Welcome Back to Me, The Better One.

I found it fitting to put the first song off of the best cd out this week as my comeback blog post. Sir Lucious Left Foot and The Son Of Chico Dusty cd review to come later.

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Welcome back. To myself.

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C'mon, Man!

Not going to be near as long as yesterday's Sports Rant, but did you see that the Canadian Women's Hockey team had to apologize for drinking beer and champagne and smoking cigars after beating the U.S. 2-0 to win the gold yesterday? Yup, they had to apologize for celebrating after winning the fucking gold medal. I don't know who's more in the wrong, Team Canada for feeling an apology was necessary or the International Olympic Committee, who got all up in arms about it and said it wasn't appropriate and wasn't what they would've liked to see from Olympic athletes. How dare they. There is absolutely nothing wrong, ever, with girls getting drunk, especially when they're hot, as many of the girls on the team are. Though I realize most of them probably hate penis.


Can I start reporting about baseball yet?

-MS

The Last Straw.

There are many things in this world that anger me. But only sports gets me angry enough to blog. So prepare yourself for anger and rant.


The above game was played on April 1st, 2009. This video from some reporter dude in Washington was posted on April 24, 2007. Caron Butler has been chewing on straws during games since he was playing AAU ball in 1998, and that includes two years with the Heat, one with the Dirty Lakers, and five with the Wizards. There was a national story on TNT in 2008 about his habit, in which Barkley and friends had Butler close his eyes and identify which of the straws they gave him was from McDonalds (he correctly identified it before even having to chew on it). That's 8 years of well-publicized straw-chewing. But he wasn't playing for the Mavericks during that time.

With yesterday's big stories in the NFL and MLB being new blood testing for HGH or something, the NBA and David Stern had better things to do. As of around 5ish yesterday, Caron has been banned from chewing straws while playing. That's right. Perhaps the most harmless habit in the history of the NBA gets banned, because Butler is now playing for Stern's favorite owner, Mark Cuban.

It's being called a "safety issue." Didn't seem to be a safety issue the first eight years he did it, though. I guess they think that, hypothetically, the straw could poke someone in the eye. I promise you more people have been poked in the eye by fingers than by Butler's straws, so I expect fingers to be banned from NBA play soon.

But I digress. Seriously. This is ridiculous. Could Stern be a little more obvious with how much he has it out for the Mavs? It's already been claimed by Tim Donaghy that the 2006 Finals were fixed (but I didn't need Donaghy to convince me. Shoot another 20 free throws, D-Wade) all because the NBA and NBA referees don't like Cuban. I love Mark, I think he's up there with Troy Aikman and Nolan Ryan as some of the best things to ever happen to Dallas sports, but it's getting to the point where I don't know if the Mavs can win a championship under him. Certainly not because he's not a good enough owner; he's undisputedly one of the best in the league. And certainly not because the team isn't good enough; they were better than Miami in 2006, but it's hard to beat a team when their star player can trip on his own feet and be rewarded with free throws. But with all he's done (which, in reality, is telling the truth, albeit loudly), and all the bridges he's burned, plus with the Mavs' star being a 7-foot German white guy who can't dunk or handle the ball or yack his mouth with the likes of Kobe, LeBron, and Dwade (making Dirk less marketable), if they're able to get back to the Finals who's to say 2006 doesn't happen all over again. It's hard to win a series when you're battling a good team along with the refs.

I think it'd be awesome if every single one of the Mavs came out on the court chewing straws when they play the Hawks Friday, but that won't happen, because they're not angry bloggers. The story's so fresh that Cuban hasn't really been able to speak about it yet, but I can't wait until he gets the opportunity. F David Stern. Peace.

-MS

Mixtape of the Week

Here's this weeks mixtape....its raekwon so you know its legit....I'll write a review here by the end of the day.

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Greatest guitar player of all time plus greatest band of all time equals musical jizz all over the place.

Black Ice

Here's a badass song to get you're badass weekend started. The group, goodie mob, which includes the singer/rapper Cee-Lo (the lead singer for Gnarls Barkley) and rapper Big Gipp (who later formed a duo with another rapper Ali), is also the group that helped produce some of Outkasts older songs. That makes it fitting that Andre throws one of his best verses heard on one of Goodie Mobs tracks right?

The Worst Sport On The Planet

I'm not dumb. I wouldn't be writing about women's basketball if I wasn't planning on tearing it apart in a barrage of negativity, sexist slurs, and dick jokes. So stay with me.

The UConn Huskies women's team recently extended their winning streak to 63 games. I know, my world was faltered by that news too. I know it's small potatoes compared to what ESPN usually does, but of course they expect their viewers to care about this, and they have to be all politically correct and show it for the same reason they've let Linda Cohn, that other chick that looks kinda like Linda Cohn, and the chick with the 'fro do every SportsCenter during the day. But here at QuadB, we know what you want. You don't want bitches playing basketball. You just want bitches.

Pictured: Redemption.

Not one of their wins has been a good game. Every single one of them has been won by 10+. 37 have been by more than 30. 19 have been by more than 40. Here's the kicker: THEY SELL OUT EVERY HOME GAME! Why would people go to that?! The only reason I could think of is because they want to be able to say they were at the game where the streak was broken, but UConn continues to beat the shit out of every team in the league. Here's what Tennessee coach Pat Summit (Who's yet to get her ass kicked by UConn) has to say:

"I don't give a lot of merit to the idea that Connecticut's success is bad for the game. I think the talent (for other teams) is out there. I think the talent is solid. I think it's a situation of who's going to get the best players. Connecticut has done a great job in recruiting two special players and then putting others around them who are really stepping up. They have the best players at this moment."

Yeah I don't care, either. If only someone we cared about like Ray Allen would speak about it...

"Teams in the Big East have to step up their recruiting practices. Tennessee has to figure out a way to get back and be better. The competition makes everybody great. You see what UCLA did (in men's basketball), what the Yankees have done winning 27 World Series. That's what makes rivalries and great players."

Notice he doesn't say a thing about UConn. You know why? Because he doesn't give a fuck. And it's hard to see why he would. Women's basketball has become the most irrelevant sport on Earth, and the stupid amazingly good Huskies aren't helping matters.

Now, look. I'm not hatin'. UConn deserves their billions of wins in a row. They're miles better than any other team. And it's not like I'm a women's basketball expert; I attend a university with the #11 ranked team in the nation, and haven't been to or thought about going to a single game. And trust me, if UConn was beating these teams with buzzer-beaters and close games, I still wouldn't be tuning in. I'm just saying, for those that ARE into women's ball, this can't possibly make it easy to watch.

You know what else doesn't help? How much they trick up the most minute details. Look, I'm all for breast cancer awareness. But I became aware of it 15 years ago. We all know it's there, we all know it kills people, and yet the teams have to throw pink jerseys in our face every few weeks. You know what else kills people? Bears. But you never see the girls wading through rivers and flinging salmon out of the water with their bare hands(or BEAR hands. Eh?).

In conclusion, for every interesting girls basketball game there's 5 or 6 men's games that are more interesting and on TV that night. Plus, dudes can dunk. Just sayin'.

So. Yeah. Go Cowboys.

-MS