XGBox/MGE Company Rebate Scam, And Popping Off On Gregg Popovich
Quick-hitters:
- For the love of spammy blogs! Right after I logged into Wordpress to compose this blog entry, I scrolled down a bit to the spam section under “Latest Activity” and noticed that the number of spam comments increased drastically from the last time I checked it!
(Every now and then, I like to check out the spammy comments, just to see how ridiculous they look.)
I went to the Comments section, and there were TWENTY comments awaiting moderation! Every single one of them were pushing some sort of drug, in that completely incoherent babble you might have seen before.
Does this mean my blog has “made it?” 
- Call me a homer. Call me biased. Call me bitter over the fact that UCLA lost to freaking Washington. Call me whatever you want, but that inbounds “pass” that was thrown off Alfred Aboya’s face was bush league at best. How the refs didn’t call a technical foul on Washington’s Tim Morris on that play is totally incomprehensible.
If you’re going to throw the ball off the defender, throw it off his leg!
- I heard about the Florida Panthers’ Richard Zednik’s freak injury last night, but only this morning did I finally see a replay of how the injury occurred. Calling it a “freak” injury is quite the understatement; that was awfully scary stuff!
I’m glad to hear that he is now in stable condition in a Buffalo hospital.
- Back in January, I whined about $38 in rebates that I have been owed since May:
I’m still waiting on 2 $19 rebates [being handled by MGE Company] for a supposedly FAR CPU heatsink/fan from back in May [from parent company XG]. I’ve emailed these clowns several times, and have heard nothing but “please allow x weeks for processing.” The latest reply, which came on 12/17, said to allow an extra month for processing. I’m about ready to go down the state AG/BBB route.
This past Friday, I sent these clowns yet another email, asking about the status of my rebate. Should I have been shocked that they requested even more time for the processing of my rebates? Clearly XGBox/MGE Company hired a bunch of monkeys to process their rebates.
I filed my BBB/state Attorney General claims yesterday.
Here is a PDF of the email exchange between myself and these clowns. Enjoy!
- Spurs coach Gregg Popovich is a funny guy. At least, he better have been trying to be funny when he unleashed this criticism of the Lakers’ acquisition of Pau Gasol for a sack of potatoes:
“What they did in Memphis is beyond comprehension,” Popovich told SI.com. “There should be a trade committee that can scratch all trades that make no sense. I just wish I had been on a trade committee that oversees NBA trades. I would have voted no to the LA trade.”
Gregg “I won four championships because I shelved David Robinson early to earn ping-pong balls towards winning the 1997 NBA Lottery so that I can draft Tim Duncan” Popovich, please quit your whining. As J.A. Adande said a few days ago on Around The Horn, nobody whined when the Lakers traded Shaq for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, and Brian Grant (anyone who argues that that was NOT an unfair trade is, at the very least, smoking something awfully strong). I’ll take Adande’s point one step further: I didn’t hear Popovich complain when the Lakers traded Caron Butler for Kwame freaking Brown! Where was he when the T-Wolves traded away KG for Al Jefferson and junk?
(Might the fact that KG was shipped out of the Western Conference, and a Western Conference power got Gasol for absolutely nothing?)
Poor Popovich. He must be steaming now that the Lakers added Gasol, the Suns added Shaq, and all he was able to add was Damon Stoudamire. Can you blame him? His core players—Timmy, Tony Parker-Longoria, Bruce “Clutch n’ Grab” Bowen, Billy Ocean, Will Smith, etc.—are getting way up there in years! Maybe Popovich is seeing his dynasty crumbling all around him.
As a non-”Spurs in the Finals” fan, I sure hope so.
Until next time!