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Leave a Comment | Posted by Nine on November 16, 2009
I started thinking about the pre season college football polls today. You have TCU at #4 and Boise St. At #6, but I have to think Boise St. could be in that spot if not for a pre-season poll that put TCU arbitrarily ahead of them. That all only really matters is FSU manages to beat Florida and Auburn manages to beat Alabama. It’d be even better if my (drawn out of a hat) Texas Longhorns drop a game and you wind up with some combination of TCU/Cincinnati/Pittsburgh/Boise St. playing in the championship game. Basically I always want what’s worst for the BCS and this year gives us a very good chance at that if some of these shaky-looking top 3 teams will only stumble before the bowls are set.
As it stands, though, its bad for the BCS when you’re looking at 5 undefeated teams and a once-beaten SEC runner-up who only lost to the unbeaten #1 ranked SEC champion.
Otherwise, I’m going to have to get Modern Warfare 2 just because people will not stop telling me how incredibly great it is. And I’m personally really excited for Left 4 Dead 2. You know me and zombies. It’s a match made in purgatory. That’s an undead, not-really-alive-but-obviously-not-dead joke. And a strong one.
I did the photo shoot for the Neato Mosquito poster this past Saturday. It was fun and it went really well. We had a green screen in a suburban garage and that was the setting for what hopefully helps sell the movie to people. There’s a ton of pressure on my goofy face and a biscuit. We’ll see. Either way, it’s exciting to see what’s going to happen with this little piece of film.
I’m one of the few people left who like boxing and Saturday night convinced me that Floyd Mayweather Vs Manny Pacquiao is not that big a fight. It will be if it happens. Two million people will buy it on pay per view for 60 bucks a pop, people will pay thousands for good ringside seats, and it’ll be a huge event on a Saturday night. But the fight isn’t something you want to see if you like Mayweather and you saw what Pac Man did to Miguel Cotto on Saturday night.
Miguel Cotto is a perfectly game fighter with good speed and good power, but he couldn’t keep up, defend, counter, or hurt Manny Pacquiao.
Manny truly has everything you’d need to be the best fighter in the world. Anyone who beats him will have to slickly defend against his tenacity and relentless power punching, but also counter effectively enough to win on points. So you have to survive 12 rounds against his power, and find enough offense to win at least 7 of those rounds on points. Against a fast, slick fighter who can hardly be countered by anything. This is not going to be easy, not for Floyd Mayweather, and not even for someone like Sugar Ray Lewis or Marvin Hagler. It’s a fight built to suit Sugary Ray Robinson, but he’s dead and can’t very well take the fight in 2009.
I have an admission to make while I’m at it. I really, really hope I wind up with some Cirque du Soleil tickets for this weekend at the Bi-Lo Center. I’ve heard this Allegria show is very good and involves lots of high acts. And by high acts, I mean acts taking place many feet above the floor of the arena. Not stoned acts, at least as far as I know.
There is news that Brock Lesnar might never fight again due to some mysterious intestinal disorder that has him hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic and facing major surgery. I’m sure details will come out, though it all seems a little mysterious at the moment. What sucks is, that Brock Lesnar/Shane Carwin fight may never happen and UFC might be stuck putting up another interim championship in the heavyweight division. That’s too bad. The best possible outcome in the short term is a four-man tournament with Shane Carwin, Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, and Minotauro Nogueira. Then they’re gonna need a whole lot more heavyweights so I’d say it’s the right time to have all these monsters in the house on The Ultimate Fighter.
All in all, UFC is having a tough run of it right now. Even if Lesnar were healthy right now, Carwin would be out of the November 21st fight for sure and probably the January 2nd makeup date due to his MCL injury. Minotauro is out at the moment with yet another staph infection (don’t hang out in dirty Brazilian bath houses) and there’s still no one around to offer a legit challenge for the welterweight or middleweight titles. But they still have a slew of talented 205-pound fighters and some 155-pound fighters. But not much in between, or beyond 205.
Strikeforce, on the other hand, has managed to pick up the top heavyweight, a couple of top-tier light heavyweights like Gegard Mousasi, and even a couple of middlweights who’d be nice to see in the cage with Anderson Silva. And good for Strikeforce. I’m happy to have another game in town, as long as Dana White has better luck over the next few months and gets back to the quality shows he was putting on for the first 9 months of 2009.
We’ll start our 28-hour Big Ass Broadcast on Thursday. That’s an adventure in itself. I’m thinking we’re going to surprise a bunch of people this year and raise a huge total for Toys for Tots. And it’s all about the numbers where we’re concerned. That’s our pride as a P1 Family, but more importantly, it’s toys for kids to play with and not many things are more important to childhood than having toys to distract you from all the grown-up worries the rest of us are consumed by. I wish I could play Connect Four to get away sometimes. Or Hungry Hungry Hippos. I sort of want to roll around on the rug playing with some G.I. Joe’s right now. We could finally see who wins when G.I. Joe meets the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and exactly which side the Ghostbusters are really on.
See how much fun that is? That’s precisely why everyone who ever hears the Toys For Tots broadcast should be moved to stop by, say hello, and drop off at least one of those delightful new, unwrapped toys. Nothing you do all year will make you feel better.
Finally, a guy who never made NASCAR because he struggles with tight turns has managed to sling his weight around and get out of jail, though probably not for free.
John Ludwig, of crashing-his-Maserati-through-a-house-and-killing-the-homeowner-while-he-watched-TV-on-his-couch fame was sentenced today to a five-year suspended sentence (the most worthless thing possible) along with 3 years of probation (the second-most worthless thing possible) and 1000 hours of community service (hopefully cleaning septic tanks) while successfully avoiding any jail time beyond the 21 days he served when a reasonably sane judge rescinded bail and considered Ludwig a flight risk.
WYFF News 4 spoke to Thirteeth Circuit Public Defender John Mauldin:
“I believe that poor people have the right to be surprised, to complain and to question the handling of this case. There is an appearance that the type of justice that people get is different for rich and powerful people than it is for poor and disenfranchised people. It is critical that people have confidence in our system and that justice be equal.”
