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Gophers to the NIT Finals

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According to 1500 ESPN, "Andre Hollis scored 11 of his team's final 13 points. Stanford awaits the "U" in the finals on Thursday."

Who? Anyway, the Gophers survive a late-game slouch and win in overtime against WA 68-67. The Wolves did not win...

142 thoughts on “Gophers to the NIT Finals”

    1. Thanks Rhu_Ru, I'll have to check this out when I've got some down time this morning!

  2. You know what would be great? If we could get someone to do the Saturday recaps. Perhaps an alternating schedule?

    1. I wanted to do it, but I basically never actually see games so I don't think I'd be capable of offering much of anything resembling a recap.

      1. That's a lot of my problem, compounded with the time difference. I would be much less insightful and timely than simply clicking over to MLB.com and reading a recap there.

      1. I would be happy to do a Saturday recap here and there, like once a month or so. It's not like I have a life like the younger guys here.

    3. I already replied in the recap thread, but I can take these, too. I might need to be pinch hit for on occasion, because while gamelogs are easy to make well in advance, for recaps you need to watch the game, and I'm busy on Saturdays pretty often.

  3. Bottom of the tenth between the Mariner's and A's. Both scored their sole run in the fourth inning.

      1. Dustin Ackley! Who's the best at Fantasy Baseball now boys?

        ::checks standings::

        Apparently it's Nibbish.

            1. Late. It would have been a shrewd thing to do, but by the time I realized how this league was handling keepers, we were drafting. I should pay more attention.

    1. For $2.15 billion. I so need to buy a sports franchise. I can run it into the ground for eight years and still make [redacted] money.

            1. It's pretty hilarious how long and how often I screwed up the year. You can and should comment on it for as long as you feel is necessary.

              1. How long did we go with the "Is it Thursday?" thing? Do we need a Is it 2012? link on the home page to go along with the other one? (for the record, I consider both things to still be funny.)

                1. as i live in a house now with trash pick-up, which ended up being on (of course) thursday, i definitely need to keep that up.

                  1. I admit that I giggle pretty much every time someone links to that Is It Thursday site. Yes, I am easily amused -- I work for the gubmint!

                    2. If you stick around for game threads, I believe many similar explainings of our nerdy past will take place, which I am all for.

                    3. We'll see. My current baseball watching set-up isn't super conducive to following game threads (my laptop is a piece of crap), but I'm hoping to make it work out from time to time.

                    4. I believe many similar explainings of our nerdy past will take place, which I am all for.

                      It's like we have a Greatest Hits collection already!

  5. A couple of the great non-baseball conversations I missed yesterday:

    1. Preparing a house for sale
    2. Meat grinding & cut ratios
    3. CSAs
    4. Distance running

    This place has so wonderfully transcended baseball, or even sports in general. What's more, whether you're here to talk about the Twins, or need a diversion from the Twins, there's always something engrossing to discuss.

      1. I'm really just trying to see how thoroughly we can pat ourselves on the back before we get to the actual one-year anniversary of the new site.

    3. I have to say that it took me a long while after I gave up the old site to come to grips with the fact that this site wasn't mine and I had no control over it. There have been several times when I've come across as chippy and in every case I realized later that I was being a jerk. In my defense, I felt like I gave up the old site not because I wanted to, but because I had to and I felt some resentment about that. Not toward anyone here, but because I had to sacrifice it at the altar of the demands on me. But, I think I've come to a pretty good place re the new site. It's a cool place for me to hang out at, I have let go of the feelings that I had about giving up the old place, and it still brings me a lot of joy.

      The life I lead is a hard one. I work long hours and away from my family for long stretches at a time. When I am home, my time is spent with my wife and daughter. As such, I have almost no time for any friendships. Such is the path that I have chosen, I guess. This is a good situation for me, not perfect, but good. The job is very intellectually challenging and having blocks of time to devote to work like I do makes me pretty effective and has bought me the opportunity to live where I want to live.

      I am not a wild extrovert. I can live without an active social life -- my wife and daughter are really it for me. But, I do need some connection with people outside of work and family. For the most part, this is it. So, thank you to spooky, sean, and the rest of the folks around here. The site is important to me and if you hadn't picked up the ball and run it into the proverbial endzone, I would be a lot less happy about things.

      1. just in case, and i'm sure you know this, but i think CH was talking about the community you created as a whole, and not just the infant .org. none of us would be here without that, so as many, if not more thanks go to you, boss.

        1. Oh, yeah. That is exactly what I am talking about. Even though the old site was his baby, Stick graciously started the ball rolling by accommodating those who wanted to discuss topics outside of baseball. At a certain point, this community became about more than just Twins baseball (or sports), and that happened while we still were hanging out in Stick's basement. I think of WGOM.org as a continuation of that, but one where the inmates have a greater stake (whether it's time spent creating content, maintaining the site, paying the bills, or whatever) in the asylum.

          I do miss the occasional cat post, however.

      2. As hj said, none of this would exist in the first place with you.

        There are pluses and minuses about every situation, as I'm sure you know. As long as, overall, you're happy with things as they are, that's great. Just remember, and I say this to everyone every chance I get, that if you ever are not happy with it, you are not trapped in it. There are always other options.

  6. So, do the Gophers play better without Ralph-3, or is the level of competition in the nit lower than in the Big 10?

    2. My friends and I have a game called "Soft Off" where we pick an arbitrary person and ask if he/she is softer than Ralph Softson III. So far, Darko Milicic is the only person whose softness even comes close.

        4. There's an old picture from LOLJocks, which was run by KSK commentor Grimey, that had something along the lines of "I'M GETTING A PONY!?" superimposed on that picture.

          1. Here are the two pics - #1 and #2.

            On a semi-related note, the year after I graduated I was in Peggy's with Klayton and some of the other Drake players watching Kyle play for the Jazz in the playoffs. It was weird to be there thinking, "Dude, that's your brother on TV." Last I heard, Klayton works for Kyle's charity in Philly.

        5. I almost stifled it and then laughed heartily and everyone in the cubes around me went silent...awesome.

        6. Kyle is the "one who all other basketball players are compared to and do not match up to" here in Omerha.

  7. So, anyone watch The Daily Show last night? In law school I founded a comedy troupe with the guy who played the tiny lawyer.

    Obviously, what with him writing for The Daily Show, one of us was funnier than the other. Also, he's a better lawyer than me too.

  9. Guys, we need one replacement for the Turbo Survivor game that just started. I know about half of you are playing already, but the first deadline's tonight (it's just a half-hour challenge, so no sweat) and we just lost a person to death or something.

    If you want to get into it, email Beau, who's running this one (I'm playing). If you don't have his address, email me.

        1. sweet. It should be a banner year for f-bombs!!!!!1111one111!!!

          (ed: damn. too quick -- I thought this was in reference to saturday recaps)

    2. I would but I'd hate to lower my average finish.

      Also, I have no time and if I played, you'd lose another player to death (i.e. my wife would kill me)

  11. huh?

    wasn't that half the point of the original clause?

    2. Things the Twins need:
      * Better analytics
      * Someone with better knowledge of baseball's rules and how to write contracts

  12. Britt Robson, who knows a few things about the NBA and, in particular, the T-Wolves:

    Opponents have no suitable matchup for guarding Kevin Love. A player who can bother him beyond the three-point arc (where Love is hitting 37.8 percent will be overwhelmed near the basket (where Love ranks second in offensive, defensive and total rebounds and 11th in the number of baskets scored per game at the rim). Love's dominance often draws fouls, as he's second in free-throw attempts and makes and hits 81.6 percent. Without Ricky Rubio to feed him passes or Nikola Pekovic to bang beside him last week, Love followed a 51-point performance (which included a three-pointer to send the game into overtime) in a loss to the Thunder on Friday with a 30-point, 21-rebound effort in Sunday's win against Denver, whose coach, George Karl, earnestly compared him to Larry Bird. Love lacks the championship pedigree of Bird, and isn't as aesthetically pleasing as most of the other superstars in the game. But if you were starting a team from scratch, he would be your power forward.

    I'm so old that I can remember when Love would get routinely stuffed at the basket. He could not finish at all. Now he can. Wow. His improvement over the last 4 years is astounding.

    1. it has been a joy to watch Kevin Love this season. I cant believe Kurt Rambis couldnt place him in the starting rotation on a regular basis until he had a 30-30 game. How much did Rambis' blundering combined with Kahn's 'crazy genius' set this franchise back?

  13. Huh? Who would have figured that a collaboration between The Flaming Lips and Bon Iver would be described as tedious?

    Listening to "Ashes in the Air" feels tedious; as a fan of both the Flaming Lips and Bon Iver, I thought the collaboration would result in a workable melody or at least some delightfully strange lyrics. Instead, it seems to drone along for about six minutes and then abruptly come to an end. I'm not really looking forward to listening to it again, but I will.

    Well except for me. I swear if Justin of Eau Claire covered The Boss' Rosalita in concert, everyone would sit down while listening.

    1. it seems to drone along for about six minutes and then abruptly come to an end

      This pretty much describes my own feelings on Bon Iver. I like some stuff (Skinny Love, Perth off the new one), but mostly I like dynamics and hooks... and that's not exactly their bailiwick.

    1. Ok, Philo, if there is any game log you should attend, this would be a good one (thought you said Gardy made him the opening day starter) its one with an appearance by this guy. There really isn't anything around here quite like a Stampstick start appearance.

          1. I again feel compelled to point out that you guys are nerds.

            And that I appreciate it.

    2. Noticed this morning on the tweetles that Luke Hughes calls him Swizzlesticks

        1. Guest

          I remember priming the pump by calling him Sleestak, but I have no idea who picked it up and ran with it by using something totally different. I think it's cool that we have a player with a dynamic nick instead of the boring static ones.

          1. I think it came from me mistyping or mis-remembering your "Sleestak," at which point Spoons went bonkers with variations. And it became a Thing.

  15. At rugby tonight, we were doing tackling drills. I went up against Sergei, our large Russian guy. As I tried to wrestle him down, his cleat got caught and his ankle snapped. It is most definitely broken. I usually don't have the stomach for that kind of thing at all, and to know I'm the one who did it makes it even worse. (of course not intentionally, but still...)

    2. I dislocated a kid's elbow in wrestling practice in high school- you feel terrible, and there's nothing you can do but watch the trainers/coaches take care of him. I don't know how guys that intentionally hurt people during games live with themselves.

  16. So I signed up for BARBRI as a 1L, plopped down my $20 to lock in my rate, and never did anything else. Now I have a $3K bill due in a few days and I need to figure out where to find a loan to cover it. Fun stuff.

    1. I ended up getting a pretty sizable refund from them a few years back.

      Well, a compelled refund.

      1. I have a voucher for a discount from someone as part of that settlement. I think it was for $250 or so off.

        1. See, compared to this conversation, the Sweetshoes nickname thing is plain english.

  17. If you want to hit up pre-sale tickets to the Aerosmith/Cheaptrick Concert at Target Center, the password is TCAEROSMITH. Presale starts at 10:00a Thursday.

                  1. This has been pretty Sweet. Emotion is tough to convey on the internet, but I think this is Love. In An Elevator one time, I heard a muzak version of an Aerosmith song.

                    2. That barely makes sense as a response. But maybe I'm just being too harsh. I am a bit Jaded.

                    3. I don't know if I could Eat the Rich food at TF and take in such a concert at the same time.

                1. I think this conversation has come Full Circle. Now it's just going Round and Round.

  18. Morneau with three hits including a home run today. I say just keep him at DH and keep him healthy as much as possible. We have plenty of options to play first base, especially if Parmelee is already on the team.

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