I guess. I didn't watch, and they say it was an ugly win, but maybe I'll watch the playoffs.
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I'd rather have an ugly win than a pretty loss.
if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life...
Probably of interest to freealonzo (so he can tell me how wrong I am), over at DBT I'm counting down every Beatles song from worst to first. First song post goes up in a few hours.
That's really cool and will definitely opine on your selections. It's also kinda funny because I came across the link below where someone ranked all of the Beatles songs and I was going to maybe focus on it on one of my upcoming FMD dates.
I'm certainly the 984th person to do such a list, probably in the last year. I've read several of them and always vehemently disagree so I thought I'd make things right.
Unless you get weird I'm not going to care too much about your bottom 50 (although MMT raised an eyebrow rated THAT low). The top 50 will probably produce some feedback on my part.
Yeah the bottom 50 could probably be put into a blender and reorganized given my mood at the time.
AMR, I saw a padlock on the ground next to the drop site this morning. I didn't pick it up.
I did. But you are not the keymaster?
I'm not. Very mysterious. Either someone wanted to discard it because it didn't work or . . . ?
I may need to rethink the whole demonic possession thing Zuul signed me up for.
Too cold to be asking strangers on the street if they're the keymaster.
You gotta watch out when Zuul signs you up for something. She may not have your best interests at heart.
Are you a god?
Didn't think so.
So family friend Carl left on New Year's Day with his new bride on a 365 day roadtrip in which they're visiting all fifty states (OK, so roadtrip might be cheating when they visit Alaska and Hawaii). He has shot tourism videos for, among others, Explore Minnesota and Qantas, and he'll be filming throughout. You can follow here. They spent yesterday in Green Bay.
What interest would there have been in Green Bay yesterday?
And when it does come out, all the show-watchers will finally get to experience the joy of knowing who died before the book-watchers and watching the book-watchers find out after them
The Youtube videos of that are going to be really boring, though.
Let the conspiracy theorists rejoice and/or gnash their collective teeth...
Just consider. Mago, Irri, Rakharo, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Pyat Pree, Pyp, Grenn, Ser Barristan Selmy, Queen Selyse, Princess Shireen, Princess Myrcella, Mance Rayder, and King Stannis are all dead in the show, alive in the books. Some of them will die in the books as well, yes... but not all of them, and some may die at different times in different ways. Balon Greyjoy, on the flip side, is dead in the books, alive on the show. His brothers Euron Crow's Eye and Victarion have not yet been introduced (will they appear? I ain't saying).
Conspicuously absent from this game of "Dead in the Book/Show... Not Dead in the Book/Show," our very own Miguel Sano.
Rey is actually Arya Stark, and will ascend the Iron Throne.
Moved the last stuff out of what was my study yesterday. The room is now undergoing conversion to a nursery. I did some touch-up painting last week before we left for my mother-in-law's. The crib is built and in there, along with a twin bed, a 4x2 EXPEDIT that used to house vinyl & CDs, and a small bookcase.
Since this is the first time in my life I've not had a room where I keep my stuff, I'm experiencing a bit of disorientation. I got a taste of that when I moved all the books out, but it got pretty intense when I boxed up all my CDs. Sure, my stuff is present all throughout the house, but not in any kind of coherent fashion. I'm coming to understand that says something about me, my relationship with physical objects, and the way I perceive space.
I still have CDs on the shelf behind my work desk, but with the external HD sitting on my computer, they're really just redundant and I should free up the space for other stuff baseball card binders.
All of my music is on an external HD as well.* Setting aside our cars, I don't even own a CD player. I'd say I have a thing about physical media if I actually cared about the DVDs we have boxed up, but honestly I'd love to get a Plex server together and jettison those. But books or CDs? I just can't see that happening.
* After I upgraded my laptop to an SSD last year I had to move both my photo and music libraries off the internal HD, as I couldn't afford one large enough for both at the time. The last time I had an external HD with media on it was probably 2008. Every time I have to mess with the external I think "What year is this?!"
Congrats on the conversion to the nursery. I've packed up my place plenty of times to know that feeling of disorientation. And you're right, it definitely makes you consider your relationship to your things.
PS - Is your [realfirstname] at [reallastname].us email the best one for you still?
Yep, that's the best way to reach me without setting up an appointment at work.
httpv://youtu.be/e7qQ6_RV4VQ
I feel for you man. For a little while, I had the second bathroom to myself (relinquished the master bath to my wife), but I haven't had my own space in years. I'm trying, slowly, to build momentum for a stand-alone garage/tool shed.
Pops built a shop in his back yard and loved it. It's a pretty cool space and he was very thoughtful about how he set up storage for tools and whatnot. I enjoy working out there when I have the opportunity or need. If that's the route you're going, I suggest thinking about putting garage doors on two ends of the building – the flow-through ventilation in the summer is awesome, particularly if you get screens to cover the door openings during the buggier months.
The two of us have shared the one full bathroom in our house since we moved in, which has mostly worked out. I give us two years before Mrs. Hayes starts talking seriously about building a master suite addition.
Oh yeah, I have some pretty grandiose dreams for my workshop
...
which I fully expect to come to fruition sometime in the next 20-30 years.
When the little one first appeared on our radar, we made the transition from each of us having our own offices down to us sharing one. 15 months later, we're still dealing with that. It's not a particularly easy thing to work through.
Totally feel for you on the disorientation of not having a room that is your own. Ever since age 4, I've had a room that was capital-M "Mine". That's all gone now, and I do kind of miss it. I've avoided coming to terms with it by not breaking down my CD towers, but there's only so long I can put that off without buying a new house.
Mostly I have my stuff in boxes and out-of-the-way-piles, and I never get around to organizing or using my things because kids. But someday!
I'm good with the arrangement though. Kids are pretty swell. Except when they're not.
This. I haven't had my own space since moved out of the parents' place. Maybe someday I'll get things organized enough to warrant a space.
At one point in the conversion process, when I was moving out the bookcases and discovering the only room they could access without dismantling was the living room, I got frustrated enough with our house that I put the Zillow app on my iPad. I generally like our house, but four years and a major life change have revealed some frustrations with its present layout. I feel like I should (and could be) content with the 1800 sq ft we have, but that they could be better utilized.
Mmm hmm. I had a really hard transitioning out of having my own space. Our house basically has two bedrooms and a wide open space that is the kitchen and living room and dining room. Getting married and having kids has actually helped me work on the relationship I have with my stuff. I had a lot of things I collected that I never used or looked at anymore. I have sold some stuff on e-bay, donated a lot of things as well. I share a bookcase. I still have a CD tower, though I used to have four. Most of things are in a few boxes here and there. And I'm pretty okay with it. I'm learning to value experiences over things, and if I really want privacy, I can go in the bathroom for a few minutes.
I have always been in charge of all papers and filing in our house (Mr. NaCl seems to have some sort of allergy to anything having to do with paper), but when I became pregnant with the peperoncino I got too tired to keep up with it. Our bedroom currently contains a bassinet (which the peperoncino used for the first 8 weeks of life) that's holding the last few years of papers that need to be filed. Talk about a metaphor for parenthood.
On a related note, if anyone is interested in a Arm's Reach Co-Sleeper bassinet, let me know!
There is no such thing as an ugly win in Green Bay, especially in January.
The Packers have been putrid for weeks. Their defense is good, but the offense is a trainwreck. The o-line is garbage, they have zero consistency with the run, none of their WRs can get separation, and they constantly drop balls. That game should not have been as close as it was. It was an ugly win, and a cherry on top of the tire fire sundae that has been the Packers' season.
Every highlight play I saw of Rogers, though, showed him with 3-5 minutes of time in the pocket.
He did, except when he didn't. Those were on the Viking highlight reel.
I saw a combined highlight reel, so apparently they didn't make the cutoff.
He had time at times, and occasionally made some nice throws. But a lot of why he was standing around in the pocket was nobody being able to get open. It's very, very bad.
but....they'll probably get a playoff victory while the Vikings go home without one.
I'm totally okay with that, I think.
Unless the offensive line suddenly gets healthy, Eddie Lacy loses 40 pounds and McCarthy keeps feeding him the ball, and Jordy Nelson sneaks on to the field in someone else's jersey I don't foresee the Packers winning this weekend.
Since I'm a spoiled football fan, this was a Super Bowl or bust year after the collapse that was the NFC title game last year. I'm just waiting for the door to finally close on this nightmare of a season so they can put it behind them.
Eddie Lacy is fine.
Maybe so, but the Packers won 30-13 in Minnesota just 6 weeks ago. My definition of an ugly win is winning despite being outplayed (or being played evenly by a bad team) and I think the Vikings were clearly the superior team and just had a couple bad turnovers after taking a 17-point lead. Take away those two plays, and the Vikings dominate. Take away one of them, and they don't have to hold their breath on the final Hail Mary.
Heh, just watched the highlight of that final play.
It seems quite questionable that the snap was even off before 0:00.
It was quite clear that one of the linemen was holding for what appears to be several seconds.
Yes, a successful Hail Mary there would have been entertaining. 🙂
If the entire Packers offense (sans Rodgers) doesn't stand and watch Captain Munnerlyn run back the slowest fumble return for a TD of all time, it's a totally different game, too. The Vikings offense looked pedestrian at best, and if the Packers even had a mediocre offense they could have won that game. The Vikings looked better than the Packers, I agree, but the Packers looked about as terrible as I've seen them in the last five or six years* so it's a low bar. Squeaking by a bad team when it should've been a blow out is a bad win. I guess to be fair I'm pretty down on the Packers after this putrid 10 game stretch and am probably underrating the defensive play, but still.
*Mercifully I was out of town for the drubbing they got from the Cardinals.
So who's fault is it then?
I root for the vikings because Fargo. but I don't make excuses. Rodgers had a bad day, if he'd been on target they would have won. Simple as that. I had several calls/texts that the pack wanted to go to Landover. On the road the whole way is hard.
I am not overly convinced that Rogers had a "bad day" so much as the Vikings' defense had a decent one. For much of the first half, the Vikings played press coverage and were getting pressure on him, so he didn't have time for his receivers to beat the coverage deep. For much of the second half, the Vikings were not generating much pass rush, but the coverage was pretty good. With zero rushing game, GB was almost completely reliant on the passing game to move the ball, and that press coverage took its toll.
Rodgers was mediocre in this game, as he has been for the last 10 weeks. The Packers' success begins and ends with him. Given that he's been a top 3 NFL QB for the last 6 seasons or so, "mediocre" is a pretty precipitous drop in QB play. The Vikings played solid coverage, but basically no one in the WR corps can get any separation. It's pretty frightening just how bad the WRs have gotten. I knew Nelson was great, but his absence has proven to be a much bigger impact than I ever would have expected. Adams runs poor routes, doesn't have separation speed, and drops way too many balls. Jones is a smart route runner, and has decent hands, but he's not fast and is pretty easy to cover on a deep route. Cobb has been dropping an uncharacteristic number of balls, and can't seem to work himself open without a deep threat.
The Packers abandoning the run so early was something I didn't understand, and is a Mike McCarthy moment if there ever was one. Lacy pounded the Vikings in the first game, and had a decent first drive... and then they almost completely went away from him. The Packers succeeded just fine without running the football for years because they had an elite receiving corps and the best QB in football. With the QB just playing like A Guy, they need the running (and screen) game to be working. McCarthy seems to abandon it too quickly. I don't know if it's just that he doesn't trust Lacy, or what. But it's disconcerting, and part of why I don't hold out a ton of hope on the Packers suddenly making a run after weeks of mediocrity.
If you weren't Arron it was an incomplete pass in real time. Honestly I thought the Vikings would level Rodgers but they didn't and gave him a second chance for the tackle.
In pretty much every close game, you can say, "If this had happened and if that hadn't happened, the game would've been different." But the fact remains that things happened as they happened and the Vikings won the game. And again, I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any time.
Yes. Could just as easily say that if Bridgewater hadn't made the worst throw I've seen this year and Patterson hadn't been stripped by the kicker, this would have been a blowout.
I found out one of my history articles was citied by another paper. Relevant passage:
Sport and nationalism invariably involves politics at some level. In their mstudy of the iconic Gaelic footballer Dick Fitzgerald, McGuire and Hassan capture this interrelationship perfectly by exploring the social and political context in which the legend of Fitzgerald was created
WOW - "capture this interrelationship perfectly" That made my damn week.
Latest Simpsons ep, Homer explains "deus ex machina", and then it happens!
Listening the the 76ers announcers and my god they are terrible, or maybe I am spoiled by listening to the FSN guys. The color guy can't be bothered to correctly say Gorgui's last name correctly (he called himDee-ayn, not Jayne).
*checks score
*wonders how they could be losing to this team
3P: 1-4
*Why can't the Wolves have a real coach?
Why do I bother being a fan of this team?
I dunno
I like basketball
I want the local teams to win
To lazy to find another team
*shrug*
My reason is that I am apparently not as good at ignoring things I dislike as I think I am.
I'd rather have an ugly win than a pretty loss.
if you wanna be happy for the rest of your life...
Probably of interest to freealonzo (so he can tell me how wrong I am), over at DBT I'm counting down every Beatles song from worst to first. First song post goes up in a few hours.
That's really cool and will definitely opine on your selections. It's also kinda funny because I came across the link below where someone ranked all of the Beatles songs and I was going to maybe focus on it on one of my upcoming FMD dates.
http://www.heartachewithhardwork.com/2006/05/beatles-from-worst-to-first-introduction.html
I'm certainly the 984th person to do such a list, probably in the last year. I've read several of them and always vehemently disagree so I thought I'd make things right.
Unless you get weird I'm not going to care too much about your bottom 50 (although MMT raised an eyebrow rated THAT low). The top 50 will probably produce some feedback on my part.
Yeah the bottom 50 could probably be put into a blender and reorganized given my mood at the time.
AMR, I saw a padlock on the ground next to the drop site this morning. I didn't pick it up.
I did. But you are not the keymaster?
I'm not. Very mysterious. Either someone wanted to discard it because it didn't work or . . . ?
I may need to rethink the whole demonic possession thing Zuul signed me up for.
Too cold to be asking strangers on the street if they're the keymaster.
You gotta watch out when Zuul signs you up for something. She may not have your best interests at heart.
Are you a god?
Didn't think so.
So family friend Carl left on New Year's Day with his new bride on a 365 day roadtrip in which they're visiting all fifty states (OK, so roadtrip might be cheating when they visit Alaska and Hawaii). He has shot tourism videos for, among others, Explore Minnesota and Qantas, and he'll be filming throughout. You can follow here. They spent yesterday in Green Bay.
What interest would there have been in Green Bay yesterday?
I am shocked by this news.
And when it does come out, all the show-watchers will finally get to experience the joy of knowing who died before the book-watchers and watching the book-watchers find out after them
The Youtube videos of that are going to be really boring, though.
Let the conspiracy theorists rejoice and/or gnash their collective teeth...
I predict that
Moved the last stuff out of what was my study yesterday. The room is now undergoing conversion to a nursery. I did some touch-up painting last week before we left for my mother-in-law's. The crib is built and in there, along with a twin bed, a 4x2 EXPEDIT that used to house vinyl & CDs, and a small bookcase.
Since this is the first time in my life I've not had a room where I keep my stuff, I'm experiencing a bit of disorientation. I got a taste of that when I moved all the books out, but it got pretty intense when I boxed up all my CDs. Sure, my stuff is present all throughout the house, but not in any kind of coherent fashion. I'm coming to understand that says something about me, my relationship with physical objects, and the way I perceive space.
I still have CDs on the shelf behind my work desk, but with the external HD sitting on my computer, they're really just redundant and I should free up the space for
other stuffbaseball card binders.All of my music is on an external HD as well.* Setting aside our cars, I don't even own a CD player. I'd say I have a thing about physical media if I actually cared about the DVDs we have boxed up, but honestly I'd love to get a Plex server together and jettison those. But books or CDs? I just can't see that happening.
* After I upgraded my laptop to an SSD last year I had to move both my photo and music libraries off the internal HD, as I couldn't afford one large enough for both at the time. The last time I had an external HD with media on it was probably 2008. Every time I have to mess with the external I think "What year is this?!"
Congrats on the conversion to the nursery. I've packed up my place plenty of times to know that feeling of disorientation. And you're right, it definitely makes you consider your relationship to your things.
PS - Is your [realfirstname] at [reallastname].us email the best one for you still?
Yep, that's the best way to reach me without setting up an appointment at work.
httpv://youtu.be/e7qQ6_RV4VQ
I feel for you man. For a little while, I had the second bathroom to myself (relinquished the master bath to my wife), but I haven't had my own space in years. I'm trying, slowly, to build momentum for a stand-alone garage/tool shed.
Pops built a shop in his back yard and loved it. It's a pretty cool space and he was very thoughtful about how he set up storage for tools and whatnot. I enjoy working out there when I have the opportunity or need. If that's the route you're going, I suggest thinking about putting garage doors on two ends of the building – the flow-through ventilation in the summer is awesome, particularly if you get screens to cover the door openings during the buggier months.
The two of us have shared the one full bathroom in our house since we moved in, which has mostly worked out. I give us two years before Mrs. Hayes starts talking seriously about building a master suite addition.
Oh yeah, I have some pretty grandiose dreams for my workshop
...
which I fully expect to come to fruition sometime in the next 20-30 years.
When the little one first appeared on our radar, we made the transition from each of us having our own offices down to us sharing one. 15 months later, we're still dealing with that. It's not a particularly easy thing to work through.
Totally feel for you on the disorientation of not having a room that is your own. Ever since age 4, I've had a room that was capital-M "Mine". That's all gone now, and I do kind of miss it. I've avoided coming to terms with it by not breaking down my CD towers, but there's only so long I can put that off without buying a new house.
Mostly I have my stuff in boxes and out-of-the-way-piles, and I never get around to organizing or using my things because kids. But someday!
I'm good with the arrangement though. Kids are pretty swell. Except when they're not.
This. I haven't had my own space since moved out of the parents' place. Maybe someday I'll get things organized enough to warrant a space.
At one point in the conversion process, when I was moving out the bookcases and discovering the only room they could access without dismantling was the living room, I got frustrated enough with our house that I put the Zillow app on my iPad. I generally like our house, but four years and a major life change have revealed some frustrations with its present layout. I feel like I should (and could be) content with the 1800 sq ft we have, but that they could be better utilized.
Mmm hmm. I had a really hard transitioning out of having my own space. Our house basically has two bedrooms and a wide open space that is the kitchen and living room and dining room. Getting married and having kids has actually helped me work on the relationship I have with my stuff. I had a lot of things I collected that I never used or looked at anymore. I have sold some stuff on e-bay, donated a lot of things as well. I share a bookcase. I still have a CD tower, though I used to have four. Most of things are in a few boxes here and there. And I'm pretty okay with it. I'm learning to value experiences over things, and if I really want privacy, I can go in the bathroom for a few minutes.
I have always been in charge of all papers and filing in our house (Mr. NaCl seems to have some sort of allergy to anything having to do with paper), but when I became pregnant with the peperoncino I got too tired to keep up with it. Our bedroom currently contains a bassinet (which the peperoncino used for the first 8 weeks of life) that's holding the last few years of papers that need to be filed. Talk about a metaphor for parenthood.
On a related note, if anyone is interested in a Arm's Reach Co-Sleeper bassinet, let me know!
There is no such thing as an ugly win in Green Bay, especially in January.
The Packers have been putrid for weeks. Their defense is good, but the offense is a trainwreck. The o-line is garbage, they have zero consistency with the run, none of their WRs can get separation, and they constantly drop balls. That game should not have been as close as it was. It was an ugly win, and a cherry on top of the tire fire sundae that has been the Packers' season.
Every highlight play I saw of Rogers, though, showed him with 3-5 minutes of time in the pocket.
He did, except when he didn't. Those were on the Viking highlight reel.
I saw a combined highlight reel, so apparently they didn't make the cutoff.
He had time at times, and occasionally made some nice throws. But a lot of why he was standing around in the pocket was nobody being able to get open. It's very, very bad.
but....they'll probably get a playoff victory while the Vikings go home without one.
I'm totally okay with that, I think.
Unless the offensive line suddenly gets healthy, Eddie Lacy loses 40 pounds and McCarthy keeps feeding him the ball, and Jordy Nelson sneaks on to the field in someone else's jersey I don't foresee the Packers winning this weekend.
Since I'm a spoiled football fan, this was a Super Bowl or bust year after the collapse that was the NFC title game last year. I'm just waiting for the door to finally close on this nightmare of a season so they can put it behind them.
Eddie Lacy is fine.
Maybe so, but the Packers won 30-13 in Minnesota just 6 weeks ago. My definition of an ugly win is winning despite being outplayed (or being played evenly by a bad team) and I think the Vikings were clearly the superior team and just had a couple bad turnovers after taking a 17-point lead. Take away those two plays, and the Vikings dominate. Take away one of them, and they don't have to hold their breath on the final Hail Mary.
Heh, just watched the highlight of that final play.
It seems quite questionable that the snap was even off before 0:00.
It was quite clear that one of the linemen was holding for what appears to be several seconds.
Yes, a successful Hail Mary there would have been entertaining. 🙂
If the entire Packers offense (sans Rodgers) doesn't stand and watch Captain Munnerlyn run back the slowest fumble return for a TD of all time, it's a totally different game, too. The Vikings offense looked pedestrian at best, and if the Packers even had a mediocre offense they could have won that game. The Vikings looked better than the Packers, I agree, but the Packers looked about as terrible as I've seen them in the last five or six years* so it's a low bar. Squeaking by a bad team when it should've been a blow out is a bad win. I guess to be fair I'm pretty down on the Packers after this putrid 10 game stretch and am probably underrating the defensive play, but still.
*Mercifully I was out of town for the drubbing they got from the Cardinals.
So who's fault is it then?
I root for the vikings because Fargo. but I don't make excuses. Rodgers had a bad day, if he'd been on target they would have won. Simple as that. I had several calls/texts that the pack wanted to go to Landover. On the road the whole way is hard.
I am not overly convinced that Rogers had a "bad day" so much as the Vikings' defense had a decent one. For much of the first half, the Vikings played press coverage and were getting pressure on him, so he didn't have time for his receivers to beat the coverage deep. For much of the second half, the Vikings were not generating much pass rush, but the coverage was pretty good. With zero rushing game, GB was almost completely reliant on the passing game to move the ball, and that press coverage took its toll.
Rodgers was mediocre in this game, as he has been for the last 10 weeks. The Packers' success begins and ends with him. Given that he's been a top 3 NFL QB for the last 6 seasons or so, "mediocre" is a pretty precipitous drop in QB play. The Vikings played solid coverage, but basically no one in the WR corps can get any separation. It's pretty frightening just how bad the WRs have gotten. I knew Nelson was great, but his absence has proven to be a much bigger impact than I ever would have expected. Adams runs poor routes, doesn't have separation speed, and drops way too many balls. Jones is a smart route runner, and has decent hands, but he's not fast and is pretty easy to cover on a deep route. Cobb has been dropping an uncharacteristic number of balls, and can't seem to work himself open without a deep threat.
The Packers abandoning the run so early was something I didn't understand, and is a Mike McCarthy moment if there ever was one. Lacy pounded the Vikings in the first game, and had a decent first drive... and then they almost completely went away from him. The Packers succeeded just fine without running the football for years because they had an elite receiving corps and the best QB in football. With the QB just playing like A Guy, they need the running (and screen) game to be working. McCarthy seems to abandon it too quickly. I don't know if it's just that he doesn't trust Lacy, or what. But it's disconcerting, and part of why I don't hold out a ton of hope on the Packers suddenly making a run after weeks of mediocrity.
If you weren't Arron it was an incomplete pass in real time. Honestly I thought the Vikings would level Rodgers but they didn't and gave him a second chance for the tackle.
In pretty much every close game, you can say, "If this had happened and if that hadn't happened, the game would've been different." But the fact remains that things happened as they happened and the Vikings won the game. And again, I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any time.
Yes. Could just as easily say that if Bridgewater hadn't made the worst throw I've seen this year and Patterson hadn't been stripped by the kicker, this would have been a blowout.
I found out one of my history articles was citied by another paper. Relevant passage:
WOW - "capture this interrelationship perfectly" That made my damn week.
Cool.
What I learned by not drinking for 2 years
Latest Simpsons ep, Homer explains "deus ex machina", and then it happens!
Listening the the 76ers announcers and my god they are terrible, or maybe I am spoiled by listening to the FSN guys. The color guy can't be bothered to correctly say Gorgui's last name correctly (he called himDee-ayn, not Jayne).
*checks score
*wonders how they could be losing to this team
3P: 1-4
*Why can't the Wolves have a real coach?
Why do I bother being a fan of this team?
I dunno
I like basketball
I want the local teams to win
To lazy to find another team
*shrug*
My reason is that I am apparently not as good at ignoring things I dislike as I think I am.
This