When I read about the Chuckster's arrest earlier today, I thought it was kind of funny and started cobbling together the All-prison basketball team. That was too easy though as so many basketball players have been popped for DUI and whatnot, I thought I might rise to the challenge and put together my version of the all-prison team made up of football players (both college and pro) that are either in jail NOW or that have been arrested over the last few seasons. Oh course a few had to be on the list as all-timers. This is the squad I came up with......enjoy
Coach
Barry Switzer. A Super Bowl winning coach that thought he was cool enough to cruise through an airport with a loaded gun. Hey, he's Barry Freaking Switzer! He can do what he wants!
Assistant, the Lions guy that took his pants off in the Wendy's drive-thru line
Offense....
QB Is there any question? Michael Vick. Oh COURSE he is the starter. He might even play better now that he has real cred. But if you listen to the 2 Live Idiots-er I mean the Stews, they STILL say he is innocent, even though he pleaded guilty. I would put Ken Stabler as his backup.
RB. Gotta go with a two headed attack (literally) with OJ Simpson and Larry Johnson (he spit on a female. Gotta like that!) ahead of Lawrence Phillips (he only dragged a woman down the stairs of his apartment. I respect women too much to have him starting. Wait, I have a guy that killed a woman starting. OOPS!)
WR. Michael Irvin swears that was his brother's bong and his cousin's crack. COME ON ESPN! You've gotta believe that! On the other side, Plaxico Burress would be starting but he is still on the shelf after he shot himself then lied about it to authorities. Instead Chris Henry and his 194 arrests gets the nod over Rae Carruth. Carruth hired a guy to off his wife. Nice.
TE Mark Chumura. I am not sure he ever served jail time, but the guy got frisky with a 14 year old in a hot tub. And not like Will Ferrell in the SNL sketch with Jimmy Fallon where SHOCKER he laughs through the whole thing!
The OL. These big uglies seem to get in the second most trouble, after the wideouts. You would think that as big as they are, they could hold their liquor a little better. OH WELL. Let's start with two guys from UGA who couldn't hold the liquor, Kevin Perez from Miami and Daniel Inman who "you will hear things from," according to my best man Sean from our 2006 UGA boys draft (Seano took Inman #2 overall with Stafford and Lumpkin and MoMas and QMo and CJohnson all on the board. AND Inman was suspended the first two games.) On the right side of the line, you've got Anthony Parker of UT and Bryant McKinnie of the Vikings. Watch out, Mount McKinnie will spit on you if you are a bouncer. It is what he DOES! Finally, Nate Newton and his TRUNK full of pot round out this line. If you need the stuff, find Newton. YE-AH!
DEFENSE.....
The Line. Let's start off on a lighter note because these are bad dudes. Rod Coleman got arrested after his car struck a deer, but magically the case disappeared (thanks for the check Mr. Blank). He was also injured the next year when his sea-doo hit a manatee, but no charges were filed there. Speaking of Falcons, Jonathan Babineaux KILLED A DOG, THEN TRIED TO SAY THE DOG KILLED ITSELF BY RUNNING INTO A WALL. (The Dog's name was Kilo. nice). Yeah, Chimer runs into the wall ALL THE TIME! Tank Johnson, now of the Cowboys was once popped for DWI in Arizona (charges dropped) but I hear the movie Warlord was based on him. He had so many guns he could have been starting a Chicago-based Navy SEAL training base. Finally, Leonard Little killed a woman while going DUI, then got ANOTHER DUI a year or so later. Uncool.
The linebackers actually will NOT include LT, because I'm not sure he ever was arrested. That's OK, these guys are all-stars enough. Odell Thurman missed a year of UGA and would have been suspended his senior year, according to my sources, but he declared for the NFL draft, where he is now banned after being arrested 92 times? Is that count right? Hollywood Henderson safe to say had a drug problem and Ray Lewis FREAKING KILLED A GUY, STRIPPED HIS CLOTHES then excaped in his limo at the ATL Super Bowl. OK, maybe his friends killed the guy, but he was there!
The Defensive backs take a backseat to NO ONE. Pacman aka Adam Jones can't seem to stay out of the strip clubs or the wrestling ring, or JAIL. His posse (or maybe he) shot and paralyzed a bouncer at a Vegas strip club, then he slapped a lawyer at a strip club. WHY? You are rich, hire a stripper like the Duke Lax team did....wait... Tony Joiner beats out Lawyer Malloy and the Florida DB (all Malloy did was go DUI. The Florida DB whose name escapes me used a dead woman's credit card) as Joiner broke into an impound yard to get his girlfriend's car out. Who would have thought that the impound lot would be closed at 4am? He was being a gentleman! Eugene Robinson got popped for soliciting an undercover cop the NIGHT BEFORE THE SUPERBOWL! Really? And finally, Reuben Houston gets the nod for not only attempting to distribute 92 lbs of Marijuana (he pleaded guilty!) but also taking his daughter to a drug buy (ended up being a sting) then trying to say he thought the child was a Dora the Explorer doll. Class act for the Techie!
Kicker, Sabastian Janikowski got in trouble the night before the BCS championship game, once tried to bribe an officer (he then played the dumb Pollack card) then got popped for possession of the date rape drug. But hey, he also once tried a 76 yard field goal that came up short...oh well. SO DID IT! I could say that I once tried an 84 yard kick, also coming up short. Add it to my wikipedia page.
Punter Britton Colquitt. He's only had about 6 DUIs during his UT punting career. GO AWAY ALREADY!
PR/KR BJ Sams. this winner got 2 DUIs in 14 months. Yeah, HIRE A CAB!
There we go. I am thinking these guys could really take on the All-religion team (where Ray Lewis, surprisingly ALSO plays) and win. Kurt Warner would probably get distracted by praying more than watching the oncoming DLineman. It would be a fun game to watch.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Last Midweek entertainment report of '08!
A double shot of love for a double shot at love, why are we piling on Tom, one MORE reason I should be scared to go to Arizona and relax Chimer, DMX is in jail....
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the final midweek entertainment report for 2008!
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I missed last week's a Double shot at love with the Ikki twins because I was sitting on an airplane waiting for 13 people to board from a plane coming from Tampa, then leaving after only 4 got aboard. Thanks Airtran! Doesn't matter now. Last night I was able to catch up with last week's AND this week's episodes of A Double Shot at love. Let me start by saying that when the boys lost the bisexual athalon, I realized that this shite is rigged. The guys were so far ahead, but Paul couldn't find the matching wristbands, EVEN AFTER he dumped the flour pool over to find that in fact, there were NO wristbands. Regardless, the boys' trailer park date was better than the stupid pool party. Just saying. The theme was funny and the props were better. True the Ikki twins were in swimsuits at the pool party, but their clothes were still kinda hot for the trailer park party.
Then I got a little suspicious when everyone started to drop at the "arm candy" challenge. REALLY? Is it THAT hard to stand? Don't they do this in survivor for 14 hours? I remember the big brother where Eval Dick did it IN THE RAIN for longer. Oh well.
My one beef with the season thus far is the twins "getting to know" everyone...by making out. Ever hear of actually talking to the people? I guess it probably has to do with the short time span in which the show is being filmed and the people the producers get for the camera and the people that would go on TV to try and "find love." Does it not gross them out that they are making out with a girl that just made out with another guy or another girl? Wondering aloud here.
At the tail end of episode one, Nick sticks and Mike goes home? A Double vote off? Really? Why? I know two of the girls (Nicki and Jen) were both a drag, but why get rid of Mike? AND WHY KEEP NICK? In the second episode, Nick goes, but only after Rikki says that she and Nick had a bond. And what is that? He doesn't talk while you cry? What is the connection? You two cry together? SERIOUSLY?
Moving on.........
Hey, why is everyone ripping Tom Cruise? Why is 99.99999999999999999% of America rooting for him to fail? The critics are ripping Valkyrie before it even comes out because everyone for whatever reason now hates Tom Cruise. Is it his scientology? Is it that he has been kicking ass for all these years, and years of jealousy has finally boiled over into hatred? I say we should point our hatred at Will Smith. I AM LEGEND, MIB2, Hancock, Pursuit of Happyness, Wild, Wild West, Hitch...if these aren't reasons to hate him, how about the fact that he is remaking the Karate Kid so his kid can star in it (only they will lessen the violence I guess?) and make Jackie Chan Mr. Miyaghi. REALLY? COME ON! Or let's hate Will Smith because he was 34 playing a 14 year old on FPoBA.
Look out on the Arizona roadways, Charles Barkley is behind the wheel! Chucky, the not-so-proud Auburn alum, was arrest early Wednesday morning on suspicion of DUI. I am thinking Turner Gill doesn't want his name coming out of Barkley's mouth ANYMORE. Chuck, I hate to say it, but now I am ROOTING for CGC to succeed and for you to SHUT UP!
Finally, DMX was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty for drug possession, theft and animal cruelty. (Hey 2 Live Stews, he pleaded guilty, so don't try and say he is innocent. He is guilty, just like Vick.) Part of the sentence is that he cannot own animals (no one with an animal cruelty charge should be), possess firearms (why does he need them? He doesn't have a TuPac rival. Plus, who wants to hurt DMX except those people who wasted money on his albums?) and he must attend an animal offender treatment program. GOOD. Apparently in a raid back in May, authorities found dead dogs on a raid and drugs, but only after DMX barricaded himself in his room. Actually, even if dead dogs had NOT been found, the fact that he barricaded himself in his room to ME, means DMX is CRAZY. I wouldn't want him to own any dogs. Bottom line, he and MV7 can hopefully learn how to properly treat animals before they re-enter society.
Thanks everybody, have a safe New Year's Eve and Day and Go Dawgs tomorrow. Just win the dadgum game and send Stafford and KM24 out with a win....(but I hope they both come back!)
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, the final midweek entertainment report for 2008!
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I missed last week's a Double shot at love with the Ikki twins because I was sitting on an airplane waiting for 13 people to board from a plane coming from Tampa, then leaving after only 4 got aboard. Thanks Airtran! Doesn't matter now. Last night I was able to catch up with last week's AND this week's episodes of A Double Shot at love. Let me start by saying that when the boys lost the bisexual athalon, I realized that this shite is rigged. The guys were so far ahead, but Paul couldn't find the matching wristbands, EVEN AFTER he dumped the flour pool over to find that in fact, there were NO wristbands. Regardless, the boys' trailer park date was better than the stupid pool party. Just saying. The theme was funny and the props were better. True the Ikki twins were in swimsuits at the pool party, but their clothes were still kinda hot for the trailer park party.
Then I got a little suspicious when everyone started to drop at the "arm candy" challenge. REALLY? Is it THAT hard to stand? Don't they do this in survivor for 14 hours? I remember the big brother where Eval Dick did it IN THE RAIN for longer. Oh well.
My one beef with the season thus far is the twins "getting to know" everyone...by making out. Ever hear of actually talking to the people? I guess it probably has to do with the short time span in which the show is being filmed and the people the producers get for the camera and the people that would go on TV to try and "find love." Does it not gross them out that they are making out with a girl that just made out with another guy or another girl? Wondering aloud here.
At the tail end of episode one, Nick sticks and Mike goes home? A Double vote off? Really? Why? I know two of the girls (Nicki and Jen) were both a drag, but why get rid of Mike? AND WHY KEEP NICK? In the second episode, Nick goes, but only after Rikki says that she and Nick had a bond. And what is that? He doesn't talk while you cry? What is the connection? You two cry together? SERIOUSLY?
Moving on.........
Hey, why is everyone ripping Tom Cruise? Why is 99.99999999999999999% of America rooting for him to fail? The critics are ripping Valkyrie before it even comes out because everyone for whatever reason now hates Tom Cruise. Is it his scientology? Is it that he has been kicking ass for all these years, and years of jealousy has finally boiled over into hatred? I say we should point our hatred at Will Smith. I AM LEGEND, MIB2, Hancock, Pursuit of Happyness, Wild, Wild West, Hitch...if these aren't reasons to hate him, how about the fact that he is remaking the Karate Kid so his kid can star in it (only they will lessen the violence I guess?) and make Jackie Chan Mr. Miyaghi. REALLY? COME ON! Or let's hate Will Smith because he was 34 playing a 14 year old on FPoBA.
Look out on the Arizona roadways, Charles Barkley is behind the wheel! Chucky, the not-so-proud Auburn alum, was arrest early Wednesday morning on suspicion of DUI. I am thinking Turner Gill doesn't want his name coming out of Barkley's mouth ANYMORE. Chuck, I hate to say it, but now I am ROOTING for CGC to succeed and for you to SHUT UP!
Finally, DMX was sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty for drug possession, theft and animal cruelty. (Hey 2 Live Stews, he pleaded guilty, so don't try and say he is innocent. He is guilty, just like Vick.) Part of the sentence is that he cannot own animals (no one with an animal cruelty charge should be), possess firearms (why does he need them? He doesn't have a TuPac rival. Plus, who wants to hurt DMX except those people who wasted money on his albums?) and he must attend an animal offender treatment program. GOOD. Apparently in a raid back in May, authorities found dead dogs on a raid and drugs, but only after DMX barricaded himself in his room. Actually, even if dead dogs had NOT been found, the fact that he barricaded himself in his room to ME, means DMX is CRAZY. I wouldn't want him to own any dogs. Bottom line, he and MV7 can hopefully learn how to properly treat animals before they re-enter society.
Thanks everybody, have a safe New Year's Eve and Day and Go Dawgs tomorrow. Just win the dadgum game and send Stafford and KM24 out with a win....(but I hope they both come back!)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Picks and the City
No this isn't a reference to sex and the city. This blog today is my response to the NEW MTV Monday night lineup. Bromance and The City. (Plus, you will also get the rest of my bowl picks!)
Let's start off by looking at Bromance. Wifey didn't think she'd watch it. She didn't want to, but she was hooked by the first commercial. Myself, I knew I would love it and it did NOT disappoint. I think the early favorite HAS to be Alex with Chris P (the frat boy from UK) right behind him. Also, I think Gary (the dude with the crazy hair) is a darkhorse. When he actually does his hair, it is kinda cool looking. FEMI by the way, should be going home soon. Dude is ONLY there to try and make a name for himself. I think sending Jacob packing was the right call and Michael leaving.....no doubt he would have gone home next week. (And from the previews, it looks like he would have gotten to meet LC. Ooops!)
Then we get to THE CITY. Just from the first two episodes, you can tell this is going to be better than The Hills ever was. In just the second episode you had more action than in the last three seasons of The Hills. Jay aka Justin Bobby 2.0 nearly got into a fight with Alex. NICE. ACTION! Plots moving along. THAT is what I am talking about. Not Speidi visiting Spencer's Nana. The Hills has gotten so stagnant that it is nice to see things ACTUALLY happening in episodes. I like that Olivia might be a villain. Alex might be bringing a wedge in between Jay and Twitney. Good stuff.
PS, Whit, way to go back to Jay's house on your first night in town. Good work there! Oh, I know today was my first day and I have to go back tomorrow, but hey, let's go sleep at Jay's place. I am sure no one will notice that I am wearing the same clothes....
And for Olivia, I thought you said Manolo Bhlanik was a family friend. He didn't seem to care about your first pair of shoes and why did he say "nice to meet you!"? I thought he was a family friend?
I cannot wait for this season. Let's just hope that by season 5 the writers won't be mailing it in like the Hills crew is.
Now then, ON TO THE PICKS! (Note, I am only picking interesting games. No one cares about the International bowl!)
#13 Okie State v #17 Oregon Hoiday Bowl. Here is my conundrum. Do I root for Okie State to finish strong so they can be ranked in the top ten next season when UGA goes on the road to Stillwater to face the Cowboys, or do I root for Oregon to win and send Okie State into a tailspin, hopefully leading to a bad offseason and a rough open to its season next year? Hmmmmmmmmm. Since I think UGA is losing next year at Okie State, let's have UGA at least lose to a top ten team. GO POKES!
Oregon State #20 Pitt. Sun Bowl. Before I get to talking about this game, let me say that, in my opinion, Will Smith is the worst thing to happen to mankind since Small Pox. In fact, I wish there was some sort of vaccine I could acquire to rid my life of Will Smith. You would think that in this Willenium, there would be the medicine. Maybe I should go to Miami for the operation....Let's Switch back to the Sun Bowl. This is a game between two good running backs, assuming that the Quizz kid from Oregon State can go. Take the Mustache of Pitt over the beards from Oregon State.
#24 BC v Vandy. Music City Bowl This is Vandy's first bowl game in FOREVER, going up against the Runnerups from the ACC. I wonder if Vandy is a little pissed that for the team's first bowl game, they don't get to travel. The game is in Nashville, aka the home of Vandy. That must suck, going to the bowl that is IN YOUR HOMETOWN. Hey, Tech, does that suck? BC meanwhile is ONCE AGAIN in a crappy bowl after having a chance to go to a BCS bowl. Hey, next time, WIN THE GAME and play in Miami! Crap. Will Smith reference!
Kansas v Minny Insight Bowl. Todd Reesing and Mr Arby v Tim Brewster and the team that couldn't beat anyone ranked. I would say that Kansas should win this one, but the REAL thing about this game that scares me....it is played in Arizona on Wednesday, but I arrive in Arizona on Wednesday, and I fear that Mangino might think I am a flying subsandwich. He might shoot me out of the sky and try and eat me. LOOK OUT! If I am not blogging come Monday, you will know that Mangino ate me.
SoCar v Iowa Outback Bowl. I kind of wish UGA was playing in this bowl, so I could go to Outback and eat cheesefries, but say, "Oh, I'm just doing this to support UGA. I am stuffing myself with a plate (or two) of what Men's Health calls, "The Worst food item" in the world. I mean honestly, a plate of that is WORSE than one of those double bacon cheese burgers on a krispy kreme doughnut? Come on. Take SoCar's defense shutting down Shon Greene. I am going with Steve Spurrier in this one! You can't spell Aussie Chips without USC!
Nebraska v Klimpsen Gator Bowl. As much as I hate Klimpsen for being a bunch of idiots, they have the horses to take down Nebraska. AND Dabo Sweeney knows that if he loses this game, then he will likely be fired and replaced with Tommy Tuberville. HA! I still love that Klimpsen fired Bowden and replaced him with Sweeney. WHY PANIC guys, you could have gotten that big fish! Oh well, Spiller had better fulfill his end of the bargain and come back....wait, he doesn't have a choice. He HAS to come back. The NFL doesn't want him! HA! Take the Tigers, or Hold the Tigers, what ever they say.
#8 Penn State v #5 USC Rose Bowl. I think I read where Matt Hayes of TSN actually thinks that Penn State will beat USC. REALLY? You REALLY think so? Or are you pulling a TMoore from the AJC just saying STOOPID things so people will reference you in blogs across the Internet? Let me tell you something there Matty, if you do that enough, people are going to think you really are stupid and they will stop asking you to be on their radio shows and writing about you because you will be fired. That's how it goes....at least how it SHOULD go. Take USC, the BEST team in the country and the ONLY team that could have beaten Florida in January.
#12 Cincy v #19 VaTech Orange Bowl. Could this be the LOWEST rated BCS bowl EVER? Wait, no that'd be Wake/Louisville from a few years back. You think the Orange bowl might actually be pushing for a playoff? I would if I was the OBCommish. Your tie-ins are the Big East and the ACC? Really? Or if I was in charge of the OB's picks, I'd just take USC and Texas and then say, "WHAT, I HAD the first and second pick. Sorry Rose Bowl." I'd bet anything that Carroll would LOVE that matchup. Oh well. As for this snoozefest, go with Cincy? The Fighting Larrys!
#25 Ole Miss v #7 Texas Tech Cotton Bowl. I love Ole Miss and actually have them winning the SEC West next year (assuming Hardy comes back). Their offense has playmakers and should be able to take advantage of a young Bama team and a crappily coached LSU team and an Arkie team that is still one year away from competing. Meanwhile, my Red Raiders might be a little disappointed to be in this game. I know EVERYONE is calling this one as their upset, but I think it is because it is going to happen. Watch out for Ole Miss next year!
UK v ECU Liberty Bowl. I would normally go with UK, but I just say Randall Cobb is out and Mike "put on your" Hartline is back in. See Sportsbyfletch sometimes gives you sports info too....not often and usually it is WAY after updates on The Hills, but HEY, STOP COMPLAINING! Take the buttpirates in this one. And PS, Daddio says that Skip Holtz is being talked about as UVa's next coach. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
#6 Utah v #4 Bama Sugar Bowl. Now that Andre Smith is out, that means......Bama only wins by 20 points. FREAKING UTAH!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Yeah, the OLine will still be fine, even without Big ole Andre Smith. Saban wins the Sugar Bowl and gets booed right out of Nawlins. HEY LSU, GET OVER YOURSELVES!
#10 Ohio State V #3 Texas Fiesta. Let's put this game this way, I am in a confidence pool where you pick all of the bowls straight up and you win by putting a confidence score by the outcome. If you are super-confident, you put a higher score. If it is a tossup, you go with a 1 or 2. You get the idea. I put this game at 34 for Texas, ONLY BECAUSE I COULDN'T GO ANY HIGHER! Ohio State ALWAYS craps the bed in big games. This is considered a big game. Sorry Mr. Gibbons, but duh Ohio State loses AGAIN!
#2 Florida v #1 OU. This might be the most lopsided score in a national championship game since Florida smacked duh Ohio State. Actually, I am hoping that Florida gets a little too full of themselves with EVERYONE predicting them to win that it gives OU the "no one believed in us" card. But with no DeMarco Murray, it is going to be hard for OU to keep up with Florida. Sorry OU, I know you've scored 60+ in 8 straight games, but that was against Mizzou and Okie State and the rest of the crapsack defenses of the Big 12. You haven't seen a D like Florida's. I think Timmy Tebow wins his first national title (hey front-running Florida fans, Chris Leak won the one two years ago. And why weren't you flying the flags and rocking the magnets last year when the team lost to MICHIGAN?)
Local rooting interest.
Atlanta v Arizona, 1st round playoff game. WAIT, this is a pro game. Yeah, but with UGA struggling and GT being a bunch of D&D nerds, I figure, why not follow the Falcons in the playoffs? Hey they could go to the NFC championship game? THEY COULD! And NO ONE jumps on a bandwagon QUITE LIKE ATLANTA! (Well, except for Florida gator fans who, before 2006 didn't realize the school had a basketball program.) Why not follow the Falcons now they have a QB that DOESN'T dogfight in his spare time, but actually watches game film? It is an interesting concept! I think the ATL Dirty Bird Express goes to the Valley of the Sun and comes back with a spot in the second round. Hey, it could happen. Abraham could break Kurt Warner. The Cards looked pretty uninterested against New England. Maybe if Matty Ice gets up big, the Cards will fall like...a house of cards. Take the Birds! (the Falcons I mean. A cardinal is a bird too I guess.)
LSU v #14GT in the Chick-fil-a bowl. LSU is NOT interested in being here and GT fans will want to beat the defending BCS Champ. Then we'll have to hear how GT's offense could totally work in the SEC. Hey, dum-dum, you've beaten Missy State (awful team who asked Sly Croom to resign. Racists!), UGA (horrible Defense. the team should drop to the SoCon!) and maybe now LSU. Kudos. This one year TOTALLY makes up for the last 7 right? Yeah, keep telling yourselves that when you are playing before New Year's Day. GT wins though.
#15 Georgia v #18 Michigan State, Capital One Bowl. What's in your wallet? I CARRY A MONEY CLIP, THANK YOU! Listen, UGA doesn't want to be here and MSU is thrilled. Doesn't matter. If UGA can stop Javon Ringer (and don't think the defense hasn't had the press clippings drilled into its heads over the last month), it wins. Even if it DOESN'T stop Ringer, he will have to keep up with KM24 (MSU can't stop him) and Stafford to Green/MoMass (MSU won't be able to stop them). I am seeing this as how the Kentucky game played out with UGA scoring at will and coming up at the end with the stop to win the game. Dawgs take it, but if you are gambling, take the points and MichState. UGA wins 35-31.
Have a great and safe new year's eve eve everybody. Talk to you tomorrow before I board the plane
Let's start off by looking at Bromance. Wifey didn't think she'd watch it. She didn't want to, but she was hooked by the first commercial. Myself, I knew I would love it and it did NOT disappoint. I think the early favorite HAS to be Alex with Chris P (the frat boy from UK) right behind him. Also, I think Gary (the dude with the crazy hair) is a darkhorse. When he actually does his hair, it is kinda cool looking. FEMI by the way, should be going home soon. Dude is ONLY there to try and make a name for himself. I think sending Jacob packing was the right call and Michael leaving.....no doubt he would have gone home next week. (And from the previews, it looks like he would have gotten to meet LC. Ooops!)
Then we get to THE CITY. Just from the first two episodes, you can tell this is going to be better than The Hills ever was. In just the second episode you had more action than in the last three seasons of The Hills. Jay aka Justin Bobby 2.0 nearly got into a fight with Alex. NICE. ACTION! Plots moving along. THAT is what I am talking about. Not Speidi visiting Spencer's Nana. The Hills has gotten so stagnant that it is nice to see things ACTUALLY happening in episodes. I like that Olivia might be a villain. Alex might be bringing a wedge in between Jay and Twitney. Good stuff.
PS, Whit, way to go back to Jay's house on your first night in town. Good work there! Oh, I know today was my first day and I have to go back tomorrow, but hey, let's go sleep at Jay's place. I am sure no one will notice that I am wearing the same clothes....
And for Olivia, I thought you said Manolo Bhlanik was a family friend. He didn't seem to care about your first pair of shoes and why did he say "nice to meet you!"? I thought he was a family friend?
I cannot wait for this season. Let's just hope that by season 5 the writers won't be mailing it in like the Hills crew is.
Now then, ON TO THE PICKS! (Note, I am only picking interesting games. No one cares about the International bowl!)
#13 Okie State v #17 Oregon Hoiday Bowl. Here is my conundrum. Do I root for Okie State to finish strong so they can be ranked in the top ten next season when UGA goes on the road to Stillwater to face the Cowboys, or do I root for Oregon to win and send Okie State into a tailspin, hopefully leading to a bad offseason and a rough open to its season next year? Hmmmmmmmmm. Since I think UGA is losing next year at Okie State, let's have UGA at least lose to a top ten team. GO POKES!
Oregon State #20 Pitt. Sun Bowl. Before I get to talking about this game, let me say that, in my opinion, Will Smith is the worst thing to happen to mankind since Small Pox. In fact, I wish there was some sort of vaccine I could acquire to rid my life of Will Smith. You would think that in this Willenium, there would be the medicine. Maybe I should go to Miami for the operation....Let's Switch back to the Sun Bowl. This is a game between two good running backs, assuming that the Quizz kid from Oregon State can go. Take the Mustache of Pitt over the beards from Oregon State.
#24 BC v Vandy. Music City Bowl This is Vandy's first bowl game in FOREVER, going up against the Runnerups from the ACC. I wonder if Vandy is a little pissed that for the team's first bowl game, they don't get to travel. The game is in Nashville, aka the home of Vandy. That must suck, going to the bowl that is IN YOUR HOMETOWN. Hey, Tech, does that suck? BC meanwhile is ONCE AGAIN in a crappy bowl after having a chance to go to a BCS bowl. Hey, next time, WIN THE GAME and play in Miami! Crap. Will Smith reference!
Kansas v Minny Insight Bowl. Todd Reesing and Mr Arby v Tim Brewster and the team that couldn't beat anyone ranked. I would say that Kansas should win this one, but the REAL thing about this game that scares me....it is played in Arizona on Wednesday, but I arrive in Arizona on Wednesday, and I fear that Mangino might think I am a flying subsandwich. He might shoot me out of the sky and try and eat me. LOOK OUT! If I am not blogging come Monday, you will know that Mangino ate me.
SoCar v Iowa Outback Bowl. I kind of wish UGA was playing in this bowl, so I could go to Outback and eat cheesefries, but say, "Oh, I'm just doing this to support UGA. I am stuffing myself with a plate (or two) of what Men's Health calls, "The Worst food item" in the world. I mean honestly, a plate of that is WORSE than one of those double bacon cheese burgers on a krispy kreme doughnut? Come on. Take SoCar's defense shutting down Shon Greene. I am going with Steve Spurrier in this one! You can't spell Aussie Chips without USC!
Nebraska v Klimpsen Gator Bowl. As much as I hate Klimpsen for being a bunch of idiots, they have the horses to take down Nebraska. AND Dabo Sweeney knows that if he loses this game, then he will likely be fired and replaced with Tommy Tuberville. HA! I still love that Klimpsen fired Bowden and replaced him with Sweeney. WHY PANIC guys, you could have gotten that big fish! Oh well, Spiller had better fulfill his end of the bargain and come back....wait, he doesn't have a choice. He HAS to come back. The NFL doesn't want him! HA! Take the Tigers, or Hold the Tigers, what ever they say.
#8 Penn State v #5 USC Rose Bowl. I think I read where Matt Hayes of TSN actually thinks that Penn State will beat USC. REALLY? You REALLY think so? Or are you pulling a TMoore from the AJC just saying STOOPID things so people will reference you in blogs across the Internet? Let me tell you something there Matty, if you do that enough, people are going to think you really are stupid and they will stop asking you to be on their radio shows and writing about you because you will be fired. That's how it goes....at least how it SHOULD go. Take USC, the BEST team in the country and the ONLY team that could have beaten Florida in January.
#12 Cincy v #19 VaTech Orange Bowl. Could this be the LOWEST rated BCS bowl EVER? Wait, no that'd be Wake/Louisville from a few years back. You think the Orange bowl might actually be pushing for a playoff? I would if I was the OBCommish. Your tie-ins are the Big East and the ACC? Really? Or if I was in charge of the OB's picks, I'd just take USC and Texas and then say, "WHAT, I HAD the first and second pick. Sorry Rose Bowl." I'd bet anything that Carroll would LOVE that matchup. Oh well. As for this snoozefest, go with Cincy? The Fighting Larrys!
#25 Ole Miss v #7 Texas Tech Cotton Bowl. I love Ole Miss and actually have them winning the SEC West next year (assuming Hardy comes back). Their offense has playmakers and should be able to take advantage of a young Bama team and a crappily coached LSU team and an Arkie team that is still one year away from competing. Meanwhile, my Red Raiders might be a little disappointed to be in this game. I know EVERYONE is calling this one as their upset, but I think it is because it is going to happen. Watch out for Ole Miss next year!
UK v ECU Liberty Bowl. I would normally go with UK, but I just say Randall Cobb is out and Mike "put on your" Hartline is back in. See Sportsbyfletch sometimes gives you sports info too....not often and usually it is WAY after updates on The Hills, but HEY, STOP COMPLAINING! Take the buttpirates in this one. And PS, Daddio says that Skip Holtz is being talked about as UVa's next coach. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
#6 Utah v #4 Bama Sugar Bowl. Now that Andre Smith is out, that means......Bama only wins by 20 points. FREAKING UTAH!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Yeah, the OLine will still be fine, even without Big ole Andre Smith. Saban wins the Sugar Bowl and gets booed right out of Nawlins. HEY LSU, GET OVER YOURSELVES!
#10 Ohio State V #3 Texas Fiesta. Let's put this game this way, I am in a confidence pool where you pick all of the bowls straight up and you win by putting a confidence score by the outcome. If you are super-confident, you put a higher score. If it is a tossup, you go with a 1 or 2. You get the idea. I put this game at 34 for Texas, ONLY BECAUSE I COULDN'T GO ANY HIGHER! Ohio State ALWAYS craps the bed in big games. This is considered a big game. Sorry Mr. Gibbons, but duh Ohio State loses AGAIN!
#2 Florida v #1 OU. This might be the most lopsided score in a national championship game since Florida smacked duh Ohio State. Actually, I am hoping that Florida gets a little too full of themselves with EVERYONE predicting them to win that it gives OU the "no one believed in us" card. But with no DeMarco Murray, it is going to be hard for OU to keep up with Florida. Sorry OU, I know you've scored 60+ in 8 straight games, but that was against Mizzou and Okie State and the rest of the crapsack defenses of the Big 12. You haven't seen a D like Florida's. I think Timmy Tebow wins his first national title (hey front-running Florida fans, Chris Leak won the one two years ago. And why weren't you flying the flags and rocking the magnets last year when the team lost to MICHIGAN?)
Local rooting interest.
Atlanta v Arizona, 1st round playoff game. WAIT, this is a pro game. Yeah, but with UGA struggling and GT being a bunch of D&D nerds, I figure, why not follow the Falcons in the playoffs? Hey they could go to the NFC championship game? THEY COULD! And NO ONE jumps on a bandwagon QUITE LIKE ATLANTA! (Well, except for Florida gator fans who, before 2006 didn't realize the school had a basketball program.) Why not follow the Falcons now they have a QB that DOESN'T dogfight in his spare time, but actually watches game film? It is an interesting concept! I think the ATL Dirty Bird Express goes to the Valley of the Sun and comes back with a spot in the second round. Hey, it could happen. Abraham could break Kurt Warner. The Cards looked pretty uninterested against New England. Maybe if Matty Ice gets up big, the Cards will fall like...a house of cards. Take the Birds! (the Falcons I mean. A cardinal is a bird too I guess.)
LSU v #14GT in the Chick-fil-a bowl. LSU is NOT interested in being here and GT fans will want to beat the defending BCS Champ. Then we'll have to hear how GT's offense could totally work in the SEC. Hey, dum-dum, you've beaten Missy State (awful team who asked Sly Croom to resign. Racists!), UGA (horrible Defense. the team should drop to the SoCon!) and maybe now LSU. Kudos. This one year TOTALLY makes up for the last 7 right? Yeah, keep telling yourselves that when you are playing before New Year's Day. GT wins though.
#15 Georgia v #18 Michigan State, Capital One Bowl. What's in your wallet? I CARRY A MONEY CLIP, THANK YOU! Listen, UGA doesn't want to be here and MSU is thrilled. Doesn't matter. If UGA can stop Javon Ringer (and don't think the defense hasn't had the press clippings drilled into its heads over the last month), it wins. Even if it DOESN'T stop Ringer, he will have to keep up with KM24 (MSU can't stop him) and Stafford to Green/MoMass (MSU won't be able to stop them). I am seeing this as how the Kentucky game played out with UGA scoring at will and coming up at the end with the stop to win the game. Dawgs take it, but if you are gambling, take the points and MichState. UGA wins 35-31.
Have a great and safe new year's eve eve everybody. Talk to you tomorrow before I board the plane
Monday, December 29, 2008
Let's put the CO in defensive coordinator!
John Chavis will become the next DC at LSU. A missed opportunity if I've ever seen one for Georgia head coach Mark Richt. CMR has said repeatedly that Willie Martinez will be BACK in Athens next season as Defensive Coordinator. Fine. I never thought Willie should have been fired just one season after his defense ate Heisman winner Tim Tebow alive. He just didn't have the personnel to run with his scheme this year.
The bad part is that he didn't recognize this until it was too late and his D was shredded by Paul Johnson's triple option.
Perhaps someone should be brought in to help out Willie. Someone to bounce ideas off him, perhaps offer another way to attack an offense. I believe a co-coordinator would help out the UGA defense more than CMR and WM would know. That man COULD have been John Chavis, but I doubt he'd have gone for the "co" thing, especially with LSU and Klimpsen on the table. But how about a guy that knows the state of Georgia and has had some success around these parts.
The man I speak of is Jon Tenuta. I know, I know....TENUTA! Then man that was scorched by freshman QB Matt Stafford and first-time play caller Mike Bobo. The man was was gashed by frosh CJ Spiller. But this guy knows his blitzes. He is highly thought of by everyone in the biz and I am SURE he'd LOVE to get out of Notre Dame and back potentially kicking the butt of the guy that got "his job!" Plus, by coming on, even for one year, maybe he holds out for the UVA job aka his alma mater. Hey, if the Wahoos cannot get Tubs, Tenuta might be a pretty nice backup option.
Bottom line, the UGA defense needs some help and that help could come from Tenuta. Plus, how fun would it be to have Tenuta on our side? TENUTA!
(And while we're at it, I know I have written this previously, but CMR, bring Tubs onto the staff for ONE YEAR. Let him coach special teams, whatever. Just put him on the staff, if you guys REALLY ARE such great buds. He's gone in a year too, but with Tenuta and Tuberville on the staff....think of the recruits!)
The bad part is that he didn't recognize this until it was too late and his D was shredded by Paul Johnson's triple option.
Perhaps someone should be brought in to help out Willie. Someone to bounce ideas off him, perhaps offer another way to attack an offense. I believe a co-coordinator would help out the UGA defense more than CMR and WM would know. That man COULD have been John Chavis, but I doubt he'd have gone for the "co" thing, especially with LSU and Klimpsen on the table. But how about a guy that knows the state of Georgia and has had some success around these parts.
The man I speak of is Jon Tenuta. I know, I know....TENUTA! Then man that was scorched by freshman QB Matt Stafford and first-time play caller Mike Bobo. The man was was gashed by frosh CJ Spiller. But this guy knows his blitzes. He is highly thought of by everyone in the biz and I am SURE he'd LOVE to get out of Notre Dame and back potentially kicking the butt of the guy that got "his job!" Plus, by coming on, even for one year, maybe he holds out for the UVA job aka his alma mater. Hey, if the Wahoos cannot get Tubs, Tenuta might be a pretty nice backup option.
Bottom line, the UGA defense needs some help and that help could come from Tenuta. Plus, how fun would it be to have Tenuta on our side? TENUTA!
(And while we're at it, I know I have written this previously, but CMR, bring Tubs onto the staff for ONE YEAR. Let him coach special teams, whatever. Just put him on the staff, if you guys REALLY ARE such great buds. He's gone in a year too, but with Tenuta and Tuberville on the staff....think of the recruits!)
I was 0-fer the the Falcons this season.
Sitting at the Falcons' Flowery Branch training facility this summer, I was thinking, "How in the world does Ovie Mughelli REALLY think this team is going to make the playoffs?" I had just finished an interview with him for 790 and he ended it by predicting that the team would be still playing the first week of January. Chadd Scott and I thought he was a bit crazy, maybe the Georgia heat was getting to him, but sure enough he was right and I was wrong.
I didn't think this team could win more than 6 games, and that was if EVERYTHING broke for them. They won 11.
I didn't think this team could start a rookie QB from Day 1 and be successful. I was wrong. I was in the camp of taking Glen Dorsey and then grabbing a Bradford or McCoy or Stafford in 2009. Matty Ice though played his cards perfectly. He came in ON TIME (hey JaMarcus, take notes!) and he worked with what the coordinator gave him (VYoung!). He didn't try and do too much, just what was asked of him and he continually studied and tried to better himself (Vick!). Good for him and good for Paul Mac's Falcons.
I didn't think the Baker pick was worth the booty the team gave up. I didn't have a problem with packaging several picks together to get another #1, but to grab Baker that early? Well, I was wrong again. When he played a full game, the team was 7-0 or something.
I didn't know how Michael Turner would react as a full time back. I am not 100% wrong on this one. He sometimes disappeared in too many big games, but he certainly had the numbers at the end of the season.
I didn't think Roddy White would ever get over his stoopidness with the "Free Vick" shirt, but the Ryan-to-White connection might be a Montana-to-Rice in the making. And I am NOT out of line by putting that out there.
I didn't think Michael Jenkins would even make the team, but not only did he make a bigtime splash, but he signed a deal that will keep him here for a few more seasons. Did he get a hand transplant? And Harry Douglas was a good pickup, despite what JM and DD said the day of the draft. I knew it was a pretty good pickup. I guess that was ONE I got right.
I didn't think the defensive line would be as effective as it was (for the first half of the season), but Abraham was a beast who should have made the Pro-Bowl and Jonathan the Dawg-Killa Babineaux was pretty solid. Even Gravy Jackson was a run-stopper. This team really didn't miss Rod Coleman in there. Too Bad Jamaal Anderson is a waste of a jersey.
The LBs were a surprise: Curtis Lofton should be Defensive RoY. Michael Boley took a step back and Keith Brooking is still a pilejumper. But Lofton is solid.
The DBs, they need work. Lawyer Malloy is great but he is 92 years old. Chris Houston needs to get better, but you can tell he is on the way. Grimes and Hutchins should give the team another good option next season. Coleman, enh. Chevis Jackson is a nice nickle back there. Let's hope Dominique Foxworth loses the mapquest directions to the Dome and FloBranch next season.
Lastly, I didn't think Elam was the way to go. I wish the team had taken Coutu in the draft. But Elam won the team Da Bears game, even though he nearly cost the team the game. I told DD that day in FloBranch that Elam would win the team a game, but I would have rather saved a bit of money there and put it towards another WLB.
Bottom line, the Falcons are still alive, something the Patriots cannot say, same with the Redskins, Packers, Cowboys, Jets and Broncos. Good for the Falcons and good for Paul Mac. He deserved this after the pain he went through last season.
I didn't think this team could win more than 6 games, and that was if EVERYTHING broke for them. They won 11.
I didn't think this team could start a rookie QB from Day 1 and be successful. I was wrong. I was in the camp of taking Glen Dorsey and then grabbing a Bradford or McCoy or Stafford in 2009. Matty Ice though played his cards perfectly. He came in ON TIME (hey JaMarcus, take notes!) and he worked with what the coordinator gave him (VYoung!). He didn't try and do too much, just what was asked of him and he continually studied and tried to better himself (Vick!). Good for him and good for Paul Mac's Falcons.
I didn't think the Baker pick was worth the booty the team gave up. I didn't have a problem with packaging several picks together to get another #1, but to grab Baker that early? Well, I was wrong again. When he played a full game, the team was 7-0 or something.
I didn't know how Michael Turner would react as a full time back. I am not 100% wrong on this one. He sometimes disappeared in too many big games, but he certainly had the numbers at the end of the season.
I didn't think Roddy White would ever get over his stoopidness with the "Free Vick" shirt, but the Ryan-to-White connection might be a Montana-to-Rice in the making. And I am NOT out of line by putting that out there.
I didn't think Michael Jenkins would even make the team, but not only did he make a bigtime splash, but he signed a deal that will keep him here for a few more seasons. Did he get a hand transplant? And Harry Douglas was a good pickup, despite what JM and DD said the day of the draft. I knew it was a pretty good pickup. I guess that was ONE I got right.
I didn't think the defensive line would be as effective as it was (for the first half of the season), but Abraham was a beast who should have made the Pro-Bowl and Jonathan the Dawg-Killa Babineaux was pretty solid. Even Gravy Jackson was a run-stopper. This team really didn't miss Rod Coleman in there. Too Bad Jamaal Anderson is a waste of a jersey.
The LBs were a surprise: Curtis Lofton should be Defensive RoY. Michael Boley took a step back and Keith Brooking is still a pilejumper. But Lofton is solid.
The DBs, they need work. Lawyer Malloy is great but he is 92 years old. Chris Houston needs to get better, but you can tell he is on the way. Grimes and Hutchins should give the team another good option next season. Coleman, enh. Chevis Jackson is a nice nickle back there. Let's hope Dominique Foxworth loses the mapquest directions to the Dome and FloBranch next season.
Lastly, I didn't think Elam was the way to go. I wish the team had taken Coutu in the draft. But Elam won the team Da Bears game, even though he nearly cost the team the game. I told DD that day in FloBranch that Elam would win the team a game, but I would have rather saved a bit of money there and put it towards another WLB.
Bottom line, the Falcons are still alive, something the Patriots cannot say, same with the Redskins, Packers, Cowboys, Jets and Broncos. Good for the Falcons and good for Paul Mac. He deserved this after the pain he went through last season.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
A Christmas weekend picks-my gift to you!
Ahhhhh, I've really been meaning to post my picks for the bowl season, but really the bowls don't begin until after Christmas. They shouldn't begin until after Christmas I should say. I mean do we REALLY need the Armed Forces Bowl between Navy and Wake Forest? I mean, we've SEEN THAT ONE BEFORE! Eliminate half of the bowls and make the minimum 7 wins. It used to be an honor to go to a bowl....not so much anymore. Make the bowls mean something again. THAT'S WHAT I SAY. It should be a reward, not a right. And if you go 6-6, you CANNOT GO TO A BOWL. Period.
But it is the Christmas season, so I will allow the losers that aren't good enough to play at schools that can actually make it to a New Year's Day bowl to have their day. With no further ado....(and since I will be away from the computer for the next few days. Hey, It is Christmas, I need a day off! I'm not Bob Cratchett. Wait, is that how you spell it?) THE CHRISTMAS WEEKEND PICKS!
#9 Boise State v #11 TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl. I don't care that it is two teams in the top 11. Neither of these teams can hold a candle to the big boys. TCU lost to OU. Boise State lost in 2005 to UGA. Oh, you beat Oklahoma in 2006, big whoop! You want respect? Play a REAL team EVERY YEAR. And beat that team. I have more respect for TCU with a loss than I do for "undefeated" Boise State. Give me a break. I won't be watching this game, because I will be on a plane, but I wouldn't watch if I was at home. REALLY? You guys with no money on this game will REALLY be watching? Come on....TCU wins.
Hawaii v Notre Dame in the Hawaii Bowl. The biggest question on ESPN about this game is....will Charlie the Hutt wear a Hawaii shirt? He will REALLY look like a tiki hut if he does. Do you think that when he gets off the plane, the locals will think he is some sort of volcano god and start to worship him? I bet when they have the luau, they give him his own pig. I am just thinking aloud here. Hawaii at home should win this game. Notre Dame lost to FREAKING SYRACUSE!
Florida Atlantic v Central Michigan in the Motor City Bowl. REALLY? You think I want to go to Detroit over my Christmas holiday? Will ANYONE be there? I am being serious here. Which will have more people in attendance, the ACC CHampionship or the Motor City Bowl? Tough call.....CMU wins.
West Va v UNC in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Pat White in his final game as a QB v UNC. I think it is so cute that Pat White wants to be a QB at the NFL Level. Hey Pat, so do I. But neither is happening. He won't be denied in his final game. Sorry UNC, but I've got to go with the Neers! But if UNC does win, I am going to go ahead and say they will be in the ACCCG next season. It's the JUMP-OFF!
Wisco v FSU in the Champs Sports Bowl. My how FSU has fallen. I just wonder if ESPN will admit that maybe it jumped the gun with Bert Belima (spelling I am sure). BB and Chase Daniel.....hey, do you guys need me to pitch in with producing advice? Or should we just get Double D Chadd Scott back in charge up there? Go with FSU in this one.
Cali v Miami in the Emerald Bowl. I wonder how they will play with the Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion all walking around the field? The yellow-brick road reminds me of my sophomore year, playing two-hand touch football in the Hill Hall Parking lot. I remember once, I was defending our friend JJ Lewis deep and it was the last snap, if they scored, they won. If we stopped them, we won. CT threw it deep and JJ had a step on me. What did I do though? The only thing ANY good CB would do....I laid out and knocked the ball away. We won, but I got up and my arm was bloody after sliding about 6 feet on the pavement. My leg was bleeding and I couldn't bend my arm. I remember wearing Tony Wright's Letterman Jacket that night to go see The Ladies Man at Tate. That's the first time I met Poon! Anyways, I am sure I should have gone to the Health Center for a splint or something. I couldn't move my arm, but if I had, I would have missed the not-very-funny movie. My arm hurt for a few days. I used THAT as my excuse for not going to Botany class. Whew! As far as this game, go with Cali and Miami just might fire Randy Shannon and hire Tubs IMMEDIATELY after the game.
Northern Illinois v LaTech in the Independence Bowl. Normally this game has an SEC team in it, but not enough SEC teams qualified. If you listen to Lisa of Suwanee, a caller from my radio show a few weeks back, it is because the SEC sucks and the ACC is better. They have 10 teams in Bowl games. Yeah, and your conference champ is ranked #19. For the record. Too bad though that Arkie couldn't make it to this game though. It would have given Bobby Petrino the spotlight where he could have been asked about the Falcons job he left last year and how the Falcons are 9000X better without him rather than with him. Oh well....I actually don't care that much, but that last rant was for PMac. As far as this game, let's say Derek Dooley and the LaTechsters win because I don't know the NIU coach.
There it is! Happy third-eighth nights of Hanukkah and Merry Christmas! Happy Boxing Day to the Canadians and Have a Swell Kwanzaa to the 8 people that read Curtis! Talk to you all Monday.
(PS I went back and rewatched all of the Chrismakkuh Episodes of the OC, and if I had to rank them...Season 2, Season 4, Season 1, with season 3 pulling up lame...much like Johnny! I didn't really think about it, but the season 4 was the "It's a Wonderful Life" spoof. Nice. I still liked #2 the best though. Best season EVER!)
But it is the Christmas season, so I will allow the losers that aren't good enough to play at schools that can actually make it to a New Year's Day bowl to have their day. With no further ado....(and since I will be away from the computer for the next few days. Hey, It is Christmas, I need a day off! I'm not Bob Cratchett. Wait, is that how you spell it?) THE CHRISTMAS WEEKEND PICKS!
#9 Boise State v #11 TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl. I don't care that it is two teams in the top 11. Neither of these teams can hold a candle to the big boys. TCU lost to OU. Boise State lost in 2005 to UGA. Oh, you beat Oklahoma in 2006, big whoop! You want respect? Play a REAL team EVERY YEAR. And beat that team. I have more respect for TCU with a loss than I do for "undefeated" Boise State. Give me a break. I won't be watching this game, because I will be on a plane, but I wouldn't watch if I was at home. REALLY? You guys with no money on this game will REALLY be watching? Come on....TCU wins.
Hawaii v Notre Dame in the Hawaii Bowl. The biggest question on ESPN about this game is....will Charlie the Hutt wear a Hawaii shirt? He will REALLY look like a tiki hut if he does. Do you think that when he gets off the plane, the locals will think he is some sort of volcano god and start to worship him? I bet when they have the luau, they give him his own pig. I am just thinking aloud here. Hawaii at home should win this game. Notre Dame lost to FREAKING SYRACUSE!
Florida Atlantic v Central Michigan in the Motor City Bowl. REALLY? You think I want to go to Detroit over my Christmas holiday? Will ANYONE be there? I am being serious here. Which will have more people in attendance, the ACC CHampionship or the Motor City Bowl? Tough call.....CMU wins.
West Va v UNC in the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Pat White in his final game as a QB v UNC. I think it is so cute that Pat White wants to be a QB at the NFL Level. Hey Pat, so do I. But neither is happening. He won't be denied in his final game. Sorry UNC, but I've got to go with the Neers! But if UNC does win, I am going to go ahead and say they will be in the ACCCG next season. It's the JUMP-OFF!
Wisco v FSU in the Champs Sports Bowl. My how FSU has fallen. I just wonder if ESPN will admit that maybe it jumped the gun with Bert Belima (spelling I am sure). BB and Chase Daniel.....hey, do you guys need me to pitch in with producing advice? Or should we just get Double D Chadd Scott back in charge up there? Go with FSU in this one.
Cali v Miami in the Emerald Bowl. I wonder how they will play with the Scarecrow, Tinman and Lion all walking around the field? The yellow-brick road reminds me of my sophomore year, playing two-hand touch football in the Hill Hall Parking lot. I remember once, I was defending our friend JJ Lewis deep and it was the last snap, if they scored, they won. If we stopped them, we won. CT threw it deep and JJ had a step on me. What did I do though? The only thing ANY good CB would do....I laid out and knocked the ball away. We won, but I got up and my arm was bloody after sliding about 6 feet on the pavement. My leg was bleeding and I couldn't bend my arm. I remember wearing Tony Wright's Letterman Jacket that night to go see The Ladies Man at Tate. That's the first time I met Poon! Anyways, I am sure I should have gone to the Health Center for a splint or something. I couldn't move my arm, but if I had, I would have missed the not-very-funny movie. My arm hurt for a few days. I used THAT as my excuse for not going to Botany class. Whew! As far as this game, go with Cali and Miami just might fire Randy Shannon and hire Tubs IMMEDIATELY after the game.
Northern Illinois v LaTech in the Independence Bowl. Normally this game has an SEC team in it, but not enough SEC teams qualified. If you listen to Lisa of Suwanee, a caller from my radio show a few weeks back, it is because the SEC sucks and the ACC is better. They have 10 teams in Bowl games. Yeah, and your conference champ is ranked #19. For the record. Too bad though that Arkie couldn't make it to this game though. It would have given Bobby Petrino the spotlight where he could have been asked about the Falcons job he left last year and how the Falcons are 9000X better without him rather than with him. Oh well....I actually don't care that much, but that last rant was for PMac. As far as this game, let's say Derek Dooley and the LaTechsters win because I don't know the NIU coach.
There it is! Happy third-eighth nights of Hanukkah and Merry Christmas! Happy Boxing Day to the Canadians and Have a Swell Kwanzaa to the 8 people that read Curtis! Talk to you all Monday.
(PS I went back and rewatched all of the Chrismakkuh Episodes of the OC, and if I had to rank them...Season 2, Season 4, Season 1, with season 3 pulling up lame...much like Johnny! I didn't really think about it, but the season 4 was the "It's a Wonderful Life" spoof. Nice. I still liked #2 the best though. Best season EVER!)
Whose birthday is it, Frosty?
Yes, I know it is Jesus's b-day, but last time I checked, he wasn't in your cartoon Christmas special! So why do you begin your song (played on B98.5) with "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" ? Just wondering....
Now then, on to last night's episode of The Hills. I am sorry, but the whole, "Heidi's parents don't like Spencer" storyline has just been. played. out. Sorry, but it has been. We get it Adam Divello, no one like Spencer: LC doesn't, Holly doesn't, Darlene the mom doesn't. WE GET IT. You can quit hitting us across the face with it. Seriously. Stop.
Speaking of Darlene, she is so quick to bash Spencer, especially over the runaway eloping to Cabo. Ummmm last time I checked, it takes TWO to get married. Heidi was on board with it. As far as your not being there, THEY ELOPED! Plus since Spencer is smart enough to pick up on the fact that you don't like him, why would he want you to be there for his special special day? Come on! And hey Darlene, can you stop saying that Spencer manipulated Heidi? You make it sound like he is a Cult leader or something. Heidi is a grown woman of old enough age. She can make her own decisions. Maybe she is just stupid! Ever think of that Darlene? You raised an idiot! (Two actually, did you see the back tatt that Holly was sporting in the backless dress? Black tie to LC means wear lime green, to She-Pratt it means dress up like big foot and to Holly means permission to dress like a whore. Hmmm.)
But Darlene, seriously, you might want to point SOME of your anger at your own daughter instead of Spencer.
In fact, I think Spencer needs a round of applause. He was about to get fake married in a BHCourthouse that had been rented out afterhours, but he STOPPED the ceremony, AFTER Heidi had already said "I Do," to give her the wedding she has always dreamed of...(Which he tried to give her at the end of season 3 btw). That is nice. He said he wanted to just do the justice of the peace at the courthouse, but because Heidi wanted the big deal, he would do that for her. Self-sacrificing. Wow. Good work Spence. PLUS it still gives us the chance for a Graduate ending to the series (which Wifey was right, it WILL have more episodes!).
As far as LC in the episode...yawn. Let's move to the afterparty, shall we?
What was Twitney wearing? Come on!
And as far as Justin Bobby, why does the Jessi girl (who spells her name incorrectly, so why should she mock anyone?) continue to make fun of Justin Bobby? He just gave his favorite dude a ring. Wifey wondered aloud and I agree with her that Justin Bobby hates the Hills show. I think he is really in love with Audrina, but doesn't want to be on the show. Audrina wants to stay in the 14 minutes of fame so JB acts like a prick on purpose on camera so he can be himself with Audrina when the cameras aren't on. Wifey said that the JB we saw on the Aftershow was probably the real thing: he sounded intelligent and seemed to actually care for Audrina. I think he thinks the whole thing is a joke and he can't wait for it to be over. Good for him. He is getting a bad rap. Stay strong JB and maybe just maybe you and Spencer can get your own spinoff!
I'd watch....and you KNOW you would too! Justin Bobby and Audrina move in together then Spencer joins them after LC and Heidi run off together. It would be like the Owen Wilson/Matt Dillon/Kate Hudson movie You, Me and Dupree!
Why hasn't MTV listened to any of my ideas?
-A shot at love with a bisexual guy as the prize
-the senior year of Newport Harbor, but with a focus on Grant, not Clay
-Justin, Audrina and Spencer in a 3s company type thing
-Real World: Atlanta (Did I see the RW:Brooklyn correctly? It has a transgender dude? THAT is the real new york? HUH?)
-The Ultimate RW/RR Challenge with the dream team I put out there.
These are good ideas. COME ON!
Now then, on to last night's episode of The Hills. I am sorry, but the whole, "Heidi's parents don't like Spencer" storyline has just been. played. out. Sorry, but it has been. We get it Adam Divello, no one like Spencer: LC doesn't, Holly doesn't, Darlene the mom doesn't. WE GET IT. You can quit hitting us across the face with it. Seriously. Stop.
Speaking of Darlene, she is so quick to bash Spencer, especially over the runaway eloping to Cabo. Ummmm last time I checked, it takes TWO to get married. Heidi was on board with it. As far as your not being there, THEY ELOPED! Plus since Spencer is smart enough to pick up on the fact that you don't like him, why would he want you to be there for his special special day? Come on! And hey Darlene, can you stop saying that Spencer manipulated Heidi? You make it sound like he is a Cult leader or something. Heidi is a grown woman of old enough age. She can make her own decisions. Maybe she is just stupid! Ever think of that Darlene? You raised an idiot! (Two actually, did you see the back tatt that Holly was sporting in the backless dress? Black tie to LC means wear lime green, to She-Pratt it means dress up like big foot and to Holly means permission to dress like a whore. Hmmm.)
But Darlene, seriously, you might want to point SOME of your anger at your own daughter instead of Spencer.
In fact, I think Spencer needs a round of applause. He was about to get fake married in a BHCourthouse that had been rented out afterhours, but he STOPPED the ceremony, AFTER Heidi had already said "I Do," to give her the wedding she has always dreamed of...(Which he tried to give her at the end of season 3 btw). That is nice. He said he wanted to just do the justice of the peace at the courthouse, but because Heidi wanted the big deal, he would do that for her. Self-sacrificing. Wow. Good work Spence. PLUS it still gives us the chance for a Graduate ending to the series (which Wifey was right, it WILL have more episodes!).
As far as LC in the episode...yawn. Let's move to the afterparty, shall we?
What was Twitney wearing? Come on!
And as far as Justin Bobby, why does the Jessi girl (who spells her name incorrectly, so why should she mock anyone?) continue to make fun of Justin Bobby? He just gave his favorite dude a ring. Wifey wondered aloud and I agree with her that Justin Bobby hates the Hills show. I think he is really in love with Audrina, but doesn't want to be on the show. Audrina wants to stay in the 14 minutes of fame so JB acts like a prick on purpose on camera so he can be himself with Audrina when the cameras aren't on. Wifey said that the JB we saw on the Aftershow was probably the real thing: he sounded intelligent and seemed to actually care for Audrina. I think he thinks the whole thing is a joke and he can't wait for it to be over. Good for him. He is getting a bad rap. Stay strong JB and maybe just maybe you and Spencer can get your own spinoff!
I'd watch....and you KNOW you would too! Justin Bobby and Audrina move in together then Spencer joins them after LC and Heidi run off together. It would be like the Owen Wilson/Matt Dillon/Kate Hudson movie You, Me and Dupree!
Why hasn't MTV listened to any of my ideas?
-A shot at love with a bisexual guy as the prize
-the senior year of Newport Harbor, but with a focus on Grant, not Clay
-Justin, Audrina and Spencer in a 3s company type thing
-Real World: Atlanta (Did I see the RW:Brooklyn correctly? It has a transgender dude? THAT is the real new york? HUH?)
-The Ultimate RW/RR Challenge with the dream team I put out there.
These are good ideas. COME ON!
Monday, December 22, 2008
Was 2008 a good sports year for Fletcher?
I know 2008 was a Zonetastic year for Fletcher on a personal level (he got married and every day is better than the last!) but as far as sports, was the year a good one, a great one, or a crappy year?
The year starts out with UGA winning the sUGAr bowl against Hawaii (shocker there...NOT), thus laying the ground work for a preseason #1 ranking.
Ohio State lost the title game YET AGAIN, this time to Les Miles and his Damn Good football team.
The New York Giants beat the Pats, so Boston fans finally shut up, but then New York fans started talking again.
The Hawks made the playoffs and I got to interview Kevin Durant and Jeff Green (maybe that was 2007. yeah, it was. Nevermind)
I got EVHEI, but the Braves sucked.
UGA won the men basketball SEC Tournament and I didn't have to be ashamed to be a UGA basketball fan for 4 days! But they went 4-12 the rest of the year and blew a double-digit lead in the NCAA tourney. I had them going to the Sweet 16. I'm an idiot.
UGA made a serious run in the College World Series, only to blow a 1-0 series lead and a 6 run lead in what could have been the close-out game. They lost to a guy with a broken finger that the announcers wouldn't shut up about.
The UGA football team knocked off Arizona State in Tempe with THISGUY in attendance...then got smoked by Bama and Florida, the latter with the SEC east on the line. Then the team lost to GaTech after struggling to beat UK and Auburn. Great. We ROCK!
My "new" team the Texas Tech Red Raiders promptly went out and laid an egg in the first game after I started pulling for them. THANKS LEACH!
Felton is STILL the coach of the UGA men's basketball team. But Florida didn't make the tourney. That's fun.
Florida is playing for the national title. But Tebow didn't win the Heisman!
Trey Thompkins is on the UGA basketball squad, but Bill Humphrey got kicked off the team. Darn you Felton!
The Redskins missed the playoffs, but the Falcons have clinched a berth And could even win the division with a victory Sunday, coupled with a Panthers' loss at Nawlins! COME ON DREW BREES!
Rafa Nadal beat Federer in one of the best tennis matches I've ever witnessed. The Roddick 5 setter in the Aussie open a few years back was right up there too.
Tiger making that putt on the 72nd hole at Torrey Pines was pretty awesome to watch. I am glad Paddy Harrington stepped up in his absense. I wanted something like that to happen. Paddy v Tiger at Augusta might be great, but I don't think Tiger will be healthy until maybe the British Open.
The USA won the Ryder Cup. GO ANTHONY KIM. He's my new fav golfer. I like the beltbuckle. Whatevs.
I got to watch Memphis and Robert Dozier make the NCAA finals. Wow, how good would UGA have been with Dozier on the squad? Thanks DFelton!
The GymDawgs won a national title. So did the UGA tennis team. I have to get my victories SOMEWHERE!
The Olympics proved that the USA is the best country in the world. Hey China, sorry you couldn't invent more events rigged for you guys to win. How about three-man diving? Or being small? We have Phelps! and our girls gymnastics team was legit and legal. I mean they still lost, but at least the US played within the rules. How about the basketball team too? See, when we put our BEST out there instead of AI and Marbury, the US cannot be beaten! Now sit down Greece, Argentina and Spain!
Josh Childress thought he was sticking it to the Hawks by signing with a team in Greece...peace, bro. The money the Hawks would have tied up in you went to three guys and the Hawks are better without you than they EVER were with you.
Bottom line I give this year a C-. Had such potential, but the football team LET ME DOWN.
The year starts out with UGA winning the sUGAr bowl against Hawaii (shocker there...NOT), thus laying the ground work for a preseason #1 ranking.
Ohio State lost the title game YET AGAIN, this time to Les Miles and his Damn Good football team.
The New York Giants beat the Pats, so Boston fans finally shut up, but then New York fans started talking again.
The Hawks made the playoffs and I got to interview Kevin Durant and Jeff Green (maybe that was 2007. yeah, it was. Nevermind)
I got EVHEI, but the Braves sucked.
UGA won the men basketball SEC Tournament and I didn't have to be ashamed to be a UGA basketball fan for 4 days! But they went 4-12 the rest of the year and blew a double-digit lead in the NCAA tourney. I had them going to the Sweet 16. I'm an idiot.
UGA made a serious run in the College World Series, only to blow a 1-0 series lead and a 6 run lead in what could have been the close-out game. They lost to a guy with a broken finger that the announcers wouldn't shut up about.
The UGA football team knocked off Arizona State in Tempe with THISGUY in attendance...then got smoked by Bama and Florida, the latter with the SEC east on the line. Then the team lost to GaTech after struggling to beat UK and Auburn. Great. We ROCK!
My "new" team the Texas Tech Red Raiders promptly went out and laid an egg in the first game after I started pulling for them. THANKS LEACH!
Felton is STILL the coach of the UGA men's basketball team. But Florida didn't make the tourney. That's fun.
Florida is playing for the national title. But Tebow didn't win the Heisman!
Trey Thompkins is on the UGA basketball squad, but Bill Humphrey got kicked off the team. Darn you Felton!
The Redskins missed the playoffs, but the Falcons have clinched a berth And could even win the division with a victory Sunday, coupled with a Panthers' loss at Nawlins! COME ON DREW BREES!
Rafa Nadal beat Federer in one of the best tennis matches I've ever witnessed. The Roddick 5 setter in the Aussie open a few years back was right up there too.
Tiger making that putt on the 72nd hole at Torrey Pines was pretty awesome to watch. I am glad Paddy Harrington stepped up in his absense. I wanted something like that to happen. Paddy v Tiger at Augusta might be great, but I don't think Tiger will be healthy until maybe the British Open.
The USA won the Ryder Cup. GO ANTHONY KIM. He's my new fav golfer. I like the beltbuckle. Whatevs.
I got to watch Memphis and Robert Dozier make the NCAA finals. Wow, how good would UGA have been with Dozier on the squad? Thanks DFelton!
The GymDawgs won a national title. So did the UGA tennis team. I have to get my victories SOMEWHERE!
The Olympics proved that the USA is the best country in the world. Hey China, sorry you couldn't invent more events rigged for you guys to win. How about three-man diving? Or being small? We have Phelps! and our girls gymnastics team was legit and legal. I mean they still lost, but at least the US played within the rules. How about the basketball team too? See, when we put our BEST out there instead of AI and Marbury, the US cannot be beaten! Now sit down Greece, Argentina and Spain!
Josh Childress thought he was sticking it to the Hawks by signing with a team in Greece...peace, bro. The money the Hawks would have tied up in you went to three guys and the Hawks are better without you than they EVER were with you.
Bottom line I give this year a C-. Had such potential, but the football team LET ME DOWN.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
LOOK IN THE MIRROR GIRLS!
I just finished reading a piece in ESPN The Magazine (ps, hey editors, my resume is available if needed....) where Serena and Venus Williams were being interviewed about their 2008 year, and the piece left me a bit befuddled. At one point, Venus Williams tells the author about her Wimbledon victory (her fifth career btw), "I'm a little disappointed to be honest. I was hoping to have more by now. I was thinking more like 10."
This is interesting if you ask me. This is Venus Williams who at one point stepped away from tennis to start a fashion line, correct? She was wearing her latest concoction to play at the French Open. She was appearing on Letterman and Leno instead of practicing. She was doing the talk shows while Justine Henin was hitting balls.
And a quote from Serena hit me as odd too. "They'll have to drag me out back and shoot me." Really? Or offer you a job on Law & Order. Serena didn't exactly overexert herself getting back from an "injury" while Amile Muresmo or Kim Clijsters was dominating the tennis scene. Serena was too busy ALSO doing Letterman or dating Lavar Arrington to keep practicing or rehabbing. She was doing commercials and also showing up in one-piece catsuits to play tennis.
It always seemed that it was more of a spectacle than a sport for the Williams sisters. Don't know why. Maybe they think they are nearing the end of their careers and they realize that they both could have truly ruled tennis. They should know that if they had given it their all, the records would NEVER be broken. They dominated the sport, in bursts. Then they'd go off and make a fashion line. I don't feel bad for them. They did it to themselves. And it makes me a bit angry when they wonder aloud, "Gosh I wish I had ten Wimbledon titles!" Maybe you should have taken it more seriously. Maybe instead of shooting an episode of Nip/Tuck you should have been hitting with the ball machine.
These days it seems that it is all about making yourself a brand. LeBron and Dwyane do it, the Williams sisters did it. Jeter does it. And good for all of those guys. But I am guessing LeBron wishes maybe he was Tim Duncan. Tiger, as much as he does the ads, you see him on the practice greens. You see him on the driving range. You will never seen Tiger towards the end of his career say, "Gosh I wish I had won more Masters titles. He realizes his gifts and he is taking advantage of it. Tiger is using golf to accomplish golf. The Williams sisters always seemed to use the Tennis to get their other stuff done. Which is FINE. I won't fault them for it. But PLEASE don't go back and wish you had done more. This was your own doing, gals. And your looking back at your careers, wishing you could have done more, THAT JUST PISSES ME OFF.
This is interesting if you ask me. This is Venus Williams who at one point stepped away from tennis to start a fashion line, correct? She was wearing her latest concoction to play at the French Open. She was appearing on Letterman and Leno instead of practicing. She was doing the talk shows while Justine Henin was hitting balls.
And a quote from Serena hit me as odd too. "They'll have to drag me out back and shoot me." Really? Or offer you a job on Law & Order. Serena didn't exactly overexert herself getting back from an "injury" while Amile Muresmo or Kim Clijsters was dominating the tennis scene. Serena was too busy ALSO doing Letterman or dating Lavar Arrington to keep practicing or rehabbing. She was doing commercials and also showing up in one-piece catsuits to play tennis.
It always seemed that it was more of a spectacle than a sport for the Williams sisters. Don't know why. Maybe they think they are nearing the end of their careers and they realize that they both could have truly ruled tennis. They should know that if they had given it their all, the records would NEVER be broken. They dominated the sport, in bursts. Then they'd go off and make a fashion line. I don't feel bad for them. They did it to themselves. And it makes me a bit angry when they wonder aloud, "Gosh I wish I had ten Wimbledon titles!" Maybe you should have taken it more seriously. Maybe instead of shooting an episode of Nip/Tuck you should have been hitting with the ball machine.
These days it seems that it is all about making yourself a brand. LeBron and Dwyane do it, the Williams sisters did it. Jeter does it. And good for all of those guys. But I am guessing LeBron wishes maybe he was Tim Duncan. Tiger, as much as he does the ads, you see him on the practice greens. You see him on the driving range. You will never seen Tiger towards the end of his career say, "Gosh I wish I had won more Masters titles. He realizes his gifts and he is taking advantage of it. Tiger is using golf to accomplish golf. The Williams sisters always seemed to use the Tennis to get their other stuff done. Which is FINE. I won't fault them for it. But PLEASE don't go back and wish you had done more. This was your own doing, gals. And your looking back at your careers, wishing you could have done more, THAT JUST PISSES ME OFF.
Move UGA to the Southern Conference!
I just finished watching UGA eek out a win over Wofford and the first thing that came to my mind (Other than hoping that UGA loses the rest of the team's games so Felton gets fired) is that UGA should move to the Southern Conference. It is the ONLY logical move for the good of the program right now. I know it will hurt the tennis teams (at least the men's team. They seem to be alright) and the golf teams and the Gym Dawgs, but it would be Zonetastic for the football and basketball programs (heck even the baseball team too. Perno has them on track only once every three years. Last year was the good year, so expect an 11-40 season. Ugh.)
From what I have seen on the football team's defense, it would fit right in. True the offense would dominate, but the defense would let Furman and Ga Southern and Wofford stick around. Plus if they were in the SoCon, that would mean the Dawgs could qualify for the Division 1-AA, excuse me the FCS tournament. Coach Mark Richt just came out and said how he'd LOVE him some tournament action. And he MIGHT be able to coach em up against the lower competition. But I don't know.....Richmond looked pretty good last night. Just maybe Richt could get the offense to score enough points to overcome the defense's craptastic efforts....
Then from what I have seen from the basketball team this season, the SoCon would be Purrrfect for this squad, especially with Felton at the helm. UGA has some talent, with Thompkins and Leslie, et al, but as long as Felton is coaching this outfit, they will go 4-12 in conference play and it will take YET ANOTHER miracle for this team to make the Big Dance. BUT if UGA is in the SoCon, then the team would have a better shot at the conference tourney title. Felton is a MID-Major coach, I am sure he'd LOVE to return to the mid-major level. He's done his best to drag UGA down to it. Let's just go ahead and make it official. Put UGA in the SoCon.
Albert Jackson belongs there as he gets outrebounded by a bunch of the ragamuffins. Ricky McPhee transferred from Gardner-Webb is it? They have another transfer from one of those schools on the bench. They have Zac Swansey as the starting point guard. He hit the game-winner today and made one v Kentucky in the SEC tourney last season. He would be perfect on one of those mid-major teams that rises up to knock off one of those big teams come March. But wait, he is on one of those "big teams." Crap. Oh, and thank goodness Corey Butler is getting big time minutes for the Hoop Dawgs. Did anyone else see that three-pointer he attempted from half-court? Did Felton draw that play up? And what was up with Felton's play at the end of regulation? Was this the exchange in the huddle: "Alright guys, run around in mass confusion then whomever has the ball, just chuck it up! On three...PRAY!"? Is that how it went?
Between Felton and CMR (well, really Willie Martinez) the Georgia athletic program has dropped to the point that I think the teams would be more competitive in the SoCon. I would rather see UGA playing those guys, because I think we'd have a better shot game after game against those guys. And UGA basketball probably STILL only goes 8-8. FELTON! And now I have a nosebleed.
From what I have seen on the football team's defense, it would fit right in. True the offense would dominate, but the defense would let Furman and Ga Southern and Wofford stick around. Plus if they were in the SoCon, that would mean the Dawgs could qualify for the Division 1-AA, excuse me the FCS tournament. Coach Mark Richt just came out and said how he'd LOVE him some tournament action. And he MIGHT be able to coach em up against the lower competition. But I don't know.....Richmond looked pretty good last night. Just maybe Richt could get the offense to score enough points to overcome the defense's craptastic efforts....
Then from what I have seen from the basketball team this season, the SoCon would be Purrrfect for this squad, especially with Felton at the helm. UGA has some talent, with Thompkins and Leslie, et al, but as long as Felton is coaching this outfit, they will go 4-12 in conference play and it will take YET ANOTHER miracle for this team to make the Big Dance. BUT if UGA is in the SoCon, then the team would have a better shot at the conference tourney title. Felton is a MID-Major coach, I am sure he'd LOVE to return to the mid-major level. He's done his best to drag UGA down to it. Let's just go ahead and make it official. Put UGA in the SoCon.
Albert Jackson belongs there as he gets outrebounded by a bunch of the ragamuffins. Ricky McPhee transferred from Gardner-Webb is it? They have another transfer from one of those schools on the bench. They have Zac Swansey as the starting point guard. He hit the game-winner today and made one v Kentucky in the SEC tourney last season. He would be perfect on one of those mid-major teams that rises up to knock off one of those big teams come March. But wait, he is on one of those "big teams." Crap. Oh, and thank goodness Corey Butler is getting big time minutes for the Hoop Dawgs. Did anyone else see that three-pointer he attempted from half-court? Did Felton draw that play up? And what was up with Felton's play at the end of regulation? Was this the exchange in the huddle: "Alright guys, run around in mass confusion then whomever has the ball, just chuck it up! On three...PRAY!"? Is that how it went?
Between Felton and CMR (well, really Willie Martinez) the Georgia athletic program has dropped to the point that I think the teams would be more competitive in the SoCon. I would rather see UGA playing those guys, because I think we'd have a better shot game after game against those guys. And UGA basketball probably STILL only goes 8-8. FELTON! And now I have a nosebleed.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Furcal Jilts Braves, takes Dodgers deal
In the words of Avery Bishop from Jerry McGuire, “Sign the contract, close the deal.” The Braves might feel a bit like Jerry McGuire today as Rafael Furcal and his agent Paul Kizner accepted the Los Angeles Dodgers offer, just days after agreeing in principle to a 3 year/$30M deal with Atlanta. According to reports, Furcal and his agent were sent a terms sheet to sign, the last step in a contract, only to never sign it. Instead the agent went back to LA to seek more money. Kizner told reporters that he felt bad if the Braves were led in the wrong direction. This reminds me of Matt Cushman in Jerry McGuire when he signs with Tom Cruise’s character’s rival agent after claiming allegiance to McGuire.
The Braves had even made plans to switch Furcal to second base and move Kelly Johnson to the outfield, or it was a possibility that current shortstop Yunel Escobar could be have been packaged in a trade for a starting pitcher. But at the last minute before the terms sheet could be signed, the Dodgers came running in like Dustin Hoffman at the end of The Graduate, grabbing Furcal and leaving the Braves at the alter. While the Dodgers deal is a 3 year/$33M with a $13M option for a fourth year, it would be hard to imagine that the Braves wouldn’t have ponied up the extra cash to get the team’s shortstop from 2000-05. Let’s just hope for Furcal’s sake that he and the Dodgers don’t have that look that Ben Braddock and Elaine Robinson sport while riding on the bus at the end of The Graduate. If you never saw the movie, the smile slowly turned into an uncomfortable mindspin.
But for now, the Braves are left hanging and the offseason is quickly going down the tubes. Where do you turn next? Do you pay through the nose for either Ben Sheets or Derek Lowe? Do you still make a play for an outfielder like Rick Ankiel? Do you try and rekindle the Jake Peavy deal, with San Diego knowing that you might be willing to give up the farm to get the egg off of your face? Or do you just sit tight with a roster that went 72-90 and that has lost 4/5ths of its starting rotation? Braves GM Frank Wren has some decisions to make.
The Braves had even made plans to switch Furcal to second base and move Kelly Johnson to the outfield, or it was a possibility that current shortstop Yunel Escobar could be have been packaged in a trade for a starting pitcher. But at the last minute before the terms sheet could be signed, the Dodgers came running in like Dustin Hoffman at the end of The Graduate, grabbing Furcal and leaving the Braves at the alter. While the Dodgers deal is a 3 year/$33M with a $13M option for a fourth year, it would be hard to imagine that the Braves wouldn’t have ponied up the extra cash to get the team’s shortstop from 2000-05. Let’s just hope for Furcal’s sake that he and the Dodgers don’t have that look that Ben Braddock and Elaine Robinson sport while riding on the bus at the end of The Graduate. If you never saw the movie, the smile slowly turned into an uncomfortable mindspin.
But for now, the Braves are left hanging and the offseason is quickly going down the tubes. Where do you turn next? Do you pay through the nose for either Ben Sheets or Derek Lowe? Do you still make a play for an outfielder like Rick Ankiel? Do you try and rekindle the Jake Peavy deal, with San Diego knowing that you might be willing to give up the farm to get the egg off of your face? Or do you just sit tight with a roster that went 72-90 and that has lost 4/5ths of its starting rotation? Braves GM Frank Wren has some decisions to make.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Midweek entertainment report 12/17/08
Maria and Jen get naked, a Guy actually gets paid after a divorce and the ikki twins get farted on. Oh yeah shocker: Obama wins Time Person of the year.
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Apparently Playboy Mexico is taking some heat for having a Virgin Mary (or Maria) on its December cover. Wow. I am assuming that a model just "posed" as the Virgin Mary, I mean come on....if you have made Playboy's cover, you've slept with Hugh Hefner, so you aren't a virgin. But, really the Mexicans are THAT pissed that the Virgin Maria is depicted on Playboy? Really? I didn't realize that there were that many folks left down there! I mean I thought they were all on Cumming Highway and Roswell Road at 7am? Am I wrong?
Speaking of Naked....Jen Aniston is posing on the cover of GQ wrapped in a flag or something. WOW. She looks great. Good for John Mayer. I am still not sure about BPitt. Jolie is hot, but with her baggage, isn't Aniston the better option? I mean Billy Bob Thornton hit that for pete's sake. SO DID HER BROTHER! But she WAS hot in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Aniston is hot all of the time though. I dunno. I am not so sure that Pitt upgraded. Your thoughts?
It was released that Guy Ritchie will get $76M from Madonna as part of the divorce settlement. Hopefully he makes Snatch2 with it. But think about this: he got to sleep with Madonna (we think) for a few years THEN he got $76M. Wow. Awesome for this guy.
In the BIGGEST Shocker all year, Obama won Person of the year from Time or People, whatever. Was there ever a debate? Come on...
Finally,The "a double shot at love with the Ikki twins" report. Is it just me or is there NO real winner potential with ANY of these guys/gals? Just wondering. Rebekha (or however she incorrectly spells her name) was the favorite until Nick let slip that he thought she was flirting with Josh. When asked Xoe (not Zoey, but Xoe? HUH?) and Rebekha and Josh all denied it. WELL OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO! Did Rosie and Josh admit to making out? No. They would have gotten kicked off the show. What were the Ikki twins thinking?
Back to Rebekha, she lets slip that she has a 4.5 year old son. (To which Jen-my new favorite-says "This isn't a shot at motherhood.") Ummm, can you please answer me this: how does the lezbinen have a child? I thought they didn't sleep with men? The craziest part is:the twins still like her! Hmmmmm. (Maybe because they aren't really bisexual? Just like Rebekha?) I loved with Vikki or Rikki maybe, (i can't tell them apart) said "We're not 21! (or gay for that matter)"
-Hey James the conservative guy....way to bash gay people! Even though they aren't really gay, they are at least pretending to be which means they have to let you go. MORON!
-The black guy Coop just farted on the girls. Way to go Coop. I think you are on the wrong show. I Heart New York is on VH1. You'd fit right in with Mr. Boston.
-Wait, did Rosie just make out with Josh? I thought she was gay? OR Josh is so hot that he turns the lezbinens straight....OR she isn't gay. I think THAT'S IT. Josh isn't hot enough. His last name isn't Cole. He's one Josh that could.
-Hey Nick, STOP talking to the Twins. They hate you.
During the challenge, Scotty gets the guys DQ'ed by taking the sheets off the bed and throwing them over the wall. Right idea, wrong follow-thru. Take the sheets off and put them out of reach from the ink baloons. The girls can't throw that far (actually I was going to make the joke that they throw like girls, but since they are "lezbinens" maybe they are softball players....wait these girls are just faking. They couldn't throw very far. Let's go with original joke.)
Do we think there was enough tongue between Josh and Vikki in that kiss? Good GOD. Josh then smiles when Rosemary gets a key....hmmmmm why would he smile that a lezbinen got saved? Oh, right: SHE'S NOT REALLY GAY.
I would have inserted the joke that Kandi said after elimination that she has "a big heart, maybe it's just a little hidden." FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT. But then the Ikki twins told us that Kandi died. Therefore I will not make the fat joke.
Finally, Ben's signature move is wacking it. And he WONDERS why he's unemployed? Guy's a tool.
I also wanted to weigh in on the Auburn/Gene Chizik hire. Why is Chuck Barkley beating the "hire anyone black" drum? Really Turner Gill was the right choice? Two seasons ago Gene Chizik was THE IT GUY. He had just taken Auburn's defense to 14-0 then was the DC when Texas won the national title. He was the Muschamp/Kiffin of that year. He went to Iowa State and had two bad years. You know who else had a bad run at a first job: Pete Carroll with the Jets/Pats and Bill Belicheat with the Browns. Both are now the best coaches in college and the pros, respectively. Turner Gill meanwhile has taken Buffalo to SUCH heights such as the MAC championship? Is that right? If Gil was such a zonetastic candidate, how come Tennessee didn't consider him? Did Klimpsen? Did Washington? Did his alma mater Nebraska hire him last year?
No, no, no, and NO. Would it have made a splash? Sure. Would he have beaten Bama next season? No. Would he possibly be out of a job in 4 years? If Tuberville was fired, you betcha! Tubs runs circles around Gill. Chizik might not, but to call the hire a mistake, really ANY hire was a mistake. Tuberville should still be the coach there. Even Gill would have not been an upgrade over Tuberville.
Tuberville is an A-. Chizik is a C-. Gill is maybe a C. MAYBE.
Call me racist if you want to for questioning Gill as a candidate. I am by NO MEANS saying that Chizik was the right guy to hire. I just don't think his impact is what Sir Charles was thinking it would have been. I think Chucky just wanted a black coach in there. Why? Well I can't call him a racist because that would make me racist. Maybe he just thinks Gill or Charlie Strong would have been better and the fact that they were black had nothing to do with it. Let's go with that.
As a UGA fan, I love the selection, but I think Gill would have been JUST AS BAD. Anyway I look at it, they got rid of one of the 15 best coaches in the game. You replaced him with #79 when MAYBE you could have had #76. Big whoop. Heck, hire Barkley. Or next time, hire Barkley's guy. If he fails say, "Charles, you aren't allowed to speak anymore." That might be the best way to keep him quiet.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the midweek entertainment report!
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Apparently Playboy Mexico is taking some heat for having a Virgin Mary (or Maria) on its December cover. Wow. I am assuming that a model just "posed" as the Virgin Mary, I mean come on....if you have made Playboy's cover, you've slept with Hugh Hefner, so you aren't a virgin. But, really the Mexicans are THAT pissed that the Virgin Maria is depicted on Playboy? Really? I didn't realize that there were that many folks left down there! I mean I thought they were all on Cumming Highway and Roswell Road at 7am? Am I wrong?
Speaking of Naked....Jen Aniston is posing on the cover of GQ wrapped in a flag or something. WOW. She looks great. Good for John Mayer. I am still not sure about BPitt. Jolie is hot, but with her baggage, isn't Aniston the better option? I mean Billy Bob Thornton hit that for pete's sake. SO DID HER BROTHER! But she WAS hot in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Aniston is hot all of the time though. I dunno. I am not so sure that Pitt upgraded. Your thoughts?
It was released that Guy Ritchie will get $76M from Madonna as part of the divorce settlement. Hopefully he makes Snatch2 with it. But think about this: he got to sleep with Madonna (we think) for a few years THEN he got $76M. Wow. Awesome for this guy.
In the BIGGEST Shocker all year, Obama won Person of the year from Time or People, whatever. Was there ever a debate? Come on...
Finally,The "a double shot at love with the Ikki twins" report. Is it just me or is there NO real winner potential with ANY of these guys/gals? Just wondering. Rebekha (or however she incorrectly spells her name) was the favorite until Nick let slip that he thought she was flirting with Josh. When asked Xoe (not Zoey, but Xoe? HUH?) and Rebekha and Josh all denied it. WELL OF COURSE THEY ARE GOING TO! Did Rosie and Josh admit to making out? No. They would have gotten kicked off the show. What were the Ikki twins thinking?
Back to Rebekha, she lets slip that she has a 4.5 year old son. (To which Jen-my new favorite-says "This isn't a shot at motherhood.") Ummm, can you please answer me this: how does the lezbinen have a child? I thought they didn't sleep with men? The craziest part is:the twins still like her! Hmmmmm. (Maybe because they aren't really bisexual? Just like Rebekha?) I loved with Vikki or Rikki maybe, (i can't tell them apart) said "We're not 21! (or gay for that matter)"
-Hey James the conservative guy....way to bash gay people! Even though they aren't really gay, they are at least pretending to be which means they have to let you go. MORON!
-The black guy Coop just farted on the girls. Way to go Coop. I think you are on the wrong show. I Heart New York is on VH1. You'd fit right in with Mr. Boston.
-Wait, did Rosie just make out with Josh? I thought she was gay? OR Josh is so hot that he turns the lezbinens straight....OR she isn't gay. I think THAT'S IT. Josh isn't hot enough. His last name isn't Cole. He's one Josh that could.
-Hey Nick, STOP talking to the Twins. They hate you.
During the challenge, Scotty gets the guys DQ'ed by taking the sheets off the bed and throwing them over the wall. Right idea, wrong follow-thru. Take the sheets off and put them out of reach from the ink baloons. The girls can't throw that far (actually I was going to make the joke that they throw like girls, but since they are "lezbinens" maybe they are softball players....wait these girls are just faking. They couldn't throw very far. Let's go with original joke.)
Do we think there was enough tongue between Josh and Vikki in that kiss? Good GOD. Josh then smiles when Rosemary gets a key....hmmmmm why would he smile that a lezbinen got saved? Oh, right: SHE'S NOT REALLY GAY.
I would have inserted the joke that Kandi said after elimination that she has "a big heart, maybe it's just a little hidden." FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT. But then the Ikki twins told us that Kandi died. Therefore I will not make the fat joke.
Finally, Ben's signature move is wacking it. And he WONDERS why he's unemployed? Guy's a tool.
I also wanted to weigh in on the Auburn/Gene Chizik hire. Why is Chuck Barkley beating the "hire anyone black" drum? Really Turner Gill was the right choice? Two seasons ago Gene Chizik was THE IT GUY. He had just taken Auburn's defense to 14-0 then was the DC when Texas won the national title. He was the Muschamp/Kiffin of that year. He went to Iowa State and had two bad years. You know who else had a bad run at a first job: Pete Carroll with the Jets/Pats and Bill Belicheat with the Browns. Both are now the best coaches in college and the pros, respectively. Turner Gill meanwhile has taken Buffalo to SUCH heights such as the MAC championship? Is that right? If Gil was such a zonetastic candidate, how come Tennessee didn't consider him? Did Klimpsen? Did Washington? Did his alma mater Nebraska hire him last year?
No, no, no, and NO. Would it have made a splash? Sure. Would he have beaten Bama next season? No. Would he possibly be out of a job in 4 years? If Tuberville was fired, you betcha! Tubs runs circles around Gill. Chizik might not, but to call the hire a mistake, really ANY hire was a mistake. Tuberville should still be the coach there. Even Gill would have not been an upgrade over Tuberville.
Tuberville is an A-. Chizik is a C-. Gill is maybe a C. MAYBE.
Call me racist if you want to for questioning Gill as a candidate. I am by NO MEANS saying that Chizik was the right guy to hire. I just don't think his impact is what Sir Charles was thinking it would have been. I think Chucky just wanted a black coach in there. Why? Well I can't call him a racist because that would make me racist. Maybe he just thinks Gill or Charlie Strong would have been better and the fact that they were black had nothing to do with it. Let's go with that.
As a UGA fan, I love the selection, but I think Gill would have been JUST AS BAD. Anyway I look at it, they got rid of one of the 15 best coaches in the game. You replaced him with #79 when MAYBE you could have had #76. Big whoop. Heck, hire Barkley. Or next time, hire Barkley's guy. If he fails say, "Charles, you aren't allowed to speak anymore." That might be the best way to keep him quiet.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
a look at the sports world in 2009
Around this time of year, media outlets LOVE looking back at the sports world year that WAS... NOT SPORTSBYFLETCH! What started out as The Year of The Dawgs (sUGAr Bowl stomping of Hawaii, an SEC Championship in BBall, a gymdawgs title, tennis title, preseason #1 in football), QUICKLY turned crappy (UGA's defense, Georgia Diamond Dawgs losing to a kid with a broken finger). So why look back? Let's look ahead to 2009 how about? LET'S DO THIS THING! My 2009 predictions:
Florida wins its second BCS title in 3 years after chopping (Can't win the) Big Game Bob and OU, especially with Demarco Murray out for the Sooners. And the worst part, Tim Tebow sticks around because he realizes no one will give a rip about his circumcising Philipino children in the NFL. Seriously, will Chris Berman give a rip about Tebow when his mancrush Brett Favre is still in the league? NO! Percy Harvin and Matt Stafford both go, but Tebow stays and Florida is INSTANTLY Preseason #1. Gosh I hate Florida.
UGA basketball will STILL STINK. (unless Felton gets the boot, which sadly he won't. That SEC Tournament championship gave him enough juice for this year.)
The Giants will face the Steelers in the Super Bowl and Big Ben will win another Super Bowl, thus bringing up the argument of (Should the Giants have traded Philip Rivers to the Steeler for Ben instead of to San Diego for Eli? Maybe Rivers can even be on a pregame show to discuss this?) But Big Ben won't really win it as much as the defense and Hines Ward. And the defense.
Padraig Harrington and Tiger will somehow get paired together for the first two rounds of Augusta and it is HARRINGTON who puts Tiger to shame. Hey, Tiger is suffering from the leg injury still. He gives it a go, but Sunday at Augusta is a Tiger-free zone. Paddy wins 3 straight majors. The debate is ON about #1.
The Hawks will make the playoffs, as a #6 seed. The team will win all three home games, but lose 4 on the road to Orlando and Dwight Howard. Then Mike Bibby will leave the team because I am the ONLY person in Atlanta that appreciates him in a Hawks uni. PEOPLE JOE JOHNSON IS NOTHING WITH A POINT GUARD LIKE BIBBY OR NASH! Oh and the Lakers upset Boston in seven games to win the title.
Roger Federer wins the Aussie Open as Nadal falls early. But he recovers does Nadal to win the French....over Novak Chokeavic.
Tiger and Sergio both win a combined ZERO MAJORS this year, but Phil phinally wins his US Open.
UNC beats a #4 seed to win the NCAA men's bball championship, but for WHATEVER reason people don't have a problem with the fact that the SECOND BEST team in the country from the regular season lost in the Sweet 16 round because HEY, IT'S A TOURNEY! WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF CFB HAD ONE? NO! Then the top two teams wouldn't automatically play for the title if the BCS had a tournament. But after this season when UNC beats Arizona State, I want you to tell me that ASU is the second best team in for the 2008-09 season. PLEASE. And I will call you an idiot. MORE BCS!
The RedSox beat the Yankees in the ALCS and the wild card Mets beat the Phillies in the NLCS while the Braves finish 3rd in the NL East. The Red Sox then beat the Mets in 5 games.
The Detroit Lions take Matt Stafford with the #1 pick and he DOESN'T lead the Lions to the playoffs, but instead a 5-11 record because teams quad-cover Calvin Johnson aka HIS ONLY WEAPON! Then IJ tries to tell me on the Score Atlanta Sunday Scoreboard show that Matty Ice will be the better pro. OR THE LIONS ARE CURSED. I hope Stafford goes to the Chiefs!
The Thrashers will still suck and Kovy gets traded to the Left Coast (San Jose or Anaheim maybe?) Doesn't matter. Detroit wins the Cup on Vs. and NO ONE WATCHES!
Bill Cowher is hired to coach the Redskins. And Jason Campbell is promptly cut.
Dabo Sweeney is fired after his only season to clear the way for Tommy Tuberville, but Tubs instead takes the Miami job. Dabo is rehired......
Finally, the Georgia Bulldogs football team in 2009. After losing in Stillwater to the Pokes of Oklahoma State to open the schedule, UGA rips off several wins behind the QB tandem of Joe Cox and Aaron Murray (who will get to play MUCH more after the OSU game). Suddenly, after an off-week where the team prepares for Florida, everyone, INCLUDING myself, is thinking that UGA can knock off #1 Florida (hey our defense is playing much better. This juco DE will get to Tebow like they did two years ago! The running game with DJax and CThomas is REALLY clicking! AJ Green CANNOT BE STOPPED! How freaking good is Quinton Banks-people DON'T GO ACROSS THE MIDDLE! Curran is BACK BABY! DEXTER MOODY IS JUST A FRESHMAN! Our Oline just DOESN'T give up sacks! And I could run through those holes!). but then the Kool-aid gets flushed down the toilet as Tebow scores 4 TDs and UGA is bumped back to the Capital One Bowl for a second straight year. PENN STATE! YEAH!
The Gators meanwhile beat down Ole Miss in the SEC Title game before Tebow picks up his second Heisman(for career achievement) and the Gators prepare to face Colt McCoy and Texas in the title game in 2010. In a big rumor though, Notre Dame fires Charlie Weis in the hopes that Urban wins his third title, realizes that Tebow is about to check out and will jump to the Golden Dome....WHICH HE DOES. Florida then hires Spurrier.
But that is 2010. And I will save that for NEXT year.....
Florida wins its second BCS title in 3 years after chopping (Can't win the) Big Game Bob and OU, especially with Demarco Murray out for the Sooners. And the worst part, Tim Tebow sticks around because he realizes no one will give a rip about his circumcising Philipino children in the NFL. Seriously, will Chris Berman give a rip about Tebow when his mancrush Brett Favre is still in the league? NO! Percy Harvin and Matt Stafford both go, but Tebow stays and Florida is INSTANTLY Preseason #1. Gosh I hate Florida.
UGA basketball will STILL STINK. (unless Felton gets the boot, which sadly he won't. That SEC Tournament championship gave him enough juice for this year.)
The Giants will face the Steelers in the Super Bowl and Big Ben will win another Super Bowl, thus bringing up the argument of (Should the Giants have traded Philip Rivers to the Steeler for Ben instead of to San Diego for Eli? Maybe Rivers can even be on a pregame show to discuss this?) But Big Ben won't really win it as much as the defense and Hines Ward. And the defense.
Padraig Harrington and Tiger will somehow get paired together for the first two rounds of Augusta and it is HARRINGTON who puts Tiger to shame. Hey, Tiger is suffering from the leg injury still. He gives it a go, but Sunday at Augusta is a Tiger-free zone. Paddy wins 3 straight majors. The debate is ON about #1.
The Hawks will make the playoffs, as a #6 seed. The team will win all three home games, but lose 4 on the road to Orlando and Dwight Howard. Then Mike Bibby will leave the team because I am the ONLY person in Atlanta that appreciates him in a Hawks uni. PEOPLE JOE JOHNSON IS NOTHING WITH A POINT GUARD LIKE BIBBY OR NASH! Oh and the Lakers upset Boston in seven games to win the title.
Roger Federer wins the Aussie Open as Nadal falls early. But he recovers does Nadal to win the French....over Novak Chokeavic.
Tiger and Sergio both win a combined ZERO MAJORS this year, but Phil phinally wins his US Open.
UNC beats a #4 seed to win the NCAA men's bball championship, but for WHATEVER reason people don't have a problem with the fact that the SECOND BEST team in the country from the regular season lost in the Sweet 16 round because HEY, IT'S A TOURNEY! WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF CFB HAD ONE? NO! Then the top two teams wouldn't automatically play for the title if the BCS had a tournament. But after this season when UNC beats Arizona State, I want you to tell me that ASU is the second best team in for the 2008-09 season. PLEASE. And I will call you an idiot. MORE BCS!
The RedSox beat the Yankees in the ALCS and the wild card Mets beat the Phillies in the NLCS while the Braves finish 3rd in the NL East. The Red Sox then beat the Mets in 5 games.
The Detroit Lions take Matt Stafford with the #1 pick and he DOESN'T lead the Lions to the playoffs, but instead a 5-11 record because teams quad-cover Calvin Johnson aka HIS ONLY WEAPON! Then IJ tries to tell me on the Score Atlanta Sunday Scoreboard show that Matty Ice will be the better pro. OR THE LIONS ARE CURSED. I hope Stafford goes to the Chiefs!
The Thrashers will still suck and Kovy gets traded to the Left Coast (San Jose or Anaheim maybe?) Doesn't matter. Detroit wins the Cup on Vs. and NO ONE WATCHES!
Bill Cowher is hired to coach the Redskins. And Jason Campbell is promptly cut.
Dabo Sweeney is fired after his only season to clear the way for Tommy Tuberville, but Tubs instead takes the Miami job. Dabo is rehired......
Finally, the Georgia Bulldogs football team in 2009. After losing in Stillwater to the Pokes of Oklahoma State to open the schedule, UGA rips off several wins behind the QB tandem of Joe Cox and Aaron Murray (who will get to play MUCH more after the OSU game). Suddenly, after an off-week where the team prepares for Florida, everyone, INCLUDING myself, is thinking that UGA can knock off #1 Florida (hey our defense is playing much better. This juco DE will get to Tebow like they did two years ago! The running game with DJax and CThomas is REALLY clicking! AJ Green CANNOT BE STOPPED! How freaking good is Quinton Banks-people DON'T GO ACROSS THE MIDDLE! Curran is BACK BABY! DEXTER MOODY IS JUST A FRESHMAN! Our Oline just DOESN'T give up sacks! And I could run through those holes!). but then the Kool-aid gets flushed down the toilet as Tebow scores 4 TDs and UGA is bumped back to the Capital One Bowl for a second straight year. PENN STATE! YEAH!
The Gators meanwhile beat down Ole Miss in the SEC Title game before Tebow picks up his second Heisman(for career achievement) and the Gators prepare to face Colt McCoy and Texas in the title game in 2010. In a big rumor though, Notre Dame fires Charlie Weis in the hopes that Urban wins his third title, realizes that Tebow is about to check out and will jump to the Golden Dome....WHICH HE DOES. Florida then hires Spurrier.
But that is 2010. And I will save that for NEXT year.....
Get your title back with titlemax? or not....
I get SOOOOOOO annoyed with that commercial slogan. Get your title back with Title Max! Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't what that company is doing the exact OPPOSITE of getting your title back with Title Max? According to the commercial, you trade you car title for cash, RIGHT? Isn't that what they are selling? Then HOW are you getting your title back? You are losing it right? Am I wrong? But it just seems that the slogan is the opposite of what the company does. It would be like if I said........
-Vegetarians love a juicy steak!
-See great images by listening to the radio.
-Watch UGA win the title with Mark Richt as coach!
-go to sleep by drinking Starbucks!
-have heterosexual sex with a member of the same gender!
-live a long time by drinking POISON!
See, it is the OPPOSITE of the point of the product or action.
With that said, let's talk about THE HILLS....
Is Whitney's mom Skelator? Just wondering. She looked terrible at Twit's going away party. But I guess that just shows you how used to seeing LA/OC moms with botox/surgery featherlifts that an au natural is scary. But they were sad. And it was a REAL sad for a REAL reason, not like LC who was sad that her parents were moving out of a house she never grew up in! Wifey's parents just moved from a house they bought after her senior year of high school, much like LC's folks did. Did Wifey cry? NO! Because she didn't grow up in that house. Of course, I am thinking that The Hills producers were banking on the 14 year old girls having forgotten that LC didn't live in that house.
She turned the waterworks on AGAIN last night at the good-bye dinner with Whitney. I thought this was weird because they will still see each other at all of LC's fashion shows and MTV functions. I mean LC doesn't REALLY work at that People's revolution place in LA. She is flying everywhere putting her fashion line out there. Plus, if The City's ratings start to slip, you know Lauren will take a visit out there....As well as when The Hills is about to start back up, LC will make a cross-over promotional appearance. Comeon. Finally, LC, why are you crying. You are so good at losing friends....
I also loved the Speidy "secret" trip to Cabo...that was on TV. Real stealth there Spence. But I can't fault you. You and Justin Bobby are the ONLY redeeming characters on the entire show. (his line about "you should put up posters" was classic. He needs his OWN show. Forget Bromance. How about Justin Credible-Becoming Justin Bobby. You Don't shower or call back your "girl-friend", then ride a scooter around LA and try not to get hit by cars. It could work.) Back to Cabo and the "secret" engagment that, again was videotaped by SOMEONE! Heidi was wearing a bikini at one point with clear heels. Wifey wanted to know who does that? STRIPPERS wear that. Heidi also said that she would show Spencer "what a Wife does!" (My answer to Wifey was, "So she is going to be WONDERFUL!" Wifey rolled her eyes and hit me.)
The show ended however with Whitney getting on a plane for NY with two bags. Where is her stuff? Was it being shipped? I thought maybe she should drive a U-Haul across the country. THAT would make a great episode. Maybe put LC in the car with her. Watching the girls drive a U-Haul and talk to people, maybe stay at a Motel 6. THAT'S great TV. I am sure the U-Haul would hit another car in the parking lot of a Red Roof Inn. How come no one takes my ideas? Wifey explained to me that my idea could never happen because rich people don't do that. They have their stuff shipped. Oh. My bad.
Finally, i have a problem with Child Actors/Stars. Some of them grow up and freak out, then try to explain themselves by saying, "Well I never had a childhood, so I am messed up now." Ummmmm no. You DID have a childhood. Only instead of eating boogers you were appearing in Home Alone or singing with The Jackson 5. THAT WAS YOUR CHILDHOOD. And the fact that you are messed up now is YOUR FAULT. Don't blame your parents. it is YOUR fault. You have set yourself up for life so just act like a normal person. You don't have to be a little freak. You can be normal and just spend your money like a normal person. You don't need to be an idiot. Stop trying to blame your DUI on "your lack of a childhood." Don't blame bleaching your skin on "well I never had a childhood." Don't blame sleeping with kids on "well I just missed being a kid." I was a kid. I never tried to touch other boys when I was growing up. Sorry Michael. I never tried to divorce my parents. Sorry Mac. But I was never a child actor, so I guess I just don't know what they are going through. I just want them to stop blaming everything/one else for their own problems.
-Vegetarians love a juicy steak!
-See great images by listening to the radio.
-Watch UGA win the title with Mark Richt as coach!
-go to sleep by drinking Starbucks!
-have heterosexual sex with a member of the same gender!
-live a long time by drinking POISON!
See, it is the OPPOSITE of the point of the product or action.
With that said, let's talk about THE HILLS....
Is Whitney's mom Skelator? Just wondering. She looked terrible at Twit's going away party. But I guess that just shows you how used to seeing LA/OC moms with botox/surgery featherlifts that an au natural is scary. But they were sad. And it was a REAL sad for a REAL reason, not like LC who was sad that her parents were moving out of a house she never grew up in! Wifey's parents just moved from a house they bought after her senior year of high school, much like LC's folks did. Did Wifey cry? NO! Because she didn't grow up in that house. Of course, I am thinking that The Hills producers were banking on the 14 year old girls having forgotten that LC didn't live in that house.
She turned the waterworks on AGAIN last night at the good-bye dinner with Whitney. I thought this was weird because they will still see each other at all of LC's fashion shows and MTV functions. I mean LC doesn't REALLY work at that People's revolution place in LA. She is flying everywhere putting her fashion line out there. Plus, if The City's ratings start to slip, you know Lauren will take a visit out there....As well as when The Hills is about to start back up, LC will make a cross-over promotional appearance. Comeon. Finally, LC, why are you crying. You are so good at losing friends....
I also loved the Speidy "secret" trip to Cabo...that was on TV. Real stealth there Spence. But I can't fault you. You and Justin Bobby are the ONLY redeeming characters on the entire show. (his line about "you should put up posters" was classic. He needs his OWN show. Forget Bromance. How about Justin Credible-Becoming Justin Bobby. You Don't shower or call back your "girl-friend", then ride a scooter around LA and try not to get hit by cars. It could work.) Back to Cabo and the "secret" engagment that, again was videotaped by SOMEONE! Heidi was wearing a bikini at one point with clear heels. Wifey wanted to know who does that? STRIPPERS wear that. Heidi also said that she would show Spencer "what a Wife does!" (My answer to Wifey was, "So she is going to be WONDERFUL!" Wifey rolled her eyes and hit me.)
The show ended however with Whitney getting on a plane for NY with two bags. Where is her stuff? Was it being shipped? I thought maybe she should drive a U-Haul across the country. THAT would make a great episode. Maybe put LC in the car with her. Watching the girls drive a U-Haul and talk to people, maybe stay at a Motel 6. THAT'S great TV. I am sure the U-Haul would hit another car in the parking lot of a Red Roof Inn. How come no one takes my ideas? Wifey explained to me that my idea could never happen because rich people don't do that. They have their stuff shipped. Oh. My bad.
Finally, i have a problem with Child Actors/Stars. Some of them grow up and freak out, then try to explain themselves by saying, "Well I never had a childhood, so I am messed up now." Ummmmm no. You DID have a childhood. Only instead of eating boogers you were appearing in Home Alone or singing with The Jackson 5. THAT WAS YOUR CHILDHOOD. And the fact that you are messed up now is YOUR FAULT. Don't blame your parents. it is YOUR fault. You have set yourself up for life so just act like a normal person. You don't have to be a little freak. You can be normal and just spend your money like a normal person. You don't need to be an idiot. Stop trying to blame your DUI on "your lack of a childhood." Don't blame bleaching your skin on "well I never had a childhood." Don't blame sleeping with kids on "well I just missed being a kid." I was a kid. I never tried to touch other boys when I was growing up. Sorry Michael. I never tried to divorce my parents. Sorry Mac. But I was never a child actor, so I guess I just don't know what they are going through. I just want them to stop blaming everything/one else for their own problems.
Furcal back to the Braves?
Several inside sources speculating that the Atlanta Braves have signed shortstop Rafael Furcal. The former Brave would rejoin the team after spending three seasons in Los Angeles as a member of the Dodgers. The Braves also would have beaten out several teams for the leadoff man’s services including Oakland, San Francisco, Kansas City and LA. Neither the team nor Furcal’s agent has confirmed the deal as of 9 am Tuesday morning. Furcal played with Atlanta from 2000-2005. For his career, Furcal is a .286 hitter with 1328 hits and 259 stolen bases. Furcal’s game though is as a leadoff hitter and his .352 sets the table. His 2008 OBP of .439 helped the Dodgers advance to the NLCS. He has also scored more than 100 runs four times and at least 87 runs in seven of his nine seasons. He was recently offered a 4 year/$40M deal from Oakland.
if this actually happened, that would be AWESOME. True, Furcal was hurt last season, but you saw how he played down the stretch. He and ManRam carried that team into the playoffs. Manny was good, great even, but Furcal was JUST as important down the stretch and in the playoffs.
But Furcal back on the Braves FINALLY gives the team the table setter that Giles, Johnson and Escobar couldn't be. It just gives the Braves a tablesetter at the top and would allow the #2 (Escobar if Furcal plays 2nd or Johnson if Escobar is traded and Furcal DOES play short) and #3 (CJones) hitters to drive him in OVER AND OVER. With the leadoff situation FINALLY solved (if it is....) and with a shortstop, perhaps NOW Escobar can be shipped for either RHP/ACE Jake Peavy or a leftfielder (Rick Ankiel perhaps?).
Bottom line, the Braves probably would have loved to have had AJ Burnett, but if you can get Furcal AND Peavy instead, your ballclub is better.
if this actually happened, that would be AWESOME. True, Furcal was hurt last season, but you saw how he played down the stretch. He and ManRam carried that team into the playoffs. Manny was good, great even, but Furcal was JUST as important down the stretch and in the playoffs.
But Furcal back on the Braves FINALLY gives the team the table setter that Giles, Johnson and Escobar couldn't be. It just gives the Braves a tablesetter at the top and would allow the #2 (Escobar if Furcal plays 2nd or Johnson if Escobar is traded and Furcal DOES play short) and #3 (CJones) hitters to drive him in OVER AND OVER. With the leadoff situation FINALLY solved (if it is....) and with a shortstop, perhaps NOW Escobar can be shipped for either RHP/ACE Jake Peavy or a leftfielder (Rick Ankiel perhaps?).
Bottom line, the Braves probably would have loved to have had AJ Burnett, but if you can get Furcal AND Peavy instead, your ballclub is better.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Bob the wrong Survivor winner?
Over the past few weeks, Wifey and I have thought that YES, Bob should have won Survivor, and he did. Good for him. He turned out to be the best in terms of winning the competitions and HEY, he outfired Matty in the tiebreaker.
But in the final three, I thought perhaps he would have swept the vote...until I talked it through with Wifey.
Of the final three, yes Bob created the fake idol and used it on Randy, and YES Bob won 5 straight challenges....but Sugar and Susie might have played better games. Susan, without realizing it and Sugar, who never stood a chance with the jury, but she should have.
Sue in her speech talked about how she didn't think she'd make it, but how she wanted to prove to herself and her son and students that she kept trying. She SHOULD have said that there were only TWO TIMES when she was seriously in danger and yet she won both immunity challenges. She stepped up when necessary. AND it was her flopping that CHANGED the game. It sent Marcus, Charlie, Randy and Corrine home. She was a MAJOR player, but I just don't think she realized it at the time. (Kenny really masterminded that one. Sorry Crystal, you were a coattail rider there. Kenny probably SHOULD have been in the final three because he was ACTUALLY playing the game the best? He got Ace, Marcus, Charlie, Randy and Corrine gone. And he did it when he should have been gone a LONG time ago.)
Sugar meanwhile certainly didn't gain any friends, but she sure enough outlasted all of the jury and I LOVE it when people cannot give respect and credit to a player who PLAYED THE GAME the best. She jumped around and attached herself to the right people at the right time. Heck, she was in exile the entire time, played her cards correctly and got to the end. She even picked the winner, really. She threw curveball after curveball and Greg Madduxed everyone. Did the people on the jury like her? Probably not, but they should have respected her game. If they thought her game was crap because she lied and didn't play honorably, well you played a dumb game MARCUS. you could have been at the final three with Charlie and Corrine if you had just let Crystal and Kenny go instead of trying to get Crystal to "blindside Susan." pretty dumb on your part. Sugar's name was never written down and good for her. She played Kenny and Crystal, then dumped them when they were useless to her.
I do think that Sugar was the best free agent player of the game, Susan had the biggest impact when she flipped, Kenny was the brains (who I was really rooting for until he turned so cocky. That did him in and I think he realized it in the reunion show). But Bob was the most likeable and best competitor (really over Matty and Crystal? Matty, what a disappointment and Crystal was a goldmedalist in SUCKING). As for Matty going against Bob (he had the pact with Sue), Kenny going against Bob (get over it dude, you got caught and you STILL never admitted it!) and Crystal going against Bob (you are STILL being influenced by Kenny? Are you going to be able to make it now that Kenny isn't calling your shots back in your regular life?) come on guys.
Bob should have swept the vote. But he won. Good for him. I liked him. I was rooting for Matty, but then jumped on the Bob bandwagon with the fake idol. I also think Corrine is a mean and nasty person. what she said....wow. Jeff should have been harder on her during the reunion
But in the final three, I thought perhaps he would have swept the vote...until I talked it through with Wifey.
Of the final three, yes Bob created the fake idol and used it on Randy, and YES Bob won 5 straight challenges....but Sugar and Susie might have played better games. Susan, without realizing it and Sugar, who never stood a chance with the jury, but she should have.
Sue in her speech talked about how she didn't think she'd make it, but how she wanted to prove to herself and her son and students that she kept trying. She SHOULD have said that there were only TWO TIMES when she was seriously in danger and yet she won both immunity challenges. She stepped up when necessary. AND it was her flopping that CHANGED the game. It sent Marcus, Charlie, Randy and Corrine home. She was a MAJOR player, but I just don't think she realized it at the time. (Kenny really masterminded that one. Sorry Crystal, you were a coattail rider there. Kenny probably SHOULD have been in the final three because he was ACTUALLY playing the game the best? He got Ace, Marcus, Charlie, Randy and Corrine gone. And he did it when he should have been gone a LONG time ago.)
Sugar meanwhile certainly didn't gain any friends, but she sure enough outlasted all of the jury and I LOVE it when people cannot give respect and credit to a player who PLAYED THE GAME the best. She jumped around and attached herself to the right people at the right time. Heck, she was in exile the entire time, played her cards correctly and got to the end. She even picked the winner, really. She threw curveball after curveball and Greg Madduxed everyone. Did the people on the jury like her? Probably not, but they should have respected her game. If they thought her game was crap because she lied and didn't play honorably, well you played a dumb game MARCUS. you could have been at the final three with Charlie and Corrine if you had just let Crystal and Kenny go instead of trying to get Crystal to "blindside Susan." pretty dumb on your part. Sugar's name was never written down and good for her. She played Kenny and Crystal, then dumped them when they were useless to her.
I do think that Sugar was the best free agent player of the game, Susan had the biggest impact when she flipped, Kenny was the brains (who I was really rooting for until he turned so cocky. That did him in and I think he realized it in the reunion show). But Bob was the most likeable and best competitor (really over Matty and Crystal? Matty, what a disappointment and Crystal was a goldmedalist in SUCKING). As for Matty going against Bob (he had the pact with Sue), Kenny going against Bob (get over it dude, you got caught and you STILL never admitted it!) and Crystal going against Bob (you are STILL being influenced by Kenny? Are you going to be able to make it now that Kenny isn't calling your shots back in your regular life?) come on guys.
Bob should have swept the vote. But he won. Good for him. I liked him. I was rooting for Matty, but then jumped on the Bob bandwagon with the fake idol. I also think Corrine is a mean and nasty person. what she said....wow. Jeff should have been harder on her during the reunion
Friday, December 12, 2008
GHSA Finals picks and a surprise
I have a surprise for the end of this blog, and it is a REAL surprise, not like the one at the Victoria's Secret Fashion show, ie NO Surprise.
But first let's knock out these picks.
Friday's action....
AAAA Marist v Tucker. These two met once already this season, with Marist beating the Tigers 38-0, but Tucker is healthy now and I think that game served as motivation that this team needed. Last year Tucker maybe should have won the title, blowing a big lead at the GA Dome to NWR, but this year they are on a mission. I say they get it done. These guys are the Florida of GHSA. They are so FREAKING fast, it is unreal. I saw them in person and they are the fastest high school team I've ever seen. A lot of people are picking Marist, thinking the War Eagles won once, they'll do it again. NOPE. Tucker Tigers win it. Maybe even by a bigger margin than they lost by. PREDICTION: Tucker Tigers 42-10
AA Buford v Calhoun. Buford has won 29 straight games, but Calhoun once produced Kris Durham, aka the poor man's Josh Cole. But Neither Kris Durham nor Josh Cole are suiting up for Calhoun. Buford wins this one because Cody Getz is just dangerous anytime he touches it and Jess Simpson is a smart guy. He'll give him the ball. (And you ask how I know Jess is smart? Well he's managed to recruit all these years without getting caught!) PREDICTION: Buford Wolves 56-7
SATURDAY
A. Wesleyan v ECI. Wesleyan dropped down for this game, all other sports be darned. At least that's what my boss at Score ATL and cohost on Score Atlanta Sports Sunday says. It won't matter. ECI has enough talent to win at the AA or maybe even AAA level. Dexter Moody, JC Lanier and of course Wayshaun Ealy would give Buford a run. That would be interesting to watch actually. Better than this game. PREDICTION: ECI Bulldogs 28-17.
AAA. The classification I have been covering. Let's just let Fletcher Proctor from gpb.org/football tell you whats up! Cairo Syrupmakers – 2 state titles (1946, 1990): Ever since last season’s 16-13 loss to Carver-Columbus in the state championship, the Cairo Syrupmakers have been on a mission: return to that game. The team is now back in it and has a strong chance to win this time around. Cairo has posted impressive victories over Thomas County Central (28-6), Peach County (16-7), Burke County (41-28) and most recently over Carver-Columbus (42-13). In the semifinals, quarterback Angelo Pease rushed for 173 yards and two scores and also passed for two touchdowns. Reginald Bryant is one to watch, too, as he makes it a habit of turning in big games (142 yards and three touchdowns against Crisp County; 116 yards and three touchdowns against Perry). Ronnie Wooten can also add some dash (two touchdowns against both Dougherty and Thomas County Central). This playoff run has seen a Syrupmaker offense that averages 32.5 points per game go for 40-plus three times. The defense, led by Jermyrin Bodiford, has only allowed double-digit scoring three times season.
Flowery Branch – No state titles: Flowery Branch entered the playoffs unranked after losing its final game of the year to Gainesville. First up in the playoffs was Stephens County, a team that knocked off the Falcons, 28-25, to open up the season. Quarterback Connor Shaw put to rest any chance Stephens had of a sweep with 296 passing yards and six total touchdowns in a huge 42-21 victory. Shaw had been doing that all season, though (three touchdowns against West Forsyth; two touchdowns against East Hall; two against Johnson). When Shaw wasn’t passing to Izaan Cross, he was handing off to Daniel Drummond. The future Yellow Jacket came up big against LaGrange in the semis with three touchdowns in a 28-0 win. Drummond and Shaw have helped lead this offense to an average of 33 points per game. The Falcons have been kings of the road, knocking off No. 2-seeded Stephens County, No. 1 Ridgeland, No. 1 Baldwin and No. 2 LaGrange, all on the road. PREDICTION: Cairo Syrupmakers 42-28.
AAAAA Peachtree Ridge, my hometown team faces Camden County, a team I've seen take apart Norcross. Camden is like the Titans from Remember the Titans: Nothing flashy, but just enough to get it done. They have tremendous athletes, running the wing-t. Good for those guys. PT-R has a STRONG defense, but I don't like the Lions offense. While the Lions are Hot, I have to go with Camden. PREDICTION: Camden County 21-12.
And now for the surprise. If you are bored tomorrow, log on to http://gpb.org/football or just google gpb org football and you should be able to find the coverage of the AAA game. It starts at 5 and you will see me blogging live throughout the first part of the game. Should be fun. Hit me with a text or something while I'm blogging and I'll see if I can work it in somehow.
Happy weekend everybody.
But first let's knock out these picks.
Friday's action....
AAAA Marist v Tucker. These two met once already this season, with Marist beating the Tigers 38-0, but Tucker is healthy now and I think that game served as motivation that this team needed. Last year Tucker maybe should have won the title, blowing a big lead at the GA Dome to NWR, but this year they are on a mission. I say they get it done. These guys are the Florida of GHSA. They are so FREAKING fast, it is unreal. I saw them in person and they are the fastest high school team I've ever seen. A lot of people are picking Marist, thinking the War Eagles won once, they'll do it again. NOPE. Tucker Tigers win it. Maybe even by a bigger margin than they lost by. PREDICTION: Tucker Tigers 42-10
AA Buford v Calhoun. Buford has won 29 straight games, but Calhoun once produced Kris Durham, aka the poor man's Josh Cole. But Neither Kris Durham nor Josh Cole are suiting up for Calhoun. Buford wins this one because Cody Getz is just dangerous anytime he touches it and Jess Simpson is a smart guy. He'll give him the ball. (And you ask how I know Jess is smart? Well he's managed to recruit all these years without getting caught!) PREDICTION: Buford Wolves 56-7
SATURDAY
A. Wesleyan v ECI. Wesleyan dropped down for this game, all other sports be darned. At least that's what my boss at Score ATL and cohost on Score Atlanta Sports Sunday says. It won't matter. ECI has enough talent to win at the AA or maybe even AAA level. Dexter Moody, JC Lanier and of course Wayshaun Ealy would give Buford a run. That would be interesting to watch actually. Better than this game. PREDICTION: ECI Bulldogs 28-17.
AAA. The classification I have been covering. Let's just let Fletcher Proctor from gpb.org/football tell you whats up! Cairo Syrupmakers – 2 state titles (1946, 1990): Ever since last season’s 16-13 loss to Carver-Columbus in the state championship, the Cairo Syrupmakers have been on a mission: return to that game. The team is now back in it and has a strong chance to win this time around. Cairo has posted impressive victories over Thomas County Central (28-6), Peach County (16-7), Burke County (41-28) and most recently over Carver-Columbus (42-13). In the semifinals, quarterback Angelo Pease rushed for 173 yards and two scores and also passed for two touchdowns. Reginald Bryant is one to watch, too, as he makes it a habit of turning in big games (142 yards and three touchdowns against Crisp County; 116 yards and three touchdowns against Perry). Ronnie Wooten can also add some dash (two touchdowns against both Dougherty and Thomas County Central). This playoff run has seen a Syrupmaker offense that averages 32.5 points per game go for 40-plus three times. The defense, led by Jermyrin Bodiford, has only allowed double-digit scoring three times season.
Flowery Branch – No state titles: Flowery Branch entered the playoffs unranked after losing its final game of the year to Gainesville. First up in the playoffs was Stephens County, a team that knocked off the Falcons, 28-25, to open up the season. Quarterback Connor Shaw put to rest any chance Stephens had of a sweep with 296 passing yards and six total touchdowns in a huge 42-21 victory. Shaw had been doing that all season, though (three touchdowns against West Forsyth; two touchdowns against East Hall; two against Johnson). When Shaw wasn’t passing to Izaan Cross, he was handing off to Daniel Drummond. The future Yellow Jacket came up big against LaGrange in the semis with three touchdowns in a 28-0 win. Drummond and Shaw have helped lead this offense to an average of 33 points per game. The Falcons have been kings of the road, knocking off No. 2-seeded Stephens County, No. 1 Ridgeland, No. 1 Baldwin and No. 2 LaGrange, all on the road. PREDICTION: Cairo Syrupmakers 42-28.
AAAAA Peachtree Ridge, my hometown team faces Camden County, a team I've seen take apart Norcross. Camden is like the Titans from Remember the Titans: Nothing flashy, but just enough to get it done. They have tremendous athletes, running the wing-t. Good for those guys. PT-R has a STRONG defense, but I don't like the Lions offense. While the Lions are Hot, I have to go with Camden. PREDICTION: Camden County 21-12.
And now for the surprise. If you are bored tomorrow, log on to http://gpb.org/football or just google gpb org football and you should be able to find the coverage of the AAA game. It starts at 5 and you will see me blogging live throughout the first part of the game. Should be fun. Hit me with a text or something while I'm blogging and I'll see if I can work it in somehow.
Happy weekend everybody.
Old Boyz II Men music video montage
As I was listening to B98.5 earlier (why? they play Christmas music 24/7 hell-lerr!) I heard the Boyz II Men version of Let it Snow. One of my coworkers asked if I had ever seen the music video and I said no.
Thank goodness for Youtube because it pulled right up. Pretty sweet. Then I noticed a link for the Motown Philly video...then the Water Runs Dry Video...then the On Bended Knee....then the I'll Make Love to You....then Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday...then End of the Road....
Yeah I watched all of them. Boy do they NOT make music videos like those anymore. That's a shame. All of these videos were great, and NOT just because you got to see them wearing sweatervests with no shirt underneath, but because of the cheesy singing and choreography. They were all zonetastic.
But the one issue I have with the I'll Make Love to You Video is when the guy plagiarizes Boyz II Men's song lyrics to get the chick in bed....even though he leaves before she even reads the note. I guess he was planting the seed for next time, but that was a little odd. At least pick a random poem that you KNOW she isn't going to know. If you take a B2M song from back then...they were HOT. EVERYONE knew their songs. BY HEART. I didn't know a SINGLE person who didn't own that Motown Philly album.
Come on dude. You've got to come up with a little originality here. Plus she was begging for it without the plagiarism. You coulda had her without committing a crime. think about it next time and try a little harder!
Thank goodness for Youtube because it pulled right up. Pretty sweet. Then I noticed a link for the Motown Philly video...then the Water Runs Dry Video...then the On Bended Knee....then the I'll Make Love to You....then Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday...then End of the Road....
Yeah I watched all of them. Boy do they NOT make music videos like those anymore. That's a shame. All of these videos were great, and NOT just because you got to see them wearing sweatervests with no shirt underneath, but because of the cheesy singing and choreography. They were all zonetastic.
But the one issue I have with the I'll Make Love to You Video is when the guy plagiarizes Boyz II Men's song lyrics to get the chick in bed....even though he leaves before she even reads the note. I guess he was planting the seed for next time, but that was a little odd. At least pick a random poem that you KNOW she isn't going to know. If you take a B2M song from back then...they were HOT. EVERYONE knew their songs. BY HEART. I didn't know a SINGLE person who didn't own that Motown Philly album.
Come on dude. You've got to come up with a little originality here. Plus she was begging for it without the plagiarism. You coulda had her without committing a crime. think about it next time and try a little harder!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Rules to Navigating Atlanta Roads in the rain
I know my fellow Atlantians: RAIN IS CRAZY. But not really. No, the sky is NOT melting. But as I drove to work today I got the feeling that some of you out there were FREAKING OUT! OMIGOSH, is this acid falling from the sky?
Let me put your minds at ease. It isn't. It is just weather. Sometimes it rains. I know, I know. It is a bit scary. But this is ONE reason Sportsbyfletch is here. I have put together some rules of the road GA drivers can follow when it is raining outside....
1) Turn your lights on. No, I don't mean your parking lights. I mean your head-lights. Nothing like driving in a downpour of rain then all of a sudden a car sneaks up on you because the idiot didn't turn her lights on!
2) When I say turn your lights on, I don't mean your hazard lights. When you turn on the hazards, I can't tell if you are trying to change lanes and can't make up your mind. It also disables your brake lights. That's not fun.
3) Don't tailgate folks. That leads to accidents. People tend to brake at the slightest thing in the rain. if a car 5 miles down the road brakes EVERYONE breaks, so don't tailgate. But if you are being tailgated, GET OVER TO THE RIGHT.
4) When it IS raining, you don't have to go 80 in the 65 zone like you normally do, but how about we try 55 in the 65? You know, instead of 7mph. Just a thought.
5) Remember that you KNOW the road you are driving on. Odds are you do this ride EVERYDAY or you know where you are going. You don't need to brake at every exit and wonder if that is the one you need to take. I am confident you KNOW your way.
6) HEY! Anyone over 68 years old, driving a Cadillac, or has shrunken to the point you cannot see over the steering wheel needs to get out of the left two lanes. 285 has 5 lanes. Why don't you guys try the right three? MAYBE?
7) Hey Big Trucks over 6 wheels. Those signs BANNING you from the left two lanes STILL APPLIES in the rain.
8) Don't be a dick with puddles. Yes splashing water was fun...when you were seven. Do you REALLY need to drive through the big puddle to see the be wave you create? Because you just splash the water on other cars. THAT'S COOL. Wait, no it isn't.
9) Stay focused on the road. Quit talking on your phone, fiddling with the radio, shaving, reading the newspaper, whatever. This actually could apply to the road in dry conditions too.
10) WHEN you get into an accident (I won't say IF because people ALWAYS SEEM TO) you can STILL move over to the side of the road. you don't need to stay in the second from the left lane. You don't. You can still move off the highway. The rain won't hurt you. You'll just get wet. Unless you are a turkey.
So there you have it. Ten Simple rules to follow when you are driving in the rain on the highways of Atlanta. Follow these rules and you should be fine. Unless you are crazy. Please memorize these and don't just print this out and try to read it while driving in the rain. You will then violate rule #9 and thus have to follow #10. Let's not have that happen.
Let me put your minds at ease. It isn't. It is just weather. Sometimes it rains. I know, I know. It is a bit scary. But this is ONE reason Sportsbyfletch is here. I have put together some rules of the road GA drivers can follow when it is raining outside....
1) Turn your lights on. No, I don't mean your parking lights. I mean your head-lights. Nothing like driving in a downpour of rain then all of a sudden a car sneaks up on you because the idiot didn't turn her lights on!
2) When I say turn your lights on, I don't mean your hazard lights. When you turn on the hazards, I can't tell if you are trying to change lanes and can't make up your mind. It also disables your brake lights. That's not fun.
3) Don't tailgate folks. That leads to accidents. People tend to brake at the slightest thing in the rain. if a car 5 miles down the road brakes EVERYONE breaks, so don't tailgate. But if you are being tailgated, GET OVER TO THE RIGHT.
4) When it IS raining, you don't have to go 80 in the 65 zone like you normally do, but how about we try 55 in the 65? You know, instead of 7mph. Just a thought.
5) Remember that you KNOW the road you are driving on. Odds are you do this ride EVERYDAY or you know where you are going. You don't need to brake at every exit and wonder if that is the one you need to take. I am confident you KNOW your way.
6) HEY! Anyone over 68 years old, driving a Cadillac, or has shrunken to the point you cannot see over the steering wheel needs to get out of the left two lanes. 285 has 5 lanes. Why don't you guys try the right three? MAYBE?
7) Hey Big Trucks over 6 wheels. Those signs BANNING you from the left two lanes STILL APPLIES in the rain.
8) Don't be a dick with puddles. Yes splashing water was fun...when you were seven. Do you REALLY need to drive through the big puddle to see the be wave you create? Because you just splash the water on other cars. THAT'S COOL. Wait, no it isn't.
9) Stay focused on the road. Quit talking on your phone, fiddling with the radio, shaving, reading the newspaper, whatever. This actually could apply to the road in dry conditions too.
10) WHEN you get into an accident (I won't say IF because people ALWAYS SEEM TO) you can STILL move over to the side of the road. you don't need to stay in the second from the left lane. You don't. You can still move off the highway. The rain won't hurt you. You'll just get wet. Unless you are a turkey.
So there you have it. Ten Simple rules to follow when you are driving in the rain on the highways of Atlanta. Follow these rules and you should be fine. Unless you are crazy. Please memorize these and don't just print this out and try to read it while driving in the rain. You will then violate rule #9 and thus have to follow #10. Let's not have that happen.
Paul Mac's BAD MOVIE REVIEW OF THE WEEK!
We here at Sportsbyfletch hope to make this a weekly segment. Paul Mac will watch a movie on netflix and then review it RIGHT HERE. His first bad movie:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Would have made more sense to make this movie when the Soviets were viable. They aren't scary anymore and they really did a lame job with the bad guys in this one. Loved having some of the original characters back though like the chick from Animal House, she was great.
One problem Stephen Speilberg...why work with this guy and why does George Lucas have to turn EVERYTHING into Star Wars? This movie had so much potential and they absolutely ruined it. The Crystal Skull was the dumbest thing they've ever searched for was extrodinarily hokey as was the aforementioned finale of the movie. Really Really cool chase scenes though
Also I liked Shia Laboof much better when I thought he was Megan Fox.
C to C- based on the fact that I loved Indiana Jones. Premise and plot line = FAIL! George Lucas turned Indiana Jones into Howard the Freaking Duck. 10 bonus points if you even know what Howard the Duck is.
Next week: Hancock!
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Would have made more sense to make this movie when the Soviets were viable. They aren't scary anymore and they really did a lame job with the bad guys in this one. Loved having some of the original characters back though like the chick from Animal House, she was great.
One problem Stephen Speilberg...why work with this guy and why does George Lucas have to turn EVERYTHING into Star Wars? This movie had so much potential and they absolutely ruined it. The Crystal Skull was the dumbest thing they've ever searched for was extrodinarily hokey as was the aforementioned finale of the movie. Really Really cool chase scenes though
Also I liked Shia Laboof much better when I thought he was Megan Fox.
C to C- based on the fact that I loved Indiana Jones. Premise and plot line = FAIL! George Lucas turned Indiana Jones into Howard the Freaking Duck. 10 bonus points if you even know what Howard the Duck is.
Next week: Hancock!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Paul Mac's Take on the BCS
Regular Sportsbyfletch contributor Paul Mac Weighs in on the BCS...
The problem is not in the ending so much as it is in the season. The inequity of college schedules. I say again. 1AA schools should NEVER NEVER NEVER be playing any team that has hopes of playing in any bowl game much less a major bowl game. The NFL is great because even the bad competition is still really good. Anyone can win on any given day. The Ap States of the world beating a pathetic Michigan or the Boise States of the world beating an uninterested Oklahoma team are red herrings.
There is plenty of money to be given to the 1AA schools to buy socks for their fencing teams without having to subject college football fans to watching them play good teams. The inherent issue with college football is the lack of ridiculously tough non conference scheduling. Every team should get 6 home and 6 away or split revenues from neutral sites for a game what have you. It’s hilarious hearing fans all over the country debate losses. USC fans saying their loss to Oregon State was somehow better than Penn State’s loss to Iowa (with the best RB in the country no one knew about before this year and he pees all over No heart Moreno) when Penn State smashed Oregon State by 35 pts I believe. The reality is that college kids mail in games they shouldn’t lose and over achieve in games they shouldn’t win. That’s why Texas isn’t playing in the title game this year. That and the Big 12’s rules committee are brain dead. I personally don’t care if Oklahoma scored a billion points on the other teams they beat they still lost to Texas at a neutral site by 10 pts. That was their playoff.
The entire season should be a playoff. GT should be playing Oklahoma State USC vs Alabama in the regular season. If you’re Boise State, you’re going to have to actually stay on the field with Georgia or Florida to earn a spot in a big game.
It would only work if there were a very few bowl games and all the playoffs were played in the home stadiums. Traveling like that in the end of the year would leave a lot of stadiums resembling the ACC championship game. No one wants that.
You should have 7 quality wins to qualify for any bowl game. Teams with 6 wins should get an extra month of practice instead.
If the regular season is quality and these matchups are played early it will be far easier to determine who is deserving and who isn’t even with losses. As it is teams cover their flaws and then lobby like politicians at the end of the year and that’s lame. It’s supposed to be a manly sport. Man up on the scheduling. You want a BCS game? Earn it in the regular season on the field. Big games bring big crowds. No one gives a crap about seeing large team A play crappy horribly mismatched team B. We just like more to see team A get bested by team B on sportscenter. Seriously, no one watched pam ward’s dance party when Ap State beat a bad Michigan team… we just liked the sportscenter clip. Watching that game would be like watching MAC football and the only people that do that are grads of those schools and degenerate gamblers.
The problem is not in the ending so much as it is in the season. The inequity of college schedules. I say again. 1AA schools should NEVER NEVER NEVER be playing any team that has hopes of playing in any bowl game much less a major bowl game. The NFL is great because even the bad competition is still really good. Anyone can win on any given day. The Ap States of the world beating a pathetic Michigan or the Boise States of the world beating an uninterested Oklahoma team are red herrings.
There is plenty of money to be given to the 1AA schools to buy socks for their fencing teams without having to subject college football fans to watching them play good teams. The inherent issue with college football is the lack of ridiculously tough non conference scheduling. Every team should get 6 home and 6 away or split revenues from neutral sites for a game what have you. It’s hilarious hearing fans all over the country debate losses. USC fans saying their loss to Oregon State was somehow better than Penn State’s loss to Iowa (with the best RB in the country no one knew about before this year and he pees all over No heart Moreno) when Penn State smashed Oregon State by 35 pts I believe. The reality is that college kids mail in games they shouldn’t lose and over achieve in games they shouldn’t win. That’s why Texas isn’t playing in the title game this year. That and the Big 12’s rules committee are brain dead. I personally don’t care if Oklahoma scored a billion points on the other teams they beat they still lost to Texas at a neutral site by 10 pts. That was their playoff.
The entire season should be a playoff. GT should be playing Oklahoma State USC vs Alabama in the regular season. If you’re Boise State, you’re going to have to actually stay on the field with Georgia or Florida to earn a spot in a big game.
It would only work if there were a very few bowl games and all the playoffs were played in the home stadiums. Traveling like that in the end of the year would leave a lot of stadiums resembling the ACC championship game. No one wants that.
You should have 7 quality wins to qualify for any bowl game. Teams with 6 wins should get an extra month of practice instead.
If the regular season is quality and these matchups are played early it will be far easier to determine who is deserving and who isn’t even with losses. As it is teams cover their flaws and then lobby like politicians at the end of the year and that’s lame. It’s supposed to be a manly sport. Man up on the scheduling. You want a BCS game? Earn it in the regular season on the field. Big games bring big crowds. No one gives a crap about seeing large team A play crappy horribly mismatched team B. We just like more to see team A get bested by team B on sportscenter. Seriously, no one watched pam ward’s dance party when Ap State beat a bad Michigan team… we just liked the sportscenter clip. Watching that game would be like watching MAC football and the only people that do that are grads of those schools and degenerate gamblers.
Atlanta Tennis making a Racket!
(Note, you can also catch this in this week's Score Atlanta, available on newsstands TODAY!)
Big time tennis is coming back to Atlanta this Saturday evening with the Infinite Energy Atlanta Slam. For the second straight year some of the world’s top tennis talents will visit the Arena at Gwinnett Center to compete in front of frenzied crowds. Last year over 7000 people showed up to cheer local standout Robby Ginepri as he faced former US Open champion Andy Roddick. It was the largest tennis event in the state since 1999, when the Williams sisters visited Atlanta.
The main draw might be James Blake, currently ranked No.10 in the world tennis rankings. As Trevor Short, the Atlanta Slam event promoter noted, “Any tennis enthusiast knows James Blake.” After a quarterfinal finish in the 2008 Australian Open, Blake reached the second round at both the French Open and Wimbledon. His performance at the Olympics might be his highlight of the year: Blake was able to knock off No.1 Roger Federer in straight sets for his first career win over Federer. Blake also advanced to the third round of the US Open before helping the US Davis Cup team reach the semi-finals. Blake has a strong following of fans who call themselves J-Block and Short has said that members will be in attendance this Saturday.
Blake will face off against an up-and-comer in Sam Querrey. The 21-year old comes in ranked as the 8th best American player and world No. 37, and his powerful serve will be on display for Atlanta. Querrey set the ATP record for consecutive aces with ten straight last year against Blake. Querrey is also getting a shot at the man whom he replaced on the Davis Cup team. When Blake had to back out late in the schedule, Davis Cup Captain Patrick McEnroe tapped Querrey as the replacement. He was able to take one set off Rafael Nadal. Thus far this year, the young gun has won one ATP event, the Tennis Channel Open, held in Las Vegas. Short, who grew up playing tennis and has faced Roddick and Ginepri calls Querrey an “unbelievable talent.”
While the main event will give Atlanta a great singles event, the undercard is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Fans may want to arrive at the Infinite Energy Atlanta Slam early to watch what should be a great doubles match. In a “Battle of the Brothers,” the No.1 ranked doubles team in the world, the Mike and Bob Bryan will face Murphy and Luke Jensen. The Bryan Brothers have seemingly been unstoppable over the last few years. They are the reigning US Open Doubles champions and won the Bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics. Over their careers the two have shared a “Career Grand Slam” with two US Open titles, two Australian Open championships, one French title and one Wimbledon crown. This season alone, the pair has snagged five total titles.
The Jensen Brothers meanwhile call Atlanta home, and while a bit older than the Bryan Brothers, the Jensen Brothers do have a major title on their resume. The pair teamed up in 1993 to take home the French Open crown and won four total titles in the late 90s. While the two are officially retired from professional tennis, they are still involved in the sport. Luke serves as a coach at Syracuse University while Murphy hosts several shows on the Tennis Channel.
The event doesn’t stop with just the exciting tennis action. This year kids ages 8-16 will have a chance to take part in an exclusive tennis clinic with Blake and the Bryan Brothers. For more info, email tennis6688@aol.com. All of the Infinite Energy Slam players will also be at a VIP Players Party that fans of all ages have a chance to attend. Players will sign autographs and pose for pictures and Short promises a very special mystery guest. For more information on the players party, contact Nelllong123456@aol.com. Michael Johns of American Idol fame is also scheduled to appear at the event.
This year’s event, which begins at 6:30 p.m., is sponsored by T & S Events and the Georgia Tennis Foundation and the proceeds will benefit the Georgia Tennis Foundation. The GTF is a huge part of the tennis community and gives to nine different organizations to help spread tennis. According to Short, the GTF has helped introduce tennis to over 36,000 children with coaches and equipment and helps out with the Robbie Ginepri Fund, and YMCA Tennis Georgia. Most of the money will also go towards the annual wheelchair tournament, which is the largest in the world.
Tennis fans looking for tickets should visit www.atlantaslam.com for what Short calls, “a night of tennis and a party.”
Big time tennis is coming back to Atlanta this Saturday evening with the Infinite Energy Atlanta Slam. For the second straight year some of the world’s top tennis talents will visit the Arena at Gwinnett Center to compete in front of frenzied crowds. Last year over 7000 people showed up to cheer local standout Robby Ginepri as he faced former US Open champion Andy Roddick. It was the largest tennis event in the state since 1999, when the Williams sisters visited Atlanta.
The main draw might be James Blake, currently ranked No.10 in the world tennis rankings. As Trevor Short, the Atlanta Slam event promoter noted, “Any tennis enthusiast knows James Blake.” After a quarterfinal finish in the 2008 Australian Open, Blake reached the second round at both the French Open and Wimbledon. His performance at the Olympics might be his highlight of the year: Blake was able to knock off No.1 Roger Federer in straight sets for his first career win over Federer. Blake also advanced to the third round of the US Open before helping the US Davis Cup team reach the semi-finals. Blake has a strong following of fans who call themselves J-Block and Short has said that members will be in attendance this Saturday.
Blake will face off against an up-and-comer in Sam Querrey. The 21-year old comes in ranked as the 8th best American player and world No. 37, and his powerful serve will be on display for Atlanta. Querrey set the ATP record for consecutive aces with ten straight last year against Blake. Querrey is also getting a shot at the man whom he replaced on the Davis Cup team. When Blake had to back out late in the schedule, Davis Cup Captain Patrick McEnroe tapped Querrey as the replacement. He was able to take one set off Rafael Nadal. Thus far this year, the young gun has won one ATP event, the Tennis Channel Open, held in Las Vegas. Short, who grew up playing tennis and has faced Roddick and Ginepri calls Querrey an “unbelievable talent.”
While the main event will give Atlanta a great singles event, the undercard is certainly nothing to sneeze at. Fans may want to arrive at the Infinite Energy Atlanta Slam early to watch what should be a great doubles match. In a “Battle of the Brothers,” the No.1 ranked doubles team in the world, the Mike and Bob Bryan will face Murphy and Luke Jensen. The Bryan Brothers have seemingly been unstoppable over the last few years. They are the reigning US Open Doubles champions and won the Bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics. Over their careers the two have shared a “Career Grand Slam” with two US Open titles, two Australian Open championships, one French title and one Wimbledon crown. This season alone, the pair has snagged five total titles.
The Jensen Brothers meanwhile call Atlanta home, and while a bit older than the Bryan Brothers, the Jensen Brothers do have a major title on their resume. The pair teamed up in 1993 to take home the French Open crown and won four total titles in the late 90s. While the two are officially retired from professional tennis, they are still involved in the sport. Luke serves as a coach at Syracuse University while Murphy hosts several shows on the Tennis Channel.
The event doesn’t stop with just the exciting tennis action. This year kids ages 8-16 will have a chance to take part in an exclusive tennis clinic with Blake and the Bryan Brothers. For more info, email tennis6688@aol.com. All of the Infinite Energy Slam players will also be at a VIP Players Party that fans of all ages have a chance to attend. Players will sign autographs and pose for pictures and Short promises a very special mystery guest. For more information on the players party, contact Nelllong123456@aol.com. Michael Johns of American Idol fame is also scheduled to appear at the event.
This year’s event, which begins at 6:30 p.m., is sponsored by T & S Events and the Georgia Tennis Foundation and the proceeds will benefit the Georgia Tennis Foundation. The GTF is a huge part of the tennis community and gives to nine different organizations to help spread tennis. According to Short, the GTF has helped introduce tennis to over 36,000 children with coaches and equipment and helps out with the Robbie Ginepri Fund, and YMCA Tennis Georgia. Most of the money will also go towards the annual wheelchair tournament, which is the largest in the world.
Tennis fans looking for tickets should visit www.atlantaslam.com for what Short calls, “a night of tennis and a party.”
Midweek Entertainment report12/10/08
Palin rejects Fat Oprah, Fantasia loses her house, MTV disses Atlanta and TWINS!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the mid-week entertainment report!
CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP!
I saw where Alaska's Govnah and former Veep candidate Sarah Palin is giving Fat Oprah the cold shoulder. (Get it, Alaska? Cold shoulder!) Apparently Palin is now hitting the talk show circuit, but rejects Fat Oprah's invitation to appear on Oprah. Interesting. Fat Oprah is surprised by this? Before the election, Fat Oprah guaranteed that neither Palin nor McCain would appear on the show, but now that the election is over and her BOY Obama won, she is going to "let" Palin appear on the show. Ummmmm, yeah THAT REALLY HELPS NOW! Good for Palin, giving Fat Oprah the same dis that she was given. (PS, of course the reason I keep calling her Fat Oprah is because she has started eating whatever she wants and has started tipping the scales at 200lbs. She says she is embarrassed by this. I would how her BFF/lezbinen lovah likes the weight gain? More cushion for the pushing?") You go Palin. Ignore her all you want. She probably would have just called you a loser the whole time even though you probably have more experience than her boy Obama.
-and a sidebar, did you see where the Illinois Govnah was arrested for trying to sell Obama's now vacant Senate seat? Ladies and Gentlemen, the Democratic Party! I think this exact situation is what the Forefathers had in mind when they set up the government structure.
Former American Idol winner Fantasia may soon be homeless. Well not really, but the singer who once sang a song about being a babymama and proudly admitted that she couldn't read bought a house in 2007 for $1.3M and the Charlotte home is now in foreclosure. She is also, according to an AP story, defaulting on a $58K loan she borrowed to pay back taxes she owed on the IRS. Wow. Hey Fantasia, just because you won a singing contest, that doesn't mean you get to stop paying for stuff.
I saw where MTV is holding its next Real World...in Brooklyn. Yeah. Brooklyn. What was Beirut booked already? WHY IS MTV NOT COMING TO ATLANTA? According to my Roomie, Real Housewives of Atlanta received the best ratings Bravo has every recorded. But yeah, MTV, let's go to NYC for the third time. Good work. Yeah, I guess that would be better than the ATL. Whatevs. MTV, I can't be mad at you. Why........
Because of a Double Shot at Love with the Ikki twins. OK, let's just put this out there: the Ikki twins are bisexual. They are internet sensations that are trying to get more attention and extending their 15 minutes of fame to 17 minutes. I guess they are angling for a doublemint gum commercial? And it also seems like Rikki has been doing all of the "heavy-lifting" on the show. Vikki doesn't seem to into it. I am thinking that Vikki is straight and Rikki just realizes she HAS to kiss girls in order for the show to work. Oh well, it will still be fun to watch. TWINS! Were they the Coors Light twins? I should check that out. I am also sort of surprised a few of the people didn't recognize them, if they truly were "internet sensations" like MTV claimed. Twins, you tend to remember. As for the show, I think this batch of lezbinens are the best we've seen thus far. As for the guys, there might be a few d-bags which will make it interesting enough to watch. No Dom though and no Jersey, but what are ya gonna do? And I always think it is funny that at least 6 of the guys are listed as "personal trainers." I ALWAYS think that is funny.
I am also still waiting for this to happen, only with a dude as the "prize." I think, while the casual male wouldn't want to watch dudes making out, the DRAMA that would come about. It would make for GREAT TV. Imagine if Onch was the "Tila" in that situation. It could work. Just putting it out there.
That's all I've got for now. I can't wait to catch Dark Night on DVD soon. I thought the movie was a home run and a rewatching may push it to grandslam. That's what happened with the first one, Batman Begins. We shall see. Have a great rest of the week and Happy Hump Day!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the mid-week entertainment report!
CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP!
I saw where Alaska's Govnah and former Veep candidate Sarah Palin is giving Fat Oprah the cold shoulder. (Get it, Alaska? Cold shoulder!) Apparently Palin is now hitting the talk show circuit, but rejects Fat Oprah's invitation to appear on Oprah. Interesting. Fat Oprah is surprised by this? Before the election, Fat Oprah guaranteed that neither Palin nor McCain would appear on the show, but now that the election is over and her BOY Obama won, she is going to "let" Palin appear on the show. Ummmmm, yeah THAT REALLY HELPS NOW! Good for Palin, giving Fat Oprah the same dis that she was given. (PS, of course the reason I keep calling her Fat Oprah is because she has started eating whatever she wants and has started tipping the scales at 200lbs. She says she is embarrassed by this. I would how her BFF/lezbinen lovah likes the weight gain? More cushion for the pushing?") You go Palin. Ignore her all you want. She probably would have just called you a loser the whole time even though you probably have more experience than her boy Obama.
-and a sidebar, did you see where the Illinois Govnah was arrested for trying to sell Obama's now vacant Senate seat? Ladies and Gentlemen, the Democratic Party! I think this exact situation is what the Forefathers had in mind when they set up the government structure.
Former American Idol winner Fantasia may soon be homeless. Well not really, but the singer who once sang a song about being a babymama and proudly admitted that she couldn't read bought a house in 2007 for $1.3M and the Charlotte home is now in foreclosure. She is also, according to an AP story, defaulting on a $58K loan she borrowed to pay back taxes she owed on the IRS. Wow. Hey Fantasia, just because you won a singing contest, that doesn't mean you get to stop paying for stuff.
I saw where MTV is holding its next Real World...in Brooklyn. Yeah. Brooklyn. What was Beirut booked already? WHY IS MTV NOT COMING TO ATLANTA? According to my Roomie, Real Housewives of Atlanta received the best ratings Bravo has every recorded. But yeah, MTV, let's go to NYC for the third time. Good work. Yeah, I guess that would be better than the ATL. Whatevs. MTV, I can't be mad at you. Why........
Because of a Double Shot at Love with the Ikki twins. OK, let's just put this out there: the Ikki twins are bisexual. They are internet sensations that are trying to get more attention and extending their 15 minutes of fame to 17 minutes. I guess they are angling for a doublemint gum commercial? And it also seems like Rikki has been doing all of the "heavy-lifting" on the show. Vikki doesn't seem to into it. I am thinking that Vikki is straight and Rikki just realizes she HAS to kiss girls in order for the show to work. Oh well, it will still be fun to watch. TWINS! Were they the Coors Light twins? I should check that out. I am also sort of surprised a few of the people didn't recognize them, if they truly were "internet sensations" like MTV claimed. Twins, you tend to remember. As for the show, I think this batch of lezbinens are the best we've seen thus far. As for the guys, there might be a few d-bags which will make it interesting enough to watch. No Dom though and no Jersey, but what are ya gonna do? And I always think it is funny that at least 6 of the guys are listed as "personal trainers." I ALWAYS think that is funny.
I am also still waiting for this to happen, only with a dude as the "prize." I think, while the casual male wouldn't want to watch dudes making out, the DRAMA that would come about. It would make for GREAT TV. Imagine if Onch was the "Tila" in that situation. It could work. Just putting it out there.
That's all I've got for now. I can't wait to catch Dark Night on DVD soon. I thought the movie was a home run and a rewatching may push it to grandslam. That's what happened with the first one, Batman Begins. We shall see. Have a great rest of the week and Happy Hump Day!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Changes at NBC?
It is now being reported that NBC is considering cutting down some of its primetime hours. Right now, the network has 22 hours of primetime (8-11 m-sat)(7-11 sunday). Apparently Jeff Zucker is now considering cutting down those hours due to the economy and trying to justify it by saying that some of NBC's competition doesn't do 22 Hrs or even 7 days a week. Yeah, Fox is just 8-10m-f with 7-10 on Sundays. But do you REALLY consider CW or WB or UPN (whatever) your competition. If so, you just dropped NBC down into the basement. You are the network of Cheers, Friends, Seinfeld and Frasier. Too bad you now have your bedrocks of The Office, My Name is Earl and 30 Rock.....AND THAT'S IT! Oh, yeah, you still have 900 versions of Law and Order (is anyone watching?) ER, (same question), and 92 nights of Dateline. Deal or No Deal is now over. And really? you thought remakes of Knight Rider and Bionic Woman were both good ideas? And PLEASE tell me why you decided to put Christian Slater into a show? Oh, and just STOP IT with Biggest Loser. I DON'T LIKE WATCHING FAT PEOPLE! That's why John Goodman's shows ALWAYS fail!
An interesting note was mentioned in the piece I read about NBC's potential cutbacks. Apparently its cable networks are doing REALLY WELL. Those cable channels include Bravo, USA Network and MSNBC. If you are really hurting for programming, why not just swipe Bravo's Real Housewives show? Promote Monk from USA to Wednesday nights. Do you think the Atlanta Braves would have just let a bonified stud sit at AAA-Richmond last season if he could have helped them down the stretch when they still HAD a chance at the playoffs? NO! They would have brought him up. You have Psych and Monk and Burn Notice ACTUALLY getting ratings. BRING EM UP! You see college football coaches all of the time burn redshirt years if a player can help them THEN AND THERE. TAKE THE REDSHIRT OFF MONK. (Let me state that I don't watch that show, but it is always winning the guy from Wings awards. Why not promote it and try to grab some big time ratings? Just asking.)
NBC, you guys are in the crapper because of your show selection and you need to try and get fresh ideas in there, not just recycle bad ones.
-Seinfeld is done: Tell Jason Alexander to go away.
Law&Order was probably a good show before you stretched it into 17 versions and killed the writing staff. And while we are at it, stop with the spinoffs all together. Heroes then Origins? Come on guys!
-STOP trying to remake shows from the 70s. They don't work nowadays.
-And BEG Aaron Sorkin to come back. Tell him you are sorry you cut Studio 60 short. Tell him sorry you forced him to insert a story arc with Matt and Harriet so early into the show that it more-or-less killed it. Sorry you made Danny turn into a whipped wannabe-babydaddy for Jordan. Remember how much money he made you with West Wing? He could do it again.
But all of this stuff is cyclical. Fox will soon be back with the pack (at least for me) once Prisonbreak goes away. Bones is still a pretty good show, but I haven't been watching regularly. House might be the best thing Fox has going for it. Fox might be slipping back while ABC I guess is trying to keep hold of #2. (CBS is #1 in the ratings, but I don't watch ANYTHING on CBS except Survivor and football). Don't fret NBC. You'll make it back, just get better shows and stop settling for a quick fix. And don't cut something that has potential just because the ratings slip early. You remind me of Clemson fans! Stay with FNL and you should have stayed with S60. Good writing ALWAYS wins out. At least it should. But it won't as long as the guy running NBC programming is letting Biggest Loser stay on the air.
An interesting note was mentioned in the piece I read about NBC's potential cutbacks. Apparently its cable networks are doing REALLY WELL. Those cable channels include Bravo, USA Network and MSNBC. If you are really hurting for programming, why not just swipe Bravo's Real Housewives show? Promote Monk from USA to Wednesday nights. Do you think the Atlanta Braves would have just let a bonified stud sit at AAA-Richmond last season if he could have helped them down the stretch when they still HAD a chance at the playoffs? NO! They would have brought him up. You have Psych and Monk and Burn Notice ACTUALLY getting ratings. BRING EM UP! You see college football coaches all of the time burn redshirt years if a player can help them THEN AND THERE. TAKE THE REDSHIRT OFF MONK. (Let me state that I don't watch that show, but it is always winning the guy from Wings awards. Why not promote it and try to grab some big time ratings? Just asking.)
NBC, you guys are in the crapper because of your show selection and you need to try and get fresh ideas in there, not just recycle bad ones.
-Seinfeld is done: Tell Jason Alexander to go away.
Law&Order was probably a good show before you stretched it into 17 versions and killed the writing staff. And while we are at it, stop with the spinoffs all together. Heroes then Origins? Come on guys!
-STOP trying to remake shows from the 70s. They don't work nowadays.
-And BEG Aaron Sorkin to come back. Tell him you are sorry you cut Studio 60 short. Tell him sorry you forced him to insert a story arc with Matt and Harriet so early into the show that it more-or-less killed it. Sorry you made Danny turn into a whipped wannabe-babydaddy for Jordan. Remember how much money he made you with West Wing? He could do it again.
But all of this stuff is cyclical. Fox will soon be back with the pack (at least for me) once Prisonbreak goes away. Bones is still a pretty good show, but I haven't been watching regularly. House might be the best thing Fox has going for it. Fox might be slipping back while ABC I guess is trying to keep hold of #2. (CBS is #1 in the ratings, but I don't watch ANYTHING on CBS except Survivor and football). Don't fret NBC. You'll make it back, just get better shows and stop settling for a quick fix. And don't cut something that has potential just because the ratings slip early. You remind me of Clemson fans! Stay with FNL and you should have stayed with S60. Good writing ALWAYS wins out. At least it should. But it won't as long as the guy running NBC programming is letting Biggest Loser stay on the air.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Overrated musicians, at least for me
I have been listening to a certain radio station that plays NOTHING but Christmas music (except when Steve and Vicki are on, then I listen to JUST the morning show of another station that actually plays music instead of talking....) and it struck me this morning that two artists considered "great" are highly overrated.
SOme of the music snobs that read this blog will probably yell at me, but I think that Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are HIGHLY overrated.
I hear that STUPID version of Santa Claus is coming to town by Springsteen and I want to reach thru the radio speakers and rip the CD out of the player, then BREAK IT so it cannot be played anymore. Oh, Bruce hopes his band has been good then he asks if the crowd has been good. "Oh not too many!" HA HA Jackass. And quit laughing. You aren't funny.
As for Bob Dylan, DUDE, what happened to your voice? People usually SING songs, not mumble them. How does it feel? Well I don't know. I could barely understand you.
Sorry for probably committing a musical crime by questioning these two, but I just don't see all of the hubbub about them. Nope. Just don't.
SOme of the music snobs that read this blog will probably yell at me, but I think that Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are HIGHLY overrated.
I hear that STUPID version of Santa Claus is coming to town by Springsteen and I want to reach thru the radio speakers and rip the CD out of the player, then BREAK IT so it cannot be played anymore. Oh, Bruce hopes his band has been good then he asks if the crowd has been good. "Oh not too many!" HA HA Jackass. And quit laughing. You aren't funny.
As for Bob Dylan, DUDE, what happened to your voice? People usually SING songs, not mumble them. How does it feel? Well I don't know. I could barely understand you.
Sorry for probably committing a musical crime by questioning these two, but I just don't see all of the hubbub about them. Nope. Just don't.
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