Read it, don't read it, I don't care...just needed to get some things off my chest.
In no particular order of chronology or importance...
Twenty minutes of hooks...
NEW FORMAT:
I have received your feedback, and I will now apply that feedback to the Rant. Shorter rants more often. This alleviates me also from allocating 3 hours twice a week to speak my mind. I will be on the clock...literally. I have the usual list in front of me. I have exactly 20 minutes at most to start AND stop. No more writing after that. No editing. This should make it more readable to you all, and not have YOU have to allocate more time than you want to catch up on sports. Look for daily blogs, worse case every other day. Don't worry, I won't announce a Rant daily. If you like the Rant, just check more often. I will post this paragraph a few times to make sure everyone knows. Let's start the experiment of getting me actually to STOP. Twenty minutes starts....NOW.
(taking a deep breath as I prepare to get mine in 20 minutes...)
1) Fox played Widespread Panic going to commercial breaks in the World Series. Now, ABC has gotten on board, playing Panic during 1st half highlights after the second quarter. Love it. If you don't know the band, you should get to know them.
2) Tomlinson retires as a Charger. He was Marshall Faulk style back who made fantasy owners' weeks easier for about 8 years. Wish he would have gotten a ring, but he should be making a speech in the vicinity of a city in Ohio in about 5 years.
3) David Nalbandian kicked a sign in a tennis match, which then injured the linesman. I have seen some weird stuff, but that was just plain bizarre. He has disallowed from continuing under I am assuming some fine print rule of making a linesman bleed and/ or destroying property courtside.
4) I say the trade deadline is all about Ryan Dempster and then read how the Cubs just put him on the DL. What is this? Is this the baseball version of the Madden curse?
5) RA Dickey became the first pitcher in 24 years to throw back to back 1 hitters. Actually, I am surprised it was that short of time ago. Dude is 11-1, and just might make becoming an "angry knuckleballer" cool.
6) Check out the new ESPN mag. If you like arguing about sports, you will absolutely DROOL. It is the debate issue. Everything from records to players to Rocky vs. Hoosiers (sorry, Rocky, Hoosiers takes that one even though I am from the Philly area).
7) The Charlotte Bobcats have hired a "St. John's assistant" as their new coach. Hey, ESPN, his name is Mike Dunlap, and in basketball circles and in Colorado, he is known as a basketball genius.
8) Jared Sullinger has gotten red flagged for a bad back by specialists. This sucks for him. He would have gone top 3 last year but came back. Now, his back has him dropping like Kramer into the river after falling asleep on his lover. If I was a team who had two picks in the draft, I would take him. Class act, hard worker, intelligent guy, and he will be quality for someone for a few years.
9) My mom is the coolest. She is 69 years old and has seen Rock of Ages before her glam rock loving son.
10) Storybook. England gets their star Rooney back for the last game of group play, he scores, and they advance. Watch them in the lose and go home rounds. I won't change my EURO picks again though. I have changed them enough as it is.
11) Serge Ibaka calls out LeBron's defense. LeBron says "He's stupid." I don't think he is, and knows not to stir the sleeping dog. I honestly think this has to do with the fact that he has problems with the English language and phrasing. I am pretty sure he is aware that he himself is not exactly lighting it up.
12) The sky is blue, the grass is green, and Clemens is found not guilty. Did you expect anything less, and how much do we even care? Follow past votes of steroids users, and he doesn't have to worry about another good vote for a while.
13) If you did not see the US Open fan interrupt the interview afterwards, then you are missing out. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/us-open-fan-webb-simpson-trophy-costas-video_n_1604552.html
14) Webb Simpson won a very boring ending to the US Open. The course played tough as I expected, and the safest place to be in that tournament is in the clubhouse with a good score.
15) OKC missing free throws in Game 3 was surprising and the difference. They are the best free throw shooting team in the league, and also unfortunately showed they are 23 year olds as the game wore on.
16) Stony Brook is out at the CWS, therefore eliminating another sports movie that could have been made. They pretty much got smoked.
17) Dale Jr. finally made a loyal fan base happy and won a race. I have no further knowledge, don't even know where the race was, am pretty sure they around in an oval, and have no further jokes for this hook.
18) I am not looking it up, but I don't think Chuck Norris was in the original Expendables. Whether he was or not, he damn well should be. Bad. Ass. I noticed in a preview also that it looks like Arnold does more than a cameo. One way or the other, and growing up in that age, I will sure as hell see it when it comes out.
19) That is IT. Two minutes to spare. As one shepherd said to the other shepherd, I am getting the flock out of here. Peace.
No comments:
Post a Comment