I would like to publicly thank my kid sis for bringing this story to my attention. Ankeny, Iowa has used garlic salt in addition to regular salt on its roads this year. Granted, it was a gift, and I do see the value in using it rather than having it go to a landfill. . . but it’s still way too funny to pass up.

Sure, it’s no World’s Biggest Chee-to, but it’ll do. (Link included as a tangible example of how we were all funnier five years ago. Plus it’s fun to go through the archives from time to time.)

The Vikings game versus the Falcons was moved to 3:15 this past Sunday to become the “national game” for Fox. However, I am in the New York area for the Holidays and unfortunately Fox chose to show the Eagles/Redskins in this market.

But never fear, via the internet I was able to watch the game using information I found on a website called howtowatchfootball.com. Sadly the game was about as pretty as my pixelated view.
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[kottke.org, by way of Daring Fireball]

If I had told you before the Vikings v. Cardinals game that one of the quarterbacks would have a rating of over 139.0; we all would have assumed that would have been Kurt Warner picking apart the porous Vikings secondary.

But we would have been wrong.
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on wednesday, the new york yankees signed free agent starting pitcher c.c. sabathia to a 7-year, $161 million contract. despite being interesting, i rarely care about (non-twins) hot stove moves. this one, though? i like it. here’s why…

first, as a twins fan. sabathia pitched (amazingly) for the brewers during the second half of last season, and he was on milwaukee’s short list of offseason targets. the brewers obviously lost. additionally, the oft-injured ben sheets rejected milwaukee’s arbitration offer last week, making it incredibly unlikely that he would re-sign with the team. this leaves the following rotation for milwaukee in 2009: suppan – bush – parra – mcclung – gallardo. this is assuming milwaukee doesn’t sign any new starters– which, to be fair, is an unlikely scenario, as they’ve shown interest in randy wolf, jamie moyer, and others. regardless, even if they add a starter, they’ll still need pitching to seriously contend next year.
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