tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-352241972024-03-13T06:06:20.961-07:00GameTime, TBD©A look at sports and life through the eyes of a man who just might have the greatest mind of the 21st century...but I digressBAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-88399921108851544782012-12-07T10:36:00.000-08:002012-12-07T10:36:04.001-08:00Still Figuring This OutAs I mentioned when we first fired the generators back up a few weeks, things around here are going to be a little different. And while we are working hard to find the right balance of time, the GameTime, TBD© are not up and running at full speed yet. We are still trying to figure somethings out. Unfortunately, that means there will not be a full Link Dump for you this week.
That being BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-89629751294043683522012-11-30T12:35:00.000-08:002012-11-30T12:38:09.310-08:00Road Game!So, about a month-and-a-half ago, My Better Half casually mentioned she would be going to Las Vegas for work in late-November/early-December. Naturally, I assumed she meant some mid-week conference at the MGM Grand or something. Well, here I am, writing this Link Dump from the comfort of my Bellagio room while My Better Half learns the intricacies of health care accreditation BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-16252085678738079492012-11-16T11:32:00.000-08:002012-11-16T11:34:32.639-08:00How Does This Work Again?[*dusts off keyboard*]
How does one go about apologizing to his thousands hundreds dozens handful of loyal readers after inexcusably disappearing for over a year?
Well, for starters, I think I would say that if you are actually here reading this, I truly appreciate you sticking around all this time. Then, I would let you know about how painful this past year was, both in terms of not BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-74592989328016652992011-10-28T09:53:00.000-07:002011-10-28T09:57:05.752-07:00Big Boy Work Day
As you all know by now, an early edition of GameTime, TBD©'s world-renowned (might be a slight exaggeration) Link Dump is never a good sign. Unfortunately, the Chief is off doing "big boy" work today, so we are without our fearless leader.
But do not think you are going to be left completely empty-handed on this fine Friday. Before heading out the door this morning, the Chief BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-33408940873883805832011-10-21T12:32:00.000-07:002011-10-21T12:32:07.704-07:00When Fantasy Meets Reality . . .
. . . the Chief folds like a cheap hooker who got hit in
the stomach by a fat guy with sores on his face . . . or something like that.
[Editor's Note: If you missed the Chief's 2011-2012 Los Angeles Kings Season Preview, which went up Tuesday, do yourself a favor and check it out.]
Between Monday and Wednesday of this week, I was asked for my take on the Jim Schwartz-Jim Harbaugh brewhaha BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-19571341905383780942011-10-18T16:44:00.000-07:002011-10-18T17:00:25.824-07:00Second Verse, Same As The First
[Editor's Note: yes, I know the NHL regular season is a week old now, but I know you all are still dying to know what lies ahead for the Los Angeles Kings this season, right? RIGHT?]
It seems like only yesterday (probably cause I was still blacked-out until yesterday) that my friends and my Better Half teamed up to secretly add multiple ounces of sake to my beer before boisterously BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-53220780971981255522011-10-07T10:18:00.000-07:002011-10-07T10:18:16.460-07:00It's Back, And So Are We (Almost)
It has been exactly one hundred and sixty-five days--that is five months and twelve days for those of you not willing to count--since the San Jose Sharks end our beloved Los Angeles Kings 2010-2011 season in the first round of the playoffs. And while some friends of the program [*cough* Ballgame *cough*] are too busy dancing around in fields of dandelions to notice, in a little over BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-88931571751097061932011-09-23T10:38:00.000-07:002011-09-23T10:57:43.668-07:00No Time; There's Never Any Time . . .
There is so much to talk about these days but, unfortunately, we do not have any time to talk about them . . . at least today.
First and foremost, we had an unexcused absence last week, and for that we apologize. The Chief got hauled of to Chicago for actual work and, well, nothing happens around these parts without the Chief's say. He was originally supposed to have time last BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-65485923896104397322011-09-09T12:10:00.000-07:002011-09-09T12:10:46.383-07:00Dear God, It's Beautiful!
[Editor's Note: the title of this post is to be read like this, not like you're in a church service. That is all.]
College football started last weekend, the NFL officially kicked off last night, the NHL returns in a month, and it is still bikini season in Southern California. Life. Is. Good.
Another little-known highlight of this time of year is watching the Chief's BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-15768021881405633052011-08-26T15:31:00.000-07:002011-08-26T15:34:51.759-07:00Down, But Not OutUnfortunately, it looks like things will be dark at the GameTime, TBD© offices for the next couple of weeks. Sadly, "actual work" is going to prevent us from getting you a Link Dump this week. Plus, the end of summer comes next week in the form of Labor Day, and The Chief is off to Seattle to spend one final weekend with his friends celebrating the summer that was. So we will beBAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-65695290518395990552011-08-19T11:27:00.000-07:002011-08-19T11:27:40.172-07:00OopsiesTwo things:
(1) First and foremost, we would like to apologize for the complete radio silence last Friday here at GameTime, TBD©. My Better Half and I celebrated our third anniversary last week (time flies when you're having fun) and as our gifts to each other we planned a group orgy trip to San Francisco for the Outside Lands music festival. We flew up to San Francisco early Friday BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-4965642607854336382011-08-05T11:40:00.000-07:002011-08-05T11:40:13.261-07:00Commence Operation: Game ChangerOne of the reasons I chose to go with complete anonymity on GameTime, TBD© is that it allows me to talk more openly about things without embarrassing people too much. Sure, many of my most avid readers are close friends, so the anonymity is somewhat wasted. Yet my little corner of the world wide web is open to any and all comers, and I want them to be able to enjoy this site for not BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-20784715586932144812011-07-29T09:45:00.000-07:002011-07-29T09:47:53.210-07:00Run Away, Run AwayWe here at GameTime, TBD© acknowledge that this is us today:
On the bright side, Kate Upton was out there doing what she does best (read: looking hot in a bikini) earlier this week:
So, there that is.
Anyways, long story short, The Chief is headed off to San Francisco this afternoon for his fourth half marathon in the past year. [Editor's Note: *applause, applause, applause . . . trumpets, BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-42326645795890844052011-07-22T12:05:00.000-07:002011-07-22T12:05:20.453-07:00Gone, But Not Forgotten[Editor's Note: yup, the bathroom scene still gets me every time.]
Summer vacation was fun while it lasted, but it feels good to be back up and running at the GameTime, TBD© offices. After an extended break like we took, you almost forget how much fun it is to review stories and videos with an eye towards the Link Dump for Friday. So here we are, ready to go again. [Editor's Note: BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-51696603195556802722011-07-15T11:39:00.000-07:002011-07-22T10:07:18.372-07:00Oh, Hello ThereHowdy strangers. Did you miss us? It sure seems like it has been a while. What? What is that you say? It has been TWO MONTHS?!?!?! Yikes. My bad.
First and foremost, allow me to apologize for the unexplained shutdown of GameTime, TBD© for the past two months. Not to make excuses (cue the excuses), but a lot has gone done around the offices over the past two BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-36574318404685147952011-05-13T10:50:00.000-07:002011-05-13T10:50:41.280-07:00Blogosphere, We Have a ProblemIt is going to have to be quick and dirty today. [Editor's Note: that's what she said!] Our problems are two fold: (1) Blogger, the site which hosts the greatest blog ever created . . . or what you call GameTime, TBD©, had flat-lined for most of the morning, only recently being shocked back to life (yup, I definitely watched too much of last night's Grey's Anatomy); (B) actual work BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-19577411715611360942011-05-06T11:47:00.000-07:002011-05-06T15:54:07.000-07:00Never Mix Your Downers and Your UppersWe have on good authority that the Chief has finally come to terms with end of the Los Angeles Kings' season and is finally ready to get things back up and running at full speed here in the GameTime, TBD© offices. As such, we spent the better part of Wednesday and Thursday bouncing around ideas for the introduction for this week's Link Dump. And, obviously, the topic we kept coming BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-33502377613871981742011-04-29T11:09:00.000-07:002011-04-29T21:41:11.096-07:00Failville, Population FailIt has been a pretty quiet week around the GameTime, TBD© offices, what with the Los Angeles Kings' season coming to an end this past night. The Chief is clearly still in mourning. Just not himself. I mean, the "brain trust" is out for the day and he still says he has "things to get done for the end of the month." Clearly, he is taking this harder than we expected.
And, BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-31710846523450735762011-04-22T10:51:00.000-07:002011-04-22T10:51:45.581-07:00Just One of Those Days . . .Well, this happened last night and, not surprisingly, the Chief called in "sick" this morning. He told us to close up shop earlier because it is Good Friday and "apparently that's some sort of holiday that people use as an excuse to leave work early." Far be it from us to argue with a man telling us to go home early.
That being said, he demanded we not get too lazy and "make sure [we]BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-24628664206300431742011-04-15T12:02:00.000-07:002011-04-15T12:08:58.314-07:00One Game Down, Down One GameHere are some of things we learned from last night's opener of the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Shark's playoff series:
The Kings are down one game to none.
It is going to be a great series.
Thirty seconds into the game, My Better Half had the nerve to say: "They're good. I mean, no offense, but that was a nice play."
According to random homeless guys in San Francisco, "75% of teams BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-60959748613721391432011-04-14T13:46:00.000-07:002011-04-14T13:59:10.336-07:00The Deuces are WildWith the exception of the Chief's little "experiment", we do not really care too much about the baseball season. That being said, being from Los Angeles, one of the few things we truly enjoy about the long season is listening to a game being called by the legendary Vin Scully. Sure, he might have lost it a bit in these last few seasons, but there is something about the way he seems BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-66818303818829484062011-04-08T11:14:00.000-07:002011-04-08T11:22:02.606-07:00In the Dark, There Is LightAs you may recall from last week's Link Dump, the Chief decided to run a little "investment" experiment with the Red Sox. Something about betting on them to win every game I think. In that gem of a post, he provided the following commentary: "Worst case scenario, Red Sox start the season in a slump and early profits are not high enough to offset the losses and the nest egg BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-63157857315261713552011-04-01T13:04:00.000-07:002011-04-01T13:11:00.387-07:00All In The Name Of ScienceWell, it is with great sadness that I, the Chief, must announce this is final Link Dump and post that will ever grace the pages of GameTime, TBD©. Sadly, things back in the real world have gotten a little too complicated and we are going to have to close up shop, for good.
APRIL FOOLS! Hahahahaha; oh man, that was classic. You should have seen all of your faces. Man, I BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-54484088077178504292011-03-25T12:08:00.000-07:002011-03-25T12:08:03.749-07:00Does Size Really Matter?Hello friends. Well, sadly, actual work has once again reared its ugly head, and that has left the writers here at GameTime, TBD© without enough time or oversight to bring you your weekly dose of entertainment, also known as the Link Dump. But what would a Friday be without a little entertainment and, more importantly, a heated debate amongst friends?
As most of you know, the Chief isBAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35224197.post-41794070333176734292011-03-16T12:03:00.000-07:002011-03-16T12:03:27.020-07:00Rise and FIRE!Can you smell that? The sweet, sweet aroma of March Madness is in the air.
That is right, the productivity of American workers is slowly grinding to a halt as we are a mere twenty-three hours away from the tip-off of the NCAA Tournament. Okay, so I guess the Tournament technically started last night, but let us be honest, no one is really counting these play-in "first" round games as BAPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11546860521227696451noreply@blogger.com0