Let’s just go group by group
Announcers: Billy Packer - You are a sanctimonious bag of hot air. I can’t listen to you broadcast a game because you announce it like the listener is blessed to hear your insight. Tim McCarver - Same thing. Say what needs to be said. Don’t flow on and on like you are discovering monkeys that crap gold. Most people watching already get the nuances and actions that you wax idiotic on.
Owners: Donald Sterling - If you are going to own a team, at least make us believe you want to win at some point. Quit using players just for the 3-4 cheap post draft contract years. Get a decent free agent and make an effort. Wayne Huizenga, Art Modell - And any other owner that basically mortgages a franchises future for one year of glory. You may have a title, but you have no respect. The stink of your actions will haunt your beloved little trophy long after you are rotting in the ground.
TV stations: CBS - See Billy Packer above. You hog the tournament which means any game worth watching involves that blowhole. WGN - I want more Cubs games, screw the White Sox. Fox - For the station that is probably #2 in terms of sports power, you have a load of horrific announcers.
Athletes: Randy Moss - I’ll just let him stand for every athlete that wastes and underutilizes vast amount of natural talent. You suck. Warren Sapp - You symbolize every player that feels the need to speak about anything at anytime, while most of the time sounding stupid, pointless, or just plain obnoxious. Allen Iverson - You represent every thuggish athlete. There’s a reason people think this about you Allen, and it’s certainly not our fault.
Coaches: Brian Billick, Mike Martz: And every other egotistical coaching genius with a God complex. But, it does make comeuppance fun for those of us watching. Phil Jackson - You are certainly a good coach, but considering the talent level you have had to work with, perhaps we could tone down the holier than thou, Zen Master, father of all that is basketball goodness attitude and stuff it in the sock drawer.
I made an error by not pointing out something in my post:
Below the quote on the calendar page is this statement attributing the quote to Madden: “John Madden, sportscaster and then Oakland Raiders coach, repeating the words of wisdom he imparrted to his team before each game (Madden himself said he had no idea what the words meant.)”
The fact that Madden didn’t know what he was saying is what makes this quote so “stupid”…hence, the quote is in a calendar of “stupidest things ever said”.
I’d like to say ‘Hello’ to brianjedi from one UK student to another. (insert obligatory GO CATS!!! here)
WTF are you talking about? The Ravens have one salary cap purge year this year and next year are 20 million under the cap to sign free agents, AND the team is hardly laying down this year. There are still 4-5 all-pros on the roster. How is that “Mortgaging the franchise future”?? If you want to “blame” anyone, blame the NFL for the cap system, personally I like the parety in the league. The fact that in any given year anyone can compete and go to the playoffs ( except Cincy and Detroit ) adds a lot of excitement to the season.
Ever hear of Zen koans? They’re not supposed to make sense by themselves, just shake your mind loose and create a mood. But this made more sense than the average koan. It was just like telling the team to concentrate on the game and not worry about other things. Just go out there with what you’ve got (so what if your horse is blind) and do your job (load the wagon).
Better than hearing about operas and fat ladies, ain’t it?
Oh, but I’ll throw in NBC/Notre Dame unholy marriage. Since when does one tiny school get to own a network? Notre Dame has sucked for years - why is this shit forced on the air.
Oh, and Notre Dame in general. Can any one school have more college admins/NCAA reps/bowl reps/ sucking it off?
Fair enough, if the Cubs keep their games off of Fox Sports Net. The Tribune Company owns their own damned network, and yet the Cubs still manage to displace White Sox games to Fox Sports Net Plus, which I personally don’t have. I guess WGN wanted more air time to show fine WB programming. Oh, and neither team should broadcast games on WCIU, because it sucks.
I forgot to register my disdain for everything going on in Anaheim right now, from the stupid Rally Monkey to the bandwagon-hopping “fans” with their idiotic Thunder Stix to the suck-ass team that’s robbed me of the chance to see an actual good team in the World Series. And let’s not forget the Disney ownership. I know they’re the scrappy underdogs that everyone’s supposed to root for, but I just can’t.
A-FUCKIN’-MEN
Jim Rome is the WORST talk show “personality” in sports. You know why he tells all his callers “Don’t suck”? Because he embodies 99.99% of all the suckiness in the world, and if any callers added to that…
Well, it would create a black hole of suckiness so vast that we’d all slit our wrists in despair, sports fans and non fans alike.
“Robbed you of a chance to see an actual good team in the World Series.”??? They beat the living snot of two division winners like they were rolling a drunk in a dark alley. They weren’t victories, they were ass-whippings. You wanna know what that means?? It means they are the better team.
In case you missed the memo, it’s the better team that wins the games. That’s why they play the games, you know. To find out who’s better.
I was watching the debacle that was the Oakland Raiders vs. St. Louis Rams game this last Sunday on Fox.
do-doodoo-do-dah-do
The little chime noise is played which signals a “screen shrink” so that the day’s other football scores can be shown along the bottom.
Of course, the dumbasses don’t realize that throughout the entire game, these scores are already being displayed in transparancies on the top left of the screen!
I don’t need two concurrent “scores around the nfl” running, thank you very much. Please resize my freaking screen!
So let me get this straight the Angels are a crappy team despite being:
4th in the majors in runs scored
3rd in RBI
1st in AVG
4th in ERA (only .01 behind that vaunted Oakland staff)
4th in fielding percentage
1st in zone rating (meaning that they were the best at getting to and making plays off balls that were hit into each positions “zone”)
Basically, they beat out just about every other “elite” team including the Yankees and Atlanta in just about every category.
So in conclusion, you are an idiot Wintergreen.
Which brings me to my pet peeve. Morons coming out of the woodwork right now who have decided that they aren’t going to watch this World Series because it doesn’t have a marquee team. Assuming the quality just won’t be as good. Sorry, but you know what, these are the two best teams in baseball. If you have decided that baseball just isn’t worth it if the Yankees aren’t in it (or whoever) then you can just fuck off. You aren’t a true fan and are merely a fair-weather fan wanting to revel in victory and ignore the sport when you can’t. Go away.
Baseball fan weighing in; INHO, the Angels were the best team in the AL this year. They only won fewer games than the Yankees because the Yankees got to beat up on Tampa Bay and Baltimore. Oakland’s having more wins was sheer luck - they got the breaks in the close games (32-14 in one-run games, one of the best records ever.) Anaheim had the best run differential in baseball despite playing in the toughest division. Then they went 7-2 in the postseason, including a fairly brutal ass-kicking of the Yankees. I think they were the best team in baseball. They deserve to be in the World Series.
Staying off topic for a moment, Spooje my man, you are a gentleperson and a scholar, and a good baseball fan, but the best team doesn’t always win in the post-season. The HOTTER and luckier team sometimes wins, not necessarily the best team. Being the best team helps, but it is no guarantee. You will recall the 1988 Dodgers, who rode the absolutely ridiculous pitching of Orel Hershiser (sp?) and the hot bat of the “immortal” Mickey Hatcher to the World Series title. You will recall the 1996 Yankees lucking out because (1) Baltimore eliminated my overconfident Cleveland Indians; (2) then the Yankees eliminated the O’s because of the Yankees’ fan interfering with the ball in right field; then the Yanks beat the Braves because a home run by another immortal, Jim Leyritz (sp), completely took the steam out of the Braves.
As a long time baseball fan I cannot explain such happenings, but they prove that the best team doesn’t always win.
Turning briefly back to the OP, I can’t believe I left team owners who blackmail the taxpayers into building them new stadiums off the list of things wrong with sports today. Rot in hell Art Modell.