Comic for Friday, October 6th, 2006

Posted: 7:31 am, Friday, October 6th

Gonna be a short one today, gang, the office has been a zoo and I'm ever-so-slightly under the weather at the moment. So there won't be a lengthy dissertation about how excellent A-Rod is at striking out, or what I watched on TV last night, or, pray tell, if I actually left the house and did something interesting or not.

What you will get is the good luck Irish YouTube for the Friday before gameday. It's 1964's game against the then-Stanford Indians.

A few funny things there - Jack Snow is the recently departed father of JT Snow (I guess that's not really funny). Nick Eddy is referenced - my sophomore year, it came out that there was some dude living in Massachusetts that had been telling people for decades, his wife included, that he was Nick Eddy. Strange. The Irish are referred to as the Green and Gold in that clip - I thought we wore blue for all of Ara's tenure, but maybe the reference was a carryover from the Brennan and Leahy years.

Anyway, I was supposed to go out to campus for this one, but because of varying snafus and happenstances, Iby the time I knew when we'd be able to travel, the airlines wanted $550 a seat for a flight making two layovers and leaving New York at eight thirty Friday morning. To play 0-5 Stanford? Not even if their doucheriffic band was being melted in lava at halftime.

Oh, and here's a quick rundown of ads that are currently running that I can't stand: Audrey Hepburn dancing to AC/DC for the Gap. I like Audrey Hepburn. I'm OK with AC/DC. The twain should not meet. (This goes for pretty much all dead celebrity ads. If for some reason I obtain celebrity status before shuffling off this mortal coil, and then you see me five years later shilling for Coke, go firebomb the Coke offices, please.) Also, the John (Cougar?) Mellencamp ad for Chevy where there's a shout-out to both 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. No one thought this was maybe too soon? Or just out-and-out ill-advised? No one? Honestly? There's another one that really bugs me, but I can't think of it right now. I've been meaning to mention the Hepburn one for a while, though.

Go Irish! Beat Cardinal!

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Just noticed a late-night comment about associating Randy Johnson with exploding doves. For my part, I associate Randy Johnson with pregnancy, because he received an epidural for his back last week.

It's a boy! An ugly boy!

Big win for the Sox last night, going up 2-0 in the World Series of Darfur. That Ortiz sure is a MVP!

I can't hear you, I have a 2004 World Championship stuck in my ears.

I'm sorry, did you mean 26 World Championships?

No, I meant the one that was won in part due to the biggest choke in the history of North American sports. That one.

Pucker, pucker, pucker!

Why do you have to live in the past Reggie Ho. The Yankees havent even won a World Series in this Millenium. Thats pretty weak.

I have a feeling I should've watched my tape of the Gilmores last night.

The always-awesome Uni Watch blog has word that Florida State will be dressing down for the occasion of playing Boston Collitch in a few weeks, breaking out an all-black uni and a completely stupid sleeve pattern.

http://www.uniwatchblog.com/2006/10/06/nike-to-honor-seminole-tribe-sort-of-like-andrew-jackson-honored-the-cherokees/

I think the Cardinals should just rename themselves "The St. Louis Albert Pujolses" and be done with it.

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Also: if the Cardinals win the world series (don't worry, I'm not allowing myself to dream about that), the city of of St. Louis should rename itself as well.

"The St. Albert Albert Pujolses".

Just getting in my good luck GO IRISH post.

The Audrey Hepburn commercial annoys me to the point I change the channel to avoid it.

I think I feel pretty good about the game this weekend, I caught some of the late night UCLA - Stanford tilt last week (advanced scouting) and realized that both teams are pretty bad. The only thing I can't shake is that Stanford is pretty much the same team as last year that we had to score a TD in the last minute to beat.

Anyway - GO IRISH!!

Whitey, no fear - check out the BGS scouting report on them. Both their receivers that killed us last year are out, their center's out, their tailback is recently concussed, and they're giving up sacks on 12% of their passing plays. I know this all says cardiac game when the Irish are involved, but, really, I think we'll be seeing the backups early in this one.

http://bluegraysky.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_bluegraysky_archive.html#115980532860081672

I'm glad I do not have a television.

15, Just have St. Louis name a street after Albert Pujoles. AP Way. Maybe even erect a status of the man.

I don't know how Detroit got Kenny Rogers to pitch. They must not have recgonized him after his face surgery. This game has 15-14 written all over it. A-Rod's batting average in his last 10 playoff games: .114. That's so bad, Mendoza is asking Chris Berman to rename his line the A-Rod line.

Now if you'll excuse me, I should prepare myself for the litany of Kenny Roger's Gambler songs to play over ESPN during the game.

15 - As a life long new englander you need to trust me on this. It is never to early to put an unacceptable amount of emotion and heartache into your local sports franchise. An uncanny amount where you live and die each play. Tyler Durden said that the first step to immortality is dying. Go forth and believe the Cards will win.

so, did you? http://www.defectiveyeti.com/didyou/

I didn't.

Nope.

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I'm probably over analyzing a bit, and I did read the BGS scouting report. 12% is amazing. Maybe it will wake up Abiamiri, Laws, Frome and Landri a little bit. Meanwhile, my kingdom for a full compliment of LBs. As you said about the backups, it's a good time for Brockington et al, to get more experience.

Is it bad that I don't give two shits about the WS this year after the Pale Hose spit the bit?

Go anyone but the Yankees.

Nah, it's OK, Whitey - it's how the rest of the world felt last year when the Pale Hoes made it to the Classic.

Zing! Thank you, folks, I'm here all week. Tip your waitresses.

Pale, uh, Hose.

Nicely done... even with the "Hoes".

I may have just discovered my new Roto name.

Man, I don't know how people do roto/fantasy baseball. I try and I try, and by Memorial Day of every year, I'm burned out thinking about it. Tip o' the hat to you if you manage it, man.

What are we at, week five of the NFL? This is about as long as I've managed to pay attention to an NFL fantasy league in three or four years, too. I just don't have the attention span for fantasy sports.

You have to love numbers... simple as that. It also helps to have a well run league, which we've refined over the years. Same reason I'm down to one NFL fantasy league, good guys who pay attention and don't try to pull off ridiculous trades. We're a little insane that we draft individual defense players as well. But that's mainly to extend draft night.

Oh... should I mention that I'm the father of three girls, so I need my testosterone fix somehow (although my oldest will probably be playing Strong Safety for the Irish in 2020).

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