Roundup: Tardy, Christmas Eve Version
Baseball, College Football, High School Sports, NBA, Tour de France December 24th. 2008, 10:00am
Marissa Miller lost her clothes, and needs new ones tomorrow … Marissa Tomei and Ryan’s brother ‘Trey’ from the OC? … if anyone goes to the b-day party of Natalie Gulbis in Vegas, kindly let us know … reason never to believe anything the NAR (National Association of Realtors) says …
That’s 19 in a row for the Celtics. Boston plays the Lakers tomorrow at 5 pm. Set your mental clock. (Boston Globe)
TCU tops Boise State, 17-16. Total minutes of bowl games we’ve seen in the last week: less than 30 seconds. (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
But reading these previews sort of makes us want to check out a few this week. (Sports Hernia)
We love how the Dodgers are holding firm on Manny. Their fans? Not so much. (LA Times)
Blogger talks to Bob Cousy. (Hoops Addict)
Doc Rivers’ son, a sophomore in high school, drops 46 on a nationally-ranked team in a tournament. He’s already committed to Florida. (Naples News)
Hey, look! There are positive, nice stories coming out of Notre Dame. (Journal Gazette)
Lance Armstrong knocked up his girlfriend; Scott Boras makes pitch to be the kid’s agent. (People)
Notre Dame offensive coordinator gets Miami of Ohio head coaching gig. (Around the Bend)
“The New York Yankees represent the very worst of America.” (Philly Inquirer)
Nationals fans are taking the loss of Tex hard. (Nationals Enquirer)
Lingerie football tryouts. (Monkeys Throwing Darts)
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December 24th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Leah Remini on Saved by the Bell…
December 24th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Haha young, I woke up to that at like 630 this morning.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:13 am
So clearly, baseball teams should not be allowed to spend and earn money. If some people are miserable, everyone should be miserable.
Where have I heard this kind of logic before?
December 24th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Im in Oregon Pitt, so apparently we’re getting it 3 hours later…
December 24th, 2008 at 10:17 am
TBL thinks all American autoworkers should be out of work and all plants should shut down.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:17 am
/Too soon for a nut-cancer joke?
December 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
ahahahahaha poor broken hearted Zach
December 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am
At the rate the economy is going, sports teams like the Yanks will soon price out the fans. And the luxury tax in baseball is a huge joke. Like the column says, why spend money to make my team better if I’m just going to get free money anyway?
December 24th, 2008 at 10:22 am
extremist much?
December 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am
A bit of a misrepresentation, to say the least.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:24 am
dont blame the cheap owners … blame the system. sports is a business … and it’s good business to enjoy the money. why should the owners spend lavishly to improve the team when it doesnt matter, and the sheep will come anyway?
the owners of these teams have set their kids up for life, and their kids’ kids, and even the great grandchildren. even owners in cities where teams have been awful forever, like Pittsburgh and KC.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I believes he wants auto plants in the South to succeed. Non-union workers and all.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:27 am
young - that asshole from boston got what he deserved. damn atv races
December 24th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
/TBL picking up chicks in college
December 24th, 2008 at 10:29 am
I did blame the system.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Play on playa
December 24th, 2008 at 10:31 am
young, have they played the volleyball match yet? those are some finely tuned athletes…
December 24th, 2008 at 10:31 am
No diggity
December 24th, 2008 at 10:31 am
I do not think it is a misrepresentation nor is it extreme. Here is TBL’s quotes on the subject: “Senate blocks the auto bailout; before we ask where to send thank you letters” and “here’s hoping Paulson doesn’t step in and save that dying industry”.
So, he is happy the Senate didn’t loan money to the Big 3 and he doesn’t want the “dying” industry saved. How is that NOT wanting all american autoworkers on the street and all plants shutdown? Tell me.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Im not sure now….I switched to Malcolm in the Middle. No idea whats on at this time of day, Im usually at work
December 24th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Read it for yourself.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Sorry….read it for yourself.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:36 am
No doubt!
December 24th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Wow. Irish isn’t here and no one made comments about Marissa Miller?
December 24th, 2008 at 10:52 am
TBL - I know you said you haven’t watched much of the bowl season so far, but you really missed out last night. It was a terrific game and two teams that deserved to be playing on a bigger stage.
/SEC homer with a conscience
December 24th, 2008 at 10:53 am
guinness - If Marisa Miller asked to touch my penis, I would let her.
December 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Guiness, you were the first one to mention it. Is that all you think about? Sexy women? Get your mind out of the gutter!
December 24th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Agreed. It was a fantastic game. My neighbor, who is a big Boise State fan, said before the game Ian Johnson caught his wife banging one of the WRs and there was a fight. If that is true, it kind of puts a damper on the proposal after the OU game.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:05 am
know you said you haven’t watched much of the bowl season so far, but you really missed out last night. It was a terrific game and two teams that deserved to be playing on a bigger stage.
/SEC homer with a conscience
The bowl system is about money, it has absolutely nothing to do with deciding a true champion. The college presidents want nothing to do with a playoff system. The newspapers, to get readers, decided to start naming a champion years ago. Colleges know that if they start doing a playoff system its going to start resembling MLB, there will be 30 schools that have a legitimate shot every year with an occasional upstart like Northwestern or Rutgers or Oregon jumping in to make it interesting.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:11 am
The bowl system is about money, it has absolutely nothing to do with deciding a true champion. The college presidents want nothing to do with a playoff system. The newspapers, to get readers, decided to start naming a champion years ago. Colleges know that if they start doing a playoff system its going to start resembling MLB, there will be 30 schools that have a legitimate shot every year with an occasional upstart like Northwestern or Rutgers or Oregon jumping in to make it interesting.
The Bowl system is about money? Who knew?
December 24th, 2008 at 11:26 am
bankruptcy doesn’t mean ALL AUTOWORKERS are on the street. the way the initial plans were framed - which is when i made those comments - i was not for handing billions to the auto industry. there is zero chance for them NOT to come back and ask for more in the next year.
so how long would you like to prop up that cadaver? Ford is the new Weekend at Bernie’s.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:29 am
@Chelsea - Not all american autoworkers work for the Big 3. Several other car companies have plants/dealerships in the US. We should not punish these companies by throwing good money after bad at the Big 3. The Big 3 have had a good run, but let’s be honest, they took their consumers for granted and made no effort to improve their product from 1975-1998. Both the lower level union workers and upper management milked the industry for all it was worth and now they have bankrupted themselves. This is the free market result of bad business.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am
well said, Beard.
and hey, if Ford can survive on its own, great. as a small business owner, im all for that. i’ve just read nothing anywhere about how, as currently operated, the Big 3 can survive. if you have links, that’d be great
December 24th, 2008 at 11:40 am
TBL - you basically said that you hope the industry dies. you are now trying to parse your words in hindsight using bankrupcy as they key word when the key word back then was ‘die’.
Beard - Do you think that the non-Big 3 workers will be uneffected if the Big 3 go under? do you not agree that a lot of small to medium sized suppliers that would immediately die also supply to Honda, Mazda, etc. that operate in the US? What happens to the workers in those plants?
December 24th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Dying industry = a business about to go broke. See, newspapers.
They might lose their jobs. I don’t ever recall reading about a “right to employment” when I was in school. Some businesses go under. It’s a fact of life. Tough shit, as they say. Move on.
December 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am
The arguments and criticisms of the U.S. auto industry are the same ones that were discussed when I went to college in Michigan in 1987. How 3 companies can be run so poorly, for so long without any real significant change is mind-boggling.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
why is your name slcbuckeye if you went to college in mich.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
from Ohio, undergrad in Mich and grad school at tOSU, living in Salt Lake City.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I regret writing this because I vowed never to return to this blog, but you opinions on The Big 3 are uninformed.
First of all the only reason Ford is in any semblance of good shape is because they borrowed the money before the banks went to shit, so they don’t have to go begging the government for it.
Second, the Big 3 are losing money because of union contracts, sure, but also because of the green initiative of the U.S. government has mandated that they build small cars along with their SUVs and trucks. They are not good at building small cars that are appealing. The government in the same initiative then forces the Big 3 to market these shitty compact vehicles to consumers in order to “spread the word†about the fuel efficiency of the Big 3. Do you think the Big 3 like making cars that lose them money? Do you think they love the idea of then having to market these cars, that nobody buys, to the American people on their dime? The answer is no.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Third, the reason the foreign auto makers have maintained profitability is because they are SUBSIDISED by their governments. They understand that in order to add to GDP (the main indicator of global superiority) you have to MANUFACTURE PRODUCTS. Our government would rather pay farmers NOT to grow produce on their land to shrink supply and keep costs down rather than help the single greatest contributor to GDP in this country. You don’t add to GDP by moving money around. Something New York has yet to grasp.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
As I said, this was their problem in the 80’s. Union contracts were also an issue at that time.
How does Toyota make SUVS and small cars? Is there a magic potion that the Big 3 do not have access to?
December 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Forth, nobody was in a big hurry to let the Big 3 die when they helped us win WWII by out producing Germany and Japan, thus halting the threat of Europe becoming a non-capitalist regime. Good luck going eyeball to eyeball with the communists when you have no ability to produce war machines because you have let your infrastructure die. All because you didn’t want to lend a handout to the companies you have been raking through the mud for decades.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Mike - I guess adding around 3 million people to the unemployment rolls is just tough shit for them. Certainly not tough shit for you, right? Its not like we have to pay unemployment to those people that would cost more than the amount they were asking to stay in business. Oh wait, we do have to pay unemployment to them and it would cost more.
it is funny (funny weird, not ha ha) how congress, the prez, tres secretary and basically the american people were in favor of the financial bailout with no stipulations on how the money is spent. Same for AIG. But when it comes to manufacturing, blue collar people in the midwest, they cannot get one dime without saying how it will be spent. The folks at AIG are probably in the Bahamas right now having a drink that we paid for. I hope they say a toast to our collective stupidity.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Look out on the road. If you think the foreign auto makers come even close to the Big 3’s dominance in the SUV market you are insane. We own it. They are scraping to gain any market share, but they don’t LOSE money on their SUV’s. We lose money on our small cars because we are not competitive and the cost outweighs the price to produce.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Merry Christmas gents. I have to be going now.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Mags - your 4th point is so true and one that i keep stressing to people who are not from this area. If we ever got into Word War III or serious national security crisis. Who would mass manufactur our tanks? China?
December 24th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Weren’t the biggest selling vehicles this year trucks? I swear I read that somewhere…
December 24th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
merk, do you have links for that?
and “dying” was used in the context of, a month ago, pre-bailout, they WERE dying. they said they’d go under if they didn’t get help. bankruptcy is a viable option.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
The first bold is to emphasize the fact that the automakers were forced into a green initiative, when they should have been coming up with this on their own. This is just another example of slow development/forward thinking and why the fault lies with the overpaid office workers as much as if not more than the overpaid assembly line workers.
The second bold is to emphasize the uninformed thought process of many involved with the big three. This article explains how car sales are greater than truck sales and the Big 3 missed the boat.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Also, Merry Christmas, and it was good to have you back Maggs, if only for a second.
December 25th, 2008 at 1:43 am
Maggs, even though you and I go at it, nice to see you return.
PS: I agree 100% with your points on the Big 3, although I bought a new car yesterday, and it wasn’t made in Detriot-lol