W.W.W.D.

Raise your case in honor of Chris on his bachelor party weekend. Here's to you buddy.

For what it's worth...

Congrats Flip and Mikey!

Brentsville made Newsweek's list of the top 1300 high schools in America.

It was 684.

Interestingly enough, Mariemont was left off that list. Even more interestingly Glen Este made the cut. GLEN ESTE! Remember, it was were you had to play basketball on that linoleum floor in their cafeteria. It wasn't even a cafenasium OR a gymatorium. It was just the cafeteria!

I expect you to do something about this Michael.

Mr. Red Took a Great Fall

I am fascinated by mascots. They are inherently funny. I love this video.

Michael's "To Do" List

I have taken it upon myself to speak for the entire Norwood House and start our list of required actions that Mikey must take now that he is moving back to Cincinnati. They are (in no particular order):

1) Purchase a Larosa's Pizza Buddy Card from the Mariemont Booster Association

2) Order "Juice, Toast, and Clem" at least once a week from the Village Kitchen, just to keep Angie on her toes. Bring Phil who shall take up Dave's mantle and order a completely different meal on each visit.

3) When Chris Martin get there, eat at Skyline once a week. Make Martin pay...and buy you a Cross-Town Shootout commemorative basketball.

4) Acquire a key to the Mariemont Elementary School Gymnasium in case we want to play on Saturday morning.

5) Make one bi-weekly trip to Kenwood Towne Centre, but then decide not to buy anything and go home empty handed. Park in the Parisian garage.

Those are my five demands. It is up to you, members of the Norwood House, to continue this list.

Have at it.

Jocketty > Krivsky?

Question 1:

Anyone else surprised by this? I hope Krivsky was not. Nothing says "hey pal, you're on the hot seat" like hiring a "special adviser" in the off-season. Especially one whose track record far exceeds your own. The only way WK could have kept his job is for the Reds to be 17-4 at this point. Personally, I think it was getting swept by the Pirates that did it.

Question 2:

Will it make a difference this season? The Reds have a lot of money invested in the team that's on the field right now. Not many moves to make, unless he starts shipping out some big names and eating a ton of payroll.

Question 3:

Time to panic? I say no. We all knew there was a chance that this season was a setup for next year.

Thoughts?

ps. Bronson Arroyo...yikes!

Nice Catch.... Butterfingers!

AccuScorn

So, reading tonight's preview of the Reds-Brewers match-up, I took a gander at ESPN's "accuscore" projection, which said that we were 51-49 percentage point favorites, which is essentially a wash, but I couldn't help but think that it made absolutely no sense to call us the favorites.

Much as I want to assume the Reds will always win, the pitching match-up is Ben Sheets (2-0, 1.17 ERA) against Arroyo (0-1, 5.17 ERA).

Going beyond the bare numbers, since we all agree that wins and ERA are augurs of a false baseball god, Sheets has been on a roll this season (20 K's, 0.70 WHIP in 3 starts) while Arroyo has struggled not-so mightily, and had trouble getting very far into games. For now, I'll assume that the bats are roughly equal since both sides have had bumpy seas and struggling stars on the offensive end (I'm looking at YOU Prince Fielder, supposed anchor of my fantasy offense).

My question is, what makes this accuscore machine so accurate. I couldn't find any numbers about its average success rate on the Web site, so why is this damn thing even there if not an effort to cross-pollinate a little Bodog traffic?

Accuscore belongs with "Who's More Now?" in the annals of ESPN crap that needs to be shown the door.

It is now 5:30, and I have successfully killed the last 15 minutes of my work day. Later.