With all of this talk about the 100-0 game last week, I thought I should turn it over to you guys. Please post below your most humiliating loss or the most humiliating loss your school had. I was on Bobby’s Little League baseball team, the one that gave up 39 runs in the first inning. We went 0-15 that year, and never lost by less than 10. But there was one game when we were up in the last inning when the umpire called it off due to rain with two outs, so we had to replay the whole game and lost the replayed game 15-1. I also played on a terrible JV basketball team. We lost to Central Middle School 72-7. I remember that I led the team in scoring that day with 3 points. We also lost to Arcadia’s JV team, 57-4. Then there was the Rock Academy team, a supposedly Christian school that kept the full court press on the whole game and beat us 93-25. We played them again a few months later on our home court and held a 48-46 lead with 5 seconds left to play. Then a kid who hadn’t played for them when they beat us by 68 hit a 3 pointer at the buzzer to beat us, 49-48. That was probably my most devastating loss.
Author: aetchells
Nobody Scores 100 Week
Just a quick heads up that this weeks quiz will be harder than normal. I’m pretty angry about the perfect score from last week and have decided to take it out on you, the players. Therefore, I am guaranteeing that no-one scores 100 points this week, not even that girls basketball team in Dallas. Any team that scores 100 or more will get an extra $10 and their photo taken with me dejectedly handing them the money. My money and my dignity has never been safer. Brawhahahahaha! We kick it off tonight at O’Neals at 8 p.m. and the Bards at 10 p.m.
About that 100-0 Basketball Game: Get Over It By Bobby Badtimes
I am so sick of all the hand-wringing going on over the 100-0 girls basketball game last weekend. I really am. About how the coach of the winning team was a monster and the girls who lost were the “real winners”. It’s really got me pissed off. A few thoughts about it:
- The coach of the winning team (Covenant) is not an evil monster. The AP story reads: A parent who attended the game said Covenant continued to make 3-pointers — even in the fourth quarter. The coach would have been a monster if he had instructed his girls to miss three pointers in the 4th quarter. That would have made a mockery of the game and sport. What was the coach supposed to do? Tell his players to miss shots on purpose? Hand the ball to the other team and let them shoot? If I am coaching a game and my team gets way out ahead, I pull out my best players and have my team play zone defense. But I’m not going to tell the kids that are in there to not play hard. That would be much more humiliating to the losing team than losing 100-0.
- The girls who lost are not the “real winners”. They are real losers. They lost 100-0. That is disgraceful. I blame their coach more for not making them competitive than I blame the other coach for running up the score. But what is most disgraceful is how the media has handled it. All the stories are about how the team that lost (Dallas Academy) is made up of girls with dyslexia and short attention spans. Who gives a s***? Does that really make this worse? They aren’t blind and deaf. Hell, I’ve got a short attention span. It has never affected my abilities on a basketball court.
- The Covenant team had a goal and they accomplished it. 100 points in a game was their goal. They achieved it. Good for them.
- I have been in a game as bad as this. I was on a Little League baseball team that gave up 39 runs…in the first inning! The game was called of darkness after one inning, with them leading 39-1. I never considered their coach to be a jerk. I would have if he had ordered his players to bunt and then walk down to first base.
- Apologize for winning? Covenant School issued an apology after the game. An apology for winning! What does this say about our society? That our winners have to apologize to our losers? “I’m sorry that I’m better than you.” Should Obama apologize to McCain for beating him so badly? Should he have let up on his campaigning in North Carolina and Virginia, just to make the score closer? Should the Eagles apologize for beating the Cowboys 44-6 in the last game of the regular season?
- The team that lost is called Dallas Academy. I am OK with any team that goes by the name Dallas losing by a lot of points.
- I am Bobby Badtimes. Beware my Wrath!
Question of the Week
What was the name of the grocery store where Kurt Warner stocked shelves for $5.50 an hour?
Quick Notes
- Here’s something worthless to know I just found out the other night: Former STP front man Scott Weiland, who played at the TLA Friday night, uses a teleprompter to remember his lyrics when he’s onstage. Is that kind of cheating? (Don’t ask me how I know that.)
- Here’s some fun geography facts.
- Today is National Geographic’s 121st birthday. Celebrate by checking out some of their cool photo galleries.
Hurtin Bombs Perfect at the Bards
30% of this Michigan city’s residents are Arab Americans.
The Jams Win at the Vous
The actor seen above was born in Detroit. Who is he?
Narcotyzing Dysfunktion Wins at the Bards
What’s the 2nd largest city in Michigan?
Where’s Johns Rum Wins at O’Neals
What bridge separates the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan?
Pics of Last Week’s Winners
Alright, kids. Michigan entered the Union on this date in 1837, so under pics of last weeks winners I’ll have a question about Michigan. One guess per person.