Showing posts with label espn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label espn. Show all posts

7.13.2007

Kim Clijsters Thinks We Care

WHO? Good question.

ESPN is reporting that Kim Clijsters got married in a secret ceremony to a U.S. basketball player, playing in the Belgian league. "Kim chose for the early hour because she wanted to conduct her nuptials with the American Brian Lynch within a small circle of people," the wedding comes just days after the former top-ranked player announced she was pregnant with her first child. "ace!!!"


Who the fuck cares. She doesn't play tennis anymore. She retired at 24. And I'm pretty sure if you don't watch tennis you wouldn't know her because her name isn't Anna or Maria. Sounds kind of like Columbus' fleet.



I think I'm just in a bad mood right now, but I don't know what I despise more. The fact that ESPN brought this to my attention, the thought that Kim Clijsters would have to go out of her way to avoid people under the supposition that people actually cared, or the fact that people might actually care.






This was just a good excuse to post pictures of Anna and Maria (one more for good measure)...now i just have to find the Pinta.
I wish people would stop harassing me as well. I guess that happens when you're so famous like me. That's why when I have to drop a deuce I wait until 6 AM, check all empty rooms, around all corners and under all toilet seats to make sure no one knows what I'm doing. I'd hate to end up on this site.

7.08.2007

FACT: Rock, Paper, Scissors (or RPS) New Legitmate Sport

First it was darts, then dominos, then backgammon, then chess, then poker, then eating contests and now folks, it's Rock Paper Scissors. That's right, the USARPS League combines big prizes, beer, women (former PMOY NSFW) spokeswoman, and now National Television coverage on ESPN to bring you the finest in 1 on 1 strategy. Ridiculous you say? I think not. I've been asserting as fact for almost a decade now that RPS is the ultimate and most basic combination of strategy, wit, guile, nerve and marbles and is the only real way disputes can be fairly settled.

Not only must you know yourself, and know enough to stay within yourself and not overthink your moves, but you must know your opponent what they have a propensity to throw, if they like to lead with say, paper, or if they're as surprised as anyone as to the shape their hand takes as "shoot" is called. (I could never understand those people who threw on "three" or "scissors" during the cadence, it just feels wrong). For those of you who are not familiar with the RPS hierarchy (more like a cycle), here it is.
Looking at the games history, co-commissoner Matt Leshem stated in a recent interview, "this is a game played since the beginning of recorded history. Back to the caveman days, it was known as rock rock rock. The discovery of new materials led to a change in the approach. "For a time, it was known as rock papyrus spear, which you may have heard of before." How true.


Rock, Paper, Scissors too bland for you? Fellow AoF editor T.D. Xerxes recommends you try a variation of the game "CFNB" or "Cockroach, Foot, Nuclear Bomb" (upon further research I have found allegations that this game originated on "That 70's Show". Seeing as how I never watch it nor seen TDX watching it I feel obligated to apply the independant source doctrine in this matter.) Regardless of the spin you put on it, you've gotta believe that it'll make for some of the finest minute thirty, possibly two minutes of television entertainment.

Lastly, I think it was about time that ESPN embraced the sideways suggestion in the movie "Dodgeball" in which the tournament in said movie was aired on the ficticious ESPN channel "ESPN 8" aka "The Ocho". Brilliant. Now I'm not saying that ESPN needs to go ahead and create 4 more channels just to get there, but how about we call it ESPN Gaming, or ESPN programming for people who hate the Big 4 Sports (Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey or NASCAR (sort of) (if you really believe ESPN a la covering Barry Bonds as if there was never a cloud of suspicious surrounding his use of performance enhancing drugs) ). Seriously, there are times when ESPN and ESPN 2 look like to sports what MTV now is to music videos. I suppose this is inevitable when your programming consists of 3 or 4 decent shows and 1 Sports news show repeated about 30 times a day. You're going to have to have something to fill in for the times when all that's in season is Arena football and the WNBA (which do we care about less - check the sidbar poll). Anyway, back to RPS on ESPN. Think about it. You could have Harold Reynolds calling the matches, Kenny Mayne, throw a little Johnny Mac in there for good measure and BAM, you've got a formidable Monday Night RPS broadcasting team.
Come to think of it, does anyone else think that we've been seeing a lot of Stephen A. Smith since the departure of Harold Reynolds? Maybe its just me, but SAS is a bit over the top. Besides, Reynolds got a raw deal, the least you could do is give him The Ocho. I was perfectly cool with him when I ran into him at a California Pizza Kitchen near Bristol. I just hope that the Stephen A. experiment gets curtailed a bit.
But for now, Rock, Paper, Scissors...Shoot! (sweet online game)

I'm going to have to credit With Leather for bringing this to my attention. (if you do not already know of With Leather, and AoF is not fulfulling your internet procrastinating needs, I highly recommend the site. They do excellent work over there full time.)

3.18.2007

Running Blog: Minneapolis

Sitting in an airport terminal for two hours waiting for a connecting flight can be brutal. That is why I will record my thoughts in the form of this running blog to entertain myself.

Quick memory: My first flight to Minnesota made me realize that perhaps karma does indeed exist. After finding that someone was in my seat I asked to see the guy's ticket. Apparently this request was over the top because he became annoyed when he had to reach all the way in his pocket and pull out the ticket. Then, realizing that the airline had f'd up his seat and put him in mine at the last minute, his douchiness let fly. He began ranting to the flight attendant about the inherent unfairness of life, love and politics and that since I was probably still drunk from the night before (in the interest of full disclosure, I was NOT still drunk, really f'ing hungover, but not drunk) that I should have to move my seat. I stood there, amused at the whole situation and taking full advantage of his douchebaggery to endear myself to the (rather attractive) flight attendant by saying I would move my seat to make things easy. I knew somehow I would win in this when she told me to hang out with her in the food prep area until they calmed slapnuts down. Just so happens that the seat that opened up was first class. As I walked past the d-bag, I smiled and promptly crop-dusted him just for good measure.



(The greatest flight crew ever assembled)


5:35 - I just spent a good 20 minutes trying to pay for wireless access, capitalism at its best I tell you.

5:40 - Coffee has been secured, although i'm not sure why I want to be awake right now.

5:42 - I'd like to take a moment and thank God for my Ipod. Without it, I would be subject to crying babies, mindless banter from middle aged business women and probably stabbing my eardrums with a sharp pencil because the girl next to me is preparing to be the next reject Simon Cowell brings to tears on American Idol based on her musically induced tourettes.

5:59 - I think Sean Salisbury is sitting across from me, ok maybe not, but even if it was Salisbury, I'd tell him to mind his own fucking business because its a computer and I'm pretty sure you've seen one before.

6:00 - Looking around here and seeing some of the people waiting for arrivals makes me wonder if CSI: Minneapolis could work...

6:03 - I find it upsetting that Northwest Airlines can have "NWA" prominently displayed on all of their planes and I may be the only one to find this amusing. To be fair, Ice Cube is probably pissed too.

6:05 - My bracket is totally f'd I'd like to thank espn, and especially, speaking of tourettes, Dick Vitale for f'ing me over on that one, although I don't know why I thought Dickie V was all of a sudden going to pull his head out of Coach K's crotch, but anyway...

6:08 - Observing my fellow passengers I'm convinced that the real threat to start the next civil war is Midwesterners. Southerners may be over the top, but if you so much as look at Jesus the wrong way these people are up your ass faster than strippers on Pacman's rain display. This also makes me think that Colorado will be the first battle ground with the rednecks versus the godless hippies in a battle for the Rockies. Why you may ask? Because Colorado is the place that gave you both the tank guy and the String Cheese Incident.

6:15 - I decide to check on my seat given the last debacle, apparently part of the desk job at the gate doesn't include helping customers, because the woman seemed shocked and annoyed at such a request.

6:17 - Just got back from a preemptive bathroom trip, thanks to Snakes on a Plane I freeze up like Laura Bush at a dance club in plane bathrooms.

6:20 - Listening to some of the conversations, it strikes me at how uninformed many of our fellow citizens are. For instance, apparently the Senate and the House are not included in Congress, and that Barack Obama is the first african american to run for president. Seriously, stop talking from your ass, I don't think even ESPN News can cure this phenomenon.

6:23 - Further listening to conversations makes me want to punch all self-aggrandizing middle managers in the face. No one cares what you do, you work in an office probably not unlike the one that employs Peter Gibbons, no one cares that Bob from upstairs does not have the confidence to present the project in an effective manner and no one cares that you have completed your TST, AKA, FOB training faster than anyone has before. Bottom line, you are fungible, get over yourself Mrs. Samir Nada...nalha...not gonna work here anymore that's for sure.

6:30 - Time to board, hopefully this post was worth $7.49