Archives---September, 2007
September 30, 2007
...No number one boom-boom for you! "(AP) BEIJING - China has banned television and radio ads for push-up bras, figure-enhancing underwear and sex toys in the communist government's latest move to purge the nation's airwaves of what it calls social pollution." Suttle World wonders as to whether Chinese officials are aware that the coming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing are sponsored in large part by breweries who buy a great deal of commercial time that feature attractive young women in figure-enhancing underwear and push-up bras using sex toys in an effort to sell beer?
...This could be HUGE! "(AP) NEW YORK - Radio advertisers who for years complained about the low-tech way of tracking listeners are getting what they asked for and more: Electronic ratings are delivering more accurate counts, but are also upending basic assumptions about the industry." Since listenership has been recorded, the confidence level of the data has been about 67%---meaning one in three rating books is merely an assemblage of random numbers. The other two times they actually do reflect, with some validity, the listening habits of any given market's radio audience. Being able to provide Neilson like numbers for radio might provide the much needed inertia to get this hideous monolithic industry moving in the proper and a less centralized direction.
...Seven ranked teams upset on what was supposed to be a run of the mill Saturday in college football, with very few of the top 25 covering the spread either. Despite off weeks, USC and LSU would appear to be far and away the cream of this season's crop---a most desirable scenario given the current SBCS (Short Bus Championship System).
...Last year's Falcons backup quarterback Matt Schaub will make an appearance today in the Georgia Dome, this time starting, but wearing a Houston Texans jersey. Meanwhile last year's Falcons starting quarterback will be wearing an ankle bracelet in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
September 29, 2007
...Saturday morning brings with it the first truly brisk dry air longed for since May---a day with college football written all over it. Unfortunately, the schedule does little to accommodate unless the gentle surfer plans to be in attendance at a particular matchup. More NCAA rant later.
...The Tucker Tigers edge by Southwest DeKalb last night 21-0, moving to 5-0 on the season---heading into a bye week having outscored their opponents by a cumulative score of 193-0.
...Seems like nice enough guy and all that; and his tome will probably make for a good read, but Suttle World finds Justice Thomas touring to pimp his new book the week before the opening of the Court's '07 session to be awkward.
...Recovery continues at a predictable frustratingly slow pace. The hurry up and wait phase doesn't suit the patient well.
...Props to Okra, who once again tops the Forbes' list to top earning entertainers, having knocked down an estimated $260 million between June 2006-7.
...Long story short: The High Museum in the ATL has borrowed some pieces from the Louvre for a current exhibition. Enter local TV. In an exclusive piece this morning, WSB veteran reporter Sally Sears is live from outside the museum with all the skinny about the hush-hush over night arrival of a piece of Roman sculpture that hasn't left the Paris shrine since brought there by Napoleon. Not once, but on four different occasions, the diligent Sears notes that the piece is packed in "specially marked crates." Suttle World wonders as to exactly how these crates were "specially marked: FRAGILE! THIS SIDE UP! ATTN: HEAD ART DUDE! PRICELESS PIECE OF ART ENCLOSED! DON'T DROP THIS SHIT!"
...Props to the Cubs and (almost certainly) the Diamondbacks for hard fought pennants captured by each yesterday. Another Suttle World shout out to the Sox for winning the AL East for the first time in over a decade, and yes, the Mets could well go from 7 games up with 12 left to missing the post season all together. Should that come to pass, the 2007 Mets will become the reigning Jonestown of big league sports---spending a month collectively climbing in the ditch with Jean Van de Velde.
...Cal at Oregon is the only game featuring two ranked teams on today's college schedule that is thin to say the least from a remote wielder's point of view. A complete rundown of the ATL sports TV is here.
September 26, 2007
...All good news and happenings Tuesday for the patient in question who made her first foray back into the great out of doors for a brief post-op follow up with the doctor, followed by a couple short errands and a lunch outing. It would seem as though removing staples from one's belly makes for more comfortable resting, and so the recovery continues in its predictably slow but sure manner.
...A few more wins over Washington and Florida back in August sure would come in handy as the Braves desperately try to climb past three teams and as many games to capture the National League wild card spot. Standings here.
...Among the great unsolved mysteries of the universe is the question as to who will first win their first game---the Falcons or Notre Dame?
...Twenty-five years ago today the tainted Tylenol® scare was well underway with six dead and seven hospitalized.. In the interim, no human has opened any packaging without sustaining lacerations and other sundry trauma to their hands while spilling the contents of whatever is attempting to be opened all over the kitchen floor.
...Mentioned yesterday was Suttle World being the lone 3-0 team atop the DUFFLE standings. Also noteworthy, is that the denizens of stately Roberts/Suttle Manor hit the trifecta, with each owner winning their respective games. Nephew Ridge had a particularly impressive week, scoring a league high 110 points in his win over Brent Lovvorn's White Lightning. That would make nephew Ridge the winner of this week's Viagra High Score of the Week Award as duly noted/featured in the ad on the league's home page.
September 25, 2007
...Suttle World takes the day off because it can. The patient continues to recover in a most satisfactory manner.
September 24, 2007
...Suttle
World simply cannot find the appropriate words
regarding the death of Marcel Marceau at the age
of 84. Overrated is a word that silently
comes to mind, though the cameo in Silent Movie
did provide a fair share of salvation.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
...Props to our friends manning the New York tabloids who, unlike the folks in the ATL where the lights at the "paper" were turned off at 3:00 Friday afternoon and won't be switched on again until later this morning, these folks worked hard into the night to have a brilliant cover on the street that we have just come to take for granted. Unlike many others, Suttle World cannot get too bent about the Iranian's visit---believing the more exposure Ahmadinejad gets, the nuttier he looks, further cornering the left.
...Suttle World's DUFFLE franchise is the singular undefeated team following three weeks of play in the newly expanded 12 team league. Not scoring many points, but enough to win each week so far.
...As anticipated, the patient had something of an "off" day yesterday---feeling the strain of perhaps an overly active Saturday. No regression---just a well deserved, rather idle day of continuing rest.
September 23, 2007
...Suffice to say the post op recovery continues at a slow, but most acceptable pace. The patient is fully ambulatory, albeit for limited stints within the North/Convalescent Wing of stately Roberts/Suttle Manor. Major props to the Moreira clan for their fine fellowship and generous vitals visited upon the Manor's denizens yesterday evening.
...Props to Georgia who may have proved Suttle World's suspicion of earlier this year---the SEC is too good for its own good this season.* Richt's road record against ranked opponents is a truly notable stat amid so much numerical gibberish; and Gene, the Caucasian looked awful with his pathetic teaser call for the league. Meanwhile, Tech says AMF to a promising season with a pathetic loss to an even more pathetic Virginia. *---no big SEC fan is Suttle World, but the league's depth this year could lead to the ultimate winner clearly being the nation's best team, but not in the BCS game due to 1 or 2 losses, ergo hastening a playoff.
...The feel good story of the college football season continues to be a winless Notre Dame---now 0-4 for the first time in 119 years. Its sort of like watching the Marshall thing, but in slow motion, with no aircraft involved, and a lot more fun.
...Oops. Yep, turns out that global warming freak, NASA scientist James Hansen, was the same guy predicting an ice age 35 years ago---as discovered last week, and pointed out in this Investors Business Daily piece that is particularly enjoyable, especially in questioning the ever abrasive Hansen as to "what choice words did he have for those who were skeptical of the ice age theory in 1971?"
...DUFFLE (still working on the page) begins week three this afternoon with Suttle World among three remaining undefeateds, and just happening to be tangling with another team of the same record in the weekend's action. Of casual interest at the wagering window this afternoon is the three team, six point teaser that features (net) ARI +13.5 @ BAL; ARI @ BAL over 29.5; and BUF +22.5 @ NE. The gentle surfer may also want to mix in a little side action including plays from Monday night mixing and matching Tennessee (net) +10 @ New Orleans and over 39.5. 3 teams/plays pays 9:5; 4 = 3:1; and 5 = 9:2.
...And Suttle World thought they were all gone. (AP) LOS ANGELES — Alice Ghostley, the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women," has died. She was [errrr] 81. An incredible talent, and perhaps the best character (Esmerelda) on that particular show; and she was only 81? Bewitched is 40 years old! With all due respect to the dearly departed, Suttle World suspects there's a Central American birth certificate/inverted Fernando angle working here.
September 22, 2007
...It was an uneventful discharge and journey back to stately Roberts/Suttle Manor for our recovering quite nicely, thank you, surgical patient. Not only was both the motorcade ride home (OK, so its one Toyota, but it has a very official looking antenna of yet to be determined utility mounted on its roof), and the total of 10 steps into the Manor and up to the North/Convalescence Wing withstood without incident, a later shower, and the intake of solid food was also easily accomplished. All of this feverish activity was achieved both courtesy and in spite of the halcyon glory that is oxycodone. Progress the next several days is measured in terms of comfort. So far so good. And again, many thanks to everyone who have been so supportive through this ordeal.
...With a 35-0 shutout of St. Pius last night, the Tucker Tigers move to 4-0 on the season---four games with a cumulative score of 172-0!
...The SEC brings the only two games of any promised import today beginning this afternoon with South Carolina/LSU, followed by Georgia/Alabama as those two schools resume the 14th meeting in their 112 year rivalry. Suttle World has always found it odd that two self proclaimed powers of adjacent states in the same conference never seemed to get around to playing one another---especially before Divisional play. Regardless, the SEC makes up the Gene, the Caucasian, Saturday teaser (net): Alabama +2.5 v. Georgia, LSU -10.5 v. South Carolina and Florida -15 v. Mississippi. Pays 9:5.
...Courage. Its the simple word of unsolicited advise Suttle World would lend to Dan Rather. Countless 100's of thousands of Americans deal with a psychological disorder on a daily basis, and manage to lead successful, productive lives. Unfortunately, excepting Cindy Sheehan and a large portion of the Hollywood/pop culture idiocy, most howl at the moon, "get these spiders off of me," raving lunatics such as cousin Dan aren't afforded a platform from which to rant their dementia. To borrow from Dan, this whole deal makes Suttle World more angry than "watching a sick horse vomit on a Jewish pig." Obviously in his delusional state, Dan has forgotten how CBS "news" has operated for the past 45 years. Call Bernie Goldberg. He'll remind you. And the Marla chick is still defending the "authenticity" of the forged documents! And so we're back to the old chicken and egg dilemma---does liberalism/collectivism cause insanity, or did liberals/collectivists just have bad fall from the short bus?
September 21, 2007
...Onward and upward in the surgical recovery department for the patient in question who yesterday was able to get up and about a bit in most impressive form, began the gradual intake of more substantial nutrients and still expects to be released this afternoon---returning to the convalescing confines of stately Roberts/Suttle Manor.
..."LONDON (BREITBART.COM) - Punk legend John Lydon has lashed out at Sting - calling The Police frontman a "soggy old dead carcass"." Well, that pretty much settles that.
...This week the PGA tour returns to Akron---not to the Firestone Country Club again, but to Akron Lanes and Fun Center as the four week U-Haul Bowling Championship of Golf begins this afternoon. The unusual format in which Tiger is given a 10,000 point lead, but must use a ball with no holes drilled in it should be interesting indeed. The winner receives two coupon booklets good for any number of discounts and freebies along the boardwalk in Atlantic City.
...Suttle World has always readily admitted that the money and banking aisle of its macro-economic knowledge is the shortest, but how in the hell did the Dollar fall in value so freakin far?
...Miami
was money for the taking last night, and props to
the gentle surfer who took the time to exploit
same. A rundown of Saturday action tomorrow.
September 20, 2007
...All went exactly as scheduled yesterday, beginning with the commute to DeKalb Medical Center and ending with the unfortunate, yet very predictable, patient ouching mightily, as is often the case after surgical exploration of one's abdominal entrails. The pain issue notwithstanding (and one that is becoming much more manageable), everything else would appear to be in proper order, with discharge still expected to take place tomorrow afternoon. Many thanks to the multitudes who have expressed their concern and best wishes over the past several days, with a particular shout out to neighbor Cindy who was kind enough to hastily deliver a back up key for the car into which Suttle World had wisely locked its keys yesterday afternoon.
...Memo to those jumping on the "what this economy needs is a good old fashioned recession" bandwagon: bite me.
September 19, 2007
...Short
update this morning, cause its time to play:
Yank That Uterus. Yes, af
ter several months
of deliberation and preparation, the big morning
has come for the non-essential piece of equipment,
that has been the source of great consternation
over many years, to be removed. The patient
is scheduled for discharge from hospital on
Friday, with a four - six week window of recovery
with which to look forward. In lieu of
flowers, the family requests that donations be
made to the Orphaned Organ and Tissue Fund.
September 18, 2007
...Hail to the Redskins! Winning perhaps their biggest game of the second Joe Gibbs era (and, yes, that is condemnation by faint praise), Washington put a beat down on the Eagles in Philly last night to get off to their first 2-0 start in recent memory. Its a record that's identical to Suttle World's DUFFLE (page still under construction) entry that won in its second straight outing over the weekend to remain among 3 unbeatens in the newly expanded, 12 team 2007 edition. True to form, Suttle World nodded off briefly as the last few seconds ticked off the clock last night/this morning---keeping in tact a 23 year old streak, despite the earlier "8:30" start, of no person in the eastern time zone ever making it through an entire Monday Night Football game.
...Suttle World doesn't believe that day-to-day activities will be altered significantly, but finds crude trading at over $80/barrel to be disconcerting.
...Suttle World sees the headline: Dole recalls salad mix in E. coli scare, and at first believes it to be the former Senator Bob reminiscing about an outbreak back in '74. Never mind. But seriously, ladies and germs, that E. coli is some serious shit, with confirmed cases up over a turd as compared to this time last year. Thank you. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip you waitresses and bartenders; and, hey, try the veal.
...VILNIUS (Reuters) - A lonely baboon in a private Lithuanian zoo has adopted a chicken he saved from certain death last month and the two have formed a fast friendship, the zoo's director said Friday." A priest, baboon and a chicken walk into a bar... And just for giggles, how did they know the baboon was lonely? Was it surfing eharmony? And how could one know that the chicken was facing certain death? Was it attached to an array of poultry monitors to indicate heart rate, blood pressure, core temperature, gizzard function, etc...? Did its lab work or MRI look bad?
September 17, 2007
...Given the rate of recidivism, perhaps OJ can now finally find the real killer.
...."JERUSALEM (AP) - Madonna toasted the Jewish new year with Israeli President Shimon Peres and declared herself an "ambassador for Judaism," local newspapers reported Sunday." On Monday, Suttle World toasted a 5 foot tall goat herder in Mongolia and declared itself an "ambassador for Confucianism."
...Suttle World does look forward to crazy Al Greenspan's memoirs, but will withhold judgment until having done same, as opposed to highlighting portions which some have selectively chosen in an attempt to vindicate their own particular agenda. Suttle World must admit to entering such an undertaking with some bias, given Al confesses to having been "clueless" about the sub-prime lending that was taking place under his watch.
...BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday..." "I win solitaire. I win solitaire," was all that was heard by witnesses as the 30 year old was loaded into an ambulance.
...Suttle World understands the Emmys were handed out last night. Did Modern Marvels: The History of the Shovel bring home any hardware?
...Already ordained the most overrated franchise for the 2007 campaign, the Saints let down Suttle World and caused the teaser to fail yesterday. For those keeping score at home, that's 2 for 4---leaving the gentle surfer up about $360 on $400 worth of action.
September 16, 2007
...As expected, a near autumnal atmosphere surrounds the environs of stately Roberts/Suttle Manor this morning that also marks the start of DUFFLE 2007 Week II action where six teams are undefeated and six others are but a single game out of first place.
...Tough night for Tech that had the chance to cement themselves as a top 10 program, but opted for a whooping at the hands of BC instead. No real surprises out of week 3 of the college season, with perhaps Alabama becoming one of the more interesting stories of the year.
...Aside from being condemned to the most dismal game on today's menu in the form of the Falcons and Jaguars, the ATL does get Baltimore/Indy and KC/Chicago before the big show down tonight when San Diego visits Foxboro. If pressed for a wager, Suttle World would take (net ) DET +3 v. MIN; GB +8.5 @ NYG; and NO +2.5 @ TB in a six point teaser.
September 15, 2007
...The Suttle World axiom that the weather never breaks (round these here parts) until after the 15th of September proves true once again. Violent climes (the remnants of Humberto) made for a top 10 hideous Friday rush hour (that fortunately had little effect upon the denizens of stately Roberts/Suttle Manor), but much cooler drier air has been left in its wake, making tomorrow, Sunday, September 16, as a probable time for the always welcome, honorary inhalation of the first brisk breath of the season.
...The young entrepreneurial gentle surfer may have well already considered a rebuilding Iraq as a fertile market to till. A few things to consider if your thinking about opening a liquor store in Baghdad.
...If you had the Lakeside Vikings and 61, you lose! The Tucker Tigers move to 3-0 on the season, tossing a 62-0 shutout at the nearby opponents. The home town season's cumulative score now stands at 135-0.
...Another footnote from the post September 11th world: (AJC) "What kind of message can be divined from a bunch of jars filled with chopped prunes, a photo of President Bush, some Homeland Security pamphlets and a Santa Claus toy with a "New York" tag around its neck? The odd collection was discovered at a Sandy Springs post office early Friday, and triggered an emergency response that shut the facility, which serves about 60,000 addresses, and a portion of Glendridge Drive for nearly six hours."
September 14, 2007
...Memo to East Lake Golf Club Greenskeeper Willie: that which God shall drip upon ye today can be accomplished by mere mortal man himself---its called watering! No agronomist is Suttle World, but its going to speculate that there's a correlation between properly watering greens and said greens not dying.
...Does old Norman Hsu jog the gentle surfer's memory about the previous Clinton White House being the most dishonest, disingenuous and corrupt administration of the twentieth century?
...Suttle World would like to take this opportunity to apologize for, and now officially retract any previous foolish banter regarding the Atlanta Braves and post season play this year.
...For a guy who's at his worst in such a setting, President Bush did perhaps his best ever address to the nation from the White House deal of his administration last night. Like it or not, Bush directly called out all parties to the war on radical Islamic terrorism, the war in Iraq, and other folks of interest with regard to the Middle East individually, and set realistic expectations for each---including the Democratic party. To date this administration has done a horrible job in its military response to the September 11th attacks, but Suttle World does take some comfort in that the awful management has been done in what it believes to be good faith.
...106 years ago
today then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was
sworn in as President of the United States when
then President McKinley died in Buffalo, NY from
the complications of gunshot wounds sustained from
the pistol of assassin Leon Frank Czolgoszdays on
September 5, 1901. And while we're in the
history aisle, a happy 63rd birthday to Joey
Heatherton.
...Suttle World now is led to understand that the Minneapolis airport men's room trolling, Oxy Clean selling, new Steelers mascot is named Steely McBeam?!---exactly the type of name one would expect to bump into in a Minneapolis airport men's room, or appearing in a flick with Jenna Jameson. The collateral damage has already begun. "(AP) PITTSBURGH - A 17-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the leg while standing in line at a McDonald's restaurant and now he faces an illegal weapons charge." Teens are so distraught by old Steely that they are shooting themselves randomly while waiting in line for Big Macs. Stop the madness now! For the children. Suttle World can feel the grassroots groundswell of a national mascot beatdown beginning.
September 13, 2007
...Suttle World will reluctantly add to the hullabaloo by merely pointing out that it is dumbfounded by all the clamor surrounding the Patriots video taping "scandal." Yes, Goodell has to swing the big hammer, largely because he's gotten into the the big time pee-pee whacking biz in his tenure. And Suttle World would also point out that these are the snow plow folks we're talking about.
...Tuesday
night/Wednesday morning's appearance of the
Chesterfield Kings on Late Night with Conan
O'Brien is now available for viewing here.
You may have to work a little by selecting the
Tuesday episode, and then can select the segment
of the show where the band appears.
...From where the hell did hurricane Humberto come?---a sneaking across the border line is just too easy. Regardless, Georgia awaits breathlessly for the aftermath that would appear to be drifting back east over land. Suttle World is no doubt very late to the weather geek party with regard to the radar feature now on the otherwise annoying Weather Channel site that incorporates the Google Earth imaging, but passes along the intell to other geeks for whom this tid-bit had fallen through the cracks as well. Drought conditions around the Peach State are very real, and six inches of precip from a tropical depression would be a good start towards remedy.
...Props to Steeler
fans on their impressive opening day
victory. That being said the franchise
should be shot by celebrating 75 years of storied
professional football history by introducing the
new mascot---a seen to the right in a mug shot
following a recent arrest in a men's room at the
Minneapolis airport. The atrocity does give
rise to a fund raising idea---do it on a national
level and a fair amount of debt could be
retired. A lottery in which the winner and
Randall Simon get to beat down the mascot of the
winner's choice during the intermission of some
big time sporting event. Dude looks like he
should be selling Oxy Clean.
September 12, 2007
...The condition of the greens (that condition being dead) at East Lake is the most embarrassing moment in the history of Atlanta sports since the Michael Vick incident. Yes, its been a long, hot and dry summer. Its a happened a few times before---its freakin Atlanta, and you guys have been at this for over 110 years! Alas, dead, awful greens make for the little dust bunny clung to the end of the cat turd that is and was always going to be the Fed Ex Cup. An idiotic playoff that no one understands, and pays off a $10 million annuity, or roughly the equivalent of the top 20 playing for a '98 Chrysler. Suttle World's long held view that golf should cease and desist after the PGA is looking better with each passing practice round not played.
...Suttle World is most impressed with General Petraeus, and finds the report to be an honest assessment of a situation/war that's heretofore been poorly managed. The clean up/surge appears to have made some progress, and the withdrawals suggested appears logical and manageable. Will Iraq become another Lebanon with an Afghani accent? Eventually, maybe so, and the threat of same may keep a considerable US contingency on the ground for years, if not decades, to come. Next up: Iran. A three way partition with shared oil revenues still strikes Suttle World as the most viable long term solution.
...The long awaited 2007-8 George Washington University Colonials Mens Basketball schedule has been announced. Aside from the annual conference game in Charlotte vs. UNCC, the closest the mighty fighting Colonials get is a respectable trip to Tuscaloosa on Sat., December 29. GW continues to compete in a very weak A-10 Conference, but can't be accused of not scheduling tough out of the league. In addition to the foray to Alabama, there's Mount St. Mary's, at UCLA, Auburn and at Virginia Tech.
...In the grand "populist" sentimentality of a Studs Terkel novel, today the gentle surfer may visit the suffering and sacrifice being endured by our neighbors to the north---Montpelier, VT's "Philene Taormina; her partner, Darren Allen; and their blended family of five" (doesn't sound very appetizing---blended family---does it come in a mocha or Frankenberry? ) as they attempt to scrape by this week with sustenance purchased with no more than a total of $105---the equivalent of the local Food Stamp allocation for a household of their size. The day to day plight of these brave soldiers in the war against assuaging irrational guilt is chronicled by our friends at The Barre - Montpelier Times Argus. This is day four of their struggle. The gentle surfer may continue to follow the Dickensian happenings from the above link as the week progresses. In the words of former Comrade Rather: "Courage."
September 11, 2007
...At 8:46 am six years ago today American Airlines flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. At 9:03, United Airlines flight 175 struck the south tower. At 9:45, American flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and at 10:10 United flight 93 crashed into a wooded area of Pennsylvania before it could reach its target in Washington, DC. At 10:05 the south tower collapsed followed by the fall of the north tower at 10:28 am. A total of 2973 lives were lost in the terrorist attacks on our country. 24 persons remain missing, and presumed dead.
September 9, 2007
...And the below mentioned teaser paid 9:5, and could've been a big time 6:1 paying parlay, given each team covered without the teaser's aid. Yes, there's nothing quite like the tradition of college football---like say Steve Spurrier continuing upon his lifelong infatuation of making Georgia his bitch. With Notre Dame up this weekend and a ranked Penn State coming in on September 22, could Michigan be looking at an 0-4 start at home this year? Tech got by Samford, and George Washington remains undefeated.
...Given the pleasant start to the wagering season, Gene, the Caucasian, pushes forwards with the NFL teaser of the week---the typical three team, six point variety that features (net ) KC at HOU over 31.5; GB + 9 v. PHI; and CLE +10.5 v. PIT. That's a lot of points for home teams in this league, and a very low bar set for the Chiefs and Texans---both of whom have decent offenses and awful defenses. The train wreck in the making that is the Falcons @ Vikings will be forced fed to the ATL beginning at 1:00 along with NE at NYJ. San Diego and Chicago round off pretty decent fare for the cable bound.
...22 left to play; 4.5 games and four teams behind the wild card slot---the math doesn't work in the Braves favor at this point.
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September 8, 2007
...Suttle World wonders as to whether Osama will be taking callers in his next installment? "We're going to Achmed on a cell in Tunisia, may Allah be praised. Achmed how can we defeat the Great Satan today, may Allah be praised?" This should be rich---bin Laden ostensibly joining the blogosphere. Suttle World would also suggest the obvious in that this latest diatribe would seem to make the American left/Democrats squirm mightily. Dude wants to be on Russert.
...Between both
major parties, it is more than safe to say that
there are at least a dozen viable candidates for
president, and Dennis Kucinich. From this
adroit body would the gentle surfer please
identify the candidate who has repeatedly shown
outrage at a federal budget that's a frog's hair
away from $3 TRILLION A YEAR?!
...From the mailbag comes this pic from cuzin Sal up Bastin way---the depiction, of course taken last week at the former doorstep of CBGB following the death of Hilly Kristal. Click to enlarge. Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds (and, soon, Yankee Stadium) are gone. Things change, and we move on, but we need not forget.
...The marquee college game on today's schedule starts at 9:30 tonight when Virginia Tech visits LSU. The Tiger's are 11 point favorites, and Suttle World believes that to be of potential value. Suttle World was about half right with regard to the over bets in college ball last week, and would guess the median over/under this week to be a full touchdown higher. A couple of thoughts looking at this week's tote board: 27.5 points is a lot to get at home. Yes, Hawaii is really a very good ball club, but traveling to Louisiana Tech, that's coming off a nice win over Central Arkansas...Wake is getting 8 at home against Nebraska. Tough to imagine advocating such a thing, but there may be a teaser building here. Now back to LSU---mix in the six point teaser, and you're now only spotting the Hokies 5 in the Swamp. Just to clarify---three team, 6 point teaser (net): LA Tech +33.5; Wake +14; and LSU -5. Pays 9:5.
...Environmentalism kills! A couple of weeks old, but genius Walter Williams assembles a growing body of evidence of the devastation caused in the the name of saving ourselves.
September 7, 2007
...A most hectic
week has been equaled with a less than compelling
period of events upon which to comment.
Those who took Peyton are feeling pretty smug this
morning, with the defending world champion Colts
picking up where they left off---pounding the
allegedly upstart Saints in the N
FL's
opening night.
...The work week ends with yet another stellar installment from cuzin Matt with this week's edition of
September 6, 2007
...This just in this morning: "ROME - Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him the most beloved and celebrated tenor since Caruso and one of the few opera singers to win crossover fame as a popular superstar, died Thursday. He was 71." Opera and household name are dissonant notions. Pavarotti was at the top of a list of three that were the exception. Enough said.
September 4, 2007
...New Mexico Governor, Democratic presidential hopeful and gastric bypass surgery survivor Bill Richardson told a crowd in Sioux City yesterday that: "Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary." Suttle World gets the "good reason:" Jimmy Carter, in his typical style, read the fine print and found the Iowa Caucuses in the rule book just ahead of New Hampshire in 1976, and by covering the state with three members of the Dixie Mafia for every registered Democrat for two years prior, he could pull an upset, and win the nomination. Now, Suttle World does not play a Constitutional scholar on TV, but doesn't recall a specific reference to Iowa, nor the selection process in any way shape or form in its past readings of the document. Finally, Suttle World is going to require further amplification before it can get its feeble mind around the "reasons related to the Lord."
...While shopping in the '08 campaign aisle, it would appear as though the powers to be have officially put the Mit)h in Mit)higan by moving up their primary to January 15---the Doomsday scenario that could have Iowa caucusing on New Year's Eve. Guy Lombardo will be your host.
...Memo to Congress: you're officially on the clock---less than 1.5 sessions from making the tax cuts permanent. Suttle World doesn't expect any proactive measures prior to '09, but that's cutting things a might close. The cuts that are set to expire in '10 are a recession waiting to go off.
..."KATMANDU (Reuters) - Officials at Nepal's state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday." Call Suttle World crazy, but fixing the plane may have been just as easy, and increased productivity to boot. Goat futures are up 23% in pre opening bell trading.
...To paraphrase former Atlanta play-by-play man John Sterling: "and the Braves suck, the Braves suck, the Braves suck."
...Props to the PGA for their research in answering one of life's great mysteries: what if they had a "playoff," and nobody came?
September 3, 2007
...The official government (Department of Labor nonetheless) history of Labor Day here. Really sexy preoccupation up until as late as sixty years ago, but the guild is off the lily (damn, I'm funny!). Regardless of how or why, the timing has always seemed most appropriate in a vaguely very American way. Let more animal flesh be broiled by the briquette as we bid an unofficial adieu to the summer of '07 (still no name for this decade, and time's running out! Free Suttle World merch to the first with a cogent answer!)
...For all the well deserved beating about the head and shoulders taken by Jerry Lewis, MDA raised over $60 million last year and looks to eclipse that record in this year's 42nd annual telethon. Suttle World can't get anyone to nail down a total dollar figure, but its a bunch, and seems to be headed in the right direction. Just another job well done (albeit somewhat irritatingly accomplished) by the significant inertia created in the private sector by a person of notoriety. A bit uncomfortable making political hay out of crippled children, but when the gentle surfer thinks of the tremendous strides made in the care of acute pediatric disease, he or she probably thinks of MDA or St. Jude's or Eggleston or Shiners, et al---instead of some grand cure center of government, even though the most staunch free market advocate would reluctantly agree to some burden created by the aforementioned gimpy kids. This is a powerful lesson in the abilities of regular folks, acting together to accomplish big things, and equally as compelling an argument for getting less government involved in the health care market, not more! Some disagree, like say: "TIPTON, Iowa (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care."
...Suttle World is on record as being pleased to have been flat ass wrong regarding its predications for a debacle in Athens for the 2004 Olympic Games. Suttle World is beginning to wonder as to whether its concerns were just 4 years premature. If Greece could pull it off, the Chinese should be able to, but a of mass grave of slave laborers uncovered here and there, and the whole deal could be tainted---and what with Richard Jewel not around to hang stuff on anymore...just thinking...
...Given there's plenty to be seen, its a damn shame, tennis is so freakin boring. Otherwise its the Bowden Bowl tonight (8:00 EDT ESPN).
September 2, 2007
...And with the first pick in the 2007 LaDainian Tomlinson Labor Day Lottery, Scott takes Peyton Manning!?? Its a silly game, and the pick (LaDainian fell to cuzin Bill who was at #2) may well prove to bear more fruit. Suttle World has born woeful witness to a slam dunk back befallen by a simple twist of the knee; and Peyton does seem to show up most every Sunday. Suttle World took Joseph Addai with the 7th pick of the first round. 12 teams (all on hand for the first time ever) drafted a record 168 players. DUFFLE should be up and running on Yahoo by early afternoon. The NFL begins with what has become a silly Thursday night opener (save the fact that its a really good ball game this year---New Orleans at Indy) this week.
...Props to Red Sox 23-year-old rookie, Clay Buchholz, who pitched a no-hitter in just his second outing last night against the Orioles. Buchholz (2-0) became the 21st rookie to throw a no-hitter since 1900. Close but no Bobo Holloman---a Suttle World Hall of Famer who threw a no-hitter in is his 1953 debut with the St. Louis Browns (and went on to enjoy a 65.3 inning, 3-7 and 5.23 ERA career in his only season in the Major Leagues).
...Stipulated that the genius insight of Gene, the Caucasian, regarding the over wagers was dumber than dirt, or at least for two of the three games selected. Big props to Tech for rolling into South Bend to put a big league beat down on the Domers. Let's check that score again....Georgia Tech 33 Notre Dame 3. And then there's the Appalachian State---quite arguably the biggest upset in the history of college football, with the Mountaineers whooping Michigan! An amazing start to the 2007 season, with Florida State visiting Death Valley to take on Clemson still on tap for Monday night. A complete ATL TV sports list for what's left of the Labor Day weekend is here.
September 1, 2007
...OK---late out of the gate to begin with combined with the demands that the first day of any given month bring, and Suttle World will keep a celebratory beginning of September update short and sweet.
...A new and now expanded to 12 team confab that is the Duesenberg United Fantasy Football League of Elvis (DUFFLE) proudly begins its sixth season this evening with the annual draft being conducted at the exquisite domicile of cuzins Cindy & Deidre, who, of course, also compose two of this season's record dozen franchises. The LaDainian Tomlinson lottery is set to begin at or around 7:00. The Week I schedule is already set, and all that remains is to fill in the blanks, and begin play next week, culminating in DUFFLE Bowl VI, Christmas Eve, and paying a Suttle World estimated record $375 - $400 for the Champion's share. Suttle World coverage of DUFFLE 2007 to come.
...While in the football aisle, Suttle World is now prepared to expand upon the details of earlier veiled references to what it believes to be a betting coup for NCAA action today. There is an incredible opportunity to make some money on the college kids to which the betting public has yet to catch on, ergo the rare opportunity. Why? Reader's Digest version: the tee from which a ball is set for kickoffs is lower, and the NCAA has moved kickoffs back to the 30 YARD LINE! Suttle World is going to go out on a limb here and speculate that more points will be put up on the board when teams regularly start drives from the 35 yard line or better! Three games would seem to be slam dunks. Ergo, Gene, the Caucasian, rears his ugly 2007 head on Labor Day weekend and highly recommends two wagers: 3 team, big 6:1 paying, parlay: Wake at Boston College over 43; Arizona at Brigham Young over 46; and Kansas State at Auburn over 45.5. Bet two is a six point teaser of the above to hedge (making the overs/net 37, 40, and 39.5, respectively), and pays 9:5. You're welcome, maybe.
...If the gentle surfer took under on the resignation of Larry Craig at 1:00 yesterday, you loose! Old cruising Craig will evidently hang it up at or around the same time today. Ben Stein makes a compelling argument in the senator's favor, but the expedient measure is for him to run away.
...The Braves could go 24-4 in September, and that's pretty much is what has to happen---making the keeping it real magic number for elimination somewhere between 3-4 games.
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