Maybe someone like Diggz can convince the Ramsey County Commissioner to raise taxes...
September 29, 2011
With friends like these...
Maybe someone like Diggz can convince the Ramsey County Commissioner to raise taxes...
September 25, 2011
Sid Hartman needs to retire
There, I said it.
Reason: the kind of shit like you'll read below has gone on his entire career. I know he doesn't remember what he wrote yesterday, but since the Hometown Rag doesn't spot check these things, I'll have to do the honors.
September 4th, 2011, following a loss at then-ranked USC
"Well, all of those experts who selected the Gophers to go 0-8 during the conference season and 3-9 for the season will have to make another guess."
"[T]he new Gophers coach found out he had a team that could come back in the second half and play as well as they did in one of the toughest stadiums in the country for opponents to play in."
"Kill and his coaching staff should be praised for the great job they did in adjusting their defense at halftime."
"Now they return home for three games and a chance to get a lot better and surprise some of their conference foes."
September 25, 2011, following a loss at home to NORTH DAKOTA STATE
"Yes, this Gophers football team gave people some false hope when it outplayed one of the more ordinary Southern California teams in several years."
HOLD ON! I thought this was a top notch team they played, in one of the "toughest environments" in college football! You used the term "Hollywood" and that it shook up the Gophers in the first half...this can't be. It's just a good thing YOU weren't given false hope, Sid, because you've seen it all. You're not "some people."
"More false hope came last week when the Gophers beat a Miami (Ohio) team that is 0-3 and struggling after being favored for the Mid-American Conference title."
Hey, folks in Minnesota. Did ANYONE think all was well after being taken to the dick by Miami of Ohio and winning on the last play of the game?
"This team wasn't going to show any consistency with the few good football players recruited by former coach Tim Brewster who are now seniors."
But you just LOVE the rah-rah guys! Just like Lou! We'll never be able to tell you exactly WHY he got fired, because messy facts get in the way, Sid. If Coach Kill can't win with these good Brewster players - what now?
Glen Mason coached this team to some success. His thoughts were included in your column.
"He and his staff have their own system. Let's face it, I think ... the great recruits that were coming to Minnesota [under Brewster] probably weren't as good as advertised."
Sid neglected to add that Mason followed up this sentence with "Hey, at least I BEAT NDSU...but I make more cash now. Good luck, Sid. Sure, I can open that bag of peanuts for you."
Reason: the kind of shit like you'll read below has gone on his entire career. I know he doesn't remember what he wrote yesterday, but since the Hometown Rag doesn't spot check these things, I'll have to do the honors.
September 4th, 2011, following a loss at then-ranked USC
"Well, all of those experts who selected the Gophers to go 0-8 during the conference season and 3-9 for the season will have to make another guess."
"[T]he new Gophers coach found out he had a team that could come back in the second half and play as well as they did in one of the toughest stadiums in the country for opponents to play in."
"Kill and his coaching staff should be praised for the great job they did in adjusting their defense at halftime."
"Now they return home for three games and a chance to get a lot better and surprise some of their conference foes."
September 25, 2011, following a loss at home to NORTH DAKOTA STATE
"Yes, this Gophers football team gave people some false hope when it outplayed one of the more ordinary Southern California teams in several years."
HOLD ON! I thought this was a top notch team they played, in one of the "toughest environments" in college football! You used the term "Hollywood" and that it shook up the Gophers in the first half...this can't be. It's just a good thing YOU weren't given false hope, Sid, because you've seen it all. You're not "some people."
"More false hope came last week when the Gophers beat a Miami (Ohio) team that is 0-3 and struggling after being favored for the Mid-American Conference title."
Hey, folks in Minnesota. Did ANYONE think all was well after being taken to the dick by Miami of Ohio and winning on the last play of the game?
"This team wasn't going to show any consistency with the few good football players recruited by former coach Tim Brewster who are now seniors."
But you just LOVE the rah-rah guys! Just like Lou! We'll never be able to tell you exactly WHY he got fired, because messy facts get in the way, Sid. If Coach Kill can't win with these good Brewster players - what now?
Glen Mason coached this team to some success. His thoughts were included in your column.
"He and his staff have their own system. Let's face it, I think ... the great recruits that were coming to Minnesota [under Brewster] probably weren't as good as advertised."
Sid neglected to add that Mason followed up this sentence with "Hey, at least I BEAT NDSU...but I make more cash now. Good luck, Sid. Sure, I can open that bag of peanuts for you."
September 12, 2011
A metaphor for the entire coming Vikings season
September 5, 2011
Excuse me, Mr. Reusse . . .
Let me put out a few disclaimers:
A. I realize Jerry Kill hasn't won a game, yet.
B. I realize I could be getting ahead of myself.
C. Maturi is a combo between lucky and awful.
That being said, let's see what someone wrote on 12/05/2010.
"There are several questions to be asked of the M&M boys, Joel Maturi and Dave Mona, but here's the one that most intrigues a beat-up old sportswriter:
Your thoughts, Pat?
A. I realize Jerry Kill hasn't won a game, yet.
B. I realize I could be getting ahead of myself.
C. Maturi is a combo between lucky and awful.
That being said, let's see what someone wrote on 12/05/2010.
"There are several questions to be asked of the M&M boys, Joel Maturi and Dave Mona, but here's the one that most intrigues a beat-up old sportswriter:
If you were going to the Mid-American Conference to find a new football coach for the Gophers, why didn't you hire the guy who won the MAC title game on Friday night, rather than the loser?
Miami (Ohio) was a 17 1/2-point underdog to Northern Illinois in Ford Field. Final: Miami 26, NIU 21.
And what did our traveling tandem do after that result came in? They hired Jerry Kill, 49, the coach who lost as a large favorite, rather than Mike Haywood, 46, a coach responsible for a rapid turnaround of downtrodden Miami."
Cool, Pat. Mike Haywood you say. Let's take a look at Mike Haywood a month after Reusse's post:
Haywood was arrested about 3 p.m. Friday after a custody issue developed with a woman with whom Haywood has a child, police said. The unidentified woman told police that Haywood grabbed her by the arm and neck and pushed her as she tried to leave the home that Haywood owns in South Bend, Ind., where he once was a Notre Dame assistant.Your thoughts, Pat?
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