Comments on: BCS Championship Game: The Infamous DVD

By: larry d.

larry d. — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:07:59 +0000

I believe "Traditional" for one month is empty calories and "Modern" is vacuum packed, so your gift seems perfectly appropriate.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:29:32 +0000

Tomorrow marks the 1 month anniversary of George's last blog post. Here is a list of both traditional and modern gifts, but I see nothing relative to 1 month. http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/005genref/giswedding.html So what do I get the guy? I was thinking of something along the lines of an assortment of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Devil Dogs stacked in an attractive wicker basket.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:26:50 +0000

They only let writers who's regular articles top the 10,000 word count mark skip the blogging, alan. Plus, there's got to be bullets.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:29:22 +0000

Seriously, George. Listen, I realize the editors at newspapers hold their writers at gunpoint and force them to have blogs to drive traffic to their websites, but if you're not going to use it, then why even bother? Your bi-monthly appearances, if that, only call obvious attention to the true underlying purpose of sportswriters' blogs.

Accordingly, if that's the way you're going to be, then just take off your sombrero and tell your Mexican bandit editor that you're every bit as important as McManamon, and that you don't need no stinking badges. Uh, I mean blogs.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:49:03 +0000

Wow. Now I'm really confused. Did Terry Pluto follow Betty the Travel Lady's lead, or did Betty the Travel Lady follow Terry Pluto's lead, and precisely whose lead should George subsequently follow? They both enjoy the "ask and answer your own questions" style even more than Oprah loves baked ham. Or am I posing one of those existential proverbial deep-thinking chicken or the egg types of questions of which there is no tangible answer?

By: larry d.

larry d. — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:51:30 +0000

I've got an idea that might make this blogging thing more tolerable for you George. Why don't you follow Betty the travel lady's lead and start asking and answering your own easy questions.

Something like–

Does Jim Tressel wear a sweater vest? Yes, Jim Tressel is known for wearing sweater vests and owns at least two. Sometimes he wears a scarlet (or red) vest. Sometimes the vest he wears is gray.

It's really a snap.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:59:41 +0000

Maybe you're right alan t. I don't know. They need a better qb or it won't matter anyhoo.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:32:35 +0000

larry, how can you possibly say they don't need to have a no-huddle offense in the arsenal? There have been several games that Tressel's la-dee-da approach to the fourth quarter has really hurt them.

By the way, George *was* in the clink. But I bailed him out. So no apologies were necessary. And I'm still waiting for George to pay me back.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:20:15 +0000

My apologies. I see George has covered a Buckeye's basketball game recently so he must have made it back. I didn't realize the ABJ covered Buckeye b-ball.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:17:33 +0000

He's won a lot of games in the last minutes without one. Especially that year they 'robbed' Miami.

He should stick with his old, more conservative approach in games against SEC teams. He won't outscheme them and his players sure won't out-athlete them.

Has anyone seen George since the game? He was looking forward to New Orleans a little too much and he might have ended up in some gutter or the clink.