More Ranting Thoughts of a Un-Tamed Pig
So the douche bag Don Imus is at it again. I’m sure that everyone has heard his latest “What color is he” comment about Adam “don’t call me Pac-Man” Jones. I’m sure that everyone just shook their head when they heard it. I’m sure that everyone blurted out…”What an asshole” when they heard the comments. Yet, I don’t understand why everyone is so up in arms about it. You don’t go to a MacDonalds to order a Fillet Mignon. You go to MacDonalds to eat some greasy-ass fries and a worm burger. You don’t go to a tittie bar to meet a girl to take home to mom and dad. SOOOOO…you don’t listen to Don Imus and expect to hear anything socially redeeming. The guy is a SHOCK-JOCK and he makes his money by saying SHOCKING and DISGUSTING things on the radio. The old, has-been, never-was, Howard Stern Wannabe couldn’t care less what people say about him.
Just stop for a minute and think about it. Last year before the Rutgers comments, Don Imus’ radio show was barely a blip on the radar. He makes the comments and he becomes front page news. He gets fired and people are still talking about him for months. So Imus gets a new gig with CBS radio and he starts off strong before fading away once again. NOBODY is listening to the old washed up fuck-weed. So what can Imus do to regain some attention? He is insignificant and boring so he has to do SOMETHING. Why not make another inappropriate racial remark on live radio. BAM!!! Imus is back in the news and people are once again talking about him. The guy is a fucked up egomaniac…but he knows how to get your attention.
Hey…you really wanna fuck with IMUS? Ignore the old coot every time he pisses in the pool. Just grab your towel and your sunglasses and leave.
SPEAKING OF RACIST!!! Not even…NOT EVEN a blip on the radar is Shaq. Sure, he comes out with some weak assed Rap that sounds like the Greatful Dead being played backwards and a bunch of cats fighting at the same time. Everyone wants to talk about how the RAP is dissing Kobe. I watched and listened to the performance on MSN video. One of Shaq’s Raps was “It’s like a ‘WHITE BOY’ trying to be more nigger than me”.
Now I’m not going to start a crusade to have Shaq banned from the NBA or ask him to publicly apologize because I just consider his ignorance. WHY is it that some blacks feel that calling someone a “White Boy” is not racist? Believe me, I’m not one to argue semantics because I have extremely high powers of perception. I know EXACTLY what a brother means when he calls me a WHITE BOY, or GREY BOY or CRACKER. Throw out the age old myth that blacks can’t be prejudiced and racist. I see it ALL THE TIME!!!
Hang Michael Richards from his pecker. Fire Rush Limbaugh, Castrate Jimmy the Greek but HEY…if you’re black like Shaq, you can call WHITEY anything you want. YES, I’m offended but I know that the double standard that exists in this country allows for non-white races to insult me publicly and I’ve learned to live with it.
The NBA draft is this Thursday. YAWWWWNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
I think there is one definite difference maker in the draft and that is Michael Beasley will make an immediate impact for whichever team drafts him. Beasley is THE ONLY Freshman coming out early who will splash the pond. There are 9 of the top 15 rated players entering the draft who have only played one year of college basketball. Maybe that is why the NBA game seems so watered down. It used to be that a college player had to be “LIGHTS OUT” to leave before his senior year. Now it’s one and done and it shows on the court.
ESPN or E-Spin as the dark blogger refers to it…is a bunch of crap. Now don’t get me wrong, they do some things well, but for the most part they blow. Take yesterday for instance. I get home from work and turn on Sports Center to see how my Detroit Tigers did.
Keeping in mind the AMAZING golf play of Tiger Woods on Monday to capture the U.S. Open, yesterday was in fact Wednesday. The show opened up with about five minutes on Tiger and his upcoming surgery. Then at about the 40 minute mark of the show there was more Tiger news with a few quotes from his doctor telling everyone that the injury was not career threatening. Then to close out the show, they played more highlights of Tigers win.
Now when it came to my Detroit Tigers playing one of two afternoon games in MLB against the San Francisco Giants there were no highlights at all. Instead, they showed some highligts of the 60 year old ball boy (affectionately dubbed “BallDude”) falling on his ass while trying to pick up a foul ball. Then they showed another highlight of the same old guy trying to scoop up a two bouncer in foul territory and misplaying it.
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME??? They don’t show any of Armando Galaraga’s 6 innings and five strikeouts enroute to his seventh win of the season. They don’t show even ONE of Placido Polanco’s four hits on the day. Way to go ESPN…I hate you.
How about all of the “I told ya so” people coming out of the woodwork after the Boston Celtic Championship. I don’t blame them but I’m just so tired of the NBA game. It’s predictable, frustrating to watch and almost contrived. Earlier in the playoffs, I likened it to a WWE Wrestling Match because it often seems so scripted. Even the Boston Game 4 comeback. HOW did that happen? How does a professional basketball team score 35 points in the first quarter and then score only 33 points in the second half?
How about the pathetic surrender that the Lakers mailed in…in game six at Boston? The game needs some fixing and I don’t find it entertaining anymore. Call the game by the rules or change the rules. Call the same game on both sides of the court. If a player committs his sixth foul, CALL IT!!! Clean up your officiating. Enough of the carnival crap that goes on before the games. PLAY SOME DAMN BASKETBALL!!!
You watch sports center? Damn I never get that friggin bored.
I can’t stand to hear those 20 year old catch phrases, and I can’t tell which way Stew Scott is looking it’s very distracting.
I only have time to search this site or that britishbitchwordpress site, if it’s anywhere else I’ll have to wait for the uncomfortable water cooler guy to tell me.
Comment by
miracle — June 19, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
i love your attitude, bro - “keep it fuckin real“. just call the damn game straight. screw the intros and fireworks and techno music. call a foul a foul.
i don’t know whats going on with sports center and their lame news cast. who CARES about tiger’s surgery?
Comment by
admin — June 19, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
I have no problem with them covering Tiger and his ailments. Hell, Tiger Woods is the most powerful athlete in all sports and he deserves the attention. But to dedicate about 13-15 minutes of a 50 minute (I took out 10 minutes for commercials and bump music) show to the same shit we’ve been hearing since Monday was just silly.
The NBA will come back some day. Maybe in our lifetime but for now it’s no different than James Cann in “Rollerball”.
Comment by
flyingpig — June 20, 2008 @ 7:05 am
I’m with you, Miracle. Sports Center jumped the shark sometime in the 1990s. Like Rosie O’Donnell trying on thongs, it is unwatchable.
I blame it on Stuart Scott. Dude, you’re over 40. Quit trying to be hip, with street talk and pop references. You’re worse than the creepy uncle (me) at your teenage niece’s birthday party.
You would think that the insufferable Dan Patrick leaving would be a good thing, but it just opened the door for more of the same old shit. DP did leave, didn’t he? I haven’t watched in so long, I can’t remember.
Comment by
mackey — June 21, 2008 @ 6:47 am
the worst part is that people actually think sportscenter is news. stuart scott was sportscenter’s connection to the hip youth. supposedly.
Comment by
admin — June 21, 2008 @ 6:51 am
I will admit that when I was 15 years old I loved Stuart Scott. That was 1998. I thought he was the shit - but that’s because I was a teenager from Canada. Now I get it.
But I know FP’s frustration; I use to wait nearly 15 minutes into a 30-minute sportscenter to get my basketball highlights. First 15 minutes would be a story on a Canadian hockey team, some hockey highlights of games I could care less about and then some random story from another sport and THEN basketball. Vince Carter scores 50? Wait a few minutes and watch Columbus v. Chicago NHL highlights. Go fuck yourselves.
Comment by
thedan — June 21, 2008 @ 7:29 pm
Stu was “hip” ten years ago, now he’s about as hip as Mike “let me sell you some insurance” Turico.
And how about that crew of dipshit former players they have assembled to do their NFL countdown show?
The only one worth a shit is Tom Jackson, Steve Young is to busy trying to shake out the cobb webs and wondering why he got in the hall of fame(me too). Chrissy Berhman is recycling schtick that wasn’t entertaining 15 years ago.
And nobody understands WTF Mike “those ain’t my hookers, and them ain’t my drugs either” Irvin is saying.
Comment by
miracle — June 22, 2008 @ 7:21 am
Steve Young going into the HOF with Marino was a joke. The NFL HOF lets anyone in. Dan Hampton? Harry Carson? Good players sure, but HOF? If they put those two in, they may as well put half the guys who ever played in.
MLB makes it too hard to get in their HOF. Which it should be. The NFL lets anyone who played 10 years in theirs.
Comment by
mackey — June 22, 2008 @ 10:06 am
I turned on ESPN today and saw an outdoor bowling tournament. Which has to be worthy of a “WTF”. And sadly, that was probably the best thing they had on the channel all day.
Wake me up when Women’s Olympic Beach Volleyball starts.
Comment by
shooterb — June 22, 2008 @ 8:31 pm
I CAN’T BELIEVE you are slamming outdoor bowling!!! YOU SUCK!!!
Comment by
flyingpig — June 23, 2008 @ 10:16 am
Don’t ever slam bowling of any form. Especially big girl bowling!
Comment by
miracle — June 24, 2008 @ 6:33 am
How about big girls bowling in spandex? Outside of course.
Comment by
flyingpig — June 24, 2008 @ 7:26 am
Hey…I decided to put a picture of the grandson up on my Blog Boarder on the top. Isn’t he a cute little splitting image of his granddad? In just a few years the little oinker will be sprouting his wings.
Comment by
flyingpig — June 24, 2008 @ 7:28 am
Bowling is fine, but the fuck were they doing outside? You guys can’t tell me that you actually enjoy watching bowling on TV.
Big girl bowling…maybe.
Comment by
shooterb — June 24, 2008 @ 8:44 am
Keep trying Shooter…one of these days you will break triple digits in bowling.
Comment by
flyingpig — June 24, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
whoah, something fucked up happened with comments here.
but best believe that being called ‘white boy’ is an insult. I don’t know why white guys tolerate that shit. it has it’s cool connotations. come dudes is cool white boys. but most times, people use it negatively like shaq did. I don’t use it negatively except in jest but its not really a double standard, its that white people have like 1000 negative words to negroes and we got like 4 for you guys. most of the people i know who use the N-Word don’t even know why it’s offense. they just don’t say it because theyve been trained not to. THATs the big issue for me. but i don’t tolerate people using words like cracker around me. now if yous a cool as white dude, you might get tagged with ‘white boy’. but thats more akin to ‘my nigga’. it’s a term of endearment towards someone we think is pretty fuckin cool.
Comment by
admin — June 24, 2008 @ 12:55 pm
Now Demon…you bring up a great point. I had a Jewish buddy in High School who had to wear his yamaka at his house and he hated it. So we lovingly dubbed him “Jew Boy” but we were tight so he was never offended by it.
My black family in Detroit refers to me as “faded nigga” and I get a kick out of it. Sometimes they call me “Light Skin-ded Brotha”. But when it’s people you know, it’s all good because you know the INTENT is harmless.
Shaq has had that edge to him where he won’t give interviews to white reporters and he makes comments about white players…now his “White Boy” rap. I don’t like it.
Comment by
flyingpig — June 24, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
AIN’T NOBODY gonna comment on my new boarder avatar?
How about my dancing Napolean?
I worked hard getting that dude on my page.
Comment by
flyingpig — June 24, 2008 @ 3:00 pm
Rant on sir Piggy
Comment by Southern Hockey Fan — June 24, 2008 @ 5:04 pm
OK FP, Cool av. Napoleon is a dancing mo fo. How about that ??? that gave him the dance mix tape. My friends and I have a disagreement on whether Lawanda was a dude or a woman.
Comment by
mackey — June 24, 2008 @ 6:02 pm