Friday links: Balloon boy free since 2009

by averagejoe on Oct 16, 2009 5:01 AM CDT

It's Friday. Let's do this.

Blues news

Here's the PD writeup. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
How bout an AP recap (don't everyone click at once).[Associated Press]
David Backes speaks! He was on NHL radio. [NHL]
Andy Murray has vowed not to over coach. Serious question: Have their been more Murray stories this fall? Is he the "star" of this team? [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
The guy who works at the local funeral parlor explains the Blues/Dish battle. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
For the other sides look at the game, go here. [Five For Howling]

Hockey news

What happened last night. [Yahoo! Sports]
What's happening today. [Yahoo! Sports]
Pavol Demitra is hurt. The sky is blue. [Nucks Misconduct]
A look at giveaways and takeaways. [Die by the Blade]
Nicklas Lidstrom finally got his 1000th point. [TSN]

Other links

The Olympic medals are odd looking. [LA Times blog]
Is there a pink slime underneath the city? [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Can food be racist? Yes. Yes it can. [Guyism]
These are some awesome names. [Buzzfeed]

Video

RFJCC and NatetheGreat. sent me the same video. As a veteran of the Liquor Store work place, I have seen someone ALMOST this drunk. Good times.

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LMAO!

Thank you! That video is hysterical!

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by drfrankentweed on Oct 16, 2009 6:25 AM CDT reply actions

Those medals are terrible

WOW those are bad.

I gotta go. Slept in a bit from being up late for the game. I gotta run Answer Dog 2.0. He gets “feisty” if he doesn’t get his mileage in.

North Co! North Co! North Co!

by Answer Man on Oct 16, 2009 6:48 AM CDT reply actions

That video is something else.

I’ve never seen gravity kick a guy’s ass so hard before.

SWYD

by gallagher on Oct 16, 2009 8:02 AM CDT reply actions

If I was the store owner I think I would’ve called an ambulance for the guys instead of showing him the door.

"It’s a brand new day
And the sun is high
All the birds are singing
That you’re gonna die" ~ Dr. Horrible

by Carnie on Oct 16, 2009 8:35 AM CDT reply actions

Is that the ONLY photo that the P-D has of Andy Murray?

Or does he prefer to be photographed with his mouth open, yelling at the team? Is that his good side?

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by hildymac on Oct 16, 2009 8:37 AM CDT reply actions

And...

those medals look half melted. Weird!

BLUE SKIES - new St Louis Blues hockey blog.

"If you prick me, do I not...leak?"
"I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause."
"I am programmed in multiple techniques, a broad...variety of pleasuring..."
RIP Lt Commander Data

by drfrankentweed on Oct 16, 2009 8:59 AM CDT reply actions

Andy Murray stands about as good a chance of avoiding "overcoaching" as Tony LaRussa does.

by Washoo on Oct 16, 2009 9:18 AM CDT reply actions

im pretty skeptical so i’m thinking the video is a fake, waaaaaaay to “framed for the cameras” noone’s back nor any of the exciting action is missed. its like watching wrestling and realizing all the moves magically end with both wrestlers facing the single camera in close-up.

i will also say this, at that level of drunk, you fall FORWARD and you do not stick out your hands to brace yourself which results in a gashed forehead spilling blood all over. you don’t have the where-with-all to fall, what 80 times?, and magically all are to the backside.

they should have done a bit more editing, the run time could easily be cut down to a tight 3:30 imho.

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Oct 16, 2009 10:05 AM CDT reply actions

Last weekend at the football game there was a guy who was falling backwards when he was drunk. I don’t know if he had anything else, but he was foaming at the mouth and one of his friends was pushing him up the stairs while the other friend was dragging him up. The drunk guy kept leaning backwards while stumbling up the stairs.

He was moving like this guy in the video, but i don’t know if it was just alcohol. Though the guy at the game smelled heavily of whiskey.

"It’s a brand new day
And the sun is high
All the birds are singing
That you’re gonna die" ~ Dr. Horrible

by Carnie on Oct 16, 2009 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions

'Guy who works at the local funeral parlor'

Nice. You know, sports media is a very grave subject.

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by Dominik on Oct 16, 2009 10:16 AM CDT reply actions 2 recs

The guy that runs the funeral home in my podunk backwater town . . .

looks much less creepy than Dan Caesar. Maybe they should swap professions or something. Then again, that’d involve this dude having to direct my funeral some day if it came to it. Egads!

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Oct 17, 2009 8:03 AM CDT up reply actions

totally unrelated note

no way in hell phoenix stays in town if things dont change.. they had less than 5000 fans there last night i heard.. i mean we had a year where thats all we were drawing but that was when we sucked lol.. phoenix has a good team and can only draw 5000, that fuckin sucks lol

by bleedblue2009 on Oct 16, 2009 11:37 AM CDT reply actions

The record indicates...

6,899 fans in attendance. But I suspect that is about 4k season ticket folks where only half of them didn’t show up.

by DanGNR on Oct 16, 2009 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions

Considering that

…their ownership basically closed down the ticket offices in April, it wouldn’t surprise me to see some mind-bogglingly horrible attendance numbers there this season.

In 1983, the Blues were brought back to life and selling tickets by the end of July. The Coyotes were in limbo until the start of preseason games. Jerry Moyes fucked the team and the city this summer. Hard.

by BleedBlue42 on Oct 16, 2009 6:20 PM CDT up reply actions

and about the video

how has nobody pointed out the time stamp yet lol… IT WAS NOT EVEN 11 AM YET lol

by bleedblue2009 on Oct 16, 2009 11:45 AM CDT reply actions

or

that he is surrounded with peeps at 10:52 and flat on his back, yet a few seconds later he is in a completely different part of the store walking with “help”

A strong anvil fears no hammer

by Childhood Trauma on Oct 16, 2009 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions

He's not really drunk

I’ve seen plenty of people beyond wasted, and this guy is just being an idiot. The first clue is when he falls. A wasted person who falls isn’t going to realize they’re falling until they’re close to the ground. This guy started bracing for the fall before he started going down. If you watch, he puts his hand out way too early. The whole unable to get up thing was way over the top too.

Chicagoan in the Lou.

by Mike Martin on Oct 16, 2009 5:22 PM CDT reply actions