We are talking booze

Well, when aren't I talking booze, amirite?

But this time I mean we are hi-jacking our weekly baseball program, Just Talking to the Cornfield, to specifically discuss (and imbibe) booze. And, since it's a "very special episode" we decided to move it to a very special day and time. We will be going live at 9PM EDT this Thursday night. So you've got a few days to prepare your liver. Especially for those of you who consider Thursday night to be the beginning of the weekend. And for those of you on the left coast, the start of the show should coincide with Happy Hour. So join us and drink up! And we'll probably go on for a couple of hours, so join us mid-show if you can't handle the start time.

What, specifically, are we going to discuss? Um...wine, beer, liquor.  Maybe some interesting and/or embarrassing stories that involve wine, beer and liquor. I'm hoping this one will bring some of the chat-room attendees out of their shells for one evening and join us on the call.

So pop open that bottle of expensive booze that you've been saving for a special evening and join us for a night of libations in the Cornfield.  Because what's more special than that?

(Don't answer that last question)

New Episode of JTTTC: Tonight 9PM EST

Today is the semi-official start of the baseball season as pitchers and catchers reported to Spring Training. And the Colonel and I couldn't be more excited.  We are also nearing the one-year anniversary of Just Talking to the Cornfield. My, how time flies.

So in honor of the beginning of the season and the 1st anniversary of our show, we are having a special episode (in our normal time-slot) of Just Talking to the Cornfield tonight at 9PM EST.  Why is it special? Well, for many reasons.  But mostly because it is our second annual "Top 20 Things We Are Excited About for the Upcoming Season" episode.  Yay!

Join the Colonel and I, and find out what we are jazzed about for the 2012 MLB season.  We will also discuss the Linsanity that is taking over New York and the NBA.  And we may have our drink on.  It's a little after 5PM right now, and I just poured myself a big cocktail.  So I may or may not be coherent by the time the show begins.

You probably wanna check that out either way.

Cheers!

Fantasy Baseball Update: - So far, I've only had one person respond positively to my inquiry about starting a fantasy baseball league for this here blogging crowd.  I'll post several reminders during the next two weeks and we'll see where we are on March 1st. I'll keep you posted.

Happy Holidays from the Cornfield

Join the Colonel and I on Wednesday, December 21st at 9PM EST for a special Holiday Edition of Just Talking to the Cornfield.

It's all gonna be about the Holidays. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Saturnalia or another of the Winter Festivals or holidays. Or if you just want to hear a couple of idiots ramble on about holiday food, holiday booze and/or holiday films.


We plan on sharing the pulpit with some very special guests as well. So it will surely be an episode that you won't want to miss.

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Just Talking to the Cornfield - New Episode Tonight at 9PM EST

You know the drill.

The Colonel and I will discuss some baseball and some other stuff.  Fascinating lead, right?  Ugh...I suck at this.

Just listen in, okay?

Here's a better writeup from the Colonel in his weekly email reminder.

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So if you missed last week show, you missed Earl and the Colonel discuss some possible off-season moves for those playoff teams that were eliminated.    But after another week of playoff games we now opt to get out of aggravation and frustration at the god-awful disastrous crews on TBS and Fox that are announcing the games.    Its been so bad I yearn for Howard Cosell.  

 

We also take a look forward at the World Series, and hopefully after tonight it was be fully decided who will play (GO CREW!!).   

 

Finally, last week we tipped our junior high school cards a bit to talk about what movies 'moved' us the most in our younger days.   Now, ugh, Earl would like to discuss what films or TV shows made us..... whimper.   Get out your tampons folks!!   Its what the Cornfield is all about.

 

 

 

 

See you at the Cornfield!!

 

Sincerely,

 

Earl and the Colonel

 

 

http://talktothecornfield.webs.com/

 

 

 

 

Just Talking to the Cornfield - New Episode Tonight 9PM EST

This is gonna be weird.

Here's what the Colonel has to say:

Hey folks,

So lets recap.    Basketball is on strike, Hockey is for Canadians, and Hank Williams Jr., the guy who sings the theme song "Are You Ready For Some Football!!" for the NFL's flagship show Monday Night Football just compared Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, and got fired.   That leaves one major sport for us to enjoy.     Lucky for you, we do a show devoted to it!!

This week on Just Talking to the Cornfield........

Episode Notes: So it's the playoffs, and a wonderful time indeed. Well, not so much for Earl. The Yankees lost. But the Brewers won, so the Colonel is psyched. Or psycho. Same difference. Join us as we discuss the near future of the Yankees, Braves, Red Sox, Rays, Phillies and Diamondbacks. Because they all just missed out on the next round, ya know. Oh, and for a bonus, we are going to discuss the hottest film scenes of all time. Find out what gave a young Colonel a miniscule boner. I've been waiting six months to type those words. Hehehe.

That's right.   We want to discuss what changes we expect for the teams eliminated in the playoffs.   We already have seen changes in the front offices, and that's just the start.  Which players contracts are up, and which players will be targeted via trade or free agency?? 

And then........ we will be taking a left turn to discuss the hottest movie scenes of all time.   It needs to be done.    Love to hear your thoughts.

See you at the Cornfield!!

Sincerely,

Earl and the Colonel

http://talktothecornfield.webs.com/

JTTTC - New Episode tonight at 9PM EST

Hurricane Irene postponed us last week. Then this week has been a comedy of errors about scheduling it. The Colonel has a Fantasy Football draft on Sunday, so we moved it to Friday night. Then I, conveniently, forgot about it and started drinking and barbecuing with some friends.  So we had to re-schedule again...and the time is NOW!  Or, 9PM EST on Saturday. 

So pop a cocktail and join us live.  Or listen in to the podcast after.  But that's not nearly as fun. Right?  Here's the Colonel's weekly email teaser.

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Wow, now I'm nervous.   A Saturday Night in the Cornfield.    This could get silly.   I do plan on tasting many many sweet Apple Pie Moonshines and Catdaddy Cocktails for the show.   

 

Just what I need to discuss all the disappointing players during this joyous Major League season!!

 

So you think being without power is a bummer??   Imagine being on the hook for $25 million,  $50 million or even $100 million for a guy hitting under .200, or a pitcher with a 5-8 record and an ERA over 5 !!??

 

Join Earl and the Colonel for a special Friday edition of Just Talking To The Cornfield as we discuss the most 'disappointing' players of 2011.    And because both of us lost power last weekend we had plenty of time to sit up and night and think of weird and or hateful things to spew out.   Him more than me.  

 

Sit down, grab a stalk and hope to see you tomorrow night at 9.

 

 

Earl and the Colonel

 

 

http://talktothecornfield.webs.com/

 

 

 

 

It's gold, Jerry!

Participated in an interesting episode of Just Talking to the Cornfield last night.  Normally, we have a set agenda that we try to follow.  Something like this:

• 9:00-9:10 Greetings and Salutations (whatever happened to Christian Slater?)
• 9:10-9:30 TWIB Notes (TWIB stands for "This Week in Baseball". Screw the trademark!)
• 9:30-9:35 Trivia time!
• 9:35-10:?? The week's topics.  Normally it would include a statistic or trend that one of us would want to discuss.  Maybe a segment on our "Cornfield All-Stars".  Maybe a segment of "Tales from the Cornfield" or "Tales from the Shitter"...stuff like that.

I've been in Charleston, SC for a few days, and I wasn't really eager to put any energy into doing the prep work for the show this week.  So on Saturday, when the Colonel emailed me an agenda, I greeted it with less than my usual amount of enthusiasm.

So I replied with an idea.  How about a show about nothing?  No agenda, no segments, no limits, no boundaries.  We could and would talk about anything and everything.  My co-host agreed with me 100%.  It was on.  A Seinfeld-esquian journey into nothing at all.

Seriously...it's worth listening just for the intro alone when we channel Jerry and George.

It was a hoot!

Check it out either on Talkshoe or iTunes.

I like to racism, bro!

Courtesy of Kenny Fucking Powers, with a hat tip to my bro who smells like a wet dog for telling me out it in the first place.

  

So I've been thinking that we, meaning me, should probably stop drinking during our weekly broadcast of Just Talking to the Cornfield. Because, apparently, when I get drunk I like to use racist stereotypes for comedy. Like my man Kenny Fucking Powers up there. My co-hort isn't blameless either. He likes to poke fun at the Jews. Mostly because he is a Jew, and that's what he does.

Here's some of the full-on racist comedy from last week that you missed if you haven't listened in already:

• The Colonel told a tale about a recent trip he made down to Kentucky and an unexpected hotel room visit by an young African-American woman who may or may have been a hooker.  Because everything we know about black people we learned on Living Color, we lovingly called her ShaNayNay.  Or ShaNiqua.  Yeah...
• I did a brief impersonation of this young lady where I referred to the Colonel's gleaming white mini-van of manliness* as "fly".  Ahem.
• At one point, we simulated a conversation between Albert Belle (black man) and Kenny Lofton (another black man) of the Cleveland Indians (circa mid-90's) that could have been a transcription from an episode of Oz.  The word "bitch" was used several times.
• I'm pretty sure I mimicked a Hispanic (an Hispanic??) accent at one point toward the end of the show as well.  I'm not positive.  I was pretty drunk by then.  See what I mean?

I'd say it wasn't our proudest moment on air so far. But that's what makes it so damn funny!  Well, at least the two of us were laughing at each other.  There's that.  We did manage to talk about baseball for a bit in there as well, if the racism isn't enough for you.

Check us out on Talkshoe or iTunes.  We like to racism, bro!

*I think I stole that line from Kevin.  Not sure.  Either way, I'll give him the credit.

JTTTC - New Episode tonight at 9PM EST

This episode may be one for the ages.  Let's hear what the Colonel has to say about it in his weekly email:

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A few little teasers about tonights show:

 

Every wonder why Jason Heyward was hitting 7th earlier in the year.   Why do the Reds bat Brandon Phillips clean-up??    Why does Tony LaRussa hit his pitchers 8th??     How come Howie Kendrick hits so low in the order this year??    

 

Lineups, not just the players but rather the order in which the players are hitting, are one of the most important weapons a manager can use in "strategizing" against the other team.   Some managers like Scioscia are good at it, some like Fredi Gonzalez are horrible, and some like Joe Torre and were simply geniuses at putting lineups together.   You have to balance your teams strengths, while taking into account the very delicate mind set of the teams hitters, all while planning moves to be made during the game, and using the starting lineup almost like setting up for a chess match.  

 

Tonight Earl and the Colonel will discuss lineups with a concentrated focus on the lineups of our favorite teams.   The SECOND PLACE Yankees and the FIRST PLACE Brewers.  Ha.  

 

We will also be doing my favorite segment, Tales From The Cornfield, this time discussing our favorite "brawls".      Thank you Earl for digging deep into your dark heart for that one.  This will lead into our Cornfield All-Star team member for which player you'd want on your team, who would "have your back" during a brawl. 

I also will be sharing a very special tale from my adventure across America this weekend, called "The Return of Shenaynay"

 

And finally, Earl may introduce a new Cornfield Contest, whereby we attempt to find a reasonable name for those top 'set-up' men, like Dan Bard and Kevin Robertson.   

 

Ought to be a rousing good time.   HOPE TO SEE YOU LATER!!

Sincerely,

 

Earl and the Colonel

 

http://talktothecornfield.webs.com/