Why Ross Joins Target, Trader Joe’s, and Costco On the List of Evil Stores, And The Jazz Completely Blew It
Quickie blog tonight. Expect tomorrow’s blog to have two Office reviews, both last week’s episode, and the season finale.
(Tangent: Season finale??? Don’t the writers and producers owe us a few extra weeks of television shows after the writer’s strike? And what about the DVD sets for this season’s TV shows? There’s no way that these shows can charge us full price for a half-season’s worth of episodes, right?)
(Tangent #2: Dwight Schrute just announced that he is running for VP on John McCain’s ticket on The Tonight Show! He’s got my vote :P)
(Tangent #3: Howard Dean just offered Dwight Schrute two flamethrowers. I sense a change in loyalty.)
One quick-hitter:
- I can’t believe I have not seen this video before, but check out the curve on this curveball!
Clayton freaking Kershaw. Let’s hope he’s closer to the next Sandy Koufax than the next Darren Dreifort.
BTW, Andruw Jones got two hits today??? CRAZY!
- Ross is officially evil. I went back there today to return a few items of clothing, and got ~ $50 returned to my credit card. That’s when I decided to do some quick shopping.
After browsing through the clearance racks, I ended up buying two pairs of shorts and a cheap T-shirt, and I almost walked out with a $55 jacket marked down to $10.
I’ve been to Ross five times in the last two weeks now, and even though I’ve made returns three times, I haven’t walked out of the store without purchasing anything. Grrrrrrr.)
(Tangent: Speaking of evil stores, my sister walked into Target last night to look for one item.
She walked out with a nalgene water bottle and a copy of SingStar Rocks with two microphones (clearanced to $24.99 from $49.99). The hilarious thing about the trip to Target was the fact that we thought the store closed at 9:30. It was 9:15 or so when we got to the store, and we made a pact to bee-line towards the one item she needed.
Once we found out that Target closed at 10, the spending spree began :P).
(Wow. Four tangents in a single blog? This must be a record!)
- I could easily flip over my assessment of Game Four of the Lakers-Jazz series on its head, and it would be wholly appropriate. There were some pretty questionable calls—Gasol practically ran over Harpring in the fourth quarter, and Odom was barely touched on his dunk that was assisted by Gasol.
(By the way, Okur completely flopped on the critical offensive rebound and dunk by Gasol. As if Gasol could shove a seven-footer, 250+ pounder six feet with his left arm.)
It’s easy to blame the refs for bad calls, but that would ignore the real reason by the Jazz probably blew their best chance to steal the series: the third quarter. How many chances did Utah have to take the lead in the third quarter? Missed layups, bricked jumpers, and TOs…THAT’s the reason why Utah gagged away Game Five. Add a dash of Pau Gasol, and Utah has to be kicking themselves right now. Was he huge or what down the stretch of Game Five?
And has anybody seen Carlos Boozer? How has he disappeared in the three games at Staples?
One quick comment about the Celtics-Cavs game: I almost pulled off an unprecedented double Ung-hex. Early in the game, the Cavs were up by double digits, and I declared the Cavs the winner of the game, going so far as to say that the Cavs were going to win the series in six games.
Late in the fourth quarter, I switched over to the Dodger game, figuring that the Cavs were done. When I switched back to Cavs-Celtics, the Cavs got within four points. Too bad the Cavs couldn’t pull off my double Ung-hex the victory.
Until next time!