Thursday, December 25, 2003
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Just three things so far on this Christmas early morning, and they cover three sports...
Christmas means we may be close to the end of Shawn Springs' horribly overrated run as a Seattle Seahawk. More so this year than in past years, though, as he's been playing hurt this year and hurting the team by getting burned incessantly and making stupid pass interference penalties. The article also brings up the point in the 2001 season where Springs violated the steroid abuse policy when the team really needed him. Such was/is not lost on the memory of Mike Holmgren, or mine, for that matter.
Frank Hughes brings us the story of Luke Ridnour -- spirituality, dedication, and simplicity.
My favorite part of the article...
The house Ridnour bought, a tiny duplex on Lake Washington, has been dubbed "The Comfort Zone" by [Brent] Barry and [Nick] Collison.
"It is like my buddy's place in Hermosa Beach," Barry said, "where you walk in and fall in the bed. You can sit in the bed, brush your teeth, grab a beer from the fridge and watch TV all by just walking in the place.
"He bought a 60-inch TV, so you walk in and the only thing you see is the bed and a huge, 60-inch TV on the wall. I want to buy him a VCR tape of a fire burning, so it will look like his house is on fire. If he walks by the TV, he is the same size as it. He looks like Frodo Baggins in there."
Said Collison: "I can't really talk because my place is not the cleanest. But his is really bad. You kind of come in, throw your stuff on the floor, plop down and watch TV. He's got some work to do there, definitely."
Nothing like a good mushy story about the Bavasi family for Christmas. Too bad I wasn't blessed to have my dad in Major League Baseball somewhere. Nice job with that, Billy, you lucky bastard. At least the Times made the good decision to get Larry Stone on this story, because a Finnigan article on the same topic would have triggered one response from me -- the same reaction Norm Macdonald gave on SNL during a Weekend Update sketch in response to a then-new Kenny G Christmas album: "Happy birthday, Jesus! Hope you like crap!"
Merry Christmas, y'all.
Christmas means we may be close to the end of Shawn Springs' horribly overrated run as a Seattle Seahawk. More so this year than in past years, though, as he's been playing hurt this year and hurting the team by getting burned incessantly and making stupid pass interference penalties. The article also brings up the point in the 2001 season where Springs violated the steroid abuse policy when the team really needed him. Such was/is not lost on the memory of Mike Holmgren, or mine, for that matter.
Frank Hughes brings us the story of Luke Ridnour -- spirituality, dedication, and simplicity.
My favorite part of the article...
The house Ridnour bought, a tiny duplex on Lake Washington, has been dubbed "The Comfort Zone" by [Brent] Barry and [Nick] Collison.
"It is like my buddy's place in Hermosa Beach," Barry said, "where you walk in and fall in the bed. You can sit in the bed, brush your teeth, grab a beer from the fridge and watch TV all by just walking in the place.
"He bought a 60-inch TV, so you walk in and the only thing you see is the bed and a huge, 60-inch TV on the wall. I want to buy him a VCR tape of a fire burning, so it will look like his house is on fire. If he walks by the TV, he is the same size as it. He looks like Frodo Baggins in there."
Said Collison: "I can't really talk because my place is not the cleanest. But his is really bad. You kind of come in, throw your stuff on the floor, plop down and watch TV. He's got some work to do there, definitely."
Nothing like a good mushy story about the Bavasi family for Christmas. Too bad I wasn't blessed to have my dad in Major League Baseball somewhere. Nice job with that, Billy, you lucky bastard. At least the Times made the good decision to get Larry Stone on this story, because a Finnigan article on the same topic would have triggered one response from me -- the same reaction Norm Macdonald gave on SNL during a Weekend Update sketch in response to a then-new Kenny G Christmas album: "Happy birthday, Jesus! Hope you like crap!"
Merry Christmas, y'all.
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