Monday, November 10, 2008

Texas Dog Party is the World F'ing Champs of Blogs says Chase Utley


Chase Utley is a darn good second baseman, and an even better cunning linguist, as evidenced by his recent discourse on the Philadelphia Phillies World Series victory over the Tampa "don't call us devil" Rays. If you missed it or were black out drunk after too many PBRs, plenty of footage exists on teh interwebs by clicking on this word. Here.

If you were like me, you were one of several hundred thousand fans left stranded by your good buddy SEPTA. After getting a quick 9 holes in (+5 for the afternoon, watch out Tiger) Hollywood kicked back to watch the speeches on one of Philadelphia's many fine media outlets. For the record, I picked Comcast SportsNet since I think Michael Barkann is da bomb. Plus Tim Lake just looked like a douche with his red sweater trying to represent Phillies pride. Dude we all know you had some intern pick that sweater up that morning at Marshalls. Doesn't even have a Phillies logo on it. Hollywood ftw.

So Chase Utley says his phamous words, the crowd cheers, and he's a now the man. He's single handedly spawned a cottage industry of teddy bears, bumper stickers, and dog t-shirts?

All well and good, but what about the fact that he dropped a steaming bowl of stfu all over live TV and radio? Shouldn't there have been some kind of delay?

According to news reports, the parade and speeches were aired with a five second delay. Some of the radio stations caught it before it went out, but none of the TV stations did. Which begs the question, who the f listens to a parade on the radio?

All the stations issued quick, half-hearted apologies which were difficult to type since they were ROTF LTAO. They then had their moms look under their bed, in their closet, and leave their night lights plugged in just in case the FCC boogey man showed up.

Will the stations be fined for Mr. Utley's adjective? Well the Supreme Court is discussing this very issue as we speak. It stems from a 2002 incident in which Bono uttered the phrase, "really really f'ing brilliant." while accepting a Golden Globe. To that point the FCC declined to punish stations for "fleeting expletives".

Then the FCC decided that yes, actually we will.

Then they asked if these jeans make them look fat, ate a tub of Ben and Jerry's, drunk texted all their ex-boyfriends and passed out face down on their futon.

The issue is complex and both sides make valid arguments, but the only thing that really matters is the Philadelphia Phillies are World F'ing Champs!

Hollywood out.

1 comment:

Cougar said...

Cougar is the 2008 Texas Dog Party World F'ing Champ of Poker says Chase Utley!!!