Xpinionated

I finished my first Sudoku puzzle!!!

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FOX Sports - World Baseball Classic- U.S. no longer envy of baseball world

Time for all those American kids to stop playing video games, not to mention football, basketball and soccer.

Of course, Xpinionated is going to have a completely different spin on this. And the title was just to get your attention…

A while back when the U.S. basketball team came up with only a bronze in the world championship, every sports fan and media pundit blamed the performance on players not wanting to play, too much thuggery on the team, a lack of patriotism, the crybaby players et al

Now the U.S. baseball team is sucking arse at the inaugural WBC, but you don’t hear cries about overpaid athletes, or why aren’t the best players showing up for their country. You hear none of the negative talk about the players that followed the U.S. basketball team….why is that?

I’ll have to pull that whole race card on this one. The reason sports fans in this country are so quick to criticize the NBA over any other sport is because of the visibility of it’s athletes and it’s counter-culture of the players when compared to the fan-base. You’ve got a league that is approximately populated with 90% black players whose fanbase is far from 90% black. Football is probably the closest in terms of volume of black players but they have helmets and shoulder pads so their blackness isn’t as evident to the casual suburban fan who enjoys soft rock and a day out on the boat. With baseball, however, the players look mostly like the fans. A majority of baseball players are not tatted up, don’t have cornrows, look like your average person even down to their athletic(and I use that so sparingly) build. So to insult and blame a baseball player is almost like blaming the guy in the mirror….not the case with B-ball.

I am very irritable as well as irritated. I don’t know why. I think I’m kind of bored and when I’m bored I’m irritable. I guess I’m in a funk and it ain’t the p-funk.

A list of irritations as follows:
1) Q100 - Most ridiculously irritating, relationship destroying, male-bashing, pop whore of a station ever experienced.

2) Work - As challenging right now as saying the alphabet backward (which I’ve practiced so it’s not that hard).

3) Social Life - I guess it’s because I’m not really looking forward to anything right now. For the past week or so I think I’m most excited about a beer and cigar to end the night….

4) Corporate America - Watching corporate america is like watching an adult movie you’ve seen before…the poor workers just keep getting it and getting it….

5) My Blog - I have tried to keep it relatively clean because my folks read it as well as some other folks that I would never use adult language in front of. However, I find that instead of using less abrasive language, I simply don’t blog. So this is a warning to easily offended folks. Language and topics may very well be varying in degree of adultiveness!

6) My Watering Hole - They wait until the weather starts to warm up to enclose the balcony?!?!? People want to sit outside now!

7) Television - I can’t wait until Primetime gets that thing we used to have back in the day…what was it called….uh, oh yeah originality. Quite frankly, virtually every show is either a) a teeny-bopper oh-my-god-I-can’t-believe-my-life-in-high-school-is-soooo-bad show, b) a reality show that would make you believe 98% of America is caucasion, athletically built, romantically available, and well-employed, c) a show where somebody is killed by an obvious person or for an obvious reason but in the end nothing is as obvious as it seems, or d) a ‘God, please don’t let me ever go to the hospital’ medical show with more behind-the-scenes-and-would-affect-the-patient’s-life drama than can be imagined. Grey’s Anatomy is not included in this. Actually it is, but it has grown on me….

I think a lot of it is waking up and having negative desire to go to work. I know, life and work is what you make it. But I could use a little assistance……

ESPN.com - MORESPORTS - Mayor opposes nude cycling race on safety grounds

The mayor of a New Zealand town wants a nude cycling race to be called off because the participants won’t be wearing helmets.

Can you imagine how uncomfortable a bike seat must be without the comfort of clothing….not to mention the sweaty stench of balls that will forever be left in the material on the bike seat.

Yeah I’m bored again.