Official Great Works Draft (6 Viewers)

[El Floppo]

This is my makeup pick... we're in the 16th round now?

16.10? Scientific Discovery- Atomic Theory (1808)

John Dalton provides a way of linking invisible atoms to measurable quantities like the volume of a gas or mass of a mineral. His atomic theory states that elements consist of tiny particles called atoms. Thus, a pure element consists of identical atoms, all with the same mass, and compounds consist of atoms of different elements combined together.

edit to change the 16.11 to 16.10

 

[El Floppo]

16.14 (314th pick) - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Song

The Rolling Stones

 

[Doug B]

Working on my write-up offline, will post pick in a few.

 

[El Floppo]

16.15 Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel)

Be back in a sec for the write-up.

You. Me. Back parking lot. No friends.

 

[timschochet]

It's my #2 ranked song, BL. I took what I consider to be #1, but you've got the second best, IMO.

 

[El Floppo]

This is a monster team

Non fiction (1) The New Testament

Non fiction (2) Democracy in America

Non fiction (3) The Federalist Papers

Non fiction (4) Common Sense

Non fiction (5) Founding Brothers

It will be hard to match this non-fiction titanic offering. As a group they have to be upper upper top 3 tier. Individually, The New Testament is definately top 3, Democracy in America and the Federalist Papers should be well up there, Common Sense may get a hit but it was a very very important work, and Founding Brothers probably won't rank that high, but I had to have it.

Short Story - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Solid solid choice here. I'm sure there are more world renowned selections so I don't know where it will fall but it should be closer to the top then the bottom.

Poem (1) The New Colossus

I'm guessing this doesn't rank very well in the category so I don't expect a huge score here. But it's probably one of the most known poems selected.

Invention (1) - Baseball

Invention (2) - American Football

I'm guessing the judge will have a hard time ranking these above more scientific choices which is ok. Still, I know most of you are jealous that you don't have them.

Painting (1) American Gothic

Another one that I don't know where it will fall in the overall ranking but I'm guessing it should be higher then it will end up.

Sculpture - Statue of Liberty

The #1 in the category. Full arms have to count for something, no?

Building/Structure (1) The Great Wall of China

Building/Structure (2) The World Trade Center Twin Towers

The Great Wall is going to stand out in the theme here, but Americans love their Chinese food, and given the amount of Chinatown's we have, I'm ok with it. The World Trade Center was probably taken too early, and won't score very well against the wonders of the world structures.

Song (1) - God Bless America

This is going to depend on the judge. IT's obviously far far different then Bohemian Rhapsody, so I have no idea where it will rank.

Political Document - The Bill of Rights

The only pick I have in the categories I judge so I won't specifically rank or call attention to the selection. As an American document its top 5. As a world document, it will be interesting to see what else is taken.

Wildcard (1) 1969 Woodstock Festival

It appears that this is my worst pick by comments made. It was one of the things I was gunning for when I decided on my theme, so I went with it. Obviously, I could have taken it much much later so that hurts. The judging will probably end up with this in the lower half of choices, which is fine.

Very happy with the team overall though. A few missing pieces that were snagged by others that confounds and annoys, but still. Obviously, If anyone wants to trade, say, the Constitution for the Great Wall straight up, I'm good with that.

Nice writeup Considering your approach, that's a really solid team. Inventions... plenty o' red. white and blue stuff to make up later for those throw-away picks. And fwiw- I think American Gothic is a fantastic pick that won't get underappreciated by the judge... hard for it to compete against the masters, but it has to be up there pretty damned high.

 

[timschochet]

I've got ten minutes before I have to leave- if Doug makes a pick by then, I'll make mine. If not, skip me, and for sure skip my next pick, as I know I won't be here for that one.

 

[El Floppo]

gotta run for a few hours- I'll try and check in remotely (didn't even know I could do that), but please skip me after 10 minutes.

 

[Abrantes]

16.14 (314th pick) - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Song

The Rolling Stones

:(

Doesn't do much for me.

 

[Doug B]

February 22nd, 1980

As the U.S. team tried to clear the zone, the crowd began to count down the seconds left. Sportscaster Al Michaels, who was calling the game on ABC along with former Montreal Canadiens goalie Ken Dryden, picked up on the countdown in his broadcast, and delivered his famous call:

"Eleven seconds, you've got ten seconds, the countdown going on right now! Morrow, up to Silk. Five seconds left in the game. Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

This victory was voted the greatest sports moment of the twentieth century by Sports Illustrated.

16.16 - Broadcast of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" ice hockey game, Television Program [2]

Twenty years ago tonight, the result of the ''Miracle on Ice'' was well known before ABC showed it in prime time. The live Lake Placid scene behind the host Jim McKay might have been a giveaway that the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team had defeated the heavily favored Soviet Union, 4-3.

Joyous, smiling fans raised a banner saying, ''Go for Gold.''

ABC had tried, unsuccessfully, to shift the start from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. What some have called the greatest sports moment of the century wound up on tape delay.

But McKay was not a spoilsport, saying: ''The events you're going to be seeing tonight have been completed. It may be that many millions of you know the results. However, we said at the beginning we would not tip the results.''

The most striking thing about the game, to be replayed tonight at 9 o'clock Eastern time on ESPN Classic, is how refreshingly clean it looks. No on-ice or dasherboard ads, no continuous score and clock, few graphics, no behind-the-goal cameras, no rinkside reporters and few crowd shots (among them, one of Jamie Farr).

The game's one unnatural additive: blue dye to make the ice more telegenic.

The director Ron Harrison, a veteran of 15 years at ''Hockey Night in Canada,'' used three cameras to tell the evolving drama. It was enough. ''It was basically 'Hockey Night,' '' he said. ''Stick with the story.''

He received only one instruction from Roone Arledge, then the president of ABC Sports. ''He wanted to see the puck, that's all,'' Harrison said.

The broadcast is also remarkable for the deftness of its announcers, Al Michaels and Ken Dryden, who was especially valuable in describing the American team's defensive lapses. Michaels had called one hockey game before the '80 Winter Games -- at the '72 Winter Olympics in Sapporo -- and Dryden had called none.

''If I hadn't grown up as a hockey fan, I'd have been worried,'' Michaels said. ''But I knew the game, understood it and loved the game, and by the time we called the U.S.-Soviet game, we'd done 14 or 15 games that week.''

Michaels and Dryden practiced more by playing a tabletop hockey game in their hotel room. Without much else to do, they familiarized themselves with the foreign names playing for coming opponents of the American team.

''We played it every night,'' said Arthur Kaminsky, Dryden's lawyer and hotel roommate. ''Michaels is saying, 'Kasatonov to Krutov to Kharlamov.' ''

Michaels recalled: ''Dryden was the most book-smart athlete I've ever worked with, yet he played this muck-muck style of tabletop hockey. I'm trying to play Soviet-style offense and he's just whamming the rod of his defenseman to knock my goalie off his hinge."

Blogger Chad Morgan:

One of the first memories I have of watching sports with my father, was sitting in the kitchen of our home in Virginia. We had one of them small black and white GE televisions that you hooked with the rabbit ear antennas. We only get like three of four stations on it. One of them was ABC and back then they were the station that would carry the coverage of the Winter and Summer Olympics.

That first memory I have was sitting around that television and watching one of the most action packed games that have ever been played in American history. The 1980 Lake Placid Games was the site of the infamous United States upset over the powerhouse ice hockey team from the Soviet Union. The Americans came back and won 4-3 and would make Al Micheals a legend in sports broadcasting with his famous line during the closing seconds of the game: 'Do You Believe In Miracles'.

...

All I can say is that you had to be there. The state the country was in and to be able to beat the Soviets with who we were having so much problems with at the time, the victory was the sweetest in all of Olympic Sports. Those days are long gone and I dare say that we will ever get to expierience them again.

 

[wikkidpissah]

16.12 Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb, movie

best movie ever made. that a satire can be as powerful, bombastic & hilarious almost 50 yrs after it was made is as much a testament to the consumate skill of the greatest moviemaker who ever lived, Stanley Kubrick, as it is an indictment of how riduculous those who would decide for us continue to be.

 

[sinatravolta]

Call me crazy, but I find it odd that 6 Beethoven compositions have been picked and only 1 by Mozart?

 

[Abrantes]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Call me crazy, but I find it odd that 6 Beethoven compositions have been picked and only 1 by Mozart?

Well, when you take into account that Beethoven's genuis has yet to be truly understood still, and Mozart was a talentless hack, it's pretty easy to see why.

 

[Postradamus]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

nothing artistic or great about the airing of a sporting eventMake the Miracle a WC? or perhaps a Sports Accomplishment?

 

[flysack]

16.15 Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel)

Be back in a sec for the write-up.

Interesting note about this -Milan Kundera has said the most fascinating thing about this novel is it doesn't have one single scene. It never stops its distanced narrative tone to slow things down and develop a true scene.

And yet, so many images stay with you. Such as the blood of Ursla's son running from his head down through the village in a stream until it ends up in her kitchen, announcing his death. Or the butterflies that appear when Remedios the Beauty ascends to heaven while folding laundry in the yard.

This novel is a like a grand mural painted by a Renaissance master.

Great pick, Abrantes.

 

[flysack]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

Seconded. I get the Superbowl because it's a recurring event, in a way a "series" with a single annual broadcast. But this? A hockey game?

 

[DCThunder]

Call me crazy, but I find it odd that 6 Beethoven compositions have been picked and only 1 by Mozart?

Well, when you take into account that Beethoven's genuis has yet to be truly understood still, and Mozart was a talentless hack, it's pretty easy to see why.

Beethoven = John Adams and Abe LincolnMozart = Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Ok, as the TV judge I'm going to need some help here. If we allow sporting events to count there - and I'm not making that call, I know - then my method of judging will be seriously scrutinized and so some conversation will help.

Assuming we allow these events in as TV Shows/productions. So, assumption made. They are going to be up against the best comedies and dramas and whatnot that TV ever delivered. Initially, to me, those shows should take precedent over sporting events. But, that isn't fair to sporting events, especially the Super Bowl and the Miracle on Ice. So, I need to bump them up to make sure fairness is accounted for.

Yet, when I step back - just me, my opinion - I consider sports as a form of entertainment. Sure, I love the purety of sport and the records and the majesty and the history and everything that a "purist" or "true fan" loves and makes fun of other people for not understanding. But, it's still entertainment. Our civilization stopped throwing people into an arena with animals to fight to death long ago and this was our replacement. Therefore, there is nothing more real about sports to me then, say, Seinfeld. One is an entertaining escape where my more base desires of competition and blood can be delivered in safety from my home. The other is an entertaining escape where my more base desires of comedy and understanding the world around me is at some level a joke can be delivered in safety from my home so I don't say or do something inappropriate in public.

Now, here's my further caveat. TV and our society are changing. To me, reality TV and the ever growing pornography of horror movies is taking us back to a desire to get back into the arena with the lions and the gladiators. We want more "real" entertainment, even if it is staged. We want that colussuem back. Reality TV has taken over the artform. True dramas are even harder to come by now because of it. And when a show becomes a hit despite the reality wall in front of it, it is saturated to the point of overexposure where there are 5 or 6 spinoffs all on TV at the same time, while the original is in syndication on at least 4 networks.

So, if reality TV is that important to the culture now, then isn't sport just a variation of that theme, mixed with the production possibilities of the dramas and the comedies? And if so, should those events really rank as equals to the greats drama and comedy? I think so. If these assumptions hold.

So, the point. If these sporting events are allowed - then to me, they are a form of reality TV mixed with the production capabilities of "regular" TV that sets them apart from a typical regular run of the mill sporting event. A weekly Bengals Titans game will not be drafted, but the Super Bowl does stand out - and the production of it, the spectacle and the TV control it has make it draftable. If this is the case, then I can understand the feeling that the Super Bowl would be a top 3 pick - and not for nothing, but the Miracle on Ice may be up there as well.

But then that creates a problem where the TV category becomes a race to the biggest spectacle events on TV, which I think is the opposite of the intent of the category. And so I wonder if I should punish those picks accordingly. Which brings me back to my original feeling at the beginning of the post.

Any insight?

 

[Postradamus]

I'm guessing tim is gone so here goes:

16.18- Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major - Composition

Everyone here knows this tune either from a film, wedding, or wherever. One of the most played, re-worked, most used classics of all time. It never fails to uplift my spirit into another realm of relaxation and my worries melt from my hardened heart.

Original version

Rock version

Wiki<<cool stuff in this one

Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major, or more formally Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo (Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo), is one of the most famous pieces of music by Johann Pachelbel. It was written in or around 1680, during the Baroque period, as a piece of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo, but has since been arranged for a wide variety of ensembles. The Canon was originally paired with a gigue in the same key, although this composition is not regularly performed or recorded today.

The piece, whose score was discovered and first published in the 1920s, and first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler[1], is particularly well known for its chord progression, and is played at weddings and included on classical music compilation CDs, along with other famous Baroque pieces such as Air on the G String by J. S. Bach (BWV 1068). It became very popular in the late 1970s through a famous recording by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra. A non-original viola pizzicato part is also commonly added (in a string orchestra or quartet setting) when a harpsichord or organ player is not used to improvise harmonies over the bass line. American film director Robert Redford used the piece as the main theme for his 1980 Academy Award-winning film Ordinary People.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

And a follow up on the long winded post. The top 10 rated television shows in history, if I recall, are 9 super bowls and the final episode of MASH. If anyone wishes to use ratings as a description and explanation of the picks taken, then doesn't that then require the Super Bowl to be allowed accordingly? But if so, then why is the Super Bowl 1 thing. Why not 44 separate things? But I'm not sure any other true shows would work that way either.

This is not easy. I'm hungry too.

 

[krista4]

Don't know if I've come up yet, but if not, I will make the pick. Got out of my meeting much earlier than expected. Fennis, stand down.

 

[rodg12]

I'm guessing tim is gone so here goes:

16.18- Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major - Composition

Everyone here knows this tune either from a film, wedding, or wherever. One of the most played, re-worked, most used classics of all time. It never fails to uplift my spirit into another realm of relaxation and my worries melt from my hardened heart.

Original version

Rock version

Wiki<<cool stuff in this one

Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major, or more formally Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo (Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo), is one of the most famous pieces of music by Johann Pachelbel. It was written in or around 1680, during the Baroque period, as a piece of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo, but has since been arranged for a wide variety of ensembles. The Canon was originally paired with a gigue in the same key, although this composition is not regularly performed or recorded today.

The piece, whose score was discovered and first published in the 1920s, and first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler[1], is particularly well known for its chord progression, and is played at weddings and included on classical music compilation CDs, along with other famous Baroque pieces such as Air on the G String by J. S. Bach (BWV 1068). It became very popular in the late 1970s through a famous recording by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra. A non-original viola pizzicato part is also commonly added (in a string orchestra or quartet setting) when a harpsichord or organ player is not used to improvise harmonies over the bass line. American film director Robert Redford used the piece as the main theme for his 1980 Academy Award-winning film Ordinary People.

Re-pick. Norwood took this in the 10th round.

 

[Postradamus]

I'm guessing tim is gone so here goes:

16.18- Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major - Composition

Everyone here knows this tune either from a film, wedding, or wherever. One of the most played, re-worked, most used classics of all time. It never fails to uplift my spirit into another realm of relaxation and my worries melt from my hardened heart.

Original version

Rock version

Wiki<<cool stuff in this one

Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major, or more formally Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo (Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo), is one of the most famous pieces of music by Johann Pachelbel. It was written in or around 1680, during the Baroque period, as a piece of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo, but has since been arranged for a wide variety of ensembles. The Canon was originally paired with a gigue in the same key, although this composition is not regularly performed or recorded today.

The piece, whose score was discovered and first published in the 1920s, and first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler[1], is particularly well known for its chord progression, and is played at weddings and included on classical music compilation CDs, along with other famous Baroque pieces such as Air on the G String by J. S. Bach (BWV 1068). It became very popular in the late 1970s through a famous recording by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra. A non-original viola pizzicato part is also commonly added (in a string orchestra or quartet setting) when a harpsichord or organ player is not used to improvise harmonies over the bass line. American film director Robert Redford used the piece as the main theme for his 1980 Academy Award-winning film Ordinary People.

Re-pick. Norwood took this in the 10th round.

damnit Norwood!

 

[Fennis]

I'm guessing tim is gone so here goes:

16.18- Johann Pachelbel - Canon in D Major - Composition

Everyone here knows this tune either from a film, wedding, or wherever. One of the most played, re-worked, most used classics of all time. It never fails to uplift my spirit into another realm of relaxation and my worries melt from my hardened heart.

Original version

Rock version

Wiki<<cool stuff in this one

Pachelbel's Canon, also known as Canon in D major, or more formally Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo (Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo), is one of the most famous pieces of music by Johann Pachelbel. It was written in or around 1680, during the Baroque period, as a piece of chamber music for three violins and basso continuo, but has since been arranged for a wide variety of ensembles. The Canon was originally paired with a gigue in the same key, although this composition is not regularly performed or recorded today.

The piece, whose score was discovered and first published in the 1920s, and first recorded in 1940 by Arthur Fiedler[1], is particularly well known for its chord progression, and is played at weddings and included on classical music compilation CDs, along with other famous Baroque pieces such as Air on the G String by J. S. Bach (BWV 1068). It became very popular in the late 1970s through a famous recording by the Jean-François Paillard chamber orchestra. A non-original viola pizzicato part is also commonly added (in a string orchestra or quartet setting) when a harpsichord or organ player is not used to improvise harmonies over the bass line. American film director Robert Redford used the piece as the main theme for his 1980 Academy Award-winning film Ordinary People.

Re-pick. Norwood took this in the 10th round.

but good value in the 16th

 

[krista4]

16.15 Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel)

Be back in a sec for the write-up.

I wondered when this would go. Fantastic pick.

 

[krista4]

16.12 Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb, movie

best movie ever made. that a satire can be as powerful, bombastic & hilarious almost 50 yrs after it was made is as much a testament to the consumate skill of the greatest moviemaker who ever lived, Stanley Kubrick, as it is an indictment of how riduculous those who would decide for us continue to be.

Niiiiiiiice.

 

[Genedoc]

And a follow up on the long winded post. The top 10 rated television shows in history, if I recall, are 9 super bowls and the final episode of MASH. If anyone wishes to use ratings as a description and explanation of the picks taken, then doesn't that then require the Super Bowl to be allowed accordingly? But if so, then why is the Super Bowl 1 thing. Why not 44 separate things? But I'm not sure any other true shows would work that way either.This is not easy. I'm hungry too.

Here's my very abbreviated opinion. I'm all for people being creative and drafting things like the Superbowl or a sporting event as a TV show. I like thinking outside of the box. HOWEVER, thinking outside the box is a big risk - you may hit a HR, you may miss by a mile. If you want to swing for the fences in R12, 14, 16 of a 60 round draft, be my guest. I will not be. I'll be pretty firmly planted inside the box for probably at least the first 80% of the draft. Were I ranking TV shows as an art form and someone presented an argument for the Miracle on Ice, I'd be impressed with their creativity, but it would not grade out well at all. In short, I'm for letting pretty much anything be drafted anywhere and leaving the judges to sort things out. You want to make an argument for "I'm too Sexy" as a poem, be my guest - just know you're going to have to present a really strong, convincing argument or risk getting punished by the judges.

 

[krista4]

And a follow up on the long winded post. The top 10 rated television shows in history, if I recall, are 9 super bowls and the final episode of MASH. If anyone wishes to use ratings as a description and explanation of the picks taken, then doesn't that then require the Super Bowl to be allowed accordingly? But if so, then why is the Super Bowl 1 thing. Why not 44 separate things? But I'm not sure any other true shows would work that way either.This is not easy. I'm hungry too.

Here's my very abbreviated opinion. I'm all for people being creative and drafting things like the Superbowl or a sporting event as a TV show. I like thinking outside of the box. HOWEVER, thinking outside the box is a big risk - you may hit a HR, you may miss by a mile. If you want to swing for the fences in R12, 14, 16 of a 60 round draft, be my guest. I will not be. I'll be pretty firmly planted inside the box for probably at least the first 80% of the draft. Were I ranking TV shows as an art form and someone presented an argument for the Miracle on Ice, I'd be impressed with their creativity, but it would not grade out well at all. In short, I'm for letting pretty much anything be drafted anywhere and leaving the judges to sort things out. You want to make an argument for "I'm too Sexy" as a poem, be my guest - just know you're going to have to present a really strong, convincing argument or risk getting punished by the judges.

Very .

 

[Postradamus]

OKay I'm equally excited about this pick.

The opening riff started what we know as modern rock'n'roll. It's influence is unrivaled in the rock world and it still is a rocking tune to this day. Rock.

(BL dramatic spacing)

Deep down in Louisiana, close to New Orleans,

Way back up in the woods among the evergreens,

There stood a log cabin made of earth an' wood,

Where lived a country boy, named, Johnny B. Goode,

Who never, ever learned to read or write so well,

But he could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell.

Go-go, go, Johnny, go.

Go, go, Johnny, go.

Go, go, Johnny, go.

Go, go, Johnny, go.

Go,

 

[BobbyLayne]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

You may recall Doug B was the only member of the triumvirate who thought the Super Bowl should not be allowed. In fact, I believe he said it was a very easy rejection for him personally, without any debate because it was so obvious.It's in. Pandora's Box opened.

Nicklaus 1986 Comeback at the Masters is on my short list, along with Tiger Woods 1997 win at Augusta. Oh this is going to be fun now.

 

[Doug B]

If you want to swing for the fences in R12, 14, 16 of a 60 round draft, be my guest. I will not be. I'll be pretty firmly planted inside the box for probably at least the first 80% of the draft.

Were I ranking TV shows as an art form and someone presented an argument for the Miracle on Ice, I'd be impressed with their creativity, but it would not grade out well at all.

In short, I'm for letting pretty much anything be drafted anywhere and leaving the judges to sort things out. You want to make an argument for "I'm too Sexy" as a poem, be my guest - just know you're going to have to present a really strong, convincing argument or risk getting punished by the judges.

Not a fan of this argument -- picks should either be allowed or disallowed. Make the hard calls early and often. Narrow down categories that were poorly articulated at the onset.

 

[sinatravolta]

Call me crazy, but I find it odd that 6 Beethoven compositions have been picked and only 1 by Mozart?

Well, when you take into account that Beethoven's genuis has yet to be truly understood still, and Mozart was a talentless hack, it's pretty easy to see why.

well actually looks like 2 have been picked. obviously you're going to do fantastic in the music categories.

 

[Doug B]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

You may recall Doug B was the only member of the triumvirate who thought the Super Bowl should not be allowed. In fact, I believe he said it was a very easy rejection for him personally, without any debate because it was so obvious.It's in. Pandora's Box opened.

IMHO, it's not too late to roll back the carpet and strike down the Super Bowl pick. It's an internet draft, we can be flexible like that.

 

[Genedoc]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

You may recall Doug B was the only member of the triumvirate who thought the Super Bowl should not be allowed. In fact, I believe he said it was a very easy rejection for him personally, without any debate because it was so obvious.It's in. Pandora's Box opened.

Nicklaus 1986 Comeback at the Masters is on my short list, along with Tiger Woods 1997 win at Augusta. Oh this is going to be fun now.

That's fine with me - you're drafting the TV show, not the athletic achievement. You want to compare a good year at the Masters to M*A*S*H, be my guest - I'd just expect a 1 or a 2 for a score.

 

[krista4]

Call me crazy, but I find it odd that 6 Beethoven compositions have been picked and only 1 by Mozart?

Well, when you take into account that Beethoven's genuis has yet to be truly understood still, and Mozart was a talentless hack, it's pretty easy to see why.

well actually looks like 2 have been picked. obviously you're going to do fantastic in the music categories.

Four Mozart pieces have been picked.

 

[krista4]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

You may recall Doug B was the only member of the triumvirate who thought the Super Bowl should not be allowed. In fact, I believe he said it was a very easy rejection for him personally, without any debate because it was so obvious.It's in. Pandora's Box opened.

Nicklaus 1986 Comeback at the Masters is on my short list, along with Tiger Woods 1997 win at Augusta. Oh this is going to be fun now.

That's fine with me - you're drafting the TV show, not the athletic achievement. You want to compare a good year at the Masters to M*A*S*H, be my guest - I'd just expect a 1 or a 2 for a score.

Exactly. And this is why I could see the Super Bowl being rated much more highly than the Miracle on Ice (though personally I wouldn't rank either highly).

 

[DCThunder]

Much like the Super Bowl, I ain't down with the Miracle on Ice broadcast as a Great Work. I just don't get it.

You may recall Doug B was the only member of the triumvirate who thought the Super Bowl should not be allowed. In fact, I believe he said it was a very easy rejection for him personally, without any debate because it was so obvious.It's in. Pandora's Box opened.

Nicklaus 1986 Comeback at the Masters is on my short list, along with Tiger Woods 1997 win at Augusta. Oh this is going to be fun now.

Since EVERY sporting event is on TV somewhere, this will end badly.

 

[Bonzai]

16.14 (314th pick) - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Song

The Rolling Stones

It's a great pick.

 

[rodg12]

16.19 - The Joker in The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger - Acting Performance

Simply outstanding, IMO. Ranks up there with the best performances of all-time. He owned that character and stole the movie. Very sad that this was his last work.

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[Postradamus]

16.19 - The Joker in The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger - Acting Performance

Simply outstanding, IMO. Ranks up there with the best performances of all-time. He owned that character and stole the movie. Very sad that this was his last work.

Oh you mother Seriously considered taking this. Nice pick.

 

[krista4]

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

The first words of a book that's a genuine pleasure to read, no matter how many times you pick it up. The novel has a rich and beautiful complexity and texture like none other.

Her name is the first word of the novel and the last word of the novel.

16.20 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Novel)

 

[El Floppo]

Remote floppo reporting in from Brooklyn.

Re:TV sports- what made miracle on ice and the other great moments in sport great was less the broadcast and more (all) the actual sporting event. They should be allowed to be drafted, but their greatness as TV is close to bupkis, IMO. Glad I'm not the judge.

By the way, wikkid's going to pay.

 

[sinatravolta]

Call me crazy, but I find it odd that 6 Beethoven compositions have been picked and only 1 by Mozart?

Well, when you take into account that Beethoven's genuis has yet to be truly understood still, and Mozart was a talentless hack, it's pretty easy to see why.

well actually looks like 2 have been picked. obviously you're going to do fantastic in the music categories.

Four Mozart pieces have been picked.

Excellent - you are right. I initially searched by name and now I see they weren't listed in most cases. Still - 3 operas and only 1 other composition. I would think the 40th symphony, 21st piano concerto, requiem and others might go soon.

 

[rodg12]

16.19 - The Joker in The Dark Knight - Heath Ledger - Acting Performance

Simply outstanding, IMO. Ranks up there with the best performances of all-time. He owned that character and stole the movie. Very sad that this was his last work.

Glad you didn't. This was the third pick I was debating with my last two and really, really hoped it would make it back to me.

 

[Genedoc]

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

The first words of a book that's a genuine pleasure to read, no matter how many times you pick it up. The novel has a rich and beautiful complexity and texture like none other.

Her name is the first word of the novel and the last word of the novel.

16.20 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Novel)

Great, great pick. Wouldn't have made it back to you.

 

[krista4]

Call me crazy, but I find it odd that 6 Beethoven compositions have been picked and only 1 by Mozart?

Well, when you take into account that Beethoven's genuis has yet to be truly understood still, and Mozart was a talentless hack, it's pretty easy to see why.

well actually looks like 2 have been picked. obviously you're going to do fantastic in the music categories.

Four Mozart pieces have been picked.

Excellent - you are right. I initially searched by name and now I see they weren't listed in most cases. Still - 3 operas and only 1 other composition.

I agree with you, but could you please remove the spotlighting from your post?

 

[rodg12]

Remote floppo reporting in from Brooklyn.

Re:TV sports- what made miracle on ice and the other great moments in sport great was less the broadcast and more (all) the actual sporting event. They should be allowed to be drafted, but their greatness as TV is close to bupkis, IMO. Glad I'm not the judge.

By the way, wikkid's going to pay.

I'm in total agreement with this.

 

[krista4]

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

The first words of a book that's a genuine pleasure to read, no matter how many times you pick it up. The novel has a rich and beautiful complexity and texture like none other.

Her name is the first word of the novel and the last word of the novel.

16.20 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (Novel)

Great, great pick. Wouldn't have made it back to you.

Whew. I've thought about it for at least the last three picks I've made and kept putting it off. So glad I didn't this time--I desperately wanted this. Glad there's another fan here.

 

[El Floppo]

Atomic theory?! ...

I hate myself for not taking lolita or Dr strangelove.

AND I'm still in frigging Brooklyn