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[sjusection105]

I saw a man on the street TV interview last night where the guy said "I don't mean to be apathetic, but I really just don't care."

I saw that interview. That reporter should make a "Best Of" movie..... it would sell millions of copies! People are pretty clueless unless it comes to their backyard.

[BDB]

   

Or as the local paper puts it: Herald Sun journalist Jon Ralph wrote "Let's face it, when you look half rock god and half Jesus, men want to be you and women want to be with you."

Hey Oz, I notice in the first 2 pictures that the jersey colors are the same, but the patches are different. And 1 has like a crest and the other, no.

Do the sponsors change by game or how does that work?

[OzJohnnie]

   

Or as the local paper puts it: Herald Sun journalist Jon Ralph wrote "Let’s face it, when you look half rock god and half Jesus, men want to be you and women want to be with you."

Hey Oz, I notice in the first 2 pictures that the jersey colors are the same, but the patches are different. And 1 has like a crest and the other, no.

Do the sponsors change by game or how does that work?

The first one, with the Tasmania logo, is a picture of Spangher in the AFL jersey (referred to as the senior side) playing for the Hawthorn Hawks.  The second is him in the VFL jersey (the Victorian Football League, the minors, and is referred to as the junior side) playing for the Box Hill Hawks.

Also, the pony on the Box Hill jersey is reference to their former name the Box Hill Mustangs.  They became the Hawks 10 or 15 years ago.

[OldAuggie]

Can't sleep and I am so bored that I'm actually paying attention to Oz's posts about Australian Rules Football. I suppose the next move as I approach "geezerhood" is that I will start to watch soccer.

[AO]

Can't sleep and I am so bored that I'm actually paying attention to Oz's posts about Australian Rules Football. I suppose the next move as I approach "geezerhood" is that I will start to watch soccer.

Baseball is the geezer sport.  The world cup TV audience was 5 times bigger on Sunday than the average stanley cup game.

plus, a guy bit somebody yesterday. 

[OldAuggie]

Can't sleep and I am so bored that I'm actually paying attention to Oz's posts about Australian Rules Football. I suppose the next move as I approach "geezerhood" is that I will start to watch soccer.

Baseball is the geezer sport.  The world cup TV audience was 5 times bigger on Sunday than the average stanley cup game.

plus, a guy bit somebody yesterday.

http://www.11alive.com/story/sports/soccer/world-cup/2014/06/24/uruguay-edges-italy-1-0-to-advance-at-world-cup/11317633/
Corrupt referees, players biting each other, I am "all in". 

[AO]

Can't sleep and I am so bored that I'm actually paying attention to Oz's posts about Australian Rules Football. I suppose the next move as I approach "geezerhood" is that I will start to watch soccer.

Baseball is the geezer sport.  The world cup TV audience was 5 times bigger on Sunday than the average stanley cup game.

plus, a guy bit somebody yesterday.

http://www.11alive.com/story/sports/soccer/world-cup/2014/06/24/uruguay-edges-italy-1-0-to-advance-at-world-cup/11317633/
Corrupt referees, players biting each other, I am "all in". 

[badgerwarhawk]

Mike Grant back to SJU . . .

http://www.sctimes.com/story/sports/2014/06/23/rajkowski-column-star-game-brings-grant-back-sju/11293921/

This isn't football related but this time of year that doesn't seem to make much difference.  I just wanted to alert Robert Zimmerman to something I caught in the paper today.  That being the sale of the only known surviving draft of one of Bob Dylan's most popular songs.  The song being "Like a Rolling Stone" which sold in auction Tuesday for $2 million.  Sotheby's called it a world record for a popular music manuscript. 

[retagent]

Baseball is the geezer sport.  The world cup TV audience was 5 times bigger on Sunday than the average stanley cup game.

It just shows you that there are far more Moe-Rons in the world than one might think.

[Robert Zimmerman]

Mike Grant back to SJU . . .

http://www.sctimes.com/story/sports/2014/06/23/rajkowski-column-star-game-brings-grant-back-sju/11293921/

This isn't football related but this time of year that doesn't seem to make much difference.  I just wanted to alert Robert Zimmerman to something I caught in the paper today.  That being the sale of the only known surviving draft of one of Bob Dylan's most popular songs.  The song being "Like a Rolling Stone" which sold in auction Tuesday for $2 million.  Sotheby's called it a world record for a popular music manuscript.

Yikes!  Supposedly Bob wrote close to 20 verses to that song and then cut it down to the 6 minute classic that it is (which was still way too long for 1965 radio).  Bob called it "vomitific" lyrical writing.  "Highway 61" is in my top 10 albums of all time.

[AO]

Baseball is the geezer sport.  The world cup TV audience was 5 times bigger on Sunday than the average stanley cup game.

It just shows you that there are far more Moe-Rons in the world than one might think.

I was just talking about the US.  If you want to include the world than it's more like 500 times as many viewers.  The Super Bowl is also dwarfed by games between Man U and Liverpool, if that makes hockey fans feel better.

[OzJohnnie]

Baseball is the geezer sport.  The world cup TV audience was 5 times bigger on Sunday than the average stanley cup game.

It just shows you that there are far more Moe-Rons in the world than one might think.

I was just talking about the US.  If you want to include the world than it's more like 500 times as many viewers.  The Super Bowl is also dwarfed by games between Man U and Liverpool, if that makes hockey fans feel better.

I was in China once and was taken out to a top Shanghai restaurant - high-rise rooftop, sweeping city views, the works.  Crab was on order for one course and I expected something delicious.  Turns out they were these smallish river crabs.  And we ate the guts, not the leg meat.  It tasted like bitter, nasty, yellow, hot crab guts.  Exactly like you would expect boiled crab guts to taste.

1.2 billion Chinese would eat those hot crab guts before they would eat a steak with fries.

The conclusion to draw from this anecdote is not that bitter, nasty, yellow hot crab guts are better than steak.  But rather that really large numbers of people can be convinced to support stupid ideas.  Ideas like soccer is a game worth watching.

[hazzben]

^^ I actually enjoy soccer. Sporting KC down here is a blast to follow and as a Dutch American it's fun to root for Holland and the USMNT.

Having said that, Oz's rejoinder was classic!

In the words of Forest Gump:

Stupid is as stupid does

[BDB]

Baseball is the geezer sport.  The world cup TV audience was 5 times bigger on Sunday than the average stanley cup game.

It just shows you that there are far more Moe-Rons in the world than one might think.

I was just talking about the US.  If you want to include the world than it's more like 500 times as many viewers.  The Super Bowl is also dwarfed by games between Man U and Liverpool, if that makes hockey fans feel better.

I was in China once and was taken out to a top Shanghai restaurant - high-rise rooftop, sweeping city views, the works.  Crab was on order for one course and I expected something delicious.  Turns out they were these smallish river crabs.  And we ate the guts, not the leg meat.  It tasted like bitter, nasty, yellow, hot crab guts.  Exactly like you would expect boiled crab guts to taste.

1.2 billion Chinese would eat those hot crab guts before they would eat a steak with fries.

The conclusion to draw from this anecdote is not that bitter, nasty, yellow hot crab guts are better than steak.  But rather that really large numbers of people can be convinced to support stupid ideas.  Ideas like soccer is a game worth watching.

I'm guessing AO is heading out for some hot crab guts asap.

[AO]

I'm guessing AO is heading out for some hot crab guts asap.

I believe that we will win.

I fought it and lost.  As a high schooler I was the sports anchor for the school tv news.  I was running through the scores from last night and then said "and in soccer news.....wait a minute, SOCCER'S NOT A SPORT, it's Communism!"   The spanish teacher called me names in her class, another politically correct teacher ran out of his class in a fit of rage down to the studio while my classmates barred the doors.

You don't have to choose between a steak and hot crab guts.  There's only one sport playing at 11 today.