November 23, 2012
Link-O-Rama
• Headline of the week/weak: "Two drivers arrested for drunken driving in same car."
• Considering everyone involved, this has to be the best-looking fight of all time.
• Elisha Cuthbert heard the Official Fantasy Girl of AG.com title might be up for grabs again and wants to apply for a second term.
• If you liked last week's Link-O-Rama music video, "Nothin' But A G Thang," you'll love this oral history of "The Chronic" as the album nears its 20th anniversary.
• Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus crunched the numbers from Jack Taylor's record-breaking 138-point game for Grinnell and the sabermetric-style analysis is fun.
• Hannibal Buress is at Acme Comedy Company in Minneapolis tonight and tomorrow night. I'll be there for the late show Saturday and if you like stand-up comedy you should go too.
• I'd make Guillermo a -340 favorite.
• If the Twins go looking for free agent pitching in the bargain bin, what will they find?
• This week's "Gleeman and The Geek" episode was recorded at my house while we were being filmed for a documentary and then afterward I forced John Bonnes to drink Scotch.
• LSU coach Les Miles had an amazing start to his postgame press conference after a comeback win against Mississippi:
There isn't an actor alive who can display that range of emotion in the span of two minutes.
• In case you thought you had a rough week, Robert Andino got traded by the Orioles to make room for Alexi Casilla.
• Just a really important conversation about an extremely serious topic between two adults.
• Two of the greats, Chelsea Peretti and Bill Burr, teamed up for what might be my favorite podcast episode of all time.
• Chris Brown of Grantland wrote a really interesting article about Chip Kelly's frantic offense, although naturally Oregon lost while scoring just 14 points Saturday.
• "Extreme Makeover: Bud Selig Edition" is a show I'd watch.
• Casey Affleck is directing a movie about Josh Hamilton.
• Whatever this is, I had the opposite.
• I've enjoyed listening to David Cone announce Yankees games on YES Network and the former Cy Young winner is very much into sabermetrics.
• I'd make a joke about the 25-year history of cellphones, but I still have a Blackberry.
• Congrats to friend of AG.com and two-time "Gleeman and The Geek" guest Lindsay Guentzel for her new gig with the Minnesota Swarm.
• Jimmy Kimmel's chat with Chris Hardwick on the "Nerdist" podcast was really enjoyable.
• Some of this week's weird and random search engine queries that brought people here:
- "Rob Dibble ex-wife"
- "Phil Ivey fat?"
- "Happy Festivus certificate"
- "Will the Twins sign someone already?"
- "Pictures of Otis Redding's funeral"
- "How to include beer into weight loss"
- "Gundars Vetra photo"
- "Aubrey Plaza face shape"
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video is The Fugees covering "No Woman No Cry" by Bob Marley:
