Entries from January 2008 ↓

Oh come on, you know you want to do it! You know you will be chowing down on the round meal.

Dominos Pizza will have the “pizza tracker” at your disposal. No worries that your pizza has gone wayward, now you can check on it and it’s progress. However the “Pizza Tracker” will not follow the pizza once it exits the door into your friendly pizza dude’s vehicle. No doubt they are working on GPS tracking as we speak.

Even better, you can now abuse the people who are servicing your order.

Anyone who isn’t satisfied with the speed of their order can complain through a rating system, which provides names of workers who take their orders and deliver the pie.

Great! Web 2.0 is so helpful.

Alert! Alert! Useless implementation of Web 2.0 Technology in progress. Alert!

What implementation is NOTuseless.

First off — and I’m trying really hard not to be cruel here — does anyone still order Dominos pizza anymore?

Yah brah, they still do. If this guy is this out of touch on pizza; how do you trust him on anything business/tech related.

Last year, Dominos implemented pizza ordering via text messaging in the U.K. — again, a strange implementation of tech. Wouldn’t dialing the pizza joint be a lot faster than punching in the order on your BlackBerry?

See what I mean. Last time I checked I can’t store an audio message and send it to Dominos to place an order. If this is what passes for journalists today, no wonder the media is in trouble.

Tags: dominos, pizza, football, super bowl, giants, patriots, new england, new york

Pacman gets misdemeanor charges dropped. Why you ask? Hold on to your hat.

“It’s cost him a lot more money than what the court would fine him,” Whitesell said of Jones’ yearlong suspension from the NFL, following a series of arrests. “Mr. Jones hopefully has learned something and been punished enough.”

Excuse me? He lost some money because the NFL did what the courts would not do, so he gets a pass? Are you kidding me?

Last year a deal was struck, and broken by “Pacman”.

The judge approved a deal in January 2007 that would have dismissed the charges if Jones stayed out of trouble for six months. But Las Vegas police named Jones as the person who incited a fight inside a strip club on Feb. 19, 2007, that led to a triple shooting that left one man paralyzed.

It doesn’t seem to phase this court though.

This Judge is an idiot.

Tags: pacman, Judge David Loughry, David Loughry, nfl, adam jones, pacman jones, football

At media day for the Super Bowl the “Mexican Press” made an ass of it’s self. Problem is, the stations being attacked are not all Mexican, merely Spanish.

Marry Me

so called reporter Ines Gomez Mont picked up by Giants player

“Reporter” for TV Azteca Ines Gomez Mont; asked Tom Brady to marry him.

“Tom, I’m in love with you! Will you marry me please?” Gomez Mont shouted. Later, she pulled the same stunt on Eli Manning.

Either she is a slut, or a media whore.

But, alas, a smiling Brady broke the news to add another broken heart to his long list.

“I’m a one-woman man,” he said.

Maybe one in a row.

Wizard not so magical

the “astrologer” at media day — Joel Bengoa

One intrepid “journalist” went to the costume shop before going to the media day. He came as an “astrologer”. Nice.

In his job as a reporter for a Spanish-language TV station near Los Angeles, Joel “Gordo” Bengoa has been asked to dress up as Princess Leia and as a sumo wrestler. So putting on an astrologer costume complete with a black cape with gold half moons to match his gold turban barely fazed him.

What is sad, is that he is “barley fazed” by this. How sad this is what passes for reporting on Spanish Networks.

Most Pathetic Display

They should rename Media Day to Desperately Seeking Attention.

Apparently to draw attention away from the dancing astrologer, two other foreign journalists a few feet away put on hand puppets and staged a duel that included exchanging insults in Spanish.

The display ended with the Patriot character champing away the Giants supporter.

Hand puppets, please.

Wake up NFL

How can you take the NFL seriously when they so blatantly pander to morons. If this is what Spanish media has to offer, send it back. The media day is a joke. Either fix it or do away with it. The fools are getting a lot of air time out of this, and they should not be getting any. Thank you NFL.

Tags: nfl, super bowl, eli manning, tom brady, inez gomez mont, joel genboa, media day

Ice Dancer and Murderer Maxim Staviski, gets no punishment.

Bulgarian court gave Ice Dancer Maxim Staviski a suspended 2.5 year sentence even though he killed one person and put another in a coma. Nice job, court.

Prosecutor Angel Georgiev had demanded a 2 to 2-1/2 year jail sentence and said there were no mitigating circumstances. He is considering an appeal against the sentence.

Wow! You kill someone and they only demands a 2.5 year sentence? Sounds like the country in which to be a drunk. Unreal.

San Diego Charger Nate Kaeding kicked in five games on a broken leg. Oh man, this will just start up the LT was a weenie talk again, next week.

A person familiar with the situation confirmed the injury to The Associated Press on Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the team hasn’t acknowledged the extent of the injury.

Kaeding’s left leg is his plant leg.

The Chargers did not disclose Rivers’ surgery either, or his real condition.

Quarterback Philip Rivers played the AFC championship game with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, an injury he didn’t confirm until after the game.

On Monday, Rivers confirmed that he had arthroscopic surgery a week earlier to remove damaged cartilage from the knee, which he injured in a 28-24 upset over the Indianapolis Colts in the divisional round. Rivers said having that surgery was the only way he could play in the AFC title game.

Rivers had reconstructive surgery on Wednesday and faces up to six months of rehab.

Let’s not forget this is a team that accused the Patriots of playing dirty.

So now we find out that the kickers leg was broken; what else have they not disclosed. This is not good. If it’s true then the Chargers could be looking at Quarter million dollar fines for each offense, and I believe each game is an offense.

Kaeding was hurt helping to make the tackle on the opening kickoff of San Diego’s home win over the Denver Broncos on Dec. 24. The team described it as a bruise. While saying the injury could be similiar to the broken fibula sustained by fullback Lorenzo Neal two weeks earlier, the Chargers never used the word “fracture” in describing Kaeding’s injury.

Just gets more bizarre. I am sure they said something about Neal’s injury.

LaDainian Tomlinson, the two-time NFL rushing champion, reinjured his sprained left knee on the first play from scrimmage against the Patriots. He didn’t play again after the Chargers’ second possession.

Early in the second quarter, it was announced in the press box that Tomlinson had a “sore knee” and that he “can return.”

This was discussed ad nauseum this week. Many in the media felt betrayed. I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand the media is arrogant and out of control; on the other the Chargers were not honest with fans: I don’t mind the press getting screwed, I don’t like it when the fans get screwed.

Asked about the situation on Monday, Turner said: “There was some miscommunication on whatever happens in the heat of the game. But shortly after the first quarter, I was not of the opinion that he would return to the game.”

Yea right. I am so sure, Norv. Pathetic. More proof that A. J. Smith is an idiot, and Norv Turner is a horrible coach.

Oh and it seems the Chargers knew it was bad. They tried out 4 kickers the last week of December. How bad do you have to be to not beat out a kicker with a broken leg.

Some idiot today made the stupid comment that fortunately Nate did not hurt the team. Yes, he said that. Unreal.

Tags: san diego, chargers, football, nfl, injuries, norv turner, lt, LaDainian tomlinson, nate kaeding

Interesting story today in the WSJ. It says that Tony Gonzalez and several unnamed “high profile” athletes became Vegans for the season … or did they.

It seems that it did not work for Tony.

The Chiefs’ team nutritionist, Mitzi Dulan, a former vegetarian athlete, did not believe that was enough. With the team’s prospects and Mr. Gonzalez’s legacy at stake, she persuaded the tight-end to incorporate small amounts of meat into his plant diet. Just no beef, pork or shellfish, he said; only a few servings of fish and chicken a week.

Debbie Schlussel says Tony was eating large quantities of fish, but also taking fish oil. That does not sound like Vegan or Vegetarian.

Oh I found this image of the training diets. Note how they did their best to make the KC diet look worse than it is.

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Notice the Asterisk? Yea, Salmon IS NOT Vegan or vegetarian.

Tags: vegan, vegetarian, tony gonzalez, kansas city chiefs, nfl, football

One again I must question the use of “fake” tracks such as Polytrack (Santa Anita uses “Cushion Track”) after Santa Anita cancels another day of racing. It was the second in a row, and the fifth this month.

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Booo Yah! Download the song here. It’s awesome babeeee. San Diego is rocking! Chargers take down the Colts.

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I sling beer here

Seventy Years old and still slings beer at Lambeau field.

The native of nearby Manitowoc, Wis., has spent 45 years as a beer vendor at Lambeau Field, and he isn’t sure what he would do if he decides to retire after Saturday’s playoff game between the Packers and the Seattle Seahawks.

He climbs 35 steps from the bottom to the top for 5 hours each game. That’s a lotta beer, and a lotta steps.

Hale works the section behind the visitors’ bench at the 50-yard line, 117 and 119, about 30 rows up and says it’s the same section that he started working in 1963, when Vince Lombardi was in the midst of bringing five NFL championships to Green Bay.

“I’ve never been out of that section all those years. I’ve had the grandpa, the son and the grandsons or granddaughters. It is unreal how much bonding there is through the Packers,” Hale said. “When you look around when you go to other stadiums, you see how many Packers fans there are. There are an awful lot of Packers fans across the country.”

A plumber by trade, he stumbled into the beer trade when trying to get into a game. He has made good.

Tags: green bay packers, brett favre, lambeau field, allan hale

Race here: Budapest to Bamako Terrorists? No Sweat. We roll baby. Starts today.

A caravan of cars, trucks and motorcycles — including an ambulance, an ice cream truck and a Hummer — left Budapest on Saturday hoping to arrive in Bamako, Mali, on Jan. 27. It’s a journey of some 5,400 miles through eight countries.

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