45 thoughts on “October 24, 2013: Beltran”

  1. So, yeah, the Red Sox pretty much owned that game last night. One game doesn't make a series, but they looked a lot better than the the birds on a bat boys.

  2. Brett Favre on the Rams' recent interest in him:

    "My family took a back seat for 20 years. My 14-year-old daughter plays volleyball and is the ninth grade and will be playing again the next three years and. I've taken trips that I never thought I'd take, I've gone to Yellowstone and I've gone Glacier National Park, I've gone to steamboats, my snow skiing, we've gone down to the Bahamas, we've done things that really everybody in my family just kind of waited for.

    And even if he did have any hopes of returning, he said Thursday his body won't allow it.

    "I'm like a yardstick, I'm so stiff," he said. "So I'm just trying to ... not stay in shape to play, but stay in shape to do everyday things, not only with my daughter and my wife and my grandson, but really just for me."

    1. Vikings read this, call his agent.
      "Sounds like Brett is the best option at quarterback for the Vikings going forward."

      Jeff George reads this, gets in his hatchback Tracer, and drives to St. Louis, stopping to sleep for four hours in a parking lot.
      "That's why I have a hatchback: It's actually pretty cozy."

      1. I am continually amazed by why anyone would buy pre-made guacamole (unless for a party where you need volume). It is so easy to make.

        But then, I have access to great avocados pretty much year-round for relatively cheap (typically, $1 each or less). Add some onion, jalapeno, garlic, salt, lime and cilantro, and you are good to go.

        1. Yeah, that second part. I love guac and all, but the avocado situation over here isn't always the best.

          1. Not ripe. Not ripe. Not ripe. Not ripe. Not ripe. EAT ME NOW. Bad.

            The produce when we were in California was one of the things that was the saddest to leave behind. J is a vegetarian and man the vegetables here and in Winnipeg are pretty lousy 9 months out of the year.

  4. More Vikings goodness, for once not about the quarterback.

    ProFootballFocus tweet-

    @PFF: Adrian Peterson is averaging 3.3 yards per carry AFTER contact. He is only averaging 4.4 YPC total. #WhereIsTheBlocking?

  5. I see the talking point today is that Monday Night Football had better ratings than the Game 1 of the World Series. ugh

    1. I think this goes to the quote from the other day, about intelligent people having fewer kids, or whatever it was...

    2. I used to care a lot about those sorts of discussions, but I don't really care any more, except to the degree that ratings pressure could change schedules. I'll talk about my preferred scheduling until the cows come home, but even if major league baseball shrinks to minor league baseball levels of popularity, there will still be baseball, and life will still be good.

      1. It's a fairly useless comparison for the fact that football has pretty successfully advertised itself as the 'big event' sport. If baseball had 16 games a year with 1 game playoffs then it would likely get similar numbers. This is why people that consider soccer a direct competitor to baseball because the MLS schedule runs roughly the same months are wrong. Soccer is another 'big event' sport. Its direct competitor is American football. MLS management either don't notice that or don't want to compete with American football, since a lot of their ownership and management structure intertwine with the NFL.

        1. I think MLS plays a summer schedule because it generally provides the most comfortable conditions for the fans to watch the games. You can play football in the snow, and basketball/hockey are indoor sports, but soccer is an outdoor sport which doesn't make much sense to play in the snow, plus it would run through nearly the entire winter so you'd have a lot of games with a lot of uncomfortable conditions for fans in, say, Chicago. Competing against NFL, MLB, etc. probably figured somewhere in the discussion, but Mar-Nov is really the best season for soccer in the US regardless.

  6. Heading out to the C&O Trailway for an overnight campout. Temperature is currently 45F and will drop to 32-34F overnight.

    5. Oof, West Virginia?

      I'm going to take it again when I'm less irritable from lack of sleep.

  10. I am really worried about Marvel's Agents of Shield. This week's episode featured the hacker hottie standing around in bra and panties, bending over in front of the camera, and generally giving us an extended eyeful.

    Now, she's hot enough, but is that the best you can do? Whiff of ratings desperation, I think.

    2. That episode was in the can weeks ago -- they can't despair something that hadn't happened at the time. Meanwhile, I'll continue to watch, but Almost Human (and later, maybe, Intelligence) are going to eat away at my free time and something's gonna give.

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