Tuesday Bird Droppings

Wes. Welker.

Put up the 4th highest point total in the league without the benefit of a K and lost. So far I’ve had Hartley and Kaeding on my roster. I am death incarnate to kickers.

orton still put up decent numbers (300 yds, 1TD, 1 INT) in pretty shitty weather conditions and with his starting RB and top WR sitting out with injuries for a good portion of the game

Dallas and NYJ are my other preliminary thoughts. Dallas will want to make up for their dumb mistakes against the Jets Sunday night. San Fran didn’t play that well against a pretty shitty Seattle team outside of the punt returns. I don’t trust the consistency of the Jets, but Jacksonville isn’t very good.

Only 38% of Yahoo agrees with you already.

Because I’d really like to see how they can say that with a straight face, you know, with him having the body transplant with the 11 year old, you know.

Ray Fosse was never the same after the Pete Rose cheap shot at home in the ASG, of course, but in Gamblin’ NoHoF Pete’s “defense” — forgetting for the sake of argument that it wasn’t a close play — you can say that That’s what players are taught: if you see/think that the catcher is/will be attempting to block the plate, you are entitled to/had better go through him and try to knock the ball out, assuming he has it. See, trying to get fancy, i.e. sliding/skipping/jumping/etc. around/past/over him is less likely to produce a run, goes the theory (I guess).

I doubt that is statistically true (as if there were a way to assess it). But in any case, collision-as-a-preferred-strategy is simply bad for the game, risking injury to two players at once. This isn’t football; the players are hardly padded. But how do you phase the bash-’em plays out?

Well, there is a sort of precedent. Avoiding injuries is what’s behind the long-condoned phantom tags of second on the front end of DPs, the allowing of which — i.e.calling the lead runner out as long as the throw beat him (to the area) and the covering player was in “reasonable proximity” to the bag — became de facto MLB “policy” in the 70s. And it prolly has saved a lot of leg/ankle/spiking injuries, as there will always be a certain number of high-flying Ty Cobbs and, yes, cheap-shooting Pete Roses who will say that the injuries they inflict on other players, needless or not, are “just part of the game.” (See, they’re tough. GRRR. And stoopid. DUHH.)

But the 2B near-tag doesn’t translate easily to plays at home, of course, in which knocking the ball loose is a major component. Well, what do you say, players’ union and umps? How does this get fixed? It isn’t a frequent problem, but it’s always dangerous— and very sad indeed when it has serious consequences.

but it was a fine play.

There was a really good NPR interview with Alan Schwarz of the NY Times and Buzz Bissinger about concussions. Buzz is a moron.

i have an iPhone and some of those are dead on, but i take exception to the Media category, especially TV. i don’t watch any of that shit they have listed for iPhone users (Portlandia? seriously?) and Louie, HIMYM, and The Walking Dead are all on my DVR

reply fail. I am ashamed

Not trying to start anything, but that’s why I just don’t ‘get’ Facebook. In my opinion a waste of time, but obviously YMMV.

Me and my friends are in the extremely tiny minority on this.

it probably ISN’T a real puppy. so she has a point.

the obvious failure to properly re-evaluate their current situation is BY FAR a larger indicator of failure than saying “we need to rebuild again”. I guess I’m not the CEO of a business, so I don’t and I’ll never understand the line of thinking of “I need to just keep on digging to get out of this hole”.

Not to mention…isn’t walking away from the team a tacit admission of failure?

What? There was no possible way to imagine that as an outcome of that situation!

what kind of parent brings a 11 year old into the student section, and then is shocked by that kind of behavior?

and anyone in a Georgia jersey would be given nothing more than a smile and a wish good luck.

Only if he was a Duke fan.

I don’t understand how he “bought tickets for the student section.” I didn’t read that giant mess thoroughly, but you can only get tickets to the student section if you’re… a student and you show up with your ID. And then they’re general admission in those sections. Maybe he was on the outskirts of the student section or something.

If you want a family friendly environment at a college athletic event, you need to be smart, you need to not be a cheap asshole, and you need to buy nice seats with the nice older people and their families that are far far away from the student section.

That’s okay for a kid to hear?