CURIOUS INDEX, 6/4/08
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The University of Washington just lost their leading tackler from last season, linebacker E.J. Savannah, because he broke his arm. How? Cue the mad tack piano chase music that is the theme music for all things Washington football:in an arm-wrestling match. Exclusive footage of a parallel event that is slightly similar but not really below! Don’t watch before breakfast! The injury takes 2-3 months to recover from, meaning he’ll be a weak go for the opening month of the season. This will not affect the juggernaut that is Washington football at all. Don James cried himself to sleep…again. Keep the wacky piano music playing. Syracuse has lost their leading receiver, Mike Williams, to “academic issues.” He scored 10 of the 24 TDs Syracuse tallied last year. In comparison: Tim Tebow had 55 TDs passing and rushing last year by his lonesome. Correction: scored with the help of his Lord and savior Jesus Christ. West Virginia could be seizing the lead in the Fulmer Cup if an ongoing investigation yields evidence that Pugh was involved with the use of a stolen credit card taken from a car in a West Virginia University parking garage last week. But hey, he allegedly used deductive powers of reasoning to find the car, pressing the PANIC button to find the car! That and being related to the governor would certainly be worth, what, an MBA and a Ph.D? The process seems invasive, if the headline from the WV Gazette is to be believed:
WOOOOOO LISTS! Chris and ourselves shamelessly list away in the first installment of the Enumerative. Cricket is good for beer, bad for interest. |
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#17 & #18
Having spent my entire life around football (most of my male relatives are playing and/or played the game, most made it to the collegiate level and above), nothing compares to football. Period.
Comment by blon57 — June 4, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
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Also, blon 57, any guy that tells you that you don’t get baseball because you’re a woman is a total dipshit and deserves to be dumped.
Comment by twogreattastes — June 4, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
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Blon 57, you probably find baseball boring, not because you’re a woman, but because you don’t realize the level of strategy involved. For every single action in the game, there is a conscious decision made as to why that action is the best one to take. Every pitch to every hitter has a thought out decision behind it. Many people, women and men alike, either aren’t aware of this, or simply don’t care to acknowledge the ultimate chess match that a well-played baseball game is.
To counter the baseball is so boring it needs accounting line, I offer this: Baseball is slow only to the slow minded.
Comment by twogreattastes — June 4, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
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“Nothing happens in baseball; that’s why people resort to accounting to keep it interesting. ” Absolutely spectacular! I’m a baseball fan, myself, but this line is brilliant beyond measure. +1, or whatever.
Comment by The Penguin — June 4, 2008 @ 12:04 pm
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i’m not watching that video before breakfast, after breakfast, or any other time.
Comment by gerry dorsey — June 4, 2008 @ 11:58 am
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I feel confident that George Will could kick your ass. He looks cagey.
That SNL sketch where Carvey played Will hosting a game show “Baseball Jeopardy,” which ended with Tommy Lasorda and Mike Schmidt chasing Will with bats, maybe maybe not, was funny though.
Comment by Coop — June 4, 2008 @ 10:42 am
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Maybe not the fifteen day test match (5, 15, what’s the difference after the first hour?), but you can definitely try watching the newest (and shortest) version of cricket - Twenty 20.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro20
Comment by AUgrad — June 4, 2008 @ 10:29 am
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It is good to hear that some men think baseball is boring. I’ve always felt that the sport is as exciting as watching grass grow. I never understood the devotion. Guys told me it was because I was a woman. I dumped a boyfriend that played baseball for my college team. I told him that I refused to go watch him play and if he couldn’t live with that..well, we were finished.
The guy ended up playing in the majors. Definitely dodged a bullet on that relationship. I can’t imagine spending hours at a damn baseball game several times a week. Probably would have ended up in divorce court over my refusal to go to any games.
Comment by blon57 — June 4, 2008 @ 10:19 am
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We read in an article in Wired about the Ferrari/McLaren scandal. The downforce from an F1 car is so powerful that, in theory, the cars could drive on the roof of the tunnel at Monte Carlo.
Comment by Orson Swindle — June 4, 2008 @ 9:47 am
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ok, lets ask the obvious question. In the Pugh case, was the owner of the car alive or dead?
Comment by shovel pass — June 4, 2008 @ 9:33 am