Lookout Landing

Luckily the prospect of a new House

makes me want to stab things less.

Really? Are you sure?

HIV POSITIVE??

I went for a walk this afternoon after the game.

It was drizzly a bit, but that’s comforting in a way, and it was warm enough to walk around in just a light jacket. I walked down to Seattle center and just strolled along. Pretty much everything was closed so there wasn’t much foot traffic, but just walking around with some nice weather and a nice area gave me some calm back. Very zen.

What!?

Zen’s got mad hops.

johnbai - April 27, 2008 reply

Does that mean Zen is not caucasian...

...cause caucasians cant jump.

Or something.

Don't say that it is racist per ESPN's Lz Granderson

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=granderson/080401

As a cherokee

Get off my land.

:D :P

As a chippewa...

Actually, you know what, I can’t afford another strike to my name.

/racist joke.

something philosophical here

LL has helped me cope with being a fan of the mariners. but seriously, spot on way of looking at/dealing with life that.

Diatribe - April 27, 2008 reply

just wondering Jeff

how did you become a Sens fan?

I used to live there before moving north of Seattle and I’m a huge fan of the Sens too. how did you and some others here become Sens fans?

Tony S - April 27, 2008 reply

He was looking at the standings and saw the Sens were in last.

And now he’s a Sens fan.

And I root for the Redwings.

Go Wings Go!

Because you are dumb

Pretty much

this happened in 1992.

I liked their mascot

I wish I were kidding.

ningwers - April 27, 2008 reply

I was watching the game at the gym

and the guy working there asked me “How do you watch the Mariners? I can’t even watch them, its like watching a guy waking up from a coma.” I reassured him its painful, but I was still watching, despite Oakland already putting the 4 spot in the 8th. Then I wondered, why do I keep watching? I know there is little chance with the puny offense the M’s currently have that they can come back, especially after watching Wilkerson strike out. I guess I really do love them. I don’t know why, the management is shoddy, maybe its because they are the home town team. Why do I still watch? Maybe I just hope one day I will see a Mariners world series first hand, or be able to go into a Mariners team store and buy a pair of playoff tickets in September because I am so sure they will make it, or witness a Felix no-hitter in person, or one day there will be a Mariners bandwagon just like the sox bandwagon now, I can proudly say I hung in there when they were down and everyone doubted them. But nonetheless, after today’s crappy ending to such a good game, I stay a fan of the Mariners.

Thanks Jeff and everyone at LL to make being a Mariners fan less painful than it is. I would say being on a game thread during the game almost rivals being at the game in person. We can only hope one day they will get their act straight and be a well ran team, like the Rays.

"We can only hope one day they will get their act straight and be a well ran team, like the Rays"

or the Angels after watching them beat the Tigers tonight, sorry to say – they look well managed and are having fun out there – good formula for success

Anyone else agree the Cairo should replace Perlozzo until he gets back from his injury?

amen to your comment Fin, go M’s

Tony S - April 27, 2008 reply

31 years?

anyone counting on the M’s to get their act straight and be a well run team like the Rays is hoping for divine intervention….. sounds good, but the likelihood of it happening is less then Jeff’s odds of spending the rest of his life with Eliza Dushku.

MfaninAlaska - April 27, 2008 reply

This game felt like being Emily in The Devil Wears Prada and finding out

that, after all those months of gleeful anticipation, you won’t be going to Paris.

Yes, I do hate myself

That's good

it saved me having to ask.

pdb - April 27, 2008 reply

SOME OF US HAVENT SEEN IT YET

You know how I know you're gay?

That.

In one day, I have watched The Devil Wears Prada and Georgia Rules

That is the curse of HBO and other assorted movie channels: If I see a movie is just starting, I feel compelled to watch it. I have gotten to the point where good movies and bad movies have equal value to me.

A girlfriend is the only reason why somebody should watch those movies

Robert - April 27, 2008 reply

Not even partial insanity?

Immortality

based on a sample size of nearly 23 years, I am immortal

In the end, we all regress to the mean.

iglew - April 27, 2008 reply

Life imitates tangotiger

You're only 23, Jeff?

I thought you were like 70 or something!

You must have missed how I graduated college last May

or the opening day pic you posted

a 70 year old could of graduated college last may

MFAN - April 27, 2008 reply

That's true

how about the Opening Day pic from last year, standing at college?

How do we know that that's actually you?

It could have been your friend or something.

I'm leaving this subthread due to lack of interest

Aw, you're just mad because I proved

that you might actually be 70!

I could use the same logic to prove that you might be Carrottop

Robert - April 27, 2008 reply

I'm actually Jaleel White in case anyone is wondering.

I thought that was Stifler

Robert - April 27, 2008 reply

Where is that pic?

That compares the two?

Just wasted the last 15 minutes digging up this picture

Enjoy again. I sure did.

I don't really see the Gil Meche resemblence.

It's more Bedardian now

Nick S - April 27, 2008 reply

I kind of see it.

I don't see any resemblance

Fin - April 28, 2008 reply

But y'know, I don't think Stifler would drink beer from a wine glass

Jeff’s classy like that.

That's a snobby beer glass

Josh Brown, again.

Yeah, how dare you denigrate 70 year old college grads everywhere

damn social science majors

4 semesters of a language can take awhile

Where did you graduate from?

Trinity College

The best part of Hartford was the Half Door. The worst part was everything else.

Haha, liberal arts for the win. What did you major in?

Never been to Connecticut. And I’m not sure I ever will by choice…

Chemistry

Don’t go to Connecticut unless you’re driving from New York to Boston.

Not quite a liberal art I guess.

Congrats none the less, I’m sure that was a great feeling to graduate. One more year for me.

To hell with graduating

it was a great feeling to get out of Hartford.

I've heard similar sentiments from all the ESPNers

who have migrated to LA from Bristol.

Just think how much better your experience would've been if the Whalers were still in town

ningwers - April 27, 2008 reply

Hey man lay off the Wolfpack

I lived around the corner from that fine establishment in 2001/02

it was, indeed, the best part of Hartford.

pdb - April 28, 2008 reply

Yeah I thought early-mid 30s.

No LL...

... and I woulda bailed on the M’s three years ago instead of stumbling into this life lesson in humiliation! And yeah, Felix had the game wired there for a while: Maybe he’s learning a baseball lesson from Bedard? So simple, and yet so fine.

flightrisk - April 27, 2008 reply

The cosmic joke.

God is a comedian playing to an audience to afraid to laugh.

A game like this is like watching a Yo-Yo Ma concert, only to have him break a string in the third movement and be replaced by the local grade school beginning band class – yes it’s painful, but you have to be able to look back on it with a sense of humor and appreciation for the spectacle of human mastery that you witnessed.

MrIncognito - April 27, 2008 reply

Speaking of college...

My ASU blog will probably go live on SBN in a week or two once all the current sites are switched over to 2.0. People should come check it out when the time comes

You have an SBN Blog?

pfft

Alcohol

So I drank Everclear tonight. Anyone ever have it? Banned in the state of Washington and several other states.

Luckily I lived in a real ghetto and got my hands on it easily.

95% Alcohol, 190 Proof. 9 bucks. Grim death.

I think Coach just called the cops on you...I'd watch out

MFAN - April 27, 2008 reply

Cops here wont do anything.

Ive never been arrested because I just outrun them.

everclear is banned in washington?

man, this state is dumb.

Thats what I heard.

I was warned by a chick I met in Seattle…so I go buy some alcohol for a couple friends, asking what they wanted…one said ‘grain’. So I went in, asked for grain…he gave me Everclear. I knew immediately what it was. My friends nearly passed out smelling it.

Smells like melted sharpie.

How are you so coherent?

I have high tolerance

Its worn off now. Even so, when im drunk I can hide it outside broken sentences and occassional typos.

I drank 5 shots. I calculated (hows that for chemistry, Jeff?) that 5 shots is the equivalent to about 13.5 shots of Absolut. The only time I threw up drinking was after 16-20 shots of Absolute. Just sticking to a safe zone. It takes about 10 shots of Absolut to get me drunk at all.

I was singing to a chick lol. I sang ‘Stray Cat Strut’ to her, complete with gyrations. “I get my dinner from the garbage can…”. Good times.

Horrible mental image

Haha

If it makes you feel better, im really good at singing.

And its my singing and gyrations that turned the hot lesbian straight. ; ) I must be the kavorka.

This sounds awesome.

It tastes like...

Uhh…it wont matter. You wont feel your throat for about 12 hours. If you have acid reflux (i do myself), it feels like that for hours after you drink it.

I remember reading that 200 proof is PURE alcohol. So I imagine 190 is one of the toughest drinks in the world.

When I first got it and drank with two male friends…they stripped and ran down the street/bridge. Silly dudes, I’ve done that before without drinking. I took them to Walmart afterwards. That was a bad idea. They stole a tomato and started throwing it at each other INSIDE the store.

well, 200 proof = 100%

so..yeah.

Makes sense...haha

Might as well add a picture to it.

Holy crap

Thats a huge bottle.

Mine is 375ML.

Its easy to slip a 2nd shot after the first. But after the 2nd shot, the first one will kick in and make you put the bottle down. From there on, you have to be a man to keep taking shots.

I drank it straight from the bottle with a lemon lime Gatorade chaser. Wish I got grape, its better as a chaser.

Its been 4 hours, and I still cant feel my throat.

It's like someone took the ethanol bottle from the fume hood

and slapped a label on it.

JLC - April 28, 2008 reply

DO NOT DRINK LAB ETHANOL

DO NOT DRINK LAB ETHANOL
DO NOT DRINK LAB ETHANOL

Jeff Sullivan - April 28, 2008 reply

Getting drunk of the smell would be hilarious.

Isn't absinthe illegal over there too?

Graham MacAree - April 27, 2008 reply

Absinthe just got legal.

The real stuff . . . . mmmmmmmm, wormwood extract.

Also, I had Everclear punch at a party at UW once, and nobody mentioned illegality.

Other than underage drinking, of course.

Paytheline - April 27, 2008 reply

The worst I've ever done was bacardi 151

and let me tell you, that burns like a mother[smurf]. Fortunately, it kept my tummy warm for a while.

The closest I’ve been to absinthe was seeing it on eurotrip. I am guessing it doesn’t really glow does it?

no

it also tastes like shit and doesn’t do anything.

Correct

Graham MacAree - April 27, 2008 reply

good for the philistine ladies though

Wrong

Absinthe will blow your brains out if your don’t dilute it maybe 3 to 1.

They banned it because they thought the thujone (wormwood extract) made people crazy. But they later proved that the crazies were just really drunk. So now we may all enjoy again.

And what the hell—here’s a great absinthe link: http://www.absintheonline.com/acatalog/about.html

Paytheline - April 27, 2008 reply

no, it wont.

Ok, it makes you really drunk

That’s because it’s got a lot of alcohol in it.

Graham MacAree - April 27, 2008 reply

not anymore

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080117000332AAeA3WZ

This was interesting

Never heard of ‘Sake’. Absinthe’s hallucination stuff is bull. But the comparison is interesting. Glad to know ive been drinking ‘moonshine’ lately.

you've never heard of sake?

where the hell have you been?

Depends

I suppose, on the specific absinthe you’re drinking. There is some hardcore stuff out there.

Paytheline - April 27, 2008 reply

Im sorta new to alcohol

I dont blow money on it…so Ive slowly been getting around to new shit. But I only started drinking last summer after like a 7-8 year layoff.

I have some Irish drink here called ‘Bailey’s’ Irish Cream. Dunno what the fuck it is, but it smells like vanilla coffee. Pretty weak, too. Also have Bicardi Rum. Weak, too. Both were free, so…

NEVERMIND

I must still be a little loopy. Bell just rung.

I know what Sake is, and I have had it before.

Big DUH type of thing.

In your head, you pronounced it "Sake"

as in – “for the sake of” didn’t you. That happened to a friend at some Chinese restaurant. We made fun of him for quite a while.

CapSea - April 28, 2008 reply

Exactly

Haha.

Slica - April 28, 2008 reply

Sake > Life

Oregon is dumber.

Apparently a 151 proof version is allowed.

Thanks wikipedia.

It's banned? I've always been able to find it somehow...

I mean not that I ever drink it

It’s not even close to worth drinking for the pain it will inflict on you, but I’ve seen it all over the place.

What the hell happened?

Did we just get Royals’d and Morrow’d?

Just to lighten the mood from this embarrassing loss.

Screw Family Guy

Tonights new episode made me realize why Family Guy is no longer funny or useful and has jumped the shark on just about everything that made the show funny

Pretty sure the point was that there is a fat kid who looks just like, and happens to be namd

after the show’s character.

Not a comment on the show itself.

That was the point

and it was supposed to be funny.

It is funny

I’m just pissed because I think tonight was the night that Family Guy, at one point one of my favorite shows, completely jumped the shark.

I’m just bitter

I did not see tonights..

But I would argue that it jumped the proverbial shark a long time ago.

Yeah it's been in a long, steady decline

for a long time now, but for me today was a final climax- a completely openly gay Stewie, even more (!) random cutaways that are less funny, a shoddy plot line, basically there were no redeeming features at all about the episode

Openly gay Stewie???

WTF

This show used to be good.

Yeah

Stewie’s occasional subtle homosexual tendencies were hilarious, but in this instance he spent about half the episode just being obviously gay. It was a bummer

I didn't watch

I like trainwrecks, I’ll have to find a copy of this.

foxondemand.com

ah

won't be up for three days though

at least American Dad still sucks

Yep

although having watched both the new FG and the new AD today, I’d say I enjoyed watching the American Dad more

but that’s like asking me if I’d rather be lit on fire or shot repeatedly

I agree

New episodes definately not as funny as the last one. I loved when south park mocked family guy though, now that was hilarious.

yes

South Park always wins

Agreed

Family Guy is too hit and miss. And does it ever have a cohesive story? I like Family Guy, but its basically punchline after punchline.

In the early days it had stories.

The older episodes did I think

I think with the onset of the 5th season it started to collapse, and now there’s no story at all.

But today there were just huge gaping plot holes

I've been advocating they just go 100% in one direction or the other.

...as far as stories go

Yeah that would be good

Right now it’s just loose stories with random 60-90 second cutaways at important points in the plot development and the cutaways are more annoying than funny

that's nice

Eat crow Corco

I'm not Corco

You mean

“Im Im NOT Corco”...right?

Slica - April 28, 2008 reply

i heard you were

ASUBoyd - April 28, 2008 reply

My username begs to differ

Not real

I read it on urbanlegends.com or whatever it’s called. They debunked it, his real name was something different.

Don’t mean to be a buzzkill, but tragically, it is not so.

and if that is real that is pretty funny

That was an amazing write up

Jeff, thanks for encapsulating the human condition after such a harsh loss. Excellent work.

Smegmalicious - April 28, 2008 reply

It's so not fair

That Felix gets negative contribution points.