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Monthly Archives: January 2012
January 14, 2011: Milestone Comments
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the Milestone Comment plaques.
Monty Python – Fundraising
I think I can speak for everyone who comes to this place in saying that we are pretty luck to have the wgom. As we all know, places like the wgom don't grow on trees. Like trees however, the wgom need to be watered by money to grow. Check out the sticky note to your left to help keep the wgom existing.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0tRpaudCWY
Here is a group of sketches done by the Monty Python gents for a Chicago PBS station in 1975.
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Loading... 2012 Game Logs: Game 11 Timberwolves @ NOLA
Minnesota is a 1.5 point favorite on the road tonight. I know the nation may not be filled with gamblers but it doesn't take the wagering type to know that it isn't every day the Wolves are favored on the road.
Eric Gordon is out tonight for the Hornets. The Wolves will be without Beasley. So I figure that is about even. Or not.
Below some information from covers.com
Matchup Edge
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NOLA is averaging .5 boards more per game than the Wolves. Let's see is Kevin Love close that gap a little bit tonight.
Offense
| Season Stats | Rank | |
| Points/G | 95.4 | 12 |
| Field Goal % | 43.1 | 22 |
| 3-Point % | 35.3 | 11 |
| Free Throw % | 71.7 | 22 |
| Rebounds/G | 44.1 | 7 |
Defense
| Season Stats | Rank | |
| Points/G | 95.1 | 18 |
| Field Goal % | 43.8 | 12 |
| 3-Point % | 31.5 | 10 |
| Free Throw % | 79.0 | 29 |
| Rebounds/G | 42.1 | 17 |
There are still a lot of improvements to be made but this team is a lot better than last season. Or at least it feels a lot better than a 3-7 team.
WGOM Fund Drive
The donations dongle has been (re-)added to the sidebar. We are using PayPal instead of Google Checkout now. The fees are similar and they have fewer rules about what's not allowed.
This Week in Twins Transactions
Pedro Florimon signs a minor league contract.
This Week in Ex-Twins
Baltimore re-signs Willie Eyre to a minor league contract.
Baltimore signs Allan de San Miguel to a minor league contract.
Cincinnati agrees to terms with Corky Miller on a minor league contract.
Kansas City names Brian Buchanan manager of Kane County in the Midwest League (A).
Angels agree to terms with Doug Deeds on a minor league contract.
Milwaukee agrees to terms with Carlos Gomez on a one-year contract.
Spanning the Globe
DOMINICAN LEAGUE
Cibao 6, Aguilas 4 in Aguilas. Alexi Casilla was 2-for-4 with a walk, a double, and a run for Cibao.
PUERTO RICAN LEAGUE
Mayaguez 4, Ponce 1 in Ponce. Daniel Ortiz struck out in his only trip to the plate for Mayaguez.
VENEZUELAN LEAGUE
Anzoategui 7, La Guaira 4 in Anzoategui. Lester Oliveros allowed a run on hit and a walk while striking out one in one inning for Anzoategui.
AUSTRALIAN LEAGUE
Perth 10, Canberra 5 in Canberra. Luke Hughes was 2-for-4 with a home run and a walk, scoring twice and driving in three for Perth.
Sydney 12, Adelaide 7 in Sydney. Jacob Younis was 2-for-5 with a run and an RBI for Sydney. Todd Van Steensel walked one and struck out one in two-thirds of an inning, giving up no runs for Sydney.
Melbourne 8, Brisbane 3 in Brisbane. Rory Rhodes was 0-for-2 with two walks for Brisbane.
FMD: Jan 13, 2012
Ten random musical thoughts:
1. Lana Del Rey is this weekend’s musical guest on SNL. I’ll be watching. I’m scared, because her other televised appearances (from Europe via youtube) have been spotty, at best. If she tanks, she might become an over-culture punchline before her album is even released. I hope her major-label handlers have taken this into consideration, and prepped her like an American Idol finalist about to go on tour. Alternately, if she’s good, she might get too big too soon and end up like Katy Perry or something.
2. At first, I didn’t really like her newest single, “Born to Die”, but I tried it a few times and it grew on me. Now, if only her big-budget video would have spent its money on video-clip clearance for a legally acceptable video-as-tumblr cut&paste composition rather than cinematic production.
3. If you've got $300 laying around, you can have Bobby Bare Jr. write a song about whatever you want and four quarters.
4. Should we pool some money and get BBJ to write the official WGOM.org theme?
5. Black Dice have a new song that is free for you to stream or download. I think this is their poppiest tune yet, and I think it's great. Soundcloud says it has 9000 plays, and youtube 11000 views. I'm probably more than 1% of each.
6. I think I may be as excited to hear the new Black Dice album as I am the new Lana Del Rey.
7. I gotta back off the Lydia Loveless. I've got like 14 songs of hers I keep playing over and over and I'm getting burned out on them but still don't want to listen to anything else.
7. Parental Joy: driving around with 6yo HPR. He's bored with whatever music's playing (I think it was Lydia Loveless for the 8th straight time), so he asks for the guy that goes "weedle-weedle-weedle" (Only with a cute 6yo, missing two front teeth lisp). He means Colin Stetson!
8. So I put it in and skip forward to "Red Horse" (cos I know that's one of his favorites), and I hear HPR "singing" from the backseat on the parts of the song where Stetson vocalizes through his horn. HPR's sound is in between a growl and a grunt.
9. I'm pretty sure I had about ten random thoughts when I sat down to type.
T. If I had ten thoughts, I guess I lost a few.
January 13, 2012: Tedious
Now that all the customers are gone, it's a nonstop gabfest on our headsets at work as management tries to tell us we have to average a number of credit applications per day that we rarely hit, period. It happens every year in January, and it's always exactly this much fun.