Being a Patriots fan is awesome. We win basically every game (unless I'm there and newsflash I'm going tonight so pound the Ravens moneyline), have the best coach and QB of all time but we are stripped of one of the best parts of football: Trash talk.
I'm sure they do their fair share of it on the field, as we've seen from players like Julian Edelman, and when he was here Aqib Talib, but under Bill Belichick and the "Patriot Way" you never hear any sound bites in pre or postgame interviews. Most notable one I can remember in recent years was when Wes Welker made fun of Rex Ryan and his foot fetish before their 2010 divisional round playoff game. The Patriots benched Welker to start the game which may have been a difference maker in the upset loss for the Pats. Yesterday there were two great moments of postgame hate by two of the NFL's most vocal cornerbacks: Adam "Pacman" Jones and Aqib Talib. Let's start with Pacman. His Bengals have more than disappointed this season. After making the playoffs for 5 straight seasons this year they're 5-7-1 and will not be having their annual Wild-Card round loss. It's been a rough year in Cincy, luckily for them this week they got to play other team from Ohio, the Browns. Oh poor those poor Browns. Just when you think Cleveland sports are the rise after the Cavs won the NBA Finals and the Indians went all the way to game 7 of the World Series the Browns followed it up by starting off 0-12 going into the game yesterday. They do have one bright spot this season: WR Terrelle Pryor. Pryor, a former QB at Ohio St and briefly for the Raiders has since transitioned to WR and has had a break out year, despite not having a real quarterback to get him the ball. Going into the game 62 catches for 855 yards and 4 TD. Not bad considering the team he is on. After the game his stats were 63 catches for 858 yards as Pacman Jones held the reciever to 1 catch for 3 yards. Not exactly a great showing for the former Buckeye. After the game Pacman Jones did not hide his feelings towards Pryor.
Wait, Pacman how do you feel about T-Peezy?
GARBAGE!!!
Pacman was not happy with the "fake tough guy" persona he believes Pryor portays and if there's anybody who's allowed to call people out for that, it's Pacman. That dude is a badddd man. Let's not forget what went down at 2007 NBA All-Star Weekend. Is it kind of a pathetic to be talking shit after you beat a 0-12 team? Maybe. Is it a great clip? Hard yes. Then that leads us to Aqib Talib. The defending Super Bowl champs lost in Tennessee yesterday to the Titans in one of the ugliest games I've seen in a while. The Titans only had 6 completions. But the most notable play was a cheap low block away from a play by Titans WR Harry Douglas on CB Chris Harris Jr.
Talib was not pleased and decided a brawl was the best way to handle the issue.
After the game Talib doubled down and said he's going to beat his ass in Atlanta since they have the same agent.
Everything he said was true. Harry Douglas is horrible. After a 1000 yard season with the Falcons in 2013, Douglas has done next to nothing since. This year he only has 10 catches for 162 yards. Not ideal. The block he layed on Harris was bushleague at best, you don't go after guys knees, especially for no reason at all. They were away from the play and shit like that can destroy somebody's knee. There's supposed to be a code in the NFL not to do stuff like that and Douglas just completely ignored it.
Talib is probably going to get fined and/or suspended for what he said and did during and after the game but TBH I have no issue with it. He has his teammate's back and is willing to whatever it takes to have his back. That being said if I'm the NFL I'm suspending him next week against the Patriots but that will never happen because the league will never do anything to make things easier for them.
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Song: Merry Christman, Happy Holidays Artist: *NSYNC RIP GARY COLEMAN
I know I exaggerate and hyperbolize a lot on my blog but I'm going to be serious for a second. I say I'm the biggest Patriots fan alive. We all know that's not true, I mean how cocky would I be to actually believe that?
But I mean I'm definitely in the top 10. No arguing that. I've lived and died with my guys since I was in 4th grade. Even with all the trouble (that were lies created by the NFL) they've gotten into other the years I've always been their to defend the wall. So as top 10 Patriot fan in the entire world I don't understand how the Patriots could betray me by signing fucking Griff Whalen. If you don't know who that guy is, I don't blame you. First off he's a Vegan (loser). Secondly he's an undrafted bum out of Stanford who has 3 career touchdowns. Of course 1 of them effectively ended my gambling career which we'll get into. If you do know who he is it's probably from this highlight. Well in that Sunday Night Football game last year the Patriots were a 9 point favorite against the lowly Colts. Let's not forget that the previous 4 contests by at least 20 points. They owned the Colts. Also going into the game the Patriots were 4-0 and Indy was 2-3. Even though it lost Pats -9 from a logic standpoint is and will always be the right call. Despite a horrible start the Patriots were in the number late in the 4th quarter as they were up 34-21 and just had to get a first down late to cover the spread. Then when they punted and gave the Colts the ball at their own 15 yard line with 3:03 left all they had to do was stop the Colts from scoring a meaningless touchdown and they would've won and more importantly covered. That didn't happen. The Patriots who already had the game won played conservative AF and allowed fucking Griff Whalen, an undrafted Vegan loser who looks like the kid from We're the Millers to score a bullshit TD with 1:26 left to make the score 34-27.
There's been touchdowns that ended the Patriots from going 19-0, there's been touchdowns in my own football career that broke my heart but Griff Whalen's garbage touchdown, and only touchdown of 2015 will forever be my least favorite of all time.
Fuck that guy. I'll never root for him. I turned a $100 deposit into over $3200 bucks in like a month. I was stupid and went way too heavy one game, never should've done that, but he should've never even been on the field. If that touchdown isn't scored I think my life is totally different. If I had an extra 4 grand lying around I'd be able live like royality. I hope he drops every pass thrown to him Monday and is cut Tuesday, then dies Wednesday. This guy does not deserve to wear a Patriot uniform after what he did to a official top 10 fan. I can't believe they would do this to me after all I've done for you.
I think as a sign of good faith by Griff Whalen or the Patriots should send me a check to let bygones be bygones. My loyality can be bought. Song: Little Saint Nick Artist: The Beach Boys I could listen to this on a loop for 3 hours straight not get sick of it.
Today it was announced that former Red Sox pitcher Koji Uehara signed a 1 year deal 4.5 million dollar deal with the Cubs (yet ANOTHER ex Red Sox to go to the North Side). Really bums me out, even at 41 I still would've loved to have Koji back. He finally started to show signs of slowing down last year but I still think they could've found a spot for him in 2017.
No player was more surprising to the ultimate suprise championship team: The 2013 Red Sox than Koji Uehara (honorable mention: Daniel Nava). The then 38 year old was the Red Sox 4th option at closer after Joel Hanrahan, Andrew Bailey, and Junichi Tazawa. Once Koji got the job, he never looked back. He was a blast to watch. I've never seen someone have so much fun playing baseball. Koji was 38 but acting like he was 8 playing little league. He was well known for the crazy high-fives he would give every single person in on the team after a big out. It started the #highfivecity craze which along with the beards (he and Boegarts I think were the only guys who didn't have one), and Boston Strong were the three big rallying crys of that special Red Sox team.
He finished the 2013 regular season with a microscopic 1.07 ERA, 21 saves and a staggering 101 strikeouts in only 74.1 innings. He finished 7th in the Cy Young vote which is pretty remarkable considering his role going into the season was to be the 6th inning guy. When Koji was in it was game over, and it was game over fast. I swear he must've had like 20 1-2-3 innings where he threw under 10 pitches. It was unreal to watch, the most dominant run I've ever seen in my life. Koji not allowing any runs in the 9th was the closest thing possible to a sure thing in baseball.
In the playoffs except for one HR he allowed in the ALDS in game 3 he was untouchable. 1 earned run in 13 innings. ALCS MVP (watched him close it out from the Monster, NBD).
In the World Series he famously picked off Kolten Wong to end game 4 and tie the World Series at 2-2. Without Koji there is no way the 2013 Red Sox are World Series Champs. Not only was he an awesome pitcher, he was also a very lovable member of a very lovable team with his goofy, boyish personality.
In 2014 he was an All-Star and while his number weren't as good as 2013 (very hard to replicate) he still managed to pick up 26 saves and have a 2.52 ERA. He finished his four years with the Sox with 79 saves, 291 strikeouts and a 2.19 ERA. Not too bad for a guy in his 40's. Koji was awesome his entire time in Boston but nothing will ever come close to what he did in 2013. With Koji gone only three members of the 2013 Red Sox are still on the roster, Dustin Pedroia, Xander Boegarts and Clay Buccholz. It could go down to two very soon as their are strong rumors that the Sox are going to trade Bucchholz. I wish Koji nothing but the best, he was one of the most lovable athletes Boston has ever had and was a major piece of a championship. I sure know I will miss him. Song: Modern Act Artist: Cloud Nothings Album: Life Without Sound It turns out Kevin Garnett really considered taking a shot at college life. According to The Vertical's Chris Mannix, who shared Garnett's story on his podcast on Tuesday, the former NBA star pondered the idea at the age of 36 when he almost retired his career after leaving the Boston Celtics in 2013. Garnett was reportedly on a trip to China with Stephen Espinoza, the head of Showtime Sports at the time, when the basketball star randomly asked whether he should go to college. "I've got an idea for a show. How about I go to college," Garnett, who had missed out on the whole college experience after he went straight from high school to the NBA in 1995, apparently said, according to Mannix. And not only did Garnett want to attend a university, but he wanted to live in the campus dormitories and have Showtime film the entire experience. Unfortunately, KG never made it to campus, although he was dying to go. Instead Garnett got traded to the Brooklyn Nets in 2013, playing until he left the team to go to the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2015, before retiring the following year. It's too bad he never went though, because the Boston area has a lot of great schools to choose from. As far as a reality show on the subject, it probably wouldn't replace VH1's high-rated shows, but it definitely would have been a good source of comic relief. via: www.complex.com/sports/2016/12/kevin-garnett-college-at-36-filmed-for-tv Talk about your all time missed opportunities by both parties involved. What did KG do in his final 3 seasons in the NBA other than bring down his career points per game average? I love the man but them hanging up after his final year with the Celtics would've probably been the right move. Just wasn't the same guy anymore. And suuuuure Showtime has had their fair share of hit shows but in the entertainment field that's never enough. You know what's better than a million dollars? 100 million dollars. As my future boss, Dave Portnoy claims "content, content, content" and boy were we stripped of some all time content by this KG goes to college show not ever happening. Could you imagine a then 36 year old Kevin Garnett as a college freshmen moving onto campus? You have a 7 foot tall black dude who played 21 years in the NBA sleeping in a twin XL. Sharing a 12x 12 room with some 18 year old gender neutral call me "they" hipster and a redneck. Tell me that isn't the most watched tv show of all time? I think in the tv biz they call that "gold". Just a bunch of 18 year old brats going away to college to "find themselves" and then you drop in future basketball HOFer Kevin Garnett. Who knows who he'd become in college? What if KG became a huge burnout hippy who wore drug-rugs and played hacky-sack? You're telling me right now you wouldn't watch KG play frisbee with some 19 year old stoner named Kaleb with a K talking about Bernie Sanders? Maybe he joins a frat. Imagine some 20 year old hardo trying to haze the Big Ticket? I'd kill to see what he'd have to say to some punk ass frat dude who's trying to make him partake in a circle jerk. Yeah good luck, Anthony, I'm sure that'll go over very well. Imagine watching KG in some bull-shit 100 level history class taking addies and chugging red bull writing papers about the Stamp Act. I've never wanted anything more in my life than this tv show. From his time in the NBA there's two things we know. The first is that KG is one of the best Power Forwards of all time. IMO he's probably #3 after Tim Duncan and Karl Malone. The second is that he is fucking hilarious. Not only was he a great competitor on the court, like maybe the most competitive dude of all time. But he was also a great shit talker as well. He said things that got in the head's of his opponents but they also were hysterical at times. He's been just as funny interviews off the court. If Kevin Garnett ever changes his mind and decides to go to college and film it I will be watching.
Much like the Chris Sale news yesterday, I was kind of busy when the news broke with the Grammy nominations so I'm a day late yet again. Of course today when I'm not subbing the internet sucks and there's nothing that major or important for me to blog. But that doesn't matter let's just dive in.
I love award shows, always have, always will. Even if I haven't kept up with the major nominees that much it's always cool to watch and see what's going on with celebs and what not. As a music guy the Grammy's are easily my favorite award show. They usually have some pretty good performances and moments. It's a lot more fun than the stuffy-ass Oscars. Lot of musicans together for night and stuff like this can happen, it's awesome. Yesterday the nominations were announced. If you still haven't seen them, don't worry you're in luck here at DOL I'm very good at copy and pasting from other websites and can give you the list and who I think is going to win.
Album Of The Year:
25 — Adele Lemonade — Beyoncé Purpose — Justin Bieber Views — Drake A Sailor's Guide To Earth — Sturgill Simpson
Absolutely loaded field here. The outcome of this will say a lot about the future of music in the eyes of the academy. I'd put my money on Adele's "25" to take home the gramaphone here.
Since it was released in late 2015 "25" was not eligible for last year's awards where I think it would've won depsite only being out for like 6 weeks at the time because it was that huge. This album is still very popular but just because it was much bigger when it first came out should not take away from the impact it had on music. I have like 12 CD's in my car right now. 9 are rock, 2 are rap and the one remaining is 25. Big Adele guy.
Record Of The Year:
"Hello" — Adele "Formation" — Beyoncé "7 Years" — Lukas Graham "Work" — Rihanna Featuring Drake "Stressed Out" — Twenty One Pilots
People always ask what's the difference between record and song of the year. Record is for artist, producers and all other technical people that went into making a song. While song of the year is mainly about songwriter.
Again, if I know anything about the Grammys and how they work Adele will take home the award. Honestly cool with anybody except 21 Pilots because I fucking despise them.
Song Of The Year:
"Formation" — Khalif Brown, Asheton Hogan, Beyoncé Knowles & Michael L. Williams II, songwriters (Beyoncé) "Hello" — Adele Adkins & Greg Kurstin, songwriters (Adele) "I Took A Pill In Ibiza" — Mike Posner, songwriter (Mike Posner) "Love Yourself" — Justin Bieber, Benjamin Levin & Ed Sheeran, songwriters (Justin Bieber) "7 Years" — Lukas Forchhammer, Stefan Forrest, Morten Pilegaard & Morten Ristorp, songwriters (Lukas Graham) I think a minor-upset happens here and the Biebs picks up his first major Grammy. The fact that Ed Sheeran helped write this song helps his case a lot. Everybody loves him. I really think it's a 3 song race here between Formation, Hello and Love Yourself. I think Bieber picks this up and this is the moment where he officially transcends nationally from not just a little kid anymore to a serious artist in the sense of major musical achievement.
Best New Artist:
Kelsea Ballerini The Chainsmokers Chance The Rapper Maren Morris Anderson .Paa
I don't want to split hairs but The Chainsmokers had that "Selfie" song like 2 years ago I don't get how they can be considered new. It's not like that song was a minor hit, it made the billboard top 20. Maybe it's just because I'm out of touch with the youth these days but other than them and Chance The Rapper I've never heard of these people.
Because of that I'm going with Chance. Coloring Book was fucking huge this year.
For the rest of the awards that matter I'm just going to bold who I think will win. Not going to waste anybodies time with bluegrass or gospel.
Best Pop Vocal Album:
25 — Adele Purpose — Justin Bieber Dangerous Woman — Ariana Grande Confident — Demi Lovato This Is Acting — Sia Best Pop Solo Performance: "Hello" — Adele "Hold Up" — Beyonce "Love Yourself" — Justin Bieber "Piece By Piece (Idol Version)" — Kelly Clarkson "Dangerous Woman" — Ariana Grande Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: "Closer" — The Chainsmokers Featuring Halsey "7 Years" — Lukas Graham "Work" — Rihanna Featuring Drake "Cheap Thrills" — Sia Featuring Sean Paul "Stressed Out" — Twenty One Pilots Best Rock Performance: "Joe (Live From Austin City Limits)" — Alabama Shakes "Don't Hurt Yourself" — Beyoncé Featuring Jack White "Blackstar" — David Bowie "The Sound Of Silence" — Disturbed "Heathens" — Twenty One Pilots (classic case of just giving it to the dead guy) Best Rock Song: "Blackstar" — David Bowie, songwriter (David Bowie) "Burn the Witch" —Radiohead, songwriters (Radiohead) "Hardwired" — James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, songwriters (Metallica "Heathens" — Tyler Joseph, songwriter (Twenty One Pilots) "My Name Is Human" — Rich Meyer, Ryan Meyer & Johnny Stevens, songwriters (Highly Suspect) (boy I hope I'm wrong) Best Rock Album: California — Blink-182 Tell Me I'm Pretty — Cage The Elephant Magma — Gojira Death Of A Bachelor — Panic! At The Disco Weezer — Weezer (Cage's best work yet) Best Alternative Music Album: 22, A Million — Bon Iver Blackstar — David Bowie The Hope Six Demolition Project — PJ Harvey Post Pop Depression — Iggy Pop A Moon Shaped Pool — Radiohead Best Rap Performance: "No Problem" — Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz "Panda" —Desiigner "Pop Style" — Drake Featuring The Throne "All The Way Up" — Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared "That Part" — ScHoolboy Q Featuring Kanye West Best Rap/Sung Performance: "Freedom" — Beyoncé Featuring Kendrick Lamar "Hotline Bling" — Drake "Broccoli" — D.R.A.M. Featuring Lil Yachty "Ultralight Beam" — Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream "Famous" — Kanye West Featuring Rihanna Best Rap Song: "All The Way Up" — Joseph Cartagena, Edward Davadi, Shandel Green, Karim Kharbouch, Andre Christopher Lyon, Reminisce Mackie & Marcello Valenzano, songwriters (Fat Joe & Remy Ma Featuring French Montana & Infared) "Famous" — Chancelor Bennett, Ross Birchard, Ernest Brown, Andrew Dawson, Kasseem Dean, Mike Dean, Noah Goldstein, Kejuan Muchita, Patrick Reynolds, Kanye West & Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Rihanna) "Hotline Bling" — Aubrey Graham & Paul Jefferies, songwriters (Drake) "No Problem" — Chancelor Bennett, Dwayne Carter & Tauheed Epps, songwriters (Chance The Rapper Featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz) "Ultralight Beam" — Chancelor Bennett, Kasseem Dean, Mike Dean, Kirk Franklin, Noah Goldstein, Samuel Griesemer, Terius Nash, Jerome Potter, Kelly Price, Nico "Donnie Trumpet" Segal, Derek Watkins, Kanye West & Cydel Young, songwriters (Kanye West Featuring Chance The Rapper, Kelly Price, Kirk Franklin & The-Dream) Best Rap Album: Coloring Book — Chance The Rapper And the Anonymous Nobody — De La Soul Major Key — DJ Khaled Views — Drake Blank Face LP — ScHoolboy Q The Life of Pablo — Kanye West The Hick from French Lick turns 60 years old today. On Pearl Harbor Day 1956 Larry Bird was born. While I was born in 1991 and never able to see him live (unless I was in a room with a Celtics game on before he retired after the 1991-92 season) I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for Larry Legend. As a big sports history guy I've read and watched a ton (if you haven't see the special on him and Magic you have to www.youtube.com/watch?v=axbIoHqFaa8) about Larry Bird over the years and he is simply the man. Blue-collar, hardnosed guy who the city of Boston and all of New England loved. He didn't let fame or money change him. Still lived in Indiana in the off-season and worked on his own property, didn't hire people to cut his grass, he did. In 1985 he hurt his back working on a driveway for his mother. That just would never happen with today's athletes. Larry was a different dude. 12 time All-Star. Three time NBA Champion. Three time MVP. One of the best players in Celtics history, I simply cannot explain in words how great Larry Bird was. He was great shooter and even bigger shit talker, there's a reason they call him Larry Legend. Congrats on 60 Larry. Happy Birthday, Larry.
I didn't want to have to write this blog for many obvious reasons. I'm sure my friends will text our group chat and make fun of me for this kind of "suspect" blog, but I'm used to that. I'm a lightning rod. If it wasn't for this it'd be for something else. That's what happens when you're an electric person like I am. I'm used to it. It's the cross I bare. It comes with the territory. Sometimes you gotta tackle the uncomfortable subjects and that's what I'm going to attempt to do here. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever for people to walking around a locker room naked. None. Now I get it, if you are changing after the shower you're going to be naked and I guess that's whatever. Do what you gotta do. I played two sports in high school (no big deal) I know how it goes. That's totally fine. No issue with that. If you wanna shower after the gym be my guest. I'm more of a do it when I get home guy but that's just because I'm a normal person. What really makes me uncomfortable and frankly don't understand the reason for it is these dudes, some of whom are not even that old just walking around a very small locker room ass naked for no reason. I don't want to see that and do my best to avoid it but sometimes there's nothing you can do. Just because it's a locker room doesn't mean you have to be naked, especially in situations where you don't need to be. Like why are you at the urinal naked? Or washing your hands naked? Or watching TV naked? There is no need for that. We aren't in France at a nude beach dude, throw on a towel. It's like they're shoving down your throat the fact that they're naked. Like aggresively naked. Bro we live in a society with rules. Have you ever heard of over kill? Sure it's okay to shoot someone once for "self-defense" but when you put 29 bullets in them it's hard to make the same argument. Same with nuidty in the lockeroom. If you need to undress to jump in the shower, fine do it. But you don't need to strip down, watch 10 minutes of sportscenter, talk to someone, take a shit, read the paper and brush your teeth naked in a public place. Get undressed, throw on a towel, walk to the shower and go in. Not that hard of concept. When I go into the bathroom to take my mid-work out shit I don't want to be washing my hands next to a mid 60's naked dude. Sorry. Something needs to be done. The times they are a changing. I think the days of being able to roam free in the locker room naked need to end and need to end now. Here is what I'm proposing. You cannot be naked for over 30 seconds at a time in the lockerroom. Start fining people or something. Give me a reason why that's a bad idea. That gives you plenty of time to dry off and throw on some underwear or a towel after a shower. Anything longer than that and you're trying to put on a show and I don't need any part of that in the locker room. When I'm working out I don't even want to talk to people, it's my time to listen to some music and go on the elipitcal for a little while so I can feel like guilty when I drink 9 beers and eat a pizza on a Friday night. So I definitely don't want to accidently see your grandpa's balls. I don't want to walk into the locker room bathroom and be bombarded by naked dudes when I'm taking a piss. I just don't. If you disagree with me you're the weird one. 30 seconds is more than enough time. |
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