It’s hard to argue with this:
The Dodgers reached the National League Championship Series as the Cubs held to form, falling apart in October.
All y’all who don’t believe in The Curse, believe and weep. Sigh. That’s why I don’t even watch this shit anymore. (Well, that and it’s entirely not available where I live - the cricket will be on soon, though…)
For. God’s. Sake.
Sphere: Related ContentLook, I’m not the fittest cat on the planet. I do things like reading for a living and abhor things like running. It’s clear to me that I’m not most likely Olympian.
In addition, there are some sports that just look really difficult. Like hurdles. Or shotput. It looks hard as hell to throw a shotput. [Or is shotput the name of the sport and the ball is called something else?]
But while I’ve accepted the fact that I will never be a shotputress, I’m pretty convinced that I could play water polo at an Olympic level.
Granted, tonight is the first time that I’ve ever seen water polo on teevee, but it looks mostly like short bursts of swimming (check), treading water (check) and close-range throwing (checkish).
[Also, why isn't it called 'water soccer' (or 'football'), since it closely resembles soccer and completely lacks any sticks.] [To that end, why isn't polo called 'horse hockey'? There's a sport I could get behind.]
Actually, the only thing keeping me from a water polo career is the thought of being wet again today (or ever again). I know we’re all supposed to be happy about the precipition given the status of the dams, but cold, driving rain is my least favorite weather ever. I felt (and looked) as though I’d been drowned when I got to school today.
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The Age has been running at least a story a day about how horrible everything is in China.
Until today. Today’s age.com.au is more or less: ‘Shiny, happy, pretty! Oi, oi, oi! OMG, can you wait for the swimming?!?!’
And no, I can’t wait, because the US is going to kick some overachieving antipodean ass. And Michael Phelps shaved off his mustache, so that’ll probably skim another 87 million seconds off his times. We will crush you. (Sorry guys, swimming is about the only thing I get patriotic about.)
And the swimming’s also about the only Americans I’m likely to see on the TV. (Seriously Channel 7, the Australia v Belarus women’s basketball game? The only thing interesting about that match up was how many air balls there were. Apparently the women’s shooting was really cool - the Czech Republic upset China - but no…)
Women’s gymnastics doesn’t even seem to be on the schedule, which has to be a mistake. (I also get vaguely patriotic about gymnastics.)
Anyway, given the chance for Aussie gold in the men’s cycling, we’ll be showing that all afternoon. It’s kind of nice, actually. They let one of the Chinese riders lead the pack through most of downtown Beijing. And all the cyclists are taking it easy through the first section, chatting and smiling with people from other countries.
It’s what the Olympics are all about!
SBS is running women’s beach volleyball, which is so only an Olympic sport because there are women in bikinis. Norway versus Belarus (again!). How do you get into that sport in either of those countries? It’s the middle of summer, and it’s freezing in Norway. Belarus is landlocked (though they appear to have some nice lakes…)
Bikinis!
Which, as I mentioned above, is more or less what China’s doing. But, you know, with fireworks.
Oh, I also learned this morning that equestrian dressage commentary is what hell is like. They had nothing. During the two and a half minutes I watched it, the two commentators completely ran out of things to talk about. Actual quotes: “Oh, and I hear he’s quite the singer. Yes, yes, he definitely enjoys singing.”
Mix that with watching a horse trot and you’ve got the best reason for putting dressage on in the morning when no one is watching.
Except people who are avoiding work!
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