Big Kitty Cats On The Prowl & Talking Trash In Detroit Motor City
[Hi there Kitty Kat fans!! The tigers are tied with the Rangers in the 9th and the Lions coming on soon. Time to Prowl, so Trash has been moved back up to where it can be found – bmaz]
The big cats are on the prowl, and they are growling right on down Woodward Avenue. Los Tigres are Looking For Love and they’re Making Thunderbirds.
And they are not the ever lovely Watertiger kind of kitties either. Nope, these kittehs are big, bad, lean, mean and will Fuck. You. Up.
Detroit Motor City is happenin baybee; seriously happening, and here is hoping there is no Detroit Breakdown.
First on the catwalk are the Tigers. Los Tigres dispatched the evil empire of the NY Yankees. Fittingly, the game, and series, ended with a strikeout by Mighty Casey LeBron Rodriquez, aka “Mr. April”. Congratulations pinstripe pushers, you have 6, count em six, more years of this joy at the low, low price of only $27 million a year. Worry not though, while he has already been through Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz, you still have the ARoid and Gwyneth Paltrow hookup to look forward to. So you got that going for you, along with you new number one starter, AJ Burnett, after CC Sabathia bails. Red Sawx cognoscenti feast. As to everybody else, ponder whether there is enough Justin Verlander to slow down Josh Hamilton, Michael Young and the Rangers. Say what you will, these are, at this point, the two best teams in the American League.
In the Senior Circuit, my local kids, and they are kids since they are the youngest team in MLB, came up just a bit short tonight against the BrewCrew. Awesome game five, and awesome series. Both teams just had so much personality and good vibe, it was hard to root against either one. But someone had to win, and in extra innings in the win or go home game, Milwaukee did. And Albert Pujols and the Cards shocked the mighty Phillies, in Philly, to make the unlikely advance to the NLCS. This is almost certainly not the NLCS matchup FoxTV hoped for. Too bad, both teams earned it, suck on that Fox.
In the college gridiron type of sporting activity, a couple of has beens like Texas and Oklahoma are playing. If only they both could lose. Then the better and more appealing team, the Boise State Broncos, could move ahead to the rank they deserve in the standings. Especially after dropping 57 points on conference rival Fresno State Friday night. The most exciting team in the country as far as supposed first tier conferences go, the sharp toothed Wisconsin Badgers, have a bye week.
Next on the beautific catwalk are the Deetroit Lions. These too are some slinky cats.
The Chicago Poo Bears are going to mosey into the Lion’s Den at Ford Field, where the Kitties hope to say “Suh you later”. So far, so good, Matt Stafford is still healthy and leading the Lion offense. Stafford’s resume is spotty because of injury, but when healthy, he has clearly demonstrated he is a top-flite quarterback. Javed Best is a nice back, but the Lions might want to invest in another back at some point to insure the future that seems so bright. As good as the Lions’ defense has been so far this season, they have been playing without what many considered the best athlete in the draft, Nick Fairly out of Auburn. Dude has the potential to be another Suh. If he is even close, it is hard to imagine what it will mean to Detroit, and he may make his season debut against Da Bears.
I understand there may be other games of both the student and professional athlete variety, but if they ain’t from Detroit, you will have to supply your own analysis in comments. Because this is Motor City Madness Weekend!
Well, okay, maybe we will get to non-motorcity talk because, if nothing else, there is some shit going down in Suzuka. And if you know squat about F1, you know there is usually wet, and corresponding wild, in Suzuka. That’s just the way it is. Vettel was off pace in practice, but was fast and took pole in qualifying, with Jenson Button of McLaren in P2. Lewis Hamilton hung on for P3 followed by Mass and Alonso in the Ferraris. True to form, qualifying was off schedule due to rain. We will see yet what the conditions are for the actual race, but I have always found the wet to be a good thing at Suzuka as it seems a bit pedestrian of a track without it. The race goes off at 2:00am EST and 11:00pm PST and is being carried in the US by Speed TV. If Vettel finishes anywhere in the points, even with the minimal single point, he clinches the Drivers’ Championship, and that is a pretty safe bet to occur.
As you may have noticed, this is a VERY heavy music Trash post. But, if there is one thing Detroit is known for other than American steel on wheels, it is music. I didn’t roll with the common Motown motif, and I did not fall back on old friends that used to be from Detroit, but now are here in the desert. If you are a music nerd, check out the enantiomer MC5 version of Motor City Is Burning. Not sure exactly what the deal is, but it is clearly, whether intentionally or unintentionally, a reverse print if you look at all the right handed people flipped opposite. Weird. Probably not many people remember the MC5, but they were one of the early foundations of straight up hard rock, and they were dead nuts killer.
So, that is it for the Motown Trash. Burn it down!
My hopes are for a Midwestern shootout (Detroit v Milwaukee)
You have to be sane to manage?
Whattabout Billy Martin and Ozzie?
The HedgeMan weighs in
“I think there’s a certain shelf life in these jobs,” Henry said. “You can only be the manager, the general manager, if you’re sane, for a certain amount of time. It’s a pressure cooker here. It’s a long season. It’s 365 days. Theo is not going to be the general manager forever
@Bay State Librul: Yeah, that would make baseball, like football thus far, the revenge of the Rust Belt year.
Some news that bmaz missed. The Wolvereenies will, for the first time this season, leave the Big House. They definitely CAN beat Northwestern. But they won’t do it looking as nice as they have been.
In the pro leagues, I’m hoping this is the week the Haynesworth gamble pays off. He doesn’t even have to be fit, seeing as how Mangold will be slow at best. Though Rex has to be kidding if he believes a team w/a defense as porous as NE’s can be called a champ.
I think the Titans (who of course beat the Ravens) may well beat the Stillers (who got embarrassed by the Ravens).
And the NO-CAR and OAK-HOU might be surprises.
Sounds like the little dork who went to Brown or something and gets no respect from the players because he never put on the uniform but still tries to tell them to get their OPS up, is not long for his job.
Good. Theo’s very deserving of joining hte unemployment line.
It’s A-Dog, BTW. That’s the name he hung on himself after losing another playoff series (04 or 05 – I forget which) for the Yankees, when he said “I played like a dog out there”. Funny, I thought he was hanging with Christie Brinkley (gawd, she’s unrecognizable under all that work) now. And this, from 2006.
Some things never change.
@emptywheel: I saw a t-shirt the other day, all UMich blue and gold, with the logo “My stadium is bigger than your stadium”
I think that fairly synopsizes their accurate self-appraisal – inadequate and compensating.
In other news, Big Ben is still wearing a boot, so I would not be surprised if Batch takes some game-time snaps. Not surprised in the least. If I were Tomlin, I wouldn’t put a valuable though hurt and vulnerable top-line QB out behind that O-line, at least until they got their shit together. I’d throw a backup to the wolves until the first-stringer recovered.
I know I’m a broken record, but the final events in WRC are now looking to be very exciting. Sebastien Loeb had a huge lead and was all-but-locked on an eighth championship in a row, but has had two terrible events, while Mikko Hirvonon has been on fire. They are now tied with just Spain and Wales left.
Uh, youse all are violating the all Deetroit, all the time spirit of this post! Guess I should have included the Bo Merlots in the post, that is a fair point. But when Michigan football discussion has devolved to one of whether they can survive a epic road battle with……wait for it……the Northwestern Fighting Journalists, well just dunno.
Why oh why did they give a new contract to Webber. Just asking?
Sayonara Al Davis. I’d say RIP but not sure I can get there…
@scribe:
Theo is an Eli, I believe
Mr. Epstein, has packed his bag for for Chicago, where he’ll be minding his own business, anointed President, General Manager and Sabermetric Savior of Wrigley chewing gum….
I’m happily camping out in a motel room in Tampa while the rest of the family is at a horse show. I won’t get away with this “surgery recovery” gig much longer, but it makes for great uninterrupted football days.
I guess I’ll sort of pull for the Whorens today since the land thieves are ranked higher.
Today’s Gator game will reveal much about the team and its new coaching staff. Going in to #1 LSU without their QB (it finally came out that Brantley has a high ankle sprain that won’t require surgery) and with multiple weaknesses (especially run blocking on offense and run stopping on defense) exposed by Bama last week, it will be interesting to see if they can suck it up and play well enough to at least not embarrass themselves this week. I’m hoping that the run-stopping issue was just that Trent Richardson is such a beast–he sometimes carried three and four Gators five yards or more before going down–so we will see. I’m also hoping Weis will realize that if he wants to run inside, he needs to have either Burton or Gillislee in the backfield because Rainey and Demps are just to freaking small to run inside against a line so big.
I saw on Twitter a few minutes ago that Brisset could get the nod at QB over Driskel. I’m hoping for that, as I’d hate for Driskel to get hurt and the O-line is showing weaknesses. I hadn’t realized until this week that Driskel passed up a sure-fire first round MLB draft opportunity (and therefore, up to $2 million) to come to UF. I hope Muschamp and O’Sullivan have worked out a two-sport deal for him, because it appears Driskel is a kick-ass center fielder and has had a dinger verified at 470 feet. Center field is the only position that needed improvement over last year’s CWS runner-up team that sees the entire defense and much of its best pitching returning.
@Jim White: “Win one for the Gypper!!”
Hey now, I only brought up the Bo Merlots bc they’re overranked and may learn that those week.
Though didn’t the Fighting Journalists almost beat the Big 10.2 team that beat the Pac12 powerhouse Sun Devils?
@Jim White:
LSU has a Polamalu clone nicknamed “The Honeybadger?.
Honeybadger don’t care, gonna eat them Gators up.
Say what you will about Al Davis, he has been one of the mot important people in the history of pro football.
@emptywheel: Yup. ASU and the Merlots might be fair fight. Ugh.
@bmaz: Rats. Looks like one of my dogs thinks she’s a honeybadger. The pet sitter just took her to the vet for treatment on a presumed rattlesnake bite. The vet thinks it was low envenomation (even though her face and neck are swollen to 2-3 times normal size), so she should pull through with just antibiotics and pain meds.
As for Davis, yes, he has indeed been important. I’ve just never been big on folks who relish their disdain for the rules. I’d say Davis was the Dick Cheney of the NFL.
@Jim White: Whoa, that sucks. I am actually surprised there are not more dogs bitten by snakes here, but don’t hear about it that often. Hope Fido is okay!
@Jim White:
I can hardly wait for the court battle over the team.
I see everything is normal in F1 with Seb on the pole. I have to leave town sure hope the F*&^%$# dvr works.
this is interesting:
http://my.firedoglake.com/markfloegel/2011/10/07/greenpeace-sues-the-spies/
ex-cia, ex-fbi, ex-police would you believe?
i guess if you’re a retired spook you gotta do somethin’ to keep those skills sharp and pay for those ski vacations.
@bmaz: Back in the day, the NU band had a cheer for Michigan and Ohio State (hell, for just about anyone who played vs NU): “That’s all right/that’s OK/you’re gonna work for us someday”
That’s my classmates — more than a few of which went on to jobs with Goldman Sachs and the TBTF banks.
This is just in from SF:
I’m pulling for a Tigers-Brewers World Series. Great Lakes. Great Times.
My Wolverines should win this game, but I agree with emptywheel that they’re too highly ranked right now. Key for the Wolverines, IMHO, will be to see if Al Borges tries again to put Robinson under center or if he’s going to throw that out the window like he did against Minnesota. NU will likely bring the pressure to contain Robinson, which means good opportunities for U-M to run some counters and other misdirection plays.
Here’s another thing I’ve been thinking about the Jets-Pats this year.
Ochocinco clearly is not gonna interest Revis Island.
But I’ve been wondering if one reason BillBel has been focusing on TEs, rather than WRs, is to get out of the Revis matchup. So 85 (or Welker) serves to distract Revis while the TEs keep scoring underneath.
Now if only those tackles can get to Sanchez early and often.
What about the Cardinals? (I’m still smarting from 1968, though).
Whoda thunk the most interesting early game I can tune in is Floriduh State at Wake Forest. Wake was up 16-7 but gave up a TD just before the half to cut the lead to two. The land thieves are humiliating the Whorens and South Carolina is opening up a can on Kentucky. Oh well, just over an hour until the Gators…
@emptywheel: Who needs OchoClinko whe you got The Gronk? I actually think Rob Gronk has better hands than the ends, except maybe Welker.
@bmaz: yep. that’s sort of my point.
@emptywheel: Hey, actually, the Pats can run multiple Gronk formations now that you picked up brother Gronk.
@Jim White: Hows the pooch doing?
@bmaz: She’s at the pet sitter’s house. She needs to be watched closely for internal bleeding; platelets are dangerously low. Haven’t heard anything more for several hours. so I’m assuming she’s holding her own for now.
@Jim White:
My mother never forgave him for kicking out Wayne Valli, the original team owner.
I never forgave him for his shenanigans with various cities in SoCal. But the gravel pit in Irwindale they were floating as a stadium site is big enough to bury his ego in.
Gators finally manage a field goal just before the half (to only be behind 24-3). And how did they move the ball? By following my advice above and running Gillislee up the middle.
Say what you will about him, Al Davis never shot anyone in the face, let alone in a way that the victime felt compelled to apologize for getting in his way.
With the success of the Motor City’s baseball team + the Monday Night Football match-up, I’m surprised no one has mentioned “Lions, and Tigers and Bears, oh my.”
Any ideas on who might sing “Are You Ready for Some Football”? Will they get a new anthem?
I’m watching the Stanford – CO game, and I love Andrew Luck, but he really looks like a lawn gnome. A t-a-l-l 225# lawn gnome, but . . .
@Peterr:
But then there’s Michael Wilbon who went on to glory @ ESPN and the Washington Post.
Heh, I was just yammering at Wilbon a little while ago on Twitter about the Northwestern Fighting Journalists
Who knew the Wolverines were kitties, too?
Or maybe just brunching on them?
congrats to the CalTech Waterpolo team, breaking a nine year drought!
@rosalind:
They finally got their pool filled? *g*
Jenson Button again, first this time!
Now if only he was in an Adrian Newey designed car
Vegas has the Pats by nine?
Not a bad teaser with Rex on the sidelines.
“What passed for coaching eccentricity before the guy I like to call Cousin Rex came along? Bob Ryan says. “We had Jerry Glanville supposedly leaving game tickets for Elvis and always dressing in black. And there was, um, um . . . you tell me.”
Ryan goes on “Yet this is the week Cousin Rex breaks out the Southwestern Oklahoma State blazer with the improvised Hall of Fame patch and goes into a riff about comparing his playing career with Coach Bill’s at Wesleyan. There is no other coach or manager in professional sports who would inject such levity into the dialogue prior to such an important game. It’s a nice little reminder that, whoever wins this game, it’s not a matter of national security.”
@Mauimom:
Any ideas on who might sing “Are You Ready for Some Football”? Will they get a new anthem?
Bob Dylan to calm things done or Springsteen to liven it up?
Roberto Clemente and Jimmy Piersall in the same outfield.
@posaune:
Mickey Lolich bests Bob Gibson in Game 7. The World Series ended on October 10, 1968.
At least, Bug Selig got one thing righ this year. No playoff games
in November…
@Bay State Librul: What is Mangold’s status? If he’s out, that seems reasonable. If not, that’s way high.
I’ll take Boise State over any team in the country. Most balanced team out there.
@emptywheel:
Latest spec from AP
If the Jets’ struggles on offense trace to the absence of center Nick Mangold, who suffered a high ankle sprain three weeks ago, they won’t have that excuse against the Patriots on Sunday.
Sal Paolantonio of ESPN reports that Mangold will start.
Paolantonio also reports that Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is “determined to play” following a knee injury also suffered in Week Two.
Though Hernandez’s presence gives the Pats another potent option in the passing game, the chess match continues to focus on the Jets’ plan for covering Wes Welker.
@Bay State Librul: Springsteen
@rosalind: Heh. My wife went to grad school at CalTech. She hung out some in the weight room and was on pretty even footing with most of the male students who came through…
“Fittingly, the game, and series, ended with a strikeout by Mighty Casey LeBron Rodriquez, aka “Mr. April”.”
I needed the laugh today. It felt like Yom Kippur–more than last year–and I made a resolve to do something small. But at the big thing, I failed.
Milwaukee in 4. They have our number. Too late to have heard it here first.
The mighty Jets will somehow solve all their problems and reduce Tom Brady to whimpering jelly. /false bravado
Someone at LG&M said that the announcers and their masters fear a Detroit-Milwaukee WS. I don’t see why. Milwaukee is this year’s San Francisco in terms of the number of characters on the team that the broader public would like to get to know–and Ryan Braun is clearly an awesome player. Milwaukee is also reliably blue FWIW.
@Bay State Librul: Yep, I think it’ll be a lot closer than that.
That said, I think the key to Pats victory is still the Gronk. I’m increasingly convinced BillBel has been building the TE attack to get around Revis Island.
Still no word on the dog, so I’m assuming she didn’t get any worse overnight.
@emptywheel: Another update: Haynesworth is a go (maybe Mangold and Haynesworth can agree to go easy on each other?), and Revis Island won’t be covering Welker at all, which doesn’t surprise me.
@Bay State Librul:
They could get T-Pain to do it, but that might be so two years ago.
Drake and/or Nicki Minaj would work for now.
be remiss not to note our Commander-In-Chief in our Forever Wars took time out from his busy fundraising schedule to party with not one but two sports teams this week!
Congrats to the Texas A&M University’s NCAA champion women’s basketball team and the 1985 Chicago Bears!
(perhaps we can start an online petition calling for Obama’s Sports Team Appointment Secretary be transferred over to Judicial Nominations??? that guy/gal gets things done!)
file under: bmaz bait
@rosalind: No kidding, who is the sports team blowjob czar in the Obama White House anyway?
On another note, the best Stiller QB today is the punter, and clearly all the Vikings needed to get back to health was a visit by the fucking Cardinals. Gawd, it is so embarrassing.
I must note, too, that the NoPeytons are getting quite the best of the KC Chefs in the “Are You Andrew Lucky Bowl”
@bmaz: (A) What’s the scoreboard say about the Stillers?
(B) How many TD passes does Big Ben have today?
Smart penalty by the Oilers, there, stopping the clock for Ben….
Nice move by Hines Ward to score his 2d TD.
Seems like Dancing With the Stars paid off….
Just WIN baby!!
Oakland 25, Houston 20
Really looking forward to seeing those Raydahs highlights. Just win baby.
David Freese does it again–3-run HR for a 4-2 lead.
Am cautiously watching other sport.
Vettel won a second championship today, kudos to him and his amazing team. Button was dominant all weekend, except for the pole. And Hamilton goes on stepping in it…
Reporting from Paris, let me say that no one gives a rat’s ass about US football, including Americans. I went to an English Pub, hoisted a pint of 1664, and watched the end of the Eagles-Bills and the start of New England vs. the Jets. No one else was watching. They also weren’t watching Cardinals/Brewers.
They don’t show nearly as many commercials here, so there was a lot of in-game analysis from a three person group, with additional replays and views. The sound was off.
The games were on B Sky B, which must have some deal with the NFL, and the few commercials I saw were for snack foods. No beer.
Now. Where can I watch the Irish and the Trojans?
Garcia implodes. Fielder hits 3-run HR for 6-5 lead. Pandemonium at Miller Park so I cannot really hear the announcers in the TV room.
ETA: Betancourt hits a 2-run HR. 8-5. Still nobody out. Sigh.
WooHoo! Go BREWERS!!! Up 6-5, bottom of the 5th in Milwaukee, nobody out…
Just got here, now I’ll go catch up ; )
Hey, has anybody notice what Harbaugh and the 49ers are doing to Josh Freeman and Tampa Bay?? Jeebus.
That pass Interference was so blatant even I saw it.
@bmaz:
Yes. It pains me to say that SF is going to be the class of the division.
(ETA: I have just read that SF is the only team that has not allowed a rushing touchdown)
@4jkb4ia: Sorry 4jkb4ia, in my earlier excitement, I missed your comment. Looks like you and I are on opposing sides for the NLCS, nonetheless, good luck! And Go Brewers! ; )
bmaz, great post, although my interests lie mostly to the west of D.E.T.R.O.I.T. DETROIT DETROIT DETROIT (huh, that doesn’t have quite the same ring as it does with the JETS ; ) I am still cheering for the kittehs, both the stickball and pigskin varieties…
And speaking of the Jets, I must confess I expected a bigger blowout in Gillette, but it looks like the Pats are well on top in the 4th.
@4jkb4ia: That’s called an asswhipping.
Baby Jesus just threw a TD but missed on the 2-point, so there’s time for divine intervention to have the Donkos recover the onside kick.
Ok, the last comment didn’t post, but is that really Touchdown Jesus on the teevee?
Billy Martin wasn’t crazy, he was drunk
if you’ve had photo of Al davis in your freezer for 20 years, what do you do now
Boomer Sooners
texas can kiss my okie ass
and what the hell happened to Tampa’s football team
And it turned out that the final score was exactly….a 9-point win. It seemed to be a good game.
Hi phred :)
@scribe:
He did!? He can be even more of a hero than previously!?
Tebow is a false prophet – he failed.
Tebow brought the Broncos back though, and gave them energy. He is the future of the National Football League!
Well, that was a nice scramble, but he ran out of time in general.
@4jkb4ia: Hitting the spread exactly is kinda freakish, eh?
Anywho, here we go, top o’ the 9th…
Good to see you, by the way : )
@bmaz: Like we don’t have enough sanctimony and conspicuous Pharisaical religiosity already.
@4jkb4ia:
Bookies win!
Yay : ) Brewers take Game 1 : )
And they courteously do it with plenty of time before kick-off for the Packers. Talented and thoughtful, too ; ) Go Pack! Go Brewers!
@phred:
Congrats
The year of the six pack…
@Bay State Librul: LOL, I prefer Miller to Bud ; )
Congrats to you and your Pats, too! I know how important it is to beat the Jets : )
Why do you hate beer?? Miller and Bud? Ugh!
Next weeks Trash will be ALL TEBOW, ALL THE TIME!!!
*heh* I’ll betcha TBogg was shitting bricks when Juice Box Jesus was scrambling around with one second left on the clock…! ;-)
@freepatriot:
Take it out and set fire to it, preferably with thermite?
@bmaz: I didn’t say I LIKED Miller or Bud, just that I preferred Miller over Bud ; )
My brother used to work in Milwaukee and his commute would take him past the Miller brewery and the Ambrosia chocolate factory. It smelled like bread and chocolate. He would be salivating the rest of the way home ; )
As for your personal savior Tebow — shouldn’t a guy be leading a team with something better than a 1-4 record before devoting an entire Trash to him? I mean the Lions are 4-0. The Tigers won the ALDS. One would get the idea that some degree of accomplishment is required. Just sayin’ ; )
Okay, no Baby Jesus next week.
Turns out next week is the Donkos bye week, Baby Jesus Week in two weeks!!
Actually, gonna be hard to be all Tebow that week, as it is the weekend of the big Badger visit to Sparty land. I keep telling people, this Russell Wilson kid and Wisconsin are something.
@bmaz: Oooo, might we see an All Wisconsin Trash next weekend??? Be still, my fluttering heart ; ) Best not get my hopes up though, first things first and all that…
Okay we made it home, and the dog looks a lot better than I expected. I’m beginning to think this is going to work out.
I’m on Twitter trying to win swag from Cam Newton, but I can’t Google quick enough to win any.
Shocking! Vikings won
Well not really, I didn’t expect them to light the world on fire, but 0-4 is a Brad Childress record :-p
Did the Lions win? Been out of the loop at the Occupy protests. Very tired; long days. Went today with Mary Mcurnin
@JohnT: Lions/Bears on MNF tomorrow.
As to the Vikes, Dude it was the Cardinals. Still not sure Minnesota could beat a professional team.
@JohnT: Detroit plays tomorrow night. Thanks for getting out to the Occupy protests! I am hoping to make it myself, but so far have not been able to.
Jim, I’m glad to hear your dog is doing so well!
As for the Packers, well, this is not shaping up to be their night…
Woot! There’s my Pack : )
@bmaz: That’ll be especially interested since Tebow is not playing next week.
Nor are any other Donkos, mind you. But if you dedicate an entire trash talk to a guy sitting on his ass, I’ll have to take your keys away.
Hey, don’t mess with me!!! I already been pimped and scammed tonight by a fake Cam Newton! Dammit, and I was sure I was gonna get an autographed jersey. Oh wells, I never win nuthin.
But the Cheese is rolling in the second half, so all is well.
@emptywheel: You go Girl…! ;-)
@phred: Gotta make sure the Brewers win, but it would seem a natural given the way things are going.
*heh* As I’m swigging a MGD, I must say that I’m rooting for the Real Brew Crew…! ;-)
But the f1 trash is all about guys sittin on their asses
yeah yeah, they shift some gears an stuff, but they’re still sittin on their asses
@emptywheel: Yep : ) I’m much cheerier now that the Packers have rallied after losing Clifton…
And thanks for cheering on the Brew Crew, CTut! Always nice to have company : )
Go Brewers! Go Pack! : )
@rosalind: Very depressing
Hey! Who stoled my Trash Talk thread.
Go Kitties!!
Don’t forget the Brewers and Cardinals bmaz!
And thanks for the reminder about the early Tigers game. They’ve been nice enough to wait for me before they finish ; )
Ugh. Well, the second I moved this post back up for tonight, the Tigers conked out in the top of the 9th with the bases loaded. Was sure I had jinxed em. Which would have been bad, cause I was already on the hook for the Lions since Marcy told me if I jinxed them, I could not turn Emptywheel into an all Tebow, all the time blog for the next Donkos game.
It appears this is going to be an edgy night for me. Tiger Kitties now in the bottom of the11th in Texas; Lion Kitties less than an hour away!
@bmaz: Some of us prefer the striped and smooth kitties.
BTW, for anyone who wasn’t listening to pre-smooth kitties, Tommy Jackson was slobbering all over himself to say that 1) A boy named Suh is one of the best and 2) Farley is even better.
Ruh roh, teh putty tats with sticks need a triple play in a big way…
Well chief, would you believe walk off grand slammy instead?
Fuckity fuck.
@phred: Walk-off grand slam. Good for Texas, but just wait until the furballs go home ; )
@bmaz: And according to the folks at TBS, that was the first walk-off grand slam in MLB post-season history. And we were there. Kinda ; )
@phred: Some of us had already switched to the football. (And I’m glad I did.)
Lions D is dealing a beatdown on Cutler and Da Bears, assisted by their loudmouthed fans. Every one of those penalties had a hit or two levied – the one facemask on Cutler was brutal. A big exponent of gangtackling, Parcells would approve.
And now, Stafford 56 yards in the air right into Megatron’s breadbasket for the score. A thing of beauty.
I think I’ll go to that guy in the parking lot, tailgating and serving up bear bacon. As in bear meat, cured into bacon.
@Jim White: Ah, but there is MORE baseball… And after giving their opponents a nice early lead (frankly a bit more deja vu of last night’s Packer game than I would like), the Brew Crew just got 2 runs off Weeks’ homer : )
5-2 Cards, bottom of the 4th.
Listen here now Wheel lugnuts, I am not gonna be solely responsible if this Cutler mope rescues Da Bears from ignominy. You KNOW you want an all Baby Jesus post in two weeks when the Tebows come off their bye week! Come help the cause!
@bmaz: GO BEARS !
@bmaz: That’s a tough one bmaz… On the one hand, I picked Detroit in my pool. On the other, having Da Bears beat the Lions would help the Pack in the NFC North. I’m planning on remaining neutral on the gridiron outcome, while I watch the Cards crush the Brewers (currently 11-2, top of the 7th) in Miller Park. Sigh.
I lied earlier, there is not enough deja vu in this baseball game, rather than too much. It’s all giving your opponents a lead with no comeback. Sigh.
@Jim White: Yeah, me too. I can’t stand extra innings unless my ASU girls are playing.
@bmaz: Hey now. I wasn’t so much worried about a this week jinx. I was worried about the Kitties sleeping through the potentially dangerous Niners.
In any case, behave, and I might let you play Baby Jesus. So we can laugh when he gets creamed.
@emptywheel:
Wait a second here! YOU have ASU girls?? I thought that was MY department.
And I put in a lot of quality work in that department for years ya know…..
@bmaz: Mostly talking their softball team. Or more specifically, Dallas Escobedo.
TV is miscalling this game. This has been the Kitties best game this year–had they had to come back by 20 in this game, they’d have been toast.
Cutler did a great job here. The Chicago D is better then they were last year. They are really a very good team.
And the Kitties played well against a good D, and then brought it in the second half.
Kitties have some work to do, but this was an important game.
Lions … The Kits of Death !
*with due apologies to punaise*
@Petrocelli: Well, you have to think Cutler and his O-Line just can’t wait to play The Kitties!! again after Nick Fairly has rounded into shape in the Lions defense alongside Suh and VanDen Bosch
Bubbles smiles.
To be fair, I think the call relative to Cutler was fair. He was making plays in improbable situations, i.e., that he was completing passes when he shouldn’t have been and doing so under a lot of pressure. I also think Chucky and Jaws were doing Cutler a favor, b/c he’s been getting hosed over being not “Tough” – he had to be to stand in the pocket tonight.
All in all, a great game.
@Petrocelli: Woot! 11-2 in my football pool this week. That will send me off to pleasant dreams in spite of a certain other game that shall not be named ; )
And Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
@phred: Thanks phred … can’t wait for Canuck Christmas on Nov. 18th ! *g*
Brewers/Cards gonna be a loong series…
post the damn score, would you.
some folks don’t watch teevee enough to justify the cable umbilical
to american haut culture.
@orionATL: Final score, 24-13.
Stafford: 19-26, 219 Yds, 2 TDs, 1 INT
Best: 12-163, 1 TD
Megatron: 5-130, 1 TD
I think they’ve got the sacks wrong, but as of now, Avril has been credit w/1 (he had 2), plus Jackson and Young.
ahhh.
thank you, ew!
you would be amazed how difficult it is, when using google, to find the score of a “current” mon nt football game –
so much dross; so much deceit/common-on.
there’s got to be a better way than google.
The Lions defensive line was very impressive last night. That was a beatdown.
Good news. I just got back from the vet’s office and the dog is now officially out of danger. The vet was expecting some tissue loss from necrosis but that area is clearing up now and looks like it will go back to normal. We were really lucky here…
bmaz’ prayers are answered! Baby Jesus has been handed the ball!