Things I Liked and Didn't Like Today

Yahoo Fantasy Football Live – This is an online show that’s on Yahoo an hour before the early games start on Sunday. Basically it’s a call-in program hosted by a dude who looks like he’s a day trader Monday thru Friday. The experts are Brandon Funston and Brad Evans -- the guys who write some of the free fantasy columns on Yahoo. They are both HUGE nerds, but oddly entertaining nerds. Evans, who has got a Rob Corddry look to him, likes to shout things for no apparent reason. The cadence of his voice reminds me of the Asian dude in “Better Off Dead” who learned English by listening to Howard Cosell. Meanwhile, Funston is Tim Cowlishaw without the charisma – and is reminiscent of third-tier fat-guy-married-to-hot-wife sitcom star Mark Addy (of “Still Standing” and the super-shitty “Viva Rock Vegas”). These dudes are pretty accurate with their advice and it’s great that everything is done rapid fire – they blaze through viewer questions like they’re being paid on commission. That being said, I think the show would be better if it were done “clutch cargo”-style a la this. I also found it funny that their week 2 celebrity guest was Houston Astros reliever Brad Lidge. The tsuris that hack has caused fantasy owners this season… only 15 saves? Feh on him.

“Be A Woman Be A Fan” Reebok Commercial – I think the three lady Giant fans in this commercial are so hot. The first one who walks in looks like the chick from “Superbad.” I also like how they made the Philly fan kinda skanky.
Whoever Was the Color Man for the Miami-Dallas Game – In the first quarter one of the guys said “Zach Thomas is like a pit bull… he will strike you when you least expect it.” The dude sounds like a Mike Vick apologist to me. As far as I know, pit bulls don’t do that. Snakes do that. Earthquakes do that. Serial Killers do that. But not pit bulls.





Kathy Griffin – She just won an Emmy for her reality show. Kathy Griffin. She is the owner of an Emmy. A real one. Kathy Griffin having won an Emmy is the equivalent of Yasser Arafat having won the Nobel Peace Prize – with the main difference being the majority of men on planet Earth would rather have sex with Arafat than with Miss Kathy.