sweater weather-or, "imprinting" on athletes

[horizon_greene]

So there's been all sorts of hockey-related flailing on my Twitter feed for a while now, and I resisted for a long time because what, exactly, is hockey bringing to the party? Toothless faces and slashed throats and catastrophic injuries and...what are you supposed to do with all that. Like, really.

But then.

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[thorne_scratch]

Oh man. It's like watching someone eat dog food when they could have steak. And not even, like, Alpo. it's like watching someone eat discount, Mexican-recall, dollar store dog food. (Coincidentally, also my opinion of Crosby's slackjawed face! Actually, the first version of this analogy involved chocolate ice cream and... something else. I changed it.)

My desperate hope continues to be you'll eventually sate yourself on the AO3 archive and emerge from this madness into sanity :/

...Or that baseball season will finally get here and we can talk about Tim or whatever, and my head will stop exploding whenever sports come up. Did Zito retire, or what's going on there?

[horizon_greene]

Well, different strokes for different folks, as they say :) I regret nothing! Even if you compare my choices to discount, Mexican-recall dog food, which is a new and amazing insult that I will file away-there will doubtlessly be a use for that at some point down the road.

Pitchers and catchers report in a matter of weeks! You should come out one of these years for Spring Training; I think you'd love it. And yeah, I can't quite figure out exactly what Zito's doing, but he's done in SF. He took out this really classy ad at the end of his tenure, though, which was cool.

[thorne_scratch]

I mulled the dog food insult for a long time. To make up for it, here is a commercial where I didn't hate him because he was willing to play along and be funny. It was cute. Props for that, Crosby.

(Now, we return to our regularly scheduled hatred. CROSS CHECK CONNOR CARRICK IN THE THROAT, WILL YOU?! DIE IN A FIRE.)

I would love to come out for spring training some time; let me eye my schedule. Man, if I were Zito, I just sit back with my millions of dollars and World Series rings and my hot wife (and my secret tiny pitcher boyfriend) and I enjoy life. I mean, he doesn't have to prove anything, right? Be happy, Zeets! ....ugh, now I want to watch Timmy and Bus. Dammit, look what you did to me.

[horizon_greene]

That is a great commercial, although Crosby's contribution seemed a tad...brief. Perhaps that's why it appealed to you ;)

Ovechkin was awesome.

Oh god, Timmy and Bus. THOSE WERE THE DAYS. Chillalm down, everyone.

[thorne_scratch]

It has the best payoff at the end. Though actually, Joe Thornton (the dude eating all the free chocolates from the cart) was what always makes me crack up the most. "Nothing." That's a man after my own heart.

I suppose it will excite you to know Crosby has a commercial where he is in the shower.

That show is the best show, even if the first episode you showed me did have Lady Gaga's head exploding across the windshield.

[horizon_greene]

I did enjoy how the part with the chocolates kept going and going.

You know, that did excite me, until I found the commercial you're referring to. Hmm.

Yeah, the first ep had its ups and downs. "Phenoms" was by far the high point of Timmy and Bus.