Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Time for a Sports rant
Ok I love sports. Anyone and everyone who knows me will tell you I love my sports. I know stats and figures and salaries and things supposedly no girl should know. Well I am on a rant. My penguins first place in their division lost out first rd in the NHL playoffs! Why? It's simple they can not beat the flyers at home. Now my pens lost so I being faithful to PA was rooting on the Flyers who lost it all to the devils in Rd 2. What's a girl to do? I can not will not in any way shape or form cheer for the devils. NO WAY NOT HAPPENING. Anywho if anyone has ideas on who I should root on the rest of the way kindly let me know
And Baseball really the Phillies were swept by the METS! Come on They trailed after five innings against Roy Halladay on Monday, after six against Joe Blanton on Tuesday and after six against Cliff Lee in the series finale. The five-time defending NL East champions are a season-worst four games under .500 at 14-18. The Mets (18-13) are five games above .500 for the first time since July 19, 2010. Lee left with a 4-2 lead, but Kyle Kendrick (0-3) quickly gave that up. Kendrick, booed loudly in the seventh, stayed in to start the eighth. He gave up a double to David Wright and a broken-bat RBI double to Scott Hairston before exiting. Fans mockingly cheered when Manuel came out to take the ball from Kendrick. He heard more boos on his way to the dugout.
One batter after right fielder Hunter Pence dropped a routine fly ball for an error, Davis hit a towering drive off Jose Contreras that bounced off the facing of the second deck.
The Mets last swept the Phillies in a three-game series in Philadelphia on June 13-15, 2006
What's the problem 1 is the bullpen for heaven's sake leave the starters in the closer is fine the starters are fine it is the bullpen. Of course offense is also a problem. I remind myself the phillies are notorious slow starters but this is going to make for a long baseball season if they do not start producing. Also I totally disagreed with resigning of Jimmy Rollins his lackluster performance and diva attitude last season totally turned me off and he is continuing to do the same thing this season. He should be a leader in the clubhouse and on the field with an average of only .223 he needs to be doing a lot more to prove he deserves his contract
Ok enough is enough rant over enjoy your sporting events one and all!!!!!
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
These are the reasons that we love NASCAR
I scoured the pages of youtube to find some of the reasons why NASCAR is so loved here in America so Enjoy!
SO Many Sports so little time
It's that time of year again. It's the time of year when the NHL and NBA are finishing their prospective seasons. Baseball and Car racing have just begun. Football is coming to the end for the most part, and the NFL has had their draft in preparation for next season. While I love sports it is often very hard to talk about all of them at the same time. The Battle in football between Manchester United and Manchester City, which seems that it may end on goals rather than the actual abilities of either time. I in a way do not understand why they do not have a playoff system like all most every other sport. We get to the end of the season and the two team would most likely be in a tie which is then broken by goals. Why not let the 2 teams meet one last time to decide who should be the true champions? It would in my opinion be a bit more logical in my eyes and in most fans eyes also to end that way. There would be no what ifs. no questions. It would come down to a long hard battle on the pitch between 2 teams who according to win loss percentage are equal the only thing seperating the 2 being goals. Would it not make more sense to have a Super Bowl or World Series of sorts. Just my opinion but I do believe it is a valid argument.
This weekend in NASCAR seemed to give us a bit of excitement IndyCar was idle and there wasn’t much happening locally, NASCAR had its opportunity shine. Luckily for us, things got a bit nutty down south and NASCAR had one of its most entertaining weekends in years.
This weekend in NASCAR seemed to give us a bit of excitement IndyCar was idle and there wasn’t much happening locally, NASCAR had its opportunity shine. Luckily for us, things got a bit nutty down south and NASCAR had one of its most entertaining weekends in years.
Dodge – For the first time in 36 years, Dodge visited victory lane in NASCAR’s top series at Talladega.
Brad Keselowski and the “blue deuce” won Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 in convincing fashion by muscling away from Kyle Busch on the final lap.
Dodge needed this one.
After all, the manufacturer’s top team, Penske Racing (the one Keselowski drives for), will be racing Ford’s next season. Despite the fact that the company has already unveiled its 2013 NASCAR Charger, I’m still not 100 percent convinced that Dodge will even be in the sport next year. Dodge needs to be involved with NASCAR. Dodge does have six championships to its name you know?
Danica – Somebody has watched the movie Days of Thunder one too many times…
If you don’t know what happened, allow me to enlighten you. On the last lap of the race, Hornish cut a tire, couldn’t control his car and drifted up the track at the finish line, cutting Patrick off in the process. Her temper got the best of her (what a shocker right?) and Danica proceeded to blatantly turn Hornish into the wall after taking the checkered flag.
If you want to go punch the guy in the pits because you’re irritated, I’m cool with that. Boys (and girls) have at it right? But in a sport that constantly struggles with the fact that it’s so expensive to compete in, tearing up race cars for no reason at all is just plain stupid.
Didn’t NASCAR suspend Kyle Busch for something similar last year? There are glaring differences between the two situations and Busch has a reputation for being, um, rowdy, but still. What will NASCAR do to its marketing gem Danica because of this stunt?
I’ve got my popcorn ready. Today is decision day in NASCAR!
Well that's about it right now. Be back with some more later!!!!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Hate Lakers Fans
Alright, enough with the niceties. Here are 10 reasons why I hate Lakers "fans" (in reverse order)…
10) Half the courtside seats are empty in the first and third quarters of every game. I’m getting the obvious and least offensive complaint out of the way first.
9) They’re incapable of acknowledging a bad trade when it happens. When Caron Butler was traded for Kwame Brown, the general consensus in Los Angeles at the time was that this was a good thing. And no matter how many times I tried rubbing that trade in with my Lakers "fan" friends, I always got this reaction: "Caron played the same position as Kobe Bryant anyway, he had to go." Uh, no. Caron plays small forward and Kobe is a shooting guard. I’m sure Phil Jackson would’ve hated having to coach Kobe, Butler and Lamar Odom at the same time.
8) They act like the entire league is obligated to ensure the Lakers success, and thus every team should be trading their best players to the Lakers for pennies on the dollar. (Hence why Memphis Grizzlies’ "General Manager" Chris Wallace must be a Lakers fan). This came up a lot during the Kevin Garnettdiscussion last summer when Lakers "fans" everywhere were befuddled as to why Minnesota wouldn’t accept Lamar Odom, Ronny Turiaf and a late first round pick for KG. Lakers "fans" took it as a personal insult that Minnesota wouldn’t bite on that paltry offer for one of the game’s greatest players of all time.
7) LA radio "personality" Vic "The Brick" Jacobs. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, look him up on Google, because he's a microcosm of Lakers"fans" everywhere. When the Knicks made the NBA Finals in 1999, Vic "The Brick" Jacobs, the supposed "Lakers Homer" (who, by the way, proclaimed Kobe’s innocence on the rape charge even though he didn’t have any of the facts) referred to the Knicks as "Vic’s Knicks" just because Jacobs was born in Queens. This would be like Sandy Clough – who thankfully isn’t a cartoonishfigure like Jacobs – proclaiming last year’s Giants Super Bowl team as "Sandy’s Giants". Huh? I'm feelin' you, Vic!
6) Seats that should go to real basketball fans are instead occupied by wives, girlfriends and escorts. (Although, in fairness to Lakers "fans", the plethora of escorts at every game makes any visit to Staples Center quite enjoyable…that is, of course, if you’re into fake breasts). The next time you go to a Lakers game, check out all the (one time) trophy wives of the courtside ticket holders. They literally just sit there in their awful "ladies’ suits" with dreadful Madeline Albright-style pins affixed to the lapel and do nothing while their husbands take in the game. These paid-off housewives are so bejeweled, they probably killed entire tribes of Sierra Leoneans just to get those diamonds to their wrinkled fingers. On a side note, I’m convinced that more Persian guys can credit Lakers games to getting themselves laid than any other event in Los Angeles, over even bottle service at Republic (or whatever this week’s hot Hollywood club hangout that I could never get into is) or renting a Ferrari for a night.
5) They’re the biggest bandwagon fans in the country and only support the Lakers when the team is really, really, really, really good. They’re such bandwagon fans, in fact, that when the Clippers were the better team two seasons ago, everyone in LA was suddenly a Clippers "fan" (just like everyone in LA was suddenly an Angels "fan" in 2002 and suddenly a Rams "fan" in 1999).
4) 85% of them aren’t from Los Angeles and, like newcomers to Scientology, these non-native Lakers "fan" converts are young, impressionable and gullible. Take my friend Jason from Boston, for example. No joke, after moving to LA, Jason (like others of his ilk) began wearing Lakers shorts. That’s right, a guy from Boston wearing Lakersshorts!! And he used the same bull---t line that all Boston natives pull on me when I catch them wearing Lakers gear: "I’m really just a Red Sox fan, anyway." Yeah, right. Like all you Boston frauds that live in LA weren’t snatching up NBA League Passes this year. (Note: this rant excludes my friend Dan from Boston who also lives in LA and actually had the League Pass when the Celtics won all of 24 games last season).
3) Now that he’s out of town, they pretend like they never liked Shaquille O’Neal in the first place. AllShaq did for the Lakers organization was bring them four NBA Finals appearances and three rings while being incredibly active and charitable within the Los Angeles community and buying Mark Madsen a shiny, new car. Not only can’t you find a Shaq defender anywhere in LA these days, but Lakers "fans" will go out of their way to tell you why they hate Shaq: "he never worked hard," "he was always fat and out of shape," "he was a big baby," "he was a me-first guy," and the one that gets me the most, "those teams were boring to watch." Boring to watch? Four finals appearances and three rings were boring to watch?!!
2) They unmercifully defend Kobe Bryant. Whether he’s throwing his teammates like Shaq or Andrew Bynum under the bus, clobbering white defenders after jump shots, regularly spouting profanity-laced tirades at the referees for all the six year olds within earshot to hear,(allegedly) forcing himself sexually onto a female hotel worker in Colorado and subsequently paying her – and his wife – off, or throwing public hissy fits to get himself traded from the very team he wished for by demanding Shaq’s ouster, Bryant can do no wrong in the eyes of Lakers"fans". When Kobe got in trouble in Colorado for his – let’s say – "inappropriate actions," the reaction among Lakers Nation was: "let’s wait for the evidence" or "she was asking for it by going into his room" or "she’s a whore anyway, she slept with like five guys the day before and just wants some attention" and so on. You’d have thought Lakers "fans" everywhere had performed the DNA samples on the girl’s underwear themselves. And yet when any other athlete allegedly does something that runs afoul of the law, like Carmelo Anthony’s suspicion of getting a DUI, he’s most assuredly guilty in the eyes of Lakers "fans" – evident by their oh-so-clever "D-U-I" chant at Staples Center on Sunday.
1) They’re in myopic denial of the favoritism the Lakers receive from the NBA.
Lakers "fans" claim that their team is subject to the same rules and regulations as the other 29 NBA teams, but this simply isn't true. Here are the indisputable examples…
-Since the Lakers can’t be bothered to play on Saturdays, they never have to play a back-to-back at the end of week…typically the most grueling games on the schedule. Moreover, while most teams (especially in the Western Conference) have to go into hostile territory for Saturday games where it’s the only thing in town to do, the Lakers never have to play those games.
-The Lakers have historically been given favorable treatment from the referees in supremely important games. One of the most famous examples of this was Game Six of the 2002 Western Conference Finals against the Sacramento Kings. With the Lakers down three games to two, the NBA was in danger of the Lakers not making it to the NBA Finals, so the refs ensured that the Lakers shot 34 free throw attempts to the Kings’ 18. While Game Six of 2002 might be more famous, the most egregious example was Game Seven of the 2000 Western Conference Finalsagainst the Portland Trailblazers. Many site the Blazers demise in that game to their 3-of-18 shooting in the fourth quarter (which admittedly, was a huge factor in the loss), and yet everyone fails to recognize that the 21 free throw attempt differential in favor of the Lakers didn’t exactly help Portland’s cause, either.
-Another example of a free ride from the refs came during Game Six of the 1988 NBA Finals against the Detroit Pistons. The Lakers were down three games to two, and down one point with 14 seconds to go. The Lakers fed the ball into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for a hook shot, and Bill Laimbeer was called for a foul which, upon review in the replay, never happened. Don’t believe me? Watch the video.
But no, there’s no favoritism towards the Lakers out there.
Beating the Lakers in the playoffs is like beating the Republicans in Presidential Elections that take place in Ohio or Florida. You have to knock them out by an overwhelming majority of points/votes because if it's at all close, the game will be rigged against you. So let's overcome the odds and beat these Lakers already.
10) Half the courtside seats are empty in the first and third quarters of every game. I’m getting the obvious and least offensive complaint out of the way first.
9) They’re incapable of acknowledging a bad trade when it happens. When Caron Butler was traded for Kwame Brown, the general consensus in Los Angeles at the time was that this was a good thing. And no matter how many times I tried rubbing that trade in with my Lakers "fan" friends, I always got this reaction: "Caron played the same position as Kobe Bryant anyway, he had to go." Uh, no. Caron plays small forward and Kobe is a shooting guard. I’m sure Phil Jackson would’ve hated having to coach Kobe, Butler and Lamar Odom at the same time.
8) They act like the entire league is obligated to ensure the Lakers success, and thus every team should be trading their best players to the Lakers for pennies on the dollar. (Hence why Memphis Grizzlies’ "General Manager" Chris Wallace must be a Lakers fan). This came up a lot during the Kevin Garnettdiscussion last summer when Lakers "fans" everywhere were befuddled as to why Minnesota wouldn’t accept Lamar Odom, Ronny Turiaf and a late first round pick for KG. Lakers "fans" took it as a personal insult that Minnesota wouldn’t bite on that paltry offer for one of the game’s greatest players of all time.
7) LA radio "personality" Vic "The Brick" Jacobs. If you don’t know who I’m talking about, look him up on Google, because he's a microcosm of Lakers"fans" everywhere. When the Knicks made the NBA Finals in 1999, Vic "The Brick" Jacobs, the supposed "Lakers Homer" (who, by the way, proclaimed Kobe’s innocence on the rape charge even though he didn’t have any of the facts) referred to the Knicks as "Vic’s Knicks" just because Jacobs was born in Queens. This would be like Sandy Clough – who thankfully isn’t a cartoonishfigure like Jacobs – proclaiming last year’s Giants Super Bowl team as "Sandy’s Giants". Huh? I'm feelin' you, Vic!
6) Seats that should go to real basketball fans are instead occupied by wives, girlfriends and escorts. (Although, in fairness to Lakers "fans", the plethora of escorts at every game makes any visit to Staples Center quite enjoyable…that is, of course, if you’re into fake breasts). The next time you go to a Lakers game, check out all the (one time) trophy wives of the courtside ticket holders. They literally just sit there in their awful "ladies’ suits" with dreadful Madeline Albright-style pins affixed to the lapel and do nothing while their husbands take in the game. These paid-off housewives are so bejeweled, they probably killed entire tribes of Sierra Leoneans just to get those diamonds to their wrinkled fingers. On a side note, I’m convinced that more Persian guys can credit Lakers games to getting themselves laid than any other event in Los Angeles, over even bottle service at Republic (or whatever this week’s hot Hollywood club hangout that I could never get into is) or renting a Ferrari for a night.
5) They’re the biggest bandwagon fans in the country and only support the Lakers when the team is really, really, really, really good. They’re such bandwagon fans, in fact, that when the Clippers were the better team two seasons ago, everyone in LA was suddenly a Clippers "fan" (just like everyone in LA was suddenly an Angels "fan" in 2002 and suddenly a Rams "fan" in 1999).
4) 85% of them aren’t from Los Angeles and, like newcomers to Scientology, these non-native Lakers "fan" converts are young, impressionable and gullible. Take my friend Jason from Boston, for example. No joke, after moving to LA, Jason (like others of his ilk) began wearing Lakers shorts. That’s right, a guy from Boston wearing Lakersshorts!! And he used the same bull---t line that all Boston natives pull on me when I catch them wearing Lakers gear: "I’m really just a Red Sox fan, anyway." Yeah, right. Like all you Boston frauds that live in LA weren’t snatching up NBA League Passes this year. (Note: this rant excludes my friend Dan from Boston who also lives in LA and actually had the League Pass when the Celtics won all of 24 games last season).
3) Now that he’s out of town, they pretend like they never liked Shaquille O’Neal in the first place. AllShaq did for the Lakers organization was bring them four NBA Finals appearances and three rings while being incredibly active and charitable within the Los Angeles community and buying Mark Madsen a shiny, new car. Not only can’t you find a Shaq defender anywhere in LA these days, but Lakers "fans" will go out of their way to tell you why they hate Shaq: "he never worked hard," "he was always fat and out of shape," "he was a big baby," "he was a me-first guy," and the one that gets me the most, "those teams were boring to watch." Boring to watch? Four finals appearances and three rings were boring to watch?!!
2) They unmercifully defend Kobe Bryant. Whether he’s throwing his teammates like Shaq or Andrew Bynum under the bus, clobbering white defenders after jump shots, regularly spouting profanity-laced tirades at the referees for all the six year olds within earshot to hear,(allegedly) forcing himself sexually onto a female hotel worker in Colorado and subsequently paying her – and his wife – off, or throwing public hissy fits to get himself traded from the very team he wished for by demanding Shaq’s ouster, Bryant can do no wrong in the eyes of Lakers"fans". When Kobe got in trouble in Colorado for his – let’s say – "inappropriate actions," the reaction among Lakers Nation was: "let’s wait for the evidence" or "she was asking for it by going into his room" or "she’s a whore anyway, she slept with like five guys the day before and just wants some attention" and so on. You’d have thought Lakers "fans" everywhere had performed the DNA samples on the girl’s underwear themselves. And yet when any other athlete allegedly does something that runs afoul of the law, like Carmelo Anthony’s suspicion of getting a DUI, he’s most assuredly guilty in the eyes of Lakers "fans" – evident by their oh-so-clever "D-U-I" chant at Staples Center on Sunday.
1) They’re in myopic denial of the favoritism the Lakers receive from the NBA.
Lakers "fans" claim that their team is subject to the same rules and regulations as the other 29 NBA teams, but this simply isn't true. Here are the indisputable examples…
-Since the Lakers can’t be bothered to play on Saturdays, they never have to play a back-to-back at the end of week…typically the most grueling games on the schedule. Moreover, while most teams (especially in the Western Conference) have to go into hostile territory for Saturday games where it’s the only thing in town to do, the Lakers never have to play those games.
-The Lakers have historically been given favorable treatment from the referees in supremely important games. One of the most famous examples of this was Game Six of the 2002 Western Conference Finals against the Sacramento Kings. With the Lakers down three games to two, the NBA was in danger of the Lakers not making it to the NBA Finals, so the refs ensured that the Lakers shot 34 free throw attempts to the Kings’ 18. While Game Six of 2002 might be more famous, the most egregious example was Game Seven of the 2000 Western Conference Finalsagainst the Portland Trailblazers. Many site the Blazers demise in that game to their 3-of-18 shooting in the fourth quarter (which admittedly, was a huge factor in the loss), and yet everyone fails to recognize that the 21 free throw attempt differential in favor of the Lakers didn’t exactly help Portland’s cause, either.
-Another example of a free ride from the refs came during Game Six of the 1988 NBA Finals against the Detroit Pistons. The Lakers were down three games to two, and down one point with 14 seconds to go. The Lakers fed the ball into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for a hook shot, and Bill Laimbeer was called for a foul which, upon review in the replay, never happened. Don’t believe me? Watch the video.
But no, there’s no favoritism towards the Lakers out there.
Beating the Lakers in the playoffs is like beating the Republicans in Presidential Elections that take place in Ohio or Florida. You have to knock them out by an overwhelming majority of points/votes because if it's at all close, the game will be rigged against you. So let's overcome the odds and beat these Lakers already.
Sports journalism is a man's world unless it is a female sport and even then it is dominated by male analysts and reporters. Well, I want to be a sports journalist. I will not take no for an answer. I will be interning with a television sports channel all summer join me for the fun and watch me push the limit!
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