The Roundup: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know
Baseball, College Football, Golf, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, NFL September 23rd. 2008, 8:00am
Maybe we if we keep posting photos of Emmanuelle Chriqui, she’ll return to Entourage? … “one of the strangest and most dangerous creatures in the American media menagerie” … yes! Just say no to the bailout! … FBI nails the kid who hacked into Palin’s e-mail … how we became the United States of France … dollar tanking, gold and oil up - this is the kind of stuff this guy was talking about months ago, folks … scary video of the immediate aftermath of the plane crash Travis Barker escaped …
The Redskins for the Washington Post, part XXXXVII. Comments section is a fun read. (Redskins Insider)
Colin Cowherd, no longer on the radio in Indy. (Star)
Interesting that not only has Tiger struggled in the Ryder Cup, but the team secured a crucial win over the weekend without him. (Wash Post)
What NFL nicknames really mean. (CBS Sports)
Alfonso Soriano has apparently been spending time with a groupie. (Deadspin)
John Lackey talks to a blog. (So Cal Sports Hub)
Who knew Neuheisel could be such a snoozer of an interview? (LA Times)
Rather than watching the mess against Miami. Tom Brady took his son shopping Sunday. (Inside Track)
Brian Westbrook was on crutches Monday, but his ankle is only listed as a sprain, and he’s listed as day-to-day. (AP)
Ten ways to fix the Browns. (Plain Dealer)
CDR is probably the only NBA player who doesn’t play video games. (NBA.com via True Hoop)
So people are wearing NBA jerseys in church now? (M Live)
Why’d the Yankees exclude any mention of Joe Torre in the last day at the park? (NY Times)
Because we completely spaced on this yesterday: JMU beat No. 1 App State over the weekend. (Daily News-Record)
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September 23rd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Thats the closest Ill ever get to waking up with Emmanuelle.
Good job TBL.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 am
Entourage has got to get her back in the show because currently it’s sinking like a stone!
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 am
@TBL - this is what comes up on the “no to the bailout” link. Is this the right link? If so, it’s incredibly full of information and no broad generalizations.
/fully sarcastic
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
Great point about the United States of France, a lot of people are so desperate to save the economy that they don’t realize how thorough the nationalization will be.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
here I was, getting very comfortable. Refineries were re-opened in TX, delivery charges were back down, oil was low. I waiting for the gas prices to go down again tonight, silly me.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 am
oops, not sure how that video popped up so early. my bad.
will re-show it later in the day.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:31 am
Brady spending time with his son? That must be made up.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:34 am
i was pretty disappointed by this. Clemens should have been included as well. When the Steinbrenners get a bug up their ass, this is what happens.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 am
I heard that no former managers were a part of the montage, it was strictly a player thing. That said, Clemens was definitely excluded.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am
I don’t think the Steinbrenners themselves were even mentioned, which seemed odd to me as well. No doubt Torre should’ve been mentioned, maybe even a video message from him on jumbotron, he’s earned that respect, no matter how little I enjoyed him as the manager the last 4 years.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 am
Jose Reyes’ Road Beef >>>> Soriano’s Road Beef. i’d still smash both of them though.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 am
How in the hell do you get away with telling the history of the Yankees and not acknowledging Billy Martin and Joe Torre as managers?
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
no other managers are alive that won WS titles. besides Buck Schowalter, nobody alive was even successful.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 am
Hey Sparty, Stump Merrill had his moments.
Actually, maybe it’s just the fact his name was Stump….
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
Fatty, what about Dallas Green?
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 am
Do you guys really think Willie Randolph would have been included if he were leading the Mets to the post season right now?
Trick question! No one can lead the Mets to the post season!
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 am
No mention of the, ahem, identity of Palin’s hacker?
Chargers are going to the Super Bowl post coming later?
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
how we became the United States of France
That’s a scary read that blows a few things out of proportion, but makes a few good points.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 am
/tbl’d
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
@Mike - dude is at Tennessee and lives very close to my former undergrad apartment. facking iiiidiot!
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Ladies and gentlemen, a simplified version of Terry Pluto’s “Problems with the Browns” article:
1. Not defense
2. Coaching
3. Coaching
4. Coaching
5. Roster
6. Injuries
7. Roster and Injuries
8. Injuries
9. Coaching and Roster
10. Coaching
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 am
@August - you should read the link on the bailout. it’s a little wordy but unbelievably informative. you should take the full 3.5 seconds to read it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 am
Haha — I just read it. Very in depth.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
@miz: what the hell was that? I was half expecting a dissertation, not a 4 line blurb… good stuff.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 am
First time in a while Im up early enough out west to “enjoy” Mike & Mike, but the little M just dropped a gem, saying the Patriots shouldnt be booed because they have won every game (until yesterday) since Nov 2006… um… ok.. And as a disclaimer, I am probably the biggest Pats apologist who is not a NE fan over the last couple of years…but still this is amazing
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 am
where has Purdue Matt been? i do not recall one of his recent internet drive-by’s.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:00 am
i have never marched or protested anything.
and if there’s a protest against this bailout, i’d partake.
the mere fact that those 5 IBanks doled out billions in bonuses in 2007, and then 2008 fucked up so bad that WE have to bail them out is preposterous. i can’t believe the middle class - which is what i think largely makes up most blog readers - isn’t more pissed about this.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
@Mike and August - I think Maggs wrote it.
speaking of commenters with self-imposed exiles, where’s PurdueMatt been? I need a false optimism economic link to try to cheer me up.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
miz-how does this keep happening?
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
damn; sparty FTW!
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Great start to Heroes last night.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Well I’m a Pats fan and I agree with Greenberg(blech). Booing and leaving early on Sunday was disgraceful. They were also sitting on their hands the whole game. Quietest stadium in the league, also most expensive, goes hand in hand. I just hope this means it will be easier for someone like me to get tickets now.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Im not saying I disagree with the premise of giving them a break for one bad game, just thought it was funny that he would say they havent lost since 2006, thats all
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 am
I’m pretty pissed about it, TBL. but, I don’t really have much to add that your “no to the bailout†link up top didn’t already say.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:04 am
And I was disappointed (to say the least) that they didnt win that game in Feb
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
Yeah he’s going with the whole regular season streak.. I guess it is pretty tough to omit the biggest loss in franchise history.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 am
crackerjack-i have been told by non pats fan that Gillette is one of the loudest stadiums they have ever been to.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
I’m pissed about the bailout as well, but i haven’t seen a single reputable economist propose another way of getting through this without putting us on the edge of a devastating depression… if anyone knows of a better way I’m all ears.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:07 am
TBL, from a guy who isn’t anywhere near your “to the right of Attila the Hun” stance on the economy… I am totally against it, too.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
Well Ive never been to Gillette but I’ve heard the exact opposite.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:08 am
This was a lot scarier than this bailout…
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:09 am
I think the biggest loss in franchise history was in week one of this season. didn’t you know that the NFL needs Tommy?
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 am
/TBL
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:11 am
Analysts are never wrong, they’re just early.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 am
@ miz: Here’s the real reason the NFL NEEDS Tom Brady…
/surprisingly not an oprah.com link
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
I’m all for the government stepping in and getting banks and homeowners to renegotiate the terms of the mortgage. That seems like a win for everyone, and no one seems to be able to adequately explain to me why banks that are in trouble are still refusing to do this on their own.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
+JS, August. that was good.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:16 am
FBI nails the kid who hacked into Palin’s e-mail
No word yet on if Big 10 hackers were trying to do this as well, but were just too slow…
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 am
What did you mean by this Mike? The kid’s name was in the article.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
I’m guessing Mike is justifiably referencing the fact that the kid’s dad is an elected democrat…
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:21 am
But that was also referenced.
And yeah, I’m sure the dad asked the kid to do this.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:21 am
Thank you, August.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:24 am
tough love. we have a free market system, and the more we tinker, the more we delay what will happen. i’m no economist, but i’m all for doing nothing. people need to learn that you can’t live off credit cards, and you have to save money. this will probably mean a brutal year or two, and yeah, it could be depressing.
if we’re essentially preventing people from learning a lesson, how will they ever learn? does prudence mean nothing?
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
im normally a feinstein fan when it comes to his golf writing, but he’s way off base in that article. he mentions tiger’s record of 10-13-2, which is pretty average, but he neglects the fact that TIGER HASN’T LOST A SINGLES MATCH SINCE 1997.
i’d love to struggle like that.
seriously…enough with this shit. tiger wasn’t in the ryder cup, stop talking about the fact he wasn’t there. the team wasn’t better off without him, and frankly, it kicked 1,000x more ass without him there. it’s nice to actually see other players instead of a giant swoosh.
now yall can go back to your politico talk.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 am
The worst part about this bailout is that it prevents us from talking about amending the constitution to protect the sanctity of marriage from the queers. That’s the conversation we should be having.
/sincere
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 am
TBL — What I don’t want to see happen is Multinational Corporations get bailed out for their mistakes and the regular guy get nothing for his, but get stuck with the bill for the MNCs.
Why should AIG get bailed out for their greedy mistakes but Joe Smith not get to renegotiate the terms of his ARM?
The bailout as it is currently structured (give Paulson $700 billion and let him do whatever he wants) is ridiculous.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Valid point, TBL… I’m on the verge of starting a campaign to make Dave Ramsey our Secretary of the Treasury. This country is effing retarded for how much debt it carries; these are the chickens that are coming home to roost.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
Very well stated, TBL. The core issue of the problem is that we are a nation of debt. Too many people immitate the way our government budgets, which is set a budget, exceed it by 100% and borrow the needed money to cover the excesses.
The best thing for the long-term health of our national economy is savings and investment (two key components of GDP), which would increase exponentially if people would just get out of debt and stay out.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 am
TBL…I am assuming you have missed the last 80 years when the Government has been involved in helping and regulating our financial system…this is not unprecedented..and I am willing to hear what the plan is before shitting all over it in a knee jerk way…If it helps people with piggyback and ARM mortgages renegotiate I am all for it..if it leads to some regulation on some wild west speculation on real estate futures so 50X100 plots are not justifiably $700000 pieces of land I am for it…you are harping on the bonus thing (which I don’t get) the companies are paying their employees what they agreed upon in their contracts…not every dept. in Lehman was not solvent…your anger is misguided…no one yet has a grasp on what is going to happen except something…let’s wait to see what something is
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 am
Now this sounds like a great idea.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 am
The Nigerian scam letter from Minister of Treasury Paulson that’s going around is pretty funny.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 am
Of course they paid out huge bonuses in 2007.
If I-banks don’t pay out bonuses, their best employees leave. That’s how that industry works. There isn’t (and shouldn’t be) any loyalty to the firm, because you can be jobless in a heartbeat.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:40 am
I like most of Ramsey’s ideas. But last time I checked, he still believed that everyone should pay cash for everything, including their house. That’s a little unrealistic for someone that can comfortably afford a 30 year (non-ARM nor interest only) mortgage but would take 20 years to save up for a house.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
It gets worse. Basically Paulson has full control over the money. A provision in the bill says that his decisions with the money may not be reviewed by courts, Congress, etc. Essentially there is no oversight as to how the $700B is spent. That kind of money should NEVER be handed to one human being with no oversight.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:41 am
I believe he is all for people putting 20% down on a 15-year fixed mortgage.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 am
The core issue here doesn’t have anything to do with credit cards.
It has to do with the ridiculous notion that the real estate market was going to forever appreciate in value at ridiculous rates. The mortgage industry decided that they could then make money through giving loans to people who they otherwise wouldn’t.
That was stupid. And it was stupid for the IBanks to buy up packages of those mortgages, and it was stupid for AIG to insure those packages. It’s a giant shitpile, and the shitpile kept getting higher for a long time.
Now, the fact that the American consumer is a debt riddled mess is also a problem. It doesn’t help that our economy is too much dependent on consumer spending. This likewise won’t be a fun topic to talk about or fix.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
anyone see C Rock at the end of Letterman last night? If you want to skip the political stuff, fine
but skip to the Mike Vick comments in the last 10 seconds
hilarious
http://gawker.com/5053486/chris-rock-to-bill-clinton-hillary-lost?autoplay=true
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
gimme..I agree with that..but do you think a Democratic congress is going to let a Republican executive branch get away with that? They structure these things with negotiation in mind…the idea of the Bailout and new regulation is not of base though…some may want us to have a second Great Depression..I am willing to settle for a bad recession
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 am
@gimme - that’s much more reasonable than what I thought his stance was
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
@miz: a home is about the only thing he endorses going into debt for though…
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
Let’s not unfairly place the blame on one industry. The CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) was passed in 1977. Basically that piece of legislation allows for the coercing of lenders to do what they can to make loans to people who can’t pay them back. Apparently many local groups used this bill to force local banks to make loans to poor people by threatening to lobby any desire by the bank to expand in that area. The bank had to choose between risky business or no business whatsoever.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 am
@August - I almost fully agree with that. however, if someone has the opportunity for a post grad education like med school or law school that costs ALOT but pays back quickly, debt should be considered to fulfill that opportunity.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:53 am
If we’re attributing blame here, lets not forget Phil Gramm and pals’ tearing down of the walls between investment banks and commercial banks that made all of this debt so ‘valuable’.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 am
I hope everyone remembers that 2 of Obama’s top advisors were higher-ups with Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae and made millions in the last 10 years while they cooked the books to get themselves big bonuses. Obama received tons of $$$ from those banks in the last 3 years as well.
McCain realized back (I think in 2005) that they were cooking the books and co-sponsored legislation that would have placed more oversight on Freddie and Fannie and probably would have helped to prevent (or at least lessen) the major problems in the financial sector.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 am
@TBL — Wow, it’s great when Rock is on his game. There is no one better.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:11 am
mccain has his own Freddie connections…not to mention what was said in comment 73 by august, Phil Gramm if we remember was one of McC’s main economic advisers
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 am
That’s a bold faced lie followed by a severe distortion. He has no advisors who are associated with those companies (the only link was one erroneous Washington Post reference), and a little over $100,000 in contributions doesn’t mean squat to a campaign that will raise $250 million by the time all is said and done.
Next.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:14 am
@gimmeabeerman — You could have posted “2+2=5″ and it might have had more truth to it than all that stuff about Obama advisors, McCain, and Fannie/Freddie. What you actually typed sounded like the text directly from a McCain TV Ad. Political ads are always 100% truthful and transparent…
If you want actual facts about the people you seem to be alluding to (both in the McCain campaign and the Obama campaign) this Bloomberg article is helpful.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aQIOOr9klOnE&refer=home
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
@sortsdork thats the article i got my quote from
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
tiger is 3-1-1 on sunday singles matches at the ryder cup, and the next time its here its at his second best course, medinah. im pretty sure theyre going to be glad he gets his points spot
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 am
Westbrook day-to-day? Aren’t we all?…Sorry couldn’t resist…
I have a friend who lives outside of DC and he used to/still does work with a girl that was “friends” (you know) with Soriano while he played with the Nats. She would play voice mails that he had left and everything. He referred to himself as “Soriano” (last name only!) on the phone he said. She was his local girl it seemed.
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
TBL, I’m pissed about the bailout but what exactly can we do to change the way the loan business is run? I can e-mail my congressman and say “Please don’t bail out this business” but other than that, it’s out of our hands.
I think the real issue is the fact that lenders gave people loans for amounts they couldn’t afford. How do we prevent them from doing that again?
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:07 am
The problem with casting Emmanuelle Chriqui as Eric’s girlfriend on Entourage is he was suddenly going around with a girl way hotter than most of Vince’s girls, which made no sense whatsoever.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
I hate missing these discussions on the economy because I start work later now.