Why is it that Frosted Flakes come in a wax-coated bag that tears down the middle every fucking time you try to rip it open? I've never opened a Frosted Flakes bag properly. Once it tears down the middle, that's it! Be prepared when you accidentally spill cereal all over your counter top when pouring it in to a bowl. Might as well remove it from the wax-coated sack and in to a Tupperware bin because now you have to worry about it spilling out of the bag and in to the bottom of the box when you get it down from the cupboard. I don't know about you, but I never eat any of the cereal that's not in the bag; once it has touched cardboard, it has strayed away from the safety zone. It's indefinably contaminated.
What a catastrophe! Honey Bunches of Oates doesn't come in a wax-coated bag, and get this - Honey Bunches of Oates with Almonds doesn't either, and the cereal has almonds in it! How about that Kashi cereal with the fucking berries in it - real, fresh -- well, not fresh -- but chewy fruit in WITH the cereal, and it's in a normal bag! Obviously, wax-coating isn't applied to lock in freshness. Damn you, Kelloggs, God should damn you to Haiti!
The Kansas University Jayhawks have defeated the Kansas State University Wildcats at the Wildcats' home court. This happened January 30th, and the Jayhawks survived the Wildcats with defeating them by 2 points. What I like most about this event: KU not only beat K-State on their home court by 2 points, but did it with a key player, Sherron Collins, injured, with both Morris' in foul trouble, Cole Aldrich in foul trouble, and Brady Morningstar and Tyrell Reed barely cutting the mustard, and after K-State's 7-hour pep rally/White Supremacist-resembling rally where people held up signs like I Hate KU Go Cats! while other students decided to dress up like chickens because somehow KU fans and players alike are afraid to play/attend games at the Bramlage Coliseum. Funny, and here I thought KU fans never stepped foot in Bramlage because K-State fans enjoy having sex with animals...
Unlike some people, I don't necessarily enjoy hundreds of screaming purple-people jumping up and down in the stands around me, waying a "we're number-one" finger up in the air (KSU is actually #13, which is a hard number to flash in the air with fingers, so they stick with one)
This is a very satisfying win for me. When K-State defeated KU in '08 at Bramlage, my local newspaper had power cat sprayed all over the sports section, convinced K-State and Michael Beasley were gods. Now that KU has trumped the Wildcats, our local newspaper ran instead highlights of some of the high school tourneys around the state. No front page cover story for the Jayhawks. I was infuriated when I heard K-State fans were talking up a rivalry between KU and itself after their '08 win. I realize Mississippi State and Ole Miss are big rivalries in their state, Texas and Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech don't get along, and NC State/Wake Forest and UNC are not what you would call the closest of pals, but come on - rivalries should be left to border-wars, not in-house feuding. It's a bunch of junk to talk trash! Especially against a team that is leagues better than another, like KU is over K-State.
I don't want it in my house! I'm not sure, but I can imagine KU fans in Lawrence are having a field-day with this win over K-State, but can you really blame them? All I've heard about since Frank Martin has taken up as head coach at Manhattan is how much K-State has improved, and Frank's connection with Huggins at West Virginia. Get over the Big East! The announcers last Saturday even had the nerve to bring up an entire conversation about baseball during the KU/K-State BASKETBALL game only because K-State point guard Denis Clemente is an offshoot relation of baseball hall of famer Roberto Clemente. And what do you imagine is discussed during mention of Sherron Collins in the past few KU games? How much better freshman John Wall of Kentucky is, and how Calipari has one hell of a starting team after dumping Memphis in the off-season. Why shouldn't he? He stole most of all his recruits and brought them with him to Kentucky, and now the Tigers are stuck nursing their wounds.
How about I take it upon myself to state how bad KU massacred K-State just because they beat 'em by 2 points in overtime!? Or how pathetic K-State is for losing a game they had won if only they could've watched the fouls against them, not attempted erroneous three-pointers that rolled off the rim, and if they would've stuck to the two-three zone defense. Mizzou rubbed it in every Jayhawkers' face that Demarre Carroll and his uncle/coach Mike Anderson toppled the powerhouse KU last year by a measly 2 points, even though KU was coming off four key players leaving for the NBA draft, and were only ranked so high nationally for winning the title the previous year.
Every newspaper in the KC-area had something to say about that game - how Mizzou had a better chance of going to the Final Four and could be the major threat to a UNC team that was the clear winner of the NCAA title from the get-go. What a bunch of smoke blown up our asses! I'll also state that it struck me a bit peculiar to see a smile on Martin's face the final minutes of regulation in one of his final timeouts, almost leaving me wondering, "Is that confidence coming off the revelation that while speaking to an official, that same official told Martin in confidence that the game was there's, that the officiating would see to the K-State win?" That's right, I'm saying the referees were paid off. And when Kansas was ahead by one, and Collins drove in for the lay-up/foul that resulted in a five-point lead in the final seconds of OT, it all rested on one man's shoulders and he bared the burden honorably, as he had a tough win to Cornell. Though in the back of every true fan of KU, we were hoping this wasn't history repeating itself with our only defeat to Tennessee.
So to conclude on this thought, KU was given the breaks by the officials, and when that got to be too much for the K-State bench and thundering crowd, the pendulum was swung in favor of K-State, the Morris' started fouling like last year, Cole Aldrich reverted back to his freshman year due to the referees believing a fair percentage of his blocks were swat fouls, and a deep seated team showed its true colors as a one-leading-star-carrying-the-game-team (What has happened to you, Xavier?)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Do you think I'm the one blowing smoke? Check out Cole Aldrich's stats for the Colorado game Feb. 3rd. I think the officials want to keep the game interesting. KU at one time had a lead of 16 points. I think once it gets beyond 10, the officials say, "We clearly can see how this game is going, let's mix it up." The Foul game. Statistically, KU was shooting free throws like they were blindfolded. A FT Made-Attempted of 18-38 (.474), and Colorado a 10-17 (.588). And what was Cole's 4th straight double-double consisted of? Blocks, which was exactly the killer of his game in K-State. Could he have practiced that? Absolutely not. And if they were practicing, it was drills. I'm sure a coach like Bill Self isn't sitting Cole down and telling him, "Tomorrow, Danny Manning is taking you and the Morris' to the hoop, and showing you how to block better. I've got video as well of previous match-ups where you've excelled at this..." I don't think so. Not to a junior all-American. They might've all looked at game footage, but I'm sure Cole knew what he had to do to correct that percentage. Be back home, or on a neutral court.
And still KU prevailed. Is Pullen overrated? I won't even go there. That's called integrity.
I had something else I was going to discuss, but I can't remember what it was. It was random, I know that much. And people tell me, why don't you get a notebook, and write down the idea as it comes to you. Well, then I get the pad of paper, and can never bring back the memories, and it's usually when I'm without a pad of paper that I get these ideas. Don't ask me why.
