….the end of February that is. I know you’ve head me, probably more than anyone…complaining about February sports and the lack of topics and issues to discuss here. It is tough discussing the headlines instead of discussing the games sometimes. The good news is the sports landscape is beginning to change…
Consider this…. By the end of this week we will have Spring Training Baseball, Football Free Agency, Tiger Woods back in Golf, NBA Basketball, NCAA Basketball teams jockeying for position in the tournament, NASCAR, and the NHL.
A welcome change to be sure….Despite the lack o’ sports we actually had a pretty solid day here at Sparty and Friends. Before we get to the Happy Hour banter, lets take a look at the post headlines of the day.
I am filling in here at Happy Hour today for Sparty, so in a rare occurence, I get to tell you that I started your day with The Morning After and links a plenty before giving way to a tearful moment recalled by Sparty.
One of the cool features about a blog is the access that readers have to the authors and authors have to the readers. This was apparent today as one of our commenters, Fiesta Trio, submitted an excellent post from his weekend trek to see Lance Armstrong ride in the Tour of California. Let this be a lesson to all you guys who have stories you wanna submit or ideas for us to run with…We want your input and would love to publish some of your stuff from time to time. Just submit any posts or ideas to SpartyandFriends @ gmail.
I mentioned a minute ago that Spring Training is in the mix this week…I even wrote a post about it earlier today. And we finished up the afternoon with Studs and Duds…where stats are important – not necessarily the final score.
As far as tonight goes…it looks like it could turn into one giant BS session here…NBA has PHI @ NJ, IND @ NYK, BOS @ DEN, ATL @ UT, NO @ SAC, and GS @ LAC…not exactly must see tv there. ESPN is running a couple of NCAA games though…Kansas @ Oklahoma and Louisville @ Georgetown. Hockey? One whole game tonight…San Jose @ Dallas.
Sigh…..five more days of February.
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the combine is better than hockey or basketball
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New page?!
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That was the most soccer I watched, too. World Cup 94.
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Or maybe it was ‘98.
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98 was France
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Goooooooooooooal!
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I think US 94 peaked my interest, but I saw more of the 98 matches.
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hawk..it rolls comments 1-100 on a previous so it doesnt slow down your browser on reloads
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so crabtree is 6′1″?
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mikey – I know, I thought I was the first on the new page.
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i kinda thought you knew that
so did you guys join us on facebook?
so you can get creeped out knowing who youre talking to
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You already know what I look like: small white guy who looks like a ten year old. Creepy.
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that I did mikey. Couldn’t quite tell who you were, though
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i mikeychx…haha…im on page three of the members
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fiesta…you look like a blurry small ten year old white kid
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hawk ur the guy from minn st paul right?
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stupid mikeyzone
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Yep. What gave it away?
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your “i heart hockey” tattoo
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ur not the only one who does 3 in a row
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Sharks 1, Stars 0 . Good game, Sharks first to 90 points.
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I heart Tebow
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jac…i may not be the only one…but they named it after me b/c i am the biggest offender…i get on here sometimes and have conversations with myself
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you know , it is not a talking society anymore, everyone types or texts noe, Bryce texts, by the way, paul started to volunteer to go pee in the potty, milestone
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i used to hate it until i realized that you can ask and aswer questions when you can get to the m instead of interrupting people
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agreed jac. one friend of mine texts more than he talks. I haven’t had a real conversation with him since May.
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Mikey and i have been friends since 1990 and we never talk on the phone anymore, he’s a bitch
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well…i know some dudes i golf with that i would prefer they text…but they dont know how…call me up in the middle of the day to bs about golf while i try to work
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its called a three hour time difference…by the time i can talk ur in bed…i can type on here and work at the same time
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problem with text is there is no speaker phone or handsfree
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sorry Mikey ,I loose sleep over it and you’ve been replaced as my BFF by Tebow
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jac – so many ways to take that. And none are clean
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well…i guess if i am gonna not be someones bff…getting replaced by tebow is not so bad
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Donald Fehr doesn’t understand math…
“We know what happened in 2003. The number of positives we had was slightly over 5 percent. That means that slightly over 94 percent was negative.”
If slightly over 5% was the positives that means slightly under 95% (should be around 94.6-94.9) were negative not slightly over 94% (which is (94.1-94.4)
This shouldn’t bother me but it does
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hawk, if it made you laugh or was ammused by the exchange, I did my job
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did he say slightly less than 5% or slightly more?
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5.5+94.5 = 100
/math’d
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the word slightly is the Obama word
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oh…i see what you mean now…he word fucked it…we are saying the same but he went with the lesser number
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at this point…i am not going to buy any products who insist on using the word “stimulus” as a part of their ad campaign
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slightly more is .4 and slightly less is .6
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example mikey?
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toyota is offering you this stimulus package to drive the all new 2009 corolla
the magic jack is offering you a stimulus check for as much as 1000
etc
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wow kansas / ok gonna be a good finish on the wwl
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anything to buy something, eh?
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i would like to offer you a stimulus package to check out sparty and friends
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NCAA regular season BB, YAWN, my football idea is the way
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china owns us
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how does china own us there politico?
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every single cent of the new stimulus was barrowed from china, Is california news owned by Hugo Chaves or something, you didnt know
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they shouldnt write us a check…we should just tax the ever loving shit ou of the imports and they wouldnt have to write us a check
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no mikey, the dollar that you have in your pocket is owned by china, or whoever owns our dedbt.
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I was browsing the Facebook page. Now we have real names and faces, but they don’t match up with the screen names..except for a few…haha… I’ll set up an account this week.
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japan owns the most…china #2 and saudi #3
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yeah..its tough to tell…its like we are all coming out of the blogging closet
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I thought the american people own the debit.
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kansas will win…lucky that ok didnt have blake griffin
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we should tax them, but Obama backedn of the buy America provision in the stimulus bill. All he is is a socialist politician with an agenda and hollow words
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Don’t all politicians have agendas and hollow words?
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is the facebook page up
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FT – Examples?
Jac – That provisions could very well have caused more problems than it solved. Globalization!
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yeah its no big deal (the FB page) i see that jac is actually not a man, but three small kids
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not ones that are supposed to save America and walk on water. Oh yah, pay your motgage and pay for your gas
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hawk…thats a loose definition of end times….bible style
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how do we know hawk? we haven’t hed a trade war in years, we always bow down. republicans and DEms, so it’s on both sides. And I’m way on one side.
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WTF mikey
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globalization is just another step in the direction of one world govt
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jac – What would you consider “american made” that would fall under that provsision?
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luv politics, regular people are more responsible inthere dialogue than hard core elites, we’re the regular guys
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hawk, we can agree on a couple of things, stock market, the economy is a mental thing. The fact that we are not al to ellowed to espouse such a statement because it might offend, Grmany, China, Japan,etc.
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debate for another time?
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that’s right, America first bro, even though I drive German, wife drives american
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mikey, we can’t start talking about GOD though
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i know…what would come next? race?
btw…the greatest asian golfer of all time returns this week
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strictly speaking (according to where it’s made) I drive Canadian and the wife drives american.
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good night fellows, Tebow’s the man
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lata
i drive american and american and pay american gas prices in the process
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BEAMER! lata
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all right…i gotta do some stuff…pop in and out
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rack time for the midwest here. Till morrow.
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all right…ill just turn the lights out then
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