"When I get around to it" Rant 10/20
Oct 20, 2006 15:18:03 GMT -5
Post by Jack Quinn on Oct 20, 2006 15:18:03 GMT -5
Ok, I said I would try to do this every week, but I don't think I had one last week. School is keeping me too busy to complain!
ok, the world series. I can already hear the toolboxes in New York bitching about how no one wants to see the Cards-Tigers series. This is another reason why I hate New York fans so much. I wantt o believe that the Lasorda commercials are directed solely at Yankees fans this year, listen ass clowns, you may think the rest of the country wants to see the Yankees there every year, we don't. Fuck the Yankees, and fuck your pretentious attitude and complaints of "oh no one wants to watch this, the Yankees are not there! I can't watch this!" Fine. Don't watch, go home and count the wrinkles in George's ass or something. Baseball is baseball, I heard the same shit about the White Sox - Astros series last year, and it was a damn good series. So shut the fuck up, sit back, and enjoy baseball. Take some notes on Detroit, this is how you build a team that SHOULD be contenders for years.
That brings me to the Mets (Solly, you might want to stop reading here) I know everyone gushed over them all year long. And they had a nice run. I still stand by my argument that their 97 wins were not nearly as impressive because of inferior competition. My problem with the Mets is this: They have a core of good young players (Wright, Reyes and I guess Monkey, but fuck him) but there seems to be something lacking. I know some will say this is a homer thing talking, but when I look at the Tigers, I do not see a collection of all-stars, I see a bunch of guys who play very well as a TEAM. You could say we are the Pistons of baseball I guess. The point is, the White Sox sort of had that same vibe last year, it seems to work. The Mets seem to want to be the Jr. Yankees, let's just sign the greatest player at every position so we can kill the ball, YEAH! Well that doesn't always work, just ask the Yankees. I am not saying Moneyball is the end all be all of general management, but I think there is certainly something to that idea.
Monday Night Football. Wild horses stampeeding my sexy manhood could not entice me to watch this game. My only hope is that a giant sinkhole opes up under the stadium before the game starts and swallows both teams whole. I fucking despise the Cowboys, the only reason I have to give one squirt of monkey shit about them is to watch TO destroy this team - and he will. And the Giants? Fuck them. Eli is the most overrated QB in the NFL not named Vick, and someone needs to start sack punching Shockey now, and not stop until he vomits his sexy manhood. I am so glad Tiki is walking away, he seems to be the only one on that team that has a fucking clue
The Phillies in the offseason. I just read this today, but the Phillies seem to want to trade Burrell, which I have no problem with. Their targets to replace him? Soriano, nice, but I doubt that would happen. And Sheffield. Words fail me on how wrong this is. If this happens, expect a massive rant. Also, they said if they can't trade Burrell, they might move Rowand. This would piss me off to no end either. I want a team of Rowands, not trading him would be the smartest move they could make.
The University of Michigan. Fuck them with a red hot poker. I fucking hate that school so much it hurts. It makes it worse that I graduated from one of the U of M schools too. Fuck their stupid helmets, they look NOTHING like a fucking wolverine. Stupid stupid stupid. I hope like hell they lose a game before Ohio State, and if not , I hope OSU tears them a new asshole. Fuck Michigan, Fuck Michigan FUUUUUUUUUCK MICHIGAN
BCS - Fuck the whole BCS, we need a playoff. Assholes
Eastern Michigan University. I was almost forced to burn the University down this week. I am supposed to finish my masters in December, so I get a letter this week telling me my application for graduation has been denied. So after I was done seething, I looked into the reason. Turns out I had taken too many special topics classes. We are allowed 6 hours of them, I took 11. Now, I get their little policy, sort of, but here is the problem. They only offer something like 5 graduate classes per semester. And usually at least one of them is during the day, which doesn't work for me. That leaves four classes and until you pick something resembling your major, you almost inevitably end up taking more than you need. So my anger level riseth. I call the office expecting a fight, but it turns out that they expect that, and all I have to do is have my advisor sign off on it. Catastrophe avoided. But my problem is this, if you recognize that there are too many of those classes taken,and this happens all the time, why not either a) allow those classes, or b) offer more classes to choose from? Oh yeah, cause that would make sense
Fuck Higher Education
Until next week, fuck everything
Moose
ok, the world series. I can already hear the toolboxes in New York bitching about how no one wants to see the Cards-Tigers series. This is another reason why I hate New York fans so much. I wantt o believe that the Lasorda commercials are directed solely at Yankees fans this year, listen ass clowns, you may think the rest of the country wants to see the Yankees there every year, we don't. Fuck the Yankees, and fuck your pretentious attitude and complaints of "oh no one wants to watch this, the Yankees are not there! I can't watch this!" Fine. Don't watch, go home and count the wrinkles in George's ass or something. Baseball is baseball, I heard the same shit about the White Sox - Astros series last year, and it was a damn good series. So shut the fuck up, sit back, and enjoy baseball. Take some notes on Detroit, this is how you build a team that SHOULD be contenders for years.
That brings me to the Mets (Solly, you might want to stop reading here) I know everyone gushed over them all year long. And they had a nice run. I still stand by my argument that their 97 wins were not nearly as impressive because of inferior competition. My problem with the Mets is this: They have a core of good young players (Wright, Reyes and I guess Monkey, but fuck him) but there seems to be something lacking. I know some will say this is a homer thing talking, but when I look at the Tigers, I do not see a collection of all-stars, I see a bunch of guys who play very well as a TEAM. You could say we are the Pistons of baseball I guess. The point is, the White Sox sort of had that same vibe last year, it seems to work. The Mets seem to want to be the Jr. Yankees, let's just sign the greatest player at every position so we can kill the ball, YEAH! Well that doesn't always work, just ask the Yankees. I am not saying Moneyball is the end all be all of general management, but I think there is certainly something to that idea.
Monday Night Football. Wild horses stampeeding my sexy manhood could not entice me to watch this game. My only hope is that a giant sinkhole opes up under the stadium before the game starts and swallows both teams whole. I fucking despise the Cowboys, the only reason I have to give one squirt of monkey shit about them is to watch TO destroy this team - and he will. And the Giants? Fuck them. Eli is the most overrated QB in the NFL not named Vick, and someone needs to start sack punching Shockey now, and not stop until he vomits his sexy manhood. I am so glad Tiki is walking away, he seems to be the only one on that team that has a fucking clue
The Phillies in the offseason. I just read this today, but the Phillies seem to want to trade Burrell, which I have no problem with. Their targets to replace him? Soriano, nice, but I doubt that would happen. And Sheffield. Words fail me on how wrong this is. If this happens, expect a massive rant. Also, they said if they can't trade Burrell, they might move Rowand. This would piss me off to no end either. I want a team of Rowands, not trading him would be the smartest move they could make.
The University of Michigan. Fuck them with a red hot poker. I fucking hate that school so much it hurts. It makes it worse that I graduated from one of the U of M schools too. Fuck their stupid helmets, they look NOTHING like a fucking wolverine. Stupid stupid stupid. I hope like hell they lose a game before Ohio State, and if not , I hope OSU tears them a new asshole. Fuck Michigan, Fuck Michigan FUUUUUUUUUCK MICHIGAN
BCS - Fuck the whole BCS, we need a playoff. Assholes
Eastern Michigan University. I was almost forced to burn the University down this week. I am supposed to finish my masters in December, so I get a letter this week telling me my application for graduation has been denied. So after I was done seething, I looked into the reason. Turns out I had taken too many special topics classes. We are allowed 6 hours of them, I took 11. Now, I get their little policy, sort of, but here is the problem. They only offer something like 5 graduate classes per semester. And usually at least one of them is during the day, which doesn't work for me. That leaves four classes and until you pick something resembling your major, you almost inevitably end up taking more than you need. So my anger level riseth. I call the office expecting a fight, but it turns out that they expect that, and all I have to do is have my advisor sign off on it. Catastrophe avoided. But my problem is this, if you recognize that there are too many of those classes taken,and this happens all the time, why not either a) allow those classes, or b) offer more classes to choose from? Oh yeah, cause that would make sense
Fuck Higher Education
Until next week, fuck everything
Moose
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