A maybe sometimes regular or not who knows feature. CJ and I chatting on GTalk about sports. Hilarity (or not) ensues after the break.

CJ: Oh God, that’s right. I totally forgot about all the Pats “fans” (since I’m sure 90% of them didn’t know there was a team there until after the 2nd Super Bowl) mocking the Chargers last year because of Shawn Merriman. Hah!
Jason: hah yeah I had forgotten that too until I read it on StampedeBlue I think.
CJ: Also, if the White Sox make David freaking Eckstein their big free agent acquisition, my head will explode. <sigh>
Jason: lol yeahhh that’s JUST what they need. More hustle and grit!
CJ: That’s what this team needs! More small white guys who can’t hit the ball! It’s worked so well with Darren Erstadt and Scott Podsednick!
Jason: lol
CJ: Oh, sorry…. No Craphonso.
Jason: awww damn they cut Craphonso?
CJ: Yep…. Also cut former Purdue WR John Standeford, and the one that shocks me a bit, DeDe Dorsey.
Standeford was only on the practice squad last year, so that’s not really surprising, I just pay attention to him cause he went to Purdue.
Jason: wow that one is surprising. Standeford has been on the practice squad for what seems like 12 years
CJ: He’ll still probably wind up there though. These are the final cuts from the regular season roster.
Jason: DeDe getting cut isn’t a surprise. He looked kinda bad, which is surprising given that he was the one they were tlaking up before camp. I’ll have to check out the list. Did Kenton Keith make the team?
CJ: Yeah, which means he’s the #2 RB since Dorsey got cut.
Jason: cool. I like that guy.
CJ: He’s who I wanted to be the #2 RB anyway.
Watched football all day Saturday… By the way, can I send Lloyd Carr to your house after he spends a couple weeks on Mike & Jamie’s, then my couch? We figure we’re bound to get sick of him eventually.
Besides, we have to make some room for Charlie Weis if he drops another game at home by 30 points.
Jason: lol sure, we can let him rotate around our places. He’ll be fun to play Madden and NCAA 08 with at least. heh
okay now I don’t have the food budget for Charlie Weis. heh
CJ: Yeah, me neither.
That reminds me, I need to go to the SBT website today and see if the local sportswriters are calling for his head yet. “Why didn’t he start Jimmy Clausen” will be a theme I’m sure.
Jason: lol yeah it’ll be funny to see how quickly all the people who anointed him turn on him now.
CJ: Ahh, here we go. An FJM post mocking an article about how the Red Sox suck despite such silly indications that they don’t, like having the best record in baseball.
“As we all know, the World Series trophy is awarded every year to the team with the fieriest passions. Who will scream and yell and curse the most? Who will fill the dugout with tears of insanity? Who will give the most hugs? These are the questions that will be answered in October, when we once again crown The Most Emotional, And Therefore Best, Team In Baseball.” lmao
Oh God: “As far and as much as a fire for playing the game is concerned, the Yankees, Angels, and Indians all have to be considered superior American League squads.”
CJ: Hah, Yahoo Sports mistakingly reported that Ladell Betts was cut instead of Josh Betts, and the Redskins fans went (rightfully, if that had actually happened) insane.
Jason: lol
that is awesome
I think FJM is gonna be my first stop on my RSS reader now. wow.
CJ: I want to know how to compute a team’s Fire Rating now.
Jason: lol
but if you compute it as a statistic, then it would be useless because stats are for NERRRRRRRRDS
CJ: Maybe something like X points for a fist pump. Y points for a leap into the air, etc.
CJ: Really their last line sums it up: “Guys scream and pump their fists and point to the sky and give each other funny handshakes when they win. For the last time, it’s not the other way around.”
Jason: a friend of mine met Evander Holyfield at the Newark airport. She didn’t make any cracks about ears or anything though.
CJ: Hah
“This is like driving to school for the last two days. It’s like, ‘What do we come here for?’ That’s the way you feel about it. But as soon as you take the field, you have to play your game. You have a lot of things to play for.” -Ozzie Guillen. WTF does that even mean?
Jason: and what’s Holyfield doing flying commercial? Dude must be hard up. heh
I .. wow. that makes no sense at all.
CJ: Hope he at least flew 1st class.
Jason: Damn, 4 FJM posts for me to catch up on
“[Friend of Jason]: lol dude, that would have been marvelous…either that or spritz his ear w/some tabasco sauce as he walked by whilst licking your lips tehehehehe”
CJ: Hah
Jason: “25 reasons why tennis is better than college football:” Wuhhhhhh?
CJ: Ahh, the airport… Your average American’s best chance to come into contact with someone famous enough to recognize, but not so famous to be able to afford a private plane.
“Let me first say that I like both college football and tennis. I have never thought to compare the two, mainly because why would you ever compare the two? “
Heh
Jason: I am so pissed I was actually on the road during that Michigan/APp State game. I wish I could have watched that
CJ: You couldn’t have, as you don’t have DirecTV, and thus don’t have the new lameness, the Big Ten Network(R)(TM)!
This abomination will no doubt be responsible for me seeing no Purdue games this year.
Jason: oh. God damnit. I’m even more pissed now. The game that everyone is talking about and no one could watch it.
I hate to be on the side of the cable companies EVER, but I gotta say I am in this. Put it on the sports package.
CJ: This meant that ESPN couldn’t cut away from MSU’s blowout of (hell, I don’t even remember) in order to show it.
Especially since the only people who’d be excited enough about sports to want a station devoted to one college conference are the type of people who buy the sports package anyway.
Jason: yeah. it makes me feel dirty siding with cable companies though. heh
CJ: Heh
Jason: and I’m getting so sick of every other commercial on 1260 and 950 being a damn Comcast or Big Ten commercial about this. drives me batty.
CJ: “They later received death threats due to the fact that Johnson is black and Popadics is white…” Seriously? Fuck people. And oh, Richard Williams? This would in fact be a worse act of racism than people booing your daughters.
Chalk up one more point for my whole “don’t listen to the radio” strategy.
Jason: yeah I have a strategy now that when I’m listening to sports radio, I just flip to the other station when one of those commercials start. if both channels are running one at the same time, I figure my sports radio is done for the day
CJ: lol
Hah, Keith writes “I checked out the SBT and Detroit Free Press websites first thing on Sunday. I must say, I thought the SBT was much tamer than I would have expected. The Free Press, on the other hand, pretty much napalmed Carr and Michigan.”
Jason: haha well I would have expected burning effigies of Carr after that debacle.
CJ: So I go to the SBT site to look for ND stuff and I find this gem. If FJM wrote about football, they’d do a post on this article.

Jason: Oh no this can’t be good. the “Master Coaches Poll”
isnt’ Tom Osbourne in congress or something? or… I dunno, the Green Goblin?
CJ: I hear he’s proposing a new law in congress which gives athletes an exemption from domestic violence laws if they’re good players.
Jason: lol
CJ: Especially if you’re playing Oklahoma next week.
God I hate that fucking guy.
Jason: damn I need to do a Tom Osbourne as Harry Osbourne/The Green Goblin photoshop now, just because I can.
“2007 Yankees: Rag-taggest, underdoggest, scrappiest, fuck ‘em-iest team ever!” that is brilliant.
CJ: Ahh, here’s a great line from the SBT on ND: “The team’s psyche must be soothed too.”
Jason: lol
maybe if they sign Eckstein….? heh
CJ: Great, so after hearing “who will ND’s starting QB be?????” all day Saturday, we’re now going to hear the same thing for the Penn St. game.
I’m now of the opinion they shouldn’t start Clausen against PSU, so he won’t die.
Jason: Good idea Charlie. you WANT the press to be hounding your team about the starting QB all week. Really. That’s an awesome idea.
they way they played Saturday, they should just put in a tackling dummy at QB so that Notre Dame wont’ have to settle a wrongful death lawsuit.
CJ: Heh.
I can safely assume they won’t be starting Dropsy again.
Jason: lol
gotta love it when halfway through the second quarter your stats are something like 0 passing yards, 22 rushing yards (18 of those by your QB ). QUALITY!
CJ: My God, the fact that Clausen only got sacked once when they finally put him in in the 4th is being spun as a _bright spot_.
Basically the SBT line is what I expected (they need to start Clausen) but not as hostile as I expected. We’ll see what they write after PSU blows them out of the building this weekend.
Jason: http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j141/ECKoolAid/lolsports/michigan-fa ns.jpg
CJ: lol
Number of division I-A teams that will ever schedule Appalacian St. again: Zero.
Jason: haha
which is too bad because they are a good team. maybe we need relegation in NCAA football too….

Well that was fun.

BTW, mega thanks to Fire Joe Morgan for providing us with material nearly every day for chat conversations when we should actually be working.