Commentary Thread for Premium Top-Shelf Tweets

[Sea Goat]

Usually I rent a house on Cape Cod in August. This year we tried something different (I'm in Westport, MA today). We hopped all over Connecticut, Rhode Island and south soast Mass. We have been blown away by Madison, CT, Hammonasset, East Lyme, Mystic and Mystic Seaport, Stonington, Watch Hill RI, Misquamicut, Narragansett, Newport and Second Beach, Little Compton and South Shore Beach, and tomorrow we visit old friends in Providence. We are blown away by the beauty. Those jamokes in Louisville can't hold a candle to this.

I haved plyed the waters south of New England for decades. I been up and down the east coast from Key West to Eastport, Me. There is no finer boating than the eastern sound, Sag Harbor, Montauk out to Block, Newport and the Elizabeth Islands. Let me tell you it beats the Ohio river.

 

[billybud]

My wife and I ran a 35 ft sailboat out of Florida for a couple of decades....have circumnavigated Florida from Panama City to Key West to St. Augustine...also have cruised to the Bahamas a couple of times. You can see the coral heads and water depth in daytime running.

Never cruised New England..we thought about a rental but went to Tortola instead.

New England is a beautiful cruising ground....I often wondered about the rocky ledges vs running your keel into a sand bank...I crewed a boat that went on the Isla Mujeres-Tampa run...the coral was no problem.

 

[Adios]

I'm not suppose to drink because of the medication l'm on but I've reached the what the hell point.

Don't drink. Use weed. Eat some, whatever. Just don't drink.

What's with all the autobiographies?

 

[Chin Diesel]

My wife and I ran a 35 ft sailboat out of Florida for a couple of decades....have circumnavigated Florida from Panama City to Key West to St. Augustine...also have cruised to the Bahamas a couple of times. You can see the coral heads and water depth in daytime running.

Never cruised New England..we thought about a rental but went to Tortola instead.

New England is a beautiful cruising ground....I often wondered about the rocky ledges vs running your keel into a sand bank...I crewed a boat that went on the Isla Mujeres-Tampa run...the coral was no problem.

I have a semi-bucket list desire to do the lap around 1/2 the US along eastern seaboard, Great Lakes, Mississippi and Intercoastal. If things work out right, I'd do a lot of leg work trying to make it happen.

 

[uconnell]

Don't drink. Use weed. Eat some, whatever. Just don't drink.

What's with all the autobiographies?

Gotta post about something other than CR, The Election, Illegals, or would you prefer that.
Can't do weed and I'm only talking about 1drink.

 

[Sea Goat]

I have a semi-bucket list desire to do the lap around 1/2 the US along eastern seaboard, Great Lakes, Mississippi and Intercoastal. If things work out right, I'd do a lot of leg work trying to make it happen.

It's called the Great Loop" - google same - A buddy of mine just returned to CT after a year on the water. Left CT in Summer of 15, through "Hell's Gate", up the Hudson, to the canals etc. He "crossed his wake" off the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan in mid- June. He spent the winter in Key West. He had "NO FUN", LOL. All you need is to be retired or own your own "runs by itself business".

 

[mavblues]

Hmmm....

You guys seem to have an awful lot in common with a certain Twitter-er (Tweeter?).

Either of you have a wife that does roller derby?

 

[Chin Diesel]

It's called the Great Loop" - google same - A buddy of mine just returned to CT after a year on the water. Left CT in Summer of 15, through "Hell's Gate", up the Hudson, to the canals etc. He "crossed his wake" off the Battery at the southern tip of Manhattan in mid- June. He spent the winter in Key West. He had "NO FUN", LOL. All you need is to be retired or own your own "runs by itself business".

I've done some reading on it. I'm intrigued. It's at least 20 years feom happening so I have time.

 

[SixRings]

I live in Buffalo. Trust me, I know its charms. It has them. For instance, cycling, which I do a lot of, is much better in Buffalo than it could be in Connecticut. But this area wins over so many places I've lived in. Took my kids on the Carousl in Watch Hill, and we ate at the Annex. Went down to Horseneck beach today, then ate at the Blount Clam Shack in Warren RI. Every corner of this place is a mystery for us. So glad I'm doing this as a 40s something adult, because in my 20s I spent many a booze soaked night in Misquamicut and honestly it is all hazy and I surely didn't know where I was.

What I like about Rhode Island is this: has all the charm of New England, but perhaps more beauty than the Mass. coast, but it doesn't have the pretensiousness. It is rough around the edges--which is a good thing. None of that Yankee stuckupedness.

I disagree about the cycling. The Northwest corner of CT is fantastically beautiful, quiet roads, plenty of challenging climbs and many little New England town stores for breaks. I lived in many different areas including the GTO, which I know is not Buffalo, but this is my favorite for cycling, other than central Vermont. But I like the hills. I like 100ft of climbing per mile rides and I can get them all day here.

 

[upstater]

I disagree about the cycling. The Northwest corner of CT is fantastically beautiful, quiet roads, plenty of challenging climbs and many little New England town stores for breaks. I lived in many different areas including the GTO, which I know is not Buffalo, but this is my favorite for cycling, other than central Vermont. But I like the hills. I like 100ft of climbing per mile rides and I can get them all day here.

Yes, I should have clarified that I was cycling around the coast, not northwest or even northeast.

I get you about the hills. South of Buffalo we have Appalachian foothills, so it's all uphill. Ride home is downhill of course.

 

[The Viking]

You guys should start a cycling thread

 

[Husky25]

You guys should start a cycling thread

In all fairness there is a stationary bike for warming up behind the bench. I don't think anyone has tweeted about it, or made it a condition precedent for a Big XII invite, but still...

 

[sportsart]

Whaler11 meet Butch.

 

[sportsart]

@Fishy There's a frickin free for all going on. Do your frickin job man.

 

[Adios]

These last two posts belong in the shaming thread.

 

[HuskyHawk]

So the new Blauds story that he posted, knowing where UConn won't be going, does anyone have access? Does it have any useful info?

 

[TRest]

So the new Blauds story that he posted, knowing where UConn won't be going, does anyone have access? Does it have any useful info?

My best guess is he is trying to monetize his blog, and conference realignment rumors create traffic. For every "scoop" he may get, however, there is probably 25 posts of just his conjecture. The twitter rumor out there now, that I have seen a couple of places, is that the B12 adds 2 this time and then 2 more in a year. Why? To keep fan bases hoping that a rescue is on the way after they don't make the cut.

 

[Kolumbo]

The Blauds tweet first and foremost should be deleted from the premium-top-shelf thread. Any clown who wants to charge $20 a year to read his opinions....who pays these fees?!
The little blurb which is free: "But TMGcollegesports.com knows where the Huskies WILL NOT be playing." Let me save you the suspense. The Big 12.

 

[pepband99]

The Blauds tweet first and foremost should be deleted from the premium-top-shelf thread. Any clown who wants to charge $20 a year to read his opinions....who pays these fees?!
The little blurb which is free: "But TMGcollegesports.com knows where the Huskies WILL NOT be playing." Let me save you the suspense. The Big 12.

1) You're wrong about the blurb
2) Thank you for your interest in moderating the boneyard

 

[sportsart]

1) You're wrong about the blurb
2) Thank you for your interest in moderating the boneyard

So enlighten us if you know.

 

[Kolumbo]

1) You're wrong about the blurb
2) Thank you for your interest in moderating the boneyard

No Problem, and no offense. I just don't see it as an important tweet when no one can read it and there is a 0.5% chance he is saying anything original. Or is he?

 

[pepband99]

So enlighten us if you know.

LOL - it's in the thread I posted before "top shelfing" it, about 2 posts above you making fun of me for posting it. Good to see you're on point.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The Blauds tweet first and foremost should be deleted from the premium-top-shelf thread. Any clown who wants to charge $20 a year to read his opinions....who pays these fees?!
The little blurb which is free: "But TMGcollegesports.com knows where the Huskies WILL NOT be playing." Let me save you the suspense. The Big 12.

Yes, he's a washed up sportswriter trying to make a buck. I can't fault him. Is he "key"? Only in the sense that he absolutely has connections in the old Big East crowd, including one Mike Tranghese, who happens to acting as a consultant to UConn on CR matters. If he's talking about what the Big 12 will do, or B1G will do...he's got no sources. When he's talking about the Big East or UConn in this case, he may well have connections.

 

[whaler11]

So enlighten us if you know.

Maybe if you stopped playing internet police you wouldn't look like such a dope?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

So the new Blauds story that he posted, knowing where UConn won't be going, does anyone have access? Does it have any useful info?

The most useful info is Blauds is a .

 

[pepband99]

The most useful info is Blauds is a .

...Spartacus?

 

[Pudge]

My wife and I ran a 35 ft sailboat out of Florida for a couple of decades....have circumnavigated Florida from Panama City to Key West to St. Augustine...also have cruised to the Bahamas a couple of times. You can see the coral heads and water depth in daytime running.

Never cruised New England..we thought about a rental but went to Tortola instead.

New England is a beautiful cruising ground....I often wondered about the rocky ledges vs running your keel into a sand bank...I crewed a boat that went on the Isla Mujeres-Tampa run...the coral was no problem.

WTF?

 

[Kolumbo]

LOL - it's in the thread I posted before "top shelfing" it, about 2 posts above you making fun of me for posting it. Good to see you're on point.

so you posted Blaud's tweet in the premium-top-shelf-tweets thread, you are discussing it in this commentary-thread-for-premium-top-shelf-tweets, and we still don't know what the all-knowing Blauds is writing about. Fascinating, in my opinion. Let's see, UConn will NOT be playing in the ACC, B1G, SEC, PAC 12, Big 12, C-USA...

 

[TRest]

WTF?

I rented a Sunfish once and sailed it off Hawk's Nest Beach.

 

[HuskyHawk]

My wife and I ran a 35 ft sailboat out of Florida for a couple of decades....have circumnavigated Florida from Panama City to Key West to St. Augustine...also have cruised to the Bahamas a couple of times. You can see the coral heads and water depth in daytime running.

Never cruised New England..we thought about a rental but went to Tortola instead.

New England is a beautiful cruising ground....I often wondered about the rocky ledges vs running your keel into a sand bank...I crewed a boat that went on the Isla Mujeres-Tampa run...the coral was no problem.

Damn man. As if listening to "A Pirate looks at 40" doesn't make me melancholy enough. Not sure why it is in this thread though.