Ryder Cup Terminology 2014

If you're gonna call the morning matches "four-ball," then you can't call the afternoon matches "Foursomes," you should call them "two-ball". There are always gonna be four players playing together on Friday and Saturday, so neither "four-ball," nor "foursomes" makes good sense. Why not call them exactly what they are? All four players are playing their own ball in the morning, and the BEST player's BALL for each pair - wins the hole, so call it "Best Ball". In the afternoon, each pair alternates strokes on ONE BALL, and that is called "Alternate Shot".

The Flip Side

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Here's a Judas Priest Set

Today I learned that the first song on the first released Judas Priest Album is "One For The Road".

The Ripper - Sad Wings of Destiny, (1976)

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Diamonds & Rust - Sin After Sin, (1977)

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A Joan Baez cover. Here is hers..

Better By You, Better Than Me - Stained Class, (1977)

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This is the song that brought Judas Priest to court - The James Vance vs. JP court case regarding alleged subliminal messages resulting in two teens' attempted suicide, and the death of Ray Belknap. The plaintiffs lost the case. James Vance died three years later of an intentional overdose of pain meds. (Source)

Beyond The Realms Of Death - Stained Class, (1977)

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Truly the band's masterpiece without any doubt, this is. Rather odd that those teens were so perplexed by the last song, and its silly "Do it" sounds, but this one is so much more touching, and powerful. A very underrated rock song.


1980's British Steel was regarded as Judas Priest's masterpiece album, but I disagree. It contained the hits Living After Midnight, Breaking The Law, and United. It was rather "mainstream", and the result was SUPER publicity in the United States. No doubt it's great but they had already released some seriously good stuff by this time, and would go on to do so afterward.

This was followed by Heading Out To The Highway, and Hot Rockin' from 1981's Point of Entry - furthermore a breakthrough into the mainstream in the States and Worldwide.

But back to the good stuff.

The Hellion/Electric Eye - Screaming For Vengeance, (1982)

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Screaming For Vengeance was the Platinum album which also contained You've Got Another Thing Comin'.

The Sentinel - Defenders Of The Faith, (1984)

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Love Bites - Defenders Of The Faith, (1984)

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Some Heads Are Gonna Roll - Defenders Of The Faith, (1984)

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Then came Turbo, 1986, which spawned several more hits. The most popular of which was Turbo Lover. But the album's gem was Parental Guidance, in my opinion.

Ram It Down - Title track, (1988)

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Backtracking a bit.. but for a reason. Last but not least is the hit that began it all for Judas Priest, (other than the controversial Rocka Rolla). Another masterpiece:

Victim Of Changes - Sad Wings of Destiny, (1976)

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Once she was wonderful
Once she was fine
Once she was beautiful
Once she was mine.. she was mine

Better Names For Things

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And while we're at it...

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A football is a leather egg.

Gasoline is car juice.

Showers are body washers.

Mailboxes are bill collectors.

...and I'll be back with more.

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Words to Live By - From a Former President

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The Eye Doctor Experience

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Better Go See What's Going On

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Better Start Paying Attention

Att: media, Spurs haters, doubters, overlookers, Laker fans, Heat bandwagon jumpers, etc.

Wait is overlookers a word? Ehh I don't care. Yet another domination of one of the media's favorite handful of teams - on national television, no less. It's about to get really interesting!

...Oh nevermind - it already has been!

Please go check out the final boxscore! We're talking about some seriously amazing stats in this game:

• Franchise record 17 made threes (17 of 28 for 61%)
• Eight players in double figures - How often does that happen for any team during any season? Maybe twice?
• 29 assists on 46 field goals (that's 63%, and anything over about 50-55% is exactly what you want)
• Bonner went 6-7 from three-range by himself, and in 24 minutes
• Manu had 20 pts. 7 asst. 3 reb. and 2 steals in 26 minutes (that's a per-48-minute mark of 37 pts. 13 asst. 5.5 reb. and 3.7 steals)
• Including FTs, LeBron put the ball up 26 times to get his 26 points


Yeah that says 125-95.. ~~ Game recap here ~~

It's all just so hilarious. I actually watched some of the re-broadcast telecast of this game, which was not only broadcast on our home network with our own announcers, but ESPN as well. I will always opt for our own home announcers. Bill Land, Sean Elliott, Andrew Monaco, et al. I have already made a post regarding the worst game announcers there are. It just happens to be ESPN's own Mark Jackson, Jeff Van Gundy, and the guy who does the play-by-play (usually Mike Breen).

Some comment comparisons:

"The Miami Heat are one of the best defensive teams in the league." -- Mike Breen

Sean Elliott: "The Heat have no clue how to stop the simplest play in basketball - the pick-n-roll. Time and time again, they can't figure it out."

"This team is explosive on the offensive end.. they can turn it on at any time." -- Mark Jackson

Sean Elliott: "If we keep shooting threes like this, and playing this Spurs defense, there is no way the Heat get back into this game.

"If you're the Spurs you gotta slow it down and play half-court basketball" -- Mike Breen

Mike obviously hasn't done his homework here. This Spurs 2010-11 team is not that type of team. We've scored a bunch of points most games all season, and slowed it down very little, as is obvious by our points-for and points-against statistics.

"They can't beat the great teams, but when it's playoff time, this team will be a force to be reckoned with." -- Mark Jackson

Miami is 0-8 vs Spurs, Mavericks, Celtics, and Bulls. 2-2 vs. Orlando, 1-0 vs. Lakers at this point.

Then for the whole fourth quarter, all they talked about was how the Heat could be improved. I now realize that Jeff Van Gundy was not present for this broadcast, but the dialogue wasn't any better.

"This is a thrashing that can't be tolerated by the Heat. This is bad.." -- Mark Jackson

Nothing the Spurs did was ever praised. Especially considering all the stats I mentioned above. ESPN - take note! ..or don't. Kudos to Sean Elliott and Bill Land. Serious kudos.

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