The Worst Officiated Games in Sports

Inspired by the SIU-Bradley game that took place tonite at the SIU Arena. By the way this is in no particular order. Just in the order in which I remember them.

1. SIU-Bradley. Obvious call in both direction that weren't called kept the game closer than it should have been. Ticky-tack foul calls, traveling calls that weren't called, jump balls that should have been called fouls, etc. So many bad calls inspired the Dawg Pound to chant "You refs suck! You refs suck!" Oh to be sitting court side, they probably woulda kicked me out.
2. Cubs vs. Reds 2004. What is known as the game that Sammy Sosa and Moises Alou went back-to-back to win the game, would be known as one of the worst umpired of 2004 if not for their heroics. Poor calls behind the plate. Strikes called as balls, balls called as strikes, half swings as full swings and full swings as check swings were only the beginning. Both managers were ejected on top of that as well. The absolute worst call was a foul ball hit to the Bartman corner in left field. The ball on the fly hit by Reds catcher Jason LaRue clearly hit the wall in left field which is in foul territory. Staring it down all the way down the line was the third base umpire Kevin Kelly, he emphatically called it fair. Sitting on the first base side lined up with the line I saw it with my naked eye too and nearly would've killed the ump had the call not been reversed. And it wouldn't have been reversed had Dick Pole not gotten out of the dugout to contend the call. The umps got together and they reversed it. Its all in the past cuz CUBS WIN CUBS WIN!
3. Game 6? NLCS 1997 Marlins @ Braves. Grandma would've turned into Cy Young had she pitched that night. It damn near felt that if it was thrown toward the plate and not swung at it was a strike. Livan Hernandez took full advantage of the strike zone as wide as fat ass umpire Eric Gregg's appetite. The Marlins won the NLCS and went on their first World Series. Gregg never umpired again.
4. NCAA Tournament Round 1 Game: DePaul vs. Kansas. Quentin Richardson, Bobby Simmons and Lance Williams were being attacked by Kansas like they owed Kansas money. Though DePaul kept it close, the fact that Roy Williams was on Kansas' bench Kansas got every call, and DePaul lost.
5. 2004 Bears @ Lions. Everyone likes recent games. This officiating staff is rumored to be the staff to do the Super Bowl. Alex Brown was being held by the shoulder pads, no call. Late hits, taunting, pass interference were not called on the Lions, but called on the Bears. Not to mention the catch that got the Bears the #4 pick in the Draft in which the explanation of the incomplete pass was "The ball moved after he had possesion and crossed the plane, therefore it is an incomplete." The ball is constantly moving, if that were the rule there would be no scoring.
6. Sabres vs. Stars. The Stars were given the series winning goal even though rules state that a skate cannot be in the crease when a goal is scored by that player. The refs had no comment and next year that rule was changed

Thats all i can remember? Do you remember any others, write em down and post them under comments.

Day 2, Semester 2, I'm all Good

After the second day of official classes, I am truely happy. As I have said before, I liked my first two classes that I had. Now, with today's classes I feel even better. My english class, well, the jury is still out because we haven't done nothing yet. My 20th American History class, I should do good in, especially because I just took Contemporary American History in my senior year in high school (which I aced by the way). Its basically that stuff, but in a higher learning place. I got my guys in that class, so its all good, we should all do well, but me first, then I help others. Then there's my creative writing class. No certified hotties, but it is the perfect class for me because all it is in that class is to write. Plus it's gonna be slightly slanted towards poetry. I love poetry. I love poetry so much more than fiction because in poetry you can tell a story in so many different ways. You can paint a picture using metaphors that have nothing to do with your subject, but make sense of your subject. But in fiction, everything has to be straight up, or else it makes no sense. I love poetry, that class, should be an easy A if I do all the work, thats what the teacher said. I love when teachers admit that, but now I gotta put in the effort and get it done. So, on MWF I'm done at 2:00 while everyone else is going out to their last classes I'm walking back to my room to chill out. I'm all smiles in Salukiville. Ooh yeah, SIU hoops squad beat Bradley tonite. This game goes down as one of the worst officiated games in sports. I missed the "mandatory" floor meeting but it was worth it cuz it was a close game, totally worth it. The only thing I needed to know about was the new alcohol policy. Which now says that if you are caught with alcohol you are sent to rehab and you have to pay for it. I immediately got rid of my stuff, and got some cash out of it because I didn't need to be caught up with that shit. I can't afford my phone bill, car insurance thats up in May, my new single room and all the other perks in my life and a stint in Rehab because I was dumb or whoever I was drinking with was dumb and got me in trouble. I can't even find a job downhere, its feeling a lot like last semester. Everyone out there in internet-land, please pray for me and my hopeful success. I will be working harder as soon as things pick up at school. I love you all and wish you all the success in the world, as I would for myself. I'm just going through some slow times in my life and I'm a little stressed and frustrated.

Today is the First Day of the Rest of my College Semester

1st day back officially at school, going to classes. For the first time in a long time, if at all I got up for breakfast. It was good, I had egg-n-biscuit sandwich. Yummy! I had two classes today. History of World Civilaztion Pt. 2 and Nutrition. Both classes were awesome because I knew peoplein those classes. I got Jameel, Josh, Yoav, Jack and Ryan and Betsy who are all on my floor in my history class. In my nutrition class, I know one guy, Charles, but there's a buncha fine girls in that class. All smiles over here in that class. I know I have 20th Century America class with Donnell and Keith and Julian, so more people in that class. So, I'm done for today. So far so good here in Carbondale. Sorry about the outburst last night, I was a little emotional. I get that way when it comes to meaningless bullshit. Holla at ya boy! Leave me a message, I love the interaction wit people.

Welcome Back to Carbondale, Semester 2

I'm back, and it's good to be back. It was cool at home, but nothing beats a second home in which you live independently. I miss my Carbondale people, i really did. I missed my gals, i missed my homies,and i missed my room. that view outside of my window of the field. I am sooo happy to be back. I hope to start off the semester well. In my opinion, I have already done so by declining to go out to the Pit tonite. I wanted to, I truely did, cuz the Pit is the place to be, but i decided to stay and chill and write to you, my readers and to myself. I have set some goals for myself this semester. I want to work harder in my school work. Party hard, work harder for this semester. I want to chill out on going out all the damn time. I can't afford it, well I can, cuz I have loot, but I've just realized that I've been going out for the wrong reasons. Either I was drinking disappointment, sadness, anger or depression away, or it was female related. It kind of sucks to realize this hundreds of dollars later, but better late than never right? Speaking of females, I'd like to have one before Valentine's Day. Just saying this statement makes me laugh inside. "I'd like to have one" sounds like "Man, if I can get the money before Valentine's Day, I can have a girl, but I need that money." That's how it feels when I say it. Since I've been back, I've seen the Valentine's candy sale at Wal-Mart, a pop-up ad from an online dating service telling me "Know your Valentine's Day Options" and Valentine's candy in the dining hall. It all makes me naucious, makes me wanna puke. But I say it because I want this year Valentine's day to feel different than Valentine's of past. Let's retrace our V-Day footsteps. 2004: Car show with brother in law, cut school, chilled at the crib. 2003: Absolutely nothing, because I don't remember. 2002: A prolonged rejection that lead to a slight depression and a drop in my grades (As and Bs 2st quarter to all Cs 3rd) and a little bit of drinky. 2001: Rejection, followed by absolute anger, followed with Absolut Vodka. I think the worse one was from 2002, because the situation was lengthened. Her decision came after a week of her avoiding me, after I thought we were good friends. I bought her flowers and kissing bears. You know, the ones with magnets at the mouth and they kissed. I thought that'd put me over, it didn't. It just proved to be a waste of $20. At that point, I had seriously quit with women. No, I'm not gay, don't get me wrong, but I figured out that it was as pointless as a dog trying to catch his tail. So, I'm trying to figure out this Valentine's day. Will this dog finally have his day, or will the curse of the chain letter continue. Oh, I can attribute these Valentine's day massacres to a chain letter I refused to forward in the 6th grade. It said that if i didn't send it to a certain amount of people, I'd have a horrible love life for the rest of my life. After that, I had my 2 day relationship, and numerous girls that are my friends. Girls that like me, but don't like me like that. Girls that just want to be friends. Have I had my kissy-kissy, touchy feely? Sure, kinda, I guess but that is all I have. But nothing in Chicago. It sucks because I feel that I have done absolutely nothing as I am surrounded by sex crazed people who seem to have experience and me, I'm a beginner. Have you ever heard of the base system, I'm sure you have. Well, let's just say, I'm still on my way to the stadium and tickets are selling fast. Tis a shame too, I'm a good person, and you would think that I deserve a little better. I don't ask for much in a girl. Just at least an awesome personality at the least. I like them to be cute, they don't need to have this slamming body with double D boobs or a gigantic ass. Just a cute girl with a nice personality. Sounds like I want marriage, well I don't, there's only one girl as of right now that I can see myself marrying and she's in a relationship with a guy that I consider to be really cool. He's the white version of me. But why is this happening, because I didn't make the effort to get after it. Well, I am going to make a concerted effort to go out there to (in the words of my friend Anthony) "do what you do" or "do the damn thing." As I sip on my coke and vodka before I go to sleep for I have class at 11 am tomorrow, I leave you with this...good luck next semester and may the force be with us all.