yeah I can talk sports too

I finally upgraded Drupal and have been working a little on the blog. I'll play with graphics at some point and make it look all pretty and reestablish my geek credentials.

For now, a little hit and run on stuff that probably doesn't help my geek credentials... but really should.

Huckelberry on LeBron. The whole thing is pretty lame to me, but I think more than anything it reflects why the NBA is in some ways really probably the least interesting of the major professional sports. I'm even comparing the NBA unfavorably to the NHL there, and I grew up with pretty much no interest in hockey. My point is that the superstar in the NBA is way more important to his team than the superstar is to a team in the NFL, NHL, or baseball. Of course part of this is that the team is smaller. But whatever. I'd dwell on this some more but pppth who really cares.

Huckelberry on Gilbert and Jackson. My favorite part of the whole thing was Dan Gilbert's reaction. He got fined $100k for it. He got ripped by Jesse Jackson for it. And, of course, he got widely ridiculed for his unfortunate font selection. Fonts aside, I thought it was awesome. I think that the ripping he's taken has been unjustified. This was a major blow for Cleveland, and a multi-millionaire owner coming out like that with something off the wall like that in defense of his organization and his city - I thought it was great.

Jesse Jackson, on the other hand, is an idiot. His "runaway slave" comment was one of the most pathetic things I've ever read. I think the media have their collective heads up their asses for giving a hypocritical washup like that any ink at all. And, yeah, I know, I'm an "important political type" or whatever. Other people should be calling this man out for his destructive race-baiting garbage that does nothing to advance racial harmony and only serves to try and maintain his own place in the system. He's undermining what he claims to stand for, and I think the African-American community is growing increasingly tired of it.

Huckelberry on Uruguay. A couple of weeks ago, the Uruguayan consulate moved in two doors down from us. I thought that was pretty neat.

And of course Uruguay made its spirited run through the World Cup. I was in my office watching the end of the Uruguay-Ghana match via some crazy web live feed that was really hard to follow. I thought that the ending of that match was amazing. Suárez sacrificing himself? Gyan missing the penalty kick? Come on! That's amazing stuff. The grief Uruguay got was totally undeserved. The "Hand of God" thing was maybe a bit much, but so what? And yeah, they beat the hosts, and they beat the last African team standing... that's just the way the draw played out.

Forlán and Suárez were awesome. Forlán deserved the Golden Boot and Uruguay did more than any other team to keep me potentially interested in European league soccer into the future.

Huckelberry on "God Bless America". I don't know when or where this crap tradition started, but whomever is responsible for the playing of "God Bless America" during the 7th Inning Stretch of baseball games ought to be arrested for indecency.

My Facebook friend list is up to 500, and I think it's amazing how high a proportion of that 500 won't give a dip about anything I've written here, except maybe the comments on Jesse Jackson. I've got to say, it's really freaking weird being a straight American male at age 33 and having almost no friends who pay any attention to sports.