You will not find a more biased list of awards. This is because I am the only voter, and I can only consume so much stuff. Please excuse any egregious omissions.
Weeks after most major media outlets have released their end-of-year awards lists, it is time for the most important list of all. These are the Dougies, where most of the awards are made up and the points definitely do not matter.
You will not find a more biased list of awards. This is because I am the only voter, and I can only consume so much stuff. Please excuse any egregious omissions.
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What is it like to be a Brooklyn Nets fan, rooting for the most miserable franchise in American professional sports? I am one of these people, and it is sad. I picked up Halo 5, and it has been a bit of a disappointment. There is room to grow with post-release support, but the game does not live up to the series name right now. I saw her face, now I’m a Belieber. The Canadian pop star’s new album is an unquestioned success. The North continues to dominate music, although Adele’s sales are going to be tough to beat. Star Wars season approaching. Here are bunch of links to pieces from this past month.
I wrote a pair of album reviews: Mac Miller’s GO:OD AM, and Demi Lovato’s Confident. The Lovato one was an interesting challenge. Kathy Griffin came to Storrs. I went to watch, and as she frequently pointed out, “straight white men” may not have been the target audience. Does your fantasy football team suck? Do you want it to suck more? Take my advice! This is a total Matthew Berry rip-off, but without the 14,843-word introduction about how he’s famous or some s**t. I LOVE potato chips. Lay’s annual ‘Do Us a Flavor’ contest lets normal Americans make their own weird flavors for lunatics like me to eat. I tried all four of the 2015 flavors. That’s all for links, but I have a bunch of random thoughts on various subjects to share after the break. They need to get out. OK, so the NBA doesn’t have as much year-to-year parity as the other sports. It just doesn’t – roster turnover simply isn’t the same when you have only twelve guys playing each night. However, the league does have a surprising number of surprises each year. Sleeper teams pop out of the woodwork and play far better than expected, while other seemingly average teams suffer horrible collapses and accumulate losses the way Geno Auriemma accumulates championships.
Truthfully, that was just a really generic way to deflect the blame away from my fairly horrible set of predictions. Let’s review those by division, with the order that each team finished in the league-wide standings first, and my preseason ranking afterwards in parentheses. ATLANTIC DIVISION 11. Toronto Raptors (ranked 8th) 16. Boston Celtics (ranked 27th) 18. Brooklyn Nets (ranked 18th) 28. Philadelphia 76ers (ranked 30th) 29. New York Knicks (ranked 19th) Ironic that my Nets landed right on the mark. Grass is green, water is wet, and the Nets are mediocre. Brooklyn slid into the East’s last playoff spot on the last day of the season after nearly blowing it with a pair of dreadful performances against Milwaukee and Chicago, and not a single non-Nets fan seems to be happy about it. Whatever. Haters gonna hate and ain’ters gonna ain’t. Brook Lopez doesn’t need your acceptance. This Sunday, the New England Patriots will play the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. The following is a running diary from the future.
12:30 – Hi, we’re NBC, and we hope you like pregame shows, because here’s many, many hours of that. Here’s a segment on how humble Russell Wilson is. Here’s a segment on Tom Brady’s competitive fire and his unparalleled “desire to win,” matched roughly by only hundreds of NFL players. Marshawn Lynch hates the media! Did you know that the Patriots are caught in a scandal for potentially deflating footballs? You only think you know. Bob Costas will MAKE SURE that you know. 3:30 – Is there anything else on besides this pregame crap? Hey look, TBS is showing The Big Bang Theory reruns. TNT’s got that Hugh Jackman robot boxing movie. When’s the Puppy Bowl again? |
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