{"id":45415,"date":"2017-10-23T10:31:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T14:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45415"},"modified":"2020-08-04T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T14:31:48","slug":"life-is-boring-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45415","title":{"rendered":"Life is boring lately"},"content":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing, but as it pertains to my want to write every now and then, it sure doesn\u2019t help when there\u2019s nothing to really talk about outside of sports.\u00a0 Like really, I comb through news sites, and I try to watch a little bit of news here and there, but on a regular basis, it\u2019s the same old shit that\u2019s being driven further into the ground every single time it comes up, so there\u2019s really nothing particularly interesting to me that gives me any inspiration to really write.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the local level, the AJC further reinforces the notion that they\u2019re a clown outlet, since the front page of the site has basically turned into the SEC football daily, providing links and news for not just Georgia, but just about every single SEC school\u2019s football programs.\u00a0 Granted, I guess it sure beats the alternative to the daily shootings, robberies and killings in Southwest Atlanta, but surely, surely,<\/em> there has to be stuff worth reporting on aside from college football.<\/span><\/p>\n

National and global news are more of the same crap involving sexual harassment dogpiling, talk of building a wall, and the perpetually constantly rising tensions between the United States and other countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Same shit, different day.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder why I always fall back onto sports and wrestling to talk about, because there\u2019s not much else worth writing about that doesn\u2019t just trigger, bother, infuriate or simply annoy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That being said, the Houston Astros validated my predictions by overcoming a 3-2 series deficit against the Yankees, and advancing to the World Series where they\u2019ll meet the Dodgers in a Fall Classic that people had predicted since June when both teams were the top teams in their respective leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

At this point, I\u2019m fine if the Dodgers won the World Series, but in order for me to look like the smartest baseball asshole out there, I do need the Astros to finish the job and win the whole thing.\u00a0 I\u2019d be very pleased to see former Braves in Brian McCann and Evan Gattis get a championship, and I\u2019d genuinely be happy for Carlos Beltran if he won his first title and then walked afterward.\u00a0 But on the flip side, I\u2019ve always had a fandom for Clayton Kershaw since I lucked into witnessing his debut in 2008, and it\u2019s been a real pleasure to see him ascend to being the best pitcher in the game over the last few years, and I\u2019d be satisfied at see him become a champion as well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Virginia Tech also had a good weekend, obliterating North Carolina by hanging 59 points on them.\u00a0 Sure, Tech has had a fairly cush first half of a schedule, save for Clemson and West Virginia, but the remainder of the season gets real dicey with games against Miami and the always-pesky Georgia Tech left on the schedule, along with trap games like Duke and Pittsburgh.\u00a0 And even UVA, in spite of getting de-pantsed by Boston College has been playing way better than the usual Virginia football squad often does, and it\u2019s only a matter of time before there\u2019s an upset in the Commonwealth Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n

But despite the fact that Tech has ascended back up to #13 in the AP rankings, they\u2019re still treated like a jobber, and held to lower regard than Miami and even the surging NC State.\u00a0 In one hand, I like the idea of Tech being a covert sleeper contender, apt to being overlooked and capable of low-pressure beating opponents, but at the same time, I feel like it\u2019s a lack of respect for arguably the most prominent football program in the ACC Coastal over the last decade.\u00a0 I guess I should prefer the former, considering every time the Hokies get the respect they deserve, they tend to collapse and fuck it up against a school like Georgia Tech or Pittsburgh, so if I want Tech to get into a prominent bowl instead of a Toilet Bowl presented by like BattleFrog or Cabela\u2019s, I guess resume overlooking them, pls.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in nerdy competitive spectator sport, the semifinals of Worlds are set, with both series being Korea vs. China, as SK Telecom faces Royal Never Give Up and Samsung Galaxy faces Team WE.\u00a0 Obviously, I am rooting for the Koreans to oust their Chinese competition, setting up a scintillating rematch from last year\u2019s Worlds finals, but I can\u2019t help but have this nagging pit in my stomach telling me that this Worlds just might be something of a disappointment for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

SKT looked real<\/em> bad, getting stretched to five games against Europe\u2019s Misfits Gaming, with some very blatant weaknesses that a more competent team like RNG will be capable of exploiting.\u00a0 And despite Samsung\u2019s dominating statement upset over the Korean #1 seed Longzhu, I\u2019ve often said Team WE is probably the best team in China in spite of their #3 seed positioning coming into Worlds, and is easily capable of competing on the level of Korea\u2019s elite.<\/span><\/p>\n

And again, after so many years enjoying Korean champions much like I\u2019ve enjoyed seeing Tech win the Commonwealth Cup year after year, all good things eventually come to an end.\u00a0 But if the finals of Worlds ends up being China vs. China, I probably wouldn\u2019t have any real interest in watching.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have nothing to say about the NFL, because I\u2019m not even bothering to watch.\u00a0 Not because I\u2019m boycotting the product on account of Colin Kaepernick, although if I had to pick a side, I\u2019m on Team Kaep, and believe he\u2019s blackballed on account of collusion, but mostly because I just don\u2019t care.\u00a0 The NFL just isn\u2019t that fun to watch in comparison to college, and by the time Sundays roll around, I\u2019ve been fried already from watching so much Worlds, MLB playoffs and an entire Saturday\u2019s worth of college games, and I just want to spend my Sundays being as obligation-free as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

So despite the fact that I might bitch about boredom, or feeling like I have nothing to do on Sundays, just remember that those feelings are still superior states of being compared to watching the NFL.\u00a0 Or the NBA.\u00a0 Or any league full of grossly overpaid Twitter-whining sissies.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, I did indulge some time to watch WWE\u2019s TLC pay-per-view, which was marred by viral meningitis for key participants such as Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt.\u00a0 Neither of whom were particularly missed, because of the nature of Reigns\u2019 participation in a 3 vs. 5 schmozz wouldn\u2019t have matter if it were him, or the substituting Kurt Angle, because the match would have gone the exact same way with the exact same finish had it been Reigns.\u00a0 If anything at all, having Angle participate was a pretty ingenious decision made that I felt wasn\u2019t, but what do I know?\u00a0 It kept attention on the match, and by the time it was over, smarks like me realized they still just sat through the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

And the loss of Wyatt was even less relevant, because in its place, the WWE replaced him with an emergency dream match between Finn Balor and AJ Styles.\u00a0 And as should be no surprise, the two of them tore the house down and had a great match, easily the best of the entire night, capped off with a seemingly blatant and ironically poignant Wolfpac 2 Sweet hand salute at the end of the match between the two competitors to fully acknowledge on-screen the backstage drama between the WWE and the Bullet Club of New Japan Pro Wrestling.\u00a0 However, being two of the biggest draws in the company, it\u2019s like Balor and AJ know they can get away with it, which is why they did it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazing just how easily the words fly in spite of the fact that I felt like I had nothing to write about.\u00a0 That\u2019s sports in a nutshell, for those who like and appreciate them.\u00a0 Sure beats the stagnant news and the world we live in, that\u2019s for sure.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing, but as it pertains to my want to write every now and then, it sure doesn\u2019t help when there\u2019s nothing to really talk about outside of sports.\u00a0 Like really, I comb through news sites, and I try to watch a little bit of news here and there, but on … Continue reading Life is boring lately<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,92,160,106,154,83,58,69,54,55],"class_list":["post-45415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-boredom","tag-esports","tag-football","tag-league-of-legends","tag-observations","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45416,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45415\/revisions\/45416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}