SB Nation User Blog: Takimoto

Tako Tuesdays: Happy Holidays, Now Fight!

Takimoto — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:45:18 -0000

The main purpose of Tako Tuesdays is to foster debate, debate that usually devolves into a shouting match about personal preferences, which is what the essence of the Internet. Well, that and porn. Telling people their opinions are wrong and porn. That's the Internet. Which brings me to a Christmas-edition of Tako Tuesdays. In the comments section, I am leaving a series of bold and potentially outlandish statements. I'm not leaving any reasoning for why I feel this way. I don't even believe some of these statements. I'm just trying to stir up debate.

Here are all my claims, for organization's sake.

Chad Ochocinco is the NFL's most important player.

LeBron James will never win an NBA title, and will eventually be looked at as a disappointment.

The Boise State Broncos will win the FBS National Championship next season.

Ernie Kent will still be the Oregon men's basketball coach in five years.

The US men's soccer team won't make it out of the group stage at next summer's World Cup.

The Oregon women's basketball team will make the Final Four before the men's team does.

An NFL player will die on the field in the next three years.

A BCS Playoff will happen before Barack Obama is out of office.

The WNBA is more fun to watch than NASCAR.

The Oregon Ducks will win an FBS National Championship in the next ten years.

Ready...GO!

Tako Tuesdays: Beerdrops on Roses

Takimoto — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:46:35 -0000

Beerdrops on roses, Wildcats become kittens
Freshman Cliff Harris has Matt Daddy smitten
Jerseys are basically uniform bling
These are a few of my favorite things

Chip Kelly's offense makes Mike Stoops have nightmares
Jeff Tedford throws up, Pete Carroll grows white hairs
NFL draft pick's our number three string
These are a few of my favorite things

Score thirty-eight and we score sixty-five
Meet Eddie Pleasant and hope you survive
TJ Ward hits you, your whole body stings,
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the Dawgs win
Or the Beavs win
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
and then I don't feel so bad

Now that poetry hour is over, how about some good old-fashioned beer discussion? I love lists, and I give you the official list of Takimoto's favorite beers. The list was compiled and ranked based on these factors.

Taste - good is better, Budweiser is worse.
Price - Now I love drinking really good beer. But I'm also a college student. So a decent beer at a great price will rate favorably with a better tasting beer that costs $10 a six-pack (I'm looking at you Dead Guy).
Accoutrement - Got an awesome name? Got a awesome label? Can I play fun games with your bottle caps? You get bonus points.
Availability - This works both ways. I'm annoyed at having to go out of my way to find a particular beer, but I also want it more because I have to work to get it.
Sentiment - There are certain beers that coincide with certain events in my life. For instance, Mickey's is never going to make the list on taste, but drinking 40's at the park as a high school junior was always a good time.

10. Rogue Dead Guy - Yes, it's damn delicious. But it's friggin' expensive? If I'm staring at the beer selection, and it's between six Dead Guys and twelve tall boys of PBR for the same price, I'm going PBR 100 out of 100 times. It does however, make me feel better about buying Dead Guy in bars where it's the same price as any other microbrew on tap.

9. Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - Ah, the first beer I ever had. It's one of my dad's favorites, and the natural thing for 16 year old Takimoto to do was to start sneaking them out of the fridge in the garage. It's a good pale ale, and the extra sentiment puts it on the list.

8. Black Butte Porter - I like it, it's the best porter I've had, but it's still at 8 for the simple fact that porter is not my favorite style of beer. Many Tako Tuesdays readers would have the BBP in the top 5 at the very least. For me, it's a number 8 beer.

7. Mickey's - Yes, it tastes awful. Yes, it's technically a malt liquor but let's be honest here. It makes the list for two reasons. First, it's synonymous with high school for me. Second, it's my go-to 40. And I might as well enjoy being able to have a go-to 40 while I can. Once you graduate from college, you're aren't allowed to buy 40's anymore unless you want people to think you're homeless, a creeper, or both. 83% of America agrees with me. I made up a poll specifically for this article.

6. Drop Top Amber Ale - It's my favorite Widmer brew. Nice balance of sweet and hoppy, high drinkability. A very nice all-around beer.

5. Pyramid Hefeweizen - I know what you're thinking. Pyramid over Widmer? How dare you! But I grew up five minutes from a Pyramid Alehouse, and this was the first hef I ever had. And personally, I do think it's better than Widmer's. Deal with THAT!

4. Session - Good tasting cheap lager, fun stumpy bottle, and you can play Rock, Paper, Scissors with the bottle caps. I've never had a bad night drinking Session.

3. Ninkasi Total Domination - It's the first Ninkasi beer I had, it's damn delicious, and is on tap at enough places in Eugene that it isn't a chore to find it.

2. Pabst Blue Effing Ribbon - Many of you know my infatuation with PBR. It's the best beer very little money can buy. You can get a pint for $2.00 or less anywhere in Eugene (75¢ PBR at the Cooler on Mondays!). If you buy bottles, you can play poker with the bottle caps, provided you drink five. I can only think of one thing better, PBR's polar opposite...

1. Ninkasi Tricerahops - Full of taste and hoppy deliciousness, balls expensive, fairly difficult to find on tap, and the best tasting beer I've ever had.

Please tear my list to shreds in the comments. I'm sure it's crap.

Poll

PBR. Good?

Pac-10 Prediction Results

Takimoto — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:22:07 -0000

The Impact accepts your thanks for creating a scoring system for how accurate your Pac-10 predictions were, and for compiling the results. The Impact is in no way admitting that he's bored as hell.

Scoring:

9 points for nailing the positon exactly, 8 points for being one position away, and down to 0 points if you picked the Ducks to finish last or WSU to finish first. Also, if you picked the Ducks to finish last or WSU to finish first, you're an idiot. Double points awarded to your pick of the Ducks because this is a Ducks blog.

BayDuck - 85 points
NCAA '10 Simulation (via gamerosters.com) - 81 points (and picked the Ducks to win the Pac-10)
travissimo - 79 points
JConant - 78 points
JShufelt - 78 points
Duck4Lif3 - 78 points
Takimoto - 77 points (damn you Cal and Arizona!)
Ted Miller - 77 points
trumpetduck - 76 points
qrsouther - 76 points
Tortuga12 - 76 points
ConnerOSU - 75 points
rockingharder - 72 points
Phil Steele - 66 points (In case you weren't aware, he had UCLA 3rd and Oregon 6th.. Yeah)

Rest of the Flock: It's Not January 1st Just Yet

Takimoto — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:52:18 -0000

It's a slow weekend for Duck sport this weekend, the only event is Men's Hoops taking on Saint Mary's on Saturday afternoon at 1. But since I was in a euphoic stupor all last week and have no idea where I was from Wednesday night until about Saturday, I wasn't able to get you all your Duck athletics fix. So it's two weeks of hot linky action after the jump!

Mulkey Leads TS&G to Victory in First Meet
TSNG Force FTW!! Granted, it's their first season and don't have any actual college competition, but they beat a gymnastics all-star team. To put that in perspective, I think it's exactly the same as the Ducks beating the US Olympic team in basketball. So the TSNG Force is officially the most awe-inspiring display of jumping, tumbling, and spinning around on the planet. How do you like me now Beavers?!?! Where's your Team Stunts & Gymnastics program at!!! Oh, you just have a regular gymnastics team? That's unfortunate, how does it feel to not be awesome? Yeah. I bet it doesn't feel good.

Enesi and Newcombe Repeat AVCA All-Region Honors
Oregon's Neticia Enesi and Sonja Newcombe were honored as repeat selections on the AVCA Pacific All-Region Team Wednesday, while Nevena Djordjevic was tabbed as an honorable mention. Good to see the Oregon seniors being honored after another great season. Beating Washington in Seattle from a 2-0 deficit to deny them the Pac-10 title? Sounds like a success to me.

Hasay Named Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year
Pac-10 Newcomer of the Year Jordan Hasay led eight Ducks who were named to the Pacific-10 Conference's all-cross country teams, the league office announced Wednesday. Get ready to witness possibly the best Oregon women's distance runner of all time over the next four years. This is gonna be fun.

Rector Joins LAX Staff as Student Assistant
University of Oregon head women's lacrosse coach Jen Larsen has tabbed former four-year letterwinner Casey Rector to perform the role of student assistant coach for the upcoming 2010 lacrosse season.

Cuico Joins Duck Softball Signee Class
Oregon softball head coach Mike White was pleased to ink another of the West Coast's top prep players, Kailee Cuico, to a National Letter of Intent. The San Pedro High School product and Los Angeles area native was a 2009 All-State Second Team pick among underclassmen at the multi-purpose position, and was a 2009 All-City Pitcher of the Year and 2008 All-City First Team Selection. As ridiculously competitive as Pac-10 softball is, it's good to see the Ducks are taking steps in the right direction.

I'm switching it up this week. Instead of spandex, and in honor of one of my favorite commercials of all time, I present to you, my best pictures from the '08 Oregon Lineman Calendar, and a behind the scenes video for the '09 calendar.

SB Nation User Blog: Takimoto

Tako Tuesdays: Happy Holidays, Now Fight!

Tako Tuesdays: Beerdrops on Roses

PBR. Good?

Pac-10 Prediction Results

Rest of the Flock: It's Not January 1st Just Yet

Tako Tuesdays: Let's Be Honest With Ourselves Here...

MTV's Jersey Shore!!!

KEG STICKERS:

How dumb is this Tako Tuesday?

16 Team Hypothetical Playoff - I Like Our Chances

16 Team Hypothetical Playoff - I Like Our Chances

BCS Selection Day/ Bowl Chatter Open Thread

Civil War 2009: Pics Cuz It Happened

Tako Tuesdays: Ghostwriters

Tako Tuesdays: I'M BACK, BITCHES!

Nothing!

Tako Tuesdays: Coup de HONK!

Tako Tuesdays: DUX AND BEEFERS AND SOUPERPUNS

Tako Tuesdays: Cliff Harrection

Rest of the Flock: Quack Friday, Women's Hoops Weekend