{"id":219416,"date":"2009-12-23T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T20:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:fantasy,article,yhoo-ept_sports_fantasy_experts-210652:1"},"modified":"2009-12-23T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T20:18:10","slug":"rant-and-roll-collectible-holiday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219416","title":{"rendered":"Rant and Roll (collectible holiday edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"http:\/\/a323.yahoofs.com\/ymg\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts__23\/ept_sports_fantasy_experts-992097322-1261601204.jpg?ym0WBaCDLa0vsOAE\"Truth be told, peeps, I’m in a good mood. It’s the holidays. Egg nog. In a few days I get to see Up in the Air<\/a><\/em>. Someone else cooks a tasty meal, I eat it. People buy me presents and stuff. Fantasy Football Championship Week. Less traffic in my neck of the woods. All wonderful things. <\/p>\n

And then I peeked at Twitter<\/a> and there was this #airingofgrievances topic going around, and I guess I had some beefs to get out. Let’s go to the pet peeves, all done with the Tweet rules in mind (140 characters or less): <\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Change-diggers and coupon crazies at the checkout. I’ll spot you the 45 cents, okay, just keep it moving. <\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Any commercial that suggests you should gift someone a fancy car this holiday, almost on a whim. <\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The endless presentation at NBA games. How much noise and flash is enough? Why is every arena an arcade now?<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The forced, cheesy chemistry between Gruden and Jaws. <\/p>\n

•<\/strong> NFL analysts who glorify the running game. This isn’t 1977, people. It’s a passing league. <\/a><\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The 3rd and 4th years of Six Feet Under. Any Cheers episode with Rebecca Howe. Shoveling. Cheapskates at a group dinner.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Flaky wireless. Anyone who interrupts a nap. Watching the same crummy NFL team in prime time (Redskins 2009, Browns 2008).<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Movie trailers that give away too much detail. <\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The ridiculous markup on concessions at events, airports etc. I’m not cheap but I know when I’m being royally screwed.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Stuart Scott, Chris Berman. Seriously, guys, the shtick expired a long time ago.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The environmentally-clueless shoppers at the market. Cart to the left or to the right, please. Not down the middle.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, together or separately.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The guy who waited 10 minutes in line but still doesn’t know what he wants. Lottery zealots. Applebee’s (even free, nah).<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The DirecTV monopoly on Sunday Ticket. The spotty reception my since-ditched dish used to get. Perky morning people.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Anyone who doesn’t realize that The Knack’s best song (by far) is "Good Girls Don’t<\/a>."<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Jimmy Football. I’m against violence, but I’d make an exception here.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Rick Reilly. He was good in the 80s and early 90s<\/a>, honest. He’s the postmaster general now.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The media slurping of Cal Ripken. Great player, but he was just as selfish and egocentric as several other targets. <\/p>\n

•<\/strong> The size of goaltending equipment in ice hockey. Forget making a save, just stand there and let the puck hit you<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Joe Morgan. There can be no defense of the man. Gavel.<\/p>\n

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•<\/strong> Comcast’s crummy amount of HD channels. Once you go HD, there’s no going back – everything else is a Zapruder film.<\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Football know-it-alls that come out Monday morning. If you’ve got a strong opinion, share it before the game. <\/p>\n

•<\/strong> Laugh tracks. I can figure out what’s funny, thanks. And that’s enough rantage from me, for now. Have a happy and safe holiday, peeps. I’ll be back later today with actual football content, if that’s your thing. <\/p>\n

What’s on your rant list? Keep it clean, one of my crazy aunts might be reading over my shoulder. <\/p>\n

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Truth be told, peeps, I’m in a good mood. It’s the holidays. Egg nog. In a few days I get to see Up in the Air. Someone else cooks a tasty meal, I eat it. People buy me presents and stuff. Fantasy Football Championship Week. Less traffic in my neck of the woods. All wonderful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}