You Call Its

Vodka, dirty and dry, bleu cheese olives

I never understood why bars called the mixed drink special "you call its."  It sounds like a privlege, "you call it."  All you get to pick is the cheapest liquor available mixed with a syrupy mix.  It's the perfect segway into a week of many a sport story to cover, and nothing worthy of a full post.  Hence, the first, and with any luck the last, Logical Betting "you call it."

And here we go.

First, comments from the Twitters on past posts...

- From the "NASCAR still isn't a sport" archives, recent debates have concluded that both competitive eating (lock jaw from eating) and beer pong (throw out your shoulder) are more "sport" than NASCAR.  The cuz-in-law is claiming NASCAR is a "motor-sport," which I assume means that engines are now athletes.

Eyeing Verlander's 3rd straight no-hitter

- More family weighing in, the bro-in-law pointed out Johnny Vander Meer's two consecutive no-hitters is a really unbreakable sports record. (SI this week noted DiMaggio's "untouchable" 56 again... whatever).  I slot that in the 2 hole, still behind Cy Young's 504 wins.  3 straight no-hitters is like me walking from Philly to the North Pole; 505 wins is like me walking from Philly to Hawaii. 

- Found an Eagles fan who would trade 9 Cowboys titles for 1 in each of his, making the score now LB 3,453,922 to Reggie's 3.  After I presented the "it'll ruin the NFL for you for 10 years" argument, he said, "I'm an Eagles fan, it's been ruined my whole life."  Great point, gotta run that past the wife.  Anyways, after drinking enough to forget my Yankees hate setting aside my Yankees hate for a second, I thought of a few other fan bases that would agree to this deal...

1.  Cleveland (Cavs, Browns, Indians, and Ohio St. football for Miami Heat) - seriously, have you ever met a Browns fan?  I'm in a fan club with them to crush their fantasy league every year to support my dad, and these guys have no hope.

2.  Buffalo (Bills... uhh, yeah, any other three for anyone) - So they can forget they live in Buffalo.

3.  Los Angeles (Lakers, Dodgers, Kings, USC football for SF Giants) - Any excuse to burn the city.

4.  Philadelphia (Eagles, Flyers, Sixers, Phillies for Cowboys or Mets) - My buddy above said, "a Super Bowl and a Cup, I've never seen either.  I don't care who else wins."  Poor Philly.  And they haven't even figured out the window for another World Series is already shut.

Pop culture invades LB...

Drama

- Debate at work whether Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a romantic comedy.  IMDB and Netflix were useless (IMDB puts genre in alphabetical order, and Netflix had Chasing Amy as romantic comedy, which discredits them).  After the guys were rightfully accused of not being able to look past the "male main character in a romantic comedy" thing, we all agreed that a movie is a "romantic comedy" if it is more romance than comedy.  Example - Knocked Up, Wedding Crashers = comedy.  Forgetting Sarah Marshall?  Vote is about 50/50.  Wife said, "it's a romantic comedy, but not a chick flick."  I'm getting annoyed just writing about this again.

- The residents of this nursing home in Ohio clearly should have planned better for retirement.  I don't know if this is scary or hilarious.  Or is it scary that I wasn't surprised?

You Call Its!

- My buddy bet me our fantasy baseball entry fee that Derek Holland would be a Top 20 Fantasy pitcher this year.  I know most of you don't know who he is, but he's pretty good, just not Top 20 good.  To prove my point, I'm going to randomly list 20 better, no cheating, right now:  Verlander, Sabathia, Weaver, Shields, Price, Wilson, F. Hernandez, Greinke, Marcum, Halladay, Lee, Hamels, Haren, Kennedy, Lincecum, Cain, Bumgartner, J. Johnson, Strausberg, Wainright.  Wow, that wasn't as easy as I thought... rut roh.  I still got this.

- Why do sports casters have to wear suits?  We don't really see much of them, who honestly cares that much about what they wear?  How bout some "biz cas Fri?"  If you caught that reference, I will buy you the most expensive drink at the bar, chased by the 2nd most expensive.  And if you caught THAT reference, I'll get you the third most, too.  No Googles.

- In case you wondered what "common sense sports talk" means at Logical Betting, here is a perfect example:  Why did the Jets really trade for Tebow?  Because Mark Sanchez sucks.

- Finally, since I'm frequently accused of drinking the Hater-ade, and I kinda hate LeBron, let me share this story of LeBron making all his Heat teammates get up and take as many pics as these soldiers wanted with the team during a layover.  Say what you want about him, but this was all class.

There it is

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