- My Colorado Avalanche managed to make it through the first round of the NHL playoffs. Now they have the pleasure of playing the possibly unstoppable Detroit Red Wings in the second round. In truth the Wings have looked fairly human this season, especially in the playoffs. We shall see.
- The Wife and I are suddenly both able to jog something like 2.5 miles continuously. This is a big jump from where we were. I definitely believe a course change is the prime contributor to the improvement.
- Since September of 2007, I’ve manage to whittle myself from around 220lbs to 190-ish. I only have this to say: It’s a lot of friggin’ work.
- I cannot tell you how excited I am about GTA IV. The multiplayer action looks like a flat out hoot. Email me if you want my Xbox Live gamer tag.
- Meanwhile, The Wife is all about the Karaoke Revolution on the 360. They’ve been all over adding downloadable songs to it. It’s really pretty impressive so far. Not to mention tons of fun.
- I’m really sick of the Democratic primary garbage. I’m still backing the liberal black man, though.
- My Ma has a fancy new deck on her house. It’s totally sweet.
- I really need to sand & stain my deck this year (just like I have for the past couple years). Boo.
- Went to a DeRailed (the Denver Rails user group) meeting last night. They covered interesting material, but I ended up leaving early anyway. It was definitely what you’d expect, demographically.
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Unfortunately I just found out about this.
Now the only seats left available are $225, so I shan’t be attending. Shame.
There hasn’t been a lot to cheer for as far as the Boston University men’s ice hockey team goes this year.
It doesn’t matter now, though, because it’s Beanpot time. You just never bet against Jack Parker’s boys when they play in the Beanpot.
We went to another live Ring of Fire mixed martial arts event at the Broomfield Event Center last night.
Here are a few notes:
- We were part of the posse for the wife of the main event title holder, Eliot “The Fire” Marshall, by way of a friend-of-a-friend relationship. This turned out to be both awesome and stressful. Can’t beat the seats.
- Bossman and I made $1 bets on each bout with the loser picking the next fight. I lost $4-5.
- There were three female fights on this card. They were scrappers, too. I think the “Karate Hottie” should have to change her name since she lost.
- Most of the fights didn’t make it past the first round. One that went the full distance ended up 29-27, 27-29, 28-28. In Colorado, though, the 28-28 judge has to actually pick a winner… Weird.
- I’m still tickled that Brothers BBQ caters the “VIP” tables. They also do a pork sandwich toss (in which the ring sluts and some Brothers folks literally throw pork sandwiches in paper bags into the audience). Awesome.
I am gobsmacked the Red Sox got the sweep. Bless ‘em.
I’m sure people who care will spend days debating why the Rockies didn’t manage to snatch as much as a game in the World Series (my fave is still the 8 day layoff and the snow angels). I feel bad for the Rockies - after all, I’ve actually been to Coors Field whereas I never ventured into Fenway while I lived in Boston - but I can’t help but root for (and be psyched for) the BoSox.
Mike “Eyebrows of Love” Lowell is my hero. (I even called him for MVP when he homered tonight. Yay me and my total lack of baseball knowledge!)
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Retroactive Track o’ the Post: Sweet Caroline from Neil Diamond’s 12 Greatest Hits, because Red Sox Nation is crazy about that song.
Totally awesome.
Say your team is in the World Series for the first time ever. Say the World effin’ Series is coming to your town for the first time ever. What the one thing you can’t do?
That’s right, fuck it up.
And that is just what happened, boys & girls. I suppose you could say the Rockies were trying to fight the power by not going with TicketMaster to distribute their tickets.
Locally, the Rockies are the only pro team that isn’t a Ticketmaster client. It picked Paciolan in 1998, primarily because the team wanted control over its own inventory, said Kevin Fenton, the team’s senior director of ticket operations.
The Rockies’ previous provider, Destinet, went bankrupt and left the Rockies in the dark for six months.
(Or maybe that’s a history of bad decision-making?)
I suppose you could say they were trying to make the ticket sale more “fair” by doing online sales only. (Or at least they did.)
All I can say is that the end result of Paciolan’s entire evenue.net service crashing utterly under the strain of 8.5 million hits in 90 minutes is nothing if not completely obvious.
You see, online-only sales are “fair” to everyone, so anyone who saw that it snowed in Denver yesterday is thinking “Sweet! World Series + ski trip!!” and trying to log on to get some seats. If you are a team like the Rockies, who have been in the dumps for so long nobody knows WTF is happening right now, you need to sell some season tickets with this miracle run. You NEED to get some local fans in those seats for a World Series game. Next in line, you should get some Red Sox fans on board, because they are everywhere and love them some baseball. After that comes the tourists.
Screw being fair! You need to take care of that guy (I personally know a few) that comes to as many Rockies games as he can and always has a hell of a time. The people that showed up at Coors Field today, with a vague threat of riot int he air? Those are your people. Take care of your people and they might forget that the team is winning in spite of a front office that could seemingly care less.
Update: As of about 7pm Mountain, they still have no answer. Also this here site comes up #1 for “fuck Paciolan“. How cool is that? Granted, it’s pure coincidence, since I never typed that phrase until now, but whatever. If the shoe fits…
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Track o’ the post: All The Old Showstoppers from The New Pornographers‘ latest, Challengers for this lyric:
When we hit the numbers we broke
Broken and changed ‘em
Changed as we spoke
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