DAILY DOSE: "Do Do. Do Do. DO DO. DO DO. AYE AYE AYE!"
Good push, Marc. Good push. I can't believe I forgot about the Pro-Bowl! The funny thing about you mentioning Hines is that I'm wearing a Hines Ward t-shirt underneath my dress shirt right now. I've long been established as the BUILDER of the Hines Ward bandwagon. He was my favourite Stiller back when he was special-teams only, and made like every tackle. I used to say stuff like, "Hines Ward is going to be a BALLER some day, mark my words."
So yeah- HINES RETURNED AN ONSIDE KICK at the Pro Bowl for a TD! It was sweet as all hell. I've only ever seen that stuff on Madden. Actually, in fact, I've done that, WITH HINES, in Madden. I love that guy. With Fatty about to retire, he's THE FACE of the Stillers in this town. Don't let anyone feed you any BS about Big Ben.
Today's Song of the Day is "Crazy Train" by Black Sabbath. Someone here in the lab just had it as a ringtone, and it's stuck in my head. By the by, "Crazy Train" is the BEST baseball entrance song. I remember a kid at Mary Washington College (Which, by the way, recently re-named itself Mary Washington University. But the alumni were so pissed, they yelled at the board about the name change. So then, the board changed the name back, BUT they kept the new one too, so the name of the school now is, i shit you not, "The Mary Washington College at Mary Washington University.") Long digression, I know. But that's funny shit.
Okay, you're going to love how I tied this all together. I was recently thinking about baseball (as I am wont to do this time of year, because I start dreaming about it in correlation to when we used to start spring training at D-Son) and was reminded about my senior year, when I was forced to pitch an inning in our 20-2 loss against perennial powerhouse Johns Hopkins. I threw the last inning, having not pitched since Little League, and gave up 3 runs, 3 walks, a balk, a double, and a home run. Great line- my lifetime NCAA ERA is 27.00.
So anyway, this Freshman kid walloped a longball down the left-field line that still probably hasn't come down. For years, I was afraid to find out if he was actually any good or not. Well, I checked the page the other day and found out THIS.
So yes, YOUR Link of the Day is the press release detailing the fact that the kid that took me yard (for his first career home run) is now a D-III Pre-Season All-American, and Two-Time Centennial Conference First Teamer, and 2003 Centennial Player of the Year.
I'm glad I got that kid rolling in the right direction. In a lot of ways, I built the Paul Winterling bandwagon, too. Think I shoud email him and congratulate him, and see if he thanks me for that 63mph fastball I tried to sneak by him? (For the record, I had 2 strikes on him. Almost got the K).
Okay, I'm out.
be good to each other.
Corey, Marc-- thanks for the very kind words. It can be scary getting serious like that sometimes, but it felt right. Also, Gramps, sorry to hear about the breakup. At least now you have time to formulate Rules for Single Life.
And finally- 24 ruled, again, last night. As did Enterprise last week. Galactica was a little, "meh, but still solid. I love television right now.
okay, gone for real.
-apk
So yeah- HINES RETURNED AN ONSIDE KICK at the Pro Bowl for a TD! It was sweet as all hell. I've only ever seen that stuff on Madden. Actually, in fact, I've done that, WITH HINES, in Madden. I love that guy. With Fatty about to retire, he's THE FACE of the Stillers in this town. Don't let anyone feed you any BS about Big Ben.
Today's Song of the Day is "Crazy Train" by Black Sabbath. Someone here in the lab just had it as a ringtone, and it's stuck in my head. By the by, "Crazy Train" is the BEST baseball entrance song. I remember a kid at Mary Washington College (Which, by the way, recently re-named itself Mary Washington University. But the alumni were so pissed, they yelled at the board about the name change. So then, the board changed the name back, BUT they kept the new one too, so the name of the school now is, i shit you not, "The Mary Washington College at Mary Washington University.") Long digression, I know. But that's funny shit.
Okay, you're going to love how I tied this all together. I was recently thinking about baseball (as I am wont to do this time of year, because I start dreaming about it in correlation to when we used to start spring training at D-Son) and was reminded about my senior year, when I was forced to pitch an inning in our 20-2 loss against perennial powerhouse Johns Hopkins. I threw the last inning, having not pitched since Little League, and gave up 3 runs, 3 walks, a balk, a double, and a home run. Great line- my lifetime NCAA ERA is 27.00.
So anyway, this Freshman kid walloped a longball down the left-field line that still probably hasn't come down. For years, I was afraid to find out if he was actually any good or not. Well, I checked the page the other day and found out THIS.
So yes, YOUR Link of the Day is the press release detailing the fact that the kid that took me yard (for his first career home run) is now a D-III Pre-Season All-American, and Two-Time Centennial Conference First Teamer, and 2003 Centennial Player of the Year.
I'm glad I got that kid rolling in the right direction. In a lot of ways, I built the Paul Winterling bandwagon, too. Think I shoud email him and congratulate him, and see if he thanks me for that 63mph fastball I tried to sneak by him? (For the record, I had 2 strikes on him. Almost got the K).
Okay, I'm out.
be good to each other.
Corey, Marc-- thanks for the very kind words. It can be scary getting serious like that sometimes, but it felt right. Also, Gramps, sorry to hear about the breakup. At least now you have time to formulate Rules for Single Life.
And finally- 24 ruled, again, last night. As did Enterprise last week. Galactica was a little, "meh, but still solid. I love television right now.
okay, gone for real.
-apk
3 Comments:
Galactica with no Apollo is never as good. There was so much they could have done (i.e. panic, riots) with the whole revelation that cylons look like humans, and they put it off. Maybe they're setting up next week.
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DutchGirl, at 2:38 PM, February 15, 2005
my thing was like-- why do you have to disclose the 'cylons look like us' fact? couldn't have the EXACT same purpose been served by showing the same two cylon pictures and saying, If yoU SEE THESE MEN ANYWHERE IN THE FLEET, conTACT THE GALACTICA, IMMEDIATELY-- THEY ARE WANTED IN CONNECTION TO THE BOMBING.
same purpose served, with half the insanity. the more i think about that episode, the more it drives me crazy. really, it was the first bad one yet. but last weeks was So good, and despite the bad script, the acting is still out of this world..
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apk, at 3:10 PM, February 15, 2005
not often do the bluejays get mentioned outside of lacrosse- go Hop
-lauren
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Anonymous, at 8:06 PM, February 15, 2005
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