69 thoughts on “October 8, 2011: CS”

  2. I'm sure that MLB will be fretting over what will surely be poor ratings for the rest of the playoffs. Revenue sharing among the owners and promoting the league instead of two franchises is the answer, Bud.

  3. I note that the Venezuelan League starts on Oct. 12. I still haven't seen rosters, nor have I seen a list of Twins who are going to play winter ball. If anyone knows where to find those, I'd appreciate you passing it along to me.

  4. There's still a chance for my brackef (are there graduated points for each round?) but even if things roll right, Mak's got a leg up. *shakes fist* Number of games becomes really important.

    1. I think my bracket still has a chance, but it requires Detroit to win the ALCS in 7 games, and they have to win the World Series. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

  5. a friend posted this on FB. i have no words, but i may have bad dreams...

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA

    2. I'd seen this a while back - it reminded me of a website where you could create "creatures" using taunt and spring lines with pivot joints; I wish I could find the site now, because some of the inventions there were pretty interesting to watch.

  6. Driving home from dinner last night we got behind a car who's license plate read "GODS CAR". Apparently God drives a Honda Civic, with heavily tinted windows. You would think God would drive a nicer car.

    1. I was going to make a zombie joke, but apparently this time it's for real. Time may have passed him by, but he was a real force in pro football for half a century.

    2. As a longtime Raiders fan, I have mixed emotions at least as far as the team is concerned. He built the team into a dominant force for nearly three decades, but his time to hand the reins over to someone else had passed quite a while ago. He was an innovator and was ahead of his time in hiring minorities and women and I hope fans will remember him more for all that than the last part of his life. It's too bad that the Raiders look like they finally will be good after being so bad for the last seven or eight years and he won't be able to see them play.

  8. Wild season opener tonight. Thanks to the Center Ice preview, I get to watch this one on the regular old TV.

    The Whangdoodle should make its triumphant return on Wednesday.

  11. This will be seriously old news to some of you, but while bumming around Ebert's site I stumbled upon his Glossary of Terms for the first time. I'm fairly sure that everything I don't like to see in movies is on that list. I assume even film non-buffs have noticed many of these phenomena.

  12. Two he didn't cover -

    Unstoppable Train, The:
    When a vehicle finds its way in front of a moving train, the train will make no attempt to stop before or after the inevitable crash. (see BACK TO THE FUTURE III, BLUE THUNDER, ad infinitum)

    Clueless Drivers Syndrome:
    Regardless of the unholy havoc being played on vehicles in front of/behind/along side a driver, he/she will continue driving at the same rate of speed and not pull over as if nothing was out of the ordinary (worst offender: MATRIX RELOADED)

    2. Evil Albinos:
      When albinos are featured in films, they will always be maniacally evil.

      Pyro Man:
      When an explosion occurs in a building, a man completely engulfed in flames will invariably walk out of a door, and wander aimlessly with both arms outstretched.

      Upper ramp:
      In films featuring parking ramps, cars are never parked close to the entrance.

      Pareil money:
      When large sums of money are exchanged (like in a briefcase), a bundle of bills from the top might be rifled through, but the rest is assumed to be good.

      Bad clowns/mimes/stiltwalkers/jugglers:
      Funny men are always evil doers.

      1. Yeah, Pyro Man always gets me. How can a man with skin and significant muscle burning away (I'm looking at you, CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK) move at all, let alone balance and stumble around upright??

    3. I'm not particularly a fan of the U of M, but this team is embarrassingly pathetic. It's one thing to get slaughtered by a top ten team, another to get slaughtered by Purdue. I don't know whose fault it is, and it probably took more than one person to make them this bad, but no Big Ten program should fall this far.

      1. I'm willing to give Jerry Kill a pass for now, not because of his physical problems but I think he is sacrificing now for the future, unlike his predecessor, who would bring in mediocre JC talent to keep the team somewhat competitive. Marquis Gray should have been getting experience at QB the last two years like Max Shortell is now, but he never got that chance. And now we're seeing the result of that. I sure would like to see more improvement as the season goes along, but when you lose at home to a team from New Mexico, you're probably not going to beat too many Big Ten teams, especially on the road.

        1. How is he sacrificing the present for the future? He's been tearing red shirts off left and right.

      2. Apparently, Padre, you've blotted out any memory of Northwestern during the 1970s and early 1980s (1-31-1 under Rick Venturi, 34 straight losses under Venturi and Denny Green). :-0

  14. Halftime at Southern Illinois: SIU 3, NDSU 0.

    Bison have 22 yards of offense and no first downs.

      1. Now 3-3. SIU was inside the 20 four times in the first half. Bison were trapped inside their own 10 just about the whole half. Bison have four first downs.

    2. Paging FTLT: Our boy Phil Hansen does color on the Bison Radio Network and he's pretty darned good.

        1. A necessary thing. When I re-watched 'Life', they replaced awesome tracks like Mogwai's "Hunted By a Freak" with generic instrumentals. Awful.

        2. They could never reacquire all the music rights.

          looks like they still couldn't:

          Post Haste says it also provided "extensive" music-replacement services for the show, which showed up on Netflix (streaming only) this month, sans iconic Joe Cocker theme song. (The show reportedly used over 300 different pieces of music in its run, none of which were cleared for home-video release.)

            1. I randomly checked it out a couple days ago. It's not Joe Cocker's cover of "With A Little Help From My Friends" but it's someone covering "With A Little Help From My Friends" in 3/4 time. At the time, I thought to myself "hmm...I thought they had the Joe Cocker cover, I guess I remembered wrong and there are more covers than I thought." So I guess I didn't think it was a big deal at the time.

              It's lame that shows seemingly can never come to terms on rights for these things. It's not like I'm less likely to buy a song if I hear it on a TV show. If anything, I'm more likely. I probably never would have heard of Clem Snide without them providing the theme for Ed, another show which will probably never be released because it had a bunch of music on it. For the most part, TV shows don't even play full songs, so it's not like they're even giving away all the goods as it is. Seems like a poor marketing position from the music side of things, but I'm sure they have some argument for why they do things the way they do.

              1. It's not like I'm less likely to buy a song if I hear it on a TV show. If anything, I'm more likely.

                There's actually proof that this is the case, and there are recording artists that are trying to fight the ridiculous system to avoid these legal entanglements. I just don't get the music industry, and if there's a strong argument as to why they do things like this, I haven't been able to track it down.

                In the meantime, shows that want to be released on DVD without incident often avoid any music besides their own, which seems like a lost opportunity for the music industry.

          2. if you buy a 'Married With Children' dvd, 'Love and Marriage' by Frank Sinatra is not the theme song, its a generic soundalike

  17. Holy balls. It's rained here all day. The earth was so dry around our house that I'm surprised we didn't float away.

      1. We still have time to float. It's been so dry for so long that I'm actually a bit concerned for the flooding potential.

  18. So, my brother-in-law calls me up tonight and lo and behold, I'm grabbing a free ticket for tomorrow vikings game.

    I can't tell if I'm overpaying or not...

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