Internet Petition – End the Wave
Posted: June 30, 2011 Filed under: Editorial 4 Comments »
HEY THEY STOOD UP NOW I WILL TOO....watch it go!
I love going to sporting events. To me, nothing beats getting in, finding your seat, settling in for the game and getting ready to drink that ever so special $8.00 Bud Light.
Invariably, one fan in every stadium has a dream. This dream is not seeing their favorite team win, their favorite player hit a home run, catch their foul ball or even watching their team plate the winning run. That dream, is to start the Wave.
Everyone who has gone to a sporting event outside of junior high sports has done the Wave. It’s very simple. You wait for the person to your left to stand up, raise their hands, yell nothing in particular (usually “yeah!’ or “whoohoo!”) and then sit back down. Then you watch 30,000+ people do the same thing you just did. It’s easy to do this, as virtually every sports stadium is some sort of circle, square or diamond where 360 degrees of vision isn’t too difficult to pull off.
One part of the stadium, usually the lower deck, gets ahead of the upper deck, which seems to confuse patrons on both levels. So, not only are they looking constantly at others just stand up or sit down, the two different Waves sends random stander-uppers to then do this out of order, which confuses the person to the left of them. This is usually laughed off, and a conversation starts about how they need to “sync it back up” so that it’s one continuous Wave again.
The section (and the patron) who originally started this wave always cheers more than the rest of the stadium, as they cheer the fact that they got everyone else to do this, and then they partake in the Wave themselves when it comes back around to them.
There is usually a time limit on the Wave. It lasts a minimum of half an inning (or the same time equivalent depending on the sport you are watching, so like a series on offense or defense on football, a few shifts in hockey, during a patented 3rd quarter run in a NBA game) and is usually stopped by one of two things.
- It just went on too long. Most attention spans are around 30 seconds, so the fact it lasted about 5-ish minutes is a little crazy,
- THE HOME TEAM IS DOING SOMETHING ON THE FIELD THAT PROBABLY WARRANTS YOUR ATTENTION.
Podcast #4 : 6-27-2011 Edition “The Argument”
Posted: June 28, 2011 Filed under: Boxing, General Announcements, Podcasts, Subjective Trivia, UFC | Tags: boxing, fight, lesnar, pacquiao, punch, street brawl, submit, UFC 1 Comment »Straight from our sweet Logitech (sell out) headsets to your computers, mobile handsets and PMP’s, the finest in home-brew editing and recording is back for your entertainment.
This was a side tangent during our last podcast (you can see the editing prowess we are already flexing here) on my last post, the Pacquiao vs. Lesnar subjective street brawl. Feel free to voice off here, or in the previous post. Be sure to vote, as there are important things in life. The outcome of a fight that will never happen is probably in everyone’s top ten.
There’s a few ways to get ahold of this 8 minutes of entertainment – first off, the RSS feed in the top right corner, our newly minted iTunesfeed (click here) as well as for the traditional browser play. Note, that if you go the iTunes route, sometimes that takes a day to refresh there. Steve needs to obviously pick up his game.
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Podcast #3 : 6-22-2011 Edition
Posted: June 23, 2011 Filed under: General Announcements, Podcasts | Tags: Bulls, chicago, dallas, Isaiah Thomas, Klay Thompson, mavericks, OKC, podcast, Ryan Leaf, ZombieSonics 3 Comments »Straight from our sweet Logitech (sell out) headsets to your computers, mobile handsets and PMP’s, the finest in home-brew editing and recording is back for your entertainment.
This episode takes you on an adventure with Venoy Overton, what’s up with NCAA baseball (yeah, we said base-ball) and a few other topics that will be honey to your eardrums.
There’s a few ways to get ahold of this 45 minutes of entertainment – first off, the RSS feed in the top right corner, our newly minted iTunesfeed (click here) as well as for the traditional browser play. Note, that if you go the iTunes route, sometimes that takes a day to refresh there. Steve needs to obviously pick up his game.
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The Problem With All-Star Voting
Posted: June 22, 2011 Filed under: MLB 2 Comments »
I have had a pretty large beef with Major League Baseball All-Star voting for a long time. It goes back to when Seattle hosted the MLB All-Star game at Safeco Field. Some of you might recall the Most Valuable Player that year, here’s a hint, he was trash that season. The answer is Cal Ripken, Jr. He hit .239 that season with 14 homeruns, 68 RBI’s and 0 stolen bases. Those stats would have people questioning any manager for playing that guy. They might as well have sent Shane Halter out to start at three bag. He hit .284 with 12 HR, 65 RBI and 3 SB. Would he have ever made an All-Star team with those stats? NO!
Manny Pacquiao vs. Lesnar
Posted: June 18, 2011 Filed under: Boxing, Polls, Subjective Trivia, UFC 5 Comments »The other day, I saw Daniel Tosh take a punch from Manny Pacquiao, right in the chin.
A right hook no less, and he is a southpaw. POW
Tosh was not wearing head gear, and the whole point of the skit was for him to take the punch just to see what would happen. You see Manny square him up, and probably put 40% behind a hook that knocks Tosh to the ground. For an extended period of time.
If you watch the slowmo, Tosh recoils ever so slightly as the hit comes in, and you can see that there is little exertion behind the throw that Manny is putting down. It appeared to me that he could have dislocated Tosh’s skull from his neck if he wanted to.
Now, I know that Tosh isn’t a trained fighter by any stretch of the imagination. He isn’t trained in anything besides how to make people laugh and make fun of others which is a talent that many of us enjoy. However, during a spirited discussion on a hungover Sunday at Chiptole, the discussion turned into “who could beat who” – the ultimate in subjective trivia.
This discussion escalated to my claim that Manny Pacquiao would be able to take Brock Lesnar in a fight. No rules, just a brawl to a knockout or a submit.
I have heard that I am crazy, that there is no way that he can even stand a chance considering that Manny is only 5′ 6″ and Lesnar is 6′ 4″, and probably outweighs Manny by about 100 pounds. I would say by sheer size alone, Manny would be an underdog. I can see that.
However, my argument is based on a few bullets, which I think gives a real fighter like Manny a one up on a guy like Brock Lesnar.
We are back! Sorry for the time off.
Posted: June 15, 2011 Filed under: General Announcements 4 Comments »
The wedding in Hawaii is over. Our boy Hoss is officially off the single-wagon. Our friends, Josh and Geoff, have gone back to their homes in Southern California. The new job routine is coming together. It is time to get on the grind. Dobbs and I will be doing a podcast this week. I haven’t told him yet, but he will be down. Read the rest of this entry »
