The Roundup: Oscars Weekend is Always Fun
Baseball, College Basketball, Courts, Legal, Drugs, Lance Armstrong, Media Gossip/Musings, Mitchell Report, Movies, NFL, Recruiting February 20th. 2009, 8:00am
Starting the day with Halle Berry … what’s Warren Buffett doing with his loot? …the postmaster general is clocking over $800k (!) a year … this qualifies Palin for Obama’s cabinet, right? …if you’re into doom and gloom, this book could be for you … deflation fearmongering on CNN … hair weave stops bullet … you probably won’t want to bail out the automakers after reading this … the day before Rihanna’s 21st birthday, her battered police photo emerges (after the jump) …
The ten greatest sports scenes in non-sports movies, and No. 3’s quite funny. (Orlando Sentinel)
Scott Linehan went 2+ seasons in St. Louis, feuded with the team’s best players – Holt, Bulger, Jackson – and now he’s been hired as offensive coordinator in Detroit. Poor Calvin Johnson. (Post-Dispatch)
UCLA tops Washington, stays in the Pac-10 hunt. The Pac-10 smells like the Big 10, only slightly better with more athletic players. (LA Times)
Xavier loses to Charlotte, opens door for Dayton to steal the A-10. (Cincy Enquirer)
Like David Ortiz, a couple guys on the Cubs are in favor of a 1-year suspension if caught using sterids. (Southtown Star)
Yes, Bud Selig is the real shame in this entire steroids mess. (Mushnick)
Unsavory character named in Mitchell Report was still reportedly hanging out frequently with a certain slugger. ESPN did a massive story on him two years ago. (NYDN, ESPN)
To avoid surgery, Jose Guillen fought the ingrown toenail … and Jose Guillen won. (KC Star)
The “best” high school football player in the country, Bryce Brown, who previously committed to Miami, but sort of backed off, will visit the Canes in March. (Miami Herald)
Pay-to-read models on the internet that work. (Slate)
What it was like to be in Paso Robles when Lance sped through. (WC Bias)
Santa Clara hoops star John Stevens talks to a blog. (Rush the Court)
Documents tying Bonds to positive drug tests and doping calendars won’t fly in court, says judge. (NY Times)
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February 20th, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Is it sad that I have been up since 4 a.m. and have been looking forward to the roundup since then? I think it kind of is.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:10 AM
Run it, run it
February 20th, 2009 at 8:17 AM
Wow! An extra heavy dose of doom and gloom from TBL this morning. It’s almost as if I went to one of the major news websites. Let’s focus on everything negative and depressing! That’s the way to rebuild hope!
February 20th, 2009 at 8:18 AM
I enjoyed reading that list, and there were some great scenes mentioned, but there is a gaping, glaring omission. #1 on this list without question should be the scene in Fletch where Chevy Chase dons the afro whig and dreams of playing for the Lakers. It HAS to be on that list.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:20 AM
The ironic part is the quote above calling CNN on fearmongering…haha.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:25 AM
Rihanna looks awful without makeup. How could she leave the house like that?
February 20th, 2009 at 8:30 AM
no man, that’s awesome
hope and change. that’ll do the trick. where’s my bailout?
February 20th, 2009 at 8:30 AM
surprised they didn’t have the President of the United States watching a taped Michigan/ND game in “Air Force One” and one of the members of the crew ruining the ending of the game for him..
February 20th, 2009 at 8:32 AM
Change!
More railing against the rich? How dare he make a comfortable living! Outrage!
February 20th, 2009 at 8:32 AM
The “best†high school football player in the country, Bryce Brown
He played against mediocre competition in high school. Let see if he can live up to this title of best player
February 20th, 2009 at 8:33 AM
How can the girlfriend test from Diner not be on the list but the cheerleader scene from Suburban Angst By Numbers is? I like the “if you’re into doom and gloom” followed by “deflation fearmongering.” The yin and the yang of TBL.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:34 AM
hope and change. that’ll do the trick. where’s my bailout?
I can’t speak for the bailout or what kind of change we need, but instilling hope in the American people can only help. What do you think FDR did during the depression?
February 20th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
that goes for any big time recruit. there is no true way to gauge talent at that high school level.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Alan Brinkley can shove his red-state ethos in his brown eye.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:38 AM
I dunno, it is a government agency who pretty much has a monopoly on letter mailing…and who is increasing postage rates faster and faster, are in the red, and yet gave this guy a huge raise. It’s a little annoying.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:39 AM
So you’re telling me Felipe Lopez ISN’T the next Michael Jordan? That’s sadder than A Day Without a Mexic@n going straight to DVD.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:40 AM
I dunno, it is a government agency who pretty much has a monopoly on letter mailing…and who is increasing postage rates faster and faster, are in the red, and yet gave this guy a huge raise. It’s a little annoying.
You forgot to mention that they’re trying to limit their services to 5 days and week, by removing mail service on Saturday.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:43 AM
TBL, your problem is you’re reading Rupert Murdoch’s pile of trash publications too much. The WSJ is not the trusted source of business news it once was, now its just conservative fear mongering propaganda.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Why do we even get regular mail on Saturdays anymore? Has anyone truly ever relied on the USPS to get something important to someone via regular mail for delivery on Sat. Cut your labor costs by 1/6 and I bet their bottom line improves.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Sorry ill – didn’t see your post.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Derrek Lee’s still laughing about the untestable roids he abused in 2005. Aramis Ramirez is just fat.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
It’s cool Roeth. Just stop stealing recruits from Maryland and we’ll call it even.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Where’s the link about the BSanders/Michael Bay ladder match?
February 20th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
Golf scene from Sideways should have been on that list
February 20th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
If they could only be as balanced as the New York Times!
An inefficient government run outfit? I’m shocked. I’d say to fold them altogether and let private run businesses do the job, but then we’d all find reason to complain that their CEO is making over $100k too.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
With Jerry Bruckheimer as special guest referee! I’d chairshot them both. Repeatedly. Then move on to face Paul W.S. Anderson at Wrestlemania.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:52 AM
HA!
February 20th, 2009 at 8:53 AM
i was actually talking more on the football end of it.
I think that you can do a better job in basketball (but be way off, like lopez), since these kids all play AAU in addition to their high school teams. so you see how they do against other talent in the country.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Not quite accurate. When Potter asked Congress in January to lift the 6-day delivery requirement, he intimated that Tuesday was a much more likely day for elimination than Saturday.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:53 AM
so you’re oK with some guy making 800k a year while the postal industry slashes jobs and considers stopping delivery on saturdays?
http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/postal_service/?postversion=2009012817
i’d like to hear what he’s doing to pull down 800k a year.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:57 AM
He doesn’t make $800k/yr. He makes $260k. Do you count bonuses/health care/401k/free dinner past 8pm/car service home/etc. as part of your salary at your job?
I don’t.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:58 AM
What does Rick Reilly do to make the coin he does?
Doesnt he make more than 800k?
February 20th, 2009 at 8:58 AM
I think most of it was in performance-based incentives. The problem is that you have a bunch of hacks setting targets for him. Not sure how he could hit his targets if the USPS is falling apart.
F Warrenb Buffett. Lost all respect for him after he pimped the bailout.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
The OL bench press starts at 2:30 on NFL Network. The Arizona Cardinals’ strength coach should have his own reality show. “Come on Sunshine!”
February 20th, 2009 at 9:01 AM
And this doesn’t apply to the stupid post office because it’s another terribly run government operation, but it’s kind of funny when you see people railing against CEOs of Fortune 500 companies for the salary/bonues they take home, asking them to cut back.
I don’t see anybody asking Stephon Marbury to give back any of the $22MM he’s pulling down this year while he sits on his ass at home.
In both cases these guys earned their money by way of the contracts they negotiated. So yeah, I’m “ok” with it.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:01 AM
Bsanders, are you a film student, in the industry or just a movie buff? Who are your go-to directors and actors?
Thanks.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Well, it’s my job. And I’m pretty damn serious about it. In addition to being a postmaster, I’m a general. And we both know, it’s the job of a general to, by God, get things done.
/Hyena’d
February 20th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
WSJ has jumped the shark.
Somebody asked me a few roundups ago why I thought the market would recover by this summer. We’re in a testing place right now … Dow doesn’t know where the floor is but is going to try to find it today or Monday. Just hope it’s not another trap door. If we go below 7000 people are going to start really flipping their shit, and then WSJ is going to tell you to get your canned food while there are still cans, etc.
Friends of mine who know a lot more about this crap than I do seem pretty unified on an early 2010 recovery. The market always leads a recovery, so that’s why I think this summer. Though the way things are going right now, I think I’d revise “early this summer” to August/September, though I still think we’ll have momentum at 9-9500 in late December/early January. I think we bottom out on this bottom we’ll deal with over the next few weeks and coast to summer spike when we learn we’ve overestimated losses.
And if the bottom is below this bottom … mercy.
Oh. And Chris Brown. Man. He should be kicked in the balls three times a day every day for the next ten years. That seems about just.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Ha, that is great, Nick.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
Film student, yikes. Film students are 10x more insufferable about movies than me. I’ve bounced in and out of the industry, but I’ve been writing about movies/TV since I was 18. I’m a big fan of older guys like Billy Wilder, Sidney Lumet, John Ford, Hitchock and modern guys like Paul Greengrass, David Gordon Green, Fernando Merielles and Guillermo Del Toro. And the standards like Coppola, Scorsese and Mann.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:09 AM
Do you have a blog/website or do you write for a publication?
February 20th, 2009 at 9:10 AM
No Kurosawa, bsanders? Go watch Transformers, peasant!
February 20th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
I don’t do much writing currently, I do more editing for a magazine web site. Kurosawa’s the shit. Seven Samurai’s been the source for like 17 different movies.