Tuesday, November 09, 2004
USUAL
A couple things before the normal post here...
-- The crap just hit the fan. I logged into my Hotmail account and it's gone from 1 Mb to 250Mb of capacity. Seriously, I don't even know what to do with myself now. Of course, the Hotmail account has just been used to accumulate my junk for the past few months, while I've used Gmail and Hotmail accounts to actually mail stuff from
-- I finally finished watching the second disc of the Ren and Stimpy DVD set tonight, and started on the third. Powdered Toast Man had to rescue the Pope (played by Frank Zappa), who was kidnapped by Muddy Mudskipper.
-- Just one click away from a site that was obviously referred to Sports and B's by the Next Blog button was a site for the Frag Dolls. Yes, it's real. Favorites?
-- If it's late at night and there's nothing to watch, I usually end up choosing from the International Channel, the CBC, or Univision. I have no idea why this is.
-- Michael Phelps...buddy, come on. Six gold medals and a DUI. I thought if he was going to go nuts, he'd wait at least a year.
Okay, time to stop spacing out on my part.
BASEBALL
The glass case of 262 is officially in Cooperstown, filled with a bunch of game-used stuff of Ichiro's. It's good that this case permanently puts him in the Hall of Fame in some capacity, because I seriously kind of doubt he'll make it into the Hall of Fame as a player, if only for his years in Japan. There's been debate in hockey over Peter Forsberg and whether he should be considered for the Hockey Hall of Fame when he's done playing, since he'd played in Sweden for quite a while. Though I'm not a big fan of Forsberg, he deserves it because it's the Hockey Hall of Fame, not the NHL Hall of Fame. It may be purely semantic, but the place in Cooperstown is called the National Baseball Hall of Fame. How I think people would read this is that the accomplishments presumably happened on our shores, fair or unfair as that may be. Ichiro can render this moot if he piles up 3000 hits. He might do it if he keeps a breakneck pace (250 hits/yr).
Three cheers for Jason Bay, who went nuts last year en route to winning the first NL Rookie of the Year award for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Unsurprisingly, Bobby Crosby came away with the AL award.
SEAHAWKS
It turns out Ken Lucas doesn't have a bruised sternum from having Brandon Lloyd land on top of him on Sunday. It's a bruised lung. Also, there's a chance that both Bobby Engram and Grant Wistrom will be available to play against the Rams in Saint Louis on Sunday.
BASKETBALL
Gonzaga is 25th and Washington is 22nd in this year's preseason AP Poll. Kansas is number one, while Marvin Williams and his North Carolina team are fourth.
The defensive intensity has been present for all of two games, but it's making the Sonics feel a lot better about their chances tonight against Denver and Kenyon Martin. A big part of this is the play of Reggie Evans, who is suddenly scoring in addition to his usual glass prowess. He's also laying stuff up with the left hand, which Kevin Calabro noted right away during the game against the Spurs on Sunday.
Speaking of Evans again, Percy Allen has a piece on the 'tweener Evans. Sure, Evans has developing a little bit of offense, but coach Nate McMillan wisely gets everyone back into reality with, "I love his energy, but we're not diagramming any plays for Reggie Evans right now." He also had a talk with Bill Russell, too. No word if Russell turned him into a Trekkie.
HOCKEY
Congrats to three of the game's best blueliners, Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey, and Larry Murphy for their inductions into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday. They went in with former Maple Leaf exec and current member of the Phoenix Coyote brass Cliff Fletcher. The three players combined for nine Stanley Cups.
Jaromir Jagr is moving from the Czech league to the Russian league, probably because the Russian league is paying more. Following Jagr on the gravy train to Russia is Alexei Kovalev, who has signed with AK Bars Kazan.
Who could forget about that horrific Mike Danton story? He'll need to use soap on a rope for the next 7 1/2 years. He's already served seven months and may be prohibited from entering the US after doing his time. The CBC article also provides somewhat of a timeline of the whole twisted affair.
Upcoming...
Tonight: Everett at Moose Jaw
Wednesday: Seattle at Vancouver
Thursday: Everett at Brandon, Manitoba at Cleveland
Friday: Everett at Regina, Seattle at Spokane, Portland at Vancouver, Manitoba at Cincinnati, Puget Sound at Tri-City
Saturday: Vancouver at Seattle, Portland at Spokane, Manitoba at Cincinnati, Puget Sound at Tri-City
Sunday: Vancouver at Kootenay
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Just remember, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Rainier do NOT have connected magma chambers, and Saint Helens is still the most likely out of the Cascade chain to erupt. There are few things I'm sure about after graduating with a geology degree, but that's one of them. The Rainier earthquakes are somewhat periodic, as UW seismo guy Bill Steele told KING-5, showing a graph of about the last decade-plus. The Rainier quakes (tens or so yesterday) were also nowhere near as plentiful as the Saint Helens quakes (thousands per day).
I don't know where that geology aside came from. I'm probably just getting it all drained from the system.
And I will not miss Making the Cut tonight. They have to release a DVD set of that show when it's all said and done.
Enjoy Tuesday, everyone.
-- The crap just hit the fan. I logged into my Hotmail account and it's gone from 1 Mb to 250Mb of capacity. Seriously, I don't even know what to do with myself now. Of course, the Hotmail account has just been used to accumulate my junk for the past few months, while I've used Gmail and Hotmail accounts to actually mail stuff from
-- I finally finished watching the second disc of the Ren and Stimpy DVD set tonight, and started on the third. Powdered Toast Man had to rescue the Pope (played by Frank Zappa), who was kidnapped by Muddy Mudskipper.
-- Just one click away from a site that was obviously referred to Sports and B's by the Next Blog button was a site for the Frag Dolls. Yes, it's real. Favorites?
-- If it's late at night and there's nothing to watch, I usually end up choosing from the International Channel, the CBC, or Univision. I have no idea why this is.
-- Michael Phelps...buddy, come on. Six gold medals and a DUI. I thought if he was going to go nuts, he'd wait at least a year.
Okay, time to stop spacing out on my part.
BASEBALL
The glass case of 262 is officially in Cooperstown, filled with a bunch of game-used stuff of Ichiro's. It's good that this case permanently puts him in the Hall of Fame in some capacity, because I seriously kind of doubt he'll make it into the Hall of Fame as a player, if only for his years in Japan. There's been debate in hockey over Peter Forsberg and whether he should be considered for the Hockey Hall of Fame when he's done playing, since he'd played in Sweden for quite a while. Though I'm not a big fan of Forsberg, he deserves it because it's the Hockey Hall of Fame, not the NHL Hall of Fame. It may be purely semantic, but the place in Cooperstown is called the National Baseball Hall of Fame. How I think people would read this is that the accomplishments presumably happened on our shores, fair or unfair as that may be. Ichiro can render this moot if he piles up 3000 hits. He might do it if he keeps a breakneck pace (250 hits/yr).
Three cheers for Jason Bay, who went nuts last year en route to winning the first NL Rookie of the Year award for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Unsurprisingly, Bobby Crosby came away with the AL award.
SEAHAWKS
It turns out Ken Lucas doesn't have a bruised sternum from having Brandon Lloyd land on top of him on Sunday. It's a bruised lung. Also, there's a chance that both Bobby Engram and Grant Wistrom will be available to play against the Rams in Saint Louis on Sunday.
BASKETBALL
Gonzaga is 25th and Washington is 22nd in this year's preseason AP Poll. Kansas is number one, while Marvin Williams and his North Carolina team are fourth.
The defensive intensity has been present for all of two games, but it's making the Sonics feel a lot better about their chances tonight against Denver and Kenyon Martin. A big part of this is the play of Reggie Evans, who is suddenly scoring in addition to his usual glass prowess. He's also laying stuff up with the left hand, which Kevin Calabro noted right away during the game against the Spurs on Sunday.
Speaking of Evans again, Percy Allen has a piece on the 'tweener Evans. Sure, Evans has developing a little bit of offense, but coach Nate McMillan wisely gets everyone back into reality with, "I love his energy, but we're not diagramming any plays for Reggie Evans right now." He also had a talk with Bill Russell, too. No word if Russell turned him into a Trekkie.
HOCKEY
Congrats to three of the game's best blueliners, Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey, and Larry Murphy for their inductions into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday. They went in with former Maple Leaf exec and current member of the Phoenix Coyote brass Cliff Fletcher. The three players combined for nine Stanley Cups.
Jaromir Jagr is moving from the Czech league to the Russian league, probably because the Russian league is paying more. Following Jagr on the gravy train to Russia is Alexei Kovalev, who has signed with AK Bars Kazan.
Who could forget about that horrific Mike Danton story? He'll need to use soap on a rope for the next 7 1/2 years. He's already served seven months and may be prohibited from entering the US after doing his time. The CBC article also provides somewhat of a timeline of the whole twisted affair.
Upcoming...
Tonight: Everett at Moose Jaw
Wednesday: Seattle at Vancouver
Thursday: Everett at Brandon, Manitoba at Cleveland
Friday: Everett at Regina, Seattle at Spokane, Portland at Vancouver, Manitoba at Cincinnati, Puget Sound at Tri-City
Saturday: Vancouver at Seattle, Portland at Spokane, Manitoba at Cincinnati, Puget Sound at Tri-City
Sunday: Vancouver at Kootenay
---
Just remember, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Rainier do NOT have connected magma chambers, and Saint Helens is still the most likely out of the Cascade chain to erupt. There are few things I'm sure about after graduating with a geology degree, but that's one of them. The Rainier earthquakes are somewhat periodic, as UW seismo guy Bill Steele told KING-5, showing a graph of about the last decade-plus. The Rainier quakes (tens or so yesterday) were also nowhere near as plentiful as the Saint Helens quakes (thousands per day).
I don't know where that geology aside came from. I'm probably just getting it all drained from the system.
And I will not miss Making the Cut tonight. They have to release a DVD set of that show when it's all said and done.
Enjoy Tuesday, everyone.
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