Dear baseball…

February 28, 2011 in Open Letters, Sports | 3 comments

Could we please be done with all the stupid truncated name nicknames?

I was listening to MLB Network on the radio today.  They kept talking about how someone got into a collision with Cargo.  I follow baseball, but I had no idea who in the hell Cargo was.  They just kept calling the player Cargo.  Was it his last name, some new guy I didn’t know about?  By the time I got out of my truck I still had no idea who the fuck Cargo was.  So I look it up on the net, and it’s CARlos GOnzalez.  Get it?  CarGo.  Jesus!  I guess it would have killed them to have said his name just once for those of us who aren’t hip to their ultra cool nicknames.

On top of that, every single player named Rodriguez is now (whatever the fuck their first initial is)-Rod.  A-Rod, I-Rod, K-Rod, whatever the hell else-Rod.  Adrian Gonzalez is A-Gon.  Manny Ramirez is Man-Ram.  And a shitload of other guys are just their name with a “Y” at the end.  Whatever happened to Duke, Cool Papa, and Lefty?  Where did Chicken Man, Dizzy, and The Express go?

It’s a goddamned shame.

You really want that on your license plate?

February 25, 2011 in Amusing Photos/Ads | 1 comment

Dear all women…

January 13, 2011 in Open Letters | 1 comment

Please stop with the chest tattoos!

I am not talking about the small flower/bird/star/whatever that some ladies get.  I am talking about the large technicolor ink vomit on your chest.

Your chest is ALREADY hot, you do not need to draw attention to it.  Trust me, we (men) are already looking.  You cannot improve your chest by drawing on it.  At best it will hold the same level of appeal, at worst you will take something wonderful and make it look bad.

John Mellencamp is just above it all

January 12, 2011 in Music | 1 comment

In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, John Mellencamp says of his upcoming tour “If you’re coming to hear the greatest hits, don’t even come.”

I had seen that he was coming to a small theater in the area, and was thinking of going.  But now I find out that he is going to play a bunch of rare stuff and ignore the things that made him rich and famous.  “I have zero interest in walking into an arena and banging out those hits again,” he further stated.  Guess what John, people like those songs and that’s why they would buy a ticket to your concert.

Most people are on board when bands sprinkle in new material and other stuff, so long as they get what they came for.  Few people give a shit about those little known songs that you are so interested in playing, or the “country-swing” version of Jack and Diane.

“If you’re coming to hear the greatest hits, don’t even come.”

OK, I won’t.

Make up your minds!

January 12, 2011 in Politics | 1 comment

Sarah Palin and many right wing types are telling us that they are not to blame for the shootings in Arizona.  That even though they spend a great deal of time trying to get people riled up and afraid, or post maps with gun cross hairs on them, that their words are just words, and that the gunman himself is to blame for his actions.

Though I find most people on the extreme far right or far left to be complete idiots, in this case I agree with them that people are responsible for their own actions.  The gunman already had whatever issues he had, and unfortunately his issues cost people their lives.

BUT, where was all of this when the right wing/conservative types were blaming teen suicides on Judas Priest?  Or saying that Dungeons and Dragons caused people to commit crimes?  That watching violent TV shows or playing Grand Theft Auto would cause people to be violent.  And that pornography causes sex crimes?

Let’s have a little consistency, eh?

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