- Hockey – This sport has engineered its own irrelevance. If you have always been a die-hard fan, of course you should blog it. But don’t cover it just because it’s on TV, because you don’t have to. The 15 people who care are already watching the games.
- Keyshawn to ESPN – Please, this was a no-brainer. If someone had called me the minute Keyshawn retired and asked me what he would do next, I would have said “he’ll join some sports show as the resident mushmouth idiot”. No shit, Nostradamus.
- Preseason NCAA rankings – Let me get this straight. Some publication is arranging the obvious top-25 programs in a list before a down is played. And you’re going to second-guess their guesses by re-arranging the obvious top-25 programs with your alma mater closer to the top. I miss college football, too, but preseason lists are meaningless, and I’d rather hear a blogger expound upon that than give them legitimacy.
- Bill Simmons is a homer – Of course he is. He always has been. In case you missed it, being a homer is what made him a star. We all cackle with glee as we await his column bemoaning the Celtics’ draft luck, but would you be so eager to read it if you knew he was going to write the same dry-as-toast, off-the-rack, more-things-with-hyphens-that-nobody-likes column that any other ESPN hack can turn in? No. The guy’s got our number, but we think we’ve got his. It’s funny. You should laugh.
- Is Brady Quinn Gay? – I have made it a point never to care about anything Brady Quinn does. I didn’t care when there was a recruiting war for his services. I didn’t care where he would end up on the depth chart at Notre Dame. I didn’t care if he flopsweatted away his perfect hairdo as he plummeted in the draft. And I don’t care if he likes to have sex with other grown men. Now, if he cares what we think of him, he should definitely look out for digital cameras when he’s out on the town. But otherwise, it’s just a cheap shot.
- Bonus – You should also never, ever care about some dude’s top five list. If you do, you might as well be taking the quizzes in Cosmo.
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Good list, however, I’m a Browns fan and we need a winner. It’s about time I found some more fantasy bloggers on here. If you get bored come check out http://www.fanprophet.com
Lists = good.
Thank God I’ve never blogged on any of those topics.
And I don’t care, I hate the city of Boston, but Simmons rules. There I said it.
Kindly allow me to say “piss off” regarding #1 as nicely as I can.
(Kidding.)
What’s wrong with Cosmo? I generally read it while drinking pina coloda’s and enjoying a good game of cricket…
Can I throw Curt Schilling and Roger Clemens in there, as well?
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Actually S2N, I expected someone to say far worse than that.
Also, Hockey is not #1 on my list – the Brady Quinn thing is. Someone could catch him and A-Rod making out and I’m still not sure I would care.
In my defense, as a USC alum disliking Notre Dame players is beyond my control.
And I wouldn’t call Brady Quinn gay, it’s an insult to gay people.
I started hating Notre Dame back when I first started caring about College Football – because they always got the plum network spot on ABC whether the game was good or a cakewalk.
I wasn’t supposed to care about this? Uh-oh.
No Voodoo Sabermetrics this week?
We have chosen a victim. It just comes down to seven far-flung writers finding time to pen their part of the post. Then I put it together and pick the photos, so perhaps once a week was a bit ambitious. But have no fear – we’re working on it.
Dammit! Now I have to re-write tomorrow’s post. I was going to write about Simmons’ take on Keyshawn’s NCAA predictions for ESPN below a picture of Brady Quinn getting gangbanged by the Philadephia Flyers.
Now I’ve gotta start all over again.
Taking quizzes in Cosmo is something inflicted upon you by girlfriends looking for topical items to pick fights over. Cosmopolitan magazine is written BY women and FOR women is, somehow, treated as accurate insight into the male mind.
It reminds me of the argument some women make about not visiting a male gynecologist because they have no idea what it’s really like to deal with “female” issues.
Funny how that line of thought isn’t applied to something like Cosmo.
You know, I might make an exception if Keyshawn were boning Brady. That would be interesting.
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