Okay, let's try this again. Let us know if you want in this year's Best Of 2016 music thingie.
48 thoughts on “December 15, 2016: Best Of”
The Cup of Coffee seems to be getting more timey-wimey all the time.
Even less time to get the Christmas cards in the mail!
Yeah, I'll participate in a Best of 2016 thingie.
Likewise.
There is one song I can think of for 2016, so sure. If it gets taken I can find another?
Schedule is randomized, and there's no guarantee that someone won't play whatever you have lined up.
Of course, if there's only one song you found in 2016 worth highlighting, then I guess I don't know what to tell you. 😉
Tell me to listen to more new music. It's a commentary on my life, not music.
Listen to more new music.
We'll see.
I hear all kinds of "new" music, but nobody tells me if it's from 2016 or not.
Marta: [reciting a poem she has written] Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate/Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/And summer's lease hath all...
Garth: [shouts] You wrote that?
Marta: Yesterday, as a matter of fact.
Garth: It was written by an Earthman named Shakespeare a long time ago!
Marta: Which does NOT alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!
In. I promise I won't stoop so low as to choose Philo's selection if I go before him. 😉
Oh yeah, mine is definitely stooping.
Me too,
I believe I've already signed up.
Do I have to wait ten days to say yes?
Man, the Goofers. A handful of plays away from going 11-1, and really, not that far away from 12-0. Yet 8-4 seems better than they really were. I'm going to be curious to watch how the bowl game against Pac-12 also-ran Washington State goes.
Hopefully things will turn out better than the last time the Gophers faced a Mike Leach led team.
Washington State, beaten by a team that NDSU beat v. Minnesota, beaten by a team that NDSU beat.
What are you trying to say?
I'm saying that San Diego is great in JanuaryDecember, but I wouldn't waste going there to attend this football game.
Dude, San Diego is great in ANY month.
Well, maybe not in June. 😉
*It's merely "pretty great" in June*
Washington State, beaten by a team that NDSU beat v. Minnesota, beaten by a team that NDSU beat.
Transitivity is a beeyatch.
And yea, like I said, a few plays away from 11-1, but simultaneously seems over-rated at 8-4.
Find another bowl game, ever, where an FCS team had beaten an opponent that had beaten each team and it wasn't one opponent.
NDSU beat Iowa, who beat Minnesota
NDSU beat Eastern Washington (their only loss), who beat Washington State
Basically, anytime Leidner was forced to do more than just not screw up, the Gophers lost. 6 of their 8 wins came against Big 5 conference schools, but none of them had a winning record. Only Maryland and Northwestern were bowl eligible at 6-6. The other 2 Gopher wins came against Indiana State and Colorado State. The Gopher defense and running game will keep it close, but it will require TDs on defense or special teams for them to win because Leidner.
Yet 8-4 seems better than they really were
I think, perhaps, for those of us who compare to NFL, where the hierarchy seems a little more solid (and parity is better), this observation is not uncommon. The inconsistency of most college football play would doom an NFL team, but slightly better than average play seems to put the Gophers into the just-outside-of-rankings area in the NCAA. I think you could do this with a lot of teams when you look at all the surprises and upsets in college ball.
My great-nephew got bucked off in the short go, about one second before the whistle. Still, he finished eleventh in the bareback riding at the junior NFR, which I think is incredibly good. We are, obviously, very proud of him.
I offer, as proof that my wife is awesome, the following exchange from this date in 2011:
Philosofer: The Twins are bringing back Matt Capps.
Philosofette: Ugh. Hopefully as a waterboy.
I hope that same exchange happened last week when they brought back ii and Cuddy.
To perhaps no one's surprise, the committee that Bud Selig helped create voted him in to the Hall of Fame.
[Drugstore? WTF? That is nowhere near what I typed, which was "shrugshow". Effing autocorrect.]
Pretty topical auto-correct though
True.
Selig belongs with Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe in the Hall of Infamy.
Hey, now. No need to insult gambling.
From LEN3:
The Dodgers have engaged the Twins about Dozier, with indications that the Twins' interest has been "piqued" of late.
Sounds like the Twins don't feel the need to trade Dozier but are willing to listen. At least, that's what is being made public.
That's the attitude I would take, I think. I'd be willing to listen to offers, but if nobody offered me enough to make it worth my while, keep him. He's signed through 2018, so there's no real pressure to trade him now. The reasons to trade him are a) the Twins have plenty of holes and b) his trade value will never be higher. Both those things may be true, but they're not reasons to get rid of him if you don't get a sufficient return.
I often conclude work-related email messages with "best" or "all best." However, every so often, I end up tying "beset."
Surely your honesty is appreciated by the recipient.
Hmm. Okay, looks like we can get this year's Best Of done in a week.
I'm in, if that wasn't clear.
So twice in 60 days I've come down with a case of the vomits, not related to alcohol. I think the last time this was twice in one year was like 1989.
Klay Thompson!
40 in the first half! Now at 60 with 90 seconds left in the third quarter (Warriors up 114-79. In the third!)
The Cup of Coffee seems to be getting more timey-wimey all the time.
Even less time to get the Christmas cards in the mail!
Yeah, I'll participate in a Best of 2016 thingie.
Likewise.
There is one song I can think of for 2016, so sure. If it gets taken I can find another?
Schedule is randomized, and there's no guarantee that someone won't play whatever you have lined up.
Of course, if there's only one song you found in 2016 worth highlighting, then I guess I don't know what to tell you. 😉
Tell me to listen to more new music. It's a commentary on my life, not music.
Listen to more new music.
We'll see.
I hear all kinds of "new" music, but nobody tells me if it's from 2016 or not.
In. I promise I won't stoop so low as to choose Philo's selection if I go before him. 😉
Oh yeah, mine is definitely stooping.
Me too,
I believe I've already signed up.
Do I have to wait ten days to say yes?
Man, the Goofers. A handful of plays away from going 11-1, and really, not that far away from 12-0. Yet 8-4 seems better than they really were. I'm going to be curious to watch how the bowl game against Pac-12 also-ran Washington State goes.
Hopefully things will turn out better than the last time the Gophers faced a Mike Leach led team.
Washington State, beaten by a team that NDSU beat v. Minnesota, beaten by a team that NDSU beat.
What are you trying to say?
I'm saying that San Diego is great in
JanuaryDecember, but I wouldn't waste going there to attend this football game.Dude, San Diego is great in ANY month.
Well, maybe not in June. 😉
*It's merely "pretty great" in June*
Transitivity is a beeyatch.
And yea, like I said, a few plays away from 11-1, but simultaneously seems over-rated at 8-4.
Find another bowl game, ever, where an FCS team had beaten an opponent that had beaten each team and it wasn't one opponent.
NDSU beat Iowa, who beat Minnesota
NDSU beat Eastern Washington (their only loss), who beat Washington State
Basically, anytime Leidner was forced to do more than just not screw up, the Gophers lost. 6 of their 8 wins came against Big 5 conference schools, but none of them had a winning record. Only Maryland and Northwestern were bowl eligible at 6-6. The other 2 Gopher wins came against Indiana State and Colorado State. The Gopher defense and running game will keep it close, but it will require TDs on defense or special teams for them to win because Leidner.
I think, perhaps, for those of us who compare to NFL, where the hierarchy seems a little more solid (and parity is better), this observation is not uncommon. The inconsistency of most college football play would doom an NFL team, but slightly better than average play seems to put the Gophers into the just-outside-of-rankings area in the NCAA. I think you could do this with a lot of teams when you look at all the surprises and upsets in college ball.
My great-nephew got bucked off in the short go, about one second before the whistle. Still, he finished eleventh in the bareback riding at the junior NFR, which I think is incredibly good. We are, obviously, very proud of him.
I offer, as proof that my wife is awesome, the following exchange from this date in 2011:
Philosofer: The Twins are bringing back Matt Capps.
Philosofette: Ugh. Hopefully as a waterboy.
I hope that same exchange happened last week when they brought back ii and Cuddy.
To perhaps no one's surprise, the committee that Bud Selig helped create voted him in to the Hall of Fame.
[selig_shrug.jpg]
I wonder if CH audited this course.
Interesting thought by Hall of Fame voter Susan Slusser
So, some good comes out of this drugstore.
[Drugstore? WTF? That is nowhere near what I typed, which was "shrugshow". Effing autocorrect.]
Pretty topical auto-correct though
True.
Selig belongs with Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe in the Hall of Infamy.
Hey, now. No need to insult gambling.
From LEN3:
Sounds like the Twins don't feel the need to trade Dozier but are willing to listen. At least, that's what is being made public.
That's the attitude I would take, I think. I'd be willing to listen to offers, but if nobody offered me enough to make it worth my while, keep him. He's signed through 2018, so there's no real pressure to trade him now. The reasons to trade him are a) the Twins have plenty of holes and b) his trade value will never be higher. Both those things may be true, but they're not reasons to get rid of him if you don't get a sufficient return.
I often conclude work-related email messages with "best" or "all best." However, every so often, I end up tying "beset."
Surely your honesty is appreciated by the recipient.
Hmm. Okay, looks like we can get this year's Best Of done in a week.
I'm in, if that wasn't clear.
So twice in 60 days I've come down with a case of the vomits, not related to alcohol. I think the last time this was twice in one year was like 1989.
Klay Thompson!
40 in the first half! Now at 60 with 90 seconds left in the third quarter (Warriors up 114-79. In the third!)
Defense is overrated.