Well, I'm back at it, and again, what a better way to resume things with some random notes and thoughts.
- I honestly think it's time that people begin to forgive Michael Vick. I love PETA as much as everyone else does (meaning, I hate them since, you know, everyone loves PETA), but those people that still continue to dog him over his past bother me beyond belief. And yes, pun intended with "dog him."
Was what he did wrong? Of course it was, I'm not a lunatic -- I'm fully aware that dog fighting is a horrific act. But consider the following: The man lost his job, his salary, his endorsements, his liveilhood and 18 months of his freedom to pay for what he did. I think it's fair to say he's adequately suffered and he's emerged a reformed man who is playing the best football of his career.
- I'll go into more detail on BU basketball at a more appropriate occasion (I still do have papers to finish), but I really like what I see so far. The team's playing a lot faster than they ever did last year, John Holland has been an absolute monster, O'Brien's improved, and we've got some really promising freshmen. I didn't think Chambers' first season was as successful as everyone else did, but I think his second season's absolutely crucial because we're starting to see his mark on the program, not his mark on what he inherited. And so far, I'm really liking how he has molded this program.
- One more thing on BU basketball: Evidently, only 200 tickets remain for BU's season-opener against Marist. I don't dispute that, but as a BU basketball fan, I've grown cynical when it comes to attendance, aka I don't trust BU fans to support basketball, sad as it is. Case has a capacity of 1,800; if there are more than 1,200 people at the game, I'll go all Frank Reynolds and drink soup out of my shoe.
- Why do so many damn Celtics fans not believe that I went to the same middle school as Rajon Rondo? I did, damnit!
- Trend I am feeling:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/16/four_loko_sales_may_be_curbed/
Not because I'm personally opposed to Four Loko (I don't drink the stuff), but it's just fun to see Teddy freak out and start to stockpile our apartment like a 1950's bomb shelter.
- Trend I'm not feeling:
John Wall was one of the few people who I liked on Kentucky's team last year, but my God, do I hate the John Wall Dance. It only got popular because Kentucky fans, after so many years of worshiping Adolph Rupp, finally realized there are African-Americans in this world who they don't try to run out of town like Tubby Smith. Therefore, the smallest things they do, like turn their wrist back and forth, it becomes law.
I thought it would go the way of the Eight Track and die out after he went pro, but it unfortunately looks like I was wrong.
- Deep regret about the end of BU soccer season, for both men and women. A great season for both teams, especially the women, and I look forward to play kicking back off at Nickerson Field again in about nine months.
- A final note here: Teddy, H&V friend Ryan McKetchnie (check out his stuff on America Least, his name's The Classroom), and I were at Raising Cane's last week and we came across a man named Steve who is evidently a huge BU fan. He missed the men's soccer game that night because he was at a boxing match and he was asking a lot of questions about BU basketball. He may or may not have thought we were on the team.
Anyhow, this man seems like a reclusive figure and I want to know this man. If anyone knows of a light-skinned black guy with a goat-tee named Steve who has a T map with Agganis Arena marked who also has an affinity for BU basketball, please let me know. Now that I'm 21, this man deserves alcohol of any sort on me.
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