Day: October 27, 2009

Eat My Sports: Grab bag

Welcome back SeriouslyReaders, I’m pumped up this week, and not just from my new hitting instructor. I’m moving this week, which basically means my life is scattered between two places, boxed up in different corners and having me bribe people with beer to help me move my crap. So needless to say, I’m a little scatterbrained, and lucky for you, so has sports this past week.

There’s been a lot on the plate, so I’m going to give you the stories, and you’re just going to shut up and take it (see kids, I’ve adopted the Dan Snyder philosophy, I will forcibly make you put up with my bull####!!!).

Cashing in
In case you haven’t heard, the New York Yankees have succesfuly bought themselves a trip back to the Fall Classic for the first time since 2003. Their near half a billion dollar off season has paid big dividends and A-Rod has finally realized that it’s OK to hit the ball somewhere other than to an infielder playing in during October.

From all of us here at SG, GO PHILLIES!!! Continue reading Eat My Sports: Grab bag

Then what’s legal corpse abandonment?

“She died in late September. She wasn’t well before that and I asked her if she wanted to go to hospital but she said she didn’t need to go.”

That’s what a Fukuoka City man told police as they arrested him for illegal corpse abandonment. Police found Tatsuya Hirade’s wife laying in bed, dead, where she laid untouched for about a month. Ewwwwww. No cause of death is known.

And that was that. A lady died, and Hirade went about his business, leaving her there. No police or ambulance was called when she died. There may be ties to domestic violence, though nothing has been determined yet.

Who leaves a dead body in their house for that long? Well, I might be able to come up with a few instances, but I wouldn’t really recommend them.

Not a good week for Scientology

In this bathroom metaphor, he's heading your poop off at the pass.

Fresh on the heels of–director of Crash—Paul Haggis’ scathing resignation letter, the Church of Scientology was dealt another blow by the Headline of the Day.

The French have done what most people assumed was a granted: convicted the organization of fraud. (Technically, members of the church have been convicted in the past, but this is the first time the church as a whole and its leadership were fined.)

Look, most religions are based around questionable practices of, at best, dubious rationale. But, pretending to have scientific knowledge about aliens in your body and the ability to assuage said aliens with expensive spa and counseling treatments as recommended by a dead science fiction writer? Sounds legit to us. Bad form, French courts.

Sport of the Week: Soccer

In the U.S., soccer is largely ignored–because it’s boring as hell and we have more important things to be doing. But the rest of the world is not as important, and lead duller lives overall. However, it might be time to give soccer a second look.

The “World Cup” will be played in South Africa sometime in the near future, so we are lead to believe. That’s not important. What is important is that South African leaders want to bless the stadiums that will host the alleged sport. And when you bless something, you might as well do it right. They want to slaughter animals.

This is brilliant. Not only would they be able to show the world that animal existence will not be tolerated, but it can spread the message that we all need to do our part as soldiers in this war.