Soccer Recap!
Suck it everyone else. I actually got to watch a good deal of the Liverpool smoke job while I made my attack outline for the Erie analysis and I am absolutely pumped for the final. That strike by Scholes was absolutely sick and is the sole reason I posted the soccer news.
Bob Costas actually called the blogosphere the "wild west of the internet." Not only did he use blogosphere w/o laughing he further guaranteed his idiocy by calling it the wild west. I have HBO through the dorm (hahaha, what.a.loser.) so I actually got to catch this piece live last night, link at the end. I couldn't believe it but at the end of the segment I was actually pissed. Since I've had to study Civ Pro all day, which sucks hardcore balls, I'm going to rant like a little bitch about the CostasNow segment. Let me start out by saying Buzz* and Costas came off as absolute idiots, pure and simple. They can't see the difference between the blog itself and the comments? Really?
Buzz also goes off on blogs for lacking journalistic integrity yet laces his comments with a large amount of profanity. I'm not against a well placed fuck but not when you are bashing someone else for lacking integrity. Buzz then goes on to bash Deadspin, and blogs as a whole, due to one post. Nicely done Buzz, you just bashed blogs because of a single post from one blog. Killer logic Buzz. He also bashed blogs for lacking fact finding yet couldn't remember what Big Daddy Drew's name was. He repeatedly called him "Big Daddy Balls" and "Balls Deep." Big Daddy Balls is a sweet name but where the fuck was he getting Balls Deep? Good job on improper citation there too Buzz.
What is the deal with journalistic integrity anyway? You aren't a doctor. You aren't a lawyer.** You are a fucking journalist. You made it through the absolute easiest schooling possible. The idea that bloggers shouldn't blog because they didn't go through the proper process education is ridiculously. I would trust an engineer with giving me an opinion then an english major. Add in the fact that you are giving your opinion about sports. You aren't covering some incredible historical happening, you are telling me what happened during the White Sox game. Costas tried to use the people who covered Watergate to the established sports media. He wasn't joking. To tell the truth I take the most out of commentators and writers who actually played the game more than the opinions of some dork who went to school to write about a game. Why should I care what Skip Bayless thinks is going to happen in the next Lakers game?
Buzz also continually discusses the "talent" of established sports writers. Dude, you wrote Friday Night Lights not the Catcher in the Rye. I absolutely refuse to say someone is talented when their job is to tell me what happened during a game. I would be ok with ESPN just giving me scores. I don't really care what the feel of the crowd was when the Bulls were getting crushed. Most of the time when people write long articles on a sporting event I just skip it. This is not to say though that I think there is no talent whatsoever in the established media. The guys behind Game of Shadows were talented. The book got points across extremely well and kept my interest no problem. They also had to go through an unbelievable investigation in order to write the book. This is not to be said of the vast majority of sports stories. Good job Jay Mariotti, you just got a 22 year old kid to give you some breaking piece of information. Well done.
One last quick point, what is with the older crowd's love affair with the newspaper? I understand that at one point it was your only source of news but come on, welcome to the joys of modern technology. I keep hearing Wilbon bitch on PTI about how sad he is to see the end of the newspaper. I was really sad to see the end of cellophane but Saran Wrap was just the superior product. Move on. Society changes. Maybe newspapers shouldn't have decided to spring up in every possible area or they should have made some better plans for the future. The idea of someone being smarter due to their reading the newspaper was once a prominent thought but now it would seemingly be the complete opposite. Why would someone wait around until the morning to find out some important piece of news? With that said, I still read the paper if I'm home. I do enjoy the Trib but would I use it as my only source of news? Never. I understand that this is a disjunctive mess but I was pissed and just wanted to see what you guys thought.
*Buzz? This is only an acceptable name if you can't yet spell your name or if you are a character in Toy Story.
**Take me out of the idea of legal integrity.
http://deadspin.com/385770/bissinger-vs-leitch?autoplay=true
For some reason, this reminds me of something Pat and Chris would do in high school.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/04/22/dnt.swimmers.pass.out.king
This has to be a prank.
PS-A big congrats to Chad for finally pulling off a successful bank robbery in Indy. Keep up the good work!
Study: Nearly 80 Percent Of Roommates Got So Drunk Last Night
I'll keep everyone updated on the other studies.
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If I saw someone on the street with this shirt I would absolutely freak out.
Here are so good dating tips with summer coming up. I was going to talk about a sweet joke from my property class but I don't want to upset the one person on the blog who stole their name from a different blog. I kid, I kid.
PS-If anyone saw the new South Park last night I think it may have been a direct cut at me.
I was sitting at somewhere and someone influential said something remotely sexual. Something racist, something sexist. Law school insert. Chad is short. I am drunk in my room...aaaaaaaaaanddddd, done.
So I am working on a Hydro lab in the CEM computer lab. There is a group working at the computer next to me and here is an excerpt from their conversation.
Girl: I loved the new James Bond, he was way better then the last one.
Guy: Yea he was way more believable then Pierce Brosnan, and a lot sexier.
At this point I almost lost it. I am positive they heard me snicker too, because the guy started saying, "but not in a gay way." Classic....I am by far the coolest person in CEM. LOL.
So today in civil procedure my professor decided to look right at me and pose this number... "Does anyone have a problem with the plaintiff beating off the defendant?"
There are about a thousand more effective ways to state this question but there are few funnier options. I figured I would add this because people like to ask what law school is like.
So tonight some guy named Dorks Bentleys is playing a concert at Elliot. I think he sang Achey Breaky Heart (only country song I know) or something. I asked Aaron who he was and he went on telling me that, "Bentleys is one of the best country singers...Ever." All I got from this was his music is not played at Stacks, and he isn't in FallOutBoy, LFO, or TechN9ne, so he isnt good.
My real reason for this post is the fact that several guys invited girls to pregame with them for this concert. I am not sure if they didnt think the girls would show or they just are dumb but for some reason they didnt have alcohol for these young ladies. Anyways they decided to come to me because they heard my room is stalked with alcohol. But I would not share with these youngsters because they kept asking me if I had any "house alcohol". I do not have any house alcohol, I have alcohol that was purchashed by the house with my social*, and then was given to me. So I sent them away and then did a couple shots of McCormicks that the house purchased for me.
Oh well i am 100% not sorry. I have been drinking for the past 2 hours because Colbert is dragging me to BW3s to watch the Warriors game with him. And I have learned that the only way you can hang out with Colbert is if you dumb yourself down to his level.
*Actually I did not pay social this semester...Eta Fuckin' Beta!
As the end of the semester/year approaches i have heard some terrible excuses for NOT going to the bars this semester. I am truly dissappointed in some people that will not be named, but they know who they are. Anyways here are some of the more popular responses.
1). "I have a lot of homework."
Real Meaning - I was being lazy all week/hanging out with my girlfriend and didn't get my shit done. Come on it is Wednesday night at Jakes, cheap drinks, slutty girls, you know that will be more fun then homework. And you know if you wait til Wednesday night to do your HW you will get several drunk dials from me. Lets see if I can get my engineering shit done you can get yours done, and seriously Wednesday is the start of the weekend.
2). "I am tired."
Real Meaning - I plan on staying in and watching TV. Or you plan on drinking by yourself, either way its not good.
3). "I don't have any money."
Real Meaning - I would rather spend my money on something other then alcohol. Unless that other thing is a prostitute, you are making some bad decisions, and even the prostitute is a questionable call because who knows how that could end*. Plus you had plenty of money when you ordered a BigTen combo.
4). "Which bar are we going to?"
Real Meaning - I have to meet up with some other people. You will run into them reguardless, there are 3 1/2 fun bars** at Purdue I am sure they will see you at some point. Harper and Colbert can ask this question since they both are banned from certain bars.
Seriously just come to the bars, you will have fun unless you are Scholtes, and then you just won't have fun period.
*Joey had sex with a Hooters girl in highschool and got robbed. I dont know if she was a prostitute but I like to think that all Hooters girls are.
** Maybe even less then that: Stacks, Jakes, Brothers, and 1/2 the time you go to Harry's as long as its before 9.
I decided, rather quickly if you look at the time of the posts, that I would stop hating women and start hating on childhood memories. There were so many nights of this coming on at the house and everyone singing along...if only these were the lyrics. Enjoy!
So this is my second woman bashing post in a row but this one is also 100% correct. Today on First Take they posed the question of whether or not Pat Summit would be able to coach the Tennessee men's program. I stopped scanning my contracts homework because my mind was completely blind sided by the most ridiculous question of all time. Um, Pat Summit wouldn't be able to recruit a single decent player. Not one. Ever. End of story. Does anyone who doesn't shit their pants regularly really think an 18 year old kid would pick Pat Summit over any other men's coach? Skip (note: absolutely retarded) stated a kid may want to experiment with having a woman coach. Wrong. When I was 18 the only experiment I wanted to do involved mixing alcohol and sex[Ed. Note: and dudes]. The only way a woman would be able to recruit is if she was super hot, super slutty, and had won regularly with a men's team somewhere else. This would make an interesting choice for an 18 year old, go to a historical power like UNC or UCLA or get blown every day after practice.
On this same note, what is the deal with mixing men's and women's coaching wins when people talk about records? This is just silly. There are, at most, 4 respectable women's teams on an average year. You suck as a sport if it is an absolute shock when all one seeds don't make it to the final four. Bitches. How hard is it to recruit against the other 6 historically decent women's teams? Don't they just split the ten girls a year who can actually get the ball to the rim from past the three point line? I'm not the biggest Bob Knight fan ever but are you really going to tell me Pat Summit is the better coach? I would consider allowing women's wins if you counted 10% of their wins. This is the absolute most I would accept and I am the official person to talk to in regards to records.
On this same note, if you are going to add women's wins why not add my wins on NCAA March Madness? My teams always go undefeated and I recruit like a crazy person. I guess we are all involved in college basketball so they should count my wins too. I would be the best coach in America under this idea so I'm 100% animals behind it.
I promise my next post won't bash women.*
*I will edit this out if I change my mind.
