ahtrap
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34 yo, chained to the lions bandwagon since the days of Eric Hipple, and Eddie Murray missing field goals that would have beat the 49ers in the playoffs....Detroit sports fan in general, enjoying the ride with the Red Wings and Pistons and Tigers. Michigan fan by birth and schooling, also down with the Wisconsin Badgers from doing grad school and living in Madison the past 5 years.
Seems heretical to say it, but for a while there, I was more into the Badgers men's basketball squad than Michigan's, while UMwas recovering from the shenanigans of the long dead Ed Martin. John Beilein seems to have righted the ship. though, and I'm looking forward to see what he can do once his program is fully implemented.
I am a sports bigamist....I must admit. The Detroit teams, and Michigan will always be #1 in my heart, and I'll always root for them without reservation...but I can cheer for other teams, so long as their fortune don't interfere with the primary rooting interests. These interlopers include the Wisconsin Badgers, from six years of living within a half mile of Camp Randall stadium....and recently, the Pittsburgh Penguins, from hanging out at Pensburgh ever since the 2008 SCF. That flirtation burned me badly, what with watching the Pens taking out the true love, the Red Wings,for the 2009 Cup. Bigamy is complicated, whoulda thunk it???
Also a Brewers fan, from having been in Wisconsin the past 6 years....but what are the odds of the Tigers and Brewers meeting in the World Series?
All that said, when it comes to Michigan vs Wisconsin, I'll always be rooting for the Maize and Blue, as evidenced by my by now numerous forays into the halls of the Kohl Center and the UW Fieldhouse, and even the drunken student infested sections of Camp Randall stadium wearing the enemy colors. I take the abuse with pride.
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If you can't be the best...be the worst!
Link is to an ESPN insider story by Jay Jaffe of Baseball Prospectus where he rates the best team of the decade, as per stats like the HLF calculations that drives that site's in-season power rankings. The 2001 Mariners stand at the top, but, as we could probably have guessed, the 2003 Tigers are the worst team of the decade, with the 2002 Tigers close on the heels of the infamous 2003 edition.
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It's darn near 4 AM and I'm still up
by ahtrap on Oct 7, 2009 9:50 AM EDT
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Despite not being around these here parts, I did watch most all the game...it was on MLB network, and I'm hoping/fearing that they do the same thing tomorrow, pull in the FSD feed. (It wasn't until the 4th inning that I realized I was watching Mario and Rod, that's how infrequently I've got to see them call a game. I then immediately told my friend whose house I was at to look up the Rod Allen in Japan video, he got a kick out of that.)
But man, again, that was brutal. I was ready to give up in the 8th, but I stuck around to watch, because he had to put the finishing touches on hooking up his new home theater stuff. One runner on, two runners on, no out, a RUN a freaking RUN, Curtis barely escaping getting doubled up on a hard hit liner from Magglio, surely that was a sign, an escape of another sort was at hand, with our big dog at the plate, the tying run just begging to be scored. And instead, a GIDP, the bane of the season. Just brutal, heart renderingly brutal.
Click on through to the other side, if you can deal with some rather morose rambling.
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So what are the possible outcomes, anyway?
by ahtrap on Sep 28, 2009 3:43 PM EDT
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7 games to go, 4 against the Twins, 3 against the Sox. 8 different possible records, ranging from absolute disaster (0-7), to sheer bliss (7-0). What's your best guess as to how the Tigers finish off the year?
I was just mulling over the possibilities, and playing with how the endgame might play out, thought I'd share, and see what the rest of you thought.
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Monte Clark has died
Clark was the first Lions coach I was aware of, and he had a couple of decent teams towards the end of his tenure, a missed Eddie Murray FG away from breaking the then 26 year streak of playoffs failures in 1983. Things fell apart in 1984, especially after Billy Sims suffered his career ending injury, and Clark took the fall, paving the way for the Darryl Rodgers nightmare.
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Remember how once Andre Smith was considered #1 pick-worthy?
The guy finally ends his hold out yesterday, and today he breaks a foot in non-contact drills. The Bengals picked up a snakebit player with that pick...
3 months ago
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Buster Olney really on a Alcides Escobar kick
Two days in a row, Olney mentions Escobar, this time in an account of taking his 5 year old to the youngster's first game, and the great impression the shortstop made on the kid just a few plays into the game.
5 months ago
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Is Caleb Campbell the next Herschel Walker?
Former Lions 7th round pick taking a shot at bobsledding. Says he's not giving up his NFL dream yet, though. Good luck to him....gotta say, though, I hope he doesn't qualify for the Olympics, only to have the Army say he can't compete at the last second....
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What a year it's been for Pensburgh...on so many levels....
by ahtrap on Jun 18, 2009 3:24 PM EDT
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Thinking back to "happier" times for myself, I went looking for the game thread from last year's SCF clinching game.
The Link posted here is to the Pensburgh game thread for last year's Stanley Cup clincher, June 4, 2008, the night the Red Wings won their 11th Stanley Cup, and, given the events of last Friday night, a lifetime, and then some away, now.
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It wasn't Hossa that was the Phantom Menace...
Though, I still say Mario has some incriminating pictures somewhere....but, no, the real ticking time bomb the Pens planted in the Red Wings dressing room was none other than...(insert dramatic music here)....THE CURSE OF TY CONKLIN!
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congrats, y'all
by ahtrap on Jun 13, 2009 4:04 AM EDT
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I'm wasted, devastated, and all sorts of out of sorts, so, there may be things in here that I regret in the morning, but so be it....but your team got the job done and they are the kings of the hockey world this night, and for that, congratulations. Enjoy it...and enjoy the oversized targets that just got drawn on the back of those black and champagne (seriously, what color is that tan-ish stuff, anyway, officially?)
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