11/21/2008

Things, People, Places, Concepts That We Hate About Sports


There are always people/things/places you hate about sports. I love to quote Louis CK, so here we go again. "I started to hate people. I enjoy it–it’s recreation." "Oh, look at this piece of sh*&, I hate him - hate him!"

Jeremy Shockey
Barry Bonds
Roger Clemens
Rudy (ND)
The ND mascot
Mike Francesa
Chris Berman
Michael Vick
Warren Sapp
Manny Being Manny
110 percent
A-rod
Jose Canseco
Jeff Borris
John Daly
Stephon Marbury
Isiah Thomas
The Steinbrenners
Dennis Rodman
Terrell Owens
Chad Johnson
PacMan
Daniel Snyder

Rich Kotite
John Rocker
Joba Chamberlain
Tom Brady
Carmelo Anthony
James L. Dolan
Charles Wang
Boston Nation
ESPN’s repetitiveness
ESPN’s repetitiveness
Shannon Sharpe
Bobby Knight
Yankees’ announcers
Sports Lists...
Elias Sports Bureau
Stephen A. Smith
Kobe Bryant
Sean Avery
Jose Guillen
Shawn Chacon
$220 million payrolls
Randy Johnson
Phil Hellmuth
Ahmad Bradshaw
Home field advantage to MLB All-Star Winner
MMA that is not the UFC
UFC PPVs every two weeks at $50 a pop
Sports not in HD
February Super Bowls
April 1 Baseball
Possibility of November baseball
Chase Utley
John Madden
One game at a time
Family of four cannot afford to go to one game
Corporate Named Stadiums
EPO
Quiet Please
Drew Rosenhaus
Player Contract Renegotiations
Max Mosley
Liu Reng
Ricardo Terra Teixeira
Matt Millen
Pros in the Olympics
Bud Selig
MLS
Brian Cashman
The two- week Super Bowl break
All mascots except the Phillie Phanatic
Games past Midnight
The BCS
Personal Seat Licenses
Skip Bayless
The WNBA
Baseball attendance announcements based on ticket sales
Tony Romo
Jerry Jones
Women Reporters/Announcers except Jenn Sterger
Special Mention for Jemele Hill
NFL pregame shows picking winners without the spread
Ryan Howard not in the HR Derby
Mock Drafts
ESPN’s repetitiveness
Rafael Palmeiro
Mark McGwire
Ron Artest
Randy Moss
Michael Iaconelli
Rocky V
Kurt Busch
Bobby Bowden
Curt Schilling
Nick Saban
Dick Vitale
Todd Bertuzzi
Michael Kay
First four periods of an NBA game
Bryant Gumbel
Tiki Barber
Tony Kornheiser
They came to play
Walt Frazier
Tin Cup
Bill Walton the announcer
Any Karate Kid movie after No. 1
Chip Caray
Minnesota Fighting Saints
O.J. Simpson
Curling
Timeouts in the air so you don’t have a turnover
Dropping Devil from the Devil Rays
Dropping Redmen from St. John’s
Obstructed Seats
Reporters in the crowd
David Beckham
Jerry Buss
Matt Leinart
Any Given Sunday
Just wanna thank God for this (Jesus made me trip would be acceptable)
Jesse Palmer
Jim Rome
·Ex-Players whose doesn't speak good English given commentator jobs
NY Daily News cause they never ever plug me
Linda Holliday
Calling any game a 'War'
Atlanta Braves giving Yanks two World Series victories in three years
Troy Aikman
Mike Tyson
Don King
Brian Kilmeade
Jason Giambi
Mark Lerner
Mike Greenberg
Rick Dutrow
Marion Jones
Jeffrey Maier
The Sports Reporters
College Bowl Games having corporate names. The Brut Sunbowl, ah, stinks
Danica Patrick or any celebrity singing 'Take me out to the ballgame' at a Cubs game
The Court Arbitration for Sport
Buscones
Anyone with a .219 batting average being called 'slugger'
Cortisone Shots
Migraines
Flu or diarrhea stricken players during the playoffs
Did I mention Bill Belichick?

(This list originally appeared on Bleacher Report)

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