Sports

Brackets. Now.

Trev?

Even for a schlub like me, this is fucking amazing.

The Footage

Due to the political debate and all things related to field dressing a moose, this came up in my gmail RSS feed today. Gentlemen, start yer field dressin’. Please take careful note of the instructions for this one.

Worst. Mental. Image. Ever.

Field Gutting Tool

1) Espn’s page 2 started as a bastard little second rate internet 2.0 inspired manure pile. It has evolved and there is some good stuff there now, most notably Bill Simmons. However, a darkhourse has taken me over. Uni Watch is a column written by Paul Lukas who we all can appreciate b/c his one passion seems to be a ubergeekedout obsession with uniforms and sports accoutrement. His goodbye to Shea stadium made me very happy.  His personal website is even better.

2) This made me sad. Awful, just awful.

And as I listen to the Red Sox game a sentence that no one will ever utter about me: “Big Papi around 3rd will score.”

I type this from my beautiful new vista enabled dell. Oh blessed be. My seven year old machine was dying a slow, slow death and had recently resorted to simply shutting off when it was tired, showing me heretofore unknown recovery screens and freezing at every perceived slight. I will miss you old gateway, I shall turn you on one more time to recover those recoverable files and wait for the next Brett announced electronics recycyling extravaganza to put you to rest. I have to say the 25 your year-old blond on my fingertips will probably cause your memory to fade quicker than you hoped. Farewell.

This guy has it figured out. Great numbers, insightful commentary–great, great name.  Dude is smart.

This is a former baseball stats guy who has moved to politics. And by baseball stats, I mean Baseball Prospectus, the guys who with the help of Lawrence’s own Bill James and Billy Beane (and by help I mean it was all James idea and Beane was the first to implement it.) have completely changed the way people think about baseball, at least those of us who think about baseball.

fivethirtyeight.com

I thought this was an interesting example of the further weakening US economy.

Deadspin reports that many NBA players are returning to Europe. It has long been assumed that the best talent will continue to come to the US based on the NBA being the premiere league in the world. Of course, economics could change that.

Europe has always been a viable option for marginal NBA players, many college stars have had great careers there, and the locals can play some serious ball.  Could this economic downturn be some sort of tipping point which allows some European leagues to close the gap?

Also, high school senior Brandon Jennings, a consensus top five senior in the 2008 class will being playing in Rome next year. There was a new rule put in place by the NBA last year that dictates a player must wait one year after his class graduates before he can enter the NBA draft. Hear we see the market doing what it does. Instead of playing at the University of Arizona, kid heads to Rome. Maybe he can buy some fat glasses and lose them at the bottom of the Lake of the Ozarks.

For fun, check this out.

particulars:

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/groupfind?entryIDFrom=2002379

search for ddonkey

I screwed something up and can’t get the direct link to the group.

group name: ddonkey

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winner gets stuff.

bracket it up, spread the word.

Two things:

Trev, when it’s time, can you set up a bracket again?

Also, there was discussion of a pool betting on the K-Stop baby’s weight and also date of birth. Does anyone have the expertise to set this up?

Alupa and Himay are betting on the election. Alupa has 50, straight up (even odds), on Red, and Himay has Blue. If anyone wants in on this, please chime in and pony up. There was a great conversation about how any voter fraud, tampering, whatnot that results in a Republican victory still goes to Alupa, and for those of you playing roulette along with us at home, this means that he gets zero and double zero : ) But that’s sort of distracting from the original, very straightforward wager. The original wager, which, in his own words, means for Alupa, if “I win, the country loses.”

Now, of more immediate concern is the side action on the nominations. If you want in on that, the odds and stakes must be negotiated with us on a personal basis (as opposed to the above, which is open and transparent for all takers, but for a limited time only). Currently I have two to one Romney vs Alupa’s McCain or Huck. Nothing going on the Dems yet.  UPDATE: Alupa has Hillary even odds for 20, Himay’s got Obama. This was a difficult one on which to agree…

Any takers on anything at all?

Bored at work? Need a break from tooling around the interwebs? Looking for a little digital battle?

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The absolute best thing about it, is that you can set time limits from five minutes to three days per turn, so that even if you’ve got other stuff to do you can still get a few rounds in over the course of an eight hour work day, and your boss will never be the wiser.

Which is nice for those putting in their 40 hours this week.

A word of warning though: This is seriously the most addictive game that i’ve ever played. And coming from someone with as an addictive personality as I’ve got (no comments from the peanut gallery here), that’s saying something.

I give it: ****** on a scale of five.