This Is Why We Love Arkansas

This is glorious, and also our second Star Wars reference of the day on the blog.  We got beat up a lot as kids.  This intergalactic food station can be found in Fayetteville, Arkansas preparing "gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches/homemade soups".  What does gourmet in Arkansas consist of, Velveeta?

NY Times Uses Pretty Graphics To Explain Soccer, Messi

The New York Times has a great multimedia presentation showing graphics and videos of each of Messi's Champions League goals.  Granted I know little of this sport they call soccer (or FOOTball) but I can appreciate someone being as masterful at their craft as Messi is, screaming Spaniards and all.

We Live In A Weird World (And With People Who Like To Give The Bird)

Yahoo! ran an article a couple of days ago about the website 9-Eyes, a site run by Jon Rafman who sifts through Google Maps with Street View to find the best of the best oddball stuff.  There is some fantastic finds over there, enough to kill a couple hours.  Above is one of our favorites, and if the street name is in fact Russian, I'm glad to see our stereotypes weren't all that misplaced.

Quote Of The Day

Dennis Green may or may not be the worst manager of game time ever.  He also may be the star of an all-time great recorded meltdown.  He is who we thought he was!

Player Wives

Come on down, Ashley Eckstein!

Damn Dave, you're the god damn American hero, aren't you?  "Underdog baseball player makes majors and gets a dime piece of a wife", is more or less how many of us would want to sum up our lives.  But she's not just basking in the Ecks-Factor limelight.  She has her own damn website too: www.ashleyeckstein.com

Eyeopener - The Last German This Cold-Blooded...

 

-The young Oklahoma City Thunder lost James Harden last night when he picked up his sixth foul, OKC staked to a 15 point lead with five and a half minutes left in the contest.  The Thunder then lost control of their bowels, shit themselves, coughed up the lead, and lost in overtime to 112-105 in one of the most staggering playoff collapses in recent memory.  Dirk was so good he was “a joke”, according to Jeff Van Gundy as he repeatedly gushed about the big German.  I would have been too, except I’m a Sonics/Thunder fan.

-Tim Thomas, net minder for the Boston Bruins, guaranteed a series victory over Tampa Bay.  Last night he made good on that prediction, allowing only one goal as the Bruins came within one game of the ultimate achievement: hoisting the Prince of Wales Trophy.  The 3-1 Boston win featured a Tim Thomas save that was mind-bogglingly impressive, one that reassures you that EA Sports hates your soul and will have you lose at any cost.

-Guess who WASN’T on my fantasy bench last night?  Corey Hart!  That’s right!  The man just went all Giambi-like last night, drilling three bombs(hells?) and seven RBIs in an 11-3 Milwaukee win over the Nationals.  There is only one acceptable way to celebrate this:

 

-The Mariners aren’t terrible!  Their sixth straight win came after scoring two in the eighth and one in the ninth to tie the game before getting another in the top half of the ten to best the hapless Twins.  The Twins are now 15-31 and just 4-12 at home.  Yikes.

-Chase Utley came back for the offensively-challenged Phillies who promptly scored 10 runs, seven of them in the third inning as the Phils rolled to a 10-3 win over the visiting Cincinnati Reds.  Todd Frazier did get a chance at the plate last night in his romp of a Major League debut, only to strikeout on four pitches.  Welcome to the bigs, kid!

-A battle of the sharks in Class-A game went really long last night and featured player names that would put any video game name generator to shame.  Hammerheads > Threshers.

-When your basketball coach leaves your Big 11 school to go to the Naval Academy, and David Robinson isn’t on the team, something is desperately wrong.  Ed DeChellis left Penn State yesterday to go coach in Annapolis, leaving Penn State sans coach going into one of the most critical times of the year for college hoops.  Maybe instead of paying the puppeteer and makeup artist to make it look like JoePa is still alive, they should have been diverting some of the money into the basketball program.