Thursday, November 11, 2010
Bulls-Warrios Open Thread
I think the Bulls match up really well here. Although I'm assuming Bogans and Brewers take turns guarding Ellis while DRose follows Curry around all night. I could be wrong, we'll see. I actually have my own basketball game to attend to, so I'll have to check in with thoughts later, but everyone else, knock yourselves out.
The 5 worst commercials on ESPN 1000
Conall's post about Duncan Keith reminded me of one of my pet peeves: terrible, terrible radio commercials. I listen to Mike and Mike on the way to work in the morning, mainly because while I don't always agree with them, they aren't ginormous assholes (like Silvy) and mostly talk about sports the whole time (unlike that Afternoon Saloon crap.) Unfortunately I have to sit through some terrible commercials in between. Off the top of my head, here are the 5 worst:
5. 1-877-kars4kids
All the "donate your car for a cause!" commercials are terrible, but this one takes the cake, with a little obnoxious kid that can't sing singing the annoying verse, then an older guy condescendingly sings the same verse much better. It would be higher, but it makes me think the cars actually get donated to the kids who need a new ride, and then I laugh at them driving off the road in my head.
4. Head and Shoulders commercials with Troy Polamalu
In the radio version of these commercials, which is somehow worse than the TV ones, the interviewer is trying to conduct an actual interview, but all Troy will talk about is his goddamn hair. Head and Shoulders is doing for Troy what Subway did for Jared, taking someone I have no problem with and making me want to punch him in the head if I ever saw him in real life. (Of course, the difference being Troy would kick my ass.)
3. McDonalds
Conall illustrated the awfulness of the radio ones, so let me go off on a tangent to the stupid TV ones where this pretentious asshole keeps blowing everyone off because he hasn't had his coffee yet, including the woman manning the counter at the McDonalds that he walked in to. NO ONE WANTS TO TALK TO YOUR DUMBASS ANYWAY! It reminds me of the Simpsons where Homer goes up to the drive-thru and says "Nothing for me today, I have a class to teach!"
2. Gerber Collision and Glass
(Set to an incredibly obnoxious tune)
Driving in my car beep-beep/
Obeying the law sure is neat/
Hope no one crashes into me/
Oh wait! Here comes a car/
It's my lucky day/
Plenty of time to get out of it's waaaay....
This is the asshole that drives 30 on the expressway and refuses to turn in front of you on a red light when it's perfectly legal. You are just as dangerous as the guy going 90, you overly-cautious weenie. It does, however lend itself to another excellent Simpsons quote:
Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest guy in history/
From the, town of Springfield, he's about to hit a chestnut tree...Ah!
1. Anything during the friggin Mike and Mike broadcast
They've started this thing where they interrupt the actual talk segments for live commercials read by whoever's hosting. I'm fine with radio hosts selling me things during clear commercial breaks, but I have a problem with them weaving it into the content. And the commercials have been for terrible things like something useless called stamps.com, and an auction site that makes you pay to make bids whether you win the item or not.
I'm watching PTI right now and Jaworski just said "Favre literally put the Vikings on his shoulders and led them to victory." Favre is worse than all of these commercials combined.
5. 1-877-kars4kids
All the "donate your car for a cause!" commercials are terrible, but this one takes the cake, with a little obnoxious kid that can't sing singing the annoying verse, then an older guy condescendingly sings the same verse much better. It would be higher, but it makes me think the cars actually get donated to the kids who need a new ride, and then I laugh at them driving off the road in my head.
4. Head and Shoulders commercials with Troy Polamalu
In the radio version of these commercials, which is somehow worse than the TV ones, the interviewer is trying to conduct an actual interview, but all Troy will talk about is his goddamn hair. Head and Shoulders is doing for Troy what Subway did for Jared, taking someone I have no problem with and making me want to punch him in the head if I ever saw him in real life. (Of course, the difference being Troy would kick my ass.)
3. McDonalds
Conall illustrated the awfulness of the radio ones, so let me go off on a tangent to the stupid TV ones where this pretentious asshole keeps blowing everyone off because he hasn't had his coffee yet, including the woman manning the counter at the McDonalds that he walked in to. NO ONE WANTS TO TALK TO YOUR DUMBASS ANYWAY! It reminds me of the Simpsons where Homer goes up to the drive-thru and says "Nothing for me today, I have a class to teach!"
2. Gerber Collision and Glass
(Set to an incredibly obnoxious tune)
Driving in my car beep-beep/
Obeying the law sure is neat/
Hope no one crashes into me/
Oh wait! Here comes a car/
It's my lucky day/
Plenty of time to get out of it's waaaay....
This is the asshole that drives 30 on the expressway and refuses to turn in front of you on a red light when it's perfectly legal. You are just as dangerous as the guy going 90, you overly-cautious weenie. It does, however lend itself to another excellent Simpsons quote:
Simpson, Homer Simpson, he's the greatest guy in history/
From the, town of Springfield, he's about to hit a chestnut tree...Ah!
1. Anything during the friggin Mike and Mike broadcast
They've started this thing where they interrupt the actual talk segments for live commercials read by whoever's hosting. I'm fine with radio hosts selling me things during clear commercial breaks, but I have a problem with them weaving it into the content. And the commercials have been for terrible things like something useless called stamps.com, and an auction site that makes you pay to make bids whether you win the item or not.
I'm watching PTI right now and Jaworski just said "Favre literally put the Vikings on his shoulders and led them to victory." Favre is worse than all of these commercials combined.
Joakim and Derrick on ESPN 1000
If you can listen to this broadcast and tell me that Joakim Noah isn't the smartest player in the NBA, or at least is better aware of the spectacle of the NBA better than any other player out there, then you are probably from Cleveland. Or Boston. Or you know individual NBA players better than I do; I'll admit, I don't know non-Bulls quite as well as our boys. However, I am hard-pressed to imagine there being a smarter player in the NBA. I'm dead serious. I've been saying it for awhile now. The guy is on another level.
Settle in, it's 37 minutes. Albeit 37 minutes of pure Derrick-and-Joakim-joy. Enjoy.
PS: What a treat to take a trip back home and hear a Chicago sports-radio broadcast from Morton's in Northbrook. Believe it or not, they do not have Italian beef over here...
Settle in, it's 37 minutes. Albeit 37 minutes of pure Derrick-and-Joakim-joy. Enjoy.
PS: What a treat to take a trip back home and hear a Chicago sports-radio broadcast from Morton's in Northbrook. Believe it or not, they do not have Italian beef over here...
"Mc onal 's put the 'M' back in my morning."
"Mc onal 's put the 'M' back in my morning," sai uncan Keith. But for the Hawks #1 efenseman, an last year's Norris Trophy winner, something still seems to be missing.
"Missing? My skates finally feel great again, so I feel like I'm skating better. My sticks are the same sticks, and my helmet feels okay. I mean, I've got 12 points on the season so far. I on't know... o you guys think I'm playing up to the stan ar s of a efen ing Norris Trophy winner?"
Womp. After letting in a goal against Edmonton, and then blowing the puck out his rear end straight into 3 consecutive odd man rushes that lead to game-winning goals in 2 different games, I think it's safe to say Keith is not playing up to his Norris Trophy winning standards. In fact, fuck the standards. Right now Keith looks more like a balloon when you blow it up and then let it go without tying it, and it goes zipping around the room going "pbhppbbhhbpppbphhbpbp" until it plops down scraping the puck out of his own net. Sure his 12 points on the season are great until you factor in his -7 rating, hi-lighting the -4 in the last 2 games. The thing is, when you're a -2 in a game when the other team only scored 2 goals, you might be a factor.
The 2 goals in 35 seconds that Phoenix scored to take the lead and win can be placed right at Keith's doorstep. He not only coughed up the puck twice for 2 odd man rushes, but he left a couple nice piles of crap in place of himself on the other end of the ice for Nick Boynton and Marty Turco to lay in while the Yotes scored on them.
Wilferd, you asked what's going on, and questioned if it could be Turco. Turco's playing surprisingly well. Much better than I thought he would. He's actually-dare I say-been pretty great. But not only did our defense forget how to skate this year, but we lost some essential forwards that not only brought game, but brought ENERGY. We need our forwards now to step up their defense, pressure, and energy, and stop looking like they're here to be substitute teachers until the other forwards come back. And actually that goes for the guys that are still here from the last year. It's time to start playing hard-nosed hockey and stop looking like they're waiting for the other guys to come back.
"Missing? My skates finally feel great again, so I feel like I'm skating better. My sticks are the same sticks, and my helmet feels okay. I mean, I've got 12 points on the season so far. I on't know... o you guys think I'm playing up to the stan ar s of a efen ing Norris Trophy winner?"
Womp. After letting in a goal against Edmonton, and then blowing the puck out his rear end straight into 3 consecutive odd man rushes that lead to game-winning goals in 2 different games, I think it's safe to say Keith is not playing up to his Norris Trophy winning standards. In fact, fuck the standards. Right now Keith looks more like a balloon when you blow it up and then let it go without tying it, and it goes zipping around the room going "pbhppbbhhbpppbphhbpbp" until it plops down scraping the puck out of his own net. Sure his 12 points on the season are great until you factor in his -7 rating, hi-lighting the -4 in the last 2 games. The thing is, when you're a -2 in a game when the other team only scored 2 goals, you might be a factor.
The 2 goals in 35 seconds that Phoenix scored to take the lead and win can be placed right at Keith's doorstep. He not only coughed up the puck twice for 2 odd man rushes, but he left a couple nice piles of crap in place of himself on the other end of the ice for Nick Boynton and Marty Turco to lay in while the Yotes scored on them.
Wilferd, you asked what's going on, and questioned if it could be Turco. Turco's playing surprisingly well. Much better than I thought he would. He's actually-dare I say-been pretty great. But not only did our defense forget how to skate this year, but we lost some essential forwards that not only brought game, but brought ENERGY. We need our forwards now to step up their defense, pressure, and energy, and stop looking like they're here to be substitute teachers until the other forwards come back. And actually that goes for the guys that are still here from the last year. It's time to start playing hard-nosed hockey and stop looking like they're waiting for the other guys to come back.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
For the Bulls to win a championship...
Family,
The bulls greatest weakness is their PG play when DRose is not on the court. They failed to take the back-up pg need seriously this off-season, getting rid of hinrich to clear space for lebron and also failing to sign chris duhon once lebron had announced his decision.
Forget Carmelo Anthony. The player the bulls need to acquire as soon as possible, and the player that I truly believe will put them over the edge is Chauncy Billups.
Chauncy's name came up in a number of possible deals over the summer when it was thought denver was trying to cut payroll and would also be dealing melo. Who knows about melo at this time, but the bulls need to make a strong play for chauncy NOW instead of waiting to see what denver wants to do with him once they do or don't trade melo. If the nuggets lose melo it would be silly for them to keep chauncy - they would be in full youth and rebuilding mode and would hand the reigns over to Ty Lawson, who IS the real deal.
Act now. Offer anyone on the bulls except the untouchable core (rose, noah, taj, boozer). I know no one wants luol's contract, and frankly I'm happy to keep him - he has been playing very very well this season, particularly on defense, thibidou knows how to use him, and he will be even better as a third option once boozer is back. Offer jjohnson, draft picks, and cash. Even consider giving up asik. Trade for chauncy: renegotiate his contract and give him a reasonable three year extension (the last multi-year contract of his career); guarantee him serious minutes (not always starting, but the same kind of minutes); let him relish the chance, as he winds down his career, to mentor the most exciting and athletic point guard in the league right now; explain to him that adding him to this mix to back-up and mentor rose, to teach him and help him develop his post game, and even to play alongside him at the 2 guard at times will give the bulls a championship caliber team right NOW and for a couple of seasons to come.
we need chauncy. Something tells me we can attain him. The future is now, and cj watson won't cut it. (And it's clear that thibidou is having trouble trusting him, even though he should be developing his bench this early in the season. He played watson for only about 4 minutes in the 4th quarter last night before bringing back rose).
PG: drose, billups
SG: bogans (played great in the denver game), brewer (my pick for player to watch, really starting to play well)
SF: deng, korver
PF: boozer, taj
C: noah, asik, thomas
This line-up will win a championship and its worth going into the luxury tax for: 2 all nba caliber players (rose and noah, who is a top 5 big man right now and not done yet), a perennial all-star (boozer), and chauncy who is a winner and absolutely dope, even if he doesn't make another all-star team.
Thoughts? I want to start a bring chauncy to chicago campaign.
EU
The bulls greatest weakness is their PG play when DRose is not on the court. They failed to take the back-up pg need seriously this off-season, getting rid of hinrich to clear space for lebron and also failing to sign chris duhon once lebron had announced his decision.
Forget Carmelo Anthony. The player the bulls need to acquire as soon as possible, and the player that I truly believe will put them over the edge is Chauncy Billups.
Chauncy's name came up in a number of possible deals over the summer when it was thought denver was trying to cut payroll and would also be dealing melo. Who knows about melo at this time, but the bulls need to make a strong play for chauncy NOW instead of waiting to see what denver wants to do with him once they do or don't trade melo. If the nuggets lose melo it would be silly for them to keep chauncy - they would be in full youth and rebuilding mode and would hand the reigns over to Ty Lawson, who IS the real deal.
Act now. Offer anyone on the bulls except the untouchable core (rose, noah, taj, boozer). I know no one wants luol's contract, and frankly I'm happy to keep him - he has been playing very very well this season, particularly on defense, thibidou knows how to use him, and he will be even better as a third option once boozer is back. Offer jjohnson, draft picks, and cash. Even consider giving up asik. Trade for chauncy: renegotiate his contract and give him a reasonable three year extension (the last multi-year contract of his career); guarantee him serious minutes (not always starting, but the same kind of minutes); let him relish the chance, as he winds down his career, to mentor the most exciting and athletic point guard in the league right now; explain to him that adding him to this mix to back-up and mentor rose, to teach him and help him develop his post game, and even to play alongside him at the 2 guard at times will give the bulls a championship caliber team right NOW and for a couple of seasons to come.
we need chauncy. Something tells me we can attain him. The future is now, and cj watson won't cut it. (And it's clear that thibidou is having trouble trusting him, even though he should be developing his bench this early in the season. He played watson for only about 4 minutes in the 4th quarter last night before bringing back rose).
PG: drose, billups
SG: bogans (played great in the denver game), brewer (my pick for player to watch, really starting to play well)
SF: deng, korver
PF: boozer, taj
C: noah, asik, thomas
This line-up will win a championship and its worth going into the luxury tax for: 2 all nba caliber players (rose and noah, who is a top 5 big man right now and not done yet), a perennial all-star (boozer), and chauncy who is a winner and absolutely dope, even if he doesn't make another all-star team.
Thoughts? I want to start a bring chauncy to chicago campaign.
EU
Monday, November 8, 2010
A year and a half without a post, then 2 in 5 minutes
Just wanted to add that my lovely wife just claimed that Derrick Rose will go down as one of the greatest athletes in Chicago when all is said and done. Also, she said she would leave me for him. I think she was joking, but I'm not totally sure...
Let's try this again!
So I'm not sure how we fell off so badly, other than that I fall into a time black-hole during the school year. I can't promise it won't happen again, but hopefully with other faithful bloggers, plus the fact that it's an exciting time for Chicago sports, we'll be able to keep the momentum going this time. We'll officially try to get his baby up and running Thursday for the Bulls-Warriors tilt in Chicago (although maybe we'll sneak some Hawks-Coyotes analysis in early on Wednesday.)
Please try to ignore the fact that last time I made a post, it was predicting Ricky Rubio was going to be a beast for the Timberwolves. Oops.
Please try to ignore the fact that last time I made a post, it was predicting Ricky Rubio was going to be a beast for the Timberwolves. Oops.
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