Cheers and Jeers has been Cancelled

Cheers and Jeers has been canceled this week on account of blood vengeance. I know I know I too look forward to cheering and jeering but the stakes this week are just too high for pithy comments and irreverent commentary. Our collective cities of the BSD are representing 1/2 of all teams playing in the MLB playoffs. At such given the high level of tension and rage I will be unable to write much until the air is cleared. Just a few FUs before I go off the air.....

Up yours Selig, TBS, TNT and whoever else set up the playoff times. Tribe v. Yanks on a Friday at 5 pm , are you insane? Honestly, watching Selig try to explain himself is like watching a bunch of monkeys hump a doorknob. In theory its comical but since you need that doorknob your just fucking pissed. Some of us work for a living. (this of course is in theory as I certainly don't).

Fuck you ESPN. The sun does not rise and fall on the page 2 rumors of A-Rod's contract status. We have exciting baseball playoffs and yet somehow that bit of information that there are other stories besides A-Rod's cologne contract or whatever is unable to penetrate their lizard brain. STOP IT. Please just analyze baseball. Please have playoff analysis as the lead story. If I wanted to read crappy stories that in no way shape or form relate to whats happening I'd read the Washington Post.

Your Youtube Clip of the Week: Ed Norton in 25th Hour (NSW)
Facts that grinds Publius' gears - Spears lost custody of her two sons this week. Publius was so depressed that I think he ate an entire cookie cake. Oh and maybe something about kids not having health insurance.


And your Blood Vengeance Gal of the Week.... In honor of Oktoberfest. I don't know or care who she is, I just care about what she's carrying....

Sweet 16 of Single-Digit Seeds

Time to review and preview the March Madness:

Best 1st round Buzzer Beater – The Miami Redhawks’ game-ending half-court heave against Oregon. Of course, the Miami Redhawks needed a 5-pointer, not a 3-pointer, so the heave didn’t win the game. Unfortunately for everyone, this was the only buzzer beater in the 1st round!

Worst Coaching in the 1st Round – Notre Dame – They must have given up approximately 15 backdoor layups. The stranger thing was during Notre Dame’s 20-3 run to take the lead against Winthrop, Winthrop forgot that they could get layups whenever they wanted. Then, Winthrop just started punishing Notre Dame again! I only wish there was a transcript of what was going on during the Notre Dame timeouts, as the coach would try to explain to his players why Winthrop kept getting layups.

Ugliest Game of the 1st Round – Virginia Tech-Illinois. Let’s hope we never see anything like it again, where BOTH teams would go scoreless for 5 minutes at a time.

Craziest Game of the 2nd Round – OSU-Xavier – OSU will keep shooting 3s for better or for worse, even if they are off-balanced, falling out of bounds, and have powder thrown in their eyes by Chong Li from Bloodsport. It must be entertaining to watch if you are a basketball fan and it is certainly is nerve-wracking if you are rooting for OSU. Luckily for OSU, the 3s started falling at the end of the game… and Xavier missed a game-clinching free throw.


#1 Seed Most Likely to Lose in the Sweet 16: Obviously, picking the one most likely to lose is a crapshoot. However, I tend to believe that OSU is in the most precarious position, especially with matchups against Tennessee and possibly Texas A&M. Tennessee may just force lots of turnovers, which almost worked the first time these two teams played, back in January.

Mid-Major Most Likely to Do More Damage: I’ve taken a liking to UNLV, and I really like their matchup with Oregon. Of course, if they have to play Florida in the Elite 8, that’s not a favorable matchup, but there are very few teams who could matchup with Florida.

Most Intriguing Matchup: Pitt-UCLA – UCLA Coach Ben Howland takes on his former team… UCLA seems to be struggling of late to put up some points, and this should be a really good game.