Portality

Posted 12:19 PM by Tommy

Since I'm sick and not quite in the holiday spirit, here's a list of my least favorite sports teams. There's usually one reason for why I don't like the team very much.

1) Texas Longhorns
Mack Brown's whining enabled them to steal votes and prevent Cal from going to the Rose Bowl in 2004. And please don't tell me about what happened in the bowl games, since that's irrelevant to how the teams were chosen.

2) Los Angeles Dodgers
Frank McCourt's spineless firing of Paul DePodesta showed everyone that his most trusted advisors are media hacks like Bill Plaschke.

3) Los Angeles Lakers
Kobe Bryant: the reason for the dismantling of a 3-time champion, the rape charges, the trade demands...

4) USC Trojans
Pac-10 players shouldn't get paid as if they're in the NFL.

5) New York Yankees
Mainly because the media is obsessed with them. And anyone who thinks Scott Brosius is more valuable than Alex Rodriguez doesn't understand the definition of value.

6) Stanford Cardinal
Normally, they would be higher, but even when we lost to them, it was more because of our failures than anything they did.

7) LSU Tigers
Les Miles' complaints about the Pac-10 or how his team is undefeated in regulation put this team on the list.

8) New England Patriots
Bill Belichick, spygate, tuck rule...

4 Comments:

dude, I can't stand Les Miles, Belichek, or Kobe either...although Kobe is getting more and more agreeable over time. But I'm not worried, he'll probably tear apart another team sometime soon.

The way Cal's season was going, you kind of expected them to choke against Stanford. Go Cardinal.

2) i can't stand back and let you bash the dodgers tommy. i don't know anyone that liked paul depodesta. most, if not all, of my dodger friends were happy when depodesta was fired. so while depodesta could've been successful if he was on the job longer, i do believe mccourt partly fired deposdesta as a way of gaining dodger fans back because too many people hated the loduca trade (even though i thought it was the right move). but i personally think we should've kept dan evans (before depodesta). he's the reason why we have our farm system.

3) now i'm a clippers fan. but i honestly don't believe it was just kobe in the dismantling. i think shaq had just as much to do with the trade. i mean he's a buffoon that thinks he's in good basketball shape when he can't even make the same moves from 2 years ago. plus if you had to trade someone, obviously they traded the right guy away.

4) i really don't think it's hard to recruit to usc or even ucla for that matter. who doesn't want to go to a college in la? where they can meet other celebrities and even be celebrities themselves? i don't think cal can ever have more recruiting power than those two schools.

7) as much as i hate les miles for the same reasons, i do respect him for making ballsy calls. some of the best college games this year has to be with lsu because of the calls les made.

Haha great post Tommy. My personal list would go like this:

1) Missouri Tigers
2) Oakland Raiders
3) LA Dodgers
4) Texas Longhorns
5) LA Lakers
6) New England Patriots
7) USC Trojans
8) Denver Broncos
9) Notre Dame Fighting Irish
10) LSU Tigers*

*newly added this year, grats Tigers!