ChicagoSports.com - Backward toss baffles everyone

This was total BS. Mariucci basically got a free challenge by bitching to the officials and getting them to change their call. What a crock.

At least the Bears won. Orton looked great. He threw a bullet at one point to Mushi for a TD that was probably the best thrown pass by a Bears QB in a long time.

Yes, I just pulled a MacGyver and fixed my chair. (didn't have a mullet though)

Miers withdraws court nomination: "WASHINGTON-- Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to be a Supreme Court justice Thursday in the face of stiff opposition and mounting criticism about her qualifications."

I had a feeling this would happen, and it did. Over the past few days things slowly drifted away from the line where her being appointed to the High Court was really going to happen.

A recent exchange tonight:

Court: "You know something? Maybe if I don't watch them, they'll do better. How long have I had the game off for? 15 minutes? They've just scored 4 runs."

Me: "Now you know how my life is."

Yes. Court has now caught my sickness.

ESPN.com - MLB/PLAYOFFS2005 - Guillen apologizes after Sox fan slaps Biggio's wife: "'It was one guy who acted like a 12-year-old, who slapped her upside the head,' said Biggio. 'I'm not going to sit here and hold all the Chicago fans accountable for this for one guy who was acting like an idiot.'"

It's a shame it happened. Biggio's a pretty stand-up guy with his comments, which is nice. Too bad he's a Cub killer.

Wired News: No Longer Safe for Work: Blogs: "'My best understanding is that my company's anti-blog stance is the industry norm'"

I actually understand this stance. At first, when I heard about people getting fired for stuff in their blogs, I thought it was a little odd and that the people involved were just dopes. While that might be the case, I saw something of how problems could occurr while I was sitting in the office up in IL last time I was there.

I noticed a lot of things that I'd thought were funny, particularly about some co-workers, and at first I thought I would blog about it. After thinking about it for about a half-second, I decided not to, for 'fear' it might come back to haunt me somehow.

Now, only one person from work reads my blog, and I trust him 100%. But you never know who else might be watching. (cue Twilight Zone music)

TheIndyChannel.com - News - Scary Halloween Decoration Prompts 911 Call: "'Next year, I think I'm going to get an old car and a dummy,' he said. 'I don't know what we are going to do with Santa, maybe have him in his sleigh in flames.'"


toats hilar.

In related blog post news, the african guy (of Harambe Wildlife Preserve fame, yo!) saying "Seacrest out." as his form of 'goodbye' was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in a long, long, time. If you're not watching "My Name is Earl" (or "The Office", which is funny as hell) you're really missing out.

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The Tommy Maddox Corollary: "3. I'm starting to think that the Baseball Gods just plain hate the Cubs."

Uh...Shell...did I not just say this sentence to you the other day?

My Name Is Earl: Teacher Earl - TV.com: "The gentleman who portrays the African man in this episode portrays the Wildlife Refuge Director in the queue video for Kilamanjaro Safarii at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort, in Orlando, Florida."

I KNEW IT! (if this is true)


Miss Jobson, no one in Africa calls them Thompson's gazelles...they are called Tommies! Tom-mies!

ESPN.com: Page 2: "So the pressure's on -- if you're coming to one of the next three signings, bring a witty sentence with you."

I'M TELLING YOU, IF HE HADN'T LOST THAT DAMN NOTEBOOK... :)

Hitting to all fields...

• I am here just about all week.


• I've quickly found that standing at the booth for 7 hours right after spending Friday-Saturday-Sunday shlepping around Disney until late at night is probably not the best gameplan I could have had.


• The Contour (old n'busted) hit 99,000 miles on my way back home yesterday. woo hoo!


• A guy in the booth across from us looks exactly like Mr. Incredible. When I mentioned this to a co-worker he said "Yeah, if he worked at that Insurance company forever."


• My blue Cubs bracelet mysteriously vanished from my wrist between Saturday night and Sunday morning. Sunday, the White Sox won game 5 of the ALCS and are heading to the World Series. Seriously, does ANYONE think that's just a plain old coincidence? Come on now. I ain't crazy.


• The phrase "This could be the last time..." (in regards to leaving Florida) has now been pulled out more than a few times in order to justify buying some Disney junk. (yes, the Star Tours store stuff was for me, but whatever. This blog isn't about making me look bad)


• I'm considering taking a yellow high-liter to certain passages in the Sportsguy's book (thus breaking my 'no writing in books' rule...yes, I have one) that particularly 'speak' to me.


• My Mom was so excited to go to Chik-Fil-A the other day. Shell, you would have been 'toats embarr'.


• I'm 98% sure that the notebook that the sportsguy lost included a lengthy passage on how witty and profound the thing I asked Shell to have him write in my signed copy of his book was. (I'm pretty sure that's the most awkwardly constructed sentence I've ever written)


• Somebody paged me today asking how to say 'thank you' in Albanian. And I answered.

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The NFL's kitchen sink: "(By the way, I got to the bottom of this 'LT' thing with Tomlinson -- apparently, Tomlinson asked Lawrence Taylor for permission to use the nickname and Taylor agreed. Well, you know what? I don't care. If LeBron James' name was Mebron, we wouldn't call him MJ, right? So I'm not calling Tomlinson LT. From now on, for the purposes of this column, we're calling him 'LDT.' And that's that.)"

I'm sorry, but this was hilarious. For the record, I've always called him LDT. I've had him on my fantasy teams the past two years, luckily enough. The commercial with him holding up some fantasy team's jersey during a fantasy draft and saying "Uh...I need to talk to my agent" is hilarious.

ESPN.com - MLB - Recap - Angels at White Sox

Thanks to Tivo, we could see that the ball was actually caught. But, a win is a win and at this level, you take it.

The thing I hate about this is it's going to be talked about over and over and over on Tony's radio show tomorrow and PTI.

Wait a sec...just realized tomorrow is Yom Kippur. No Tony K on radio or PTI. Well, forget everything I said then.

CNN.com - Idaho on a shoestring -- caves for $5 a night - Oct 12, 2005


psshht. And just who hasn't slept in a cave before?

White House Briefing  News on President George W Bush and the Bush Administration: "'When the questioning turned to Miers, Bush blinked 37 times in a single answer -- along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious foot jiggling.'"

This might be another one where you have to register. In summation, basically the President was displaying some pretty bad body language when questioned during a photo-op in New Orleans.

ESPN.com: Page 2: "Right now, somewhere in New York, a five-year-old kid is wondering if the Yankees will win a championship in his lifetime.
-- Dan Bock, Durham, N.C."

heh heh heh

NBC5.com - Sports - White Sox Fans Camp Out For Nothing

oops

Ok, only old ladies buy bouillon cubes.

Can This Nomination Be Justified?

Wow. A great article (by Conservative George Will from the Washington Post) saying basically that Miers does NOT have what it takes for the highest court in the land.

(might require registration...sorry)

Krypto the Super Dog

When I was upstairs earlier tonight Court asked me to bring a small envelope downstairs for her. I called Hooper upstairs, gave him the envelope, and told him to go see 'momma', He took it to her.

True story.

Oscar Winner Cage Becomes Father Again - Yahoo! News: "His wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday to a boy, Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said Cage's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were available."

Yes, Kal-El. As in the last son of Kryton. As in Clark Kent. As in Superman.

And yes, I joked about doing this the other day. But it was a JOKE.

Trumped

Isn't "I'm guaranteeing a victory" the dumbest thing you can say on a show like The Apprentice?