164 thoughts on “June 27, 2013: Hammered”

    2. I don't know anyone who doesn't hate Achy Breaky Heart. Why use that song to advertise his book, unless you're saying "whose shitty song Achy Breaky Heart propelled him to stardom so he could write much better songs that nobody noticed because they were still pissed about the first one."

    3. His daughter's new song is about partying on ecstasy.
      I listened on youtube. It's horrible, but in a car crash way, and I found it pretty earworm-free.
      She's gonna be way more embarrased of this when she's older than she will be of "Party in the USA".

        1. I'm not entirely certain whether this is ironic or not, but I find "Party in the USA" to be a solid pop song. I still put it on from time to time.

          The rest of her stuff is turrible, just turrible.

          2. The song she did with Snoop Dogg Lion is pretty dumb, but it's not un-listen-to-able.

      2. I know not one song of Ms. Cyrus' catalog. I'm not sure I've ever heard one. Being old has its privileges.

        1. It's not just being old. It helps that the magic of mp3's connected to my take deck allows the rash easy avoidance of such things.

          Isuspect that that sort of advantage is coming to an end for both of us due to having daughters.

          1. Yes, my daughter has been exposed to pop music. I would have thought there was some sort of vaccine for that, but alas!

            1. I have an experimental drug that I'm going to try (heavy metal) but I'm not confident I'll get the results I'm hoping for.

                1. So you're saying there's a chance.

                  Of course, re-assuring me using a video for a show with "talent" in the title and having a Spice Girl and Howie Mandel on the panel is not that re-assuring. Also, that blonde woman is not smart. Mostly, though, I hope someone teachers her the proper way to do that without shredding her vocal chords (or already has). There's a number of femal vocalists for that segment of the metal world.

                    1. Is that who that is? Well, wanting to see the girl's parents smacked of stupidity to me.

            1. If I remember my high school days, boys can still succumb to some awful stuff (I once bought a Papa Roach album. What were you thinking teenage cheaptoy?).

              Man, I've gotten really negative all of a sudden. I guess pop culture will do that to a guy.

              1. Yeah, they'll pass through a lot of awful music soon enough. Skim occasionally professes that she likes Bieber, but I know it's because all her friends are doing it. She'd rather listen to Disney Princesses or Epica.

                1. CER isn't into that junk. Homeschool/no cable.
                  She still likes Björk and the Music from her Vacation Bible School.
                  Been staying up later this summer, watching Jane Austen film and screen adaptations with her mother. (And father.)

                  She turns 10 in 11 days!

        2. Hey now, I don't let my kids listen to this crap.
          I chose to listen to it. (It was suggested/promoted after some other unrelated video.)
          I know who Miley is. (Don't think they do.)

  2. Two items:

    1) this weekend the Runner family is hosting relatives from Sweden! My 2nd cousin once removed and her husband and son will be here for three days before heading north to visit my parents and other relatives

    2) I recently won a Ken Griffey Jr. autographed baseball card #'d to 25. This guy on one of the card trading sites holds a giveaway each month, and all I did was pick a number between 1 and 80 (Rod Carew's #29). After consulting with the local card shop owner, he's listing it for me on Ebay as a Buy It Now for $140(!), and my goal is to turn around the proceeds and add some Twins autos that I don't have to my collection: Mauer, Oliva, Gibson...I think any Puckett and Buxton are out of my reach at this point.

        1. I can imagine. Do you see the overseas clan often? Or is this more of a first? Makes me wish I had family I knew of overseas to visit sometime.

  3. I do that all the time and I'm 48 years old. In fact, I did that yesterday: up at 3AM, still up at 9PM.

    1. The part I should have added was that I had gone to bed at midnight or one previously, too. Otherwise, six or seven hours is all I need, while everyone else in this house needs nine or ten. That's where I get my alone time.

      1. I certainly need less than my wife and daughter, but I've determined recently that I'm getting deprived, which has negative consequences, for sure. Last night I did get to bed early. On the last trip, I got up at three and then stayed up until midnight, which is crazy.

        1. I don't like being away from my family, but one of the great advantages is actually sleeping soundly without a toddler kicking me or waking up screaming. So, I've had two nights of solid 7 hours.

        2. I used to be immune (or probably just resistant) to those effects. Yesterday, though, I was forgetting things left and right. I'd say to a customer "We talked about this, right?" and it would be something I'd talked about three customers ago. I'd attribute the second-to-last TV to the last customer. I still managed an eight-thousand-dollar day, so maybe sleep deprivation isn't a bad thing...

  5. Mock(able) Draft Alert: 4ltr has the Wolves taking KCP at 9 and this new choice.

    26
    Allen Crabbe
    Minnesota Timberwolves via Memphis Grizzlies
    COLLEGE: Cal
    AGE: 21
    HT: 6-6
    WT: 197
    POS: SG

    Analysis: Minnesota wants shooting and they need help at the 2 and 3. I think they could grab another shooter, even if the take Caldwell-Pope at No. 9. Crabbe has the size to play the 3 and would add another target for Ricky Rubio. Rudy Gobert also is a possibility here.

    I am totally on board with drafting two non-PG perimeter players. The Wolves have been deficient here since, forever.

    1. I'm on board with the concept of taking someone like Crabbe at 26.

      fwi(not)w, nbadraft.net has the Wolves taking a 6'0" pg at 26, one spot after the Clippers take Crabbe and one spot before Nate Wolters to Denver.

      On the other hand, the scouting report on the guy nbadraft.net thinks they will take, Isaiah Canaan, makes him sound like a much better version of JJ Barea. That could be very useful.

      1. The Wolves drafting Wolters would make me giddily happy, which is why I'm about 98% sure it won't happen.

      1. How magical thinking and racism produced the NBA’s most notorious draft bust.

        Joe Dumars was racist???

        Nobody really cares if Chad Ford hyperventilates about some Euro guy that nobody has seen play.

        Dumars and the Pistons' staff saw Darko work out during the playoffs that spring, as the AP reported at the time.

        The Pistons desperately need a power forward or center to score next to Ben Wallace; they believe Tayshaun Prince is their small forward of the future; and they have one of the best international scouts in basketball.

        "It looks like he is the prefect fit,'' Detroit guard Chucky Atkins said. "We need all the guys we can get that play above the rim, and score.''

        Milicic went through drills by himself at the Pistons' practice facility on Wednesday and the left-hander made 3-pointers from beyond the NBA's line with ease.

        Joe Dumars, Detroit's president of basketball operations, liked what he saw.

        "Darko had a very good workout and was impressive,'' Dumars said. "He has a chance to be a very good player in this league.''

        They were wrong, and this piece, while interesting, is just plain cuckoo.

    1. Facebook/stribbie bait.

      But on the serious side, nice article. I enjoy your compliments of a once in a generation player getting mainstream media play.

    1. A front court rotation of Love, Pek and KG would be the best. They would get ALL the rebounds. I also don't see it happening, though, but a bit can dream. (D-will for KG straight up.)

      1. How would D-will for KG work under the cap?

        I don't see it. Who guards the 3s in that scenario?

        1. I don't care, I'm dreaming.

          Also, they could send one of, or both of, Ridnour and Barrea.

      1. Kind of. As in that's probably the best example of a former Minnesota player leaving on bad terms and then coming back. But, this would be like that on steroids * eleventy billion. And also an NBA title? We can haz that?

        1. As in that’s probably the best example of a former Minnesota player leaving on bad terms and then coming back.

          paging Fran Tarkenton.

    3. He did once mention that he'd like to retire in Minnesota. Of course, he made the comment while in Minnesota, so it may have been a Torii Hunter thing.

      I hope it happens. I love that guy unconditionally, even at this stage in his career.

  8. I haven't sampled as many beers add I'd like while in NC due to the city i was staying in, but so far they are doing very well in the deliciousness department. Last night i had this and this, and today I'm hanging out in an airport bar drinking this, to be followedby by this. That hop,drop,and roll was incredible.

    Also,I'm at abar called "The Taste of Carolina" that serves food from the California Kitchen...

      1. I suppose that could be the case. At the very least, it provided some bread to help with the delicious beers I was drinking.

        1. Reminds me to share a link to what I picked up yesterday. I hear their pastries & desserts are better, but I thought that they did a nice job with this loaf.

  9. USA just went down 1-0 to Ghana in the U-20 World Cup. Ghana has elminated the US from the last two World Cups. I'm really starting to not like them.

    1. On the bright side:

      $49.9K GDP/Capita -- US
      $1.7K GDP/Capita -- Ghana

      So we've got that going for us.

    1. Hmm...that may need a NSFW tag except it's pretty much NSFA* a man might read it.
      .
      *anywhere

        1. *shudder* not that i needed the reminder, but yeah, I'll stick to beer procured at a legitimate store or my house.

    2. A friend tried to cut off that part while on a particularly bad LSD trip in highschool. I was scared straight. (Oh, that's a good pun).

    1. The new revelations raised the specter that Hernandez might have been playing football games last season with the Patriots after he had participated in a double murder.

      Yea, that's the specter all right.

        1. Here's what's crucial: did he use a performance enhancing substance in committing the murders? If so, I think we should be outraged. If not, *shrug*.

          1. But don't forget the most important question: what do these new revelations mean for Tim Tebow?

            1. Right. The real crucial part is whether he made a mockery of historical baseball stats while on PEDs, if he was in fact on PEDs when he killed those three people.

              (I know a mere iota of a fact more than absolutely nothing on this case, so I'm just going on the baseless assumption he's really guilty.)

              1. The prosecution has pretty much everything short of a video of him addressing the camera and stating that he's going to shoot the other man, then filming himself commit the murder. I'd be surprised if he didn't get convicted.

  15. If the Cavs liked Anthony Bennett the Wolves should have tried harder to trade them Derek Williams.

        1. When you're easily made Trevor Mbwake's bitch, you probably shouldn't be a lottery pick.

    1. I could totally talk myself into Noel if he falls four more spots. It's not like he could get "more hurt" as a Wolf.

  18. One of my really good college buddies works for the NBA and he confirmed to me: David Stern is the best. I loved him just asking for more booing there.

    1. The whole draft class sucks. If Khan was still around, I would be so terrified of Carter-Williams or Plumlee...

                  1. meh. 14 is pretty much a crapshoot in ordinary drafts anyway. Moderate risk, high reward?

                  2. To have a classic Wolves draft, they need to take a decent player at #21 or #26 and trade him away.

            2. with three picks in the first round, the Wolves can get three slow guys who can't play but look good on the bench!

  24. Sacramento picks a shooting guard. What they really needed was Trey Burke. Too bad they didn't have anything to trade for him. Now what do they do with restricted FA Tyreke Evans, who can't really play PG and is on the small side for SF?

          1. ESPN radio says he's going to Boston for "a couple of second-round picks". Huh? Dallas is that desperate to avoid a guaranteed contract?

            Sounds like they are correcting themselves now that it will include the Brazilian dude. They are a bit perplexed.

  27. Ringing endorsements from the espn crew.... "At 14 he isn't a terrible pick".

  28. Maybe Wolves fans should only say good things about all available picks in the draft. It would make it harder for the Wolves to do the opposite of what everyone wants.

          1. I don't think they can trade draft picks but can trade rights to players. I hate it.

            1. That seems really weird since the NBA generally allows teams to trade future picks.

              1. they can trade picks, but they don't want to announce "officially" the parts of the trade until it is consummatable.

  30. My first two thoughts when I see the name Shane Larkin are Shane Mack and Gene Larkin.

  31. I know that I am in the minority in liking Simmons around here but he is just made made for this medium. Dude is forcing jokes. It is kind of embarrassing.

    1. I am trying to judge him on a Dennis Miller scale. So far, I'm ranking him better than Miller, and I'm thinking his draft commentary is better than his game commentary.

      1. When I say made made what I meant to say is not made, of course.

        1. He can actually write when he tries. It has just been ten years since he has tried.

    2. I'm finding him pretty good tonight. Someone has to put Jay Bilas in his place for his overexuberance.

    1. This whole "all trades are proposed until approved after the draft" thing just makes everything confused. How often do trades get shot down? They'd be right more often than not if they assumed that trades would go through.

  35. New bike purchased and operational - $20 plus tax. I'm $70 and change into two bikes, so I should see a modest profit if I can unload this mountain bike.

  37. So, going by past Wolves draft history, we're pretty sure that Roberson will have a better career than Shabazz or Dieng?

      1. It seems like such a Wolves move to start with the #9 and #26, end up with the #14 and #21 (essentially equivalent, I'd guess) and basically nothing to show for it but the #14 and #21 picks.

        1. I was confident that there wouldn't be three number one selections. Muhammad better be a player, or this is a disaster.

          1. What's the upside for trading away the 26th pick (in exchange for cash presumably)? Roster/cap space?

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