Excuse me for a minute while I get totally random:

-I understand the ability Tiger Woods has, but do we have to be reminded every second of every golf tournament (of the 8 he plays every year) that he’s “unbelievable/awesome/wonderful/great/superhuman/whatever other superlatives golf announcers feel the need to throw at us repeatedly?

-And I realize that alot of people are Tiger Woods fans (thanks to 5 hour rounds of golf and astronomical greens fees) because of his successes and think that he could walk across a pond if he needed to, but the excuses when he’s not doing well and the “bow down and kiss his ass” mentality when he IS doing well need to go (Along with excuses on why he should be doing better…seriously, “if he would have made those putts, he would have been 20-under.” Yeah? If everyone else made all the putts they missed, they’d be 20-under, too!)

-While I like the British Open because it provides a morning of golf watching on substantially different courses, I hate, hate, HATE the announcers that suddenly “Brit it up” for the weekend. I understand that the Scottish pronounce “St. Andrews” funny, kind of slurring it all together with a touch of nasalness to boot, but that doesn’t mean American announcers need to copy it. You’re not disrespecting the game of golf if you say “Saynt Ann-drooos”, rather than the Scottish “Senandrews”.

–My brother has completed his move to Xanga Junior High, and can now be read bi-monthly at this new address. With any luck, I’ll hammer out a way to get him on WordPress soon. Not so much so he can have a cleaner template and allow comments from anyone (even non-Xanga-ers), but so that he doesn’t threaten the goth kids during lunch hour.

-I’m normally not big on the Baseball Hall of Fame debates that pop up everytime someone retires, dies or reaches a milestone, and I tend to think that Skip Bayless looks and sounds like an imbecile most of the time, but he makes a few valid points on ESPN.com’s Page 2. I don’t know that Rafael Palmeiro is a sure-fire Hall of Famer either, but if you’re gonna put people like Gary Carter and Paul Molitor in (one because they played in New York, the other because he passed a milestone), I think Palmeiro has to go. Sure, things need to be changed in how players are selected before EVERYONE gets in, but who has to be the one to be the example? I think you can find someone far more borderline than Raffy. Besides, the way things are now, with the media building celebrity and tagging people as Hall of Famers before they’re done with season two of their careers, the Hall is going to end up filled with a stack of slightly better than average players anyway. Maybe if the writers don’t vote Raffy in, he can go in via the veterans committee the year Johnny Damon, Hideki Matsui and Curt Schillings non-bloodied sock get voted in.

-Family Guy tonight had its moments, and they were very good moments. Some parts dragged a bit too long as this new season has had a tendency to do, but I think they always seem to last forever the first couple times through, and get shorter and less awkward as the reruns wear on.

-I finally watched most of Anchorman this afternoon, and while Will Ferrell still has some solid moments, I am usually overwhelmed with thoughts of “if you’re going to keep overacting and shouting things to make them seem funnier, please push a rusty nail through my temple.”