Not much on the boob tube so I watched the replay of the Pacquiao/Bradley fight, and if that is not the most rigged shit I’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. Bradley would have been lucky to win one round, let alone, two. What I just saw was the equivalent of the the refs deciding that even though the Cowboys scored 52 points and the Bills scored 17 in SB XXVII, the Bills were the winner by split decision. Just crazy.
What are we up to tonight?
Keith
You apparently didn’t see Lewis-Holyfield I. I’ve seen worse (Emmanual Augustus made a fool of a fighter on ESPN and *still* lost). This was a case of Vegas judges rewarding aggression (it should be effective aggression, but that really depends on the opponent being a counterpuncher, which Manny is not) instead of punches. Bad decision (I had it 9-3 Pac), but not the end of boxing or any of that hyperbole bullshit.
lamh35
Spent the majority of the day with my car, but I did have a chance to watch the NCAA Track and Field Championships today. Got me real hype for the Olympic trials.
Question for sports fanatics: are the rules for amateur athletes (college kids) the same as those for pro athletes (like Ussain Bolt) when it comes to qualifying for the Olympics? Those college kids I saw today were great, but the idea that they maybe going up against Ussain Bolt just seemed ludicrous. The number for the 100m was like 10.38, I believe that Ussain Bolt’s record last time was like a full 1 sec less which is a lot in T&F world right?
Tommy
Heck “rigged shit” might even be an understatement. Maybe, maybe I could give Bradley one of the finals rounds, just to be polite so it wasn’t 12-0, but I am not even sure about that.
Yutsano
Waiting on dinner and watching mclaren go off her meds again. In other words, just a typical BJ night.
Hypatia's Momma
Laundry, reading, tending to the beasts.
For those who are interested:
Hypatia is holding steady. The bethanechol is helping more than I’d hoped (though not as much as I’d like). I’ve got her scheduled for weekly “vet tech” appointments for cleaning and “general checking” and her latest UTI seems to be finally clearing. She is very sweet and hasn’t yet bitten me, despite the two syringes of medication/three times a day routine. Hoping for some good news on the MRI front by the end of next week.
handy
I didn’t watch the fight but heard a lot of talk about it. Did you watch it with the sound down? I heard that the announcers (Lampley and Merchant?) were throughout making it to be a bigger beatdown than it really was.
Tommy
@lamh35: In the US yes, not sure about other nations. But to qualify in the US the “famous” folks have to go up against anybody and everybody else. If you watched the women, you’ll note LSU is a powerhouse and more than a few of the women on their college team right this second will be in the Olympics.
jeffreyw
Farting around, building a new PC. I’ve been looking at some pics I haven’t done much with, and found this one to play with in the editor. (EPU’d from the last open thread.)
lamh35
@Tommy: yep, saw the LSU girls fared way better than the boys. I already have the name of the LSU girl who I’ll be rooting for.
For the boys, I’m still thinking Ussain Bolt and the Jamaicans all the way.
Corner Stone
Holy shit. Beau Hossler’s mom is smokin’ hot.
Corner Stone
@lamh35: Umm, a full second is like me running against Bolt.
Soonergrunt
On IT call at the office tonight. We have a wonky switch, so I’m remoted in from home keeping an eye on things and waiting for the vendor to arrive with the replacement unit. When they get to OKC, I’ll meet them at the office with the network guy and we’ll get it passed over. Till then, I’m just babysitting and hoping the dying unit holds out a bit longer.
The Dangerman
In boxing, follow the money; best guess, Pacquio-Bradley II is necessary prior to Mayweather getting out of the Hoosegow and getting in shape.
Tommy
@lamh35:
Lolo Jones was a 11-time All American at LSU. She was supposed to run away with the gold in 2008, but clipped like the last hurdle. I am not sure if she is favored this year, but she has been in the news a lot since she came out being a virgin.
But she has a pretty amazing story. Her single mother and her lived for an extent period of time in the basement of a church (or community center) when they were homeless.
The Dangerman
I don’t know it for a fact, but the Golf part of the Twitter universe (at least the male side of it) probably blew up when she hit the screen.
CW in LA
coughcoughSB40coughcough
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: It’s got to be tough to be 17 and have a mom that damn hot, and have her last name be “Balsz”.
lamh35
Umm, so yeah, I’m kinda lookin’ forward to seeing “Magic Mike” (NSFW) , even if it makes me a dirty ole girl. This will def be a ladies movie night.
Corner Stone
@lamh35: I’ve asked other women I know. Which one is the key for you? Matthew or Channing?
MikeJ
@lamh35:
When do you want me to come over?
The Dangerman
@Corner Stone:
Could be worse; her last name could be “Shank” or “Snowman”.
I was rooting for young Hossler to be paired with Tiger tomorrow, but I think Woods’ last chunk ended that hope.
Guy
Guys, can I get some help on this poll in my local paper? And maybe a comment or two if you feel up to it?
It is on Obama’s immigration policy and there are all sorts of baggers swarming around.
http://larchmont.patch.com/articles/poll-was-obama-correct-to-stop-deporting-some-illegal-immigrants-3562bd5d
Omnes Omnibus
@The Dangerman: Golf part of the Twitter universe? There is such a thing?
lamh35
@Corner Stone: In this order:
Joe Manganiello (I’m from a tall family. I myself am 5’8, so I like ’em big and tall…lol)
Channing Tatum (I like his dancing since Step Up, plus he kinda seems like a dumb jock, which I admit, I like in non-real love interest…lol)
Matthew McConaughey (not so much now, but I was a big fan of his ole skool hotness and een though he counts as the “old guy” his body is still sick)
The other 2 guys I have no idea who they are for the most part, but they are still attractive enough to catch my attention when on screen.
Was that a bit TMI though :-)
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Rule #34. It has fascinating corollaries.
Corner Stone
@The Dangerman: Man, that chunk out of the rough on the side of the green made me revisit too many ugly rounds of my own. No way that happens to one of the world’s best players.
Lands it a foot short and with no emphasis. Just ugly.
The Dangerman
@Omnes Omnibus:
From a Google News search on “Beau Hossler’s Mom”, apparently so.
For the brief moment I saw her after 18 today, I was thinking, damn, stud golfer and got a hot GF, too*; never thought it would be his Mom.
*Yes, I may need to get my eyes examined and/or decrease the alcohol consumption.
lamh35
@Tommy: yep. they showed her story after the track meet today. My family and I were watching the beginning and just wondered where she was actually from, but the never seemed to mention it, we googled it and found out she was from Baton Rouge.
I didn’t realize she was a former Olympiad. At 29 though, isn’t she at the “mature” end for T&F. Those young kids at NCAA were all early 20s and racing like speed demons on two legs.
Valdivia
deciding what to write on my Dad’s Father’s Day card, reading your witty comments, watching season 2 of a show called 5 Days on Netflix.
maven
Boxing?? Why. Then let’s complain that we don’t have universal health coverage?
You all can tell me.
NASCAR makes more sense..
At least there is clean kill there……..
Jeff Spender
My grandpa is a huge fan of boxing. Taught me some moves. I think he wanted to watch this fight.
As for me, I’m stuck inside with nothing to do, waiting for my fiance to return from England. She studied French literature in France for a year (she has a bigger collection of Dumas books than the University of Chicago, and won a special award for it).
Me, I have a lot of old books from my great-grandfather. Mostly Spanish, but I can read Spanish so I love them.
Here’s a funny story: he left me a VERY rare copy of all of the Buck Rogers comics printed between 1931-1932, published by the University of Michigan (only 1,000 were made). Now, I love science fiction, especially old science fiction, so this book is one of my most prized. One day I was flipping through it and I find a small piece of paper. It was a clipping from the local news announcing my birth, at the time 22 years prior. Strange coincidences…
The Dangerman
@Corner Stone:
Most of his round was ugly; +5 (the golf version, I mean) can never be pretty, but that was one damned ugly 75. But for a couple lucky breaks, he’d be done (as it is, he’s almost done).
Keith
Because not everyone in the world talks about what you want to talk about all the time. Gotta have a break from politics sometimes.
Libby's person
I’m stressing about my stupid finger. About a month ago, I got a tiny splinter of pyrex glass in the pad of the index finger of my right hand. I’d hoped it would work itself out, but it’s working itself in instead. So I went to the doctor last week, feeling stupid (going to a doctor for a splinter?!), and she sent me to a hand surgeon. He’s going to cut the damn thing out on Tuesday. I just hope he can find it; a tiny piece of clear glass can’t be easy to locate! I’ve been warned that it will hurt while it heals – the cure is likely to be a lot more painful than the splinter itself. I keep telling myself that it hurts now, and at least I won’t be making things worse every time I touch anything. Basically, however, I’m a total wimp with a low pain threshold, and I feel sorry for my poor husband who is going to have almost as hard a time as I will.
Thank goodness I have health insurance! How can anyone think of health insurance as a luxury rather than a necessity?! Why is it ok for people to suffer and die because they can’t afford health insurance? (As long as I’m stressing out, I might as well stress out about something serious.)
maven
@Keith: HaH! I post so much. All The Time. HaH!
Like less than ten times-Ever.
David Koch
It was the biggest rip-off since Bush v Gore.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
its boxing, it’s all about setting up the pac-floyd fight. mayweather doesn’t want to be the bad guy(though he is) and pacquiao would have been a runaway favorite to the point where it wouldn’t have sold like it could.
maven
If you’re in favor of ‘Boxing’; then don’t ever complain that your insurance rates are too high.
In fact; you are making My insurance rates too high. And I don’t ‘box’. So you can pay your own inflated insurance rates.
How fucking macho is that?
Rekster
@handy: Larry Merchant didn’t do commentary for the Pacquio vs Bradley fight. Max Kellerman and Emmanual Steward were there with Lampley. They both were nearly speechless with the result.
I am a huge boxing fan and a huge Pacquio fan however, I was really impressed with Bradley in the 24/7 series and thought he had a good chance to win (though I had never seen him fight anyone like Pacman).
After watching tonight I would have had difficulty giving Bradley more than 1 or 2 rounds.
Pacquio was robbed!
The three judges scoring the fight must have been watching a completely different fight than the majority of those in the arena and watching on TV.
waynski
I think anyone from Harvard business school should be shot in the face. They are the most disgusting, detestable useless pieces of shit yet produced. Just sayin’
redshirt
I saw a special on the Science Channel regarding sight, and they highlighted an awesome study: Someone analyzed the results of Olympic Tae Kwon Do matches, where opponents are randomly assigned blue or red colors. Turns out red wins a statistically relevant amount of the time. The twist was the scientists then edited video from the 2008 Olympics, turning red blue and blue red, and then had some Olympic judges score the video replays. Once again, red wins a majority of the time, even when it counters the actual result.
So! In this boxing match, who had red shorts?
Omnes Omnibus
@maven: Huh? Boxing raises insurance rates?
Mnemosyne
Started working on a baby sweater for a coworker who’s due in December. I found the yarn on sale during my Tour de Yarn yesterday and made G reassure me three times that the colors are non-gender-specific (or, at least, not girly, since you can put a girl in green, purple and blue stripes but can’t put a boy in pink stripes).
jenn
@Hypatia’s Momma: scritches to Hypatia!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Oddly, my mother had no problems putting my younger brother in any color; he looked like a boy, and a tough one, no matter what he wore. I, however, was apparently pretty with curling hair and stunning green eyes. I wore blue, damn it. Mom made sure that she did not have to correct people regarding my gender.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I figure the baby isn’t going to care much either way, but I’d rather go gender-neutral for the sake of the parents.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Depends on the actuary of the health insurer. But since risk pools are meant to account for outlying variations, unless she’s in a health pool with a disproportionate amount of boxers the rate effect is negligible.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: My guess is that most boxers are uninsurable. Nature of the job. I doubt it has any effect on insurance pools. If maven has an objection to boxing based on the violence or brutality involved, let him/her make it, but insurance rates don’t cut it.
Edited for grammar
AxelFoley
@Corner Stone:
And her last name is Balsz. LOL
Yeah, she is hot. So what happened to Hossler? That kid is ugly.
Toadvine
@The Dangerman:
Yeah, Dangerman, you got it. Mayweather gets out, beats Bradley for the title(s) and Pacquiao has to fight “Money” to regain them. A narrative so easy it seems over-determined. Place your bets now.
RobNYNY1957
For the truly insecure parent, this company sells wigs for bald baby girls.
http://baby-bangs.com/index2.php