NCAA Championship Game Thoughts, And More Shopping Cart Ridiculousness
Quick-hitters:
- Since when have those Google AdSense banners had the left/right arrows?
(Wait a sec…most of you probably have AdBlock enabled to block AdSense ads anyway, so why bother mentioning this? :P)
- Crystal Light is awesome. I can satisfy my sweet tooth at only five calories a serving? Plus, this stuff will make me drink more water? Great!
(Then again, water consumption for me is not a problem in the spring/summer months, though. I think I drink triple the water during the spring/summer months as I do during the cooler months.)
As great as Crystal Light is, I think I’m drinking a bit too much of the stuff. And by “a bit too much,” I mean three quarts over the last two days. Granted, three quarts of my Crystal Light = two quarts normally, but that doesn’t change the opinion that my body probably doesn’t appreciate the massive influx of artificial sweetener that I’ve ingested recently. Hopefully my recent consumption was only an aberration…can I blame Sprint for this? Besides, you’re supposed to drink at least two quarts of water per day, right? 
(EDIT: I wrote the above three days ago, and I haven’t finished a pitcher of Crystal Light since.)
- Before I get into my NCAA Championship Game thoughts, I just read that UCLA is reportedly going to lose Kevin Love and Darren Collison. Love leaving doesn’t surprise me at all, but after seeing Collison’s performance against Memphis, I was a bit surprised to see that, assuming the reports are true, he was making himself draft-eligible.
I’m guessing we’ll hear that Russell Westbrook will be gone soon enough.
- My NCAA Championship Game thoughts:
1) You’ll make FTs when they matter, eh, Calipari? One of five down the stretch, including a huge offensive rebound off a missed freebie? Misses by your two stud guards?
I guess the Ung-hex couldn’t overcome Memphis’ free throw shooting woes.
Memphis absolutely choked, plain and simple. How do you blow a nine-point lead with two minutes to play? I hope Calipari is getting some studs next year, as he’s clearly going to have to replace his starting back court next year. Derrick Rose probably leaped over Michael Beasley as the #1 prospect on most teams’ draft boards, after that superhuman second-half run of his.
2) What play was worse? The awful turnover that led to a clutch trey by Kansas, or Derrick Rose not fouling late, allowing Mario Chalmers to (eventually) put up the game-tying three at the end of regulation?
The TO was bad, but the non-foul was much, much worse. Once Kansas G Sherron Collins got past half court, where was the foul? Even if Collins made both FTs, and Memphis missed both—Memphis was in the double bonus by then—Kansas would have had ~ 4 seconds to advance the ball and put up a shot.
That foul by Joey Dorsey wasn’t at all costly either, was it? Raise your hand if you think Memphis could have used him in OT.
3) After two relative stinkers in the Final Four, at least the championship game was watchable, and at least it had one super-memorable moment: Chalmers’ triple to send the game in OT.
I can’t wait for next year.
- My loyal readers—all none of you—know that one of my biggest pet peeves are idiots that do stupid things with shopping carts. Well, my sister and I had to go run some errands earlier this past evening, so we headed out to Costco first. We were planning on getting a few items: some spices, salad, cottage cheese, cucumbers, and one or two other things.
Of course, when one goes to Costco to buy “one or two other things,” he inevitably ends up buying 6-8 other things. Have I ever mentioned that Costco is evil?
Anyway, on our way back to our car, I noticed a shopping cart “corral” (my term) a couple spots away. That’s when I noticed a cart placed PERPENDICULAR to the front of the corral!!!
(Costco shopping cart corrals are double-laned; they are designed to take in two rows of shopping carts…assuming morons don’t block both lanes with a single cart.)
Are you freaking serious? You couldn’t have been bothered to turn the cart ninety degrees, much less push the damn cart into one of the two lanes? Was there an event that you absolutely had to tend to that prevented you from spending three seconds to properly secure the cart into the corral?
I expected this behavior at my local supermarket, but at a Costco?
After Costco, we went to VONS to go get some protein bars ($1 each - $1.50 off wyb 2 coupon - $1 double = $0.50 overage for two bars). Again, we intended on buying only a couple of items, and you know what happened next. When we walked out of the store, I glanced over at the shopping cart corral in that parking lot, and couldn’t believe what I saw.
Apparently, some moron decided to leave his cart just outside the corral. I should give him some credit, though; at least the cart was pointed right in front of the corral. However, that wasn’t the ridiculous part! Two other morons decided to attach their carts to the first one, without even thinking about pushing the carts into the corral! What I would have given to be there to see this actually unfold in front of my very eyes!
I hope each moron that did this crash into a shopping cart the next time they’re at a supermarket.
Until next time!