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Glad you guys made it out in time.

All my friends and family are saying, while it "does" suck, it's been overblown with what I call "weather terrorism" which a drive time guy here in the Northland coined a few years ago.

Blow everything way out of proportion and create mass hysteria, get those ratings in...which makes it worse than better in most scenarios.

I could go for some Chinese right now, Chipotle for me today, finally checked it out here and it's as good as back home.

I really need to go shopping...been lazy as fook since I got here.

Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. I need the line for the game tomorrow since my foot is maybe at 65% and my friends are flying in and we are going to it. Thuuuuuuuuuuuuuursday night football.

I haven't done fun Halloween stuff in years. Retired early since I was a massive kid obviously and I always thought it was kinda of crap once kids got way too old to trick or treat and would instead just take candy from little kids.

It was at the point when I was in sixth grade I made three kids in high school empty their bags into little kids bags because they stole all the candy out of a bowl that was left out before these kids who might have been 5-7 years old showed up. That stuff used to drive me up the wall, so I told them to stop, and empty them out, and give the little kids their candy, which they did or lest they feel my wrath.

As for modern trick-or-treating, kids scout out neighborhoods, and I'm sure with phones word gets around WAY faster than it used to. "So and So is handing out full candy bars on blah blah blah street". Now that's a simple text and you'll probably have 500 kids showing up at your door.

Yesterday was a trainwreck and full of heartbreak. I swear if I lived in Vegas I could probably never work ever again just betting on Vikings tank jobs and Boxing. Bloody shame the weather is too hot.

As for the Barca business, typical Celtic. As I posted on my forum after the game:

"[S]ome of the corners people were standing around like they were waiting for a fucking bus while chatting up some broad, you could tell at times complacency was in the team, and there it was at the last seconds.

Forrest moves a second too late and some fucking asshole gets his studs on the ball on the back post and ruins Lennon's finest European moment -- and maybe the campaign.

Yeah, Benfica lost today, but get a point here? A point in a game where one of their players is worth basically as much as your team?

You get a point here, Celtic are sitting in a great spot, with many of us thinking perhaps they could get a point at home too, then maybe beat Spartak and see what happens in Lisbon.

I could foresee a "great collapse" now. This might have been that tipping point, and had Celtic WON that Benfica game, this wouldn't have been, but they didn't. They looked like shit against team that they probably should have beaten that night who was missing players and not playing particularly well and Benfica will be better at home with their ass on the line without a fucking doubt.

Also, Brown looks finished for this season. At this point should he really be played at all unless necessary? I mean, a fully fit Brown and maybe some things go differently, but especially the way he plays like that midfield terrier if he can't go in and smash and move, then he's almost useless.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

It's this all the time. I'm sick of moral victories, I'd like real ones".

Now Barca will go all out and likely win at Celtic Park knowing a win guarantees them qualification, and then they'll take it easy after that. That one point would have almost cemented at least EL soccer, now they could blow the lot.

Moneyball works, until you get to the playoffs, then it's a crap shoot. It also was more effective before every team ever started doing it (and especially teams with money).

I hate the Yankees, I'm sad to see them move on. Detroit has had their number in the past, hopefully they knock them out.

Ibanez' homers were a heartbreaker, but you're right - the two teams have been pretty evenly matched all season, and the Os are the younger team. Hopefully, they can keep growing the arms and develop some young position players other than Machado.

I did not, that might have been uncouth of me especially in front of her husband who used to train with Tommy Hearns at Kronk in Detroit (no joke -- we talked about boxing for an hour).

You can score 5 in a period, but I would say it's probably more rare in hockey than in baseball, last inning aside it would be interesting to look up, though hard to determine.

First place feels like uncharted territory. We as Vikings fans are all waiting for the drop. It's either going to happen now, or after the team makes you believe and then that's when they crush you (per usual).

This team has SO many holes in it, that it's hard to really think they could do what they could potentially do on paper.

That said, Percy Harvin is the best "football player" in the league. I don't think I've seen anyone like him maybe ever. Receiver, Running Back and an elite returner? That's like football before the NFL existed (and was more like rugby with 2-way players) when guys like Nagurski played two positions (LB and RB -- which is why he only had one 1,000 yard season because they wanted to save him for defense).

May the best team win though, in non-controversial fashion in a fair game.

I've seen similar things at hockey games actually.

So, our teams square off this weekend.

WHO YA GOT?