48 thoughts on “December 15, 2016: Best Of”

        1. 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. ๐Ÿ˜‰

              1. 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!

  1. 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.

        1. I'm saying that San Diego is great in JanuaryDecember, but I wouldn't waste going there to attend this football game.

          1. 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.

            1. 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

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. To perhaps no one's surprise, the committee that Bud Selig helped create voted him in to the Hall of Fame.

    1. Interesting thought by Hall of Fame voter Susan Slusser

      1. So, some good comes out of this drugstore.

        [Drugstore? WTF? That is nowhere near what I typed, which was "shrugshow". Effing autocorrect.]

  5. 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.

    1. 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.

  6. I often conclude work-related email messages with "best" or "all best." However, every so often, I end up tying "beset."

  7. 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.

  8. 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!)

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