63 thoughts on “August 5, 2012: Jeebus Saves!”

    1. mcenroe: jacques rogge, the president of the IOC. is he swiss or is he french?
      other guy: he's belgian.
      mcenroe: close enough.

      1. that was the only part of the tennis match I watched. I flipped the channel to fencing and water polo and forgot to turn back

    1. What is with the media's obsession with the Dream Team this year? It happened 20 years ago and they played against a bunch of chumps and stiffs.

  6. Mauer is now fourth in the AL in WPA. Willingham is still first by a wide margin.

  8. I was talking to my BIL at the wedding last night. He's a pretty knowledgeable baseball fan and a Twins guy through and through. We were talking about the rotation this year and he started in on Light Rail, not for performance but for trying to play through an arm injury and not telling the team about it. I gave him a little history of the Twins training/medical staff and their typical approach to these things, especially about F-Bomb and Sideshow Pat. He now agrees that our training/medical staff really sucks.

  9. My sister-in-law, who is a big time Red Sox fan, was at Fenway Park last night. Her four year old son told her that he doesn't like the Red Sox, he likes the Twins.

    Sometimes, it is the little things in life.

    1. It's hard for me to imagine anyone being able to escape the vortex of suck that is bosox nation. Good for your nephew.

  10. The highlight of watching the 10k yesterday with my father-in-law was when he said most of the runners were African Americans. I explained that they were actually Africans.

    1. Yeah. I'm at a loss, and have spent the last several minutes reading about some a-holes who are working on the files for 3-d printable guns. I won't link to the madness, but these folks are serious about making single serving guns for everyone. I'm just not comfortable with that idea. I'm going to stop here before I end up much further inside the forbidden zone.

    2. I can't say much without straying into terra prohibita, but I'm incredibly angry about this, and very, very sad for my country. I felt exactly the same way two weeks ago following the Aurora massacre.

      1. A friend of mine is DVRing NBC's Olympic coverage to watch it when she can. I asked her, "So, you're tape-delaying the tape delay?"

      2. What an incredible race. Fastest field ever. Very tight from 2-4, but Bolt wins by .12. An absolute blowout.

        1. Since the cat's out of the bag, I'll not bother with the spoiler tags.
          It wasn't quite Beijing 2008, but it was still very awesome.

          I get such a kick out of the guy letting up 5M short of the finish and still breaking records. I won't accuse him of PEDs, but I do wonder if he has Alien DNA.

  16. I read Shecky's column on Pistorius (the amputee with artificial lower legss who runs the 400M for South Africa). [It wasn't a chicken-joke column.]
    The one thing that the runner's situation brings up to me is the final scene of the Incredibles.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ApeH_ynA8Q
    "Close Second! Close Second!"

  17. I didn't have much time for Olympics today, but I did watch the show jumping for half an hour this morning. I mean, why do human beings bother with all that running and jumping when they can sit down and have a horse do all the work?

    1. I wanted it higher, but then it would push the Recent LTEs down to off the screen or close to it, so it went underneath. Need to update it for the seasons ahead of Willingham rather than tied.

  19. How long before we find out that the 18-year old sprinter from the Dominican Republic is actually 26?

  20. i'm not sure which was more pointless: the interview at the bond museum (or whatever the hell that was), or ryan seacrest recapping the day in social media.

    1. I didn't mind re-watching the 100M. New stuff to notice.
      I wonder if that set a record for NBCOlympics.com viewership.

    2. The social media recaps are especially pointless. Just as pointless as playing the 100 meter final at 10:10 PM CDT. That's no longer primetime! It may have been worth it for Costas talking about the "reports" of a bottle being thrown, while blithely ignoring that you could see the bottle roll into view in the original view of the race.

      1. just be glad you live in flyover country. I got it at 11:10 pm Pacific. Effing ridiculous.

        I also very much enjoyed the ceaseless, sexualized hyping of McKayla Maroney, the lockiest lock of any gold medal lock in history.

        2. I was disappointed to find single-event gymnastics on TV last night. I thought that crap was over.
          I'm afraid that tonight I'll find out that although the swimming events were done, there's water-walking all this week.

          1. Yeah. The lack of diversity in NBC's primetime programming is easily their gravest sin.

            I was able to catch some other events during the day this weekend. I saw Equestrian (meh), weight lifting (surprisingly exciting), water polo and handball (they're both surprisingly boring... I expected more), shooting (again, more fun than I expected), and probably a couple others I'm forgetting. I saw fencing and archery last weekend. Those were totally awesome.

            Also, after watching American Ninja Warrior, I'm way less impressed by the gymnasts than I ever was before.

    3. With all the stuff going on at the Olympics, it amazes me how much time NBC just piddles away.

  21. Ahem.

    Orson Welles was always embarrassed by Rosebud. "It’s a gimmick, really," he told interviewers, "and rather dollar book Freud." The mystery of "the great man’s last words" was, like the reporter Thompson charged with solving it, "a piece of machinery" designed to lead the audience through the fragmented plot.

    In other words, It's a fucking sled.

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