"According to Jim" (Jim's rants & raves)
News, Notes, Facts & Opinions from the owner Jim Yanz (if you care).
February/March 2009
Bierstube Economic Stimulus Plan: Check out all of the great new & existing lunch and daily specials of all the Bierstubes. We all offer what everybody needs these days. A great meal at a REASONABLE price!
St. Patrick's Day: "Don't forget the Bierstube goes Irish one day a year! Check out our delicious corned beef & cabbage & green beer ALL DAY & ALL NIGHT! Check your local "Bierstube Pub" for their respective GREAT specials!
Bierstube Summerfest Tent Party! Date & bands set: JW's Bierstube in Oakdale is having our 9th annual Summerfest tent party Friday, June 12th and Saturday June 13th. Friday we're featuring the
"SUPER" Superbowl: How would you like to have been a person who bet on a 15 to 1 shot that Rothlesberger scores the first touchdown of the game? First, they called it on the field correctly. Second, they CERTAINLY did not have video visual evidence to overturn that call, which they obviously did. Every video I saw his knee was never undisputedly down & the ref majorly blew that one just setting the tone for the rest of the terrible consistently bad officiating from start to finish. That cost the Steelers 4 points & several others hundreds of thousands of dollars on the 1st score proposition bets.
Last "Super" Superbowl Officiating Blunder: Here it is, the biggest game of the year & the crappy officials don't take the time to have a booth review on Kurt Warner's last second supposed fumble. First Warner deserved a lot of credit for being able to keep such a great grasp on the football even though his arm was hit hard & was moving in different directions. Second, his grasp was very evident & his arm was obviously moving forward making that (by rule) an incomplete pass. Third, what a bad taste in our mouths on such a great Superbowl. I could have put up with the rest of the inconsistent officiating all game long if they just would have gotten that one right & how many of us would have loved to see the Cardinals have one more chance at one last Hail Mary heave to Minnesota's own phenom Larry Fitzgerald. It would have been fitting & it would have been fair. With the magical year & record-breaking playoff performance by Fitzgerald, who knows? It might have been the Cardinals that got to go to the White House & Kurt Warner & Larry Fitzgerald to Disney World.
A-Roid: Oakdale's great sports mind Franz is adamant on wanting, needing & justifiably seeing the other 103 names on that "steroid positive" list. I agree. Would anyone be surprised if Albert Pulholts, Jim Thome, Manny Ramirez or even baseball's & New York's darling Derek Jeter? They all should be revealed & there needs to be at least one of two things happen. #1 at minimum an asterisk next to any major league records that were broke during this time or #2 stricken these names who tested positive from the record books & simply have another record book that doesn't discriminate against anyone, no matter how big of cheater they were. While they're at it, list how many game seasons these records were made for instance, when Babe Ruth hit his 60th it was during a 154 game season. When Roger Maris hit 61, it was during the 162 game season. It doesn't take up much room (like an asterisk) & it just makes sense.
Winter Carnival: A couple of months ago, I received the great honor of choice to be this years Prince of the East Wind from Terry Furlong (Furlong Liquors) & the rest of the Royal Committee. Due to the time constraints, I ultimately (& very difficultly) had to forgo this wonderful once in a lifetime prestigious honor. I would like to take this time to thank Terry & the rest of the Winter Carnival Royalty for even considering me.
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich: The scandal-ridden governor was removed last month by a vote of 59-0. Analysts say it's the most lopsided shutout since the Vikings last NFC championship.
Jose Conseco Boxer? Boxing wannabe Jose Canseco could manage only a draw last week in a three round bout against former "Partridge Family" star Danny Bonaduce. Despite the set back, the steroid slugger says he's ready for his next fight, against either Susan Dey, Shirley Jones or Florence Henderson. Since the fight, he has already turned down a match with Chloris Leachman stating "An unfair advantage that she would be in too good of shape following her dancing with the stars stint."
Two: 2 Consecutive 20 point road wins the Clippers last week, a first for the 39 year old franchise.
61, 52: Points scored by Kobe Bryant & Lebron James, respectively, against the Knicks last week in NY.
46: Years since an NBA team, the Warriors in December 1962, gave up 50 in back to back games.
76: % of the NBA players polled picked Kobe Bryant as their choice to take the last game winning shot attempt. The next closest was a few others at 3%.
99: % of the NBA Players & GM's I would think if they had to start a team & choose one player to build around it certainly would & should be Lebron James. As I've stated before he has a very good chance at becoming the greatest basketball player of all time!
200: This year marks the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
February 25: Lent starts early this year. Ash Wednesday is February 25, come join us at any of the Bierstubes for our excellent ALL YOU CAN EAT FRIDAY FISH FRY, featuring 3-4 ounce hand beer battered meaty Atlantic cod with fries, cole slaw & toast.
Darryl Strawberry: Recently claimed that he & other members of the 1980's New York Mets regularly had locker room trysts with fans during games. This was very risky behavior, as it severely cut into the Mets cocaine time.
Mike Tyson: Is coming out with his own tell all memoir. The former heavyweight champ was asked if it was an autobiography. He responded, "No I don't believe any of it as written in a car."!!!
Bill Russell: Despite winning 5 league MVPs & 11 NBA Championships, Bill Russell never won a NBA Finals MVP Award. Starting this year the award will forever be called deservingly so the Bill Russell Finals MVP Award.
Admission: I hope you find this Blog somewhat informative & maybe even somewhat entertaining &/or funny. If you strongly disagree with some of the opinions expressed, remember my wife Jodi types this & she is opinionated enough that it's very likely that she may have completely changed my correct opinion. If you're not napping already, thanks for your time & your welcome for your current or upcoming nap! Take care & God Bless!
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