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- 11/20/09
| Name: | Wayne Frazer |
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| Homepage URL: | http://fromhoosiertohoser.blogspot.com/ |
| Location: | Barrie, ONT Canada baby! |
| Gender: | male |
| Member since: | December 28, 2002 |
| Last visit: | November 20, 2009 |
wfrazerjr has posted 285 links and 3302 comments to SportsFilter and 13 links and 584 comments to the Locker Room and 78 columns.
The Hoser's NFL Pick 2009, Week 11: NFL picks that need to clear all the "Good Eats" episodes off the PVR.
posted by wfrazerjr to football at 04:41 PM on November 19 - 6 comments
The Hoser's NFL Picks 2009, Week 10: NFL picks that wonder how "The Cleveland Show" is still on the air.
posted by wfrazerjr to football at 04:58 PM on November 12 - 9 comments
The Hoser's NFL Picks 2009, Week Nine -- Haiku Edition: NFL picks that are later than the Octomom after a bender at a fertility clinic.
posted by wfrazerjr to football at 03:17 PM on November 06 - 6 comments
The Hoser's NFL Picks 2009, Week Eight -- Halloween Edition: NFL picks that would scare the pants off John Madden -- not that anyone really wants that.
posted by wfrazerjr to football at 07:51 AM on October 30 - 8 comments
The Hoser's NFL Picks 2009, Week Seven: NFL picks that wish they'd bring out the full run of Jabberjaw on DVD.
posted by wfrazerjr to football at 09:47 AM on October 23 - 1 comment
Mediocre week so far, but we hit our Lock and that brightens up everything. 7-7 against the spread and 8-6 straight up, but we're up for the week, despite the Raiders sinking our Trifecta. Maybe they are smart enough to lose on purpose.
We sure hope Jim Zorn designed this fake field goal/punt hybrid. That's a job saver right there, folks.
Pull for the Quinn tonight!
Trifecta: San Diego, Oakland, Tennessee
2009 Week 10 Hoser Picks (pending Monday night):
2009 Season Hoser Picks
2009 Week 10 Money Spent: $0
Lock of the Week: San Diego
Straight Up: 8-6
Against The Spread: 7-7
Lock of the Week: 1-0
Trifecta: 0-1
Money: $330
Straight Up: 99-42
Against The Spread: 79-63-1
Lock of the Week: 5-5
Trifecta: 3-7
Money: $1,820
2009 Week 10 Money Made: $0
2009 Season Money Spent: $185
2009 Season Money Made: $200
2009 Total: $15
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:59 AM on November 16
Mediocre week so far, but we hit our Lock and that brightens up everything. 7-7 against the spread and 8-6 straight up, but we're up for the week, despite the Raiders sinking our Trifecta. Maybe they are smart enough to lose on purpose.
We sure hope Jim Zorn designed this fake field goal/punt hybrid. That's a job saver right there, folks.
Pull for the Quinn tonight!
Trifecta: San Diego, Oakland, Tennessee
2009 Week 10 Hoser Picks (pending Monday night):
2009 Season Hoser Picks
2009 Week 10 Money Spent: $0
Lock of the Week: San Diego
Straight Up: 8-6
Against The Spread: 7-7
Lock of the Week: 1-0
Trifecta: 0-1
Money: $330
Straight Up: 99-42
Against The Spread: 79-63-1
Lock of the Week: 5-5
Trifecta: 3-7
Money: $1,820
2009 Week 10 Money Made: $0
2009 Season Money Spent: $185
2009 Season Money Made: $200
2009 Total: $15
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:58 AM on November 16
1-0, although not at all how I thought the game would go.
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:41 PM on November 12
Don't knock the Quinn.
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:33 PM on November 12
I meant this atrocity, which it kills me to dislike as I'm such a fan of Family Guy and American Dad.
As for the Raiders and drafts, every time I hear their name announced, I think of Major League:
Board Member 1: I've never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime.
Charlie Donovan: Most of these guys never had a prime.
Rachel Phelps: The fact is we lost our two best players to free agency. We haven't won a pennant in over thirty-five years, we haven't placed higher than fourth in the last fifteen. Obviously it's time for some changes.
Board Member 2: This guy here is dead!
Rachel Phelps: Cross him off, then!
posted by wfrazerjr at 06:23 PM on November 12
Man, that Trebek mash-up is the shit.
posted by wfrazerjr at 08:55 PM on November 11
I thought the same thing.
Having done play-by-play and colour commentary on hundreds of game myself, it sounded to me like it came from the truck. The clarity and differential in audio quality was very much like what comes through your headphones.
That said, if this is the feed that went out over the air, I'm guessing someone might be in the bread line this morning.
posted by wfrazerjr at 05:52 PM on November 09
God bless you for that pick six, Matthew Stafford.
Lock of the Week: San Diego
Trifecta: San Diego, Seattle, Carolina
2009 Week Nine Hoser Picks (pending Monday night)
Straight Up: 8-4
Against The Spread: 8-4
Lock of the Week: 1-0
Trifecta: 1-0
Money: $1,460
2009 Season Hoser Picks
Straight Up: 90-36
Against The Spread: 72-55-1
Lock of the Week: 4-5
Trifecta: 3-6
Money: $1,600
2009 Week Eight Money Spent: $25
2009 Week Eight Money Made: $50
2009 Season Money Spent: $185
2009 Season Money Made: $200
2009 Total: $15
posted by wfrazerjr at 12:18 PM on November 09
Still concerned about your Chargers?
Hit both the Lock and the Trifecta. Thus far this week we are 8-3 both against the spread and straight up and my bets are done for the week.
posted by wfrazerjr at 08:06 PM on November 08
It is a little strange ESPN was so hot and heavy on this. Maybe it was all staged and the network got the tipoff beforehand -- "Hey, bring out the good cameras and we'll put on a show!"
Also ... it was kinda hot.
Rashomon ... they make those little boilable noodle packs, right?
posted by wfrazerjr at 03:59 PM on November 06
There are no bad words, only bad intentions.
posted by wfrazerjr at 12:04 PM on November 05
And fraze, I humbly submit that if you frequently get middle fingers, then you are in fact causing cyclists to feel threatened.
They should feel threatened -- not by me, but by the two-ton missile I'm driving legally and safely.
And I'd humbly submit that you have no idea what you're talking about. As I described, I'm talking about cyclists riding in a pack on a four-lane road with an extra turn lane in the middle, and they are spread out into the passing lane and sometimes riding up the middle in the turn lane.
As Weedy said, it seems as if the cyclists have a hard-on for anyone driving a car, recklessly or not, and are courting confrontation. It's much worse in the GTA than here because it's much more open in my area, but it's still noticeable.
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:22 AM on November 05
BikeNut, that was extremely well said.
I'm certainly not advocating the injury of cyclists. I even used to take my big butt on the occasional ride, and I saw my fair share of morons behind the wheel.
But the cyclists I see on the news in Toronto talking about bike/car incidents don't seem to want to shoulder the blame for the number of riders who ignore traffic signals, weave in and out of traffic and generally ignore the laws which they seem to want to protect them from vehicles.
It reminds me of the lawyer joke -- the crooked lawyers are ruining the good names of the 1% who are honest. Until cyclist-rights advocacy groups do more to police the idiots in their own houses, I don't see the issue gaining much traction with those of us behind the wheel.
posted by wfrazerjr at 01:59 PM on November 03
Okay, so here's the part where I make people hate me.
Thompson deserves to be punished for this. Given that he told a traffic investigator that he "wanted to them a lesson," there's not much question of intent.
But if you read more of the testimony, you also find that Thompson says bicyclists taking up much of the road he lives on was a frequent occurrence. He also says the three riders in this instance were riding three-wide and when he honked and told them to ride single-file, they flipped him off and said, "Fuck you, asshole."
Of course, you also find Thompson has apparently been involved in other incidents, which leads me to believe this was intentional and deserves punishment.
The four-lane road I drive to get to my store in the morning is a popular one for cyclists, sometimes singles, sometimes large packs of 20 or more. At least half the time they are riding out across the slow lane and into the passing lane, or sometimes even in the turn lane up the middle of the road.
I couldn't count the number of times cyclists have veered into my path, cut in front of me to make a turn or flipped me off as I passed. I've never honked, never swerved my car toward them, never done anything threatening -- and yet I'm the bad guy.
I feel badly for the cyclists hurt in this incident. But I also recognize that they are experienced riders who should know that the law seems to generally be two abreast is the widest you can go. Given that they decided a nice middle finger and insults were the best way to handle someone pointing out that they needed to share the road, it doesn't surprise me in the least this happened.
In fact, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often.
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:11 AM on November 03
SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle
Most idiotic trick play ever ... but it worked.
Again, the two-point conversion is the time to roll this stuff out. Now opposing defenses have to consider this for the rest of the season when they gameplan for Bethel.