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Q. How big a deal, that the guy just won Biggest Loser and the lifetime free veggie sub card?
A. Not. Most those Biggest Loser amigos wind up Biggest Winners shortly after the lights flick off. Like maybe 20% of them have actually changed.
On Jan. 31, Dr. D expressed his skepticism of the Fat Farm Trip, as such:
One of the things that the world knows NYC for is its amazing shows. If you’re one of those that loves a good musical, you’re pretty much guaranteed that something is going on every night of the week. Here are just a few of the shows that are showing right now.
John & Jen - Clurman Theatre - Through March 22nd
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Want to identify who is a Grade A prospect, "Grade A" in the sense that Roberto Alomar and Frank Thomas and Chipper Jones were? That is, with a 30% chance of becoming a big league star, and a 70% chance of becoming a quality big league player?
There's a Cereal Box 5-Cent Plastic Compass on it, thusly:
One of the things that the world knows NYC for is its amazing shows. If you’re one of those that loves a good musical, you’re pretty much guaranteed that something is going on every night of the week. Here are just a few of the shows that are showing right now.
TRU Voices Musical Series - Baruch Performing Arts Center - Jan 26th
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Dr. D did an awesome piece last week, in which he found that Marshawn Lynch is one of the best Seahawks.
The most likely reason for this is that other players can't tackle Lynch, despite an Arizona fan who blogged (yes, he did) that "any decent high school player" could have brought down Lynch on the sideline of Quake v2.0. Any decent high school player who ever lived, as we know, would have been airlifted by chopper to see if they could get him to the hospital in time.
The Think Tank bubbled, percolated, and agreed unanimously that Lynch is indeed good, and that the Seahawks would find a way to surf this beastly wave until it hit the beach. SSI Resolution 1306 allowed us to return to not talking about the Mariners very much.
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As you know, we live to serve :- )
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This last Thanksgiving, we rejoiced in the fact that the Seattle Mariners were doing their level best to nab one off this list of Stars:
In retrospect, how'd we do? Lessee. Had we rather have
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There are few places on Earth like NYC when it comes to a diverse selection of amazing food from all around the world. To help ease the plight of your stomach, I’ve put together this brief list of some of the best food-centric events taking place this week.
6th Annual Latke Festival - Metropolitan Pavilion - Dec 15th
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The Ugly
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Find the aim and achieve it. To sail to and fro, this will expose you to a strategic disgrace. - GM Aron Nimzovich
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing more important than knowing the rules, is knowing their exceptions. - jemanji
To get squares, you gotta give squares. - Bobby Fischer
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend. - Bruce Lee
".268/.330/.464 in Safeco, second half" - Brad Miller's bat
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Jack Zduriencik reminds me of Whitey Herzog, give or take the belly laugh and the rings. (Whitey Herzog minus those two things is still a whale of a baseball man. A great Bill James line about Herzog -- who ran James' beloved 1970's Royals -- "If Whitey hadn't been an MLB manager, he'd have been the county sheriff.")
The passage I remember best from his book The White Rat: "If it's drizzling, Templeton doesn't wanna play. If it's Thursday, he doesn't wanna play. If his wife yelled at him, he doesn't wanna play. I gotta have a starting shortstop I can count on." Or somesuch.
Whereupon Whitey "templeton'ed" his starting shortstop to San Diego, taking back a slick-fielding kid who could flip sky-high handsprings on his way out to his position. Or, occasionally, while turning a double play. Whitey got a shortstop who loved to play the game, and the St. Louis Cardinals of the 1980's became the Kansas City Royals of the 1970's. St. Louis' quasi-dynasty hasn't let up much since.
