August 5, 2009

• ok, let me try to clear this up one more time.

  this whole exercise is more an attempt to figure out why “my friend” doesn’t feel romantically attracted to this girl, one possible explanation being the fact that she has given no signals whatsoever.  this question arising from the simple fact that, on paper, there probably should be some kind of romantic attraction.  but there isn’t. 

  ***

  on to other things.

  i take the subway to work everyday.  it’s been very hot.  sometimes the air conditioners don’t work on the subway.  it gets very crowded.  people smell bad. 

  i was sitting on the subway this morning.  it wasn’t crowded.  the man sitting next to me was an older gentleman in a very nice suit.  he looked clean.  he was a mouth-breather.  his breath fucking stank.  and then it stank and stank and stank and stank. 

  but i didn’t want to give up my seat, so i just sat there trying to read while being poisoned by his nasty unfiltered mouth germs.  i think i am blind now.

  ***

  so i was watching the end of season 1 of The Wire recently because either i had forgotten or simply never saw those episodes when they aired on HBO all those years back and i thought i’d catch up.  Weebay.  that muffugah cracks me up.

  i’m not sure i could ever give up HBO because you never know when the next The Sopranos/The Wire/Big Love/Flight of the Conchords will pop up.  Hard Knocks starts next week, too.  LOVE that show, man!  football is coming!  woot woot! 

  ***

  speaking of football.  let’s get serious here and talk NY Giants.  opinion seems to be unanimous that WR is the biggest hole coming in to this season.  i disagree.  an equal or bigger hole, imo, is the LB position. 

  Pierce’s second half of last season was a fucking abomination and that carried through to the playoffs.  we lost those games because we gave up the big plays and i think every big play went through Pierce, that fat bastard softy.  he’s made comments this off-season acknowledging as much.  at least he knows where the problem is and can try to fix it.  we’ll see if that works or not. 

  the off-season acquisition, Boley, just had surgery so will miss all of training camp.  couple that up with his upcoming one game suspension and this motherfucker will be short bus remedial for like half the season trying to learn a new team’s game plan.  don’t expect much from him for a little while. 

  Chase Blackburn and Danny Clark.  both have apparently been improving, but, let’s face it, neither really have the potential to anchor a LB core.  that leaves second year plays Kehl and Goff and second round rookie Sintim.  cross your fingers.  Sintim actually could turn out to be very productive, but probably not in his rookie year.  who the fuck knows with Kehl and Goff. 

  i’m actually not as worried about the WRs as i am about the LBs.  steve smith is coming a long way.  reliable.  he’s too small to be the outside deep threat, but there are other places he can play and be effective.  remember that the tiny Wes Welker playing slot nearly single-handedly destroyed us in the Superbowl two years ago.  Nicks, the first round rookie, supposedly has amazing hands.  never drops anything.  Nicks is only 6-1 but awesome hands is exactly what Eli needs to offset his wobbly and inaccurate throws. 

  Mario Manningham, now in his second year, was supposed to be a “steal” as a third round pick.  he apparently lit it up at U Mich and was a threat to score whenever he touched the ball.  he fell in the draft due to some legal trouble, i think, not his ability.  hopefully, his lackluster first year puts a burr up his ass to break out this year. 

  Ramses Barden is slow, but can maybe play the Plax “jump ball” role in the end zone plays.  Hixon…  i don’t expect shit from him.  if he ends up not dropping the easy, wide open, touchdown passes, then i’ll just be pleasantly surprised. 

  so basically i like Smith and am optimistic about Nicks, while being cautious but hopeful about Barden.  oh yeah.  Moss.  we’ll see if he can stay healthy.  i’m not holding my breath.

  (actually now that i think about it, maybe the LBs aren’t worse off than the WRs.)

  ***

  this conversation is making me sad about Amani Toomer.  my boy.  the Giants shouldn’t have played it out like that, man.  threw him out like he was the daily garbage.  the young dudes need the Toomer around.  there’s no way Hixon, the projected starter, can carry Toomer’s jock.  Toomer was a gamer. 

  • 9:57 am
  • 5 Comments