Poor metschick…

June 19th, 2008 by Tuffy

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Angles on a Coaching Prism

June 18th, 2008 by Tuffy

We’ve got a cute li’l photo essay we’ll toss up when we’re actually blogging again, showing how those outside the major media centers reacted to the Celtics win last night, but this photo grabbed our attention while editing this morning:

What’s the difference between Jim Cleamons and Doc Rivers, really?  Where did these two men separate from “fairly intelligent and observant journeyman NBA player” into “Phil’s right-hand man” and “emotional leader of the world champion Boston Celtics”?

And, for that matter, what’s the difference between Michael Curry, Vinny Del Negro, and Terry Porter?

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Doing the Lord’s Work

June 17th, 2008 by Tuffy

Guess the location.

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Ice Machine - Wings Frosty

June 17th, 2008 by Tuffy

We’re off the grid this afternoon and tomorrow.  Don’t look for us.  We’re unlookable.  

So: This was Big Tilde-worthy, this was a thoughtful consideration about hockey players, and we really laid a wet one on Rocky Wirtz this morning.  Also: Tiger broke Wall Street.

And here’s a video of the song stuck in our heads most mornings:

See you on Thursday.

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Ice Machine - Tiger Butt

June 16th, 2008 by Tuffy

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (Tiger Tiger Tiger Tiger):

• We didn’t know people in Minnesota hated clocks so much.
• Your boutique armed forces.  (Now where can we put the Genius Bar…)
• We’ll believe it when we see it.  Literally, in this case.
• “Hey, are you an athlete?  Then I can’t sell you these ’special creams’.  Sorry!”
• Nerdgasm:

Our Question of the Day (no Rocco): Tiger Tiger Tiger Tiger… Tiger?

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Ice Machine - Icicle Bicycle

June 13th, 2008 by Tuffy

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (utter nonsense sandwich with a side of WTF):

• We thought he looked familiar yesterday.  We hope he still looks familiar next week.  (’Cause you don’t want the Poles to be mad at you.)
• The world’s first Olympian and Paralympian.
• That Olympic story’s not counterfeit, but this one might be. 
• Babes Love Mullets.
• And just in case you can’t tell the difference, these are the real thing:

We didn’t know there was a Chinese version of Rockapella.

Our Question of the Day (cheating out on a Friday): Speaking of, where in the world *is* Carmen Sandiego, anyway?

And, you know, is she lefty?  The Tigers could use an arm.

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Ice Machine - Frozen Eurology

June 12th, 2008 by Tuffy

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (going for the cup):

• We mentioned it to the right, but it’s worth bringing up again: We had no idea there was a Swiss pro soccer team named “Young Boys”.  The Swiss concern us on a number of levels.
• Speaking of moving to the right, we’ve done some very silly things over the last few days at SPORTSbyBROOKS and Big Tilde.  Please take a peek to the right to see odd photo manipulation, unique video selection, and that time we tried to get politics and baseball to have an unholy baby.  (Well, another one, anyway.)
• We’re not sure we agree with the tenor, but… yeah.  That’s enough.  
• Stop adding to our list of reasons to want a Wii when they start selling them in the United States.
• Sorry, Olympic torch relay; you’ll have to hang out here for a few days.  We’ve got final exams.
• Sam Mendes is pissed he used the plastic bag in American Beauty instead of this.
• Classic movies for kids, hosted at Turner Classic Movies.  Hawesome.
• Yeah.  So.  The 80s?  We wonder sometimes if you kids didn’t miss anything.

Benny Hill meets Duran Duran.

Our Question of the Day (asking frequently and sometimes having the urge to ask when we really don’t have to): If the Cubs are stepping into the Wayback Machine today, can they step back about 36 hours to when Alfonso Soriano was whole?  What are the readings on that, Mr. Peabody?

UPDATE: The afternoon post got called up to the bigs.

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Ice Machine - Slush, Little Baby

June 11th, 2008 by Tuffy

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (drowning in a sea of love):

• Thank heavens we were saved from this.  The children were thought of.
• Please buy us the hardcovers of both of these books for our birthday.  Thanks.
• No.
• An Australian athlete caught in a bar brawl?  That’s unpossible!  (Actually, the fact that he was reprimanded at all surprised us.)
• Consider this our follow-up link to the clubhouse attendant story yesterday: groundskeepers.
• Man, candidates can’t get away with anything anymore.
• This totally explains why Jason Taylor wants to get out of Dodge as quickly as possible.
• And much love to News From Me for this mashup between “Avenue Q” and “Fiddler on the Roof”. (Warning: adult themes, language, and participants.)

Naughty!

Our Question of the Day (wildly flailing towards the answer): Can even Fred Rogers save Dontrelle Willis?  We vote yes; we don’t put anything past the spirit of Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

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Del Full Monte Circle Gets the Square

June 10th, 2008 by Tuffy

(What, you thought we’d go with a “My Cousin Vinnie” or an “African-American” joke?  We enjoy a higher degree of difficulty in our dick jokes.  Dick joke diving, if you will.)

Yeah.  So.  Let’s talk about this.

We were rather stridently against the Doug Collins near-selection because of what it represented: an utterly unoriginal mindset built to withstand failure but not to procure success.  This would rather be the opposite on a superficial level.  It shows bravery by John Paxson to take on an unknown quantity to lead his last charge up Eastern Conference Hill. 

Except, of course, it doesn’t.  If we had to guess at this early juncture, we’d take hubris and control for the block.  

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Ice Machine - Overflowing

June 10th, 2008 by Tuffy

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you during your lunch break (drowning in a sea of love):

• Thanks to everyone that joined Chitown Chick for UFC 85.  
• We won’t be able to travel to Vegas like said Chick de Chitown to see the U.S. Freestyle Wrestling Olympic Trials, but we recommend she take some time to visit Las Vegas Chinatown.
• We regret we didn’t have time to take a picture of the golf course we passed in Holland, MI, that received so much rain that its flagsticks were barely visible above the water line.  We don’t know how any sports were played in the upper Midwest last weekend.
• We will be buying the MLB.tv app for our iPhone in about a month to show off shamelessly at the Big Tilde gathering.  We will be the belle of the ball.  We will be drunk.
• She’s Keith Hernandez…’s daughter.  And she’s drunk.
• The Mexican soccer/Chicago Tribune/blogger version of Nelson Muntz.
• The Canadian sports television version of Nelson Muntz.
• The Sports Economist’s version of … oh, you know.
• And since Chitown Chick provides all the content for this blog while we’re away, we steal from her again:

We can’t stop watching it.  We don’t even like Usher.  It’s too much awesome for safe consumption.

Let us make love in this blog post to the Question of the Day (dirty Upper Midwest edition): Have you booked your ark reservation yet?  We’re regretting putting this off now.

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