Right at the 5,200 word mark again. It really does seem like Gregg Easterbrook has an editor. Maybe. But we’ll get into that.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Archive for the ‘NFL’ Category
TMQ Watch: November 14, 2017.
Wednesday, November 15th, 2017Your loser update: week 10, 2017.
Monday, November 13th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
I’m somewhat conflicted over this.
On the one hand, I’m disappointed that we don’t have two teams contending for the Owen-16 trophy.
On the other hand, I still think the Browns have a good chance of losing out. (The next game that I think they’re in real danger of winning is December 3rd against the Chargers.)
On the gripping hand, we could have a situation where there are three 1-15 teams contending for high first round draft picks: the New York Football Giants, the 49ers, and the Browns. I’m not sure how the NFL determines precedence in this situation, but friend of the blog Infidel should be happy that there’s at least a chance…
TMQ Watch: November 7, 2017.
Wednesday, November 8th, 2017One thing we’ve noticed about new TMQ in the light of recent events: Easterbrook hasn’t had anything to say in the column about recent mass shootings, especially in regard to “reasonable gun control”. Easterbrook hasn’t been shy about this before (and we’ve called him out on his bolshie bushwa before, too), so the absence of this in his Weekly Standard TMQ columns seems unusual. Almost like someone is editing him.
Not that we’re complaining: the less time we spend pressure-testing our cerebral arteries, the better we feel.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update: week 9, 2017.
Monday, November 6th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland (bye week)
San Francisco
Next week, San Francisco plays the New York Football Giants at home. The Browns play at Detroit.
J’accuse!
Friday, November 3rd, 2017I blame Gregg Easterbrook and the vertical integration of the broiler industry.
But on the bright side, this is an opening for Thick McRunFast Tom Savage the Electic Quarterback.
TMQ Watch: October 31, 2017.
Tuesday, October 31st, 2017TMQ doesn’t have anything really spooky going on this week. If we had thought of it a little more in advance, we might have tried to dig up something new and amusing to use as a header.
So before we jump in, we’ll toss out a couple of kind of spooky things we casually ran across in our morning browsing:
Carl Tanzler. We’re aware this was the subject of a recent episode of “The Dollup”, but we’ve tried listening to that podcast and can’t. The Wikipedia entry should be spooky enough for you, and most of us read faster than we can listen to a podcast anyway.
Lawrence’s annual link to the FARK Scary Stories threads.
Wikipedia “Deaths by poisoning”. The “Victims of radiological poisoning” is kind of interesting: Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin are probably well known to Los Alamos buffs, but we’d never heard of the Cecil Kelley incident.
Okay, enough spooky. After the jump, this week’s pretty much non-spooky TMQ…
Your loser update: week 8, 2017.
Sunday, October 29th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
San Francisco
NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
None.
Bonus firings content:
Jim McElwain out at Florida, in what appears to be a “mutually agreed” departure. Terms are supposedly still being negotiated.
Early last week, McElwain claimed that his family and players were receiving death threats. Reports are that the university spent the week looking into those claims and was unable to substantiate them: it was widely reported yesterday that the school was looking to fire McElwain “for cause” over this.
Tony Perez and Andre Dawson have also left the Miami Marlins. Much like Jeff “Mr. Marlin” Conine, this appears to be the new ownership cleaning house.
TMQ Watch: October 24, 2017.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017“The Falcons are, in every way, the Epic Fails.”
Someone would like a word with Gregg Easterbrook. (Sorry, Infidel.)
All this and more in this week’s TMQ, after the jump…
Your loser update: week 7, 2017.
Monday, October 23rd, 2017Apologies for this being later than usual, but I was waiting for a couple of things to come together.
NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
San Francisco
How about that titanic battle of the Browns/Titans offenses, eh? I was actually a little worried there.
And the NBA regular season has fired up, so you know what that means:
NBA teams that still have a chance to go 0-82:
New York Knicks
Chicago
Philadelphia
Dallas
Phoenix
And it is pretty early in the season, but we already have our first firing: Earl Watson out as coach in Phoenix.
He was 33-85 over “two plus” seasons.
TMQ Watch: October 17, 2017.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017Every once in a while, instead of being all snarky and stuff, we like to ask you to go out and read something else on the Internet that we think is interesting or important or both.
“the depression thing” by Zach Holman.
Therapy basically got me rubber duck debugging myself. Even when I’m not programming I’m fucking programming, I can’t get away from it, ha. But it’s true: the mere notion that I’d have to discuss my life with someone else later meant that I became far better at self-analysis than I ever had been.
That was one of the many neat realizations I had during this whole experience. Therapy tricks you into becoming better at therapy.
After the jump, this week’s TMQ…
Your loser update: week 6, 2017.
Sunday, October 15th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
San Francisco
What the heck, Denver? You had one job.
At least I don’t have to feel that bad for Infidel de Manhatta: it doesn’t look like the Giants will get that first draft pick, but maybe they’ll end up getting a relatively high one.
I still like Cleveland’s chances.
TMQ Watch: October 10, 2017.
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017Yes, we’re late. We got tied up on Tuesday.
But, in our defense, TMQ isn’t timely this week either.
After the jump, 2,000 words, no pictures (except the header), and one subject in this week’s TMQ…
Norts spews.
Monday, October 9th, 2017Two quick ones, because I have a doctor’s appointment shortly and probably won’t feel like blogging afterwards:
1) Well covered, but at least one person sent this to me, and it does involve blow (maybe):
He apparently resigned in lieu of a firing, so I’m putting this into the “firings” checkbox.
Related: “Just who is this model whose snorting video brought down a married Dolphins coach?”
Obit watch: the great Y. A. Tittle.
Tittle threw for dozens of touchdowns and thousands of yards, won a Most Valuable Player award and was selected to seven Pro Bowls. But he endeared himself to New York not as a golden boy but as a muddied, grass-stained scrapper.
He was a balding field general with a fringe of gray who, at 34, in his old-fashioned high-topped shoes, had undeniably lost a step or two, but kept picking himself up off the ground to find a way to beat you, and New York cheered.
And he was a good Texas boy, too. ESPN.
Your loser update: week 5, 2017.
Sunday, October 8th, 2017NFL teams that still have a chance to go 0-16:
Cleveland
New York Football Giants
San Francisco
Wow. When was the last time there was a team as seemingly jinxed as the New York Football Giants? Not only did they lose to hapless the Chargers, but they also lost Odell Beckham Jr.
It seems like there’s only one thing you can say about this:
TMQ Watch: October 3, 2017.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2017We’ve got nothing clever to start off with this week. This is the kind of week that sucks all the clever out of our strategic clever reserves. Let’s just get into it.
After the jump, about 5,000 words of this week’s TMQ…