Comments on: Montana Blog Poll

by: granny

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:08:00 +0000

Thank-you Moos and thank God that it wasn’t me voting and not remembering!

by: Anonymous

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:39:00 +0000

Sorry Wulfgar, I had lost count–we don’t hear much about NAIA schools down here in the Phoenix Metro area (the place is too busy trying–I repeat, trying–to be big league), and I couldn’t remember whether the Saints had gotten a three-peat or not.

Next year–One For The Thumb!!!

Kirk

by: Wulfgar

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:20:00 +0000

Kirk, a quick but VERY important correction:

The Fighting Saints of Carroll College are going for their 4th straight NAIA title in a row. They face off with their in-state rivals, the Montana Tech Orediggers, this Saturday in the semi-finals.

by: Montana Jones

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:06:00 +0000

Thanks!

by: Anonymous

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:44:00 +0000

Moos, as we Anglos say down here: Grassy Ass.

The local radical rag here in the Phoenix area, the Phoenix New Times (which just bought the Village Voice in one of those rare occaisions where a company west of the Hudson bought a NY media comapny) has an annual “Best of Phoenix” issue (which I consider one of the better oxymorns, right up there with “Military Intelligence”). A few years back, they came up with this gem:

Best Arizona Cardinal:

That was it–in its entirety.

Another Favorite: Favorite Dog–Sheba (Honorable Mentions: SugarBear, Ty and Lucky.)

Kirk

by: Hillbilly Mom

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:18:00 +0000

What’s the best doctor’s office for glove balloons?

by: Anonymous

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:11:00 +0000

You are right. I wasn’t intending it to sound nasty at all. Hmmmm! Better watch what I say, huh? Maggie dinged her left rear paw thursday night doing who knows what. She would hardly move at all. She is now on all 4’s again but still is favoring that foot. Trying to get a border collie to rest and recup is nigh impossible. Linn

by: KarbonKountyMoos

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:29:00 +0000

David - Ha!

Wulfgar - Gracias y lo siento.

Kirk - My favorite Montana expat commenter!

Linn - I know that wasn’t supposed to sound nasty - but it does!

by: Anonymous

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:15:00 +0000

Good lineup, Karen. I read your blog almost daily. I also stop in at Sarpy Sam’s, and am starting to read Spun and Spinning more, especially the guitar and Stella posts. Tony still hasn’t figured I really did meet him at the brewery fundraiser. In case you are reading this, Tony — got home and realized my son’s jembay is the same color as yours, but not as big. Linn

by: Anonymous

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:01:00 +0000

Since I haven’t read most of the blogs (this one and Ed’s City Lights are the only ones I read on a daily basis, and a few others I drop in on from time to time–although now that I’ve got DSL, and had a few kinks in it straightened out, I might take in a few more), I’ll pass on the Blog Poll. However, I’ll put my 10 billion pesos (with the latest exchange rate, they should be worth 2 cents…) in on Moos’ bonus round:

Best Montana college football team: Carroll College’s Fighting Saints (going for their third NAIA title in a row).

Best Montana High School football team: The Golden Bears of Billings West High School (I’ll admit to bias, being a West High alumn–but we were never good at football when I went there. Basketball was the dominant sport in the late 60s and early to mid 70s under Coach Toby Kangas)

Favorate NFL team: THE Broncos. (Living in Mesa, I sincerely pray we get a professional team here in Arizona some day)

Best Montana college basketball team: right now I’d say the Lady Grizzlies of the UofM (you didn’t specify gender, Moos)

Favorite NBA team: the Utah Jazz (Because I have a soft spot in my heart for oxymorons, and because the Jazz have no hoodlums on the squad–which may be why the don’t win much in today’s National Bricklayers Association. The Suns come in a close second)

Favorite NHL team: The Phoenix Coyotes (Especially since Gretzky is their coach; my most prized possessions is a picture I had taken several years back with Lord Stanley’s Cup. Moos’ favorite team won it four straight times in the early 80s–the NHL’s last great dynasty–and Gretz has his name on the silverware four times as well. However, I venture the my picture will be the only one with somebody in a Coyotes jersey with the Stanley Cup in my lifetime)

Greatest Montana Sports Hero: Dave McNally (who not only had a great career pitching for the Orioles, but was part fo the arbitrator’s decision that freed ballplayers from the reserve clause) (As Moos well knows, Joe Montana was the Greatest Pennsylvania Sports Hero)

Best Montana Politician: Mike Mansfield (Tommy Frank Mar was perhaps the best Political Character of all time, along with J. Hugo Aronson, a/k/a “The Galloping Swede” and Williard Fraser, but for his work for the country as a whole I’d put Mike at the top–he was so respected by both sides of the aisle that when Reagan was elected president, he asked Mike–who had been appointed Ambassador to Japan by Jimmy Carter–to stay on, which is unheard of in the foriegn service.)

An Honorable Mention in the Best Montana Politician should go to Jennette Rankin–whether you disagreed with her votes against war (she was one of only a handful to oppose America’s entry in to WWI, and the only vote against going to war with Japan after Pearl Harbor) or not (and many did, which cost her at the next elections after those two votes), you have to admire somebody who had the courage to vote her convictions (something rare in politics these days). (BTW, Politcs comes from the words Poly, meaning many, and tics–meaning blood-sucking creatures.)

Kirk