandon Lloyd flop?
Posted on September 30th, 2008 – 11:08 AMBy Michael Rand
It’s been about 36 hours, and we still can’t get over the strange sight of Brandon Lloyd on Sunday Night Football. Sure, it’s weird to see such an underachiever playing well for a team with chronically bad WRs, but that’s not the really weird part. Did anyone else see Lloyd make a catch, get up like he was seemingly fine, then start limping and then, since he wasn’t getting the attention he thought he deserved, fall to the ground like he was taken out by sniper fire? Somewhere video of this must exist. Jama? Did you TiVo the game? We really want to see this again because we laughed for about a minute when it happened (he got up about two seconds after going down, too). Of course, the strangest part is that, as Kevin Seifert notes, it was announced that Lloyd was out with a knee injury. That picture you see is from Sunday’s game (Getty Images). Um, that doesn’t look like his knee. What the heck is going on?
*Not to get political, but Upper Deck has released Sarah Palin and Joe Biden trading cards. Whee!
*What was that, Mr. Smith?
*Buoyed by her career with RandBall, Lisa Guerrero is now blogging for the LA Times. And she has some definite opinions about Patriots fans.
*This evisceration of Jon Heyman as it relates to VORP is vintage FJM, even if it is only a few days old.
13 Responses to "The Internets: Did you see Brandon Lloyd flop?"
*Not to get political, but Upper Deck has released Sarah Palin and Joe Biden trading cards. Whee!
Upper Deck: Struggling for Relevance since 1998
I picked up Lloyd in the Randball AAA league last week. Guess it’s time to hit the wire again. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of solid WR options out th…… crap.
Tough call, but I take Palin, the babe, long on looks, over Biden, the squinter, long on knowledge and attitude, because America hates attitude. Look at Moss…
“Palin is very skilled and she’ll be well-prepared. I know she’s preparing this weekend,” said David Axelrod, chief strategist for the Obama campaign whose last job was selling snowballs in Hell.
Looking for roughkat fantasy update. Did I win this week even though Favre sat the bench with his 6tds for me?
How come we never got a RandBall review of “A Plumm Summer”?
JPF: I ended up in a tie. A tie!
I was up by 14 before last night’s game. And, wouldn’t you know, Le’Ron McClain gets exactly 14 points. Lame.
This evisceration of Jon Heyman as it relates to VORP…
Why does this Ken Tremendous, if that is his real name, hate Twins 1B Jason Monroe so much?
FYI - According to VORP: Mauer is 7th and Morneau is 13th.
Gopher Girl…I’m sure you found this (or a version) all by yourself…but if the Rand Corp. review was better, I know not ..”.. this light-hearted family adventure film must surely win over all but the most hard-bitten cynics. Based on a real incident from the late 60s and set in deepest Montana, it centres on the theft of a children’s TV star marionette named ‘Froggy Doo’ whose antics thrilled the under-8s in the area.
In particular, he was the idol of young Rocky Plumm, younger son of failed boxer Mick Plumm, and younger brother of teenager Elliott. This is a film that could have been monumentally awful, but in the first half wins by the charm and audacity of its somewhat naive plot, and the way that its actors fit so seamlessly into the initially predictable characters.
But, like many fine films, as it progresses, it undermines the assumptions that we have made about it. The idyllic family life is not so idyllic, the teenage love story gets muzzed by hormonal outbursts, and the love of cinema of the filmmakers shines through in endearing references to great films of the era in which it is set (plus or minus a decade)”
Whew !! That was even longer than my posts..
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To answer your question from the last post, there have been 11 playoffs after the regular MLB season- eight 1-game playoffs and three 3-game playoffs (used by NL prior to 1969).
/History Lesson
Although 3 games at the end of an enormously long season would be excessive, considering the importance of these playoffs, I think 3 games with a predetermined rest afterwards might be fairer to both teams not to mention insane fans listening on the radio ala the 1950s. One game is a crapshoot. 3 games a playoff. Why did the NL change it ?
Start of divisional play, according to everyone’s friend Wikipedia.
My biggest beef is the coin flip- let the regular season matchup between the teams decide who gets home field.
It’s gotta be the differential between the teams that determines home field, hootie..and in this case the Twins beat the White Sox more than vice versa…very simple. A coin toss is for football, not something as imp. as home field. Is no one thinking ?
