Hi. My name is John Cole. I used to write here occasionally. At any rate, I have spent the last 10 hours cleaning the house, finding beer bottles in increasingly bizarre places, but other than that, there were no homecoming disasters. We had a touch of collateral damage as a corner of one of my raised bed gardens was burnt down because we lit the flute for the charcoals there and didn’t notice we set the cedar on fire. Oh, well, with all the pine needles flying around a little ash won’t hurt.
The Steelers are now 0-4, and we have ruled out victories on two continents, so I’m proposing we play next week in Asia. What could go wrong?
In sad news, Steeler legend LC Greenwood, aka Hollywood Bags, who has been criminally denied entrance into the Hall of Fame and would be in there if he played for any other team, died at the age of 67.
I’m eating left over bbq, picking up strategically placed half drunk beer bottles all over my house (I found a full opened Yuengling in the cabinet next to the olive oil, vinegar, and curry powder), and just getting ready for the final Breaking Bad episode.
YellowJournalism
Who is this John Cole you speak of?
Tiny Hermaphrodite, Esq.
What about the piglets?
Hank
I don’t think the Steeler’s teams of the 1970s have the slightest claim to being overlooked by the Hall of Fame. Greenwood has to be the only player on those teams not in the Hall already. Didn’t they induct the water boy a few years back?
Hank
I don’t think the Steeler’s teams of the 1970s have the slightest claim to being overlooked by the Hall of Fame. Greenwood has to be the only player on those teams not in the Hall already. Didn’t they induct the water boy a few years back?
bago
That’s one way to do it.
cckids
Hi John, nice to hear from you.
My daughter started college this fall, and Homecoming is the 3rd weekend in October. We are getting emails & snail mail 2-3 times a week about how it is “parents weekend” and don’t we want to go see our kid. This after most of the orientation/drop off weekend was spent telling parents to back off & not helicopter.
I may be getting old, but the LAST thing I wanted on Homecoming weekend when I was in college was for my parents to show up to hang with me. WTF?
SiubhanDuinne
As long as Steve and the Piglets survived all the partying.
Wondering, did any Balloon Juicers win the raffle?
Suffern ACE
The Jets are the best team in New York. If the Giants played the Steelers, in Asia, I would expect a collapse of the stadium and a reversal of the trade balance.
cathyx
What did Greenwood do to not make it into the Hall of Fame?
Cassidy
@cckids: They want donors.
Belafon
As a fan of the Cowboys beginning at the time when they and the Steelers kept meeting in the Superbowl, there are a number of Cowboys from that era that belong in the Hall of Fame that aren’t.
MikeJ
@YellowJournalism:
This blog keeps adding front pagers at such a rate I can’t keep up with them all.Still, I’m willing to give this new guy a chance.
The Dangerman
Any homecoming party should have at least one accidentally set fire (extra homecoming credit if it could be put out by pissing on it).
Suffern ACE
@Belafon: Someday Lynn Dickey gets in…
drew42
Not only do my Giants suck, they suck so hard that they’ve completely destroyed my ability to enjoy the NFL at all this season.
Normally, I like watching Sunday/Monday (and now Thursday!) night games involving teams I don’t care about — it’s fun and relaxing since I don’t have an emotional investment in either team. I can just enjoy the game for what it is.
But now trying to watch, every play reminds me of the Giants and how much they suck. I mean, holy shit, do the Giants suck this year,
At least I’m getting more work done…
Violet
Glad you are still alive! How are the girls and Steve?
CaseyL
I like the bit about setting the garden on fire: it’s not a real party if there’s no property damage.
Did the Fire Department come out, or were you all able to put it out yourselves? Having to call the Fire Department lends a real note of distinction to a homecoming party.
And, yeah, where were the fur kids during all this?
Ash Can
I wonder if the guy who left his lager in the cabinet realized at the time that he had filled his pilsner glass with Gravy Master.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@cckids:
Young Zombie went to his freshman year about a month ago. It’s in town, so there’s no problem visiting or anything, but we pushed him out of the damn nest anyway.
He emailed on Friday that he thought he would stop by at home midday on Saturday, but we told him we were gone, busy, doing stuff. Apparently it is a shock when parents no longer center their lives around you.
Anyway, the house is cleaner, the fridge is less empty, but the whole place is so much quieter….
BGinCHI
It’s good to hear from the real John Cole occasionally. Cole, do you do Instagram? It’s way less annoying than fucking Fbook.
In other news, first day of the Chicago Cyclocross Cup. Yes, I am sore and tired.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@Suffern ACE:
Shut up.
different-church-lady
a) Broncos will be the first team to score 1000 points in a season.
b) World’s most un-self aware twitter-fellow mocks himself without realizing what he’s doing.
NotMax
Find any mustard?
cckids
@Cassidy: FFS, we are DONATING already. I mean, she got an incredible scholarship, but still.
I just find it comical; they emphasize so, so much that parents need to back off, not be calling RA’s or professors, then proceed to give us WAY too much info, thereby enabling the parents who want to do that.
I homeschooled my two younger kids, and they are both in college now. I’m SO done with that level of involvement! When my daughter called me this week; having some issue with her math class, I made appropriate noises (and told her to talk to the TA), but really, in my head I was thinking “blah, blah, blah, I don’t have to know how to do your math anymore!”
Keith P.
@Suffern ACE: That’s a bold statement. Geno Smith isn’t just shitting the bed; he’s smearing the shit into the sheets while his offensive line jumps up and down on the bed, collapsing the frame.
cckids
@zombie rotten mcdonald: I’ve always had definite expectations regarding cleaning & chore sharing with my kids, & haven’t had any real bitches about them doing their share, but . . . damn, the house just STAYS CLEAN for the most part. It’s like magic!
But now I have to scoop the litterboxes again. I haven’t done it regularly for 10 years; it was one of the requirements involved in saying “yes” to 3 kittens. It really is not much fun.
MomSense
Nice to “see” you here Cole. Sounds like you had a fun weekend.
I think I worked about 70 hours this week. Last week was worse. Tonight is take out, a beer, and hopefully some DVRd football so no more spoilers!
Tomorrow the craziness starts all over again.
Roger Moore
@different-church-lady:
Wow. He really believes his shit doesn’t stink.
cckids
@different-church-lady:
I don’t even follow Greenwald that much, but that is some funny shit.
JPL
John, If you want to recover damages, you better call Saul.
Suffern ACE
@Keith P.: yes. But he is just a baby, so he gets credit for “the way he threw the ball away and didn’t force it.” Yep. The most noteworthy thing about the jets are the plays where they don’t gain or lose any yards and don’t turn over the ball or get penalized. And they would beat the giants.
Roger Moore
@Suffern ACE:
FTFY.
RobertDSC-iPhone 4
Welcome back, JC. Find any mustard?
I have 2 more hours to go in this 12 hour day in the print shop. FSM help me.
MikeBoyScout
RIP LC.
Only Frenchy Fuqua surpassed the man in footware.
Cacti
Que?
About the only person they haven’t put in the HOF from the 1970s Steelers is the equipment manager.
Lynn Swann is the poster boy for a marginal Hall of Fame inductee.
Yatsuno
IT LIVES!!!
cathyx
@Cacti: I may despise Lynn Swann’s politics, but that man deserves to be in the hall of fame for football.
Botsplainer
Fuck me. Sixty Minutes is fluffing Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus”, where he says Jesus died over high Roman taxes.
The Dangerman
Nice to see Chip Kelly’s offense
succeedingsucking in the NFL.ETA: Fuck, I should put on my glasses more often; I read it as 52-0 initially.
ETA2: Nice to see Chip Kelly’s defense
succeedingsucking in the NFL.Cacti
@Belafon:
I hate the Cowboys, but Bob Hayes not making the HOF until 2009 was a crime against the sport. Swann and Stallworth couldn’t hold the Bullet’s jockstrap as a deep threat, and they got into Canton 8 and 7 years sooner.
Long Tooth
I just read that B. Ben said, “We’re in unchartered waters”, or “dangerous waters”, or something like that. He said that because the Steelers season is as good as over, and he’s aware he’s in for a prolonged, forlorn beating over the next 3 months. Week in, and week out.
He should plead back injury, and wait till next year. Why not? He’s no longer a spring chicken, and the rest would do him good. A QB of his caliber is too valuable to feed to the ‘sharks of futility'(TM). Of course, it would definitely present a public relations problem for the NFL, if teams began to bench good QB’s when their seasons were finished… never mind.
Felonius Monk
@Suffern ACE: Amen to that. F*ckng Gints.
dmsilev
@Botsplainer: I thought Jesus died to prevent government-sponsored health care.
Cacti
@cathyx:
Lynn Swann is probably second after Joe Namath for most overrated player ever inducted.
muddy
@dmsilev: In the intro O’Reilly says that the Holy Spirit directed him to write this book. He is asked why God would do that. He says he doesn’t want to speculate on the deity’s motives.
FFS!!! Saying that you were directly directed to write it is speculating what your deity has in mind. Can these assholes say any stuff that does not directly contradict themselves?
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Wow, Cole, you’re all caught up on BB for a live view, tonight? I’m impressed. I have no clue which way tonight’s ep will go, but I am self-imposing a ban on being on the internets starting at 6:00, Pacific Time (when it will start showing on the East Coast) until the final whatever is whatevered.
So far as the Steelers, one (prolly the only) nice thing about such a solidly dismal start is now you don’t have to plan your Sundays around ’em, which beats (albeit, arguably) being strung along to a bitter end.
Still breathing deep the ether of my Broncos club-record 52 points against what’s-his-butt and the Eagles. That second half was pastadamn clinical. And to think I was down on their chances for this year.
? Martin
@dmsilev:
If God wanted you to be healthy, He’d make you healthy. If you’re sick, it’s for a reason, and not to waste taxpayer dollars.
tybee
i cannot believe that someone would watch breaking bad instead of the atlanta game.
rikyrah
Burger King has a FRENCH FRY BURGER?
what the hell?
cathyx
@Cacti: Joe Namath? If you hadn’t just said that you hated the cowboys, I would have said that we agree on absolutely nothing.
Botsplainer
@dmsilev:
“And Jesus struck the leper with a large rock, saying ‘goddamn, you’re gross. Lucky I’m afraid to touch you, or I’d fucking kick your gross ass'”.
BruceFromOhio
As a long-time Browns fan, my lack of empathy for your plight is vast.
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: Broncos are looking good, they got the whole package. I like Manning better now than when he was with the Colts. Horse of a different color, as it were.
TaMara (BHF)
Beautiful week in Boston. Glad to see Cole up and around I was beginning to worry.
Roger Moore
@muddy:
It’s not speculation. He obviously believes that he received a direct order from the Almighty to do something. In a sensible world, that would get him a quick trip to a mental health professional, but in our world it gets him the respect of a large, fawning audience.
muddy
@rikyrah: You want fries with that?
Felonius Monk
@rikyrah: Mom, rikyah’s making fun of my sandwich.
Svensker
@Keith P.:
Geno is, um, struggling, sure. But at least he’s a rookie. What the hell is wrong with Eli? Jets are bad. Giants are pathetic.
shelly
I think it’s a hoot that at least two posters here asked Cole about the proverbial lost mustard.
Soonergrunt
Well, seeing as how John beat me to the “hi, I used to post a bit, perhaps you remember me” shtick, I’m happy to note that my Broncos kicked asses, and took names. I’m even happier to note that Soonerdaughter has been doing very well on the new medication. Even better is that said medication costs only $15 for a three month supply from the mail-order pharmacy. Picking it up at Walgreens or CVS costs $270/month. For those poor souls who don’t yet have decent insurance, it costs $1,200/month retail. This is why I support Obama, and why I hope he and the Senate Democrats stand firm this week. Because even though I’m not in that bad place, I have been and could very well be again. Speaking of which…
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration is on a two-year appropriations cycle. Everybody who works for VHA is safe from a government shutdown. But I work for the Office of Information Technology. My division is on a one-year cycle. It looks like I’m going to be locked out of my job on Tuesday if the teabaggers persist. So I’ve been putting in as much overtime as I can get the last couple of weeks.
I really, really fucking hate Conservatives right now.
@different-church-lady: And apparently Glenn Greenwald doesn’t possess any mirrors in his house, nor know anyone who can speak plainly to him.
muddy
@Roger Moore: I can’t wait for Colbert’s opinion on the matter.
Felonius Monk
@Botsplainer:
There. Fixed it fer ya.
JPL
Steelers, steelers, steelers.. what a bunch of whiny babies on this site. They are only two games back so the season isn’t over. I haven’t given up on the Falcons yet…
schrodinger's cat
@shelly: Mustard is Gone with the Tunch. Too soon?
dmsilev
@muddy:Question that the interviewer should have asked: How does O’Reilly know that it was God who spoke to him? Couldn’t it have been Satan pretending to be God and leading O’Reilly astray?
muddy
@dmsilev: It’s perfect that it came on right after the segment about schizophrenia and hearing voices telling you to harm people.
Svensker
@Soonergrunt:
Good news on Soonerdaughter. Hope things continue to go well. Yay!
Suffern ACE
@rikyrah: mmmmm. French fries go with everything. Today, I had them on tortilla chips. Long story, but they made the nachos better.
dexwood
@tybee:
I can’t believe someone could confuse a gemstone with a chunk of wood. Heading to a BB viewing party three blocks from the car wash.Goodnight.
Felonius Monk
@Botsplainer: I guess 60 Minutes is scraping the bottom of the barrel for stories these days.
Roger Moore
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn:
Just think of how scary they’re going to be when they get Bailey and Miller back on defense.
Spaghetti Lee
Are you really arguing that the 70’s Steelers are a bunch of underappreciated unknowns who never get any attention from the media complex? Hoooo boy…
Spaghetti Lee
@rikyrah:
I would eat that. When it comes to greasy, fattening food, I have no shame at all.
schrodinger's cat
@Felonius Monk: By the GOP definition Jesus was a communist, with all the love thy neighbor shit.
2liberal
@The Dangerman:
this is in Denver where oppo teams are gasping for air. My FFL guy Demaryius Thomas has some nice scoring in the 4th quarter after the other guys are worn out, but only in Denver so far.
Yatsuno
@Soonergrunt:
Me too. Wanna get a pizza?
Bastage. Not an option since the sequester destroyed our operating budget. I get my check tomorrow and after that who fucking knows? At least my folks are willing to help a bit.
WereBear
@Botsplainer: He died to save us… money.
muddy
Bible not literal! Burn him burn him burn
ETA: didn’t have government? Romans? Anyone?
Thlayli
The last time the Pirates made the post-season and the Steelers didn’t: 1991.
As bad as the Giants have looked, they’re only two games out of first.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@BruceFromOhio: As a long-time Browns fan and a Tennesseean, it’s really hurting that Manning is playing for the Broncos.
As for the Stillers, I think it’s time to pass out pieces of this wonderful pie. (I love the pics of the family taste testing it.)
schrodinger's cat
@rikyrah: Because American people are too thin.
Violet
@Soonergrunt: So glad your daughter is doing better! And glad the medication is affordable. Good luck with the shutdown, should it happen.
JPL
@muddy: Sounds like O’Reilly was drunk dialing for sex again and got the wrong number.
Anne Laurie
@Soonergrunt: Glad to hear you & your family are doing okay, and crossing my fingers that the GOP revanchists don’t get to further inconvenience you!
Soonergrunt
@Yatsuno: I’ll buy the pizza and the first round.
Spaghetti Lee
In real-world football, my Bears stunk up the joint. Had to happen. Everyone was getting too confident. New Orleans won’t be easy, but I’m looking forward to the Jints after that. I think the over/under for Eli Manning turnovers in that game will be 8. In fantasy, I started Bernard Pierce and Tavon Austin for a combined zero points, but am still somehow winning this week, because of Beast Mode and Welker, with Brees tomorrow night. It’s my first season doing FF, so I still think it’s interesting even if everyone else is bored to death of it.
tybee
@dexwood:
so you’re gonna light that chunk o’ wood?
Roger Moore
@Thlayli:
FTFY.
Baud
@Soonergrunt:
Peyton does not like it that kid brother has one more ring than he does.
Good news about the kid.
Botsplainer
@Felonius Monk:
One story in three was actually informative.
As I said to my wife, this is why I’ve abandoned regular TV for Netflix and iTunes on newer movies and shows.
Cacti
So my understanding of the most recent developments is:
Senate convenes on Monday, at which time Dems will move to table the new House CR, which requires only a simple majority and doesn’t provide an opportunity to filibuster.
Thereafter, it will be up to the House to pass the clean CR, or the government shuts down at 12:00 a.m. October 1, 2013.
Have I missed anything?
Felonius Monk
@Soonergrunt: Good to hear from you. Glad that Soonerdaughter is doing well. Good luck on Tuesday — hope you weather this storm without damage.
JPL
@Soonergrunt: What a good news, bad news comment. It’s so nice to hear about the good news about your daughter.
The odds are you will be home for a few days at least. I don’t know how this will end because Boehner wants to save face. It’s not going to pretty.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
D’oh, beat me to it by [checks watch] a lot.
muddy
Thanks Bill for telling me the name of the cemetery you have chosen for yourself. I will be sure to stop by and have a few beers with you when the happy day arrives. Sadly I have the bladder the size of a pea, but the holy spirit has told me this would be the correct course for me to follow.
ETA: I am +2 which is unusual, forgive me. But he really is loathesome.
dmsilev
@Cacti: I think that’s right. There have been a couple of GOP Reps who went on record today saying that if a clean CR (i.e. the Senate version) came to the House floor, they would vote for it. Might happen, I suppose. That’s about the only way I can see that we’d escape a shutdown. It would require Boehner to be willing to bring it to the floor….
burnspbesq
@different-church-lady:
Indeed. I’ve been waiting since 2005 for him to refute something.
trollhattan
@Spaghetti Lee:
Confess I’m still dizzy after watching the Seattle-Houston game. Will take the win but they owe me a stress-management course.
max
@WereBear: He died to save us… money.
If only Jesus had called Geico.
@schrodinger’s cat: Mustard is Gone with the Tunch. Too soon?
Too weak. And too soon. Therefore I am counterbalancing with my own atrocities. You’re welcome. Speaking of which:
Cole: At any rate, I have spent the last 10 hours cleaning the house, finding beer bottles in increasingly bizarre places, […] of my raised bed gardens was burnt down […] picking up strategically placed half drunk beer bottles all over my house (I found a full opened Yuengling in the cabinet next to the olive oil, vinegar, and curry powder)
Just think how bad it would have been if you’d had anyone over!
max
[‘One good House of Representatives deserves another.’]
trollhattan
@CaseyL:
Think about it for a sec–who sets a GARDEN aflame? Somebody who hurts themselves nude-mopping?
And now we know.
MomSense
@Soonergrunt:
[hands over ears] lalalalalal I can’t hear you. [I miss Welker]
Great news! I am thrilled and wish continued good health for her.
Sorry about the Republican a$$holes. I don’t know what to say anymore about them or why they hate America so much.
schrodinger's cat
@max: Tunch is hanging out with the Ceiling Cat, they are eating pastrami on rye with the mustard. They has a happeh.
MomSense
@different-church-lady:
I saw that tweet and was sooo tempted to respond but I just don’t have the energy for the backlash.
BruceFromOhio
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I get that. I despised the Colts, but when PM had the neck thing, and it wasn’t clear if he was going to play anymore, I kind of felt bad for him. Sure, he’s a jillionaire, though getting benched for good for something you couldn’t control put it in a different light. When the much-despised Elway took up front office for Denver, I thought, hey, the old horse-toothed s.o.b. is probably going to make it happen. Then Tebow. Oy, wouldn’t wish that on anybody. But then the whole thing kind of rolled together with Manning at QB again, Tebow gone, and the rest of the Bronco’s squad hitting on all cylinders. I get that Denver has a bitter taste for Browns fans that have been around for awhile – it was before my time, so I don’t really share in the pain. It’s just cool to see a front office, the coaching staff, and the players looking like they really are all on the same page. Hell, even the specials teams are putting up points.
If the fucking Broncos can do it, and the Steelers can get caught stepping on their own schlongs, then Gaia-dammit, the fucking Browns can put up decent season for once.
A bruce can dream, aye?
Felonius Monk
Heard that a new video game is about to be released called “Where in the World are Boehner’s Balls?” It’s some kind of a video drinking game cause the clues are in the booze.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
My kids have been doing that for years. They have also made french fry pizzas (that one was surprisingly good) and french fry burritos and french fry nachos.
MomSense
@Yatsuno:
Ugh, I’m really sorry.
Ash Can
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism:
Me too. That’s adorable!
Birthmarker
@? Martin: This sounds like my FB feed…
Soonergrunt
@Yatsuno: Are you guys getting locked out? That’s how my union is referring to it.
Birthmarker
@Cacti: Stallworth lives in my town (as far as I know he’s still here). We used to see him out and about from time to time, picking up a pizza or whatever…
Cassidy
@Soonergrunt: Guess I left GS at the right time. Glad your daughter is doing better.
raven
@Soonergrunt: So glad to hear the meds are working well.
Honus
@Belafon: This is a fact. Drew Pearson, Cornell Green etc.. And I am from Wheeling. Any HOF that doesn’t include Chuck Howley is a joke.
Felonius Monk
Oh yeah, Cole, nice of you to drop by. Happy to hear that you are still in one piece — what’s a little fire among buds. At least you didn’t slam your dick in the door or cut off your ear. I’m sure Steve kept things under control.
WereBear
@Soonergrunt: Happy for the good news. Sorry for the bad. Hope it won’t come to that.
muddy
@Felonius Monk: He didn’t even mention the poor wee ones. Well, wee-ish in Rosie’s case. Imagine the horror for animals with some ravening horde stomping through the place. Dropping food, etc. My dog Druid used to find abandoned beers and knock them over so he could helpfully clean them up.
Jay C
@dmsilev:
Or even better, maybe it was God pretending to be Satan pretending to be God who gave Bill O’Reilly his “inspiration”.
Probably on the basis of “It’s Bill O’Reilly – who’ll know the difference or give a sh*t what he writes..“
S. cerevisiae
@Honus: Drew Pearson pushed off!
fuckwit
@cckids: It depends. Will you have your wallet out and lots of opportunity to be hit up for donations? Then they want you there! Oh, no such opportunities? Then thanks, now stay away!
Older
@cckids: If your daughter’s college is anything like the one we live near, every possible event will be turned into a mall/shopping festival for parents. Because maybe they didn’t give the kid all their money, y’know?
And yes, they want you to donate, everyone wants you to donate these days. Half my e-mail is organizations I belong to, or ones I “belong” to, or ones that just heard my name somewhere, asking for money. Fortunately, I have none.
Amir Khalid
Since you’re here, O Blog Lord …
From time to time, a certain commenter with an artistic bent makes the claim that you pay him to post his comments. You know whom I refer to. If this is true — as utterly ridiculous as it seems — why didn’t you swear him to secrecy? (Why you would ever do such a thing is not my business, so I’m not asking about that.) If it’s false, shouldn’t he be dealing with his grasp-of-reality issues in some other, more nurturing forum?
I say this out of concern for the commenter. Sometimes, I fear the often critical tone of others towards him here might be more than a delicate artistic temperament can withstand.
SFAW
WTF, did they have a 12-year-old write the “obit”? “Steeler Curtain”?
Jesus H. Christ, even Bill Kristol would get that right. Fucking amateurs.
And re: the Jets: I f’ing TOLD them to pick up Alex Smith after the Super Bowl, but apparently Idzik (or Rex or Woody) wasn’t listening. Or they thought Alex started with a “G.”
Fucking clowns. I didn’t think any team could rival the Mets for front-office cluelessness, but apparently I wuz rong.
PurpleGirl
@cckids:
One thing about NYU — They didn’t ask parents to make donations to the school. They had to learn how to better lean on alumni and became quite good at it. But not the parents of current students..
My brother began college at St. John’s and my parents were paying his tuition. And they asked my parents for a donation. In his freshman year.
When I was doing a paralegal certificate at the New School, they were asking STUDENTS to make donations. I told the person who called me that after paying tuition I didn’t have money left for something like that.
CaseyL
Soonergrunt – Very happy to hear the good news about your daughter; very sorry to hear you’re one of the people directly affected by the shutdown.
Yatsuno – That’s a double-whammy – no budget to work OT to save up some $$ to get through the involuntary furlough – and totally sucks.
I really, really loathe the GOP.
Wally Ballou
On the last day of the MLB regular season, my Tigers not only get no-hit, they lose the game on a walk-off wild pitch.
Friday can’t come fast enough for me.
Angela
@Soonergrunt: Great news on Soonerdaughter’s response to the meds. And the price. Watchingy kids suffer always hurts.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
I have to confess, I have no idea what their O-line is like this year. But Smith (the Alex version) was a proven commodity, Holmes used to be a half-decent receiver, they could have tried to make a run at Welker (not likely, I know) – but, yeah, Roberto Duran had softer hands than most of them.
I guess I can look forward to the Mayor’s Trophy Game, at least.
But I still think Alex would have been a good pickup. And considering the Chiefs (2-14 last year) seem to be doing OK, maybe I was just a little right. Of course, Smith seems to be a West Coast Offense kind of guy, and I hate that shit (fuck Paul Hackett), but still …
I hope it’s only rookie stuff for Geno, and that by game 9, he’s in charge or whatever.
schrodinger's cat
Just posted on my blog, my review of Ferguson’s Inside Job, the documentary on the financial crisis. As always I appreciate the views of BJ commenters. Also highlighted in the review, a comment made by a BJ commenter. Kthx.
schrodinger's cat
@Soonergrunt: Thanks for the update about Soonerdaughter. How is Sooner goggie and the rest of the Sooner fambly?
mai naem
@Amir Khalid: Well, Amir, lemme in on a secret – George Soros pays John who in turn pays us Americans on the blog. We have to provide the long form birth certificates or passports etc. to John to prove that we are indeed Americans. We get our checks around the 1st of the month. Hell, I’ve been getting them like clockwork for a few years now.
Mike in NC
@Botsplainer: I would seriously consider buying a book called “Killing O’Reilly”.
Cassidy
Damn. Can’t believe they did that to Jesse. WTF?
Soonergrunt
@schrodinger’s cat: The boy is going to junior college and doing very well. The dog is, well, the dog. We gave her a bath today brushed her coat and now she’s all soft and fuzzy. My wife is very busy with work right now. She works for the state hiring people for various things. We are hoping some time in the next year or so to unbox the last of our stuff and say we are moved into the house.
random asshole
@Roger Moore:
FTFY.
Mike in NC
@muddy:Shit, it seems like it’s too soon to declare the next stage in the phony war on Xmas.
Heliopause
@Hank:
I was going to say something like this. I mean, Terry Bradshaw? He has about as much claim to the HOF as Trent Dilfer. Seriously, when your best highlights are horrible throws that were miraculously bailed out by Franco Harris and Lynn Swann you’re a ridiculously overrated athlete. Jesus, he’s a better announcer than he was a quarterback, and he’s a shitty announcer. If it makes John feel any better, if it was up to me and I had to choose between Greenwood and Bradshaw I’d for sure choose Greenwood. Shit, I’d put Lee Greenwood in the Hall before Bradshaw.
burnspbesq
If NFL fans were as clever as EPL fans, Chiefs fans would have serenaded Tom Coughlin with a chorus of “you’re getting fired in the morning” (to the tune of “Get me to the church on time”) all afternoon.
burnspbesq
@random asshole:
Are we sure the Jets are the best team in New Jersey? They haven’t played Rutgers, Princeton, or St. Joseph’s
Regionalof Exit 172.Constance
@dmsilev:
Reminds me of the Beatles interview a hundred years ago when they mentioned a female fan who followed them everywhere, saying god had told her she was to marry one of them (I think it was Paul). John Lennon said, “Actually, it was someone disguised as god.”
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
Spats will have a sad that you are paying attention to us bots rather than emailing him on facebook, and writing out a check for his shitty painting.
Ran/hiked five miles on bluff tops in a local state park. Finished up Lost tonight. What a fantastic show!
Having a bottle of wine and watching 9-9 on teevee.
burnspbesq
@Wally Ballou:
It was a little weird to see a pitcher who just threw a no-hitter drop his bat, throw his helmet in the air, and run from the on-deck circle to the plate to join in the celebration.
PhoenixRising
Cole, the voice of experience here: That’s supposed to be “Hi, I’m John C, and I pass”.
But keep coming back.
(MrsPhoenix didn’t bother to collect her 10 year chip this week; took the kid to get new hearing aids instead. Because after some time it’s something you are, not something you do.)
wetcasements
Yuengling is a notorious anti-union operation.
Not classy, Cole.
burnspbesq
@wetcasements:
Name a union-made beer that anyone with any taste would drink without a gun being held to their head.
fidelio
@Soonergrunt: I’m glad to hear this. Last year a cousin’s daughter, a couple of years older than Soonerdaughter, was diagnosed with severe celiac disease and a terrible case of anemia. She’s doing well now that they have the problem nailed down, and I hope the same for your girl. Very frightening, knowing your kid is sick and not knowing what to do to fix it.
fidelio
@Amir Khalid: Truly, your compassion is an example to us all.
different-church-lady
Tom Brady and his pickup squad pull another rabbit out of the helmet.
James E. Powell
@muddy:
In the intro O’Reilly says that the Holy Spirit directed him to write this book.
A cardinal trait of the species total asshole is the belief that one’s desires are produced by God.
James E. Powell
@shelly:
According to sources close to John Cole, À la recherche du moutarde perdu is the working title of his memoirs.
Bobby Thomson
LC Greenwood was a member of SAG. Perhaps because of this.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@burnspbesq:
There’s a vast difference between union and anti-union. It is not binary.
Plenty of craft breweries that pay a living wage and don’t bust unions.