After a lousy April and a crappy May the Colorado Rockies finally fired manager Clint Hurdle today. PengoSports never thought much of Hurdle as a manager, he over-managed the pitching staff and the team's execution was spotty at best, but he was a quality human being and always a stand up guy. He even showed up at his own firing press conference took the bullet and wished interim manager, Jim Tracy, good luck. Class. Yes it is possible to suck and have buckets of class. Good luck to you Clint. You will make some team an excellent hitting coach and some town an excellent citizen.On a related note, MLB.com writer Thomas Harding reported that the Colorado Springs Sky Sox manager Tom Reynolds (it's Runnells asshat) was named the Rockies' new bench coach (he has since corrected it. The story was phoned in to MLB.com and the editor butchered it. Sorry Thomas. Your editor is the asshat). In the age of Google there is no excuse for this lazy crap. Come on MLB.com!
A big congrats to TR! Even though you will now have to go through life as Tommy Reynolds. At least this way if you owe money, are wanted by the feds or being hunted by the mob you are free and clear!
The PengoTheory pays off! Kavya "Alphabet" Shivashankar wins the spelling bee! If your kid has a bit*hin', hard to spell name get them to the nearest bee! (She won $40,000! It's like PowerBall for smart kids).
Huzzah Kavya! Huzzah! Now please move your head. I'm trying to watch TV.
The finals of the National Spelling Bee are tonight on ABC, 7:00 PM MDT, and while this is still not a sport and still should not be on ESPN (the semis were on today), it gives us at PengoSports a chance to mock 12 and 13 year old kids that are smarter than we are and will eventually become far more successful than we could ever hope to (the wee bastards!).
(The spelling bee is just a freak show where we get to watch kids stressing out and acting like tools. Hell! They're kids. That's how they're suppose to act just don't put it on TV. The same thing goes for the Little League World Series. Do it without the television coverage. Let the kids play (spell) in front of family and friends and the world will never know what horrible bastards we adults are for doing this to them. I am tired of seeing stressed out kids crying to fulfill the dreams of some parents. At least the smart kids get some coin for college for the effort.)
If you ever wondered why these kids are such good spellers just look at their stinkin' names! From birth they were always having to spell these things for teachers, friends, the police, etc...Kyle and Tim, you don't have a chance! My money is on Aishwaryar, Kavya or Anamika.
When these kids get to college they will all go by the nickname of Alphabet (because they all seem to have every letter of the alphabet in their names, no one can pronounce the things, and oh yeah, they enjoy spelling). "Hey Alphabet! Move your giant head so I can see the TV!" or "Yo Alphabet! Thems some mad-phat spellin' skills you has! Now get me a beer."
Your contestants:
- Speller No. 19, Ramya Auroprem
- Speller No. 65, Serena Laine-Lobsinger
- Speller No. 88, Kyle Mou
- Speller No. 89, Aishwarya Pastapur
- Speller No. 103, Kennyi Aouad
- Speller No. 110, Kavya Shivashankar
- Speller No. 139, Sidharth Chand
- Speller No. 158, Tussah Heera
- Speller No. 170, Neetu Chandak
- Speller No. 201, Anamika Veeramani
- Speller No. 276, Tim Ruiter
So goodluck to all the Alphabets plus Kyle and Tim!
Quote of the day:
"Mom! I want two Batmans so the Batmans can fight."
Some kid, overheard in the toy department at Ross (5/15/2009).
Yes. Please. Let the Batmans fight. While the kid did not mean for it to be sports related, it is about fighting. And cockfighting is a PengoSport. And batfighting would be better than cockfighting. And Batmans fighting would be the sh*t!
After a lousy April and a crappy May the Colorado Rockies finally fired manager Clint Hurdle today. PengoSports never thought much of Hurdle as a manager, he over-managed the pitching staff and the team's execution was spotty at best, but he was a quality human being and always a stand up guy. He even showed up at his own firing press conference took the bullet and wished interim manager, Jim Tracy, good luck. Class. Yes it is possible to suck and have buckets of class. Good luck to you Clint. You will make some team an excellent hitting coach and some town an excellent citizen.
