Well, it has finally come. Today marks my long dreaded return to the monotonous endeavor known as school. Although I did have an interview yesterday, that pales in comparison to the tear jerker that is an 8:00 a.m. course. What makes this semester worse than any other is that it is totally unnecessary. The only thing that separates me from a diploma is the impossible to find internship, but until that mythical creature is found, I’m stuck taking courses to remain full-time in the eyes of the University. It wouldn’t be so bad if my original plan had mathematically worked. Basically take all courses your local football player would take: golf, basketball, weight lifting, etc. But unfortunately those one credit courses make it very difficult to add up to 13 credits (the full-time minimum).
It isn’t all bad though. Despite taking four courses, while I await the internship, all of my courses are on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Which of course means I have Tuesdays and Thursdays completely free. And being a shortened week, chances are I’ll have very little in the way of actual work this week. This of course is great news, being that the Vikings start their run to Miami the playoffs the first ten picks in the draft this weekend, and the Gophers open their new stadium Saturday night. Not to mention Mikey’s fantasy football draft tonight, and the upcoming plethora of NFL coverage here at Sparty & Friends. It should be an interesting semester and an even more interesting upcoming football season.
Let’s move on to tonight’s action. Not that I really care about baseball anymore.
Texas @ Cleveland
Chicago Cubs @ Pittsburgh
St. Louis @ Milwaukee
San Diego @ San Francisco
Tampa @ New York Yankees
Philadelphia @ Washington
Minnesota @ Toronto
Baltimore @ Boston
Florida @ New York Mets
Atlanta @ Houston
Detroit @ Kansas City
Oakland @ Chicago White Sox
Cincinnati @ Colorado
Seattle @ Los Angeles Angles
Los Angeles Dodgers @ Arizona
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are we kidding here? mikeychx(Quote)
if he doesn’t accept by 9:40 perhaps you should open it to public just to fill it. Maybe we’ll get a new commenter out of it. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
ill get him another email address in about 2 minutes mikeychx(Quote)
found it. jpmanahan(Quote)
Don’t wait too long. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
yahoo kitty mikeychx(Quote)
yes! gentlemen we got ourselves a draft! knightwhosaysni(Quote)
jp’s in! woot! sae(Quote)
hey mikey, I’m leaving for Australia next Tuesday. I’ll be able to get that 7IS since my flight isnt til noon, but I won’t be able to do the 22nd or 29th. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
ill pick it up… mikeychx(Quote)
This is good timing. Now I get to watch MVF from 10 to 10:30. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
thanks, I’m not sure I’ll even know what day is Tuesday when I’m there. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
10th pick…awesome… sae(Quote)
Alright everyone, you know what you need to do. Let AD slip to the 8th spot. JRod(Quote)
crap, rek won the AD sweepstakes. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
how do u know what pick mikeychx(Quote)
wow. someone will in the vicinity of me. kewlness. jpmanahan(Quote)
4th overall. aweseome. jpmanahan(Quote)
you can already jump into the draft app, you’ve got 5th sae(Quote)
shit i got the absolute worst 5th pick mikeychx(Quote)
Ok I’m 3rd and sae promised me I’d be able to nab Favre with that pick. So I’m happy. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
yeah didnt refresh is all mikeychx(Quote)
i’m going jeff garcia/dominick rhodes with 10/11 sae(Quote)
I figure I’ll draft the entire Vikings’ QB corp, get all my bases covered. JRod(Quote)
yankees rule.
/hip hip…Jorge! sparty(Quote)
I was just kidding about Favre. I’m actually taking the Saints defense #1. knightwhosaysni(Quote)
do you have inside info on particular weeks favre won’t feel like playing? be funny if he ducks the pack sae(Quote)
when moss was at oakland and ownes with philly …i got both of them one year…they both sucked mikeychx(Quote)
jeter at bat mikeychx(Quote)
On mobile. When do I pick? HawkEye19(Quote)
unhappy head-case receivers suck. i drafted ocho-stinko last season sae(Quote)
jeter at bat
i wanna see this happen tonight mikeychx(Quote)
superbowl homeboy? 7th sae(Quote)
balfour! you pussy!!! sparty(Quote)
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mikeychx(Quote)
7th? Yuck HawkEye19(Quote)
While that’s awesome, I really don’t enjoy the long wait between picks. Had the 10th in the other S&F one…talk about the extremes. rekcalsa(Quote)
Wait, am I suppose to be writing about the NFL sleeper for Friday or did JP snatch that one away from me? JRod(Quote)
Federer wins 1st set 6-0. Not bad, eh. jpmanahan(Quote)
10th is the best pick evAr’ mikeychx(Quote)
jeebus, i wish my pitchers would save this for the playoffs. 4 starters with 1ER combined in 29+ innings the last two days sae(Quote)
smart man, jp. you picked the opposite of me sae(Quote)
i can promise who ever is behind me that steven jackson will not fuck me two straight years mikeychx(Quote)
sparty i wanted to see that pretty bad too mikeychx(Quote)
how does that work? he can’t hit the hole anymore, can he?
/wocka wocka wocka sae(Quote)
i was crushing the ball the last two weeks. now? bleh. sparty(Quote)
i didnt get out of those two drafts…but i had AD in one of them…haha – go figure…now i gotta manage that bullshit too mikeychx(Quote)
14 games equates to almost him winning a set. jpmanahan(Quote)
sjax is one of my autodrafted backs. jpmanahan(Quote)
Great sports night for me. Jeter tying Gehrig was great. Also Jorge hitting a pinch hit 3 run HR to put the Yanks up 4-2 in the bottom of the 8th. Jeter is 80 hits of Pete Rose at the same age. Hmmm….
Also Tyler Farrar won a stage in the Vuelta a Espana (Tour of Spain bike race). 25 year old American rider for the Garmin-Slipstream team won his first stage in a grand tour. He has won a bunch of races this year but this was a big one for him. cycledan(Quote)
That’s awesome for Farrar…guess Cavendish wasn’t racing. rekcalsa(Quote)
rek,
Cavendish is racing in the Tour of Missouri here in the US. He won 2 stages already. Cavendish did the tours of Italy and France and wasn’t up for another 3 week tour. His teammate Greipel won a couple of stages in Spain but Farrar finally got one. There were two big mountains and Farrar wasn’t in the front group going over the last mountain but there were still 50km to go so the group he was in caught up. He went from a long way out and still held on to win by a bike length. cycledan(Quote)
Link to highlights of Farrar’s win. You need to click on
CYCL: Farrar top Gilbert link on the right of the screen. cycledan(Quote)
hmmm it looks like i should have paid a bit more attention to everything going on… Johnny(Quote)
ya it was kinda a mess knightwhosaysni(Quote)
evidently. all i know is i drafted a team i don’t know who’s in the league anymore but i did draft something Johnny(Quote)
And for the record The Beatles Rock Band is flat out amazing Johnny(Quote)
but they ruined video games
/spencer’d sae(Quote)
sorry johnny
jp manahan…we love him…and my west coasted ness contributed to an all out monkey fuck
sincere apology mikeychx(Quote)
it was probably the funniest draft i’ve ever been in though sae(Quote)
i gotta look at the recap mikeychx(Quote)
Don’t worry about it mikey. I should have been more observant but I was trying to do a few things at once Johnny(Quote)
Wow…what a win. He was really ballsy going so early…glad he hung onto it for the win. rekcalsa(Quote)
Yea…pretty damn funny the whole night.
/Megatron!!!!! rekcalsa(Quote)
johnny…we can make out if it makes u feel better mikeychx(Quote)