Boring Tuesday Fun Thread

Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
The Nationals. We might be able to beat them.

What is your worst experience at the K ever?
We were playing Detroit in I beleive 2005 or 2006. The game started out so well – in the first inning, the Royals hit back to back to back home runs off of Mike Maroth. I think we had a 6-0 lead at one point. Anyhow, we ended up losing the game. The worst part though was this horrible girl sitting behind me. There was a family of four that were Tigers fans. This six or seven year old girl that was part of the family had the most annoying, shrill voice ever. She was a real obnoxious and vocal supporter of the opposition. Bad as this girl was though, I would have hated her even if she was a Royals fan. Let’s go Royals cheer goes up, she makes it her personal mission to scream Tigers over Royals every time. Never a quiet moment for the whole game. The parents do absolutely nothing to get this kid in check. The Royals lose, and as I’m leaving, I’m ready to give this girl the best eff you death stare I can muster. I turn around, I’m ready for the Medusa look, and this six year old girl is actually like fourteen. Totally obnoxious and totally out of control, but a teenager. Made it so much worse. The startling realization really too the wind out of my death glare’s sails. Ended up being a shocked/glare hybrid that probably just made me look constipated. Anyhow, by far my worst experience at the K. If I saw that girl again and she was drowning while I held a flotation device, I’d punture it.

Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
Don’t watch tv.

ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?
More A-Rod coverage

What was the best album of the ’00s?
Postal Service – Give Up
Johnny Cash – American IV
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?
David Beckham. Dude had tons of style, a million different looks, and it always seemed effortless.

   1. Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?

The Braves!

   2. What is your worst experience at the K ever?

A couple of years ago I went down, and one of the games was a sodden, torrential downpour game against the Yankee’s (I think). The game where the basepaths turned into a swimming pool. Awful.

   3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…

No

   4. ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?

Give Rob Neyer a more important job than writing a blog, replacing one of the autobot generic crap “analysts” they have on broadcast.

   5. What was the best album of the ’00s?

Have kind of ignored music this decade. Probably Language. Sex. Violence. Other?- Stereophonics

   6. Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?

I asked my wife, and she said me….

I find the fanbase of the Cubs to be extremely annoying. Beating them in a WS would be sweet.

   2. What is your worst experience at the K ever?

Not getting Gload’s autograph.

3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…

Yes. Seen most of all the Atlanta and New Jersey episodes. Less so on the others. Wife loves NY, but I hated that one.

   4. ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?

Make ESPN classic better by actually showing more classic games. A sportscenter from ten/20/15 years ago running simultaneously each morning on classic would be awesome. Diversify the kinds of talking heads: cut the number of ex-players in half.

   5. What was the best album of the ’00s?

The Sunday Sessions – Philip Larkin

Colbert

1. I’ve probably answered this before (or something similar). I have to say the D-Backs. My only chance to go to a Royals W.S. game in person is if they played games here (in Phoenix). It would also be a match up between the 2 worst teams in baseball back in 2004 (aka – the worst year ever for me).

2. Worst experience? Hmmm – I’d have to say Opening Day in 2001 (just before I moved to PHX). Went to the game with a co-worker and her son (he was somewhere around 4-6 years old – and he was well behaved). We sat in the right field bleachers about 2-3 rows back from the fence along with a bunch of people that she knew. Anyway, late in the game, some idiot comes down from higher up in the section to the row behind us and starts yelling and screaming obsenities. Obviously, my friend turns around and basically tells the guy to knock it off – there are kids right here, and they don’t need to hear this stuff. I figure that we weren’t dating or anything, and she’s an adult – so I let her take care of it. UNTIL, he calls her “bitch”. That’s when I get up. He and I start yelling at each other, and he challenges me to a fight – which is not something that I’m going to do. At this point, security/police officers are coming down the aisle and are making people return to thier seats. So, I wave one over, point at the idiot, and say “this guy needs to go” (meaning “back to his seat”). Apparently as they are escorting him up the aisle, he “accidently” spilled his beer on one of the officers. Note: Police officers REALLY do not like having beer spilled on them. We saw him later as we were leaving the game – he was face down, in hand cuffs, with a rather angry, female cop’s knee in his back. That part was pretty funny. Lesson = Do NOT yell obsenities at sporting events, nothing good can happen. Sorry that was so long!

3. No – don’t watch those.

4. Completely tear down Baseball Tonight and start from scratch. I only watched it once last year. That was all it took to remind me why I hate that show.

5. Tough one. Off the top of my head, I’d have to say Elephant by The White Stripes. I might think of one that I liked better when I have a chance to think about it, but that one will be tough to beat.

6. I really don’t know. Is Brad Pitt no longer “sexy”? This not really a topic that I think about….ever.

1. Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?

The Cardinals. Rematch! The tears of the best fans in baseball would taste so sweet.

2. What is your worst experience at the K ever?

Nothing really stands out. Most of my experiences have been great, even the awful losses. I guess 2008 Opening Day was crappy. The weather was bone-chillingly cold and rainy, the stadium looked ugly with the half-done renovations, and it was opening day so the bathroom lines were long. But we beat the Yankees and that was the beginning of the halcyon Trey Hillman years.

3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…

I actually watched the very first season of the Orange County one and it was semi-interesting I guess because one of the dads was former A’s pitcher Matt Keough (who seems to be severely depressed and an alcoholic now…very sad) and his son was a promising amateur player (now in the A’s farm system). But it was a pretty vapid show with obviously staged situations. I can’t believe people buy into a lot of these crap reality shows.

4. ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?

Just have more thoughtful analysts that specialize in certain sports – guys from Baseball Prospectus, Hardball Times, Football Outsiders, Ken Pom, and much, much fewer ex-jocks. I’m fine keeping some around just to provide different perspectives, but there is not enough diversity in opinion right now on ESPN.

5. What was the best album of the ’00s?

“Funeral” by Arcade Fire

6. Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?

Probably Robert Downey Jr. or so my wife says. Remember when he was a down-and-out actor known more for his drug problems than his films?

1. Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
If the Royals won it? The Cardinals, I couldn’t take losing to the best fans in baseball, I spend too much time learning new Stats to have this affront my new found centrality. If the Royals ended up losing? The Marlins, or maybe the Mariners, as a previous poster mentioned it would be because that means players can determine a winner not pay role.
2. What is your worst experience at the K ever?
I guess I haven’t had too many, the three game sweep the Cards sent the Royals in ’07 was bad, the best fans in baseball were everywhere and proving the opposite.

3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
No, but my wife watches some of it sometimes, she really likes Gossip Girl, that is all I have to say.

Immediate firing of anyone saying that Jordan Shiply is Colt McCoys roommate! I agree with above posters we need people from all sorts of sporting outlets being interviewed on various forums, not just in house ESPN..OMG is that Tim Tebow?…

5. What was the best album of the ‘00s?
Tools-Lateralis
6. Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?
Brad Pitt? Gerard Butler….going purely on breathed of types of movies, Phantom of the Opera all the way to 300. Johnny Depp for Fear and Loathing, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I don’t know, and I’m not asking the wife.

Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
What is your worst experience at the K ever?
Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?
What was the best album of the ’00s?
Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?

Pirates
Worst Experience at the K ever easily is the “Scott Elarton Game”
Absolutely not… I have plenty of guilty pleasures, but I can’t stand shows of the rich bitch variety
Try to change the “jock” culture. Increase awareness of advanced stats, and try to remove the stigma of them
For me this is basically the best album since I graduated High School… Im gonna go with Deja Entendu by Brand New
Not gonna lie I kinda have a mancrush on John Mayer and Justin Timberlake.

1) Padres, so I could travel someplace warm in October.

2) The day that Vida Blue (at that time, a Royal) refused to sign an autograph for me in the parking lot. He was sitting in his friend’s truck with a beer in his hand & many more in the cooler. I was the only fan within 200 yards, but he refused to sign.

3) Hell, no.

4) Hire Bill James to do whatever he wants.

5) KISS Boxset

6) Me

1. THE METS BABY! GM battle to the death. Loser dies by the hand of Ambirorix Burgos… Too soon?

1. Worst experience would be taking my family and in-laws to a game where we had HyVee seats for about 10 of us around the end of September. It was 40 degrees, windy, and the White Sox put the game out of hand in the 2nd inning. A close second was against St. Louis here in 2009 on Saturday or Sunday. There was a rain delay and it was so hot and humid it was unbearable. Then the sun came out for the game and absolutely baked me, my pregnant wife, and my brother and his pregnant wife. We left early because that game got ugly as well. At least it ended well. We went to Buffalo Wild Wings, love those boneless wings.

1. Hell to the no.

1. ESPN hires you as a consultant, I recommend they fire everyone on Sportscenter and start over with something less cheese-driven. If they don’t take that, I recommend cancelling SC, or shutting down the network. Their choice.
    
2. Best album of the ‘00s? Hmmm…. Let’s go Incredibad by The Lonely Island. I’m on a Boat featuring T-Pain is the greatest song ever!

1. Sexiest male? I don’t know sexiest, but if I had to pick somebody to look like for life, I could do a lot worse than George Clooney.

1. Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
The White Sox

3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
No
4. ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?
More sports news.

5. What was the best album of the ’00s?
Released or recorded? I dunno… I used to buy mutiple CDs a month… but that was last decade. Off the top of my head. Frank Zappa, Trace-Fusion.

6. Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?
Me:

Your dining and dancing pleasure, I’d like to introduce………..my answers!

Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
The Dodgers, definitely. And they need to beat the Yankees in the ALCS, too.

What is your worst experience at the K ever?
It was still Royals Stadium at the time, 1984; it was raining so hard when we arrived we couldn’t see either stadium from the parking lot. The game was delayed, but they finally took the field. We were in the left field bleachers when the rain came back. This happened 3 or 4 more times before the game was canceled. We saw maybe 3 innings of baseball in about 10 hours.

Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
I watched about 15 or 20 minutes of the first Orange County show before I realized it was shit on a stick and wasn’t going to get better.

ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?
Get rid of the jocks (sorry, Schlereth, you too) and give Will a weekly video essay.
 
What was the best album of the ‘00s?
The Yayhoos “Fear Not The Obvious” was the first one I bought last decade, and Pink’s “Funhouse” and the Sounds “Crossing The Rubicon” were the last two. They’re all good.
 
Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?
Yinka Dare

1. Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
The Braves. It’d be worth it for the ESPN head-scratching alone. “What are supposed to talk about? The Sox and Yankees aren’t involved. My notes say nothing about the existence of these teams.”

2. What is your worst experience at the K ever?
I’ve been only once, and I had a wonderful time.

3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
No.

4. ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?
The immediate hiring of a witty, whip-smart, banter-ready weatherman. And that he be me.

5. What was the best album of the ‘00s?
Brand New, Deja Entendu

6. Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?
Am I allowed to say Joe Mauer? Because it’s him.

1. Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
The Reds. Not sure why but I always liked them when they were good and I was younger. Plus, maybe it’d lead to a great Pete Rose interview.

2. What is your worst experience at the K ever?
This year on the Pepsi Party Porch almost any time I was there. I enjoyed the view from there and would stand out there for the first couple of innings and then migrate to better seats as the game moved along. Every damn time some drunk kids would come in and start trying to crowd their way onto the front part or start screaming stupid shit over my shoulder. Eventually got tired of it and turned into the asshole and told them to move along to a different spot.

3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
No.

4. ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?
Get rid of the cliches and catchphrases. Hire a few saber guys and have them break down the organizations by division each day on Baseball Tonight. Mon- AL East, Tues- AL Central, Wed- AL West, Thur- NL East, Fri- NL Central, and then I guess I’d have Sunday be NL West day and Saturday would be a highlight of the major moves. (by the way, as bad as BBTN has been the last few years I did see that it’s starting in like 10 days! That’s exciting!)
 
5. What was the best album of the ‘00s?
Ryan Bingham- Mescalito

6. Who was the sexiest male of the ’00s?
Has to be Clooney or Brad Pitt, right?

you all had such fun answers, so I’m going to immediately zap all the fun out of this thread with my own.

   1. Who do you want the Royals to play in the 2010 World Series?
First of all, we have to beat the White Sox to get TO the WS. And then, the Braves. It would be the friendliest Series ever, since every single member of each roster has been teammates with each other before!

It once took two entire innings to get nachos. I would’ve given up, but we had spent the day at Worlds of Fun and I was about to faint, so I needed food. And I’m poor, so it had to be nachos, and not the delicious ones with all the fixins, either. It wasn’t that the line was long, but it was September and I think all the concession stand workers just decided they hated their lives and were going to transfer the misery to everyone else.

   3. Do you watch any of the variations of Bravo’s Real Housewives of…
Caught a few episodes when my sister-in-law watched this summer, but never made a commitment to watch any of them myself.

4. ESPN hires you as a consultant, what is your first recommendation?
Like a few have said, rebuild BBTN from the ground up. No more ‘Touch Em All,’ way more pitching highlights, way more defense highlights, and no yelling at the poor viewers.