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A (elite team)
B (good team)
C (half-decent team)
D (one of the worst teams)
Thread: Grading The 2013 Roster
Grading The 2013 Roster
Each part of the roster is assigned a grade on a scale from "A" to" D".
"A+" is equal to the very best in the NFL and "D-" is equal to the very worst.
I base the evaluation heavily on previous performance of the players, but also partly on realistic predictions.
Quarterback: C (sorry Ponder)
Halfback: A+ (best there is!)
Fullback: A-
Wide receiver: C (Only one really proven)
Tight end: B+
Outside offensive lineman: A
Inside offensive lineman: B
The whole offense: B+
I was gonna give a slightly lower grade because the QB is so important, but then I realized we managed to make a successful playoff run on pretty much the running game alone (no pun intended). Amazing what AD can do.
Safety: B (Harrison is solid, but the other spot is questionable)
Cornerback: B
Linebacker: B (many question marks because of big makeover at Mike and Will)
Outside defensive lineman: A+ (No team has better 4-3 ends!)
Inside defensive lineman: A
The whole defense: A-
The bad: Big question marks exist on all position groups except defensive end and mostly because of limited starting experience in the NFL.
The good: The defense will most likely feature 3 rookie starters with immense potential.
Kicker: A+ (Best in the bizz!)
Punter: B+ (rookie starter, but was great in college)
Returner: A- (Patterson can return both punts and kickoffs)
The whole special teams: A
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The complete team: A-
Afterthought: The final overall grade equals well to how the Vikings finished last year, but I think the Vikes will be much better now. I feel that I'm being a little harsh on the newcomers this year as I think there's a good chance they'll play better than I gave them credit for in the grades. Plus, the depth is no very good so lets wish for a healthy season for our players.
I seriously think the team will go from good to elite if all the rookies plays to the potential they have shown in college. We have an astonishing amount of rookies that might be future All-Pro's.
I'm super-excited for the Vikings in 2013!
What's your opinion on the Vikings' team this year. Feel free to leave your breakdown on here as well.
Last edited by HEY; 05-11-2013 at 08:53 PM.
The Vikings are a good team. No modern era elite team has had a QB with such poor stats.
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Good breakdown HEY. If we had a better QB, I would expect us to win our division. We still might.
I think we play most of this years draft right away. And they will have an impact. And if Musgrave can figure out how to get the ball from Ponder to Patterson, its going to be a fun season.
I fully expect us to win the division this year. We will have the best defense, the best ST, the best running game and I expect the passing game to be better than it was last year. Green bay will not be as good as they were last year and same with the Bears. The Lions are the wildcard but I expect them to be the Lions and finish 3-4th in the division where they belong.
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I expect us to be a better team this year. I think we win a playoff game. If that happens you never know. If we get hot watch out. A lot of what I said hinges on Ponder stepping up. I am counting on improved quarterback play.
I believe the division will be still be tough. I do not consider us elite.. I think SF and Seattle are leading the NFC pack. With the strength of the West, I think we need to win our division to get into the playoffs.
If Rhodes makes an impact as much as Harrison did, I think we have that shot. I'm not saying Harrison is All-Pro, but he was a significant upgrade enough to where if our CB is upgraded an equal amount, we will have an easier time stopping GB offense. I believe Ponder will play better, but I expect stumbling off the blocks while our receivers get in tune and we develop the run-pass balance we want for this year. Our stretch of home games in the mid-end season bodes well.
I have tempered expectations but high hopes.Trying to bring rationale to an irrational site
Safety: B (Harrison is solid, but the other spot is questionable)
Smitty graded out 19th of 88 overall, 6th out of 88 in pass coverage, 71 of 88 in run support.
Jamarca graded out 24 of 88 overall, 28 out of 88 in pass coverage, 26 of 88 in run support.
One is solid and one is questionable????????
I'd say one is consistent and the other played like a rook who benefited from at least 2 poorly thrown balls which made him look better in coverage than he actually played.
Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.
Sitting back in his zone waiting for a bad pass, keeping the receiver in front of him like he should in the C2 scheme.
Minnesota Vikings DB Harrison Smith pick six - NFL Videos
Against the PUKERs, he or Sanford could have got this one.
If memory serves, other highlights are a sack strip on Schaub and a bad pass/int vs the cards that Whinny could have got as well.
Again, I love the kid, love the way he plays, but lets not over inflate what he does just to be let down when he doesn't live up to the "Hype" this year.Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.
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As for the other safety position, I described it as questionable mostly because the position is pretty much up for grabs. Mistral Raymond was the starter in the beginning of last season, but got injured. Jamarca Sanford was pushed into the role and played better than anticipated. I love Sanford's aggressiveness and tackling ability, and Raymond can be a good overall safety, but he's a bit undersized and a little injury prone.
Back to your grades there, I hope your not one of those who blindly follows the ProFootballFocus because everyone should know their grading system is flawed!
For example: Harrison Smith as always trying his best to be around the ball which in turn puts himself in situation where it's difficult to make a tackle. ProFootballFocus marks it as an missed tackle, not considering that an average safety might not even be fast or smart enough to put him into position to attempt the tackle. Should Harrison be punished by slowing the running back down?
That's why grading a player on strictly numbers is imperfect. As someone already pointed out: eyeball test my friend.


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I know we already had a preview for the Pet Battle System in the past, but that was mostly for the interface, and the short video that we had back then, it showed you a very early version of the fights.
Now, with the latest patch for Beta realms, the pet battles are almost fully implemented and, after some tests that we made, we came up with a pretty long list of thoughts and a few screenshots and a short video.
Do not miss the official preview page either.[h]Gaining experience[/h]
- to get experience, in order to level up, the pet should participate into fight
- the pet should not die
- the pet has to fight against appropriate level enemies or higher
- higher level enemies give experience bonusses
- if you flee a battle your opponent pets gain some experience also
If you want to boost a low level pet with some higher level pet(s) you can do so, but you have to allow that pet to fight and you should keep it alive.[h]Catching pets[/h]
- the pet you want to catch has to be below 35% hp for the Trap spell to become available
- the chance of capturing a pet is NOT100%
- you can catch only 1 pet per battle
- only a culturable pet can be, oh well, captured
- if you fight against another player, you can not capture pets
- each pet has four stats: health, power, speed and quality
- the first three stats are going up with the level of the pet
- the quality is affecting your other starts while you level up
- to get a better quality pet you have to capture one
- the quality seems to be pretty random and you never know what you get only after capturing the pet
- each pet team can have three pets
- you can change the pets whenever you like, between the fights
- to use all battle slots you have to get one pet to level 3 for the second slot, and to level 5 for the third slot
- if you are missing a pet you can hover over it's icon and you'll know where/how you can get it
- you'll be able to track pets on the map and fight them at will
- the specie of the pet matters, because each pet specie has it's strengths and weaknesses against other species
- each pet has an unique set of abilities
- the pet abilities become available as you level them up
- the fight is turn-based and the pet with higher speed strikes first
- there are abilities that affect all the pets in your team even if they are not the ones fighting
- example: tranquility, is healing the active pet even is that's not the pet who casted it
- example: siphon life persists on a target even if the pet casting it is not the active one
- you can fight against different NPCs also, by following some quests that will popup
- you can also fight against other players by clicking the "Find Battle" button
- when fighting against other players, you wont be able to see their name or communicate with them
- pet abilities can miss
- There are also pets that you can not be used for fights. You'll see them with no level tag and the UI will also tell you that they are not available for combat.
- As far as I could see there are only poor, common, uncommon and rare quality pets. Any of you noticed any other quality pets?
- You can sell your pets whenever you like. You just have to put them in a box and they are ready to be sold.
- Keep in mind that you can sell leveled pets also, that mens that you can make a nice profit by leveling pets.
- After fights you can revive/heal your pets by using the Revive Battle Pets spell or by visiting a stable master if that spell is on cooldown
- you can summon any companion, it doesn't have to be in your battle team
- the pets max level seems to be level 25
- at level 1 you'll have only one ability available, and you get more at level: 2, 4, 10, 15 and 20
- you can name your pets
- you can favorite the pests on the list, so you can find them easier
Do not miss the secreenshots and the video below. Also, if we missed anything, let us know.
First off, this is certainly a beta. Nothing you play is by any means final, try to keep that in mind. Overall though, the feature is mostly implemented and we need your feedback to help us polish it up! A few of the things you can try out in the beta:
- Fight pets around the world in solo, 2v2 and 3v3 battles
- Capture pets in the world of varying quality and strength
- Duel and queue for PvP battles against other players
- Interact on an epic questline to defeat Master Pet Tamers across all of Azeroth
- Buy and sell pets on the AH (not all pets are tradable)
- Earn a wide assortment of Pet Battle achievements and associated rewards
- Browse the new Pet Journal and manage your pets
- Use your pets across any character on your Battle.net account (Battle Pet achievements are account-wide)
- Pets are currently healing to full health after a battle. This is a known bug and we are hoping to hotfix it tonight.
- Pre-existing pets have no stats. Any pets that you acquire new are fine. This is also a bug that we hope to hotfix tonight.
- In certain cases, starting a pet battle with a creature in the world will report an error about the pet being currently in battle, or that the account is locked. Both of these are hopefully on the hotfix list for tonight.
- Some pets will be missing abilites, ability FX or animations.
- The questline is very much WIP. You can get started on it, but we are certainly still implementing it.
- We are tuning the XP curve so any feedback on this is appreciated.
- Spawn rates on pets in the world are WIP. Feedback on this is appreciated as well.
- We have an issue where players are sometimes losing a battle slot. A relog should fix the problem. We are working on it.
- I will update this post as we get more info.
Now, we also have a number of bugs and things that are just not finished. You are going to want to post about these things and that's fine, but here are the ones that we want you to know about beforehand:
And finally, an FAQ about how most of the basics in the system work.
Battle Pet Trainers
- These NPCs teach players Battle Pet Training, granting the ability to fight and capture pets. The training comes with a pet heal/rez spell and the ability to track pets in the world. These trainers can be found in all the racial start zones as well as Orgrimmar and Stormwind. The guards in the capitals can direct you to them as well. Note that this training is account-wide, so you only need to learn it on one character.
- Pet Battle Training requires level 5 and 100g.
Master Pet Tamers
- These are NPCs for the battle pet questline. You can fight these characters in a pet battle for increased XP, achievements and rewards. Defeating the Grand Master on each continent will unlock daily quests (via an achievement) for all of the other Tamers on that same continent.
Accound-Wide Pets
- Pets are now account-wide. This means that any pet you have on one character will be shared with all of the others on your Battle.net account. Earn level 6 with Grunty on character A? Log in character B and that level 6 Grunty will be there waiting for you.
- If you have multiple versions of the same pet on multiple characters on your account, they will be merged into one. We will place any extras in your bags or mail them to you if you are out of space.
Pet Journal
- Players can have up to 500 total pets and up to 3 versions of the same pet.
- Pets can be named, released, marked as favorite or put in a cage for trading/selling from the journal.
- Filters allow you to sort your collection by family, source, collected/not collected or favorites.
- Source info shows you where to obtain a pet and small lore blurb about it.
- Abilites loadouts for your pets are set in the journal. This becomes available on pets at level 10.
- View stats on your pets. Stats include Health, Speed, Power and Quality.
Pet Quality
- Pets that are captured in the world have varying levels of quality, just like an item would. The quality stat is randomly determined every time a pet spawns. Higher quality pets get a larger stat allotment each time you level. Be on the lookout for Rares!
Pets on the AH
- Most pets can be bought and sold from the AH. A new section is on the AH specifically for this.
- Pets that are sold on the AH retain their stats and levels. Pets that can't be traded will display a warning in their info text as well as having the "Put in Cage†option disabled.
- PvE battles take place in two ways: against NPC trainers and against pets that you can fight in the world. Pet tracking will let you find pets in the world that you can fight and capture. Keep an eye out!
- PvP battles also have two varieties. You can choose to duel another player or you can queue up and be matched against another player of similar skill. Note that you do not earn XP for duels.
- Pets heal a portion of their health after every fight. The amount healed is 50% of the damage that they took during the fight. You can also full heal all of the pets in your journal with the Revive Battle Pets spell (10m cooldown)
- If one of your pets die in battle you can resurrect it using the Revive Battle Pets spell (10m cooldown) or just find a friendly, neighborhood Stable Master
- Pets are caught via PvE battles in the world. Any pet you can fight, you can catch. In order to catch a pet, you need to get it to low health and use your trap ability. Traps upgrade via specific achievements, improving your chance to catch higher level pets.
- You can catch up to three of the same type of pet.
Thanks for trying out the feature and make sure to post your feedback here in the forum!
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Ontario (Canada)
3.25/5 rDev +5.2%
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Ontario (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev +13.3%
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British Columbia (Canada)
3.25/5 rDev +5.2%
Pours a clear pale golden color with a thin white head. Aroma of grains, light malt, citrus and some yeast. Taste is similar, with a little bit of spiciness. Not much hops bitterness in the taste. Light bodied with good carbonation. This is an average lager - drinkable but kind of bland.
03-21-2010 02:23:27 | More by chickenm
Alberta (Canada)
3.33/5 rDev +7.8%
Another naked, sheer bottle, with only a choker-esque neck label...um, onto the beer...
This beer pours a slightly hazy pale apple juice colour, with one finger of fast-disappearing thin creamy white head, which leaves zip in the way of lace around the glass. It smells of very faint grainy malt, and the same in weedy, grassy hops. The taste is sweet bready grain, a small metallic edge, and soft leafy, weedy hops. The carbonation is on the low side, the body medium weight, kind of sugary in its smoothness, and a little clingy. It finishes still pretty sweet, the underwhelming hops trailing off almost completely.
A pretty lop-sided lager - too sweet, not enough bitterness, let alone of the crispy, grassy sort endemic in the best examples.
12-22-2010 02:10:14 | More by biboergosum
Alberta (Canada)
3.23/5 rDev +4.5%
Clear yellow gold, a rapid pour generates a thick finger of white head. Head falls steadily to a thin cap.
Smell is light, slightly sweet cereal grains for the most part. Hint of citrus zest.
Taste has the same slightly sweetened grain malt flavour. Hops start out nice and a bit spicy, but finish with quite the mettalic twang right at the back of the throat. As it warms the mettalic taste fades and a crispness develops, saving it from total mediocrity.
Light bodied with higher than average carbonation. The mouthfeel is reasonable.
A very average craft lager, my least favourite of the three beers I've had from this brewery.
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Alberta (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev +21.4%
07-16-2012 01:09:58 | More by Alberta_Beer_Guy
Ontario (Canada)
3/5 rDev -2.9%
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British Columbia (Canada)
3.5/5 rDev +13.3%
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British Columbia (Canada)
3/5 rDev -2.9%
05-10-2012 01:18:28 | More by bumchilly25
Ontario (Canada)
2/5 rDev -35.3%
01-12-2014 15:23:53 | More by Pmicdee
Alberta (Canada)
3.03/5 rDev -1.9%
341ml bottle poured into tulip aug2 2010
A clear light yellow with bubbles of all sizes feeding a short lived finger of head that left a fingers width of lace where the foam existed
S sweet malts with mild grassy hops
T what I smell with a little more sweetness, just a tad of skunk and a little metal
M yet another lager thin, enough carbonation to to give it a slightly creamy feel
D nothing special but nothing offensive just another average lager that I doubt I'll look for when out at the bar
more people ask for this where I work then I'll ever understand, don't go looking for this but if passed to you I doubt you'll dump it
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Alberta (Canada)
3/5 rDev -2.9%
02-29-2012 08:49:47 | More by wesbray
British Columbia (Canada)
3.15/5 rDev +1.9%
a - fairly golden, bright white head. some lacing.
s - fresh cut hay with some starting to getting mold hay, some sort of cereal grain combo going on. citrusness in the finish
t - kinda sweet. light maltiness.
m - nice carbonation. light body. even finish.
d - better than most, but not something I'd drink. Despite that it is easy to drink and unoffensive.
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Alberta (Canada)
2.9/5 rDev -6.1%
They must have kept all the embossed bottles in BC cause my sample pack had boring clear ones. Minus .5 pts for looks right there. Lager/piss yellow. Fizzy head that retained better than i thought it would.
Weak grains, slightly sweet with not a lot of descernable hop.
Bland. Not horrible but nothing to say wow either. Weak, watery graininess with just a hint of grassy hop dryness.
Felt more like a light beer minus the over carbonation in say Coor light.
Meh. If I was finished mountain biking @ Whistler and someone offered me a cold one I certainly wouldn't turn it down. For me it's just another mediocre craft lager brewed to fill a spot in the product lineup.
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British Columbia (Canada)
2/5 rDev -35.3%
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3.5/5 rDev +13.3%
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Detroit, a city in bankruptcy and dealing with a shrinking population, hopes to turn itself around with the help of 50,000 employment-based green cards.
The visas would be made available under the EB-2 visa category, a visa for advanced degree professionals or those deemed with "exceptional ability" in the sciences, arts and business, said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, who pitched the idea on Thursday.
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In exchange for the visa, an immigrant would be required to "live and work" in Detroit. That length of residency has not been determined, according to a governor's spokesman.
No other city or region in the U.S. has anything like what Snyder is proposing. So, convincing the White House, let alone Congress, that an immigration carve-out for Detroit is needed may be a very tough sell.
This is not a plan that Michigan can implement on its own. Raising the employment-based visa cap enough to meet Detroit's goal would require approval by Congress. But Snyder, at this point, is only asking for White House action, which means reallocating, and not increasing, the existing employment-based green card cap. This creates a different problem.
There is already a multi-year backlog of employment-based green cards, particularly from India and China. U.S. law allows for 140,000 of those green cards each year, of which 40,000 are set aside for EB-2 visas. But any reallocation of those numbers to help Detroit, specifically, is going "to adversely affect" others already in line for a visa and their sponsoring employers, said former U.S. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), the author of the 1990 immigration reform overhaul.
Morrison said the Michigan plan for Detroit needs work, but "the idea of municipally based employment visas is a good idea" and something they recommended for Baltimore in a study ( download PDF) about 10 years ago. Immigrants bring in new perspectives, said Morrison.
"A native population notices the decline of a place, the immigrant, the newcomer, says, 'I can build from here,'" said Morrison. "You do get a different perspective about rebuilding places when you bring in newcomers, so that was the virtue of it."
Snyder is asking the U.S. to set aside 5,000 of the EB-2 visas in the first year for Detroit, 10,000 in each of the next three years, and 15,000 in the fifth year.
"In order for Detroit to grow again, we need highly trained workers to move in, open businesses and raise their families," Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said in a statement.
Employment-based visas generally require a labor certification, which means that an employer must certify to the U.S. Department of Labor that it couldn't find a qualified U.S. worker for the job. But that isn't necessary in every instance.
There is a provision for a "national interest waiver" that allows someone to get an EB-2 visa without labor certification; Michigan's proposal is asking for this waiver.


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Side note: Sorry for the hiatus, you're dealing with a procrastinator.
Note: To those who care Part 4 can be found here:
Why 2013 Kicked this MMA Fan's @ss Part 4: April: 1,356 Plants, Aliens and Sonnen 3:16: I Just Broke your Toe
Some would argue that a normal human being would come out satiated from April 2013's MMA bonanza. Others would say that they are suffering from MMA fatigue and even complain that Gosh darn-it there's too much MMA.
Not me. Not at this pace. I wanted more.
I don't follow team sports (except if the Habs make it to the playoffs) or individual sports that people play (those are called games and are all on par with Bingo and Tiddly Winks).
Plus, more often than not, I end up disappointed whenever I watch boxing (looking at you Bute vs Pascal), so I need my fight fix.
Hell, I even created a Facebook account and pay for 2 overpriced packages (which should be illegal- Bastards!) just to get Sportsnet and FX to watch the Goddamn UFC prelims fights!
So 2013, hearing that I've been complaining after April's MMA extravaganza, paid me a little visit while I was washing my car:
and punctuated every blow with: "Mark. Hunt. Versus. Junior. Dos. Santos.!"
(Thanks to Ray Liotta for re-enacting the scene)
After 21 days sans MMA, I could not wait for UFC on FX: Belfort vs. Rockhold in Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil.
Brazilian cards are awesome.
Not only are they the equivalent of taking candy from a baby when it comes to gambling (Hint: if opponent not Brazilian, pick Brazilian; if Brazilian fighting Brazilian, pick the one with the mohawk or biggest shout out to Cheezits), but the energy the crowd brings is surreal.
The entire nation of Brazil won me over at UFC 134's (first event there under Zuffa regime) pre-fight press conference, when a Brazilian journalist asked self-proclaimed "Legend Killer" Brandon Schaub, who had previously been all smiles and Lady Diana waves:
Journalist: "How do you like it here?"
B.S.: "It's been great here! What does Vai morrer mean?"
Journalist: "It means you are going to die."
And boy were they right:
And, after seeing the weigh-ins on Friday, that's exactly what we thought was going to happen to Luke Rockhold as he made his debut against the Mullet-Mohawk Lionosaur.
I remember being genuinely scared for Rockhold.
I mean sure, he was the former Strikeforce middleweight champ, but that meant as much as being the prostitute with the least amount of vaginal warts at the time.
I was at a buddy's place in Vermont and dead tired from a day of paintball with friends.
We all got back to his place, too drained (fuck you, late 30's!) to even think about going out to Rí Rá's Irish Pub, so... being the instigator that I am (and now fiending after 21 days sans MMA...):
"Guys, free fights on TV, wanna just chill and drink?"
"Sounds good" was the general consensus, so we all grabbed our favorite poison and tuned in to watch.
After quite a fun little undercard filled with brutal KOs and submissions:
Ronaldo Souza enters the ring like Tuco Salamanca's long lost triplet cousin, crawling to a statue of Santa Muerte to pray for assistance in his mission to kill Chris Camozzi. Legalized murder via arm triangle choke ensues.
Vitor, proving that he is not a mere Lionosaur, but the mighty Lionosaurus Rex, dispatches Rockhold in a mere 2 and a half minute via this:
And in his post-fight interview, says he is stronger than ever (duh, gee fuck I wonder why?) and thanks Cheezits for teaching him the technique, cornering him, sponsoring him and enhancing his male performance in bed.
A mere 7 days later... it's time for UFC 160 Velasquez versus Bigfoot II ... but in our hearts, we all knew the true main event of that card was Junior Dos Santos versus Mark Hunt.
These guys are 2 of my favorite fighters. So when I heard the announcement for that fight, I felt like a dad who was going to watch his 2 sons fight.
I started paying attention to Junior Dos Santos when he left glove imprints on Roy Nelson's belly and started doing interviews in English.
He won my wife over when he was all smiles and kept hugging Brock Lesnar against his will on the Ultimate Fighter.
He became one of my favorites when he disfigured Shane Carwin and, in the post-fight speech interview with Joe Rogan:
J.R.: "Junior, you impressed us with your boxing, but also your wrestling!"
JDS: "Yes! I learned this! Be careful my opponents!"
Note: This is also the fight that Mike Goldberg described as "an immovable force meets an unstoppable object".
First off, Mike, the correct expression is: irresistible force meets an immovable object, not the other way around, but other than that your false statement is virtually identical to mine.
Second, we say this about close fights not... ah never mind...
To quote Mike Fagan, who said it best: Lazy. Absolutely lazy. Do you want to know why I find Mike Goldberg so insufferable? He is paid to describe action, to put a narrative into context. He is paid to speak. And he's so fucking lazy with his words.
Junior completely won me over when I got to see him destroy Frank Mir live in Vegas and got to meet him afterwards.
He was getting into an elevator with his entourage at the MGM Grand after celebratory sushi dinner with his team at Shibuya's.
My friend and I drunkenly and brazenly ran after them through the restaurant dining area, into the kitchen area (I swear on the eyes of my wife!), down the private hall and I managed to block the elevator door from closing to ask:
"Junior! We flew all the way from Montreal to see you destroy Frank Mir! May we have a picture please?!"
A girl in his entourage said: "No! No more pictures..."
JDS gave her an angry look and answered a millisecond later: "No! They come from Montreal to see me fight. We take picture!
As for Mark Hunt...
Mark Hunt doesn't fight, he wages war. He battles with no restraint and without fucks to give.
Ever wonder why Wanderlei's face looks like it does?
His fight against Ray Sefo was voted # 1 of the Top 10 most insane act of violence in kickboxing history by Seanbaby.
That fight can be perfectly summed up with the following .gif and sentence:
"This is the fight Thor closes his eyes and thinks about when a Valkyrie is giving him a blowjob."
I wish Mark Hunt would fight every week. Against multiple opponents at once. Because you just know he can.
But on May 14th 2013, we were almost robbed of that fight as Mark Hunt could not get into the United States due to Visa issues. Fortunately, the Gods of war had had enough of petty mortal travel issues. They intervened in righteous anger and:
Here we go! (GIHYG)
What began as slow night started picking up pace when:
In the feel good moment of the night, Robert Whittaker knocks the hell out of boring, diaper-wearing, sponsor-ignoring, deceitful, cheap shot artist and military disgrace Colton Smith.
Über-underdog T.J Grant knocks out Gray Maynard in just over 2 minutes of the first round, starting a trend of Gray Maynard getting his brain broken by fists.
Not to be outdone by T.J., Glover Teixeira chokes out James Te Huna in just over 2 minutes and a half.
Finally, it's time for the co-main event of the evening.
A thundering silence befalls the arena as the 2 men circle each other. The crowd willingly accepted to watch the fight like this:
After a brutal, 3-round war of attrition, Junior was ahead on the scorecards. He could have played it safe. Instead, he chose to pull this off:
I'll never forget the sight of Mark Hunt, refusing help from anyone, trying to get back to his feet, only to come crashing down. Earthquakes about 8.0 only happen when Mark Hunt trips or falls.
And in the main event of the evening, in a rematch that could not possibly be bloodier than their first encounter, Cain Velasquez finishes Bigfoot Silva in 1m:21s.
For the record: I do believe that the fight was somewhat stopped early, but would not expect the result to be any different had it gone longer.
At the post-fight press conference, Bigfoot goes Full Troll and gives Junior Dos Santos a wetwilly and nipple twist under the scornful eye of Dana White, glaring at them like an angry father.
And we learn that none other than Mike Tyson vetoed original KO of Night pick (JDS) and redirected the $50,000 award to T.J. Grant.
May Folklore and Tidbits
We start off May with the Gansta (showing that you can beat him senseless but he pops right back up), sowing the seeds of his feud with Wanderlei.
Wanderlei responds by saying he wants to smell and suck Chael's blood.
Chris Weidman says he's trained for Silva for years, has 'seen his weaknesses'.- Yep. Until Andy kicks you in the face.
Cung Le announces that he wants to fight Anderson Silva. - I thought Asians were smart.
One-armed champion Nick Newell is stripped of his XFC Lightweight title
Nick Diaz officially announces launch of WAR MMA promotion. - In a ring. No elbows on the ground. No bitches.
First Rosenthal, now Healy. Lightweight contender Pat Healy found out the hard way that weed does not pay when he tested positive for marijuana in a UFC 159 post-fight drug test. Healy's third-round victory over Jim Miller was overturned into a 'no contest.' Additionally, Healy received a 90-day suspension and was forced to forfeit $135,000 in bonus cash.
Briesha Caratate gets Healy's Submission of the night award by default - but can't keep his fucking mouth shut about it (or holier than thou attitude in check). Nate Diaz calls him the "biggest fag in the world".
Ze Warmaster Cometh: Heavyweight Josh Barnett inks new multi-fight UFC contract
Ronda Rousey is utterly shocked as Miesha Tate replaces an injured Cat Zingano on UFC's 'TUF' show
Out of sheer boredom and still not knowing why the fuck he's fighting Chris Angel, Anderson Silva pulls a Nick Diaz and skips a Los Angeles media tour. He gets heavily fined for his trouble.
Quote of the Month
"His only option after I beat him is to retire or have a rematch with me, I would think he would want the rematch. I'm not being cocky, but what other choice? Is he going to fight another 185er and start at the bottom? They're not going to do that."
Chris Weidman.
I remember thinking: "Wow he's really something... And by something, I mean stupid."
That does it for May. Thank you for reading. Coming up next (GIHYG): Why 2013 Kicked this MMA Fan's @ss Part 6: June: The Thrill of Brazil, the Agony of Winnipeg.


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There was another sad moment in the bottom of the eighth, when Prince Fielder led off and grounded out weakly to second base. Fielder isn't gone yet and it's not crazy to suggest the Brewers might find the money to sign Fielder to a big contract this winter. It seems unlikely, though. Fielder's going to want a lot of money the Brewers probably don't have, and a lot of years that GM Doug Melvin probably doesn't want to give him.
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4:00pm Saturday 12th April 2014 in Winchester By Charlotte Neal, Reporter
COUNCILLORS met this week to discuss new initiatives to help keep the Winchester district clean.
Representatives from East Hampshire District Council and Winchester City Council attended the joint environmental services scrutiny committee meeting to hear updates on the management of street cleaning and public conveniences.
The meeting heard how cleaning schedules were not being completed as they should be, with many public toilets and bins remaining unclean and unemptied for weeks at a time in some cases.
The cleaning, which is contracted to separate companies, is under close observation by the two councils, who say that if there has not been an improvement by 2015 when the contract is due for renewal, careful consideration will be given to its redistribution.
Cllr Judy Onslow, of East Hampshire District Council, said that without the public's help the councils can do no more to improve cleanliness across the district.
"There is actually still a public perception that the litter is the council's problem," she said.
"It is the public that creates the litter. I do think that we need to ask the public to come with us. You pay your taxes and the amount of money it costs to pick up litter us absolutely ridiculous. We are on cut backs here.
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Archer Gallery is proud to present The Scheme of Things,
an exhibition of works by Jason Salavon, including The Top 25 Grossing Films of All Time,
2001 and Spigot (Babbling Self-Portrait),
2010. By viewing works created
almost a decade apart, the audience is invited to view the threads of
the artist's interests in the rapidly changing medium of digital work.
Salavon is one of the lead artists working with information technology and is among the first to use software he designed to mine data systems for use in his work. He finds source material in popular culture and everyday systems. By reducing and abstracting information to a minimal state, often color blocks and bands, larger patterns emerge.
The Top 25 Grossing Films of All Time, 2001 is a digital video projection showing the abstraction of the top grossing films (as of March 2001) into a series of four-color grids displayed together. The films are shown side by side in real time; the viewer is presented with color shifting squares and the interlaced sounds of the twenty-five films. As each film ends, a grid of four squares is blacked out. By the end, we can hear the audible swelling sounds of the final scenes of the longest running films.
Spigot (Babbling Self-Portrait), 2010 is a dual video installation mining Salavon's own internet searches for more than two years. Google's archive of over 11,000 searches is reconstructed to show two sides, the literal text being searched and the time of a search on one part, as well as the color-categorized data returned with each search, running in an endless stream, on the second. The sounds are of web pages being read aloud over one another, once again with an overwhelming cacophony of sounds that allow us to catch phrases only from time to time.
Both more personal and technologically complex than The Top 25 Grossing Films of All Time, Spigot (Babbling Self-Portrait), uses a visual language that relates a great deal to the earlier work. Abstracting visual results to color blocks, the overwhelming multiple sounds causing audio abstraction, and the gridding of information to run in time with others, all give a familiar but shifted feeling for the viewer.
Moving from profitable films to private internet searches, from running real time to collapsed time where multiple searches are viewed simultaneously, this work can be viewed as an unintentional companion to The Top 25 Grossing Films of All Time, showing us both Salavon's artistic process over time and our own cultural shifts through a decade of changing technologies. As within a Salavon work, viewing these two pieces together reveals larger patterns at play.
Special thanks to the artist, Mark Moore Gallery, Jessica Bromer, Katherine Shell, the Associate Students of Clark College, and the Clark College Art Department.
-Blake Shell, Archer Gallery Director
The Scheme of Things, an exhibition of works by Jason Salavon
April 10th - May 5th, 2012 | Preview Artist Reception: Saturday April 7th, 6-8pmArtist Talk: Tuesday April 10th, 11am, PUB Fireside Lounge


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The chained US Consumer Price Index (chained CPI) is a measure of price levels of consumer goods and services created by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as an alternative to the US Consumer Price Index.
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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (WRCB) -- Jacksonville State running back Washaun Ealey will miss Saturday's game against the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga after being arrested Wednesday morning on drug possession charges.
Ealey, a former University of Georgia tailback, was arrested at 7:24 a.m. CT after university officers searched his on-campus apartment in response to a noise complaint, per a report from The Anniston Star newspaper. The senior starter was charged with second-degree marijuana possession and possession of drug paraphernalia, both misdeameanors, and later released.
Jacksonville State senior running back Washaun Ealey was arrested Wednesday morning on drug possession charges. Jacksonville, AL (Sports Network) - Jacksonville State senior running back Washaun Ealey was arrested Wednesday morning on drug possession charges.
Ealey was suspended indefinitely, and is expected to miss at least two games.
"This is a violation of team policy," JSU athletics director Warren Koegel told the Star. "He's suspended for this game against Chattanooga and we're going through the proper channels according to the policy.
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Ealey rushed for more than 1,000 yards last year after transferring to the Ohio Valley Conference school from UGA.
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Ealey rushed for over 1,000 yards last season after transferring to Jacksonville State from the University of Georgia.
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As it is, the U-6 rate is closer to the truth and it's still near 12% unemployment and doesn't count the part-time workers. Add into that the people that don't get unemployment like myself and the remaining three to six million of us or more, and we're probably at 15 to 18%. Unemployment among 18 to 25 year olds is well into the double digits in most places, and last I knew it was close to 20% nationwide. I see plenty of them on the streets here locally who are homeless, something I never saw that much of back even just eight to 10 years ago. But, I'm pretty determined to find something. This economy is tanking and it's much like it was starting to tank in late 2006 and early 2007, and I warned people then about it. It's just like I warn people about prices going up at the pump, when I have the time to do it. I'm right every time as it does go up and right in the range I estimate it to go nationwide and locally. It's too much work to peg it for each and every area. Later and thanks!
Difficult is an understatement. While Obama is boasting about how it's the quickest time that the unemployment rate has gone down from such a previous high level, he's so full of BS it's not funny. They don't report the truth and haven't about it for over 30 years, actually, over 40 years now that I come to think about it as my Dad pointed it out to me back in the 1960's and he was right. They report the U-4 or U-3 rate of unemployment and that includes the people working part-time, as they'll count them as full-time workers to make the numbers look better that they report to the public. I even remember them discussing that on the news reports back in the 1960's to the 1980's, but they haven't talked much about it since then as they don't want people to know what truly going on.
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I've been getting a lot of hits on some of my recent posts focusing on the economy:
The volume and interest in these topics have gotten me thinking more about what's going on and how to make the best of it.
Here's how I see it: It's going to be tough to get new gigs in the next year or so. It's going to be tough to hang onto old gigs. There WILL be work — just not as much of it. We've got some recent history to tell us what may lie ahead: Some successful travel writers I know saw their incomes drop 50 percent from 2001 to 2002 (recession plus 9-11 meant no one was traveling, plus there was that Internet bust) — and 50 percent AGAIN in 2003. If you know anything about typical writers' incomes, well, let's just say that there's not a lot of room for this type of progression. Other creative types saw their incomes drop, too.
But slowly, we recovered. I got a nice book deal in early 2003 that helped fill the gaping space that had once been taken up by a lucrative Internet contract. Magazine assignments dribbled back in. The Internet started looking like it might someday become a viable market again (although without ever really becoming something you'd want to hang your career on).
One of the most debilitating things I can do in a recession is get all ambitious about how I'm going to search for the markets that must still be out there and FIND THEM DAMNIT and write the best query letters the world has ever seen and sail through the recession without a ripple.
That's nonproductive. It's fantasy. Facts are: There's less work, there are lots of good writers, and there's more competition than ever from all those ex-editors. So spending a disproportionate amount of time writing the world's best query letters tends to be not only a waste of time, but dispiriting and discouraging.
All of us are in different situations: What I am going to do with these next few months won't work for everyone. If you've got to get cash in the door NOW to pay your mortgage, if you're already overextended, if you have huge anticipated expenses like a kid's college tuition coming soon down the road, then your strategies may need to be different — taking a day job, contract work, switching fields for a while, hitting the pavement to find new markets, expanding out your current topics and markets to related areas. (Some of these strategies make sense for ALL of us…)
I can't possibly speak for everyone, but I can share some of what I'm up to, because I think these strategies would work for a lot of people in a variety of situations: those who are have been living slightly below their means and have some savings (the key to freelance success, in my book), those who have some other kind of steady work (like teaching, or a regular client), those who have a supportive (not to mention secure) spouse, those who are young and unencumbered and are just starting out with few debts and low expenses, those who have already budgeted to work only part time in order to care for kids….
Here's my silver lining: Take this time as a gift. Sure, keep pitching. Keep feeding and watering your career (suggestions on that on the "Surviving the Recession" post). Keep working for whatever pay is out there.
But when that doesn't come through, take advantage of your new-found freedom. Here's what I'm going to be doing in the next year or so:
- Keep this blog going and get moving on the companion book project. Approach the agent who repped my last book to chat about it. No, this may NOT be the time to sell a book — but it might be time to lay the groundwork, think through what I can do to support the book, and build a platform for it.
- Start that damn novel. You know, the one that's going to crack the New York Times bestseller list. The one that's been in my mind for a WHOLE year!
- Experiment with pay-per-click Internet models to see whether they can support my travel writing with solid clips and story placements that ultimately earn a fair, ongoing royalty.
- Learn more about blogging, advertising on blogs, and monetizing Internet ventures.
- Start the travel website I've been planning for several months — hopefully by finding and working with a partner who can handle the business development/advertising/Internet aspect of it. (They would be the "publisher," I would be the "editor.")
- Practice more piano and finally put together some of the performance sets I've been wanting to do.
- Completely master my stupid little digital camera so that I feel worthy of upgrading to an SLR.
- Keep going to the gym I just started going to.
- Network outside my usual pathways. Who knows?
New Year's resolutions are just around the corner. I turn 50 next May. This list looks like fun.
When the economy is strong and work is flowing in the door, we often lose sight of the big picture because we're so busy meeting our deadlines and planning our gigs and doing the actual WORK. Which is great. But we don't tend to set aside the time we NEED to retrench, regroup, re-evaluate, and replenish our creative energies…
I may have to eat dinner out a lot less, or delay the purchase of the new keyboard I wanted to buy this year. I won't be upgrading a few pieces of office equipment, or buying the new dining room chairs we really DO need if we want our guests to enjoy dining with us. But this gift of time will more than make up for it: It is, perhaps, the best thing that could have happened!
Best thing of all: ALL of my goals are within reach, and none are expensive: They just cost time, which, in a recession, we have plenty of.
So Carpe Diem, folks. And have fun.