I’m still going a little back and forth on how this sits with me and the overall effort out of Carolina last night sickened me, but I think for the rest of the playoffs, I’ll call Scott Walker “The Waco Kid” for this effort:
I can see where some fans are [...]
So it’s going to take a rant to get me to post again. But it’s really been awhile since I’ve actually (and somewhat surprisingly) been this fuming about something.
Why is it that I have to CONTINUALLY try to convince people that hockey is, at the very least even, a tolerable [...]
So three months later, here I am. It’s President’s Day, which is only really significant because it also marks the start of Birthday Week! My brother and I have birthdays three days apart, so President’s Day week was like our own private Hannukah growing up. (If only we had known [...]
After researching the U.S. Marshals web site for information for a story tonight at work, I came up on what may be the greatest nickname ever. Sadly, Mr. Waters wasn’t the fugitive I was researching, so I didn’t get to post that on the station’s site.
And believe me, [...]
As Nebraska works to tighten up it’s “safe haven law”, which has led to almost three dozen kids being herded to the state to be left by parents that don’t want them, no questions asked, I am still reminded of this cartoon when I see one of the stories.
[...]What in the hell could be going off somewhere within earshot of my house that sounds like fireworks, but probably isn’t fireworks, or could be gunshots, but probably isn’t gunshots?
[...]Without getting too sappy and emotional, today was a tough day. Things were going along fine, I was my usual step behind in getting ready for work, because there’s always one more e-mail to check, one more blog to read, one more Facebook update to check on.
And that’s when [...]
Minutes after coming home from watching the Browns blow a double-digit second half lead for the second game in a row (thank you very little Brandon McDonald and the rest of the Browns defense), I find out that the Hurricanes gave up the tying goal with 2:43 left and the [...]
I’m not a huge believer in karma, I don’t think, and it’s probably a good thing. I mean, my sense of humor comes in a million shades of blue, and my wit usually runs at about an 85 on the inappropriate scale. Just tonight, I had a producer at work [...]
Just an update 2 1/2 days in the making, but I learned an interesting fact Monday night. A 21-point upset win by your favorite team on Monday Night Football is still not enough to make Stuart Scott tolerable.
Oh, and that the rest of the ESPN NFL crew can bite [...]
This guy’s name couldn’t be one tiny bit more appropriate.
[...]I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that this come from one of my (hopefully not immediate) neighbors, but what can you really expect from a Wal-Mart. Hell, the thing was probably painted in China, after all.
In honor of today, scallywags…
[...]Random discovery of the day… as annoying as people thumping stereos as they drive by may be, a neighbor blaring talk radio on their patio is equally annoying.
I couldn’t even hear what the conversation was/is about, but it sounded like someone was chatting away under my window. So much for [...]
The subject isn’t necessarily directed at the play of my favorite football teams this weekend, but it isn’t necessarily NOT directed at them, either.
I’m talkin’ about the wind. I forget the exact time frame, but I spent about five hours watching the wind whip around the neighborhood, rattling our [...]
With the greatest example of “We’ve got a bunch of pre-pubescent boys running our ad campaign” since True North, I present to you Ortega:
[...]Check me if I’m wrong, 70’s TV fans, but did Yahoo! steal this headline from an episode of “Good Times”?
...with John Amos as The Hurricane
[...]So yeah, I tired of that last theme’s shenanigans after about 13 hours. Not crazy about the flowers on this one, but it’ll work until I can get in and hack things up a bit.
As for now… vacation. GO BG!
(Oh yeah, and happy b-day to my mother, mother-in-law, cousin, [...]
So even thought I’ve been blogging about as often as I shower, I figured I should probably upgrade to WordPress 2.6, since I was way in the dark ages with the version I was on, and besides, there are some fun toys to work with in this version. Also, if [...]
But in the interest of the viewing public, I did break off a few gems at work this weekend.
Tropical Storm Julio was reported to be “targeting the Baja Peninsula” on Saturday, which happened to be future Hall of Famer Julio Franco’s 50th* birthday. Little do the people of the Baja [...]
If this is true, I wish I’d have known about it 13 years ago, it would have made that song tons more tolerable.
Also, while I never thought I’d be one to sit and watch ONE gymnastics event, I’ve now watched three in as many days. And while the announcers [...]
I liveblogged the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics for work tonight. I really need to stop doing that. It’s all good and well-intentioned, but in the end, I end up kicking myself for not being able to really let fly with what I’m thinking, which is really what HYMT.com is [...]
The up-again-down-again world of the Texas Rangers was WAYYY up last night, with Marlon Byrd beating the Yankees with a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth (with two outs, no less).
Of course, if you were to walk out of a coma and check out ESPN.com for the story, [...]
If I’m going to spend the time and effort blogging for work, I might as well copy it here, right?
I’m all about saving the planet, especially if it keeps some cash in my pocket. So the initial investment of a rain barrel seemed like a good idea.
Even though the [...]
Hi. It’s me again.
A couple nights ago at work, I was slogging through rewriting murder stories (official count for Indianapolis is now at 11 since June 30… nine days ago) when I read a story that the original cop for The Village People was in the hospital after surgery on [...]
…I care about overtime playoff hockey between Detroit and Pittsburgh the most.
Six minutes into the third overtime and I’ve seen a great game. By all accounts, I missed a great game, too. I didn’t even turn this one on until I saw it was headed to OT. Because as awesome [...]
In tribute to the passing of Harvey Korman earlier today, I sat down to re-watch (for the millionth time) “Blazing Saddles”. Subsequently, a Googling led me to this document, which uses popular movies as part of English as a second language classes. Some pretty amusing stuff there, especially if [...]
Part of the reason I think I’m not as big a baseball fan as I once was is all the numbers folks have created to try to explain how good/bad a player was/is. Not saying they may not be valid, but the days of watching a game and thinking “Okay, [...]
I guess this means I’m officially a free agent for a new favorite baseball player.
Too bad there really don’t seem to be many to choose from anymore…
(more…)
Shhhhh! I’m going to let you in on a little secret.
Contrary to what ESPN and Jim Nantz may have led you to believe, Tiger Woods wasn’t actually leading The Masters. As he continues to par his way to something other than what he needed to do (read: shoot 65 and [...]
Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Pepperguy!!!
And to celebrate…. KANGAROO FIGHT!!!
In true playoff fashion, I was debating the starting of a “playoff beard” (having just shaved one clean) for the Hurricanes run to the Cup. Unfortunately, they couldn’t stop running it down their leg, so in even more true Hurricanes playoff fashion, I played golf yesterday, the day after they [...]
It’s all the excitement of playoff hockey, without the fanfare of the playoffs. Especially for a team that was reserving tee times in mid-January last year.
Carolina enters the night with a two-point lead on Washington in the standings with three (actually 2 1/3) games left. They’re facing off right now. [...]
I really need to write more.
It’s kind of messed up, ’cause I’ve got stuff to say, I just don’t. Thoughts cross my mind all the time, but don’t get any love here. I should work on that.
The geek in me is kinda psyched for the imminent arrival of [...]
Thanks to the surprise, yet expected, free preview of NHL Center Ice, I’ve caught two Hurricanes games. And while the game I’m two-thirds of the way through watching at 2:25 am certainly isn’t “live”, it’s live to me. After two, Carolina’s up 1-0 on Pittsburgh.
While watching Thursday’s OT win over [...]
I left work to go to dinner around 6:45 tonight and (partly by accident) didn’t take a coat. Two hours later, we had seen wind, rain, a tornado warning, then snow. When I got home from work, the weather was like this:
And, rumor has it, [...]
As many of you know, I work odd hours, and get home pretty late. Not horrible, as I’m usually home by 1 a.m. or so. Tonight appeared to be more of the same, until this happened.
I’m not saying that when police find the person(s) responsible for this they’ll treat [...]
Tomorrow is a huge day, for a few completely unrelated, yet totally related reasons. Figured it was as good a time as any to get back into the blog thing.
While I have full confidence the Browns can beat the Bengals, and do so somewhat handily, the history of that rivalry [...]
My dad passed along this story from the Toledo Blade today, noting that the Toledo Mud Hens, owners of one of the classic nicknames in sports history (with bonus points because of the history of the name that dates back decades before coming up with a random nickname and [...]
After a long night at work thanks to elections, and watching a guy who jumped into the mayoral race with a “someone’s gotta run, why not me?” attitude get voted in as Mayor of Indianapolis, I was beyond thrilled to find this on YouTube:
I know I haven’t posted much of [...]
So, three weeks after the wedding (went great), two weeks since the honeymoon (went greater), and six days after watching BG get thrashed by Boston College (not great at all, though the wings were fantastic!), I’ve finally found something that needs shared so bad that the eight-second login process wasn’t [...]
So if you’re going to go through with a plan to sue God, wouldn’t you have done it before Johnnie Cochran died?
Just sayin’.
Life…it is good. And crazy. And crazy good.
More later. I promise.
[...]Previous comments notwithstanding, the folks at A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago unearthed highlights of the Rangers-Orioles game from Wednesday night:
(With accompanying analysis.)
Other news from ALOTT5MA includes a return of American Gladiators to NBC. Sounds like they’re going to stay somewhat true-to-form, I just hope [...]
That’ll make the 15 games under .500 thing a little easier to take for a couple hours.
[...]One of the many perks of visiting the folks is that they get CBC on their cable system. In the past, I’ve caught such treats as the un-cut “Blazing Saddles” or a Grey Cup marathon. But last night might have won. Around 11:30, I stumbled on the following gem of [...]
Once again, Julio Franco is a man without a team.
House, wedding, job, locking myself out of the house, more job and some more wedding stuff has kept me too busy to throw anything else out here, though there’s a round of golf coming up tomorrow, hopefully with good things [...]
All is right with the world again.
Unfortunately, the last Mets-Braves meeting is in mid-September, with a dozen or so games left in the season, so an extra inning pinch-hit homer to end NY’s season on the last day of the season won’t happen, but that doesn’t mean he can’t [...]
Seriously.
And not just in the “fade down the stretch” sort of way. I mean “cease to exist” sort of way.
Two days following the 17th anniversary of the longest at-bat in All-Star Game history, they dumped Julio Franco like a bad prom date.
I hope Omar Minaya finds the [...]
While it felt good to get a good chunk of painting work done on the house this weekend, it felt weird yesterday when I finally got a chance to check e-mail and surf around a bit. Normally, I check e-mail semi-neurotically, and have stretches where I wander past the same [...]
