Sports on John's Random Review

Mariners 2010 Commercial Jinx?

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:04:33 +0000

It’s not as exciting as the old Sports Illustrated Cover jinx, nor as cool as the Madden Cover curse, but I think this year the mariners have created a “mariners commercial” jinx.

The Mariners 2010 Commercials:

Immortalized: A commercial about a composite painting of all of the bullpen pitchers as a “cohesive” unit. Bullpen 2010: Mark Lowe: Traded. Bunch of the guys: injured. Bunch of guys: DFA’d. The rest, marginally effective.

A cheesehead take on this Favre nonsense.

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:03:16 +0000

So yeah, we’re from Wisconsin. Laura’s from Green Bay. Most of her family still lives there. We joke that Laura and both of her sisters married into packer season tickets, and its even funnier that its true. We subscribe to DirecTV just to watch Packer games. I wear Packers or Brewers or Badgers stuff almost every day in one way or another (hats mostly!) We have a freakin shrine to Brett Favre in our kitchen. I’m not shxting you!

Awwwwwwwwww maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:12:50 +0000

Brett Favre retires. A sad day in the NFL. The best reflection of my feelings is from Making Peace With Favre’s Final Days, from Jeff Bercovici@Deadspin:

The whole world is against us?

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:00:05 +0000

Watching Packers on NFL Network on DirectTV. After the cowboys kick a fieldgoal, all of a sudden, 0 reception. “Searching for satellite signal…(771)”. thats it. game came back on for about 10 seconds, then gone again. Fox+Comcast has fcked us 2x this year, with DirecTV coming to the rescue. NFL Sunday ticket is the ONLY reason we even have directv… Today, its 950AM KJR Radio to the rescue. that is just sad. Yay directv.

FXCK FOX PART2

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:03:59 +0000

Again!? Fox just switched away from Vikings @ Packers in the 3rd quarter to go to the Redskins/Eagles game. The packers are 7-1, working on going to 8-1. Do you think they’ll switch away from the Colts this week? Hell no! Do they switch away from the Pats when they are up by 20? Hell no!

He only gets paid for 4 Quarters!

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:52:53 +0000

Sitting on the couch with my wife, fidgeting with a football as GB takes the field after the OT kickoff:

Packer Season Tickets?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:03:39 +0000

From Rick Reilly’s column yesterday:

For instance, if you put your name on the [season ticket] waiting list today, you would be number 74,659. An average of 70 people give up their tickets every year, which means you’ll have your tickets by the 3074 season. Luckily you’ll still catch Brett Favre’s last year.

My dad and uncle inherited my grandpa’s 2 seats and each have the pair every other year. So someday, my brother and I will each have a half a seat! My wife’s sisters both married into season tickets too :). How Wisconsin is that?

Two for two!

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:02:02 +0000

So earlier i stated that the goal for this trip was to get back to WA with one win in the two games we went to this weekend in ‘sconsin. Well, we went 2 for 2 on that goal! The brewer game (aside from the frigging parking fiasco) was awesome too. We got to see (future NL MVP!) Prince Fielder hit home run #48 on the year (he hit #49 and #50 tonight!), we got to see (future NL Rookie of the year!) Ryan Braun hit a home run, got to see lots of run production, lots of offense, some great defense, and a sausage race! We also saw some of the funniest signs i’ve seen at a sporting event, with the clear winner being a couple rows behind us, with the “I (HEART) E-5” ryan braun sign! It was very handy when he had an error later, and a home run to avenge himself after that..

Got a sunburn at Lambeau!

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:07:45 +0000

For our “paper” anniversary this year, the wife and i bought each other tickets to sporting events. We had to be in WI this weekend for a wedding in Green Bay, so i bought the Packer tickets for today, Laura bought Brewer tickets for tomorrow. I told people at work that I’d be happy getting one win over the weekend. Well, check that off the list! It was a beautiful day in green bay, 80+ and sunny at noon for the game. Sunny all game, so I got a little sunburned on my arms and my neck. Was an awesome game, back and forth with a great finish. Nick Barnett FTW! Favre got career TDs 418, 419, and 420, tying Marino’s all time record. After Barnett returned the INT to inside the 1 and the win seemed imminent, half of the crowd was chanting “Pass! Pass!” so favre could get #421. The Lambeau crowd can have a short memory, apparently, as no more than 5 minutes earlier the packers were right there trailing by 4 points on 4th and goal at the 1 and and incomplete pass ended a promising drive with 0 points.

FXCK FOX!

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 20:14:10 +0000

You have to be kidding me! Fox just switched from the packer game, tied with 59 seconds left, to play 2 minutes of ADS and go to the beginning of the seahawks game! THIS IS COMPLETE BS. There’s no way they tell direct tv in time to have the dish pick it up!

Hey Ma! I'm on TV! Ma! Ma! Moooom! Moooooom!

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:44:41 +0000

We (Me, Laura, Laura’s niece Alshley, Laura’s Mom Mary) went to the Seattle Storm game yesterday at Key Arena. We sat in the 5th row. pretty awesome seats. The storm kicked serious ass. Then i saw us on the 11pm news when they were covering the game. I’m in white, laura’s in white next to me, behind a guy in white :)

Click the pic to go to the flickr page, there are a couple other pics in that set.

Monday Night Football! (or Seattle+Snow+Traffic=NIGHTMARE)

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:01:03 +0000

It started out so well. A beautiful sunset on the ship canal bridge coming into Seattle. We were on our way to the Monday Night Football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks. Oh how decieving a pretty sunset can be! The game was awesome (even as a Packer fan!), but the ride home was….not so good. We were at the game for 4 hours, 5:30-9:30 pm. We were in the car for 3 hours and 36 minutes to get home. And its only 23 miles… For more pics and more story, follow the jump!

Winter in Seattle...

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:15:18 +0000

Every once and a while, it actually snows in the seattle area. From the Seattle traffic cameras, it doesn’t look like much of Seattle proper got any snow, but we live in what is called the “puget sound convergience zone”. So when seattle doesn’t get “it”, we get it instead. We got between 2-4" of snow yesterday and today.

There was enough snow, and it was wet enough to make snowmen and everything. Leave it to the neighbors to take it up a notch…