Sadness
Last night pretty much sucked for any Packers fan. Blarrgle, blurgh, o-line. ^%$&%(&)(^&SACKS$%@!# This nightmare seems as if it will never end.
I drowned my sorrows in scotch: dry, tasty scotch, and then I played Borderlands until I was almost certain to be tormented by dreams of millions of white, green, blue, purple, and orange guns, shotguns, sniper rifles, and rocket launchers. I’ve been loving the shit out of Borderlands lately, so if anyone out there has it for Sexbox 360 I want to play co-op with you.
I need to finish the shit out of Borderlands soon, though, because Dragon Age comes out tomorrow. I preordered it on Steam (more on that in a second) so I should be able to play it immediately. It’s your standard go-out-and-kill-the-marauding-hordes-with-a-sword type of thing. Kind of excited; I really liked Neverwinter Nights back in the day and this is by the same dudes. GRIMGAW, TO ME!
Anyways, Steam is pretty nice. I gotta preface by saying that I’m a fan of online stores. The iTunes Store, XBOX Live, these are things that allow me to near instantly acquire things I want without bullshit (also good since I don’t have a car to get to places like Best Buy). Steam is a client you install on your PC that allows you to purchase new and old games, and to pre-order games that will be released in the future. The games are delivered by download, and it’s kinda cool since it acts as a dashboard where you can launch all the games on your computer. For old times’ sake, I bought Zuma Adventures and Bookworm Adventures. Goddammit I love Bookworm, where you defeat your enemies with the power of words (the longer, the better). One time I one-shotted an enemy by spelling the word “prosthetic” from a pool of 16 jumbled letters and felt like a god. Wwhazz, it may be up your alley in a Bananagrams-ish way.
The scarcity of both mini corn dogs and air hockey troubles me. We should have both in every bar; instead, we get pool and nachos.
Transfer your druid so we can go wreck up Onyxia tomorrow.
@whazz: makes sense
@Alandovos: I couldn’t even if I wanted to. We’re going to Spacebee’s 10 year high school reunion this weekend.
@yourmom: i found this video of the packers! i guess before they were the packers they were called the Cobras… different name, same sucking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3k63CsqII&feature=player_embedded
Any leads?
A man dressed as a flying monkey from “The Wizard of Oz” sent a Halloween reveler to the hospital in critical condition after allegedly punching the victim over change at a downtown bar.
The battery happened at about 11 p.m. Saturday at the Main Depot bar, 627 W. Main St.
Madison police said the victim suffered a head injury and was last known to be in critical but stable condition, with injuries that didn’t appear to be life-threatening.
Witnesses at the bar said the victim purchased a drink when the flying monkey guy tried to take the change.
“The masked man punched the victim several times after being confronted about the money,” said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.
Investigators are in the process of following up on leads regarding the masked man’s possible identity.
whoa
whoa as in, “thats fucked up” or whoa as in, “we made the news”?
aaron rodgers collection of sax is his own fault.
he does not anticipate pressure. he reacts to pressure by completely shutting down any usable means to advance the ball. he does nothing to prevent, distract, confuse, or bewilder those who would pressure him.
AARON RODGERS PLAYS LIKE A GIRL.
that’s fucked up
i’m sorry to say that I agree that rodgers is holding too long, but only to an extent. he does well when he scrambles, but often he can’t get out of the pocket cleanly.
it’s not about holding the ball too long… it’s about why the amount of time he is holding the ball is too long and what he can do to adjust that value and allow himself to hold the ball the same length, but not having it result in 1000 sax.
and when he scrambles he doesn’t have the ball up to allow him to pump fake or actually throw it. i’m sure he doesn’t do that because he’s afraid of someone coming from behind and knocking it out of his hands… ok, so tuck it and run… oh, but then he’s scared he’ll see someone to throw to and it will take too long to get the ball untucked. so instead of anything useful he palms the ball around his waist, and after a brief deer in headlights freezeup, he hops around a bit and waits for the suck with the rest of us.
the only time he looks good is when he’s doing his favre impression of the 5 yard quick pass, or standing strong in the pocket for a deep fixed route. everything he does getting the ball to his backs is unimpressive.
he needs to pitch quicker and flatter. he needs to work on play action fakes a LOT. when he hands off he gets lazy as fuck… when he keeps the ball it’s painfully obvious. i am embarrassed for him that he thought he might fool anyone.
What does a reunion this weekend have to do with tomorrow?
yeah, fucker.
and what does “even if i wanted to” supposed to mean?
are you breaking up with the druids?
i hope the druids align with the elves to slay you
i’d be an ogre with magical powers.
INVINCIBLE.
joe arpaio under FBI investigation whatever that means…. technically we’re all under FBI investigation as they have access to monitor all internet activity.
either way, just living in that assholes jurisdiction for 6 months or whatever was terrifying. he’ll lock you up for no reason and put you outside in a tent for years awaiting trial while he feeds you moldy bologna. joe treats american citizens worse than the FBI treats suspected international terrorists.
go against the governor and find yourself incarcerated. joe needs more tents? governor happy to send a check.
corrupt politicians need to be ELIMINATED.
corrupt lawmen need to be ELIMINATED.
is it illegal to offer my services to revolutionaries who would make use of my ability to serve?
I’m pretty sure it is. Sorry.
“Aaron Rodgers is a very coachable quarterback,” McCarthy said. “The strength of his game is his decision-making. We’ve had some things we’re going to improve on as we move forward. Those have been addressed, and I have full confidence that he’s going to play at a high level.”
Coachable = little bitch that will do whatever we tell him. This “coach-ability” is why Ted Thompson and Mike Mcarthy love his goofy ass so much. After years of Favre shitting in the kitchen and chewing up the playbook they have a docile dog. Sure his interceptions are way down but taking all these sacks and then punting to give the other team great field position over and over or fumbling is as damaging as reckless play that results in a pick without the upside of a big play that sometimes comes with reckless Uncle Rico passes down field.
Also, the drunk guy behind me was really on Rodger’s inability to fake a handoff and hide a ball. A DRUNK guy in the VERY LAST ROW saw it. Me? I had never until he and madd pointed it out.
Cal sucks!
have i mentioned i hate the yankees?
when rodgers hands off, he turns around, head down, out of the game.
when favre hands off, he sometimes
1) takes a fixed position in the pocket like he is looking for a receiver
2) does the famous fake quick spin jump pass
……a) also adds the real quick spin jump pass to give credibility to the fake quick spin jump pass
3) rolls out like he is looking for a receiver
4) turns around, head down, out of the game
5) turns around, head down, out of the game, then pops up and flails his throwing arm.
the problem with favre was he did too much, so coaching him was really just telling him what not to do. rodgers is easier for them to coach, like a dual rotor helicopter is easier to fly, but the potential is much much less. you can’t tell someone how to be more adaptive. rodgers is not adaptive. he will be targeted by opposing sharks, and bring down the entire team with him.
the coaches will stand confused. BECAUSE THEY ARE STUPID.
my favorite part of the game was the dude responsible for favre not coming back… he was watching the game alone in some glass room… they cut to him and suggested he was the guy ultimately responsible, then a minute later, they cut back, and the guy was agitated.
the way i understand it is the packers management’s main reason behind taking favre back was that they already promised rodgers he had the starting qb position… “like really really we promise you, seriously, even if favre comes back and asks to play (haha yeah right) you’re still a guy, seriously, we promise you”…. not that favre’s age was becoming an issue and the team wanted to start building a new franchise player… not that the money he wanted was too high…. not because he didn’t get along with someone… because they made some other schmuck a promise, and he put out some cheese for his family and had a “I’M THE STARTING PACKER QB” party. so dumb.
AARON RODGERS PLAYS LIKE A GIRL.
yankees sucked it up.
jeter chance to tie it up and grounds into dp? WHAT A JOKE.
SO RIGGED… new york city just wants to profit from game 6.
why else wouldn’t jeter hit a home run?
bottom line: primal fear of being hit or missing opportunity adversely affects rodgers decision-making ability linked to a failure of creativity regarding deception.
reduce the fraction: aaron rodgers plays like a girl.
Favre’s 1994 stats (so, 2.5 years as a starter): 3,882 yards passing; 33 TDs, 14 INTs.; QB raiting 90.7.
Rodgers’ 2009 stats (1.5 years as a starter): 1,989 yards passing; 14 TDs, 2 INTs; QB rating 110.4. And nine games to go.
Cal measures dicks in inches and I measure QB’s in wins.
Lots of shit QB’s rack up big numbers– they are always passing because their team is always losing.
Vikings were smart: their puzzle was missing a piece. They found that piece.
The Bears are idiots: the year they made the super bowl, they were missing a piece, a QB. Three years later, they went out and found that piece (yes, Cutler suckes this year but put ANYONE in there besides Grossman and the Bears are world beaters).
Packers are idiots: They had a very important piece and instead of building around it, they rebuilt the team. Give Favre Randy Moss. Draft something that could help RIGHT AWAY not Buck Rodgers, the QB of the future.
I guess I was on a different planet because my memory of two years ago is Baby Face Favre running away; hedging about coming back; walking away again; coming back with tears streaming down his face whining about how he’d been mistreated and didn’t feel peeps were coddling him enough; McCarthy and Favre meeting, while Favre bawls his eyes out some more and then stomps out of the room, declaring he could no longer stay in GB.
Who acts like a girl?
I agree with whazz that they never drafted around Favre, but I have a hard time getting over his “will i or won’t i” dance that he jigged to for the last 4 years. Prior to the start of his yearly fucking cry about whether his old bones had it in him, though, I do think the Packers did not do enough to build around him.
We were 13-3 and lost the NFC Championship game in OT. Favre retires; time to rebuild.
Suddenly, Favre wants to play again.
Some folks say no way!
I say FUCK YEAH: we’re getting the band back together! I’m excited. The way he went about it was shitty but he’s worth it and gives us a very real chance to do something I never see from any WI sports team except women’s hockey: WIN A CHAMPIONSHIP.
But no… I get to see the Packers go 6-10 and now I get to see the Packers at 3-dik or whatever we are with Taucher and Green leading us to defeat.
^ is all old news though.
The Vikes are 7-1, but who knows what will happen. Maybe Favre will be a hilarious Trojan horse that leads them to the NFC Championship game only to put on an interception clinic. I could live with that.
Maybe the Packers will get it together. Who knew the Giants or Cardinals would make the Super Bowl the last two years? I can live with that too.
Want to go to this? http://www.extremecagefighting.org/
One of the dudes is my student.
I’m thinking $89 ringside. For real, anyone want to go?
why do i pay for this magazine??? anyway talk your student out of that shit and read this:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell
aaron rodgers IS a girl
Somebody should have talked you out of law school.
somebody should have talked YOU out of survival football… snap!
I’m I all for allowing football players to know the risks of the game they play? Yes. I’m I all for letting them decide if they still want to play after knowing? Yes.
favres 1997 stats – superbowl champ
rodgers 1997 stats – sprouted a girl dick
I’M at the depot now- we have some leads on monkey boy and the local smokies are hot on the trail. Seriously. I guess dude is from lake mills and they tracked him on facebook.
Monkey boy is probably spider’s son.
So peterstiffly is firmly on the pro-Favre side? I couldn’t quite suss it out from his answer.
We’re officially gonna have a good ol’ fashioned Whazzgiving this year at my place. The whole family is coming: ma and pa, my bro, my sis + the carrot + little tyke. Hooah.
That was in response to cal’s article link regarding head trauma in the NFL, nothing to do with the Favre question. As far as the Favre issue goes, I think the Packers wanted to move on without him as far back as 2004, but couldn’t really do anything if Favre wanted to keep playing because Favre had demi-god status in Wisconsin. They could have done things to help Favre get the players he wanted in the short run but decided to start rebuilding for the long haul. I think it was more a situation of each side having different goals going forward than either being specifically at fault.
A very reasoned assessment. I wish I had you around for more sports punditry.
the yankees seem like a very talented team of baseball players.
funny word: comfortablest
did i tell you how much i hate cal?
And the Yankees. Fuck em!
Brewers, brewers, keep turning up the heat. MILWAUKEE BREWERS!!!!!!!!!!!
Whazzing from the Health Science Learning Center. Decided to play hooky and have lunch with me lady. We went to the Korean place by my house. I’ve been living next to the place for three years and this is the first time I stepped in side. Don’t know why I avoided it because it was great.
I don’t know dik about Korean food but I can tell you this: The Korean’s put an emphasis on keeping food warm. One dish was served in a million degree hot rock bowl. Cool, cool, cal. Another dish came with its own crazy butane heater. Like, the plate was a little stove with buttons and knobs to control. I had the hot rock, but next time I’m getting fire plate.
Eating there got me thinking about the good doc. Does he still blog? We need to get the links back on this page. I tried to find it using google but I ended up at some different people’s champ blog. Funny thing: this dipshit was also blogging about the Yankees.
Say la Pfffffffft!
Cal, get my gun. We’re hunting greg.
I’m the Favre of week night drunks–I keep retiring from weeknight drinking only to find myself back on the field. Last night I had four touchdowns.
no WORK til MONDAY der der der no WORK til MONDAY der der der NO WORK TIL MONDAY
Stiffly explains the two takes but I see MAJOR fault with the Packers. They wanted to move on without him… stupid.
I heard Rodgers permed his pubes.
I read an artiCAL about the Vikings side of things. Folks hated Favre for so long and now he’s helping them. One dude still hates him so much he refuses to use his name. He just says THE QUARTER BACK. Like if he’s cheering he says, nice play quarterback.
Cal’s such a viking fan he shits purple.
Hello?
Did any of you click on that fight website? Most of it is “under construction” except for this part:
http://www.extremecagefighting.org/fighterregistry.aspx
I think I’m going to sign up timmer. Or better yet, one of his more rabid brothers. I always wanted to be a manager.
Seems like it would be easy to get a fight on these cards.
Is it true that Wisco is still the wild wild west of MMA? Like, anyone can fight anyone?
I’m not sure. I think it is lawless but not 100% lawless.
This fight is on the rez though. Not sure how that works.
Watching an old Seinfeld, I noticed Chubby from Teen Wolf, confirmed it with imdb, and discovered he was also in Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Various soap operas, Deep Space Nine, MacGyver, Webster, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Sledge Hammer, and others.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392625/
Followed that to the director. I liked Teen Wolf and thought I might like his other work, but, nope. Save some respectable work on Magnum PI and WKRP in Cincinnati, he was a hired gun on shows like Home Alone 4 and the Simple Life.
Maybe the writers? TV, mainly. One of them did Heroes, Smallville, Buffy, Bat Man Cartoons. The other handled all Teen Wolf spin offs (cartoons and such) and played a big role in the terrible Alysa Milano/Schwarzenegger action movie, Commando, which SUCKS compared to Terminator, Running Man, and Predator.
Arnold’s name in Commando is a good one: John Matrix.
I’ll include Conan and, of course, Total Recall, on the list of good Arnold movies.
And I’ll give Kindergarten Cop an honorable mention. The rest I can do without.
It’s not a tooma. Remember that? Cal still uses that joke.
Greg!
Wow, the real Starsky directed Running Man. I think that’s my favorite.
running man is easily the best.
just bought gameboy advance SP limited edition NES…
i don’t think portable gaming ever needs to exceeds to power of the GBA SP, and the form factor is perfect. old school graffix were my weakness…
prisons should help pay for themselves by allowing prisoners to organize fight leagues, and provide a venue and sell tickets. they could save money fighting on the inside until they had enough to not require fighting on the outside. also, do nothing dana white would stop profiting on the work of others.
also, there should be a fat man made of electricity allowed to kill any of the prisoners at his discretion.
and old ladies in the audience should have some sort of say in what happens.
yo yo cal, me + mrs prob barting in for some drinking tonight. then andre nickatina on saturday in modesto. u busy reading playgirl in the stax?
Old ladies should have the opportunity to win fabulous prizes.
Let me field this one for cal:
Law school. BlALHJDJGHDIHGDH. Why did I evr do this HJKJHDKHIKDjifkocc. No modesto for this whazzer. Every thing should be illegal. Greg, hold me.
Madd and Cal living in SF together. Come on, cal. Hang out tonight. Make it happen. Bring your girl out. She’d have fun. Don’t lock her in the apt. and make her read Swiss literature all day.
Go to Mcteagues and put pool balls in your mouth. If they are real Norris fans they’ll love it!. Or better: throw a knife a madd.
I added a iPhone plugin to the blog; load it up one your iPhone or iPod touch and check it out.
ifuck you
I mean, not like I’m going to do it to you, but like a joke ha ha funny. ical hfiokfnjnfskmlfl
Wow, any of you seen this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEobeNfGcc&feature=player_embedded
It’s some crazy lady soccer player who kicks ass. That hair pull take down was BADASS.
Cal, you might like this story even though it’s fight related. Please look at the links abd let me know what you think.
The best guy in MMA is a Russian guy named Fedor Emelianenko. He’s very quiet and always wears this awesome sweater: http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/10/29/1106287/the-sweater-is-back-snapshot-from
And trains with these awesome guys: http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/10/28/1104592/snapshot-of-the-day-fedor
Here he answers a question about his sweater:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndPdbTchVZ0
So, any thoughts?
Here he fights a giant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i0iZcLIrTQ&NR=1
Here the giant fights Jose Canseco (yep, the real Jose Canseco):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqsLJKeyR0w
Here the Russian gets suplexed on his head and NO SELLS IT!!!
Stiffly, if you are on the whazzz, explain this to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtFvR7QRmow
Jesus christ that soccer chick was vicious
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good riddance to JJ hardy. he JJ Hardly is worth anything get it? get it? yo. i can’t go drinking i got the MPRE (multistate prefessional responsibility exam) exam in the morning… which i am sure to fail and have to retake. jfdliajfkdlajfdklajflkdsajflkdsjfkdajfdlakfjdslajfads
so annoying anyway i’m just here to post this:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/scruff/byu-womens-soccer-team-is-scary-a5w
sort of fits in the the fighting videos currently in vogue around here. PEACE
ps went to a giant jail today to do outreach to prisoners. was scary. and foul smelling.
let’s talk later whazzmaster, i have to study,
love,
cal
Spacebee’s parents’ house has 3G coverage now. Whee!
Badger Hockey pre-empts Strikeforce MMA in Madison. Boooooooooooooo