49 thoughts on “February 10, 2015: Walking Pneumonia”

1. was there this summer. Pretty miserable. I coughed for a good month after the antibiotics took care of the infection.

2. I've had a slight cough for a full month and a half now. The cold was done as of the end of the first week of January, but the cough lingers. I don't think I've ever had this happen before.

   1. This was me last winter, and it was a horrible cough. Lasted three months+. Good luck to you.

   2. A month and ½? And you've seen the Dr., right? Right??

   3. I've had colds hit me that leave me with a rough voice or just extra phlegm in the throat for months while every other effect from the cold leaves after a few days.

3. "The End" of the MLB Fan Cave.

   1. Spooky should have featured that in the COC!

   2. I'm surprised it lasted as long as it did. I always figured it might be a fun one-time adventure to live in the Cave, but couldn't imagine ever feeling like watching it.

      I'm not sure the show was promoted properly. Apparently they've had people voted out of the Cave by fans for three years now, and as much as they talked about the show, I never even knew there was an elimination component.

4. I had a ridiculously bad cough in December. Bronchitis. I got the Z-tap or whatever its called. In about 6 days, all gone.

5. How to turn fifty-eight cents into $20,000.00: buy Vince Lombardi's sweater at Goodwill.

6. I'd normally post this on a Friday, but I'll not be at my computer. Speedy Ortiz, Two Inch Astronaut, and Krill at the Entry on May 2nd. This is about as good as a lineup can get. It's a Saturday, and I'm definitely going to be there. I'd recommend the show highly to any of y'all who dig rock shows.

7. These are incredible.

8. Also, according to Chris Jaffe, The Princess Bride hit theaters 10,000 days ago.

   1. that is awesome

      1. le Sigh.

         The proper response is Inconceivable!

9. How many teams can claim they traded away their all time top game scorer twice in a season?

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   Timberwolves Trade Mo Williams, Troy Daniels to Hornets for Gary Neal

   1. Who? Nevermind ... apparently I don't need to know.
      From Rotoworld:

      The Minnesota Timberwolves are exploring buyout and trade options with newly-acquired Gary Neal. The Wolves can either cut or trade Neal before the trade deadline and will now look to part ways with their new addition.

      1. That's old news. I'm seeing a 1st round pick for Adreian Payne is about to pop.

         1. CH isn't pleased!

            1. Please tell me that Adreian Payne is a budding Taj Gibson. Or even Robert Horry, as comp'd by NBADraft.net.

               1. Adrien Payne is a budding Taj Gibdon or Robert Horry.

                  1. VERY reassuring.

      2. Who?

         Gary Neal was in the A10 back in the day, so I saw him play in college. He did have to transfer out of the conference before graduating going pro, though, because of some alleged really bad conduct.

10. Okay, not Movie Day, but "Better Call Saul" just aired and I saw it last night.

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    Eh, it was fine. We spent a lot of it in exposition hell before the actual story finally got into place, and when it did we had the twin brothers - who really aren't up to par as actors for this franchise, but whatever - in a major role that probably led to the show's first two deaths (or at least one - I'd prefer for just one to have been offed when Saul gets thrown in the basement, so we can get a good scene between him and the grieving brother). Overall, it felt like a plot was just getting into place but it wasn't done as seamlessly as possible and the exposition wasn't interweaved with the plot well enough; those two things just took turns happening. All this said, I think the final reveal bodes well for the next show, so hopefully we're not going to get that slow half-hour of exposition again and we can just get moving along. It's a tad disappointing when the viewer knows Saul and Tuco can't possibly die, but I trust the writing to be engaging anyway, and for new characters to add tension. I'm also hoping we see more, little by little, of Saul's current state working as a nondescript Cinnabon employee. I'm not sure this will be a focus, but I think there's a lot of good drama to be had there.

    1. Which is to say, I saw the first episode and had no idea the second had gone up. Well, huh.

    2. I've only watched Sunday's and

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       to me, one of the greatest aspects to Breaking Bad was how it let things develop slowly and showed many incremental steps from point A to point Z. The point/counter-point of the closing arguments to the trial were fantastic.

       1. Agreed

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          Oh, I definitely see what they're doing, but exposition is still exposition, and it just wasn't seamless like it was in Breaking Bad. I trust these showrunners, so I expect I'll be happy enough soon enough. I think the bigger thing going forward is that Saul was a comic relief character (with much more nuance than most comic relief, don't get me wrong) in a pretty heavy drama, so trying to keep to the spirit of BB vs. trying to keep to the spirit of Saul is going to be a difficult tightrope to walk.

    3. There's a lot about the first two episodes that I liked.

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       Tuco was never the most interesting Breaking Bad villain, but Saul's "sentencing hearing" with him plea bargaining his two clients down from death to "six months probation" was darkly hilarious. I'm trying to go into this with a clean slate, as it's going to be nearly impossible for this show to live up to the show that preceded it (one of my two or three favorite shows ever). I understand it's a spin off, but I think it will be in the show's best interests to not have constant reminders that it's in the same universe, as tempting as that will likely be. I think Odenkirk himself is up to the task of carrying the show. I guess it remains to be seen whether or not the show can fill the rest of the slate with interesting characters. Chuck isn't really doing it for me so far, but it's really, really early. I'm interested to see where they take it.

11. Check out @Twolves_PR's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Twolves_PR/status/565218546985074688?s=09

    I didn't copy/paste that right.

    Flip says a 2nd round pick is a valuable asset. What he meant to say is that it is worth $100k to Glen.

12. I know we enjoy complaining about the Wolves "leadership" around here, but let me just share a comment or two about the Kings.

    What. The. Eff?

    So, new GM Pete D'Allesandro apparently decided during the off-season that he'd probably fire head coach Michael Malone this year (which would have been his second with the club), causing him to hunt for a lead assistant with head coaching experience who would be willing to step in as interim. Firing happened, and ever since the Bee has been rife with story after story campaigning for George Karl to get the permanent job. Whatever. I like Karl fine; he did good work in Milwaukee and in Denver, but apparently is difficult to deal with. Much of the current front office around D'Allesandro was imported from Denver and knows Karl, so the hire seems obvious anyway.

    But nothing is easy. Now there are multiple stories out that Boogie Cousins and his agents don't want Karl, in large part because of his past clashes with ball-hogging stars (*cough* Carmelo *cough*). And NOW comes a sequence of front-page sports section stories stating that (1) Tyrone Corbin would continue to be the coach to the A-S break (after previously being assured he had the job for the rest of the season) but (2) Karl would be brought on board to start coaching after the break.

    What a royal cluster-eff of a public relations mess. I guess it's a good thing they already squeezed the political lemon for construction of a new arena.

    I so, so, so very much wish they would have moved the franchise so that I could get Warriors games on my cable system, rather than having them blacked out Because Kings Territory.

    1. Speaking of the Kings, if you're watching the game tonight, keep an eye out for a Timberwolves hat. I'll be in the 3rd row.

       1. guy in Timberwolves hat...at a Timberwolves game...in Minnesota.

          On the other hand, it's a Timberwolves/Kings game. How hard should it be to pick out a guy in the third row amongst all the empty seats?

          1. No pups. Bulls. Me no live in the mini-apple.

             1. Fly-over state; how's a left-coaster supposed to remember that?

                1. There's more than one flyover state?

    2. The Wolves should hire Malone and trade for Boogie!

       1. The Wolves could have drafted Boogie Cousins. He was on the board when they selected Wes Johnson, IIRC.

          I seem compelled to point that out. It's like a tic.

          1. the next six picks, in order, were Cousins, Epke Udoh, Greg Monroe, Al-Farouq Aminu, Gordon Hayward, and Paul George.

             The three guys picked before Goodnightwesleyi'llmostlikelykillyouinthemorning were John Wall, Evan Turner, and Derrick Favors.

             Consensus assessment on Cousins was that he was an extremely talented headcase. If he figured it out, he'd be a star. But he was a major bust risk. Nbadraft.net's scoring system put him a couple points behind Greg Monroe, but they nonetheless ranked Cousins as the best center in the draft, with Monroe second.

             1. Excellent 10,000 reference.

             2. It's amazing how many times in the old NBA crapshoot that the Timberwolves rolled snake eyes. How unlucky.

                1. Yea, just taking the Poor, Sweet Wesley example, 4 of the next 6 guys have turned out to be All Stars or near-All Stars or at least very good starters.

                   In 2009, the next four guys taken after Jonny Flynn were, in order, Steph Curry, Jordan Hill, DeMarr DeRozan, and Brandon Jennings. Oops.

                   2011 is less instructive. After Derrick Williams, the next picks were, in order, Enis Kanter, Tristan Thompson, Jonas Valanciunas, Jan Vesley, Bismarck Biyombo, Brandon Knight, Kemba Walker, and Jimmer Fredette. While Kanter, Thompson, Valanciunas, and Knight all are arguably better NBA players than Williams, the differences are relatively small until you get to Kemba Walker. And the real stars of that draft, Klay Thompson and Kawhi Leonard, went 11th and 15th respectively (with Jimmy Butler at 30).

          2. I imagine you could create a very formidable team from just the draft picks Kahn blew/wasted.

             Cousins, Curry, Mirotic, Parsons, Lawson, etc... That would be a real "fun" exercise.

       2. The Wolves should hire Malone because he is not Flip Saunder

13. Anyone who knows him via the games at my site has probably seen this at the Casa, but CdL semi-regular Tom Morgan is being buried under a pile of medical bills after dealing with a heartbreaking divorce and custody battle. Help him here if you're so inclined. He's halfway to his $5000 goal.

    1. Or, to put it in the parlance of the day, "Mostly Dead" is "Slightly Alive." And we're Miracle Max.

14. Seven teams finished under .500 last year, but spent the offseason as if they were planning to win their division in 2015.

    I think that should have read "but six spent the offseason as if they were planning to win their division in 2015."

    1. The inactivity of this offseason has taken a lot out of me, even in comparison to other offseasons. Watching four out of five teams in a division attempting to improve is great, but having the fifth be one's own is a tad disheartening.

15. So Jon Stewart is leaving The Daily Show. Its been quite the ride in the late nite world the last 6 or so months.

    I was a religious watcher of TDS for many years. But the last few years, I have been watching it less and there would be weeks where I didnt wach it and felt like I didnt miss anything.

    So, I'll say the same thing here as when Craig Ferguson said goodbye, it was a nice run.

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