Local Sports Posting

I have been to a couple of local sports events and of course, have to post.

I went to my first Des Moines Buccaneers game of the year.  The Bucs are a Tier1 Hockey minor league team, which means you likely won't see future stars (Florida Panthers goalie Scott Clemensen is the only Buc alumni currently playing in the NHL as far as I know).

Center Zach Saar is someone who played in the NHL Futures game.  That's all besides the point though.  The Bucs are one of the funnest sports experiences you can have.

Oh and this here they are rowdy.



Yes, that's the penalty box.  I didn't go that night but the night after (credit should go here)


I also scored some free tickets to the NBA Developmental League team, and saw them for the 2nd time this year.

The NBADL has a bit of a bad reputation in the minds of some sports fans (unlike minor baseball, where you will certainly see some future starter on a major league team.  the best star you will see in the NBADL will probably average five minutes of playing time with a team like the Denver Nuggets), but I disagree.  I think the games are fun.  (They do feel a bit like fixed.  Like the real NBA, the first three quarters don't seem to count, and the 4th is where the action is.)

Indeed the most famous people I have seen at games this year are ex-Bulls great Reggie Theus (a coach now) and Taylor Griffin (a 2nd round draft pick, but most notably, he's Blake Griffin's brother).

The current version of the Energy has two NBAers -Darius Miller and Quincy Miller- and the team's top scorer Morris Almond was a first round pick in 2007.

The NBA also seems to be really growing the league, making it a place for players in their first three years, and boasting that now 27% of the current NBA players have been in the NBADL at some point.

Plastique Valentine (#78 in a series)

The Chocolate boxes are out, so it's time for the annual series that counteracts Zales, Ferrero Rocher, and Dianne Warren.

True enough, it's been two years since I lasted posted a PV video, and 2011 was a particularly strong year (John Hiatt's "Since His Penis Came Between Us" , Junior Brown "My Wife Thinks Your Dead", and Shellac's all-time great bitter song "Prayer to God")

I run into a question right off, of course.

2012 saw the release of one of the most Plastique Valentinest of songs - "We are Never Ever Getting back Together".

Of course, the dilemma being that it may also be the worst song ever to hit the charts.

Okay, I will stick to Lucinda Williams.

Not her first song to be posted here, but we like her here a alot, and this song from the early part of her career is great.

Lucinda Williams - "Change the Locks"

Bears Coaching Application

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(Actually, most often, they succeed)

Sharing for the NFL fans.