Showing posts with label Fantastic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fantastic. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

A Work in Progress

Many ballparks have started to have all you can eat sections. Just a dedicated section of seats where you pay a set price and get all of the pop and food you can handle. I have heard that some places include beer in their deal, but I am too lazy to look it up and confirm that it is true.

This is a good idea, but I would like to suggest a new section. This idea was hammered out while sitting in the outfield upperdeck of the Jake (Progressive Field) watching the Yankees and Tribe in a pitchers dual on Kids Day. As it goes there were a few frustrating calls and when wanting to air our frustrations we had to watch ourselves as to not offend the parents of the kiddies sitting around us (cause we are good people).

The simple solution would be an adult only section where we can, as the Jewzo said, "act our age". Stick the section in the far reaches of the upper deck and let us get silly drunk and yell obscenities with reckless abandon. There always seems to be that guy at the games who ends up doing it anyhow, so why not give him a place to do it with other people who wholly approve of these kind of actions.




(this is a picture of the Jake, I don't care what the sign on the outside says)

There were obviously countless other ideas thrown out on how to make this the ultimate baseball viewing experience (seriously, imagine 5 guys in their mid 20s discussing an adults only section, that should give you the picture), but after a weekend of non-stop drinking I can't remember many (any) of them. I guess I should have paid more attention to the idea. So, like the title says this is a work in progress, I just thought I would post it before I forgot about it.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Totally swept up in the fun!



I can't remember where I saw this first, but I totally give credit to them.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

NCAA Tournament Coverage Maps

Just in case you were wondering what game you will be getting. Also, so you can be jealous if another market is getting a better game.

Coverage Maps for Thursday (Found on Awful Announcing)


I would like to point out that this is the one time of year that I like Time Warner Cable. I am not sure if other cable providers have this and if they do we can all be happy, but Time Warner gives you 4 CBS feeds so that if you have enough TVs (I will) you can watch all four games that are on at one time.

If your cable provider is not hooking you up (or you don't have cable) you should check out CBS march madness on demand. This way you will at least be able to get a live feed of whatever game you want.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Beer Madness

This may be the most appropriate thing I have linked to since I started this little blog.


Beer Madness


Brackets and Beer? That is almost heaven. The Washington Post is having a 32 beer bracket to determine the best (favorite) beer.






(Thanks to Steve for the link)

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

ESPN 360 Is Killing My Productivity

Not that I had that much to begin with. Finding out that the Ohio State network supports ESPN360.com was probably the worst thing I could learn, but being able to follow the UEFA Champions league matches while I am sitting in the basement at work is a pretty exciting development. Also my college basketball watching is going to increase as I will be able to watch the early week night games while I am finishing up work for the day. Even better anything you miss you can watch later using the DVR like capabilities of ESPN360.






The only problem so far is the same 5 commercials over and over and over.

So hopefully where ever you are your network allows you to tap into the amazing potential that is ESPN360.com

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Great and Tragic News

I have long dreamed of having a fiber optic football field, just blend the fibers into the synthetic turf. Now never did I ever imagine that this was an idea I held all to myself, I have just never heard anyone else talk about it nor have I ever read anything about it. Apparently I have never read anything about it cause I have never looked. Forbes.com wrote up a little article in 2006 about this very idea.

Field of Screens

Normally I am not a fan of advertising (because commercials interupt the game), but the opportunities of this idea are just too cool to ignore.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Interesting Title Game Facts

Well at least interesting to me.

Some thing happened this year that has not happened since the inception of the BCS national championship game (granted 10 years is not very long). Every division’s championship game had a repeat contender.

For the rest of this post just remember FBS stands for Football Bowl Subdivision (old division 1) and 1-AA stands for Football Championship Subdivision because I refuse to use FCS when 1-AA is so handy.

10 years of the BCS championship game by the numbers

- No repeat champions

- No team has won two BCS championship games (that will change this year)

- 3 Teams have (or will have) played in 3 BCS title games: Oklahoma, Florida State, and Ohio State.

- No SEC team has ever lost when appearing in the BCS title game (Tennessee, LSU, and Florida).

- The Big 12 has most title game appearances (5) and most loses (3).

- No current Big East team has played in a title game (Miami (2) and VT (1) before they fled to the ACC).

- The ACC, Big Ten and Pac Ten have each only had one team make the title game [ACC – FSU (3), Big Ten – OSU (3), Pac Ten – USC (2)].

Looking at some of the interesting things from the last 10 years of championship games.

- In both 2006 and 2007 six out of the ten teams playing in the championship game played in the championship the previous year. Appalachian State (1-AA ), Northwest Missouri State (D-II), Mount Union (D-III), and Wisconsin Whitewater (D-III) have all appeared three years in a row.

- As stated earlier for the first time, each championship game has at least one repeat contender. The teams above plus Ohio State (FBS) and Sioux Falls (NAIA).

- Every team competing in a championship game has played in at least one other title game in the last 10 years. Mount Union has played in the most (8).

- 1-AA has had the most different teams compete in the championship game (12). FBS (11), D-II (8), D-III (9), and NAIA (7).

-The FBS has had the most different champions (9*), 1-AA comes in second (7), and all three other division have had 5 different champions.

- Longest winning streaks: Carroll College (4, NAIA), Appalachian State (3, 1-AA, current), Mount Union (3, D-II).

- Most appearances: Mount Union (8), Northwest Missouri State (5), Grand Valley State (5), and Carroll College (5).

* This will not change with OSU and LSU having already won a championship.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Maps

If you happen to be a sports nut mixed in with a little bit of a geography nerd you will enjoy this site. Sport Map World. Someone took the time and used Google maps to layout the locations of all the teams in different leagues around the world. It is a good place to kill 15 minutes (or 3 hours if you really don't want to be productive).

Monday, December 10, 2007

Bowl Pick'em Contest

I usually have a NCAA Basketball bracket contest on Yahoo!, but this year I have expanded to college football as well. So to join the inaugural IJWDBAPA college bowl pick'em go to

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/bowl

pick join group

put in your yahoo ID

and enter this information

Group ID: 19352

Password: buckeyes

(isn't that password original)

and pick away, the winner gets something. What? Yeah it's worth will depend on who wins, for example if it is me: eleventy billion dollars.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Oh Yeah


Today is Repeal Day!!!


On December 5th, 1933 the US government officially repealed prohibition. I can't think of a better reason to crack open a beer and celebrating.



Repeal Day

Monday, December 3, 2007

Back For More




Ohio State will once again (3rd time in 6 years) be playing for the BCS title. They will be taking on LSU in their backyard (New Orleans).



More impressive than Tressel leading the Buckeyes to the championship game 3 times in 7 years is that in his 22 years as a head coach he has finished the season with a championship game NINE times.


All hail coach Sweatervest.


Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Classy Move

I don't care how you feel about Pete Carrol, this was a great tribute.



Monday, September 3, 2007

The Michigan Debacle

I think every thing that can be said about this game has been. If I was not so lazy I would link to some of the better things I have found. So I guess you will have to search for yourself.

All I can say is I agree with the people who say this is bad for OSU and the Big Ten. Having Michigan as the laughing stock of the conference does not say much for its credibility.

That being said I did taunt every Michigan fan I know with in 15 minutes of the game ending.

The best thing I heard came from D Funk. The text message read: If my kids don't grow up to be Buckeyes I hope they go to Appalachian State.
















Michigan Who?

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Things You Don't See Every Day

Front bumper of a fire truck















Nothing out of the ordinary if you are in Columbus, but if you look at the door of the truck and notice where it is from.





















This truck's home is none other than State College, PA home of Penn State.

The truck was manufactured in Columbus, good to see they have a little fun on the job at Sutphen Corporation.

From: The Fanhouse