Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
Oh yea, watch the Mets. Go bullpen! Woot, let’s see the bullpen in the fourth! After, get the real news from the game at Deadspin. Like the news Alec Baldwin is an utter loser.
I got my hat like Willie’s but I want Tom’s hat, too. And what is that pitch Tom is pitching? You know I’d drop that one on the wind-up.
I will not paint my face orange. I will not dye my hair orange. I will not spray paint the car orange. I will not lift my shirt on TV to reveal an orange belly. I will not end up at a frat kegger with my face orange, my hair orange, the car orange or my belly orange.
I shall, however, wear all the orange I own.
OK, I have to admit I missed the game on TV as I was at the concert. And then I never got around to figuring out how Brendan did in the 34-14 win over Miami of Ohio. Our man does not appear in any of the reports I can find even though his performance was a notch above of last week. Most of the focus is on the loss of the surprisingly good Taj Smith. There was this exchange in the Syracuse Post’s sports mailbag:
[Comment]…Finally, say what you want about Brendan Carney – he rarely delivers the big kick when you need it most – that will keep him out of the NFL….
[Answer]…As for Brendan Carney, I exchange emails with one fan that absolutely hates him. But consider this – Miami had one of the top punt returners in the nation in Ryne Robinson. Did you know Robinson did not have a single return in the game? Carney either got hang time to force a fair catch or kicked them away from Robinson. – DW
Attaboy. Carney is doing everything that is asked of him and puts the “N” in orange as far as I am concerned. Here are his numbers for 23 September:
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| CARNEY,Brendan |
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My eldest brother was telling me to mix up the photos in this series and I said no. Then I read that Sophomore Patrick Shadle for SU was named Big East Special Teams Player of the Week after popping two field goals to average 1.5 a game. And who holds the ball? Mr Unsung Hero, Number 47.
Next week, we are live at the Carrier Dome for the Wyoming game. Woot. If you want to say hi, I will be the guy in the orange t-shirt in the cheap seats.
More Brendan Carney here.
Is it summer or fall? I have no idea. I put the furnace on last evening as much to deal with the damp from the rain. It worked. It worked without making a clang, a thump or a low grinding noise of any sort.
Islamabad’s delicate ties with the United States is threatening to come apart at the seams after it was revealed Thursday that the Bush administration threatened to bomb Pakistan into the ”stone age” if it did not cooperate in the war on terror after 9/11.
If it actually was said, one has to admire what can only be a Frintstones reference working its way into global politics. Given that the government of Pakistan has now signed a cease-fire deal with Taliban militants in North Waziristan, one should pay attention to Pakistan’s military ruler Pervez Musharraf a little more closely than we may have been.
The Prime Minister made the remarks yesterday during his maiden UN speech, which he also used to reinforce the challenges faced in rebuilding Afghanistan and rooting out the Taliban. He said the world community must stay united, lest division make the mission harder for Canada, which has 2,300 troops in the country and will soon have 2,500. “We have no illusions about the difficulties that still lie before us,” Mr. Harper said. “Difficulties don’t daunt us. But lack of common purpose and will in this body would.”
Interesting to note the demand that everyone seems to have all of a sudden to make the UN work. So much for rejection of world order. Conversly, I had an Ezra Levant article imposed upon me in on of those legal trade magazines yesterday going on dopey-wise about how the supposedly successful Isreali battle in Lebanon this summer showed how international law and action is a fraud – no one told the nation apparently. I guess there was some delay between writing and publishing or maybe just a delay between brain and keyboard. But I suppose when you can come up with great junior-high phrases like “moral ghoulishness” and then build a political theory around it, you have to be given newspaper and magazine column space…right? This one is gold: “Are you a September 10th person or a September 11th person?” By this he clearly means do you agree with me or disagree with me but loads the latter with a truck load of moral superiority that cannot be questioned. Go ahead and question…and watch out for people who award themselves the moral gold star in any discussion.
That’s it – gotta go to work now.
Good to see the Mets win their division. If we are not going to see a repeat of the evisceration of the Yankees that was the Sox comeback of 2004 (not quite on point but satisfying photo here), seeing them lose in a subway series to the Mets is the next best thing. Delgado made an amazing first-to-second-to-first double play later in the game. Best news is that Pedro will be back for the division series. And why rush him?
Not to be an utter crank who can’t spell today, but shouldn’t major sports teams have their own separate jersey designs? This picture from the English Premiership is rather CFL circa 1994, a la Shreveport Pirates v. Las Vegas Posse, no?
What a week – a blur. I swear I was 27 when it started and now I have kids
and a mortgage. Thing I learned? Buying gifts for a kids party was easier when
they were two. You can buy an old shoe and stick some red masking tape on it and
a two-year old would be happy. Now they have taste and ideas. I am doomed.
“Many of the terrorists who have not been killed or captured are on the run. They have lost their sanctuary in Afghanistan. And they have lost a supporter in Iraq, which paid $25,000 to the families of suicide bombers…”
The observation I would make is that the actions the Canadian Forces have made in Afghanistan in the last few weeks to clear an area of the Taliban happened “about 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city” and so far “about 65 per cent of the contested area, measuring perhaps four kilometres by five kilometres, has been formally cleared of insurgents.” I am a big booster of what our Canadian Forces are doing there but characterizing what has happening so far after almost five years of continuing warfare as a “loss of sanctuary” in a country of 652,225 square kilometres is not quite an accurate statement.
Was yesterday the day that lame duck
began in the US presidency?
Democrats are rapt spectators, however, shielded by
the stern opposition to the president being expressed by three Republicans with
impeccable credentials on military matters: Senators John McCain of Arizona,
John W. Warner of Virginia and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The three were
joined on Thursday by Colin L. Powell, formerly the secretary of state and the
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in challenging the administration’s
approach.It is one of those rare Congressional moments when the policy is as
monumental as the politics.
When you look ahead, the road to
January 2009 could be a very long and weird path. That being said, Democrat Eliot Spitzer, the next Governor of
NY, has really good TV ads. The public good as a matter of responsibility – who
knew? If I were in the southern sector of Easlakia, I could see myself getting
involved.
Well, that is
enough for now. What to look forward to this weekend? Syracuse at Illinois
Saturday at noon if you have the 37 billion channel universe. Sox and Yankees if
you like human sacrifice.
A bit of good luck yesterday with the Syracuse v. Iowa game as it was shown from the Carrier Dome on ABC. In the end Syracuse lost 20 to 13 but did so in double overtime after Iowa made a heroic defensive stand at the end zone which, through a series of penalties, gave Syracuse about 27 chances to move the ball three inches to tie and drive the game in to a third overtime.
They didn’t pull it off against the #14 ranked team in the land but our man Brendan was in the heart of the game in many ways. Here are his stats:
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| CARNEY,Brendan |
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| CARNEY,Brendan |
He did not merely abandon the ball when he kicked. Called on to punt at one point, he drove Iowa back deep into its own end after his 66 yard kick. He then took a beating from an Iowa player which went unpenalized. But his real contribution goes un-noted in the stats. As ball-holder for the field goal kicker he turned an awful worm burner of a throw from the center with six seconds to go into a stable target instantly. That field goal tied the game and it had far more to do with the hands that held the ball than the foot that kicked it. Carney described the moment thusly:
Q: How did you get the snap on that field goal up?
A: When he snapped it, I caught it in the ground. Luckily, I was able to get it up and Patrick (Shadle) made it.
Brill. Next week: away to Illinois, which will be on ESPNU so will be on the zillion channel universe that is the screen in the basement…right in the middle of a kids party. Illinois lost 33-0 to Rutgers yesterday. There is hope. More Brendan here and here.
The injuries are over and the winning ways begin again. There is time but not much chance given the quality ahead of the Sox.
And I have to admit a moment of weakness. I bought a Mets hat. Not like a fitted one or anything. Did you know that the Mets colours are a mix of the New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers? The Mets are losing a few, too, now. But when you are 15 games up who cares. I suspect it is the Detroit Red Wings glide to the playoffs we are witnessing.
You are aware that Julio Franco is now 48 years and 14 days old, right? I bought a car sticker, too. And one for the Sox as well. The guy at the counter gave me the “…and exactly how do you explain this?” look.
Who knew? Dynamic and an honest name, too: Plenty of Nothing. A stark, disconcerting absence of baseball related yappetry to date, though someone is reading Koppett.
Entirely Unrelated Update: This is today’s task.
Not Entirely Unrelated To The Entirely Unrelated Update Update: It is a 1957 Eagle NHL “Pro” Official Hockey game. But toy acquisition policy #357 says non-slot-hockey rod-hockey is to be decorative given the familiarity and expectations resulting from the 1960s slot-hockey rod-hockey break-through. Be prepared to admit your weakness if you follow this link.
