DLD - 9.26.08 Writer's block edition
by JLaff on Sep 26, 2008 10:08 AM PDT
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PrintSo that's what I've been doing wrong. The road to writing for ESPN is not though years of solid journalism, but being a young money millionaire.
So writes Young Wayne-on-them-hoes, A.K.A. Mr. Make it Rain-on-them-hoes...
My fantasy team is now 2-1. I'm fifth place in the league right now but movin' up. I won my last game by a great margin. I had to drop Ben Roethlisberger 'cause he don't look like he's doing nothing any time soon. Had to do it. I picked up Kurt Warner because he has more to prove than Ben. He's stepping in to Matt Leinart's place, and he's still kind of competing. You want guys like that, guys who are motivated.
I grew up playing football. Believe it or not, I was a fullback. When I was nine, ten, eleven, I was a great blocker. I knew how to block real good and the other kids didn't. So there I was. One game when I was ten years old we were on the goal line about to score, and coach called the play for me. I was supposed to go one way, but I ended up sneaking around the other side on a sweep. Everybody thought I was already tackled. The ref was already blowin' his whistle. But I was still up and I stutter stepped one way and beat the last guy trying to get me and scored that touchdown. That's my favorite sports memory for myself.
Oh, right, baseball stuff. There are pennant races going on and such.
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Amazing finish at Shea last night, with Ryan Church just barely avoiding Koyie Hill's tag at the plate to keep the game alive. The Mets later won on an RBI single from Carlos Beltran. Also of note, Ricardo Rincon is in the Mets bullpen. We feel their pain.
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With the Phillies holding a 1-game lead in the NL East, some Joe Blanton guy is pitching today. Ever heard of him? Apparently he likes small, frosted baked goods or something.
Ryan Braun belted a walk-off GRAND SLAM to top the hapless Pirates, keeping the Brewers in the race for the playoffs. Apparently both Braun and Prince Fielder (are those Brewers boxers?) are big Brandi Chastain fans.
Other stuff..
Beavers fend off Trojan penetration ... /easy joke. I'd show a picture, but OSU's uniforms are retina-burning. Jeez, whoever thought black and orange were good colors anyway?
Link away, people!
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whoa how did that happen?
Anyhoo…
Since it’s been two days, I hope this isn’t a spoiler for anyone so I’ll be vague, but that last Project Runway elimination was an OUTRAGE!!
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
They need to step it up on those reality shows...
Now, when the Project Runway people design gowns for the America’s Next Top Model girls, then they’re all thrown onto a deserted island where they have to eat rats and are constantly being stalked by Japanese clowns, then I might start watching!
"All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth."- Ted Williams
by Gaijin_Suketto on Sep 26, 2008 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
the elimination wasn't as much an outrage as the winner
I’m no fan of Jerell, but he absolutely nailed that challenge.
I can see the argument that Kenley shoulda been sent home, but Suede’s design was just lazy.
It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@
Kenley's design was hideous
And her stubborn insistence that she understood hip hop fashion didn’t help. But I figure the reason Suede got dumped was due to unseen producer influence, per the small type caveat at the end of every episode that the producers have input on elimiation decisions. In any case, Suede and Kenley are both markedly inferior to the other three remaining designers, so her call to clean up her work station ought to be coming soon.
Arte didn't get much Home Run Derby. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Sep 26, 2008 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Agreed on Jerell--his outfit was excellent
And I also am with FSU that the Kenley decision had producer interference all over it. The judges HATED her outfit, and then they choose Suede because he “didn’t go far enough.” At least he was going in the right direction.
How I long for a grade-A Kenley smack down. She is such a whiny little primadonna.
"Don't be an ass!" --Bill King
Honestly, I think Jerell's design saved Kenley's hot little bottom
His outfit made her look so good — and she worked so well to sell it (as opposed to Leanne — who I can’t stand — and her sullen, half-assed, can-a-model-get-her-designer-kicked-off ’tude) that I suspect her design-related whining got just a bit ameliorated.
But, yeah, absolutely, she was so far off the mark it wasn’t even funny.
It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@
I'm the only one who voted for JoPos?
Jesus, would those other writers be terminal, hectoring bores at dinner.
It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@
Vonnegut stayed pretty interesting to the end
His impish curls alone are sufficient to get my vote.
Arte didn't get much Home Run Derby. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat.
by FreeSeatUpgrade on Sep 26, 2008 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions
He got my vote as well
He seemed to get kind of grouchy in his later years, and his writing could be way inconsistent, but he kept his sense of humor and I imagine the conversation would be entertaining (apart from the fact that he is now dead. So it goes.)
(FSU, did you ever see this piece?)
Overqualified to be an A's fan.
I voted for Vonnegut too.
As a writer he was far ahead of his time. Plus, he almost kicked Geraldo’s ass.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
+1
jd salinger would be boring, he’d probably go on and on about what he’s been doing for the last few decades.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
John of Patmos would be a fun dinner date
It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@
Saul of Taursus
would be better.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
I voted JoPo too
"That's not a Sherman tank, it's Frank Thomas!" - Monkeyball
I'm reminded of Asimov's famous story, "The Immortal Bard"
full text (it’s a very short story)
This should whet your appetite:
“You mean time travel? But that’s quite-uh-unusual.”
“Not if you know how.”
“Well, how, Dr. Welch?”
“Think I’m going to tell you?” asked the physicist gravely. He looked vaguely about for another drink and didn’t find any. He said, “I brought quite a few back. Archimedes, Newton, Galileo. Poor fellows.”
“Didn’t they like it here? I should think they’d have been fascinated by our modern science,” said Robertson. He was beginning to enjoy the coversation.
“Oh, they were. They were. Especially Archimedes. I thought he’d go mad with joy at first after I explained a little of it in some Greek I’d boned up on, but no-no-”
“What was wrong?”
“Just a different culture. They couldn’t get used to our way of life. They got terribly lonely and frightened. I had to send them back.”
“That’s too bad.”
“Yes. Great minds, but not flexible minds. Not universal. So I tried Shakespeare.”
Children, until we have taught them better, will be perfectly happy with a seasonal round of games in which conkers succeeds hopscotch.
Now, Asimov -- *he* would be fun to have dinner with
It's just something we do. It's not something we like. @('.')@
Gallagher + Scott Eyre = BFF
Former Cubs teammate Scott Eyre, now with the Phillies, is so close to Gallagher that they jokingly call each other “dad” and “son,” and they took an RV trip from Florida to Arizona for spring training this year. So Eyre can testify to how interested Gallagher is in everything around him.
“I know Sean likes teaching – that’s the kind of guy he is, because he likes to learn, too,” Eyre said. “I remember him going up to Mariano Rivera and saying, ‘How do you throw that cutter like that?’ That’s a rarity. He has a very high drive and he learned a lot from the rest of the rotation, like Ted Lilly. He retains information really well and he asks questions.”
We've been a bad, bad country and we need
"I'm disappointed Ziggy didn't pump his fist towards the sky 100 times and scream like a hooker." ~Nico.
That link was supposed to be this great t-shirt
featuring Sarah Palin as a dominatrix. Fail.
"I'm disappointed Ziggy didn't pump his fist towards the sky 100 times and scream like a hooker." ~Nico.
Where's Jack Kerouac on that list?
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
Where he belongs.
"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."--The Boys of Summer
Lil' Wayne: Worst Blogger Ever...maybe
if Jim Rome has a blog, and it’s anything like his radio show, his would be worse.
"I talked to Paul this morning and asked if he could acquire some chemistry from another GM whose team is out of the race. But I'm concerned chemistry might not clear waivers."
--Beane
I can't believe his foray into sports journalism starts
with a statement of his fantasy team record.
Will he begin his political investigative reporting career by writing about how he watched the presidential debate, picture-in-picture while playing Halo 3?
The Raider Nation is the only Nation.
by oaklandSMASH on Sep 26, 2008 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Rays Rocco Baldelli diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones." -BB 07/27/05
Long article on curruption in the Dominican
Mainly focuses on the WhiteSox and Yankees scouts who stole money from the teams and players. Inoa was mentioned, but only in passing as reference to how big the contracts are compared to a decade ago.
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