The first ever Prime Time Ami Sports Radio Talk Show :D

Apparently if you mix blueberry liqueur, vodka and coke, you get some weird greenish brew. o_O;; Grosss... and it tastes weird >_> Also I'm tipsy if you haven't noticed so keep that in mind when reading the ramble that follows! xD

Neways, this post is inspired by listening to Bob McCown talk/rant on Primetime Sports which is "the most listened to sports radio talk show in Canada" and is super duper awesome (unless Bob is on vacation... >.>) and I listen to the podcast every day when I do my running :) I have a personality crush on Bob (who I maintain is a vampire overlord), an intellectual crush on his familiar co-host Stephen Brunt of the Globe and Mail, and a general crush on Bruce Arthur of the National Post who shows up a lot too and is just.. awesome.. plus he's one of the few guys on that show not old enuf to be my father... or grandfather xD I want his babiez >_> Except he's alrdy having twins, so that plan is down the drain >_> Early congrats to him and his wife Jennifer tho! (he mentioned all this on the show, so no I'm not stalking him >_> yet..)

Those 3 are my favourite ppl on teh show tho Jeff Blair (also of the GLobe and Mail) has rly grown on me lately.. and I like Doug Smith (of hte Toronto Star) sometimes too :D And Mary Ormsy (also of the Star) who is like the Wonder Woman of the show cuz she's hte only women who shows up to the roundtables and she KICKS ASS. Plus I've had email communication with her before and she is freakishly awesome :D Rob Faulds (fill in host) I dun like tho, and he prolly doesn't like me either cuz I'm a lousy stinkin blogger, and therefore I can't ever measure up to him cuz he works in the real news media (I've also never agreed with any of his opinions but that has noething to do with his fear of teh intarwebz xD). e_e;; Jim Kelley's the same way. We share very similar politics so I used to like him a lot, but lately, all his anti-internet anti-blogging stuff has been kinda making me go >______>;; which I'm sure has just destroyed the English language and now we're all speaking gibberish xD

As you can tell I am a HUGE FANGIRL OF THE SHOW. xDDD I luff it cuz it's not a bunch of old guys screaming at each other pretending that they're teenagers like Pardon the Interruption or something, and as Brunt said int he introducation to Bob's book (The 100 Greatest Hockey Arguments, which you should all read btw), Bob prefers to talk about the more analytical and business side of sports and prefers to talk to agents, GMs, etc than just fawn over celebrity athletes, and that's the side I like too, and I like listening to him talk (esp the roundtables) and the interviews are always rly interesting. I mean yeah, it's sports, but I dunno, it's fun to me :D ANd even if it's stuff like horse racing or NFL football or golf, which I dunno nething about and don't CARE about, I still find stuff that rly intrigues me and that I learn something about :)

>_> Ami teh sports geek away.

Oh yeah xD I also forgot to mention Gord Kirke who also shows up on the show a lot and is prolyl the only one who WOULDN'T be creeped out by a 20 something worshipping 50 and 60 somethings cuz he'd apparently prolly be staring at me too thru his binoculars if I showed up to a Toronto FC soccer game. xD (if nebody knows wth I'm talking about you listen to the show WAY TOO MUCH TOO and you need help.. but not me cuz I'm cute >_>)

Wow.. I rly rambled... Did I tell you I adore the show? o_O (tho I think Bob gets grumpier during the summer, but then there's less to talk about and I'm sure he'd rather be outside than stuck inside doing talk radio)

BUT NEWAYS, so YUS! I often have thoughts about the show but since NOBODY ELSE I KNOW CARES ABOUT SPORTS, I never have an outlet for it.. and suddenly I realized... OMFG I HAVE A BLOG.. so yus... now the Ami sports talk radio blogio show begins! >:D

Mrow!

Neways.. my main point of writing this is cuz Bob was talking about the all-star game which is always his big beef.. in this case it's the baseball all-star game but in general he doesnm't like any of them and in his book he suggested that the only way to make the NHL all-star game relevant and watchable was to put 10 million dollars in the penalty box and the winners take all.

THe thing is, I dun think that will work :\ I dun think you CAN make the all-star game, ANY all-star game competitive rly... even if you put the world series home field advantage on the line (which even to me, the non-traditional casual fan, is ABS RIDIC)... I mean in the era of inter-league play, and free agency and trades and a lot of teams that DON'T make the playoffs, much less have a chance at the world series, do you rly think players will care that much? And I dun think we'll ever go back to the time Bob grew up in where (according to him, I wasn't alive so I can't attest to this) the All-Star game was 2nd only to the World Series in importance and players rly wanted to win for pride and for their league and etc... b/c we live in an era where players get traded ALL THE TIME, where the 2 leagues basically aren't all that seperate (yeah I know, double switch, DH, but still... there's inter-league trading, inter-league play...) and where b/c of the internet and sports focussed networks, we're no longer limited to just Saturday Night Baseball to see the stars of the game. So no, the All-Star game of ANY sport is NEVER going to be meaningful in that way again.

But it CAN still be entertaining. And I think the way is to acknowledge that it's not meaningful. COMPLETELY. Stop pretending East vs West or AL vs NL or nething MEANS NETHING cuz it DOESN'T. What turns me off is that basically it's a bunch of guys having fun who are ALL buddy buddy with each other b/c they're all millionaire celebrities who don't see each others as enemies in any way shape or form playing a game where the commentators and league pretend MEANS something. It DOESN'T. So STOP! xD

Instead, I think that we should still have the fan vote (but also a GM/coach vote b/c otherwise, nobody from Toronto would ever show up cuz the US media thinks we're a backwater fur trading down north of Alaska xD) and the top 2 vote getters are nominated "team captains" and like playground rules, they take turns choosing the team.

I'D watch that, and I do not watch all-star games (tho I do watch the skills competitions xD) b/c it'd be intriguing, it'd be FUN, and there wouldn't be this idea that it's some arbitrary division of players that means something. I would LOVE to know who Kobe chooses first, or Lebron, and to see how they fill out their line up. I'd love to see who gets chosen last. And can you imagine if a disliked egolike A-rod didn't get chosen first, or gets left towrads the end? xD

And most of all, it'd be FUN. And we need to acknowledge this. The AS game means JACK, it's NOTHING, it's a celebrity/corporate schoozefest, and so let's not put the WS home field on the line, let's not announce "WEST MAINTAINS DOMINANCE" or nething when the MVP for the west might get traded 2 weeks later to the East. Let's just.. make it a playground game, cuz we all grew up with this, regardless of generation, and I think it'd be ... fun :) And that's what the all-star game should be about now... cuz it's not going to be about serious competition or honour or pride or glory rly nemore, it's about fun.. and what's more fun than having ppl pick their teams and play aganst each other? If nething you might get a MORE competitive game for honour than right now where the teams are arbitrary but we all pretend they mean something xD

That or have the winners get their faces on the cover of the next EA or 2k sports game >_> Cuz srsly... what's 10 million split among 20 or 30 players to these millionaires? :\ The truth is, at least int he NBA neways, I think a lot of the younger players would care more about being rewarded by being the cover of a video game than getting a little more money on top of their 80 million dollar shoe contracts. >_> (tho with the EA sports curse, you NEVER KNOW xD)

So um yeah, that's my idea.. and honestly, I can only speak for me, but I'd watch and I think it'd be fun and awesome to wtach "team captains" pick their teams and just have it out like that :D It'd be fun, and that's what AS games are about now, and they should embrace it completely :)

AND THAT IS IT FOR SPORTS GEEK AMI FOR TONIGHT >_>;;; (I rly DO care too much about sports >_>)

Oh and if nebody else has any ideas about what they would do to improve the all-star game(s), I'd luff to hear them :D Also if there's any other sports topics or sports in general you'd like to hear my thoughts on xD I often have SOME opinion on something XD Tho if it's like MMA or soccer, you might just get me going O_O;; on it xD But w/e :) Sports talk is fun :)

Edit: And out of randomness cuz talking about Mary being Wonder Woman made me think about the others... Bob is Batman xD smart, anti social and is always hiding his face; Stephen Brunt is Superman, he's very likeable, articulate, has super-intelligence and the one person you want to see him fight is Batman xD; Bruce is the Wally West Flash, the young witty superhero who isn't as experienced as the others but can hold his own and is hilarious :D; Jeff Blair is Hawkman, has strong opinions and isn't afraid to give them, comes off as kinda grumpy sometimes; Jim Kelley is Martian Manhunter, old and wise and looks at us and our society like we're crazy, also he's from another land cuz I think he's the only non-Canadian regular on the show; Gord Kirke is Hal Jordan cuz he's charming and uh.. has a green power ring? >.>;; Well you never know!; Rob Faulds is the unbearded Aquaman b/c I dun care about him but he runs the league/show sometimes and he always needs one of the other heroes to rescue him xD; and Doug Smith is Green Arrow, champion of the little guy (he runs a rly popular blog on thestar.com where he regularly has live chats with his readership and always replies to comments on his blog) and not afraid to get into it with Batman xD I dunno who James Deacon is yet.. >_>;; This is what happens when my sports fangirlness and comic fangirlness collide btw >___________>;; I'm sry xD

Golfy and Memey Ami :o

I actually watched golf today! xD For the first time in my life XDDD It's cuz Tom Watson had a chance to win the British Open and would have been the oldest major champion by quite a bit.. :O But he missed his putt on the 18th and then lost in the playoff to Stewart Cink :( It looked like (to this non golfing Cabbit neways >_>) Watson was just tired out by the end :\ He couldn't get his legs into his shots and everything was just going left... :( I was sad... I mean everybody else was imploding and I rly thought he'd win, but he missed that putt and it was downhill from there :(

It makes me want to play Mario Golf (Toadstool Tour) now tho! XDDD I <3 that game xD But I prefer playing with ppl than against the computer just cuz it's always more fun to have ppl around. :] Also I always get the feeling the scores the CPU players post are a little rigged >_>;;

NEWAYS, this is not a golf post... it's a meme post! xD Rob S tagged me a while back with a meme and while I did it in notepad I kept forgetting to post it here.. >_>;;; Neways here it is! :D The answers aren't all that interesting tho since I dun rly want to elaborate on any details of my past and stuff >.>;; But I like doing meme quizzes and it was fun to fill out :) So here it is! :D

1. What was your FIRST job?
Shelving library books at the University of Toronto Schools library. :o It was during a time I was bullied rly badly outside of class, so during lunch I would hide in the library. But being bored, I started to shelve books that were on the cart. After a couple weeks of this the librarian came over and offered me to pay me to do it. :o

2. What was your FIRST car?
Technically I've never had a car of my own >.>;;

3. Who was your FIRST prom date?
I never went to prom :( For reasons that might be obvious...

4. Do you still talk to your FIRST love?
I dun think I've ever had a real first love D: Gah.. I hope the questions get less depressing! xD

5. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink?
My mom bought some beer for me and my sister when we were kids to try to turn us off alcohol forever.. it didn't work xD

6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today?
Nobody D: EBIL NONTEXTING PPLZ! >:O

7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning?
Trish! :D

8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher?
I don't remember nemore D:

9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane?
Hong Kong! :D

10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk?
I remember his name but I dun wanna put it here xD And no I haven't talked to him in a long.. LONG time... I actually ran into him in high school again after losing track of him after I left the Catholic school system in Grade 5 :o

11. Where was your FIRST sleep over?
At a friends house but I dun remember who or when.

12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today?
Trish! :D

13. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning?
Get into my running clothes... and then it started thundershowering xD

14. FIRST tattoo?
Not yet :| SOON THO! >:D

15. FIRST piercing?
Left ear >.>;;

16. FIRST foreign country you've went to?
Hong Kong! :D

17. FIRST movie you remember seeing?
Star Wars :o

18. When was your FIRST detention?
I.. don't remember...

19. Who was your FIRST roommate?
Annu and Lee :o

20. If you had one wish?
This question seems to have nothing to do with this "first" business >.>;;; Um... to have the correct parts... >.>;;;

21. Did you marry the FIRST person you asked to marry?
Well no, cuz I haven't asked nebody to marry xD

22. What was the FIRST sport that you were involved in?
Soccer.. I think.. and I hated it...

23. What were the FIRST lessons you ever took?
Piano lessons.. and I hated it...

24. What is the FIRST thing you do when you get home?
Take off my shoes! :D

And thus ends the boring answers of Ami! xD

Stabler would grab the UFO as it tries to fly off and slam it into the ground xD

I just had the best idea evar xD X-Files with Stabler and Benson from SVU instead of Mulder and Scully XDDD

The aliens would stand no chance >_>;; There'd be no hiding from Stabler! xD

"You're an alien aren't you you sick alien freak!? You LIKE being an alien don't you!? HUH HUH!? I bet you get off on having no skeletal structure!!!!! YOU MAKE ME SICK!"

And Mulder and Scully can go to SVU, they'd prolly be better (and NICER) at it too xD

Now I'm trying to imagine the dance moves for the Lantern Oath xD

Ryan Reynolds is going to be Green Lantern :O

I dun even know who he is xD

But I do know who Justin Timberlake is... and... XDDD Srsly? He was one of the finalists? xD

I kinda wish he was picked now cuz that would be hilarious xDDDD

Good article is good :)

Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus

Good article is good. >:]

I wish we'd have more of these rather than the "OMFG OBESITY EPIDEMIC, LET'S PUT CALORIE COUNTS ON MENUS" crap reporting >.<;;

edit: Just to expand on #9, b/c of my bone structure, and muscles.. and w/e else, my BMI is right in the middle of "healthy" for my height.. which is ridic considering I barely eat, and I keep exercising to near exhaustion and that I've dropped tons and tons of sizes since my ED began (but not much weight)... I def dun FEEL healthy... but I have trouble convincing medical ppl b/c my BMI is right where it should be >.<;;;

*blink blink* WTF!? So do they have chromosome scanners at the door or something!?

"Women's only pharmacy offers safety, comfort"

Starting Tuesday, any woman who was born a woman can visit the pharmacy to have prescriptions filled.

Starting Tuesday, any woman who was born a woman can visit the pharmacy to have prescriptions filled.

WTF!?????

I assume this is from the same ppl who brought us Vancouver Rape Relief (and their wonderfully transphobic supporters) >.<;;

I'm just curious how they're going to enforce this? Strip searches? DNA screenings? >.< Banning all women, cis and trans alike, who dun look or talk or act like what they feel a woman "should be"? I feel oh so VERY comfortable alrdy dun you? >:O

I just love how they HAD to make that clear too.. "WOMAN WHO WAS BORN A WOMAN". Like, we need to make that clear just in case!!! We can't take the chances that we could be infiltrated! You trannies, go away! >:O You have such an easy ride with getting your meds and not being humiliated in pharmacies and stuff alrdy!

>:o

I also love how they keep using phrases like "dedicated to women" and "women against violence to women" when what they rly mean is "dedicated to cis women" and "against violence to cis women" >_>;;;

But then again they dun need to qualify b/c not only is cis default, trans women aren't rly women in their eyes neways! We're just the ninja infiltrator units of the patriarchy! >_>;;

Straight, Cis, White, Abled: NOT THE DEFAULT CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE KTHXBAI

This is pissing me off

It's rly rly rly pissing me off.

Maybe it's cuz I just made that post yesterday about how being cis or straight or abled or white isn't a "blank canvas" or "default" or being a "regular person" and I'm still pretty mad about having to write it but...

ARGH

ARGH

And it's NOT just that people are being ignorant asshats! It's one thing to not have realized that you're treating yourself as default, it's ANOTHER THING that when that's pointed out to basically say "NO I AM NORMAL HOW DARE YOU ACT AS IF MY IDENTITY IS JUST ANOTHER VARIATION LIKE YOURS! YOU'RE THE ABNORMAL PPL!" >:| And it's ANOTHER ANOTHER THING that when trans ppl get mad about this, you bring up the whole "watch your tone" trap >:O

Esp on a site I liked and respected!?

WTF!?

It's like instead of having heterosexual and homosexual we have "people and homosexual people" which I'm sure some ppl will prefer too! Just like I've heard in context of The Simpsons somebody say that in the Simpsons, Asian people have white skin and "regular people" have yellow skin. Notice how it's not WHITE ppl, b/c white ppl are DEFAULT! >:O And that's the point, as I said, white, cis, heterosexual, abled... it's not a blank canvas, you aren't the starting point and believe it or not, who you are is just another variation, like the rest of us, you aren't the default state of being, you're just part of the spectrum! >:O

ARGH

And no, "not trans" doesn't work either just like "not a person of colour" doesn't work. It implies that you only need to be distinguished WHEN it's up against the socially oppressed/"different" group, when you need to say "I'm not THEM". >:| We get the special classification, you are default unless needing to specify that you're not "special", not "different" >:|

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'm too angry to write more >:| I'm not mad that ppl dun see it. I ttlly get that, I ttlly get how you can be blind to your privilege, or fall into these things.. it's easy... it's when they're pointed out to you and you STILL just shout back "NO NO NO I AM DEFAULT" >:O

*FLAILS*

ARGH

I'll leave you with what Furikku and Willow have to say about this BS. >:]

Being straight is a sexual orientation too

B/c some ppl just dun seem to get it:

"Nobody needs to know your sexual orientation" is NOT THE SAME AS "Nobody needs to know you're not straight" which is what you REALLY MEAN when you say that.

Cuz that's essentially what all those straight ppl complaining about "special treatment" of queer ppl in stuff like pride or getting protection in the workplace mean when they say "nobody needs to know your sexual orientation" or "sexuality is private, don't flaunt it" or other BS. What they mean isn't that they see a VOID there, b/c if they did, they would jump on EVERY straight person who showed any indication that they're straight. What they mean is "straight is default, I don't need to know that you're NOT STRAIGHT".

Straight, cis, white, male, abled.

These things are NOT the default setting of humans, these things are NOT a blank canvas, they are NOT what we "all are underneath" and I'm sick of ppl acting as if they are. And THAT'S privilege, that as a straight cis person, you do a TON of things that display and indicate your heterosexuality and cissexuality ALL THE TIME and you dun even REALIZE it, and it's things that I have to worry about, and that ppl will point at and say "you're flaunting it" "you're making it a big deal" blah blah blah, b/c YOUR identity and YOUR sexuality is seen as normal, default, a blank canvas, how everybody should be, are PRESUMED TO BE and get treated AS with respect and catered to without NEEDING to ask for it, fight for it, or beg for it.