In other news: Beau Hill is on the draw list?! That's insane!
That's what Justin McKee always calls Brian Canter because he's from North Carolina (the tar heels).
I just do not know what to think about Beau Hill riding this weekend. It's the kind of thing that makes me just shake my head. Is he on the bubble to make it to the finals or something? I mean sheeeeeesh how desperate would you have to be to ride with busted ribs? I've often thought that there would have to be some incredible drugs flowing in the PBR and this is just further proof.
Here's hoping he doesn't send one through a lung if he has another wreck this weekend.
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Thanks for the explanation. Proof that whenever I do listen to the commentators that most of what they say goes in one ear and out the other. *blush*
As for Beau, I was thinking the same thing about his lungs. I honestly don't see him staying on for 8 anyway. I know they're supposed to be tough, and this is probably the mother coming out in me, but some things are just ridiculous--like riding with broken ribs. They say that LJ will be able to ride with an almost healed collarbone and that thought also makes me shudder, but at least the bone, besides being mostly healed, won't pierce anything vital if it's damaged even further.
"I've often thought that there would have to be some incredible drugs flowing in the PBR and this is just further proof."
I have a friend who runs a sobriety book shop and one day some riders from a local (word "local" stressed because I don't want to inadvertently start any rumors about our guys) rodeo came in. They told her that there is a very high rate of addiction within their industry. Makes sense if you think about it.
Ride bulls with broken ribs? I can't imagine how they get out of bed with broken ribs, let alone be flailed about atop enormous animals! When I had contused/bruised ribs, just coughing brought tears to my eyes, and getting out of bed in less than fifteen seconds was iffy.
But there is always the distinct possibility that Beau Hill et al are simply a lot tougher than I am, or have doctors who are a lot more willing to sign prescriptions for interesting substances. THough it's mostly a matter of toughness and youth, I imagine.
I'm beginning to wonder if the "broken ribs" diagnosis was incorrect and they're only bruised (still--"ow!"), because riding like that just doesn't make sense.
No mis-diagnosis! He actually rode with broken ribs and made the 8. The man's a superstar--or crazy--I'm not sure which. Every move he made from the time they showed him on screen made me flinch. I don't know if I could ever be married to one of these guys. I don't think I'd have the stomach or the heart for it.
Poor Clayton! I knew it was bad just from the look on his face. Hopefully, he can work it out for tonight, even though we all know he's already qualified for the finals.
Brian Canter is looking good (except for his chin. )
No mis-diagnosis! He actually rode with broken ribs and made the 8. The man's a superstar--or crazy--I'm not sure which. Every move he made from the time they showed him on screen made me flinch. I don't know if I could ever be married to one of these guys. I don't think I'd have the stomach or the heart for it.
Poor Clayton! I knew it was bad just from the look on his face. Hopefully, he can work it out for tonight, even though we all know he's already qualified for the finals.
Brian Canter is looking good (except for his chin. )
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I think they're all crazy and superstars. I hope that Clayton doesn't start thinking something foolish like "Welp, ah don't have to ride with mah leg straight anyway, so someone just put me on that danged bull and open the chute!"
I haven't found a woman yet that thought the caterpillar on the chin look was attractive. The only men I know that think they are attractive are the ones wearing them. Guys... good grief. Brian did look thinner, which is scary. We decided Brian was either standing on a box when Leah interviewed him or Leah is a midget. She looked about 3 inches shorter than Brian.
I had to laugh (including a couple of snorts) when Craig "the idiot" Hummer tried to excuse Justin's buck off by saying how incredibly well the bull bucked. He had to stop himself in mid sentence when the bull score came up and showed a mere 43.5. Nope guys! WRONG. Princess McBride got bucked off just your average run o the mill bull.
I'm about to decide I don't care much for Cody Lambert. Has anyone ever seen him race up to shake hands with and clap the shoulder of any of the Brazilians the way he does the U.S. guys? He was all over JB last night. I thought for a minute he was going to kiss him.
In my stupid youth I'd have probably thought that I could be married to one of these riders. Not now. My stomach has started to tighten every weekend in fear that the law of averages is going to catch up with Guilherme. I spend friday and saturday evenings sending "stay healthy! don't get hurt!!" thoughts to whatever event is up. I wait up until the results and injury reports are posted and race (heart in throat) to make sure his name is not among the wounded.
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Farm Goddess wrote: I haven't found a woman yet that thought the caterpillar on the chin look was attractive. The only men I know that think they are attractive are the ones wearing them. Guys... good grief. Brian did look thinner, which is scary. We decided Brian was either standing on a box when Leah interviewed him or Leah is a midget. She looked about 3 inches shorter than Brian.
I like goatees on some guys, but the hair on just the chin or the small patch just under the bottom lip (JB and Pistol!) are not attractive at all. Leah is indeed tiny. I'm going to guess she's no more than 5'1".
I've had issues with another board eating my posts, so what I do is copy my text before I hit the post button. That way, if it disappears, I just have to click back into the reply section and paste.
Farm Goddess wrote: I haven't found a woman yet that thought the caterpillar on the chin look was attractive. The only men I know that think they are attractive are the ones wearing them. Guys... good grief. Brian did look thinner, which is scary. We decided Brian was either standing on a box when Leah interviewed him or Leah is a midget. She looked about 3 inches shorter than Brian.
I like goatees on some guys, but the hair on just the chin or the small patch just under the bottom lip (JB and Pistol!) are not attractive at all. Leah is indeed tiny. I'm going to guess she's no more than 5'1".
I've had issues with another board eating my posts, so what I do is copy my text before I hit the post button. That way, if it disappears, I just have to click back into the reply section and paste.
The dreaded "soul patch". I read how the Spaniards used to favor the same little patch of hair under the lower lip, only they called it the "mosca", or the Fly. I personally find the thought of a fly on my lower lip somewhat repellent, but that's just me. But in the defense of guys who sport such facial hair, I do find that part of my face to be the most demanding portion to shave. If there's a shaving accident, chances are it's somewhere immediately below my lower lip, so maybe the soul patch is less a fashion statement and more a surrender to the immutable laws of shaving.
One night I was staring blankly at the infomercials on cable and saw some dark-haired woman hawking some manner of exercise equipment. She seemed awfully familiar, but it still took me about five minutes to realize it was Leah Garcia, mostly because I'd never seen her sporting quite so much bare midriff before. It was actually kind of creepy; you get used to her in some variation on western wear and all of a sudden there she is in scanty sports garb.
This story is, of course, completely irrelevant, except for the fact that someone mentioned her.
Farm Goddess wrote: It was actually kind of creepy; you get used to her in some variation on western wear and all of a sudden there she is in scanty sports garb.
Some of her western clothes can get a little scanty, imo. There was one time where she was interviewing two cowboys at once and I swear by their body language, I could read their thoughts as "Don't look down...don't look down."
I mean no disrespect to her, of course. I'm just jealous of her profession and her God-given attributes. I've grown to really like Leah and miss her when she's not there.
Thanks for enlightening me on the facial hair issues. I guess we'll never know if it's a convenience thing or a fashion statement.
Farm Goddess wrote: It was actually kind of creepy; you get used to her in some variation on western wear and all of a sudden there she is in scanty sports garb.
Some of her western clothes can get a little scanty, imo. There was one time where she was interviewing two cowboys at once and I swear by their body language, I could read their thoughts as "Don't look down...don't look down."
I mean no disrespect to her, of course. I'm just jealous of her profession and her God-given attributes. I've grown to really like Leah and miss her when she's not there.
Thanks for enlightening me on the facial hair issues. I guess we'll never know if it's a convenience thing or a fashion statement.
-- Edited by Shannon at 15:33, 2008-10-13
I know what you mean about her scanty western wear, but the athletic wear was even scantier. It was about as scanty as it could possibly have gotten without a soft rock soundtrack and a smear of Vaseline on the camera lens, if you know what I mean.
There is a facial hair style I like, a moustache than comes down on either side of the mouth and ends at the jawline on either side of the chin. I sometimes grow one of those simply because it looks cowboyish and I like it, so there's always a little room for fashion in facial hair; it isn't all just for the sake of practicality.
But they're more difficult to maintain than a regular moustache. What usually happens is that over time one side gets wider than the other, and in an attempt to get things evened up, I accidentally convert it into a pencil-thin Clark Gable kind of thing that makes me look like I've been drooling pancake syrup, so off it goes.
I never knew facial hair could be such a pain. Thanks for the education, Kap! My husband has the goatee with some scruff that goes along the jaw line and up to the sideburns. It looks really good on him.
This just in: A poster on the PBR message board says that Clayton Williams broke a knee cap when he collided with his bull's horn. There is no listing of this on the injury report, though, so I don't know how the poster got his/her info.
I never knew facial hair could be such a pain. Thanks for the education, Kap! My husband has the goatee with some scruff that goes along the jaw line and up to the sideburns. It looks really good on him.
This just in: A poster on the PBR message board says that Clayton Williams broke a knee cap when he collided with his bull's horn. There is no listing of this on the injury report, though, so I don't know how the poster got his/her info.
I read about that in a press release from the PBR. It was mixed in with another report about something.
It made me cringe! He's had surgery on it to install pins. The press release said something silly like "to hold it in place", but knee caps float freely so I'm thinking they meant the pins would hold the pieces of the knee cap together.
either way... OUCH!
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Latest report on the PBR website: "Adriano Moraes broke two small bones in the small finger of his left (riding) hand when he was thrown from his Championship Round bull and jammed his hand in the ground. He will be unable to ride at the Mohegan Sun and is questionable for the PBR Finals."
That's too bad. I wonder if he's now wishing he gave Guilherme his spot in the short go? I'd hate for him to have to sit out the finals in his last year.
Latest report on the PBR website: "Adriano Moraes broke two small bones in the small finger of his left (riding) hand when he was thrown from his Championship Round bull and jammed his hand in the ground. He will be unable to ride at the Mohegan Sun and is questionable for the PBR Finals."
That's too bad. I wonder if he's now wishing he gave Guilherme his spot in the short go? I'd hate for him to have to sit out the finals in his last year.
You know, I saw him wince when he came off that bull. When Leah met him afterwards the camera caught him in a pained pose and I watched it miraculously vanish as he turned on his camera face. He rested his hand on top of a railing for the interview but put it there VERY carefully as if protecting it. I didn't know if it was hand, arm or shoulder but I knew he'd hurt himself. Of course, like a great magician he took my attention straight away from that hand and gave us those warm friendly eyes of his game face.
dammitall. I wonder if they can pin the bones so he can do the Finals. That would be tragic for something that sounds so minor to keep him from finishing the year. We all know, of course, that it isn't minor since all four fingers are crucial in the wrap, but it just doesn't sound as impressive as say "punctured lung".
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I could not believe that wreck with the Brazilian Champion (I haven't committed his name to memory yet)! I was sure we'd see a dislocated or broken shoulder or broken collarbone. Then he's just up and talking like nothing had happened? Man, I bet he develops a big headache tonight.
So, when that rider cut the back of his head open and blood was streaming out of it? Was I the only one shocked to see a medical professional treating it w/o gloves on?
So, when that rider cut the back of his head open and blood was streaming out of it? Was I the only one shocked to see a medical professional treating it w/o gloves on?
I hadn't even noticed that! All I remember was grinning because the person holding the gauze on the back of his head, wasn't paying much attention to the wound when I saw him. It looked like he was watching the event lol. He was sort of distractedly patting the gauze on the back of the guy's head, but was doing it with so much pressure that it kept shoving the kid's head forward. Surely they cleaned the arena dirt out of it at least?
While we're in the Medic Files, why aren't they updating the injury report on the website. The only injury I saw as of last night was still Paulo's broken neck! There've been a couple of concussions at least.
And oh man. What about poor Joe Baumgartner?! THAT sucked. I wish they'd include the bull fighters in the injury reports. They take a beating out there.
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I've grown to really like Leah and miss her when she's not there. 
