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It was still morning, but the Chutes & Ladders equivalent of Rule 9, warding off the jinxing of a no-hitter, was already in effect. My daughter was moments away from closing out what no doubt would have been the first victory in the game's history without climbing a single ladder or sliding down a single chute. Guinness waited on the wire to certify. But just before what might have been her decisive spin of the spinner, I landed on space No. 80, which takes you up a ladder directly to No. 100 and a win. From no-no to uh-oh, the shock on my girl's face was evident.
Next came Candyland. My eldest son joined in to play, but once more it came down to Daddy and daughter. It was a prototypical topsy-turvy game, but when all the candy cards had been exhausted, ensuring that everyone would be moving forward for the remainder of the deck, she held the lead, barely surmountable but likely sufficient. Then I landed on Lose a Turn, which should have all but clinched defeat. But her next draw fell short while using the final card, meaning that, with one space remaining between her piece and glorious Candyland itself, there would need to be a reshuffling of the deck. All the candy cards would be back in play, and drawing one would all but doom her to defeat.
Building the suspense, I shuffled and shuffled, four times, five times, six times, hoping irrationally that the more I did, the more confused those candy cards would be. Good sport that I am, I didn't want one to get any ideas. Still, it was tense as she drew ... a color! After a bitter C&L loss, a triumphant Candyland championship.
We wrapped things up with Yahtzee: I rolled a 329, not my career best but still satisfying in this early January trigameathon.
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Congrats to writer and friend of Dodger Thoughts Jonah Keri, for being named the 64th most influential Canadian in baseball! Russell Martin ranked 32nd.
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Update: David O'Brien of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution spoke to Scott Boras today and is reporting that as part of their restructuring of Andruw Jones' contract, the Dodgers will cut Jones loose January 15, assuming he is not traded before then. I don't know if we can take this to the bank, but I thought I could pass it on.
So can Dodgers fans claim it as the end of the Blimp era?
I was thinking of writing Candyland: The Motion Picture, but worry that it may require a bit of stretching in the adaptation.
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Btw, that Canadian list is a bit odd, not that it's meant to be taken too literally or seriously. But how is Russell Martin only 32nd vs Brett Lawrie's #9? Anyway, congrats to Jonah!
Joe Torre will no longer play the part of Captain Ahab of the Dodgers with the departure of Curaçao whale...Greenpeace could not be reached for comment.
And I was just headed over to his home with a bag of oranges.
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Pat Hingle is likely the only actor to have played Commissioner Gordon and J Edgar Hoover. May he RIP.
Embarrassing.
I've been out of town; are we assuming that by Freeing Willy that Boras is deliberately making it easier to pay Manny?
BC up 4 with 44.8 seconds left.
Probably faking it, the way Paul Pierce did in the Finals last season.
You can celebrate by watching the Under Armour All-America Game!!
38 - I think, unless you thought Jones would somehow contribute this year, you're nitpicking.
Does deferred money for a player no longer on a team's 40-man roster get factored in to a team's Luxury Tax computation?
I expect to see John Kruk reporting on this on "Candyland Tonight"
Dodgers' Jones headed home (wife is ill)
>> Overall, he has hit .167 (5 for 30) with no extra-base hits. <<
http://tinyurl.com/7g7nah
Celtics go down for their 6th loss of the season.
I got a commercial fridge sized cylinder of Tinker Toys for my 3 yr old for Hanukkah. It looked very traditional, but come with string and plastic eyelets and such.
The new mondo-complex Lego toys and I have gone on a real spiritual journey. I started out scoffing at the newfangled kits with their 3 booklet instruction sets and their squealching of creativity and invention. Tradition, after all! But watching my son track through a 200-step process to build a Sandcrawler was a pretty amazing thing. And watching him then break it all down and build a massive Star City of his own, has sort of forced me to move off of my natural "things were better in the old days" stance.
The new Legos are OK!
The only thing that would make me upset would be if he signs with, oh, Florida and hits 25 home runs.
That is nice to see. He hadn't pitched since Nov 29th.
A team like the Dodgers traded a player who is now another team's #1 prospect, just to save $2 million.
I'm sure that's normal right? Dodgers watching his innings especially cause he was a reliever, building up arm Strength etc.
If Loaiza's dead money wasnt on the books for 2008, maybe the Dodgers dont need to deal Santana to save money.
Its seems more apparent to me that the Dodgers are trying to clear payroll space for Manny, rather than to do whatever it takes to get rid of Druw. Sounds like the Dodgers were going to cut Druw regardless of his contract situation.
Since they've more/less publically announced they are cutting him by Jan 15th, I doubt anyone even offers a trade unless its a salary dump of another bad contract to the Dodgers.
Well we know who that means.
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