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December 23, 2012: Another Sports Death

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Ryan Freel has committed suicide at the age of 36. He said he's had probably nine or ten concussions in his life. It's frightening how much these line up with suicide, now that the world is looking.

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    1. I hear it's not one of those "my eye was poked and feels scratched", it's one of the "someone jammed their finger into my eyesocket and the part that's supposed to be white is red because of the ruptured blood vessels" variety.

      Time for Love to get some goggles! Gonna miss him against the Knicks.

  3. Chelsea went ape all over Aston Villa this morning.

    Fernando Torres (3)
    David Luiz (29)
    Branislav Ivanovic (34)
    Frank Lampard (58)
    Nascimento Ramires (75, 90)
    Emboaba Oscar (79 Pen)
    Eden Hazard (83)

    And Brad Guzan saved a penalty in the 89th minute.

    1. Chelsea took 6 weeks of frustration and made Aston Villa eat it. I hope this means we're back to the September Chelsea and not the November Chelsea.

  5. from this morning; the guy in the orchestra in the white sweater on the left is happy for another year the performance went down well
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzqFcr3Q90

    1. is that a seniority thing, getting a seat in the front of the stage as a low-brass player? I don't think I've seen much more than the top of the Boy's head in all the years he played wind ensemble.

      1. Low brass is always in the back; in this case we were all seated to the left of the conductor, so the "back" becomes the far left.

        Sometimes you can luck out and while he might be seated in the back rows, he might be on an end closest to the audience.

      1. yeah, that Texans front line was pretty stout. It seemed like once they got a hand on Peterson, he was tackled or bouncing backwards

  7. Isn't it Festivus? Airing of grievances:

    Guide by Voices releases three albums and goes on tour for for 3 months and don't visit Minneapolis? What the hell? We aren't that far from Chicago or St. Louis.

    Johnny Flynn, DWIII, Wayne Elkington? Who is ever scouting for the Twolves need a new line of work.

    Just because you're angry at your mother, the world, your boss, etc. Doesn't mean you need to kill innocents. Please put the assault weapons away.

    Jason Marquis -- enough said.

    Cancer? Go fuck yourself and bring back my mother's sister and brother who died within six months of each other.

    1. A certain staff member of mine -- I really hope you get that job for which you interviewed.
      Shoulder surgery -- WTF? I am too young for this shit.
      I would accept that appointment to the job I've been "acting" at for two years any time now.
      Next break, Boy, you need a freakin' job.
      Joe and Gavin -- put your big boy pants on and stand up to George. Or just go away. We are all tired of the drama and the crappy team.
      And what free said about killing of innocents. Or even people who "deserve" it.

    2. Hollywood, can we please have story lines that require more great acting and less special effects? Not that special effects are bad or anything -- just saw Cabin in the Woods a few days ago and...wow!

    3. The grievances from our holiday party were shared on my Book of Faces page. Definitely some good ones there.

      1. Does conducting six worship services in two days, and seven in three, count as a feat of strength?

  8. you know that one Arby's commercial where Bo Deitl (yuck) hands a meat slicer to a Subway employee? The whole thing is stupid because if you think about it, the meat Arby's gets that they 'cut fresh' still comes from a perfect loaf of meat.

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