The French Surrender Again, A Positive CS Experience (For a Change!), And Why the Dodgers Really Need Some Rolaids (Relief…Get It?)
It’s hot.
Quick-hitters:
- Is it just me, or do Reduced Fat Oreo cookies taste disgusting compared to the original variety?
Methinks it’s time to do a double-blind experiment. Any volunteers?
(My experiment will be BYOOs, by the way.)
- It’s that time of the year…FANTASY FOOTBALL TIME!!!
(W00t!)
If anyone is interested in joining the Bargain$hare Fantasy Football league, please let me know. We have only 2/12 spots filled as of tonight.
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1,070.
I can’t wait for the 2009 software to come around.
- So I know I said that I didn’t have much interest in the Olympic Games this year, but I couldn’t help but watch the Men’s 4×100 Freestyle Relay, just to see if the Americans could beat the favorites: the French team. What really got me interested in the event was the comments of French swimmer, Alain Bernard: “The Americans? We’re going to smash them.”
Nice try, Alain. I think he meant to say that new American hero Jason Lezak was going to smash the French with a world-record 50m split time of 46.06 seconds. Seriously, though, how the hell did Bernard lose what looked like a half body length lead over Lezak with only the final 50m to go?
I hope Michael Phelps plans on sending the guy a fruit basket or something.
(Note: Despite the blog title, I am not taking credit away from Lezak and the Americans; they won the race. The French did not choke the race away. It’s just fun to see the word “French” followed by the word “surrender” :P)
It was a damn shame, though, that I already knew the results of the race prior to air time. Thanks, Yahoo! Sports and ESPN.com.
- I will interrupt the sports talk to give credit to Staples for a positive customer service experience.
(A POSITIVE customer service experience? On THIS blog?)
On Sunday, I acquired a Staples coupon that, I later found out, was already redeemed. I figured that I could place the order that night, find another Staples coupon to use (which I did on Monday), and then call Staples and see if they would manually add the coupon to my order.
Earlier tonight, I called Staples, and after spending about 30 seconds navigating through Staples’ IVR (Interactive Voice Response), I got a live operator. I quickly explained that I needed to add a coupon code to my order. The rep asked me for my order number, followed by the coupon code, and a couple seconds later, she explained that I would be seeing a refund of ~ $27 on my VISA in the next couple of days.
Total time of call: ~1:45. Nice.
- Finally, I gotta talk about my Dodgers, specifically the two come-from-ahead losses to the Giants.
(clears throat)
WTF? WTF??? W T F??????
Two ninth-inning, one-run leads…POOF! Worse yet, two freaking losses to the SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS??? Two losses that should have given us a half-game lead in the West, instead of the 1.5 game deficit we currently face?
And the losses themselves didn’t really hurt. It was the manner in which we lost both games! Leadoff hits, booted balls, poor defensive decisions, you name it! It was almost as if the 2008 Dodgers were trying to replicate their failures of last year.
(EDIT: Oh my. Bases loaded, four run lead, ninth inning, and Chase Utley is up. Gulp…if Broxton can’t close this one, I might have a heart attack.)
(EDIT #2: Of course…Utley blooped a single into left. 8-6 now, and Ryan Howard is up. Yikes.)
(EDIT #3: Whew. Grounder to the shift in super-shallow right.)
Hurry back, Takashi Saito!