Tasty leftovers

- Sam Cassell picked up two technical fouls and was ejected from the Celtics win over the Orlando Magic on Monday, 12/1. I found this noteworthy/humorous because that gives him two more technical fouls that total minutes played (zero) in 19 games this year. He's essentially now scored one point for the Magic while not playing in a game for the Celtics. My head hurts.

- I can't wait for the NY Giants to lose a game so I can point out a key turnover or play and say "boy, they really shot themselves in the leg."

- The Indianapolis Colts could very, very easily be 5-7 right now, except they're 8-4 and are going to turn in the weakest 12-4 year I've ever seen in my life. Yet, I can also very easily see a scenario in which they knock off Denver and then Tennessee in the playoffs and meet the Steelers in the AFC Championship game. The AFC wouldn't have stood a chance if Tom Brady hadn't gone down 7 minutes into the season. This still makes me sick.

- I told one of my now multitude of bosses today that I spent 7 hours, 21 minutes in the car driving from Framingham, MA back to Nyack, NY on Sunday. She proceeded to tell me about her trip from Vermont to Long Island, back out to Rockland County again. Conny 1, Nathan 0.

- I've said this many times before, but I could eat turkey and stuffing sandwiches until the end of my days.

- Turns out James Bond drinks Coors Light.

- So the White Sox traded Javier Vazquez (12-16, 4.67), who imploded last year when Ozzie Guillen challenged him to step up in crunch time, and Boone Logan (4-4, 5.70 in relief) to the Braves for Jo-Jo Reyes (3-11, 5.81), Brett Lillibridge (.220, 4 HR in AAA), and another prospect. I thought if the Red Sox found a way to dump Julio Lugo it would be the best "taking out each other's trash" trade of the offseason, but I don't know if you can top this one.

- I went candlepin bowling last week and was thinking about the seemingly random phenomenon known only to people from Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. According to Wikipedia, the most reliable source on the planet, the highest ever sanctioned score is a 245 out of 300. I've often wondered why candlepin never caught on anywhere else, and whether it would if I were to open a random candlepin bowling alley somewhere. To continue this completely directionless bowling thought, I have never been and have no idea where to find duckpin bowling, but think I should seek it out sometime. Or what if I opened a bowling alley that offered all three styles? That would be different.