Friday, April 23, 2010

Best NFL Draft Analysis of 2010

Apparently, after the first round, NFL teams begin picking robots for quarterbacks, because according to the analyst at Fox, only 13% of quarterbacks picked after the first round are real, live players:


Sunday, April 18, 2010

Yes, Print is Dead

And I'm not upset at all, seeing as to how I've been waiting 10 weeks for my ESPN Magazine subscription to arrive at my apartment. Why does it take so long for you to get your first issue of a magazine? Good riddance.

But I digress. The reason print is dead is because news is even more of a commodity now than it was before the advent of tools like Twitter. When is the last time you read a game recap story in the newspaper? By the time it's written up in the paper, I already know exactly what happened and who scored what. If I'm looking at live game scores and a player gets taken out, I can search Twitter for injury updates immediately, instead of waiting for a wire update. Newspapers should focus on the one thing they do well - investigative stories that I wouldn't have known to look for.

Friday, April 09, 2010

Will You Guys Stop Getting So Fat? Thanks.

Everyone who has ever seen me knows that I am fairly skinny. Or wiry, if you must be precise. I used to be able to get by with buying size "Medium" clothes, which usually fit pretty well. But just like in women's clothing, where some manufacturers will make their size "2" the equivalent of another manufacturer's size "4" to make women feel better about themselves, today's "Medium" is yesterday's "Large." I've had to start buying size small, because medium has gotten so huge. And that's worked pretty well for the last year or so.

So the other day I bought the most awesome shirt I'd ever seen, a team shirt for the minor league Richmond Flying Squirrels:


Awesome, right? Too bad even though it's a size small, it looks like a fucking nightgown on me! And I may be skinny, but I'm 5'10" and it still goes down to the middle of my thighs. Size small!

So America, please stop getting so fat. I'd like to be able to buy clothes that fit once in a while.

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