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February 13, 2014: Internal Clock

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I decided to play a bit of a video game rather than try to brave some curling last night, because I need one night of real sleep. I looked up and realized I'd been playing the game as long as it would have taken to watch curling. Okay then.

57 thoughts on “February 13, 2014: Internal Clock”

    2. Question: How old is the photo?
      (Are the greens Lime or Sour Apple?)
      Sour Apple completely ruins regular Skittles.

      1. I disagree that the inclusion of sour apple completely ruins regular Skittles. I think they're ruined by the exclusion of lime.

        1. It's both.
          1) If there was still lime, the apple would still bring disappointment and flavor-clash.
          2) If there was no lime and no apple, it would be missing something.
          a) What am I supposed to do with all the Grapes if I can't pair them with limes?
          b) Lime was the best
          c) I'm not gonna buy the Skittles dark bags (or whatever has lime now) alongside regular Skittles and put the limes and apples back where they belong.
          . i) Maybe if they sold Lime-only skittles.
          . ii) But I'd still have to pull out the apple skittles, so nevermind

          1. 1) I don't think apple brings flavor-clash in skittles. I think it's ok. Not my favorite, but not actually bad.
            2b) Yes.

  6. A couple days ago I was able to turn our DirecTV-connected TV at work to MLBN without anyone really catching it. Of course, that was just in time to catch the Jeter circle-jerk.

    On the upside, someone (Michael Kay?) quoted today: "A champion on and off the field, Jeter's impact cannot be understated." Bwaha!

  8. In case you thought TSA has a monopoly on teh Stupid: Heathrow security confiscates miniature toy gun from Toy Story Woody doll.

    A spokesperson for the Department for Transport would not comment directly on the incident, but said: "We do not comment on specific incidents or details of our security regime.
    "Airports and airlines can use their discretion to remove any item being carried in hand luggage when they believe it may be perceived as a threat", they told The Daily Mail.

    1. This is the thing that jumped out at me:

      BTW, a member of the Twins watched Johan Santana throw off a mound last week and came back with favorable reports. The Twins remain interested, and I would be surprised if a deal isn't struck sometime over the next couple of weeks.

      as a sentimental schmuck, I prefer what he wrote to what he could have:

      "...and I wouldn't be surprised if a deal is struck sometime over the next couple of weeks."

  11. Just bought a ticket to see Cake in April (presale is "longjacket" for anyone interested). I'm going to have Edgefest flashbacks.

        1. Phil Miller's story the next day:

          “It’s not really that spontaneous anymore, because everyone does it,” said Trevor Plouffe, who handled the red-Gatorade duties during Dozier’s postgame interview. “But at the same time, it’s fun. Walk-offs don’t happen very often. Big games, big moments that warrant that stuff don’t happen very often. So when they do come around, you want to give them the whole shebang. Whether it’s a Gatorade shower or a piece of cake to the face, you want to give them something memorable.”

    2. His only bottom of 9th-inning HR was 9/23/2013. But it only tied the score 3-3 (off Joaquin Benoit).

  14. SB Nation imagines a world where relegation and promotion existed in college football. Various parts of the country are broken into tiers, with the Midwest having a Big Ten/MAC/Missouri Valley tier system. In that world, the Big Ten would have been constituted in 2013 as follows:

    Tier 1, Big Ten

    Membership: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Toledo, Wisconsin
    Champion: Michigan State
    Demoted to MAC: Purdue

    North Dakota State narrowly misses out on a Rose Bowl bid (the Bison would have finished around third in the Big Ten).

    2014 would shape out like this:

    Tier 1, Big Ten

    Membership: Bowling Green, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Nebraska, North Dakota State, Northern Illinois, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Toledo, Wisconsin

    Tier 2, MAC

    Membership: Ball State, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Eastern Illinois, Illinois, Indiana, Kent State, Maryland (realignment!), Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Ohio, Purdue, Rutgers (realignment!), Southern Illinois

    The Big Ten-MAC pairing actually works out as well as any pairing in this experiment. Teams like Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, and Purdue have played like MAC teams for most of the last half-decade (or longer), while programs like Northern Illinois, Toledo, and, yes, North Dakota State, have played at a higher level than the lowest Big Ten teams for quite a while now.

    1. I think promotion/relegation works a lot better for amateur sports than pro sports, so I'm not sure it would work very well for D1 college football.

      1. I think promo/relegation could work in the NBA because a lot minor league arena are not that much smaller than NBA arena.

        1. the gap in quality between the worst NBA team and the best development league team is ginormous. The gap in quality between the worst NBA team and the best NCAA teams is very large.

          1. Right. Im just saying if there is a league that could pull off a relegation style league, it would be the NBA.

  15. Basically, Actually, and Essentially got plenty o' play in the last decade. Tonight I'm hearing a lot of Seriously? Natch.

  16. Note to ad-guys: Can we have someone other than Morgan Freeman do voice-over for adverts? Just for a while? No you cannot use James Earl Jones, Dennis Dexter Haysbert, or Patrick Stewart.

  17. Katie Uhlaender, women's skeleton, just showed us her skeleton. Looks like it's covered in matte black duct tape. (Gaffer tape?)
    With her Uhlaender's bright red hair, CER sees a kindred spirit.

  18. US Men's figure skater Jason Brown has Prince's Symbol on the back of his outfit.
    Please please please

    1. Forgot to mail this...

      This is not Prince music.

      I let CER stay up a bit to watch some figure skating.
      What did she see? Plushenko wiped out in warmups and scratched.
      The first skater, an American, took one of the worst spills I've ever seen in figure skating singles but manages to finish. So Erstad-y.
      Then it was bedtime.

      1. Yep, that was the worst wipeout I've ever seen in singles. I was surprised that he got up and finished.

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