tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145127872008-06-04T04:00:27.955-04:00Courtnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1163708876975099652006-11-16T15:27:00.000-05:002006-11-16T15:27:56.996-05:00

The "My Name is George. I'm Unemployed and I live with my parents" edition. You can tell a lot about a person by their favorite episode of "Seinfeld". If someone's favorite is "the Contest", they have a sick sense of humor. If someone says "the Soup Nazi" they're a conformist and try to act like everyone else. If someone says "the Finale", they're a bloody liar and you shouldn't be friends with

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1163193031746794222006-11-10T16:10:00.000-05:002006-12-18T12:58:58.746-05:00

The Background Check Edition So I may finally have a job. That's right, after six months of unemployment, I may finally be hired somewhere. But there's a catch, they still have to do a background check. Now, I don't have a criminal record and everything on my resume is accurate, but the first thing that pops up when you Google my name is my PIC column. Now, I stand by my column. I enjoy writing

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I realize absolutely nobody cares about this except Red Sox fans (and even with them it's shaky), but here we go. Step 1. Resign Alex Gonzalez. The real American League Gold Glover at shortstop. I realize he only hit .261 last year, but so what? He's fun to watch, makes things a lot easier for pitchers, and doesn't defense win championships? Step 2. Don't trade Manny. Everyone knows you want to

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1162738532513501292006-11-05T09:55:00.000-05:002006-11-05T09:55:32.533-05:00

The "Is It Sunday at 8:15 Yet?" Edition This past week is among the saddest of my sports fan year. The NBA has started. Honestly, I wouldn't mind it so much if it didn't mean ESPN would morph into NBA 2Night and PTI and Around the Horn would engage in 30-minute debates over whether some guy named Rasho Rastonevic would make the Warriors a contender. I honestly don't care. It's nothing personal

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1162145913442203002006-10-29T13:18:00.000-05:002006-10-29T13:18:33.453-05:00

The Double-post Edition First off, sorry to the two people (and Dan Opp) who put up with me double-posting the last baseball blog. Blogger was being a bastard. Also, I'm fairly certain Rhode Island has the worst wireless internet in the country. I'm better off sending in my PIC blogs via smoke signal. Anyway, on to the picks. (HOME team in CAPS) Jacksonville (+6) over PHILLY The Jags and

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1162140849104672952006-10-29T11:53:00.000-05:002006-10-29T11:54:09.116-05:00

The Double-post Edition First off, sorry to the two people (and Dan Opp) who put up with me double-posting the last baseball blog. Blogger was being a bastard. Also, I'm fairly certain Rhode Island has the worst wireless internet in the country. I'm better off sending in my PIC blogs via smoke signal. Anyway, on to the picks. (HOME team in CAPS) Jacksonville (+6) over PHILLY The Jags and

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Email from Nate at 7:06 p.m. on Friday, about four hours before the Cardinals won the World Series. Hey Justin, isn't it great that, even if it's only for a few days, the Inferior League gets to rip on the Superior League for a change? I mean, I find that refreshing. The Superior League reps are obviously just doing a great job at being gracious hosts. I want to thank you all for tossing a

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1161824433352932082006-10-25T20:59:00.000-04:002006-12-18T13:00:04.986-05:00

Nathan DeGraaf: Justin, I hope life is treating you well and all your friends and family are eating caviar and shitting gold (what can I say? I'm optimistic). I'll weigh in on the lat two games of the series in a minute, but first a little anecdote I'm sure you'll enjoy. Last Sunday, my boss was watching his kid play an AAU baseball game in one of the more urban areas in Tampa, when he heard a

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1161817331788764522006-10-25T18:46:00.002-04:002006-12-18T13:00:57.176-05:00

Nathan DeGraaf: Justin, I hope life is treating you well and all your friends and family are eating caviar and shitting gold (what can I say? I'm optimistic). I'll weigh in on the lat two games of the series in a minute, but first a little anecdote I'm sure you'll enjoy. Last Sunday, my boss was watching his kid play an AAU baseball game in one of the more urban areas in Tampa, when he heard a

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1161816870510067882006-10-25T18:46:00.001-04:002006-12-18T13:02:07.726-05:00

Nathan DeGraaf: Justin, I hope life is treating you well and all your friends and family are eating caviar and shitting gold (what can I say? I'm optimistic). I'll weigh in on the lat two games of the series in a minute, but first a little anecdote I'm sure you'll enjoy. Last Sunday, my boss was watching his kid play an AAU baseball game in one of the more urban areas in Tampa, when he heard a

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1161816770532688262006-10-25T18:46:00.000-04:002006-12-18T13:01:27.333-05:00

Nathan DeGraaf: Justin, I hope life is treating you well and all your friends and family are eating caviar and shitting gold (what can I say? I'm optimistic). I'll weigh in on the lat two games of the series in a minute, but first a little anecdote I'm sure you'll enjoy. Last Sunday, my boss was watching his kid play an AAU baseball game in one of the more urban areas in Tampa, when he heard a

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1161559930783079972006-10-22T19:30:00.000-04:002006-10-22T19:32:10.796-04:00

Welcome back to the MLB Blog Exchange (Or as Nick Gaudio calls it, "The thing I'll make fun of but secretly wish I had been invited into. I'm going to go write another faggoty poem and try to convince people Rebello's a virgin, hoping people look past my propensity toward fucking fat chicks.") From the files of DeGraaf: All right, I have to admit that I didn't think the Cards will have a chance

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1161268043137147632006-10-19T10:26:00.000-04:002006-10-19T10:27:23.150-04:00

The Broken E Key Edition I don't know if you've noticed, and judging by my readership stats, you haven't, but my picks have sucked this year. Normally I would blame this on a weird season, but I think it's just me. For starters, I have two fantasy football teams that are a combined 3-9. My Steelers Super Bowl pick is getting more laughable by the day. I still can't pronounce the Tampa QB and am

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1160871686551731842006-10-14T20:15:00.000-04:002006-10-14T20:21:26.586-04:00

Nate and myself are blogging during the baseball playoffs. Not that any of you are reading anyway. I can say whatever I want. Watch me. I don't like Chinks. See that? Nate's thoughts on the LCSes in progress: Hey, the Cardinals won a game in the NLCS. Who'd have thought. Every time So Taguchi does something important for us, my first thought is, "holy shit, that was unlikely." My second

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1160764658178029642006-10-13T14:36:00.000-04:002006-10-13T14:37:38.193-04:00

The Pissed off Edition I didn't write a column this week...too busy. But don't worry, the columns are going to be particularly nasty in the coming weeks; we're talking a throwback to 2004 when Court used to IM me after seeing my drafts with: "Are you sure you want this in print?" Why will this be? Well, I was rejected from my seventh job this week, and this after being told by the interviewer

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1160524578817843262006-10-10T19:54:00.000-04:002006-10-10T19:56:18.826-04:00

Ahem. "Pretentious poetry. Random use of "cunt". More pretentious poetry." Thank you. {takes a bow}

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1160515650372778342006-10-10T17:25:00.000-04:002006-10-10T17:27:30.390-04:00

So I saw "the Departed" on Friday...if you missed my review, here it is (http://www.pointsincase.com/justin/2006/10/departed-review.html). I've casually mentioned in my column and to my constituency that I felt "the Departed" had more pressure on it than any movie in the past six years. It was one of those movies for which you saw the trailer, thought to yourself, "Holy shit, I need to see that,

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1160236774559764182006-10-07T11:56:00.000-04:002006-12-18T13:03:19.650-05:00

The "Hurry up and Post Your Picks, it's Saturday Edition" NEW ENGLAND (-9.5) over Miami Body language looked pretty good last week, wouldn't you say? Fuckers. NEW ORLEANS (-6.5) over Tampa Any of you who enjoy DeGraaf's column better pray St. Louis sweeps the Padres. He's already blogging from the rooftops. Buffalo (+10) over CHICAGO My early vote for Coach of the Year is for Dick Jauron,

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1160235476080720862006-10-07T11:37:00.000-04:002006-10-07T11:37:56.090-04:00

"The Departed" is fucking awesome. That is all.

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Just kidding...I wanted to see how many people we could get to view this blog. Anyway, here's day two of the blog. Nate: How in the fuck did Grady Little get his managerial gig with the Dodgers? I mean, what the fuck is this guy's problem? He understands that in baseball you have to make decision before shit hits the fan, right? Not after? Honestly, I could do a better job managing in the

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1159964484060146662006-10-04T08:16:00.000-04:002006-10-04T08:21:24.073-04:00

In case you missed it, Nate and me are blogging about the baseball playoffs. Here are our predictions (http://www.pointsincase.com/nathan/2006/10/mlb-email-exchange-is-back.html) for the series (plural). Is it serieses? Serieux? The fuck? Nate's thoughts on Day one: I'm sorry to say this, because I know it'll make you lose what lil' respect you may have for me, but I really like Derek Jeter.

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Every so often, I write "smart" columns. These are columns that go beyond the typical "I jerk off with my dog in the room" mentality that let me grace a section in a National Lampoon book. This week, I wrote about journalist source protection and expected comments on par with the following: "That was a littl smrt for me." "You used to be funny. What happened?" "Bwah?" Instead, my comments box

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Reader Heather commented on DeGraaf's picks last week (if you think I'm linking you there, you're insane) that DeGraaf's picks were better because he was always right. Despite this, (a) we were both 10-6 last week, (b) I murdered DeGraaf in the playoff picks last year and (c) Heather's a cumcatcher. Moving on to Week 3, and give me some credit, these are almost impossible picks HOME teams in

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As is the norm on this site, anything DeGraaf can do, I have a bigger penis. Welcome to Week 2 of the NFL season and here are my picks. For gambling purposes only. (HOME team in CAPS) BALTIMORE (-12) over Oakland - I'm not as high on Baltimore as everyone else, but would you take any team that has an inactive wideout mocking them from the sidelines? By the way, I think Jerry Porter's a Patriot

Courtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14512787.post-1157596992334291722006-09-06T22:11:00.000-04:002006-09-06T22:45:14.973-04:00

Some of you are aware of my hideous showing in the PIC fantasy league. To be fair, it's ranked sixth on my priorities behind my fantasy baseball league with my college friends, my hardcore fantasy baseball league with my college friends, beer, masturbating and Youtube. So let's turn to football with my Fantasy 25. This is not scientific nor entirely logical. But then, what is? Is any of this

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