FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Touchdown Tommy]

Au contraire, TDT.

People want to be able to sample beers here in Wiscy is all good to me.

In fact, at our main Liquor store we do that already on a regular basis because of the type of license we have. It works.

Oh wise BlueDevil Bob: I meant in the sense of competition for your stores from the grocery store segment selling beer/wine.  Obviously sampling is proven as you will find at Costco on Sunday's around lunchtime as the "elderly" sample their way thru lunch or at the Jake Leinenkugel's Brewery where you can swill the varieties all day long...

[finsleft]

Why I like baseball.

TDT, were you in Boston yesterday?

[johnnie_esq]

Taxes Suck!

Back to football... Story on some changes made on the CORD FB staff !

The Corncobbers are going to {gasp} throw the ball?

I would LOVE to see Concordia come out in the Utah spread option.  They could do some damage with that provided whichever qb they pick is quick enough to run it.  But a quick qb plus Cory Johnson and one of their other backs is a dangerous combo.

[BDB]

Au contraire, TDT.

People want to be able to sample beers here in Wiscy is all good to me.

In fact, at our main Liquor store we do that already on a regular basis because of the type of license we have. It works.

Oh wise BlueDevil Bob: I meant in the sense of competition for your stores from the grocery store segment selling beer/wine.  Obviously sampling is proven as you will find at Costco on Sunday's around lunchtime as the "elderly" sample their way thru lunch or at the Jake Leinenkugel's Brewery where you can swill the varieties all day long...

TDT, Remember this is Wiscy. There is booze everywhere already.

I have no problem with the bill, especially if it's happening when Mrs. BDB drags me grocery shopping I will have something to do. 

[BDB]

Looks like Mr. Finsleft coaching ability will be showcased next spring at Siebert Field...


The Gophers' top football receiver, freshman Eric Decker of Cold Spring Rocori, is practicing with the Gophers' baseball team as a left-handed-hitting left fielder with plans to play next season.

The Shooter PP

The kid has a sweet swing and makes any outfield look small. The scouts should keep an eye on my lad.

fins, Babe Ruth League parents/coaches meeting tonight, so here we go. Son of BDB's swing looks just like Joe Mauer and I ain't just a braggin'. 

Got him the Joe Mauer hitting device for Easter to keep it that way.

[tmerton]

Looks like Mr. Finsleft coaching ability will be showcased next spring at Siebert Field...


The Gophers' top football receiver, freshman Eric Decker of Cold Spring Rocori, is practicing with the Gophers' baseball team as a left-handed-hitting left fielder with plans to play next season.

The Shooter PP

The kid has a sweet swing and makes any outfield look small. The scouts should keep an eye on my lad.

You get a 10 as a coach  and a 0 as a recruiter. 

[sumander]

Taxes Suck!

Back to football... Story on some changes made on the CORD FB staff !

You trying to pump up registration for the local paper, Sum?  Maybe you could just give those of us who are unwashed and unregistered the gist. 

Sorry Tmert, here is the article in it's entirety:

The Concordia football team's opener is almost five months away and Cobbers coach Terry Horan is already in midseason form.

There may be some changes on the horizon, but exactly what's going on at Jake Christiansen Stadium will remain top secret.

"They'll be some new wrinkles," Horan said Tuesday before his team's first spring practice outdoors. "But we're going to keep those things to ourselves."

What is certain, however, is that Concordia will be looking to rebound from a disappointing season in which the offense struggled to get off the ground en route to a 4-6 record.

The passing game, which was led by a revolving door of starting quarterbacks, was dismal. Signal-callers Jesse Nelson, Eric Rodel, Scott Schumacher and Aron Goraczkowski combined for 933 yards and a touchdown in 10 games.

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Since the end of the season, longtime offensive coordinator Bob Nick has stepped down and quarterbacks coach Dale Hertel and offensive line coach Dan Kostich were named co-offensive coordinators.

The change doesn't mean Concordia's familiar option offense will be thrown out the window. But Horan's cloak and dagger statements during spring drills indicate that the offense could at times have a slightly different look.

"There will be some new things," said Hertel, a former standout Cobbers quarterback.

"But there will be no more changes than what you would normally have in a year."

The quarterback position will be up in the air again this season, Horan said.

The Cobbers have five players at the position, including former Fergus Falls (Minn.) standout Andrew Larson. A sophomore, Larson was a starting free safety for the Cobbers as a freshman.

Nelson, who was named the team's starter four games into the season, Schumacher, Goraczkowski and sophomore Matt Green will compete with Larson for the job. Green did not play last season.

"We're tinkering with some things," Horan said. "It's key to make our offense more two-dimensional. What we did last year was make it easy for teams to load up as many as they could in the box. We need to be able to throw the ball to be successful."

Horan said he's been impressed with the quarterbacks in spring practice. Green and Schumacher have not participated because they are with the Cobbers baseball team.

Concordia's offense was dealt a setback two weeks ago, when starting tailback Cory Johnson sprained an MCL while training.

The initial diagnosis was a torn ACL, which might have jeopardized the speedy running back's career.

Horan said Johnson will be ready for the beginning of the season.

"Last year was definitely a learning process and it was definitely difficult," Nelson said of next season. "But we got a lot of guys a lot of reps. Coming into the season, I fully expect there is going to be a battle for the (quarterback) position. I'm excited for the competition."

[BDB]

Why I like baseball.

TDT, were you in Boston yesterday?

As a baseball fan AND a pizza lover I am offended by the idiot hurling his slice at another guy.

A) The opposing team was in the field. He didn't bother your beloved Red Sox.

B) You probably just paid $7.50 for that pizza and now you are gonna toss it at some dude and his beer drinking friends? 

[DuffMan]

13 hours and DuffMan is off to Lake of the Woods in the hunt for giant lake sturgeon.  Photos when I return .

[tmerton]

Thanks, Sum.  k for you.

Remember when pizza was a buck a slice?  Last time I was at the Oakland Coliseum (no idea what it's called these days) watching high school basketball playoffs they made everyone dump their bottled water before they entered - even if unopened.  That was okay, though, because they were willing to replace it at $5/bottle once you got inside.  (And since it was high school playoffs, beer wasn't on the menu.)

[tmerton]

This picture is going around the internet right now, typically with a caption along the lines of "Much to their surprise, the virgins awaiting Muslims in heaven were not quite what they expected ..."

But my first thought was - Is this a St. Ben's faculty picture on opening day for deer hunting?

[BDB]

Scared the hell out of me when I saw this picture.

Looks like good ole St. Augustine's elementary back when I was there.

Except the nun's didn't use guns on us back then. They just used their fists or those pointer rods to beat the livin' crap out of us. 

In those days, you took it. And if you said something to your parents the basic line was "you must've deserved it." Which, of course, was basically true. 

[Johnnie Red]

BDB, remember those days in elementary school?!! The public schools were not all that much different. I remember when I was in second or third grade and was required to sit with a buddy under our teacher's desk because we were goofing off in class. The teacher was a woman, so that was a little different sitting next to her legs.

Then when I was in sixth grade I was joking around in the back of the class. Our teacher was the elementary school principal. He asked me to walk up to the front of the classroom and face the class. The next thing I knew was that the principal had swatted me in the back of my head with his hand. I had a hard time not crying in the front of my classmates because it hurt so much.

Needless to say, I did not screw around in my sixth grade class ever again.

[finsleft]

Ahh, the good old days. When kids could bring guns to school, because they were going hunting right after school.
Speaking of guns, JR please let me know if you want me to come down and take care of that coyote problem you're having in Chanhassen. Unless, of course, they need me up at Leech to blast some cormorants.

[Rico 21]

I'll echo the good old days...     I had a math teacher in high school that would come up behind you and hit you in the head or on your back with a dust laden chalk board eraser.  You know what...  I deserved it everytime!

The only problem was I never learned so the beatings lasted all semester.