1. When sports announcers continuously use really gay nicknames for players on national broadcasts. His name is David Ortiz, not "big papi". Jose Valverde not "Papa Grande". Have some class call the guy buy his name.
2. Stadiums that hand out towels, handkerchiefs, thunderstix, or anything else that is obnoxiously waved around during games.
3. The Angels rally monkey. Damn thing pisses me the hell off jumping around like he's gonna do something. If I was a closer pitching against them and that thing came on I'd immediately bean the next player no questions asked.
4. The new Yankee Stadium. Place has no emotion to it anymore. Best 15 rows are all corporate tickets, no real fans in the stadium anymore. Watching the playoffs this year half the seats are empty, people getting up and leaving a PLAYOFF GAME just because it starts drizzling. Once Mo and Posada retire that team is going downhill fast.
5. Preseason football. Four weeks of games that have absolutely no relevance to how the team will look during the season. Starters play half the game max, but tickets are still full price. F that, those games should be free first come first served.
6. The fact that NFL Sunday Ticket is only on Directv. First of all, F You directv, your bs satellite signal goes out if it's raining anywhere on the eastern seaboard. And forget it if you live in an apartment building, can't even get it installed. While we're on the topic, the fact that I can't get NFL Network on Time Warner Cable even though I'm fully willing to pay for it.
7. The NBA. Everything about it before the playoffs is complete horseshit. There's no defense at all, everything is one on one streetball garbage, and the entire game is decided in the last 30 seconds. Only thing worse is the WNBA, but that's not even worthy of a separate bullet point.
8. 3D TV's. Get the F out of here, there is no way this catches on and I sit around my living room wearing funky glasses while watching the game. Isn't HD good enough?
9. College basketball is great, it really is. Only downside here is losing a bet that you had covering the entire game on some last second bullshit foul and free throw that rims out to some guy who gets the rebound and puts it back in.
10. I'll leave this one open for you to fill in, there's gotta be more that I missed.
2. Stadiums that hand out towels, handkerchiefs, thunderstix, or anything else that is obnoxiously waved around during games.
3. The Angels rally monkey. Damn thing pisses me the hell off jumping around like he's gonna do something. If I was a closer pitching against them and that thing came on I'd immediately bean the next player no questions asked.
4. The new Yankee Stadium. Place has no emotion to it anymore. Best 15 rows are all corporate tickets, no real fans in the stadium anymore. Watching the playoffs this year half the seats are empty, people getting up and leaving a PLAYOFF GAME just because it starts drizzling. Once Mo and Posada retire that team is going downhill fast.
5. Preseason football. Four weeks of games that have absolutely no relevance to how the team will look during the season. Starters play half the game max, but tickets are still full price. F that, those games should be free first come first served.
6. The fact that NFL Sunday Ticket is only on Directv. First of all, F You directv, your bs satellite signal goes out if it's raining anywhere on the eastern seaboard. And forget it if you live in an apartment building, can't even get it installed. While we're on the topic, the fact that I can't get NFL Network on Time Warner Cable even though I'm fully willing to pay for it.
7. The NBA. Everything about it before the playoffs is complete horseshit. There's no defense at all, everything is one on one streetball garbage, and the entire game is decided in the last 30 seconds. Only thing worse is the WNBA, but that's not even worthy of a separate bullet point.
8. 3D TV's. Get the F out of here, there is no way this catches on and I sit around my living room wearing funky glasses while watching the game. Isn't HD good enough?
9. College basketball is great, it really is. Only downside here is losing a bet that you had covering the entire game on some last second bullshit foul and free throw that rims out to some guy who gets the rebound and puts it back in.
10. I'll leave this one open for you to fill in, there's gotta be more that I missed.
