The Roundup: Hating MNF and Hating Notre Dame
Uncategorized October 26th. 2007, 7:59am
Helllllooo Jessica Simpson. Damn … Just curious, but we’re toying with the idea of a live chat at some point. Not sure about your thoughts on that, but we’d appreciate them … this story is interesting - bodega owner fights off robber with an ax – but WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE the video … if you don’t want to believe us about the housing economy leading to very dark days ahead, believe the Wall Street Journal … boys will be … uh, monkeys? … To follow-up yesterday’s post, Jim Jenks indeed did take the position at MLB.com, and thus there is an opening for a Sports Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer … think we’ll ever see an athlete as President? Didn’t think so …
Tony Siragusa is not enjoying his time in London. (USA Today)
We’re surprised it took this long. (I Hate Monday Night Football)
An absolutely delicious rip job of Charlie Weis and the Irish. (Slate)
Whitlock offers his take on the Michael Smith-Chad Johnson-E:60 pitch meeting. (Fox Sports)
Hey Emilio, how did you not make this ‘Power 150′ list? (Washingtonian)
We made mention of Channing Crowder’s geography skills yesterday, yet many of you felt the need to send us this link anyway, so please do comment away. (Palm Beach Post)
We’ve been saying it all summer – the Cavs haven’t improved. (Halftime Adjustments)
You stay classy, Florida sorority skanks. (The Gradebook)
A radio host, hockey, and gay love. Or something. (Southeast Shootout)
Not quite feeling the direction Friday Night Lights is going. We vehemently disagree. (Bad Choice Milk)
NFL ref Ed Hochuli vs. the Subway commercial. (Hater Nation)
Why live blog? (Sports Media Journal)
RB Musa Smith is ahead of the curve and a member (supposedly) of the ‘new’ Facebook. (Capazoo)
Rules of Sports Fandom. (Fan Nation)
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October 26th, 2007 at 8:14 AM
More gloom and doom economic commentary. For the 56th time, stick to sports!
October 26th, 2007 at 8:18 AM
I love the live chat idea! I am concerned about the new direction of Friday Night Lights, but I will give it a few more episodes to see if they come back around to its strengths…
October 26th, 2007 at 8:32 AM
Believe me–I’m currently selling my house. It’s not gloom and doom. It’s reality. If you don’t like it, don’t click on the link. My god…
October 26th, 2007 at 8:33 AM
PurdueMatt: Screw you, and Purdue blows. TBL is trying to educate all of us as to what is pertinent in the world, in tiny doses. You people need to read something other than the sports pages. Feel free to find another blog if you do not like it, you moron. TBL rocks!
October 26th, 2007 at 8:38 AM
Sadly, I must agree with the FNL assessment. Realism and consistency have been disregarded.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:40 AM
Ahem – Philadelphia Inquirer
October 26th, 2007 at 8:41 AM
“Say it with me ‘BO-DE-GA’, That’s right ‘BO-DE-GA’”
Thurgood Jenkins
oh while am at it…
“The doctor said I need a backiotomy!”
October 26th, 2007 at 8:47 AM
Hey! Black ass!
October 26th, 2007 at 8:55 AM
Yes, definitely not happy about the Cavs lack of improvement. LeBron may actually have to try this season. Oh, and prepare to see a TON of Damon Jones.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:07 AM
Purdue … Please don’t explode when we get near the election.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:08 AM
Jessica looks awesome.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:17 AM
Live chat? So, uh, what kind of panties are you wearing, TBL?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:24 AM
I was reading that WSJ article last night. It’s bad news for the economy, but good news for people shopping for a home (like me!). I just need to figure out whether to buy in early ‘08 or wait until everything hits bottom, which some people say won’t be until ‘10.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Marry, fcuk, kill: Jessica Simpson, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel?
To each, his own, but I would marry Alba, fcuk simpson and kill Biel.
Biel’s ability to bench more than I can and the fear of assination from angry lesbos puts her on the kill list. Alba looks like a girl to bring home to mom and someone I wouldn’t mind slamming all day. As for Simpson, if you are talking about a one night stand, does it even matter she barely knows the alphabet?…… didn’t think so.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:38 AM
Suggested Chat Questions
We Have To Ask
Suggested questions for today’s The Big Lead chatters…
1 pm TBL: What’s it like having nothing from the last 15 years on your iPod?
October 26th, 2007 at 9:49 AM
love Whitlock but he needs to give up on Jeff George. How old does George have to be before Whitlock gives up the dream.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:49 AM
Is that Michael Smith guy that stupid?
Sports journalism in ESPN’s case is completely worthless.
Debating Chad Johnson’s enemies…wonder what is going through the heads of the white people in the group…so stupid on so many levels. Fuck Chad Johnson, he’s a big time loser.
Thrilling commentary, more better than you == ESPN
October 26th, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Live chat would be awesome – you’ve got my vote! Thanks for the WSJ link.
Hey PurdueMatt, IF YOU DON’T HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE ECONOMY, DONT CLICK ON THE LINK. It’s that simple, unless they don’t teach common sense at Purdue. I don’t care to read about the NBA previews, but I don’t complain to TBL about it. I scroll down looking for something else to read.
Re: Florida sorority, the restaurant should have known what they were getting in to. I’m a Greek, and we got banned from having formals at a restaurant for raucous behavior. Personally, we laughed when restaurant catering facilities ok’d our requests to host a formal. They are clueless until they have hosted a few sorority/frat events. Apparently the Sales & Catering Manager had images of Mandy from Animal House in her head, and that’s not what it’s like anymore.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:09 AM
I bet Gerald Ford is rolling over in his grave at the question of whether we will ever see an athlete in the White House.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Panties: Briefs.
Music: Totally have music from the last 15 years on the ipod. Just clicked it on (shuffle): We Fly High (Jim Jones), Big Pun (Don’t wanna be a player), Waiting on the World (John Mayer), Hey there Deliah (Plain White T’s).
I skipped over one song from the 80s – Your Love, the Outfield. This song is sooooo money. You hear it at a bar around 1 am and you know it’s time to lock something up. Women eat that song up.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Housing: Feel bad for anyone selling a house now. The only advice I’d give – and your neighbors and agent will hate this – is to lower the price 30k tomorrow. 50k if you need to.
This is not the time to be greedy. You know why? Because in 4 months, you will have lowered the the price 50k anyway. But so will have everyone else.
If you’re in a spot where you can’t lower it, best bet might be to try and rent it out, even if you have to for a loss. I’d say buying in april/may after most of the foreclosures happen would work … but if the gov’t uses our tax money to help some of these folks stave off foreclosure, maybe think end of the summer/early fall like august/sept
October 26th, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Waiting on the World?
Wow. At least have “Daughters” in the rotation. That song bites donkeys scrotum.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:31 AM
Wouldn’t have a problem with the economic commentary if weren’t so off the mark, politically motivated, and politically slanted. It’s obvious you guys are huge liberals, so you want to paint the worst picture possible of the state of the markets/economy.
October 26th, 2007 at 11:56 AM
here are the girls from U of F
you can thank me later..
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:oJcyCPYk6kcJ:grove.ufl.edu/~zeta/+http://grove.ufl.edu/~zeta/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
October 26th, 2007 at 12:17 PM
SVSP – Just went through like 5 songs … have probably 150 on there. Do people take songs off their ipod?
Purdue:
A) What’s off the mark
B) what direction is the motivation?
c) what specifically has been slanted?
Feel free to email if you dont want to post it here.
There’s no question the economy is in the tank. Big-time. We’ve never assigned blame, just pointed it out.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:25 PM
I’ve got no love for house-flippers caught with their pants down, or for people that took out exotic mortgages or ARMs so they could live big on a small payment for a few years. If you’re not smart enough to understand your mortgage terms, then keep renting.
Any man with John Mayer on his iPod is in fact not a man.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:03 PM
PurdueMatt, give it a rest and stick to more conservative topics that you obviously prefer like Gene Keady’s dye job, the odd raised basketball court, and Big Ten football.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:11 PM
The WSJ is as conservative as any rag in print. I’m not sure where my fellow Midwesterner PurdueMatt is getting his information. I thought the article was very informative, and as a homeowner in the Rust Belt, I was reminded to not try and sell my home anytime soon, like for the next 10 years.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:01 PM
Can someone please tell whitlock to get Jeff George’s cock out of his mouth. Dang.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:02 PM
The deterioration in the housing industry is a result of a market correction, not the result of bad economic conditions. The housing bubble was a result of inflated home prices and bad lending/borrowing habits. It is very similar to the stock market correction from 2000-2002 which was a result of inflated stock prices during the late 1990s coupled with all the accounting fraud occurring at the same time.
I have no interest in bailing out morons who take on mortgages they clearly had no ability to pay. Yet our congress has already taken action to give tax relief to those who foreclose on their homes and paying for it by increasing taxes on those with second homes who have the ability to pay. Our endless compassion for idiots is going to bankrupt us.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Exactly David B. Compassion for idiots and catering to the lowest common denominator is the new American Way. Not that he has a chance in hell, but we better hope that Edwards doesn’t win in ‘08 or we’ll be taxed into submission for having the audacity to own a home and have a good job.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:16 PM
“It is very similar to the stock market correction from 2000-2002 which was a result of inflated stock prices during the late 1990s coupled with all the accounting fraud occurring at the same time.” Unfortunately, it was the very same inflated housing market and rigged lowering of the interest rate that did away with the recession that took place from 2000-2002. Now that the big ticket purchases (homes, vehicles, big screen televisions, etc.) has slowed down because everyone is pretty much refinanced out, we’re back to where we were in 2002.
October 26th, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Actually the refi boom was only part of the economic recovery. The tax cuts had a bigger impact.
October 26th, 2007 at 6:08 PM
David B is correct. The rate cuts ultimately have had a negative effect on home loan rates. The 30-year fixed loan – the only one you should be messing with – saw its rates RISE after the rate cuts.
That’s why I don’t think you’ll see rate cuts again.
And agreed: don’t bail these people out.
October 27th, 2007 at 9:47 AM
What some of you might not realize about Purdue’s comments is that Indiana isn’t suffering at the same levels the majority of the country is. That could be what is coloring his opinion.
Our housing bubble was not as large as the rest of the country. We have begun the process of moving back towards a sellers market. I was just in a presentation the other day done by two mortgage guys from a national bank. Their closed mortgage numbers are on the rise and outpacing larger cities.
Here in Indianpolis, we got a little lucky because we have a proportionally large number of government jobs, and our business sector is experiencing tremendous growth. While our housing market is still a little slow, I’m advising my clients that if they want to buy in the next year, they need to do it sooner rather than later.