Between the loss to the "other" Dogs and losing out to Miss Indiana, Georgia took it on the chin Saturday. The evening started out rough when ESPN2 finally switched its coverage to Athens from an "exciting" CAA contest to find that 4 minutes in, Georgia was still without a point and trailing 5-0. Georgia would trail by as many as 19 (30-11) and Brad Nessler and Jimmy Dykes were trying to get people to stick around by wondering if one of Miss State's players was going to go for 68 (he had 21 in the first 14 minutes). At one point, I had to wonder what was going on in the game since I was just listening to the commentators and they were discussing the NCState women's coach that passed away FOR 4 straight minutes. Don't worry, it was NOTHING good for UGA that I missed. Dennis the Menace Felton (who DID decide to jump on a plane IMMEDIATELY after last Sunday's Kentucky beatdown to head to DC for the inauguration. Maybe you could have drawn up some plays on the flight?) decided that Ricky McPhee would get the team back in the game and went with the transfer down the stretch in the first half.
At halftime, Georgia trailed by ONLY 12 and Felton seemed encouraged. Great!
The team managed to scrap and claw to get the lead down to 5 with about 8 to go, then one of them hit a three to get it to 52-50 with about 6 to play, but Felton's team (who FINALLY seemed to be playing after the no-show in the first half, the no-show v Kentucky, 40 points against Vandy and the wet Nila wafer down the stretch performance against Tennessee) faded after no-doubt spending so much energy trying to get BACK into the game. The team was within 3 with about 20 seconds and had a few cracks at it, but NO ONE could hit a three pointer. And WHAT do I see? Trey Thompkins laughing with a Miss State guy as he is about to shoot a FT. Do I see Felton spending his TO is an appropriate manner? Nope, he calls them randomly down the stretch and never when the textbook tells you to.
Very frustrating, but don't worry, the team goes on the road now where I am SURE they will have success. They ALWAYS play well on the road with Felton at the helm... either Fletcher has lost his marbles, or that's the introduction to the opposite sketches.
THEN Wifey and I started watching Miss America 2009, hosted by Mario Lopez, which led to the debate on ranking the former SBTB stars. I had Kelly #1 with stints on 90210 and Melrose, with Zack #2 (NYPD Blue, Leverage, Commander in Chief) with Slater at #3 (Pac Blue, the Male View, etc), Lisa (nothing notable), Jessie (porn) and Screech (bad porn) rounded out the list. Wifey thought Zack should be ahead of Kelly, but also had Slater #3.
Regardless, Mario Lopez came off as really creepy like he was waiting for "Miss Ha-va-he" to come off the stage so he could try and "help her cause, if you know what I mean." (Seriously, he kept saying Ha-va-he. Umm Mario, there isn't a V in that state's name, a-hole. Say it once, fine, everytime? A bit much!)
As the 52 (DC and Virgin Islands were also allowed to play) got whittled down to 15, I was a little concerned that Miss Georgia wasn't going to advance and after they called out 11 names, Mario said "And that is our top 15." Miss Georgia wasn't called, but apparently the judges only picked 11 and America had ALREADY picked 4 from a pre-show or something. Whatever. Am I watching American Idol here? Georgia was part of it. Then the bathing suits came out and I am sorry to say, but I have seen 15 hotter chicks just walking to my English class freshman year at UGA. All of those chicks had tree trunk legs fake blond hair with so much makeup on their faces.... pageant girls, really.
Miss Georgia advanced to the talent portion and then to evening wear. As far as talent, some of them were stretching to call what they did "talent." I mean I can play a harmonica, but I wouldn't do it for a Mr. American contest. Then the evening gowns...wow some of them were borrowed from hookers that were no doubt working outside of the casino!
Then they announced the 5th place thru winner and Miss Georgia beat out Miss Florida (Georgia FINALLY wins SOMETHING over Florida!), but loses out to Miss Indiana. Second place for Georgia and it has been like that all year. Second. CRAP! I am hoping though that Mario Lopez tried to seduce Miss Indiana after the show so she will be DQ'ed and Georgia can "back into" yet another championship.
If there was anything I learned from watching the Miss America, it is that women from the Northeast/New England area are UGLY, same for women from the Pacific Northwest. The hottest chicks are from the South, and people from Texas, if they don't win or get left out, BOY do they cry. (wait, we already knew that from last football season!) I think the Miss American contest might be done (I actually didn't realize that women's groups still allowed this contest to happen. PETA is protesting Michael Vick and he's still in jail, but NOW is still letting these chicks prance around in swimsuits and such? Whatever. I guess they win since the girls aren't that hot), but if they DID want to tweak it some, just eliminate all of the states that don't really have a chance: Maine, Vermont, Alaska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Utah. Knock those guys out or combine them into a superstate and this thing might move a little quicker and be a little more exciting.
But Saturday was ultimately a disappointing night for Georgia: so close, yet so unsatisfying.
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