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Thrice

Sunday
October 15, 2006

As I sit here flipping between the Raiders/Broncos game and the Boise State/New Mexico State game, wondering why ESPN is continuing to job out Ron Franklin on these C-list games, I paid a visit to the CBS Sportsline website. A headline there cracked me up:

Why did the writer use the word thrice? Because "three times" would've made it go longer than one line, and brevity is important with internet headlines.

Thrice is a word that has long conjured up high comedy for my brother Matt and I. It goes back to the great Homer At The Bat episode of The Simpsons from February 1992 where C. Montgomery Burns said, "Not once, not twice, but thrice!" This, besides being my favorite episode of one of the all-time great TV shows, is a line that (for whatever reason) has stuck with us for the past 14+ years. Anything involving counting between us invariably leads to a thrice reference.

That's the long way of telling you that the use of it on Sportsline made me laugh.

The Titans beat the Redskins in Washington today for their first win. That was nice to see; Vince Young is already showing vast improvement over when I saw him in pre-season action. Plus, Travis Henry apparently got his groove back, posting by far his best numbers as a member of the Titans. I'm not saying he's back to being the guy who was so good in Buffalo... but it was nice to see.

If I don't hear any more news stories about Terrell Owens this year, I'll be happy. At least with the second most annoying sports trend of the year, the Barry Bonds HR chase, there's something tangible involved (albeit a record that will be forever tainted if Bonds captures it.)

Detroit is in the World Series, while St. Louis and the New York Mets are still battling it out for the NL pennant. A Tigers/Cardinals World Series would make me happy. The Cardinals have some great fans (and so do the Tigers, for that matter), and the baseball tradition involved there would add something special to the World Series. The two teams met in the 1967 World Series (which Detroit took in 7 games) and the 1934 World Series (which St. Louis won in 7.) If the two met up for a seven game World Series rubber match, I could go for that.

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