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The Long March has come to the end. The only college football bowl game that really matters after 31 other exhibitions played in places from Honolulu to Toronto to Shreveport to multiple cities in Texas to multiple cities in Florida. We have reached the end of the line: the BCS Championship Game between #1 Ohio State (11-1) and #2 LSU (11-2). The game will start around 5:15 pm PT from New Orleans.
Remember, this is NOT the Sugar Bowl. This is the BCS Championship Game. It's the second one played under the "double host" format that the BCS is toying with. In 2009, there will be an Orange Bowl on New Year's Day and the BCS Championship Game will be on January 8, 2009 from Dolphins Stadium. In 2010, the Rose Bowl will be played on January 1 and the BCS Championship will be played on a date still to be determined.
The Ohio State University Fighting Definite Articles are 18-20 in bowl games, including a 41-14 loss in the first BCS Championship Game last year in Glendale to Florida. Since Woody Hayes left Ohio State, the Buckeyes have played in the Rose Bowl just three times. They have played in the Sugar Bowl three times, a 35-6 loss to Alabama in 1978, a 31-14 loss to Florida State in 1998, and a 24-14 win over Texas A&M in 1999.
LSU is 19-18-1 in bowl games. They have played in the Sugar Bowl (remember this game isn't THE Sugar Bowl) 13 times and the Tigers are 6-7 in those games, which include two losses to Santa Clara, but a win over Wyoming. Wyoming was the Hawai'i of 1968.
The Definite Articles and The Tigers have played each other twice. The teams tied 13-13 in 1987 in Baton Rogue and Ohio State won 36-33 in Columbus in 1988.
I'm not getting the joke. It's Monday, which may explain it. Additionally, through the seeming incompetence of our athletic director we may be losing the most successful football coach we've ever had, which is distressing but perhaps not surprising.
This morning I saw all my students wearing their OSU jersies and sweatshirts and all that and asked "Is there a football game tonight?" There was an audible gasp from many.
Several students have since dropped my class.
Thank you for acting as my Cliff Notes.
Ah, but did any of them attempt to kick you in the crotch?
I for one will be wearing a cup at the next gathering.
Not unrelated is this definition from Mel Brooks: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall through an open manhole and die."
I think that exemplifies the lack of excitement and build up for this game.
And before you say well my friends suck, that may be true, but I did get them to go out and watch last year's game.
Does Brennaman's picture appear in the dictionary next to the word "stentorian"? Is the trying to channel the spirit of Everett Dirksen all the time?
Though that was a nice run.
Justice is unflinching, Mayhem scares me, and apparently there is no known antidote for Venom.
What's that, you guys aren't watching American Gladiator 2008?
We aren't lucky enough to get to watch the new American Gladiators yet.
The gladiator named Crush is actually a star in MMA.
I could try to find this on the radio on the way home, but I will just wait to be surprised.
You're listening on an L.A. radio station?
I suppose . . .
vr, Xei
And you expected them to go out with you again this year? Maybe they think you're the one who sucks.
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