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Saintsational? November 25, 2008

Posted by gretchenarchangel in Football, Sports, baseball.
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Or just plain disasterous for the Packers?  I think it’s both.  I said I’d be okay with whoever won, and I am…overall.  I just hate seeing the Packers play like it doesn’t matter; or as PackerAaron says “It’s really hard to watch a Packers team that has no heart.”  Sigh.

Anyway, I’m pretty excited for the upcoming weekend.  I have a busy day tomorrow, but I think it will get me in gear.  Today has been totally and inexplicably hellish at work, and now I just don’t want to do anything.  What does this girl do when she doesn’t want to work??  Check out sports stuff, of course!

  • The Pittsburgh Pirates must have the oddest organization in the league.  The As had the whole “MoneyBall” idea, but the Pirates are going a different direction by signing two guys out of India that participated in a baseball-related reality show.  Totally random, I know.
  • College basketball is underway, and since the college team I care about for football has met this season’s demise already, I’m going to start paying attention to that.  Oh, and the BCS sucks.
    • Pur-don’t is sitting at #10 in MSN’s power rankings currently.  Really?
    • Worse: Sparty is sitting at #5.
    • IU lost to Notre Dame (chuckle, snort).  No wonder the folks around here are so quiet about basketball right now.
  • Oh How I Hate Ohio State – I didn’t need a news story to tell me that.
  • DId I mention that the BCS sucks?
  • I wonder how many Titans fans will be at the game on Thursday with us?  I’m wearing something noncommittal, since I care not about either team.
  • Hottie Sportswriter Michael Silver writes this in his 32 Questions:”32. Detroit Lions: If you insist upon watching all four quarters of their game against the Titans on Thursday, how much do you hate talking to your in-laws?”  My answer is that I don’t hate my in-laws, but they’re not even doing anything until after the game is over anyway! ;-)
  • The Minnesota Twins are sporting some throwback jerseys this coming season, but only on Saturdays at the Met-ro-d(r)ome.  Glen Perkins said it’s a nice break from the pinstripes.  He must not like ogling looking at Joe Mauer:
Mmmm...pinstripes AND eyeblack!

Mmmm...pinstripes AND eyeblack!

Now I have to attend a meeting.  I’m going there with thoughts of Hottie Joe Mauer to keep me entertained.  Here’s another picture of him for you – the Not-So-Random Hot Guy Pic:

AP

Photo: AP

Well, duh September 24, 2008

Posted by gretchenarchangel in Ranting, Sports, Uncategorized.
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It seems as if this morning was full of “duh” moments.  First thing on my way in to work, the incredibly brilliant traffic reporter tells me that my route is blocked from an accident, so take a different route.  Really?  I check out MSN.com, and there’s a headline stating that Clay Aiken has come out of the closet.   Wow.  I cannot be the only one that sees this as a forehead-smacking moment.  Who didn’t know this already?  He was probably trying to canoodle with Ryan Seacrest (his success is questionable) backstage at American Idol.  In the same vein, Lindsay Lohan (one of my favorite rant targets) says that she and Samantha Ronson have been together “a long time”.  A revelation?  Not so much.  Even better, in that story, there was a link to an article on how big of an asshat Joe Francis (of Girls Gone Wild fame) is.  Fortunately, the writer didn’t seem to be wowed by this – maybe she was just confirming suspicions and letting everyone else know.

Back to your regularly scheduled programming:

Good:  Chocolate-flavored coffee.  Fun weekends coming up.  I doubled checked on that five pounds, and it’s still gone.

Bad:  I just realized that, because of the weekend plans, I will be nowhere near a television for my armchair QB habits.  I might have withdrawals.  The ChiSox lost to Hottie Joe Mauer and the Twins last night, drawing our lead to a mere 1.5 games.  Eek!  Al Harris (Packers CB) might be out all season because of a ruptured spleen.  That just sounds bad; can’t imagine how it feels.

Ugly:  My initial response to question #14 of Hottie Sports Writer Michael Silver’s 32 Questions:  Bite your fucking tongue, sweetheart.  I’m fucking sick of this damned team and their damned new stadium anyway, and I sure as hell don’t want Jim Irsay getting any other bright ideas.  I hope that other people around here are saying “We dropped $720M for this?”.

Funny:  Anything that says “squee!”.  That word just cracks me up.