Alright, Alright!
I know, I know. Base10 promised some posts over the weekend. He didn't get to them. Actually, Base10 didn't get to much of anything over the weekend. Okay, he did watch the Olympics. He even refrained from looking up the winner in the men's short track 500m while Apolo Anton Ohno was racing at Mrs. Base10's request. Good for Ohno when he took the gold! Mrs. Base10 also insisted on tuning in to the always-sappy closing ceremonies last night.

While Ohno and his fellow speed skaters Chad Hedrick and Shanin Davis were winners, of course with winners, come losers. Just ask Bode Miller. I guess the joinbode.com website was maybe not such a good idea after all. Or as this blogger puts it:

As for Bode, the Bodeist, Mr. “I Work Out Harder Than Everyone, But Somehow Manage to Care Less, Because I’m Really Cool, and Quite Often Loaded”… well, let’s see.

Lost a medal in the downhill by fractions of a point after bragging about having a “few beers” and eating a late dinner near midnight before a noon event the next day.

Got DQ’d from the combined after leading, because he straddled a gate.

Then didn’t finish the Super G because he smashed into another gate, and nearly ran off into the woods.

How sweet, it is! We’ve got one more realistic shot for him to get a medal, and once he fails in that (and I’ll be rooting as hard as I can) then we can be done with him forever. Which I don’t think he’ll care much about either, since he said last week that “it’s other people that care about me winning medals.”

Yeah, like Nike, you douchebag. A company that’s sitting on a multi-million dollar marketing campaign for a guy who’s the Darko Milicic of skiing.

The only thing left is a DUI on the way back to the airport out of Italy, and don’t think it’s impossible to dream.

Base10 might not be that harsh on young Bode, but he has not been portraying himself as a role model of late.

In other sports news, the conference tournaments in college hoops get underway this week an the NCAA tournament selection event occurs a week from Sunday (CBS-Sportsline has a cool ticker). And remember, the first Mets exhibition game is Thursday at 1PM. Finally, in Jets news, there is still no word on Chad Pennington's fate. Though apparently, help for Chadwick may come from the most unlikeliest of places. Pennington will likely either redo his deal or be cut by Friday.
- posted by Base10 @ 8:04 AM