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La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
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Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
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Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
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Root: 1, Cabernet 2008
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In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
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In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
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Comments (13)
I'm psyched about tomorrow but I always get a little depressed when the games start dwindling down to the last few - especially during bad times when the need to escape is so great.
Here's my comparison between the end of a football season and the end of a relationship. It's not a coded message about my life or anything - things are going great. It's just a comparison:
The regular season is the good times. The relationship is new and full of hope and there are great possibilities in the air. If only it could just go on like this forever, but it can't. The playoffs represent when it's time to go to that next level. Everything is still exciting but there's so much more pressure and little flaws from before are becoming big problems. For the first time you start to realize that this is going to come to an end. You try to ignore it and just enjoy what you still have but everything is unraveling so quickly. Hearts are broken and you know you're heading towards the big conclusion.
The Pro Bowl is after you've decided to break up. You get together for 2 or 3 hours but it's pointless and meaningless and feels all wrong. There is no thought of sex - just a long conversation about how the relationship is done.
Then after she has put everything in cardboard boxes and moved out - after she has a new apartment and you're starting to deal with the idea that she's gone, she comes back for that one last night of incredible sex, as a way to honor the whole thing and end it right, and that is the Super Bowl. Then by Monday morning, she is gone forever. --BMCD
P.S. I was going to compare the lock-out to coming home and finding out that she's changed the locks, but analogies are tricky - you don't want to overdo it.
Posted by Bill McDonald | February 5, 2011 10:09 PM
I get that sports are the great metaphor for the male species, really glad for ya, but since I love all things cheese, it's gotta bet...The Packers!
Posted by Daisy Chain | February 5, 2011 10:24 PM
My heart is with the Pack, but I Think Pitt is just too much for the Green Bay Overacheivers. I'd love to be proven wrong on this one.
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | February 5, 2011 10:30 PM
Interesting comments.
I'm rooting for the Steelers, but I think the Cheeseheads are going to win.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | February 5, 2011 10:36 PM
A substitute center without sufficient practices to establish requisite coordination with Mr Ben will result in miscommunication at critical moments. It will be a difficult day for the team from western PA.
Posted by Gardiner Menefree | February 5, 2011 10:43 PM
The Bears aren't playing - who cares?
Posted by phastphil | February 6, 2011 6:17 AM
Steelers by a field goal.
Posted by ecohuman | February 6, 2011 8:37 AM
I remember that first Super Bowl too, kind of an odd name for a game where the NFL was sure to romp. It was a balmy January day, high around 40, so we were off to the park for a game of hoops. Two years later, thanks to JWM, the Super Bowl began to live up to its name. In honor of my many friends from Wisconsin, let's hope the Pack will be back.
Posted by Newleaf | February 6, 2011 9:42 AM
That would be JWN -- some day I'll learn to type.
Posted by Newleaf | February 6, 2011 9:43 AM
I'm an ex Chicagoan, but I disagree with phastphil. GBP is the only team to vote for. Of course, they are not playing the Bears.......
Posted by Lawrence | February 6, 2011 10:16 AM
As this has been the Year of Concussions in football, you have to go with the undisputed leaders in cheap shots.
What I'm seeing is Pittsburgh stuffing the Green Bay running game early, forcing them to pass. Then, either James Harrison or Ryan Clark lays out Aaron Rodgers with one of the helmet-to-helmet hits they're so good at.
Afterward, Ben Roethlisburger heads to Charlie Sheen's for a quiet evening of reflective conversation.
Posted by Roger | February 6, 2011 11:32 AM
Green Bay by 17
Posted by Ben | February 6, 2011 1:20 PM
How great to see that my dog-picking skills have not improved with idleness!
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | February 6, 2011 9:26 PM