Roundup: Mike Wilbon Under Fire; Boxer Announces He is Gay & Kevin Kolb Sickened by His Terrible Offensive Line
Christina Milian … how James Bond’s sex life compares to the average man … another alligator has been found in a supermarket parking lot in New York … PBS hates Mitt Romney … Tom Brady called JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon over the summer … ‘Fanged vampire parrot’ identified as new species of dinosaur” … Lisa Turtle is bi-polar, according to her mother … teenager denied Eagle Scout honor because he is gay … a lot of marijuana was found in Chicago … Justin Verlander got Miguel Cabrera a nice Triple Crown present … “Boy discovers almost complete woolly mammoth carcass” …
Arizona 3, St. Louis 17. Cardinals first loss. Kevin Kolb, who was sacked nine times, called it “sickening.” [AZCardinals.com]
USC fell behind 14-0 but rallied to beat Utah on the road, 38-28. [LA Times]
Dan Steinberg vs. Mike Wilbon. It’s getting good. [DC Sports Bog]
Jason Whitlock’s podcast with Charles Davis and Gus Johnson is the best he’s done. Davis is actually a better listen than Johnson. [Fox]
Puerto Rican featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz announces he’s gay. [Guardian]
The best cricket movies of all-time. [Cricket Blog]
This is the most coveted transfer punter in the country. [Times Union]
Is college football going back to the days where teams schedule real opponents, not September cupcakes? [Yahoo Sports]
How, not why, Barry Sanders retired 13 years ago. [WSJ]
“Swimming Coach Accused Of Molestation At North Baltimore Aquatic Club.” [WBAL]
Is there a GQ curse? [ESPN]
San Diego State-Syracuse game on an aircraft carrier in five weeks is in serious danger of being cancelled. [Union Tribune]
So Buster Posey has to be the NL MVP, right? [Mercury News]
Clay Travis has some thoughts on Bleacher Report vs. Grantland. [Outkick the Coverage]
MLB attendance in 2012 topped 78.5 million, the highest number since 2008. [Sports Business News]
Houston Rockets rookie Royce White is trying to talk the team into letting him take a bus to certain games. [ESPN]
Artie Lange fans love pranking Francesa. [via This Guy]
Truck loses control on a bridge, plays bumper cars for a minute. [via Cartmaniak]
I can sympathize with this father, whose baby only eats when he plays Gangnam Style. Here’s a hint: Ditch all the distractions. We’ve been there. [via Hot Clicks]
- Ukrainian Soccer Player Headbutts Teammate, Gets Sent Off [Video]
- Jeff Baker Suffers Thumb Injury Giving Teammate a High-Five, Goes on the Disabled List
- Aaron Hernandez Was Questioned as Part of a Homicide Investigation [UPDATE: Murdered Man Described as "An Associate" of Hernandez]
- Soccer Player Raul Meireles & Wife Ivone Viana Both Love Tiny Bathing Suits, Tattoos and Partially-Shaved Heads
- American League All-Star Starter: Scherzer, Darvish, Buchholz … Iwakuma?
- A.P. on Ukrainian Soccer Player Headbutts Teammate, Gets Sent Off [Video]
- Some Random Old Dude on Ukrainian Soccer Player Headbutts Teammate, Gets Sent Off [Video]
- Some Random Old Dude on Ukrainian Soccer Player Headbutts Teammate, Gets Sent Off [Video]
- A.P. on Ukrainian Soccer Player Headbutts Teammate, Gets Sent Off [Video]
- A.P. on Ukrainian Soccer Player Headbutts Teammate, Gets Sent Off [Video]
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October 5th, 2012 at 8:21 AM
.go orioles! Go braves!
October 5th, 2012 at 8:22 AM
I’m like Christina’s parents: all I make is Milians.
/Gambino’d
October 5th, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Trying to figure out what could be on the other side of this link to make this make sense.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:26 AM
This just links to a blank screen.
SHUT IT DOWN! Seriously, Phelps swam there and Bowman was a coach at the NBAC for a while. Crazy.
Amazing. Way to go, Bud — you finally realized, 25 years too late, that more playoff spots would increase interest and attendance with more teams in contention for longer amounts of time.
Really hope that aircraft carrier game isn’t cancelled. That was such a cool idea.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Haha. Wilbon. What a dope. Talk about an inflated sense of self worth. What is he, a TBL commenter?!
October 5th, 2012 at 8:28 AM
I had know idea who this girl was, Christina
Very pretty girl.
At first when I saw the round-up pic, I thought she was Lisa from Saved by the Bell. Speaking of which, Lark Voorhies who played Lisa, anyone seen her lately? OMG.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:30 AM
Death count not high enough. Poor form, J-Mac
October 5th, 2012 at 8:32 AM
Amazing. Way to go, Bud — you finally realized, 25 years too late
Well, this doesn’t make sense.
/sees Queefer wrote it
//never mind
October 5th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
Cool.
Glad you posted this.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:33 AM
October 5th, 2012 at 8:34 AM
But what were MLB’s ratings?!?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Travis’ piece about the diametrically opposed BR and Grantland was well done. I tend to agree that smart businesses will tie themselves to sites that fit their demo rather than simply gravitating toward the site with the most pageviews.
And frankly, that’s the model television needs to adpot for their on-demand viewing. Community, Parks and Rec, Happy Endings — they don’t get huge ratings but their cult followers won’t miss a show. Think some company that targets that demo wouldn’t benefit massively from sponsoring an entire OD episode? It would be much cheaper than buying ad space during Revenge or whatever with a much higher focus/return.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Every sport has its Tim McCarver. NFL has Joe Thiesmann. NHL has Pierre McGuire. NBA had Isiah Thomas. College football has Charles Davis.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
I’m truly shocked this video was shot somewhere in the Mother Homeland.
/Я сумасшедший водитель
October 5th, 2012 at 8:35 AM
Clay Travis has some thoughts on Bleacher Report vs. Grantland. [Outkick the Coverage]
Lindsey Lohan has some thoughts on AA and interventions.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
25 years? he has been on the job since what, 1993? your math is funny. oh, and he immediately put the Wild Card into play following the strike. so, okay.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
At first when I saw the round-up pic, I thought she was Lisa from Saved by the Bell. Speaking of which, Lark Voorhies who played Lisa, anyone seen her lately? OMG.
Don’t read the roundup posts?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
dumbest thing i ever heard.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:36 AM
Probably from that whore Octopussy.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
And your point is … ?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Perhaps it doesn’t have anything to do with the expanded attendance at Baltimore, Miami, Texas, Dodgers, Washington, White Sox and Detroit? Nope…nothing to do with that. And for fielding a .500 team, the Phillies still lead the league in attendance.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Unemployment falls to 7.8%
/lets door hit him on way out
October 5th, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Xenia Onatopp made Bonds her bottom and her bitch.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:38 AM
And for fielding a .500 team, the Phillies still lead the league in attendance.
Small market Milwaukee drew 2.8 million fans out to watch that garbage bullpen all year. Pretty impressive.
SYSTEM IS BROKEN BASEBALL SUCKS
October 5th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
What were the raw jobs numbers?
let me guess: Obama claims big victory, GOP immediately puts out statement that its nowhere near enough and his failed policies have still led to record unemployment.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
go orioles!
Just trying to decide how much to bet on the Rangers as an emotional hedge.
/15 years of not sniffing the playoffs we’re in…and starting Joe F’ing Saunders
October 5th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
the one game playoff is cool for now but the novelty will wear off pretty quickly. should have just gone with a 3 game series.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
The best cricket movies of all-time.
They left out King Ralph.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:40 AM
I hope next year the wild card games are a best of 3 game series. I don’t think you need a five game series. 5 games for the divisional round and 7 for championships and world series.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:41 AM
Yep, good news for BO: The unemployment rate in the U.S. unexpectedly fell to 7.8 percent in September, the lowest since January 2009, as employers took on more part-time workers.
/still expects criticism from my brother Queef.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:41 AM
She and Natalya were so damn hot in Goldeneye. Love me some Russian chicks. As long as they aren’t featured in horriffic dash cam multi-car pileups
October 5th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
“I thought Christmas only comes once a year.”
/vomits
October 5th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
US jobless rate falls to 7.8 pct., 44-month low
Let the spin begin. This will shot up Obama’s ratings by 4-5 pts minimum
October 5th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
It’ll be interesting to see if there’s any falloff in attendance in Philly and Boston going forward.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Unemployment falls to 7.8%
.3% stopped looking
–republicans
/eventually drops to 6%
2.1% of people stopped looking!
//workforce actually increased in July & August
October 5th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Huh, it was a legit drop. Usually is falls because people drop out of the workforce. But this was legit. Huge for Obama, and great for America.
The company I work for has many products that do well in new home construction. We’re seeing a lot of signs that the housing market is coming back. Not to 2006 levels — that will never and should never happen again — but there’s been a strong, steady rise of starts for a while now.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:42 AM
ahh reggie_dunlap, you beat me to it.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:43 AM
i guess the election didn’t end after the first debate. whodathunk it?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
I hope next year the wild card games are a best of 3 game series.
Can’t have division winners sitting around for a week though. That’s what would happen because all 6 of those games need to be on national TV.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
“Swimming Coach Accused Of Molestation At North Baltimore Aquatic Club.”
in his defense, have you seen what those girls are wearing? They’re totally asking for it.
Dan Steinberg vs. Mike Wilbon. It’s getting good.
so, so compelling. Please do several posts on this topic. Or awesome dunks. Either one. Or car crashes from Russia, unless there are any new murders from Russia.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Where and when fancy boy? I don’t think it will go well, you look like the cunt from Powder. Not above punching you in the cancer. Deine Mutter schwitzt beim Kacken.
If a mass produced bland beer company starts making fake craft beer to take up shelf space it will taste like bland shelf spacing eating beer.
Your choice of beers is on you sickly bitch, don’t blame getting scheisse faced in October on the failure of your selection. Nice job on Wilbon.
/going to Canada’s largest Oktoberfest tonight
October 5th, 2012 at 8:45 AM
Yeah, we’re going to get smoked, and I’m OK with it. I was putting everything on somehow winning the division. When the As were the likely second WC I held out a little hope. Now that its a pissed off Texas starting one of the best pitchers in the AL at home, and we’re stuck with Joe Saunders, I just don’t see how there’s any chance. Hopefully Buck yanks him after two innings regardless of performance and our bullpen plays lights out.
One-game playoff. Best commissioner in sports.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
I have adult ADHD. I have trouble focusing.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
“Boy discovers almost complete woolly mammoth carcass” …
better keep looking for a whole one, mini-comrade. Then maybe you can afford a dashboard cam.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:46 AM
Seriously, I hope the guy gets lasting help for his anxiety disorder.
Coldly, he should have started negotiating this the day after he was drafted.
Sarcastically, he oughta go Greyhound. Wear his warmups on the bus while he hangs with the real people of this great land of ours. Think of the stories that would come from that.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Right now the ALDS is scheduled to start Sunday. A three-game playoff that began yesterday would, at worst, conclude Saturday. So you could still start the ALDS on Sunday as planned. The division winner gets a huge advantage because the WC winner is coming in on no rest, and the schedule is preserved. So what’s the problem?
SI had an article yesterday definitely proving that momentum is payoff baseball doesn’t exist at all. So there goes that argument. And the “too much time off argument” is gone as well because the series is already scheduled to start Sunday. So what’s left?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
As someone who has taken multiple 2000 mile Greyhound trips, I can attest to that.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:48 AM
There’s Queefer, yelling at a wall. My favorite part if the Roundup.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
Is that like the best cricket movies of all time?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
I’m your huckleberry.
\Jealous
October 5th, 2012 at 8:49 AM
should have been clear – ON THE PODCAST Davis is a great listen. I prefer Gus Johnson in the booth
October 5th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Oh yeah. My favorites would include Domino from Thunderball as well.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
So what’s left?
dozens of other topics, all of which you surely have expertise in.
I can’t wait till the refs/format/unforseen circumstance cheats your team out of the next thing. Because then you’ll finally open up and speak your mind.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
SI had an article yesterday definitely proving that momentum is payoff baseball doesn’t exist at all.
Ha!
-Florida Marlins (2003)
-St. Louis Cardinals (2011)
October 5th, 2012 at 8:50 AM
this years best batch of Octoberfesst i’ve had has been Harpoon, Brooklyn, Magic Hat.
Sam Adams has been OK this season. Leinenkugel’s was largely disappointing.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:51 AM
should have been clear – ON THE PODCAST Davis is a great listen. I prefer Gus Johnson in the booth
you’re digging down further. Try digging sideways or something.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
LOOK AT ME!
PLEASE!
PAY ATTENTION TO ME!
BAN ME!
PLEASE BAN ME!
/Keep trollin’, Clay
October 5th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
It seems enough people gave up looking for work to finally get the unemployment rate below 8%.
/Congrats Mr President
October 5th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
prefer Gus Johnson in the booth
This is still a thing?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
Magic Hat was pretty good. Since you’re in Jersey, try the Flying Fish Octoberfish. Very solid. Also have had way too much of the Dogfish Head Pumpkin Ale.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
No. I simply showed that a dumb baseball talking point had no facts to support it. Because you’re unable to counter those claims, you try and belittle the messenger. Its the currency of the beaten.
Don’t worry, I’m not trying to convince anyone to change their minds. But dumb statements like DERP TOO MUCH REST DERP DERP have no basis in reality.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Yeah, we’re going to get smoked, and I’m OK with it. I was putting everything on somehow winning the division. When the As were the likely second WC I held out a little hope. Now that its a pissed off Texas starting one of the best pitchers in the AL at home, and we’re stuck with Joe Saunders, I just don’t see how there’s any chance. Hopefully Buck yanks him after two innings regardless of performance and our bullpen plays lights out.
I know that no one, other than maybe Queef, cares but here is how O’s win 3-2: Joe Saunders survives 3 innings, Buck manages circles around Wash from the 4th on, Darvish is gone by the 7th and we get an Earl-special (3 run HR) in the 8th or 9th.
/There is literally a 3.791% of O’s actually winning
//I need to start drinking…right now
October 5th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
On the MLB attendance thing, at least for the Nats it seemed like attendance surged as the locals at first doubted the team’s staying power, then bandwagoned after the All-Star break.
Yeah, they came out in droves for Strasburg starts, but not for Edwin Jackson nor Ross Detwiler early in the season.
I’m mildly surprised they did that well, attendance-wise.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Rebuttal.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
not too shabby a read…but still, fuck you clay travis.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
CNN is doing a story on this stuttering 13 year old white WASP who raps and I can’t stop laughing.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:54 AM
That’s probably my favorite pumpkin beer. Although the Sam Adams version is pretty tasty as well.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
Never forget.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
His name was “little jinks”
October 5th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
HAHA, yeah, that’s about where I’d put it. They need to hit a big homer early and hold the lead through crazy bullpen work. I just don’t think Texas finishes with less than six runs.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:55 AM
I was originally rooting for the O’s in the playoffs because they’ve had a great season but after listening to their fans complain about making the playoffs because it’s not the best scenario for them I hope they lose badly to Texas.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
White WASP… Doh!
October 5th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
well at least it’s confirmed PurdueMatt doesn’t actually read articles, just the headlines and makes up his own details.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
what’s this about a sex barn?
October 5th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
But dumb statements like DERP TOO MUCH REST DERP DERP have no basis in reality.
Neither do any of your baseball statements. Also, The rest thing has nothing to do with momentum, which going WAY back to last year is pretty clearly evident anyway.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Figured Unthinking Baseball Fan would say something like that. Here’s what you forget — for every Marlins or Cardinals team there are two “hot” teams that come into the postseason and lose right away. You’re making a classic mistake — picking out data that proves a point while ignore all the other data that contradicts it.
Jay Jaffe explains it much better than I, though.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
I hope they lose badly to Texas
I don’t think you have anything to worry about.
/nothing that happens tonight can take away from the magic of the last 6 months
//unless of course they lose 30-3 again
October 5th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Honestly I haven’t seen the Flying Fish. I’ll have to look after work tonight.
I also had the Flying Dog “Dog-Toberfest” and that was pretty good.
I’m not a pumpkin beer drinker. it’s ok, but not my thing for more than a couple at a time.
October 5th, 2012 at 8:59 AM
It’s not good. But, Wilbon is a blowhard. Washington is a great sports town. It wouldn’t have had one of the best sports pages in the country in the Post throughout the years if it wasn’t. The mood swings in the region on Monday based on whether the Skins win or lose is real.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
LOOK AT ME!
PLEASE!
PAY ATTENTION TO ME!
BAN ME!
PLEASE BAN ME!
/Keep trollin’, Clay
I’ll assume you’ve said something stupid on twitter, and are taking a lot of heat. That’s the only reason I can think of that you’re hiding in here today.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
you’re making a classic mistake — picking out data that proves a point while ignore all the other data that contradicts it.
Can I put on my butters hat here and point out that this is deliciously ironic?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
The O’s are gonna win. Rangers just look like a zombie team right now.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
To be fair, I’ve said its bullshit for any team involved. I’m just paying more attention because my team is actually in position to be affected by it. Atlanta is getting far more screwed here than Baltimore. MUCH more.
Its great TV for anyone whose team isn’t involved. But its monumentally unfair to those teams who made the “playoffs” but are being stuck in what is essentially a manufactured Game 163.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Almost word-for-word what somewhereoverthedwaynebowe predicted. Good job, good effort.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:01 AM
But Romney said that we were going to become Spain and he won the debate so clearly these numbers are wrong. Looks at Spain’s 25% unemployment rate and idiotic finance minister who says they don’t need a bailout. Huh, I guess Romney was right. We are well on our way to being Spain.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Just feel like they’re due for a major wakeup. And I’d feel a lot better if they didn’t have Darvish on the hill and we were going with Fing Saunders.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Best Octoberfest beers (2012):
Victory
Great Lakes
Elevator 1810
Thirsty Dog, Dogtoberfest and Sam Adams were just OK. Harpoon, which i usually like, was a bit sour this year.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Rollo can explain it.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Fuck all of you. LET’S GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!
October 5th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
More like rechestal than rebuttal.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
we were going with Fing Saunders
As this season was completely insane with no explanation, I was hoping Buck would again throw caution to the wind and start Bundy. (No matter who started they are going to be on the shortest of leashes and there is virtually no advanced scouting on the kid. Throw him out there and see what happens. Also Rangers will more than likely have 6-7 righties in the line up.)
October 5th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Missed this. We’re good today.
/buy you lunch with my Obama food stamp money?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Spain is screwed b/c they can not devalue their currency. Same with Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy. The Euro has killed their flexibility during the credit crisis. And Germany even though their Constitution forbids bailouts, needs to be more flexible. In short, Europe is a disaster.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
this place is better with dirtheavy’s presence. just sayin’.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Like every other topic, the baseball playoff format have had everything said about them here that can probably be said, but I’ve definitely changed my mind on them a little. I was a little annoyed after the announcement, but now I love the emphasis and reward for winning your division and the excitement of tonight. Looking forward to 7 hours of baseball tonight, hope the games are competitive.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Re pumpkin ales:
Had my first of the season yesterday: Post Road Pumpkin Ale from Brooklyn Brewery. Not the best I’ve ever had, but it’s a pumpkin ale, so good on ya, mate.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
giving it more thought i can see why there wasn’t much challenge on certain things like the 47% remark, women’s health care etc… romney would have just said anything, better not to give him a sound byte he can run on.
but i do fear how Romney favors the Austerity plan and what that will do to our economy.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Dirt, how will you dress when you attend TBL’s funeral?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Unfortunately, I can’t stick around for the discussion today, but I thought that more than 114,00 jobs would have to be created for a drop of .3%. Seems like I recall seeing in months past that around 250,000 jobs must be created every month just to stay even.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
A small part of me actually though this was possible last night. That part was telling me, “There’s no way Buck starts Joe Saunders in a one-game playoff, right?” But even Buck can’t pull the trigger on Bundy. Maybe he’ll get an inning, but not a start.
I’m actually less concerned with the pitching and more concerned with the offense. Two runs in the last three games. Not. Good.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:10 AM
Anyone done the Brooklyn Brewery tour? I plan on it in a couple of weeks. Worth the time?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Just in case Bird Selig is lurking, I’m gonna make the plea again: MLB needs to reseed in each league for the playoffs, so we don’t have a situation where a 102-win team gets bumped out by an 82-win team in a one-game showdown. That situation pretty much invalidates the regular season.
Same goes for the NFL.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
What’s an “unthinking” baseball fan supposed to think about these exciting games tonight though?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
One quick thing before I go, Al Gore has declared that Obama’s poor debate performance was the result of the high altitude, so we can put that mystery to bed now.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
October 5th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Austerity’s done a bang up job in the UK and Europe. Oh wait…Europe’s about to slide into depression with massive societal riots and potential revolutions. Thanks Austrian economics & U of Chicago economics.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Politico has an article up today with the Obama camp basically admitting what we all know — their strategy was a disaster. There was a line in there that said something to the effect of “Obama is really, really eager for the next debate.”
I think the Romney camp should enjoy this while they can.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
I would have loved to see this as well.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Regarding comment #1: My name is Squawkbox and I approve this message.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Ha. At least someone is watching Current TV.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Every playoff game that exists is manufactured outside of the World Series based on the historical division of the game.
Bud Selig is the devil!
October 5th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Nate Silver and his liberal media army biased the numbers.
No, the previous month’s numbers were revised upwards, which had some effect. I’ve heard that same quarter-mil figure before but don’t know how accurate it is.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Given the lack of a major political event last night, today’s Queefer Over/Under is 17.9% of the total comments.
Yesterday, if you pounded the over of 17.5%, Queefer finished the Roundup post at 18.37% of total comments. A mere 3 less comments and the under pounders would have covered.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
What I think of every time I see “Buck” and Bundy” in the same sentence.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Had my first of the season yesterday: Post Road Pumpkin Ale from Brooklyn Brewery. Not the best I’ve ever had, but it’s a pumpkin ale, so good on ya, mate.
I’ve had my fill of pumpkin beers for the season. Just can’t drink too many of them. But I have to second the mention of Dogfish Punkin Ale. It really is good. Can’t stand the ones that taste like eating a pumpkin pie, just to overwhelming.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
We’re to believe he was simply “really” eager for the first debate?
/I MUST go now!!!
October 5th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
But even Buck can’t pull the trigger on Bundy. Maybe he’ll get an inning, but not a start.
Sucks but the word is Dylan isn’t even on the active roster for tonight. Don’t understand that at all.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
Can’t speak on legitimacy of D.C. as a sports town, but Steinberg is a tool. His whole schtick is finding any slights, real or contrived, that anyone take against D.C. teams or players and calling them out to his readers so the writer can get trolled.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
Anyone remember when the Red Sox started Denny Galehouse for that one game playoff in ’48? Red Sox fanatics do. I wonder if Saunders will live in infamy like Galehouse??
October 5th, 2012 at 9:16 AM
You’re right, it has to be understated and mellow. Just a hint of pumpkiny deliciousness.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
That was my favorite excuse. Claims that he flew in that afternoon and didn’t acclimate. I’ve flown into Albuquerque, driven to Taos (7000 ft) and gone skiing yet still looked better than Obama.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
I’m as anti-austerity as they come. But Europe was out of control on the spending side. Ireland, Iceland, Greece even Germany (yeah, I know the first two aren’t on the Euro but it helps my argument) — these countries were borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars and buying trillions in subprime bonds for projects without any plan to pay back a single dollar.
Cutting back that hard was a terrible idea. But Europe needed some checks, IMO.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:18 AM
for that one game playoff in ’48?
Ahem. Don’t you mean game 163?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
PBS:
“Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation.”
While I love watching some of the shows that show up on PBS, “ROI delivered to our nation”? Stretch.
The fact that I now know that the Social Security Bill was tied closely to the negotiation and lobbying of the Blue Ridge Parkway – I’m not sure it makes our nation better.
I love listening to and reading people try to prove their relevance and worth.
Seriously – I love PBS, but this is funny.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Man, it sucks when people from The Daily Kos start commenting on a sports blog.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Meetings don’t start til 10. Take the over.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Actually it was game 155.
/picking nits.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Claims that he flew in that afternoon and didn’t acclimate.
Who claimed? Obama? I don’t recall seeing this. If we’re going to take anything some pundit says on the right or left says to get people to pay attention to their TV shows seriously I have a list a mile long we need to get through.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
I joined in on the pumpkin. Tried Shock Top (don’t judge, it’s all we got this way). Did not like it, nor did it taste like pumpkin
October 5th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Barking up the wrong tree against the Econ guy…Spain had a budget surplus up until 2008 when their housing bubble burst. Greece was hiding a lot of their shit thanks to Goldman (I will give you that). Ireland had two over-levered under capitalized banks that broke the entire country. Porugal – see Spain. Italy is just corruption haven, considering 35% of the population don’t even pay taxes.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:21 AM
Gore.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
For every government dollar, you get 6 private dolars. That ain’t bad. Plus, they had 91% of US TV tuned in at some point during the year and 81% of kids watching.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
I mean, it’s tough to really measure the ROI of a public television network. How much value to you assign to the education delivered by Sesame Street or an episode of NOVA? I get what you mean, I just don’t know if “ROI” is measurable in this case.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
PBS accounts for .012% of the budget. Lets get rid of it. Problems solved! High five everyone!
October 5th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Are we talking any taxes? Or is this more of a Romney 47% don’t pay taxes when it’s actually like 16% that don’t?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
when you can get your info from Fox News, who needs PBS.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Isn’t he the guy who did battle with Snyder and triumphed? If so, he’s OK in my book.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
It’s like Bismark said: you don’t want to witness how laws and sausages are made.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Gore
Okay. So it’s totally irrelevant then. Glad we cleared that up.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
The only thing I’ll fight for more than Octobefest is Frontline. If they take my Frontline, there will be a brewhaha.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Radiohead is on Austin City Limits tomorrow night – that alone is good enough for a year’s worth of funding.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Hmmm. I don’t know what the cost is, and am not in favor of the government funding things like that. But honestly don’t know if it’s that much of a stretch.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
The best cricket movies of all-time. [Cricket Blog]
Fire in Babylon is a great doc, especially if you like old school reggae, and it’s on Netflix.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
You’re thinking of Dave McKenna, formerly of the Washington City Paper.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:25 AM
For every government dollar, you get 6 private dolars. That ain’t bad. Plus, they had 91% of US TV tuned in at some point during the year and 81% of kids watching.
Work a little harder/smarter and do it with the 6 private dollars you get or work harder at fundraising and do it with 7 private dollars.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
/ Garmy’ized
October 5th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Any taxes. Italy even know is very much like America prior to the Civil War, the North is very manufacturing and service economy heavy, wheres South of Rome & Sicily are very agarian in addition to having lots of unemployment and organized crime elements. It’s been like that for centuries however.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Yeah….because they had a shitload of money tied up in that subprime market, and they wildly overestimated demand. Just like we did.
Ireland did have two local banks tank. Two local banks that had a ton of money tied up in toxic assets. Didn’t the Irish government try to buy them out but lacked the funds? I’ll admit that Ireland’s problems were mostly due to a bizarre urban redevelopment plan whose goal was turning Dublin into some world business capital.
Feel free to correct any of this if its wrong. Seriously, I’m not trying to be arrogant with that statement.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Ireland, Iceland, Greece even Germany (yeah, I know the first two aren’t on the Euro but it helps my argument)
you’re wrong on Ireland here (and Iceland too I think). Ireland had a PRIVATE debt problem. the government stepped in and said they’d guarantee all of the bad loans of the banks, which made it a public debt.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
+1
October 5th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
The Celtic Tiger lasted about 3 years…
October 5th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Talking ill of the Parkway? I hope you outlive your children.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
sesame street keeps kids happy and distracted while teaching them something.
plus, Gustavo Fring appeared on it at least once and that is worth whatever it costs to run that whole network.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
I’m not sure, and quite frankly it doesn’t matter. If he beat Snyder, good for him. But that doesn’t change the fact that his “Look, someone said something bad about D.C. LET’S GET HIM!!!” act is just ridiculous. One of the defining quality of a bad sportswriter is the amount of time he/she spends critiquing other writer’s work rather than covering, y’know, sports. Worry about what you write about. Why are you unleashing your readers on another writer just because he happen to have a different opinion than yours?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Kornheiser’s minimizing of him as “The Cheese Boy” will never not amuse me.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
When I need my old school reggae fix from a movie, I turn to The Harder They Come.
/ Not coop’d
Been getting into a lot of original Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker sides lately. Damn fine stuff.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
this place is better with dirtheavy’s presence. just sayin’. Mize.
Agreed. His internet persona is annoying to those that don’t understand the internet.
Denver isn’t that high. It isn’t like he was in Summit County. Unless he was boozing it up and smoking, altitude has nothing to do with whatever his issue was.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Yes. So did Iceland. They both spent too much. But the debt was caused by getting involved with buying crappy subprime loan packages from America. Iceland is a little different because they just didn’t have a fucking clue what they were doing.
When I talk about austerity, I’m referring to the government cutting spending to all sectors, both public and private assistance.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
/Shows up late
//takes look at roundup comments
///leaves
I will say this, while pumpkin ales are tasty, I am probably done with them for the year and ready to move on to imperial stouts. Got a few cellared away that I can’t wait to taste.
/lookin at you, KBS, BCBS, Lindley Park, and Hoppin Frog BA BORIS
October 5th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
I can’t believe Gore said that as a serious comment. Obama just had a shitty debate. There’s no excuse.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
October 5th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
I wish they had gone with the excuse that he was busy running the country. Just to see the talking heads explode across TV because nothing was more important to them than the first debate.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Not a stout guy. Outside of a case of Mad Elf, IPAs pretty much carry me through the winter.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
Sort of.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
I am probably done with them for the year and ready to move on to imperial stouts
Was 84 here yesterday. Tomorrow’s high is 52 (kill me). As I saw Adam Kramer say on the twitter last night, it’s bourbon weather now
October 5th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Steinberg got roped in to it too after blogging about it.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Also, DC is a pretty shitty sports town. The ‘Skin haven’t been relevant since Synder took over, Wizards have sucked forever, Caps were the best thing going, but they’ve fallen off and are now locked out (and also, hockey is for outsiders, not a bunch of hockey fans in Chocolate City). It’s not a college town since nearly everybody there went to college elsewhere. Maryland, despite being metro accesible, has little to no impact in DC, neither does Virginia. VT has the most local fans, but only because they’re winning. Hell, the Big Ten probably has the most alumni in the region.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
I love it.
Every time Obama fills out a bracket or takes a photo with a sports team or goes golfing, the RW media screams that he should be spending more time fixing the economy. If he said, “Sorry, I was off, I was spending more time fixing the economy,” Fox would storm the White House.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
I’m going to let my boy Fred Rogers explain the importance of PBS and more importanly, children’s programming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEuEUQIP3Q
October 5th, 2012 at 9:37 AM
In Dallas, it’s gone from mid-90s last week to high 70s this week to low 60s forecast for this weekend. Yes, it’s time to put away those childish things and tuck into some stout or whiskey.
I’m hitting the links right after lunch, and there had better be some good brew at the course.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:37 AM
I’ve heard is said that Atlanta is the worst, but it’s hard to believe there’s a worse sports town than Houston.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
It was low 80s in PA yesterday, 80 today, and 55 tomorrow. Can’t figure out what to wear ever, because it’s freezing in the morning and roasting on the way home.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
So Buster Posey has to be the NL MVP, right?
Ha! Missed this. No. He’ll probably win though.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Don’t know if I could drink IPAs all winter, but I could possibly do some double IPAs and survive just fine. With that being said, I am taking donations for any Pliny the Elder (or Younger) and Heady Topper to be overnighted to my house. Dont worry about the details, just send it on over….
October 5th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
it’s bourbon weather now
its never not bourbon weather.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Come on guys. Miami is the worst sports town by a mile. At least Atlanta has the braves and college football.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
I live in Atlanta. And like a ton of people here, I’m a transplant. My sports teams are in other parts of the country. That’s a huge factor.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Yes, Yes, YES.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Miami easily the worst major sports town. San Diego has to be up there, too.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
“The what?”
- average Atlanta resident
October 5th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
its never not bourbon weather.
Give this man a bourbon
October 5th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
This, all day every day.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Thank you.
Braves get a bad rep for having meh attendance, but you’ve gotta realize when it’s 95 with 90% humidity at first pitch, it’s just not that enjoyable.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Houston is the same. I guess most big Southern cities are.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Hell, just go down the East coast from DC to Miami and you’ll find most of the worst sports cities.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Is TBL filled with trust fund babies? The amount of golfers here is just ridiculous. Do you guys all summer in Hamptons? Drive BMW? Tie your sweaters over your shoulder? Have butlers? Drink wine and cheese? Attend art festivals? Meet up once in a while to talk about your investments?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Also, Turner Field tends to look emptier than it really is because the ballpark is massive. You all realize it was built for the Olympics, right?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:43 AM
“The what?”
- average Atlanta resident
Largely a myth. Huge following. There are 45K+ people there every Saturday night even when they’re not good. Weekday attendance is shitty because transportation sucks. Now, if you’d have said the Hawks, you’d be more accurate.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Romney won the performance, but lost the facts. Nice theatrical job by Romney to pull off the look of winning the debate. It won’t help with the election.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
The amount of golfers here is just ridiculous
Played cheaply throughout summer. I will not pay more than 30 for a round.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Atlanta is a great college football town. But, yeah. It’s a shitty pro sports town.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
By the way, tonight’s 5 p.m. start is the absolute worst time for MLB to pick. Traffic in Atlanta is dogshit and Friday rush hour makes it even worse. It will not be full until the third or fourth inning.
But I’m taking public transportation. Hopefully arriving about 4 p.m. Boss gave me the half day.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Yes queefer bc baseball is the sport where being pissed off can make you play better
O’s have a good chance vs a floundering team
October 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Agreed Atlanta had no business getting the Olympics.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
I am puzzled as to why there has been a college matchup every weekend this season at FedEx Field, like WVU-Ricmond or VaTech-Cincy. Is it a recruiting thing for the Virginia schools?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
You all realize it was built for the Olympics, right?
Yeah, it was DRASTICALLY remodeled/reduced in size before they played baseball though.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Of all the cities in the world, if Cowboy Mike was allowed to nuke one, it’d be Atlanta.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Yeah, IIRC, it bombed.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I think the redskins pay some cash too, but it’s mostly to tap into the DC-Balto piplines.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I realize that their capacity number is low because it’s the third biggest stadium in the league but averaging 29k for the season is middle of the pack.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
Look, it could be worse. We could be Charlotte.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
No no no. Cleveland would be nuked twice over before he got to Atlanta. Come on now.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Yeah, I knew they changed it around. How much did it hold for the Games? It’s like 50K and cavernous now.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
I agree with all of this. But the media said Romney won decisively so that’s what happened. If you look at Silver’s study that shows, basically, that debates dont matter, there is a caveat saying that media perception does have a tangible effect on polls/outcomes. So the fact that the press – already holding the “Romney comeback” narrative in their pockets – made this such a big deal means that it’s more important than it should be.
Facts? This is America.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Only because the fallout from carpet bombing Ohio with nukes would impact me more than nuking Atlanta.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Yeah, IIRC, it bombed.
Did your bowtie spin on that one?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
85k
October 5th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
No no no. Ohio would be nuked twice over before he got to Atlanta. Come on now
/fixed
October 5th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
They averaged 29K this year? I have a hard time believing that. There seem to be about 15-18k people there whenever I mistakenly put on the braves game on my TV.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Ha. I’d appreciate a heads up before you push the big red button.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
phillymantis915 is my economics Eskimo brother.
Ireland was banking greed and housing crash. Average person could get a 120% mortgage which included furnishing the new house. Seriously, in your mortgage it would cover furnishing the new house. Historically Ireland are seriously wired to own their own land considering their history with Cuntland. Economy was never strong it was just propped up by being a tax haven from international corporations, Ireland promising to pay the debt back is a fucking disgrace and will destroy the country for generations, get out of the EU and declare bankruptcy and start over.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Not to get political on a Octoberfest/bourbon/PBS/Shitty sports city Friday, but the media loves a horse race, even if it needs to be manufactured. This exists outside of politics, too (Jets anyone?).
October 5th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
You couldn’t be further from the truth. Our yearly meetups, at a Mexican beach house, rarely involve investment talk.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Weekend games pull it up.
I only hate the Braves because living in Charlotte in the nineties as a non-Braves fan it was the only baseball we ever saw.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:50 AM
Nub-they pretty much lopped off half the stadium. Everything past the warning track was built after they tore down the track, etc.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
This. Why are the taxpayers being saddled with massive debt from private enterprise fucksups?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Damn, I just looked up pics of the stadium for the Olympics and what is now Turner Field. That is a big change.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Is TBL filled with trust fund babies?
Writers or commenters?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
WTBS was what made me a Braves fan. Only team I could watch growing up in South La.
I miss the halcyon days of Ernie, Pete and Skip.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Charlotte should have a baseball team before st. Petersburg. Dumb.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
I’m going to be honest. I knew that Turner was huge but I honest to God had no fucking idea that was the centennial stadium. Lopping thirty thousand seats off will do that though, I suppose.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:52 AM
pssh…like a nuke would have any impact on cleveland. im not sure we’d even notice.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Yeah, no doubt. The Romney comeback narrative was happening anyway. The debate created a natural launch point for it to be unleashed.
Read this morning that Mittens took back the 47 percent comment. Now, instead of standing by it, he said didn’t mean it and that he’s going to work for 100 percent of Americans. Keeps getting better and better.
I really want to like Octoberfest beers, but I mostly don’t. Not sure why.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
I do think it’s cool that they kept the outfield wall of the old ballpark as part of the parking area for Turner Field.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Maryland, DC, is an underrated hotbed of high school talent. Penn State’s last revival under Paterno was fueled by recruiting in that area.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
the upside of the recession and living in cleveland…lotta good courses that don’t cost a lot to maintain = cheap golf. and nothing in my bag cost more than $180. stop being patronizing.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Neither should. Charlotte doesn’t support pro teams worth shit.
For years they used the Knights as justification “we can support a minor league team so well, give us an MLB team!” but then attendance for the Knights tanked as well. Now they’re building a ballpark for them next to BOA, only a 10k seater though.
Charlotte could support an MLS franchise better than an MLB or NBA franchise.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
spencer – my buddy and his wife back in Fort Wayne are moving to Cleveland in a few months. Great career opportunity for him.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Worked out ok with TARP…and the S&L bailouts in the 80s. US Treasury making a killing on bailing out AIG as well (sold back about 630 million shares a few weeks ago for a $1.8 billion investment gain).
October 5th, 2012 at 9:55 AM
Holy shit Turner Field was massive when it was the centennial! I had no idea.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
When I was living in Charlotte in the early 2000s, the feeling was it couldn’t support MLB in addition to NFL and NBA. They did build the stadium in Fort Mills to be expanded if that ever came to pass, but I can’t see it happening.
Same with New Orleans.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
tell it to our advertisers
October 5th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
very nice. things are looking up here…there’s way worse places to live. we get a bad rap from cocksuckers like mole who hate everything.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:56 AM
what does this have to do with my comment?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Be a little more difficult for the Irish, though, right? Smaller tax base, longer timeline, less sterling financial reputation?
October 5th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
They’re moving uptown. Stadium opens in 2014.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Oh yeah? Come ‘ere a minute.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Neil Bush certainly appreciated the latter.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
knew that Turner was huge but I honest to God had no fucking idea that was the centennial stadium
Yeah, most people don’t know this. Not sure where they thought all those people gathered to watch Michael Johnson run really fast though. There isn’t an 85K plus seat stadium sitting empty somewhere. Like in Sydney or Greece. Haha.
I think the Olympics are a gigantic waste of money for the host city. But give Atlanta credit for not taking federal funds and actually planning ahead on stadiums, etc. the aquatic center-which was half outdoors was enclosed and is now the ga. Tech rec center b
October 5th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Why is that?
I’m not familiar with Charlotte’s demographics.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
In other news, Vince Young is going to be an honorary captain at Saturday’s WV vs. TX shootout. Maybe Mack is trying to lift his spirits since it has been reported that he is broke. Hopefully that brings good karma.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
just warning you…if you’re within a 15 foot radius of me, you’ll prolly fail a drug test.
October 5th, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Should have done that from the get-go. I hated driving out to For Mills on I-77 for an evening game and having to deal with that traffic.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
He’s been traveling back and forth for a few months, living in a hotel over there, so he’s aware of some of what the city has to offer. They’re excited.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
They averaged 29k just like the Red Sox sellout streak continued through this season. They include tickets given away/sold to ticket brokers not actual butts in seats in most of these counts.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
He’ll be there to pass his imaginary Heisman on to Geno.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Are you guys to young to remember the Atlanta Olympics or were you just not paying attention? All the overhead shots of the centennial stadium showed that it was clearly built to be a baseball stadium afterwards.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
He’s going to steal the coin right before the flip and just take off.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Huge Latino population and soccer is massively popular amongst the crackers there as well.
Mexico/Iceland friendlies at BOA stadium was one of the biggest events that stadium has ever seen.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
I mean, I was 14. Not sure why I’d remember what an Olympic stadium in Atlanta looked like.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
Yes. Some site recently ran a slideshow of the dilapidated Olympic venues in Beijing and Athens. Billions wasted.
Denver had the right idea when it backed out in 1976. Well, the taxpayers backed out, anyway.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
They tried to sell me a Jaguar the other day? Don’t these cunts know about cookies? They should now better, there are about a dozen tracking programs that run after visiting this site.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
I’ll probably fail a drug test anyways.
Pittsburgh and Cleveland both get bad raps because of the downturns in the seventies and eighties, they had to make their comebacks when everyone else was building on the bubble that exploded. I’ve got my reasons to hate Ohio.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
I was thirteen but I think the fact that they still played at Fulton County through that year probably made me not think of it.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
N. Carolina is also a hotbed of college soccer, thanks in large part to Anson Dorrance.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
Just about everything is in use by the community now. Olympic Village is Ga Tech dorms, the Park is part of a larger tourist-y place that features the aquarium, World of Coke, CNN Center, and is near the Dome and Phillips Arena. Stadium is Turner Field. The Horse Park is a recreational area and has a lot of mud races. The bike trails are used by residents up in Stone Mountain.
Regarding the way they funded it – it’s honestly part of why Eric Robert Rudolph bombed the Park. He thought Atlanta had whored itself out to corporate America.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Surprised it wasn’t a Porsche.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
That mascot was worthy of a bomb or two.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
I saw that, too. I think Athens is actually in worse shape. There’s graffiti and hobos all over their places, including the main facility.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
I thought he was protesting abortions or something like that.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
People who think that no one from Atlanta is from Atlanta needs to go to Charlotte. Lived there for 3 years and I didn’t meet anyone who was actually from Charlotte. Closest was Gastonia. On the other hand, everyone else I met was from Ohio.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
I was thirteen but I think the fact that they still played at Fulton County through that year probably made me not think of it.
Good point. That was odd having two enormous stadiums right next to each other. They played Olympic baseball at Fulton County Stadium… Braves must have had a long ass 3 week road trip that year.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Maybe San Francisco should host the Olympics, they already have the graffiti and bums in place.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
The problem with The Olympics is that organizers won’t give you the games unless you promise to build gaudy stadiums like Beijing did. I think it’s about time that the western world stop bidding for these games. Let countries with low self-esteem feel good about themselves just because they were able to put together a 2 week sporting event at an astronomical cost.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
ive got quite a list of my own. i wouldnt mind liquidating a lot of ohio so that it’s just me, the cleve symph orchestra, urban meyer and trent richardson.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Yeah Charlotte has a massive Ohio and PA transplant population. I moved there in 94 and was in the first suburb at the end of the city line, and it was the end of the suburbs. Now they extend twenty miles past there.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Every other place I’ve lived, when you meet someone, they ask where you’re from or what you do. In Charlotte, first thing they ask is what church you go to.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Given the way the city of Atlanta is run I’m amazed they pulled off an Olympics with only that one bombing occuring. They had a dipshit mayor at the time who layer served time in prison too.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Generally speaking the Olympics is used to seize public land to sell and use privately.
/Amateurism!!!
October 5th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Fred Durst, Gastonia native. Only thing anyone needs to know about that place.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
That, along with hating the gay agenda, was part of his overall motivation. Within 7-8 months after the Park bombing, he hit an abortion clinic in the suburbs and a gay nightclub like three miles from where I currently live.
I tried to link part of his statement, but my comment was eaten. So go here if you want to read.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
In the five years I lived there, Stonecrest went from being some lovely woods south of the mall to a massive and endless subdivision. Amazing how fast it grew. Same for the sprawl along Providence south of Matthews-Pineville Road.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
See also: Denver, Phoenix, and Raton, Boca
October 5th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
Gastonians — they do it all for the nookie?
October 5th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
My mom now lives on Providence near Stonecrest, in a neighborhood that has been there forever, houses all at least thirty years old. Modest places. Across the street on Colony it’s all mansions. Great for everyone else’s property value though.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Kind of like what W. and the Rangers did in Arlington.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Bill Campbell. I actually miss the glory days of Atlanta. Back in mid to late 90′s, Lefty Lopez was burning down houses, Ray Murda was murdering people, the infamous Gold Club trial which featured Patrick Ewing chatting with strippers while getting a blow job was going on, people were getting shot in Buckhead on regular basis. Those were the days.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:16 AM
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The problem with The Olympics is that organizers won’t give you the games unless you promise to build gaudy stadiums like Beijing did. I think it’s about time that the western world stop bidding for these games. Let countries with low self-esteem feel good about themselves just because they were able to put together a 2 week sporting event at an astronomical cost.
London was discussing their options for their brand new Olympic Stadium as: 1)Sell it/rent it to either West Ham United or Tottenham Hotspur (though it’s not in North London) or 2)Demolish it. Imagine that. Brand new stadium that took millions to build and years to finish just gone because they have no reason for it and no way to pay the upkeep costs.
BTW, the World Cup isn’t that much better at it.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
If you get shot in Buckhead now it’s because you were trying to steal a guy’s limo instead of driving your Porsche home. That’s some upscale shit there.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:20 AM
They played basketball in 2 different venues. They are tearing one down and transporting all the pieces to glasgow for the commonwealth game. At least the main Olympic stadium will not turn into a white elephant if they give it to a soccer team. But I don’t understand what they are going to do with that aquatic center. British people don’t wash. That place will remain empty for eternity.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:22 AM
All Olympics in the states should be hosted by LA.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
West Ham were awarded the Olympic Stadium but I think Spurs and maybe QPR are fighting it still.
It’s a shame, because Boleyn Ground is fucking legendary, and the Olmypic Stadium has a track which whoever takes over is obligated to keep and tracks make watching soccer a horrible experience.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
I was just at Victory and wasn’t a big fan of the Festbier.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Brewery just opened 800m (2624ft in insulin shot taking cunttard math) walk from my apartment, life just got a solid 3% better.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Talking ill of the Parkway? I hope you outlive your children.
Absolutely not. I love the parkway – it’s a national treasure.
Talking ill of the whole “political games played at the expense of people to serve favors to those that have power.”
October 5th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Am I to assume that there is also a brewery 824m from you, then?
October 5th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Of course that should be 825m, because you are subtracting 3% to get 800, not adding 3% to 800. Damn.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Why don’t you sit out a few plays, champ. You’re clearly off your game.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:32 AM
I made it two comments. And now I’m not even sure I tried the Festbier or if that was the one they were out of at Victory.
Hurt my back and took a muscle relaxer before bed last night… fucking groggy as shit this morning.
/makes excuses, not friends
October 5th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Yeah you dumb, dumb as hell.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:37 AM
You don’t win friends with salad.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
depends on whether the host city can actually use the facilities built effectively once the games end. it doesn’t help that the facilities are getting more expensive.
but not many cities are adding a new pro sports team or in need of a new home for a pro sports team that can capitalize on the vacant arenas.
October 5th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Sweet… now I have that song stuck in my head. Thanks. It beats Mr. Plow though.