lhglrkwg

October 28th, 2016 at 8:32 PM ^

Seems like Willie Taggart is going to get himself a promotion this offseason. An impressive turn around and the large number of openings means his phone will be ringin. Oregon? Notre Dame?



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The Fan in Fargo

October 28th, 2016 at 8:36 PM ^

UMProud, I think you and I would be very good friends. I will be sipping Crown tomorrow morning and into the afternoon as well!! Fuck Sparty and they can burn in hell on their couches.

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Go Blue in MN

October 28th, 2016 at 8:51 PM ^

Hey, no talking about beating MSU until we beat MSU!!!!!  So . . . in about 18 hours we can all talk about it.  I'm finishing off my Sierra Nevada sampler pack -- currently the Hoppy Wheat, then moving on to the Tumbler brown ale, which is excellent. 

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UMProud

October 28th, 2016 at 9:34 PM ^

Never tried Tomatin...to be honest good scotch is a bit pricey and Glenlivet & Glenfiddich always are enjoyable.  One day I'm going to break down and buy a bottle of McClellend's to see if it lives up to the hype.  Think the 12 year bottle was around $70 or so in Canada when I last looked at it.

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drz1111

October 28th, 2016 at 9:19 PM ^

2004 Drouhin Vosne-Romanee 1er Petits Monts.

It shows the greeness of the vintage but has some nice Vosne spice and red fruit.  If it didn't have that mirepoix character it'd be a lovely wine.  But 2004 gonna 2004.

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drjaws

October 28th, 2016 at 9:43 PM ^

This is gibberish to me. Not because I'm not cultured, or unknowledgable but because for as much as I have tried, I can't do the wine thing.

I have had $5 bottles of wine and $400 bottles of wine. Can tell they taste different, can't tell which is the "good one."

Thankfully almost everyone else can't either regardless of what they say.



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drz1111

October 29th, 2016 at 12:15 AM ^

That's why I'm a member of a blind tasting group.  Once a month, we get together and pour  8 wines out of blank bottles (prepared by the host's wife).  They're always consistent to a theme - say, "2014 white burgundy" (which was last month's tasting).  Prices generally range from $20-$120. We then vote.

You'll get some fluky results from time to time, but lemme tell you, that stuff about "no one can tell the difference" is dead wrong, at least among folks who like wine and drink it frequently.  We keep stats, and there is a very strong and significant correlation b/w price and ranking.

If you read those studies that claim to show that folks can't tell the difference b/w expensive wine and cheap wine, they almost always are testing inexperienced tasters - often it's college kids they recruit for the $20 and the free booze.  They can't tell the difference, sure; but my mother-in-law can't tell the difference between Michigan's DL and MSU's DL; that's not because there's no difference, but because it's my damn mother-in-law.

FWIW, in 2004 in burgundy, they had a plague of ladybugs, and stressed ladybugs give off a funny stinky liquid that smells like pine needles.  And if you're a ladybug in a wine press, you're kind of obviously REALLY STRESSED HEY WHY IS THAT THING CRUSHING ME, so the vast majority of the wines from that year from Burgundy have a funny pine needle / strewed celery character that kind of ruins the wine for most people.

 

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HarleyMarlboro

October 28th, 2016 at 9:35 PM ^

Currently having a couple of Dragon Milks, the last ones in the house.  Meijer has had them on sale the last few weeks.  I'm hoping they'll still be tomorrow when I do pregame shopping.  But who am I kidding?  I'll still pick up at least a 4 pack even if it's not.  I'm also going to look for someing else interesting.

Tonight, after the beer, I'm switching to Lemmy's:  Jack, Coke, and bitters. 

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You Only Live Twice

October 28th, 2016 at 10:19 PM ^

Mich Ultra.  Have quelled the anxiety about tomorrow.  It's not as if Dantini has purposely lost a bunch of games in order to throw us off in preparation for this game. 

This team will not unravel after halftime.  Neither will our fanbase.  Harbaugh has steeled all of our collective spines.

 

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treetown

October 29th, 2016 at 3:53 PM ^

Good - when the game matters - only gave up 17 points. With a better called game may be even not that much.

Bad - (1) Offense could not get that last first down to close out the game, (2) hard time power running at the end (3) too much trying to showcase Jabrill Peppers as a ball carrier - at this point he is an awesome decoy.

STILL - won and pushed the Spartans deeper into the abyss!

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