Tuesday, November 23, 2004
GET RANDOM
I don't normally take the chance to just go nuts here at Sports and B's, but here I am taking such a chance...
-- I'm glad I'm not pulling all-nighters for schoolwork with the TV on ESPN2 like I used to back in the day, because at 4am the Cold Pizza show would come on, and I'd have to hustle and get some last-minute work done on some hacked-up project. But what have they turned the show into? I remember Jay Crawford and Kit Hoover being the main two, with Thea Andrews and Leslie Maxie being the others. I know Maxie is gone (we've been Google-searched for that countless times), and I tune in lately, and the promos have Skip Bayless and Woody Paige? Those two are in print media for a reason.
-- Another ESPN show that now sucks (one of the many): Around the Horn. From the first time I saw this show, I hated Max Kellerman. But for some reason, if I wasn't watching or doing anything else at 2pm, I turned this show on and it was at least somewhat redeemable. Then Kellerman's contract with ESPN ran out. The Stat Boy (Tony Reali) took over. I gave him a chance, but man, the show is just brutal now. Not just because of no Kellerman, not just because ESPN doesn't ever want to get columnists from cities other than LA, Denver, Chicago, and Boston, but the Disembodied Voice left with Kellerman as well, and went to...
-- The I, Max show. I found this show to actually be somewhat entertaining, and Max might have even had a better show in the beginning. What happened? I turn it on a couple weeks ago, and the scoring system is no more. As an added blow to the gut, the two non-Max people (Michael Holley and former Disembodied Voice Bill Wolff) are never on the show at the same time anymore. It's frustrating. They took all the nuance out of the show.
-- I've just seen Marvin Williams hit a couple of shots from the line in this game at Maui against Tennessee, which I didn't know was happening until the third quarter of the Sonic game. He's shooting 1-for-6 from the floor as I type this, but he'll come around.
-- At the Circuit City in Silverdale, there is a non-handicapped parking spot right next to the front door, and the handicapped spots are further away than this one spot. Granted, the two handicapped spots do have the wheelchair ramps built into the sidewalk closer to them, but wouldn't you want the closest spot to be the handicapped spot?
-- I think I can sum up my problems as a hitter. I either thought too much or thought too little. I'd think about throwing the bat at the ball, but then I'd forget to watch the ball all the way until it hits the bat. I'd try to concentrate on staying balanced, and then I'd miss the ball altogether. It'd probably be even worse right now if I ever got any live-arm thrown at me.
-- One thing I feared during those first couple weeks of baseball practice in high school were the curveball JUGS machines. Sure, the tires can look like they're angled a certain way and everything, but those freakin' JUGS balls don't have seams. Hence, I never was picking up any rotation on the balls, and this led to either swinging horrificly and missing or waiting on a curve and getting one of those weird knucklers that comes up every once in a while out of those machines. In junior high ball, one of our first basemen actually got plunked (in the head, I think) by one of those machines. Not good times.
-- Donnie Jones is no Rick Tuten, but I really didn't expect him to be. Who ever thought we'd be longing for Tom Rouen?
-- This Tennessee/North Carolina game right now features two of the most obnoxious colors in sports: obnoxious orange and obnoxious baby blue.
-- Every pickup basketball team I've ever been on has sucked at make it/take it basketball.
-- The West Bremerton Taco Bell raised the base price of their Grilled Stuft burritos from $2.19 to $2.29. This triggers a slow burn from me. I can't roll up to the drive-thru with an exact $2.38 anymore. It's $2.49 now.
-- I was on a doubles team that won towels as a grand prize for beating everyone else in that pickleball class. However, there are countless people from high school that could have been in that class and steamrolled everyone else, including me.
-- What I miss about Ellensburg: my own place, the snow, coming home at 4am and having nobody care because I lived alone, etc.
-- Victory for Sonics! I miss Fred Flintstone.
Well, the daily post is already brewing, and unless you stay up until 3am or so in anticipation for it (might be earlier tonight), you'll probably wake up with it in the morning.
Until the next time...
-- I'm glad I'm not pulling all-nighters for schoolwork with the TV on ESPN2 like I used to back in the day, because at 4am the Cold Pizza show would come on, and I'd have to hustle and get some last-minute work done on some hacked-up project. But what have they turned the show into? I remember Jay Crawford and Kit Hoover being the main two, with Thea Andrews and Leslie Maxie being the others. I know Maxie is gone (we've been Google-searched for that countless times), and I tune in lately, and the promos have Skip Bayless and Woody Paige? Those two are in print media for a reason.
-- Another ESPN show that now sucks (one of the many): Around the Horn. From the first time I saw this show, I hated Max Kellerman. But for some reason, if I wasn't watching or doing anything else at 2pm, I turned this show on and it was at least somewhat redeemable. Then Kellerman's contract with ESPN ran out. The Stat Boy (Tony Reali) took over. I gave him a chance, but man, the show is just brutal now. Not just because of no Kellerman, not just because ESPN doesn't ever want to get columnists from cities other than LA, Denver, Chicago, and Boston, but the Disembodied Voice left with Kellerman as well, and went to...
-- The I, Max show. I found this show to actually be somewhat entertaining, and Max might have even had a better show in the beginning. What happened? I turn it on a couple weeks ago, and the scoring system is no more. As an added blow to the gut, the two non-Max people (Michael Holley and former Disembodied Voice Bill Wolff) are never on the show at the same time anymore. It's frustrating. They took all the nuance out of the show.
-- I've just seen Marvin Williams hit a couple of shots from the line in this game at Maui against Tennessee, which I didn't know was happening until the third quarter of the Sonic game. He's shooting 1-for-6 from the floor as I type this, but he'll come around.
-- At the Circuit City in Silverdale, there is a non-handicapped parking spot right next to the front door, and the handicapped spots are further away than this one spot. Granted, the two handicapped spots do have the wheelchair ramps built into the sidewalk closer to them, but wouldn't you want the closest spot to be the handicapped spot?
-- I think I can sum up my problems as a hitter. I either thought too much or thought too little. I'd think about throwing the bat at the ball, but then I'd forget to watch the ball all the way until it hits the bat. I'd try to concentrate on staying balanced, and then I'd miss the ball altogether. It'd probably be even worse right now if I ever got any live-arm thrown at me.
-- One thing I feared during those first couple weeks of baseball practice in high school were the curveball JUGS machines. Sure, the tires can look like they're angled a certain way and everything, but those freakin' JUGS balls don't have seams. Hence, I never was picking up any rotation on the balls, and this led to either swinging horrificly and missing or waiting on a curve and getting one of those weird knucklers that comes up every once in a while out of those machines. In junior high ball, one of our first basemen actually got plunked (in the head, I think) by one of those machines. Not good times.
-- Donnie Jones is no Rick Tuten, but I really didn't expect him to be. Who ever thought we'd be longing for Tom Rouen?
-- This Tennessee/North Carolina game right now features two of the most obnoxious colors in sports: obnoxious orange and obnoxious baby blue.
-- Every pickup basketball team I've ever been on has sucked at make it/take it basketball.
-- The West Bremerton Taco Bell raised the base price of their Grilled Stuft burritos from $2.19 to $2.29. This triggers a slow burn from me. I can't roll up to the drive-thru with an exact $2.38 anymore. It's $2.49 now.
-- I was on a doubles team that won towels as a grand prize for beating everyone else in that pickleball class. However, there are countless people from high school that could have been in that class and steamrolled everyone else, including me.
-- What I miss about Ellensburg: my own place, the snow, coming home at 4am and having nobody care because I lived alone, etc.
-- Victory for Sonics! I miss Fred Flintstone.
Well, the daily post is already brewing, and unless you stay up until 3am or so in anticipation for it (might be earlier tonight), you'll probably wake up with it in the morning.
Until the next time...
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