So as Chad said yesterday, I have been slacking lately with these posts. What can I say? With school starting and me exercising consistently for the first time since high school I’ve been a little worn out, but that’s only half the story. You see every year there is a video game that commands my attention like NBA players to drunk strippers. This year that game has been Call of Duty 4. Now I know this blog is supposed to be about sports, but isn’t online gaming a sport? I mean you are on teams trying to go after a common goal? That’s a sport right?
No?
Alright then. I didn’t catch that much sports related last week. There were rumors that the White Sox were going to get Octavio Dotel, an aging right handed reliever. That came to fruition today. If there is one thing I still don’t understand about baseball its how bullpens work. You have to get the right amount of left handed and right handed pitching, that’s obvious. But how teams put together a rag tag bunch of journeymen and make them a decent to good bullpen, well that’s beyond me.
There was a lot of hoopla about Golfweek putting a noose on the cover of their magazine as a response to a reporter mentioning how the only way for the tour to stop Tiger was to take him out back of a bar and “lynch” him. Now the reporter didn’t mean to say this in a racially charged way, but she still got a lot of flack for the incident, I guess to a point it was deserved. I can’t think of the word lynched without thinking about race, but maybe that is just me. Now Golfweek putting a noose on the cover was obviously a ploy to get more people to buy the magazine. I mean that’s how magazines make their money, they find something provocative and exploit it. While I thought it was corny and not very classy, I didn’t really have a problem with what they did. Apparently I was in the minority. People got really upset, and again, I totally understand why. Advertisers threatened to pull adds and eventually Golfweek’s editor Dave Seanor became the sacrificial lamb to appease the mob, and was fired.
What’s sad about this whole mess is how the media will do anything to sell a product. First people took the initial reporters words out of context in order to have something to harp on in their columns. Then a magazine decides it’s a good idea to take the whole deal even further by putting a provocative, highly negative image on their cover in order to exploit the whole ordeal even further. Finally, us readers get mad at the magazine and demand someone pay. Which in this case was Mr. Seanor. Let this be a lesson to the media, enough with being provocative! Just give us the facts and leave the editorial to us bloggers!
Moving on…
Chad has already talked about the championship games that took place yesterday so I’ll keep my thoughts brief on the games…
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People are giving LT a lot of flack over not playing against New England. I say give him a break, he’s one of the best, most hard working players in the league, I’m sure he wasn’t faking an injury. To think anything but that kind of makes you an idiot.
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The scary thing about the Patriots is that they can win even when Tom Brady is having a rough go of it. Something you don’t see out of other good teams… i.e. the Packers.
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Leave it to Bret Favre to make a crazy, uncalled for throw when the Packers need him the most. Anyone who was shocked by his overtime miscue hasn’t been watching the Packers last forrays into the playoffs. I just wished they would have ran the ball more, oh well.
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Now we get to see the Patriots destroy the Giants in the Super Bowl. On one hand I’m kind of glad there is a team that will go undefeated in a season, if for no other reason then to stick it to the 72′ Dolphins, but there’s something deep (deep) down inside me that wanted to see Favre go out with a Super Bowl win. And no Chad, this isn’t my dad typing this.
The Lakers are only a game out in the Pacific Division and I couldn’t be any happier. I haven’t been able to catch their games lately as I’ve been trying to get to sleep at a decent time, but once I get into a good routine with school I’ll probably catch a bunch of their games. I hope they can keep it up without Andrew Bynum, but I’m not getting my hopes up.
Finally, we got about six inches of snow overnight. Six f’ing inches! I’m starting to get real sick of winter. All I can think of is Spring Training, which will be starting here in about a month. I’m extremely excited for baseball to start, and you best believe I have some plans for Fantasy Baseball. So stay tuned kids….
…and now back to your regularly scheduled blogging.
-JJ
