SO... Anyone who is high, or just an idiot and thinks that Kobe Bryant deserves great accolades showered upon him needs to wake up and unfuck their minds. I had a friend argue that the NBA since Jordan has improved and that Kobe was a better player. I was so angry I could hardly think. He thought that the athletes are SO much better conditioned and of such higher quality. I can't figure out how that's possible. All I know is that the 97-98 Bulls still destroy every team in the NBA without trouble.
Jordan is the greatest player to ever lace-up basketball shoes, end of story. He holds the career highest scoring percentage, but more importantly utterly dominated the NBA during his career. He started out as just being unstoppable himself. You can slurp Jordan's unreal career stats (30.1 PPG, 6.2 RPG's, 5.3 AST, and VERY underrated 2.3 SPG), but his winning is just unreal. He never had a Shaq, he had Luc Longley, Bill Cartwright, and if you want to get technical and call Dennis Rodman a "Big Man" you can count him. Kobe has been surrounded with twice the talent his entire career. Try running the Triangle O with Luc Longley instead of Pau Gasol and let's see how Kobe does. It took Kobe until he was 30 to figure out he's a selfish prick of a player and that his teammates need to ball to do anything.
Lebron James has a legitimate shot to be better than Jordan if he can approach his off-season work ethic, which is unmatched. King James is a physical freak that still has uncanny feel for the game. His career stats are unreal and he already is realizing he needs to step up his D to make his team legitimate. Jordan was simply smarter, and worked harder than everyone else all the time to be the greatest. Jordan played GREAT defense, and inspired teammates with his drive. The athletes may have become more talented overall (questionable), but there's no doubt that defense and core competency have taken steps back (undeniable). Grabbing kids out of college vs. having them stick around for a few years and learn something has taken a toll on the game. The NBA had to institute rules to make scoring easier, see the new handcheck rule that would have made Jordan drop 50 a game. The Piston's committed flagrant 1 fouls vs. Jordan every time he drove the lane, with the new rules Jordan would absolutely be and unstoppable force.
Here's your parting shot to take stock in. Allen Iverson has averaged more points per game than Kobe. I argue that with a real player in the post (Shaq, Gasol, pretty much anyone besides Derrick Coleman, Matt Geiger, and Theo Ratliff), or even another teammate with a lot of talent and he could've done the EXACT same thing. It clearly isn't about scoring, but I'm just saying Kobe's always been surrounded by talent being a Laker, that's totally undeniable, he's just failed to do anything with it since forcing the best thing to happen to him since an acquittal out of town.
Friday, May 29, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Terminator Certainly not a Source of Salvation
So I continued my senseless and shameless viewing of all Summer blockbusters with a viewing of Terminator: Salvation. It was a decent film that would be great if you are an imbecile. There are just glaring plot holes that just cannot be looked past.
There is some very good action that avoids the miserable jump-cuts that have been the rage ever since Batman Begins. That was going to be the source of an entire post, how miserable I am that I have to take Dramamine before watching most "action" movies. Every time a punch is thrown you don't need to cut to someone going flying through the air. Any fuckclown hack can do a fight scene like that, good directors can actually film an entire scene. I don't know if it's because they have to hide that stunt doubles do all the real work or what, but it severely pisses me off.
The movie is very intense and doesn't give you a lot of time to think about how glaringly stupid much of the film is. It's dumber than drunken short bus students. I won't ruin it for you, but for being heartless killing machines, Terminators often seem more interested in playing handball with John Connor's body than actually killing him. They like to use him to ruin drywall more than just snapping him in half, which they are more than capable of doing. That's a minor squabble, there are much bigger glaring plot holes that hit you in the face like the stench of rotting roadkill.
I dissect things a little more than most, but you can't help but ask yourself why the fuck didn't they just do this instead? You can still see the film and be entertained for $7.50, what a special matinee price that is, but you certainly won't be in the wrong saving yourself the cash and waiting. Moon Bloodgood is pretty cool and hot, so that's a plus. Bryce whatever his name is does a pretty good job of being a badass, which bodes well for him since Vin Diesel likes to do Nanny films instead of being the toughest 5' 6" guy you know. The film is shot gritty, which is pretty cool, but I just can't look past the same stupid shit in every action movie that's not well written.
Bottom line: 6.5 out of 10. Hopefully they come out with a director's cut with Moon Bloodgood's nude scene put back in and more realism. I think there's like 4 swear words in it, it's war, not a game of Scrabble.
There is some very good action that avoids the miserable jump-cuts that have been the rage ever since Batman Begins. That was going to be the source of an entire post, how miserable I am that I have to take Dramamine before watching most "action" movies. Every time a punch is thrown you don't need to cut to someone going flying through the air. Any fuckclown hack can do a fight scene like that, good directors can actually film an entire scene. I don't know if it's because they have to hide that stunt doubles do all the real work or what, but it severely pisses me off.
The movie is very intense and doesn't give you a lot of time to think about how glaringly stupid much of the film is. It's dumber than drunken short bus students. I won't ruin it for you, but for being heartless killing machines, Terminators often seem more interested in playing handball with John Connor's body than actually killing him. They like to use him to ruin drywall more than just snapping him in half, which they are more than capable of doing. That's a minor squabble, there are much bigger glaring plot holes that hit you in the face like the stench of rotting roadkill.
I dissect things a little more than most, but you can't help but ask yourself why the fuck didn't they just do this instead? You can still see the film and be entertained for $7.50, what a special matinee price that is, but you certainly won't be in the wrong saving yourself the cash and waiting. Moon Bloodgood is pretty cool and hot, so that's a plus. Bryce whatever his name is does a pretty good job of being a badass, which bodes well for him since Vin Diesel likes to do Nanny films instead of being the toughest 5' 6" guy you know. The film is shot gritty, which is pretty cool, but I just can't look past the same stupid shit in every action movie that's not well written.
Bottom line: 6.5 out of 10. Hopefully they come out with a director's cut with Moon Bloodgood's nude scene put back in and more realism. I think there's like 4 swear words in it, it's war, not a game of Scrabble.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Advice for Graduates, probably more honest than most
SO... I graduated last December, making it 1.5 years since I last was a college student. I'll share the limited wisdom I've gathered since I've been in the "real world"
Find A JOB: This may mean it isn't your ideal job, but guess what? That job doesn't exist with no experience. Get some experience in something related and prove yourself as much as possible. Your first job won't be that great probably, but just do your absolute best and move on when something better comes its way. Bottom line you aren't entitled to anything just because you have a sheet of paper from a University.
Call in some favors: You know people, ask them for some help. Maybe it's a friend who's parent is in a field you're going into, ask them for advice. At this point just about everyone in the world knows more about having a job than you do. It's not going to be easy finding a job right now, so every little bit helps. There's no shame at this point in asking someone to put in a good word for you, even if it's your mom/dad. This helps with point A, getting a job.
Life will get boring: Guess what? With a job responsibility will follow. You have to show up every day, Monday-Friday, perhaps more and just do work. Showing up hungover, or calling in sick without being VERY sick is just bullshit that will be viewed as weakness/ not caring. You aren't going to do fun things, because your job is priority numero uno, without it you are a miserable statistic with no source of income, AKA welcome back to MomandDadVille.
Kiss ass: Know who signs the paycheck and who has that person's ear. If people like you it makes it a lot harder to fire you, but easier to promote you. Don't be excessive about, if it becomes obvious it will have an adverse effect. A good barometer is if other people you work with mention you being a suck-up, you're probably laying it on a little thick.
There is no shame with having to go back home for awhile, but don't use it as an excuse to be lazy and do nothing. The longer you go without a job from college, the more people will question why someone didn't hire you earlier.
Work hard: There is no substitute for being on-time, reliable, and working hard. It's real simple, but very important. Keep your nose clean and get after it.
Interview as much as possible: With every "failure", you'll probably learn something. It doesn't hurt to ask them why you weren't hired. You'll probably hear lack of experience a lot, so get used to it.
It isn't much, but good luck to you and I hope it helps some. Real advice? Go back to grad school in something and prolong the horror that awaits you.
Find A JOB: This may mean it isn't your ideal job, but guess what? That job doesn't exist with no experience. Get some experience in something related and prove yourself as much as possible. Your first job won't be that great probably, but just do your absolute best and move on when something better comes its way. Bottom line you aren't entitled to anything just because you have a sheet of paper from a University.
Call in some favors: You know people, ask them for some help. Maybe it's a friend who's parent is in a field you're going into, ask them for advice. At this point just about everyone in the world knows more about having a job than you do. It's not going to be easy finding a job right now, so every little bit helps. There's no shame at this point in asking someone to put in a good word for you, even if it's your mom/dad. This helps with point A, getting a job.
Life will get boring: Guess what? With a job responsibility will follow. You have to show up every day, Monday-Friday, perhaps more and just do work. Showing up hungover, or calling in sick without being VERY sick is just bullshit that will be viewed as weakness/ not caring. You aren't going to do fun things, because your job is priority numero uno, without it you are a miserable statistic with no source of income, AKA welcome back to MomandDadVille.
Kiss ass: Know who signs the paycheck and who has that person's ear. If people like you it makes it a lot harder to fire you, but easier to promote you. Don't be excessive about, if it becomes obvious it will have an adverse effect. A good barometer is if other people you work with mention you being a suck-up, you're probably laying it on a little thick.
There is no shame with having to go back home for awhile, but don't use it as an excuse to be lazy and do nothing. The longer you go without a job from college, the more people will question why someone didn't hire you earlier.
Work hard: There is no substitute for being on-time, reliable, and working hard. It's real simple, but very important. Keep your nose clean and get after it.
Interview as much as possible: With every "failure", you'll probably learn something. It doesn't hurt to ask them why you weren't hired. You'll probably hear lack of experience a lot, so get used to it.
It isn't much, but good luck to you and I hope it helps some. Real advice? Go back to grad school in something and prolong the horror that awaits you.
Playoffs? You kidding me, PLAYOFFS?
We are at another great time in Sports where we're separating the wheat from the chaff in the NHL and NBA and in the heat of things for baseball, though it lasts 162 games, which really helps to diminish the luster. The summer movie season has officially started with the arrival of Wolverine and Star Trek, both are decent, Star Trek being a little better if you have to decide and don't want to toss a coin.
Playoff hockey is very good to watch. They fight for every inch of the ice, I'm just a little depressed that fighting takes an ENORMOUS drop in the playoffs, AKA it doesn't happen. I was watching the Bruins Hurricanes in OT for game 7 and was entertained the whole time. Give it a shot, only the best are left in the finals of the East and West, the Red Wings and Blackhawks is going to be great. I'm a little worried the Red Wings will have too much experience for the WAY younger and less experienced Blackhawks. On the other side you have the Penguins who tasted some Stanley Cup, but face another team that actually won it a few years back with Carolina. Both should be great series and worth at least a look. Hockey has improved ratings every year since the strike and has tried and succeeded in making itself faster and more entertaining. I should've posted predictions earlier, but I'll ride the Red Wings train, they just have so many quality players who have all been-there and done-that.
Basketball is looking like a no-surprise ratings wet-dream of Lebron Vs. Kobe. I wouldn't be opposed to that, but I do wish the Celtics had KG so the Cavs would have a real opponent in the Eastern Conference finals. Cavs haven't had to play many games keeping them pretty fresh, so I'll bet the fighting Lebron's to take out the Lakers in the finals. The Lakers certainly can lose to the Nuggets who have been playing great ball, but I think somehow/someway the Lakers will make the Finals and make sponsors happy. Cavs in 6 and que the Lebron being the greatest thing to put on two shoes ever hype.
In baseball news Fuck Manny Ramirez and lets go Crew. Manny Parra and Jeff Suppan have simultaneously started playing very well and the resurgeance of the offense in general has made the Brewers the class of the NL Central. All questions are answered for now, even bringing up Gamel for a real DH/ bench bat for the upcoming games vs. the AL. I was pretty skeptical, but for now the Cubs have some injuries and obvious closer problems that put them behind the Brewers, hopefully for the rest of the season.
Bottom Line: I'm just happy there's stuff to watch on TV.
Playoff hockey is very good to watch. They fight for every inch of the ice, I'm just a little depressed that fighting takes an ENORMOUS drop in the playoffs, AKA it doesn't happen. I was watching the Bruins Hurricanes in OT for game 7 and was entertained the whole time. Give it a shot, only the best are left in the finals of the East and West, the Red Wings and Blackhawks is going to be great. I'm a little worried the Red Wings will have too much experience for the WAY younger and less experienced Blackhawks. On the other side you have the Penguins who tasted some Stanley Cup, but face another team that actually won it a few years back with Carolina. Both should be great series and worth at least a look. Hockey has improved ratings every year since the strike and has tried and succeeded in making itself faster and more entertaining. I should've posted predictions earlier, but I'll ride the Red Wings train, they just have so many quality players who have all been-there and done-that.
Basketball is looking like a no-surprise ratings wet-dream of Lebron Vs. Kobe. I wouldn't be opposed to that, but I do wish the Celtics had KG so the Cavs would have a real opponent in the Eastern Conference finals. Cavs haven't had to play many games keeping them pretty fresh, so I'll bet the fighting Lebron's to take out the Lakers in the finals. The Lakers certainly can lose to the Nuggets who have been playing great ball, but I think somehow/someway the Lakers will make the Finals and make sponsors happy. Cavs in 6 and que the Lebron being the greatest thing to put on two shoes ever hype.
In baseball news Fuck Manny Ramirez and lets go Crew. Manny Parra and Jeff Suppan have simultaneously started playing very well and the resurgeance of the offense in general has made the Brewers the class of the NL Central. All questions are answered for now, even bringing up Gamel for a real DH/ bench bat for the upcoming games vs. the AL. I was pretty skeptical, but for now the Cubs have some injuries and obvious closer problems that put them behind the Brewers, hopefully for the rest of the season.
Bottom Line: I'm just happy there's stuff to watch on TV.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Rain Man
SO... having some mild food poisoning that makes leaving the house a bad idea I decided to watch some movies I dug through various $5 bins for that I haven't had a chance to. Rain Man was one that I figured I should see as a movie fan, considering it was Best Picture 1988. I was far from impressed.
It took 5 minutes for me to get sick of Tom Cruise's RAY YOU MAKE ME ANGRY WITH YOUR CONDITION rants and raves that just bored me. It never became entertaining or endearing watching Tom Cruise get angry at Dustin Hoffman. Normally that isn't such a big deal, but it's about 3/4 of the movie, which makes it about as much fun as pouring meat tenderizer in an open wound.
I was far from touched with the conclusion and closure of it all. How did this film win Best Picture? I'm not sooooo burnt out about $5, I can always just re-gift the damn thing or something, but the film won awards? In retrospect it was up against Dangerous Liasons (which you can catch on Showtime whenever you please), The Accidental Tourist, Mississippi Burning, and Working Girl. I guess it was a pretty bad year, but I'd be ashamed to put a stamp of critical acclaim on that thing.
I did watch "The Brotherhood of the Wolf", which I saw in the theatre when I was in high school and thought was really good. I was still very impressed with the action scenes and CGI stuff 10 years after the fact. The movie is in French, which is why you probably have never seen/ heard of it. It is a VERY good film with excellent action and a pretty good story to follow. Of course it gets out of hand at times, but there's a lot to like. The fight scenes are excellent, though the movie does get a bit boring and drug out at times, it's still worth viewing for sure.
I fast forwarded through most of "The Strangers" and thought it was standard suspenseful/ horror movie that sucks. I watched it in 25 minutes, I was far from impressed and maybe that's my fault for not paying much attention to it. For some reason I find it hard to believe that two people with a shotgun and knives in a home can be outwitted and overtaken by 3 teenagers in crappy masks. I feel like a horror movie should be made that's 15 minutes long and the tormentor gets shot and killed on sight, saving us all another hour and a half of crap.
Summation: Don't watch Rain Man or The Strangers, see "Brotherhood of the Wolf" if you like action movies with a plot.
It took 5 minutes for me to get sick of Tom Cruise's RAY YOU MAKE ME ANGRY WITH YOUR CONDITION rants and raves that just bored me. It never became entertaining or endearing watching Tom Cruise get angry at Dustin Hoffman. Normally that isn't such a big deal, but it's about 3/4 of the movie, which makes it about as much fun as pouring meat tenderizer in an open wound.
I was far from touched with the conclusion and closure of it all. How did this film win Best Picture? I'm not sooooo burnt out about $5, I can always just re-gift the damn thing or something, but the film won awards? In retrospect it was up against Dangerous Liasons (which you can catch on Showtime whenever you please), The Accidental Tourist, Mississippi Burning, and Working Girl. I guess it was a pretty bad year, but I'd be ashamed to put a stamp of critical acclaim on that thing.
I did watch "The Brotherhood of the Wolf", which I saw in the theatre when I was in high school and thought was really good. I was still very impressed with the action scenes and CGI stuff 10 years after the fact. The movie is in French, which is why you probably have never seen/ heard of it. It is a VERY good film with excellent action and a pretty good story to follow. Of course it gets out of hand at times, but there's a lot to like. The fight scenes are excellent, though the movie does get a bit boring and drug out at times, it's still worth viewing for sure.
I fast forwarded through most of "The Strangers" and thought it was standard suspenseful/ horror movie that sucks. I watched it in 25 minutes, I was far from impressed and maybe that's my fault for not paying much attention to it. For some reason I find it hard to believe that two people with a shotgun and knives in a home can be outwitted and overtaken by 3 teenagers in crappy masks. I feel like a horror movie should be made that's 15 minutes long and the tormentor gets shot and killed on sight, saving us all another hour and a half of crap.
Summation: Don't watch Rain Man or The Strangers, see "Brotherhood of the Wolf" if you like action movies with a plot.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Star Trek? YUP
Star Trek was similar to what Will Smith summer films used to be before he decided to stop making hundreds of millions for studios. It moves fast, is very entertaining, and did what it needed to do, make Star Trek less nerdy and boring. I'm a big fan of Patrick Stewart, but he's pretty limited in action scenes, as was most of the old Star Trek cast. They brought in some young actors who do a decent job, highlighted by Harold doing a little sword fighting. BIG fan of Zoe Saldana, she is astoundingly beautiful. Everyone does a pretty good job, Eric Bana is a little weird as a villan and he keeps up a crappy accent-like thing going on that confused me overall. He's still a pretty big badass who is convincing enough.
Bottom line it's an entertaining film made for summer. It has serious moments that really aren't dwelled upon, so the film keeps clicking along. You aren't kept thinking very long about plot holes. It's definitely worth a view if you like your standard summer film. Think Star Trek having babies with Men in Black. There's comedy and it pokes fun at itself while having good special effects and decent enough action scenes.
Recommendation: You certainly can wait to see this one, but it's better to see it in theatres for the full effect. Put your brain on cruise control and watch a film meant to be entertainment and nothing else. 7.5 out of 10, maybe closer to an 8.
Bottom line it's an entertaining film made for summer. It has serious moments that really aren't dwelled upon, so the film keeps clicking along. You aren't kept thinking very long about plot holes. It's definitely worth a view if you like your standard summer film. Think Star Trek having babies with Men in Black. There's comedy and it pokes fun at itself while having good special effects and decent enough action scenes.
Recommendation: You certainly can wait to see this one, but it's better to see it in theatres for the full effect. Put your brain on cruise control and watch a film meant to be entertainment and nothing else. 7.5 out of 10, maybe closer to an 8.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Manny being Manny, AKA a complete idiot
I used to love Manny and certainly was all over the Red Sox bandwagon, originally just because of pure unadulterated hatred for the Yankees, but I dug their vibe. I couldn't figure out why Manny and the Sox had a falling out so fast, but it certainly is looking less and less like a bad thing.
Manny has swung a great bat for so many years and the only substance I assumed he was on was copious amounts of weed, or some other mind-altering substance. Just another player that we all assumed was clean succumbs to a drug test, for a substance given to women right after pregnancy no less. The situation just continues to piss me off. It gets completely beaten to death via media, I'm certainly contributing now, but you can't help but wonder if anyone was clean. Everything is tainted it would seem and it's now guilty until proven innocent for everyone in baseball.
How many players cycle during the offseason and just don't use during the season? When players weren't being tested, how much more abuse was there? There is a slew of questions that we'll only find out at a death-bed confession probably, but I can't help but question everyoen in baseball at this point. It sucks thinking like that, but if Rafael Palmeiro was ripping 'roids, I just don't understand who you trust at this point. I just sincerely hope we're done hearing about players using, but that seems as likely as it raining $20 bills. Fuck Manny for making us re-live this bullshit.
Manny has swung a great bat for so many years and the only substance I assumed he was on was copious amounts of weed, or some other mind-altering substance. Just another player that we all assumed was clean succumbs to a drug test, for a substance given to women right after pregnancy no less. The situation just continues to piss me off. It gets completely beaten to death via media, I'm certainly contributing now, but you can't help but wonder if anyone was clean. Everything is tainted it would seem and it's now guilty until proven innocent for everyone in baseball.
How many players cycle during the offseason and just don't use during the season? When players weren't being tested, how much more abuse was there? There is a slew of questions that we'll only find out at a death-bed confession probably, but I can't help but question everyoen in baseball at this point. It sucks thinking like that, but if Rafael Palmeiro was ripping 'roids, I just don't understand who you trust at this point. I just sincerely hope we're done hearing about players using, but that seems as likely as it raining $20 bills. Fuck Manny for making us re-live this bullshit.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Brian "Killing you softly" Anderson and Dumber than Rocks Schroeder
We have to have near the worst commentators for any sport on FSN for the Brewers. We went from Matt Vasgersian, who hosts MLB TV (for the moment, more on this later), to Brian "I make big plays seem like a classical piano receital" Anderson. Tonight Braun hit a near bases clearing home run/ double off the right field fence and Anderson didn't raise his awful tone one iota. The guy was grabbed from the golf tour, known for it's near sphincter tightening excitement.
How the fuck did this guy win the job? You would think only so many people would accept sexual favors to allow career advancement on FSN, but you'd be wrong. He also tonight gave me the worst Dr. Evil impression ever, including the ones we used to do as kids when Dr. Evil was a relevant/funny reference. He said "Laser" over ten times and Rock was dumb enough to finally bite and go, "Is that Dr. Evil?" He had to beat the catch phrase to death his impression was so bad just so the village idiot could catch on. It was only a matter of time before I vented on this, and tonight I can hear the game unlike most nights and I have to unleash my anger.
Brian Anderson completely sucks at doing baseball. He went on talking about how a series of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Detroit Tigers will drum up people's thoughts of the 1908 World Series. Can you at least attempt to connect with your audience? He should have said "I'm a complete fucking nerdy/dorky/dweeby moron who will talk down to you because I did research on a useless topic and will use said research to sound smart and talk down to you." Let this failure do chess and golf and stay the fuck away from real sports. I could watch a bench clearing brawl and Brian may get excited enough to change his tone a little bit.
Rock Schroeder is the guy who was on the team, but never made enough money apparently, and the organization felt bad. Of course he's knowledgeable about baseball on most things, he played and was a catcher, usually regarded as the position that knows the most about baseball. He occasionally provides wisdom that we can get behind, but similar to Madden it is often lost in a sea of his really stupid comments. I'm not going to chart them, but if you watch the games he often loses even himself in stupidity. He often feels like being master of the obvious as well, which never gets annoying. Anderson certainly pulls this as well as I remember him after the Brewers walked two guys saying, "this sets up the triple play ball."
It also bothers me they are both enormous HOMERS, who will never talk badly about the Brewer's like they are blaspheming God. We all suffered through Ned Yost's questionable lineup decisions for years, I don't care if you support him his misuse of the bullpen and lineup cannot be questioned. Original thoughts are never sprung on us and I wish there was no delay so we could all listen to Uecker while muting these two chucklefucks.
How the fuck did this guy win the job? You would think only so many people would accept sexual favors to allow career advancement on FSN, but you'd be wrong. He also tonight gave me the worst Dr. Evil impression ever, including the ones we used to do as kids when Dr. Evil was a relevant/funny reference. He said "Laser" over ten times and Rock was dumb enough to finally bite and go, "Is that Dr. Evil?" He had to beat the catch phrase to death his impression was so bad just so the village idiot could catch on. It was only a matter of time before I vented on this, and tonight I can hear the game unlike most nights and I have to unleash my anger.
Brian Anderson completely sucks at doing baseball. He went on talking about how a series of the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Detroit Tigers will drum up people's thoughts of the 1908 World Series. Can you at least attempt to connect with your audience? He should have said "I'm a complete fucking nerdy/dorky/dweeby moron who will talk down to you because I did research on a useless topic and will use said research to sound smart and talk down to you." Let this failure do chess and golf and stay the fuck away from real sports. I could watch a bench clearing brawl and Brian may get excited enough to change his tone a little bit.
Rock Schroeder is the guy who was on the team, but never made enough money apparently, and the organization felt bad. Of course he's knowledgeable about baseball on most things, he played and was a catcher, usually regarded as the position that knows the most about baseball. He occasionally provides wisdom that we can get behind, but similar to Madden it is often lost in a sea of his really stupid comments. I'm not going to chart them, but if you watch the games he often loses even himself in stupidity. He often feels like being master of the obvious as well, which never gets annoying. Anderson certainly pulls this as well as I remember him after the Brewers walked two guys saying, "this sets up the triple play ball."
It also bothers me they are both enormous HOMERS, who will never talk badly about the Brewer's like they are blaspheming God. We all suffered through Ned Yost's questionable lineup decisions for years, I don't care if you support him his misuse of the bullpen and lineup cannot be questioned. Original thoughts are never sprung on us and I wish there was no delay so we could all listen to Uecker while muting these two chucklefucks.
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