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When did this this prick become “Bob” Knight?



Isn’t he “Bobby” Knight. The guy who throws chairs across the court at referees? The guy who chokes his players? The Country Club Golf hustler? The Pimp from Beverly Hills? (Sorry, went a little Casino on you there) When I was growing up he was always Bobby Knight. And he was always a spoiled angry baby. That’s why he’s a Bobby not a Bob. You don’t get to have a grown man’s name when you have temper tantrums and act like a two year old when you don’t get your way. And ladies, don’t feel like you’ve been left out. He’s the same prick that said “If you know you’re going to get raped, you might as well try and enjoy it.” Nice.

You already know I pretty much hate the NBA. I don’t like College basketball either, but can stomach a few games once a year around tournament time. But now that The NBA playoffs are here, this douchebag is everywhere. He’s on ESPN as an analyst. He’s doing interviews on the sports radio stations as I’m driving to work. I can’t escape him. When I first started hearing his name being bandied about I thought it couldn’t be the same guy. People are actually taking this guy seriously? Let me put this out there. You don’t get a free pass after acting like an asshole your whole life just because your’e old. “Oh he’s older and mellower now so it’s OK” No it’s not! And you certainly don’t get to adopt some alter ego by trying to change your name (nice try Medda)

Fuckin’ sports man. How do pricks like this keep finding work? It’s so inbred. Look at this sleaze:



“Hi, I like to get drunk and sexually harass my co workers. By the way, be sure and listen to my new sports talk show.” Even my own state has to get in the action by hiring a new college basketball coach who likes to lose to opposing schools then go to their after parties, get drunk, and hit on coeds half his age. (while having pictures taken as proof) I glad “Robert” Petrino will still be able to go out and find work at $3,000,000 per year.

Speaking of image. Tiger Woods is flaming out pretty hard these days. Ratings are down. Wouldn’t it help to hipen up the image if the unofficial 5th Major, The Players, was renamed? My vote is: The Playa’s Championship. Their caddies could carry pimped out golf bags and all the players rock golf clubs with diamond encrusted irons and platinum coated woods.

Sorry for all the local sports talk to my friends across the pond. I’m sure you have your own Football issues.

Last day for eligibility on the giveaway. If you follow by today, you’re cool to enter. I’ll take numbers til next week. And I don’t want to hear any crap about how you’re opting out of the contest. Try and opt out and I’ll send you TWO sets of fucking steak knives!

Thanks again everybody. Enjoy your time off wherever that may be.

So someone told me that TA is actually a British site. How come they get all the cool swear words? I’d like to be able to use fun words like Bollocks. Talk about giving a good Rogering. Tell someone to Bugger off. Call a guy a Tosser. Those words are sassy. I’m tired of using Fuck and Shit all the time. They’re so boring you have to spice them up with emphasis words. Something can’t just be a pile of shit. It has to be a steaming pile of shit. That’s a lot of extra work when a simple “Sod Off Tosser” is just so much more fun to say.

• Games

I like Retro shit. You already know that about me. Cop shows from the 70’s, I grew up on them. That’s what Driver:SF is like. It’s got a cool retro feel to it with a vibing soundtrack, yet it also manages to mix in modern flair. It’s not a Forza. If you’re a motorhead who is into accurate physics, the latest supercars, a realistic racing experience, Driver is none of these things. But what it is, is fun and cool. I’m kind of a student of great movie car chases. Gone in 60 seconds, The French Connection, Bullitt, The Blues Brothers, Vanishing Point. Iconic movie chase scenes. In Driver you can relive all these scenes from famous movies. Want to pilot the green Mustang from Bullit and chase the Black Charger? It’s in there. Jump the Golden Gate Bridge in a Mach 1 like they did in Gone in 60 Seconds? That’s here too.

Some people may not like story. It’s kind of a Mindjack thing where you can jump into any other car in the game. “Not Realistic” they say. But it’s no weirder than shooting giant ass locusts. And when you do jump into another car, you often jump right into the middle of some funny ass bizarre conversation. The missions vary from street races, catching criminals by ramming them off the road, timed races, and stunt and dare activities where you might have to do a jump, pull of a drift or drive at high speed into oncoming traffic. The map is huge in varied, and accurately recreates a bunch of San Francisco landmarks. All in all, it’s probably the most fun I’ve had playing a driving game. I love it.

But all this talk of retro stuff is reminding that I’m hiding a secret. I’m living a lie. Look, I grew up watching a lot of 70’s TV reruns. I know that’s not an excuse, but I do think environment does shape who become. I want to share something I’m not proud of, but that’s a part of me.



I like the Love Boat. Especially the later seasons where Julie McCoy the Cruise Director started abusing cocaine and stopped wearing a bra. Ahh, Good times. I mean there’s nothing wrong with a grown man liking the Love Boat is there? And this outfit is in no way Gay.


Yeah. Absoultely not Gay in the slightest.

• Giveaway Stuff

Got a couple emails from new followers asking if they could enter the contest. Yes. As long as you are a follower by Friday night 05/04 you’re cool to enter the contest. If you follow after that, you have to wait til the next one. I’ll take your numbered entries until 05/11. I think a lot of people didn’t get the Steak Knives thing. It’s from a movie Called Glengary Glenross. Here’s a clip.(youtube clips are always a bit of a crapshoot for me to post because they block the site at work and I can't see a preview of what I'm posting) I am actually giving away a set of Steak Knives as second prize. Not just any knives, but fabulous GINSU steak knives. You know, the cool ones from TV.



See you tomorrow

Wow. Seriously. I’m literally speechless. This was not the blog I had intended writing today. Mostly I was going to bitch about how Dr. Pepper is running a cap contest to win a free XBOX and how even though I’m driving myself into an early Diabetic 8 toed (‘cause I dropped a few digits due the Diabetes) grave, I can’t seem to win it. Then I was going to mention how I started playing Splatterhouse and Homefront. Give my initial impressions, probably swear some, talk about how much I liked Driver, add a run on sentence or two, and finish up by talking about how I won’t be talking about my pants today.
But that can wait.

• This Section is really from the Heart and Contains no Jokes

I’m literally overwhelmed. I mentioned yesterday that I wanted to hit about 40 followers by the end of the month. Gaining blogging followers isn’t easy on TA. I thought if I put out some good shit I could hit it. I didn’t think I would hit it today. When I said seeing added followers makes me happy I meant it. I never expected to reach 20. Or 30. I want to say Thank You to everyone that follows me. Really. No Bullshit, no smugness. I hope you guys get a chuckle every now and then. That’s what I really want.

• This Section is about a Contest (Sort Of)

Let’s not make a big deal out of this. I’ve never done a contest because I wanted this blog to stand on it’s own merits. If it succeeded so be it. If no one liked, then I suck and I would have quit writing it. But it’s done pretty well. It brings me a lot of joy writing it and seeing what you guys have to say

“Jesus, we get it already, you like us, blah blah, blah. Cut the chatter and get to the contest Alex Trebeck”

Sorry. Anyway. Here it is. It’s not a contest. Think of it as “Follower Appreciation” I want to say thank you for the happiness you’ve given me. There is no magic number of followers I have to hit, nothing for you to do other than enter. I think I’ll just do a random number drawing. You pick a number, I’ll coerce someone into making a Youtube video with a random number draw, post it, and there is your winner.

“isn’t this just a way for him to pump up followers while trying to look like he’s not trying to pump up followers?”

No. If I wanted everyone to know I was giving shit away I put something about it in the title. I’m trying to bury it way down here so you have to be a reader to find it. If you’ll read back in the blogs a little bit you’ll know I tried to donate to the GSPM anonymously but they never took me up on it. I have money left over from that. I haven’t figured out first prize yet. Something in the mid $20’s. I don’t care. The winner can pick as long as it’s less than 30 bucks. Don’t kill me, “I’m just a poor corrupt Public Official” It could be MSP if you want that, a game if you want that, a gift certificate if you want to go out and get liquored up. You win, You pick. There’s a second prize too. Want to see second prize?



Second prize is a set of Steak Knives.

Last Rule stuff: it’s open to new followers til Friday night. If you haven’t followed before then, don’t send a number. It’s a thank you to people who are already followers, not people who want to win free Steak Knives. I don’t really have a way of checking, so don’t be a Douche. I’m sure I’ll do it again in the future for new people. Allright. Cut off Friday for entrants, Pick a number between 1 and 1000. With 40 followers of so you should have about a 5% chance of winning something. I’ll take numbers til next Friday 05/11 and post the results the following week. Boom! Told!

• This Section is where I give a couple of Shoutouts

I want to thank both StophJ and phatal1ty for continuing to Pimp my Blog. I’m know for a fact without their help no one would know who I am. More than that, they are both really cool people. If TA had a welcoming committee, they would be it’s first ambassadors. Also, you can blame FinnegansDirge for my overuse of headers. Thanks man.
They are a lot more people I should name, but that’s kind of what the Contest/Giveaway/Steakie Thingie is for.

• This Section is where I realize I’ve really overdone it with the Headers

Stay Thirsty my Friends. And Thanks.

Christ, always pressed for time. In a perfect world, I would have an hour in the middle of the day to really compose my thoughts, add all the pictures, links, and headers I wanted and make everything look Uber Polished. But lately things have been slamming ass busy here at work. There is a window during the day I feel comfortable posting in, where I feel like I get decent exposure, if I miss that window, I usually just wait til the next day. You have a window of 5 blogs on TA before you drop out of sight on the homepage. After that, they only people who are likely to see you are people who are already following you, or other folks like me who are into reading blogs. This other window stays open a little longer, but you still only stay visible for a little while.



“He said window and exposure, what is he some kind of Peeping Tom?”

I mean window of opportunity, when new people can see your blog and maybe follow it. Yeah, I said follow. I want followers. I want to hit 40 by the end of the month. Cause it makes me happy. Not because I’m building some kind of blogging army to lead a Coup of TA and eventually achieve world domination. No, it’s nothing like that.


It seems like talking about followers is either a dirty word or somehow uncool. I read the comments to Confused Shelf ’s Blog Leaderboard post and was amazed at how many bloggers refuse to follow other blogs. “I only follow my friends” “I don’t read other blogs” “I only write for my friends.” What a bunch of tripe. I double Fuck guarantee you that if they stopped putting how many followers a blog had after the title, so a person didn’t know how many followers he or she actually had, half the bloggers on that leaderboard would quit posting. I’m not trying to be a dick here. I just think most bloggers, including myself, like getting a little attention. They like to get their opinion out there, they like seeing their numbers increase, they like to imagine themselves languidly rolling around naked in a giant pizza (ok, maybe that last part was just me)

Open your mind, man. Step out of your little cocoons and meet some new chums. The first two friends I ever met on TA were prominent bloggers. And they didn’t treat me like a troll when they saw a comment on their blog that came from outside their circle of trust. Don’t be a dick. If I sound like I’m preaching it’s because I am. I’m probably the oldest Swinging Dick on TA that writes a blog. Now mind your fucking manners and sit up fucking straight. Hey, you gonna eat that?

Stay Thirsty my Friends.

Debated about writing anything at all today. It’s Friday, most people have abandoned TA for the weekend, and it’s going to be a short mediocre post. There. I said it. I’m not afraid to admit that today may not be my best work. Usually I put a lot of time and effort into my blog. But most of you already know I write these things from work. That means if I squander my lunch time, or something else comes up, I can’t get the blog out. This was a crazy week. I can’t go into a lot of detail at this time, but suffice it to say that a now former employee ended up passed out, face down at her desk with her Chihuahua on her head. Karma, maybe not instant, but definitely not oven baked.

What concerns me is that this poorly written interim blog may end up being my legacy. What if I get hit by a bus tonight? Or abducted? Or the Pants Fairy molests me to death. A fiery plane crash, a horrible flood? This would be it. The blog I’m judged by. No pictures. No nifty titles. Just some ham fisted text that was probably plagiarized in a Night Train induced stupor. Look for the chalk outline of an XBOX controller, at least I died doing what I love.

"I wish he WOULD get hit by a bus and just shut up already!"

C'mon man, it's all in fun.

Once again thanks to everyone for following me. That little tap on the follow button means a lot to me.

Have a good weekend everybody!