All Praises to the PlayStation!

Back at school after a nice visit to Los Angeles. Favorite part to share with my nearly-nonexistent loyal readers: watching the writers strike. My brother put it best when he said, "they don't really have that hard-hat, lunch-pail image that gets to the public." Boy do they not. First, there is a gigantic lunch buffet next to the picket line outside CBS's Los Angeles studios, which takes away the necessity of the lunch-pail. Second, they don't put much time into it. Most started showing up at around noon (when traffic is definitely not as high), and they also only picket for about 4 hours tops per person. Of course, they probably have some witty remark to shoot back at me, but we all know they work for 10 hours a day, of which 7 hours is somehow taking a break.
I really don't think I could live in LA with the way ESPN fits into daily life. Basketball games at 4PM? I need to get home from work, silly Digger! And PTI at 2:30? No wonder kids from LA here at Penn have some unfamiliarity with what I consider ESPN's #2 program, even in front of MNF, NFL Countdown, and College Gameday.
Anyways, all hope is lost for Syracuse basketball. WVU fucked them up on Sunday, and never has any team been slowed by the mixture of slime from Bob Huggins' hair and sweat from his suit (http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/2008/01/bob-huggins-lau.html). So where to go from here? Hell, I'm still going to watch every game and be just as much of a fan, but I think tournament is going to be a hard path to get on for this team. Donte was like Bob Dylan on Sunday: not there. 3-12 from the field and only 10 points? I don't think he is going to be thinking about going pro if he has another performance like that. Carmelo could afford it because he was always able to bounce back, never putting up less than 20 points in consecutive games (besides the beginning of the tournament). And Scoop, isn't it really easy to score 18 when no one is guarding you? Well, now people are guarding you, so you better get that jumper going. Rutgers comes to the Dome tonight, and god damn am I worried.
Playoffs! I was 1-4 on Conference Championship participants. My bad. I thought Indy learned their lesson last year on how to win in the playoffs, but I was wrong. They learned how to win as an underdog, not as an overrated team. And Phillip Rivers? DBOTY mean douche bag of the year, and I think you'll win it for 2008.
Oh, man! TO! I almost forgot, but you really can't. He actually supported his quarterback after a terrible performance! I thought the apocalypse was coming. TO? Supportive of a teammate? Only talking to a Mexican reporter about his injury who probably can't understand him (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN8MtNEpy9U)? Wow. But seriously. After bashing Jeff Garcia and Donovan McNabb, TO puts his support behind Romo, who definitely made a terrible decision in going to Cabo with Jessica Simpson and the rest of her family of idiots. And Jason Witten. Romo cried like a baby to the refs, yelled at his offensive line, and was basically ineffective in the second half. Eli outperformed him...yes, Eli Manning, and it was definitely the 40 second touchdown drive that tied the game with 7 seconds left in the first half that turned the tide.
But back to TO. He always gets the embarrassing defeat from Garcia and McNabb. TO's criticism of McNabb was completely hypocritical in blaming Don for the Super Bowl loss. How about thanking him for getting you to the Super Bowl? You certainly didn't help in the NFC playoffs, even if you did have a towel and stood on top of a bench waving it. You didn't play football. TO can't take over a playoff game, and unless he has a good quarterback (Tony Romo is NOT that guy), maybe he could win some games. Imagine if he did play the whole playoffs for the Eagles that year. They could have been even better together in the Super Bowl with some familiarity, and we'd be talking about an Eagles title. And the past two years, McNabb and Garcia, as Eagles quarterbacks, have terrorized Owens in games at Dallas. McNabb helped start the slide that led to Dallas' playoff exit this year with the 10-6 win in Week 15. And Garcia quarterbacked the blowout that made Tony Romo look like he needed more Pepsi Max last year. In conclusion, TO is not going to win a Super Bowl in Dallas unless Tony Romo is told to sit on a bonfire.
Everyone wants to write a movie about Brett Favre's season this year, so look for a script from Tony Kornheiser, Joe Buck, Mark Schlereth, and Sean Salisbury. Let's have the guys who directed Remember the Titans, Glory Road, We Are Marshall, and Radio direct it. It will be the biggest blockbuster in the history of sports movies. It will make Rocky look like he raped babies AND aborted fetuses. Look out for 2010's first hit movie, The Untitled Brett Favre Project, which will win 30 Oscars and get Jake Gyllenhaal his first Oscar and probably make people not think so much about Brokeback Mountain, but probably still think about Brokeback Mountain. Because JP Losman once said of Brett Favre, ""He invited me into the house for a little bit. There he was with his tight little shorts, no shirt and his little red hat. He was doing some farming or something. He was covered in dirt. It was awesome."

On that note, 'till tomorrow...do something else? But come back tomorrow...PLEASE.

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