Movin Trash

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Marcy has been moving, and moving sucks. I hate moving. Only positive thing about it is that it makes you sort through your stuff and get rid of crap that you should have thrown out a decade or two ago. Other than that, bleech.

Kobe is movin on too, and that sucks in a profound way. In case you didn’t know, Kobe was Jane Hamsher’s beautiful standard Poodle and was a big part of FireDogLake, its history and, of course, Jane. So raise a toast to the wonderful life he led and picture him running and gamboling in his endless new field.

College Ball: As I am getting a late start here, and I know Freep is jonesing, let’s start with the student athaleets. First up, Aggies er, Longhorns v. Sooners. I woke up and this game was already in the third quarter; looks like a good one. 13-13 as I type and fourth quarter just started. Bradford out eight plays into the game, that hurts the Sooners. But since I love monkeywrenching the BCS, GO SOONERS! Hmmmm, looks like the Sooners are going alright; going down that it. The other huge game today is USC-Notre Dame. Will this be the year the Fightin Irish live up to their hype? Yeah, and the Cubs are gonna win the World Series too. Nuff said.

Ryan Mallett can really throw the ball, but Florida should take care of Arkansas. The Virginia Tech Hokies at the Ramblin Wreak should be a really good game, but I think the Hokies are coming on strong and should take it. Iowa has already beaten Wisconsin; man, people better start taking the Hawkeyes seriously, they can ball. And in other Big Ten, er Eleven, news, Ohio State has lost again; Purdue this time.

The Pros: The top shelf game for the pros is Gents v. Saints. Most of the so called experts seem to think NY is the most solid all around team in the league and will be too much for Nawlins. I dunno about that. Drew Brees and Sean Payton have had a bye week to prepare and are at home; I’m taking the Saints. The surprising 5-0 Denver Broncos visit RanDiego’s Bolts at Jack Murphy Stadium (screw Qualcomm). Too tough to call; I just dunno. It is usually not until the second half of the season that Norval’s teams start to pay attention, and we are not there yet. And young Josh McDaniels really seems to have a disciplined and cohesive team; they are not flashy, but the Broncos have been playing solid ball in every phase of the game. Against my better judgment, I will take Denver.

Chicago visits Hot’Lanta. Great young quarterback matchup here Cutler versus Matt Ryan. But Matt Ryan has Tony Gonzales, excellent wideouts and Turner the Burner. Dirty Birds can play defense too. Game is way down south in Dixie, so I’ll take Da Falcons over Da Bears. The only other halfway interesting game this weekend is Ray Lewis and the Ravens visiting Old Man River, Adrian Peterson and the Norske in the Giant Baggie. Adrian Peterson has been relatively quiet lately, letting Favre carry the team. Now that the vertical passing game is dialed in, it seems about time for All Day to explode again, and I think he will. It is unheard of, but this will be the second game in a row (Bengals’ Cedric Benson last week was the first in 34 games) a back exceeds 100 yards on the vaunted Ravens defense. The Vikes defense isn’t bad either and they should be able to escape a good game at home with a win.

F1: Brazilian Grand Prix this weekend. Normal time zone race for once; 11:30 am EST and 8:30 am Pacific on Speed. We’ll see what happens in Brazil and then get ready for the season ending race in Abu Dhabi on November 1st.

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  5. ANOther says:

    Astonishing grid for Brazilian GP. P1 Rubens, P14 Button. Every team but one has a driver in the top 10 – the exception being McLaren! Parity seems to have been achieved – so they will change the rules for next year with no refueling. I’m from the UK originally, but go Rubens.

    • bmaz says:

      Well, as you probably know, I am a Rubens fan too. He needs a win in Brazil and for Button to finish out of the points to really have a shot at the crown. Tough road to hoe I am afraid.

  7. Jim White says:

    Way too close for comfort, but Tebow helped his Heisman chances a heap. Threw for 255 and ran for 69. He really took over when the game was on the line.

    My Jayhawks are down early at Colorado. If they could pull it out, they’d have a game lead on Nebraska.

    What’s up with Georgia Tech thumping Va Tech? [I like it.]

    Really sucks for Bradford to be hurt again.

    We’ll drink a toast to Kobe.

  8. bobschacht says:

    …moving[:] Only positive thing about it is that it makes you sort through your stuff and get rid of crap that you should have thrown out a decade or two ago.

    Would that this were so! I’ve moved too many times in my adult life, and what generally happens is that I start out with the intention of doing that sorting, but quickly run out of time and wind up throwing everything in boxes to sort out later. I now have dozens of boxes of stuff in storage to sort out “when I get the time.” Some of those boxes are like time capsules, bringing back a phase of my life that I have forgotten about. It can be like visiting a parallel universe.

    College games: I tuned into Wisconsin vs. Iowa for the second half, just in time to see the Badgers fail to score after recovering a turnover in the Red Zone. It was downhill from there for this Badger in exile. Wisconsin’s defense looked terrific in spots, but couldn’t stop Iowa’s passing game.

    Then I wandered into the second half of USC-Notre Dame, in time to see Our Lady’s valiant comeback effort, stymied finally a yard from the Trojan’s end zone with one second left. I thought Our Lady’s play calling in the last few minutes was particularly inept, seeming to consist mainly of Hail Marys, alternating with balls thrown out of bounds. Notre Dame’s defense kept them in the game the second half.

    Bob in AZ

  9. prostratedragon says:

    seeming to consist mainly of Hail Marys, alternating with balls thrown out of bounds

    An apt characterization of the ethical lives of many, I’m sure.

  10. BayStateLibrul says:

    The 13rd Inning Epiphany…
    Is Scribe up yet?
    Yankees’ 17th walk-off victory this season…
    Love to see a Dodgers-NY World Serious…

  12. Quebecois says:

    Hi b,

    Missed most of the weekend’s F1, saw the end of the race and Jenson being crowned world champion.

    By may of 08, Brawn must have known that Honda was going to bail at the end of the season, that’s probably why he got to work on this year’s car. It certainly paid off when this season started , and Jenson pretty much secured this championship by July. Things went dowhill from there, as other teams were catching up.

    Prep gave Brawn the championship, Jenson was in the right car, at the right time.

    Massa is a crappy flag waiver. He really should keep his day job…

  14. bmaz says:

    Anybody seen Masaccio? I was sure he would want to discuss the Flailin Irish loss to USC….

    The Baltimore versus Vikes game is pretty good.

    • john in sacramento says:

      Drive by …

      I thought this game would be close because of this

      Pass coverage has been the Vikings defensive Achilles heel for years – probably since Tony Dungee was their DC

      Trading for Jarred Allen helped a lot because of he disrupts the timing of the pass plays even on plays where he doesn’t get a sack, but that didn’t solve the problem, it only disguises it

      They’re below average and weak at safety, especially after letting Darren Sharper go last Winter

      For at least the last 5 or 6 or 10 years I’ve been saying that they need to find someone with a good eye for spotting and drafting talented defensive secondary players. But what they need to do now – like tomorrow – is to get back to fundamentals and teach these guys how to tackle; keep their eyes on the ballhandlers center of gravity and drive into him and wrap him up, but this doesn’t make any hilights on ESPN, so they don’t do it. Far too often what they do is go for the big hit, they lower their shoulder and lunge at him. A lot of time this works but if you miss … see ya. And then you get to the question of blown coverages; is it that the DC is making the wrong calls? Or is it that the players are making poor reads on the offensive alignments? If it’s the latter, then this points to them making a huge mistake in letting Sharper go

      Look for Ben Roethlisberger and Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball a lot against the Vikings in the next two weeks

      • LabDancer says:

        “Look for Ben Roethlisberger and Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball a lot against the Vikings in the next two weeks”

        Fine, but this is precisely what the Ravens sought to do today, what every offensive co-ordinator they’ve faced to date knew, what every o/c thru-out the entire league knows is the order of the day, what Childress et al are entirely aware of — yet it’s inevitably tied up in the facts that the Mauve are going to pretty much control the opposition’s running game & then Jared Allen & the Williams duo are going to tee off on the opposition’s qb. Yet, the Norske won.

        There were some extremely impressive performances on the Raven side today, by Flacco, Ray Rice & Mason on the o-side, and Suggs & Lewis on the d-side. It’s really hard to see how a team with this many assets producing this well are only 3-3. Yet, they lost.

        Even with the obvious deficiencies in the defensive backfield [and there doesn’t appear to be an answer to them anywhere on the roster], it’s pretty easy to envision the Vikes ending up 12-4, even 14-2. Yes, they would…no; they will…be arguably the most inflated possible excuse for such a record; but it’s not as if such teams don’t ever get into the Super Bowl & either almost [bmaz’ birds of last year] or actually pull it off [the Super Bowl #4 Chiefs, for example — in defeating arguably the best Norske squad to get that far].

        If there is a big new concern out of today, it’s got to be Harvin. Despite Dierdorff’s remote diagnosis thru most of the game that the shoulder wasn’t bothering him, he did next to nothing today, & even that may be achievement for the remainder of the season. Collision sports don’t provide much lee-way for those with shoulder problems who specialize in collision routes. It’s hard to see him effective again before mid-December.

        • bobschacht says:

          Fine, but this is precisely what the Ravens sought to do today, what every offensive co-ordinator they’ve faced to date knew, what every o/c thru-out the entire league knows is the order of the day, what Childress et al are entirely aware of — yet it’s inevitably tied up in the facts that the Mauve are going to pretty much control the opposition’s running game & then Jared Allen & the Williams duo are going to tee off on the opposition’s qb. Yet, the Norske won.

          You can win a lot of games when you can score a *minimum* of 27 points per game.

          Bob in AZ

        • john in sacramento says:

          Don’t get me wrong; I go back to the Vikings Steelers SB in ’75 (?) when turnovers killed them. I’m thinking of that ill-advised pitch and fumble from Tark to Dave Osborn in the end zone for a safety that will forever go down in infamy. A play call which is about as bad as Joe Pisarcik’s fumble against the Eagles that prevented the Giants from going to the playoffs

          I’ve lived and died with this team, as I’m sure you have

          Their biggest weakness as far as coaching, and offense, has been running a hurry-up or two-minute offense, and clock management (remember the Giants game last year?), and by signing Favre they’ve solved these problems. I’ve said for years that if they had Favre as QB they would have gotten at least a couple SB’s in the win column

          I want them do do well, but they need to work on their weaknesses or they’ll get exploited

    • bmaz says:

      Jesus christ. Unbelievable. Favre wasn’t even watching; was sitting down on the bench assuming the kick would be made and they were going to lose. Suddenly he hears the crowd going wild and he leaps up grabbing people going “He missed it? He really missed it??”

      Man, what in the world happened to the Vikings’ defense?

  18. bobschacht says:

    Well, the Old Man of the North escaped with a victory, due to a missed field goal.

    Now the Old Man of the South (Kurt Warner of the Cards) is off to a hot start against the Seapigeons.

    Bob in AZ

  19. freepatriot says:

    a “snow game” ???

    on October 17th ???

    Goddess likes me

    and did anybody mention DREW FOOKIN BREES today

    eli who …

  22. 4jkb4ia says:

    It is halftime. The Jets have one fewer total yard than the Lambs had the entire game, and Sanchez is not playing well. This has been your Lambs bashing for the day.

  25. bobschacht says:

    Hey,
    Game One of the Dodgers-Phillies series is not going well for the Left Coasters. The Phillies, it seems, don’t like the idea of an East Coast-West Coast World Series. The Dodgers can’t hardly get anyone out.

    Bob in AZ

    • freepatriot says:

      how long afore we get an update on game 2

      I hear the Dodgers do better in that one

      (duckin & runnin)

  26. freepatriot says:

    let’s all thank goddess for a monday from Heaven

    ALDS at 1:00

    NLDS at 5:00

    and the donkos at the Bolts at 5:30

    THANK YOU GODDESS

    where’s that “Do Not Disturb” sign ???

    All times are listed are pdt, as it should be

  27. BayStateLibrul says:

    Patsie Watch:
    The Golden Flasher from Kent State.
    Julian Edelman, a 7th round draftee, former QB, now a wide-eyed receiver for Brady.

  28. cbl2 says:

    did the F1 fans catch the recycled trophies on the podium ?

    taking last year’s idea a step further, this year’s trophies were made from recycled bottle caps found at Interlagos throughout the race week end

    link w/ pic here

    • freepatriot says:

      DUDE, stop giving the management round here ideas

      and to the management, any attempts to replace the Hub Cap with a Bottle cap will be met with violent resistance (that’s right !!! we’ll all start posting in all caps an stuff if ya bastids try something like that)

      don’t make me organize a trash talker’s Union around here (cuz I’m lazy, and doing that kind of work would really piss me off)

      steal and award a real, unrecycled & non-reconditioned hubcap, or there will be trouble

      don’t fuck with tradition

      (duckin & runnin)

  29. randiego says:

    we left town for the 95-degree desert heat yesterday since the local nfl team is on mnf. seems i missed some pretty good games!

    logic tells me the bolts ain’t as bad as they’ve been. It also tells me the hated broncos ain’t as good as they look. historically, there’s been lots of very average denver teams that make the playoffs by virtue of winning at altitude.

    i have no idea who is going to show up tonight. the bolts SB bandwagon will be on the side of the road with two flat tires and a busted axle if they don’t!

    • freepatriot says:

      Dude, logic has no place in football

      and what kind of surfer has a close relationship with logic any way ???

      you’re right though, the donkos always have a winning altitude

  33. freepatriot says:

    so, uhm, the original Denver Broncos had “Road Socks” ???

    how many years did the broncos exist before they hired somebody who knew something about football

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