Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Check, Check,.... Is This Thing On???!
I don't know what the point of leaving blogs if no one reads them or comments on them? Is any one out there?!?! Does anyone find these things enjoyable?? I suppose I can be as politically incorrect as I want because no one will see it and get affended, now will they?
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Top 5 Reasons March Madness is Better Than NBA Playoffs
Ok, I already wrote this blog once and it got deleted some how. But I really liked it so I am going to take the time to do it again.
The great thing about this blog is how mind-numbingly obvious it is. This one is a no brainer. All I have to do is state the facts and put a few commonly observed remarks by them. The differences between March Madness and NBA playoff is something we have all noticed. Come on, we have all filled out a bracket in our day. Here we go.
5. Popular By Association- Most of us have been to college,(if you are smart enough to get on the internet and read this blog) weather it be for just a semester or two, or seven years. No matter how long you were at college you were a part of something bigger. Of course the longer you were there the more of a bond you may have with your school. That bond transpires into everything associated with that school, including sports. If your school is in the big dance you feel as though you will be dancing too. That is why the fans are so rabid. No one can say, "I attended University of LA Lakers". They may live in LA but they really aren't a part of the Lakers, nor will cheering really really loudly make them any more a Laker.
4. Crazy Coaches- The college coaches are nuts!! They are emotionally involved with the game and the players. They don't want to win for the sake of winning, they need to keep a job. This is their livelihood. How many other professions do you know where a person puts their career in the hands or 19 year olds? You had better believe I would be throwing chairs on the court like Bobby Knight, or pushing players around like that other coach..Ok, that was Bobby Knight too. With every game a college coach watches the progress or demise of his career. NBA on the other hand, they will just go to some other team if they lose, or just retire because they make a few mill anyway. No biggy
3. Filling Out a Bracket- There is no bracket for the NBA finals. Need I say more? No, but I will. No matter if you are an ESPN Specialist of a mother of 3 that picks due to team colors, you have a chance of winning. There is a sense of empowering when filling out a bracket, I always think I am so smart when picking those huge upsets, like I know some future telling secret and I will be considered a genius amongst my peers for picking a big upset. How the heck are you going to make a seven game bracket?!?!?
2. Heart- I know NBA players are more talented than NCAA players, but there is something about how hard they play, the intensity, that is so appealing. There is something about still having a white guy make an impact on the game that is somewhat thrilling. You can only get that in March Madness. I think NBA players rely on there sheer athletic ability to get them through the games, but college athletes have to make up for lack of ability in pure hustle. Give me five hustlers over five show boats any day!!
1. Win or Go Home, NOT Win or Play Again, And if You Lose, We Will Play Again Just to be Sure, Then Maybe One More Time, Then You Might Go Home- I saw a commercial the other day on TNT advertising the NBA playoff, it had a little black kid saying "Win or Go Home" at the end of the commercial. It really made me laugh out loud (lol). If TNT wanted a literal catch phrase that little boy would have said "Win or we can play again, if you don't win that game we can play one more, and if you still don't win, its ok we will play again, and then one more time for financial reason and so our sponsors can get paid and we can really drag this thing out, but if you lose that game, you will go home!! BOOOYAHH!!". Now that is an NBA play off slogan. March Madness is the only playoff system that is true to the "win or go home" phrase. They bust their butts every game in fear of going home, not in fear of having to play the same team four more times! I seriously hope I am not the only one seeing humor...or shame in this, depending on how you look at it. Please, please, for all of us ADD people, go to a one game play off system!
The great thing about this blog is how mind-numbingly obvious it is. This one is a no brainer. All I have to do is state the facts and put a few commonly observed remarks by them. The differences between March Madness and NBA playoff is something we have all noticed. Come on, we have all filled out a bracket in our day. Here we go.
5. Popular By Association- Most of us have been to college,(if you are smart enough to get on the internet and read this blog) weather it be for just a semester or two, or seven years. No matter how long you were at college you were a part of something bigger. Of course the longer you were there the more of a bond you may have with your school. That bond transpires into everything associated with that school, including sports. If your school is in the big dance you feel as though you will be dancing too. That is why the fans are so rabid. No one can say, "I attended University of LA Lakers". They may live in LA but they really aren't a part of the Lakers, nor will cheering really really loudly make them any more a Laker.
4. Crazy Coaches- The college coaches are nuts!! They are emotionally involved with the game and the players. They don't want to win for the sake of winning, they need to keep a job. This is their livelihood. How many other professions do you know where a person puts their career in the hands or 19 year olds? You had better believe I would be throwing chairs on the court like Bobby Knight, or pushing players around like that other coach..Ok, that was Bobby Knight too. With every game a college coach watches the progress or demise of his career. NBA on the other hand, they will just go to some other team if they lose, or just retire because they make a few mill anyway. No biggy
3. Filling Out a Bracket- There is no bracket for the NBA finals. Need I say more? No, but I will. No matter if you are an ESPN Specialist of a mother of 3 that picks due to team colors, you have a chance of winning. There is a sense of empowering when filling out a bracket, I always think I am so smart when picking those huge upsets, like I know some future telling secret and I will be considered a genius amongst my peers for picking a big upset. How the heck are you going to make a seven game bracket?!?!?
2. Heart- I know NBA players are more talented than NCAA players, but there is something about how hard they play, the intensity, that is so appealing. There is something about still having a white guy make an impact on the game that is somewhat thrilling. You can only get that in March Madness. I think NBA players rely on there sheer athletic ability to get them through the games, but college athletes have to make up for lack of ability in pure hustle. Give me five hustlers over five show boats any day!!
1. Win or Go Home, NOT Win or Play Again, And if You Lose, We Will Play Again Just to be Sure, Then Maybe One More Time, Then You Might Go Home- I saw a commercial the other day on TNT advertising the NBA playoff, it had a little black kid saying "Win or Go Home" at the end of the commercial. It really made me laugh out loud (lol). If TNT wanted a literal catch phrase that little boy would have said "Win or we can play again, if you don't win that game we can play one more, and if you still don't win, its ok we will play again, and then one more time for financial reason and so our sponsors can get paid and we can really drag this thing out, but if you lose that game, you will go home!! BOOOYAHH!!". Now that is an NBA play off slogan. March Madness is the only playoff system that is true to the "win or go home" phrase. They bust their butts every game in fear of going home, not in fear of having to play the same team four more times! I seriously hope I am not the only one seeing humor...or shame in this, depending on how you look at it. Please, please, for all of us ADD people, go to a one game play off system!
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
What's Worse, the Disease or the Cure?
I recently was put on a new medication to take care of a small rash I have on my back. The rash was only about two inches in diameter and didn't really bother me much. My wife on the other hand thought I should go check it out, because like a good wife, she cares about me and doesn't want it to get worse. So I go to the Dr. and she prescribes the medication. She said it may cause dizziness or headaches. I thought, no biggy those are rare side effects. Man oh man was I wrong. I ruined a perfectly good weekend on those pills. I started to take them Friday and they left me crippled the rest of the weekend.
I formed a headache Saturday morning, not too bad just enough to take some Tylenol. By the evening my head was pounding so bad I couldn't even see straight. I had to go to bed at 8pm on a Saturday night. I feel so bad for my poor wife, having to take care of two babies on a Saturday night, instead of just one. Sunday was a complete nightmare. Forget the rash at this point, I have to deal with healing myself from the medication that is supposedly "the cure". I got out of bed just long enough to go to church and it felt as though someone put an Acme anvil on my head every time I stood up. So, to deal with the pain I took some Excedrin migraine. It gave me some head ache relief but my body had a reaction to it and my airway, tongue, lips, and eyes started to swell up. When it rains it pours folks. So Kasey, my wife, quickly ran out and got some Benadryll to take care of the reaction. By Sunday night I had more drugs on board than Robert Downey Jr. and Jose Cansaco put together. I went to bed at 8pm again, my high school counselor was right, drugs do make you a loser.
Needless to say I stopped taking the rash medication,(I only took 3 pills) the rash is going away on it own. So the question I ask myself and all my readers; did I need to put myself through all this crap in the first place? No, probably not. Sometimes the cure is way worse than the disease. Give me a rash any day, just please, no more pills!!
I formed a headache Saturday morning, not too bad just enough to take some Tylenol. By the evening my head was pounding so bad I couldn't even see straight. I had to go to bed at 8pm on a Saturday night. I feel so bad for my poor wife, having to take care of two babies on a Saturday night, instead of just one. Sunday was a complete nightmare. Forget the rash at this point, I have to deal with healing myself from the medication that is supposedly "the cure". I got out of bed just long enough to go to church and it felt as though someone put an Acme anvil on my head every time I stood up. So, to deal with the pain I took some Excedrin migraine. It gave me some head ache relief but my body had a reaction to it and my airway, tongue, lips, and eyes started to swell up. When it rains it pours folks. So Kasey, my wife, quickly ran out and got some Benadryll to take care of the reaction. By Sunday night I had more drugs on board than Robert Downey Jr. and Jose Cansaco put together. I went to bed at 8pm again, my high school counselor was right, drugs do make you a loser.
Needless to say I stopped taking the rash medication,(I only took 3 pills) the rash is going away on it own. So the question I ask myself and all my readers; did I need to put myself through all this crap in the first place? No, probably not. Sometimes the cure is way worse than the disease. Give me a rash any day, just please, no more pills!!
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