Annoying sports stuff...Part 1

I'm going to list some things in sports that are really annoying in no particular order.

*The commercial breaks before and after a kickoff in football- Touchdown, 5 minutes of commercials, 20 seconds for the kickoff, 3 more minutes of commercials...why?

*Baseball players in the dugout- Whenever they cut to a shot of a player in the dugout he's either spitting something onto the floor or fondling himself.

*The soccer announcer (Andres Cantor) on Telemundo- he screams goal for waaaaaaaaaaaaay too long. (This is the only video I could find, skip ahead to 1:15)

*John Madden drawing penises on the screen- wtf???

*Dikembe Mutombo's voice- ok, it's kinda funny.

*Greg Oden's 85-year old face- he's actually in his early twenties.

*Quarterbacks licking their fingers in between plays- what's the point of that? That's just not sanitary.

I just can't quit you, Raiders

*Huge Sigh*

Three wins in 14 games, last Sunday I was drenched for the whole first half of the game vs the Patriots only to watch the defending AFC champions double up the score on my Raiders. Oh, by the way, I'm picking up the tickets for next week's game vs the Texans in the next couple days. Like I said in the title, I just can't quit them.

But I didn't decide to write this to talk about what has happened this year, I'm writing this because I've been reading a lot about what the Raiders could do over the season. It's so sad because I do this every single year. I get my hopes up, the Raiders stunk up the season, I dream about all the moves they could do to improve for the next year, the offseason rolls by and I'm excited about some rookie or free agent they picked up, then the Raiders crush my dreams again and end up with a record of 4-12. So here I am again, thinking about what the Raiders will do again. Somebody needs to help me.

First order of business is Nnamdi Asomugha. Former California Golden Bear, arguably the best cornerback in the entire NFL, and by far the best player on the Raiders over the past few years. This is going to be crazy because there are so many different thinks that could happen depending on how the team feels and on how Nnamdi feels, Nnamdi of course is in the last year of his contract. I would love to see Oakland re-sign him, he really deserves any amount of money he wants because he's been that good for us. Nnamdi himself would actually have to want to stay though for them to re-sign him. Even if they were able to lock him up long term they would have some decisions to make. I was reading ESPN columnist Bill Williamson's blog and he mentioned the chance that the Raiders actually try and trade Asomugha. I quickly dismissed the possibility, but then I really began to think about it and it might not be that bad of an idea. The argument that Williamson made was that although he's been the best player on the team, he obviously hasn't been helping the team because they've been in the cellar of the NFL for the past six years. He also mentioned how the KC Chiefs traded their best defensive player for and first round pick and two second round picks earlier this year. Why wouldn't the Raiders want to do that? They could trade him to a Super Bowl contending team and recieve a mid to late first round pick, which is exactly what they need. They could get even more picks by trading their top 10 pick, they probably wouldn't be able to sign a guy like that anyway. With all those draft picks they could try to adress their needs at wide-out, defensive and offensive tackle, and maybe an outside linebacker. They could also use a few defensive backs, but please no high round picks, they never seem to work out (not since Nnamdi at least). Well, I'll try to enjoy these last two games of the season as best as I can, and I'll start the countdown for the April draft right after the Super Bowl.

Just Win Baby...

To All Hater Haters

This is something I noticed a while ago, some people somehow have it in their head that they are "hated" on. I understand that there are some people who indeed wish misfortunes unto others for reasons rooted by jealousy or just pure malice. But how often is this the case. Let's just say that I'm a 19 year old male, working at an automotive paint store, going to community college, and on my myspace or facebook profile I post all these things about "haters" and how I see them hating and they can kiss my ass and I'm not going to let them affect me. First of all, just by acknowledging them I'm showing they are affecting in at least the smallest way, but that's really besides. Now, what in this huge dome of mine is making me believe that there are actually people out there talking behind my back simply due to the fact that I'm such a great person and I'm leading such a fantastic life? If anybody is hating on me it's probably for a reason, right? So, if I do something bad to someone is he/she allowed to hate me? I would think so. Then that person wouldn't really qualify as a hater because he/she would have a pretty good reason to feel that way towards me. So if I haven't done anything to anyone then chances are there's nobody out there hoping I fall down some stairs because I'm so awesome, granted that I'm sure plenty of guys wish they had a face as pretty as mine. So, basically what I'm trying to say is that if you have haters you probably deserve them, and if you don't have haters stop pretending that you do to make yourself feel special. Haven't you noticed that everyone is "hated on", but nobody ever says,"Yeah, I hate on people for no particular reason, that's just what I do." Where are those people?

So, I went to the Raiders game yesterday. We got soaked, and the team got spanked. I'll be surprised if there's even 30,000 fans at the next game, which would only fill up about half of the coliseum anyway. At least I got my girlfriend to go with me, even though she's a 49ers fan. It's cool though. I'm going to try to get her to wear black or something, that way she can just blend in with everybody else. She said she's going to wear red, which is one of the Texans' colors, but it probably wouldn't be that big of a deal anyway, nobody is going to beat her up, except for me maybe.

I SEE YOU HATERS!!!

Fuck You, Antonio Bryant, Fuck You!

I'm up by 26 points? But he has Antonio Bryant left so don't get too confident. Well, he's only scored 20+ points like once this year, I pretty much have this game in the bag. Don't brag yet though, not until the game is over. Let's just take a peak at Mando's roster for next week, that won't hurt right? He's the first seed, but I did beat him once this season, so I know it can be done. Well let's see Bryant's stats. What? Nine catches, 200 yards, and two touchdowns? Damn you Football Gods!!!

Ya, that was me on Monday. I lost to my brother in the first week of the Fantasy Football playoffs thanks to Bryant. He needed a good game from Bryant, instead of a good game, he gave my brother one of the best performances by a reciever this entire season. I still don't think I'm over it. You might be saying, "Stupid Nerd, fantasy football doesn't matter, it's just a game." Yeah, well there's about 160 dollars that goes to the winner of the league, so you shut your face right now! Now let me explain who I blame for this, the Football Gods! Yes, they exist and they are vengeful beyond your wildest dreams. They exact punishment on anyone who dares challenge the honor of the sport. If a team runs up the score unecessarily, the gods will strike down the offendor. If a team breaks the rules of the game (that means you Patriots!), they will smitten with the force of 1,000 Sebastian Janikowski kick offs. Let me give you an example: the Patriots were caught cheating, so what was their punishment? Their fans were treated to the first 17-0 regular season in the history of the NFL, only to see their team crumble at the likes of the huge underdogs, the NY Giants. But wait, there's more! In a game where they should have won by 21+ points, they lose their "flawless" (except he's a jerk) to an injured knee, and even after that Tom Brady has complications with surgery and has to get opperated like three times, don't mess with the football gods!

Now let me thank Xio for convincing me to (threatening to hurt me if I didn't) start this blog. I stopped writing on myspace a while ago, and honestly this feels a lot better. So thanks, Xio, you're a credit to the Salvadorean species. Compliment burn! Anyway, I hoping update this every once in a while so that my readers (probably Xio, Jose, and maybe Cecily, Lindy, and Luis) can stay informed of everything that goes through this huge dome I have for a head, because I'm sure they care so much.

I'm going to take the time now to tell everybody to visit myspace.com/chiruli8907 to hear some slaps. That's right, they slap. Let me also explain why some people actually call me Chiruli. Well, my cousin used to work here at Berkeley Color (call Berkeley Color for all your automotive finishing needs!) and he liked to clown on everyone, constantly. He would complain that I mumbled, so he couldn't understand me. He would say that all he heard coming out of my mouth was "chiruli, chiruli, chiruli", so that's what he started calling me. By the way it's pronounced(Chee-Roo-Lee), but you have to roll the R, if you can't it's cool though. I'm going to stop writing now because if there's anything I've learned about blogging, it's that if you write too much your friends will pretend that they read it and tell you you're awesome just to preserve your feelings, but some don't even do that.

As Bobbie would say, "This real life son!"