IBC

I know it's a little late, but in the spirit of awards season...here's my picks:
Personal Preference, of course.

Best New Album: Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Best New Movie: American Gangster (by default, I don't get out much)
Worst Movie: License to wed
Best Concert: John Butler Trio w/ Hackensaw Boys
Best original TV show: The Office
Best Late Night show: Jay Leno
Best animated series: The Boondocks (Adult Swim)
Best show that got cancelled: The Black Donnellys
Best Live Sporting event: Watching John Smoltz almost no-hit the Nats from Ted Turner's box
Life Altering Event: Buying my first house

Boondocks is great, lookin forward to getting the 2nd season on DVD soon. The uncensored version is the way to go. Good pick there. The office too - though for this year I have to say "welcome to the captain" is pretty good so far.

Leno though? C'mon. Letterman wins by default. Craig Ferguson 2nd. Jimmy K 3rd. Conan 4th. Leno barely beats out Carson Daily for 5th.

Best show that got cancelled: 6 degrees. Scott Campbell was solid. Black Donnellys was pretty solid too, but I can see why it got nixed.

Leno wins for Headlines alone. My favorite regular late night segment of all time...

Best New Album: Exile on Mainstream - MB20
Best New Movie: Bourne Ultimatum
Worst Movie: Mr. Woodcock
Best Concert: Matchbox Twenty and Alanis Morissette
Best original TV show: Lost
Best Late Night show: Jon Stewart
Best animated series: Family Guy
Best show that got cancelled: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Best Live Sporting event: Watching the Fins actually win a game
Life Altering Event: bought a new car

Rockies wrote:Leno wins for Headlines alone. My favorite regular late night segment of all time...

Over stupid human or pet tricks? Nah.. headlines is good.. but its not the best.

Ugh, Studio 60... really? I about threw up everytime i watched that show. The wife loved it.

I watched the first segment of the first episode of Studio 60...and couldn't make it any longer...it was like drinking NyQuil without the buzz.

I didn't watch Studio 60, but I loved Bradley Whitford in West Wing. Hate Matthew Perry though.

Best New Album: Graduation- Kanye West
Best New Movie: Michael Clayton
Worst Movie: Hostel 2
Best Concert: I only saw one this year so by default the Police
Best original TV show: I didn't really watch any new shows this year, only watch 24 and that's not "new"
Best Live Sporting event: Being in Foxboro for SNF Eagles/Pats.

Best New Album: Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace - Foo Fighters
Best New Movie: I Am Legend
Best original TV show: Lost
Best New TV show: Chuck
Best Late Night show: Conan
Best animated series: Family Guy
Best Live Sporting event: Watching the Celt's a few days before my surgery
Life Altering Event: Tearing my ACL

Best New Album: Relentless---Jason Aldean
Best New Movie: 3:10 to Yuma (I realize it was a remake)
Worst Movie: We Own the Night
Best original TV show: The Office
Best New TV show: Rules of Engagement, who ever figured Patrick Warburton and David Spade could carry and show and make it watchable
Best Show Cancelled: Just for Gabe I'll say Studio 60
Best Late Night show: Colbert Report
Best animated series: King of the Hill over South Park by a nose
Best Live Sporting event: Going to Louisville Bats game with Gabe and figuring out what scrubs were former members of our IBC teams. The other team had a guy that won a ring with Gabe.
Best Live Sporting event I almost went to but didn't end up buying tickets for: UK-Tennessee multiple OT football game
Life Altering Event: it was a boring year for me, so I'd say nothing was life altering

Cardinals wrote: Best Live Sporting event: Going to Louisville Bats game with Gabe and figuring out what scrubs were former members of our IBC teams. The other team had a guy that won a ring with Gabe.

shit I forgot about that. that was fun. john hattig! backup 3B for the 2006 ibc champs!

and john ford griffin was there. I think everybody in the IBC has had him on their roster at one point.

And John Ford Griffin was white. Don't forget that because we were quite suprised

JFG was on the good ol' IBC Reds when this league was in his infancy at one point or another..

OK - I'll weight in on a few 2007 topics:

New Album: "Deliver Us" by Darkest Hour
Concert: Killswitch Engage with Dragonforce/Chimaira/He is Legend. Not fair to the other concerts since KSE is my fave and Hanson or New Kids On the Block or some other shit band could have been on the bill and I'd still go with KSE.
Original TV show: Still love the original CSI
Late Night Show: Letterman will always rule, but I have to mention Conan since Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is BY FAR the best late night character of all time.
Animated show: Family Guy. And #2 isn't even close. At all.
Cancelled show: The War at Home
Live Sporting Event: My softball team. Summer league: In the loser's bracket after losing 20-2 (along with the insult to injury of me taking a bad hop SQUARE in the nuts and another one to the gut which knocked the wind out of me) we win a few games and have to beat the team that crushed us and then beat the the undefeated team twice. In game 1 of the finals we are down by 7 after the bottom of the 6th (7-inning games), then score 8 in the top of the 7th, hold the others scoreless to win. Game 2 the same thing happens exactly, we're down by 7 to the undefeated team after the bottom of the 6th, score 8 in the top of the 7th and hold them scoreless to again win. And then the final game we crushed them 20-5. Good times!
Life altering event: It would have been falling in love, but my gal has broken up with me since the end of the 2007 year. So I gotta go with the incredible changes at work and the unbelievable opportunities our business has which were unimaginable 12 months ago.

And I'd like to add a new category:
Hottest new chick of 2007: Gotta be Summer Glau, right?

Indians wrote:And I'd like to add a new category:
Hottest new chick of 2007: Gotta be Summer Glau, right?

Technically she's not "new" but most people probably didn't get a chance to see her in "Firefly" (a great series Fox canned after 1 season a few years back) or the follow-up movie it spawned called "Serenity". I'd recommend both, especially if you're a fan of Joss Weadon's work.

WhiteSox wrote:

Indians wrote:And I'd like to add a new category:
Hottest new chick of 2007: Gotta be Summer Glau, right?

Technically she's not "new" but most people probably didn't get a chance to see her in "Firefly" (a great series Fox canned after 1 season a few years back) or the follow-up movie it spawned called "Serenity". I'd recommend both, especially if you're a fan of Joss Weadon's work.

Yup, i ddidn't expect to like the series but it was pretty good. Basically a Western in space.
To be fair, Glau played a babbling nutcase (quite well) who was far from sexy for the vast majority of the series and movie, so her being "new" makes sense. Morena Baccarin was supposed to be the eye-candy with Jewel Staite the cute, sweet and wholesome one.

Alright, I'll concede that in that respect she could be defined as new.

WhiteSox wrote:

Indians wrote:And I'd like to add a new category:
Hottest new chick of 2007: Gotta be Summer Glau, right?

Technically she's not "new" but most people probably didn't get a chance to see her in "Firefly" (a great series Fox canned after 1 season a few years back) or the follow-up movie it spawned called "Serenity". I'd recommend both, especially if you're a fan of Joss Weadon's work.

Not a huge sci/fi fan but loved both the series and movie. Friend of mine made me sit down and watch it a few years ago while we were passing the bong around... good shit. The movie is solid as hell too.