Quick Baseball Thoughts, Even Quicker (Fantasy) Football Thoughts, And Time Warner Is Awesome
Sorry, loyal readers (all none of you), but a number of things have kept me away from blogging for the last few days. Being under the weather doesn’t help.
Quick-hitters:
- I think I have found a drink that is more awesome than Mexicoke.
Mexicoke with a wedge of lime!!!
Methinks I have to go back to Costco to get another case of Mexicoke, and some vials of insulin ;p.
- Current rebate-o-meter: ~$3200. And that total comes after receiving about $200 in rebates earlier in the week.
I need help.
- So Kobe Bryant is whining again, eh? What else is new? More on that another time
(Maybe.)
- So with the World Series nearly set, here are my quick thoughts about the MLB playoffs to date:
1) Go Rockies!
2) I was giddy for about five days after the Yankees got knocked out of the playoffs. The Ung-hex lives (more on that later)!
3) Assuming the Indians don’t choke…Cleveland v. Colorado, eh? I wonder what the Vegas odds on that World Series match up was.
4) Hey Boston! How’s that [unnamed RFer who formerly played for the Dodgers] working out for you? Oh, and Julio Lugo too.
5) Should Boston SP Josh Beckett have pitched in Game 4 of the ALCS? Absolutely. Why else was he pulled after 80 pitches in Game 1? Besides, pitching him in Game 4 gives Boston a chance to pitch him in Game 7!
Of course, if Wakefield won Game 4, everybody would have praised Boston manager Terry Francona.
5) Finally, and most importantly, as freaking annoying as Tim McCarver has been, he can’t hold a candle to the sheer number of f**king annoying commercials that Fox has been airing during the playoffs! Those AT&T commercials (Prague-Chicago-whatever???): really really stupid. Those iPhone commercials? Equally stupid. Starburst/Snickers commercials? Absolutely stupid. And don’t get me started with those “This is ouuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrr country” Chevy commercials. A few more of those, and I’m going to stab my ears with a screwdriver. I can’t believe I long for the days of “I’m lovin’ it!”
Yeah, like annoying the holy hell out of me is going to get me to purchase your products. Actually, I think I get it! Maybe these companies are threatening us with these commercials! Buy our stuff, or we’ll be forced to continue playing these really stupid ass commercials!
Sheer genius!
That Taco Bell commercial about the rules of dating is pretty funny, though. Crack that whip!
- Here are my super-quick (Fantasy) Football thoughts for the week:
1) I’m now 1-5 (ugh), 2-4 (thanks LT), 3-3 (bleh), and 3-3 in the BargainShare league (poop).
2) After the Patriots ran over a legitimate opponent in the Dallas Cowboys, running their record up to 6*-0, I guess I can finally admit that the Patriots are far and away the best team in the NFL. That Tom Brady guy is a pretty good QB!
By the way, Patrick Crayton, feel free to be quiet. After the loss, Crayton relished the thought of facing the Pats again this season. Of course, the only way that would happen is on Super Bowl Sunday:
“If they make it to Arizona, we will see them again. Seriously, I’m not backing down from that statement,” receiver Patrick Crayton said Monday, a day after a 48-27 loss to the Patriots.
You do realize you are playing on a team that can’t defend against the pass, is completely under-utilizing the beast that is Marion Barber III, and haven’t won a damn thing since the team was QBed by a guy named Troy Aikman, right? Yeah, you guys are currently the class of the NFC, but is that really saying much? Not to mention, you’re one TO blowup or one Tony Romo “I do realize I’m Tony Romo, right” game from having to watch the Super Bowl at home, right?
(Argh, they just aired another stupid AT&T commercial. And they followed it up with a Dane Cook/playoff baseball commercial!!! Shoot me now!)
I will give Crayton props for one point, though: at least he realizes that the Patriots’ road to the Super Bowl (Colts, Steelers, and maybe Jags and Chargers) will be a heck of a lot harder than the Cowboys’ road (Packers? Giants? Maybe the Seahawks? Please!)
Well, it looks like this blog is going to run a bit long, so I’ll save the Ung-hex story for another time. This time, I swear I’ll remember to blog about it!
- Time Warner is awesome. I love them!
(I’ll allow everybody’s sarcasm-0-meter to cool off before I continue.)
In the past three days, I’ve had eight outages of 5 minutes or less (no cable or internet), and one four-hour long outage. I called in to TW tech support to report the outage, and of course, I got the standard “Sir, we’re looking into it.”
Stupid Time Warner. Well, at least Time Warner lets me use their internet service to talk crap about them, unlike another company I can think of…
AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!1111 They are airing a Chevy commercial!!!
*bang*
I’m not sure if you realized that they revised their terms:
Wow…they actually went out of their way to revise the T&Cs?