Bonus points to mrman226 for being the first to notice a new feature that I’ve been working on all week and rolled out late last night. Official announcement coming on Monday.
Another feature was launched late last night, but it hasn’t shown it’s face yet. Folks near the top of the WYG? Leaderboard will find it the most interesting. Keep an eye out.
Well, well, well. I wasn’t expecting much from the NBA playoffs this year. Once again I’m proved to be an idiot.
Sunday was solid with the Pistons forgetting that the playoffs had started, and Saturday was rockstar with the Suns/Spurs craziness (Duncan for 3? Really? Really?) and the “Man, I just want to punch somebody” tension in the Cavs/Wizards series. Oh yeah. And Gilbert Arenas’ video game length range. Ridiculous.
Folks might wonder what I do all day (other than watch sports), so here’s a quick recap of a couple features launched in the past couple days.
Wait, when did he say that?
I like strolling through the bleachers to check out shouts and roots for games that I can’t see, but sometimes it’s hard to tell why people are getting so fired up. Now you can see exactly what the score was and how much time was left when a stream of roots started coming in.
No, no, no, you’re supposed to like this page!
One of my biggest frustrations as a sports fan (and a lot of the motivation to start RUWT?) is how hard it is find out what games are on TV each night. Surprisingly (to me at least 🙂 ), the “Games on TV” page isn’t in the Top 5 for most viewed pages on the site, so I figured it needed some sprucing up. Usually pages like this would go into the Beta testing area first, but I figured it was good enough to launch right away.
And no, I’m not a designer. I just play one on the Internets.
Boy this took me a long time to get up. The combination of my rockstar coding skills, crazy travel, and that infernal IRS, streched the to-do list longer than usual. Yeah. Let’s blame the IRS.
After calculating the bonus points for picking correct Final Four games, much congrats to the top 5 users bigsexy, senorpepr, alamowx, lpickrell, and Militia who’ll each be getting a high quality (and handmade!) RUWT? T-shirt.
| Correct Picks | Bonus Points | Total Points | ||
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bigsexy | 50 | 1 | 51 |
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senorpepr | 49 | 2 | 51 |
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alamowx | 47 | 2 | 49 |
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lpickrell | 47 | – | 47 |
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Militia | 46 | 1 | 47 |
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DDrake | 45 | – | 45 |
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sparticis | 44 | 1 | 45 |
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BIGDAWG | 44 | 1 | 45 |
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McTool | 44 | 1 | 45 |
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bigbelly | 44 | 1 | 45 |
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Nuno | 43 | – | 43 |
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colguy | 42 | 1 | 43 |
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SuketoKetchi | 42 | – | 42 |
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shopgirl | 42 | – | 42 |
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bouch | 41 | 1 | 42 |
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anorexicivan | 41 | – | 41 |
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jemurray | 41 | – | 41 |
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kosukeson | 41 | – | 41 |
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SOLRAC | 40 | 1 | 41 |
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OICU812 | 39 | 1 | 40 |
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flynnwt | 39 | 1 | 40 |
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coolguy | 39 | – | 39 |
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mark | 38 | 1 | 39 |
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jo36 | 38 | 1 | 39 |
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FRUITCAKE | 36 | 1 | 37 |
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klong3 | 36 | – | 36 |
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FOOTBALL | 35 | 1 | 36 |
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virgilm | 34 | – | 34 |
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razor | 32 | – | 32 |
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Dodge298 | 31 | – | 31 |
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SUPERMAN | 30 | – | 30 |
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Pizznerkins | 30 | – | 30 |
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Heavymeddler | 30 | – | 30 |
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redsoxfan2133 | 28 | – | 28 |
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DaSaintFan | 27 | – | 27 |
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mrman226 | 24 | 3 | 27 |
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mack788 | 24 | – | 24 |
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RubberSoul | 24 | – | 24 |
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cos5000 | 24 | – | 24 |
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Pasta2000 | 24 | – | 24 |
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420fire | 23 | – | 23 |
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katieb | 21 | 2 | 23 |
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KNOWLEDGE | 22 | – | 22 |
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QUICKPICK | 20 | – | 20 |
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creede1 | 19 | – | 19 |
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marcman9 | 17 | – | 17 |
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Brother | 17 | – | 17 |
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LionO | 17 | – | 17 |
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bones | 16 | – | 16 |
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dalai | 16 | – | 16 |
Get your taxes done yet? Yeah, me neither.
On this crazy day we have crazy news from each of the Big 4.
NFL
ESPN will be running a two hour special on the 2009 NFL Schedule. Not the draft, but just the schedule. In April.
NBA
Riiiight, yeah I know you’re in the locker room celebrating Sixers, but I’m gonna need you to go ahead and come back out on the floor. And lose. Okay? That’d be great…
MLB
Front page news on all the papers while I was in New York last week. Front page. I’m serious.
NHL
Not sure if you caught the screen that Avery put on Brodeur this weekend (1:23 in), but Senior Executive Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations for the NHL Colin Campbell sure as heck didn’t. So enraged by Avery’s actics Colin added a new section to the NHL rulebook. Mid-Playoffs.
Today’s YTT (care of the chairman) brings me back, so I’m sharing some early athletic stats with all of you from my first (and only year) playing Little League:
– I played Catcher and couldn’t catch.
– I dropped every third strike and proceeded to either sail the throw into right field or peg the runner in the back—there was no in between.
– In one game I clocked one over the head of the Left Fielder for an inside-the-park home run. Coach moved me up in the batting order for the next game where I proceeded to strike out in every at bat.
– Everyone in the league got an award. Mine? Most Improved Player.
– We lost all every one of our games going into the season finale.
-But…
– In the last game (against another winless team), we scraped out a win, rushed the field, and piled on the pitcher. And it was awesome.
Hey everybody, look at me! I’m an idiot!
So it looks like I fatfingered my SQL query for the Pick-em’ Challenge’s latest update. My bad. 🙂
The leaderboard is fixed now.
And just like that College Basketball is about to leave us. It’s probably unfair, but it’s hard not to compare the craziness of the College Football season to College Basketball’s season. I had a feeling that the universe would restore balance and have tons of chalk to counteract the Football upsets, but who knew we’d have four #1s?
I think I’m still in mourning that Curry and Co. couldn’t continue the run, but I’m holding out hope that top seeds will make the Final Four more exciting. Eh. I’m skeptical.
3 games left, and they all count for double points. Get those picks in!
| Member | Correct Picks | |
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bigsexy | 49 |
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senorpepr | 47 |
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lpickrell | 47 |
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Militia | 45 |
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DDrake | 45 |
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alamowx | 45 |
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BIGDAWG | 43 |
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sparticis | 43 |
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McTool | 43 |
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bigbelly | 43 |
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Nuno | 43 |
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SuketoKetchi | 42 |
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shopgirl | 42 |
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colguy | 41 |
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jemurray | 41 |
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anorexicivan | 41 |
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kosukeson | 41 |
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bouch | 40 |
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SOLRAC | 39 |
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coolguy | 39 |
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OICU812 | 38 |
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flynnwt | 38 |
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mark | 37 |
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jo36 | 37 |
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klong3 | 36 |
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FRUITCAKE | 35 |
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FOOTBALL | 34 |
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virgilm | 34 |
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razor | 32 |
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Dodge298 | 31 |
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SUPERMAN | 30 |
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Heavymeddler | 30 |
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Pizznerkins | 30 |
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redsoxfan2133 | 28 |
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DaSaintFan | 27 |
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RubberSoul | 24 |
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cos5000 | 24 |
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Pasta2000 | 24 |
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mack788 | 24 |
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420fire | 23 |
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KNOWLEDGE | 22 |
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mrman226 | 21 |
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QUICKPICK | 20 |
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katieb | 19 |
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creede1 | 19 |
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Brother | 17 |
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marcman9 | 17 |
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LionO | 17 |
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bones | 16 |
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schin101 | 16 |
It has been weeks in the making, but there’s finally a new version of the RUWT? Sports Toolbar.
A few requested features were added including compatibility with Firefox 3’s new beta, taking up less space when the ticker is at the bottom of the browser, always listing the home team second, and adding College Hockey to the list of trackable sports.
I hate spending time on features that users can’t see, but I’ve spent weeks rearchitecting the toolbar to deal with it’s steady growth. So tell all your friends! I got scalability up the ying-yang! Or up the wazoo? I can never remember which one.
If you use Firefox or Flock, what are you waiting for? Get the toolbar now! If you already have the toolbar, help us spread the word by leaving us a review!
Katie: hey do you know what time the games are on saturday/sunday?
me: no, but i can find out
Katie: i tried looking on line but none of the places i saw listed times. just dates
me: good thing you know me 🙂
12:30 and 3p on saturday
Katie: seriously…you don’t know how many times a week i think that
me: 8a and 10:30a on sunday
Katie: coool thanks!!
me: no prob
Katie: got some plans i have to cancel again on saturday. oops!
me: 🙂 and that’s why you’re awesome. http://areyouwatchingthis.com/tv/stations/kgmb, if you forget
RUWT? is first and foremost a sports site, but the integration with TV listings is what makes it really special. Katieb IMed me this morning asking if I knew when the Elite 8 games were this weekend. I thought a quick jaunt over to Google would solve it, but no dice—everywhere listed dates but not times. And that’s when having TV listings nearby helps.
If you go to http://areyouwatchingthis.com/tv/stations, you’ll see a list of every station you get. Then just click on channel you’re wondering about and you’ll get a schedule for everything sports for the next two weeks. Bitchin’.
Oh yeah. And she lives in Hawaii. Don’t wake up at 8a to watch basketball on Sunday or you’ll be really disappointed.
Do you ever consider turning off your RUWT? alerts? Maybe think just watching ESPN the day after is just as good?
Sure. Go for it. If you want our society plunged into a cesspool of lies, deception, and half-truths.
Woah, Mark. What has your panties in a bunch?
Stop interrupting me and I’ll tell you what. Last night I got a High alert that Lakers v. Warriors was a 1-point game with 25 seconds on the clock, so chairmanlau and I tuned in. The end of the 4th and Overtime were freakin’ awesome until about 4 seconds left when a ref cheated us all out of a chance for double OT.
Watch SportsCenter and you’ll see one story. A happy fun time was had by all!
If you want to take the red pill, watch the second video and help grow RUWTbot’s Army.
Do it. For the children.