Friday, November 05, 2004
FRIED
[Note -- This post was ready to go at 3:15am...but Blogger was not.]
This time, it'll be on time. The makeup post was fueled by the latest album by A Perfect Circle, whereas this post is coming on the heels of watching an 884-pound pumpkin being detonated on the Letterman show, along with this French-subtitled movie on the CBC where some boy apparently sees a lot of things he's not supposed to see. I'll keep it going for the signoff montage, because I'm weird and I need help.
There were also the events, or lack thereof, on Thursday...
BASEBALL
Before I go to the Mariners, the Times had a baseball-wide blip. Woody Williams, Jason Christiansen, Tony Batista, and Carl Pavano are free agents. Willie Randolph will manage the Mets, Charlie Manuel will manage the Phillies. Finally, Scott Boras says Carlos Beltran wants a ten-year deal. Good luck with that. That said, if he got ten years, I'd set the over-under at $195M. I'm not ready to say $200M for him.
American League players have spoken. Their choice is Ichiro as the AL's Most Outstanding Player.
In other Mariner news, Jim Slaton had already left the organization for the Portland Beavers' pitching coach post, but is now back in the fold as the Mariners' bullpen coach. Larry Stone also reports that minor-league managers Dan Rohn and Dave Brundage are under consideration for first-base coach, while Frank White and last year's first-base coach, Mike Aldrete, are being considered for hitting coach. Stone ends his article by revealing that Norm Charlton had been rebuked for the position of bullpen coach.
FOOTBALL
Before I move to the Seahawks here, congratulations to the Lynnwood football Royals, who pulled off a 27-26 overtime win over South Whidbey to end their state-record 47-game losing streak. Technically, the streak ended when Kamiak used an academically ineligible player and Lynnwood was given the retroactive win, but nonetheless, it's the Royals' first win on the field in a long time.
Last football note before Friday's action, Shelton is 9-0. When I was doing the Half-Ass High School Football Reports last year (no high-speed hookup may be the reason why I haven't kept it up this year), I seemed to be writing a lot about Isaiah Taito. He's still good.
In the painfully obvious file, the Seahawk secondary is giving up too many deep balls. The summing sentence of Clare Farnsworth's piece: "After not allowing a completion of more than 35 yards during their 3-0 start, the Seahawks have been burned deep five times in the past four games." Terreal Bierria is involved in three of the five plays listed.
J-M Romero picks up the Brown-and-Simmons-are-together-on-the-field story. The two have missed a combined 30 games due to injury since opening day of the 2002 season. It got to the point where after Brown went down in the preseason, people were shrugging it off, saying it's almost a given that Simmons or Brown misses a few games during the season.
I had read a Greg Johns article on the same topic in Thursday's dead tree edition of the Bremerton Sun, and here Greg Bishop has a story on the Seahawks' Grant Wistrom-less pass rush. In short, it's nonexistent. Of course, last week, Carolina was using a lot of seven-blocker schemes on offense while the Seahawks would rush four. Hence, Jake Delhomme had all day to throw. The notebook article also has some icky stats when it comes to return yards allowed on punts and kickoffs by the special teams unit. Lastly, Seneca Wallace is running wide receiver routes on the scout team.
Les Carpenter chimes in with a piece on Mike Holmgren simplifying the offense, making it more West Coast and less of a bastardized/augmented Mike Holmgren West Coast offense. Having infinite options is good, but confusion is never good in the West Coast offense. Or some kind of abstract Zen-type thing like that.
SONICS
As if it weren't bad enough for the Sonics to lose their opener by 30 points, they come home and face the Atlanta Hawks tonight. That's high-quality entertainment for the basketball fans around the Northwest. Not. Both teams lost their openers by 30 points. The article was mostly about how the team was just brutally crappy in the game against the Clippers and that Luke Ridnour was also terrible, and it's more magnified since the team is more dependent on his play this year.
Upcoming...
Tonight: Atlanta at Seattle
Sunday: San Antonio at Seattle
HOCKEY
The CBC has been replacing its usual Hockey Night in Canada with Movie Night in Canada. What they should have done (Jeremy and I have agreed on this) was televise the best games they had in the archive. Rogers Sportsnet Pacific is sort of doing this with the Canucks, as they're televising some games from the Canucks' playoff past, and damned if they didn't show Game 7 against Calgary from the 1994 playoffs on Tuesday night. That broadcast schedule is also available in wallpaper form, as you, the choosy Sports and B's reader, can fill your desktop with the likes of Kirk McLean, Pavel Bure, and others.
The Times is running a Jim Riley article on Ryan Gibbons of the Seattle Thunderbirds. Gibbons is an 18-year-old from West Vancouver BC (or can we call it West Van?) and the article reads off like he's somewhat in the Todd Bertuzzi mold (not the suckerpunch part) in that he's 6'5" and 222, they try to park him in front of the net, and he bangs in the rebounds. He's been drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes.
Only one game to talk about tonight...
Manitoba beat Utah, 2-1. The first 40 minutes were a goaltending standoff between Utah's David LeNeveau and Manitoba's Alex Auld. LeNeveau held on despite Manitoba outshooting the Grizzlies 20-5 in the second period. After all the tight play in net, LeNeveau let in the first goal of the game with 8:54 gone in the third period on a rocket (40th Moose shot of the night) from just inside the blueline by Alexandre Burrows. Kirill Koltsov put the Moose up 2-0 with 8:05 to play in regulation. Utah pulled LeNeveau for an extra attacker late, and Kiel McLeod spoiled Auld's shutout with 56 seconds remaining.
Upcoming...
Tonight: Everett at Prince Albert, Portland at Tri-City, Vancouver at Red Deer, Puget Sound at Tri-City
Saturday: Everett at Saskatoon, Seattle at Portland, Vancouver at Lethbridge, Utah at Manitoba (final game at Winnipeg Arena), Puget Sound at Tri-City
Sunday: Vancouver at Calgary
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With that, I wish each and every one of our readers a wonderful, terrific weekend. If you're nutty like me, you were just reminded of a former prospect of the Atlanta Braves, a guy by the name of Wonderful Monds, full name Wonderful Terrific Monds.
This time, it'll be on time. The makeup post was fueled by the latest album by A Perfect Circle, whereas this post is coming on the heels of watching an 884-pound pumpkin being detonated on the Letterman show, along with this French-subtitled movie on the CBC where some boy apparently sees a lot of things he's not supposed to see. I'll keep it going for the signoff montage, because I'm weird and I need help.
There were also the events, or lack thereof, on Thursday...
BASEBALL
Before I go to the Mariners, the Times had a baseball-wide blip. Woody Williams, Jason Christiansen, Tony Batista, and Carl Pavano are free agents. Willie Randolph will manage the Mets, Charlie Manuel will manage the Phillies. Finally, Scott Boras says Carlos Beltran wants a ten-year deal. Good luck with that. That said, if he got ten years, I'd set the over-under at $195M. I'm not ready to say $200M for him.
American League players have spoken. Their choice is Ichiro as the AL's Most Outstanding Player.
In other Mariner news, Jim Slaton had already left the organization for the Portland Beavers' pitching coach post, but is now back in the fold as the Mariners' bullpen coach. Larry Stone also reports that minor-league managers Dan Rohn and Dave Brundage are under consideration for first-base coach, while Frank White and last year's first-base coach, Mike Aldrete, are being considered for hitting coach. Stone ends his article by revealing that Norm Charlton had been rebuked for the position of bullpen coach.
FOOTBALL
Before I move to the Seahawks here, congratulations to the Lynnwood football Royals, who pulled off a 27-26 overtime win over South Whidbey to end their state-record 47-game losing streak. Technically, the streak ended when Kamiak used an academically ineligible player and Lynnwood was given the retroactive win, but nonetheless, it's the Royals' first win on the field in a long time.
Last football note before Friday's action, Shelton is 9-0. When I was doing the Half-Ass High School Football Reports last year (no high-speed hookup may be the reason why I haven't kept it up this year), I seemed to be writing a lot about Isaiah Taito. He's still good.
In the painfully obvious file, the Seahawk secondary is giving up too many deep balls. The summing sentence of Clare Farnsworth's piece: "After not allowing a completion of more than 35 yards during their 3-0 start, the Seahawks have been burned deep five times in the past four games." Terreal Bierria is involved in three of the five plays listed.
J-M Romero picks up the Brown-and-Simmons-are-together-on-the-field story. The two have missed a combined 30 games due to injury since opening day of the 2002 season. It got to the point where after Brown went down in the preseason, people were shrugging it off, saying it's almost a given that Simmons or Brown misses a few games during the season.
I had read a Greg Johns article on the same topic in Thursday's dead tree edition of the Bremerton Sun, and here Greg Bishop has a story on the Seahawks' Grant Wistrom-less pass rush. In short, it's nonexistent. Of course, last week, Carolina was using a lot of seven-blocker schemes on offense while the Seahawks would rush four. Hence, Jake Delhomme had all day to throw. The notebook article also has some icky stats when it comes to return yards allowed on punts and kickoffs by the special teams unit. Lastly, Seneca Wallace is running wide receiver routes on the scout team.
Les Carpenter chimes in with a piece on Mike Holmgren simplifying the offense, making it more West Coast and less of a bastardized/augmented Mike Holmgren West Coast offense. Having infinite options is good, but confusion is never good in the West Coast offense. Or some kind of abstract Zen-type thing like that.
SONICS
As if it weren't bad enough for the Sonics to lose their opener by 30 points, they come home and face the Atlanta Hawks tonight. That's high-quality entertainment for the basketball fans around the Northwest. Not. Both teams lost their openers by 30 points. The article was mostly about how the team was just brutally crappy in the game against the Clippers and that Luke Ridnour was also terrible, and it's more magnified since the team is more dependent on his play this year.
Upcoming...
Tonight: Atlanta at Seattle
Sunday: San Antonio at Seattle
HOCKEY
The CBC has been replacing its usual Hockey Night in Canada with Movie Night in Canada. What they should have done (Jeremy and I have agreed on this) was televise the best games they had in the archive. Rogers Sportsnet Pacific is sort of doing this with the Canucks, as they're televising some games from the Canucks' playoff past, and damned if they didn't show Game 7 against Calgary from the 1994 playoffs on Tuesday night. That broadcast schedule is also available in wallpaper form, as you, the choosy Sports and B's reader, can fill your desktop with the likes of Kirk McLean, Pavel Bure, and others.
The Times is running a Jim Riley article on Ryan Gibbons of the Seattle Thunderbirds. Gibbons is an 18-year-old from West Vancouver BC (or can we call it West Van?) and the article reads off like he's somewhat in the Todd Bertuzzi mold (not the suckerpunch part) in that he's 6'5" and 222, they try to park him in front of the net, and he bangs in the rebounds. He's been drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes.
Only one game to talk about tonight...
Manitoba beat Utah, 2-1. The first 40 minutes were a goaltending standoff between Utah's David LeNeveau and Manitoba's Alex Auld. LeNeveau held on despite Manitoba outshooting the Grizzlies 20-5 in the second period. After all the tight play in net, LeNeveau let in the first goal of the game with 8:54 gone in the third period on a rocket (40th Moose shot of the night) from just inside the blueline by Alexandre Burrows. Kirill Koltsov put the Moose up 2-0 with 8:05 to play in regulation. Utah pulled LeNeveau for an extra attacker late, and Kiel McLeod spoiled Auld's shutout with 56 seconds remaining.
Upcoming...
Tonight: Everett at Prince Albert, Portland at Tri-City, Vancouver at Red Deer, Puget Sound at Tri-City
Saturday: Everett at Saskatoon, Seattle at Portland, Vancouver at Lethbridge, Utah at Manitoba (final game at Winnipeg Arena), Puget Sound at Tri-City
Sunday: Vancouver at Calgary
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With that, I wish each and every one of our readers a wonderful, terrific weekend. If you're nutty like me, you were just reminded of a former prospect of the Atlanta Braves, a guy by the name of Wonderful Monds, full name Wonderful Terrific Monds.
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