east village idiot

Things I Could Be Writing About But Won’t Waste Your Time With

October 2, 2007 – 1:55 pm

- How my fantasy football team is still undefeated:. I won’t bore you with details or a roster, but let’s just say that I’m kicking ass. I’m 4-0, which is impressive in itself, but you should also consider that I used one of my two keepers on the Baltimore Defense, which has been about as effective as a pedestrian stopping traffic on the Jersey Turnpike. And, the one week I didn’t start Baltimore’s defense, I started Cincinnati’s defense instead - when they gave up 51 points to the Browns.

- How I got bilked for $65 by my HMO: The actual cost of my very simple but necessary emergency room treatment back in August: $35. The cost to me, because of my health insurance’s $100 emergency room co-pay: $100. Where does that other $65 go? Straight into the pocket of some fatcat who’s lobbying for the right to assrape me every time I go to the doctor. I would have been better off going into the ER claiming to be schizophrenic with twenty identities and no insurance. See? They never talk about the Plight of the Insured.

- How my roommate was too drunk to find his own bed at 3am on Friday night and tried to crawl into mine instead: I think this speaks for itself. Thankfully, he was fully clothed.

- How my roommate apologized profusely the following day and then asked if I was going to blog about it: Here’s your answer.

- How Matt Holliday didn’t tag home plate, but instant replay would do nothing to solve that: There was no indisputable evidence that he didn’t tag the plate, so if the NFL’s rules for instant replay applied to baseball, the call wouldn’t have been overturned. People from San Diego need to stop blaming the umpire and complain about something else… like the weather. Okay, nothing to complain about there. But how about Norv Turner?