SIS - Overrated Stuff

The Green Movement and Global warming – Not trying to get a firestorm started but while both are important issues they both get too much air time

The Phillies – We will take them

Just an excuse for people to spout opinions that no one really cares about in a forum that makes it seem otherwise.

Facebook….just joined, and my first thought was “This is what people make a big deal about?”

Bands no one has ever heard of….99% of the time, there is a reason you haven’t heard of them, because they suck

ESPN…..a shell of its former self

because I almost never know what’s cool or perceived as good at any given time. But I think the huffy parenthetical “aside” is pretty ridiculous. I would be willing to bet that no professional athlete in history has devoted 100% of his or her time/energy/thoughts at all times to their sport. That’s an unreasonable expectation. If you don’t want to know what else baseball players enjoy, don’t follow them on Twitter.

I don’t like tomatoes, therefore they are overrated.

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Terry’s Turf Club, Sam Adams beers, the Beetles, Carmelo Anthony, Trains, Phillip Rivers, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, Pete Thamel, Chili Cheese Fries, Tim Tebow, True Religion Jeans, P90x, Tyrelle Pryor, Mushrooms, ESPN’s Recruiting Services, Bono’s Humanitarianism, Georges St. Pierre, Land Rover, CSI, 2 & 1/2 Men, The Olympics, China’s Economy, The Hysteria over Toyota’s Recalls, Qdoba, Backyardigans, Rascal Flatts, Blackberry Cell Phones, Grad School, Skyline, Indian Food, The Sopranos, Volkswagen, Craigslist posters stated knowledge of jailbreaking iPhones, Greaters, First Person Shooters, Peanut Butter, Walnuts, The Beast, Kanye West’s Twitter Account, Penn Station’s Fries, Hand Sanitizer, The Hangover, Ren & Stimpy, Wii, Phil Jackson, Convertibles, Apple, KFC’s Chicken, Motorcycles, and Michael Buble

Incredibly overrated movie.

And because they lost yesterday to the St. Louis Rams – The Washington Redskins. Always overrated by the hometown masses – even beyond the prototypical enthusiasm one has for a hometown team; think delusional. It’s reached ludicrous levels the past 3-4 seasons or so. if the Redskins were a stock, it’d be the easiest short in the history of investing.

Growing up is overrated.

Getting kicked in the nuts is overrated.

This comment is overrated.

The Green Movement – just had a large national company start paying its folks via paycard this weekend due to a corporate initiative to “Go Green”. Naturally, none of the PIN worked and none of the employees were able to access their payroll funds. And i’m not sure how a reloadable plastic card is greener than direct deposit into a demand deposit account at a credit union/bank…but several large companies are falling for that rub.

The employees weren’t given a choice? Wherever I worked that had that stupid card, I could also get direct deposit, and I always got direct deposit because I hated that stupid fuckin card. It was a pain in my ass, and some places charged me a fee to use it, and I really didn’t want to have to cash it out and then take the cash to the bank.

16k/9?

unreal

My wife and I watched the pilot and first few episodes of psych when it started and tried really hard to get into it. The novelty got old really fast. I’m surprised it’s still on, and shocked that network tv copied it.

shoes on babies. why should they wear shoes if they cant walk yet?
Jeni’s ice cream here in Columbus. they put booze in everything. that sounds much better than it actually is, unfortunately.
french kissing.
World War II veterans. because what have you done for me lately, old man? i just read an article in the Atlantic about how that generation is largely to blame for the mess we are in now. i didnt really agree with it, but i thought that sentiment was hidden just beneath the surface and it made me laugh.
breast cancer awareness ribbons. because what about testicular cancer? dont we get a ribbon?
weed.
Weeds.
True Blood. i just finished season 2 and though it was better than season 1, there are still more things wrong with it than things right.

I have been harping on this issue to anyone that will listen and I flat refuse to go.

I picked up a copy of the Shack that someone was reading at work, flipped towards the end and starting reading, and of course it was total dreck, but who would have expected otherwise? It’s not as if Christian literature has been taken seriously since C. S. Lewis, and he was largely a children’s author. Hard to call the Shack overrated, only a dullard would rate it highly.

For my own part, I will go ahead and say scripted television programs (and that of course includes reality TV). The television’s only useful application is for watching sports; for a man to watch anything else is unbecoming.

for ash, on the near one year anniversary of the failhorn
SLYDERS

American Idol – It’s karaoke and people being mean.
Dancing with the Stars
Tears for Fears – They had two songs, and we’ve played them to death. Let’s move on.
Simple Minds – They had one song, and we’ve played it to death. “Alive and Kicking” is horrible, yet still gets radio play as sort of a tribute to their one decent song.
The Beach Boys
Really skinny chicks
Tim McCarver – how has the baseball community not risen up and publicly lynched him by now?!?
Mad Men – If I don’t give a fuck about the characters, then there’s no point in telling me stories about them.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers
J.R.R. Tolkien

You guys have two links to convince me of their greatness. Go.

the NFL. The vast majority of players shuffle in and out of teams. I was lost when Willie Anderson went to the Ravens. But I don’t like it for many reasons. The lack of rights the players have creeps me out. The amount of egos and power the coaches have bores me. The uniforms are mostly ugly. It’s like watching an action version of the movie Wall Street, with all of these vanilla coaches trying to win by taking one less risk than the other guy. I’d love to see a Mike Leach sort of coach come to the NFL and win 10 games by letting best athletes in the world play football. This series kinda gets what I’m getting at.

What else? Deadspin, Kissing Suzy Kolber, and the whole frat-boy sports blogosphere. Especially The Dirty. They add nothing to the conversation. And their predations on athletes are the reason why we have so few MrLeCures and so many Albert Pujols. I basically disagree with obc on this one.

Also overrated: pitch counts, sliders, and slow dudes with high OBP.

I’d also like to add the New York Times, think tanks, and drop-in journalists. From all political beliefs, these are the jokers that give us the excuse to ignore what’s going on in the world and feeding narratives instead of facts. ::sheeple rant over::

R.E.M.
The East Side of Cincinnati
Two and a Half Men
Thin Women
Harry Potter
Cal Ripken’s career
Marky Mark’s film career
Hatred of the press by conservatives
Gourmet pizza
Big weddings
Beach vacations
HBO’s Big Love
Seat belt laws
Cheerleaders
Boxing championship titles…..