OT cooking thoughts, and oh yeah, there's that football game, Feb 7

It was likely the only sukiyaki made in our then-neighborhood in the ’60s.

Ive never really liked boiled meat though. Dont really like shabu shabu or schizuan hot pot.

Which is funny considering the other day I was remarking on how the radio station kept calling it “the big game” and didn’t understand why they didn’t just call it the Super Bowl. You’d think I would have come the the right conclusion, instead I was thinking they just wanted to be different.

Yeah, I’m not really a fan of football.

“sabermetrics” will not be trademarked

Make queso mac’n’cheese, and if you’re feeling fancy, add some grated manchego on top. Quite tasty!

Throw stuff in, walk away for several hours, and viola, good food.

At the moment, one side has bottled water and the other wine.

Also, go Saints.

it sounds very wholesome :)

Nice to see Cech back in form! And of course….

DROOOGBAAAAA!!!

It’s like people saying “Illi-noise.”

Seriously though, we have had some great Super Bowls in the past several years.

And it was the shock collar Doritos one.

Even this ‘apology’ seems half arsed. Too many cliched words [Gamer? Alpha Dog? Give me a break…] and an overall sense of entitlement – he seems to present it as fact that Erik has no personality because he was unwilling to speak with reporters. I wouldn’t say that is a guy without personality – I would suggest that it displays a strong personality to be non-conformist in this way.

Everything we have heard recently through the print media suggests that Erik is a humble person with a genuine fondness for Seattle. This is dispite petty people like ‘Steve Kelley’ being upset that their athlete didn’t spurt out random cliches for them to sell to the public.

His writing style is so grating that it is tough to follow.

Of course, I could be mistaken.

After all, writing one sentence paragraphs may be completely acceptable to the masses.

However, I still do not appreciate it.

Not at all

a mix of “nice article, thanks Steve”, “Steve be a man, that was no apology”, “Bedard is a wuss”, and one fellow who thinks the column was sarcasm.

Although I would quantify that a bit. I think he knows how soccer works better than most. What I think he doesn’t know is how to find players that fit his ideal notion of how soccer works. And he also doesn’t know how to adapt when his lack of knowledge about how to find players bumps up against the fact that his current players aren’t getting the job done using the preferred method.

When you look at what could arguably be called the pinnacle of the Wenger experiment – the Invincible year, 2003-4, Wenger had the mix exactly right. He had his crop of small, lightning-fast technically gifted players like Fabregas and Jose Antonio Reyes, but he also had guys like Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp and Ljungberg who were not afraid to knock guys off the ball if need be.

That mix is entirely missing now – Wenger’s preference for flair players has completely overhauled the team, and in the years since that 2004 title, the rest of the game has not only caught up to, but has surpassed, Wenger. It’s frustrating.

That movie was awful.