Ryan Ludwick officially joined 60% of the Cardinals former All-Stars on the DL. (I made that number up.) It looks like Chris Carpenter could be back within a week or so, which would be even better if he could play outfield. After a couple losses to Pittsburgh, the Cardinals lost their first-place lead and are now tied with Milwaukee. At this point, the top four teams in the Central are only separated by half a game, excluding only the Astros and Pirates. It could be an interesting season.
I picked up Hank Blalock to replace Ludwick on my fantasy team. He's had a good couple of days, but they've both been bittersweet. On Wednesday, he hit the game-winning RBI, which, for some reason, is worth ten points in our league. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't put him in my lineup until yesterday. But then the good news is that he hit a home run yesterday. And then the bad news again is that he struck out three times, as well. He's still worth more points than Ludwick at this point.
Both of the remaining basketball series are going to game sevens. And both are on Sunday, which doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm guessing the NBA pushed all games back from Saturday to Sunday so they don't pull viewers away from Kobe Doin' Work (a Spike Lee joint). I'm sure Bryan did one of these when he found out about this movie. I'm not unexcited. I've liked the Spike Lee joints that I've seen so far.
I don't really feel like the Lakers want to win. It doesn't seem like it should be this hard. 75% of the Rockets former All-Stars are injured for the series. (I didn't make that number up.) The Lakers just aren't bringing it, especially not in Houston.
I watched the OT of last night's game 7 between the Canes and Bruins, one of the only times I've purposefully watched hockey. It is really hard to stop watching hockey during the sudden death OT. It's also really hard to start watching hockey when my HD channel wasn't working right so I had to watch in SD. It's hard enough to keep track of the puck in HD.
For the same reason, I didn't watch much of Thursday night TV (because our Time Warner cable service is about as quality as a Carrot Top movie). I'm going to watch Parks and Rec and 30 Rock on Hulu because it actually works.
My review of the new Wolverine game is up on the Star-News
blog. As my first piece in over a month, I wouldn't claim it's my best ever, but it's interesting enough.
Call of Duty 7 is already official. This article suggests that in the future we can replace the use of "years" with "Call of Duty's," since there seems to be a new one every year. I'd be down with that.
QotD:
What standard measurement should we replace?
My take: The cord. Any measurement that holds most of its sway in Canada should probably be reconsidered.
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I'm suprisingly not that excited about "Kobe Doing Work" thought it wouldn't shock me if David Stern had kobe and the Lakers lose on Purpose so they could air "Kobe doin work" on Saturday and then Kobe doing work on the Rockets on Sunday. With that said I will make sure our Craptastic DVR records it.
ReplyDeleteQoD: How about liter. Though I guess a half gallon of Soda sounds much less enticing than a two liter. I have no clue if that conversion is even close.
Heck yes that the Astros, Rockets, and Rangers all got a mention in your blog! In your face New York or any other mid to major market! Brett's blog obviously only cares about Houston!
ReplyDeleteLakers should definitely be much more dominant. I don't know if I would really want to watch a Lakers team in the final if they can't push past Houston. The Nuggets have been infinitely more interesting to watch in this rounds series.
QotD: How about the stone? Like how many stones do you weigh? How am I supposed to answer that. All these gosh darn British people coming up to me all the time...