The Weekend Wrap (Late Edition)
Things we learned:
- When it comes to guys who are just class, you have to give Shaquille O’Neal his props. What he did to step up and offer help to the family of NBA legend George Mikan was a sincere gesture. He did not do it for any sort of publicity, he did it because he respects the history of his profession and those who paved the way for him and his generations to bask in the riches of the day.
- We learned an awful lot about the Detroit Pistons and the types of guys they have on their team. While I have been a very outspoken critic of Rasheed Wallace and Larry Brown the Pistons are an organization that has character. You always win with character guys. Their backcourt consists of the two biggest clutch players in the game today: Chauncey Billups & Richard Hamilton. All these guys do is play well in big spots and hit big shots. Hamilton has been doing it since his college days and Chauncey is coming of the Finals MVP from last season. In game seven they played all but 6 minutes of the game. And their stats back up their clutch performances; they combined for 40 points, 13 assits and only 3 turnovers, and Billups made key free throws down the stretch.
- People love to hate on New York and especially New York sports but they always copy us!!! Last night during Game 7 they kept showing live video from back in Detroit where fans had gathered at The Palace to watch the game on the big screen. Yeah folks, this started in 1994 when the Rangers were making their Stanley Cup run. In fact, myself and Dan Filowitz (A Great Jew) where at the first of these events during Game 5 of the finals. What made this an even more enjoyable experience was the fact that announcers came on during timeouts and analyzed the game and they Zambonied the Ice between periods. Plus all the proceeds from that night went to charity, you can’t beat that.
Things I disliked:
- The Milkshake!!! Who the hell decided that the milkshake was now just a glob of Ice Cream in a cup? This is the Blizzardafication of the common milkshake. Listen, I love the Blizzard as much as the next guy, but a milkshake is meant to be drank not spooned. I was outside doing some work on Saturday and found myself in a good sweat and decided hey, warm summer evening it is good time for a milkshake. I decided to bypass the common fast food restaurant who normally serve these awful thick shakes and decided to go the Dairy Bar, and Ice Cream joint itself. The lady I ordered the shake from went into the back and appeared to pour milk and syrup in and put the soft ice cream in a mixer, presumably to liquefy the ingredients. But when it was tasted I discovered not an ounce of milk or syrup!! This is bullshit, I am on a quest now to find and actual MILK-SHAKE!!!!
- While the return of the movie review was an excellent part of my weekend, there is the unfortunate return of the awful previews on before the movies. Here is a quick highlight of some of the upcoming films this summer. Some movie where Cole Hauser and some other clowns go explore a cave and there are monsters underneath the Earth, The Cave. Academy Award winner Jaime Foxx has decided to try an action adventure film. He is a Navy pilot and the Navy invents some plane that flies missions on its own, then of course the plane develops a mind of its own and begins to attack the good guys. This thing sounds like a winner. Then there is, The Island!!! This has Scarlett Johansson (her and Jessica Alba are doing there best to morph into the same person, with the blonde hair and everything) stuck on some island where they are robots or something created by the government, and people are trying to escape the Island. This sounds an awful lot like that Jessica Alba TV show, see her and Scarlett may be the same person. Then we begin the thriller/horror previews. George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) is still trying to recapture his original magic from 35 years ago and has another Living Dead installment. Some new Rob Zombie movie, and to think he gave up his musical career, he was so talented. Then Jodie Foster gets on a plane with her daughter, but sometime in the long flight her daughter magically disappears on the plane. They then discover that her daughter was never actually on the plane, but that she had died 6 days earlier. Didn’t they make this movie last summer with Julianne Moore, remember? Wait didn’t Moore copy Foster in the Hannibal Lecter series? Maybe Moore, Foster, Alba, and Johansson are all the same person, who knows!!!
Things I liked:
- Of course the return of the Friday Movie Matinee. What a day it was, pulling of the three movies at 2 different theatres all before 6 O’clock, now that takes some coordination. Like I said I saw Cinderella Man, Lords of Dogtwon, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. All were pretty good movies, of course for all different types of crowds. I will be reviewing Traveling Pants and Dogtown later this week for everyone.
- My last free weekend before basketball camps start. My next 3 weekends will be filled with annoying children, so this weekend I stepped back and just relaxed. I hit some golf balls, got a little sun, and just watched a little TV. It was enjoyable, which my next few weekends won’t be.
Yo, V.I.P., Let’s kick it……………..THE OLD SCHOOL RAP LYRIC OF THE WEEK:
Get off, hands off, stay off, youre way off
You rookie motherfuckers its the finals not the playoffs
Ill break you up into particles, to small pieces
Because your brain is miniscule
You little fool, come learn the tools of the trade
I made the rules so go to school and get played
Martin, give everyone else a chance to get this one. You are the foremost expert, and I have really decided to try and stump the masses with this one.
- When it comes to guys who are just class, you have to give Shaquille O’Neal his props. What he did to step up and offer help to the family of NBA legend George Mikan was a sincere gesture. He did not do it for any sort of publicity, he did it because he respects the history of his profession and those who paved the way for him and his generations to bask in the riches of the day.
- We learned an awful lot about the Detroit Pistons and the types of guys they have on their team. While I have been a very outspoken critic of Rasheed Wallace and Larry Brown the Pistons are an organization that has character. You always win with character guys. Their backcourt consists of the two biggest clutch players in the game today: Chauncey Billups & Richard Hamilton. All these guys do is play well in big spots and hit big shots. Hamilton has been doing it since his college days and Chauncey is coming of the Finals MVP from last season. In game seven they played all but 6 minutes of the game. And their stats back up their clutch performances; they combined for 40 points, 13 assits and only 3 turnovers, and Billups made key free throws down the stretch.
- People love to hate on New York and especially New York sports but they always copy us!!! Last night during Game 7 they kept showing live video from back in Detroit where fans had gathered at The Palace to watch the game on the big screen. Yeah folks, this started in 1994 when the Rangers were making their Stanley Cup run. In fact, myself and Dan Filowitz (A Great Jew) where at the first of these events during Game 5 of the finals. What made this an even more enjoyable experience was the fact that announcers came on during timeouts and analyzed the game and they Zambonied the Ice between periods. Plus all the proceeds from that night went to charity, you can’t beat that.
Things I disliked:
- The Milkshake!!! Who the hell decided that the milkshake was now just a glob of Ice Cream in a cup? This is the Blizzardafication of the common milkshake. Listen, I love the Blizzard as much as the next guy, but a milkshake is meant to be drank not spooned. I was outside doing some work on Saturday and found myself in a good sweat and decided hey, warm summer evening it is good time for a milkshake. I decided to bypass the common fast food restaurant who normally serve these awful thick shakes and decided to go the Dairy Bar, and Ice Cream joint itself. The lady I ordered the shake from went into the back and appeared to pour milk and syrup in and put the soft ice cream in a mixer, presumably to liquefy the ingredients. But when it was tasted I discovered not an ounce of milk or syrup!! This is bullshit, I am on a quest now to find and actual MILK-SHAKE!!!!
- While the return of the movie review was an excellent part of my weekend, there is the unfortunate return of the awful previews on before the movies. Here is a quick highlight of some of the upcoming films this summer. Some movie where Cole Hauser and some other clowns go explore a cave and there are monsters underneath the Earth, The Cave. Academy Award winner Jaime Foxx has decided to try an action adventure film. He is a Navy pilot and the Navy invents some plane that flies missions on its own, then of course the plane develops a mind of its own and begins to attack the good guys. This thing sounds like a winner. Then there is, The Island!!! This has Scarlett Johansson (her and Jessica Alba are doing there best to morph into the same person, with the blonde hair and everything) stuck on some island where they are robots or something created by the government, and people are trying to escape the Island. This sounds an awful lot like that Jessica Alba TV show, see her and Scarlett may be the same person. Then we begin the thriller/horror previews. George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) is still trying to recapture his original magic from 35 years ago and has another Living Dead installment. Some new Rob Zombie movie, and to think he gave up his musical career, he was so talented. Then Jodie Foster gets on a plane with her daughter, but sometime in the long flight her daughter magically disappears on the plane. They then discover that her daughter was never actually on the plane, but that she had died 6 days earlier. Didn’t they make this movie last summer with Julianne Moore, remember? Wait didn’t Moore copy Foster in the Hannibal Lecter series? Maybe Moore, Foster, Alba, and Johansson are all the same person, who knows!!!
Things I liked:
- Of course the return of the Friday Movie Matinee. What a day it was, pulling of the three movies at 2 different theatres all before 6 O’clock, now that takes some coordination. Like I said I saw Cinderella Man, Lords of Dogtwon, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. All were pretty good movies, of course for all different types of crowds. I will be reviewing Traveling Pants and Dogtown later this week for everyone.
- My last free weekend before basketball camps start. My next 3 weekends will be filled with annoying children, so this weekend I stepped back and just relaxed. I hit some golf balls, got a little sun, and just watched a little TV. It was enjoyable, which my next few weekends won’t be.
Yo, V.I.P., Let’s kick it……………..THE OLD SCHOOL RAP LYRIC OF THE WEEK:
Get off, hands off, stay off, youre way off
You rookie motherfuckers its the finals not the playoffs
Ill break you up into particles, to small pieces
Because your brain is miniscule
You little fool, come learn the tools of the trade
I made the rules so go to school and get played
Martin, give everyone else a chance to get this one. You are the foremost expert, and I have really decided to try and stump the masses with this one.
6 Comments:
The 1994 Rangers nay have started the whole watch the big game at your home team's arena phenomenon, howvere this truley began in the early 80's when Vince McMahon created Pay Per View television. Wrestling fans that could not attend the Wrestle Mania's would gather at a local High School or VFW and watch it together on the big screen while paying a fee... Yeah I'm gay!
Danny,
If you want to talk about the advent of Pay Per View in that sense, that began in the 50's with boxing from Madison Square Garden. My father watched all the great fighs of hsi day that way, from theatres and American Legion Halls back in the day. So that was no Vincent K. McMahon's invention.
But I was talking about watching your team in your arena, to have the feel of a home game during a team sporting event.
Speaking of milkshakes and Cinderella Man,
After 14 years in the NBA, Kendall Gill announced that he's going to pursue a career as a prizefighter, according to the Chicago Tribune. He's scheduled to make his ring debut in the 200-pound weight limit cruiser-weight division June 25. --I hope his first opponent is Rumeal Robinson. -BP
When are you going to post something on the collapse of the Yankees? Remember when other teams in the Majors used to worry when they saw a 3 game set with the Yankees on their schedule? Now, teams like Milwaukee, Kansas City, Baltimore, and even Tampa Bay are like, wow we get to play the Yankees AA affiliate this weekend.And don't give me that tired "they'll be in first place by the end of the month". They were supposed to be there at the end of every month so far, but where have they been? FOURTH PLACE behind TORONTO. That's right, even a team from Canadia is better than the steroidless Yankoffs. But just to make everyone clear on this, I hate the Red Sox more than I do the Spankees.
If he posts about the Yankees, he might have to say that the Mets won't be as bad as everyone on this blog wanted to shout to the rooftops only two weeks ago, you band hopping Steve Phillips jock riding pussy farts.
By the way, yes Pedro might be a shell of his former self in the fourth year of his contract, but if he wins the Cy Young. Im sorry, when he wins the Cy Young this year, won't that be worth it?
Frank Viola OUT
Mets will finish behind Florida, Atlanta, and Washington, so I guess that makes New York a fourth place kind of city.
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