Good stuff from FO on Bird offseason

FO on the NFC East offseason

Curtis' DVOA distroys Stallworth's. Interssstttting.
I liked the Curtis signing but I didn't realize the performance analysis on him was so positive. This could be a huge steal for the Bird.

Sports Talk radio

I spent my lunch break flipping around the sports talk radio dial. The Tony Bruno show breaks for commercials like 10 times an hour. He actually sucks more now than he did when he was with The Morning Guys. The show is nothing but nonstop 'tude. "The 49ers need to draft an impact player." "As long as Burrell is batting behind Howard, the Phils have big problems." I like how just because he's loud and forceful, this drivel passes for insightful opinions. Oh, those comments came after an 8-minute discussion on Vegas. Paraphrasing Tony on being at a strip club, “If I drop $5 it’s gotta get me something. Some back for my buck. Ya know what I mean?”

Then I switched to The Herd on 920. It took him exactly .5 seconds to say something awesome. For reasons I couldn’t piece together, he went on this riff about people with “one name.” It went something like this: “No one with one name ever goes into the tank. Ichiro, (other names I forget) all great. Vanilla Ice-Two names-In the tank. Hammer Time-Two names-Went into the tank. Vitale, Corso, Herbstreet-one name-all hits. Name one person who ever went into the tank with one name. You can’t do it. Elvis, score, homerun. Dylan. Huey Lewis? Two names-garbage. The Thompson Twins-three names-trash, etc. etc.” I can’t wait til this show goes up in his archive. You must hear the whole thing. I’m not doing it justice.

Edit: I listened to yesterday's The Herd again. The "one name" riff started because they were talking about some mixed martial arts fighter named Fedor. The last 30 seconds of the rant went like this:
Elvis. One word. Home run. Sting, Bono, Dylan. Yeah, The Thompson Twins? Three words. Junk. Huey Lewis? Whuh whuh whun...Kiss. Still relevant.

Tourney thoughts

Something about Joakim Noah really bothers me. I can't put my finger on it.

Upsets and Funderella runs are cute but I prefer it when good teams advance. When good teams play each other, you get good games.

Thoughts, counterpoints?

Ryan Doumit=Jack Parkman

Has anyone noticed Ryan Doumit looks like Jack Parkman?


(I can't find any pics of him as Parkman)

What I should have been using this blog for

I should have been using this blog to relay conversions I've had over that past year with Beefheart. If you don't know, I work with this fascist/rascist who looks like this:
Therefore, I call him Captain Beefheart.
He says insane, outlandish things on a daily basis. He is a very annoying sports fan. We discussed John Thompson a week ago. Away we go:
(some of this is paraphrased)
(cb is Beefheart, me is me)
(Thompson is doing color on radio broadcast of Tourney)
cb: (after hearing Thompson's voice) Ugh. Turn it off. This guy is the worst.
me: What's wrong with Coach Thompson?
cb: He was a terrible coach. He let the..ahh..monkeys..uh..run the insane asylum down there.
me: What? How's that?
cb: All those guys are head-cases.
me: Who?
cb: Patrick Ewing?!
me: Ewing wasn't a head case..
cb: (interrupts) Iverson!
me: Oh, come on. Iverson's stable. And what about Mourning and Mutombo? They are by all accounts "good guys."
cb: Yeah, but he was a terrible coach. He didn't win the right way.
me: How's that?
cb: He was always complaining about..ahh..SAT scores.
me: Prop 48.
cb: Yeah, whatever. He and that other guy I don't like..from Temple..they were always complaining.
me: They both won alot of games. Thompson produced three of the best centers of the last 25 years and a bunch of NBA players...
cb: (interrupts) HE STINKS! (leaves room in a huff)

We discussed Coach Chaney before. Beefheart expressed excitement at the start of the Temple season this year because, as he put it, "They might be good this year now that they have a good coach." I reminded him Chaney's in the Hall of Fame. To which he responded, "He didn't thrill me."

Funny commercials on WIP

Have you guys heard the Phantoms commercial with the rip-rocking rock song that goes "Phantoms hockey.....LETS PLAY!"
Did you catch the Temple one awhile back? "Fran-tastic/Fran-tastic/you've never seen fans so enthusiastic/Temple basketball is (it's?)..Fran-tastic"
Do the on-air personalities still have their jingles? "Turn up the radio for information you should know the signal that we're sendin' comes from 7 to 11/come up now/with the knowhow/it's yur good pal/Glen Macnow" or "He's the maaannnn/Big Daddy Graham"

last nights BP event

I attended the Baseball Prospectus book signing fun-time gathering last night at the Columbia Barnes and. It was what it was and it was entertaining.

At one point, this Euro-ish David Bowie-looking (the Thin White Duke era) guy suggested that the D-Rays looking into Darin Erstad was not such a bad idea because "they need veteran leadership." Needless to say, the guy almost got smacked in the head with a calculator. I almost felt bad for him actually.

This shit's back!

(See above)

Our long national nightmare is over!