November 19, 2010
Link-O-Rama
• I'll be on 1500-ESPN tonight, talking Twins with Doogie Wolfson starting at around 7:15. You can listen online here.
• Who knew 19-year-old girls from Apple Valley were so tech-savvy?
• As someone who regularly eats $11 worth of food from Taco Bell, this amused me.
• I'm following A.J. Pierzynski's lead and not shaving for the entire month of "Movember."
• On a related note, I live in fear of this every day.
• Not a bad week for Ron Gardenhire, who won the Manager of the Year after five runner-up finishes and then signed a contract extension the next day.
• If you're good-looking and a female, Coco Crisp might pay you $40,000 to live with him.
• I'm not sure which is the more unlikely bit of Kris Humphries news, that he might be dating Kim Kardashian or that he's had two double-doubles in the past week.
• I already have an app for this. Her name is Judi.
• I can't think of a way to describe this properly, but I found it impossibly cool.
• It's slightly less funny after his big game Wednesday night, but this video made me laugh:
And if you're not already a fan of The Basketball Jones, you should be.
• At the end of the day, we're all Craig T. Nelson.
• In fairness, ESPN was only off by about $36.5 million.
• I'd be really worried about this, except luckily leaving the house, interacting with people, and dating are all required before fertility becomes an issue.
• My latest podcast discovery is "Never Not Funny" with Jimmy Pardo and Matt Belknap. They offer the first 20 minutes of each episode for free and after listening to a few of them I ponied up the $19.99 for a season's worth of the full-length versions. And then I liked those so much that I spent $19.99 on each of the previous six seasons. Seriously. I spent $140 on a podcast, that's how good it is.
• After years of annoying people about this topic, the world finally listened to me.
• Beyond the Boxscore crunched the numbers on how long pitchers take between pitches and the results are very interesting. I'd have pegged the Twins as one of the faster-working staffs, but it turns out they're basically average.
• Next time someone brings up Gold Glove awards as a viable measure of defensive ability feel free to tell them to shut up.
• On a related note, my writing finally made into the newspaper. Sort of.
• And to think, people have always accused the Spurs of being "boring" for a great team. Ha!
• Call me nuts, but if someone offers me $2.1 million, for just about anything, I'll take it.
• Linking to weirdos lip-synching isn't as fun now that celebrities are showing up in the videos:
Stick with it for a full minute or so, it's worth it.
• Awful news for anyone who likes calm, reasoned talk radio. Shouting dumb stuff wins, again.
• NBC will mercifully start showing Parks and Recreation again, and with a whole bunch of other comedy surrounding it too.
• My favorite aspect of Twitter--aside from the ego boost involved in having "followers"--is that you really never know who's going to see and reply to your tweets. Within the past week I've gotten random replies from Peter Gammons, Mike Mayock's daughter, and the official Twitter page of the NBC show Community. Still waiting for one from Diora Baird, though.
• My old friends at The Hardball Times are beginning to ship their annual book and, as always, you should buy it.
• Remember the French-Asian fusion restaurant I reviewed a few months ago? They finally got a website and my review highlights the "press" page. It's kinda cute. And the food is nice, too.
• Speaking of local places where I eat stuff, a new "donuts and coffee bar" called YoYo Donuts opened near me and I've quickly become one of their best (and fattest) customers.
• Here are some highlights from my NBCSports.com blogging this week:
- Does the free agent compensation system overrate relievers?
- Royals acquired Vin Mazzaro for the stuff, not the stats
- Ramon Hernandez is kicking himself (or his agent) after seeing John Buck's contract
- Diamondbacks "listening" to offers for Justin Upton, but "need to be blown away"
- Neftali Feliz beats Austin Jackson for AL Rookie of the Year
- Vladimir Guerrero’s undeserved Silver Slugger award
- By giving White Sox chance to match any offer is Paul Konerko limiting interest?
- Rickie Weeks is "open to listening" about contract extension
• Finally, this week's AG.com-approved music video is Ben l'Oncle Soul doing an acoustic cover version of "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes:
