The Roundup: Up Close with the Polar Bears
Baseball, College Basketball, College Football, ESPN, Former Athletes, Kind of Gay, Soccer, Video April 13th. 2009, 8:00am
Because Reggie Bush gets dragged to the red carpet weekly … good luck to all our California readers who are using “medical marijuana” … any Lily Allen fans? … a public vs. private job reality check … an in-depth look at the man who killed 13 in New York two weeks ago … Goldman Sachs going after a blogger? … are people that interested in hyper-local news? … after the jump, video of a woman who mysteriously wound up in the polar bear cage at the zoo …
UNC freshman Ed Davis will return for his sophomore season. That’s an imposing frontline Roy Williams has to work with. (Observer)
This Todd Marinovoch profile sounds interesting. (Fab Forum)
What it’s like … working in research at ESPN. (Altoona Mirror via Fang’s Bites)
Byron Leftwich to the Bucs probably means the Steelers will end up drafting a backup or signing a veteran. (Tampa Trib)
Can’t wait for the Lakers-Blazers series in the playoffs. It has the feel of last year’s Boston-Atlanta series, or maybe Boston-Cleveland. It’ll go seven. (LA Times)
Brandon Webb to disabled list. (Eat Drink Sleep Baseball)
The EPL hates twitter. (EPL Talk)
A few aliases used by pro athletes. (Outside the Box Score)
Martina Navratilova’s former longtime girlfriend wants big bucks or she’s going to the press with stories! (P6)
“He presented a very persuasive case as to why only an imbecile or someone enthralled by Larry Kudlow could possibly think the stock market has seen its ultimate lows.” (Rick’s Picks)
Brother of Georgia Tech QB picks South Carolina over the Yellow Jackets. (AJC)
“It took only three remarkable shots — one each by snipers firing from a distance at dusk, using night-vision scopes, the officials said. Within minutes, members of the Special Forces slid down ropes from the Bainbridge, climbed aboard the lifeboat and found the three pirates dead. They then untied Captain Phillips.” (Bad Ass)
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April 13th, 2009 at 8:11 am
I refuse to hit the play button on that video.
Did anyone catch the “sports blogger” on the cover of the Parade salary edition? Said he maid 10 grand a year. I know your doing better than that tbl.
+1 for Soriano’s weekend. Not Pujlos’ I know.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:13 am
you gotta watch the video, man! it’s awesome
did no see the sports blogger on the cover of parade, will google around for it now, though.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:15 am
http://www.parade.com/news/what-people-earn/slideshows/real-people-salary.html?index=23
LOL
it’s one of the guys from Joe Sports Fan, I’m pretty sure
that’s gotta feel odd putting your salary out there like that
April 13th, 2009 at 8:18 am
Besides being too fat for the rescuers to lift, this daffy dame wore all black so, when she got soaking wet, she looked like a giant seal. I’m sure the polar bear felt like he’d stumbled onto an Easter buffet.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:21 am
should have been “..made 10 grand a year.”
video not as bad as feared. I wonder one of those bears was Knut the famed baby polar bear raised by a man in Das Germany.
How hard a sell would it be to pitch California to my wife on the “better quality of life” argument?
April 13th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Isn’t Chaz Batch still around?
April 13th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Batch and Dennis Dixon will battle it out for the backup/#3 QB spots. Or, according to Mike NYC, they should be battling it out for the starting spot instead of that fat, worthless Roethlisberger guy.
Sports blogging is fun, but if you’re making 10k a year then it’s time to along with your life’s work. Kind of funny that the next slide was some 26 year old “Home Healthcare CEO” from WV that makes $2.2 million a year.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:36 am
i’ve got a feeling that hedge fund manager that made 1.5 billion last year is regretting putting his picture and name in the Parade magazine right about now…or least he will be when the riots start.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:38 am
that kid making 2.2 was in that issue like 2-3 years ago as a “tennis pro” making 100K a year @ 22-23 years.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:39 am
You can buy a lot of guns and MREs with $1.5 billion. He’s probably not worried.
/TBL
April 13th, 2009 at 8:42 am
i’ve got a feeling that hedge fund manager that made 1.5 billion last year is regretting putting his picture and name in the Parade magazine right about now…or least he will be when the riots start.\
I was about to say I think some of these are a little fake…
Pet sitter/dog walker
St. Louis, Mo.
$100,000
…….$100,000 pennies maybe
April 13th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Reggie does not look happy to be there. Kim, as always, loves the camera. Whatta skank.
Great quote from a friend this weekend about the Kardashians - “I’d fuck all of them, even the fat, ugly one.’
April 13th, 2009 at 8:43 am
There’s an aerobics instructor in there making 75k. I’m sure what she’s “instructing” is just as important as what high school teachers are instructing, though.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Parade Magazine is the only reason i purchase the sunday paper
April 13th, 2009 at 8:47 am
nice polar bear video.
When we lived in NYC, we paid a chick more than 5K a year to walk our dogs, so it’s possible you could make a bunch of money, but that’s gotta be an agency, or couple’s rate. 1 hour, 5 days per made about 5K a year (20 a throw), so the math from there could be done if a baby wasn’t crying at my house!
April 13th, 2009 at 8:50 am
charlie batch? turns 35 in dec. has thrown 35 passes in the last two seasons. last won a game in 2006.
sure, i’d feel confident with him as No. 2
April 13th, 2009 at 8:52 am
@Dirt - 5K a year to walk your dog? Were you a fund manager?
April 13th, 2009 at 8:53 am
I’d rather have him than Jim Sorgi. You don’t pay a backup QB for his stats, but for what he can do when he’s on the field. When Batch is out there, he’s a good fit for what the Steelers do. And when you have $100 mil wrapped up in your QB, Batch is a fine No. 2 for another year until Dixon’s ready for the role.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:55 am
where’s my link about Wells Fargo turning record profits in Q1?
April 13th, 2009 at 8:55 am
A one-hour work, at 20 bones, five days a week = 5 grand a year.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:55 am
*walk
/Fuck you Monday’d
April 13th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Man, you walk ten couples dogs, maybe get a bunch of them together at once, you’re looking at a $50,000, 40 hour a week job that involves exercise and virtually no danger. Not too bad.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:04 am
virtually no danger. Not too bad.
Did you ever try to walk more than one dog in a major city? There’s danger everywhere. Chicken bones on the ground everywhere, parvovirus everywhere, traffic, broken glass, big, fat lazy squirrels that your dog will want to chase, and if two of them bolt at the same time, they’ll lunge.
It’s a good gig, though, if you’re living somewhat off the grid. Our DW lived with her parents, and made the $$ off the books.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:06 am
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@Dirt - 5K a year to walk your dog? Were you a fund manager?
No, but I love the dog, and he was literally eating the apartment. He tore up floorboards he was so bored. Eventually, the wife’s baby fever led us to get a second dog of the same type, and then we nearly immediately realized that we needed to move away, which turns out, was her plan all along. So now I live in a farm.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:09 am
I’d pay someone $100 to walk our dog if they promised to never bring him back.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:11 am
Walking two dogs at the same time can be a major chore, especially if one of them is even remotely high strung. I lived with a girl for a couple years and she had a dog and I had a dog and it was a bitch taking them both for a walk at night because we lived in a busy neighborhood. I’m not saying I’d turn it down for the scratch, but I wouldn’t call it easy, either.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:12 am
i dont mean to sound condescending, so please dont take it that way, but were you too busy to walk the dog yourself?
April 13th, 2009 at 9:15 am
No, I dislike pets.
Only the last one is really a danger to you (unless the dogs pull you through the broken glass).
A couple years ago, my friend’s family had this really annoying dog. I was backing out of his driveway and the dog kept running laps around my car. I was concerned about hitting the damn thing. My friend’s dad leans out the back door and yells “If you kill it, I’ll give you $200.”
It’s amazing how much people dislike their pets.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Polar Bear Video Rocked.
Whats up with all theses roundup pictures of chicks with their men?
April 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am
that’s funny.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Didn’t you see the “Kind of Gay” tag?
April 13th, 2009 at 9:20 am
bsanders. i have two labs, it’s a bitch walking both of them at one time, especially at the park or somewhere that there are other dogs.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:22 am
duffy will be upset the “kind of gay” tag directly precedes the “soccer” tag.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:22 am
I have a lab and a boxer. the park is much easier for us than the neighborhood, especially in the spring. i swear there have been people outside the last month or so that I have never seen before
April 13th, 2009 at 9:24 am
I’ll clarify dog walking for people who never lived in places without backyards, or never had a dog. The person you pay to walk your dog doesn’t walk your dog FOR you, they walk your dog so your dog can empty his bladder/poop chute during the day, while you’re busting your hump for the man. I lived nearish to my house, but had a 30 minute train ride to/from work, and worked full time. So I was gone 9 hours plus, and my wife was gone longer than that. The Dog walker came at approximately noon, and took the dog for a 20/30 minute trot around the neighborhood, then came home, sat with him for a few, put him back where he was supposed to stay, and went on her way.
You’re paying someone to help out with the responsibility of caring for your dog when you can’t, and you’re paying someone who you trust enough to hold keys to your house.
P.S. I love the dog, though at times I dislike him.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:26 am
well, that makes sense. i dont live in a big city, plus i have a backyard, PLUS i go home for a couple of hours every day just so they can go out. so yeah, i get it now
April 13th, 2009 at 9:27 am
We just trained our dog to always poop on the newspapers we put down (while we were out of the house). Of course, we had a basement with concrete floor that made this feasible.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Supposedly they have dog “litter boxes” for people who live in cities and can’t come home to take their dogs out, but who knows if they work or not. When I worked in NYC I just took them out about five minutes before the train and rushed home after work to take them out. They hated it, I hated it, we were miserable together.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:35 am
@Sanders: I think it depends on your dog. My family’s dachshund was smart as hell and my parents were devoted to training her. I don’t know how long it took for her to learn to go on the paper, but I know she did it for eight years in the middle of her life without incident (I was too young to remember prior to that and near the end, she started being a real pain in the ass).
April 13th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I used to have a box when Lucas was a puppy. He really didn’t want to shit in the box. The box was in the living room, and it was filled with piddle pads, and etc. Invariably, he’s sneak behind the couch and take a ripe crap. That was when he was a teeny puppy, and in cities, before 16 weeks, and all their shots, dogs aren’t supposed to go out at all. My second dog used to shit where she wanted and then eat it so she didn’t get in trouble.
@ blazers - don’t get snarky with me please, not about dog love. We moved to the country in no small part because the dogs weren’t happy, and when I used to work, i only worked where i could take them with me. Now I stay home with two of them, and the baby. The third one, who was miserable because of the baby, my wife now takes to work as a therapy dog, and he gets petted all day. And we only started doing that because he seemed sad and forlorn about the baby.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:39 am
Ah, stool eating, that’s the worst. It’s also what happens when archaic hillbillies think they can train their dog not to shit on the floor by pushing their face right next to the shit and yelling, “No!” Idiots.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Ah, stool eating, that’s the worst. It’s also what happens when archaic hillbillies think they can train their dog not to shit on the floor by pushing their face right next to the shit and yelling, “No!†Idiots.
That used to be in dog training manuals, along with beating them with a rolled up newspaper.
My dog didn’t do it because of anything I did, she did it because she didn’t want to poop in the box, and she was a bossy little thing, even at 10 weeks. Invariably, though, I’d find out what she’d done when she hopped up on me and gave me a poop kiss, which is grosser than gross.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:46 am
This is going way back into the thread, but did anyone actually go read the parade thing? Those salaries are nuts. $40,000 a year trial lawyer in NYC? I don’t even think that’s public defender money. Unless that guy’s working 20 hours a week, he’s doing something wrong.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:47 am
I think it said $400k.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:49 am
i know a couple friends who came out of school as doctors/lawyer and made dogshit for $.
they’re climbing quickly, though. and once they get to the 40s, they’ll skyrocket
April 13th, 2009 at 10:11 am
@dirt
sure didnt mean to sound snarky, sorry if i did. i was just pointing out that i am in a fortunate situation as it relates to my dogs. and i didnt realize all of the trouble it would be in a big city. anyway, sure didnt mean to question how much you love your dogs.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:28 am
no sweat. we really did throw five grand a year at the problem for two years before getting out of there. It was the best solution we had, and the DW really loved the dogs. She’s been up to visit once a year, so I lucked out on getting her to take the job.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Great post on public sector work TBL, which will only increase in number of jobs at least federally. The hiring process for public sector workers is agonising slower than even the private sector now, unlike back in that “terror era.” However, there are seldom layoffs. I noticed the huge gap in pay on average back when I was living in Metro DC until 2005. Did you know from 9/11 through the end of 2004, the Washington DC Metro area had the highest rate of job growth in the country, with Phoenix in second at about only half the rate? About 85% of those jobs were in “business-friendly” Northern Virginia too with all those contractor stiffs and the like (don’t trust any of those spineless folks from Metro DC)
Only those working for hedge funds and the like or who happened to flip properties with good timing (and later end up giving much or all of it back) made more than local public sector employees.
Now the employees of hedge funds and the like are rightfully sucking wind like all speculative types, but those public sector employees still have those jobs.
It seemed like wherever I worked that as usual about 20% working were carrying 80% of the load, with the rest of course just along for the ride because they knew it would be hard to lose their jobs anyway no matter what they did or did not do. It was “don’t rock the boat” to the extreme, as is whenever there is an excuse not to do work, don’t do it.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
The box was in the living room, and it was filled with piddle pads, and etc. Invariably, he’s sneak behind the couch and take a ripe crap. My second dog used to shit where she wanted and then eat it so she didn’t get in trouble.
Hey the “shit talking” (literally) should have happened on the Oden #2 post not really here.