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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A Hat Fit for a King!- BG



I know that are racing fanbase on this website is probably non-existent (Except for our fantasy NASCAR league, which I am currently dominating). Anyway, my father went to the Indy 500 last weekend and was sitting in Richard "The King" Petty's luxury palace for the race. He called it a "lifetime experience". Whether you like racing or not, going to the Indy 500 with a police escort to your seat would be pretty sweet....Talk about a sharp dressed man!

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I will kick you repeatedly in the balls!" - Brennan Huff

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

YES!




Oh, man. So close to a Magic upset.  Lovin' it.

There's Magic In The Air -TOMP



If there's one thing I've learned during the playoffs, it's that the more things change, the more they stay the same.  Sure, the Cavs ended up as the number 1 seed and breezed their way through the first two rounds, and made it 8-0 to the conference finals.  This is the same team it has been with the addition of a streaky shooter who's super shaky in the playoffs.  The way I see it, the lack of experience on Mo Williams' side combined with the absolute crap on the rest of the roster equals another early exit for The LeBrons.

It's still a one man show, you have to look at the respectively.  Lets go down the line:

  • Mo Williams-So, he showed some potential early on in the season. Who cares? Its crunch time, bi-atch. Bottom line, you've been dryer than Connecticut on a Sunday.  Plus, huge cry baby. Remember the All-Star break?  MO WILLIAMS WANTS IN!!! PICK ME, PICK ME!!!!  Yeah, how'd that turn out? He was like the 7th reserve.  Douchebag.
  • Daniel Gibson-Remember when this guy was nearly starting at point guard for the Cavs? What happened? Oh, yeah, he's only 6'1 and has the same shot selection as J.J. Reddick.  Another lost cause.
  • Zydrunas Ilgauskas-A seven footer who averages 12 & 7.  Not bad, except he plays 35 minutes a game and plays defense like a Brad Miller/Miki Moore hybrid.
  • Anderson Varejao-Remember Ilgauskas? Now imagine the exact opposite. Short, annoying, offensively inept and has a big head of hair.  I've seen kids from BC who are less obnoxious.
  • Ben Wallace-he was good four years ago. He misses the other Wallace playing beside him. Remember how Larry Brown tried to turn him into an offensive threat? There's a reason they don't try that anymore.
  • Sasha Pavlovic-Remember how you're paying this guy $5 million? He's averaging four points a game.  Will Bynum doubled that.
  • Wally Szczerbiak-Remember all those T-Wolves teams with KG that could never get over the hump? Wally was starting. Who knew $14 million could buy you seven points in a basketball game?  I bet, the 'Make A Wish' Foundation doesn't call very often.
Look at those guys. There is no way this team is fit to $have a center with two pairs of shoulders.

Bottom line is the Magic have a good feel for the series and Cavs just aren't as good as you thought.  Here's looking forward to the Magic in the Finals. Woo-Wee!


"Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, 'The Whale,' they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."

Monday, May 18, 2009

Well, There's Always Next Year -TOMP



Bad news. Boston got bitch slapped this weekend.  Ego took a severe blow.  Will they recover?  No telling till October, where hey, did you hear? World Series games will be starting 40 minutes earlier.

Whoop-ee!!! Yet, another reason to feel like I'm already 40.

Anyway, good time to keep your head up.  Two game 7s might have resulted in utter disappointment, but there's a another Number 7 on it tonight. No, not a single game, but an entire day.  A day that has felt like months.  Of course, it's the season 7 finale of 24.  America's bad ass love child.

Try not to frown, say anything to BG and get ready for the Lakers to sweep the LeBrons.

"In the anals of history people are going to be talking about three things: the discovery of fire, invention of the submarine, and the Flint, Michigan Mega Bowl."  -Jackie Moon

Saturday, May 16, 2009

The Rush Is Over -TOMP




Well, bad news everybody.  After the greatest two month stint of the year, we have officially reached the baseball zone.  Stated as being America's Past Time, baseball ultimately proves that hitting a ball a third of the time, playing 150+ games and taking performance enhancing vitamins are all you really need to be successful in life.  I'm not sure what it is, but I really can't take this nonsense for 7 months of the year.

The summer is a great season, unless its a Tuesday night, you don't have a 3 month vacation and you have to deal with 2-3 guys trying to make small chat while they wait 45 seconds between pitches.  Baseball ultimately tests fans patience more than anything.  How is one supposed to get totally jacked up about a match up likes the Red Sox & Orioles in the middle of June when the game will probably mean nothing at the end.

I always hear people sandbagging the NBA because it doesn't look like the players are trying at all times during their 82 game season.  I just did some research, and baseball has double that number of games with half the total number of teams making the playoffs for that championship hunt.  It bewilders me to think that all of these teams play this many games during a season with little or no shot of even getting to the post season.  Oh, and it turns out baseball hasn't gotten with the times and thinks its jussssst fine not to have a salary cap.  This leads to a whopping number of 5 teams with an actual shot to win the "World" Series trophy, while the rest stumble around and work to get a minimal amount of fans into their small market stadium at 3 o'clock on a Wednesday. Did I mention that Bud Selig is the highest paid commissioner in all of sports? That's right, the guy who is in charge of the least competitive major league, with the most amount of games, fewest number of playoff teams and full of guys who take drugs to get an edge, is the HIGHEST paid leader in professional sports in America.  Did I mention that there's not a salary cap?

Hasn't all of the tradition really been lost at this point?  We've seen more records smashed in the last decade then in the previous 40 years. The performance ehancing drugs (while not really a huge deal in my mind, I mean, chicks dig the long ball, right?) have been shown to be evident across the majority of players from bench warmers to superstars.  When it gets to the point when you have to listen to Pete Rose's gibber jabber about how what's going on right now is worse than anything he ever did, you start to get tired of the whole ordeal.

I suppose its hard for me to buy into my own beliefs, as I'm not too into the sport itself. I can't imagine what fans are actually thinking. We hear about the occasional NFL player getting busted covering his urine tract, or juicin' it up, Lights Out style, but its never on the level like we keep seeing in the MLB.  I mean, this is full on cheating to the maximum degree, isn't it? 

I'm not even sure how to react. We've been trained for so long by the media on how to respond to different degrees of immoral action. If the the same number of guys were involved in point shaving, we'd be a lot more pissed off, right?  It would make sense to not compare these two happenings as in the prior scenario with the juice, everyone is still trying to the maximum extent of their ability (presumably).  When we see TO jaggin' off, we're supposed to be pissed. When Lance Armstrong is winning the Tour or trying to be set up for doping, we feel truly American and want to kick the shit out of the French even more. When Tom Brady pops up, bromance kicks in. It's natural at this point. We've been conditioned, maaaaaannnnn.

I need to stop watching all those 70s conspiracy flicks....


"You're Fucking Out. I'm Fucking In."

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Baitin' the Hook, Tryin to Catch the Big One!- BG


Today The Dome Factor took another step towards the top. Upon reading this article by Luke DeCock (yes, that is Luke of Cock, but he was a good guy), I felt compelled to e-mail him and negate the impression that Boston College has anything to do with Boston fans. Below is the e-mail I sent and his response:

Luke,

First let me start off by saying, I am a Boston fan. Bs, Cs, Pats, and Sox. I actually agree with you, he shouldn't have called the fans "goobers". I don't even get it. But please don't make the mistake of thinking that anybody in Boston likes the Curly Haired Boyfriend a.k.a Dan Shaughnessy. His opinions are invalid and no athlete in this town will even talk to him. Although Boston fans can be insufferable, Dan Shaughnessy has nothing to do with it.

Lastly, please do not associate BC with Boston fans. The vast majority of Boston fans hate Boston College. We hate everything about the school. Any time another ACC team plays BC in any sport, no one roots for BC. So you can write columns about hating Boston fans, but don't bring BC into it. It doesn't hold water. Of course, you can write whatever you want, just wanted to pass some knowledge along.

-BG

His Response:

Of all the emails I've gotten from Boston fans, that is by far the most reasonable, thoughtful and to the point. You make a good point about BC in general, but in all the hubbub surrounding BC's move to the ACC, which did get some city-wide attention, there was none of this redneck business. It seems like it takes hockey to bring it out.

Thanks for the note,
-- Luke

Now the response was nothing big, but it was the first writer that I have e-mailed, that has gotten back to me. I know it's Raleigh, North Carolina, but I thought it was a small bite on the fishing pole of life. Write that down.

"Everytime you touch the ice remember, it was Hans who taught us to fly."- Gordon Bombay

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Let's Bring it Back Home!- BG


Yes, I am nervous about tonight's game. Shittin down my leg a little actually. But fuck it! Let's beat the piss out of these cheap shot, inferior, tropical storm pussies. Sorry Carolina, this isn't New Orleans, this is Boston, we know how to beat Hurricanes.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Elisha Cuthbert: Please Don't View This. Please.


Um.... We thought it was funny? Yes, my obsession with '24' has gone too far.

Let Me Break Down The Cs, Magic For Ya' (Pt. 2 of 2) -TOMP


Well, after witnessing yet another lopsided affair, I believe I have come across the root of the Celtics problems with dismantling the Orlando (not so) Magic.

While I'm sorry to do this, it's time to throw Scal under the bus. Look, you know you're in trouble when your #1 big man off the bench is a 6'9 white guy from Southern Cal. We can all agree, that's a given.  But when its a guy who was on the championship team from the previous year and got to play exactly zero minutes without even being injured, you're really in for a rocky road.

I know he's all they got left after Powe messed up his knee, and I know he's been playing his ass off, particularly on the defensive side of the ball, but when you shoot threes like Rajon Rondo and play post defense like Chris Webber, you're looking at a point night with probably 5 boards and 5 fouls in about 20 minutes of action.  That's pretty tough action to watch.  I guess it should be mentioned that Scal did have the 5th highest salary on the team coming into the year.  Note, that Starbury's doesn't count because the Knicks are paying it and well, frankly, it's just hard to believe Mikki Moore is making that kind of dough for fouling people in 7 minutes of action. 

Bottom line is that it's just tough to win without a #1 big man on the court, and it's even tougher when you have to play against Dwight Howard.  I'm not really sure there are any moves the Cs can pull here to get things together.  Really, it seems like the only way Boston pulls this one out is to have Allen (not Tony) & Pierce drop at least 30 a piece.  Everyone seems very much hot or not, which just does not bode well.

Chuck Daly dying is just another slap on the face for the 2009 Pistons. I'm pretty sure outside of a first degree murder, that things could not possibly go any worse.

"You're Fucking Out. I'm Fucking In."

Friday, May 8, 2009

I Hope It Never Ends -TOMP



Well, just when you thought it was over. It has only just begun. Personally, I think Brett Favre is an all American Hero whose face should be on Mount Rushmore.  Clearly, the rest of American sports fans have an opposite opinion on this, so ladies & gentlemen, this one's for you.

Yes, these images are the new trend of the week. Enjoy.


"You're Fucking Out. I'm Fucking In."

Did You Hear About Some Home Runs In Yankee Stadium Or Something?


Congrats.  You've built a home run derby park. That's a significant upgrade to the batting cages under Fenway at Game On.

Let Me Break Down The Cs, Magic For Ya' (Pt. 1 of 2) -TOMP



So, what exactly is going on between Orlando & Boston.  A baller series between the 2 & 3 seeds in the east, each game with very different outcomes.  I'm going to take this argument from both sides of the ball, so get ready for some fair play.

Now, we saw Orlando totally dominate in game 1, only to blow a 28 point lead and let Ray Ray and the rest of Celtics make a dramatic comeback.  Rafer Alston has been kicking ass and taking names at the point guard spot, D.Howard has been wetting his diaper/distributing punishment like its nobody's business and JJ Redick is starting at SG for the....

Wait a second.

JJ Redick?

That douchebag from Duke?

Unfortunately, the very one (pictured above).  Before I go any deeper into this, there are four things I really, really hate.

1.) Ohio State Football
2.) Notre Dame Football
3.) Duke Basketball
4.) My Roommate, Dan

Three of these, I don't have any substantial ground for disliking other than the fact that my ego is the size of the Hindenburg (Note: It crashes and burns as well).  You can really fill in any reason you like for me disliking the most commonly hated NCAA D1 bball team in the nation, and really I'll go along with it.  I just hate Duke, thats the way it is.  JJ Redick is no exception to this and I hate him probably more then I've hated any other athlete in my life.

There's just something about a cocky douchebag who can only shoot three pointers and free throws that tells me you're really not looking at a solid future in the NBA. Apparently, JJ disagrees with me on this one, requesting numerous times to be traded from Orlando so he could score some more PT.  I hate to break it to you JJ, but the league might not be ready for the third or fourth coming of Steve Kerr.

What really must grind his gears is the fact that the Magic drafted a shooting guard this year in Courtney Lee, who went to the small hilltopping school of Western Kentucky.  No harm there, right JJ? Oh, except for the fact that he won the starting spot over you.  That's gotta hurt.  Anywho, Courtney fell prone to the flailing elbows of Dwight "I Will Rape You Behind A Middle School" Howard, and has a broken sinus.

Enter the JJ Zone:

I'll admit, the three straight tres that JJ dropped in game 2 were impressive, but what you saw was Redick's highlight reel.  So, lets not take too much consideration into this.  I hate to break it to you Orlando, but the last team to win a series with a white dude starting at shooting guard was probably the Kings with Doug "House Arrest" Christie.  You're just setting yourself up for disappointment.

With Lee returning tonight and JJ sitting back where he appropriately belongs, on the bench, I'm not really sure what to expect from game 3 tonight.  One things for sure, we will not see the game 2 steam roll that the green laid on, and they better watch their asses tonight.


"You're Fucking Out. I'm Fucking In."

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Our House! - BG


11-14, 4-4 from downtown, to total 31 points. Eddie House set the Garden on fire last night! He was more wide open than your average 21 year old sorority girl. The most impressive stat in my mind was that he was 7-10 from inside the three point line. Now we all know that Eddie gets more excited than a priest at Sunday school when he hits a three pointer. I would like to thank Rafer Alston for not being able to A) play defense on a guy who cannot create his own shot and B) not being able to handle Eddie's excitement, slapping him upside the head, drawing a double technical and most likely a front row seat on his couch for game 3. My only concern was this: 16 min, 1-4, 3 points, 4 fouls. If you saw that stat line, you would have bet your own kids that was Mikki Moore, no. That was Paul Pierce's stat line. People are saying "Oh, it's good for him to get some rest." Not me, I am a little more concerned with that. I hope I'm wrong.

(Side Note: Reggie Miller confirmed what I have been saying ever since Scal dawned that absurdly large white headband. He looks like (and his teammates call him) Jackie Moon from Semi-Pro. The parallel is undeniable. Watching Scal and Turkoglu guard eachother is high comedy because it is so much slower than any other matchup on the court. It's like watching old people fuck (from what I've heard...). I wonder if it's because they are both white? Let's just hope Jackie isn't playing 35 minutes a game for the rest of the series.)

The B's dropped their second straight last night in OT. They got a lucky goal early and a lucky goal late to tie the game. The last two games, they looked uninspired and lack luster at best. I do not know what they expected from this Carolina team, but the 'Canes are a battle tested, cup winning group. Their backs are against the wall now, hopefully they will get a win on Friday night to regain home ice. The biggest problem for the Bruins right now, is that they are not controlling the puck well. They are turning the puck over in their own zone too often and when they are on the break, the puck hops off someones stick and the momentum is gone. The other issue I have about this series is that these teams seem like best friends. I keep expecting the Bruins to go over and pat the 'Canes player on the back after they score. "Nice job, man, you beat me on that one, good goal." I really hope that on Friday night one player from either team, pops someone in the mouth to get the physicality and nastinest started.

Before I sign off, I want to issue an apology to Alex Rodriquez. No hell is not frozen, I check with the devil daily, it's hot as shit down there, it's just a deserved apology. I should have done my homework and found out exactly who this bitch was. Then it dawned on me, I knew all along. This is the same broad who slammed the Duke Lacrosse team and accused them of raping a black stripper. Now we all know how that turned out, but it looks like Selena has done it again. (I have not read the book yet) Apparently the book is filled with he said, she said, annonymous sources. All that stuff about taking steroids in high school? Annonymous source. A-Rod tipping pitches? Annonymous source. A-Rod taking HGH with the Yankees? Someone close to the team. This isn't suppose to be US Weekly, Selena.

Sounds like this book has about as much credibility as a Jenna Haze abstinence seminar. So eventhough I still think that these allegations are possible, I apologize to A-Rod for jumping to conclusions. The book is so pretentious and mis-leading that no one is buying it, #64 on the Bestseller list. She should be sued for libel or slander and I bet she will. Selena Roberts would probably write obituaries for people who hadn't even died yet.

Anyway, back to work. I'm done. Sorry for the lack of posts. Things are now back on track.

"Fuck Land, I'm on a Boat Motha Fucka!"