ice cream Of future hits skids
Posted in 2011 predictiOns, octOber on November 5th, 2011 by The Wayward OSo Blog’s eighth-seeded playoff Team won World Series. Uncertainty! It rules MLB Postseason! It was fun post-season. Now that Tony LaRussa has hung up managing shoes, maybe he can join Randy Johnson, Keith Hernandez, etc. in Just for Men ad campaign.
But Blog has sadder news, this day. Apparently mean ol’ Regions Bank has decided IT’S NOT COOL that Dippin’ Dots owes it $11 million. As many readers may know, Blog has long been very pro-DDs and does indeed view them as ice cream of future.

Must credit WAYWARD O, Son!
Apparently, DD has figured out a way to keep operating in bankruptcy. Let’s have Christian Science Monitor take it from here:
Dippin’ Dots, which sells cryogenically frozen beads of ice cream, markets itself to stores, as well as a number of amusement parks across the country, theaters and malls.
And ballparks! Was there ever a better description? Anyway DD, best of luck squaring away your debt. Here’s to more chilled pellets for many “future” summers to come.
Blog was kind of avoiding this but here are grades for Blog’s 2K11 regular season predictions:
AL East: Blog incorrectly said Yankees wouldn’t finish in first. That was wrong. But Blog very accurately predicted an “epic pigpile with built-in playoff gravitas.” Not as bad as blog feared. B-
AL Central: Blog picked Tigers to end up in first along with Twins, who were horrible and finished last. But Twins’ injuries were brutal so that mitigates dumbness of prediction. Blog had Indians finishing last, instead they finished second. C+
AL West: Blog had Texas correctly “in playoff mix,” but saw Oakland with a surprise division win. Instead, Oakland was pretty bad. C
NL East: Blog had Phillies and Braves finishing one and two. Blog incorrectly had Marlins finishing ahead of Nats and Mets. Still a pretty good job though. Incidentally, great job by Nats! (Blog’s NL 2012 mascot team probably – sorry SF Giants) B+
NL Central: Blog had St. Louie in wild card, which was an accurate prediction. But Blog had Reds winning division and Brew Crew at pack middle. Blog also had Pirates in cellar (they had Garrett Atkins!) but Pittsburgh instead finished ahead of Cubs and Astros. C-
NL West: Blog had Giants correctly picked for second and Dodgers correctly slotted in third. But once again Blog saw Rockies coming in first and once again Colorado underperformed. Blog had no inkling of coming Diamondback success, very dumbly picking them for last place. C-
Overall: A very pedestrian showing. Lots of gentleman’s C’s and a couple bright spots. But no nails-on-head and no total flameouts, either. C Next year, Blog will try to do better.


