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Re: The most confused man in America this morning - fullmetal - 01-02-2013
Plaschke seems a bit stunned that Stanford players could win with such class. Maybe he actually did some primary research and interviewed a few. It'd be nice to make a convert of him.
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - Spiny_Norman - 01-02-2013
Plaschke is a well-known bandwagon jumper. He'll write 1500 words (in tiny little one sentence paragraphs) to state the obvious. The column from this morning may be the first Plaschke piece that I have read in a year.
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - stanforddad - 01-02-2013
He missed what my son and I both thought was the LSJUMB BEST moment:Â 93,000 fans signing, along with the band, of the National Anthem with Dr. Barnes's haunting trumpet -solo.
Trivia fact from my son. The arrangment was written in 1963 for Big Game after it was postponed one week following the Kennedy Assasination.
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - washingtonismoney - 01-02-2013
On the other hand, award for best media trolling from a local paper goes to...NO, not Jon Wilner, but Monte Poole: http://www.mercurynews.com/stanford-cardinal/ci_22294237/poole-stanfords-rose-bowl-win-over-wisconsin-wont
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - fullmetal - 01-02-2013
Wilner's thoughts on next season are here: http://www.mercurynews.com/stanford-cardinal/ci_22297332/whats-next-stanford-after-rose-bowl-win
He adds these tidbits at the end:
Quote:Stanford is 35-5 in the past three seasons.
Cardinal coach David Shaw is the first African-American coach to win a Bowl Championship Series game. This is the 15th year of the BCS.
The victory over Wisconsin improved Stanford's Rose Bowl record to 6-6-1.
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - Hank 91 - 01-02-2013
I have refused to read the Plaschke piece because I'm quite happy with my personal 20-year Plaschke embargo. It might've been poetic to give him another chance after this Stanford-Wisconsin game since it was the column he wrote after the last Stanford-Wisconsin game that forced me to stop reading him, but I can't do it. You can't make me.
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - akCard - 01-02-2013
Dang. Thought this was going to be a thread about Lou Holtz.
The only reason I can stomach watching ESPN's college football shows is to watch him eat crow after a Stanford victory and New Year's evening he didn't disappoint. While Mark May and Rece Davis John Saunders were going on about Stanford's hard-fought Rose Bowl win, Holtz just sat there looking he wanted to be anywhere else.
Schadenfreude I'll admit but with a Rosy victory in hand, I don't care
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - estephan500 - 01-02-2013
(01-02-2013, 07:49 PM)Hank 91 link Wrote:I have refused to read the Plaschke piece because I'm quite happy with my personal 20-year Plaschke embargo. It might've been poetic to give him another chance after this Stanford-Wisconsin game since it was the column he wrote after the last Stanford-Wisconsin game that forced me to stop reading him, but I can't do it. You can't make me.
Since I don't have any embargo, I read it, you aren't missing anything much, seemed like a piece in a sunday supplement trying to be colorful about county fair or something.
Re: I have a theory - Oasis - 01-02-2013
(01-02-2013, 01:28 PM)garvin link Wrote:That would be Oasis. I'm sure he's still scratching his head that Bill Plaschke, the Darth Vader of anti-Stanfordism, whose voodoo doll Oasis has been jabbing red-hot needles for the past 20 years, wrote a column about us this morning that was -- well -- nice.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/football/la-sp-0102-plaschke-rose-bowl-20130102,0,682793.column
This is the theory: Plaschke is the evil twin of a modestly responsible journalist, who escaped from the dungeon where Plaschke had him tied up, put Plaschke in the trunk of a car (there's an idea!) and wrote this morning's column. Unless this is true, I am confused just as Garvin says.
Re: The most confused man in America this morning - Robbie - 01-03-2013
(01-02-2013, 02:50 PM)stanforddad link Wrote:Trivia fact from my son. The arrangment was written in 1963 for Big Game after it was postponed one week following the Kennedy Assasination.
Written earlier during 1963. Performed multiple times that season, but finally and most memorably for the last game of the season.