I created the weekly Random Thoughts because I tend to spend a lot of time lost in my own head and I figured this site would be a good place to write down some of my musings. (And, yes, I stole the idea from a multitude of places so I’m not passing the concept off as original, but I like to think most of the thoughts themselves are at least somewhat original.) With that in mind I have some extra things I’ve pondered this week that I would like to expand upon a little more. Maybe I’ll do this every Friday. Expand upon three things from the week that I’ve been pondering. If I do that, however, I’d like a better title than “Friday Fumings,” but I’m feeling lazy right now and that is the best I could come up. If you have any ideas let me know.
And away we go…
1. Sage Rosenfells is not good.
Stop. Please. Just stop Vikings fans. Sage Rosenfells is not more talented than Gus Frerotte. He gives the Vikings about the same chance to win as Frerotte did, he just happens to be about ten years younger. Bonus points to Rosenfells though if he head butts a wall.
(Note: I am not saying Rosenfells and Frerotte are the same person, I am saying they give the Vikings an equal chance to win. This does not undermine my argument from yesterday. They are not the same person; they are just both not very good quarterbacks.)
I just feel like Vikings fans are trying to talk themselves into Rosenfells. For example I listen to KFAN's Powertrip Morning show podcast fairly regularly - the shows hosts are kind of morons, but it is mostly entertaining, besides listening to podcasts breaks up the monotony of internet porn - and they keep talking about how great a move bringing in Rosenfells is. Why? So he can throw too many picks and make bad decisions? I would honestly rather see Tavaris Jackson start over Rosenfells, and I dislike T-Jack more than most fans.
It just bothers me how ridiculous Vikings fans are. Come October, assuming Rosenfells is the starter, fans will be complaining about how terrible he is - yet right now they love him because they haven't seen him play, and inexplicably just assume he is a viable QB option.
What the Vikings really need to do is start over. Draft a young QB and sign a solid, veteran player like Jeff Garcia. This team can win now, just not with Rosenfells or T-Jack.
2. Silverback Gorilla vs African Elephant
So as I ment
ioned I frequently listen to KFAN's Powertrip Morning Show podcast. Well this week they ran an animal fighting tournament on their website, basically to have people vote on the animal they felt would win a March Madness-esque tournament of the animal kingdom.
The guys on the show spent part of the day today talking about how badly an African elephant would destroy a silverback gorilla (the championship match). This is absolutley insanely absurdly (insert several more adjectives here) ridiculous. Now, I realize how large an African elephant is, but they can't f-ing move. A silverback gorilla is one of the strongest animals on the planet, not too mention that has one of the strongest jaws on the planet. I don't give a damn how big the freaking elephant is, size doesn't matter if you can't do anything with it. All the gorilla would have to do is jump on the the elephant's back and the fight would be over. This drives me crazy.
Give me the choice between fighting an elephant and a gorilla, with a non firearm weapon of my choice, and I'll take my chances with the elephant before the gorilla.
3. The World Baseball Classic
Why does this exist? The players and fans (for the most part) aren't interested. Granted the fans in places like the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, etc. get excited because they don't normally get to see MLB players, and it is great exposure for those Latino countries, but all the tournament does is screw up spring training and throw players off their normal preseason routine. There is no good time to hold this tournament, so it just shouldn’t exist.
Now maybe MLB could drum up some legitimate interest in the WBC if they actually got the best players to take part. The United States, however, third and fourth starters are Ted Lilly and Jeremy Guthrie. This tournament is supposed to decide the best of the best; and, last time I checked, any roster that includes Ted Lilly and Jeremy Guthrie isn’t the best of the best.
The whole system is flawed, and there really is no way to fix it.
And besides, personally, I would rather watch spring training games than WBC games. Yesterday the Braves were playing the Astros in a meaningless early spring game on ESPN and they mentioned on the telecast it would be the only spring game they would show this year because of the WBC – I was bummed.
Maybe I’m the only one that feels that way, but I still don’t know anyone that is legitimately excited for the WBC. It may be a cool concept in theory, but it just doesn’t work in practice.
-Juice
And away we go…
1. Sage Rosenfells is not good.
Stop. Please. Just stop Vikings fans. Sage Rosenfells is not more talented than Gus Frerotte. He gives the Vikings about the same chance to win as Frerotte did, he just happens to be about ten years younger. Bonus points to Rosenfells though if he head butts a wall.
(Note: I am not saying Rosenfells and Frerotte are the same person, I am saying they give the Vikings an equal chance to win. This does not undermine my argument from yesterday. They are not the same person; they are just both not very good quarterbacks.)
I just feel like Vikings fans are trying to talk themselves into Rosenfells. For example I listen to KFAN's Powertrip Morning show podcast fairly regularly - the shows hosts are kind of morons, but it is mostly entertaining, besides listening to podcasts breaks up the monotony of internet porn - and they keep talking about how great a move bringing in Rosenfells is. Why? So he can throw too many picks and make bad decisions? I would honestly rather see Tavaris Jackson start over Rosenfells, and I dislike T-Jack more than most fans.
It just bothers me how ridiculous Vikings fans are. Come October, assuming Rosenfells is the starter, fans will be complaining about how terrible he is - yet right now they love him because they haven't seen him play, and inexplicably just assume he is a viable QB option.
What the Vikings really need to do is start over. Draft a young QB and sign a solid, veteran player like Jeff Garcia. This team can win now, just not with Rosenfells or T-Jack.
2. Silverback Gorilla vs African Elephant
So as I ment
ioned I frequently listen to KFAN's Powertrip Morning Show podcast. Well this week they ran an animal fighting tournament on their website, basically to have people vote on the animal they felt would win a March Madness-esque tournament of the animal kingdom.The guys on the show spent part of the day today talking about how badly an African elephant would destroy a silverback gorilla (the championship match). This is absolutley insanely absurdly (insert several more adjectives here) ridiculous. Now, I realize how large an African elephant is, but they can't f-ing move. A silverback gorilla is one of the strongest animals on the planet, not too mention that has one of the strongest jaws on the planet. I don't give a damn how big the freaking elephant is, size doesn't matter if you can't do anything with it. All the gorilla would have to do is jump on the the elephant's back and the fight would be over. This drives me crazy.
Give me the choice between fighting an elephant and a gorilla, with a non firearm weapon of my choice, and I'll take my chances with the elephant before the gorilla.
3. The World Baseball Classic
Why does this exist? The players and fans (for the most part) aren't interested. Granted the fans in places like the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, etc. get excited because they don't normally get to see MLB players, and it is great exposure for those Latino countries, but all the tournament does is screw up spring training and throw players off their normal preseason routine. There is no good time to hold this tournament, so it just shouldn’t exist.
Now maybe MLB could drum up some legitimate interest in the WBC if they actually got the best players to take part. The United States, however, third and fourth starters are Ted Lilly and Jeremy Guthrie. This tournament is supposed to decide the best of the best; and, last time I checked, any roster that includes Ted Lilly and Jeremy Guthrie isn’t the best of the best.
The whole system is flawed, and there really is no way to fix it.
And besides, personally, I would rather watch spring training games than WBC games. Yesterday the Braves were playing the Astros in a meaningless early spring game on ESPN and they mentioned on the telecast it would be the only spring game they would show this year because of the WBC – I was bummed.
Maybe I’m the only one that feels that way, but I still don’t know anyone that is legitimately excited for the WBC. It may be a cool concept in theory, but it just doesn’t work in practice.
-Juice
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