The same thing I wrote about in my "Numbers don't lie" post appeared 2 days later on espn.com. Did they steal it? Of course not, but it's just further proof that I should be part of their baseball writing staff.
-Jobimoto out
"Quote me as saying I've been misquoted"
Monday, June 30, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Numbers don't lie...
From the strange but true section...
The San Diego Padres have the second worst offense in the MLB (by a hair) with only 293 runs scored. Adrian Gonzalez has 66 RBI, meaning he has driven in 22.5% of the runs his team has scored this year.
Without this guy, just how bad would the Padres be? It's unthinkable. Josh Hamilton, the MLB leader in RBI, has 76, but only 17.5% of his team's total runs by comparison...man the Padres suck.
-Jobimoto out.
"Is it possible to finish 6th in a five team division?"
The San Diego Padres have the second worst offense in the MLB (by a hair) with only 293 runs scored. Adrian Gonzalez has 66 RBI, meaning he has driven in 22.5% of the runs his team has scored this year.
Without this guy, just how bad would the Padres be? It's unthinkable. Josh Hamilton, the MLB leader in RBI, has 76, but only 17.5% of his team's total runs by comparison...man the Padres suck.
-Jobimoto out.
"Is it possible to finish 6th in a five team division?"
The Day the Music Died
This post should be retroactive somewhere to a few months after Kanye West's "Late Registration" dropped.
Remember in the first couple years of high school when you were friends with that kid who was kinda weird, but he had friends both in the popular kids group and the not so popular kids group, and then somewhere around Junior year he threw a party and became the hottest shit around and started acting like he owned the school?
Kanye West, you have officially become That Guy. I don't know what is the bigger scar on his resume: the Bonnaroo debacle (in which he went on stage 2 hours late - at 4:45am - and then the wait was longer than the set), his completely ineffective flow/freestyle on SNL sometime last year, or 8 of the 13 tracks on Graduation (one of which, by the way, was a track that he scrapped for The College Dropout and appeared on a B-Sides album 3 and a half years ago that he simply put over another - lamer - beat).
You threw the hottest fucking party ever on The College Dropout, but not everyone came. The people who were there had the best time of their lives, and some of the coolest kids came, so you were golden. You threw another party, and it was alright, but because everyone felt bad they missed out on the biggest new thing to hit rap in the new millennium, everyone got on the train. And now Kanye, your parties suck. People keep coming because they fear that they won't get invited if you ever throw a good one again. And your real friends from back in the day, your fans who respect the music you used to be about, we're left outside looking in going, "hey, remember when our friend wasn't a tool?"
Ok, I've beat this metaphor to death...but even if Kanye makes another good album, he's tiresome. Let's hope Lupe Fiasco ignores every piece of advice Kanye gives him.
In other news, Summer Culture is raging. I have a show going up this weekend, Blogi has a project he is putting together, and I don't have time to play the wave of massively awesome video games that are coming out this summer exclusively for PS3 (suck it, XBOX). I meant, it would be easier to play said games if I had a working PS3 instead of my junker...but, whatever, actually playing the game is overrated...
In other gaming news, I never got into the old Hitman games for PC/PS2 - but my little brother gave the PS2 trilogy to me for Christmas (which oddly enough, starts with Hitman 2), and I am completely addicted. I am not a criminal mastermind so the game is very challenging, really great problem solving, and there always reaches a point where you get caught and just gotta go to the smg and run around having some fun before restarting and getting back to the issue at hand. This is the type of experience I always wanted from the GTA games but never got (though I reserve full judgment because I haven't played IV). If you accidentally flash a piece in Hitman, everything goes to shit. You can run down the streets of Vice City with an RPG and you'll maybe get a star for wanted.
Joba got his first W as a starter last night in a good ol' fashioned shelacking of the Pirates, a night after the Yankees got spanked like a little kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Recap:
The Good - Joba's first Win
The Bad - My broken PS3
The Ugly - Kanye West since 2 months after the release of Late Registration
-Jobimoto Out
"Yo...you think we can still get that deal with Roc-a-fella?"
Remember in the first couple years of high school when you were friends with that kid who was kinda weird, but he had friends both in the popular kids group and the not so popular kids group, and then somewhere around Junior year he threw a party and became the hottest shit around and started acting like he owned the school?
Kanye West, you have officially become That Guy. I don't know what is the bigger scar on his resume: the Bonnaroo debacle (in which he went on stage 2 hours late - at 4:45am - and then the wait was longer than the set), his completely ineffective flow/freestyle on SNL sometime last year, or 8 of the 13 tracks on Graduation (one of which, by the way, was a track that he scrapped for The College Dropout and appeared on a B-Sides album 3 and a half years ago that he simply put over another - lamer - beat).
You threw the hottest fucking party ever on The College Dropout, but not everyone came. The people who were there had the best time of their lives, and some of the coolest kids came, so you were golden. You threw another party, and it was alright, but because everyone felt bad they missed out on the biggest new thing to hit rap in the new millennium, everyone got on the train. And now Kanye, your parties suck. People keep coming because they fear that they won't get invited if you ever throw a good one again. And your real friends from back in the day, your fans who respect the music you used to be about, we're left outside looking in going, "hey, remember when our friend wasn't a tool?"
Ok, I've beat this metaphor to death...but even if Kanye makes another good album, he's tiresome. Let's hope Lupe Fiasco ignores every piece of advice Kanye gives him.
In other news, Summer Culture is raging. I have a show going up this weekend, Blogi has a project he is putting together, and I don't have time to play the wave of massively awesome video games that are coming out this summer exclusively for PS3 (suck it, XBOX). I meant, it would be easier to play said games if I had a working PS3 instead of my junker...but, whatever, actually playing the game is overrated...
In other gaming news, I never got into the old Hitman games for PC/PS2 - but my little brother gave the PS2 trilogy to me for Christmas (which oddly enough, starts with Hitman 2), and I am completely addicted. I am not a criminal mastermind so the game is very challenging, really great problem solving, and there always reaches a point where you get caught and just gotta go to the smg and run around having some fun before restarting and getting back to the issue at hand. This is the type of experience I always wanted from the GTA games but never got (though I reserve full judgment because I haven't played IV). If you accidentally flash a piece in Hitman, everything goes to shit. You can run down the streets of Vice City with an RPG and you'll maybe get a star for wanted.
Joba got his first W as a starter last night in a good ol' fashioned shelacking of the Pirates, a night after the Yankees got spanked like a little kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
Recap:
The Good - Joba's first Win
The Bad - My broken PS3
The Ugly - Kanye West since 2 months after the release of Late Registration
-Jobimoto Out
"Yo...you think we can still get that deal with Roc-a-fella?"
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Drunk Rocks
Went back over The Week in Review and did some editing, because it looked like a boll weevil with Down Syndrome had written the last post. The points that I had been hitting - awesome. The grammar I used? Non-existant.
I have also been drinking, so I probably still missed a lot of obvious errors.
Also, not that I follow racing, but my condolensces to the family of Scott Kalitta. It's a tragedy whenever stuff like this happens.
I want to write more, but I feel it disrespectful at this point...
-Jobimoto out.
I have also been drinking, so I probably still missed a lot of obvious errors.
Also, not that I follow racing, but my condolensces to the family of Scott Kalitta. It's a tragedy whenever stuff like this happens.
I want to write more, but I feel it disrespectful at this point...
-Jobimoto out.
Friday, June 20, 2008
The Week in Review
Here it is - random notes and thoughts from the world of sports and everything else this week, in no particular order:
- I was at the bank today and at the atm there was a sign that said, "This is a speaking ATM that can interface with any common headset for instructions on how to use the ATM." This sounded like a great idea. Then I realized that it can't be for illiterate people, because they'd have to read the sign to understand it. It can't be for blind people, because there was no braille with the instructions. It can't be for people who don't speak English, because the sign was ONLY in English...who the fuck was this sign for? The really really bored who can't be bothered reading but want the machine to tell them what to do? Whoever sold the bank on that feature can sell sand to Saudis, because I have no fucking clue who that feature is for. Maybe I'm missing something really obvious here...
- Tiger woods knew about the stress fractures in his knee, and when his doctor told him, "You have to be on crutches for 3 weeks and then have 3 more weeks of inactivity," he looked him in the eye and said, "No. I'm going to play in the U.S. Open and I'm going to win." And he did. People refer to Tiger's dominance and performance as "Jordanesque," but at the rate this is going, if we ever see anyone perform on this level again, it will be called, "Tigeresque."
- There's a new NBA Champion - the Boston Celtics, though I refuse to admit that they won it as much as the Lakers gave it to them. I don't like the Lakers, I used to not care about Basketball, but I watched every game in the series and my feelings can be summed up as this: I was embarassed for the Lakers. In the back to back World Series Sweeps the Yankees had, in the sweeps that even the Red Sox had, hell, NEVER have I seen a team just completely not show up for a series until now. Those two games they won were the Celtics catching their collective breathes. The Lakers gave up a 24 point lead and lost, and then let a 19 point lead trickle away and barely won. It only makes sense they lost the clincher by 39, because no one cared. Even Kobe, who should have been out to prove that he can win the Big One without the Big Guy, played like a simpering Mama's Boy, expecting every call to go his way, making dumb fouls 30 ft from the hoop, and staying out of the lane for fear of getting hacked and going to the line. On some of the biggest plays I saw Kobe hanging out wide open just inside the 3-line. It was like the Celtics realized he wasn't showing up, so they just didn't care. Meanwhile, when the Lakers forgot about Garnett, he literally jogged to the basket with no one around him for 8 feet, and put in an alley-oop that crushed the spirit of the Lakers early and with authority. The Cavs series was the best one of the entire Finals, with Lebron and Pierce going head to head in a Game 7 that was more epic than any of the 12 following games the Celtics then played. The only good thing about the series is that never again will anyone ever compare Kobe to Jordan. Jordan NEVER choked like that in a playoff, and he made his teammates better with his play...Kobe...not so much.
- The New York Mets proved themselves to be a classy organization by firing Willie Randolph in the middle of the night, and letting Omar Minaya keep his job. Minaya is responsible for building this Mets team, not Willie, and when you've built your team around Carlos Delgado (old, injured, unproductive, and on the decline when they signed him), Carlos Beltran (overrated), Moises Alou (old and injury prone), Orlando Hernandez (eligible for Social Security), and Pedro Martinez (injury prone) how is your ass not on the line?? Of those 5 players, that's 61 million in salary this year. The Mets total salary? 137 million. That's a little less than half for you Fine Arts majors out there. Even Santana, making 17 million this year, has been looked on by a lot of top brass around the MLB as a questionable signing, with his velocity down and his HR numbers creeping each year. Sure, the ownership can call it Omar's team, but if it is, it's his fault the Mets are playing sub-.500 ball right now, not Willie's.
- Joba is still looking for that elusive first W as a starting pitcher, despite having good outings in both Houston and the Bronx. The Yanks have been playing great, really grinding, and they're the proud owners of a 7 game win streak. I'm trying not to get too excited considering Chien-Ming Wang, who looks like he'd never run a day in his life, is out until September. Thats a huge blow, especially with Kennedy and Hughes on the DL. Not that Kennedy and Hughes were contributing much, but they were at least warm bodies. Another vote of no-confidence was given to Kei Igawa when the Yankees signed Sidney Ponson. I also don't understand why - they tried Ponson once and he was a dog. I was really hoping the Sox would pick him up, because when they signed Colon I had hoped that they were taking the mantle of washed up pitchers from the Yankees...but alas, it was not to be. I'll still cheer on the laundry though - Go anyone in a Yankees uniform!
- Tha Carter III, L'il Wayne's newest album came out this week and received four and a half stars from Rolling Stone. If you're keeping score at home, that's half a star more than Nas' Illmatic. Rolling Stone's opinion on hip-hop is now worth nothing to me.
- My friends over at organicfunny.com updated their page with a photo shoot poking fun at American Apparel. It's hilarious.
- Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy, for the first time ever, has come under fire from me after this past week. Despite the fact that this guy is a Boston nut job and loves all things Boston Sports, and hates the Yanks, Canadiens, Lakers, and now the Giants, I can't get enough of him; he writes about all things sports so well I want to be just like this guy (except that I'd root for good teams). However, he slammed, straight up SLAMMED all the Lakers fans at the Finals games, and it's understandable because the real fans got priced out and all they had were poseurs. What was inexplicable to me, was how he completely ignored the Celtics Bandwagon that formed somewhere around 50 games into the season. Every friend of mine that is a Red Sox fan did the same fucking thing when the Patriots won back in '01 - all of a sudden, they had been football fans for life. I checked in with most of them about 40 games into the season, "You care about the Celtics?" "Nah, I hate basketball, that's cool that they're doing well though." Next thing you know, everyone is hootin' and hollerin' because they love the Celtics sooooo much. OMG! I've been a fan 4eva! F you all. And Simmons, where was your outrage against the fairweather fans. I loved your support of the real Fans that stuck it out for all those years when the Celtics sucked, but - and pardon the Shakespeare - hold the mirror up to nature. Because you know if it was the Knicks, you would be saying the same thing.
-Jobimoto out.
"Oh yeah, Scranton, PA...I spent a week there one day."
- I was at the bank today and at the atm there was a sign that said, "This is a speaking ATM that can interface with any common headset for instructions on how to use the ATM." This sounded like a great idea. Then I realized that it can't be for illiterate people, because they'd have to read the sign to understand it. It can't be for blind people, because there was no braille with the instructions. It can't be for people who don't speak English, because the sign was ONLY in English...who the fuck was this sign for? The really really bored who can't be bothered reading but want the machine to tell them what to do? Whoever sold the bank on that feature can sell sand to Saudis, because I have no fucking clue who that feature is for. Maybe I'm missing something really obvious here...
- Tiger woods knew about the stress fractures in his knee, and when his doctor told him, "You have to be on crutches for 3 weeks and then have 3 more weeks of inactivity," he looked him in the eye and said, "No. I'm going to play in the U.S. Open and I'm going to win." And he did. People refer to Tiger's dominance and performance as "Jordanesque," but at the rate this is going, if we ever see anyone perform on this level again, it will be called, "Tigeresque."
- There's a new NBA Champion - the Boston Celtics, though I refuse to admit that they won it as much as the Lakers gave it to them. I don't like the Lakers, I used to not care about Basketball, but I watched every game in the series and my feelings can be summed up as this: I was embarassed for the Lakers. In the back to back World Series Sweeps the Yankees had, in the sweeps that even the Red Sox had, hell, NEVER have I seen a team just completely not show up for a series until now. Those two games they won were the Celtics catching their collective breathes. The Lakers gave up a 24 point lead and lost, and then let a 19 point lead trickle away and barely won. It only makes sense they lost the clincher by 39, because no one cared. Even Kobe, who should have been out to prove that he can win the Big One without the Big Guy, played like a simpering Mama's Boy, expecting every call to go his way, making dumb fouls 30 ft from the hoop, and staying out of the lane for fear of getting hacked and going to the line. On some of the biggest plays I saw Kobe hanging out wide open just inside the 3-line. It was like the Celtics realized he wasn't showing up, so they just didn't care. Meanwhile, when the Lakers forgot about Garnett, he literally jogged to the basket with no one around him for 8 feet, and put in an alley-oop that crushed the spirit of the Lakers early and with authority. The Cavs series was the best one of the entire Finals, with Lebron and Pierce going head to head in a Game 7 that was more epic than any of the 12 following games the Celtics then played. The only good thing about the series is that never again will anyone ever compare Kobe to Jordan. Jordan NEVER choked like that in a playoff, and he made his teammates better with his play...Kobe...not so much.
- The New York Mets proved themselves to be a classy organization by firing Willie Randolph in the middle of the night, and letting Omar Minaya keep his job. Minaya is responsible for building this Mets team, not Willie, and when you've built your team around Carlos Delgado (old, injured, unproductive, and on the decline when they signed him), Carlos Beltran (overrated), Moises Alou (old and injury prone), Orlando Hernandez (eligible for Social Security), and Pedro Martinez (injury prone) how is your ass not on the line?? Of those 5 players, that's 61 million in salary this year. The Mets total salary? 137 million. That's a little less than half for you Fine Arts majors out there. Even Santana, making 17 million this year, has been looked on by a lot of top brass around the MLB as a questionable signing, with his velocity down and his HR numbers creeping each year. Sure, the ownership can call it Omar's team, but if it is, it's his fault the Mets are playing sub-.500 ball right now, not Willie's.
- Joba is still looking for that elusive first W as a starting pitcher, despite having good outings in both Houston and the Bronx. The Yanks have been playing great, really grinding, and they're the proud owners of a 7 game win streak. I'm trying not to get too excited considering Chien-Ming Wang, who looks like he'd never run a day in his life, is out until September. Thats a huge blow, especially with Kennedy and Hughes on the DL. Not that Kennedy and Hughes were contributing much, but they were at least warm bodies. Another vote of no-confidence was given to Kei Igawa when the Yankees signed Sidney Ponson. I also don't understand why - they tried Ponson once and he was a dog. I was really hoping the Sox would pick him up, because when they signed Colon I had hoped that they were taking the mantle of washed up pitchers from the Yankees...but alas, it was not to be. I'll still cheer on the laundry though - Go anyone in a Yankees uniform!
- Tha Carter III, L'il Wayne's newest album came out this week and received four and a half stars from Rolling Stone. If you're keeping score at home, that's half a star more than Nas' Illmatic. Rolling Stone's opinion on hip-hop is now worth nothing to me.
- My friends over at organicfunny.com updated their page with a photo shoot poking fun at American Apparel. It's hilarious.
- Bill Simmons, The Sports Guy, for the first time ever, has come under fire from me after this past week. Despite the fact that this guy is a Boston nut job and loves all things Boston Sports, and hates the Yanks, Canadiens, Lakers, and now the Giants, I can't get enough of him; he writes about all things sports so well I want to be just like this guy (except that I'd root for good teams). However, he slammed, straight up SLAMMED all the Lakers fans at the Finals games, and it's understandable because the real fans got priced out and all they had were poseurs. What was inexplicable to me, was how he completely ignored the Celtics Bandwagon that formed somewhere around 50 games into the season. Every friend of mine that is a Red Sox fan did the same fucking thing when the Patriots won back in '01 - all of a sudden, they had been football fans for life. I checked in with most of them about 40 games into the season, "You care about the Celtics?" "Nah, I hate basketball, that's cool that they're doing well though." Next thing you know, everyone is hootin' and hollerin' because they love the Celtics sooooo much. OMG! I've been a fan 4eva! F you all. And Simmons, where was your outrage against the fairweather fans. I loved your support of the real Fans that stuck it out for all those years when the Celtics sucked, but - and pardon the Shakespeare - hold the mirror up to nature. Because you know if it was the Knicks, you would be saying the same thing.
-Jobimoto out.
"Oh yeah, Scranton, PA...I spent a week there one day."
Monday, June 16, 2008
Ridiculousness
Holy Crap, has it really been 19 days?
Yes, because I haven't had a moment to breathe, and I still don't, but here's the dish - deep like Chi-Town pizza:
A couple months ago I wrote a post about how everyone was crazy because Tiger "lost" the Masters by coming in second. Yes, by definition of the word, he lost. But he came in second, which equated to, "not a strong showing for Tiger." Last time I checked, second is right off First, which, by definition would be the Strongest showing of the field - but this rule somehow does not apply to Tiger. Would a strong showing for Tiger be coming in better than first?
Then it came out that he had a bum knee for that tourney, and no one cut him a break. He went in for surgery, maybe rushed back to play in the U.S. Open this past weekend, and with the tourney on the line, he ices a 12 ft putt for birdie to send it into a playoff.
Amazing right?
Apparently not. This is the first time Tiger has lost a lead going into the final day of a tourney and been forced to fight back for the playoff. Nevermind that the guy is hobbling all over the golf course, or that he basically took a two month hiatus from the game...Tiger is slipping something awful, right?
Wrong. You are all idiots and deserved to be treated as such. Win or Lose (and don't get me wrong, he will Win and Win soundly. His steel nerves will still be holding up after Mediate has melted into a puddle on the 10th tee), this is a victory. Tiger at 80% can still force a playoff at the U.S. Open when he's down to his last putt. Tiger at 100% WILL find a way to somehow finish better than 1st someday...getcha popcorn.
-Jobimoto out
"Heavy-hitter, the Lama."
Yes, because I haven't had a moment to breathe, and I still don't, but here's the dish - deep like Chi-Town pizza:
A couple months ago I wrote a post about how everyone was crazy because Tiger "lost" the Masters by coming in second. Yes, by definition of the word, he lost. But he came in second, which equated to, "not a strong showing for Tiger." Last time I checked, second is right off First, which, by definition would be the Strongest showing of the field - but this rule somehow does not apply to Tiger. Would a strong showing for Tiger be coming in better than first?
Then it came out that he had a bum knee for that tourney, and no one cut him a break. He went in for surgery, maybe rushed back to play in the U.S. Open this past weekend, and with the tourney on the line, he ices a 12 ft putt for birdie to send it into a playoff.
Amazing right?
Apparently not. This is the first time Tiger has lost a lead going into the final day of a tourney and been forced to fight back for the playoff. Nevermind that the guy is hobbling all over the golf course, or that he basically took a two month hiatus from the game...Tiger is slipping something awful, right?
Wrong. You are all idiots and deserved to be treated as such. Win or Lose (and don't get me wrong, he will Win and Win soundly. His steel nerves will still be holding up after Mediate has melted into a puddle on the 10th tee), this is a victory. Tiger at 80% can still force a playoff at the U.S. Open when he's down to his last putt. Tiger at 100% WILL find a way to somehow finish better than 1st someday...getcha popcorn.
-Jobimoto out
"Heavy-hitter, the Lama."
Mark it.
Yeah, Tiger just won the U.S. Open in a sudden death playoff.
Sometimes I get frustrated with being so right.
-Jobimoto out.
"It's in the hole!!"
Sometimes I get frustrated with being so right.
-Jobimoto out.
"It's in the hole!!"
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