Saturday, February 6, 2016

February 6, 2016

 This week: The Bachelor, Top Chef, Random Thoughts, XM Hits of the Month and more...

 Because you know you've watched it too... - Project Runway I like.  Top Chef (see below) I enjoy.  I've even watched Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta a few episodes at a time.  But The Bachelor is the classic example of trainwreck TV; I can't look away sometimes when E has it on.  Aside: its on for two hours (!!!) but the OnDemand version is only 45 mins which means 75 mins of commercials.  Ridiculous.  This week's cliffhanger has me agonizing over whether Ben's gonna give Olivia the boot.  She is definitely a conniving, manipulative coquette that needs to get her bus ticket back to Harpy Island.  Ben deserves better.  And, I'd like to note, that Ben was a pretty stand-up guy when he was classy enough to take the twins to their Mom's place so that when he dumped Twin #2 she could be consoled by her Mom.  That's exactly how I broke up with the set of twins I dated in college.  Well played, Ben.   

 Drama good, tension bad - Top Chef did their Restaurant Wars episode this week and left us hanging with the old "to be continued..." conclusion.  The Restaurant Wars episode never disappoints, but each season the combination of drama & tension shifts more towards the excruciating side of tense.  It makes it almost unbearable to watch Jeremy make such a terrible decision to ignore the rest of his team's tables in favor of giving the judges their dishes.  He's a damn good chef and was a major frontrunner coming into this challenge, but his smug bravado is putting him at serious risk of going home.   Tune in this Thursday at 9pm EST on Bravo for the dramatic conclusion as the teams transition to dinner service and everyone's roles change.  

 Random thoughts - 

  • In my free time I just wanna sit outside the Chick Fil A drive thru and chuck water balloons at the people who refuse to circle the building to enter the drive thru line, instead choosing to do that half-assed, lazy line-cutting nonsense
  • Can we put an indefinite moratorium on announcers using all things "video game" related?  "Oh man, he hit the circle button", "he's doing things you only see in video games", "he hit him with the truck stick".  Come on, Jay Bilas, you're better than that.  Its a tired reference and it needs to be shelved for 10 years minimum.  
  • I coined some new terms for my buddy who hates "man cave".  "Bro boudoir" and "dude dungeon".  Got any others?

XM Hits of the Month - These songs burrowed into my ears in January and stayed awhile.

DraftKings Winning Lineup - I've been playing a TON of free contests just to pass the time; I signed up for nearly 50 in the last 24 hours alone.  But this one back on Monday won me a phat payday of $1.80.  Lunch is on me.  Wanna split a small fry?
  • PG Deron Williams
  • SG Aaron Afflalo
  • SF Chandler Parsons
  • PF Kristaps Porzingis
  • C Tyson Chandler
  • G Archie Goodwin
  • F Draymond Green
  • Util Devin Booker
NOTE: If you ever pondered "if I was a GM I would just load up on Kentucky Wildcats, I'm guaranteed 50 wins".  Uh, think again.  The Suns have four former Wildcats (Bledsoe, Knight, Goodwin, Booker) and are 14-37.  And the Kings boast three (Cousins, Cauley-Stein, Rondo) and are 21-29.  

The Big Game powered by Copyright Infringement, Inc. - In less than 24 hours from this writing we'll have a Super Bowl Champion; after two weeks of hub-bub and fanfare we're finally gonna see a game.  And everyone (me included) has predicted one of two likely outcomes: Panthers rout or Broncos nailbiter.  Well, I'm ready to step outside the lockstep of American talking heads and predict a Bronco beatdown.  Seattle and Arizona were forced to abandon the run and throw the ball to fight back from huge deficits.  They rushed the ball 12 and 16 times, respectively.  Carolina boasts a Top 5 rush defense but they haven't faced a team committed to the run since Week 16 when Atlanta rushed 30 times (albeit for 77 yds).  If Denver can churn out 4 or 5 yd gains with the above-average tandem of Ronnie Hillman and C.J. Anderson and avoid falling behind early they could set themselves up for a 28-10 shocker.  Their defense is relentless and will be all over Cam Newton and likely return at least one interception for a score.  I'm officially picking Denver to run roughshod over an unsuspecting Panthers team that has very little experience playing from behind.
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