The Roundup: Two Weeks to Training Camp
Baseball, Comics, Erin Andrews, MMA, Movies, Politics, Video, Women's Sports July 16th. 2009, 8:00am
Had some internet issues this morning, does old Jessica Biel work? … the housing recession must be over: Mansion sells for $43 million … this is a standoff worth pulling up a chair to watch … health care’s going to be a big topic around here until football season … prior to the British Open, Tiger went to see The Boss in Glasgow .. smuggling drugs in a golf bag … where have all the tigers gone? … 12 great low-tech inventions … Nikki Finke, Hollywood’s best reporter? … congrats are in order to this MMA site … school kids were actually told this: An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away …
Baseball has glue guys, too! (WSJ)
Dave Chappelle’s random, 1 a.m. show in Portland. He’s the best we’ve seen live, granted, we haven’t seen much live. (MSN)
Twitter’s going to make a ton of money (shocker!). That’s the plan, leaked documents reveal. (Tech Crunch)
Skylar Diggins is the new Candace Parker? (Big League Screw)
MMA’s Gina Carano might have made a sex tape. (Blood, Booze, and Bruises)
The biggest White Sox fan in the world (everyone knows him) flubs the name of the White Sox ballpark. The guy who sent this wrote, ‘what, no teleprompter?’ (Homer Derby)
Erin Andrews and a certain USC linebacker are friendly again. That’s good to see. (Twitter)
High school boy in Wisconsin poses as a girl on Facebook, gets male classmates to send him naked photos. Then, he blackmailed them with the photos. Then, he went to jail for it. Good read. (GQ)
Why didn’t someone sing the Canadian National Anthem at the All-Star game, Justin Morneau wonders. (Sportsress of Blogitude)
The story of the dork who ran Johan Hill’s fake twitter. With video! (Movieline)
CNBC fans will enjoy this one.
We hate running commercials, but we’re a sucker for Devin Hester.
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July 16th, 2009 at 8:04 AM
exactly the words I was hoping to read this morning.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:08 AM
my internet’s all sorts of messed up. can’t access a ton of sites. this day will be hell.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Where have all the Tigers gone? Screw that…the more important question is where have all the frogs gone?
Especially here on LI; I remember as a youngster there were a ton of them all over the place. Now, it’s hard to find any.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:27 AM
heard this morning that there are 30+ “Czars” in Obama’s administration?
What the f – we’re going to have more Czars than Senators before this is over.
I would like to see health care bill and cap and trade voted on and implemented as soon as possible. If they really are “good” ideas and will “work” the sooner the better. If not, bring on the next special interest owned bureaucrat and their “plan to save America”.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Where is/was the British Open preview? You’ve got Watson channeling some magic from 32 years ago this morning.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:30 AM
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away …
God forbid something like that is mentioned stateside.
BUT IF WE TELL THEM HOW TO DO IT, OUR CHILDREN WILL BE RUNNING AROUND WITH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HUMAN SEXUALITY! I’M IN FAVOR OF ZERO EDUCATION AND TELLING THEM IF THEY DO IT BEFORE THEY ARE MARRIED, GOD WILL CUT THEIR DICK OFF.
/O Reilly’d, Limbaugh’d, every other archaic douchebag’s views that prevents sex education in this country’d
July 16th, 2009 at 8:32 AM
/went to sleep watching Stone blow Mahr or was it the other way?
/woke up to Fox News
July 16th, 2009 at 8:38 AM
sounds like there should be some trippy dream sequence about bowling in the between those two events.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:42 AM
The old dude shoot 65, leader in the clubhouse.
That course is one of the most scenic of all the Open venues.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:45 AM
my 2 year old kills any sustained trippy dream sequences.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:47 AM
That GQ story about the Wisconsin kid is all sorts of fucked up.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:48 AM
the sexting/facebook/extortion story was brilliant. that shit will be a case study in every psych program.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
tommyp – why are you looking for frogs? Are you 10?
July 16th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Had some internet issues this morning, does old Jessica Biel work?
Yes.
my internet’s all sorts of messed up. can’t access a ton of sites. this day will be hell.
As some of us were discussing last night, that is becoming a problem for some of us. Deadspin, Facebook photos, and Superficial won’t open on either my home or work computer. I blame the Nazi Zombies. http://www.deadsnow.com
July 16th, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Richard Jefferson just interviewed by Stern…fantastic.
@tkmsu: I do dig frogs, but understand that they play a very vital role in our ecosystem. No, I’m not a tree-hugging liberal, but if you read the link, it does go into a little more detail.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:00 AM
tommyp was just watching the last disc of Planet Earth on Blu Ray and got a little freaked out. No big deal.
/tommyp got pwned by tkmsu
July 16th, 2009 at 9:04 AM
Tom Watson turned back the clock at Turnberry today. King of the Links.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Tommy, where on LI you from?
July 16th, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Maggs, I loved Planet Earth, they played things pretty straight up, no agenda. Discovery has a new one, Wild Pacific, holy f’in hippie crap, nothing but humans are killing this and global warming is killing that, unwatchable.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:08 AM
@KC – What about the CommieNazis?
/simpson’d
July 16th, 2009 at 9:13 AM
@Coop – “But, like, if we all don’t go green and trade our cars in for motorized scooters that run on solar panels along with a helmet that bottles you sense of self satisfaction, the earth will be dead by, like, 2011! PRIORITIZE, MAN!”
/knowingly ignoring the fact that cows are the real reason for “global warming” since the methane gas from their shit kills the atmosphere as long as over-grazing.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:14 AM
that’s too bad, it looked like Wild Pacific has some great HD Shots in it.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:15 AM
but have you seen the dairy farms that are converting that methane into powering the entire farm? that is pretty cool.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Yeah, I was pwned, all right. (rolleyes)
Watching 15 minutes of Wild Pacific was more than enough to change the channel.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:17 AM
Suddenly the ugliest man in Glasgow wasn’t good enough for her.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
2 weeks until training camp?!?
I’m so f-ing excited right now I can’t control it…. if peeing in your pants is cool, consider me miles davis.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
I see. Ecosystem. Good cover.
/just kidding’d
July 16th, 2009 at 9:18 AM
How original.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:19 AM
Best part of planet earth is the ducks jumping out of the tree.
And the original version is better than the Sigourney Weaver narrated one, just sounds cooler. I bought it together with Blue Planet not realizing it was the BBC broadcast rather than Discovery (only difference is narrator, and metric units).
July 16th, 2009 at 9:19 AM
It’s good to see you, Willie.
That’s not what you said the first time!
July 16th, 2009 at 9:20 AM
link? I’m not buying self-sustained fart farms yet..
July 16th, 2009 at 9:22 AM
the only thing i didn’t like in Planet Earth was the fungus…ugh, gave me the creeps watching that shit.
everything else was just amazing, including the wild dogs hunting in a pack. incredible.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:22 AM
Dancing birds of prey > ducks
July 16th, 2009 at 9:23 AM
Western Suffolk, and we’ll leave it at that, Shatner.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:24 AM
Oh the monkey getting picked off by the tiger was pretty badass too.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Ah, I’m from Medford/Mastic and then Three Village. I don’t live there any more so I can say that ha.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:27 AM
Yeah, Sir Richard “I got eaten by the dinosaurs in the book but not in the movie, which is fucked” Attenborough’s narration in the BBC version is far superior to Ripley’s. Ripley’s panties scene in the original Alien, though, badass.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:28 AM
the polar bear’s futile efforts to eat a walrus was a kinda sad sequence. I think it was gored by the tusks too and died.
I’ll probably end up buying that whole Planet Earth series. it ranks up there with the older Modern Marvels (Hoover Dam, TVA, Brooklyn Bridge, etc).
/nerd alert
July 16th, 2009 at 9:29 AM
You got a problem with the newer Modern Marvels like “Shovels” and “Silverware”?
(not sure if those are real, but judging by some of the recent ones I wouldn’t be shocked)
July 16th, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Nah, the deep sea with the animals who have never seen light and the dead whale getting eaten.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Best live comedian I have seen was Dave Attell. During the show there were like 3 different hecklers in the audience and he ripped one of them so badly that she started to cry. He felt bad about it and so he just started bashing her friend.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:31 AM
saw it on a Dirty Jobs episode this past weekend.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:33 AM
yeah, I do. Modern Marvels “Bread” doesn’t grab my attention as well as a dam holding back the Colorado River.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Forget that nerd alert noise, Modern Marvels is fantastic, off the top of my head favorite episodes, Butchers, Bathroom Tech II, Copper. I even love the old MM Engineering Disasters, which they dont seem to be making new ones of.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:35 AM
I’d buy Mike Rowe a beer…seems like a cool dude.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:36 AM
wonder how much he earns from discovery. he does shitload for them.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:37 AM
coop – the Engineering Disasters shows are fantastic. Copper was a good MM too.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:38 AM
he’s in Ford commercials too, right? on second though, I’d just let him buy the beer.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Hahahaha.
One of my favorites was the one on dredging. The building of the Port of LA and the islands in Dubai, man that is just so mind boggling.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:40 AM
I thought the Snow Leopard in Planet Earth was badass. Watching it hunt was incredible.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:41 AM
If there are no sports I want to watch, Discovery is the ol’ stand-by for me.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:41 AM
I can second this, I saw the same episode.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:42 AM
Actually, everyone should take a moment of silence for the Hoover Dam builders. Without them, there would be no Las Vegas as it is today, and that would be tragic.
/true story
July 16th, 2009 at 9:42 AM
In Blue Planet one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen was the underwater brine lake. And of course the vampire squid, and the balls of fish.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:43 AM
does old Jessica Biel work?
old – yes. new – not so much.
Modern Marvels is fantastic
I sat and watched the “Disney World” episode with great interest.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:43 AM
you guys are about to give miz a boner.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Interesting fact of the day: Mike Rowe was an opera singer before getting into TV. He sang the National Anthem at a minor league game in Baltimore in one episode.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:46 AM
too late…
/giggity
July 16th, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Second interesting fact of the day: I’m naked, listening to Pink Floyd, and finalizing some student loan documents.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:54 AM
As a Professional Engineer I can say this is a good thing.
July 16th, 2009 at 9:59 AM
Jesus Christ man, there’s just some things you don’t say in public!
July 16th, 2009 at 10:01 AM
You’re right, the student loan part was TMI.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:03 AM
amen to that. although, I have a feeling that the Jacksonville parking structure collapse in 2007, the I-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota in 2007, and the Cowboys practice facility collapse in 2009 are all good candidates for a new episode.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:06 AM
2 weeks ago in midtown atlanta a 5 story parking deck that was about 5 years old collapsed during the middle of the day. It was across the street from GT.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Have to agree with you on Chappelle, got lucky enough to see him at Zanie’s a real small comedy club in chicago in one of his first shows back from Africa right before he went on Conan when he was in Chicago.
Although he was tweeked out about people recording him, I have never seen a better set. Plus Common was at the table next to us and talking to us before hand about hanging out with Chappelle so that was hilarious as well.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:08 AM
MATTRYAN>bigben – forgot about that one. I think there was a collapse in Charlotte as well around the same time as the Jax one.
Roeth – how long ago did you sit for your exam?
July 16th, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Almost 6 years ago now (passed the 1st time thank god). Up to 9 states now.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:13 AM
that’s great, Roeth. I’m taking next April’s SE1…heard the passing rate is 40%.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:14 AM
I even love the old MM Engineering Disasters, which they dont seem to be making new ones of.
I know its been analyzed a countless number of times, but did that show look at the Hyatt in KC? Saw a documentary about it a couple years and was just fascinated how elementary statics failed the entire construction crew…
July 16th, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Wasn’t it a walkway at a NASCAR race?
July 16th, 2009 at 10:19 AM
pretty sure it was covered by an Engineering Disasters. it’s also explained well in “Why Buildings Fall Down”…good book.
/nerd alert again
I don’t remember that one. I was referring to a parking structure in Charlotte. it’s entirely possible I’m just making shit up though.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:27 AM
You know there’s an easy solution to the Obama controversy: stop inviting politicians to sporting events.
Maybe we can get LeBron to hit a couple of trick shots before his State of the Union Address. See how he likes it.
/nonpartisan hater
July 16th, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Yeah, Sir Richard “I got eaten by the dinosaurs in the book but not in the movie, which is fucked†Attenborough’s narration in the BBC version is far superior to Ripley’s.
Sanders, you’ve got your Attenborough brothers mixed up.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:54 AM
the innerbelt bridge in cleveland (links the westside to downtown) will be collapsing anytime now, add that to the list
July 16th, 2009 at 11:03 AM
There was a walkway at Charlotte Motor Speedway that collapsed years ago. I remember because I was watching the local news and they had someone call in claiming to be at the scene and they launched into ‘Bababooey Bababooey Howard Stern’s penis!’, it was awesome.
There was also a deck that had a collapse in either Charlotte or Raleigh this year though.
July 16th, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Chapelle is awesome, I saw him once in Eugene about 3 years ago. By far the best comedian I’ve seen live (seen jerry twice, a couple other of lesser knowns). If I didn’t have a wife and kid that depended on me keeping my job I would have blown off work the next morning and gone down to that show in a cocaine heartbeat.
July 16th, 2009 at 11:18 AM
good…keep the west side away from the glorious east side.
July 16th, 2009 at 11:53 AM
I’m perplexed by the GQ story. How did those kids justify that blowing a guy was better than everyone seeing his junk? I threw up in my mouth a little reading that story. It’s so twisted it’s very hard to believe.