Today’s the last TMQ of the season!
Hurrah, hurrah!
No more “cosmic thoughts”!
Hurrah, hurrah!
The readers will cheer and the blogger will shout!
And we’ll all feel happy after the last TMQ of the year…
“Offense rules this decade.” Plus: “the Super Bowl was the best game of the year” (Really? We didn’t watch any of it, since none of our teams were in the hunt.), “The Ravens were awful on defense”, and why did San Francisco fall apart? (Hint: his name is Harbaugh.)
Sweet: Frank Gore’s late third-quarter score. Sour: “the Niners reached Baltimore’s 9, 8 and 5 without scoring a touchdown”. Mixed: San Francisco’s fourth-quarter collapse.
TMQ still thinks he’s Romenesko. But we’ll give him a point for noting this NYT correction:
We missed that one! And not only have we eaten at Bar Gernika, we had the croqueta! And their menu is online!
(If you find yourself in Boise, go to Bar Gernika.)
R.C. Torres of Eagle Pass, Texas wins the TMQ Challenge. “…accompanying visual incorporates both Cold Coach = Victory and the all-important concept of cheerleader professionalism.” Yeah. We’ll see how “Cold Coach = Victory” works in 2014.
How about those Ravens? “During the regular season this team was unimpressive.” “But the Super Bowl is often about who’s playing better at the end.” Personally, we thought the Super Bowl was about who scored the most points, and who had the best commercials.
And making Jim Caldwell offensive coordinator worked. Hmmmmmmmm.
Hollywood keeps making movies based on toys! And TMQ is still less funny than he thinks he is. (We swear we saw a serious proposal for a “Chutes and Ladders” movie. And we’d pay money to watch “Thomas the Tank Engine Versus Godzilla”. Come to think of it, our nephews have so much TtTE stuff lying around, we could probably make this ourself, “Bambi vs. Godzilla” style.)
Hey, let’s sing the whole National Anthem! Good idea, Gregg. Especially the fourth verse:
Deadly assault spears.
Cosmic thought time: gee, that Voyager I sure is cool. Sure is, Gregg, until it comes back around and tries to exterminate humanity.
Chicken-<salad> kicks: San Francisco.
Harbaugh histrionics. Hang in there, Hollywood.
Randy Moss wouldn’t even make TMQ’s Top 10 receivers. More on Ray Lewis.
Was that a fake Iranian space monkey? Fake missiles, fake plane, why not a fake space monkey?
Hell, we could probably put together a team that could launch a monkey into space. It’d be more complicated if you wanted the monkey to come back alive…
Did the Olympic Games curse Atlanta? Nate Silver isn’t all that hot, at least when it comes to football. TMQ, on the other hand…
Tappan Zee Bridge?
TMQ argues:
There may be something to this. But looking at the folks we pay attention to on Twitter, they fall into three general categories:
- Personal friends who we actually give a flying f–k about.
- People who have genuinely interesting (to us) things to say (both Penn and Teller are good examples of this).
- General purpose news and information sources that use Twitter, such as Y Combinator.
People read other people’s Twitter feeds because they’re interested in what those people have to say, for one reason or another. TMQ makes us feel here like he fails to understand the distinction between, say, Y Combinator tweeting that a new largest prime has been found, and the four-year-old child’s declaration to Mommy that he just made a poo-poo in the toilet.
“Twitter is all about the person sending the tweet, not those who receive it.” And you could say the same thing about blogging. And about TMQ, for that matter. We see blogging and tweeting and TMQ as all being about the same thing: they are a way of saying to the world, “Look. Here is where I am today. Here is something that I think can help you. Here is something that I think you should know. Here is something that I think you will find interesting.”
How about those Niners? The pass rush declined in the post season, and “the Niners’ secondary simply did not play well”.
TMQ’s annual book recommendations. We’ve heard a lot about the Katherine Boo book; we haven’t read it, but we have read some of Boo’s other writing, and can easily believe this book is worth your time. The Holt book sounds possibly interesting, and TMQ actually recommends a book by Instapundit? Now that’s cosmic, man.
Worst play of the season: Jim Harbaugh.
(Hey, did you notice TMQ didn’t bring up the whole sibling rivalry angle? We did.)
We’ll see you around draft time, maybe, if we’re all still here.