EDSBS LIVE: RETURN OF THE FOUR QUESTIONS
That there is the information for tonight’s episode of EDSBS Live, coming to you tonight for the first time from Swindle Manor, whose wireless capabilities are now so fearsome we can cook eggs without an open flame by simply standing with a freshly cracked morning fryer in a skillet set two feet from our router.
The four questions for the night (Back after a hiatus of only about a year or so:)
1. Your offseason proxy sport. The mistress to college football. Or, less complementarily, the piece on the side good for a Wednesday night beer run/slap ‘n tickle session of your sporting world.
2. Entertaining question for your team that will keep your brain occupied sufficiently for the next 2-3 months. For instance: we’ll spend the offseason wondering at the emergence of Omar Hunter at defensive tackle, and pray he doesn’t injure himself squatting whole dormitories during training sessions.
3. Book we need to all read (since we have time.) A cheap ploy to build a reading list, but we’ll take them where we can get them. Once we get be-Kindled, the eyeball buffet will commence.
4. One extremely premature prediction for 2009 (football-wise.) That Ole Miss wins the SEC West thanks to Jevan Snead and the year-two phenomenon. Also because we want a rematch, you Giggitards.
Talk to you tonight at 9 p.m. EST.
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Studley says:
1. Auto Racing – IRL, F1, NASCAR, and LeMans.
2. How many of the LSU Recruiting Class will actually start or see significant playing time next season? Ramgod says Randle will, but what about the others? Follow-up: How many plays will Russell Shepard get at QB, if he doesn’t Redshirt?
3. Peter Bean has another book coming out, doesn’t he? And this time, I can haz the personally-autographed version? Also Phil Steele’s annual and thorough brain-fuck known as his College Football Preview.
4. Colorado go to a bowl game. That’s about as premature as you can get in CFB.
February 10th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
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NRBQ says:
@ESM,jr.
#4 should be a prediction.
Not your drooling fantasy: “Georgia sub-500 in SEC play.”
February 10th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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kleph says:
as desperate as i was to hear and chat about college football, the suck of talkshoe simply made it impossible. good christ, i didn’t think it was possible to make nowlive look efficiently run but damned if they didn’t do it.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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ssmund says:
Nothing would make me happier than to win 10 games, give Tebow a rematch in Atlanta, lose, and go to the Sugar Bowl while the Gators go for their 2nd BCSC in a row. The Rebels have yet to win the West since the conference was split into divisions in ‘92. So, let’s just say we’d have the “It’s an honor just to be nominated” attitude if we were to finally reach that painfully elusive Georgia Dome.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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Vandy J says:
1) GAA Gaelic Football. Soccer crossed with rugby crossed with a parking-lot bar fight. Plus it’s an excuse to be down at the pub pounding Guinness at 5 AM on Sunday morning.
2) WIth almost everyone of consequence returning (ave atque vale, DJ Moore), plus Kentucky and both Miss. schools at home, not to mention the likes of Army and Rice as non-cons, is it possible to actually discuss the possibility of Vanderbilt having back-to-back winning seasons without immediately getting chucked into rehab?
3) “At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past,” by Roger Ekrich. Hokie professor writes an accessible and fascinating account of the evolution of the role of nighttime in Western culture.
4) Lane Kiffin goes one-and-done after posting the SEC’s first-ever 0-12 record. Hey, if anybody could do it…
February 10th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
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Coach Nickerson says:
1) I’ll watch the first month and a half of baseball then shut it down when the Reds transition into “rebuilding/we’ll get ‘em next year” mode
2) How much does Pryor improve, specifically this mechanics and accuracy? Can Boom Herron be a 20-25 carries-a-game RB or does the running game look to an incoming frosh?
3) Gostin’s Public Health Law 2nd edition
4) RichRod’s seat becomes increasingly warm and UM limps to 5 wins top.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
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sssmund says:
Almost forgot to answer the 4 questions.
1. College Baseball (specifically Ole Miss Baseball). Lots of beautiful spring afternoons in LF drinking lots of ice cold beer watching lots of Ole Miss coeds walk around in short shorts and occasionally looking up to check the score.
2. How will Houston Nutt manage to turn a recruiting class of half a hundred into the less giggity number of 25 by August?
3. North Toward Home
4. SEC West will finish as follows:
Ole Miss
LSU
Bama
Arkansas
MSU
Auburn
SEC East:
UF
UGA
UK
USC
Vandy
Kiffegeron
February 10th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
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AERose says:
1.) Cal men’s basketball, but not professional basketball because ye Gods the Kings suck.
2.) Oh man there are a million of these. Can Cal replace Alex Mack, Will Ta’ufo’ou, and Jim Michalczik in the run game? Will Riley settle down and play up to the promise he showed before he got stuck on the quarterback carousel? Was Tedford crazy to only recruit only one receiver this year? Can Jahvid Best stay healthy through a full season of football?
3.) Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol.
4.) Cal finally makes it back to the Rose Bowl.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
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the ex-croominator says:
1. Oh shit…does “American Idol” count? No? Not even for the trainwreck factor? Okay then, March Madness will do…along with the ongoing Andy Kennedy saga.
2. What I wonder about every year…who will do the Jumbotron “Hotty Toddy?” But more seriously, will Bobby Massie be able to fill Michael Oher’s shoes?
3. Dixie Lullaby by Mark Kemp; how the civil rights movement led to the evolution of Southern Rock in the 1970’s.
4. Damn, you took my prediction (Ole Miss wins the SECW)…I’ll raise you one and say we win the whole ball of wax. Hey when you said premature I assumed you simultaneously meant insane (I still hear Kiffykins in my head…”GET OUT OF MY HEAD KIFFYKINS!”)
February 10th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
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AZDuck says:
1. Your offseason proxy sport.
None. I go surfing. Baseball is gay. Basketball doesn’t really interest me except for the NCAA version, and the basketball Ducks are beyond terrible. I do love me some Fulmer Cup action, though.
2. Entertaining question for your team that will keep your brain occupied sufficiently for the next 2-3 months.
Oregon has 1 4-star JC WR commit that hasn’t made it into school yet (Tyrece Gaines); and we are supposedly the leader for Bryce Brown’s services as of an audio interview with Bryce Brown today. So, recruiting isn’t over yet.
3. Book we need to all read (since we have time.)
Not Tuesdays With Morrie. Most of what I read is very boring non-fiction, so I won’t bother you with it
4. One extremely premature prediction for 2009 (football-wise.)
Arizona State will be better. Oregon State will be worse. Oregon may compete with USC for the Pac-10 crown. Arizona will suck ass.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
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SpartanDan says:
1) College hoops, then hockey (mostly NHL, but that’s only because it’s impossible to find college hockey in Illinois).
2) Who’s going to replace Ringer? And is our dislike of Hoyer (mostly for his occasional passes that could only be caught with Inspector Gadget arms, and the debacle in the Champs Sports Bowl in ‘07) about to become a case of “be careful what you wish for” now that he’s gone?
3) Oh, man. If you’re into sci-fi/fantasy, I could probably recommend enough to get you through the next decade. Fantasy recommendations: right now I’m plowing through Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series (finished the first four, seven to go); the Shannara series by Terry Brooks (20 books at the moment) and the Song of Ice and Fire series (four books out, three more planned) by George R. R. Martin are also excellent. For sci-fi, I would go with a couple of Heinlein’s works (Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) or the Foundation series by Asimov. A couple of series that might appeal if you’re a fan of Monty Python-style humor: the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quintet (Douglas Adams) and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
4) MSU finishes second in the Big Ten and wins their second straight over Michigan.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:13 am
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tomcat says:
1. tie–college baseball and hoops–the bob knight to uga rumors are the only exciting thing about the program, so i’ll watch other teams chase glory. with baseball, uga actually has a shot at being special.
2. does willie martinez finally implement this wildly newfangled scheme called the “blitz?”
3. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers. a post-modern classic if ever there was one.
4. usc’s reign atop the pac-10 finally ends…at the hands of whom, i cannot say.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:21 am
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Kecalf Bailey says:
1) uhh…temp jobs? I would like to say soccer, but all I have to watch is MLS and whatever comes on ESPN. Really, where are you people getting this EPL coverage? I have tried the p2p thing, and it’s pretty unreliable.
2)Will this finally be the year that ‘bama ends the streak of only beating 36-0?
3)”Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared Diamond. Well written book detailing the environmental determinism theory for how eurasian societies came to dominate the world.
4)Nobody reads the aforementioned book, and Aubie learns to fellate himself.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:44 am
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Kecalf Bailey says:
2) “…only beating auburn 36-0?”
3) Jared Diamond is not a typo or a joke, it’s the guys real name.
February 11th, 2009 at 2:46 am
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JimHalpert says:
1. Getting drunk and heckling the visitors at Ole Miss baseball games.
2. Did hosting a Presidential Debate truly break the Ole Miss curse? (It happened the Friday before the Florida game. Solid weekend.)
3. Run With The Horsemen by Ferrol Sams.
4. Tebow Crying At The Postgame Press Conference 2.0 will be caused by Lane Kiffin beating Florida in The Swamp.
February 11th, 2009 at 5:26 am
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kizzak says:
re: where to get foreign soccer:
1. Fox Soccer Channel/Setanta
2. the ‘right’ streamers (justin.tv, myp2p.eu, livefooty), at times it does take a little bit of trial and error to find a good stream
3. espn360 for non-English soccer + Champions League when it’s back on
February 11th, 2009 at 6:30 am
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der schatten says:
1. Hockey, baby
2. Will DJ Fluker be game ready at LT by the start of the season, and who will he be blocking for in the starting Alabama backfield?
3. Seriously, O, Ironfire by David Ball. Haunting.
4. UF doesn’t break a sweat as it repeats for SEC-E and SECCG champions.
February 11th, 2009 at 6:31 am
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CincySooner says:
1. College Hoops… but only because it’s what’s on this time of year. Seriously, I try real hard to care. Oklahoma is having it’s best season in school history and I’ve only seen a grand total of 2 games on tv. The interest always gets ratchet’d up for tournament season though.
2. How much of OUs offensive success in 2008 was due to Sam Bradford and how much was due to a talented and experienced O-line?
3. I’ve never actually got around to reading and Harry Potter books. Completely normal people who you would never guess are into that kind of stuff have recommended them to me. I’ll give the first two a whirl, but if I’m not impressed, then Im out.
4. USCs strangle-hold on the Pac10 comes to an end… or at least takes a year off. Oregon goes to the Rose Bowl.
February 11th, 2009 at 7:21 am
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Greggo says:
1. NASCAR
2. How many points will Florida own UT by at home this year for Hello Kitty running his mouth???
3.Penthouse – Letters. None of them are real, but a fun read with a cold beer!
4. Gator RULE, UGAy SUCKS
February 11th, 2009 at 8:43 am
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Jebus says:
1) Golf- playing- you gotta make the most of the three months of bad sledding in the north.
2) Please, Jeebus, can Michigan have a QB?
3) “Twenty Thousand Roads”- a biography of Gram Parsons. If you like that sort of music, at all, READ THIS BOOK. NOW.
4) OSU fails to make a BCS bowl game.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:12 am
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RanchyBalls says:
1) NCAA 09 Football on XBox 360. The methadone to my college football addiction. My girlfriend of 7 months wondered aloud the other night if I had always played this much. RB: “Only until spring practice, honey” GF:”Oh, you watch spring practice on TV?” RB:”Of course.” GF:”Isn’t that a bit weird?” Yankee girlfriends never get it.
2) Why does Lane Kiffin bother me? Is it the fact he’s an ass clown or (even worse) I secretly fear him?
3) Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis. Fascinating book about a cultural touchstone in all of our lives.
4) Miami finally rises to the top of the ACC. But Tebow and Urban still steal their thunder.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:27 am
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RanchyBalls says:
O,
How can I download EDSBS Live if I can’t listen to it when the show is live? I miss my iTunes download.
Thanks,
RanchyBalls
February 11th, 2009 at 9:29 am
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JD says:
1. Hockey playoffs, then as many Rays games as a stubborn bastard in Texas who won’t pay for Extra Innings can find.
2. Will there be a horror movie released to theaters in the next 12 months that is based on the Kiffykins song?
3. “The Evolution of Cooperation” by Robert Axelrod has been sitting on my bookshelf waiting for me to read it for several years. Is this the year? No. Probably not.
4. USF will beat either Florida State or Miami. This year.
February 11th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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Jonathan says:
#62
You didn’t find that book a little repetitive? The guy assumed people had specific preconceptions and stressed the same four points over and over and over again. Maybe it was just me, but I really can’t seem to agree with the well written part about the book. Anyway, my answers:
1) Cricket, fantastic once you know it
2) Are we UT 1998? (UGA) … (Please)
3) David Sedaris, pretty much anything he’s written
4) MNC game has an SEC and PAC 10 team this season
February 11th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
75
Sean says:
1. Clemson Hoops, Golf, and uh, the Spring Game Ticket Prices Price-Is-Right
2. What the heck do we have in Dabo? Could it really work?
3. They Call Me Assassin by Jack Tatum and America’s Game : The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation by Michael MacCambridge
4. Alabama will lose 4 or more, Virginia will not be good, and Georgia Tech will make a serious run at a ’91-like slip into a national title.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
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Gen. Stoopnagle says:
Woo-hoo! Chiming in a cool 2+ months behind the play!
1. Your offseason proxy sport.
College Baseball.
2. Entertaining question for your team that will keep your brain occupied sufficiently for the next 2-3 months.
Can the defense make the stellar leap necessary for Georgia to compete?
3. Book we need to all read (since we have time.)
I’m almost done with Ferrol Sams “Run with the Horsemen” recommended above and can second it. If you haven’t hit the Ian Fleming James Bond novels, that’s cool manly brain candy right there. I’ve got three to go and I will have read ‘em all. Best so far: “Casino Royal”, “Thunderball” and “Diamonds are Forever”.
But you said need to read, so, given this crowd I’ll go with The Holy Bible.
4. One extremely premature prediction for 2009 (football-wise.)
Georgia beats Oklahoma State opening w/e.
May 29th, 2009 at 3:26 pm