Last Call: Announcements For You to Read or Ignore
Get to dancing and jump to the beat.
You Should Read These Links
A requiem for Starbury. (SLAM)
ATD begins their season preview with the Red Devils. (Avoiding the Drop)
Sober and thorough thought on the Intertubes by TYER. (The Phoenix Pub)
Tiger farting would piss off Rick Reilly, too. (Look, Google!)
You Should Click These Links to Make Our Souls Hurt Less
TDD on wrestling (and NPR). Chill and the Small Ball Triple Crown. Rock on Greenman.
Anything that has the phrase “People on the road can turn and LOL into a great big OMG” is an automatic post, but at the end, David Brooks and Paul Krugman are described as “bros.” We like that. Kudos to the folks at Auto-Tune the News for doing funny stuff smartly.
Announcements
You may have already noticed don’t care about are hereby subjected to the following notes:
Departures:
Joba, Shakey, and Rovitz are no longer members of The Rookies, for a variety of reasons. We wish each of them luck with their respective ventures; you can find Joba at 3:10 to Joba, Shakey at Style Points, and Rovitz with his girlfriend.
Arrivals:
Our own Chuck Knoblockhead is joining Style Points as a full-time member but will continue to post here. His introductory piece calls out the existing members of Style Points and labels the blog a “dying franchise.” This can only end in the sort of pyrotechnics one would expect from Andre Rison’s love life. Furthermore, Samer’s started a football blog of his own. Pay attention to it.
Openings:
While we love all of our writers, even Samer, we want to continue pursuing the mission this blog had at its inception, to observe and report things from the sporting and life spheres of people who are younger than the average blogger. So, if you are or know a young (under 25) and/or undergraduate sports fan who is interested in writing about sports and/or the college lifestyle, please feel free to drop us a line at therookiesblog@gmail.com and ask about being part of the staff or contributing a piece. This is a standing invitation.
New Features:
Things you will want to watch out for in the coming weeks: NCAA and NFL previews; Finding Seams; Why I Root; TDD’s wrestling recaps; maybe one of those things that rhymes with “snodcast” where you talk into a microphone and someone records it. Any other ideas? Hit that email or leave them in the comments.
Reminders:
The comment section is fully open and yours to play with. While we enjoy being part of the Last Call family and hosting that lively banter at night, it’s also true that every single comment you leave under a post gets read, even if only by Rock, who we believe has an Ethernet port in his ear. Your opinions mean something to us, positive, neutral, or negative, and we encourage you to share them.
Even if the sky is falling down, we’ll be here.
Your opinions mean something to us, positive, neutral, or negative, and we encourage you to share them.
Every person who has ever had a soul crushing job has heard this exact same line from his boss.
Right, “we encourage you to share them,” so we can sort out our ‘who gets the axe first when the shit hits the fan’ list. Thanks for your contribution!
I’ll get the axe first because I’m over 30. :)
I’m almost 30, but I have a problem with authority, too. Perhaps that’s why I’m getting my degrees finished and setting new trails while doing it…
/grumble grumble
Yeah what an awful time for you. First you leave the Rookies and then I replace you over at Style Points, just terrible.
Hi everyone,
How are you guys? I’m tired.
At 3:30ish in the afternoon?
I spent most of the morning having to deal w/ my college losing proof of my medical insurance, and it’s not over!
Good evening all. Marissa, thanks for the kind words on that novel I wrote.
I loved it, too. Good, sane stuff.
Thanks Rock. Much appreciated.
So lets say someone writing for the Rookies turns 26. What happens then? Will the answer to that question ultimately lead us to the location of Rovitz’s corpse?
I meant 25.
@Old King Clancy – are we supposed to create our own tags and I’ve just shat the bed in my responsibility the past 7 weeks? And, agreed with Rockabye that was a good post yesterday.
Not that I know of. But any avenue that gives me a chance to be a silly bastard, I’ll usually try to take advantage.
Under 25?
Does that mean I’d get kicked out in November? Heartless BASTARDS!
@monch and @Afino: Originally, it was under 21 or undergrad, and we all were. Then I realized that nearly every other blogger on Earth is pushing 30. So I relaxed it.
But if anyone’s interested, by all means email us.
You can’t replace me, you can only hope to contain me.
I think I’ve just mixed my metaphors.
I tried a “I tried to option this piece to The Rookies but I’m too old” tag on my Why I Root yesterday, but TPTB shot me down.
Too bad, too, ’cause we would’ve paid approximately $0.03 for it. (Link added because it was good.)
I’m the one what shot ya down. I honestly wasn’t sure how well it would be received, and I didn’t feel like us inadvertently starting an inter-blog flame war (in case it went over like the proverbial lead balloon).
We don’t want war. Worry not.
Oh, and it was a wise decision. I just figured I’d tell them since they’d probably think it was funny. :)
I think i will finally be seeing my first NFL game in person next Thursday when Pitt (i mean the Arizona Cardinals) take on the Steelers. I’m really looking forward to seeing the Palko throw touchdown to someone, even if it’s the Steelers.
What exactly are you looking for from possible new contributors? As far as I can tell I fit all your requirements. I’m young, dumb, and full of… ideas.
Really, it’s sort of what you make it. There’s some stuff we’re sort of married to, and a whole other blank canvas that you can fingerpaint on. Email us?
I need to go back to LA now. Going outside in my hometown was a good reminder of that.
This whole exported DUAN is still going on, eh?
Yeah, it is, even if it’s quieter.
QUITE FRANKLY I COULD CHANGE THE NOIZE LEVEL IF YOU THINK THAT IT IS TOO QUIET
Cla Meredith is in. It always makes me think of Liar Liar. “It’s the Cla!!!!”
Jeremy Piven’s guest hosting RAW. Wow. Should be good tonight…
I hope he gets hit with HHH’s sledgehammer.
What up all? I haven’t been around for a while, that’s what summer will do to you. I just thought I would poke my head in and say howdy. Also, I’m pretty sure I gave myself black lung cleaning my apartment.
Good to see you, FatNakedMoleRat. Pink lungs are effeminate anyway.
I didn’t realize that I was making myself more rugged and macho, but I’m excited that I did! Look how bad ass my, cough cough cough cough, black lungs, cough, are!
Only the promise of a trainwreck draws me to wrestling.
Howdy everyone. Anything other than wrestling on tonight?
Hopefully the Cubs told Kevin Gregg that their series is in LA instead of Cincinnati.
HBO has an excellent documentary on a boxing match that went horribly wrong back in 1983, it’s well worth your time if you’re still up or want to DVR it. 11PM EDT on the main channel.
Also worth your time: Jeff Pearlman’s rebuttal.
I’m unlikely to see the doc, but Pearlman has. And he wrote the first story.
To be fair, Pearlman has a point. HBO has certainly been manipulative in the past with their docs (especially concerning Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier), so it’s not surprising to me in the least that a reaction like his exists. I guess my point regarding it’s “excellence” is that it does shed a lot of light on a subject I only knew about on the periphery. It does well in that regard.
I’m setting my DVR now. Thanks
Was watching Cubs/Reds then switched it to Pirates/Nats until that got out of hand, not watching Wrestling (and the Braves when they come on at 10).
So should we just assume that the Obama/Joker poster is the work of 4chan and be done with it?
Tell me more about this Obama/Joker poster?
Why so curious?
Why so stimulus?
Ok, I saw that somewhere else today. But it still made me chortle.
Now that’s good. Much more inspired than just plain Socialism.
I think its pretty funny in how pointless it is. Like the polar opposite of that ridiculous “Hope” poster. You just have to laugh at it.
I’m 25, can I still come in and play nintendo with you assjackals???
Hey, am I the only one here who ain’t sold on Peavy yet? I love this town but I swear to tebow we act like such easily impressed hicks sometimes. He’s ALREADY overrated and he hasn’t even gotten a chance to shit the bed for us yet, wtf?
/that goes double for Cryabeetus goddammit
You seem skeptical. And you can play Nintendo with us anytime.
I guess I’m replying to myself cuz IE sucks and chrome doesn’t work on my new computer. Sad panda.
Anyway, nothing against Peavy per se, we just needed a lot more help than one guy. I also think Ozzy’s schtick has finally grown old and they’re tuning him out. I think even he knows that, barring another missed postseason, he’s gone.
It’s like your girl is always that Way Too Drunk Chick at the Party that someone at Last Call made earlier. That shit gets old after awhile.
But that Peavy, my he sure can pitch.
Peavy’s got to be good for what you gave up. I think you’re possibly the fourth best team in the AL (I don’t trust the Angels pitching in the postseason or their offense in general), but it’s, unfortunately, a three-team race.
As a Braves fan, I know what those races are like.
Whoever programmed the rate adjustment algorithm for Treasure Island’s reservation system is an idiot. My wife and I are looking at staying 2 nights in December. Last night, it was $69 per night for those dates. Tonight, it has jumped up to $109! MGM Grand, The Mirage and Mandalay Bay are all significantly cheaper. They’re also better… Idiots.
Yyyyeah…not a smart move. Aren’t hotels/shows breaking their necks trying to get tourists into the their damn-near-empty houses? Wow.
You know it’s bad when even CIRQUE DU EFFING SOLEIL is knocking half off ticket prices. Ouch.
I’ve seen TI do this before, when MGM-Mirage still owned them, so I’m not terribly surprised. Actually, they helped me make up my mind. I like TI, and I prefer to stay there. My wife has been wanting to to stay at Planet Hollywood however. As of tonight, PH is cheaper. I just booked there.
I am coming to this party wicked late, (an impromptu whiskey night was called) but big props for the WALE.
In Pretoria, there’s a street called Wale Street. It’s pronounced “whale,” but the other hip-hop guy and I were unable to say it was anything but “Wah-lay.”
What stuff of his have you heard?
I agree with Quake n Shake. Its the most commonest scenario of all.