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6083. wonkers2 - 7/31/2008 3:55:35 PM Final report on Pacific Cup Cap'n Dirty's daughter "crushed" the competition in DH2 division. 6084. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 7/31/2008 5:35:12 PM A chipette off the old block--congrats!
6085. wonkers2 - 7/31/2008 8:54:24 PM The Cap'n sez, "Thanks. I taught her everything she knows!" 6086. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/4/2008 10:41:56 PM This is fun . . .
6087. jexster - 8/6/2008 3:47:45 PM Cool!
The NyT has an interactive Olympic calendar which allows you to drag and drop your favorite sports to the top of the list. Your time or ching chang chong time 6088. wabbit - 8/8/2008 12:19:52 AM Whoa, Ronaldo!
Wired also has some links for watching the Olympics online, for those so inclined.
My apologies for my continued absence, when it rains it pours. I do check in (as you all have no doubt surmised), but will be largely absent for a while longer.
Before I go, let me say one thing for the benefit of the also largely absent Banks - boo hoo about Manny going to LA, it's about damn time. I know of exactly one person who wishes he was still in Boston, but only one. He is welcome to be Manny on the left coast. They'll learn. 6089. marjoribanks - 8/8/2008 6:59:11 PM Ha! I thought of this thread when I heard the news that Ramirez was LA-bound. Bawston just doesn't get it. I bet this sets off another curse, and they don't win the WS again for a few decades.
I've just watched the entire Olympics opening ceremonies all this evening, as the monsoon pounded down outside. Stunning, with unbelievably elaborate effects and choreography. Be sure to watch the whole beginning (1.5 hours or so), and also the lighting of the torch. Truly spectacular. 6090. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/8/2008 7:48:11 PM Ramirez continues to bang the ball out there, pissing off and on his former fan base--how utterly Manny. 6091. wabbit - 8/9/2008 2:08:41 PM hahahaha, Manny *is* the curse, but happily not for us anymore! Bahstun gets it just fine; his crap was tolerated for too long. Nobody is saying he isn't a great hitter, but he is not a team player, and that has always been his problem here. Manny wants to be the center of the team, and too bad for him that wasn't going to happen here. It wouldn't have happened with the Yankees either, which may be why they have consistently declined to take him off our hands for years. I would have traded 100 Mannys for one Jeter any day. All he's doing in LA is proving he was dogging it here because he wasn't getting his way. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and figure you didn't see the bullshit he pulled the last few weeks he was here. He has nobody but himself to blame for his contract, he got what he wanted and wouldn't budge when we wanted to trade him three years ago. He won't be missed.
I'm trying to watch something of the Olympics online. NBC's online coverage is having problems. 6092. wabbit - 8/9/2008 2:13:05 PM I seem to have dropped the link above to Wired's how-to-watch-the-Olympics-online wiki - here it is. 6093. wabbit - 8/9/2008 2:27:37 PM I couldn't get the NBC stream to work in Firefox, but it works fine in Internet Explorer. 6094. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/9/2008 2:45:07 PM Like everything else, wabb, you're dead on target wrt Manny.
I couldn't watch any of the opening Olympic hoopla--besides the commercials, I felt like I was watching The Borg after their invasion of Tibet. China is a global cancer in it's early stages and this planet no longer has the antibodies to fight it. 6095. wabbit - 8/9/2008 2:49:45 PM I saw bits and pieces of the opening ceremony. I'm watching the eventing horses do the dressage portion of their competition right now. The horse events are in Hong Kong because of the pollution in Beijing. 6096. jexster - 8/9/2008 2:55:21 PM THat was an incredible show last night. Do you know they sent young university students here to study US public administration so that they could return and build this new part of Beijing, more than just Olympic facilities. I had a kid in a seminar who lives about a mile away from the Bird's Nest.
This was 3 years ago! Incredible
Still not sure what the PDT TV schedule is..they're re-running the OC now 6097. wabbit - 8/9/2008 3:28:03 PM I didn't know that. The Bird's Nest is a beautiful structure, just stunning. I have to believe that China will get more use out of these Olympics than did Greece, or Montreal for that matter. 6098. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/9/2008 4:44:07 PM it's = its
[Topic shift, politely ignoring my jeremiad]
I do despair and rave, don't I?
6099. wabbit - 8/9/2008 6:59:01 PM There are many things about China as a government that I may not like, but I try to cut the Chinese the same break that I hope they will give us.
Moving on before I work myself into a frenzy...
Todd and Barbara Bachman of Lakeville, Minn. -- parents of 2004 volleyball Olympian Elisabeth "Wiz" Bachman and in-laws of U.S. men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon -- were attacked by a Chinese man while visiting the 13th-century Drum Tower.
The U.S. Olympic Committee confirmed [Todd] Bachman died from knife wounds and that Barbara Bachman suffered life-threatening injuries. She and their Chinese tour guide, who was also injured in the attack, were being treated in a Beijing hospital.
Elisabeth Bachman was with them at the time of the attack, but uninjured...
In happier news, the US women swept the sabre! After the morning dressage portion, US riders are in second place for team eventing. The women's soccer team has moved on and the men's gymnastics are doing well. And Michael Phelps is off to a good start; his time of 4 minutes, 7.82 seconds in the preliminaries of the 400-meter individual medley set a new Olympic record and would have been good enough for gold at the Athens Games.6100. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 8/9/2008 9:02:10 PM You are much more accurate with words than I am wabb. I was being tedious, so I'll exit from here to the John-The-Baptist Thread. 6101. jexster - 8/9/2008 10:56:25 PM WHAT A RELIEF!
Not every swimmer wears the new body suit.
I'm for the guy in the Speedos. To hell with Phelps, Ryan Lochte wears speedos
And he's not the only one! 6102. arkymalarky - 8/9/2008 10:56:38 PM Nursing a headache last night, I was glad for DVR because I taped the ceremonies when they reran and watched them today. I love them no matter where they're at, but I can't ever remember enough to compare them. China's got so much history, combined with Eastern philosophy/perspective, that I really enjoyed their presentation. The two Opening Olympic events that stand out most to me, though, are the archer in Barcelona, and Muhammed Ali's torch lighting. I don't know how much of this one I'll remember four years from now.
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