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They aren't going to get rid of the monuments, the cemeteries, and all the rest.
ehhhh, I can see them having a cemetery or a monument without them necessarily being racist, as long as they're treated as part of the past. I went to UVa, coming from a state not in the South. UVa has a large monument in their cemetery to students who were in the confederate army mixed in with the graves of early professors and their families. I found it more intriguing that a university had a cemetery at all than I was concerned about there being a confederate monument - I actually kind of expected some sort of monument (what that says about my prejudices towards the South is another matter). But it wasn't any big deal. It's not like they changed the robes on it like some statue of Buddha or something - it just sat there and no one paid any attention to it.
posted by LionIndex at 12:43 AM on October 29
Maybe the big TV is Jerry's way of compensating for a "deficiency".
I would think that a theory of this nature would already have numerous intances of evidence lined up, quite possibly enough to make a definitive case, even before the new stadium existed as a fired synapse in Jerry's brain.
posted by LionIndex at 12:04 AM on September 22
San Diego may have never won "The Big One" in any sport but at least it's sunny and warm year round
BZZT - 1963 AFL championship.
With the length of the drought that SD's had since its last championship in a major sport, I was kind of surprised it didn't score higher. But, one thing the list seems to take heavily into account is the amount of times a team has reached the championship round only to lose. That's only happened to SD three times, as opposed to Buffalo and Atlanta, with many more losses.
posted by LionIndex at 12:02 AM on May 10
I heard a snippet of an interview with Roy Williams of UNC and his take on the selection process. He was concerned that there were only 4 teams selected for at large bids that did not belong to the so-called "power conferences". I too question such a process. Is the 6th best team in the Big East or the ACC truly better than the San Diego State from the Mountain West or Creighton from the Missouri Valley? To me it smacks of having a representative from ESPN and ABC TV on the selection committee.
Being in San Diego, our paper had a similar take, as did Steve Fisher (SDSU's coach) when interviewed for a reaction. It seems the number of at-large bids has been continually declining for the past few years while the six power conferences keep getting more and more teams in. In '04, twelve mid-major conference teams got at-large bids, then nine in '05, then six for the next two years, now down to four. In a time when, ostensibly, parity is only on the rise in college basketball, does this really make sense? Obviously my local paper and Steve Fisher have some biases, but shouldn't the conference that was ranked 7th in RPI for most of the year get more than two bids (personally, I went to an ACC school and have no ties to SDSU, so I don't share that bias)?
My paper makes an argument about the BCS mentality infecting the basketball system, but I don't know about that.
posted by LionIndex at 01:02 PM on March 17
I know I will receive alot of flack but I question Tomlinson's
greatness. He refuses to play in the preseason, which makes him a slow starter
and he always seems to be hurt for the playoffs. Greatness is a player who is always there and will play hurt in the big games!!
I kind of agree with your last point, but I'm going to give you some flack anyway. Tomlinson holds the record for touchdowns in a season, and that record doesn't even include his two passing TDs; plus he was a leading rusher for however many seasons blah blah blah.
I can understand him sitting out the preseason, and I think it might be the coaches call as much as Tomlinson's - there's really been no doubt the last few years that he was the starter - but I do think he could have gotten in there to warm up a bit.
As far as being injured for the postseason, I think he's just getting old, and by the time the rest of the Chargers got good enough to get the team into the playoffs consistently he was at a point where he was getting beat up by the end of the season. I think the Chargers probably had their best opportunity talent-wise a couple years ago, but lacked the maturity and professionalism to beat the Pats in the playoffs and advance. Since then, I think LT might just have lost it. No one can know for certain, but given the quality of their backups, the Chargers might have been better off with him sitting out rather than trying to play injured.
posted by LionIndex at 12:25 AM on January 23
I'm sure you will miss seeing him against your team because he hasn't been very good in the last 5-7 years. I guess it just shows you how hard it is to find a decent major league pitcher. Maddux could still find a roster spot if he wanted to pitch for the next 5 seasons, even if he had a losing record each year.
As dfleming notes, Maddux has been doing just fine, by any standard the last few years. If he wasn't, why would a team trying to obtain a playoff spot, like the Dodgers, try to pick him up? If there are any problems with his record, it's more a factor of playing on the Padres than anything else. Although the Pads were doing halfway decently before this year, Maddux didn't get much run support. Not that any Padres pitcher did, but even in the good days a typical Padres score would be 2-1.
posted by LionIndex at 11:26 PM on December 06
Not that their record really shows it, but the Raiders were actually showing some signs of turning it around a bit this year. Sure, they blew 4th quarter leads in two consecutive weeks, but those losses were to a team that's currently 4-0 and a team that's a consensus pick to go to the Super Bowl. Heck, they *owned* the Chargers for most of the game, and the Chargers only were able to pull it out because of the turnovers towards the end, and possibly because they shifted their offense into a "wear them down" mode. Given the performance of the Raiders over the last couple years, this year could easily be seen as an improvement -- they weren't complete pushovers this time around. Obviously, they need to be able to "finish", but just being in a position where they had something to finish in the first place is miles ahead of where they were. Even as a Charger fan, with Raider-hatred mixed into the local water supply here, I wish Al Davis would just go away so Oakland could actually have a football team.
posted by LionIndex at 10:34 AM on October 01
If they name the team the Wind, every sportswriter in the country will fancy him or herself an insufferably clever little punk when the get to write the headline "[insert team here] Breaks Wind".
posted by LionIndex at 12:12 PM on July 28
I guess I know of at least one guy who wasn't ripping on Ladanian Tomlinson for sitting on the bench while injured last year.
posted by LionIndex at 03:28 PM on July 09
Agreed. They could have at least plugged the teams into Madden 08 and simulated a game. Yeah, or even a best-of-seven series or a hundred simulated games, just to iron out all the oddities. But then you'd lose the narrative of one game (however ridiculous and detached from reality it might be), as well as the intangibles like the possible synergy between Schottenheimer, Cameron and Drew Brees. It would have tremendously improved the article if they did do the Madden simulations in addition to Dr. Z's narrative, and then provided the stats for the players over the course of a "season".
posted by LionIndex at 10:16 AM on July 09
I remember watching the Seoul olympics 20 years ago and being disappointed that NBC had the coverage of it, mostly just because Jim McKay didn't work for them. Also, they only played their stupid John Tesh olympic music instead of the awesome trumpet stuff.
posted by LionIndex at 03:47 PM on June 09
If he goes in, I certainly see it being as a Dodger, mostly for the reasons Chargdres mentions. That's the team I've seen him play with the most, but that's also because I'm a Padre fan.
posted by LionIndex at 09:21 AM on May 21
But going for sushi in Johnson County Kansas sounds a lot like going to San Diego for barbecue. [insert obilgatory Kansas City Barbecue/Top Gun mention here]
posted by LionIndex at 03:00 PM on April 24
Maddux reminds be of high school biology and disecting a frog. Only difference is opposing batters. That's more of a literal connection than you think. I'm a San Diego resident, and my morning commutes are occasionally punctuated by the unpleasant sight of disemboweled corpses littered along the roadside, and torrents of blood flowing into the gutters as if all 9" of our yearly rain fell in one night, brought by a cold front from hell. The exteriors of some buildings downtown look like Jackson Pollock took up graffiti, if only Pollock's favored media were entrails and crushed bone. Occasionally the smears of blood form words, but they're not utterable by any human tongue. And those are the days after Maddux wins.
posted by LionIndex at 06:46 PM on April 15
The Hoser's NFL Picks 2009, Week Nine -- Haiku Edition
You could always compare Snyder to some kind of inoperable cyst.
As a San Diegan, I really wish we weren't the lock of the week.