The whiskey always seemed to go down easier there, some consolation for the lack of seats, the too-young crowd and the dreck that always seemed to be drifting down from the speakers. I cradled the glass in my hand, a pyramid of ice cubes towering over the splash of liquid left at the bottom.
"You would fuck me, wouldn't you?" I turned to see a girl many years my junior, covered in an overcoat, with makeup smeared below her eyes.
"Beg pardon?"
"You would fuck me. Right?"
11.27.2011
The story of a career
(The following owes a great deal to a conversation with Robert Mays before his recent post on Grantland.)
In some sense, the outcome of Stanford's game against Oregon earlier this month was moot.
Few games have had a larger impact on this season of college football, with two highly ranked teams (Nos. 3 and 6 in the AP poll) battling it out for an inside track to the conference title game and, perhaps, the national championship game. (It didn't end up being as meaningful as we thought at the time, with Oregon losing to USC a week later. Then again, neither did The Game of the Century.)
There are also the points that Robert Mays smartly addressed in his Grantland post -- that this was the historical apex of Stanford football, higher even than the days of John Elway, and could stay that way even down the line. The game could have implications for the university's recruiting, for its national reputation and exposure, for its position in next season's preseason poll, which, as others have pointed out, carries an inordinate amount of weight.
For all that was made of this game and its potential impact on the legacy of Andrew Luck, however, this game, I imagine, matters very little.
In some sense, the outcome of Stanford's game against Oregon earlier this month was moot.
Few games have had a larger impact on this season of college football, with two highly ranked teams (Nos. 3 and 6 in the AP poll) battling it out for an inside track to the conference title game and, perhaps, the national championship game. (It didn't end up being as meaningful as we thought at the time, with Oregon losing to USC a week later. Then again, neither did The Game of the Century.)
There are also the points that Robert Mays smartly addressed in his Grantland post -- that this was the historical apex of Stanford football, higher even than the days of John Elway, and could stay that way even down the line. The game could have implications for the university's recruiting, for its national reputation and exposure, for its position in next season's preseason poll, which, as others have pointed out, carries an inordinate amount of weight.
For all that was made of this game and its potential impact on the legacy of Andrew Luck, however, this game, I imagine, matters very little.
11.22.2011
This 'pen is mightier?
I was reading a Sports Illustrated article the other day (an old one, I might add, that was published before the World Series) that described the Cardinals' bullpen as "vaunted." Which, you know, came as a shock to me.
A brief look at the Cardinals' relievers of the postseason in a long-overdue post that I've been meaning to write for weeks (stats from the playoffs in parantheses):
A brief look at the Cardinals' relievers of the postseason in a long-overdue post that I've been meaning to write for weeks (stats from the playoffs in parantheses):
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